Citadel (2023) s01e06 Episode Script
Secrets in Night Need Early Rains
1
[CARTER] You can't trust her.
Why not?
You were working with Manticore
just days before Citadel fell.
With you I'm me,
and only with you am I me.
Marry me.
[NADIA] You're gonna answer
one question.
Did he know?
[MASON] I did it for you,
to protect you.
Goodbye, Mason.
[NADIA] Something's happened.
I need to get out.
[RAHI] When you turn
your back on Citadel,
what are you going to do about Kane?
Mason can never find out.
[ORLICK] You killed all of those agents.
Murderers, war criminals, spies,
but I can't take all the credit.
It was one of your own who came to me.
A Citadel spy
saw the truth of the agency
and betrayed you all.
What was in Valencia?
I have a daughter.
And I had to keep her secret
because that was the only way
to keep her safe.
- Is she?
- Yes.
[DAHLIA] Kyle Conroy.
I've been anxious to speak with you
for a very long time.
There's a submarine
somewhere in the Pacific.
It has something I seek
and you're going to help me
retrieve them.
Why would I do that?
[DAHLIA] Because I have your daughter.
♪
[PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY,
DISTORTED]
[MAN SCREAMING, DISTORTED]
♪
[SPEAKING SERBIAN]
[DISTORTED BREATHING, CHATTER]
♪
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[AIR RAID SIREN WAILING]
[EXPLOSION]
[GRANDMOTHER] Well, come on.
Up you get.
If you're living
in your grandmother's home,
you're not staying in bed past noon.
Your father used to sleep till 2:00.
He was nocturnal, your dad.
I miss him.
I miss him, too.
Every day, I miss him.
Is my mom coming back soon?
She's, um
She's been traveling, last I heard.
Don't go focusing
on things you can't change.
Only the things you can.
[MAN] [OVER TV] Rebirth is painful.
Isn't it easier to go forward
when you know you can't go back?
Life again.
Begin again, all new, all different.
The way you always wanted it.
You got another chance.
Heck, nobody's gonna miss you, are they?
Well, I never.
Holy mackerel,
I don't know how you boys do it.
Doc, it's a masterpiece.
Good work.
Easy does it.
[MASON] You know how I ended up a spy?
I was five years old
and my dad died and my mom left
like I didn't exist.
[CLICKING ECHOES]
Now, Citadel gave me an identity.
Not existing was an asset.
They saw me.
I met you and I knew who I was.
[MAN] [OVER TV] Go on, son, let it out.
Nothing to be ashamed of.
[GRUNTS]
♪
♪
[DAHLIA] [OVER PHONE] You're
being transported
to a hangar outside Fez
where you'll be debriefed of the mission
under our watch.
If you try anything clever,
we'll have no choice but to kill her.
We need to see the girl.
[DAHLIA] You're not in
a position to negotiate.
[KYLE] If you want us
to even begin to consider
what you're asking,
show us the girl is safe.
[DAHLIA] Be assured she is.
♪
[DAHLIA] It's getting late,
so I'll be brief.
Within the hour our stealth jet
will fly you over the Pacific.
My man, Davik, will accompany you.
You'll hack into the submarine
and have it breach the surface.
Kyle and Davik will make
an airborne jump,
get inside and retrieve
the five nuclear cores
from the Dead Hand missiles,
and bring them to Christoph
in Valencia for the exchange.
She's my daughter, I'm running
this op, I make this jump.
That's not possible.
He is not equipped.
Agent Spence, would you like
to acquaint your colleague
with reality?
It has to be Mason.
It was his Red Cell mission.
When was it his
Red Cell mission, Carter?
When you were gone.
Look, it's Mason's credentials,
he made the jump,
installed his biolock
against orders.
He's the only one
that can access the sub.
Want to tell me
what a Red Cell mission is?
[SCOFFS] Fuck.
[NADIA] There's no way he can do this.
Operation Bright Wall
has been Red Cell authorized.
Our target is Russia's Dead Hand sub.
We're hacking into
an automated nuclear submarine.
To account for a scenario
where the Russians one day
launch their own nuclear weapons
at a sovereign target,
we're gonna install
our own backdoor security lock
to allow any Citadel agent access.
We have a small window
where we believe we can do this
without alerting Russia's armed forces.
Mason, are you with me?
- I'm with you.
- Then act like it.
If you think someone would
be better for the job,
I'm happy to sit this one out.
Maybe you should call Nadia,
bring her back in.
Really. You should call her.
I don't have that option at my
disposal, but I imagine you do.
Duke will maintain altitude
at 5,000 feet to avoid radar.
You will have a less than
infinitesimal window
to execute the jump.
[CARTER] Once you've landed on the sub,
you want to look for the control module.
It'll be on the sail
by the antenna array.
You want to place this between the main
and the backup power relays.
It's already coded
to your endocrine system,
so you'll be able to bypass
the sub security
if you ever need to make a return visit.
[MASON] I do this,
I want something in return.
I'm sorry?
You must have us confused with being
in some sort of a negotiation.
- There's no op without me.
- Nadia's gone.
- Deal with it.
- You know where she is.
- She's in Berlin.
- She's not in Berlin.
- She's in Berlin.
- Where is she, Grace?!
[KYLE] So I get access
to the sub and then what?
[CARTER] You'll have to
manually override
control of the nuclear cores.
[KYLE] Manually override
a nuclear device?
Like Chernobyl? You seen Chernobyl?
[NADIA] The chamber housing the nukes
is temperature controlled
at 106 degrees Fahrenheit.
If it detects a lower
temperature in the room
it's going to shut you out permanently.
I hope you're up for this.
Me, too.
