Counterintelligence (2020) - full transcript
Two days after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, a young careerist is abducted by an at-large intelligence operative carrying a mysterious briefcase, while being hotly pursued by a driven agency director and her dull-witted team.
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- [Sydney] Extremism is a thing
that most people don't understand
because they don't live an extreme life,
they live day-to-day going to their jobs
and being with their friends
and taking care of their families
in their small towns with
their two cars and their dog.
Extremism to them is...
- Ding dong, ding dong.
- Hey Fred, what's up?
- [Fred] Able, how are you doing?
- Fine, fine, good, what's up?
- Works okay?
- Yeah, yeah, just the
usual thing, what's up?
- Well, I have some pretty
exciting news, you ready?
- Sure.
- You sir were chosen for a field op.
May I?
- Oh, yeah, yeah, I thought...
- A field op, yes, it turns
out one of our sister agencies
needs completion and bing
bong you were chosen.
Pretty exciting stuff, huh?
And it's very, very low-risk,
you're just getting your feet wet
and there's nothing to worry about.
- You're sure?
- If I was you sir, I wouldn't
ask so many questions.
You're now in the fold.
- I really, I never...
- Don't even worry about it, okay.
All you're doing is dropping
of a simple package,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
and you'll be home in time for dinner.
Your work's outstanding Able.
This is nothing really, it's just routine.
- It's everything to me Fred.
- That is why I like you,
that is why I like you so damn much.
Did you make this?
- [Able] You know I did.
- If I could just see the
world through your eyes,
I'd be better man.
That is why I keep you around sir.
Just check your email
and we'll see you in
the morning, okay bud?
- Okay.
- Put me the game coach.
Have a good one.
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- [Sydney] We're live with
award winning host Sydney Beale.
Ignorance is bliss for
those who are ignorant
but for the rest of us
it's a pain in the ass.
I want ya to tell me what
you think is going on
'cause what you think is going on,
what you believe is going on
is not what's really going
on it's what you think.
- [Group] Fuck Donald
Trump, fuck Donald Trump,
fuck Donald Trump.
- [Sydney] Don't tell me you're
right when there's a fact
out there that says many
times over you're wrong.
And what's happened is people think things
and then all these other
thousands of people say,
"Oh, yeah I think that too."
And then they create websites,
and they create newspapers online,
and they write articles, and
they know their audience,
and they appoint these
things to their audience.
It's not true but that doesn't matter.
What you think, what you believe,
what you want to think is true,
is true to you.
If you wanna believe it,
it's not a fabrication.
But you know what is,
things that aren't true are not factual.
(sirens roaring)
They're just not curious.
(group chattering)
But it's important to be
curious for everybody else.
I don't I have $49,000
laying around do you?
And having a lack of interest
in finding out what's real.
Same thing as running the scissors.
- [Able] Hey buddy, how are ya?
- Ah, is that it in there?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
You know what's in that.
I'm making you nervous.
- Yeah, you're
making me nervous, yeah.
- I think we need to get this done.
- And we will.
- Oh yeah.
- And we will.
Hey wait!
No, no, no. - Give it here.
- [Able] Let go, it's not right.
- [Buck] Are you listening?
- [Evelyn] Yes, I can hear you.
- [Buck] I'm not asking
if you can hear me.
Are you listening Evelyn?
- [Evelyn] Yes sir, yes I am, I am sir.
- [Buck] When I came
to you and your people,
I was told this would be open and shut.
- I...
- Stop.
I know the private sector pays more
than your old gig in
Washington but it pays more
because it demands
attention and discretion.
Do not forget that I can
cut this little inflection
of yours in half and send you back
to fucking mail room
in Langley, understood?
- Yes sir, absolutely.
Fuck!
- (mumbles).
- [Able] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
- What the fuck!
Jesus Christ!
Got a quarter?
- I'll give you five bucks
for your coat.
- Fuck out of here!
- 10, 10, 10, you can have mine.
- This ain't a auction motherfucker.
- All right, all right,
I'll give you 52, $52.
- All right.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It's your money.
- [Able] Oh my God.
- [Homeless Man] It's a pretty good coat.
- Here you go, thanks.
Oh God.
- It looks good.
There you go.
- Oh, oh.
- Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ, get your shit together.
That's kinda disgusting.
- Oh fuckin' shit.
- Hey you got
a quarter brother?
- [Sydney] Back to
KYXK's 48 hour marathon,
the best of counter intelligence.
Al right we're live.
The show that goes deep into
the hood of the nation today.
Ignorance is bless for
those who are ignorant
but for the rest of us
it's a pain in the ass.
Like a baby boomer
(mumbles) me but I feel
like I've been left behind.
I feel like everything's
moving on without me.
I feel like modern times
have not included me.
I feel like (mumbles).
- Yeah, yeah, far enough.
- Are you eating?
- No.
- Ed.
- Yeah.
- We need to un-fuck
this, that's your job.
Now I want you to tell Jay.
- Yeah, she says, "We gotta
take care of this thing."
- [Evelyn] My exact words.
- Said, "That it's, that we
need to un-fuck this thing."
- Now ask him if he understands?
- Make sense?
Yeah, he says yeah.
- I wanna hear his fucking voice.
(voice echoing)
- [Sydney] Or if it's far enough
away so you get in your car
and you drive...
- She want's you to say it.
- [Sydney] But it's
Sunday, they're closed.
- We gotta un-fuck this.
- [Sydney] They have the entire.
- It's your job.
- [Sydney] With keywords
in there (mumbles).
- Fuck.
- Fuck.
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- [Angela] Look listen, stop talking okay.
I'll be there.
- [Sydney] We're not trying
very hard you know why,
we made it too easy.
Smartphones are great for (mumbles)
dumb people can have 'em.
- (mumbles) you need to chill, both of you
so I'll be there and
everything's gonna be fine,
everything'll be fine Dave.
All right. - Yeah, yes.
- This is my life.
I'm still on my way.
This is my fucking life.
Still, yeah, still driving.
Keep cool, keep cool, keep
cool, you can do this.
When do I get to not do my job right?
Suck it up, do the
fucking job, suck it up.
When do I get to just
kick back and fuck up?
(mumbles).
I am so sorry it will not happen again.
I will send it as soon as I am able to.
Yeah, I'm on my way.
I will, yeah, mm-hmm, almost there.
Fuck you, you're okay.
- He wants flowers and
instant oatmeal Angie okay.
- Yes I will do the sheet
again, mm-hmm, okay, buh-bye.
Bitch.
What kind of flowers?
- He does not give a shit.
- I give a shit okay.
This is my job Dave not yours
so the least you could do
is have some fucking empathy
'cause I'm out here.
I'm out here, my ass
is on the line not you
or that rat faced motherfucker.
Double my pay or (mumbles)
fucking assistant
you fucking (mumbles).
- Angela.
- Be there in 25.
(crying)
I can't do this, I just can't.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, have a good day.
(screaming)
- Hey so...
- Come on what?
- I am the worst.
- What?
- I'm sorry, you gotta go back.
He wants, he wants sunflower seeds, cake,
he wants some chocolate
cake and a bag of peanuts.
Sorry.
- [Angela] Is this for
him or for everybody?
- I honestly, I don't know.
Sorry, thank you.
- Dick.
Do you wanna like take this stuff in?
- I don't think he needs it.
(screaming)
- [Sydney] Speak out because
of the First Amendment right
you (mumbles) say anything you wanna say
whether it's a swear word or not,
you can say it because you live
in the United States of America
and that's part of the rules
you get to say what you really think.
- The worst people on the fucking planet.
- Janet, Janet is that you?
- Excuse me?
- Janet, yeah.
- What are you doing?
What are you doing, what are you doing?
- I'll shoot you, I'll fucking shoot you.
I swear to God I'll shoot you.
Act natural, just be calm, all right,
or I'm gonna fuckin' shoot
you unless you get in the car.
I'm gonna get in the backseat
and you're gonna drive okay.
So don't fuckin' fuck
around here, get in the car,
right fucking now get in the car,
get in the car, get in the car now.
Come on, come on, come on.
- Just take it.
- I don't want it.
Get in the fucking car okay.
I'm sorry just I need you to
get in the car and be quiet.
Put your fuckin' hands down.
Put your hands down, act
normal, act normal okay.
Come on, get in the car.
Come on, get in the fucking car now.
That's it, go, go, go.
Don't be fuckin' stupid.
- So much.
- Hurry the fuck up.
What are you doing?
- (mumbles).
- [Able] Okay, lets go,
come on let's go, let's go.
Come on, come on hurry up.
Come on, let's go,
drive, come on, come on.
- Where?
- [Able] Just fuckin' drive
get us out of here now.
Come on.
- [Angela] Okay, okay, okay.
- [Sydney] The people
that already here right.
- [Able] Fuck!
Fuck!
- [Angela] I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- [Able] Goddammit these things go off.
Do you want that?
I don't want that.
- Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- Okay, go.
- [Angela] I'm sorry.
- [Able] Fuckin' drive.
Cautiously but quick.
Act normal. - Okay.
- Don't look at me.
All right, what street is this?
- [Angela] 20.
- Other way.
- What?
- [Able] Other direction
east west, what street?
- Bradley.
- [Able] All right keep going.
- [Angela] Should I cross the bridge?
- [Able] How far is that?
- [Angela] Like two and
half miles, I don't, two.
- [Able] Jesus in
minutes, how many minutes.
- [Angela] Like five to
10, depends on traffic.
- [Able] Okay, good, good,
quick, right specific.
The scarf on your face, what's the deal?
Come on.
- [Angela] Nothing just no reason.
- Come on you're attracting attention.
You look like Malala take it off.
- You smell.
- What?
- [Angela] Fucking bad, you smell so bad.
I'm so sorry, you smell terrible.
- It's the coat,
it's this coat I took
it off a homeless guy.
I mean I got it, I bought it.
Can you please just
take the scarf down now?
- Can I just put the window down?
- No, scarf down now.
- Okay.
- Wait, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop
no God, are you? - I'm sorry.
- Watch where.
No, no, no, no, no.
Oh fuck, oh goddamn, oh god.
- (mumbles).
- Goddamn.
Come on.
Fuck.
Fuck, are you, fuck are you, are you,
stop waving, stop waving.
Fuck.
- I'm sorry it's just
that smell it's terrible.
Can I just roll...
- No, you cannot
roll the window down.
- It's smells worse now.
- No shit okay.
Look we need to get off the road.
- Are you?
- What?
- If, listen if you're
going to try and rape me
I'll roll the fucking down
and scream I don't care.
- Jesus Christ I'm not gonna do that.
Why the hell would I?
Fuck no, I'm not gonna rape you.
I'm not a rapist.
- Why are you here?
- Hey, hey, hey...
- Why the fuck
is this happening?
- Hey, I'm trying
to be tough too, okay let's
just get through this.
- I was just...
- How far do you
live from here?
- Fucking peanuts and you have a gun.
Why do you have a gun?
Why are you in my car?
Who are you?
- Angela, calm down.
- I'm really fuckin' scared.
- Me too.
Peanuts, you said you had peanuts.
- What?
I'm just, snacks, snack food
stuff for my work, my work.
- Look I need to eat something.
I need to get my blood
sugar under control okay.
- I need to get back to work
because this is not
the best time right now
I'm kind of having trouble.
- Angela, I need
to eat something, you're
not going back to work.
