Deep State (2018) s01e08 Episode Script
Blood in the Sand
1 In a little while you're going to go before the Iran Directorate.
You're going to speak about your firsthand knowledge of the current uranium enrichment program.
There is no such program.
What evidence would you have to backup your claim? JONES: They're gonna want verification.
There's no silver bullet.
Intelligence that helps them complete the picture.
Soil samples, air, water.
Whoever we send that there, they can't come back.
How are you doing, Jordan? Like a guy with only the gym to occupy him.
JONES: We have a new landing site.
32, 38, 50 North.
45, 25, 22 East.
They're in position.
Tehran connection playing ball? Like he was one of us.
Someone's here.
- (GUNSHOT) - (GRUNTS) All right.
Let's move out.
He's American.
He's American.
(MAX PANTING) We're safe.
It's all clear.
They've gone.
But we need to move.
Come on.
Good girl.
Come on.
(GRUNTS) (BIRDS CHIRPING) TOUMI: Do you think that's gonna give us anything? HARRY: Honestly, I have no idea.
(SNIFFS) They didn't stand a chance.
And we just fucking watched.
It's okay.
We need to keep going.
We need to get out of here.
Call Max.
Come.
You may find yourself In another part of the world Living in a beautiful house With a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself "How do I work this?" This is not my beautiful house This is not my beautiful wife And you may ask yourself "Well" "How did I get here?" - (ON TV): They were apparently escorting - Daddy, Daddy! A group of international scientists Hey.
Are you ever a sight for sore eyes.
Huh? Hi, honey.
- Hey.
- How was your trip? TV REPORTER: Jordan Franklin was an American hero.
He was the best of us.
His murder, along with five other - brave Americans - Turn that off.
Would you? must not go unanswered.
How long are they away for? Two weeks.
They gave me the keys.
Asked me to water the plants.
Is this another safe house, Max? Or are they gonna find us here, like they found us in the other safe houses? Come on, girls, let's go to your room.
Right.
Who wants to go on top, who wants to go on the bottom? I want to go at the bottom.
- Okay.
- But I don't like blue.
You don't like blue.
Hmm.
I'll tell you what.
Hold him.
If we do a little bit of this and then a little bit of that Ta-da.
I miss my room.
I want to go home.
Me, too.
And we will.
- When? - Soon.
You promise? I promise.
Do you pinky promise? I pinky promise.
We need to get you two in the bath.
Are you gonna come home with us? (MAX SIGHS) (CRYING) There's no ham.
Lola will only eat ham.
What am I supposed to do? We'll go out and get some.
How? Who will go? We can't even leave the (SOBS) Hey, hey.
Come here.
(SOBS) (MOANS) What you did, you had no choice.
You had to do it.
You had to do it, you understand? (GASPS) And who put me in that position? You tell me that.
He's considering his options.
Am I missing something? We have the most trigger-happy president in history and six dead American heroes in the Iranian dirt.
The president is his own man.
You mean he's a fucking child who can't make up his mind.
SPENCE: 600,000 pairs of boots.
Four million pairs of socks.
Two million T-shirts.
1,400,000 desert fatigues.
3,600,000 How are we coming along? Uh, $900,282,000.
65.
You couldn't round it up? What about fuel? Haven't started on that yet, sir.
Got up to $600 a gallon to deliver to the battlefield in Afghanistan.
Let's see if we can't top that this time.
Put another ten percent on boots.
We just do that? In Djibouti we charged the DOD $25.
5 million for a gym.
Trust me.
We can add another ten percent on boots.
(PHONE KEYPAD BEEPING) (PHONE BUZZING) - Listen, I've told you not to - You fucked me.
We had agreement.
And you fucked me.
Do you think there won't be no consequences? There will be fucking consequences.
(LINE RINGING) - Pullman.
- I need good news.
- Max Easton? - He, uh slipped through the net.
Christ.
The family? All of them.
Jesus Christ, Seth, you're gonna give me a fucking migraine.
Find them! (TAPPING ON DOOR) - Hey.
- TOUMI: Hey.
- Harry.
- (LAUGHS): Hi.
Hey.
Are you all right? - Mm-hmm.
- Who's this? Uh, this is my sister.
Chloe.
Enchanté.
(SCOFFS) (LAUGHS) They've had a long journey.
Come on.
Let's get 'em something to eat.
"'You are in a great hurry, then, ' said Fix to him one day, 'to reach Hong Kong?'" - TOUMI: Max? Max.
- Hmm.
Uh, I'm sorry.
We've got no proof of anything.
No defector, no drone strike, no power plants.
We've got nothing concrete.
All we've got is some blood in the sand.
So what do we do with it? MAX: I was going to make a cup of tea, but you've only got soy milk.
I don't know how you can drink that stuff.
I'm calling the police.
Jordan Franklin was killed by an American.
They're gonna bomb a weapons facility that doesn't exist, then they're gonna go to war with Iran.
All based on nothing.
Just like last time.
Only this time there's a chance we can get the truth out there.
You think that'll do any good? I don't know.
But which side of this thing do you want to be on? I need you to run some bloods.
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE) The blood sample was contaminated, but we managed to get some partial results.
- MAX: Thanks.
- Sending them over now.
There's over 200,000 partial matches.
Okay, um, how many of those are Americans who served? (TYPING) Any of them working private security? TOUMI: 62.
