The Affair (2014–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - 5 - full transcript

- Oh, annie,
you shouldn't have.

- I graduated from lunch duty
to coffee runs.

- It's cold.

- Well, I had to deliver
ten cups.

- Couldn't you deliver
mine first?

I thought we were friends.

- Which is why I can give you
cold coffee

And not worry about
getting fired.

- [chuckles]
I have a present for you.

Just came in.

Video, text, camera,
data storage,



All freshly cia encrypted.

- Ooh.
- Uh-uh.

Trade you for your old one.

- No complaints from me.

Whoa!

- Careful.

- What is it?

- I got a fast track here.

Armed shipment bound
for the u.S.

Three
surface-to-air missiles.

Our johannesburg station
believes they went

Out of richards bay last week

Hidden onboard
a container ship,

So they're gonna be here
in the next 24 to 48 hours.



- What ship?

- We don't have it.

- Destination city?

- We don't have that.

- What do we have?

- The shipper was hasaan waleed.

- The bribes I had
to make were, um,

More expensive than
I originally estimated.

- We agreed on $100,000.
Not $150,000.

- I need $50,000 more.

[gunshot]

[grunts]

- How about you?

Is $100,000 enough?

Good.

I expect to be
in the United States tomorrow.

- We have sams coming
into the u.S.

We don't know the city.

The shipper is hasaan waleed,

But we don't know where he is.

- Any more from jo'burg?
- No.

Security cameras at richards bay
were conveniently

Shut down for four hours.

Every boat in the port's log
is accounted for,

So clearly this
is off the book.

- And humint?

- Southern africa station's
pretty thin these days.

- This is a world-renowned arms
dealer we're talking about

And we can't get
any bodies on him?

- We could end-around
with the aivd in amsterdam.

We might have an in.

- All right.

- I could use some support.

- Kelting, you're with jai.

Anyone stateside?

- Rumors of some contacts with
the sudanese expat community

In new york,
but that was five years ago.

- And who's early in camp?

- Kimmer, but he's new.

Angle just transferred back
from khartoum.

- Who else have we got?

- Mcauley.

- Who else?

- Nobody else ever
had his connections.

- All right, annie...

Track down mcauley,
see if he'll play ball.

You're new.

Maybe you'll have a shot.

- Why did jones say I might have
a shot because I'm new?

- Mcauley is
christopher mcauley.

He was a deep-cover officer
for 15 years.

Knew everyone important
that had anything to do

With east africa.

One of his old contacts
might know something

About hasaan's movements,

But mcauley retired
five years ago.

- Why do I feel like
I'm still missing something?

- Well, when I say he retired,
I mean he had

A nervous breakdown,
quit the cia,

Moved to middle-of-nowhere,
virginia,

And hasn't contaed us sivce.

I can actually
hear you frowning.

- On a scale of none
to a lot,

How many people have
tried to bring him in?

- Almost every senior
person in that room.

- So this is basically
a fool's errand?

- You could think of it more
of a hazing ritual

If it makes you feel better.

- Sorry.
Busy day.

Thanks, fellas.

- Keeping the old man waiting,
huh?

Bit of a power play?

- You're still
in your raincoat, dad.

You just walked through
the door yourself.

- You caught me.

- You know you actually have
to put that on?

Protocol.

- There should
be special badges

For people who ran
the place for ten years.

- Dad, they are dedicating
the new ops center

To you in two days.

You expect new badges too?

- What makes you think
I expect anything, son?

I'm just happy to be here.

- Henry wilcox,
love the new beard.

- Arthur, good to see you.

Been a long time since you
invited me over.

- Well, not since your
retirement party,

I would think.

- Henry wilcox is here
and he's talking to arthur.

- Where?

- Your 8:00.

What the heck was that?

- If anyone's going
to be sucked in

By his evil vortex,
I'd prefer it be you.

- Oh, thanks.

- I'm nothing, if t cautious.

Got to love they're
gonna dedicate

Our shiny new center
to someone

With a lot of dirt
on his hands.

- You sound like you're
channeling liza hearne.

- Well, when you're
the former dcs

And your most notable stat
is that you ran

More dark ops than anyone
since the cold war,

There's gonna
be some commentary.

Hey, you know the story about
henry and jai's mom, right?

- No.

- Well, she was his asset when
he was stationed in india.

Her cover was blown.

Henry married her.

They became the romeo
and juliet of the agency.

- That's romantic.

- It was until he left her
for a younger woman

And then it just became
a cliche.

- Don't you think you're being
a little harsh?

- I'm being easy.

Remember, we are referring
to the man

Who is affectionately known
by half the press

As "the prince of darkness."

