FBI (2018) s09e06 Episode Script
Ultimatum
1
[HUMMING]
Get it while it's hot, mi amor.
Eggs are runny, just like you like 'em.
Grab me a beer.
Uh, I think we're out.
You think? Why don't you go check?
It's not even 9:00, Dennis.
So you got an opinion
about everything now, huh?
Whatever.
[PLATE CRASHES]
What did you just say to me?
[TENSE MUSIC]
You promised you wouldn't
throw crap anymore.
Well, you make me act like this, Vicky,
- because of your disrespect!
- Ow! Get off of me!
Do not tell me what to do.
- [SCREAMS]
- Get over here!
- [GRUNTS]
- [YELLS]
- [FABRIC TEARING]
- Help me!
[YELLS]
- [SCREAMS]
- Oh!
[GROANS] Bitch.
[YELLS]
[LOCK CLICKS, BANGING ON DOOR]
Open this damn door, Vicky!
Open this door or I swear to God,
I'll break it down!
Leave me the hell alone, Dennis!
[GRUNTS]
♪
[SHAKY BREATHING]
[LINE RINGING]
- Mami?
- Evie?
What is it? Mami, estás bien?
I'm OK. I need to leave Dennis.
For good.
Why? Did he hurt you?
[SOBS QUIETLY]
Is Dennis there?
Because I swear that I will
call the cops right now.
Don't!
He he left.
I'm safe.
I'm just just ready.
OK. OK.
I'm gonna I'm gonna take the ferry.
OK? Mami, this is the right decision.
I'll be there soon.
Gracias, mi vida.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
[GRUNTS]
You are gonna regret that!
[SCREAMS]
[KNOCKING]
Mami?
[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Ma
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[OBJECT RATTLES]
♪
[GASPS]
Mami, are you OK?
I'm fine, mija.
I was just taking out the trash.
I didn't hear you knock.
What's this?
Oh. Where is he?
- Where's Dennis?
- Oh, no, he's he's at work.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah.
OK, that's good.
That means that we're going to
be gone before he comes back.
- Where's your bag?
- Eva.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- I I overreacted.
- Don't do this again.
- He apologized.
- He feels so bad.
- Mami.
Mami, he hit you.
We're gonna we're gonna
call the cops right now,
and we're filing an assault charge.
Don't! I'm not filing out nothing, OK?
He didn't hit me. I fell.
Four years of this?
Mami, you've changed your mind
a dozen times.
I'm sorry you came out
all the way down here.
I didn't mean to waste
your precious time!
I can't do this anymore.
I won't.
So I'm gonna ask you one last time.
Are you gonna come with me or not?
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[PHONE BUZZES]
- Hey.
- Is she OK?
No, but my hands are tied.
I can't she won't let me help her.
That's tough, Eva. I'm sorry.
Um, well, look,
I think you should probably
- still take the day, yeah?
- No, I need to feel useful.
I'm coming in.
But there are delays on the ferry.
It's construction or something,
so it might be a minute.
Um, OK. All right, well, listen.
Don't stress, OK?
This one isn't exactly
looking like a red ball.
We'll see you when we see you.
OK.
Three of ya?
This feels like calling in
the whole army
'cause someone ripped
the tag off a mattress.
We're just a manufacturing storehouse.
Vectrix RF services
government contracts,
so the theft is under our jurisdiction.
What exactly was stolen?
One box of radio frequency microchips.
RF chips, we call them.
Around 3:00 a.m.,
my guys loaded up this van
to deliver to clients across the region.
Apparently, the driver
went to take a leak
before hitting the road
and found the van like this.
Pried open.
Not exactly a sophisticated operation.
Probably a one-man job.
Any cameras out here?
There's a couple aimed
at the loading dock,
but nothing that catches the lot.
Driver called it in.
I triple checked the stock.
Just the one box of RF chips is gone.
I checked them myself.
They left the rest of it behind.
So what exactly do people
do with these things?
What do they want these for?
Our clients install them in
special access control products.
You know, badges, key fobs,
mainly for high-security facilities.
They valuable on the black market?
- Not really.
- All right.
Let's say our thief does use
one of these things.
He must have a target building in mind.
Wait, you misunderstand.
The chips are just empty hardware.
They won't open anything until someone
with technical know-how programs them.
So, theoretically, if our thief was able
to program one of these chips?
I mean, sure, yeah.
It'd be a problem.
Be able to swipe in just about anywhere.
Even 26 Fed?
We've got to recover those chips.
The good news is it's not
easy to program these things.
So either our thief is an expert hacker,
or he's outsourcing
his technical dirty work.
- [PHONE BUZZING]
- We're hoping for the latter.
And it looks like Ian's got something.
Ian, talk to me.
Yeah, something that you need to see.
I'm on DeCrypt Keepers,
a dark net forum.
At 3:38 a.m. a post went up
looking for a hacker for hire.
- Timing is spot on.
- All right.
NYC urgent, need to program
special access control RF chip.
There it is. Can we ID who posted it?
Account is brand-new, nothing to trace.
But someone did respond to
the post, account by the name
Abcencia824 DM'd privately.
Luckily, his account isn't new.
Meaning old enough to exploit.
And exploit it, I did.
Meet our hacker, Emil Volarescu,
Romanian-born app developer.
Cybercrime says
he's on their watch list.
Person of interest in
six ransomware attacks.
Sounds like leverage to me.
And enough to pick him up.
Get an arrest warrant.
- Bring him in.
- Yep.
Handcuffs are overkill for DMing
someone on a message board, no?
We know you squeaked through
these jams before,
but our agents just searched your house.
That's funny?
They found your computer
underneath your floorboards.
What are the odds that we find
something that sticks?
Yeah, you want a chance at a deal,
you're going to tell us who paid
you to program these RF chips.
A guy.
Didn't get his name.
And he only wanted one chip configured.
And what did he want you to do?
Hack the secure server
of this random company,
program the chip,
and install it in a keycard.
Thought it would be easy, but
they had a stubborn firewall
for a garbage dump.
Garbage dump?
What did you hack now?
Radex Medical Disposal
in nowhere Queens.
What did he want with Radex?
Didn't come up.
I fixed him a keycard that will
open any door in that place.
He paid cash.
Gave me the rest of the chips
in the box as a bonus.
Oh, good. We'll be seizing those too.
So what'd this guy look like?
Like a guy who could barely pay.
Kind of buttoned up.
But his fit, you know,
you could tell it was cheap.
Yeah, well, BOLO on bad taste
isn't going to really help us much.
He was just a tall, white dude,
- thick New York accent.
- Great.
That narrows it down to half the city.
Sit tight, Emil.
- Hey, what's going on?
- Hey.
Just got off with Radex Medical
Disposal, and we were too late.
They were already breached?
Yeah, they didn't even know it.
Guy probably waltzed right in
using his newly hacked keycard.
Why the red alert?
[SIGHS]
Turns out we got a red ball after all.
Some kind of radioactive material
was stolen from a medical
waste facility in Queens.
They got enough of this stuff
to turn Manhattan
into a toxic wasteland.
OK, Scola, I'm still on the ferry,
but I'll be back in Manhattan
in, uh, about 15?
Oh, my God, guys! [WOMAN SHOUTS]
What was that?
I got a situation here. I gotta go.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Hey, miss?
Are you OK?
Why don't you just step down?
Just get get back!
Get back right now,
or I swear to God, I'll jump!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Look, I'm FBI,
but we need to keep this quiet
because I don't want
to spook this woman.
So you notify the captain
and enact emergency protocol.
Got it? Can you take this?
Thank you. OK, you it was Mary?
Look, I'm gonna need some backup today.
