The Bridge (US) s02e11 Episode Script
Beholder
Previously on The Bridge Stop! Sonya, more are coming! Get out of here! I pretend to be the hero.
The lie protects everyone.
Can you identify any of these men? Him.
H-Hold on a second here.
We're-we're talking about police officers from Juárez.
You gonna protect her? - Did you arrest Robles? - It's not that easy, Sonya.
Why? Mexico City has Eva's affidavit.
No, they don't.
I think we can help each other.
- I can work with that.
- Good.
We keep a tight circle on this.
Only you and Hank Wade.
You sent me the Euro note? Maybe.
He said to me the CIA has ordered them to back off the investigation.
I'm betting that's the guy who knows everything.
CIA.
Where's my ledger?! That's her.
I said stop.
Uh Action.
Ah.
Sebastian Oh.
Acción.
Sebastian No, no.
I thought this was an internal affairs audit.
Yeah, well, two DEA agents lost their lives in that house, Detective Cross.
That makes it a federal investigation.
Of course.
I didn't get your name.
I'm here in what you might call an advisory mode only.
Oh.
What agency? Central Intelligence.
Why is the CIA involved? That's classified, Detective.
It's a national security matter.
We'd like some perspective on events that led to the shooting two days ago.
I've already given a statement to the police commission.
Well, with all due respect, this falls outside their jurisdiction.
We had a Mexican drug massacre in a gated community.
There will be blowback.
Mucho blowback.
The CIA was interfering with Agent McKenzie.
For the unenlightened, perhaps you could walk us through this wild speculation.
Hank and I were working with Agent McKenzie on the Eleanor Nacht case.
Agent McKenzie never filed a report on his investigation.
- That's correct.
- Do you know why? He believed that the CIA was preventing him from getting Fausto Galvan.
He said we were preventing the DEA from doing its job? Cock-blocking.
That's how he put it.
We read your report.
It's very thorough.
Then what's the point of this? Detective Cross, this massacre represents a very serious threat to our border security.
You had a role in it.
As I stated, I was approached by Agent McKenzie.
To run an off-the-books operation? Answer the question, please.
Yes.
He wanted to apprehend Fausto Galvan, and I wanted to arrest Eleanor Nacht.
We made a deal.
That didn't exactly go to plan, did it? I need to interview her.
Miss Nacht's interview is being handled by the DOJ.
Any contact with her would be obstruction of a federal investigation.
Are you taking the case away from me? It was never your case, Detective.
Eleanor Nacht killed an innocent kid, and nobody seems to really care.
Detective Cross, were there any additional items left at the house prior to your surrendering it to DEA? Paperwork and stuff like that.
Everything is on the inventory list.
You're not currently taking any medications? What? There's a, um, diagnosis in your personnel file.
No.
I'm not taking medications currently, and I'm not sure what that has to do with this investigation.
It's just a question.
Thank you for your time, Detective.
How's Luce? She gets her stitches out tomorrow.
Oh, yuck.
Guess there's no 21-gun salute for Agent Joe McKenzie, huh? There she is.
Remind me to get cremated, will you? Hello.
Our condolences, Mrs.
McKenzie.
I'm sorry.
How did you know Joe? Well, we sort of worked with him.
You don't look like DEA.
I work for The El Paso Times.
And I used to.
This is my husband's funeral.
I've already talked to reporters, thank you.
Wait, wait, wait.
I'm sorry.
Just, um, could you please tell us if you recognize this writing? Your husband reached out to us.
- Did he ever talk to you about his work? - No.
Mostly baseball and Dungeons & Dragons.
Dungeons & Dragons? He never talked to you about anything else? He had a special project in the garage or something.
Maybe we could take a look at that? They told me not to touch anything.
DEA's picking it up.
- We wouldn't take up too much of your time.
- No, it's We are so sorry that we bothered you.
If I could just We are very sorry.
It's fine.
Go, go, go, go.
Ready? Go, go, go.
Oh, shit.
Oh, shit.
Go.
- Go, go, go, go.
- What is it? What is that, Joe's special project? "Yankee.
" Here.
Can you grab this? Yeah, yeah, grab that.
- You got it? - Yeah.
I got the other one.
Come on.
- Hey.
- Hey.
How's Hank? Better.
I'm off the Nacht case.
DEA's taking over.
Of course they are.
CIA's involved, too.
Well, that's not gonna help to find Fausto, you know? I think I know where he is.
How? My father had a hideout.
