Class of '09 (2023) s01e05 Episode Script
The Problem Is People
1
- Previously on Class of '09
-
HOUR: It's fine. You can date.
You don't have to be alone.
TESTER: You concealed anything
during this process
which might negatively
influence your application?
Yes.
If it doesn't work out,
the woman always comes off worse.
She always takes the hit.
- LENNIX: You can do it on your own.
-
- I-I get it.
- (DOORBELL RINGS)
And I've loved you for 20 years.
This time you're gonna have to tell me
it doesn't stand a chance.
This is an intelligence
nothing like our own.
- TUPIRIK: Oh, you think you caught me.
-
But I'm exactly where I want to be.
TAYO: Oh, locked up in here? Really?
Mm-hmm.
Why is that?
'Cause I get to see
the expression on your face
when you hear the news.
MAN: Shooter!
(SCREAMS)
(GROANS)
- (LINE RINGING)
- Hey.
I'll take the heat if I'm wrong,
but we need to evacuate this building.
Hey, freeze!
We have to go now!
(PANTING)
You've all successfully concluded
the firearms component.
We have in our hands
a great responsibility.
Which is why we've brought you here.
On this wall are the names
of every special agent
who lost their life in the line of duty.
And spaces for the names of agents
who will lose their lives in the future.
Our FBI family is loved and missed.
They served their country
with compassion,
determination, and vision.
They embody our mission.
They embolden our resolve.
They exemplify
fidelity, bravery, and integrity.
(SIRENS WAILING)
- (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
- (HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)
LENNIX: I can't feel my arm.
POET (PANTING): It's right here.
Right here.
(GROANS SOFTLY) I'm right here, okay?
Hey Don't stop talking.
- It scares me.
- (CHUCKLES WEAKLY)
You're not scared of anything.
I'm scared of losing you.
(EXHALES)
You're never gonna lose me.
You know what?
It occurs to me
I never said I love you.
Hey
Hey.
Don't stop there.
(SOBBING)
Just stay with me, okay?
We can, uh
Uh I can sing, okay?
Um
I've got sunshine ♪
On a cloudy day ♪
When it's cold outside ♪
I got the month of May. ♪
Please.
RESCUER: Hello?
- Hello, is anyone down there?
- Help
Help!
- Help!
- Hello!
♪
CHAIR: Executive Assistant
Director Michaels,
we have read your report
into the litany of failures
that preceded the bombing
of the Hoover building
and the mass shooting at Quantico.
For those who haven't had the time
to read all 2,000 pages,
how would you summarize your findings?
Well, put simply, sir, it wasn't
that we missed the facts.
They were in front of us.
We failed to understand them.
What is that down to?
The old way
of investigating doesn't work.
The question is, what is the new way?
The shooter at Quantico was
vetted by our best brains.
The construction workers we entrusted
to rebuild our foundations
wanted to tear them down.
And Tupirik, the mind behind it all,
was questioned multiple times
and still declared
a person of no concern,
even as he was planning to kill
my colleagues and my wife.
I had to breach protocol
to investigate him.
What we're trying to determine is
whether these are the failures
of numerous individuals
or a systemic failure?
These failures
happened different places,
with different people
and different processes.
CHAIR: Systemic, then, thank you.
What measures have been enacted
to prevent another attack?
It is my conclusion, Senator, that
rebuilding our headquarters
isn't enough.
We have to rebuild
our entire approach or
another tragedy is inevitable.
This attack won't take place
at our headquarters,
but it will happen.
And when it happens,
we'll be right back here, wondering
wondering how we missed it.
♪
(BRAKES HISS)
POET: Hey, on the way back to Quantico,
maybe we shouldn't sit together.
LENNIX: Why not?
It's a little high school, you know?
Everyone knows. It's not a secret.
I know, but we don't have to make
a whole thing of it, you know?
Okay, so what do you want me to do?
Sit in the back of the bus?
Not make eye contact?
I'm just trying to be more professional.
I'm just trying to be funny.
Which do you think is harder?
Funny's getting harder every day.
GABRIEL: For the past nine
years, trainees have been visiting
the National Holocaust Museum in D.C.
It's no longer acceptable
for the Bureau to teach
abuses of power by law enforcement
just with reference to the Nazis.
There is a plan
to bring trainees to the MLK Memorial
in Washington D.C.,
but it isn't finished yet,
so we made the decision
to bring you here
to Dr. King's childhood home.
GABRIEL: We have
arranged a guest speaker.
You will listen with respect.
DREW: And we're dressed
this way for a reason.
We will not disturb the public's
experience of this place.
So don't, you know
(CHUCKLES) Act too FBI?
Trainee, it is possible
to think those comments
and not say them.
- All right?
- All right.
Let's go.
Hi.
TRAINEE: Hi.
DREW: I'd like to introduce
esteemed civil rights attorney
Dr. Vivienne McMann.
She will be our tour guide today.
