The Firm (2012) s01e09 Episode Script

Previously on The Firm McDeere still doesn't know anything.
He thinks Sarah Holt was hacking into Noble Insurance.
And you know this how? McDeere told me.
He trusts me.
We can't take that chance; McDeere needs to go.
The police think McDeere killed Moxon.
If McDeere turns up dead, it's only going to heat up the investigation.
Then what do you suggest? We spin him.
Bring McDeere in and tell him a story.
Those men that were following you, they were Noble investigators.
Investigators who I understand got wildly overzealous.
They never should have chased you.
Again, on behalf of Noble, please accept our apology.
I'm just glad it's done now.
We can all get back to our normal lives.
- They switched the document.
- Who? I don't know, but that's why we got it back.
Whoever did this wants us to think we still have it so that we go down the wrong path.
They didn't buy it.
Well at least he doesn't know who's behind it.
For now, but how much longer can we hold them off? Go to your window, do it now.
Oh my god.
You just couldn't let it go, could you? Talk to me, Andrew, tell me what I'm looking at.
The end, Mitch.
You're looking at the end.
Get the hell out of there.
Listen to me, the spot we first met, do you remember? Mitch Mitch! What about it? Get there if you can, and be waiting.
If I don't see you, I'll know you didn't get out.
Free seats in a luxury box, limo to the stadium, Kinross is really rolling out the red carpet.
Yeah, it does feel like something has changed.
Like this is some kind of smoke-screen.
They bring you in, blame Moxon, calm you down and they treat you like you're their favorite lawyer.
- Thanks, Tommy.
- Sure things, Mr.
McDeere.
Thank you.
I thought Kinross was involved because they represent Noble Insurance.
But it has to be more than that.
I don't think we can trust Alex Clark.
Little brother, I don't think we can trust anybody.
I figured the only time I'd ride in one of these is the day I die.
That's a hearse, Ray, not a limousine.
Oh, did I say died? I meant the day I got married.
Married, you? Don't look so surprised.
You're kidding.
I thought the "Big M" wasn't your thing.
If it doesn't work out, I can always get the a "Big D".
Lucky for me, my brother's a lawyer.
Congratulations, man, I am happy for you.
Thank you.
I am happy for you both.
I'm gonna get her a ring.
I know this guy who moves diamonds.
Moves them where? Don't worry.
I'm pretty sure it's legal.
Why are we stopping? I don't know, where are we? Barrow Street, this isn't right.
Ray McDeere, please step out of the vehicle, sir.
What the hell's going on? Are you Ray McDeere? - Where's Tommy? - Your driver's fine, sir.
He'll have a small headache when he gets up.
I didn't hurt him.
Who are you? US Army Sgt.
Leonard Debs.
I'm the one who commandeered your vehicle.
Why did you do that, Sergeant? Because I need to speak to Ray McDeere.
I don't mean you any harm, but this is an emergency.
You just committed felony kidnapping.
- Do I know you? - No, sir.
But you know my lieutenant, Lt Givens, you worked his divorce.
He says you're a great investigator.
Sergeant, give me the keys.
If you need an investigator, use the phone and make an appointment.
My son was murdered three days ago.
- Well then call the police.
- I did.
I went to them a dozen times, but they won't even investigate without a body.
They made me file a missing person's report.
How do you know he's not missing? My son is dead.
If there is no body, how do you know that? That's why I brought you here, sir.
Let me show you, please.
His name's Rashad, he's 21.
Until 2 weeks ago, he lived with his mother, here in DC.
What happened two weeks ago? My wife, Charlene, she passed, breast cancer.
Sorry for your loss.
Rashad was supposed to meet me at the airport.
The night I landed, he called me to say he couldn't meet me.
Said he was calling to say goodbye.
Did you ask him what he meant? I tried.
Before he could answer, I heard a gunshot.
I know that sound.
And Rashad, he made this noise.
I'll never forget the rest of my life.
Then the phone went dead.
This phone.
I have a friend, we served together.
She works for the phone company.
She looked up the number for me.
