The Equalizer (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - True Believer - full transcript

Previously on The Equalizer...

WOMAN: Please...

I've got nowhere else to
turn. What do you want to do?

ROBYN: I'm the one you
call when you can't call 911.

This is Melody,
one of my oldest friends.

How's it going,
Harry? I need those freaky-ass

superpowers of
yours. Got my cape?

I've known for a long
time what you do.

Not specifically.

But I've got a pretty good
idea who you work for.

Where is Carter? Let him go.



You're pissed, I get it,
but we... There is no we.

No more cooperation,
no more quid pro quo.

Whatever this partnership was,
it's over.

A collar like that could
make a person's career.

And the next time I see you,
I'm taking you down.

[crickets chirping]

[water running]

Elias?[water stops]

Oh, my God, what happened?

It's nothing,
Mandy. Go back to sl...

You're hurt. It's a nosebleed.

All right... [stammers]

We got that new barcode
system at the hardware store.

Being floor manager,
I'm running point.



And I... guess the
pressure's getting to me.

Talk to me, Elias.

Tell me what's been going on.

Everything will make sense soon.

Tomorrow night,

you're gonna be
real proud of me.

♪

DELILAH: Come on,
Mom, it'll be fun!

I'm sorry, Dee, but I can't.

Okay, but it's a "Shake It with
Your Family" dance challenge.

And you're my family.

With a job I'd like to keep.

And the last thing my
charity clients need to see

is me twerking online.

No, you do not need to twerk,
please.

You can Milly rock.

You want me,
you want me to twerk? Or do the... Oh, no!

Look, my friends have
already posted their videos.

And they all look
great. I'd ask Kelly,

but she's out of town. You do
these videos with your stepmom?

Yeah, all the time.

But I would rather
do them with you.

At least think about it?

Okay, I will hit you back

this afternoon once I
see what my day is like.

Cool.

This whole social
media thing. You...

you can't afford to
have your face out there,

can you? No.

Monitoring what people
know about me online is...

it's my big compromise.

I can't put my family in
danger by exposing my identity.

And I thought you
were just camera-shy.

Just careful.

But I miss out on a lot.

It's just a silly video.

Yeah,
but I would love to be the good guy

in her life for a change.

You already are.

But yet... [sighs]

it's the little things, Aunt Vi.

That's what they remember.

And all I keep
giving her is excuses.

Stop. She's not
gonna disown you,

and she's not gonna write
some kind of spiteful memoir.

Is she really doing
these videos with Kelly?

Have you seen 'em?

Mm-hmm.

[beeps]♪ Fun with it

♪ Baby girl just want
to have fun with it ♪

ROBYN: What?

Kelly ain't got no
rhythm.[laughs]

I mean, like, none.

None.[chuckles]: No.

[phone chimes]Uh-uh. I
ain't worried about that.

I got to go.
Someone's in trouble.

AMANDA: I've
never seen this knife

or this shirt before.

That's a lot of blood.

And you're sure
it's not his? I looked

for a wound or an injury
when he was asleep,

and there was nothing. And
then when I tried to talk to him

this morning,
he told me that he had to leave town

for a few days.

Did he say why?

He said it was for work.

But he didn't bring his
phone or his wallet or...

his Saint Christopher pendant.
His father gave him that.

He never takes that off.

Has anything
happened to him lately?

Uh, any trouble with anyone?

Not that he told me. But he...

he became secretive
ever s-since...

Since what? Those are our boys,

Sammy and Daniel.

Elias lives for them.

And a few months ago,
Sammy had appendicitis.

And there were complications and surgeries,
but...

Elias wouldn't leave his
hospital room for days.

How's Sammy now?

He's fine. That's
the thing. But Elias...

It's like this cloud
came over him.

He became withdrawn.

He took extra shifts
at the hardware store

to start paying
the medical bills.

And he started taking
work calls at all hours.

My husband, he's a good man.

He's kind. He's never
even been in a fight.

But... something's wrong,

and he's not telling me.

