Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 4, Episode 18 - When Worlds Collide - full transcript
When one of Charlie's friends, a scientist at the university, is arrested for terrorist activities, it puts him at philosophical odds with Don. And as he works to prove the man's innocence, his beliefs may jeopardize his career.
♪ I'm just a happy kid... ♪
Shaza, finish
and help me set the table.
Dinner's ready.
Hadi, I asked
you to shut that off
five minutes ago.
Your father will be
here any minute.
Hey, Mom, do you think
I can ask Dad tonight?
About buying a new laptop?
It's your funeral.
I need a new cell phone.
Mine sucks.
If you get a new laptop,
I get a new cell phone.
I need it for schoolwork.
Yeah, right.
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Wait!
I got family there.
Kaleem!
I got family! Kaleem!
In the house, Asha!
Don't! Get back! In the house!
Mom?! Go get inside!
Call 911.
No!
I can't thank you enough
for your help, Charlie.
Your work on algebraic
statistics was essential
to getting my
research published.
Oh, well, are you going to,
uh, present this anywhere?
There's a seminar
on Current Models
in Recombinant Methodology
this summer in Florence, Italy.
Ah. Firenze, mio preferito.
And as coauthor of the article,
you are, of course, invited
to help present the work.
I have to confess,
this whole business
of rearranging
DNA to suit human needs...
Listen, I find this
very exciting in this rather,
uh, life-threatening,
world-ending sort of way.
The ability to
employ a more rapid
and reliable de
novo DNA synthesis
can lead to the creation
of so many useful,
practical applications.
Professor Phillip Sanjrani?
Yes.
Special Agent William Fraley.
I'm going to have to
ask you to come with me.
Well, why? What's
this all about?
There must be some mistake.
My brother's Agent Don... I'm
aware of who your brother is.
There's no mistake, Dr. Eppes.
Look, I'm happy to cooperate.
Only tell me what
this is about. We will.
Charlie, you work with the FBI.
What's happening?
I don't know. I-I'll...
find out.
Well, what happened was,
two men were abducted at
gunpoint. They're missing.
Now, they were both members
of the Pakistan International Fund,
which is a local group
suspected of being a cover
for an extremist cell.
Counter-terrorism
seems to think that these
abductions may be some
kind of prelude to a terrorist act.
Okay, what does a
terrorist cell have to do
with the arrest of a
university professor?
Well, your colleague Phil
Sanjrani was a member
of the group, and he's one
of about a dozen members
that they brought
in for questioning.
And what's his
actual connection?
To put it bluntly,
Charlie, the DC office
suspects your friend
of being a terrorist.
Hey, Charlie, look, we're
definitely gonna need
your help with this, all
right? Can you come in?
Kaleem Rafiq was abducted
by masked gunmen
in front of his home.
Ronald Jamali left his office
for lunch, never returned.
Now, both are
members of a non-profit
called the Pakistan
International Fund.
Claims to raise money
for rural Pakistan
and Bangladesh,
but we have evidence,
funds could be going
to jihadist groups.
These abductions that
signal an imminent attack?
Yeah, we think so.
Now, since 9/11, we've
stopped several terror plots
thanks to informants.
Yeah, al-Qaeda's now
instructing all their operatives
to eliminate leaks
prior to attacks.
And you're thinking
these guys were somehow
a threat to the group?
That's why the
director flew me out
from DC on a military jet.
We have to find the
leadership of the cell.
Now, it will be hidden.
Some operatives will be
deep cover, not openly linked
to the PIF.
Okay, well, I guess
that's where I can help.
You know, in the past,
we've used math to identify
the covert structure
of organizations.
Sure. Like the social
network kind of thing, right?
Well, actually,
since we're saying
that the NSA has a database
of phone intercepts
on this group,
I'll be using an analysis based
on Byzantine fault-tolerance.
With a name like that, I don't
even want to ask, Charlie.
It's just a way of finding
faulty components
in computing systems.
How do computers
relate to a terrorist cell?
Well, think of a rowing team.
And imagine that one
rower is secretly working
against the rest of the team.
What math will do is look at
the water in the boat's wake
and determine which
oarsman is working
against the rest of the team.
The missing men in this case
are working against
the terror cell.
Just like your oarsman. Right.
Math will not only
identify them...
But it tells us who the
other guys in the boat are.
That's it.
Can it tell us where
the boat's going?
In other words, what
the cell's planning?
That's probably asking
a lot of the metaphor.
It is, but if there's
enough information
on the NSA intercepts, then...
Okay, look, you pursue
that, and we just got
to find out as much information
about these two as we can.
Right?
Hey...
So, look, you know,
I know Phil Sanjrani's
a member of the PIF,
but he's not a terrorist.
He's a scientist.
Right, I understand
your concern,
but the guy e-mailed
instructions for a bioweapon
to Pakistan.
I didn't know that.
My husband was abducted
in front of our home,
here in Los Angeles,
yet you ask me
about a trip to Karachi
eight years ago,
and phone calls to
his cousin in Kashmir?
We just need to pursue every
avenue of the investigation.
You aren't pursuing
my husband's case.
You're investigating
him as a terrorist
because we're Pakistani,
because we're Muslim?
How much time will
you waste convicting him
when you could be
trying to find him?
The only way I can help you
is if you answer my questions.
My husband has been in
this country for 25 years.
He is a business owner.
He's not an extremist.
The Pakistan International
Fund is a charity,
helping people in rural regions
of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
We are not political.
Hamad Mazari.
And what's your role
in the organization?
Mostly fundraising.
We're all volunteers,
we do what we can.
Well, we're gonna need to
examine your membership
and fundraising records,
as well as all telephone
and computer information.
No. I don't think so.
Sir, two of your
members were kidnapped.
Which doesn't mean we
help you conduct a witch hunt
through our membership.
You aren't treating us as
victims, and you know it.
I can get a search
warrant. Go ahead.
Sir, what do you think
happened to Rafiq and Jamali?
When foreign-born Muslims
go missing in this country,
they tend to turn up
in federal detention.
The CIA's got a history of this.
Why don't you check with them?
It wasn't us.
The CIA doesn't do this.
Not in this country.
We've heard that sometimes
you guys do make exceptions.
This conversation is limited
to the specifics of your case.
It's also limited to
an outdoor location.
Any reason you didn't want
to have this conversation
in your office?
You needed to see me right
away, you got me on my lunch hour.
Office or sidewalk,
the answer is the same.
The agency had nothing
to do with these abductions.
Okay, if it wasn't you guys,
then who else does
this sort of thing?
The FBI.
Phil's an American citizen.
He's been at CalSci
for eight years.
You didn't try to call a
lawyer or anything, did you?
I may have made
some calls, yeah.
Charlie, you can't
be doing that.
He's a colleague of mine.
I don't care. You work for us.
As a consultant, not an agent.
My work is for use
in agriculture
to develop
disease-resistant crops.
Your research is restricted.
It's illegal to send it to
hostile foreign entities.
Restricted? Nobody
informed me of that.
The list of restricted
information is classified.
Then how would I
know I couldn't send it?
Why would you
send any information
to religious extremists?
I contacted scientists
working on crop yields
in a region suffering from
famine and starvation.
You sent cutting-edge work in
engineered genome sequencing
to a university linked
to groups that hate
this country. No!
I sent my work
to respected researchers.
Hey.
Agent Sinclair?
It's Rafiq's wallet.
Worker found it
inside the warehouse.
We saw it matched the victim.
Did you guys find anything else?
We just started looking.
All right. Thanks.
Got a nice little
blood trail there.
Oh!
