The Border (2008) s01e06 Episode Script

- You people are just so naiïve.
- Previously onThe Border
- You were naiïve once.
It looked good on you.
- No job. No rent.
No place to live.
- You can live with me, right?
- You are friggin' awesome!
- Come on, Layla, you haven't
been fine since you shot
that kid in the woods.
- Are you complaining about
how I'm doing my job?
- You're deliberately trying to
humiliate your own government.
- Just CSIS.
- It's the same thing!
- In the current climate a man
like Mannering is invaluable.
- A man of no conscience.
[Boat horn]
[Talking in foreign language]
- Can you confirm a visual
on our matchmaker?
[Talking in foreign language]
- No he has to be in the car.
- We don't move 'til we're sure
we got the headliner. Copy?
- Gray! Now or never.
- Alright move! Move! Move!
[Police sirens]
- Immigration!
Stop where you are!
- Immigration and Customs
Security! Hands up!
- Immigration Customs Security.
Step out of the vehicle.
[Talks in foreign language]
- Hey!
- He's not in the car.
Get on your radio.
- Stay!
You got him?
- No, he wasn't there,
but Gray go his guy.
- Where is he?
- Not here. He must
have been tipped off.
[Cell phone rings]
- Answer it.
- Hi hao.
- [Change of plan. Stand by.]
- Was that Mannering?
- We're good to go.
♪♪♪
- Layla: [Is there a CSIS op
we don't know about?]
- [You sure it was Mannering?]
- Yeah. We both heard him.
- And no sign of Lo Hok-Yin?
- [Our Intel was solid;
someone tipped him.]
- Get what you can out of
the illegals. I'll
talk to Mannering.
- Jesus.
- Two weeks in a box with
25 people and one toilet.
- It's okay. It's okay.
We're not going to hurt you.
Tell them it's okay.
We're not going to hurt them.
[Translating]
What's the going rate
of passage now?
35, 40 grand a head?
- You're looking at
a million dollars here.
- Just cargo to Lo Hok-Yin.
[Talking in foreign language]
Please exit the container. We
have water for you outside.
[Translating]
- Does he need help outside?
[Talking in foreign language]
- He is dead.
- You missed him.
- He wasn't there.
- You said you were going
to catch him at operation.
We could've drawn him south.
- It was a setback.
We're looking into it.
- My superiors aren't big
on second chances, Major.
- I want Lo Hok-Yin
as much as you do.
- He's number three on my list.
Where's he on yours?
- I was there when he let
a boatload of illegals
drown off the Charlottes.
- I saw what he did
to the ones who didn't
pay up. Feet amputated.
Cell phones taped to their heads
so their families could hear
them being tortured.
- We'll get him.
- If he knows we're on
to him, he'll go to ground.
- Best-case scenario,
he runs south.
- Yeah, worst case,
he skips the continent.
- We won't let that happen.
- Catch him, or flush him
my way. I really don't care.
Oh and Major
I need this man.
- Do you have any other
identification?
[Translating]
- Who did you pay
to bring you here?
[Translating]
- Who put you in
that container?
You ever see him?
What about his friends?
Look I want to help you,
Li-Zhen. I can't do that
if you won't talk to me.
Now who did you talk
to in China?
You made a deal with someone.
Who was it?
- They took my mother,
my sister.
My father knew
they'd take me soon.
- Who? Dragon Circle?
- The police.
- Why?
- My family, we are Falun Gong.
In China, this
is worse than thief.
We are not human.
We are
Bugs.
- Kessler: [You're a hard
man to reach.]
- For some.
- [Are you running
something in Vancouver?]
- I'm meeting my wife for lunch.
- I have an officer who claims
you called an Asian gang member
on his cell in
the middle of a raid.
- We may be a dying breed,
but I hardly think
I'm the only Canadian left
with a Midlands accent.
- What is CSIS doing with Lo
Hok-Yin and Dragon Circle?
- Your job is to stem the tide
of illegals from washing
up on our shore.
Leave national security to us.
- Your father made the deal
with the snakehead.
- Yes.
- Do you know who he met?
Did he pay any money?
