Alias s05e03 Episode Script
The Shed
Previously on "Alias": - Sydney! - Nadia! Come here, come here! It's Nadia, she's infected! My daughter is in a coma, suffering from a condition that no one understands.
It is a condition that I am responsible for, with no hope for a cure.
I've hurt the most precious thing in my life.
Gordon Dean, Office of Special Investigations.
Dean wasn't Special Investigations.
He went off the grid two years ago.
These people killed my fiancé.
- We lost our only lead on Gordon Dean.
- We'll get another lead.
Yeah.
I'm patched in.
Go for the hack.
Thank you forcalling.
For training, this call may be monitored.
My name is Roger.
How may I help you? Hi Roger.
- I'd like to cancel a subscription, please.
- Certainly.
Can I have the name, please? Michael Vaughn.
- V-a-u-g-h-n.
- Got it.
I see it right here.
May I ask why you're canceling the subscription? Mr.
Vaughn died.
- I'm sorry.
I'll take care of it right away.
- Yeah.
OK.
If your wife says it's a waste of time having a pen pal, she's wrong.
'Cause two days ago there was a theft at an R&D facility in Istanbul.
The Turks did a good job keeping it under wraps, but my friend Ali forwarded me this.
Take a look right there.
You see those vials? That's a nerve agent called substance 33, developed by the Russians during the Cold War.
Remarkable stuff.
You know, in an end-of-civilization sort of way.
Why do you think they worked for Dean? They don't.
As far as we can tell, they're independent.
- Gordon Dean, he's - Former CIA.
Disappeared two years ago.
Infiltrated this office, compromised one of your men.
- I'm up to speed, thanks.
- Sorry, I New guy.
I just assumed that maybe Anyway, this woman right here, that's who I think works for Dean.
You think? Based on what, your pen pal? Who, Ali? No, see, this woman had help.
A hacker who accessed the security system using the same computer as a hack on the NSA a few months back, which we know was ordered by Dean, so two hours ago I traced this computer to Prague, within these five square miles.
But if I can go to Prague, I can narrow it down to two feet, then we can grab this hacker and get him to tell us where the substance 33 is.
But if we do that, we lose Dean, and once he realizes his hacker is missing, he'll disappear as well.
Right.
OK, I want you both to accompany Marshall to Prague.
Follow the signal, locate Dean's operation there, but don't do anything to reveal yourself or to engage his men.
Then we'll reassess our options.
Shouldn't Dixon be going with me? I've tasked Dixon to another assignment.
Marshall will brief you on your OPTEC.
Let me know when you're ready to leave.
Dad.
You're making a mistake.
I understand you're more comfortable with Dixon, but that was inappropriate.
- This is no time to break in a new agent.
- Grace has extensive field experience.
And I have a history with Dixon.
What is so important that he can't come with me on this mission? Your sister.
What about my sister? You know that Sloane has been searching for a cure for Nadia.
He may have found one.
"Conditional release of Arvin Sloane"? Sloane cultivated a lead who'll only meet him face-to-face, in Russia.
I was able to convince the Attorney General to let him out of prison for 72 hours.
I'm sending Dixon as a security detail.
When was I gonna find out about this? I didn't want to raise your hopes until we knew what Sloane had.
Then I'd prefer to go with Marshall by myself.
- Sydney - It's not that complicated.
In fact, it's very complicated.
Recovering the nerve agent without tipping Dean What aren't you telling me? I read his file.
Agent Grace's? You had no authority to do that.
In the last three years, he has turned down half a dozen team assignments, instead taking long cover operations by himself.
He's a loner.
He's a superior agent and he's agreed to be on this team, which is good enough for me.
Um, sorry, didn't mean to You said to let you know when - We're ready to go.
- Yeah.
Tell me about your contact, Alexander Dolzhenko.
Dolzhenko was an undersecretary in the Politburo.
I've been working with him for a decade.
- Trustworthy? - Reliable.
Why is he insisting on meeting with you in person? For his protection.
After the Sovogda incident, we believed that the Russians killed all the infected.
But according to Dolzhenko, they've kept some alive and they're pursuing treatment.
Of course, the Russians deny that Sovogda ever occurred.
So, by passing the cure to me, Dolzhenko is risking his life.
Suppose Dolzhenko has been found out by the authorities.
This could be his way of cutting a deal.
And you're suggesting that I might be walking into a trap? Hm? No.
No, about the Sovogda incident, the Russians have no idea I'm responsible.
Then why has he agreed to meet with you at all? $300,000.
My job is to make sure, in three days' time, you return to this cell.
I intend to do exactly that.
