Blindspot (2015–…): Season 2, Episode 13 - Name Not One Man - full transcript
The team faces a struggle when they find out that Kurt Weller might be working as a double agent without even realizing it himself.
Stop!
Kurt! Kurt! Stop fighting!
Get off me!
You're in a lot of trouble, Cadet Weller.
This is the third time
you've broken your curfew,
and you're not even halfway
through the semester.
I thought this was a
school, not a prison, sir.
We have rules.
Where were you sneaking off to?
I need to check on my sister.
- Why?
- My father...
She can't defend herself. He's a monster.
I know you're still angry with
your dad for sending you here.
No, that's not it.
This is your last warning, Cadet.
Expel me. I hate it here.
No... you don't get off that easy.
You need this school more than you know.
Now go outside... and wait for security
to escort you back to the dorms.
Quite a mess you've gotten yourself into.
It's okay to be angry.
Anger's good.
But you have to know where to put it.
Giving a school guard a black eye is...
short-sighted.
You get kicked out, then what?
No education, no prospects.
Doubt you could do much for your sister
if you can't even take care of yourself.
To really protect people...
you need power.
This place is the first step in getting it.
It's not too late to do the right thing.
Ma'am...
Colonel Nix is ready for you.
Good luck, Cadet Weller.
It couldn't have been the
only time that I met Shepherd.
Maybe being back here on
campus will help you remember.
Even if you only met her that one time,
you know that she was watching you here.
The basketball game, the yearbook
photo, the graduation video.
How does all of that lead to
my name being on Jane's back
and being part of Shepherd's plan?
Well, hopefully the Commandant
can help fill in some blanks.
- And if he can't?
- One step at a time.
We don't have time, Nas.
You sure you have to go in today?
I mean, look at what's
in your bed right now.
No, I gotta go in, Niki.
Okay, you gonna call me?
Yes, absolutely.
You don't have my number.
Okay, what's your number?
Missed you at
the gym this morning.
I overslept.
Really? You never miss a workout.
There's a first time for everything.
Well, it's just us, Three Amigos.
Weller wants us to run a tattoo down
while he follows a Sandstorm
lead with Jane and Naas.
All right. What do we got?
Okay, so, as we all know,
the text on Jane's back
is a mish-mash of various passages
from famous literary works.
Buried in there are Bible verses
from the book of Genesis,
including Genesis 3:25.
"But it was the Father who
sent his envoy, the serpent,
to tempt his children
and lead them astray."
I haven't been to church in a while,
but that doesn't sound familiar.
That's because it doesn't exist.
There is no Genesis 3:25,
but this morning, one of my systems
picked up the phrase "Genesis 3:25"
over some chatter, and
I was able to track it
to a man named Jared Wisnewski.
Single guy, runs a local
farmers co-op upstate.
A few hunting rifles
registered to his name.
Okay, so a mild-mannered farmer
references a Bible verse that
doesn't exist in the chatter?
- Barely a lead.
- I thought so, too.
But the coincidence didn't
sit well with Weller,
and he wanted us to dig into it.
How exactly did this
alert your tattoo database?
I don't want to bore you
with the intricate details.
- Since when?
- It's... It's just...
It's a whole mess of algorithms
and just so much math.
All right, we're gonna
head up to Wisnewski's farm
and see if we can find anything.
- Let's move.
- Let's move.
You should have seen Kurt back then.
Spent more time in this office than class.
Can't believe he turned
out to be an FBI agent.
Assistant Director of the FBI, actually.
Impressive.
You both work for the FBI, too?
Sure.
Any idea who she is?
That's Ellen Briggs.
What was her connection to the academy?
Ellen was in the Army.
She visited once a semester
to talk about her work serving abroad.
Spent a lot of time in
Africa, the Middle East.
And she took a real interest in you.
What do you mean?
Well, I was...
this close to kicking you out of here,
and Ellen convinced me you
deserved another chance.
I don't understand. She convinced you?
You could say that.
What aren't you telling me, sir?
Your dad, he was having a hard time
covering your tuition.
She offered to sponsor you.
My scholarship came from
a state-funded lottery.
No, it didn't. Ellen
wanted to remain anonymous.
You're telling me that Ellen
Briggs funded my entire education?
She saw something in you.
Anything?
Yeah, you could say that.
Great seeing you folks today.
Tell Shepherd Kurt Weller was just here.
He knows.
Let me reintroduce you to Shepherd,
otherwise known as Ellen Briggs.
- What'd you find?
- More than we had, less than we want.
Even the simplest information is
hidden behind layers of military
security clearances and encryption.
But now we know that
she was a Major General,
Deputy Director of the Defense
Threat Reduction Agency.
Holding such a high rank
in the military would
explain how she had access to some of
the classified information on Jane's body.
And why she'd have friends
that have access to the rest.
Most of her record is heavily redacted
or just missing from the system entirely.
I've been searching for connections,
and one name popped up... Sean Clark.
He was a training officer at Fort Meade
when Shepherd was stationed there.
They worked together for years.
But then there's this.
Clark retired from a post
at the DOJ a year ago,
then suffered a stroke.
He's been at an assisted living
center in Westchester ever since.
It took some digging, but
the shell corporation paying
his bills has connections to
the same one that sponsored.
Weller's military school scholarship.
So Shepherd's paying Sean
Clark's medical bills?
That means that he's important to her.
We've got to go and talk to that guy.
Let's move.
So, you just overslept?
You know you can still talk
to me about Coach Jones, right?
Jones is dead.
That doesn't mean what he did goes away.
Do you ever think about maybe
trying to talk to somebody,
trying to deal with...
There's nothing to deal with.
Jones is dead. It's over.
Hello?
No car in the driveway.
It's a big farm. Let's check around back.
- Home shooting range?
- That seems a little excessive.
I don't remember him having an
AK-47 registered in his name.
This guy's got a huge
stockpile of automatic weapons.
And all the ingredients
to make an ANFO bomb.
- I'm gonna call in a warrant.
- I'll let Weller know.
Ellen Briggs...
what can you tell me about her, Mr. Clark?
She's gone.
She's gone where?
Three-two count. Backdoor slider.
He... Gibson, he cracks
one to the bleachers,
and she's gone.
Yeah... 1988 World Series.
Sean, do you remember me?
I'm Ellen's daughter, Remi.
You're not on the Dodgers.
Excuse us.
I just talked with Sean's doctor.
His stroke resulted in
significant brain trauma.
His vascular dementia is
better on some days, but...
Yeah, well, we caught
him on a really bad day.
Perhaps that's why Shepherd
isn't afraid of him talking.
It's another dead end.
All he can remember is baseball.
Wait, maybe talk to him about baseball.
I mean, familiar things
help me with my memories.
Mr. Clark, do you like the Pirates?
Cordova and Rincon's
combined no-hitter in '97?
I almost went to that game.
I know you.
How? From where?