[CARTER] Hawking has reached
optimal altitude.
- [OVER COMMS] Mason, are you ready?
- [MASON] Ready.
[CARTER] [OVER COMMS] Hacking
into the Dead Hand firewall now.
I'm in position for Red Cell deployment.
Winds are clocking
at over 50 knots at sea level.
Let's do this.
[OVER COMMS] T-minus five,
four, three,
[OVER COMMS] two, one.
You should see the Dead Hand sub
emerging to the surface now.
[MASON] I see the sub. Deploying chute.
Mason's chute's initiated.
Biometrics locked in.
This cake is baked.
[CARTER] Let's get you out of there.
Mason, you're offline.
Mason?
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Secondary
protocol interrupt. Activated.
[MASON] Kilo, Lima, Bravo,
Juliette, 1-2-5.
[MASON] There was a frequency
glitch. Are you receiving?
[CARTER] Yeah, we can hear you now.
I'm ready for pickup.
[CARTER] All right, bringing you home.
Dead Hand sub located.
I'll try to hack the firewall now.
I'm just gonna fix your suit.
Why didn't I deserve to know about Asha?
You don't want to do this
right now, Kyle.
- Why not?
- Because you need to focus on the jump.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DAVIK] That's right.
You better be ready.
[CARTER] All right, we just
reached optimal altitude.
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- Kyle, are you ready?
[KYLE] Ready.
Entering target drop zone.
Initiate countdown.
T-minus five, four,
three, two, one.
[CARTER] Stay in position.
You're reaching peak altitude.
The sub will breach directly
beneath you.
All right, now hold position.
Tell me you can see something,
'cause all I see is ocean!
Working on it.
[NADIA] Where's the submarine?
You have to get it to breach now.
[CARTER] I'm going as fast as I can.
[KYLE] Please tell me
there's a sub coming.
Carter, he's moving too fast.
[CARTER] Hang on, pal.
Sub's about to breach.
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Emergency
surface initiated.
[CARTER] You're getting too low.
- Deploy chute.
- Now.
[CARTER] All right, level out.
Pull down on the left toggle.
Attaboy.
Sub landing in three,
two
[GRUNTS]
Kyle, hang on. Launching tether line.
[CARTER] The access point is ahead.
[CARTER] Place your thumb on the reader.
- [AUTOMATED VOICE] Tier-One Operator
- [MASON] [RECORDED] Mason Kane.
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Identified.
Hatch is open.
That's all I need you for.
[YELLS]
- Kyle?
- [ALERT BUZZING]
I'm heading down there.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Stand down.
[MAN GRUNTING]
You know that was the pilot, right?
Tell me she still flies herself.
I got this. Go.
[ELECTRONIC TRILLING]
Status report.
[DAVIK] [OVER COMMS] Did you
really think
you could kill my brother
without any repercussions?
- You listen closely.
- [ALARM BEEPING]
The five Dead Hand missiles
are locked on Manticore
family compounds.
Mexico City, Florence,
Marseille, Beijing and Berlin.
- What are you doing?
- I want a seat at the table.
Give me that
and I give you your warheads.
If not,
you're gonna watch Manticore burn.
[CARTER] Kyle, you got to wake up.
Kyle, can you hear me?
Kyle! Kyle!
Kyle,
Davik just started
the Dead Hand launch sequence.
You need to get the cores now.
[DAHLIA] Well, the answer, my darling,
is burn.
Because we do not negotiate
with traitors and because
you are a dense, pathetic ape.
You understand that we've hacked
the steering mechanism on that ship,
so before the ballistic warheads
could even take flight,
I would send that submarine
plummeting inverted into the
depths of the Mariana Trench
where you would be vaporized
by the very weapons of mass destruction
with which you have so woefully
tried to threaten me!
- Goodbye, Davik.
- [COMM BEEPS]
Didn't go the way you wanted?
I thought I already killed you.
[NADIA] You're supposed
to actually pull the trigger.
[KYLE] You just parachute down here?
Yeah, I'm amazing.
Carter, how do I cancel this launch?
[CARTER] I can't hack the system.
Dahlia initiated an override.
The only way to stop it
is to get the cores now.
Make sure you grab
the temperature regulator.
- Here.
- Thanks.
[NADIA] Plans still the same?
Raise my body temperature
to match the launch room's?
Yeah. But you've got less than
half the time to get the cores.
The jab will raise
your external body temperature
so you can operate undetected.
You got to hit 106 degrees
to match the launch room temp
or the system will detect
your heat signature
and lock down the warheads.
[CARTER] It's working.
Try to keep your breathing slow.
101
102, 103, 104,
105, 106.
- Go.
- [AIR HISSES]
[NADIA] I'm in.
All right, temperature holding steady.
Under four minutes till launch.
Each missile should deactivate
once you remove the cores.
Remove all five before anything
launches and crisis averted.
That's if you don't boil alive
beforehand.
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[WHIRRING]
- [NADIA] That's one.
- Take it easy.
[KYLE] Don't move.
I imagine
that life was simpler as Kyle Conroy.
[SPITS]
[GRUNTS, YELLS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GRUNTS]
[NADIA] What the hell was that?
[CARTER] Don't worry about it. Focus.
[NADIA] That's four. How much time?
[CARTER] Less than 90 seconds.
Your heart is getting closer to 350 bpm.
You've got to finish quick
before you black out.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
Kyle, you have to fight back!
[WHIRRING]
[PANTING]
- [ALARM WAILING]
- What is that?
It's the final launch countdown.
You've got 20 seconds, Nadia.
[CARTER] Kyle?
Backstop erases your memories,
but it doesn't erase your skills.
