Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 3, Episode 10 - Brutus - full transcript

MAN: I believe what
we all believe in,

and I believe that
there is no higher calling

than that of public service.

(applause)

And where others
see the State Senate

as a steppingstone
to higher office,

let me assure you,

I can see no greater
service to the people I love.

OPERATOR: 911.
What's your emergency?

There's a man with a
gun at the Quincy Hotel.

Making California safe
to threats from without



and within. Hey, Bill.

Don. Thanks for coming, guys.

Chippies are
stretched thin today.

We could use more eyes
out there. So what's the deal?

Why's the Senator still
here with a death threat?

He wouldn't let us pull him out.

COLBY: So we have
absolutely no control

over who's already been let in.
Let's get the uplink to my people.

Why don't you
guys hit the floor.

SENATOR: by a series of
reforms designed to overturn

30 years of misguided optimism

about the heart of a criminal
and what resides there.

Thank you.

God bless you all and God
bless the great state of California.



All right, guys, here
comes the uplink.

Now.

I'm up.

Yeah, so are we.

I've been waiting

for an opportunity to give
my crowd dynamics program

a shakedown.

Look, if this works,

the security applications
alone are staggering.

It's amazing.

We're getting a real-time
analysis of movement patterns,

ongoing flow rate projections.

We're looking for
a male, one male,

probably with a handgun.

Lot of people in the area.

Hope you guys
can narrow it down.

I'm fishing for body language
and microexpressions,

but with this many people,

it's really just fishing.

Charlie?

Look, the software
we're using is designed

to determine corridor flow,

maximize efficiency
of ingress and egress.

You know, but what's
really interesting here

are the continuum
approximations.

By analyzing the crowd

as if it were a
liquid-like substance...

We're looking for anomalies,

like someone
breaking the pattern

of the reception line.

Got to get in fast and close
for a shot at the senator.

Thank you. Thank you.

It's a pleasure.

Do you see that? All right,
we'd better double-check it

against high-density,
bidirectional flow results.

MEGAN: Charlie, there's a time

for double-checking and a
time to make an educated guess.

Okay, then, we have

an unaccountable
congestion near a center table.

I have a male Asian, 60s,

near the center table.

The body language is right.

He has slumped shoulders
and a slack expression.

He's holding his jacket
with his right hand.

DON: Bingo. I got him, guys.

Two o'clock, two
o'clock. I got him.

(crowd screaming)

FBI! Get down! Move!

Put it down! Right now!

Don't do that! Don't do it!

Vanh Minh, former
Vietnamese citizen.

Joined the Vietcong at age 15,

eventually became a recon
platoon leader in Dinh Tuong.

Senator Tallman
was in the Army, right?

In the '60s? Never
went to Vietnam.

Never even went overseas.

As far as we can tell, these two
men never even met each other.

All right, so this
guy disappears

in '68, resurfaces in '78...

as a US citizen?

Wait, how's he pull that off?

He's not a registered voter.

He has no political
affiliation whatsoever.

I mean, it looks like a...

classic lone gunman.

Yeah, but why kill a
politician you don't even know?

Doesn't make any damn sense.

Landlord says

that Minh paid his rent
on time and kept to himself

and fixed his own faucet.

Yep, and he kept a diary.

All in French,

so I think we're gonna
need a translator.

He planned this
thing out in advance.

He bought the suit, the tie,
and the shoes a week ago.

Even had time to
get the pants taken in.

Well, careful prep is consistent
with the murder-suicide.

"Brutus climbed into my mind

and stopped me from
functioning as a normal person.”

Wow, she speaks French.

She dated a hockey player.

"Before Brutus, I was
curious and intelligent."

You know, Brutus could
be a code word for Tallman.

Yeah.

Did he happen to mention
what he had against this guy?

He might not have
had a specific grudge.

He's showing manifestations
of schizophrenia.

Non-existent relationships,
repressed rage.

And medication.

Nice grab.

(chuckling): Thanks.

Dextroamphetamine sulfate.

That's speed.

Well, abuse would explain

high levels of aggression. Yep.

Answers a lot of questions.

Yeah, and begs a few more

like who prescribed
this and for what.

Yeah.

Also, why was he receiving
pension checks from the Army?

The United States Army.

CHARLIE: Your mail.

