Shark s01e11 Episode Script
The Wrath of Khan
???????? I want him off that plane now.
But you want him alive.
If he won't communicate, we have to assume a defensive posture.
What do you think you're doing, Stark? My job.
The FBI's taking over this operation.
That's a federal cease and desist order.
You guys serve one of these at Waco? You tell your men to stand down and let that plane take off.
You don't have the authority.
I've got 30 cops here who'll back up any call I make.
How do you spell authority? And I am not going to allow Amir Khan leave this city.
Berlinger.
Yes, I'm on the ground now.
Situation's under control, sir.
But if you have a minute What do we do now? Think fast.
That plane takes off Casey's dead.
shark111 That was the U.
S.
Attorney for the Central District.
We need to cede jurisdiction.
Forget it.
I'm with you on this one, but our hands are tied.
You want plausible deniability? You just say I disobeyed a direct order, say I was off my meds.
Sebastian There are lives at stake, Jess.
Including Casey's.
Think the Feds give a damn? It's on us.
Madame District Attorney.
Perhaps you can give Stark here a little primer on the Supremacy Clause.
My office is in charge here, Agent Berlinger.
You're kidding me, right? This is the culmination of a six-month investigation into the sale of explosives to Los Angeles gangs.
It's a local matter.
We're seeing it through.
and place anyone who interferes under arrest.
BERLINGER: Amir Khan.
Billionaire arms dealer.
Dual Pakistani and American citizenship.
Bureau's been after him for years.
Khan uses his import-export business as cover.
He's smart, and he doesn't care about his body count.
Chemical signatures from the C-4 he sells have been found in explosions in Oslo, Tel Aviv and Edinburgh.
Am I boring you, Stark? I'm sorry, is there going to be a quiz? The point is your surveillance of Khan is interfering with an ongoing federal investigation.
As soon as we get enough to take this guy down on federal explosives charges, we're gonna move on him.
Khan's C-4 is responsible for a number of deaths in this city.
And if we nail him, he'll give us enough that we can shut down those in this country financing terror.
And how long is that gonna take? A year? Two years? Meanwhile, this guy's wreaking havoc here, now, today.
Which is why we will retain jurisdiction over Khan's activities here in L.
A.
I appreciate your position, but when those activities raise national security implications How about L.
A.
security implications? That rap group blown up in their SUV last month.
You think it was really a faulty fuel-injection? Khan has been unloading plastique and Taliban surplus weapons to our street gangs.
Three car bombs in the past five months.
Nine dead.
We're not bowing out so you guys can screw up somewhere down the line.
You've got a big mouth, Stark.
And you're a brainless political hack.
All right.
Look, we're both on the same side here.
But I've got a mandate to reduce gang violence by stemming the flow of weapons to our streets.
And stopping Khan, that tops the agenda.
We're going forward.
Well, I want regular updates.
You move we're in the loop.
All right, so how close are we to bringing off a sting operation? To nail Khan, I've got to coordinate six agencies in L.
A.
County.
I've got to establish a site for the buy.
I got to get Khan to bite.
I mean, best guess-- a week.
Forget it.
Berlger will make an ex parte motion-- try to federalize this.
We have to go tomorrow.
No pressure.
I'll make it happen.
You want to do this tonight? We got the feds breathing down our necks.
No way.
There's a reason why we've been slow playing Khan.
He'll get hinky if we push things up.
??????????? Look, when this started, I asked the Gang Unit for their two best detectives.
I believe I got 'em.
Now are you going to make this happen or what? There's no way.
Khan will smell a setup.
Fine.
You know what, let's just pack it in.
Six months of work wasted.
We'll spend the next six months informing next of kin.
What's the plan? Thank you.
Khan's lawyer will argue entrapment.
We need to establish a predisposition to sell us the C-4.
If the target balks committing a crime we usually pull back, reset things, plan another buy.
But now we don't have that luxury.
Push the guy if you have to.
This is our only shot.
You guys make the buy-- we'll make it stick.
Where's our confidential informant? Well, he's freaked, but he's on his way in.
What do we know about this guy? Emilio Perez, small-time thief who was looking at three strikes for shoplifting.
So he's working it off as a C.
I.
We put him into play as Khan's handyman.
Gives him access to his schedule, knowledge of people around him.
Is he reliable? Till now, but he's definitely the nervous type.
Anyone would be nervous in his position.
Emilio's been solid.
He'll be solid on the stand.
He'd better.
His testimony about Khan's operations and movements are going to put this bastard away.
I'll baby-sit him, if need be.
LAPD's got that covered.
Emilio Perez's lawyers just made an emergency motion for an early termination of his probation.
Our confidential informant wants out.
Raina, you're coming with me.
Let's go, guys, come on.
LAWYER: Mr.
Perez has provided information crucial to more than a dozen prosecutions over the past two years.
Which is why he's not rotting in Pelican Bay, Your Honor.
The D.
A.
's unconscionable demands have monopolized his time and caused extreme emotional and mental distress.
Oh, please Mr.
Perez has paid his debt, Your Honor.
His parole should be terminated.
Benefit of the bargain, Judge.
Mr.
Perez enjoyed the benefit of staying out of jail.
And now he must adhere to his end of the bargain as a confidential government informant.
If Mr.
Perez refuses to cooperate, the people demand that he be promptly incarcerated.
Mr.
Perez may find the demands made on him onerous, but there's nothing coercive about his plea agreement.
Your Honor Motion denied.
STARK: Thank you, Your Honor.
You and Martin make sure this bozo gets on the bus.
You need to calm down.
Everything you asked, I did.
I'm done.
Terminado, okay? You heard the judge, it doesn't work that way.
I have a family.
We're not going to let anything happen to you.
You'll be off-site with us, ID'ing people from a remote location.
A piece of cake.
PEREZ: Maybe for you.
Khan knows who I am.
If he figures out I gave him up We bring in Khan, you testify, you're done.
Khan's people will find me.
I just want to have a life, okay? I want to live with my wife and daughter.
Away from all this.
You will, but right now you need to finish what you started.
Go home, play with your daughter.
Lay low until the buy goes down tonight.
Soon you can put all of this behind you.
A hundred keys of C-4, that's a lot of bang-bang.
Would run you 900 G's.
TARVER: Not a problem.
And you need this tonight, why? Blowing up Staples Center? No, the Lakers are playing tonight.
Something came up.
Yeah, huh? Point is, we got the cash.
Your boy wants to deal, we deal.
He doesn't, find another seller.
I'll be in touch.
Nothing personal, yo, but, uh, for the kind of jack we talking about, we only deal with the big man here on out.
SELLER: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:00 p.
m.
, roof of the parking garage at Foster and Crenshaw.
Khan will make the drop himself.
Nice work.
We're halfway home.
Khan's smart, but he's never been in the system.
Which means he's arrogant.
That can work for us.
We'll have 360 degree visuals on you guys and you'll be miked up.