Looks like Rafiq.
And Jamali.
Both men were beaten,
tortured with electricity.
To see if they
leaked information.
Hey, guys, take a look at this.
Found at the scene.
It's a trigger pin.
Trigger pin? For what?
For one of these.
RPG-7. Russian-made
rocket launcher.
Bunker buster. So the
trigger pins are often
shipped separately, and they're
hard to come by, so if you have
the pins, you got the rockets.
Damn.
Yeah.
We found these
at the home of one of the
other dead men, Ronald Jamali.
Blueprints from
four high schools.
A rocket attack
on a high school?
They've already got the rockets.
Watch the schools,
but keep it low-key.
They know we're onto them,
they'll just switch targets.
We're working these
weapons contacts
to see if there's
word out anywhere.
Hey. So I'm still working
on tracking the dead men's
connections to the PIF.
However, I need to tell you
about some other
preliminary findings.
Okay. What are they?
Uh, just that my
analysis has been
unable to identify components
that correlate to
any expected system.
What are you saying? The PIF
does not fit the profile
for any known terror group.
According to your
computer logic analysis?
No, actually, according
to the FBI's own criteria:
the lack
of religious ties,
its membership, its structure,
its activities... all atypical.
There is no sign of any covert
organization within this group.
And I also have to say
that Phil Sanjrani's
connection to this case
is entirely coincidental.
Or maybe it's coincidental
that he's a friend of yours?
Yeah, he's a friend of mine,
and you guys came across
his work because he's
a member of the PIF.
You assume that his work
is terror-related because
you assume that the PIF
- is a terrorist group.
- No, Charlie,
the guy makes
synthetic pathogens.
And he sends his
information to Pakistan.
His work is in crop development.
It's designed to
create new strains
of food crops resistant
to drought and insects,
which are both very, very big
problems in the farming
regions of Pakistan.
You know what, you're a
mathematician; this is biology.
Well, what does that
have to do with it?
Hundreds of scientists
work in Phil's field.
You going to arrest
them all? If they're
connected to a
terrorist group, yeah.
What if the PIF isn't
a terrorist group?
What if it's a charity?
Don't get many
charity groups torturing
and executing their own members.
And there is the matter
of the rocket
launchers, Charlie.
Hey, I-I'm willing.
I'm more than willing
to reevaluate my methodology.
I would just suggest that you
might want to do the same.
Professor Eppes!
Please wait.
What is it, Agent Fraley?
I was wondering if you were
aware that your colleague,
Phil Sanjrani, recently
traveled to the Bajaur region
of Pakistan, the new
home of al-Qaeda.
And that when he attended
a Pakistani university,
his roommate was a man
who later became a
member of al-Qaeda.
Your sister's a pharmacist.
Oh, I thought you'd
make this argument,
so I Googled you.
She studied pre-pharmacy
at the University of Maryland.
Her Organic Chemistry professor
was Dr. Afzul Abbas.
Dr. Abbas studied
at Cairo University.
While there, he lived
in the same residence
as Ayman al-Zawahiri,
a qualified
pharmacologist, surgeon,
prominent leader of al-Qaeda.
I connected you to
a dangerous terrorist
in three links.
I, uh, appreciate your skills
in logic and deduction.
I hope you can
appreciate my experience
working in counterterrorism.
So you got your
search warrant. Good.
Maybe now we can
resolve this whole
thing. This gives us
the right to seize all PIF
records and information.
Oh, I doubt there's
much more than what
the FBI has already
obtained through its wiretaps
and other
electronic surveillances.
Care to tell us how
you're aware of that?
We are Pakistani Muslims.
You are FBI.
The PIF money helped
many groups in Pakistan.
We got letters from
school children thanking us.
A group of us went
out there last year
to set up a health center.
Did your husband have any
problems with the
PIF's fundraising?
He and Ronald Jamali
were upset about something.
He didn't say what. Did
he have any confrontations
with the other members?
He did call people
in Karachi about it.
Mazari's name was mentioned.
I, I don't know for sure.
Thank you for your help.
The man who abducted my husband,
I heard his voice.
He wasn't Pakistani.
But you didn't see his face.
My son plays baseball.
My daughter
goes to the mall.
This is the only
country they know.
And when they
lose their father,
this country tells
them he was a terrorist.
Hey. Hey!
I've just been arguing with
an FBI counterterrorism expert.
What're you guys up to?
Oh, we just got back from
talking to Dr. Baltimore,
who runs the microbiology labs.
Yeah, we just thought
it might be interesting
to get his opinion of
Phil Sanjrani's work.
Oh, yeah. What did he say?
He says it looks like it is
what Sanjrani said it was.
Engineered gene sequencing
for the development
of disease-resistant crops.
He did concede that some of it,
conceivably, could be
used to create pathogens.
But only if you
look at all the data
through the "myopic lens
of a paranoid federal official."
His words, not mine.
Hey, Don.
So I know Fraley's
just doing his job, but...
You're on Charlie's side?
Oh, come on.
I'm not on a "side."
Fraley's expertise is terrorism.
Look, I know we often have
to act on minimal information.
Exactly. But if we go
too far, we're going to destroy
what we're trying to defend.
"He who gives up freedom
for safety deserves neither."
Benjamin Franklin? No, actually,
I think it's a bumper
sticker I saw.
Six months ago,
this group started
to raise a lot more money,
stopped keeping good records.
Probably a reason. I got a bunch
of weird phone calls to New York
and Boston and San Francisco.
Fine, go for it,
but I say all roads
lead to Pakistan.
Hey!
Hi, Donnie.
Who's winning?
I don't know,
I'm reading the paper.
Hey, Charlie, you
buy what Fraley says?
I don't know, he's wrong
about Phil Sanjrani, so...
Professor Sanjrani?
Why, he's involved
in an FBI case?
I thought you were
reading the paper there.
Yeah, well, I was,
but it's too depressing.
Look, Charlie, you know, I mean,
you've got to be objective here.
I'm the one being objective.
You've arrested
a man for sharing
scientific knowledge.
It's dangerous information
with foreign extremists.
Hope you told them
to make it extra crispy.
Dad... You don't know that.
That's the way it looks.
I'm having a piece, you
want one? Anybody?
You know, you and I have
two very different worldviews,
and that's fine.
But now you're
crossing into my world
and making assumptions
about how people
like me can or should work.
Charlie, people in your world
also happen to make
dangerous things.
Ah, here we go.
You know, sooner
or later, this fight was
bound to happen. You don't
understand the specifics here.
Well, I don't really have to.
Besides, there's nothing wrong
with an honest disagreement.
It's more than a disagreement.
Call it what you want.
This pizza is really, very good.
They finally made it crispy.
Now, look, you both
have very strong principles.
But you can't always
see things the same way.
Now, I'm going to have my pizza,
and I'm going to watch the game.
And I hope you guys
will decide to join me.
Local informants
haven't heard anything
about anyone buying
Russian rocket launchers,
but there's somebody out
there trying to sell RPGs.
Sell them? Do we know who?
We're working on it.
Hey, so I've come
upon some significance
in the PIF analysis.
You found a hidden operative?
It's possible.
But whatever this
person's doing,
he's covertly linked
to Rafiq and Jamali.
Are you sure?
98.2% sure. I've got the data.
So, using the
Byzantine agreements
in secure communication model,
the NSA data on the PIF's
member cell phone use
pointed out a third member
who had a pattern of contact
with the two victims
before they were abducted.
So was this person
trying to root out
Jamali and Rafiq as traitors?
