Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 6, Episode 7 - Shadow Markets - full transcript
The team finds themselves protecting a hacker who has exposed their sting site when he's targeted by assassins.
♪ Ah... ♪
♪ Watch out ♪
♪ You might get
what you're after ♪
♪ Cool babies ♪
♪ Strange but not a stranger ♪
♪ I'm an ordinary guy ♪
♪ Burning down the house ♪
No, seriously.
Seriously, I can get you
whatever you need, all right?
Those two aren't on the list.
Low-level players.
Yeah, well, keep looking.
And David... where is he?
He's in the lobby making a sale.
Give me audio.
Classic: $12.
Visa Gold: $14.50.
MasterCard: $19.50.
American Express: $36 a pop.
Being invisible to the man...
That's priceless.
And I can discount you guys if
you buy more than a hundred.
Uh, we also have,
uh, ATM skimmers,
uh, bank PIN numbers.
♪ Fighting fire with fire ♪
♪ Ah, all wet ♪
♪ Yeah, you might
need a raincoat ♪
♪ Shakedown ♪
♪ Dreams walking
in broad daylight... ♪
One-stop shopping, fellas.
What do you want?
David, possible
match. Close the deal.
Nikki, keep your eyes open.
He should be heading upstairs.
♪ Sometimes I listen to myself ♪
♪ Going to come in first place ♪
For a legitimate computer
conference, there's a lot
of criminal activity out here.
- How's it going?
- Hey.
Well, we got seven or
eight good arrests so far,
but The Fist still
hasn't shown up yet.
Well, let's be sure.
The Fist.
What an online name.
You know, this guy's got
to be scrawny with backne.
♪ Burning down the house ♪
I don't want to
underestimate him, Charlie.
Last year, his black market
pulled down millions
in identity theft.
We still don't know who he is
or what he looks like.
♪ Everything's
stuck together... ♪
- Here we go.
- Okay, now,
The Fist is meeting David
at Amita's talk, right,
so he's somewhere
- in that crowd?
- Should I go in?
Yeah, but hold back
till I say, all right?
- Then tail him?
- Uh-huh.
Wait, uh...
why tail him?
I thought he was buying
a truckload of 3-D printers
- from David.
- Still want to I.D. him,
even if it doesn't go down.
More and more, we
live in virtual worlds.
Not only those of
us who are gamers,
but all of us.
- ♪ Transportation is here ♪
- ♪ Here ♪
♪ Close enough,
but not too far ♪
♪ Maybe you know where you are ♪
♪ Fightin' fire... ♪
With holograms
and 3-D technology,
imaginary worlds are
becoming more lifelike,
blurring the boundaries between
reality and fantasy.
This machine works in
the opposite direction,
taking what is virtual...
An image on a computer...
And making it real
just by hitting "Print."
- This is the disruptive technology...
- Whoa, whoa...
Charlie. Is that Dad?
I told him not to come.
Just deal with him.
It views 3-D
objects as 2-D slices...
using powders or plastics
to print the slices one atop
the other to build an object.
The applications
are almost endless.
Augie, you're up.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- What are you doing here?
- Charlie.
This is Kath Berry,
president of Phrizz Software.
She's my boss.
Dr. Eppes,
it's an absolute
thrill to meet you.
Thank you. Thanks.
Why is it called PenTest?
What does that mean?
It's Pen... it's
Penetration Testers.
When I was growing up,
we used to call that dating.
Cyber-hackers who test
systems by attacking them.
- Legally?
- Well, a lot of these guys
switch between white hat hacking
and black hat
hacking. But listen...
No matter what you see
in the next few minutes,
just play it cool.
What do you mean?
We have to protect
against, as this
technology falls in the
hands of criminal enterprises.
3-D printing can be used
for reproducing keys
from photographs,
reproducing credit
cards, creating stamps
to emboss fake documents
like passports or
government bonds,
counterfeiting money,
creating fake fingerprints...
There's...
- Look. That's...
- Yeah, I know. I know.
Oh. I got it.
What's going on?
FBI business.
We need your silent cooperation.
I designed this dagger
for my gaming fantasy.
3-D printing can
make real weapons
able to pass through
metal detectors.
Like all progressive
technology throughout history,
this one has its upsides
and its downsides:
Counterfeiting money,
- creating fake fingerprints...
- I got him.
White guy on the
couch, green hat.
And we have to be
aware of its possibilities
as it enters our
lives every day.
All right, let's go
get her. Come on.
Dr. Amita Ramanujan!
Excellent, provocative
presentation
from the hottest nerd
in the house.
Buy one of these, put it
on, get her to sign it, man.
Get her to touch your body.
Next, we have a
PenTest favorite.
Augie Harris, intrepid
hacker, come to tell us
- about the death of the magnetic strip.
- Liz, stay with him.
Augie!
Nikki, get back to the truck.
Dudes, have I got
a surprise for you.
Traitors walk among
us... I kid you not.
See the movie, buy the T-shirt.
PenTest brothers and sisters,
we have been
infiltrated by the FBI:
Funded But Incompetent.
Big, bad Agent Sinclair,
smokin' hot Agents Warner
and Betancourt, they
are running a bogus
- David, Liz.
- Credit card market...
It is a sting.
Nikki, grab this jackass.
If you've bought from
either of these two,
game over, thanks for playing.
- Turn around.
- Whoa. Usually, I make the first move, but this
is cool. I'm Augie.
- What'd you do?
- That wasn't supposed to happen.
Hey.
- Anything?
- In the wind.
Killed the valet, jacked the
car, dumped it five miles away.
Now, why does a
credit card scammer
move up to first-degree murder?
Obviously, there's more going
on than we know about, right?
- Where are we going?
- There.
He's The Fist, right?
Yeah, looks like
it... We're no closer
to his real identity than
when we started this operation.
How long have we been
putting this thing together?
Not as long as I'm going
to be answering for it.
This is what I found
"Pwned"? What's that?
"Pwned." It means,
"You are owned."
Why say "pwned" if
you mean "owned"?
Started as typo,
became an inside
joke called "leetspeak,"
as in elite computer shorthand
for crackers and
hackers using symbols,
numbers, letters, words, memes.
So, what does it mean?
Means someone's
taken over the Web site.
It means we no longer
have any control over it.
And I would guess he
knows something about it.
Yeah, why don't
you get on that, huh?
Wh-What... what's up with Dad?
What was he doing here?
Oh, you know, I guess
his boss insisted, and...
She's kind of...
I think she's hot.
I was going to say
she's assertive, but yeah,
she's pretty...
she's pretty hot.
I sent them home with Amita.
Ah, great. The ASAC.
All right, look...
call me, all right?
August Harris, known hacker.
Augie.
How did you get our pictures?
I infiltrated the FBI database.
Carding sites are notorious
for rippers, cheats and Feds.
Who do you work for, Augie?
Myself.
Right.
Did this man here
pay you to do this?
I run my own network.
Uh, actually, I
believe I run all four
major carding
networks at the moment.
You took over
four illegal markets
at the same time?
Yeah.
That would require
a lot of planning.
A lot of power.
Yeah, uh, the electrical
failure was not part of my plan.
I really need to assess
my hardware upstairs.
Check that out.
I'll be down here.
How'd you get all this in here?
