Criminal Minds (2005–…): Season 2, Episode 10 - Lessons Learned - full transcript

A DEA raid in Virginia accidentally finds an Al Qaeda-type chemical bomb, presumably the work of Jind Allah and his Omega cell. Hotch convinces Jason, due to her training and Middle Eastern experience, including speaking fluent Arabic, to take newcomer Emily Prentiss along for the interrogation in Gitmo (Guantanamo base, on Cuba). Gideon uses no further torture but Muslim-friendly reasoning, even invoking the Quran. Info gleaned causes a DEA SWAT team find anthrax but lose a man at a second site. The team learns the prisoner's true identity is Egyptian: imam Jamal Abaza, who turned jihadist after his son Amir's death, and set up a US MIS cell recruiting home-grown 'second choice' terrorists, who plan a bombing soon; Gideon tricks him.

Go, go, go, go!

- Clear!
- Clear!

We're clear in here.

Surveillance had them all going inside
45 minutes ago.

Did anyone bail out on the perimeter?

No, ma'am. All secure out here.

Boss, this isn't a meth lab.

So why an escape tunnel?

You need to take a look at this.

Hotchner.

When?



Did they raise the terror alert?

Yeah. No, then that's probably best.

All right, quick, get everybody in now.
I'll be there in a minute.

What's going on?

Nothing. I just have to go to the office.

It's 6:15,
and you're talking about a terror alert?

- It's bad, isn't it?
- I don't know yet.

Please don't lie to me.

It might be.

I may not be home tonight.
I mean, I might be home late.

- I know.
- Shoot.

I forgot. Tomorrow is the day

we scheduled to take Jack
to have his pictures taken.

Don't worry about it. I'll reschedule.



No, no, no. Go ahead and take him.

And I'll do my best to be there, okay?

Just come back safely.

I will.

Bye.

Everybody meet Agent Prentiss?

The other day.
I've been filling her in on protocol.

- Derek Morgan.
- Emily Prentiss.

We can make nice later. What do we know?

The DEA raided what they thought
was a hardened meth lab

right here in Northern Virginia.

But they found this instead.

That could be a dispersal device for
a chemical weapon. It's sophisticated.

Homeland Security is thinking Al-Qaeda.

They've developed devices that span
the spectrum of sophistication.

Some as simple as soda bottles
and paint cans.

They're called "Al Ikh'te'rAA."
Literally, "The invention."

That they are.

Do we know what the biological
or chemical agent is, yet?

No, not yet.

The cell members bailed out
through a tunnel.

The DEA recovered a Nextel two-way
and managed to intercept a message.

- That's not the transcript. It's...
- No, it's in Arabic.

"Our friends surprised us and eloped.

"We can no longer wait for the wedding
as planned.

"We can deliver our gift
at the next crescent."

I lived in several Middle Eastern
countries growing up.

Next crescent?

Muslims sometimes use a lunar calendar.

- I'd have to look it up to know when...
- Next crescent moon is in two days.

Whatever they're attacking,
it's happening in less than 48 hours.

That sounds like it, sir.

Payment for the Nextel
is linked to this man,

- Jind Allah.
- Literally, "Soldier of God."

That's pretty poor operational security
for a sophisticated plot.

Two months ago,

Jind Allah was captured leaving the US
using a forged Pakistani passport

via Richmond International Airport.

He's been held as a ghost detainee
in Guantanamo Bay ever since.

So, technically he doesn't exist.

"Soldier of God" isn't a name.

No, it's most likely a name taken on
for the jihad, meaning "struggle."

Extremists claim it's a holy war.

Yet the words "holy" and "war"
never appear together in the Qur'an.

Do we know his real name?

CIA interrogators
have gotten nothing out of the guy.

And they need us to break him?

We do know from past intercepts
that he is a recruiter.

He came into this country
to assemble the Omega Cell.

A sleeper cell with an unknown mission.

We have 48 hours

to do what the CIA hasn't been
able to manage in two months?

We could be looking at the first
attack on our soil since 9/11.

- Hey.
- Car here?

