Cobra (1993–1994): Season 1, Episode 19 - Haunted Lives - full transcript
Cobra is hired to protect a family from an ex-Stasi (communist East Germany secret service) assassin.
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uh
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so
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foreign
you all right
i don't care what the police say these
aren't harmless pranks anymore
they won't help us you know that
maybe we should find someone who can
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it
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so
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when i was little i wasn't allowed to go
into my dad's workshop you see he had
all these great power tools and i wasn't
allowed to go near him unless he was
there
but there were times when well he wasn't
around and i just couldn't stay away so
i'd sneak into the garage and i'd play
with him of course dad always knew
and just before i managed to saw off my
finger or drill through my foot well
he'd appear in the doorway that stern
look on his face and i'd stammer out the
first lame excuse i could think of like
well they were on when i came in
or
she did it
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where'd you hide the light switch
it's this little thing on the wall here
we built that elaborate control console
you just attacked as a clever ruse to
draw intruders away from it
good plan
good morning
adjusting the thermostat again there's
too many switches in this room
well it's certainly clear who's the
brains and who's the brawn around here
all right let's go to work a referral
came in from a lawyer friend of mine
who's got a client pretty shaken up by a
series of pranks whoopee cushions are
joy buzzers try a drive-by shooting with
paint pellets terrorized his entire
family please say there's nothing they
can do
could be nothing could be a lot let's
say we check it out
let's do it
the phone rings all night but when i
answer it no one's there
i think i'm being watched
why would someone be following you
that's just it no one would
the only secret i have is my special
barbecue sauce and
ann figured that out after the first
bite
mommy watch i make this the fans will
love me
nice try honey
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come on show you something
okay
now first you have to imagine making the
mask
okay
you have to see it in your head
before you can see it with your eyes
try it
okay imagine now
good shot
what do you think you're a pretty good
basketball player for a policeman
i'm not a cop ryan
i'm just here to help you gonna keep
them from taking my mom away
the cops said the uh paint gun attack
was just a harmless prank that had
nothing to do with us it was just a
random act no one listens to us
except you
and um
well nothing personal but
i really don't know who the hell you
guys are cobra is an organization that
was founded to bring justice to those
people who can't find it anywhere else
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good
because i'm afraid next time those
bullets are gonna be real
ryan honey go wash your hands before we
please forgive my husband
he's under a lot of pressure right now
we took out a second mortgage so he
could expand his dental practice and
then the recession hit and
the police are probably right it's
just well i think harley feels the whole
world is out to get him
it's certainly nothing for you to worry
about well that's our job we worry so
you don't have to
maybe you should handle this when i'm
out
out
this one needs brains not brawn oh come
on i was only kidding
i'm not
come on i need your help why are you
walking away
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hello are you the one who advertised for
a stray then you found her
she was never lost that's not what i
heard
what you've heard is it no concern to me
open the package
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you know the terms of my services
check your cayman account the money was
wired half an hour ago what will it be
done
i guarantee results
if you want to know more hire someone
else
is that any kind of attitude for a new
employee
maybe i should just see the stray myself
stop dealing with a middleman maybe you
should
that would be interesting
to see which one of us could kill you
first the job has been done in 48 hours
it will be
good
the next videotape will have your
picture on it
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scandal
scandal we have to go
but mom
the game's tomorrow
no there's no time now come on
but mom
please i just want
it's not fair
i said now
sometimes i hate you
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what was that all about
i mean at the crocker's house you've
never walked away from a case before i
think you're ready to tackle one on your
own
well i appreciate the vote of confidence
but they want you handcrafter doesn't
want my help it's a marital problem
how can you say that
can you see the way she was playing with
the wedding ring
she wants out
look at her
what do you see
a caring mother
a loving wife a step for life
he just is real
well she's not the one who asked for
your help
ryan gave this to me
you don't need my degree in psychology
to see that
he's terrified of things beyond his
control
afraid of being abandoned it's clear
that ryan is scared to death
yeah and his mother's turning away
no keep it he made it for you he said
something about
imagining the family back to normal
maybe he made an impression
maybe he thinks that you're the only one
who can help
hello
sorry to bother you mrs crocker we're
doing a little marketing survey about
laundry detergent i don't have time for