Not like that, I'm mean
you'll go back eventually
just not right, you know right away.
Look I'm asking nicely,
can I please take something out of the bag
and fucking eat it?
Angela, Angela.
- Yeah.
- I need to eat
your work food.
Hey, hey, hey. - Yes.
- It's okay, take some deep breaths
you look like you're having
a fucking heart attack.
- I think I might be.
- You're not having a heart attack,
what are you 21, 22.
- 26, thank you.
- You're not having a heart attack.
- It's earlier...
- Look just hand me
whatever's on top.
I said besides peanuts,
no peanuts, anything else?
- I have Snickers.
- Peanuts.
- Like, I have an apple.
- Hand it back, subtle.
Okay, what else?
- Like M&M's, and pretzels, and Red Vines,
some muffins and chocolate cake,
and sunflower seeds, and soda.
- You're tiny, how do you eat this stuff?
- The people at my work they do, I don't,
and thank you again.
- You work with kids or
something, that's a disaster.
- [Angela] Kinda.
- What like, you're like, like a teacher.
- Production.
- Like in a factory.
- No, no, just like videos,
and photos, and advertising.
- Okay, how far do you live?
Look just answer me okay.
- Not that far.
- [Able] Alone?
- Alone, yeah.
- Okay, just get us going here
and don't do anything stupid
like pull into a police station, okay.
All right, you ready?
- Just give me a second please.
- Production, I don't
know what's that like?
- What?
- I'm trying to make conversation,
you wanna sit in silence?
- Are you serious?
- Fine, if you don't wanna talk then,
(phone buzzing)
what's that?
- Shit, it's my phone.
- Don't answer it.
- It's Dave.
- Leave it.
- He's gonna, he's
gonna think something's,
something's wrong.
- I don't give a shit.
- I've never been late.
- Yeah, well I've never done this before
all right.
- I'm not bullshitting you,
he's gonna keep calling
and he's probably gonna call the cops.
- Are you fuckin' around, why?
- 'Cause he's just covering his ass.
- All right, all right, all
right, all right, all right,
put it on speaker.
Hey, no fucking around.
- Dave.
- Angela, hey girl what's going on?
- I'm just, I'm...
I'm not feeling well.
I, I think I got sick or something.
Dave.
- You sound pretty good
for someone that's sick.
I mean I know, I know
people sound different
when they're sick but you know,
you're kinda running late here.
- It's my stomach.
- Where are you right now?
- Yeah, I'm going home.
I was about to call you.
I need to... - Angie.
- Go home.
- We need that food.
Talent is just standing by,
we're all just standing by.
We need you here, we can't get started
on the first frame till you get here.
- Yeah.
- Understand me.
- I, I, I, I'm not coming in Dave.
- Is it the flu?
- I really don't know.
You know maybe it's food poisoning
or something, I'm not really sure.
- Are you vomiting?
Do you have pain?
- Yeah, actually I am.
Are you fucking serious Dave?
- Okay, I am so, so sorry,
that was way over the line.
That is my bad, I am so sorry.
It's just that we're,
Marianne just keeps asking,
and asking, and asking, and asking.
Look I know this is probably
just a huge inconvenience
and I'm sorry but I just have to ask,
is there anyway you can just swing by
like on your way home.
That might be way over the line
but I just wanna put my feelers
out there see where we are.
You know I, let me know, say hey Dave,
if I'm overstepping just say,
hey man back off I get it.
Ang.
- You know, I can't, I'm sorry,
I'm really not feeling well, okay.
- Okay, okay, okay.
No I totally get it, totally get it,
you need that toilet time.
You take your time, you get better.
I will see what I can
do, I'll talk to Marianne
no promises but you know
I will do my best for you.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay.
- [Dave] Can we call you with questions?
- Sure.
- Thank you.
Angela, thank you.
- What the fuck!
- Angela.
- Why did you do that?
- Stop it.
- I'm gonna lose
my fucking job. - Stop it now.
- Hail Mary full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
- Fuck that guy.
Let's go home.
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(phone ringing)
- [Fred] Fred Rush.
- Fred, Ev Goldwyn.
- Ev, how are you?
I meant to say you looked
absolutely stunning
at Central Security the other day,
can I get a yeah, yeah.
- [Evelyn] Fucking mess over here Fred.
- [Fred] Yeah, well Evelyn
it's difficult right now.
- I'm not calling to commiserate, okay.
- Right, well as I was saying it's all,
it's, right now it is...
- Solutions Fred.
- Everyone on our end is invested in,
we are working our hardest to...
- Wow, okay, how about an apology?
- Right, Evelyn well
I'm sorry, we're sorry,
we're all very sorry.
- For what?
- For this Evelyn, for all of this,
I mean, I mean come on
don't make me say it again.
- This was simple Fred
and your people, your
unqualified little toddlers
completely shit all over it.
- Like I said we're
very, very, very sorry.
- If I wanted children
doing a fucking handoff
I would of paid my nephew
in a cellphone and a mountain bike.
- Okay just listen, I'm gonna need you
to just calm down there darling.
- Did you just say darling?
Is that what you said to me?
Wake up Fred, open your goddamn eyes
and start getting angry
and don't you ever condescend to me again.
- Evelyn, we're, we're just
as distressed as you are.
We're frustrated.
(groaning)
It was entirely unnecessary.
- Fucking A.
- Fuck.
But, but it was crazy, it
was, it was, it was, it was,
we just didn't know.
I mean hell I don't even know the reason.
- Who is this guy and where, why?
- He's part of our team,
he does data management
algorithms and shit, I don't know.
But or hands were tied,
we are all tied up.
And have you talked to Phil?
- Leeds.
- Phil Leeds he was the one.
He came to us and he asked for
four or five files on people
and we gave him the four or five files
or something like that.
And then he chose that individual.
- He made the call.
- He made the call, damn
right he made the call
and he is one of yours.
He chose this guy, yeah.
So you should talk to Phil.
- I apologize for my tone.
- Sure, sure, sure,
sure, sure, sure, sure.
And if you need anything in the future
don't hesitate to call Evelyn.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, yes.
And yeah.
- In the event that we do
collaborate again under duress
in this type of situation
just please try not to
send me a list of bovines
who can fuck up a simple
motherfucking hand off,
can you do that for me fucking Phil?
- Fred.
- Can you do that Fred?
- Yes.
(upbeat music)
(phone ringing)
- Hey Evelyn, how ya doing my dear?
- You remember the package
delivery selects from Fred?
- Well, yeah sure I
should, I think I do, S7112
- [Evelyn] Pull the
file and send it to me.
- Oh sure I can do that.
But you know I'm in my office
if you just wanna scoot
on over here we could...
- Phil.
- Huh?
- If I see your stupid bald face
I will put it through a wall.
Just do it right now.
- Did I...
- Pull the fucking file Phil!
Fucking fuck!
Fuck, fuck!
- Hey there lady.
(light guitar music)
- [Angela] Jeff.
Man oh man, you know it's like,
it's like I never get to see ya anymore.
- Yeah, yeah, just working.
- Cool.
Yeah, me too, you know I
just been all by myself,
you know just spinning 'em,
sittin' and spinnin' 'em.
Hit it hard in the studio.
(laughing)
Yeah, I get it keeping
it real, layin' 'em down.
What's, what's that, what
the fucks that about?
- Oh, I, I, I, it's soup.
I spilled in the car.
- Ah.
- Some soup.
- Shoot, pretty girl like you,
you got a image to maintain right.
I know you know.
(laughing)
I mean I'm not trying to give myself a tug
or nothing but you know, no
stranger that's all I'm saying.
Must be just, shit, I'd eat your soup.
You know, you know like I said
just been layin' 'em down,
keeping the dream engaged.
I just like to make love
in my music you know.
When I play that guitar
I gotta play it like a, like a pussy.
Play that guitar like pussy,
bass so low, play that pussy.
Find that button and click
it you know what I mean?
Just hit it, you know what I mean?
I up in the studio full
engorged, engaged you know.
- I've gotta go to the bathroom.
I gotta go.
- Hey man, cool yeah.
Sorry about that I didn't
mean to, Jeff, my name's Jeff.
Cool dude.
(laughing)
Right.
I gotta go too anyway, you
know gotta go practice,
keep the machine wet in there and stuff
but you know I'd love to go
and grab that cocktail soon.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Okay, okay, yeah.
- I'd just like to hang out.
Saucy, saucy.
- Stay there.
You have a phone, a landline?
- [Angela] Yeah, next to the typewriter.
- Any other phones?
- No.
- Bag, paper bag.
- Under the sink.
- Anybody else home in the
building besides that asshole?
- I don't really know,
I mean Jeff's the only one
here during the day usually.
He doesn't work.
- Who the fuck would work with that guy?
You guys have a thing or something?
- I mean not really.
(laughing)
Don't even, it wasn't a thing.
- [Able] Anything else I should know of?
- No, not that I can think of.
- [Able] Think harder.
- Nothing, honestly nothing.
- [Able] Okay, okay, I really
have to go to the bathroom.
- I heard, it's back there.
- Yeah, well let's go.
Come on.
- What, no.
- You're staying in my sight.
- Look...
- No, no, I'm sorry,
that's just how it is.
- No, I'm sorry, I'm definitely
not going in there with you.
You fucking kidding me!
- Fuck.
Okay, I'm done, turn around.
- Do I...
- I'm done,
turn around please, I
need some clean clothes.
- I don't have any.
- What nothing.
- No.
- Nobody's ever left any...
- No.
- Behind ever.
- No.
- [Able] I didn't mean it like that look...
- Nobody comes here okay.
Nobody leaves clothes here.
No boyfriends, no ex's,
not him, nobody, all right.
I have puke all over
myself, I need to change.
- Look I don't care.
- I'm not gonna do anything,
all right, this is disgusting
and it is the least...
- Can you just...
- I'm not going to jump
out of a two story window.
You can check that room, it's my room
where my clothes are, you can check it.
Just give me like two seconds, please.
- Okay, yeah, okay, okay.
Just pull people off
desk huh, just like that.
Like that simple, like
that fuckin' simple.
It's never that simple.
What do think that I don't know that?
They think I don't know that.
I'm some kind of fuckin' jackass.
I'm a jackass now.
- I don't want to...
- I asked you not to speak,
okay, so please don't speak, just don't.
- Look if I have to watch you pee...
- Hey, hey, hey, I never made you watch.
You never watched.
And I let you change your clothes so.
- I'm just saying.
- To be fuckin' clear
you were never forced to watch, all right.
- What are you?
You rob a bank or something.
- I can't, no, no, no, no,
look I asked you not to speak, okay,
so please just don't speak.
That means, that means no
questions, no answers, nothing.
That's more for you than for me all right.
- What's in the bag?
- Goddamn it, I don't know okay.
- What do you mean you don't know?
- I don't know.
I have no idea.
Jesus Christ, you're a real,
you know you should be, oh I don't know
maybe this tenacious with
that fuck face boss Darren
of yours. - Dave's not my boss.
- Who gives a shit!
That moron on the phone.
Oh, oh what your job's
just so fuckin' important
that you just let people walk all over you
and then lash out that first fuckin',
I mean come on use your head!
I'm, I'm not...
I'm...
I'm really fucked up here.
(dramatic music)
- [Sydney] Newspapers online
and they write articles
and they know their audience.
- [Able] What are you doing?
