FBI (2018–…): Season 4, Episode 13 - Pride and Prejudice - full transcript
When a Muslim college student and his younger brother are murdered, the team connects with the outraged Imam of OA's former mosque, who insists the victims were wrongly targeted as terrorists.
- Hey.
It's okay.
There's nothing
to be worried about.
I handled it.
I promise.
Uh, it went
as well as it could.
All right.
I'll be home soon.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- Hey, you okay?
What happened?
- It's fine.
- Talk to me.
- Close the door.
You don't need to--
- Kosey, where've you been?
- You don't need to worry
about it.
- Kosey, talk to me.
- Hey, it's okay, it's okay.
♪ ♪
- Kosey!
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- I promise I'm not trying
to just make the sale.
It really has been
an incredible ride.
Every case is an opportunity
to affect someone's life,
and that is why this is
such an amazing profession,
and that is also why we recruit
the brightest and the best
from all walks of life,
from poor, rich,
Black, white, Middle Eastern...
and it will continue
to stay that way
as long as folks like us
continue to join the ranks.
Yes.
- How's the money?
- Well, you won't get rich.
But you won't live
paycheck to paycheck either.
- What about being a minority?
Have you found that
it's something that helps
your career or hurts it?
- Well, that's complicated.
I think the, um--
- It's actually
not that complicated,
so I'll answer that one, Omar.
I joined this Bureau
30 years ago.
10 years later, 9/11 happened.
It wasn't a great time to be
a Muslim in New York City.
Trust me.
But the Bureau made me feel
like I belonged,
like I was a part
of the family.
It can be that way
for all of you
if you put in work
and honor the badge.
- Special Agent Bashar gave me
that same exact speech
seven years ago
when I was recruited,
and I can promise you
I have no regrets.
Oh, I'm sorry. That is work.
I have to go, and no, this
wasn't planned.
Thank you.
- Hey, folks,
NYPD asked us for help
regarding a potential
hate crime.
So listen up.
- 22-year-old Kosey Khan,
a Pakistani student here
on temporary visa,
had his throat slit last night.
His younger brother,
Amir, was also stabbed,
and he is currently in surgery.
- Let's talk about
what we know about the victims.
- Yeah.
Kosey was enrolled in Columbia,
an engineering major
at 3.9 GPA.
His younger brother, Amir,
worked at a local restaurant.
Doesn't seem to be here
legally.
- Neither appear to have
a social media footprint.
- Mm-hmm.
What about criminal history?
Anything?
- None.
Not even a parking ticket.
- So why them?
Why attack them at their home?
- Right, hate crimes typically
happen out on the street,
so maybe there's
a personal connection.
All right, so dig into
the victims' personal lives,
friends, neighbors, classmates,
anyone in their orbit
with hate-related priors,
or racist social media posts.
The answers are out there.
Let's find them.
- Upstairs neighbor
called it in.
Heard someone yelling for help.
Uniforms knocked
and didn't get an answer,
so they made entry
and found the victims.
- Any signs of forced entry?
- None.
Door was unlocked.
- There cameras
in this building?
- Negative.
Place is as basic as they come.
Rent's cheap,
and the amenities reflect it.
- It's not the best
neighborhood.
Doors stay locked.
So our suspect was either
invited in,
or he waited for the victims
to open the door.
- All right,
we're gonna need your help
canvassing the area
for witnesses.
- Yeah.
- Maggie.
A ton of valuable
electronics untouched.
- Maybe they were looking
for money or drugs.
- What makes you think
it was a hate crime?
- Well, I wasn't sure at first.
But the victims' Imam showed up
about an hour ago,
said he had proof
that they were targeted.
- What kind of proof?
- Something about domestic
terrorist threats
against these kids' lives.
I told him because of that,
we need to bring the FBI
on board.
He wasn't exactly thrilled
to hear that.
- Omar!
- I'm Agent Bell.
This is Agent Zidan.
- How are you, Omar?
It's been a long time.
- It has.
I'm good. I'm good.
I'm sorry, this is my Imam,
Ali Mustafa.
- It's nice to meet you.
- Haven't seen you
at the mosque in years.
Is that because of the job,
or do you no longer worship?
- No, no, no.
Of course I still worship.
Things have been, uh,
a little crazy,
but inshallah,
you'll see me there again soon.
- Inshallah, inshallah.
- Uh, we understand you have
information about the attack.
- Not just an attack.
It was a hate crime.
Four days ago, I saw a man
threaten these boys
outside my mosque.
- What do you mean "threaten"?
- He called them terrorists,
told them to go back
to their country.
You know, that kind of thing.
It would've turned violent too,
but I chased him away.
- What did this guy look like?
- White, in his 20s,
medium build.
He was wearing a hoodie,
so I couldn't see his face.
- Okay, you chased them away.
Did they get away by foot
or by car?
- By foot.
You are the FBI.
Why didn't you stop this man
before he attacked?
- Yeah, well, I mean,
we would've
if we had known about it--
- You did!
I called the FBI
right after the man left.
I talked to an agent about it.
But you did nothing,
and now Kosey's dead.
- Uh, what agent
did you talk to?
- I didn't catch a name,
but it's the number given to me
by the Muslim Outreach Program
run by that guy, Bashar.
He ignores any complaint
I make, no matter how serious.
Can you believe that?
A Muslim turning against
his own people?
- Look, I don't know
about that specific complaint,
but I will look into it.
I promise.
Good to see you.
♪ ♪
- No love lost between
Bashar and your Imam, hey?
- Well, ol' Imam Mustafa
isn't really known
for being subtle.
Neither is Bashar.
- Perfect.
Marriage made in heaven.
- More like hell.
- Well, hopefully
that's not why Bashar's team
ignored the complaint.
- I don't know.
Bashar's complicated.
He spends his life trying to
thread a very tiny needle.
Protecting the U.S.
from terrorism
and then not trying
to stomp on the rights
of Muslim Americans,
decent, hard-working people
just trying to live
their lives.
- That's a tough line to walk.
- Yeah.
- But a valid
hate-crime complaint
should not be ignored,
so we need to find out
what the hell really happened.
- Yeah, Mustafa.
My guys looked into the call.
They even located some footage
of the altercation
from surveillance
we're running.
But it was inconclusive.
Poor angle on the guy,
so no facial rec.
- Could we get that footage
sent to the JOC?
- Not a problem.
- Uh, "surveillance
you're running"?
What's that mean?
Is there something going on
at the mosque that we should
know about?
- Uh, yeah, but, uh,
I can't go into detail.
At least not yet.
- No disrespect,
but if you looked
into Mustafa's complaint,
why didn't you or one
of your agents let him know?
You know, out of courtesy.
- There was nothing to say
and I have no interest
in extending him any courtesy.
I don't like him.
Simple as that.
- Told you.
Not very subtle.
- Hmm.
- Bashar was right.
There's no facial rec
from this angle.
- Guy's pretty brazen
for broad daylight.
Okay, here's the Imam
running him off.
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- What's going on?
- Uh, yeah,
we have a possible lead.
Elise, you wanna...?
- Uh, there was no clear shot
for facial rec.
But the good news is
by accessing nearby traffic cam
footage,
I was able to track the suspect
after the altercation.
Still no shot of his face,
but did manage to see
where he landed.
- Great.
Now we're getting somewhere.