Can you handle that?
We've lost two people this year
jumping from that exact spot.
I'm here with you, whatever you need.
- [SHIP HORN BLARES]
- OK.
- Excuse me, miss?
- Stop! I'll jump.
- I'll do it.
- OK, I believe you.
I'm not gonna come any closer.
I'm going to stay right here, OK?
I'm Eva. What's your name?
Mary, I need you to tell your
colleagues to clear this area
and just give us some space.
I'll call out if I need you. OK?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
That's a little better.
A little privacy, am I right?
Please, what's your name?
Jess.
Hi, Jess.
Want to tell me why you're up there?
What are you, a cop?
No, I just want to talk.
You live in Staten Island?
You still live at home?
Roommate, partner?
I'm not dumb. I know what you're doing.
You you want to figure out
if there's anyone in my life
who'd care if I jump.
- I care, Jess.
- You shouldn't.
[VOICE BREAKING]
I don't deserve to be alive.
There's some things that
you just can't take back.
Whoa! Whoa, whoa. Steady!
- [HYPERVENTILATING]
- Steady.
Everything is fine.
The captain enacted emergency protocol,
so the boat's not going to be
moving until you come down.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
OK.
Jess, I need to step away
for one second.
But my friend, Mary, she's gonna
she's gonna stay with you.
Can you promise me
that you're gonna wait
for me until I come back?
- OK.
- OK.
Mary?
I need you to stay right here.
I'm gonna be right back.
♪
[SHUTTER CLICKS]
Did you get it?
Can't do a deep dive right now,
but I can run a quick facial
rec for you on that photo.
OK, thanks.
I know it's crazy down there,
but I'm stuck on this ferry
until this woman comes down.
It'll be OK, Jess.
I want to help her,
but I need to know her story.
Yeah, I got you.
Jessica Wells, 27,
grocery store clerk in St. George.
No living family.
No social media presence.
Any priors or court records?
Because this woman has indicated that
she's done something worth
killing herself over.
Nothing criminal, except looks like
her neighbor called in a couple
domestic incident reports,
said he heard Jessica
fighting with a man.
Sounded violent.
Jessica denied it. No charges filed.
Sounds familiar.
All right, folks, listen up!
- Sorry, Eva, I gotta go.
- Thanks.
All right, I will tell you
what I told DHS and DOE.
The waste stolen from
Radex Medical Disposal
was 465 grams of cesium-137.
Apparently, this is
a highly radioactive crystal
used in hospital blood irradiators.
All right, so how bad
are we talking here?
I mean, 465 grams, that's
like, less than a pound, right?
In 1987, one fifth that amount
was accidentally released by a
scrap metal worker in Goiânia, Brazil.
It was contained quickly,
but 249 people still got sick.
Four died,
including a six-year-old girl.
Would have been way worse in
a more densely populated city.
If it was an attack on New York,
casualties would be off the charts.
Where are we with running them down?
Yeah, Radex should have just sent us
their security footage and
their employee roster, yeah?
All right, so we know the perp used
the hacked access card to walk right in.
Yes, we are on it.
We are scrubbing footage for
anyone not on company payroll.
- Yes, sir.
- DHS hasn't heard any chatter
about an imminent threat stateside.
OK, where are we at with the
city's radiological detection network?
NYPD is reporting no hits
on any of their
- mobile or fixed monitors.
- How'd that happen?
I mean, cesium has got to be
throwing off radiation, right?
Yes, but if the thief is trying to avoid
radiation poisoning himself,
he could be transporting it
in something shielded with lead.
A briefcase, maybe.
Look, this guy with the briefcase,
he swipes in at 5:42 a.m.,
just before first shift,
accesses the hazmat section
of the facility wearing Radex PPE,
and then slipped out 14 minutes later,
presumably with the cesium.
And he is not an employee of Radex?
Definitely not.
He's a Staten Island
high school English teacher.
Meet Bruce Medina, 42, unmarried.
No record whatsoever.
What the hell would
a high school teacher
want with a pound
of radioactive material?
That is exactly what
we're going to ask him.
Let's ping his phone.
Let's track any associated vehicles.
Let's run him down, people.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Would you maybe want to tell
me why you feel guilty, Jess?
Because talking it out helps.
Let me guess. You're a therapist?
No, I'm not a therapist.
That bruise looks like it hurts.
Did someone do that to you?
No, I just fell.
You know, I don't think I believe you.
Was it a boyfriend?
- You're judging me.
- I'm not judging you.
I know a lot of strong, amazing women
who found themselves with men like that.
Not you, right?
My mom.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
I've seen her with
really controlling guys,
guys who hit her,
insulted her, gaslit her.
And I told her it wasn't love,
but she could never see it.
And then I never thought
that I'd fall for that trap,
but then my last boyfriend
I mean, he never hit me, so it's
it's not the same thing, but
he hurt me, betrayed me.
Betrayed you? What did he do?
Well, he was my partner in everything,
and I trusted him with my life.
And he lied to me.
He lied to me.
And I didn't see it
because I loved him too much.
I don't want to talk anymore, Eva.
That's OK.
We don't have to talk anymore.
But, Jess, I'm gonna stay
right here, OK?
♪
JOC says Bruce Medina's
phone's pinging right here.
He's at City Hall
with a pound of cesium.
[LIGHT APPLAUSE]
City council is having
a press conference.
We got to find this guy quick.
- Let's fan out.
- Yeah.
[CHATTER AND APPLAUSE]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[GRUNTS]
- OA, it's him!
- I got it!
♪
Hazmat, we have a package on the stairs.
Get in here now.
Everybody stay calm!
You need to move out.
Everybody clear out! Let's go! Back up!
♪
[GRUNTING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Lost eyes on the suspect.
Last seen heading north on Lafayette.
Requesting all units.
[GEIGER COUNTER CRACKLING SOFTLY]
Hey. OA's setting up a perimeter.
A witness saw Medina jump into
a van a couple blocks away.
I mean, couldn't see the driver's face.
No plates, but the JOC's working on it.
[CLICKING CONTINUES]
So he's not working alone.
Well, bigger the crew,
bigger the threat.
All clear.
No radioactivity,
no explosive materials.
This is all you, guys.
OK.
"For the deciders"
"Revoke R913.
"Or we will give Manhattan
a dose of its own medicine.
Your deadline is 1:00 p.m."
What the hell is R913?
R913 is a city project that was approved
at today's city council meeting.
It's a plan to build a data center
in Freshkills Park on Staten Island.
Man, these data centers
are a hot topic right now.
I mean, tech companies
are racing to build
the infrastructure to support
this AI boom, right?
I mean, there's some
environmental contamination
that goes with these data centers.
I wouldn't want one in my backyard.
You know, everybody's a NIMBY now.
Bruce Medina definitely is one.
Here he is at a recent
city council meeting.
50 years, we lived in the shadows
of the Freshkills Landfill,
the largest garbage dump
on the planet.
But we took it back!
We cleaned it up
and we made it a place
where we could take our kids.
And now you want
to trash it again
with some noisy,
air-pollutant eyesore?
- We say hell no!
- [CROWD CHEERS]
Manhattan never agreed
to build one of these
freaking things in
the middle of Central Park.
Hell no!
Stop R913!
- Order!
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
Wait, freeze it.
Can you zoom in on this woman?
- Who is she?
- Her name is Jessica Wells.
Jessica Wells?
Should that name mean something to me?
Yeah, Eva called in from
the Staten Island Ferry.
It's stopped in the harbor
right now because a passenger,
Jessica Wells, is threatening to jump
because of guilt over
something she did her words.
So Eva is on the ferry
right now with this woman?
