The Terminal List: Dark Wolf (2025) s01e05 Episode Script

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[passengers screaming, clamoring]
[camera shutter clicks]
[Haverford] Thanks to Edwards
getting that photo in Budapest,
we now know Molnar's working
with the Khalid Network.
Black market nuclear proliferation group.
Tehran has a hidden enrichment facility
coming online.
[Haverford] My source, the Shepherd,
says that the Khalid Network
is moving Molnar's bearings this week.
[speaking German]
We'll be in Geneva tonight.
[Haverford] We're gonna
hit that shipment en route.
You and I are following rules now?
[thrilling music playing]
Jackpot, jackpot.
RPG!
[indistinct shouting]
[Ben] Doesn't make any fucking sense.
[Haverford] She hacked my fucking phone.
Any QRF takes more than 15 minutes.
That was less than five.
- I need fucking magazines…
- [gunshots]
[grunts, groans]
Sorry, Ben.
[ 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" ♪
[suspenseful music playing]
[groans]
[grunting]
[siren wails in distance]
[exhales]
Fuck.
- [insects trilling]
- [wind whistling]
[hypnotic music playing]
[grunting softly]
[coughs]
[moans softly]
[metal clattering]
[sniffling]
[metal clatters]
[sighs]
[grunts]
[exhales]
[insects trilling]
[sniffs]
[grunting]
[panting, grunting]
[groaning]
[panting]
[grunting]
[grunting]
Ty govorish' po-russki?
Farsi?
Sprechen sie deutsch?
You were sat next to the window, eh?
[menacing music playing]
Staying put
while my friend started firing,
that takes balls or stupidity.
Either way, that means you're stubborn.
Like right now, you're…
exercising whatever control
you think you might have.
But you need
to understand something, okay?
Neither one of us will decide
how this conversation ends tonight.
[knife clangs]
Time will.
[breathing heavily]
[groaning, grunting]
[muffled shouting]
Now, this is very simple.
I have the power to treat you,
or I can send you off
to whichever God you believe in.
So… now that we have an understanding,
let's talk about who you are
and how the fuck the Khalid Network
knew that we were coming?
[grunts]
[screaming]
[line ringing]
[Ben] Go for Ben.
[Haverford] Where are you?
[Ben] Still on the hunt.
[Haverford] Friends in the Five Eyes
say she's headed to Zurich.
- I'll send you details.
- [Ben] Copy.
[Haverford] Retrieve the bearings.
Rally point location to follow.
Stay off comms.
[Ben] Understood.
[pulsating dance music playing]
[lively chatter]
You have my key?
327. Weiland.
Thank you.
[indistinct chatter]
[grunts, gasps]
If you move, I will fucking bury you.
[grunts]
Who are you working for?
- Who are you working for?!
- Ben.
Who?!
Mossad.
Who hit us outside the tunnel?
I don't know.
Who hit us outside the fucking tunnel?!
I don't know who they were.
Who else are you working with?
Just because I had my own assignment
doesn't mean I betrayed the team.
[tense music playing]
Ben, there's a tracking device
in the case.
I need to disarm it now.
Do it.
Biometric decryption in my pocket.
Show me.
This deactivates the lock.
- [phone trills]
- [lock clicks]
Removing the tracker.
Faraday case in my pocket.
Take it out.
Give it to me.
Ben, I need to take this case to Berlin.
You're right that something's off,
but it's not me.
[echoing] It's Haverford and the Shepherd.
[fading] That's the issue here.
Ben…
[ominous music playing]
[faint voice in hallway]
[assaulter grunts]
[people screaming in distance]
[running footsteps]
No weapons.
Vest only.
[assaulters speaking Farsi over radio]
[Eliza] They're checking in
with their team.
Putting men on all exits.
Sending reinforcements.
You know Farsi?
- [indistinct radio chatter]
- [pulsing music playing]
Give me a gun, pirate.
[distant chatter]
[Ben] Move.
Down.
[gunfire]
[indistinct shouting]
- Stay in your room!
- [screams]
Fuck. Crash!
[high-pitched ringing]
[grunts]
- [indistinct radio chatter]
- [people screaming]
It's a unit. Two dozen, at least. Move!
Run.
[groans] No exit.
[Ben] Take the crash.
[suspenseful music playing]
[indistinct shouting]
[grunting]
[shouts]
[screams]
[strains]
[shouts in Farsi]
[distant shouting]
[man screams]
[somber music playing]
[distant shouting]
[grunts]
[speaking Farsi]
You got the case?
Call it in!
[distant siren wailing]
In the trash.
What now?
We're done.
Ben, I can tell you everything
you need to know about Haverford.
My and Tal's actual mission,
it's always been Haverford.
- That's why I did what I did.
- Spinning bullshit again.
Your Agency requires case officers
to hand off assets every few years.
Haverford has worked
with the Shepherd for more than 20.
Why?
