Covert Affairs (2010–2014): Season 5, Episode 1 - Shady Lane - full transcript
After four months of being "dark," Agent Annie Walker emerges from the shadows to rejoin the DPD. A terrorist threat thrusts Annie back into the field, where she encounters a man named Ryan McQuaid.
- I just keep thinking
that it's got to stop.
It has to end.
We have to find someplace
more normal, but--
- for people like us,
there is no normal.
So is that it?
Is this the end?
- I guess so.
- You want me as d.C.S.?
What about Joan Campbell?
- She'll have a chance
to properly compete
for the job
when the time comes.
- Is that who I think it is?
- Do you think
it's Khalid ansari,
son of one of the most powerful
oil men in Saudi Arabia?
- Assad believes Khalid
is moving money
through charities
to terror organizations.
Killing you
would be the easiest thing
in the world right now,
but it won't solve anything.
You went after Arthur
and Joan.
You've crossed
every line, Henry.
- When you get back,
there's somebody
who wants to meet you.
- It's a boy.
MacKenzie Campbell.
- I'll see you back in D.C.
- This is interesting, man.
Okay, nobody debates,
right,
that the Italians
invented pizza,
but in the case of the calzone,
you've got the Swedish,
the greeks,
even the Scottish claim it.
- Stop it.
You're making me hungry.
- Well, we can order some--
[Electronic beeping]
Auggie.
[Cell phone ringing]
- Hello?
Thank you.
Annie's back.
- What did she say?
- Voice mail.
Outgoing message
says she wants to meet me alone
on the mall in an hour.
- We reverse-tracked
Annie's entrance
into the Metro system, traced
her as far back as Albany.
Before that, she's a ghost.
What does that suggest to you?
- That she doesn't want us
to know where she's coming from.
- Four months off the grid.
Suddenly she wants to meet.
Why alone?
Why now?
- I don't know, calder.
I imagined a different
sort of homecoming.
- Auggie.
- Annie.
- Thanks for coming alone.
You look good.
- I've taken up judo.
You should check it out.
It's a hoot.
It's good to see you too.
- I know there have got to be
a lot of questions
about where I've been
and what I've been doing,
but I'd like to come back
to work.
- Good.
You should come back to Langley
with me.
We didn't have to do this here,
unless you wanted to hit
the air and space museum first.
- I wanted to talk to you,
to explain myself without prying
agency ears and eyes.
- What did you want to say?
- I'd like you
to be my handler again.
I'd like to go back
to when things were simpler,
before I went dark,
before Henry,
before everything
got so messy.
I've had a lot of time to think
about myself and the agency,
and I realize
that I can't do this job
and have emotional attachments.
I've got to concentrate
solely on the work.
I hope that's okay.
- Annie, you dropped off the map
there for a while.
Time passed.
We're good.
- Really?
- Yeah, really.
Why, did you want to make out
or something?
[Both laugh]
Welcome back, Annie.
- Let's start again
from the beginning.
After Hong Kong,
you went to Turkey,
the datca peninsula.
- Yes.
You had spotters there.
- But you evaded our spotters.
Where did you go?
- To another beach,
fatu hiva, South pacific.
- For the last four months?
- Yes.
And now I'm ready to return
to the agency
I faithfully served
for four years.
- Any other locations?
- No.
- Did you have contact
with any spies...
- What does the machine say?
- Line is steady
on every question.
- That would indicate
she's telling the truth,
but she's not.
- What's she holding back?
- So...
- You passed.
- Not so fast.
What are you not
telling us, Annie?
- You just said
I passed the poly.
- You beat the poly.
The machine doesn't know you
like auggie and I know you.
You want to tell us
what's going on?
- I took out Henry wilcox.
I took four months off,
and now I'm ready
to come back to work.
- Calder.
Line one.
Priority.
- Calder Michaels.
- Auggie.
Can you talk to him?
- I can, but...
- But what?
- But it's a valid question.
We're just trying to look out
for you, Annie.
- Things changed.
A very dangerous friend of yours
was just spotted
in a surveillance camera
in Chicago.
- Who?
- Khalid ansari.
- Khalid ansari's
on American soil?
- Exactly.
This is major.
- Guy like Khalid
is smart, careful.
He's on all the watch lists.
Why would he take that risk?
- He dropped out of sight
in riyadh a few days ago,
but we never thought
he'd reappear on U.S. soil.
Annie, you know this guy.
We need you in Chicago.
We have
an off-book facility there.
You'll meet with the chief.
He'll get you set up.
- I understand.
- Hold up.
Don't think we're finished here.
- Walker.
Welcome.
I'm Charles schinderman.
- Auggie Anderson
spoke very highly of you.
- I hope so.
He was the best man
at my wedding.
Guy gives a hell of a toast.
I'm sorry about the mess.
This is my wife's car.
Mine is in the shop
with a timing-belt issue.
Let's get you to the facility.
- I didn't think Khalid ansari
would risk coming stateside.
- One of the most wanted men
in financing terror
pings inside the loop...
Something big's gonna happen.
My file says that you
were the one
who turned him
against his father.
- I just gave Khalid
some facts.
He killed his father
all on his own.
Where are we at now?
- Right now
we're trying to figure out
how he got in the country,
what alias he may be using,
who he's contacted.
We're canvassing
the Muslim community
trying to figure out
who may be harboring him.
- That's not his style.
Show his picture around
some of the luxury hotels.
The ones who are most discreet
about high-end pros.
He likes white girls,
probably used a Western name.
- So here we are,
home sweet off-book home.
You can drop your gear here
and make yourself comfortable.
Scratch that.
We've located Khalid.
He's at the bradham hotel.
Nice instincts, Walker.
What are we looking at?
- Bell captain
says he checked into room 8273
about an hour ago.
- All right,
let's keep it low profile.
Four guys inside the hotel.
No guns unless we have to.
You're with us.
