Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 4, Episode 6 - In Security - full transcript

♪ It's not your face ♪

♪ Or the color of your hair ♪

♪ Or the sound of
your voice, my dear ♪

♪ That's got me
dragged in here ♪

♪ It's the ice in the
seam, the scheme of you ♪

♪ You're supposed
to have the answer ♪

♪ You're supposed
to have living proof ♪

♪ Yes, I was jealous ♪

♪ Because you are sworn ♪
♪ Are sworn ♪

♪ How could you come
undone to a word so strong ♪

♪ My beating heart, the
anchor to a ship so warm ♪



♪ You're supposed
to have the answer ♪

♪ You're supposed
to have living proof ♪

♪ Well, I am your answer ♪

♪ I am living ♪

♪ I watch you eat
and feed this mess ♪

♪ To the running wind ♪

♪ But I know you from
before and after until then ♪

♪ Do you have your answer? ♪

♪ Do you have living proof? ♪

♪ Well, I am your answer ♪

♪ I am living. ♪

CHARLIE: Hey, uh,
not too deep now.

ALAN: Charlie, I've
been opening boxes...

Yeah, just be careful.
You want to do it?



Actually, yes, I do want to
do it. You can't, it's my knife.

It's my...

Charlie's book, The
Attraction Equation.

Oh, yeah? So,
hitting shelves, huh?

Yeah, tomorrow
night, first book signing.

Ah, nice picture there, bro.

Oh, yeah.

ALAN: Whoo, look at that.

Where should I sign it?

Yeah, on the inside.

Title page by the author's name.

Well, shouldn't it
just be the first page

so I can open it
and, boom, I sign it.

No, no. That-that page is blank.

Not after I sign it.

Well, you look nice.

Out with Liz?

Uh, I think Larry's right.

You know, it's the title page.

Let's see, um...

Charlie Edward Eppes?

Or Charlie Eppes?

Or "C" dot Eppes?

I think, you know,
depending on attendance,

you might want to adjust
the length of the signature.

All right, well, then I can
use an adaptive algorithm

to adjust for variables
of time per person.

Uh, so we're
talking three hours,

probably less than
a thousand people,

there's probably
more than-than...

I'm going to need a stopwatch.

(knocking on door)

(turns off video game)

(tapping on glass)

FBI.

(grunts) (gunshot)

(screams): Steven!

Mom! Steven!

Mom, come on! (gunshot)

(gunshot) Steven!

(woman screams) Mom!

(gunshot, Steven yells) Go! Go!

(gunshot) (woman screams)

Mom! (woman grunts)

Run, Steven!

(alarm blaring)

(three gunshots)

(sirens approaching)

U.S. Marshal Tricia Yaegger.

FBI?

Yep.

The assassin gained entry

to a protected household
using an FBI badge.

No signs of forced entry.

She opened the
door to her own killer.

Protected? Uh,
Witness Protection?

Witness Security.

Leah Wexford was in the
program for the last five years.

So was her son, Steven.

And he was shot, too?

One grazed him, one
lodged in his shoulder.

All right, so the killer didn't
make sure he was dead.

Oh, the kid hid back there

and alarm system went off.

We had marshals here
in under two minutes.

That's fast.

Not fast enough for Leah.

Looks like she
was out on a date.

You guys have any idea
who she was out with?

Me.

I was assigned to her
case back in Albuquerque.

So that must have been
about five years ago?

RICO cases have a
way of never ending.

Organized crime?

Yeah.

Her husband was
a mid-level mobster

who was whacked
during the investigation.

Leah Wexford knew every person

her husband spent time with,

every serious player
in Albuquerque.

Now, for a RICO case, that
makes her the prime witness.

37 years the marshals have
been doing Witness Security.

Never lost a witness.
Really? Not one?

People have been killed
after they left the program.

But never one actively
under our protection.

Okay, all right, so, what
happened here tonight?

What did happen, Eppes?

Exposing a witness.

Well, she needed to get out.

Breaking protocol

by removing her from
the safe perimeter,

four times in two months.

Hold on, hold on,
you're saying Leah,

she couldn't leave
her own house?

