Special Ops: Lioness (2023) s03e05 Episode Script

1
[SQUEAKING]
[RENAT] The one thing that made
the United States
so dangerous for so long
was that your people believed
in the fantasy of freedom.
Spare me the fucking lectures
on failed societies.
- [MEN SPEAK RUSSIAN]
- [JOE SCREAMS]
[HAUNTING MUSIC]
How bad can this fucking thing get?
[MEADE] SVR has some knowledge
of the Lioness program,
but they don't have definitive proof.
Joe can provide that.
[AMBER] Okay, NSA has a hit.
All right, he's in a hangar
right fucking here.
- Can you put us on the roof?
- You got a bird?
[GRUNTING]
- Down, down, down, down, down!
- Down now! Down now!
- [BOBBY] Fuck.
- Bobby.
[BOBBY] Blood on the floor?
Looks like you missed a spot,
motherfucker!
We have diplomatic immunity.
- Tail number.
- N, five
[AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER]
Departed 11:07.
[AMBER] They loaded her
onto a Challenger 300.
[MEADE] She's on a jet.
Destination unknown,
transponder disabled.
We're still a step behind,
and time's not on our side.
'Cause it be me poppin' out,
shittin' on these hos ♪
It be me, my body tea,
I'm bitches' goals, look ♪
It be me with my skin
glowin' in the sun ♪
Would you like a dance?
I'll tell a nigga ♪
His mama raised a bum, yeah ♪
It be me just lookin' perfect,
head to toe, look ♪
It be you out here just
lookin' regular ho ♪
[TWO CUPS] I think I said
it earlier, and I meant it.
- You are the prett
- [SHYLA] Are you gonna tell me
- I'm the prettiest girl?
- You are How'd you know?
[CHUCKLES]
I wish I could take you home.
You can.
- Yeah?
- Yeah. Just got to sign me out.
- Okay.
- Yeah?
Yeah.
- Wait here.
- Okay.
Just gonna get my things.
Fifty inches to my butt, yeah ♪
He on my phone ♪
I'll stay right here.
Hurry back.
Stressin' over niggas ♪
You lookin' for him, he
right here under my pictures ♪
I'm turnt up at the party,
I'm geekin' out my body ♪
She shake it, clap it for me,
these bitches love some Cardi ♪
I'm turnt up at the party,
I'm geekin' out my body ♪
She twerk it, clap it for me,
like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Hello, it's me,
hello, it's me ♪
Hello, it's me ♪
Ready for me?
Hello, it's me ♪
Hello, it's me,
hello, it's me ♪
It be me
that's getting tricked on ♪
By somebody's baby dad ♪
It be me that's lookin' sexy ♪
It be me that's lookin' cute ♪
It be me with body bustin' out
this Miu Miu bodysuit ♪
It be me ♪
Right and left thumb.
Damn. Y'all take this pretty serious.
With all that motion,
havin' shit that's goin' on ♪
It ain't me ♪
It's not my fault me
and broke hos don't get along ♪
Hey, I'm turnt up
at the party ♪
I'm geekin' out my body ♪
That it?
Need a fucking blood sample or anything?
Huh?
[LAUGHS]
I'll just Okay. [CLEARS THROAT]
See you tomorrow.
It's me, hello, it's me ♪
I'm that bitch, yeah, yeah ♪
Hello, it's me,
hello, it's me ♪
Hello, it's me ♪
It's that bitch, yeah, yeah ♪
"Ivory" by The Movement playing ♪
[BOTH MOANING]
[JOSIE MOANS]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Used to think about you ♪
Uh-huh.
[CADE MOANING]
What I give you ♪
[WHISPERS] Where's your bedroom?
That way.
Not as if you had enough ♪
You have really good taste.
Oh. I can't take credit.
My company owns this apartment.
Your company has really good taste.