You play on the Mets.
You should have been a National,
but they could never let that happen.
Never.
Thank you, Mr. Clark.
You have a great day.
Welcome back.
We seized a huge cache
of automatic weapons,
demolition charges, nitrogen
fertilizer, and diesel fuel.
Wisnewski isn't a mild-mannered farmer.
He's using his farm as a
domestic terrorist training camp.
So he's making an ANFO bomb?
Aluminum Nitrate Fuel Oil explosive.
Same type of bomb they
used in Oklahoma City.
- Where is this guy now?
- We have a BOLO out on his car,
and we're tracking his credit cards.
- My God!
- What?
We just got a hit on
facial recognition for him.
Where?
Here, in this building.
He just exited the third floor elevator.
Counterterrorism Division.
Down! Stop! Get on the ground!
On the ground!
- Are you armed?
- No.
What are you doing here?
Is this building a target?
I don't understand. I'm an informant.
I work for the FBI.
Are these really necessary?
I'm an informant for you guys.
You're not in our system,
and our informants don't usually
make bombs in their backyard.
Agent Boyd can vouch for me.
He's on his way in, but right now,
you're gonna start
talking to the both of us.
I run a farmers co-op upstate.
A lot of us in the community were angry.
The government is pushing us off our land.
First, in the '90s, it was a freeway.
Now, it's a gas pipeline.
People can't make a living anymore.
Agent Boyd was concerned
that the anti-government
sentiment could lead
to a homegrown domestic cell.
He wanted me to keep an
eye on things, report back.
I identified a few key people
that were angrier than others
- and passed those names along.
- All right.
So, how does passing on a few names
turn into a terror attack?
It was Boyd's idea.
Come again?
Are you saying an agent told
you to start building ANFO bombs?
He wanted me to gauge the group's interest
in acting on their anger.
The pipeline is gonna
break ground on March 25th.
He wanted to know if that
was an enticing target.
I brought it up.
People went along.
March 25th. Genesis 3:25.
That's the codename for
your pipeline attack?
Genesis means the beginning,
and we were gonna end it.
By what, blowing it up?
Boyd and his team were gonna swoop
in before anything got deadly.
What you're describing is entrapment.
Now, my office does not radicalize people
or create a terror cell
just to take them down.
- Agent Boyd.
- I can explain this.
Stop.
My office, now.
It's a successful program.
I wouldn't know. There's no record.
Well, I couldn't leave a paper trail for
- this kind of operation.
- Yeah, because it's against the law.
These people would not
be planning this attack
if you hadn't have given them the idea.
I'm just moving up the
timeline on the inevitable.
These people are angry.
They hate the government.
Yeah, and that does
not make them criminals.
Look, if we don't root
out this kind of stuff now,
we'll be dealing with the aftermath later.
Think about Ruby Ridge,
Cliven Bundy, Timothy McVeigh.
I'm shutting you down, Boyd.
You pull the plug, this group will
carry out the attack without Jared.
Not if we arrest them first.
We don't have the evidence to make arrests.
This was all about getting
them for the big attack.
And we've got Jared's weapons
and his bomb materials.
A third grader could make more ANFO,
and you know it.
We let this go,
and something bad is gonna happen.
I want you to put together
everything that you have
on this and then give it to me.
I will decide whether this
op moves forward or not.
We were hoping these photos
could help you remember something.
Who is she?
You remember her?
I have this feeling. It's hard to explain.
I can't... I can't remember her,
but she feels familiar.
I know her, don't I?
That's Shepherd, our mother.
Her real name is Ellen Briggs.
She was an Army General.
I need to know everything about her.
Well, we don't know much right now,
and the files we found on
her are mostly redacted.
I need to see them.
I'm not sure that the FBI
is willing to hand over
classified documents to someone in custody.
I know her, I...
Look, I know it's frustrating and...
How am I supposed to help if they
won't share everything with me?
What are they hiding?
I'll talk to Nas, okay?
- You okay?
- Yeah.
I'm doing great. What's going on?
How exactly did you crack
the Bible verse tattoo?
You told me on the phone you picked
up the phrase on some chatter.
You're never this interested
in how I solve the tattoos.
This one points to an
off-the-book program
being run out of this office,
so I need to know what is
happening under my watch,
and I need to know now.
Okay.
I linked the tattoo database to a
secret NSA data collection program.
Omaha? Nas told me
it's very similar to Daylight.
Daylight on steroids is more accurate.
So you've been using illegal
wiretaps to solve these tattoos?
- Patterson.
- This was the first one.
- Really?
- I know... it's just,
I have to use every resource that I have.
We're running out of time
to figure out what all of this adds up to.
That is my call to make,
not yours, understand?
As much as I want to
shut this program down,
we can't risk an attack being
carried out by this domestic cell.
Great, I've outlined a way to
wrap this up in three months.
Forget it. This is my op now.
- We do it my way.
- Sir, with all due respect,
I've been working on this for two years.
Yeah, and you messed it up,
so you want me to keep you on this,
tell me everything that I need to know.
These are the players that Jared
planned the pipeline attack with.
So what do we know about them?
Tom Moses, cattle rancher
who turned a peaceful community
protest into a small riot.
The incident ignited this
powder keg in the first place.
His cousin Kevin Pabst is a distributor
who brings the co-op's
cattle to the market.
And lastly, Tess Bartell.
She served two tours in the Iraq war,
took over the family
farm when she returned.
What about the rest of the community?
Are they aware of an attack?
A few other people in the community
were interested in joining the cause.
We were gonna read 'em in soon.
Let's focus on these three.
We'll make arrests when we've
got enough evidence on them.
Jared's been out of contact with them
since your team raided his farm.
He needs to let 'em know
that the plan is safe,
that the attack can still move forward.
No. I don't want him
out in the field again.
He's the leader of the group.
If he disappears, they'll
know something's wrong.
We have a prearranged meeting
spot that's easy to surveil.
I can do this.
Jared?
Hey, Tess, listen.
Your place is crawling with cops.
I'm fine, but we have to talk.
Get Kevin and Tom and meet
in the normal spot in an hour.
No. The orchard on Old Post Road.
What's wrong with the
usual spot? It's secure.
If the Feds knew about your farm,
they could know about
our meeting spot, too.
Tess, there's no way they
could know about that.
See you in an hour.
This is not a good position.
Not one sightline to where they're meeting.
If we get any closer, they'll spot us.
We'll know everything that's going on
through the mic we put in Jared's truck.
We got something.
A jeep and a bike approaching
from the north end.
Got it. Stay sharp, team.
Anything seems off, we
move in, make the arrests.
- Copy?
- Copy that.
How the hell did the FBI
know to raid your farm, Jared?
Nosy neighbor. I'm just lucky I wasn't home
when they stormed the place.
They got the weapons and the bombs.
They could know everything.
Nothing pointed to our
plan or to any of you.
We have to stay the
course with Genesis 3:25.