Of course she could,

but not in the company
of a known FBI agent.

As soon as she did that, her
risk increased substantially.

You know, I still
don't see your point.

Agent Eppes didn't
pull the trigger.

But he sure as hell

brought that gunman
into this house.

It sounds to me like
you guys are trying

to cover your own
ass. She might be right.

Hey. Donny.

Everything all right?

Yeah. Uh, Charlie
up? He should be.

We have early
classes this morning.

There he is.

Hey. Hey, what's up? Hey, buddy.

Um, just this murder last
night like, around 11:00.

I need you to do
your radius thing.

An escape radius? Yeah.

Wow, after that many hours,

calculating the
max travel distance

will be kind of... Just
give me something, okay?

What's up? Nothing.

Just-just take
a look at the file.

Whatever you can
do, I'd appreciate it.

I'm not sure an escape
radius is the answer here,

but, uh, I'll swing by the
FBI and do what I can.

Well, what about your
class this morning?

Oh, I don't have any
class this morning.

I just... I just like
carpooling with you.

All right, so Leah
Wexford testified

against an Albuquerque Mob
crew run by Alfred McGurn.

What did they get them on?

DAVID: Racketeering, money
laundering, black market,

prostitution... it goes on.

Yeah, Jake Wexford, Leah's
husband, was connected,

and they were just
about to get him to turn.

And McGurn had him killed?

COLBY: Yeah.

The file says that Jake
Wexford was a repeat offender.

Why they put someone
like that in the program, I...

Sammy Gravano killed 19 people

and they used him
to put Gotti away.

If the fish they're
after is big enough,

they'll put anyone
in Witness Security.

Looks like McGurn's case
is coming up on appeal.

CHARLIE: Hey, guys.

So, Don asked me to
plot an escape radius

for the shooter last night

that killed a woman,
Leah Wexford.

Yeah, she was a
witness in a mob case.

Don was her handler.

Yeah.

CHARLIE: He never
mentioned that to me.

Yeah, he never
mentioned it to anyone.

Guys, Leah Wexford
was a protected witness.

I mean, Wit Security
suppresses the information.

That's why Don's
beating himself up.

He was the only person
outside of Wit Sec

who actually knew
where to find her.

So he thinks he
led her killer to her?

That's crazy.

Don would never make
that kind of mistake.

Another visitor, Dr. Fleinhardt.

Oh...

Thank you, Brother.

I don't think Brother
Theo likes me very much.

It's not you, it's the
world you bring with you.

Are they that way
about all visitors?

That would be the problem.

I'm the only one
here who has visitors.

Even the "vow of silence"
guys are grumbling.

(laughs softly)

A woman in the witness
protection program was murdered.

My brother...

is blaming himself

because he feels like
he led her killer to her.

And you disagree
with Don's conclusion?

Oh, of course.

Meaning that you
emotionally disagree.

Well,

I mean, if you had facts
to support your theory,

you'd be talking to
Don right now, not me.

What if I perform
a classification

and regression tree?

Yeah.

Yeah, CART analysis might
well uncover where he went wrong.

If he went wrong.

I don't know... I don't
know how comfortable I feel

performing a CART
analysis on my own brother.

Don already thinks he did it.

I mean, truth or doubt...

Which will help him sleep?

So the bitch is dead.

You ever hear of faking remorse?

I ain't gonna lie to you...

One less witness
is good for me, right?

It's a pretty good motive.

Maybe to kill Leah Wexford.

What does that mean?

If you're going to
silence somebody,

you silence them, you
don't shoot their children.

Steven Wexford's a good kid.

Whoever did this, was
after straight-up revenge.

And you didn't want revenge?

A lot of people in
jail because of that...

Because Leah
Wexford put them there.

And every one of
them's got friends.

Which ones would kill kids?

Well, none of mine.

LIZ: Perfect vantage
point to watch the house.

That's a lot of
butts for someone

who just followed Don and
Leah back from a restaurant.

Timeline said Don
dropped her off at 11:00.

She was killed at 11:10.

You can't smoke this
much in ten minutes.

No, but the killer
could've waited

for Don to bring her home.