I had to tip the hell
out of the bellboy.
Hey, could you just
undo my hands here
- so I can...?
- No.
- Really?
- Really.
I'm a valuable asset to the FBI.
- Really?
- Really.
You'll see.
So, this setup drained
the power from the rest
of the hotel, and it
never... never went off-line?
Yeah, battery backup.
Um, could you just push "Return"
on that one right... right here?
No, that could be a command
to... to blow up
this whole hotel,
or some kind of kill
switch or something, right?
No, don't touch
anything in this room.
No, you don't understand, man.
Look at the screen
at the end there.
I'm not into explosives.
You really did this.
You're really controlling
four illegal credit card
markets from this room,
including the FBI sting site.
Best hacker in the world.
You've got international
- criminal cartels after you now.
- Yeah, I know.
Why do you think
I let you catch me?
I'm safe in your hands,
Agent Betancourt.
Can I call you Nikki?
Nicola?
You want to check out my loft?
Augie Harris hijacked
four underground online markets,
all at the same time.
The Eastern Europeans
who sell PIN numbers,
credit cards, Social
Security numbers, skimmers...
Weedy Luzon's Filipino
counterfeiting cartel...
An Israeli group
run by The Fist.
This is the guy we're
thinking slipped out?
Yeah, and our sting market.
Who is this kid?
Augie Harris has been operating
a small-time market called Ooze.
Yeah, smart guy,
dropped out of MIT.
But nobody figured
he had the sack for this.
Yeah, what he did was
he exploited a weakness
in the basic structure
of the Internet.
It's the domain
name system, DNS.
It's a directory
assistance for Web sites.
It's been around
since the early '80s.
It's primitive,
but it's trusting.
It's kind of like the
U.S. Postal system.
Kind of.
When a person wants mail
forwarded to a new address,
he simply needs
one canceled letter
with his name and
old address on it
as proof he lives there.
People move so often
that it would be impossible
to verify each change,
so the system is trusting...
it requires very little evidence
before rerouting the mail.
Augie created fake pages
to mirror these Web sites...
Which easily fooled the
domain name system...
And then he made
a change of address,
which funneled every
transaction into his site.
Now, as long as
his site's still active,
the cartels are going
to hack him back.
Yeah, they're, they're
losing big money.
We could adapt the sting
program to I.D. those attackers,
- get locations.
- We're gonna have to move fast.
They'll try it for a day,
but they'll put up new ones.
I need to check
out Augie's setup,
and there may be
a kill switch on it,
so this will go a lot
faster if he works with us.
Well, can we trust him?
Let's find out.
I don't understand why
Augie let himself get caught.
This kid could've gotten rich.
Listen, all he cares
about is the hack.
I mean, he pierced
military-grade encryptions
on four sites at the same time,
including the FBI's.
This is his calling card.
Calling card for who? For what?
I want to work with you,
DARPA, NSA, the CIA.
We're not going to hire you,
we're going to prosecute you.
You need me to
get to the cartels.
- We got cyber-geeks of our own.
- Mm.
My setup is rigged... anybody
tries to touch my equipment,
it'll crash and send
out vicious worms.
My malware will twist you good.
You need me, baby, I'm your man.
Nobody needs you, and
stop calling me "baby."
I have a feeling we were
in a past life together...
Star-crossed lovers...
And this is the lifetime
we finally make it work.
You really don't get
what you just stepped in.
You stole from
criminal conspiracies
who will come after you.
Virtual gangs.
Yeah, they'll come
after me online.
I say bring it.
You think this is a game?
Come on, I want
you to meet someone.
Hey, Estelle.
How are you?
They have me signing
another deposition.
You made an arrest?
It's Augie Harris.
He steals
identities for a living.
It's all insured money.
Mrs. Brown is our Victim Zero.
She's the reason we
started the sting operation.
Tell him what happened, Estelle.
Someone stole my
husband's Social Security
and bank numbers,
sold our house
and emptied our savings
before we knew
anything was wrong.
Well, it-it'll take
you some time,
but you'll get it all back.
I don't think so.
I'll hack the bank for you.
How much do you
want? A hundred grand?
My husband couldn't
take the stress.
He had a heart attack and died.
You going to hack
him back for me, too?
How many IDs you think
you've stolen, Augie?
Hundreds? Thousands?
It was just a way to prove
that I could crack the system.
I'm sorry.
Hey.
What are you doing here?
Oh, I'm picking up Amita.
Couldn't you send somebody?
Mm, feel like driving lately.
Uh-oh. I could see the red
convertible sports coupe coming.
I don't know about that.
Not red, anyway.
Midlife crisis mobile.
No, I wanted one at 45, yeah.
Corvette Stingray.
Really? You, a Vette?
Your mother talked me out of it.
I like to drive.
What can I say?
Where's she at?
Out in the garage with my boss,
getting grilled on 3-D printers.
Some wine?
No, I can't. And
you know you barged
right into the middle
of a sting today.
I didn't know.
It's a public event, right?
Look, I'm considered one
of the older consultants
at this young, hip
software company.
So I decided to pick
up some brownie points
by bringing my boss,
Kath, to see Amita speak.
And it seems to
be working, anyway.
- Hey.
- Oh, uh, uh,
Kath, my son, Don.
Oh, my, the heroic brother.
So, I'm ready to go.
I just need to get my
bag out of Alan's car.
- Oh, uh...
- I'll meet you out front?
All right.
All right.
You are really very strong.
You must be what, 42, 43?
Where do you work out?
The FBI have a gym?
Uh, yeah, actually, uh, they do.
I'm staring down 45,
and it's starting
to freak me out.
So, how do you stay
fit... Circuit training
and carrot juice
or... just lots of sex?
What's your secret?
My lips are sealed.
I hope not.
I cracked the FBI.
I mean, when you think
about it, it was perfect.
It was a felony.
Now you know that I can find
the weakness in your system.
I proved that I'm
the dominant hacker.
We like employees
who don't steal.
I'm not into hurting anybody.
I do altruistic hacking.
I take down kiddie porn sites.
I'm a good guy.
You stole millions of dollars
of financial information.
What's the matter?
Fire alarm.
- Come on.
- All right.
- Hey, did you do this?
- Innocent of the charges.
Was he near a computer?
No. Why, what's going on?
Security reported smoke
on our floor and the one below.
I don't see any smoke.
I'll check with the fire chief.
Okay, seriously, can
you offer me a deal?
Somebody, somewhere
in the federal system
has to show me some love.
Personally, I'd
like it to be you.
I'm just saying.
The FBI is going to
want you to cooperate.
You tell us what you
know about these cartels,
then we'll see about a deal.
I know... a lot.
Gun!
- Hey, you all right?
- Yeah.
Liz?
- Dead.
- Give me
a secure perimeter... two blocks
- in every direction.
- On it!
I want all surveillance video
from the outside of
this building. Okay?
Hey, hey, don't let
anybody touch the body!
Don't let anybody
leave! Thank you.
I need LAPD helicopters.
I want to know of any
vehicle trying to leave the area.
What just happened?
What just happened?!
I mean... Oh, my gosh!
There's no fire!
There's no fire!
Someone-someone hacked
into a fire alarm
to try to kill me?
Did you recognize him?
No, I-I've never...
I've never seen that guy before.
I've never seen him bef...