♪ ♪
What is that building
he just went into?
Property records indicate
it's Columbia's School
of Engineering.
- And since he swiped his ID
to get access,
we think he either goes there
or works there.
- Just got off the phone
with campus security.
The only person to enter
the building at that time
was a janitor
named James Tinker.
- They've had run-ins
with the guy
and said
he's a real piece of work.
- What does that mean?
- He's a wannabe cop.
Challenges people whenever he
thinks they're up to no good,
but the problem is
he's usually wrong.
- And they think he's capable
of something like this?
- Yeah, they do.
♪ ♪
- Bring him in.
- FBI, search warrant!
- He's moving to the back.
Hit it.
♪ ♪
- Federal agents!
♪ ♪
- Watch your six.
It looks like he just accessed
the gun safe.
- James! This is the FBI.
Open the door.
- No way. You ain't real cops.
♪ ♪
Keep him busy.
♪ ♪
- Okay, James.
There's my badge.
Do you believe us now?
- Hell no.
I'm standing my ground
till the NYPD gets here.
♪ ♪
- You need to open
this door right now
before someone gets hurt.
Do you understand?
- I'm calling the NYPD.
You don't try to come in here
till I know
the real cops are here.
- He's a real agent.
So am I.
Now put the rifle down,
or I will shoot you.
♪ ♪
Nice and slow.
♪ ♪
Clasp your hands
behind your head.
♪ ♪
Walk towards me.
Stop.
On your knees.
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- I didn't kill anybody.
- We have you on video
harassing the victim.
- Damn straight.
It's 'cause he's one of those
sleeper-cell types,
hiding in plain sight.
You know what I mean?
- No, we don't, James.
So why don't you explain it
to us?
- They come over here
for college.
They learn how to make stuff,
then boom!
- You ever been
under psychiatric care, James?
- I'm not crazy.
The guy was stealing
from the school's work lockers.
There's no reason for that
unless you're up to no good.
- What was he stealing?
- I saw him take thermoplastics
from a school locker.
Found out the next day
he wasn't authorized to be
using that kind of material.
- Okay, so in your mind,
theft means terrorist.
Is that what you're saying?
- No.
I'm telling you
the kid was building
something.
Couple of nights ago,
I saw him with his laptop
hooked up to the school's
3D printers, making parts.
I confronted him.
That's when the coward
sucker-punched me.
Grabbed whatever
he was printing and ran.
- Okay, what kind of parts
was he making?
- Oh, I don't know.
But I'm pretty damn sure
it wasn't anything
to do with school.
- Sounds like he's trying
to lay out a defense.
- Maybe.
Or he's telling the truth
and the victims
weren't so innocent.
- You don't have any bruises.
Did you hit him back?
- I'm not trying to get fired.
- Okay, well,
did it ever occur to you
that maybe Kosey hit you
because
you were stalking him
at his school and his mosque?
You see something,
you say something.
- Oh...
- It's people like him
that need to get outed
to the rest of the country.
- But that's not what you did,
is it?
You didn't report the incident.
You took it
into your own hands,
and you hurt Kosey
and his brother
before they hurt anyone else.
Isn't that right?
- No. No way.
I had nothing to do with that.
♪ ♪
Talk to my girlfriend.
I met her
for dinner last night.
I'm sure the restaurant's
got cameras.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
Hey, James' alibi checks out.
Doesn't mean he's innocent,
but it does mean
he's not our killer.
- Okay, what about his story
regarding Kosey?
Are we believing that
these kids
were up to something sketchy?
- I mean,
James is a lot of things,
but he hasn't proven himself
to be a liar.
- Bashar seems to think
that James is onto something.
He asked that Counterterrorism
be updated
given the mosque's history.
- What history?
- Bashar says that there was
previous terrorist
activity there.
- Does he think
the attack is related?
- It's too soon to say,
but I think that
we need to focus right now
on finding the attacker.
- Yeah.
We know ERT already searched
Amir and Kosey's place.
But at that point,
they were looking for evidence
relating to the attack,
not evidence relating to
the possible terrorist
activity, so.
- All right.
We'll look back into it?
- Yeah.
I mean, we find the motive,
we find the killer.
♪ ♪
- That seal's broken.
- Cover me.
♪ ♪
- What are you doing here?
- We could
ask you the same question.
- I'm looking for intel.
These two victims
might be connected
to something
we've been investigating.
- All due respect,
this is our crime scene.
- For the homicide, yes,
but my focus is
counterterrorism,
which pretty much
trumps anything.
So really,
this is my crime scene.
- Okay, well, it looks like
we're looking
for the same thing,
so what's good for you
is good for us.
We need to look at more
of your surveillance footage
from the mosque.
- My guys are scrubbing it now.
If we find something relevant,
I'll let you know.
- We appreciate that.
Is there any way you could
just give us a snapshot
into what
your investigation is about?
Come on, Bashar,
we're on the same team here.
- It's still ongoing,
but the short version is
we pulled a known terrorist
out of Mustafa's mosque
two years ago.
Been watching it
for other players ever since.
- I'm sorry.
Two years off of one arrest?
- It's still ongoing.
One arrest so far.
- Based on what, exactly?
- Don't be naive.
- Excuse me?
- If there's one terrorist,
there are others,
and right now,
this victim and his brother
just might be the others,
which to me,
justifies our prolonged
interest in that mosque.
♪ ♪
No.
♪ ♪
Check it out.
A laptop under the carpet.
- Find anything else
under there?
- No.
- My team can crack that
pretty fast.
- We'll take a look
at it first.
James Tinker said that
Kosey had a laptop
connected to a 3D printer.
The answers that we need
are probably on that.
- It's password protected.
- My guys, like I said,
can scrub it fast.
- We're good.
Thank you for the offer.
♪ ♪
- The password encryption
software Kosey used
wasn't very sophisticated.
- Well, that's good,
because we're hoping
that whatever's on this laptop
will help us find a motive
for Kosey's death.
- Well, I'd say you're
definitely on the right track.
You ever hear of Moonshade?
It's an anonymous text app.
Kosey used it but just messaged
with one other person,
someone identifying
as "USER6386."
"How fast can you
get it done by?
We need it by next Saturday."
Kosey replied, "No problem.
$4,000 each."
- Right, and Kosey says,
"You're not gonna be
using these
"for anything bad, right?
Just for protection?"
Then USER sends a thumbs up,
and then Kosey
starts getting cold feet,
keeps asking why they need it
by Saturday,
and then
he just stops replying.
Based on these
angry follow-up texts,
USER6386 didn't like that.
- Okay, well,
Saturday is today.
- Yeah.
Okay, were you able to trace
USER's IP?
- I've tried.
Uh, the guy used multiple VPNs.
♪ ♪
- Hey, click on this
3D printing icon here.
- Right, okay.
♪ ♪
- He printed
two thermoplastic guns?
- Right.
- Okay, Bashar might be right
about all of this.
Those things are nearly
impossible to detect.
If they get them onto a plane,
we could...
Be looking at another 9/11.
- Yeah, it appears Kosey
thought he was building
those guns to help someone
protect himself,
when he found out
that wasn't the case,
he backed out of the deal.
- So he was killed
for the guns?
- That is the working theory,
yeah.
- This is New York.
You can buy guns
off the street.
Why kill for them?
- Right.