- I pay when I get to Canada.
- How much?
- Seventy thousand.
- And how were you
going to pay that back?
Come here you work that out.
You meet someone in Canada
you work off the payments?
- I don't know anyone here.
- Prostitution, drug running,
you're not going to make
that cleaning houses.
Li-Zhen your snakehead
is connected to triad.
Now you need our protection.
- Please don't send
me back to China.
- Please.
- I can help you. But I need
you to help me, okay?
Anything you can remember.
A name, an address
- Sergeant Jackson, we've
got a lot to get through.
Can we try to keep it moving?
- Call me, Li-Zhen.
- Hey, sleepy guy.
- I'm two hours, 37 minutes
late for work.
- No, no, no, no, no, no!
What, what uh
What are you doing?
- Uh
- I have a system.
- Random groupings of unrelated
objects? That's very systematic.
- No That's the "M" zone.
See you got mugs,
and a mouse, and magazines.
It's alphabetical.
- Okay.
- I know where everything is.
- Coffee?
Should I put it next
to the cage and the crackers?
- No that, that's "S".
Uh, "S" for um Schroödinger.
He, uh, he's named for
- Schroödinger's cat.
- Yeah. And those are his--
- Supplements?
- Yeah, see? System works.
I gotta go.
- Thought you said time
was just a construct.
And, really,
if we construct time
Does it even exist?
- Oh!
- Let's make it an
even three hours?
- I've got eight minutes
to subway platform, I got
a three minute wait,
eleven minutes to the stop,
if the TTC's running on time--
- Ouh!
- I just made that.
- Course I could take a cab.
Cab shaves seven minutes
off the commute.
Ten if traffic's with me.
- Refugee claimants without
proper identification
must be detained
until their hearings.
- Yes, okay.
- Lucky for you,
your aunt contacted us.
She's willing
to sponsor you.
- My aunt?
- We're gonna release you
to live with her until
your hearing.
- Yes. Yes, okay.
- Afternoon, Hieronymus.
- Yes, it is.
- Something come up?
Oh, my God! You got laid.
I don't want to know about it.
Kessler needs whatever you
can find about a possible
CSIS operation in Vancouver;
Lo Hok-Yin and his buddies.
- Who doesn't love quality time
with our Dragon Circle friends?
A slice, a dice. I thought
that was Gray and Layla's op.
- So did we.
- Heard Lo Hok-Yin slipped
through the net.
Bad intel?
- He was tipped. ICS
is working on it.
- Canadians are like
their maple syrup:
Sweet but slow.
- Lo is in their jurisdiction.
Kessler can be a pendejo,
but he wants this guy
as much as we do.
- Then he won't care
if you grab him first.
- Do an end run?
- If that's what it takes.
Washington wants this guy
served for Sunday dinner.
- Sorry, it doesn't
work that way.
- I'm looking for Chow Li-Zhen.
- I'm looking for Chow Li-Zhen.
- Yeah, I don't blame you.
- Where is she?
- Released her to the aunt.
- What aunt?
Why didn't you notify me?
- The aunt's uh, Jong Lien
Owns a store in Richmond.
- And Li-Zhen agreed
to go with her?
- Sure. Why wouldn't she?
- She told me she didn't
know anyone here.
- Who are we looking for?
- Chinese female.
20 to 24, slim build, no visible
scars or tattoos
- Gorgeous hair, great
skin, beautiful smile.
- She was ready to talk,
maybe lead us to Lo Hok-Yin.
- Mm-hm.
- This is it.
[Chinese television]
Immigration and
Customs Security.
I'm looking for
this girl, Chow Li-Zhen.
- I don't know her.
- Well, someone using your name
and identification picked her up
from the detention centre.
- I'm not in two
places at once.
- You didn't pick up a relative?
- Those are not my relatives.
My family works hard,
pays taxes.
Those people come
live on welfare.
The government
should send them back.
- Jong Lien didn't even know
the girl. Do you have tape
from the detention centre?
- Enough to stretch to the far
side of Jupiter and back.
- Just the Li-Zhen footage.
[Computer beeping]
- Sent.