Look.
In the old days, after I left home, Fausto and him became closer.
That's when they began working together.
That him? Yep.
He became my dad's favorite son.
How are you gonna get to him? The Marines, maybe.
Have you asked them already? No, not yet.
There is this, um, state prosecutor.
He might be able to get me in with them.
But first, I need to come clean.
I need to tell the truth about what happened in that hotel room.
It would help if you came with me.
We have a - No.
He did it to protect me.
- Okay.
I know about your father and Fausto Galvan.
I want to get him.
Do you know where he's hiding? That's a suicide mission.
And what are the Americans doing in the wake of the violence? We want Fausto, too.
Perhaps.
See, we Mexicans have the virtue of an openly corrupt system.
You know, things are more clear.
You Americans cloak your corruption behind patriotism, the drug war, the wall.
Señor, señor, perdón.
We-we didn't come here for a lecture.
These are the facts.
Drug money is too important to both of our economies.
I'm here as a cop.
I'm asking your help as a justice official.
Can you arrange a meeting with la Marina? I will deliver Fausto, but on my own terms.
Oh.
Yeah, I feel it now.
That cool breeze.
See? I told you.
It comes down from the mountains every afternoon.
Mmm.
I think you should shave your beard.
My-my beard affords me special powers.
Inscrutability, disguise, deception.
You don't need that anymore.
I want to see your face.
Yeah.
Uh, would you use lather? Yes.
Yeah.
Uh, I could like that.
What? It sickens me what he did to you.
I will hasten him off this planet.
I didn't know he had children.
Ah.
Ah.
Okay? Hank.
Hank.
Welcome back.
Mm Did we get 'em? Eleanor.
Feds took over the investigation.
Figured they would.
CIA, too.
They come in pairs.
Hey, hey, hey.
Sonya.
Sonya.
I took something out of the house.
I got something.
It's a ledger.
I hid it right before they grabbed me.
I need for you to go get that now.
No.
Oh.
Hey.
You're up bright and early.
I need to get a prisoner into interrogation.
- Eleanor? - Yeah.
They barred you from interviewing her.
Can you do it? I'd have to falsify the interrogation request Yes or no, Coop? Give me a minute.
I brought you some water.
Thank you.
You're not supposed to be here.
What happened at Red Ridge, Eleanor? Why are you asking me a question you already know the answer to? All right.
We know you were transferring property for Fausto Galvan.
I don't work for Fausto.
He sent men to kill me.
You have their bodies.
That's right, you work for Sebastian Ceriso I work for myself.
You killed that boy.
He was not a boy.
He was a man.
A man who tried to touch me.
So you admit to killing him.
What about the other boy? You went back to his house.
You let him live.
Yes.
Why? Did he remind you of someone you lost? I'm a Mexican national, Detective.
You have no jurisdiction over me.
I would like to go back to my cell now.
Why did you betray Fausto for Sebastian? Sebastian failed me.
He was careless to let you and Marco Ruiz live.
His daughter's his weakness.
I know Fausto.
She will die, as will your partner, Marco.
Help us bring them down.
Both of them.
No more blood.
There will always be blood.
You can't change that.
I can try.
By arresting me? We are absolutely irrelevant.
Then why do you do what you do? Because I want to be free.
You should want that, too.
I have something of yours.
You have my ledger.
I know what's inside.
Then you should be careful.
Why were you following me? Your mother has a lot of demons.
Did you know that? How long has she lived like that? In the same town as you? My mother stood by when my father raped me.
When I asked her for help she told me to stop talking.
What did your mother do to you? She She did what she could.
And I'm really sorry what happened to you.
What the hell is this? You're not supposed to be in here.
Detective Ruiz.
Oh, come on, now.
I don't want to live in the past anymore.
Following after these men.
What do you mean? You want to go back to El Paso? I want another life.
Robles has to pay for what he did.
It's too dangerous, and I don't want you to get hurt.
I won't get hurt.
We're on the right side of things.
If we stop now, Eva what's gonna happen to the other girls? What about me? I just want to feel like I used to.
Ooh.
Sorry.
You have changed me, Eva.
It's okay.
It's okay.
Okay.
Joe must have believed these banks in the Southwest were laundering money for the cartels.
What the hell is that? The next Red Ridge? Oh.
Holy shit.
Personnel file Alex Buckley, S.
I.
S.
Two.
- CIA.
- Let me see that.
- It's the guy from the diner.
