The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (2025) s01e03 Episode Script

1
[Ben] Daran.
-Chief.
-Amo Ben!
[Ben] Miss Zaynab!
I reached out to this former Delta
buddy of mine
who helps relocate ISF to the States.
-[Daran] No, Chief.
-[Ben] Yes.
-I'm coming back to serve.
-Who told you to reenlist?
[Daran] I'm sorry.
My sources saw Danawi
in Daran's village
-the day of the bombing.
-[Ben] Where are the kids?
We're still looking for them.
What the fuck are we doing here?
Now we have a chance
to take down a known terrorist
who blackmailed
Sergeant Amiri.
-That's enough, brother.
-Brother?
You are a fucking lap dog.
I'm offering you a chance
to take out the guy
who provided the bomb
that killed your friend.
Ben, I need to know
that you can find the brakes.
[Haverford] This is the black side
of special operations, Raife.
Things move faster over here.
[grunting]
Fuck the brakes.
[Haverford] Congrats
on the audition, boys.
Bring me Danawi's phone.
[River Crombie playing "Simple Man"]
Well, Mama told me ♪
When I was young ♪
"Come sit beside me ♪
my only son ♪
and listen closely ♪
to what I say ♪
And if you do this ♪
it'll help you some sunny day ♪
Ah, yeah" ♪
♪
-[Ben panting]
-[dramatic, tense music playing]
♪
[breathing heavily]
[Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
playing "Trouble Every Day"]
No.
You're gonna fall.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
From watchin' my TV ♪
Been checkin' out the news
until my eyeballs fail to see ♪
I mean to say that every day ♪
Is just another rotten mess
[grunting]
Fuckin' freak Rhodesian strength.
Is anybody's guess ♪
-[grunting]
-So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin' ♪
Hopin' for the best ♪
Even think I'll go to prayin' ♪
Every time I hear 'em sayin' ♪
That there's no way to delay ♪
That trouble comin' every day ♪
No way to delay
that trouble comin' every day ♪
No!
No, no.
Wednesday I watched the riot,
I seen the cops out on the street ♪
Watched 'em throwin' rocks and stuff ♪
And chokin' in the heat ♪
Listened to reports
about the whisky passin' round
Tie. Or I won. Whatever one you want.
[sighs] Different story
with my 1911, though, eh?
Excuses and assholes, brother.
Everyone's got 'em.
-All right, I'm starving.
-Yeah, I'm hungry.
-All right, only one way to solve this.
-[Raife] Uh-huh?
-First one to breakfast wins!
-Shit.
[whooping]
[sniffles]
[indistinct chatter in distance]
[Cyrus speaking indistinctly]
[reporter] And to the first part
of my question, Director Rahimi?
[Cyrus] Why have a Finalization Day,
an Adoption and an Implementation Day?
[laughs]
That is a wonderful question.
Iran would say
the most significant nuclear agreement
of the last 30 years deserves
to be celebrated three times. [laughs]
[reporter] You seem positive
considering the American demands.
The smile you see is because
we are this close
to finalizing a momentous deal.
[reporter] Is Iran open to
-[overlapping chatter]
-[cameras clicking]
Thank you for the questions. Thank you.
You'll excuse me. Thank you.
[speaking Farsi]
Brother, where have you been?
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
Let's go grab a tea.
I'd prefer a glass of shiraz.
We're at a disadvantage playing this game
without alcohol.
We're winning this game.
That's all that matters.
What is it?
Vahid I can read it on your face.
We may have a problem in Budapest.
Danawi has gone quiet.
[laughs]
Don't worry.
A problem is not a problem so long as
just the two of us know about it.
Hmm? [laughs]
Let's go. They are waiting.
I'm not thirsty, brother.
Neither am I.
We'll get you that chai.
Let's go to the Minister
to toast to your work
and to a new Iran.
[atmospheric music playing]
[people screaming]
[gasps]
Nightmares?
What?
You know, my mama used to say,
nightmares are just memories
you haven't made friends with yet.
