 Red stands outside the box, and Alan asks if he has "The Fulcrum"; Red merely says that he cannot stop the bomb.Alan then says that his death will trigger a series of events, which will make it harder for the moderates to resist the extremists, and predicts that by 2017, conditions will get worse.Alan then tells Red the combination to a safe he has hidden away in St. Petersburg, but is unable to tell him the exact location within the city before the bomb explodes.