The Grid s01e01 Episode Script
Part 1
[ Flight Announcements On P.
A.
.]
Pardon me, ma'am.
May I have a look at that bag, please? Wait here.
I'll bring you the money.
That wasn't the deal.
Cash on delivery.
We got monster weed when we were down in Ibiza.
And we got a few hits of X.
[ Girl .]
That's crazy.
That's all they think about.
[ All Laughing, Chattering .]
[ Elevator Dings .]
Thanks, brother.
[ Elevator Door Opens .]
[ kids Chattering In Hallway .]
- Yo, man, you got the key? - You had it.
- All right.
Don't go away.
- [ Laughs .]
[ Elevator Dings .]
Hey, amigo, we need a key.
3B.
- £1 0 for a lost key.
- Whatever.
- Relax, mate.
They're on the way down.
- [ Sighs .]
Gas! - The door! - [ Screaming .]
[ All Gasp .]
[ Choking .]
[ Woman .]
Can somebody help me? Get out! Get out! Move it! Move! Run! Run! [ Baby Crying .]
[ Sirens Wailing .]
We've set up in here, sir.
- In a public house, Gregor? - Yes, sir.
- And whose idea was that? - Well, that would be mine, sir.
Thought it might come in handy if we got peckish or thirsty.
- Functional pool table? - I'm afraid not, sir.
Pity.
You know him? No, sir.
Hold there.
[ Over Radio .]
Hold there.
Bad? Bad don't come into it.
This is our worst nightmare.
Our worst nightmare is that in 1 0 years extreme Wahhabis will have taken over the Saudi Arabian government and they could put a stranglehold on the global economy.
- [ Both Panting .]
- You must encourage investment in Nigerian oil.
-Nigerian oil currently provides 6% of our oil imports -Uh-uh.
but it could rise up to 25%.
This kind of economic incentive could blunt the growth of fundamentalism in Nigeria-- - Had enough of me? - I can't get enough of you.
[ Telephone Ringing .]
[ Groans .]
Where's the noise coming from? C.
I.
A.
's checking the neo-Wahhabis, Hamas, Abu Sayyaf.
MI5 is looking at VX, Mustard.
NSA is picking up a lot of chatter.
This is a sweat grenade.
Let's not have it go off in our faces.
[ Man On TV.]
Nobody else wanted him.
They had no place else to go.
[ Yawns .]
Game over? Soon.
1 2 years to play one game, and you say baseball is slow? [ Sighs .]
Little man conked out before halftime.
I tried waking him, but-- Sleep of the innocent.
Must have been his second beer.
Hey.
- Is it over? - It's over, little man.
Duke won.
- Again? - [ Man On TV.]
I've never seen anything like this.
! How many times have you seen that game? - Duke has won.
! - Every time is like the first time.
[ Whispering .]
Like when I see you naked in the shower.
[ Laughs .]
Right.
Come on, big guy.
It's time for bed.
[ Telephone Ringing .]
Canary.
I'm on my way.
- What? What is it? - Terrorist attack in London.
A chemical, probably sarin, has been released in a tourist hotel.
At least five people have been killed in the incident.
Bureau's got a plane waiting to take me to D.
C.
You gonna be all right? Every time is like the first time.
No group has yet claimed responsibility.
[ Woman .]
So Menno's raw intelligence was accurate.
The gas was sarin.
- You've done well.
- 1 9 dead.
I'm not sure plaudits are in order.
Do we know what their target was meant to be? Yes, the Hamilton Grove Hotel.
Conference ofJewish and Muslim educators.
Who's on site at the London Traveller's Inn? 5.
The FBI will be joining.
Huh.
As they must, I suppose.
- Where's Menno now? - Here in London.
He would do better in Kazakhstan.
Sarah, Menno's our premier agent in the region.
If he goes back in now, we could lose him.
He has a wife and child.
Emily, this isn't the first time you've been warned against forming emotional attachments with your operatives.
We must know everything about this sarin and whether there's more of it, no matter the personal cost.
We knew that the Russian black market in biochem was a ticking bomb.
I just keep asking myself, did I do enough? Should I have taken more chances? - Pushed Dimitri harder or-- - Menno, it's more urgent for us to learn who acquired the sarin than who sold it.
Is this London cell terminated or is it still active? If it is, who's in charge? What's their agenda? And, Menno, no unnecessary risks.
You're a good woman, Emily.
Not really.
How's Ilsa? Happy here.
She's found some new friends.
Nicky's playing rugby.
Not bad for a Russian kid.
You don't have to promise me anything.
I would go back in anyway.
I brief the president in 1 5 minutes.
Please give me an update on the London incident.
Raza Michaels is our coordinating CT analyst.
Uh after canvassing our field agents and reviewing the SIGI NT I believe this is a stand-alone incident with no immediate collateral threat to U.
S.
assets.
The perpetrators are likely members of a radical fringe cell like Al Quanun orJemaah Islamiya acting independently without the authorization of any standing terrorist council.
I've called in Max Canary from New York.
He's our terrorism task force special agent in charge.
We had nothing on the radar screen.
We didn't see this coming.
Maren, what have you got? With all respect to my CIA colleagues I strongly disagree that there is no immediate threat to our citizens and interests.
The attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction indicates a new level of desperation.
If I may.
The imminent threat of a sarin incident here demands we quit the usual squabbling and turf wars.
No more lip service to cooperation between us.
This sarin is serious business.
So the game of databases being off-limits or information being hoarded has got to stop.
I am proposing a new interagency team comprised of analysts and agents from the CIA, FBI, and Defense.
This team will coordinate all intelligence relating to the sarin threat.
What's radical is that this team will bypass their own agency hierarchy and report directly to you, Madam Advisor.
- It's just more efficient.
- I'm tired of these thinly-veiled attacks - on the integrity of my agency.
- Lay off,Acton.
This is exactly what Maren's talking about.
Not every criticism of procedure and operations is a threat.
We don't need a cockamamie pop-up team.
The Agency had static on a sarin sale in the 'Stans last week.
Wait, wait, wait.
You knew about the sarin? Then why didn't you share that information with us? Conflicting information.
We had no way of authenticating it.
[ Sighs .]
Catherine, as you know Maren has worked miracles at the Pentagon.
Cutting through all kinds oflogjams between the services-- If such an ad hoc team is created, I should lead it.
Well, then you should have been the one to propose it, Acton.
Enough.
We strive for interagency cooperation and a national intelligence symbiosis, but I see no change.
Maren, you have your team.
Who do you want? For starters Raza Michaels and Max Canary.
Maren, you'll also have to bring MI6 into the loop.
Keep in mind they've been at this longer than we have and they presently feel like they're riding in the rumble seat.
[ English Accent .]
In other words, don't ruffle their feathers, dear.
Thank you, Acton.
I'll take that under advisement.
[ Horn Honks .]
[ Speaking Arabic .]
[ Sobbing .]
Can you please speak to Caila? I want her to wear a hijab to work.
Well, Caila is a modern woman who doesn't share your understanding of Sharia.
You fancy her, brother? She's not the right woman for me.
Or for this clinic either.
Spending time with the men in yourJama'at meetings has done little for your tolerance.
[ Speaking Arabic .]
If you want to know what the meetings are about,join one of the women's groups.
However, I can try and be more discreet.
But Caila must respect our practices if she's to continue working here.
- Please.
- [ knocking .]
I'll speak to her.
Caila.
All right, let's look at your battle scars.
- [ Gasps, Groans .]
- Sorry.
A sense memory, a welcome reminder of when we fought.
Pain, real pain, obliterates everything-- memory, love, even faith.
I was there too.
[ Speaking Arabic .]
You talk to me of faith.
Using sarin against civilians, Muslims.
It's abominable.
It's against God.
I had nothing to do with that.
Nothing.
- I haven't been part of their schemes for years.
- Oh, that's right.
You're supposed to be dead.
What are you doing in Cairo? I haven't abandoned the movement, Raghib.
I've been enjoying great success as a fugitive.
I've totally reinvented myself.
I have safe houses from Cairo to Beirut.
I have been organizing manipulating a new strategy, to take on your oppressors.
And you're right.
What happened in London was an abomination.
I see your sister is well.
She doesn't like me.
And you? Are you afraid also? Only of your vision for a secular nation.
[ Chuckles .]
Our old argument.
First the revolution, my friend then we'll let the mullahs and the people decide what the state should be, hmm? How's your work going? Tell me.
Ah, well, we do the best that we can but the government and the Western drug companies control the distribution of antibiotics.
Our poor are very low on their list.
What drugs do you need? Maybe I can do something.
I will not become a member of your new organization, if that's what this is about.
So why me? [ Maren .]
You speak Arabic and you're the C.
I.
A.
's best Mideast analyst.
I've read your reports.
And although I don't agree with some of your assessments I always find your analysis compelling.
But you disagree.
Enlighten me.
You write that Islam is the religion of the oppressed.
I say it appeals to oppressed men because it sanctions the oppression of women.
To me, Islam is one thing-- fear.
And until the clerics can stand up and say that killing people is the work of the devil and that it is a woman's God-given right to eat, sleep, walk, do, say whatever she wants, I'm dumb, deaf, and blind to what they're selling.
Have you ever bothered to ask a Muslim woman if she feels oppressed? Islam is the faith of over a billion people.
Are you then saying all one billion are criminal? I find it inexcusable that a woman with your standing could judge an entire religion by the actions of a fundamentalist faction.
How would you feel if I judged all Christians by the actions of the KKK? Islam inspired a humane civilization and made some of the greatest contributions to the culture of the world.
But because of some narrow thinking by governments like ours and people like you we're judged by our worst example.
Certainly you, as an ambitious woman, can sympathize.
- You find this amusing, Max? - Amusing? No.
Besides the point.
The point being? I lost my best friend in the World Trade Center.
He had a wife, a new baby.
He was just a guy going to work.
He took the elevator up, and he never took it down.
We buried his leg.
That's what was left-- his leg.
That's just one reason why I will never stop going after these guys.
When you're up to your ass in alligators it's hard to remember that your mission is to drain the swamp.
All right.
Max, you go to London.
I've already been in contact with DerekJennings of MI5.
He's a straight shooter.
We've worked together on several investigations since 9/1 1 .
Great.
Raza, I want you to educate me on who we're up against.
When I'm wrong, I expect you to set me right.
I can't believe people would do this.
Well, believe it, Dad.
Excellent choice.
289 cubic inches.
Schwarzenegger of muscle cars.
Look at the engine.
- Where are you off to? - Mosque.
Okay if I take the Caddy? What, someone's got a problem with Caddy? Don't be such a wise guy.
He's a customer.
You know what? I'm proud to be a Muslim.
Semper fi; man.
[ Speaking Arabic .]
What happened in London? Why let an old man and punks execute any plan? For two years, I've been preparing a comprehensive strategy.
The first step is a small strike against the Western oil interests in Nigeria.
I have recruited experienced fighters, men I know and trust.
The Americans and the British have decided to focus on Nigeria to free themselves of dependency on Arab oil.
We can show them that Africans are Muslim too.
