Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 3, Episode 22 - Under Pressure - full transcript

♪ Don't hold back ♪

♪ 'Cause you woke in the
morning with initiative to move ♪

♪ So why make it harder? ♪
♪ Don't hold back ♪

♪ If you think about
it, so many people do ♪

♪ Be cool and look smarter ♪
♪ Don't hold back ♪

Okay, who's got the target?

It's me. I'm on him.

I'm heading south on Figueroa.

Now, David, I want you to take

your next right, then
you hopscotch up ahead,

and you pick up
the trail, all right?



Copy that.

♪ The world ♪
♪ Is holdin' back ♪

♪ The time has come to ♪

♪ The world ♪
♪ Is holdin' back ♪

♪ The time has come to... ♪

Subject's pulled over

on Seventh... He's
getting out on foot.

Colby, David,

you got to tag-team him.

I got him.

He's carrying a gym bag

and headed east. Yeah,
that puts him heading

toward you, David.

♪ Don't hold back ♪



♪ If you think
about it too much ♪

♪ You may stumble,
trip up, fall on your face ♪

♪ Don't hold back ♪

♪ You think it's
time you get up ♪

♪ Crunch time, like a sit-up ♪

♪ Come on, keep pace ♪
♪ Don't hold back ♪

He's crossed over to the
south side of the street.

Almost at Seventh.

I should have visual
any second now.

Damn, that was close.

What? David, he make you?

No, I don't think
so. Just tell them

to stay back, because if Asan
realizes that we're on to him,

then the whole structure
of this terror cell will change.

Charlie, they know what
they're doing. I spent days on this

working with what little we have, so
please... Guys, keep your distance,

all right? All right, gotcha.

He just turned into one of
the produce warehouses.

Copy that.

I'll circle around back.

I don't see him.

Don, we've lost visual.

This guy's the only link,
the only link we have

to the rest of these
terrorists. Charlie, I know that.

David, you got him?

I just picked him up.

He's at the north end,

headed toward the cold storage.

He still has the gym bag.

Why don't you watch where the hell
you're going! Watch where I'm going?

You walked right into
me! What are you, an idiot?

I'm pushing a
truckload of vegetables.

How hard is it to see me coming?

Don, we might have a problem.

This is getting out of hand.

Hold your position.

Just hold your position.

Freeze!

Drop that crowbar.

Put it down.

Put it down!

This is a lot of cash, huh?

Where were you
going with all this?

Look, we know it
was gonna be used

to pay for a terrorist
attack in L.A.

We know where the
money came from; we know

you're a part of a terrorist
cell that was operating locally.

You keep using
that word, "terrorist."

I'm a soldier,

fighting a war
America initiated.

Your war against Islam.

Come on, man.

You're from Fullerton...
Your name is Timothy.

Kaleed Asan... is my name now.
I want to know about that attack.

What are you gonna
tell me about that attack?

Only that it's God's will...

and you can't stop it.

We get anything out of him?

Don, I had no choice.

I had to take him.
Yeah, I told you to hold.

He was gonna kill that guy.
Right, David, the question is,

how many thousands of
lives did we trade for that one.

So you think the attack is real?

Oh, yeah.

Let me talk to him. I doubt

you're gonna learn
anything from him.

I don't know about
that, Charlie... I'm feeling

pretty persuasive
right now, okay?

No. He doesn't even
know enough to help us.

The structure of a terror cell

is what we call a "distributed
autonomous network."

It's made up of a number

of independent parts
working collectively,

but there's no lateral
communication.

Think of those huge signs

at a baseball game,
where everyone

in a particular section is asked

to raise a card
above their head.

Now, the designer of the
sign uses a blueprint to place

the cards under
the individual seats.

The fans don't need to
know what the message is.

They just need to know
what their particular job is;

in this case, raising the card.

So once the message is
formed, the mission is complete.

And it's the same thing with
the structure of a terror cell.

Individual players only
need to know their parts,

nothing else. All right,
Charlie, what about

using more math...
You know, filling in

more of the network
diagram? You know what?

Frankly, I don't even know if
this much is correct anymore.

A terror cell
structure is dynamic,

and now that they know

that we're on to
them, the structure

of their entire organization
is likely to change.

That's great.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Okay, listen up.

We're racing the clock here.

For those of you

from visiting agencies,

I'm Assistant Director Wright.

Agent Eppes has been
handling this since it broke,

so I'm just gonna hand
off directly to him. Agent.