I'm assuming
by the sudden silence

And the stiletto in my shin,

Jai has joined us.

- My favorite was always
"satan's little helper."

Has such a nice ring to it,
don't you think?

- Well...

I'm off to do anything else.

- What's your father
doing here?

- Going over details
of the dedication.

Aka, making arthur's life

As much of a hell
as possible.

- Mm.

- Can I buy you
a cup of coffee?

Regale you with stories
of henry the terrible?

- I think I would need alcohol
to hear those stories.

- Perfect.

Allen's tavern after work.

- Are you asking me on a date?

- Trust me.

If I was asking you out
on a date,

You'd know it.

And our first date will not
be at allen's tavern.

- What makes you think we're
gonna have a first date?

- You're the one
who brought up dating.

I just brought up drinks.

- I have some work to do.

Don't you have some work
to do?

- Enjoy that ride out
to mcauley's.

[tire pops]

- Whoa.

[sighs]

[dogs barking]

[dogs growling]

- Holly, holden, down.

[dogs growl and bark]

You want to get off my property?

- Mr. Mcauley,
my name is annie walker.

I'm from--
- langley.

- We need your help.

Is there somewhere
we could go and talk?

- Get off my property.

- Well, I have a flat tire.

- Well, then I hope
you have a spare.

- Joan, dutch intelligence
came through.

The guard who works
the entrance gate

At richards bay turned out
to be hasaan's cousin-in-law.

- Well, now we know why
they chose jo'burg.

- They turned him.

- He's family
and we got to him?

- Money's thicker than blood.

According to our
friendly snitch,

Hasaan arrived with the weapons
before the shipyard opened.

When the sudanese left,
they were short

Four men and three crates.

Hasaan was one
of the missing men.

- He's coming in
with the weapons?

- Unless we can figure out
which ship he's on,

We are gonna lose one
of the world's

Most notorious arms dealers
inside the United States.

[intriguing music]

??? ???

[dogs growl]

- Hey.

You're ridgebacks.

You're not dobermans.

[chuckles]

[sighs]

Least I can turn two dogs.

- [whistling]

- Mr. Mcauley!

- [continues whistling]

- Nice place.

I like the whole
recluse-in-the-woods motif.

And your dogs are sweet.

- I can't help you.

- Can't or won't?

- Both.

- How'd you know
I was from langley?

- With that suit on,
you got to either be

From the cia or you're out here
trying to sell me insurance.

I'm guessing you're new.

They always send the newbies
out here to try.

You're a little older,
so...

I'm assuming they
brought you in

For your language skills instead
of recruiting you

Straight out of school.

- We have a weapons shipment.

- How nice for you.

- This is important.

- It's always important.

Who taught you that?

- Whatever your personal
feelings about the cia,

This is bigger.

It's a greater good.

- You want me to tell you
how many crimes

Have been perpetrated in
the name of the greater good?

Who gets to decide
what's greater?

What's good?

You?
Langley?

You feel that mud on your feet
right now?

That's the only kind of mud
I like feeling.

I'll take a pass
on the other kind.

- What is the other kind?

- Ask henry wilcox.

- Take the end...

Wrap it around the main line
three times.

- Where did you learn about
fly fishing?

- Summers in montana
with my cousins.

- I spent summers
on a military base.

- Military brat?

- When I finished school,
I wanted to just pick a place

And go there
'cause I wanted to,

Not 'cause my father got
stationed there.

I wanted to make
my own choices for once.

Be the master
of my own destiny.

That sounds pretty dumb.

[chuckles]

- No.

- Why are you here?

- Kind of for
the same reasons.

[horn honks]

- Hello, my friend.

I- I-I did not expect
to see you again so soon.

- Or ever...
I would imagine.

- What are you doing
in my house?

- Where is...

Hasaan waleed?

Last chance.

Where is...Hasaan waleed?

- Stop staring at him.

- How do--

How do you know I'm staring?

- Because you haven't
responded to any

Of my clever remarks since
he walked in ten minutes ago.

Now since when are you
so interested

In henry wilcox?

Or is it jai?

- I'm shooting you
a dirty look right now.

- [chuckles]

- So do you think it was wise
to come back from london

At the personal request
of arthur campbell?

- Why do you always feel
the need to give me

Career advice after the fact?

- It isn't advice.

It's criticism.

- Mcauley said,
"talk to henry wilcox."

- Yes, but he meant
it in a

"go screw yourself"
kind of way.

- I'm gonna do it.

- Ofourse you are
and I'm gonna sit here

All alone by myself.

- Ah, please.

There will be a girl here before
I cross the bar.