I got here about two hours after it happened.
And you didn't find anything? No, no blood, no body.
There was a power line crew working at the front of the alley.
The foreman said they didn't see Rashad.
The phone receiver was wiped clean.
It was clean, or it was wiped clean? No fingerprints of any kind.
I checked the hospitals, morgues, city shelters.
No one's seen my son since that night.
He missed his mother's funeral.
You said you saw a power line crew.
I don't get that, because this alley doesn't have any power lines running through it.
Hey, Ray.
What? Look at that.
- That look new to you? - Yeah.
Get it off.
What does that look like to you? Same thing it looks like to you, a bullet hole.
Yeah, a bullet hole somebody didn't want us to see.
Look at that, it's new.
Please.
Help me find my son.
A bullet hole.
So you think his son is dead? I honestly don't know.
If he is, then where is the body? I called the precinct, I'm trying to get the police to start an investigation.
Claire, we're out of here in 2 minutes! It's just such bad timing.
The story we got from Kevin Stack over at Noble, that Martin Moxon was stealing from the company? - I don't buy it.
- Neither do I.
If he was embezzling, then why slip me the numbers? And what does his stealing have to do with Sarah Holt? It sounds like a cover story.
Exactly.
We have enough trying to figure out this Sarah case, much less running all over town trying to find a missing person.
But you're taking the case? Actually, it's not my case, it's Ray's.
Apparently he's been doing some PI work on his own.
Actually, I was thinking I'd do a little work on the side myself.
Really? Andrew said Martin Moxon was married, that he and his wife were having troubles.
I thought that maybe I would call her, and try to connect.
If her husband was upset enough to kill himself, she must have some idea why.
Okay, just be careful.
I will.
I'm very delicate.
Claire, if you're not down here in 30 seconds, I'm coming up there get you! Delicate.
Rashad Debs, 21.
Handsome.
My best guess, drug related.
You think so? Come on, bro.
He got shot at a payphone in a high crime area.
Only two kinds of people use payphones.
Drug dealers and nobody.
Well that kind of narrows it down.
He got jacked.
He was either buying or selling.
Maybe.
This is your case.
I'm just along for the ride.
But where is the body? What kind of drug dealer plasters up a wall? Two very good questions, Ray.
You know, if it was an easy case, debs wouldn't have hired me, he would have hired Mitch.
Okay, boss, what's next? Divide and conquer.
You and I go see Debs, get this thing solved behind us, Tammy, you lead the charge on Moxon.
Works for me.
I'm dying to know what happened to Rashad, but I'm all about these numbers right now.
Yeah, all two of them.
Maybe two's all we need.
I was thinking Sarah got into the Noble database from her desk at work, right? Yeah, because they're all connected to the same mainframe.
So maybe I could do the same thing.
If I get on one of these computers at a Noble company, I could look up the numbers we have left.
That is actually a brilliant idea.
See if anyone's hiring.
It's time for you to get a new job.
Charlene and I bought this house when Rashad was a boy.
Lived in Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan I'm gone more than I'm here.
This is how I found the place.
Shades drawn, doors locked, no food in the refrigerator.
- Your wife died two weeks ago? - Yeah.
I couldn't bear coming home to her things.
Rashad promised he'd get them together.
But he never touched anything.
How was your relationship with Rashad? - Were you close? - No.
We used to be.
But with me gone these last few years he resented me leaving.
Even more so with his mom being sick.
Once, almost a year ago now, he told me he hated me.
Excuse me.
Oh, hello, Leonard.
I'm Karen Walter, I live just across the street.
- I saw your shades go up.
- Please, come in.
We didn't get a chance to talk at Charlene's funeral.
I'm so sorry.
Thank you.
These are my friends, Mitch and Ray McDeere.
- Hello.
- Hello.
I actually was hoping you were Rashad.
I haven't seen him in a few days, and I've been worried.
Not that I've seen him a lot lately.
Why is that? Rashad's in and out all hours.
And he's been angry, and deeply unhappy.
Angry about something.
Know what that key's for? No, I've never seen it before.