- [Sydney] What you believe,
what you wanna think is true.
- Hey buddy, how are ya?
So everything's, everything's good, great.
- Yeah.
- Good.
Yeah, I'm loving this, loving this.
- [Able] Nice night out.
- Yeah, it is.
Is that it in there?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Okay, good.
Well are you gonna get it or
you want me to get it or what?
- No, I can.
- Oh yeah, well your car, your rules.
Take advantage of it, go, bring it to me.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay.
I mean, you know, yeah,
why wouldn't I be okay?
- Oh, you just seem, I don't know.
- I've just a little bit too much coffee
and past my bedtime,
you know, kinda thing.
- So you a agency guy?
- Huh, why?
- Sorry I just, I heard
this was sensitive.
- I know that.
- Look, I didn't mean to
offend you, I'm just asking.
- Are you an agency guy?
- Yeah, I don't think, well
I'm not suppose to say.
- Right, right, right, sure,
sure, sure, sure, sure.
I tell you what, you know what,
I think we just need to get
this thing done all right,
wrap it up, put a fuckin' bow on it.
- Yeah, okay.
- Okay good, great.
Won't ya get that done.
- Okay.
- [Able] Sorry this is happening.
Sorry. - Yeah, yeah right.
Are you fuckin' kidding me?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
you know what's in that?
- No.
- Of course you don't.
Bring it over here to me.
So hey, let's get this done.
Whadda ya say buddy?
- Yeah, you know what,
let's, hold on a second,
I'm just gonna give my boss a call okay.
- Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
just don't call right now.
We've gotta get moving,
I gotta get out of here.
- I'm sorry but...
- No.
- Something just feels a little off.
- You're not gonna...
- Hey I'm sorry
but you're just making me,
you're making me nervous okay.
- I'm making you nervous.
- Yeah, you're making nervous,
yeah.
- God almighty you're the one
that got all this blinking
weirdness going on.
- What?
- This coughing and...
- What coughing?
- And that's the...
- What are you talking about?
- Blinking I'm taking about
right there.
- What are you talking about?
Listen... - That's weird.
- I'm gonna call this in...
- You're just weird.
- [Able] It's only gonna take a second.
- Just plain weird.
- Just stay,
just stay right here okay.
Look it's gonna be simple.
- No, no...
- It's gonna be fine.
- It's not gonna be.
- I'm just gonna...
- I don't think so no, no.
I think we need to get this done.
- Yeah and we will.
- Oh, yeah.
- We will.
What, no, no, no!
- Give it here!
What the hell is wrong with you?
Let go.
- Let go, it's not right.
- Are you nuts?
- It's not right!
No, give it, go!
No, no, no, no, no.
This isn't right!
- Are you nuts?
- This isn't right.
No I'm not nuts!
(groaning)
(fist thuds)
- Fuck!
Oh great.
- [Evelyn] Are you fuckin' kidding me?
Page nine.
- Ev, love the dress, looks great.
- Have you seen this file Phil?
- Well it might of been
sent over by that B group
that I was working with,
they're very orderly over there.
- Did you read all of it by chance?
- That's our job.
You gotta tell these young guys
'cause sometimes they don't listen.
They just power through but not me.
- Oh yeah.
- You can count on old Phil.
- Do me a favor Phil.
- Sure.
What do you like?
Let see here, I see so many files.
- Second paragraph last sentence.
- Oh.
- Read it.
- Mr. James has recently
been identified to suffer
from diagnoseable attributes
of manic behavioral disorder
evidence, sorry cold.
Oh evidence by bouts of
semi severe paranoia,
manic episodes predominantly
prompt temporary blackouts.
Mr. James should be indefinitely
considered unfit for field work
in any capacity and should
only be assigned to class one
or below office related tasks
until further treatment.
Oh, so he's not.
So that's probably not,
probably not, what...
- Not good.
- Well, I didn't see that,
all of that in my initial...
- You didn't.
- Analysis.
No, no, not completely, no.
- Not completely.
- Yes, no.
- You figured out at the five.
- Well I assumed it would be okay.
He seemed, he seemed qualified.
Well low-risk qualified.
I mean well I don't want to,
I try to avoid discrimination,
generally speaking.
Is there a problem?
- Would I be standing in your office
looking at your stupid bald face
if everything was okay Phil?
- No, I mean, probably
not, no, no need to.
- Are you fuckin' kidding me,
you knew that was there, you read that
and you chose this idiot!
- Well,
I mean I kinda spot checked it.
- Your job is the only job in the country
where discrimination is
a fucking requirement.
- I did the best with,
it was rushed, I'm sorry.
It was just thrown together.
- You know what happens now?
What happens now is that I get to visit
an appointed official, an
elected servant of the people.
You get to sit here
with your shriveled little fucking penis
all because you refuse to discriminate
because you're a lazy
incontinent, incompetent fucker.
- I don't think you can
talk to me this way Evelyn.
- Fuck you Phil, that's what I think.
- He seemed fine.
- No, no, no, no, we
don't make mistakes Phil.
- Well you're saying...
- So now you're gonna
extricate yourself while
you can still get a hard on,
you're fucked. - Yeah.
- You're fired, pack your shit.
- This is wrong, this is crazy.
- Yeah, it is crazy, crazy
rises, stupid drowns.
Buy a fucking wetsuit.
(dramatic music)
- Numbers that's it,
numbers, numbers, numbers,
numbers and numbers and information,
numbers and information,
numbers, that's it, that's me.
- You don't, you really
don't know what's in here?
- [Able] No, I said I don't know.
- And you didn't steal it.
- [Able] Look I don't have to
explain myself to you okay.
- I'm sorry I wasn't,
I wasn't trying to put you on the spot.
- [Able] Oh really.
(laughing)
- No, I swear.
I'm just, I'm just, I'm tired.
- Let's not forget who's in
control here right, remember.
- Sorry.
I'm sorry.
- Look, I didn't steal it
exactly, it's just not mine.
- Are you, are you in trouble?
Okay.
Am I in trouble?
- No, I don't know, I don't think so.
- Oh.
- Fuck!
No more questions okay,
can you just for minute.
- Why not give it to whoever
you're suppose to give it to
and then you'll be out of trouble.
- I said no more questions.
- If you don't know what it
is and somebody else needs it
why not either figure out
how fucked you are or...
- You have no idea how this works.
- Give it back to whose ever it is.
- You have no idea what
this is or how I got here.
So if you don't know then
all you have to go on
is what I know, which is
very, very fucking little.
Who, who I should...
- I'm just trying...
- You can't help, okay.
So just stick to your
pretty pictures and shit.
I'm handling, I'm.
I don't even know what
I'm looking at everyday,
walls of code, the
goddamn matrix rolling by
and I tell it where to go
and then someone else
takes it to the next stop
and then someone else
and then someone else
and then on another stop, another stop.
I honestly don't even know
if it ever actually stops,
I'm a goddamn, I'm on track (mumbles)
on a road that goes around the world.
Emails about employees, coordinates
to a village in Ukraine,
who knows anywhere, anything, anytime,
any problem, any solution.
- Ukraine.
- Anything.
Yeah, Ukraine, South
Sudan, Lebanon, Pakistan
on and on, and on, and on.
I'm a goddamn desk jockey,
I'm a itty bitty cog
in the biggest wheel on the planet.
I'm the lowest man on the totem pole
in a company that fixes...
and then one day out of
clear blue this, why?
Why?
- I don't know.
- Maybe I saw something that
no one was supposed to see.
A lot of high-up problems
come through my eyes,
something slipped by maybe,
I don't know, I don't know.
Maybe something worth making
me go away I don't know.
I didn't tell you anything
and the only people that do know
they're out there looking for me.
So what do I tell them
in the meantime, huh?
Oh hey sorry I didn't hand
over the, whatever this is.
- Isn't that what you can...
- No.
What are you fucking
kidding, no, what, no!
No oh my God.
What are doing?
She doesn't, she doesn't
know what she, Jesus Christ,
fuck, she's not even fucking
listen to what you're saying.
She doesn't listening,
she's not listening,
nobody ever fucking listen.
They don't listen, they don't listen.
You're fucked. - Hey, come on.
- [Able] You're fucked, you're fucked.
- I'm not trying to.
- You're fucked,
you're fucked, you're
fucked, you're fucked.
- Oh my God - You're
fucked, you're fucked.
- Hey wait, you're okay.
- You're fucked, you're fucked.
You're fucked, you're fucked.
- I wasn't.
Oh, my God.
- You're fucked, you're fucked,
you're fucked, you're fucked.
- You're okay.
- You're fucked, you're fucked.
- Stop it.
- You're fucked,
you're fucked, you're fucked.
- Stop it.
Stop it. - You're fucked.
- What the fuck you do that for man?
Fuck Jesus Christ.
You're gonna have slide
your weapon out buddy.
Come on.
You can do it, come on buddy.
Come on.
Fuck this shit.
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
(groaning)
God you cocksucker!
Oh fuck, son of a,
why the fuck did you?
Fuck you all right.
(gun bangs)
Fuck, goddammit.
- Okay.
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
- You just dropped.
I just, I moved you here to the couch.
It's okay.
You're okay.
You're okay, I didn't do anything,
I didn't call anybody
I swear to God I just,
you blacked out and moved you,
and checked your head, and
moved you here, that's it.
I fucking swear that's it.
- Did I blackout?
- I didn't, I don't, I don't know.
- Tell me exactly what happened.
- I don't know you just dropped.
You just dropped.
- Did I day anything?
- No, fuck.
- Why didn't you take the gun?
- I don't know, I didn't, fuck.
Fuck this, fuck this, fuck this.
It was like a seizure or something
and I, I almost took you to the hospital.
- I'm glad you didn't.
- The bag vibrated.
- What?
- The thing, the case
while you were, it buzzed,
it vibrated, I didn't look.
I just moved you to the couch.
- I think it needs a password.
- You don't know it.
Is there a call?
- [Able] It's unknown.
- What was that?
- Someone's trying to find me I guess.
- No, not that.
- I have sometimes, a couple times a year
these episodes like if I...
my eyes, I can't see anything,
they're all blurry.
I thought I had a chance
but I'm just living
in a fucking fuckin' fancy.
Stuck...
and I just can't wake up.
I thought we had everything
but I couldn't keep shit together.
I fucked it all up.
And I pushed her away.
I'm just didn't actually
think she would go.
I thought I could be who I wanted to be.
My fucking head.
I'd go back if I could.
The only thing worse than
not living your dreams
being stuck halfway.
(mumbles) I thought I'd say fuck you
to her and everybody else.
I hope it's over soon.
It's hard knowing what you want.
- Yeah.
- You want me to kidnap that Dave guy?
(laughing)
(phone buzzing)
Hello.
- Are you safe?
- Yeah.
- You, I'm glad you picked up.
You have the bag with you then.
- Yeah, it's here, yeah.
Who is this?
- Able, we need to end this
as amicably as possible.
We have some folks out
there looking for you.
Now it makes the most sense at this point
for you to just come in.
- It doesn't seem safe.
- Please take this kindly,
you've caused a lot of trouble.
We need to clean this up sweetie.
- I just, I just wanna
leave the bag somewhere.
I can tell you where it is and go away.
- With no money, no
things, you can't go home,
you'll be picked up at the airport.
- How do I know I'll be okay?
- You'll be safer if you comply.