He gonna be there? Isaac has ten years of buy and busts.
You want him there.
Off-site surveillance is in place.
STARK: We got one shot at this, guys.
Let's make it work.
We got a problem? There is no "we.
" You're going to want to dial back that attitude, Tarver.
TARVER: You plant evidence, embarrass the job, resign in disgrace.
And you're talking to me about my attitude.
So you're telling me if your partner was shot, you'd just let the guy who did it escape? Hey, Isaac's cool, Willy.
I'll be in the car, Ray.
Willy's all right once you get to know him.
You just keep him out of my way.
??????????? I thought we had plain-clothes tracking him.
He bolted.
Went into a deli, ran out the back.
He's the only one who knows all the players.
We should've put an ankle bracelet on that little weasel.
I'll have LAPD start a canvass.
You told me he was reliable.
Damn it.
?????????? Too late.
Going to have to go without him.
Lewis, can you bring us in closer? Zooming in.
Who's this? we don't have any profiles of this guy ??????????? ???????????????? ?????????? ??????????????? ????????? ???????????? ?????????????? ????????????????? ???????????? ?????????????? ?????????? ????????????????? ???????????? ????????????????? ??????????? ???????????? ?????????????? ???????? ????????????? ?????????? ????????????? ??????????????? ?????????? ????????????? ???????? ?????????? ?????? ??????????? ???????? ?????????? ????????????? ???????????????? You've been in there for seven hours with this guy.
Tell me he's got something for us.
Nothing beyond what we already know.
James Weyland, 19, sophomore at Culver Community.
Ridiculous.
Says some guy paid him 200 bucks to deliver a suitcase.
And that guy got $200 to hire James.
Well, can the kid I.
D.
anybody? Nope.
All right.
Kick him.
You know, this C.
I.
of yours is working both sides.
Look, I'm sure there's a good reason.
If you stand up for that two-faced lowlife one more time, you're going out the window.
MARTIN: Raina's down at the Division.
She said the detectives that are staking out the Perez house just radioed in-- the wife just got home.
Okay, you and Isaac, meet up with Raina and talk to the wife.
Find Perez, bring him to me now.
Hello? We'll ask around, see if anyone else Perez has worked with has a line on him.
Gang Intelligence.
Their sources report chatter about a major C-4 buy going down later today.
That son of a bitch.
Khan never intended to sell us the C-4.
He knew that our buy was a set-up.
He used it as a smokescreen.
He draws all our resources to one place, and sets up the real buy someplace else.
Okay, you guys hook up with Gang Intelligence, find out who's really planning to buy this stuff.
All right? That was the FAA.
Khan's cleared a flight pattern to Lucerne this afternoon.
LAX? And Burbank, and Van Nuys.
He's got private jets at each.
Multiple flight patterns makes sense if you want to leave the country with a lot of cash and you're trying to avoid Customs.
Cash you'd get from unloading C-4.
Okay, put all three airports on high alert.
I'll take care of it.
Yeah.
Speak.
Great.
Thanks.
LAPD.
They got a sighting on Khan.
Where are you going? I'm gonna take the direct approach.
And you're going with me.
Casey can handle the FAA.
Fill him in on the way.
Let's go.
Uh-huh.
That was good.
Hope you had the blueberry pancakes-- they're famous for 'em.
I don't believe we have been introduced.
Sebastian Stark, the DA's Office.
Stark, yes-- I recall seeing you on TV.
I'm much better looking in person.
Something I can do for you? For starters, you can stop killing people.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
RPG's, the Kalashnikovs, the Semtex, all that crap ????????? it stops now.
You must have me confused with someone else.
Khan is a very popular name.
Not in my office.
I work in import-exports.
Precious gems, high-end ceramics.
As for the allegation, I'm a Murderer? It was a pleasure meeting you, Mr.
Stark.
We must talk again.
Count on it.
Perhaps over blueberry pancakes? So much for the direct approach.
I thought it went pretty well.
Where's Emilio? I don't know.
He left last night.
He did not tell me where he was going.
He tell you when he was coming back? No.
Is this a regular thing with him, Elena? Emilio is a good man.
I don't ask where he goes.
MARTIN: Elena you know what's at stake here.
By not showing up to meet us last night, Emilio could go to jail.
Is that what you want for your family? Is that what you want for your daughter? If you help us find Emilio, we'll work things out, I promise.
Digame, Elena.
They took her.
They took my daughter.
Someone kidnapped your daughter? I came back from the mercado two days ago.
Emilio was crying.
He said that they took Flora, and if he didn't do what they'd asked they'd kill her.
MARTIN: Did he know who took her? No.
MARTIN: Okay, Elena, we will help you but you have to tell us where Emilio is.
Oh, I swear to God I don't know.
MARTIN: We got LAPD looking for Flora on the down low.
If Khan thinks that Emilio went to the authorities, he might kill her.
Where are we on locating Emilio? We put a pen register on Elena's home phone.
She just threw a call into his cell.
Cell location comes back to Downey.
Emilio mentioned a cousin in Downey-- Javier, I think, owns an auto body shop.
You know your way around Downey? I do.
We got a bead on Emilio Perez.
Isaac'll fill you in.
Where's your partner? Ray said he had something to take care of with Personnel.
I'll have him meet us down there.
Right.
Raina, Martin, you guys work the phones.
Talk to people Emilio knows-- see if you can help locate him.
Got it.
Ah,Simon Bernhardt.
To what do I owe the displeasure? Always with the attitude.
I represent Amir Khan.
My condolences.
My client is a respected businessman.
Your client is a cold-blooded killer with no respect for human life, but hey, you say "potato" I was hoping this would be amicable, but since you already dispensed with the civilities, let me say this-- if you ever accuse my client publicly again, for anything, I will sue you and this office for defamation and malicious prosecution.
$500 an hour, and you still have a haircut that looks like it came with a bowl of soup-- go figure.
Sometimes I'm so good I scare myself.
How does mobilizing Khan's attorney help bring him down? You know what? I should charge you guys tuition.
I had to do something to draw Khan out, rattle his cage, and he went for it.
Bernhardt has been repping L.
A.
's biggest gang figures since the Crips and the Bloods were kids squabbling over baseball cards.
He also represents Khan, which could explain how a blue blood like Khan got plugged in to the gang world.
And if Bernhardt played matchmaker a universe of potential buyers for Khan's C-4 just got a whole lot smaller.
Precisely.
I'm in awe.
You should be.
Meet Casey at the courthouse.
See if Bernhardt recently filed legal papers on behalf of any gang member with an explosives fetish.
While we're young? I just left Ray another message.
He's probably grabbing a piece of tail.
Yeah, well, lucky for us, Emilio didn't put up a fight.
Listen, about yesterday Eh, forget it, it's done.
Nuh-uh.
I was out of line.
What happened with your partner you did what you had to do.
Where is he? Interview Three.