"Esteemed civil rights attorney"
is a fancy way of saying
I'm the person you call
if you want to sue the cops.
RIVIERA: Ma'am, with respect,
how come you're talking to us?
VIVIENNE: Well, because
winning cases wasn't enough.
They kept happening, no matter
how big the settlement,
so I agreed to work
with law enforcement.
And this is why Dr. McMann
agreed to take this class.
On one condition
We we do this my way.
We start where I decide,
which is to explain why you
can't wear your uniform here.
Why is that, ma'am?
Because the FBI tried to kill Dr. King.
I'm sorry, you say
the FBI tried to kill him?
Tried to convince him to take
his own life, yes, ma'am.
I have a copy of the letter right here.
I'm about to read it to my tour group.
Where y'all from?
(MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
FITZPATRICK: I finished
your report, Agent Michaels.
What does "rebuilding
our entire approach"
mean to you?
We have this criminal database.
We spent a lot of money on it.
Too much in my view.
And it still depends on agents
sifting through tons of data
and hoping that they come
to the correct conclusions.
No one person can read
hundreds and thousands of emails
or look through every
crime scene photo on record.
It also goes to show that no
one person can stand apart
from their own personal experiences
to see the world the way it is
rather than how it appears to them.
What I'm proposing, sir,
is a deeper kind of learning.
Did Agent Nazari ask you
to petition for this?
No, she did not.
You're disgruntled on her behalf?
Right now there's a crisis
of confidence in our ability
- to function as an institution.
- I agree, sir.
We couldn't even protect
our own headquarters.
How can we protect the country?
Isn't that what people are saying?
Among other things, yes.
And you want to declare
the age of agents is over?
That is not what
I'm proposing at all, sir.
WARREN: Our agents
would never accept it.
I was an agent.
With respect,
you have never done fieldwork.
You have never solved a case.
You're an attorney.
You don't know what it's like to know
that the answer is right there
and you can't reach it.
Revolutions never work.
They're not what institutions are about.
And what are institutions
about, then, sir?
FITZPATRICK: Thousands of people
over hundreds of years.
Each person laying
their brick in the wall.
It's not my job to rip that wall down.
Is that clear?
Agent Michaels?
Very clear, sir.
♪
♪
TAYO: Mr. Garcia.
Thank you for taking the time.
Call me Amos.
Amos. Pleasure.
And how could I refuse?
My job is to predict what people want.
And I have no idea
what you're about to ask for.
You are about to ask for
something, though, aren't you?
Yes, I am.
AMOS: What do you know about me?
TAYO: Well, I know that you
amassed a tremendous fortune
building an artificial intelligence
that's used to predict
what people buy online.
AMOS: One which knows customers
better than they know themselves.
Can we lose the lawyers, please?
Look, there are only a handful
of deep learning intelligence
systems in the world.
China has one. Google has one.
Facebook has one.
And you have one.
And right now
one of the most powerful
neural networks in the world
is being wasted
In my personal opinion
On trying to figure out if I want
half-off cookies
over discounted doughnuts.
I I just want to change that.
You would have it working
on criminal justice reform?
I would.
A rocket trip to Mars
might be an easier challenge.
(SCOFFS)
(CLICKS LIPS)
Amos, I'm gonna be
completely candid with you.
You know, as well as I,
that you and I shouldn't even be
standing here right now.
In practice, the system
of law enforcement is
not built to protect men
who look like me and you
but to keep men who look
like me and you in check.
One innocent misunderstanding,
one wrong turn,
one wrong place, one wrong move,
and we wouldn't have even
gotten this far.
Hell, we wouldn't have gotten anywhere.
I'm talking about reinventing
our entire system,
not just tinkering at the edges.
No more lip service to the idea
of justice for all.
No more being invisible
when you need to be seen
and visible when you don't.
No more living in fear
of the very people
whose job it is to protect
men like me and you.
No more feeling the weight of knowing
that this biased system
is against you no matter what you do.
♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION)
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
Hey, is isn't that the agent
they pulled from the rubble?
OFFICER 2: I think it is.
A little small for the Bureau, huh?
What's small about it?
♪
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION)
♪
(SIGHS)
♪
Caroline?
Caroline?
♪
(PHONE RINGING)
(LINE RINGS)
POET (OVER PHONE): Hi.
Did you consider not answering?
I always consider not answering.
When I call?
When anybody calls.
How are you?
I'm okay.
You?
I'm okay.
How's Caroline and the kids?
They're good. What are you up to?
Right now I am reading a victim's diary.
Every day she would write
something kind about herself.
Like what?
"Smiled at Simon today. He smiled back.
Think he likes me."
What are you working on?
The interstate killings.
Women, poor their bodies are
discarded by the freeway.
Over a thousand unsolved murders.
Hey.
I never asked you
Do you remember anything from that time?
In the rubble?
Not really, no.
Do you?
- (HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)
-
(SIREN WAILING)
HOUR: Two hostage takers.
