The Agency (2024) s01e01 Episode Script

1
["LOVE IS BLINDNESS" BY JACK WHITE]
Love is blindness ♪
I don't want to see ♪
Won't you wrap the night ♪
Around me ♪
Oh, my heart ♪
Love is blindness ♪
Blindness ♪
Love is blindness ♪
I don't want to see ♪
Won't you wrap the night ♪
Around me, yeah ♪
Oh ♪
My love ♪
Love is blindness ♪
Oh, love is blindness ♪
Blindness ♪
[PERCUSSIVE MUSIC]
♪
♪
[AGENT] So, how did it go?
How did it go? Take a wild guess.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.]
[PEOPLE ULULATING]
[PEOPLE SINGING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[DOORBELL RINGS]
[AGENT] When did you tell her?
This morning.
- [TRAFFIC HONKING OUTSIDE]
- [MOPED REVS OUTSIDE]
Are you going somewhere?
I'm leaving.
I got a job offer
at an international school in Jordan.
For how long?
I don't know.
So, when you say you are leaving
are you leaving or are you
Both.
Mm. What strategy did you use?
I went for spineless,
dash of pathetic, sprinkle of selfish.
[AGENT CHUCKLES]
What exactly did you say?
[MAN] I said I didn't know
why I was in Addis anymore.
Tired of my job,
couldn't cope with my divorce,
missing my daughter.
Blah, blah, not forgetting blah.
When are you leaving?
Tonight.
Oh.
♪
[AGENT] And what did she say?
She got angry, yelled.
Usual bullshit breakup scene,
just a touch more brutal.
It had to happen, I guess.
I knew you wouldn't stay forever,
especially now with
everything that's going on.
I'll be fine. I can, uh,
stay with family in Khartoum.
The university there asked me for help.
Are you sad?
Me too.
It was good.
Really good.
[MAN] She cried.
Tried to get physical.
Thank you for not telling me sooner.
It would hurt more.
She never wants to see my face again.
[AGENT] How are you feeling now?
Never better.
[VEHICLES APPROACHING]
[VAN DOOR OPENS]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[VAN DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
[BLOND GUY]
fucking spinal cord.
- [DRIVER MUTTERS]
- [BLOND GUY] I'm serious, man.
I've had pain. I've been shot,
I've been kicked in the balls.
Nothing comes close. It's like someone
- put their hand up your ass.
- Where are we going?
- The Airlock.
- It's like they put their
- fucking hand
- The Airlock is back there.
Someone's been away a while?
It's like you put your like someone's
got their fucking
hand up your ass, right?
And then, like, fucking
spread inside your spine.
It's like a central nervous disease.
- [DRIVER] Sure.
- She said it's a migraine.
I'm like, "That's not a fucking"
[PERCUSSIVE MUSIC]
♪
- [VAN DOORS CLOSE]
- [CAR DOOR OPENS]
[CAR ENGINE STARTS]
From now on, you always travel
in and out via the Airlock.
And if you're
going on to Nine Elms,
you should change transport en route.
If you're on two or four wheels,
- swap to a bus or vice versa.
- Swap to a bus or vice versa.
♪
[AIR VENTS HUMMING GENTLY]
[TRAFFIC RUMBLES FAR IN DISTANCE]
[OFEGE'S "IT'S NOT EASY" PLAYING]
[VOLUME INCREASES]
It's not easy ♪
It's not easy ♪
Baby, now ♪
Let me hold you tight,
my love ♪
It's not easy ♪
[WATER RUNS, STOPS]
I want to hold you every day ♪
So that I can fall
in your loved arms ♪
It's not easy ♪
Darling ♪
You've made me lose my mind ♪
It's not easy ♪
I want to lose my mind
every day ♪
So that I can fall
into your loved arms ♪
It's not easy ♪
Let me now know ♪
I want to hold you every day ♪
I'll never, never let you go ♪
Every day ♪
Hey, hey ♪
Every day you know
I love you so much ♪
It's not easy ♪
It's not easy ♪
It's not easy ♪
- [RADIO STATIC]
- [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
It's not easy ♪
Let me know, now ♪
I want to hold you every day ♪
I'll never, never let you go ♪
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES]
Every day ♪
Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
Every day, you know, love ♪
It's not easy ♪
I want to hold you tight
forever ♪
- I want to ♪
- [RADIO STATIC CONTINUING]
It's not easy ♪
I want to love you ♪
[ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
[ENGINE STARTS]
- [CAR ALARM WAILING]
- [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
[SHOUTING]
urgent music ♪
♪
[CARS HONKING]
- [DRIVER EXCLAIMS]
- [TRAM BELL CLANGING]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
[SHOUTING]
[OFFICERS SHOUTING]
[PANTING]
- [OFFICERS SHOUTING]
- [RADIO CHATTER]
Fuck! [GROANS]
[OFFICERS CLAMORING]
[OFFICER SHOUTS]
[GRUNTING]
[OWEN] This is where
Coyote was stopped.
