The Border (2008) s01e09 Episode Script

- I'll be running our new
integrated cross-border
initiative.
- What's it called? Operation
"Piss off the Canadians?"
- Previously, onThe Border
- Dr. Gorman recommends that
you see somebody 3 times a week.
I'm taking you out of the field,
desk duty only.
- Who's the girl?
- That's my daughter.
Don't worry, she's not yours.
- We're on the same
side here, right?
- With all due respect,
you were CSIS.
- Who do you think provides
the muscle to protect
your fine ideals?
- Who are you?
- Major Mike Kessler.
This is Superintendent
Maggie Norton.
Immigration and Customs
Security.
- Looking for my customs
declaration?
It's two bottles
and a carton of smokes.
- We'd like to come aboard.
- Sorry, Major, we're real
behind schedule.
- We intercepted
a radio transmission
from this ship 4 days ago.
It came from one of
your crewmembers.
- So?
- He said you had
stowaways onboard.
- You know, that's unlikely.
- We need to search your ship.
- Tell me, you got a warrant?
- I can get one.
- Permission to come
aboard denied.
- Hey! Hey! There! Sir! Sir!
♪♪♪
- [S.S. Taipei]
[Speaking Mandarin]
[Halifax]
- Is that your voice?
As you can hear, your message
is a bit garbled.
Can you tell us what
you were trying to say?
- Captain, uh
find stowaways onboard.
- When?
- After we leave port.
- What happened?
- I refugee. I stay in Canada?
- You can make
a refugee claim.
You will have to establish
that you are at risk
of persecution,
torture or execution
if you return to
your home country.
- The Captain know many people.
He want to see me dead.
- Did he threaten you?
- That's why I jump off ship.
He not
not want me to talk.
He kill me.
- We can help you,
but you need to tell us
what happened on that ship.
- My wife, sons
in Jakarta. You help me
bring them to Canada?
- Well, our sailor seems pretty
clear about what he wants.
- Think we're being had?
- I don't know.
That was one helluva jump. I
think his fear of McKay is real.
- Keep talking to him.
See if you can
separate fact from
refugee application.
- We got grounds for a warrant?
- With your charm? What judge
could refuse you?
See if Mr. Chong has any
friends left on the crew.
- Starboard hatch is open.
- This the guy giving us
a hard time?
- Captain Ryan McKay.
Born into a prominent military
family in San Diego,
attended Annapolis,
top of his class-- he's
a one-man recruiting campaign.
- How does a star navy captain
end up commanding
an empty bulk carrier?
- It's like a Grand Prix driver
shuttling rental cars.
- What's the story on the ship?
- The S.S. Taipei left Jakarta
in February. Docked in
Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Offloaded her cargo.
It's nothing juicy,
just refinery equipment.
McKay's taking her back
to New York. She's headed
to China early next year.
- Looks like she's ready
for the scrap heap.
- Yeah.
35 million to refurbish.
75 million to build new.
There's gold in them there
rust-buckets.
- Bound for New York.
What's she doing in Halifax?
- It's bad weather.
Took a beating in the storm,
had to change course.
- Bet McKay wishes he'd limped
over the border.
- Guy's got a history of bad
decisions-- golden boy
went golden gloves.
Bopped a senior officer.
Two years in naval prison,
dishonourable discharge, blew
town the day he was released.
- Resurfaces as
a freighter captain?
- Yep.
- Hmm.
- No record of how he spent
the 10 years in between.
- How much clearer can I be?
Ship's crawling with them.
Get this resolved.
- Is that everyone?
- 29 crewmembers accounted for.
- Thanks, Sergeant. We'll take
it from here.
- Major.
- Captain. You wanted a warrant?
- You're so far off base
with this.
- Where are they?
- Who?
- The stowaways. Where are they?
- That the angle
Sam's using on you?
He'd do anything
to get out of Jakarta.
- Maggie, bring Mr. Chong
aboard, would you?
- Laos, Cambodia, Thailand--
- Never stays too long with any
one company, he's always
on different ships.
- Fights with customs brokers,
harbour masters--
- How did this guy keep working?