They're wearing masks, but we
identified them through their car.
20 and 19 years old.
No history of violence.
Indications of online radicalization.
AGENT (OVER RADIO): Bridge
Team, entering the synagogue.
TAYO: What's the strategy?
HOUR: Delivering food and water
while our cameras surveil the suspects
and hostages.
AGENT: Around the corner?
- Through the doors?
- SUSPECT: Yup.
TAYO: And your assessment is?
HOUR: Gutierrez.
SUSPECT: Put it on the ground.
On the ground.
TAYO: What about the vests?
GUTIERREZ: I've received confirmation.
The vests are fake.
The wires aren't connected.
That's why we couldn't trace
them through the explosives.
SUSPECT: Get out. Go,
go. Get the hell out of here.
The tactical team is standing by.
They're ready to take the shot.
Are you sure about the vests?
As sure as we can be.
AGENT (OVER RADIO): Alpha Team,
are you ready to take the shot?
Ready.
- Bravo Team?
- Ready.
Take the shot.
♪
GUTIERREZ: You are a go.
SNIPER: Green, green, green.
AGENT: All right, team, let's go.
Agents entering.
AGENT: First gunman is dead.
Head right.
- Clear.
- Clear left.
Clear.
Second gunman is down.
Everything is okay.
Remain calm and we'll get you out.
(SIGHS) Both assailants dead.
Ma'am? Ma'am, let me help you up.
Sir, right this way, sir.
I got you, sir.
Clearing the temple with the hostages.
Everyone is safe and sound.
Good job.
Good job, everybody.
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
- Need help over here.
- Get the medical team
- out here.
- (GROANS)
What the hell is happening?
I have no idea.
Get him on his side.
We need help.
(CLAMORING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION)
(SIREN CHIRPS)
(SIGHS)
TAYO: Talk me through it.
AGENT: Well, they used a
needle to puncture through the tops,
so the seals weren't broken.
They hadn't allowed
any of the hostages to drink.
They were dehydrated, desperate.
They saw us coming in with the water,
but they had no reason to suspect
Tell me more about the poison.
Arsenic.
No taste. No smell.
(EXHALES)
They knew that if they shot,
we'd storm the synagogue.
This way the deaths
would be televised.
Broadcast all over the world.
Live streamed.
Who thinks like that?
The people we're up against.
(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)
♪
What is this?
(EXHALES) This is about
one-tenth of the information
your database collected
on the synagogue killers.
We read it all.
We tried to imagine how they'd act.
And the reality never even
crossed our minds.
Yeah, how could we have known?
See, that's, that's the question
I'm trying to answer.
Can you give us a minute? Take a break.
They were gamers.
And in a forum they were talking about
the best way to kill their enemies.
See
Uh, "You shoot a gun,
they start screaming."
"We should do it
like they did in the War.
With gas. Trick them."
(SCOFFS)
There are a million different
discussions right now
on gamer forums about the best way
- to kill someone.
- Yeah, but how do we know
which one is more than just gamer talk?
- No one could have found that.
- No one person could.
No process we put in place
is going to prevent every tragedy, Tayo.
The problem isn't your database.
The problem is people.
Sir, do you know this man?
I come bearing gifts.
Everyone presumes
these deep learning systems
are about numbers, but they're not.
VIVIENNE: What are they about?
Oh, I-I keep no secrets from my wife.
I have plenty from you.
Yeah, she's also funnier than me, so
(CHUCKLES)
You know what a logic gate is?
On-off, zero-one, binary?
Mm-hmm, I do.
The way I see it,
crime is binary.
How so?
Are they a suspect or not?
On-off. Zero-one.
- Go on.
- In law enforcement,
what's the process
when a crime takes place?
Round up the usual suspects, right?
Something like that, yes. (CHUCKLES)
What if, for every crime,
every person in the country
was considered a suspect?
The whole country a suspect?
What about the presumption of innocence?
What about it?
I mean, who are we kidding, right?
It doesn't exist.
It's never going to exist.
The only way for everyone to be equal
is for everyone to be
considered a suspect.
My system runs through everyone.
No exceptions.
And simply asks, "Suspect or not?"
Over and over and over again,
each time with a new data point
Uh, location, gender, age.
The computer keeps running.
Suspect or not?
On-off. Zero-one.
Until it's out of data
and you're left with a list of suspects.
It's the closest to fair
we're going to get.
So, what, you can just go back
and ask the system why they
Why it eliminated such
and such person as a suspect?
Here's a photo of him buying
bread a thousand miles away.
And at the end?
Maybe you're left with 10,000 suspects,
maybe you're left with two.
- And maybe you're left with one.
- If you had enough data.
VIVIENNE: That person would be guilty?
In my eyes, yes.
In the eyes of the law
no.
Mm, I'll say.
Make the arrest and find out.
So, the agent
the agent still decides?
The agent always decides.
♪
(ALARM TRILLING)
♪
(HANDCUFFS CLICK)
♪
TAYO: Well, this isn't the
reunion we imagined, is it?