Vulica Lienina. It's on the freeway
in downtown Minsk near the concert hall.
This is Coyote's route
based on cell towers used.
CCTV of the intersection
shows him skidding backwards
through a red light at 60
miles per hour before crashing.
Was he chased?
It's unconfirmed.
Maybe he thought he was.
Or maybe he thought he was Batman.
The police station on Vulica Suchaja.
Our team is a block away, ready to move.
Cook up an arrest in the same precinct.
- Send someone in.
- Okay.
And I want to know
the second they report.
All right.
Frank.
Who trained him to be interrogated
under the influence?
It was me.
Get me the tape.
Sure.
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
[NAOMI] That arrived for you.
[OWEN] Why do you have
to say it like that?
You know I have back pain. I'm on pills.
[NAOMI] Mm.
Hope you don't mind,
I took it for a test-drive.
Pretty snazzy for the chicken coop.
[OWEN] Well, I think it's kind of great.
That's why I bought it.
[TYPING ON KEYBOARD]
Coyote was arrested.
Shit.
What are you looking for?
Oh, the usual.
Anything.
I'm Owen Taylor.
I'm your new handler.
- Where's Blair?
- She got transferred.
Where?
It's classified.
Okay. So, goodbye, Blair.
Hello, Owen.
[OWEN] Shall we begin?
I studied the file,
and if you're okay with it,
why don't we start
with last contact made
with Colonel Saroka.
[COYOTE OVER VIDEO] What's this?
[FRANK] Kentucky.
We need to know you can keep
your cover under the influence.
I can't drink this.
We can't let you go to Minsk
unless we know
you can keep your cover
I can't do it.
- Uh, listen
- No.
I've been sober six years.
If I'm drunk,
someone forced me to drink.
And if someone in Belarus
forces me to drink,
it's already too late. I'm blown.
- It's protocol.
- Find somebody else.
[FRANK OVER VIDEO] Long time ago,
my first postman told me
there's training, protocol,
and then there's your gut.
I'm in the program myself.
Eleven years and counting.
uneasy music ♪
♪
["BACK" BY MILAH & BOI BLUE]
♪
- This a li'l vibe ♪
- This a li'l vibe ♪
- I feel amazing ♪
- I feel amazing ♪
- Back with a play ♪
- Back with a play ♪
- This shit is crazy ♪
- This shit is whoo ♪
- Back in the trey ♪
- Back in the, uh ♪
- I'm feeling wavy ♪
- I'm feeling wavy ♪
- I'm feelin' fly ♪
- I'm feelin' ooh ♪
This feel amazing ♪
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
[CAR HORN HONKS]
[SAMI] It was dangerous.
It was wrong.
It had no future.
But I wouldn't have missed it
for the world.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[LINE RINGING]
[MARTIAN] I want to see my daughter.
- [BOSKO] Thank you. Thank you.
- [WOMAN] You're welcome, sir.
- [BOSKO] Thank you, sir.
- [HENRY] Morning.
- Morning.
- [WOMAN] Morning.
[HENRY] Morning.
Morning, ma'am. Morning.
Chief?
What's happening in Belarus?
So far, nothing special.
Great. What does that mean?
It's too early to call.
So, it's too early to call
that absolutely nothing
special's happening in Belarus?
I didn't say "absolutely nothing."
- I said "nothing special."
- Yeah, so far.
Any change, you'll hear about it first.
Good.