You two seal off the exits.
[Elevator bell dings]
- Jacob.
[Muffled scream]
- Khalid.
Stop.
- Annie Walker of the c.I.A.
Of course it's you.
I'm such a fool.
- Put the gun down.
I can protect you.
- You can protect me?
Then tell them
to put their guns down!
Tell them!
- Put your guns down.
Put 'em down.
You know me well enough to know
that what I say is true.
There's a way out of this.
You put the gun down.
You tell me
what you're doing in Chicago,
and we will walk out
of here together.
- You don't know?
[Laughs]
Then I'm an even bigger fool.
- Know what, Khalid?
- You think
you're in control.
If these people
could do this to me,
what chance
do you think you have?
- What people, Khalid?
- [Laughing]
- Khalid.
- They've given me no choice.
- Go.
[Gunshot, glass breaking]
And Khalid's possessions.
I'll order up your charter back
to D.C. for you.
- You made a mistake
back there.
- What?
Saving your life?
- I knew Khalid ansari,
and I knew
he wasn't gonna shoot me.
Besides, he never would have
got a shot off before me anyway,
and now we have nothing.
- I don't know you,
but I wasn't
about to let you die.
- You're right.
You don't know me.
I don't quit.
Now, let's go back
to the facility
and figure this out.
- Auggie.
- Joan.
I thought your maternity leave
ends next week.
- Yes, but Annie happened
this week,
and now Khalid 25 minutes ago.
- She's doing all right.
She's a different
operative now.
- She was in and out of here
so fast, I didn't even seen her.
- Yeah, her and Charlie
are drilling down
on Khalid's purpose
in Chicago.
- Good.
Keep me posted.
I'm meeting with the d.C.I.
Right now.
- Well, give them crap
for only spending five minutes
at the agency Christmas party,
would you?
- I most certainly will not.
Auggie?
- Yeah?
- What do you think
Annie was up to
for the last few months?
- She's being pretty vague.
She says she was at the beach
the whole time.
- And you believe her?
- No.
- And what about you two?
- Keeping things balkanized.
Operative and handler,
just like old times.
- Interesting analogy.
I worked in the Balkans.
It was complicated.
- Well, this isn't gonna be.
- Okay.
Wish me luck.
- Good luck.
- We found $800,000
in U.S. bills
stuffed into the lining
of Khalid's suitcase.
Saudi spy service,
they don't stand on ceremony,
so we had them
raid Khalid's condo in riyadh.
Contents of a safe there
led us to one local contact.
Borz altan,
crimean-American,
Muslim,
trips to chechnya.
Intriguing.
- In borz's younger days,
he did U.S. military service,
made it to sergeant,
but his career stagnated
due to chronic migraines.
- After his service,
he worked for mcquaid security
for a short while?
He flamed out fast.
- Tough culture,
those p.M.C.S,
worse than the military.
- Get me what you can
from mcquaid security.
- Tight-knit family.
Lives with
his younger brother mykola,
26, religious,
travels to Yemen,
which is never great,
couple of felonies
for theft.
- Anything else
I should know?
- There's a sister, oksana,
lives with them as well.
Anything else you should know,
meaning?
- I'm gonna move
on borz immediately.
- It's not the best conditions
for an approach.
We don't know his role here
or how he's connected to Khalid.
- These are the cards
we've been dealt,
so I'm going to play
this hand.
- Well, now I get it.
- What?
- Why auggie was so into you.
- Calder.
- Hey, Joan.
- I thought
I was meeting with the d.C.I.
- I did too.
[Door opens]
- Calder.
Joan.
- Joe.
Where's the d.C.I.?
- Got pulled into a meeting.
- This is a meeting.
- I'm his deputy.
I speak for him in his absence.
- Okay.
What does he have to say?
- He's decided to keep you,
calder,
in your current post
as d.C.S.,
and to put you, Joan,
back as head of the d.P.D.
- I understand the seriousness
of the Chicago situation,
but I thought there'd be
a proper vetting process.
- So did I.
Specifically told
the general counsel.
- His decision
wasn't based on Chicago.
- And the d.C.I.
Couldn't come down here
and tell us himself?
- And it is final.
- I'll report to the d.P.D.
On Monday.
- Calder, a word.
- Okay.
Look, Joe,
I really wish you guys
would have given me a heads-up
on this.
- Look, you've been
a really great acting d.C.S.,
but you're not official yet.
D.C.I. Says
you're to remain interim
until your affairs in order,
and then we'll take you overt.
- What does that mean?
- It means
get your sh-- together.
- Joan.
Joan.
I'm sorry.
I'm just as surprised as you.
This is not how I wanted it
to go down.
- Well, it went down.
- Yeah.
Make no mistake.
I wanted this job,
but I was not gonna go
around anybody's back
to get it,
especially not yours.
- I don't think
you went around my back.
I think you took advantage
of a situation.
- No.
None of the above.
You may not want to hear this,
but Arthur
didn't do you any favors.
For all the good he did,
people in this building
were talking about him
a lot last year.
The smartest place
is in the shadows.
- Yes?
- I'm looking for borz altan.
I'm from veterans affairs.
- Borz.
- Borz altan?
I'm from the v.A.
I called before?
I may have some good news
about your benefits.
May I come in?
- Yeah, sure.
Come on in.
- Is that your girlfriend?
- Sister.
- Oh, is she a nurse?
- She's actually a doctor.
She got her degree in Kiev.
Here she does nursing.
So you said
you have good news?
- Yeah, there have been
some changes made to title 38,
and you may be due more money
for your migraines.
- First time the army has ever
wanted to give me anything.
- What can I say?
Progress.
We just need to fill out
your profile.
Your name is borz altan,
and you're originally
from sevastopol?
- That's right, yeah.
- And you live here
with your siblings,
your brother mykola?
- And my sister oksana.
- Right.
Do you happen to have
your old army I.D.?
