American Odyssey (2015) s01e01 Episode Script

Anyone see the RPG? Man down! Man down! I'm good, I'm good! Sergeant Ballard.
Captain needs you! He's breaking away.
Go! Do not touch me, ma'am.
Do not touch Do not touch me.
Keep your head down! No, no, no, no, no.
I got him! - Can you tell her to sit? - Sergeant! We got him? Yeah.
We got Abdul Abbas.
Here In North Africa? Oh man.
We are gonna be famous.
Just like Team 6.
How the hell did this happen? Luck.
Maybe we're just that good.
But we were looking for his wife.
Apparently so was he.
Ballard.
Think I got something here.
Something to do with money, but it's in Arabic.
Take a look.
Limited causalities, sir.
Just a few wounded.
Medics have it covered.
This is why I love al-Qaeda.
They keep such accurate records.
Yes, sir.
There's no collateral damage.
We've got a serious amount of Intel.
Oh, wait a minute.
Is that English? No, sir.
That's not necessary.
It looks like a wire transfer from a bank in Riyadh to A Sikasso bank in Mali.
He's looking for confirmation of receipt.
In English? What the hell is SOC? I don't know.
Could be American.
Open the rest.
SOLDIER Sir, I don't think Oh, I can't.
It's encrypted.
Negative.
Sir, with all due respect, given our coordinates and the fact that we are not supposed to be in country, it is not safe for us to stand down.
Captain, those are your orders.
You need to stand down.
Captain Worthington, Colonel Glen here.
Congratulations, Rich.
To you and your team.
This is big.
You know this is big, right? Any casualties? Thank you, sir.
No, just a few walking wounded.
The medics got it covered.
We'll be fine as long as we can gather and get out.
You want to get going.
I don't blame you.
But orders came from up high.
Sir, we've got SSE capabilities right here.
From up high.
You copy? Intel's on their way.
They'll gather, get Abbas' body and get out so we can get you home for a proper celebration.
Once again, congratulations.
Okay.
We're to stand down, not touch a thing.
We're gonna wait for Intel.
They're coming by rotary across the border.
Hopefully it won't be long.
Well You gotta talk to Colonel Glen.
That was Glen.
So now what? We wait.
Subscribers get detailed information about every single vessel at sea in the whole world What's that? Pierce Intelligence Group.
Did you know that they can determine if a ship's manifest is accurate depending on how deep it sits in the water? What's the point? Investors pay big money for this intelligence.
Supply and demand patterns.
Think about it.
70% of everything you will ever own was once on a ship.
So it's like insider trading.
Josh, let the dog out.
First of all, it's not "inside" information.
It's available to everyone.
Secondly, if it were illegal, which it is not, my company wouldn't be investing hundreds of millions of dollars.
Sounds grievously criminal to me.
But what do I know? Isabella's driving me to school.
Hey, Isabella's driving already? Whoa.
Whoa.
Hey.
Eat something.
Thank you.
Hug goodbye? No? What happened to the sweet little girl who worshipped her daddy? She's a teenager.
is currently underway in New York City.
With the G8's strategic meeting among eight You know, arguably, you're doing more good working at Simons-Wachtel than you ever did as a US attorney.
Simons has a bad reputation.
Everyone knows it.
They hired you to change all that.
Yeah.
Or at least give the impression.
Hey, there's your office Looks cool.
Fantastic.
Traffic's gonna be murder.
I gotta get to work.
Josh, you should get goin', too, buddy.
Do you want me to take him? Uh, I'll drive him.
You're in a rush.
I'm here with one of the protest organizers now, Harrison Walters.
Thanks for agreeing to talk with us, Harrison.
Thanks for coming down here to talk to us dirty hippies with our extreme views.
Can you comment on the reports of violence springing from these protests? Not really.
I think the question completely distracts from the issue.
Harrison, Tanya in the studio is wondering, are you related to Randall Walters? He's my father.
But that's got nothing to do with what we're Well, it's surprising to see someone like you down here.
Didn't you grow up on Manhattan's Upper East Side? Not exactly part of the collapsing middle class, are you? So you'd rather talk about my father than economic injustice Stacey.