Oh, thanks again for use
of your address, Charles.

Since the steam tunnels,

Professor Mildred
has cut off all use

of my faculty mailboxes.

And the... the magazine.

Charles.

Yeah. I-I believe
this is my copy

of the Quarterly
Review of Cosmology.

Yeah, it is.

Why are we engaged
in combat over it?

Well, be... I'll
tell... because...

There's, there's something
on the cover that may very well,

um... no, it is, it is
going to upset you.

I was going to throw it out,

and then I figured you'd find it

sooner or later. Just
give it to me already.

"Igby's Law Redefines
Gravity Flux Motivated

by Sound Wave Propagation
in Bose-Einstein Condensates."

Professor Johannes Igby?

Um, I know

you publicly disputed
Igby's approach.

The man is an
anthropic imbecile.

You know, so what

i-if, if he's been proven right?

He's had a law named after him.

So what if he's been
put on the short list

for the National Medal
of Science Award?

He has?

It's on page 87.

So look, I mean,
it, it may sting

a little bit, you
know, at first,

but, um...

You're smiling.

I am? Are you, are
you in stunned shock?

It's okay. I'll call
the campus medic.

Actually, don't do that.

Tell you what you can do.

Take over my
Computational Physics class.

Well, the last time I
covered that class,

one of your students...
Thank you so much, Charles.

OPERATOR: 911.

MAN: There is a man with
a gun at the Quincy Hotel.

Can I have your name?

He is going to kill
Senator Martin Tallman.

It may already be too late.

No, I mean, he doesn't sound 60

and he doesn't sound
Vietnamese. No.

Voice recognition says
male, Caucasian, 25 to 40.

And that call came in at 12:17
from a pay phone in the lobby.

By that time, Minh was
already in the ballroom.

Autopsy results are in.

Death from a gunshot
wound to Minh's head.

We need an autopsy
to tell us that?

I was actually more
interested in the pathology.

ME confirmed

Minh had been taking large
doses of dextroamphetamine sulfate.

That prescription was
written on a stolen pad.

Which suggests
intentional abuse.

It's like he was

getting himself angry
enough to kill Tallman.

Did you get anywhere
with the pension checks?

No, the VA had
no records on him,

so pulling in a favor
who's pulling in a favor.

And your favor's
favor called me.

Agent Eppes.

Raymond, Central
Intelligence. We need to talk.

All right, Raymond,

let's take a little walk.

RAYMOND: We'd be interested
in doing an information share

on the Tallman assassination.

Uh-huh.

Why are you guys so interested
in a California State Senator?

Vanh Minh's citizenship
and pension were functions

of work he performed
for us during Vietnam.

What, double agent?

I couldn't say.

Well, see, you know,
as file-sharing goes,

we're off to a bad start here.

I mean... What I
mean is I don't know.

Minh was part of
a defunct program

from a war we lost 30 years ago.

So what are you saying?

The guy was in the
wind for 25 years?

And now he's front page news.

And I'd like to know what kind

of damage control
we're looking at.

No chest beating,

just a request to keep
a colleague in the loop.

All right, fair enough.

Thanks.

Minh's .38 was one
of three purchased

at a Nevada gun
store last month.

Buyer used a stolen ID.

The store's name is Longan Ammo.

On the ATF's watch list.

Have a reputation
for playing things

a little fast and loose

when it comes to background
checks and waiting periods.

We got a straw purchase.

Yeah, then he
sold it off to Minh.

What do we got?
A white male, 30s.

You really think we have some
kind of conspiracy going on?

I don't know.

I think we'd better find
those other two guns.

CHARLIE: So a
black market dealer

sends a buyer into a gun store.

Right, in this case,
with a fake ID.

And the buyer purchases
multiple guns legally...

Mm-hmm. And then
returns them to the dealer?

Yeah, it's called
a straw purchase.

AMITA: Gun stores can do that?

Just sell pistols to
anyone with money?

They're not supposed to, but
these people can find a way

to make a buck.

I know what you're thinking.

An inductive application
of the network effect.

Starting from Metcalfe's law?

No, you know how I
feel about Metcalfe's law.

You know, it's value-
based, so in my opinion,

it just, it vastly
overst... (knocking)

BOTH: Hi.

