Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 3, Episode 4 - The Mole - full transcript

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COLBY: Victim's Michelle Kim.

She used to look like that.

What's the deal? Why
can't LAPD handle this?

Uh, she used to work
for the Chinese Consulate.

You know how those guys are...

15 minutes after they
find out she's dead,



they'll have her
apartment cleared out.

What did she do
for the consulate?

Interpreter.

Witnesses?

Yeah. It's a hit and
run. Some say Tahoe,

some say Explorer.

No way to know for sure.

There's got to be
at least a dozen bars

in the area... figure a D-U-I
hits her, panics, takes off.

No skid marks.

Nope.

Any damage to these cars?

No.

Lucky drunk.



Yeah, tell her that.

Mmm.

You know, they say
there's nothing sexier

than a man who
knows how to cook.

Well, what do you
say, you agree?

I don't know.

I like guys who
are good at math.

Aw. Well, actually I'm
using differential geometry

to perfect the
chocolate chip cookie.

That's right.

What, is this in case the whole

math genius thing
doesn't work out?

It's for Senior Ditch Day. Hmm.

You mean Senior Beach Day.

Yeah, when they're away,
the underclassmen will play.

Remember, last year,
they ransacked my office.

Yeah, so this year...
This year, I leave a peace

offering for the hungry natives.

Hmm, needs bigger chips.

So... (clears throat)

I guess congratulations
are in order.

For?

It's a bit controversial,
but I like it.

I mean, Larry used

a non-standard analysis
instead of the conventional

Borel approach in
treating the singularities.

Can I... just... (stammers)

So Larry published an article...

on zero point energy and quan...

and quantum cosmology.

You didn't know?

Well, I thought he would have

asked you to collaborate.

Me, too.

Coroner found paint
chips under her skin.

Color traces back to
the Ford Motor Company.

They have a model yet?

Either Explorer or a Jaguar.

Better notify the locals.

If that SUV was stolen,

it's gonna be headed
straight to a chop shop.

Looks like Michelle Kim moved

back and forth between
here and China growing up.

We got a file on her?

Yeah, this is Granger,
FBI, for Jackson.

No, but we have on her father.

Okay, just have him
return it, thank you.

Former Chinese diplomat.

Retired in '97.

FBI Counter Intelligence
ran a background check

on her when she moved
back into the country in '03.

Counter Intelligence? Why
were they looking at her?

I don't know.

Whoa, whoa, wait a second.

Scroll back down there.

Right there. That
background check

was filed by an old
Army buddy of mine.

Dwayne Carter. Yeah.

Carter and I did a tour
together in Afghanistan.

You guys still tight?

I've called him a few times,
but he hasn't been around.

(exhales)

That guy saved my ass.

No way.

Yeah, we were in
this Humvee together,

got hit by an RPG and the
thing just exploded into flames.

I got trapped, had
this piece of metal

just wrapped around my arm.

Thought for sure

my ticket was punched.

Dwayne, he just... jumped
in, man, ripped me out of there

and the dumb bastard, he got
third-degree burns on his hand.

Sounds like the guy to talk to.

DON: Hey, what
are you doing here?

Oh, I'm just gathering
some information for a paper

that Larry's working on.

Hey, you know, you
guys have direct access

through NASA's firewall.

That's right. Big
Brother's always watching.

Hey, is this a new case?

Yeah, it's a hit and
run, but I don't know,

I'm thinking it's looking
like something more.

Something more like what?

Well, like it's intentional.

Okay, you want me
to take a look at it?

No, it's all right, don't worry
about it. Because, you know, I-I...

I can factor in steady
motion regimes...

You know, body
stiffness coefficients,

and not to mention, you
know, subtle body undulations

generated by the ground-reaction
force. You got me there. Go for it.

Because, you know, was she
walking, was she standing still?

I don't know. How
fast was she moving?

Once you have that data,

these impact marks
can tell you a whole lot.

This is no problem for me
to work... Knock yourself out.

I'll have an answer for
you as soon as I can.

You're the one who's always
saying you're overworked

Hey. How'd it go at Kim's place?

I spoke to a couple
of the neighbors.