I need to verify it
for these forms.
- Yeah.
Let me get it.
Here you go.
- Thanks.
- Is there anything else?
- No, I'll leave you
with these forms to fill out,
and I can pick them up later.
Thank you very much.
- It was a pleasure to meet you.
- Charlie,
they had ceremonial plates
and a special occasion
prayer rug
suggesting salat Al-ghaib.
They're mourning a martyr
before the attack.
Something
is gonna happen today.
[Heartbeat pounding]
[Breathing heavily]
[Gasping]
[Panting]
[Breathing deeply]
[Phone line ringing]
- Doctor's office.
- Yes, this is Lisa Morton.
Could I speak with Dr. Cohen,
please?
Yes, could you tell him
that I just had an episode,
and can he call me back?
Thank you.
And pull them in.
If they're operational,
we can't risk
having them out there.
- We've got a secure a.P.B.
Out on the wire.
Next step is to raise
the threat level,
but I think
we should hold a beat
until we have more info.
- What about the file
we asked for
from mcquaid security?
Is there anything in there
that can help us track borz?
- To call it a file
is generous.
- I need to speak to him.
- Get his liaison on the phone.
- No, I want to speak
to mcquaid himself.
If his c.I.A. Contracts
mean anything,
he'll get on the phone.
- Hey.
Hi.
No nap?
- Oh, we were having
too much fun.
How did it go
with the d.C.I.?
He gave the d.C.S. Job
to calder.
I can end around the g.C.O.,
why go down without a fight?
- No.
You know what?
If I make a play
for the job so soon,
it'll seem like sour grapes.
I can't risk
taking another step back.
- So what do you think
happened?
No need to dance
around it.
They're trying to hurt you
because of me,
but I stand behind everything
I did.
I hope you can see that.
- Of course I do,
and others will in time.
[Baby cries]
- Got him.
- Thank you.
Hello, Mr. mcquaid?
I need to ask you
a few questions
about borz altan.
- This isn't a great connection.
Can we talk in person?
- I don't have time to come back
to D.C. and talk in person.
- Where are you?
- Chicago.
- Even better,
I can come to you.
I'm already in the air,
and I was headed from Dallas,
but I can divert.
I'll be there in an hour.
Walker?
- That's right.
- I did some recon on you
while I was in flight.
- And?
- Well,
based on what I found out,
I was expecting you
to be a little more dead.
- Well, I'm here,
and I don't have much time.
I have a few questions
to ask you about--
- borz altan?
He did security work for me
for four months
in eastern Europe.
- That's kind of vague.
I think you can do better.
- Do you?
- Did he have any
specialized training?
I mean, what exactly did
he do for you?
- You are aware that I have
confidentiality agreements
with the agencies
that I contract with.
- Uh-huh. So translation,
you do know more,
you just don't want to tell me
'cause you might lose money.
- Why do you want to know
all this anyway?
- It's a matter
of national security.
- So I assume it has to do
with the death of Khalid ansari.
That's right,
I know about him,
because I'm cleared to know
about him.
- You know, an article I read
about you in Forbes
says that you interview
every one
of your employees personally,
that they're like a family
to you.
Is that true or bullsh--?
- That is true.
- So what do you remember
about borz altan?
- I only met him once.
We talked about cars.
He loves mustangs
and so do I.
That's about all.
It was a brief chat.
Does that help?
- It may, it may not.
Anything else?
- I'm sorry.
That was all.
- Okay, then,
I think we're done.
- I like it.
- What?
- You're awfully direct.
- It's a function of the job.
- No, it's not.
Most spies I know
are lying sons of bitches.
- Well, I'm not most spies.
- And I would love to talk
about that more.
Give me a call so we can chat
about some,
you know,
other opportunities.
Here's my card.
- What was it about
the conversation we just had
that made you think
I would want to work for you?
- None of it.
I'm asking you out to dinner.
- Ay!
- Okay, folks,
that's it.
I get in trouble when you people
don't get your asses back
to your desk
by the end of lunch.
Great session.
Auggie.
- Hey.
- Great work today.
- Thanks, marlo.
- Listen, if you wanted
to go over some more moves,
I could stay late.
- Auggie,
urgent call for you.
- Rain check.
- Sure.
- Thanks.
Hello?
- It's me.
Can you check on a mustang
owned by the altans?
- Got it.
Hey, is Charlie still playing
with that coin of his?
- Yeah.
- Make fun of him for me,
would you?
- Got it.
Call me back.
- [Moaning]
Hey.
Are you going
to that Pearson awards thing?
- No.
Why?
- I was going.
I didn't know
if I'd run into you there.
- No, I'm not going.
Oh, I, um...
I meant to give you this
earlier.
It's a scrambled cell phone,
state of the art.
I need you to use this
to communicate with me
from now on.
- I'm discrete, calder.
You can trust me.
- Baby, I know,
but I need you to do
this for me, okay?
So it'll help me be discrete.
- All right.
Whatever you need.
- Whatever?
- Whatever.
- Sorry to keep you waiting.
I just landed.
What do you think?
- I always knew
you had potential.
- Oh, but you still gave me
a "c"
in Latin American
political systems.
- Well, it looks like
the student
has surpassed
the teacher.
- Thank you, Arthur.
- So why the call
from the plane?
Why am I here?
Why so urgent?
- Oh, you were always
very helpful to me
when I was at Annapolis,
and I thought maybe
I could pay a little back
with some unsolicited advice.
- Oh,
this ought to be interesting.
- I heard about Joan
being passed over for d.C.S.
- That was fast.
- The d.C.I.
Made the wrong move.
You and Joan have given
your lives to the agency,
and this is how
you're treated.
I mean, you on the outside,
and Joan hitting
the glass ceiling.
- Neither of us is looking at it
that way.
- I want you to come work
with me.
- Become a green badge?
