The Equalizer (2021) s01e09 Episode Script

1 Previously on The Equalizer WOMAN: Please - I've got nowhere else to turn.
- What do you want to do? ROBYN: I'm the one you call when you can't call 911.
This is Melody, one of my oldest friends.
How's it going, Harry? I need those freaky-ass - superpowers of yours.
- Got my cape? I've known for a long time what you do.
Not specifically.
But I've got a pretty good idea who you work for.
- Where is Carter? - Let him go.
- You're pissed, I get it, but we - There is no we.
No more cooperation, no more quid pro quo.
Whatever this partnership was, it's over.
A collar like that could make a person's career.
And the next time I see you, I'm taking you down.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING) (WATER RUNNING) - Elias? - (WATER STOPS) Oh, my God, what happened? It's nothing, Mandy.
Go back to sl - You're hurt.
- It's a nosebleed.
All right (STAMMERS) We got that new barcode system at the hardware store.
Being floor manager, I'm running point.
And I guess the pressure's getting to me.
Talk to me, Elias.
Tell me what's been going on.
Everything will make sense soon.
Tomorrow night, you're gonna be real proud of me.
DELILAH: Come on, Mom, it'll be fun! I'm sorry, Dee, but I can't.
Okay, but it's a "Shake It with Your Family" dance challenge.
And you're my family.
With a job I'd like to keep.
And the last thing my charity clients need to see is me twerking online.
No, you do not need to twerk, please.
You can Milly rock.
- You want me, you want me to twerk? - Or do the Oh, no! Look, my friends have already posted their videos.
And they all look great.
I'd ask Kelly, - but she's out of town.
- You do these videos with your stepmom? Yeah, all the time.
But I would rather do them with you.
At least think about it? Okay, I will hit you back this afternoon once I see what my day is like.
Cool.
This whole social media thing.
You you can't afford to have your face out there, - can you? - No.
Monitoring what people know about me online is it's my big compromise.
I can't put my family in danger by exposing my identity.
And I thought you were just camera-shy.
Just careful.
But I miss out on a lot.
It's just a silly video.
Yeah, but I would love to be the good guy in her life for a change.
You already are.
But yet (SIGHS) It's the little things, Aunt Vi.
That's what they remember.
And all I keep giving her is excuses.
Stop.
She's not gonna disown you, and she's not gonna write some kind of spiteful memoir.
Is she really doing these videos with Kelly? Have you seen 'em? Mm-hmm.
- (BEEPS) - Fun with it Baby girl just want to have fun with it ROBYN: - What? - Kelly ain't got no rhythm.
- (LAUGHS) I mean, like, none.
NONE.
(CHUCKLES): No.
- (PHONE CHIMES) - Uh-uh.
I ain't worried about that.
I got to go.
Someone's in trouble.
AMANDA: I've never seen this knife or this shirt before.
That's a lot of blood.
And you're sure it's not his? I looked for a wound or an injury when he was asleep, and there was nothing.
And then when I tried to talk to him this morning, he told me that he had to leave town for a few days.
Did he say why? He said it was for work.
But he didn't bring his phone or his wallet or his Saint Christopher pendant.
His father gave him that.
He never takes that off.
Has anything happened to him lately? Uh, any trouble with anyone? Not that he told me.
But he he became secretive ever s-since - Since what? - Those are our boys, Sammy and Daniel.
Elias lives for them.
And a few months ago, Sammy had appendicitis.
And there were complications and surgeries, but Elias wouldn't leave his hospital room for days.
How's Sammy now? He's fine.
That's the thing.
But Elias It's like this cloud came over him.
He became withdrawn.
He took extra shifts at the hardware store to start paying the medical bills.
And he started taking work calls at all hours.
My husband, he's a good man.
He's kind.
He's never even been in a fight.
But something's wrong, and he's not telling me.
And the thing that scares me most is, before he left, he said that things would be different soon, that, after tonight, I would be proud of him.
HARRY: Yeah.
There is definitely something up with this guy.
He deleted all his social media three weeks ago, and he's been using a secure browser to cover his tracks.
What about the phone his wife gave us? Wiped clean.
It's a lot of cloak-and-dagger for someone who works at a hardware store.
It gets cloakier.
I ran the family's financials.
And the Wilsons are They're basically broke.
A lot of money going out, not a lot coming in.
MEL: I think I know why.
I reached out to his job at Barham's Hardware.