Because one place I want
absolutely nothing special
to happen right now or, frankly, ever
is Belarus.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[LINE RINGS]
- [FRANK OVER PHONE] Hello?
- Yeah, it's Ogletree.
You have those training tapes
I asked for?
[FRANK] There's a problem.
The file's corrupted. [SIGHS]
- What about the backup?
- Same.
The fault must be
on the original recording.
Media error.
Nothing we can do.
This wasn't flagged at the time?
Well, no one asked
to see them until now.
My predecessor didn't watch them?
No. He trusted me.
Find a way to un-fuck the tape,
I'll trust you, too.
[POPPY] Whose place is this?
I rented it from some guy
who lives in Cape Town.
He's a painter or a sculptor.
[POPPY] Just the one bedroom?
When you come over,
I'll sleep on the couch.
It's temporary.
Then it's perfect.
- So, mission accomplished?
- [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Or does anyone actually say
anything like that?
All the time.
Did you kill people?
Dozens. Hundreds. Oh, shit.
I can't tell you. I just did.
Bad news for you.
Mint tea?
But did you, like, swap
hostages? Find nuclear weapons?
How's it going at home?
With Mum? It's the same.
Where are you going on vacation?
Uh, Portugal.
With Luke?
Luke?
Your boyfriend, isn't he?
Ah.
You see, "Luke" is a code name.
I'd tell you his real name,
but, you know,
I'd have to [IMITATES BLOW DART]
[DISHES CLANK]
[SIGHS]
My mission
- [POURING TEA]
- was to make contacts,
meet people in a certain environment
observe them, get to know them,
and see if they knew anything useful.
Yeah, but how do you get
that information out of them?
By, like, blackmailing them?
That rarely works.
It's people who want to help
or advance their own cause.
My job was to identify relevant people.
By making friends with them?
Friends are people you like.
Acquaintances.
Hmm.
So you left us for six years
to make acquaintances?
You'd prefer I kill people?
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS]
Wouldn't drink that if I were you.
[SCOFFS]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
- Here.
- I don't need that.
Take it. Buy something
you wouldn't have otherwise.
Okay.
- Also
- I know.
I'm about to get followed,
like in Istanbul, right?
It's just procedure.
Making sure I'm not
being traced by anyone.
Keeping us all safe.
And if some creep follows me,
I can, like, call out, right?
That's the upside.
Red dot.
Zap.
I'm happy you're back. There, I said it.
♪
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
[PHONE RINGS]
[CLEARS THROAT] Yeah?
[MAN OVER PHONE] Our operator
picked a fight, got pinched.
They're taking him in.
Yeah, I can see that.
Vulica Suchaja.
Got it.
[PHONE BUTTONS BEEP]
[LINE RINGS]
Okay, so, our man,
he's on his way to the tank.
They're gonna release him
within 24 hours.
Hopefully, he can tell us
what's happened to Coyote.
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
♪
Odysseus returns to Ithaca.
[CHUCKLES]
Barely through the door,
and I already need footnotes.
Pretty neat, huh?
St. Paul's, the city.
Can almost see the river.
It was either this or two floors down,
but that was smaller
and reeked of cat piss.
Well
thanks for the wine.
Let's take a walk.
[MARTIAN] Ran past the
Russian Embassy this morning.
Used to be three
satellite dishes on the roof.
Now there's 30.
You saw that, huh?
Yes, sir, Cold War's back.
It's chilly as fuck.
Just a heads-up,
but we might have stepped
into some deep shit in Belarus.
Like I said, it could be nothing.
Is that why I'm back?
This happened yesterday.
Your exfil started months ago.
So why am I back?
Six years is a long time.
Thanks.
Hey, I do want you to train a new agent.
Super smart.
Green but full of promise.
[MARTIAN] Who is he?
She.
Daniela Ruiz Morata.
I'd like you to oversee prep
before we ship.
While the dirt's still on you.
See if some of it rubs off.
Where to?
Iran.
In at the deep end.
There's a shallow end?
[CHUCKLES]
[INTERROGATOR SPEAKING FARSI]
[INTERROGATOR POUNDS ON TABLE]
Time.
[LAUGHS]
I I didn't follow
It won't be a nice
dialect teacher questioning you.