Uh, no. Actually, the analysis
described a very curious player,
traversing the network
to uncover information,
but in collaboration
with Rafiq and Jamali,
and his name is Benjamin Rajar.
Sinclair. I need a surveillance
team for one Benjamin Rajar.
Driver's license F549N649.
He's a lawyer
with DVY Associates,
626 Wilshire.
Downtown.
If you were able to connect
this guy to the two dead men,
I'm betting the
terrorists will, as well.
Jamali was abducted
off a busy street.
All right, that's
one hell of a risk.
If they're well-trained,
they'll like all the movement.
It's easy to peel
one person out of the crowd
without attracting attention.
B-Team One, target's moving.
Prepare to exit.
Alpha Team, are you in position?
All right, we got him.
Wh-Where is he? Who's got him?
- Anyone got eyes on him?
- A-Team Three,
he's at the southeast
corner of Wilshire and Hope.
There.
Someone's grabbing
him! We're going in!
FBI!
FBI! Get those hands
up where I can see them!
Hey!
Get them up!
We've got gunshots,
multiple gunshots...
Automatic weapon fire.
I'm going after David.
Get out of the way!
Hey! Hey, stop!
You all right?!
I'm okay.
It's all right.
We lost the other guy.
And this one is dead.
Who is that?
I don't know.
Doesn't look like a Pakistani.
So if this is a
Pakistani extremist,
I'm a Japanese schoolgirl.
They've recruited
domestic operatives,
making them more
capable and dangerous.
That's the only explanation?
We shouldn't be looking
at other possibilities?
Put it together with
what we know...
Two murders and another attempt,
the weapons, the school plans.
The PIF phone records
have calls to New York,
Boston and San Francisco...
None connect to Islamic causes.
We have to penetrate this group,
find out who's
calling the shots.
If we can't, what, then?
Get a judge to issue arrest
orders for as many members
as we can, initiate
deportation proceedings.
Hit them with everything we got.
That's just going to ruin
a lot of innocent
people's lives.
So could a rocket
attack on a school.
So why do you think
somebody tried to kill you?
I have no idea.
I was kind of hoping you
guys are on top of that.
Well, two days
before he was killed,
Kaleem Rafiq
called your law office.
Yes, he wanted me to look
over the PIF's financials.
He said the group
donated to certain charities.
Some of them had called to
ask why the money had stopped.
Okay. Who's in charge
of the PIF's funds?
Supposed to be a committee,
but in recent months,
it's been...
It's been who?
I don't want to give
you any names,
not with the way the
FBI's been handling this.
Innocent people are being
accused of terrible stuff.
To fix that, we need
more information, not less.
All right.
Hamad Mazari's been
handling the funds.
Has anybody talked
to Mazari about this?
Rafiq said he and Jamali did.
How'd they say he responded?
Mazari said he was working
with new charities.
Kaleem called Pakistan
to look into them,
but nobody had
ever heard of them.
Didn't anybody suspect
Mazari of mishandling the funds?
We figured it was just a mix-up,
and then the murders happened.
Everybody's too upset to
worry about the money right now.
Okay.
What do you know about these?
I don't even know
what I'm looking at.
It's hard to believe
this city started out
as this tiny, little
Spanish settlement,
supporting a mission
in San Gabriel.
I wonder if there
are any angels left
in the City of Angels.
Oh, a few, I'd like to think.
And I sense we're
about to lose one.
Am I making a mistake?
Well, you're answering something
that's been calling
out to you for...
some time now.
How can that be a mistake?
Phil, how are you doing?
They questioned me for 30 hours.
They told me I had a visitor,
I thought it was
finally a lawyer.
Well, do you have an attorney?
It doesn't matter.
They've made up
their minds about me.
They said that when
you were in college,
you had a roommate who's
now a member of al-Qaeda.
That's a mistake.
He has the same name
as a member of al-Qaeda.
He's been trying for years
to get that
confusion cleared up.
And then last year,
you visited Pakistan...
To visit family,
meet with the researchers
that I work with.
The feds make it sound like
I went to a jihadist
training camp.
What do you think is
going on in the PIF?
Why were these two men killed?
I have no idea.
Are you asking for
the FBI, or for yourself?
For myself.
I know your work;
I know its value.
They got some FBI
scientist to review my work
and say it's applicable
to human pathogens.
I'll find that report,
then I'll review it.
The hardest part for me
is, I was only able to send
part of my work
before I was arrested.
My work could save tens
of thousands from starvation,
but now, it'll do nothing.
Phil, I am trying...
I'm trying to get the FBI
to reconsider your case.
I doubt that's possible.
But I would appreciate it if
you could talk to my wife...
my parents.
Tell them... I am not
what they say I am.
Hey, Don.
Hey. Who's this guy with all the
orange? I don't remember him.
That one?
That's Tombrello. He's
an old fish. He likes to hide
a lot. Yeah?
I went over the FBI analysis
of Phil Sanjrani's work.
The findings aren't
scientifically valid.
All right. Well, so what is
that supposed to mean?
For one, it's a
political document.
It's not even a scientific one.
Charlie, no matter
how you cut it,
the guy shouldn't have
sent his stuff to Pakistan.
Insects and crop disease are
serious problems in Pakistan.
His work's going to help
farmers feed starving people.
I don't think we should horde
that kind of knowledge. I
don't think we have the right to.
Well, we have a right to
protect our country, don't we?
On any given day, you know,
I'm in contact with scientists
in Moscow
and China and India.
Are you going to arrest me?
So we've got nothing
on the dead guy shot
trying to abduct the attorney.
You're looking at
domestic lists, right?
You don't think he's American?
I've been tracking
down a lot of calls
between the PIF and U.S. cities.
And... I know this is
going to sound really weird,
but a lot of them lead
to people and groups
that are linked to the
Irish Republican Army.
The IRA is defunct.
But when it was
active in the U.S.,
it was a network that raised
money and smuggled guns.
So are you saying you've
found the last active IRA cell?
I'm not saying
it's an active cell.
But what happened
to all those operatives?
What are they doing?
They're all working
at Starbucks?
All right. Well, I
mean, we could talk
to old, uh, ex-IRA contacts.
I could look at
the PIF leadership.
I just got some phone records
that might give me
something on Mazari.
You got anything else
maybe, uh, you know,
you want to talk to us about?
Yeah, maybe it
has something to do
with your little trip
to DC that none of us
were supposed to
know anything about?
Yeah, 'cause we're thinking
you're up for a big promotion.
Maybe a job at Quantico,
could be... maybe...?
Or maybe I'm just going
to leave the Bureau...
and counsel women in prison,
and finish my doctorate.
Oh.
That's a pretty
big career change.
You know, I love
working with you guys.
But I feel like it's become
very clear this year
that I'm not going to
make it here as a lifer.
Did you, uh... you talk to Don?
He knows already.
The FBI is wrong.
I don't think I can keep
working on this case.
They're working from a
theory different from yours, true.
But that doesn't make
either of you wrong.
You don't know what's
going on with the PIF either,
but something is.
You're not serving the FBI here;
you're serving the truth.
Max Flaherty.
What could two feds
possibly want with me?
We heard some of
your old cohorts might be
back in business.
I don't have cohorts.
Try Sullivan's on 6th.
As a former convicted member
of the IRA, if the FBI
considers you uncooperative,
it would be very easy
to have you deported.
What do you want to know?
Illegal weapons.
Any of your old associates
working the markets?
Some of the boys
still in it, I've heard.
New York, Boston. Not here.
Do you know this man?
Yeah, John Austin.
Dead, is he?
Killed by federal agents
during an attempted abduction.
What an end.
But then, he was never
headed for a good one.