Stop.
There.
That's him.
He was there.
TOUMI: Major Andrew Jackson.
Let's see if we can find out where he lives.
Someone will be in the house the whole time to protect you and the girls.
Will they have a gun? They will.
Anna, I'm doing everything I can.
I have to go.
Max.
Be careful.
Yeah.
(DOOR OPENS) (DOOR CLOSES) (SOBS) (SCREAMS) (CRYING) (GROANING) (GROANS, SOBS) REPORTER: Tehran has released a taped confession from an Iranian intelligence officer who claims the U.
S.
government was responsible for the deaths of the six Americans near the Alin nuclear weapons facility.
Sources close to the White House are saying tonight they expect the president to order a strike - on the Alin nuclear weapons facility - (PHONE BUZZING) within the next few hours.
COLLINS: It's Jones.
Don't take it.
COLLINS: You've reached Collins.
Please leave a messa She's become a problem.
It's time to get rid of her.
(TIRES SCREECH) WOMAN (OVER P.
A.
): Would all passengers for flight number TA646 to Rome please make your way to Gate 17? That's Gate 17 for You got to see this.
Look who showed up at Dulles Airport.
Where are you staying? The Willard.
Nice.
Who's footing the bill? This trip is a celebration.
Long, long overdue.
What are you celebrating? My divorce.
If she's here, they've got something on us.
I want to know what it is.
Let her go.
Follow her.
BOARD MEMBER: Based on the projected bombing campaign of Tehran Using the Baghdad model.
Uh-huh.
We're looking at an increase in our construction turnover of $2 billion.
I want to avoid any, uh, unseemly profiteering.
God knows last time it gave me a stomach ulcer.
It's about jobs for the Iranian people.
They drive the rebuilding of their own country, fate in their own hands, so on and so forth.
Now, all construction on this goes through, uh Mashadan Construction, out of Tehran.
In whom one of our subsidiaries recently acquired a majority stake.
When can we expect the go-ahead from the president? The man tweets like a teenage girl.
You really think we're gonna leave this up to him? BOARD MEMBER: And we're assuming a surgical strike will be enough to meet our projections? The Eskan housing complex 30 miles from the Alin Power Plant.
In the second wave of launches, one of our cruise missiles will veer off course.
I think you'll find things will escalate pretty quickly from there.
So, what happened? Why the delay? They took me for secondary interview.
MAX: And? Nothing.
They let me go.
Which means they know we're here.
(ENGINE STOPS) Max.
Hey, Bob.
He looks nothing like you.
Yeah.
Lucky for him.
Thanks for helping us out.
Whatever you need.
Hello? Hello? (RUSTLING) TOUMI: What are we looking for? MAX: Anything that tells us who Jackson's working for.
They're out at the end of Blazer Lane.
That's Jackson's place.
Let's go.
They're here.
Go.
Out the back.
I'll buy us some time.
(GUNSHOTS) (TOUMI SHOUTS) (GUNFIRE) (HARRY GRUNTS) Come on.
- Stay with me.
- (SHOUTS) (BOTH GRUNT) Come on.
(BOTH GRUNTING) Okay, okay.
(GROANS) Give me your hand.
Put this on.
Hold that tight.
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES IN DISTANCE) (AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE) Thought you'd gone.
What, and leave you on your own? (GUNFIRE CONTINUES IN DISTANCE) (GRUNTS) Cease fire! Cease fire! Fuck.
And we let three isolated, useless fucking Brits slip through our fingers? Let me use Metro or the Bureau.
And lose control of this more than I already have? (EXHALES) You need to tell Collins they're here.
Yeah.
And how do you think that ends for me? (GROANS) - Right.
Over here.
- (PANTING) TOUMI (PAINED): Oh! (CRYING) (PANTING) - (EXHALES) - HARRY: Stay still.
(TOUMI PANTING) (GASPING) - MAX: Keep still.
- (PANTING) (SCREAMING) - It's done.
- (CRYING) - It's done.
- (SIGHS) You okay? Yeah.
She's a fighter.
Most stubborn woman I've ever met.
Apart from your mother.
Have you found anything from Jackson's documents? He's got a daughter in the second grade, his favorite film's The Big Lebowski, and his wife's late with the car payments.
Nothing useful.
Yeah, we've come a long way to hit a dead end.
(SIGHS) Thanks.
Here, Greenburg, Morgan & Squire.
What's that? Washington law firm.
Why would they be paying Jackson's mortgage? Commercial law.
Hmm.
But no links to anything political? Military? Hmm.
Nothing I can find.
They got over 200 lawyers.
Which one's Jackson's? No idea.
TOUMI: Maybe I can help you find out.
Big firm like that.
Receptionist might not know what Jackson's wife looks like.
- It's worth a shot.
- Uh, you need to rest.
Don't tell me what to do, Harry.
It never ends well.
(AMERICAN ACCENT): Hi there.
I'm Mrs.
Cathy Jackson.
I have an appointment with my husband's attorney.
And your husband's name? Uh, Andrew.
Uh, An-Andrew Jackson.
Um, I don't have anything in the books.
I swear, I can't leave him to arrange anything.
Don't get me started.
My husband's the same way.
I'll try giving him a call.
He probably won't pick up.
He's so slammed at work.