Mind if I take it? Not at all, please.
I'll give it to Tammy, maybe she can run it down.
Hello? I'm across the street if you need me.
Thank you for getting back to me, Detective.
We'll be right there.
That was Detective Quinn.
He wants to meet us down at the scene right now.
Don't worry, Sergeant, we'll find Rashad.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming.
My classes ended early today, so I thought we could talk.
Of course.
I haven't been out of the house much since Martin passed.
To be honest, I was glad to get your call.
Your husband, you said he was meeting with Martin when Yes, Mitch is so sorry he couldn't do more to save him.
So am I.
But Martin, he would wind himself up and there wasn't much you could do to talk him down.
Danielle Mitch was very upset by what happened.
And I thought that maybe if you could help me understand, I could help him.
I wish I could, but I don't really have any answers.
Can I ask Do you think he was having trouble at work? Do you think he was in some kind of trouble? No.
Noble suggested that Martin was stealing from the company.
I don't know anything about that.
Look, I can't afford to make room for that kind of thinking.
As it is, I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to continue.
Of course.
I'm sorry, it's just What Martin did was so selfish.
He knew I wasn't working.
He left me with no income.
If I didn't have his life insurance policy at Noble, I'd be in real trouble.
I bet you didn't expect to hear from me again, Detective.
Thanks for coming.
No problem.
You Ray? Ray McDeere.
How you doing? My brother.
So I checked the 9-1-1 records for the night you asked about.
Two emergency calls came in from this area.
Both are from neighbours who claim to have heard a single gunshot.
See, that's more corroboration.
I guess, but we rolled a unit to the area, they found nothing.
No body, suspect.
Zero.
What about the power line crew? Your guys talk to them? There was no mention of any crew in the report.
They must have missed it.
They probably also missed this.
See, look, this was plaster over and covered with this corrugated plastic.
Odds are whoever covered that up had something to do with how it got there.
Look, I'd like to help you guys out, really I would.
But what have I got here? A victim who may or may not be a victim, and a shooter who may or may not exist.
Okay, come on, something happened here.
Maybe.
All right, let's say this is a crime scene.
What's the theory, some kind of mugging? Or a drug-related dispute? - Possibly.
- I don't buy it.
Your guy's on the phone, the shooter approaches.
How, from behind? Or he just walks right up in plain view? Let's find out.
Hey, what the hell are you doing? We don't have a body, but we can get the trajectory.
This'll show us the path of the bullet.
Something's wrong.
Not going straight back.
Whoa.
The shot wasn't fired from the street, it came from up there.
On the roof Sniper style.
Okay, gotta join a gym.
So we are looking for a sniper who hates elevators.
Someone's been up here recently.
Yeah, it's not our guys.
If they're smart enough to cover up the bullet hole with plaster, they're smart enough not to leave any DNA at the scene.
At the moment, we're still assuming this is a scene.
Clear shot at the payphone from here.
That takes some skill.
It's gotta be 300 feet.
And that bullet hole is deep, so it had to be a very high-powered rifle.
What's that? I don't know, a coin, piece of trash? Could be a shell-casing got away from our shooter.
I'll check.
Nah, it's just a token.
Any markings? No.
Don't move! - Get on the ground! - Whoa, whoa! Put the gun down! I'm a policeman, all right? I said on the ground! Keep your hands where I can see them.
All right, what do you want? Nobody lives here.
Ah! Get up! Some of these girls are under 18.
Those tokens are used to operate the peep show at the back.
Mr.
Pho, you're looking at some very serious charges here.
I want a lawyer.
Lucky for you my brother's a lawyer, one of the best Maybe Detective Quinn can help if you tell us the truth.
About what? Someone got shot in the alley four nights ago.
The shot was fired from the rooftop.
Do you know anything about that? No.
I wasn't here, but Mai, she knows what happened.
Let her through.
Your name is Mai? You saw a shooting here a few nights ago? I saw the man go to the telephone.
That's the man you saw? And he had a car? A white van.
Then another man with a dog walking by the van, dog begin barking very loud.