- [Able] This wasn't my fault.
- [Evelyn] We know that.
Where are you?
We can come to you.
- [Able] No, I've got,
I have someone with me.
- Office personnel?
- No.
- Do they know anything?
Did you tell them anything?
- No.
- Able.
- Nothing I didn't, I didn't say anything.
- And they're safe.
- Yeah, we're okay.
- Okay, I'll send you a
message in five minutes.
- [Able] Will you be there?
- You'll be fine, my people
are perfectly capable.
- I want...
- You're not
in a bargaining position Able.
Five minutes, are you mobile?
- Yeah, I can be, yeah.
- Five minutes.
- I can't unlock the phone.
- Can you see the texts
on the front screen?
- Yeah probably, yeah.
- Five minutes.
Motherfucker yes!
Oh eat my ass Able James!
Fucking Fred!
Fucking everybody, fuck you!
- We're not gonna have
time to kill your boss.
- It's cool.
- God.
Still got it.
You still got it.
- [Angela] Yeah well
you can't fuckin' see.
- [Able] No, it's getting better.
This is some serious shit.
- [Angela] You're not taking my car.
- Hey whoa, whoa, hold
on, take it easy buster.
Twice in one day.
- Fuck off Jeff!
- Hey dude I was just
trying, what the fuck?
- [Angela] Shut the fuck up.
Can you do that for me.
- Yeah.
- Can you shut the fuck
up for me Jeff?
Don't fucking speak.
Don't ever fucking speak, nod.
You come near my door I fuck you up, nod.
Let it go dude, fuck off, and let it go.
- What a dick.
- [Sydney] Made it this way
whether you like it or you
hate it that's what you get.
You don't get to choose.
So take what... - My friends the
long winter's night is over
and springtime is here.
♪ O say can you see ♪
♪ By the dawn's early light ♪
♪ What so proudly we
hailed at the twilight's ♪
- [Man] Now get off your
phones, get of your TVs,
I'm telling you, get off
Facebook, take your masks off.
- The state gives us our rights.
- The whole park.
- We are given.
- Bullshit.
- Our rights
are given us at birth by God.
- [Man] Stop blaming everyone
else for your problems
and take a real good
look in your own heart.
For once just look up,
look up for guidance.
- [Man] And I'm just
one person, one person,
you know and I made a
shield, I took a stick,
throw my gas mask on and my helmet
and I went in there and
I cracked the skulls
of some commies that we're attacking us.
And now today we're all here together
standing up for liberty and freedom.
- [Man] What do we stand for?
- [Group] Freedom!
- [Man] Stop looking at the government
and for once get down on your knees
and pray to God and ask God for help.
I'm telling ya.
- [Man] We are here today guys...
- Do not (mumbles) government.
- For free speech.
♪ O say does that
star-spangled banner yet ♪
And the darkness is slowly coming in
from the East Coast, the West Coast,
and it's squeezing it's way on.
And that republic that
they gave is to stay free.
- [Man] God bless you.
♪ Home of the brave ♪
And may God bless the
United States of America.
- [Man] You have to be willing to bleed.
(group chattering)
And it's okay to be a
beautiful Christian too.
(group cheering)
- [Buck] Evelyn, you look lovely.
- Thank you sir.
- What can you tell me?
- Well it's not ideal, we seem to have,
things will improve within
in the next couple of hours
I just need to hear from
a few of my associates
before we know when you're in the clear.
- Am I fucked Evelyn?
- I'm not sure it's...
- If you keep stuttering
and fumbling through every fucking word
I'm going to pull them out of your throat.
Am I fucked?
- I don't know yet sir.
Once we can... - We did Evelyn,
I was under the impression that we did,
that's why I sent my
personal head of security
to finish this.
I've had it up to here with your apologies
and your niceties and talking down to me
like you were my fucking mother!
- It was human error sir.
- Just, just tell me what
happened and where we stand.
I'm trying to stay in control
but you're making it
exceptionally, exceedingly hard.
- What I'm trying to do is keep
at the very least six
degrees of separation
between you and the nuances of this.
- This is being exasperated,
this could of been swept
under the rug a week ago
and I could have had my property back,
oh hell a month ago had we just...
- Followed your plans sir.
- Excuse me.
- This matter ran the
risk of blowing completely
out of control into an
absolute shit storm sir.
Now we're dealing with it accordingly.
- Don't you dare talk down
to me you fucking child.
I have been in this racket 45 years,
started when you were a fuckin' tadpole
in your daddy's prunes
and don't think you have
the right or privilege
of speaking to me, me as an equal.
I wrote you a check, I pay your bills,
I pay your peoples bills,
I pay for your doggie daycare
and your mannish apartment in the hills
so you can mitigate human fucking error.
And don't you think for one second
that you are remotely in
charge, do you understand me?
- Neither are you sir.
- Get out of my fucking' office.
- Politicians are petty sir.
You're angry right now, you should be
but when this is all done
you're worship the ground I walk on.
Then you'll give me a
pitch perfect referral
to the next petty entitled prick
who doesn't understand
when you leave personal
and sensitive property
somewhere you aren't suppose to
and the wrong people find it
solutions are very complex and expensive.
Or maybe he'll tow that line
of recreation like you seem to.
If I were you sir, I'd start asking
what you need to do from here on out.
Do you understand?
- Good speech.
- Control your dick.
(dramatic music)
- [Sydney] 'Cause if we did
better than all these people
that have these dirty energy job.
- And they got one of those big buckets
on a trailer, oh my God.
- [Sydney] Their families depend on them,
their communities depends on
them and we depend on the.
- He died but.
- [Sydney] Doing those things
so that we can continue
to drive our cars and heat
our homes and use the fuels.
Because that's the way
the system is set up.
If we look at our small
communities they are suffering
and the people that live there
have no other way to make sure
that their family is feed,
to make sure that they
have a house to live in
and what's happening is their
communities are collapsing.
- What do we do?
- [Sydney] Ghost town because
jobs are disappearing.
- Oh thank God, come on out.
- Want me to get out?
Are you okay?
- [Sydney] We're all gonna die.
(mumbles) and making sure...
- Hey, I.
- Jesus Christ.
- You'll be fine.
- Is someone with you?
- Yes.
- Who?
- I'm...
- Who?
- He's here,
the guy you're here for, in the car.
- You a friend?
- No, no, I mean, I mean...
no.
- Okay, so he's in the car then.
- Yeah.
- Say again.
- Yeah.
- [Ed] So all right just
bring him on out okay.
- Yeah.
Come on it's okay, come on.
- [Ed] You armed?
Are you armed?
- He's coming.
Come on it's okay.
- I can't.
- Are you armed?
He's gotta go, come on.
- Yes, you can.
- It's not right.
- Stop it.
Stop it.
Stop it, put it down.
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
- [Sydney] You think you know.
- Come on, stop it.
- I can't.
- Stop it.
Put it down.
- Are you armed?
- He's coming.
- Put it down.
It's okay. - I can't.
- [Angela] Stop it.
Stop it.
Put it down.
It's okay.
- [Sydney] Earth because if
the earth is too screwed up
that we're not gonna
be able to live on it,
if we can't live on it what's
the point of earth, right.
- Put it down.
We're not armed.
- Okay.
Come on over.
Thank you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
we're all locked in here.
Right, be there shortly.
In 25, 30 minutes, well do.
Can I?
Angela.
- Yeah.
- Thank you so much for bringing him in.
Sorry about this whole thing.
Did he hurt you at all?
- No, no of course not.
- He's gun was empty I figured.
Did he tell you anything?
- No, no, what's gonna happen to him?
- Shit, I don't know.
You know we bring him in and
then it's out of our hands.
Hell, you know these things
happen every once in a while,
it just, oh, you got some peanuts here.
Do you mind?
- Seriously?
- Yeah, I mean if you don't mind.
- Yeah, I mean sure I guess that's fine.
- He tell you where he works.
- No, I don't know anything, all right.
- Yeah, no, yeah, fine.
You sure?
- Yes, I'm sure.
Okay, he didn't hurt anybody.
- Now.
- He's not gonna get like,
he didn't hurt anyone.
(gun bangs)
(groaning)
- You cocksucker, ow, fuck, son of a,
why the fuck did you?
Fuck you all right.
(gun bangs)
Fuck goddammit.
- Okay.
(gun bangs)
What's gonna happen to me?
- Anyways, hey you're free to go home.
I, don't tell anybody about this okay,
this address or any of this stuff.
We're gonna have somebody
watch ya, you should know that.
So don't tell anybody.
Hey and thanks for this.
Yes.
You have a good night.
- Hey, that's it, that's all.
- There's a number on there,
anything comes up feel free to use it.
- Wait you're not, you're
not gonna like question me
or send me to Gitmo or try
to kill me or something.
- Gitmo, no.
In Cuba, Cuba right?
Gitmo.
(laughing)
That's funny.
- Hey.
- Yeah.
- Is he gonna be okay?
- Probably.
- You know he's not well,
he's like ill, right,
he's mentally ill.
- Not my problem, not
my job, not my problem.
(gentle music)
- [Sydney] But you never get to know them
because you don't have any
reason to interact with them
and if you don't have a
reason to interact with them
you don't bother going into
their neighborhoods to find them
you just don't go there,
you never see them,
and you don't interact with them.
Is that your fault?
Are you a racist or you know I don't know,
probably not but you're not gonna seek out
something that's not like you
if everything's working out fine
and that's a problem.
Because what ends up happening
is you go through a neighborhood
that's not like yours
and all you wanna do is go through it.
You don't stop and become a
part of another community.
If you actually took a red pen
and drew on a map all the places you go
from your house to wherever you go
you're gonna see the same
repeated patterns over and over.
I'll bet you anything
almost every line you make
is gonna be a repeatable
line that was there before
because we have our areas.
And I think we gotta stop having areas.
(gentle music)
(dramatic music)
- [Man] My friends I coming to you again
because I made you a pledge
and I want you know that
the job isn't finished.
I'd like to tell you
America is second to none.
My fellow citizens it's important.
(phone buzzing)
(upbeat music)
- [Sydney] Black and blue,
it's KYXK's 48 hour marathon.
"Counterintelligence",
written, produced, and
directed by Christopher Sakr.
Also produced by Michael
Elliott and Andrea Tolbert.
Shot by Michael Elliot,
edited by Touma Rask.
Location sound mix by Tim Kahn,
art direction by Andrea Tolbert.
Music by Noah Simons.
Casting by Rachel Meyer.
Presented by Shohawk media
in association with CMP.
Starring Sharae Foxie as Angela,
Brian Koch as Able,
Marcella Laasch as Evelyn,
J.W. Crawford as Driver
Andy Sims as Ed,
Pen Corbin as Jay,
Brian Sutherland as Fred,
Jerry Basham as Phil,
Joesph Costa as Senator Buck Henri,
Adam Elliott Davis as Jeff,
Michael Hall as Dave,
Rich Sadle as the Homeless Man,
Mamie Wilhem as Miss America,
and Anthony Redelsperger
as your host Syndey Beale.
Location scouted by Rachel Meyer,
associate producer Chelsey Rae,
dialogue mixed by Jake Newbcome,
sound mixed by Micheal Elliot,
sound designer, VFX and
color by Touma Rask.