[ORLICK] Your mind may not remember
Do you want to remember?
[ORLICK] but your body does.
[CARTER] Ten seconds, Nadia.
[GRUNTING]
Deactivate the cores.
- [GROANING]
- Five seconds.
You want to save your family?
You just listen to me and
I will get you through this.
[CARTER] Come on.
Yes. Launch is disabled.
Kyle, listen to me.
You are still Mason Kane.
Get up! Now!
Fight back!
[YELLS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[CARTER] Kyle, you got to get to Nadia.
She's coding.
Nadia.
[GASPING]
You've got a vile of
adrenaline in your suit.
Jab her now or her heart stops.
- Got it.
- Inject her now or she dies.
- Hang in there. Hang in there.
- [GASPING]
- Hang in there.
- It's working.
Heart rate's back to normal.
Kyle, I have Russian bombers
60 miles out, fast approaching.
We need to get you out now.
Stay with me!
[QUIET CHATTER]
What the hell did you do out there?
Completed the Red Cell mission.
- You went dark on us.
- Dead Hand is locked down.
Then why doesn't Citadel
have operational control
- of the missiles?
- Because I do.
I used a secondary protocol interrupt.
Only I can unlock it.
I'll give it to you right now
if you tell me where she is.
[SIGHS]
I've told you, she's in Berlin.
Do you think I'm lying to you?
Yes, I do.
Then we're at an impasse.
You need to speak to someone.
Anyone. I don't care who,
but you need help.
You have lost her, you understand?
And if you're not careful,
you're gonna lose yourself, too.
[NADIA] Christoph says to meet
under the overpass at
the City of Arts and Sciences.
Under 30 till the exchange.
Are you okay?
Yeah.
[KYLE] Great. I'll set our
landing coordinates now.
[GRUNTING SOFTLY]
[DAHLIA] Christoph, they're
arriving from the south entrance.
[CHRISTOPH] [SPEAKERPHONE] And
where are the nuclear cores?
They have the cores with them.
Good, we'll get the cores,
we can begin the final phase.
I hope this pleases the families.
Your associate, Davik, nearly
threatened our entire mission.
Let's get the cores and see
how pleased they are with you.
[CARTER] I got you.
Where's my girl?
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[WHIMPERING]
Asha.
Now, the cores.
[CARTER] I got a shot.
Do not hand over that child
until you've verified the cores.
If anything goes awry, drop her.
[SCANNER BEEPING]
(SPANISH) They've been encrypted.
They've done something to them.
[CHRISTOPH] I knew you would try
to be clever.
Once Mason Kane, always Mason Kane.
[GRACE] Why doesn't Citadel have
operational control of the missiles?
Because I do.
Unlock the weapons or she dies.
I don't know how but I'll find a way.
You think I'm bluffing? I will kill her.
[KYLE] Mason Kane's in here somewhere.
Do what you want to get him out of me,
just let the girl go.
[WHISPERS] Carter, take it.
- [NADIA] Kyle! Get her!
- [ASHA SCREAMING]
[PANTING]
[NADIA PANTING]
Hi.
[LAUGHS]
[CRYING] I'm so sorry.
[QUIETLY] I'm so sorry.
[SNIFFLES, SIGHS]
Thank you.
[ORLICK] Well, the things we do
for family, right?
[SCRAPING GROUND]
Joe always hated me doing this.
She thought it was a complete
waste of my time,
to sift through the muck
to find that one
last little morsel.
[ORLICK GRUNTS]
Look at that.
How's Val?
Oh, you know.
Eight going on 18.
She wants to get her ears pierced.
Why the rush to grow up? I don't know.
It's just earrings.
Earrings are the gateway.
Sometimes I just want
to tuck her away and
put her someplace
where no one can ever hurt her.
When you have kids, you do
anything to keep them safe.
[MASON] What am I looking at?
Well, I went to that address
in Spain that you gave me
and Nadia was there.
[ORLICK] And so was she.
That's your daughter.
That's why Nadia left?
To have a baby?
Our baby?
I thought you might want that, too.
It's a round-trip ticket to Spain.
Clearly, she's made her decision.
What?
You were so desperate to find
her and now you're not gonna go?
She didn't think I was good
enough to be the kid's father.
No, no, no, no. No.
You prove her wrong.
You have to fight for your family.
So I fly to Valencia, then what?
Beg to be part of this kid's life?
Yeah.
That's what you do.
[ASHA] Where did they take Nana?
I don't know, sweetheart.
But I'm gonna find him.
Will he be okay?
Your grandfather is the
toughest person I've ever met.
And if there is any way
of getting back to you
he's gonna find it.
That's what he used to say about you.
[SNIFFLES]
[BILLIE] Christoph didn't
answer my call.
It's too quiet.
[BILLIE] Will there be repercussions?
There's always repercussions
for failure, my dear.
[DAHLIA] The key is to adapt
before they arrive.
They can't kill what's already dead.
♪
♪
[ASHA] Where are we?
This used to be our home.
[CRACKLING]
[HENDRIX] Dad!
[KYLE] Hendrix.
[SHORT LAUGH]
Let me see you, let me see you.
How is that his wife?
Everyone, this is Abby and Hendrix.
Hi.
Thank you for keeping him safe.
Of course.
[CARTER] Kyle, I got something here.
[EXHALES]
Your activation vial.
Orlick had me create a backup server,
so I recoded it to your genetic profile.
[ABBY] What are you saying?
He figured out how to bring Mason back.
So you're really gonna do it?
I have to.
Why?
Because I don't know who I am.
Yes, you do.
You're Kyle Conroy.
You're a father, you're my husband.
That's not gonna change.
[CLICKING, BEEPS]
You're good to go.
