Crisis (2014): Season 1, Episode 9 - You Do Not Know War - full transcript

Previously on Crisis...

Those feds, Finley and Dunn,
have Clarenbach. I still need him.

How do you know it's Gibson?

The program we were in...
there was a massacre.

Widener put Gibson's name
on it, and he put a laser dot

on his daughter's
head to keep him quiet.

- Widener threatened to kill Gibson's daughter?
- Yeah. So it's personal.

I want to see my kid.

Think it's time for you, Agent
Hurst, to go into the hole.

You said I could see my kid.

Hurst?



You know where this place is?

Yes, Agent Finley...
and I can take you there.

Clarenbach is crucial
to the pharmaceutical

side of this.
You cannot let Gibson get him.

I need Clarenbach.

Another Ballard student,

- Emma Vries, has been released.
- If it is Gibson,

he took his own daughter.
He had his finger cut off,

and he made her watch.

- Francis.
- Jonas.

- I've been here before.
- Yes, we both have.

Are you ready to get to work?

1x09 - You Do Not Know War

As the Ballard School
kidnapping marks its seventh day,



there may at last have
been a breakthrough.

Sources tell us that the FBI
has received new information

regarding the location of the hostages.

A massive ground operation
is currently underway as

search teams focus their efforts
on an area of Southern Maryland.

Sir, the last house on
foxtrot number 78 is cleared.

It is negative as the
kidnapper's location.

How many grids left?

23 square-mile grids are
contained within the area

designated by Agent Finley
as a possible location.

We've eliminated nine of them.

What's the time frame
on the remaining 14 grids?

- 16 hours.
- We need to go faster.

Every boot we have is
already on the ground, sir.

We need more boots.

- When can I see my father again?
- Soon, Emma,

but, uh, we need to talk to you first.

But he's going to jail
because of what he did for me.

None of this is your fault.

Emma, you can help us.
We need to know...

everything that's going
on inside the mansion.

- Are your classmates okay?
- I don't think any of them got shot.

- But somebody did get shot?
- During the attack.

What attack, Emma?
Did someone attack the place

- you were being held?
- Right.

You don't know. There was a sustained
firefight for at least 20 minutes.

Very controlled, lots
of three-round bursts.

I only heard MP-5s,
you know, like the guards carry.

You sound like you know
a lot about weapons.

My father's idea of bonding
usually involves a firing range.

The place got shot up pretty good.

Some of the guards died.

- How many?
- I don't know. Three or four.

How many attackers? Do you know?

Just one.
I think just one.

But it was Kyle who
killed the guy in charge.

- Who did Kyle kill?
- Agent Hurst.

He was about to shoot Mr. Gibson.
Kyle had to do it.

We're going to show you some photos.

Maybe you can help identify
the attacker for us.

Let's go.

Just a sec!

It's all yours.

Secure radio chatter indicates
they've eliminated a target close by.

- How far from here?
- Nine and a half miles.

National Guard is mobilized.

Clarenbach helped get them close.

They'll knock on every door now.

With the geometric search
pattern they're using,

they'll be here in less than six hours.

I need 12. Open a line out.

Do we know the origin of
this attack on the kidnappers?

Emma Vries identified the
attacker. It was Thayer, sir,

one of the soldiers we pulled
out of the Pakistani Embassy.

Widener got him into
the mansion somehow.

- The CIA got a man inside?
- But just one.

I don't think they know the
location of the kidnappers,

or they would have taken Gibson out.

You need to be prepared
to explain this to the president.

- We're going to the White House?
- No. He's on his way here.

Whose phone is that?

{ Mother-in-law, did you get a cellphone? }

{ You know I don't like them. }

{ It's not mine. }

Hello.

I know who you are.
I know what you do.

I-I work for the consul.
I am just an attach?.

That is why I need your wife.

My wife?

She's a colonel in your
foreign intelligence service.

I need a spy.

What do you want?

If I do that, it will start a war.

Agent Hurst is dead. How
are you doing with that?

I want to know how Kyle is doing.

- Mr. President.
- And how are you doing, for that matter?

- I'm fine.
- Widener's guys went after you

and your sister pretty hard last night.

Hard? They killed Wilson and
dropped Keegan off a bridge

at the end of a rope. I'm fine.

Please, sit.

I'm told my son killed a man.
Is that true?

Yes, sir.

No disrespect, Bill...

but I don't want any filters, not today.

You two have been the tip of
the spear on the this case.

I want you to tell me
what's really going on.

I don't care what you think is safe

to tell me, I don't
care what you can prove.

I want to hear what you believe.