[LAUGHTER]
He won't give you ♪
[ALL MOANING]
I couldn't tell
what you want anymore ♪
How to cold you,
craving, used to ♪
[LAUGHS]
[CADE CHUCKLES]
'Cause I never felt you ♪
It's your lucky day.
- You ain't fucking kidding.
- [CRUZ AND JOSIE CHUCKLE]
I never felt you, oh ♪
Now the vision of the new ♪
And you say ♪
Oh, you ♪
To feel ♪
[GRUNTS] Hey! What the fuck?
Our thoughts exactly.
What the fuck, Cade?
What the fuck would motivate the son
of two anesthesiologists
who went to Georgetown,
who grew up with every
possible advantage in life
to take money from a foreign agent?
More specifically,
what did you sell them?
What trade secret of Booz Allen's
did you fucking sell them?
- I want a lawyer.
- [JOE LAUGHS]
I would, too,
if we were the FBI.
But we aren't.
I'm here to get the name and the
contact information of your handler,
or my associate over here is
gonna carry you out the patio,
and he's gonna throw you
off the fucking building.
What the fuck
are you talking about? Wait.
[GRUNTS] Jesus Christ!
Hey, no, wait. Okay.
Ah, all right. Wait! Okay, hey!
What, you-you got something to say?
My phone.
[SIGHS]
[TENSE, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- [SCOFFS]
- [JOE] A name, Cade.
- Rooster. It's under Rooster.
- Rooster.
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
What does that mean, "you got
something"? What do you got?
It just depends
on-on whatever he's looking for.
He, who is he?
Is it Rooster? Who the fuck is Rooster?
- I don't know.
- Cut the fucking bullshit.
- I don't know.
- [JOE] What does he look like?
Like a fucking math nerd.
Set him down.
[SCREAMS, GROANS] Fuck.
[CADE PANTING]
- How did you meet Rooster?
- [SIGHS]
- He gave me a test.
- A test?
[CADE] The answers to a data
structures and algorithms test.
Gave 'em to me and fucking
now I don't have a choice.
Do you understand me? I don't get money.
He owns my fucking degree,
my whole future.
Do you get it? My whole future.
Not anymore, he doesn't.
We hold it now.
So you get something.
You send him a text,
he sends you an address, and
you meet him there, is that it?
Yes.
Get dressed.
[SIGHS] Okay.
[SCOFFS]
[DARK, TENSE MUSIC]
[PHONE BUZZES]
Do you have a coffee machine
in your kitchen?
- Huh?
- [JOE] A coffee maker. Fuck, Cade.
- [CADE] Yeah.
- Can someone figure out coffee?
Our meet is at 0800.
Am I on coffee duty?
If the shoe fits, baby.
Since when did I become
Sally fucking Homemaker?
Tucker
You want to explain to Cade who we are?
"Shut the fuck up" is who we are.
[GRUNTS]
Not another fucking word,
you understand me?
- Yes. I understand
- The fuck did I just say?
[GRUNTS]
[TENSE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
That's who we are.
[DRAMATIC, HAUNTING MUSIC]
♪
[TRAFFIC PASSING IN DISTANCE]
[QUIET, TENSE MUSIC]
[SNIFFLES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[GRUNTS]
[SNIFFLING]
[CLEARS THROAT]
[SIGHS]
[TENSE, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[SCOFFS]
Have a seat, Richard.
Uh
Shyla didn't mention a boyfriend.
[LAUGHS] All right?
Did you mention a wife?
Um
[CLEARS THROAT]
Slipped my mind.
Four children.
[SIGHS]
[CHUCKLES] You got me, man.
You-you got me.
Yes. I do.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
[CHUCKLES] Oh.
There's also video, two hours of it.
Well [LAUGHS]
That Viagra's no joke. What can I say?
[GRUNTS LOUDLY, LAUGHING]
This is funny to you, huh?
[CHUCKLES] There's
a certain irony to it.
Yes.
I see no irony.
Hands, hands, hands, hands!
