Intelligence (2014): Season 1, Episode 11 - The Grey Hat - full transcript
Gabriel, Riley and Nelson have to work with a young hacker to destroy a worm before it causes a nuclear incident in Los Angeles.
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At 10:00 tonight, blackouts
began ravaging the west coast.
Hospitals, nursing homes,
emergency services
all running off of emergency power.
This thing's 10 times the size
of what happened in New York.
All our fears regarding the aging grid
have proved legitimate.
It will take days just to restore
the damage that has already occurred.
We're facing panic, riots,
the closing of critical infrastructure...
Excuse me for asking this,
but isn't this
a D.O.E. and FEMA issue?
The cyber-defense division
has identified
an advanced cyberworm
inside the power grid.
This is a hack?
Yeah, an incredibly sophisticated one.
We have the entire fourth floor
working to break the worm's encryption.
It could take days.
I should take a look.
No, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
Bad idea.
This worm is like a python.
It wraps itself around a system,
squeezes the life out of it.
If you tried to enter the power grid,
it would immediately see you as prey.
It could destroy the chip.
You seem to know a lot about it.
Oh, we've seen it before.
This puppy was built by Cortez.
Seriously?
No one?
Guys, Cortez...
he's a legend!
Do you remember the Americana Mutual hack?
No one knows how he
broke into that closed system!
Nelson.
Cortez has used this identical worm
in at least three grey hat scams
that we are aware of.
What's a grey hat scam?
Install a destructive worm
into a corporation's system,
then you blackmail them.
?Pay me,
and I'll shut down the worm.?
it's also called
hostage-ware,
and Cortez practically invented it.
So, why hack a power grid?
That doesn't fit
the extortionist M.O.
Well, most likely, it's a...
ego thing.
You see,
these high-level hackers
are all out to prove that they're the best.
The physical grid is just the next...
...frontier.
Wait a second.
Cortez screwed up with the power grid.
How so?
It's just the nature
of the security system.
It only allows access
from local I.P. addresses.
This worm had to have
originated in Los Angeles.
Gabriel, Riley, Nelson,
You're going to L.A.
to find Cortez.
Cassidy, keep working
with the fourth floor.
See if we can't dissect
the worm from the inside.
Jameson, coordinate with
all the other agencies.
Any chatter about Cortez,
I want to know about it.
Everyone,
this is the cyber attack
we've all been afraid of.
Millions of lives are affected,
and we may not have seen the worst yet.
Nelson?
You're awake.
Fantastic.
Okay,
check out the monitors.
Do you see it?
Can you see me?
See what I'm walking like?
Oh, the camera records your shadow?
Not a shadow... that is
millions of wireless signals
tracking my movements visually!
You're seeing me through the wall!
Like sonar?
Exactly.
And with this little nugget,
anybody can have X-ray vision.
All you need
is a Wi-Fi connection.
And a camera and a monitor,
unless you're me.
All right, we get it.
You have a chip in your brain.
You're amazing.
Riley:
Los Angeles looks strange
without the lights.
Nelson, what do hackers do in a blackout?
Okay, well, it wouldn't
affect the real pros.
They're as dependent on power
as they are on water,
so they would all have contingency plans
in the form
of backup-generator systems.
That's it.
That's how we find Cortez.
We look for the lights.
About 10,000 computers are
still accessing the Internet
from the Los Angeles area right now.
Are any of those encrypted?
14 government buildings,
21 police stations,
106 fire stations, 122 hospitals,
all using encrypted networks
to access the Internet
under emergency power.
Okay, look in residential areas.
A guy like Cortez would need
a lot of bandwidth.
It's very rare.
You're looking for a high data
rate of at least 45 megabits.
Got him.
Cortez lives downtown.
Nice!
At least
they have emergency lighting.
We need him alive.
Relax.
I'm not gonna shoot anybody.
Cortez, federal agents.
Drop your weapon.
We don't want to hurt you.
Put the gun down now!
Oh.
?-oh??
What happened to not killing him?
What the hell?
Whoa!
Who the hell are you?
Troy Ricksen.
Nah, man.
You got the wrong guy.
Troy, where are your parents?
Deceased 10 years ago.
Car accident.
After the accident,
Troy and his older brother
were put into foster care,
split up.
Oddly, Troy ended up
with Ms. Schuster.
Why ?oddly??
She died in 1901.
Start talking, kid.
He hacked the system.
You're Cortez?
Who the hell are you?
And who's that?
The guy that was about to kill you.
You're welcome.
Gabriel Vaughn...
one of our nation's most
decorated soldiers.
He's a hero, and now our
country's most secret weapon.
Gabriel possesses a rare genetic mutation
that allowed us to implant
a microchip in his brain.
We connected his mind directly
to the information grid.
It's something the chip does
that nobody expected.
I can create a virtual snapshot
of an event in my mind
and then walk through it.
It's like a virtual evidence wall.
At U.S. Cyber Command,
we created a highly specialized
unit around him...
Satellite in five.
...and assigned an agent
to protect him.
Run!
He's the first of his kind...
the next evolution of intelligence.
Sync & corrections by honeybunny
web dl sync snarry
You keep calling me ?Cortez,?
but I ain't never heard that name before.
October 10th, Genus Corporation
was hacked by a cyberworm
that tore through their system,
shutting down their servers.
30 hours later, they received
an encrypted e-mail,
offering to fix it for a price.
What's that got to do with me?
That e-mail
came from your computer.
Bet you used the ransom money
to pay for this sweet setup.
I still don't know
what you're talking about.
I read the e-mail, Troy.
?Dear Genus geniuses,
want your server back?
I can deliver it?.
No way you could've found that.
I bounced that thing through
12 different countries.
You see?
Look, man, I had nothing to do
with the power-grid hack,
for reals.
For reals?
Then explain to me how your worm
ended up inside the grid.
Who are you working with?
Nobody, I swear.
You saw that dead guy in there.
He was sent here to kill you.
Why do you think that is?
What went wrong, Troy?
You stiff them on the deal?
What deal?
Someone paid you for that worm.
Since the power outage,
36 people have died already,
including a 6-year-old girl
who died in an elevator this morning,
trapped without her Insulin.
How much?
Excuse me?
How much you gonna pay me to fix it?
