FBI (2018–…): Season 4, Episode 16 - Protective Details - full transcript

After an ICE agent is fatally shot at an ICE vs. DEA hockey game, the team attempts to find the shooter who they believe may also be targeting Congressman Curtis Grange, who was at the same game.

- Hey, Mike, come here
a sec, will you?

I wanna introduce you.

- Hey,
Congressman Curtis Grange.

I rep New York's 31st.

- So you know this guy's
personally responsible

for keeping
our agency funded, right?

- Nice to meet you,
Congressman.

You a big fan of hockey?
- Absolutely.

My son and I,
we've had Rangers tickets

for the last three years.

That's him over there
in the puffer coat.



- Pretty sure you're both

gonna end up disappointed
by the play

you see today, though.
- Not a chance.

I mean, when you're cheering
for real-life American heroes,

ICE vs. the DEA?

I brought a film crew
to get some footage

for my next campaign.

- Don't take this
the wrong way,

but I'd prefer not end up
in a campaign commercial.

- You're not proud of
protecting America, Agent?

- I'm just more of a

keep my head down
and do my job kind of--



- All right, folks, listen up.



10 minutes prior to face-off
at a charity hockey game

this morning,
a sniper opened fire

and put two rounds into
ICE Agent Mike Mulder's chest.

- Anyone else shot?
Other agents?

- So it sounds like the shooter
sprayed bullets

for another 20 seconds or so,

hit a few other agents,
minor injuries,

scared some hotshot
congressman that was there,

and that was it.
The shooting stopped.

- So what about the shooter?
Anybody see anything?

Getaway car?
- Nothing, nothing yet.

- Okay, so we're thinking
Agent Mulder was targeted?

- Given the fact
that he was the first one

who was shot and the only one
who was killed,

that's the working theory.

The shooter
clearly took his time

to carefully line up
the shots on Mulder.

OA and Tiffany
are on their way to the scene.

In the meantime,
we need to start digging

into potential reasons Mulder
would've been targeted, yeah?

- It doesn't appear to be
financially motivated, boss.

This guy's got
zeroed out credit cards

and a nearly paid-off mortgage.

- All right, let's check
into Mulder's cases.

Any threats that might
have been made, et cetera.

Someone just shot
a federal agent, folks.

It's time to get to work.

- Detective Jackson?
- Yes, sir.

- Where are we with injuries?

- EMT's taken care
of everything.

- And the deceased?

- M.E.'s are waiting for you
to your sign-off.

- Okay, any witnesses
have eyes on the shooter?

- No.
- What about footage?

- Just the film footage
from the congressman

and his film crew.

Congressman Grange,
Special Agent Omar Zidan.

Congressman and his son.

- Ethan.

- Nice to meet you.
How you doing?

- Okay, it's just my first time
being around

an actual gun that got fired.

- It's a lot.

I remember the first time I saw
one get fired at West Point.

It's okay to be spooked.

- I've always wanted
to be an FBI agent.

It sounds like a cool job.

- It is.

Congressman, thank you
for sticking around.

- Zidan, huh?
Your family from Middle East?

- Dad, you can't ask that.
- It's okay.

Yes, we are,
and we're from Queens.

How can I help you?

- Well, either way,
I'm glad someone

finally got here at least.
- I'm sorry?

- Just my first time
in the midst

of a leftist assault
on American patriots.

I was kind of expecting my own
government to get here quicker.

- Well, Congressman,

I can assure you that this one
has our full attention,

but it is too soon to be sure
who's responsible for this.

But Detective Jackson

said you guys
might have some footage?

- Yeah, we were just doing
a camera set-up plan

when the shooting started.

We swung around and grabbed
some of the aftermath.

- We'll make sure you get
all the video we've got.

- I appreciate it.

Anything else you guys wanna
tell me about what happened?

- Yeah, this country is
changing in unacceptable ways.

I'm gonna make sure

the cowards who did this
are brought to justice.

