Blindspot (2015) s03e16 Episode Script
Artful Dodge
1 [SCREAMS.]
Why were you tailing us? [GASPING.]
[ZAPPING, GROANING.]
Stop! Another 50,000 volts and you'll fry his frontal cortex, then he's useless to us.
- Give him a 30second recovery.
- [PANTING.]
Have you ever heard of the pain scale? Doctors use it, you know: "How much does it hurt from 1 to 10?" It's a nice, neat concept.
Take it from someone who knows what a "10" feels like.
Death is preferable.
Go again.
[SCREAMING, ELECTRICITY ARCING.]
I hate it.
- I can't with this anymore.
- What is the matter with you? It's too sweet.
You've said that about all of them! I didn't say that about the banana cake which you guys threw in the trash.
[PATTERSON.]
Where it clearly belonged.
Hey, what's with the breakfast cake? Meg gave me some decisions to make for the wedding.
All right, do you want a hand? 'Cause I'm kind of an expert at this stuff now.
Oh, look at this, this is nice.
Kind of reminds me of the time my prison family baked a cake for Vinny's wedding to his stalker.
Patterson, got something for you.
How's the carrot? [ROMAN.]
What are you telling me, exactly? There has to be something else we can do.
Nothing is irreversible.
[DOOR OPENS.]
Look, I'll have to call you back.
Everything all right? Yeah, yeah, I was just talking to my doctor.
I've been getting these headaches, but, uh nothing to worry about.
I hope not.
I've got a new task for you.
We're flying out tomorrow.
Blake's charity gala She'll be thrilled.
She'll be thrilled because of the reason I'm attending.
Bruyere he's finally playing ball.
He's ready to make the land deal.
- Tomorrow? - Mmhmm.
That's great news.
I can't overstate what a critical step this is.
[PHONE BEEPING.]
Ms.
Baker.
Give me a moment and I will find them.
Be right back.
Right, you remember this one, the dragonfly tattoo? We solved it a few weeks ago? Led to a thread on a message board, but it was empty.
Until an hour ago.
Two users started a conversation, Dragonfly164 and Atlantic17.
Cool names, guys.
After Atlantic replied, the messages disappeared so I'm thinking maybe they did a little scruba-dub-dub? Which means there could be older messages as well.
Let's see if we can dig 'em up.
That's why I brought you in here.
Hey, sorry, uh, to interrupt but I need to talk to you, Patterson.
Oh, sure, yeah, totally.
I wouldn't wanna manterrupt two women Wait, no, manterrupting is when Sorry, now I'm mansplaining manterrupting.
I'll google it.
Okay, this just came in.
It's gotta be Roman.
Another clue to a tattoo? I don't know, I can't open it.
Whoa, the encryption is a lot heavier this time.
Why is he upping his encryption? The only reason to encrypt a text this way would be to ensure that it couldn't be read if it fell into the wrong hands.
Why would he think my phone could fall into the wrong hands? Maybe it's his phone he's worried about.
Hello Hey, I was just coming to find you.
Did they finally approve my request for a therapy llama? Your position at the FBI is under review.
Hirst orchestrated your deal and now that the Bureau knows she's dirty, they're rethinkin' it.
That doesn't sound good.
Yeah.
An agent from the Office of Professional Responsibility is in the conference room waiting on you right now.
Wh Right now?! I'm in pajamas.
They spring it on you like a drug test - so you can't prepare for it.
- [SCOFFS.]
Yeah.
Except the bag of clean urine that I definitely don't have taped to my leg at all times wouldn't really help in this situation.
Hang on a second.
This is not a big deal, is it? Unfortunately, it is a big deal, Rich.
OPR holds a lot of power in this building.
Last time a member of our team was under review, Jane got arrested.
- Ohh - If you fail this review, they'll rip up your contract and send you back to prison.
- [ELEVATOR DINGS.]
- But, hey, you love prison.
Well, I, I mean, I don't love prison.
It really, I mean, it depends on the place.
You know, I mean, Rikers has half-ply toilet paper.
Good luck, Rich.
Half a ply.
[JANE.]
Did you find more messages on the forum? [PATTERSON.]
Uh, "more" is an understatement.
[ZAPATA.]
What forum? I cracked the dragonfly tattoo.
[ZAPATA.]
You see this yet? This gonna be a problem? Not if they don't find out.
Well, when it comes out and it will, be prepared to be very unpopular with your friends.
The messages were originally deleted after they were being read.
But if you take a very deep dive into the metadata, you find these.
Messages between two users, Dragonfly164 and Atlantic17.
So what do they say? Uh, it looks like Dragonfly is involved in a terrorist organization.
He refers to some kind of attack they're planning.
What about Atlantic? Most of it is Dragonfly reporting information to him.
A few months ago, they went silent Until this morning.
[JANE.]
Dragonfly is in New York now.
It says they're meeting under the bridge at Astoria park today.
[WELLER.]
And if they're here, it could be for an attack.
Any idea who these people are? [VOICES FADE.]
- this is a maybe - You can stop looking.
Why? I know who Dragonfly164 is.
It's Borden.
He's alive.
How could you possibly know that? Because Atlantic17 is me.
[READE.]
Borden's alive.
- Why didn't you tell us? - I couldn't.
He is a CIA asset, and that is why I have been communicating with him.
I was his handler.
Start from the beginning.
That, uh, night at the barn He fully expected the explosion to kill him, but it didn't.
[ZAPATA.]
Between the burns and the gunshot wound, he was in bad shape.
He performed field medicine on himself and fled the country.
The CIA didn't know he was alive until a year later.
[ZAPATA.]
How did you find him here? [KEATON.]
The ID he had on him was a known alias.
The hospital alerted the Mumbai station chief.
How long until he's strong enough to be transported back to the FBI? We're not bringing him back.
Nor are we informing the Bureau that he's alive.
We're gonna cut him a deal.
- You can't be serious.
- Mmhmm.
He's gotten dozens of FBI agents killed, he He plotted a nuclear attack on D.
C.
And Sandstorm is now extinct, which means Borden is no longer of any intelligence value to the FBI.
It would be a waste to hand him over to them when we could use him to take down someone even worse.
[TAPS FILE.]
Goran Gorovich.
He killed 100,000 of his own people through ethnic cleansing.
One of the worst genocides in modern history.
And we have intel that he's planning to attack the U.
S.
soon.
What do you want? We want you to go undercover with one of his cells and figure out where Gorovich is hiding.
Now, if you can locate him, we're prepared to offer you complete immunity for your crimes.
No, thank you.
Look, the alternative is gonna be a life in solitary.
You get a tough jury, lethal injection.
I peeled burnt flesh off nearly a third of my body.
It took 46 hours because I kept passing out from the pain.
The last year of my life has been an unfathomable hell.
I know you wish that I had died in that explosion.
I wish I had, too.
She was too good for you.
Your wife, Chris.
She's the one that got you to join Doctors Without Borders, right? She'd been working with them since medical school.
You know, one of her earlier trips was pretty traumatic.
- A ghost town.
- You know, by the time they got there, there was no one left to be saved.
Entire village massacred, including a school full of children.
