Class of '09 (2023) s01e01 Episode Script

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(TRAFFIC NOISES, INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(ELECTRONIC WHIRRING)
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
(RAPID TYPING)
(ELECTRONIC WHIRRING)
(SIGHS)
♪
(BRAKES SQUEAL)
- (ELECTRIC ENGINE SHUTS OFF)
- (INSECTS TRILLING)
(DEVICE CHIMES)
COMPUTER: Suspect Amos
Garcia has been classified
as a potential extremist.
His threat level against
the Bureau has increased.
A warrant has been issued
for his arrest.
(ELECTRIC ENGINE SHUTS OFF)
Hey.
- You're kidding me.
- (CHUCKLES)
What are you doing here?
I was hoping you could tell me.
No, I mean, this isn't isn't my case.
(BOTH LAUGH)
- Hi.
- It's not mine, either. Hi.
- Huh.
- (CHUCKLES)
Of all the agents, they choose us?
- After all this time?
- Yeah.
Can't just be random, right?
There's got to be a reason.
(VEHICLE APPROACHING)
- You expecting anyone else?
- No.
(BRAKES SQUEAL)
♪
(FOX CHITTERING)
(GUN CLICKS)
♪
(DOOR SQUEAKS SOFTLY)
(OBJECT CLATTERS NEARBY)
♪
POET: Amos?
Amos Garcia? This is the FBI.
(ELECTRIC CHITTERING, WHIRRING)
Not only are we now one of the
greatest countries on this Earth,
we are now also one of the safest.
Not only are we now one of the
greatest countries on this Earth,
we are now also one of the safest.
Not only are we now one of the
greatest countries on this Earth
You think this was left here for us?
How could he have known we were coming?
TAYO: the greatest
countries on this Earth,
we are now also one of the safest.
Not only are we now one of the
greatest countries on this Earth,
we are now also one of the safest.
♪
♪
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(ENGINE IDLES)
(HORN HONKS)
(BRAKES SQUEAL)
(DISTANT INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (WHISTLE BLOWS IN DISTANCE)
- (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
Hey, you know,
you can't just stop like that,
- in the middle of the road.
- Sorry.
Who are you?
Why? You think I look too old?
- Too old for what?
- (SIGHS)
- To be your classmate.
- Oh.
No, I don't think you look old at all.
I'm-I'm Ashley Poet,
but everybody calls me Poet.
I'm Murphy. I'm a cop.
- Or was a cop.
- Hmm. Makes sense,
- since you pulled me over.
- (CHUCKLES)
Uh, well, old habits, I suppose.
12 years, Salt Lake City.
- What about you?
- I was a nurse.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
Oh, my God.
Is your heart just about
to burst with pride?
(CHUCKLES)
- (QUIET CHATTER)
- (ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
You get ne rvous
around new people, don't you?
You try to be funny, but it just
ends up sounding obnoxious,
and then you're left
scratching your head,
wondering what went wrong.
(CHUCKLES)
Well, you want to know what I think?
I think we're about to have
one of those friendships
that starts off really bad
- but then gets really good.
- (CHUCKLES)
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
(CHUCKLES)
♪
(DOOR OPENS)
Hello?
(TAKES DEEP BREATH)
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
Hey. You okay?
Four of us share this bathroom.
They call us "suitemates,"
as in we're "en suite" and "roommates."
I can't be in a place that
calls people suitemates.
POET: Right.
Is this really about the doors?
I have $12.50 to my name.
I spent the last of my money
on the flight here,
'cause I thought if I could
make it to the Academy,
it would all be okay.
Our food is paid for,
a place to sleep
Well, we do get paid to be here.
Our first check arrives
in, like, a week.
We have to buy our own uniforms.
I think they give us our own uniforms.
They don't even give us coat hangers.
I can't go to our induction class
the only person without a uniform,
explaining why I don't even have
the money to buy a pair of pants.
Well, I mean,
I-I could lend you the money.
I wasn't asking for a loan.
Yeah, I know you weren't.
I shouldn't be here.
What if I
told you that I-I need you to stay?
You don't know me.
No, but
I will.
DREW: Everything you do
for the next five months
will be evaluated.
Not just the classes,
not just the instruction and tests.
The small stuff.
Who do you sit next to at breakfast?
What time do you go to bed at night?
We have 300 million Americans to protect
and only 13,000 agents to do it with.
So we need to know you better
than you know yourselves.
My name is Drew.
I'll be one of your counselors.
I'm Gabriel.
