Castle (2009–2016): Season 4, Episode 16 - Linchpin - full transcript

Previously on "Castle"...

Hands in the air.
Thomas Gage, you're under arrest.

Everything that you have on
me, it's all going away.

I'm very interested in
knowing how he got out of

that holding cell on your watch.

Castle...

Rick Castle at a loss for words.

Sophia Turner.

Hello, Rick.

You're Clara strike from
the Derrick Storm books?

Welcome to the CIA.

Gage was our most
effective asset.

He went rogue.

Pandora is the code name
for Gage's mission.

Who is he?

Dr. Nelson Blakely.

There he is.

He was a legend at the agency.

His approach was to
find a small event

that could trigger
a large event.

Blakely is the one
who planned Pandora.

This is beyond a
worst-case scenario.

Dr. Blakely, what's going on?

I found a linchpin

that will bring about the end
of our country as we know it.

- Dr. Blakely--
- They're here.

Wait! Wait!

- Beckett!
- Castle!

This door won't open.

Yeah, mine won't either.

I think the crash
bent the frame.

We need something
to break the glass.

My gun.

Castle, I can't...

I can't find it.

I-I think it got knocked
out when we got hit.

Help me look for it.

I'm stuck.

What do you mean, you're stuck?

I mean, my belt is jammed.

And the seat won't move.

Okay, what about a knife?
Do you have a knife?

Yeah.

In the trunk.

Okay, look, we're
running out of time.

I need you to see if
you can find that gun,

and we'll just shoot
the belt off.

I can't feel it.

- Castle.
- Okay, hang on. Hang on.

Just stay here.

I found it.

Castle?

Castle!

I guess the good thing

about having your daughter
at crime scenes is,

she can bring you dry clothes.

Thanks.

And, um...

thanks.

You'd have done the same for me.

Yeah.

Probably.

I'm just glad you found my gun.

That whole, uh,
sinking car thing--

much cooler in movies
than it is in real life.

And for the record, I prefer
watching spy thrillers

to being in them.

So...

tell me...

how can your victim look
like Nelson Blakely

when he supposedly
died ten years ago?

Yeah, I...

Yeah, weird, isn't it?

Yeah. Weird.

Fake deaths, car in the water--

don't you think now
is a good time

to tell us what the
hell is going on?

Uh... I'm sorry, Javi.

It's classified.

I was Special Forces.

I used to eat classified
for breakfast.

And yet writer boy can know?

Okay. I'll be over there
with harbor patrol

trying to figure out how to get
your unit out of the drink.

I'm glad you're okay.

Thank you.

Writer boy?

- So you think our shooter was Gage?
- Yeah.

I think he's getting
rid of anyone

that could expose his
rogue operations.

Well, he's doing a
pretty good job.

We still have no idea
what Pandora is.

Well, we know that
Blakely was afraid.

And we know that he was
working on something

that was big enough to threaten
the future of this country.

We just don't know what the
hell he was working on.

There's gotta be a clue
somewhere in his life.

Maybe there's something on
the body that will tell us.

No. We checked.
There was nothing in his pockets.

But the way they were
turned out makes me think

someone went through
and emptied them.

Gage.

Ryan, get some teams to
search the building.

- What are we looking for?
- I don't know.

But he brought us
here for a reason.

Lanie, see what you
can find on him--

dental, scars, prints, tattoos,
anything that might tell us--

- He's dead.
- Yeah.

Look, I can explain.

Get in the car.

What the hell did you
think you were doing?

What you wanted,
finding Blakely.

You cracked his code and you
didn't even think to notify me?

Look, in Castle's defense,

it was a long shot,

and he didn't want to waste
your time if he was wrong.

- And we were bringing the guy in--
- When he was killed

in your custody.

What were you doing
at the docks?

- He asked us to take him there.
- Why?

We don't know.

Well, did you learn anything?

Yes.

He was hired to analyze

the United States for
vulnerabilities.