Not guns like this.
They're made
out of thermoplastic.
So you can walk through
a metal detector
without setting it off.
- What about the bullets?
They metal?
- Yeah. Bit easier to sneak
bullets through security
than a gun, I guess.
- Hey, I just got a phone call
from the hospital.
The brother, Amir,
he's out of surgery.
- Okay. Have OA and Scola
head over there ASAP.
See if he can
get us some answers.
- We know your brother
printed two guns
and that they were stolen.
- Who attacked you
and stole the guns, Amir?
- Stay with us.
Amir, focus.
What did they look like?
- Two men.
♪ ♪
Light-skinned.
♪ ♪
Beards.
- Okay. Two men.
There anything else
you can tell us about 'em?
Scars, tattoos, anything?
- Our mosque.
Gu--
Gold car.
- They go to your mosque,
and they drive a gold car?
Okay.
Okay, that's good.
K--
Kosey.
My--my brother.
Where is--where is Kosey?
♪ ♪
Whe--
Where--where is Kosey?
- Amir, um...
Kosey didn't make it.
- No.
- Ko...
- But I promise you
we're gonna do everything
in our power to get these guys.
both: Hey.
- Nurses!
- Hey, come on.
- Nurse!
- Kid, you gotta stay with us.
Okay? Hey, keep fighting.
- Get me a crash cart now.
- Crashing 50 over 20.
♪ ♪
- Wait, so now you're saying
whoever attacked those two boys
attends this mosque?
- Yes.
Amir said that there were
two men,
light-skinned with beards
that drive a gold-colored car.
This is absurd, Omar.
I call in a hate crime
and the FBI uses it
as an excuse
to hunt terrorists
in my mosque?
- We're just following
the evidence.
- You don't think
I see through this?
That I'm not aware the FBI's
constantly watching us?
- This has nothing
to do with that.
- It does.
Did Bashar tell you
what happened two years ago?
How I reported
one of our members
because I had concerns?
- No, he didn't.
- Of course not,
because he used my honesty,
my desire
to protect innocent people
as an excuse to persecute us.
- What are you talking about?
- He started using informants,
forcing people to tattle
on their friends,
on their relatives.
In the past two years,
Bashar has deported 20 members
of my mosque
for visa violations,
including my brother.
- We can't speak
for anyone else.
We're here to find the men
who attacked Kosey and Amir.
- Then get me their names,
and show me proof they did it.
Then I will help you.
- We don't have their names.
That is why we're here.
That's why we need your help.
- Omar, you know
I'm a fair man,
but I have a responsibility
to my congregation.
I will not expose them
to unfocused harassment.
They deserve their privacy
just like anybody else.
- Okay, if you choose not
to cooperate with us,
you're forcing us
to get a warrant.
- You'll be wasting your time.
I do not keep names or lists.
I delete the security camera
footage every 72 hours.
We use it to keep
the mosque secure,
not to help the FBI
harass our members.
♪ ♪
- Let's talk to Bashar.
We'll look at
his surveillance footage.
♪ ♪
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
Thank you.
I appreciate you helping us.
- Of course.
I'm just surprised
you actually went to see
the Imam in the first place.
Waste of time.
- I don't think so.
If we had more evidence,
he would've cooperated.
- He's not our friend, Omar.
- Look, I get it.
Mustafa is an Imam.
That title demands respect.
But when it comes
to investigating crime
and potential
terrorist activity,
he has a different agenda:
protecting his community.
- Is that so bad?
- Yeah.
If he has information that
could help us thwart a threat,
just imagine what would happen
if another Muslim terrorist
slipped through the cracks,
and a major attack occurred.
It would set us back 20 years,
erase all the progress
we've made.
Look, I'm trying to help
our people too,
but I'm just doing it
in a different way.
♪ ♪
Hope the video helps.
Didn't come from me.
♪ ♪
- You havin' any luck
with that ID?
- Not a single hit anywhere.
Their faces are not
in our system.
- Really? What of
the license plate on the Honda?
- It's cold.
DMV records show
it belongs to a blue Ram truck.
- Okay.
- Maybe we should put a BOLO
out on that car
and the suspect photos.
- Yeah, yeah.
Let me see this.
- If the suspects
wanted the guns today,
we are running out of time.
- Yeah, I know.
We're doing everything we can.
Can't catch a break.
♪ ♪
- Okay, listen.
If the suspects attend
the Grand Shah Mosque,
we need the Imam's cooperation.
I understand you've been
getting pushback,
but you have a personal
relationship with the Imam.
Use it, and get some answers.
- Okay.
I can try, but...
it might help
if I can talk to him alone.
- That guy's not gonna fold
just because we're nice to him.
Trust me.
♪ ♪
Come on.
I'll go with you.
♪ ♪
- Yeah. Go.
♪ ♪
- Uh, look.
No offense, but I think
this might be better
if I do it on my own.
- Why,
because I might offend him?
- Honestly, yeah.
- Let me ask you
a hypothetical question.
If this were a Catholic priest,
would you be
struggling so much?
- I don't think
that's a fair comparison.
- Of course it is.
Just follow my lead.
I'll push his buttons,
get him worked up.
You come to his defense,
ingratiate yourself,
chase me out the door.
When you're alone with him,
get the answers we need.
- That doesn't work for me.
- I don't give a damn
what works for you.
That's what we're going to do.
That's an order.
Copy that.
- These men killed Kosey?
You have proof?
- We don't have proof.
But Amir gave us
a physical description
and a car color and
that photo is a match to both.
- But you're not sure?
What is this?
- That's a photo
taken yesterday.
Your brother talking
to three known terrorists.
They've met in the same
Egyptian marketplace
four times
in the last three weeks.
It means
they're planning something.
♪ ♪
- No, no.
See, Omar?
This is exactly
what I'm talking about.
To this man, anyone who doesn't
believe America is perfect
is a terrorist.
- State Department
says those men are terrorists,
not me.
Next time
they show their faces,
one of our drones
will be taking them out.
- Get the hell
out of my mosque.
- I want the names
of those two men.
♪ ♪
Don't ever
lay your hands on me.
Am I clear?
- Guys, enough.
We are in a mosque. Please.
- He's threatening my brother!
How do you expect me
to deal with a man like this?
- I know. I'm sorry.
Okay, I apolo--
- Don't ever apologize for me!
Not my fault
his brother hates America.
- Get out of my mosque!
- Bashar, please, just go.
♪ ♪
I am sorry, but you know me,
and I wouldn't lie to you.
We are just looking
for the people
that attacked Kosey and Amir.
That's it.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
The two men in that photo
approached me a week ago.
Asked me what the prophet
says about retribution.
- And what did you say?
- That to forgive is great
and will be rewarded.
♪ ♪
If these men
did the things you say,
I have failed...
as an Imam
and as a human being.
So I pray that you're wrong.
♪ ♪
Your colleague there
just crossed the line,
accusing my brother
of being a terrorist,
attacking his reputation.
He won't get away with that.
♪ ♪
- I'm gonna talk to him, okay?
- No, that's not good enough.
I'm filing a complaint,
and I expect you
to support me on this.
♪ ♪
If not, you can forget about
worshipping here in the future.
♪ ♪
- You get the names?
- Yeah.
- Good.
I was hoping that Photoshop
ruse would move the needle.
Let's go.