- I told Reid five minutes.
- I think you should take Prentiss.

- Excuse me?
- She could be of help.

I don't know enough about her.
There's plenty for her to do here.

I don't know what
she's capable of, either,

- but we gotta find out sooner or later.
- It's an interrogation,

- not a training exercise.
- She's the only member fluent in Arabic.

- There are other translators.
- They haven't studied behavior.

- Does she even have a ready-bag?
- My guess is

there isn't much
this woman's unprepared for.

Car leaves in four minutes.

Yes, sir.

Dale Turner mused,

"Some of the best lessons
are learned from past mistakes.

"The error of the past
is the wisdom of the future."

Excuse me, sir?

I just wanted to let you know
how much I appreciate...

Do not thank me.

- Sir?
- It's not a favor.

- Of course, I know that. I...
- You're coming to do a job.

Do you think the interrogation
of Jind Allah will work in time?

Interrogation's the most dynamic
form of profiling.

That's not an answer.

Sir.

He's been locked away in Gitmo.

He doesn't know
we raided the cell's safe house.

That's an advantage for us.

The main thing
is to get him talking about anything.

Then his language
and body movements will betray him.

It's like this. You just focus
on how your opponent holds his piece,

how quickly and firmly he places it,
and then you watch his face and body.

I'll telegraph a player's strategy,
his training.

Even his motivations.

Is that what you need us to do?

No, I need you to listen.

You're fluent in Arabic.

I won't know the nuances like you.

Every word, every phrase.

Be on the lookout for subtext,

ulterior meanings.

What do you want me to do?

I want you to watch for tells.

Non-verbals, micro expressions.

Watch him
when he's comfortable and relaxed.

Then note the behavioral changes
when he's under stress.

If we can establish a baseline,
we'll be able to read him

once I challenge his belief systems.

Before I can get him to give up
where or how they'll attack,

I'll first have to cause him
to reveal something of himself.

- Game over.
- What are you talking about?

Gitmo's runway is perpendicular
to Cuban airspace.

So approaching aircraft

have to negotiate a last-minute
90-degree right turn

in order to land.

They call it "The Gitmo Twist."

I was winning.

Actually, he would have had you in three.

- Bonnie Ryan.
- Aaron Hotchner.

Hi. DEA Team Leader on this raid.

Derek Morgan.
This must have slowed you down some, huh?

Well, enough for them to get out
through the tunnel.

They must have done escape drills.

- Hey, Morgan.
- Hey, Kenny. Been a minute, man?

Yeah, it has.

- We good in here?
- Yeah, don't worry about it.

Everything's been rendered safe, so...

Wow, these guys weren't messing around.

Hotch, these tubes surround
what would be the explosive charge.

And this cylinder right here,
that's gotta be

where they put whatever bio
or chem agent they plan on dispersing.

That's a happy thought.

Yeah, tell me about it.

Looks like a four-man cell.

They assimilated
into the community.

Just like any other suburban gangsta
wannabes rolling at the mall.

Who do you think we're dealing with?

Most likely, Middle Eastern males
in their early 20s.

Judging by that device out there,
they're looking at significant targets.

Military installations,
government buildings.

You must be the BAU boys.

And gal. Pardon me.

- I'm Jason Gideon.
- Andy Bingaman, FBI.

- Oh, yeah, Agent Prentiss, Dr. Reid.
- Hi.

I'm the Intelligence Supervisor
here at Gitmo.

CIA's having a hard time
getting Jind Allah to talk?

Not only can't they get him to budge,
but two weeks ago

word got out that one of the other
detainees was spilling secrets.

Jind Allah managed to have a conversation
with him in the shower line.

That night, the other detainee
committed suicide.

He's reciting the Qur'an from memory.
He's most likely a hafiz.

He must've done that a dozen times
since he's come to this facility.

Some Muslim children
are able to do it since age 12.

Two months of interrogation,

and that's all the CIA
has been able to get out of him.

There are cuts and bruises
under his right eye socket.

What kind of tactics
are they using?