I've got powerful friends.

- Of course.

- It's okay.



- Hey.

- Everything okay?
- Yeah.

I think I just heard
the beginning

of some congressman's
stump speech.

"This country is changing
in unacceptable ways."

- Grange, right? Yeah.

He's always on those
political news shows,

ranting about liberals.

- Ah, that's why
you diverted yourself

to the evidence zone
so quickly.

- Exactly.

- His kid seems
all right, though.

All right,
what are we looking at?

- Well, we've got a bloody
through-and-through

on this sign right here that
I'm waiting on ERT to extract,

but--actually,

can you do me a favor
and stand on this X?

Yeah.

- What are we thinking?

- Okay, well,
Mulder's about 5'10",

and both these shots hit him
right below his sternum,

so I'd say our shooter was
in that building over there.



- Clear.
- Clear.

The air vent
definitely provides

a direct line of sight
to the rink.

- Although
if this guy was here,

he left the scene pretty clean.

- Or did he?

Sniper shells
can eject pretty far.

Pretty damn far.

- Tough to get everything
when you're in a hurry.

- Hey, Jubal?
- Yeah.

- Ballistics just came back
on that shell casing OA found.

- Oh, good.
Anything interesting?

- Well, according to the lab,
it's a Lapua .338,

which is kind of like
the little black dress

of sniper bullets.

- Every closet has one?
- Yeah, exactly.

But the good news is,
this one's a wildcat,

which means
it was custom-modified

to spin faster and fly truer.

- Any chance we can tell
who did the mods?

- Yeah, maybe.

ATF started a pilot program
last fall

buying boutique ammo
from gun shows.

If we can match
the measurements

and the engravings
on the shell casing OA found

to something
in their database, we--

okay, yeah,
I think we got something.

- Thank God
for agency reciprocity.

- Looks like the mods were done
by a local gunsmith

named Jim Weaver.

Works out of his garage
in Staten Island.

- FBI! We'd like to talk!



- What the hell?
- Jim Weaver, FBI.

- FBI?
- That is us.

And it would definitely be
in everyone's best interest

if you'd set the weapon down,
Mr. Weaver.

- What's this about?

- We need your help
locating a suspect.

Guy murdered an ICE agent

with one of
your Lapua .338 wildcats.

Help? No.

I got no interest
in joining Crime Stoppers.

- You know, it's illegal
to bore

the serial number off of a gun?

- In a country where you can
build an Uzi with online parts,

you're gonna bust me
for a serial number?

- Carries a $10,000 fine

and up to six months
in federal prison.

Up to you.



- Well,
when you put it that way...



I got a customer Rolodex
in that metal lockbox

full of receipts.

On the card, I write down

what kind of ammo
they purchased.



- So if we narrow it down
to the last three months,

we're looking
at eight different people

who have purchased
Weaver's .338 wildcats,

but only one of them
has a Facebook wall

full of "abolish ICE" posts
and angry screeds

about the right-leaning
direction of the country.

Bradley Baker, Esquire.

- Okay, tell me more
about this Brad Baker.

- Went to law school at UVA
on an ROTC scholarship

followed by 4 years
in the JAG Corps

where he received
outstanding marks

for marksmanship
during basic training.

- So he's a lawyer?

- Who apparently
has a political axe

to grind with ICE agents
and is good with a rifle.

Let's track this guy down.
Where is Baker now?

- Phone's pinging
at the legal clinic

he runs in Greenpoint.
- Bring him in.

- Yes, ma'am.



- FBI. Where's Brad Baker?

- He's in a meeting right now.
He said no interruptions

- Brad Baker!
- Hey, freeze!

- What's going on?



- Stop the bike, Brad!

Jubal, Baker's fleeing north

on a late-model
Triumph motorcycle

wearing a brown leather jacket.

Baker got away.

Left his phone.

- Interesting luggage
for a lawyer.



A couple pistols

and a bolt-action
MRAD sniper rifle.