He shot at me. He shot...
I've never been shot
at before. Am I hit?
Am I hit? 'Cause
I-I hear that you-you
you can be shot and not know it.
I mean, I didn't feel any-any
bee stings or any, like,
- bites or anything like that, but...
- Augie,
look at me, all
right? You're okay.
Okay, you're safe.
I don't want you going
into shock, all right?
Am I hyperventilating?
Is he all right?
I'm going into shock.
He's fine.
Did you see his fighting style?
Yeah, Krav Maga.
That's specialty of
Israeli Defense Forces.
- And that gun...
- .25 caliber
with a half load.
Also Mossad style.
The Israeli army is after me?
Stow him with the U.S. Marshals.
Do not use his real name.
I gotta call Don.
Wait, wait.
Uh, this just might
be the shock talking,
but y-you just saved
my life over there,
and I'm, I'm, I'm feeling
some pretty intense emotions
about you right now.
Actually, it was Agent Sinclair,
but I'll let him
know how you feel.
Hey, do we even need to work
from Augie's
hardware at the hotel?
He's using the private
WiFi set up for PenTest.
I think I can
breach his firewalls
- without touching the physical setup.
- Good.
And can you tell if he's
rigged it to destroy data?
I don't think so, but
it'd be a lot faster
if we could get his password.
Hey, so is Augie
Harris cooperating?
Well, he was just shot at,
so I'd say he's
getting about ready.
Oh. Can we get him over here?
No way. He's too hot.
Look, if I can get his
access code, I can do this.
All right, let me
see if I can get that.
- Yeah, once we're inside his system...
- Yeah,
we can see who's attacking
it and where they are.
- Hey.
- Yeah, Don.
- Hi, Donald.
- Yeah, look.
Augie, I need the access
code to your hotel setup.
What'll you give me for it?
25 to life if you
don't cooperate.
Look, pal, you
were just shot at.
You need our protection.
Jockstrap.
What?
Jockstrap?
That's the code?
- That's what he said.
- Jockstrap.
- Written in leetspeak.
- What?
- In leetspeak?
- Oh, I got it. -j, 0...
left parentheses, pipe,
left brace, dollar, 7, r, 4, p.
It worked.
Jockstrap?
I've got them by the...
Nice.
So, love of my life,
uh, jail is not
the place for me.
Why don't we go to a
hotel, like in the movies?
You can show me your big
guns, we'll order room service.
Not going to happen.
I don't do well in
testosterone-rich areas.
Uh, I'm a big
swinging hack online,
but in person, I'm
a cuddle-bunny.
It's not like I'm tossing
you in the drunk tank.
You'll be in protective custody.
Let me help you
with the investigation.
Augie, people want to kill you.
I want to kill you.
In a good way?
In custody with the
marshals is the safest place.
Nobody'll know where you are.
You'll be in a cell a
day, two at the most.
When all this is over,
and you finally realize
what a great guy I am,
will you go out with me?
Interpol says the shooter who
went after Augie was ex-Mossad.
Arrested and released
in Tel Aviv last year
on gunrunning
charges that didn't stick.
Look who he's been
hanging out with... The Fist.
Zal Feigenbaum.
What, he was just
another kid, huh?
Yeah, Feigenbaum is Israeli,
a child computer genius,
busted at 13 for
hacking the Knesset.
Up to serious
badness ever since.
Okay, so, Zal Feigenbaum
sells high-tech weaponry
to Hamas, al Qaeda, North Korea,
- anyone who will pay him.
- What do we got?
An Israeli selling
weapons to Hamas?
Yeah, not just guns.
Also sells software...
Access to military,
top-secret computer systems.
Okay, so what's the deal?
He comes, he wants to
check out our-our cool printer...
So he can make weapons that
pass through metal detectors.
He's on the
terrorist no-fly list.
Killed the valet, 'cause if
we get our hands on him,
he's on his way back to Israel.
Look, why does a guy like
this risk sending an assassin
onto FBI property,
just so he can kill a
gnat like Augie Harris?
Can't let Harris steal from him?
Makes him look weak.
Nah, I say it's more than that.
I say this kid, Augie's
got something on him.
I showed him Feigenbaum's
photo, he didn't recognize him.
- Maybe he doesn't know what he has.
- We did grab him
before he could check
the results of his big hack.
See what Charlie and
Amita say about that.
I'm gonna get working on
witness protection for the kid.
Okay, uh, this
isn't right. I'm, like,
the number-one hacker
in the world right now,
but who's keeping track?
Hey, this is the guy
we called you about.
We need you to keep
him for a day or two.
- Name's William Gates.
- We can do that.
Gates? Really?
Uh...
final offer... the Hilton?
Steaks by the pool?
- Me, you, the moon?
- See you, Mr. Gates.
Uh...
any chance of
getting a single cell?
Uh, an amoeba.
It's a biology joke. Get it?
I'll take an amoeba
with pay-per-view,
if you can swing it.
Nervous, kid? Come on.
Do you think I
should be concerned
with Penetration
Testing, Marshal?
Okay, kid.
The Eastern Europeans
are making the biggest push
to grab back Augie's
credit card site.
Yeah, but all their attacks
are originating in Europe.
Yeah. Weedy
Luzon's hits are coming
from the Philippines and China.
One from Korea.
Where is Zal Feigenbaum?
I don't know.
We can try to figure it out,
but he has to try to hack us first.
It's weird, because, you know,
he makes an
attempt on Augie's life,
and he's the only one who hasn't
made an attempt on Augie's site.
You know what?
Why don't you
check the code history
where Augie hacked
Feigenbaum's carding site?
Right. There could
be a back door...
Some hidden connection
between Feigenbaum's
credit card business
and his weapons sales.
I mean, that would be
a reason to kill Augie.
And maybe a way
to find Feigenbaum.
Okay, this is gonna
take me a while.
What do you think of
my dad's new boss?
Oh, she's kind of driven, but
I like her.
Did you notice, she seemed
to be coming on to Alan?
Actually, I felt she
was giving me a bit
of her erotic attention.
Really?
- Yes.
- Hmm.
I was quite uncomfortable
and oddly flattered.
You're blushing.
- No, I'm not.
- Yeah.
And gloating.
So, how's it going?
Overcrowding in the California
penal system's
a real bitch, huh?
Shut up and sit down.
How would you guys
like to make some money?
You gonna pay me so I don't
pull your tongue out of your head?
Better idea.
Can you get me an
old cell phone in here?
I need a particular
make and model.
Shut him up, please.
I can...
I can hack bank
accounts with it.
How many you want?
Augie inserted a back door
into every site he hacked.
Okay.
- A back door?
- A secret entrance
into all Feigenbaum's
computer files.
Yeah, we open it up,
it's like a gold
mine of evidence...
Weapons shipments to terrorists,
sales of top-secret data.
It may even tell us
where Feigenbaum is.
- Great. How do we open it?
- We need Augie.
Yeah. Where is he?
Gates.
At your service.
Your release
papers came through.
I thought the FBI
was coming for you.
Got me.
So... we're good?
Solid.
Ciao, baby.
Phew!
He forged his release documents
on a cell phone? Come on.
There's an old model that
can be adapted for WiFi
if you know what you're doing.
It's mostly used for
illegal bank transfers, but...