Time for me to meet Mason Kane.
[GRUNTS QUIETLY]
[MASON'S GRANDMOTHER] Well, come on.
Up you get.
[MAN] [OVER TV] Isn't it easier
to go forward
when you know you can't go back?
[GRANDMOTHER] Your father
used to sleep till 2:00.
I miss him.
Is my mom coming back soon?
[MASON] I was five years old
when my dad died
and my mom left like I didn't exist.
I met you and I knew who I was.
- [MASON] Do I scare you?
- [NADIA] Now why would you scare me?
[MASON] Because I'm starting to see you.
- See past the mask.
- [NADIA] What mask?
Oh, there are dozens.
- [MASON] This our new Tier One?
- [NADIA] Mm-hmm.
[NADIA] Mason, meet Celeste Graham.
- [CELESTE] You never should have brought me on.
- Last chance!
[NADIA] That wasn't
a fucking interrogation!
That was an assault on one of our own!
[NADIA] So you just killed
the person that she was?
[MASON] To protect you,
because I love you.
[NADIA] You don't love me.
[ORLICK] Well, I went
to that address in Spain
that you gave me
and Nadia was there.
We were set up.
They're burning Citadel to the ground.
[MASON] I've lost everything
I've ever cared about,
I won't lose you. I lied to you.
[NADIA] I lied to you.
[ORLICK] You have to fight
for your family.
I appreciate the advice
but I'm full up of things to fight for.
Thanks for the intel on Nadia, though.
What are you thanking me for?
I only looked where you told me to look.
How did you know where she was?
It's a long time since I've had
someone to pour lemonade for.
You look different than on TV.
Oh, well, they pile
the makeup on like a clown.
Never liked it much.
I've watched you all these years.
It's amazing what you've accomplished.
Who you've become.
It's not without sacrifices.
And you?
I wouldn't even know where to look.
Not when your trade is being a ghost.
But you do look just like him.
I've come for a favor.
A favor?
You once said that if I ever
needed, I could call and
Yeah, no. I know what I said.
I just thought
that you coming here today
I don't know what I thought.
I need to find someone.
A woman.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
Why why
why is a spy coming to see
a diplomat to find a woman?
I mean, isn't this the kind of thing
the diplomat hires a spy to do?
She's a spy, too.
Ah.
And Citadel won't tell you where she is.
- It's your own agency.
- It's complicated.
Does she have a name, this woman?
Nadia Sinh.
Do you love her?
She's my wife.
Then I'll find her for you.
Thank you.
It's devastating to lose
the person you love most.
I woke up from a dream
when the first explosion hit.
He was next to me Thomas.
Already in flames.
I tried to put it out
They grafted from every part of me.
Cut and sewed and patched.
And it was like they
they reorganized me.
Randomized and different
until I became another woman altogether,
and yet this different woman
still carries on
the same awful memories.
After it happened,
why didn't you go home?
Do you want the truth?
I do.
After it happened
I wasn't the same person any longer.
It wasn't my home any longer.
What about your son?
What about him?
Was he yours any longer?
Am I still yours, Mother?
There's my boy.
I thought that you must have
just lost it over the years.
I didn't lose it.
I buried it.
The Queen's English
isn't something you bury.
I didn't realize that you chose
to become someone new altogether.
To give up on who you were.
Like you did.
This is what they do, Citadel.
They take the people we love most.
They didn't take her.
No, I didn't mean her, love.
I meant your father.
What are you talking about?
They said it was a far-right
Serbian terror cell
that set off two car bombs
led by a man
Stankovic. I know.
A few years ago,
I met a former diplomat
in Serbia who, drunk one night,
tells me that the ballistics
report from that awful day
reveal that it wasn't a car bomb
that destroyed that building
but three air missiles.
Stankovic didn't have
the resources for drone strikes.
So I looked a little deeper
and, wouldn't you know,
there was a communique
between Citadel and NATO
stating Citadel's intent
to launch air strikes
on a Serbian terror cell.
But the thing is,
they had the wrong coordinates.
So instead of decimating
a terrorist's compound,
they killed 157 men, women,
children and infants,
all of them UN workers
and their families.
They wouldn't.
Well, then how do you explain
the documents, and missives,
and confessions
that Citadel blackmailed NATO,
the CIA, the UN,
all to cover up the bombings.
They knew, Mason.
Everyone knew.
And yet the world let an unchecked,
amoral, murderous spy agency
get away with taking the man I loved,
for me to watch
as he lay burning to death
with you in the other room.
But you can stop it, Mason.
You have access to Citadel's secrets.
Use it to bring Citadel into the light
and finally hold them accountable
for what they've done.
Give me Citadel's secrets
and I'll bring it to
the high court in the UK
to open an investigation
into the crimes and misdemeanors
of Citadel writ large.
We can finally get justice
for your father, for you.
How many more times, Mason,
are they gonna get away with
taking the people we love
before we do something?
[DAHLIA] I've just transferred the list.
All Citadel agents,
real identities, whereabouts.
Take them out.
We were set up.
They're burning Citadel to the ground.
We were double-crossed
by one of our own,
who transferred the names of all
the Citadel spies into the wrong hands.
[KYLE] Bernard said the
Citadel hit was an inside job.
That someone turned
but he didn't know who.
[ECHOING] Didn't know who.
[MAN] [OVER PHONE] Where'd you get this?
Mason Kane.
Do you remember?
I don't know.
I don't know.
♪
[2WEI, TOMMEE PROFIT
& FLEURIE: "MAD WORLD"♪]
♪
All around me are ♪
Familiar faces ♪
Worn-out places ♪
Worn-out faces ♪
It's a very, very ♪
Mad world ♪
Mad world ♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
[CARTER] You can't trust her.