- That's our guy.



- All right people, listen up.

Our suspect Brad Baker
has slipped the pocket

on his 2019 Triumph motorcycle.

License plate 9-XX-24.

He can't have gone too far

so let's put a BOLO
out on that bike.

Let's run his credit cards.

Let's scour the grid
before his trail goes cold.

Kelly, give me traffic cams.

- Absolutely, rolling back
the time six minutes

and...okay.

He headed south.
- Uh-huh.

- Still south.

Turns east onto 3rd Street--

- Hey, Jubal, got something.

According to public
real estate records,

Baker's dad owns
a massive warehouse in Gowanus.

- Yeah?



- Mr. Baker!

It's the FBI.

We know you're in here.



Hands up!

- I'm unarmed! Don't shoot!

- Bradley Baker?
- Yes.

- We're gonna need you
to come with us.

- Yes, of course.



- You're a smart guy, Brad,
so I'm gonna cut right to it.

Somebody shot into a crowd
of federal agents

this morning at a hockey game.

- Shooter was across
the street.

Set up like a sniper
and opened fire.

- An ICE agent, Mike Mulder,
was killed,

along with 3 others
who were injured.

When the FBI
went to go speak with you,

you jumped on your motorcycle,
and you took off.

- Which tells us
that you're probably involved.

- I have no idea
what you're talking about.

- No?

We pulled an MRAD sniper rifle
from your closet,

a gun that is more than capable

of picking off
a target long distance.

- I grew up with a lot of guns.

I've been
a competitive sharp shooter

since I was 14 years old.

Not weird for me
to have a rifle.

- The shooter fired
a custom batch

of Lapua .338 wildcat bullets.

They were purchased from
a local gun dealer, Jim Weaver.

You know him, right?

- Look, I know
what you're doing, okay?

- Yeah?
What are we doing?

- I sat on the other side
of this table

for four years
in the JAG Corps,

laid out cases the exact
same way, but I am not--

- According to
your Facebook posts,

you don't like ICE agents
very much, do you?

I'm looking at one
right here that says

"They're glorified thugs

that tear families apart
for no reason."

- Of course,
I don't like ICE agents.

I run a legal clinic
that fights deportation cases,

but that doesn't
make me a killer.

- Then why'd you run
when we came to arrest you?

- I think I want
to talk to my lawyer

before I answer that question.

- I'm gonna call
the U.S. Attorney

and let them know
that Baker is lawyering up.

- Good. What do you think?

- I think if he was innocent,

he would've reacted
with more shock.

- Yeah, I agree.

- And when we get ballistics
back on his sniper rifle,

I think this case
will be a slam dunk.

- Uh, not so sure about that.

You guys are gonna
wanna see this.

Do you guys remember
Curtis Grange,

the congressman that witnessed
the shooting this morning?

- Yeah, of course, he's already
made a half dozen calls

to D.C. trying to force us
to close the case faster.

- Well, that's not
the only thing

he has been up to today.

He just posted a new
fundraising video online,

and the setting
is gonna look familiar.

- I'm Congressman
Curtis Grange

of New York's 31st District.

Today I was standing
on this very spot

when I witnessed a tragedy.

A cowardly leftist
who was trying

to destroy the integrity
that has made this country

so great for so long
opened fire

on a group
of American patriots,

wounding four federal agents,

all because they had
the temerity

to enforce
our country's borders.

Think about that.

This is gonna keep happening

until America
takes out the trash.

- Okay, well, obviously,
this commercial

is in poor taste,
but don't we already

have access to this footage?

- The tape
came in 30 minutes ago.

Intake did a preliminary scrub
of the video

and deemed it a low priority

because it didn't give us
a glimpse of the shooter,

but all we had to do was listen
harder than we were looking.

Go ahead.

Right there.

Pop, pop, pop.
You hear that bullet rhythm?

- Mm-hmm.

- Three quick shots
of sniper fire

essentially
right on top of each other.