Ten days ago,

CIA operatives in
Yemen found a laptop.

It had information
about the funding

of a terrorist
attack here, in L.A.

Now, Charlie,

Professor Charles Eppes,
came up with an algorithm

that identified

this man as the guy who's
going to get that funding.

Now, he also identified two
other possible conspirators.

Now, we think they're low-level,
part of a homegrown cell

operating here in L.A.

American-born, but
definitely did time

in those Afghani training camps.

Hopefully, Charlie will keep
making progress on his angle

and we just got to
get going on ours.

Okay, the threat is real.

The NSA is reporting an
increase in terrorist chatter.

We've intercepted funding
and apprehended an active

participant in the plot,
so we need to do anything

and everything within
our power to figure out

what we're up
against and stop it.

Captain Adams, Army CID.

How you doing? Do
you know Charlie?

I may have some information
about your suspect.

What... Asan? Yeah.

You're aware of his
time spent in the Army?

Yeah, that's where he
converted to Islam, right?

There was another soldier
there: Michael Rains.

He's since taken the
name Ali al Dossari.

Uh, that's not a
name I came across.

Well, they were
in the same unit.

In fact, it was al Dossari who
convinced Asan to convert.

They were given general discharges
around the same time. Wow.

This guy may be the
level two connection

I'm looking for.
You get an address?

No, my information ends at
the time he was discharged.

Okay, but, Captain, any
background you may have

will help you
with my work, so...

I've got a duplicate file.

That's terrific, thank you.

By the way, Professor,
novel approach...

You trying to map out

the group's structure
mathematically.

I wouldn't call it novel.

Distributed Autonomous Networks

are a well-accepted
field of study.

If you say so.

I've been in
antiterrorism for ten years.

I haven't found a substitute

for basic information gathering.

Well, information's only as good

as what you can do with it.

Okay, got an
address on al Dossari.

Any reason we shouldn't
go right at this guy?

Cell structure's
already disrupted.

They know we're on to them.

All right... hey, guys!

We're gonna bring this guy in.

You want to fill them in
on the way? Absolutely.

Ali al Dossari.

FBI.

It looks clear.

Yeah, he's not here.

Take a look at this.

He was forging Marine I.D.'s.

Maybe they're going to try
to sneak on to a military base.

Could be the next target.

Yeah, or maybe he
was after munitions.

Tons of explosives
available on a base

if you can get to it.

Sergeant Surplus... A
military surplus store.

I'll alert the local bases,

have them double up on security.

If we're not already too late.

These guys are way ahead of us.

Oh, there you are, Charlie.

What's all this now?

I'm, uh, using connections
between weighted vertices

to, uh...

to find a way to link this man

to the times, dates,
places and people

that we've already
associated with the terror cell.

I see.

Having any luck?

I am, actually.

If I'm correct...

he belongs...

right... here.

Is that sort of a breakthrough?

Yeah, the only downside is
I didn't find him on my own.

Since when has sharing
credit been a problem for you.

Since I'm sharing it
with an army captain

that was more than a little
patronizing about my work.

Pretty scary, isn't it?

I mean the fact

that there might be a
terrorist attack in Los Angeles.

Well, a terrorist attack just
about anywhere is scary.

No, you know what I mean.

I mean the city is so enormous.

A lot of, uh...
vulnerable targets.

Hey, I was just
about to call you.

Dossari is definitely
connected to this.

Yeah, that's what I
was gonna tell you.

Adams beat you to it.

I mean they found evidence
in Dossari's apartment

linking him to Asan.

So, I just wanted to
let you know, okay.

I'll check in with you later.

Hey. So, the clerk
at the surplus store

I.D.'d al Dossari's picture.

Said he came in and bought
two sets of Marine fatigues.

Full deal, boots to caps.

Fake I.D.'s,

uniforms... what,
these guys can basically

walk onto any base.

Just got a report from LAPD.

There was a theft last night;

chemical supply
company out in Alhambra.

Security guard was
killed in the process.

Place called RNE
Chemical Supply.

Is it relevant?

It sounds like
a civilian facility.

Yeah, it is.

But the two guys
who hit the place...

Dressed as Marines.

The owner says the
company does a lot of business

with local military bases,

mostly supplying
cleaning chemicals

and a few medical supplies.

As a result, a lot of
soldiers do pickups.

Gate guard saw the
uniforms, the badge,

he opened the gate. We
get anything on this truck?