Or Don and Leah
come home earlier,

go inside, and, uh...

killer has plenty of time
to smoke his pack a day.

You being an agent
or a girlfriend right now?

I tried to access
Leah Wexford's file.

And?

And there are sealed files

on Don's involvement
with the case.

Sealed by Witness Security?

No, sealed by the FBI.

Investigation by the Office
of Professional Responsibility.

Well, that could
be a million things.

Doesn't mean he had
an improper relationship.

TRICIA: Old man noticed an SUV

with Washington
plates parked here

for two hours the
night of the murder.

Right where you're standing.

Did town watch happen
to write the plates down?

No. But he noticed
it was a rental.

A lot of rentals here in L.A.

Not so many with parking permits

from the Holiday
Lodge Motel chain.

Wow, did Grandpa hop in and
take a ride with our guy, too?

Guy sits in a rental for a few
hours out front of my house...

I don't know about you,
but I'm with Grandpa.

FBI!

Clear.

Clear.

Hey, get the techs in here fast.

He's gone, but he
didn't take his car.

Looks like he knew
we were coming.

You don't have to stay.

I'm okay.

Yeah, I know.

(sighs)

Did my mom do something?

Marshal Yaegger said...

Wait, hold on. She was here?

She called.

Wanted to know if my mom
had seen any old friends,

friends from Albuquerque.

And had she?

Just you.

You're the only person
from our old life she ever saw.

It hasn't even sunk in.

I mean, you know, people
are treating me differently,

but I don't feel any different.

I-I know I should
feel something.

Right? Don't...

worry about how you feel.

She talks about you a lot.

She thinks about
you all the time.

Thought.

Not thinks.

Access denied?

Come here a second.

We ran the fingerprints
we found in the motel

and look at what we get.

Try it again.

Okay, so are we

or are we not matching them
against the federal database?

We're matching them,
but they're flagged.

We're being denied
access to the owner's file.

The killer is Benny Natale.

Mid-level mobster,
worked for McGurn,

probably the trigger
man in the murder

of Leah Wexford's
husband five years ago.

Leah's testimony convicted him.

With a rap sheet like this,

his prints ought to
be all over our system.

We pulled them
out five years ago.

We?

Witness Security.

(scoffs)

You're telling us that
Leah Wexford's killer

is in the program, too?

Five years ago, we busted
Benny Natale in New Mexico

for numbers running
and drug dealing.

I thought you said he
killed Jake Wexford.

We could never prove it,

but Leah did find
evidence against Natale

in her husband's
safe... Client records.

Enough to put
Natale in the hot seat

and get him to turn
on McGurn's crew.

Mm-hmm, Witness
Security set him up in Seattle

same way we set up a
house for Leah in L.A.

We relocate our
witnesses to different cities.

We don't want them
running into each other.

All right,

it looks like we're back to
the whole revenge motive.

Maybe Alfred McGurn
was telling me the truth.

Nice to see somebody
was on the up-and-up.

What's that supposed to mean?

Means you knew what
Benny Natale was capable of,

yet you still protected him.

If I hadn't,

we wouldn't have been
able to nail McGurn.

Oh, I see,

so one scumbag rats out a
bigger scumbag and we pay them

$60,000 a year
for the privilege,

move them into a nice
house in a new city.

You know how many witnesses
we had before Wit Sec?

None... IRS had to
take down Al Capone

because no one would
talk. Why don't you talk

to Steven Wexford, let him
know that's why his mom's dead?

Natale was arrested
in Seattle six times

after you moved him there, okay?

There's drugs in here,
protection scams, assault.

You gave him a free pass?

Checks and balances,
Agent Granger.

How useful the information is

weighed against past
and present offenses.

Benny Natale went too far.

You think?

I just want to know how
Natale knew Leah was here.

Another question
is: Where is he now?

So you want to talk about it?

No.

Yeah.

You slept with Leah Wexford

and that's why
your files are sealed.

What, you looked?

I tried.

Then your reputation,
OPR investigation...

It ended in New Mexico, Liz.

I mean, I wasn't even
allowed to keep in touch.

Until the appeal came up and
then she reached out to you.

She was scared.

And Yaegger was right.

I did, I crossed a line.