- I'm sorry.
You fabricated these photos?
♪ ♪
- You accused his brother
of associating with terrorists.
Bashar, we can't do that.
- Who cares? It worked.
We got what we needed.
♪ ♪
- All right, people.
We have our suspects:
two cousins
named Rasul and Papa Petrov,
and whatever they are planning
could be happening as we speak.
So let's pin down their
location immediately, please.
- Yeah, there's no permanent
addresses we can find.
Neither have
an online presence.
- Okay, what about
a search outside the U.S.?
From the driver's license,
I'm saying they're, what,
Russian? Chechen?
- Chechen-Muslims.
From what I can tell,
it looks like both suspects
left Grozny, Chechnya in 2010.
But after that,
their trail goes cold,
presumably because
they snuck in illegally.
- Right, well,
that makes sense.
2010 is right after
the Second Chechen War.
A lot of people
fled the country around then.
- I may have something.
- Tell me.
- A Rasul Petrov
was issued a loitering ticket
by a beat cop in Queens
two weeks ago.
- Tell me
he supplied an address.
- An apartment
in Coney Island.
- Ding, ding, ding.
- All right.
S.W.A.T.'s
still five minutes out,
so let's get containment
of this building
before they get here.
- Copy that.
Hey, I got a visual
on Papa and Rasul.
- FBI!
Keep your hands
where I can see them.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- Stop running!
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- OA, I lost Rasul.
I think he may be doubling back
toward the boardwalk.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay.
♪ ♪
- Papa, put the gun down!
- Ah!
♪ ♪
- What's he saying?
- I don't--I don't know.
Here, put pressure on him
right here.
- Ambulance--
- Ambulance
is five minutes out.
♪ ♪
- Come on, come on, come on...
Come on! Come on!
- I think I got it.
♪ ♪
- Play it again.
- It's definitely Russian,
but mine's rusty.
I can't translate it.
- According to this Russian
translation program, it means,
"Dig three graves,
forest beast, revenge."
- What the hell's that mean?
- He wants revenge.
Thanks.
All right,
so let's assume Rasul
still wanted
to get this revenge.
The question is: on whom?
- Hey, just got off the phone
with our legal attaché
in Moscow.
The suspects were originally
from a rural village
called Shatoy.
Apparently there was some
alleged massacre back in 2002.
- Yeah, yeah, 35 innocents
were executed by suspected
Russian OMON forces.
Houses were burned,
women and children.
Three of the listed victims
share the last name
as Papa and Rasul.
- Okay, so our suspects believe
their loved ones
were killed
by Russian military.
Maybe that has something
to do with
what they planned
to use these guns for.
- It says in this article
I'm reading
that the Russian special forces
believed to be responsible
were under the direction
of Dmitry Borchin,
an ex-KGB officer.
Chechens refer to him
as "the Beast of the Forest."
- "Forest Beast,"
that's what Papa said.
All right,
that's gotta be our guy.
Throw 'em up. Here we go.
Take a look.
Dmitry Borchin.
That's our suspect's target.
- Where's Borchin now?
- Uh, CBP is saying Borchin
arrived in the U.S. yesterday.
He's here with his wife
and three sons.
- I thought
he was a war criminal.
- Well, according to
the NSA brief
on the incident,
that's not the case.
Says there's a high probability
that Borchin and his troops
were used
as Chechen propaganda.
- Always two sides
to every war.
What is he doing here now?
He's here
for a private speaking event
on Russian-American relations
at the Lucas Auditorium
in Brighton Beach.
It starts in half an hour.
- All right,
get the team over there now.
- Yup.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- FBI.
We have reason to believe that
Dmitry Borchin's in danger.
- What kind of danger?
- We don't have time
to explain.
We need your men to stand down
till we can locate the suspect.
Hey!
- Move,
or I'll have every one of you
arrested for obstruction.
♪ ♪
- Anybody got eyes on Rasul?
- Negative.
We need
to shut this thing down.
There's way too many bystanders
in the line of fire
if this thing goes south.
- Agreed.
But Borchin's our target,
so let's secure him first.
- Too late.
He's already making his way
to the stage.
Okay, we need to split up
and cover him now.
Let's go.
Guys.
- Hey, Tiff, with me.
♪ ♪
- Welcome, everyone.
My name is Anastasia,
and I'll be your moderator.
Thank you for joining us
this evening.
Tonight's event is sponsored
by the Turley House.
Our special guest tonight
is Dmitry Borchin,
a leading expert
on Russian-American relations.
- Okay, I am not seeing Rasul
anywhere in the audience.
♪ ♪
- Dmitry, what do you make
of the current relations
between our countries,
and where do you see
the relationship trending
in the next five years?
♪ ♪
- What do I make of it?
A lot.
But I take it you want
the five-minute version?
The truth is revisionist
history is more powerful
than you or I could ever know.
On its face, it's a narrative
told from the heroes affected,
but at its core,
it's a propaganda tool.
I remember watching news
of the Cuban Missile Crisis
with my father and I asked him
why they were fighting.
He said, "Because America
put missiles in our backyard
but are pissed
that we feign to them."
- Get up.
- Oh...
- Go, go.
Get out of here.
- And therein lies
some of the problem.
It's complicated.
At its best,
it's a healthy mixture
of cooperation and competition.
At its worst,
it's the calm before the storm.
Now, this is just my opinion,
but America
is the real antagonist.
They make a decision
and expect the world
to agree with their choice.
When another country
makes its own decision,
they throw the red flag.
America made the first move.
Russia just countered them.
Yet we are the bad guy,
and they are the hero.
America is the real antagonist
in most situations.
This country
likes playing at big brother
to the rest of the world.
And we in Russia,
we are offended.
We're just as capable
of making our own decisions
as they are to do
what is best for our country.
- Gun.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- I just called the hospital.
Kosey's brother, Amir,
is in stable condition.
It's gonna be a long recovery,
but he'll live.
- That's good to hear.
Look.
I don't wanna cross the line.
But for the record,
I think I could've gotten
the answers we needed
from Imam Mustafa
without all of the anger
and the lies.
- It's possible.
What if you were wrong?
What if we couldn't have?
Look, I don't play favorites,
Omar.
I just follow the leads.
- And I am not saying that
you need to play favorites.
I am just saying that
it almost feels like
you go out of your way to.
- To what?
Go after Muslims?
Are you accusing me
of being anti-Muslim?
Look, we work for the FBI.
Not Muslims,
not Middle-Easterners.
We go where the crime is,
where the danger is
regardless of our personal
beliefs and hopes.
You wanna help Muslims?
Start a charity.
- Don't you think
that's a narrow view?
- No, I think
it's a realistic view,
because I hate to break
the news to you,
Brother Zidan.
But some of us are,
in fact, criminals,
and some of us are, in fact,
connected to
terrorist organizations.
That's just how it is.
- Can I speak to both of you
in my office?
♪ ♪
- I just got off the phone
with Imam Mustafa.
He said that you
threatened his brother's life
and that you assaulted him.
This is my case.
My name is on that file
so I need to know
what happened.
- We needed answers.
Mustafa had them
and chose to obstruct,
so we played a little
good cop, bad cop.
Things got heated
then physical.
- How physical?
- He tried to push me,
so I blocked his hand.
- Is that what you saw as well?
♪ ♪
- Yes.