STARK: Missed you last night, Emilio-- heard you had a pressing obligation in Downey.
Sorry, I Shut up.
We know you're working for Khan.
That's not true.
And we know about your daughter.
You want to see her alive again, you come clean right now-- everything.
Don't make him ask again.
Can we talk alone? No.
How long have you been feeding us false information? Three days.
What did you tell Khan about our operation? Everything.
He has my daughter, okay? When was your daughter taken? What's the difference? What counts is that they have her! Look at me, Emilio.
We want to find Flora, but for that to happen, you can't lie to us anymore.
You got to tell us everything.
You can start by telling us who did the kidnapping.
His partner! Ray! Ray took her! He's a bad cop! Lying son of a bitch! Get him out of here! I'll kill you.
Get him out! ???????????? ????????? I swear to God, I swear to God, Ray took her.
He made me do this.
He works for Khan.
How long have you known this? Since Ray came and took Flora.
You tell me the truth.
Who's buying that C-4? They don't tell me nothing.
But I know Khan has an apartment on Normandy and Wilshire.
The day Flora was taken, I followed Ray.
He went inside an apartment and came out with Khan.
I told him to give me back my daughter or I'll go to the police.
But Ray said he'd slit Flora's throat if I talked to anyone.
We'll get her back.
Where's your partner? You can't believe anything that piece of crap Perez says.
He'd throw his own mama under the bus to save his ass.
Willy, where is Ray? I don't know.
All right? He's not answering his cell.
Perez says they're holding his kid at Normandy and Wilshire.
I'm calling in SWAT.
Let's hit it.
Clear.
Clear upstairs.
Citric acid, acetone.
Detonators.
This place is a C-4 lab.
Guy wasn't just smuggling explosives, he was making them! The C-4's gone-- he either moved the stuff or the buy already went down.
We've got a body here.
??????? Shot once in the back.
TARVER: God, Ray! Perez.
That son of a bitch set Ray up! All right, Willy, Willy Willy! Bomb! Bomb One dead, four injured.
MARTIN: Bomb Squad says it was an IED hooked up to a time delay.
Remotely detonated Perez sent us there.
He knew the place was booby trapped.
If that's true, I'll stick the needle in his arm myself.
What's his E.
T.
A.
? Sheriff's Department's bringing him down from County Lock-up right now.
I'll talk to him when he gets here.
No.
The only person you're talking to is a grief counselor.
Ray was my damn partner.
You're gonna continue working on this case under one condition, you follow orders.
Order number one: you steer clear of Perez.
Now what's the deal with this apartment? Rented in cash under a dead-end alias.
Explosion destroyed any useful forensics.
Okay, so to summarize, our case against Khan still sucks.
MARTIN: FBI Agent Berlinger.
Again.
He wants to know what we got.
Tell him I'm still in court.
Good news.
You must be in the wrong office.
White supremacist gang leader named Jake Forman was convicted of explosives possession three years ago.
Got out last summer.
His attorney? Simo Forman fits the exact profile of someone itching to get their hands on C-4.
Who says prayer doesn't work? Madeleine, you and I are going judge shopping.
We're gonna get a wiretap on this guy Forman.
Casey, the motions clerk at the federal courthouse gave me a heads-up.
The Feds are seeking a cease and desist order.
They want to kill our investigation and go after Khan themselves.
I'll keep tabs.
Now, check in with the Bomb Squad.
See what they got on this guy Forman.
Okay? Guys.
We gotta get the rest of the C-4 off the streets before more people die and we gotta grab Khan before he leaves the country.
Let's move.
TARVER: You got a minute? Thirty seconds.
Bomb Squad's territorial.
????????? they're gonna demand to be brought in on the investigation.
Unless I can get a D.
D.
A.
with me to pull rank.
Casey, I need you backing Tarver with the Bomb uad.
Got it.
Got it.
My guy down at the Bomb Squad says they don't even have a file on Forman.
That's weird.
He did time for possession.
And C-4 isn't exactly a starter kit for explosives.
Trust me.
Bomb Squad's a black hole.
Bunch of cowboys.
No one keeps records.
Well, maybe we should head over there anyway.
See what we can find out.
Waste of time.
I know a guy who may have intel on Forman.
He works down at the ADL.
He's got a file on every racist twitch on the West Coast.
You up for a ride? Let's go.
Anything off the wiretap? Nothing we can use.
You know, Sebastian got us a wiretap in 20 minutes.
Guy's a magician.
I have a front row seat I still don't know how he does it.
Got you a burger.
Mm, thanks.
Appreciate it.
It's just a burger.
Check this out.
MAN: Yeah, gonna rent a place in Mobley Heights.
Getting screwed on the price.
Told the guy I like a little sweet talk first.
Mobley Heights is just past Palmdale.
There's lots of black folks.
Not exactly a paradise for a white supremacist.
I worked a case down there last year.
Tons of storage facilities.
All right, so he's not living there.
He's using it for storage.
I'll call for a search warrant.
ISAAC: What were you planning on doing with all the C-4 we found in your storage locker, Jake? I'm in construction.
Ran out of blasting caps.
Except C-4's illegal.
Blasting caps aren't.
Guess you're gonna have to fine me.
We're gonna do a lot more than that.
Nice to see affirmative action is alive and well in L.
A.
County.
Another crack like that, you'll be spitting teeth.
How about calling off your Doberman? Sorry, he's not trained.
So pay attention.
Dead cop.
Death sentence.
Whoa.
What are you trying to pin on me here? Capital murder.
What? Two counts.
Wait, hold on, I didn't kill nobody.
The C-4 you bought has the same chemical signature as the explosives sold by Amir Khan.
A chemical signature is just like a fingerprint.
Which ties you to Khan's stash house where two cops died.
You got the wrong guy.
I don't anything about any dead cops.
Even if you didn't fire the gun or light the fuse, we've got you on conspiracy and felony murder.
No way! Any more affirmative action jokes? Look, all I did was buy the stuff.
From Khan.
Who knows? I posted an ad on this internet forum, looking for C-4.
Someone referred me to an 800 number.
Talked to this guy a few times.
Wired the money.
Dude mailed me the key to a locker at Union Station.
ISAAC: You lie to us, your racist ass gets rung up for murder.
I'm not lying.
I never met this guy Khan.
I was never in any stash house.
And I didn't kill nobody! How things play out with Forman? Well, the good news is we got the C-4 he bought off the streets.
What was he going to do with it? Probably clearing ground for a new synagogue.
All right, here's the $64,000 question: Does he get us to Khan? No.
:So where does that leave our case? In the dumper.
And Berlinger moved to enjoin our investigation.
So what do we do now? Drink heavily.
Mmm.
We just got word.
Khan's on his Gulfstream at the Van Nuys Airport.
He's unloaded his C-4, got his money, now he's looking to put as much distance between himself and California as possible.
That plane takes off, the C.
I.
's little girl is history.