KYXK want's to give special shout out's
to Ben Bach, Marc Steele, Robin Nodland,
Ken and Kathy Rask, Amy
Elliot, Jeff Sochol,
Gigantic Brewing, Andrea
Selkregg, David Pennington,
Rachel Monfils, Ben
Olsen, Mitchel Zuckoff.
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Thanks for tuning in to KYXK's 48 marathon
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Don't forget to hear.
And we'll see you soon.
(dramatic music)
- [Sydney] Extremism is a thing
that most people don't understand
because they don't live an extreme life,
they live day-to-day going to their jobs
and being with their friends
and taking care of their families
in their small towns with
their two cars and their dog.
Extremism to them is...
- Ding dong, ding dong.
- Hey Fred, what's up?
- [Fred] Able, how are you doing?
- Fine, fine, good, what's up?
- Works okay?
- Yeah, yeah, just the
usual thing, what's up?
- Well, I have some pretty
exciting news, you ready?
- Sure.
- You sir were chosen for a field op.
May I?
- Oh, yeah, yeah, I thought...
- A field op, yes, it turns
out one of our sister agencies
needs completion and bing
bong you were chosen.
Pretty exciting stuff, huh?
And it's very, very low-risk,
you're just getting your feet wet
and there's nothing to worry about.
- You're sure?
- If I was you sir, I wouldn't
ask so many questions.
You're now in the fold.
- I really, I never...
- Don't even worry about it, okay.
All you're doing is dropping
of a simple package,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
and you'll be home in time for dinner.
Your work's outstanding Able.
This is nothing really, it's just routine.
- It's everything to me Fred.
- That is why I like you,
that is why I like you so damn much.
Did you make this?
- [Able] You know I did.
- If I could just see the
world through your eyes,
I'd be better man.
That is why I keep you around sir.
Just check your email
and we'll see you in
the morning, okay bud?
- Okay.
- Put me the game coach.
Have a good one.
(dramatic music)
- [Sydney] We're live with
award winning host Sydney Beale.
Ignorance is bliss for
those who are ignorant
but for the rest of us
it's a pain in the ass.
I want ya to tell me what
you think is going on
'cause what you think is going on,
what you believe is going on
is not what's really going
on it's what you think.
- [Group] Fuck Donald
Trump, fuck Donald Trump,
fuck Donald Trump.
- [Sydney] Don't tell me you're
right when there's a fact
out there that says many
times over you're wrong.
And what's happened is people think things
and then all these other
thousands of people say,
"Oh, yeah I think that too."
And then they create websites,
and they create newspapers online,
and they write articles, and
they know their audience,
and they appoint these
things to their audience.
It's not true but that doesn't matter.
What you think, what you believe,
what you want to think is true,
is true to you.
If you wanna believe it,
it's not a fabrication.
But you know what is,
things that aren't true are not factual.
(sirens roaring)
They're just not curious.
(group chattering)
But it's important to be
curious for everybody else.
I don't I have $49,000
laying around do you?
And having a lack of interest
in finding out what's real.
Same thing as running the scissors.
- [Able] Hey buddy, how are ya?
- Ah, is that it in there?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
You know what's in that.
I'm making you nervous.
- Yeah, you're
making me nervous, yeah.
- I think we need to get this done.
- And we will.
- Oh yeah.
- And we will.
Hey wait!
No, no, no. - Give it here.
- [Able] Let go, it's not right.
- [Buck] Are you listening?
- [Evelyn] Yes, I can hear you.
- [Buck] I'm not asking
if you can hear me.
Are you listening Evelyn?
- [Evelyn] Yes sir, yes I am, I am sir.
- [Buck] When I came
to you and your people,
I was told this would be open and shut.
- I...
- Stop.
I know the private sector pays more
than your old gig in
Washington but it pays more
because it demands
attention and discretion.
Do not forget that I can
cut this little inflection
of yours in half and send you back
to fucking mail room
in Langley, understood?
- Yes sir, absolutely.
Fuck!
- (mumbles).
- [Able] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
- What the fuck!
Jesus Christ!
Got a quarter?
- I'll give you five bucks
for your coat.
- Fuck out of here!
- 10, 10, 10, you can have mine.
- This ain't a auction motherfucker.
- All right, all right,
I'll give you 52, $52.
- All right.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- It's your money.
- [Able] Oh my God.
- [Homeless Man] It's a pretty good coat.
- Here you go, thanks.
Oh God.
- It looks good.
There you go.
- Oh, oh.
- Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ, get your shit together.
That's kinda disgusting.
- Oh fuckin' shit.
- Hey you got
a quarter brother?
- [Sydney] Back to
KYXK's 48 hour marathon,
the best of counter intelligence.
Al right we're live.
The show that goes deep into
the hood of the nation today.
Ignorance is bless for
those who are ignorant
but for the rest of us
it's a pain in the ass.
Like a baby boomer
(mumbles) me but I feel
like I've been left behind.
I feel like everything's
moving on without me.
I feel like modern times
have not included me.
I feel like (mumbles).
- Yeah, yeah, far enough.
- Are you eating?
- No.
- Ed.
- Yeah.
- We need to un-fuck
this, that's your job.
Now I want you to tell Jay.
- Yeah, she says, "We gotta
take care of this thing."
- [Evelyn] My exact words.
- Said, "That it's, that we
need to un-fuck this thing."
- Now ask him if he understands?
- Make sense?
Yeah, he says yeah.
- I wanna hear his fucking voice.
(voice echoing)
- [Sydney] Or if it's far enough
away so you get in your car
and you drive...
- She want's you to say it.
- [Sydney] But it's
Sunday, they're closed.
- We gotta un-fuck this.
- [Sydney] They have the entire.
- It's your job.
- [Sydney] With keywords
in there (mumbles).
- Fuck.
- Fuck.
(dramatic music)
- [Angela] Look listen, stop talking okay.
I'll be there.
- [Sydney] We're not trying
very hard you know why,
we made it too easy.
Smartphones are great for (mumbles)
dumb people can have 'em.
- (mumbles) you need to chill, both of you
so I'll be there and
everything's gonna be fine,
everything'll be fine Dave.
All right. - Yeah, yes.
- This is my life.
I'm still on my way.
This is my fucking life.
Still, yeah, still driving.
Keep cool, keep cool, keep
cool, you can do this.
When do I get to not do my job right?
Suck it up, do the
fucking job, suck it up.
When do I get to just
kick back and fuck up?
(mumbles).
I am so sorry it will not happen again.
I will send it as soon as I am able to.
Yeah, I'm on my way.
I will, yeah, mm-hmm, almost there.
Fuck you, you're okay.
- He wants flowers and
instant oatmeal Angie okay.
- Yes I will do the sheet
again, mm-hmm, okay, buh-bye.
Bitch.
What kind of flowers?
- He does not give a shit.
- I give a shit okay.
This is my job Dave not yours
so the least you could do
is have some fucking empathy
'cause I'm out here.
I'm out here, my ass
is on the line not you
or that rat faced motherfucker.
Double my pay or (mumbles)
fucking assistant
you fucking (mumbles).
- Angela.
- Be there in 25.
(crying)
I can't do this, I just can't.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, have a good day.
(screaming)
- Hey so...
- Come on what?
- I am the worst.
- What?
- I'm sorry, you gotta go back.
He wants, he wants sunflower seeds, cake,
he wants some chocolate
cake and a bag of peanuts.
Sorry.
- [Angela] Is this for
him or for everybody?
- I honestly, I don't know.
Sorry, thank you.
- Dick.
Do you wanna like take this stuff in?
- I don't think he needs it.
(screaming)
- [Sydney] Speak out because
of the First Amendment right
you (mumbles) say anything you wanna say
whether it's a swear word or not,
you can say it because you live
in the United States of America
and that's part of the rules
you get to say what you really think.
- The worst people on the fucking planet.
- Janet, Janet is that you?
- Excuse me?
- Janet, yeah.
- What are you doing?
What are you doing, what are you doing?
- I'll shoot you, I'll fucking shoot you.
I swear to God I'll shoot you.
Act natural, just be calm, all right,
or I'm gonna fuckin' shoot
you unless you get in the car.
I'm gonna get in the backseat
and you're gonna drive okay.
So don't fuckin' fuck
around here, get in the car,
right fucking now get in the car,
get in the car, get in the car now.
Come on, come on, come on.
- Just take it.
- I don't want it.
Get in the fucking car okay.
I'm sorry just I need you to
get in the car and be quiet.
Put your fuckin' hands down.
Put your hands down, act
normal, act normal okay.
Come on, get in the car.
Come on, get in the fucking car now.
That's it, go, go, go.
Don't be fuckin' stupid.
- So much.
- Hurry the fuck up.
What are you doing?
- (mumbles).
- [Able] Okay, lets go,
come on let's go, let's go.
Come on, come on hurry up.
Come on, let's go,
drive, come on, come on.
- Where?
- [Able] Just fuckin' drive
get us out of here now.
Come on.
- [Angela] Okay, okay, okay.
- [Sydney] The people
that already here right.
- [Able] Fuck!
Fuck!
- [Angela] I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- [Able] Goddammit these things go off.
Do you want that?
I don't want that.
- Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- Okay, go.
- [Angela] I'm sorry.
- [Able] Fuckin' drive.
Cautiously but quick.
Act normal. - Okay.
- Don't look at me.
All right, what street is this?
- [Angela] 20.
- Other way.
- What?
- [Able] Other direction
east west, what street?
- Bradley.
- [Able] All right keep going.
- [Angela] Should I cross the bridge?
- [Able] How far is that?
- [Angela] Like two and
half miles, I don't, two.
- [Able] Jesus in
minutes, how many minutes.
- [Angela] Like five to
10, depends on traffic.
- [Able] Okay, good, good,
quick, right specific.
The scarf on your face, what's the deal?
Come on.
- [Angela] Nothing just no reason.
- Come on you're attracting attention.
You look like Malala take it off.
- You smell.
- What?
- [Angela] Fucking bad, you smell so bad.
I'm so sorry, you smell terrible.
- It's the coat,
it's this coat I took
it off a homeless guy.
I mean I got it, I bought it.
Can you please just
take the scarf down now?
- Can I just put the window down?
- No, scarf down now.
- Okay.
- Wait, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop
no God, are you? - I'm sorry.
- Watch where.
No, no, no, no, no.
Oh fuck, oh goddamn, oh god.
- (mumbles).
- Goddamn.
Come on.
Fuck.
Fuck, are you, fuck are you, are you,
stop waving, stop waving.
Fuck.
- I'm sorry it's just
that smell it's terrible.
Can I just roll...
- No, you cannot
roll the window down.
- It's smells worse now.
- No shit okay.
Look we need to get off the road.
- Are you?
- What?
- If, listen if you're
going to try and rape me
I'll roll the fucking down
and scream I don't care.
- Jesus Christ I'm not gonna do that.
Why the hell would I?
Fuck no, I'm not gonna rape you.
I'm not a rapist.
- Why are you here?
- Hey, hey, hey...
- Why the fuck
is this happening?
- Hey, I'm trying
to be tough too, okay let's
just get through this.
- I was just...
- How far do you
live from here?
- Fucking peanuts and you have a gun.
Why do you have a gun?
Why are you in my car?
Who are you?
- Angela, calm down.
- I'm really fuckin' scared.
- Me too.
Peanuts, you said you had peanuts.
- What?
I'm just, snacks, snack food
stuff for my work, my work.
- Look I need to eat something.
I need to get my blood
sugar under control okay.