And this woman is tight with the guy
who just stole radioactive material?
If Jessica Wells feels guilty
over having plotted this out,
she might know where
Medina plans to attack.
Jess, I think I understand
why you're up there,
why you feel so guilty.
You don't know anything about me.
I know you helped plan
a radiological attack.
I'm not a cop, and I'm not a therapist.
I'm a Special Agent with the FBI.
No, no. No, no, no, no, no!
No, no, no! Jess, stop.
Stop, Jess! Jess, don't jump.
Jess, look at me.
Just look at me.
[WHIMPERS]
Whatever you helped plan,
it hasn't happened yet,
which means that we can
still stop this together.
No, we can't stop it!
So many people are gonna die.
[SOBS]
- Listen, Jess
- [SOBS]
I believe that you're
involved with the man
who's threatening a
radiological attack on Manhattan.
Is he the one that gave you that bruise?
He loves me.
He's the only one who who does.
Jess, I don't believe
that you want people to die.
I love him. I love him, Eva.
I have to do what he tells me to do.
He's my whole world.
Because he made sure of that, right?
It's called coercive control,
and I've seen how hard it is
to break free of that.
So I am begging you, Jess.
Please.
Let me help you.
Uh
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[WHIMPERS]
♪
Please.
♪
Yeah.
Tell me, what is Bruce's plan?
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
You don't understand anything, Eva.
You can't help me.
♪
City council just released
an official statement.
"R913 will not be revoked.
We do not negotiate with terrorists."
Bruce Medina is not gonna like that.
We've got less than a half an hour until
he launches a radiological
attack on the city.
Well, how do we stop him
if we can't find him?
OK, look, the phrasing
in his demand letter.
"Revoke R913.
Or we will give Manhattan
a dose of its own medicine"?
I mean, that's retribution.
It's Old Testament stuff.
It's an eye for an eye.
Mm. Hold on a second.
Hm.
Maybe he narrowed it down
for us already.
Listen to this.
Manhattan never agreed to build
one of these freaking things
in the middle of Central Park.
- Hell no!
- [CROWD CHEERS]
- Eye for an eye.
- See?
♪
Listen up.
We are hunting Bruce Medina.
We believe he has
at least one accomplice
with him, could be more.
Medina is carrying radioactive material
and his dispersal method
could be anything.
So stay sharp,
make sure you keep your eyes on
your personal radiation detectors.
All right, guys.
We want to approach
any suspects from upwind
wherever possible.
- Eastern group with me.
- [GEIGER COUNTER CRACKLING]
Every time one of these things spikes,
I get a knot in my stomach.
♪
That's sprayers.
FBI!
Everybody stay right where you are.
Set the sprayers on the ground.
Let's go. Hands where I can see them.
Nice and easy.
What the hell is this about?
Masks off. Let's go.
Let me see your faces.
♪
[GEIGER COUNTER CRACKLING SOFTLY]
All right, you guys seen
anybody come through here?
Suspicious, maybe wearing a mask?
- No, man, we're just working.
- All right. Day's over.
You got to pack it up
and get out of here.
East Meadow is clear.
♪
Baseball fields are negative.
Yeah, same with the playground.
Hang on. Maggie.
Ahead of you, there's
some maintenance workers,
but those aren't
park department uniforms.
They're pumping something
into the water.
Moving in.
FBI!
Get back and show me your hands!
Now!
- OA!
- I'm on him.
In pursuit. Two suspects heading North.
Probable ID on Medina.
Get on the ground, now!
You're under arrest.
[LATCH CLICKS, MACHINE STOPS WHIRRING]
[WATER BUBBLING]
The cesium's been stopped,
but the pond's been contaminated.
Hazmat, seal off the pond now.
We're on our way.
Keep your distance from that water.
♪
[GRUNTS]
♪
Hold him.
Suspect's heading
towards the West tunnel.
♪
Stop right there. Don't move!
Don't shoot! I'm unarmed.
We got Bruce Medina in custody.
It's over.
- Doesn't matter.
- [HANDCUFFS CLICK]
You're too late.
[DOOR BUZZES]
Contaminating Central Park
Pond with cesium-137?
That's a weapon of mass destruction.
Bruce, your life is over.
Was it worth it?
You want someone to blame?
Blame the crooks in City Hall.
They put us here.
Buddy, there's better ways
to make a statement
than contaminating a public waterway.
Trust me, we tried.
Letters, petitions,
public protests, lawsuits.
Right, that didn't work,
so you decided people needed to die.
What? No.
I didn't want anyone to die.
This was a non-violent protest.
Save it. You just attempted
a mass casualty event.
No, it was a contained
environmental attack.
That's it.
Cesium has a half life of 30 years.
Prolonged exposure
leads to death, Bruce.
I did my research too.
The water in the pond acts
as a radioactive shield.
As long as no one touches it,
no one gets hurt.
But Manhattan would have to
condemn their prized landmark.
That's the point.
I want the other boroughs
to feel Staten Island's pain.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Well, you cannot prove intent,
but Bruce here wasn't
going to kill anybody,
even if he wanted to.
Hazmat analysis just came back.
There was zero radioactive
waste in that pond.
And nothing in the lead tank
that they were pumping from.
So there was no cesium anywhere?
Why use a tank with lead lining
if there's nothing radioactive inside?
Weird, right?
I mean, Eva said that Jess,
the woman on the boat,
told her that people are going to die.
Well, Bruce Medina just admitted
to trying to poison that pond.
He believed there was
cesium in that tank.
What the hell is going on?
♪
What do you mean there was
no cesium in the tank?
That's not possible.
Your accomplices were just as
surprised to hear it was missing.
We know you're working
with somebody else.
Does she know where it is?
Who?
Your girlfriend,
who is threatening to jump off the
Staten Island Ferry right now
because she feels so guilty
for her part of the plan.
What girlfriend?
Don't play stupid with me, Bruce.
Jess Wells.
Wait.
Jess was never involved in this.
And she's not my girl.
No, you're looking for Lewis Mitchell.
Who's Lewis Mitchell?
I met him and Jess
they're a couple
at the first town hall
about the data center.
Lewis and I agreed that
it was the last straw,
but Lewis kept saying that
we needed to think bigger.
He said that we needed to, um,
sever the link.
What does that even mean?
I don't know, but three beers in,
he was quoting Tim McVeigh
like it was Shakespeare.
No red flag there.
We needed Lewis, OK?
He's a mechanical savant.
I figured out how to get the cesium,
and he was supposed to rig up
the tank to poison the pond.
Well, he didn't.
He used you and your guys,
and now he has it for himself.
God, I can't believe
he dragged poor Jess into this.
So you have no idea how she's involved?
No, but Lewis had some hold over her.
He treated her like crap.
She'd do anything he asked.
All right, folks, listen up!
We now believe the cesium
is in the possession
of this man, Lewis Mitchell.
The jumper on the ferry
is his girlfriend
and suspected accomplice.
We need to find this man,
and we need to do it now.
So let's work together. Ian, go.
- Yes, sir.
- All right.
Tell me about this this Mr. Mitchell.
Staten Island-born mechanic,
out of work close to a year.
His record shows three assault
charges filed by his ex-wife,
one conviction.
Social media feed
is dripping with vitriol
- over the city's corruption.
- Let me guess.
Staten Island is the victim in his eyes?
Yep. "We are 5% of the population.
Why are we paying for the other 95%?"
He refers to Manhattan as the oppressor,
repeatedly calls
to sever the link, and, oof.
He supports a fringe movement
for Staten Island
to secede from New York City.
All right, so this guy has cast himself
as the Count of Monte Cristo
of Staten Island.
And he wants to punish
the people of Manhattan.
