Standoff s01e13 Episode Script
Backfire
-All right, everybody back this way.
-FBI! -Everybody off the platform.
-Back this way,off the platform.
-Upstairs.
-You need to come back this way.
-Everybody upstairs.
-Everyone up the stairs.
FBI.
I need everybody off of this platform right now.
Come on.
The platform's not safe.
Everyone up the stairs.
Sir.
£¿£¿Keep moving.
Cover and conceal.
I don't wanna see any black from the north side.
Copy, we're invisible.
Here they come.
Kill the power to the train.
Please you gotta believe me.
I didn't do nothin' this time.
They cut power to the rails.
FBI! End of the line, you are stopped.
You are surrounded.
Throw your weapons on the platform and let's go home with nobody else getting shot.
End of the line? Yeah, what, "Next stop surrender?" These guys aren't crazies.
It's a professional bank crew who pulled a job and their getaway went south.
Little humor,it takes the edge off.
They know they gotta give up.
It's hot and sunny and they're wearing ski suits.
-I vote for crazy.
-It's a look.
Hey!Hands in the air! Don't shoot! They told me to leave.
I have to talk to the cops.
Walk forward slow, keep your hands up.
They got on the train and they just started shooting.
And they shot at the cameras, and they yelled us not to move.
And that's when that guy-- he pulled out a gun and said, "Freeze," but they shot him.
He was Metro Police.
Off-duty, he's the one that called us when they got on the train.
Please, Luisa's still on the train.
Who? Luisa, she works with me.
Isabel, we're gonna get her out of there.
Okay, you said that you needed to find the cops.
Did they have a messagefor us? He said he wanted a phone.
A a throw phone.
I'll have one brought down.
A throw phone? -That's the first timeI heard an HT request that.
-Pros.
Might be easier than we thought.
Thanks for coming in today.
As if I had a choice.
That was a joke.
I know.
I'm impressed.
I also do card tricks.
If you wanna see a real show.
I just mean that it's a good thing, Neal.
You know, you're feeling clear,lucid.
I think I'm just trying to avoid excitement.
Stay away from danger.
What's your name? My name's Matt.
What's yours? We don't wanna talk here.
We wanna move to the next stop,Universal City.
We'll talk to you there.
Why are we whispering? Universal City and we'll release everyone on the train unharmed.
What's at, what's at Universal City? You have ten minutes.
Duff, send a team ahead.
Secure the platform.
You know, if Red thinks we're just gonna let this train rollout of here, he's Crazy? Um, I don't I don't, I don't think so.
And it hasn't been easy.
In fact, I think I think that, um, I, I think it's happening again.
Come in.
You wanted to see me? -Yeah.
-I'm sorry, -I didn't know you were with a patient -No, no, it's okay,Bruce,this is Neal -Don't even think about it.
-What? ?? You didn't think I would see you? You didn't think that I would be ready for you, huh? Don't leave! Don't leave.
Don't leave.
-You're my only witness.
-Neal, please.
Lock the door, -pick up the phone and call the FBI.
-Dr.
G Oh, no.
Lock the door! ?? And pick up the Don't look at me! Pick up the phone and call the FBI.
Now! Carrera.
Well, maybe he knows something we don't.
I wonder if Armed Robbery has any luck with an ID.
I don't know.
??Told Lia let us know the second anyone knows anything.
Say that again.
No, I'm sorry.
I can't do that.
Well, he's a little busy right now.
Don't you have an on-scene negotiator? I am the on-scene negotiator.
The guy doesn't want me.
I will only talk to Special Agent Matt Flannery at the FBI.
This is a matter of national security! -Neal Polniaczek? -Neal Polniaczek.
You gotta be kidding me.
Who's Neal Polniaczek? -He's a repeater.
-One of Matt's long-term clients.
He gets himself into trouble every couple of years.
I get to talk him out of it.
He's a paranoid schizophrenic Delusional.
You'd love him.
LAPD has secured the scene.
But he's specifically asking for you, won't talk to anyone else.
-All right,how far is the office? -Downtown, less than ten.
-How long does Neal take? -15, 20 minutes.
-You have a talk-down ritual with this guy? -Yeah.
Do a hand-off.
It'll buy some time.
-Higher power? -All right.
Red, this is Matt.
Listen, I wanna give you what you want, but I don't have the authority to do it.
Okay, so I don't wanna waste your time.
I'm gonna pass you up to one of my bosses.
A chain of command thing.
Her name's Emily, next call you get, it'll be from her, is that okay? I'll take that as a "yes.
" I'll be 15, 20 minhalf an hour or less.
I'm timing you.
All right, Lia, what do we know about these guys? Armed Robbery's still working on it.
The ski suit thing doesn't match any crews on record.
How much did they grab from the bank? Three million in bearer bonds.
Didn't touch the cash.
Okay, I'm gonna call back in.
-You recording this? -Yeah, but try and get them to raise their voices.
-I can't get a voiceprint off a whisper.
-Okay.
This is Emily Lehman.
Who's this? Who am I speaking with? You're the one in charge? Yeah, I'm one of the ones.
I heard you had a specific request.
But I wanna hear it directly from you.
I'm gonna need you to speak up a little bit.
'Cause I'm having trouble hearing you.
I don't believe you.
What's that? I'm sorry? Could you speak up? You're not a boss.
You're another negotiator.
You work in teams of two, and now you're trying to stall for time.
But I'm telling you right now if the power doesn't come back on in eight minutes, I'm going to start killing passengers one by one until it does.
Did you hear that okay, or do you need me to speak up? Flannery? Jeff Thoms.
You've talked this HT down before? Four times in ten years.
The guy belongs in a mental ward, you ask me.
Well, that's where I last saw him.
Two hostages? That's different for Neal.
Bruce and Meredith Golden.
It's a husband-and-wife practice.
Which one is his shrink? The wife.
Neal was in session with her when Dr.
Bruce walked in and he just snapped.
This according to the receptionist.
Mike Torrez, Tactical Lead.
This is Matt Flannery.
-Hey, where is he? -Hey.
We got him contained in the back office.
I sent a sniper unit across the street.
They're all set up now, but there's no direct line of fire into the room.
Yeah, there's no need.
I'm gonna have him out,weapon down, safe surrender.
Uh, I gotta get back to this other thing after that.
Have dispatch route the call through this number at FBI.
-Other thing? -Yeah, it's a busy day.
I hate to ask this, but what are our tactical options? Are we not negotiable? I think this guy means what he says.
I think he's gonna shoot someone if we don't turn the power back on.
We can't let them get mobile again.
Hello? -Meredith Golden? -Yes.
Meredith, this is Matt Flannery.
I'm sure you've heard of me.
-Who is it? -I know Neal's watching you.
I just need to ask one thing.
Has he been taking his medication? Uh, yes, he has.
Is, is that Matt? Give me that.
Matt? Neal, how you doing? Long time no talk.
Matt, I got Sanborn.
He's here.
Okay, good, let's get him out of there.
No, I I mean, I got the real Sanborn.
He tried to ambush me in broad daylight.
Neal, my name is Bruce Golden.
