My Own Worst Enemy s01e05 Episode Script

(POP MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO) Cheap shirt.
Edward! Why do I even bother? Henry's Iook doesn't suit you.
What's the hurry? My appointment secretary, Henry, has scheduled me to pick up his daughter for soccer practice.
And how is the missus? Why? You jealous? I know she's just a job.
It's always a job.
And you have nothing to worry about.
I have to go.
And when I go, you go.
(BREATHING HEAVILY) (CARS HONKING) (RINGING) Hey, babe.
Uh What are you up to? Um I'm actually at the dentist.
Uh, really? What Our dentist? The one in The one in Brentwood? Yeah, Dr.
White.
He's redoing the office.
You can't believe the noise.
Henry, I've got to go.
Um, I think they just called my name at the receptionist.
Can I call you later? Sure.
Okay.
Bye, honey.
(LINE CLICKS) Ruthy! Sorry I'm Iate! You ready? What are you doing? Nothing.
What are you trying to hide there? Nothing.
Come on.
Let me see.
Okay.
What is it? It's (SIGHS) Ruthy.
This belongs to your mother.
If you want to see your mother's stuff, all you have to do is ask.
Because right now, your tendency to steal things is very cute, but at 18, it becomes a felony.
I'm pretty sure it's a misdemeanor, Dad.
These are pictures of your mom and me from college.
I don't think I've ever seen these before.
Hey, did your mom say where she was going this morning? Mmm, no.
AII right.
Let's put this stuff away and hit the field.
Oh! Um, Ruthy, I have to clean this mess up, all right? I'II meet you by the car.
Okay.
Can I check this? ANGIE: Yeah, go ahead.
It should be done.
RUTHY: It's still really hard.
Hey, you.
So, how was the dentist? Uh, fine.
Mom, this doesn't Iook right.
Why are we even doing this? I'm not going to college for, Iike, three years.
Because it's important you Iearn how to cook for yourself.
Yeah, that does Iook Why don't we just start out with something Iike pasta? I don't even know what osso buco is.
ANGIE: Henry, tell them.
AII I ate in college was cereal and Ramen.
I was disgusting.
I wouldn't say that.
Actually, everybody was pretty surprised your mom paid any attention to me at all.
That's not true.
Okay.
It's a Iittle true.
Where did you guys meet again? Like a frat party or something? No, actually, your father was dating my roommate, Sarah.
Such a baller, Dad.
RUTHY: Ew! Is this supposed to be Okay, thank you, Iittle critic.
Move.
Jack, I'm your mother.
Trust me.
It's going to be fantastic.
RUTHY: (LAUGHS) Yeah, Jack.
ANGIE: Needs to cook a Iittle more.
I have Iearned a thing or two since college.
HENRY: Have you ever been in love, Dr.
Skinner? Janus doesn't offer much room for Iove.
You know that, Henry.
Angie is my home.
I can't Iose her.
What makes you think you're going to? For years, I thought, you were just my therapist.
Turns out you're a Iittle bit more involved than that.
(SIGHS) I need you to be perfectly honest with me.
Is Angie playing some kind of part in this? Is she a spy? Is there a reason that you suspect her? Because if you think she's involved in something, you can tell me.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm just, uh I'm being paranoid.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) The only way I'II ever know Angie's real is by solving this code.
But if you found out first, Edward, I don't know what you'd do.
But I do know you'II never open this book.
PIace this here Going to place this Hey.
Daddy's Little Girl! Wow! Did Ruthy tell you about her Iower-back tattoo? I actually think a dragon is pretty classy.
Well, yours gets a Iot of attention.
How's it going with you and Mary? I'm still on the couch.
It can take a Iong time to get over being betrayed.
I know.
I really screwed this up, Henry.
I just want to know it can get better.
Do you think you could forgive Angie if she ever did something Iike this? Boys! You're needed in Human Resources.
You've got to stop doing that.
What? What am I doing? Has no one ever told you that you have a tendency to hover? No.
Gentlemen.
This is Serik Shefer.
He's running in the upcoming Kazakh presidential election and his safety is your new top priority.
General Ravil Chelyakov has been running unopposed in every election, since the break-up of the Soviet Union.
But Shefer has been on a grassroots campaign, championing Kazakh independence from Russian oil interests.
Kazakhstan's got over four billion tons of proven oil reserves.
By 2015, they'II be producing more than three million barrels a day.
Well, they could be the next Saudi Arabia.
Shefer's election means everything to us.
Right now, all of Kazakhstan's crude is piped through Russia for refining.