I control the access
to the detainees,

but my protest about their methods
has been ignored.

Let the interrogation proceed normally.

I'm gonna interrupt
and demand they stop harassing him.

- Maybe I should tell them in advance.
- No, it's better if they don't expect it.

Their reaction will be
more visceral, more believable.

Go ahead with phase two as planned.

Copy that.

You're really gonna
put a show on for these guys?

No, not for them.

For Jind Allah.

He needs to see me as a complete contrast

to what he's come to expect
from his captors.

It's the best way
to jump-start him into talking.

We have less than 36 hours.

Have at it.

You two ready?

- Yeah. This way.
- Thank you.

Do you understand every day...

Who the hell are you?

Supervisory Special Agent Jason Gideon,

I'm an FBI Behavioral Analyst.

It's time to show this man some respect.

You've got to be kidding me.

You have orders
from Agent Bingaman to leave,

so I can speak with this detainee alone.

I'm sorry for the treatment
you've suffered.

If you don't mind,
I'd like to spend some time with you.

He stopped his recitation.

He's sizing Gideon up.

If I don't mind?

I'd like to get to know you as a person.

Your faith, your ideology.

To what end?

Studying human behavior is what I do.

You know, if these guys
are fundamentalists,

you'd think they'd have Qur'ans,
prayer mats.

No, we didn't find any of that here.

They must have
at least one other location.

Ryan.

- Hotch.
- What is it?

- It looks like a list of chemicals.
- Let me check with Garcia.

- Go, doll.
- Hey.

I'm gonna read off a list to you.

These are chemicals.

I'd like to believe

with greater understanding, one day

we can come to a peaceful resolution
of our differences.

Is that so?

Look, I don't know what you've done
or what you may have planned to do.

But unlike the other detainees here,

you have the education, intelligence,

to convey the nuances of your culture.

That's what interests me.

Until I don't give you what you want.

Then you will resort to other tactics.

I swore an oath to uphold
the United States Constitution.

No matter where I am,
no matter who I deal with.

You're sure?

All right.

- What'd she say?
- Garcia says

this looks like a list of additives
needed to weaponize anthrax.

Could they get enough anthrax?

The letter sent to Senator
Tom Daschle's office in 2002

only contained two grams
of purified spores.

Enough to kill 25 million people
if effectively distributed.

Oh.

Are you willing
to have a chat with me?

Gayed Giden. Let's chat.

He's from Egypt. Cairo.

- You sure?
- No.

He could be Yemeni,
but odds are he's Egyptian.

What type of name is Gideon?

American.

I often forget that in your culture
you put your country first

and your God last.

Sir? He was born and raised in Egypt.

They pronounce "J" sounds as a "G."

You don't consider yourself Egyptian
as well as Muslim?

Hmm, Egyptian?

In two minutes,

you know more about me than those thugs
found out in two months.

They and I have very,
very different motives and methodologies.

And yet, your country relies on them
to protect you

from us.

Sometimes they're their own worst enemy.

And who is your worst enemy, Agent Gideon?

It's not a "who." It's a "what."

Ignorance.

- You're a very honest man.
- And you?

You must have become a hafiz
by what, age 10?

Nine.

Any person with the discipline
and dedication

to memorize the entire Qur'an by age nine

must have a very serious reason
to choose a life of violence.

Perhaps.

We are through already?

No, not at all.

The sun is about to set.

Mecca's in that direction.

I'll have a prayer rug
and a water bowl sent in.

What the heck is going on here?

The NSA is routing all messages to us
for language analysis.

You know, rumor has it,
much to my chagrin,

that during national security emergencies

our fair country
turns all of its satellites homeward

and records all electronic traffic
in the whole US of A.

Is this even legal?

Yeah, I don't really wanna
think about that right now.

- Yeah.
- Somewhere in this slough of chatter

could be a shred of something
that could save a whole lot of lives.

All right, well, cross-reference "gift"
with "wedding" allusions.

They'll be consistent with their code.

Here's something.

"It rained all over the wedding.
The gift is waiting in the barn."

- When was that call made?
- Looks like just over two hours ago.