Why not?
You were working with Manticore
just days before Citadel fell.
With you I'm me,
and only with you am I me.
Marry me.
[NADIA] You're gonna answer
one question.
Did he know?
[MASON] I did it for you,
to protect you.
Goodbye, Mason.
[NADIA] Something's happened.
I need to get out.
[RAHI] When you turn
your back on Citadel,
what are you going to do about Kane?
Mason can never find out.
[ORLICK] You killed all of those agents.
Murderers, war criminals, spies,
but I can't take all the credit.
It was one of your own who came to me.
A Citadel spy
saw the truth of the agency
and betrayed you all.
What was in Valencia?
I have a daughter.
And I had to keep her secret
because that was the only way
to keep her safe.
- Is she?
- Yes.
[DAHLIA] Kyle Conroy.
I've been anxious to speak with you
for a very long time.
There's a submarine
somewhere in the Pacific.
It has something I seek
and you're going to help me
retrieve them.
Why would I do that?
[DAHLIA] Because I have your daughter.
♪
[PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY,
DISTORTED]
[MAN SCREAMING, DISTORTED]
♪
[SPEAKING SERBIAN]
[DISTORTED BREATHING, CHATTER]
♪
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[AIR RAID SIREN WAILING]
[EXPLOSION]
[GRANDMOTHER] Well, come on.
Up you get.
If you're living
in your grandmother's home,
you're not staying in bed past noon.
Your father used to sleep till 2:00.
He was nocturnal, your dad.
I miss him.
I miss him, too.
Every day, I miss him.
Is my mom coming back soon?
She's, um
She's been traveling, last I heard.
Don't go focusing
on things you can't change.
Only the things you can.
[MAN] [OVER TV] Rebirth is painful.
Isn't it easier to go forward
when you know you can't go back?
Life again.
Begin again, all new, all different.
The way you always wanted it.
You got another chance.
Heck, nobody's gonna miss you, are they?
Well, I never.
Holy mackerel,
I don't know how you boys do it.
Doc, it's a masterpiece.
Good work.
Easy does it.
[MASON] You know how I ended up a spy?
I was five years old
and my dad died and my mom left
like I didn't exist.
[CLICKING ECHOES]
Now, Citadel gave me an identity.
Not existing was an asset.
They saw me.
I met you and I knew who I was.
[MAN] [OVER TV] Go on, son, let it out.
Nothing to be ashamed of.
[GRUNTS]
♪
♪
[DAHLIA] [OVER PHONE] You're
being transported
to a hangar outside Fez
where you'll be debriefed of the mission
under our watch.
If you try anything clever,
we'll have no choice but to kill her.
We need to see the girl.
[DAHLIA] You're not in
a position to negotiate.
[KYLE] If you want us
to even begin to consider
what you're asking,
show us the girl is safe.
[DAHLIA] Be assured she is.
♪
[DAHLIA] It's getting late,
so I'll be brief.
Within the hour our stealth jet
will fly you over the Pacific.
My man, Davik, will accompany you.
You'll hack into the submarine
and have it breach the surface.
Kyle and Davik will make
an airborne jump,
get inside and retrieve
the five nuclear cores
from the Dead Hand missiles,
and bring them to Christoph
in Valencia for the exchange.
She's my daughter, I'm running
this op, I make this jump.
That's not possible.
He is not equipped.
Agent Spence, would you like
to acquaint your colleague
with reality?
It has to be Mason.
It was his Red Cell mission.
When was it his
Red Cell mission, Carter?
When you were gone.
Look, it's Mason's credentials,
he made the jump,
installed his biolock
against orders.
He's the only one
that can access the sub.
Want to tell me
what a Red Cell mission is?
[SCOFFS] Fuck.
[NADIA] There's no way he can do this.
Operation Bright Wall
has been Red Cell authorized.
Our target is Russia's Dead Hand sub.
We're hacking into
an automated nuclear submarine.
To account for a scenario
where the Russians one day
launch their own nuclear weapons
at a sovereign target,
we're gonna install
our own backdoor security lock
to allow any Citadel agent access.
We have a small window
where we believe we can do this
without alerting Russia's armed forces.
Mason, are you with me?
- I'm with you.
- Then act like it.
If you think someone would
be better for the job,
I'm happy to sit this one out.
Maybe you should call Nadia,
bring her back in.
Really. You should call her.
I don't have that option at my
disposal, but I imagine you do.
Duke will maintain altitude
at 5,000 feet to avoid radar.
You will have a less than
infinitesimal window
to execute the jump.
[CARTER] Once you've landed on the sub,
you want to look for the control module.
It'll be on the sail
by the antenna array.
You want to place this between the main
and the backup power relays.
It's already coded
to your endocrine system,
so you'll be able to bypass
the sub security
if you ever need to make a return visit.
[MASON] I do this,
I want something in return.
I'm sorry?
You must have us confused with being
in some sort of a negotiation.
- There's no op without me.
- Nadia's gone.
- Deal with it.
- You know where she is.
- She's in Berlin.
- She's not in Berlin.
- She's in Berlin.
- Where is she, Grace?!
[KYLE] So I get access
to the sub and then what?
[CARTER] You'll have to
manually override
control of the nuclear cores.
[KYLE] Manually override
a nuclear device?
Like Chernobyl? You seen Chernobyl?
[NADIA] The chamber housing the nukes
is temperature controlled
at 106 degrees Fahrenheit.
If it detects a lower
temperature in the room
it's going to shut you out permanently.
I hope you're up for this.
Me, too.
[CARTER] Hawking has reached
optimal altitude.