I'm not your enemy.
Just shut up! I know who you are.
I've seen your face, Sanborn.
I've seen classified documents.
??The hell is he talking about? Uh, Agent Sanborn's his nemesis.
Evil CIA spook,uses psychic remote viewing to see through the eyes of other people and send them after Neal.
Don't look at me.
It's not my fantasy.
Neal? Neal, you there? I'm watching him.
Okay, well, now, y-you realize that's not the real Sanborn.
Right? Sanborn's back at Langley.
That's an innocent civilian.
No, I've I-I've seen his file.
I-I've seen his face.
-W-Where'd you see his file? -I don't know.
Okay, well, I want to get this guy just as bad as you do, Neal, but let's, let's do this thing right.
Let's break his connection, spare the innocent.
How do I know you're really you? Better give me the ID test.
He's going to ask me a riddle.
Who are you supposed to be to him? It's kind of like The Fugitive.
All right, Sanborn's the one- armed man; Neal is Kimball; and I guess I'm Gerard.
We're, we're at odds, -but we're united against a common enemy.
-Sanborn.
Right.
You negotiate with this guy inside of his delusion? Well, if it ain't broke, you know what I'm saying? The man is afraid to go home because the man in the mask is there.
Why? Hmm.
Hmm is it a Halloween mask? No.
If you get the riddle wrong, he kills the hostage? No.
It's third base, baseball.
He's afraid to go home 'cause the catcher is I know the answer to the thing; I'm just trying to, you know, make it a little,you know Already know the answer.
How am I doing? I'm two minutes to deadline.
How are you doing? Listen, we don't have to figure out how to get those guys off the train.
They've already got a plan for that.
It just got interrupted,that's all.
-Is it a mud mask? -No.
-What? -Nothing.
Hold on, Neal.
I'm, I'm thinking.
Emily, listen.
Their escape was probably more worked out than "Let's jump on the Metro with ski suits on.
" There's a plan.
They have a plan, and it doesn't involve a Metro co and it doesn't involve taking hostages.
But it does involve getting to a stop at Universal City.
Right.
Or somewhere in between.
Huh, thanks, Matt.
The man is on third base.
The answer is correct.
Your identity has been confirmed.
Roger that.
I'm just glad that you're here,Matt.
I couldn't do this without you.
We're gonna defeat him together and we're gonna make sure that nobody gets hurt.
All right,check this out.
It's a service access tunnel for maintenance.
I wonder if you can jump off those trains while they're moving.
You can.
You would die.
The things move between 60 and 70 miles per hour.
But you could throw something off.
What are you thinking? I'm thinking we turn the power on.
-And let them get away? -Yeah, just to the next stop.
Then we'll turn it back off.
Okay, that will give us some leverage to get the passengers off now, -and give HRT a better shot at the next platform.
-No.
They'd be out of sight for a minute and a half.
-That's no good.
-Yeah, well, they're going to execute someone in 45 seconds.
Also no good.
All right,make the offer.
Get them talking past their deadline.
Duff.
We're sending a train your way.
Set to intercept.
All right, train's coming to us.
Let's fan out.
Let's fan out.
I want every door covered.
They could move positions during transit.
?? I can arrange to have the power turned back on, but I'm gonna need something from you first just to justify this action to my bosses.
Like you said, I'm just another negotiator.
How many? Ten.
Five.
All right, five is good.
Power goes on, they walk out.
Then we move.
??,Power goes on, five walk out.
-Agreed? -Done.
When I say so, you people I tapped stand by the door.
Sir.
Sir? Power back to the tracks in ten seconds.
All right,the power's coming back on.
Hey, blue boy.
Look.
Look, I just thought you should know, when you pulled me out of there, ?? They didn't release the damn hostages.
Neal, did you find the code cipher? I-I did, I got it out of him, but it's, um, it's a tough one.
I didn't say anything to you, Neal, and if I did, I didn't mean -??Don't argue with him.
-Quiet! I don't know if I can crack it, Matt.
I almost got it.
I'm, I'm just, I'm just missing the last number.
Well, let me help you with it.
What are the first numbers? -You got a pencil? -Yeah, go ahead.
First number is 13.
Next is 14, 15, There's one more.
I just, I just can't see it.
No problem, Neal.
What do we got? Each number is 16 -to a different base of 16 minus one -Okay, whatever, thank you.
Did you hear that, Sanborn? The FBI is on to you.
Okay, hold on, Neal.
We're using the code to trace Sanborn's location.
All right, good.
Good work, Mathers.
Listen, real quick, uh, how's Emily doing with the subway? Scene's moved to Universal City.
Rest of the team's heading there now.
-What you got? -Nothing.
Just holding like you ordered.
-Where's Red and Blue? -Well, you tell me.
They were there when the train left, right? FBI! Nobody move! -He's long gone.
-Yeah, I know.
So is his gun.
Yeah, I noticed that.
Did you notice how many hostages we had at the last stop? Yeah, 25, dropped to 24.
??Notice how many we got now? Meredith.
Bruce, be quiet.
Let them handle this.
I've always loved you.
You know that, right? Don't talk to her.
Don't, don't look at her.
I'm not going to let you jump into another body.
I'm tired of it.
I'm, I'm tired of the game between us.
I'm sick of you turning innocent people into assassins.
Luisa.
Which one of you is Luisa? All right,Luisa,it's okay.
Did you notice the gunmen throwing their bags, guns,and ski clothes out the back door? They told us to keep our heads down and our eyes closed.
If we looked up, they shoot us.
All right.
Nobody gets off the train.
This last part-- it's basically The Exorcist.
Neal believes that the hostage is possessed by Sanborn, so once we break Sanborn's secret code, we can drive him out of the hostage's body.
Then the hostage is no longer a threat to Neal.
Gun goes down.
-Were you able to trace his location? -Yes, Neal.
I gotta hand it to you.
That code allowed our satellites to hone right in on Sanborn.
Well, do me a favor.
Catch him this time.
We will, but right now, let's send him packing.
I'm gonna start the countdown.
Are you ready? Oh, yeah, uh okay, I'm ready.
Return all curses to sender.
Ten nine eight seven six five four three two one.
Zero.
Return all curses to sender.
And that's Return all curses to sender.
?? -Oh, my God.
-Why, why did I? why did I do that? Why did I do that? -Let her go, Neal.
-No.
What happened, Matt? What happened? ?? Neal.
?? What happened? You tell me what happened! You tell me! Calm yourself, okay? Just take yourself to a calm place.
I'm sorry.
I d I d I didn't mean it.
It w it wasn't me.
-What? -They're saying he encouraged Neal to shoot the hostage, and that's what ended up happening.
-That doesn't even make any sense.
-Yeah, I know but£¿£¿ Matt's refusing to leave the scene and LAPD wants me to rein him in.
Flannery.
Get him out of there.
I gotta get down there.
All right, uh, you, I need a ride downtown.
All right, Cheryl, two minutes.
-No, I can't wait.
-One minute.
You know,we can sit here all day or we can end this right now.