She was quiet, kept
to herself, no boyfriend.

What, you don't buy it?

She's 24 years old.

Her last stop was one of
the hottest nightclubs in L.A.

I have my doubts.

Bartender remembers her
getting a call right before she left.

Oh, yeah? Did it
trace anywhere? Didn't.

Call came from a
prepaid cell phone.

Techs just lifted Kim's
online bank account records.

Got over a hundred
grand in all-cash deposits.

Well, the Chinese pay
their interpreters really well.

We got untraceable cell phones,

cash deposits.

What was this girl into?

Since when is the FBI
interested in zero point energy?

Huh? Uh...

Are you checking

Larry's work, Charlie?

I'm just looking...

Just taking a look at it.

Did he ask you to do that?

No, no.

What he's done
is fairly impressive.

Oh, "fairly impressive."

Well, you know what I mean.

No.

What do you mean?

Nothing. It has, it
has great potential.

Yeah, but it needs
your assistance.

To be honest with you... yeah.

Yes.

Mm-hmm

Charlie, did you ever think that

maybe Larry doesn't want you...

Why wouldn't Larry want my help?

I don't know, but he sure
didn't ask for it, did he?

(elevator bell dings)

PFC Granger, you son of a gun!

(laughing)

Man. What's up?

I practically had to put you
under surveillance to find you.

Yeah, if I was easy to locate,

I wouldn't be in Counter
Intelligence now, would I?

What's up?

Well, I caught this
case... Michelle Kim...

Worked for the Chinese.

Yeah, they said
somebody was coming up

to talk to me, so I took a look
at my report... wasn't much.

Any reason you guys

were looking into
her to begin with?

Immigration flagged her.

She entered the country
with two passports,

Parents both Chinese nationals.

Post 9-11. Thought
was, we had to know

what she'd been up
to on the mainland.

And? She'd been in
Beijing at university;

she came back to take a job

with the Chinese
Consulate as an interpreter.

Everything seemed
on the up and up.

Why? You got
something different?

She died last night.

Died? Yeah. Hit and run.

Maybe more. That's
why I want to talk to you.

Yeah, I don't know.

Uh, I'll ask around.

See what I can dig up. Okay.

How you doing?

Adjusting. You?

Yeah, the same, I guess.

Never really goes away, does it?

No, never does.

Al right, you catch something,
give me a call, all right?

Absolutely.

Come here! Come here!

(laughing)

It's great to see you.

You, too.

(clears throat)

Ah, Charles.

Say, did you know that
an Oort cloud has a mass

somewhere between five and a
hundred times that of the Earth?

Oort cloud? Cloud
that spits out comets?

Oh, yeah. Thousands of comets.

You know, I had, I
had no idea. Yeah.

So, I've, uh, come by
here to congratulate you

on your paper. Well,
that was nothing.

Nothing. Well, what you did,

analyzing the effective
weight of zero point energy

in a nonstandard way,
well, that-that could lead

to a solution for the cosmological
constant problem, right? Yeah.

Well, I mean, The
Uncertainty Principle

of Quantum
Mechanics does say that

there must be some
virtual mass, so...

I'm sorry, I'm running late
here. Oh, I'm, I'm curious.

Um, who collaborated
with you on the math?

Uh, Brian Stromsborg.

Oh, Stromsborg's
good. Yeah, he is.

He is good.

Yeah, he's good.

Uh, now, I'm sensing that

there might be something more
involved here than well wishes.

Oh... did you forget
where my office was?

No! No!

Stromsborg has so much
experience in this field.

Yeah, I know, I know.

Yeah, but...?

I'm so used to you
coming to see me.

Perhaps I was getting a
little too used to it myself.

Well, Larry, you know, I hope
I've never made you feel like...

No, absolutely not.

No, I just, I feel of late

just a need to do some
branching out, that's all.

Branching out?

Yeah, well, I'm maybe like
a comet trying to break out

of its orbit, uh...

find my own escape trajectory,

just come into my
own entity, I don't know.

I'm so sorry, I'm running late,

but, Charles, I
think I just need

to stretch myself
a little, that's all.

Pure and simple.

I've been cleared
by my ambassador

to cooperate in any way.