Let's run the words "barn"
and "wedding" through.

"The wedding will now be held
at Vincent's barn,

- "off Lincoln, Annandale."
- "Wrap the gift for delivery."

- That's not a gift I'd wanna get.
- Yeah, I'll call Hotch.

Yeah, JJ?

We think we just found
the cell's backup location.

It looks like a construction site
in Annandale, Virginia.

It sounds like they may have
another device ready to arm.

I'll get Agent Ryan
to organize another raid.

- And notify Gideon and Reid.
- Okay.

Can I offer you some water?

I offer you some first.

They only kept it there
to show me what I could not have.

- I'd like you to explain something to me.
- Hmm.

How can you ignore the fact

that Muhammad preached passivity
while he was in Mecca?

"Do no violence."

His later message from Medina
was perfectly clear.

"When violence come upon you,

"you must fight back with violence."

He's quoting from a Hadith,
not from the Qur'an.

Extremists call it
the "Verse of the Sword."

They argue it cancels out
earlier teachings.

"Verse of the Sword."

It's just someone's spin
on the words of the Prophet.

It's not even part of the Qur'an.

But it does say in the Qur'an,

"Fight and slay the infidels
wherever you find them,

"and seize them
in every stratagem of war."

"Unless they repent,

"establish regular prayers,

"and practice regular charity."

Is it your intention, Mr. Gideon,

to become a man of faith
and revert to Islam?

I am a man of faith.

I have repented, I pray regularly,

and I practice charity.

I have never committed violence
against you.

So how is it

that my faith would allow you
to live and worship as you please,

and yours would take my life
and snuff it out?

You are simply
misguided people of the book.

But, if you revert to Islam you...

A billion Muslims.

One billion Muslims

manage to practice their faith in peace.

"For Allah is surely merciful."

Hmm.

You

inquired about my childhood earlier.

I will tell you

that it was a happy one.

Until,

one day,

a bomb fell out of the sky

and leveled the bazaar that I was in

with my family.

I was only eight.

Must have been horrifying
for such a young boy.

- He's opening up about himself.
- Maybe.

We need to verify
what he's saying, though.

Speak.

Garcia, I need you
to check something for me.

I'm looking for a stray bombing
in a bazaar, somewhere in Egypt,

approximately 30 years ago.

Okay, that's not too obscure.

I don't need you to get any details.

We're just trying to set a baseline
for Jind Allah's truthfulness.

- I just need to know it happened at all.
- When I know, you'll know.

- Thank you.
- And when the rubble was cleared,

half

of my family was dead.

It was on that day

that I swore my life
to vengeance for Allah.

And for that very reason,

those holding you here
can never let you leave.

Your only hope is to tell me,

so I can, hopefully, one day,
share your struggle with the world.

Your government
won't even admit that I exist.

How possibly

can you tell my side of the story?

Hey, guys.
We're going silent tonight, no coms.

Let's be careful.
We don't know what to expect.

- Ready?
- Ready. Let's do it.

- Clear!
- Clear!

This place is completely empty.
We missed them again.

You've got Gideon, Prentiss, and me.

It's Hotch. We're at cell location
number two. No cell members.

No lab, no dispersal devices.

- We're still looking for escape tunnels.
- Call us.

We're running out of time.

The attack's supposed to take place
in less than 24 hours.

So getting Jind Allah to talk
is our only chance.

Time I confronted him with the truth.

- What are you gonna do?
- Show him my hand.

I'm going to give you the respect
of telling you what just happened.

A team of agents
raided an Omega Cell location.

Actually, both of them.

Our men are in place in Annandale
as we speak.

You gain nothing by remaining silent.

Jihad is forever.

Something's wrong. His hands.

Gideon, something's wrong.

This guy seems relieved
by what you just told him.

Excuse me.

- Is that Hotch?
- What's the problem?

Get everybody out of there, now. Now! Now!

Everybody out! It's a trap. Now!

I said, "Out!" Go!

Hurry up!

How would a terrorist cell
get its hands on anthrax

without a single lab
reporting a security breach?