it tell me mrs crocker
it's harder to get out of your family's
clothes paint pellets or bloodstains
so you found me
i'm the one who taught you to hide or
have you forgotten i haven't forgotten
anything good
but i'll see you at lunch no you defy me
you have forgotten it's over i wonder
what will change your mind faster
your husband's funeral or your sons
i'm having lunch with my husband and the
windsor
so good to be working together again
see you there
human nature dictates that a kid will
always look to his mother for safety
but when that kid's world is suddenly
filled with violence and fear like
ryan's now was he needs to know his mom
will always be there
i was never that lucky but i was sure as
hell going to try to preserve that
safety for ryan
harley crocker's request to watch over
his family was fair enough
still the more i watched over ann
crocker the more i found myself just
watching her
watching her every move
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so
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drop it
mr jackson what are you doing here i
said drop it now
you mean
you thought
it's not like that
this is my friend alicia cunningham
she was just telling me how much safer
i'd feel with a gun in case they come
after us again
i thought your husband was just being
paranoid
maybe i'm getting a little paranoid too
you always carry a gun around with you
well you never know when you're going to
get assaulted by a strange man
wearing his lunch
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i've got to run
it sure is nice to know that you're
around protecting me
yeah
a little club soda will get this right
out
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i don't know i've been losing things all
my life
wallets passports phone numbers
if i'm gonna need it it's gone
so why is it i can always find the
things i want to forget
hey who's that
nobody
i thought this is my private apartment
well kind of tight with a landlord
besides your door was wide open
dallas has some information for us
is that your mother
you know it's funny
all the times we've talked about your
dad you've never mentioned your mother
no i haven't
meet
alicia cunningham
alicia cunningham of the pta
so who's the woman who pulled the gun on
adam crocker
hmm what's with the glass
took it from the restaurant it's
alicia's water glass ah trusting soul
aren't you
no nice work that should be covered with
her prince what else we got well we've
been checking out harley's patience
there's
what
what about the glass just take it easy
our tech boys will have to lift the
print off the glass clean enough to send
out on the wires it'll take some time we
may not have some time scandal we're all
working as fast as we can and so is anne
crocker
we don't have the slightest idea where
she's going we don't even know if she's
involved in this whatever this turns out
to be you know there's a 10 year old boy
whose mother's a liar we don't know that
either the other woman could be lying
where are you going to find out the
truth for a little boy
dallas what do you know about scandal's
mother
well she didn't waste a lot of time
teaching her social skills
i think she's dead way
so
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is
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scandal
scandal we have to go
i said
now
is
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did something happen
yeah
you lied to me what are you talking
about you tell me
mr jackson i have a small child a
mortgage we can barely cover and a
husband who's convinced there's someone
out to hurt us i don't need any grief
from you
i want to show you something
meet the real elisha kanye
i don't understand the woman with a gun
who is she
i don't know
hi mom
stop lying
what's wrong
nothing honey everything is just fine
come on honey let's go
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hello hello mrs kroger i need to speak
to you about your son what is it what
have you done to him nothing yet
unless i do what you tell me
not necessarily
what do you mean
you know what to do without being told
don't you
yes what i was trained to do
you've seen the videotape
yes then it's time to begin
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three a.m little early for a staff
meeting yeah it was noon in paris with a
dizzy embryo just spit this out it's the
identity the woman whose prince you
lifted off that glass her name's miranda
he spits in french allow me
the prints from alicia's water glass
have been traced as far back as the
berlin wall
then it stops
east germany
that's all it says well when the berlin
wall fell east german intelligence was
ransacked every joker with a trench coat
the decoder ring took something
in order to get a complete fire you got
to go knocking at every spookhouse door
in the free world
i prefer to let my fingers do the
walking
big q's gonna have to sell some real
estate this month to pay his phone bill
ann's got a secret and i'm gonna find
out what it is scandal
and crocker didn't fool you
why
call it deja vu
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go
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so
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so
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another pta pal
what's that christmas present for your
kid
you don't understand
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guten tag for all on miranda
scandal
what the hell happened to you
june cleaver stubbed her toe on my
forehead
my friend you're lucky to be alive
i was able to piece together a fire a
lot of scraps from mi5 the cia and the
kgb bottom line miranda
was with the stasi x the state
assassination squad