He said he found a
weakness in our economy--

an unexpected linchpin-- that,
if someone went after it,

would start the dominos falling.

Falling toward what?

The end of our country
as we know it.

So what's our next move?

There is no next move.

Not for you two.

It was a mistake bringing
you into the loop.

You know, I really thought--
I really thought you had changed.

But you know what?

You are the same reckless,

immature, self-centered
jackass that you always were,

and you've put this
investigation at risk.

- Look, I'm sorry--
- You're sorry?

We are on the verge of
the next 9/11 or worse.

This isn't one of your
damn books, Rick.

This is real life, and
when things go bad,

you can't just rewrite the
ending like you did with us.

Get them both out of here.

So...

you slept with her.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I slept with her.

Have there been others?

- Women?
- Muses.

No. Why?

I just wanted to see how big the club was.
That's all.

Hey, guys. What do you got?

Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
First off, there is no club.

And second, we're off
the case if you recall.

We're off their case.
I still have a murder to solve.

Where your chief suspect

is smack-dab in the middle
of a CIA operation.

I don't care what he's
in the middle of.

Thomas Gage killed three people.
One of them was in my custody.

He locked us in a trunk

and then he sent my cruiser
to the bottom of the Hudson.

Gage is a trained
covert operative.

There's no way you
can catch him.

Yes, I can, if I figure
out where he was going.

We find out what Blakely
was working on,

we find the linchpin.

We find the linchpin,
we find Gage.

Anything on the warehouse?

Yeah, right after you guys
left, the feds showed up

and shut us down.

But we did find something
on your vic Nelson Blakely.

His prints came back
as a Scott McGregor

from Long Island City.

Problem is, McGregor seems
to only exist on paper.

We can't find any trace
of him in the real world.

Did you guys send units
to the listed address?

Yeah, and the family living
there had never heard of him,

and no one recognized his photo.

Well, someone must
have known him.

Someone did.

He plays chess.
That's not a solo sport.

I thought you were off the case.

Well, you heard
what Sophia said.

I'm a reckless, immature,
self-centered jackass.

If you're stubborn
enough to keep going,

I'm stupid enough
to go with you.

All right. You guys canvass all
of the chess parks in the city.

Let's see if we can dig
up some of his opponents.

Beckett.

What?

What do you mean, the
body never arrived?

They intercepted
it at transport.

Apparently, they
had a court order.

That's impossible.

How could they get a
court order that fast?

I don't know.
Maybe you should ask your girlfriend.

Girlfriend?

Yes, okay. We slept together.

It was a long time ago.
What's the big deal?

There is no big deal.
Sleep with whoever you want.

The more the merrier.

I have those, uh, toxicology
reports you wanted.

Oh, yes.
Just set 'em there, sweetie.

Thank you.

So enjoying your new internship?

Well, I'm learning a lot.

Too much I think.

And I thought the dead bodies

were going to be
the grossest part.

Funny. Good night.

So who was Beckett
talking about?

None of your business.
Now go to bed.

The woman at the
docks, who is she?

Nobody.

Now go to bed.

I saw the way you looked at her.

She's not nobody.

Well, it doesn't matter
who she is because

I am never going
to see her again.

Now go to bed.

You know, if you're going
to keep secrets from me,

I might start keeping
secrets from you, too.

At your age, I'm thinking,
that might be a good idea.

Sophia.

Hello, Rick.

Castle 4x16
Linchpin

Th--um...

how--what are you--how did--
how did you get in here?

I'm CIA.

So they're turning them
into graphic novels now?

Yeah. Um...

the first one did well, so
they're gonna do another.

So what do you think,
she look like me?

Uh... what are you doing here?

You're going after
Gage, aren't you?

No.
We're off the case, remember?

Mm. You used to be
a better liar.

I know you've been looking
into Blakely's aliases.

It's okay, Rick. I don't mind.

In fact, I want
you on this case.

- But--
- I know what I said,

but I also know what's at stake.