Stacey.
Stacey we have to leave it there.
We have some breaking news.
Tom? Breaking news to tell you about this morning.
We just learned that al-Qaeda leader and terrorist mastermind, Abdul Abbas, has been killed in Mali, North Africa by what sources tell us was Task Force 24, a unit of the Joint Services Operations Command.
We have been reporting on al-Qaeda's growing influence in the region, and now that someone as influential as Abbas was found and killed in Mali, it seems that these reports have been substantiated.
Those guys are Osela.
Private military.
What the hell are they doing here? I have no idea.
Get me Africom.
It's Captain Worthington.
We have Osela on site.
What the hell are you doing? What the hell are they doing here? When I was in the Green Zone, an SUV full of Osela Security accidently rammed into our Humvee.
Now, they rammed into us.
They got out, they put guns to our heads and made us lay on our stomachs.
Come on! Until they untangled their SUV, then they left.
I do not trust them.
Copy that.
I hear them now.
I'm gonna need that.
To hell with that.
It's mine.
That's his personal property That you, Rich? Frank Majors.
We were in Fallujah together.
How you doing, Frank? I didn't recognize you out of uniform.
Ah, different uniform.
This one pays better.
Listen, you all did great.
This is a big get.
But my orders are to take all evidence in this location.
Including anything you all might have seen, pictures you've taken, souvenirs in your pocket, anything.
Orders from who, Frank? Give us your name, son, and we'll return the camera as soon as we remove anything sensitive.
I hear right? You people came in on horseback? I didn't think we did that anymore.
We pulled it outta mothballs.
Makes sense.
I didn't see many roads flying in here.
At least not in the direction you want to go.
Good to see you again, Rich.
Happy trails.
Pull 'em out.
Don? Peter! Holy crap.
What are you doing here? Ah, the usual.
Still with Internal Revenue.
How about you? Yeah.
I got shoved out of the US Attorney's office six months ago.
Damn, that's right.
I remember reading.
Some political nonsense.
Yeah.
We should get a drink.
I'm in town for two days on an investigation.
Yeah? Anybody good? Ever hear of Societel Mining? SOC? We're, uh, financing their merger.
You work for Simons-Wachtel? Business Intelligence.
Just started a few weeks ago.
You going after Alex Baker? Peter.
You know I can't talk about that.
How deep is the investigation? Are we talking felony? Something may be coming down the pike.
I gotta run.
Let's not see each other for another 10 years.
And what's happening is that we've lost our value as individuals! Hey.
So, everybody's talking about it.
Oh, great.
What? You didn't see it? Come on, my father Sorry.
It's been so crazy.
There've been seven arrests already today.
I'm gonna catch it on the way to the office, okay? Bye.
Ha-ha-ha! Awesome job, man.
It sucked.
I thought you were very impressive.
Uh, Harrison, this is Ruby.
She works for Time magazine.
If you have time I'd love to interview you.
I'm doing a story on how the G8 summit reignited the Occupy Movement.
We were just about to grab lunch.
You wanna join? Uh, I can't.
I've got this thing.
Bring her tonight.
We're having a strategy meeting at my place.
We could talk then.
Sounds great.
Great.
Cool.
All right.
See ya.
See ya.
Harrison? Harrison Walters? It's me.
Bob Offer.
We met during the Occupy Movement.
Spent that night in jail together.
Right.
I saw you on FXN news, man.
And you're so right.
You're so right! Big media is a diversion.
From everything.
I've been doing research.
The whole thing is like a cancer.
The corporations and how they You want to get those? Oh, I got charts.
This one links the top 25 Top 25 corporations in America.
All the interlocks, how many of the same people serve on the same boards Bob.
Bob? And this, check I gotta go.
It's okay.
I get it.
Maybe it's a little confusing.
Confusing? Which part? I don't know, Bob.
Maybe if you, uh, simplify, you know? Start with one thing.
Talk about that.
One thing? Yeah.
All right.
Hey, that's good! One thing.
I'll I'll catch ya later.
We need to know what the IRS is investigating.