we have to get dr crocker and ryan to a
safe place now and then we give anne
crocker to the feds no no
how hard did you get kicked in the head
son we can't leave that family in danger
i said
no you should be saying i told you so
you called it days ago the lady is a
fraud she's probably working for a rogue
stasi assassin where the stazzy's
working her
look
the drive-by shooting was a warning to
anne
we step in too soon next time randall
will use real bullets we owe it to our
client we have to warn dr crocker do it
and you'll destroy that family
give me a chance to help her
what what makes you think she wants your
help
she could have killed me she didn't
great so you want to give her a second
chance to get it right we can't risk
that you don't know anything about this
woman hell nobody does
she loves her family i know that excuse
me maybe this is none of my business but
is this about her family or yours
give me 48 hours which means you want
24. you got 12. and we bring the husband
and son into avery tower now
i don't want him to know it's for their
protection while you try to help the
mother i promise i won't tell him
anything
scandal
i want to apologize for what i just said
about your family
i was way out of line it's okay don't
worry about it
it's just that um
this case is having a real effect on you
and i can't help but be a little
concerned i know it's none of my
business but i thought if i could find
out what was bothering you maybe i could
help
when you find out maybe you can tell me
because it's got me stumped
maybe it would help to talk to somebody
i'm not a big talker
i'm a very patient listener
i thought you said this was none of your
business it's not
but i know myself i'll just keep poking
around anyway and next time i'll
probably say something even worse which
i'll regret even more
and then you'll probably have a harder
time forgiving me
so really you'd be doing us a big favor
if you just spit it out now
this case is bringing back a lot of
memories and feelings i thought i put
behind me
about your mother
yeah about my mother one day when i was
10 years old
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i came home from school and uh she was
gone
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she packed up everything and left
never found out why
so you're afraid that adam crocker is
going to abandon ryan the way that your
mother abandoned you
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yeah
yes i am
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i walked away from this case because i
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brought back too much pain
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and now you can't let it go until you
find out ann crocker's secret
if you can understand her
then maybe you can figure out why your
mom left
how come it's so easy for you to sing so
hard for me
huh
so it's written home with it
but i'm a friend
and we're a lot more alike than you
think
i guess i've been in real pain huh
well
only a little bit more than usual
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i'm not going anywhere without my wife i
assure you mr crocker will find your
wife we're scouring the city for her now
just you'll all be safe together soon
ryan come on
ryan
will won't be able to find us
and time to tuck you into bed
promise
promise
come on
my dad said if there was one thing he'd
never do again
was make a promise he couldn't keep
he told me that right after he broke the
same promise to me that i had just made
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his name is jaren mcteig
this picture was taken four years ago
but as far as we know his appearance
hasn't changed
his occupation is international arms
dealer you have the money he has the
weapons the politics mean nothing to him
on the bosnian shelter sarajevo jaron
mcteek's price tags were still attached
to the missiles
but lately he's gotten sloppy and greedy
he gave our people defective weapons and
has refused to return our money to us
this is unacceptable
he divides his time between his mansion
and niece his penthouse in paris his
yacht on the caribbean and whereabouts
unknown
there have been seven attempts on mct
live so far none have been successful
you'll be in the united states for just
48 hours your job is to see that he
leaves
in a casket
compelling but uh i don't think there's
a series
dallas has put together the file on
miranda she ran stasi x
she was known for taking pictures of her
operatives kills like trophies to pray
in front of her enemies
no wonder they wouldn't let her join the
pta
one of her operatives was code named
katrina
we got anne's prince back from the dmv
they match
swan crocker is an assassin
trained me
she disappeared during a mission
miranda fled when the berlin wall fell
and went into business for herself so
somehow
miranda
found anne crocker and is forcing her to
kill jeremiah
we have to find adam before she pulls a
trigger the problem is we don't know
where she's going to strike
no problem
how's your german
and supposed to get her final
instructions at a dead drop in gramercy
park at noon
that gives us
so
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so
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you don't have to do this
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i had no choice
i was just an east german teenager when
i was forced into the statsy
it's not who i am you're the one holding
the gun no someone is holding a gun on
me
miranda
for years she trained me and my first
chance i got you came here you started a
family you were free for a few years
then one night the phone rang
collect call from the past yes
and now
i have a job to do