When we're in the field, you'll follow my instructions explicitly.
No questions.
It's my show.
Agreed.
- You sure you're reading that right? - Yeah.
It seems an unlikely place to hide an operation.
It's definitely him.
The signal is weak but clean.
- The hacker's right inside that building.
- Wi-Fi hot spot.
Yeah.
He must be using a laptop offsite.
It's OK.
I got an idea.
OK OK, got it.
Here's what we do.
Pack of mints, right? Microprocessor on the bottom of the case.
It's a relay.
Within five feet of the hacker's computer, it should allow me to clone the hard drive, tell us where the nerve agent is.
Even better Offer him a mint.
Inside each one is a tracking device.
Don't worry.
He won't die if he swallows it, just get a little sick, a little nausea.
If Gordon Dean has an operation here, the hacker will lead us right to it.
Got it.
- What's that? - That was Czech.
I'll fake it.
Sounds sort of Germanish, right? Go for it.
- OK, who am I looking for? - OK.
Far window, back to the wall.
Baseball cap on backwards.
Got it.
You are American? Great, Syd, that's perfect.
I'm starting to clone now.
Nice.
- Hold on a second.
Wait a minute.
- What is it? I'm not the only one accessing this computer.
Syd Are there two networked laptops? - No.
- No? Syd, we have a problem.
Someone else is piggybacking off this computer, trying to steal the bandwidth, which means the hacker doesn't have a laptop at all, maybe a PDA or cell phone? - The signal just went dead.
- I've got her.
Blonde hair, brown jacket.
She's coming your way.
There she is.
You're gonna want a seat belt.
- What What are you doing? - Following her.
Watch out! Sorry! She made us.
Hold on! Hi, there.
Hey, did you get anything from her cell phone? No, the SIM card is completely shattered.
She says the phone broke when we hit her car.
More likely it was a countermeasure.
She smashed it when she realized you were chasing her.
If her people realize she's gone, if there's some protocol to check in that she misses, they'll disappear as well.
Maybe under the circumstance, you'd have done something different.
OK, um You've talked to your father, right, Syd? What's he want us to do? I'll talk to her again, see if I can get her to give up substance 33 while there's time.
- Can you rig a voice-stress analyzer? - Yeah, sure.
Give me ten minutes.
- Dolzhenko is typically a few minutes late.
- Half an hour is more than a few minutes.
- Here we go.
- Alexander.
You deviated from my instructions.
I told you to come alone.
He's backup.
He's only here for my safety.
Do you have the money? It's all here, Alexander.
Our last job, where we parted company? Be there by eight, alone this time.
- I can't do that, Alexander.
- Then our deal's off.
And you lose your daughter's cure.
- Marcus.
- No.
If you're concerned that this is a trick, an escape You have my daughter.
She's all the insurance you need.
It could be a trap.
Russian police could be waiting.
It doesn't matter to me.
I have to see this through.
What if it were your daughter, Marcus? Call me when you're ready to be picked up.
Three days ago you hacked into a security system and facilitated the theft of a chemical weapon, substance 33.
I want to contact the American embassy.
I'm a US citizen, I have rights.
You committed an act of terrorism.
You forfeited your rights.
Honestly, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Hi.
Rachel Gibson, traveling on a student visa, issued two weeks ago.
So, what are you studying? Architecture.
The gothic influence.
- Well, that's fascinating.
- It is.
What are you? Get off! Let go of me! No! Stop, let go! - What is this? - You're making a mistake.
Soon US agents will be swarming this place looking for me.
- US agents? - That's right.
An ELT, emergency location transmitter.
She was trying to send a distress signal.
- Do I need to worry? - It's intact.
The signal didn't go out.
You're scared.
You should be.
No one's coming to rescue you.
I'm an operative for the US government.
If you want a war with the CIA Here's your next problem, Rachel.
We're CIA.
Well, then, this must be some big misunderstanding.
If you're CIA, we're on the same side.
Call Langley, verify her story.
You can't.
We're off-book.
Black ops.
Langley won't verify us.
- That's convenient.
- That's the truth.
- I've had enough.
- Syd The stress analysis says she's telling the truth.
Maybe, but the more likely scenario is that she's practicing a form of self-hypnosis to convince herself that what she's saying is true.
I triple-checked my readings, filtered them against every known method of duping.
She believes what she's saying.
What? You and my father said the same thing: Rachel believes what she says.
- She believes she works for the CIA.
- Yeah, I think so, that's right.
I need to talk to her.
I want to tell you a story.
Stop me if I get something wrong.
You were approached in college, someplace public, walking to class.
A man asked you if you wanted to serve yourcountry.