- [scoffs]

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Thought I'd
take you up

On your invitation
from earlier.

- Annie, um, this is my father
henry wilcox.

Dad, annie walker.

- It's a real pleasure
to meet you.

- Miss walker.

What's your pleasure?

- Scotch.

[giggling]

- You disapprove of me.

- No, I don't.
- Yes, you do.

It's okay.

Everyone disapproves of me,

Present company included.

You all think everything
is black and white,

Good versus evil.

That's why you joined up,
right?

Take down the bad guys.

- Better than letting
the bad guys win.

- Precisely.

And sometimes,
to make that happen--

- You got to get in the mud.

- We're all in the mud,
miss walker...

Even if we don't want
to admit it.

Sometimes we have to do things
we don't want people to see.

If you can't live with that...

Leave.

- You think that's
why people leave?

- Some.

But not if they made it past
the first few years.

- Why do they leave after that?

- Money or love.

- Well, that's it?

- Oh, there are a million
different reasons,

But, uh, almost all of them,

When you really get past
the excuses

And the anger...

People leave for money...

Or love.

- What are you doing here?

- Putting career advancement
over my personal life.

Plus, she couldn't
remember the name

Of the last book she read
and even I have standards.

Want to talk about it?

You may not know this
about me,

But I'm an excellent listener.

- Is that so?

- It's in my file.

- How do you feel
about what we do?

- Hmm.

- I mean, I know that
manipulating people

For information is pretty
much my job description,

But it always makes me feel--

- Dirty?

- Tell me it's worth it.

- Tell me what "it" is
and I'll tell you

If it's worth it.

- I read mcauley's file
and based on what

He said today,
I might have something

I can use.

- Worth it.

It'd be a huge get for you
to bring somebody

Like mcauley in.

We don't always get to have
everything nice and shiny

And clean, but we are
talking about

Keeping weapons out of
the hands of terrorists here.

- Henry wilcox said
we're in the mud,

All of us, whether we
want to admit it or not.

- Does that bother you?

- I'd like tw know
how dirty I'm gonna get.

[wind chimes jingle]

[knock on door]

- [sighs]

You know, tenacity might get you
points at work,

But not with me.

- I want to talk to you
about vanessa sinclair.

Everything about you screams
"go away,"

But I think it's all an act.

You have those big dogs
to scare people,

But really they're just
sweethearts.

You didn't train 'em
to be vicious.

I bet this shotgun isn't
even loaded.

Okay, it is.

Vanessa sinclair worked for
henry wilcox's albion group.

Most of their work was
compartmented,

So I'm guessing
it was dark ops.

It doesn't say anything
in your files.

Just that you and she both
met in khartoum

When you were young.

But every vacation you took
for 20 years

Was within 10 miles of where
she was operating.

And the walworth county fair
happens every summer

In wisconsin.

Vanessa was from lake geneva,
which is about...

Five miles from the fairground.

She buy you that hat?

I know what it's like
to hang on to a memory.

- So that's how you knew
how to tie

The rapala knot yesterday.

Did you love him?

The person who taught you
how to do that?

- Very much.

- Hmm.

- Vanessa died in the sudan
five years ago.

You left the agency soon
after that.

Did you love her?

- Very much.

- You feel like the agency
took her away.

But the agency didn't kill her.

The inquiry into her death
resulted in a name:

Hasaan waleed.

- I know.

What does it matter?

- He's coming to the states.

If you help us, if you
talk to your old contacts,

We might be able to find him.

If you don't want to do it
for the greater good,

Then do it for yourself.

For vanessa.

- You think that's gonna
bring me closure?

- I don't know about that.

But...I know staying up here
in the woods all alone

Is not gonna solve anything.

- [chuckles]

You're good, annie walker.

You're good.

You're talented enough to
go very far in this business...

And foolish enough
to want to.

- She got him.

- She's good.

She reminds me of someone.

- Oh, yeah?
Yourself?

- You.

- Two requests from mcauley.

He says he needs to go
to new york to talk

To his contact.

- Who is it?

- Still won't tell us.

- Once a spy,
always a spy.

Who you gonna send with him?

- He says he won't
go without walker.

I tried to convince him that
devon would be better,

But he's insistent.

- So send her,
but send jai with her.

- Second request,
says he needs 250k.

He hasn't talked to his asset
in over three years,

But thinks if he has money
to offer, he can make it work.

- Well, tell him
to make $100,000 work.

We're in a recession.

And track the money.

Oh, okay,
you already thought of that.

How about dinner at 8:00?

Did you already think
of that too?

[knock on door]

- Henry wilcox is here.

- Where?
- At the front gate.

