Profiler (1996) s01e17 Episode Script
Crisis
PROFILER TRANSCRIBED FROM DVD Martin Zahn is the both brilliant and dedicated.
He was one of the first to accept the philosophy of mutually assured destruction, a philosophy which met many opponents.
Democrat and republican hawks were dumped.
There isn't anyone who doesn't know the name of Martin Zahn.
And so it is with great pleasure that I present to you this afternoon a man of great principles, Martin Zahn.
Don't panic! You won't be harmed.
This room secure? - Secure.
After my demands are met, you'll all be released.
You should be happy.
This is the day when my lifetime of wrongs will finally be made right.
Washington D.
C.
, The home of the latest terrorist action to assault this country.
Do you believe that? You can't toss a rock without hitting some nut with a gun.
Martin Zahn, founding member of patriots for peace, a group which advocates I'm Bailey Malone.
I believe we spoke on the phone this morning.
My daughter Frances called me.
Agent Malone, I'm Deputy Durand.
- What's she doing in lockdown? Sir, I know you're in Atlanta, and I don't know what she's told you, but this isn't her first time in the system.
Vandalism last month.
Last week, she was arrested in a video/music store.
Shoplifting.
Last night, she was pulled in as being an accessory.
Alleged accessory.
Yes, sir, alleged accessory.
But for a felony.
Armed robbery.
Take me in.
I want to see her.
Yes, sir.
You take all the time you need.
Daddy! Look at you.
You're so thin, Frances.
You're not sick, are you? No.
No, I'm all right.
I just forget to eat sometimes.
Look, can we go now, 'cause the food here sucks worse than mom's.
I wish you'd teach her how to cook, daddy.
I actually had a dream about your homemade linguini last week.
Frannie, why didn't you call and tell me you were in trouble? I'm not in trouble.
I didn't do anything.
Some some guys, they lied to me, and I just happened to be there.
The cops, they made up a lot of that stuff.
What guys? Look, we were just hanging out, and we were gonna go see a movie.
Randy said that, you know, we had to stop and pick something up.
I didn't know.
What about the music store? Oh, that.
Well, um I put this CD in my pocket, you know, because a lot of my school books and stuff I read your file, Frannie.
The CD wasn't in your pocket.
It was in your backpack, and there were twelve of them.
It-it was a setup, daddy.
These cops, they - come on, they're always out for us kids.
Always! Ok.
Then give me a good reason why three different police officers would want to file false reports on you.
I'm your father, Frances, and I love you.
But I can't help you if you lie to me.
Let me guess, something more important than me.
There's nothing more important to me than you and your sister.
Nothing.
I'm going to make some calls, see what I can do to get you out of here, but it's going to take time.
Great.
And what am I supposed to do in the meantime? Think about your life and where it's going.
When I get back, I want to hear your plan.
These are very fine shoes, Billy.
Some other kid wore them first.
Yes, and look how much he played in them.
They must be very good shoes.
Dr.
Waters! What a lovely surprise.
Sister Mary, I just wanted to drop by and see how you're doing.
Oh, I'm just fine.
I was just on my way to chapel.
Cute little boy.
Oh, yes.
And very smart, too.
He's always asking who the men in the dark suits are.
I can handle hand-me-down shoes, but I don't know how to explain FBI agents on the playground.
Well, it's a necessary precaution until we make sure that Jack isn't coming back, Sister.
I know.
Now, I have done what you've asked, and I think I'm making some progress, and - yo, Charlie! Now, Mr.
Carruthers - Jack, as you call him - always had a pleasant scent about him.
I was thinking maybe it was his aftershave.
It was floral.
Could it have been rose water? No, my grandmother wore that.
That's lovely, but this is something else.
Oh, sorry.
Oh, I have to get back to the office.
Well, listen, Sister, if we compiled various samples, do you think that you might be able to recognize the scent? Most definitely.
All right, great.
I'll arrange a meeting then.
And if you remember anything, anything else at all, please don't hesitate to call me.
All right.
Sam, we've got fifty-five gold-plated hostages, five terrorists, and the guru of our nuclear arsenal, Dr.
Martin Zahn running the show.
It went down about an hour ago at the park plaza hotel in D.
C.
A few special agents and some private guards, the terrorists were on top in minutes.
It was very clean.
The radio said they were shooting inside.
We have wounded.
We're not too sure exactly how many.
Nobody killed.
Now, Zahn was getting an award from a coalition of Political Hawks known as the Patriots for Peace.
The show was going around the world.
What does he want? Three things.
Let him tell you.
I simply want sanity, but you apparently want specifics, so number one: No first strike.
Now, the president must say once and for all that we will never be the first to use nuclear weapons.
Number two: Full disclosure of the size and deployment of our strategic arsenal.
You publish the list in ten major newspapers.