- I know that you've
been getting a lot of offers,
Alexandria associates,
p.F.W., syncon,
but over here
at mcquaid security,
we do things
a little differently,
and it's not just because
I pay the most, which I do.
- Yeah, it's not just
about the money for me.
- Don't be afraid
of money, Arthur.
It can pay
for almost anything.
I mean, you have a new kid,
you've given a lot of good years
to the agency.
You deserve to have
the opportunity
to provide
for little mack.
- I haven't been
under a rock, Ryan.
Your company grew exponentially
in the early years easy,
but now you want to get
to the next level,
and you're gonna need
deeper connections,
greater access,
and a guy with my experience
and my rolodex
gives you a lot of options.
- All right.
I need you Arthur.
There, I said it.
You and I could do a lot
of special things together
and have a sh--load of fun
doing it.
- I'll think about it.
- You think about it,
then you give me a call
when you realize
that you really can have it all.
- I found your mustang.
Looks like
it's been abandoned.
- I'm going to check it out.
- It's not hear any landmarks,
so I doubt it's a bomb,
but approach with caution.
[Latch clicking]
- And the body?
- Name's Eduardo Cruz,
lives in evanston.
- Why would the altans
go after him?
- He works the floor
at the Chicago board of trade.
- That's the target.
- I'll scramble
our tac team now.
- I'll meet you there.
- We have a real
and credible threat
on the Chicago board of trade.
We already have a workup
on this scenario,
as it was one
of the likely hard targets
in the domestic threat matrix.
- Do we clear the building?
- If we clear the building
and suspend trading,
we could create a panic,
or we might trigger
the bombings early.
- Just like
in the beirut bombing last year
or the Lagos embassy bombing
of '07.
- But if we
let business proceed,
we may be abetting the attack.
We risk hundreds of deaths
that could be avoided.
- Our rapid response team
with operative Walker on point
is moments way.
Operative Walker has suggested
we proceed
with a discreet sweep
and allow the trading floor
to remain open.
I strongly support this action.
- Keep trading open.
Have the Chicago team
sweep the building
quickly and quietly.
Let's go.
- Thanks for backing my call.
- You got a raw deal, Joan,
but it's good to have you back
in the d.P.D.
- What's the word?
- I just talked
to the head of security.
No one has come in yet
with Eduardo Cruz's I.D. Card.
Trading is in full swing.
It's prime opportunity
for an attack.
- Let's I.D. And take down.
This is mykola altan.
He most resembles
the dead trader
we found in the car.
- Here you go.
You can now trade
pork bellies.
- Let's do this quickly.
- The trading floor
is on the mezzanine.
We can't let him get up there.
You two take the back exit.
I'm gonna take the stairs.
Stay in position.
I'll check the floor.
- Okay.
- Sorry.
- I've got him.
He's walking up the stairs
towards my position.
Approach with caution.
Go on my orders.
Now!
Get the vest off.
Keep his fingers open.
- He's clean.
No vest.
- What's going on?
- We've got to go.
Let's get him to the facility.
Tell us what the plan was,
mykola.
What were you and your brother
doing with Khalid ansari?
Talk to me.
Talk to me.
You can save yourself.
- Charlie.
I think I just saw oksana altan
outside the building.
- The sister?
- Yeah.
- Go check it out.
We're moving him.
- Okay.
Clear the detention room.
H.I.G. Is coming soon.
[Cell phone rings]
- Spasiba.
- What's that?
[Engine turns over]
- Stop.
- Is that blood?
- What the hell?
- As-salaam alaikum.
[Tires squealing]
[Gunshots]
- Don't move.
Oksana.
Oksana!
[Gunshot]
- Listen up, everyone.
Here's what we know.
Mykola altan had
a surgically implanted I.E.D.
We believe the surgery
was done by his sister oksana.
Oksana was taken down
by Annie Walker,
but their brother borz altan
remains in the wind.
The altans
somehow had knowledge
of our secret Chicago facility
and our detention protocols
in the wake of the false attempt
on the c.B.O.T.
Everyone in the facility
at the time of detonation
has died.
This is a direct attack
on our agency and its people.
It's an attack on all of us,
and we will not stop
until we bring the people
who did this to justice.
- I made calls
to all the families.
12 different families learning
that a loved one was dead.
I promised them all
we'd get to the bottom of this.
- Any news on borz?
- No.
He's in the wind.
- The altans
did not do this alone.
The inside information,
the planning, the access--
whoever is behind this
knows our playbook.
They knew we would follow down
Khalid ansari
to borz altan
and the c.B.O.T.,
and they knew
we would take mykola here.
They're a step ahead of us.
- They played us.
- I want to stay on this,
calder.
- I know you do,
and we need you.
You said
you wanted a mission,
well, now you've got one.
- I'll give it everything
I got.
[Cell phone rings]
- Arthur,
what's going on?
- Well,
I thought about your offer.
I'm gonna take you up on it.
- Outstanding.
- When do I start?
- I just have to go out of town,
take care of a few things,
but I should be back Monday.
How's that?
- Monday's great.
See you then.
- Okay.
Oh, hey, a question--
when you were d.C.S.,
did you work with an operative
named Annie Walker?
- I know Annie Walker.
Why?
- We'll talk about it Monday.
Thanks for coming on board,
Arthur.
We're gonna kick
some serious ass together.
- Auggie.
- Annie.
Calder talk to you?
- Yeah, he kept me on this.
- That's good.
- I'm sorry about Charlie.
- Yeah, me too.
It's a hell of a thing, huh?
I'm just glad
you weren't in there with him.
- It's eight months
since I've been in the d.P.D.
- It's still your home.
- [Laughs]
- One more thing--
you want to tell me
what happened
the last four months?
- Auggie.
- You said you wanted to go back
to the way things were,
and a lot of that
is based on trust.
So, if there's something
you want to tell me--
not me and the agency,
not me and calder,
just me,
as your handler
and our friend--
no matter what it is,
now's the time.