Would we know
if a foreign lab had a breach?

A foreign lab?

Actually, no.

Garcia, isn't Annandale
where Morgan and Hotch are?

That's not a gas main explosion.

Please pick up.

Please pick up, please pick up!

Yeah, it's Morgan. Hello?

- Garcia, can you hear me?
- We saw the explosion on TV.

Yeah, I know. We lost a SWAT agent.

Oh, God.

Don't worry. Don't think
you're gonna get rid of me that easy.

Do you need anything?

I know who to call if I do.
Thanks, baby girl.

Okay.

Are they all right?

Yeah.

We lost a SWAT agent.

Oh, God.

Son of a bitch.

Sorry about Kenny.

Yeah, me too.

The chatter was a set up.
They knew we'd be listening.

They led us straight here.

Just tell me you know where to look next.

Not yet.

Are they okay?

We were right about the trap.
It was rigged to explode.

A SWAT agent was killed.

- Was anthrax involved?
- No.

Then that's not the final target.

You look troubled, my friend.

You killed one of my men.

I was here with you.

The second location was a trap.

One of my agents
was killed in the explosion.

This is war.

We expect casualties.

Shouldn't you?

He was a good man.

Well, if he would convert,

there would be no reason
for him to fear death.

What do you say to his family?

I say,

"Where

"were you to mourn

"when my son was murdered?"

- His son?
- Did you see that?

When he told the story
about his childhood,

the bomb landing in the bazaar,
his behavior changed.

We know he was lying,

Garcia couldn't find
any record of a bombing

- during the time Jind Allah was a boy.
- Exactly. But this time,

when he mentioned his son,
he looked at his hands,

like he had to concentrate
to control his anger.

That first story wasn't about him.

It was about his son.

Which means it must have been more recent.

Garcia.

I need you to look
for a bombing again in Egypt,

- this time, anything in the last 10 years.
- On it.

We're looking for civilian casualties.
An eight-year-old boy.

Okay, I'm cross-referencing
"bombings" and "child victims."

Huh. Seven years ago in the heart
of Cairo, Egyptian government

blamed Hezbollah,
but conspiracy theories on the street

claimed it was a joint US-Israeli strike
that went astray.

Your ghost detainee's name is Jamal Abaza.

How about his son's name?
Do you have that?

Amir Abaza, eight, killed in the blast.

Find out everything you can on that.

- I'll get back to you soon.
- Yeah.

We know his real identity.

It appears that there will be no
"peaceful" resolution to our difficulties

after all.

I haven't given up that hope.

It's time for your Salat-u-Isha prayers.

May we speak again tomorrow?

You are asking me?

Yes.

Tomorrow, then.

Jamal Abaza's
been in the US for a while.

He volunteered as the prison Imam
at the Deerfield Correctional Center,

- three years ago.
- How could the CIA not know that?

They're focused overseas. We're domestic.

They probably sent a request
for a domestic information search

- and it's making it's way through.
- If he was a prison Imam,

he must have recruited
Militant Islamic Society members.

MIS is an atypical prison organization.

They pick up an amalgam of ethnicities.

The Qur'an says,

that my Lord has full...

Those that slip through the cracks,

the ones
that traditional groups won't accept.

You need to understand that...

It's made up largely of American citizens.

American citizens with a reason
for hating the government.

We're looking at homegrown terrorists.

- What the hell do you want?
- The name Jamal Abaza.

- Does it mean anything to you?
- Abaza was an Imam in Cairo.

He preached jihad to his followers.
But he fell off the grid seven years ago.

That's because when his son died,
he took the jihad name Jind Allah.

He came to America
to recruit sleeper cells.

That that detainee
in there is Jamal Abaza?

Amazing what you learn
when you talk to people.

He was also a prison Imam
in Virginia, three years ago.

Are you familiar with
the Militant Islamic Society?

They're homegrown?

We know the cell has access to anthrax,

but we can't find any reports
of any going missing in the States.

We have protocols that we have to follow.

Are you really gonna allow a terrorist
attack on US soil because of protocols?