[MEN GRUNTING]
[TEX] Hey!
- You see it now, don't you?
- Hands!
Turn the fuck around. Face down.
Hands behind your head.
Interlock your fingers.
Now, lower your head down to your knees.
Head all the way down.
Don't move.
Stand up. Turn around.
Hands behind your head.
Why me? I don't got shit
to do with this.
Don't bullshit a bullshitter.
Get the fuck up. Get up!
What the fuck?
I have rights!
[INTENSE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
No, you don't. Not anymore.
I hope you wore a fucking condom.
- [LAUGHS]
- I'm serious.
I hope you wore it, too.
Whoa, whoa, whoa,
you really fucked that stripper?
Hey, I'm a method actor, okay, bro?
You Ground Branch guys are fucking nuts.
Oh, okay, we're nuts? Okay, got it.
New deal on the way. Check your Signal.
Yes, ma'am. Coming our way when?
You're already late.
Yes, ma'am.
[ENGINES START]
[TENSE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
This kid's gonna pass out.
He needs to calm
the fuck down. Tell him.
[PHONE BUZZES]
I'm trying.
[PHONE BUZZES]
[SIGHS]
Are Bravo and Charlie in place?
Bravo, Charlie, this is Alpha.
Are you set?
- [MAN OVER COMMS] Bravo set.
- [MAN 2] Charlie set.
Good to go.
[SIGHS]
Asset's in place.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[BIRDS SINGING]
Why are you sweating?
Hungover as fuck.
This didn't need to happen today.
[CADE OVER COMMS] I don't like
having all this shit on a drive.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Green light. Green light, let's go.
- Bravo, Charlie, you are green.
- [ENGINE STARTS]
[SIGHS]
What the fuck?! [SCREAMS]
Eyes down.
[INTENSE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ROOSTER WHIMPERING]
Okay. Okay, okay.
[LOW, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You didn't think this was over, did you?
We're just getting started.
[TENSE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ROOSTER] You can't hold me.
My student visa gives me
diplomatic immunity.
[MEADE CHUCKLES]
That's why you kids have got to
stop getting your news from TikTok.
Only diplomats who are registered
with the U.S. Department of State
are granted diplomatic immunity.
You're not on that list.
Believe me. We checked.
So, you're gonna be charged
with 18 U.S. Code 1831
and 18 U.S.C. 793-794.
I-I don't know what those mean.
[MEADE] Well, your lawyer's
gonna explain it
when you get one.
Now, let me tell you the penalty.
When you're found guilty,
which you will be, because
there's caught red-handed
and caught with your dick in your hand,
and, somehow,
you found a way to do both.
And we have it on video.
Let me get back to the penalty,
which is life imprisonment times three,
a maximum-security prison
based on your threat
to national security.
Can you imagine the commodity
a handsome young man
who can't weigh more than a buck 50
would be to a bunch of drug traffickers
who have surrendered to the fact
that they will never
get to love a woman again?
This is my senior case officer.
And she?
She's gonna determine whether
you can provide us
with enough information
that we're gonna pause
our demand for justice.
And when I say justice,
I mean vindictive retribution.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Understand the game?
I think so.
Trade information for freedom.
No.
We're not trading anything.
You're gonna dazzle me
with hard data, names,
and explicit information
to the structure, financing,
and execution of all your operations.
I'm gonna need to understand
your flow of information
as well as you do.
Or
I'm gonna drive to the county jail
with a stack of 100s
as thick as my fucking neck.
And I'll spend the next six hours
cherry-picking your cellmate
for the evening.
And then, tomorrow,
we get to do it all over again.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
So what are all you Belarus fuckers
doing running around Washington, D.C.?
I'm Lithuanian.
[CHUCKLES]
Your passport's Lithuanian.
But last I checked, Belarus military
wasn't allowing Lithuanians
in their military.
I've never been to Belarus.
I don't know Belarus.
