The Code (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 10 - Secret Squirrel - full transcript
Previously onThe Code...
People treating you different
now that you put on
your combat "V"? RPG!
Getting a lot of questions
all of a sudden.
When am I coming back
to my real life?
How are you both? We're not good.
Our son lost his leg.
I'm not doing this.
Glenn... Asa,
you're trying to write a story
that I don't want to be in.
I didn't take the test.
It's brutal what the military
did to the last batch
of MAVNI recruits, but that
has nothing to do with you.
Somebody has to stand
with those people.
How long are we supposed
to pretend this thing
with you and Alex Hunt
is a secret?
It's complicated.
Her husband was my friend.
I was the prosecutor
at his murder trial.
If you and I stay together, I'll
never get justice for Jason.
You nodding off, Marine?
Wide awake, Gunny.
When was the last time
you went on patrol?
0200, sir. Looks like it's about time
for another one,
Sleeping Beauty.
I was told to stagger
my patrol times
so they don't fall
every hour, on the hour.
What is your
11th general order, Marine?
To be especially watchful
at night and, during the time
for challenging, to challenge
any and all persons on...
Exactly.
Your duty is to watch
over these detainees,
not catch Zs and talk back
to your staff NCOs.
Your duty is to watch over
detainees,
not catch Zs and talk back
to staff NCOs.
Really, Gunny?
Could've sworn my primary duty
was to kiss your ass on command.
Hey.
What're you doing
in there, Nadoo?
What the hell?
Hey!
Alarm status one.
Alarm status one.
Force Protection Charlie,
all gates.
Force Protection
Charlie, all gates.
No!
All clear.
There's no one here.
No! I saw him. No! Stop!
Eyes on the north gate.
Let's go, let's go!
Guard tower, stop that van!
Control room. Override lockdown
on the north gate. I repeat:
Override north gate.
Get that gate open.
We need to pursue that van.
We need to pursue that van.
Control! Where the hell are you?
They set off gas in here, too.
Hey! Why was this door locked?
You let a prisoner escape.
Gunny...
Hands up, on your knees.
Over.
What are you doing in here?
You set off that gas grenade?
Good morning, Captain Abraham.
Glen-One-N,
good to see you persisting
in spite of the world's
most mysterious injury.
I was in a car accident, sir.
A one-car accident
with no witnesses.
Nevertheless, you're
an inspiration to us all, Glen.
What can I do for you
this morning?
You asked for these updates
on your way in.
I haven't heard
any updating yet.
Colonel Turnbull wants you
in the conference room ASAP.
There was a prisoner escape
at Camp Delta One last night.
A former AQI strategist
named Anwar Nadoo
set off a gas grenade.
Anwar Nadoo broke out of Gitmo?
Who was the inside man?
How did you know?
Nobody could get out
of Guantanamo without help.
Who was it?
A Gunnery Sergeant Miles Wicks
ordered a guard to go on patrol
before the escape.
There was a van waiting
to drive Nadoo off the base.
Drive him off base?
Weren't they on lockdown?
A second gas grenade
went off in the control room.
When they broke in,
they found Gunnery Sergeant
Wicks in a gas mask.
He was deleting
security footage.
So that's conspirator one.
What do we know about the van?
Your repartee is squared away
as always, Glen-One-N.
Can you drop this
in my office for me?
What?
I'm not supposed
to carry heavy stuff.
Anyone else miss Rami?
Me. Oh, I do.
Obviously. No offense, ma'am,
I know Glen-One-N works for you.
Hey, I want a new Warrant
Officer more than anyone.
You think I like
sharing my adjutant?
Any news on that?
The staffing request
is "held up."
They're punishing us
for supporting Rami
when he refused to take
his citizenship test.
Lieutenant Eick briefed you
on the Gitmo escape?
In his own special way, yes.
Lieutenant Li and I
are on prosecution? Yes.
Well, have fun
with this one, guys.
They found your client
wearing a gas mask
and, uh, erasing
security footage.
Oh, look at you,
30 seconds on the case, and
you're already feeling yourself.
We haven't even talked
to Gunnery Sergeant Wicks yet.
Well, when you do,
advise him to give up
his co-conspirators right away.
It's the last piece
of leverage he's got.
What's this?
Oh, Harper's wedding
invitations went out.
Did you import your calligrapher
from the Middle Ages?
I didn't want
a calligrapher at all.
I was fine with
the online invites.
Well, if I'm deciphering
this correctly,
that's less than
three months away.
You must be getting excited.
Or not.
Can we get back to talking
about the prisoner escape?
A week from Saturday?
Definitely. I'll be there.
Thanks.
What?
I'm sizing you up, Major Ferry.
The national party's
throwing a fundraiser
for my brother's campaign.
Right, you told me. Got the details now.
They want Matty to bring a date.
The idea is to lean right into
the fact that he's gay.
Commendable.
In theory. In practice,
it means that
I can't be his date,
which means,
if I'm gonna be there...
You need to bring someone, too.
But I'm aware that you have
a wife and that she's pregnant.
I'm not asking you,
you just happened to be
sitting there when I hung up.
Yes.
I had my gas mask with me
in the control room.
Is it a crime to be prepared?
Of course not,
but having your mask on hand,
it's not common practice.
Every other Marine on watch
succumbed to the gas right away.
The prosecution will say you had
foreknowledge of Nadoo's plan,
that's why you had the mask.
Between that and the fact that
you sent PFC Mason on patrol
right before the escape and
deleted the security footage...
I didn't delete it.
At least, I didn't mean to.
You try working that equipment
after someone sets off
a gas grenade.
The charge of
releasing a prisoner
without proper authority,
that's going to be
difficult to disprove,
but if we can avoid
charges of conspiracy...
Brig time?
I never took you for
a surrender monkey,
Dobbins. Captain. Major.
I'm here to relieve
you of your duty. Ace.
You lost? We're a long way
from Camp Pendleton.
Nobody calls me "Ace" anymore.
Major Acevedo will do.
Oh, you don't have
to point out the foliage.
You got it shined so bright,
I could see it from space, sir.
Like I said,
you're both relieved.
This order states
I've been assigned
to Gunnery Sergeant
Wicks' defense.
Gunny Wicks is serving
under Marine Corps.
Security Force Regiment.
That's Quantico jurisdiction.
Feel free to call the Commandant
if you take issue
with his orders.
In the meantime, I'd like
to speak with my client.
Congratulations. You just met
Santiago Acevedo,
aka the Commandant's Ace.
"The Commandant's Ace"?
Be careful not to
sprain your eyeballs
while they roll back
in your head.
Santiago claims that someone
else gave him the nickname,
but if you ask me,
it's self-applied.
A self-nicknamer? That's
a serious accusation, Marine.
I realize that, sir;
The charge stands.
After we graduated
Naval Justice School,
Santiago got assigned
to Camp Pendleton.
Apparently, he's never lost
a general court-martial.
Something wrong?
Well, this makes no sense.
Anwar Nadoo planned attacks on
Americans all over Mesopotamia.
Wicks might as well have
walked him out of Gitmo.
Why does the Commandant want his
pet Hollywood lawyer on defense?
It's incredibly weird, I agree.
Gunnery Sergeant Wicks
helped a terrorist escape
from the most secure
prison in the world,
and it sure as hell seems
like the Marine Corps
wants him acquitted.
That's the footage that
Gunnery Sergeant Wicks claims to
have deleted accidentally.
The NCIS cyber team
recovered some of it. And...
he is the gunny's
commanding officer.
That's Lieutenant Colonel
Jesse McCoy.
Obviously, he helped
Anwar Nadoo escape.
Where's McCoy now?
We don't know. No one's seen him
since that video was shot.
Are they in Cuba or not?
It seems clear that
they left the island.
We're not sure how.
The FBI's working with Homeland
Security to figure it out.