[Check your phone.]
And if that's not Jong Lien
You probably want to know
who took your girl, right?
[Very few women crack the top
ranks in the Dragon Circle.]
But there is this one
She's a dead ringer for Qiu
Yuen, the landlady from
Kung Fu Hustle.
There. See?
[Looks just like her, right?]
- Slade, you have a match?
- Li-Zhen's aunt is a snakehead.
- Dragon Circle just
walked in and took her.
- Gong Mei-Ha had all
the right paperwork.
- Someone set this up.
Slade, can you run that Border
Security guy? The one
who released Li-Zhen.
- Argh! CRAP!
- Oh, how quickly
romance fades!
- I'm trying to check out this
Border Enforcement Officer
Wade Daniels. Access is hinky.
- Hinky?
- Somebody's been in his file.
Rooting around and sanitizing
which is seriously wrong, 'cause
this guy's just a grunt.
- Leave it with me. I've still
got friends in Border
Enforcement.
- Grr!
[Cell phone ringing]
- Gray Jackson.
- [LI-Zhen]: You help me?
They say I pay
[Continues in foreign langue]
- Li-Zhen. Slow down. Slow down.
Where are you?
- Slade? We've got an open line.
Can you trace a call?
- Li-Zhen?
- BC. Southwest Fraser Valley.
- Yeah, can you narrow
that down a bit?
- Way ahead of you.
Pay phone.
672 Lillooet Avenue.
- 672 Lillooet Avenue.
- Mannering and his boys
cost us Lo Hok-Yin.
Your team made two
solid arrests and disrupted
a major trafficking operation.
[Don't lose sleep over
the one that got away.]
- That one was
the primary objective.
- You caught two dozen illegals.
Major. Call it a day.
[Hangs up]
[Phone rapidly beeping]
- Immigration and
Customs Security.
We're looking for this girl.
She made a call from that phone
booth ninety-eight minutes ago.
- Okay.
- She was right there.
What happened to her?
- Sorry. Can't give out
information about our guests.
Policy.
- Tell us where she is, or
we start kicking in doors.
- Watch me.
- They took her upstairs.
- [Layla]: Stop, ICS!
Grey!
[Car starts and drives off]
She's alive.
- She's gonna be okay.
- Lo Hok-Yin's branching out:
sweat shops, drug-running,
prostitution. Now he's taking
his pound of flesh literally.
- Think she's paid up now?
- Sure, then we ship
her back, right?
- Doctor's free.
- Girl's stabilized.
But I'd like to meet the butcher
who popped out her kidney. My
3-year-old could've done better.
- We believe her kidney
was removed for sale
on the black market.
- I've heard of patients going
overseas for a transplant,
but getting takeout,
that's a first.
- Know anyone who might've
been desperate enough?
- Over 4000 Canadians
are waiting for organs.
Every week, five of them die.
I'd say that
qualifies as desperate.
- Well, how hard would it be
for someone to perform
illegal transplants?
- Depends on the organ. Kidneys
are fairly straightforward.
Provided the organ's been tissue
and blood type matched.
And the patient has access
to anti-rejection drugs
and decent post-op.
Success rate is fairly high.
- If suddenly someone drops off
the donor list and doesn't
show up in the obits,
give us a call.
- You're looking for whoever
got the girl's kidney.
- Could be others, too.
What we're seeing
might be the start of a whole
new criminal enterprise.
- Li-Zhen going
to be all right?
- Most people get along
just fine with one kidney.
- Turns out Wade Daniels had
a bit of a coke problem.
- Trust Vancouver to recruit
the best and the brightest.
- Actually,
he was Peace Bridge.
Instead of checking into rehab,
he was transferred to Vancouver.
- Somebody figured
he could be squeezed.
- My contact at Border
Enforcement thinks
that Wade has
a friend at CSIS.
- Let's grab this guy
You think one of your friends
from Custom Control would've
tipped him?
- [Maggie]: Never.
[Warning beeping on computer]
- [Slade]: Oh this, this is bad.
This, um, this is
worse than bad.
- What?