Can we come in?

This is perfect.

Where's Alan?

He's in Oakland until Monday.

Yeah, he's, he's
over there consulting

on a waterfront
renovation project...

LARRY: Um...

I think maybe we should
wait. No, we can't wait.

Wait for what?

Um, Larry has
some really big news.

I'm leaving Cal Sci.

I'm leaving Los Angeles
in fact, more specifically,

I will be leaving

the planet Earth, though I will

remain in orbit... Okay.

If you don't tell
them, I'm going to.

I will be on the next shuttle

to the International
Space Station leaving

roughly three weeks from now.

You are not... Wait, wait.

Wait, wait, hold on. What?

You must have
suspected something.

I mean with my unorthodox living

situations,

my unexplained
absences. I thought

that was you being...

You. No.

And you knew about this?

Well, I knew he was taking

more trips to Houston.

But no, I never pierced
the "veil of mystery."

Yes, I guess my work

in the cosmic microwave
background had some relevance

to the NSA's satellite
signals technology and, uh,

they contacted
me last September.

Last September?

Yes. Handshakes transpired,

oaths were taken and
the long and the short of it

is that I was made
alternate payload specialist.

He's going on the space shuttle

for six months. Wow.

Why didn't you
ever say anything?

Because it was always
just such a long shot,

but with the recent
good fortune of the

original payload
specialist, Johannes Igby,

Igby's Law. His new

responsibilities sadly
prevent him from taking

his seat on the shuttle.

So, so T-Minus?

Um, we're scheduled
for departure on the 7th.

I will be leaving for Houston

next week for final training

and my flight physical.

Larry's got the right stuff.

All right, I'm getting
some champagne.

Congratulations,
Larry. Oh, thank you.

(chattering)

So why Chicago? Do not know.

Go ask my publisher.

I think you've got a girl there.

Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.

Girl in every port. Mmm.

To a girl in every port.

Uh, can I help you?

(clicks)

Stan. Oh, God.

Somebody call the cops.

Oh...

Male, Hispanic, 40s.

The guy walks up to this table,

puts five shots into the victim,

turns the gun on himself,
misfires, walks away.

Sounds a lot like
the Tallman shooting.

LAPD made the same connection.

So they checked
the serial number

against our straw purchase.
Do we have a match?

Yeah, you think I'm
going to call you out here,

on your night off if we don't?

Victim is Stanford Davis.

This is his wife.
He's a psychiatrist.

Just wrote a book called New
Methods of Operant Conditioning

and Its Impact on Neuroanatomy.

I'll wait for the movie.

Yeah.

One gun purchase has given us

two execution-style murders.

And one and a half suicides.

You used Metcalfe's
Law after all.

You know, no one likes to
hear "I told you so." Okay.

What are those?

It's a second gun from
a shooting last night.

I'm tracing the past patterns

of transactions
across the network

and it's-it's revealing some
very predictable dynamics.

It's really something...
About Larry.

What, the whole, uh...

space station thing?

Yeah, you seemed a little, uh...

A little what?

I don't know... upset?

Upset?

What do you mean?
No, I'm-I'm upset?

Of course not. I'm not upset.

I mean maybe I would be

if I thought he was actually
going to go through with it.

Larry asked Dr. Finch
for a leave of absence.

I mean, he put
his car in storage.

I have known Larry Fleinhardt

for 15 years.

He's not going anywhere.

I think you should talk to him.

Why? There's
nothing to talk about.

Besides I've got to
present my findings

to Don, so...

DAVID: Shooter
left a pretty good

print on the strap.

It comes back to...

Carlos Costavo.

He came to the US from Cuba

with the 1980 Marielito exodus.

All right, so political
refugee or a criminal?

No, he's definitely a criminal.

He got here, spent
ten years at Chino

for robbery and assault.

Costavo.

He hasn't been
home in three days.

But we did find
government pension checks

and dextroamphetamine sulfate.

Same as Minh. Yeah.

Something really
strange is going on here.

DON: We got the same
MO, same medication.

Senator, psychiatrist, a
Vietnamese POW, a Cuban refugee.

And the guns. Right.

Well,

looks like I'm right on time.

CHARLIE: Now here we have

a list of gun sales
from Longan Ammo,

going back about two years

and the suspected straw
purchases are here in red.