Y-You know what.
It's okay.
Um, I can call - Mr.
Collins' assistant.
- Oh, would you? - Of course.
- Thank you so much.
Hi, Lynne.
Yeah, does Martin have an appointment with? Oh, my oh, my God.
Are you all right? Oh, it's fine.
Don't worry about it.
It's, uh yeah, it's fine.
There's no Martin Collins listed at Greenburg.
No paralegal, no assistant, no intern, no nothing.
Try Burnett Hanson in the cache.
TOUMI: It's the law firm where Omar and Ardavan met.
Closed down two years ago.
Hey, there.
Collins was listed in the HR department at Burnett Hanson.
And now he shows up as Andrew Jackson's lawyer.
Maybe he's the one they didn't want you to find.
Maybe he's the reason you ended up on the kill list.
Here.
One sec.
(MAX GRUNTS) Collins was at Georgetown in '96.
(LIQUID POURING) What? Do you recognize her? Amanda Jones.
The drone strike press conference.
She was there.
HARRY: Oh, she and Collins went to Georgetown together.
Okay, so Collins connects Andrew Jackson and Amanda Jones.
MAX: Attorney-client privilege? Maybe they were using his office to communicate.
There's got to be more to it than just them.
There's got to be someone else involved.
Collins is a civilian.
That's probably why they didn't want you to find him.
He's the weak link.
(GLASS SHATTERS) (DOOR CREAKS) (SCREAMING) (SCREAMING) Take the wife.
- Take the fucking wife! - Honey! Honey! Honey! No.
(MUFFLED YELLING) (SOBBING) (MUFFLED GROANING) Let's go.
In here, in here, in here.
Here.
(MIRANDA CRYING) (GASPS) (GROANS) Fuck! - Leyla, Leyla.
- I can manage.
Stop being so stubborn for once in your life.
- (GROANS) - Please.
(SIGHS) (INHALES, EXHALES) Oh.
(HISSES) (GROANS) (INHALES, EXHALES) (INHALES) (QUIETLY): Thank you.
(DOOR SQUEAKS OPEN) MAX: You okay? I'm fine.
Didn't have to take his wife.
(DOOR SQUEAKS OPEN) (SIGHS) (PHONE RINGING AND BUZZING) Max? Sorry if I woke you.
Is everything okay? Are you hurt? No, I'm fine, I I just need to hear them.
Okay.
(BREATHING OVER PHONE) Thank you.
(GRUNTING) Tell me who you work for.
(STAMMERING): I (GRUNTING) Tell me who you work for! They'll kill me.
I tell you, they they'll kill me.
(COUGHS) (GROANING) Come here.
(GROANING) No, please.
Please, no, she's not involved! Please, I'm begging you.
My kids weren't involved! All right, my youngest is seven fucking years old.
She's been chased, she's been shot at, - she's been terrified.
- I had nothing to do with that.
I swear.
I'm begging you! - It wasn't me! - Then who was it?! - Huh? Who? - (CRYING) - Fuck it.
On your knees.
- Oh.
- No.
- HARRY: No, Max.
Max, no, enough! Stop! - Enough! - Back off! Max! (PANTING) No.
No! (CHOKING) Okay, okay! I'll tell you, I'll tell you! I'll tell you! (SCREAMING) COLLINS: Please.
- (GAGGING) - Please.
Ah, God, no.
(MIRANDA GAGGING) (COLLINS CRYING) (PANTING) (GROANS) (BEEPS) Begin.
I have it.
I need someone I can take it to.
Someone with influence.
I'll see what I can dig up.
Bye.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER) That must be some breakfast.
- Excuse me? - I mean, if you've been coming here for 20 years.
What is it, the eggs? I come because I get left alone.
(SIGHS) Why do I get the feeling you're not going to introduce yourself? Senator Burrell, you won't want this to be overheard.
My name is Martin Collins.
I'm an attorney at Greenburg, Morgan & Squire.
My client my only client is William Kingsley of Kingsley Merchant Proctor Hall, an engineering and construction company with subsidiaries in defense and private security.
They made $40 billion from the Iraq War.
After that, they set about trying to ensure those kinds of returns.
To that end they infiltrated the intelligence services to act on their behalf.
Their key contact is Amanda Jones, a senior supervisor at the Central Intelligence Agency.
There is no active Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Jordan Franklin and his colleagues were not killed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
This is the long arm of KMPH and others like them.
Governments come and go.
These guys are forever.
They determine who to bomb, where to invade.
They build the drones, the Hellfire missiles that destroy the homes, the factories.
Then they get the contracts to rebuild those same homes, those same factories.
Cash from chaos.
War on terror.
War in perpetuity.
I can't do anything with this.
I'm sorry? You bring me this guy, he tells me where the bodies are buried, maybe, maybe I can do something with that.
Maybe.
What, that's it? What do you want me to say? People aren't interested in the truth anymore.
It doesn't play like it used to.
(SIGHS) I can't get ahold of Collins.
He's not at home.
His wife's not at home.
There anything you want to tell me? No, sir.
Okay.
I'm gonna choose to believe you.
The president's wavering on his decision to bomb Tehran.
This will give him the nudge he's looking for.
I started out as a roughneck.
Lowest position you can get on a rig.
- Did you know that? - No.
No one handed me a damn thing.