And the thing that scares me most is,
before he left,

he said that things
would be different soon,

that, after tonight,
I would be proud of him.

HARRY: Yeah. There is

definitely something
up with this guy.

He deleted all his social
media three weeks ago,

and he's been using a secure
browser to cover his tracks.

What about the
phone his wife gave us?

Wiped clean.

It's a lot of cloak-and-dagger
for someone

who works at a hardware store.

It gets cloakier.

I ran the family's financials.

And the Wilsons are...
They're basically broke.

A lot of money going out,
not a lot coming in.

MEL: I think I know
why. I reached out

to his job at Barham's Hardware.

He was let go five months ago.

Corporate cutbacks.

Oof. He was fired and
didn't tell his wife? Ugh.

So if he hasn't been
going to work every day,

where's he been going?

I bet he didn't know enough

to delete his GPS metadata.

Yeah,
I can't tell you where he is,

but I can tell you
where he's been.

And he's been...

riding the 7 Train

back and forthall day,

using their Wi-Fi.

That's weird. Cheap
place to work from?

He ever get off?

Yeah.

Hunters Point.

Five times in the last ten days,

including last night.

Looks like he went
into this alley here.

Can we get eyes
on it? There's a...

pawn shop right down the street.

I can probably get the video
off the security cameras.

Speaking of videos,
what do you know about TikToks?

Other than the fact that I
consider them the scourge

of Western civilization? You
think everything's a scourge.

Everything is a scourge.

I just wanted to know
whether I can post one

without it going viral.

Going viral's the point.
That's why it's a scourge.

I mean, you know,
people can't turn away.

And you shouldn't. Hello?

Kittens dressed up as
celebrities? Come on.

[chuckles] Jay-Z with
the whiskers?[chuckles]

Yeah,
J.Lo with the Versace. [laughs][chuckles]

No. Will Smith...

In the green![laughs]

Ah! That's unbelievable. Yeah,
okay, okay.[laughing]

Okay, I-I'm... Here we go.

ROBYN: There's Elias. MEL:
He's going to that storage space.

HARRY: At 2:00 in the morning?

Yeah, that's not suspicious.

Fast-forward.

MEL: He was meeting people.

HARRY: Oh, we got a bleeder.

ROBYN: Back up and zoom in.

HARRY: That guy's
wrist is pretty messed up.

ROBYN: Can't see their faces.

But teapots...

Just like Elias's shirt.

What are these guys doing?

One way to find out.

Ran that photo you gave me

through the military's
facial rec software.

Nothing.

Come on,
Bo. [exhales] I know you didn't come

all the way over from
your cushy desk at the DoD

to show me nothing.

We got this software in
beta that scans photos

to create a full-body blueprint.

And I found something.

This...

is from a forward operating base

in Kandahar,

circa 2008.

That's her. You
got a name for me?

This woman's not in
any databases by design.

Meaning that picture
slipped through the cracks.

What's that patch on her sleeve?

6-8-3.

Classified unit with
the highest clearance.

Military intelligence.

What's this about, Marcus?

Professional curiosity.

Advice from an old friend...

I'd lose the curiosity.

They hosed it down.

[exhales] With bleach.

Like they're trying
to cover up evidence.

Of what? Organ harvesting?

Some kind of fight club?

Got some screws here.

Some clipped tubing.

Tubing?

[sniffing]

You smell that?

Almonds? That smells like...

Homemade C-4.

That's not tubing.

It's a detonating cord.

They're building a bomb.

"After tonight,
you'll be proud of me."

That's what Elias
said to his wife.

Terrorists I profiled,

they said things like that

right before an attack.

Which means whatever
they're planning...

It's gonna happen tonight.

♪

So, the little teapot on
their shirts is a symbol

for an alt-right group
called the Truth Trappers.

They've been flagged by
DHS as possible extremists.

They're basically a
QAnon-type group.

You know? Lots of
deep state paranoia,

talk of revolution

and references to an
event called The Reckoning,

which is basically the violent
overthrow of the government

by disempowered "patriots." You know,
why is it,

when you want to
overthrow the government,

you're only a patriot
if you're white?

