This seemed to be a whole lot of set up.
Tom and Weaver in "jail" in the ghetto-town Hal & Tector (and Pope) on the outside in ghetto-town Anne & some others outside of ghetto-town, just surviving and trying to find Lexi Lexi, Ben, Lourdes, Maggie in "China town" sanctuary and the littlest Mason in re-education camps plus a bonus of Cochise? (the Volm) traipsing around
I'm sure they'll all come together soon, Tom does want to reunite the 2nd Mass, after all. But meanwhile Maggie seems completely brainwashed. Are we to beleive Ben has been unconscious for 4 months? That seems odd, especially with his super-human abilities. Maybe this is all a dream of his. The war-free China town, that is, not the whole thing.