What is this, Tayo?
Because it's not the law.
Are we under arrest?
No.
Sure feels that way.
POET: If this isn't
an arrest, what is it?
It's a a warning.
But the person you're
warning us about is you?
I'm not warning you about a person.
Look, I know you've all become
skeptical of the system.
Arrests that make no sense,
orders that aren't questioned.
Agents being told what to do,
where to go, who to arrest.
This system was always supposed
to be held in check by people.
The findings are only advisory.
HOUR: If people were
supposed to be the check,
people clearly weren't up to the task.
People have always been the problem.
HOUR: Why aren't you wearing any tech?
No microphone? No camera?
Why don't you want your system watching?
POET: Talk to us. We're here.
We want to help.
(LAUGHS)
After all these years, Poet,
after all these years
you are still trying to help.
And help with what, huh?
POET: Maybe this is what
Garcia wanted all along.
No one person can shut it down,
but all of us together can.
Let me be very clear.
We are never going back.
You're free to go.
You're free to live your lives.
But you are not free to shut it down.
I can't speak for everyone, but
And yet you do, Poet.
You do. Can't you see?
They're all here because of you.
I'm not going to stop because
somebody powerful asks me to.
I've done what I can.
But know this.
There will be no more warnings.
VIVIENNE: Listening to me might think
that I consider the situation
in this country to be hopeless.
But I have hope, including
the hope that some of you
will not only deal with the threats
outside your institution
but the threats inside as well.
Thank you, Dr. McMann.
VIVIENNE: Thank you.
What are you?
I don't get it. But okay.
What don't you get?
My foot is on the gas.
Yours is on the brake.
But there's a good reason for that.
Quantico is 20 weeks.
That's all we have
to figure out if we're a fling
or something else.
It's already halfway over.
Okay, I got it.
The clock is ticking.
(EXHALES)
Sir, I know this is crazy,
but, um, I need to go back.
- We're about to leave.
- Yes, I understand, sir,
but there's something
that I really need to do.
We can wait, can't we?
- Sure. We can wait.
- Thank you.
Thank you, sir. Ma'am, thank you.
We don't write this one up.
We write everything up.
How can we not write it up?
- Dr. McMann.
- (VIVIENNE CHUCKLES)
VIVIENNE: Okay, very nice to meet you.
Thank you very much.
- Hi.
- TAYO: Hey. Uh
(LAUGHS)
I just need to know the answer,
and-and if it's no,
that's okay, I just
don't want to spend the rest of my life
wondering what would've
happened if I hadn't tried.
The answer to what?
Right, right.
(LAUGHS)
Uh
Vivienne.
Will you see me again?
Yeah, I'll see you again.
(CHUCKLES)
SPENSER: Judge.
I'm sure you've heard accounts
- of inexplicable arrests.
-
Mm-hmm, they concern me.
SPENSER: In today's courts,
how many times does a jury go against
the verdict of the system?
You can very easily find out
those statistics for yourself.
"Never" is the answer.
The judgment of the jury
is a matter for them.
- SPENSER: Is it, or are they afraid?
- Afraid of what?
I don't know what you're implying,
but Tayo is not vindictive,
he is not malicious.
He's not the one I'm worried about.
Then who are you worried about?
I'm worried about our justice system
being put on autopilot.
Senator, I might not live
with Tayo anymore,
but I would still trust him
with my life.
Would you feel the same way
if someone else was in charge?
LENNIX: The senator,
she's agreed to meet us,
but it has to be today.
And she's critical of the system, too.
How Tayo says it's independent of people
but then claims only he can oversee it.
Which is why she's our best bet.
MURPHY: How are we supposed to make it
across the city without being tracked?
We can't.
I'm counting on it.
You want Tayo to know.
How the system reacts
to being investigated
is the investigation.
♪
Welcome to the Pilgrim Church
of Deanwood.
Please follow me.
POET: Senator.
I know who you all are,
so let's not waste any time
on introductions.
Say what you're here to say.
♪
What exactly are you
expecting to happen?
HOUR: We're expecting agents to show up.
The arrests are becoming predictive.
To better prevent crime,
it arrests people likely
to commit a crime, people who
haven't done anything yet,
people who might not ever commit a crime
but who fit the patterns
it seems to recognize.
SPENSER: This isn't a crime.
We are not alone.
It's the Bureau Drone.
- MINISTER: It can't enter this space.
- Yes, it can.
- It still needs a warrant.
- Well, who would deny it?
We have to get you out of here, Senator.
- It isn't safe.
- This way.
This is my church. I'll handle this.
This is a sacred space.
This is a place of worship.
No.
This is an outrage.
What is this?
AGENT: Sir, the system
has identified a threat.
Stand it down.
Stand it d
MINISTER: This is a sanctuary.
Are you out of your mind?!
- (MINISTER GRUNTS)
- (ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)
TAYO: Why couldn't I stop it?