It's got to be a first.
Well, Augie's resourceful.
You got to give him that.
Well, he's gonna be dead
if we don't get to him soon.
I can tell you that.
All right, I'm gonna go
see how Amita's doing
- with cracking the back door.
- All right, good.
Thanks.
I just got off the phone with
Estelle Brown, our Victim Zero.
Someone just transferred 100
grand into her bank account.
That's got to be Augie.
What is he, Robin Hood now?
I'm straightening it out.
Look, he meant well.
I don't get it. Why
is the kid running?
He was totally safe.
He wants to be a
rock star hacker,
not some jerk in a jail cell
about to be
relocated to Pacoima.
Come on, you can't blame him.
What, you got a
little soft spot for him?
No.
Well, this is his only
relative not in Jersey.
Rose Harris.
You think he's hiding
out with his aunt?
He's broke, he doesn't
have a car, he ain't local,
so why don't you find
David and get over there?
Yeah.
Augie's witness protection
deal... did it come through?
No, better... Fort Meade.
The NSA wants him?
Alive, preferably.
So, looks like the NSA wants
to hire Augie.
What?
You like this Augie guy.
No way.
Okay.
He makes me laugh.
Let's just try and keep him
from getting dead, all right?
Okay.
Back door's locked.
I've got a program
trying to decode it,
but it could take days.
Still no sign of Feigenbaum
trying to attack Augie's site.
No, and Zal Feigenbaum
is easily as good
a hacker as Augie.
Yeah, he's probably trying
to decode the back door, too.
You know what? What if
he's not trying to hack Augie?
I mean, what if he's
trying to find him?
IRC... Internet Relay Chat.
It's how hackers talk
when they don't
want to be overheard.
It's a pretty primitive
chat program.
Think of it like shipping
channels in the ocean.
You can't see them
until a boat cuts through
the water, leaving a wake.
If two boats meet in
the middle of the ocean
to swap a load of illegal drugs,
you have to catch
them in real time.
Otherwise, there's no evidence
of the meeting left behind.
No names, no accounts,
no records of exchange.
Well, how do they
see each other?
Online names.
Okay, so what?
We got The Fist,
and-and what's Augie's?
OOzemeister.
I'll set up an alarm to alert us
if either name enters
an IRC channel.
And can we see
what they're saying?
In leetspeak.
Luckily, I speak leet.
That's so hot.
Ms. Harris,
Augie's in a lot of trouble.
He hasn't been here.
Somebody tried to kill him.
He didn't tell me that.
So you talked to him?
Why would anyone
want to hurt Augie?
L.A. Detention Center.
Okay. He wasn't here long.
Where'd he go?
I told him to go
back to New Jersey,
but who listens to me?
What did he say?
What did he tell you?
That some people
were mad at him,
but that he was going to fix it.
Did he say how?
You think he'd tell me?
I gave him my laptop
and some money.
I love that boy.
But he's too smart
to tell me anything.
All right, Feigenbaum's online.
Yeah, I'll get Don.
What are they saying?
Okay. "Got a surprise for you."
"Funny. Got one for you, too."
You got a trace?
Yeah, but they're probably
bouncing off a hundred IPs.
I mean, they'll be off-line
before we get a location.
"We should meet."
"Ha-ha.
"Touch my system
and it will eat your young."
Okay, that was Augie.
All right, so what?
Feigenbaum wants to meet.
Augie's rewriting his code.
Okay, wait, you guys, wait.
This is going to be
over in a second.
Can we get a screen shot?
Got it.
It's gone, the channel's gone.
Okay.
Augie's daring
Feigenbaum to attack,
says he's embedded
a vicious worm
in the system.
For Augie to rewrite his code,
he's got to be using
the PenTest system,
which means he's
back at the hotel
in range of the PenTest WiFi.
I'll get over there.
You keep me posted.
All right.
Feigenbaum is sending
a photograph for Augie.
Where? Can you open it?
Don, wait.
Feigenbaum
posted this for Augie.
Look at this.
Feigenbaum has
already tried to kill Augie.
He doesn't want any hostages.
- He's luring Augie out of hiding.
- Yeah.
Fist, I'm here.
Take me, let her go.
She's just an old lady.
That's not fair game.
I'll give you... I'll give
you the key to the castle.
I'll work for you, all right?
You win.
I got, like, I got, like, half a
million credit card numbers
on my laptop... they're yours.
Okay?
Fist?
Aunt Rose?
Fist?
Oh, my God.
Aunt Rose...
No...
Backup will be here
in a few minutes.
Meanwhile...
- Let's take a look.
- Yeah.
No!
Augie, give it up!
You're out of your league!
Feigenbaum!
Feigenbaum, FBI.
You lower your weapon.
FBI! Stop where you are!
FBI! Stop!
Only way out is through me!
That'll work!
You should stick to computers!
Put your hands behind your back.
Let's move!
You okay?
They... they kill... they
killed my Aunt Rose.
I'm sorry, Augie.
It's my... it's my fault.
What did... what did I do?
Come on, tell me,
what did you buy?
Well, you'll just have to
wait and see, now, won't you?
You sure it's a
new car you need?
Maybe just a new relationship?
Where are you with
Robin these days?
She's in Portland on a trial,
but we're fine for two people
who barely see each other.
Why don't you just
join a hockey league
or a softball team and
do something to feel alive
that costs a little less?
I like to drive.
Oh, come on.
Donnie, this is a
major investment.
Where are you going?
1,100 cc's, built for speed
and nice, winding roads.
Pretty sweet, eh?
How fast it go?
Well...
Huh?
I'll have to let you know.
You mind driving
my car home for me?
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, that's what I love...
A good midlife crisis.
So Augie's gonna
- work for the NSA.
- Yeah.
Well, at least now his
brilliant mind's on our side.
I think he's a really good guy.
I just think he blurred the
boundaries between the virtual
and the real and found
his morality compromised.
The neurochemical pathways
in the brain are the same
for an image
experienced in reality
and one seen in
a virtual 3-D world.
In other words, uh... the
virtual is alive and real
- in our minds.
- Well, that's how
images from dreams can get
mixed with actual memories.
Very confusing
thing, being a person.
What's this?
Uh, that's something Kath sent.
Oh, for my dad?
Ah, perfect timing.
Dinner's ready.
Hey, wait till you
guys see what Don...
Uh, uh... I'll show
'em after dinner.
Hey, Dad,
Kath Berry sent
this over for you.
Oh, for me?
What is it?
Not good for your boss to
have the hots for you, is it?
Uh-uh, guys, she was
definitely giving me the vibe.
I don't know, I think
she's into the brainy type.
Wh...
What is this?
It's like a dominatrix.
You know what that is?
That's... that's Amita's avatar.
That's your avatar, right?
It's a 3-D print.
Um, Kath must have
made it with her new printer.
Oh, well, how nice.
That's so cool.
Let's see.
"Amita, a token of appreciation.
Can I take you to lunch,
dinner, a weekend in Sonoma?"
- No.
- That's what it says.
- Okay.
- Wait a minute, wait a minute,
does that mean that she's...?
Me and my avatar are spoken for.
You guys hungry?
I don't know how
I feel about this.
Well, there goes my
sexual harassment lawsuit.
Say, a weekend in Sonoma.
