Crossing Lines (2013–…): Season 1, Episode 8 - Desperation & Desperados - full transcript

An Italian mafioso, Nicola Conti, sends his henchmen after two thieves who stole drugs and money from him and then took his daughter Angela as prisoner. The process of tracking them down has led to two mass shootings, one in Italy and the second just across the border in Slovenia. Michel Dorn's has little faith in Hickman, who is temporarily in charge, but agrees to let the team get involved. The experience is an eye opener for he young Angel. Hickman meanwhile follows up with the woman from the bank who identified him as a cop. He's certain she knows something about the account he was looking into. Dorn continues in his quest to find evidence against Dimitrov while Louis Daniel and his wife try to deal with the latest revelations.

So you finally found the bollocks.

To come out in the open.

I don't hide.

Is that what you tell yourself now?

It's the truth.

Well, look around you, brother.

It's not exactly dublin.

This is where my job is.

You laugh again,

I'll knock the teeth out of your head.

Well, careful, now.



I'm not exactly 10 years old anymore.

You're no smarter
than you were back then.

Alex Vaughn?

You're running around

I don't know what you're talking about.

I saw you on the roof of that bank.

I was home with the wife
and kids that day.

I didn't say what day.

Pick one.

Does da know you're with this tosser?

Da?

You talk to me about da?

Which do you think
would bother him more?

Me running with Alex Vaughn.



Or standing here talking to you?

Vaughn is bad people.

He never turned grass.

I'm no grass.

You're on the other side.

I never informed on the family.

Never.

I'm trying to help you.

Why do you even care?

You're still my brother.

I thought you didn't want me to laugh.

Colin...

Now, you listen close.

The next time I see you
at a crime scene,

I won't let you walk away.

You let me?

I had you in my sights
five or six times,

and you know I never miss.

Then why didn't you take the shot?

Because you wouldn't know it was me.

When I kill you, I want you to know.

Always a treat, big brother.

Open it.

You know who owns this building?

Paolo, no one was supposed to get hurt.

It's not like I killed him.

He's gonna have a headache.

Come on.

Wow.

My God.

This is amazing.

We have to go.

Run!

Run! Run!

Here!

This way! This way! Come on!

Move! Idioti!

I'm very sorry. You must come with us.

What?

Just drive the car!

Go, go, go, go!

Where the hell are you taking me?

You idiot!

You want to tell Mr. Conti.

That you not only let him get robbed,

you killed his daughter?

Let them? They attacked me!

Poor man.

Get the cars.

Giancarlo speaking.

There's been trouble at the warehouse.

Pull over! Pull over!

Can you go grab us some food?

Don't do anything stupid.

Hey!

Go.

What?

Go. You're free.

No.

What do you mean, no?

This is my car. You go.

I'm the one with the gun.

Well, I'm not giving you my car.

We tracked her cell phone to manzano.

Yes, don't worry, Mr. Conti.

There he is!

Run! Run! They're coming!

Start the car! Start the car!

We need to go!

Go!

Go! Go, go, go!

Come on! Come on!

Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

No witnesses. Come on.

Hey, it's okay, paolo. It's okay.

It's not okay, Antonio. It's not okay.

They shot innocent people.

They murdered them...

Hey, you said they shot people?

Yeah, in the market.

They didn't care who they hit.

My father's security.

Would never act like that.

"Your?"

Nicola Conti is your father?

Yeah.

That's why they stop shooting at us.

Every time we get near her.

I don't understand.

Why giancarlo just didn't
take you into custody.

Custody? Who do you think they are?

I know who they are!

My father
is a very important businessman,

and those men are his security!

Has a warehouse full of this?

What did you think we were stealing?

Paolo, we have to go. Come on.

I'm sorry, but you're coming with us.

Okay, I have two bags.

I'll have to carry them.

One at a time.

Hey, um... I thought you were the taxi.

So I gather.

I'm in a hurry.

You gonna pretend we have
nothing to talk about?

For surviving
a life or death situation.

I don't blame you
for telling them that I'm a cop.

I sure wasn't going to have them.

Hurt anyone else.