Call the Control Tower, tell them to keep Khan grounded.
Already done.
You coming? I'll meet you there.
Good.
I vouched for you, Emilio.
And all you've done is lie.
My daughter's life is at stake.
?????????? Harkin told me what to do.
He took Flora.
He works for Khan.
Harkin is dead.
What? Yeah, the stash house that you sent us to? A bomb went off.
Another cop is dead, too, and we're holding you accountable.
No, no.
I didn't know anything about a bomb.
It's over.
Do you understand? I'm sorry.
Tarver gave me no choice.
Oh, so now Tarver's pulling the strings? ?????????? You must listen to me, please! No, we're done listening to you, Emilio.
First you put it on Harkin.
Now you're putting it on Tarver.
You've done nothing but lie.
No.
You can check, okay? I saw, I saw Khan give Tarver money.
And Tarver gave me this.
???????? If you were doing Tarver's bidding, why'd you take us to court, try to get out of this? I thought if I no longer worked for you, then I'd be useless to Khan.
And he would let Flora go.
But it didn't work.
And now Tarver is going to kill my little baby.
STARK: Come on, let us through, come on.
Get the media back.
Speak! Right.
That was Raina.
Perez is putting it on Tarver.
They ran Tarver's accounts.
Guy's worth two and a half mil.
Casey.
Come on, man, answer the phone.
BERLINGER: You have ten minutes to clear out.
Then I bring in a Marine division and place anyone who interferes under arrest.
How's that? Yeah.
Casey's still not answering.
Keep trying.
DEVLIN: We don't know for sure anything's happened to him.
Look, Tarver killed his own partner, Jess.
He tried to blow us up.
Smart money says he's holding Casey and Flora hoage somewhere at Khan's behest.
Control Tower says Khan still won't answer his radio.
And why should he? What do we got on him? Only one who can tie him to anything is the dirty cop we can't find.
I understand him grabbing the girl.
But why Casey? Insurance.
But when that plane takes off, hostages become witnesses.
And expendable.
So we gotta figure out a way to get Khan to call Tarver off.
And arrest Khan before the Feds arrest us.
All in the next nine minutes.
Piece of cake.
Hi.
I'm Casey.
You Flora? I'm friends with your daddy.
I know this is really scary, but I promise everything's going to be okay.
TARVER: That money was supposed to be wired two hours ago.
Call me as soon as the bank receives it.
Waiting for the money Khan was supposed to pay you? Is paying me.
You can use it to hire a really good lawyer.
You killed two cops.
You're going down.
Actually, I'm going up.
I'm leaving the country on Khan's plane tonight.
This time tomorrow, I'll be in Marbella drinking a mojito.
Just one problem.
Khan's leaving the country today.
He's not taking you.
And he's not paying you.
Shut up.
He cleared a flight pattern to Lucerne for this afternoon.
He's hanging you out to dry.
If you don't believe me, call him.
Your boys are listening in to Khan's calls.
You trying to play me.
You worked us for six months.
Fed us false information about Khan's movements, the phony buy I got damn well paid for it, too.
How much you get paid for killing your partner? Ray got curious, started sniffing around.
I didn't have a choice.
Look, you got what you needed from Emilio, let the little girl go.
It's been a real nice conversation, but it's over now.
Open your mouth again I'll put a bullet in it.
Time's up.
What's it going to be? I just have one question.
Why does the federal government want to give a pass to a guy who's implicated in two cop killings? You don't have the evidence to tie Khan to anything, let alone murder.
We know how to build a case.
And we know how to make it stick.
We have witnesses who'll flip on Khan.
He'll be convicted.
That's not going to work for us.
Why the hell not? I'm not having this discussion.
You don't want him taken in, do you? Do you? Mr.
Khan is a very important asset.
Which means what? He's led us to Al Qaeda strongholds Taliban operatives.
Oh.
We need him in the field.
You lying you You were never building a case against Khan.
You were just riding herd on us, weren't you? Keeping tabs, making sure-- hoping-- we would fail.
The Bureau runs things on a need-to-know basis.
Now you need to know.
Well, here's what you need to know.
I got a D.
D.
A.
and an eight-year-old girl whose lives hang in the balance.
I am not signing two death warrants so you can protect some spy.
The War on Terror is bigger than any two lives, Stark.
Listen, you got Khan's C-4 off your streets.
Take a victory lap.
Walk away.
I'm gonna take a walk all right.
Watch this.
Stark.
Stark! What's he doing? I don't know.
Stark, get back here.
Shoot me.
Stark! Amir, this is Sebastian Stark.
If you talk to me, I give you my word my men will neither harm you nor arrest you.
This thing can end right now.
You can be in the air in five minutes.
You are becoming quite a nuisance, Mr.
Stark.
But if this conversation will end our business Here's the deal.
You have a man on your payroll named Detective Willy Tarver.
He's holding two people hostage.
I want them released unharmed.
If you make this happen, I promise I will protect you from the U.
S.
government.
This is nonsense.
I have evidence linking you to the murder of two Los Angeles police officers.
You are bluffing.
You see the press over there? I just gave them a statement to that effect.
Good for you.
Fine.
Take off.
Just know the feds are going to shoot you out of the sky the second this plane crosses into open waters.
You gave me your word I would not be harmed.
I told you my men would not harm you.
But my men are no longer in control.
But I can offer you a way out.
Or you can just take your chances in the friendly skies.
I'm listening.
Release the hostages and confess to federal weapons violations.
Now I will tell the press that I was wrong, that you had absolutely nothing to do with the dead cops.
Once the feds don't have to fear bad PR, they rescind your death sentence.
But I still go to jail.
A slap on the wrist.
Beats a casket.
What's it gonna be? I lease a warehouse on Washington and Clover.
There have been several break-ins recently.
I cannot be sure what's in there.
I'm turning on my voice recorder.
I want you to repeat after me.
I, Amir Khan, have imported and manufactured plastic explosives in violation of Title 18 of the U.
S.
Code.
Speak.
I, Amir Khan, have imported and manufactured plastic explosives in violation of Title 18 of the U.
S.
Code.
Stark.
Mr.
Khan has just confessed to violation of federal explosives law.
I have a recording of him doing so.
He would now like to be taken into custody in your protection.
This is Stark.
I need a SWAT team sent to the following address.
Martin.
Okay.
We may have a location for Detective Tarver.
And Flora? We hope so.
I'm coming.
We can't allow that.
She's my daughter; I'm coming with you.
Let's go.
Take me instead.
Shut up.
Tarver just went out the back.
He's got the girl.
Tarver, ?????? ?????????freeze! ????????? ????????????? I need an ambulance! Martin! I need an ambulance! Martin.
Casey.
Khan'll get five to ten, max.
Stick him in Club Fed.
Conjugal visits, work release, he'll be out in three.
That's three years he won't be dumping explosives on our streets.
Martin always said he would be a cop if he had 50 pounds and five more inches.