But Shefer wants to build Kazakh refineries and provide jobs for his people.
Hmm.
I Iove it when we help the people.
Trumbull wants my top men on this.
To the best of his knowledge, that's the two of you.
Are you kidding? This guy teared up when we drove through Inglewood on the way to the airport (GROANS) I think we'II be fine, Raymond.
You've got to start wearing a bell.
Edward.
The election's in three days.
Your job is simple.
Move Shefer to our safe house before Chelyakov has a chance to get trigger-happy.
Done.
Shefer's men will meet you at his flat in Astana.
(SPEAKS FRENCH) You first.
If Henry wakes up, I want a clear shot at your head.
Looks Iike General Chelyakov's men got here first.
(THUDS) We're too Iate.
This isn't Shefer.
(WOMAN GASPS) (MEN CHATTERING) (GLASS SHATTERING) High or Iow? High.
(MEN SPEAKING RUSSIAN) Where is Serik? Are you okay? They took my husband.
They took Serik.
Are you feeling more comfortable, Miss Shefer? PIease call me Mariam.
I really don't remember much.
The Iast time I saw Serik, he was on the balcony.
Who do you work for? We're with U.
S.
Intelligence.
We're here to help you.
Your focus should be on my husband.
Do you even know if he's all right? We're getting intel that General Chelyakov's men are holding him at one of their countryside estates.
Okay, I'm ready.
Transfer now.
A Ietter was put out by Shefer conceding the election.
Chelyakov forced him.
We're running out of time.
RAYMOND: I'II coordinate a pickup.
We're going to bring you back to the U.
S.
for your own safety.
Oh, no.
No.
We're wasting time.
We put a team on General Chelyakov.
We'II get your husband back.
(SHOUTING) You have to Iisten to me.
The General didn't take my husband.
What are you talking about? The KGB took him.
They don't want to make a martyr out of him before the election.
But in three days, they will kill him, Edward.
Edward AIbright.
How do you know my name? 'Cause I am KGB.
My name is Mariam Shefer.
I am a KGB sleeper agent assigned to Serik Shefer.
I am his wife.
I love him.
And if you don't listen to me, he's going to die.
We don't know who this woman is.
We need more information.
What's her past, who she's worked for.
Tony's pulling up everything he can now from our KGB back channels.
What more do we need to know? She was screwing with Shefer for state secrets, and now she's screwing with us.
I'm not so sure.
There is a possibility this woman fell in Iove.
No.
It can't be that simple.
There's something she's not telling us.
Well, if she has a contact that could give us Shefer's Iocation, why doesn't she just tell us, instead of demanding that we follow her back to Russia? MAVIS: Miss Shefer.
We have men now on the ground at Chelyakov's camp outside Astana.
But, until we can confirm your story, we wait.
Confirm my story? I'm telling the truth! You have to believe me! Ms.
Shefer, I request you to sit down.
We'II pick it up in three hours.
No! No, please! He'll be dead by then! What's going on? Who's that? We cannot waste any more time.
Please! Please.
What do you think of all this? I mean, the woman Iies to her husband for 16 years.
That means that every night she slept in his bed, it was an absolute Iie.
Well, usually, uh, no one asks my opinion, but, um, I guess I'd say it's the world we Iive in.
Okay.
Mavis asked me to give you everything we have on Mariam Shefer.
Oh, thanks.
Actually, can I ask you a favor? Okay.
So, this goes No.
(BEEPS) Switch it on.
Okay, it should work.
It's not working.
Not working.
Come on.
(BEEPING) Daddy? Uh Yes, sweetie? Can you have more than one soul mate? What? Oh, uh Well, that's the whole point of having a soul mate.
So you have just one.
Is Mom yours? Yeah, of course she is.
Mmm.
But the other day, Mom said that you dated her roommate.
Uh, right.
This is her? Yes, it is.
Um But I dated Sarah way before your mom and I were ever together.
We were boyfriend and girlfriend.
It's It's very different.
Did you Iove her? (SNICKERS) Yes, I did, but, uh Well, she died in a car accident.
That's sad.
Yes, it is.
But, sometimes, when things happen Iike that, it can take your Iife in an entirely different direction.
So, after Sarah died, your mom and I, we really started to depend on each other, and then Well, we fell in Iove.
(BEEPING) Uh Don't you have some homework to do? Yeah, I guess.
Thanks, Dad! Love you! Love you! ANGIE: won't betray my husband.
That's how I feel.
MAN: I'm not a traitor.
Fine.
I have 15 minutes.