And this is ATF's list

of suspected
street-level gun dealers

and their sales patterns.

Now, what I did was I
applied networking theory

to a directed graph,
using the source

and known nodes
to determine the sink.

Which is kind of like...

Kind of like...

kind of like, oh, kind of

like a telephone, which is
actually the classic example

of networking. Okay, so

we have stores and
purchasers, dealers and buyers.

They're all part of the same
network. Right. Now, what I did

was study the call
patterns, the straw purchases

and I listened for
the ringing telephone.

Now, I'm going to call

a bullpen extension right now;

and how about you guys
tell me which one I'm calling.

(telephone rings)

Oh, it could be about

half a dozen phones
right now. So we've

already narrowed
down the possibilities

considerably. The more calls

I make... the easier it
becomes to find the right one.

(telephone ringing)

Hello.

Yeah, sorry, I'm just

demonstrating networking theory.

She hung up.

So...

the ringing phone we're looking
for is the black market dealer,

who bought the three guns.

I was actually looking
for patterns of distribution,

arrests that connect
to straw sales

according to time and proximity,

not to mention the kind
of weapons transacted.

Now by looking at the
way that Longan Ammo

made straw gun sales and then

the appearance of
the guns on the street...

You came up with a
name. Off of Senator

Tallman's shooting, I
came up with four names,

and given the second shooting,

I was able to narrow it down:

Sam Finney, a major gun dealer.

All teams, move
in. (men shouting)

We got a runner! Copy, a runner.

FBI. You're under arrest.

FBI? What'd I do to you guys?

You picked up the wrong phone.

DON: Automatic weapons,

RPGs... if you do
time by the bullet,

you got some problems here.

Yeah. And you can make them all

go away, right? Nah,

I think that would take
like a presidential pardon.

But I'll tell you something,
Sam, you help me,

maybe I get it
down to five to ten.

I won't wear a wire.

Three Smith & Wesson Model 64s,

bought in Nevada last month.

Longan Ammo.

Guy runs the place
like he's selling socks...

Get your hands
back on the table.

Where'd they end up?

Some guy.

Some guy. All right, Sam.

Marcus.

All right, his name was Marcus.

Tried to move him up to Glocks,

but he said he wanted
to keep it simple.

Did he say what he wanted
them for? Yeah, they're a little

expensive for paperweights,
you know what I mean?

Yeah, that's funny.

I didn't ask.

That's it? That's
what you got for me?

Brown hair, blue
eyes, 40, maybe 45.

Real quiet, talked
like he was in a library.

All right, sit tight. Keep
your hands on the table.

Yeah, right.

Problem with these
Identikit pictures,

they're only as good
as the description.

And Finney's wasn't great.

Hey, it's what we got, you know.

Okay, Stanford Davis
was a prison psychologist

at Chino from 1983 to 1985.

Wait, Costavo was there
from 1981 to 1991, so, so they

knew each other. Yeah,
and here's a little-known

fact about the
California Penal system:

they have a long
and proud history

of experimenting on prisoners.

I know that pharmaceutical
companies test on inmates.

Yeah, but that's voluntarily,

and in pretty limited
circumstances.

I'm talking about behavior

modification programs,

sensory deprivation,
chemical treatment,

psychosurgery, many
of which are underwritten

by the Department of Defense,

where the CIA friend came.

Including one "Brutus Project,"

which Davis worked on.

The same Brutus
as in Minh's journal?

And the same Davis

as in the shrink who
was our second victim.

Julius Caesar's

assassin's full name
was Marcus Brutus.

Finney said he sold guns
to a guy named Marcus.

So, now we've connected

Costavo to Davis,
possibly to Minh.

Guess which State
Senator has been

pushing legislation
to repeal the ban

on prison testing? Uh, Tallman.

A equals B equals

C equals D; it's like one
of Charlie's equations.

Can't believe I just said that.

Spring cleaning?

Oh...

As per Dr. Finch's
request, I have now

thoroughly vacated my lair.

I do take some comfort however,

in remanding my few
prized possessions

into the custody
of my closest friend.

Aw, well, thanks.

What do we got in here?

Oh, wow, the Newton Lacy Award.

My goodness. Uh...

Of course, uh,

some jazz recordings.