I told you what I learned in there
because you and I, FBI, CIA,

right now, we have the ability

to break through all the protocol
and share information.

Let me see what we have.

Coordinate with Agent Jareau
and Penelope Garcia at Quantico.

Please.

- You think it'll work?
- I don't know.

CIA's tough.
They play it pretty close to the vest.

Yeah, well, if we don't all work together,
more people are gonna die.

A lot more.

- How goes it with the CIA?
- I don't know what Gideon said to them,

but they are feeding me information
like crazy.

- They sure do generate intelligence.
- Hopefully, not too much to interpret.

Slept well?

For the first time since I've been here.

Good.

Until yesterday,

I was not permitted regular prayer.

We receive comfort from our prayers.

- We?
- Human beings.

I say something wrong?

You placed us on the same level.

- Aren't we?
- Well, here

I am thought of as less than human.

And in your jihad, I am.

Gideon,

what do you really want from me?

I already told you.

I wanna understand you.

And if that is not possible?

Then that would be my loss.

It's almost time for your midday
prayers. May I return later?

- I look forward to it.
- Thank you.

Most of these tips are so new,
they haven't even been authenticated yet.

Yeah, but there's nothing
in the established information

that's remotely helpful.

Wait a minute... Anthrax.

- What?
- Genimmune.

A Dutch biotech firm reported

that they may have had a security
breach involving anthrax last week.

What, "may have"?

They're still doing a security
and inventory sweep,

but they may be missing
up to 20 grams of lab-grade anthrax.

20 grams.

It could potentially kill
a quarter-billion people.

He seems much calmer
than he was yesterday.

It may make any reading
of his body language less accurate.

- I know.
- Is that what we want?

I hope so.

Well, isn't that the exact opposite of...

He hopes so?

We have less than 10 hours
before the new crescent moon rises.

Nine.

Aren't you worried?

I've been with him
long enough to trust him.

The CIA is funneling you
their Dutch terror watch list.

Okay, I can cross-reference that with
any port of entry information we have,

as well as Customs
and Immigration Enforcement.

You know,
it would sure be a lot easier

if there was a centralization
of all this information.

Oh, dream on, JJ.

No one wants the other kids
peeing in their sandbox.

Tariq Muhammad. Dutch citizen.
Islamic convert.

Traveled here four days ago
under his original name, Andre Janssen.

And we have the address he listed
on his customs form.

Thank you.

- We just got a lead.
- You get a name?

And an address.

How does a terrorist cell exist
right here, in Mayberry?

Infrared scanning
still shows no one inside.

We're doing a soft entry
in case it's booby-trapped. All right.

Clear.

Clear.

Sir, get in here.

We have five deceased males
in what looks to be a crude lab.

All shot in the head. Execution style.

- Any anthrax on scene?
- Only residue.

There's also packing and tags

from four new backpacks.

- All right, listen up.
- Backpacks.

- They're already on the move with it.
- We were too late.

- Have you finished?
- As you said, the sun has set.

Yes.

I'd like you to meet
a colleague of mine, Dr. Reid.

- May we speak?
- Of course.

I have a little time.

That was a joke.

I have all the time. Please.

A joke. Well, we're making progress.

Yes, progress. That is true.

Is there no way for this thing to end?
This jihad?

The jihad will end
when Allah wills its end.

And how will you know
that it is Allah's will?

When the jihad ends.

I have been lying to you.

Of course you have.

My colleague has been outside,

watching us as we talked on monitors.

Watching your body language,
trying to figure you out.

Were you successful?

Somewhat.

Your name is Jamal Abaza.

Your son Amir was killed in 2003,

in a bombing
at the Mahfouz Bazaar in Cairo.

Since then you've been recruiting MIS
members in prison, by convincing them

that US economic policies
are exploiting Third World nations.

You turned them
into extreme fundamentalists

by promising them
a better existence with Allah.

I would say that you were
more than "somewhat" successful.

But I did not learn

where your MIS cell was going to
make an anthrax attack in the US

at the new crescent.

