 Ultimately, Beck, learning that the new government covered up the origins of the bombs and unjustly destroyed Iran and North Korea, lays the case before his subordinate officers and tells them he will no longer take orders from the ASA.Expecting his officers to arrest him and send him to Cheyenne for court-martial, as a last official act he pardons Stanley and the Rangers of their apparent crimes.Instead of arresting him, the officers are persuaded by Hawkins' evidence and side with Beck, who orders them to get the battalion and Jericho ready for the Second American Civil War.