- See what you can find out
about the "in-between" years.
- Agent LaGarda,
as I said, Major Kessler
isn't here right now.
- Where is he?
- I, I don't know.
- Can I help you,
Special Agent LaGarda?
- Who's that?
I need to speak to the Major.
- He's in the field.
I have acting command.
- What field might that be?
- That information
is classified.
- Really? Because Major Kessler
and I had a meeting.
What is so damn important
that he couldn't pick up
a phone and reschedule?
- Uh, lunch with Bin Laden
or drinks with Kim Jong-Il?
Right, okay,
you gotta go. That's cool.
I'll be here if you need me.
- I saw the radio transmission
from the sailor.
- [The captain's an American
citizen. You know what our
northern friends are like.]
[We don't want him
tangled up in red tape.]
- Was he involved?
- [Of course not. Pull him out
as quickly as possible.]
- On my way.
[Speaking Mandarin]
- If you've got nothing
to hide, why the threat?
- I'm impressed.
- You don't have to speak
Mandarin
to recognize that.
- Just show us where
the stowaways are hidden.
- And you're coming with us.
Can I borrow your cuffs, please?
- Come on, let's go.
- This way.
- Does anyone ever
clean this place?
- We had a woman come in
once a week, but she couldn't
handle the commute.
- In there?
- Yeah.
[Knocking]
[Speaking Mandarin]
The stowaways.
They were right here.
- This has been fun.
Really, it has.
Now, get the hell off my ship.
- What have we got on Sam Chong?
- [He and McKay sailed together
for the past 3 years.]
Born in China.
Moved to Indonesia in '79.
He's got a wife
and 2 kids in Jakarta.
- He could be just
a working stiff looking
for a new life in Canada.
- But he grew up
on the Malacca Straits.
- [What are you getting at?]
- Well, yo ho ho and a big
frakkin' machete.
It's not all wooden
legs and parrots
like it used to be.
- What, you think he's a pirate?
- Yar!
- We were behind schedule
when we got here. We're way
behind now. Rust is money.
- We can work together on this,
it could take 2 hours.
We can butt heads
and it'll take 2 weeks.
- I prefer the 2-minute option.
- Tell me where the stowaways
are hidden.
- You're gonna have to ask Sam
that, Major, because they are
a figment of his imagination.
You're going to regret this.
- Let me know when you're
ready to level with me.
- Sam is having
a bad day.
- Well, if he's playing us,
his day's about to get
a whole lot worse.
- You think he's lying?
- Working conditions
aren't to his liking.
He has a score to settle
with the captain.
He and his wife always wanted
to come to Canada.
Let's try to speed things up.
I don't want to spend any
more time on this wreck
than I have to.
- Right. Okay, let's go.
Come on.
Hey. Nice to see you back.
- Thanks.
Everyone watching me,
waiting for me to screw up.
- Hey, it beats the desk, right?
- Sergeant Hourani, Jackson.
We've got the Captain's word
against Sam.
One of these guys is lying.
I want to turn this ship
inside out.
- Well, what exactly
are we looking for?
- Stowaways, bodies,
any evidence of
criminal activity.
- What if we don't
find anything?
- Well, we go home
and leave Sam to argue his
refugee claim with the locals.
- Imagine being stuck
on this scow for months.
- I'd go nuts.
- Thought you'd already
been there.
- Your sensitivity
knows no bounds.
How do people live like this?
- There's no landlord,
no junk mail--
freedom and adventure
on the high seas.
- Why do I feel a song
coming on?
- I don't know there are
stowaways on ship
until we are two days at sea.
- Out of Port Harcourt?
- Nigeria. Yes.
- You found the stowaways?
- Captain told me.
He say company
not like stowaway.
Make us pay big fine--
$20,000 each.
- So what happened?
- The captain order me
to kill them.
- You sure you don't miss
that nice clean desk of yours?
- Not even a little.
[Scurrying sound, squeaking]
What was that?
- It's probably a rat.
I saw one the size of a raccoon
back there.
- I'll look over here.
- Captain, he, he, ah,
order me to bring
stowaways food.