All right.
So what's the plan? I'll make some calls.
We're not the Justice Department.
No one's bending over backwards to give us intel.
What do you suggest? We get a few "no comments.
" Call it a day.
That's not good enough.
No one's expecting anything more.
I am.
All right, right, right.
Come here.
Come here.
Jackie, will you excuse us? All right, fine.
You want info? I got a friend.
A trash man.
Gets his hands dirty so I don't have to.
He's not cheap, but he finds things.
Nothing illegal.
He's creative.
There's nothing to worry about.
Or we can forget the whole thing.
No.
Go ahead.
Let me know what you find out.
Okay.
We stirred up a hornets' nest today, boys.
Intel says we have got a large Ansar Dine presence in front of us.
They're recommending we hold for the night.
Make yourselves comfortable.
They're not gonna use your picture, you moron.
You want a whole jihad coming down on your cracker ass? I'm just saying we're still gonna be famous, even if they don't know who we are.
But that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Maybe I should get a publicist when I get home.
I'm telling you, some of that stuff we saw on the computer comes out That's gonna blow big.
We're gonna see it.
She got it all on a flash drive.
Got what? In the middle of all this financial stuff in Arabic, we find a file in English.
Most of it was encrypted, but, I saw a transfer for a hell of a lot of money from an American company called SOC.
Has anyone heard of it? Sure it's not a target? No.
That's the thing.
It was from them.
I mean, come on, why would an American company be sending money to Abbas? You defied a direct order? They were Osela.
Order didn't come from Osela.
It came from Colonel Glen.
Yes.
And I will make sure that he receives the information directly at the debrief.
Where you going? Permission to pee, sir.
Odelle I gotta report this.
Yes, sir.
Rycroft, over watch.
Sir, yes sir.
I can do that.
In your face, Mama! What? I miss you, Momma.
I miss you, too.
Help Move out.
- This is the entire IRS file.
- My man never disappoints.
Looks like they have a BSA case against SOC and Alex Baker.
Corporate slush fund.
Structured payments going all over the place.
Whistle blower was a woman in Tampa.
Look at this.
Just this morning.
A guy named Danny Gentry in Eagle Heights, Delaware.
Baker tried to pay off his mortgage, but he sent it back.
Why would he do that? I don't know.
But we gotta find out.
Ah.
There he is.
Peter, you know Alex Baker.
Chairman of SOC.
Joe, would you excuse us? Yeah.
Sorry for the intrusion.
Just wanted to make sure we caught you.
Alex has some news.
Peter, I understand you have some concerns about the IRS investigation.
I just wanted you to be the first to know they're dropping all charges against me and Societel.
Without an admission of guilt.
Societel is, of course, paying all back taxes, penalties and fines.
And the reason for the slush fund? All confidential.
With all due respect Anything that could compromise Mr.
Baker I have been married to the same woman for over 25 years.
I love her very much.
The woman in Tampa? Extortion? Child support.
I'd appreciate your discretion.
As long as it doesn't affect the merger, we have no problem, do we? What about the man in Delaware? Gentry? Peter The IRS is satisfied So we're satisfied.
Come on, Dolly, we'll be late! Need to change my shoes.
Why? What Those are fantastic! They're too big! We just bought them! Ron.
I'm so sorry.
Ah! Here you go, Ma.
Aren't you gonna eat? I'm not hungry.
Did you put the milk away? When it sits out, it spoils.
I will.
What were you mumbling about? Nothing.
I I was thinking.
Don't do it out loud, you sound crazy.
Will you stop already? Why do you gotta criticize everything I do? It's just It's very important that I keep the message simple.
The one thing so that people will listen.
And who's gonna do that? You? As a matter of fact, I ran into Harrison Walters this morning.
Do I know him? Yeah.
I told you about him.
He's a A real free thinker.
Attractive.
His father's Randall Walters, the writer.
You two are friends? Yes.
And he was on FXN news today.
So, he's got access to the media and he wants me to help him narrow things down, find the one thing that we can bring to them.
Good afternoon.
WXNE has confirmed Oh, quick, ma.