I'm the other person
trying to figure out
the mystery of who you all are.
The FBI's first ever
New Agent Class. 1935.
Do you know what was special
about this class?
Nothing.
Except that they were the first.
I've spent most of my career teaching
because I believe I could play
a bigger role in here
than I could out there.
I've had good classes.
I've even had a few great classes.
But I never had an exceptional class.
I'm running out of time,
so I hope that class is you.
We want each of you to stand up
and say something about yourselves.
Let's start with you.
My name is Daniel Lennix.
I was a lawyer,
and I thought, this is
my father's profession
and his father before him,
but it is not mine.
So joining the FBI is
a statement of your identity?
That's-that's not what I meant, sir.
GABRIEL: Well, I'm glad we
could be of service, trainee Lennix.
You may sit down.
How about you?
(SETS PEN DOWN)
My name is Hour Nazari.
My parents were born in Iran.
My father was an academic in Tehran.
Um, my mother was an accountant.
Why did they move here?
He was arrested by officers
from the Ministry of Intelligence.
DREW: What was he arrested for?
Carrying a backpack of books
on the Soviet Union.
Um, for two weeks,
they interrogated him.
"Why are you reading these books?"
He told them, um, he was a history buff.
In the third week, they tortured him.
When his answers didn't change,
they let him go.
After that, my parents
sought asylum here.
How about you?
Uh (CLEARS THROAT)
I'm Tayo Michaels.
I'm 30 years old,
and I worked in insurance
before applying to the Bureau.
GABRIEL: What made you change careers?
(CHUCKLES):
This is gonna sound nerdy, sir.
GABRIEL:
No, trainee, I'm-I'm interested.
Tell me.
Okay. I
discovered that premiums vary 60%,
depending on who the assessor is.
Exact same circumstances,
60% difference.
And as I sat in my nice office,
with my nice ergonomic chair
and my very nice six-figure salary,
I just thought to myself that
this isn't the kind of injustice
that I want to spend my life fixing.
DREW: How about you?
You're next.
♪
POET: "There once was a poor farmer"
"who lived with his sick wife."
"Their clothes were rags"
"and their stomachs ached."
"Their land was so barren,
they could hardly grow"
"enough food to eat."
"One day, the farmer was so desperate"
"he cried out"
"'Please help me. My life is so hard.'"
The FBI are here.
They want to talk to you.
The FBI?
Can I finish the story?
FBI AGENT 1: He's the suspect.
His brother is a patient here.
FBI AGENT 1:
We're told you're close to him.
His name is Alfie.
We tried speaking to him.
FBI AGENT 1: Just started screaming.
FBI AGENT 2: We were
wondering if you might have more
success.
His brother's never visited here.
What do you think he could know?
It's probably a waste of time.
♪
I'll do it.
Just not here.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(BREATHING SHAKILY):
He's he's coming.
He's coming to get me.
He's-he's-he's
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
♪
You ever thought of joining the FBI?
(CHUCKLES)
No. I haven't.
We're looking for
different kinds of people,
outside of law enforcement.
How's that going?
(AGENT CHUCKLES)
Will you think about it?
Maybe see it as a chance
to stop people being harmed,
rather than helping them afterwards.
♪
TRAINEES:
As a student of the FBI Academy,
I devote myself to the pursuit
of truth and knowledge.
GABRIEL: I subscribe to the
highest standards of honesty,
integrity, fidelity
and honorable behavior.
TRAINEES: I subscribe to the
highest standards of honesty,
integrity, fidelity
and honorable behavior.
(LOUD THUD)
(QUIET MURMURING)
NATHAN: Sir, may we bury it?
Okay, Nathan, we can do that.
- (BIRDS CHIRPING)
- (INSECTS TRILLING)
GABRIEL: How do you feel, Nathan?
Better, sir.
Trainee, what do you think of all this?
I think it was
a very kind gesture, Nathan.
Trainee? Any thoughts?
No, I thought it was
a really nice thing to do.
I guess we're done. Class dismissed.
Nathan, I want to talk to you.
Hey. What did you really think?
I think that his bags will be packed
by the time I get back to our room.
No, they just swore him in.
They're not gonna kick him out already.
We'll just have to find out.
♪
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
- Hey.
- POET: Hey.
Guess I was wrong.
He wasn't even allowed
to pack his own things.
They sent two people to pack it for him.
- You saw it all happen?
- Oh, yeah.
(QUIETLY): Look.
Left something behind, though.
(TAYO SIGHS)
It wasn't a bird he was burying.