Of course.

An old... yeah, an old T-shirt.

Old T-shirt, worn on the day
I first posited causal solutions

to ultrahyperbolic
wave equations

and more memorably,

when I vanquished
Professor Musgrave

at the Cal Sci's Texas
Hold 'Em tournament.

Wow, then this
is one lucky shirt.

Yeah, well, not to
dwell on the negatives.

I am mindful of
the risk involved

in sitting atop
two million liters

of combusted liquid
hydrogen and oxygen.

Larry.

Do you remember...

when I was in my junior year

and, uh, I decided to
grow my moustache out?

The word "moustache" would
be a charitable characterization.

You said that my follicle count

failed to achieve critical mass.

That's... dear... sorry.

No, you were being brutally

honest with me, you know.

And sometimes friends have to be

brutally honest with each other.

Larry...

What?

You know this thing isn't
really going to happen.

Because?

People die in
space shuttles, Larry.

You know and at some point

you're going to make
a rational assessment

of this situation.
You're going to realize

that shooting yourself out
of a cannon would just be

feckless waste.

Let me get this right.

You are actually comparing
my brushing the heavens

with your barely
postpubescent moustache.

No, I'm just being realistic.

It's a very fortunate thing
for you that I am on the verge

of fulfilling one
of life's dreams.

Fortunate for me?

That's correct.

Because were I in a less
ebullient frame of mind,

I might well just
bop you in the nose.

Excuse me.

Have you ever heard of MK-ULTRA?

What, that's a CIA
program in the, what, '50s.

LSD, mind control...

Right, right, LSD
was part of it.

But they tried
sensory deprivation,

radiation, ELF.

Uh-huh. What's that?

Extreme Low Frequency.

Certain pulses
can actually affect

a subject's emotional state.

MK-ULTRA was one
of many programs.

Right, like Brutus?

The idea was to
program enemy agents

with posthypnotic suggestions,
then send them home

as sleeper assassins. Assassins.

Programmed to kill themselves
after the assassination,

keeping the program invisible.

All right, so Minh's Vietcong...

Who we never officially
identified as a POW.

Costavo: Marielito.

Someone figured they
could get him close to Castro.

See, the thing is,
Brutus never worked.

30 years of experiments

never produced a
single viable candidate.

So the program was
discontinued, the subjects cut loose.

Yeah, with pensions.

Well, I mean, that last gun's

for somebody
connected to all this.

I've compiled a list of
subjects known to be

in the Los Angeles area.

If Marcus has gotten the
Brutus conditioning to work...

And it looks like he has...
Every one of these men

is a potential weapon.

What's this list?

Anyone who ever
worked on Brutus.

Marcus didn't just pick
his killers from the program,

but his victims, too.

Marcus is sending the lab rats

after the scientists.

712 subjects

in one mind-control experiment

in just Los Angeles?

There's no telling how many

the Soviets worked on
during the same time period.

Oh, that's a really good

Cold War way of thinking.

They're doing something bad,

so let's do something
worse and bigger.

Please.

Why didn't you

tell us about this
after the first shooting?

Why would you

try and protect
a failed program?

You want to see how
Marcus got it to work.

Think about it. You
capture a terrorist,

you condition him,

you send him back
to his cell... bang.

"Condition" is a really
polite word for "torture."

When you're fighting
for a way of life,

you use whatever
weapon is available.

And before you know it,

you've given up
your way of life.

Charlie, what...?

We got people for this.
What are you doing?

What your people are
doing, they're trying to match

a rudimentary sketch against

thousands of CIA
personnel files.

What I'm doing here is
trying to save you time

and increase success
potential considerably.

Now, by weighting the value

of the search criteria to
look for slight deviations...

Let's say Finney chose
eyebrow set #33...

What I'm doing is, I'm allowing
the possibility of a near-miss.

Eyebrow set 32, set 34.

All right, cool.

Well, thanks.

Hey, um, are you guys planning

any kind of party or
anything for Larry?

He's not going anywhere.

Well, I don't know
about that, Charlie.

He sure seems to
be going someplace.

(laughs): Don...

can you seriously picture

Lawrence Fleinhardt
in outer space?

Yeah. I don't know.

I mean, more than
anyone else I know.

Things change.

I mean, that's the way life is.