This girl definitely
has an agenda.
Well, I do like wine tasting.
And to think, I had
designs on this woman.
♪ Watch out ♪
♪ You might get
what you're after ♪
♪ Cool babies ♪
♪ Strange but not a stranger ♪
♪ I'm an ordinary guy ♪
♪ Burning down the house ♪
No, seriously.
Seriously, I can get you
whatever you need, all right?
Those two aren't on the list.
Low-level players.
Yeah, well, keep looking.
And David... where is he?
He's in the lobby making a sale.
Give me audio.
Classic: $12.
Visa Gold: $14.50.
MasterCard: $19.50.
American Express: $36 a pop.
Being invisible to the man...
That's priceless.
And I can discount you guys if
you buy more than a hundred.
Uh, we also have,
uh, ATM skimmers,
uh, bank PIN numbers.
♪ Fighting fire with fire ♪
♪ Ah, all wet ♪
♪ Yeah, you might
need a raincoat ♪
♪ Shakedown ♪
♪ Dreams walking
in broad daylight... ♪
One-stop shopping, fellas.
What do you want?
David, possible
match. Close the deal.
Nikki, keep your eyes open.
He should be heading upstairs.
♪ Sometimes I listen to myself ♪
♪ Going to come in first place ♪
For a legitimate computer
conference, there's a lot
of criminal activity out here.
- How's it going?
- Hey.
Well, we got seven or
eight good arrests so far,
but The Fist still
hasn't shown up yet.
Well, let's be sure.
The Fist.
What an online name.
You know, this guy's got
to be scrawny with backne.
♪ Burning down the house ♪
I don't want to
underestimate him, Charlie.
Last year, his black market
pulled down millions
in identity theft.
We still don't know who he is
or what he looks like.
♪ Everything's
stuck together... ♪
- Here we go.
- Okay, now,
The Fist is meeting David
at Amita's talk, right,
so he's somewhere
- in that crowd?
- Should I go in?
Yeah, but hold back
till I say, all right?
- Then tail him?
- Uh-huh.
Wait, uh...
why tail him?
I thought he was buying
a truckload of 3-D printers
- from David.
- Still want to I.D. him,
even if it doesn't go down.
More and more, we
live in virtual worlds.
Not only those of
us who are gamers,
but all of us.
- ♪ Transportation is here ♪
- ♪ Here ♪
♪ Close enough,
but not too far ♪
♪ Maybe you know where you are ♪
♪ Fightin' fire... ♪
With holograms
and 3-D technology,
imaginary worlds are
becoming more lifelike,
blurring the boundaries between
reality and fantasy.
This machine works in
the opposite direction,
taking what is virtual...
An image on a computer...
And making it real
just by hitting "Print."
- This is the disruptive technology...
- Whoa, whoa...
Charlie. Is that Dad?
I told him not to come.
Just deal with him.
It views 3-D
objects as 2-D slices...
using powders or plastics
to print the slices one atop
the other to build an object.
The applications
are almost endless.
Augie, you're up.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- What are you doing here?
- Charlie.
This is Kath Berry,
president of Phrizz Software.
She's my boss.
Dr. Eppes,
it's an absolute
thrill to meet you.
Thank you. Thanks.
Why is it called PenTest?
What does that mean?
It's Pen... it's
Penetration Testers.
When I was growing up,
we used to call that dating.
Cyber-hackers who test
systems by attacking them.
- Legally?
- Well, a lot of these guys
switch between white hat hacking
and black hat
hacking. But listen...
No matter what you see
in the next few minutes,
just play it cool.
What do you mean?
We have to protect
against, as this
technology falls in the
hands of criminal enterprises.
3-D printing can be used
for reproducing keys
from photographs,
reproducing credit
cards, creating stamps
to emboss fake documents
like passports or
government bonds,
counterfeiting money,
creating fake fingerprints...
There's...
- Look. That's...
- Yeah, I know. I know.
Oh. I got it.
What's going on?
FBI business.
We need your silent cooperation.
I designed this dagger
for my gaming fantasy.
3-D printing can
make real weapons
able to pass through
metal detectors.
Like all progressive
technology throughout history,
this one has its upsides
and its downsides:
Counterfeiting money,
- creating fake fingerprints...
- I got him.
White guy on the
couch, green hat.
And we have to be
aware of its possibilities
as it enters our
lives every day.
All right, let's go
get her. Come on.
Dr. Amita Ramanujan!
Excellent, provocative
presentation
from the hottest nerd
in the house.
Buy one of these, put it
on, get her to sign it, man.
Get her to touch your body.
Next, we have a
PenTest favorite.
Augie Harris, intrepid
hacker, come to tell us
- about the death of the magnetic strip.
- Liz, stay with him.
Augie!
Nikki, get back to the truck.
Dudes, have I got
a surprise for you.
Traitors walk among
us... I kid you not.
See the movie, buy the T-shirt.
PenTest brothers and sisters,
we have been
infiltrated by the FBI:
Funded But Incompetent.
Big, bad Agent Sinclair,
smokin' hot Agents Warner
and Betancourt, they
are running a bogus
- David, Liz.
- Credit card market...
It is a sting.
Nikki, grab this jackass.
If you've bought from
either of these two,
game over, thanks for playing.
- Turn around.
- Whoa. Usually, I make the first move, but this
is cool. I'm Augie.
- What'd you do?
- That wasn't supposed to happen.
Hey.
- Anything?
- In the wind.
Killed the valet, jacked the
car, dumped it five miles away.
Now, why does a
credit card scammer
move up to first-degree murder?
Obviously, there's more going
on than we know about, right?
- Where are we going?
- There.
He's The Fist, right?
Yeah, looks like
it... We're no closer
to his real identity than
when we started this operation.
How long have we been
putting this thing together?
Not as long as I'm going
to be answering for it.
This is what I found
"Pwned"? What's that?
"Pwned." It means,
"You are owned."
Why say "pwned" if
you mean "owned"?
Started as typo,
became an inside
joke called "leetspeak,"
as in elite computer shorthand
for crackers and
hackers using symbols,
numbers, letters, words, memes.
So, what does it mean?
Means someone's
taken over the Web site.
It means we no longer
have any control over it.
And I would guess he
knows something about it.
Yeah, why don't
you get on that, huh?
Wh-What... what's up with Dad?
What was he doing here?
Oh, you know, I guess
his boss insisted, and...
She's kind of...
I think she's hot.
I was going to say
she's assertive, but yeah,
she's pretty...
she's pretty hot.
I sent them home with Amita.
Ah, great. The ASAC.
All right, look...
call me, all right?
August Harris, known hacker.
Augie.
How did you get our pictures?
I infiltrated the FBI database.
Carding sites are notorious
for rippers, cheats and Feds.
Who do you work for, Augie?
Myself.
Right.
Did this man here
pay you to do this?
I run my own network.
Uh, actually, I
believe I run all four
major carding
networks at the moment.
You took over
four illegal markets
at the same time?
Yeah.
That would require
a lot of planning.
A lot of power.
Yeah, uh, the electrical
failure was not part of my plan.
I really need to assess
my hardware upstairs.
Check that out.
I'll be down here.
How'd you get all this in here?
I had to tip the hell
out of the bellboy.
Hey, could you just
undo my hands here
- so I can...?
- No.