♪
I'm so glad we're in the same class.
So am I.
♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
(SIREN CHIRPS)
(BRAKES SCREECH SOFTLY)
♪
(KNOCKING)
We have reports of gunfire
coming from inside this apartment.
No gunfire here, Officer.
Do you mind if we take a look around?
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
I'll check the back.
(DOOR CLOSES)
♪
Hey.
You okay?
(MUFFLED SHOUTING)
Hey, can you get under the bed
and hide for me?
Yeah?
(MUFFLED SHOUTING CONTINUES)
Good. Okay, stay there.
MAN: I'm not trying to play both
What are you talking about?!
- Yo, yo. Wait, wait, wait. Hold up!
- (GUNSHOTS)
(BODY THUDS)
(GASPING)
♪
Code 3, shots fired.
Officer in need of assistance.
(INDISTINCT RADIO RESPONSE)
♪
(DOOR OPENS)
(CAR ALARM BEEPS)
- (LIVELY CHATTER)
- (MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY)
(MUSIC CONTINUES MUFFLED)
(MUSIC CONTINUES MUFFLED)
What'd you hear about this department
before you joined?
I heard it was corrupt.
Yet here you are.
My life didn't turn
out the way I expected.
ALBURY: Bullshit.
There are plenty of jobs.
Why aren't you selling shoes?
I'm a police officer.
ALBURY: You're a small-town cop.
Why'd you move here?
- Because
- You like girls? Or boys?
- That's no ne of your business.
- Ha. Girls, then.
So, you move to the big city.
No friends, no family.
What? Think we didn't rake over
your pitiful personal life?
I know you did.
I've seen them following me.
They're not very good.
You got one more chance.
You either give me an answer
that I find acceptable,
or you go back home.
Why are you here?
♪
I wanted to be a part of something.
He was a snitch.
For the FBI.
You sent me there to see if I knew him?
And you didn't.
(GLASS AND BOTTLE RATTLE)
Welcome to the family.
(GLASSES CLINK)
(EXHALES)
The undercover operation Blue
Score began nine months ago.
It took three months for them to
invite me to join their family.
I have been in this family ever since,
collecting information.
How did you record their conversations
when they were so paranoid
about being infiltrated?
(GUN CLICKS)
Well, he didn't trust me,
but he trusted my gun.
So, why did you succeed
when every other
undercover agent failed?
I never tried to fit in.
I I didn't pretend to like them.
She played hard to get.
(SCATTERED LAUGHTER)
We're done here.
They want to make
a big show of this bust.
They want you there,
when they make the arrests.
At the precinct?
Well, I ca I can't go back in.
That's-that's not how it's done.
They're your orders.
♪
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(HANDCUFFS CLICKING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(EXHALES)
(HORNS HONKING)
(LOUD WHIRRING, CLANKING)
(QUIET CHATTER)
(DISTANT CONSTRUCTION NOISE CONTINUES)
FBI PSYCHIATRIST:
While you were undercover,
you refused to check in
with your psychiatric evaluator?
If you're playing a role,
it's easier not to talk about it.
And w-when you applied to join
the FBI, you were engaged?
Mm-hmm.
Was that your last serious relationship?
No, there was one other.
What happened with the engagement?
We were living together,
making plans for the future, and I
I told him about applying to the FBI.
And he said he was proud of me.
"Go for it."
And in the midst of my application,
um
there was the spousal interview.
- Right.
- Right, and they, um,
they asked him if he would be
open to relocating,
um, depending on where I was stationed,
and he said no, so
So the FBI halted my application.
Did he understand
the consequences of his answer?
Yeah.
I mean, I had been very clear.
Well, why do you think he said that?
He didn't think I'd make it that far.
So you left him.
Well, what other choice did I have?
You could've stopped
your FBI application.
This wasn't about me choosing
between him and the FBI.
You know, he revealed himself.
He let me down.
And if the FBI should ever let you down?
We'd have a lot more to worry
about than my broken heart.
FBI PSYCHIATRIST: Broken
hearts are worth worrying about, too.
♪
Management teach you
to work those stairs?
Oh, you think I staged my entrance?
You chose the location,
you're five minutes late.
Huh.
Congratulations.
The biggest police corruption
bust in the Bureau's history?
Thanks, I guess.
- That must've been tough.
- (TAKES DEEP BREATH)
I find what you do tough.
(CHUCKLES): Oh, yeah?
What do I do?
What, you don't know?
I like to be reminded.
You do the big decisions.
Are you making fun of me?
You used to like it once.