Won't argue with that.

Look, I get it, okay?

She felt safe with you.

Well, big mistake there.

So that's all it was? Just work?

Okay.

What else do you know
about Benny Natale?

I fought with Yaegger
about putting him in Wit Sec.

I tried going over her head.

Not the best way
to make friends.

What?

Natale kills Leah.

He doesn't skip town,
he goes back to the hotel?

Wha... what was
he doing in L.A. still?

CHARLIE: So...

you think the killer's
still here in L.A.?

All the evidence points to it.

And yet why would he stay?

That's what we're
trying to figure out.

And that's

Benny Natale's
Witness Security file?

Yeah.

Everything he's been up
to in the past five years...

and before.

Lawrence.

Charles. What do you think

about an application
of path analysis?

LARRY: Model a
pattern of behavior?

Using Natale's rap sheet

to extrapolate a
predictive analysis

of the choices he'll make.

Sort of like a rat in a maze.

We have a set of
known variables.

We know the rat wants
to escape the maze.

We also know that he has
other needs and desires

like food, water and a mate.

Separate from what the rat wants

is what the rat doesn't want...

An electric shock, a dead end...

And these are valid
parts of the equation

known as avoidance goals.

If Natale's staying in L.A.,

there must be
something he desires

that outweighs his
avoidance goals.

You think you can figure out

what he wants so badly?

We can take a stab at it.

All right, I'll let
Don know. Thanks.

Right.

Well,

you certainly do have
your work cut out for you.

Classification

and regression tree, huh?

You know, it seems to me,
you had some misgivings

about performing a CART
analysis on Don's decisions.

I still do.

And yet...

And yet.

If Don's hypothesis is correct

and he really is responsible
for Leah's death...

He doesn't have
to know about it.

Thank you.

CHARLIE: Benny
Natale's storied past

gave me all the variables
I needed to put together

a triangular path coefficient.

We've got his history
in New Mexico,

we have his criminal associates,

and we have his
countless drug busts

in both New Mexico and Seattle.

Now, all those variables
helped me formulate

a path analysis
that will help identify

his prime motivation
for staying in L.A.

DAVID: Drugs.

CHARLIE: Probably cocaine.

That fits his M.O.,

but there are a lot of places
to buy cocaine in Los Angeles.

Well, in creating
this path coefficient,

I came to one very
obvious conclusion...

That history can't
change, right?

Drugs are pretty much the same

in New Mexico and
Seattle and Los Angeles,

but the "people" variable,
that had to change.

Right, because his
contacts in New Mexico,

they want him killed.

Right, he had to find a
new element to work with...

A prominent Seattle-based
African-American gang.

All right, because
it works in Seattle,

it should work in Los Angeles,
at least in this guy's mind.

That's exactly it;
the probability is

that he would employ the
same strategy in Los Angeles,

and now we know
his base of operations

is the Holiday Lodge Motel.

That helps me to predict
his future movements.

All right, so you're saying

by figuring out
what he was doing,

you can make a pretty good
guess as to where he's doing it.

So Natale's working
around here somewhere

and that's a fairly large area,

so I can't get more
geographically specific

without having
more precise values

for some of the variables.

Oh, yeah, wait, let me see.

Right here, bro, that area.

What, AP47 turf?

Yeah, that's the AP47 gang.

We'll need the FBI
Gang Task Force.

I'll call 'em in.

All right, I'm off

to my book signing or else
I'm gonna be late. Wait, wait,

I thought that was,
uh, tomorrow night.

When was the last
time you slept, bro?

I'm sorry, I can't go.

I didn't expect you to,

but it'd be kind of messed up

if I didn't show,
though, right? Yeah.

Okay.

MAN: It looks like your killer

is working with the AP47 gang.

The mope on the
left is Zeke Gibbs,

one of their top lieutenants.

This was taken, like,
what, 14 hours ago?

What the hell is
going on here, Eppes?

Hey, this is Chris Frederickson.

He runs the AP47 task force.

Take a look.

See what your
boy Natale's up to.

FREDERICKSON: Major
drug deal going down tonight.

We've been tracking it for
weeks, didn't know the buyer.