So now you're the champion of the downtrodden Muslim.
Have you ever stepped foot in a mosque? Don't lecture me.
It is you and your OPEC friends that hoard the great gift of oil while our brothers starve and die in the streets.
[ Laughs .]
This is no mirage.
My strategy is to follow Nigeria with simultaneous attacks on the American and British oil infrastructure.
I even have a young American brother who can operate freely in the U.
S.
Together, we can collapse the oil-driven economy of the West.
And all you need is money? If you support this God will accept your repentance for your many sins.
[ Chuckles .]
Michaels.
You got a date with the box next week.
I did the test last year.
Is it my imagination, or do Muslim analysts take more heat? Oh, suck it up and charge ahead.
By the way, if I catch you maneuvering behind my back with your new NSC pals, you'll have a piss storm to deal with.
Schedule a polygraph test every week.
Hell, I'll just wear the damn machine around my neck.
This team belongs under the Agency's purview-- my purview.
I expect reportability.
Remember who you work for.
Smoke? We found a lot of betting slips in your flat,Jeremy.
You seem to be a man whose wagon is firmly hitched to chance rather than to any political or religious ideology.
I haven't done anything.
Bets of 300, 3 75 and £500 on football matches.
Bit heavy for someone on your wage.
Well, maybe he's just found an additional source of income.
I've been lucky.
You see, what bothers us,Jeremy is that you were away from your position at the hotel for longer than your boss thought you needed to be for just an ordinary fag break.
Personally, I think you're a bloke who's just found a way out of some horrendous gambling debts.
However if you're suffering from some misguided principle of protecting the people who paid you I just need you to understand one thing.
They intended you to die alongside everyone else.
Oh, they did.
Horribly indiscriminately.
You understand what I'm saying? Deaths-- yours, his, mine the single mother who died just shortly after they pushed the baby in the pram to safety.
You see, human life means nothing to these people.
just so much litter they have to wade through to get to wherever they believe they're going.
The thing is,Jeremy I really need your help, mate.
I need you to tell me who paid you and how.
Come on.
He came up to me at my local bookie's.
Black guy.
No, um-- Mixed race, but with dreads.
Exchanged money outside.
He said it made it look like we were just splitting winnings.
So that became the arrangement.
- Name? - No, no names.
No numbers.
No nothing.
I'll check what CCTV the bookie has.
We want video from the Met covering that stretch of road.
Max.
How are ya, mate? Good to see you.
- Love those red-eyes.
- [ Chuckles .]
- So what do you got? - Oh, he's just a Joe works at the Hamilton Grove Hotel.
Stole a couple of teapots intended to be the sarin delivery vessels.
I don't really think he's one of them.
We got an I.
D.
on one of the dead.
Chap called Bashara.
Inside Al Qaeda, he was on the lunatic fringe but he had bin Laden's ear.
- From the same Yemenite tribe.
- There's a gene pool.
Yeah.
So what's going on? This all part of something bigger? We're still working on it.
And I'm not here for the Bureau.
I'm on loan to the NSC.
- Really? - Only for this sarin business.
I'll show you the site as soon as we get clearance from Forensic.
You all right? No.
I hate being reactive.
People die and we scramble.
- You're resilient.
- Mm.
Tough as nails, I know.
I just don't want to think about it for another minute.
Can we leave? You're not hungry? Mm-mm.
Not for food.
- You're amazing.
- [ Chuckles .]
Why? 'Cause I lose myself so easily with you? I just don't understand how somebody so focused and single-minded can be so responsive.
Lucky you.
I have a flight to catch in two hours.
It's a private jet.
They're not going anywhere without you.
Have you folks decided? We'll take the check.
How pure was the stuff? They didn't pull the instructions off the Internet and mix it in their own bath.
Thirteen dead on a few drops.
Weapons grade stuff.
Small explosive.
It would have thoroughly dispersed gas throughout the entire room in seconds.
Hundreds dead straightaway.
Even more sick or dying.
Until all this sarin is recovered, nowhere can be considered safe.
Do the words ''needle'' and ''haystack'' mean anything to you? [ Chattering .]
So when are you gonna make it official? It's still a complicated situation with Jane.
I'm feeling a lot of guilt, Derek like I'm wearing my best friend's shoes living out his life.
Stick with it, mate.
You'll sort it out.
You never had kids, did you, Derek? No, I made a decision very early on in my career that kids and queen and country were incompatible.
- I was the son of an absentee father myself.
- [ Camera Shutter Clicks .]
So I wouldn't wish that on any kid.
[ Clicking .]
[ Derek .]
Bingo.
Young Jeremy meeting his contact.
Magnify that.
Police! Don't move! [ Groaning .]
Don't move! Again.
What? Traveler's checks.
Lots of them.
Look fake to me.
Forged passport airline tickets.
It don't look like our friend Bashara was exactly planning to join the martyrs brigade, does it? - Money, some documents.
- Congratulations, Mr.
Jennings.
You terminated our only live resource.
How do you propose we access his contacts, hmm? Vital information, now that he's deceased? Well, we used Tasers in order to take him alive.
They're not normally lethal.
He refused an order to remain still.
- We assumed he was reaching for a weapon.
- Gloves, please.
So we lost our only direct link to the sarin because you thought he had a weapon.
- And did he? - It turned out to be a camera.
If it had been a weapon, he wouldn't be the only one dead, Ms.
-- Emily Tuthill.
MI6.
Max Canary.
I'm here on behalf of the National Security Council and the FBI.
Do the NSC or FBI bring anything to our little tea party, Mr.
Canary? Or are you here to tell us how to lay the table, as usual? No tea for me, thank you unless it's from Long Island, and there's ice in it.
If we have anything relevant, I'm sure we'll share.
You'll forgive me if I don't hold my breath.
Excuse me? Certainly.
[ Emily .]
Excellent eye for composition.
Ah, your dead friend attached severalJ PEGs to his e-mail.
Yeah, I know these other guys.
This one's our MI5 counterterrorism liaison.
The other two are the Spanish and Italian counterparts.
We must let them know.
It would seem they're targeting the opposition directly.
Their coverts are documenting our movements.
[ Reading Arabic .]
''Death, shame, and disgrace to the enemies of Islam and our Muslim brothers.
'' Well, gentlemen, you top the fatwa charts from Jakarta to Algiers.
Let's see if we can find where this originates from.
No.
So, as the deceased is a foreign national this ball is now officially in the court of MI6.
Thank you for your help, Mr.
Jennings.
Please, call me Derek.
If I'm not mistaken, she just cut off your balls, Derek.
Just the one, Max.
Just the one.
You should see this.
What is it? Blueprints? Of what? Map of the New York subway.
What does MI5 say? DerekJennings is taking the threat seriously but the investigation is being directed by MI6.
A woman named Tuthill.
Emily Tuthill.
- And she? - Didn't seem too interested in talking to me.
- Raza, who in the Agency talks to MI6? - I can find out.
Look, we're trying something new here.
Screw bureaucracy.
Go directly from analysis to action.
I'll watch your backs.
So tell me about the subways.
227 subway stops, 7 00 miles of track make it virtually impossible to insulate the entire New York City subway system from an attack.
- But all stops are not equal.
- Meaning? When you think of New York, you don't think of Crown Heights or Forest Hills.
- You think Manhattan.
- And how many subway stops in Manhattan? Sixty-five.
But we can't rule out the possibility of an attack in any part of the city.
I think they're going to nail a more populated area.
96th Street to the Battery.
- 30-something subway stops.
- That's the target area.
You hit that part of Manhattan, the world comes to a stop.
[ Arabic .]
[ Whispers .]
[ Speaking Arabic .]
[ Radio.
:Arabic .]
You asked to see me? [ Speaking Arabic .]
You're a good man, Raghib, a righteous man.
You do your best, but does it ever feel like it's emptying a sea of misery with a tea cup? It was stolen from an American base.
It's criminal.
We have to steal antibiotics.
Because our country won't provide it for its own children.
Our people are dying in body and spirit.
And the Americans always ready to pounce with their self-serving democracy and predatory economy.
And we are so beaten down that we're prepared to accept their godless materialism.
That's it.
That's the passion and fire you had in Afghanistan.
Ah.
I'm older now.
I have tempered my fervor with piety.
We are both older and wiser.
Raghib, I need men with the courage of conviction.
I'm sure you already have men like that.
Boys and thugs.
Followers, not leaders.
You're a physician.
You can travel the world above suspicion.
You speak their language and can blend in.
Thank you for the antibiotics and I appreciate that you value me but the truth is, I'm of no use to you.
The secret police monitor meetings I attend.
Here in Cairo.
I'm talking about Nigeria.
Come observe our mission, tend to our jihadists.
See for yourself if our visions are incompatible.
Trust yourself.
I saw you in Afghanistan.
This is in your blood.
Still.
Good.
One more.
Good.
There we go.
Ready for another trip? Always.
You leave in a few days.
This won't be training like the others.
This is your first mission.
- Where? - Africa.
- Muhammad looks forward to seeing you.
- She'll run better now.
- My kid take good care of you? - Yeah.
Kaz, come on.
Get in the picture.
Come.
- Ah, it's not my scene, Dad.
- Come on.
Come on.
Raffi's got me another dig, so I'm gonna need to take, uh, four weeks off.
- What's the price this time? - Relax.
This one's free.
Some school in Jordan's paying.
You are not using this to go back to Chechnya and fight the Russians? You know, that's a great idea, but, no.
- The truth? - I swear.
When you are done, go to the Riviera.
Have some fun.
- Okay, boys.
Big smile, everyone.
- God bless America.
[ knocking .]
Tell me about your interactions with Ms.
Jackson.
No real game plan until we know the players on the other side.
- We need more from London.
- Not them, the NSC.
You want me to spy on the NSC? That's your job.
You report back to your own agency.
We're in a war, son and every Tom, Dick, and Harry political appointee thinks they have the Holy Grail to fight it.
Now, you don't turn over the wheel to someone who hasn't been down the road.
We've been down the road.
You understand? Yes, sir.
Good.
I'm sorry, Mum, but it's just something's come up at work and I just I can't let them down.
- But I'll tell you what I'll do-- - [ Train Engine Rumbling .]
[ Muffled Shot .]
[ Elevator Dings .]
[ Alarm Ringing .]
[ Telephone Ringing .]
- Hello? - [ Sarah .]
Menno's dead.
What? I'm sorry.
I should have told you to go to hell.
It's war, Emily.
You can't take it to heart.
No.
That wouldn't be correct, would it? [ keys Clack .]
[ Typing .]
[ Arabic .]
You'll be expected to hand over all receipts and unexpended cash once your operation is complete.
I was the mujahedeen point man for integrating American weapons into Afghanistan.
I can keep count.
Your operation is in Nigeria so is an oil lease auction.
Western oil thieves will be there to swindle the Nigerians.
What a remarkable coincidence.
You will also be pleased to know that no members of the Saudi royal family will be there.
So I have the council's blessing to take advantage of this convergence of events? I also request that your scholars issue a fatwa for two men whose blood is legitimate for the mujahedeen in the pursuance of our jihad.