Or was that before you became
Associate Executive Assistant Director?
Right now, we are talking
like old friends,
reminiscing after all these years.
What are we doing?
There's a reason
you were at those arrests.
I gave the order.
We knew it would be rough.
Wh It wasn't rough, it was dangerous.
(STAMMERS) We wanted to create
the impression
that you'd burnt out.
Assign you a desk job.
Have you attend psychiatric evaluations.
- This is my cover?
- It is.
What's my assignment?
Right here, inside the FBI.
We'll be in touch.
- (HORNS HONKING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Missed you.
(LAUGHS) You, too.
Why are you standing outside?
I don't know. (LAUGHS)
(LAUGHING): You're ridiculous.
POET: So, I arrived,
um, after, you know,
11 months undercover.
It doesn't feel real.
You know, there's nothing
in the cabinets.
There's no one there waiting for me.
They're like tours of duty.
I don't know how many more I can take.
The Bureau talked to me.
- About what?
- About you.
They asked whether
you could work with me,
to transfer over.
You didn't know?
Mm-mm. No.
I think it's a great idea.
Not as a favor.
We'd be lucky to have you.
It's the world's most powerful
criminal database.
I'd love to know what you make of it.
And this is an exciting time.
I
I'd love you to be part of it.
Why didn't you tell me?
I wanted the surprise to be real.
- We don't spy on our own.
- Sometimes we have to.
This is one of those times?
Hour's work could fundamentally change
the way the Bureau operates.
Tell me this isn't because
her parents are from Iran.
No, come on, Poet.
It had nothing to do with that.
If you have concerns, talk to her.
This is bigger than friendships, okay?
We need someone on the inside
of her operation.
It's not gonna be me.
Then we'll find someone else.
- Wouldn't you rather it be you?
- (LAUGHS)
Sometimes I forget why we broke up,
but you always fucking remind me.
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
- (DOOR OPENS)
- POET: Hey.
Am I am I disturbing your work?
Not at all.
LENNIX: I had an idea I
wanted to run past you.
- POET: Sure. Go for it.
- You know Evans's wife
is staying at the motel in Triangle?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you mentioned it.
He's going back and forth
from the base to the motel.
He's not hanging out with us
as much as he'd like,
so, I thought maybe we could
all have a meal together this weekend?
POET: Yeah, in-in Triangle?
There's a Mexican restaurant,
quesos, two and half stars on Yelp.
(GASPS) Wow.
I think it's a good idea, too.
Great. I'll, uh
I'll make the reservation.
Can you talk to Tayo?
Yeah. I don't know
if he'll come, but I'll try.
- Okay. See ya.
- All right.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Nothing is gonna happen.
It's already happening.
(UPBEAT SONG PLAYING IN SPANISH)
POET: So was your family disappointed
you didn't become a lawyer?
No. No, they, uh
- WAITRESS: Here you go.
- Thanks.
My, uh, parents figured
with a little bit of
public service under my belt,
they could line me up
to run for senator.
Wow. Is that really how it works?
Yeah. Right now,
my parents are doing the math
on how many extra votes I'll get
if I take a bullet in the line of fire.
(LAUGHING): Oh, my gosh.
Yeah. How about you?
Um, I I never met my dad.
Though I'm told
he was a really nice guy,
right until the day that he left.
Did you ever try to find him?
No. No, he's not a mystery that I'm
that I'm interested in solving.
- Oh.
- Mm-mm.
No, my mom raised me on her own.
You know, she was kind of
my mom, my dad, my best friend.
Hmm.
Well, she must be very proud of you.
Yeah, she was. She passed.
I'm sorry.
I was 18. I was
I was out of the house,
I was in college.
Um she had a nervous breakdown.
It was
It was almost like she was
carrying me on her back.
And when she, you know,
got me over the finish line,
- she collapsed.
- Hmm.
She was in and out of hospitals
until the end,
and I think it's why
I became a nurse.
Like, to pay back the debt
that I owed her.
But?
I just never felt close to her,
you know, in those hospitals.
And when that agent
just showed up out of nowhere
and asked me if I wanted
to join the FBI,
I, uh
Like, I don't know. It felt like
she was talking to me.
Like, um
she was telling me she didn't
want me in the hospital.
Oh, my God.
I sound so mystical, don't I?
No.
Poet and Lennix are going
to be married within five years.
- Poet and Lennix?
- Mm-hmm.
Okay, I'll take that bet.
- Oh, yeah.
- Okay, you are crazy.
- Oh, yeah, I'll take it.