He put drug in it
to make them sleep.
- Easier to throw them overboard
if they're unconscious.
- Yes. The Captain tell me:
make sure they eat.
- Thank you.
- Kunle, Titi.
Come have something to eat.
- It's a father, mother,
two children.
A boy and girl.
- There were children?
- The captain
not tell me this.
I have wife and children.
- What did you do?
- I tell captain,
"Leave them alone."
Later that night,
I am on night watch.
I see him.
They were chained. The woman,
she lie there.
I do not know if she is sleeping
or dead.
- Take me.
My wife will cause you
no trouble.
We have children.
They need their mother.
- I see Captain throw them over.
- What happened to the kids?
- I run back to cabin.
I take them away.
Hide them so he never find them.
I send radio message.
- Where are the kids now?
- I don't know.
- You drugged them that night?
- No, no. Captain put
something in food.
They eat. I do not know
what to do.
- And then they just
disappeared.
How did two
drugged children
keep themselves hidden?
- I don't know.
I think
I think Captain find them.
Maybe he kill them.
- Why would Sam high dive
off of a ship if he had
nothing to hide?
- I didn't hire him
for his brains.
Don't you people up here have
terrorists to track, huh?
Keep him, keep Sam, keep him!
Do whatever the hell it is
you do up here with wannabe
refugees in Canada.
Just give me back my crew,
Major. Let me get the hell
out of here.
- I'm not the one making this
difficult, Captain.
- This is right up there with
cleaning out my hockey bag.
- You hate anything that doesn't
include an adrenaline rush.
- Hey, you didn't see the size
of that rat back there. My
adrenaline rushed plenty.
- I hope we don't find anything.
- Definitely no place for kids.
- Gray?
- You got something?
- Agent LaGarda.
Homeland Security.
- It's all right.
She can come aboard.
- Major.
- To what do we owe
the pleasure?
- I understand you are holding
an American citizen.
- You came 1,000 miles
to say that?
- Just making sure his rights
are being protected.
What's he being charged with?
- We're in the middle of
an investigation.
- He hasn't been charged
with anything.
- He's been accused
of 2 murders, possibly 4.
- Right.
Accused by whom?
- I'll be right down.
Excuse me.
- It's okay. It's okay.
We're here to help you.
- The doctor will
be here soon.
He's got a fever.
- She won't stop shivering.
- Did either of them say
anything when you found them?
- They were barely conscious.
We don't know what language
they speak.
- I.D.?
- All they've got are the
clothes they're wearing.
- Someone just threw them down
there and left them to die.
- They could have
been drugged.
- They're completely dehydrated.
Probably haven't eaten for days.
We've got to get
some fluids into them.
- Do your best until
the doctor gets here.
- Gray! He's bleeding.
- The Major's sending
his secretary now?
- Special Agent Bianca LaGarda.
Homeland Security.
I'm here on your behalf.
- Good.
Get me out of these things
and put me back in charge
of my ship.
- They found children.
Did you know about them?
- No.
LaGarda. Cuban, right?
- American.
I left Cuba in 1980.
- Mariel boatlift?
I pulled a bunch of you folks
out of the water off Key West.
Maybe we met.
- Not unless you were
a fisherman out of Miami.
- There was one little girl
I rescued-- she looked
just like you.
I hope she's done as well
for herself as you have.
- You can save the charm,
Captain.
I have been tasked
to get you out of here.
Are the handcuffs
really necessary?
- Those kids are
in pretty rough shape.
They would've been
dead by tomorrow.
- You have no proof.
What, you just decide who is
guilty and lock him up?
Bonus points if he's
an American? Right?
- You drug the kids like
you did their parents?
- I'll let you in on a little
secret, Major. Maybe it'll
help you, maybe it won't.
Just because you're the captain
of a ship doesn't mean you know
everything that happens onboard.
- We'll see what the kids
have to say.
- You know,
people stash their kidson ships
all the time--
bring them to America
and give them a better life.
- Bring Sam on board.
- Only Nigerian
contact I have
is that nice man who wants
my account number
so he can return that stolen
money to its rightful heir.