The pipeline is months
away from breaking ground.
We need to gather the
others and strike today
before the cops launch
a full investigation.
Strike what? Where?
Watch the news tonight. You'll see.
Tess, don't cut me out! I started this!
You're a fugitive now,
Jared. You need to lay low.
I need to know what you're targeting
to make sure that it has a real impact.
You don't trust me?
Or is something else going on here, Jared?
Tess, what are you doing?
Please, put the gun away.
Jared's blown. Let's pull him out.
He can handle it, she's
about to change up the target.
Team, move in!
Why didn't you answer
your phone all day, Jared?
You're being paranoid.
Are you trying to set us up?
You working with the Feds?
We've come too far to let you ruin it.
It's over. Put the gun down.
The FBI is listening.
Go!
Weller, Tess is headed to you.
Stay on her.
Show me your hands! Show me your hands!
Get on the ground! Now!
This is everything that
we have on Shepherd.
I've included images of
Fort Meade and Fort Hood.
That's where we know she was stationed.
Does any of it seem familiar?
No, none of it. Just her.
If her name is Ellen Briggs, does that
mean that my last name is Briggs, too?
We didn't find any record on you or Jane.
There's... There's no proof that
she was ever legally your mother.
Why wouldn't she have adopted us?
Well, maybe she did, and
then the records were erased.
Roman, there's still a lot more
that we don't know about her.
It doesn't make any sense.
What?
These files, they...
they show a soldier who
betrayed her country.
A terrorist.
That's not what I feel when I look at her.
It's something different. Something warm.
You were taught to follow
her your whole life.
It makes sense that you would feel
this deep connection to her.
But if I have these feelings
toward somebody who is such...
a monster...
what does that make me?
You could have stopped this months ago.
You didn't. Now Jared is dead.
- We can salvage this.
- How?
This group is out there with plans to hit
a new target today...
we've got no idea where.
We have a warrant out
for Tess Bartell's arrest.
We find her, and we drill down.
We won't be doing anything.
Hand in your service weapon and your badge.
Your career with the FBI is over.
- Any luck tracking Tess down?
- We've got nothing.
She ditched her bike and
has gone completely dark.
Field agents are talking to
farmers who might be involved.
So far, we've come up empty.
What about possible targets?
Kevin isn't talking, and there are five
construction companies
working on the pipeline.
The project had to be signed
off on by a dozen state officials.
Any one of them could be a target.
I want agents at every one of those places.
No.
- This is bad.
- What?
A farming supply warehouse
five miles from the orchard
reported a robbery.
1,000 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer
and a dozen drums of diesel fuel.
Tess didn't steal that much
by herself. She has help.
Now they've got enough
explosives to level any building.
I understand you're angry.
I was, too, when I discovered
one of my agents was running
an op targeting innocent people.
I've seen what happens when
people in the government
abuse their power,
and it's not something I stand for,
so give me the chance to make this right
before anyone else gets hurt.
I just wanted to keep
what was mine, my family's.
We're losing everything to that pipeline.
And that's not fair,
but neither is killing innocent people.
I never wanted to kill anybody.
Yeah, but Tess is a different story.
We know she's planning on
targeting something big.
Kevin, everyone that she kills
will be on your hands.
Can you live with that?
It's not too late to do the right thing.
Tess blames the Bureau of Land Management.
They've been carving up
our properties for decades.
Their headquarters are here in Manhattan.
The federal building on 57th.
That's what she and the
other farmers are gonna hit.
I'm sure of it.
Thank you.
Go!
We're evacuating the building,
but getting 50 floors of people out of here
- takes time.
- I've got it.
- Where's the bomb squad?
- They're doing a sweep.
So far, nothing, but, you know,
they've got a lot of ground to
cover and not enough agents yet.
We'll help you with evacuation.
Guys, I want you to set
up a perimeter outside.
Go.
Tasha, Reade, you three,
search down the street
to the underground parking lot. Go.
Service hallways... how many? Where?
One on the west side and one on the east.
Both go to loading docks.
- Okay. Jane, with me.
- Copy.
I'll take the east side. Stay on comms.
- Let me know if you see anything.
- Got it.
- Guys, we have a problem.
- What is it?
A truck just blew through three
red lights heading west down 57th,
headed straight for the federal building.
On it.
Got eyes on it.
Team, move to the street now.
Stop!
Stop your truck!
Tess, freeze! Both of you!
Get down on the ground, now!
You're surrounded.
Back off!
Give me the detonator.
Or what? You shoot me,
I blow the truck, and we're all dead.
You've gotta listen to me, Tess.
- You don't understand.
- We do understand.
The system does have problems,
but killing innocent
people isn't the answer.
This is the only way for
our voice to be heard,
the only way to make things change.
You're a soldier, right?
So you've seen what happens when
people use violence to send a message,
how many lives it destroys.
That is the easy way out,
and you know it.
Soldiers are trained to do what's right,
not what's easy.
You need to give me that detonator, Tess.
Hey, look,
a friend of mine at the Justice Department
is running down original copies of
Shepherd's redacted service record.
It's a long shot, but it's something.
What else can we do?
Any break we can catch right now will help.
I heard what happened earlier.
That was a risky move you made,
standing in front of the truck like that.
I had to stop it before
it hurt anyone else,
to get it back under control.
The off-the-books program?
Or something else?
It's a control freak's worst nightmare
to find out that someone
else was at the wheel
for the most crucial parts of their life.
You think I'm a control freak?
Shepherd may have once had a
say in your future, but, Kurt,
don't let her drive you mad today
by second-guessing your
leadership over this office.
If someone else was sitting in that chair,
they might have seen Agent
Boyd's program sooner.
I've just been so focused on Sandstorm.
And personal complications?
Yeah, that's part of it.
Great leaders know that it is impossible
to take everything on themselves.
You do that,
and you really do start to lose
sight of the bigger picture.
But as a leader,
there are some things I can do better.
You want me to stop using Omaha?
Using illegal wiretaps or invading
the privacy of citizens is exactly
the type of corruption
that we need to stop.
Omaha could help us find Shepherd
and Borden before it's too late.
What if we only use it for
that and not the tattoos?
Patterson,
what you've gone through,
that is unimaginable.
I can understand you're frustrated,
but there has to be a line.
You know it.
So, we will find them,
and we'll make them pay,
but it can't be at the cost
of compromising yourself.
Okay.
- I'll disconnect Omaha from my systems.
- Thank you.
But there's something you should
know before I pull the plug.
- What did I just say?
- It's about Sean Clark.
I ran his name through Omaha, and
I got a hit on an archived wiretap,
a recorded phone
conversation from last year.
Sean Clark,
wonderful to hear from you.
It's been a while,
Assistant Director Mayfair.
- Holding things down in New York for us?
- Trying my best.
- Why would Mayfair and Clark be talking?
- Just listen.