- We, we We've got a Black
Hat. I sent Wade's info to Layla
via our secure network and then
the next thing, poof,
Wade's gone.
- You think someone
hacked into ICS?
- "Hacked"? No.
Hackers write security
and firewall programs,
and drive boxsters and
drink matcha lattes. No.
We've got a cracker. A smash and
grabber, he's looking for
bragging rights.
- Okay, so what's our
cracker up to?
- Wade's info was locked up
tight. Same with the deets
on the port raid.
Someone accessed what's
technically inaccessible.
- Who could do that?
- Ah, someone with pass codes,
who knows his way around
government intelligence
systems a spy maybe?
- CSIS?
- If he's Mannering's hire,
the Prince of Darkness
definitely knows talent.
- Find out how the cracker's
getting in. Shut him down.
[Phone ringing]
- Already got my fingers
up every orifice.
- Ew.
- Kessler.
When? Thanks.
- Mannering's in Vancouver.
I'm going out there.
Whatever game he's playing, I'm
going to put an end to this.
- Asshole's probably halfway
to Argentina by now.
- Florida maybe.
Wade didn't strike me
as the adventurous type.
- I never should have
left her alone with him.
- Hey, c'mon, there's
no way you could've known.
I mean at least we got
Li-Zhen to the hospital, right?
She really got to you.
- It just pisses me off that
these guys throw two dozen
people in a container,
they chop out their organs and
they go home and play with
their Xbox 360s.
- He'll have another.
- Where are we on Lo Hok-Yin?
- He hasn't surfaced yet.
Anything Stateside?
- You think I'd be here?
- Maybe he'll flee to China.
- They want him worse
than we do.
Half an Olympic
stadium collapsed last
week. 68 people were killed.
Guess who had
the construction contract.
Kept the cash and built
it on chopsticks and
bubblegum apparently.
- This guy's body count
keeps going up.
- Forget murder, human
trafficking, extortion.
China wants him on
international embarrassment.
Where you going?
- To get Lo Hok-Yin.
- Great! Anything I can
do to grease the wheels?
- I've got a couple of other
problems to solve with
other agencies first.
- CSIS? RCMP?
Who's holding us up?
- It's handled.
- Ah, really?
You've got a population
of what? Twenty people?
How many competing agencies
do you need, Major?
- Same as you, enough to justify
the bureaucrats' salaries.
- I've made all the
arrangements. We can't wait.
- Do you prefer
hardware or software?
- That tickles.
- Still looking for the leet?
- He's good.
- As good as me?
- Seriously. This guy was
schooling me all day.
- What do your sources say?
- Nothing.
For someone this pro?
Guy's a monk.
- Bet you I can find him.
- Sally. Please, you're nowhere
near this level. Okay?
Wait.
I didn't mean that. Hey I mean,
I mean but
I don't mean you're not
- Forget about
the black hat, okay.
Your level is so high it
doesn't have a number, okay.
You're like an eleven.
- You think you're going
to get out of this by
ripping off Spinal Tap?
- How much more black could
my life be without you? Hmm?
The answer is none.
None more black.
A Goth's closet
during a blackout when there is
a new moon is not this black.
Before you, Sally, I didn't
even have a decent "S" zone.
- Stop talking.
- You want another round?
- I'm good.
- Come on. Club soda going
to your head. One more.
- I should get some sleep.
- Your hair looks good.
- Thanks.
- Oh, you don't want
to go home now.
- I don't?
- No.
- What is it I want?
Uh huh.
- I'm sure my mini
bar's got a club soda.
Next round's on me?
- Good night, Gray.
[Cell phone ringing]
- Kessler.
Where are you?
I'm on my way.
Mike Kessler, ICS.
- Heard you were looking
for Wade Daniels.
- So did someone else
apparently. Any witnesses?
- Janitor found him in a back
stairwell in New West
around 5:30 AM.
Coroner figured he'd been dead
about six, seven hours.
- Death by a thousand cuts.
Must've really pissed off his
Dragon pals. Took his tongue.
- Lo Hok-Yin made damn sure
Wade didn't talk to us.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- You slept through
my wake up call.