Are you serious?
20 g's.
20 g's.
Call it a patriotic discount.
The hard way, then.
Hands behind your back.
Oh, whoa. Aah!
You're Cortez?
You reprogrammed the MCM virus
to spread through a closed network
before anyone even heard
of frog-hopping or Stuxnet.
You can't prove that.
No, no, I'm like a huge fa...
wait, how old are you?
You want an autograph?
Maybe.
Nelson.
Can you pull up the infected power grid
so Troy can take a look at the worm?
Yes.
See? It's your worm,
all right.
No, someone must've cloned it.
Soon as I find out who,
I'm-a bust some heads.
Just shut it down, Rambo.
I can't.
Can't do anything till it finds its target.
Target?
You don't know what's going on?
You're the I.T. guy.
Oh-ho-ho!
I'm not the I.T. guy.
This kid.
?Kid?! Kid, kid.
I'm a genius.
U.S. freakin' Cyber Command
can't hack me.
Start talking, genius.
Okay, school's in session.
The worm eats through a system,
looking for a specific target, understand?
Yeah. We understand.
So, it's not targeting the power grid.
No.
Right now, the worm is like
a kitten playing with a ball of string.
Any sec, this kitten will become a tiger.
Right. When is that?
When it smells the meat.
Big man's right.
So, what's the meat?
Give me five minutes on your
system, and I'll tell you.
You mind?
Oh.
You talk. Nelson types.
Whenever you're ready.
Did he say anything else?
He's in prison, Alyona.
He does not have much to say.
Was he angry?
About what?
That I have not been to see him.
I'm his wife, after all.
That was his decision.
What about...
Enough of the questions!
I apologize.
This cannot go on.
You know that.
Come.
Speak.
There were complications.
Complications?
Just tell me...
is Cortez dead or no?
No.
And Piotr is dead.
Cortez is the only one
who can stop the worm.
Do you want to be the one to tell
my brother how you've failed us?
No, sir.
I will kill Cortez myself.
You really hacked
your way out of foster care?
I didn't hack my way out.
Hacked my way through.
You ever think about
all the things you could do
with that gift of yours?
Yeah.
I could get a tight crib with a view,
a 911 turbo drop-top,
and some sick-ass gear.
Oh, wait.
I-I did get all that.
You stole all that.
Kid's a genius, all right...
a criminal genius.
Oh, my gosh.
What?
Hit ?pound h-c.?
You'll get there 10 times faster.
That shortcut
only brings up recent activity.
See? Someone
doesn't know everything.
Do they?
Okay, slow it down.
Stop. Check it out.
Every third character after the asterisk.
Oh, I am so stealing that.
You got this?
What do you mean, does he got
this? He would have to, like...
oh, no.
What?
Yeah, what?
Yeah, what?
San Jacomo...
...the nuclear power plant.
My people estimate it will hit
San Jacomo's nuclear reactor
in less than five hours.
The worm will wipe
the reactor's
health-physics system,
initiating
a full-scale meltdown.
I recommend an immediate evac
of the 50-mile exposure radius.
That's more than 4 million people.
That would be difficult
under normal circumstances,
but in the middle of a blackout?
Everyone, hold a moment.
Onscreen for everyone...
we've just received some demands.
The Novyy Svit Rvolyutsioneriv
are responsible for
the attack on your power grid.
As you now know,
we have ability to destroy your reactor,
or to abort the attack if you
simply release our comrade,
Dominik Salvi.
If you do not comply,
your country will suffer
the same dismal future
that Chernobyl gave to our children.
What do we have?
Brothers Torbin and Dominik Salvi...
...are leaders of an anti-nuclear
terrorist organization
known as the NSR.
FBI arrested Dominik
on charges of bombing a nuclear
research facility in Moscow
which killed 52 and injured hundreds.
We're set to extradite him
to Russia tomorrow.
And it is no accident
the video mentions Chernobyl.
The Salvi boys grew up
in a small town close
to the, ill-fated reactor.
They likely witnessed all kinds
of illnesses, deformities.
Yeah, apparently, the NSR believes
the world turned
a blind eye to their community.
Now, where does Troy fit into all this?
There's a black market for
every kind of weapon on earth,
including cyber weapons.
Torbin is the buyer.
Troy is the seller.
That doesn't fit
with Troy's M.O., though...
blackmailing large corporations.
Perhaps.
But we need to focus
on the person who's blackmailing us.
Well, surely, this Torbin Salvi
knows our government doesn't
negotiate with terrorists.
It's not our government he's worried about.
It's the Russians,
who plan to execute his brother.
There's no trace on the video.
Its signal was pinged off
of thousands of servers
to mask its location.
We need to work Troy harder.
Let's get him back in here.
Troy doesn't know Torbin Salvi.
You sure about that?
What do we know about Troy?
Well, we know he's a genius.
He's an arrogant, selfish pain in the ass.
Okay.
Einstein was obsessed with Mozart.
He felt that while Beethoven created music,
Mozart found music,
as if it were left for him by the universe.
We're comparing Troy
to Einstein and Mozart now?
Okay, when I look
at a computer, I see code.
Troy sees code, too.
The difference is, Troy...
doesn't see the computer.
You've never met anyone like him before.
Yes, we have.
I'll talk to him.
What's this...
little man-to-man chat?
Who are you performing for right now?
It's just you and me, and I ain't buying.
I ain't selling.
You always selling...
that you don't care about anything,
that you're better than the rest of us.
You heard what your girl said.
I got a gift.
Yeah, she says that a lot.
What happened with your brother?
Excuse me?
Drew.
He's old enough to take care of you,
even has a kid of his own.
That was the plan
when you ran away, right...
live with him in Oakland?
What happened?
Where... where you getting this?
Why the hell would I want to
live with some dude's ho
and his wack kid,
when I can be living on my own,
doing my thing,
nobody telling me what to do?
If that's true,
why do you spend so much time
looking at the pictures
he posts online of his family?
In my job, sometimes
we deal with big numbers...
thousands of people
affected by this or that.
It's good to remember
they're real people, Troy,
people like your brother.
That all you got,
Dr. Phil?
Look, I think you know more about this worm
than you're letting on, Troy.
Think you're the only one with a gift?
I got a gift, too.