- There's nothing to say.
You can trust me.
- I do trust you.
- Then let's get to work.
that it's got to stop.
It has to end.
We have to find someplace
more normal, but--
- for people like us,
there is no normal.
So is that it?
Is this the end?
- I guess so.
- You want me as d.C.S.?
What about Joan Campbell?
- She'll have a chance
to properly compete
for the job
when the time comes.
- Is that who I think it is?
- Do you think
it's Khalid ansari,
son of one of the most powerful
oil men in Saudi Arabia?
- Assad believes Khalid
is moving money
through charities
to terror organizations.
Killing you
would be the easiest thing
in the world right now,
but it won't solve anything.
You went after Arthur
and Joan.
You've crossed
every line, Henry.
- When you get back,
there's somebody
who wants to meet you.
- It's a boy.
MacKenzie Campbell.
- I'll see you back in D.C.
- This is interesting, man.
Okay, nobody debates,
right,
that the Italians
invented pizza,
but in the case of the calzone,
you've got the Swedish,
the greeks,
even the Scottish claim it.
- Stop it.
You're making me hungry.
- Well, we can order some--
[Electronic beeping]
Auggie.
[Cell phone ringing]
- Hello?
Thank you.
Annie's back.
- What did she say?
- Voice mail.
Outgoing message
says she wants to meet me alone
on the mall in an hour.
- We reverse-tracked
Annie's entrance
into the Metro system, traced
her as far back as Albany.
Before that, she's a ghost.
What does that suggest to you?
- That she doesn't want us
to know where she's coming from.
- Four months off the grid.
Suddenly she wants to meet.
Why alone?
Why now?
- I don't know, calder.
I imagined a different
sort of homecoming.
- Auggie.
- Annie.
- Thanks for coming alone.
You look good.
- I've taken up judo.
You should check it out.
It's a hoot.
It's good to see you too.
- I know there have got to be
a lot of questions
about where I've been
and what I've been doing,
but I'd like to come back
to work.
- Good.
You should come back to Langley
with me.
We didn't have to do this here,
unless you wanted to hit
the air and space museum first.
- I wanted to talk to you,
to explain myself without prying
agency ears and eyes.
- What did you want to say?
- I'd like you
to be my handler again.
I'd like to go back
to when things were simpler,
before I went dark,
before Henry,
before everything
got so messy.
I've had a lot of time to think
about myself and the agency,
and I realize
that I can't do this job
and have emotional attachments.
I've got to concentrate
solely on the work.
I hope that's okay.
- Annie, you dropped off the map
there for a while.
Time passed.
We're good.
- Really?
- Yeah, really.
Why, did you want to make out
or something?
[Both laugh]
Welcome back, Annie.
- Let's start again
from the beginning.
After Hong Kong,
you went to Turkey,
the datca peninsula.
- Yes.
You had spotters there.
- But you evaded our spotters.
Where did you go?
- To another beach,
fatu hiva, South pacific.
- For the last four months?
- Yes.
And now I'm ready to return
to the agency
I faithfully served
for four years.
- Any other locations?
- No.
- Did you have contact
with any spies...
- What does the machine say?
- Line is steady
on every question.
- That would indicate
she's telling the truth,
but she's not.
- What's she holding back?
- So...
- You passed.
- Not so fast.
What are you not
telling us, Annie?
- You just said
I passed the poly.
- You beat the poly.
The machine doesn't know you
like auggie and I know you.
You want to tell us
what's going on?
- I took out Henry wilcox.
I took four months off,
and now I'm ready
to come back to work.
- Calder.
Line one.
Priority.
- Calder Michaels.
- Auggie.
Can you talk to him?
- I can, but...
- But what?
- But it's a valid question.
We're just trying to look out
for you, Annie.
- Things changed.
A very dangerous friend of yours
was just spotted
in a surveillance camera
in Chicago.
- Who?
- Khalid ansari.
- Khalid ansari's
on American soil?
- Exactly.
This is major.
- Guy like Khalid
is smart, careful.
He's on all the watch lists.
Why would he take that risk?
- He dropped out of sight
in riyadh a few days ago,
but we never thought
he'd reappear on U.S. soil.
Annie, you know this guy.
We need you in Chicago.
We have
an off-book facility there.
You'll meet with the chief.
He'll get you set up.
- I understand.
- Hold up.
Don't think we're finished here.
- Walker.
Welcome.
I'm Charles schinderman.
- Auggie Anderson
spoke very highly of you.
- I hope so.
He was the best man
at my wedding.
Guy gives a hell of a toast.
I'm sorry about the mess.
This is my wife's car.
Mine is in the shop
with a timing-belt issue.
Let's get you to the facility.
- I didn't think Khalid ansari
would risk coming stateside.
- One of the most wanted men
in financing terror
pings inside the loop...
Something big's gonna happen.
My file says that you
were the one
who turned him
against his father.
- I just gave Khalid
some facts.
He killed his father
all on his own.
Where are we at now?
- Right now
we're trying to figure out
how he got in the country,
what alias he may be using,
who he's contacted.
We're canvassing
the Muslim community
trying to figure out
who may be harboring him.
- That's not his style.
Show his picture around
some of the luxury hotels.
The ones who are most discreet
about high-end pros.
He likes white girls,
probably used a Western name.
- So here we are,
home sweet off-book home.
You can drop your gear here
and make yourself comfortable.
Scratch that.
We've located Khalid.
He's at the bradham hotel.
Nice instincts, Walker.
What are we looking at?
- Bell captain
says he checked into room 8273
about an hour ago.
- All right,
let's keep it low profile.
Four guys inside the hotel.
No guns unless we have to.
You're with us.
You two seal off the exits.
[Elevator bell dings]
- Jacob.
[Muffled scream]
- Khalid.
Stop.
- Annie Walker of the c.I.A.