Vehicle was stolen
from a company

that provides vehicles
to movie studios.

It was a prop. Yeah.
They don't have

video cameras in the
chemical storage area

these guys got into,

but you can see them coming out

right about here.

Guard started to question

their paperwork or, um...

they didn't have any.

Whole thing took
less than six minutes.

They knew exactly
what they were after.

Chemical called
MPDC. It stands for

methylphosphonyl dichloride.

Is that an explosive?
It's a lot worse than that.

It's the major component
in the deadly poison

sarin.

But it's only a component.

Yeah, it has to be mixed
with several other chemicals,

most of them common,
but, um, it's one

that's kind of hard to
get your hands on...

Trimethyl...

phosphor-something

Will you run a check on that?

I did... turns out
three weeks ago,

60 gallons of it went missing

from a train yard in Colton.

Oh, my God.

They got everything
they need to make sarin.

Yeah, and enough of
it to poison half the city.

Sarin... you picked
one of my favorites.

I'm sorry... your favorites?

Professor Osaki's
an organic chemist

with a different
appreciation than you or me.

Admittedly.

You see, sarin is an efficient,

elegantly-structured molecule

that does precisely what
it was designed to do.

Yeah, what's that?

Kill.

It's a nerve agent,

an extremely
volatile one, to boot.

It evaporates quickly.
It becomes a vapor.

So people breathe
it, they're affected.

If they breathe it or ingest it,

or if comes into contact
with their skin or eyes...

So what do we look for?
What are the warning signs?

Wouldn't be as effective

if there were warning signs.

There's no odor, taste or color.

For the most part,

the sudden symptoms are
the only indication of exposure.

All right, so let me ask you
this: if you had the components,

how difficult is it
to manufacture?

It definitely
requires some skill,

but most of the grad
students here could do it.

And an important
aspect of that...

Sarin has a short
shelf life... A few days...

So it's usually kept in
its binary components.

Meaning, once it's mixed...

Once it's mixed,
it's time to use it.

Hey, Dad, the
population density studies,

the maps, the stuff from
when you were a city planner,

all the traffic flow diagrams,
where is all that stuff?

I left it in the garage...
Oh, I keep it, uh, handy.

You took it?

Yeah, it's right here. Oh, okay.

Ever since you've been
working with your brother,

this stuff has had
almost as much use

as when I was
working. Thank you.

So what's happened?

You come up with some
other breakthrough?

Yeah, the attack
we're worried about,

it could be sarin.

Sarin? Wow.

Yeah, the FBI's putting together

a list of potential targets.

I'm going to use a
threat analysis to see

if I can determine which
is the most likely target.

Well, if it's a gas attack,

they'd have to through some
enclosed venue, wouldn't they?

I mean, like the subway
or, um, shopping malls.

Yeah, maybe.

The thing is, these guys
potentially have a lot of sarin,

they don't have a lot of
operatives. So the question is,

how can a couple of guys
distribute a lot of sarin?

Exactly.

So, assuming they want
a high casualty count

with a more pinpointed
application of sarin...

Maybe I can mark off some
possible targets on this map.

Maybe I could come
up with something.

County Health sent

an alert to area
hospitals advising

to stock up on
sarin antidote, right?

Yeah, let's hope they
don't need to use it.

That's just it,
they already have.

The emergency room at
Good Samaritan admitted

two patients about
an hour ago...

Both confirmed cases
of sarin poisoning.

All right, but there's only two?

What, two's not enough for you?
Think about it: If this was an attack,

it'd probably be more than two
victims, right? It means these two

probably aren't victims,
they're either mixing

the chemicals or
transporting them.

They're part of the plan.

FBI Agent Granger.
Agent Sinclair.

You guys awake?

Can you hear me?

These guys are too far gone.

I'll find someone.

What's going on in here?

You stay away from him.

We're federal agents.

We're conducting a
terrorism investigation, ma'am.

You think my husband
and son are terrorists?

They were poisoned.

Someone did this to them.

How? I mean, where do you think

they might've come
into contact with sarin?

I don't know.

They haven't been
out of my sight.

We were moving
into our first house.

Our very own.

You were moving?

We were packing.

My husband and son
were carrying boxes,

loading them into the truck.

I went outside to help them

and I found my
husband collapsed.

I thought it was a heart attack.

And then I saw my son, too.

Whose truck were
they loading, ma'am?

I don't know.