And the man that gave it to me told me
we live in a world
where one person and a computer
has the power to end this world or save it,
depending on how they choose to use it.
And what's this gift he gave you?
Let's just say he trusted me to choose.
Just stay here and think about that.
Wait, what do you mean,
a ?kill switch??
I found it embedded in the code.
It's the key to the whole idea.
Hacker sets a worm loose
that only he can stop,
because only he has the kill switch.
Come on, Nelson.
You see it?
You recognize that encryption?
Biometric authentication.
Bi-biometric?
That could be a thumbprint,
a retinal scan, even voice authentication.
It is something unique to the hacker.
Dad, check it out.
The code is mimicking an EKG reading.
A heartbeat.
That's it.
Troy used his own unique
heartbeat as the password.
That's the perfect kill switch!
It's impossible to fake!
How'd you do?
I got him thinking.
Good.
Because he's literally the only person
who can stop this thing.
Kid hacked our car.
Yeah.
I'm glad you got him thinking.
The President
wants a S.I.T. report.
I'd like to tell him something
more encouraging than
?We lost our hacker.?
Tell him we're three hours away
from a reactor meltdown,
and we should begin
a large-scale evac now.
I believe
I said ?encouraging.?
He will want to pull Gabriel
out. You know that.
The kill switch won't work
without the hacker.
Gabriel tracked the car using its GPS
and is on his way to get him now.
Thank you.
Exactly where I said he'd be.
Dude, Troy, check this out.
This infant troll's
trying to screw up my site.
It's freakin' hilarious.
What did you do, Danny?
You all right, T?
I saw your routing algorithm on the worm.
That distance-vector protocol
is all you.
The hell are you talking about?
You stole my worm.
You got any idea who you're working for?
They're terrorists.
Don't tell me some fool
comes looking for code,
and you figure you can make an easy buck
if you don't ask too many questions.
I don't have your skills, all right?
I can't just hack
my way out of this dungeon.
I-I was being
entrepreneurial.
Entrepreneurial?
People are dead now 'cause of you.
'Cause of me.
You gonna go to the cops?
I ain't going to prison
for your stupid ass.
We're gonna stop this thing, you and me,
before anybody else gets hurt.
Now, where do we find these guys?
No joke, bro...
they'll kill me.
Yeah, they're gonna kill
a lot more people than you.
Now, where is the mothership?
Danny!
Aah!
Shots fired.
We need tactical units to
111 Fordham East Street.
I can't see
any surveillance-camera feeds.
Try tapping into
the wi-fi signals.
Right, Nelson's new toy.
It's working. I'm in.
Troy's in a back room, under
a desk. They're closing in.
Riley.
Are you okay?
They killed Danny.
I'm sorry, Troy.
I'm sorry, too.
But there'll be time to mourn your friend.
Right now, we need you to focus up, okay?
We need you to use your kill switch.
W-what do you mean?
We know about the heartbeat authentication.
What, do you think
I can just jump on any computer
and turn this thing off?
I can't do anything without the mothership.
Mothership?
The original computer
that launched the worm.
We call that the mothership.
It controls the code, the kill switch...
All of it.
That's why you came here.
You were trying to track it down.
You should've said something.
You need to trust us, Troy.
I know what I need to do.
What's that?
Find the dirtbag that stole
my worm, get my code back...
right after you shoot him.
Due to a technical malfunction
at the San Jacomo nuclear power plant,
the nuclear regulatory
commission has mandated
an evacuation of the immediate areas
surrounding the facility.
The NRC main...
Dominik ever told you about
Mitya, our younger brother?
He had an eye that could not see...
and lungs that did not work right.
Our parents brought him to doctor,
but the doctor refused to help Mitya.
The surgery was too expensive,
too impractical.
That was when we knew.
Knew what?
It's us against the whole world.
If you succeed, there will be
many more children like Mitya.
Yes.
But they will be no longer
so easy to turn away.
Let's see if I understand...
you want to give in
to Torbin Salvi's demands
in exchange for the mothership computer?
I'm not saying we give in.
I'm saying we pretend we're giving in.
We release Dominik
long enough for Troy
to engage the kill switch
and shut down the worm.
The state department spent months
negotiating Dominik's extradition.
You know things are tense with Moscow.
We are on the brink of a nuclear event.
Doesn't that trump the politics?
We have less than an hour, Adam.
I'll make the call.
Thank you.
We'll head to Victorville penitentiary now.
Okay, once you have Dominik in custody,
I'll contact Torbin
and set up the exchange.
How did this happen?
Dominik Salvi
is already in Russian custody.
- What? How?
- The state department
secretly moved up his extradition...
a day early, just after
they received the demand video.
Small-minded,
fear-driven bureaucrats.
The Russian ambassador's plane
is set to depart
from Burbank Airport right now.
Mr. Ambassador,
I'm asking for your cooperation.
If Torbin Salvi succeeds,
these chickens will only be
coming back to Russia to roost.
Yes, but here
I have my chicken in hand.
Dominik Salvi is personally responsible...
for the deaths of hundreds
of innocent Russians.
My country deserves to see him pay.
And they will.
Please...
just delay your flight for a few hours.
I'm sorry, Ms. Strand.
We'll talk again from Moscow.
Too late.
It's taking off.
Gabriel, we can't let
our only bargaining chip with Torbin Salvi
leave that runway.
I need you to get me in range.
Close enough?
I'm in.
A few seconds.
How mad do you think the Russians will be?
What the hell just happened?
We got lucky.
I'll count your technical issues
as a win for us, Mr. Ambassador.
Yeah, well, the truth remains the same.
I must bring Dominik Salvi
back to Russia today.
I'm only asking for two hours.
If Timothy McVeigh were sitting
on a Moscow tarmac,
would you not be demanding
his immediate return?
Not if a delay might help
prevent a nuclear incident.
I need you to work with me here, serge.
We've exhausted our options.
Without Dominik Salvi,
we won't be able to stop this worm in time.
I need your guarantee
you'll return Dominik alive.
You have my word.
All right.
You just make a promise you can't keep?
Let's hope not.
Wanted to see me?
We have a very small window here,
and we need to ensure that Torbin Salvi
holds up his end of the deal and
brings the mothership with him.
Understood.