- Which is impossible to do
with the bolt-action rifle

that we took from
Baker's closet this afternoon.

It takes time to rechamber.

- Okay, but doesn't
the MRAD fire a .338 shell?

- So do a lot of sniper rifles
and most semiautomatics.

- So what are we thinking,
that Baker had

a second sniper rifle
tucked away somewhere?

- Or he's telling the truth
and someone else

was the shooter today
at the hockey game.

- Hey, the sniper just shot
an immigration Judge

on the courthouse lawn
at 78th and Archer.

Two shots in the sternum.
Same M.O. as Mulder.

- So first an ICE Agent,
now an immigration judge?

They have to be connected.

- Which means we're looking
at a spree shooter,

and it's not the guy
we have in custody.



- The deceased
is Teresa Alvarez.

41 years old, federal judge,

shot twice in the chest
from the rooftop

of that building right there.

- You already found
the sniper's nest?

- Fast, I know,
but the station took a call

about some suspicious activity
on the rooftop.

Responders were already
en route

when the shooting went down.

- Did anyone get a good look
at the shooter?

- No, guy was wearing
a hooded jacket.

And obviously,
the first squad car

was diverted toward the vic.

But we did manage
to recover this.

- Those look like
.338 wildcats to me.

- Are you some kind of
ballistics expert?

- No, this is
just the second time

we have seen these today.

Okay, I need your team
to pull any footage

you guys have of the rooftop
where the shooter was posted up

and then start canvassing
the neighborhood.

- Alvarez's clerk, Vince,

is waiting on you two
inside the courthouse.

Kid was with her
when it happened.

He's pretty shook up.

- Thank you.



Vince?

I'm Agent Wallace.
This is Agent Zidan.

Is it all right
if we ask you a few questions?

- Okay, we understand
that you were with the judge

when she was shot today?

- Yeah, I was walking
right beside her,

carrying her briefcase,
this briefcase.

Then I heard
these two loud pops and...

Dove for cover like a coward.

- You're not a coward,
Vince, okay?

That's normal human behavior.

But listen, were you aware
of any recent threats

made against Judge Alvarez?

- Yeah,
she's an immigration judge.

Half the days we come to court,

there's someone waiting
to yell at us.

But the crazy thing about today

is this isn't even
our regular courthouse.

- What do you mean?
- Our chambers are across town.

The judge was a last-minute sub

for an off-docket
deportation panel.

We weren't even supposed
to be here.

- And her presence
wasn't public knowledge?

- No, I only just put it

in her personal calendar
this morning.

Why? Does that matter?

- Well, it depends.

If this is just another
"wrong place, wrong time,"

then it doesn't matter,
but if our judge was targeted,

then our shooter
may have been surveilling her.

- We're gonna need access
to her computer,

her phone, tablet,

actually, anything
that connects to the internet.

- This is her laptop.

- Okay. Thank you.

- So yeah,
Tiff and OA are right.

Alvarez's calendar is infected

with some kind of
Trojan horse tracking virus.

- So Judge Alvarez
was actually a target.

Can we use it to identify
where the virus came from

or who the shooter is?

- In a perfect world, yes,

but the IP address
is masked by a VPN,

so all we can say for sure

is that our guy
is good with computers.

- Okay, that's--
that's something, right?

All right, so we know
we're looking

for a tech-savvy shooter

who's got issues
with both Mulder and Alvarez.

That narrows it down a bit.

- Don't forget
the possible connection

to Brad Baker.
- That's right.

- I'm on it,
and cross referencing

Mulder's arrests
with Alvarez's docket

gives me 13 points of overlap,

which--hey,
this looks interesting.

This is Oscar Rodriguez.

He's a coder
at Data Tech Innovations.

- Mm, so we know
he's tech-savvy.

- And his parents were arrested
by Mulder six months ago,

and then Judge Alvarez

deported them
back to El Salvador.