Tonight.

I have no knowledge of such a thing.

Yes, you do, Mr. Abaza.

And there is still time.

What?

Are you sure?

This just in.

We go live to the site of what
appears to be a terrorist attack.

- What can you tell us, Jim?
- They've just...

Something has happened?

There's absolute hysteria...

How could you?

You choose to contort Islam into an excuse

for a life of violence.

You have perverted your faith

- to justify murder.
- Now

we are finally chatting, Gideon.

You accuse Americans
of being puppeteers of the Third World.

Yet, you used your own people's faith
tonight, to make them dance for you.

Why?

Why is it always

those who profess to be
the most fervent believers in this war,

they always manipulate other people
to die for them?

Does your president go into battle?

Or does he send your children?

Tonight,

all those innocent people.

There is no such thing, Gideon.
They were infidels.

And they were engaged in activities

that spread American policies
over the entire world.

Your incessant need to own things.

Material things.

Your capitalism rests
on the back of Third World countries.

No one's hands are clean.

No one is innocent.

Those people tonight,
they were innocent.

They never hurt you.

They hurt me by existing.

Yes, the infidels shall fall
at the hands of the righteous.

And that is when the jihad will end.

So you are ready to murder
four billion people?

America has learned nothing from the past.

You harden targets like your power plants,

but you leave the soft fruit
for our taking.

What has happened tonight
will affect your economy for years.

The way September 11 affected air travel.

And maybe the next time

a giant shopping center opens,

people will think twice before going.

And maybe next, it will be a school! Hey!

You can shut the video feed down now,
Garcia. Thanks.

- Has the sun not set yet?
- No.

What?

No!

No!

A shopping center. A mall.

It's a grand opening tonight,
not long after sunset.

That gives you about an hour.

God help us if they don't make it.

- Let's just hope we have somewhere to go.
- Grand opening of the USA Mall, today.

It's the third largest in the country,

it's right in the middle
of McLean, Virginia.

Let's move.

What's going on with you?

You look like you've seen a ghost.

Haley is supposed to take Jack to
the new mall to have his portrait taken.

- Call her.
- It's a breach of security.

If you lose Haley and Jack,
screw this job,

you won't have a life.

I can't reach her.

I'm gonna find the security office.

- Go!
- Morgan!

Over here.

Looks like loading dock security.

- Should we evacuate?
- No, no, we'd have mass panic.

Let's go.

Hello?

- FBI.
- FBI?

- Are these all your security cameras?
- Yes, sir.

- What's this camera here?
- That's the roof. East end.

Morgan, I've got four guys
on the east end of the roof.

- What's on that side of the roof?
- Nothing.

No access doors to the mall?

Not unless you're gonna
go through the air vents.

Morgan, it's the air vents.

They're going for the air vents.

Move.

Don't move!

Put the devices down

and put your hands where I can see them!

Gun!

Oh, my God!

- Listen up!
- Stay clear.

Police tonight foiled an apparent
robbery attempt at the new USA Mall,

which would presumably

have marred an otherwise
successful grand opening.

- Haley?
- Back to you, Jack.

Hey, in here.

You're home.

Did you see that there was
an attempted robbery at the new mall?

I'm glad I canceled Jack's photos.

I just decided I wanted you to be there.

It's better if we do it as a family.

Is everything okay?

Yeah, everything's perfect.

Here, big boy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said,

"In order to learn
the important lessons in life,

"one must, each day, surmount a fear."

When did you know
you were gonna have to trick him?

The first time I talked to him.

You realized you couldn't break him?

Well, I realized he was too smart

to have had that Nextel phone
registered to him accidentally.

He drew us there.

He wanted our presence in Gitmo,

to confirm that he was successful.

And that's when you started
moving up the time of his prayers.

If I'd used an actual clock,
he might have caught on.

So it was all a chess game.

We won this round.

But you heard him.

Jihad never ends.

Mate.

I quit.

Yield. Surrender.

Capitulate. I'm gonna take a nap.

Prentiss.

- Sir?
- Do you play?

Yes, sir. I play.