People get married;
they move on.

I'm aware of that, Don.

I do notice that
nowhere on that list

did you include "fly
away in a rocket ship."

Charlie, I'm just saying,
I know it can be tough.

The toughest part is...

The toughest part
is sitting around

while people fuel his delusion.

You see, 'cause that's
not gonna help him any

when reality ultimately sets in.

His delusion.

All right, if you say so.

♪ C-Come on ♪

(upbeat dance music playing)

♪ Bounce with me ♪

(stopwatch beeps)

♪ Bounce with me... ♪

Very impressive.

Mens sana in corpore sano.

So, what do you think?

Am I being too short-sighted

in my acceptance
of this mission?

Are you kidding?

I mean, setting aside
the experiment itself,

there's no telling
what kinds of insight...

No, no, no, no.

Talking about my
abdication of my life,

my responsibilities, my
burgeoning relationship.

You know, there's some parallels
here to your own dilemma...

Harvard versus Cal Sci, Charles.

Well, the difference was,

Harvard wasn't offering
me the better job.

What if they had?

It's only six months.

And Megan seems
genuinely supportive.

Yeah, whereas your beau...

I don't know.

He seems to think
that an 11th hour rethink

will reveal my ambition to be...

well, I believe the word
"feckless" was used.

You know, he's never dreamt
of something he couldn't reach.

So he has no idea what
it's like to want something

that you might
not be able to get.

So how could he understand
how much you'd give up

if this chance comes along?

I know. I know.

You ready?

What? Let's go.

(whimpers)

WHITTAKER: Give me the bottle.

Got to take a leak anyway.

You guys are Parole, right?

Drug test?

FBI.

Questions.

About Carlos Costavo.

You and he bunked
together in Chino?

Chino was three mistakes ago.

I'm way too old for a fourth.

Contact with
discreditable persons

gets me sent back for
the rest of my nickel.

So does lying to the FBI.

His phone records have
your number on them.

He calls me from time to time.

Mostly to complain.

About?

Excuse me.

Whichever boss... Come
on, come on, come on.

Whichever boss or
girlfriend or stranger

ticked him off this week.

Guy's always had a
short fuse, you know.

Headaches.

Headaches?

Some kind of

drug therapy or
something in stir,

got six years
dinged off his bid.

Wasn't like he was right in
the head in the first place, but...

You got any idea how we
can get in touch with him?

Does it help me
or hurt me if I do?

He spends a lot of time

at MacArthur Park.

Watches the old men play chess.

Thanks.

(rap music playing)

Chess tables are right up here.

And you know that because...

'Cause I spent 13
months in a tent.

It's either chess or skin rags.

Hey, check it out.

FBI! Move! Back!

He ran into the garage!

Carlos!

Get down!

COLBY: Carlos, don't do it!

Do not jump, Carlos.

Hey! Get down
from there, Carlos!

Carlos! Carlos. Who are you?

A guy who doesn't want to
see you get hurt, all right?

Well, you're 20 years too late.

I've tried to

do this before, you know.

Never quite took the last step.

Because you don't want to.

And then the one time,

the one time I
go through with it,

the damned gun misfires.

But maybe...

maybe this time, I
can finally make it.

Look at me, Carlos!

Look at me! Look at me!

I don't want to do anything.

Just want to talk to you.

Okay?

Give me two minutes.

Go on and do whatever
you got to, okay?

Just talk?

Just want to talk.

You lied to me!

David, apologize to the
man for saving his life.

The things that
sick bastard did...

You volunteered.

Yeah, well, after the first
electroshock treatment,

I tried to un-volunteer.

Davis said they'd put
the six years back on

and another 25 for
violating a federal agreement.

That was a quarter
of a century ago.

Why'd you go after him now?

That's when the
government guy came around.

Marcus.

Marcus said he was
working for the government?

Said he was a doctor.

Some kind of posttraumatic
follow-up program.

Kind of late for that.

He gave me some drugs,

but they didn't work.

Dextroamphetamine sulfate.

COSTAVO: He said I
was clinically depressed

and that they would help.

I mean, the more we
talked, the madder I got!

And that was...

Sit down.

He let slip where Davis worked.

And I started following him.

Gustavo, where'd
you get the gun from?

Gun?

Yeah.