I'm only going to agree to the trade
if the exchange is made
inside the exposure pathway.
This way, if Torbin goes back on the deal,
he and his brother will die
in the meltdown they created.
That would also mean
you'd be potentially exposing
Gabriel, Riley, Nelson.
Yes. I'm aware of that.
Lillian.
As soon as we lose control
of the nuclear reactor's coolant system,
the radiation will breach
the containment vessel.
Hydrogen explosions will wipe out
everything inside the exposure pathway.
I know that, doctor.
If they are there when
the worm hits the reactor...
They will all die.
That's why it's the right call.
As long as Torbin Salvi understands that,
he'll be personally invested
in preventing the meltdown, right?
We're all ready to go.
That's the EKG authenticator?
Yeah, it's pretty cool, right?
It's more accurate than a medical device
and reads his heartbeats
through his thumbprints.
I need a moment alone.
You got it.
You meant the kid.
Thanks for sticking it out with us.
Half this job's just showing up.
What's the other half?
Not screwing up.
This pep talk sucks.
You want to call him?
Who?
Your brother.
Wasn't his fault they split you up.
He was 16. You were 5.
You were easier to place with a family.
Yeah, well, that sucks.
That's my point.
Drew never left you behind.
Truth is, he never stopped looking for you.
You can't know that.
Actually, I can, and I do.
Come on.
Keep him safe.
Of course.
In the backseat.
O-one of us has to
check out the computer
and make sure it's the real deal.
Gabriel's got it covered.
No, no, no, we got to wire it up,
make sure it's really
transmitting the code,
not just pretending.
You...
Gabriel will know.
Trust me.
I need to verify the computer.
Take off his shackles first.
No.
You show me the computer,
or your brother will be the
first to die in this gunfight.
We'll take my brother now.
You can keep the computer.
Get ready. In 2 minutes, that
laptop's gonna be sitting right here.
Then in 3 minutes, I'm-a kill it.
Yes!
You want to knuckle it?
Is that what the kids are doing?
You know what?
I'm good.
I knew you would come home to me.
No!
Get down.
Get down, come on!
We have to get the mothership.
I'll cover you.
You okay?
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Torbin Salvi was sleeping
with his brother's wife?
How did we miss that?
It wasn't on anyone's radar...
not CIA, not FSB.
The mothership?
Destroyed.
Did we just lose this one?
I don't know.
How bad is it?
Silicon substrate's gone.
Copper connections burned out.
It's toast.
Gabriel, we're out of time.
So... so,
just give up?
And I just killed all these people?
I didn't say that.
We're not giving up.
Right?
Right.
Okay, walk me through it again.
How's this worm work?
It's... it's like
a heat-seeking missile,
programmed not to stop
till it hits its target.
So why hasn't it yet?
Because the power grid
is complicated, okay?
The worm got distracted by a myriad...
That's it. Distract it.
Countermeasures!
We have a countermeasure vehicle
that trails the presidential motorcade.
It jams electronic-guidance
systems, I.E.D. detonators,
and even attracts
heat-seeking missiles
away from the president.
I don't get it.
We can't stop the worm
from hitting its target,
so we give it a new target.
We build a virtual nuclear reactor.
You think it can be done?
Theoretically, yeah.
The worm identifies its target
by looking for a unique set of heuristics.
If we concocted a digital structure
with an identical signature,
we might be able to coax
the worm to our honey pot
instead of the real reactor.
Might?
Well, if our analysis
of the worm told us anything,
it's that it's
nearly impossible to predict.
I believe that was intended
in the design, yes?
Yeah, I figured if I
couldn't predict its sequencing,
nobody else could, either.
This is immensely complicated.
Even with Gabriel, we won't have
time for the proper testing.
There is no guarantee that this will work.
But there is a guarantee
what happens if we don't try.
All right, Gabriel.
Let's do it.
We'll start with the reactor blueprints.
Okay, I'm compiling the system code
to build
our reactor's H.P. network.
You're compiling?
It's a figure of speech.
Gabriel's on with Cybercom,
where they're building the phantom reactor.
Okay, Troy.
We've got the basic build.
Now we have to ensure
our reactor gets hit first.
How do we make this thing sexy to the worm?
It's about the payload.
The bigger our target,
the more likely it'll distract
from the real thing.
San Jacomo puts out 2,400 megawatts.
Let's do 10,000.
10,000 megawatts could light up the moon.
That should do it!
Okay.
Mousetrap's all set.
You see it?
Whoa! There it is.
Our own
nuclear reactor, baby.
Let's see if the worm bites.
What are we seeing?
Gabriel just injected the digital reactor
into the power grid.
Do you see it?
It's awesome...
Well, as long as the worm recognizes it.
Now, if he does, the worm will
enter the phantom reactor,
destroy the code structure, and
disintegrate along with it.
And if it doesn't?
It'll pass through the digital
sequence unimpeded...
slam into the real thing.
The worm stopped.
Why? What happened?
Found the phantom reactor.
Check it...
it's sniffing it out.
Wait.
No. No.
It's moving again?
Look like the worm called us out.
It saw the phantom reactor for what it is.
A fake.
Wait.
It's turning around.
Our data's disappearing.
It took the bait.
It took the bait!
Yee-ha!
It took the bait!
Yes!
Whoo!
You did it.
We did it.
Can't believe it worked.
Of course it worked!
You're a genius!
That's what I've been saying
the whole time!
Oh!
I love this kid!
Oh, my gosh.
The city of Los Angeles
is back to status quo.
Far as anyone is concerned,
the pipe leak at San Jacomo
has been repaired with no lasting damage,
and the power surge
that caused the blackouts
has been restored.
Dominik Salvi?
Still in the wind.
You did the right thing,
however the hammer falls.
Oh, the hammer will fall,
make no mistake...
which is why we will have to find him.
Yeah.
Is this the last meal I eat
before I go to prison?
Guess so.
Good call on the burgers, though.
That what you think...
we're putting you away?
Look, Troy.
You have something nobody else has.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got a gift.
It's not a gift.
Then what is it?
It's a duty.
But you have to choose.
When you turn 18, you got a
job waiting here for you.
No.
For reals?
For reals.
Somebody here to see you.
Well, I was hoping to see
that pretty face again.