That was Gorovich.
Listen, you say all the horrible things you did were for your wife.
If she could see what you've become, she would be ashamed.
This is the last thing you can do that she would actually be proud of.
How would I get in? Borden went undercover shortly after that.
He hasn't gotten eyes on Gorovich, but he has given a lot of good intel to the CIA.
[JANE.]
The Dragonfly message from this morning said he's here in New York.
Why is he here? I don't know.
He was given a new handler when I came to work on this task force.
Keaton's trying to figure out what's going on.
If Borden is on U.
S.
soil, then we need to arrest him.
You can't do that.
If he is still undercover, you will blow a year-long op.
I have to meet with him alone.
There's nothing left to talk about then.
Patterson! I am so sorry! You have no idea how hard it was for me to keep that from you.
How hard it was for you?! I can still feel his hands on me when I try to fall asleep at night.
Because before he beat me, shot me, and put a tracking device in me, he used to sleep in my bed.
- I know - All this time, you knew he was still out there and you said nothing.
I was trying to protect you.
I thought it would be better if you never knew he was alive.
It tormented me that he died on his own terms! All I wanted was to put him in prison, to take back a fraction of the control that he took away from me! You got a second chance and you should have given me that.
But instead, you chose to work with him.
I had to.
It is my job.
You're my best friend.
Whatever it would've cost you to say no, you should have cared about me more.
We'll be by tomorrow to start prepping you on your targets.
How, how's, how's Patterson? Ahh! Don't ever say her name again.
[MOANING.]
Mr.
Dotcom - Millicent Van Der Waal.
- Okay.
I've been looking forward to this review.
- Great.
- Oh, please.
I've heard tales.
Oh, people love to exaggerate, you know believe everything you hear.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
As you know, you're being investigated because you were hired by the traitor, Eleanor Hirst.
- Horrible woman.
- Mm 'Course I didn't know anything about what she was really doing.
She offered me a way out of prison, I said yes.
- That's all I know.
- Well, let that be a lesson: Never trust a woman with a short haircut.
Sure Yeah, that's wise.
Why don't you tell me a little bit about the day Hirst was arrested? From my understanding, she asked you to help her frame her fellow agents.
She did, but I didn't.
I told the team what she was doing and I even got Patterson out of the building after Hirst locked it down, so - Really? - Yeah.
And how exactly did you manage that? Just, uh, you know, any Joe Sixpack could have done it, I think.
I got lucky is what it is.
I mean, I don't wanna bore you with the details of my Hmm.
See, the thing is, the boring details are the only way I could confirm that your story is true.
I have to warn you that lying to me is not advisable.
I'm not lying.
Okay, I mean, do you wanna know how I did it? I can tell you how I did it, - sure.
- Great.
First I used Patterson's computer login to hack into the FBI security system and download a virus.
- Hey, how do you know my login? - Please.
Then I let her into my tunnels and, uh - Your tunnels? - Well, our our tunnels, you know.
Just the vents in the building.
Then there was the delivery man that I stuffed into a locker, and, of course, the bomb threat.
Get out! Now! It's a fake! You know what? Come to think of it, if I hadn't gotten Patterson out of the building, then Hirst would've never been arrested.
So, as I see it, I'm due some sort of commendation.
Are you with the department that approves therapy animals? Whatcha writing there? Just tallying how many years you've tacked onto your prison sentence based on that story alone.
Now, tell me more about the virus.
I I don't, I don't want to.
Although I'm not thrilled that Agent Zapata leaked classified intel, this case has become too pressing to worry about interagency clearances.
Pressing how? Borden's handler was a field agent named Conover.
I reached out to him this morning to find out why the asset is stateside, but I couldn't get in contact with him.
- [READE.]
He's missing? - Was missing.
A body was found in a dumpster just outside Belgrade.
It's Conover.
We were able to find security footage from a camera near the spot he was left.
It's Borden.
He killed his handler.
[KEATON.]
It seems that way.
He's most likely turned.
[WELLER.]
Of course he's turned.
He's a terrorist.
You should never have trusted him in the first place.
[KEATON.]
I came here today to give you a friendly tip that the known terrorist Nigel Thornton, AKA Robert Borden, will be in Astoria Park at noon.
Whatever you choose to do with this information is none of my business.
Wait look.
He is looking right into the camera.
He wanted us to find him! Zapata's right.
That's the only security camera for ten miles.
It's pretty odd that they just happened to dump a body there, unless Borden chose that spot intentionally.
All right, we give him one chance to prove he hasn't turned.
Zapata will go to the meet, with backup.
But if anyone gets so much as a bad feeling, we abort, all right? [WELLER.]
It's 12:01.
Any minute now.
All right, here he comes down the hill headed west.
It's really him.
[WELLER.]
Two guys coming your way.
They've drawn their weapons.
It's a trap! Oh, Zapata, get down now.
Everybody get down! FBI! Weller! Borden's heading your way! Stay down.
What are you doing here? Something I should've done the day you walked in the FBI.
Nigel Thornton, you're under arrest.
[WELLER.]
Come on Nigel.
We know that you killed your handler and joined Gorovich.
Why did you lure me to the park? I didn't lure you there.
I didn't know those guys were gonna show up.
You're not as good a liar as you used to be.
They weren't coming after you.
They were coming after me.
They figured out I was working for you.
We have you on camera disposing of your handler's body.
I know.
The cell was working on a new attack, something really big.
But they were suspicious that they had a mole.
One day I got back to the compound and Conover was there.
He'd been caught tailing one of them.
You killed him so he wouldn't blow your cover? No.
I put him out of his misery.
One of my roles for the cell was keeping prisoners alive while they tortured them.
Go again.
[SCREAMING, ELECTRICITY ARCING.]
It turns out I have a real knack for finding that sweet spot right on the cusp between life and death.
So, you were supposed to keep Conover alive, but instead you let them kill him quickly.
I told them it was a mistake.
He must've had a heart condition.
But I knew.
They were onto me.
When you brought me in, you found a USB in my jacket.
It contains a copy of every file from the compound's only computer.
I downloaded it that night, then I got the hell out of there.
Why didn't you send out the Dragonfly SOS immediately? Using the message board with the cell after me was too dangerous.
Hey How are you? I'm not sure.
I've moved apartments seven times in the last two years trying to find one where I felt safe.
I kept telling myself, "There's no reason to be afraid.
Borden is dead.
" You know you can sit this one out if you want.
- We can handle it.
- I know.
But if there's a chance to bring down Gorovich, then I have to stay.
[ZAPATA.]
We'll analyze the contents of the USB.
If the intel checks out, we'll talk again.
Wait, there's something else.
I want to see Agent Patterson.
There's there's not a lot that keeps me up at night anymore.
But what I did to Patterson, it There are things I need to say to her.
It is not her responsibility to help you sleep at night.
Kurt's right, you don't owe him anything.
Crime scene technicians recovered a phone from one of the terrorists' dead bodies.
He received a kill order for Borden, not Zapata.
He's telling the truth.
Looks like it.
The order also said get him out of the way before tomorrow's attack.
So we only have one day to figure out their plan and stop it.
This way, there will only be one access point.