- Okay, so we know
he's angry at the system,

but thousands of people
are deported every day.

It's gotta be something more
to motivate a spree shooting.

- I think it might
have something to do

with what happened next.

This is an AP wire report
that came out of San Salvador

six weeks ago.

Apparently, Oscar's parents
were found dead in a ditch.

Shot up by local MS-13.

- Ooh, well, as tragic
as that is, that is motive.

Does Oscar know Brad Baker?

- They're friends,
at least according to Facebook.

- Bring him in.

- FBI!
- Federal agents!

- Point up!
- Pull a right!

- Drawing room clear!

- Clear.

- Clear.

- Well, looks like this
is where Oscar's

been spending most of his time.

- Got Oscar's laptop here.

- Let's get it to CART.

- I've got draft letters
of angry petitions

to New York senators,

and LexisNexis articles
on deportation law.

- All of the things
that you would expect

to see from someone

who has been
fighting the system.



Hey, Tiff,
take a look at this picture.

Isn't that Baker with Oscar?

- Yep.



"I promise, Oscar,
whatever it takes

"to get through this pain,
we'll do it

"so the two of us can have

the future together
we deserve."

- I think Baker and Oscar

are more
than just Facebook friends.

- Found this
in Oscar's apartment.

I'm assuming
that's your handwriting?

- You don't have
to answer that.

- Yeah, it's my handwriting.

- So when you wrote
that you'll do

"whatever it takes
to get through this,"

you were talking about
helping Oscar kill people?

- I already
told you people before,

I'm not a killer.

- Just a guy
who buys high-powered rifles

and specialty ammunition
for fun?

Why'd you run?

- Because 60 seconds before
the FBI barged into my office,

I heard a breaking news report

that Mulder had been shot,
and I panicked.

- Because you knew
it was Oscar.

- Don't say anything you're
going to regret here, Brad.

- No, it's okay, Phil.

They know it's him now.

Do you have any idea
what it was like?

Watching Oscar go through this?

- Enlighten us.

- Mike Mulder
and his storm troopers

pulled Oscar's parents
out of their bed

in the middle of the night

after 27 years
of living in this country

all because Oscar's dad
got a speeding ticket

and ended up on some list.

- So you fight it in court.
- We tried.

But we kept running headlong
into this...

Conservative
activist judge, Alvarez.

She sent Oscar's parents back
to the same country

they fled decades ago.

They shot his parents

and left them in a ditch
like dogs.

- So this is when
the revenge plot started?

- I don't know.
I didn't plot it.

- Yeah, but you knew about it.

- I know that's when
the quiet man I love

grew angry.

I also know I came home
one day last week

and found
one of my guns missing.

A semiautomatic sniper rifle
and lots of ammo.

- Did you report it?
- No.

I just pretended like
I didn't notice it was gone.

- Brad,
that makes you responsible

for the deaths
of Mulder and Alvarez.

- I didn't want this to happen.

After the first gun
went missing,

I moved the rest to my office.

- Then prove it by giving us

a lead that we
can work with here, Brad.

Because if you don't,
you're staring down

an accessory to murder charge.

- Okay, is there--
is there anyone else

that you know
that he blames for this?

Or--or a hideout
that maybe he's gone off to?

- Look, if I knew where he was,
I would tell you

because I don't think
he's gonna stop.

But you have to find him
another way.

- Then that's what we'll do.

We're gonna send you down
to MDC for booking.

- All right, so unfortunately,

other than a lot
of shared rage,

it looks like Oscar
mostly kept his boyfriend

Baker in the dark,
so how do we find him?

- And if we can't find Oscar,

let's try and find
his next target.

- What about Oscar's laptop?
- Yeah, what do you mean?

- I mean, we found
the Trojan horse

on Alvarez's computer, but we
didn't know who the sender was

because he used a VPN,
but if Oscar is the sender,

and we have his computer,

wouldn't there be some evidence
on the hard drive?

- I'm assuming it's wiped.