Why'd you do this?
Because I'm your friend.
T-man.
It's really you.
You're with me now.
You hear?
You're with me now.
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At 10:00 tonight, blackouts
began ravaging the west coast.
Hospitals, nursing homes,
emergency services
all running off of emergency power.
This thing's 10 times the size
of what happened in New York.
All our fears regarding the aging grid
have proved legitimate.
It will take days just to restore
the damage that has already occurred.
We're facing panic, riots,
the closing of critical infrastructure...
Excuse me for asking this,
but isn't this
a D.O.E. and FEMA issue?
The cyber-defense division
has identified
an advanced cyberworm
inside the power grid.
This is a hack?
Yeah, an incredibly sophisticated one.
We have the entire fourth floor
working to break the worm's encryption.
It could take days.
I should take a look.
No, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no.
Bad idea.
This worm is like a python.
It wraps itself around a system,
squeezes the life out of it.
If you tried to enter the power grid,
it would immediately see you as prey.
It could destroy the chip.
You seem to know a lot about it.
Oh, we've seen it before.
This puppy was built by Cortez.
Seriously?
No one?
Guys, Cortez...
he's a legend!
Do you remember the Americana Mutual hack?
No one knows how he
broke into that closed system!
Nelson.
Cortez has used this identical worm
in at least three grey hat scams
that we are aware of.
What's a grey hat scam?
Install a destructive worm
into a corporation's system,
then you blackmail them.
?Pay me,
and I'll shut down the worm.?
it's also called
hostage-ware,
and Cortez practically invented it.
So, why hack a power grid?
That doesn't fit
the extortionist M.O.
Well, most likely, it's a...
ego thing.
You see,
these high-level hackers
are all out to prove that they're the best.
The physical grid is just the next...
...frontier.
Wait a second.
Cortez screwed up with the power grid.
How so?
It's just the nature
of the security system.
It only allows access
from local I.P. addresses.
This worm had to have
originated in Los Angeles.
Gabriel, Riley, Nelson,
You're going to L.A.
to find Cortez.
Cassidy, keep working
with the fourth floor.
See if we can't dissect
the worm from the inside.
Jameson, coordinate with
all the other agencies.
Any chatter about Cortez,
I want to know about it.
Everyone,
this is the cyber attack
we've all been afraid of.
Millions of lives are affected,
and we may not have seen the worst yet.
Nelson?
You're awake.
Fantastic.
Okay,
check out the monitors.
Do you see it?
Can you see me?
See what I'm walking like?
Oh, the camera records your shadow?
Not a shadow... that is
millions of wireless signals
tracking my movements visually!
You're seeing me through the wall!
Like sonar?
Exactly.
And with this little nugget,
anybody can have X-ray vision.
All you need
is a Wi-Fi connection.
And a camera and a monitor,
unless you're me.
All right, we get it.
You have a chip in your brain.
You're amazing.
Riley:
Los Angeles looks strange
without the lights.
Nelson, what do hackers do in a blackout?
Okay, well, it wouldn't
affect the real pros.
They're as dependent on power
as they are on water,
so they would all have contingency plans
in the form
of backup-generator systems.
That's it.
That's how we find Cortez.
We look for the lights.
About 10,000 computers are
still accessing the Internet
from the Los Angeles area right now.
Are any of those encrypted?
14 government buildings,
21 police stations,
106 fire stations, 122 hospitals,
all using encrypted networks
to access the Internet
under emergency power.
Okay, look in residential areas.
A guy like Cortez would need
a lot of bandwidth.
It's very rare.
You're looking for a high data
rate of at least 45 megabits.
Got him.
Cortez lives downtown.
Nice!
At least
they have emergency lighting.
We need him alive.
Relax.
I'm not gonna shoot anybody.
Cortez, federal agents.
Drop your weapon.
We don't want to hurt you.
Put the gun down now!
Oh.
?-oh??
What happened to not killing him?
What the hell?
Whoa!
Who the hell are you?
Troy Ricksen.
Nah, man.
You got the wrong guy.
Troy, where are your parents?
Deceased 10 years ago.
Car accident.
After the accident,
Troy and his older brother
were put into foster care,
split up.
Oddly, Troy ended up
with Ms. Schuster.
Why ?oddly??
She died in 1901.
Start talking, kid.
He hacked the system.
You're Cortez?
Who the hell are you?
And who's that?
The guy that was about to kill you.
You're welcome.
Gabriel Vaughn...
one of our nation's most
decorated soldiers.
He's a hero, and now our
country's most secret weapon.
Gabriel possesses a rare genetic mutation
that allowed us to implant
a microchip in his brain.
We connected his mind directly
to the information grid.
It's something the chip does
that nobody expected.
I can create a virtual snapshot
of an event in my mind
and then walk through it.
It's like a virtual evidence wall.
At U.S. Cyber Command,
we created a highly specialized
unit around him...
Satellite in five.
...and assigned an agent
to protect him.
Run!
He's the first of his kind...
the next evolution of intelligence.
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web dl sync snarry
You keep calling me ?Cortez,?
but I ain't never heard that name before.
October 10th, Genus Corporation
was hacked by a cyberworm
that tore through their system,
shutting down their servers.
30 hours later, they received
an encrypted e-mail,
offering to fix it for a price.
What's that got to do with me?
That e-mail
came from your computer.
Bet you used the ransom money
to pay for this sweet setup.
I still don't know
what you're talking about.
I read the e-mail, Troy.
?Dear Genus geniuses,
want your server back?
I can deliver it?.
No way you could've found that.
I bounced that thing through
12 different countries.
You see?
Look, man, I had nothing to do
with the power-grid hack,
for reals.
For reals?
Then explain to me how your worm
ended up inside the grid.
Who are you working with?
Nobody, I swear.
You saw that dead guy in there.
He was sent here to kill you.
Why do you think that is?
What went wrong, Troy?
You stiff them on the deal?
What deal?
Someone paid you for that worm.
Since the power outage,
36 people have died already,
including a 6-year-old girl
who died in an elevator this morning,
trapped without her Insulin.
How much?
Excuse me?
How much you gonna pay me to fix it?
Are you serious?
20 g's.
20 g's.
Call it a patriotic discount.
The hard way, then.
Hands behind your back.