Well, his crusade may be delusional,
but the radiological weapon
is definitely real.
- Ian, how we doing?
- Phone is off.
Car is not pinging on any plate readers.
BOLO is out
No, we can't wait for the BOLO.
There's one person
who knows what Lewis Mitchell
is planning.
♪
Hey, Eva. It's Jubal.
Listen up, kid, you're in the hot seat.
Jessica Wells is the key
to this whole thing.
You need to get through to her.
You need to get her to talk.
It could be the only way
to stop a radiological attack
on Manhattan.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I see that I got it wrong earlier.
Lewis Mitchell.
That's your boyfriend, right?
He's the one that forced you
to help plan this attack.
I I'll jump, Eva. I'll kill myself.
If you jump, innocent people will die.
Is that what you want?
I already know about the cesium-137.
DOT workers are sweeping
this ferry now as we speak.
Oh, it's not here.
What?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
It's with Lewis.
Then where is he?
What's his plan?
Jess.
Jess.
[SNIFFLES]
♪
Jess.
Mm.
[SIGHS]
I can see that you're exhausted.
Why don't you just step down?
No, no, I can't. Not yet.
♪
Yet?
Jess, did Lewis tell you
to get up there?
He'll kill me, Eva.
Back off!
♪
So you're telling us you
don't think Jess is suicidal.
I don't know for sure,
but she's clearly still
under Lewis's control.
She's terrified of him.
What if he put her on that ledge?
For what purpose?
Yeah, the only thing
her being up there does
is enact DOT protocol for jumpers.
So that ferry won't move
until she's safely down.
I'm not sure how that helps Lewis.
Wait, there was construction
on one of the ferry slips
in Staten Island today,
and service has been operating
at half capacity.
Jess has been stalling
this ferry for hours.
Right, so so that means
Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan
is backed up with people
waiting to board.
So you're thinking this
is a bottleneck operation.
Yes.
Jess delays the boat,
Whitehall fills up,
so Lewis's attack has
maximum casualties.
Lewis just wants to make his point.
He said he wanted to
sever the link, right?
Whitehall Terminal is the link
between Staten Island and Manhattan.
- Then get a team to Whitehall now.
- Yeah.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Jeez, there's got to be
at least 1,000 people in here.
- Do we evacuate?
- No.
Lewis might spook
and disperse the cesium.
We need to find him quietly.
- So split up.
- Yeah.
♪
No sign of him.
Copy that.
♪
OA, Northeast corner.
Gray shirt and a baseball cap.
♪
Whitehall.
Whitehall is the target, isn't it?
My people are swarming
the terminal right now.
We will find Lewis.
They'll arrest him?
Yeah.
I don't think that you got up there
because you wanted to die.
I think you got up there for him.
But it's over now, Jess.
[GENTLE MUSIC]
It's over.
♪
Please come down.
♪
[EXHALES]
Lewis Mitchell! FBI! Stop!
[GUNFIRE]
We're engaging with an active
shooter on the loading dock.
We need backup now.
- Cover me.
- What? OA!
♪
You have to wait for backup.
[GUNFIRE]
No, we need to find the cesium.
Let's push him back,
get him into the corner.
Trust me.
♪
[GUNFIRE]
[GRUNTS]
♪
[GROANS]
Lewis Mitchell, you are under arrest.
[YELLS] Get off me!
- [LAUGHS]
- That's not Lewis.
- Get off
- Who is this guy?
It's good as done.
Lewis has the trigger.
And once he arms it, you got
about five minutes to run like hell.
We're looking for a bomb.
Screw Manhattan!
We now know Lewis Mitchell's cousin,
Benny Mitchell, planted a dirty bomb
somewhere in Whitehall Terminal.
Depending on the explosion and the wind,
over half of the city
could be irradiated.
We're not gonna let that happen.
Benny claims Lewis is out there
with a remote trigger.
We need to find the bomb,
and we need to find Lewis now.
Elise?
FBI hazmat team is combing
Whitehall with the field team
to locate the explosive.
OK, so is NYPD's radiological
detection network up?
Yes, and I'm coordinating
with their aviation,
marine, and ground assets.
Everyone they've got is
converging on that terminal.
We might not have time.
Look, I need every officer, every agent
in the city searching for Lewis,
FBI, NYPD, Port Authority,
school safety agents.
If they've got a badge,
they've got a mission.
If Lewis is in control of this
firing device, he must be nearby.
So what happens to me now?
Well, coercive control,
it's not a legal defense
in New York yet,
so you're probably
you're probably gonna face charges.
But I have a few friends in the AUSA,
and I'm gonna put in
a good word for you.
I'm not going anywhere, Jess.
[VOICE BREAKING] Thank you.
Look, I know that this is hard,
but Lewis, he can't hurt you anymore.
[METAL SHINGS]
[GRUNTS]
Lewis!
[GRUNTS]
What are you doing? Stop!
[YELPS]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
Damn it, Jess.
You can't do anything right, can you?
[SOBS]
Now all we have to do is wait.
The link will be severed.
Aviation radiological
detectors narrowed down
the dirty bomb's location to the
Northwest quadrant of the terminal.
Ian thinks it may be
the maintenance room.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Jubal, we have eyes on the bomb.
That's enough charge right
there to level this building.
Building might be
the least of our worries.
We've got less than four
minutes to clear this terminal.
If we don't disarm this, New York
as we know it will cease to exist.
I can't believe you got down, Jess.
You betrayed me.
Please, Lewis, I'm so sorry.
I didn't know that you were here.
That shouldn't have mattered!
I just wanted a front row seat
to watch the fireworks.
Thank God I was here to
stop you from ruining this.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[GRUNTING]
Oh! [GROANS]
Jess!
♪
Help!
♪
[GRUNTING]
Baby!
Baby, pick it up! Pick it up!
Don't listen to him!
Jess, we can still do this!
[GRUNTING] Throw it overboard!
They won't be able to stop it!
♪
[LAUGHS]
Jess! Just do it!
Mary, I need help! Mary!
The bomb has a mercury tilt switch.
We can't defuse it.
The only way to stop it
is to find that detonator.
We've got to evacuate
everybody out of this building now.
[GRUNTING]
♪
Jess, just press the blue button
and you can disarm the bomb,
and you can put a stop to all of this.
But I I love him.
Throw it, baby. Baby, please!
Throw it!
- Just throw it overboard.
- Jess.
- Throw it!
- Shut up!
Just throw it! For me!
Mary, get him out of here.
Jess, look at me.
Just throw it!
Jess. Jess, look at me.
Throw it!
No, Jess. Jess.
You know what love is,
and you know that this isn't it.
[SOBS]
Please.
Give it to me.
[SOBBING]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.
It's OK.
It's OK.
You're OK.
Hey, so the dirty bomb
has been neutralized,
and Lewis and Jess are in custody.
A major understatement,
but you did great today.
It was really touch and go for a while.
I could feel it all
slipping through my fingers.
And I just
yeah, I knew that I had to break
the spell that this guy
had over Jess, but
I mean, whatever you said, she heard it.
Yeah, but why?
I tried to find the right words before.
♪
So why did it work this time?
Maybe it wasn't the words.
Maybe she just felt that you
you were there for her,
and she trusted
that you cared about her.
Maybe that trust was enough.
♪
Yeah.
♪
I don't want to fight with you.
That's not why I'm here.
I just wanted to say
I'm sorry about this morning.
You said you were done.
Well, forget what I said.
I'm scared, Mami.
I love you,
and I'm terrified of losing you.
And I don't want to push you away.
I just please don't ever
stop calling me, OK?
OK, mamita.
♪
Thank you, mi vida.