(whispers): Oh, my God
But you want him alive.
If he won't communicate, we have to assume a defensive posture.
What do you think you're doing, Stark? My job.
The FBI's taking over this operation.
That's a federal cease and desist order.
You guys serve one of these at Waco? You tell your men to stand down and let that plane take off.
You don't have the authority.
I've got 30 cops here who'll back up any call I make.
How do you spell authority? And I am not going to allow Amir Khan leave this city.
Berlinger.
Yes, I'm on the ground now.
Situation's under control, sir.
But if you have a minute What do we do now? Think fast.
That plane takes off Casey's dead.
shark111 That was the U.
S.
Attorney for the Central District.
We need to cede jurisdiction.
Forget it.
I'm with you on this one, but our hands are tied.
You want plausible deniability? You just say I disobeyed a direct order, say I was off my meds.
Sebastian There are lives at stake, Jess.
Including Casey's.
Think the Feds give a damn? It's on us.
Madame District Attorney.
Perhaps you can give Stark here a little primer on the Supremacy Clause.
My office is in charge here, Agent Berlinger.
You're kidding me, right? This is the culmination of a six-month investigation into the sale of explosives to Los Angeles gangs.
It's a local matter.
We're seeing it through.
and place anyone who interferes under arrest.
BERLINGER: Amir Khan.
Billionaire arms dealer.
Dual Pakistani and American citizenship.
Bureau's been after him for years.
Khan uses his import-export business as cover.
He's smart, and he doesn't care about his body count.
Chemical signatures from the C-4 he sells have been found in explosions in Oslo, Tel Aviv and Edinburgh.
Am I boring you, Stark? I'm sorry, is there going to be a quiz? The point is your surveillance of Khan is interfering with an ongoing federal investigation.
As soon as we get enough to take this guy down on federal explosives charges, we're gonna move on him.
Khan's C-4 is responsible for a number of deaths in this city.
And if we nail him, he'll give us enough that we can shut down those in this country financing terror.
And how long is that gonna take? A year? Two years? Meanwhile, this guy's wreaking havoc here, now, today.
Which is why we will retain jurisdiction over Khan's activities here in L.
A.
I appreciate your position, but when those activities raise national security implications How about L.
A.
security implications? That rap group blown up in their SUV last month.
You think it was really a faulty fuel-injection? Khan has been unloading plastique and Taliban surplus weapons to our street gangs.
Three car bombs in the past five months.
Nine dead.
We're not bowing out so you guys can screw up somewhere down the line.
You've got a big mouth, Stark.
And you're a brainless political hack.
All right.
Look, we're both on the same side here.
But I've got a mandate to reduce gang violence by stemming the flow of weapons to our streets.
And stopping Khan, that tops the agenda.
We're going forward.
Well, I want regular updates.
You move we're in the loop.
All right, so how close are we to bringing off a sting operation? To nail Khan, I've got to coordinate six agencies in L.
A.
County.
I've got to establish a site for the buy.
I got to get Khan to bite.
I mean, best guess-- a week.
Forget it.
Berlger will make an ex parte motion-- try to federalize this.
We have to go tomorrow.
No pressure.
I'll make it happen.
You want to do this tonight? We got the feds breathing down our necks.
No way.
There's a reason why we've been slow playing Khan.
He'll get hinky if we push things up.
??????????? Look, when this started, I asked the Gang Unit for their two best detectives.
I believe I got 'em.
Now are you going to make this happen or what? There's no way.
Khan will smell a setup.
Fine.
You know what, let's just pack it in.
Six months of work wasted.
We'll spend the next six months informing next of kin.
What's the plan? Thank you.
Khan's lawyer will argue entrapment.
We need to establish a predisposition to sell us the C-4.
If the target balks committing a crime we usually pull back, reset things, plan another buy.
But now we don't have that luxury.
Push the guy if you have to.
This is our only shot.
You guys make the buy-- we'll make it stick.
Where's our confidential informant? Well, he's freaked, but he's on his way in.
What do we know about this guy? Emilio Perez, small-time thief who was looking at three strikes for shoplifting.
So he's working it off as a C.
I.
We put him into play as Khan's handyman.
Gives him access to his schedule, knowledge of people around him.
Is he reliable? Till now, but he's definitely the nervous type.
Anyone would be nervous in his position.
Emilio's been solid.
He'll be solid on the stand.
He'd better.
His testimony about Khan's operations and movements are going to put this bastard away.
I'll baby-sit him, if need be.
LAPD's got that covered.
Emilio Perez's lawyers just made an emergency motion for an early termination of his probation.
Our confidential informant wants out.
Raina, you're coming with me.
Let's go, guys, come on.
LAWYER: Mr.
Perez has provided information crucial to more than a dozen prosecutions over the past two years.
Which is why he's not rotting in Pelican Bay, Your Honor.
The D.
A.
's unconscionable demands have monopolized his time and caused extreme emotional and mental distress.
Oh, please Mr.
Perez has paid his debt, Your Honor.
His parole should be terminated.
Benefit of the bargain, Judge.
Mr.
Perez enjoyed the benefit of staying out of jail.
And now he must adhere to his end of the bargain as a confidential government informant.
If Mr.
Perez refuses to cooperate, the people demand that he be promptly incarcerated.
Mr.
Perez may find the demands made on him onerous, but there's nothing coercive about his plea agreement.
Your Honor Motion denied.
STARK: Thank you, Your Honor.
You and Martin make sure this bozo gets on the bus.
You need to calm down.
Everything you asked, I did.
I'm done.
Terminado, okay? You heard the judge, it doesn't work that way.
I have a family.
We're not going to let anything happen to you.
You'll be off-site with us, ID'ing people from a remote location.
A piece of cake.
PEREZ: Maybe for you.
Khan knows who I am.
If he figures out I gave him up We bring in Khan, you testify, you're done.
Khan's people will find me.
I just want to have a life, okay? I want to live with my wife and daughter.
Away from all this.
You will, but right now you need to finish what you started.
Go home, play with your daughter.
Lay low until the buy goes down tonight.
Soon you can put all of this behind you.
A hundred keys of C-4, that's a lot of bang-bang.
Would run you 900 G's.
TARVER: Not a problem.
And you need this tonight, why? Blowing up Staples Center? No, the Lakers are playing tonight.
Something came up.
Yeah, huh? Point is, we got the cash.
Your boy wants to deal, we deal.
He doesn't, find another seller.
I'll be in touch.
Nothing personal, yo, but, uh, for the kind of jack we talking about, we only deal with the big man here on out.
SELLER: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:00 p.
m.
, roof of the parking garage at Foster and Crenshaw.
Khan will make the drop himself.
Nice work.
We're halfway home.
Khan's smart, but he's never been in the system.
Which means he's arrogant.
That can work for us.
We'll have 360 degree visuals on you guys and you'll be miked up.
He gonna be there? Isaac has ten years of buy and busts.