Of course it's you.
I'm such a fool.
- Put the gun down.
I can protect you.
- You can protect me?
Then tell them
to put their guns down!
Tell them!
- Put your guns down.
Put 'em down.
You know me well enough to know
that what I say is true.
There's a way out of this.
You put the gun down.
You tell me
what you're doing in Chicago,
and we will walk out
of here together.
- You don't know?
[Laughs]
Then I'm an even bigger fool.
- Know what, Khalid?
- You think
you're in control.
If these people
could do this to me,
what chance
do you think you have?
- What people, Khalid?
- [Laughing]
- Khalid.
- They've given me no choice.
- Go.
[Gunshot, glass breaking]
And Khalid's possessions.
I'll order up your charter back
to D.C. for you.
- You made a mistake
back there.
- What?
Saving your life?
- I knew Khalid ansari,
and I knew
he wasn't gonna shoot me.
Besides, he never would have
got a shot off before me anyway,
and now we have nothing.
- I don't know you,
but I wasn't
about to let you die.
- You're right.
You don't know me.
I don't quit.
Now, let's go back
to the facility
and figure this out.
- Auggie.
- Joan.
I thought your maternity leave
ends next week.
- Yes, but Annie happened
this week,
and now Khalid 25 minutes ago.
- She's doing all right.
She's a different
operative now.
- She was in and out of here
so fast, I didn't even seen her.
- Yeah, her and Charlie
are drilling down
on Khalid's purpose
in Chicago.
- Good.
Keep me posted.
I'm meeting with the d.C.I.
Right now.
- Well, give them crap
for only spending five minutes
at the agency Christmas party,
would you?
- I most certainly will not.
Auggie?
- Yeah?
- What do you think
Annie was up to
for the last few months?
- She's being pretty vague.
She says she was at the beach
the whole time.
- And you believe her?
- No.
- And what about you two?
- Keeping things balkanized.
Operative and handler,
just like old times.
- Interesting analogy.
I worked in the Balkans.
It was complicated.
- Well, this isn't gonna be.
- Okay.
Wish me luck.
- Good luck.
- We found $800,000
in U.S. bills
stuffed into the lining
of Khalid's suitcase.
Saudi spy service,
they don't stand on ceremony,
so we had them
raid Khalid's condo in riyadh.
Contents of a safe there
led us to one local contact.
Borz altan,
crimean-American,
Muslim,
trips to chechnya.
Intriguing.
- In borz's younger days,
he did U.S. military service,
made it to sergeant,
but his career stagnated
due to chronic migraines.
- After his service,
he worked for mcquaid security
for a short while?
He flamed out fast.
- Tough culture,
those p.M.C.S,
worse than the military.
- Get me what you can
from mcquaid security.
- Tight-knit family.
Lives with
his younger brother mykola,
26, religious,
travels to Yemen,
which is never great,
couple of felonies
for theft.
- Anything else
I should know?
- There's a sister, oksana,
lives with them as well.
Anything else you should know,
meaning?
- I'm gonna move
on borz immediately.
- It's not the best conditions
for an approach.
We don't know his role here
or how he's connected to Khalid.
- These are the cards
we've been dealt,
so I'm going to play
this hand.
- Well, now I get it.
- What?
- Why auggie was so into you.
- Calder.
- Hey, Joan.
- I thought
I was meeting with the d.C.I.
- I did too.
[Door opens]
- Calder.
Joan.
- Joe.
Where's the d.C.I.?
- Got pulled into a meeting.
- This is a meeting.
- I'm his deputy.
I speak for him in his absence.
- Okay.
What does he have to say?
- He's decided to keep you,
calder,
in your current post
as d.C.S.,
and to put you, Joan,
back as head of the d.P.D.
- I understand the seriousness
of the Chicago situation,
but I thought there'd be
a proper vetting process.
- So did I.
Specifically told
the general counsel.
- His decision
wasn't based on Chicago.
- And the d.C.I.
Couldn't come down here
and tell us himself?
- And it is final.
- I'll report to the d.P.D.
On Monday.
- Calder, a word.
- Okay.
Look, Joe,
I really wish you guys
would have given me a heads-up
on this.
- Look, you've been
a really great acting d.C.S.,
but you're not official yet.
D.C.I. Says
you're to remain interim
until your affairs in order,
and then we'll take you overt.
- What does that mean?
- It means
get your sh-- together.
- Joan.
Joan.
I'm sorry.
I'm just as surprised as you.
This is not how I wanted it
to go down.
- Well, it went down.
- Yeah.
Make no mistake.
I wanted this job,
but I was not gonna go
around anybody's back
to get it,
especially not yours.
- I don't think
you went around my back.
I think you took advantage
of a situation.
- No.
None of the above.
You may not want to hear this,
but Arthur
didn't do you any favors.
For all the good he did,
people in this building
were talking about him
a lot last year.
The smartest place
is in the shadows.
- Yes?
- I'm looking for borz altan.
I'm from veterans affairs.
- Borz.
- Borz altan?
I'm from the v.A.
I called before?
I may have some good news
about your benefits.
May I come in?
- Yeah, sure.
Come on in.
- Is that your girlfriend?
- Sister.
- Oh, is she a nurse?
- She's actually a doctor.
She got her degree in Kiev.
Here she does nursing.
So you said
you have good news?
- Yeah, there have been
some changes made to title 38,
and you may be due more money
for your migraines.
- First time the army has ever
wanted to give me anything.
- What can I say?
Progress.
We just need to fill out
your profile.
Your name is borz altan,
and you're originally
from sevastopol?
- That's right, yeah.
- And you live here
with your siblings,
your brother mykola?
- And my sister oksana.
- Right.
Do you happen to have
your old army I.D.?
I need to verify it
for these forms.
- Yeah.
Let me get it.
Here you go.
- Thanks.
- Is there anything else?