When he told it was for the CIA, you couldn't believe it.
But you took the tests, and they were easy for you - it made you feel good about yourself.
You probably started work at a false front - some phantom company that had you doing entry-level analysis.
Maybe you wondered why you were never sent to Langley.
Maybe you wondered why you weren't being trained with other recruits.
Then you got promoted, and met the director of your division, Gordon Dean.
He offered you a position on his team.
Dean took you under his wing, he convinced you that you were so important, you just had to be out there, helping him save the world.
How am I doing? - You read my file.
- No, I didn't.
the same thing happened to me, only I had been lied to.
What I was told was the CIA was, in reality, a criminal organization.
I think you've been told the same lie.
I know you don't believe me.
You think this is another interrogation tactic.
It's not.
I think I can prove it.
You can prove it? That I work for a criminal organization? Your transmitter, where does the signal get received? - CIA headquarters, Langley.
- You're sure of that? I designed it myself.
I'd like you to build a trace program that piggybacks the signal your watch sends.
If I'm right, it won't go to Langley.
- OK, it's ready.
- Let's do it.
OK, I'm gonna send out a test signal.
Whoever receives this will just assume you're checking the system.
Here we go.
And testing.
Yep, it went to Langley.
No, it isn't.
That ping was just a ghost signal to throw us off.
It's not going to Langley at all.
Where'd it go? Prague.
Vlasska Street.
What's on Vlasska Street? Our office.
It's temporary so that Dean can oversee the transfer of substance 33.
Wait.
Gordon Dean is in Prague? Yeah.
He's right around the corner.
- How's she doing? - As you'd expect.
She was told substance 33 was developed by a terrorist cell and it's being transferred to UN weapons inspectors.
It's being sold to the highest bidder.
Does she know when the exchange is? Tonight, but she doesn't know where.
It's classified.
All classified intel is stored on Dean's own dedicated server.
How much does she know about his operation? Dean calls it "The Shed.
" She was recruited two years ago, computer specialist.
She's willing to give us everything - mission history, suppliers, contacts, the works.
We need more background to move on Dean.
He could destroy his data before we secure it.
- Marshall, can we access that server? - According to Rachel, Dean uses an encryption key that changes daily.
If I could get inside, I could crack the key, maybe download the entire hard drive.
Obviously that's too dangerous.
- What about the girl? - She's not a field agent.
And her whole world is coming apart right now.
I don't see another option.
We have to recover substance 33 before it trades hands.
What is it? We need some help.
Just copy the encryption key and bring it back to me.
It should take me two minutes to crack.
Then go back inside.
Can you open a remote access port to Dean's server? Yeah, from my workstation.
Dean's server has about a terabyte of data.
That'll take an hour at 20 gigs a minute.
Don't worry.
I can hop RAM while the data's being transferred.
Unless they know to look, it's undetectable.
The encryption key is massive.
I don't have anything big enough to copy it to.
That's OK.
I got a present for you.
Just a little something I picked up.
It looks like a normal credit card, right? But, if you look closely, it actually holds 240 gigs of memory.
Yeah.
And it's a working credit card.
Just don't go shopping with it because it's already at its limit.
My wife goes crazy with clothes, Mitchell - It's clever.
- Yeah.
I want to tell you that I've been admiring you too.
Uh, not, you know, in a kind of creepy, weird Just totally professionally.
Your hack on the NSA? Genius.
Too bad it was being used for evil.
Though been there myself.
Thanks.
Hey, listen.
You're gonna be OK, all right? I have been through stuff way scarier.
I'm still here.
Alexander.
Old friend.
So, I did as you asked.
It's just you and me.
I'm sorry for my precautions.
I'm sure you understand.
Of course.
I'm eager to get this over with as well.
- You can count it.
- No, please, we are friends.
I trust you.
So, you have the cure? As I told you, it's still experimental, but yes.
So far, the patients have made a full recovery.
- Good.
- Come.
It's right here.
- Alexander, please - No.
Begging will not help you.
Whoever wants me dead, let me reason with him.
I'll pay them.
"Whoever"? But, Arvin, it's me who wants you dead.
Sasha, why are you doing this? I've never done anything to you.
Oh, yes.
Yes, you have.
I had a daughter in Sovogda myself.
Because of what you released, I didn't even have a chance to bury my own child.
I lied to you.
Besides your daughter, there are no other survivors.
No experiments, no cure.
Yeah! It's worse than dying, isn't it? Knowing there's nothing you can do to save your own child.
- Turn around.
- No.
- Turn around! - No! If you're going to shoot me, I'm not going to make it easy for you.
I know your pain, Sasha.