You wouldn't want to leave
easy access to malware.

Whoa.

- What? You got something?

- If I'm reading
this right, yeah.

Oscar initially sent two copies
of the virus.

One to Mulder, one to Alvarez,

but then recently he fired off
a third to Congressman Grange.

- That makes sense.

With all of his
"taking out the trash,"

anti-immigration rhetoric.
- Yeah.

All right, folks, it looks like
we found our next target.

We need to find
Congressman Grange.

- Hey,
according to Oscar's tracker,

Grange and his kid
are being interviewed

by a journalist right now
at their home in Brooklyn.

- Get over there now.

- Congressman Grange!

We need you
to get back inside right now.

- Zidan, right?
- Correct.

We met yesterday, but we
need you to get back inside.

We have reason to believe--

- Get down! Get down!



- Okay. Thank you.

Anything?

- No sign of the shooter,
but I found these casings.

Looks like he climbed down
this fire escape

at the rear of the building.

- Okay, we're setting up
containment now

for whatever it's worth,
see if we can find anything.

- How's Congressman Grange?
- It was a flesh wound.

He'll survive.

- So who in the hell
is shooting at me?

- Suspect's name
is Oscar Rodriguez.

His parents
were deported by ICE

and then killed six weeks later
in El Salvador.

- And he blames me
for this somehow?

Not his parents who came here
illegally in the first place?

- Well, maybe you can ask him
once we find him,

but for now,
we need to concentrate.

- You don't know where
Oscar Rodriguez is.

- No, which is why we'd like
to provide protective detail

to you
while we continue our hunt.

- And so you want Zidan here
to be my bodyguard?

- Agent Zidan
will run point, yes.

- That's fine,
but I'm not gonna hide

like some beta back bencher
who's afraid of a fight.

- What does that mean?

- I have to give a speech
to a VIP meet and greet

this afternoon in Tribeca
at the Holland Terrace rooftop

full of big money donors,
and I'm not missing it.

- You don't get to make
the rules here, Congressman.

We're trying to keep you safe.

- Which I appreciate,
but with all due respect,

I'm a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives.

- Who's willing
to risk another public shooting

to hold a fundraiser?
Sir, it's reckless.

- That may be true,

but I have an election
in six months

against a liberal
Coexist billionaire,

so I'm gonna go out
and raise some money

with or without the FBI's help.

- We'll get an advance team

down to Tribeca
as quickly as possible.

Just give us a minute
to work out the logistics.

- Good.

Thank you.

- Playing Russian roulette

with a dangerous
revenge shooter.

We can't let
this fundraiser happen.

- Obviously, the first call
I make will be to D.C.

to see if we can stop it.

- Well, the FBI stepping
on first amendment rights

never goes down well
in the press.

- No, it doesn't.

Hopefully, we can get
a bead on Oscar,

but until then, I need you
to keep that congressman safe

even if he thinks our
two families don't belong here.

- You don't like me much,
do you, Zidan?

- I do not see
how that is relevant, sir.

I'm just here
to keep you alive.

That's a hell of a non-answer.

- I'm sorry.

Were you hoping
for better conversation

in addition to the scenario

where one of us might
take a bullet for you today?

- A little bit, yeah.

Since we're spending
so much time together.

- Okay, then why
don't you tell me

why you won't
cancel this fundraiser?

- I will, if you'll tell me
why you don't like me.

- I thought it
would be more obvious.

Congressman, just look at me.

Because all I hear
when someone says

that this country is changing
in unacceptable ways

is that foreigners are
no longer welcome here, okay?

Your entire campaign
is built off of tearing down

and hating immigrants
like my parents.

That, sir,
is why I do not like you, okay?

- You need
to go get dressed, son.

- There's someone trying
to shoot you,

and we're still doing
the fundraiser?

Why?
- You know why.

This is about your mom, Ethan.

Now go put on a suit, okay?

Please.



Just so you know,
I don't hate immigrants.