- I might know
someone I can call.
- So CSIS parked you
in Nigeria?
- In the neighbourhood.
- That would have been what?
The nineties?
- Around then.
- Congo?
Whoa, Sierra Leone?
Ivory Coast?
Ethiopia-Eritrea!
- Okay.
- Oh, not Guinea?
Come on, gimme a break!
- The guys I used to know
are in Nigeria now.
I'm going to go see
what I can find out.
- He was our man in Africa.
- Yeah, that's as far
as I got, too.
- Jesus. Wait outside.
How long have they been
like this?
- We just found them.
- They may have boarded
in Nigeria. We're not sure.
You think they're contagious?
- Well,
I haven't examined them yet,
have I?
[Speaking foreign language]
- Were they conscious
when you found them?
- Barely.
- This is the first time
she spoke.
- Let's keep physical contact
to a minimum.
[Speaking foreign language]
These kids are very ill.
- Mommy! Mommy!
[Speaking foreign language]
- Get out of here! Now!
- How'd he do?
- She was terrified
when she saw him.
- Then you have
your answer, Major.
- I'm not done yet.
- You said the girl
was scared to death.
- That's only half the story.
Let's see how she feels
about your friend.
- I told you to get out!
- That was fun.
You want to tell her
or should I?
That girl took one look
at me and reached out
like I was
her guardian angel.
- Congratulations.
Looks like your impromptu
line-up worked.
- Remember when we said one
of these guys was lying?
- Yeah.
- Well, we were wrong.
They both are.
- Anything you can find out:
family history,
medical records,
point of origin,
that would certainly help.
- We don't even know
their names.
- What is it?
- High fever, fatigue,
severe joint pain
and internal bleeding.
They're all consistent
with viral hemorrhagic fevers.
Best-case scenario,
Lassa fever,
or maybe dengue.
- Worst case?
- We won't know what
we're dealing with
until we get the results back
from the lab in Winnipeg.
- These kids are in pain.
- I can bring in IV's
and oxygen,
but I can't give them
intramuscular injections
or aspirin because
of the bleeding.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Where are you going?
- To call my team.
No one in or out.
- What's the worst
case here?
- Ebola.
Or something new.
- Shit.
[Coughing]
[Coughing]
- If you saved the girl's life,
why was she afraid of you?
- Sleeping when I hide them.
Never see me.
That is why she is scared.
Do not know me.
- Why wasn't she scared
of the Captain?
- Don't know.
- Well, Major?
Return the crew.
Let the Captain
get back to work.
- Why don't we let you
get back to work?
I'll keep you posted if
anything remotely concerning
US Security comes up.
- I'll decide what concerns
US security, Major.
- The doctor thinks
the kids are contagious.
Boat's quarantined.
Nobody leaves.
[Little girl speaking
foreign language]
- Our African language
specialist says she's
speaking Yoruba.
- Get a translation yet?
- Yeah.
"Mama. The dog. Mama.
Where is my mama? Get away
from us. You stay away."
- Any clues to the accent?
- Best guess-- somewhere
along the Niger Delta.
Yeah, 250 dialects
in an area the size of
New Brunswick. Well, smaller
than New Brunswick, actually.
- If it's Niger Delta, I may
have a lead on the kids' father.
Andrew Motumbo.
- It's the Ogoni rebel leader?
- He was mobilizing resistance
to the oil companies.
Word is they put a price
on his head in Port Harcourt.
- So the guy goes into hiding.
That doesn't mean he's skinny-
dipping in the Atlantic.
- Motumbo's family is missing
too. Nine year-old girl,
8-year-old boy.
- Oh, man. That's way past
coincidence.
- How are the children?
- They're being taken care of.
How did that little girl
know you?
- I don't know. Maybe
I remind her of somebody.
- If you knew there were
stowaways on board,
why did you lie?
I'm trying to
help you out here.
Give you the benefit
of the doubt.
- Tell Major Kessler
what you told me.
[Sighing]
- Two days out of port,
I couldn't sleep.
I got up, took a turn on deck.
Sam was there.
He was pushing something
overboard. I thought it was
garbage. Then I realized
they were bodies.