He was let go five months ago.
Corporate cutbacks.
Oof.
He was fired and didn't tell his wife? Ugh.
So if he hasn't been going to work every day, where's he been going? I bet he didn't know enough to delete his GPS metadata.
Yeah, I can't tell you where he is, but I can tell you where he's been.
And he's been riding the 7 Train back and forth all day, using their Wi-Fi.
That's weird.
Cheap place to work from? He ever get off? Yeah.
Hunters Point.
Five times in the last ten days, including last night.
Looks like he went into this alley here.
- Can we get eyes on it? - There's a pawn shop right down the street.
I can probably get the video off the security cameras.
Speaking of videos, what do you know about TikToks? Other than the fact that I consider them the scourge - of Western civilization? - You think everything's a scourge.
Everything is a scourge.
I just wanted to know whether I can post one without it going viral.
Going viral's the point.
That's why it's a scourge.
I mean, you know, people can't turn away.
And you shouldn't.
Hello? Kittens dressed up as celebrities? Come on.
- (CHUCKLES) Jay-Z with the whiskers? - (CHUCKLES) - Yeah, J.
Lo with the Versace.
(LAUGHS) - (CHUCKLES) No.
Will Smith - In the green! - (LAUGHS) - Ah! That's unbelievable.
(LAUGHING) - Yeah, okay, okay.
Okay, I-I'm Here we go.
- ROBYN: There's Elias.
- MEL: He's going to that storage space.
HARRY: At 2:00 in the morning? Yeah, that's not suspicious.
Fast-forward.
MEL: He was meeting people.
HARRY: Oh, we got a bleeder.
ROBYN: Back up and zoom in.
HARRY: That guy's wrist is pretty messed up.
ROBYN: Can't see their faces.
But teapots Just like Elias's shirt.
What are these guys doing? One way to find out.
Ran that photo you gave me through the military's facial rec software.
Nothing.
Come on, Bo.
(EXHALES) I know you didn't come all the way over from your cushy desk at the DoD to show me nothing.
We got this software in beta that scans photos to create a full-body blueprint.
And I found something.
This is from a forward operating base in Kandahar, circa 2008.
That's her.
You got a name for me? This woman's not in any databases by design.
Meaning that picture slipped through the cracks.
What's that patch on her sleeve? 6-8-3.
Classified unit with the highest clearance.
Military intelligence.
What's this about, Marcus? Professional curiosity.
Advice from an old friend I'd lose the curiosity.
They hosed it down.
(EXHALES) With bleach.
Like they're trying to cover up evidence.
Of what? Organ harvesting? Some kind of fight club? Got some screws here.
Some clipped tubing.
Tubing? (SNIFFING) You smell that? Almonds? That smells like Homemade C-4.
That's not tubing.
It's a detonating cord.
They're building a bomb.
"After tonight, you'll be proud of me.
" That's what Elias said to his wife.
Terrorists I profiled, they said things like that right before an attack.
Which means whatever they're planning It's gonna happen tonight.
So, the little teapot on their shirts is a symbol for an alt-right group called the Truth Trappers.
They've been flagged by DHS as possible extremists.
They're basically a QAnon-type group.
You know? Lots of deep state paranoia, talk of revolution and references to an event called The Reckoning, which is basically the violent overthrow of the government by disempowered "patriots.
" You know, why is it, when you want to overthrow the government, you're only a patriot if you're white? MEL: Elias is a family man.
He's got no history of violence.
I mean, the guy, he coaches Little League.
He volunteers at a soup kitchen.
How does a guy like that go down a rabbit hole like this? All too easy.
Sick kid, no job, no insurance.
Bottom ripped out from under him.
He's actually the perfect target for groups like this.
They tell him this is not supposed to happen to someone who looks like you, not in their America, that he's being stolen from, that someone else is to blame.
They just poison 'em with hate.
Same way al-Qaeda recruits.
Yeah, with the same violent results.
Any chatter on the socials? Uh, something that might give us an indication of a target? No.
But, I mean, with all the lunacy on these forums, I mean, uh, the target could be anything from a water purification plant to the Statue of Liberty.
How 'bout his pals? Video was too grainy to I.
D.
them.
But I was able to run the numbers on the det cord, and it matches a batch sent to the NYPD.
NYPD? A cop's involved? (EXHALES) We have to bring them in on this.
Dante? Robyn, no.