Killing me won't heal it.
You're not a killer.
Don't become one now.
Don't make this your daughter's legacy.
I'll be able to hear anything you say, even if it's a whisper.
If anything goes wrong, if you even sense that you are in jeopardy, we'll pull you out, we'll call off the mission.
- OK.
- OK.
That's the easy part.
The hard part - you have to walk back into that office and look everyone in the eye.
Your coworkers.
Gordon Dean.
You can't let them see that you know the truth.
When you've copied the encryption key, we'll brush past in the lobby, like we said.
OK.
How many of them know? How many of them are in on it? That's impossible to say.
In my case, it was half a dozen out of 50 agents.
Have you ever seen this man? Yeah, Dean said he was a CIA agent who turned.
That he's in custody outside Los Alamos.
That was a lie, too.
His name is Michael Vaughn.
He was a US agent.
But he was a good man.
Rachel, look at me.
I'm telling you this because right now you are our best chance at seeing Gordon Dean pay for what he's done.
He used you, Rachel.
He used you to murder US agents.
I believe in you.
- Hey.
- Peyton, hey.
- I thought you weren't due until tonight.
- Yeah, I have some reports to clean up.
- You OK? - Rough weekend.
Well, if you want to take a nap on the couch, I can hide you.
Thanks.
I'm good, though.
I'm gonna get to work.
OK.
Don't let Dean see you, or he'll make you translate surveillance footage.
Yeah, you're right.
Hey, Rachel.
- How long has it been? - Since you last asked, 30 seconds.
She's been in there ten minutes.
I'm sure she's fine.
- Rachel! - Hey.
I don't know whether I should thank you or curse you.
The book you recommended, Devil in the White City.
I'm addicted.
Truly.
I was up all night, reading.
I never would have thought I'd be so fascinated by a serial killer.
Somehow, I find myself even sympathetic.
Yeah, I guess.
So, listen.
Intel suggests that Iran is trying to buy a nuclear core from the French.
We'll be in Paris next week.
I'll need a prep report by the end of the day.
- OK, I'll get right on it.
- Thank you.
- I've got it.
I'm on my way down.
- Great, I'm coming to meet you.
We'll brush past outside the door of your building.
Hey, hold that elevator.
You going for coffee? Yeah.
It's the last time I'm gonna see the sun for a few hours.
Matter of fact, I'm dying for a smoke.
Rachel, listen to me.
We can still do this.
We'll do the pass right under her nose.
Just follow my instructions.
I'll talk you through it.
What are you doing? - Going with you.
- No, you're not.
Yes I am.
If Gordon Dean can recognize you on sight, so can any of his agents.
How do you say, "You're welcome" in Czech? - I thought you quit.
- I did.
In the US, but here everybody smokes.
It's a social necessity.
Rachel, have the credit card ready in your left hand.
I'm ten seconds away.
Palm the credit card down by your side.
Don't look at me.
See? Social necessity.
If I didn't smoke, that never would have happened.
But I suppose he's not your type anyway, is he? No.
Remind me to ask her what that means - "not her type.
" How's it going? Good.
What idiots don't double-encrypt their firewalls? I could do this in my sleep.
OK We're in.
Let Rachel know.
Rachel, Marshall's decoded the key.
You can open the access ports now.
That's what I love about our friendship - no competition.
Yeah.
You sure you're OK? Of course.
It's nothing a little caffeine won't fix.
OK.
- Got it.
She's in.
- Rachel, good job.
We're in.
This shouldn't take too long.
Peyton.
What is it? I think we may have a problem.
What kind of problem? Rachel Gibson.
I don't know.
She hasn't done anything unusual from her terminal.
- She's brilliant.
- What? She's hopping RAM.
She's trying to stay undetected.
She's copying my server.
Hold on a sec here.
Substance 33.
Shipping tonight, Budapest.
Shipping container 1147.
Great.
I'll let Mr.
Bristow know.
- She's compromised everything.
- I can eliminate her.
She trusts me.
No, it's too late for that.
Execute plan B.
- Are you sure that's necessary? - Just do it quickly.
I'll meet you in the parking garage.
OK, I spoke to Director Bristow.
He contacted the Hungarian authorities.
Once again, these bad guys picked the wrong people to mess with.
- Oh, what's that? - What? RF interference.
I should be able to compensate.
Contact Rachel.
Let's see how she's doing.
Rachel, it's me.
Do you copy? - Rachel! Rachel, if you can't talk, cough.
- Oh, hell, the server's down.
- Rachel, listen to me.
- It's no use.
They set off an EMP.
They fried the electronics.