MEL: Elias is a family man.

He's got no history of violence.

I mean, the guy,
he coaches Little League.

He volunteers at a soup kitchen.

How does a guy like that go
down a rabbit hole like this?

All too easy.

Sick kid, no job, no insurance.

Bottom ripped out
from under him.

He's actually the perfect
target for groups like this.

They tell him this is
not supposed to happen

to someone who looks like you,
not in their America,

that he's being stolen from,

that someone else is to blame.

They just poison 'em with hate.

Same way al-Qaeda recruits.

Yeah,
with the same violent results.

Any chatter on the socials?

Uh, something that might

give us an
indication of a target?

No. But, I mean,
with all the lunacy

on these forums, I mean, uh,
the target could be anything

from a water purification
plant to the Statue of Liberty.

How 'bout his pals?

Video was too
grainy to I.D. them.

But I was able to run the
numbers on the det cord,

and it matches a
batch sent to the NYPD.

NYPD?

A cop's involved?

[exhales]

We have to bring
them in on this.

Dante? Robyn, no.

After what happened
with the serial killer,

you know he's hunting you.

Then let's give him
something else to hunt.

[phone vibrates]

Yeah?

Look up.

I told you,

we're not doing this anymore.

Check your passenger seat.

You should find a det
cord and a flash drive

containing video from a garage

at 1722 Pearson Place.

And this should interest me why?

Because I have intel that
the four guys in that video

plan on detonating a bomb
somewhere in the city tonight.

And one of them is a cop.

And you know this how?

The intel is solid.

They belong to some
right-wing conspiracy group

called the Truth Trappers.

If there really is a
bomber out there,

let alone if a cop's in the mix,

you need to stay
the hell out of it.

You do your job. I'll do mine.

So,
how long were you military intelligence?

Come again?

Kandahar's a long
way from New York,

but not long enough to keep
me from picking up your trail.

You still too blind to see
we're on the same side, huh?

Not even close.

You're on one side of the street,
I'm on the other.

The dirty cop, the bomb.

If I were you,

those are the only
things I'd be on the trail of.

[line beeping]

AMANDA: This just
doesn't make any sense.

The man I fell in love with
would never hurt anyone.

Did he visit any places
that struck you as odd,

or tell you he was
going somewhere new?

No, that's the problem.
He didn't tell me anything.

Anybody you didn't
recognize come to see him?

No. Strange emails,

conversations you
may have overheard

that didn't make any sense?

No, but I did wake up a few
times in the middle of the night

and catch him on some website.

He said he was catching up

on inventory,
but if he wasn't working...

Do you recall the
name of the site?

I didn't see a name,

but there was this weird symbol.

A megaphone with
a giant "S" on it.

The site is called Squawkist.

It's an ultra-secure
messaging platform

catering to alt-rights who
want to fly under the radar.

Founded by a guy
named Cody Beamon.

MEL: College dropout,

pretends to be some
kind of libertarian icon,

but it's a front. He's
desperate to cash in.

He's looking for investors
to fund him to an IPO.

What's Elias's
presence like on the site?

HARRY: A bunch of posts
in the last few weeks alone.

Dozens of DMs,
but I can't access the server.

If Elias and his crew
are planning an attack,

it could be in those DMs.

We've got to get in there.

Yeah, I-I know,

but the whole point of
Squawkist is its secrecy.

You know,
there are layers and layers of encryption.

Okay,
so how much time do you need?

If the bombing is tonight,
too much.

All right, well,
Beamon wants money, huh?

If we can't hack in,
we can get invited in.

Mel, you want to take a meeting?

[indistinct radio chatter]

So, your vigilante,

was she right? Yes, ma'am.

CSU confirmed evidence
of bomb-making material.

Who owns the garage?
Tri-Borough Storage.

Took a six-month cash
advance from a guy

with a baseball
cap and a fake I.D.