What was he doing
in Los Angeles?
Don't know. He didn't
come around here.
He ran with a fellow who
wasn't liked in Los Angeles...
One Shane O'Hanahan.
Why wasn't O'Hanahan liked?
He was a nasty piece of work.
Ireland be damned, he was
only in it for the money and guns.
Would O'Hananan find himself
mixed up with
Pakistani militants
who want to attack the U.S.?
When he was IRA, he
worked with Libyans, Syrians.
Hell, Shane O'Hanahan would
work with the Devil himself
if he thought he could
get a dollar out of it.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Mr. Mazari?
Hamad Mazari?
Yes. How can I help you?
Same social security number,
same identity documents.
So the man we know as
Mazari stole his identity.
Our guy could be
Saudi or Syrian.
Who the hell knows?
Could be al-Qaeda.
We ID'd the man
killed in the shootout.
His name is John
Austin, IRA, out of Belfast.
One of Austin's partners...
Known gunrunner,
Shane O'Hanahan.
Actually, that might
fit your call thing, right?
What was it, New York...?
Boston... San Francisco.
Uh-huh. Definitely IRA centers.
Started six months ago.
And Mazari joined
the PIF six months ago,
and that's when the group
changed how it disperses funds.
So these ex-IRA guys are
supplying the PIF's weapons.
All right. So we got
to find this Mazari.
I checked his office;
it was cleaned up.
But I have a residential
address for him.
FBI!
Clear. Clear.
Clear.
He's gone.
You guys, come
around to the garage.
Whoa!
Damn.
It looks like this guy grabbed
everything he could carry
and got the hell out of here.
Only he's in Los
Angeles somewhere,
with enough firepower
to make one hell of a mess.
We don't know the identity
of the man we're after.
We do know he's an extremist,
he's got rocket launchers,
he's linked to plans for
an attack on area schools.
I've run an analysis
on our so-called
Mazari as a known
covert operator.
He is not the center
of a terror group,
he has been working alone.
All patterns show
isolated activity. FRALEY: Well,
yeah, he killed
his coconspirators. Uh, no.
My analysis shows that
he's always been isolated
within this group.
Remember the analogy
where we thought that
Rafiq and Jamali were
the oarsmen working
against the rest of the
team? Yeah, all right.
It was Mazari
hijacking the boat.
We don't have a terrorist cell.
We've got a lone terrorist?
Are you a hundred
percent positive
that Mazari's a terrorist?
How else to explain the weapons,
the plans for attacks
on schools? DON:
Well, to be fair, we really
got blueprints, right?
They weren't attack plans.
We're looking at
Angels and Devils.
Excuse me?
M.C. Escher's print
of Angels and Devils,
is a classic example
of the figure-ground
effect in perceptual
organization.
How we look at
things is determined
by our predisposition.
In Escher's Angels and Devils,
one can either see black
devils or white angels.
Our perception is influenced
by our thinking.
We found the school plans
at Ronald Jamali's house.
And his wife said
his construction
company was gonna
make a bid on a school
roofing project. That'd explain
why the blueprints were there.
And the firing pin
we found at the murder scene
could have been left
there by Mazari. So,
no conspiracy, no terrorist.
Maybe something else entirely?
You're not gonna believe this.
I found photos of
Shane O'Hanahan,
you know, the IRA
associate of John Austin.
Check this out.
Facial recognition
software identified them
as the same person.
Mazari's not...
Pakistani? DAVID: No,
he's a former IRA gunrunner.
He faked being Pakistani to get
the PIF's funds,
which he used to
finance his old business
of selling black market
arms. That's why
we heard about weapons
being for sale in the area.
He killed Rafiq and Jamali
because they got suspicious.
Then he tried
to grab Rajar, and now
he has to be on the run.
LAPD has an all points.
And TSA's on alert at LAX, uh,
Long Beach, Burbank, Ontario.
We have undercover agents
at Union Station
and the bus terminal.
This guy's not
taking any obvious
routes, people.
We're checking banks
and credit card companies
for any activity under
O'Hanahan's aliases.
I've got the FAA
monitoring all private
plane flight plans.
Hi, I'd like to
reserve a car, please.
Last name, Kerrigan.
Hey, I just got a guy in Burbank
who used a credit card to rent
a rental car under the
name “Jackson Kerrigan,”
one of O'Hanahan's aliases.
Everyone's out
and we're clear, Don.
Okay, we're going in.
We're moving.
Shane O'Hanahan. FBI. Freeze!
My name's Jack Kerrigan, boys.
Put the bag down.
Just relax, okay?
It's going down.
Just a classic logic error.
You make the
evidence fit your theory,
not the other way around.
The PIF was Pakistani Muslims,
so we assumed a terrorist cell.
So, uh...
why is Phil Sanjrani
still in custody?
What do you mean?
He-he e-mailed restricted
documents overseas.
But we-we now know that
there was no terrorist action,
so...
He still broke federal law.
Yeah, but you guys
only arrested him
because he was a
member of the PIF, right?
Doesn't matter;
he did what he did.
Yeah, it matters.
It matters.
Your analysis of his work
rests on the assumption
that he's a terrorist. He's not.
Can't you see
that an objective
evaluation comes
to an entirely different
conclusion he's innocent?
Well, Charlie, I promise you,
he will get his day in court.
You guys might want to leave.
I don't want you
to be accessories.
We'll take the risk.
Think I'm making a mistake?
You need to do what
you believe is right.
There. It's done.
Megan resigned.
Was it about this case?
No.
I think it's been building
up for some time.
She's moving
to Washington,
going back to school,
looking for a line of
work closer to her heart.
You okay?
You know, last year I was
217 miles above the Earth.
Yeah, our relationship
has never depended
on geographic proximity.
♪ A warning sign ♪
♪ I missed the good
part, then I realized... ♪
So, it looks like
you're all packed up.
Uh, yeah, I'm ready.
You want some
help with this stuff?
Yes, please. Thank you.
♪ I started looking
for excuses ♪
♪ Come on in... ♪
Well, let's go.
Before I get silly.
♪ I've got to tell you
what a state I'm in ♪
♪ I've got to tell you
in my loudest tone... ♪
Dr. Eppes, you ready?
Hey, Dad, your car needs a bath.
So...
this is my attorney,
and he's negotiated my
surrender to federal authorities.
Dr. Eppes, I'll need
to handcuff you.
Ah, Charlie.
What did you do? I e-mailed
the rest of Sanjrani's work
to scientists at four
universities in Pakistan.
Why?
I felt I had to.
As Phil's colleague...
as a scientist.
♪ And I realized ♪
I have a strong defense.
That research can't
be used as a weapon.
We know that now.
We couldn't know it then.
Is this true, what I just heard?
You lost your
security clearance?
Yeah, it's true.
Do something, fix this.
It doesn't work that way.
You know what this means?
That he cannot work
at this college on
any classified project.
And second, how can
you even... keep working
for the FBI without
your clearance?
I don't think I can.
♪ I'll miss you... ♪
Neither one of you
want to talk about it?
Well, it's a hell
of a big elephant
in a relatively small yard.
Right.
It's kind of amazing
that we worked together
as long as we did.
You know, this is
not the first time that
this house has been divided
by a fundamental disagreement.
That year that Charlie spent
at MIT, remember
when he came home?
Now, that was a shocker.
Yeah.
So I'm a Celtics fan.
It happens, even
in good families.
Actually, not really.
Not in L.A.
Eppes.
Okay, I'm on my way.
All right.
See you guys later, huh?
Don.
Just watch yourself.
You, too.