- Previously on Class of '09
-
HOUR: It's fine. You can date.
You don't have to be alone.
TESTER: You concealed anything
during this process
which might negatively
influence your application?
Yes.
If it doesn't work out,
the woman always comes off worse.
She always takes the hit.
- LENNIX: You can do it on your own.
-
- I-I get it.
- (DOORBELL RINGS)
And I've loved you for 20 years.
This time you're gonna have to tell me
it doesn't stand a chance.
This is an intelligence
nothing like our own.
- TUPIRIK: Oh, you think you caught me.
-
But I'm exactly where I want to be.
TAYO: Oh, locked up in here? Really?
Mm-hmm.
Why is that?
'Cause I get to see
the expression on your face
when you hear the news.
MAN: Shooter!
(SCREAMS)
(GROANS)
- (LINE RINGING)
- Hey.
I'll take the heat if I'm wrong,
but we need to evacuate this building.
Hey, freeze!
We have to go now!
(PANTING)
You've all successfully concluded
the firearms component.
We have in our hands
a great responsibility.
Which is why we've brought you here.
On this wall are the names
of every special agent
who lost their life in the line of duty.
And spaces for the names of agents
who will lose their lives in the future.
Our FBI family is loved and missed.
They served their country
with compassion,
determination, and vision.
They embody our mission.
They embolden our resolve.
They exemplify
fidelity, bravery, and integrity.
(SIRENS WAILING)
- (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
- (HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)
LENNIX: I can't feel my arm.
POET (PANTING): It's right here.
Right here.
(GROANS SOFTLY) I'm right here, okay?
Hey Don't stop talking.
- It scares me.
- (CHUCKLES WEAKLY)
You're not scared of anything.
I'm scared of losing you.
(EXHALES)
You're never gonna lose me.
You know what?
It occurs to me
I never said I love you.
Hey
Hey.
Don't stop there.
(SOBBING)
Just stay with me, okay?
We can, uh
Uh I can sing, okay?
Um
I've got sunshine ♪
On a cloudy day ♪
When it's cold outside ♪
I got the month of May. ♪
Please.
RESCUER: Hello?
- Hello, is anyone down there?
- Help
Help!
- Help!
- Hello!
♪
CHAIR: Executive Assistant
Director Michaels,
we have read your report
into the litany of failures
that preceded the bombing
of the Hoover building
and the mass shooting at Quantico.
For those who haven't had the time
to read all 2,000 pages,
how would you summarize your findings?
Well, put simply, sir, it wasn't
that we missed the facts.
They were in front of us.
We failed to understand them.
What is that down to?
The old way
of investigating doesn't work.
The question is, what is the new way?
The shooter at Quantico was
vetted by our best brains.
The construction workers we entrusted
to rebuild our foundations
wanted to tear them down.
And Tupirik, the mind behind it all,
was questioned multiple times
and still declared
a person of no concern,
even as he was planning to kill
my colleagues and my wife.
I had to breach protocol
to investigate him.
What we're trying to determine is
whether these are the failures
of numerous individuals
or a systemic failure?
These failures
happened different places,
with different people
and different processes.
CHAIR: Systemic, then, thank you.
What measures have been enacted
to prevent another attack?
It is my conclusion, Senator, that
rebuilding our headquarters
isn't enough.
We have to rebuild
our entire approach or
another tragedy is inevitable.
This attack won't take place
at our headquarters,
but it will happen.
And when it happens,
we'll be right back here, wondering
wondering how we missed it.
♪
(BRAKES HISS)
POET: Hey, on the way back to Quantico,
maybe we shouldn't sit together.
LENNIX: Why not?
It's a little high school, you know?
Everyone knows. It's not a secret.
I know, but we don't have to make
a whole thing of it, you know?
Okay, so what do you want me to do?
Sit in the back of the bus?
Not make eye contact?
I'm just trying to be more professional.
I'm just trying to be funny.
Which do you think is harder?
Funny's getting harder every day.
GABRIEL: For the past nine
years, trainees have been visiting
the National Holocaust Museum in D.C.
It's no longer acceptable
for the Bureau to teach
abuses of power by law enforcement
just with reference to the Nazis.
There is a plan
to bring trainees to the MLK Memorial
in Washington D.C.,
but it isn't finished yet,
so we made the decision
to bring you here
to Dr. King's childhood home.
GABRIEL: We have
arranged a guest speaker.
You will listen with respect.
DREW: And we're dressed
this way for a reason.
We will not disturb the public's
experience of this place.
So don't, you know
(CHUCKLES) Act too FBI?
Trainee, it is possible
to think those comments
and not say them.
- All right?
- All right.
Let's go.
Hi.
TRAINEE: Hi.
DREW: I'd like to introduce
esteemed civil rights attorney
Dr. Vivienne McMann.
She will be our tour guide today.
"Esteemed civil rights attorney"
is a fancy way of saying
I'm the person you call
if you want to sue the cops.