She sounds like a smart woman.
Well, wouldn't give her that much credit.
[sighs]
She also said
I should never leave the kibbutz.
Look at me now, Mameshi.
Haverford said he's worked with you?
Yeah. A long time ago.
What brings you back?
A promise.
[Ben] What do we got?
-Got new teammates.
-Hmm.
[Ben scoffs]
No fucking way.
Look who it is.
-Great to see you, man.
-Chief.
-Well, look at you.
-Hey, brother.
You clean up good, eh?
What are you doing here?
I'm here because of that man.
-Assalamu alaikum, Mr. Jed.
-Wa alaikum salaam.
-[grunts]
-Good to see you, sir.
[Haverford sighs]
Yeah, I've worked with Mo since the '90s.
-Mm-hmm.
-I was training him and the Peshmerga.
Yes, sir.
And who do you think I called
for your references?
Huh? [chuckling]
-Good to see you.
-[vehicle door sliding open]
-[Mo] Yes, sir.
-[grunts]
My man.
Oh, boy.
Good to see you, Ish.
I'm glad you're joining us.
What else would I be doing, sir?
-Retiring.
-[both chuckling]
[Ish] Yeah, 'cause that worked out
so well for you.
Been a minute since we did
that Butch and Sundance job in Yemen.
Uh, this one feels more
like the Dirty Dozen.
Ish Reinhart.
-You must be Ben Edwards.
-I am.
-Raife Hastings.
-Ish.
The two frogmen I've heard so much about.
[Ben] Is that just Mo talking us up?
Eh, it wasn't Mo.
It was the other guy.
-The other guy?
-[Ish] Yeah.
He wouldn't shut the fuck up about you.
[pounding on vehicle door]
Princess, time to wake up!
[man] Yeah. Yep, yeah, okay.
[clears throat] Thanks, Mom.
[groaning]
[sighs]
-Hello, boys.
-The fuck is he doing here?
Well, Al-Jabouri's death
meant Landry's out a gig.
I needed shooters, I got shooters.
Plus, he knows Danawi as well as you do.
Look, I never had a problem
with you icing that shit-bird.
But you did knock me out of a job,
so I'm happy to have a new one.
Thank you, sir.
Everything copacetic?
Don't worry, ladies.
You're all equally pretty.
[tense music playing]
[Haverford] Come on. Let's get settled.
[sighs]
Ben.
-You have a sec?
-Yeah. What's up?
I brought you something.
Daran's kids' S.I.V.s came through.
They're on their way to America.
♪
Uh
thank you.
Of course.
[Haverford] All right, good news.
Tal cracked Danawi's phone,
and we learned that he received
$5 million in crypto,
with instructions to deliver
that money to this guy
Balázs Molnar, a professor of geology
at the Budapest University
of Technology and Economics.
Molnar is our new target.
No way.
We're killing Bill Nye the Science Guy?
[Eliza] Not a killing.
A purchase.
Okay, but, uh, Danawi's dead.
Ratlines rely on anonymity.
Now, no one on Molnar's side knows
what Danawi looks like.
Mohammed is gonna be
our new Massoud Danawi.
Now, Mo as Danawi
is gonna meet with Molnar
and purchase whatever it is
he's trying to sell to Iran.
Hastings, Ish, and Landry will chase down
the best location for the meet.
Mohammed, you'll be
on house arrest with Tal.
We need to limit your exposure
till day of.
Edwards and I will build
pattern of life on the professor.
Tal.
[atmospheric music playing]
[crickets chirping]
[engine starts]
[engine stops]
[tools clanking]
[knocks]
You're neglecting your rounds, pirate.
[exhales sharply]
Please tell me that's an R60.
Haverford told me you ride.
-Yeah.
-They're useful surveillance tools
in Europe.
You got the R nineT.
All right, which one's mine?
Take your pick.
Even in Europe, a woman on a motorcycle
attracts attention.
Unless she's riding pillion.
Hmm.
Fixing the carb.
Let me help.
Like I said, pirate,
you're neglecting your rounds.
