 "Smith" helps Hawkins to uncover the conspiracy and also provides behind-the-scenes aid to Hawkins in maintaining his cover and to Jericho in its struggles against John Goetz.It is ultimately revealed, however, that "Smith" was the mysterious mastermind and true perpetrator (Tomarchio, Valente and others being merely his pawns) behind the September Attacks - which, "Smith" reveals, was his grand effort to protect the United States by completely destroying Jennings & Rall, his former employers, whom he saw as a cancer at the heart of the U.S. federal government.He seeks to use Hawkins' bomb to destroy Cheyenne, the headquarters of J&R and capital of the ASA.