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]
[HUMMING]
Get it while it's hot, mi amor.
Eggs are runny, just like you like 'em.
Grab me a beer.
Uh, I think we're out.
You think? Why don't you go check?
It's not even 9:00, Dennis.
So you got an opinion
about everything now, huh?
Whatever.
[PLATE CRASHES]
What did you just say to me?
[TENSE MUSIC]
You promised you wouldn't
throw crap anymore.
Well, you make me act like this, Vicky,
- because of your disrespect!
- Ow! Get off of me!
Do not tell me what to do.
- [SCREAMS]
- Get over here!
- [GRUNTS]
- [YELLS]
- [FABRIC TEARING]
- Help me!
[YELLS]
- [SCREAMS]
- Oh!
[GROANS] Bitch.
[YELLS]
[LOCK CLICKS, BANGING ON DOOR]
Open this damn door, Vicky!
Open this door or I swear to God,
I'll break it down!
Leave me the hell alone, Dennis!
[GRUNTS]
♪
[SHAKY BREATHING]
[LINE RINGING]
- Mami?
- Evie?
What is it? Mami, estás bien?
I'm OK. I need to leave Dennis.
For good.
Why? Did he hurt you?
[SOBS QUIETLY]
Is Dennis there?
Because I swear that I will
call the cops right now.
Don't!
He he left.
I'm safe.
I'm just just ready.
OK. OK.
I'm gonna I'm gonna take the ferry.
OK? Mami, this is the right decision.
I'll be there soon.
Gracias, mi vida.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
[GRUNTS]
You are gonna regret that!
[SCREAMS]
[KNOCKING]
Mami?
[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Ma
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[OBJECT RATTLES]
♪
[GASPS]
Mami, are you OK?
I'm fine, mija.
I was just taking out the trash.
I didn't hear you knock.
What's this?
Oh. Where is he?
- Where's Dennis?
- Oh, no, he's he's at work.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah.
OK, that's good.
That means that we're going to
be gone before he comes back.
- Where's your bag?
- Eva.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- I I overreacted.
- Don't do this again.
- He apologized.
- He feels so bad.
- Mami.
Mami, he hit you.
We're gonna we're gonna
call the cops right now,
and we're filing an assault charge.
Don't! I'm not filing out nothing, OK?
He didn't hit me. I fell.
Four years of this?
Mami, you've changed your mind
a dozen times.
I'm sorry you came out
all the way down here.
I didn't mean to waste
your precious time!
I can't do this anymore.
I won't.
So I'm gonna ask you one last time.
Are you gonna come with me or not?
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[PHONE BUZZES]
- Hey.
- Is she OK?
No, but my hands are tied.
I can't she won't let me help her.
That's tough, Eva. I'm sorry.
Um, well, look,
I think you should probably
- still take the day, yeah?
- No, I need to feel useful.
I'm coming in.
But there are delays on the ferry.
It's construction or something,
so it might be a minute.
Um, OK. All right, well, listen.
Don't stress, OK?
This one isn't exactly
looking like a red ball.
We'll see you when we see you.
OK.
Three of ya?
This feels like calling in
the whole army
'cause someone ripped
the tag off a mattress.
We're just a manufacturing storehouse.
Vectrix RF services
government contracts,
so the theft is under our jurisdiction.
What exactly was stolen?
One box of radio frequency microchips.
RF chips, we call them.
Around 3:00 a.m.,
my guys loaded up this van
to deliver to clients across the region.
Apparently, the driver
went to take a leak
before hitting the road
and found the van like this.
Pried open.
Not exactly a sophisticated operation.
Probably a one-man job.
Any cameras out here?
There's a couple aimed
at the loading dock,
but nothing that catches the lot.
Driver called it in.
I triple checked the stock.
Just the one box of RF chips is gone.
I checked them myself.
They left the rest of it behind.
So what exactly do people
do with these things?
What do they want these for?
Our clients install them in
special access control products.
You know, badges, key fobs,
mainly for high-security facilities.
They valuable on the black market?
- Not really.
- All right.
Let's say our thief does use
one of these things.
He must have a target building in mind.
Wait, you misunderstand.
The chips are just empty hardware.
They won't open anything until someone
with technical know-how programs them.
So, theoretically, if our thief was able
to program one of these chips?
I mean, sure, yeah.
It'd be a problem.
Be able to swipe in just about anywhere.
Even 26 Fed?
We've got to recover those chips.
The good news is it's not
easy to program these things.
So either our thief is an expert hacker,
or he's outsourcing
his technical dirty work.
- [PHONE BUZZING]
- We're hoping for the latter.
And it looks like Ian's got something.
Ian, talk to me.
Yeah, something that you need to see.
I'm on DeCrypt Keepers,
a dark net forum.
At 3:38 a.m. a post went up
looking for a hacker for hire.
- Timing is spot on.
- All right.
NYC urgent, need to program
special access control RF chip.
There it is. Can we ID who posted it?
Account is brand-new, nothing to trace.
But someone did respond to
the post, account by the name
Abcencia824 DM'd privately.
Luckily, his account isn't new.
Meaning old enough to exploit.
And exploit it, I did.
Meet our hacker, Emil Volarescu,
Romanian-born app developer.
Cybercrime says
he's on their watch list.
Person of interest in
six ransomware attacks.
Sounds like leverage to me.
And enough to pick him up.
Get an arrest warrant.
- Bring him in.
- Yep.
Handcuffs are overkill for DMing
someone on a message board, no?
We know you squeaked through
these jams before,
but our agents just searched your house.
That's funny?
They found your computer
underneath your floorboards.
What are the odds that we find
something that sticks?
Yeah, you want a chance at a deal,
you're going to tell us who paid
you to program these RF chips.
A guy.
Didn't get his name.
And he only wanted one chip configured.
And what did he want you to do?
Hack the secure server
of this random company,
program the chip,
and install it in a keycard.
Thought it would be easy, but
they had a stubborn firewall
for a garbage dump.
Garbage dump?
What did you hack now?
Radex Medical Disposal
in nowhere Queens.
What did he want with Radex?
Didn't come up.
I fixed him a keycard that will
open any door in that place.
He paid cash.
Gave me the rest of the chips
in the box as a bonus.
Oh, good. We'll be seizing those too.
So what'd this guy look like?
Like a guy who could barely pay.
Kind of buttoned up.
But his fit, you know,
you could tell it was cheap.
Yeah, well, BOLO on bad taste
isn't going to really help us much.
He was just a tall, white dude,
- thick New York accent.
- Great.
That narrows it down to half the city.
Sit tight, Emil.
- Hey, what's going on?
- Hey.
Just got off with Radex Medical
Disposal, and we were too late.
They were already breached?
Yeah, they didn't even know it.
Guy probably waltzed right in
using his newly hacked keycard.
Why the red alert?
[SIGHS]
Turns out we got a red ball after all.
Some kind of radioactive material
was stolen from a medical
waste facility in Queens.
They got enough of this stuff
to turn Manhattan
into a toxic wasteland.
OK, Scola, I'm still on the ferry,
but I'll be back in Manhattan
in, uh, about 15?
Oh, my God, guys! [WOMAN SHOUTS]
What was that?
I got a situation here. I gotta go.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Hey, miss?
Are you OK?
Why don't you just step down?
Just get get back!
Get back right now,
or I swear to God, I'll jump!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Look, I'm FBI,
but we need to keep this quiet
because I don't want
to spook this woman.
So you notify the captain
and enact emergency protocol.
Got it? Can you take this?
Thank you. OK, you it was Mary?
Look, I'm gonna need some backup today.
Can you handle that?
We've lost two people this year
jumping from that exact spot.