Copy that.
All right.
♪
[phone chimes]
[knocking on door]
What is it?
We have new texts on Danawi's phone.
There's someone else
he's supposed to meet.
Who?
The texts are vague.
"Are we still meeting tomorrow?"
"Faisal Café, 9:00 a.m."
"I've followed your instructions."
"Why haven't I heard from you?"
-Are the texts in Arabic?
-Levantine dialect.
-Country codes from Lebanon.
-[exhales]
Go wake Mohammed.
Copy.
[door opens, closes]
[tense music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[Tal over comm] Okay, Mohammed, you're on.
Roughly
three dozen patrons.
Nothing suspicious.
-No visible tangos.
-[Tal] Copy.
Time to ping the unknown party.
[keyboard clicking]
Eyes up to see
-who reacts.
-[computer chimes]
[phone vibrating]
[dramatic music playing]
[phone vibrating]
What are we up against, Mohammed?
[Mo] It's a girl.
Early 20s.
[phone vibrating]
This woman [clears throat]
does not seem like a problem.
Want to bet the operation on it?
If she's Hezbollah,
makes a call home about Danawi,
this whole thing's off.
[suspenseful music playing]
[camera clicking]
Got images for P.I.D. Sending now.
Do you want us to follow?
Affirmative. Get P.I.D.,
then we'll deal with
the potential threat tonight.
[Landry] So, what about kudu, huh?
It's the world's best-tasting game meat.
What if you don't like
that wild and gamy taste?
Well, you'd start with gemsbok.
It tastes pretty similar to beef.
And then you can move onto, uh,
springbok, impala and then kudu.
But it really depends on how
you take care of it in the field.
[laughs softly] Born and raised in Africa.
Fucking crazy.
I'm-a start calling you Tarzan, bro.
Tarzan was British.
What's that?
He was British.
-Mm-hmm?
-He wasn't born in Africa.
He grew up there, but he was, uh,
he was actually British.
You know, 'cause I'm African by birth?
Hmm.
It's a pretty solid place
for the exchange, right?
Multiple E&E routes.
Put someone on the roof for overwatch.
Plenty of CCTV
for the young girl Tal to monitor.
Man, she's a cute one, huh?
Feisty as hell, too. [chuckles]
Mm, uh, she's been solid.
They both have, actually.
Yeah, this is my first dance with Mossad.
They're stone-cold, man.
And what about, uh, Ish and Haverford?
You know those guys?
Look, I know you SEALs
only trust your own,
but you, Mo and Edwards?
You're not the only solid operators here.
Ish is a damn legend.
Fucking globe-trotter.
Hell, he's probably spent as much time
in Africa as you have.
And Haverford? [scoffs]
Haverford's O.G.
Started working against Iran in the '80s.
Back in Beirut, when shit hit the fan.
You add me to the mix,
and basically, we're motherfucking Delta.
Hey, can you eat meerkats?
Those beady-eyed little fuckers
freak me out.
[church bell tolling]
[tense music playing]
Latest from Tal.
That girl Danawi was meeting:
Thana Haddad.
Refugee based in Berlin.
Possible terror component
to our geology professor.
You don't seem worried.
Mo and Ish have their task, we have ours.
Copy that.
So, are we looking for something specific
or is this just cover for action?
A gift for my daughter. Noa.
She's starting her military conscription.
Nice.
And are you happy or sad about it?
Hey, my mom cried for three days straight
after I enlisted, so I get it.
It's a parent's responsibility
to prepare their child for service.
I was thinking Yeats.
-"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death--"
-No Yeats.
Great poet,
but she's gonna see right through it.
You know poetry?
I dabbled in between surf sessions.
Listen, no matter what you give her,
she's just gonna dismiss.
"You're too old," "You don't understand,"
all that fun stuff.
Trust me, I'm a perpetual teenager.
What we can do is give her
something to think about.
No
No.
Dog shit.
[laughs softly]
[Ben] Let's see.
Damn.
Favorite book.
You're welcome.