Was it about the needle?

No, but...

I didn't want to talk about that,

but your boss was pretty insistent.

My boss?

The robbers were the first to tell,

but he wanted me to corroborate it.

In writing.

It's not about that either.

Well, I don't have time
for guessing games.

Yeah, have you got time
for 100,000 euro?

I'm sorry?

That's what you reported.

100,000 missing from the vault.

Yeah, one of the robbers got away.

Yeah, the Irish kid, the tiger.

Yeah, newly rich Irish kid.

But it's a nice number for a new start.

I came to the bank that morning.

About an account
that belonged to a carnival,

and you seemed to know
what I was talking about.

What do you want?

That you don't need
anyone paying attention.

To how you're financing your new start.

Paying attention?

I work with a bunch of people,

they will track you
anywhere in the world.

They're good. They're really good.

And the moment you spend
a penny more than you should,

guess what? I'll be there.

Or?

Or I'll ignore you
for the rest of our lives.

Forget we ever met.

If?

If you close that account.

That's my number.

Anika, call me when it's done.

Hold the gun. I'll be right back.

And I need to go.

What?

Unless you want me to pee right here.

Just give me the key.

Excuse me, I'm not stupid.
You'd leave me.

Who's the hostage?

I'm not giving you my car.

Hi.

Thank you for coming.

I've been walking.

All night?

It didn't seem so
until the sun came up.

Louis has been calling you.

That's why I threw my phone away.

You threw it away?

In the river.

From a bridge.

Well, he is very worried about you.

I want to apologize.

I was cruel to you.

Yesterday on the train.

You did not deserve that.

Cruelty and honesty...

It's very hard to separate
the two of them sometimes.

I know what I intended,
and that was to hurt you.

And I'm sorry.

"In order to move others deeply,."

We must deliberately allow ourselves.

To be carried away.

"Beyond the bounds
of our normal sensibilities."

Joseph Conrad.

The immortal.

What if cruelty becomes.

My normal sensibility?

This has been a very difficult
time for all of us,

but we will persevere.

It is who we are, Rebecca.

Did you tell Louis I was here?

No. You asked me not to.

Will you call him?

Yes, of course I will.

Shall I tell him you're here?

Yeah. Please.

I need to work things out.

You're looking for me?

Yeah.

Did you talk to Anne-Marie
this morning?

No.

I got a call about an open case
that I left at my old unit,

a group of trafficked women
coming to the South of calais.

I'm going to help
my former team make the arrest.

So I can close the case.

I'll let you know when I'm back,

and I have my icc cell
if you need me. Bye.

She never checked back in,
and I can't reach her.

Do you know if she ever
made the arrest?

If there is any record
of the arrest in the system?

Sure.

Thank you.

You asked me about my needle
after the bank robbery.

Who told you about that?

The robber, Vaughn.

He told the local chief,

and the local chief told me.

Did you talk to anybody else?

Yeah.

The bank manager.

She confirmed it,

in writing.

You want to see?

No thanks. I was there.

Dorn?

Hey.

Switch on the TV.

There's something you should see.

20 dead in a mass shooting
in manzano, Italy,

including the alleged shooter,
this man.

Preliminary reports identify him.

As a local farmer who
committed suicide at the scene.

That's horrible.

No, it's more than horrible.

What do you mean?

I mean that this guy is not a farmer.

He's a member of
an organized crime group.

Called 'ndrangheta.

It's a kind of mafia.

I arrested him before.

His name is gino fruscetti.

Carl, I need to go somewhere.

Can you take charge here?

Okay?

Yeah, you got it.

Thank you.

The locals think I'm wrong.

They have a witness
who says he knew him.

And confirms he was both
the farmer and the shooter.

Could you be mistaken?

I not only arrested him,
I know who he works for.

Did you guys see the mass shooting?

Yeah, we were just talking about it.

The guy they say is the shooter
is someone I arrested in Italy.

They caught the shooter already?

Local? Didn't even know they had farms.

It's not in Slovenia. It's in Italy.

No, it's Slovenia.

Hey, you're both right.

There's a second mass shooting.