Bringing you and
Beckett on board

was not a popular decision,

and after what happened with
Blakely, I had to make a stand.

But I know what kind
of asset you can be.

I know you'll just keep
digging no matter what I say.

It's your nature.

You need to know how
the story ends.

Like with her.

Does she know about this?

Well, that's...

You always did like
playing with dynamite.

Just be careful it doesn't
blow up in your face.

She's different.

Is she?

Or do you just think she is?

I heard you hit the same dead
end with Blakely as we did.

I thought you might
be able to try this.

It's what Blakely was
looking for at the pier.

We found it in a go bag
with plane tickets, cash,

and some fake IDs.

Account numbers?

All from domestic banks.

And since Blakely was
a US citizen--

You're prohibited from
looking into them.

But you guys aren't.

And those accounts may contain
clues as to who hired him.

And assuming you still want
to know how the story ends...

Just keep me in the
loop this time.

And, Rick...

try not to get killed.

I'm still quite fond of you.

Where are the boys?

They're canvassing chess parks,

looking for anyone
that knew Blakely.

And why aren't you with them?

Because my car is at the
bottom of the Hudson,

and Gates won't issue
me another one

until I write up an
incident report,

which I can't do because
this case is classified.

What?

Nothing.

It's just, that's a perfect
example of a linchpin.

This case might go
unsolved all because

you don't have access to a car.

Don't make me shoot you.

Well, if you shoot me,

who's gonna help you
follow this lead?

Blakely's bank
account information.

It's what he was going
for on the pier.

If we can track his money--

Where did you get that?

Sophia.

She came to my place last night.

- Not like that.
- No, of course.

So then what happened
to "reckless, immature,

self-centered jackass"?

She was posturing
for her colleagues.

Beckett, it's a lead.

She wants us on the case.

What do you think
this is about, huh?

It smells like an
intelligence op.

CIA, NSA, DHS?

Same letters,
different alphabet.

I had some buddies
from the service

volunteer for intelligence ops.

Yeah, how'd they like it?

They all died.

Hey, guys.
Do you recognize this man?

Matter of fact, I do.

Uh, he comes to the park
two or three times a week.

Looks for games.

What do you know about him?

He's a crazy chess player.

Makes some weird moves,

like sacrificing his queen

just to see what happens.

He always wins, though.

Do you know his name?

Scott or something like that.

But i-if you want to
know about this guy,

you should talk to Jani.

Jani? Who's Jani?

Another player.

Him and your guy...

been spending a lot of
time together lately.

So Blakely had over $2 million

in six accounts, and none of
them under his real name.

Deposits were made by
nonprofits, aid groups,

environmental organizations.

So if those were his secret
consulting accounts,

it's possible that one
of those payments

was for operation Pandora.

Exactly. These two.

Deposits of half a
million dollars each.

This one was from
three months ago,

and this one was
from a week ago.

His start and finish payments.

Mm-hmm.
Both from offshore accounts.

But they're closed.
It's a dead end.

Yo.

We may have a lead on Blakely.

Guy in the park said
he's been spending time

with this man-- Janacek Spivey.

2-time national chess champion,
now an Economics professor

at the School of
International Affairs.

An Economics professor?

You think it's related?

Well, I don't know
if this helps,

but the guy is also an
advisor to the IMF,

the UN Economics Council,

and the Congressional
Finance Committee.

Yeah, that's him.

But he said his name was
McGregor, not Blakely.

What do you know about him?

Um, he was a hell
of a chess player.

Uh, it seemed like he knew
every move I was gonna make

before I made it.

No, I mean...

personally.

He never really talked
about his personal life.

Witnesses said you spent a lot
of time talking. What about?

Economic theory.

When he found out what I did,

he had a million questions.

What kind of questions?

About world economic forces,

historic socioeconomic models.

There were times it seemed
like he knew more than I did.

He was quite the hobbyist.

Oh, he was more than
just a hobbyist.

Did he focus on
anything in specific?

Uh, not that I remember.