- [OVER COMMS] Mason, are you ready?
- [MASON] Ready.
[CARTER] [OVER COMMS] Hacking
into the Dead Hand firewall now.
I'm in position for Red Cell deployment.
Winds are clocking
at over 50 knots at sea level.
Let's do this.
[OVER COMMS] T-minus five,
four, three,
[OVER COMMS] two, one.
You should see the Dead Hand sub
emerging to the surface now.
[MASON] I see the sub. Deploying chute.
Mason's chute's initiated.
Biometrics locked in.
This cake is baked.
[CARTER] Let's get you out of there.
Mason, you're offline.
Mason?
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Secondary
protocol interrupt. Activated.
[MASON] Kilo, Lima, Bravo,
Juliette, 1-2-5.
[MASON] There was a frequency
glitch. Are you receiving?
[CARTER] Yeah, we can hear you now.
I'm ready for pickup.
[CARTER] All right, bringing you home.
Dead Hand sub located.
I'll try to hack the firewall now.
I'm just gonna fix your suit.
Why didn't I deserve to know about Asha?
You don't want to do this
right now, Kyle.
- Why not?
- Because you need to focus on the jump.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DAVIK] That's right.
You better be ready.
[CARTER] All right, we just
reached optimal altitude.
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- Kyle, are you ready?
[KYLE] Ready.
Entering target drop zone.
Initiate countdown.
T-minus five, four,
three, two, one.
[CARTER] Stay in position.
You're reaching peak altitude.
The sub will breach directly
beneath you.
All right, now hold position.
Tell me you can see something,
'cause all I see is ocean!
Working on it.
[NADIA] Where's the submarine?
You have to get it to breach now.
[CARTER] I'm going as fast as I can.
[KYLE] Please tell me
there's a sub coming.
Carter, he's moving too fast.
[CARTER] Hang on, pal.
Sub's about to breach.
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Emergency
surface initiated.
[CARTER] You're getting too low.
- Deploy chute.
- Now.
[CARTER] All right, level out.
Pull down on the left toggle.
Attaboy.
Sub landing in three,
two
[GRUNTS]
Kyle, hang on. Launching tether line.
[CARTER] The access point is ahead.
[CARTER] Place your thumb on the reader.
- [AUTOMATED VOICE] Tier-One Operator
- [MASON] [RECORDED] Mason Kane.
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Identified.
Hatch is open.
That's all I need you for.
[YELLS]
- Kyle?
- [ALERT BUZZING]
I'm heading down there.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Stand down.
[MAN GRUNTING]
You know that was the pilot, right?
Tell me she still flies herself.
I got this. Go.
[ELECTRONIC TRILLING]
Status report.
[DAVIK] [OVER COMMS] Did you
really think
you could kill my brother
without any repercussions?
- You listen closely.
- [ALARM BEEPING]
The five Dead Hand missiles
are locked on Manticore
family compounds.
Mexico City, Florence,
Marseille, Beijing and Berlin.
- What are you doing?
- I want a seat at the table.
Give me that
and I give you your warheads.
If not,
you're gonna watch Manticore burn.
[CARTER] Kyle, you got to wake up.
Kyle, can you hear me?
Kyle! Kyle!
Kyle,
Davik just started
the Dead Hand launch sequence.
You need to get the cores now.
[DAHLIA] Well, the answer, my darling,
is burn.
Because we do not negotiate
with traitors and because
you are a dense, pathetic ape.
You understand that we've hacked
the steering mechanism on that ship,
so before the ballistic warheads
could even take flight,
I would send that submarine
plummeting inverted into the
depths of the Mariana Trench
where you would be vaporized
by the very weapons of mass destruction
with which you have so woefully
tried to threaten me!
- Goodbye, Davik.
- [COMM BEEPS]
Didn't go the way you wanted?
I thought I already killed you.
[NADIA] You're supposed
to actually pull the trigger.
[KYLE] You just parachute down here?
Yeah, I'm amazing.
Carter, how do I cancel this launch?
[CARTER] I can't hack the system.
Dahlia initiated an override.
The only way to stop it
is to get the cores now.
Make sure you grab
the temperature regulator.
- Here.
- Thanks.
[NADIA] Plans still the same?
Raise my body temperature
to match the launch room's?
Yeah. But you've got less than
half the time to get the cores.
The jab will raise
your external body temperature
so you can operate undetected.
You got to hit 106 degrees
to match the launch room temp
or the system will detect
your heat signature
and lock down the warheads.
[CARTER] It's working.
Try to keep your breathing slow.
101
102, 103, 104,
105, 106.
- Go.
- [AIR HISSES]
[NADIA] I'm in.
All right, temperature holding steady.
Under four minutes till launch.
Each missile should deactivate
once you remove the cores.
Remove all five before anything
launches and crisis averted.
That's if you don't boil alive
beforehand.
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[WHIRRING]
- [NADIA] That's one.
- Take it easy.
[KYLE] Don't move.
I imagine
that life was simpler as Kyle Conroy.
[SPITS]
[GRUNTS, YELLS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GRUNTS]
[NADIA] What the hell was that?
[CARTER] Don't worry about it. Focus.
[NADIA] That's four. How much time?
[CARTER] Less than 90 seconds.
Your heart is getting closer to 350 bpm.
You've got to finish quick
before you black out.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
Kyle, you have to fight back!
[WHIRRING]
[PANTING]
- [ALARM WAILING]
- What is that?
It's the final launch countdown.
You've got 20 seconds, Nadia.
[CARTER] Kyle?
Backstop erases your memories,
but it doesn't erase your skills.
[ORLICK] Your mind may not remember
Do you want to remember?