You want him there.
Off-site surveillance is in place.
STARK: We got one shot at this, guys.
Let's make it work.
We got a problem? There is no "we.
" You're going to want to dial back that attitude, Tarver.
TARVER: You plant evidence, embarrass the job, resign in disgrace.
And you're talking to me about my attitude.
So you're telling me if your partner was shot, you'd just let the guy who did it escape? Hey, Isaac's cool, Willy.
I'll be in the car, Ray.
Willy's all right once you get to know him.
You just keep him out of my way.
??????????? I thought we had plain-clothes tracking him.
He bolted.
Went into a deli, ran out the back.
He's the only one who knows all the players.
We should've put an ankle bracelet on that little weasel.
I'll have LAPD start a canvass.
You told me he was reliable.
Damn it.
?????????? Too late.
Going to have to go without him.
Lewis, can you bring us in closer? Zooming in.
Who's this? we don't have any profiles of this guy ??????????? ???????????????? ?????????? ??????????????? ????????? ???????????? ?????????????? ????????????????? ???????????? ?????????????? ?????????? ????????????????? ???????????? ????????????????? ??????????? ???????????? ?????????????? ???????? ????????????? ?????????? ????????????? ??????????????? ?????????? ????????????? ???????? ?????????? ?????? ??????????? ???????? ?????????? ????????????? ???????????????? You've been in there for seven hours with this guy.
Tell me he's got something for us.
Nothing beyond what we already know.
James Weyland, 19, sophomore at Culver Community.
Ridiculous.
Says some guy paid him 200 bucks to deliver a suitcase.
And that guy got $200 to hire James.
Well, can the kid I.
D.
anybody? Nope.
All right.
Kick him.
You know, this C.
I.
of yours is working both sides.
Look, I'm sure there's a good reason.
If you stand up for that two-faced lowlife one more time, you're going out the window.
MARTIN: Raina's down at the Division.
She said the detectives that are staking out the Perez house just radioed in-- the wife just got home.
Okay, you and Isaac, meet up with Raina and talk to the wife.
Find Perez, bring him to me now.
Hello? We'll ask around, see if anyone else Perez has worked with has a line on him.
Gang Intelligence.
Their sources report chatter about a major C-4 buy going down later today.
That son of a bitch.
Khan never intended to sell us the C-4.
He knew that our buy was a set-up.
He used it as a smokescreen.
He draws all our resources to one place, and sets up the real buy someplace else.
Okay, you guys hook up with Gang Intelligence, find out who's really planning to buy this stuff.
All right? That was the FAA.
Khan's cleared a flight pattern to Lucerne this afternoon.
LAX? And Burbank, and Van Nuys.
He's got private jets at each.
Multiple flight patterns makes sense if you want to leave the country with a lot of cash and you're trying to avoid Customs.
Cash you'd get from unloading C-4.
Okay, put all three airports on high alert.
I'll take care of it.
Yeah.
Speak.
Great.
Thanks.
LAPD.
They got a sighting on Khan.
Where are you going? I'm gonna take the direct approach.
And you're going with me.
Casey can handle the FAA.
Fill him in on the way.
Let's go.
Uh-huh.
That was good.
Hope you had the blueberry pancakes-- they're famous for 'em.
I don't believe we have been introduced.
Sebastian Stark, the DA's Office.
Stark, yes-- I recall seeing you on TV.
I'm much better looking in person.
Something I can do for you? For starters, you can stop killing people.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
RPG's, the Kalashnikovs, the Semtex, all that crap ????????? it stops now.
You must have me confused with someone else.
Khan is a very popular name.
Not in my office.
I work in import-exports.
Precious gems, high-end ceramics.
As for the allegation, I'm a Murderer? It was a pleasure meeting you, Mr.
Stark.
We must talk again.
Count on it.
Perhaps over blueberry pancakes? So much for the direct approach.
I thought it went pretty well.
Where's Emilio? I don't know.
He left last night.
He did not tell me where he was going.
He tell you when he was coming back? No.
Is this a regular thing with him, Elena? Emilio is a good man.
I don't ask where he goes.
MARTIN: Elena you know what's at stake here.
By not showing up to meet us last night, Emilio could go to jail.
Is that what you want for your family? Is that what you want for your daughter? If you help us find Emilio, we'll work things out, I promise.
Digame, Elena.
They took her.
They took my daughter.
Someone kidnapped your daughter? I came back from the mercado two days ago.
Emilio was crying.
He said that they took Flora, and if he didn't do what they'd asked they'd kill her.
MARTIN: Did he know who took her? No.
MARTIN: Okay, Elena, we will help you but you have to tell us where Emilio is.
Oh, I swear to God I don't know.
MARTIN: We got LAPD looking for Flora on the down low.
If Khan thinks that Emilio went to the authorities, he might kill her.
Where are we on locating Emilio? We put a pen register on Elena's home phone.
She just threw a call into his cell.
Cell location comes back to Downey.
Emilio mentioned a cousin in Downey-- Javier, I think, owns an auto body shop.
You know your way around Downey? I do.
We got a bead on Emilio Perez.
Isaac'll fill you in.
Where's your partner? Ray said he had something to take care of with Personnel.
I'll have him meet us down there.
Right.
Raina, Martin, you guys work the phones.
Talk to people Emilio knows-- see if you can help locate him.
Got it.
Ah,Simon Bernhardt.
To what do I owe the displeasure? Always with the attitude.
I represent Amir Khan.
My condolences.
My client is a respected businessman.
Your client is a cold-blooded killer with no respect for human life, but hey, you say "potato" I was hoping this would be amicable, but since you already dispensed with the civilities, let me say this-- if you ever accuse my client publicly again, for anything, I will sue you and this office for defamation and malicious prosecution.
$500 an hour, and you still have a haircut that looks like it came with a bowl of soup-- go figure.
Sometimes I'm so good I scare myself.
How does mobilizing Khan's attorney help bring him down? You know what? I should charge you guys tuition.
I had to do something to draw Khan out, rattle his cage, and he went for it.
Bernhardt has been repping L.
A.
's biggest gang figures since the Crips and the Bloods were kids squabbling over baseball cards.
He also represents Khan, which could explain how a blue blood like Khan got plugged in to the gang world.
And if Bernhardt played matchmaker a universe of potential buyers for Khan's C-4 just got a whole lot smaller.
Precisely.
I'm in awe.
You should be.
Meet Casey at the courthouse.
See if Bernhardt recently filed legal papers on behalf of any gang member with an explosives fetish.
While we're young? I just left Ray another message.
He's probably grabbing a piece of tail.
Yeah, well, lucky for us, Emilio didn't put up a fight.
Listen, about yesterday Eh, forget it, it's done.
Nuh-uh.
I was out of line.
What happened with your partner you did what you had to do.
Where is he? Interview Three.
STARK: Missed you last night, Emilio-- heard you had a pressing obligation in Downey.