[SCOFFS]
Boy, you got to give me a
little more fucking credit here.
I'm a senior case officer for the CIA,
so if I want data on someone,
I just take their fingerprints
from their visa application,
and I run it through
a little program at the NSA,
which cross-references those
fingerprints with Interpol,
EU Entry, Privium, ETAS,
not to mention the database
of military enrollment
in virtually every nation,
if it pays a pension or has
a Veterans Affairs Department,
which
our little brainiacs
have been mining and stealing
data from since the
the internet went live.
You joined in 2010,
accepted to SSU in 2012,
served in the 5th Spetsnaz Brigade,
where you participated in putting down
the 2020 uprising in Brest,
where you guys
you guys just started smoking fuckers.
Wow. I mean, that [SCOFFS]
that must really simplify
dispersing protesters.
As a foreign national entering the U.S.
on a fraudulent passport
and engaging in espionage
which is a big no-no around here
the constitutional protections
that lawful visitors,
immigrants, and citizens enjoy,
they don't apply to you.
So, I'm not gonna sit here and
listen to your memorized lies
and your bullshit intel that
you're gonna try and float me.
What I am gonna do is I'm gonna
send you to Guantánamo Bay.
Stick you in an eight-by-eight
cage, no ceiling,
feed you three times a week,
while you cook in the fucking heat,
and we blast Metallica at 110 decibels
24 hours a fucking day
for three years.
Then we'll see if you feel like
telling me the truth.
Hey.
You ever had dengue fever?
You're gonna love it.
Yeah, the locals call it
"bone-break fever"
because I guess
that's what it feels like.
It's not a matter of
if you get it, I promise you,
I promise you, you're gonna get it,
'cause it's the first thing we give you.
[DOOR OPENS]
Have a good trip. We'll see you in 2028.
Get up. Up.
[DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
[TENSE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ALEX OVER EARBUD]
Wait. Wait. Wait!
I will tell you the truth!
I will tell you now!
I promise I will tell you
the truth!
I will tell you now.
I will tell you now.
All right, guys, bring him back in.
Let's hear what he has to say.
Don't go far, guys.
[DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
Hey.
I want to introduce you to somebody.
[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
What do you think of that, huh?
[CHUCKLES]
A fucking Russian
double agent in the flesh.
I mean, you just
Jesus, you just don't see that
every day, do you?
What do you think it means
that I told you who she is?
It means
I'm never going free.
[KYLE] Ever.
All we do today is pick a prison.
And believe me when I tell you
there are levels to that game.
[CHAINS RATTLING SOFTLY]
[PHONE BUZZES]
- [KNOCK ON DOOR]
- [DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
They're five minutes out.
- That was them?
- Mm-hmm.
Kaitlyn, would you care
to bring us up to speed?
Sure. Um, we began our operation
targeting known assets
of Russian intelligence.
We have apprehended
four individuals in one sting,
two individuals in another, although,
the second appears to be an asset
of the Chinese Ministry of State.
Um, our two senior case officers
are meant to be here now.
They're, um, conducting interviews
and they're en route to debrief.
NSA has been processing
the information provided.
They're also mining information
from seized computers and cell phones,
and NSA is sending information
in real time as they gather it.
Director Westfield, would you
care to elaborate on CIA's
decision to completely exclude
FBI's counterintelligence
from this operation?
[TENSE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
All our officers
have FBI credentials, ma'am.
This was, in essence, a CED operation.
Okay. Without any oversight,
without any adherence
to the chain of command.
So, in other words, this operation
was and is complete bullshit.
And those credentials are
a convenient work-around
to avoid violating
the National Security Act of 1947
and Executive Act 12333,
which you still violated.
[WESTFIELD] Okay. Number one,
CED was informed
once the targets were detained
and are in FBI custody as we speak.
Oh, yeah? All of them?
Two are still being interviewed.
Mm.
Are any of my agents
present at those interviews?