Oh, whoa. Aah!
You're Cortez?
You reprogrammed the MCM virus
to spread through a closed network
before anyone even heard
of frog-hopping or Stuxnet.
You can't prove that.
No, no, I'm like a huge fa...
wait, how old are you?
You want an autograph?
Maybe.
Nelson.
Can you pull up the infected power grid
so Troy can take a look at the worm?
Yes.
See? It's your worm,
all right.
No, someone must've cloned it.
Soon as I find out who,
I'm-a bust some heads.
Just shut it down, Rambo.
I can't.
Can't do anything till it finds its target.
Target?
You don't know what's going on?
You're the I.T. guy.
Oh-ho-ho!
I'm not the I.T. guy.
This kid.
?Kid?! Kid, kid.
I'm a genius.
U.S. freakin' Cyber Command
can't hack me.
Start talking, genius.
Okay, school's in session.
The worm eats through a system,
looking for a specific target, understand?
Yeah. We understand.
So, it's not targeting the power grid.
No.
Right now, the worm is like
a kitten playing with a ball of string.
Any sec, this kitten will become a tiger.
Right. When is that?
When it smells the meat.
Big man's right.
So, what's the meat?
Give me five minutes on your
system, and I'll tell you.
You mind?
Oh.
You talk. Nelson types.
Whenever you're ready.
Did he say anything else?
He's in prison, Alyona.
He does not have much to say.
Was he angry?
About what?
That I have not been to see him.
I'm his wife, after all.
That was his decision.
What about...
Enough of the questions!
I apologize.
This cannot go on.
You know that.
Come.
Speak.
There were complications.
Complications?
Just tell me...
is Cortez dead or no?
No.
And Piotr is dead.
Cortez is the only one
who can stop the worm.
Do you want to be the one to tell
my brother how you've failed us?
No, sir.
I will kill Cortez myself.
You really hacked
your way out of foster care?
I didn't hack my way out.
Hacked my way through.
You ever think about
all the things you could do
with that gift of yours?
Yeah.
I could get a tight crib with a view,
a 911 turbo drop-top,
and some sick-ass gear.
Oh, wait.
I-I did get all that.
You stole all that.
Kid's a genius, all right...
a criminal genius.
Oh, my gosh.
What?
Hit ?pound h-c.?
You'll get there 10 times faster.
That shortcut
only brings up recent activity.
See? Someone
doesn't know everything.
Do they?
Okay, slow it down.
Stop. Check it out.
Every third character after the asterisk.
Oh, I am so stealing that.
You got this?
What do you mean, does he got
this? He would have to, like...
oh, no.
What?
Yeah, what?
Yeah, what?
San Jacomo...
...the nuclear power plant.
My people estimate it will hit
San Jacomo's nuclear reactor
in less than five hours.
The worm will wipe
the reactor's
health-physics system,
initiating
a full-scale meltdown.
I recommend an immediate evac
of the 50-mile exposure radius.
That's more than 4 million people.
That would be difficult
under normal circumstances,
but in the middle of a blackout?
Everyone, hold a moment.
Onscreen for everyone...
we've just received some demands.
The Novyy Svit Rvolyutsioneriv
are responsible for
the attack on your power grid.
As you now know,
we have ability to destroy your reactor,
or to abort the attack if you
simply release our comrade,
Dominik Salvi.
If you do not comply,
your country will suffer
the same dismal future
that Chernobyl gave to our children.
What do we have?
Brothers Torbin and Dominik Salvi...
...are leaders of an anti-nuclear
terrorist organization
known as the NSR.
FBI arrested Dominik
on charges of bombing a nuclear
research facility in Moscow
which killed 52 and injured hundreds.
We're set to extradite him
to Russia tomorrow.
And it is no accident
the video mentions Chernobyl.
The Salvi boys grew up
in a small town close
to the, ill-fated reactor.
They likely witnessed all kinds
of illnesses, deformities.
Yeah, apparently, the NSR believes
the world turned
a blind eye to their community.
Now, where does Troy fit into all this?
There's a black market for
every kind of weapon on earth,
including cyber weapons.
Torbin is the buyer.
Troy is the seller.
That doesn't fit
with Troy's M.O., though...
blackmailing large corporations.
Perhaps.
But we need to focus
on the person who's blackmailing us.
Well, surely, this Torbin Salvi
knows our government doesn't
negotiate with terrorists.
It's not our government he's worried about.
It's the Russians,
who plan to execute his brother.
There's no trace on the video.
Its signal was pinged off
of thousands of servers
to mask its location.
We need to work Troy harder.
Let's get him back in here.
Troy doesn't know Torbin Salvi.
You sure about that?
What do we know about Troy?
Well, we know he's a genius.
He's an arrogant, selfish pain in the ass.
Okay.
Einstein was obsessed with Mozart.
He felt that while Beethoven created music,
Mozart found music,
as if it were left for him by the universe.
We're comparing Troy
to Einstein and Mozart now?
Okay, when I look
at a computer, I see code.
Troy sees code, too.
The difference is, Troy...
doesn't see the computer.
You've never met anyone like him before.
Yes, we have.
I'll talk to him.
What's this...
little man-to-man chat?
Who are you performing for right now?
It's just you and me, and I ain't buying.
I ain't selling.
You always selling...
that you don't care about anything,
that you're better than the rest of us.
You heard what your girl said.
I got a gift.
Yeah, she says that a lot.
What happened with your brother?
Excuse me?
Drew.
He's old enough to take care of you,
even has a kid of his own.
That was the plan
when you ran away, right...
live with him in Oakland?
What happened?
Where... where you getting this?
Why the hell would I want to
live with some dude's ho
and his wack kid,
when I can be living on my own,
doing my thing,
nobody telling me what to do?
If that's true,
why do you spend so much time
looking at the pictures
he posts online of his family?
In my job, sometimes
we deal with big numbers...
thousands of people
affected by this or that.
It's good to remember
they're real people, Troy,
people like your brother.
That all you got,
Dr. Phil?
Look, I think you know more about this worm
than you're letting on, Troy.
Think you're the only one with a gift?
I got a gift, too.
And the man that gave it to me told me
we live in a world
where one person and a computer
has the power to end this world or save it,
depending on how they choose to use it.