After what happened with the serial killer, you know he's hunting you.
Then let's give him something else to hunt.
(PHONE VIBRATES) Yeah? Look up.
I told you, we're not doing this anymore.
Check your passenger seat.
You should find a det cord and a flash drive containing video from a garage at 1722 Pearson Place.
And this should interest me why? Because I have intel that the four guys in that video plan on detonating a bomb somewhere in the city tonight.
And one of them is a cop.
And you know this how? The intel is solid.
They belong to some right-wing conspiracy group called the Truth Trappers.
If there really is a bomber out there, let alone if a cop's in the mix, you need to stay the hell out of it.
You do your job.
I'll do mine.
So, how long were you military intelligence? Come again? Kandahar's a long way from New York, but not long enough to keep me from picking up your trail.
You still too blind to see we're on the same side, huh? Not even close.
You're on one side of the street, I'm on the other.
The dirty cop, the bomb.
If I were you, those are the only things I'd be on the trail of.
(LINE BEEPING) AMANDA: This just doesn't make any sense.
The man I fell in love with would never hurt anyone.
Did he visit any places that struck you as odd, or tell you he was going somewhere new? No, that's the problem.
He didn't tell me anything.
Anybody you didn't recognize come to see him? - No.
- Strange emails, conversations you may have overheard that didn't make any sense? No, but I did wake up a few times in the middle of the night and catch him on some website.
He said he was catching up on inventory, but if he wasn't working Do you recall the name of the site? I didn't see a name, but there was this weird symbol.
A megaphone with a giant "S" on it.
The site is called Squawkist.
It's an ultra-secure messaging platform catering to alt-rights who want to fly under the radar.
Founded by a guy named Cody Beamon.
MEL: College dropout, pretends to be some kind of libertarian icon, but it's a front.
He's desperate to cash in.
He's looking for investors to fund him to an IPO.
What's Elias's presence like on the site? HARRY: A bunch of posts in the last few weeks alone.
Dozens of DMs, but I can't access the server.
If Elias and his crew are planning an attack, it could be in those DMs.
We've got to get in there.
Yeah, I-I know, but the whole point of Squawkist is its secrecy.
You know, there are layers and layers of encryption.
Okay, so how much time do you need? If the bombing is tonight, too much.
All right, well, Beamon wants money, huh? If we can't hack in, we can get invited in.
Mel, you want to take a meeting? (INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER) So, your vigilante, - was she right? - Yes, ma'am.
CSU confirmed evidence of bomb-making material.
- Who owns the garage? - Tri-Borough Storage.
Took a six-month cash advance from a guy with a baseball cap and a fake I.
D.
Video's too low-grade to I.
D.
any of them, but the det cord is from our supply room.
I'm getting the names of every cop who had access to it the past three months.
(SIGHS) Keep the circle tight.
The last thing we need is the public panicking about a cop with a bomb.
And, plus, if word got out we were hunting him, he might go to ground.
Did your Equalizer happen to mention a target? No.
I have Counterterrorism generating a list, but it's New York.
There will be hundreds of targets.
Do whatever it takes to stop this thing.
Even if it means working with her? Two birds, Detective.
Keep her close.
Once you've stopped the bomb, arrest her.
Squawkist had almost 330,000 unique users last month.
Up 140% year-to-date.
And 245 million DMs.
MEL: That growth is what piqued my fund's interest, - Mr.
Beamon.
- HARRY: Okay.
Bait the hook.
All right? A little skepticism.
Look, the high-net-worth investors I represent, they don't have political concerns, but they do have legal ones, and being exposed by extremist views expressed - by some of your subscribers - Oh, no, we have no liability as a third-party publisher.
That's black letter law.
Did he just ogle you? Is he ogling you? - (BEEPS) - Did you just mute me? Uh, we are no more morally responsible for our users' speech than a burger joint is for their customers' health.
All we do is provide a platform.
We enfranchise the disenfranchised, and in return, my proprietary algorithms are able to target our users based on their DMs.
And division drives profits.
The angrier they are, the more they buy.
We get them coming and going.
MEL: You have access to their DMs? I mean, I thought your site was all about privacy.
BEAMON: Well, from the government.
But not our marketing department.
That's the genius part.
And it's all legit.
Our terms of service give us access to everything.
These wing nuts are gonna make me rich.
But if you have access to their DMs, how can your users feel secure? Because what they don't know won't hurt them.