Look, I'm
calling about the agent
you put up to run the DC office.
He's the best I've got.
I think it's a little premature
for him to be a candidate.
He should spend some more time with
you in New York before taking over
an office of his own.
He's a bit raw, to be blunt.
Well, that's one word for
it, but he gets results.
I'm sure he does, but
if he stays in New York,
I think he can do great things.
All right. Your mistake is my gain.
You'll see someday.
I hope you're right.
Take care, Bethany.
She never told me that I was up for that.
Maybe she didn't want to get your hopes up.
Clark blocked the chance
for me to be promoted,
to relocate to DC.
He wasn't just talking baseball gibberish.
What do you mean?
He told me that I was playing for the Mets,
the New York Mets,
but he said I should have been a National.
The Washington Nationals.
He was trying to tell
me about that transfer,
but he said they could never let it happen.
"They" being Sandstorm?
That phone call was from last year,
so Shepherd wanted me to stay in New York,
to be here when Jane showed up in that bag.
What else does he know
about Shepherd and her plan?
We still on for the gym tomorrow?
Yes, and I promise I won't
sleep through my alarm this time.
I'm sorry if I pushed you earlier.
I just wanted to make sure you were okay.
No, I appreciate it. I do.
For the first time in a while,
I feel like I can breathe,
like I can have fun again.
Who is she?
It's not even like that.
Well, you'd better not mess this one up.
- Tasha.
- I'm serious.
You deserve to be happy,
so don't let anything
get in the way of that,
including yourself. I know how you get.
Yeah, I know.
I will see you tomorrow.
Good night.
You were trying to tell me
about a promotion you blocked.
You did that for Ellen, didn't you?
You kept me from going to Washington. Why?
You were supposed to be a National,
but your career is with the Mets.
Ellen wanted to keep me in New York.
You're the face of the franchise,
her star player.
Why is she so invested in me?
You're a Met.
You have to be a Met.
You don't understand.
I don't. Help me understand, Sean.
It's the Truman Protocol.
It's everything.
But no one knows.
What is the Truman Protocol?
Someone could be listening.
Let's go to your room.
We can talk privately there.
Hello, Kurt.
Hey.
What are you thinking for dinner tonight?
You want Chinese or Indian, maybe?
Why all the killing?
What?
Nas showed me the files.
The attacks, the bodies Shepherd
has dropped over the years,
all of my crimes, what's it all for?
I want to understand
why I'd follow someone like her.
She believes the system
only serves those in power
instead of the people it's supposed to.
Is she wrong?
Seems like the government
controls everything.
Look at us, I'm... I'm stuck in this box,
and you're forced to work for them.
How do you know you're not brainwashed now?
We're on the right side of this.
Look, Shepherd's beliefs may seem noble,
but she doesn't care who she hurts,
and whatever feelings
that you're having for her,
that's what she used to control you.
She uses people, just like the government,
and I help the FBI because I want to.
No one is forcing me to do anything.
They tell you where to go
and what you're allowed to say.
Every minute of your day
is spent doing something
that they want you to do, I mean,
when was the last time you
made a decision for yourself?
Hey, you want another drink?
I'm gonna make a drink.
Your finest vodka soda.
I don't drink soda, girl.
I got juice, though.
I could make you a screwdriver.
At least there's some Vitamin C in this.
Okay, nerd.
Easy.
You do realize I work for the FBI, right?
Get your cuffs out.
Didn't you leave Freddy for this?
I left Freddy 'cause he was out of control.
This is just fun.
You know, sometimes I look at you,
and I feel like you've maybe never
had a carefree day in your whole life.
You gotta learn how to relax.
Hey, not bad for a first-timer.
Thank you.
I still can't believe
you have never played.
Skee-ball before, how
is that even possible?
I know we said the past is just the past,
but this is much more
mysterious than your tattoos.
Well, let's just say
I had a very unusual childhood.
So, what will this get us?
How does a brand-new
- pencil eraser sound?
- Kinda boring.
What about
a plastic set of vampire fangs?
Better.
You know, I thought I was
never gonna hear from you again.
Thought maybe I'd screwed it up.
No, it wasn't you. I just...
I needed to see things differently.
Well, I'm glad you did.
Um, wow. How many tickets is that?
Thousands. Many thousands.
Are you saying we can't do it?
We can do it, but that is gonna take
a serious level of commitment.
I'm thinking 30 or more hours of Skee-ball
spread over ten or so days...
depending on how your shot improves.
But if you want to head down that path,
there is no turning back.
Are you sure you're ready for this?
That shark is mine.
I finally finished my paperwork.
Have you had dinner yet?
I ate a Go-Gurt.
A what?
A Go-Gurt, that's what you eat
when you don't have time to eat a yogurt.
It's like a tube of yogurt.
Yeah, that's not dinner.
Why don't we get something to eat?
I can't.
I'm still trying to ID
the reference numbers
from Shepherd's redacted documents.
Hey, are you okay?
Yes. Why does everyone keep asking me that?
- I'm fine.
- I think you need a break,
maybe a drink or two to de-stress.
You wanting me to de-stress
is stressing me out.
Please, I have so much work to do,
and Weller wants me to do it with one hand
tied behind my back,
and if we have any hope
of catching Shepherd and Borden,
someone's got to be
here to push the buttons
because... the buttons
don't push themselves.
Patterson.
Today is an unfortunate day, Kurt.
What have you done to him?
I had to use some very powerful
medicine to get him lucid.
Make sure he didn't say too much.
I'm not worried.
I've got to say, it's nice...
to be in the same room as you again.
You know, that day we met at the academy,
you had so much anger inside of you
but so much potential to
fight for what's right.
I saw a lot of myself in you.
Is that why you've been
manipulating my life?
The scholarship, the job transfer,
sending Jane to me with all the tattoos.
What's it all for?
Kurt, you and I,
we're...
we're saving this country.
I didn't know when I first met you that day
how important you would be to all of this.
When Remi and I formulated the tattoo plan,
I saw an opportunity to put you in it,
and it feels comforting to
know that you'll be there
to help when the time comes.
Why do you think that I will ever help you?
Be part of your plan?
We're the same, Kurt. Don't you see that?
We both fight for what's right.
We both hate corruption in all its forms.
You've seen yourself, first-hand,
that this country needs a revolution.
We're on the same team here.
How many more will have to die
before you realize we want the same thing?
No, we don't. You're a terrorist.
That's what the law says.
Did you ever consider the law is wrong?
Therein lies the big difference between us.
You play by the rules.
I believe the rules need to change.
Only I know what it really means
to make sacrifices
for a greater cause than yourself.
I'm sorry, old friend.
Don't!
No, it's okay. I had to.
You know that.
In order to protect the plan.
You didn't have to do that!
You needed to see that you're not
the only one who's suffering here!
This is hard on me, too!
But it'll all be worth it.
I have to go now, but we'll meet again,
and you'll have no choice but to join me.