Where are you? Meet me at Industrial and Mateo.
Okay.
I'll be there.
Hey, I'm just calling to say good night.
I got called out of town on business Iast minute.
Oh, you did? Ruthy, that's great! Uh No, no, no.
You, uh You don't have to put your mom on the phone.
Just tell her I said good night.
Love you, too.
(SCOFFS) "Angie Ioves Henry.
" (SNORTS) Do you know about Angie? If she's real, or a plant, or I don't even know what I'm (SIGHS) I'm sure you don't feel any obligation to tell me anything.
I know I'm not good at things Iike you are.
I can't shoot a gun Iike you.
I can't torture information out of people.
But, uh I am good at being with her.
I always have been.
(GRUNTS) (SIGHS) I figured you'd come back.
I got a Iittle held up.
I know what you're Iooking for, Edward.
And how's that? Because you've already killed two of my dear friends trying to find it.
We both know your parents didn't die in a car accident.
And we both know that somebody in Yuri's unit killed them.
(GASPING) Tell me, Mariam.
Was it you? No.
But I can help you.
My KGB contact may know where Serik is.
I'm Iistening.
If you get me out of here and help me find my husband, I'II tell you what really happened to your parents.
My contact's name is VIadimir.
He's an information broker.
He'II know where Serik is Iocated.
And when my husband is safe, I'II give you what you need to find your parents' killer.
Why the train? VIad will only do business in transit, and this is our best option.
No passports, no passenger Iists, no metal detectors.
Tell me, Edward.
How did you feel when you first realized the KGB was responsible for the death of your parents? Probably not much different than how Serik will feel when he discovers his entire marriage is a Iie.
I Iove Serik.
Why else would I be here? I don't care whether you Iove him or not.
I'm here for information.
No.
You're here to punish whoever murdered your parents.
There's a difference.
When they died, they gave you someone to hate.
And an enemy can be very beneficial in our Iine of work.
Be honest, Edward.
Don't you ever wonder about the Iife you could have had? No.
I don't.
EDWARD: This seems a Iittle private for an information exchange.
Well, VIadimir is a barterer.
You have to give him something.
You have to trust me.
Mariam.
Here's your American operative.
I've kept my promise.
Now, where's Serik? The election's tomorrow night.
I'm running out of time.
I rarely see you so tightly wound, Mariam.
If you really care for your husband, it could get you in trouble.
Where is he? Is he alive? They're still holding him in Kazakhstan.
Hmm.
At the KGB base in Baikonur.
I can always count on you, VIad.
Have fun with him.
Oh, VIad! The key.
I told you, I always keep my end of the bargain.
I can see that.
VIad Iied.
They would never keep him in Baikonur.
Half the men there are Kazakh Ioyalists.
The KGB clearly outbid us.
(GRUNTING) Should I be offended? No.
If they were willing to pay him, that means that VIad knows his Iocation.
He usually carries an untraceable SD card with all his intel.
(GUNSHOT) I need to find it.
Here! If I find the card, we can find Serik.
(EDWARD GROANS) MARIAM: I need two minutes.
I don't have two minutes! (GASPING) I've got the information.
Let's go.
Henry? Yes, it is.
Tom? Guess again.
(SIGHS) Raymond, thank God.
Edward's gone rogue.
I'm on a train in the middle of Siberia with that KGB agent.
I just came to in the middle of a baggage car, surrounded by dead bodies.
AII right.
Calm down.
Edward's not stupid enough to put his Iife only in your hands.
I'm four cars back.
Where are we going? We're going to get Shefer from the KGB.
I bugged Mariam's cabin.
Best I can tell, they're holding Shefer under the Terem Palace in the Kremlin.
Kremlin? I'm not going there! Does Mavis know about this? Who do you think activated me? Now, tailing Chelyakov didn't turn up anything, so Mariam's our only Iead on Shefer.
But keep your mouth shut about it.
She still thinks she and Edward are flying solo.
And we're still not sure we can trust her.
You're not sure you can trust her? I'm sure I told you guys something Iike this was going to happen.
I must be on record somewhere, saying (LINE CLICKS) Hello? (DIAL TONE DRONING) Hello? (CELL PHONE RINGING) (CONTINUES RINGING) Someone is trying very hard to reach you.
Could you just Ieave me alone for a moment, please? Okay.
Wait.
When they set you up with Serik, how did they do it? They chose me because I fit his type.
Twenty-five years ago, he was a professor.
They placed me as one of his graduate students.
They placed you? How can you say you ever Ioved him? I mean, it all started with a Iie.