I'm here with you, whatever you need.
- [SHIP HORN BLARES]
- OK.
- Excuse me, miss?
- Stop! I'll jump.
- I'll do it.
- OK, I believe you.
I'm not gonna come any closer.
I'm going to stay right here, OK?
I'm Eva. What's your name?
Mary, I need you to tell your
colleagues to clear this area
and just give us some space.
I'll call out if I need you. OK?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
That's a little better.
A little privacy, am I right?
Please, what's your name?
Jess.
Hi, Jess.
Want to tell me why you're up there?
What are you, a cop?
No, I just want to talk.
You live in Staten Island?
You still live at home?
Roommate, partner?
I'm not dumb. I know what you're doing.
You you want to figure out
if there's anyone in my life
who'd care if I jump.
- I care, Jess.
- You shouldn't.
[VOICE BREAKING]
I don't deserve to be alive.
There's some things that
you just can't take back.
Whoa! Whoa, whoa. Steady!
- [HYPERVENTILATING]
- Steady.
Everything is fine.
The captain enacted emergency protocol,
so the boat's not going to be
moving until you come down.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
OK.
Jess, I need to step away
for one second.
But my friend, Mary, she's gonna
she's gonna stay with you.
Can you promise me
that you're gonna wait
for me until I come back?
- OK.
- OK.
Mary?
I need you to stay right here.
I'm gonna be right back.
♪
[SHUTTER CLICKS]
Did you get it?
Can't do a deep dive right now,
but I can run a quick facial
rec for you on that photo.
OK, thanks.
I know it's crazy down there,
but I'm stuck on this ferry
until this woman comes down.
It'll be OK, Jess.
I want to help her,
but I need to know her story.
Yeah, I got you.
Jessica Wells, 27,
grocery store clerk in St. George.
No living family.
No social media presence.
Any priors or court records?
Because this woman has indicated that
she's done something worth
killing herself over.
Nothing criminal, except looks like
her neighbor called in a couple
domestic incident reports,
said he heard Jessica
fighting with a man.
Sounded violent.
Jessica denied it. No charges filed.
Sounds familiar.
All right, folks, listen up!
- Sorry, Eva, I gotta go.
- Thanks.
All right, I will tell you
what I told DHS and DOE.
The waste stolen from
Radex Medical Disposal
was 465 grams of cesium-137.
Apparently, this is
a highly radioactive crystal
used in hospital blood irradiators.
All right, so how bad
are we talking here?
I mean, 465 grams, that's
like, less than a pound, right?
In 1987, one fifth that amount
was accidentally released by a
scrap metal worker in Goiânia, Brazil.
It was contained quickly,
but 249 people still got sick.
Four died,
including a six-year-old girl.
Would have been way worse in
a more densely populated city.
If it was an attack on New York,
casualties would be off the charts.
Where are we with running them down?
Yeah, Radex should have just sent us
their security footage and
their employee roster, yeah?
All right, so we know the perp used
the hacked access card to walk right in.
Yes, we are on it.
We are scrubbing footage for
anyone not on company payroll.
- Yes, sir.
- DHS hasn't heard any chatter
about an imminent threat stateside.
OK, where are we at with the
city's radiological detection network?
NYPD is reporting no hits
on any of their
- mobile or fixed monitors.
- How'd that happen?
I mean, cesium has got to be
throwing off radiation, right?
Yes, but if the thief is trying to avoid
radiation poisoning himself,
he could be transporting it
in something shielded with lead.
A briefcase, maybe.
Look, this guy with the briefcase,
he swipes in at 5:42 a.m.,
just before first shift,
accesses the hazmat section
of the facility wearing Radex PPE,
and then slipped out 14 minutes later,
presumably with the cesium.
And he is not an employee of Radex?
Definitely not.
He's a Staten Island
high school English teacher.
Meet Bruce Medina, 42, unmarried.
No record whatsoever.
What the hell would
a high school teacher
want with a pound
of radioactive material?
That is exactly what
we're going to ask him.
Let's ping his phone.
Let's track any associated vehicles.
Let's run him down, people.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Would you maybe want to tell
me why you feel guilty, Jess?
Because talking it out helps.
Let me guess. You're a therapist?
No, I'm not a therapist.
That bruise looks like it hurts.
Did someone do that to you?
No, I just fell.
You know, I don't think I believe you.
Was it a boyfriend?
- You're judging me.
- I'm not judging you.
I know a lot of strong, amazing women
who found themselves with men like that.
Not you, right?
My mom.
[SOLEMN MUSIC]
I've seen her with
really controlling guys,
guys who hit her,
insulted her, gaslit her.
And I told her it wasn't love,
but she could never see it.
And then I never thought
that I'd fall for that trap,
but then my last boyfriend
I mean, he never hit me, so it's
it's not the same thing, but
he hurt me, betrayed me.
Betrayed you? What did he do?
Well, he was my partner in everything,
and I trusted him with my life.
And he lied to me.
He lied to me.
And I didn't see it
because I loved him too much.
I don't want to talk anymore, Eva.
That's OK.
We don't have to talk anymore.
But, Jess, I'm gonna stay
right here, OK?
♪
JOC says Bruce Medina's
phone's pinging right here.
He's at City Hall
with a pound of cesium.
[LIGHT APPLAUSE]
City council is having
a press conference.
We got to find this guy quick.
- Let's fan out.
- Yeah.
[CHATTER AND APPLAUSE]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[GRUNTS]
- OA, it's him!
- I got it!
♪
Hazmat, we have a package on the stairs.
Get in here now.
Everybody stay calm!
You need to move out.
Everybody clear out! Let's go! Back up!
♪
[GRUNTING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Lost eyes on the suspect.
Last seen heading north on Lafayette.
Requesting all units.
[GEIGER COUNTER CRACKLING SOFTLY]
Hey. OA's setting up a perimeter.
A witness saw Medina jump into
a van a couple blocks away.
I mean, couldn't see the driver's face.
No plates, but the JOC's working on it.
[CLICKING CONTINUES]
So he's not working alone.
Well, bigger the crew,
bigger the threat.
All clear.
No radioactivity,
no explosive materials.
This is all you, guys.
OK.
"For the deciders"
"Revoke R913.
"Or we will give Manhattan
a dose of its own medicine.
Your deadline is 1:00 p.m."
What the hell is R913?
R913 is a city project that was approved
at today's city council meeting.
It's a plan to build a data center
in Freshkills Park on Staten Island.
Man, these data centers
are a hot topic right now.
I mean, tech companies
are racing to build
the infrastructure to support
this AI boom, right?
I mean, there's some
environmental contamination
that goes with these data centers.
I wouldn't want one in my backyard.
You know, everybody's a NIMBY now.
Bruce Medina definitely is one.
Here he is at a recent
city council meeting.
50 years, we lived in the shadows
of the Freshkills Landfill,
the largest garbage dump
on the planet.
But we took it back!
We cleaned it up
and we made it a place
where we could take our kids.
And now you want
to trash it again
with some noisy,
air-pollutant eyesore?
- We say hell no!
- [CROWD CHEERS]
Manhattan never agreed
to build one of these
freaking things in
the middle of Central Park.
Hell no!
Stop R913!
- Order!
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
Wait, freeze it.
Can you zoom in on this woman?
- Who is she?
- Her name is Jessica Wells.
Jessica Wells?
Should that name mean something to me?
Yeah, Eva called in from
the Staten Island Ferry.
It's stopped in the harbor
right now because a passenger,
Jessica Wells, is threatening to jump
because of guilt over
something she did her words.
So Eva is on the ferry
right now with this woman?
And this woman is tight with the guy
who just stole radioactive material?