I've also notified Miss
Kim's parents in Beijing.

You can imagine how
difficult a call that was to make.

I hope you expressed
our sympathies.

To have a child taken from
you at such great distance...

But I suppose a traffic accident
can occur anywhere in the world.

Well, we're not so sure

it was an accident.
I don't understand.

Well, her job was an
interpreter? That's right.

Any reason she'd have large
sums of cash in her bank account?

Her personal finances
wouldn't be something

I would have any
knowledge about.

So that would be a "no"?

I'm afraid I didn't really
know her very well.

Well, we'd like to take a look

at a list of people
she worked with.

I'll speak with the
ambassador, see what I can do.

Thanks. Appreciate that.

DAVID: What'd the
Consulate General have to say?

That he knew her less
and less as we stood there.

Well, either he's
telling the truth

or the Chinese have a
very liberal hiring policy.

Why?

Credit card has a bunch
of charges to nightspots,

lingerie boutiques

and the occasional adult store.

Which totally contradicts

what the neighbors told me.

Maybe you should run
those through LAPD Vice,

Narco...

You know, we're not even sure

this girl was actually
murdered yet.

Um, yeah, actually, we are,

As promised, I do have
an answer on whether

or not this was an accident.

I thought you had class.

I do. I have lunch
and I... oh, and dinner.

Look, you guys got, like,
sandwiches around here?

We'll order out for you.

A nice turkey thing...?
What do you got?

All right, I tried using a
steady-motion algorithm

to try to determine the
motion of your victim

at the point of impact,

but my results
were inconclusive.

But you persevered.

I did, I did.

You know, I
imagined her walking,

the motion of her feet,

and then it occurred
to me... Curtate cycloid.

Oh, curtate cycloid.

C.C. Right, of course.

Think of someone's,
uh, someone's stride

like the Moon orbiting
around the Earth.

As the Moon moves around
the Earth and the Earth moves

around the Sun,
the Moon traces out

a curtate cycloid
curve in space.

In essence, creating a
circle within a bigger circle.

Now, when you walk,
the heel orbiting backward

then forward past the knee,

creates the same
pattern of circles.

Now, from there, I could
probabilistically determine

the leg motion of your
victim at the point of impact.

And that probabilistically
helps us how?

Well, the marks on her legs
that the vehicle's lights made,

they're high.

High?

Yeah, the bumper of the vehicle

was rising on impact.

So what, you're saying
it was accelerating?

Which means this
wasn't an accident.

Oh, no.

Whatcha say, Megan?

Morning.

So, Washington wants us
to handle this on a local level.

How are we doing

on that girl's account?

Not very good. All the
deposits were made in cash

just below the ten
grand reporting minimum.

Yeah? What about Colby's friend?

Uh, Dwayne Carter

said that Kim's background
check was just routine.

A 24-year-old interpreter

with that kind of
money ain't routine.

ERT found this access card

during a daylight sweep
of the crime scene.

Kim's prints are all over it

and it does not belong
to the Consulate.

Or her apartment. I
used a key found in

her purse when I
went the other night.

Huh... We got ERT
running it down right now.

Hey, you guys should
have a look at this.

Techs found
something interesting

on Michelle's laptop.

Megan said you guys
got something. Hey.

Yeah.

DAVID: Michelle Kim's computer.

Seems like she had a thing

for Internet porn sites.

Um, did she save
any of the images

from this Web site?

Oh, yeah, she's downloaded
quite a few images.

Why? What?

Remember that image of
the little girl we found hidden

in the photograph?

Right, the child porn case.

This is very similar.

It's only a lot
more sophisticated.

This picture is really
thousands of pixels

reproduced as squares.
Now could you please zoom in

on this portion of
the photograph?

MEGAN: Okay.

That's great.

All right, now remove
some of these squares

and you can still see the photo.

However, a coded
message can easily be hidden

within this missing information.

Yeah, and?

Well, you know those
tests they give people

for colorblindness,
the green dots?

To someone who's truly
colorblind, all they see

is a bunch of green dots,

but to a person
with perfect vision,

the same exact image
reveals a hidden picture.

So you think you can crack it?