- Well, your stump speech
says otherwise.

- No, it doesn't...

Not if you listen.

I'm just opposed
to open border crossings,

to people coming here illegally

like the animal who killed
my wife nine years ago.

- So why can't you
just say that?

Hm?

Why is every single one
of your speeches filled

with "taking out the trash"
and calling immigrants animals?

Why?

- Because that is how you get
a seat at the table.

The only people
my voters respect are fighters

who are just as extreme
as the other side.

Which is why, to answer
your earlier question,

I'm not gonna cancel
my speech today.

Do you understand?
- Yeah.

I do.

But you are going to wear
this bulletproof vest.

Do you understand?



- You got anything, Tiff?

- Nothing yet, but obviously,
everybody inside the event

is just the tip of the iceberg.

- I know, we're looking
at, like,

3,000 windows here, guys.

You hearing this, Maggie?

- Yeah, I can hear you, Scola.

- The longer I'm down here,
the less I like this.

I'm thinking you guys
should take another run

at trying to talk Grange down.



- Congressman,
we have just received

an update from the perimeter.

We still do not have eyes
on Oscar Rodriguez.

- Meaning he's not here?

- Meaning that there is no way
to know for sure.

- But he'll
be protected, right?

- If he sticks to the script.

We have a top-of-the-line
bulletproof shield

in front of the podium
and he is wearing a vest,

but Congressman,

I am urging you
to reconsider going out there.

- You remember
what I said today

about getting a seat
at the table?

Those people out there,
they control the purse strings

that keep me in office, Zidan.

And their political donations
say patriots don't cower.



Thank you.

Thank you.

I want to thank you
for coming out today

to acknowledge
what we know is true.

America
is under attack, people!

Today, I was shot at

for the second time
in less than 36 hours,

targeted to the point that
I'm wearing a tactical vest

and standing behind
bulletproof glass.

- Stop giving away
our protection, please.

- Because a society that has
no standards for admission,

common heritage, or values,

that society stands weakened
on the brink of collapse.

Agent Mulder, Judge Alvarez,

all these patriots
were guilty of

was trying to remove
American's toxins.

- Subtle.

- Both shot and killed.
- I know, right?

Roofs are still clear.

- By barbarians who had snuck
through our porous gates.

And this will keep happening

until America
takes out the trash!

'Cause once the trash
is deported,

Americans, once again,
will be safe

to walk the streets.

Safe to mix with friends,

and I say we show these animals

that we're not afraid
right now.

This is supposed to be
a meet and greet, right?

Well, let's meet, then.

- What is he doing?

- Shooter.
- Congressman.

- No!
- Medic!

Congressman's been shot!

- Guys, it's Oscar.

He's in the old shoe factory
building on Leonard.

- You promised
you would keep him alive!

This is your fault!
- Medic!

- You could have stopped him
from going on stage!

You're the FBI!



- There's our guy.

Oscar Rodriguez! FBI!

- Stay back!

Everyone back
or I'll shoot her!

If anyone armed
enters this place,

I'll end this girl's life
without a second's regret!





- Hey, the owner just sent over
prints and a layout.

Assuming that Oscar pulled her
all the way to the back,

we're looking at about
60 feet of washing machines

between the front door
and our hostage.

- Is there any way
to get a camera in there

to confirm their location?

- CART team is tapping into

the building security
as we speak.

We should have eyes
and ears soon.

Um, what about the girl?

- Just talked to the friend.

Our hostage's name
is Elena Ramirez.

Sophomore at NYU.

Family's originally
from Honduras.

- Honduras? Okay, good.

Maybe we can use
the Central America connection

to our advantage.

- We could also just
overwhelm him with SWAT.

- Not without
risking Elena's life.

He has a semiautomatic rifle

and we don't know
how much ammunition.

- What about
this back office, guys?

Looks like there's an entrance
from the side street.

- There is, but it's padlocked.
What are you thinking?

- Divide and conquer.