A man telephone scared.
Maybe the K-9 unit Sounds like the dog alerted to the van.
The man on telephone see man with dog.
He start to go to car That's when he was shot? That's all she saw.
She was afraid, so she ran away from the window.
You didn't see the man after? The body? Who took him? No, she told some of the others, but everything was gone by the time they came.
Well, at least now we know something happened.
Well, we know Rashad was shot, possibly killed.
So you think he survived a high-powered rifle from 300 feet? And what about the man with the dog? Ray's right.
It had to be a K-9 unit.
I agree with you on that.
A man just happens to walk a dog by a van and it goes crazy? So maybe it was drugs.
Two couples, two fortunes.
Oh, I like this.
One, two, three Your husband will load the dishwasher.
That's hilarious.
You have an ambitious nature, and will make a name for yourself.
I think it means me.
Everything will now come your way.
Eesh.
What's wrong with that? I don't know.
Everything? That means bad stuff too.
It doesn't just say good stuff.
I think we should break up.
Speaking of things coming your way, any luck finding a job? Actually, maybe.
I've been checking all the Noble subsidiaries I could be a roustabout on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, not boring, definitely not eco-friendly.
Or a graphic designer for an aerospace company in Ohio.
Here we go.
Sales Manager, Bright Buddy.
Greenbelt, Maryland.
- What's Bright Buddy? - Pet food! I like pets.
And it's nearby.
They have six locations.
Whoa! - That's the shape.
- What? On the key that Ray's been asking about.
Locked Ness Storage.
That's clever.
Tammy called the Better Business Bureau of Maryland.
Recognized the key right away.
This is it, right here.
Green-0-3-8.
All right, if this is a drug lab, and there are 50 guys with guns behind that door What's the end of that sentence? We've done a bad job with this case, Ray.
So it was drugs.
I hate having to tell his dad about this.
Excuse me, you're gonna need to sign in.
Whoa! Okay, he's gonna call the cops.
So now would be a good time to leave.
Hey, you can't take that with you.
Take what? Mitch, that's evidence.
Whatever's on that computer's linked to the drugs and guns.
We don't know that.
The drugs and guns are contraband on their face.
This is just a computer.
Okay, Counselor.
Know what? From now on, this is your case.
All right.
Let's see what we got here.
Okay.
Looks like Rashad went to a lot of sites about chemicals.
You think he was cooking meth? Possible.
Doesn't explain that.
Muslim extremist websites.
Whoa.
This is radical stuff.
Articles about the end of America.
There's over 100 pages here.
You think he had a connection to terrorism? I don't know.
I don't want to tell his dad he sold drugs, but what he was into might have been worse.
A whole lot worse.
We don't know if Rashad is a terrorist.
All this proves is that he visited some radical websites.
True, but we do have the guns, and the drugs.
And a US military hand grenade.
Terrorist groups traffic in weapons and drugs to get money.
He's 21 years old.
He's an American citizen from DC whose father is fighting on the front lines.
What could make him sympathetic to the enemy? Sympathy is one thing, but we're talking about a card-carrying member of the club here.
He didn't just visit these websites, he contributed to them.
And Rashad Debs was on the government's no-fly list.
He complained about it to the FAA.
So he was on the feds' radar.
- Yup.
- Exactly.
Who has snipers, fake power crews, can clean up a shooting in under a minute? Federal government.
Now I get it.
Detective Quinn, he won't get back to me.
So the government, they must have called him off.
It's a pretty good theory.
What if the dog wasn't barking about drugs? The government also has bomb-sniffing dogs, right? They covered it up? That's what we're saying here? That the feds killed Rashad Debs and then got rid of the body and the evidence? Well, let's find out.
How? We force their hand.
We file a Freedom of Information Act request, we get them in court.
How do you figure you're gonna get them to tell the truth? Or that our client even wants to hear the truth? Sgt.
Debs is looking for closure.
You should ask him if he's ready for this.
I agree.
It is his call.
But if he wants to know what happened to Rashad, it's the only way.
Rashad wasn't a drug dealer.