RIVIERA: Ma'am, with respect,
how come you're talking to us?
VIVIENNE: Well, because
winning cases wasn't enough.
They kept happening, no matter
how big the settlement,
so I agreed to work
with law enforcement.
And this is why Dr. McMann
agreed to take this class.
On one condition
We we do this my way.
We start where I decide,
which is to explain why you
can't wear your uniform here.
Why is that, ma'am?
Because the FBI tried to kill Dr. King.
I'm sorry, you say
the FBI tried to kill him?
Tried to convince him to take
his own life, yes, ma'am.
I have a copy of the letter right here.
I'm about to read it to my tour group.
Where y'all from?
(MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
FITZPATRICK: I finished
your report, Agent Michaels.
What does "rebuilding
our entire approach"
mean to you?
We have this criminal database.
We spent a lot of money on it.
Too much in my view.
And it still depends on agents
sifting through tons of data
and hoping that they come
to the correct conclusions.
No one person can read
hundreds and thousands of emails
or look through every
crime scene photo on record.
It also goes to show that no
one person can stand apart
from their own personal experiences
to see the world the way it is
rather than how it appears to them.
What I'm proposing, sir,
is a deeper kind of learning.
Did Agent Nazari ask you
to petition for this?
No, she did not.
You're disgruntled on her behalf?
Right now there's a crisis
of confidence in our ability
- to function as an institution.
- I agree, sir.
We couldn't even protect
our own headquarters.
How can we protect the country?
Isn't that what people are saying?
Among other things, yes.
And you want to declare
the age of agents is over?
That is not what
I'm proposing at all, sir.
WARREN: Our agents
would never accept it.
I was an agent.
With respect,
you have never done fieldwork.
You have never solved a case.
You're an attorney.
You don't know what it's like to know
that the answer is right there
and you can't reach it.
Revolutions never work.
They're not what institutions are about.
And what are institutions
about, then, sir?
FITZPATRICK: Thousands of people
over hundreds of years.
Each person laying
their brick in the wall.
It's not my job to rip that wall down.
Is that clear?
Agent Michaels?
Very clear, sir.
♪
♪
TAYO: Mr. Garcia.
Thank you for taking the time.
Call me Amos.
Amos. Pleasure.
And how could I refuse?
My job is to predict what people want.
And I have no idea
what you're about to ask for.
You are about to ask for
something, though, aren't you?
Yes, I am.
AMOS: What do you know about me?
TAYO: Well, I know that you
amassed a tremendous fortune
building an artificial intelligence
that's used to predict
what people buy online.
AMOS: One which knows customers
better than they know themselves.
Can we lose the lawyers, please?
Look, there are only a handful
of deep learning intelligence
systems in the world.
China has one. Google has one.
Facebook has one.
And you have one.
And right now
one of the most powerful
neural networks in the world
is being wasted
In my personal opinion
On trying to figure out if I want
half-off cookies
over discounted doughnuts.
I I just want to change that.
You would have it working
on criminal justice reform?
I would.
A rocket trip to Mars
might be an easier challenge.
(SCOFFS)
(CLICKS LIPS)
Amos, I'm gonna be
completely candid with you.
You know, as well as I,
that you and I shouldn't even be
standing here right now.
In practice, the system
of law enforcement is
not built to protect men
who look like me and you
but to keep men who look
like me and you in check.
One innocent misunderstanding,
one wrong turn,
one wrong place, one wrong move,
and we wouldn't have even
gotten this far.
Hell, we wouldn't have gotten anywhere.
I'm talking about reinventing
our entire system,
not just tinkering at the edges.
No more lip service to the idea
of justice for all.
No more being invisible
when you need to be seen
and visible when you don't.
No more living in fear
of the very people
whose job it is to protect
men like me and you.
No more feeling the weight of knowing
that this biased system
is against you no matter what you do.
♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION)
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
Hey, is isn't that the agent
they pulled from the rubble?
OFFICER 2: I think it is.
A little small for the Bureau, huh?
What's small about it?
♪
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION)
♪
(SIGHS)
♪
Caroline?
Caroline?
♪
(PHONE RINGING)
(LINE RINGS)
POET (OVER PHONE): Hi.
Did you consider not answering?
I always consider not answering.
When I call?
When anybody calls.
How are you?
I'm okay.
You?
I'm okay.
How's Caroline and the kids?
They're good. What are you up to?
Right now I am reading a victim's diary.
Every day she would write
something kind about herself.
Like what?
"Smiled at Simon today. He smiled back.
Think he likes me."
What are you working on?
The interstate killings.
Women, poor their bodies are
discarded by the freeway.
Over a thousand unsolved murders.
Hey.
I never asked you
Do you remember anything from that time?
In the rubble?
Not really, no.
Do you?
- (HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)
-
(SIREN WAILING)
HOUR: Two hostage takers.
They're wearing masks, but we
identified them through their car.
20 and 19 years old.