♪ When the truth hits ♪
♪ I'll miss you ♪
This is gonna be
harder than I thought.
I think it's... to be continued.
♪ That I'll miss you... ♪
Shaza, finish
and help me set the table.
Dinner's ready.
Hadi, I asked
you to shut that off
five minutes ago.
Your father will be
here any minute.
Hey, Mom, do you think
I can ask Dad tonight?
About buying a new laptop?
It's your funeral.
I need a new cell phone.
Mine sucks.
If you get a new laptop,
I get a new cell phone.
I need it for schoolwork.
Yeah, right.
♪ ♪
Wait!
I got family there.
Kaleem!
I got family! Kaleem!
In the house, Asha!
Don't! Get back! In the house!
Mom?! Go get inside!
Call 911.
No!
I can't thank you enough
for your help, Charlie.
Your work on algebraic
statistics was essential
to getting my
research published.
Oh, well, are you going to,
uh, present this anywhere?
There's a seminar
on Current Models
in Recombinant Methodology
this summer in Florence, Italy.
Ah. Firenze, mio preferito.
And as coauthor of the article,
you are, of course, invited
to help present the work.
I have to confess,
this whole business
of rearranging
DNA to suit human needs...
Listen, I find this
very exciting in this rather,
uh, life-threatening,
world-ending sort of way.
The ability to
employ a more rapid
and reliable de
novo DNA synthesis
can lead to the creation
of so many useful,
practical applications.
Professor Phillip Sanjrani?
Yes.
Special Agent William Fraley.
I'm going to have to
ask you to come with me.
Well, why? What's
this all about?
There must be some mistake.
My brother's Agent Don... I'm
aware of who your brother is.
There's no mistake, Dr. Eppes.
Look, I'm happy to cooperate.
Only tell me what
this is about. We will.
Charlie, you work with the FBI.
What's happening?
I don't know. I-I'll...
find out.
Well, what happened was,
two men were abducted at
gunpoint. They're missing.
Now, they were both members
of the Pakistan International Fund,
which is a local group
suspected of being a cover
for an extremist cell.
Counter-terrorism
seems to think that these
abductions may be some
kind of prelude to a terrorist act.
Okay, what does a
terrorist cell have to do
with the arrest of a
university professor?
Well, your colleague Phil
Sanjrani was a member
of the group, and he's one
of about a dozen members
that they brought
in for questioning.
And what's his
actual connection?
To put it bluntly,
Charlie, the DC office
suspects your friend
of being a terrorist.
Hey, Charlie, look, we're
definitely gonna need
your help with this, all
right? Can you come in?
Kaleem Rafiq was abducted
by masked gunmen
in front of his home.
Ronald Jamali left his office
for lunch, never returned.
Now, both are
members of a non-profit
called the Pakistan
International Fund.
Claims to raise money
for rural Pakistan
and Bangladesh,
but we have evidence,
funds could be going
to jihadist groups.
These abductions that
signal an imminent attack?
Yeah, we think so.
Now, since 9/11, we've
stopped several terror plots
thanks to informants.
Yeah, al-Qaeda's now
instructing all their operatives
to eliminate leaks
prior to attacks.
And you're thinking
these guys were somehow
a threat to the group?
That's why the
director flew me out
from DC on a military jet.
We have to find the
leadership of the cell.
Now, it will be hidden.
Some operatives will be
deep cover, not openly linked
to the PIF.
Okay, well, I guess
that's where I can help.
You know, in the past,
we've used math to identify
the covert structure
of organizations.
Sure. Like the social
network kind of thing, right?
Well, actually,
since we're saying
that the NSA has a database
of phone intercepts
on this group,
I'll be using an analysis based
on Byzantine fault-tolerance.
With a name like that, I don't
even want to ask, Charlie.
It's just a way of finding
faulty components
in computing systems.
How do computers
relate to a terrorist cell?
Well, think of a rowing team.
And imagine that one
rower is secretly working
against the rest of the team.
What math will do is look at
the water in the boat's wake
and determine which
oarsman is working
against the rest of the team.
The missing men in this case
are working against
the terror cell.
Just like your oarsman. Right.
Math will not only
identify them...
But it tells us who the
other guys in the boat are.
That's it.
Can it tell us where
the boat's going?
In other words, what
the cell's planning?
That's probably asking
a lot of the metaphor.
It is, but if there's
enough information
on the NSA intercepts, then...
Okay, look, you pursue
that, and we just got
to find out as much information
about these two as we can.
Right?
Hey...
So, look, you know,
I know Phil Sanjrani's
a member of the PIF,
but he's not a terrorist.
He's a scientist.
Right, I understand
your concern,
but the guy e-mailed
instructions for a bioweapon
to Pakistan.
I didn't know that.
My husband was abducted
in front of our home,
here in Los Angeles,
yet you ask me
about a trip to Karachi
eight years ago,
and phone calls to
his cousin in Kashmir?
We just need to pursue every
avenue of the investigation.
You aren't pursuing
my husband's case.
You're investigating
him as a terrorist
because we're Pakistani,
because we're Muslim?
How much time will
you waste convicting him
when you could be
trying to find him?
The only way I can help you
is if you answer my questions.
My husband has been in
this country for 25 years.
He is a business owner.
He's not an extremist.
The Pakistan International
Fund is a charity,
helping people in rural regions
of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
We are not political.
Hamad Mazari.
And what's your role
in the organization?
Mostly fundraising.
We're all volunteers,
we do what we can.
Well, we're gonna need to
examine your membership
and fundraising records,
as well as all telephone
and computer information.
No. I don't think so.
Sir, two of your
members were kidnapped.
Which doesn't mean we
help you conduct a witch hunt
through our membership.
You aren't treating us as
victims, and you know it.
I can get a search
warrant. Go ahead.
Sir, what do you think
happened to Rafiq and Jamali?
When foreign-born Muslims
go missing in this country,
they tend to turn up
in federal detention.
The CIA's got a history of this.
Why don't you check with them?
It wasn't us.
The CIA doesn't do this.
Not in this country.
We've heard that sometimes
you guys do make exceptions.
This conversation is limited
to the specifics of your case.
It's also limited to
an outdoor location.
Any reason you didn't want
to have this conversation
in your office?
You needed to see me right
away, you got me on my lunch hour.
Office or sidewalk,
the answer is the same.
The agency had nothing
to do with these abductions.
Okay, if it wasn't you guys,
then who else does
this sort of thing?
The FBI.
Phil's an American citizen.
He's been at CalSci
for eight years.
You didn't try to call a
lawyer or anything, did you?
I may have made
some calls, yeah.
Charlie, you can't
be doing that.
He's a colleague of mine.
I don't care. You work for us.
As a consultant, not an agent.
My work is for use
in agriculture
to develop
disease-resistant crops.
Your research is restricted.
It's illegal to send it to
hostile foreign entities.
Restricted? Nobody
informed me of that.
The list of restricted
information is classified.
Then how would I
know I couldn't send it?
Why would you
send any information
to religious extremists?
I contacted scientists
working on crop yields
in a region suffering from
famine and starvation.
You sent cutting-edge work in
engineered genome sequencing
to a university linked
to groups that hate
this country. No!
I sent my work
to respected researchers.
Hey.
Agent Sinclair?
It's Rafiq's wallet.
Worker found it
inside the warehouse.
We saw it matched the victim.
Did you guys find anything else?
We just started looking.
All right. Thanks.
Got a nice little
blood trail there.
Oh!
Looks like Rafiq.
And Jamali.
Both men were beaten,
tortured with electricity.
To see if they
leaked information.
Hey, guys, take a look at this.