I mean, it's a rental.

My husband got it last night.

So, David, man, what
do you think of Warner?

What do you mean,
what do I think?

You know, we've been
teamed up a couple of times.

Seems like we have a pretty
good vibe going, you know?

Granger, don't... seriously.

Why not, man?

Warner and Don, that's why not.

There is something

definitely going
on there. Really?

Don...?

What?

What's going on?

Nothing.

The Hazmat guys are ready to go.

Okay, stand by.

What you got?

It's hot. That's a
positive hit on sarin.

Okay, we're positive for
gas. Positive for sarin gas.

It's safe.

Spill was localized to a
small spot in the cargo area.

It's been neutralized. Do
we know who rented it?

The guy used a fake
name and a fake I.D.

We have a composite
artist working on a photo.

Meantime, we're
pulling prints off the truck.

Pulled almost a hundred so far.

Hey, Don.

What's going on? What
are you guys doing here?

We finished modeling the
different attack scenarios.

I think we got their target
nailed down; it's very ingenious.

Take a look. What are
you talking about "we"?

It's the water supply.

Probability of an attack there

is four times greater
than at any other target.

Water supply?
Sarin is a gas, right?

It can be, but it
starts off as a liquid

that completely
dissolves in water.

That's why using the water
system makes perfect sense.

They don't have to spread
the poison themselves.

The city distribution
will do the work for them.

Let me talk to you a second.

Yeah. What's up?

What's going on?
What's he doing here?

Who, Dad?

Yeah. He's helping me.

He's been invaluable, actually.

No, no, no, Charlie,
you can't do this. I can't?

Why not?

Because, A: it's dangerous,
B: people have been poisoned.

I mean, what are you
talking about "why not?"

You don't seem too
worried that I'm involved.

Of course I'm worried
you're involved.

Agent Eppes, I think we got it!

Print from the glove box matches

a print on file with Customs.

Josef Haliz,

Algerian National.

Homeland's already
got a whole file on him.

Hold your fire!

Hold your fire!

I want these guys alive.

Let's go, back up. Back up.

Need eyes and ears here.

Somebody's got to get
me eyes and ears in there.

Roger that. B Team, go.

I hear talking; it's
more than one person.

What are they saying?

It's in Arabic.

Agent Eppes, we have a video.

It's a lab.

They're set up for mixing sarin.

They're still talking, I
can't make it out, Don.

Oh, they're praying.
Colby, get out of there.

Let's go, everybody, move
in. Move, move, move, move!

Go, go, go.

Federal agents. Don't move.

They've released
a vial of sarin.

Evacuate! Go! Go!
Move! Move out!

Damn it, we better
lock this place down.

Get out of here!
We've got to evacuate!

Let's go! Back down!

Let's go, let's go! Lock
down this neighborhood.

It's done... the chemicals
are gone, all of them.

At the very least, they've
been making sample batches.

Worst case, the sarin's
been fully weaponized.

Sarin degrades quickly,
so once it's been mixed,

they'd only have a
few days to use it.

Clock just started
ticking faster.

Yeah, you know what?
We better get going

on securing that
water supply. Yeah.

Wait a minute. How do we
know the water's their target?

Because my math says so.

Is it really smart
to put all our eggs

in one basket based on math?

Yeah, if he says so, it is.

House is clear,
but we found these.

Charlie, check it out.

Dilution tables... they were

calculating how much
sarin they'd need to toxify

a large body of water.

We got to tell people
not to drink the water.

It's not just
drinking the water.

It's any contact with it, okay?

It's a bath, it's a shower.

Even mist blowing off

a sprinkler could be deadly.

Then we got to
find the sarin now.

Yeah.

These guys certainly
aren't going to be telling us

where it is now.

Well, they didn't know.

Compartmentalized
cells, remember?

Right, right, okay, okay.

Their job was to mix
the sarin and deliver it.

It's someone else's job
to use it. Right. I know.

We keep going after
these low-level guys.

We got to find out who's
running the show, right?

We got two players.

We got two pieces of the puzzle.

You just get me
information on them,

we'll be closer to figuring
out who the mastermind is.

Ah! There you are, Charlie.

I didn't know you were out here.

So, uh, where are we?

Oh, I see.

We've I.D.'d two
more terrorists, huh?

How do they, uh, fit in?

I don't know yet. All the same,

I've been, uh,
putting more thought

into the actual
poisoning, you know?