Though he was very concerned
with the US economy.

And he never mentioned
any family or friends?

- No.
- Anywhere he might have shopped?

Anything that might
indicate where he lived?

No. B-but I think he
lived in Union Square.

And what makes you say that?

After one of our walks,

uh, I discovered I'd left
my chess set in the park.

I saw him head into
a building there.

Do you think you can identify
that building for us?

I think so.

I gotta borrow your car.

Yeah.

Uh, yeah, this is his
place right here.

But he said his name was Finley,
not Blakely or McGregor.

Thanks.

What are we looking for?

Papers, computers,
phone records, bills--

anything that'll help us
figure out what he was up to.

Beckett.

Think I found it.

What the hell?

"Tax riots."

"European economic collapse."

"Iran invades Iraq!"

"Syria moves on Israel."

"US commits troops to Taiwan."

"US commits troops
to Middle East."

"Russia moves on
Eastern Europe."

What kind of an outcome was this
linchpin supposed to create?

The end of our country
as we know it.

A Third World War.

This can't be real.

No one can predict all of this.

Maybe not,

but a bunch of people smarter
than us think he can

and would kill to cover it up.

I found an alarming
vulnerability...

Over here.

A linchpin that was
tied to the economy

that would cause
crisis and devastation

beyond anything we'd ever seen.

The dominos would just
never stop falling.

Who is she?

I don't know, but this is it.

She's the linchpin.

The first domino to fall that...
leads to war.

I gave them the blueprint

that will bring out the end
of our country as we know it.

I have to call them.
They have to know.

Put the phone down.

- Gage?
- Put the phone down now.

Now run.

- What?
- Run!

I thought you were the bad guy.

If I were the bad guy,
you'd be dead by now.

This way.

No, my car is out front.

They're watching your car.
You go that way, and you'll die.

Who's out there? Who are they?

You can have answers
or you can live.

Your choice.

Stay down!

We need to call our CIA contact.

We need to tell them
what's going on.

No calls.

Where are we?

Someplace safe, but we don't
have much time, all right?

I've been on the grid,
I've heard the chatter.

Whatever this is, it's
going down tomorrow.

Now you got to Blakely's before me.
Who's the target?

Why did you kill
Blakely and McGrath?

I didn't.

Come on. You really want me to
take that gun away from you again?

- We don't have the time.
- Make time.

Look, as an asset,

you have to develop certain
survival skills, all right?

Chief of which is the ability
to know something's wrong

without knowing why.

It's always something small--

a static pop on your
safe house phone,

a slight delay in authorization
using your credit cards,

or the almost
imperceptible pauses

in conversations
with your handler.

Something's wrong,

and if you don't
figure out what,

you're not gonna
survive the week.

Now someone is trying
to send this world

spiraling towards war,

and they want me
to take the fall,

but neither of those
things are gonna happen.

Now I need you to tell me what
the name of the target is.

Look, let me call
my CIA contact.

- She can help us.
- No.

Everything indicates that
Pandora's being funded

by military industrial concerns
linked with eastern Europe.

They can't pull off
this operation,

all right, not without
help from the inside.

Detective, don't you get it?

My own people are setting me up.

And they're not gonna
stop until I'm dead,

because I'm the diversion.

Okay, if everyone's trying
to stop me, then no one--

Then no one's trying
to stop Pandora.

No one but me.

Now I'm gonna ask
you one last time,

who's the target?

Hello, Thomas.

It's the oldest intelligence
con job in the book--

create a crisis so
you can ride in

just in time to save the day.

Gage was playing you.

He wanted you to think
that he was the good guy.

He needed your trust.

Yeah, but then why did he ask us

who the linchpin was?
Shouldn't he have known?

He was protecting his op.

He was ascertaining how much
we knew before he killed you.

Well, if you're right and the
attack on us was staged,

then he can't be working alone.

Gage must have a partner.

Which means it's not over.

Fire crews were unable

to contain the blaze in
Blakely's apartment.