Turn it up! that every member of Task Force 24, the same unit that recently killed al-Qaeda leader Abdul Abbas, were tragically ambushed and killed by the Islamic extremist group, Ansar Dine, in a predawn raid.
Again, all 12 Special Ops forces, American heroes, killed.
That's it! That, that, right there, Ma.
Yesterday those soldiers were heroes, and today, they're dead.
And we're just supposed to believe it's a coincidence? What else could it be? It could be a million things, Ma.
It could be a, a trillion.
I'm gonna find the one thing.
What are you doing? It's called hacking, Ma.
Is that legal? No.
But if the government's doing what I think it's doin', it's justified.
There you are.
What's all this? He's a UAV operator.
Who? Danny Gentry lives in Delaware.
He flies UAVs out of Niger in North Africa.
He's a drone pilot.
Why would Alex Baker and Societel Mining wanna pay off a drone pilot? And why would Gentry return the money? Peter, maybe you should call someone.
Ed Dixon.
I'm not giving this to Ed.
Honey.
You have a really good job.
We just bought this house.
Put the kids in private school.
You're not a US Attorney anymore.
I know that.
Hello.
Hello.
Hello.
Hello? Hello.
What's your name? Aslam.
Aslam.
That means "peace," right? Uh, no.
What, what are you reading, Aslam? Prisoner Of Azkaban.
I love that one.
Have, have you gotten to the part of the Dementors, yet? Not scary.
They're funny.
Funny? Uh, Aslam.
Uh, Aslam, I'm um I'm thirsty.
Damn it.
You barely know this woman and you invite her over? Who the hell is she? She writes for Time magazine.
And she wants to write about you? Yeah.
She liked what I said on FXN.
Is everything okay? My girlfriend thinks I should ask you what your angle is.
I told you.
It's about how the G8 summit reinvigorated you guys.
My angle's you.
It's all of you.
Sounds good to me.
Oh, check it out! Turn it up.
That's me! The identities of these heroes That's me right there.
were being exploited by the protesters camped out on Wall Street.
A lightning rod has been Sergeant Odelle Ballard, the only female on the Special Operations team.
You can let me out, I can help.
I have medicine in my pack.
No.
My father, he is coming back soon.
I'm the guard.
Aslam, who is she? Okay, fine.
All right.
That's it, that's it, that's it.
Okay, you're looking for a small pouch with a red tag on it.
Okay.
That's That's it.
Yeah.
That's it.
That's it.
Now you're looking for a brown container marked "Fentanyl.
" F-E-N-T-A-N-Y-L.
Do you see it? Good.
That's it.
That's it.
Now she has to take two right away.
It's all right.
Tell her it's an opioid.
It's a form of opium.
But she must take two right away.
She took them.
Good.
It says "Bacitracin.
" B-A-C Yeah.
Yeah.
I found it.
Yeah.
Show me.
Show me.
Good.
That's it.
That's it.
Do you hear me? What's happening? Aslam.
Do you hear me? Yeah.
She's good now.
She's good? Thank you.
You're welcome.
Oh, my God! Ma, you gotta see this.
It's a cover-up! I had fun tonight.
It was a lot like college.
Yeah, I know.
Uh, this is me.
Oh.
Sorry.
Girlfriend? No.
I'm not sure who it is.
Answer it.
Hello? I found something, Harrison.
One thing.
Like you said.
It's huge.
We need to meet.
Bob? This is not a good time.
It's about those Special Ops Forces that were killed in North Africa.
Only the whole thing is a cover-up.
I have proof.
It's a lie.
Really.
Proof? Yes.
A Sergeant Odelle Ballard sent an email to an officer at Africom 14 hours after she was reported dead by the US military.
How'd you get her email? I hacked into her account.
You know what this means? They're, they're lying.
The military.
The feds.
Send it to me.
Over the Internet? No way.
Fine.
Okay.
Meet me at the park.
Tomorrow morning.
10:00 a.
m.
Your usual spot.
All right.
I'll see you there.
Who was that? This guy I know.
He found an email from one those Special Ops soldiers in Mali.