I mean, to exactly
how they would, uh,

be able to introduce the
sarin into the water supply,

and the problem is, Charlie,

the targets, like the
reservoirs and the aqueducts...

They're just too big.

I mean, I'd have to
think that a poison,

even as potent as sarin

would just... too diluted
to do any damage.

Wouldn't it?

Charlie, am I boring you?

Don doesn't want you
helping me out anymore, Dad.

What are you talking about?

Doesn't want you involved.

He feels like this whole thing
could get really dangerous.

Oh, come on, that's ridiculous.

How could it be any
more dangerous for me

than it is for you?

Just telling you
what he told me.

The, uh, mayor's
office just received a list

of demands from the terrorists.

They think it's authentic?

Yeah, afraid so.

The demands
are mostly political.

They want the release of eight
suspected terrorists being held

at Gitmo, removal
of American troops

from all Muslim nations,

as well as millions of
dollars in reparations.

These guys have to know we
don't negotiate with terrorists.

Which means they're
still going to do it.

They'll still strike.

Hey... hey, I think I got it.

You got what?

I cracked the cell structure.

The dead chemists,

the addition of al
Dossari, the Algerian...

Those were actually
all the pieces I needed.

Charlie, you
able to fill it all in?

Not all of it, but I
know who's on top.

Sharif al Maliki,
who's a known terrorist.

You guys should
have him in your files.

Wait a minute... are you...

Are you sure you
got the right guy?

He's at the nexus of too
many lines of connection, okay?

He's got to be the
guy who's behind this.

I spoke to the CIA,
Homeland, Customs.

The more that comes in,

the more it looks
like Charlie was right.

Same here.

Not to sound so surprised.

The list of demands

names eight Gitmo
detainees they want released.

All eight tie directly
to Sharif al Maliki.

And guess who
ran the terror camp

all three of these
guys attended.

Sharif al Maliki.

Yeah, he's the sole
point of connection

for at least five
of these players.

Yeah, it's not him.

What?

He's dead.

He was taken out very
quietly by a covert ops team

in Northern Pakistan
four months ago.

W-Wait a second, wait a
second. How do you know?

Because I spoke to the NSA.

No. No. His...

His name was the one
name that kept coming up.

It's-It's his cell.

It's his operation.

All right, so where
does that leave us?

Hijacking.

No, Charlie, that
notice... It's been up there

for about six months.

Remember, I told you the
individual players are isolated.

How they know nothing beyond
their individual assignments.

Right. So?

Well, that's the
strength of a terror cell.

But it also presents
a huge vulnerability.

Remember the example
I gave the other night...

The baseball fans
holding up cards

to make a giant sign.

What if someone got hold

of the designer's blueprints
and made some changes?

Remember, the fans don't
know what the big picture is.

They only know what
their individual jobs are.

Someone could take over,

change the objective
of the entire mission,

and no one would know.

So, if Sharif had a blueprint,

an actual list of
names and numbers...

Anyone with access could
conceivably take control.

That's it. That's exactly it.

Al Maliki's plan, the
whole terrorist cell

has been hijacked.

Agent Eppes, a
decision's been made.

The government's
going to make a payment

to the terrorists

in exchange for the sarin.

They'll wire four million
to a foreign account now,

and another four million
when the sarin's returned.

I thought we don't

deal with these kind of people.

Well, none of their political
demands are being met.

No prisoner releases,
no change in U.S. policy.

It's called an Iraqi Ransom.

Happens all the time
with abducted soldiers

or journalists in
the Middle East.

A middleman surfaces,

says, for a fee, he can
get the hostages back.

Yeah, a middleman?

Everyone knows he's
one of the kidnappers,

but a payment gets made,
the hostage is released.

And the U.S. can
maintain its claim

of not negotiating
with terrorists.

I guess.

I've seen it over 100 times

while I was working covert
ops in Northern Pakistan.

Hey, Dad, where's Charlie?

He ran out to the garage
to get a couple of files.

But hold on, I
want to talk to you.

No, I'm in a rush. Now,
now, Charlie will be back.

Now, look, you're
the son, I'm the father.

Now, that's not going to change.

So, until the inevitable,

I'll be the one
to decide what is

or isn't too dangerous for
me to be involved in, all right?

It's more than just a
little condescending

for you to tell
Charlie to exclude me.

You're going to
need what I know.

All right. A lot of that current

water system was built
under my watch. I'm sorry.

I don't mean to
be condescending.