I will know if you're lying.
Martin, you're overwrought here.
- FBI in D.
C.
Coffin Woodrick.
He's also a Patriot for Peace.
Now, just take it easy, will you? Oh! Ah! Oh! Please, Martin, this is absurd! You're be - The slick in the pinstripes is Chase Donner, CEO of FissionDyne.
Made his millions processing weapons-grade uranium and the like.
Sit down! In uniform, four stars, General Quentin Mettzinger, second from the top in the gulf war.
He kept advising the joint chiefs to nuke Baghdad.
Schwarzkopf had to keep telling him no.
Number three: For my friends who stand with me to put an end to our nuclear nightmare, I want full amnesty.
I'm through deliberating.
I want full cooperation, or I will escalate, and I do understand the concept.
You give me what I want by four o'clock, or I will-I will start the killing.
Then he pulled the plug.
Cut the cameras.
I was in Maryland when I got word.
Frances.
I'll tell you later.
So, why do they want you to handle it? The guy we just saw - Coffin Woodrick, Chief Negotiator for the D.
C.
Hostage Rescue Team.
I trained him.
I'm the backup.
Zahn made out the guest list himself.
Zahn wants all the edge he can get.
He must think he can hamstring the HRT with an unfamiliar voice.
First impressions? Well, it's obvious Zahn isn't telling us everything.
I mean, his demands are plausible enough, but he's smart enough to know that the president can't allow National Security Policies to be changed by these bullying tactics.
He could go along with the first-strike thing, say that we'll never be the first to launch the missiles.
It's only words.
But full disclosure? Zahn designed half the weapons.
He'd know if a list was accurate or not.
We'll never do it.
Hostage takers have suicidal tendencies and are quite often delusional.
I mean, maybe he's just raving, or maybe what he really wants, he hasn't gotten to yet.
That's what we have to figure out.
The chopper's standing by.
We'll get a little more background under our belts, then you and I will head to D.
C.
John will coordinate here.
Agent Cooper on line 4.
Coop's on-site in D.
C.
Hey, Coop, I've got you on the speaker.
What do you got? Well, we got a mess.
We can't get into the room, so we're setting up microwave mikes as we speak, and I think we got the video.
Have you been getting our pictures yet? Yeah, we got 'em, Coop.
How close to Zahn can you get? There's a parking lot out back, we got the lobby, got the upper floors, but you can forget about taking him down without a fight.
His people have already wired the doors with grenades.
We I.
D.
'D their van but can't get to it 'cause they've got a man on it with a rifle.
He sent a warning shot across my bow when I tried.
You should leave it alone, Coop, until we can ascertain how serious he is about harming the hostages, so freeze the situation till we get there.
You got it.
See you soon.
We just downloaded Zahn's Department of Defense dossier.
He's 59, credited for the work behind our newest generation of warheads.
Last guy in the world you'd think would suddenly want to ban the bomb.
He's a widower.
His daughter died last year of leukemia.
Maybe he's suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that would explain the 180 in his behavior.
His only living relative is his younger brother Albert, also a scientist, works for FissionDyne, Donner's company.
It's quite a club.
I can look at the rest of this in the air.
If Zahn drew up the guest list, I'd like to get a background on everybody in that room, John.
Yeah, you bet.
We're also getting a visual-recognition team on board to try and I.
D.
the terrorists.
Also give us a deep background on Zahn, his brother, friends, any other family.
I already started that, came up with something already.
Zahn hasn't been too happy on the job.
Got disenchanted with his defense work recently.
So much so his brother turned him in.
So why is patriots for peace giving him an award? He mended his ways.
Well, lucky for us.
Otherwise, we'd have real trouble.
Coop.
- Hey.
What's the sit rep? Pretty much the same.
We still don't know who's hurt or how bad.
We tapped a hard line into a phone that rings at the podium.
That's your end right there.
The mikes working? Yeah.
All we're getting so far is a lot of low chatter.
He probably knows that we're listening.
This is not a desperate man lashing out.
This guy has planned every step.
He knows exactly what he needs to achieve his goals, whatever they might be.
Why don't we ask him? Zahn here.
- Hello, Dr.
Zahn, you'd be Bailey Malone, - I'm Bailey Malone - Twenty-three years with the FBI, former Chief Negotiator for the D.
C.
Hostage Rescue Team.
You hand-picked and trained our guest Coffin Woodrick.
You did your homework.
I'm not surprised.
You have three and a half hours to deadline.
I hope you're using your time wisely.
We are.
Dr.
Zahn, the President is Consulting with the Executive National Security Council as we speak.
Hello? He didn't hang up.
He may have a way of verifying what you're saying, Bailey.
Hello? You're a liar, Malone.
We've been monitoring the White House communications frequencies and the president is still in Arizona.