[sniffles]
"This book is not about heroes.
English poetry is not yet fit
to speak of them.
[contemplative music playing]
Nor is it about deeds,
or lands, nor anything about glory, honor,
dominion or power, except war.
Above all, I'm not concerned with poetry.
The subject of it is war,
and the pity of war.
-Poetry's"
-"Poetry's in the pity."
Owen died November 1918,
killed in action,
age 25, one week before the armistice.
The pity of war.
If that doesn't make your daughter
recognize the potential costs
[church bell tolling]
We're back on.
[dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
Target's staying on foot.
I got eyes on him.
Nukleáris Technikai Intézet.
-It's the nuclear technical institution.
-[Ben over comms] I know.
That's what I said.
[scanner beeps]
Our geologist has a lab
at the nuclear technical institute?
It's Iran.
It's always nuclear.
Your money on a mistress
or a young jihadi up there?
Either way, she's a problem.
This part'll get easier.
But if you don't want to do it
No.
Mr. Jed asked me.
"Mr. Jed"?
Yo. You sure?
"Mr. Jed" doesn't have to know.
[tense music playing]
[baby crying in distance]
♪
[distant chatter and singing in Arabic]
[speaking Arabic]
Turn around.
Stay quiet.
If you make a sound, I will kill you.
Understood?
Sit.
You won't make it. Believe me.
I don't have money or drugs,
nothing of value.
Sit down.
I know you're here to meet Massoud Danawi.
Why?
Who are you with?
Hezbollah?
Who else knows you're meeting?
You killed my father.
You are the reason
why he didn't come today.
Your father?
Don't lie. Danawi doesn't have children.
Slowly.
Slowly.
Take off your purse.
Slowly. Hand it to me.
Who are you with?
You're not Mossad not Iranian.
Do you know who your father was?
Huh?
what he does for a living?
My father was a killer. Like you.
And now you're here to kill me.
Yes.
[sobbing]
[children and women screaming]
[silenced gunshot]
We good?
Yeah.
You want to talk about it?
[quietly] No.
-We never do.
-[Eliza] One more time.
Okay. I pose as Danawi,
and make the purchase from Molnar.
Arany Café in Market Square will be
the location for the meet.
We'll have eyes on all entrances.
[Ish]
I've got the south street,
Hastings has the north, Eliza the west.
I'll provide overwatch.
Our TTL and SIGINT show
it's just another quiet night
at home for our professor.
Day of the meet, I'll walk him in.
Make sure he's not
being followed by a third party.
-We got your back.
-[Landry] Shit hits the fan,
I'm Mo's exit strategy.
I realize I'm sending you in
without the full picture.
But we need to know what Molnar's selling.
And if it keeps Tehran
from nuclear capability,
it's worth the risk.
Thank you.
[knock on door]
-[Mo] Hey.
-Hey.
Can I come in?
Yeah.
What is it?
After your work today, Danawi's
daughter's phone stayed in the hotel.
Mm-hmm.
But then I picked her up on CCTV
-[sighs]
-at the train station.
[children and women screaming]
[silenced gunshot]
-[gasps]
-[casing drops]
[sobbing]
If you talk to anyone about your father
if you ask about him,
if you speak his name
I'll return.
Not just to kill you
to kill your mother
to kill your grandparents
to kill your whole family.
Erase your whole family from existence
and I won't lose
a second of sleep after. Understand?
[Tal] I pulled your file.
If what's in there is true,
I don't blame you
for letting that girl live.
Don't worry. I haven't told anyone yet.
Okay. [sniffles]
Uday, Saddam's son.
He raped
and murdered my two sisters.
And when my father asked questions,
he had him murdered as well.
Nobody thought to look for the
14-year-old son who survived.
By the time the Americans came searching,
I was old enough to fight alongside them.
I'm the one who found
where the coward was hiding.
So the American soldiers let me
put three bullets in his dying corpse.
I keep this as a reminder
that sometimes it's necessary to kill
in order to protect.