We tout two layers of encryption, but I can get through the firewalls with the stroke of a key.
Behold.
(BEEPS) HARRY: Okay, yes, thank you for the unmute.
Now get-get in closer.
Good, good, good.
Yeah.
Yes.
I'm in.
All right, later, babe.
Hey, Murtaugh.
My son's Scout troop's selling raffle tickets if you're interested.
Hmm.
Eh, it's not my kind of prizes.
I'll pass.
Not a problem.
Have you seen these message boards? Politicians owning sex slaves.
Nukes stored in preschools.
How do you even begin to believe this stuff? The human mind is designed to see patterns in the world.
Helps us to survive.
But sometimes it sees patterns that aren't there.
It's called apophenia.
The tendency to draw connections between unrelated phenomena.
"Oh, the crops aren't growing, blame the lunar eclipse.
" Except in this case, the whole setup is predatory.
It drives me crazy, to see these otherwise reasonable people sucked in by these hate-mongers.
They use the same technique as role-playing games.
The participants are intrigued by the clues, you know, the sense of belonging to a secret community railing against a corrupt system.
So the more they play, the more obsessed they get.
It's insidious.
It's a feedback loop designed to hijack the brain.
- Oh, man.
- What? Elias's DMs.
Nothing specific about the bomb or the target, but, uh, this is from this morning, okay? Uh, he gets a message from username FP99.
"We still on?" ROBYN: "Yes, but trouble at home.
Staying at 2167112 now.
" "Sit tight.
I'll bring you the package at 4:00 p.
m.
"? Harry, that's 40 minutes from now.
I mean, that number could be a mnemonic, it could be a secret code.
Homegrown extremists don't tend to be so sophisticated.
Why don't you try an address? 2167112, it doesn't correspond to any relevant locations.
Break it up.
21, 67, 112th Street.
Okay.
We got three locations.
One is a chicken joint in Brooklyn.
One is a car dealership in Manhattan.
And the other is Mike's Motor Lodge in Queens.
My money's on the motor lodge.
DANTE: What are you up to, Murtaugh? Dispatch, this is Two Lincoln Five.
Bombing suspect just entered the premises to meet with at least one coconspirator.
I'll need immediate backup at this location.
DISPATCHER: Two Lincoln Five, copy.
This is the trigger.
All you got to do is plug it into the detonator on the bomb and walk away.
You sure about this? What do you mean? Just maybe, uh, maybe there's another way? To stand up for ourselves, you know? Make our point? You're scared.
I get it.
Fighting for our rights is scary.
But having our country stolen right out from under us is even scarier.
How long has society crapped on guys like us? But no more.
They'll write about this moment.
When patriots fought back against the system that ruined our country.
You saying you don't have the balls to take back what's ours? No, no, no.
Yeah? Sorry to bother you.
I'm the manager.
I got a call from the room below about a leak.
- I got to check it out.
- There's no leak.
ROBYN: Well, I got multiple calls, so I have to confirm that.
Look, lady, I said there's no Damn it.
- Pick up the gun, Elias! - Don't do it.
I'm a friend, and you haven't done anything you can't walk away from yet.
You can still make the right choice.
(SIREN WAILING) Get out of here, Elias! Now! - Don't - (GRUNTING) Freeze! (BOTH GRUNTING) - Freeze.
- Easy, Dante.
Hands behind your back, Murtaugh.
(HANDCUFFS CLICKING) (TIRES SCREECHING, SIRENS WAILING) (VEHICLE DOORS OPEN, CLOSE) OFFICER (DISTANT): Seal it off! Harry, it's me.
Elias took off, and I think he has the bomb.
I grabbed the plate off his car.
Yeah, what do you got? Late-model Ford pickup, LICENSE: XJ43724.
It's a rental.
But insurance companies require active GPS to guard against theft.
Can you get me a location? Stand by.
(KEYS CLICKING) Guess I should've bought that raffle ticket, huh? Tell me about the Truth Trappers.
- Never heard of them.
- I got you meeting with a terrorist suspect at that motel room.
You mean my C.
I.
Got you signing out the det cord we found in that garage.
Requisitioned it for a training exercise.
Got you with the same injury as the bomb maker in that picture.
Yeah, I don't know anything about any of that.
But I do know that you just arrested another cop.
Meaning you turned on one of your own.
(LAUGHS) You're not one of my own.
Damn straight.