Uh, look, if there's
a message in here,

yeah, then I should
be able to find it.

Yeah, it's a pass card
for the building garage.

Something happen?

You recognize this girl?

15-C.

She had an apartment here?

Yeah. Had? What's going on here?

She was killed in an accident.

Oh, wow.

That's horrible.

You know how
long she lived here?

Two years, give or take.

She live alone or with someone?

Uh, alone, I think.

I'd see her come in maybe
one, two nights a week.

You guys keep the
tapes to that camera?

It's all digital.

The footage gets online
to a database somewhere

for insurance or something.

MEGAN: So, Kim maintained
a second apartment?

DAVID: Yeah, under an
alias. We checked it out.

There's no food in the
fridge, no cable hookups.

What do you think?
A meeting place?

The lobby has security cameras.

Colby's checking out
the footage right now.

LARRY: You know,
what amazes me here

is that they're hiding
their messages

using the very same
encryption programs

that the privacy groups
hired us to develop.

Back when I was

real little,

I heard that the KGB
and the CIA used to send

these encoded messages
via shortwave radio.

I thought I was the only
one. Oh, no, you and me both.

Yeah, I'd be listening
to these people talking

in these languages I
couldn't possibly understand.

I was imagining their
operatives in Paris and Germany.

I even tried sending my own
secret messages in response.

I never thought
about doing that.

Well, the police
came to my house.

The police came?

Yeah, it was some FCC violation.

I think they were police.

You know, that reminds me
of that time that we rewired

the P.A. system at Princeton.

Listen, I have to say it
was refreshing to see

your sense of humor that time.

It really was. Up till then,
I was a little concerned

that your natural intensity
might well be your undoing.

It wasn't just about IQs.

Our working together?

No, no, no. I knew your sense

of analysis suited my own.

You're making it sound
like, like that's changed.

Charles, let's face it.

Your passion has taken
you down many new roads:

your work with Don,

your convergence theory...

(clears throat): My
program's got something here.

Hey, look in the eyebrow.

I think those are numbers.

My algorithm was able

to find an image embedded
in, in this region here.

I e-mailed a JPEG to your techs.

They stripped away
the extraneous squares,

which then revealed a
series of letters and numbers.

MEGAN: Two
letters and nine digits;

can't be a phone number.

But it could be an
international banking number.

It's definitely an
offshore account.

Cyprus. Check it out.

First two letters: C-Y,
That's the country code.

Now, this next file
is very interesting.

This is one that Kim
posted of herself.

I gave it to your guys
to isolate, as well.

DAVID: It looks like
a Chinese character.

DON: Yeah. Enhance
that? Enhance that? Okay.

Two names.

"Terry Evans," uh,

and "Richard Freeman."

She file-shared the
photograph from a chat room,

but you know there's no way

to trace who might
have downloaded it, so...

Evans and Freeman were
federal witnesses scheduled

to testify against a
guy named Jason Ming

until they were murdered.

DAVID: Double tap.
That's center mass.

This is not just a
murder, it's a hit.

Ming was arrested four months
ago for selling laser gyroscopes

to North Korea for
a Chinese contact.

So the next time the
North Koreans fire a missile,

maybe it hits North America

and not the ocean.

Ming posted a $3 million bail.

A week later the two witnesses
against him were dead.

You know, these
two witnesses' names

were in a sealed indictment.

That's a paper file.

So someone physically
had to get that info

and give it to Kim.
Only people with access

to a sealed indictment
are federal prosecutors.

MEGAN: And federal agents.

Which means there's a mole
in the Department of Justice,

and if the Chinese have

someone in the DOJ...

Then they can get to
any witness they want...

any case they want.

Hey.

Man, Granger, you
scared the crap out of me.

Michelle Kim... the
last time you saw her

was two years ago?

I already told you that.

Yeah, tell me again.

It's boot camp.

They train you to put
your shades on your back

when you're
approaching a target.

I guess old habits die hard.

I should bust your ass
right now for lying to me!

She approached me

after I did the
background check,

and we ended up
sleeping together.

But that's it.

Why didn't you

just tell me that
from the get-go?

Why do you think I didn't tell
you? I work counterintelligence.