- Yeah, uh, give me ten minutes.
I'll see you downstairs.
- Sure. Boss is in town.
Put some pants on.
- Who did this to you?
- Jong Lien.
- That's not her real name.
- Her name's Gong Mei-ha.
She works for Lo Hok-Yin.
You know him?
- I never hear that name
- I think you have.
Before you left China. You made
a deal. You promised to pay.
What did you think?
They would just
forget their money?
- Who were you supposed to meet
when you got here? Who was it?
- I don't know.
- I'm not playing
games, Li-Zhen.
I can send you back to China
before the ink dries on
your hospital release.
You understand?
Give me a name.
Who was your contact?
- No name.
I have numbers.
6237
57th Avenue.
Please.
I cannot go back.
You say you help me.
- I will.
- The girl's been hacked up
and you're threatening
to deport her?
- It's not a threat.
It's a likely outcome.
- She's got a right
to claim refugee status.
She's Falun Gong. You know what
they'll do to her back in China.
- China's domestic policy
is not our concern.
- But you weren't in that
container. Anyone who
wants to get here
that badly should
be allowed to stay.
- If you're struggling with your
objectivity, I can relieve you.
- Objectivity? You get word
Mannering's out here and
you're on the next plane.
- Uh, we okay?
- Great.
- We've got an address.
Let's go.
- Really makes you want
to live the West Coast dream.
- Shouldn't we
call for backup?
- As long as we have a security
breach, we trust no one.
[Knocking]
Immigration and
Customs Security.
[Shouting in foreign language]
- [Grey]: Immigration
and Customs Security.
[Screaming]
- You're hurting me.
- This is just the warm up.
- Selling bodies whole,
selling them in parts.
- That's covering
all the angles.
- So where are we on
the security breach?
I've got files to input.
- At first I thought it was
a directory traversal
attack, right?
But my system already
disallows HTTP requests
for a virtual directory
I mean that's just basic
- Wait, so are we in the clear?
Yes or no?
- Yes. Mannering's guy was good.
Excellent even. But I'm better.
- So did our cracker leave
any clues to his identity?
- That's exactly what
I was looking for, right?
'Cause their egos
are usually massive.
And they can't resist leaving
a little tag, a signature
so that everyone knows how
brilliant they are.
- So he did?
- Not one single gummy print.
If we find him, Kessler should
put this guy on the payroll.
Reporting to me, of course. Did
I mention I'm still better?
- Mannering.
- [Special Agent LaGarda,
Homeland Security.]
- Agent LaGarda. I'm just
heading into a briefing.
- Sounds like you're in a wind
tunnel. Where are you?
King and Bay?
- [Close enough.]
[Let me call you back.]
- What's happening
with the Dragon Circle
operation in Vancouver?
- You have the wrong agency.
I work for CSIS.
- Then I have the right man.
- [Well I'm sure Major
Kessler at ICS]
will be only too happy to bring
you up to speed with
his operation.
- [Please, spare me the
interagency pissing contest.]
I want Lo Hok-Yin.
- [Well I'm terribly sorry,
Agent LaGarda.]
I wish I could
be more helpful.
- [Kessler promised
to gift-wrap him.]
He couldn't deliver. Well,
I need someone who can.
- Don't feel like talking?
Maybe we should let you walk.
Let Lo Hok-Yin and
his boys find you.
Like they found our officer.
Or maybe I send you
back to Shanghai.
We have got you on human
trafficking and extortion
not to mention your
motel-based businesses.
I wonder what your sentence
will be like in China.
Maybe you'd be the one
donating the organs.
I hear China encourages their
death row inmates
to be generous.
No, you don't like
that idea either?
There's a third option.
You even think of
screwing this up? Don't.
- [Layla]: Think she'll blow it?
- All she has to do
is flush out Lo Hok-Yin.
- Our friend wants fries.
There he is. Can we move on him?
- Look for his cover.
- I've got Mannering.
- What's the word?
We're losing him here.
- You guys grab Lo Hok-Yin,
I'll take Mannering.
- Grey: [Target's heading
for lower level.]
- This way. Hurry, this way.
