FBI (2018) s09e05 Episode Script
Atonement
1
- [BUZZER BLARES]
- Come on, ladies.
You don't got places to be,
but some of us do.
Slide in. Slide in.
Make some room.
Let's go. Keep it moving.
What's the matter, Tiguere?
Wife had a headache again last night?
Don't start with me, Genesis.
Oh, you take no pride in your work.
These shackles are loose.
Raise your hands.
Mm.
Wouldn't want anything bad
to happen now, would we?
- Just get your ass in the van.
- [SMOOCHES]
[CHUCKLES]
OK, lock it up.
Locking main deck.
That's fine. Keep walking.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[ENGINE STARTS]
♪
You couldn't just get in the van, huh?
[CHUCKLES]
Like you weren't
enjoying the show, Mami.
♪
That mouth of yours ever
stop running, Genesis?
You want something in this life,
you gotta reach out and take it.
♪
Ay, the American dream
is nothing but a scam.
They make you believe
anything's possible
so you don't rise up
against them.
No one wants to hear it.
[SCOFFS] I know, Mami.
This country only ever
hears you when you're loud.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[ALL SCREAMING]
- What's happening?
- Get out of the van!
Hands up!
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Give me your keys!
♪
Move now!
[SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY] What'd I tell you?
♪
[PHONE RINGING IN DISTANCE]
Are the rumors true? Because you know
when it reaches this floor,
it's a big deal.
Maggie, slow down.
- It's 9:00 a.m.
- I don't care.
Is Nina getting her own
task force or what?
- Thank you.
- Wow. OK.
Which one of you is the good cop?
Can you just answer the question, Scola?
All right.
OK, fine.
Yes, Nina has been offered
her own task force,
her own hires, her own budget.
- Wow.
- The real deal, man.
- It's a big step up.
- Yeah.
Well, I mean, she hasn't
accepted the offer yet, but
She has to I mean,
this is a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity.
No, is it. It is, yeah.
It's just, that is a lot more work.
You know, Dougie's getting older.
But she earned it.
And, you know, I support her,
whatever she decides.
There it is. Good man.
[CLEARS THROAT]
What are you not saying right now?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Oh. OK.
All right, listen up.
NYPD just issued a citywide tac alert.
A prisoner transport
was attacked on Flatbush
10 minutes after leaving MDC.
Eight female convicts
were able to escape.
- Anybody hurt?
- I don't know.
I am being told that U.S. Marshals
are coordinating the fugitive
recovery operation.
We are being asked
to round up the inmates
and figure out who did this.
All right, folks, you heard her.
We're on it.
[SIREN CHIRPING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Hey. FBI. Scola, Ramos.
- You got a second?
- Yeah, I'm good.
Tear gas. Stings like a bastard.
Are you OK? Can you walk us through it?
It went fast.
Our tires blew
10 minutes after we left MDC.
Thought it was a flat.
Second I slammed the brakes,
they hit us.
Gas round came through the windshield.
Just zip-tied us up, took my keys.
OK. You get a look at the attackers?
Partial. Tear gas blinded me quick.
Three, maybe four of them.
Medium height, medium build.
They were wearing masks.
They were looking for
somebody in this van, huh?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Most of the inmates were low-level,
but we had a few hard cases on board.
So they're now all
roaming free in Brooklyn.
They ain't running far.
They were chained together.
Caltrops. Nasty little buggers.
We used them overseas
to stop suicide bombers
from getting to our outposts.
The spikes are hollow.
They'll flatten a tire in seconds.
Looks like they stopped the
van exactly where they wanted to,
'cause we're in a blind spot,
in between cameras.
Yeah, this was well-planned, tactical.
Hey, NYPD just got a 911 call.
Witness saw orange jumpsuits
slipping into an auto mechanic
six blocks west of here.
We're on it.
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[MACHINERY WHIRRING]
♪
- OA.
- Yeah.
♪
FBI. Hands off the table.
This close, girl.
Yo, I didn't do anything, for real.
Escaping a prison transport,
evading arrest.
And breaking and entering
or assaulting that mechanic.
We saw an opportunity, and we took it.
You'd have done the same thing.
You want something, you gotta take it.
Genesis only be looking out for herself.
Yeah, and if we'd have run faster,
maybe we'd be gone by now.
Genesis Perez?
- She was on the manifest.
- Yeah.
You think Genesis was behind this?
She ran the block, took no crap.
And she was running her damn
mouth before the truck got hit,
- like she knew it was coming.
- Yes.
Like, Genesis always gets her way.
She had the juice.
So where would she run?
She didn't have to.
After the van got hit,
we were all on foot.
But Genesis had an SUV waiting.
Her and Laila got in
and flew out of there fast.
Let's go.
Good news, folks.
Maggie and OA and have
two more inmates in custody.
Her and her.
So where does that leave the tally?
Uh, yeah, the marshals apprehended
four more inmates,
so they're off the board.
That leaves only this pair
still at large
Genesis Perez and Laila Sarbani.
Laila Sarbani's a model prisoner.
She's got no write-ups, no affiliations.
She's low-risk.
Five years for embezzling
from a company she worked for.
OK, well, Maggie said
the two they caught thought
Genesis Perez masterminded the breakout.
That makes more sense.
Genesis Perez, 35, high-ranking member
of the Inwood Kings street gang.
She was in federal lockup
for racketeering
and attempted murder
of an undercover federal agent.
Her husband is Luis Perez.
Luis Perez? Oh, yeah.
This guy, he is
he's as bad as they come.
Number two for the Kings.
He's a real player,
and he'd have plenty of muscle
to pull this job.
Oh, AUSA is bringing a RICO charge
against Luis this month.
Maybe he was getting ready to run.
And he'd want his old lady with him.
I buy that.
All right, I want agents hitting
all Inwood Kings' known safe
houses and hideouts, yeah?
Let's hunt her down.
JOC said there's no sign of Genesis
at any of the other hideouts.
Well, you feeling lucky?
Well, certainly not today,
but it's still early.
So let's see what happens.
Hit it.
- [THUDDING IN DISTANCE]
- Hold.
Hear that?
- Yeah.
- Come on.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
FBI! Do not move!
Stay right where you are!
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Need a shotgun breach.
[GUN CLICKS, GUNSHOT]
Corner! Corner!
FBI! Stop!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- [GRUNTS]
- [GRUNTS]
♪
[GRUNTS]
[CLANGING]
[GRUNTS]
[GROANS]
You don't hear so good, huh?
Still missing one by my count.
♪
Laila Sarbani, what'd you do with her?
I ain't touch her, for real.
Well, you were chained to her
for an hour and a half,
so where is she?
I don't know.
I was just a passenger, lady.
Laila's crew was behind the whole thing.
- Laila's crew?
- Yeah.
I was as surprised as you are.
Girl was quiet like a mouse,
but Laila
[CHUCKLES] She had people waiting.
They pulled us into an SUV,
and we just peaced out.
So how'd you end up here?
They pulled over, cut the chain,
and dumped my ass
on the side of the road.
They took off with Laila.
I don't know where.
This is Laila Sarbani,
locked up for white-collar crime,
pulled off a tactical hit
on a transport van.
- That's your story?
- It's not a story.
- It's just facts.
- OK.
Look, we'll be looking into those facts,
and you better not be lying.
This was her crew, Fed.
These men were armed for war.
Now, I don't give a damn what
Laila Sarbani looks like in your file.
[SCOFFS]
That girl cooked up the whole thing.
And I hope you don't ever find her.