At a petrol station
near brda, Slovenia.

At least nine dead there.

Two mass shootings?

They're not even an hour apart.

Can't be a coincidence.

And you're sure that this guy
they say is the shooter,

he's not a farmer but some mafia guy?

Yeah. He works for an 'ndrangheta boss.

Called Nicola Conti.

He's based right in that area.

I know him very well.

Then we've got this second
shooting scene an hour away.

Same type of weapons.

It's a mass murder spree still moving.

If this ain't something for us,

then what the hell is?

Sebastian, Tommy, go to
the latest scene in Slovenia.

Are going to go talk
to this mafia guy, Conti.

I'll let Louis know what's going on.

You're so beautiful.

I'm sorry I worried you.

It's fine.

No, it's not fine.

I was angry.

You are angry about the bugs?

About you sending Michel
to handle telling me.

That was not my intention.

Hickman was trapped...

It may have been perfectly
legitimate, Louis,

but it took precedence.

Over us. Over me.

Again.

I'm sorry, excuse me.

We need to use the bugs.

To get disinformation to the Russians.

Dorn told you that?

I didn't need to be told, Louis.

I was a prosecutor,

remember?

When will we do it?

I will ask dorn to...

Soon.

I need this to be over.

So do I.

Not in the way I do.

What do you mean?

I'm stuck.

Like a car in mud.

I can't...

I can't move forward,

I can't move backward,

and I'm sinking,

deeper every day.

Maybe...

No, listen.

You have your work.

Your team, your life.

I have nothing.

I gave it all up for a family.

But now etienne's gone...

We will do whatever it is we need to do.

To make them pay for killing our son.

Whatever.

Yes.

And then...

We'll get on with our lives.

Yes.

You know, I've been thinking.

We need time for you and me.

Like a long holiday.

When it's over.

Louis...

By "getting on with our lives,"

I mean a divorce.

I'm going home to Paris.

Get there as soon you can.

So we can do what needs to be done...

And I can leave that apartment forever.

Answer your phone.

The job is calling.

And there's another one nearby?

Yeah, just across
the border in Slovenia.

But you don't know they're connected?

Sir, I know for sure.

The man they say is responsible
for the first one.

Is not who they say he is.

There's definitely
something odd going on there,

something criminal.

Sergeant, as charmed as I am
by your passion,

I cannot go into the court and say,

"there's something odd going on there."

It's my professional judgment
that this is something.

That absolutely falls
under our purview.

I'd stake my reputation on it.

Sergeant vittoria,

would you excuse us, please?

Sit down.

So you're willing to stake
your reputation on it?

Absolutely.

And who exactly.

Do you think you are reputed to be?

How about I was
a New York City detective.

You are a drug addict,
detective hickman.

Recovering drug addict.

It's my understanding.

That you've recently begun shooting up.

Fairly recently, but that's only...

A numbing agent. I know. I heard.

I have no idea why Louis decided.

That you would be the person
to take charge.

In his absence,

but his trust in you.

Is what is meaningful to me today,

not your willingness.

To stake your tattered reputation.

Well, I have no idea why
he put me in charge either.

But he did.

Now, I'd love to sit with you someday.

And the hell that I live
through every damned minute.

To stay off them,

despite medically needing them,

just to function on this team.

But right now.

What I need from you.

To let us handle
these moving mass murderers.

Have you already
sent your team out there?

McConnell and berger
are there at the second scene.

They haven't done anything,

and I can certainly call them back.

No.

Let them do their work.

I'll deal with the court.

Stop whoever it is
who is killing people out there.

Okay. That must be her.

Tommy McConnell.
This is Sebastian berger.

We're from the icc.

Good. Do you mind
if I take a look around?

Please.

There were five shooters
firing at a car here.

Someone fired two shots
from back there,

hit one of them, then left.

Would have left
a residue of its tire tracks.

Let me isolate one.

I can run that through
tire pattern databases...

Okay, that tire, that pattern,

that weight and that wheelbase,

we're probably looking
for a 2011 BMW convertible.

Convertible?

There's only tail light glass there,

he said they shot back, right?