I-I don't know.

I don't remember.

One day, it was just
there, on my bed.

Look, you know,
I'm really tired.

These headaches, they
make it so hard to sleep.

I mean, it boggles the mind.

I mean, they give speed to a
guy who's mentally disturbed,

hand him a gun, and
then point him toward

the people who tortured him.

Yeah, it's not
exactly brainwashing,

but it's not exactly different.

What do you think?

Revenge or blackmail?

Trying to show us
what he can do?

He's got to have some kind
of psychological background.

He knew exactly
which subjects to pick.

He knew exactly
which buttons to push.

CIA says there was no program
that even remotely resembles

the one he was talking about.

I'm gonna go back
to the original people

that worked on the program.

Maybe Marcus is on the
list of victims somewhere.

Hold on a second.

You all right?

About Larry?

(chuckles)

You know, it's hard to feel
badly when you feel so proud.

But, yeah, the timing sucks.

Why do you ask?

I don't know.

Charlie seems
to be struggling...

I just thought...

I'm just trying to take
care of my own, that's all.

(chuckles): Oh, well,

that would explain
that throbbing vein

in the middle of your forehead.

Thank you.

Well, I'm here if you need me.

Costavo's description
isn't exactly the same

as Finney's, is it?

It's a big break for us

because more data
is always better data.

So by weighting
the commonalities

between the sketches...

Oh, like if the same chin

comes up twice, then
it's probably the right chin.

I've actually tried to
make this algorithm

even more sophisticated.

So were looking for values

that fall in a common range,
not just perfect matches.

Since we've already inventoried

the facial points of all
of the potential suspects,

we should whittle our way
down to a few candidates

relatively.

Didn't see that coming.

Uh, are you sure
this is every person

with access to the Brutus files?

Yeah. Yeah.

Feels to me like

were missing
something so obvious

we must've forgotten about it.

You know, can't see
the forest for the...

Trees.

Are you thinking
what I'm thinking?

No.

So when Charlie's filter
returned zero matches,

we realized...

"We"? CHARLIE: Yeah, "we."

We realized that what we
have is a classic example

of Euclid's Orchard.

You see, because
each perspective

of an orchard is unique,

not only giving us
information about the trees

but about the position
of the observer.

We started from Minh and Costavo
and worked our way backward.

Figuring out where
all the information

about their participation in
the Brutus program existed,

and who might
have been privy to it.

The common denominator was
the Freedom of Information Act.

Guys, Brutus was top secret.

You're right, but portions
of it were declassified,

in the 1970s with MK-ULTRA.

And then again in the '90s,
they made more of it public

with the class action
suit against Chino.

There were a few dozen people
who had access to these files.

One of them in particular...

Lawrence Dryden.

He's a practicing
psychiatrist in Santa Monica.

Now he happens to have
a brother named Porter,

who actually served
time in Chino in '89.

This guy Porter was
definitely a patient of Davis's?

Brother Lawrence
certainly seemed to think so.

He filed suit against
the US in 2000,

but the case was
dismissed in '03.

And where are the
Dryden brothers now?

Porter OD'd and
died four years ago.

Lawrence still lives
on the west side.

Most significantly, my
facial recognition algorithm

shows us that Lawrence Dryden

is an 87% match to
our sketches of Marcus.

(knocking)

(over radio): Alpha
team, stand by.

Dryden, step out.

We got a search and arrest
warrant for you. Let's go, guys.

Turn around. Of course.

Go ahead and look.
The guns aren't here.

You want to save us some time

and tell us where they are?

Where they'll do the most good.

You haven't changed anything;

after this next killing, the
truth will have to come out.

I want that third gun.

You think I'm a killer? I'm not.

I'm a hero.

And how is that?

Because I'm willing
to make hard decisions

and suffer the consequences
for a greater good.

My brother was no saint,

but what they did to him
should never happen, not here,

not in this country.

Your brother OD'd 14
years after Brutus was over.

Porter never used
heroin, not until after Chino.

It was the pain from
those experiments

that drove him to the drugs.

I went through the courts,
I went through the press.

Everyone either didn't
believe it or didn't care.

After all, these men
are just prisoners.

So I knew if I
wanted to stop Brutus,

that I'd have to take
stronger measures.

It's has been over for years.

