Class of '09 (2023) s01e04 Episode Script

1
Previously on Class of '09
TUPIRIK: Out here, we
shake each other's hands.
Well, I'm not here to buy a cow, sir.
(GUNSHOT)
NUNEZ: Was it worth it?
TAYO: They revealed themselves.
- (TIRES SCREECHING)
- Aah!
Fuck you!
NUNEZ: What are they planning to attack?
TAYO: Us.
I get to see the expression on your face
when you hear the news.
There are inexplicable arrests.
You know it, I know it.
No, Senator, I don't know it.
Special Agent Poet, you've been lied to.
This system is making
connections on its own.
This is an intelligence
nothing like our own.
♪
♪
♪
Suspect is entering the apartment.
AGENT: Copy.
Suspect is alone. No
sign of his girlfriend.
Copy.
Moving in.
FBI. Open up.
Open up!
Hands up!
- (GRUNTING)
- Get down!
- Gun! Stay on him!
- (GUNSHOTS)
We should stay in the van.
- Get off me.
- Get him, let's go.
(GRUNTING)
- (GRUNTING)
- (STRAINING)
Hold him down.
- (THUDDING)
- (GRUNTING)
FBI! Stop right there!
AGENT: Oh, shit. Drew. Drew.
She was supposed to stay in the van.
Why was she there?
- What the hell was she doing?
- Hang in there.
DREW: This was my weapon as an agent.
A SIG Sauer p228.
Did you ever fire it, ma'am?
On duty, I mean.
No, I never did.
The Bureau's first official weapon.
A four-inch barreled
Colt Police revolver.
Issued to the class
of 1934 at graduation.
DREW: Today the primary
weapon we use is the Glock 23.
This one is called the red handle
because the barrel has been blocked
and the firing pin removed.
During your training, you will
carry these around the base.
DREW: We want you to get
accustomed to the weight of them.
The feel of them. The idea of them.
The idea of them, ma'am?
What it means to take a life.
What it means to risk your life.
GABRIEL: A special agent
doesn't draw their gun
unless they intend to fire.
If you decide that
you cannot take a life,
you cannot be a special agent.
When you receive your weapon,
I'd like you to tell the class
about your own
experiences with firearms.
(GUN THUDDING)
GABRIEL: You know your way around a gun.
I spent most of my adult
life in a shooting range, sir.
What's the story of this range?
Chicago Gun Academy, sir.
Ran by a lovely Vietnamese couple.
The people going there weren't
dreaming of shooting anybody,
they just didn't want to be shot.
This is the first time
I've ever held a gun.
HOUR'S MOTHER: When did you apply?
Six months ago.
There wasn't any point in telling you
if I wasn't going to be accepted.
You didn't tell us because
you knew we'd say no.
Why tell us now?
The next stage is the polygraph.
So if I hadn't told you
maybe it would show up in my answers.
Hour. What are you doing?
MOTHER: You have a degree from MIT.
They like that about me.
Because nobody else would waste
their education in this way.
This is not a world
you know anything about.
MOTHER: We take the Metro to work
so we won't be stopped in our car.
FATHER: We take the car on vacation
so we won't be stopped at the airports.
I don't want to live that way.
I want to feel part of something.
And this is what you choose?
They want me, Dad.
But why do you want them?
What will they have you do?
FATHER: Spy on your own people?
Baba, this isn't the secret police.
They must have carried out a
background check on our family.
FATHER: You've brought
them into our lives.
We have nothing to hide.
That doesn't matter.
That has never mattered.
MOTHER: Are you angry with us?
Is this about something else?
What might it be about, Mom?
You were a lonely child.
Perhaps you're lonely still.
Maybe I'll always be lonely.
FATHER: There are other ways
to feel a part of this country.
MOTHER: And other ways
to feel different from us.
Was it too much to hope
that you'd be proud of me?
♪
TESTER: Would you
lift your arms, please?
- I can do that.
- No, it has to be me.
Will you lay your hands flat, please?
Could you explain what you're doing?
Nobody ever asks that.
There's a sensor in the
chair that detects movement.
These are pneumography tubes,
measure your rate of respiration.
These measure electrodermal activity.
That's for your blood pressure.
The test will take
approximately two hours.