- I need to get back to work
because this is not
the best time right now
I'm kind of having trouble.
- Angela, I need
to eat something, you're
not going back to work.
Not like that, I'm mean
you'll go back eventually
just not right, you know right away.
Look I'm asking nicely,
can I please take something out of the bag
and fucking eat it?
Angela, Angela.
- Yeah.
- I need to eat
your work food.
Hey, hey, hey. - Yes.
- It's okay, take some deep breaths
you look like you're having
a fucking heart attack.
- I think I might be.
- You're not having a heart attack,
what are you 21, 22.
- 26, thank you.
- You're not having a heart attack.
- It's earlier...
- Look just hand me
whatever's on top.
I said besides peanuts,
no peanuts, anything else?
- I have Snickers.
- Peanuts.
- Like, I have an apple.
- Hand it back, subtle.
Okay, what else?
- Like M&M's, and pretzels, and Red Vines,
some muffins and chocolate cake,
and sunflower seeds, and soda.
- You're tiny, how do you eat this stuff?
- The people at my work they do, I don't,
and thank you again.
- You work with kids or
something, that's a disaster.
- [Angela] Kinda.
- What like, you're like, like a teacher.
- Production.
- Like in a factory.
- No, no, just like videos,
and photos, and advertising.
- Okay, how far do you live?
Look just answer me okay.
- Not that far.
- [Able] Alone?
- Alone, yeah.
- Okay, just get us going here
and don't do anything stupid
like pull into a police station, okay.
All right, you ready?
- Just give me a second please.
- Production, I don't
know what's that like?
- What?
- I'm trying to make conversation,
you wanna sit in silence?
- Are you serious?
- Fine, if you don't wanna talk then,
(phone buzzing)
what's that?
- Shit, it's my phone.
- Don't answer it.
- It's Dave.
- Leave it.
- He's gonna, he's
gonna think something's,
something's wrong.
- I don't give a shit.
- I've never been late.
- Yeah, well I've never done this before
all right.
- I'm not bullshitting you,
he's gonna keep calling
and he's probably gonna call the cops.
- Are you fuckin' around, why?
- 'Cause he's just covering his ass.
- All right, all right, all
right, all right, all right,
put it on speaker.
Hey, no fucking around.
- Dave.
- Angela, hey girl what's going on?
- I'm just, I'm...
I'm not feeling well.
I, I think I got sick or something.
Dave.
- You sound pretty good
for someone that's sick.
I mean I know, I know
people sound different
when they're sick but you know,
you're kinda running late here.
- It's my stomach.
- Where are you right now?
- Yeah, I'm going home.
I was about to call you.
I need to... - Angie.
- Go home.
- We need that food.
Talent is just standing by,
we're all just standing by.
We need you here, we can't get started
on the first frame till you get here.
- Yeah.
- Understand me.
- I, I, I, I'm not coming in Dave.
- Is it the flu?
- I really don't know.
You know maybe it's food poisoning
or something, I'm not really sure.
- Are you vomiting?
Do you have pain?
- Yeah, actually I am.
Are you fucking serious Dave?
- Okay, I am so, so sorry,
that was way over the line.
That is my bad, I am so sorry.
It's just that we're,
Marianne just keeps asking,
and asking, and asking, and asking.
Look I know this is probably
just a huge inconvenience
and I'm sorry but I just have to ask,
is there anyway you can just swing by
like on your way home.
That might be way over the line
but I just wanna put my feelers
out there see where we are.
You know I, let me know, say hey Dave,
if I'm overstepping just say,
hey man back off I get it.
Ang.
- You know, I can't, I'm sorry,
I'm really not feeling well, okay.
- Okay, okay, okay.
No I totally get it, totally get it,
you need that toilet time.
You take your time, you get better.
I will see what I can
do, I'll talk to Marianne
no promises but you know
I will do my best for you.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay.
- [Dave] Can we call you with questions?
- Sure.
- Thank you.
Angela, thank you.
- What the fuck!
- Angela.
- Why did you do that?
- Stop it.
- I'm gonna lose
my fucking job. - Stop it now.
- Hail Mary full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
- Fuck that guy.
Let's go home.
(dramatic music)
(phone ringing)
- [Fred] Fred Rush.
- Fred, Ev Goldwyn.
- Ev, how are you?
I meant to say you looked
absolutely stunning
at Central Security the other day,
can I get a yeah, yeah.
- [Evelyn] Fucking mess over here Fred.
- [Fred] Yeah, well Evelyn
it's difficult right now.
- I'm not calling to commiserate, okay.
- Right, well as I was saying it's all,
it's, right now it is...
- Solutions Fred.
- Everyone on our end is invested in,
we are working our hardest to...
- Wow, okay, how about an apology?
- Right, Evelyn well
I'm sorry, we're sorry,
we're all very sorry.
- For what?
- For this Evelyn, for all of this,
I mean, I mean come on
don't make me say it again.
- This was simple Fred
and your people, your
unqualified little toddlers
completely shit all over it.
- Like I said we're
very, very, very sorry.
- If I wanted children
doing a fucking handoff
I would of paid my nephew
in a cellphone and a mountain bike.
- Okay just listen, I'm gonna need you
to just calm down there darling.
- Did you just say darling?
Is that what you said to me?
Wake up Fred, open your goddamn eyes
and start getting angry
and don't you ever condescend to me again.
- Evelyn, we're, we're just
as distressed as you are.
We're frustrated.
(groaning)
It was entirely unnecessary.
- Fucking A.
- Fuck.
But, but it was crazy, it
was, it was, it was, it was,
we just didn't know.
I mean hell I don't even know the reason.
- Who is this guy and where, why?
- He's part of our team,
he does data management
algorithms and shit, I don't know.
But or hands were tied,
we are all tied up.
And have you talked to Phil?
- Leeds.
- Phil Leeds he was the one.
He came to us and he asked for
four or five files on people
and we gave him the four or five files
or something like that.
And then he chose that individual.
- He made the call.
- He made the call, damn
right he made the call
and he is one of yours.
He chose this guy, yeah.
So you should talk to Phil.
- I apologize for my tone.
- Sure, sure, sure,
sure, sure, sure, sure.
And if you need anything in the future
don't hesitate to call Evelyn.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, yes.
And yeah.
- In the event that we do
collaborate again under duress
in this type of situation
just please try not to
send me a list of bovines
who can fuck up a simple
motherfucking hand off,
can you do that for me fucking Phil?
- Fred.
- Can you do that Fred?
- Yes.
(upbeat music)
(phone ringing)
- Hey Evelyn, how ya doing my dear?
- You remember the package
delivery selects from Fred?
- Well, yeah sure I
should, I think I do, S7112
- [Evelyn] Pull the
file and send it to me.
- Oh sure I can do that.
But you know I'm in my office
if you just wanna scoot
on over here we could...
- Phil.
- Huh?
- If I see your stupid bald face
I will put it through a wall.
Just do it right now.
- Did I...
- Pull the fucking file Phil!
Fucking fuck!
Fuck, fuck!
- Hey there lady.
(light guitar music)
- [Angela] Jeff.
Man oh man, you know it's like,
it's like I never get to see ya anymore.
- Yeah, yeah, just working.
- Cool.
Yeah, me too, you know I
just been all by myself,
you know just spinning 'em,
sittin' and spinnin' 'em.
Hit it hard in the studio.
(laughing)
Yeah, I get it keeping
it real, layin' 'em down.
What's, what's that, what
the fucks that about?
- Oh, I, I, I, it's soup.
I spilled in the car.
- Ah.
- Some soup.
- Shoot, pretty girl like you,
you got a image to maintain right.
I know you know.
(laughing)
I mean I'm not trying to give myself a tug
or nothing but you know, no
stranger that's all I'm saying.
Must be just, shit, I'd eat your soup.
You know, you know like I said
just been layin' 'em down,
keeping the dream engaged.
I just like to make love
in my music you know.
When I play that guitar
I gotta play it like a, like a pussy.
Play that guitar like pussy,
bass so low, play that pussy.
Find that button and click
it you know what I mean?
Just hit it, you know what I mean?
I up in the studio full
engorged, engaged you know.
- I've gotta go to the bathroom.
I gotta go.
- Hey man, cool yeah.
Sorry about that I didn't
mean to, Jeff, my name's Jeff.
Cool dude.
(laughing)
Right.
I gotta go too anyway, you
know gotta go practice,
keep the machine wet in there and stuff
but you know I'd love to go
and grab that cocktail soon.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Okay, okay, yeah.
- I'd just like to hang out.
Saucy, saucy.
- Stay there.
You have a phone, a landline?
- [Angela] Yeah, next to the typewriter.
- Any other phones?
- No.
- Bag, paper bag.
- Under the sink.
- Anybody else home in the
building besides that asshole?
- I don't really know,
I mean Jeff's the only one
here during the day usually.
He doesn't work.
- Who the fuck would work with that guy?
You guys have a thing or something?
- I mean not really.
(laughing)
Don't even, it wasn't a thing.
- [Able] Anything else I should know of?
- No, not that I can think of.
- [Able] Think harder.
- Nothing, honestly nothing.
- [Able] Okay, okay, I really
have to go to the bathroom.
- I heard, it's back there.
- Yeah, well let's go.
Come on.
- What, no.
- You're staying in my sight.
- Look...
- No, no, I'm sorry,
that's just how it is.
- No, I'm sorry, I'm definitely
not going in there with you.
You fucking kidding me!
- Fuck.
Okay, I'm done, turn around.
- Do I...
- I'm done,
turn around please, I
need some clean clothes.
- I don't have any.
- What nothing.
- No.
- Nobody's ever left any...
- No.
- Behind ever.
- No.
- [Able] I didn't mean it like that look...
- Nobody comes here okay.
Nobody leaves clothes here.
No boyfriends, no ex's,
not him, nobody, all right.
I have puke all over
myself, I need to change.
- Look I don't care.
- I'm not gonna do anything,
all right, this is disgusting
and it is the least...
- Can you just...
- I'm not going to jump
out of a two story window.
You can check that room, it's my room
where my clothes are, you can check it.
Just give me like two seconds, please.
- Okay, yeah, okay, okay.
Just pull people off
desk huh, just like that.
Like that simple, like
that fuckin' simple.
It's never that simple.
What do think that I don't know that?
They think I don't know that.
I'm some kind of fuckin' jackass.
I'm a jackass now.
- I don't want to...
- I asked you not to speak,
okay, so please don't speak, just don't.
- Look if I have to watch you pee...
- Hey, hey, hey, I never made you watch.
You never watched.
And I let you change your clothes so.
- I'm just saying.
- To be fuckin' clear
you were never forced to watch, all right.
- What are you?
You rob a bank or something.
- I can't, no, no, no, no,
look I asked you not to speak, okay,
so please just don't speak.
That means, that means no
questions, no answers, nothing.
That's more for you than for me all right.
- What's in the bag?
- Goddamn it, I don't know okay.
- What do you mean you don't know?
- I don't know.
I have no idea.
Jesus Christ, you're a real,
you know you should be, oh I don't know
maybe this tenacious with
that fuck face boss Darren
of yours. - Dave's not my boss.
- Who gives a shit!
That moron on the phone.
Oh, oh what your job's
just so fuckin' important
that you just let people walk all over you
and then lash out that first fuckin',
I mean come on use your head!
I'm, I'm not...