Sorry, I Shut up.
We know you're working for Khan.
That's not true.
And we know about your daughter.
You want to see her alive again, you come clean right now-- everything.
Don't make him ask again.
Can we talk alone? No.
How long have you been feeding us false information? Three days.
What did you tell Khan about our operation? Everything.
He has my daughter, okay? When was your daughter taken? What's the difference? What counts is that they have her! Look at me, Emilio.
We want to find Flora, but for that to happen, you can't lie to us anymore.
You got to tell us everything.
You can start by telling us who did the kidnapping.
His partner! Ray! Ray took her! He's a bad cop! Lying son of a bitch! Get him out of here! I'll kill you.
Get him out! ???????????? ????????? I swear to God, I swear to God, Ray took her.
He made me do this.
He works for Khan.
How long have you known this? Since Ray came and took Flora.
You tell me the truth.
Who's buying that C-4? They don't tell me nothing.
But I know Khan has an apartment on Normandy and Wilshire.
The day Flora was taken, I followed Ray.
He went inside an apartment and came out with Khan.
I told him to give me back my daughter or I'll go to the police.
But Ray said he'd slit Flora's throat if I talked to anyone.
We'll get her back.
Where's your partner? You can't believe anything that piece of crap Perez says.
He'd throw his own mama under the bus to save his ass.
Willy, where is Ray? I don't know.
All right? He's not answering his cell.
Perez says they're holding his kid at Normandy and Wilshire.
I'm calling in SWAT.
Let's hit it.
Clear.
Clear upstairs.
Citric acid, acetone.
Detonators.
This place is a C-4 lab.
Guy wasn't just smuggling explosives, he was making them! The C-4's gone-- he either moved the stuff or the buy already went down.
We've got a body here.
??????? Shot once in the back.
TARVER: God, Ray! Perez.
That son of a bitch set Ray up! All right, Willy, Willy Willy! Bomb! Bomb One dead, four injured.
MARTIN: Bomb Squad says it was an IED hooked up to a time delay.
Remotely detonated Perez sent us there.
He knew the place was booby trapped.
If that's true, I'll stick the needle in his arm myself.
What's his E.
T.
A.
? Sheriff's Department's bringing him down from County Lock-up right now.
I'll talk to him when he gets here.
No.
The only person you're talking to is a grief counselor.
Ray was my damn partner.
You're gonna continue working on this case under one condition, you follow orders.
Order number one: you steer clear of Perez.
Now what's the deal with this apartment? Rented in cash under a dead-end alias.
Explosion destroyed any useful forensics.
Okay, so to summarize, our case against Khan still sucks.
MARTIN: FBI Agent Berlinger.
Again.
He wants to know what we got.
Tell him I'm still in court.
Good news.
You must be in the wrong office.
White supremacist gang leader named Jake Forman was convicted of explosives possession three years ago.
Got out last summer.
His attorney? Simo Forman fits the exact profile of someone itching to get their hands on C-4.
Who says prayer doesn't work? Madeleine, you and I are going judge shopping.
We're gonna get a wiretap on this guy Forman.
Casey, the motions clerk at the federal courthouse gave me a heads-up.
The Feds are seeking a cease and desist order.
They want to kill our investigation and go after Khan themselves.
I'll keep tabs.
Now, check in with the Bomb Squad.
See what they got on this guy Forman.
Okay? Guys.
We gotta get the rest of the C-4 off the streets before more people die and we gotta grab Khan before he leaves the country.
Let's move.
TARVER: You got a minute? Thirty seconds.
Bomb Squad's territorial.
????????? they're gonna demand to be brought in on the investigation.
Unless I can get a D.
D.
A.
with me to pull rank.
Casey, I need you backing Tarver with the Bomb uad.
Got it.
Got it.
My guy down at the Bomb Squad says they don't even have a file on Forman.
That's weird.
He did time for possession.
And C-4 isn't exactly a starter kit for explosives.
Trust me.
Bomb Squad's a black hole.
Bunch of cowboys.
No one keeps records.
Well, maybe we should head over there anyway.
See what we can find out.
Waste of time.
I know a guy who may have intel on Forman.
He works down at the ADL.
He's got a file on every racist twitch on the West Coast.
You up for a ride? Let's go.
Anything off the wiretap? Nothing we can use.
You know, Sebastian got us a wiretap in 20 minutes.
Guy's a magician.
I have a front row seat I still don't know how he does it.
Got you a burger.
Mm, thanks.
Appreciate it.
It's just a burger.
Check this out.
MAN: Yeah, gonna rent a place in Mobley Heights.
Getting screwed on the price.
Told the guy I like a little sweet talk first.
Mobley Heights is just past Palmdale.
There's lots of black folks.
Not exactly a paradise for a white supremacist.
I worked a case down there last year.
Tons of storage facilities.
All right, so he's not living there.
He's using it for storage.
I'll call for a search warrant.
ISAAC: What were you planning on doing with all the C-4 we found in your storage locker, Jake? I'm in construction.
Ran out of blasting caps.
Except C-4's illegal.
Blasting caps aren't.
Guess you're gonna have to fine me.
We're gonna do a lot more than that.
Nice to see affirmative action is alive and well in L.
A.
County.
Another crack like that, you'll be spitting teeth.
How about calling off your Doberman? Sorry, he's not trained.
So pay attention.
Dead cop.
Death sentence.
Whoa.
What are you trying to pin on me here? Capital murder.
What? Two counts.
Wait, hold on, I didn't kill nobody.
The C-4 you bought has the same chemical signature as the explosives sold by Amir Khan.
A chemical signature is just like a fingerprint.
Which ties you to Khan's stash house where two cops died.
You got the wrong guy.
I don't anything about any dead cops.
Even if you didn't fire the gun or light the fuse, we've got you on conspiracy and felony murder.
No way! Any more affirmative action jokes? Look, all I did was buy the stuff.
From Khan.
Who knows? I posted an ad on this internet forum, looking for C-4.
Someone referred me to an 800 number.
Talked to this guy a few times.
Wired the money.
Dude mailed me the key to a locker at Union Station.
ISAAC: You lie to us, your racist ass gets rung up for murder.
I'm not lying.
I never met this guy Khan.
I was never in any stash house.
And I didn't kill nobody! How things play out with Forman? Well, the good news is we got the C-4 he bought off the streets.
What was he going to do with it? Probably clearing ground for a new synagogue.
All right, here's the $64,000 question: Does he get us to Khan? No.
:So where does that leave our case? In the dumper.
And Berlinger moved to enjoin our investigation.
So what do we do now? Drink heavily.
Mmm.
We just got word.
Khan's on his Gulfstream at the Van Nuys Airport.
He's unloaded his C-4, got his money, now he's looking to put as much distance between himself and California as possible.
That plane takes off, the C.
I.
's little girl is history.
Call the Control Tower, tell them to keep Khan grounded.