Hard to do without breaking windows.

And it's black!

Paint transfers.

Low tech, but effective.

To be on the lookout for that car.

Right, okay.

Five guys with machine guns
shooting from here.

They let that car back out and leave?

That whole area back there
should be full of holes.

It's like they didn't want to hit them.

They didn't want to hit one of them.

Help!

Help!

They shot him!

Angela?
- Papa?

Angela, where are you?

They're still working on him.

These are gunshot wounds.
Call the police.

He said it was going to be easy.

We'd watched it for weeks.

No one even really guarded the stuff.

They were lazy.

Why, Antonio?

Why steal from my father?

Your father took over all
the land around our area,

including our farms.

With the help of a corrupt judge,

he stole all the land
from under everyone.

Then he forced them
to grow drugs instead of food.

Then the police eventually
raided the farms,

who had no control over
what the tenants were doing.

Instead of the humiliation of prison,

my father hung himself in our barn.

Of course, it's up to us now.

To take care of my mother and sisters,

but the army took the property away,

said we lost it
when we used it for drugs, so...

That's why.

That's why we decided.

To take some money from your father,

to survive.

I'm so sorry.

It's not you.

It's not you, it's your father.

Eva vittoria,

still the most beautiful
woman in Italy.

Nicola Conti.

Still pretending to be
a legitimate businessman.

Eva...

Sergeant vittoria.

Must we be formal?

Your father and I were like brothers.

Brothers?

And where is your brother today?

That is especially hurtful.

What kind of business
do you have here, Mr. Conti?

As you see.

Cartage, freight.

Shipping and receiving.

Why open a shipping business.

As far from a port as you can be,

along a stretch of narrow roads.

With impossible traffic.

And no rail road nearby?

Are you a police officer?

Why open your business here?

A favorable deal on the property.

Now the big question.

Who was bleeding?

Bleeding?

Do we have any fluid
collection supplies?

There you go.

That could be anything.

Maybe you haven't seen
enough blood in your life.

Maybe a worker got hurt.

Maybe he got hurt in there.

Excuse me?

Might even still be in there, bleeding.

Maybe we should have a look in there.

You want to go into the warehouse?

Very much so.

I tremble with anticipation.

We already have an
authorization on the way.

From the international criminal court.

Then we'll wait.

We'll wait.

A unit was dispatched,

but there's been no response.

Okay, we're at the hospital now.

There's the BMW.

You need a doctor.

No...

No doctors.

They killed paolo.

They killed him.

I'm so sorry.

I'll be back, okay? I'll be back.

Where are you going?
Where are you going?

To see if it's clear.
We can't stay here.

I'll be back.

Excuse me.

I'll be here.

Where are you?

They're just scared boys,

and they're just trying
to help their family.

I promise.

My love,

listen to me.

It's very common
to feel sorry for someone.

Who has you hostage.

Just tell me where you are,

and giancarlo will come get you.

I'm not feeling sorry!

It's giancarlo's killing people.

He's killed innocent people.

He killed paolo!

Who is paolo?

He's one of the boys.

He's Antonio's brother.

You're worried about them?

Do not blame giancarlo
for doing his job.

He is trying to rescue you.

Tell them to give you
and my property back,

and it will all end.

Your property?

Stop, please!

Please, stop! Stop!

Please, sir...

I don't want to hurt you.

Sir, I just really need your car.

Come on, step out. Come on.

Sorry, sir...

Throw me the bag.

Whoa, whoa, I surrender.

Are those gunshots?

What did you do?

Angela, what did you do?

Let's go.

Enough.

I'm going to a police station
to turn myself in.

We're almost in Italy, Antonio.

Then what?

Spend the rest of my life
hiding from him?

Or worse, waiting for my mother
and sisters to be killed?

It's over, Angela.

What about me? What do I do now?

You go home.

How am I supposed to go home now?

You have a good life!

No, I don't!

I have a lie!

I can't pretend I don't, never again!

Everything has changed, Antonio.

What are they doing?
- I don't know!

He knows, Antonio.
He's looking right at me.

What?

Are you okay?

Don't waste any more shot.