(SNICKERS) What Doesn't it always? Don't you say you Iove their favorite author when you've never heard of them? You say you're open to having children when you know you aren't.
But then, you You grow, and Iearn, and all of a sudden, you find you can't stop thinking about a person who started off as just an assignment.
Who's calling you? My wife.
I never would have imagined you as a husband.
Do you Iove her? More than anything.
She's the only person I thought I could completely trust.
And you've never Iied to her.
Never kept anything from her.
Where does she think you are right now, Edward? (CELL PHONE RINGING) (SIGHS) Talk to her.
(SIGHS) I'II be right back.
(DIALING) (RINGING) Ang? Henry! Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine.
I've been trying to reach you.
Uh I know.
I'm just, uh, away on business.
(SIGHS) Listen, Henry, I wanted to talk to you about this in person, but, um Do you remember Michael? We dated for a couple of months my freshman year of college.
Do you remember him? Yeah.
He asked me to lunch a couple of days ago, and I didn't think that it was a big deal then, so I didn't say anything, but I think that he saw it as something more.
Okay.
He gave me something.
It was a necklace.
And I took it.
I don't know why.
I was just I was so freaked out.
But you have to know that I told him that nothing was going to happen.
Henry, are you there? Yeah.
Um I'm here.
It It's okay, Angie.
It's, uh It doesn't matter.
None of that matters.
It's I'm sorry, Henry.
It's all going to be okay, Angie.
I Iove you.
I Iove you, too, honey.
(SIGHS FORCIBLY) (SNICKERS) (SHOUTING) Raymond! You said you were four cars back.
Where are you? (GROANS) What the hell are you doing? Are you trying to get me made? I am through with this.
With everything.
That's it.
I quit.
You can't quit.
She's a spy, Raymond! What are you talking about? I'm talking about Angie! Tell me something, Raymond.
What happened to you that screwed you up so much that you joined an organization Iike this? Henry, before this, you were crunching numbers and playing fantasy football.
Right now, you're on a train to Moscow to make sure a democratic election takes place.
Oh, you don't care about this election.
You'd just as soon kill Serik as save him.
AII you care about is following orders.
Better not follow me, Raymond.
Otherwise, you'II blow your cover, and God knows all you care about is this job.
Oh, God.
This is your fault.
You and that sick organization you're a part of.
You wanted to make sure Angie was in my Iife so that she could control me, control my family.
You placed her.
You were around in college, when I was dating Sarah.
Was her car accident even an accident, or was she murdered, Iike your parents? Did Janus kill her, Edward? Did you? Was it all some sort of big plan so that I'd fall in Iove with Angie? Well, guess what, it worked! I do Iove her.
Edward, it's time.
Let's go.
Mariam's Iocating our way into the Kremlin now.
RAYMOND: All right.
I'm picking up your tracer.
I'll be right behind you the whole time.
Now you're talking to yourself? I've got a Iot on my mind.
Oh.
You know, when I joined the KGB, they told me I would never have a real personal relationship again.
That was part of the agreement.
Was it? Tell me, when you track down your parents' killer, when you get your revenge, what is Ieft? What does it matter if you have no one to come home to? I think this is the first time I've been on a mission where I've felt nervous.
Two tickets.
(CHUCKLING) Any excuse for a party.
It's being held in the old armory building.
It's still connected to the rest of the Kremlin.
So, I hope you brought your tux.
(SCOFFS) Our target's Nikolai Yelikov.
The billionaire humanitarian.
As far as the public's concerned, yes.
But behind closed doors, he's a directorate chief of the KGB.
So, how do we persuade him to give us access to the tunnels that Iead to Serik? Nikolai has the same weakness as any man.
Oh, good.
The kind of mission a female spy can really sink her teeth into.
(CHUCKLES) You sure you've got enough fire Ieft in that furnace? The towering inferno.
This is the most beautiful of all Fabergé's.
And as we say in Russian (EXCLAIMS IN RUSSIAN) Come.
You must see it, huh? Paying for half of the party has its perks.
Well! Yeah? If you insist.
I do insist.
(CHUCKLES) NIKOLAI: Is this man your husband? No, no, no, no.
Boris is my godson.
Really? Yes.
(WHISPERING) (LAUGHING) (SPEAKING RUSSIAN) You know something? I think, I'II go, too.
Can I get either of you some punch? Uh, Catia, perhaps you wouldn't mind getting punch? Hmm? Not at all.
(WHISPERING) Thank you.
(THUDDING) (WARBLING) That was fast.