- So there's no need for me
to pursue his complaint?
♪ ♪
- No.
We did our job.
Special Agent in charge,
Bashar, did nothing wrong.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
It's okay.
There's nothing
to be worried about.
I handled it.
I promise.
Uh, it went
as well as it could.
All right.
I'll be home soon.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- Hey, you okay?
What happened?
- It's fine.
- Talk to me.
- Close the door.
You don't need to--
- Kosey, where've you been?
- You don't need to worry
about it.
- Kosey, talk to me.
- Hey, it's okay, it's okay.
♪ ♪
- Kosey!
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- I promise I'm not trying
to just make the sale.
It really has been
an incredible ride.
Every case is an opportunity
to affect someone's life,
and that is why this is
such an amazing profession,
and that is also why we recruit
the brightest and the best
from all walks of life,
from poor, rich,
Black, white, Middle Eastern...
and it will continue
to stay that way
as long as folks like us
continue to join the ranks.
Yes.
- How's the money?
- Well, you won't get rich.
But you won't live
paycheck to paycheck either.
- What about being a minority?
Have you found that
it's something that helps
your career or hurts it?
- Well, that's complicated.
I think the, um--
- It's actually
not that complicated,
so I'll answer that one, Omar.
I joined this Bureau
30 years ago.
10 years later, 9/11 happened.
It wasn't a great time to be
a Muslim in New York City.
Trust me.
But the Bureau made me feel
like I belonged,
like I was a part
of the family.
It can be that way
for all of you
if you put in work
and honor the badge.
- Special Agent Bashar gave me
that same exact speech
seven years ago
when I was recruited,
and I can promise you
I have no regrets.
Oh, I'm sorry. That is work.
I have to go, and no, this
wasn't planned.
Thank you.
- Hey, folks,
NYPD asked us for help
regarding a potential
hate crime.
So listen up.
- 22-year-old Kosey Khan,
a Pakistani student here
on temporary visa,
had his throat slit last night.
His younger brother,
Amir, was also stabbed,
and he is currently in surgery.
- Let's talk about
what we know about the victims.
- Yeah.
Kosey was enrolled in Columbia,
an engineering major
at 3.9 GPA.
His younger brother, Amir,
worked at a local restaurant.
Doesn't seem to be here
legally.
- Neither appear to have
a social media footprint.
- Mm-hmm.
What about criminal history?
Anything?
- None.
Not even a parking ticket.
- So why them?
Why attack them at their home?
- Right, hate crimes typically
happen out on the street,
so maybe there's
a personal connection.
All right, so dig into
the victims' personal lives,
friends, neighbors, classmates,
anyone in their orbit
with hate-related priors,
or racist social media posts.
The answers are out there.
Let's find them.
- Upstairs neighbor
called it in.
Heard someone yelling for help.
Uniforms knocked
and didn't get an answer,
so they made entry
and found the victims.
- Any signs of forced entry?
- None.
Door was unlocked.
- There cameras
in this building?
- Negative.
Place is as basic as they come.
Rent's cheap,
and the amenities reflect it.
- It's not the best
neighborhood.
Doors stay locked.
So our suspect was either
invited in,
or he waited for the victims
to open the door.
- All right,
we're gonna need your help
canvassing the area
for witnesses.
- Yeah.
- Maggie.
A ton of valuable
electronics untouched.
- Maybe they were looking
for money or drugs.
- What makes you think
it was a hate crime?
- Well, I wasn't sure at first.
But the victims' Imam showed up
about an hour ago,
said he had proof
that they were targeted.
- What kind of proof?
- Something about domestic
terrorist threats
against these kids' lives.
I told him because of that,
we need to bring the FBI
on board.
He wasn't exactly thrilled
to hear that.
- Omar!
- I'm Agent Bell.
This is Agent Zidan.
- How are you, Omar?
It's been a long time.
- It has.
I'm good. I'm good.
I'm sorry, this is my Imam,
Ali Mustafa.
- It's nice to meet you.
- Haven't seen you
at the mosque in years.
Is that because of the job,
or do you no longer worship?
- No, no, no.
Of course I still worship.
Things have been, uh,
a little crazy,
but inshallah,
you'll see me there again soon.
- Inshallah, inshallah.
- Uh, we understand you have
information about the attack.
- Not just an attack.
It was a hate crime.
Four days ago, I saw a man
threaten these boys
outside my mosque.
- What do you mean "threaten"?
- He called them terrorists,
told them to go back
to their country.
You know, that kind of thing.
It would've turned violent too,
but I chased him away.
- What did this guy look like?
- White, in his 20s,
medium build.
He was wearing a hoodie,
so I couldn't see his face.
- Okay, you chased them away.
Did they get away by foot
or by car?
- By foot.
You are the FBI.
Why didn't you stop this man
before he attacked?
- Yeah, well, I mean,
we would've
if we had known about it--
- You did!
I called the FBI
right after the man left.
I talked to an agent about it.
But you did nothing,
and now Kosey's dead.
- Uh, what agent
did you talk to?
- I didn't catch a name,
but it's the number given to me
by the Muslim Outreach Program
run by that guy, Bashar.
He ignores any complaint
I make, no matter how serious.
Can you believe that?
A Muslim turning against
his own people?
- Look, I don't know
about that specific complaint,
but I will look into it.
I promise.
Good to see you.
♪ ♪
- No love lost between
Bashar and your Imam, hey?
- Well, ol' Imam Mustafa
isn't really known
for being subtle.
Neither is Bashar.
- Perfect.
Marriage made in heaven.
- More like hell.
- Well, hopefully
that's not why Bashar's team
ignored the complaint.
- I don't know.
Bashar's complicated.
He spends his life trying to
thread a very tiny needle.
Protecting the U.S.
from terrorism
and then not trying
to stomp on the rights
of Muslim Americans,
decent, hard-working people
just trying to live
their lives.
- That's a tough line to walk.
- Yeah.
- But a valid
hate-crime complaint
should not be ignored,
so we need to find out
what the hell really happened.
- Yeah, Mustafa.
My guys looked into the call.
They even located some footage
of the altercation
from surveillance
we're running.
But it was inconclusive.
Poor angle on the guy,
so no facial rec.
- Could we get that footage
sent to the JOC?
- Not a problem.
- Uh, "surveillance
you're running"?
What's that mean?
Is there something going on
at the mosque that we should
know about?
- Uh, yeah, but, uh,
I can't go into detail.
At least not yet.
- No disrespect,
but if you looked
into Mustafa's complaint,
why didn't you or one
of your agents let him know?
You know, out of courtesy.
- There was nothing to say
and I have no interest
in extending him any courtesy.
I don't like him.
Simple as that.
- Told you.
Not very subtle.
- Hmm.
- Bashar was right.
There's no facial rec
from this angle.
- Guy's pretty brazen
for broad daylight.
Okay, here's the Imam
running him off.
♪ ♪
- What's going on?
- Uh, yeah,
we have a possible lead.
Elise, you wanna...?
- Uh, there was no clear shot
for facial rec.
But the good news is
by accessing nearby traffic cam
footage,
I was able to track the suspect
after the altercation.
Still no shot of his face,
but did manage to see
where he landed.
- Great.
Now we're getting somewhere.
♪ ♪
What is that building
he just went into?
Property records indicate
it's Columbia's School
of Engineering.