I'm supposed to be
following people like Kim.

You're telling me that
you knew she was a spy?

I had a pretty good idea.

How about an idea
about killing witnesses

who were going to
testify against a fugitive

on the U.S. Marshal's
Ten Most Wanted list?

Think I had something
to do with that?

What do you want me to think?!

After I got back
from Afghanistan,

things with Jenny and
me went south quick.

I ended up living
in a small apartment

with some judge telling
me when I could see my son.

After I interviewed
Michelle, she called me,

and we met up a couple of times.

She showed me some
attention, you know?

I knew better,
but I went for it.

But that was all it was.

So when-when was the last
time that you actually saw her?

Not the night she was killed.

Look, a-any of this
becomes an issue,

I will come clean...
You have my word.

(sighs)

You'd be baked inside a
Humvee if it wasn't for me.

You really think
I'd screw you now?

(sighs)

CHARLIE: You know, the
number of espionage cases

that we've prosecuted

in the past decade
has increased... 300%.

Spies, huh? Is that
what you're working on?

Yep.

Hey, did you know that nobody
ever heard of James Bond

until President
Kennedy confessed

that he had read the Ian Fleming
novels before going to bed?

Did you know that?

What, you don't believe it?

Well, this is more than fiction.

Hey... you ever have a problem

with... someone that
you respected at work?

Why, you having
troubles at work?

Larry.

Larry? He published
his latest paper.

He didn't ask me to collaborate.

Well, I mean, with
his experience,

what has he got to
do, check with you?

Well, okay, that's not the
point. Well, what is the point?

That his paper is good.

It could be great.

With your help, huh?

Well...

You know, there
was a time at work,

I was at the City
Planning Office.

My, uh, my boss had
a design, and, um,

I don't know, I thought
I saw something.

I mean, the plan
was fine as it was,

but I thought that, um,

I had seen something...
that I could make better.

What'd you do?

Nothing.

Because I had to decide

which was more important,
my relationship with my boss

or with our client.

Why don't you ask yourself this:

Are you really ready to tell
Larry that his work is good

but just not good enough?

COLBY: Hey, David.

Any luck finding

more cameras in Kim's building?

No, these were the only
ones, here in the lobby.

Couldn't really tell
which apartment

the guests were going up to, and
so far Kim's always been alone.

CHARLIE: You know, um...

(clears throat): that
might not be true.

What's up, Charlie?
What are you doing here?

Well, I'm just...

working on something for Larry.

Look, you said that the footage

from these cameras is
archived, right? Yeah, that's right.

Okay, well, then, look, if the
apartment is a meeting place,

then chances are your mole
has been there more than once.

Yeah, but, I mean,
there are months

of footage and
hundreds of guests.

Okay, but we know when
Kim was there, right? Yeah,

but so? So I can run

a series of Eigenfaces.

COLBY: Eigenfaces?

Advanced
facial-recognition techniques.

I've been working on a program
that matches human asymmetry.

So I can create an algorithm

that matches all
visitors to the apartment

at the times that we
know that Kim was there.

Asymmetry points?

Come on, Charlie,
help us out here, man.

(sighs): No human face
is perfectly symmetrical.

Let's say

that each little square
of a Rubik's Cube

represents a symmetry
point... Nose, ear or eye.

When the right
combination is found,

an individual symmetry
point or body part is matched.

Hey, I just heard from the LAPD

there's a chop shop
in Van Nuys that has

an SUV that matches
the one that hit our girl.

What's up? Help
you with something?

Yeah. You Tyler?

Yeah. I want to get some rims.

What size?

22's. How many you need?

COLBY: Four of 'em
would be great. Four rims.

Means we've got
four guys to deal with.

Nice and chromed,
if you can swing it.

Chrome. Somebody's got a gun.

All right, let's go.

Call it a thousand even.

FBI! You! Down!

Hey! You with the
gun! Put it down!

Hey! Put the gun on the floor!

Hey!

He dies,

you die!

Oh, no, no! Here's how it goes!

I get out of here,
or you both die!

David, shoot this dude.

Will you just shoot
him?! Shut up!

Drop him now! Shut up! Shut up!