No.
There.
You can let yourself out.
It's really a shame.
In another life...
we could have been family.
Kurt! Kurt! Stop fighting!
Get off me!
You're in a lot of trouble, Cadet Weller.
This is the third time
you've broken your curfew,
and you're not even halfway
through the semester.
I thought this was a
school, not a prison, sir.
We have rules.
Where were you sneaking off to?
I need to check on my sister.
- Why?
- My father...
She can't defend herself. He's a monster.
I know you're still angry with
your dad for sending you here.
No, that's not it.
This is your last warning, Cadet.
Expel me. I hate it here.
No... you don't get off that easy.
You need this school more than you know.
Now go outside... and wait for security
to escort you back to the dorms.
Quite a mess you've gotten yourself into.
It's okay to be angry.
Anger's good.
But you have to know where to put it.
Giving a school guard a black eye is...
short-sighted.
You get kicked out, then what?
No education, no prospects.
Doubt you could do much for your sister
if you can't even take care of yourself.
To really protect people...
you need power.
This place is the first step in getting it.
It's not too late to do the right thing.
Ma'am...
Colonel Nix is ready for you.
Good luck, Cadet Weller.
It couldn't have been the
only time that I met Shepherd.
Maybe being back here on
campus will help you remember.
Even if you only met her that one time,
you know that she was watching you here.
The basketball game, the yearbook
photo, the graduation video.
How does all of that lead to
my name being on Jane's back
and being part of Shepherd's plan?
Well, hopefully the Commandant
can help fill in some blanks.
- And if he can't?
- One step at a time.
We don't have time, Nas.
You sure you have to go in today?
I mean, look at what's
in your bed right now.
No, I gotta go in, Niki.
Okay, you gonna call me?
Yes, absolutely.
You don't have my number.
Okay, what's your number?
Missed you at
the gym this morning.
I overslept.
Really? You never miss a workout.
There's a first time for everything.
Well, it's just us, Three Amigos.
Weller wants us to run a tattoo down
while he follows a Sandstorm
lead with Jane and Naas.
All right. What do we got?
Okay, so, as we all know,
the text on Jane's back
is a mish-mash of various passages
from famous literary works.
Buried in there are Bible verses
from the book of Genesis,
including Genesis 3:25.
"But it was the Father who
sent his envoy, the serpent,
to tempt his children
and lead them astray."
I haven't been to church in a while,
but that doesn't sound familiar.
That's because it doesn't exist.
There is no Genesis 3:25,
but this morning, one of my systems
picked up the phrase "Genesis 3:25"
over some chatter, and
I was able to track it
to a man named Jared Wisnewski.
Single guy, runs a local
farmers co-op upstate.
A few hunting rifles
registered to his name.
Okay, so a mild-mannered farmer
references a Bible verse that
doesn't exist in the chatter?
- Barely a lead.
- I thought so, too.
But the coincidence didn't
sit well with Weller,
and he wanted us to dig into it.
How exactly did this
alert your tattoo database?
I don't want to bore you
with the intricate details.
- Since when?
- It's... It's just...
It's a whole mess of algorithms
and just so much math.
All right, we're gonna
head up to Wisnewski's farm
and see if we can find anything.
- Let's move.
- Let's move.
You should have seen Kurt back then.
Spent more time in this office than class.
Can't believe he turned
out to be an FBI agent.
Assistant Director of the FBI, actually.
Impressive.
You both work for the FBI, too?
Sure.
Any idea who she is?
That's Ellen Briggs.
What was her connection to the academy?
Ellen was in the Army.
She visited once a semester
to talk about her work serving abroad.
Spent a lot of time in
Africa, the Middle East.
And she took a real interest in you.
What do you mean?
Well, I was...
this close to kicking you out of here,
and Ellen convinced me you
deserved another chance.
I don't understand. She convinced you?
You could say that.
What aren't you telling me, sir?
Your dad, he was having a hard time
covering your tuition.
She offered to sponsor you.
My scholarship came from
a state-funded lottery.
No, it didn't. Ellen
wanted to remain anonymous.
You're telling me that Ellen
Briggs funded my entire education?
She saw something in you.
Anything?
Yeah, you could say that.
Great seeing you folks today.
Tell Shepherd Kurt Weller was just here.
He knows.
Let me reintroduce you to Shepherd,
otherwise known as Ellen Briggs.
- What'd you find?
- More than we had, less than we want.
Even the simplest information is
hidden behind layers of military
security clearances and encryption.
But now we know that
she was a Major General,
Deputy Director of the Defense
Threat Reduction Agency.
Holding such a high rank
in the military would
explain how she had access to some of
the classified information on Jane's body.
And why she'd have friends
that have access to the rest.
Most of her record is heavily redacted
or just missing from the system entirely.
I've been searching for connections,
and one name popped up... Sean Clark.
He was a training officer at Fort Meade
when Shepherd was stationed there.
They worked together for years.
But then there's this.
Clark retired from a post
at the DOJ a year ago,
then suffered a stroke.
He's been at an assisted living
center in Westchester ever since.
It took some digging, but
the shell corporation paying
his bills has connections to
the same one that sponsored.
Weller's military school scholarship.
So Shepherd's paying Sean
Clark's medical bills?
That means that he's important to her.
We've got to go and talk to that guy.
Let's move.
So, you just overslept?
You know you can still talk
to me about Coach Jones, right?
Jones is dead.
That doesn't mean what he did goes away.
Do you ever think about maybe
trying to talk to somebody,
trying to deal with...
There's nothing to deal with.
Jones is dead. It's over.
Hello?
No car in the driveway.
It's a big farm. Let's check around back.
- Home shooting range?
- That seems a little excessive.
I don't remember him having an
AK-47 registered in his name.
This guy's got a huge
stockpile of automatic weapons.
And all the ingredients
to make an ANFO bomb.
- I'm gonna call in a warrant.
- I'll let Weller know.
Ellen Briggs...
what can you tell me about her, Mr. Clark?
She's gone.
She's gone where?
Three-two count. Backdoor slider.
He... Gibson, he cracks
one to the bleachers,
and she's gone.
Yeah... 1988 World Series.
Sean, do you remember me?
I'm Ellen's daughter, Remi.
You're not on the Dodgers.
Excuse us.
I just talked with Sean's doctor.
His stroke resulted in
significant brain trauma.
His vascular dementia is
better on some days, but...
Yeah, well, we caught
him on a really bad day.
Perhaps that's why Shepherd
isn't afraid of him talking.
It's another dead end.
All he can remember is baseball.
Wait, maybe talk to him about baseball.
I mean, familiar things
help me with my memories.
Mr. Clark, do you like the Pirates?
Cordova and Rincon's
combined no-hitter in '97?
I almost went to that game.
I know you.
How? From where?
You play on the Mets.
You should have been a National,
but they could never let that happen.
Never.
Thank you, Mr. Clark.