Sworn agents of the FBI
are present, yes.
No, I don't mean your agents.
I mean my agents.
Can we pause the dick-measuring
over jurisdiction here
and discuss what has been
uncovered thus far, okay?
If this procedure
is not followed to the letter,
those cases will not be prosecutable.
I couldn't give a shit
about prosecution.
I care about what secrets
have been stolen,
who has those secrets,
is our national security compromised
and to what extent?
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
Crimes against national security
give us extreme latitude
in detaining individuals,
as they are essentially war crimes,
which suspends the due process clause,
as well as the search and seizure
protections of the Fourth Amendment.
We can detain them
for years without trial.
If we assess that they are a
continued threat to national security,
we can detain them indefinitely.
That is why I don't care
about prosecution.
Which brings us to the question:
is our national security at risk?
Without a question.
Give us an example.
So, my Lioness was in contact
with a software engineer
at a leading defense firm
with heavy focus on AI enhancement.
This individual was extorted by
a Chinese Ministry of State
contract agent
into providing sensitive,
privileged information
on multiple occasions.
NSA is processing the exposed data
to make a threat and damage assessment.
What's most concerning is this agent
seems to have been activated
by a professor at a university
where both these individuals
obtained advanced degrees
in software engineering.
The Chinese agent himself is
a software engineer at Raytheon.
We are in contact
with their head of security,
and he has isolated all
of this individual's accounts
and is processing
with DIA and NSA as we speak.
It appears a software engineer professor
that taught both these individuals
is also complicit based on
statements by the detainee.
We have obtained a warrant through CED,
and we will be picking him up
this afternoon.
Another Chinese national?
American citizen.
A Richard Ealy, born 9-22-67 in Boston,
undergrad at Cornell, advanced
degrees in both computer science
and software engineering.
He taught at UM-Ann Arbor until
2018, and then he came here.
And how's he involved?
[JOE] Apparently,
he provides exam answers
to Mr. Lin code name Rooster
which then he peddles down to students
who seem to lack
a level of moral integrity.
How is this professor compensated?
Our source says no compensation.
It appears that our professor
believes that our government
and our economic system
are fatally flawed,
and he's more aligned politically
with the Chinese governmental structure.
So he's a communist?
Uh, it's hard to call him a communist
with a professor's salary
of $280,000 a year
and an IT consulting firm,
but he certainly appears to be
a communist sympathizer.
So beyond this professor,
how far does this go?
We'll have a better
understanding after I interview him.
What we learned in Afghanistan
is those motivated
by ideology never cooperate.
With all due respect, ma'am,
but what we've learned in Afghanistan
is those motivated by religion
never cooperate
because their god
is with them everywhere
in prison, in exile,
and in death.
Ideology is useless in those places.
Besides, he's got a wife and two kids
both of them in private school
and a beach house in Hilton Head.
It looks like his ideology
remains on campus.
[HOLLAR CHUCKLES]
Anything else?
More tomorrow, I hope.
So we placed an operator undercover,
posed as a salesman
for a defense contractor,
placed him in a bar
known for honeypotting,
and by the end of the night,
he made contact
and provided necessary evidence
to convince Russian
foreign agents to move on him.
[STAMMERS, SCOFFS] What was
the evidence, if I may ask?
[CLEARS THROAT]
Well, typically [CHUCKLES]
these honeypotters perform sexual acts
on the subjects,
providing blackmail material
that allows them
to be subjugated by the agent,
forcing them to provide intel
in any number of forms.
[WEXLER] Are you saying
that your operator
allowed sexual acts
to be performed on him?
If I recall from the video,
my operator did most
of the performing, ma'am.
Okay, so this has gone completely rogue.
Look, okay, with-with all due respect,
we are not infiltrating some biker gang
selling stolen guns and speed.
These are enemies of the state
actively seeking means
to weaken us as a nation.
We broke no laws.