One of us walks
in unarmed with Maggie,

starts up a conversation.

The other two slip around back,

ready to make entry
if talking goes south.

- Yeah, that might be
our only play.

I ran point
on the congressman's detail,

and his son blames me
for not protecting him,

so I'm gonna face off
with Oscar

if it comes down to it, okay?

- OA, we did everything
we could.

The guy went off-script.

- I know, Scola. I know.

Let you and me take the back.

- We'll take the back.



- What's going on?

Guard who pulled me
from my cell wouldn't say.

- Oscar just killed
Curtis Grange.

- The congressman?
- Yes.

And now he's pinned down in
this laundromat with a hostage,

which is a situation
he is not going to survive

unless he turns himself in.

You're here because I need you
to help us make that happen.

- I don't think he'll listen.
- Why?

- Because if Oscar
wanted to be talked down,

he would've told me
about his revenge plan

in the first place.

- Either way,
we really need you to try.

I read the letter
that you wrote Oscar,

how you want
to grow old together.

But if you really do love him,

the only way
you're gonna see him again

is if you pull him back
from the brink.

- Tell me what you
need me to say.



- Oscar?

I'm Special Agent
Tiffany Wallace with the FBI.

I just wanna talk for a minute.
Can you hear me?

- That's okay.

You--you don't have
to talk right now.



I'm by myself...

And I don't have a gun.

Oscar, I want you to know

that we understand
why you're angry.

I can't imagine the pain
you must have felt

when your parents were killed.

But right now,
you're endangering the life

of that young lady.

Her name's Elena,

and her family came here
for a better life

from Honduras, just like yours
came from El Salvador,

and she's got nothing
to do with this.

So I'm gonna need you
to let her go.

- Okay, it's clear.



- If you don't, none of us
are gonna like how this ends.

So what's gonna happen
right now

is I'm gonna bring
somebody else in

to speak with you.

We've got Brad Baker
here with us.

- Hey, Oscar?

Are you okay?

- Yeah, I'm okay, Brad.

Look, I'm sorry
I took your guns.

- Don't even worry
about that now.

But you gotta let her go,
okay, love?

- Why?

So I can spend my entire life
rotting in some jail cell?

- I can visit you.

They're gonna kill you
if you don't let her go.

- I don't care.

These people,
they ruined my entire life!

So now, either you're
gonna let me go,

you give me a plane to flee,

and then I'll release
the hostage.

- No, there's not
gonna be a plane.

They're gonna kill you
if you don't surrender, Oscar.

There are
SWAT agents everywhere.

You murdered a congressman.

- Well, let them try.

Te amo.

- Drop your weapon, Oscar!

It does not need
to end this way!

- He's dead.

- Okay, wait. Brad.



- Hey.
- Hey.

How's it going with Baker?

- Scola and Maggie
are still talking to the AUSA.

I think
there might be a deal struck.

He did help us, after all.
- Yeah.

- What about you?
What's this?

- I am reading some
old articles on Grange's wife.

He really raised Ethan
as a single father,

and that just must have been
a reminder

of all the pain every day.

- He was pretty consumed
with his cause.

Basically
martyred himself for it.

- It's just all
so confusing, yet--

yet it makes perfect sense.

- Well, that's confusing.

- What I mean is that Grange

blamed our immigration system
for killing his wife,

and Oscar blamed
our immigration system

for killing his parents.

- What's gonna happen
to Grange's son?

- I don't know.



- He's right there.

- What do you want?

- I just--
I wanted to stop by

and check on you,
see how you're doing.

- I thought
you hated my father.

- No.

8Not even close.

- What's this?

- That is an application
for the FBI,

which you will be eligible
to join in seven years.

- What am I supposed
to do with this?

- Hold onto it.

Use it as a motivation

to avoid doing all the things
that FBI agents can't do.

When you're ready, you call me,

and I'm gonna help you through
the whole process, okay?

I'm so sorry for your loss.