[CHUCKLES]
♪
And then there was one, Laila Sarbani.
Hard to imagine she is the mastermind
behind this morning's extraction,
but that is where
the evidence is pointing.
So what aren't we seeing?
Laila served five years in MDC
for embezzlement and wire fraud.
She's 38, Afghan-American,
grew up in California.
Her parents emigrated in the '80s.
She graduated from Stanford in '09.
Eventually got a contract job
with a defense firm
in 2013 doing government work.
Oh, wow.
- She pinged in a DOD server.
- Mm.
She was an operational
support contractor
on a U.S. Army base
in Afghanistan during the war?
She did SSE.
Sensitive Site Exploitation, right?
Yeah, they go in after
military raids and gather intel.
Break into safes, crack hard drives
anything they can exploit
to develop new targets.
It says here Laila is fluent
in both Pashto and Dari.
So she's a multilingual analyst
who knows her way around
cracking a hard drive.
Mastermind's starting to fit the bill.
If Laila did plan her own escape,
she'd need to coordinate
with whoever broke her out.
Who visited her at MDC?
- There's nothing.
- What do you mean? No visitors?
No. No calls, no letters.
No contact with the outside world.
- I'm not buying that.
- She barely made a ripple.
According to prison logs,
she spent most of her time
in the prison chapel.
So what, she pray her way out?
Who oversees the chapel?
That would be this man,
Father Andrew Discano.
He's a visiting priest.
Comes and goes, but they spent
about 10 hours a week together.
Really?
In a place conveniently outside the view
of any prison security cameras.
You think she exploited him?
I mean, it's literally
one of her skill sets.
A priest walking in
and out of MDC every day
wouldn't raise any red flags.
Smart way to get messages
to any co-conspirators.
It's time to see if our padre
has anything to confess.
[DOOR BUZZING]
I do rounds at all sorts of places.
I'm a shepherd,
ministering to God's flock.
Whatever Laila did, she's lost.
When we were reviewing her logs,
we saw that you were the only one
that visited her on a regular basis.
What are you implying, Agent Ramos?
Laila was planning her escape
by communicating
with someone on the outside.
So if we find out you were an
accessory to that in any way
I have no idea
what you're talking about.
OK.
Uh, Father, smuggling messages
out of the MDC
is a federal crime.
So if you were
a part of that in any way,
you're looking at conspiracy,
obstruction,
assisting escape.
That's decades in prison.
Who was she sending messages to?
[TENSE MUSIC]
I don't know.
You know the drill here, OK?
We can do this the easy way,
or we can do this the hard way,
all right?
In fact, there's a few stories
about that in your book here.
I really don't know.
She had me leave her notes at
some bench in McGolrick Park.
I don't know who picked them up
because I I didn't want to know.
But you knew
she was gonna be there today.
I did.
♪
So how does a man of the cloth
stray so far from the good book?
♪
Um, a few months ago,
Laila came to the chapel,
and she was adrift,
lost, and I believed I could help her.
She shared her story.
We talked about everything,
and it was clear as day
Laila didn't deserve to be locked up.
She has a beautiful soul
and a good heart, and
You fell in love with her.
I felt things for Laila
I've never felt
for anyone else in the world.
♪
She wanted to spend
the rest of her life with me.
She had friends who could get her out,
assured me that no one would get hurt.
So I agreed to help.
Looks to me like she used you, Father.
No, no. What we have is real.
Then where is she?
♪
You're supposed to meet her today?
♪
Where?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
This guy, I don't know.
What he's willing
to sacrifice for love
Well, he met a girl and lost his faith.
He's a priest, OA.
People lose faith every day, Scola
in what they believe in,
in who they think they are.
The world has a special way of
knocking good people off their feet.
♪
Andrew's in position.
Everyone, just keep
your eyes open for Laila.
♪
Is this her now?
♪
No. It's not her.
It's a false alarm.
I don't think I can do this.
Andrew, you need to stay
calm and stick with the plan.
When you see Laila,
You're gonna get her talking,
and we're gonna come in.
She'll never forgive me.
[PHONE RINGING]
Who is it?
Unknown number.
Answer it.
If it's Laila,
keep her talking as long as possible.
[PHONE BEEPS]
- Hello?
- Andy.
Laila, where are you? I'm at the park.
Are you close?
Got it. Tracing now.
No, I'm sorry, Andy.
I don't understand.
Everything we talked about
you're not coming?
No.
What about our plans?
What about our life together?
I don't have time to explain.
I I just wanted you
to know that
So you used me. You never loved me.
Don't say that. I do love you.
I don't know if I can do this.
I need more time.
Andrew, we need you
to keep her on the phone.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Uh, wait, Laila.
Wait, just listen to me.
I need to see you again.
♪
Laila, are you there?
Are they listening in right now,
whoever's forcing you to do this?
♪
I'm sorry.
You're gonna hear some
bad things about me, Andrew,
but I need you to know that
you helped me find my path.
That's why I had to do
what I'm doing.
I have to make things right.
What does that mean?
It's OK.
[ALARM BLARING]
I forgive you, Andrew.
♪
I gotta go.
We lost her.
Our agents were only able
to narrow the call
to an approximate location.
550-yard radius around
a cell tower in Greenpoint.
OK, how do we narrow that down?
Hey, uh, that alarm blaring
on Laila's call,
I ran the audio through
an AI tool to ID it.
Got a match to the Sentinel
Onyx series alarm.
OK, is that commercial grade
or residential grade?
More like critical infrastructure grade.
The Sentinel Onyx is sold
to military facilities,
- casinos.
- Banks?
I'm getting an alert
that Trust National Bank
on McGuinness just activated
their internal alarm.
Which is smack in
the middle of Greenpoint.
Laila knows how to crack a safe.
She broke out of prison to rob a bank.
Get a team down there now.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ALARM BLARING]
♪
On me.
[ALARM BLARING]
♪
FBI!
We got enough! Go, go, go!
[GUNFIRE]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
- Go! Let's go!
- It's Laila.
- Let's go.
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Going around.
♪
FBI!
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[GRUNTS] [GLASS SHATTERING]
Civilian down! Civilian down.
We got her! Go get him!
♪
Suspect bailed on foot.
Need a perimeter.
South Third Street.
Hey. You see 'em?
♪
No. Nothing.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Excuse me. Where did they go?
- I don't know.
- I don't get it.
Do you want to call it in?
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Jubal.
[CROWD CHEERING]
"Take what is owed"?
We got eyes on the suspect.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
They're gone.
- They ditched their gear.
- Jubal, we lost them.
All right, we're gonna need NYPD
to help us search this building.
OK, fine.
So Laila, she breaks out of prison,
and then she robs a bank.
But then why give up all the cash?
Worked for Robin Hood.
♪
NYPD is still scouring the building
for Laila Sarbani and her crew.
So far, nothing. How's it going
with the cell phone footage?
Not great. I mean,
a lot of people filmed the money drop,
so we're gonna find
something eventually.
You said you saw three
on the balcony, right?
So maybe the fourth robber
took off his mask
and blended in with the crowd.
[EXHALES SHARPLY] It's possible.
How much cash was that?
It's about $465,000.
ERT said that they recovered
only a fifth of that.
Vigilante crew pulls a Robin Hood gig,
gives the money away.
I mean, half the city's gonna
be rooting for these people.
She's done this before.
I was reading Laila's file,
and prosecutors suspected
that all the money she embezzled was
wired overseas to Afghan refugees.