Says it proves she's still alive.
I'm, uh, supposed to meet him at a park tomorrow morning, check it out.
You're welcome to tag along if you want.
Yeah.
It sounds interesting.
Great.
This is a bad idea.
Danny Gentry? Who are you? Peter Decker.
This is Joe Abrams.
We work for Simons-Wachtel, an investment bank in New York City.
We're underwriting a merger Listen, I told them already.
I don't want their money.
Wait.
Wait.
Told who? Um, get your hand off of the door.
Mr.
Gentry, Alex Baker tried to pay off your mortgage.
You refused.
Honey, who is it? Your house is in foreclosure.
Why would you do that? Does it have anything to do with your job as a UAV operator in Africa? Stay inside, Janine.
If Societel Mining is trying to pay you there's got to be a reason.
Let us help you.
Look.
Just stay the hell away from us.
In case you change your mind.
Sophia! Honey, you need your coat! Mommy'll be right back.
Danny! Hey! Hey! Hey, get back here! Hey! Janine! Janine! Where's Sophie? Sophie.
Sophie.
Are you okay? Are you okay? Who is that? Are you okay? Danny What? What happened? There's a man.
There's some man.
Are you okay, honey? Look at Mommy.
Oh, my God Are you okay? What's going on? I don't know.
Shh! Aslam.
Aslam.
Aslam, who's out there? Team, clear! Americans.
Can you tell? Aslam, what are they wearing? Black or green? Can you tell? Aslam! Are they wearing black or green? Yes, black! We have to go.
Now! Stay back! Clear! Clear! Clear! Clear.
All clear.
Good morning.
Have you read the first? No.
But I've read this one many times.
I've read them all.
With my daughter Suzanne.
She's 12.
One call.
Just one.
To my To my daughter and my husband to let them know that I'm alive.
No.
Aslam.
One call.
Please.
No! You mean safe from me.
Yes.
What about your father, Aslam? Are you supposed to sell me to the Ansar Dine? My father My father would've come by now.
No.
You can't just leave me here.
The men who attacked your village last night, they won't stop until they find me and they kill me! My whole unit is gone.
My friends are gone.
I have to keep moving.
I can't.
Aslam, I have to keep moving.
I can't help you.
Only men can go.
I'm sorry.
Good luck.
Right.
And when the Ansar Dine find me? What do you think I'm gonna tell them? I am gonna tell them that it was you that helped me escape.
And I'm gonna tell them where you went.
'Cause if you leave me here alone you might as well pull the trigger.
No, it's a cover-up.
This isn't the truth.
This woman's still alive.
This Sergeant's still alive.
It's a cover-up.
The military, they're lying to us.
She's still alive.
She's still alive.
We were operating drones in the tribal regions of Niger and Somalia from our base here in Delaware.
They're targeting hostiles, which is why I wasn't surprised to get the call.
Islamic militants on horseback were making their way towards our second battalion in Algeria.
Now, the thing is, they were in Mali.
We've never sent armed Reapers into Mali before.
I mean, a few of my buddies have flown unarmed Predators to help the French with logistics, but, I mean, never anything with missiles.
Why are you suddenly so talkative? Because they made it clear that they could get to us.
My family.
My little girl.
What did they do? They try to hurt her? No, not yet, but I know they can.
Okay.
So you were ordered to go after militants in Mali.
Then what? Well, then it got, it got strange.
I mean, we had no Intel analyst.
I kept telling my CO that it didn't feel right.
But it didn't matter.
He gave me a direct order.
Your CO gave you a direct order to fire on American soldiers? Yeah.
He did.
You think he knew who they were? I don't know.
I don't know what he knew at the time.
But after the fact, after the news came out? Nothing.
So I waited.
Nothing.
I waited some more.
Still nothing.
So I went in to my base commander's office.
And I told him I wasn't gonna keep silent anymore.
Next thing I know, I'm put on paid leave.
How does Societel Mining fit in? Well, the next morning, the bank calls me at my house.
Tells me someone paid off my mortgage.
I knew immediately what it was.
I knew it was blood money.
So I, I told them no.