Easy! Easy. Think.

Think about it... There's
no way out of here.

You got no options. Put it down.

I mean it. David,

shoot...

(grunts) (yells)

(Tyler groaning, coughing)

(cries in pain)

You okay?

Yeah. Already
told you, I'm fine.

That was a close
call earlier, man.

Comes with the territory, right?

Just saying, man,
that's not like you

to not bring your
"A" game, brother.

A guy gets a jump on me,
and suddenly I'm losing it?

I'm just saying, man.

Last couple of days
you been kind of quiet.

I'm your partner, man...

If there's something on your
mind, just let me know, okay?

Look, David, I appreciate
what you did in there, all right?

But I am fine.

See you tomorrow.

Okay.

Hey, I got it.

Got what? I-I got

an idea on your mole.

That asymmetry
model really paid off.

Check this out.

This is your most
likely suspect.

The past three months,
Kim was at her apartment

24 times... eight of those times

this guy shows up within
an hour. You sure about that?

Yeah, I mean, I'm very sure.

Once I established this image,

I cross-referenced it with
the photo I.D. database

at the Department of Justice.

Whoa...

that's Dwayne Carter.

Isn't that, like,

Colby's Army buddy
in Counter Intelligence?

It's not like; it is.

Hey.

Where is he?

He's on his way in.

What are you gonna do?

I don't know yet.

What, you got something
you want to say?

Don, if Colby
withheld something,

I'm sure he had a
good reason for it.

Where are we on the
warrant for Carter's place?

The attorney general
approved that this morning.

All right, well, as soon as

they let us know he's
out, we're going in.

Sure you want to wait?

We have enough to
bring him in right now.

That's Homeland's call...

They want to find out
more about the setup,

see if there's any
connection to the consulate.

Well, so far, the
cash withdrawals

from Kim's bank account

correspond to a bunch of
deposits that Carter made,

but we haven't had any
luck tracing Kim's source.

Just keep digging.

Hey, you wanted to see me?

Uh, yeah, you got that right.

All right, straight
up, I want to know

if you knew it was
Carter on that tape.

(exhales): I had a feeling,
yeah. You had a feeling,

and you don't bring it to me?

Don, the guy's a friend of
mine. He made a mistake.

It had nothing to do
with the case. Your friend

is bought and paid for by
the Chinese government.

(sighs)

I had no idea.

Any money exchange
hands between you two?

You lied to me... I'm not
exactly clear on the reason now.

I would never tank
an investigation, Don.

You know that.

Well, you crossed the line
here. What, and you haven't?

Excuse me?

When Megan was kidnapped...
You know what I'm talking about.

Yeah. To save a life?
Yeah, I was trying to save

a buddy's career from
going down the drain.

Look, Dwayne admitted to me

that he was sleeping with Kim,

but he swore to me

that it had nothing
to do with our case.

He swore to you.

Look, you're off the case.

(groans softly)

Do you have him? Megan?

Megan.

Biceps look pretty good.

He should be in there a while.

Now that you're done staring,

we might be able to get the
job done. (mock chuckling)

Dining room.

Bathroom.

Clear.

I got a laptop in here.

(chuckles): Hey... they
look like brothers there,

don't they? Yeah.

I'm in.

Damn it, he's getting out
already. No, no, I need more time.

How about 45 seconds?

Do I have 46?

44. Come on.

David.

I'm coming.

Come on.

(knocking) Yeah, I'm coming.

Hey, Larry. Alan.

Hey, is-is Charles here?

Uh, no. Good.

That's good.

That's very good.

Can I get you something?

Hey, look at this.

Why, to graduate
Princeton at 16!

I was good,

but... it took me

till the more normal age of 19.

Yeah, well, in that first year,

we heard an awful lot
about Professor Fleinhardt.

Yeah.

You know, he spent half the time

trying to prove
the T.A.'s thesis

was wrong.

Well, Charlie was never
afraid to give his opinion.

Yeah, well,

of course, Charles was right.

Is there something
bothering you, Larry?

Charles is having
trouble understanding

why I didn't ask for his help

on this recent paper
that I published.

Oh? Yeah. I mean, it's not

that I don't value his input.