That's excellent.
Sir, if you don't mind my asking - Mm-hmm.
- We both know you've gone to some pretty extreme lengths to get this land.
Why is it so important to you? When you see the world as it looks from space, what's missing? All of these arbitrary little lines borders, drawn across the world with no concern for the good of its people.
This land is part of my plan for a new global society, one rooted in reason and not in folly.
I've served other leaders who wanted to change the world.
But in the end, they were no different than the men and women they were replacing.
Exactly.
Our mistake is thinking that the "right" leaders will bring peace to the world when in all of human history we've never come close.
I'm not sure I understand.
All right, well, then two kids, they get into a fistfight in the schoolyard.
And if there's other kids around, maybe they choose sides, but they don't stop the fight.
The only one who stops the fight is the teacher.
Now, in the modern world, there is no teacher.
We need one.
Who the hell is the teacher? 50 million soldiers with a budget of $5 trillion.
Highly paid military contractors who don't serve country or cause.
Their sole directive would be to prevent violence.
A peacekeeping force greater than all the world's militaries combined.
It would be the end of war.
- That's the idea.
- But where do you get that many people with no loyalty to any country? For now, that's where the land comes in.
[PIERCING TONE.]
Tom? Tom? Are you okay? Diane? Diane, quick! Call an ambulance! Let's move on to the next topic: - Your patriotism.
- Great.
- God bless America, huh? - Have you ever used the American flag in an act of fornication known as "Betsy Ross' Revenge"? You obviously know that I have, because you obviously know that I applied to have that name trademarked the very next day.
- It was denied.
- I know it was denied.
This isn't about Hirst.
This isn't even about my job performance.
This is about how I don't conform to your old-fashioned ideas about who should and shouldn't be working for the government.
- You're right.
- Ahh You have no respect for this office.
You have no decorum and, as far as I can tell, no morals.
That's why I'll be recommending that your contract be terminated.
Wait, hang on, you're just gonna send me back to prison? Okay, look, what you just said might have been true and entirely flattering when I got here, but this place has changed me.
I care about the work, and I care about the people.
It's not about what your country can do for you, it's about what you can do for your country.
And you haven't done enough to warrant a position here.
What are you, quoting JFK at me? He was sluttier than I am! Only one Gorovich assassin survived the firefight in the park.
Mihael, he was a foot soldier in the same cell Borden was embedded in.
Unfortunately, he's still in surgery.
Right now the only thing we have to go on is the USB.
Which is basically useless.
Looks like the USB was damaged in transit.
The files from the computer are completely corrupted, just pages and pages of nonsense.
So these guys are planning an attack for tomorrow and we have no idea where? And no way to stop it.
For too long, the United States has deemed itself the world's police and interfered with matters that does not concern them.
And it's time to turn the tables.
By the time you are seeing this, that island will be nothing more than a mass grave.
Mihael the assassin is out of surgery.
He's in bad shape.
They gave him heavy meds.
He has no idea where he is.
That's not ideal for interrogation.
Or maybe it's perfect.
The CIA does intentional drugged interrogation all the time, if Mihael is already disoriented, he is highly suggestible.
So instead of telling him we are Feds, we can pretend to be co-conspirators.
Talk to him about our attack plan.
You should bring Borden.
He's a familiar face to Mihael.
They worked together.
It'll help sell the lie.
[MAN ON PA SPEAKING FRENCH.]
Mr.
Jakeman, please sit back down.
It's all right, Tom.
You're at a hospital.
You passed out.
- I'm fine.
- [CRAWFORD.]
I'm sure you are, but just to be safe, I've asked these fine doctors to run a complete battery of tests.
Look, that's really not necessary.
If this is a a liability issue for your company, - I'll sign a waiver - No no no no, this is not This is not about liability, son.
Why don't you sit down? Come on, sit down.
I'm worried about you.
I wanna make sure you're all right.
Where do we begin, Doctor? [MONITOR BEEPING.]
Mihael.
Mihael, it's, it's me, it's Nigel.
It's okay, I just finished stitching you up.
What happened? There was a miscommunication.
The guy wasn't where he was supposed to be.
I was never any good at reading.
[BORDEN.]
Listen, I'm supposed to take you back to the compound.
- Do you know how to get there? - I liked the story about the scorpion and the frog, but I never knew how it ended.
Mihael, this is important.
Gorovich needs us for the attack tomorrow.
You.
You were the traitor.
No, no, you're disoriented, Mihael.
- I'll kill you! - This isn't working.
If you want answers, you should take him off the opiates.
The pain from his lacerated liver will open him right up.
Think of the asset she could be, the intel she can provide.
Ahh! We can lower the dosage We are not torturing him.
It's over, we failed.
Get out! Now, everyone, go! Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! What did that microscope ever do to you? Oh, not now, Rich! I really, I really just thought that if we could stop this attack, there would be some purpose to all this.
To what Borden did to me, and now Zapata I really don't think we're gonna stop this one.
We're failing, and I can't I can't think of anything else to do.
Would you come with me? I wanna show you something.
Doors definitely don't work with the sensors.
[GRUNTING.]
Tah-dah! I didn't even know this was here.
Oh, barely anybody does.
That's what makes it so magical.
That's, uh, where Jim steals his 3:00 p.
m.
naps.
That's Briana's crying corner.
It's like the Room of Requirement.
Why are we here, Rich? Because the thing that you require is a game in which two adults engage in combat with giant Q-tips.
Supposed to catch it.
- Come on, it'll be fun.
- I'm not in the mood.
I know, that's the point.
Ow! Come on.
Ohh! All right.
[RICH GRUNTING.]
Not in the mood.
[GRUNTING THROUGHOUT.]
- Oh, no! - Oh! You fell in the river.
- [CHUCKLING.]
- That's what I call that side because I spilled blue Gatorade on there once.
Best two out of three? Whoo! The river That's how the Scorpion and the Frog ends.
Are you talking to somebody on your come? Borden told Mihael that there was a miscommunication in the cell.
And Mihael's said that he couldn't read.
We should have taken that at face value.
What if the corrupted files aren't corrupted at all? They're just made to look that way to someone who doesn't know the code! - Which you definitely do.
- In the fable, what does the scorpion say to the frog at the end after he stung him? "I can't help it, it's in my nature.
" Thank you for the Room of Requirement.
When you're looking at these documents, they're indistinguishable from any corrupted file.
It's an impressively complex way of encoding.
To crack it, you get rid of the symbols They're just noise.
And the letters you're left with are the message, but they're encoded in a Playfair cipher.
In this case, the key phrase is "I can't help it; it's in my nature.
" So, you drop every repeating letter, and those go into a five-by-five grid with the rest of the alphabet.
Then, whatever the message is, you translate it in letter pairs using the grid.
Did the USB say anything about the attack, or where Gorovich is? Both, actually.
Looks like he couldn't resist a front-row seat for his big attack.
So, he's on U.
S.
soil? He has a cell living in an old fort on Staten Island.
He smuggled himself on a cargo ship just a few weeks ago to join them.
His cell has crop-dusting planes that they've outfitted to carry these: [JANE.]