He's not on your schedule,
but he said

He needs to talk to you.

- Bet he wants to complain

About where the podium's gonna
be for the dedication.

- Play nice.

- Dinner at 8:00.

- If you're lucky.

- Get him in here and
find out what he wants.

I got a meeting.

- No, you don't.

- Yes, I do.

- Hello, arthur.

Sorry you kept me waiting.

I always liked this view.

- What are you doing here,
henry?

- It has come
to my attention

That one of the cases you're
working on right now

Involves hasaan waleed.

- Who told you that?

- If you give hasaan
to the fbi

Instead of turning him,

He'll disappear into
a long legal battle.

- Did jai tell you?

- Jai won't tell me what
he had for breakfast.

You're not paying attention,
arthur.

We can use hasaan,

But not if he's behind bars.

- What can I do, henry?

Hasaan is coming here.
It's a federal takedown.

It's the law.

And cut the crap.

You didn't drive all
the way out here

And sit with my secretary
for an hour

So you could lecture me
on the difference

In our perspectives.

- There are some stories
it will do no one any good

To have out in the open.

- Whoa!
That's a lot of money.

- Exactly why we don't want it
to go any place

We can't find it.

- Where's the tracker?

- Look at one of the bills.

There's a polycarbonate strip
on every bill uncle sam issues.

To the world, the strips on
these bills look

Just like every other
u.S. Treasury note.

- But instead?

- These have an rfid strip
in them.

It's a radio signal.

Because we have 1,000
of them all close together,

We get a strong signal,
but there's nothing to find

If anybody goes looking
for a tracker.

Basically it's a virtually
undetectable bug.

- When are you gonna start
tracing it?

- You're walking out
of the dpd with $100,000

In taxpayer money.

We're tracking it now.

- You see him?

- If I haven't told you
who it is yet,

What makes you think
I'm gonna tell you now?

- It was worth a shot.

- Your father's an asshole.

I'm a big believer in justice.

In my opinion,
henry wilcox and hasaan

Should both be in prison.

They can rot there together.

No argument?

- Not from me.

- No, no, no, no.
You stay here.

- What?

- Yeah, I'm not gonna risk you
and secret agent man here

Scaring away my contact.

- That wasn't the plan.

- Yeah, well, it is now.

Take it or leave it.

- This is absurd.

I'm not even sure
who his contact is yet.

- Well, we're about
to find out.

- You were recording everything
that went on

In that market and christopher
didn't notice?

- Whoever his contact is
is on this video.

- Talk to me, annie.

- I'm sending you an encrypted
video right now.

I have three possibilities
for a sudanese national.

You think you can scare me
up some I.D.S?

- Nicely done.
We're on it.

- You really think your father
belongs in prison?

- Not really.

But I wasn't gonna
pick a fight

With our operative just then.

- Your father's quite a guy.

- That's a tactful way
to put it.

- Is that why you spent
five years overseas

And never did a rotation
stateside?

- Have you been reading
my file?

Checking up on me?

- A copy of it might have
gone around

The female operatives when you
first showed up.

- And what else
did you find out?

- Your mother is a neurosurgeon
from mumbai

And you're a junior national
squash player.

You like lattes.

- My coffee preference was
in my file?

- No.

Baristas talk.

He still has the case.

- Five years is too long.

I didn't get anything.

- Well, what'd he say?

- That he didn't trust me.

I'm sorry.

Now excuse me.

Too much coffee.

- Dead end here.

We have the case.
We're heading back.

- Didn't christopher
seem really calm?

Shouldn't he have been
more upset

After all he said
about justice

And how he felt about vanessa?

[sighs]

He's gone.

- Theories?
- He stole the money himself.

Just got paid and ran.

- Or he bought the information
from his contact

And cut us out of the loop.

Either way, he played us.

- You let him go in alone?

- He's a trained orative,
joan.

He wouldn't go in
any other way.

- If his contact's the one
who has the money,

Maybe he sold christopher
information we could use.

- Maybe he'll sell it again.

- We're not gonna
get another 100k.

- Maybe we don't have to.

- They've stopped.

- Got a visual.

Recognize him from the market.

- His name is sadiq misa.

He owns the restaurant.

- Our fbi detail,
he thinks it's a front.

Money laundering.

- Gps coming to your phone.

- Northwest corner of the
building off the alley.

Probably an office.

- Target seems unaware.

Place is practically empty.

- Okay, you're a go for recon
and recovery,

But please try to get
in and out without incident.

- Remind me to call you next
time I'm locked out of my house.

- Has some cracks
in the brick here.

Sadiq's been multitasking.

- What?

- Hi.