Video's too low-grade to I.D. any of them,
but...

the det cord is from
our supply room.

I'm getting the
names of every cop

who had access to it
the past three months.

[sighs] Keep the circle tight.

The last thing we need
is the public panicking

about a cop with a bomb.

And, plus,
if word got out we were hunting him,

he might go to ground.

Did your Equalizer
happen to mention a target?

No. I have Counterterrorism
generating a list,

but it's New York.

There will be
hundreds of targets.

Do whatever it takes
to stop this thing.

Even if it means
working with her?

Two birds, Detective.

Keep her close.

Once you've stopped the bomb,
arrest her.

Squawkist had almost
330,000 unique users last month.

Up 140% year-to-date.

And 245 million DMs.

MEL: That growth is what
piqued my fund's interest,

Mr. Beamon. HARRY:
Okay. Bait the hook.

All right? A little skepticism.

Look,
the high-net-worth investors I represent,

they don't have
political concerns,

but they do have legal ones,

and being exposed by
extremist views expressed

by some of your subscribers... Oh,
no, we have no liability

as a third-party publisher.

That's black letter law.

Did he just ogle
you? Is he ogling you?

[beeps]Did you just mute me?

Uh,
we are no more morally responsible

for our users' speech
than a burger joint is

for their customers' health.

All we do is provide a platform.

We enfranchise
the disenfranchised,

and in return,
my proprietary algorithms

are able to target our
users based on their DMs.

And division drives profits.

The angrier they are,
the more they buy.

We get them coming and going.

MEL: You have
access to their DMs?

I mean,
I thought your site was all about privacy.

BEAMON: Well,
from the government.

But not our
marketing department.

That's the genius
part. And it's all legit.

Our terms of service give
us access to everything.

These wing nuts are
gonna make me rich.

But if you have
access to their DMs,

how can your users feel secure?

Because what they don't
know won't hurt them.

We tout two layers
of encryption,

but I can get
through the firewalls

with the stroke of a key.

Behold.

[beeps]

HARRY: Okay, yes,
thank you for the unmute.

Now get-get in closer.

Good, good, good. Yeah.

Yes.

I'm in.

All right, later, babe.

Hey, Murtaugh.

My son's Scout troop's
selling raffle tickets

if you're interested.

Hmm. Eh,
it's not my kind of prizes.

I'll pass.

Not a problem.

Have you seen these
message boards?

Politicians owning sex slaves.

Nukes stored in preschools.

How do you even begin
to believe this stuff?

The human mind is designed
to see patterns in the world.

Helps us to survive.

But sometimes it sees
patterns that aren't there.

It's called apophenia.

The tendency to draw connections
between unrelated phenomena.

"Oh, the crops aren't growing,
blame the lunar eclipse."

Except in this case,
the whole setup is predatory.

It drives me crazy,
to see these otherwise reasonable people

sucked in by these hate-mongers.

They use the same technique
as role-playing games.

The participants are
intrigued by the clues,

you know, the sense of
belonging to a secret community

railing against
a corrupt system.

So the more they play,
the more obsessed they get.

It's insidious. It's
a feedback loop

designed to hijack the brain.

Oh, man. What?

Elias's DMs.

Nothing specific about
the bomb or the target,

but, uh,
this is from this morning, okay?

Uh,
he gets a message from username FP99.

"We still on?"

ROBYN: "Yes,
but trouble at home.

Staying at 2167112 now."

"Sit tight. I'll bring you
the package at 4:00 p.m."?

Harry,
that's 40 minutes from now.

I mean,
that number could be a mnemonic,

it could be a secret code.

Homegrown extremists don't
tend to be so sophisticated.

Why don't you try an address?

2167112, it doesn't correspond
to any relevant locations.

Break it up. 21,
67, 112th Street.

Okay. We got three locations.

One is a chicken
joint in Brooklyn.

One is a car
dealership in Manhattan.

And the other is Mike's
Motor Lodge in Queens.

My money's on the motor lodge.

DANTE: What are you up to,
Murtaugh?