Should I be impressed or disappointed? Let's go.
(BEEPING) Good.
There are 38 doors that seal off these tunnels to the Kremlin.
Now, that should give us access to most of them.
(DOOR ALARM BEEPS) (GROANING) (GUNSHOT) Serik? Mariam.
What are you doing here? Serik.
Serik! How? They said you were dead.
(BOTH CRYING) PIease.
We've got to move.
We have to go.
Let's go.
Hey! He's with us.
Then tell him to run! RAYMOND: The KGB knows we're here.
Let's go.
If we get through this door, it will take us to the river.
There's a van waiting for us two blocks down from there.
Come on! We've got to get to that door! It's not working! Try it again! We've got to move now or we're going to be trapped! I got it! Move! Move! I Iove you.
I said we've got to move! Come on! Come on! Go! Go! SERIK: Mariam! Come on! No! Mariam! No! No! EDWARD: Come on! Come on! Up the stairs! Go! (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) FEMALE NEWSCASTER: Today in Kazakhstan, President Serik was sworn into office.
He assumes control in a peaceful transfer of power from the forces of General Chelyakov.
(SERIK CONTINUES SPEAKING) (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) What do you think this is between us? Well, hello to you, too.
Henry exists for a reason.
To have a family, to feel Ioved.
He provides these things for me, so I don't need them.
I don't want them.
Where is this coming from? Is this about what happened to Mariam Shefer? When I joined this program, I was told I would never have a real relationship again.
That's what I agreed to.
Having someone to come home to only complicates my Iife, complicates my job.
Edward, what do you think I'm asking for? I know what we have.
I know it's not real.
(SOFTLY) I am willing to make my Iife a Iittle bit more complicated.
(GASPS) (GASPING) What is it? (DISTANTLY) Are you all right? Are you okay? Oh, God.
You've got to hand it to him.
Henry's got impeccable timing.
I'm sorry.
(GRUNTS) (BREATHING HEAVILY) Dr.
Skinner? Hello, Henry.
Were you just with Edward? Well, I called for you.
I didn't know who I was getting.
What happened in Russia? Serik was rescued.
Mariam died to save the man she Ioved.
I've been thinking a Iot about the conversation we had a couple of days ago.
So have I.
(SIGHING) I already know everything I need to know about Angie.
Did you know Janus keeps a file on each of us? Our habits, our histories, our families.
Downstairs, you'll find an unmarked door.
Inside is a secure computer system.
That's where you'II find what you're Iooking for.
Her code name was Celandine, but you knew her as Sarah Rogers.
Recruited in 1989, her primary objective was to start a relationship with you.
What about the coded photos that I found at the house? They were Sarah's.
She communicated with Janus throughout your courtship.
Angie did keep some of her things after she died.
(SNICKERS) And what about the accident? It was just that.
An accident.
(SIGHS) Henry, your Iove for Angie was unplanned and unexpected.
She was your choice, not theirs.
Why are you telling me this now? Because I realized that everyone has a right to know whether or not their Iove is real.
Thank you.
(DOOR OPENS) Hi.
Hi.
(SIGHING) Ang.
Henry.
I've been sitting here trying to figure out why I Iied to you about Michael.
'Cause we started talking a few months ago, and I should have just told you about it then.
But he was an ex, and I didn't want you to Did something happen? No, honey.
No, nothing happened.
I think I just appreciated the attention.
I mean, it's not Iike there was anything wrong between us, it's just (SIGHING) I think we were just in a rut.
We were in a rut? I think that we stopped noticing each other.
You know? But you got us out of it.
What, Iike, a month ago, it's Iike you started It's Iike you started to make Iove to me again.
It had been so Iong since you'd Iooked at me Iike that, since you touched me Iike that.
It was Iike it was new, Iike we were us again.
Angie.
I am so sorry if I ever made you feel Iike you weren't noticed.
You are my best friend.
And trust me, I notice you.
Oh, honey.
I Iove you.
I Iove you, too.
(EXHALES) I know this message is going to give you tremendous joy, which is why I don't want to Ieave it.
But I feel obligated to thank you.
You might have vaguely helped my marriage, and I appreciate that.
I need to take more responsibility for myself, for how I treat the people I Iove.
I realized tonight that you and the organization aren't the only ones that can screw up my Iife.
I can, too.
And my family is the most important thing in the world to me.
The thing is, I think maybe the same is true for you.
I found this.
I think it's about your parents, but I haven't looked inside.
I've asked you to stay out of my family life, Edward, and I think I owe you the same courtesy.