But this girl
[sighs] It was cold-blooded
of the old man to send you.
Oh, it's a cold-blooded business.
Maybe he sent me
because he knew
I would make the right call.
[contemplative music playing]
What happens now?
Nothing.
I ran a full check on the girl.
I don't think she's a threat
or that you are.
Which is the only reason
I didn't bring it to Eliza, yeah?
Hmm.
I like you, Mo.
You have a good soul.
I feel like I can trust you.
Hmm.
And the gun in the waistband?
Is that trust as well?
Good night, Mo.
[Amy] So, where are you now?
Everyone is worried about you.
I'm worried about you.
No one has to worry about me, babe.
If the boys knew what Raife and I were
doing over here, they'd be fired up.
Ben, they said
you and Raife got kicked out.
Why-- You haven't even told me
I'll tell you everything when I'm home.
I just need to stay
a little longer on this new job.
Longer? What is happening?
You have to tell me
what's going on with you.
-Amy
-I don't understand.
Six months ago
we were talking about having kids.
And now I don't even know
when you're coming home or if you're okay.
I'm okay.
-That's why I'm calling.
-You're okay?
You know what? I can't do this anymore.
Everyone else is home, Ben.
What's that mean?
You can't do this anymore?
I'm sorry.
[line clicks]
[sighs]
[grunts]
[Haverford] That's government
property, Chief.
Apologies.
-I just had to check in stateside.
-Yeah.
Oh, I couldn't sleep.
Heard voices and somehow
that turned into eavesdropping.
Amy Edwards.
Wife number three.
USC grad. Realtor.
And volleyball player. [chuckles]
That's a hell of a catch for a frogman
who barely finished high school.
We have a great life
on this side of the fence.
There's a certain
freedom to action.
You know, we make decisions
that kings and presidents only dream of.
But just like the teams,
it all comes with a price.
That's a hard pill
to swallow for a spouse.
Playing second fiddle to a world
you'll never understand.
I don't know what to do
with this guilt anymore.
Guilt?
[laughing] For what?
For saving the "free fucking world"?
Come on, man.
Took me a long time to learn this lesson.
Being a shitty husband
does not mean that you're a bad person.
Doesn't mean you're a bad operator,
doesn't mean you're a good operator.
All it means is
you're a shitty husband.
[chuckles]
[sighs] Sorry about the phone.
Oh, man, come on.
It's Mossad's. Just bury it.
Be our secret.
I hope it helped.
-Not at all, sir.
-[chuckles]
[suspenseful music playing]
West entrance clear.
In position. North entrance clear.
[Ish over comms] Half a block down.
South entrance clear.
Awaiting target.
Target's been walked in.
No tail, follow cars or tangos on CCTV.
[Landry] Target is landing.
Confirming is clear.
Overwatch set.
Molnar exiting vehicle
on east parking lot.
[Raife] Landry, anything?
Man, that is one lonely brother.
Bill Nye's wearing a brown jacket
and rocking a lovely man purse.
[Ben] Coming your way, Mo.
I see him.
Professor.
I took the liberty of ordering.
Thank you.
Relax.
This is a business transaction.
Nothing more.
They, uh
They told me you're from Beirut?
Mm-hmm.
I did my, uh, post-doc at AUL University.
What part of the city are you from?
-[Mo] Mazraa.
-[Molnar] Mazraa.
There was a bakery in Mazraa.
People came from all over the city
just to shop there.
There was a special, you know,
kind of a doughnut they made.
Do you remember that?
You must remember it.
Awwamat.
Honey fritters.
You're thinking of awwamats.
Awwamat. That's it.
Not many people know this,
but that shop, they actually kept
their own bees for the honey.
[chuckling]
The, um, the five million
is for proof of concept.
You can take these back.
Run any tests you want.
My synthetic Lonsdaleite jewel bearings
aren't registered yet.
But, uh
they'll allow a centrifuge
to go supercritical,
increasing a cascade's efficiency by 200%
and enriching Iran's uranium
to weapons grade.