- Ouh!
- Hey!
- Grey:[Garage. They're going
to the parking garage.]
Stop! Drop your weapon!
- [Layla]: Let her go!
- Stay back! I kill her!
You see what you do?!
- [Grey]: I said: drop it now!
[Talking in a foreign language]
[Gunshots]
- This way, come on.
- Grey: [Shots fired!
Parking F-1.]
- ICS requests assistance.
10-33. Shots fired. Parking F-1.
Whoa! Layla.
- Lo Hok-Yin shot her.
- We walked into an ambush.
He had two bodyguards with him.
I got one.
- Are you okay?
- Fine.
- [Grey]: Eyes out for a late
model black Mercedes SUV.
License plate Echo-Romeo-Zulu-
zero-three-zero
- Lo Hok-Yin's went to ground.
How's the bodyguard?
- Still in the O.R.
- Did he give us anything?
- He saw his boss put
down Gong Mei-Ha.
- All the more reason
to cooperate.
- What, you want to go with the
rack, or should we drag out
the iron maiden?
- Slade filled
the security hole.
could be Mannering
ordered the dig.
- If Mannering's in bed
with Lo Hok-Yin
- I will do whatever it takes
to bring them both down.
[Cell phone rings]
[Kessler.]
- I've got a lead on Mannering.
He's probably gone through a
whole box of disposable cells,
but he forgot to brief his wife.
- [Where is he?]
- Our sources picked up
two phone calls off of CSE:
Mrs. Mannering to the Hotel
Walbridge, 15th floor,
room 147.
- I've got a twenty
on Mannering.
- Let's go.
- Talk to the bodyguard.
I've got this.
- What the hell
is it between you guys?
What, did he piss in your cocoa?
- Quietly.
- For Christ's sake man,
put on a mask.
That's my daughter. Sophie.
- I'll be downstairs.
- Dewar's. Water back.
- [Barman]: Yes, sir.
- The donor was not coerced.
I set her up with a very
generous trust fund,
I fast-tracked her residency.
I paid off her debt
to Lo Hok-Yin.
- You're a saint.
- She escaped a life
of poverty and repression.
She has a bright future.
- Who needs all your body
parts when you've got cash?
- Look I gave one of my kidneys
to Sophie eight years ago and
I've been doing just fine.
The kidney, however
Sophie
was dying.
Cheung Man was willing.
You've got a daughter
for God's sake.
What would you have done?
- I'll let the doctor
finish the surgery.
But you're done.
- I had nothing to do
with Wade Daniels's death.
- You just gave his killers
70 thousand dollars
and a good reason to shut
him up permanently.
- Well, you do what you have to.
Give me tonight with Sophie.
I want to be here when
she wakes up.
- Eight A.M. Outside.
And bring Lo Hok-Yin's
coordinates.
[Tires screeching]
[Shouting in foreign language]
[Gunshots]
[Foreign language]
- Get out of the car!
Get in there!
- I can't pay for hospital.
- Don't worry about it.
We got it covered.
- When I get out
- When you're feeling better,
we've got a lawyer for you.
She's going to help you with
your refugee claim.
- You won't send me back?
- It's not up to me.
But you've got a strong case.
And a good lawyer.
It's gonna to be okay.
- I will see you again?
- I gotta fly back
to Toronto today.
- Thank you.
- How's your daughter?
- She came through with
flying colours.
- The RCMP is waiting here
to take your statement.
- I've already filed that
with the Minister.
It outlines how I posed
as a customer
in order to infiltrate
Lo Hok-Yin's organization.
- How long do you think
that'll hold up once he
starts plea-bargaining?
- Ah. Lo Hok-Yin
is en route to China.
It seems he had the urge to do a
little cross-border shopping.
Homeland Security was very
satisfied with the outcome.
And China is so
glad to save face,
that it has released two
U.S. "cultural attachés"
who were languishing in Drapchi
Prison. And a Canadian firm
is going to be named as the
"official cell phone provider
of the Beijing Olympics."
It's a win-win-
win situation.
- You just broke
every law in the book.
Now LaGarda owns you.
- Huh.