We'd like to know exactly
what you told the man

In the market and you can keep

This very handsome bag.

- Just give us the information,
sadiq.

We'll walk right out of here.

Maybe make a quick call.

Tip off the dea.

- So the nsc andromeda docks
at the brooklyn shipyard

An hour from now.

I've got an fbi task force
standing by.

All I need is your go ahead.

What?

- We'll do this takedown,
but without the feds.

Get a special ops team
set up.

- Arthur, we can't do that.

It's outside
of our jurisdiction.

The fbi are ready to go.

They're just waiting
for a location.

- They don't get that
from us.

I cleared this with the director

Of national intelligence.

The only people who'll be at
this takedown

Are our people.

- What's going on?

- Just set up the ops team.

- Understood.

Our orders are to head back
to virginia.

- What about mcauley?

If christopher finds hasaan,
he's gonna try and kill him.

[sighs]

- What are you doing?

- I'm going to the shipyard.

Christopher wouldn't be
in this mess

If it weren't for me.

- You're not responsible
for him.

- You can go to langley
if you want.

I'm going to brooklyn.

- Do we have eyes?

- Just ears.

Shipyard's cctv is locked off.

Can't give us the coverage
we need.

I got a report of unidentified
persons on the scene.

Description sounds like
annie and jai.

- What are they doing there?

- Team leader says
there's a third and he's armed.

- That must be mcauley.

- I suggest you go away, annie.

- You played me.

- [chuckles]

Like you played me.

I mean, wasn't this your idea?

Vengeance for vanessa.

- My idea was for justice.

- Oh, really?

Justice for whom?

- This isn't your fight.

The fbi is coming.

They will take him down.

Hasaan will be behind
bars forever.

- That'll never happen,
honey.

Hasaan's not
who you think he is.

- He's an arms dealer.

- Who got his start
with cia funding

And cia weapons,

Who killed one of our own when
she went to work for him.

- Vanessa.

- Yeah.

She went to bring him weapons
and money.

But he killed her.

And we--
we kept working with him

Until he turned on us.

Annie, they don't want
to arrest him.

They want to turn him back
and leave him out there.

- Activity on the ship.

Okay, we've got
a positive I.D. Of hasaan.

- Tell them to move in quietly.
We need him alive.

- Team lead, move in.

Keep it down.
Keep him alive.

- I'm gonna move.

- We won't have your back.

Don't do this.

Thank you.

[gunshot]

- Shot fired.

- Move in!
Move in!

- Hasaan's down.

[gunfire]

The order was
to take him alive.

Who fired?

- Why don't I have
an answer yet?

Who fired that shot?

- Team lead,
I need an answer now.

- [grunts]

- U.S. Made.

The same weapons we sold to him.

How are you feeling about
standing in the mud now?

- We owe an incalculable debt
to those

That have gone before us

And we're proud to stand
on their shoulders

And usher in a new era.

One that is marked with
a new sense of transparency,

Openness, honesty,

And the successful gathering
of intelligence

To help protect
this great nation.

I'm pleased to dedicate this
new ops center to my friend

And predecessor henry wilcox.

[applause]
congratulations, henry.

- Thank you, sir.

- Hi.
[sighs]

- She sighs.

What's wrong?

Mission accomplished.

- Greater good wins out again.

- I'm proud to follow
in my father's footsteps.

Keep that family legacy
of service here

At the cia intact.

- What a blowhard.

He's as bad as his father.

- No, he isn't.

- You're defending him?

- I think he's just trying
to figure this place out

Like the rest of us.

- You knew the weapons were
ours, didn't you?

That's why you had me cut
the fbi out of the loop.

And don't tell me
it's need-to-know...

Because if you want this
relationship to continue,

Trust me...

You need me to know.

Hmm.

- Hasaan used to be an asset.

He was feeding us information
in exchange

For money and supplies.

He and his bosses built their
entire operation

With cia funding and support,
then he turned on us.

We sent an operative,
vanessa sinclair,

To deliver a shipment of arms.

He killed her,
then used the weapons

That we'd given him
to build a terror cell.

- And you knew this?

- Oh, not till henry wilcox
sat in my office and told me.

If hasaan had been arrested
by the feds

And all this came to light,

Can't you just see
the headlines?

"cia arms terrorist cell."

- But that was henry,
not you.

- Oh, I never would have
survived if this had gotten out.

I was here when henry
started the op.

So were you.

- I understand.

- This didn't end
the way I wanted it to.

I wanted hasaan behind bars.

- But ben mercer didn't.

- ??? things return ???

??? you've come back ???

??? with your body and mine ???

??? raised up ???

??? it's good to see ???

??? you once more ???