That's the Tehran hardliners'
workaround to the nuclear deal, no?
Let the GAEA take Iran
down to 5,000 centrifuges.
It won't matter.
A few dozen hidden cascades
with my bearings and Iran has
adequate uranium to build a bomb
in less than a year.
Look at that centrifuge tachometer.
1,500 revolutions per second.
No other country in the world
has this technology.
We, uh
we take five million now,
and 50 more on full delivery.
Make the deal, we need to chase this.
Deal.
[Ben] West entrance.
There's a third party.
I confirm two.
Make it four. Carrying.
Finish the deal.
[Raife] Negative. We're burned.
-Mo needs to walk, now.
-[Haverford] Eliza?
Stay the course. Finish the exchange.
Landry, get ready for exfil.
Mo, we need those bearings.
Technology.
Ready for extract.
[Raife] Seconds out.
[Eliza gasps, exclaims]
We'll be in touch about delivery.
[speaking Spanish]
[tense music playing]
[Ben] They're ignoring Molnar
and staying on you, Mo.
Thirty meters back.
[Mo] Moving to primary.
I got two shitkickers inbound.
Primary is a no go.
[Landry] Popping the cork on this or what?
Negative, moving to secondary.
Fuck.
Overwatch exiting.
Secondary's a no go.
-Two more headed your way.
-[Haverford] Grab a photo.
Got to know who we're dealing with
and how they knew about the meet.
[Tal] They know where the cameras are.
-[exclaims]
-Sorry.
Escalating. Talk to me.
Mo, get to tertiary.
Just keep moving.
-Landry will be there.
-Overwatch on the move.
[Tal] Exfil is on your right.
Landry's en route, back him up.
[engine starts]
♪
-Do we know who these guys are?
-[Tal] Negative.
Hardware store is in front of you.
Through the shop, turn right.
Landry meets you two blocks east.
[man shouting indistinctly]
Exiting.
Four closing, east and west.
Make that six. I'm surrounded.
[tires screech]
[grunts]
-To hell with tertiary.
-[tires screeching]
-[door slides closed]
-Moving out.
I got him, Edwards.
We're clear.
[laughs]
All elements, RTB.
Molnar's none the wiser. Reassemble.
-Hi.
-Hello.
-Please take one.
-[Ben] Copy. RTB.
♪
[Eliza] Third party
is abandoning the search.
Our team is in the clear.
Sir, I can get P.I.D.
Have one cut from the herd.
Heading towards the subway.
-[Eliza] You're alone, Ish.
-[Ben] I can back him up.
Ish and Ben will keep it rolling.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Ben] Tal, moving to Ish. Sitrep.
-They entered the underground.
-[Raife] Roger that.
I'm two blocks away on foot.
♪
-Ish, I'm coming to you.
-[Ish] Eyes on the tango.
M1 line, eastbound platform.
Closing the distance.
Inbound.
[Ish over comm] Fuck.
[grunting over comm]
[static crackling]
[ominous music playing]
Ish is K.I.A.
I'm on the hunt.
Someone get him out.
[exhales]
♪
[Raife] Ben, I'm one minute away.
[Haverford] Edwards.
You get that motherfucker.
[Raife] Wait for me, Chief.
Do not pursue without me.
[beeping]
I'm on his trail.
[Raife] Tal, Edwards is solo
on M1 line heading east.
-I'm moving to Ish.
-[Tal] Copy.
♪
♪
[quietly] Tal, I want you to kill
every CCTV camera on the M1 line.
Now.
[Tal] Copy.
CCTV is down.
You're clear.
[indistinct P.A. announcements]
[suspenseful music playing]
[people screaming]
[screaming continues]
[phone camera clicks]
[Tal] You remain clear on CCTV.
Police inbound, but no reports of suspects
matching your description.
[Haverford] Edwards, stay under the radar.
Landry and Mo will meet you
on the other side of the square.
En route.
Photo inbound.
Tal, do your thing.
[dramatic music playing]
[sirens wailing]
♪
[tense music playing]
♪
♪
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