- Jesus Christ.
One thing even I wouldn't put in a spiked story is the CIA.
Look.
Jessica Muj Mujahidin? That is Middle East.
What is this dude doing in El Paso? The Assistant Secretary of Commerce sent Buckley an e-mail asking about a CIA bank operation in El Paso.
Look.
It's a war between the DEA and the CIA.
That's what Joe knew was going on.
The DEA wants to interdict, break up the money flow.
Oh, and CIA wants it to keep it going.
Yeah.
But why? Lucy? You're late.
You were supposed to be here when they took out the stitches.
I'm sorry.
You-you look really good.
Liar.
Listen, uh we have to talk.
Okay.
I'm not comfortable taking you back home.
That's my house.
That's our home.
I think you should move in with your parents.
What? You'd be safer there.
No, I'm not leaving you.
Lucy I can't see you get hurt again.
You want to break up with me, then do it.
This thing that, uh, Daniel and I are working on it's just very dangerous.
Then drop it.
I can't.
It's too important.
More important than us? I'm sorry.
What do you want? Can I buy you lunch? Why? I need to talk to you.
I'm not clean.
I don't want to go.
Two times.
What? That's two times you've come to see me in the last two weeks.
Why? Jim Dobbs died.
I came to tell you, but you were high.
So? I thought you'd want to know.
Why are you still wearing her coat? It's not going to bring her back.
I'm not trying to bring her back, Mom.
Should throw it away.
Doesn't even fit you.
Just get a new one.
That's what I'd do.
I like wearing it.
Take this.
What's this? I want you to go someplace for a while.
Why would I do that? Mom, please just just buy a bus ticket.
I don't care what you do with the rest.
I just want you to get out of here for a while.
Ah.
No.
No.
Hey.
Marco.
Hey.
Eleanor's gone.
Transferred into federal custody.
On whose authority? DEA? No, that spooky-ass Buckley signed for her.
When? An hour ago.
What? Sonya Cross has the ledger.
I know.
What are you going to do about it? I'll clean up my mess, you clean up your mess.
Of course.
What is our exposure? Considerable.
I will get the ledger back, but this needs to be fixed immediately.
You understand that's why you're out? Yes.
My work is here.
Then you need to be careful.
They'll be looking for you.
I will make things right.
Hey.
Hey, hey, hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey!
The lie protects everyone.
Can you identify any of these men? Him.
H-Hold on a second here.
We're-we're talking about police officers from Juárez.
You gonna protect her? - Did you arrest Robles? - It's not that easy, Sonya.
Why? Mexico City has Eva's affidavit.
No, they don't.
I think we can help each other.
- I can work with that.
- Good.
We keep a tight circle on this.
Only you and Hank Wade.
You sent me the Euro note? Maybe.
He said to me the CIA has ordered them to back off the investigation.
I'm betting that's the guy who knows everything.
CIA.
Where's my ledger?! That's her.
I said stop.
Uh Action.
Ah.
Sebastian Oh.
Acción.
Sebastian No, no.
I thought this was an internal affairs audit.
Yeah, well, two DEA agents lost their lives in that house, Detective Cross.
That makes it a federal investigation.
Of course.
I didn't get your name.
I'm here in what you might call an advisory mode only.
Oh.
What agency? Central Intelligence.
Why is the CIA involved? That's classified, Detective.
It's a national security matter.
We'd like some perspective on events that led to the shooting two days ago.
I've already given a statement to the police commission.
Well, with all due respect, this falls outside their jurisdiction.
We had a Mexican drug massacre in a gated community.
There will be blowback.
Mucho blowback.
The CIA was interfering with Agent McKenzie.
For the unenlightened, perhaps you could walk us through this wild speculation.
Hank and I were working with Agent McKenzie on the Eleanor Nacht case.
Agent McKenzie never filed a report on his investigation.
- That's correct.
- Do you know why? He believed that the CIA was preventing him from getting Fausto Galvan.
He said we were preventing the DEA from doing its job? Cock-blocking.
That's how he put it.
We read your report.
It's very thorough.
Then what's the point of this? Detective Cross, this massacre represents a very serious threat to our border security.
You had a role in it.
As I stated, I was approached by Agent McKenzie.
To run an off-the-books operation? Answer the question, please.
Yes.
He wanted to apprehend Fausto Galvan, and I wanted to arrest Eleanor Nacht.
We made a deal.
That didn't exactly go to plan, did it? I need to interview her.