Are you there? Can anybody hear me? Syd.
Syd, no! She's OK.
She's gonna be OK.
Bad robot!
It is a condition that I am responsible for, with no hope for a cure.
I've hurt the most precious thing in my life.
Gordon Dean, Office of Special Investigations.
Dean wasn't Special Investigations.
He went off the grid two years ago.
These people killed my fiancé.
- We lost our only lead on Gordon Dean.
- We'll get another lead.
Yeah.
I'm patched in.
Go for the hack.
Thank you forcalling.
For training, this call may be monitored.
My name is Roger.
How may I help you? Hi Roger.
- I'd like to cancel a subscription, please.
- Certainly.
Can I have the name, please? Michael Vaughn.
- V-a-u-g-h-n.
- Got it.
I see it right here.
May I ask why you're canceling the subscription? Mr.
Vaughn died.
- I'm sorry.
I'll take care of it right away.
- Yeah.
OK.
If your wife says it's a waste of time having a pen pal, she's wrong.
'Cause two days ago there was a theft at an R&D facility in Istanbul.
The Turks did a good job keeping it under wraps, but my friend Ali forwarded me this.
Take a look right there.
You see those vials? That's a nerve agent called substance 33, developed by the Russians during the Cold War.
Remarkable stuff.
You know, in an end-of-civilization sort of way.
Why do you think they worked for Dean? They don't.
As far as we can tell, they're independent.
- Gordon Dean, he's - Former CIA.
Disappeared two years ago.
Infiltrated this office, compromised one of your men.
- I'm up to speed, thanks.
- Sorry, I New guy.
I just assumed that maybe Anyway, this woman right here, that's who I think works for Dean.
You think? Based on what, your pen pal? Who, Ali? No, see, this woman had help.
A hacker who accessed the security system using the same computer as a hack on the NSA a few months back, which we know was ordered by Dean, so two hours ago I traced this computer to Prague, within these five square miles.
But if I can go to Prague, I can narrow it down to two feet, then we can grab this hacker and get him to tell us where the substance 33 is.
But if we do that, we lose Dean, and once he realizes his hacker is missing, he'll disappear as well.
Right.
OK, I want you both to accompany Marshall to Prague.
Follow the signal, locate Dean's operation there, but don't do anything to reveal yourself or to engage his men.
Then we'll reassess our options.
Shouldn't Dixon be going with me? I've tasked Dixon to another assignment.
Marshall will brief you on your OPTEC.
Let me know when you're ready to leave.
Dad.
You're making a mistake.
I understand you're more comfortable with Dixon, but that was inappropriate.
- This is no time to break in a new agent.
- Grace has extensive field experience.
And I have a history with Dixon.
What is so important that he can't come with me on this mission? Your sister.
What about my sister? You know that Sloane has been searching for a cure for Nadia.
He may have found one.
"Conditional release of Arvin Sloane"? Sloane cultivated a lead who'll only meet him face-to-face, in Russia.
I was able to convince the Attorney General to let him out of prison for 72 hours.
I'm sending Dixon as a security detail.
When was I gonna find out about this? I didn't want to raise your hopes until we knew what Sloane had.
Then I'd prefer to go with Marshall by myself.
- Sydney - It's not that complicated.
In fact, it's very complicated.
Recovering the nerve agent without tipping Dean What aren't you telling me? I read his file.
Agent Grace's? You had no authority to do that.
In the last three years, he has turned down half a dozen team assignments, instead taking long cover operations by himself.
He's a loner.
He's a superior agent and he's agreed to be on this team, which is good enough for me.
Um, sorry, didn't mean to You said to let you know when - We're ready to go.
- Yeah.
Tell me about your contact, Alexander Dolzhenko.
Dolzhenko was an undersecretary in the Politburo.
I've been working with him for a decade.
- Trustworthy? - Reliable.
Why is he insisting on meeting with you in person? For his protection.
After the Sovogda incident, we believed that the Russians killed all the infected.
But according to Dolzhenko, they've kept some alive and they're pursuing treatment.
Of course, the Russians deny that Sovogda ever occurred.
So, by passing the cure to me, Dolzhenko is risking his life.
Suppose Dolzhenko has been found out by the authorities.
This could be his way of cutting a deal.
And you're suggesting that I might be walking into a trap? Hm? No.
No, about the Sovogda incident, the Russians have no idea I'm responsible.
Then why has he agreed to meet with you at all? $300,000.
My job is to make sure, in three days' time, you return to this cell.
I intend to do exactly that.
When we're in the field, you'll follow my instructions explicitly.
No questions.
It's my show.
Agreed.
- You sure you're reading that right? - Yeah.