And what's this gift he gave you?
Let's just say he trusted me to choose.
Just stay here and think about that.
Wait, what do you mean,
a ?kill switch??
I found it embedded in the code.
It's the key to the whole idea.
Hacker sets a worm loose
that only he can stop,
because only he has the kill switch.
Come on, Nelson.
You see it?
You recognize that encryption?
Biometric authentication.
Bi-biometric?
That could be a thumbprint,
a retinal scan, even voice authentication.
It is something unique to the hacker.
Dad, check it out.
The code is mimicking an EKG reading.
A heartbeat.
That's it.
Troy used his own unique
heartbeat as the password.
That's the perfect kill switch!
It's impossible to fake!
How'd you do?
I got him thinking.
Good.
Because he's literally the only person
who can stop this thing.
Kid hacked our car.
Yeah.
I'm glad you got him thinking.
The President
wants a S.I.T. report.
I'd like to tell him something
more encouraging than
?We lost our hacker.?
Tell him we're three hours away
from a reactor meltdown,
and we should begin
a large-scale evac now.
I believe
I said ?encouraging.?
He will want to pull Gabriel
out. You know that.
The kill switch won't work
without the hacker.
Gabriel tracked the car using its GPS
and is on his way to get him now.
Thank you.
Exactly where I said he'd be.
Dude, Troy, check this out.
This infant troll's
trying to screw up my site.
It's freakin' hilarious.
What did you do, Danny?
You all right, T?
I saw your routing algorithm on the worm.
That distance-vector protocol
is all you.
The hell are you talking about?
You stole my worm.
You got any idea who you're working for?
They're terrorists.
Don't tell me some fool
comes looking for code,
and you figure you can make an easy buck
if you don't ask too many questions.
I don't have your skills, all right?
I can't just hack
my way out of this dungeon.
I-I was being
entrepreneurial.
Entrepreneurial?
People are dead now 'cause of you.
'Cause of me.
You gonna go to the cops?
I ain't going to prison
for your stupid ass.
We're gonna stop this thing, you and me,
before anybody else gets hurt.
Now, where do we find these guys?
No joke, bro...
they'll kill me.
Yeah, they're gonna kill
a lot more people than you.
Now, where is the mothership?
Danny!
Aah!
Shots fired.
We need tactical units to
111 Fordham East Street.
I can't see
any surveillance-camera feeds.
Try tapping into
the wi-fi signals.
Right, Nelson's new toy.
It's working. I'm in.
Troy's in a back room, under
a desk. They're closing in.
Riley.
Are you okay?
They killed Danny.
I'm sorry, Troy.
I'm sorry, too.
But there'll be time to mourn your friend.
Right now, we need you to focus up, okay?
We need you to use your kill switch.
W-what do you mean?
We know about the heartbeat authentication.
What, do you think
I can just jump on any computer
and turn this thing off?
I can't do anything without the mothership.
Mothership?
The original computer
that launched the worm.
We call that the mothership.
It controls the code, the kill switch...
All of it.
That's why you came here.
You were trying to track it down.
You should've said something.
You need to trust us, Troy.
I know what I need to do.
What's that?
Find the dirtbag that stole
my worm, get my code back...
right after you shoot him.
Due to a technical malfunction
at the San Jacomo nuclear power plant,
the nuclear regulatory
commission has mandated
an evacuation of the immediate areas
surrounding the facility.
The NRC main...
Dominik ever told you about
Mitya, our younger brother?
He had an eye that could not see...
and lungs that did not work right.
Our parents brought him to doctor,
but the doctor refused to help Mitya.
The surgery was too expensive,
too impractical.
That was when we knew.
Knew what?
It's us against the whole world.
If you succeed, there will be
many more children like Mitya.
Yes.
But they will be no longer
so easy to turn away.
Let's see if I understand...
you want to give in
to Torbin Salvi's demands
in exchange for the mothership computer?
I'm not saying we give in.
I'm saying we pretend we're giving in.
We release Dominik
long enough for Troy
to engage the kill switch
and shut down the worm.
The state department spent months
negotiating Dominik's extradition.
You know things are tense with Moscow.
We are on the brink of a nuclear event.
Doesn't that trump the politics?
We have less than an hour, Adam.
I'll make the call.
Thank you.
We'll head to Victorville penitentiary now.
Okay, once you have Dominik in custody,
I'll contact Torbin
and set up the exchange.
How did this happen?
Dominik Salvi
is already in Russian custody.
- What? How?
- The state department
secretly moved up his extradition...
a day early, just after
they received the demand video.
Small-minded,
fear-driven bureaucrats.
The Russian ambassador's plane
is set to depart
from Burbank Airport right now.
Mr. Ambassador,
I'm asking for your cooperation.
If Torbin Salvi succeeds,
these chickens will only be
coming back to Russia to roost.
Yes, but here
I have my chicken in hand.
Dominik Salvi is personally responsible...
for the deaths of hundreds
of innocent Russians.
My country deserves to see him pay.
And they will.
Please...
just delay your flight for a few hours.
I'm sorry, Ms. Strand.
We'll talk again from Moscow.
Too late.
It's taking off.
Gabriel, we can't let
our only bargaining chip with Torbin Salvi
leave that runway.
I need you to get me in range.
Close enough?
I'm in.
A few seconds.
How mad do you think the Russians will be?
What the hell just happened?
We got lucky.
I'll count your technical issues
as a win for us, Mr. Ambassador.
Yeah, well, the truth remains the same.
I must bring Dominik Salvi
back to Russia today.
I'm only asking for two hours.
If Timothy McVeigh were sitting
on a Moscow tarmac,
would you not be demanding
his immediate return?
Not if a delay might help
prevent a nuclear incident.
I need you to work with me here, serge.
We've exhausted our options.
Without Dominik Salvi,
we won't be able to stop this worm in time.
I need your guarantee
you'll return Dominik alive.
You have my word.
All right.
You just make a promise you can't keep?
Let's hope not.
Wanted to see me?
We have a very small window here,
and we need to ensure that Torbin Salvi
holds up his end of the deal and
brings the mothership with him.
Understood.
I'm only going to agree to the trade
if the exchange is made
inside the exposure pathway.
This way, if Torbin goes back on the deal,
he and his brother will die
in the meltdown they created.