Found at the scene.
It's a trigger pin.
Trigger pin? For what?
For one of these.
RPG-7. Russian-made
rocket launcher.
Bunker buster. So the
trigger pins are often
shipped separately, and they're
hard to come by, so if you have
the pins, you got the rockets.
Damn.
Yeah.
We found these
at the home of one of the
other dead men, Ronald Jamali.
Blueprints from
four high schools.
A rocket attack
on a high school?
They've already got the rockets.
Watch the schools,
but keep it low-key.
They know we're onto them,
they'll just switch targets.
We're working these
weapons contacts
to see if there's
word out anywhere.
Hey. So I'm still working
on tracking the dead men's
connections to the PIF.
However, I need to tell you
about some other
preliminary findings.
Okay. What are they?
Uh, just that my
analysis has been
unable to identify components
that correlate to
any expected system.
What are you saying? The PIF
does not fit the profile
for any known terror group.
According to your
computer logic analysis?
No, actually, according
to the FBI's own criteria:
the lack
of religious ties,
its membership, its structure,
its activities... all atypical.
There is no sign of any covert
organization within this group.
And I also have to say
that Phil Sanjrani's
connection to this case
is entirely coincidental.
Or maybe it's coincidental
that he's a friend of yours?
Yeah, he's a friend of mine,
and you guys came across
his work because he's
a member of the PIF.
You assume that his work
is terror-related because
you assume that the PIF
- is a terrorist group.
- No, Charlie,
the guy makes
synthetic pathogens.
And he sends his
information to Pakistan.
His work is in crop development.
It's designed to
create new strains
of food crops resistant
to drought and insects,
which are both very, very big
problems in the farming
regions of Pakistan.
You know what, you're a
mathematician; this is biology.
Well, what does that
have to do with it?
Hundreds of scientists
work in Phil's field.
You going to arrest
them all? If they're
connected to a
terrorist group, yeah.
What if the PIF isn't
a terrorist group?
What if it's a charity?
Don't get many
charity groups torturing
and executing their own members.
And there is the matter
of the rocket
launchers, Charlie.
Hey, I-I'm willing.
I'm more than willing
to reevaluate my methodology.
I would just suggest that you
might want to do the same.
Professor Eppes!
Please wait.
What is it, Agent Fraley?
I was wondering if you were
aware that your colleague,
Phil Sanjrani, recently
traveled to the Bajaur region
of Pakistan, the new
home of al-Qaeda.
And that when he attended
a Pakistani university,
his roommate was a man
who later became a
member of al-Qaeda.
Your sister's a pharmacist.
Oh, I thought you'd
make this argument,
so I Googled you.
She studied pre-pharmacy
at the University of Maryland.
Her Organic Chemistry professor
was Dr. Afzul Abbas.
Dr. Abbas studied
at Cairo University.
While there, he lived
in the same residence
as Ayman al-Zawahiri,
a qualified
pharmacologist, surgeon,
prominent leader of al-Qaeda.
I connected you to
a dangerous terrorist
in three links.
I, uh, appreciate your skills
in logic and deduction.
I hope you can
appreciate my experience
working in counterterrorism.
So you got your
search warrant. Good.
Maybe now we can
resolve this whole
thing. This gives us
the right to seize all PIF
records and information.
Oh, I doubt there's
much more than what
the FBI has already
obtained through its wiretaps
and other
electronic surveillances.
Care to tell us how
you're aware of that?
We are Pakistani Muslims.
You are FBI.
The PIF money helped
many groups in Pakistan.
We got letters from
school children thanking us.
A group of us went
out there last year
to set up a health center.
Did your husband have any
problems with the
PIF's fundraising?
He and Ronald Jamali
were upset about something.
He didn't say what. Did
he have any confrontations
with the other members?
He did call people
in Karachi about it.
Mazari's name was mentioned.
I, I don't know for sure.
Thank you for your help.
The man who abducted my husband,
I heard his voice.
He wasn't Pakistani.
But you didn't see his face.
My son plays baseball.
My daughter
goes to the mall.
This is the only
country they know.
And when they
lose their father,
this country tells
them he was a terrorist.
Hey. Hey!
I've just been arguing with
an FBI counterterrorism expert.
What're you guys up to?
Oh, we just got back from
talking to Dr. Baltimore,
who runs the microbiology labs.
Yeah, we just thought
it might be interesting
to get his opinion of
Phil Sanjrani's work.
Oh, yeah. What did he say?
He says it looks like it is
what Sanjrani said it was.
Engineered gene sequencing
for the development
of disease-resistant crops.
He did concede that some of it,
conceivably, could be
used to create pathogens.
But only if you
look at all the data
through the "myopic lens
of a paranoid federal official."
His words, not mine.
Hey, Don.
So I know Fraley's
just doing his job, but...
You're on Charlie's side?
Oh, come on.
I'm not on a "side."
Fraley's expertise is terrorism.
Look, I know we often have
to act on minimal information.
Exactly. But if we go
too far, we're going to destroy
what we're trying to defend.
"He who gives up freedom
for safety deserves neither."
Benjamin Franklin? No, actually,
I think it's a bumper
sticker I saw.
Six months ago,
this group started
to raise a lot more money,
stopped keeping good records.
Probably a reason. I got a bunch
of weird phone calls to New York
and Boston and San Francisco.
Fine, go for it,
but I say all roads
lead to Pakistan.
Hey!
Hi, Donnie.
Who's winning?
I don't know,
I'm reading the paper.
Hey, Charlie, you
buy what Fraley says?
I don't know, he's wrong
about Phil Sanjrani, so...
Professor Sanjrani?
Why, he's involved
in an FBI case?
I thought you were
reading the paper there.
Yeah, well, I was,
but it's too depressing.
Look, Charlie, you know, I mean,
you've got to be objective here.
I'm the one being objective.
You've arrested
a man for sharing
scientific knowledge.
It's dangerous information
with foreign extremists.
Hope you told them
to make it extra crispy.
Dad... You don't know that.
That's the way it looks.
I'm having a piece, you
want one? Anybody?
You know, you and I have
two very different worldviews,
and that's fine.
But now you're
crossing into my world
and making assumptions
about how people
like me can or should work.
Charlie, people in your world
also happen to make
dangerous things.
Ah, here we go.
You know, sooner
or later, this fight was
bound to happen. You don't
understand the specifics here.
Well, I don't really have to.
Besides, there's nothing wrong
with an honest disagreement.
It's more than a disagreement.
Call it what you want.
This pizza is really, very good.
They finally made it crispy.
Now, look, you both
have very strong principles.
But you can't always
see things the same way.
Now, I'm going to have my pizza,
and I'm going to watch the game.
And I hope you guys
will decide to join me.
Local informants
haven't heard anything
about anyone buying
Russian rocket launchers,
but there's somebody out
there trying to sell RPGs.
Sell them? Do we know who?
We're working on it.
Hey, so I've come
upon some significance
in the PIF analysis.
You found a hidden operative?
It's possible.
But whatever this
person's doing,
he's covertly linked
to Rafiq and Jamali.
Are you sure?
98.2% sure. I've got the data.
So, using the
Byzantine agreements
in secure communication model,
the NSA data on the PIF's
member cell phone use
pointed out a third member
who had a pattern of contact
with the two victims
before they were abducted.
So was this person
trying to root out
Jamali and Rafiq as traitors?
Uh, no. Actually, the analysis
described a very curious player,
traversing the network
to uncover information,
but in collaboration
with Rafiq and Jamali,
and his name is Benjamin Rajar.
Sinclair. I need a surveillance
team for one Benjamin Rajar.