First desk job I got, hired an assistant.
Margaret.
Beautiful woman.
Paid her out of my own salary.
Always did.
She passed on last year.
I'm sorry to hear that.
40 years, she worked for me.
By my side every day.
(CHUCKLES) Hell, she knew me better than my wife.
Collins turned on you.
The moment Esfahani's confession hit the screen.
Took him all of about two seconds.
People don't understand the value of loyalty.
He's a white-shoe errand boy.
You play this right, maybe we change the way we do things.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER) Well, this is an unexpected pleasure.
Is there somewhere we can talk? What's this about? You are gonna give this to the president's chief of staff.
The president was on a trip to Dubai.
Well, he wasn't the president then, but still.
We're all trying to escape our pasts, aren't we? There's plenty more where that came from.
I serve the American people.
I am not your bitch.
Kentucky lower house.
Ken Stolt, your opponent, had a heart attack, if I recall.
You were elected unopposed.
1998, you made it all the way to the U.
S.
Senate.
Lucky.
Mike Connolly, your opponent in that race, he found himself beset by personal problems, didn't he? Wasn't much of a contest then either.
See, we've been looking out for you before you were even aware of it.
You will be anything we say you are, Senator.
Sources close to the White House are saying tonight they expect the president - to order a strike on the Alin - (KNOCKING) nuclear weapons facility within the next few hours.
You're a hard man to find.
MAX: I wouldn't press that if I were you.
Not if you want Collins back.
(EXHALES) She's got your eyes.
Evie, right? I've got a couple of my own, but you know that already.
It wasn't my call.
Yeah.
I've heard that a lot lately.
I sit with Chloe, my daughter, before she goes to sleep.
She tells me about her day.
Rabbits away.
Can't get her to shut up.
Only now she's gonna talk to me about people chasing her with guns.
- I'm sorry.
- No, you're not.
It's lucky for you, I'm not here to get even.
Not this time, anyway.
They made $40 billion from the Iraq War.
After that, they set about trying to ensure those kinds of returns.
To that end, they infiltrated the intelligence services to act on their behalf.
Their key contact is Amanda Jones, the senior supervisor at You get the idea.
If anything happens to me or my family, this gets out there.
And suddenly you're a problem for them.
(MUFFLED SCREAMING) HARRY: Why didn't you take the wife? TOUMI: You didn't take him to Burrell, did you? Took him to Amanda Jones.
What, you sold us out? No.
She now has a vested interest in our safety.
She'll fucking bury it.
We had a chance to get the truth out We had a chance.
Okay.
I can see you're disappointed.
(SCOFFS) What's new? I've always been disappointed in you.
You could've changed that.
What, by taking Collins to Burrell? By doing the right thing.
For once.
And what do you think would have happened? Huh? I'll tell you what would have happened.
We would have handed him over, the press would've had a field day for a couple of weeks, maybe a couple of months.
The government would have had their inquiry, a token head would have rolled, and then everything would have been exactly the same as it was before.
We would have stood for something.
And this miserable fucking mess might've been worth it.
Well, when the dust has settled, and everyone's focus is on the next big scandal, you know what would've happened? They would've come for us.
They would have come for you, for me.
For Chloe and Lola.
All of us.
I bought us our freedom.
Got us our lives back.
Now, you might not like the way I've done it but it's over.
You understand? Now we get to go home.
Sir? We need to put a hold on Iran.
And why in God's name would we do that? To contain the fallout.
From what? COLLINS (ON RECORDER): My only client is William Kingsley of Kingsley Merchant Proctor Hall.
They made $40 billion from the Iraq war.
After that, they set about trying to ensure those kinds of returns You just made yourself a major liability, Amanda.
No, what I've done is tie our futures together, sir.
I disappear, this tape gets released.
I want more say in future operations, and I want a greater cut of the deal.
Who got to Collins? A former asset.
Max Easton.
All right, we'll put it on hold for now.
Tie up the loose ends.
I'll do that.
Max Easton.
I'd like to keep him around.
He could prove useful.
Let me think about that one.
(CAR DOOR SHUTS) (ENGINE STARTS) REPORTER: The White House today announced that the president is prepared to give a chance to last-minute diplomatic attempts at finding a peaceful resolution to the Iran crisis.
How did you do it? After the Lebanon fiasco, your career's on life-support.
And now you get my desk? I can come back later if you need more time.
KINGSLEY: With Iran on hold, we need to look at other ideas to make up the shortfall in our quarterly projections.
BOARD MEMBER: I've been looking at the Yemen.
Lots of instability over there.
Given a nudge or two, could bring us some decent opportunities.
JONES (ON TV): Yes.
REPORTER: There are 854,000 contract personnel with top secret clearances a number greater than that of cleared civilian employees of the government.
Is that something that concerns you? We are a model for how the state can work effectively with private contractors, and that is something we intend to expand.
REPORTER: These contractors are setting the direction for the country without being subject to congressional hearings or oversight.
JONES: These are brave American men and women who make an invaluable contribution to the national security of this country.
They keep us safe.
All of us, you included.
(LAUGHTER) (INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER) Daddy! Daddy, Daddy.
- Daddy! Daddy! - Daddy! Daddy! (MAX LAUGHS) Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Come on, let's get back in the pool.
- Come on.
- You go, you go.