You have a great day.
Welcome back.
We seized a huge cache
of automatic weapons,
demolition charges, nitrogen
fertilizer, and diesel fuel.
Wisnewski isn't a mild-mannered farmer.
He's using his farm as a
domestic terrorist training camp.
So he's making an ANFO bomb?
Aluminum Nitrate Fuel Oil explosive.
Same type of bomb they
used in Oklahoma City.
- Where is this guy now?
- We have a BOLO out on his car,
and we're tracking his credit cards.
- My God!
- What?
We just got a hit on
facial recognition for him.
Where?
Here, in this building.
He just exited the third floor elevator.
Counterterrorism Division.
Down! Stop! Get on the ground!
On the ground!
- Are you armed?
- No.
What are you doing here?
Is this building a target?
I don't understand. I'm an informant.
I work for the FBI.
Are these really necessary?
I'm an informant for you guys.
You're not in our system,
and our informants don't usually
make bombs in their backyard.
Agent Boyd can vouch for me.
He's on his way in, but right now,
you're gonna start
talking to the both of us.
I run a farmers co-op upstate.
A lot of us in the community were angry.
The government is pushing us off our land.
First, in the '90s, it was a freeway.
Now, it's a gas pipeline.
People can't make a living anymore.
Agent Boyd was concerned
that the anti-government
sentiment could lead
to a homegrown domestic cell.
He wanted me to keep an
eye on things, report back.
I identified a few key people
that were angrier than others
- and passed those names along.
- All right.
So, how does passing on a few names
turn into a terror attack?
It was Boyd's idea.
Come again?
Are you saying an agent told
you to start building ANFO bombs?
He wanted me to gauge the group's interest
in acting on their anger.
The pipeline is gonna
break ground on March 25th.
He wanted to know if that
was an enticing target.
I brought it up.
People went along.
March 25th. Genesis 3:25.
That's the codename for
your pipeline attack?
Genesis means the beginning,
and we were gonna end it.
By what, blowing it up?
Boyd and his team were gonna swoop
in before anything got deadly.
What you're describing is entrapment.
Now, my office does not radicalize people
or create a terror cell
just to take them down.
- Agent Boyd.
- I can explain this.
Stop.
My office, now.
It's a successful program.
I wouldn't know. There's no record.
Well, I couldn't leave a paper trail for
- this kind of operation.
- Yeah, because it's against the law.
These people would not
be planning this attack
if you hadn't have given them the idea.
I'm just moving up the
timeline on the inevitable.
These people are angry.
They hate the government.
Yeah, and that does
not make them criminals.
Look, if we don't root
out this kind of stuff now,
we'll be dealing with the aftermath later.
Think about Ruby Ridge,
Cliven Bundy, Timothy McVeigh.
I'm shutting you down, Boyd.
You pull the plug, this group will
carry out the attack without Jared.
Not if we arrest them first.
We don't have the evidence to make arrests.
This was all about getting
them for the big attack.
And we've got Jared's weapons
and his bomb materials.
A third grader could make more ANFO,
and you know it.
We let this go,
and something bad is gonna happen.
I want you to put together
everything that you have
on this and then give it to me.
I will decide whether this
op moves forward or not.
We were hoping these photos
could help you remember something.
Who is she?
You remember her?
I have this feeling. It's hard to explain.
I can't... I can't remember her,
but she feels familiar.
I know her, don't I?
That's Shepherd, our mother.
Her real name is Ellen Briggs.
She was an Army General.
I need to know everything about her.
Well, we don't know much right now,
and the files we found on
her are mostly redacted.
I need to see them.
I'm not sure that the FBI
is willing to hand over
classified documents to someone in custody.
I know her, I...
Look, I know it's frustrating and...
How am I supposed to help if they
won't share everything with me?
What are they hiding?
I'll talk to Nas, okay?
- You okay?
- Yeah.
I'm doing great. What's going on?
How exactly did you crack
the Bible verse tattoo?
You told me on the phone you picked
up the phrase on some chatter.
You're never this interested
in how I solve the tattoos.
This one points to an
off-the-book program
being run out of this office,
so I need to know what is
happening under my watch,
and I need to know now.
Okay.
I linked the tattoo database to a
secret NSA data collection program.
Omaha? Nas told me
it's very similar to Daylight.
Daylight on steroids is more accurate.
So you've been using illegal
wiretaps to solve these tattoos?
- Patterson.
- This was the first one.
- Really?
- I know... it's just,
I have to use every resource that I have.
We're running out of time
to figure out what all of this adds up to.
That is my call to make,
not yours, understand?
As much as I want to
shut this program down,
we can't risk an attack being
carried out by this domestic cell.
Great, I've outlined a way to
wrap this up in three months.
Forget it. This is my op now.
- We do it my way.
- Sir, with all due respect,
I've been working on this for two years.
Yeah, and you messed it up,
so you want me to keep you on this,
tell me everything that I need to know.
These are the players that Jared
planned the pipeline attack with.
So what do we know about them?
Tom Moses, cattle rancher
who turned a peaceful community
protest into a small riot.
The incident ignited this
powder keg in the first place.
His cousin Kevin Pabst is a distributor
who brings the co-op's
cattle to the market.
And lastly, Tess Bartell.
She served two tours in the Iraq war,
took over the family
farm when she returned.
What about the rest of the community?
Are they aware of an attack?
A few other people in the community
were interested in joining the cause.
We were gonna read 'em in soon.
Let's focus on these three.
We'll make arrests when we've
got enough evidence on them.
Jared's been out of contact with them
since your team raided his farm.
He needs to let 'em know
that the plan is safe,
that the attack can still move forward.
No. I don't want him
out in the field again.
He's the leader of the group.
If he disappears, they'll
know something's wrong.
We have a prearranged meeting
spot that's easy to surveil.
I can do this.
Jared?
Hey, Tess, listen.
Your place is crawling with cops.
I'm fine, but we have to talk.
Get Kevin and Tom and meet
in the normal spot in an hour.
No. The orchard on Old Post Road.
What's wrong with the
usual spot? It's secure.
If the Feds knew about your farm,
they could know about
our meeting spot, too.
Tess, there's no way they
could know about that.
See you in an hour.
This is not a good position.
Not one sightline to where they're meeting.
If we get any closer, they'll spot us.
We'll know everything that's going on
through the mic we put in Jared's truck.
We got something.
A jeep and a bike approaching
from the north end.
Got it. Stay sharp, team.
Anything seems off, we
move in, make the arrests.
- Copy?
- Copy that.
How the hell did the FBI
know to raid your farm, Jared?
Nosy neighbor. I'm just lucky I wasn't home
when they stormed the place.
They got the weapons and the bombs.
They could know everything.
Nothing pointed to our
plan or to any of you.
We have to stay the
course with Genesis 3:25.
The pipeline is months
away from breaking ground.
We need to gather the
others and strike today
before the cops launch
a full investigation.