So everything she's stolen,
she's given away.
She's an ideologue.
Her banner is in English and Pashto.
They dump the money in a neighborhood
with the highest concentration
of Afghan refugees.
It's clear she wants
Afghans to get this money.
Laila said she wanted
to make things right.
- She's obviously after justice.
- Or atonement.
It'd be a whole lot easier
if we knew who Laila was working with.
Yeah, agreed.
Hang on. This guy.
He's looking up at the balcony,
but nothing has fallen yet.
You're right.
It's like he knows what's coming.
Hmm.
Let's get his face to the JOC.
Are you OK?
'Cause you seem sort of tight.
Oh, yeah, no. Sorry.
It's just, um, Nina's promotion.
- It's
- Right.
OK.
Come on. Come on.
I've never seen anyone so
stressed out about good news.
Job's in San Diego.
San Diego as in San Diego?
Yeah, that San Diego.
She got the offer four days ago.
It's everything she's ever wanted.
She'd have to move to California, so
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
Would you?
I don't I don't know.
She's worked so hard for this, you know?
- Yeah, her whole career.
- Her whole career.
But we have a life here.
We would have to uproot everything.
Just the sacrifice that's need
needed if Nina takes this gig
I just don't know if our family
would survive that.
♪
So what are you gonna do?
I told her not to take it, Eva.
♪
I said she shouldn't accept
the promotion.
♪
[SIGHS]
All right, so the guy knew
half a million dollars
is about to drop out of the sky.
- He's not a psychic, huh?
- No, buckle up.
His name is Idris Sherazi,
Afghan refugee.
Came over after Kabul fell in 2021.
He's married, has a daughter.
No criminal record.
What's his connection to Laila Sarbani?
Idris was an interpreter
for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
He was attached to Laila's unit.
- They worked together.
- There it is.
So I assume you're trying
to locate him, yeah?
Uh, we're running his face
against CCTV footage
- as we speak.
- All right, keep at it.
Folks, if you haven't heard,
the guy who knew
it was gonna rain green,
he is a part of Laila Sarbani's crew.
His name is Idris Sherazi,
an interpreter for the U.S.
in Afghanistan.
If anyone finds any intel on this guy
that can help us track him
down, please speak up.
All right, were we able
to trace his phone?
Didn't turn up any cell records for him,
so no number to trace.
- Hey, got him.
- Yep.
Exiting an E Train station in Queens,
uh, about a half hour ago.
He's got a black duffel.
OK. Well, he could've gone
anywhere from there.
- Can we pick up his trail?
- Yeah.
Tracing pole cams from the station.
Yeah, got him.
Entered Triborough Hospital
three minutes ago.
Well, he does not look
like he's injured.
So what, they rob the bank,
they drop the money,
and then he goes to the hospital?
During their getaway,
they hit a woman with their car.
She was injured pretty badly,
and EMT took her to that exact hospital.
Oh, OK. Get a team there now.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Excuse me.
There was a woman who was hit by a car.
- Where is she?
- Second door to the right.
♪
Idris Sherazi. FBI.
You're under arrest.
Put your hands up now.
♪
[DOOR BUZZING]
Can we get you anything, Idris?
- No, thank you.
- OK.
Well, we spoke to your wife, Zohal.
She was shocked, to say the least.
Said she warned you
not to go down this road.
You went to the hospital to leave money
for the woman you hit
in your getaway, right?
Your wife was right.
You have a good heart.
Zohal has nothing to do with this.
Well, it's gonna affect her,
as it is your daughter,
whether you like it or not.
Because of today's robbery,
immigration will be taking a closer look
at your family's refugee status.
You're an interpreter
for the U.S., right?
The Taliban's still in power back home.
What would happen if your
family were to be sent back?
What kind of man are you?
I don't make the rules,
and I didn't put you in that chair.
- I had no choice.
- Like hell, you didn't.
Look, you've got one play left.
So give us some names, now.
I have principles.
Is that why you broke Laila out of MDC?
Ah, you wouldn't understand.
I worked with an interpreter
like you in Helmand.
We can help you.
The U.S. government already
promised us visas status.
None of that came to pass.
So what, today's robbery was,
uh, for retribution?
No one is gonna hire an
Afghan refugee without papers.
And your country makes sure
I can't get them.
So how will I provide for my family?
My daughter's sick, and I
cannot afford her medicine.
There are thousands just like me.
Afghan refugees in despair,
fighting for dignity
after sacrificing everything
for this country.
And Laila wanted to help you.
It was all her idea.
She saw how much we sacrificed
and how we were left behind
by this country.
She would never make us whole,
but she had tools and skills.
Yeah. She was your safecracker.
We can help you. We can help
your daughter. We can help your wife.
But we need to know
where your friends are.
[CHUCKLES]
It's always just one more
sacrifice with you.
But this time I will not make it.
My friends have more work to do.
Where's the next bank, Idris?
All right, folks, Idris Sherazi gave us
more than a few reasons to
believe his team is not done yet,
which means he has
another target in mind.
There are 1,700 bank branches
in Manhattan alone.
Yeah, well, they'll want ones
with cash on hand.
Can we pull up cash amounts
for all local banks in the area?
Won't take long. They're empty.
What do you what do you mean?
Uh, look.
Um, these are all the local branches
in Brooklyn and Queens.
Consumer banks,
they get daily cash deliveries
from tier-1 financial institutions
known as correspondent banks.
Now, the main correspondent
bank in the area
First Central Savings Bank in Brooklyn.
But due to an elevated security threat
from this morning's heist,
First Central put a hold
on all future cash deliveries.
So you're saying they hit a small bank
to send a scare through the system
and corral all that cash to one target?
- More or less.
- All right.
So how much money is sitting
in the First Central vault right now?
Roughly $4 million.
That is quite a haul.
Get all the teams there right now.
NYPD, you guys too. Mount up.
Let's hope we're not too late.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
What was that? Why'd you stop?
Caltrops.
All units, be advised,
we have an obstruction on South Elliot
that needs to be cleared.
All right, well,
let's keep moving on foot.
♪
We got eyes on the bank.
♪
OK, I'm seeing movement inside.
Oh, my God.
That's not a robbery crew.
No.
It's a human barricade.
♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
All right, JOC's up on CCTV.
Should be coming through now.
OK, the sniper team's in position,
but they used their hostages
to block our line of sight.
OK, how many robbers by their count?
We've got three confirmed.
All right, so same crew.
I mean, one of them's gotta be Laila.
SWAT has prepared
an emergency assault plan
if it comes to that.
There's gotta be
25 hostages in there, easy.
♪
Gonna have to do this old-school.
♪
This is Special Agent
Stuart Scola with the FBI,
and we've got the building surrounded.
We would like to get this
resolved peacefully
without anybody getting hurt.
Bank manager on duty is
a Jenn Heidlemann.
We're gonna call her phone.
When it rings,
pick it up so we can talk.
♪
Come on, pick up.
Pick up.
She's not answering.
I don't like this.
Nothing.
[PHONE BUZZING]
Hold on.
"Send the guy who was just talking.
No guns."
Absolutely not.
It goes against every SOP.
It's the only way
they're gonna talk to us.
Scola, no, wait.
How old do you think that girl is?
15, maybe 16.
Yeah.
- I need you in my ear, OK?
- OK.
Cover me.
♪
FBI.
Coming in.
Turn around. Show me your waist.
No weapons.
Inside.
Now!
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Everybody OK in here?
If you don't pull your
officers away from this bank,
bad things will happen
to all these people.