And if your answers are unresponsive,
it can take up to four.
You have to limit your
answers to yes or no.
You can stop the test at any time,
but to do so would constitute a fail.
And you have the right to an attorney,
but to call for one would
Constitute a fail.
Mm.
It's normal to be nervous.
I'm not nervous. I'm curious.
Who interprets the responses?
I do.
How many tests have you done?
Oh, hundreds.
There are 50,000 applicants
to the Bureau each year.
The government must have carried
out millions of these tests.
Over the years.
Do you collect the data?
We keep 'em on file.
But is it on a centralized database?
No.
Doesn't it make sense
to cross-reference them
rather than rely on one
person's interpretation?
There was the case of Wen Ho Lee.
Nuclear scientist at Los Alamos
accused of being a Chinese spy?
I know the case.
He passed the DOE polygraph.
But the FBI reexamined the same results
and they decided he was lying.
That he had slipped China secrets
about the miniaturized W88 warhead.
Maybe if you collated all the
data on a central database,
it wouldn't be so subjective.
Hmm.
You know, some people
want to fail a test.
They deliberately flunk it in a way
to drop out of the process
without losing face.
If that's you, just say so.
Can we begin?
♪
(MONITOR BEEPING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(DOOR OPENS)
(CHAIR CLUNKING)
Excuse me for not shaking your hand.
(UNLOCKING HANDCUFFS)
(CHAINS RATTLE)
Marine once told me
I'm sorry, this Marine, is
he a friend of yours, or ?
Friend. Close friend.
Patriot.
He said after a man
kills for the first time,
the smell of his skin changes.
Your wife.
Was she the first person you've killed?
Well, I rescued her from squalor.
I fixed her teeth, her hair.
Overlooked everything
she had to do to survive.
Yeah, sounds like you
overlooked quite a bit
because you couldn't
see that she hated you.
What about your wife?
Looks like I made killers of you both.
I think it's safe to say
that we had just cause,
wouldn't you?
- Just cause?
- Mm-hmm.
(CHUCKLING): Oh.
Just cause.
Ah.
Is that what you were looking for
out at my ranch?
"Just cause."
Yeah, you've been looking
for that your whole life.
And you got your badge and your gun.
All you needed was that "just
cause" to get away with it.
"To get away with it," yeah.
(SCOFFS)
Let's talk about that,
"getting away with it."
Because getting away with it,
I would've just strolled on your ranch.
And I would've shot you
right between the eyes.
And maybe I should've because then
your wife would still be alive.
My partner wouldn't be
lying in a hospital bed.
And my wife wouldn't have been attacked.
But I didn't.
No, no, no, I didn't.
(CHUCKLES)
You're the highest ranking
FBI agent in Montana.
What you doing on a
routine piece of fieldwork
if not hunting for folks like me?
Yeah, you've been dreaming
of that day for years.
(CHUCKLES)
Let's
Let's be very clear about something.
You may be many things, but
you are no dream of mine.
HOUR: Have we figured out
where they were driving to
when they were caught?
We can't make sense of their route.
Is it possible that
they were a diversion?
A diversion from what?
- (GUNSHOTS)
- (WHISTLE BLOWS)
GABRIEL: Nice job,
Hour. You're a natural.
Tayo, you're up.
TRAINEE: Nice job.
Shooter, stand by.
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
- (MECHANISM WHIRRING)
- (GUNFIRE)
(MECHANISM WHIRRING)
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
Nice shooting, trainee.
Shooter, stand by.
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
(MECHANISM WHIRRING)
♪
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
Why did you freeze, trainee?
Ma'am, I didn't freeze.
You didn't fire.
I didn't consider her to be a threat.
Why not? She's armed.
POET: But who is she? She's a woman,
she looks like a professional,
my guess would be law enforcement.
GABRIEL: She's not holding a Glock.
Smith & Wesson 640.
Approved for off-duty police officers.
So you decided in that split second
she was an off-duty detective?
Well, they also use those
guns for personal protection.
She could be escaping a violent partner.
The test wasn't to write her biography.
But don't we have to,
if we're gonna take her life?
♪
- Hey.
- Hey.
I was proud of you back there.
You were proud?
Oh, I said the wrong word, didn't I?