Stop wasting time.
They have a SAT-Com link.
I expected as much.
Zahn has clearance with the White House Comm Net.
Woodrick and you.
He knows how we work.
We need to throw this man a curve.
He knows our personnel, he knows our playbook.
So, let's re-write it.
Playbook says that when the negotiator is on the scene, the kidnapper hears that single voice.
Let's give him another voice.
Let me try talking to him.
Let's do it.
Surprise him.
Hello? Dr.
Zahn? My name is Samantha Waters.
I'm a Forensic Psychologist for the FBI.
Where's Malone? I'll give you Agent Malone in a minute.
The FBI would like me to verify that you keep your word about the hostages if we meet your demands.
How do you propose to do that? Well, I'll need to speak with you, Dr.
Zahn.
You think you can get to know me by talking to me for a few minutes? You have a very high opinion of your skills, Ms.
Waters.
Well, I'll know you better than I do now.
By all means.
I thoroughly approve.
Let's get to know each other.
I'll tell my people to let you come in.
I'll get back to you.
I guess I'll go have a little chat with Dr.
Zahn.
That's not the greatest idea I ever heard.
Coop, I think we have to take advantage of this.
I mean, he's got the situation under control.
He's got a roomful of hostages.
I've a better chance of finding out what his true agenda is face-to-face.
Yeah, but there's got to be another way of doing that, right? Coop- There are plenty of ways, coop.
This is the quickest.
She knows what she's doing.
She's going in.
Then I'm going with her.
Ok.
You'll pose as a medic.
Recon the setup.
Ten minutes under a white flag.
That was fast.
Ten-minute truce, Dr.
Zahn.
I'm coming in, but I am bringing a medic with me to care for the wounded.
Ok.
Unarmed, of course.
- Of course.
Ok.
Now, the place is miked, so you can give a verbal signal.
"We need more time.
" No, Sam, that's it.
Ten minutes.
No, no.
Bailey, that's the signal if I need you to bail me out.
"We need more time.
" You hear that, you just break down the damn door, all right? Of course.
You know I will.
Look, Sam, later, in case I don't get a chance to tell you - Coop, I know.
No, no.
I need you to remind me not to call Bailey "Man.
" He just hates that.
Dr.
Samantha Waters, a member of the Violent Crime Task Force, was carted to Dear god, don't you take my Sam On conditions, the reports are that Dr.
Waters is now being held hostage along with Dear god don't you take my Sam! They're clean.
No weapons, no bugs.
Give that to me! I need my medication.
General sit.
You're not in charge here.
Oh, no.
What's he see? Contrary to popular opinion, John, I'm not superman.
I can't see through walls.
Let's filter out this background.
These the only wounded? There are five of them.
Dr.
Waters? Thank you for letting me come.
You're not a member of Coffin Woodrick's hostage negotiating team, are you? No.
I count fifty-five hostages, five of them wounded, and one may be critical.
Why did he send me a psychologist? They want me to make sure that you're telling the truth about releasing the hostages.
Oh.
I don't need therapy.
You know what I need.
There are five shooters maintaining clear fields of fire.
They have customized FN-Fal assault rifles and grenades.
FN Fals.
That's a hell of an assault rifle.
What audio surveillance is your team using? Microwave or structural? Tell him, Sam.
Both.
- Good girl.
Ah, of course.
If all of this should fall apart, what's the code phrase you're going to use to signal your men? "You're passionate in your beliefs.
" You must think that I'm crazy.
No.
Being passionate doesn't qualify you for insanity.
At least, you haven't done anything insane, like kill any of these people yet.
I have advanced the madness of nuclear warfare and gifted our country with first-strike capabilities.
Don't tell me I haven't killed.
I have killed beyond imagining.
Dr.
Zahn, I can understand that that might weigh heavily on your mind but- I'm not interested in your understanding.
I want the United States to renounce first strike.
Even Russia did that.
Do you have any kids? Yes.
I have a daughter.
Oh.
Billions are spent constructing weapons that can never be used.
Schools aren't being built.
The homeless aren't being housed.
The hungry aren't being fed.
The sick aren't being taken care of.
That's a beautiful dream, Dr.
Zahn.
That's not my dream.
That's my mission.
Excuse me.
I count five people who need to go to the hospital.
Can I get some help in here to carry them out? Oh, by all means.
Take as many as you need back here.
I won't be needing them.
You're releasing the hostages? Some of them.
Easier to feed, easier to guard.
Radford? Sir? Prepare to release forty-five hostages.
Keep ten, including the general here and Woodrick, and Chase Donner.
This is good, sir.
This will help with the negotiations.
The only thing that's going to help with negotiations is if you convince your team that I'm not going to budge an inch, because, in an hour, I'm gonna start killing everybody who's left.