- Really?
- Really.
I'm a valuable asset to the FBI.
- Really?
- Really.
You'll see.
So, this setup drained
the power from the rest
of the hotel, and it
never... never went off-line?
Yeah, battery backup.
Um, could you just push "Return"
on that one right... right here?
No, that could be a command
to... to blow up
this whole hotel,
or some kind of kill
switch or something, right?
No, don't touch
anything in this room.
No, you don't understand, man.
Look at the screen
at the end there.
I'm not into explosives.
You really did this.
You're really controlling
four illegal credit card
markets from this room,
including the FBI sting site.
Best hacker in the world.
You've got international
- criminal cartels after you now.
- Yeah, I know.
Why do you think
I let you catch me?
I'm safe in your hands,
Agent Betancourt.
Can I call you Nikki?
Nicola?
You want to check out my loft?
Augie Harris hijacked
four underground online markets,
all at the same time.
The Eastern Europeans
who sell PIN numbers,
credit cards, Social
Security numbers, skimmers...
Weedy Luzon's Filipino
counterfeiting cartel...
An Israeli group
run by The Fist.
This is the guy we're
thinking slipped out?
Yeah, and our sting market.
Who is this kid?
Augie Harris has been operating
a small-time market called Ooze.
Yeah, smart guy,
dropped out of MIT.
But nobody figured
he had the sack for this.
Yeah, what he did was
he exploited a weakness
in the basic structure
of the Internet.
It's the domain
name system, DNS.
It's a directory
assistance for Web sites.
It's been around
since the early '80s.
It's primitive,
but it's trusting.
It's kind of like the
U.S. Postal system.
Kind of.
When a person wants mail
forwarded to a new address,
he simply needs
one canceled letter
with his name and
old address on it
as proof he lives there.
People move so often
that it would be impossible
to verify each change,
so the system is trusting...
it requires very little evidence
before rerouting the mail.
Augie created fake pages
to mirror these Web sites...
Which easily fooled the
domain name system...
And then he made
a change of address,
which funneled every
transaction into his site.
Now, as long as
his site's still active,
the cartels are going
to hack him back.
Yeah, they're, they're
losing big money.
We could adapt the sting
program to I.D. those attackers,
- get locations.
- We're gonna have to move fast.
They'll try it for a day,
but they'll put up new ones.
I need to check
out Augie's setup,
and there may be
a kill switch on it,
so this will go a lot
faster if he works with us.
Well, can we trust him?
Let's find out.
I don't understand why
Augie let himself get caught.
This kid could've gotten rich.
Listen, all he cares
about is the hack.
I mean, he pierced
military-grade encryptions
on four sites at the same time,
including the FBI's.
This is his calling card.
Calling card for who? For what?
I want to work with you,
DARPA, NSA, the CIA.
We're not going to hire you,
we're going to prosecute you.
You need me to
get to the cartels.
- We got cyber-geeks of our own.
- Mm.
My setup is rigged... anybody
tries to touch my equipment,
it'll crash and send
out vicious worms.
My malware will twist you good.
You need me, baby, I'm your man.
Nobody needs you, and
stop calling me "baby."
I have a feeling we were
in a past life together...
Star-crossed lovers...
And this is the lifetime
we finally make it work.
You really don't get
what you just stepped in.
You stole from
criminal conspiracies
who will come after you.
Virtual gangs.
Yeah, they'll come
after me online.
I say bring it.
You think this is a game?
Come on, I want
you to meet someone.
Hey, Estelle.
How are you?
They have me signing
another deposition.
You made an arrest?
It's Augie Harris.
He steals
identities for a living.
It's all insured money.
Mrs. Brown is our Victim Zero.
She's the reason we
started the sting operation.
Tell him what happened, Estelle.
Someone stole my
husband's Social Security
and bank numbers,
sold our house
and emptied our savings
before we knew
anything was wrong.
Well, it-it'll take
you some time,
but you'll get it all back.
I don't think so.
I'll hack the bank for you.
How much do you
want? A hundred grand?
My husband couldn't
take the stress.
He had a heart attack and died.
You going to hack
him back for me, too?
How many IDs you think
you've stolen, Augie?
Hundreds? Thousands?
It was just a way to prove
that I could crack the system.
I'm sorry.
Hey.
What are you doing here?
Oh, I'm picking up Amita.
Couldn't you send somebody?
Mm, feel like driving lately.
Uh-oh. I could see the red
convertible sports coupe coming.
I don't know about that.
Not red, anyway.
Midlife crisis mobile.
No, I wanted one at 45, yeah.
Corvette Stingray.
Really? You, a Vette?
Your mother talked me out of it.
I like to drive.
What can I say?
Where's she at?
Out in the garage with my boss,
getting grilled on 3-D printers.
Some wine?
No, I can't. And
you know you barged
right into the middle
of a sting today.
I didn't know.
It's a public event, right?
Look, I'm considered one
of the older consultants
at this young, hip
software company.
So I decided to pick
up some brownie points
by bringing my boss,
Kath, to see Amita speak.
And it seems to
be working, anyway.
- Hey.
- Oh, uh, uh,
Kath, my son, Don.
Oh, my, the heroic brother.
So, I'm ready to go.
I just need to get my
bag out of Alan's car.
- Oh, uh...
- I'll meet you out front?
All right.
All right.
You are really very strong.
You must be what, 42, 43?
Where do you work out?
The FBI have a gym?
Uh, yeah, actually, uh, they do.
I'm staring down 45,
and it's starting
to freak me out.
So, how do you stay
fit... Circuit training
and carrot juice
or... just lots of sex?
What's your secret?
My lips are sealed.
I hope not.
I cracked the FBI.
I mean, when you think
about it, it was perfect.
It was a felony.
Now you know that I can find
the weakness in your system.
I proved that I'm
the dominant hacker.
We like employees
who don't steal.
I'm not into hurting anybody.
I do altruistic hacking.
I take down kiddie porn sites.
I'm a good guy.
You stole millions of dollars
of financial information.
What's the matter?
Fire alarm.
- Come on.
- All right.
- Hey, did you do this?
- Innocent of the charges.
Was he near a computer?
No. Why, what's going on?
Security reported smoke
on our floor and the one below.
I don't see any smoke.
I'll check with the fire chief.
Okay, seriously, can
you offer me a deal?
Somebody, somewhere
in the federal system
has to show me some love.
Personally, I'd
like it to be you.
I'm just saying.
The FBI is going to
want you to cooperate.
You tell us what you
know about these cartels,
then we'll see about a deal.
I know... a lot.
Gun!
- Hey, you all right?
- Yeah.
Liz?
- Dead.
- Give me
a secure perimeter... two blocks
- in every direction.
- On it!
I want all surveillance video
from the outside of
this building. Okay?
Hey, hey, don't let
anybody touch the body!
Don't let anybody
leave! Thank you.
I need LAPD helicopters.
I want to know of any
vehicle trying to leave the area.
What just happened?
What just happened?!
I mean... Oh, my gosh!
There's no fire!
There's no fire!
Someone-someone hacked
into a fire alarm
to try to kill me?
Did you recognize him?
No, I-I've never...
I've never seen that guy before.
I've never seen him bef...
He shot at me. He shot...
I've never been shot
at before. Am I hit?