No.
Well, whatever the,
uh, the right word is,
that is how I felt.
Isn't it up to you to decide
what the right word is?
You're a hard person to compliment.
And an easy one to offend?
I didn't say that.
Where'd you learn how to shoot?
My mom.
Tin cans in the backyard.
She believed any woman who lived alone
should know how to shoot.
- You?
- My dad.
Hunting deer.
♪
(CHUCKLES)
What am I doing?
I'm supposed to be
working, not going on dates.
He's a distraction.
Falling in love is not a distraction.
(CHUCKLES) I'm not in love.
(SIGHS)
I mean, these next five months
decide the rest of our lives.
Any five months decide
the rest of our lives.
Well, some months are
more important than others.
I had friends in high school who
messed around and now they
have all the time in the world,
but they can't change their lives.
I know these feelings.
It's guilt.
I felt the same way when
I'd fall for someone.
I haven't fallen for
him, I just I like him.
For me the guilt is
because I'm not married.
For you it's work ethic.
Yeah.
My mom never dated anyone.
When my dad walked out,
she promised me she'd never
bring a boyfriend home.
I never had a father, so she
was gonna make up for that.
But when I got older, you know, and
and realized what this was costing her,
I-I should have said
"It's fine, you can date.
You don't have to be alone."
Maybe if I had
It's fine. You can date.
You don't have to be alone.
(KNOCKING)
Can you come with me, please?
Yes, ma'am.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
At this point in the training,
we repeat your polygraph test
and compare your responses.
Only me?
Why would it only be you?
(CHUCKLES) Right.
♪
TESTER: Try to relax.
I'd hate to fail you
because you couldn't relax.
Have you ever taken
any illegal narcotics?
Yes.
You listed on your application
the occasions you smoked marijuana.
Are these still the only occasions?
Yes.
Were they after sex?
No.
TESTER: Was your mother ever
addicted to prescription medication?
POET: Yes.
Have you ever been addicted
to prescription medication?
No.
You concealed anything
during this process
which might negatively
influence your application?
(SHARP INHALE)
Yes.
Your previous answer was no.
You're changing your answer to yes?
Yes.
Did you lie before?
No.
This is something new?
Yes.
For the next question,
I'm going to release you
of the obligation saying yes or no.
What have you concealed?
Have you retaken the polygraph?
Last week.
Oh, yeah? How'd it go?
The same.
You didn't say something to me?
What's to say?
Did you tell them about us?
About us? No.
Did you?
I mean
they asked me if I was
concealing anything.
They weren't talking about us.
How do you know? This
is against the rules.
What rules?
The agent trainee rules.
You actually read those?
Come on.
This is important.
LENNIX: This isn't high school.
So you don't think we need
to let Gabriel and Drew know?
It's none of their business.
Everything is their business.
Not us.
Mind if I walk with you?
Oh, of course not.
I wanted to talk about your polygraph.
Oh, did I fail?
Look, I'm not speaking as
your supervisor right now.
Okay.
Ever since women were allowed to join,
there have been hookups and couples.
Some even end up getting married.
Most don't.
I'm not trying to embarrass you.
I just wanted you to be aware
of the reality of our situation.
Which is ?
If it doesn't work out,
the woman always comes off worse.
She always takes the hit.
It shouldn't be that way.
But it is.
And I'm not telling you
to do anything differently.
I'm telling you the way it is.
I appreciate that.
I was in an incident at
the beginning of my career,
for which I was blamed.
It was an agent-on-agent shooting.
- You shot an agent?
- No.
I was the one who was shot.
You said you were blamed?
I was.
One of the reasons they gave
was they said I was in the wrong place.
And I was in the same place as the guys.
I'm so sorry.
Ah, I'd be dead if they
weren't such lousy shots.
(POET CHUCKLES)
Why did you stay in the Bureau?
I couldn't let 'em win.
I was one of the best trainees my year.
So, when I recovered, I just
came back to the classroom.
'Cause that's the only place
I was ever allowed to be great.
(SIGHS)
♪
(DOORBELL RINGS)
- Hey.
- Hey.
Can I come in?
Big house.
Yeah, it's nice when the girls stay.
Hmm.
How often is that?