Now we do.

I promise you, as soon
as he pays for the coke,

Natale's all yours.

No, no, no, no, uh-uh.

No way. Eppes,
Eppes, I need this guy.

Man's got a point.
We get a two-fer.

What? What is the deal?

Why do you keep
protecting the guy?

Why are you so close to this?

Look... Eppes,

it's your case,
it's your choice.

Wait a few hours, we both win.

I get my guy and you get yours.

Come on, think about it.

You are too close.

What, should I just
let them run with it?

What would you do if
it were any other case?

Hi, Charlie. Oh, good,
I thought I was late.

Well...

Did no one show up?

Charlie, the book just
came out, there's no publicity.

What do you want?

Well... I guess, one day, we'll
look back at this and laugh.

Right? Yeah.

You can tell this
story to Oprah.

(Charlie and Alan
laughing) Professor Eppes.

Can you sign this for me?

Uh, absolutely.

Well, I hope so.

I mean, uh, I'm kind of an
autograph virgin, actually.

My name is Allyson with a "Y."

Okay, Allyson with a "Y."

"Peace, love, and math."

(chuckles)

"Charlie"...

E-P-P-E-S.

Thank you.

This is my father. (laughing)

All righty.

Don't read it all in one night.

(both laughing) Okay.

Thank you. Hey, Charles,
if, uh, if you don't mind...

What are you doing?

Well, I figure,

since we have so much
time, uh, do you mind?

Oh, no. You know
what? That's very sweet,

but you don't have to do that.

Don't have to? What
do you mean, have to?

No, you're not a parent,
you don't understand.

This is for me. I'm going to
give one to everyone I know.

I mean, it's just...
just a book, you know?

A book? Come on!

It's my son's book.

Okay, wake up. We
have eyes on Natale.

Here comes Gibbs.

Coke should be in the bag.

When they make the
sell, we'll take them all.

You all right, man?

Yeah. You all right?

I'm fine.

NATALE: I'm going to reach
in here and give you my cash.

(jacket zipper opening)

You can count it.

It's all there.

We good?

That sack look right to you?

Looks a little
light, doesn't it?

Yeah, something's hinky.

No problem, man.

Go! Go! Go!

Shots fired. Shots
fired. Natale's down.

FBI!

Freeze!

LIZ: Freeze!

COLBY: Get down!

Get down!

Let's go.

Get down on the
ground and turn around!

I got Gibbs.

♪ ♪

You have the right
to remain silent.

Anything you say...

I don't think he
can hear you, bud.

DAVID: Natale's dead.

Self-defense.

I feared for my life.

You shot him in
cold blood, Zeke.

GIBBS: And I had to.

I got word this dude Natale
was planning on smoking my ass,

walking away with the
product and the money.

Word from who?

Text message.

No return number.

Give us your phone,
we'll check it out, come on.

I ditched it.

Come on, man, I
only keep a phone

for a week or so, you
know? It's bad business

to have a family plan,
you know what I mean?

DAVID: Ah, I see,
so, you're going to go

for this anonymous
guardian angel defense, huh?

Natale was a
shooter for the Mob.

I mean, I take that seriously.

DAVID: You know what, Zeke?

It's going to be a
hard case to make,

especially since we
didn't find a gun on Natale.

Say what?

DAVID: No, we didn't.

Man, the dude didn't have a gun?

Then someone set me up.

FREDERICKSON: Guy
threw away his phone,

threw away his
defense, I got a case.

Yeah, well, not till I'm done.

Done with him? What
are you talking about?

Natale is over. You don't
even have to take him to trial.

He didn't have a gun.
What if the guy's right?

I mean, it does
smell like a setup.

Guy's a gangbanger.

Saw a chance to roll some guy

from Seattle for a pile of cash.

Anyway, ship's sailed.

Zeke Gibbs has cut a
deal to roll on AP47 gang.

Yaegger's doing
the paperwork now.

Whoa, you're putting
him in Wit Sec?

Cost of doing business, Eppes.

A small one to shut down AP47.

You know, some
historians blame Rasputin

for the fall of Tsarist Russia

and the rise of Communism,

and even he didn't get
ousted from his monastery.