Bunker busters Those are military-grade bombs used to blow up underground targets.
Just one of those things could collapse a city block.
Gorovich has 20 of them.
And he's planning on dropping them tomorrow on five major cities.
We have to take him down.
Tonight.
[DOCTOR.]
There was nothing especially conclusive in your test results.
Your blood test was flagged for an unusual result Zeta Interacting Protein.
Are you familiar? [JANE.]
Got the chance to start over again and now you will too.
[SCREAMING.]
ZIP, um Yeah, uh I had pretty bad PTSD after I was in combat.
A psychiatrist tried treating me with ZIP.
Understood.
Well, I'll be back shortly with your discharge papers.
Sorry, you didn't need to know about my PTSD.
Don't be ashamed of your demons.
We all have them.
[CHUCKLES.]
I don't know, you seem pretty unencumbered yourself.
I grew up in a house where my stepfather beat my mother every day.
I worked my ass off to get out of there went to Princeton, where I met Blake's mom.
We started a business together.
Life was damn near perfect.
[SCOFFS SOFTLY.]
But I had this deep anger at my stepfather, at my mother for marrying him, at myself for not stopping it.
And it was eating away at me.
And I can see that it's eating away at you too, Tom.
And I'm guessing that it goes back a lot farther than the war? I grew up in a military family.
There was no love, really, only loyalty.
My mother was obsessed with loyalty.
She wanted us to compete for her affections.
I was loyal.
In the end, I was the only one who was.
They abandoned me anyway.
Can I give you some advice? Let go of that anger.
I'm not sure I can do that.
Because you think that that anger is what drives you.
No.
Anger makes a terrible fuel.
It can't help you build anything.
It can only help you destroy.
You were dealt a bad hand in this life, just like I was.
So, fold that hand.
Start over with a new one.
The fort is structured like a bull's-eye, so it's safe to assume Gorovich resides near the center so that any intruders have to breach through several layers of security to get to him.
Yeah, the exterior should be exclusively armed guards, but beyond that it's a bit of a minefield.
They're stationed there long-term, so their wives and children live with them at the compound.
[WELLER.]
We'll go in quietly.
The further we get into that fort without alerting Gorovich, the better.
Use hand-to-hand combat whenever possible.
No one fires their weapons unless absolutely necessary.
[SILENCED GUNSHOT.]
We're not here to hurt you.
We just want Gorovich.
Do you know where the bombs are kept? I can show you.
Jane, Tasha, you go with her, secure the weapon.
Reade, let's go get Gorovich.
Why isn't anyone guarding these weapons? Because they're rigged to explode.
If that goes off, this entire fort becomes a crater in the ground.
[WHISTLES.]
[JANE.]
Gorovich has a dead man's switch.
Do not engage! I repeat, do not engage! Step back Or I remove my finger and we all die.
He's already with him.
Kurt, we're gonna try to disarm it, but I need you to stall.
We need to remove the blasting caps from the C4.
Careful, fast as you can.
[READE.]
All right, you hold all the cards here.
What do you want? You let me go.
We can get the Director of the CIA on the phone.
He might be willing to release you to the Serbians.
No.
You tell your army to stand down and let me walk out of here, now! - Now, get back! - Whoa, easy.
- We can do that, can't we? - Yes.
We can do that.
We'll let you walk out of here, sir but you have to hand over that detonator.
Do you know what the best part about having a bomb is? There are no negotiations.
Sir No! No! [GRUNTING.]
Jane and Zapata, you guys okay? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we're good.
We've secured the bunker busters.
[WELLER.]
That's good.
Means we got Gorovich.
It's over.
I helped you to get Gorovich and you throw me to the wolves? If you're looking for an apology, you're not gonna get it.
I have worked for so many people.
People I thought I could trust.
And in the end, they all turned their back on me.
Well, working for the CIA won't be any different for you! At least let me talk to Patterson! Zapata killed his deal.
He's going away for life.
I know you're there! Patterson, please, I need to see you! Are you sure you don't have anything you want to say to him? I thought I would.
In my head he's become this great mythical monster.
But now that he's in front of me, all I can see is a weak, broken shell of a man.
No meaning has to come from this happening to me.
It's just a terrible thing that happened in my past.
Maybe something I'll never truly recover from.
- You might, if - It's okay.
I have something he doesn't A future.
If nothing else, I think we set a hospital record today.
Six figures on elective scans! You're lucky to have a father who cares so much.
When they brought you into the ER, they said they could only give medical info to family, so I said I was your father.
Someone has to look out for you.
I've given one of these to each of my closest colleagues, my inner circle.
It's usually an anniversary gift, ten years with the company.
Consider this an investment in the next ten years.
I don't know what to say.
Thank you.
You still up for a trip tomorrow? Yes, sir.
Let's go build something together.
What's all this about, then? It's about Rich Dotcom.
Sexual harassment's not my department.
A common mistake though We're here to give you our letters of support.
[WELLER.]
I can't believe that I'm gonna say this, but he deserves to keep his job.
He may be an irreverent ass, but the work he does here saves lives.
Including all of ours.
Now, if we need to go over your head and go straight to the Attorney General, we will.
I suppose I can delay a decision until his next annual review.
Okay, great.
Thank you.
Assistant Director, a word please.
Okay.
As honorable as it is that you went to bat for your felon underling, you'd be better off saving your goodwill at the Bureau for yourself.
What are you talking about? Hirst hired you, too, remember? You're next.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
[PATTERSON.]
Here's a copy of the case file for the dragonfly tattoo.
I figured the CIA would want one, too.
Yeah, thanks.
Hey, eh Reade still has some extra cake samples in the fridge, if you wanted No.
This is the only relationship I can have with you right now.
- I made a mistake.
- I don't think you did.
I think you're just someone who can see things objectively, without friendships or emotions getting in the way.
The CIA is lucky to have you.
[PASSING SIREN.]
I told you not to come.
From my own experience, "don't come" usually means "I'm gonna do something stupid and I don't want any witnesses.
" Hey, seriously, are you okay? Why did I agree to be Borden's handler? I could have passed him off to someone else but I didn't.
What the hell is wrong with me? Look, I think you took the job because you didn't want to let Borden out of your sights.
You were protecting Patterson the best way you knew how.
Maybe someday she'll see that.
And you know what? Even if she doesn't, it's fine, you still got me.
Everything's gonna be okay.
No, it's not I'm in love with you.
Sorry, I, uh I shouldn't have done that.
You're damn right you shouldn't have done that.
I'm engaged! You can't just say Where was this two years ago?! - What? - Remember? I kissed you, and you told me you don't have the same feelings for me.
You said it was just the painkillers.
[SCOFFS.]
I gotta go.
Wait Reade! Jane! Weller! That text Roman sent you this morning, I decrypted it.
What did it say? [WELLER.]
It's an invitation to a gala.
Hosted by Crawford's daughter, Blake.
There was a message with it, too.
"Bruyere plus Crawford equals Crawford hashtag"? [PATTERSON.]
It's chess notation.
That hashtag means "checkmate.
" He's saying "Crawford checkmate.
" - What's happening at the gala? - I don't know.
But whatever it is, Roman thinks it's enough to take down Crawford.