If Jessica Wells feels guilty
over having plotted this out,
she might know where
Medina plans to attack.
Jess, I think I understand
why you're up there,
why you feel so guilty.
You don't know anything about me.
I know you helped plan
a radiological attack.
I'm not a cop, and I'm not a therapist.
I'm a Special Agent with the FBI.
No, no. No, no, no, no, no!
No, no, no! Jess, stop.
Stop, Jess! Jess, don't jump.
Jess, look at me.
Just look at me.
[WHIMPERS]
Whatever you helped plan,
it hasn't happened yet,
which means that we can
still stop this together.
No, we can't stop it!
So many people are gonna die.
[SOBS]
- Listen, Jess
- [SOBS]
I believe that you're
involved with the man
who's threatening a
radiological attack on Manhattan.
Is he the one that gave you that bruise?
He loves me.
He's the only one who who does.
Jess, I don't believe
that you want people to die.
I love him. I love him, Eva.
I have to do what he tells me to do.
He's my whole world.
Because he made sure of that, right?
It's called coercive control,
and I've seen how hard it is
to break free of that.
So I am begging you, Jess.
Please.
Let me help you.
Uh
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[WHIMPERS]
♪
Please.
♪
Yeah.
Tell me, what is Bruce's plan?
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
You don't understand anything, Eva.
You can't help me.
♪
City council just released
an official statement.
"R913 will not be revoked.
We do not negotiate with terrorists."
Bruce Medina is not gonna like that.
We've got less than a half an hour until
he launches a radiological
attack on the city.
Well, how do we stop him
if we can't find him?
OK, look, the phrasing
in his demand letter.
"Revoke R913.
Or we will give Manhattan
a dose of its own medicine"?
I mean, that's retribution.
It's Old Testament stuff.
It's an eye for an eye.
Mm. Hold on a second.
Hm.
Maybe he narrowed it down
for us already.
Listen to this.
Manhattan never agreed to build
one of these freaking things
in the middle of Central Park.
- Hell no!
- [CROWD CHEERS]
- Eye for an eye.
- See?
♪
Listen up.
We are hunting Bruce Medina.
We believe he has
at least one accomplice
with him, could be more.
Medina is carrying radioactive material
and his dispersal method
could be anything.
So stay sharp,
make sure you keep your eyes on
your personal radiation detectors.
All right, guys.
We want to approach
any suspects from upwind
wherever possible.
- Eastern group with me.
- [GEIGER COUNTER CRACKLING]
Every time one of these things spikes,
I get a knot in my stomach.
♪
That's sprayers.
FBI!
Everybody stay right where you are.
Set the sprayers on the ground.
Let's go. Hands where I can see them.
Nice and easy.
What the hell is this about?
Masks off. Let's go.
Let me see your faces.
♪
[GEIGER COUNTER CRACKLING SOFTLY]
All right, you guys seen
anybody come through here?
Suspicious, maybe wearing a mask?
- No, man, we're just working.
- All right. Day's over.
You got to pack it up
and get out of here.
East Meadow is clear.
♪
Baseball fields are negative.
Yeah, same with the playground.
Hang on. Maggie.
Ahead of you, there's
some maintenance workers,
but those aren't
park department uniforms.
They're pumping something
into the water.
Moving in.
FBI!
Get back and show me your hands!
Now!
- OA!
- I'm on him.
In pursuit. Two suspects heading North.
Probable ID on Medina.
Get on the ground, now!
You're under arrest.
[LATCH CLICKS, MACHINE STOPS WHIRRING]
[WATER BUBBLING]
The cesium's been stopped,
but the pond's been contaminated.
Hazmat, seal off the pond now.
We're on our way.
Keep your distance from that water.
♪
[GRUNTS]
♪
Hold him.
Suspect's heading
towards the West tunnel.
♪
Stop right there. Don't move!
Don't shoot! I'm unarmed.
We got Bruce Medina in custody.
It's over.
- Doesn't matter.
- [HANDCUFFS CLICK]
You're too late.
[DOOR BUZZES]
Contaminating Central Park
Pond with cesium-137?
That's a weapon of mass destruction.
Bruce, your life is over.
Was it worth it?
You want someone to blame?
Blame the crooks in City Hall.
They put us here.
Buddy, there's better ways
to make a statement
than contaminating a public waterway.
Trust me, we tried.
Letters, petitions,
public protests, lawsuits.
Right, that didn't work,
so you decided people needed to die.
What? No.
I didn't want anyone to die.
This was a non-violent protest.
Save it. You just attempted
a mass casualty event.
No, it was a contained
environmental attack.
That's it.
Cesium has a half life of 30 years.
Prolonged exposure
leads to death, Bruce.
I did my research too.
The water in the pond acts
as a radioactive shield.
As long as no one touches it,
no one gets hurt.
But Manhattan would have to
condemn their prized landmark.
That's the point.
I want the other boroughs
to feel Staten Island's pain.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Well, you cannot prove intent,
but Bruce here wasn't
going to kill anybody,
even if he wanted to.
Hazmat analysis just came back.
There was zero radioactive
waste in that pond.
And nothing in the lead tank
that they were pumping from.
So there was no cesium anywhere?
Why use a tank with lead lining
if there's nothing radioactive inside?
Weird, right?
I mean, Eva said that Jess,
the woman on the boat,
told her that people are going to die.
Well, Bruce Medina just admitted
to trying to poison that pond.
He believed there was
cesium in that tank.
What the hell is going on?
♪
What do you mean there was
no cesium in the tank?
That's not possible.
Your accomplices were just as
surprised to hear it was missing.
We know you're working
with somebody else.
Does she know where it is?
Who?
Your girlfriend,
who is threatening to jump off the
Staten Island Ferry right now
because she feels so guilty
for her part of the plan.
What girlfriend?
Don't play stupid with me, Bruce.
Jess Wells.
Wait.
Jess was never involved in this.
And she's not my girl.
No, you're looking for Lewis Mitchell.
Who's Lewis Mitchell?
I met him and Jess
they're a couple
at the first town hall
about the data center.
Lewis and I agreed that
it was the last straw,
but Lewis kept saying that
we needed to think bigger.
He said that we needed to, um,
sever the link.
What does that even mean?
I don't know, but three beers in,
he was quoting Tim McVeigh
like it was Shakespeare.
No red flag there.
We needed Lewis, OK?
He's a mechanical savant.
I figured out how to get the cesium,
and he was supposed to rig up
the tank to poison the pond.
Well, he didn't.
He used you and your guys,
and now he has it for himself.
God, I can't believe
he dragged poor Jess into this.
So you have no idea how she's involved?
No, but Lewis had some hold over her.
He treated her like crap.
She'd do anything he asked.
All right, folks, listen up!
We now believe the cesium
is in the possession
of this man, Lewis Mitchell.
The jumper on the ferry
is his girlfriend
and suspected accomplice.
We need to find this man,
and we need to do it now.
So let's work together. Ian, go.
- Yes, sir.
- All right.
Tell me about this this Mr. Mitchell.
Staten Island-born mechanic,
out of work close to a year.
His record shows three assault
charges filed by his ex-wife,
one conviction.
Social media feed
is dripping with vitriol
- over the city's corruption.
- Let me guess.
Staten Island is the victim in his eyes?
Yep. "We are 5% of the population.
Why are we paying for the other 95%?"
He refers to Manhattan as the oppressor,
repeatedly calls
to sever the link, and, oof.
He supports a fringe movement
for Staten Island
to secede from New York City.
All right, so this guy has cast himself
as the Count of Monte Cristo
of Staten Island.
And he wants to punish
the people of Manhattan.