No history of violence.
Indications of online radicalization.
AGENT (OVER RADIO): Bridge
Team, entering the synagogue.
TAYO: What's the strategy?
HOUR: Delivering food and water
while our cameras surveil the suspects
and hostages.
AGENT: Around the corner?
- Through the doors?
- SUSPECT: Yup.
TAYO: And your assessment is?
HOUR: Gutierrez.
SUSPECT: Put it on the ground.
On the ground.
TAYO: What about the vests?
GUTIERREZ: I've received confirmation.
The vests are fake.
The wires aren't connected.
That's why we couldn't trace
them through the explosives.
SUSPECT: Get out. Go,
go. Get the hell out of here.
The tactical team is standing by.
They're ready to take the shot.
Are you sure about the vests?
As sure as we can be.
AGENT (OVER RADIO): Alpha Team,
are you ready to take the shot?
Ready.
- Bravo Team?
- Ready.
Take the shot.
♪
GUTIERREZ: You are a go.
SNIPER: Green, green, green.
AGENT: All right, team, let's go.
Agents entering.
AGENT: First gunman is dead.
Head right.
- Clear.
- Clear left.
Clear.
Second gunman is down.
Everything is okay.
Remain calm and we'll get you out.
(SIGHS) Both assailants dead.
Ma'am? Ma'am, let me help you up.
Sir, right this way, sir.
I got you, sir.
Clearing the temple with the hostages.
Everyone is safe and sound.
Good job.
Good job, everybody.
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
- Need help over here.
- Get the medical team
- out here.
- (GROANS)
What the hell is happening?
I have no idea.
Get him on his side.
We need help.
(CLAMORING)
(INDISTINCT RADIO TRANSMISSION)
(SIREN CHIRPS)
(SIGHS)
TAYO: Talk me through it.
AGENT: Well, they used a
needle to puncture through the tops,
so the seals weren't broken.
They hadn't allowed
any of the hostages to drink.
They were dehydrated, desperate.
They saw us coming in with the water,
but they had no reason to suspect
Tell me more about the poison.
Arsenic.
No taste. No smell.
(EXHALES)
They knew that if they shot,
we'd storm the synagogue.
This way the deaths
would be televised.
Broadcast all over the world.
Live streamed.
Who thinks like that?
The people we're up against.
(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)
♪
What is this?
(EXHALES) This is about
one-tenth of the information
your database collected
on the synagogue killers.
We read it all.
We tried to imagine how they'd act.
And the reality never even
crossed our minds.
Yeah, how could we have known?
See, that's, that's the question
I'm trying to answer.
Can you give us a minute? Take a break.
They were gamers.
And in a forum they were talking about
the best way to kill their enemies.
See
Uh, "You shoot a gun,
they start screaming."
"We should do it
like they did in the War.
With gas. Trick them."
(SCOFFS)
There are a million different
discussions right now
on gamer forums about the best way
- to kill someone.
- Yeah, but how do we know
which one is more than just gamer talk?
- No one could have found that.
- No one person could.
No process we put in place
is going to prevent every tragedy, Tayo.
The problem isn't your database.
The problem is people.
Sir, do you know this man?
I come bearing gifts.
Everyone presumes
these deep learning systems
are about numbers, but they're not.
VIVIENNE: What are they about?
Oh, I-I keep no secrets from my wife.
I have plenty from you.
Yeah, she's also funnier than me, so
(CHUCKLES)
You know what a logic gate is?
On-off, zero-one, binary?
Mm-hmm, I do.
The way I see it,
crime is binary.
How so?
Are they a suspect or not?
On-off. Zero-one.
- Go on.
- In law enforcement,
what's the process
when a crime takes place?
Round up the usual suspects, right?
Something like that, yes. (CHUCKLES)
What if, for every crime,
every person in the country
was considered a suspect?
The whole country a suspect?
What about the presumption of innocence?
What about it?
I mean, who are we kidding, right?
It doesn't exist.
It's never going to exist.
The only way for everyone to be equal
is for everyone to be
considered a suspect.
My system runs through everyone.
No exceptions.
And simply asks, "Suspect or not?"
Over and over and over again,
each time with a new data point
Uh, location, gender, age.
The computer keeps running.
Suspect or not?
On-off. Zero-one.
Until it's out of data
and you're left with a list of suspects.
It's the closest to fair
we're going to get.
So, what, you can just go back
and ask the system why they
Why it eliminated such
and such person as a suspect?
Here's a photo of him buying
bread a thousand miles away.
And at the end?
Maybe you're left with 10,000 suspects,
maybe you're left with two.
- And maybe you're left with one.
- If you had enough data.
VIVIENNE: That person would be guilty?
In my eyes, yes.
In the eyes of the law
no.
Mm, I'll say.
Make the arrest and find out.
So, the agent
the agent still decides?
The agent always decides.
♪
(ALARM TRILLING)
♪
(HANDCUFFS CLICK)
♪
TAYO: Well, this isn't the
reunion we imagined, is it?