think about your family they're gone you
have seen to that
they don't know who you are
scandal wouldn't let us tell them
you don't have to do this
you're safe for tonight
what about tomorrow next month 10 years
from now
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you're right
we know your target's chairman
if i don't complete my mission in three
hours
my family will be killed
miranda will see to that
what do we do
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we kill the bastard
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antiques plane has landed
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you're supposed to walk by six-armed
bodyguards and after your pistol in the
matic it's a suicide mission it's not
going to happen miranda has to be here
somewhere with her camera we'll find her
before you have to do anything but if we
don't kill him no it's the one way to
make sure miranda shows herself
mctigue isn't the pope who do you think
sells our boonie dollars bullets
you place these transmitters behind your
ears i'm plugged in with the airport
surveillance system when i spot miranda
i'll let you know
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the key has arrived
now passing the security point
the ball is in play
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i found her where escalator
scandal
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damn it's not her
it's going down i can't let her do it
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damn it what's happening miranda's on
the second level she's wearing a black
wig
therefore security is on your butt
scandal
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danielle
take the escalator to level three
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they're in the baggage handling area
they're killing each other
first door on your left is a stairwell
take it
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ah
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no
give me one reason
his name's ryan
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just before my mother left home forever
i had a fight with her
all i remember is that it ended with me
screaming i hate you
i didn't mean it what kid ever does
but by the time i realized i should tell
her it was too late
she was gone
and i thought i knew why
she left because i told her i hated her
that thought has haunted me all my life
even after i was old enough to know
better
i could never shake the feeling that my
mother left because of something i'd
done
and now for the first time
i was beginning to see other
possibilities
maybe she left because she was in
trouble and because she loved my father
me so much she couldn't stand to see us
hurt
maybe she knew all along that when i
yelled
i hate you
i really meant the opposite
wasn't much to hold on to
but maybe that possibility was enough to
buy us both a little forgiveness
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you
uh
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so
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foreign
you all right
i don't care what the police say these
aren't harmless pranks anymore
they won't help us you know that
maybe we should find someone who can
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it
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so
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when i was little i wasn't allowed to go
into my dad's workshop you see he had
all these great power tools and i wasn't
allowed to go near him unless he was
there
but there were times when well he wasn't
around and i just couldn't stay away so
i'd sneak into the garage and i'd play
with him of course dad always knew
and just before i managed to saw off my
finger or drill through my foot well
he'd appear in the doorway that stern
look on his face and i'd stammer out the
first lame excuse i could think of like
well they were on when i came in
or
she did it
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where'd you hide the light switch
it's this little thing on the wall here
we built that elaborate control console
you just attacked as a clever ruse to
draw intruders away from it
good plan
good morning
adjusting the thermostat again there's
too many switches in this room
well it's certainly clear who's the
brains and who's the brawn around here
all right let's go to work a referral
came in from a lawyer friend of mine
who's got a client pretty shaken up by a
series of pranks whoopee cushions are
joy buzzers try a drive-by shooting with
paint pellets terrorized his entire
family please say there's nothing they
can do
could be nothing could be a lot let's
say we check it out
let's do it
the phone rings all night but when i
answer it no one's there
i think i'm being watched
why would someone be following you
that's just it no one would
the only secret i have is my special
barbecue sauce and
ann figured that out after the first
bite
mommy watch i make this the fans will
love me
nice try honey
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come on show you something
okay
now first you have to imagine making the
mask
okay
you have to see it in your head
before you can see it with your eyes
try it
okay imagine now
good shot
what do you think you're a pretty good
basketball player for a policeman
i'm not a cop ryan
i'm just here to help you gonna keep
them from taking my mom away
the cops said the uh paint gun attack
was just a harmless prank that had
nothing to do with us it was just a
random act no one listens to us
except you
and um
well nothing personal but
i really don't know who the hell you
guys are cobra is an organization that