Dispatch,
this is Two Lincoln Five.

Bombing suspect just
entered the premises

to meet with at least
one coconspirator.

I'll need immediate
backup at this location.

DISPATCHER: Two Lincoln Five,
copy.

This is the trigger.

All you got to do is plug it
into the detonator on the bomb

and walk away.

You sure about this?

What do you mean?

Just maybe, uh,
maybe there's another way?

To stand up for ourselves,
you know? Make our point?

You're scared.

I get it. Fighting for
our rights is scary.

But having our country
stolen right out from under us

is even scarier.

How long has society crapped
on guys like us? But no more.

They'll write about this moment.

When patriots fought
back against the system

that ruined our country.

You saying you
don't have the balls

to take back what's ours?

No, no, no.

Yeah?

Sorry to bother you.
I'm the manager.

I got a call from the
room below about a leak.

I got to check it
out. There's no leak.

ROBYN: Well,
I got multiple calls,

so I have to confirm that.

Look, lady, I said there's no...

Damn it.

Pick up the gun,
Elias! Don't do it. I'm a friend,

and you haven't done anything
you can't walk away from yet.

You can still make
the right choice.

[siren wailing]

Get out of here, Elias!

Now!

Don't...[grunting]

Freeze!

[both grunting]

Freeze. Easy, Dante.

Hands behind your back,
Murtaugh.

[handcuffs clicking]

[tires screeching,
sirens wailing]

[vehicle doors open, close]

OFFICER [distant]: Seal it off!

♪

Harry, it's me. Elias took off,
and I think he has the bomb.

I grabbed the plate off his car.

Yeah, what do you got?

Late-model Ford pickup,

license: XJ43724.

It's a rental.

But insurance companies
require active GPS

to guard against theft.

Can you get me a location?

Stand by.

[keys clicking]

Guess I should've bought
that raffle ticket, huh?

Tell me about the
Truth Trappers.

Never heard of them.
I got you meeting

with a terrorist suspect
at that motel room.

You mean my C.I.

Got you signing out the det
cord we found in that garage.

Requisitioned it for
a training exercise.

Got you with the same injury as
the bomb maker in that picture.

Yeah,
I don't know anything about any of that.

But I do know that you
just arrested another cop.

Meaning you turned
on one of your own.

[laughs] You're
not one of my own.

Damn straight.

I'm a decorated police officer

being set up by a
desperate detective.

That bomb goes off,

anybody dies, breaks a nail,

you'll pay for it
the rest of your life.

Give up the names
of your coconspirators,

the time and place
of the bombing.

Lawyer.

Union rep.

I got a date.

[phone rings]

Talk to me. What do you got?

DELILAH: Okay. [chuckles]

Someone's stressed out.

Oh. [chuckles] Hey, babe. Sorry.

Just, um,
j-just waiting on a work thing.

So,
our video. I found an amazing song.

Yeah. About that...

Here,
I'll play it for you. ROBYN: Dee,

I'm really in the middle
of something right now.

Okay. Um, well,
then, I'll play it later.

I promise, you'll love it.

It's perfect for us.
ROBYN: Good.

That sounds great. I
can't wait.[phone rings]

Talk to me, Harry.

What do you got? He's
downtown. Financial District.

Parked right by the entrance

to an electrical substation.

ROBYN: Downtown. I'm
on my way.[tires squealing]

♪

[whirring]

[lock clicks]

DANTE: Record's clean.

And I ran him through our
counterterrorism database.

No links between him
and the Truth Trappers.

So you're sure
he's the right guy?

It's not your
vigilante playing you?

Not her style. He's the guy.

He just knows how
to cover his tracks.

Can you fast-track a
warrant for Murtaugh's place?

I can reach out to Judge Oshida.

Because you're sure.

Yes, ma'am.

[door opens]

[door closes]

♪

♪

♪

ROBYN: I know why you're having

second thoughts.

Makes sense.

Because you know what
you're doing is wrong.

Who are you?

Amanda sent me. To help you.

She doesn't want to lose you.