Tomorrow.
Why were you tailing us? [GASPING.]
[ZAPPING, GROANING.]
Stop! Another 50,000 volts and you'll fry his frontal cortex, then he's useless to us.
- Give him a 30second recovery.
- [PANTING.]
Have you ever heard of the pain scale? Doctors use it, you know: "How much does it hurt from 1 to 10?" It's a nice, neat concept.
Take it from someone who knows what a "10" feels like.
Death is preferable.
Go again.
[SCREAMING, ELECTRICITY ARCING.]
I hate it.
- I can't with this anymore.
- What is the matter with you? It's too sweet.
You've said that about all of them! I didn't say that about the banana cake which you guys threw in the trash.
[PATTERSON.]
Where it clearly belonged.
Hey, what's with the breakfast cake? Meg gave me some decisions to make for the wedding.
All right, do you want a hand? 'Cause I'm kind of an expert at this stuff now.
Oh, look at this, this is nice.
Kind of reminds me of the time my prison family baked a cake for Vinny's wedding to his stalker.
Patterson, got something for you.
How's the carrot? [ROMAN.]
What are you telling me, exactly? There has to be something else we can do.
Nothing is irreversible.
[DOOR OPENS.]
Look, I'll have to call you back.
Everything all right? Yeah, yeah, I was just talking to my doctor.
I've been getting these headaches, but, uh nothing to worry about.
I hope not.
I've got a new task for you.
We're flying out tomorrow.
Blake's charity gala She'll be thrilled.
She'll be thrilled because of the reason I'm attending.
Bruyere he's finally playing ball.
He's ready to make the land deal.
- Tomorrow? - Mmhmm.
That's great news.
I can't overstate what a critical step this is.
[PHONE BEEPING.]
Ms.
Baker.
Give me a moment and I will find them.
Be right back.
Right, you remember this one, the dragonfly tattoo? We solved it a few weeks ago? Led to a thread on a message board, but it was empty.
Until an hour ago.
Two users started a conversation, Dragonfly164 and Atlantic17.
Cool names, guys.
After Atlantic replied, the messages disappeared so I'm thinking maybe they did a little scruba-dub-dub? Which means there could be older messages as well.
Let's see if we can dig 'em up.
That's why I brought you in here.
Hey, sorry, uh, to interrupt but I need to talk to you, Patterson.
Oh, sure, yeah, totally.
I wouldn't wanna manterrupt two women Wait, no, manterrupting is when Sorry, now I'm mansplaining manterrupting.
I'll google it.
Okay, this just came in.
It's gotta be Roman.
Another clue to a tattoo? I don't know, I can't open it.
Whoa, the encryption is a lot heavier this time.
Why is he upping his encryption? The only reason to encrypt a text this way would be to ensure that it couldn't be read if it fell into the wrong hands.
Why would he think my phone could fall into the wrong hands? Maybe it's his phone he's worried about.
Hello Hey, I was just coming to find you.
Did they finally approve my request for a therapy llama? Your position at the FBI is under review.
Hirst orchestrated your deal and now that the Bureau knows she's dirty, they're rethinkin' it.
That doesn't sound good.
Yeah.
An agent from the Office of Professional Responsibility is in the conference room waiting on you right now.
Wh Right now?! I'm in pajamas.
They spring it on you like a drug test - so you can't prepare for it.
- [SCOFFS.]
Yeah.
Except the bag of clean urine that I definitely don't have taped to my leg at all times wouldn't really help in this situation.
Hang on a second.
This is not a big deal, is it? Unfortunately, it is a big deal, Rich.
OPR holds a lot of power in this building.
Last time a member of our team was under review, Jane got arrested.
- Ohh - If you fail this review, they'll rip up your contract and send you back to prison.
- [ELEVATOR DINGS.]
- But, hey, you love prison.
Well, I, I mean, I don't love prison.
It really, I mean, it depends on the place.
You know, I mean, Rikers has half-ply toilet paper.
Good luck, Rich.
Half a ply.
[JANE.]
Did you find more messages on the forum? [PATTERSON.]
Uh, "more" is an understatement.
[ZAPATA.]
What forum? I cracked the dragonfly tattoo.
[ZAPATA.]
You see this yet? This gonna be a problem? Not if they don't find out.
Well, when it comes out and it will, be prepared to be very unpopular with your friends.
The messages were originally deleted after they were being read.
But if you take a very deep dive into the metadata, you find these.
Messages between two users, Dragonfly164 and Atlantic17.
So what do they say? Uh, it looks like Dragonfly is involved in a terrorist organization.
He refers to some kind of attack they're planning.
What about Atlantic? Most of it is Dragonfly reporting information to him.
A few months ago, they went silent Until this morning.
[JANE.]
Dragonfly is in New York now.
It says they're meeting under the bridge at Astoria park today.
[WELLER.]
And if they're here, it could be for an attack.
Any idea who these people are? [VOICES FADE.]
- this is a maybe - You can stop looking.
Why? I know who Dragonfly164 is.
It's Borden.
He's alive.
How could you possibly know that? Because Atlantic17 is me.
[READE.]
Borden's alive.
- Why didn't you tell us? - I couldn't.
He is a CIA asset, and that is why I have been communicating with him.
I was his handler.
Start from the beginning.
That, uh, night at the barn He fully expected the explosion to kill him, but it didn't.
[ZAPATA.]
Between the burns and the gunshot wound, he was in bad shape.
He performed field medicine on himself and fled the country.
The CIA didn't know he was alive until a year later.
[ZAPATA.]
How did you find him here? [KEATON.]
The ID he had on him was a known alias.
The hospital alerted the Mumbai station chief.
How long until he's strong enough to be transported back to the FBI? We're not bringing him back.
Nor are we informing the Bureau that he's alive.
We're gonna cut him a deal.
- You can't be serious.
- Mmhmm.
He's gotten dozens of FBI agents killed, he He plotted a nuclear attack on D.
C.
And Sandstorm is now extinct, which means Borden is no longer of any intelligence value to the FBI.
It would be a waste to hand him over to them when we could use him to take down someone even worse.
[TAPS FILE.]
Goran Gorovich.
He killed 100,000 of his own people through ethnic cleansing.
One of the worst genocides in modern history.
And we have intel that he's planning to attack the U.
S.
soon.
What do you want? We want you to go undercover with one of his cells and figure out where Gorovich is hiding.
Now, if you can locate him, we're prepared to offer you complete immunity for your crimes.
No, thank you.
Look, the alternative is gonna be a life in solitary.
You get a tough jury, lethal injection.
I peeled burnt flesh off nearly a third of my body.
It took 46 hours because I kept passing out from the pain.
The last year of my life has been an unfathomable hell.
I know you wish that I had died in that explosion.
I wish I had, too.
She was too good for you.
Your wife, Chris.
She's the one that got you to join Doctors Without Borders, right? She'd been working with them since medical school.
You know, one of her earlier trips was pretty traumatic.
- A ghost town.
- You know, by the time they got there, there was no one left to be saved.
Entire village massacred, including a school full of children.
That was Gorovich.
Listen, you say all the horrible things you did were for your wife.