I'm...
I'm really fucked up here.
(dramatic music)
- [Sydney] Newspapers online
and they write articles
and they know their audience.
- [Able] What are you doing?
- [Sydney] What you believe,
what you wanna think is true.
- Hey buddy, how are ya?
So everything's, everything's good, great.
- Yeah.
- Good.
Yeah, I'm loving this, loving this.
- [Able] Nice night out.
- Yeah, it is.
Is that it in there?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Okay, good.
Well are you gonna get it or
you want me to get it or what?
- No, I can.
- Oh yeah, well your car, your rules.
Take advantage of it, go, bring it to me.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay.
I mean, you know, yeah,
why wouldn't I be okay?
- Oh, you just seem, I don't know.
- I've just a little bit too much coffee
and past my bedtime,
you know, kinda thing.
- So you a agency guy?
- Huh, why?
- Sorry I just, I heard
this was sensitive.
- I know that.
- Look, I didn't mean to
offend you, I'm just asking.
- Are you an agency guy?
- Yeah, I don't think, well
I'm not suppose to say.
- Right, right, right, sure,
sure, sure, sure, sure.
I tell you what, you know what,
I think we just need to get
this thing done all right,
wrap it up, put a fuckin' bow on it.
- Yeah, okay.
- Okay good, great.
Won't ya get that done.
- Okay.
- [Able] Sorry this is happening.
Sorry. - Yeah, yeah right.
Are you fuckin' kidding me?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
you know what's in that?
- No.
- Of course you don't.
Bring it over here to me.
So hey, let's get this done.
Whadda ya say buddy?
- Yeah, you know what,
let's, hold on a second,
I'm just gonna give my boss a call okay.
- Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
just don't call right now.
We've gotta get moving,
I gotta get out of here.
- I'm sorry but...
- No.
- Something just feels a little off.
- You're not gonna...
- Hey I'm sorry
but you're just making me,
you're making me nervous okay.
- I'm making you nervous.
- Yeah, you're making nervous,
yeah.
- God almighty you're the one
that got all this blinking
weirdness going on.
- What?
- This coughing and...
- What coughing?
- And that's the...
- What are you talking about?
- Blinking I'm taking about
right there.
- What are you talking about?
Listen... - That's weird.
- I'm gonna call this in...
- You're just weird.
- [Able] It's only gonna take a second.
- Just plain weird.
- Just stay,
just stay right here okay.
Look it's gonna be simple.
- No, no...
- It's gonna be fine.
- It's not gonna be.
- I'm just gonna...
- I don't think so no, no.
I think we need to get this done.
- Yeah and we will.
- Oh, yeah.
- We will.
What, no, no, no!
- Give it here!
What the hell is wrong with you?
Let go.
- Let go, it's not right.
- Are you nuts?
- It's not right!
No, give it, go!
No, no, no, no, no.
This isn't right!
- Are you nuts?
- This isn't right.
No I'm not nuts!
(groaning)
(fist thuds)
- Fuck!
Oh great.
- [Evelyn] Are you fuckin' kidding me?
Page nine.
- Ev, love the dress, looks great.
- Have you seen this file Phil?
- Well it might of been
sent over by that B group
that I was working with,
they're very orderly over there.
- Did you read all of it by chance?
- That's our job.
You gotta tell these young guys
'cause sometimes they don't listen.
They just power through but not me.
- Oh yeah.
- You can count on old Phil.
- Do me a favor Phil.
- Sure.
What do you like?
Let see here, I see so many files.
- Second paragraph last sentence.
- Oh.
- Read it.
- Mr. James has recently
been identified to suffer
from diagnoseable attributes
of manic behavioral disorder
evidence, sorry cold.
Oh evidence by bouts of
semi severe paranoia,
manic episodes predominantly
prompt temporary blackouts.
Mr. James should be indefinitely
considered unfit for field work
in any capacity and should
only be assigned to class one
or below office related tasks
until further treatment.
Oh, so he's not.
So that's probably not,
probably not, what...
- Not good.
- Well, I didn't see that,
all of that in my initial...
- You didn't.
- Analysis.
No, no, not completely, no.
- Not completely.
- Yes, no.
- You figured out at the five.
- Well I assumed it would be okay.
He seemed, he seemed qualified.
Well low-risk qualified.
I mean well I don't want to,
I try to avoid discrimination,
generally speaking.
Is there a problem?
- Would I be standing in your office
looking at your stupid bald face
if everything was okay Phil?
- No, I mean, probably
not, no, no need to.
- Are you fuckin' kidding me,
you knew that was there, you read that
and you chose this idiot!
- Well,
I mean I kinda spot checked it.
- Your job is the only job in the country
where discrimination is
a fucking requirement.
- I did the best with,
it was rushed, I'm sorry.
It was just thrown together.
- You know what happens now?
What happens now is that I get to visit
an appointed official, an
elected servant of the people.
You get to sit here
with your shriveled little fucking penis
all because you refuse to discriminate
because you're a lazy
incontinent, incompetent fucker.
- I don't think you can
talk to me this way Evelyn.
- Fuck you Phil, that's what I think.
- He seemed fine.
- No, no, no, no, we
don't make mistakes Phil.
- Well you're saying...
- So now you're gonna
extricate yourself while
you can still get a hard on,
you're fucked. - Yeah.
- You're fired, pack your shit.
- This is wrong, this is crazy.
- Yeah, it is crazy, crazy
rises, stupid drowns.
Buy a fucking wetsuit.
(dramatic music)
- Numbers that's it,
numbers, numbers, numbers,
numbers and numbers and information,
numbers and information,
numbers, that's it, that's me.
- You don't, you really
don't know what's in here?
- [Able] No, I said I don't know.
- And you didn't steal it.
- [Able] Look I don't have to
explain myself to you okay.
- I'm sorry I wasn't,
I wasn't trying to put you on the spot.
- [Able] Oh really.
(laughing)
- No, I swear.
I'm just, I'm just, I'm tired.
- Let's not forget who's in
control here right, remember.
- Sorry.
I'm sorry.
- Look, I didn't steal it
exactly, it's just not mine.
- Are you, are you in trouble?
Okay.
Am I in trouble?
- No, I don't know, I don't think so.
- Oh.
- Fuck!
No more questions okay,
can you just for minute.
- Why not give it to whoever
you're suppose to give it to
and then you'll be out of trouble.
- I said no more questions.
- If you don't know what it
is and somebody else needs it
why not either figure out
how fucked you are or...
- You have no idea how this works.
- Give it back to whose ever it is.
- You have no idea what
this is or how I got here.
So if you don't know then
all you have to go on
is what I know, which is
very, very fucking little.
Who, who I should...
- I'm just trying...
- You can't help, okay.
So just stick to your
pretty pictures and shit.
I'm handling, I'm.
I don't even know what
I'm looking at everyday,
walls of code, the
goddamn matrix rolling by
and I tell it where to go
and then someone else
takes it to the next stop
and then someone else
and then someone else
and then on another stop, another stop.
I honestly don't even know
if it ever actually stops,
I'm a goddamn, I'm on track (mumbles)
on a road that goes around the world.
Emails about employees, coordinates
to a village in Ukraine,
who knows anywhere, anything, anytime,
any problem, any solution.
- Ukraine.
- Anything.
Yeah, Ukraine, South
Sudan, Lebanon, Pakistan
on and on, and on, and on.
I'm a goddamn desk jockey,
I'm a itty bitty cog
in the biggest wheel on the planet.
I'm the lowest man on the totem pole
in a company that fixes...
and then one day out of
clear blue this, why?
Why?
- I don't know.
- Maybe I saw something that
no one was supposed to see.
A lot of high-up problems
come through my eyes,
something slipped by maybe,
I don't know, I don't know.
Maybe something worth making
me go away I don't know.
I didn't tell you anything
and the only people that do know
they're out there looking for me.
So what do I tell them
in the meantime, huh?
Oh hey sorry I didn't hand
over the, whatever this is.
- Isn't that what you can...
- No.
What are you fucking
kidding, no, what, no!
No oh my God.
What are doing?
She doesn't, she doesn't
know what she, Jesus Christ,
fuck, she's not even fucking
listen to what you're saying.
She doesn't listening,
she's not listening,
nobody ever fucking listen.
They don't listen, they don't listen.
You're fucked. - Hey, come on.
- [Able] You're fucked, you're fucked.
- I'm not trying to.
- You're fucked,
you're fucked, you're
fucked, you're fucked.
- Oh my God - You're
fucked, you're fucked.
- Hey wait, you're okay.
- You're fucked, you're fucked.
You're fucked, you're fucked.
- I wasn't.
Oh, my God.
- You're fucked, you're fucked,
you're fucked, you're fucked.
- You're okay.
- You're fucked, you're fucked.
- Stop it.
- You're fucked,
you're fucked, you're fucked.
- Stop it.
Stop it. - You're fucked.
- What the fuck you do that for man?
Fuck Jesus Christ.
You're gonna have slide
your weapon out buddy.
Come on.
You can do it, come on buddy.
Come on.
Fuck this shit.
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
(groaning)
God you cocksucker!
Oh fuck, son of a,
why the fuck did you?
Fuck you all right.
(gun bangs)
Fuck, goddammit.
- Okay.
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
- You just dropped.
I just, I moved you here to the couch.
It's okay.
You're okay.
You're okay, I didn't do anything,
I didn't call anybody
I swear to God I just,
you blacked out and moved you,
and checked your head, and
moved you here, that's it.
I fucking swear that's it.
- Did I blackout?
- I didn't, I don't, I don't know.
- Tell me exactly what happened.
- I don't know you just dropped.
You just dropped.
- Did I day anything?
- No, fuck.
- Why didn't you take the gun?
- I don't know, I didn't, fuck.
Fuck this, fuck this, fuck this.
It was like a seizure or something
and I, I almost took you to the hospital.
- I'm glad you didn't.
- The bag vibrated.
- What?
- The thing, the case
while you were, it buzzed,
it vibrated, I didn't look.
I just moved you to the couch.
- I think it needs a password.
- You don't know it.
Is there a call?
- [Able] It's unknown.
- What was that?
- Someone's trying to find me I guess.
- No, not that.
- I have sometimes, a couple times a year
these episodes like if I...
my eyes, I can't see anything,
they're all blurry.
I thought I had a chance
but I'm just living
in a fucking fuckin' fancy.
Stuck...
and I just can't wake up.
I thought we had everything
but I couldn't keep shit together.
I fucked it all up.
And I pushed her away.
I'm just didn't actually
think she would go.
I thought I could be who I wanted to be.
My fucking head.
I'd go back if I could.
The only thing worse than
not living your dreams
being stuck halfway.
(mumbles) I thought I'd say fuck you
to her and everybody else.
I hope it's over soon.
It's hard knowing what you want.
- Yeah.
- You want me to kidnap that Dave guy?
(laughing)
(phone buzzing)
Hello.
- Are you safe?
- Yeah.
- You, I'm glad you picked up.
You have the bag with you then.
- Yeah, it's here, yeah.
Who is this?
- Able, we need to end this
as amicably as possible.
We have some folks out
there looking for you.
Now it makes the most sense at this point
for you to just come in.
- It doesn't seem safe.
- Please take this kindly,
you've caused a lot of trouble.
We need to clean this up sweetie.
- I just, I just wanna
leave the bag somewhere.