It seems an unlikely place to hide an operation.
It's definitely him.
The signal is weak but clean.
- The hacker's right inside that building.
- Wi-Fi hot spot.
Yeah.
He must be using a laptop offsite.
It's OK.
I got an idea.
OK OK, got it.
Here's what we do.
Pack of mints, right? Microprocessor on the bottom of the case.
It's a relay.
Within five feet of the hacker's computer, it should allow me to clone the hard drive, tell us where the nerve agent is.
Even better Offer him a mint.
Inside each one is a tracking device.
Don't worry.
He won't die if he swallows it, just get a little sick, a little nausea.
If Gordon Dean has an operation here, the hacker will lead us right to it.
Got it.
- What's that? - That was Czech.
I'll fake it.
Sounds sort of Germanish, right? Go for it.
- OK, who am I looking for? - OK.
Far window, back to the wall.
Baseball cap on backwards.
Got it.
You are American? Great, Syd, that's perfect.
I'm starting to clone now.
Nice.
- Hold on a second.
Wait a minute.
- What is it? I'm not the only one accessing this computer.
Syd Are there two networked laptops? - No.
- No? Syd, we have a problem.
Someone else is piggybacking off this computer, trying to steal the bandwidth, which means the hacker doesn't have a laptop at all, maybe a PDA or cell phone? - The signal just went dead.
- I've got her.
Blonde hair, brown jacket.
She's coming your way.
There she is.
You're gonna want a seat belt.
- What What are you doing? - Following her.
Watch out! Sorry! She made us.
Hold on! Hi, there.
Hey, did you get anything from her cell phone? No, the SIM card is completely shattered.
She says the phone broke when we hit her car.
More likely it was a countermeasure.
She smashed it when she realized you were chasing her.
If her people realize she's gone, if there's some protocol to check in that she misses, they'll disappear as well.
Maybe under the circumstance, you'd have done something different.
OK, um You've talked to your father, right, Syd? What's he want us to do? I'll talk to her again, see if I can get her to give up substance 33 while there's time.
- Can you rig a voice-stress analyzer? - Yeah, sure.
Give me ten minutes.
- Dolzhenko is typically a few minutes late.
- Half an hour is more than a few minutes.
- Here we go.
- Alexander.
You deviated from my instructions.
I told you to come alone.
He's backup.
He's only here for my safety.
Do you have the money? It's all here, Alexander.
Our last job, where we parted company? Be there by eight, alone this time.
- I can't do that, Alexander.
- Then our deal's off.
And you lose your daughter's cure.
- Marcus.
- No.
If you're concerned that this is a trick, an escape You have my daughter.
She's all the insurance you need.
It could be a trap.
Russian police could be waiting.
It doesn't matter to me.
I have to see this through.
What if it were your daughter, Marcus? Call me when you're ready to be picked up.
Three days ago you hacked into a security system and facilitated the theft of a chemical weapon, substance 33.
I want to contact the American embassy.
I'm a US citizen, I have rights.
You committed an act of terrorism.
You forfeited your rights.
Honestly, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Hi.
Rachel Gibson, traveling on a student visa, issued two weeks ago.
So, what are you studying? Architecture.
The gothic influence.
- Well, that's fascinating.
- It is.
What are you? Get off! Let go of me! No! Stop, let go! - What is this? - You're making a mistake.
Soon US agents will be swarming this place looking for me.
- US agents? - That's right.
An ELT, emergency location transmitter.
She was trying to send a distress signal.
- Do I need to worry? - It's intact.
The signal didn't go out.
You're scared.
You should be.
No one's coming to rescue you.
I'm an operative for the US government.
If you want a war with the CIA Here's your next problem, Rachel.
We're CIA.
Well, then, this must be some big misunderstanding.
If you're CIA, we're on the same side.
Call Langley, verify her story.
You can't.
We're off-book.
Black ops.
Langley won't verify us.
- That's convenient.
- That's the truth.
- I've had enough.
- Syd The stress analysis says she's telling the truth.
Maybe, but the more likely scenario is that she's practicing a form of self-hypnosis to convince herself that what she's saying is true.
I triple-checked my readings, filtered them against every known method of duping.
She believes what she's saying.
What? You and my father said the same thing: Rachel believes what she says.
- She believes she works for the CIA.
- Yeah, I think so, that's right.
I need to talk to her.
I want to tell you a story.
Stop me if I get something wrong.
You were approached in college, someplace public, walking to class.
A man asked you if you wanted to serve yourcountry.
When he told it was for the CIA, you couldn't believe it.
But you took the tests, and they were easy for you - it made you feel good about yourself.