If she could see what you've become, she would be ashamed.
This is the last thing you can do that she would actually be proud of.
How would I get in? Borden went undercover shortly after that.
He hasn't gotten eyes on Gorovich, but he has given a lot of good intel to the CIA.
[JANE.]
The Dragonfly message from this morning said he's here in New York.
Why is he here? I don't know.
He was given a new handler when I came to work on this task force.
Keaton's trying to figure out what's going on.
If Borden is on U.
S.
soil, then we need to arrest him.
You can't do that.
If he is still undercover, you will blow a year-long op.
I have to meet with him alone.
There's nothing left to talk about then.
Patterson! I am so sorry! You have no idea how hard it was for me to keep that from you.
How hard it was for you?! I can still feel his hands on me when I try to fall asleep at night.
Because before he beat me, shot me, and put a tracking device in me, he used to sleep in my bed.
- I know - All this time, you knew he was still out there and you said nothing.
I was trying to protect you.
I thought it would be better if you never knew he was alive.
It tormented me that he died on his own terms! All I wanted was to put him in prison, to take back a fraction of the control that he took away from me! You got a second chance and you should have given me that.
But instead, you chose to work with him.
I had to.
It is my job.
You're my best friend.
Whatever it would've cost you to say no, you should have cared about me more.
We'll be by tomorrow to start prepping you on your targets.
How, how's, how's Patterson? Ahh! Don't ever say her name again.
[MOANING.]
Mr.
Dotcom - Millicent Van Der Waal.
- Okay.
I've been looking forward to this review.
- Great.
- Oh, please.
I've heard tales.
Oh, people love to exaggerate, you know believe everything you hear.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
As you know, you're being investigated because you were hired by the traitor, Eleanor Hirst.
- Horrible woman.
- Mm 'Course I didn't know anything about what she was really doing.
She offered me a way out of prison, I said yes.
- That's all I know.
- Well, let that be a lesson: Never trust a woman with a short haircut.
Sure Yeah, that's wise.
Why don't you tell me a little bit about the day Hirst was arrested? From my understanding, she asked you to help her frame her fellow agents.
She did, but I didn't.
I told the team what she was doing and I even got Patterson out of the building after Hirst locked it down, so - Really? - Yeah.
And how exactly did you manage that? Just, uh, you know, any Joe Sixpack could have done it, I think.
I got lucky is what it is.
I mean, I don't wanna bore you with the details of my Hmm.
See, the thing is, the boring details are the only way I could confirm that your story is true.
I have to warn you that lying to me is not advisable.
I'm not lying.
Okay, I mean, do you wanna know how I did it? I can tell you how I did it, - sure.
- Great.
First I used Patterson's computer login to hack into the FBI security system and download a virus.
- Hey, how do you know my login? - Please.
Then I let her into my tunnels and, uh - Your tunnels? - Well, our our tunnels, you know.
Just the vents in the building.
Then there was the delivery man that I stuffed into a locker, and, of course, the bomb threat.
Get out! Now! It's a fake! You know what? Come to think of it, if I hadn't gotten Patterson out of the building, then Hirst would've never been arrested.
So, as I see it, I'm due some sort of commendation.
Are you with the department that approves therapy animals? Whatcha writing there? Just tallying how many years you've tacked onto your prison sentence based on that story alone.
Now, tell me more about the virus.
I I don't, I don't want to.
Although I'm not thrilled that Agent Zapata leaked classified intel, this case has become too pressing to worry about interagency clearances.
Pressing how? Borden's handler was a field agent named Conover.
I reached out to him this morning to find out why the asset is stateside, but I couldn't get in contact with him.
- [READE.]
He's missing? - Was missing.
A body was found in a dumpster just outside Belgrade.
It's Conover.
We were able to find security footage from a camera near the spot he was left.
It's Borden.
He killed his handler.
[KEATON.]
It seems that way.
He's most likely turned.
[WELLER.]
Of course he's turned.
He's a terrorist.
You should never have trusted him in the first place.
[KEATON.]
I came here today to give you a friendly tip that the known terrorist Nigel Thornton, AKA Robert Borden, will be in Astoria Park at noon.
Whatever you choose to do with this information is none of my business.
Wait look.
He is looking right into the camera.
He wanted us to find him! Zapata's right.
That's the only security camera for ten miles.
It's pretty odd that they just happened to dump a body there, unless Borden chose that spot intentionally.
All right, we give him one chance to prove he hasn't turned.
Zapata will go to the meet, with backup.
But if anyone gets so much as a bad feeling, we abort, all right? [WELLER.]
It's 12:01.
Any minute now.
All right, here he comes down the hill headed west.
It's really him.
[WELLER.]
Two guys coming your way.
They've drawn their weapons.
It's a trap! Oh, Zapata, get down now.
Everybody get down! FBI! Weller! Borden's heading your way! Stay down.
What are you doing here? Something I should've done the day you walked in the FBI.
Nigel Thornton, you're under arrest.
[WELLER.]
Come on Nigel.
We know that you killed your handler and joined Gorovich.
Why did you lure me to the park? I didn't lure you there.
I didn't know those guys were gonna show up.
You're not as good a liar as you used to be.
They weren't coming after you.
They were coming after me.
They figured out I was working for you.
We have you on camera disposing of your handler's body.
I know.
The cell was working on a new attack, something really big.
But they were suspicious that they had a mole.
One day I got back to the compound and Conover was there.
He'd been caught tailing one of them.
You killed him so he wouldn't blow your cover? No.
I put him out of his misery.
One of my roles for the cell was keeping prisoners alive while they tortured them.
Go again.
[SCREAMING, ELECTRICITY ARCING.]
It turns out I have a real knack for finding that sweet spot right on the cusp between life and death.
So, you were supposed to keep Conover alive, but instead you let them kill him quickly.
I told them it was a mistake.
He must've had a heart condition.
But I knew.
They were onto me.
When you brought me in, you found a USB in my jacket.
It contains a copy of every file from the compound's only computer.
I downloaded it that night, then I got the hell out of there.
Why didn't you send out the Dragonfly SOS immediately? Using the message board with the cell after me was too dangerous.
Hey How are you? I'm not sure.
I've moved apartments seven times in the last two years trying to find one where I felt safe.
I kept telling myself, "There's no reason to be afraid.
Borden is dead.
" You know you can sit this one out if you want.
- We can handle it.
- I know.
But if there's a chance to bring down Gorovich, then I have to stay.
[ZAPATA.]
We'll analyze the contents of the USB.
If the intel checks out, we'll talk again.
Wait, there's something else.
I want to see Agent Patterson.
There's there's not a lot that keeps me up at night anymore.
But what I did to Patterson, it There are things I need to say to her.
It is not her responsibility to help you sleep at night.
Kurt's right, you don't owe him anything.
Crime scene technicians recovered a phone from one of the terrorists' dead bodies.
He received a kill order for Borden, not Zapata.
He's telling the truth.
Looks like it.
The order also said get him out of the way before tomorrow's attack.
So we only have one day to figure out their plan and stop it.
This way, there will only be one access point.
That's excellent.