I told him to get the hell away
from those kids.
That's why he jumped ship.
He knew I was going
to turn him over.
- Why not arrest him,
throw him in the brig?
- Have you seen Mutiny
on the Bounty,Major?
Sam's my first mate. I had
no idea who else was in on it.
- Why would Sam want
to throw a family overboard?
- I don't know. You're going
to have to ask him.
- I'm asking you.
- Just maybe they made
the mistake of paying
the full amount up front.
- If you knew Sam killed two
people, why not lead with that?
- I was waiting to dock
in New York to report it.
I didn't want end up here
with you, Major Kessler.
- Who are they? The stowaways?
- I have no idea. Never
saw them 'til that night.
- You saved their lives.
You didn't talk to them?
- They were drugged.
I didn't know they were sick.
And I hid them
so that Sam and the rest
of my crew couldn't find them.
- Major,
he saved their lives.
It seems to me the man you
should be arresting is Sam.
- I know it's hard
to believe, Major.
It's the poor Asian
who's the bad guy in this,
and not the privileged
white guy.
Gotta be pretty hard on that
bleeding heart of yours.
- I see our land and water
poisoned with oil.
I see our men and women hungry.
I see our children
begging for food
or being recruited to kill.
We must give them
another choice.
The oil company tells us
that we will have roads
and hospitals
- Nigeria was once poised
to become an African superpower.
It had independence,
stability,
enough natural resources
to make its people rich.
- We must take back our land
and our water!
[Cheering]
- Now it's one of the poorest
countries on Earth.
- We've got to get our oil
from somewhere.
- Check your email.
A friend of a friend
said he'd send us something.
- I'm sorry, you gave them
my email? Whoa, whoa!
[Yelping]
Back away, okay? Nobody
touches the girls but me.
- Sorry.
- Who did you say your friend
was in Nigeria?
- I didn't.
- Son is Kunle.
The daughter is Titi.
No way he'd leave without them.
- Gray? I got something
you need to take a look at.
[Coughing]
- It's them.
- [I'll call the boss.]
- Kunle and Titi Motumbo.
- They look happy.
- Their father took on the oil
companies in Nigeria.
- Kunle and Titi.
- What are we going to tell them
when they wake up?
- If they wake up.
- You couldn't have stayed
on desk duty one more week,
eh, Hourani?
- Then who would keep you
company for your last
hours on Earth?
- This isn't exactly how
I'd figured I'm going out.
- Let me guess--
a hail of bullets?
- Sounds about right.
What about you?
Bungee jumping? Skydiving?
- I actually thought
I'd have a life first.
Get married, have kids
- Golden retriever?
- Cocker spaniel.
[Chuckling]
Tell anyone and I'll punch you
in the throat.
[Coughing]
- Enough is enough.
Are you going to remove these
cuffs or should I find
a bolt cutter?
- Hey, boss?
- 304-- that's Virginia,
isn't it?
- It certainly is.
- May I?
[Dialling]
- Man: [Hello?]
- Any instructions for McKay?
- [Hey, who is this?]
[Dial tone]
- Do you know who that was?
[Phone ringing]
You better answer that.
He sounded pretty upset.
- Who is McKay and why is he
speaking to Langley?
- Great. Thanks.
- When did those calls come in?
- Two days out of port.
- Must have been when McKay
got his marching orders.
- Slade
traced the call.
Blocked number out of an
exchange from Langley, Virginia.
- Langley?
- You're lying.
Give it to me straight
or I'm out of here.
- Captain McKay,
you're a company man.
[Cheering]
I get the picture.
Motumbo's getting too popular,
making the multinationals
nervous.
Your government decides
to help out their pals.
[Laughing]
- You missed
your calling, Major.
You should have been
a fiction writer.
- Two days out of Port Harcourt,
McKay gets a call from
his handler.
Motumbo disappears.
Problem solved.
- Show me the evidence.
- Only they don't count
on Sam jumping ship.
Now the folks at Langley
need your help to escort
the good Captain home.
- You've got nothing.
- We'll let the Canadian courts
decide that.