You probably started work at a false front - some phantom company that had you doing entry-level analysis.
Maybe you wondered why you were never sent to Langley.
Maybe you wondered why you weren't being trained with other recruits.
Then you got promoted, and met the director of your division, Gordon Dean.
He offered you a position on his team.
Dean took you under his wing, he convinced you that you were so important, you just had to be out there, helping him save the world.
How am I doing? - You read my file.
- No, I didn't.
the same thing happened to me, only I had been lied to.
What I was told was the CIA was, in reality, a criminal organization.
I think you've been told the same lie.
I know you don't believe me.
You think this is another interrogation tactic.
It's not.
I think I can prove it.
You can prove it? That I work for a criminal organization? Your transmitter, where does the signal get received? - CIA headquarters, Langley.
- You're sure of that? I designed it myself.
I'd like you to build a trace program that piggybacks the signal your watch sends.
If I'm right, it won't go to Langley.
- OK, it's ready.
- Let's do it.
OK, I'm gonna send out a test signal.
Whoever receives this will just assume you're checking the system.
Here we go.
And testing.
Yep, it went to Langley.
No, it isn't.
That ping was just a ghost signal to throw us off.
It's not going to Langley at all.
Where'd it go? Prague.
Vlasska Street.
What's on Vlasska Street? Our office.
It's temporary so that Dean can oversee the transfer of substance 33.
Wait.
Gordon Dean is in Prague? Yeah.
He's right around the corner.
- How's she doing? - As you'd expect.
She was told substance 33 was developed by a terrorist cell and it's being transferred to UN weapons inspectors.
It's being sold to the highest bidder.
Does she know when the exchange is? Tonight, but she doesn't know where.
It's classified.
All classified intel is stored on Dean's own dedicated server.
How much does she know about his operation? Dean calls it "The Shed.
" She was recruited two years ago, computer specialist.
She's willing to give us everything - mission history, suppliers, contacts, the works.
We need more background to move on Dean.
He could destroy his data before we secure it.
- Marshall, can we access that server? - According to Rachel, Dean uses an encryption key that changes daily.
If I could get inside, I could crack the key, maybe download the entire hard drive.
Obviously that's too dangerous.
- What about the girl? - She's not a field agent.
And her whole world is coming apart right now.
I don't see another option.
We have to recover substance 33 before it trades hands.
What is it? We need some help.
Just copy the encryption key and bring it back to me.
It should take me two minutes to crack.
Then go back inside.
Can you open a remote access port to Dean's server? Yeah, from my workstation.
Dean's server has about a terabyte of data.
That'll take an hour at 20 gigs a minute.
Don't worry.
I can hop RAM while the data's being transferred.
Unless they know to look, it's undetectable.
The encryption key is massive.
I don't have anything big enough to copy it to.
That's OK.
I got a present for you.
Just a little something I picked up.
It looks like a normal credit card, right? But, if you look closely, it actually holds 240 gigs of memory.
Yeah.
And it's a working credit card.
Just don't go shopping with it because it's already at its limit.
My wife goes crazy with clothes, Mitchell - It's clever.
- Yeah.
I want to tell you that I've been admiring you too.
Uh, not, you know, in a kind of creepy, weird Just totally professionally.
Your hack on the NSA? Genius.
Too bad it was being used for evil.
Though been there myself.
Thanks.
Hey, listen.
You're gonna be OK, all right? I have been through stuff way scarier.
I'm still here.
Alexander.
Old friend.
So, I did as you asked.
It's just you and me.
I'm sorry for my precautions.
I'm sure you understand.
Of course.
I'm eager to get this over with as well.
- You can count it.
- No, please, we are friends.
I trust you.
So, you have the cure? As I told you, it's still experimental, but yes.
So far, the patients have made a full recovery.
- Good.
- Come.
It's right here.
- Alexander, please - No.
Begging will not help you.
Whoever wants me dead, let me reason with him.
I'll pay them.
"Whoever"? But, Arvin, it's me who wants you dead.
Sasha, why are you doing this? I've never done anything to you.
Oh, yes.
Yes, you have.
I had a daughter in Sovogda myself.
Because of what you released, I didn't even have a chance to bury my own child.
I lied to you.
Besides your daughter, there are no other survivors.
No experiments, no cure.
Yeah! It's worse than dying, isn't it? Knowing there's nothing you can do to save your own child.
- Turn around.
- No.
- Turn around! - No! If you're going to shoot me, I'm not going to make it easy for you.
I know your pain, Sasha.
Killing me won't heal it.
You're not a killer.
Don't become one now.
Don't make this your daughter's legacy.