We believe the kidnapper is a
man named Francis Gibson, sir.

Gibson.
But he's one of the hostages.

They hung his finger from
the White House fence.

We can't prove it, but
we believe he orchestrated

a disinformation strategy
to deflect his responsibility.

Let's say that's true.
What does he want?

Gibson was a CIA analyst.
They dismissed him 18 months ago.

As far as we can tell,
this is about payback.

- Why was he fired?
- We're not sure, sir.

We believe Gibson was involved

in the creation of
a secret CIA death squad.

And because you're taking this to me
instead of the Attorney General,

I'm assuming you have no
evidence for this, either.

Gibson sent Congressman Wirth
inside the CIA to steal a video.

- I saw a piece of it.
- You did? What was on it?

American soldiers intentionally
massacring civilians.

Evidence.

What did Director
Widener say about this?

He's stonewalling me, sir.

Or he's being careful,
which is his job, Bill.

Still, I want to hear his
response to this myself.

Tell Gabe Widener I'd like
him to join us here. Now.

Sya, I do not understand.
You are my wife.

How long has that been there?

You are not the only one who
works for our government, Meng.

{ I'm still your wife. }

Stay here,
and I will save our son.

They've cleared another house.
Three miles away.

That's the closest
they'll get for a while.

Jonas.

- I'm glad you're here.
- You're glad?

It's been such a long time.

Yeah, I suppose it has been.

- What do you want from me?
- I'm gonna save your life.

I don't want to kill you, Jonas.
Widener does.

And he will, eventually.

- Unless...
- Help me get Widener.

Widener? If you wanted
to kill him, there are easier ways

than kidnapping dozens of kids,
and you certainly don't need me.

I'm not gonna kill him.

I'm gonna destroy him,
and I need you for that.

Help me, and I can solve
both our problems.

Make your choice fast.
It's happening now.

Dad, what's going on?

They had me in the back
again for questioning.

I think they're afraid
they're about to be found.

They've been weakened,
and they're nervous.

If we can exploit that,
it's our chance to escape.

I'm gonna need your help,
though, both of you.

- Think you can do that?
- Anything.

- Yeah.
- Okay, first we need to quickly

spread the word to the other
kids; we need their eyes.

Guards were killed in that assault.

They've changed their patrol pattern.

If we're gonna move on them, I
need to know how many there are.

- Understood?
- Yes.

But, Dad, i-if the
cops are getting close,

wouldn't it be smarter
just to wait to be rescued?

The kidnappers' plan's falling apart.

Dangerous people are
desperate, Beth Ann.

If we're gonna escape,
we need to move fast.

Mr. President.

- You wanted to see me.
- Congressman Wirth took a video

from the CIA, uploaded it from
his phone just before he died.

What was on it?

I can't speak to that, sir.

When the congressman's phone
was examined, it had been erased.

So maybe there's proof

of a CIA death squad
and maybe there isn't.

- That's gonna be a Senate hearing.
- Yes, sir.

- Yes, sir.
- But me?

What I want to know right
now is, what does Francis

Gibson have to do with
the kidnapping of my son?

- From what we can tell, nothing.
- Mr. President, please.

- Agent Dunn.
- We've looked into it, of course,

but there's no evidence to suggest
he's anything other than a hostage.

Your men kidnapped me
and my sister yesterday.

Agent Dunn!

You need to step out.

I heard about what happened to you.

It must have been horrific.

You should be commended for
even coming to work today.

We've lost the network, sir.
All the computers are out.

- Status.
- What the hell was that?

Mr. President, it appears to be
a massive cyber attack...

- all our systems are down.
- This building or the entire FBI?

Not just the FBI, sir... anything
connected to the Internet.

Banking systems,
power grid, air traffic control,

emergency services. The virus
will spread into them all.

Cyber attack? Are you sure?

- Yes, sir. On a massive scale.
- Gabe.

We should go to INFOCON 2, sir.

- Bill?
- Something this aggressive, this fast, I agree.

- Take us to INFOCON 2.
- Sir.

- What is INFOCON 2?
- That means we're under attack

and we're gonna shut the country
down before someone else does.

INFOCON 2 is established, Mr. President.

Critical computer networks
are cutting outside links.

Conventional communications are out.

We're establishing a
point-to-point laser comm link

to the White House and
Pentagon, sir. Up in two minutes.

Shouldn't they get
POTUS to the White House?

The FBI is a highly secure facility.

Safer to stay here until
we understand the threat.

Secret Service will designate
this "the Castle." It becomes the

president's location in an attack.
This is the last position to fall.

Finley, I think we do
understand the threat.

This has to be Gibson.