Whoever robbed the bank on 7th and Figueroa, I want you to put your hands up right now.
Now, why didn't I think of that? Look, we already found the money and the guns you tossed into the tunnel, and it's only a matter of time before we find you.
You know what? The next time that you try this, you might want to think twice before having everyone but you put their palms to the glass.
Whoever's fingerprints are missing gets a one-way ticket to Bakersfield.
Unless you want to make a deal.
Okay, the first bank robber to turn himself in wins a reduced sentence.
??I am a federal agent making a promise in front of a bunch of witnesses.
Okay, and I'm giving you a deadline.
Offer's only good for 30 seconds.
-27, 26 -What if we give the other guy up? Hands on your head! Dumb son of a bitch.
-She was bluffing! -Whoa, whoa, hey! Down on the ground! I don't care how hot it gets up there, you do not raise your voice to me when I'm talking to my HT.
-Your HT? -Yeah, my HT.
Okay, now,he's your HT, then maybe you can explain to me -what the hell happened up there! -You were looking at the same thing I was! -The guy's about to surrender, he's -I saw you perform a countdown with the guy, -using active, inflammatory phrases -You gonna throw a textbook at me now? I'm gonna throw a lawsuit at you when this thing comes down on my head.
'Cause that lady's gonna sue the living crap out of somebody, -You want to cover your ass, -if she gets out alive! start covering your ass! Do what you need to do.
The guy is too wild; we got to smoke him out.
Listen to me.
All right, this is not his fault.
I know that.
Everything I say is gonna sound crazy now.
Even though I'm not.
Look I'm in the clear now.
I'm in the clear, and I don't know what happened.
You have to believe me.
I believe you, Neal.
'Cause you're my doctor.
You have to tell me why, so I can tell them why.
Because if I walk out of here now, they're gonna kill me.
If you let me go, I'll tell them.
No, that's not I can't.
That letting you would be crazy.
And I'm not crazy.
You have to tell them that.
Matt? I'm Jeff Thoms from the LAPD.
We spoke earlier.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay, I, uh Look, I know I have problems,all right? Uh, I have a disease.
But it doesn't make me stupid! Okay? Of course I remember talking to you because you're the guy who's sitting outside with a gun pointed at me! Look, I'm scared, okay? You're scaring me! There's no talking to this guy.
Sniper takes out the window, draw his attention east, we breach north.
Do it.
Okay, I know what you're gonna say, and I know what you heard, and I'm telling you straight out, I did everything right with this guy.
-You were here last time.
-Okay, what happened? I don't know.
I don't know.
I did the three steps; it was just like last time, just like the time before that??.
-Matt, is the hostage still in there? -Yeah.
Okay, 'cause they're gonna go.
Hey, Thoms.
-Stand back.
-Stand down.
Lieutenant Thoms.
Cheryl Carrera.
-We spoke on the phone.
-Yeah.
-We're about to breach.
-Not on my command you're not.
-Your command? -Yes.
We have an ongoing case with Neal Polniaczek.
His presence here puts us in charge.
Only reason you're in charge is because the perp asked for your man.
And your man came in here and got someone killed.
We don't see it that way.
You can go though.
Thank you.
Fine.
Your mess, you can clean it up.
You okay? Yeah.
Everybody make it off the train? Yeah.
-Get your guys? -Mm-hmm.
Okay.
What? -My head was there.
-No.
-No, my head wasn't here.
-No.
I was, uhI was talking to Neal, -but I was thinking about the subway.
-No.
-I don't think so.
-You don't think so? What do you want us to do, Bureau? Whatever I tell you.
Right now, I want you to safety your weapons and call off your sniper.
We're not done talking.
-Anything else? -Yes.
Want you to set up a laser mic with your sniper unit.
Bounce it off the window so we can hear inside.
No, you said you did everything right, same as before.
What changed? I don't know.
What's it matter? Well, what does it matter? It matters if you want to save the other hostage.
Matters if you want to save Neal.
Come on, when was the last time you talked to this guy? Couple years ago.
Okay, and who was secondary? Was there an incident log? There was more than that.
The video's not high quality, but what do you expect from a surveillance feed, right? I'm uploading it now.
John and Mary are on the floor.
So this happened when Neal was an inpatient.
Yeah.
Pescadero State Hospital.
It's shut down now.
Mary is dead.
Attacked one of his hall mates.
And you'd already established this ritual with him? First call out was to his house, probably '93, '94.
High-risk suicide.
Guy talked weird.
I just went with it.
Listen to me, Neal.
I can help you, but you have to listen.
But you knew not to enter his delusion.
I didn't set out to do that.
He was undiagnosed at the time.
Still living with his family-- a wife, couple kids.
Had a career as an illustrator-- books, magazines and stuff.
Return all curses to sender.
-Anyway, that's how it's supposed to work.
-That's amazing.
I mean, the fact that he established a talk-down ritual to combat his delusions, it means his brain is actively fighting the disease.
Guys, you'll want to hear this.
??Feed from the laser mic.
Lia, patch them in.
Listen to me.
I'm listening.
Agent Sanborn is real.
Do you understand? What? I was hiding this from you.
And now I realize it was wrong, and I've paid the price for keeping the secret.
What? Wh-what are you talking about? He's real.
He's out there still.
And now that you've made him angry, he's not just going to come after you.
He's going to come after Sarah.
That's Neal's wife.
And Julie-Anne and Alexa.
Daughters.
What the hell's she doing? He's going to kill your entire family, Neal.
And only you can stop him.
But you have to be willing Willing? Willing? You have to be willing to sacrifice yourself.
She's gonna talk him into suicide.
Survival? Or revenge.
He just killed her husband.
-Why are you saying this to me? -This is gonna backfire.
Yeah, he's gonna shoot her, and then he's gonna shoot himself.
Great.
So who do we talk down first, ?? Put the gun in your mouth, Neal.
No.
Put the gun to your head and pull the trigger.
Why? Because you're sick, and you know that.
Because you really shouldn't be here with the rest of us.
It's not fair to everyone else.
It's not fair to your family.
-Just keeps ringing.
-Ignore it.
It's not gonna stop.
-I'm talking to my doctor! -Neal, it's Matt.
Matt? Matt, what-what happened? I'm working on it, okay? I'm trying to figure it out just like you asked me to.
We need her help.
But to do that, I got to talk to your doctor.
Can you put Meredith on the phone? Hello.
Meredith? Yes, I'm still here.
Meredith, we have a microphone that can hear into the room.
We hear everything that you're saying.
Don't do this.
You do not want his death on your hands.
Let me talk him out of there.
Yeah, I've seen how you do that.
I know you're angry, and I know you want to punish Neal.
That's not gonna bring Bruce back.
What happened earlier is not Neal's fault; it's mine.
He's not responsible for his actions, and you know that.
Yes, I understand.
Did you hear that? In his voice? Did I hear what? Matt's gone.
Sanborn's taken him.
You're all alone now, Neal.
She's talking low.
I can't hear.
She's not gonna stop.
I don't know what to say to her.
We can roll in a flashbang, knock them both down.
No, they're too close together.
And gun could go off.