So let's figure out how to
get everybody out of here
nice and safe, OK?
That includes you and your friends.
How's that sound, Laila?
♪
What are you doing?
He already knows who I am.
I also know why you're doing this.
There's no gun in your hand.
You don't want to hurt these people.
You just want to make things right.
You think you know us?
You think you know
what we've been through?
I'm just trying to help you.
Hey, hey, hey. Easy, easy.
[WHIMPERING]
You think you know
what we're capable of?
Take it easy.
I will blow a hole in her head
if you do not do exactly as I say.
No, no, no, no,
you don't want to do that.
Pull your agents back.
This is our money.
We are not leaving without it.
You have 10 minutes.
We can talk about that,
but you have got to give me
something in return.
All right?
Let me have five of the hostages.
[GUN CLICKS]
Laila, please make him understand.
Rus doesn't answer to me.
I don't want anyone getting hurt,
but that doesn't mean we're not serious.
If he shoots someone,
SWAT will breach that door,
and more people will get hurt.
These men bled for this country.
I saw it with my own eyes.
Now they are taking
what is owed to them.
You want to help?
Get out of our way.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
At least let me have the kid.
♪
Here we go. That's it.
You're doing awesome, OK?
I'm gonna pass you
right over to my friend.
Right this way.
All right, they're die-hards.
They are not gonna negotiate.
This is existential.
♪
We have pinned your crew
inside the bank.
They have taken hostages.
Now, I'm afraid Laila is
about to walk your friends
across a line they cannot return from.
The woman that you hit,
you put in the hospital
she succumbed to her injuries.
[SIGHS]
How many more people have to die
for Laila to prove her point?
It's not her.
- It's Rustam.
- Who is he?
A village schoolteacher.
But the war broke him, and now
I didn't want him to be a part of this.
- So he's dangerous?
- And angry.
The war forced him to become a killer.
He's willing to do anything to
anyone to get what he's owed.
He was driving the car,
hit that poor woman.
He didn't even flinch.
He will never surrender.
Nikki, thank you for coming in.
Yeah, well, don't thank me yet.
You are dealing with Rustam Sadiqi.
He and his younger brother, Tamim,
were in the same Afghan army
basic training class
as your man in custody.
And the two brothers were interpreters?
Only Tamim.
Rustam was he was one of ours.
- One of ours?
- Mm-hmm.
During the war, the agency
set up local forces in Afghanistan
to augment our
clandestine operations there.
- Zero Units.
- Elite Afghan commandos.
They were hunter-killer strike teams
that worked directly for the CIA.
So Rustam was a hunter-killer?
When Kabul fell in '21,
they were the only local force
that we could trust
to help pull us out.
We brought thousands of Zero Units
and their families back to the U.S.
Many fell through the cracks.
Promises weren't kept.
I don't blame your robbery crew
for being angry.
They were fed a raw deal.
I would be angry too.
Idris says they'll never
surrender without bloodshed.
Would you back down
if you were in their shoes?
We've got over two dozen hostages
that are still inside
of this bank, Jubal.
- We've got to do something.
- And we are.
Our best bet is is to wait 'em out.
You know, they're gonna get hungry,
they're gonna get thirsty,
and they'll realize
they have to negotiate.
OK, so cross our fingers
and hope that they change their mind
that's our best move here?
What are your thoughts, Eva?
Well, they feel what
they're doing is justified.
That's a hard place to negotiate from.
Look, they think this money
is owed to them, right?
For promises that we made.
So why don't we step aside
and let 'em take it?
Let them believe that
they can have the money?
[TENSE MUSIC]
Do it.
♪
- You're out of time.
- All right.
Wait. I got an offer.
Look.
You guys want the money.
We want the hostages, right?
So this is what we're willing to do.
We're gonna pack up, move out,
and let you drive out of here
with that cash.
I am so tired of
hollow American promises.
I'm serious.
You leave those hostages,
you can have the money.
♪
Yeah. This is good.
Scola, we're in position.
I don't believe you.
Of course you don't, right?
Why would you?
With everything that's happened?
♪
If you leave those hostages
in here, unharmed,
you are free to go.
♪
Thank you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Risky move, leaving hostages behind.
It's gonna work, all right?
It's got to.
Yeah, but if it doesn't,
Scola, I don't want you to carry that.
♪
OK. Looks like they're wrapping up.
- What is she doing?
- What?
Oh, damn!
She just took the bank manager
as insurance.
Get a team on that van now!
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
♪
Van's tagged.
What the hell just happened?
Scola, they took a hostage.
They threw her in the back
and fled with the money.
Who did? Rustam?
Laila.
She didn't believe you,
and now they're running.
♪
I want that getaway car found now.
- How are we doing?
- Uh, tracker's live.
Signal's strong.
They can run, but we'll find 'em.
All right, they've got millions in
cash and an innocent woman.
She does not die on our watch.
Where are they headed?
Just blew a red light on Franklin.
Yeah, OK. Scola, listen up.
[ENGINE REVVING]
Getaway car's fleeing
north on Franklin.
Just crossed Kent.
OK, we're in pursuit,
but we need a way to box them in.
Yeah, NYPD's gonna help you box them in.
Oak Street is shut down
for construction.
On it.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Eva, brought the cavalry from 26 Fed.
- Where are we at?
- Medical is finishing up.
Then we interview the hostages.
♪
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Turn off the engine,
and get out of the vehicle.
Do it now!
Laila, turn it off.
Throw the keys out the window.
♪
[KEYS JINGLING]
Now step out of the car slowly.
♪
Turn around. Put your hands in the air.
Please.
Idris, Rustam, Tamim, they are
they are such good, decent men.
They served this country.
They gave everything, and for what?
For what? Nothing.
A sacrifice worth nothing.
That doesn't make what you did OK.
Now turn around and put
your hands on your head.
♪
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Help us! Help us!
- Get behind me.
Get behind me.
Don't move.
♪
Scola, these are the hostages!
What?
Hands behind your back.
Where the hell are Rustam and Tamim?
You gotta be kidding me.
Hey, throw the bank footage
back up there.
Maggie, listen up.
Rustam and Tamim are
still in the bank,
likely posing as hostages.
You need to find them.
We're looking now.
♪
Eva. Rustam, FBI!
Stop!
Show us your hands.
Turn around.
Where's your brother?
We have Rustam.
Tamim's in the wind.
So what'd you do with the money?
It is now where it belongs.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
So JOC searched all the footage
from the scene at the bank.
Finally found Tamim.
Wow.
That's how they got the money out, huh?
Yep.
The cameras, they lost track of him
a few moments after, and JOC thinks that
he had a getaway vehicle
a couple blocks down.
He will slip up,
and we'll grab him, one way or another.
You know, I feel bad for them.
[SIGHS]
But this crew, they
they made a hell of a mess today.
Yeah.
They were promised something
that they didn't get, right?
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
So they lost sight
of what it means to serve.
And to serve is to sacrifice.
And that is our reward.
Are you trying to convince
me or yourself?
♪
I don't know, Eva.
Maybe I lost sight of it too.
You can't stand in Nina's way
just because it's it's gonna be hard.
♪
Good night, Scola.
Thank you.
For what?
For all of it.
Anytime.
♪
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
♪
[LINE RINGING]
You've reached Nina Chase.
Please leave me a message.
[LINE BEEPS]
Hey. Uh, it's me.
Uh, I've been thinking more
about San Diego.
Um, I think you should take the job.
It's worth it.
And we'll we'll figure it out, OK?