It'll be cops, guardsmen.
Rude and rough.
Here. Street Farsi 101.
Read, learn, digest.
Do the cops really talk like that?
In Iran, you get swept up and
grilled for crossing the road.
In that room, if you don't
understand, you panic.
Panic, you make a mistake.
One mistake
you're dead.
Thank you.
[DOOR BEEPS]
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
[HENRY] Think you have
some friends here.
Yeah, look at this guy.
[CHUCKLES]
It's good to see you again, buddy.
- Thanks.
- Welcome back.
[HENRY] Come on.
- [OWEN] Hey. Hey!
- [APPLAUSE]
- Look.
- [HENRY] Hey.
[OWEN] Yeah.
[NAOMI LAUGHS]
[MAN] Welcome home, buddy.
It's good to have you back, Martian.
Hey, Frank.
Back in the fold.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Can we
Dance?
[LAUGHS]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
We're in 3D.
- Strange.
- It is strange.
How are you settling in?
Good.
Saw my daughter,
some old friends.
Followed everywhere I go.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Phone's probably tapped.
[NAOMI] Well, I can tell you
about that if you want.
Well, it's great to finally meet,
given you know practically
everything about me.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
Well, now, hopefully,
I can get to know the real you.
I mean it.
Thanks for watching over me out there.
[SIREN WAILS ON TV]
[LIPS SMACK]
Mission accomplished.
Absolutely.
♪
[BEEPS]
[BEN] Uh, the driver's license?
- I haven't found it yet.
- What?
I have two huge trunks
I haven't unpacked.
As soon as I find it, I'll bring it in.
[STAMMERS] Nothing else AWOL?
It's all there.
Okay. Email addresses?
Paul Lewis
as in Jerry Lee
@gmail.uk.
PaulLewis@gmail
[SUCKS TEETH]
no longer exists.
- Paul.
- Lewis
26@googlemail.gb.uk.
[INHALES SHARPLY]
Mm.
Oh, this one's still active.
Thought I closed it.
No, you have to click on some tiny box
down in settings to validate it.
Hey, presto.
A roll call of the hurt,
the angry and the deserted.
Uh, there's nothing recent.
You want to take a look before I zap it?
Sure.
Coffee?
- Black.
- Okay.
[FOOTFALLS APPROACHING]
How bad is it?
Let's see.
Anger, confusion, concern.
Mm-hmm. Yeah, must be weird,
especially when it happens so fast.
Kind of like getting the bends, huh?
Okay. Kill it all.
Cool.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Danny Ruiz Morata. It's an honor.
Two men at the counter behind you.
Blue suit?
To the left.
Tall guy, pink shirt,
and a guy, fake tan, about 30.
Surname, first name,
job and phone number. Both.
You have 15 minutes.
[QUIET, DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[CLEARS THROAT]
- Hi.
- Yeah?
- Can you spare a few minutes?
- Yeah, of course.
I'm in charge of the new menu.
- I'm Dara. Nice to meet you.
- Hi, I'm Richard.
- What was your name again?
- Dara.
- Dara.
- Nice to meet you.
- What's your name?
- It's Scott. Nice to meet you.
Scott, nice to meet you as well.
- Are you guys regulars?
- Uh, yeah, yeah.
[DANNY] Oh, good.
I just, I just have a few questions
[DIALOGUE FADES INTO BACKGROUND]
[DANNY] Names, jobs,
cell numbers.
Congratulations,
but orange guy just left.
Pink one stayed.
Now he likes you.
Soon as I leave,
he'll be coming over to you.
You're not a field agent,
you're undercover.
You don't get to jump in and out.
We watch, we position,
we learn, we vanish.
There but not there.
Engaging but forgettable.
Too far out,
you never get what you need.
Too close in,
you become the target.
No, stay. Order something.
Okay. So, to explain
There's nothing to explain.
I turned it on a touch because I
really did think I was leaving with you.
This is the lesson.
Never rely on the op to make you safe.
Rely on yourself.
Bring me a report, 9 a.m.
[RICHARD] Hey.
[SIGHS]
[BEEPS]
Measuring my desk?
Who pulled me out of Addis
in such a hurry
and then left me months
in a safe house in Jordan?
Well, who do you think?