What does
the gunnery sergeant say?
Does he admit to conspiracy?
Wicks issued a statement
through his new attorney.
He claims that McCoy ordered him
to release Nadoo
so he could be treated
for a recently discovered
congenital heart defect.
And I'm assuming there's
no written record of said order.
No, ma'am. McCoy left
some belongings behind at Gitmo.
We're having them
shipped up here
so we can sift through them.
Ma'am, your contractors are
waiting. Do you need some time?
Five minutes,
Lieutenant. Yes, ma'am.
Lieutenant Eick,
you forgot your, uh...
I don't need to wear it
all the time.
Of course not. Excuse me.
Adam is being discharged
from the hospital,
and his permanent prosthetic
is still not ready, so I need to
rearrange a few things
at the house.
How's he doing?
He's an amputee, Captain. He...
wakes up every night
with a burning pain
in his leg that isn't there.
My God, Rami, this
is your new assignment?
Captain Dobbins, come in.
I don't have a chair
for guests. Please, sit.
No, it's okay. Keep your chair.
What is this place? Um...
Well, have you read about those
rooms where they send teachers
who aren't fit to
lead a class anymore?
This is the Marine equivalent
of that.
A place to warehouse the
otherwise unassignable.
What do they have you
doing down here?
My current orders
are to "stand by."
I can't think
of a worse punishment
than asking you not to work.
The Corps is not happy
that I'm refusing
to take my citizenship test.
This is how they express that.
I'm sorry, Rami.
We're trying to get you back.
Does he play that all day?
Corporal Ingersoll, can we
please have some quiet?
Seriously?
Who helped you itemize
your tax deductions?
About your protest.
The national party's throwing
a fundraiser for my brother.
I need a date.
It's a chance for you to talk
to some important people
about why you're doing this.
Most people
don't even know
what the MAVNI program is,
let alone that the military
backed out of promises
to give those people
citizenship.
That is extremely thoughtful.
My orders are to stand by
at all times.
They want you
to do nothing constantly?
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
often calls my house personally,
just to make sure
I'm in compliance.
That sounds like harassment.
Not according to my CO.
She says I'm serving my country.
I count three pairs
of underwear in here.
Hardly sufficient for the needs
of an officer in the field.
Lieutenant Colonel McCoy either
packed to be gone for a while,
or he needs to visit
his quartermaster.
Oh, my invitation arrived
in the mail yesterday.
How many years in advance
do you have to reserve
St. Patrick's Cathedral?
I think Bard's mom
settled on a date
the minute he brought me home
for dinner.
Everything good on that front?
You used to, uh, I don't know,
glow when you talked
about the wedding.
Am I not glowing?
You are not.
It all seems like... a bit much.
We talked about scaling down,
and then we stopped
talking about scaling down.
It's your wedding.
Don't go along to get along.
It's my wedding
and it's his wedding
and it's his mom's wedding
and it's our families'
wedding and I don't know.
What do you and Alex do
when you're at an impasse?
Me and Alex?
Trey told us we could talk
about that with you now.
Too soon?
Alex and I are taking a break.
Seriously? It's the Feres case.
Alex is suing the Marine Corps
over her husband's murder.
I'm a witness.
If we're involved, it looks...
Got it. Yikes.
The whole point
of that case is to go
all the way
to the Supreme Court.
That'll take years.
Yes, it will.
You okay?
Are you jarheads
taking care of our evidence?
Why is NCIS being so,
uh, generous with this?
It's not like you guys to share.
We'll get to that.
But first, this is Lieutenant
Colonel McCoy's computer.
Our cyber team was able
to recover a third-party
messaging app that was deleted
on the night of the escape.
It's called RapidRange-Chat.
We also did a sweep
of Gunny Wicks's computer,
found the same app, deleted
within minutes of McCoy's.
If we can prove that Wicks
and McCoy communicated
about the escape via RapidRange,
we've got them on conspiracy.
Except...
our cyber team was not able
to crack the messages.
Ah. Now I see why you're here.
FISC. Agent Manion
needs us to present this
to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court in D.C.
We can request a FISA warrant
and compel RapidRange
to release the
unencrypted messages.
NCIS can't do that...
without a lawyer.
Will they give us the warrant?
I've never argued there,
but from everything I hear,
FISC is a prosecutor's
wet dream.
No defense counsel in the room,
and if you can even wink
in the direction
of probable cause,
they give you what you need.
And before you object,
I'm aware of the Fourth
Amendment implications,
but there is a terrorist
running around.
We can argue
the Big Brother of it all
once Anwar Nadoo's in custody.
Hey.
Hey.
That's Tonks.
My granddaughter likes me
to take a selfie with him
wherever I go.
I'm Judge Park. What's up?
The government takes
any request to circumvent
a citizen's
Fourth Amendment rights
very seriously, but... Do me a favor,
Captain,
Cut to the chase.
Your Honor,
Gunnery Sergeant Miles Wicks
and Lieutenant Colonel Jesse
McCoy appear to have colluded
with known terrorist Anwar Nadoo
to orchestrate his escape.
Their actions are a direct
threat to our nation's security.
Got it.
You're good.
Wait here, we'll
nudge RapidRange
to get you these records.
I've filed three different
requests to get Rami back.
Even Colonel Turnbull's
making calls.
I'm not talking
about official channels.
What areyou talking about?
You should see where
they have him stashed away.
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
is playing dirty.
We need to play dirty, too.
Maddox runs HR
for all of Quantico.
She's already jamming up
our staff requests.
I don't even know
what "play dirty" means.
I don't, either.
I've been
to two different refrigerators,
and I still
can't drink my coffee.
Who replaces this stuff?
That was an unofficial duty.
I'm covering the official ones.
Thanks for your service.
What's that?
Harper's soy milk.
You're right.
We need to play dirty.
Shh-shh-shh...
So sorry, Your Honor.
I, um, I-I got
a little stir-crazy.
There were some complications,
but my clerk was able to connect
with legal representatives
at RapidRange, and, uh,
these documents
were approved for release.
Thank you, Your Honor.
These pages are all redacted.
Mm, mostly redacted.
Decrypting the messages
isn't exactly helpful
if they're all...
blacked out after the fact.
It is what it is.
Is there someone I can
appeal this to? No.
Live by the secret court,
die by the secret court.
Well, these
are completely useless.
NCIS needs to find
Lieutenant Colonel McCoy,
you guys need to prosecute
Gunnery Sergeant Wicks,
and we need these messages to
do either of those two things.
We could appeal
to RapidRange directly.
We tried. The CEO
shot us down cold.
Then we need to make
a different argument to FISC.
Or at least an
argument that feels
different enough
for them to look again.
The argument I made today
was, "the guy"
"who planned attacks
that killed more than
50 Americans is out there
doing God knows what."
Do you have a better one,
Lieutenant?
Should we just squint real hard
at these papers, then?
Whatever this
special argument is,
we need time to come up with it.
Gunny Wicks requested
a court-martial
by military judge.
There is no panel.
This is all gonna happen fast.
We need a continuance.
Can I get you anything?
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox was
supposed to see me at 1715.
She knows you're here.
Major.
We've made several requests
for a new warrant officer,
ma'am...
That said,
considering the unique needs
of the Judge Advocate Corps,
it's become apparent
we need Rami Ahmadi back.
Mr. Ahmadi is doing important
work at Corps Training.
He's sitting in a basement
with his thumb
up his backside, ma'am.
You're squeezing him
because he's protesting
what we did
to the latest batch
of MAVNI recruits.
Marines don't protest.
We'd like Mr. Ahmadi back.
He's essential.
Your request is noted.
I wrote it in his file
next to the other ones.
Due respect,
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox,
Rami Ahmadi is the best warrant
officer I have ever worked with.
He's a dedicated Marine, and
we are not gonna stand by
while you pull
a catch-22 on his career.