- And since he swiped his ID
to get access,
we think he either goes there
or works there.
- Just got off the phone
with campus security.
The only person to enter
the building at that time
was a janitor
named James Tinker.
- They've had run-ins
with the guy
and said
he's a real piece of work.
- What does that mean?
- He's a wannabe cop.
Challenges people whenever he
thinks they're up to no good,
but the problem is
he's usually wrong.
- And they think he's capable
of something like this?
- Yeah, they do.
♪ ♪
- Bring him in.
- FBI, search warrant!
- He's moving to the back.
Hit it.
♪ ♪
- Federal agents!
♪ ♪
- Watch your six.
It looks like he just accessed
the gun safe.
- James! This is the FBI.
Open the door.
- No way. You ain't real cops.
♪ ♪
Keep him busy.
♪ ♪
- Okay, James.
There's my badge.
Do you believe us now?
- Hell no.
I'm standing my ground
till the NYPD gets here.
♪ ♪
- You need to open
this door right now
before someone gets hurt.
Do you understand?
- I'm calling the NYPD.
You don't try to come in here
till I know
the real cops are here.
- He's a real agent.
So am I.
Now put the rifle down,
or I will shoot you.
♪ ♪
Nice and slow.
♪ ♪
Clasp your hands
behind your head.
♪ ♪
Walk towards me.
Stop.
On your knees.
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- I didn't kill anybody.
- We have you on video
harassing the victim.
- Damn straight.
It's 'cause he's one of those
sleeper-cell types,
hiding in plain sight.
You know what I mean?
- No, we don't, James.
So why don't you explain it
to us?
- They come over here
for college.
They learn how to make stuff,
then boom!
- You ever been
under psychiatric care, James?
- I'm not crazy.
The guy was stealing
from the school's work lockers.
There's no reason for that
unless you're up to no good.
- What was he stealing?
- I saw him take thermoplastics
from a school locker.
Found out the next day
he wasn't authorized to be
using that kind of material.
- Okay, so in your mind,
theft means terrorist.
Is that what you're saying?
- No.
I'm telling you
the kid was building
something.
Couple of nights ago,
I saw him with his laptop
hooked up to the school's
3D printers, making parts.
I confronted him.
That's when the coward
sucker-punched me.
Grabbed whatever
he was printing and ran.
- Okay, what kind of parts
was he making?
- Oh, I don't know.
But I'm pretty damn sure
it wasn't anything
to do with school.
- Sounds like he's trying
to lay out a defense.
- Maybe.
Or he's telling the truth
and the victims
weren't so innocent.
- You don't have any bruises.
Did you hit him back?
- I'm not trying to get fired.
- Okay, well,
did it ever occur to you
that maybe Kosey hit you
because
you were stalking him
at his school and his mosque?
You see something,
you say something.
- Oh...
- It's people like him
that need to get outed
to the rest of the country.
- But that's not what you did,
is it?
You didn't report the incident.
You took it
into your own hands,
and you hurt Kosey
and his brother
before they hurt anyone else.
Isn't that right?
- No. No way.
I had nothing to do with that.
♪ ♪
Talk to my girlfriend.
I met her
for dinner last night.
I'm sure the restaurant's
got cameras.
♪ ♪
- Okay.
Hey, James' alibi checks out.
Doesn't mean he's innocent,
but it does mean
he's not our killer.
- Okay, what about his story
regarding Kosey?
Are we believing that
these kids
were up to something sketchy?
- I mean,
James is a lot of things,
but he hasn't proven himself
to be a liar.
- Bashar seems to think
that James is onto something.
He asked that Counterterrorism
be updated
given the mosque's history.
- What history?
- Bashar says that there was
previous terrorist
activity there.
- Does he think
the attack is related?
- It's too soon to say,
but I think that
we need to focus right now
on finding the attacker.
- Yeah.
We know ERT already searched
Amir and Kosey's place.
But at that point,
they were looking for evidence
relating to the attack,
not evidence relating to
the possible terrorist
activity, so.
- All right.
We'll look back into it?
- Yeah.
I mean, we find the motive,
we find the killer.
♪ ♪
- That seal's broken.
- Cover me.
♪ ♪
- What are you doing here?
- We could
ask you the same question.
- I'm looking for intel.
These two victims
might be connected
to something
we've been investigating.
- All due respect,
this is our crime scene.
- For the homicide, yes,
but my focus is
counterterrorism,
which pretty much
trumps anything.
So really,
this is my crime scene.
- Okay, well, it looks like
we're looking
for the same thing,
so what's good for you
is good for us.
We need to look at more
of your surveillance footage
from the mosque.
- My guys are scrubbing it now.
If we find something relevant,
I'll let you know.
- We appreciate that.
Is there any way you could
just give us a snapshot
into what
your investigation is about?
Come on, Bashar,
we're on the same team here.
- It's still ongoing,
but the short version is
we pulled a known terrorist
out of Mustafa's mosque
two years ago.
Been watching it
for other players ever since.
- I'm sorry.
Two years off of one arrest?
- It's still ongoing.
One arrest so far.
- Based on what, exactly?
- Don't be naive.
- Excuse me?
- If there's one terrorist,
there are others,
and right now,
this victim and his brother
just might be the others,
which to me,
justifies our prolonged
interest in that mosque.
♪ ♪
No.
♪ ♪
Check it out.
A laptop under the carpet.
- Find anything else
under there?
- No.
- My team can crack that
pretty fast.
- We'll take a look
at it first.
James Tinker said that
Kosey had a laptop
connected to a 3D printer.
The answers that we need
are probably on that.
- It's password protected.
- My guys, like I said,
can scrub it fast.
- We're good.
Thank you for the offer.
♪ ♪
- The password encryption
software Kosey used
wasn't very sophisticated.
- Well, that's good,
because we're hoping
that whatever's on this laptop
will help us find a motive
for Kosey's death.
- Well, I'd say you're
definitely on the right track.
You ever hear of Moonshade?
It's an anonymous text app.
Kosey used it but just messaged
with one other person,
someone identifying
as "USER6386."
"How fast can you
get it done by?
We need it by next Saturday."
Kosey replied, "No problem.
$4,000 each."
- Right, and Kosey says,
"You're not gonna be
using these
"for anything bad, right?
Just for protection?"
Then USER sends a thumbs up,
and then Kosey
starts getting cold feet,
keeps asking why they need it
by Saturday,
and then
he just stops replying.
Based on these
angry follow-up texts,
USER6386 didn't like that.
- Okay, well,
Saturday is today.
- Yeah.
Okay, were you able to trace
USER's IP?
- I've tried.
Uh, the guy used multiple VPNs.
♪ ♪
- Hey, click on this
3D printing icon here.
- Right, okay.
♪ ♪
- He printed
two thermoplastic guns?
- Right.
- Okay, Bashar might be right
about all of this.
Those things are nearly
impossible to detect.
If they get them onto a plane,
we could...
Be looking at another 9/11.
- Yeah, it appears Kosey
thought he was building
those guns to help someone
protect himself,
when he found out
that wasn't the case,
he backed out of the deal.
- So he was killed
for the guns?
- That is the working theory,
yeah.
- This is New York.
You can buy guns
off the street.
Why kill for them?
- Right.
Not guns like this.
They're made
out of thermoplastic.