was founded to bring justice to those
people who can't find it anywhere else
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good
because i'm afraid next time those
bullets are gonna be real
ryan honey go wash your hands before we
please forgive my husband
he's under a lot of pressure right now
we took out a second mortgage so he
could expand his dental practice and
then the recession hit and
the police are probably right it's
just well i think harley feels the whole
world is out to get him
it's certainly nothing for you to worry
about well that's our job we worry so
you don't have to
maybe you should handle this when i'm
out
out
this one needs brains not brawn oh come
on i was only kidding
i'm not
come on i need your help why are you
walking away
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hello are you the one who advertised for
a stray then you found her
she was never lost that's not what i
heard
what you've heard is it no concern to me
open the package
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you know the terms of my services
check your cayman account the money was
wired half an hour ago what will it be
done
i guarantee results
if you want to know more hire someone
else
is that any kind of attitude for a new
employee
maybe i should just see the stray myself
stop dealing with a middleman maybe you
should
that would be interesting
to see which one of us could kill you
first the job has been done in 48 hours
it will be
good
the next videotape will have your
picture on it
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scandal
scandal we have to go
but mom
the game's tomorrow
no there's no time now come on
but mom
please i just want
it's not fair
i said now
sometimes i hate you
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what was that all about
i mean at the crocker's house you've
never walked away from a case before i
think you're ready to tackle one on your
own
well i appreciate the vote of confidence
but they want you handcrafter doesn't
want my help it's a marital problem
how can you say that
can you see the way she was playing with
the wedding ring
she wants out
look at her
what do you see
a caring mother
a loving wife a step for life
he just is real
well she's not the one who asked for
your help
ryan gave this to me
you don't need my degree in psychology
to see that
he's terrified of things beyond his
control
afraid of being abandoned it's clear
that ryan is scared to death
yeah and his mother's turning away
no keep it he made it for you he said
something about
imagining the family back to normal
maybe he made an impression
maybe he thinks that you're the only one
who can help
hello
sorry to bother you mrs crocker we're
doing a little marketing survey about
laundry detergent i don't have time for
it tell me mrs crocker
it's harder to get out of your family's
clothes paint pellets or bloodstains
so you found me
i'm the one who taught you to hide or
have you forgotten i haven't forgotten
anything good
but i'll see you at lunch no you defy me
you have forgotten it's over i wonder
what will change your mind faster
your husband's funeral or your sons
i'm having lunch with my husband and the
windsor
so good to be working together again
see you there
human nature dictates that a kid will
always look to his mother for safety
but when that kid's world is suddenly
filled with violence and fear like
ryan's now was he needs to know his mom
will always be there
i was never that lucky but i was sure as
hell going to try to preserve that
safety for ryan
harley crocker's request to watch over
his family was fair enough
still the more i watched over ann
crocker the more i found myself just
watching her
watching her every move
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so
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drop it
mr jackson what are you doing here i
said drop it now
you mean
you thought
it's not like that
this is my friend alicia cunningham
she was just telling me how much safer
i'd feel with a gun in case they come
after us again
i thought your husband was just being
paranoid
maybe i'm getting a little paranoid too
you always carry a gun around with you
well you never know when you're going to
get assaulted by a strange man
wearing his lunch
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i've got to run
it sure is nice to know that you're
around protecting me
yeah
a little club soda will get this right
out
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i don't know i've been losing things all
my life
wallets passports phone numbers
if i'm gonna need it it's gone
so why is it i can always find the
things i want to forget
hey who's that
nobody
i thought this is my private apartment
well kind of tight with a landlord
besides your door was wide open
dallas has some information for us
is that your mother
you know it's funny
all the times we've talked about your
dad you've never mentioned your mother
no i haven't
meet
alicia cunningham
alicia cunningham of the pta
so who's the woman who pulled the gun on
adam crocker
hmm what's with the glass
took it from the restaurant it's
alicia's water glass ah trusting soul
aren't you
no nice work that should be covered with
her prince what else we got well we've
been checking out harley's patience
there's
what
what about the glass just take it easy
our tech boys will have to lift the
print off the glass clean enough to send
out on the wires it'll take some time we
may not have some time scandal we're all
working as fast as we can and so is anne
crocker
we don't have the slightest idea where
she's going we don't even know if she's
involved in this whatever this turns out
to be you know there's a 10 year old boy