[ORLICK] but your body does.
[CARTER] Ten seconds, Nadia.
[GRUNTING]
Deactivate the cores.
- [GROANING]
- Five seconds.
You want to save your family?
You just listen to me and
I will get you through this.
[CARTER] Come on.
Yes. Launch is disabled.
Kyle, listen to me.
You are still Mason Kane.
Get up! Now!
Fight back!
[YELLS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[CARTER] Kyle, you got to get to Nadia.
She's coding.
Nadia.
[GASPING]
You've got a vile of
adrenaline in your suit.
Jab her now or her heart stops.
- Got it.
- Inject her now or she dies.
- Hang in there. Hang in there.
- [GASPING]
- Hang in there.
- It's working.
Heart rate's back to normal.
Kyle, I have Russian bombers
60 miles out, fast approaching.
We need to get you out now.
Stay with me!
[QUIET CHATTER]
What the hell did you do out there?
Completed the Red Cell mission.
- You went dark on us.
- Dead Hand is locked down.
Then why doesn't Citadel
have operational control
- of the missiles?
- Because I do.
I used a secondary protocol interrupt.
Only I can unlock it.
I'll give it to you right now
if you tell me where she is.
[SIGHS]
I've told you, she's in Berlin.
Do you think I'm lying to you?
Yes, I do.
Then we're at an impasse.
You need to speak to someone.
Anyone. I don't care who,
but you need help.
You have lost her, you understand?
And if you're not careful,
you're gonna lose yourself, too.
[NADIA] Christoph says to meet
under the overpass at
the City of Arts and Sciences.
Under 30 till the exchange.
Are you okay?
Yeah.
[KYLE] Great. I'll set our
landing coordinates now.
[GRUNTING SOFTLY]
[DAHLIA] Christoph, they're
arriving from the south entrance.
[CHRISTOPH] [SPEAKERPHONE] And
where are the nuclear cores?
They have the cores with them.
Good, we'll get the cores,
we can begin the final phase.
I hope this pleases the families.
Your associate, Davik, nearly
threatened our entire mission.
Let's get the cores and see
how pleased they are with you.
[CARTER] I got you.
Where's my girl?
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
[WHIMPERING]
Asha.
Now, the cores.
[CARTER] I got a shot.
Do not hand over that child
until you've verified the cores.
If anything goes awry, drop her.
[SCANNER BEEPING]
(SPANISH) They've been encrypted.
They've done something to them.
[CHRISTOPH] I knew you would try
to be clever.
Once Mason Kane, always Mason Kane.
[GRACE] Why doesn't Citadel have
operational control of the missiles?
Because I do.
Unlock the weapons or she dies.
I don't know how but I'll find a way.
You think I'm bluffing? I will kill her.
[KYLE] Mason Kane's in here somewhere.
Do what you want to get him out of me,
just let the girl go.
[WHISPERS] Carter, take it.
- [NADIA] Kyle! Get her!
- [ASHA SCREAMING]
[PANTING]
[NADIA PANTING]
Hi.
[LAUGHS]
[CRYING] I'm so sorry.
[QUIETLY] I'm so sorry.
[SNIFFLES, SIGHS]
Thank you.
[ORLICK] Well, the things we do
for family, right?
[SCRAPING GROUND]
Joe always hated me doing this.
She thought it was a complete
waste of my time,
to sift through the muck
to find that one
last little morsel.
[ORLICK GRUNTS]
Look at that.
How's Val?
Oh, you know.
Eight going on 18.
She wants to get her ears pierced.
Why the rush to grow up? I don't know.
It's just earrings.
Earrings are the gateway.
Sometimes I just want
to tuck her away and
put her someplace
where no one can ever hurt her.
When you have kids, you do
anything to keep them safe.
[MASON] What am I looking at?
Well, I went to that address
in Spain that you gave me
and Nadia was there.
[ORLICK] And so was she.
That's your daughter.
That's why Nadia left?
To have a baby?
Our baby?
I thought you might want that, too.
It's a round-trip ticket to Spain.
Clearly, she's made her decision.
What?
You were so desperate to find
her and now you're not gonna go?
She didn't think I was good
enough to be the kid's father.
No, no, no, no. No.
You prove her wrong.
You have to fight for your family.
So I fly to Valencia, then what?
Beg to be part of this kid's life?
Yeah.
That's what you do.
[ASHA] Where did they take Nana?
I don't know, sweetheart.
But I'm gonna find him.
Will he be okay?
Your grandfather is the
toughest person I've ever met.
And if there is any way
of getting back to you
he's gonna find it.
That's what he used to say about you.
[SNIFFLES]
[BILLIE] Christoph didn't
answer my call.
It's too quiet.
[BILLIE] Will there be repercussions?
There's always repercussions
for failure, my dear.
[DAHLIA] The key is to adapt
before they arrive.
They can't kill what's already dead.
♪
♪
[ASHA] Where are we?
This used to be our home.
[CRACKLING]
[HENDRIX] Dad!
[KYLE] Hendrix.
[SHORT LAUGH]
Let me see you, let me see you.
How is that his wife?
Everyone, this is Abby and Hendrix.
Hi.
Thank you for keeping him safe.
Of course.
[CARTER] Kyle, I got something here.
[EXHALES]
Your activation vial.
Orlick had me create a backup server,
so I recoded it to your genetic profile.
[ABBY] What are you saying?
He figured out how to bring Mason back.
So you're really gonna do it?
I have to.
Why?
Because I don't know who I am.
Yes, you do.
You're Kyle Conroy.
You're a father, you're my husband.
That's not gonna change.
[CLICKING, BEEPS]
You're good to go.
Time for me to meet Mason Kane.