Bosko's big picture.
Strategy is Henry. I'm just tactics.
I didn't ask who pulled me back.
I mean, who do I have to thank,
after six years, for the 48-hour notice?
Oh, that was me.
It was like moving house.
The lease is up in three months,
you forget to weed the yard,
clean the windows, the john.
You did a job to the end. Be proud.
How long did you wait to tell me?
Is this the girlfriend?
Listen, I get it.
It's rough to drop and breeze.
Suddenly, you're a heartless asshole.
You know who doesn't feel
like a heartless asshole?
A heartless asshole.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[REPORTER] Fires continue to burn
at the university
in the capital Khartoum.
Reports of dozens of casualties,
including students
and faculty employees
[CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
♪
- Still here?
- All night, baby.
How long you planning to watch me?
Way above my pay grade.
I'm going for milk.
Want anything?
Ketchup.
♪
Give me one of those prepaid phones.
Too late. Dinner's over.
Dessert.
♪
♪
[JINGLE PLAYS]
[DIALING]
[LINE RINGING]
[SAMI] Hello?
It's Paul.
You calling because of
the attack at the university?
Yes.
I'm alive.
I'm still here.
Do you still worry about me?
[CHUCKLES] Of course.
How's Amman?
How's the new school?
I'm in London seeing my daughter.
You're in London?
Yes.
Me, too.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
How much longer is the unit
planning on watching me 24-7?
Standard protocol.
When I came back from Beirut,
I was followed for months.
Did I ever tell you about Beirut?
Yes, but only as part of every
conversation we've ever had.
Two years training. I'm there one month.
Bam, my cover is blown.
- You should write a book.
- Maybe I should.
But I can't. Why?
'Cause it's a secret, just like you.
Which is why you wear a tail
till we know it all stays that way.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[COYOTE] What I know is
that he's in counterterrorism.
[OWEN] All right. Do we have
any leads on the source
of finance for the investment?
[COYOTE] No, we don't.
[OWEN] Can we trace the transfer?
If he's hidden money offshore,
that could be a lever
we can use on him.
Could.
[PHONE RINGS]
Hello?
[MAN] Our operator
was released 30 minutes ago.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[BEEPS]
[BEEPS]
So?
So, they released our operator
30 minutes ago,
but there's no trace of Piotr Rybak
or anyone else in there
with a DUI charge.
They're sure?
What the fuck? No one saw him leave?
Maybe he's in a basement.
They checked every floor.
Coyote's gone.
[ELEVATOR DOORS OPEN]
How's my tie?
Fuck your tie.
Excuse me.
[BEEPS]
- [BEEPING]
- [BLAIR SIGHS]
[BLAIR MUTTERING] Two, three,
four, five, six, seven.
[HENRY] Coyote's phone's
still pinging at the station
where he was taken 48 hours ago.
[BOSKO]
So he arrived at the station.
[HENRY] AT 3:17 a.m.
Friday morning.
- But he's no longer at the station.
- No.
And no one saw him leave.
How many do we have in the field?
London was running nine.
With Martian back, we've eight out.
- [BOSKO] Including Coyote?
- Yes.
Henry, in your own time,
what the fuck happened?
We have three theories.
Coyote was arrested on a simple DUI.
Coyote is blown and abducted.
Coyote has [CLEARS THROAT]
organized his own disappearance.
The fact that he's disappeared
favors the last two theories.
If he was drunk, that favors them, too.
Who's this? Who's this? Who are you?
I'm Owen, sir.
- Owen?
- Yeah.
Owen. What are you doing in here, Owen?
[CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY]
Owen is Coyote's handler.
Blair was his original handler.
Also involved in training prior
to the agent being activated.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
So why don't you
- Right.
- Say it again, Owen.
[STAMMERS] The fact that he disappeared
favors the last two theories.
- And if he was drunk, that
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no. No, you see,
you're saying words, and
as soon as they enter my ears,
I'm going like,
"What the fuck is Owen saying?"
It's confusing.
Is that why you're here, Owen?
To make things difficult for me?
Coyote refused
alcohol interrogation training.
If he was drunk, it's possible
he lost control with the police,
and he blew his cover.
Why did he refuse training?
Martian's asking you a question, Frank.