They aren't going far.

We'll get them at the bottom.

Hurry up, let's go.

We went through the whole building.

It's completely empty.

Now will you believe

I am nothing but a simple businessman?

Never.

It's Tommy.

They're still in Slovenia.

Tommy?

There's a fourth crime scene.

Someone was shot here,
but there's no body.

There's five more victims
back at a medical clinic.

The mass shootings aren't random.

They appear to be a moving gunfight.

Chasing a smaller group in a black BMW,

which is disabled.

Outside the medical clinic
we just came from.

Did you get anything out of the BMW?

The seat, the way it's positioned,

i think one of the people we're chasing.

Might be a woman.

Of course... you son of a bitch.

Where is she?

Who?

Where's your daughter?

Where's Angela?

Give me your telephone.

Give me your phone!
- Eva...

Where is it?

The last call he received,
I think it was her.

Have Sebastian trap and trace it.

Stop, stop!

It's best not to fight, Angela.

You'll only delay what will happen.

Please...

Please what?

He's just a scared boy, giancarlo.

You don't appreciate.

What you have,

and you never appreciate.

Those who help you keep it.

Men like me and Bruno.

Have been dying protecting your family.

For years.

I never asked for that, giancarlo.

Doesn't make you innocent.

She's Mr. Conti's daughter.

Mr. Conti's daughter,

who...

You will pay the price
for something you've done.

Drop your weapon!

You okay?

Low tech, but effective, right?

It's okay, we got them.

Where is she?

Don't worry about me, I'm fine.

Where's Angela?

They were right there.

Angela!

Leave us alone!

There she is.

We're not here to hurt you.

Then go away!

Look.

Angela?

Please...

I'll put my gun down, okay?

I said, leave us alone.

I'm not going to use my gun.

I promise.

I just came from
your father's compound.

The one he robbed
and kidnapped you from.

He was just trying
to protect his family.

But he caused a lot of people
to get hurt.

But it wasn't him.

It wasn't him. They did it.
They did it.

And it was me.

It was me they were trying to...

It's my fault!

Angela,

Angela...

Look at me.

Do you remember me?

No.

I'm eva.

Eva vittoria.

When you were young, you lived in Rome.

We met once.
I was home from university.

Our fathers were...

They did business together.

My father doesn't do business.

He's a killer and a drug dealer.

I know.

I know what it's like.

To think your life is one thing,

then find out it's another,

that it's all a lie.

When I was your age,

my parents were murdered.

Their car was blown up...

By my father's business partner...

Nicola Conti.

No...

After they died,

I fully learned the truth.

About where our luxury came from.

It took a long time,

but I also realized.

That my past was gone.

It had happened.

It was what it was,

and nothing I did could change it.

You can't control your past,

but alone,

you can control and change your future.

Okay?

You can trust me.

Okay?

You're going to be fine.

I promise.

Okay?

Hey, Tommy.

They're good guys.

Can you help me with him?

You come with me.

Okay...

You okay?

Yeah.
- Yeah?

Okay...

Kathrin, it's Sebastian. I, um...

Listen, I...

I had a...

An interesting day,

and it's got me
thinking about something.

No, that's not true, um...

I've been thinking about this a lot.

Every day, in fact.

I think we should talk.

So... call me, okay?

I'll be...

Just call me?

Thanks.

Sebastian...

I hear you made a nice shot today.

Well...

More luck than skill, really.

I can relate.

Kind of makes you think of
your own mortality, doesn't it?

Yeah.

But you did good.

About that Anne-Marie thing?

Damn.

Yeah, she made a number of rescues,

I talked to a sergeant in the area,

who said, as far as he knew,

and wanted to make
the first arraignment.

I kind of figured
it was something like that.

See you tomorrow.

Carl?
- Hey.

Something is going on here.

They are going crazy.

Who's going crazy?

Genovese, the manager.

I did that.

You did?

I hit them where it hurts,
in the wallet.

Just stay away from them, all right?

I always do.

Where are you?

Your place.

You staying there?

I could.

I'll see you in an hour, all right?

Okay.

What do you want?