Two consenting adults had sex,
no money exchanged hands.
All right? The-the fact that
one of them did so
with the intent of extorting
one of my officers,
that's a crime, and one
you should charge her with.
Oh, and by the way, you can slap
a treason charge on top of it.
You're welcome.
Okay, I could do without the flippancy.
Yeah, and I can do without
the inference of impropriety
towards my officers
at every fucking turn.
Oh, can we stop the dick-measuring
of jurisdiction and procedure?
Kyle, please continue.
[KYLE] Okay. Well [CLEARS THROAT]
what's interesting is these
Russians all have Belarus citizenship,
using passports
in Lithuania, Latvia, Malta.
Also, the senior contract agent
fed me intel, which was all planted.
How do you know
this information was planted?
Because it all checks out.
Everything he gave me, NSA can verify,
which means, obviously,
we already knew it.
And our double agent verified
that these gives
are all standard offerings that
most Russian agents
would utilize if detained.
So, we are gonna send him to Gitmo,
let him cook for a bit
and see if his intel improves.
Do you feel the Belarus agents are, um,
con-connected to, um,
Russian forces directly or indirectly?
My best guess?
They're guns for hire,
seeking information valuable
to our adversaries
Qatar, Syria, Iran,
Venezuela, possibly China, but doubtful,
since Russia sees China
as an adversary as well.
So, beyond picking up this professor,
what's the next steps?
This was a pretty splashy first day.
[SIGHS]
They know we're hunting,
which was the goal.
They'll clam up.
Their sources will get nervous.
They'll possibly even reach out
to us looking for a parachute.
We have a very strong list
of Russian sources in the U.S.
- Hmm.
- NSA has already dug
into their bank accounts
and found some very big,
big-ticket purchases
that don't necessarily align
with their income.
Most of these sources are U.S. citizens,
so they'll be coming your way,
Director Wexler.
Okay, so why not this professor?
Let us take it from here.
We have a latitude in questioning
that the FBI does not have.
Because we're not investigating a crime,
nor can we charge him with any,
we're simply seeking information
in the interest of national security.
So, no Miranda rights, no Fourth,
Fifth, and 14th to limit the scope
or manner of our inquiries.
And certainly, anything that we uncover
will still be admissible in court
as witness testimony on our part.
All right.
Good work, Joe.
Stay with it.
[MEADE] Uh, one last thing.
What we're about to divulge
requires, uh, T.S. clearance.
It is Yankee White only.
Uh, Kaityln, Kyle and I don't
have that clearance.
You don't need it. You're
the ones who mine the intel.
We have a source in the Russian SVR.
This individual has provided us
with a list of Russian sources
who are currently working in the U.S.
We're aware.
[WESTFIELD] Uh, what you aren't aware of
is some of the more prominent
names on that list.
How prominent?
Executives at multiple
television networks.
Senior editors
at The Post and The Times.
Four district court judges,
two circuit court judges.
Seven members of the House
and two in the Senate.
My God.
But you know this?
Not speculate, know it?
- We
- We have the SVR files, ma'am,
which contain bank account information,
routing numbers, pay schedules
through various foundations
and NGOs, typically
as campaign contributions.
The evidence is damning.
The question is
what would you like us to do with it?
[MEADE] Our worry is that,
whether we detain or FBI arrests,
this is gonna send a shock wave
through the higher learning
institutions,
through the major media outlets,
through the public officials,
both elected to office. [SIGHS]
Will it cause a collapse in confidence
through these institutions
that is actually more helpful
to the Russians
than the sources they have in place?
We could do arrests in stages
over a period of time.
[MASON] What period of time
are we talking about?
Once one of the dominoes falls,
they all fall,
whether we knock them down or not.
- May I?
- Joe, let us figure this out.
Well, I know. [STAMMERS] I just
No, I'd
I'd like to hear what she has to say.
Go ahead, Joe.
Look, Kyle and I are the
only spies in the room, right?