Why did he refuse training?
Well, for self-stated personal reasons.
Meaning?
He's in the program.
Recovering alcoholic.
Six years sober.
He knows his conversations
with handlers are recorded.
I reviewed everything.
I didn't see anything amiss.
[BOSKO] Oh, you didn't see anything?
We don't know where he is.
We don't know what the fuck happened.
Did I miss anything here?
[OWEN] We're currently evaluating risks.
All right. I want the absolute,
stone-cold worst fucking picture.
Now.
Of the 52 targets identified by Coyote,
he's aware of four that we recruited.
All operating in Belarus and Russia.
Coyote also
knows of these
nine operations
currently ongoing in Ukraine.
Thunderbird in Mariupol,
Rattlebox in L'viv,
Tonic in the Donbas, Felix in Bakhmut,
and, to a lesser degree,
Niagra off the coast of Odesa.
Put all sources on standby.
Suspend upcoming operations.
Roughly 60%
of all covert activities
in Russia and Ukraine
may be compromised.
Great morning.
Great morning, people.
Henry.
Well, we got a real small window
to clean this up.
Yeah, agents back,
ops reactivated,
or it's our dicks and balls.
Actually, yours first and then mine.
Call in your office, sir.
- I'm busy.
- It's Langley.
[SCOFFS] All right,
all right, all right, damn.
[CIA DIRECTOR]
Talk to me about Belarus.
Belarus is a situation we're across.
So far, nothing special.
It's early days,
but for now we're seeing this
very much as a local problem.
Jim, we both know there's no
such thing as a local problem
in Belarus.
Yeah, there's
an unfolding situation in Minsk.
Once we have a degree
of clarity, we'll fold you in.
You know about new domino theory?
Yes, sir, yes.
- Domino theory is the theory
- No, I didn't ask about
domino theory,
I asked about new domino theory.
New domino theory is
that the United States exists
three dominoes away
from full nuclear exchange.
As we speak, there are 7,000
nuclear weapons
pointed at American targets.
Minsk is a big fucking domino.
Yes, sir.
[CIA DIRECTOR] Three dominoes,
Jim, that's all it takes.
[PERCUSSIVE, MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
♪
[POWER WASHING SOUNDS]
- [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
- Thanks.
[STARTS ENGINE]
[STARTS ENGINE]
[TENSE, PULSING MUSIC]
♪
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
♪
2 p.m., or whenever I'm feeling bad,
I can take another half, right?
But once you feel the migraine
coming, it's too late.
So you have to sort of
It's complicated.
The point is, my energy level
♪
[TIRES SCREECH]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[ENGINE REVVING]
♪
[GRANDPA] Think he's trying to lose us.
His own grandma and grandpa?
Did you tell him
the vehicles have trackers?
- I forgot.
- [DEVICE BEEPING]
[TENSE, PULSING MUSIC]
♪
[ENGINE REVS]
[TIRES SCREECH]
[HORN HONKING]
[TIRES SCREECH]
[TIRES SCREECH]
He's trying to fuck us.
That's what he's doing.
He's trying to fuck us.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[HENRY] I don't get it.
Jesus Christ, Frank.
Why hide the truth?
It was a gut call.
It wasn't relevant to the op.
Until our boy's
in a Minsk police station,
cuffed to a chair
with two pints of vodka in him.
He had six years. That's control.
Isn't that what I was there to train?
- Self-control?
- Keep telling yourself that.
Let me know how it feels
walking past a pub
- on your way home tonight.
- Oh, fuck you, Henry.
- It's a disease.
- If an agent has a disease,
don't you think
it ought to be in his file,
before we stake lives and
millions in taxpayer dollars on him?
Watch out for Martian.
Why?
Or don't. It's up to you.
Because he's dangerous.
[QUIET, TENSE MUSIC]
Goodbye, Frank.
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
[GENTLE, ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC]
♪
Why are you in London?
It's a training course
at the Royal College,
sponsored by UNESCO.
I've been made a director
of the Sudanese Centre
for Cultural Heritage.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Are you here alone?
Mustafa is joining us.
Wait, is that going to be a problem?
[CHUCKLES]
My husband is in Addis.