So you can walk through
a metal detector
without setting it off.
- What about the bullets?
They metal?
- Yeah. Bit easier to sneak
bullets through security
than a gun, I guess.
- Hey, I just got a phone call
from the hospital.
The brother, Amir,
he's out of surgery.
- Okay. Have OA and Scola
head over there ASAP.
See if he can
get us some answers.
- We know your brother
printed two guns
and that they were stolen.
- Who attacked you
and stole the guns, Amir?
- Stay with us.
Amir, focus.
What did they look like?
- Two men.
♪ ♪
Light-skinned.
♪ ♪
Beards.
- Okay. Two men.
There anything else
you can tell us about 'em?
Scars, tattoos, anything?
- Our mosque.
Gu--
Gold car.
- They go to your mosque,
and they drive a gold car?
Okay.
Okay, that's good.
K--
Kosey.
My--my brother.
Where is--where is Kosey?
♪ ♪
Whe--
Where--where is Kosey?
- Amir, um...
Kosey didn't make it.
- No.
- Ko...
- But I promise you
we're gonna do everything
in our power to get these guys.
both: Hey.
- Nurses!
- Hey, come on.
- Nurse!
- Kid, you gotta stay with us.
Okay? Hey, keep fighting.
- Get me a crash cart now.
- Crashing 50 over 20.
♪ ♪
- Wait, so now you're saying
whoever attacked those two boys
attends this mosque?
- Yes.
Amir said that there were
two men,
light-skinned with beards
that drive a gold-colored car.
This is absurd, Omar.
I call in a hate crime
and the FBI uses it
as an excuse
to hunt terrorists
in my mosque?
- We're just following
the evidence.
- You don't think
I see through this?
That I'm not aware the FBI's
constantly watching us?
- This has nothing
to do with that.
- It does.
Did Bashar tell you
what happened two years ago?
How I reported
one of our members
because I had concerns?
- No, he didn't.
- Of course not,
because he used my honesty,
my desire
to protect innocent people
as an excuse to persecute us.
- What are you talking about?
- He started using informants,
forcing people to tattle
on their friends,
on their relatives.
In the past two years,
Bashar has deported 20 members
of my mosque
for visa violations,
including my brother.
- We can't speak
for anyone else.
We're here to find the men
who attacked Kosey and Amir.
- Then get me their names,
and show me proof they did it.
Then I will help you.
- We don't have their names.
That is why we're here.
That's why we need your help.
- Omar, you know
I'm a fair man,
but I have a responsibility
to my congregation.
I will not expose them
to unfocused harassment.
They deserve their privacy
just like anybody else.
- Okay, if you choose not
to cooperate with us,
you're forcing us
to get a warrant.
- You'll be wasting your time.
I do not keep names or lists.
I delete the security camera
footage every 72 hours.
We use it to keep
the mosque secure,
not to help the FBI
harass our members.
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- Let's talk to Bashar.
We'll look at
his surveillance footage.
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- Yeah.
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Thank you.
I appreciate you helping us.
- Of course.
I'm just surprised
you actually went to see
the Imam in the first place.
Waste of time.
- I don't think so.
If we had more evidence,
he would've cooperated.
- He's not our friend, Omar.
- Look, I get it.
Mustafa is an Imam.
That title demands respect.
But when it comes
to investigating crime
and potential
terrorist activity,
he has a different agenda:
protecting his community.
- Is that so bad?
- Yeah.
If he has information that
could help us thwart a threat,
just imagine what would happen
if another Muslim terrorist
slipped through the cracks,
and a major attack occurred.
It would set us back 20 years,
erase all the progress
we've made.
Look, I'm trying to help
our people too,
but I'm just doing it
in a different way.
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Hope the video helps.
Didn't come from me.
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- You havin' any luck
with that ID?
- Not a single hit anywhere.
Their faces are not
in our system.
- Really? What of
the license plate on the Honda?
- It's cold.
DMV records show
it belongs to a blue Ram truck.
- Okay.
- Maybe we should put a BOLO
out on that car
and the suspect photos.
- Yeah, yeah.
Let me see this.
- If the suspects
wanted the guns today,
we are running out of time.
- Yeah, I know.
We're doing everything we can.
Can't catch a break.
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- Okay, listen.
If the suspects attend
the Grand Shah Mosque,
we need the Imam's cooperation.
I understand you've been
getting pushback,
but you have a personal
relationship with the Imam.
Use it, and get some answers.
- Okay.
I can try, but...
it might help
if I can talk to him alone.
- That guy's not gonna fold
just because we're nice to him.
Trust me.
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Come on.
I'll go with you.
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- Yeah. Go.
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- Uh, look.
No offense, but I think
this might be better
if I do it on my own.
- Why,
because I might offend him?
- Honestly, yeah.
- Let me ask you
a hypothetical question.
If this were a Catholic priest,
would you be
struggling so much?
- I don't think
that's a fair comparison.
- Of course it is.
Just follow my lead.
I'll push his buttons,
get him worked up.
You come to his defense,
ingratiate yourself,
chase me out the door.
When you're alone with him,
get the answers we need.
- That doesn't work for me.
- I don't give a damn
what works for you.
That's what we're going to do.
That's an order.
Copy that.
- These men killed Kosey?
You have proof?
- We don't have proof.
But Amir gave us
a physical description
and a car color and
that photo is a match to both.
- But you're not sure?
What is this?
- That's a photo
taken yesterday.
Your brother talking
to three known terrorists.
They've met in the same
Egyptian marketplace
four times
in the last three weeks.
It means
they're planning something.
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- No, no.
See, Omar?
This is exactly
what I'm talking about.
To this man, anyone who doesn't
believe America is perfect
is a terrorist.
- State Department
says those men are terrorists,
not me.
Next time
they show their faces,
one of our drones
will be taking them out.
- Get the hell
out of my mosque.
- I want the names
of those two men.
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Don't ever
lay your hands on me.
Am I clear?
- Guys, enough.
We are in a mosque. Please.
- He's threatening my brother!
How do you expect me
to deal with a man like this?
- I know. I'm sorry.
Okay, I apolo--
- Don't ever apologize for me!
Not my fault
his brother hates America.
- Get out of my mosque!
- Bashar, please, just go.
♪ ♪
I am sorry, but you know me,
and I wouldn't lie to you.
We are just looking
for the people
that attacked Kosey and Amir.
That's it.
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The two men in that photo
approached me a week ago.
Asked me what the prophet
says about retribution.
- And what did you say?
- That to forgive is great
and will be rewarded.
♪ ♪
If these men
did the things you say,
I have failed...
as an Imam
and as a human being.
So I pray that you're wrong.
♪ ♪
Your colleague there
just crossed the line,
accusing my brother
of being a terrorist,
attacking his reputation.
He won't get away with that.
♪ ♪
- I'm gonna talk to him, okay?
- No, that's not good enough.
I'm filing a complaint,
and I expect you
to support me on this.
♪ ♪
If not, you can forget about
worshipping here in the future.
♪ ♪
- You get the names?
- Yeah.
- Good.
I was hoping that Photoshop
ruse would move the needle.
Let's go.
- I'm sorry.
You fabricated these photos?
♪ ♪
- You accused his brother
of associating with terrorists.
Bashar, we can't do that.
- Who cares? It worked.
We got what we needed.
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- All right, people.