They're planning to do it again.

Who? Tallman was lobbying

for relaxing
California's restrictions

on prisoner experiments,

and that sadist Davis,

offering his so-called
expert testimony.

I just turned their own
monsters against them.

And why's that?

Couldn't pull the
trigger yourself?

No, these men have already
been destroyed by Brutus.

In death, think of how many
other lives they can save.

That sounds to me exactly
what the CIA probably said

when they started the
whole thing to begin with.

So you tell me, what's the
difference between them and you?

Hey. Hey.

I'm not going to apologize
for expressing my opinion.

Well, I'm not going to apologize
for choosing to ignore it.

You got an interesting
problem there.

Yeah, yeah.

It's based on a subject,
Lawrence Dryden's,

access to Freedom
of Information files.

See, he had his pick of any of
two dozen potential assassins,

and I'm just trying to narrow
down those candidates

down by accessibility,
by health, predisposition.

I just don't think I can be
narrow enough, quickly enough.

Have you considered
incorporating

target selection theory?

You mean Von Neumann

and the bombing of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Well, actually, before then,

Von Neumann's acolytes
had been doing work,

more applicable I think, in the
arena of conventional bombing.

The theory being that
if you kept bombing

high-value targets, over time,
the enemy would concentrate

their defenses there.

But if you bombed
low-value targets,

yeah, you'd siphon off
some of their defenses,

but over time, you
would sacrifice manpower,

gasoline, deplete
your bomb supplies.

So you're suggesting,

and as always, feel free
to correct me if I'm wrong,

that I analyze not
only potential killers,

but potential victims as well.

The list of people
publicly endorsing

increased prisoner
experimentation.

So refining my previous
analysis of Dryden's motivations

and assessment of his
likelihood of success...

Well, Larry, you are...

gone.

CHARLIE: Hey,
Don, so I just finished

my target select theory analysis

and the most
probable next victim

is an army colonel who
served at Leavenworth.

He supervised experiments
on military prisoners

for the Brutus Project.

DON: Great, Charlie. That's
good. Megan's got the colonel.

I'm on my way to
clear his house now.

And the killer?

CHARLIE: He's a man named Gates.

He was one of the
prisoners at Leavenworth.

DON: All right, we
got David and Colby

on their way to pick him up.

(indistinct shouting)

Gate's isn't here.

Drop it now!

Drop it!

(gunshots)

DON: Guys, guys, we're clear.

(over radio): Subject
down. Repeat, subject down.

(indistinct radio transmission)

Now that we have
Marcus and all three guns,

I guess this case is closed.

What are you talking about?

We don't even know
who else Dryden got to.

Case closed?

Okay, maybe I misspoke.

We're not going to allow you

to open up any more
lines of investigation.

Say what?

This is a national
security issue.

You're going to cover
this up, aren't you?

This was never about the
past; this is about the future.

So Dryden was right?

Tallman was pushing
prison testing legislation?

This is just a back
door to restart Brutus?

You've got to be kidding me.

MEGAN: What are
you going to do with him,

stick him in Guantanamo
so he can't talk to anyone?

Your assistance has
been appreciated,

but this doesn't have
to do with you anymore.

I shot a man tonight.

And your country thanks you.

I'd stay down unless
you want to get hit again.

♪ I had a dream the
sky was set on fire... ♪

LARRY: The night of the 18th,

I will be right there,

between Cancer and Leo Minor,

visible for roughly 14 seconds.

Hmm.

Then I'll have to
get a telescope.

I guess I could pull strings,

get you access to
Cal Sci's Celestron.

Maybe I'd like to watch
you from my own bedroom,

by myself.

Listen...

you know, I realize
our relationship

hasn't been exactly...
forward-leaning.

I do want you to know

my heart will remain
yours in my absence.

While you're in a space
capsule with three guys?

(chuckles)

I should hope so.

You know what I mean.

I do know what you mean.

But maybe for tonight,
we should just...

lean forward a little.

♪ And for a while... ♪

♪ I don't care what
comes tomorrow... ♪

Charlie?

♪ I'm alive... ♪

He's really going
to do it, isn't he?

♪ And that's all
I need today... ♪

He's going to go.

He's going to go.

♪ I had a dream the
sky was set on fire. ♪