And he most certainly wasn't a terrorist.
With all due respect, Sergeant, you don't know that.
But what we do know is that the federal government may have played a role in whatever happened to your son.
And they covered it up.
This is all a mistake.
Maybe it is a mistake, but the government makes mistakes.
You have seen that on the battlefield, I've seen that in the courtroom.
We just need to expose it.
How? This morning we filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
We just need your permission to move forward.
And the government has to answer our questions? Tell us what they know? But sometimes that can take months, even years.
Tammy.
Hey Tammy.
How is that possible? What? That was the clerk from the court.
Our FOIA request was granted.
For tomorrow.
He's pretty wound up about this one.
Government secrecy.
That's the thing he hates most.
Oh, he'll be fine for his hearing.
I, however, have a job interview.
Can you help me with this, please? Yeah.
Organic? Oh, yeah, Bright Buddy pet foods are manufactured using all natural beef by-products and there's a wide assortment of Not natural; Organic, there's a difference.
To who, the dogs? Organic and natural are the same thing.
Not according to Bright Buddy Corporation.
And since you're trying to become their sales manager I need to talk to these people, because their concept is too complicated.
Ray, Tammy.
How's it going? Hey, Louis.
Thanks for coming.
Come on in.
Have a seat.
You are way too good a lawyer to be sitting in an office like this.
I need your help, Louis.
Yes, I offered you help when you were arrested for murder.
You made it pretty clear then that you're on your own now.
We don't need to do this.
Yeah, Mitch, I think we do.
I looked out for your family for 10 years.
You want to treat me like some sort of government hack? - I didn't say that.
- You said almost as much.
Now you call me about this kid? Rashad Debs, yes.
Expecting inside information so you can be ready for some hearing I don't expect inside information.
I am asking for help.
Look, you know me.
It is not easy for me to put my life or my family's safety in anybody's hands.
Now I am grateful for the last 10 years.
But now is now, and the last thing I am thinking about is hurting your feelings.
This kid Rashad The road you're on, it gets rocky.
I can't get involved.
Why not? If the government killed Rashad Debs and covered it up, then you know that is wrong.
I gotta get going.
You give my best to Abby and Claire.
Louis is a good guy.
If the feds did this, he'd be risking a lot to let us know.
I like Louis, but once you've been muscled by the government, it's hard to see those guys the same again.
How'd it go with Mrs.
Moxon? She's not really talking.
I asked her about Noble, and about whether she thought her husband was stealing from the company She was too upset to talk about it.
Was she struggling for money? Does she work? No, and I was wondering about that.
She said Noble paid on Martin's life insurance.
Why? Exactly.
He committed suicide, they don't owe her anything, right? No, it's worse than that.
They are not allowed to pay her.
Who was it? Uh, nobody, but they left this.
It's not ticking, is it? Abby, this is our old FBI number.
From witness protection.
This must be from Coleman.
ANNOUNCER: The Obama administration admits it maintains a kill list of terrorists including US citizens.
Awlaki was on the list because the American-born cleric was the mastermind behind some of A kill list.
Why would Coleman send us this? Because it's public.
It's the only way he could show us.
Rashad Debs must have been on that list.
He wasn't just killed.
He was targeted for execution.
Pulled an all-nighter? I didn't mean to.
Me neither.
The case kept me up too.
This kill list an actual list created by the feds? Approved by the White House.
Enemies of the state who are pre-approved for assassination.
Uh, pre-approved If US agents or military come across names on this list, they are authorized to kill.
No due process, nothing.
I understand that overseas, on a battlefield, but Rashad's an American on US soil.
We've killed people on this list before.
Even US citizens.
But never here in the US.
This is big, Ray.
If the president says someone needs to be killed, as an act of war, do we want the court second-guessing in that moment? If we don't, what if the feds are wrong? They can't kill Americans on American soil without some kind of review.
It's the secrecy.
That's what gets me.
If this is happening now, then the issue needs to be out there and considered.
Know what? I'm holding out hope.
Maybe it was just a mugging.