Uh, HROMB is a big department.
You got, what,
900 Marines working for you?
Give or take.
If this doesn't go our way,
my office is prepared
to offer special treatment
to your staff. Any time
one of them comes up
for discipline,
we'll go at them
as hard as we possibly can.
You'll lose time and manpower.
We'll never settle out to
non-judicial punishment,
not where the Human Resources
and Organizational Management.
Branch is concerned.
Does Glenn Turnbull know
you're pulling this?
The colonel's been briefed.
We're real good at this
kind of thing over here, Major.
You're not getting
Rami Ahmadi back.
Do yourself a favor
and don't bring it up again.
No second chair
for Major Acevedo.
Well, I guess when you're
undefeated, you work solo.
"Undefeated." How does
he measure that, anyway?
All rise.
He's never settled
before a panel
reached verdict?
Never had a mistrial?
I understand the government
filed an extension.
What gives?
Your Honor, the government
respectfully requests
a continuance to submit
a modified request
to the FISC Court of Review.
Colonel Zugler, the government
has already submitted...
I'm a colonel
and a judge, Major.
Colonel Judge Zugler, the
government has already submitted
a request, and the FISA judge
approved the evidence...
The heavily redacted evidence.
Which, nevertheless,
still qualifies as evidence.
Your Honor, we'll never know
the full extent
of what happened here
if we can't read those messages.
Since when are you a defeatist,
Captain Abraham?
It is not the will of this court
to question or otherwise
undermine a decision
from a federal judge.
Permission for extension...
denied.
I measure undefeated
in wins and losses.
I'll see you soon.
Colonel Judge Zugler.
With respect
to the federal decision,
this is a military court.
Gunnery Sergeant Wicks deserves
the chance to have
the evidence against him
reviewed by military personnel.
Federal law and the UCMJ
afford you the opportunity
to review the unredacted
evidence personally.
In camera.
I'm aware of my
in camera privileges.
Then why not take a look
at the messages?
Decide for yourself
if whatever's in there
merits another run
at the FISC Court of Review.
Very well.
We will recess
for in camera review.
In camera review?
It's a Hail Mary, I know.
Zugler can declare all of
the evidence inadmissible;
He can pretty much
do whatever he wants.
Can he make it
worse than useless?
'Cause that's what it is now.
"Intimidated" is not
the word I would use.
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
definitely did not
seem intimidated.
How did she seem?
Tumescent.
She seemed swollen
by sexual arousal? I mean,
there are some people who
get off on this kind of thing.
Major Ferry?
Sergeant.
Phils. Georgia Phils.
How's life in HR?
Can we... talk in private?
I think it sucks.
What Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
is doing to that man.
We agree.
It does suck.
She works harder
than anyone, but...
she has a cruel streak.
You're not gonna win.
Not the way
you're going about it.
How do we win?
I... keep the Lieutenant
Colonel's calendar.
Pay a lot of her bills.
There are... inconsistencies.
Code words that she thinks
I don't see through.
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
is having an affair
with someone on base.
Adultery's still illegal
in the Marines, isn't it?
Lieutenant Li. See that
squared away-looking guy?
He was asking for you.
Hello, sir.
I'm Lieutenant Harper Li.
Can I help you with something?
My name's Daquan Glass,
I'm one of the senior
instructors
at SERE school in Maine.
Do you know what we do?
Survival, evasion,
resistance and escape.
That's right, we teach Marines
and our unfortunate
squid cousins
how to avoid capture
in combat...
and how to escape
if they are captured.
You are something
of a unicorn for us.
I'm not sure I follow, Captain.
You're a woman
who's seen close combat.
Led Marines out of a jam,
you came back
with a Bronze Star.
I think you'd have quite a bit
to share with our students.
Uh...
thank you, sir.
Of course, you'd have to go
through our training first.
There's a new class cycling
in six weeks from now.
And I will hold you a spot
if you put the request
through your CO.
Six weeks from now?
Uh, how long
does the course last?
We'd keep you in
Maine three weeks.
They're recruiting you for SERE?
That's quite the honor. I know, right?
I'm excited. Well, you should be.
It's a great experience.
When does it start? In six weeks.
Well, at the risk
of highlighting the obvious,
uh, you're getting married
during that window.
Colonel Judge Zugler
wants to see you.
I conducted my in camera review,
and it is my determination
that the messages
between Gunnery Sergeant Wicks
and Lieutenant Colonel McCoy
are hereby deemed inadmissible.
Furthermore, the entity known
as RapidRange will be struck
from all court filings.
Sorry, you want us to pretend
the whole company doesn't exist?
On what grounds does
the court declare
a private corporation
untouchable
in a case impacting
national security?
I don't have to explain
my decision
to you, Captain.
We will proceed in camera
for the duration of the case.
An in camera preceding
denies the public
access to the findings.
Why is everybody
trying to push this
thing into the shadows?
I know you don't owe
us an explanation.
We urge you to reconsider
and declare reassignment
to a public court-martial
with a panel.
Denied. We will move forward
with the case
the day after tomorrow...
in camera.
And there will be
no mention of RapidRange.
Ma'am, there's a span
in the works.
It's the Miles Wicks case.
Every time someone gets a look
at the unredacted evidence,
they get all squirrelly.
It's like they're afraid
of showing us the truth.
When some people get frustrated,
they start to see conspiracies.
Some people, not me. There's
a span in the works, ma'am.
I'm, like, 80% sure it's a.
"Johnny Spann Lion of Fallujah"
type of situation.
Which is why you came to me.
I hate to ask.
I know things aren't exactly
optimal between you and your ex.
Asa's still my husband,
for the moment.
It's the "for the moment" part
that makes me hate to ask,
but you're the only one
in the office
who's married to
an Executive Vice President
of the Balemore
Consulting Group.
For the moment.
Balemore has its fingers in
all sorts of rancid little pies.
If this is what I think it is,
Asa might be able
to get us what we need.
Anything that
he shared on background
would not be admissible.
Help me figure out what's
actually going on, ma'am.
Then we can worry
about how to prove it.
First of all, I never have
more than two drinks,
but even if we got lit,
I would never let you
talk me into blackmailing
another Marine.
Who says I'm trying
to talk you into anything?
We keep dancing
around the subject.
So what do you think?
I think we're officers
and we both know better.
What do you think?
I think you're not wrong.
So then we agree.
Why did we order another round?
You're not wrong, but you're
also not gonna get Rami back.
Rami wouldn't want us
to do the thing
you're thinking about doing.
Of course he wouldn't.
That's why he's
worth fighting for.
Bad people win when
good people won't get down
in the mud with them. You hate the fact
that adultery's still
illegal in the military.
I've heard you rail
against it a dozen times.
It's disgusting. Who gets
charged with adultery more,
you think, men or women?
And to protest this injustice,
let's pillory a female
Lieutenant Colonel
for the crime of stepping out
on a marriage
we know nothing about. I'm not saying
we actually expose her.
You've met Maddox.
You threaten that woman,
you best be ready
to follow through.
I want Rami back
just as much as you do,
but I'm not gonna
do it like this.
Good night.
That's a pretty damn
gigantic ask, Glenn.
Is it?
Balemore's one of the
leakiest ships in town.
You'd have plenty of cover.
First of all, every
big consulting shop has leaks.
Don't get defensive, Asa.
Your company exists
to help the government
catch terrorists,
and that's what we're
trying to do here.
Been a while since
we had a second drink.
It's been a while
since we've seen each other
outside a hospital.
How's the house?
You ready for Adam
to come home? Ugh, contractors.
I feel confident that you have
the situation in hand.
You look good.
You stopped to change
on your way here.
Sometimes I do like
to wear regular clothes.
And if you're gonna
do this for me,
don't do it because
you like my outfit.
They're coming down
on leaks, Glenn.
The word is they're looking
to make an example of somebody.