You blow the relay,

Lower Manhattan goes dark,

maybe you kill a
bunch of people.

What do you accomplish?

It'll make them see us.

The banks, the-the hedge funds

forcing people like
me from our jobs

so they can squeeze
out a few more bucks.

I can't put food on
my family's table.

They're making billions.

Yeah. I get it.

You're angry.

So, why don't you, uh,

put that detonator down.

Let's me and you
talk about that.

I'm done talking.

[gun clicks]You're
one of them. I knew it!

I had to stop you, Elias,

even if you don't know why.

You haven't stopped anything.

We're just getting started.

Yo, Suarez.

Tell me you found
something.Nothing.

Tossed every inch of the
place. Murtaugh's clean.

There's got to be something.

Clean, Marcus.

I got to say,

going after our own?
That's not good for any of us.

[phone vibrating]

Yeah?

Where you at with the
cop? DANTE: Dead end.

Which is on you for
blowing my surveillance.

Now I got you for obstruction,
conspiracy...

I stopped the bombing. How?

It doesn't matter. But the
guy I'm grilling admitted

that it was just a diversion

to draw the cops and the
FDNY away from the real target.

Wait,
you have one of them? ROBYN: Listen to me.

Hand him over right now. ROBYN:
If you think you know anything

about me, then you know I
have advanced interrogation skills.

I can't serve him up to someone
who does not do the job as well.

40,000 cops in this city,

but you're better than all of them,
right?

Wake up,
Dante. I'm saying there's another bomb.

So forget your manual for
ten seconds and help me.

I sent you something.

I need you to pull prints.

And don't worry.

I removed the detonator.

[line beeps]

Get forensics up here right now.

He's ready.

HARRY: How you
gonna reach a victim

of mind control? Of
big-data manipulation?

He's never gonna tell you where
that second bomb is. I mean,

you can't reason
with a crazy person.

Not crazy. Lost.

You know, we had this,
uh, suspect in Kabul once.

We brought him in.
He was all wild-eyed

and ranting about snakes
crawling all over him.

And you convinced him
there weren't any snakes.

No.

I took the snakes off of him.

[train clacking in distance]

I'm not your enemy, Elias.

I am your way out.

But you got to talk to me.

You'll hear what I have
to say in a few hours

when the other bomb goes off.

You're NSA, right?

Like I told you, Amanda sent me.

You left your Saint
Christopher medal at home.

Scared her to death.

She told me you're a good dad.

How you would never
leave Sammy's bedside

when he was sick.

What do you know about it?

I know what it's like
to almost lose a child.

When your kid has pneumonia

and you rush her to the
hospital in your pajamas

because they swore that
the fever was gonna break,

but it's now hitting 105,

and you're praying that
you make it to the ER in time.

All you want to
do is protect them.

And when you can't,
you just feel like...

Weak.

Like you failed
this innocent child.

And your only job

was to protect them.

And then the medical
bills start coming in.

I mean,
what's your kid to them then?

Just a debt to be collected?

A debt you can't pay because
they rewarded your loyalty

with a pink slip.

What is she doing?

She's taking off the snakes.

Yeah, well,
she better take them off a little faster.

We're running out of time.

[chuckling softly] My daughter's
into these TikTok videos.

I don't know if you've
seen these things. You...

Are your boys into them?

Have they gotten
you to do one yet?

You did one. I can...

I can tell you've
already done it.

See, those are the good things.

You know,
the moments that make all the fights

and the yelling and
the homework and...

It's all worth it.[laughs]

Just want to give them joy.

I mean,
that's what it's about, right?

Now imagine they're gone.

Your boys.

Or worse.

Imagine they are in a hospital

with their limbs blown away.

Because that's what bombs do.

They don't care who's a patriot,

who's deep state,

and they sure don't care
who's an innocent child.

Is that how you want
to be remembered?

As someone who did that to kids?

Kids like yours.

No. That's...

I am a patriot,
and this is a war.

And in a war,
there are casualties.

All right? We are taking
our country back. Are you?