(SPLASHING)
You're going to speak about your firsthand knowledge of the current uranium enrichment program.
There is no such program.
What evidence would you have to backup your claim? JONES: They're gonna want verification.
There's no silver bullet.
Intelligence that helps them complete the picture.
Soil samples, air, water.
Whoever we send that there, they can't come back.
How are you doing, Jordan? Like a guy with only the gym to occupy him.
JONES: We have a new landing site.
32, 38, 50 North.
45, 25, 22 East.
They're in position.
Tehran connection playing ball? Like he was one of us.
Someone's here.
- (GUNSHOT) - (GRUNTS) All right.
Let's move out.
He's American.
He's American.
(MAX PANTING) We're safe.
It's all clear.
They've gone.
But we need to move.
Come on.
Good girl.
Come on.
(GRUNTS) (BIRDS CHIRPING) TOUMI: Do you think that's gonna give us anything? HARRY: Honestly, I have no idea.
(SNIFFS) They didn't stand a chance.
And we just fucking watched.
It's okay.
We need to keep going.
We need to get out of here.
Call Max.
Come.
You may find yourself In another part of the world Living in a beautiful house With a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself "How do I work this?" This is not my beautiful house This is not my beautiful wife And you may ask yourself "Well" "How did I get here?" - (ON TV): They were apparently escorting - Daddy, Daddy! A group of international scientists Hey.
Are you ever a sight for sore eyes.
Huh? Hi, honey.
- Hey.
- How was your trip? TV REPORTER: Jordan Franklin was an American hero.
He was the best of us.
His murder, along with five other - brave Americans - Turn that off.
Would you? must not go unanswered.
How long are they away for? Two weeks.
They gave me the keys.
Asked me to water the plants.
Is this another safe house, Max? Or are they gonna find us here, like they found us in the other safe houses? Come on, girls, let's go to your room.
Right.
Who wants to go on top, who wants to go on the bottom? I want to go at the bottom.
- Okay.
- But I don't like blue.
You don't like blue.
Hmm.
I'll tell you what.
Hold him.
If we do a little bit of this and then a little bit of that Ta-da.
I miss my room.
I want to go home.
Me, too.
And we will.
- When? - Soon.
You promise? I promise.
Do you pinky promise? I pinky promise.
We need to get you two in the bath.
Are you gonna come home with us? (MAX SIGHS) (CRYING) There's no ham.
Lola will only eat ham.
What am I supposed to do? We'll go out and get some.
How? Who will go? We can't even leave the (SOBS) Hey, hey.
Come here.
(SOBS) (MOANS) What you did, you had no choice.
You had to do it.
You had to do it, you understand? (GASPS) And who put me in that position? You tell me that.
He's considering his options.
Am I missing something? We have the most trigger-happy president in history and six dead American heroes in the Iranian dirt.
The president is his own man.
You mean he's a fucking child who can't make up his mind.
SPENCE: 600,000 pairs of boots.
Four million pairs of socks.
Two million T-shirts.
1,400,000 desert fatigues.
3,600,000 How are we coming along? Uh, $900,282,000.
65.
You couldn't round it up? What about fuel? Haven't started on that yet, sir.
Got up to $600 a gallon to deliver to the battlefield in Afghanistan.
Let's see if we can't top that this time.
Put another ten percent on boots.
We just do that? In Djibouti we charged the DOD $25.
5 million for a gym.
Trust me.
We can add another ten percent on boots.
(PHONE KEYPAD BEEPING) (PHONE BUZZING) - Listen, I've told you not to - You fucked me.
We had agreement.
And you fucked me.
Do you think there won't be no consequences? There will be fucking consequences.
(LINE RINGING) - Pullman.
- I need good news.
- Max Easton? - He, uh slipped through the net.
Christ.
The family? All of them.
Jesus Christ, Seth, you're gonna give me a fucking migraine.
Find them! (TAPPING ON DOOR) - Hey.
- TOUMI: Hey.
- Harry.
- (LAUGHS): Hi.
Hey.
Are you all right? - Mm-hmm.
- Who's this? Uh, this is my sister.
Chloe.
Enchanté.
(SCOFFS) (LAUGHS) They've had a long journey.
Come on.
Let's get 'em something to eat.
"'You are in a great hurry, then, ' said Fix to him one day, 'to reach Hong Kong?'" - TOUMI: Max? Max.
- Hmm.
Uh, I'm sorry.
We've got no proof of anything.
No defector, no drone strike, no power plants.
We've got nothing concrete.
All we've got is some blood in the sand.
So what do we do with it? MAX: I was going to make a cup of tea, but you've only got soy milk.
I don't know how you can drink that stuff.
I'm calling the police.
Jordan Franklin was killed by an American.
They're gonna bomb a weapons facility that doesn't exist, then they're gonna go to war with Iran.
All based on nothing.
Just like last time.
Only this time there's a chance we can get the truth out there.
You think that'll do any good? I don't know.
But which side of this thing do you want to be on? I need you to run some bloods.
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE) The blood sample was contaminated, but we managed to get some partial results.
- MAX: Thanks.
- Sending them over now.
There's over 200,000 partial matches.
Okay, um, how many of those are Americans who served? (TYPING) Any of them working private security? TOUMI: 62.
Stop.
There.
That's him.
He was there.