My contract is up
in five months.
Our son just lost a leg.
I don't think it is
the best time to be
looking for work.
You okay?
I'm fine. Just...
being selfish.
This is not what I saw.
Driving home alone to
an empty apartment, our son...
I made plans for us...
and God laughed.
Harper?
How did you get... I grabbed a hop
from Quantico.
I'll go back in the morning.
Are you okay?
Just... let me feel
you for a sec, okay?
Can we delay the wedding?
What?
They picked me for something
called SERE school.
Starts in six weeks.
Okay.
That's great.
Can you do it another time?
Probably...
I don't know.
They're offering it to me now.
We have a church.
People already made
travel plans.
Everything's happening. Okay, okay.
No, see, you make me
point that out
and suddenly
I feel like the bad guy.
It was just an idea.
You flew up here
in the middle of the night
because of an idea?
Is this still
what you want, Harper?
Are we okay?
Yes.
Hey, uh,
you know who's in town?
Jasper Kern.
Yeah, a bunch of us from school
are getting together
on Thursday.
Everyone's been
asking about you.
Why don't you stay?
Hang out with our friends.
I have to get back to Quantico.
So come back after.
Everyone's so excited for us.
You should be around that.
Maybe you'll get excited, too.
Okay.
I am excited.
Always hated that sound.
Lucky for me, you kept
some of my suits around.
How long have you been awake?
A little over an hour.
I sent some e-mails
before I fell asleep last night.
Just following up.
Here. I used the printer.
I hope you don't mind.
You did not get those from me.
Thank you.
Go find Anwar Nadoo.
Tax forms?
You tracked down tax information
for Gunnery Sergeant Wicks
and Colonel McCoy?
That's right. Why?
Look at the employee ID number.
Wicks and McCoy are Marines.
Their number should
start with 5... 5399.
I know. I do my own taxes.
Both of these start with 5302.
What is that?
Central Intelligence Agency.
The Special Activities Division
has been known to recruit
former military personnel
and then have them reenlist.
But even spooks
can't lie to the IRS.
Wicks and McCoy
are intelligence assets
embedded within
the Marine Corps.
And that wasn't
a prison escape the other night.
It was a CIA op.
So the CIA recruits inactive
Marines and incentivizes them
to reenlist, only
now they're assets.
There's a precedent for this.
Johnny Spann,
the Lion of Fallujah.
Yeah, I get all that, but if the
CIA wanted Anwar Nadoo so badly,
why all the Sturm und Drang?
They could have just waltzed in
and taken him.
They obviously wanted the world
to think Nadoo escaped.
So everything
we've been dealing with,
the commandant's office
handpicking a defense attorney,
the redacted files, the Agency's
had a hand in all of it.
Gunnery Sergeant Wicks takes
the initial heat for the escape,
then he pawns the blame off
on a conveniently absent McCoy,
and a kangaroo court
acquits Wicks. This is Chinatownstuff.
At least you could tell what the
bad guys wanted in that movie.
Cheap real estate.
I thought it was
something with water.
It was both. Here, all we know
is the CIA is free to use
Anwar Nadoo for whatever.
So, team, how do we feel about
being the suckers at the table?
Bad. Feels bad. We got to go
after them for this.
They're staging ops
in the middle of our territory.
Good Marines were injured
during that escape.
I don't like it
any more than you do.
But those tax forms
are not admissible as evidence.
And the fact is,
this didn't happen
without sign-off.
So that's it?
We're just pawns in the game?
Forget it, Abe. Don't say it.
It's Chinatown.
Captain Dobbins,
you wanted to see me?
You know what, ma'am?
I think I got
ahead of myself here.
Turns out we don't need
to meet after all.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Hey, Rami.
Captain Dobbins.
Is something wrong?
Come back to us.
Come home.
You say that
like it's actually an option.
If you schedule an appointment
to take your citizenship test,
I'm confident
that Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
will approve our requests
to bring you back.
You didn't join the Marines
through MAVNI.
You've already got
your green card.
Maybe you've taken this thing
as far as you can.
I haven't taken it anywhere.
I'm sitting in a basement.
You made a point.
People heard you.
Get out of this dungeon...
dust yourself off
and find a new way to fight.
Because, I'm sorry,
but this one's over.
Major Acevedo.
Can I have a word?
Can it wait?
The colonel judge doesn't
take kindly to latecomers.
Then he's gonna have
a frustrating morning.
The prosecution won't be
holding up our end of this, uh,
show trial.
What do you mean, "show trial"?
I mean, Gunnery Sergeant Wicks
and Lieutenant Colonel McCoy
are CIA assets.
I mean, this whole thing
was a put-on and I'm-I'm
so spun behind it, I can't
figure out if you're in on it,
or if you're just
a... useful idiot.
You sound crazy right now.
If you have evidence,
show it to the judge.
You and I are gonna make a deal,
and end this stupid light show
once and for all.
The government is willing
to dismiss the charge
of releasing a prisoner
without proper authority.
We'll stop chasing
the conspiracy angle,
and we'll forget about improper
use of a government computer
while we're at it. That's everything.
You're rolling over?
That's where this
is all headed anyway.
Suit yourself.
There is a new charge, though.
One for Gunnery Sergeant Wicks,
and one
for Lieutenant Colonel McCoy,
whenever we catch up with him.
Gunny Wicks only reenlisted
after he was recruited
by the Special
Activities Division
for the mission
at Camp Delta One.
He was already serving
another master
when he took
his oath of enlistment.
The entire thing was a ruse
that constitutes
a violation of Article 83.
You're gonna charge my client
with fraudulent enlistment?
He's eating that charge.
I want him
out of the Marine Corps.
Why would we agree to that?
He'll lose
his retirement benefits.
That right there is proof
that Wicks and McCoy
were on the CIA payroll.
Float that up the chain,
and while you're at it,
remind everyone that there are
still good Marines
in the hospital recovering
from those gas grenades
at Guantanamo.
Wicks and McCoy are gone.
We will not turn a blind eye
to double agents in the Corps.
And if you don't agree
to every bit of that,
who knows where those papers
might end up?
Escaped terrorist detainee
Anwar Nadoo
was taken into custody today
just outside Istanbul.
Is that Lieutenant Colonel McCoy
taking Nadoo into custody?
Indeed it is.
You think he knows
he's got charges
waiting for him back home?
Well, I'm sure word
has gotten back to him by now.
The news said they picked up
three high-profile targets
when they scooped up Nadoo.
So Nadoo's bait. Mm.
Bad guys think
it's safe to meet with him
because the story
of his escape is out there.
And three more terrorists
are off the map.
You think it was all worth it?
Who knows, man?
It's Chinatown.
You doing okay?
That's why you came here?
To ask if I'm okay?
You're a pretty stoic guy, Abe,
but even
by your standards,
you got this thing
with Alex Hunt in deep freeze.
You guys had a good thing going.
It's okay if you're...
I don't know, upset. Alex can't bring
her lawsuit against the Marines
if we're together.
She can't challenge the Feres
Doctrine if we're together.
Do I like it? Of course not.
But when you consider all the
variables, it's a no-brainer.
'Cause that's
what love's all about.
Considering all the variables.
I'm fine, man.
I could fake a breakdown
if you want.
Get out of here.
Did anyone follow you?
I mean, I'm not a trained spy
or anything,
but I think I'm good.
You?
I'm not a trained spy, either.
Thank God.
Come here.
Hey.
How come you're wearing
your uniform?
You're not coming in, are you?
No.
I'm sorry, Bard.
You asked
if we were okay.
I wasn't honest.
Yeah, I knew.
Still, I should have told you.
That party in there?
That's not me.
Not anymore.
Maybe I'll come back
to it one day, but...
I can't ask you to wait.
I would.
I will. Uh... Don't.
I know you're gonna have
an amazing life.
Just not with you.