I'm a decorated police officer being set up by a desperate detective.
That bomb goes off, anybody dies, breaks a nail, you'll pay for it the rest of your life.
Give up the names of your co-conspirators, the time and place of the bombing.
Lawyer.
Union rep.
I got a date.
(PHONE RINGS) Talk to me.
What do you got? DELILAH: Okay.
(CHUCKLES) Someone's stressed out.
Oh.
(CHUCKLES) Hey, babe.
Sorry.
Just, um, j-just waiting on a work thing.
So, our video.
I found an amazing song.
Yeah.
About that - Here, I'll play it for you.
- ROBYN: Dee, I'm really in the middle of something right now.
Okay.
Um, well, then, I'll play it later.
I promise, you'll love it.
- It's perfect for us.
- ROBYN: Good.
That sounds great.
I can't wait.
(PHONE RINGS) Talk to me, Harry.
- What do you got? - He's downtown.
Financial District.
Parked right by the entrance to an electrical substation.
- ROBYN: Downtown.
I'm on my way.
- (TIRES SQUEALING) (WHIRRING) (LOCK CLICKS) DANTE: Record's clean.
And I ran him through our counterterrorism database.
No links between him and the Truth Trappers.
So you're sure he's the right guy? It's not your vigilante playing you? Not her style.
He's the guy.
He just knows how to cover his tracks.
Can you fast-track a warrant for Murtaugh's place? I can reach out to Judge Oshida.
Because you're sure.
Yes, ma'am.
(DOOR OPENS) (DOOR CLOSES) ROBYN: I know why you're having second thoughts.
Makes sense.
Because you know what you're doing is wrong.
Who are you? Amanda sent me.
To help you.
She doesn't want to lose you.
You blow the relay, Lower Manhattan goes dark, maybe you kill a bunch of people.
What do you accomplish? It'll make them see us.
The banks, the-the hedge funds forcing people like me from our jobs so they can squeeze out a few more bucks.
I can't put food on my family's table.
They're making billions.
Yeah.
I get it.
You're angry.
So, why don't you, uh, put that detonator down.
Let's me and you talk about that.
I'm done talking.
- (GUN CLICKS) - You're one of them.
I knew it! I had to stop you, Elias, even if you don't know why.
You haven't stopped anything.
We're just getting started.
Yo, Suarez.
- Tell me you found something.
- Nothing.
Tossed every inch of the place.
Murtaugh's clean.
There's got to be something.
Clean, Marcus.
I got to say, going after our own? That's not good for any of us.
(PHONE VIBRATING) Yeah? - Where you at with the cop? - DANTE: Dead end.
Which is on you for blowing my surveillance.
Now I got you for obstruction, conspiracy - I stopped the bombing.
- How? It doesn't matter.
But the guy I'm grilling admitted that it was just a diversion to draw the cops and the FDNY away from the real target.
- Wait, you have one of them? - ROBYN: Listen to me.
- Hand him over right now.
- ROBYN: If you think you know anything about me, then you know I have advanced interrogation skills.
I can't serve him up to someone who does not do the job as well.
40,000 cops in this city, but you're better than all of them, right? Wake up, Dante.
I'm saying there's another bomb.
So forget your manual for ten seconds and help me.
I sent you something.
I need you to pull prints.
And don't worry.
I removed the detonator.
(LINE BEEPS) Get forensics up here right now.
He's ready.
HARRY: How you gonna reach a victim of mind control? Of big-data manipulation? He's never gonna tell you where that second bomb is.
I mean, you can't reason with a crazy person.
Not crazy.
Lost.
You know, we had this, uh, suspect in Kabul once.
We brought him in.
He was all wild-eyed and ranting about snakes crawling all over him.
And you convinced him there weren't any snakes.
No.
I took the snakes off of him.
(TRAIN CLACKING IN DISTANCE) I'm not your enemy, Elias.
I am your way out.
But you got to talk to me.
You'll hear what I have to say in a few hours when the other bomb goes off.
You're NSA, right? Like I told you, Amanda sent me.
You left your Saint Christopher medal at home.
Scared her to death.
She told me you're a good dad.
How you would never leave Sammy's bedside when he was sick.
What do you know about it? I know what it's like to almost lose a child.
When your kid has pneumonia and you rush her to the hospital in your pajamas because they swore that the fever was gonna break, but it's now hitting 105, and you're praying that you make it to the ER in time.