All right, let's get in touch with her friends,family, co-workers.
The receptionist, she's still here.
Have her brought up.
You want us to bring up the wife, too? What's she doing here? Thoms had her called in just as you arrived.
Like she hasn't been through enough.
Damn it! Lia, I need you to do some quick work for me.
I need everything there is to know on Dr.
Meredith Golden.
Hey, Sarah.
Right.
Of course you're here.
Look, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean it to come out like that, I just I know.
And I'm really sorry that this keeps happening.
I know it's gotta be annoying for you.
There's no reason for you to be here.
You should go home.
-What's wrong? -There's nothing wrong.
I gotta get back.
We'll call you.
He said that he was getting better, you know.
I should have known.
You still talking to him? Yeah, we started again a few months ago.
He'd call me every Monday after his session with Dr.
Golden.
He was excited.
He said that she was really helping him out.
Helping him out how? Dr.
Meredith's been treating Neal P.
for almost two years now.
Dr.
Bruce usually sent the court-appointed patients over to her.
She hated that.
So much for playing on her investment in Neal.
Well, if she hated taking the pro bono patients, why did she do it? Oh, it's Dr.
Bruce's practice.
He brought her in.
But she's his wife.
I mean she must have some say.
Maybe that was the problem,you know? No no, we don't.
What are you talking about? It's been pretty chilly in here the last six months.
They don't really talk to each other that much.
Used to leave together, now he leaves early,she leaves late, unless it's his day off.
I don't know.
It's Tensionville.
I mean I get it.
I could never work with my boyfriend; I'd kill him.
It's not easy.
It never is.
And you fought him so many times for so long.
But now you have to do what's right.
Once you're gone, he's gone.
You can't be selfish.
£¿£¿ If you don't stop him, he's going to kill Sarah.
He's hunting her right now.
Neal said that she was helping him make progress.
That she was helping him find the "true identity" of Agent Sanborn.
I mean, he even stopped by our place last month and he dropped off this drawing that he made of this face and he said, "this is him.
" He said the same thing to me.
He said that he saw Agent Sanborn's real face.
Is that good? -Do you still have this drawing? -No, I I threw it out.
I didn't want it in the house, not with the girls.
Come with me.
If you ask me, Meredith shouldn't even be a shrink.
She never went to med school.
She has a psychology degree from some city college.
I think the only reason she's in practice ??is because she's married to Bruce Golden.
He must must've been the one who was writing the prescriptions.
Even though he didn't see all the patients.
Wait right here.
We talked to the receptionist.
Guess what? Bruce and Meredith didn't get along? How'd you know that? Is this the face that Neal drew? Wait a minute.
I thought he made that face up.
Who is this? Okay, I've talked this guy down four times, right? Each time, he was afraid of a man with no face.
Except today, all of a sudden the guy's got a face.
That doesn't track.
Paranoid delusions are usually consistent.
Yeah, I know.
It didn't hit me either until I find out that Neal drew a picture of Dr.
Bruce over a month ago, naming him as the true face of Sanborn.
I think Meredith is messing with his head like she altered his delusions.
Come on.
She can't alter his delusion.
She can.
I mean, she can't alter them, but she can stimulate them.
Yeah, it says according to her CV that Meredith Golden is a licensed hypnotherapist.
Come on.
That doesn't mean anything.
Sure it does.
I used hypnotherapy to quit smoking, you remember? It's not like in the movies.
You can't turn someone into an assassin.
Yeah, but what if the guy already is an assassin? What if he's already a super spy? Or if he's in the middle of a big global conspiracy because Neil believes all of those things.
And she knows that.
She's his doctor.
Which means she also knows the danger of using autosuggestive techniques on a schizophrenic, especially one with a violent history.
We can't prove any of this.
Yeah, and she knows that, too.
I don't think she wants revenge.
I think she's trying to cover her tracks.
Yeah and the proof's about to put a gun in his mouth.
I can't.
I can't.
I can't.
It's okay.
I understand.
Give me the gun.
?? Okay, look.
Neal's scheduled for Monday.
Mondays at 5:00.
Sarah said he'd call after every session.
So what's he doing here on a Wednesday? Meredith changed the appointment, but why? Because Bruce's day off was Monday.
-Remember:the receptionist told us that.
-Three-day weekends.
Neal never met Bruce before today.
No, not in person.
That's him.
We are out of time.
Come on, Neal.
Tell Sarah that I'm sorry.
Tell her that I tried.
Be careful.
It's loaded.
He's handing her the gun.
She'd going to shoot him and say it was self-defense.
-We gotta breach.
-And shoot who? Matt! Put it down.
Drop the gun.
This sick bastard killed my husband.
You killed your husband and you used Neal to do it.
Now put it down.
He shot him in cold blood.
-You witnessed it.
-Drop the act.
Nobody's buying it.
It's not gonna work here, and it's not gonna work in court.
I'm gonna make sure of that.
I'm gonna show 'em the datebook.
I'm gonna show how you switched Neal's appointment to today, and I'm gonna show 'em the picture.
What picture? The picture you used to manipulate Neal.
You put your husband's face on his fear and made him his target.
Where did you get that? I've seen that before.
She showed it to you at the end of every appointment.
I don't know what you're saying.
I'm saying you used your patient as a loaded gun and you waited for me to pull the trigger.
You knew about our talk-down ritual.
You knew about the code, the riddle and the countdown.
It was all just sitting there waiting to be used.
You didn't even have to work that hard.
-That's crazy.
-Yeah, well,you're a crazy bitch.
And that's what the jury is gonna say when I show 'em the drawing of that photo he sent to his wife.
You talked to Sarah? Shut up.
Why? Why would you do that? -I said shut up.
-Meredith, no! All right,I need a medic in here! Okay, she pulled the trigger.
It didn't go off.
I had the safety on.
I thought she knew that.
That's what you do when you hand someone a loaded gun, right? I didn't want her to get hurt.
I didn't want anybody to get hurt.
-Hey.
-Hey.
Whatcha doing? I was working on an old problem.
-Yeah? -Yeah.
Can I help? -Sure.
-Thanks.
Guy's dead in the middle of the desert, surrounded by 53 bicycles.
What happened? Mmm, you tell me.
Who cares? He's dead.
-Is that your shooting report? -Yeah.
You know,this Golden trial's gonna be a big thing.
-A lot of prep.
-Yeah.
You gonna need help writing your statement on that? -Are you good at that? -Yeah, I'm pretty good.
She's gonna go down, Matt.
??I know.
So is Neal.
Neal wasn't responsible for his actions and neither are you.
??And let's not forget those 25 lives we saved that day on the train.
-We? -Yeah, I mean, I couldn't have done it without you.
-All right.
-And that guy in the desert, Gambler.
He was cheating and he got shot.
That's good.
The real question is why the other guy pushed his car in front of a hotel, and as soon as he stopped there, he knew he was broke.
That's 'cause he's playing Monopoly.
That's obvious.
Less obvious is the guy who takes the elevator up to the tenth floor and then walks another five flights to his apartment.