I love you.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]
- [BUZZER BLARES]
- Come on, ladies.
You don't got places to be,
but some of us do.
Slide in. Slide in.
Make some room.
Let's go. Keep it moving.
What's the matter, Tiguere?
Wife had a headache again last night?
Don't start with me, Genesis.
Oh, you take no pride in your work.
These shackles are loose.
Raise your hands.
Mm.
Wouldn't want anything bad
to happen now, would we?
- Just get your ass in the van.
- [SMOOCHES]
[CHUCKLES]
OK, lock it up.
Locking main deck.
That's fine. Keep walking.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[ENGINE STARTS]
♪
You couldn't just get in the van, huh?
[CHUCKLES]
Like you weren't
enjoying the show, Mami.
♪
That mouth of yours ever
stop running, Genesis?
You want something in this life,
you gotta reach out and take it.
♪
Ay, the American dream
is nothing but a scam.
They make you believe
anything's possible
so you don't rise up
against them.
No one wants to hear it.
[SCOFFS] I know, Mami.
This country only ever
hears you when you're loud.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[ALL SCREAMING]
- What's happening?
- Get out of the van!
Hands up!
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Give me your keys!
♪
Move now!
[SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY] What'd I tell you?
♪
[PHONE RINGING IN DISTANCE]
Are the rumors true? Because you know
when it reaches this floor,
it's a big deal.
Maggie, slow down.
- It's 9:00 a.m.
- I don't care.
Is Nina getting her own
task force or what?
- Thank you.
- Wow. OK.
Which one of you is the good cop?
Can you just answer the question, Scola?
All right.
OK, fine.
Yes, Nina has been offered
her own task force,
her own hires, her own budget.
- Wow.
- The real deal, man.
- It's a big step up.
- Yeah.
Well, I mean, she hasn't
accepted the offer yet, but
She has to I mean,
this is a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity.
No, is it. It is, yeah.
It's just, that is a lot more work.
You know, Dougie's getting older.
But she earned it.
And, you know, I support her,
whatever she decides.
There it is. Good man.
[CLEARS THROAT]
What are you not saying right now?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Oh. OK.
All right, listen up.
NYPD just issued a citywide tac alert.
A prisoner transport
was attacked on Flatbush
10 minutes after leaving MDC.
Eight female convicts
were able to escape.
- Anybody hurt?
- I don't know.
I am being told that U.S. Marshals
are coordinating the fugitive
recovery operation.
We are being asked
to round up the inmates
and figure out who did this.
All right, folks, you heard her.
We're on it.
[SIREN CHIRPING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Hey. FBI. Scola, Ramos.
- You got a second?
- Yeah, I'm good.
Tear gas. Stings like a bastard.
Are you OK? Can you walk us through it?
It went fast.
Our tires blew
10 minutes after we left MDC.
Thought it was a flat.
Second I slammed the brakes,
they hit us.
Gas round came through the windshield.
Just zip-tied us up, took my keys.
OK. You get a look at the attackers?
Partial. Tear gas blinded me quick.
Three, maybe four of them.
Medium height, medium build.
They were wearing masks.
They were looking for
somebody in this van, huh?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Most of the inmates were low-level,
but we had a few hard cases on board.
So they're now all
roaming free in Brooklyn.
They ain't running far.
They were chained together.
Caltrops. Nasty little buggers.
We used them overseas
to stop suicide bombers
from getting to our outposts.
The spikes are hollow.
They'll flatten a tire in seconds.
Looks like they stopped the
van exactly where they wanted to,
'cause we're in a blind spot,
in between cameras.
Yeah, this was well-planned, tactical.
Hey, NYPD just got a 911 call.
Witness saw orange jumpsuits
slipping into an auto mechanic
six blocks west of here.
We're on it.
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[MACHINERY WHIRRING]
♪
- OA.
- Yeah.
♪
FBI. Hands off the table.
This close, girl.
Yo, I didn't do anything, for real.
Escaping a prison transport,
evading arrest.
And breaking and entering
or assaulting that mechanic.
We saw an opportunity, and we took it.
You'd have done the same thing.
You want something, you gotta take it.
Genesis only be looking out for herself.
Yeah, and if we'd have run faster,
maybe we'd be gone by now.
Genesis Perez?
- She was on the manifest.
- Yeah.
You think Genesis was behind this?
She ran the block, took no crap.
And she was running her damn
mouth before the truck got hit,
- like she knew it was coming.
- Yes.
Like, Genesis always gets her way.
She had the juice.
So where would she run?
She didn't have to.
After the van got hit,
we were all on foot.
But Genesis had an SUV waiting.
Her and Laila got in
and flew out of there fast.
Let's go.
Good news, folks.
Maggie and OA and have
two more inmates in custody.
Her and her.
So where does that leave the tally?
Uh, yeah, the marshals apprehended
four more inmates,
so they're off the board.
That leaves only this pair
still at large
Genesis Perez and Laila Sarbani.
Laila Sarbani's a model prisoner.
She's got no write-ups, no affiliations.
She's low-risk.
Five years for embezzling
from a company she worked for.
OK, well, Maggie said
the two they caught thought
Genesis Perez masterminded the breakout.
That makes more sense.
Genesis Perez, 35, high-ranking member
of the Inwood Kings street gang.
She was in federal lockup
for racketeering
and attempted murder
of an undercover federal agent.
Her husband is Luis Perez.
Luis Perez? Oh, yeah.
This guy, he is
he's as bad as they come.
Number two for the Kings.
He's a real player,
and he'd have plenty of muscle
to pull this job.
Oh, AUSA is bringing a RICO charge
against Luis this month.
Maybe he was getting ready to run.
And he'd want his old lady with him.
I buy that.
All right, I want agents hitting
all Inwood Kings' known safe
houses and hideouts, yeah?
Let's hunt her down.
JOC said there's no sign of Genesis
at any of the other hideouts.
Well, you feeling lucky?
Well, certainly not today,
but it's still early.
So let's see what happens.
Hit it.
- [THUDDING IN DISTANCE]
- Hold.
Hear that?
- Yeah.
- Come on.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
FBI! Do not move!
Stay right where you are!
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Need a shotgun breach.
[GUN CLICKS, GUNSHOT]
Corner! Corner!
FBI! Stop!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- [GRUNTS]
- [GRUNTS]
♪
[GRUNTS]
[CLANGING]
[GRUNTS]
[GROANS]
You don't hear so good, huh?
Still missing one by my count.
♪
Laila Sarbani, what'd you do with her?
I ain't touch her, for real.
Well, you were chained to her
for an hour and a half,
so where is she?
I don't know.
I was just a passenger, lady.
Laila's crew was behind the whole thing.
- Laila's crew?
- Yeah.
I was as surprised as you are.
Girl was quiet like a mouse,
but Laila
[CHUCKLES] She had people waiting.
They pulled us into an SUV,
and we just peaced out.
So how'd you end up here?
They pulled over, cut the chain,
and dumped my ass
on the side of the road.
They took off with Laila.
I don't know where.
This is Laila Sarbani,
locked up for white-collar crime,
pulled off a tactical hit
on a transport van.
- That's your story?
- It's not a story.
- It's just facts.
- OK.
Look, we'll be looking into those facts,
and you better not be lying.
This was her crew, Fed.
These men were armed for war.
Now, I don't give a damn what
Laila Sarbani looks like in your file.
[SCOFFS]
That girl cooked up the whole thing.
And I hope you don't ever find her.