Or is that what they
want you to think?

You're right.

There is conspiracy.

Just not the one you think.

You're being
manipulated for money.

My proprietary algorithms
are able to target our users

based on their DMs.

And division drives profits.

The angrier they are,
the more they buy.

We get them coming and going.

The owner of Squawkist

getting rich off of you.

No. That-That's a fake.

That's a deepfake.

No. And there's more.

CSU found two sets
of prints off the bomb.

Ed Burton,

a high school gym teacher,
and Tim Fogel,

a short-order cook.

Both guys called in sick today.

These are worker bees,
not strategic thinkers.

Murtaugh's the only
one with tactical training.

So that's our ringleader.

And he has SWAT training,

which means he
would've cased a target.

Which could be anything.

Check his radio logs.

See where he's been
the past few months.

ELIAS: You're just... You're
trying to get in my head

and manipulate me,
but I know what's real.

You know what's real?

But what if you're wrong?

What does that make you then?

A patriot...

or just a terrorist?

Is that the legacy you
want to leave your boys?

What will you mean to Sammy
and Daniel when you're gone?

Because with that
bomb out there,

that's what you need to decide.

Right now.

And you can't take it back,
ever.

So who are you, Elias?

Loving father, protector?

[sighs]

Or a murderer?

[sighs]

Where is the second bomb?

Murtaugh never... told
us the second target.

Said it was, uh, for our safety.

Well, what did he say?

Uh,
he was always talking about immigrants.

Immigrants ruining the country,
cutting in line,

taking jobs from real Americans.

He said tonight was payback.

SUAREZ: Murtaugh was out

of his beat's perimeter a
dozen times the past few months.

Midtown,
the substation and Brooklyn Heights.

Could have been
targeting anything

in the surrounding blocks.

Searching the other
areas could take weeks,

and that bomb's
going off tonight.

Notify the local precincts.

[phone vibrating]

DANTE: Dante. Immigration...
It was Murtaugh's obsession.

We've narrowed his target area

to 35th and Tenth in Midtown,

Henry and Clark
in Brooklyn Heights.

Stand by, Dante. Harry?

There.

Hudson University
International Housing.

That school's a magnet
for foreign students.

Building's hosting a big
outreach mixer there tonight.

Lots of leading
immigration advocates.

It's the perfect target.

Hudson University International
Housing in the Heights.

DANTE: I know that building.

Been a ton of security
there since 9/11.

Be hard to smuggle a bomb in.

You don't need to. It
sits on top of a subway

maintenance tunnel.

You blow the tunnel...

The building comes down.

♪

Please remain calm and
move towards the exits.

[woman screams]

♪

Guess we're on the same
side of the street now.

So tell me what
we're looking for.

Well, if it were me,
I would go for something

that would compromise
the whole structure.

Like a strut or a beam?

Or a pillar.

Clear the room.
Check those corners.

[train clacking nearby]

Cell phone trigger.
Could go off any second.

All they have to do is call,
and boom.

This tunnel, the building,
everything will be rubble.

Bomb squad's ten minutes
out. We need to fall back.

Well,
how long before they evacuate the building?

15, but that's optimistic.

No time. We'll have
to do this ourselves.

Okay,
I've seen this trigger before.

It's got a backup
lithium battery.

You cut one of the wires
from the cell to the detonator,

the lithium battery kicks in
and completes the circuit,

blowing the C-4,

vaporizing us.

Tell me there's a work-around.

Yeah,
I just have to find the right wires.

It's been about eight years.

Okay. These two.

You sure?

We'll find out soon.

We have to cut 'em
at the exact same time.

Can't do it alone.

All right.

Give you a count. On three.

One.

Two.

Three.[beeps]

[sighs, laughs]

[laughs]

[phone ringing]

Boom, you son of a bitch.

[laughs]

You okay?

Yeah, I'm good.

And I'm sorry.

For what?

For placing you under arrest.

Seriously?

After all the lives
we just saved?

You don't want to do this.