Strike what? Where?
Watch the news tonight. You'll see.
Tess, don't cut me out! I started this!
You're a fugitive now,
Jared. You need to lay low.
I need to know what you're targeting
to make sure that it has a real impact.
You don't trust me?
Or is something else going on here, Jared?
Tess, what are you doing?
Please, put the gun away.
Jared's blown. Let's pull him out.
He can handle it, she's
about to change up the target.
Team, move in!
Why didn't you answer
your phone all day, Jared?
You're being paranoid.
Are you trying to set us up?
You working with the Feds?
We've come too far to let you ruin it.
It's over. Put the gun down.
The FBI is listening.
Go!
Weller, Tess is headed to you.
Stay on her.
Show me your hands! Show me your hands!
Get on the ground! Now!
This is everything that
we have on Shepherd.
I've included images of
Fort Meade and Fort Hood.
That's where we know she was stationed.
Does any of it seem familiar?
No, none of it. Just her.
If her name is Ellen Briggs, does that
mean that my last name is Briggs, too?
We didn't find any record on you or Jane.
There's... There's no proof that
she was ever legally your mother.
Why wouldn't she have adopted us?
Well, maybe she did, and
then the records were erased.
Roman, there's still a lot more
that we don't know about her.
It doesn't make any sense.
What?
These files, they...
they show a soldier who
betrayed her country.
A terrorist.
That's not what I feel when I look at her.
It's something different. Something warm.
You were taught to follow
her your whole life.
It makes sense that you would feel
this deep connection to her.
But if I have these feelings
toward somebody who is such...
a monster...
what does that make me?
You could have stopped this months ago.
You didn't. Now Jared is dead.
- We can salvage this.
- How?
This group is out there with plans to hit
a new target today...
we've got no idea where.
We have a warrant out
for Tess Bartell's arrest.
We find her, and we drill down.
We won't be doing anything.
Hand in your service weapon and your badge.
Your career with the FBI is over.
- Any luck tracking Tess down?
- We've got nothing.
She ditched her bike and
has gone completely dark.
Field agents are talking to
farmers who might be involved.
So far, we've come up empty.
What about possible targets?
Kevin isn't talking, and there are five
construction companies
working on the pipeline.
The project had to be signed
off on by a dozen state officials.
Any one of them could be a target.
I want agents at every one of those places.
No.
- This is bad.
- What?
A farming supply warehouse
five miles from the orchard
reported a robbery.
1,000 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer
and a dozen drums of diesel fuel.
Tess didn't steal that much
by herself. She has help.
Now they've got enough
explosives to level any building.
I understand you're angry.
I was, too, when I discovered
one of my agents was running
an op targeting innocent people.
I've seen what happens when
people in the government
abuse their power,
and it's not something I stand for,
so give me the chance to make this right
before anyone else gets hurt.
I just wanted to keep
what was mine, my family's.
We're losing everything to that pipeline.
And that's not fair,
but neither is killing innocent people.
I never wanted to kill anybody.
Yeah, but Tess is a different story.
We know she's planning on
targeting something big.
Kevin, everyone that she kills
will be on your hands.
Can you live with that?
It's not too late to do the right thing.
Tess blames the Bureau of Land Management.
They've been carving up
our properties for decades.
Their headquarters are here in Manhattan.
The federal building on 57th.
That's what she and the
other farmers are gonna hit.
I'm sure of it.
Thank you.
Go!
We're evacuating the building,
but getting 50 floors of people out of here
- takes time.
- I've got it.
- Where's the bomb squad?
- They're doing a sweep.
So far, nothing, but, you know,
they've got a lot of ground to
cover and not enough agents yet.
We'll help you with evacuation.
Guys, I want you to set
up a perimeter outside.
Go.
Tasha, Reade, you three,
search down the street
to the underground parking lot. Go.
Service hallways... how many? Where?
One on the west side and one on the east.
Both go to loading docks.
- Okay. Jane, with me.
- Copy.
I'll take the east side. Stay on comms.
- Let me know if you see anything.
- Got it.
- Guys, we have a problem.
- What is it?
A truck just blew through three
red lights heading west down 57th,
headed straight for the federal building.
On it.
Got eyes on it.
Team, move to the street now.
Stop!
Stop your truck!
Tess, freeze! Both of you!
Get down on the ground, now!
You're surrounded.
Back off!
Give me the detonator.
Or what? You shoot me,
I blow the truck, and we're all dead.
You've gotta listen to me, Tess.
- You don't understand.
- We do understand.
The system does have problems,
but killing innocent
people isn't the answer.
This is the only way for
our voice to be heard,
the only way to make things change.
You're a soldier, right?
So you've seen what happens when
people use violence to send a message,
how many lives it destroys.
That is the easy way out,
and you know it.
Soldiers are trained to do what's right,
not what's easy.
You need to give me that detonator, Tess.
Hey, look,
a friend of mine at the Justice Department
is running down original copies of
Shepherd's redacted service record.
It's a long shot, but it's something.
What else can we do?
Any break we can catch right now will help.
I heard what happened earlier.
That was a risky move you made,
standing in front of the truck like that.
I had to stop it before
it hurt anyone else,
to get it back under control.
The off-the-books program?
Or something else?
It's a control freak's worst nightmare
to find out that someone
else was at the wheel
for the most crucial parts of their life.
You think I'm a control freak?
Shepherd may have once had a
say in your future, but, Kurt,
don't let her drive you mad today
by second-guessing your
leadership over this office.
If someone else was sitting in that chair,
they might have seen Agent
Boyd's program sooner.
I've just been so focused on Sandstorm.
And personal complications?
Yeah, that's part of it.
Great leaders know that it is impossible
to take everything on themselves.
You do that,
and you really do start to lose
sight of the bigger picture.
But as a leader,
there are some things I can do better.
You want me to stop using Omaha?
Using illegal wiretaps or invading
the privacy of citizens is exactly
the type of corruption
that we need to stop.
Omaha could help us find Shepherd
and Borden before it's too late.
What if we only use it for
that and not the tattoos?
Patterson,
what you've gone through,
that is unimaginable.
I can understand you're frustrated,
but there has to be a line.
You know it.
So, we will find them,
and we'll make them pay,
but it can't be at the cost
of compromising yourself.
Okay.
- I'll disconnect Omaha from my systems.
- Thank you.
But there's something you should
know before I pull the plug.
- What did I just say?
- It's about Sean Clark.
I ran his name through Omaha, and
I got a hit on an archived wiretap,
a recorded phone
conversation from last year.
Sean Clark,
wonderful to hear from you.
It's been a while,
Assistant Director Mayfair.
- Holding things down in New York for us?
- Trying my best.
- Why would Mayfair and Clark be talking?
- Just listen.
Look, I'm
calling about the agent
you put up to run the DC office.
He's the best I've got.
I think it's a little premature
for him to be a candidate.