- No, I'll leave you
with these forms to fill out,
and I can pick them up later.
Thank you very much.
- It was a pleasure to meet you.
- Charlie,
they had ceremonial plates
and a special occasion
prayer rug
suggesting salat Al-ghaib.
They're mourning a martyr
before the attack.
Something
is gonna happen today.
[Heartbeat pounding]
[Breathing heavily]
[Gasping]
[Panting]
[Breathing deeply]
[Phone line ringing]
- Doctor's office.
- Yes, this is Lisa Morton.
Could I speak with Dr. Cohen,
please?
Yes, could you tell him
that I just had an episode,
and can he call me back?
Thank you.
And pull them in.
If they're operational,
we can't risk
having them out there.
- We've got a secure a.P.B.
Out on the wire.
Next step is to raise
the threat level,
but I think
we should hold a beat
until we have more info.
- What about the file
we asked for
from mcquaid security?
Is there anything in there
that can help us track borz?
- To call it a file
is generous.
- I need to speak to him.
- Get his liaison on the phone.
- No, I want to speak
to mcquaid himself.
If his c.I.A. Contracts
mean anything,
he'll get on the phone.
- Hey.
Hi.
No nap?
- Oh, we were having
too much fun.
How did it go
with the d.C.I.?
He gave the d.C.S. Job
to calder.
I can end around the g.C.O.,
why go down without a fight?
- No.
You know what?
If I make a play
for the job so soon,
it'll seem like sour grapes.
I can't risk
taking another step back.
- So what do you think
happened?
No need to dance
around it.
They're trying to hurt you
because of me,
but I stand behind everything
I did.
I hope you can see that.
- Of course I do,
and others will in time.
[Baby cries]
- Got him.
- Thank you.
Hello, Mr. mcquaid?
I need to ask you
a few questions
about borz altan.
- This isn't a great connection.
Can we talk in person?
- I don't have time to come back
to D.C. and talk in person.
- Where are you?
- Chicago.
- Even better,
I can come to you.
I'm already in the air,
and I was headed from Dallas,
but I can divert.
I'll be there in an hour.
Walker?
- That's right.
- I did some recon on you
while I was in flight.
- And?
- Well,
based on what I found out,
I was expecting you
to be a little more dead.
- Well, I'm here,
and I don't have much time.
I have a few questions
to ask you about--
- borz altan?
He did security work for me
for four months
in eastern Europe.
- That's kind of vague.
I think you can do better.
- Do you?
- Did he have any
specialized training?
I mean, what exactly did
he do for you?
- You are aware that I have
confidentiality agreements
with the agencies
that I contract with.
- Uh-huh. So translation,
you do know more,
you just don't want to tell me
'cause you might lose money.
- Why do you want to know
all this anyway?
- It's a matter
of national security.
- So I assume it has to do
with the death of Khalid ansari.
That's right,
I know about him,
because I'm cleared to know
about him.
- You know, an article I read
about you in Forbes
says that you interview
every one
of your employees personally,
that they're like a family
to you.
Is that true or bullsh--?
- That is true.
- So what do you remember
about borz altan?
- I only met him once.
We talked about cars.
He loves mustangs
and so do I.
That's about all.
It was a brief chat.
Does that help?
- It may, it may not.
Anything else?
- I'm sorry.
That was all.
- Okay, then,
I think we're done.
- I like it.
- What?
- You're awfully direct.
- It's a function of the job.
- No, it's not.
Most spies I know
are lying sons of bitches.
- Well, I'm not most spies.
- And I would love to talk
about that more.
Give me a call so we can chat
about some,
you know,
other opportunities.
Here's my card.
- What was it about
the conversation we just had
that made you think
I would want to work for you?
- None of it.
I'm asking you out to dinner.
- Ay!
- Okay, folks,
that's it.
I get in trouble when you people
don't get your asses back
to your desk
by the end of lunch.
Great session.
Auggie.
- Hey.
- Great work today.
- Thanks, marlo.
- Listen, if you wanted
to go over some more moves,
I could stay late.
- Auggie,
urgent call for you.
- Rain check.
- Sure.
- Thanks.
Hello?
- It's me.
Can you check on a mustang
owned by the altans?
- Got it.
Hey, is Charlie still playing
with that coin of his?
- Yeah.
- Make fun of him for me,
would you?
- Got it.
Call me back.
- [Moaning]
Hey.
Are you going
to that Pearson awards thing?
- No.
Why?
- I was going.
I didn't know
if I'd run into you there.
- No, I'm not going.
Oh, I, um...
I meant to give you this
earlier.
It's a scrambled cell phone,
state of the art.
I need you to use this
to communicate with me
from now on.
- I'm discrete, calder.
You can trust me.
- Baby, I know,
but I need you to do
this for me, okay?
So it'll help me be discrete.
- All right.
Whatever you need.
- Whatever?
- Whatever.
- Sorry to keep you waiting.
I just landed.
What do you think?
- I always knew
you had potential.
- Oh, but you still gave me
a "c"
in Latin American
political systems.
- Well, it looks like
the student
has surpassed
the teacher.
- Thank you, Arthur.
- So why the call
from the plane?
Why am I here?
Why so urgent?
- Oh, you were always
very helpful to me
when I was at Annapolis,
and I thought maybe
I could pay a little back
with some unsolicited advice.
- Oh,
this ought to be interesting.
- I heard about Joan
being passed over for d.C.S.
- That was fast.
- The d.C.I.
Made the wrong move.
You and Joan have given
your lives to the agency,
and this is how
you're treated.
I mean, you on the outside,
and Joan hitting
the glass ceiling.
- Neither of us is looking at it
that way.
- I want you to come work
with me.
- Become a green badge?
- I know that you've
been getting a lot of offers,
Alexandria associates,
p.F.W., syncon,
but over here
at mcquaid security,
we do things
a little differently,
and it's not just because
I pay the most, which I do.