Sir, if you don't mind my asking - Mm-hmm.
- We both know you've gone to some pretty extreme lengths to get this land.
Why is it so important to you? When you see the world as it looks from space, what's missing? All of these arbitrary little lines borders, drawn across the world with no concern for the good of its people.
This land is part of my plan for a new global society, one rooted in reason and not in folly.
I've served other leaders who wanted to change the world.
But in the end, they were no different than the men and women they were replacing.
Exactly.
Our mistake is thinking that the "right" leaders will bring peace to the world when in all of human history we've never come close.
I'm not sure I understand.
All right, well, then two kids, they get into a fistfight in the schoolyard.
And if there's other kids around, maybe they choose sides, but they don't stop the fight.
The only one who stops the fight is the teacher.
Now, in the modern world, there is no teacher.
We need one.
Who the hell is the teacher? 50 million soldiers with a budget of $5 trillion.
Highly paid military contractors who don't serve country or cause.
Their sole directive would be to prevent violence.
A peacekeeping force greater than all the world's militaries combined.
It would be the end of war.
- That's the idea.
- But where do you get that many people with no loyalty to any country? For now, that's where the land comes in.
[PIERCING TONE.]
Tom? Tom? Are you okay? Diane? Diane, quick! Call an ambulance! Let's move on to the next topic: - Your patriotism.
- Great.
- God bless America, huh? - Have you ever used the American flag in an act of fornication known as "Betsy Ross' Revenge"? You obviously know that I have, because you obviously know that I applied to have that name trademarked the very next day.
- It was denied.
- I know it was denied.
This isn't about Hirst.
This isn't even about my job performance.
This is about how I don't conform to your old-fashioned ideas about who should and shouldn't be working for the government.
- You're right.
- Ahh You have no respect for this office.
You have no decorum and, as far as I can tell, no morals.
That's why I'll be recommending that your contract be terminated.
Wait, hang on, you're just gonna send me back to prison? Okay, look, what you just said might have been true and entirely flattering when I got here, but this place has changed me.
I care about the work, and I care about the people.
It's not about what your country can do for you, it's about what you can do for your country.
And you haven't done enough to warrant a position here.
What are you, quoting JFK at me? He was sluttier than I am! Only one Gorovich assassin survived the firefight in the park.
Mihael, he was a foot soldier in the same cell Borden was embedded in.
Unfortunately, he's still in surgery.
Right now the only thing we have to go on is the USB.
Which is basically useless.
Looks like the USB was damaged in transit.
The files from the computer are completely corrupted, just pages and pages of nonsense.
So these guys are planning an attack for tomorrow and we have no idea where? And no way to stop it.
For too long, the United States has deemed itself the world's police and interfered with matters that does not concern them.
And it's time to turn the tables.
By the time you are seeing this, that island will be nothing more than a mass grave.
Mihael the assassin is out of surgery.
He's in bad shape.
They gave him heavy meds.
He has no idea where he is.
That's not ideal for interrogation.
Or maybe it's perfect.
The CIA does intentional drugged interrogation all the time, if Mihael is already disoriented, he is highly suggestible.
So instead of telling him we are Feds, we can pretend to be co-conspirators.
Talk to him about our attack plan.
You should bring Borden.
He's a familiar face to Mihael.
They worked together.
It'll help sell the lie.
[MAN ON PA SPEAKING FRENCH.]
Mr.
Jakeman, please sit back down.
It's all right, Tom.
You're at a hospital.
You passed out.
- I'm fine.
- [CRAWFORD.]
I'm sure you are, but just to be safe, I've asked these fine doctors to run a complete battery of tests.
Look, that's really not necessary.
If this is a a liability issue for your company, - I'll sign a waiver - No no no no, this is not This is not about liability, son.
Why don't you sit down? Come on, sit down.
I'm worried about you.
I wanna make sure you're all right.
Where do we begin, Doctor? [MONITOR BEEPING.]
Mihael.
Mihael, it's, it's me, it's Nigel.
It's okay, I just finished stitching you up.
What happened? There was a miscommunication.
The guy wasn't where he was supposed to be.
I was never any good at reading.
[BORDEN.]
Listen, I'm supposed to take you back to the compound.
- Do you know how to get there? - I liked the story about the scorpion and the frog, but I never knew how it ended.
Mihael, this is important.
Gorovich needs us for the attack tomorrow.
You.
You were the traitor.
No, no, you're disoriented, Mihael.
- I'll kill you! - This isn't working.
If you want answers, you should take him off the opiates.
The pain from his lacerated liver will open him right up.
Think of the asset she could be, the intel she can provide.
Ahh! We can lower the dosage We are not torturing him.
It's over, we failed.
Get out! Now, everyone, go! Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! What did that microscope ever do to you? Oh, not now, Rich! I really, I really just thought that if we could stop this attack, there would be some purpose to all this.
To what Borden did to me, and now Zapata I really don't think we're gonna stop this one.
We're failing, and I can't I can't think of anything else to do.
Would you come with me? I wanna show you something.
Doors definitely don't work with the sensors.
[GRUNTING.]
Tah-dah! I didn't even know this was here.
Oh, barely anybody does.
That's what makes it so magical.
That's, uh, where Jim steals his 3:00 p.
m.
naps.
That's Briana's crying corner.
It's like the Room of Requirement.
Why are we here, Rich? Because the thing that you require is a game in which two adults engage in combat with giant Q-tips.
Supposed to catch it.
- Come on, it'll be fun.
- I'm not in the mood.
I know, that's the point.
Ow! Come on.
Ohh! All right.
[RICH GRUNTING.]
Not in the mood.
[GRUNTING THROUGHOUT.]
- Oh, no! - Oh! You fell in the river.
- [CHUCKLING.]
- That's what I call that side because I spilled blue Gatorade on there once.
Best two out of three? Whoo! The river That's how the Scorpion and the Frog ends.
Are you talking to somebody on your come? Borden told Mihael that there was a miscommunication in the cell.
And Mihael's said that he couldn't read.
We should have taken that at face value.
What if the corrupted files aren't corrupted at all? They're just made to look that way to someone who doesn't know the code! - Which you definitely do.
- In the fable, what does the scorpion say to the frog at the end after he stung him? "I can't help it, it's in my nature.
" Thank you for the Room of Requirement.
When you're looking at these documents, they're indistinguishable from any corrupted file.
It's an impressively complex way of encoding.
To crack it, you get rid of the symbols They're just noise.
And the letters you're left with are the message, but they're encoded in a Playfair cipher.
In this case, the key phrase is "I can't help it; it's in my nature.
" So, you drop every repeating letter, and those go into a five-by-five grid with the rest of the alphabet.
Then, whatever the message is, you translate it in letter pairs using the grid.
Did the USB say anything about the attack, or where Gorovich is? Both, actually.
Looks like he couldn't resist a front-row seat for his big attack.
So, he's on U.
S.
soil? He has a cell living in an old fort on Staten Island.
He smuggled himself on a cargo ship just a few weeks ago to join them.
His cell has crop-dusting planes that they've outfitted to carry these: [JANE.]
Bunker busters Those are military-grade bombs used to blow up underground targets.