Miss Nacht's interview is being handled by the DOJ.
Any contact with her would be obstruction of a federal investigation.
Are you taking the case away from me? It was never your case, Detective.
Eleanor Nacht killed an innocent kid, and nobody seems to really care.
Detective Cross, were there any additional items left at the house prior to your surrendering it to DEA? Paperwork and stuff like that.
Everything is on the inventory list.
You're not currently taking any medications? What? There's a, um, diagnosis in your personnel file.
No.
I'm not taking medications currently, and I'm not sure what that has to do with this investigation.
It's just a question.
Thank you for your time, Detective.
How's Luce? She gets her stitches out tomorrow.
Oh, yuck.
Guess there's no 21-gun salute for Agent Joe McKenzie, huh? There she is.
Remind me to get cremated, will you? Hello.
Our condolences, Mrs.
McKenzie.
I'm sorry.
How did you know Joe? Well, we sort of worked with him.
You don't look like DEA.
I work for The El Paso Times.
And I used to.
This is my husband's funeral.
I've already talked to reporters, thank you.
Wait, wait, wait.
I'm sorry.
Just, um, could you please tell us if you recognize this writing? Your husband reached out to us.
- Did he ever talk to you about his work? - No.
Mostly baseball and Dungeons & Dragons.
Dungeons & Dragons? He never talked to you about anything else? He had a special project in the garage or something.
Maybe we could take a look at that? They told me not to touch anything.
DEA's picking it up.
- We wouldn't take up too much of your time.
- No, it's We are so sorry that we bothered you.
If I could just We are very sorry.
It's fine.
Go, go, go, go.
Ready? Go, go, go.
Oh, shit.
Oh, shit.
Go.
- Go, go, go, go.
- What is it? What is that, Joe's special project? "Yankee.
" Here.
Can you grab this? Yeah, yeah, grab that.
- You got it? - Yeah.
I got the other one.
Come on.
- Hey.
- Hey.
How's Hank? Better.
I'm off the Nacht case.
DEA's taking over.
Of course they are.
CIA's involved, too.
Well, that's not gonna help to find Fausto, you know? I think I know where he is.
How? My father had a hideout.
Look.
In the old days, after I left home, Fausto and him became closer.
That's when they began working together.
That him? Yep.
He became my dad's favorite son.
How are you gonna get to him? The Marines, maybe.
Have you asked them already? No, not yet.
There is this, um, state prosecutor.
He might be able to get me in with them.
But first, I need to come clean.
I need to tell the truth about what happened in that hotel room.
It would help if you came with me.
We have a - No.
He did it to protect me.
- Okay.
I know about your father and Fausto Galvan.
I want to get him.
Do you know where he's hiding? That's a suicide mission.
And what are the Americans doing in the wake of the violence? We want Fausto, too.
Perhaps.
See, we Mexicans have the virtue of an openly corrupt system.
You know, things are more clear.
You Americans cloak your corruption behind patriotism, the drug war, the wall.
Señor, señor, perdón.
We-we didn't come here for a lecture.
These are the facts.
Drug money is too important to both of our economies.
I'm here as a cop.
I'm asking your help as a justice official.
Can you arrange a meeting with la Marina? I will deliver Fausto, but on my own terms.
Oh.
Yeah, I feel it now.
That cool breeze.
See? I told you.
It comes down from the mountains every afternoon.
Mmm.
I think you should shave your beard.
My-my beard affords me special powers.
Inscrutability, disguise, deception.
You don't need that anymore.
I want to see your face.
Yeah.
Uh, would you use lather? Yes.
Yeah.
Uh, I could like that.
What? It sickens me what he did to you.
I will hasten him off this planet.
I didn't know he had children.
Ah.
Ah.
Okay? Hank.
Hank.
Welcome back.
Mm Did we get 'em? Eleanor.
Feds took over the investigation.
Figured they would.
CIA, too.
They come in pairs.
Hey, hey, hey.
Sonya.
Sonya.
I took something out of the house.
I got something.
It's a ledger.
I hid it right before they grabbed me.
I need for you to go get that now.
No.
Oh.
Hey.
You're up bright and early.
I need to get a prisoner into interrogation.
- Eleanor? - Yeah.
They barred you from interviewing her.
Can you do it? I'd have to falsify the interrogation request Yes or no, Coop? Give me a minute.
I brought you some water.
Thank you.
You're not supposed to be here.
What happened at Red Ridge, Eleanor? Why are you asking me a question you already know the answer to? All right.