Generator is up. We have power.
How long will we be blind?

A day.
We'll have no communications.

We'll have no access
to surveillance systems.

But neither will our enemies.

We will have enough time
to do what needs to be done.

- Are you ready to get to work?
- Doing what, exactly?

Mr. President, we've confirmed
this is a cyber attack.

The virus is passing from node to node,

crippling networked
computer systems as it goes.

We don't know who
launched it, but we know

it began here in D.C.
and it's spreading.

The Eastern Seaboard will be
crippled in the next few hours.

Sir, they've
identified the code as a variant

on a known Chinese military virus.

If this is intentional,
it's an act of war.

When the secure links are up,
I want a threat assessment

from you, the Joint Chiefs and
the National Security Advisor.

Yes, sir.

Mr. President,
this may not be a military action.

This could be a parent
working for the kidnapper.

- What makes you think that?
- Sir, we have units

searching for the kidnapper
all over Southern Maryland.

We believe we're close. But
now our communications are down

and those units are being pulled out
to handle emergency situations.

And you don't think that's
a coincidence.

No, sir.
One of the parents, Mr. Meng Liao,

is a cultural attach?
for the Chinese Embassy.

And it's a Chinese virus.

Agent Finley, I just put our
bombers on 15-minute notice.

If this is a parent
trying to save their child,

I need you to find out before we
lose control of this situation.

Understood, sir.

You want me to make
more chemical supplement?

- Francis, I can't do that.
- You have to.

Why would you want me to
make more of this poison?

I mean, you can't give it
to just anyone.

You need soldiers
who've been conditioned

- and you don't have them.
- Freeing those soldiers is the next step.

And when the time comes,
we will do that together.

But without the supplement,
they're of no use.

You're the key to this
whole thing, Jonas.

Why do we need to do this?
To destroy Widener.

Which is the only way
you're free of this forever.

How much do you need?

Mr. President.
DOD is hooking you into

their communications intelligence unit.

The National Guard is mobilizing
to maintain civil order, sir.

Hospitals across D.C. are
running on emergency generators

and handling the increased flow
of shutdown-related injuries.

Which is good news,
because traffic control

systems are going down
in many parts of the city.

We've got street cops directing
traffic at key intersections.

We're adapting as best we can,
falling back on older,

non-networked technologies
wherever possible.

These will work,
they don't depend on a network.

You can talk to each other
or talk back here to the base.

- You got a ten-mile range, got it?
- Thanks.

Assuming this is Jin Liao's parents,
how do we find them?

The cell networks are
down; that won't work.

Address book works just fine.

Jin, we need to talk.

Better do it quick.
They just took my proof of life pic.

- I'm going home.
- Maybe.

What do you... what do you mean?

I really hope you are, Jin...

but they took Amber's proof of life pic
and she's still here.

My dad's preparing a plan
to get us out of here.

No, no, no, no.
Don't do anything.

Don't screw this up for me.

Hey, we want to get out, too.

They only let my mother
have one child, Beth Ann. Me.

I can't screw this up.
I'm all she has.

Fine. I hope you get home.

But don't say a single word
about our plan.

My son...

I will never see you again.

By the time you get this, Jin,

I will be in prison or dead.

You will hear many things about me.

You will hear...
about the secrets that I kept.

I want to tell you the
only truth that matters:

I am your mother,

and I love you.

I have only done
what I must to save your life.

- Are Mr. and Mrs. Liao inside?
- Yeah. They haven't left today.

How long until the
network is back online?

We're trying to figure that out.

We need one of you guys out
here, the other one around back.

- Do not move!
- Put the gun down, Mr. Liao.

I have diplomatic immunity.

Mr. Liao, diplomatic
immunity will not stop

a bullet if we fire on you.
Put the gun down.

We don't have time for this.

Where's your wife, Mr. Liao?

Is it true? Is today the day?

Yes.
Central command contacted me.

We have been activated.
Today our nation strikes first.

- What are my orders?
- The Americans will try to find me.

Stay here.
Make sure they don't.

Clear.
Mrs. Liao is not here.

Did you receive a call
from the kidnapper today?

I have nothing to say to you.

Mr. Liao,
our countries could go to war.

We need to find your wife.
Where is she?

Do you understand what she's done?

You could lose your
wife and your son today.

How can I lose my wife?
I don't even know who she is.

- You didn't know she's a spy?
- 20 years. A son.

I gave her my life.
She gave me lies.

Please. Just tell us where she is.

She did not tell me.
If she had, it would have been a lie.

Even so, for Jin's sake,
I would not tell you.