Just one of those things could collapse a city block.
Gorovich has 20 of them.
And he's planning on dropping them tomorrow on five major cities.
We have to take him down.
Tonight.
[DOCTOR.]
There was nothing especially conclusive in your test results.
Your blood test was flagged for an unusual result Zeta Interacting Protein.
Are you familiar? [JANE.]
Got the chance to start over again and now you will too.
[SCREAMING.]
ZIP, um Yeah, uh I had pretty bad PTSD after I was in combat.
A psychiatrist tried treating me with ZIP.
Understood.
Well, I'll be back shortly with your discharge papers.
Sorry, you didn't need to know about my PTSD.
Don't be ashamed of your demons.
We all have them.
[CHUCKLES.]
I don't know, you seem pretty unencumbered yourself.
I grew up in a house where my stepfather beat my mother every day.
I worked my ass off to get out of there went to Princeton, where I met Blake's mom.
We started a business together.
Life was damn near perfect.
[SCOFFS SOFTLY.]
But I had this deep anger at my stepfather, at my mother for marrying him, at myself for not stopping it.
And it was eating away at me.
And I can see that it's eating away at you too, Tom.
And I'm guessing that it goes back a lot farther than the war? I grew up in a military family.
There was no love, really, only loyalty.
My mother was obsessed with loyalty.
She wanted us to compete for her affections.
I was loyal.
In the end, I was the only one who was.
They abandoned me anyway.
Can I give you some advice? Let go of that anger.
I'm not sure I can do that.
Because you think that that anger is what drives you.
No.
Anger makes a terrible fuel.
It can't help you build anything.
It can only help you destroy.
You were dealt a bad hand in this life, just like I was.
So, fold that hand.
Start over with a new one.
The fort is structured like a bull's-eye, so it's safe to assume Gorovich resides near the center so that any intruders have to breach through several layers of security to get to him.
Yeah, the exterior should be exclusively armed guards, but beyond that it's a bit of a minefield.
They're stationed there long-term, so their wives and children live with them at the compound.
[WELLER.]
We'll go in quietly.
The further we get into that fort without alerting Gorovich, the better.
Use hand-to-hand combat whenever possible.
No one fires their weapons unless absolutely necessary.
[SILENCED GUNSHOT.]
We're not here to hurt you.
We just want Gorovich.
Do you know where the bombs are kept? I can show you.
Jane, Tasha, you go with her, secure the weapon.
Reade, let's go get Gorovich.
Why isn't anyone guarding these weapons? Because they're rigged to explode.
If that goes off, this entire fort becomes a crater in the ground.
[WHISTLES.]
[JANE.]
Gorovich has a dead man's switch.
Do not engage! I repeat, do not engage! Step back Or I remove my finger and we all die.
He's already with him.
Kurt, we're gonna try to disarm it, but I need you to stall.
We need to remove the blasting caps from the C4.
Careful, fast as you can.
[READE.]
All right, you hold all the cards here.
What do you want? You let me go.
We can get the Director of the CIA on the phone.
He might be willing to release you to the Serbians.
No.
You tell your army to stand down and let me walk out of here, now! - Now, get back! - Whoa, easy.
- We can do that, can't we? - Yes.
We can do that.
We'll let you walk out of here, sir but you have to hand over that detonator.
Do you know what the best part about having a bomb is? There are no negotiations.
Sir No! No! [GRUNTING.]
Jane and Zapata, you guys okay? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we're good.
We've secured the bunker busters.
[WELLER.]
That's good.
Means we got Gorovich.
It's over.
I helped you to get Gorovich and you throw me to the wolves? If you're looking for an apology, you're not gonna get it.
I have worked for so many people.
People I thought I could trust.
And in the end, they all turned their back on me.
Well, working for the CIA won't be any different for you! At least let me talk to Patterson! Zapata killed his deal.
He's going away for life.
I know you're there! Patterson, please, I need to see you! Are you sure you don't have anything you want to say to him? I thought I would.
In my head he's become this great mythical monster.
But now that he's in front of me, all I can see is a weak, broken shell of a man.
No meaning has to come from this happening to me.
It's just a terrible thing that happened in my past.
Maybe something I'll never truly recover from.
- You might, if - It's okay.
I have something he doesn't A future.
If nothing else, I think we set a hospital record today.
Six figures on elective scans! You're lucky to have a father who cares so much.
When they brought you into the ER, they said they could only give medical info to family, so I said I was your father.
Someone has to look out for you.
I've given one of these to each of my closest colleagues, my inner circle.
It's usually an anniversary gift, ten years with the company.
Consider this an investment in the next ten years.
I don't know what to say.
Thank you.
You still up for a trip tomorrow? Yes, sir.
Let's go build something together.
What's all this about, then? It's about Rich Dotcom.
Sexual harassment's not my department.
A common mistake though We're here to give you our letters of support.
[WELLER.]
I can't believe that I'm gonna say this, but he deserves to keep his job.
He may be an irreverent ass, but the work he does here saves lives.
Including all of ours.
Now, if we need to go over your head and go straight to the Attorney General, we will.
I suppose I can delay a decision until his next annual review.
Okay, great.
Thank you.
Assistant Director, a word please.
Okay.
As honorable as it is that you went to bat for your felon underling, you'd be better off saving your goodwill at the Bureau for yourself.
What are you talking about? Hirst hired you, too, remember? You're next.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
[PATTERSON.]
Here's a copy of the case file for the dragonfly tattoo.
I figured the CIA would want one, too.
Yeah, thanks.
Hey, eh Reade still has some extra cake samples in the fridge, if you wanted No.
This is the only relationship I can have with you right now.
- I made a mistake.
- I don't think you did.
I think you're just someone who can see things objectively, without friendships or emotions getting in the way.
The CIA is lucky to have you.
[PASSING SIREN.]
I told you not to come.
From my own experience, "don't come" usually means "I'm gonna do something stupid and I don't want any witnesses.
" Hey, seriously, are you okay? Why did I agree to be Borden's handler? I could have passed him off to someone else but I didn't.
What the hell is wrong with me? Look, I think you took the job because you didn't want to let Borden out of your sights.
You were protecting Patterson the best way you knew how.
Maybe someday she'll see that.
And you know what? Even if she doesn't, it's fine, you still got me.
Everything's gonna be okay.
No, it's not I'm in love with you.
Sorry, I, uh I shouldn't have done that.
You're damn right you shouldn't have done that.
I'm engaged! You can't just say Where was this two years ago?! - What? - Remember? I kissed you, and you told me you don't have the same feelings for me.
You said it was just the painkillers.
[SCOFFS.]
I gotta go.
Wait Reade! Jane! Weller! That text Roman sent you this morning, I decrypted it.
What did it say? [WELLER.]
It's an invitation to a gala.
Hosted by Crawford's daughter, Blake.
There was a message with it, too.
"Bruyere plus Crawford equals Crawford hashtag"? [PATTERSON.]
It's chess notation.
That hashtag means "checkmate.
" He's saying "Crawford checkmate.
" - What's happening at the gala? - I don't know.
But whatever it is, Roman thinks it's enough to take down Crawford.
Tomorrow.