Am I hit? 'Cause
I-I hear that you-you
you can be shot and not know it.
I mean, I didn't feel any-any
bee stings or any, like,
- bites or anything like that, but...
- Augie,
look at me, all
right? You're okay.
Okay, you're safe.
I don't want you going
into shock, all right?
Am I hyperventilating?
Is he all right?
I'm going into shock.
He's fine.
Did you see his fighting style?
Yeah, Krav Maga.
That's specialty of
Israeli Defense Forces.
- And that gun...
- .25 caliber
with a half load.
Also Mossad style.
The Israeli army is after me?
Stow him with the U.S. Marshals.
Do not use his real name.
I gotta call Don.
Wait, wait.
Uh, this just might
be the shock talking,
but y-you just saved
my life over there,
and I'm, I'm, I'm feeling
some pretty intense emotions
about you right now.
Actually, it was Agent Sinclair,
but I'll let him
know how you feel.
Hey, do we even need to work
from Augie's
hardware at the hotel?
He's using the private
WiFi set up for PenTest.
I think I can
breach his firewalls
- without touching the physical setup.
- Good.
And can you tell if he's
rigged it to destroy data?
I don't think so, but
it'd be a lot faster
if we could get his password.
Hey, so is Augie
Harris cooperating?
Well, he was just shot at,
so I'd say he's
getting about ready.
Oh. Can we get him over here?
No way. He's too hot.
Look, if I can get his
access code, I can do this.
All right, let me
see if I can get that.
- Yeah, once we're inside his system...
- Yeah,
we can see who's attacking
it and where they are.
- Hey.
- Yeah, Don.
- Hi, Donald.
- Yeah, look.
Augie, I need the access
code to your hotel setup.
What'll you give me for it?
25 to life if you
don't cooperate.
Look, pal, you
were just shot at.
You need our protection.
Jockstrap.
What?
Jockstrap?
That's the code?
- That's what he said.
- Jockstrap.
- Written in leetspeak.
- What?
- In leetspeak?
- Oh, I got it. -j, 0...
left parentheses, pipe,
left brace, dollar, 7, r, 4, p.
It worked.
Jockstrap?
I've got them by the...
Nice.
So, love of my life,
uh, jail is not
the place for me.
Why don't we go to a
hotel, like in the movies?
You can show me your big
guns, we'll order room service.
Not going to happen.
I don't do well in
testosterone-rich areas.
Uh, I'm a big
swinging hack online,
but in person, I'm
a cuddle-bunny.
It's not like I'm tossing
you in the drunk tank.
You'll be in protective custody.
Let me help you
with the investigation.
Augie, people want to kill you.
I want to kill you.
In a good way?
In custody with the
marshals is the safest place.
Nobody'll know where you are.
You'll be in a cell a
day, two at the most.
When all this is over,
and you finally realize
what a great guy I am,
will you go out with me?
Interpol says the shooter who
went after Augie was ex-Mossad.
Arrested and released
in Tel Aviv last year
on gunrunning
charges that didn't stick.
Look who he's been
hanging out with... The Fist.
Zal Feigenbaum.
What, he was just
another kid, huh?
Yeah, Feigenbaum is Israeli,
a child computer genius,
busted at 13 for
hacking the Knesset.
Up to serious
badness ever since.
Okay, so, Zal Feigenbaum
sells high-tech weaponry
to Hamas, al Qaeda, North Korea,
- anyone who will pay him.
- What do we got?
An Israeli selling
weapons to Hamas?
Yeah, not just guns.
Also sells software...
Access to military,
top-secret computer systems.
Okay, so what's the deal?
He comes, he wants to
check out our-our cool printer...
So he can make weapons that
pass through metal detectors.
He's on the
terrorist no-fly list.
Killed the valet, 'cause if
we get our hands on him,
he's on his way back to Israel.
Look, why does a guy like
this risk sending an assassin
onto FBI property,
just so he can kill a
gnat like Augie Harris?
Can't let Harris steal from him?
Makes him look weak.
Nah, I say it's more than that.
I say this kid, Augie's
got something on him.
I showed him Feigenbaum's
photo, he didn't recognize him.
- Maybe he doesn't know what he has.
- We did grab him
before he could check
the results of his big hack.
See what Charlie and
Amita say about that.
I'm gonna get working on
witness protection for the kid.
Okay, uh, this
isn't right. I'm, like,
the number-one hacker
in the world right now,
but who's keeping track?
Hey, this is the guy
we called you about.
We need you to keep
him for a day or two.
- Name's William Gates.
- We can do that.
Gates? Really?
Uh...
final offer... the Hilton?
Steaks by the pool?
- Me, you, the moon?
- See you, Mr. Gates.
Uh...
any chance of
getting a single cell?
Uh, an amoeba.
It's a biology joke. Get it?
I'll take an amoeba
with pay-per-view,
if you can swing it.
Nervous, kid? Come on.
Do you think I
should be concerned
with Penetration
Testing, Marshal?
Okay, kid.
The Eastern Europeans
are making the biggest push
to grab back Augie's
credit card site.
Yeah, but all their attacks
are originating in Europe.
Yeah. Weedy
Luzon's hits are coming
from the Philippines and China.
One from Korea.
Where is Zal Feigenbaum?
I don't know.
We can try to figure it out,
but he has to try to hack us first.
It's weird, because, you know,
he makes an
attempt on Augie's life,
and he's the only one who hasn't
made an attempt on Augie's site.
You know what?
Why don't you
check the code history
where Augie hacked
Feigenbaum's carding site?
Right. There could
be a back door...
Some hidden connection
between Feigenbaum's
credit card business
and his weapons sales.
I mean, that would be
a reason to kill Augie.
And maybe a way
to find Feigenbaum.
Okay, this is gonna
take me a while.
What do you think of
my dad's new boss?
Oh, she's kind of driven, but
I like her.
Did you notice, she seemed
to be coming on to Alan?
Actually, I felt she
was giving me a bit
of her erotic attention.
Really?
- Yes.
- Hmm.
I was quite uncomfortable
and oddly flattered.
You're blushing.
- No, I'm not.
- Yeah.
And gloating.
So, how's it going?
Overcrowding in the California
penal system's
a real bitch, huh?
Shut up and sit down.
How would you guys
like to make some money?
You gonna pay me so I don't
pull your tongue out of your head?
Better idea.
Can you get me an
old cell phone in here?
I need a particular
make and model.
Shut him up, please.
I can...
I can hack bank
accounts with it.
How many you want?
Augie inserted a back door
into every site he hacked.
Okay.
- A back door?
- A secret entrance
into all Feigenbaum's
computer files.
Yeah, we open it up,
it's like a gold
mine of evidence...
Weapons shipments to terrorists,
sales of top-secret data.
It may even tell us
where Feigenbaum is.
- Great. How do we open it?
- We need Augie.
Yeah. Where is he?
Gates.
At your service.
Your release
papers came through.
I thought the FBI
was coming for you.
Got me.
So... we're good?
Solid.
Ciao, baby.
Phew!
He forged his release documents
on a cell phone? Come on.
There's an old model that
can be adapted for WiFi
if you know what you're doing.
It's mostly used for
illegal bank transfers, but...
It's got to be a first.
Well, Augie's resourceful.
You got to give him that.