He should spend some more time with
you in New York before taking over
an office of his own.
He's a bit raw, to be blunt.
Well, that's one word for
it, but he gets results.
I'm sure he does, but
if he stays in New York,
I think he can do great things.
All right. Your mistake is my gain.
You'll see someday.
I hope you're right.
Take care, Bethany.
She never told me that I was up for that.
Maybe she didn't want to get your hopes up.
Clark blocked the chance
for me to be promoted,
to relocate to DC.
He wasn't just talking baseball gibberish.
What do you mean?
He told me that I was playing for the Mets,
the New York Mets,
but he said I should have been a National.
The Washington Nationals.
He was trying to tell
me about that transfer,
but he said they could never let it happen.
"They" being Sandstorm?
That phone call was from last year,
so Shepherd wanted me to stay in New York,
to be here when Jane showed up in that bag.
What else does he know
about Shepherd and her plan?
We still on for the gym tomorrow?
Yes, and I promise I won't
sleep through my alarm this time.
I'm sorry if I pushed you earlier.
I just wanted to make sure you were okay.
No, I appreciate it. I do.
For the first time in a while,
I feel like I can breathe,
like I can have fun again.
Who is she?
It's not even like that.
Well, you'd better not mess this one up.
- Tasha.
- I'm serious.
You deserve to be happy,
so don't let anything
get in the way of that,
including yourself. I know how you get.
Yeah, I know.
I will see you tomorrow.
Good night.
You were trying to tell me
about a promotion you blocked.
You did that for Ellen, didn't you?
You kept me from going to Washington. Why?
You were supposed to be a National,
but your career is with the Mets.
Ellen wanted to keep me in New York.
You're the face of the franchise,
her star player.
Why is she so invested in me?
You're a Met.
You have to be a Met.
You don't understand.
I don't. Help me understand, Sean.
It's the Truman Protocol.
It's everything.
But no one knows.
What is the Truman Protocol?
Someone could be listening.
Let's go to your room.
We can talk privately there.
Hello, Kurt.
Hey.
What are you thinking for dinner tonight?
You want Chinese or Indian, maybe?
Why all the killing?
What?
Nas showed me the files.
The attacks, the bodies Shepherd
has dropped over the years,
all of my crimes, what's it all for?
I want to understand
why I'd follow someone like her.
She believes the system
only serves those in power
instead of the people it's supposed to.
Is she wrong?
Seems like the government
controls everything.
Look at us, I'm... I'm stuck in this box,
and you're forced to work for them.
How do you know you're not brainwashed now?
We're on the right side of this.
Look, Shepherd's beliefs may seem noble,
but she doesn't care who she hurts,
and whatever feelings
that you're having for her,
that's what she used to control you.
She uses people, just like the government,
and I help the FBI because I want to.
No one is forcing me to do anything.
They tell you where to go
and what you're allowed to say.
Every minute of your day
is spent doing something
that they want you to do, I mean,
when was the last time you
made a decision for yourself?
Hey, you want another drink?
I'm gonna make a drink.
Your finest vodka soda.
I don't drink soda, girl.
I got juice, though.
I could make you a screwdriver.
At least there's some Vitamin C in this.
Okay, nerd.
Easy.
You do realize I work for the FBI, right?
Get your cuffs out.
Didn't you leave Freddy for this?
I left Freddy 'cause he was out of control.
This is just fun.
You know, sometimes I look at you,
and I feel like you've maybe never
had a carefree day in your whole life.
You gotta learn how to relax.
Hey, not bad for a first-timer.
Thank you.
I still can't believe
you have never played.
Skee-ball before, how
is that even possible?
I know we said the past is just the past,
but this is much more
mysterious than your tattoos.
Well, let's just say
I had a very unusual childhood.
So, what will this get us?
How does a brand-new
- pencil eraser sound?
- Kinda boring.
What about
a plastic set of vampire fangs?
Better.
You know, I thought I was
never gonna hear from you again.
Thought maybe I'd screwed it up.
No, it wasn't you. I just...
I needed to see things differently.
Well, I'm glad you did.
Um, wow. How many tickets is that?
Thousands. Many thousands.
Are you saying we can't do it?
We can do it, but that is gonna take
a serious level of commitment.
I'm thinking 30 or more hours of Skee-ball
spread over ten or so days...
depending on how your shot improves.
But if you want to head down that path,
there is no turning back.
Are you sure you're ready for this?
That shark is mine.
I finally finished my paperwork.
Have you had dinner yet?
I ate a Go-Gurt.
A what?
A Go-Gurt, that's what you eat
when you don't have time to eat a yogurt.
It's like a tube of yogurt.
Yeah, that's not dinner.
Why don't we get something to eat?
I can't.
I'm still trying to ID
the reference numbers
from Shepherd's redacted documents.
Hey, are you okay?
Yes. Why does everyone keep asking me that?
- I'm fine.
- I think you need a break,
maybe a drink or two to de-stress.
You wanting me to de-stress
is stressing me out.
Please, I have so much work to do,
and Weller wants me to do it with one hand
tied behind my back,
and if we have any hope
of catching Shepherd and Borden,
someone's got to be
here to push the buttons
because... the buttons
don't push themselves.
Patterson.
Today is an unfortunate day, Kurt.
What have you done to him?
I had to use some very powerful
medicine to get him lucid.
Make sure he didn't say too much.
I'm not worried.
I've got to say, it's nice...
to be in the same room as you again.
You know, that day we met at the academy,
you had so much anger inside of you
but so much potential to
fight for what's right.
I saw a lot of myself in you.
Is that why you've been
manipulating my life?
The scholarship, the job transfer,
sending Jane to me with all the tattoos.
What's it all for?
Kurt, you and I,
we're...
we're saving this country.
I didn't know when I first met you that day
how important you would be to all of this.
When Remi and I formulated the tattoo plan,
I saw an opportunity to put you in it,
and it feels comforting to
know that you'll be there
to help when the time comes.
Why do you think that I will ever help you?
Be part of your plan?
We're the same, Kurt. Don't you see that?
We both fight for what's right.
We both hate corruption in all its forms.
You've seen yourself, first-hand,
that this country needs a revolution.
We're on the same team here.
How many more will have to die
before you realize we want the same thing?
No, we don't. You're a terrorist.
That's what the law says.
Did you ever consider the law is wrong?
Therein lies the big difference between us.
You play by the rules.
I believe the rules need to change.
Only I know what it really means
to make sacrifices
for a greater cause than yourself.
I'm sorry, old friend.
Don't!
No, it's okay. I had to.
You know that.
In order to protect the plan.
You didn't have to do that!
You needed to see that you're not
the only one who's suffering here!
This is hard on me, too!
But it'll all be worth it.
I have to go now, but we'll meet again,
and you'll have no choice but to join me.
No.
There.
You can let yourself out.
It's really a shame.
In another life...
we could have been family.