whose mother's a liar we don't know that
either the other woman could be lying
where are you going to find out the
truth for a little boy
dallas what do you know about scandal's
mother
well she didn't waste a lot of time
teaching her social skills
i think she's dead way
so
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is
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scandal
scandal we have to go
i said
now
is
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did something happen
yeah
you lied to me what are you talking
about you tell me
mr jackson i have a small child a
mortgage we can barely cover and a
husband who's convinced there's someone
out to hurt us i don't need any grief
from you
i want to show you something
meet the real elisha kanye
i don't understand the woman with a gun
who is she
i don't know
hi mom
stop lying
what's wrong
nothing honey everything is just fine
come on honey let's go
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hello hello mrs kroger i need to speak
to you about your son what is it what
have you done to him nothing yet
unless i do what you tell me
not necessarily
what do you mean
you know what to do without being told
don't you
yes what i was trained to do
you've seen the videotape
yes then it's time to begin
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three a.m little early for a staff
meeting yeah it was noon in paris with a
dizzy embryo just spit this out it's the
identity the woman whose prince you
lifted off that glass her name's miranda
he spits in french allow me
the prints from alicia's water glass
have been traced as far back as the
berlin wall
then it stops
east germany
that's all it says well when the berlin
wall fell east german intelligence was
ransacked every joker with a trench coat
the decoder ring took something
in order to get a complete fire you got
to go knocking at every spookhouse door
in the free world
i prefer to let my fingers do the
walking
big q's gonna have to sell some real
estate this month to pay his phone bill
ann's got a secret and i'm gonna find
out what it is scandal
and crocker didn't fool you
why
call it deja vu
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go
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so
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so
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another pta pal
what's that christmas present for your
kid
you don't understand
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guten tag for all on miranda
scandal
what the hell happened to you
june cleaver stubbed her toe on my
forehead
my friend you're lucky to be alive
i was able to piece together a fire a
lot of scraps from mi5 the cia and the
kgb bottom line miranda
was with the stasi x the state
assassination squad
we have to get dr crocker and ryan to a
safe place now and then we give anne
crocker to the feds no no
how hard did you get kicked in the head
son we can't leave that family in danger
i said
no you should be saying i told you so
you called it days ago the lady is a
fraud she's probably working for a rogue
stasi assassin where the stazzy's
working her
look
the drive-by shooting was a warning to
anne
we step in too soon next time randall
will use real bullets we owe it to our
client we have to warn dr crocker do it
and you'll destroy that family
give me a chance to help her
what what makes you think she wants your
help
she could have killed me she didn't
great so you want to give her a second
chance to get it right we can't risk
that you don't know anything about this
woman hell nobody does
she loves her family i know that excuse
me maybe this is none of my business but
is this about her family or yours
give me 48 hours which means you want
24. you got 12. and we bring the husband
and son into avery tower now
i don't want him to know it's for their
protection while you try to help the
mother i promise i won't tell him
anything
scandal
i want to apologize for what i just said
about your family
i was way out of line it's okay don't
worry about it
it's just that um
this case is having a real effect on you
and i can't help but be a little
concerned i know it's none of my
business but i thought if i could find
out what was bothering you maybe i could
help
when you find out maybe you can tell me
because it's got me stumped
maybe it would help to talk to somebody
i'm not a big talker
i'm a very patient listener
i thought you said this was none of your
business it's not
but i know myself i'll just keep poking
around anyway and next time i'll
probably say something even worse which
i'll regret even more
and then you'll probably have a harder
time forgiving me
so really you'd be doing us a big favor
if you just spit it out now
this case is bringing back a lot of
memories and feelings i thought i put
behind me
about your mother
yeah about my mother one day when i was
10 years old
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i came home from school and uh she was
gone
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she packed up everything and left
never found out why
so you're afraid that adam crocker is
going to abandon ryan the way that your
mother abandoned you
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yeah
yes i am
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i walked away from this case because i
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brought back too much pain
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and now you can't let it go until you
find out ann crocker's secret
if you can understand her
then maybe you can figure out why your
mom left
how come it's so easy for you to sing so
hard for me
huh
so it's written home with it
but i'm a friend