- Yeah, it's not just
about the money for me.
- Don't be afraid
of money, Arthur.
It can pay
for almost anything.
I mean, you have a new kid,
you've given a lot of good years
to the agency.
You deserve to have
the opportunity
to provide
for little mack.
- I haven't been
under a rock, Ryan.
Your company grew exponentially
in the early years easy,
but now you want to get
to the next level,
and you're gonna need
deeper connections,
greater access,
and a guy with my experience
and my rolodex
gives you a lot of options.
- All right.
I need you Arthur.
There, I said it.
You and I could do a lot
of special things together
and have a sh--load of fun
doing it.
- I'll think about it.
- You think about it,
then you give me a call
when you realize
that you really can have it all.
- I found your mustang.
Looks like
it's been abandoned.
- I'm going to check it out.
- It's not hear any landmarks,
so I doubt it's a bomb,
but approach with caution.
[Latch clicking]
- And the body?
- Name's Eduardo Cruz,
lives in evanston.
- Why would the altans
go after him?
- He works the floor
at the Chicago board of trade.
- That's the target.
- I'll scramble
our tac team now.
- I'll meet you there.
- We have a real
and credible threat
on the Chicago board of trade.
We already have a workup
on this scenario,
as it was one
of the likely hard targets
in the domestic threat matrix.
- Do we clear the building?
- If we clear the building
and suspend trading,
we could create a panic,
or we might trigger
the bombings early.
- Just like
in the beirut bombing last year
or the Lagos embassy bombing
of '07.
- But if we
let business proceed,
we may be abetting the attack.
We risk hundreds of deaths
that could be avoided.
- Our rapid response team
with operative Walker on point
is moments way.
Operative Walker has suggested
we proceed
with a discreet sweep
and allow the trading floor
to remain open.
I strongly support this action.
- Keep trading open.
Have the Chicago team
sweep the building
quickly and quietly.
Let's go.
- Thanks for backing my call.
- You got a raw deal, Joan,
but it's good to have you back
in the d.P.D.
- What's the word?
- I just talked
to the head of security.
No one has come in yet
with Eduardo Cruz's I.D. Card.
Trading is in full swing.
It's prime opportunity
for an attack.
- Let's I.D. And take down.
This is mykola altan.
He most resembles
the dead trader
we found in the car.
- Here you go.
You can now trade
pork bellies.
- Let's do this quickly.
- The trading floor
is on the mezzanine.
We can't let him get up there.
You two take the back exit.
I'm gonna take the stairs.
Stay in position.
I'll check the floor.
- Okay.
- Sorry.
- I've got him.
He's walking up the stairs
towards my position.
Approach with caution.
Go on my orders.
Now!
Get the vest off.
Keep his fingers open.
- He's clean.
No vest.
- What's going on?
- We've got to go.
Let's get him to the facility.
Tell us what the plan was,
mykola.
What were you and your brother
doing with Khalid ansari?
Talk to me.
Talk to me.
You can save yourself.
- Charlie.
I think I just saw oksana altan
outside the building.
- The sister?
- Yeah.
- Go check it out.
We're moving him.
- Okay.
Clear the detention room.
H.I.G. Is coming soon.
[Cell phone rings]
- Spasiba.
- What's that?
[Engine turns over]
- Stop.
- Is that blood?
- What the hell?
- As-salaam alaikum.
[Tires squealing]
[Gunshots]
- Don't move.
Oksana.
Oksana!
[Gunshot]
- Listen up, everyone.
Here's what we know.
Mykola altan had
a surgically implanted I.E.D.
We believe the surgery
was done by his sister oksana.
Oksana was taken down
by Annie Walker,
but their brother borz altan
remains in the wind.
The altans
somehow had knowledge
of our secret Chicago facility
and our detention protocols
in the wake of the false attempt
on the c.B.O.T.
Everyone in the facility
at the time of detonation
has died.
This is a direct attack
on our agency and its people.
It's an attack on all of us,
and we will not stop
until we bring the people
who did this to justice.
- I made calls
to all the families.
12 different families learning
that a loved one was dead.
I promised them all
we'd get to the bottom of this.
- Any news on borz?
- No.
He's in the wind.
- The altans
did not do this alone.
The inside information,
the planning, the access--
whoever is behind this
knows our playbook.
They knew we would follow down
Khalid ansari
to borz altan
and the c.B.O.T.,
and they knew
we would take mykola here.
They're a step ahead of us.
- They played us.
- I want to stay on this,
calder.
- I know you do,
and we need you.
You said
you wanted a mission,
well, now you've got one.
- I'll give it everything
I got.
[Cell phone rings]
- Arthur,
what's going on?
- Well,
I thought about your offer.
I'm gonna take you up on it.
- Outstanding.
- When do I start?
- I just have to go out of town,
take care of a few things,
but I should be back Monday.
How's that?
- Monday's great.
See you then.
- Okay.
Oh, hey, a question--
when you were d.C.S.,
did you work with an operative
named Annie Walker?
- I know Annie Walker.
Why?
- We'll talk about it Monday.
Thanks for coming on board,
Arthur.
We're gonna kick
some serious ass together.
- Auggie.
- Annie.
Calder talk to you?
- Yeah, he kept me on this.
- That's good.
- I'm sorry about Charlie.
- Yeah, me too.
It's a hell of a thing, huh?
I'm just glad
you weren't in there with him.
- It's eight months
since I've been in the d.P.D.
- It's still your home.
- [Laughs]
- One more thing--
you want to tell me
what happened
the last four months?
- Auggie.
- You said you wanted to go back
to the way things were,
and a lot of that
is based on trust.
So, if there's something
you want to tell me--
not me and the agency,
not me and calder,
just me,
as your handler
and our friend--
no matter what it is,
now's the time.
- There's nothing to say.
You can trust me.
- I do trust you.
- Then let's get to work.