What is this, Tayo?
Because it's not the law.
Are we under arrest?
No.
Sure feels that way.
POET: If this isn't
an arrest, what is it?
It's a a warning.
But the person you're
warning us about is you?
I'm not warning you about a person.
Look, I know you've all become
skeptical of the system.
Arrests that make no sense,
orders that aren't questioned.
Agents being told what to do,
where to go, who to arrest.
This system was always supposed
to be held in check by people.
The findings are only advisory.
HOUR: If people were
supposed to be the check,
people clearly weren't up to the task.
People have always been the problem.
HOUR: Why aren't you wearing any tech?
No microphone? No camera?
Why don't you want your system watching?
POET: Talk to us. We're here.
We want to help.
(LAUGHS)
After all these years, Poet,
after all these years
you are still trying to help.
And help with what, huh?
POET: Maybe this is what
Garcia wanted all along.
No one person can shut it down,
but all of us together can.
Let me be very clear.
We are never going back.
You're free to go.
You're free to live your lives.
But you are not free to shut it down.
I can't speak for everyone, but
And yet you do, Poet.
You do. Can't you see?
They're all here because of you.
I'm not going to stop because
somebody powerful asks me to.
I've done what I can.
But know this.
There will be no more warnings.
VIVIENNE: Listening to me might think
that I consider the situation
in this country to be hopeless.
But I have hope, including
the hope that some of you
will not only deal with the threats
outside your institution
but the threats inside as well.
Thank you, Dr. McMann.
VIVIENNE: Thank you.
What are you?
I don't get it. But okay.
What don't you get?
My foot is on the gas.
Yours is on the brake.
But there's a good reason for that.
Quantico is 20 weeks.
That's all we have
to figure out if we're a fling
or something else.
It's already halfway over.
Okay, I got it.
The clock is ticking.
(EXHALES)
Sir, I know this is crazy,
but, um, I need to go back.
- We're about to leave.
- Yes, I understand, sir,
but there's something
that I really need to do.
We can wait, can't we?
- Sure. We can wait.
- Thank you.
Thank you, sir. Ma'am, thank you.
We don't write this one up.
We write everything up.
How can we not write it up?
- Dr. McMann.
- (VIVIENNE CHUCKLES)
VIVIENNE: Okay, very nice to meet you.
Thank you very much.
- Hi.
- TAYO: Hey. Uh
(LAUGHS)
I just need to know the answer,
and-and if it's no,
that's okay, I just
don't want to spend the rest of my life
wondering what would've
happened if I hadn't tried.
The answer to what?
Right, right.
(LAUGHS)
Uh
Vivienne.
Will you see me again?
Yeah, I'll see you again.
(CHUCKLES)
SPENSER: Judge.
I'm sure you've heard accounts
- of inexplicable arrests.
-
Mm-hmm, they concern me.
SPENSER: In today's courts,
how many times does a jury go against
the verdict of the system?
You can very easily find out
those statistics for yourself.
"Never" is the answer.
The judgment of the jury
is a matter for them.
- SPENSER: Is it, or are they afraid?
- Afraid of what?
I don't know what you're implying,
but Tayo is not vindictive,
he is not malicious.
He's not the one I'm worried about.
Then who are you worried about?
I'm worried about our justice system
being put on autopilot.
Senator, I might not live
with Tayo anymore,
but I would still trust him
with my life.
Would you feel the same way
if someone else was in charge?
LENNIX: The senator,
she's agreed to meet us,
but it has to be today.
And she's critical of the system, too.
How Tayo says it's independent of people
but then claims only he can oversee it.
Which is why she's our best bet.
MURPHY: How are we supposed to make it
across the city without being tracked?
We can't.
I'm counting on it.
You want Tayo to know.
How the system reacts
to being investigated
is the investigation.
♪
Welcome to the Pilgrim Church
of Deanwood.
Please follow me.
POET: Senator.
I know who you all are,
so let's not waste any time
on introductions.
Say what you're here to say.
♪
What exactly are you
expecting to happen?
HOUR: We're expecting agents to show up.
The arrests are becoming predictive.
To better prevent crime,
it arrests people likely
to commit a crime, people who
haven't done anything yet,
people who might not ever commit a crime
but who fit the patterns
it seems to recognize.
SPENSER: This isn't a crime.
We are not alone.
It's the Bureau Drone.
- MINISTER: It can't enter this space.
- Yes, it can.
- It still needs a warrant.
- Well, who would deny it?
We have to get you out of here, Senator.
- It isn't safe.
- This way.
This is my church. I'll handle this.
This is a sacred space.
This is a place of worship.
No.
This is an outrage.
What is this?
AGENT: Sir, the system
has identified a threat.
Stand it down.
Stand it d
MINISTER: This is a sanctuary.
Are you out of your mind?!
- (MINISTER GRUNTS)
- (ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)
TAYO: Why couldn't I stop it?