Well, his crusade may be delusional,
but the radiological weapon
is definitely real.
- Ian, how we doing?
- Phone is off.
Car is not pinging on any plate readers.
BOLO is out
No, we can't wait for the BOLO.
There's one person
who knows what Lewis Mitchell
is planning.
♪
Hey, Eva. It's Jubal.
Listen up, kid, you're in the hot seat.
Jessica Wells is the key
to this whole thing.
You need to get through to her.
You need to get her to talk.
It could be the only way
to stop a radiological attack
on Manhattan.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I see that I got it wrong earlier.
Lewis Mitchell.
That's your boyfriend, right?
He's the one that forced you
to help plan this attack.
I I'll jump, Eva. I'll kill myself.
If you jump, innocent people will die.
Is that what you want?
I already know about the cesium-137.
DOT workers are sweeping
this ferry now as we speak.
Oh, it's not here.
What?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
It's with Lewis.
Then where is he?
What's his plan?
Jess.
Jess.
[SNIFFLES]
♪
Jess.
Mm.
[SIGHS]
I can see that you're exhausted.
Why don't you just step down?
No, no, I can't. Not yet.
♪
Yet?
Jess, did Lewis tell you
to get up there?
He'll kill me, Eva.
Back off!
♪
So you're telling us you
don't think Jess is suicidal.
I don't know for sure,
but she's clearly still
under Lewis's control.
She's terrified of him.
What if he put her on that ledge?
For what purpose?
Yeah, the only thing
her being up there does
is enact DOT protocol for jumpers.
So that ferry won't move
until she's safely down.
I'm not sure how that helps Lewis.
Wait, there was construction
on one of the ferry slips
in Staten Island today,
and service has been operating
at half capacity.
Jess has been stalling
this ferry for hours.
Right, so so that means
Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan
is backed up with people
waiting to board.
So you're thinking this
is a bottleneck operation.
Yes.
Jess delays the boat,
Whitehall fills up,
so Lewis's attack has
maximum casualties.
Lewis just wants to make his point.
He said he wanted to
sever the link, right?
Whitehall Terminal is the link
between Staten Island and Manhattan.
- Then get a team to Whitehall now.
- Yeah.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Jeez, there's got to be
at least 1,000 people in here.
- Do we evacuate?
- No.
Lewis might spook
and disperse the cesium.
We need to find him quietly.
- So split up.
- Yeah.
♪
No sign of him.
Copy that.
♪
OA, Northeast corner.
Gray shirt and a baseball cap.
♪
Whitehall.
Whitehall is the target, isn't it?
My people are swarming
the terminal right now.
We will find Lewis.
They'll arrest him?
Yeah.
I don't think that you got up there
because you wanted to die.
I think you got up there for him.
But it's over now, Jess.
[GENTLE MUSIC]
It's over.
♪
Please come down.
♪
[EXHALES]
Lewis Mitchell! FBI! Stop!
[GUNFIRE]
We're engaging with an active
shooter on the loading dock.
We need backup now.
- Cover me.
- What? OA!
♪
You have to wait for backup.
[GUNFIRE]
No, we need to find the cesium.
Let's push him back,
get him into the corner.
Trust me.
♪
[GUNFIRE]
[GRUNTS]
♪
[GROANS]
Lewis Mitchell, you are under arrest.
[YELLS] Get off me!
- [LAUGHS]
- That's not Lewis.
- Get off
- Who is this guy?
It's good as done.
Lewis has the trigger.
And once he arms it, you got
about five minutes to run like hell.
We're looking for a bomb.
Screw Manhattan!
We now know Lewis Mitchell's cousin,
Benny Mitchell, planted a dirty bomb
somewhere in Whitehall Terminal.
Depending on the explosion and the wind,
over half of the city
could be irradiated.
We're not gonna let that happen.
Benny claims Lewis is out there
with a remote trigger.
We need to find the bomb,
and we need to find Lewis now.
Elise?
FBI hazmat team is combing
Whitehall with the field team
to locate the explosive.
OK, so is NYPD's radiological
detection network up?
Yes, and I'm coordinating
with their aviation,
marine, and ground assets.
Everyone they've got is
converging on that terminal.
We might not have time.
Look, I need every officer, every agent
in the city searching for Lewis,
FBI, NYPD, Port Authority,
school safety agents.
If they've got a badge,
they've got a mission.
If Lewis is in control of this
firing device, he must be nearby.
So what happens to me now?
Well, coercive control,
it's not a legal defense
in New York yet,
so you're probably
you're probably gonna face charges.
But I have a few friends in the AUSA,
and I'm gonna put in
a good word for you.
I'm not going anywhere, Jess.
[VOICE BREAKING] Thank you.
Look, I know that this is hard,
but Lewis, he can't hurt you anymore.
[METAL SHINGS]
[GRUNTS]
Lewis!
[GRUNTS]
What are you doing? Stop!
[YELPS]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
Damn it, Jess.
You can't do anything right, can you?
[SOBS]
Now all we have to do is wait.
The link will be severed.
Aviation radiological
detectors narrowed down
the dirty bomb's location to the
Northwest quadrant of the terminal.
Ian thinks it may be
the maintenance room.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Jubal, we have eyes on the bomb.
That's enough charge right
there to level this building.
Building might be
the least of our worries.
We've got less than four
minutes to clear this terminal.
If we don't disarm this, New York
as we know it will cease to exist.
I can't believe you got down, Jess.
You betrayed me.
Please, Lewis, I'm so sorry.
I didn't know that you were here.
That shouldn't have mattered!
I just wanted a front row seat
to watch the fireworks.
Thank God I was here to
stop you from ruining this.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[GRUNTING]
Oh! [GROANS]
Jess!
♪
Help!
♪
[GRUNTING]
Baby!
Baby, pick it up! Pick it up!
Don't listen to him!
Jess, we can still do this!
[GRUNTING] Throw it overboard!
They won't be able to stop it!
♪
[LAUGHS]
Jess! Just do it!
Mary, I need help! Mary!
The bomb has a mercury tilt switch.
We can't defuse it.
The only way to stop it
is to find that detonator.
We've got to evacuate
everybody out of this building now.
[GRUNTING]
♪
Jess, just press the blue button
and you can disarm the bomb,
and you can put a stop to all of this.
But I I love him.
Throw it, baby. Baby, please!
Throw it!
- Just throw it overboard.
- Jess.
- Throw it!
- Shut up!
Just throw it! For me!
Mary, get him out of here.
Jess, look at me.
Just throw it!
Jess. Jess, look at me.
Throw it!
No, Jess. Jess.
You know what love is,
and you know that this isn't it.
[SOBS]
Please.
Give it to me.
[SOBBING]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.
It's OK.
It's OK.
You're OK.
Hey, so the dirty bomb
has been neutralized,
and Lewis and Jess are in custody.
A major understatement,
but you did great today.
It was really touch and go for a while.
I could feel it all
slipping through my fingers.
And I just
yeah, I knew that I had to break
the spell that this guy
had over Jess, but
I mean, whatever you said, she heard it.
Yeah, but why?
I tried to find the right words before.
♪
So why did it work this time?
Maybe it wasn't the words.
Maybe she just felt that you
you were there for her,
and she trusted
that you cared about her.
Maybe that trust was enough.
♪
Yeah.
♪
I don't want to fight with you.
That's not why I'm here.
I just wanted to say
I'm sorry about this morning.
You said you were done.
Well, forget what I said.
I'm scared, Mami.
I love you,
and I'm terrified of losing you.
And I don't want to push you away.
I just please don't ever
stop calling me, OK?
OK, mamita.
♪
Thank you, mi vida.
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]