[CHUCKLES]
♪
And then there was one, Laila Sarbani.
Hard to imagine she is the mastermind
behind this morning's extraction,
but that is where
the evidence is pointing.
So what aren't we seeing?
Laila served five years in MDC
for embezzlement and wire fraud.
She's 38, Afghan-American,
grew up in California.
Her parents emigrated in the '80s.
She graduated from Stanford in '09.
Eventually got a contract job
with a defense firm
in 2013 doing government work.
Oh, wow.
- She pinged in a DOD server.
- Mm.
She was an operational
support contractor
on a U.S. Army base
in Afghanistan during the war?
She did SSE.
Sensitive Site Exploitation, right?
Yeah, they go in after
military raids and gather intel.
Break into safes, crack hard drives
anything they can exploit
to develop new targets.
It says here Laila is fluent
in both Pashto and Dari.
So she's a multilingual analyst
who knows her way around
cracking a hard drive.
Mastermind's starting to fit the bill.
If Laila did plan her own escape,
she'd need to coordinate
with whoever broke her out.
Who visited her at MDC?
- There's nothing.
- What do you mean? No visitors?
No. No calls, no letters.
No contact with the outside world.
- I'm not buying that.
- She barely made a ripple.
According to prison logs,
she spent most of her time
in the prison chapel.
So what, she pray her way out?
Who oversees the chapel?
That would be this man,
Father Andrew Discano.
He's a visiting priest.
Comes and goes, but they spent
about 10 hours a week together.
Really?
In a place conveniently outside the view
of any prison security cameras.
You think she exploited him?
I mean, it's literally
one of her skill sets.
A priest walking in
and out of MDC every day
wouldn't raise any red flags.
Smart way to get messages
to any co-conspirators.
It's time to see if our padre
has anything to confess.
[DOOR BUZZING]
I do rounds at all sorts of places.
I'm a shepherd,
ministering to God's flock.
Whatever Laila did, she's lost.
When we were reviewing her logs,
we saw that you were the only one
that visited her on a regular basis.
What are you implying, Agent Ramos?
Laila was planning her escape
by communicating
with someone on the outside.
So if we find out you were an
accessory to that in any way
I have no idea
what you're talking about.
OK.
Uh, Father, smuggling messages
out of the MDC
is a federal crime.
So if you were
a part of that in any way,
you're looking at conspiracy,
obstruction,
assisting escape.
That's decades in prison.
Who was she sending messages to?
[TENSE MUSIC]
I don't know.
You know the drill here, OK?
We can do this the easy way,
or we can do this the hard way,
all right?
In fact, there's a few stories
about that in your book here.
I really don't know.
She had me leave her notes at
some bench in McGolrick Park.
I don't know who picked them up
because I I didn't want to know.
But you knew
she was gonna be there today.
I did.
♪
So how does a man of the cloth
stray so far from the good book?
♪
Um, a few months ago,
Laila came to the chapel,
and she was adrift,
lost, and I believed I could help her.
She shared her story.
We talked about everything,
and it was clear as day
Laila didn't deserve to be locked up.
She has a beautiful soul
and a good heart, and
You fell in love with her.
I felt things for Laila
I've never felt
for anyone else in the world.
♪
She wanted to spend
the rest of her life with me.
She had friends who could get her out,
assured me that no one would get hurt.
So I agreed to help.
Looks to me like she used you, Father.
No, no. What we have is real.
Then where is she?
♪
You're supposed to meet her today?
♪
Where?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
This guy, I don't know.
What he's willing
to sacrifice for love
Well, he met a girl and lost his faith.
He's a priest, OA.
People lose faith every day, Scola
in what they believe in,
in who they think they are.
The world has a special way of
knocking good people off their feet.
♪
Andrew's in position.
Everyone, just keep
your eyes open for Laila.
♪
Is this her now?
♪
No. It's not her.
It's a false alarm.
I don't think I can do this.
Andrew, you need to stay
calm and stick with the plan.
When you see Laila,
You're gonna get her talking,
and we're gonna come in.
She'll never forgive me.
[PHONE RINGING]
Who is it?
Unknown number.
Answer it.
If it's Laila,
keep her talking as long as possible.
[PHONE BEEPS]
- Hello?
- Andy.
Laila, where are you? I'm at the park.
Are you close?
Got it. Tracing now.
No, I'm sorry, Andy.
I don't understand.
Everything we talked about
you're not coming?
No.
What about our plans?
What about our life together?
I don't have time to explain.
I I just wanted you
to know that
So you used me. You never loved me.
Don't say that. I do love you.
I don't know if I can do this.
I need more time.
Andrew, we need you
to keep her on the phone.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Uh, wait, Laila.
Wait, just listen to me.
I need to see you again.
♪
Laila, are you there?
Are they listening in right now,
whoever's forcing you to do this?
♪
I'm sorry.
You're gonna hear some
bad things about me, Andrew,
but I need you to know that
you helped me find my path.
That's why I had to do
what I'm doing.
I have to make things right.
What does that mean?
It's OK.
[ALARM BLARING]
I forgive you, Andrew.
♪
I gotta go.
We lost her.
Our agents were only able
to narrow the call
to an approximate location.
550-yard radius around
a cell tower in Greenpoint.
OK, how do we narrow that down?
Hey, uh, that alarm blaring
on Laila's call,
I ran the audio through
an AI tool to ID it.
Got a match to the Sentinel
Onyx series alarm.
OK, is that commercial grade
or residential grade?
More like critical infrastructure grade.
The Sentinel Onyx is sold
to military facilities,
- casinos.
- Banks?
I'm getting an alert
that Trust National Bank
on McGuinness just activated
their internal alarm.
Which is smack in
the middle of Greenpoint.
Laila knows how to crack a safe.
She broke out of prison to rob a bank.
Get a team down there now.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ALARM BLARING]
♪
On me.
[ALARM BLARING]
♪
FBI!
We got enough! Go, go, go!
[GUNFIRE]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
- Go! Let's go!
- It's Laila.
- Let's go.
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Going around.
♪
FBI!
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[GRUNTS] [GLASS SHATTERING]
Civilian down! Civilian down.
We got her! Go get him!
♪
Suspect bailed on foot.
Need a perimeter.
South Third Street.
Hey. You see 'em?
♪
No. Nothing.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Excuse me. Where did they go?
- I don't know.
- I don't get it.
Do you want to call it in?
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Jubal.
[CROWD CHEERING]
"Take what is owed"?
We got eyes on the suspect.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
They're gone.
- They ditched their gear.
- Jubal, we lost them.
All right, we're gonna need NYPD
to help us search this building.
OK, fine.
So Laila, she breaks out of prison,
and then she robs a bank.
But then why give up all the cash?
Worked for Robin Hood.
♪
NYPD is still scouring the building
for Laila Sarbani and her crew.
So far, nothing. How's it going
with the cell phone footage?
Not great. I mean,
a lot of people filmed the money drop,
so we're gonna find
something eventually.
You said you saw three
on the balcony, right?
So maybe the fourth robber
took off his mask
and blended in with the crowd.
[EXHALES SHARPLY] It's possible.
How much cash was that?
It's about $465,000.
ERT said that they recovered
only a fifth of that.
Vigilante crew pulls a Robin Hood gig,
gives the money away.
I mean, half the city's gonna
be rooting for these people.
She's done this before.
I was reading Laila's file,
and prosecutors suspected
that all the money she embezzled was
wired overseas to Afghan refugees.
So everything she's stolen,
she's given away.