and we're a lot more alike than you
think
i guess i've been in real pain huh
well
only a little bit more than usual
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i'm not going anywhere without my wife i
assure you mr crocker will find your
wife we're scouring the city for her now
just you'll all be safe together soon
ryan come on
ryan
will won't be able to find us
and time to tuck you into bed
promise
promise
come on
my dad said if there was one thing he'd
never do again
was make a promise he couldn't keep
he told me that right after he broke the
same promise to me that i had just made
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his name is jaren mcteig
this picture was taken four years ago
but as far as we know his appearance
hasn't changed
his occupation is international arms
dealer you have the money he has the
weapons the politics mean nothing to him
on the bosnian shelter sarajevo jaron
mcteek's price tags were still attached
to the missiles
but lately he's gotten sloppy and greedy
he gave our people defective weapons and
has refused to return our money to us
this is unacceptable
he divides his time between his mansion
and niece his penthouse in paris his
yacht on the caribbean and whereabouts
unknown
there have been seven attempts on mct
live so far none have been successful
you'll be in the united states for just
48 hours your job is to see that he
leaves
in a casket
compelling but uh i don't think there's
a series
dallas has put together the file on
miranda she ran stasi x
she was known for taking pictures of her
operatives kills like trophies to pray
in front of her enemies
no wonder they wouldn't let her join the
pta
one of her operatives was code named
katrina
we got anne's prince back from the dmv
they match
swan crocker is an assassin
trained me
she disappeared during a mission
miranda fled when the berlin wall fell
and went into business for herself so
somehow
miranda
found anne crocker and is forcing her to
kill jeremiah
we have to find adam before she pulls a
trigger the problem is we don't know
where she's going to strike
no problem
how's your german
and supposed to get her final
instructions at a dead drop in gramercy
park at noon
that gives us
so
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you don't have to do this
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i had no choice
i was just an east german teenager when
i was forced into the statsy
it's not who i am you're the one holding
the gun no someone is holding a gun on
me
miranda
for years she trained me and my first
chance i got you came here you started a
family you were free for a few years
then one night the phone rang
collect call from the past yes
and now
i have a job to do
think about your family they're gone you
have seen to that
they don't know who you are
scandal wouldn't let us tell them
you don't have to do this
you're safe for tonight
what about tomorrow next month 10 years
from now
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you're right
we know your target's chairman
if i don't complete my mission in three
hours
my family will be killed
miranda will see to that
what do we do
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we kill the bastard
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antiques plane has landed
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you're supposed to walk by six-armed
bodyguards and after your pistol in the
matic it's a suicide mission it's not
going to happen miranda has to be here
somewhere with her camera we'll find her
before you have to do anything but if we
don't kill him no it's the one way to
make sure miranda shows herself
mctigue isn't the pope who do you think
sells our boonie dollars bullets
you place these transmitters behind your
ears i'm plugged in with the airport
surveillance system when i spot miranda
i'll let you know
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the key has arrived
now passing the security point
the ball is in play
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i found her where escalator
scandal
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damn it's not her
it's going down i can't let her do it
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damn it what's happening miranda's on
the second level she's wearing a black
wig
therefore security is on your butt
scandal
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danielle
take the escalator to level three
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they're in the baggage handling area
they're killing each other
first door on your left is a stairwell
take it
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ah
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no
give me one reason
his name's ryan
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just before my mother left home forever
i had a fight with her
all i remember is that it ended with me
screaming i hate you
i didn't mean it what kid ever does
but by the time i realized i should tell
her it was too late
she was gone
and i thought i knew why
she left because i told her i hated her
that thought has haunted me all my life
even after i was old enough to know
better
i could never shake the feeling that my
mother left because of something i'd
done
and now for the first time
i was beginning to see other
possibilities
maybe she left because she was in
trouble and because she loved my father
me so much she couldn't stand to see us
hurt
maybe she knew all along that when i
yelled
i hate you
i really meant the opposite
wasn't much to hold on to
but maybe that possibility was enough to
buy us both a little forgiveness
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you