Captioning sponsored by CBS.
People treating you different
now that you put on
your combat "V"? RPG!
Getting a lot of questions
all of a sudden.
When am I coming back
to my real life?
How are you both? We're not good.
Our son lost his leg.
I'm not doing this.
Glenn... Asa,
you're trying to write a story
that I don't want to be in.
I didn't take the test.
It's brutal what the military
did to the last batch
of MAVNI recruits, but that
has nothing to do with you.
Somebody has to stand
with those people.
How long are we supposed
to pretend this thing
with you and Alex Hunt
is a secret?
It's complicated.
Her husband was my friend.
I was the prosecutor
at his murder trial.
If you and I stay together, I'll
never get justice for Jason.
You nodding off, Marine?
Wide awake, Gunny.
When was the last time
you went on patrol?
0200, sir. Looks like it's about time
for another one,
Sleeping Beauty.
I was told to stagger
my patrol times
so they don't fall
every hour, on the hour.
What is your
11th general order, Marine?
To be especially watchful
at night and, during the time
for challenging, to challenge
any and all persons on...
Exactly.
Your duty is to watch
over these detainees,
not catch Zs and talk back
to your staff NCOs.
Your duty is to watch over
detainees,
not catch Zs and talk back
to staff NCOs.
Really, Gunny?
Could've sworn my primary duty
was to kiss your ass on command.
Hey.
What're you doing
in there, Nadoo?
What the hell?
Hey!
Alarm status one.
Alarm status one.
Force Protection Charlie,
all gates.
Force Protection
Charlie, all gates.
No!
All clear.
There's no one here.
No! I saw him. No! Stop!
Eyes on the north gate.
Let's go, let's go!
Guard tower, stop that van!
Control room. Override lockdown
on the north gate. I repeat:
Override north gate.
Get that gate open.
We need to pursue that van.
We need to pursue that van.
Control! Where the hell are you?
They set off gas in here, too.
Hey! Why was this door locked?
You let a prisoner escape.
Gunny...
Hands up, on your knees.
Over.
What are you doing in here?
You set off that gas grenade?
Good morning, Captain Abraham.
Glen-One-N,
good to see you persisting
in spite of the world's
most mysterious injury.
I was in a car accident, sir.
A one-car accident
with no witnesses.
Nevertheless, you're
an inspiration to us all, Glen.
What can I do for you
this morning?
You asked for these updates
on your way in.
I haven't heard
any updating yet.
Colonel Turnbull wants you
in the conference room ASAP.
There was a prisoner escape
at Camp Delta One last night.
A former AQI strategist
named Anwar Nadoo
set off a gas grenade.
Anwar Nadoo broke out of Gitmo?
Who was the inside man?
How did you know?
Nobody could get out
of Guantanamo without help.
Who was it?
A Gunnery Sergeant Miles Wicks
ordered a guard to go on patrol
before the escape.
There was a van waiting
to drive Nadoo off the base.
Drive him off base?
Weren't they on lockdown?
A second gas grenade
went off in the control room.
When they broke in,
they found Gunnery Sergeant
Wicks in a gas mask.
He was deleting
security footage.
So that's conspirator one.
What do we know about the van?
Your repartee is squared away
as always, Glen-One-N.
Can you drop this
in my office for me?
What?
I'm not supposed
to carry heavy stuff.
Anyone else miss Rami?
Me. Oh, I do.
Obviously. No offense, ma'am,
I know Glen-One-N works for you.
Hey, I want a new Warrant
Officer more than anyone.
You think I like
sharing my adjutant?
Any news on that?
The staffing request
is "held up."
They're punishing us
for supporting Rami
when he refused to take
his citizenship test.
Lieutenant Eick briefed you
on the Gitmo escape?
In his own special way, yes.
Lieutenant Li and I
are on prosecution? Yes.
Well, have fun
with this one, guys.
They found your client
wearing a gas mask
and, uh, erasing
security footage.
Oh, look at you,
30 seconds on the case, and
you're already feeling yourself.
We haven't even talked
to Gunnery Sergeant Wicks yet.
Well, when you do,
advise him to give up
his co-conspirators right away.
It's the last piece
of leverage he's got.
What's this?
Oh, Harper's wedding
invitations went out.
Did you import your calligrapher
from the Middle Ages?
I didn't want
a calligrapher at all.
I was fine with
the online invites.
Well, if I'm deciphering
this correctly,
that's less than
three months away.
You must be getting excited.
Or not.
Can we get back to talking
about the prisoner escape?
A week from Saturday?
Definitely. I'll be there.
Thanks.
What?
I'm sizing you up, Major Ferry.
The national party's
throwing a fundraiser
for my brother's campaign.
Right, you told me. Got the details now.
They want Matty to bring a date.
The idea is to lean right into
the fact that he's gay.
Commendable.
In theory. In practice,
it means that
I can't be his date,
which means,
if I'm gonna be there...
You need to bring someone, too.
But I'm aware that you have
a wife and that she's pregnant.
I'm not asking you,
you just happened to be
sitting there when I hung up.
Yes.
I had my gas mask with me
in the control room.
Is it a crime to be prepared?
Of course not,
but having your mask on hand,
it's not common practice.
Every other Marine on watch
succumbed to the gas right away.
The prosecution will say you had
foreknowledge of Nadoo's plan,
that's why you had the mask.
Between that and the fact that
you sent PFC Mason on patrol
right before the escape and
deleted the security footage...
I didn't delete it.
At least, I didn't mean to.
You try working that equipment
after someone sets off
a gas grenade.
The charge of
releasing a prisoner
without proper authority,
that's going to be
difficult to disprove,
but if we can avoid
charges of conspiracy...
Brig time?
I never took you for
a surrender monkey,
Dobbins. Captain. Major.
I'm here to relieve
you of your duty. Ace.
You lost? We're a long way
from Camp Pendleton.
Nobody calls me "Ace" anymore.
Major Acevedo will do.
Oh, you don't have
to point out the foliage.
You got it shined so bright,
I could see it from space, sir.
Like I said,
you're both relieved.
This order states
I've been assigned
to Gunnery Sergeant
Wicks' defense.
Gunny Wicks is serving
under Marine Corps.
Security Force Regiment.
That's Quantico jurisdiction.
Feel free to call the Commandant
if you take issue
with his orders.
In the meantime, I'd like
to speak with my client.
Congratulations. You just met
Santiago Acevedo,
aka the Commandant's Ace.
"The Commandant's Ace"?
Be careful not to
sprain your eyeballs
while they roll back
in your head.
Santiago claims that someone
else gave him the nickname,
but if you ask me,
it's self-applied.
A self-nicknamer? That's
a serious accusation, Marine.
I realize that, sir;
The charge stands.
After we graduated
Naval Justice School,
Santiago got assigned
to Camp Pendleton.
Apparently, he's never lost
a general court-martial.
Something wrong?
Well, this makes no sense.
Anwar Nadoo planned attacks on
Americans all over Mesopotamia.
Wicks might as well have
walked him out of Gitmo.
Why does the Commandant want his
pet Hollywood lawyer on defense?
It's incredibly weird, I agree.
Gunnery Sergeant Wicks
helped a terrorist escape
from the most secure
prison in the world,
and it sure as hell seems
like the Marine Corps
wants him acquitted.
That's the footage that
Gunnery Sergeant Wicks claims to
have deleted accidentally.
The NCIS cyber team
recovered some of it. And...
he is the gunny's
commanding officer.
That's Lieutenant Colonel
Jesse McCoy.
Obviously, he helped
Anwar Nadoo escape.
Where's McCoy now?
We don't know. No one's seen him
since that video was shot.
Are they in Cuba or not?
It seems clear that
they left the island.
We're not sure how.
The FBI's working with Homeland
Security to figure it out.
What does
the gunnery sergeant say?
Does he admit to conspiracy?