[PULSING, CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC]
♪
We should have told him
about the backup tracker.
[BEEPING STEADILY]
[EMILY] the whole family.
- [CHARLIE OVER SPEAKER] Uh-huh.
- Except for you.
You know, I'm so good.
I'm so good
I know. I'm not thinking about
- Was Diane there?
- Oh, my God.
- The one that got away?
- I can't believe that you're
you well, she's pregnant
with her second child.
- Two?
- Yes. So you can put it
out of your mind. Yeah.
- Hey, baby.
- Hey.
- Want to talk to Charlie?
- Hey, Henry.
Hey, Charlie.
- He looks tired.
- Yeah, he's always tired.
So, Mom and Dad are good.
- Yes.
- How's Pop?
Well, his leg's better.
But guess what that means?
- He's in the car again.
- Hide the keys.
- I know.
- [LAUGHS] Yeah, exactly.
- Throw the keys in the lake.
- [LIQUID POURING]
Ah, he's made of stern stuff.
Well, he's gonna do himself
some damage sometime.
Or somebody else.
Can I have a word?
Yeah, sure.
- Bye, bro.
- Bye.
[SLOW, TENSE MUSIC]
♪
I want to ask you something.
You don't have to answer.
Okay.
What's the code name of your operation?
[CHUCKLES] You know the rules, sir.
You don't know, I can't tell you.
Not even my favorite brother-in-law.
And bridge partner and part-time rebbe
who you choose to completely ignore.
Still pissed I didn't join the Navy?
You got to get over this, sir.
Okay. It's need-to-know.
I tell you.
If I'm wrong, say no. Understand?
Roger that. What's this about?
Felix.
Why are you asking this?
Nothing to worry about.
If you don't know,
I can't tell you, right?
♪
[SPEAKING FARSI]
So, how's your new job going?
I changed my mind.
- I've been writing.
- What?
A novel? Nonfiction?
Fiction.
Can you tell me?
Give me the, uh [TONGUE CLICKS]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
[SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
The logline.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
A tiny mouse dreams of being
- A ballet dancer?
- [LAUGHS]
- Shit.
- I love it.
It's been done, right?
No, no, I got goose bumps.
gentle, contemplative music ♪
Seriously.
What is it about?
A man risks it all to get what he wants.
Well
at least he knows what he wants.
Isn't that the real problem?
Not anymore.
[SLOW, SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[MARTIAN] I'm seeing someone.
[NAOMI] Wow. Really?
Okay.
It's complicated. She's married.
[INHALES] Hmm.
Do we know her?
I never mentioned her.
Maybe you do.
Sami Zahir.
[NAOMI TYPING]
She's a historian
at the university?
Yeah.
Social anthropologist.
Married to Dr. Mustafa Zahir,
cardiac surgeon.
So long as he's not a cop or a minister.
How long has it been?
Twenty-four hours.
[NAOMI LAUGHS]
Do you think it'll last?
Maybe, maybe not.
I'll keep you posted.
Uh, charge to my room.
[BAR WAITER] Of course. Name and number?
[MARTIAN] Paul Lewis. 303.
[BAR WAITER] Thank you, sir.
Don't bother.
Unless there's some problem.
What kind of problem?
[TENSE, PULSING MUSIC]
Two things. First, if anything
about her doesn't add up,
anything points to her
playing you.
[MARTIAN] She's not in the game.
[NAOMI] By definition, if you're
in this game, nobody knows.
You know that.
What's the second thing?
["LOVE IS BLINDNESS" BY JACK WHITE]
One, two, three,
two, two, three ♪
[NAOMI] If you fall in love.
Wow. Okay.
Why's that?
♪
[NAOMI]
Oh, because of the only thing
anyone really knows about love.
It's all you need?
♪
[NAOMI] No.
That it's blind.
Love is blindness ♪
I don't want to see ♪
Won't you wrap the night ♪
Around me? ♪
Oh, my heart ♪
Love is blindness, yeah ♪
Love is blindness ♪
I'm so sick of it,
I don't want to see ♪
Why don't you just
take the night ♪
Wrap it all around me, now? ♪
Oh, oh, my love ♪
Blindness ♪
Oh, love is blindness ♪
Blow out the candle ♪
Blindness ♪