That would also mean
you'd be potentially exposing
Gabriel, Riley, Nelson.
Yes. I'm aware of that.
Lillian.
As soon as we lose control
of the nuclear reactor's coolant system,
the radiation will breach
the containment vessel.
Hydrogen explosions will wipe out
everything inside the exposure pathway.
I know that, doctor.
If they are there when
the worm hits the reactor...
They will all die.
That's why it's the right call.
As long as Torbin Salvi understands that,
he'll be personally invested
in preventing the meltdown, right?
We're all ready to go.
That's the EKG authenticator?
Yeah, it's pretty cool, right?
It's more accurate than a medical device
and reads his heartbeats
through his thumbprints.
I need a moment alone.
You got it.
You meant the kid.
Thanks for sticking it out with us.
Half this job's just showing up.
What's the other half?
Not screwing up.
This pep talk sucks.
You want to call him?
Who?
Your brother.
Wasn't his fault they split you up.
He was 16. You were 5.
You were easier to place with a family.
Yeah, well, that sucks.
That's my point.
Drew never left you behind.
Truth is, he never stopped looking for you.
You can't know that.
Actually, I can, and I do.
Come on.
Keep him safe.
Of course.
In the backseat.
O-one of us has to
check out the computer
and make sure it's the real deal.
Gabriel's got it covered.
No, no, no, we got to wire it up,
make sure it's really
transmitting the code,
not just pretending.
You...
Gabriel will know.
Trust me.
I need to verify the computer.
Take off his shackles first.
No.
You show me the computer,
or your brother will be the
first to die in this gunfight.
We'll take my brother now.
You can keep the computer.
Get ready. In 2 minutes, that
laptop's gonna be sitting right here.
Then in 3 minutes, I'm-a kill it.
Yes!
You want to knuckle it?
Is that what the kids are doing?
You know what?
I'm good.
I knew you would come home to me.
No!
Get down.
Get down, come on!
We have to get the mothership.
I'll cover you.
You okay?
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Torbin Salvi was sleeping
with his brother's wife?
How did we miss that?
It wasn't on anyone's radar...
not CIA, not FSB.
The mothership?
Destroyed.
Did we just lose this one?
I don't know.
How bad is it?
Silicon substrate's gone.
Copper connections burned out.
It's toast.
Gabriel, we're out of time.
So... so,
just give up?
And I just killed all these people?
I didn't say that.
We're not giving up.
Right?
Right.
Okay, walk me through it again.
How's this worm work?
It's... it's like
a heat-seeking missile,
programmed not to stop
till it hits its target.
So why hasn't it yet?
Because the power grid
is complicated, okay?
The worm got distracted by a myriad...
That's it. Distract it.
Countermeasures!
We have a countermeasure vehicle
that trails the presidential motorcade.
It jams electronic-guidance
systems, I.E.D. detonators,
and even attracts
heat-seeking missiles
away from the president.
I don't get it.
We can't stop the worm
from hitting its target,
so we give it a new target.
We build a virtual nuclear reactor.
You think it can be done?
Theoretically, yeah.
The worm identifies its target
by looking for a unique set of heuristics.
If we concocted a digital structure
with an identical signature,
we might be able to coax
the worm to our honey pot
instead of the real reactor.
Might?
Well, if our analysis
of the worm told us anything,
it's that it's
nearly impossible to predict.
I believe that was intended
in the design, yes?
Yeah, I figured if I
couldn't predict its sequencing,
nobody else could, either.
This is immensely complicated.
Even with Gabriel, we won't have
time for the proper testing.
There is no guarantee that this will work.
But there is a guarantee
what happens if we don't try.
All right, Gabriel.
Let's do it.
We'll start with the reactor blueprints.
Okay, I'm compiling the system code
to build
our reactor's H.P. network.
You're compiling?
It's a figure of speech.
Gabriel's on with Cybercom,
where they're building the phantom reactor.
Okay, Troy.
We've got the basic build.
Now we have to ensure
our reactor gets hit first.
How do we make this thing sexy to the worm?
It's about the payload.
The bigger our target,
the more likely it'll distract
from the real thing.
San Jacomo puts out 2,400 megawatts.
Let's do 10,000.
10,000 megawatts could light up the moon.
That should do it!
Okay.
Mousetrap's all set.
You see it?
Whoa! There it is.
Our own
nuclear reactor, baby.
Let's see if the worm bites.
What are we seeing?
Gabriel just injected the digital reactor
into the power grid.
Do you see it?
It's awesome...
Well, as long as the worm recognizes it.
Now, if he does, the worm will
enter the phantom reactor,
destroy the code structure, and
disintegrate along with it.
And if it doesn't?
It'll pass through the digital
sequence unimpeded...
slam into the real thing.
The worm stopped.
Why? What happened?
Found the phantom reactor.
Check it...
it's sniffing it out.
Wait.
No. No.
It's moving again?
Look like the worm called us out.
It saw the phantom reactor for what it is.
A fake.
Wait.
It's turning around.
Our data's disappearing.
It took the bait.
It took the bait!
Yee-ha!
It took the bait!
Yes!
Whoo!
You did it.
We did it.
Can't believe it worked.
Of course it worked!
You're a genius!
That's what I've been saying
the whole time!
Oh!
I love this kid!
Oh, my gosh.
The city of Los Angeles
is back to status quo.
Far as anyone is concerned,
the pipe leak at San Jacomo
has been repaired with no lasting damage,
and the power surge
that caused the blackouts
has been restored.
Dominik Salvi?
Still in the wind.
You did the right thing,
however the hammer falls.
Oh, the hammer will fall,
make no mistake...
which is why we will have to find him.
Yeah.
Is this the last meal I eat
before I go to prison?
Guess so.
Good call on the burgers, though.
That what you think...
we're putting you away?
Look, Troy.
You have something nobody else has.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got a gift.
It's not a gift.
Then what is it?
It's a duty.
But you have to choose.
When you turn 18, you got a
job waiting here for you.
No.
For reals?
For reals.
Somebody here to see you.
Well, I was hoping to see
that pretty face again.
Why'd you do this?
Because I'm your friend.
T-man.
It's really you.
You're with me now.
You hear?
You're with me now.
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