Wicks issued a statement
through his new attorney.
He claims that McCoy ordered him
to release Nadoo
so he could be treated
for a recently discovered
congenital heart defect.
And I'm assuming there's
no written record of said order.
No, ma'am. McCoy left
some belongings behind at Gitmo.
We're having them
shipped up here
so we can sift through them.
Ma'am, your contractors are
waiting. Do you need some time?
Five minutes,
Lieutenant. Yes, ma'am.
Lieutenant Eick,
you forgot your, uh...
I don't need to wear it
all the time.
Of course not. Excuse me.
Adam is being discharged
from the hospital,
and his permanent prosthetic
is still not ready, so I need to
rearrange a few things
at the house.
How's he doing?
He's an amputee, Captain. He...
wakes up every night
with a burning pain
in his leg that isn't there.
My God, Rami, this
is your new assignment?
Captain Dobbins, come in.
I don't have a chair
for guests. Please, sit.
No, it's okay. Keep your chair.
What is this place? Um...
Well, have you read about those
rooms where they send teachers
who aren't fit to
lead a class anymore?
This is the Marine equivalent
of that.
A place to warehouse the
otherwise unassignable.
What do they have you
doing down here?
My current orders
are to "stand by."
I can't think
of a worse punishment
than asking you not to work.
The Corps is not happy
that I'm refusing
to take my citizenship test.
This is how they express that.
I'm sorry, Rami.
We're trying to get you back.
Does he play that all day?
Corporal Ingersoll, can we
please have some quiet?
Seriously?
Who helped you itemize
your tax deductions?
About your protest.
The national party's throwing
a fundraiser for my brother.
I need a date.
It's a chance for you to talk
to some important people
about why you're doing this.
Most people
don't even know
what the MAVNI program is,
let alone that the military
backed out of promises
to give those people
citizenship.
That is extremely thoughtful.
My orders are to stand by
at all times.
They want you
to do nothing constantly?
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
often calls my house personally,
just to make sure
I'm in compliance.
That sounds like harassment.
Not according to my CO.
She says I'm serving my country.
I count three pairs
of underwear in here.
Hardly sufficient for the needs
of an officer in the field.
Lieutenant Colonel McCoy either
packed to be gone for a while,
or he needs to visit
his quartermaster.
Oh, my invitation arrived
in the mail yesterday.
How many years in advance
do you have to reserve
St. Patrick's Cathedral?
I think Bard's mom
settled on a date
the minute he brought me home
for dinner.
Everything good on that front?
You used to, uh, I don't know,
glow when you talked
about the wedding.
Am I not glowing?
You are not.
It all seems like... a bit much.
We talked about scaling down,
and then we stopped
talking about scaling down.
It's your wedding.
Don't go along to get along.
It's my wedding
and it's his wedding
and it's his mom's wedding
and it's our families'
wedding and I don't know.
What do you and Alex do
when you're at an impasse?
Me and Alex?
Trey told us we could talk
about that with you now.
Too soon?
Alex and I are taking a break.
Seriously? It's the Feres case.
Alex is suing the Marine Corps
over her husband's murder.
I'm a witness.
If we're involved, it looks...
Got it. Yikes.
The whole point
of that case is to go
all the way
to the Supreme Court.
That'll take years.
Yes, it will.
You okay?
Are you jarheads
taking care of our evidence?
Why is NCIS being so,
uh, generous with this?
It's not like you guys to share.
We'll get to that.
But first, this is Lieutenant
Colonel McCoy's computer.
Our cyber team was able
to recover a third-party
messaging app that was deleted
on the night of the escape.
It's called RapidRange-Chat.
We also did a sweep
of Gunny Wicks's computer,
found the same app, deleted
within minutes of McCoy's.
If we can prove that Wicks
and McCoy communicated
about the escape via RapidRange,
we've got them on conspiracy.
Except...
our cyber team was not able
to crack the messages.
Ah. Now I see why you're here.
FISC. Agent Manion
needs us to present this
to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court in D.C.
We can request a FISA warrant
and compel RapidRange
to release the
unencrypted messages.
NCIS can't do that...
without a lawyer.
Will they give us the warrant?
I've never argued there,
but from everything I hear,
FISC is a prosecutor's
wet dream.
No defense counsel in the room,
and if you can even wink
in the direction
of probable cause,
they give you what you need.
And before you object,
I'm aware of the Fourth
Amendment implications,
but there is a terrorist
running around.
We can argue
the Big Brother of it all
once Anwar Nadoo's in custody.
Hey.
Hey.
That's Tonks.
My granddaughter likes me
to take a selfie with him
wherever I go.
I'm Judge Park. What's up?
The government takes
any request to circumvent
a citizen's
Fourth Amendment rights
very seriously, but... Do me a favor,
Captain,
Cut to the chase.
Your Honor,
Gunnery Sergeant Miles Wicks
and Lieutenant Colonel Jesse
McCoy appear to have colluded
with known terrorist Anwar Nadoo
to orchestrate his escape.
Their actions are a direct
threat to our nation's security.
Got it.
You're good.
Wait here, we'll
nudge RapidRange
to get you these records.
I've filed three different
requests to get Rami back.
Even Colonel Turnbull's
making calls.
I'm not talking
about official channels.
What areyou talking about?
You should see where
they have him stashed away.
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
is playing dirty.
We need to play dirty, too.
Maddox runs HR
for all of Quantico.
She's already jamming up
our staff requests.
I don't even know
what "play dirty" means.
I don't, either.
I've been
to two different refrigerators,
and I still
can't drink my coffee.
Who replaces this stuff?
That was an unofficial duty.
I'm covering the official ones.
Thanks for your service.
What's that?
Harper's soy milk.
You're right.
We need to play dirty.
Shh-shh-shh...
So sorry, Your Honor.
I, um, I-I got
a little stir-crazy.
There were some complications,
but my clerk was able to connect
with legal representatives
at RapidRange, and, uh,
these documents
were approved for release.
Thank you, Your Honor.
These pages are all redacted.
Mm, mostly redacted.
Decrypting the messages
isn't exactly helpful
if they're all...
blacked out after the fact.
It is what it is.
Is there someone I can
appeal this to? No.
Live by the secret court,
die by the secret court.
Well, these
are completely useless.
NCIS needs to find
Lieutenant Colonel McCoy,
you guys need to prosecute
Gunnery Sergeant Wicks,
and we need these messages to
do either of those two things.
We could appeal
to RapidRange directly.
We tried. The CEO
shot us down cold.
Then we need to make
a different argument to FISC.
Or at least an
argument that feels
different enough
for them to look again.
The argument I made today
was, "the guy"
"who planned attacks
that killed more than
50 Americans is out there
doing God knows what."
Do you have a better one,
Lieutenant?
Should we just squint real hard
at these papers, then?
Whatever this
special argument is,
we need time to come up with it.
Gunny Wicks requested
a court-martial
by military judge.
There is no panel.
This is all gonna happen fast.
We need a continuance.
Can I get you anything?
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox was
supposed to see me at 1715.
She knows you're here.
Major.
We've made several requests
for a new warrant officer,
ma'am...
That said,
considering the unique needs
of the Judge Advocate Corps,
it's become apparent
we need Rami Ahmadi back.
Mr. Ahmadi is doing important
work at Corps Training.
He's sitting in a basement
with his thumb
up his backside, ma'am.
You're squeezing him
because he's protesting
what we did
to the latest batch
of MAVNI recruits.
Marines don't protest.
We'd like Mr. Ahmadi back.
He's essential.
Your request is noted.
I wrote it in his file
next to the other ones.
Due respect,
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox,
Rami Ahmadi is the best warrant
officer I have ever worked with.
He's a dedicated Marine, and
we are not gonna stand by
while you pull
a catch-22 on his career.
Uh, HROMB is a big department.