Wait, the midget in the elevator who can't reach the button for his floor? ??
-FBI! -Everybody off the platform.
-Back this way,off the platform.
-Upstairs.
-You need to come back this way.
-Everybody upstairs.
-Everyone up the stairs.
FBI.
I need everybody off of this platform right now.
Come on.
The platform's not safe.
Everyone up the stairs.
Sir.
£¿£¿Keep moving.
Cover and conceal.
I don't wanna see any black from the north side.
Copy, we're invisible.
Here they come.
Kill the power to the train.
Please you gotta believe me.
I didn't do nothin' this time.
They cut power to the rails.
FBI! End of the line, you are stopped.
You are surrounded.
Throw your weapons on the platform and let's go home with nobody else getting shot.
End of the line? Yeah, what, "Next stop surrender?" These guys aren't crazies.
It's a professional bank crew who pulled a job and their getaway went south.
Little humor,it takes the edge off.
They know they gotta give up.
It's hot and sunny and they're wearing ski suits.
-I vote for crazy.
-It's a look.
Hey!Hands in the air! Don't shoot! They told me to leave.
I have to talk to the cops.
Walk forward slow, keep your hands up.
They got on the train and they just started shooting.
And they shot at the cameras, and they yelled us not to move.
And that's when that guy-- he pulled out a gun and said, "Freeze," but they shot him.
He was Metro Police.
Off-duty, he's the one that called us when they got on the train.
Please, Luisa's still on the train.
Who? Luisa, she works with me.
Isabel, we're gonna get her out of there.
Okay, you said that you needed to find the cops.
Did they have a messagefor us? He said he wanted a phone.
A a throw phone.
I'll have one brought down.
A throw phone? -That's the first timeI heard an HT request that.
-Pros.
Might be easier than we thought.
Thanks for coming in today.
As if I had a choice.
That was a joke.
I know.
I'm impressed.
I also do card tricks.
If you wanna see a real show.
I just mean that it's a good thing, Neal.
You know, you're feeling clear,lucid.
I think I'm just trying to avoid excitement.
Stay away from danger.
What's your name? My name's Matt.
What's yours? We don't wanna talk here.
We wanna move to the next stop,Universal City.
We'll talk to you there.
Why are we whispering? Universal City and we'll release everyone on the train unharmed.
What's at, what's at Universal City? You have ten minutes.
Duff, send a team ahead.
Secure the platform.
You know, if Red thinks we're just gonna let this train rollout of here, he's Crazy? Um, I don't I don't, I don't think so.
And it hasn't been easy.
In fact, I think I think that, um, I, I think it's happening again.
Come in.
You wanted to see me? -Yeah.
-I'm sorry, -I didn't know you were with a patient -No, no, it's okay,Bruce,this is Neal -Don't even think about it.
-What? ?? You didn't think I would see you? You didn't think that I would be ready for you, huh? Don't leave! Don't leave.
Don't leave.
-You're my only witness.
-Neal, please.
Lock the door, -pick up the phone and call the FBI.
-Dr.
G Oh, no.
Lock the door! ?? And pick up the Don't look at me! Pick up the phone and call the FBI.
Now! Carrera.
Well, maybe he knows something we don't.
I wonder if Armed Robbery has any luck with an ID.
I don't know.
??Told Lia let us know the second anyone knows anything.
Say that again.
No, I'm sorry.
I can't do that.
Well, he's a little busy right now.
Don't you have an on-scene negotiator? I am the on-scene negotiator.
The guy doesn't want me.
I will only talk to Special Agent Matt Flannery at the FBI.
This is a matter of national security! -Neal Polniaczek? -Neal Polniaczek.
You gotta be kidding me.
Who's Neal Polniaczek? -He's a repeater.
-One of Matt's long-term clients.
He gets himself into trouble every couple of years.
I get to talk him out of it.
He's a paranoid schizophrenic Delusional.
You'd love him.
LAPD has secured the scene.
But he's specifically asking for you, won't talk to anyone else.
-All right,how far is the office? -Downtown, less than ten.
-How long does Neal take? -15, 20 minutes.
-You have a talk-down ritual with this guy? -Yeah.
Do a hand-off.
It'll buy some time.
-Higher power? -All right.
Red, this is Matt.
Listen, I wanna give you what you want, but I don't have the authority to do it.
Okay, so I don't wanna waste your time.
I'm gonna pass you up to one of my bosses.
A chain of command thing.
Her name's Emily, next call you get, it'll be from her, is that okay? I'll take that as a "yes.
" I'll be 15, 20 minhalf an hour or less.
I'm timing you.
All right, Lia, what do we know about these guys? Armed Robbery's still working on it.
The ski suit thing doesn't match any crews on record.
How much did they grab from the bank? Three million in bearer bonds.
Didn't touch the cash.
Okay, I'm gonna call back in.
-You recording this? -Yeah, but try and get them to raise their voices.
-I can't get a voiceprint off a whisper.
-Okay.
This is Emily Lehman.
Who's this? Who am I speaking with? You're the one in charge? Yeah, I'm one of the ones.
I heard you had a specific request.
But I wanna hear it directly from you.
I'm gonna need you to speak up a little bit.
'Cause I'm having trouble hearing you.
I don't believe you.
What's that? I'm sorry? Could you speak up? You're not a boss.
You're another negotiator.
You work in teams of two, and now you're trying to stall for time.
But I'm telling you right now if the power doesn't come back on in eight minutes, I'm going to start killing passengers one by one until it does.
Did you hear that okay, or do you need me to speak up? Flannery? Jeff Thoms.
You've talked this HT down before? Four times in ten years.
The guy belongs in a mental ward, you ask me.
Well, that's where I last saw him.
Two hostages? That's different for Neal.
Bruce and Meredith Golden.
It's a husband-and-wife practice.
Which one is his shrink? The wife.
Neal was in session with her when Dr.
Bruce walked in and he just snapped.
This according to the receptionist.
Mike Torrez, Tactical Lead.
This is Matt Flannery.
-Hey, where is he? -Hey.
We got him contained in the back office.
I sent a sniper unit across the street.
They're all set up now, but there's no direct line of fire into the room.
Yeah, there's no need.
I'm gonna have him out,weapon down, safe surrender.
Uh, I gotta get back to this other thing after that.
Have dispatch route the call through this number at FBI.
-Other thing? -Yeah, it's a busy day.
I hate to ask this, but what are our tactical options? Are we not negotiable? I think this guy means what he says.
I think he's gonna shoot someone if we don't turn the power back on.
We can't let them get mobile again.
Hello? -Meredith Golden? -Yes.
Meredith, this is Matt Flannery.
I'm sure you've heard of me.
-Who is it? -I know Neal's watching you.
I just need to ask one thing.
Has he been taking his medication? Uh, yes, he has.
Is, is that Matt? Give me that.
Matt? Neal, how you doing? Long time no talk.
Matt, I got Sanborn.
He's here.
Okay, good, let's get him out of there.
No, I I mean, I got the real Sanborn.
He tried to ambush me in broad daylight.
Neal, my name is Bruce Golden.
I'm not your enemy.