All of his research is gone.

I want you to run this

through every facial
rec database we have.

I want to know who she is and
I want to know how the hell

a 10-year-old girl could be

the first domino in
the march toward war.

Where's Gage?

In the tank.

You know that guy

you threw out the
window-- Gary Harper?

He was a friend.

Then you shouldn't
have sent him for me.

You know, we've met before.

In Berlin,

the Mannheim business.

You were there at the
drop-off with the Spaniard.

You were good.

So who are you working for now?

Who's the girl?

Who's the linchpin?

Who put me in the cold?

Who set me up?

So you think there's
someone inside the CIA--

a mole, a traitor?

Is that what you think?

You know, I think
you could be right.

And I think it's you.

You're making a mistake.

No, you and your partner
are making a mistake.

I don't have a partner.

The guy out there, the one that
killed McGrath and Blakely

and drove your friends
into the water,

the one carrying out
operation Pandora,

he's not with me.

I saw him at the docks,
the way he moved.

He's with you.

He's CIA.

Are you sure he's lying?

He's not expressing any of
the physiological traits.

He's trained to lie without
betraying himself.

He wants to divide us, make
us suspicious of each other.

Trust me.
There's no mole but him.

What if you're wrong?
What if he's telling the truth?

That is immaterial.

Right now, there is
someone else out there,

who is preparing to go
through with Pandora,

and that girl is the key.

We need to find her.

Still negative on all databases.

She's a foreign national.
She might not be in any of ours.

What about her school uniform?

Can you identify
her through that?

We tried. There's not enough of
the crest visible to identify it.

Do you really buy this,
that killing a little girl

could lead to the collapse
of the United States?

I mean, it just seems crazy.

Yeah, well, so did
Blakely's first linchpin.

They asked him to develop a
nonnuclear military strategy

that would bring down
the Soviet Union.

Turns out, all we had to
do was outspend them.

Need to take another
run at Gage.

Looks like he's all we've got.

Put us on lockdown.

No one leaves or
enters the facility.

Contact Burns.

He was shot point-blank.

How is it that nobody
heard the shot?

The room is soundproof.

The real question is...

how come nobody saw?

Someone hacked the video steam.

How is that possible?
You're the CIA.

You have the most secure
computers in the world.

It's possible because
Gage was right.

There's a mole in the CIA,

and he's in this unit.

Facility's locked down.

All personnel have
been accounted for.

How many people had
access to that room?

18.

Ma'am, I've isolated the subroutine
used to doctor the video.

It was embedded in a software
worm to escape detection.

Then there's no way to
tell where it came from.

I may be able to use a
reductive logarithm

to isolate the pathway it
took through the system.

It might tell us
where it was loaded.

- You can do that?
- I can try.

Do it.

Wow. I got no idea what
they're talking about,

but this is very exciting.

There it is.

Starting the trace.

Got it.

That's the terminal address
where the virus was uploaded.

Whose is it?

Agent Trahn's.

What? No.

- There's been a mistake.
- Get your hands where I can see them.

Get down on the ground now!
Do it now!

Down now!

Wait! It's a decoy.

The hacker piggybacked
the IP. It's not Trahn.

Then who is it?

Whoever uploaded it used
Trahn's terminal IP

to hide their ID.

They're good, but I'm better.

I've isolated the
user's pass code.

I'm de-encrypting now.

Run a personnel match.

Martin?

No, Soph.

I'm loyal. You know I'm loyal.

Then put the gun down.

Put it down!

Okay.

All right. Okay.

Martin!

You shoot, she dies.
Everyone, back up now.

- Martin, don't. Don't do it.
- Back up now! Back--back up now!

Hit it.

Martin, don't.

Martin, don't! Martin.

Put the gun down, Martin.

Thanks, but I'd rather live.

Shut the elevator down.

I'm in.

Standby.
I'm bringing it back down.

There's no way you
could've known.

No? When we first got
wind of Pandora,

Danberg was the one who
found all the connections.