Who are these enemies? Investigators in America and the U.
K.
where the next phase of my plan is taking place.
[ Computer Beeps .]
Have a Havana.
Go on.
I won't tell.
You said it was urgent, you couldn't talk on the phone.
- I've got a connection to the London sarin.
- I'm listening.
I hear militant Salafists are bringing it into Los Angeles across the Mexican border.
You know what they say-- Mexicans look a lot like us.
- Where and when? - I don't believe we have agreed on the price.
You haven't told me a thing.
They plan to use it in department stores.
You want more? 1 0,000, cash.
You don't have dick, and I'm not in the mood to play.
I got more important things to do.
Go, but when you have dead kids and women coming up your ass don't come crying to me about another 9/1 1 .
Don't play games with me.
Do not play games! They were innocent people, my friends.
I lost friends, scumbag! Ah, screw your friends.
[ Groans .]
Dad.
! Daddy.
! Dad.
! Daddy.
! Hey! How's my little man? Wanna see my T.
rex? Yeah.
Hey, this is a nice surprise.
I know.
Oh, man.
He's cool and it looks like you a little bit.
[ Laughs .]
- It's just a word, you know.
- What? Daddy.
Dad, Father.
I saw the way you reacted when he called you daddy.
Tim is his father.
Tim's dead.
I love Eddie.
You know I do.
IfTim hadn't died, we wouldn't be together, would we? -Jane, this is-- - Would we? I would have never betrayed Tim no matter how much I wanted to.
The night before Tim died, uh we had a fight.
I accused him of loving you more than he loved me.
- Why would you even-- - I was-- I was angry, and I was jealous.
Tim loved you.
Not of you-- ofTim.
I was jealous-- [ Sighs .]
of the time that he got to spend with you.
[ Whispers .]
Hey.
Hey.
I love you.
[ Sighs .]
I loved you since forever.
Is that enough? Max, your hand.
Been a rough day.
Congratulations.
You wouldn't have had anything to do with it, would you? How do you mean? Did you talk to the director on my behalf? The director and I talk about lots of things.
Bureaucracies are like aircraft carriers, Maren.
Big, powerful, slow to turn.
- The director knows this.
- I don't know.
Was it like this when you were running state? Oh, bureaucratic waters have always been treacherous.
The culture has changed.
Keep your eye on the ball, Maren.
Don't let the politics, the in-fighting, distract you.
The stakes are high.
I always feel better after seeing you.
How did I get so lucky? Luck had nothing to do with it.
I had me eye on you at West Point.
Why? Well, you're from West Texas.
[ Chuckles .]
And I thought character was fate.
Now I learn it's a matter of geography? You have something to prove, Maren.
It's never good enough to be good enough.
But when ambition is tempered by conscience and a sense of responsibility it makes a person unwilling not to try.
Try what? To be great.
It'd be nice if happiness figured into that equation.
Mm.
The thing about happiness it's always a by-product, never the end result.
Yeah, well, the money trail tracks back to Switzerland.
We uncovered a wire transfer that Bashara had received from Zurich.
The SSB is being pretty uncooperative at the moment but we do know that Arab NGOs have used this particular branch for previous disbursements.
Swiss Securities Bank? My cousin's the director of Investment Banking Latin America at SSB.
- I could make a discreet inquiry.
- Do it.
Why haven't you responded to the subway threats? Well, I'm doing what I can, believe me.
I've got our transport police on full alert but MI6 is being obstructive about any, shall we say, further useful action? - I have to agree with MI6.
- You do? London sarin was directed at Muslim and Jewish leaders.
Targeting civilians in subways is a new M.
O.
I don't buy it.
And the subway plans? Would that be for a new terrorist board game? What the hell is MI6 thinking then, Derek? For the answer to that question, you'll have to ask Emily Tuthill.
Well, I'm gonna go to London and do just that, face to face.
You go to Zurich.
Follow the money trail.
[ Arabic .]
[ knocking .]
[ Man .]
Akil.
! [ knocking Continues .]
Why aren't you at work? - Overslept.
- Your probation officer has told you about the importance of punctuality with your job, Akil.
Yeah, I know, Hamid.
And you're not him so you don't have to behave like him.
- You want to go back to prison? - Of course not.
Well, come on.
Hurry up.
I'll drop you off.
And if you stop giving me the evil eye I might even buy you a breakfast roll along the way.
I told you Menno had been compromised,yet we sent him in.
- I know this is difficult for you-- - No, you don't know.
He trusted me.
And I don't care to hear another lecture about maintaining professional distance from sources.
Stiff upper lip and all that.
He knew you wouldn't ask him to risk his life if it wasn't important.
He knew what he was doing, Emily.
And so did you.
I promised Menno I'd take care of his family.
I want them to receive some money.
Real money.
Now that can be arranged.
Menno's assassination indicates their cell has transparency.
- He must've got close.
- [ knocking .]
If that's what we're being led to believe.
Another diversion, another futile step in this endless dance.
You haven't earned that cynicism, Emily.
I suggest you keep it to yourself.
Now that the sarin threat is extended to New York expect the Americans to be very much at hand.
- They'll be a distraction.
- The Americans aren't without their sources.
And resources.
You will be a team player.
The lone wolf shall join the pack then? Emily, despite your impeccable record there are those who think we would be well rid of your services.
I can't protect you forever, so tread lightly.
So, brother, ready to go in the morning? I can't wait to get out of here.
This is a no-play camp, Akil.
Fedayeen who fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya.
We need English-speaking brothers.
Why are we on earth if not to fight the domination and suppression of our people through jihad? Damn well know I wasn't put here to clean toilets and take crap from white knobs.
And when those who disbelieve plot against you, to wound you, to kill you, they plot.
But God also plots and God is the best of all plotters.
[ Man .]
Come on.
Let's go.
- Bye, Nili.
- Bye, guys.
Hey.
Are you deliberately trying to screw me up? Blowing off at agency security? And how are you this fine morning, my brother? Oh, let me guess.
It's about my latest encounter with the goon squad.
I told them to go screw themselves.
Again.
They've just got a job to do.
But if you cut loose like a wild woman, it's gonna come down on you too.
Don't you get it? You have to start protecting yourself.
No, you don't get it, Raza.
This country doesn't trust our people.
This country doesn't trust you.
And that's why you told them to go screw themselves? What do you think the C.
I.
A.
's up to when they raid my rights of privacy again? Do I smoke pot? Yes.
Does your brother? No.
Are you a radical? Yes.
Is he? He has no politics.
What about your sexual preference? None of your business! What about his? He has none because he is a fine, upstanding Muslim man.
Your Islam's an anachronism.
Not this again.
You know what? You are just as bigoted as they are.
This isn't even about me! This is about you and your almighty career! Calm down.
If you rant like a radical they'll begin to treat you like one.
And then you'll have no privacy at all.
Why is MI6 not preparing for a terrorist attack against your subways? Ah, this is what you call ''cutting to the chase''? Well, we're a small country with limited resources, Ms.
Jackson.
We simply haven't the manpower to deal with every unsubstantiated threat.
DerekJennings seems to think the threat is substantiated.
DerekJennings is 5.
The sarin attack happened here in London but it killed people from 4 different countries which makes it 6's business.
And I promise you the NSC has no authority in the U.
K.
Until we develop information to the contrary the sarin attack begins and ends with Bashara.
Unless, of course, you've brought information in your carry-on that we don't have yet.
I can tell you that one of my team members, Raza Michaels, is in Switzerland tracking the money trail that DerekJennings unearthed.
He has an inside source to the Swiss Securities Bank.
- Really? Swiss bankers can be difficult.
- Well, this one - Omar Massif, is Raza's cousin.
- I see.
And, uh, is that all you have? Look, I came here because we need to form a partnership.
I'm here to personally ask for your support.
An appeal for transatlantic cooperation.
An alliance between equals? Exactly.
You see, the trouble is, whenever we Brits enter into an alliance with you Yanks, we invariably end up holding a very large bag of poop.
I'm aware that things have been fractious between our agencies post-Iraq.
Post- and pre-Iraq.
Your boss's cowboy tactics didn't turn up much on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction so as the service with a deeper understanding of the region we were enlisted to find what wasn't there and take the blame for not finding it.
We made mistakes.
But the relationship I'm proposing is meant to prevent these kinds of problems.
So I'm to become a player on your team.
You know, this condescending attitude is very destructive.
You've neither the experience nor the authority to lecture me, Ms.
Jackson.
Nor the endurance.
Excellent.
Then I suggest we've finished.
You know, we share the same interests the same threats.
Whether you like it or not, we need each other.
[ Man Laughing .]
But why didn't you call? I would have met you at the airport.
How is your mother? How is Nili? Nili told Mother she's using ecstasy to try to get a rise out of her.
- What did your mother say? - She said that's the beauty of living in a free country - but that she's sticking with Chanel Number 5.
- [ Laughing .]
Ah, where are my manners? Coffee? Coffee.
It's real Arab brew, not European camel piss.
Cousin, have you ever seen a camel? I have admired them from afar in races but the beast implies a lifestyle I'm not well suited for.
So, what brings you to Zurich? Actually, the purpose of my visit is you.
- Me? - [ Door Opens .]
You're aware of the recent sarin attack in London.
Money to the cell was wired from this branch.
The accounts here were closed immediately after the attack.
We need to know who opened them and how they were funded.
What you are asking, it's impossible.
Network and account access is tightly controlled.
Cousin, I wouldn't come here and impose on you like this if it wasn't of the greatest importance.
Even if I could give you what you want and I can't, this is a dangerous game you are playing.
- This is not a game.
- Let me give you a hard lesson,young cousin.
It is a game.
And this bank, this industry, this entire country exists because of the game.
And we are the scorekeepers.
But we only give out the score to those who play.
Our history with this game precedes your agency by a few centuries.
So, please, you must respect my position in this matter.
I'm sorry you feel that way, cousin.
But I really need that information before I leave.
Let me take you out for a night you will not forget.
Diversions we could not share when you were a younger man.
Another time.
[ klaxon Sounding In Distance .]
[ Piano, Softly .]
You wouldn't by any chance have a light? - Would you like a cigarette? - I don't smoke.
- Thank you.
- Intriguing.
You don't drink.
You don't smoke.
What do you do? If it's a question of money, I'm quite able to pay.
Are you serious? - [ Chuckles .]
- [ Chuckles .]
No.
I'm sorry.
I can't help myself.
Especially with an Agency man.
''E'' is for Emily.
Raza Michaels.
But I think you already know that.
[ Sighs .]
Is this because of the nosejob I did on my source? Davi's a scumbag, and I didn't give him anything he didn't have coming.
The Bureau wants me to replace you.
Come on, Maren.
What is this? We got assholes running around with sarin and I gotta do this bureaucratic dance because I slapped around some lowlife piece of crap? You broke his nose.
Yeah, well, he's got a big nose.
What happened to ''watch my back''? How are things at home, Max? Things are hunky-dory, Maren.
How's things home with you? It is not a vendetta.
You can't take this personally.
No offense.
I appreciate the earnest, highly-informed perspective you and your people bring to the table.
I do.
But you're wrong.
This is personal.
It's very personal.
When some thug says he wants to kill me kill the people I love maybe it's a hyperbole, maybe it's just talk but after what went down on 9/1 1 I give him the benefit of the doubt.
Don't lose it again, Max.
There are no more next times.
Did you have any luck with cousin Omar? Cousin Omar? I had breakfast this morning with your boss Maren Jackson in London.
- She told me.
- Then you understand I really have to speak with her first.
Well, naturally, but allow me to presume? Cousin Omar doesn't have access to the information you requested, and if he had, he wouldn't tell you.
So he may have to be leaned on.
- The accounts are restricted.
- Leaned on, um, personally.
- Omar wouldn't lie to me.
- No.
No, of course not.
But if he's been less than forthcoming we should make sure you're better prepared for your next encounter.
Oh.
Can't be easy being an American Muslim working for the CIA.
Easy? No.
But I'm a better Muslim and a better American for it.
I have to think about who I am and what I believe.
Most people take those things for granted.
What do you believe? Big picture? - Mm-hmm.
- Okay.
I believe that the battle is between globalists and remnants of third-world tribes resisting the push into the 21 st century.
Oil-- that's what the battle's about.
That's what the tribes have, what we need.
What the terrorists want to stop us from having.
The first time I was recruited to a camp, I was 1 5.
My dad thought I was on a school trip.
Didn't speak Arabic.
Never shot a gun before.
I was basically scared and felt powerless.
But a few of the older Chechen brothers, they looked out for me.
They helped make me a Muslim and a man more than my dad ever did.
So don't worry.
We'll look out for each other.
I'll look out for you, man, all right? Just wait till you get to shoot, man.
It's a blast.
- kaz.
- [ Arabic .]
Salaam alaikum.
How are you, brother? Who's the blond boy? Kaz.
My golden boy.
A Chechen kid brought up in the U.
S.
An American citizen.
He's been to the camps before, but he was too young to deploy.
The Americans don't know about him? He has protected him for us.
It is good to have you by my side.
kaz.
Salaam.
You are a man now.
- Your Arabic has improved.
- I've been studying.
Waiting.
The studying never stops.
The waiting is over.
We are not here to train.
We are here to execute a mission.
- We are here to fight.
! - [ Cheering .]
If you're not prepared to kill, and die then I respect your choice.
But step forward now, before our plans are revealed and you will go with my blessing.
You will be on the next truck out of here.
Who else? Hmm? You belong, brother.
Trust me.
[ Muhammad .]
Tomorrow we start.
[ Honking .]
- [ Banging .]
- Piss stop.
This is it till Lagos.
No.
! What have you done? Why did you do that? He would have gone home to his family and told them everything.
You didn't have to kill him.
How long do you think he would have lasted under Yemeni torture? How long before he told them about us before the American bombs were dropping on us? It had to be done.
Come on.
Let's bury him before the vultures take him.
[ Gasps .]
Who are you? You don't know? I am a widow.
Does that help? Ilsa, of course.
I'm so sorry-- I received your money.
That is not why I came.
This came in the mail.
Menno sent it to himself.
Oh.
This is helpful.
Thank you.
You murdered him.
I wish I could afford to throw your blood money in your face.
[ Telephone Ringing .]
-Jackson.
- Emily Tuthill.
Well, so it's true what they say-- MI6 never sleeps.
I've just received information that may require a change of thinking.
I'm listening.
Bashara, the executor of the London sarin attack had no known ties to any existing terrorist network, but my new intelligence suggests we should be looking for another, more serious actor on the scene.
- Who is he? - We've credible documentation that 2 of the most murderous Kazakh Islamists have been recruited for a mission in Nigeria.
It's being organized by a man calling himself Muhammad.
There's a notation by his name-- - [ Speaking Arabic .]
- ''Oil for blood.
'' I'm directing MI6 to further downplay the sarin threat and focus on Nigeria.
Nigeria? Lagos.
There's an oil lease auction in 2 days.
That and the surrounding events might present a propitious target.
It's interesting.
I'll need substantiation, sat photos, SIGI NT if I'm gonna take this down the hall.
- Understood.
- Yemen's arrested an associate of Bashara.
He's talking.
I'm going over there.
Thank you, Emily.
See these vehicles and this garbage? This is supposed to be a school.
But all I see are adults, no kids.
You tell me what's going on.
Get it over to the NSC right away.
[ Man .]
I am a graduate of the Citadel.
- And Fort Benning.
- Congrats.
So, do you have the tapes of the prisoner's interrogation? Transcript only, I am afraid.
But he freely admits to trading heroin to the Russian official for the sarin gas.
And he freely admits to doing it for Bashara? Of course.
It was not a problem.
Ask him anything you want.
I will translate.
Tell him I'm from the U.
S.
government.
[ Colonel Translating .]
Help me.
He speaks English? Will you leave us, please? Ah, it is not possible.
If your relationship with the U.
S.
military means anything for your career, you'll leave right now.
You speak to me truthfully and I'll get you out of here.
- You acquired sarin for Bashara? - Yes.
What other plans did he have besides London? I know about the subways.
You will take me to America? Yes.
There's a small handheld computer in my apartment.
The detainee claims that sarin has already been smuggled into New York City.
A New York telephone number was found on the PDA in his apartment.
- I passed it on to Max.
- Anything on MI6's Nigerian intel? No.
He knew nothing about it.
Unless NSA or photos pick something up, why add to the threat overload? Nigeria-- it's just more static.
For now I recommend we back-burner it.
- How'd you get all this? - The informant had been worked over by locals.
I promised him amnesty in the U.
S.
You all right then? Yeah.
Yeah, I'm fine.
All I've seen is you murder an innocent boy.
Is that what I was brought here to witness for myself? Patience, Doctor.
I look at your men.
They are not true Muslims.
Few pray regularly, if at all.
How can you wage war with these people in Allah's name? Now let us see if the FBI follow our Yemen bell like good sheep.
[ Woman .]
I've got it.
It's a disconnected cell number.
- Where from? - The cell phone provider billed an address in Red Hook.
- What is it? - Warehouse.
I talked to the landlord.
He's gonna fax us a tenant list.
- He remembers some Arabs.
- Put together a team-- Haz Mat, NYPD.
[ Beeping .]
Building is clean.
You're all clear.
Damn.
[ Gunshot .]
Sir! Sir! I'm okay.
I'm okay.
[ Helicopter Whirring .]
It was a trap.
A setup.
Damn it! - [ Maren .]
Max, are you all right? - I'm pissed.
The shooter I.
D.
'd me from a photo taken in London by the same guy who had the subway blueprint.
Which ties him to the sarin attack.
It means there's an active cell in place.
Here, in New York, now.
Mark, we have got to act on this.
Are you certain? Yes.
All right.
I'm taking it to the Oval Office.
[ Sirens Wailing .]
Max is fine.
Somebody took a shot at him, but he had his vest on.
- He's okay.
- What? Where is he? He's at the office.
Jane, I'm gonna leave a few men here just as a precaution.
We think Max might be the target of a terrorist.
- What? - [ Telephone Ringing .]
- Oh, my God.
Eddie.
- We've got somebody with Eddie.
He's fine.
- Max? - I don't know how to tell you this.
I'm gonna need a new vest.
Really pisses me off losing that vest.
Yeah, it was a good vest.
The best.
Some of the boys are gonna hang around for a little bit, make sure you and Eddie are okay.
- Okay? - Okay.
- Max.
- Yeah.
- Please get them.
- Yeah.
I know you've been trying to get ahold of me.
I'm sorry, baby.
- I've been jammed.
- There was a tip on a move against oil interest in Nigeria.
So far it's just an unconfirmed rumor.
Everything's fine here.
Just watch yourself, okay? Not to worry.
I always do.
I'm about to meet with the grand poo-bah himself.
- Buy some glasses, sir.
- No.
Thank you.
- Oh, good going.
- I miss you already, baby.
Yeah.
Akil? [ Speaking Arabic On Tape .]
Can you speak up? I thought perhaps you should know.
- Know what? - My brother.
And what about your brother? I think he might be associating with people involved in terrorism of some kind.
- What's your name? - His name is Akil-- No.
What's your name? Please, forget I was here.
[ Buzzer Sounding .]
Wait! Please.
I gave this to my brother when he came of age.
A good-luck charm to keep away evil spirits.
He never hung it up so they slipped in without a struggle.
I realize how difficult this must be to tell us all about this.
I think you're being very responsible and very brave.
I did it for my brother's sake, not yours.
Have a look at this, sir.
''Lesson 1 4: Using poisons and cold steel.
'' ''Lesson 1 6: Planting explosives for chemical dispersion.
'' Whatever happened to 5-a-side football and a pint in the pub afterward? We're now getting live pictures of the complete evacuation of the New York City subway system.
What are they doing? Now is not the time.
Well, MI5 is trumpeting the discovery of the poison gas training manual to pressure for similar action to be taken here on our underground.
I believe we're being manipulated to focus on the wrong part of the world.
Let the Yanks do what they must.
We should wait.
And what if you're wrong? Keep your eye on your British friend.
If he performs, he could be useful to our future plans.
Don't worry.
I've got his back.
Max.
Max, NYPD looked everywhere for the shooter.
Nothing.
And they're pulling out of the subway.
That turned up cold too.
It was never the target.
What? They wanted us to think they were going after the subways.
Why? Everything indicated they were going to hit the subways.
You read it wrong.
Go home.
Get some sleep.
It's over.
[ Horn Honking .]
Why wait years and years for a hard-to-protect pipeline to be built? Mr.
Minister, my backers are prepared to begin construction immediately on an offshore pumping facility on-site.
You could begin to profit from your crude within months.
Excuse me.
Rolf.
I hear your shop's about to be taken over by British Worldwide.
Just a rumor.
You know BWP covets every ounce of oil in the world.
- Could I have 3 more beers, please? - Right away, sir.
- American? - Yeah, man.
- A touch of home from far away.
- It's the Michigan Wolverines in the Holiday Bowl.
- Doesn't get any more American than that.
- Here you are.
Say, get my young friend here another beer.
And put it on my tab.
- Thanks, man.
- Have a good time.
All right.
Hey, you.
Don't forget your bag.
I got it.
You're too good for this place.
Get out of here.
Go home.
Aren't you the strange one.
[ Speaking French .]
[ Translating .]
A toast to our home away from home.
[ Speaking Italian .]
[ Explosion .]
[ Screaming .]
[ Screaming .]
[ Sirens Wailing .]
Hey, hey.
Don't bother.
There's nothing you can do.
[ Wailing Continues .]
[ Screaming, Shouting .]
[ Phone Beeps .]
[ Explosion .]
The New York subway is open again this evening after being closed down most of the day following what officials call a credible threat of a sarin attack.
Your analysis was correct.
Last week, 1 9 people were killed-- Multiple bombings in Lagos.
Dozens dead and wounded.
We were wrong.
I was wrong.
[ Sobbing .]
A.
.]
Pardon me, ma'am.
May I have a look at that bag, please? Wait here.
I'll bring you the money.
That wasn't the deal.
Cash on delivery.
We got monster weed when we were down in Ibiza.
And we got a few hits of X.
[ Girl .]
That's crazy.
That's all they think about.
[ All Laughing, Chattering .]
[ Elevator Dings .]
Thanks, brother.
[ Elevator Door Opens .]
[ kids Chattering In Hallway .]
- Yo, man, you got the key? - You had it.
- All right.
Don't go away.
- [ Laughs .]
[ Elevator Dings .]
Hey, amigo, we need a key.
3B.
- £1 0 for a lost key.
- Whatever.
- Relax, mate.
They're on the way down.
- [ Sighs .]
Gas! - The door! - [ Screaming .]
[ All Gasp .]
[ Choking .]
[ Woman .]
Can somebody help me? Get out! Get out! Move it! Move! Run! Run! [ Baby Crying .]
[ Sirens Wailing .]
We've set up in here, sir.
- In a public house, Gregor? - Yes, sir.
- And whose idea was that? - Well, that would be mine, sir.
Thought it might come in handy if we got peckish or thirsty.
- Functional pool table? - I'm afraid not, sir.
Pity.
You know him? No, sir.
Hold there.
[ Over Radio .]
Hold there.
Bad? Bad don't come into it.
This is our worst nightmare.
Our worst nightmare is that in 1 0 years extreme Wahhabis will have taken over the Saudi Arabian government and they could put a stranglehold on the global economy.
- [ Both Panting .]
- You must encourage investment in Nigerian oil.
-Nigerian oil currently provides 6% of our oil imports -Uh-uh.
but it could rise up to 25%.
This kind of economic incentive could blunt the growth of fundamentalism in Nigeria-- - Had enough of me? - I can't get enough of you.
[ Telephone Ringing .]
[ Groans .]
Where's the noise coming from? C.
I.
A.
's checking the neo-Wahhabis, Hamas, Abu Sayyaf.
MI5 is looking at VX, Mustard.
NSA is picking up a lot of chatter.
This is a sweat grenade.
Let's not have it go off in our faces.
[ Man On TV.]
Nobody else wanted him.
They had no place else to go.
[ Yawns .]
Game over? Soon.
1 2 years to play one game, and you say baseball is slow? [ Sighs .]
Little man conked out before halftime.
I tried waking him, but-- Sleep of the innocent.
Must have been his second beer.
Hey.
- Is it over? - It's over, little man.
Duke won.
- Again? - [ Man On TV.]
I've never seen anything like this.
! How many times have you seen that game? - Duke has won.
! - Every time is like the first time.
[ Whispering .]
Like when I see you naked in the shower.
[ Laughs .]
Right.
Come on, big guy.
It's time for bed.
[ Telephone Ringing .]
Canary.
I'm on my way.
- What? What is it? - Terrorist attack in London.
A chemical, probably sarin, has been released in a tourist hotel.
At least five people have been killed in the incident.
Bureau's got a plane waiting to take me to D.
C.
You gonna be all right? Every time is like the first time.
No group has yet claimed responsibility.
[ Woman .]
So Menno's raw intelligence was accurate.
The gas was sarin.
- You've done well.
- 1 9 dead.
I'm not sure plaudits are in order.
Do we know what their target was meant to be? Yes, the Hamilton Grove Hotel.
Conference ofJewish and Muslim educators.
Who's on site at the London Traveller's Inn? 5.
The FBI will be joining.
Huh.
As they must, I suppose.
- Where's Menno now? - Here in London.
He would do better in Kazakhstan.
Sarah, Menno's our premier agent in the region.
If he goes back in now, we could lose him.
He has a wife and child.
Emily, this isn't the first time you've been warned against forming emotional attachments with your operatives.
We must know everything about this sarin and whether there's more of it, no matter the personal cost.
We knew that the Russian black market in biochem was a ticking bomb.
I just keep asking myself, did I do enough? Should I have taken more chances? - Pushed Dimitri harder or-- - Menno, it's more urgent for us to learn who acquired the sarin than who sold it.
Is this London cell terminated or is it still active? If it is, who's in charge? What's their agenda? And, Menno, no unnecessary risks.
You're a good woman, Emily.
Not really.
How's Ilsa? Happy here.
She's found some new friends.
Nicky's playing rugby.
Not bad for a Russian kid.
You don't have to promise me anything.
I would go back in anyway.
I brief the president in 1 5 minutes.
Please give me an update on the London incident.
Raza Michaels is our coordinating CT analyst.
Uh after canvassing our field agents and reviewing the SIGI NT I believe this is a stand-alone incident with no immediate collateral threat to U.
S.
assets.
The perpetrators are likely members of a radical fringe cell like Al Quanun orJemaah Islamiya acting independently without the authorization of any standing terrorist council.
I've called in Max Canary from New York.
He's our terrorism task force special agent in charge.
We had nothing on the radar screen.
We didn't see this coming.
Maren, what have you got? With all respect to my CIA colleagues I strongly disagree that there is no immediate threat to our citizens and interests.
The attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction indicates a new level of desperation.
If I may.
The imminent threat of a sarin incident here demands we quit the usual squabbling and turf wars.
No more lip service to cooperation between us.
This sarin is serious business.
So the game of databases being off-limits or information being hoarded has got to stop.
I am proposing a new interagency team comprised of analysts and agents from the CIA, FBI, and Defense.
This team will coordinate all intelligence relating to the sarin threat.
What's radical is that this team will bypass their own agency hierarchy and report directly to you, Madam Advisor.
- It's just more efficient.
- I'm tired of these thinly-veiled attacks - on the integrity of my agency.
- Lay off,Acton.
This is exactly what Maren's talking about.
Not every criticism of procedure and operations is a threat.
We don't need a cockamamie pop-up team.
The Agency had static on a sarin sale in the 'Stans last week.
Wait, wait, wait.
You knew about the sarin? Then why didn't you share that information with us? Conflicting information.
We had no way of authenticating it.
[ Sighs .]
Catherine, as you know Maren has worked miracles at the Pentagon.
Cutting through all kinds oflogjams between the services-- If such an ad hoc team is created, I should lead it.
Well, then you should have been the one to propose it, Acton.
Enough.
We strive for interagency cooperation and a national intelligence symbiosis, but I see no change.
Maren, you have your team.
Who do you want? For starters Raza Michaels and Max Canary.
Maren, you'll also have to bring MI6 into the loop.
Keep in mind they've been at this longer than we have and they presently feel like they're riding in the rumble seat.
[ English Accent .]
In other words, don't ruffle their feathers, dear.
Thank you, Acton.
I'll take that under advisement.
[ Horn Honks .]
[ Speaking Arabic .]
[ Sobbing .]
Can you please speak to Caila? I want her to wear a hijab to work.
Well, Caila is a modern woman who doesn't share your understanding of Sharia.
You fancy her, brother? She's not the right woman for me.
Or for this clinic either.
Spending time with the men in yourJama'at meetings has done little for your tolerance.
[ Speaking Arabic .]
If you want to know what the meetings are about,join one of the women's groups.
However, I can try and be more discreet.
But Caila must respect our practices if she's to continue working here.
- Please.
- [ knocking .]
I'll speak to her.
Caila.
All right, let's look at your battle scars.
- [ Gasps, Groans .]
- Sorry.
A sense memory, a welcome reminder of when we fought.
Pain, real pain, obliterates everything-- memory, love, even faith.
I was there too.
[ Speaking Arabic .]
You talk to me of faith.
Using sarin against civilians, Muslims.
It's abominable.
It's against God.
I had nothing to do with that.
Nothing.
- I haven't been part of their schemes for years.
- Oh, that's right.
You're supposed to be dead.
What are you doing in Cairo? I haven't abandoned the movement, Raghib.
I've been enjoying great success as a fugitive.
I've totally reinvented myself.
I have safe houses from Cairo to Beirut.
I have been organizing manipulating a new strategy, to take on your oppressors.
And you're right.
What happened in London was an abomination.
I see your sister is well.
She doesn't like me.
And you? Are you afraid also? Only of your vision for a secular nation.
[ Chuckles .]
Our old argument.
First the revolution, my friend then we'll let the mullahs and the people decide what the state should be, hmm? How's your work going? Tell me.
Ah, well, we do the best that we can but the government and the Western drug companies control the distribution of antibiotics.
Our poor are very low on their list.
What drugs do you need? Maybe I can do something.
I will not become a member of your new organization, if that's what this is about.
So why me? [ Maren .]
You speak Arabic and you're the C.
I.
A.
's best Mideast analyst.
I've read your reports.
And although I don't agree with some of your assessments I always find your analysis compelling.
But you disagree.
Enlighten me.
You write that Islam is the religion of the oppressed.
I say it appeals to oppressed men because it sanctions the oppression of women.
To me, Islam is one thing-- fear.
And until the clerics can stand up and say that killing people is the work of the devil and that it is a woman's God-given right to eat, sleep, walk, do, say whatever she wants, I'm dumb, deaf, and blind to what they're selling.
Have you ever bothered to ask a Muslim woman if she feels oppressed? Islam is the faith of over a billion people.
Are you then saying all one billion are criminal? I find it inexcusable that a woman with your standing could judge an entire religion by the actions of a fundamentalist faction.
How would you feel if I judged all Christians by the actions of the KKK? Islam inspired a humane civilization and made some of the greatest contributions to the culture of the world.
But because of some narrow thinking by governments like ours and people like you we're judged by our worst example.
Certainly you, as an ambitious woman, can sympathize.
- You find this amusing, Max? - Amusing? No.
Besides the point.
The point being? I lost my best friend in the World Trade Center.
He had a wife, a new baby.
He was just a guy going to work.
He took the elevator up, and he never took it down.
We buried his leg.
That's what was left-- his leg.
That's just one reason why I will never stop going after these guys.
When you're up to your ass in alligators it's hard to remember that your mission is to drain the swamp.
All right.
Max, you go to London.
I've already been in contact with DerekJennings of MI5.
He's a straight shooter.
We've worked together on several investigations since 9/1 1 .
Great.
Raza, I want you to educate me on who we're up against.
When I'm wrong, I expect you to set me right.
I can't believe people would do this.
Well, believe it, Dad.
Excellent choice.
289 cubic inches.
Schwarzenegger of muscle cars.
Look at the engine.
- Where are you off to? - Mosque.
Okay if I take the Caddy? What, someone's got a problem with Caddy? Don't be such a wise guy.
He's a customer.
You know what? I'm proud to be a Muslim.
Semper fi; man.
[ Speaking Arabic .]
What happened in London? Why let an old man and punks execute any plan? For two years, I've been preparing a comprehensive strategy.
The first step is a small strike against the Western oil interests in Nigeria.
I have recruited experienced fighters, men I know and trust.
The Americans and the British have decided to focus on Nigeria to free themselves of dependency on Arab oil.
We can show them that Africans are Muslim too.
So now you're the champion of the downtrodden Muslim.
Have you ever stepped foot in a mosque? Don't lecture me.
It is you and your OPEC friends that hoard the great gift of oil while our brothers starve and die in the streets.
[ Laughs .]
This is no mirage.
My strategy is to follow Nigeria with simultaneous attacks on the American and British oil infrastructure.
I even have a young American brother who can operate freely in the U.
S.
Together, we can collapse the oil-driven economy of the West.
And all you need is money? If you support this God will accept your repentance for your many sins.
[ Chuckles .]
Michaels.
You got a date with the box next week.
I did the test last year.
Is it my imagination, or do Muslim analysts take more heat? Oh, suck it up and charge ahead.
By the way, if I catch you maneuvering behind my back with your new NSC pals, you'll have a piss storm to deal with.
Schedule a polygraph test every week.
Hell, I'll just wear the damn machine around my neck.
This team belongs under the Agency's purview-- my purview.
I expect reportability.
Remember who you work for.
Smoke? We found a lot of betting slips in your flat,Jeremy.
You seem to be a man whose wagon is firmly hitched to chance rather than to any political or religious ideology.
I haven't done anything.
Bets of 300, 3 75 and £500 on football matches.
Bit heavy for someone on your wage.
Well, maybe he's just found an additional source of income.
I've been lucky.
You see, what bothers us,Jeremy is that you were away from your position at the hotel for longer than your boss thought you needed to be for just an ordinary fag break.
Personally, I think you're a bloke who's just found a way out of some horrendous gambling debts.
However if you're suffering from some misguided principle of protecting the people who paid you I just need you to understand one thing.
They intended you to die alongside everyone else.
Oh, they did.
Horribly indiscriminately.
You understand what I'm saying? Deaths-- yours, his, mine the single mother who died just shortly after they pushed the baby in the pram to safety.
You see, human life means nothing to these people.
just so much litter they have to wade through to get to wherever they believe they're going.
The thing is,Jeremy I really need your help, mate.
I need you to tell me who paid you and how.
Come on.
He came up to me at my local bookie's.
Black guy.
No, um-- Mixed race, but with dreads.
Exchanged money outside.
He said it made it look like we were just splitting winnings.
So that became the arrangement.
- Name? - No, no names.
No numbers.
No nothing.
I'll check what CCTV the bookie has.
We want video from the Met covering that stretch of road.
Max.
How are ya, mate? Good to see you.
- Love those red-eyes.
- [ Chuckles .]
- So what do you got? - Oh, he's just a Joe works at the Hamilton Grove Hotel.
Stole a couple of teapots intended to be the sarin delivery vessels.
I don't really think he's one of them.
We got an I.
D.
on one of the dead.
Chap called Bashara.
Inside Al Qaeda, he was on the lunatic fringe but he had bin Laden's ear.
- From the same Yemenite tribe.
- There's a gene pool.
Yeah.
So what's going on? This all part of something bigger? We're still working on it.
And I'm not here for the Bureau.
I'm on loan to the NSC.
- Really? - Only for this sarin business.
I'll show you the site as soon as we get clearance from Forensic.
You all right? No.
I hate being reactive.
People die and we scramble.
- You're resilient.
- Mm.
Tough as nails, I know.
I just don't want to think about it for another minute.
Can we leave? You're not hungry? Mm-mm.
Not for food.
- You're amazing.
- [ Chuckles .]
Why? 'Cause I lose myself so easily with you? I just don't understand how somebody so focused and single-minded can be so responsive.
Lucky you.
I have a flight to catch in two hours.
It's a private jet.
They're not going anywhere without you.
Have you folks decided? We'll take the check.
How pure was the stuff? They didn't pull the instructions off the Internet and mix it in their own bath.
Thirteen dead on a few drops.
Weapons grade stuff.
Small explosive.
It would have thoroughly dispersed gas throughout the entire room in seconds.
Hundreds dead straightaway.
Even more sick or dying.
Until all this sarin is recovered, nowhere can be considered safe.
Do the words ''needle'' and ''haystack'' mean anything to you? [ Chattering .]
So when are you gonna make it official? It's still a complicated situation with Jane.
I'm feeling a lot of guilt, Derek like I'm wearing my best friend's shoes living out his life.
Stick with it, mate.
You'll sort it out.
You never had kids, did you, Derek? No, I made a decision very early on in my career that kids and queen and country were incompatible.
- I was the son of an absentee father myself.
- [ Camera Shutter Clicks .]
So I wouldn't wish that on any kid.
[ Clicking .]
[ Derek .]
Bingo.
Young Jeremy meeting his contact.
Magnify that.
Police! Don't move! [ Groaning .]
Don't move! Again.
What? Traveler's checks.
Lots of them.
Look fake to me.
Forged passport airline tickets.
It don't look like our friend Bashara was exactly planning to join the martyrs brigade, does it? - Money, some documents.
- Congratulations, Mr.
Jennings.
You terminated our only live resource.
How do you propose we access his contacts, hmm? Vital information, now that he's deceased? Well, we used Tasers in order to take him alive.
They're not normally lethal.
He refused an order to remain still.
- We assumed he was reaching for a weapon.
- Gloves, please.
So we lost our only direct link to the sarin because you thought he had a weapon.
- And did he? - It turned out to be a camera.
If it had been a weapon, he wouldn't be the only one dead, Ms.
-- Emily Tuthill.
MI6.
Max Canary.
I'm here on behalf of the National Security Council and the FBI.
Do the NSC or FBI bring anything to our little tea party, Mr.
Canary? Or are you here to tell us how to lay the table, as usual? No tea for me, thank you unless it's from Long Island, and there's ice in it.
If we have anything relevant, I'm sure we'll share.
You'll forgive me if I don't hold my breath.
Excuse me? Certainly.
[ Emily .]
Excellent eye for composition.
Ah, your dead friend attached severalJ PEGs to his e-mail.
Yeah, I know these other guys.
This one's our MI5 counterterrorism liaison.
The other two are the Spanish and Italian counterparts.
We must let them know.
It would seem they're targeting the opposition directly.
Their coverts are documenting our movements.
[ Reading Arabic .]
''Death, shame, and disgrace to the enemies of Islam and our Muslim brothers.
'' Well, gentlemen, you top the fatwa charts from Jakarta to Algiers.
Let's see if we can find where this originates from.
No.
So, as the deceased is a foreign national this ball is now officially in the court of MI6.
Thank you for your help, Mr.
Jennings.
Please, call me Derek.
If I'm not mistaken, she just cut off your balls, Derek.
Just the one, Max.
Just the one.
You should see this.
What is it? Blueprints? Of what? Map of the New York subway.
What does MI5 say? DerekJennings is taking the threat seriously but the investigation is being directed by MI6.
A woman named Tuthill.
Emily Tuthill.
- And she? - Didn't seem too interested in talking to me.
- Raza, who in the Agency talks to MI6? - I can find out.
Look, we're trying something new here.
Screw bureaucracy.
Go directly from analysis to action.
I'll watch your backs.
So tell me about the subways.
227 subway stops, 7 00 miles of track make it virtually impossible to insulate the entire New York City subway system from an attack.
- But all stops are not equal.
- Meaning? When you think of New York, you don't think of Crown Heights or Forest Hills.
- You think Manhattan.
- And how many subway stops in Manhattan? Sixty-five.
But we can't rule out the possibility of an attack in any part of the city.
I think they're going to nail a more populated area.
96th Street to the Battery.
- 30-something subway stops.
- That's the target area.
You hit that part of Manhattan, the world comes to a stop.
[ Arabic .]
[ Whispers .]
[ Speaking Arabic .]
[ Radio.
:Arabic .]
You asked to see me? [ Speaking Arabic .]
You're a good man, Raghib, a righteous man.
You do your best, but does it ever feel like it's emptying a sea of misery with a tea cup? It was stolen from an American base.
It's criminal.
We have to steal antibiotics.
Because our country won't provide it for its own children.
Our people are dying in body and spirit.
And the Americans always ready to pounce with their self-serving democracy and predatory economy.
And we are so beaten down that we're prepared to accept their godless materialism.
That's it.
That's the passion and fire you had in Afghanistan.
Ah.
I'm older now.
I have tempered my fervor with piety.
We are both older and wiser.
Raghib, I need men with the courage of conviction.
I'm sure you already have men like that.
Boys and thugs.
Followers, not leaders.
You're a physician.
You can travel the world above suspicion.
You speak their language and can blend in.
Thank you for the antibiotics and I appreciate that you value me but the truth is, I'm of no use to you.
The secret police monitor meetings I attend.
Here in Cairo.
I'm talking about Nigeria.
Come observe our mission, tend to our jihadists.
See for yourself if our visions are incompatible.
Trust yourself.
I saw you in Afghanistan.
This is in your blood.
Still.
Good.
One more.
Good.
There we go.
Ready for another trip? Always.
You leave in a few days.
This won't be training like the others.
This is your first mission.
- Where? - Africa.
- Muhammad looks forward to seeing you.
- She'll run better now.
- My kid take good care of you? - Yeah.
Kaz, come on.
Get in the picture.
Come.
- Ah, it's not my scene, Dad.
- Come on.
Come on.
Raffi's got me another dig, so I'm gonna need to take, uh, four weeks off.
- What's the price this time? - Relax.
This one's free.
Some school in Jordan's paying.
You are not using this to go back to Chechnya and fight the Russians? You know, that's a great idea, but, no.
- The truth? - I swear.
When you are done, go to the Riviera.
Have some fun.
- Okay, boys.
Big smile, everyone.
- God bless America.
[ knocking .]
Tell me about your interactions with Ms.
Jackson.
No real game plan until we know the players on the other side.
- We need more from London.
- Not them, the NSC.
You want me to spy on the NSC? That's your job.
You report back to your own agency.
We're in a war, son and every Tom, Dick, and Harry political appointee thinks they have the Holy Grail to fight it.
Now, you don't turn over the wheel to someone who hasn't been down the road.
We've been down the road.
You understand? Yes, sir.
Good.
I'm sorry, Mum, but it's just something's come up at work and I just I can't let them down.
- But I'll tell you what I'll do-- - [ Train Engine Rumbling .]
[ Muffled Shot .]
[ Elevator Dings .]
[ Alarm Ringing .]
[ Telephone Ringing .]
- Hello? - [ Sarah .]
Menno's dead.
What? I'm sorry.
I should have told you to go to hell.
It's war, Emily.
You can't take it to heart.
No.
That wouldn't be correct, would it? [ keys Clack .]
[ Typing .]
[ Arabic .]
You'll be expected to hand over all receipts and unexpended cash once your operation is complete.
I was the mujahedeen point man for integrating American weapons into Afghanistan.
I can keep count.
Your operation is in Nigeria so is an oil lease auction.
Western oil thieves will be there to swindle the Nigerians.
What a remarkable coincidence.
You will also be pleased to know that no members of the Saudi royal family will be there.
So I have the council's blessing to take advantage of this convergence of events? I also request that your scholars issue a fatwa for two men whose blood is legitimate for the mujahedeen in the pursuance of our jihad.