{ You are a fool. }

{ This matter is not for you to decide, Mother. }

{ You do not know war, Meng. I do. }

My daughter-in-law

does not want me to live
here like a mother should.

My son is weak, so I
live in an apartment.

Sya put on some of my
clothes and took my key.

She went there.

- Did she take anything with her?
- Ma, stop!

She had a bag for a computer.

The fix for all this
could be on that computer.

Where is this apartment?

Ian, we're doing it.
We're getting out.

What? How?

Mr. Gibson's making a plan...
he thinks the searchers are close.

We're gonna get everyone
out when they come.

But we need your help.

Yeah, I can help. I know something
Mr. Gibson needs to know.

- What?
- I was in the downstairs bathroom.

I just wanted to be by myself.

I didn't want to see these
guards or this place...

Mr. Nash getting killed.

Yeah.
I know what you mean.

There's a section of
the wall that was loose,

so I lifted it off, and there was
this hole in the wall behind it

on the other side... it was the kitchen.

- Are you serious?
- Yeah.

I saw the headquarters, or whatever.

- It's like a secret way of getting back and forth.
- Wow. That could be perfect.

- Who else knows?
- No one.

I was sitting here deciding whether
I should tell you guys or just...

run by myself
'cause the odds are better.

You didn't run; you told me.

And this will help Beth
Ann's dad get us out of here.

- You should be the one to tell him.
- I'll find him.

Do you smell that?

Finley, in here.

The attack came from this.

Forensics will never be able
to recover anything from that.

This thing is still smoking.

Wherever she is, she
hasn't been gone long.

If she's gone.

If Sya Liao works for the Chinese,

she's probably with the
Ministry of State Security.

Sya Liao will have
underground connections.

How do we find her? FBI
databases are offline, Metro PD...

Freeze! Secret Service!

It's not Mrs. Liao.

Where is she?!
Where is Sya Liao?

This guy's not gonna last long.

We're not getting an
ambulance here today.

- He's gonna bleed out.
- We have to get him to a hospital.

He's the only
line we have on Sya Liao.

Let's go.

With the power and communications grids

continuing to fail up and
down the Eastern Seaboard,

American military activity
has increased dramatically

in the East China Sea.
High-placed naval sources now confirm

that the U.S. is readying
a military response

to what is a Chinese cyber attack.

And with the USS Ronald Reagan
currently sending its F-14s

to the very edge of the
Chinese Republic's airspace,

armed conflict seems imminent.

Gas mains are computerized.

- The system crashes, and they overload.
- The virus is spreading.

How are we supposed to
find one woman in this city

when all of our systems are crashing?

You won't.

What's he saying?

You won't.

He's saying we won't.

I'm trying to avoid an
international crisis. Just do it.

I just put the Seventh Fleet in park

so I don't provoke a
shooting war with China.

The Joint Chiefs are telling
me that if we don't strike now,

we're gonna lose the
ability to do so later.

Someone give me a better option.

I think we should get
Putin on the telephone,

get him to mobilize.

He's not a fan of the
Chinese government either.

And push us closer
to a land war instead?

With a country that's
got two million soldiers?

Anybody else?

Excuse me, sir.

- Dunn, that you?
- Yes, sir.

- Do you have Mrs. Liao?
- No, sir,

but we can confirm she's
behind the cyber attack.

It's the kidnapper, sir.

- She's doing this for him.
- Where's Liao now?

Not sure, but she has help,
possibly from the agents she's running.

They might think that
she's doing this for China.

Sir, she could be anywhere by now.

We're not gonna find her
without help from the Chinese.

Understood.

I think I know how to get
the information you need.

- I'll get back to you.
- Copy, sir.

Sir, I have an option I
believe we have to take,

- but you won't like it.
- Shoot.

Agents Finley and Dunn have confirmed

that this is, in fact, a parent mission.

Specifically, that Mrs. Sya Liao
is a Chinese spy.

Well, that's damn
good work if it's true.

Unfortunately, we've
lost her in the mayhem.

Her agents are helping her.
The only way we'll find her in time

is if the Chinese themselves
give us her espionage network.

Give up a clandestine
intelligence network in D.C.?

The Chinese are never
going to agree to that.

They will if we trade them
our best asset in Beijing.

And that will get that man killed.

This city is shutting down.
By tomorrow, it will be the country.

By tomorrow, our cyber
defenses will have identified

- and eliminated the virus.
- Do any of us

want to see what this
country looks like by then?

Gabe, do we have someone valuable
enough to make it worth it to them?

Yes, sir. We have an asset
very close to the premier.

But it's taken us decades
to get someone that close.