Just shut up! I know who you are.
I've seen your face, Sanborn.
I've seen classified documents.
??The hell is he talking about? Uh, Agent Sanborn's his nemesis.
Evil CIA spook,uses psychic remote viewing to see through the eyes of other people and send them after Neal.
Don't look at me.
It's not my fantasy.
Neal? Neal, you there? I'm watching him.
Okay, well, now, y-you realize that's not the real Sanborn.
Right? Sanborn's back at Langley.
That's an innocent civilian.
No, I've I-I've seen his file.
I-I've seen his face.
-W-Where'd you see his file? -I don't know.
Okay, well, I want to get this guy just as bad as you do, Neal, but let's, let's do this thing right.
Let's break his connection, spare the innocent.
How do I know you're really you? Better give me the ID test.
He's going to ask me a riddle.
Who are you supposed to be to him? It's kind of like The Fugitive.
All right, Sanborn's the one- armed man; Neal is Kimball; and I guess I'm Gerard.
We're, we're at odds, -but we're united against a common enemy.
-Sanborn.
Right.
You negotiate with this guy inside of his delusion? Well, if it ain't broke, you know what I'm saying? The man is afraid to go home because the man in the mask is there.
Why? Hmm.
Hmm is it a Halloween mask? No.
If you get the riddle wrong, he kills the hostage? No.
It's third base, baseball.
He's afraid to go home 'cause the catcher is I know the answer to the thing; I'm just trying to, you know, make it a little,you know Already know the answer.
How am I doing? I'm two minutes to deadline.
How are you doing? Listen, we don't have to figure out how to get those guys off the train.
They've already got a plan for that.
It just got interrupted,that's all.
-Is it a mud mask? -No.
-What? -Nothing.
Hold on, Neal.
I'm, I'm thinking.
Emily, listen.
Their escape was probably more worked out than "Let's jump on the Metro with ski suits on.
" There's a plan.
They have a plan, and it doesn't involve a Metro co and it doesn't involve taking hostages.
But it does involve getting to a stop at Universal City.
Right.
Or somewhere in between.
Huh, thanks, Matt.
The man is on third base.
The answer is correct.
Your identity has been confirmed.
Roger that.
I'm just glad that you're here,Matt.
I couldn't do this without you.
We're gonna defeat him together and we're gonna make sure that nobody gets hurt.
All right,check this out.
It's a service access tunnel for maintenance.
I wonder if you can jump off those trains while they're moving.
You can.
You would die.
The things move between 60 and 70 miles per hour.
But you could throw something off.
What are you thinking? I'm thinking we turn the power on.
-And let them get away? -Yeah, just to the next stop.
Then we'll turn it back off.
Okay, that will give us some leverage to get the passengers off now, -and give HRT a better shot at the next platform.
-No.
They'd be out of sight for a minute and a half.
-That's no good.
-Yeah, well, they're going to execute someone in 45 seconds.
Also no good.
All right,make the offer.
Get them talking past their deadline.
Duff.
We're sending a train your way.
Set to intercept.
All right, train's coming to us.
Let's fan out.
Let's fan out.
I want every door covered.
They could move positions during transit.
?? I can arrange to have the power turned back on, but I'm gonna need something from you first just to justify this action to my bosses.
Like you said, I'm just another negotiator.
How many? Ten.
Five.
All right, five is good.
Power goes on, they walk out.
Then we move.
??,Power goes on, five walk out.
-Agreed? -Done.
When I say so, you people I tapped stand by the door.
Sir.
Sir? Power back to the tracks in ten seconds.
All right,the power's coming back on.
Hey, blue boy.
Look.
Look, I just thought you should know, when you pulled me out of there, ?? They didn't release the damn hostages.
Neal, did you find the code cipher? I-I did, I got it out of him, but it's, um, it's a tough one.
I didn't say anything to you, Neal, and if I did, I didn't mean -??Don't argue with him.
-Quiet! I don't know if I can crack it, Matt.
I almost got it.
I'm, I'm just, I'm just missing the last number.
Well, let me help you with it.
What are the first numbers? -You got a pencil? -Yeah, go ahead.
First number is 13.
Next is 14, 15, There's one more.
I just, I just can't see it.
No problem, Neal.
What do we got? Each number is 16 -to a different base of 16 minus one -Okay, whatever, thank you.
Did you hear that, Sanborn? The FBI is on to you.
Okay, hold on, Neal.
We're using the code to trace Sanborn's location.
All right, good.
Good work, Mathers.
Listen, real quick, uh, how's Emily doing with the subway? Scene's moved to Universal City.
Rest of the team's heading there now.
-What you got? -Nothing.
Just holding like you ordered.
-Where's Red and Blue? -Well, you tell me.
They were there when the train left, right? FBI! Nobody move! -He's long gone.
-Yeah, I know.
So is his gun.
Yeah, I noticed that.
Did you notice how many hostages we had at the last stop? Yeah, 25, dropped to 24.
??Notice how many we got now? Meredith.
Bruce, be quiet.
Let them handle this.
I've always loved you.
You know that, right? Don't talk to her.
Don't, don't look at her.
I'm not going to let you jump into another body.
I'm tired of it.
I'm, I'm tired of the game between us.
I'm sick of you turning innocent people into assassins.
Luisa.
Which one of you is Luisa? All right,Luisa,it's okay.
Did you notice the gunmen throwing their bags, guns,and ski clothes out the back door? They told us to keep our heads down and our eyes closed.
If we looked up, they shoot us.
All right.
Nobody gets off the train.
This last part-- it's basically The Exorcist.
Neal believes that the hostage is possessed by Sanborn, so once we break Sanborn's secret code, we can drive him out of the hostage's body.
Then the hostage is no longer a threat to Neal.
Gun goes down.
-Were you able to trace his location? -Yes, Neal.
I gotta hand it to you.
That code allowed our satellites to hone right in on Sanborn.
Well, do me a favor.
Catch him this time.
We will, but right now, let's send him packing.
I'm gonna start the countdown.
Are you ready? Oh, yeah, uh okay, I'm ready.
Return all curses to sender.
Ten nine eight seven six five four three two one.
Zero.
Return all curses to sender.
And that's Return all curses to sender.
?? -Oh, my God.
-Why, why did I? why did I do that? Why did I do that? -Let her go, Neal.
-No.
What happened, Matt? What happened? ?? Neal.
?? What happened? You tell me what happened! You tell me! Calm yourself, okay? Just take yourself to a calm place.
I'm sorry.
I d I d I didn't mean it.
It w it wasn't me.
-What? -They're saying he encouraged Neal to shoot the hostage, and that's what ended up happening.
-That doesn't even make any sense.
-Yeah, I know but£¿£¿ Matt's refusing to leave the scene and LAPD wants me to rein him in.
Flannery.
Get him out of there.
I gotta get down there.
All right, uh, you, I need a ride downtown.
All right, Cheryl, two minutes.
-No, I can't wait.
-One minute.
You know,we can sit here all day or we can end this right now.
Whoever robbed the bank on 7th and Figueroa, I want you to put your hands up right now.