[GRUNTS QUIETLY]
[MASON'S GRANDMOTHER] Well, come on.
Up you get.
[MAN] [OVER TV] Isn't it easier
to go forward
when you know you can't go back?
[GRANDMOTHER] Your father
used to sleep till 2:00.
I miss him.
Is my mom coming back soon?
[MASON] I was five years old
when my dad died
and my mom left like I didn't exist.
I met you and I knew who I was.
- [MASON] Do I scare you?
- [NADIA] Now why would you scare me?
[MASON] Because I'm starting to see you.
- See past the mask.
- [NADIA] What mask?
Oh, there are dozens.
- [MASON] This our new Tier One?
- [NADIA] Mm-hmm.
[NADIA] Mason, meet Celeste Graham.
- [CELESTE] You never should have brought me on.
- Last chance!
[NADIA] That wasn't
a fucking interrogation!
That was an assault on one of our own!
[NADIA] So you just killed
the person that she was?
[MASON] To protect you,
because I love you.
[NADIA] You don't love me.
[ORLICK] Well, I went
to that address in Spain
that you gave me
and Nadia was there.
We were set up.
They're burning Citadel to the ground.
[MASON] I've lost everything
I've ever cared about,
I won't lose you. I lied to you.
[NADIA] I lied to you.
[ORLICK] You have to fight
for your family.
I appreciate the advice
but I'm full up of things to fight for.
Thanks for the intel on Nadia, though.
What are you thanking me for?
I only looked where you told me to look.
How did you know where she was?
It's a long time since I've had
someone to pour lemonade for.
You look different than on TV.
Oh, well, they pile
the makeup on like a clown.
Never liked it much.
I've watched you all these years.
It's amazing what you've accomplished.
Who you've become.
It's not without sacrifices.
And you?
I wouldn't even know where to look.
Not when your trade is being a ghost.
But you do look just like him.
I've come for a favor.
A favor?
You once said that if I ever
needed, I could call and
Yeah, no. I know what I said.
I just thought
that you coming here today
I don't know what I thought.
I need to find someone.
A woman.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
Why why
why is a spy coming to see
a diplomat to find a woman?
I mean, isn't this the kind of thing
the diplomat hires a spy to do?
She's a spy, too.
Ah.
And Citadel won't tell you where she is.
- It's your own agency.
- It's complicated.
Does she have a name, this woman?
Nadia Sinh.
Do you love her?
She's my wife.
Then I'll find her for you.
Thank you.
It's devastating to lose
the person you love most.
I woke up from a dream
when the first explosion hit.
He was next to me Thomas.
Already in flames.
I tried to put it out
They grafted from every part of me.
Cut and sewed and patched.
And it was like they
they reorganized me.
Randomized and different
until I became another woman altogether,
and yet this different woman
still carries on
the same awful memories.
After it happened,
why didn't you go home?
Do you want the truth?
I do.
After it happened
I wasn't the same person any longer.
It wasn't my home any longer.
What about your son?
What about him?
Was he yours any longer?
Am I still yours, Mother?
There's my boy.
I thought that you must have
just lost it over the years.
I didn't lose it.
I buried it.
The Queen's English
isn't something you bury.
I didn't realize that you chose
to become someone new altogether.
To give up on who you were.
Like you did.
This is what they do, Citadel.
They take the people we love most.
They didn't take her.
No, I didn't mean her, love.
I meant your father.
What are you talking about?
They said it was a far-right
Serbian terror cell
that set off two car bombs
led by a man
Stankovic. I know.
A few years ago,
I met a former diplomat
in Serbia who, drunk one night,
tells me that the ballistics
report from that awful day
reveal that it wasn't a car bomb
that destroyed that building
but three air missiles.
Stankovic didn't have
the resources for drone strikes.
So I looked a little deeper
and, wouldn't you know,
there was a communique
between Citadel and NATO
stating Citadel's intent
to launch air strikes
on a Serbian terror cell.
But the thing is,
they had the wrong coordinates.
So instead of decimating
a terrorist's compound,
they killed 157 men, women,
children and infants,
all of them UN workers
and their families.
They wouldn't.
Well, then how do you explain
the documents, and missives,
and confessions
that Citadel blackmailed NATO,
the CIA, the UN,
all to cover up the bombings.
They knew, Mason.
Everyone knew.
And yet the world let an unchecked,
amoral, murderous spy agency
get away with taking the man I loved,
for me to watch
as he lay burning to death
with you in the other room.
But you can stop it, Mason.
You have access to Citadel's secrets.
Use it to bring Citadel into the light
and finally hold them accountable
for what they've done.
Give me Citadel's secrets
and I'll bring it to
the high court in the UK
to open an investigation
into the crimes and misdemeanors
of Citadel writ large.
We can finally get justice
for your father, for you.
How many more times, Mason,
are they gonna get away with
taking the people we love
before we do something?
[DAHLIA] I've just transferred the list.
All Citadel agents,
real identities, whereabouts.
Take them out.
We were set up.
They're burning Citadel to the ground.
We were double-crossed
by one of our own,
who transferred the names of all
the Citadel spies into the wrong hands.
[KYLE] Bernard said the
Citadel hit was an inside job.
That someone turned
but he didn't know who.
[ECHOING] Didn't know who.
[MAN] [OVER PHONE] Where'd you get this?
Mason Kane.
Do you remember?
I don't know.
I don't know.
♪
[2WEI, TOMMEE PROFIT
& FLEURIE: "MAD WORLD"♪]
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All around me are ♪
Familiar faces ♪
Worn-out places ♪
Worn-out faces ♪
It's a very, very ♪
Mad world ♪
Mad world ♪
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