Not as often as I'd like. (SIGHS)
I'm sorry.
Yeah, so am I.
I leaned on my family
connections to try and see if
you know, who was an ally.
(SIGHS)
A lot of people are
really worried about this system.
Uh, they think it's too
big, it's too powerful.
A lot of people will only express
their concerns in private.
Not a lot are willing to help.
No surprise there, right?
No.
Even talking can get people in trouble.
Some got mad at me for approaching them
face-to-face, away from cameras.
Is your dad helping?
(SIGHS)
He knows people that know people,
including Senator Spenser,
so I'm trying to
set up a meeting.
But like I said, people are scared.
Um
I wanted to say that
you know, before this goes too far,
you don't have to be a
part of the investigation
into Tayo's system for my sake.
Poet, stop.
You can do it on your own. I-I get it.
You
You always had it in your mind
that I preferred to be alone.
Because you always are.
If not me, okay.
But someone.
Am
Am I the problem?
Every time something feels
good, you mistrust it.
Like it can't be real.
So you test it and you
test it until it breaks.
And you say to yourself, "You
see? I was right all along."
Is that why we didn't make it?
Maybe everything in my
life seemed too easy.
And you wouldn't be
another one of those things.
But I can tell you now
loving you has not been easy.
And I've loved you for 20 years.
That is why you should
not be involved in this.
Not this time, Poet.
This time, you're gonna have to tell me
it doesn't stand a chance.
This time, it's not gonna be me.
(CLICKING)
♪
(CLICKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Could Tupirik have people
infiltrate the Bureau?
Why not?
There are checks.
The polygraph?
I lied on mine.
What'd you lie about?
Only the really important things.
REPORTER: At least a dozen manhunts
for additional key members
of Mark Tupirik's militia
- are underway in multiple states
- (PHONE BUZZING)
as the Bureau attempts
to figure out the scope
and scale of his
anti-government militia.
Firearms assessment is today.
(PHONE BEEPS)
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION)
Welcome, sir. You got it?
All right.
- (RADIO CHATTER)
- (DOG WHIMPERING)
Thanks.
♪
We go today.
at the people on this screen.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Oh. (CHUCKLES)
What are you afraid of?
You think you'll be too easy to read?
By a man like me?
HOUR: The system is picking
up elevated movements,
pupil dilation, heart rate increase.
We've got one.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (EQUIPMENT CLATTERING)
SUPERVISOR: Next.
(GUN CLUNKS)
I've seen this man before.
Doing construction in the garage.
HOUR: We think the
suspect may be at Quantico.
On the signal, walk forward
while shooting at the target.
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
(GUNFIRE)
Shooter! Shooter!
Aah!
Hey!
(GUNFIRE)
(GUNFIRE)
(GUNFIRE)
(WHIMPERS)
TRAINEE: No, please!
(GRUNTING)
TRAINEE: Get out of there!
We got a shooter!
- (GUNFIRE)
- (SHOUTING)
(GRUNTING)
(GUNSHOT)
(GROANS)
She's losing so much blood.
You're gonna be all right.
There's an alert at Quantico.
(PHONE BEEPING)
(LINE RINGING)
Hey.
I need you to meet me right now.
Where? Here?
I'll take the heat if I'm wrong,
but we need to evacuate this building.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(CRACKLING)
AUTOMATED VOICE (OVER P.A.):
Attention, attention.
Please evacuate this
building immediately.
This is not a drill.
Attention. Attention.
Please evacuate this
building immediately.
This is not a drill.
(ALARM KEENING)
Attention. Attention.
Please evacuate this
building immediately.
This is not a drill.
(RUMBLING)
Hey!
(RUMBLING)
(HISSING)
WORKER: That's good.
(COUGHING)
- (WORKER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
- (CRACKLING)
(COUGHING)
Hey, freeze!
Easy. Easy.
I just got to go get my supervisor.
(GRUNTING)
(ALARM KEENING)
Hurry!
(CRACKLING)
Please evacuate this
building immediately.
This is not a drill.
- (RUMBLING)
- (ANXIOUS CHATTER)
(GRUNTING)
(RUMBLING)
We have to go!
We have to go now!
(RUMBLING)
(PANTING)
(GASPS)
(RUMBLING)