We know you were transferring property for Fausto Galvan.
I don't work for Fausto.
He sent men to kill me.
You have their bodies.
That's right, you work for Sebastian Ceriso I work for myself.
You killed that boy.
He was not a boy.
He was a man.
A man who tried to touch me.
So you admit to killing him.
What about the other boy? You went back to his house.
You let him live.
Yes.
Why? Did he remind you of someone you lost? I'm a Mexican national, Detective.
You have no jurisdiction over me.
I would like to go back to my cell now.
Why did you betray Fausto for Sebastian? Sebastian failed me.
He was careless to let you and Marco Ruiz live.
His daughter's his weakness.
I know Fausto.
She will die, as will your partner, Marco.
Help us bring them down.
Both of them.
No more blood.
There will always be blood.
You can't change that.
I can try.
By arresting me? We are absolutely irrelevant.
Then why do you do what you do? Because I want to be free.
You should want that, too.
I have something of yours.
You have my ledger.
I know what's inside.
Then you should be careful.
Why were you following me? Your mother has a lot of demons.
Did you know that? How long has she lived like that? In the same town as you? My mother stood by when my father raped me.
When I asked her for help she told me to stop talking.
What did your mother do to you? She She did what she could.
And I'm really sorry what happened to you.
What the hell is this? You're not supposed to be in here.
Detective Ruiz.
Oh, come on, now.
I don't want to live in the past anymore.
Following after these men.
What do you mean? You want to go back to El Paso? I want another life.
Robles has to pay for what he did.
It's too dangerous, and I don't want you to get hurt.
I won't get hurt.
We're on the right side of things.
If we stop now, Eva what's gonna happen to the other girls? What about me? I just want to feel like I used to.
Ooh.
Sorry.
You have changed me, Eva.
It's okay.
It's okay.
Okay.
Joe must have believed these banks in the Southwest were laundering money for the cartels.
What the hell is that? The next Red Ridge? Oh.
Holy shit.
Personnel file Alex Buckley, S.
I.
S.
Two.
- CIA.
- Let me see that.
- It's the guy from the diner.
- Jesus Christ.
One thing even I wouldn't put in a spiked story is the CIA.
Look.
Jessica Muj Mujahidin? That is Middle East.
What is this dude doing in El Paso? The Assistant Secretary of Commerce sent Buckley an e-mail asking about a CIA bank operation in El Paso.
Look.
It's a war between the DEA and the CIA.
That's what Joe knew was going on.
The DEA wants to interdict, break up the money flow.
Oh, and CIA wants it to keep it going.
Yeah.
But why? Lucy? You're late.
You were supposed to be here when they took out the stitches.
I'm sorry.
You-you look really good.
Liar.
Listen, uh we have to talk.
Okay.
I'm not comfortable taking you back home.
That's my house.
That's our home.
I think you should move in with your parents.
What? You'd be safer there.
No, I'm not leaving you.
Lucy I can't see you get hurt again.
You want to break up with me, then do it.
This thing that, uh, Daniel and I are working on it's just very dangerous.
Then drop it.
I can't.
It's too important.
More important than us? I'm sorry.
What do you want? Can I buy you lunch? Why? I need to talk to you.
I'm not clean.
I don't want to go.
Two times.
What? That's two times you've come to see me in the last two weeks.
Why? Jim Dobbs died.
I came to tell you, but you were high.
So? I thought you'd want to know.
Why are you still wearing her coat? It's not going to bring her back.
I'm not trying to bring her back, Mom.
Should throw it away.
Doesn't even fit you.
Just get a new one.
That's what I'd do.
I like wearing it.
Take this.
What's this? I want you to go someplace for a while.
Why would I do that? Mom, please just just buy a bus ticket.
I don't care what you do with the rest.
I just want you to get out of here for a while.
Ah.
No.
No.
Hey.
Marco.
Hey.
Eleanor's gone.
Transferred into federal custody.
On whose authority? DEA? No, that spooky-ass Buckley signed for her.
When? An hour ago.
What? Sonya Cross has the ledger.
I know.
What are you going to do about it? I'll clean up my mess, you clean up your mess.
Of course.
What is our exposure? Considerable.
I will get the ledger back, but this needs to be fixed immediately.
You understand that's why you're out? Yes.
My work is here.
Then you need to be careful.
They'll be looking for you.
I will make things right.
Hey.
Hey, hey, hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey!