Citadel (2023) s01e04 Episode Script

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Previously on "CITADEL"
[JOE] So, how did you
and your husband meet?
I started memory therapy there.
Kyle was in the same program.
[ORLICK] During Citadel's collapse,
I ordered my protégé Carter
Spence to take the case underground.
He says it's the only tech
that can locate
any Citadel agents
who might still be alive.
- I'm so sorry.
- [SPEAKS VALENCIAN]
- You're Nadia.
- No.
You are a spy like me.
- That's
- You.
If I go home, they're gonna find me.
Stopping them,
that's how I protect my family.
[KYLE] I found her.
She remembers everything.
- She?
- [KYLE] Yeah.
Her name's Nadia.
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Private
mode initiated.
[ABBY] What else did she know?
[KYLE] Not a lot.
We're gonna figure this out,
and then I'm coming back to you, okay?
[KYLE] Tell me about him.
- Who?
- Mason, who was he?
Couldn't tell you.
We weren't that close.
- We never got personal.
- Never?
[BALDUINO] I am surprised, Kane,
that you, of all people,
would carry a torch for the woman
who brought Citadel to its knees.
Transfer's complete. Get out of there.
The hell are you talking about?
[BALDUINO] It was your girl Nadia.
Was it you?
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[ORLICK] That's Brielle, right?
The woman you love, she's alive.
- [ANDERS] No.
- [ORLICK] Her name is Abby,
and she's married to Mason Kane.
[CARTER] This is Agent Carter Spence.
Manticore's closing in on my location.
This might be my last transmission.
Shit.
I know where he is.
[WIND WHISTLING]
♪
[KEYPAD BEEPING]
♪
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
[GUARD GRUNTS]
[KYLE] So we're about to kill
a bunch of people?
Not your first time, love.
Now, come on.
[DOOR BUZZES, OPENS]
(ARABIC) I'm heading to D block.
- [GRUNTING]
- [BLADE SLASHES]
Hit the alarm!
[ALARM BLARING]
[GRUNTING]
[NADIA] Down!
I'm out! Cover me!
[GUARDS SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]
[COUGHING]
[GRUNTS]
[SHOUTS]
[NADIA] Cover me!
[GRUNTING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GUARD SCREAMS]
[GUN CLICKS]
[KYLE] Fuck!
- [GUARD SCREAMING]
- [BONES CRACKING]
[YELPS]
[GRUNTS]
[GUARD GURGLING]
[ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]
[NADIA] Or I'll cover you.
Mason?
Carter.
- We're gonna get you out of here.
- [GRUNTS]
Let's go.
Just stay back.
You did this.
What did I do?
♪
♪
[MASON] Well, this has been fun.
Yeah. Paris always is.
[MASON] Always is?
You can't possibly believe
you're the only man
I've come to Paris with.
No, but last night was obviously
- It was up there.
- [DRINK POURS]
- Up there.
- [LAUGHS]
Top five.
And the other four? Are they spies?
Mm. Come on, Kane.
I don't kiss and tell.
They last long?
They never do.
You ever been in love?
What kind of question is that?
An honest one.
No.
Do I scare you?
Now, why would you scare me?
- Because I'm starting to see you.
- Oh, are you?
See past the mask.
- What mask?
- Oh, there are dozens.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
And why would that scare me?
I don't know yet.
I'm bringing a new Tier-One to the team.
Grace approved.
- When did Grace approve?
- This morning.
You spoke to Grace this morning?
You know I have other missions
besides ours, right?
- Where was I?
- I don't know.
Eating baguettes?
- Falling in love?
- Mm.
She's brilliant.
Plus we need her.
She worked for me on Bravo Team.
- This like a Make-A-Wish thing?
- [LAUGHS]
I trust her with my life.
She saved it once.
Her name is Celeste Graham,
and you are gonna love her.
Well, if she's a friend of
yours, I'm sure I'll hate her.
[LAUGHS]
- I mean, it was bound to happen.
- [LAUGHS]
- Just a matter of time.
- [CELESTE] Was it?
- This our new Tier-One?
- [NADIA] Mm-hmm.
Mason, meet Celeste Graham.
[MASON] You're the person
that saved her life.
I am.
[MASON] She told me I'm gonna love you.
You won't.
She can handle it.
[MASON] She can't.
She is right here.
Her Tier-One clearance went
through, what, 36 hours ago?
Oh, come on, Mason.
What is this? Haze week?
Is this your version of foreplay?
Anders and Davik run
a brutal criminal enterprise.
- [CELESTE] I know who they are.
- I don't think you do.
The Silje brothers out of Amsterdam.
They rule the city's underbelly.
Drug running, arms dealing,
prostitution rings.
[MASON] They've started to expand.
Davik is the muscle.
Anders is the brains.
He's far more dangerous.
He's a Cambridge grad who's been
developing war technology
and selling it to the highest bidder.
[NADIA] We recently retrieved
a partial schematic
of Anders's latest creation.
He likes to call it the Oz Key.
- "The Oz Key"?
- [MASON] If he completes it,
the Oz Key would be able to hack
an entire nation's infrastructure.
Transit, emergency services,
army, weapons.
They could take a whole country hostage.
[NADIA] Don't say it's impossible.
He wants you to say it's impossible.
It's impossible.
The computational power alone
would require a server farm
the size of New Hampshire.
Not to mention the fact
that the source data which,
if I understand you correctly,
is basically everything
that would entail
thousands of exabytes of data.
So I guess you could take over
Massachusetts while you're at it
to house all those ones and zeroes.
So, unless Amsterdam's
gotten a whole lot bigger
than I remember,
your boy Anders has a long way
to go before he gets his Oz Key.
She's smart.
- Smarter than you.
- But she's wrong.
I'm not wrong.
You are, but you were convincing.
Which is what makes her perfect.
Plus she has a twin brother.
Just like Anders.
There's another one of you out there?
- David.
- [MASON] You close?
- Hate him with a passion.
- Mm, so you're close.
Inseparable.
- [NADIA] And I'm right.
- I didn't say that.
Well, you never do, but I always am.
[CELESTE] I've been undercover before
with the Oath Keepers.
- [MASON] How long for?
- Three weeks.
Three weeks.
What did Nadia teach you over
in Bravo about going undercover?
She taught me that
the key to being undercover
is learning how to maintain the lie.
Mm. Nadia thinks a great spy
has to be a great liar.
- They do.
- No.
A great spy needs to tell the truth.
But first, you have to disappear.
You need to look in the mirror
and see an entirely
different person looking back.
♪
[MASON] You'll find Anders
at the Ironside Bar.
It's one of the laundering
fronts he runs with his brother.
♪
We got an engineer over here.
You must be a mad man,
I'm definitely staying away from you.
[LAUGHS]
I'm Anders.
- Brielle.
- Brielle.
Don't worry about making him
fall in love with you.
You need to fall in love with him.
Find things to love about him,
so it'll feel real.
You can't lie when you're undercover.
Men like Anders and Davik will smell it
from across the room. And if
they do, they'll bury you alive.
The only way they're gonna
believe your lie is if you do.
Everything you tell them
has to become your truth.
You have to lie to yourself.
Your mission is to gather
all intel on the Oz Key.
Do whatever it takes.
Get as close as you can.
[STRUMMING MELODY]
It's a beautiful melody.
You creating a new song?
[SIGHS] I'm trying.
What about you? What are you creating?
You see me writing and
rewriting the code, for that thing.
[ELECTRONIC TRILLING]
What is it?
Depends on who you ask.
What do you want it to be?
I just want you.
You already have me.
The hardest part is gonna be
remembering why you're there.
That it's not actually your life.
I will keep you tethered.
Every week you check in with me.
Call me. I will remind you
what is real, what is true.
♪
[NADIA] I know it's back here somewhere.
[BOTTLE KNOCKING]
Told you.
[DONALD BYRD: "YOU'VE
BEEN TALKIN' 'BOUT ME BABY"♪]
Not very ladylike.
Mm. Why start now?
You had Dmitri convinced.
[LAUGHS]
Now we know who the Silje
brothers are working with
in Vienna.
Mm. London. Vienna.
I guess we have Anders
and Davik to thank
for all of this quality time together.
Who do I have to thank for this dress?
You've been talking 'bout me, baby ♪
That's too bad about you ♪
You've been talking 'bout me, baby ♪
But talk to somebody new ♪
[LINE RINGING]
[MASON] Celeste's in over her head.
She's been dark for three months.
No check-ins, no click-backs
to any of my flares.
But a full breach? It's too soon.
You know what it's like on the inside.
There could be infinite reasons
why she didn't check in.
And if it were you in there
I'd be willing to see
how it plays out. But it's not you.
She's just as capable as I am.
That's what I'm worried about.
Carter picked up some anomalies.
- What anomalies?
- Could be nothing.
Could be everything. I've been
digging deeper into her life.
Her twin brother David, he's
got a serious gambling problem.
Six figures serious.
He's holed up somewhere because
some very dangerous people
are after him.
So?
You and I both know that
people do stupid things
when the ones they love are on the line.
She can sell the Oz Key
for a lot of money.
You're seeing things that
aren't there, Mason.
There's chatter on the wire that
Davik's looking for a buyer.
So it's safe to assume
the Oz Key is close to,
if not fully operational. It's
only a matter of time before
- It's too soon.
- I know she's your friend
but if anyone gets
their hands on the Oz Key,
any chance of holding them at bay,
any chance of keeping
their power in check is gone.
I'm sending in an ops team.
♪
♪
[DAVIK] Odd place to store a purse.
[GRUNTING]
Anders is gonna miss you terribly.
[GRUNTING]
♪
[ALARM BLARING]
[DAVIK GROWLS]
[GRUNTING]
[SHOUTS]
[ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]
[LIGHTER FLICKING]
[CARTER] I just got
an update from the ops team.
Shots were exchanged
and we've got casualties.
- How many?
- Enough.
Jesus. Celeste?
She's alive. Uh, beat up, but alive.
We captured Anders, Davik disappeared.
The Oz Key?
Ops chief said they couldn't find it.
Fuck!
[PHONE BUZZES]
♪
Thirty seconds out.
Secure med bay for incoming.
[AGENT] Med bay's on standby.
Put her in Interrogation Two.
What about him?
Stabilize him well enough to talk.
[GRUNTING]
Who's on point?
I am.
Davik's gone. And where
the hell's the Oz Key?
We'll get under it.
Clean this up.
- I want in the box.
- No.
- I'm not asking your permission.
- You're too close.
- Mason.
- You're too close.
- Begin recording.
- [BEEPS]
This is bullshit.
- Name and classification.
- None of that
- fucking matters anymore, Mason.
- System Identify.
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Identified.
Tier-One Operator.
[CELESTE] Celeste Graham.
[MASON] Where is the Oz Key?
[CELESTE] Are you fucking kidding me?
[NADIA] Easy, Mason.
You shouldn't be in here
wasting your time with me.
You should be out there, mobilizing,
- hunting Davik!
- [BANGING TABLE]
Fuck!
Remove restraints.
Is that supposed to be a gesture?
To make me feel grateful?
[DOOR WHOOSHES OPEN]
[CARTER] What did you do
with the Oz Key, Celeste?
I told you, it was in my go bag.
Your go bag was empty.
Ops cleaned the site.
All they found was this.
It's a fake.
What happened in there?
Is she in there?
Nadia, are you in there?
You think I took it?
You're gonna hide behind a mirror?
Sit down, Celeste.
After everything?!
You think I'd do that?
- [POUNDS GLASS]
- Fuck you!
[PANTING]
Do you hear me, Nadia?
You never should have brought me on.
[MASON] For the last three months
you've missed every one
of your Live Drops.
You were the one who
broke protocol, Mason.
Sent an ops team before I was ready.
You didn't give me a choice, did you?
You went dark for weeks.
We didn't know if you were dead.
- Where is Davik?
- I secured him in the basement.
[MASON] He wasn't there.
That is where I left him.
People and things just disappearing
around you left and right?
Go to hell.
Okay.
Let's talk about David.
[CELESTE] What does my brother
got to do with any of this?
At eight years old, he stepped
in front of your stepdad
swinging a hot iron at you.
He took all the beatings
so you didn't have to.
And it fucked him up.
Where's this going?
I understand the guilt
you must have felt.
He sacrificed so much to protect you.
Then after all your stepdad did to him,
you couldn't fix him.
But you sell the Oz Key
and you can save his life,
pay the bounty on his head.
Fuck you, Mason.
You recognize this building?
Zoom in to unit 8C.
Who is that?
Mason, my brother has nothing
to do with this.
But he has everything to do with you.
You call him once a week.
You send him $800 a month.
Even when you were at
the Incubator making nothing,
you paid him out of your savings.
Your brother seems like a fuckup to me.
Shut up.
Tac Unit, arm system.
[AUTOMATED VOICE] System armed.
- Stop.
- Tell me where the Oz Key is.
I don't know,
I really don't fucking know.
You said you
and your brother were close.
What, 38 seconds apart?
Tac Unit, acquire target.
Stop.
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Target acquired.
[MASON] You sold it for him, didn't you?
Admit it. Who's your buyer?
- [CELESTE] Nobody.
- Last chance!
- Tac Unit, exec
- [NADIA] Enough.
[NAIDA] The fuck do you
think you were doing?
[MASON] I wasn't actually
gonna take him out.
Oh, yeah? You sounded pretty convincing.
You can't stop an interrogation!
That wasn't a fucking interrogation!
That was an assault on one of our own!
Celeste didn't take the Oz Key.
She said she hid it in her go bag.
Davik had to have
found the bag and taken it.
When? When he was tied up
in the basement?
Or when he fled out the back?
You ask Celeste, you ask Ops,
you get two different fucking stories.
I've known her for five years, Mason.
I know her better than anyone here.
She didn't take it.
And now Davik knows
that she was undercover.
She's a liability to him,
and he's gonna come after her.
She's right.
We have to get her out, Grace.
Her best option is to relocate her
to an unaffiliated safe house.
I can reach out to some MI6 contacts.
- [NADIA] It'll have to do.
- [PHONE CHIRPS]
Anders is awake.
You should interview him.
I'll do it.
Do not tell me you believe Celeste.
[CARTER] Nadia does.
She saved Nadia's life.
Of course she does.
Celeste had the Oz Key.
She went dark for three months.
Then it disappears?
I mean, come on,
she's working all of us.
Citadel, Anders and Davik,
anyone she needs to
to make a buck for herself
so she can pay off
her brother's debt and save his life.
[CARTER] So what do we do?
We open an inquiry with Command.
We backstop her.
Mason.
We can't just erase her memory.
She's Tier-One, Grace.
She knows everything about Citadel.
You gonna let her out in the
world with that information?
She'll sell us out
to the highest bidder.
- We have to wipe her clean.
- Command hasn't even approved
Backstop's safety procedures
yet. It's too new.
I could have you sanctioned
for even suggesting something like that.
You want to be known as the director
who let a mole take down the agency?
I can't authorize the backstop.
You don't have to. We'd do it off-site.
No one needs to know.
Not Nadia. Not Command.
No one. I'll take care of it.
Look, if what she says
turns out to be true,
we'll bring her back,
reactivate her memories
like nothing happened.
And what if she did it?
Then she stays backstopped.
Goes to prison.
But Citadel's secrets are safe.
What are we gonna tell her?
[DOOR WHOOSHES OPEN]
I'm gonna need you to put this on.
- What the hell is that?
- [CARTER] It deactivates
your ARC chip and the rest
of your Citadel creds.
Why would I want that?
We're getting you out of here.
Davik knows who you are.
He's gonna come after
you and your brother.
[GRACE] We're gonna relocate you
- to a safe house.
- A safe house?
There'll be time to talk
later. For now
You don't think he'll be
able to sniff out
a safe house? You were
able to find my brother.
Think about how easy it will be
- for them to do the same.
- Then what do you suggest?
[CELESTE] I don't know, Mason.
But you're real quick to
remind everyone this is your op.
Well, your op turned into a clusterfuck.
So why don't you figure it out.
There is another option.
It's a new program
soon to be rolled out.
Meant for Tier-One Operators
in a worst-case scenario.
If, for whatever reason,
they have to disappear.
You'll be taken to a facility
in Mexico City.
You'd be sedated.