All you want to do is protect them.
And when you can't, you just feel like Weak.
Like you failed this innocent child.
And your only job was to protect them.
And then the medical bills start coming in.
I mean, what's your kid to them then? Just a debt to be collected? A debt you can't pay because they rewarded your loyalty with a pink slip.
What is she doing? She's taking off the snakes.
Yeah, well, she better take them off a little faster.
We're running out of time.
(CHUCKLING SOFTLY) My daughter's into these TikTok videos.
I don't know if you've seen these things.
You Are your boys into them? Have they gotten you to do one yet? You did one.
I can I can tell you've already done it.
See, those are the good things.
You know, the moments that make all the fights and the yelling and the homework and It's all worth it.
(LAUGHS) Just want to give them joy.
I mean, that's what it's about, right? Now imagine they're gone.
Your boys.
Or worse.
Imagine they are in a hospital with their limbs blown away.
Because that's what bombs do.
They don't care who's a patriot, who's deep state, and they sure don't care who's an innocent child.
Is that how you want to be remembered? As someone who did that to kids? Kids like yours.
No.
That's I am a patriot, and this is a war.
And in a war, there are casualties.
All right? We are taking our country back.
Are you? Or is that what they want you to think? You're right.
There is conspiracy.
Just not the one you think.
You're being manipulated for money.
My proprietary algorithms are able to target our users based on their DMs.
And division drives profits.
The angrier they are, the more they buy.
We get them coming and going.
The owner of Squawkist getting rich off of you.
No.
That-That's a fake.
That's a deepfake.
No.
And there's more.
CSU found two sets of prints off the bomb.
Ed Burton, a high school gym teacher, and Tim Fogel, a short-order cook.
Both guys called in sick today.
These are worker bees, not strategic thinkers.
Murtaugh's the only one with tactical training.
So that's our ringleader.
And he has SWAT training, which means he would've cased a target.
Which could be anything.
Check his radio logs.
See where he's been the past few months.
ELIAS: You're just You're trying to get in my head and manipulate me, but I know what's real.
You know what's real? But what if you're wrong? What does that make you then? A patriot or just a terrorist? Is that the legacy you want to leave your boys? What will you mean to Sammy and Daniel when you're gone? Because with that bomb out there, that's what you need to decide.
Right now.
And you can't take it back, ever.
So who are you, Elias? Loving father, protector? (SIGHS) Or a murderer? (SIGHS) Where is the second bomb? Murtaugh never told us the second target.
Said it was, uh, for our safety.
Well, what did he say? Uh, he was always talking about immigrants.
Immigrants ruining the country, cutting in line, taking jobs from real Americans.
He said tonight was payback.
SUAREZ: Murtaugh was out of his beat's perimeter a dozen times the past few months.
Midtown, the substation and Brooklyn Heights.
Could have been targeting anything in the surrounding blocks.
Searching the other areas could take weeks, and that bomb's going off tonight.
Notify the local precincts.
(PHONE VIBRATING) - DANTE: Dante.
- Immigration It was Murtaugh's obsession.
We've narrowed his target area to 35th and Tenth in Midtown, Henry and Clark in Brooklyn Heights.
Stand by, Dante.
Harry? There.
Hudson University International Housing.
That school's a magnet for foreign students.
Building's hosting a big outreach mixer there tonight.
Lots of leading immigration advocates.
It's the perfect target.
Hudson University International Housing in the Heights.
DANTE: I know that building.
Been a ton of security there since 9/11.
Be hard to smuggle a bomb in.
You don't need to.
It sits on top of a subway maintenance tunnel.
You blow the tunnel The building comes down.
Please remain calm and move towards the exits.
(WOMAN SCREAMS) Guess we're on the same side of the street now.
So tell me what we're looking for.
Well, if it were me, I would go for something that would compromise the whole structure.
Like a strut or a beam? Or a pillar.
Clear the room.
Check those corners.
(TRAIN CLACKING NEARBY) Cell phone trigger.
Could go off any second.
All they have to do is call, and boom.
This tunnel, the building, everything will be rubble.
Bomb squad's ten minutes out.
We need to fall back.
Well, how long before they evacuate the building? 15, but that's optimistic.
No time.
We'll have to do this ourselves.
Okay, I've seen this trigger before.
It's got a backup lithium battery.
You cut one of the wires from the cell to the detonator, the lithium battery kicks in and completes the circuit, blowing the C-4, vaporizing us.