Mr. President,

if we're gonna stop this attack,
Sya Liao is the key.

- We need to find her, sir, now.
- I'll consider.

Go.

Gunshot wound. He's critical.

I need you to keep an eye on him.

- What's the status here?
- The generators are powering

life support, but trauma
cases are coming in fast.

We're gonna run out of fuel.

If we don't find Liao fast,
it'll be Hurricane Katrina around here.

Death toll's gonna go up fast.

- This is Dunn.
- I have the location.

It's a Chinese government safe house.

A church, actually.
2211 Draper Street.

Got it. That's not far from here.

I don't know when I'll be able
to get backup there

- given the conditions.
- We understand.

I hope your people are up to this.

We sacrificed a good
man to get that intel.

Don't pretend you give a damn
about personnel, yours or mine.

Easy now.
We're on the same team here.

No, we're not.

You ever heard of a team
that kills their own players?

Don't go there.
You don't have evidence to prove that.

You don't have evidence
to prove a single damn thing.

Maybe not.

But I know it was your
guys that killed my agents,

I know it was your guys
that worked over Agent Dunn.

We're working together today, Gabe,
but when this is over...

I'm coming for you.

- Remember, we have to take her alive.
- That just got a lot harder.

Finley, we can't let
her get out of here.

I'll go in. You go around the back.

We don't need to do this, Mrs. Liao!
Put down your weapon!

I don't want to hurt you. Please.

Put your weapon down and come out.

We can't waste time on this guy.
Olsen said this is the place.

We have to find her before she runs.

Sir, blackouts and fires
have spread to Delaware.

I-95 is shut down south of Philadelphia

by a refinery explosion...
computer failure again.

Eastern Seaboard is cut in half.

And, so far, our confirmed death toll...

is 75, and rising fast.

I am not armed.

- Can the virus be stopped?
- It will not be.

You got a call from the
kidnapper this morning.

- Yes.
- You uploaded a virus for him?

Yes. My government is
not responsible for this.

- They'll court-martial you.
- You mean they'll execute me.

Yes, but I've only done
what I must to save my son.

- This ends now.
- I've been trained to withstand torture.

Whatever you do to me, I can
hold out as long as I must.

I'm sure you think so.

You're asking me to kill my son.

I'm asking you to save many sons.

What happened?
This is too soon.

Jonas!

- How long until your work is done?
- At least two hours.

What's wrong?

Mrs. Liao's the only one who
could have stopped that virus.

She was told to keep
them blind for 12 hours.

She failed.

The most important parent
mission is still to come.

That parent must know
the price of failure.

Who's there?

Mr. Gibson? You're...
You're one of the kidnappers?

It wasn't a dream?

I did not want to do this.

- Your parents failed, Jin.
- Oh.

Please.

Please, please, don't.

Please. You don't have to do this.

No.
I do have to. Don't you see?

They made me...
They made me do it.

The region is recovering, sir.

Network systems are coming
back online. The power grid

has been restored. Hospitals
are returning to normal.

Communications for emergency
services are back up.

So we didn't burn
our agent for nothing.

No, sir.
The sacrifice paid off.

Your team is packed up and we're
returning to normal operations.

When does the grid search
for the kidnappers resume?

The units are already
redeploying back into the field.

We're gonna find the kids, sir.

Mr. President?
Abby Hurst is here.

Sir, I don't believe Agent Hurst
was a part of the kidnapping.

- Not of his own free will.
- Al Hurst?

Not a chance in hell.
You and I both know that.

But now...

we got to tell Abby my
son killed her husband.

Abby.
Thanks for coming.

- No...
- Abby...

Is my husband dead?

I was always afraid I was
gonna be a hero's widow.

That's not what happened, is it?

Oh... please.
Find my daughter.

Fine work, both of you.

Thank you, Mr. President.

I have to clean up today's disaster.

I'm not happy with what
I heard today, Gabe.

Our conversation's not over.

Find my son.

- Find all of them.
- Yes, sir.

As the national grid
continues to come back online,

the president issued a statement

that the government of
China was not responsible

for today's system failure.

When asked about the unconfirmed reports

that this was connected
to the Ballard kidnapping,

White House spokesmen
replied, "No comment."

Search grids are back up.

We're closing in on
the hostages' location.

I want to be there when you go in.

You will be. You've earned it.

Director?
You should see this.

It came over the Internet, sir.

- Every news outlet has it.
- Okay.

That's the video Congressman Wirth had.
The one he took from the CIA.

Widener.

Hello, Gabe.
Do you see it?

Yes.

I'm coming for you.

Say good-bye to everything
you love while you can.