It was spies who hooked these fish.
You can arrest them, sure,
but we can switch the hooks.
Remove theirs, put in ours.
Explain that.
We approach every compromised official,
we present them our evidence,
and we give them
the option of retiring
in the next 24 hours
or they face prison.
We don't offer them immunity.
We don't offer them anything.
We simply withhold action.
They tell us everything,
they give us everything,
and from this day forward,
they are our sources.
Who are these senators?
Olson and Mayer.
Mayer's a freshman.
It's likely they had him before
and were just instrumental
in his decision to run.
We audited his campaign contributions:
energy company in Crimea,
Armenian IT company,
Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu.
Jesus.
Yes.
Well, your plan makes sense, Joe.
They're removed from power immediately.
They have no means
of defying the demand,
because we can prosecute.
We'd be forced to, in this instance.
No statute of limitations on treason.
We could prosecute any time we see fit.
[CHUCKLES] Okay, you two.
You take Mayer, I'll take Olson.
Yes, sir.
You two, start working the House.
With pleasure.
- Director Wexler.
- Sir?
[MULLINS] If we can have special agents
from CED
at all of these meetings.
Anyone that says no is arrested.
Let the chips fall where they may.
God have mercy on us all.
[TENSE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Do you think your guys were connected
with the guys in my house?
How many contract agents from Belarus
can there be in D.C., right?
They got to be.
[JOE] Before you ship
your guy off, ask, push.
[SCOFFS] My guy ain't talking,
not for a few months anyway.
Just ask anyway. Plant the seed
before you stick him in a box.
It'll be the thing he trades to get out.
All right. I'll ask him.
Have fun with your professor.
I plan to.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[DOOR OPENS]
[KYLE] How's our houseguest?
Pretty quiet, except for your big prize.
Yeah? What's he saying?
Been praying.
[CHUCKLES] Lot of good
that's gonna do him.
He's been praying in Arabic.
[ALEX PRAYING IN ARABIC]
Ah, you got to be shitting me.
They all going to Gitmo?
No, just the prize.
You guys ready to travel?
We have a Moose holding for us
out at Andrews.
Wheels up at 1900, though.
This won't take long.
[CONTINUES PRAYING IN ARABIC]
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- [PRAYING STOPS]
Well
you've been holding out on me.
Didn't realize you were a religious man.
Been listening to you "Allahu
Akbar" for the last couple hours.
You a Lipka Tatar? Huh?
That's not very Muslim of you,
helping the Russian state.
[ALEX] The enemy of my enemy
is my friend.
Ah Okay.
Now we're getting somewhere.
All right, well, listen,
you're about to ship off
to Camp Hell in a few minutes.
So, while you're there,
sitting in the 100-degree heat,
buck naked
with about a thousand mosquitoes
the size of fucking sparrows
sucking you dry
I want you to think about this.
Two Belarus contract agents
made an abduction attempt
on a case officer in Virginia.
You know what I'm referring to?
- [ALEX] This is news to me.
- [KYLE] Oh, come on.
Give me a fucking break.
You got less than 40,000 people
in your entire fucking army,
a few hundred in SF.
All you fuckers know each other,
and you know exactly
what I'm talking about.
But
when you feel like talking,
just tell that marine sergeant who
beats you with a baton
before every meal.
'Cause that's how you make
the pain stop, Alex.
And it's the only way.
[TENSE, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- [KEYS RATTLING]
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[ALEX GRUNTING]
[CODY J] Get up. Get up.
[EALY]
What is paramount to understand:
AI will likely render what I do
and what you aspire to do
as obsolete.
Likewise to careers in marketing,
accounting, engineering
whether software,
biological, mechanical
data analysis, research management.
All of these careers will
disappear in the next decade.
You must alter the focus of your
education to include machine learning,
computer vision and management
strategies, NLP engineering,
computer vision engineering.