Tal and I were tasked with figuring out
who the Shepherd really is
and understand his endgame.
Mossad believes the Shepherd
is using Haverford for his own agenda.
- What agenda?
- That's what I'm going to find out.
I'm not hiding anything from you, Ben.
Let me come with you.
We'll find out who betrayed us.
You first.
[pulsing music playing]
[sirens wailing]
Water.
I need water.
[Raife] You can't have water.
Not with those wounds.
Why is it that soldiers always want
what's worst for them, huh?
[panting]
[laughs, coughs]
Ah. Your, uh,
your med kit, the way you work.
You were a soldier, too.
Maybe we may have even fought
in the same wars.
[groans]
[inhales] Ah. [panting]
- [metal clatters]
- Please.
Let me treat you.
I can patch you up again.
It's not too late.
Give you that drink that you need.
I can only do that if you tell me
everything that I need to know, okay?
So let's try this again.
[sniffles]
Why did you have a QRF
standing by that close at the tunnel?
Because either you knew our plan
and you knew that it was coming,
or you're the luckiest bunch
of bastards in Europe, so which is it?
I guess…
[scoffs]
I guess it doesn't matter
who you fought for.
You are not a soldier.
You are a mercenary, just like me.
Who and what you fight for
are the only things that matter
to you right now, my friend.
And who do you fight for?
You don't have the time
to ask the questions.
Because I was thinking America,
but you have an accent
that I can't quite place.
Maybe you are a-a man without a home,
without… without a cause.
How did the Khalid Network know
we were planning that hit?
Tell me.
[grunts, groans]
[coughs]
[suspenseful music playing]
[panting]
How did the Khalid Network
know we were coming?
[grunts, mumbles in German] Wait.
[grunts]
[shouts]
[screaming]
[chair clatters]
How did you know we were coming?
[screams]
- Please…
- How did you know?
[screams]
[panting]
[whimpers] We…
We didn't know.
None of us knew.
You're running out of time.
[labored breathing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
This your E&E stop?
[Ben] Keep moving.
[atmospheric music playing]
[Ben grunts]
[Ben] We need a vantage point.
Make sure the E&E routes
weren't compromised.
They were speaking Farsi. Think about it.
The Shepherd must have sent
the assault force.
[tense music playing]
Ben.
You're hurt.
Let me look.
[thudding]
[grunts softly]
You can't watch it all
at the same time, pirate.
I'll manage.
[grunts softly]
Let me help you.
Stay the fuck away from me.
We need to rest.
Treat our wounds.
- Recover for what's next.
- You want to rest?
Rest.
Couch is all yours.
Empty your pockets.
I know it's easier for you to believe
this was all lies and betrayal.
If I wanted you dead,
why shoot you in the plates?
[somber music playing]
[sets down gun]
[insects trilling]
[grunts softly]
[grunts softly]
[grunts]
[exhales]
[exhales deeply]
[exhales]
[bell tolling in distance]
[tense music playing]
[traffic passing]
The bearings.
They're different from Molnar's.
Why?
That's what we're going to ask
the Shepherd once Tal finds him.
Where is she?
Munich.
She hacked the encrypted portal Haverford
uses to communicate with the Shepherd,
traced it to a secure node.
From there, she'll be able to find
the Shepherd's identity and location.
[Ben clears throat]
Ben, I need to take this case
and those bearings to Berlin.
I don't give a shit what you need.
- Then what do you care about?
- Loyalty.
I am loyal.
To my mission.
- To my cause.
- You fucking betrayed us.
There is no you.
There is no me.
There are only monsters at the door,
and I will protect my daughter from them.
- That's all that matters.
- The team matters.
- Honesty fucking matters.
- You're right.
I shot you, and I'd do it again
if that's what my mission calls for.
I will sacrifice myself
a hundred times over,
if that's what it takes to keep Noa from
fighting the same enemy, in the same war.
[somber music playing]
Finally.
Some honesty.
But it doesn't mean
I don't care about you, Ben.
Haverford and the Shepherd are my mission.
Those bearings, my objective.
I was ordered to kill anyone
who got in my way.
But here we are.
If the situation was reversed,
would I still be alive?
In another life…
…we're not the ones fighting.
We're not strangers
to our loved ones back home.
In another life, someone knows us…
…our hopes, our dreams, our desires.
But instead…
…in this life, we share the same methods
but serve different masters.
In this life…
…this is the only work we know.
The only place on Earth we belong.
[pensive music playing]
In this life.
In this life.
[door opens]
[sharp breaths]
[insects trilling]
[Raife grunts softly]
[courier coughs]
[sighs]
[swallowing]
You were right about the accent.
I've lived all over,
but my first home was Africa.
And my first love…
…the hunt.
My uncle runs a hunting reserve.
So I'd spend my summers down there
helping him counter poachers
and guiding clients on big game hunts.
- Cape Buffalo. Hmm.
- [pants]
Dugga boys…
and they're mean, eh?