Now, why didn't I think of that? Look, we already found the money and the guns you tossed into the tunnel, and it's only a matter of time before we find you.
You know what? The next time that you try this, you might want to think twice before having everyone but you put their palms to the glass.
Whoever's fingerprints are missing gets a one-way ticket to Bakersfield.
Unless you want to make a deal.
Okay, the first bank robber to turn himself in wins a reduced sentence.
??I am a federal agent making a promise in front of a bunch of witnesses.
Okay, and I'm giving you a deadline.
Offer's only good for 30 seconds.
-27, 26 -What if we give the other guy up? Hands on your head! Dumb son of a bitch.
-She was bluffing! -Whoa, whoa, hey! Down on the ground! I don't care how hot it gets up there, you do not raise your voice to me when I'm talking to my HT.
-Your HT? -Yeah, my HT.
Okay, now,he's your HT, then maybe you can explain to me -what the hell happened up there! -You were looking at the same thing I was! -The guy's about to surrender, he's -I saw you perform a countdown with the guy, -using active, inflammatory phrases -You gonna throw a textbook at me now? I'm gonna throw a lawsuit at you when this thing comes down on my head.
'Cause that lady's gonna sue the living crap out of somebody, -You want to cover your ass, -if she gets out alive! start covering your ass! Do what you need to do.
The guy is too wild; we got to smoke him out.
Listen to me.
All right, this is not his fault.
I know that.
Everything I say is gonna sound crazy now.
Even though I'm not.
Look I'm in the clear now.
I'm in the clear, and I don't know what happened.
You have to believe me.
I believe you, Neal.
'Cause you're my doctor.
You have to tell me why, so I can tell them why.
Because if I walk out of here now, they're gonna kill me.
If you let me go, I'll tell them.
No, that's not I can't.
That letting you would be crazy.
And I'm not crazy.
You have to tell them that.
Matt? I'm Jeff Thoms from the LAPD.
We spoke earlier.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay, I, uh Look, I know I have problems,all right? Uh, I have a disease.
But it doesn't make me stupid! Okay? Of course I remember talking to you because you're the guy who's sitting outside with a gun pointed at me! Look, I'm scared, okay? You're scaring me! There's no talking to this guy.
Sniper takes out the window, draw his attention east, we breach north.
Do it.
Okay, I know what you're gonna say, and I know what you heard, and I'm telling you straight out, I did everything right with this guy.
-You were here last time.
-Okay, what happened? I don't know.
I don't know.
I did the three steps; it was just like last time, just like the time before that??.
-Matt, is the hostage still in there? -Yeah.
Okay, 'cause they're gonna go.
Hey, Thoms.
-Stand back.
-Stand down.
Lieutenant Thoms.
Cheryl Carrera.
-We spoke on the phone.
-Yeah.
-We're about to breach.
-Not on my command you're not.
-Your command? -Yes.
We have an ongoing case with Neal Polniaczek.
His presence here puts us in charge.
Only reason you're in charge is because the perp asked for your man.
And your man came in here and got someone killed.
We don't see it that way.
You can go though.
Thank you.
Fine.
Your mess, you can clean it up.
You okay? Yeah.
Everybody make it off the train? Yeah.
-Get your guys? -Mm-hmm.
Okay.
What? -My head was there.
-No.
-No, my head wasn't here.
-No.
I was, uhI was talking to Neal, -but I was thinking about the subway.
-No.
-I don't think so.
-You don't think so? What do you want us to do, Bureau? Whatever I tell you.
Right now, I want you to safety your weapons and call off your sniper.
We're not done talking.
-Anything else? -Yes.
Want you to set up a laser mic with your sniper unit.
Bounce it off the window so we can hear inside.
No, you said you did everything right, same as before.
What changed? I don't know.
What's it matter? Well, what does it matter? It matters if you want to save the other hostage.
Matters if you want to save Neal.
Come on, when was the last time you talked to this guy? Couple years ago.
Okay, and who was secondary? Was there an incident log? There was more than that.
The video's not high quality, but what do you expect from a surveillance feed, right? I'm uploading it now.
John and Mary are on the floor.
So this happened when Neal was an inpatient.
Yeah.
Pescadero State Hospital.
It's shut down now.
Mary is dead.
Attacked one of his hall mates.
And you'd already established this ritual with him? First call out was to his house, probably '93, '94.
High-risk suicide.
Guy talked weird.
I just went with it.
Listen to me, Neal.
I can help you, but you have to listen.
But you knew not to enter his delusion.
I didn't set out to do that.
He was undiagnosed at the time.
Still living with his family-- a wife, couple kids.
Had a career as an illustrator-- books, magazines and stuff.
Return all curses to sender.
-Anyway, that's how it's supposed to work.
-That's amazing.
I mean, the fact that he established a talk-down ritual to combat his delusions, it means his brain is actively fighting the disease.
Guys, you'll want to hear this.
??Feed from the laser mic.
Lia, patch them in.
Listen to me.
I'm listening.
Agent Sanborn is real.
Do you understand? What? I was hiding this from you.
And now I realize it was wrong, and I've paid the price for keeping the secret.
What? Wh-what are you talking about? He's real.
He's out there still.
And now that you've made him angry, he's not just going to come after you.
He's going to come after Sarah.
That's Neal's wife.
And Julie-Anne and Alexa.
Daughters.
What the hell's she doing? He's going to kill your entire family, Neal.
And only you can stop him.
But you have to be willing Willing? Willing? You have to be willing to sacrifice yourself.
She's gonna talk him into suicide.
Survival? Or revenge.
He just killed her husband.
-Why are you saying this to me? -This is gonna backfire.
Yeah, he's gonna shoot her, and then he's gonna shoot himself.
Great.
So who do we talk down first, ?? Put the gun in your mouth, Neal.
No.
Put the gun to your head and pull the trigger.
Why? Because you're sick, and you know that.
Because you really shouldn't be here with the rest of us.
It's not fair to everyone else.
It's not fair to your family.
-Just keeps ringing.
-Ignore it.
It's not gonna stop.
-I'm talking to my doctor! -Neal, it's Matt.
Matt? Matt, what-what happened? I'm working on it, okay? I'm trying to figure it out just like you asked me to.
We need her help.
But to do that, I got to talk to your doctor.
Can you put Meredith on the phone? Hello.
Meredith? Yes, I'm still here.
Meredith, we have a microphone that can hear into the room.
We hear everything that you're saying.
Don't do this.
You do not want his death on your hands.
Let me talk him out of there.
Yeah, I've seen how you do that.
I know you're angry, and I know you want to punish Neal.
That's not gonna bring Bruce back.
What happened earlier is not Neal's fault; it's mine.
He's not responsible for his actions, and you know that.
Yes, I understand.
Did you hear that? In his voice? Did I hear what? Matt's gone.
Sanborn's taken him.
You're all alone now, Neal.
She's talking low.
I can't hear.
She's not gonna stop.
I don't know what to say to her.
We can roll in a flashbang, knock them both down.
No, they're too close together.
And gun could go off.
All right, let's get in touch with her friends,family, co-workers.