He was the one who
traced it to Gage,

all so we wouldn't get
too close to him.

He even tried to convince
me to get rid of you two.

And worst of all,

he may not be working alone.

The implications of
Pandora are huge.

I don't understand how one
of our own would actually

want to plunge the country
or the world into war.

Money, ideology-- none
of it makes any sense.

Well, the motives don't matter.

All that matters is
stopping Pandora.

Gage said he picked up chatter.

He said it's going
down tomorrow.

We've heard the same thing,

which means, we don't
have any time.

We have to find her.

Well, there's gotta be
something that we missed,

some detail that'll help
us figure out who she is.

We've run it through
every database we have.

We have looked
through everything.

Not everything.

You guys maintain a
topographical survey

of the earth, right?

Yeah. Why?

So don't search for the girl.

Run the mountains.

If we know where she's from,
we can narrow down our search.

You are a genius.

How long will this take?

It's a big world.

We've pulled anything arid

and everything above and
below 60 degrees latitude,

but they're estimating,
it could take 32 hours.

Sounds like a long night.

I'll get some coffees.

He was always thoughtful.

You like him.

I did. Once.

S-so what happened?

If you don't mind my asking.

Well, um,

well, you ever...

Meet someone and--and have that...

intense attraction right away.

You know, that tension?

Well, we fought it for
months, and then...

and then we just couldn't
stand it anymore.

But afterward, it--it was like

that tension was all we...

had really,

and without it, all we
were left with was that...

well, those things that drove
us crazy about each other.

I mean, you know how he can be.

Yeah.

Yeah, I do.

Sometimes I wish we had
never slept together.

Had kept that longing.

Even your coffee mugs say "CIA."
That is so cool.

Well, we save the world,

maybe I'll let you keep one.

Incentive.

Uh, the topography
matches terrain

in the Chinese
province of Zhejiang,

just outside the
City of Hangzhou.

That's near Shanghai.

Pull up all school uniform
insignias from that region.

Wait. Right there on
the top right corner.

They're the same color.

Shanghai #12 Girls' School.

Do they have a web site?

It's password protected.

Picking the lock now.

Hack into their photo
archives and run facial rec.

Bring up the captions
and compare.

Got her. Mia Ganghong.

What do we know about her?

Uh, not much.

Just that she's the daughter
of Xiang and Biyu Ganghong.

Xiang Ganghong?

Who's Xiang Ganghong?

He's a Chinese businessman

with close ties to
the finance minister

and members of the ruling party.

Well, why is his
daughter targeted?

Xiang is a kingmaker.

He's extremely influential

in shaping his government's
economic policy.

He made his fortune selling
Chinese military hardware,

sometimes to our enemies,

but we left him alone
because he was supportive

of China's purchase
of US debt.

Now if someone were
to take out Xiang,

not that much would change.

But if his daughter were killed

in a botched
assassination attempt,

and the Chinese were
able to trace it

back to the US government?

The trail that led to Gage.

It's conceivable
that Xiang could use

his considerable influence

to single handedly end China's
purchase of the US debt.

This country runs on
deficit spending.

If--if we can't borrow money--

We couldn't meet
our obligations,

the government would shut down.

Austerity measures
would be imposed.

We'd lose our ability to deploy
our military around the world.

And then with the
US neutralized,

our enemies would be able

to explore their
interests unchecked.

That's right.

And there would be an explosion
of regional conflicts,

any one of which could
send us toward global war.

A war that we might not
even be able to win.

One domino knocked down,
the entire world changes.

We've located Xiang.
He and a Chinese delegation

just landed at JFK
an hour ago.

He's here?

For a UN Trade Conference
at the McKinley building.

They're on their way there now.

And, ma'am, his
daughter's with him.

If we call it in,

I can get a protective
detail waiting.

You think your cops are
gonna be able to stop

CIA-trained operatives?

They'd just end up dead.