She's an ideologue.
Her banner is in English and Pashto.
They dump the money in a neighborhood
with the highest concentration
of Afghan refugees.
It's clear she wants
Afghans to get this money.
Laila said she wanted
to make things right.
- She's obviously after justice.
- Or atonement.
It'd be a whole lot easier
if we knew who Laila was working with.
Yeah, agreed.
Hang on. This guy.
He's looking up at the balcony,
but nothing has fallen yet.
You're right.
It's like he knows what's coming.
Hmm.
Let's get his face to the JOC.
Are you OK?
'Cause you seem sort of tight.
Oh, yeah, no. Sorry.
It's just, um, Nina's promotion.
- It's
- Right.
OK.
Come on. Come on.
I've never seen anyone so
stressed out about good news.
Job's in San Diego.
San Diego as in San Diego?
Yeah, that San Diego.
She got the offer four days ago.
It's everything she's ever wanted.
She'd have to move to California, so
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
Would you?
I don't I don't know.
She's worked so hard for this, you know?
- Yeah, her whole career.
- Her whole career.
But we have a life here.
We would have to uproot everything.
Just the sacrifice that's need
needed if Nina takes this gig
I just don't know if our family
would survive that.
♪
So what are you gonna do?
I told her not to take it, Eva.
♪
I said she shouldn't accept
the promotion.
♪
[SIGHS]
All right, so the guy knew
half a million dollars
is about to drop out of the sky.
- He's not a psychic, huh?
- No, buckle up.
His name is Idris Sherazi,
Afghan refugee.
Came over after Kabul fell in 2021.
He's married, has a daughter.
No criminal record.
What's his connection to Laila Sarbani?
Idris was an interpreter
for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
He was attached to Laila's unit.
- They worked together.
- There it is.
So I assume you're trying
to locate him, yeah?
Uh, we're running his face
against CCTV footage
- as we speak.
- All right, keep at it.
Folks, if you haven't heard,
the guy who knew
it was gonna rain green,
he is a part of Laila Sarbani's crew.
His name is Idris Sherazi,
an interpreter for the U.S.
in Afghanistan.
If anyone finds any intel on this guy
that can help us track him
down, please speak up.
All right, were we able
to trace his phone?
Didn't turn up any cell records for him,
so no number to trace.
- Hey, got him.
- Yep.
Exiting an E Train station in Queens,
uh, about a half hour ago.
He's got a black duffel.
OK. Well, he could've gone
anywhere from there.
- Can we pick up his trail?
- Yeah.
Tracing pole cams from the station.
Yeah, got him.
Entered Triborough Hospital
three minutes ago.
Well, he does not look
like he's injured.
So what, they rob the bank,
they drop the money,
and then he goes to the hospital?
During their getaway,
they hit a woman with their car.
She was injured pretty badly,
and EMT took her to that exact hospital.
Oh, OK. Get a team there now.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Excuse me.
There was a woman who was hit by a car.
- Where is she?
- Second door to the right.
♪
Idris Sherazi. FBI.
You're under arrest.
Put your hands up now.
♪
[DOOR BUZZING]
Can we get you anything, Idris?
- No, thank you.
- OK.
Well, we spoke to your wife, Zohal.
She was shocked, to say the least.
Said she warned you
not to go down this road.
You went to the hospital to leave money
for the woman you hit
in your getaway, right?
Your wife was right.
You have a good heart.
Zohal has nothing to do with this.
Well, it's gonna affect her,
as it is your daughter,
whether you like it or not.
Because of today's robbery,
immigration will be taking a closer look
at your family's refugee status.
You're an interpreter
for the U.S., right?
The Taliban's still in power back home.
What would happen if your
family were to be sent back?
What kind of man are you?
I don't make the rules,
and I didn't put you in that chair.
- I had no choice.
- Like hell, you didn't.
Look, you've got one play left.
So give us some names, now.
I have principles.
Is that why you broke Laila out of MDC?
Ah, you wouldn't understand.
I worked with an interpreter
like you in Helmand.
We can help you.
The U.S. government already
promised us visas status.
None of that came to pass.
So what, today's robbery was,
uh, for retribution?
No one is gonna hire an
Afghan refugee without papers.
And your country makes sure
I can't get them.
So how will I provide for my family?
My daughter's sick, and I
cannot afford her medicine.
There are thousands just like me.
Afghan refugees in despair,
fighting for dignity
after sacrificing everything
for this country.
And Laila wanted to help you.
It was all her idea.
She saw how much we sacrificed
and how we were left behind
by this country.
She would never make us whole,
but she had tools and skills.
Yeah. She was your safecracker.
We can help you. We can help
your daughter. We can help your wife.
But we need to know
where your friends are.
[CHUCKLES]
It's always just one more
sacrifice with you.
But this time I will not make it.
My friends have more work to do.
Where's the next bank, Idris?
All right, folks, Idris Sherazi gave us
more than a few reasons to
believe his team is not done yet,
which means he has
another target in mind.
There are 1,700 bank branches
in Manhattan alone.
Yeah, well, they'll want ones
with cash on hand.
Can we pull up cash amounts
for all local banks in the area?
Won't take long. They're empty.
What do you what do you mean?
Uh, look.
Um, these are all the local branches
in Brooklyn and Queens.
Consumer banks,
they get daily cash deliveries
from tier-1 financial institutions
known as correspondent banks.
Now, the main correspondent
bank in the area
First Central Savings Bank in Brooklyn.
But due to an elevated security threat
from this morning's heist,
First Central put a hold
on all future cash deliveries.
So you're saying they hit a small bank
to send a scare through the system
and corral all that cash to one target?
- More or less.
- All right.
So how much money is sitting
in the First Central vault right now?
Roughly $4 million.
That is quite a haul.
Get all the teams there right now.
NYPD, you guys too. Mount up.
Let's hope we're not too late.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
What was that? Why'd you stop?
Caltrops.
All units, be advised,
we have an obstruction on South Elliot
that needs to be cleared.
All right, well,
let's keep moving on foot.
♪
We got eyes on the bank.
♪
OK, I'm seeing movement inside.
Oh, my God.
That's not a robbery crew.
No.
It's a human barricade.
♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
All right, JOC's up on CCTV.
Should be coming through now.
OK, the sniper team's in position,
but they used their hostages
to block our line of sight.
OK, how many robbers by their count?
We've got three confirmed.
All right, so same crew.
I mean, one of them's gotta be Laila.
SWAT has prepared
an emergency assault plan
if it comes to that.
There's gotta be
25 hostages in there, easy.
♪
Gonna have to do this old-school.
♪
This is Special Agent
Stuart Scola with the FBI,
and we've got the building surrounded.
We would like to get this
resolved peacefully
without anybody getting hurt.
Bank manager on duty is
a Jenn Heidlemann.
We're gonna call her phone.
When it rings,
pick it up so we can talk.
♪
Come on, pick up.
Pick up.
She's not answering.
I don't like this.
Nothing.
[PHONE BUZZING]
Hold on.
"Send the guy who was just talking.
No guns."
Absolutely not.
It goes against every SOP.
It's the only way
they're gonna talk to us.
Scola, no, wait.
How old do you think that girl is?
15, maybe 16.
Yeah.
- I need you in my ear, OK?
- OK.
Cover me.
♪
FBI.
Coming in.
Turn around. Show me your waist.
No weapons.
Inside.
Now!
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Everybody OK in here?
If you don't pull your
officers away from this bank,
bad things will happen
to all these people.