We have our suspects:
two cousins
named Rasul and Papa Petrov,
and whatever they are planning
could be happening as we speak.
So let's pin down their
location immediately, please.
- Yeah, there's no permanent
addresses we can find.
Neither have
an online presence.
- Okay, what about
a search outside the U.S.?
From the driver's license,
I'm saying they're, what,
Russian? Chechen?
- Chechen-Muslims.
From what I can tell,
it looks like both suspects
left Grozny, Chechnya in 2010.
But after that,
their trail goes cold,
presumably because
they snuck in illegally.
- Right, well,
that makes sense.
2010 is right after
the Second Chechen War.
A lot of people
fled the country around then.
- I may have something.
- Tell me.
- A Rasul Petrov
was issued a loitering ticket
by a beat cop in Queens
two weeks ago.
- Tell me
he supplied an address.
- An apartment
in Coney Island.
- Ding, ding, ding.
- All right.
S.W.A.T.'s
still five minutes out,
so let's get containment
of this building
before they get here.
- Copy that.
Hey, I got a visual
on Papa and Rasul.
- FBI!
Keep your hands
where I can see them.
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♪ ♪
- Stop running!
♪ ♪
♪ ♪
- OA, I lost Rasul.
I think he may be doubling back
toward the boardwalk.
♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay.
♪ ♪
- Papa, put the gun down!
- Ah!
♪ ♪
- What's he saying?
- I don't--I don't know.
Here, put pressure on him
right here.
- Ambulance--
- Ambulance
is five minutes out.
♪ ♪
- Come on, come on, come on...
Come on! Come on!
- I think I got it.
♪ ♪
- Play it again.
- It's definitely Russian,
but mine's rusty.
I can't translate it.
- According to this Russian
translation program, it means,
"Dig three graves,
forest beast, revenge."
- What the hell's that mean?
- He wants revenge.
Thanks.
All right,
so let's assume Rasul
still wanted
to get this revenge.
The question is: on whom?
- Hey, just got off the phone
with our legal attaché
in Moscow.
The suspects were originally
from a rural village
called Shatoy.
Apparently there was some
alleged massacre back in 2002.
- Yeah, yeah, 35 innocents
were executed by suspected
Russian OMON forces.
Houses were burned,
women and children.
Three of the listed victims
share the last name
as Papa and Rasul.
- Okay, so our suspects believe
their loved ones
were killed
by Russian military.
Maybe that has something
to do with
what they planned
to use these guns for.
- It says in this article
I'm reading
that the Russian special forces
believed to be responsible
were under the direction
of Dmitry Borchin,
an ex-KGB officer.
Chechens refer to him
as "the Beast of the Forest."
- "Forest Beast,"
that's what Papa said.
All right,
that's gotta be our guy.
Throw 'em up. Here we go.
Take a look.
Dmitry Borchin.
That's our suspect's target.
- Where's Borchin now?
- Uh, CBP is saying Borchin
arrived in the U.S. yesterday.
He's here with his wife
and three sons.
- I thought
he was a war criminal.
- Well, according to
the NSA brief
on the incident,
that's not the case.
Says there's a high probability
that Borchin and his troops
were used
as Chechen propaganda.
- Always two sides
to every war.
What is he doing here now?
He's here
for a private speaking event
on Russian-American relations
at the Lucas Auditorium
in Brighton Beach.
It starts in half an hour.
- All right,
get the team over there now.
- Yup.
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♪ ♪
- FBI.
We have reason to believe that
Dmitry Borchin's in danger.
- What kind of danger?
- We don't have time
to explain.
We need your men to stand down
till we can locate the suspect.
Hey!
- Move,
or I'll have every one of you
arrested for obstruction.
♪ ♪
- Anybody got eyes on Rasul?
- Negative.
We need
to shut this thing down.
There's way too many bystanders
in the line of fire
if this thing goes south.
- Agreed.
But Borchin's our target,
so let's secure him first.
- Too late.
He's already making his way
to the stage.
Okay, we need to split up
and cover him now.
Let's go.
Guys.
- Hey, Tiff, with me.
♪ ♪
- Welcome, everyone.
My name is Anastasia,
and I'll be your moderator.
Thank you for joining us
this evening.
Tonight's event is sponsored
by the Turley House.
Our special guest tonight
is Dmitry Borchin,
a leading expert
on Russian-American relations.
- Okay, I am not seeing Rasul
anywhere in the audience.
♪ ♪
- Dmitry, what do you make
of the current relations
between our countries,
and where do you see
the relationship trending
in the next five years?
♪ ♪
- What do I make of it?
A lot.
But I take it you want
the five-minute version?
The truth is revisionist
history is more powerful
than you or I could ever know.
On its face, it's a narrative
told from the heroes affected,
but at its core,
it's a propaganda tool.
I remember watching news
of the Cuban Missile Crisis
with my father and I asked him
why they were fighting.
He said, "Because America
put missiles in our backyard
but are pissed
that we feign to them."
- Get up.
- Oh...
- Go, go.
Get out of here.
- And therein lies
some of the problem.
It's complicated.
At its best,
it's a healthy mixture
of cooperation and competition.
At its worst,
it's the calm before the storm.
Now, this is just my opinion,
but America
is the real antagonist.
They make a decision
and expect the world
to agree with their choice.
When another country
makes its own decision,
they throw the red flag.
America made the first move.
Russia just countered them.
Yet we are the bad guy,
and they are the hero.
America is the real antagonist
in most situations.
This country
likes playing at big brother
to the rest of the world.
And we in Russia,
we are offended.
We're just as capable
of making our own decisions
as they are to do
what is best for our country.
- Gun.
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- I just called the hospital.
Kosey's brother, Amir,
is in stable condition.
It's gonna be a long recovery,
but he'll live.
- That's good to hear.
Look.
I don't wanna cross the line.
But for the record,
I think I could've gotten
the answers we needed
from Imam Mustafa
without all of the anger
and the lies.
- It's possible.
What if you were wrong?
What if we couldn't have?
Look, I don't play favorites,
Omar.
I just follow the leads.
- And I am not saying that
you need to play favorites.
I am just saying that
it almost feels like
you go out of your way to.
- To what?
Go after Muslims?
Are you accusing me
of being anti-Muslim?
Look, we work for the FBI.
Not Muslims,
not Middle-Easterners.
We go where the crime is,
where the danger is
regardless of our personal
beliefs and hopes.
You wanna help Muslims?
Start a charity.
- Don't you think
that's a narrow view?
- No, I think
it's a realistic view,
because I hate to break
the news to you,
Brother Zidan.
But some of us are,
in fact, criminals,
and some of us are, in fact,
connected to
terrorist organizations.
That's just how it is.
- Can I speak to both of you
in my office?
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- I just got off the phone
with Imam Mustafa.
He said that you
threatened his brother's life
and that you assaulted him.
This is my case.
My name is on that file
so I need to know
what happened.
- We needed answers.
Mustafa had them
and chose to obstruct,
so we played a little
good cop, bad cop.
Things got heated
then physical.
- How physical?
- He tried to push me,
so I blocked his hand.
- Is that what you saw as well?
♪ ♪
- Yes.
- So there's no need for me
to pursue his complaint?
♪ ♪
- No.
We did our job.
Special Agent in charge,
Bashar, did nothing wrong.
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