I told them to send it back.
I mean, I'm not gonna get paid off.
We killed US soldiers.
Look, I, I read about you on the Internet, Mr.
Decker.
It said that you helped go after the big-time pharmaceuticals, and the tobacco companies.
I figured I could count on you to help me with this.
I will.
But you'll tell them that it wasn't my fault, right? I mean, I was only following an order.
I was only doing exactly what they told me to do.
I'm friends with the US Attorney.
I'll set up a meeting with you in New York.
You'll get to tell him that yourself.
This is not a joke.
If they catch you, you will be stoned.
- Okay? - Okay.
Talk as little as possible.
Your accent is not good.
And here.
One call.
To your family.
Only one.
Thank you.
She's one of three that we couldn't recover.
No body, dog tags, anything? It just makes it that much harder.
I know.
No, no.
They're They're not answering and, um, the machine's not picking up.
The machine's I just wanted, um I just wanted to let them know that I'm alive.
At least that.
Now they will know.
Where did you send that? Al Jazeera.
After that everywhere.
Them him we only want the woman.
Tell him we won't hurt his son if he tells us where his son took the woman.
We will leave this godforsaken hell hole and let him and his merry band of terrorists live in peace.
Sir? Yeah.
Okay.
I got it.
Excuse me, sir, what the hell? Ballard tried to call home.
We have her coordinates.
She's in Kidal region.
I'll go myself.
Danny! Danny! Hey, hey.
Hey, hey.
Hey, call an ambulance.
Call an ambulance! No.
No! Hey.
Hey, man.
Sorry.
Um, have you seen Bob? Bob who? He's usually here.
I was supposed to meet him.
The guy Sorry, man.
Come on.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Look at this, look at this.
Hey, look at this.
I think she's alive.
Harrison.
What? You see this? What's going on? Hey, check your phone, man.
Check your phone.
ladies and gentleman, the beep.
Bob, it's Harrison.
Listen, I just saw a picture of that woman soldier.
Your woman soldier.
I mean you, you were right.
So we have to talk right away.
Where are you? You were supposed to meet me at the park, all right? Call me.
Please.
It's Russell, are you sure you haven't seen Bob? I don't know.
I'm sorry, man.
WOMAN ON Time magazine, may I help you? Yeah.
I'm, I'm looking for, uh, one of your reporters.
Ruby Simms.
She was, uh, she was doing a story on the G8 protest, uh I'm sorry.
No one by that name works here.
Wait, what are you talking about? Of course she works there.
Sorry, sir.
Um Hey, hey, have you seen Bob? Bob, he's this real skinny guy.
Kinda scrawny.
Sorry.
Have you seen Bob Offer? He's really, really skinny.
We don't know what to believe.
I'm sorry, Ron.
It's propaganda put out by Al Jazeera.
This kind of thing happens all the time.
But you haven't found her.
Look, I'll come by later to talk, okay? Al Jazeera refuses to reveal the source of the photo going viral, igniting passions in social media, both here at home and across the globe.
Protestors at the G8 summit in New York have eschewed the Pentagon's explanation of the photo, and have instead capitalized on its existence as a new rallying cry for their protest.
You okay? You look pale.
Is it that thing at work? What thing? More deceptively uncriminal criminal behavior? Eat your dinner.
Dad, I was kidding.
Uh, you guys see the news about that soldier? Oh, yeah, yeah.
That Special Ops soldier that killed Abdul Abbas.
Yeah.
They're saying she's still alive.
It's literally all over the Internet.
Check it out.
It must be true, right? The fact that CNN, NBC and everyone else, including the White House say it's a fake.
Josh, use your napkin.
Do they know where she is? Peter, it's propaganda.
That poor family.
I mean, it's just It's cruel.
Excuse me.
Hello? Did you see it? Joe, if this woman is alive That's an enormous "if.
" She's the only one that knows the truth.
We gotta find her.
My God, what they've done His name is Bob Offer.
Yeah? Hey, it's me.
I just got off with Decker.
He's not giving up.
He's got friends with resources.
Could be a problem going forward.
I'll handle it.