- Andrew Motumbo has
orchestrated numerous attacks
against US oil companies
in Nigeria. He was
a known terrorist.
- Your government is big
on that word these days.
- What should I call him?
His militants abducted
oil workers, ran their
speedboats into a compound,
and killed 6 people.
- There's absolutely no evidence
to connect Motumbo
to those events.
- Four of those people
were US citizens.
- Why kill him? Why not just
arrest him in New York?
Was the Company worried that
an arrest would only help
publicize Motumbo's cause?
Was it best for everyone
concerned that he and his family
just disappeared?
- For all we know, the Motumbos
are alive and well.
- We are past that, Captain.
- Thank you.
We'll be pressing charges.
- This will never make it
to a Canadian court.
- Yes, it will. And
I can't wait to see you
trot out the "I was just
following orders" routine.
- If I did take the stand,
I'd stress the importance
of stopping dangerous
terrorists.
- A mother and father are dead.
That's murder.
[Phone ringing]
Kessler.
- Cut the bullshit, Captain.
I need to know
the whole story.
- The Company sent
Motumbo into hiding
with a story that
he was going to be killed.
And they put him
on to my ship.
- You got paid to kill them?
- I didn't know he was going
to bring his whole family.
I don't kill kids.
- No, just orphan them.
- Look at you, all puffed up
with your self-righteousness.
I bet you think you still
can tell right from wrong.
- Seems pretty clear to me now.
Keep the oil
flowing out of Africa
at any cost.
- I don't do politics.
I do my job. We both work
for the same boss.
- No. You're wrong.
I protect the safety,
security and freedom
of the American people, not
the economic interests
of oil companies.
- Don't kid yourself.
We both work for big oil.
We all do.
- Titi's alert. She remembers
what happened.
[I'll put her on.]
Go ahead, Titi.
- Just tell us everything
you remember from that night.
- I was with my family.
We were very sleepy
after we ate all our food.
Mama tucked me in.
She seemed sad.
- Be strong.
- Look after
your little brother.
Always remember
your father
is a great man.
- I fell asleep.
When I woke up,
we were outside.
I couldn't see Mama
and Papa.
That bad man was there.
He tried to grab Kunle.
The white man saved us.
[He hid us so the bad man
wouldn't find us.]
- Do you remember
what happened after that?
- I fell asleep again.
Then I saw
him.
Where are Mama and Papa?
- Could you give us a moment,
please?
- Sure.
- Thank you.
- So, what are we doing?
- We? You will be arrested.
You will remain briefly
in Canadian custody.
Then you will be extradited.
- To prison?
No way.
[Laughing softly]
- I'm not going to make a double
murder charge disappear.
- Listen to me, Agent LaGarda.
The Company might have
recruited me in jail,
but I don't plan
on ending up there.
I might get bored. I've done
a lot of work for the Company
over these years,
you understand me?
- Really?
You would betray the safety
of the United States
to save your own skin?
- No, but you get me out of
these cuffs and you give me
a 5 minute head start
and I'll disappear.
- What are you doing?
- She asked me to step out.
- McKay's gone.
Get the word out.
He's presumed
armed and dangerous.
- Suspect at large.
[10-30-alpha. 10-30-echo.]
- Drop the weapon.
- I can't do that.
- I'm going out that hatch,
Major.
[Two gunshots]
- I just heard back from
Winnipeg. It's dengue fever.
The fatality rate
is less than 10%.
I've lifted the quarantine.
And we'll transfer them
to the hospital.
- Hospital?
- It's okay. We're going
to go with you.
- So how you figure this is
going to play in Virginia?
- Like it always does--
denial and distance.
A rogue soldier acting alone.
- We'll make arrangements
to ship the body home.
- Were you just following
orders back there?
- What do you mean?
- You know exactly what I mean.
- You might want to thank me
for saving your life.
Or maybe some other time.
[Crowd clamouring]
- Motumbo's followers
reacting to his death.
This guy seems to be
the man of the hour.
- Jackie Ogansi.
- You know him?
- Textbook sociopath.
They're going to wish they never
got rid of Motumbo.