Oh, are...

Are they kicking
you out of here?

The calligraphy is on the wall.

Well, if it makes
you feel any better,

I brought you a signed
copy of my book.

Pretty cool, huh?

And you know, if
any of the monks

want a signed copy,
you'll let me know?

I sense you didn't come
here for a book signing.

It's my CART analysis.
I can't get an answer.

I thought the killer was...

Dead, and yet, Don is
still taking responsibility

for that woman's death.

Yeah, but, I mean, now
that you know the identity

and the goal of the assassin,

I mean, your CART should
be a relatively simple process.

I studied the public data,

and I found sealed files on Don,

so whatever decision path

he embarked on days ago,

I think the answer may lie
in those files from years ago.

You know, we might be
able to gain our answer.

By focusing not
on what is there,

but on what is not there.

All right.

A woman in profile.

Facing another
woman, also in profile.

But if we shade in the center...

It becomes a vase.

Value shaded reasoning.

If you have all the data
except those sealed files,

we may well have enough shade

to complete your
regression tree.

DON: Hey, hey, I'm not
done with Gibbs, all right?

I still got questions
about Natale.

It's a drug deal gone bad.

No mystery there.

Oh, what, you in a hurry
to protect another one?

Is that it? You still
don't get it, Eppes.

What this game is all about...
speed, get them while you can.

Oh, you are quite
the cynic, huh?

I think you slept with
Leah for her testimony.

It was a little
sleazy, but it worked.

You don't know what the
hell you're talking about.

You bang a lot of agents.

It was only a matter of
time before you hit a witness.

You get Gibbs when
I'm done with him.

In four hours, I'll have a
judge's order for custody.

LIZ: Four hours, and
then Gibbs disappears

down Yaegger's rabbit hole.

Just like Natale
did five years ago.

Gibbs is a businessman, though.

You don't just go killing
customers for no good reason.

Well, that argues that
he's telling the truth

and someone set him up.

Yeah, these were not
unconnected events.

I mean, someone
used Natale to kill Leah,

and then used
Gibbs to kill Natale.

Someone who benefited
from Natale's death.

And Leah's.

Hey, look, you know, you
don't have to go in there.

I mean, we got plenty of
people that can pack up for you.

Yeah, I have to do it myself.

I have to go home.

Yeah.

I hear you.

My aunt's in there.

It's okay.

Whoa, don't go
taking care of me now.

(quiet laugh)

You look like you need it.

Yeah.

I know it gets better.

I think what happens
is it gets less.

The weight will always be there.

Forever?

You know, eventually,
you end up hoping so.

Natale shot the Wexford kid.

He got what he deserved.

It just keeps getting better
and better for you, huh?

How grief-struck
am I supposed to be?

Natale ratted me out.

We have two people
who can put you in prison.

Now they're both dead.

YAEGGER: Agent Sinclair,

break it up.

We're prosecuting
McGurn, not you.

What the hell are
you talking about?

I'm talking about cooperation.

You don't give
it, you don't get it.

Get him out of here.

You've been done
with him for five years.

He's important to
our case right now.

I don't get to watch
the cops fight?

Tell you what.

When I get Gibbs, you
can talk to McGurn again.

So, you think McGurn's
responsible for Leah's death?

Exactly.

I mean, that's
the thing, though.

I mean, if you somehow
could find a way to connect

Gibbs to McGurn, you
know, then we're in business.

Yeah, well, let's
see, uh, I can start

by applying a multi-application
reservoir simulator

to compare McGurn's past crimes

with what he's most
likely to pull next.

What is all this?

Huh?

Don, Leah.

That's what's
called a classification

and regression tree analysis.

CART for short.
What are you doing?

You're studying me?

I don't think you led
Leah to her death.

I'm trying to prove it.

And, so?

Yeah, and so, I began
by studying the case,

looking at all the connections
between all the players,

trying to analyze the
decisions you made,

based on the facts
you had at the time.

No, because all decisions start
somewhere and grow like a tree.

Choices made, until at the end,
they become complex branches

of decision making, good or bad.

And then I work backwards,
pruning the tree's branches

by assigning values
to each decision made,

then comparing those values,

pitting what could've happened

against what actually happened.