I called the US Attorney's office to get a heads-up on who the opposing counsel is.
They didn't get back to me.
Maybe they won't show.
Got somebody's attention.
The floor's been evacuated.
We've closed the courtroom.
Alan Harper, [unclear.]
Justice.
Uh, Mitch McDeere.
That's my brother, Ray, and Sgt.
Leonard Debs.
Sergeant.
We're in with Judge Bram, courtroom 3.
Perfect, we'll see you right in there.
I read about Bram, he's on the FISA court.
What? FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Security Agency court.
They meet in secret, approve black-bag jobs, warrantless searches.
There's only a couple of judges in the whole country who serve on it.
Your Honour, Mitch McDeere.
For the rercord There is no record, Mr.
McDeere.
We ain't in Kansas anymore.
Mr.
McDeere, you filed and FOIA request with this court? We have, Your Honour.
We are requesting that the government tell us what it is that they know About Rashad Debs, yes, I've read your papers, Counsel.
Then you'll know we're asking simple questions.
First, did the government kill Rashad Debs? And second, was he on the federal kill list? Your Honour, in the interest of time, we move to dismiss the FOIA request with prejudice.
Dismiss? We just started.
Fact is, Mr.
McDeere has no standing to file this request.
No standing? My client's son is dead.
- He has standing.
- No, it is not.
The government does not have to honour this request because it involves national security.
Who says? You? Are we just supposed to take your word for it? Mr.
McDeere I am invoking habeas corpus.
The oldest law in the land.
The first one they teach you in law school.
Habeas Corpus - Release the body.
If the government has Rashad Debs, we want him back.
The government won't answer that question.
The government will not answer any questions.
Because the government does not answer to Mr.
McDeere or this court.
Look around.
You have denied him his First Amendment right to a public hearing, his Fifth and Sixth Amendment right to due process.
Are you also denying him his right to habeas? Mr.
Harper, are you challenging my jurisdiction here? Yes, Your Honour.
If Rashad Debs was killed, and if he were on the kill list, his murder would be an act of war.
So I have no role here? You really think this is your best argument, Counsel? Your Honour, the executive branch conducts war.
There is no judicial oversight in the theatre of operations.
So the president can order people's execution without any review? In the theatre of war, yes he can.
The theatre of war? Your Honour, the last two presidents have said the whole world constitutes the theatre of war.
Because it does.
This war on terror is global.
The battlefield includes US soil.
Who decided that? What court? What hearings were held? Who told the American people? The American people want to be protected.
We don't have time to get judicial permission for split-second decisions that save their lives.
Permission is one thing.
Accountability is another.
If you killed Rashad Debs, then admit it.
If you have the evidence, then let us see it.
Your Honour, this is not new law.
The Supreme Court has said for years that law enforcement may use deadly force to save innocent people.
So we can shoot a fleeing bank robber, or a suicide bomber.
Is that what Rashad Debs was? For national security reasons, we can't answer that.
- This is insane! - This is the law.
What exactly are you asking for, Mr.
McDeere? A review.
An evaluation of the facts to know whether or not an innocent man an American citizen was wrongfully killed by his own people in his own city.
Now if you won't order it for the integrity of the law, then do it for this man! This soldier, this father! If you won't honour his service with the truth, then, for the love of God, at least let him bury his son! Mr.
Harper, the Geneva Convention requires you to turn over the bodies of the enemy.
The Geneva Convention doesn't apply to terrorists.
But you haven't confirmed that he was one.
Therefore I have to see for myself.
Mr.
Harper, I'm ordering you to submit to me the evidence relied on by the government.
I can't do that.
You will do that, Counsel.
Or I will hold you and every federal prosecutor in this district in contempt.
I still don't know whether you killed him.
But I'm damn sure I'll find out.
And if you killed a citizen of this country, in this nation's great capitol, without good reason, you will come to know my name, sir.
And you will fear it.
Are we clear? Your Honour, may we see that evidence? Not until I've reviewed it.
Afterwards, if it's appropriate, your request may proceed.
But I want that evidence, Mr.