Besides, if word
of this gets out,

it could spark an
international incident

of epic proportions.

We need to clean up the
mess, not make one.

We and what army?

You said we couldn't
trust the others

because they could be
working with Danberg.

This is not the only CIA
station in New York.

I've got another field
team on its way.

You seal it up until
you hear from me.

No calls going in or out.

I'm not taking any chances.

Yes, ma'am.

Agent Corrigan, detective
Beckett and Mr. Castle.

Where's the delegation?

Five minutes away.

We in position?

We have teams in the lobby and
spotters across the street.

What about Danberg?

A guard IDed him
as having entered the building

45 minutes ago.

We have crews in place
authorized to take him out,

but we still haven't
identified his partner.

Whatever happens,
keep the girl alive.

Do you understand me?

Yes, ma'am.

Where are we going?

This way.

What are we doing down here?

Shouldn't we be
headed for the lobby?

Castle.

Sorry.

What are you doing?

Danberg wasn't the mole, was he?

You are.

Go kill the girl.
I'll take care of these two.

It was you this whole time?

I'm afraid so.

Then why bring us here?

Why not just leave
us at the facility?

Because you just don't stop.

You need to know the
story, the whole story.

And if something doesn't add
up, you just don't let go.

Why do you think I
brought you inside?

I was protecting the op.

Like you were trying to
protect the operation

when you killed
Blakely and McGrath?

You set up Gage.

Well, for the linchpin to work,

the Chinese have to blame
the US government.

The operation has to
trace back to the CIA.

And when you needed to cover
your tracks, you killed him.

So then you needed someone else.

You needed Danberg.

Sophia...

World War III, why?

Let's just say, there
are certain parties

who will pay anything
to reshape the world.

I don't buy it.

The Sophia I know wouldn't
sell out her country,

not for money, not for anything.

Well, that's one thing
you got wrong, Rick.

On your knees right now.

Both of you.

You're never gonna
get away with this.

Of course I will.

I'll just tell them how we all
tried to stop it and couldn't,

and the two of you were
killed in the process,

by Danberg, of course.

Don't worry.
I'll make it sound heroic.

Your father will be very proud.

My father?

Well, you don't think you
gained special access

to the CIA back then
because of your charm.

You really don't know, do you?

I guess you never will.

No!

Come on.

It's just us, and
we're out of time.

Whoa!

Are you okay?

He's fine.

He's good. He's okay.

- Sir, are you all right?
- You all right?

- This way.
- Yeah, maybe we should go outside.

So what do you think
this was all about?

They didn't tell you?

What? Th--

Huh.

They--they told you?

Once she turned me out,

it didn't take long to
put the pieces together.

But all I could do was watch

and wait for her
to make her move.

Hard to believe she
was a traitor.

It was all an act.

Langley thinks she may have
been a former KGB sleeper

set adrift when the
Soviet Union broke up.

Stayed with the company because
she had nowhere else to go.

Till a better offer came along.

Did you ever find out who
she was working for,

who was behind Pandora?

No, and even if I did,
I couldn't tell you.

Agent Danberg...

Sophia said something,

something about my
father being in the CIA.

Would you know
anything about that?

I'm afraid I don't.

Sorry.

Oh, uh, detective Beckett.

Here.

I had our guys, uh,
take care of your car.

You pulled my car
out of the river?

Yep. I think you will
find it better than new.

Thank you.

It's the least that we could do.

Take care.

You think she was
telling the truth

about my father?

I mean, that would explain

why he completely disappeared.

I...

I think that Sophia
told a lot of lies.

Must be tough,

finding out that
she's a traitor,

especially after you based
Clara Strike on her and all.

Hmm. Well...

Clara started off
as Sophia, but...

she ended up being more
like you, you know--

smart, fierce, kind.

I think that's one of the
reasons I was drawn to you

as a muse.

You think Dr. Blakely
was right...

about the linchpin?

Do you think we actually
saved the world?

I think that we saved
a little girl's life,

and that's enough for me.