Who are these enemies? Investigators in America and the U.
K.
where the next phase of my plan is taking place.
[ Computer Beeps .]
Have a Havana.
Go on.
I won't tell.
You said it was urgent, you couldn't talk on the phone.
- I've got a connection to the London sarin.
- I'm listening.
I hear militant Salafists are bringing it into Los Angeles across the Mexican border.
You know what they say-- Mexicans look a lot like us.
- Where and when? - I don't believe we have agreed on the price.
You haven't told me a thing.
They plan to use it in department stores.
You want more? 1 0,000, cash.
You don't have dick, and I'm not in the mood to play.
I got more important things to do.
Go, but when you have dead kids and women coming up your ass don't come crying to me about another 9/1 1 .
Don't play games with me.
Do not play games! They were innocent people, my friends.
I lost friends, scumbag! Ah, screw your friends.
[ Groans .]
Dad.
! Daddy.
! Dad.
! Daddy.
! Hey! How's my little man? Wanna see my T.
rex? Yeah.
Hey, this is a nice surprise.
I know.
Oh, man.
He's cool and it looks like you a little bit.
[ Laughs .]
- It's just a word, you know.
- What? Daddy.
Dad, Father.
I saw the way you reacted when he called you daddy.
Tim is his father.
Tim's dead.
I love Eddie.
You know I do.
IfTim hadn't died, we wouldn't be together, would we? -Jane, this is-- - Would we? I would have never betrayed Tim no matter how much I wanted to.
The night before Tim died, uh we had a fight.
I accused him of loving you more than he loved me.
- Why would you even-- - I was-- I was angry, and I was jealous.
Tim loved you.
Not of you-- ofTim.
I was jealous-- [ Sighs .]
of the time that he got to spend with you.
[ Whispers .]
Hey.
Hey.
I love you.
[ Sighs .]
I loved you since forever.
Is that enough? Max, your hand.
Been a rough day.
Congratulations.
You wouldn't have had anything to do with it, would you? How do you mean? Did you talk to the director on my behalf? The director and I talk about lots of things.
Bureaucracies are like aircraft carriers, Maren.
Big, powerful, slow to turn.
- The director knows this.
- I don't know.
Was it like this when you were running state? Oh, bureaucratic waters have always been treacherous.
The culture has changed.
Keep your eye on the ball, Maren.
Don't let the politics, the in-fighting, distract you.
The stakes are high.
I always feel better after seeing you.
How did I get so lucky? Luck had nothing to do with it.
I had me eye on you at West Point.
Why? Well, you're from West Texas.
[ Chuckles .]
And I thought character was fate.
Now I learn it's a matter of geography? You have something to prove, Maren.
It's never good enough to be good enough.
But when ambition is tempered by conscience and a sense of responsibility it makes a person unwilling not to try.
Try what? To be great.
It'd be nice if happiness figured into that equation.
Mm.
The thing about happiness it's always a by-product, never the end result.
Yeah, well, the money trail tracks back to Switzerland.
We uncovered a wire transfer that Bashara had received from Zurich.
The SSB is being pretty uncooperative at the moment but we do know that Arab NGOs have used this particular branch for previous disbursements.
Swiss Securities Bank? My cousin's the director of Investment Banking Latin America at SSB.
- I could make a discreet inquiry.
- Do it.
Why haven't you responded to the subway threats? Well, I'm doing what I can, believe me.
I've got our transport police on full alert but MI6 is being obstructive about any, shall we say, further useful action? - I have to agree with MI6.
- You do? London sarin was directed at Muslim and Jewish leaders.
Targeting civilians in subways is a new M.
O.
I don't buy it.
And the subway plans? Would that be for a new terrorist board game? What the hell is MI6 thinking then, Derek? For the answer to that question, you'll have to ask Emily Tuthill.
Well, I'm gonna go to London and do just that, face to face.
You go to Zurich.
Follow the money trail.
[ Arabic .]
[ knocking .]
[ Man .]
Akil.
! [ knocking Continues .]
Why aren't you at work? - Overslept.
- Your probation officer has told you about the importance of punctuality with your job, Akil.
Yeah, I know, Hamid.
And you're not him so you don't have to behave like him.
- You want to go back to prison? - Of course not.
Well, come on.
Hurry up.
I'll drop you off.
And if you stop giving me the evil eye I might even buy you a breakfast roll along the way.
I told you Menno had been compromised,yet we sent him in.
- I know this is difficult for you-- - No, you don't know.
He trusted me.
And I don't care to hear another lecture about maintaining professional distance from sources.
Stiff upper lip and all that.
He knew you wouldn't ask him to risk his life if it wasn't important.
He knew what he was doing, Emily.
And so did you.
I promised Menno I'd take care of his family.
I want them to receive some money.
Real money.
Now that can be arranged.
Menno's assassination indicates their cell has transparency.
- He must've got close.
- [ knocking .]
If that's what we're being led to believe.
Another diversion, another futile step in this endless dance.
You haven't earned that cynicism, Emily.
I suggest you keep it to yourself.
Now that the sarin threat is extended to New York expect the Americans to be very much at hand.
- They'll be a distraction.
- The Americans aren't without their sources.
And resources.
You will be a team player.
The lone wolf shall join the pack then? Emily, despite your impeccable record there are those who think we would be well rid of your services.
I can't protect you forever, so tread lightly.
So, brother, ready to go in the morning? I can't wait to get out of here.
This is a no-play camp, Akil.
Fedayeen who fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya.
We need English-speaking brothers.
Why are we on earth if not to fight the domination and suppression of our people through jihad? Damn well know I wasn't put here to clean toilets and take crap from white knobs.
And when those who disbelieve plot against you, to wound you, to kill you, they plot.
But God also plots and God is the best of all plotters.
[ Man .]
Come on.
Let's go.
- Bye, Nili.
- Bye, guys.
Hey.
Are you deliberately trying to screw me up? Blowing off at agency security? And how are you this fine morning, my brother? Oh, let me guess.
It's about my latest encounter with the goon squad.
I told them to go screw themselves.
Again.
They've just got a job to do.
But if you cut loose like a wild woman, it's gonna come down on you too.
Don't you get it? You have to start protecting yourself.
No, you don't get it, Raza.
This country doesn't trust our people.
This country doesn't trust you.
And that's why you told them to go screw themselves? What do you think the C.
I.
A.
's up to when they raid my rights of privacy again? Do I smoke pot? Yes.
Does your brother? No.
Are you a radical? Yes.
Is he? He has no politics.
What about your sexual preference? None of your business! What about his? He has none because he is a fine, upstanding Muslim man.
Your Islam's an anachronism.
Not this again.
You know what? You are just as bigoted as they are.
This isn't even about me! This is about you and your almighty career! Calm down.
If you rant like a radical they'll begin to treat you like one.
And then you'll have no privacy at all.
Why is MI6 not preparing for a terrorist attack against your subways? Ah, this is what you call ''cutting to the chase''? Well, we're a small country with limited resources, Ms.
Jackson.
We simply haven't the manpower to deal with every unsubstantiated threat.
DerekJennings seems to think the threat is substantiated.
DerekJennings is 5.
The sarin attack happened here in London but it killed people from 4 different countries which makes it 6's business.
And I promise you the NSC has no authority in the U.
K.
Until we develop information to the contrary the sarin attack begins and ends with Bashara.
Unless, of course, you've brought information in your carry-on that we don't have yet.
I can tell you that one of my team members, Raza Michaels, is in Switzerland tracking the money trail that DerekJennings unearthed.
He has an inside source to the Swiss Securities Bank.
- Really? Swiss bankers can be difficult.
- Well, this one - Omar Massif, is Raza's cousin.
- I see.
And, uh, is that all you have? Look, I came here because we need to form a partnership.
I'm here to personally ask for your support.
An appeal for transatlantic cooperation.
An alliance between equals? Exactly.
You see, the trouble is, whenever we Brits enter into an alliance with you Yanks, we invariably end up holding a very large bag of poop.
I'm aware that things have been fractious between our agencies post-Iraq.
Post- and pre-Iraq.
Your boss's cowboy tactics didn't turn up much on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction so as the service with a deeper understanding of the region we were enlisted to find what wasn't there and take the blame for not finding it.
We made mistakes.
But the relationship I'm proposing is meant to prevent these kinds of problems.
So I'm to become a player on your team.
You know, this condescending attitude is very destructive.
You've neither the experience nor the authority to lecture me, Ms.
Jackson.
Nor the endurance.
Excellent.
Then I suggest we've finished.
You know, we share the same interests the same threats.
Whether you like it or not, we need each other.
[ Man Laughing .]
But why didn't you call? I would have met you at the airport.
How is your mother? How is Nili? Nili told Mother she's using ecstasy to try to get a rise out of her.
- What did your mother say? - She said that's the beauty of living in a free country - but that she's sticking with Chanel Number 5.
- [ Laughing .]
Ah, where are my manners? Coffee? Coffee.
It's real Arab brew, not European camel piss.
Cousin, have you ever seen a camel? I have admired them from afar in races but the beast implies a lifestyle I'm not well suited for.
So, what brings you to Zurich? Actually, the purpose of my visit is you.
- Me? - [ Door Opens .]
You're aware of the recent sarin attack in London.
Money to the cell was wired from this branch.
The accounts here were closed immediately after the attack.
We need to know who opened them and how they were funded.
What you are asking, it's impossible.
Network and account access is tightly controlled.
Cousin, I wouldn't come here and impose on you like this if it wasn't of the greatest importance.
Even if I could give you what you want and I can't, this is a dangerous game you are playing.
- This is not a game.
- Let me give you a hard lesson,young cousin.
It is a game.
And this bank, this industry, this entire country exists because of the game.
And we are the scorekeepers.
But we only give out the score to those who play.
Our history with this game precedes your agency by a few centuries.
So, please, you must respect my position in this matter.
I'm sorry you feel that way, cousin.
But I really need that information before I leave.
Let me take you out for a night you will not forget.
Diversions we could not share when you were a younger man.
Another time.
[ klaxon Sounding In Distance .]
[ Piano, Softly .]
You wouldn't by any chance have a light? - Would you like a cigarette? - I don't smoke.
- Thank you.
- Intriguing.
You don't drink.
You don't smoke.
What do you do? If it's a question of money, I'm quite able to pay.
Are you serious? - [ Chuckles .]
- [ Chuckles .]
No.
I'm sorry.
I can't help myself.
Especially with an Agency man.
''E'' is for Emily.
Raza Michaels.
But I think you already know that.
[ Sighs .]
Is this because of the nosejob I did on my source? Davi's a scumbag, and I didn't give him anything he didn't have coming.
The Bureau wants me to replace you.
Come on, Maren.
What is this? We got assholes running around with sarin and I gotta do this bureaucratic dance because I slapped around some lowlife piece of crap? You broke his nose.
Yeah, well, he's got a big nose.
What happened to ''watch my back''? How are things at home, Max? Things are hunky-dory, Maren.
How's things home with you? It is not a vendetta.
You can't take this personally.