- That's just...
- Hey, guys.

Charlie, you get anywhere
with who hijacked the cell?

Anyone who had access
to the blueprints for the plan.

I'm thinking, like, one
of Maliki's lieutenants.

Well, actually, no, no.

See, by the very nature

of the way a terrorist
cell is structured,

everyone involved
is intentionally

given a limited perspective.

You know, if a bunch of kids
are swimming in a swimming pool,

and there's an adult in the
swimming pool with them,

even though he's
closer to the kids,

technically becoming
part of their network,

he can't really see
everything that's going on,

so the most
advantageous position

for a lifeguard is
outside the pool.

That way, he can see
everything that's happening.

So, it seems to me that
whoever hijacked this plan

had to have had the
wider perspective.

Right, someone outside the cell.

From whatever I've read

about terrorist groups,
the, uh, the leaders...

They insulate themselves.

So, who?

Who from the outside world

had contact with
Sharif al Maliki?

I got it. I got to go...

So, you were on the
squad that did Maliki?

What was that?

Your team took him out?

Yeah. So?

Yeah, so you knew he was
dead, but you just, what?

You let us waste our time.

Eppes, covert ops
wouldn't be covert

if we talked about
them, now would it?

I know all about
you covert op guys

with your accounts all over
the world, and I also know

yours happened to have
just gotten $4 million richer.

Should we go have a little talk?

Fine.

So, you found Maliki's

blueprints after you
took him out, right?

Nice little chance to get rich.

I busted my ass
helping you on this case.

If I'm behind it,
why would I do that?

So we'd know
the threat was real.

That's the only way to
insure there'd be a payment.

Either one of you have any
idea the sacrifices I've made

to help protect the
people of this country?

I know how you're
selling them down the river

for four million bucks,
that's what I know.

I'm not making any
admissions here... none.

But... if I had done
something like this, you can bet

I'd be smart enough to make sure

the sarin never had a real
chance of reaching the public.

And how

would you do that, Captain?

Kill off the cell responsible

for putting the sarin
into the water supply.

The sarin gets mixed, delivered,

but the plan never
comes to fruition.

No one gets hurt.

Why don't you just relax, Eppes?

Uncle Sam paid the money.

Hey, Don, let me talk
to you for a minute.

What's up?

The sarin is gone.

What?!

Hazmat went to the warehouse...

The address we got in
exchange for the ransom... empty.

Nothing there. All right.

So the sarin's not there!

You're lying.

It has to be. You tell me how

no one's gonna get hurt.

Go ahead, tell me!

I'm not saying another word.

How can this be? I've
been saying for days

that the terror cell is
an adaptive system.

It's dynamic, the
structure changes.

So somewhere along
the line, a cell mutated.

We got new
information on the house

where the chemists
mixed the sarin.

Evidently, they weren't
the only ones living there.

How many more?

The neighbors said they
saw four men there yesterday.

That's the mutation,
that's the change.

So it doesn't
matter if the captain

killed off the
sarin delivery cell,

because now another
one has grown to replace it.

So someone else is going to put

the sarin into the
water. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, this plan is
still moving forward.

The Los Angeles Mayor's
Office tonight has issued

an Emergency Advisory...

Hey, guys, come check this out.

That the city's tap water

may be contaminated.

City officials have offered
no details as to the source

or cause of the
possible contamination,

saying only that they suspect

a ruptured sewer
line may be to blame.

Now, in the meantime,

they've warned to
avoid any and all contact

with tap water...

So they're blaming
the sewer line.

And half of L.A.'s
already gone to sleep.

They're gonna wake
up in the morning,

start brushing their
teeth, taking showers.

Adams knows we got
nothing on him but the money.

Yeah, foreign bank,

no records.

I mean, if he stays quiet,

he's actually got
a shot at walking.

Hey, Donny.

Guys, what is going on?

Charlie told me to come.

I did.

And this is Professor Osaki.

She's an organic chemist.

And a bit of a sarin aficionado,

I have to admit.

Nothing personal, but, Charlie,
we got plenty of experts here.

Donny, this is not a time

to turn down help.

Fine. What do you got?

All right, look.

Based on the sheer
quantity of water

and distribution,
we think they will hit,

but not until after the water
has left the treatment plant...

Tap into one of the main lines

somewhere else.

If they narrow it
down to a single main,

wouldn't that reduce the
amount of potential victims?