Driver's license F549N649.
He's a lawyer
with DVY Associates,
626 Wilshire.
Downtown.
If you were able to connect
this guy to the two dead men,
I'm betting the
terrorists will, as well.
Jamali was abducted
off a busy street.
All right, that's
one hell of a risk.
If they're well-trained,
they'll like all the movement.
It's easy to peel
one person out of the crowd
without attracting attention.
B-Team One, target's moving.
Prepare to exit.
Alpha Team, are you in position?
All right, we got him.
Wh-Where is he? Who's got him?
- Anyone got eyes on him?
- A-Team Three,
he's at the southeast
corner of Wilshire and Hope.
There.
Someone's grabbing
him! We're going in!
FBI!
FBI! Get those hands
up where I can see them!
Hey!
Get them up!
We've got gunshots,
multiple gunshots...
Automatic weapon fire.
I'm going after David.
Get out of the way!
Hey! Hey, stop!
You all right?!
I'm okay.
It's all right.
We lost the other guy.
And this one is dead.
Who is that?
I don't know.
Doesn't look like a Pakistani.
So if this is a
Pakistani extremist,
I'm a Japanese schoolgirl.
They've recruited
domestic operatives,
making them more
capable and dangerous.
That's the only explanation?
We shouldn't be looking
at other possibilities?
Put it together with
what we know...
Two murders and another attempt,
the weapons, the school plans.
The PIF phone records
have calls to New York,
Boston and San Francisco...
None connect to Islamic causes.
We have to penetrate this group,
find out who's
calling the shots.
If we can't, what, then?
Get a judge to issue arrest
orders for as many members
as we can, initiate
deportation proceedings.
Hit them with everything we got.
That's just going to ruin
a lot of innocent
people's lives.
So could a rocket
attack on a school.
So why do you think
somebody tried to kill you?
I have no idea.
I was kind of hoping you
guys are on top of that.
Well, two days
before he was killed,
Kaleem Rafiq
called your law office.
Yes, he wanted me to look
over the PIF's financials.
He said the group
donated to certain charities.
Some of them had called to
ask why the money had stopped.
Okay. Who's in charge
of the PIF's funds?
Supposed to be a committee,
but in recent months,
it's been...
It's been who?
I don't want to give
you any names,
not with the way the
FBI's been handling this.
Innocent people are being
accused of terrible stuff.
To fix that, we need
more information, not less.
All right.
Hamad Mazari's been
handling the funds.
Has anybody talked
to Mazari about this?
Rafiq said he and Jamali did.
How'd they say he responded?
Mazari said he was working
with new charities.
Kaleem called Pakistan
to look into them,
but nobody had
ever heard of them.
Didn't anybody suspect
Mazari of mishandling the funds?
We figured it was just a mix-up,
and then the murders happened.
Everybody's too upset to
worry about the money right now.
Okay.
What do you know about these?
I don't even know
what I'm looking at.
It's hard to believe
this city started out
as this tiny, little
Spanish settlement,
supporting a mission
in San Gabriel.
I wonder if there
are any angels left
in the City of Angels.
Oh, a few, I'd like to think.
And I sense we're
about to lose one.
Am I making a mistake?
Well, you're answering something
that's been calling
out to you for...
some time now.
How can that be a mistake?
Phil, how are you doing?
They questioned me for 30 hours.
They told me I had a visitor,
I thought it was
finally a lawyer.
Well, do you have an attorney?
It doesn't matter.
They've made up
their minds about me.
They said that when
you were in college,
you had a roommate who's
now a member of al-Qaeda.
That's a mistake.
He has the same name
as a member of al-Qaeda.
He's been trying for years
to get that
confusion cleared up.
And then last year,
you visited Pakistan...
To visit family,
meet with the researchers
that I work with.
The feds make it sound like
I went to a jihadist
training camp.
What do you think is
going on in the PIF?
Why were these two men killed?
I have no idea.
Are you asking for
the FBI, or for yourself?
For myself.
I know your work;
I know its value.
They got some FBI
scientist to review my work
and say it's applicable
to human pathogens.
I'll find that report,
then I'll review it.
The hardest part for me
is, I was only able to send
part of my work
before I was arrested.
My work could save tens
of thousands from starvation,
but now, it'll do nothing.
Phil, I am trying...
I'm trying to get the FBI
to reconsider your case.
I doubt that's possible.
But I would appreciate it if
you could talk to my wife...
my parents.
Tell them... I am not
what they say I am.
Hey, Don.
Hey. Who's this guy with all the
orange? I don't remember him.
That one?
That's Tombrello. He's
an old fish. He likes to hide
a lot. Yeah?
I went over the FBI analysis
of Phil Sanjrani's work.
The findings aren't
scientifically valid.
All right. Well, so what is
that supposed to mean?
For one, it's a
political document.
It's not even a scientific one.
Charlie, no matter
how you cut it,
the guy shouldn't have
sent his stuff to Pakistan.
Insects and crop disease are
serious problems in Pakistan.
His work's going to help
farmers feed starving people.
I don't think we should horde
that kind of knowledge. I
don't think we have the right to.
Well, we have a right to
protect our country, don't we?
On any given day, you know,
I'm in contact with scientists
in Moscow
and China and India.
Are you going to arrest me?
So we've got nothing
on the dead guy shot
trying to abduct the attorney.
You're looking at
domestic lists, right?
You don't think he's American?
I've been tracking
down a lot of calls
between the PIF and U.S. cities.
And... I know this is
going to sound really weird,
but a lot of them lead
to people and groups
that are linked to the
Irish Republican Army.
The IRA is defunct.
But when it was
active in the U.S.,
it was a network that raised
money and smuggled guns.
So are you saying you've
found the last active IRA cell?
I'm not saying
it's an active cell.
But what happened
to all those operatives?
What are they doing?
They're all working
at Starbucks?
All right. Well, I
mean, we could talk
to old, uh, ex-IRA contacts.
I could look at
the PIF leadership.
I just got some phone records
that might give me
something on Mazari.
You got anything else
maybe, uh, you know,
you want to talk to us about?
Yeah, maybe it
has something to do
with your little trip
to DC that none of us
were supposed to
know anything about?
Yeah, 'cause we're thinking
you're up for a big promotion.
Maybe a job at Quantico,
could be... maybe...?
Or maybe I'm just going
to leave the Bureau...
and counsel women in prison,
and finish my doctorate.
Oh.
That's a pretty
big career change.
You know, I love
working with you guys.
But I feel like it's become
very clear this year
that I'm not going to
make it here as a lifer.
Did you, uh... you talk to Don?
He knows already.
The FBI is wrong.
I don't think I can keep
working on this case.
They're working from a
theory different from yours, true.
But that doesn't make
either of you wrong.
You don't know what's
going on with the PIF either,
but something is.
You're not serving the FBI here;
you're serving the truth.
Max Flaherty.
What could two feds
possibly want with me?
We heard some of
your old cohorts might be
back in business.
I don't have cohorts.
Try Sullivan's on 6th.
As a former convicted member
of the IRA, if the FBI
considers you uncooperative,
it would be very easy
to have you deported.
What do you want to know?
Illegal weapons.
Any of your old associates
working the markets?
Some of the boys
still in it, I've heard.
New York, Boston. Not here.
Do you know this man?
Yeah, John Austin.
Dead, is he?
Killed by federal agents
during an attempted abduction.
What an end.
But then, he was never
headed for a good one.
What was he doing
in Los Angeles?
Don't know. He didn't
come around here.
He ran with a fellow who
wasn't liked in Los Angeles...