Harper A-S-A-P! You did it.
That's good, right? Yeah, I think so.
I can't believe I've been fighting all these years to defend this.
The system works, Sergeant; Don't give up hope.
I'd like to settle my bill, sir.
My compassionate leave's run out.
I re-deploy tomorrow.
Forget it.
It's on the house.
Maybe you can do something for me someday.
Actually, maybe you can do something for me right now.
I'm looking for a guy.
Might be ex-military.
Got a tattoo on his neck.
Seen that before? Yeah, it's army.
I'm not sure which branch or unit, but I've seen in before on guys in combat areas.
I'd gladly ask around for you, if you'd like.
That'd be good, thanks.
The judge is back.
Who wouldn't want to work here! Your market share is growing, your low-fat pet foods are a god-send for a chubby puppy.
And, to me, working to sell pet food here would be like a public service.
Really! If that makes me sound crazy, well I am crazy.
Crazy for pet food.
You're hired.
Great! America has the greatest legal system in the world.
And this is due in large part because of lawyers like Mr.
McDeere, and clients like Sgt.
Debs.
Brave men, willing to raise their voices to challenge what's wrong with our system.
Gentlemen, I share your concerns about the kill list.
I question how it was created.
And how it is applied.
But I must rule on the law as written.
I can only hope Congress does what it must to create safeguards to ensure this list is never a mechanism of injustice.
Having reviewed the evidence, this court finds that the United States government had sufficient basis to conclude that Rashad Debs posed an immediate threat to the safety of thousands of Americans' lives.
Accordingly, I find this case involved no abuse of executive discretion.
Mr.
McDeere, your Freedom of Information Act request is denied.
Your Honour, are you confirming that Rashad Debs was on the kill list? This is the end of the road, Counsel.
Objection! We demand to see the basis for your ruling! Denied.
I'm sorry, Counsel.
And Sgt.
Debs, you have my deepest sympathy, sir.
But for all that I can't tell you, please know I believe this had to happen.
Your Honour, the people request a gag order be imposed.
Granted.
No part of these proceedings may be made public.
Your Honour, please, is there anything we can do? I'm very sorry Counsel, but I'm afraid it's true.
Inter arma enim silent leges.
In times of war, the law remains silent.
Judge Bram, I'd like your ruling on the habeas petition.
The habeas motion is granted.
The government is ordered to return Rashad Debs's body to his father for proper burial.
We are adjourned.
We want to examine the body with a forensic physician.
No, no independent forensics.
Please remember this viewing is a courtesy extended to Sgt.
Debs.
You're doing him a favour, letting him see his son? In truth, yes.
For his service to his country.
We could have taken the judge up on appeal.
We didn't.
Alan, tell us something.
You heard the judge.
We saved a lot of innocent people.
That van was headed somewhere specific with a very deadly cargo.
A bomb, why don't you just say it? I can't.
But the coroner found bomb-making residue on your son's clothes and hands.
That should answer your question.
Good enough? In the end, a man is dead.
And all we have is the government's word for how it happened.
That should never be good enough for anybody.
You ready? Yeah.
Sir, please do not touch the body.
Go ahead, Sergeant, kiss your son.
You could try an appeal.
No.
We just want you to have the truth.
Now what I want is to get back to my unit, and serve my country.
All I want is my son back.
I want to remember him the way I knew him.
He was a good boy.
Danielle Okay, I'm here.
Why do you keep calling me? Whatever secret you're keeping, it's no way to honour your husband.
You don't know what you're talking about.
I know you loved him.
And I know you took money from Noble to keep quiet.
Why? They worked and worried Martin to death.
The least they could do was pay.
Who worked and worried him? Kevin Stack.
Not directly, maybe, but Martin was obsessed with him.
Why? Kevin was saving Noble a fortune.
Martin couldn't figure out how.
He was staying up nights, crunching numbers, trying to figure out the secret to Stack's success.
Until one day the fight just went out of him.
Do you know why? I don't know.
I don't think I ever will.
But I do know this Kevin Stack is a bad man.
Ahh!