Tell me there's a work-around.
Yeah, I just have to find the right wires.
It's been about eight years.
Okay.
These two.
You sure? We'll find out soon.
We have to cut 'em at the exact same time.
Can't do it alone.
All right.
Give you a count.
On three.
One.
Two.
- Three.
- (BEEPS) (SIGHS, LAUGHS) (LAUGHS) (PHONE RINGING) Boom, you son of a bitch.
(LAUGHS) You okay? Yeah, I'm good.
And I'm sorry.
For what? For placing you under arrest.
Seriously? After all the lives we just saved? You don't want to do this.
It's not about "want.
" It's about the law.
Then I'm sorry, too.
(GRUNTING) The law's not always right.
Hands up.
Don't shoot.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
She found you.
Thank God.
Amanda, a lot has happened Things that I did and was a part of.
I should have told you.
I need to own it now, all of it.
You should've trusted me.
What happens now? I found a lawyer that'll negotiate his surrender.
Of course, he's gonna have to testify against the other Truth Trappers, pay for what he's done.
I may need to go away from you and the boys for a while.
Maybe for a long while.
If not for you, it would have been worse.
(CRYING): I don't even know what's real anymore.
Daddy! Oh.
Hey, I am going to make this up to you guys.
I promise, no matter how long it takes.
Time to go.
Mm.
(DOOR CLOSES) The co-conspirators have been taken into custody.
So the cell is officially defunct? Yes, ma'am.
Nice work, Detective.
The city is very grateful.
It'll be even more grateful now that you can focus all your energies on the apprehension of the vigilante.
I'm afraid I can't do that.
I thought we had an understanding.
We did.
I was going to use my connection to the vigilante to compromise her.
I've done that.
My affidavit.
It sets out my testimony that she resisted arrest, assaulted two officers.
Evidence which allows for the immediate issuance of an arrest warrant.
One that given your unique relationship You're in the best position to execute.
I was also in the best position to end this today, once and for all, because I had a clean shot.
But I didn't take it.
Meaning perhaps I'm the one who's been compromised, and this matter should be reassigned.
I'll call if your statement needs amending.
HARRY: Oh, hey.
Bad news.
Somehow audio of Mel's conversation with Cody Beamon got leaked to the media, and Squawkist has gone practically dark the last couple hours.
Which means Cody Beamon's dreams of an IPO? Are dead.
It's tragic.
Only you're not smiling.
Well, it's just a Band-Aid.
There'll be another Squawkist, another Truth Trappers.
You take down one cell Another one pops up.
It's whack-a-mole.
Yeah, until we deal with the greater social issues.
But that's tomorrow's problem.
Tonight, my job is to make a dance video with my daughter.
- Hey! - Oh, come on! What about the viral scourge? Scourgey virus? You know why they call it "TikTok," don't you? - Mm.
- Because its time is almost up.
(LAUGHS) Why are you laughing? Hello? Hey, so, it's about synchronization.
- Yes, that's the key, okay? - Mom.
- (LAUGHTER) - Listen! - We got it.
Just go and set up everything so we can get into character.
- Okay.
Okay.
- Thank you.
(LAUGHS) How's my bruise? Bruise is concealed.
Some of my best work.
Are you sure about this? I never been more sure about anything.
This is the good stuff in life.
I'm not gonna miss it.
Got to fight all that darkness out there with joy.
(SNAPS FINGERS) That's how we win.
Just hope your idea works.
- Ready? Okay! - She too cool.
She too All right, let me All right, okay, okay.
Okay, let's do it, let's do it.
- Yo.
Uh-huh.
- All right.
We've got this.
("LEVITATING" BY DUA LIPA PLAYING) If you want to run away with me, I know a galaxy - And I can take you for a ride - (WHOOPING) I had a premonition that we fell into a rhythm - Where the music don't stop for life - What is it with cats? Glitter in the sky Glitter in my eyes Seriously? Just the way I like it Come on.
- Harry! Come on, let's go.
- Oh, come on.
Mm-hmm.
Come on, dance with me, Harry.
Come on! - Don't tell anybody, okay? - No, never.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah - I got you, moonlight - (LAUGHS) Yes! - You're my starlight - Show them how you get them - I need you all night - Ooh Come on, dance with me, I'm levitating - You, moonlight - Oh! You're my starlight, I need you All night, I'm levitating.