You got, what,
900 Marines working for you?
Give or take.
If this doesn't go our way,
my office is prepared
to offer special treatment
to your staff. Any time
one of them comes up
for discipline,
we'll go at them
as hard as we possibly can.
You'll lose time and manpower.
We'll never settle out to
non-judicial punishment,
not where the Human Resources
and Organizational Management.
Branch is concerned.
Does Glenn Turnbull know
you're pulling this?
The colonel's been briefed.
We're real good at this
kind of thing over here, Major.
You're not getting
Rami Ahmadi back.
Do yourself a favor
and don't bring it up again.
No second chair
for Major Acevedo.
Well, I guess when you're
undefeated, you work solo.
"Undefeated." How does
he measure that, anyway?
All rise.
He's never settled
before a panel
reached verdict?
Never had a mistrial?
I understand the government
filed an extension.
What gives?
Your Honor, the government
respectfully requests
a continuance to submit
a modified request
to the FISC Court of Review.
Colonel Zugler, the government
has already submitted...
I'm a colonel
and a judge, Major.
Colonel Judge Zugler, the
government has already submitted
a request, and the FISA judge
approved the evidence...
The heavily redacted evidence.
Which, nevertheless,
still qualifies as evidence.
Your Honor, we'll never know
the full extent
of what happened here
if we can't read those messages.
Since when are you a defeatist,
Captain Abraham?
It is not the will of this court
to question or otherwise
undermine a decision
from a federal judge.
Permission for extension...
denied.
I measure undefeated
in wins and losses.
I'll see you soon.
Colonel Judge Zugler.
With respect
to the federal decision,
this is a military court.
Gunnery Sergeant Wicks deserves
the chance to have
the evidence against him
reviewed by military personnel.
Federal law and the UCMJ
afford you the opportunity
to review the unredacted
evidence personally.
In camera.
I'm aware of my
in camera privileges.
Then why not take a look
at the messages?
Decide for yourself
if whatever's in there
merits another run
at the FISC Court of Review.
Very well.
We will recess
for in camera review.
In camera review?
It's a Hail Mary, I know.
Zugler can declare all of
the evidence inadmissible;
He can pretty much
do whatever he wants.
Can he make it
worse than useless?
'Cause that's what it is now.
"Intimidated" is not
the word I would use.
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
definitely did not
seem intimidated.
How did she seem?
Tumescent.
She seemed swollen
by sexual arousal? I mean,
there are some people who
get off on this kind of thing.
Major Ferry?
Sergeant.
Phils. Georgia Phils.
How's life in HR?
Can we... talk in private?
I think it sucks.
What Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
is doing to that man.
We agree.
It does suck.
She works harder
than anyone, but...
she has a cruel streak.
You're not gonna win.
Not the way
you're going about it.
How do we win?
I... keep the Lieutenant
Colonel's calendar.
Pay a lot of her bills.
There are... inconsistencies.
Code words that she thinks
I don't see through.
Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
is having an affair
with someone on base.
Adultery's still illegal
in the Marines, isn't it?
Lieutenant Li. See that
squared away-looking guy?
He was asking for you.
Hello, sir.
I'm Lieutenant Harper Li.
Can I help you with something?
My name's Daquan Glass,
I'm one of the senior
instructors
at SERE school in Maine.
Do you know what we do?
Survival, evasion,
resistance and escape.
That's right, we teach Marines
and our unfortunate
squid cousins
how to avoid capture
in combat...
and how to escape
if they are captured.
You are something
of a unicorn for us.
I'm not sure I follow, Captain.
You're a woman
who's seen close combat.
Led Marines out of a jam,
you came back
with a Bronze Star.
I think you'd have quite a bit
to share with our students.
Uh...
thank you, sir.
Of course, you'd have to go
through our training first.
There's a new class cycling
in six weeks from now.
And I will hold you a spot
if you put the request
through your CO.
Six weeks from now?
Uh, how long
does the course last?
We'd keep you in
Maine three weeks.
They're recruiting you for SERE?
That's quite the honor. I know, right?
I'm excited. Well, you should be.
It's a great experience.
When does it start? In six weeks.
Well, at the risk
of highlighting the obvious,
uh, you're getting married
during that window.
Colonel Judge Zugler
wants to see you.
I conducted my in camera review,
and it is my determination
that the messages
between Gunnery Sergeant Wicks
and Lieutenant Colonel McCoy
are hereby deemed inadmissible.
Furthermore, the entity known
as RapidRange will be struck
from all court filings.
Sorry, you want us to pretend
the whole company doesn't exist?
On what grounds does
the court declare
a private corporation
untouchable
in a case impacting
national security?
I don't have to explain
my decision
to you, Captain.
We will proceed in camera
for the duration of the case.
An in camera preceding
denies the public
access to the findings.
Why is everybody
trying to push this
thing into the shadows?
I know you don't owe
us an explanation.
We urge you to reconsider
and declare reassignment
to a public court-martial
with a panel.
Denied. We will move forward
with the case
the day after tomorrow...
in camera.
And there will be
no mention of RapidRange.
Ma'am, there's a span
in the works.
It's the Miles Wicks case.
Every time someone gets a look
at the unredacted evidence,
they get all squirrelly.
It's like they're afraid
of showing us the truth.
When some people get frustrated,
they start to see conspiracies.
Some people, not me. There's
a span in the works, ma'am.
I'm, like, 80% sure it's a.
"Johnny Spann Lion of Fallujah"
type of situation.
Which is why you came to me.
I hate to ask.
I know things aren't exactly
optimal between you and your ex.
Asa's still my husband,
for the moment.
It's the "for the moment" part
that makes me hate to ask,
but you're the only one
in the office
who's married to
an Executive Vice President
of the Balemore
Consulting Group.
For the moment.
Balemore has its fingers in
all sorts of rancid little pies.
If this is what I think it is,
Asa might be able
to get us what we need.
Anything that
he shared on background
would not be admissible.
Help me figure out what's
actually going on, ma'am.
Then we can worry
about how to prove it.
First of all, I never have
more than two drinks,
but even if we got lit,
I would never let you
talk me into blackmailing
another Marine.
Who says I'm trying
to talk you into anything?
We keep dancing
around the subject.
So what do you think?
I think we're officers
and we both know better.
What do you think?
I think you're not wrong.
So then we agree.
Why did we order another round?
You're not wrong, but you're
also not gonna get Rami back.
Rami wouldn't want us
to do the thing
you're thinking about doing.
Of course he wouldn't.
That's why he's
worth fighting for.
Bad people win when
good people won't get down
in the mud with them. You hate the fact
that adultery's still
illegal in the military.
I've heard you rail
against it a dozen times.
It's disgusting. Who gets
charged with adultery more,
you think, men or women?
And to protest this injustice,
let's pillory a female
Lieutenant Colonel
for the crime of stepping out
on a marriage
we know nothing about. I'm not saying
we actually expose her.
You've met Maddox.
You threaten that woman,
you best be ready
to follow through.
I want Rami back
just as much as you do,
but I'm not gonna
do it like this.
Good night.
That's a pretty damn
gigantic ask, Glenn.
Is it?
Balemore's one of the
leakiest ships in town.
You'd have plenty of cover.
First of all, every
big consulting shop has leaks.
Don't get defensive, Asa.
Your company exists
to help the government
catch terrorists,
and that's what we're
trying to do here.
Been a while since
we had a second drink.
It's been a while
since we've seen each other
outside a hospital.
How's the house?
You ready for Adam
to come home? Ugh, contractors.
I feel confident that you have
the situation in hand.
You look good.
You stopped to change
on your way here.
Sometimes I do like
to wear regular clothes.
And if you're gonna
do this for me,
don't do it because
you like my outfit.
They're coming down
on leaks, Glenn.
The word is they're looking
to make an example of somebody.
My contract is up
in five months.