And I have to tell
you, Don, you know,

the probability is quite low

that any decision you made,

any action you took,
led her to her death.

Okay, so then, what's this here?

Well, that's the hole that
I'm working on right now.

Let me ask you something.

Is there an element

to your relationship with
her that you've omitted?

Yeah, Charlie, there is.

Okay.

Okay.

Let me ask you something.

Is there any way you think

this thing can connect
Gibbs to McGurn?

Absolutely.

What do you want, Eppes?

Gibbs is already in our custody.

Yeah, for now.

DON: See, funny
thing kept happening

when Charlie tried to
connect McGurn to the killings.

One name kept popping up.

Yeah.

Yours.

Gibbs mentioned that
he met with Natale before,

but there's no record of Natale

making a previous
trip to Los Angeles.

Nothing.

Just happened to
be wiped from the file.

Just like you wiped his
fingerprints from our database.

I don't know what
you're talking about.

How much did McGurn
pay you to set this all up?

You're way off base.

That's not what the facts say.

Here's a fact you're missing.

McGurn had no reason
to kill Leah or Natale.

COLBY: No reason, huh?

I mean, two witnesses short

at his appeal.

Sounds like a pretty
smart play to me.

Except there won't be an appeal.

We've spent the last year

working on a deal for McGurn

to turn against the rest
of the Albuquerque Mob.

The deal just made.

COLBY: So you're putting

McGurn into Witness
Security now?

Don't go spreading that around.

It's confidential.

I'm not your enemy.

And McGurn's not your man.

Sorry, I thought we had
Yaegger, but it's very difficult

to achieve any type of certainty

when there are variables
being kept secret.

All right, they're just bringing
Gibbs to a safe house today.

Oh. So I see you finished.

Yeah.

Yeah, well...

how did I turn out?

Well, I skirted a few things,

but I didn't find any major
errors in your judgment.

So what does that mean?

Don, I became aware of
some sealed files at the FBI;

files on you.

So, you got clearance.

Yeah, but I wouldn't do that.

I was having an affair
with her, all right?

Years ago. That's
what you'd find.

Hearings and reprimands.

You were out with
Leah a few days ago?

Yeah, as a friend. Period.

Yaegger thinks I was using her.

Well, Yaegger's
wrong. I don't know.

Well, it depends how
you look at it, right?

We got Natale. We got McGurn.

We're about to take down the
whole Albuquerque infrastructure.

All because I slept
with her five years ago.

Yeah, well, using your logic,
I could make the case that,

without your relationship
with Leah, her and Steven

would've died five years ago.

So all we really know for sure

is that Leah made a
courageous decision,

and you blaming yourself
actually lessens her bravery.

What else was in those files?

Everything.

Was Leah's current
address in those files?

Sure.

What, who else
had access to 'em?

Anyone with the
right clearance levels.

Can you use your
clearance to get in?

I mean legally.

I can look at
access logs legally.

Yeah. So... sealed files

leave an electronic fingerprint
every time they're opened.

If someone accessed
your sealed file...

Check it out.

Someone did access your file.

And used me to get to her.

TRICIA: Hey.

What's the story?

We're moving Gibbs

to the safe house
shortly. All right.

All right, listen.

Yeah. I want a piece.

Piece of what?

TRICIA (over radio):
I know you accessed

Eppes' files just days
before Leah's murder.

And I know how you found Natale.

You busted him the first time

he made a drug deal with Gibbs.

Then you made
him snitch for you.

The arrest report
falls into the shredder.

Right?

You think I'd cut a deal

with a scumbag like Natale?

You were the one who
told Natale where Leah lived.

You traded Leah's life

to get Natale to go into that
drug deal as your informant.

Then you set him up
to get killed by Gibbs.

A neat line of dominos.

What've you got
to keep me quiet?

Nice try, Eppes!

I've been winning this game

a lot longer than
you've been playing it.

CHARLIE: Yeah, it
was Frederickson.

He was the only one who had
access Don and Leah's files.

And he knew her address;
he knew where she lived.

Well, we need a confession.

I tried. Sorry.