The receptionist, she's still here.
Have her brought up.
You want us to bring up the wife, too? What's she doing here? Thoms had her called in just as you arrived.
Like she hasn't been through enough.
Damn it! Lia, I need you to do some quick work for me.
I need everything there is to know on Dr.
Meredith Golden.
Hey, Sarah.
Right.
Of course you're here.
Look, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean it to come out like that, I just I know.
And I'm really sorry that this keeps happening.
I know it's gotta be annoying for you.
There's no reason for you to be here.
You should go home.
-What's wrong? -There's nothing wrong.
I gotta get back.
We'll call you.
He said that he was getting better, you know.
I should have known.
You still talking to him? Yeah, we started again a few months ago.
He'd call me every Monday after his session with Dr.
Golden.
He was excited.
He said that she was really helping him out.
Helping him out how? Dr.
Meredith's been treating Neal P.
for almost two years now.
Dr.
Bruce usually sent the court-appointed patients over to her.
She hated that.
So much for playing on her investment in Neal.
Well, if she hated taking the pro bono patients, why did she do it? Oh, it's Dr.
Bruce's practice.
He brought her in.
But she's his wife.
I mean she must have some say.
Maybe that was the problem,you know? No no, we don't.
What are you talking about? It's been pretty chilly in here the last six months.
They don't really talk to each other that much.
Used to leave together, now he leaves early,she leaves late, unless it's his day off.
I don't know.
It's Tensionville.
I mean I get it.
I could never work with my boyfriend; I'd kill him.
It's not easy.
It never is.
And you fought him so many times for so long.
But now you have to do what's right.
Once you're gone, he's gone.
You can't be selfish.
£¿£¿ If you don't stop him, he's going to kill Sarah.
He's hunting her right now.
Neal said that she was helping him make progress.
That she was helping him find the "true identity" of Agent Sanborn.
I mean, he even stopped by our place last month and he dropped off this drawing that he made of this face and he said, "this is him.
" He said the same thing to me.
He said that he saw Agent Sanborn's real face.
Is that good? -Do you still have this drawing? -No, I I threw it out.
I didn't want it in the house, not with the girls.
Come with me.
If you ask me, Meredith shouldn't even be a shrink.
She never went to med school.
She has a psychology degree from some city college.
I think the only reason she's in practice ??is because she's married to Bruce Golden.
He must must've been the one who was writing the prescriptions.
Even though he didn't see all the patients.
Wait right here.
We talked to the receptionist.
Guess what? Bruce and Meredith didn't get along? How'd you know that? Is this the face that Neal drew? Wait a minute.
I thought he made that face up.
Who is this? Okay, I've talked this guy down four times, right? Each time, he was afraid of a man with no face.
Except today, all of a sudden the guy's got a face.
That doesn't track.
Paranoid delusions are usually consistent.
Yeah, I know.
It didn't hit me either until I find out that Neal drew a picture of Dr.
Bruce over a month ago, naming him as the true face of Sanborn.
I think Meredith is messing with his head like she altered his delusions.
Come on.
She can't alter his delusion.
She can.
I mean, she can't alter them, but she can stimulate them.
Yeah, it says according to her CV that Meredith Golden is a licensed hypnotherapist.
Come on.
That doesn't mean anything.
Sure it does.
I used hypnotherapy to quit smoking, you remember? It's not like in the movies.
You can't turn someone into an assassin.
Yeah, but what if the guy already is an assassin? What if he's already a super spy? Or if he's in the middle of a big global conspiracy because Neil believes all of those things.
And she knows that.
She's his doctor.
Which means she also knows the danger of using autosuggestive techniques on a schizophrenic, especially one with a violent history.
We can't prove any of this.
Yeah, and she knows that, too.
I don't think she wants revenge.
I think she's trying to cover her tracks.
Yeah and the proof's about to put a gun in his mouth.
I can't.
I can't.
I can't.
It's okay.
I understand.
Give me the gun.
?? Okay, look.
Neal's scheduled for Monday.
Mondays at 5:00.
Sarah said he'd call after every session.
So what's he doing here on a Wednesday? Meredith changed the appointment, but why? Because Bruce's day off was Monday.
-Remember:the receptionist told us that.
-Three-day weekends.
Neal never met Bruce before today.
No, not in person.
That's him.
We are out of time.
Come on, Neal.
Tell Sarah that I'm sorry.
Tell her that I tried.
Be careful.
It's loaded.
He's handing her the gun.
She'd going to shoot him and say it was self-defense.
-We gotta breach.
-And shoot who? Matt! Put it down.
Drop the gun.
This sick bastard killed my husband.
You killed your husband and you used Neal to do it.
Now put it down.
He shot him in cold blood.
-You witnessed it.
-Drop the act.
Nobody's buying it.
It's not gonna work here, and it's not gonna work in court.
I'm gonna make sure of that.
I'm gonna show 'em the datebook.
I'm gonna show how you switched Neal's appointment to today, and I'm gonna show 'em the picture.
What picture? The picture you used to manipulate Neal.
You put your husband's face on his fear and made him his target.
Where did you get that? I've seen that before.
She showed it to you at the end of every appointment.
I don't know what you're saying.
I'm saying you used your patient as a loaded gun and you waited for me to pull the trigger.
You knew about our talk-down ritual.
You knew about the code, the riddle and the countdown.
It was all just sitting there waiting to be used.
You didn't even have to work that hard.
-That's crazy.
-Yeah, well,you're a crazy bitch.
And that's what the jury is gonna say when I show 'em the drawing of that photo he sent to his wife.
You talked to Sarah? Shut up.
Why? Why would you do that? -I said shut up.
-Meredith, no! All right,I need a medic in here! Okay, she pulled the trigger.
It didn't go off.
I had the safety on.
I thought she knew that.
That's what you do when you hand someone a loaded gun, right? I didn't want her to get hurt.
I didn't want anybody to get hurt.
-Hey.
-Hey.
Whatcha doing? I was working on an old problem.
-Yeah? -Yeah.
Can I help? -Sure.
-Thanks.
Guy's dead in the middle of the desert, surrounded by 53 bicycles.
What happened? Mmm, you tell me.
Who cares? He's dead.
-Is that your shooting report? -Yeah.
You know,this Golden trial's gonna be a big thing.
-A lot of prep.
-Yeah.
You gonna need help writing your statement on that? -Are you good at that? -Yeah, I'm pretty good.
She's gonna go down, Matt.
??I know.
So is Neal.
Neal wasn't responsible for his actions and neither are you.
??And let's not forget those 25 lives we saved that day on the train.
-We? -Yeah, I mean, I couldn't have done it without you.
-All right.
-And that guy in the desert, Gambler.
He was cheating and he got shot.
That's good.
The real question is why the other guy pushed his car in front of a hotel, and as soon as he stopped there, he knew he was broke.
That's 'cause he's playing Monopoly.
That's obvious.
Less obvious is the guy who takes the elevator up to the tenth floor and then walks another five flights to his apartment.
Wait, the midget in the elevator who can't reach the button for his floor? ??