I mean, you know that I do.

But? Alan, Charles's work

at the FBI increasingly
consumes him.

Yeah, we know that, but...

In my field,

dependence on any one person,

that can spell the
end of a career.

And I'm just not ready to go.

Not yet.

You know, there's also
something called pride,

and I've never found that

a great justification
for anything.

That was SOG.

Bank manager
inadvertently tipped Carter off

that subpoenas are being
served on his accounts.

Well, is that your way
of saying he's gone?

Yeah, he knows we're on to him.

All right, if
Carter's on the run,

then he has access to all
kinds of fake IDs, passports.

Yeah, but we have his money.

Just let me ask you this:

you think he's the type of guy

who's gonna hang around
for like one last score?

I'd buy that.

He probably has the
name of every FBI informant

working against the Chinese.

We have the Consulate
covered, so there's no way

he's gonna make contact there.

I mean, it could be
pre-arranged, right?

Look, he's meeting
her on a regular basis.

Yeah, but that was
at the apartment.

Yeah, but at some point,
his handlers got to want

to meet him, they got
to want to check him out.

And there's no way

she's gonna bring them
all to that apartment.

You know, Carter's PDA

had a bunch of meetings
on company time

that the Bureau
couldn't explain.

Yeah, you got the times?

They're all like 11:00 to 1:00.

Well, you have, uh,

the locations of the meets here?
They're spread throughout the city.

You know what, do me a
favor, e-mail them to Charlie,

maybe he can come
up with something.

MEGAN: We're worried
that Carter's going to try

and sell whatever
information he's got

before he leaves the country.

And these appointments
from Carter's PDA

are meetings between
him and the Chinese?

We think so.

Hmm...

Well, a lot of these addresses

are within a couple
miles of the FBI.

Now I've learned from the NSA

that operatives will often
schedule meeting places,

like, months in advance...
They're given a list.

And no two meeting places

are ever the same.

Okay, so we can
then logically assume

that the meeting place is
somewhere inside this circle?

Right. It's a classic
combinatorial

optimization problem.

And no one is better at
combinatorics than you.

Who else could be?

It's simply a question of
branching and bounding.

Branching and bounding?

So you're trying to predict

how a tree is going to branch.

And you know where
six of the branches'

meeting places already are.

Now where will that
seventh branch...

Carter's next
meeting place... be?

Certain factors can help us
eliminate potential branches.

Like, we know that Carter has
to make a clean and fast getaway.

See, these meetings are
taking place in areas that are

zoned for businesses with open
courtyards, with promenades,

with multiple
entrances and exits.

One was Pershing Square...

And one was the Staples Center.

They're both close to the
freeway, easy getaways.

Right, and so, by
running an algorithm

that analyzes the features
of the existing meeting places

to find key variables,

then by applying a branching
and bounding algorithm,

we can hopefully identify

where Carter's next
meeting place will be.

Okay. Thank you.

DAVID: Sinclair for Eppes.

Go for Eppes.

SOG's got nothing on the
other locations Charlie's listed.

All right, just give it

time, you know?

I thought Carter took all of his
meetings during the daytime.

That's why it's
called probability.

Wait, hold on.

Yeah, I got eyes on him.

DAVID: Hey, that's Chen,

the guy from the Consulate.

I don't know, he
looks pretty calm.

I don't think he
knows we're on him.

Don, Carter

just passed him something.

DON: All right, let's follow
him. Don't bumper lock.

Bravo Team take
Chen outside the park.

We got Carter.

(over radio): Roger
that, we got Chen.

Adam-23, go.

Bravo team, copy.

All right, he's turning
right onto Broadway.

Stay back, everybody.
Wait for me, wait for me.

Copy that, David? Copy that.

MAN: Got units stationed
Fourth and Glower.

All right, wait.

He's going eastbound into

the Second Street tunnel.

All right, let's box him in.

(siren blares)
Sinclair to Adam 23.

I want you to lock up

the east end of the
Second Street tunnel.

Shut it down right now.

(sirens blare)

Get your hands
out of the windows!

Get your hands out
of the windows now!

Driver, keep your hands out
of the window, open the door

and step toward my voice.