So let's figure out how to
get everybody out of here
nice and safe, OK?
That includes you and your friends.
How's that sound, Laila?
♪
What are you doing?
He already knows who I am.
I also know why you're doing this.
There's no gun in your hand.
You don't want to hurt these people.
You just want to make things right.
You think you know us?
You think you know
what we've been through?
I'm just trying to help you.
Hey, hey, hey. Easy, easy.
[WHIMPERING]
You think you know
what we're capable of?
Take it easy.
I will blow a hole in her head
if you do not do exactly as I say.
No, no, no, no,
you don't want to do that.
Pull your agents back.
This is our money.
We are not leaving without it.
You have 10 minutes.
We can talk about that,
but you have got to give me
something in return.
All right?
Let me have five of the hostages.
[GUN CLICKS]
Laila, please make him understand.
Rus doesn't answer to me.
I don't want anyone getting hurt,
but that doesn't mean we're not serious.
If he shoots someone,
SWAT will breach that door,
and more people will get hurt.
These men bled for this country.
I saw it with my own eyes.
Now they are taking
what is owed to them.
You want to help?
Get out of our way.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
At least let me have the kid.
♪
Here we go. That's it.
You're doing awesome, OK?
I'm gonna pass you
right over to my friend.
Right this way.
All right, they're die-hards.
They are not gonna negotiate.
This is existential.
♪
We have pinned your crew
inside the bank.
They have taken hostages.
Now, I'm afraid Laila is
about to walk your friends
across a line they cannot return from.
The woman that you hit,
you put in the hospital
she succumbed to her injuries.
[SIGHS]
How many more people have to die
for Laila to prove her point?
It's not her.
- It's Rustam.
- Who is he?
A village schoolteacher.
But the war broke him, and now
I didn't want him to be a part of this.
- So he's dangerous?
- And angry.
The war forced him to become a killer.
He's willing to do anything to
anyone to get what he's owed.
He was driving the car,
hit that poor woman.
He didn't even flinch.
He will never surrender.
Nikki, thank you for coming in.
Yeah, well, don't thank me yet.
You are dealing with Rustam Sadiqi.
He and his younger brother, Tamim,
were in the same Afghan army
basic training class
as your man in custody.
And the two brothers were interpreters?
Only Tamim.
Rustam was he was one of ours.
- One of ours?
- Mm-hmm.
During the war, the agency
set up local forces in Afghanistan
to augment our
clandestine operations there.
- Zero Units.
- Elite Afghan commandos.
They were hunter-killer strike teams
that worked directly for the CIA.
So Rustam was a hunter-killer?
When Kabul fell in '21,
they were the only local force
that we could trust
to help pull us out.
We brought thousands of Zero Units
and their families back to the U.S.
Many fell through the cracks.
Promises weren't kept.
I don't blame your robbery crew
for being angry.
They were fed a raw deal.
I would be angry too.
Idris says they'll never
surrender without bloodshed.
Would you back down
if you were in their shoes?
We've got over two dozen hostages
that are still inside
of this bank, Jubal.
- We've got to do something.
- And we are.
Our best bet is is to wait 'em out.
You know, they're gonna get hungry,
they're gonna get thirsty,
and they'll realize
they have to negotiate.
OK, so cross our fingers
and hope that they change their mind
that's our best move here?
What are your thoughts, Eva?
Well, they feel what
they're doing is justified.
That's a hard place to negotiate from.
Look, they think this money
is owed to them, right?
For promises that we made.
So why don't we step aside
and let 'em take it?
Let them believe that
they can have the money?
[TENSE MUSIC]
Do it.
♪
- You're out of time.
- All right.
Wait. I got an offer.
Look.
You guys want the money.
We want the hostages, right?
So this is what we're willing to do.
We're gonna pack up, move out,
and let you drive out of here
with that cash.
I am so tired of
hollow American promises.
I'm serious.
You leave those hostages,
you can have the money.
♪
Yeah. This is good.
Scola, we're in position.
I don't believe you.
Of course you don't, right?
Why would you?
With everything that's happened?
♪
If you leave those hostages
in here, unharmed,
you are free to go.
♪
Thank you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Risky move, leaving hostages behind.
It's gonna work, all right?
It's got to.
Yeah, but if it doesn't,
Scola, I don't want you to carry that.
♪
OK. Looks like they're wrapping up.
- What is she doing?
- What?
Oh, damn!
She just took the bank manager
as insurance.
Get a team on that van now!
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
♪
Van's tagged.
What the hell just happened?
Scola, they took a hostage.
They threw her in the back
and fled with the money.
Who did? Rustam?
Laila.
She didn't believe you,
and now they're running.
♪
I want that getaway car found now.
- How are we doing?
- Uh, tracker's live.
Signal's strong.
They can run, but we'll find 'em.
All right, they've got millions in
cash and an innocent woman.
She does not die on our watch.
Where are they headed?
Just blew a red light on Franklin.
Yeah, OK. Scola, listen up.
[ENGINE REVVING]
Getaway car's fleeing
north on Franklin.
Just crossed Kent.
OK, we're in pursuit,
but we need a way to box them in.
Yeah, NYPD's gonna help you box them in.
Oak Street is shut down
for construction.
On it.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Eva, brought the cavalry from 26 Fed.
- Where are we at?
- Medical is finishing up.
Then we interview the hostages.
♪
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Turn off the engine,
and get out of the vehicle.
Do it now!
Laila, turn it off.
Throw the keys out the window.
♪
[KEYS JINGLING]
Now step out of the car slowly.
♪
Turn around. Put your hands in the air.
Please.
Idris, Rustam, Tamim, they are
they are such good, decent men.
They served this country.
They gave everything, and for what?
For what? Nothing.
A sacrifice worth nothing.
That doesn't make what you did OK.
Now turn around and put
your hands on your head.
♪
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Help us! Help us!
- Get behind me.
Get behind me.
Don't move.
♪
Scola, these are the hostages!
What?
Hands behind your back.
Where the hell are Rustam and Tamim?
You gotta be kidding me.
Hey, throw the bank footage
back up there.
Maggie, listen up.
Rustam and Tamim are
still in the bank,
likely posing as hostages.
You need to find them.
We're looking now.
♪
Eva. Rustam, FBI!
Stop!
Show us your hands.
Turn around.
Where's your brother?
We have Rustam.
Tamim's in the wind.
So what'd you do with the money?
It is now where it belongs.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
So JOC searched all the footage
from the scene at the bank.
Finally found Tamim.
Wow.
That's how they got the money out, huh?
Yep.
The cameras, they lost track of him
a few moments after, and JOC thinks that
he had a getaway vehicle
a couple blocks down.
He will slip up,
and we'll grab him, one way or another.
You know, I feel bad for them.
[SIGHS]
But this crew, they
they made a hell of a mess today.
Yeah.
They were promised something
that they didn't get, right?
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
So they lost sight
of what it means to serve.
And to serve is to sacrifice.
And that is our reward.
Are you trying to convince
me or yourself?
♪
I don't know, Eva.
Maybe I lost sight of it too.
You can't stand in Nina's way
just because it's it's gonna be hard.
♪
Good night, Scola.
Thank you.
For what?
For all of it.
Anytime.
♪
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
♪
[LINE RINGING]
You've reached Nina Chase.
Please leave me a message.
[LINE BEEPS]
Hey. Uh, it's me.
Uh, I've been thinking more
about San Diego.
Um, I think you should take the job.
It's worth it.
And we'll we'll figure it out, OK?
I love you.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]