Well, he's gonna be dead
if we don't get to him soon.
I can tell you that.
All right, I'm gonna go
see how Amita's doing
- with cracking the back door.
- All right, good.
Thanks.
I just got off the phone with
Estelle Brown, our Victim Zero.
Someone just transferred 100
grand into her bank account.
That's got to be Augie.
What is he, Robin Hood now?
I'm straightening it out.
Look, he meant well.
I don't get it. Why
is the kid running?
He was totally safe.
He wants to be a
rock star hacker,
not some jerk in a jail cell
about to be
relocated to Pacoima.
Come on, you can't blame him.
What, you got a
little soft spot for him?
No.
Well, this is his only
relative not in Jersey.
Rose Harris.
You think he's hiding
out with his aunt?
He's broke, he doesn't
have a car, he ain't local,
so why don't you find
David and get over there?
Yeah.
Augie's witness protection
deal... did it come through?
No, better... Fort Meade.
The NSA wants him?
Alive, preferably.
So, looks like the NSA wants
to hire Augie.
What?
You like this Augie guy.
No way.
Okay.
He makes me laugh.
Let's just try and keep him
from getting dead, all right?
Okay.
Back door's locked.
I've got a program
trying to decode it,
but it could take days.
Still no sign of Feigenbaum
trying to attack Augie's site.
No, and Zal Feigenbaum
is easily as good
a hacker as Augie.
Yeah, he's probably trying
to decode the back door, too.
You know what? What if
he's not trying to hack Augie?
I mean, what if he's
trying to find him?
IRC... Internet Relay Chat.
It's how hackers talk
when they don't
want to be overheard.
It's a pretty primitive
chat program.
Think of it like shipping
channels in the ocean.
You can't see them
until a boat cuts through
the water, leaving a wake.
If two boats meet in
the middle of the ocean
to swap a load of illegal drugs,
you have to catch
them in real time.
Otherwise, there's no evidence
of the meeting left behind.
No names, no accounts,
no records of exchange.
Well, how do they
see each other?
Online names.
Okay, so what?
We got The Fist,
and-and what's Augie's?
OOzemeister.
I'll set up an alarm to alert us
if either name enters
an IRC channel.
And can we see
what they're saying?
In leetspeak.
Luckily, I speak leet.
That's so hot.
Ms. Harris,
Augie's in a lot of trouble.
He hasn't been here.
Somebody tried to kill him.
He didn't tell me that.
So you talked to him?
Why would anyone
want to hurt Augie?
L.A. Detention Center.
Okay. He wasn't here long.
Where'd he go?
I told him to go
back to New Jersey,
but who listens to me?
What did he say?
What did he tell you?
That some people
were mad at him,
but that he was going to fix it.
Did he say how?
You think he'd tell me?
I gave him my laptop
and some money.
I love that boy.
But he's too smart
to tell me anything.
All right, Feigenbaum's online.
Yeah, I'll get Don.
What are they saying?
Okay. "Got a surprise for you."
"Funny. Got one for you, too."
You got a trace?
Yeah, but they're probably
bouncing off a hundred IPs.
I mean, they'll be off-line
before we get a location.
"We should meet."
"Ha-ha.
"Touch my system
and it will eat your young."
Okay, that was Augie.
All right, so what?
Feigenbaum wants to meet.
Augie's rewriting his code.
Okay, wait, you guys, wait.
This is going to be
over in a second.
Can we get a screen shot?
Got it.
It's gone, the channel's gone.
Okay.
Augie's daring
Feigenbaum to attack,
says he's embedded
a vicious worm
in the system.
For Augie to rewrite his code,
he's got to be using
the PenTest system,
which means he's
back at the hotel
in range of the PenTest WiFi.
I'll get over there.
You keep me posted.
All right.
Feigenbaum is sending
a photograph for Augie.
Where? Can you open it?
Don, wait.
Feigenbaum
posted this for Augie.
Look at this.
Feigenbaum has
already tried to kill Augie.
He doesn't want any hostages.
- He's luring Augie out of hiding.
- Yeah.
Fist, I'm here.
Take me, let her go.
She's just an old lady.
That's not fair game.
I'll give you... I'll give
you the key to the castle.
I'll work for you, all right?
You win.
I got, like, I got, like, half a
million credit card numbers
on my laptop... they're yours.
Okay?
Fist?
Aunt Rose?
Fist?
Oh, my God.
Aunt Rose...
No...
Backup will be here
in a few minutes.
Meanwhile...
- Let's take a look.
- Yeah.
No!
Augie, give it up!
You're out of your league!
Feigenbaum!
Feigenbaum, FBI.
You lower your weapon.
FBI! Stop where you are!
FBI! Stop!
Only way out is through me!
That'll work!
You should stick to computers!
Put your hands behind your back.
Let's move!
You okay?
They... they kill... they
killed my Aunt Rose.
I'm sorry, Augie.
It's my... it's my fault.
What did... what did I do?
Come on, tell me,
what did you buy?
Well, you'll just have to
wait and see, now, won't you?
You sure it's a
new car you need?
Maybe just a new relationship?
Where are you with
Robin these days?
She's in Portland on a trial,
but we're fine for two people
who barely see each other.
Why don't you just
join a hockey league
or a softball team and
do something to feel alive
that costs a little less?
I like to drive.
Oh, come on.
Donnie, this is a
major investment.
Where are you going?
1,100 cc's, built for speed
and nice, winding roads.
Pretty sweet, eh?
How fast it go?
Well...
Huh?
I'll have to let you know.
You mind driving
my car home for me?
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, that's what I love...
A good midlife crisis.
So Augie's gonna
- work for the NSA.
- Yeah.
Well, at least now his
brilliant mind's on our side.
I think he's a really good guy.
I just think he blurred the
boundaries between the virtual
and the real and found
his morality compromised.
The neurochemical pathways
in the brain are the same
for an image
experienced in reality
and one seen in
a virtual 3-D world.
In other words, uh... the
virtual is alive and real
- in our minds.
- Well, that's how
images from dreams can get
mixed with actual memories.
Very confusing
thing, being a person.
What's this?
Uh, that's something Kath sent.
Oh, for my dad?
Ah, perfect timing.
Dinner's ready.
Hey, wait till you
guys see what Don...
Uh, uh... I'll show
'em after dinner.
Hey, Dad,
Kath Berry sent
this over for you.
Oh, for me?
What is it?
Not good for your boss to
have the hots for you, is it?
Uh-uh, guys, she was
definitely giving me the vibe.
I don't know, I think
she's into the brainy type.
Wh...
What is this?
It's like a dominatrix.
You know what that is?
That's... that's Amita's avatar.
That's your avatar, right?
It's a 3-D print.
Um, Kath must have
made it with her new printer.
Oh, well, how nice.
That's so cool.
Let's see.
"Amita, a token of appreciation.
Can I take you to lunch,
dinner, a weekend in Sonoma?"
- No.
- That's what it says.
- Okay.
- Wait a minute, wait a minute,
does that mean that she's...?
Me and my avatar are spoken for.
You guys hungry?
I don't know how
I feel about this.
Well, there goes my
sexual harassment lawsuit.
Say, a weekend in Sonoma.
This girl definitely
has an agenda.
Well, I do like wine tasting.
And to think, I had
designs on this woman.