I'll be able to hear anything you say, even if it's a whisper.
If anything goes wrong, if you even sense that you are in jeopardy, we'll pull you out, we'll call off the mission.
- OK.
- OK.
That's the easy part.
The hard part - you have to walk back into that office and look everyone in the eye.
Your coworkers.
Gordon Dean.
You can't let them see that you know the truth.
When you've copied the encryption key, we'll brush past in the lobby, like we said.
OK.
How many of them know? How many of them are in on it? That's impossible to say.
In my case, it was half a dozen out of 50 agents.
Have you ever seen this man? Yeah, Dean said he was a CIA agent who turned.
That he's in custody outside Los Alamos.
That was a lie, too.
His name is Michael Vaughn.
He was a US agent.
But he was a good man.
Rachel, look at me.
I'm telling you this because right now you are our best chance at seeing Gordon Dean pay for what he's done.
He used you, Rachel.
He used you to murder US agents.
I believe in you.
- Hey.
- Peyton, hey.
- I thought you weren't due until tonight.
- Yeah, I have some reports to clean up.
- You OK? - Rough weekend.
Well, if you want to take a nap on the couch, I can hide you.
Thanks.
I'm good, though.
I'm gonna get to work.
OK.
Don't let Dean see you, or he'll make you translate surveillance footage.
Yeah, you're right.
Hey, Rachel.
- How long has it been? - Since you last asked, 30 seconds.
She's been in there ten minutes.
I'm sure she's fine.
- Rachel! - Hey.
I don't know whether I should thank you or curse you.
The book you recommended, Devil in the White City.
I'm addicted.
Truly.
I was up all night, reading.
I never would have thought I'd be so fascinated by a serial killer.
Somehow, I find myself even sympathetic.
Yeah, I guess.
So, listen.
Intel suggests that Iran is trying to buy a nuclear core from the French.
We'll be in Paris next week.
I'll need a prep report by the end of the day.
- OK, I'll get right on it.
- Thank you.
- I've got it.
I'm on my way down.
- Great, I'm coming to meet you.
We'll brush past outside the door of your building.
Hey, hold that elevator.
You going for coffee? Yeah.
It's the last time I'm gonna see the sun for a few hours.
Matter of fact, I'm dying for a smoke.
Rachel, listen to me.
We can still do this.
We'll do the pass right under her nose.
Just follow my instructions.
I'll talk you through it.
What are you doing? - Going with you.
- No, you're not.
Yes I am.
If Gordon Dean can recognize you on sight, so can any of his agents.
How do you say, "You're welcome" in Czech? - I thought you quit.
- I did.
In the US, but here everybody smokes.
It's a social necessity.
Rachel, have the credit card ready in your left hand.
I'm ten seconds away.
Palm the credit card down by your side.
Don't look at me.
See? Social necessity.
If I didn't smoke, that never would have happened.
But I suppose he's not your type anyway, is he? No.
Remind me to ask her what that means - "not her type.
" How's it going? Good.
What idiots don't double-encrypt their firewalls? I could do this in my sleep.
OK We're in.
Let Rachel know.
Rachel, Marshall's decoded the key.
You can open the access ports now.
That's what I love about our friendship - no competition.
Yeah.
You sure you're OK? Of course.
It's nothing a little caffeine won't fix.
OK.
- Got it.
She's in.
- Rachel, good job.
We're in.
This shouldn't take too long.
Peyton.
What is it? I think we may have a problem.
What kind of problem? Rachel Gibson.
I don't know.
She hasn't done anything unusual from her terminal.
- She's brilliant.
- What? She's hopping RAM.
She's trying to stay undetected.
She's copying my server.
Hold on a sec here.
Substance 33.
Shipping tonight, Budapest.
Shipping container 1147.
Great.
I'll let Mr.
Bristow know.
- She's compromised everything.
- I can eliminate her.
She trusts me.
No, it's too late for that.
Execute plan B.
- Are you sure that's necessary? - Just do it quickly.
I'll meet you in the parking garage.
OK, I spoke to Director Bristow.
He contacted the Hungarian authorities.
Once again, these bad guys picked the wrong people to mess with.
- Oh, what's that? - What? RF interference.
I should be able to compensate.
Contact Rachel.
Let's see how she's doing.
Rachel, it's me.
Do you copy? - Rachel! Rachel, if you can't talk, cough.
- Oh, hell, the server's down.
- Rachel, listen to me.
- It's no use.
They set off an EMP.
They fried the electronics.
Are you there? Can anybody hear me? Syd.
Syd, no! She's OK.
She's gonna be OK.
Bad robot!