One Shane O'Hanahan.
Why wasn't O'Hanahan liked?
He was a nasty piece of work.
Ireland be damned, he was
only in it for the money and guns.
Would O'Hananan find himself
mixed up with
Pakistani militants
who want to attack the U.S.?
When he was IRA, he
worked with Libyans, Syrians.
Hell, Shane O'Hanahan would
work with the Devil himself
if he thought he could
get a dollar out of it.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Mr. Mazari?
Hamad Mazari?
Yes. How can I help you?
Same social security number,
same identity documents.
So the man we know as
Mazari stole his identity.
Our guy could be
Saudi or Syrian.
Who the hell knows?
Could be al-Qaeda.
We ID'd the man
killed in the shootout.
His name is John
Austin, IRA, out of Belfast.
One of Austin's partners...
Known gunrunner,
Shane O'Hanahan.
Actually, that might
fit your call thing, right?
What was it, New York...?
Boston... San Francisco.
Uh-huh. Definitely IRA centers.
Started six months ago.
And Mazari joined
the PIF six months ago,
and that's when the group
changed how it disperses funds.
So these ex-IRA guys are
supplying the PIF's weapons.
All right. So we got
to find this Mazari.
I checked his office;
it was cleaned up.
But I have a residential
address for him.
FBI!
Clear. Clear.
Clear.
He's gone.
You guys, come
around to the garage.
Whoa!
Damn.
It looks like this guy grabbed
everything he could carry
and got the hell out of here.
Only he's in Los
Angeles somewhere,
with enough firepower
to make one hell of a mess.
We don't know the identity
of the man we're after.
We do know he's an extremist,
he's got rocket launchers,
he's linked to plans for
an attack on area schools.
I've run an analysis
on our so-called
Mazari as a known
covert operator.
He is not the center
of a terror group,
he has been working alone.
All patterns show
isolated activity. FRALEY: Well,
yeah, he killed
his coconspirators. Uh, no.
My analysis shows that
he's always been isolated
within this group.
Remember the analogy
where we thought that
Rafiq and Jamali were
the oarsmen working
against the rest of the
team? Yeah, all right.
It was Mazari
hijacking the boat.
We don't have a terrorist cell.
We've got a lone terrorist?
Are you a hundred
percent positive
that Mazari's a terrorist?
How else to explain the weapons,
the plans for attacks
on schools? DON:
Well, to be fair, we really
got blueprints, right?
They weren't attack plans.
We're looking at
Angels and Devils.
Excuse me?
M.C. Escher's print
of Angels and Devils,
is a classic example
of the figure-ground
effect in perceptual
organization.
How we look at
things is determined
by our predisposition.
In Escher's Angels and Devils,
one can either see black
devils or white angels.
Our perception is influenced
by our thinking.
We found the school plans
at Ronald Jamali's house.
And his wife said
his construction
company was gonna
make a bid on a school
roofing project. That'd explain
why the blueprints were there.
And the firing pin
we found at the murder scene
could have been left
there by Mazari. So,
no conspiracy, no terrorist.
Maybe something else entirely?
You're not gonna believe this.
I found photos of
Shane O'Hanahan,
you know, the IRA
associate of John Austin.
Check this out.
Facial recognition
software identified them
as the same person.
Mazari's not...
Pakistani? DAVID: No,
he's a former IRA gunrunner.
He faked being Pakistani to get
the PIF's funds,
which he used to
finance his old business
of selling black market
arms. That's why
we heard about weapons
being for sale in the area.
He killed Rafiq and Jamali
because they got suspicious.
Then he tried
to grab Rajar, and now
he has to be on the run.
LAPD has an all points.
And TSA's on alert at LAX, uh,
Long Beach, Burbank, Ontario.
We have undercover agents
at Union Station
and the bus terminal.
This guy's not
taking any obvious
routes, people.
We're checking banks
and credit card companies
for any activity under
O'Hanahan's aliases.
I've got the FAA
monitoring all private
plane flight plans.
Hi, I'd like to
reserve a car, please.
Last name, Kerrigan.
Hey, I just got a guy in Burbank
who used a credit card to rent
a rental car under the
name “Jackson Kerrigan,”
one of O'Hanahan's aliases.
Everyone's out
and we're clear, Don.
Okay, we're going in.
We're moving.
Shane O'Hanahan. FBI. Freeze!
My name's Jack Kerrigan, boys.
Put the bag down.
Just relax, okay?
It's going down.
Just a classic logic error.
You make the
evidence fit your theory,
not the other way around.
The PIF was Pakistani Muslims,
so we assumed a terrorist cell.
So, uh...
why is Phil Sanjrani
still in custody?
What do you mean?
He-he e-mailed restricted
documents overseas.
But we-we now know that
there was no terrorist action,
so...
He still broke federal law.
Yeah, but you guys
only arrested him
because he was a
member of the PIF, right?
Doesn't matter;
he did what he did.
Yeah, it matters.
It matters.
Your analysis of his work
rests on the assumption
that he's a terrorist. He's not.
Can't you see
that an objective
evaluation comes
to an entirely different
conclusion he's innocent?
Well, Charlie, I promise you,
he will get his day in court.
You guys might want to leave.
I don't want you
to be accessories.
We'll take the risk.
Think I'm making a mistake?
You need to do what
you believe is right.
There. It's done.
Megan resigned.
Was it about this case?
No.
I think it's been building
up for some time.
She's moving
to Washington,
going back to school,
looking for a line of
work closer to her heart.
You okay?
You know, last year I was
217 miles above the Earth.
Yeah, our relationship
has never depended
on geographic proximity.
♪ A warning sign ♪
♪ I missed the good
part, then I realized... ♪
So, it looks like
you're all packed up.
Uh, yeah, I'm ready.
You want some
help with this stuff?
Yes, please. Thank you.
♪ I started looking
for excuses ♪
♪ Come on in... ♪
Well, let's go.
Before I get silly.
♪ I've got to tell you
what a state I'm in ♪
♪ I've got to tell you
in my loudest tone... ♪
Dr. Eppes, you ready?
Hey, Dad, your car needs a bath.
So...
this is my attorney,
and he's negotiated my
surrender to federal authorities.
Dr. Eppes, I'll need
to handcuff you.
Ah, Charlie.
What did you do? I e-mailed
the rest of Sanjrani's work
to scientists at four
universities in Pakistan.
Why?
I felt I had to.
As Phil's colleague...
as a scientist.
♪ And I realized ♪
I have a strong defense.
That research can't
be used as a weapon.
We know that now.
We couldn't know it then.
Is this true, what I just heard?
You lost your
security clearance?
Yeah, it's true.
Do something, fix this.
It doesn't work that way.
You know what this means?
That he cannot work
at this college on
any classified project.
And second, how can
you even... keep working
for the FBI without
your clearance?
I don't think I can.
♪ I'll miss you... ♪
Neither one of you
want to talk about it?
Well, it's a hell
of a big elephant
in a relatively small yard.
Right.
It's kind of amazing
that we worked together
as long as we did.
You know, this is
not the first time that
this house has been divided
by a fundamental disagreement.
That year that Charlie spent
at MIT, remember
when he came home?
Now, that was a shocker.
Yeah.
So I'm a Celtics fan.
It happens, even
in good families.
Actually, not really.
Not in L.A.
Eppes.
Okay, I'm on my way.
All right.
See you guys later, huh?
Don.
Just watch yourself.
You, too.
♪ When the truth hits ♪
♪ I'll miss you ♪
This is gonna be
harder than I thought.
I think it's... to be continued.
♪ That I'll miss you... ♪