TOUMI: Major Andrew Jackson.
Let's see if we can find out where he lives.
Someone will be in the house the whole time to protect you and the girls.
Will they have a gun? They will.
Anna, I'm doing everything I can.
I have to go.
Max.
Be careful.
Yeah.
(DOOR OPENS) (DOOR CLOSES) (SOBS) (SCREAMS) (CRYING) (GROANING) (GROANS, SOBS) REPORTER: Tehran has released a taped confession from an Iranian intelligence officer who claims the U.
S.
government was responsible for the deaths of the six Americans near the Alin nuclear weapons facility.
Sources close to the White House are saying tonight they expect the president to order a strike - on the Alin nuclear weapons facility - (PHONE BUZZING) within the next few hours.
COLLINS: It's Jones.
Don't take it.
COLLINS: You've reached Collins.
Please leave a messa She's become a problem.
It's time to get rid of her.
(TIRES SCREECH) WOMAN (OVER P.
A.
): Would all passengers for flight number TA646 to Rome please make your way to Gate 17? That's Gate 17 for You got to see this.
Look who showed up at Dulles Airport.
Where are you staying? The Willard.
Nice.
Who's footing the bill? This trip is a celebration.
Long, long overdue.
What are you celebrating? My divorce.
If she's here, they've got something on us.
I want to know what it is.
Let her go.
Follow her.
BOARD MEMBER: Based on the projected bombing campaign of Tehran Using the Baghdad model.
Uh-huh.
We're looking at an increase in our construction turnover of $2 billion.
I want to avoid any, uh, unseemly profiteering.
God knows last time it gave me a stomach ulcer.
It's about jobs for the Iranian people.
They drive the rebuilding of their own country, fate in their own hands, so on and so forth.
Now, all construction on this goes through, uh Mashadan Construction, out of Tehran.
In whom one of our subsidiaries recently acquired a majority stake.
When can we expect the go-ahead from the president? The man tweets like a teenage girl.
You really think we're gonna leave this up to him? BOARD MEMBER: And we're assuming a surgical strike will be enough to meet our projections? The Eskan housing complex 30 miles from the Alin Power Plant.
In the second wave of launches, one of our cruise missiles will veer off course.
I think you'll find things will escalate pretty quickly from there.
So, what happened? Why the delay? They took me for secondary interview.
MAX: And? Nothing.
They let me go.
Which means they know we're here.
(ENGINE STOPS) Max.
Hey, Bob.
He looks nothing like you.
Yeah.
Lucky for him.
Thanks for helping us out.
Whatever you need.
Hello? Hello? (RUSTLING) TOUMI: What are we looking for? MAX: Anything that tells us who Jackson's working for.
They're out at the end of Blazer Lane.
That's Jackson's place.
Let's go.
They're here.
Go.
Out the back.
I'll buy us some time.
(GUNSHOTS) (TOUMI SHOUTS) (GUNFIRE) (HARRY GRUNTS) Come on.
- Stay with me.
- (SHOUTS) (BOTH GRUNT) Come on.
(BOTH GRUNTING) Okay, okay.
(GROANS) Give me your hand.
Put this on.
Hold that tight.
(GUNFIRE CONTINUES IN DISTANCE) (AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE) Thought you'd gone.
What, and leave you on your own? (GUNFIRE CONTINUES IN DISTANCE) (GRUNTS) Cease fire! Cease fire! Fuck.
And we let three isolated, useless fucking Brits slip through our fingers? Let me use Metro or the Bureau.
And lose control of this more than I already have? (EXHALES) You need to tell Collins they're here.
Yeah.
And how do you think that ends for me? (GROANS) - Right.
Over here.
- (PANTING) TOUMI (PAINED): Oh! (CRYING) (PANTING) - (EXHALES) - HARRY: Stay still.
(TOUMI PANTING) (GASPING) - MAX: Keep still.
- (PANTING) (SCREAMING) - It's done.
- (CRYING) - It's done.
- (SIGHS) You okay? Yeah.
She's a fighter.
Most stubborn woman I've ever met.
Apart from your mother.
Have you found anything from Jackson's documents? He's got a daughter in the second grade, his favorite film's The Big Lebowski, and his wife's late with the car payments.
Nothing useful.
Yeah, we've come a long way to hit a dead end.
(SIGHS) Thanks.
Here, Greenburg, Morgan & Squire.
What's that? Washington law firm.
Why would they be paying Jackson's mortgage? Commercial law.
Hmm.
But no links to anything political? Military? Hmm.
Nothing I can find.
They got over 200 lawyers.
Which one's Jackson's? No idea.
TOUMI: Maybe I can help you find out.
Big firm like that.
Receptionist might not know what Jackson's wife looks like.
- It's worth a shot.
- Uh, you need to rest.
Don't tell me what to do, Harry.
It never ends well.
(AMERICAN ACCENT): Hi there.
I'm Mrs.
Cathy Jackson.
I have an appointment with my husband's attorney.
And your husband's name? Uh, Andrew.
Uh, An-Andrew Jackson.
Um, I don't have anything in the books.
I swear, I can't leave him to arrange anything.
Don't get me started.
My husband's the same way.
I'll try giving him a call.
He probably won't pick up.
He's so slammed at work.
Y-You know what.
It's okay.
Um, I can call - Mr.
Collins' assistant.