While you're under,
they'll perform a pair
of painless procedures
to reshape your cornea
and the ridges of your
fingerprints to help you hide.
You won't be Celeste Graham anymore.
You'll be someone else.
Someone that Davik can never find.
So it's Witness Relocation?
That's right. For you and your brother.
And when the dust settles,
I can just get back to my life?
It's the best way to protect you.
Let's do it.
Keep her hidden till we can evac.
[MASON] We can't tell Nadia the truth.
Is it done? She resettled?
I made the call myself.
She's on route to the safe house.
Thank you, Grace, for everything.
Don't thank me yet.
We need to find the Oz Key.
Yeah. We're on it.
[TYPING]
Any luck?
No sign of Davik yet.
We're still looking.
What do you think of this one?
Uh Cozy. Classic.
[MASON] Yeah, it's in Oregon.
Small town my grandmother lived in.
[CHUCKLES] Did you
give her 2.5 kids, too?
You want to invent a life
out of thin air? Be my guest.
Look at, um, what happens
if Command catches wind
you back-channeled an
unsanctioned Backstop procedure?
I'd have to go on the run, I guess.
Maybe I'd settle down
for the simple life.
[LAUGHS] Yeah, I'd pay to see that.
After a day like today, that house?
That porch? Cool summer breeze?
[CHUCKLES]
Man, you wouldn't last five minutes.
[MASON] Thanks for calling in a favor.
[ORLICK] Yeah, Ana Mejía,
she's an old friend.
She created something
very special with Backstop.
We need to destroy Celeste's vial.
Erase her memories permanently.
Mason, are you sure
that Celeste is a mole?
I know it.
You have to be certain.
Because one time I wasn't and
I think about it every day.
I am certain.
You do this, you know
there's no going back.
That's the point.
I'm not talking about her.
I'm talking about you.
Put in the order.
- Listen to me
- Put in the order.
Listen to me.
If you're wrong about her,
this is not something
that you can come back from.
You can't.
A spy can have a hundred names,
a hundred faces,
a hundred identities.
But you only get one soul.
We have to protect Citadel at all costs.
You told me that.
Mm-hmm. But who's going to protect you?
Don't worry about me.
[DOOR WHOOSHES OPEN]
♪
[WOMAN] Just relax
and breathe naturally.
I'm going to count you down from ten.
Nine, eight, seven
- [AIR HISSING]
- six,
five
[NADIA] Carter told me Celeste
has been relocated to Oregon.
Thanks for having her back, Mason.
And mine.
♪
[DOOR WHOOSHES OPEN]
[CARTER] You good?
[MASON] Yep.
[CARTER] Any news on the Oz Key?
Nothing.
Davik didn't take it.
And you don't think Celeste
was the one that took it either.
Excuse me?
[CARTER] I am the only one with access
to all of Citadel's
encrypted communications.
That's my job. You know that, right?
I have known you a decade, brother.
I know your behavior patterns,
how you think.
You acted very out of character today.
We were in crisis mode.
Right.
I didn't think to at first,
but I scrubbed our servers.
And I found that
a cloaked order was given
to the chief of the ops team
by a Tier-One agent in secret.
And against protocol.
That Tier-One ordered the chief
to conceal the Oz Key
and deliver it to them on their return.
And I know you know who that agent was.
Stop there, Carter.
Nadia gave the cloaked order.
You said that you backstopped Celeste
so she couldn't give up
any Citadel secrets,
but I think you did that
to stop us from finding out
that she didn't have any.
She was clean.
You needed to keep suspicion on Celeste
to have her take the fall.
So you backstopped her,
erased her memories.
Not because she was a threat to Citadel,
But because she would
be a threat to Nadia.
Because you are protecting Nadia.
Because even though you love her
you think Nadia might be a mole.
Don't you ever say those words again.
♪
You-you did this.
What did I do?
Not you.
Her.
♪
You can't trust her.
Why not?
Nadia?
You killed thousands of agents.
[DAHLIA] I can't take all the credit.
A Citadel spy betrayed you all.
[SCREAMS]
I don't know who you are anymore.
[NADIA] None of us are
as clean as we want to be.
And you know that.
You want to know the truth?
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