They weigh over 2,000 pounds,
charge at speeds up to 35 miles per hour.
You know, the toughest thing
about them, though,
is actually
after you put them in the salt.
They've got very thick skin,
you know, heavy bones.
So you have to work very hard
to field dress a beast like that.
[groans weakly]
So that's where the lye comes in.
It'll help to break down the soft tissue,
the fats, the proteins,
which makes it easier
to get rid of the bones.
And I got very good at it.
The first time my uncle let me help him…
…I was a kid, you know? I knew fuck all.
I touched it.
- I touched it with my bare hands.
- [pants]
He could've stopped me, but he didn't.
He wanted me to experience that pain.
[shivering]
And that's the kind of man
my uncle is, you see.
Everything is a lesson.
And now this will be yours.
- [sizzles]
- [pained groaning]
Tell me.
[whimpering]
[shouts]
How'd the Khalid Network knew
- we were coming?
- I am not Khalid Network.
- Keep talking.
- I'm BND. [breathing sharply]
I-I work for German Intelligence.
What? What?!
[weakly] German Intelligence.
German Intelligence.
You're a fucking friendly?
[labored breathing] You…
You are… CIA.
[eerie music playing]
Fuck.
Oh, fuck.
Fuck.
Hold on.
Hold on, brother. Hold on.
Hold on, okay? I'm gonna patch you up.
Fuck. Hey. Hey.
Your team that boxed us in,
did the BND know we were coming?
[muttering]
What?
That… wasn't… us.
Who was it?
Hey, who was it?!
Hey!
Fuck.
[breathing rhythmically]
Come on!
Fuck! Come on.
Fuck.
[plaintive music playing]
[ Bill Ramsey playing
"Unvergessene Erfolge (Potpourri) Teil 2"]
Scheisse!
[clatters in trash can]
[airplane passing overhead]
[keys jingling]
[suspenseful music playing]
[door opens, closes]
[baby crying nearby]
Okay.
[sighs]
[airplane passing overhead]
[doorknob rattles]
[man roars]
[both yelling]
[grunting]
[shouting]
[straining]
[clangs]
[whimpering]
[yelling]
[shouting]
[grunting]
[yells]
Help!
[groaning]
[Tal grunting]
[speaking German]
Who are you?!
Where is it?!
[screams]
[grunting]
[coughs]
[groans]
[grunting]
[both grunting]
[coughing]
[gasps]
[grunting]
[speaking German]
Go to sleep.
Go to sleep!
[both grunting]
[screaming]
[panting, groaning]
[retches]
[coughs, spits]
[gasping]
[groans]
[panting]
[sniffles]
[atmospheric music playing]
- [children laughing]
- [indistinct chatter]
[distant bell tolling]
[engine idling]
Good call on the car.
[sighs] Super roomy.
[door closes]
All right.
Rally point: town called Stein,
hour north of Zürich.
Anything else in Haverford's message?
Yeah. He said no contact with Mossad.
Might be a little too late for that.
We're stuck in this car together
the next five hours.
How about a little distraction?
Pick your poison.
- [radio tuning]
- Anything's fine.
[pop music playing]
- [station changes]
- [rock song playing]
- That was good.
- Yeah, but we want perfect.
- Come on, baby
- [station changes]
- [ Lynyrd Skynyrd singing "Simple Man"]
- When I was young
[exhales sharply]
Does it get any better?
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 ♪
Oh, yeah ♪
Oh, take your time ♪
Don't live too fast ♪
Troubles will come ♪
[phone chimes]
and they will pass ♪
You'll find a woman ♪
Is that Tal?
- And you'll find love
- Anything on the Shepherd?
[engine revving]
Out, out, out, out! Out!
- [high-pitched ringing]
- [glasses fragments clattering]
- [groaning]
- [heartbeat thumping]
- [alarms blaring]
- [muffled screaming]
[muffled, distorted screaming]
[muffled groaning]
[motorcycle engine revving]
[grunts]
[tires screech]
[bystanders screaming]
[heartbeat thumping]
[fire crackling]
[car alarms whooping]
[sirens wailing]
[exhales]
[somber music playing]
- [bystanders screaming]
- [sirens approaching]
[ Lynyrd Skynyrd playing "Simple Man"]
And be a simple kind of man ♪
Oh, be something ♪
you love and understand ♪
Baby, be a simple ♪
kind of man ♪
Oh, won't you do this for me, son ♪
if you can? ♪
Forget your lust ♪
for the rich man's gold ♪
All that you need ♪
is in your soul ♪
And you can do this, oh, baby ♪
if you try ♪
All that I want for you, my son ♪
is to be satisfied ♪
And be a simple ♪
kind of man ♪
Oh, be something ♪
You love and understand ♪
Baby, be a simple ♪
kind of man ♪
Oh, won't you do this for me, son ♪
if you can? ♪
Oh, yes, I will ♪
♪