Nice and easy.

Just step toward my voice.

Dwayne, you don't want
us pulling you out of that car.

I'm doing it!

Don't shoot!

Unit 17, shut down east
side of Second Street tunnel.

Come on. David.

Come on, hands behind your back.

Come on.

You've got to be kidding me.

Colby was right,
this guy is good.

Here, catch.

Unbelievable.

Chen isn't talking to anyone,
and the State Department's

certainly not going
to lean on him.

They've got bigger
stakes with China.

We've got surveillance on
the airports, public and private.

Border Patrol has a
copy of Carter's profile.

Guy works in
intelligence ten years,

he's not taking
public transportation.

Don, if Carter has an exit plan,

Colby is our best
chance for figuring it out.

Yeah, well, Colby's
not on the case.

I mean, I can't trust him.

Whatever happened between
him and Carter blurred his judgment.

Why don't you let
David try and call him?

I already tried.
Got his voicemail.

Guy's got something to say
to me, he knows where I am.

Guess you got to keep the
boat in the divorce settlement.

Do me a favor and
untie that bow line.

For a guy who loves the ocean,

I never could understand why
you chose to go to the desert.

If I hadn't, you'd be dead.

They took my badge, my gun.

Then there's nothing
keeping you here, right?

Look, I got something to sell

that'd be enough
for the both of us.

Yeah, and how many people
are gonna die this time?

You killed two
innocent witnesses.

And Michelle Kim?

When I met her, I
must've looked like a deer

caught in the headlights.

I mean, this girl,
she was all over me.

At first, it was just
drinks and sex.

Yeah, and then what?

I was only giving her
useless information.

And every dime
of it went to my kid.

No, the information
you sold her killed

two federal witnesses.

A murderer went free because
of it. She blackmailed me.

She told me if I didn't steal

high-level information,
she would expose me.

So, what, you killed
her to save your ass?

I saved your ass once.

You remember?

What help am I to
my son if I'm in prison?

There was nothing I could do.

I didn't have any other choice.

You got a choice now.

You can come in with me.

It's not gonna
make anything right,

but it might just give
your kid one chance

at least to forgive his father.

What if I don't?

Huh?

You were one of the bravest
soldiers I ever knew, Dwayne.

(yells)

No!

Granger.

Granger...

Come on, give me the tape.

Give me the tape.

You gonna kill me?

Go ahead, man.

Go ahead.

(distant sirens approaching)

Put it down!

Carter, drop the gun!

Colby, get out of the way!

I can't believe
you did this to me!

Drop that gun!

Put it down!

Drop it!

No.

No, Dwayne...

no, you did it to yourself.

Dwayne Carter!

Drop that gun! Put it down!

Hands up! Now!

Hands up!

Drop the gun.

You know, I've
never been in combat.

But I've been in my
share of fire fights

and you know what
scares the hell out of me?

It's not dying.

It's letting my guys down.

You know?

Losing trust.

You do it again,
you're going to jail.

Still trying to untie yourself.

There's over 70

precise moves with this.

Well, they don't call it

the world's toughest
brain teaser for nothing.

You know, I used
to be able to do these

in under two minutes.
Now, it's over six.

Oh, that's still pretty good.

Yeah.

It's not my best.

Neither was hiring
Stromsborg as my collaborator.

Larry, we've discussed
this, Stromsborg's good.

Yeah, but he's not the best.

What I forgot to keep in mind
was the paper meant nothing.

You see,

it was all about the work.

Or should've been.

Speaking of work,

I could still use your help...

if it's not too late.

Larry...

I have a confession to make.

Yeah?

I already read the paper.

Oh.

And?

You want me to
be honest with you?

No, I don't.

I want to remain
a blithering idiot.

Yes, of course, I
want your honesty.

Larry...

I never want to
lose you as a friend.

And you never shall.

Your paper...

it's a work of genius.

Okay, now there.

Was that so hard?

But... But...

it would have
benefited from the work

of two geniuses.

Yeah.

Simon and Garfunkel, perhaps?

Okay. Fine, yes.

As long as I'm Simon.

Well, Charles,
ever the pragmatist.