- Oh, would you? - Of course.
- Thank you so much.
Hi, Lynne.
Yeah, does Martin have an appointment with? Oh, my oh, my God.
Are you all right? Oh, it's fine.
Don't worry about it.
It's, uh yeah, it's fine.
There's no Martin Collins listed at Greenburg.
No paralegal, no assistant, no intern, no nothing.
Try Burnett Hanson in the cache.
TOUMI: It's the law firm where Omar and Ardavan met.
Closed down two years ago.
Hey, there.
Collins was listed in the HR department at Burnett Hanson.
And now he shows up as Andrew Jackson's lawyer.
Maybe he's the one they didn't want you to find.
Maybe he's the reason you ended up on the kill list.
Here.
One sec.
(MAX GRUNTS) Collins was at Georgetown in '96.
(LIQUID POURING) What? Do you recognize her? Amanda Jones.
The drone strike press conference.
She was there.
HARRY: Oh, she and Collins went to Georgetown together.
Okay, so Collins connects Andrew Jackson and Amanda Jones.
MAX: Attorney-client privilege? Maybe they were using his office to communicate.
There's got to be more to it than just them.
There's got to be someone else involved.
Collins is a civilian.
That's probably why they didn't want you to find him.
He's the weak link.
(GLASS SHATTERS) (DOOR CREAKS) (SCREAMING) (SCREAMING) Take the wife.
- Take the fucking wife! - Honey! Honey! Honey! No.
(MUFFLED YELLING) (SOBBING) (MUFFLED GROANING) Let's go.
In here, in here, in here.
Here.
(MIRANDA CRYING) (GASPS) (GROANS) Fuck! - Leyla, Leyla.
- I can manage.
Stop being so stubborn for once in your life.
- (GROANS) - Please.
(SIGHS) (INHALES, EXHALES) Oh.
(HISSES) (GROANS) (INHALES, EXHALES) (INHALES) (QUIETLY): Thank you.
(DOOR SQUEAKS OPEN) MAX: You okay? I'm fine.
Didn't have to take his wife.
(DOOR SQUEAKS OPEN) (SIGHS) (PHONE RINGING AND BUZZING) Max? Sorry if I woke you.
Is everything okay? Are you hurt? No, I'm fine, I I just need to hear them.
Okay.
(BREATHING OVER PHONE) Thank you.
(GRUNTING) Tell me who you work for.
(STAMMERING): I (GRUNTING) Tell me who you work for! They'll kill me.
I tell you, they they'll kill me.
(COUGHS) (GROANING) Come here.
(GROANING) No, please.
Please, no, she's not involved! Please, I'm begging you.
My kids weren't involved! All right, my youngest is seven fucking years old.
She's been chased, she's been shot at, - she's been terrified.
- I had nothing to do with that.
I swear.
I'm begging you! - It wasn't me! - Then who was it?! - Huh? Who? - (CRYING) - Fuck it.
On your knees.
- Oh.
- No.
- HARRY: No, Max.
Max, no, enough! Stop! - Enough! - Back off! Max! (PANTING) No.
No! (CHOKING) Okay, okay! I'll tell you, I'll tell you! I'll tell you! (SCREAMING) COLLINS: Please.
- (GAGGING) - Please.
Ah, God, no.
(MIRANDA GAGGING) (COLLINS CRYING) (PANTING) (GROANS) (BEEPS) Begin.
I have it.
I need someone I can take it to.
Someone with influence.
I'll see what I can dig up.
Bye.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER) That must be some breakfast.
- Excuse me? - I mean, if you've been coming here for 20 years.
What is it, the eggs? I come because I get left alone.
(SIGHS) Why do I get the feeling you're not going to introduce yourself? Senator Burrell, you won't want this to be overheard.
My name is Martin Collins.
I'm an attorney at Greenburg, Morgan & Squire.
My client my only client is William Kingsley of Kingsley Merchant Proctor Hall, an engineering and construction company with subsidiaries in defense and private security.
They made $40 billion from the Iraq War.
After that, they set about trying to ensure those kinds of returns.
To that end they infiltrated the intelligence services to act on their behalf.
Their key contact is Amanda Jones, a senior supervisor at the Central Intelligence Agency.
There is no active Iranian nuclear weapons program.
Jordan Franklin and his colleagues were not killed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
This is the long arm of KMPH and others like them.
Governments come and go.
These guys are forever.
They determine who to bomb, where to invade.
They build the drones, the Hellfire missiles that destroy the homes, the factories.
Then they get the contracts to rebuild those same homes, those same factories.
Cash from chaos.
War on terror.
War in perpetuity.
I can't do anything with this.
I'm sorry? You bring me this guy, he tells me where the bodies are buried, maybe, maybe I can do something with that.
Maybe.
What, that's it? What do you want me to say? People aren't interested in the truth anymore.
It doesn't play like it used to.
(SIGHS) I can't get ahold of Collins.
He's not at home.
His wife's not at home.
There anything you want to tell me? No, sir.
Okay.
I'm gonna choose to believe you.
The president's wavering on his decision to bomb Tehran.
This will give him the nudge he's looking for.
I started out as a roughneck.
Lowest position you can get on a rig.
- Did you know that? - No.
No one handed me a damn thing.
First desk job I got, hired an assistant.
Margaret.