It's not about "want."
It's about the law.

Then I'm sorry, too.

[grunting]

The law's not always right.

Hands up. Don't shoot.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

She found you. Thank God.

Amanda,

a lot has happened...
Things that I did

and was a part of.

I should have told you.

I need to own it now, all of it.

You should've trusted me.

What happens now?

I found a lawyer that'll
negotiate his surrender.

Of course,
he's gonna have to testify

against the other
Truth Trappers,

pay for what he's done.

I may need to go away from
you and the boys for a while.

Maybe for a long while.

If not for you,
it would have been worse.

[crying]: I don't even
know what's real anymore.

Daddy!

Oh.

Hey,
I am going to make this up to you guys.

I promise,
no matter how long it takes.

Time to go.

Mm.

[door closes]

The coconspirators have
been taken into custody.

So the cell is
officially defunct?

Yes, ma'am.

Nice work,
Detective. The city is very grateful.

It'll be even more grateful

now that you can
focus all your energies

on the apprehension
of the vigilante.

I'm afraid I can't do that.

I thought we had
an understanding.

We did. I was going
to use my connection

to the vigilante to
compromise her.

I've done that. My affidavit.

It sets out my testimony
that she resisted arrest,

assaulted two officers.

Evidence which allows
for the immediate issuance

of an arrest warrant.

One that... given your
unique relationship...

You're in the best
position to execute.

I was also in the best
position to end this today,

once and for all,
because I had a clean shot.

But I didn't take it.

Meaning perhaps I'm the
one who's been compromised,

and this matter
should be reassigned.

I'll call if your statement
needs amending.

HARRY: Oh, hey.

Bad news.

Somehow audio of
Mel's conversation

with Cody Beamon
got leaked to the media,

and Squawkist has
gone practically dark

the last couple hours.

Which means Cody
Beamon's dreams of an IPO?

Are dead. It's tragic.

Only you're not smiling.

Well, it's just a Band-Aid.

There'll be another Squawkist,
another Truth Trappers.

You take down one cell...

Another one pops
up. It's whack-a-mole.

Yeah, until we deal with
the greater social issues.

But that's tomorrow's
problem. Tonight,

my job is to make a dance
video with my daughter.

Hey! Oh, come on!

What about the viral scourge?

Scourgey virus?

You know why they call it "TikTok,"
don't you? Mm.

Because its time is almost up.

[laughs]

Why are you laughing?

Hello?

Hey, so,
it's about synchronization.

Synchronization. The key. Yes,
that's the key, okay?

Mom.[laughter]

Listen! We got it.

Just go and set up everything
so we can get into character.

Okay. Okay. Thank you.

[laughs]

How's my bruise?

Bruise is concealed.

Some of my best work.

Are you sure about this?

I never been more
sure about anything.

This is the good stuff in
life. I'm not gonna miss it.

Got to fight all that
darkness out there with joy.

[snaps fingers]That's
how we win.

Just hope your idea works.

Ready? Okay! She
too cool. She too...

All right, let me... All right, okay,
okay. Okay, let's do it, let's do it.

Yo. Uh-huh. All right.

We've got this.

["Levitating" by
Dua Lipa playing]

♪ If you want to run away with me,
I know a galaxy ♪

♪ And I can take you
for a ride ♪[whooping]

♪ I had a premonition
that we fell into a rhythm ♪

♪ Where the music don't stop
for life ♪What is it with cats?

♪ Glitter in the sky

♪ Glitter in my eyes...

Seriously?

♪ Just the way I like it...

Come on.

Harry! Come on,
let's go. Oh, come on.

Mm-hmm. Come on,
dance with me, Harry.

Come on!

Don't tell anybody,
okay? No, never.

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

♪ I got you,
moonlight [laughs] Yes!

♪ You're my starlight Show
them how you get them...

♪ I need you all night Ooh...

♪ Come on, dance with me,
I'm levitating ♪

♪ You, moonlight Oh!

♪ You're my starlight,
I need you ♪

♪ All night, I'm levitating.