Already done.
You coming? I'll meet you there.
Good.
I vouched for you, Emilio.
And all you've done is lie.
My daughter's life is at stake.
?????????? Harkin told me what to do.
He took Flora.
He works for Khan.
Harkin is dead.
What? Yeah, the stash house that you sent us to? A bomb went off.
Another cop is dead, too, and we're holding you accountable.
No, no.
I didn't know anything about a bomb.
It's over.
Do you understand? I'm sorry.
Tarver gave me no choice.
Oh, so now Tarver's pulling the strings? ?????????? You must listen to me, please! No, we're done listening to you, Emilio.
First you put it on Harkin.
Now you're putting it on Tarver.
You've done nothing but lie.
No.
You can check, okay? I saw, I saw Khan give Tarver money.
And Tarver gave me this.
???????? If you were doing Tarver's bidding, why'd you take us to court, try to get out of this? I thought if I no longer worked for you, then I'd be useless to Khan.
And he would let Flora go.
But it didn't work.
And now Tarver is going to kill my little baby.
STARK: Come on, let us through, come on.
Get the media back.
Speak! Right.
That was Raina.
Perez is putting it on Tarver.
They ran Tarver's accounts.
Guy's worth two and a half mil.
Casey.
Come on, man, answer the phone.
BERLINGER: You have ten minutes to clear out.
Then I bring in a Marine division and place anyone who interferes under arrest.
How's that? Yeah.
Casey's still not answering.
Keep trying.
DEVLIN: We don't know for sure anything's happened to him.
Look, Tarver killed his own partner, Jess.
He tried to blow us up.
Smart money says he's holding Casey and Flora hoage somewhere at Khan's behest.
Control Tower says Khan still won't answer his radio.
And why should he? What do we got on him? Only one who can tie him to anything is the dirty cop we can't find.
I understand him grabbing the girl.
But why Casey? Insurance.
But when that plane takes off, hostages become witnesses.
And expendable.
So we gotta figure out a way to get Khan to call Tarver off.
And arrest Khan before the Feds arrest us.
All in the next nine minutes.
Piece of cake.
Hi.
I'm Casey.
You Flora? I'm friends with your daddy.
I know this is really scary, but I promise everything's going to be okay.
TARVER: That money was supposed to be wired two hours ago.
Call me as soon as the bank receives it.
Waiting for the money Khan was supposed to pay you? Is paying me.
You can use it to hire a really good lawyer.
You killed two cops.
You're going down.
Actually, I'm going up.
I'm leaving the country on Khan's plane tonight.
This time tomorrow, I'll be in Marbella drinking a mojito.
Just one problem.
Khan's leaving the country today.
He's not taking you.
And he's not paying you.
Shut up.
He cleared a flight pattern to Lucerne for this afternoon.
He's hanging you out to dry.
If you don't believe me, call him.
Your boys are listening in to Khan's calls.
You trying to play me.
You worked us for six months.
Fed us false information about Khan's movements, the phony buy I got damn well paid for it, too.
How much you get paid for killing your partner? Ray got curious, started sniffing around.
I didn't have a choice.
Look, you got what you needed from Emilio, let the little girl go.
It's been a real nice conversation, but it's over now.
Open your mouth again I'll put a bullet in it.
Time's up.
What's it going to be? I just have one question.
Why does the federal government want to give a pass to a guy who's implicated in two cop killings? You don't have the evidence to tie Khan to anything, let alone murder.
We know how to build a case.
And we know how to make it stick.
We have witnesses who'll flip on Khan.
He'll be convicted.
That's not going to work for us.
Why the hell not? I'm not having this discussion.
You don't want him taken in, do you? Do you? Mr.
Khan is a very important asset.
Which means what? He's led us to Al Qaeda strongholds Taliban operatives.
Oh.
We need him in the field.
You lying you You were never building a case against Khan.
You were just riding herd on us, weren't you? Keeping tabs, making sure-- hoping-- we would fail.
The Bureau runs things on a need-to-know basis.
Now you need to know.
Well, here's what you need to know.
I got a D.
D.
A.
and an eight-year-old girl whose lives hang in the balance.
I am not signing two death warrants so you can protect some spy.
The War on Terror is bigger than any two lives, Stark.
Listen, you got Khan's C-4 off your streets.
Take a victory lap.
Walk away.
I'm gonna take a walk all right.
Watch this.
Stark.
Stark! What's he doing? I don't know.
Stark, get back here.
Shoot me.
Stark! Amir, this is Sebastian Stark.
If you talk to me, I give you my word my men will neither harm you nor arrest you.
This thing can end right now.
You can be in the air in five minutes.
You are becoming quite a nuisance, Mr.
Stark.
But if this conversation will end our business Here's the deal.
You have a man on your payroll named Detective Willy Tarver.
He's holding two people hostage.
I want them released unharmed.
If you make this happen, I promise I will protect you from the U.
S.
government.
This is nonsense.
I have evidence linking you to the murder of two Los Angeles police officers.
You are bluffing.
You see the press over there? I just gave them a statement to that effect.
Good for you.
Fine.
Take off.
Just know the feds are going to shoot you out of the sky the second this plane crosses into open waters.
You gave me your word I would not be harmed.
I told you my men would not harm you.
But my men are no longer in control.
But I can offer you a way out.
Or you can just take your chances in the friendly skies.
I'm listening.
Release the hostages and confess to federal weapons violations.
Now I will tell the press that I was wrong, that you had absolutely nothing to do with the dead cops.
Once the feds don't have to fear bad PR, they rescind your death sentence.
But I still go to jail.
A slap on the wrist.
Beats a casket.
What's it gonna be? I lease a warehouse on Washington and Clover.
There have been several break-ins recently.
I cannot be sure what's in there.
I'm turning on my voice recorder.
I want you to repeat after me.
I, Amir Khan, have imported and manufactured plastic explosives in violation of Title 18 of the U.
S.
Code.
Speak.
I, Amir Khan, have imported and manufactured plastic explosives in violation of Title 18 of the U.
S.
Code.
Stark.
Mr.
Khan has just confessed to violation of federal explosives law.
I have a recording of him doing so.
He would now like to be taken into custody in your protection.
This is Stark.
I need a SWAT team sent to the following address.
Martin.
Okay.
We may have a location for Detective Tarver.
And Flora? We hope so.
I'm coming.
We can't allow that.
She's my daughter; I'm coming with you.
Let's go.
Take me instead.
Shut up.
Tarver just went out the back.
He's got the girl.
Tarver, ?????? ?????????freeze! ????????? ????????????? I need an ambulance! Martin! I need an ambulance! Martin.
Casey.
Khan'll get five to ten, max.
Stick him in Club Fed.
Conjugal visits, work release, he'll be out in three.
That's three years he won't be dumping explosives on our streets.
Martin always said he would be a cop if he had 50 pounds and five more inches.
(whispers): Oh, my God