Beautiful woman.
Paid her out of my own salary.
Always did.
She passed on last year.
I'm sorry to hear that.
40 years, she worked for me.
By my side every day.
(CHUCKLES) Hell, she knew me better than my wife.
Collins turned on you.
The moment Esfahani's confession hit the screen.
Took him all of about two seconds.
People don't understand the value of loyalty.
He's a white-shoe errand boy.
You play this right, maybe we change the way we do things.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER) Well, this is an unexpected pleasure.
Is there somewhere we can talk? What's this about? You are gonna give this to the president's chief of staff.
The president was on a trip to Dubai.
Well, he wasn't the president then, but still.
We're all trying to escape our pasts, aren't we? There's plenty more where that came from.
I serve the American people.
I am not your bitch.
Kentucky lower house.
Ken Stolt, your opponent, had a heart attack, if I recall.
You were elected unopposed.
1998, you made it all the way to the U.
S.
Senate.
Lucky.
Mike Connolly, your opponent in that race, he found himself beset by personal problems, didn't he? Wasn't much of a contest then either.
See, we've been looking out for you before you were even aware of it.
You will be anything we say you are, Senator.
Sources close to the White House are saying tonight they expect the president - to order a strike on the Alin - (KNOCKING) nuclear weapons facility within the next few hours.
You're a hard man to find.
MAX: I wouldn't press that if I were you.
Not if you want Collins back.
(EXHALES) She's got your eyes.
Evie, right? I've got a couple of my own, but you know that already.
It wasn't my call.
Yeah.
I've heard that a lot lately.
I sit with Chloe, my daughter, before she goes to sleep.
She tells me about her day.
Rabbits away.
Can't get her to shut up.
Only now she's gonna talk to me about people chasing her with guns.
- I'm sorry.
- No, you're not.
It's lucky for you, I'm not here to get even.
Not this time, anyway.
They made $40 billion from the Iraq War.
After that, they set about trying to ensure those kinds of returns.
To that end, they infiltrated the intelligence services to act on their behalf.
Their key contact is Amanda Jones, the senior supervisor at You get the idea.
If anything happens to me or my family, this gets out there.
And suddenly you're a problem for them.
(MUFFLED SCREAMING) HARRY: Why didn't you take the wife? TOUMI: You didn't take him to Burrell, did you? Took him to Amanda Jones.
What, you sold us out? No.
She now has a vested interest in our safety.
She'll fucking bury it.
We had a chance to get the truth out We had a chance.
Okay.
I can see you're disappointed.
(SCOFFS) What's new? I've always been disappointed in you.
You could've changed that.
What, by taking Collins to Burrell? By doing the right thing.
For once.
And what do you think would have happened? Huh? I'll tell you what would have happened.
We would have handed him over, the press would've had a field day for a couple of weeks, maybe a couple of months.
The government would have had their inquiry, a token head would have rolled, and then everything would have been exactly the same as it was before.
We would have stood for something.
And this miserable fucking mess might've been worth it.
Well, when the dust has settled, and everyone's focus is on the next big scandal, you know what would've happened? They would've come for us.
They would have come for you, for me.
For Chloe and Lola.
All of us.
I bought us our freedom.
Got us our lives back.
Now, you might not like the way I've done it but it's over.
You understand? Now we get to go home.
Sir? We need to put a hold on Iran.
And why in God's name would we do that? To contain the fallout.
From what? COLLINS (ON RECORDER): My only client is William Kingsley of Kingsley Merchant Proctor Hall.
They made $40 billion from the Iraq war.
After that, they set about trying to ensure those kinds of returns You just made yourself a major liability, Amanda.
No, what I've done is tie our futures together, sir.
I disappear, this tape gets released.
I want more say in future operations, and I want a greater cut of the deal.
Who got to Collins? A former asset.
Max Easton.
All right, we'll put it on hold for now.
Tie up the loose ends.
I'll do that.
Max Easton.
I'd like to keep him around.
He could prove useful.
Let me think about that one.
(CAR DOOR SHUTS) (ENGINE STARTS) REPORTER: The White House today announced that the president is prepared to give a chance to last-minute diplomatic attempts at finding a peaceful resolution to the Iran crisis.
How did you do it? After the Lebanon fiasco, your career's on life-support.
And now you get my desk? I can come back later if you need more time.
KINGSLEY: With Iran on hold, we need to look at other ideas to make up the shortfall in our quarterly projections.
BOARD MEMBER: I've been looking at the Yemen.
Lots of instability over there.
Given a nudge or two, could bring us some decent opportunities.
JONES (ON TV): Yes.
REPORTER: There are 854,000 contract personnel with top secret clearances a number greater than that of cleared civilian employees of the government.
Is that something that concerns you? We are a model for how the state can work effectively with private contractors, and that is something we intend to expand.
REPORTER: These contractors are setting the direction for the country without being subject to congressional hearings or oversight.
JONES: These are brave American men and women who make an invaluable contribution to the national security of this country.
They keep us safe.
All of us, you included.
(LAUGHTER) (INDISTINCT CHATTER, LAUGHTER) Daddy! Daddy, Daddy.
- Daddy! Daddy! - Daddy! Daddy! (MAX LAUGHS) Hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Come on, let's get back in the pool.
- Come on.
- You go, you go.
(SPLASHING)