And you must prepare yourselves
for a world
in which your endeavors
are not compensated with money.
Your compensation is
in the collective betterment
of our society, of our state.
What, no money, you say?
Yep, that's the future.
Your efforts will be compensated
through the services provided to
you in return from the state
housing, health care, food,
clean transportation, entertainment.
And as you prepare yourselves
for a career in the future,
you must prepare yourselves
also for a world
that replaces the imperialist goals
and economic meddling
of a "free-market society"
with a dedication to a state
that in turn dedicates itself
to an equitable life for all humankind.
[BELL TOLLING]
[JOE] Interesting position.
It's not a position,
it's the inevitable truth.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Let's say the inevitable
becomes true tomorrow.
Are you willing to pull
your kids out of private school,
turn your beach house over
to the government,
and allow them to seize
the four million in equities
Fidelity manages for you?
I bet not.
You strike me more as a
"have your cake and eat it, too"
kind of guy.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Who are you?
[SIGHS] I
am the inevitable consequence
of your actions, Mr. Ealy.
And what actions
would you be referring to?
Selling exam answers
through your TA to students
with the intent to extort
and recruit them
to provide information
to the Chinese Ministry
- of State Security.
- [DOOR OPENS]
The legal definition for that action
is treason, Mr. Ealy.
I guess you'll be
surrendering your money
and your property to
the U.S. government after all.
- Do you have a warrant?
- I do.
[TENSE, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
I want a lawyer.
[LAUGHING] I would, too.
You're not free to go,
- Mr. Ealy.
- I want a lawyer.
I don't know who you people are.
Get the fuck out of my way.
[GRUNTING, CHOKING]
[STRAINING]
Bad call, Richard.
We got a vehicle out back.
We're gonna spare you
the indignity for now.
You haven't read me my rights.
Let me show you my other badge.
You don't have any rights
with this badge.
[COUGHING, WHEEZING]
Why are we even messing
with this guy, anyway?
Could've had CED pick him up,
bring him right to us.
'Cause this guy
[GRUNTS]
If this guy lived in a shitty apartment
and donated his entire salary
to the communist party,
I could at least respect
his commitment to the cause.
This asshole lives better than we do,
then advocates tearing down the
system that allows him to do it.
Nah, fuck him.
I want to look him in the eye
when his fucking world crumbles.
[CHUCKLES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Perks of this job are endless,
ain't they, boss?
Yeah.
♪
[JOE] Hi.
[NEAL] Hey.
Sure.
[GENTLE MUSIC]
[WHISPERS] Thank you.
Here you go, my love.
[SIGHS]
How was your day?
I saw a 16-year-old girl
with stage 3 colon cancer.
- In a teenager?
- Yeah.
I didn't think that was possible.
Yeah, it's becoming
more and more common.
It's got to be something environmental.
Microplastics or some preservative
or, you know, something
with greed at its root.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
That's pretty deep, babe.
Pretty philosophical for a physician.
[NEAL CHUCKLES] Yeah.
Maybe so, but still true.
I'd ask you about your day, but
You can ask.
How was your day?
It was
illuminating.
Illuminating? How so?
[EXHALES]
Every enemy we have
has been waging
a 50-year covert war against us,
attacking us with the tiniest of cuts.
What kind of cuts?
To our infrastructure,
our government, our schools,
social media, everything.
I'm not really following.
How'd they do that?
Lenin used to call
compassionate progressives
in the West "useful idiots"
because, on the surface,
what they wanted
appeared to be what he wanted,
and he used that.
That's how he took power.
And now, they're all doing it,
and they've been doing it for so long.
Like spies?
Influencers, information peddlers,
an-an army of useful idiots
for 50 years.
And now, we're infested with them.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[PANTING]
[RENAT] Open mouth.
Open mouth.
[GRUNTS]
[MUFFLED GRUNTING]
Come on.
[SUSPENSEFUL, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[MUFFLED PROTESTING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]