No offense.
I appreciate the earnest, highly-informed perspective you and your people bring to the table.
I do.
But you're wrong.
This is personal.
It's very personal.
When some thug says he wants to kill me kill the people I love maybe it's a hyperbole, maybe it's just talk but after what went down on 9/1 1 I give him the benefit of the doubt.
Don't lose it again, Max.
There are no more next times.
Did you have any luck with cousin Omar? Cousin Omar? I had breakfast this morning with your boss Maren Jackson in London.
- She told me.
- Then you understand I really have to speak with her first.
Well, naturally, but allow me to presume? Cousin Omar doesn't have access to the information you requested, and if he had, he wouldn't tell you.
So he may have to be leaned on.
- The accounts are restricted.
- Leaned on, um, personally.
- Omar wouldn't lie to me.
- No.
No, of course not.
But if he's been less than forthcoming we should make sure you're better prepared for your next encounter.
Oh.
Can't be easy being an American Muslim working for the CIA.
Easy? No.
But I'm a better Muslim and a better American for it.
I have to think about who I am and what I believe.
Most people take those things for granted.
What do you believe? Big picture? - Mm-hmm.
- Okay.
I believe that the battle is between globalists and remnants of third-world tribes resisting the push into the 21 st century.
Oil-- that's what the battle's about.
That's what the tribes have, what we need.
What the terrorists want to stop us from having.
The first time I was recruited to a camp, I was 1 5.
My dad thought I was on a school trip.
Didn't speak Arabic.
Never shot a gun before.
I was basically scared and felt powerless.
But a few of the older Chechen brothers, they looked out for me.
They helped make me a Muslim and a man more than my dad ever did.
So don't worry.
We'll look out for each other.
I'll look out for you, man, all right? Just wait till you get to shoot, man.
It's a blast.
- kaz.
- [ Arabic .]
Salaam alaikum.
How are you, brother? Who's the blond boy? Kaz.
My golden boy.
A Chechen kid brought up in the U.
S.
An American citizen.
He's been to the camps before, but he was too young to deploy.
The Americans don't know about him? He has protected him for us.
It is good to have you by my side.
kaz.
Salaam.
You are a man now.
- Your Arabic has improved.
- I've been studying.
Waiting.
The studying never stops.
The waiting is over.
We are not here to train.
We are here to execute a mission.
- We are here to fight.
! - [ Cheering .]
If you're not prepared to kill, and die then I respect your choice.
But step forward now, before our plans are revealed and you will go with my blessing.
You will be on the next truck out of here.
Who else? Hmm? You belong, brother.
Trust me.
[ Muhammad .]
Tomorrow we start.
[ Honking .]
- [ Banging .]
- Piss stop.
This is it till Lagos.
No.
! What have you done? Why did you do that? He would have gone home to his family and told them everything.
You didn't have to kill him.
How long do you think he would have lasted under Yemeni torture? How long before he told them about us before the American bombs were dropping on us? It had to be done.
Come on.
Let's bury him before the vultures take him.
[ Gasps .]
Who are you? You don't know? I am a widow.
Does that help? Ilsa, of course.
I'm so sorry-- I received your money.
That is not why I came.
This came in the mail.
Menno sent it to himself.
Oh.
This is helpful.
Thank you.
You murdered him.
I wish I could afford to throw your blood money in your face.
[ Telephone Ringing .]
-Jackson.
- Emily Tuthill.
Well, so it's true what they say-- MI6 never sleeps.
I've just received information that may require a change of thinking.
I'm listening.
Bashara, the executor of the London sarin attack had no known ties to any existing terrorist network, but my new intelligence suggests we should be looking for another, more serious actor on the scene.
- Who is he? - We've credible documentation that 2 of the most murderous Kazakh Islamists have been recruited for a mission in Nigeria.
It's being organized by a man calling himself Muhammad.
There's a notation by his name-- - [ Speaking Arabic .]
- ''Oil for blood.
'' I'm directing MI6 to further downplay the sarin threat and focus on Nigeria.
Nigeria? Lagos.
There's an oil lease auction in 2 days.
That and the surrounding events might present a propitious target.
It's interesting.
I'll need substantiation, sat photos, SIGI NT if I'm gonna take this down the hall.
- Understood.
- Yemen's arrested an associate of Bashara.
He's talking.
I'm going over there.
Thank you, Emily.
See these vehicles and this garbage? This is supposed to be a school.
But all I see are adults, no kids.
You tell me what's going on.
Get it over to the NSC right away.
[ Man .]
I am a graduate of the Citadel.
- And Fort Benning.
- Congrats.
So, do you have the tapes of the prisoner's interrogation? Transcript only, I am afraid.
But he freely admits to trading heroin to the Russian official for the sarin gas.
And he freely admits to doing it for Bashara? Of course.
It was not a problem.
Ask him anything you want.
I will translate.
Tell him I'm from the U.
S.
government.
[ Colonel Translating .]
Help me.
He speaks English? Will you leave us, please? Ah, it is not possible.
If your relationship with the U.
S.
military means anything for your career, you'll leave right now.
You speak to me truthfully and I'll get you out of here.
- You acquired sarin for Bashara? - Yes.
What other plans did he have besides London? I know about the subways.
You will take me to America? Yes.
There's a small handheld computer in my apartment.
The detainee claims that sarin has already been smuggled into New York City.
A New York telephone number was found on the PDA in his apartment.
- I passed it on to Max.
- Anything on MI6's Nigerian intel? No.
He knew nothing about it.
Unless NSA or photos pick something up, why add to the threat overload? Nigeria-- it's just more static.
For now I recommend we back-burner it.
- How'd you get all this? - The informant had been worked over by locals.
I promised him amnesty in the U.
S.
You all right then? Yeah.
Yeah, I'm fine.
All I've seen is you murder an innocent boy.
Is that what I was brought here to witness for myself? Patience, Doctor.
I look at your men.
They are not true Muslims.
Few pray regularly, if at all.
How can you wage war with these people in Allah's name? Now let us see if the FBI follow our Yemen bell like good sheep.
[ Woman .]
I've got it.
It's a disconnected cell number.
- Where from? - The cell phone provider billed an address in Red Hook.
- What is it? - Warehouse.
I talked to the landlord.
He's gonna fax us a tenant list.
- He remembers some Arabs.
- Put together a team-- Haz Mat, NYPD.
[ Beeping .]
Building is clean.
You're all clear.
Damn.
[ Gunshot .]
Sir! Sir! I'm okay.
I'm okay.
[ Helicopter Whirring .]
It was a trap.
A setup.
Damn it! - [ Maren .]
Max, are you all right? - I'm pissed.
The shooter I.
D.
'd me from a photo taken in London by the same guy who had the subway blueprint.
Which ties him to the sarin attack.
It means there's an active cell in place.
Here, in New York, now.
Mark, we have got to act on this.
Are you certain? Yes.
All right.
I'm taking it to the Oval Office.
[ Sirens Wailing .]
Max is fine.
Somebody took a shot at him, but he had his vest on.
- He's okay.
- What? Where is he? He's at the office.
Jane, I'm gonna leave a few men here just as a precaution.
We think Max might be the target of a terrorist.
- What? - [ Telephone Ringing .]
- Oh, my God.
Eddie.
- We've got somebody with Eddie.
He's fine.
- Max? - I don't know how to tell you this.
I'm gonna need a new vest.
Really pisses me off losing that vest.
Yeah, it was a good vest.
The best.
Some of the boys are gonna hang around for a little bit, make sure you and Eddie are okay.
- Okay? - Okay.
- Max.
- Yeah.
- Please get them.
- Yeah.
I know you've been trying to get ahold of me.
I'm sorry, baby.
- I've been jammed.
- There was a tip on a move against oil interest in Nigeria.
So far it's just an unconfirmed rumor.
Everything's fine here.
Just watch yourself, okay? Not to worry.
I always do.
I'm about to meet with the grand poo-bah himself.
- Buy some glasses, sir.
- No.
Thank you.
- Oh, good going.
- I miss you already, baby.
Yeah.
Akil? [ Speaking Arabic On Tape .]
Can you speak up? I thought perhaps you should know.
- Know what? - My brother.
And what about your brother? I think he might be associating with people involved in terrorism of some kind.
- What's your name? - His name is Akil-- No.
What's your name? Please, forget I was here.
[ Buzzer Sounding .]
Wait! Please.
I gave this to my brother when he came of age.
A good-luck charm to keep away evil spirits.
He never hung it up so they slipped in without a struggle.
I realize how difficult this must be to tell us all about this.
I think you're being very responsible and very brave.
I did it for my brother's sake, not yours.
Have a look at this, sir.
''Lesson 1 4: Using poisons and cold steel.
'' ''Lesson 1 6: Planting explosives for chemical dispersion.
'' Whatever happened to 5-a-side football and a pint in the pub afterward? We're now getting live pictures of the complete evacuation of the New York City subway system.
What are they doing? Now is not the time.
Well, MI5 is trumpeting the discovery of the poison gas training manual to pressure for similar action to be taken here on our underground.
I believe we're being manipulated to focus on the wrong part of the world.
Let the Yanks do what they must.
We should wait.
And what if you're wrong? Keep your eye on your British friend.
If he performs, he could be useful to our future plans.
Don't worry.
I've got his back.
Max.
Max, NYPD looked everywhere for the shooter.
Nothing.
And they're pulling out of the subway.
That turned up cold too.
It was never the target.
What? They wanted us to think they were going after the subways.
Why? Everything indicated they were going to hit the subways.
You read it wrong.
Go home.
Get some sleep.
It's over.
[ Horn Honking .]
Why wait years and years for a hard-to-protect pipeline to be built? Mr.
Minister, my backers are prepared to begin construction immediately on an offshore pumping facility on-site.
You could begin to profit from your crude within months.
Excuse me.
Rolf.
I hear your shop's about to be taken over by British Worldwide.
Just a rumor.
You know BWP covets every ounce of oil in the world.
- Could I have 3 more beers, please? - Right away, sir.
- American? - Yeah, man.
- A touch of home from far away.
- It's the Michigan Wolverines in the Holiday Bowl.
- Doesn't get any more American than that.
- Here you are.
Say, get my young friend here another beer.
And put it on my tab.
- Thanks, man.
- Have a good time.
All right.
Hey, you.
Don't forget your bag.
I got it.
You're too good for this place.
Get out of here.
Go home.
Aren't you the strange one.
[ Speaking French .]
[ Translating .]
A toast to our home away from home.
[ Speaking Italian .]
[ Explosion .]
[ Screaming .]
[ Screaming .]
[ Sirens Wailing .]
Hey, hey.
Don't bother.
There's nothing you can do.
[ Wailing Continues .]
[ Screaming, Shouting .]
[ Phone Beeps .]
[ Explosion .]
The New York subway is open again this evening after being closed down most of the day following what officials call a credible threat of a sarin attack.
Your analysis was correct.
Last week, 1 9 people were killed-- Multiple bombings in Lagos.
Dozens dead and wounded.
We were wrong.
I was wrong.
[ Sobbing .]