As potent as it is,

even sarin can be diluted
beyond effectiveness.

By using a single water line,

they can maintain toxic
levels to 15 or 20,000 homes.

That's over 2,500 miles of pipe.

I'm sorry, but I can't even

begin to tell you
what mile they'll hit.

All right.

Look, we need those blueprints.

I mean, we got to know where
this attack is gonna take place.

You know what you're
asking me to do, right?

Yes, I do.

You want me to
incriminate myself,

and I'm not so
sure I can do that.

Listen to me... tomorrow
morning, thousands of people

are gonna turn on their water.

That's mothers and fathers
and kids and grandparents.

I mean, come on.

Captain, you've had a
long, decorated career.

I mean, do you really
want to go out like this?

Is this really the mark you
want to leave on the world?

Okay.

Okay.

Got it! I got it!

They're gonna tap into the
main line in Hollywood near Vine!

Charlie, push in on Hollywood.

All right, the
Hollywood main runs

right under Argyle.

Wow. The water pressure

in those lines has
to be enormous.

They'd need a pretty

substantial pump

if they wanted
to inject into it.

So they'll probably
need a truck,

which means they'll
be easy to detect.

Not if they use the tunnels.

What do you mean? What tunnels?

Well, they're old...
60 or 70 years

at least, left over from
the Red Car railway

that used to run
all over the city.

So it's near the water main?

Well, they'd have access.

I was down there once.

I saw a bunch of relief valves.

Charlie, would you
punch in closer?

Okay, now, the entrance

would be about there.

All right, let's roll.
Get SWAT going.

Let's go. Let's
roll, let's roll.

Good work, Dad.

This thing starts beeping,

you get your mask on, all right?

You don't have to tell me twice.

All right, so the
air is clean in there.

We found a fresh set

of tire tracks though
leading back in.

Has to be their pump truck.
Means they're already inside.

All right, let's hit it.

Hey, guys on the
left, keep going.

We're gonna go up here.
Just keep going down.

Hey, Don.

There are tracks in
both directions right here.

Couldn't make out
enough detail, though,

to tell which ones are theirs.

Yeah.

We got to split up.

SWAT, go left,
we'll go to the right.

Let's go.

All right, we're ready.

FBI! Don't move!

Don't hit the truck!
Don't hit the truck!

The hose is leaking!

No, no, it's just

back pressure

from the water main.

He's making a move for the pump!

All right, we got to get someone
who can cover that pump.

Make a move? Uh-huh.

I got the pump! I got it!

Get the door.

You guys, all right?!

Anyone hit?! We're okay!

You stopped them.

If you only knew
how close it came.

It wasn't just about the money.

I hope you know that.

There's a greater good here.

Oh, yeah? How you figure that?

I exposed a terror cell
hiding in Los Angeles...

highlighted the vulnerability
of this city's infrastructure,

made people see
the kind of danger

we're really facing.

Oh, I see. So, what, was
this, like, some kind of drill?

End of today, we're better off
than we were yesterday, right?

It's a net gain, no
way to argue that.

Yeah. Okay, get him out of here.

He handed over the
blueprints to the entire cell.

We're already rounding
up the rest of them.

Good.

You put in a good
couple of days.

Night.

Good night.

All right, boys, good job.

Night. Night.

Good night, you guys.

Hey, what's up?

I was thinking
about you in there.

Yeah, it was pretty scary.

That's not what I mean.

I mean... I couldn't deal if
something happened to you.

You got my back, right?

Yeah, for sure.

Okay.

I got yours.

Coming over?

Yeah, just want to check
in with Charlie and my dad.

Ah... Well, I'll be there later.

All right. All right.

See you later.

Night.

Ah, you guys are
still up... great.

Well, what'd you expect?

So listen...

Hey, we were watching the news,

and they said that Emergency
Services canceled the alert

because the water's safe now.

Isn't it amazing... they managed

to never even mention
sarin or terrorism.

Huh?

I guess we're
supposed to feel lucky

that it ended the way it did.

Yes. And that's why I
came, actually, to thank you.

Thank you.

Muchas gracias.

Is that your way of admitting
that you were wrong?

No, Dad, I wasn't wrong.

I mean, look, you
guys definitely helped.

I mean, and to
that, we're grateful.

All right? I mean, I'm grateful.

Grateful? Yeah.

Grateful's good enough, then.

I can sleep on grateful.

What? When did this happen?

This whole new attitude.

New attitude is gratitude.