Our son just lost a leg.
I don't think it is
the best time to be
looking for work.
You okay?
I'm fine. Just...
being selfish.
This is not what I saw.
Driving home alone to
an empty apartment, our son...
I made plans for us...
and God laughed.
Harper?
How did you get... I grabbed a hop
from Quantico.
I'll go back in the morning.
Are you okay?
Just... let me feel
you for a sec, okay?
Can we delay the wedding?
What?
They picked me for something
called SERE school.
Starts in six weeks.
Okay.
That's great.
Can you do it another time?
Probably...
I don't know.
They're offering it to me now.
We have a church.
People already made
travel plans.
Everything's happening. Okay, okay.
No, see, you make me
point that out
and suddenly
I feel like the bad guy.
It was just an idea.
You flew up here
in the middle of the night
because of an idea?
Is this still
what you want, Harper?
Are we okay?
Yes.
Hey, uh,
you know who's in town?
Jasper Kern.
Yeah, a bunch of us from school
are getting together
on Thursday.
Everyone's been
asking about you.
Why don't you stay?
Hang out with our friends.
I have to get back to Quantico.
So come back after.
Everyone's so excited for us.
You should be around that.
Maybe you'll get excited, too.
Okay.
I am excited.
Always hated that sound.
Lucky for me, you kept
some of my suits around.
How long have you been awake?
A little over an hour.
I sent some e-mails
before I fell asleep last night.
Just following up.
Here. I used the printer.
I hope you don't mind.
You did not get those from me.
Thank you.
Go find Anwar Nadoo.
Tax forms?
You tracked down tax information
for Gunnery Sergeant Wicks
and Colonel McCoy?
That's right. Why?
Look at the employee ID number.
Wicks and McCoy are Marines.
Their number should
start with 5... 5399.
I know. I do my own taxes.
Both of these start with 5302.
What is that?
Central Intelligence Agency.
The Special Activities Division
has been known to recruit
former military personnel
and then have them reenlist.
But even spooks
can't lie to the IRS.
Wicks and McCoy
are intelligence assets
embedded within
the Marine Corps.
And that wasn't
a prison escape the other night.
It was a CIA op.
So the CIA recruits inactive
Marines and incentivizes them
to reenlist, only
now they're assets.
There's a precedent for this.
Johnny Spann,
the Lion of Fallujah.
Yeah, I get all that, but if the
CIA wanted Anwar Nadoo so badly,
why all the Sturm und Drang?
They could have just waltzed in
and taken him.
They obviously wanted the world
to think Nadoo escaped.
So everything
we've been dealing with,
the commandant's office
handpicking a defense attorney,
the redacted files, the Agency's
had a hand in all of it.
Gunnery Sergeant Wicks takes
the initial heat for the escape,
then he pawns the blame off
on a conveniently absent McCoy,
and a kangaroo court
acquits Wicks. This is Chinatownstuff.
At least you could tell what the
bad guys wanted in that movie.
Cheap real estate.
I thought it was
something with water.
It was both. Here, all we know
is the CIA is free to use
Anwar Nadoo for whatever.
So, team, how do we feel about
being the suckers at the table?
Bad. Feels bad. We got to go
after them for this.
They're staging ops
in the middle of our territory.
Good Marines were injured
during that escape.
I don't like it
any more than you do.
But those tax forms
are not admissible as evidence.
And the fact is,
this didn't happen
without sign-off.
So that's it?
We're just pawns in the game?
Forget it, Abe. Don't say it.
It's Chinatown.
Captain Dobbins,
you wanted to see me?
You know what, ma'am?
I think I got
ahead of myself here.
Turns out we don't need
to meet after all.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience.
Hey, Rami.
Captain Dobbins.
Is something wrong?
Come back to us.
Come home.
You say that
like it's actually an option.
If you schedule an appointment
to take your citizenship test,
I'm confident
that Lieutenant Colonel Maddox
will approve our requests
to bring you back.
You didn't join the Marines
through MAVNI.
You've already got
your green card.
Maybe you've taken this thing
as far as you can.
I haven't taken it anywhere.
I'm sitting in a basement.
You made a point.
People heard you.
Get out of this dungeon...
dust yourself off
and find a new way to fight.
Because, I'm sorry,
but this one's over.
Major Acevedo.
Can I have a word?
Can it wait?
The colonel judge doesn't
take kindly to latecomers.
Then he's gonna have
a frustrating morning.
The prosecution won't be
holding up our end of this, uh,
show trial.
What do you mean, "show trial"?
I mean, Gunnery Sergeant Wicks
and Lieutenant Colonel McCoy
are CIA assets.
I mean, this whole thing
was a put-on and I'm-I'm
so spun behind it, I can't
figure out if you're in on it,
or if you're just
a... useful idiot.
You sound crazy right now.
If you have evidence,
show it to the judge.
You and I are gonna make a deal,
and end this stupid light show
once and for all.
The government is willing
to dismiss the charge
of releasing a prisoner
without proper authority.
We'll stop chasing
the conspiracy angle,
and we'll forget about improper
use of a government computer
while we're at it. That's everything.
You're rolling over?
That's where this
is all headed anyway.
Suit yourself.
There is a new charge, though.
One for Gunnery Sergeant Wicks,
and one
for Lieutenant Colonel McCoy,
whenever we catch up with him.
Gunny Wicks only reenlisted
after he was recruited
by the Special
Activities Division
for the mission
at Camp Delta One.
He was already serving
another master
when he took
his oath of enlistment.
The entire thing was a ruse
that constitutes
a violation of Article 83.
You're gonna charge my client
with fraudulent enlistment?
He's eating that charge.
I want him
out of the Marine Corps.
Why would we agree to that?
He'll lose
his retirement benefits.
That right there is proof
that Wicks and McCoy
were on the CIA payroll.
Float that up the chain,
and while you're at it,
remind everyone that there are
still good Marines
in the hospital recovering
from those gas grenades
at Guantanamo.
Wicks and McCoy are gone.
We will not turn a blind eye
to double agents in the Corps.
And if you don't agree
to every bit of that,
who knows where those papers
might end up?
Escaped terrorist detainee
Anwar Nadoo
was taken into custody today
just outside Istanbul.
Is that Lieutenant Colonel McCoy
taking Nadoo into custody?
Indeed it is.
You think he knows
he's got charges
waiting for him back home?
Well, I'm sure word
has gotten back to him by now.
The news said they picked up
three high-profile targets
when they scooped up Nadoo.
So Nadoo's bait. Mm.
Bad guys think
it's safe to meet with him
because the story
of his escape is out there.
And three more terrorists
are off the map.
You think it was all worth it?
Who knows, man?
It's Chinatown.
You doing okay?
That's why you came here?
To ask if I'm okay?
You're a pretty stoic guy, Abe,
but even
by your standards,
you got this thing
with Alex Hunt in deep freeze.
You guys had a good thing going.
It's okay if you're...
I don't know, upset. Alex can't bring
her lawsuit against the Marines
if we're together.
She can't challenge the Feres
Doctrine if we're together.
Do I like it? Of course not.
But when you consider all the
variables, it's a no-brainer.
'Cause that's
what love's all about.
Considering all the variables.
I'm fine, man.
I could fake a breakdown
if you want.
Get out of here.
Did anyone follow you?
I mean, I'm not a trained spy
or anything,
but I think I'm good.
You?
I'm not a trained spy, either.
Thank God.
Come here.
Hey.
How come you're wearing
your uniform?
You're not coming in, are you?
No.
I'm sorry, Bard.
You asked
if we were okay.
I wasn't honest.
Yeah, I knew.
Still, I should have told you.
That party in there?
That's not me.
Not anymore.
Maybe I'll come back
to it one day, but...
I can't ask you to wait.
I would.
I will. Uh... Don't.
I know you're gonna have
an amazing life.
Just not with you.
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