I can tell you where it is and go away.
- With no money, no
things, you can't go home,
you'll be picked up at the airport.
- How do I know I'll be okay?
- You'll be safer if you comply.
- [Able] This wasn't my fault.
- [Evelyn] We know that.
Where are you?
We can come to you.
- [Able] No, I've got,
I have someone with me.
- Office personnel?
- No.
- Do they know anything?
Did you tell them anything?
- No.
- Able.
- Nothing I didn't, I didn't say anything.
- And they're safe.
- Yeah, we're okay.
- Okay, I'll send you a
message in five minutes.
- [Able] Will you be there?
- You'll be fine, my people
are perfectly capable.
- I want...
- You're not
in a bargaining position Able.
Five minutes, are you mobile?
- Yeah, I can be, yeah.
- Five minutes.
- I can't unlock the phone.
- Can you see the texts
on the front screen?
- Yeah probably, yeah.
- Five minutes.
Motherfucker yes!
Oh eat my ass Able James!
Fucking Fred!
Fucking everybody, fuck you!
- We're not gonna have
time to kill your boss.
- It's cool.
- God.
Still got it.
You still got it.
- [Angela] Yeah well
you can't fuckin' see.
- [Able] No, it's getting better.
This is some serious shit.
- [Angela] You're not taking my car.
- Hey whoa, whoa, hold
on, take it easy buster.
Twice in one day.
- Fuck off Jeff!
- Hey dude I was just
trying, what the fuck?
- [Angela] Shut the fuck up.
Can you do that for me.
- Yeah.
- Can you shut the fuck
up for me Jeff?
Don't fucking speak.
Don't ever fucking speak, nod.
You come near my door I fuck you up, nod.
Let it go dude, fuck off, and let it go.
- What a dick.
- [Sydney] Made it this way
whether you like it or you
hate it that's what you get.
You don't get to choose.
So take what... - My friends the
long winter's night is over
and springtime is here.
♪ O say can you see ♪
♪ By the dawn's early light ♪
♪ What so proudly we
hailed at the twilight's ♪
- [Man] Now get off your
phones, get of your TVs,
I'm telling you, get off
Facebook, take your masks off.
- The state gives us our rights.
- The whole park.
- We are given.
- Bullshit.
- Our rights
are given us at birth by God.
- [Man] Stop blaming everyone
else for your problems
and take a real good
look in your own heart.
For once just look up,
look up for guidance.
- [Man] And I'm just
one person, one person,
you know and I made a
shield, I took a stick,
throw my gas mask on and my helmet
and I went in there and
I cracked the skulls
of some commies that we're attacking us.
And now today we're all here together
standing up for liberty and freedom.
- [Man] What do we stand for?
- [Group] Freedom!
- [Man] Stop looking at the government
and for once get down on your knees
and pray to God and ask God for help.
I'm telling ya.
- [Man] We are here today guys...
- Do not (mumbles) government.
- For free speech.
♪ O say does that
star-spangled banner yet ♪
And the darkness is slowly coming in
from the East Coast, the West Coast,
and it's squeezing it's way on.
And that republic that
they gave is to stay free.
- [Man] God bless you.
♪ Home of the brave ♪
And may God bless the
United States of America.
- [Man] You have to be willing to bleed.
(group chattering)
And it's okay to be a
beautiful Christian too.
(group cheering)
- [Buck] Evelyn, you look lovely.
- Thank you sir.
- What can you tell me?
- Well it's not ideal, we seem to have,
things will improve within
in the next couple of hours
I just need to hear from
a few of my associates
before we know when you're in the clear.
- Am I fucked Evelyn?
- I'm not sure it's...
- If you keep stuttering
and fumbling through every fucking word
I'm going to pull them out of your throat.
Am I fucked?
- I don't know yet sir.
Once we can... - We did Evelyn,
I was under the impression that we did,
that's why I sent my
personal head of security
to finish this.
I've had it up to here with your apologies
and your niceties and talking down to me
like you were my fucking mother!
- It was human error sir.
- Just, just tell me what
happened and where we stand.
I'm trying to stay in control
but you're making it
exceptionally, exceedingly hard.
- What I'm trying to do is keep
at the very least six
degrees of separation
between you and the nuances of this.
- This is being exasperated,
this could of been swept
under the rug a week ago
and I could have had my property back,
oh hell a month ago had we just...
- Followed your plans sir.
- Excuse me.
- This matter ran the
risk of blowing completely
out of control into an
absolute shit storm sir.
Now we're dealing with it accordingly.
- Don't you dare talk down
to me you fucking child.
I have been in this racket 45 years,
started when you were a fuckin' tadpole
in your daddy's prunes
and don't think you have
the right or privilege
of speaking to me, me as an equal.
I wrote you a check, I pay your bills,
I pay your peoples bills,
I pay for your doggie daycare
and your mannish apartment in the hills
so you can mitigate human fucking error.
And don't you think for one second
that you are remotely in
charge, do you understand me?
- Neither are you sir.
- Get out of my fucking' office.
- Politicians are petty sir.
You're angry right now, you should be
but when this is all done
you're worship the ground I walk on.
Then you'll give me a
pitch perfect referral
to the next petty entitled prick
who doesn't understand
when you leave personal
and sensitive property
somewhere you aren't suppose to
and the wrong people find it
solutions are very complex and expensive.
Or maybe he'll tow that line
of recreation like you seem to.
If I were you sir, I'd start asking
what you need to do from here on out.
Do you understand?
- Good speech.
- Control your dick.
(dramatic music)
- [Sydney] 'Cause if we did
better than all these people
that have these dirty energy job.
- And they got one of those big buckets
on a trailer, oh my God.
- [Sydney] Their families depend on them,
their communities depends on
them and we depend on the.
- He died but.
- [Sydney] Doing those things
so that we can continue
to drive our cars and heat
our homes and use the fuels.
Because that's the way
the system is set up.
If we look at our small
communities they are suffering
and the people that live there
have no other way to make sure
that their family is feed,
to make sure that they
have a house to live in
and what's happening is their
communities are collapsing.
- What do we do?
- [Sydney] Ghost town because
jobs are disappearing.
- Oh thank God, come on out.
- Want me to get out?
Are you okay?
- [Sydney] We're all gonna die.
(mumbles) and making sure...
- Hey, I.
- Jesus Christ.
- You'll be fine.
- Is someone with you?
- Yes.
- Who?
- I'm...
- Who?
- He's here,
the guy you're here for, in the car.
- You a friend?
- No, no, I mean, I mean...
no.
- Okay, so he's in the car then.
- Yeah.
- Say again.
- Yeah.
- [Ed] So all right just
bring him on out okay.
- Yeah.
Come on it's okay, come on.
- [Ed] You armed?
Are you armed?
- He's coming.
Come on it's okay.
- I can't.
- Are you armed?
He's gotta go, come on.
- Yes, you can.
- It's not right.
- Stop it.
Stop it.
Stop it, put it down.
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
(gun bangs)
- [Sydney] You think you know.
- Come on, stop it.
- I can't.
- Stop it.
Put it down.
- Are you armed?
- He's coming.
- Put it down.
It's okay. - I can't.
- [Angela] Stop it.
Stop it.
Put it down.
It's okay.
- [Sydney] Earth because if
the earth is too screwed up
that we're not gonna
be able to live on it,
if we can't live on it what's
the point of earth, right.
- Put it down.
We're not armed.
- Okay.
Come on over.
Thank you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
we're all locked in here.
Right, be there shortly.
In 25, 30 minutes, well do.
Can I?
Angela.
- Yeah.
- Thank you so much for bringing him in.
Sorry about this whole thing.
Did he hurt you at all?
- No, no of course not.
- He's gun was empty I figured.
Did he tell you anything?
- No, no, what's gonna happen to him?
- Shit, I don't know.
You know we bring him in and
then it's out of our hands.
Hell, you know these things
happen every once in a while,
it just, oh, you got some peanuts here.
Do you mind?
- Seriously?
- Yeah, I mean if you don't mind.
- Yeah, I mean sure I guess that's fine.
- He tell you where he works.
- No, I don't know anything, all right.
- Yeah, no, yeah, fine.
You sure?
- Yes, I'm sure.
Okay, he didn't hurt anybody.
- Now.
- He's not gonna get like,
he didn't hurt anyone.
(gun bangs)
(groaning)
- You cocksucker, ow, fuck, son of a,
why the fuck did you?
Fuck you all right.
(gun bangs)
Fuck goddammit.
- Okay.
(gun bangs)
What's gonna happen to me?
- Anyways, hey you're free to go home.
I, don't tell anybody about this okay,
this address or any of this stuff.
We're gonna have somebody
watch ya, you should know that.
So don't tell anybody.
Hey and thanks for this.
Yes.
You have a good night.
- Hey, that's it, that's all.
- There's a number on there,
anything comes up feel free to use it.
- Wait you're not, you're
not gonna like question me
or send me to Gitmo or try
to kill me or something.
- Gitmo, no.
In Cuba, Cuba right?
Gitmo.
(laughing)
That's funny.
- Hey.
- Yeah.
- Is he gonna be okay?
- Probably.
- You know he's not well,
he's like ill, right,
he's mentally ill.
- Not my problem, not
my job, not my problem.
(gentle music)
- [Sydney] But you never get to know them
because you don't have any
reason to interact with them
and if you don't have a
reason to interact with them
you don't bother going into
their neighborhoods to find them
you just don't go there,
you never see them,
and you don't interact with them.
Is that your fault?
Are you a racist or you know I don't know,
probably not but you're not gonna seek out
something that's not like you
if everything's working out fine
and that's a problem.
Because what ends up happening
is you go through a neighborhood
that's not like yours
and all you wanna do is go through it.
You don't stop and become a
part of another community.
If you actually took a red pen
and drew on a map all the places you go
from your house to wherever you go
you're gonna see the same
repeated patterns over and over.
I'll bet you anything
almost every line you make
is gonna be a repeatable
line that was there before
because we have our areas.
And I think we gotta stop having areas.
(gentle music)
(dramatic music)
- [Man] My friends I coming to you again
because I made you a pledge
and I want you know that
the job isn't finished.
I'd like to tell you
America is second to none.
My fellow citizens it's important.
(phone buzzing)
(upbeat music)
- [Sydney] Black and blue,
it's KYXK's 48 hour marathon.
"Counterintelligence",
written, produced, and
directed by Christopher Sakr.
Also produced by Michael
Elliott and Andrea Tolbert.
Shot by Michael Elliot,
edited by Touma Rask.
Location sound mix by Tim Kahn,
art direction by Andrea Tolbert.
Music by Noah Simons.
Casting by Rachel Meyer.
Presented by Shohawk media
in association with CMP.
Starring Sharae Foxie as Angela,
Brian Koch as Able,
Marcella Laasch as Evelyn,
J.W. Crawford as Driver
Andy Sims as Ed,
Pen Corbin as Jay,
Brian Sutherland as Fred,
Jerry Basham as Phil,
Joesph Costa as Senator Buck Henri,
Adam Elliott Davis as Jeff,
Michael Hall as Dave,
Rich Sadle as the Homeless Man,
Mamie Wilhem as Miss America,
and Anthony Redelsperger
as your host Syndey Beale.
Location scouted by Rachel Meyer,
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dialogue mixed by Jake Newbcome,
sound mixed by Micheal Elliot,
sound designer, VFX and
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