- It's inevitable.
Yeah, but Poet is too busy
looking after everybody else
to be looking after herself, so
(INHALES)
Yeah. You may be right.
I am. I am definitely right about that.
(CHUCKLES)
What about you?
- Hmm.
- You got your eye on anybody?
- No.
- No one?
No one.
What about you?
Oh, no, no, no, no. I'm-I'm
I'm never getting married.
- What are you talking about?
- It's never gonna happen,
and I-I've made peace with it
a long time ago.
- It's just not
- Okay.
The people who say
they're never gonna get married
are always the first
to be swept off their feet.
Oh, my God. It's That's not me.
- I'm not
- I guarantee it.
- (TAYO MUTTERS)
- EVANS: Um, hey, everybody,
um, thanks for coming tonight.
Lennix for putting this all together.
- (WHOOPS)
- Um,
I'm not really one
for, uh, speeches, obviously.
Um, so a toast to Class of '09.
ALL: Class of '09.
- Cheers.
- (OVERLAPPING WHOOPING, CHATTER)
(GLASSES CLINKING, OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
Cheers.
Why do you have your car here?
Uh, because I drove to Quantico.
Oh.
From California.
Yeah, the whole way.
You, uh, didn't want to be seen arriving
- on an airport minibus? (LAUGHS)
- (LAUGHS)
No.
Not enough romance to it, huh?
There's no romance to it.
- Hey, I got the chariot, okay?
- Thank you.
- You're welcome. Yeah.
- Do you want to sit?
Actually, I'm gonna
I'm gonna ride with them.
- What are you doing?
- It's a tight space
Hey, there is there is no space
- in that car for you, okay?
- No. Come.
Go. (LAUGHS)
TAYO: Mm-hmm.
I know it sounds confusing ♪
But it makes a lot of sense ♪
Row a boat across the ocean ♪
(BRAKES SQUEAK)
Touch me ♪
I'm going to scream if you don't ♪
Inside I know we have
the feeling that you want ♪
(POET INHALES)
(POET PANTING)
The Senate Judiciary Committee
will come to order.
Director Michaels,
you're nearing the end of your ten years
as director of the FBI.
The question for this hearing
is whether it's right
to extend your term.
I've overseen one
of the most radical changes
to the way that the Bureau operates.
I've integrated
groundbreaking technology
into our investigative process.
Artificial intelligence
that misses nothing
and judges everyone as equals.
And as a consequence,
we have all enjoyed one
of the steepest periods
of criminal decline
that this country has ever seen.
We can now say that not only are we one
of the greatest nations on Earth,
we are also one of the safest.
SPENSER: Director, if
the system is so great,
why do you need five more years?
TAYO: Progress
is like a child, isn't it?
You must protect it.
You must keep your arms around it.
And that's why I'm here.
Good to see you, Poet.
It's good to see you, too.
What brings you here?
I was sent to arrest Amos Garcia
without any idea why.
Wasn't working on his case.
And then I found out
that you had requested it?
That's true. I sent you there.
You and Murphy.
Why?
Amos is unwell.
Mentally, physically.
He has become a very dangerous man.
He has ideas on you,
and he has ideas on me.
Where is he now?
That's the thing. We don't know.
Am I being followed?
You're being protected, Poet.
(DOOR SQUEAKS OPEN)
(CHIMING, LIGHTS WHIRRING ON)
♪
♪
(WHIRRING)
(CHIMES, ELECTRICITY WHIRRING DOWN)
Computer, restore lights.
Computer?
(CHIMES, LIGHTS WHIRRING ON)
Take off your mask slowly.
It stops cameras from tracking me.
Amos, what are you doing in my home?
AMOS: You were in my home.
I know where your career began.
I know where it ended up.
- Where is that?
- As the puppet of a justice system
you no longer understand.
(SIGHS) I'm going to cuff you now.
I'm not going to hurt you.
The dream was
to help agents arrest people
for crimes they'd committed,
not to arrest them for their thoughts.
- (ALARM SOUNDING)
- COMPUTER: Law enforcement
has surrounded this apartment.
An arrest is imminent.
Please lay facedown on the floor,
and no harm will come to you.
They're watching you.
Law enforcement has surrounded
- It's the Bureau.
- Good luck.
Amos, put the gun down!
- FBI!
- Get on the ground!
Get on the ground! Gun! Gun!
FEMALE AGENT: Cover!
(PANTING)
He was in here for five minutes.
He must have said something.
What did he say?
Nothing I can make sense of.