There's no way he's getting
away with killing Leah.

There's nothing odd in Gibb"

attorney room video.

He didn't say anything
we could pick up

at least. And there he is,

making his deal with
Gibbs, getting his witness.

Are there any other
visits? Uh, yeah, a few.

Uh, mom, some friends
came... girlfriend...

Whoa, whoa... hold it
right there... yeah, back up.

DON: Let me see that.

Yeah.

Give me a hi-def
on that, all right?

LIZ: You think he
passed her a message?

Gangs in Pelican Bay have
been encoding messages

in jailhouse artwork for years.

Sort of like a... like a
street steganography.

You know what?

May I? Yeah.

Someone in AP47

has the template to that image.

Overlay it over Gibbs' artwork

and all that's left is
the hidden message.

Hey, so listen...

I can use a simple morphological

image cleaning algorithm
to find this hidden message.

It's like a paleontologist
working at a dig site.

She knows there's a skeleton
underneath all that dirt,

but she has to
remove all the dirt

to find out exactly
what the skeleton is.

This morphological
algorithm I'm talking about

was originally designed
to save corrupted images,

yet it's proved quite useful

in smoothing out
gray-scale images,

removing the camouflage,
revealing the thin features

where the hidden
message resides.

All right, so how long?

Might want to get
yourself a cup of coffee.

10809 Rubio.

Wait, hold on.

That's the FBI safe house
where Gibbs is being held.

He passed it to his gang. Why?

His gang is who he's
hiding from, right?

Wait, what if he's been
playing Frederickson?

All right, Gibbs goes
along with Wit Sec,

gets himself moved out
of high security... Right.

Gets his gang to
bust him out, right?

(tires screeching)

Don't even think about it.

(knocking)

Expecting someone else?

All right, get your
hands behind your back.

Come on.

Y'all ain't got
nothing on me, man.

You can ride home
with your boys, go ahead.

What are you doing
with my witness?

I'm arresting him
for conspiracy.

To kill you.

Yeah, I know you're
the one that set me up.

My brothers know it, too.

Come on. You're dead, homie.

You're just still
breathin', that's all!

(door closes)

Looks like Eppes
just saved your life.

I didn't set him up. He's lying.

So what do you think the life
expectancy is of a gang target

there, Trish? Could be days.

I want protection.

I want a confession.

Witness Security and I'll deal.

Pelican Bay C-block, that's
what you're going to get.

Why are you doing this, man?

Because you have to ask why.

I needed Gibbs.

He's the key to
taking down AP47.

(groans) You
telling me you don't

make compromises, trades...

Not with people's lives.

Leah was one person.

Take down AP47 and you
save hundreds... thousands!

You pick up a newspaper

and read about a gang
shooting, it's on you, man.

Can you live with that?

She was innocent.

Her son's an orphan now.

Can you live with that?

Well, we had some
awfully good luck today.

I mean, Charlie just
happened to be there

in the exact moment
we saw Gibbs' artwork.

Without Charlie, we
wouldn't have beaten

the gang to the safe house.

Gibbs would be free, and
Frederickson would be dead.

Yeah. So how did Gibbs

know about Frederickson?

'Cause we had
Charlie to figure it out.

Who the hell did he have?

I'll tell you, he couldn't
have figured it out on his own.

So I think...

someone told Gibbs
Frederickson set him up.

What do you think, Don?

Well, what are
you asking me, Liz?

What else don't I know?

You didn't tell me about
Leah until she was dead.

Is that how it's going to be?

You're not going
to give me anything

until it blows up on us?

I can't. I cant' do this.

That's what you always say.

So is that it?

Yeah, um, that's, that's it.

Liz... come on.

No wireless Internet
at the monastery?

No wires period.

Since when do you go on eBay?

Oh, it's a brave
new world out there.

I find it oddly exhilarating.

Fifty-five dollars? For what?

Your book.

What?

Signed Charles Eppes edition.

Hundred dollar buyout.

No way.

Yeah, there's four
days left to the bidding.

It could go higher.

Well, where are you headed?

To the bookstore to
get ten more copies.

Get your pen ready.

Thanks.

Let's do it, pal.