Are you ok? - Yeah.
Wait.
You stay.
Dr.
Zahn, why don't you tell me what you want specifically so that I can negotiate on the outside for you? I like you.
You can do all that from here.
Is there a problem? No.
And don't make one.
I don't intend to.
Uh but I do want to remind you, the deal was we both come in for ten minutes, then we both leave.
Now, I've been through a lot of these things, and it's better for everybody if we all stick to the rules.
I don't think there's any more you can do here.
With all due respect, Dr.
Waters, I can't walk out of here without you.
I'd never live it down- Oh, my god! Stay down.
Where's Sam? She's still inside.
Oh, hell.
There was nothing you could do.
- What happened? One of the gunmen clipped you on the back of the head with a rifle butt.
You want to go to a hospital? No.
Bailey, I'm fine.
I'm ok.
Ok.
Let's go inside.
Tell me what you saw.
I can't believe I let that happen.
You didn't have a choice, Coop.
- She's alone in there, Bailey.
I know.
Well, I hope so, 'cause it was a hell of a lousy idea to let her go in in the first place.
You're the one who left her, Coop.
Bailey's deal was a ten-minute white-flag face-to-face.
I got news for you, John.
There is no white flag in that room.
It's more like weapons and insane people.
You clear on that? It was my call.
I take full responsibility, if that's what you need to hear, Coop.
Now let's stop wasting time and energy.
The only way to help Sam, and that's what we all want, is to come up with a plan, and I want that in ten minutes.
Ok, so what's the deal on releasing hostages? That's a bad move for Zahn, any way you look at it.
It was his idea.
Fewer people to watch, he said.
Well, I don't buy that.
What's really going on in there? Let's leave that for a moment, John.
If Sam needs us to come in after her, she knows what to say.
Oh, yeah.
"We need more time.
" Ain't that the truth? Try and focus, Coop.
What did you see inside? The gunmen were all clean-shaven, and there was one African-American, one Asian, and two caucasians.
It's quite an eclectic group.
We're not talking shining path or Al Fatah.
Or militia.
White supremacists don't mix with Blacks and Asians.
Whoever they are, they were totally strapped.
They had flak jackets and hand grenades, at least four apiece.
They had banana clips, probably thirty rounds a pop.
The guy in charge was maybe 6'3", salt-and-pepper crewcut, hazel eyes.
He was favoring his left shoulder like he had an old injury.
He, uh he was wearing some kind of green leadership tabs on his epaulets.
Well, that's not regulation.
But it gives me something to work with.
Oh, by the way, Coop, what was that "oh, no" stuff before you left the room? You break a nail? Huh! You don't miss a beat, do you? I spotted their SatCom device.
Next to it was a whole bunch of big-ticket electronic countermeasure equipment, which means it's just a matter of time before they jam our mikes.
Leaving us deaf and blind.
John, I want Coop's description of the terrorists turned into faces and identified.
I have money.
Let me buy us out.
I really don't think that that's what they're interested in.
Well, he could try.
Just know that you have a blank check.
Look, I took this extra shift for the 20 bucks.
They don't need me.
I'm nobody.
Well, I am somebody.
You have no idea.
Please.
People are working very hard to get us out of here.
You just have to try to stay calm.
Everything is going to be fine.
Turn on the camera.
Agent Malone, I've been very reasonable.
I've allowed medics to come in here and care of the wounded.
I've released forty-five hostages.
In return, I have received nothing.
Now, you're playing me like a fiddle.
In fifteen minutes, it's going to be four o'clock, and that's when the killing is gonna start.
And it's going to start with Dr.
Waters.
Thank you! Well, that's it.
They're jamming us.
That's not it.
Find another frequency.
The problem is, their system scans automatically, then jams whatever it hits.
It's a hard machine to stay ahead of.
I'm well aware of that, Coop.
Find another frequency.
Dr.
Zahn.
Dr.
Zahn, we need more time.
They've had more than enough time.
I'm sorry.
Oh, great! What have we got, John? We just I.
D.
'd the leader.
He is a mercenary.
Bryce Radford.
Never served, but does private jobs out of Belgium.
His green leadership tabs were the giveaway.
The other four are his team.
Fits with using the assault rifles.
What do we have on family and friends? Yeah, here's the background on Zahn's brother Albert, all right? He worked for Donner's company until '93, then he took a contract for nuclear weapons work with the Libyans.
He must've come back to have that blowup with Zahn last year.
I'll keep digging.
Use a bulldozer, John.
All right, let's avoid spectator interference.
Let's take the General, Donner, put them back here against the wall.
Now, everybody else on this side of the room.
You come with me.
Come on! Move! Come on! Violence isn't going to further your cause.
You should know that more than anyone.
I know more than anyone what I have to do.
Martin, you're smarter than this.
Don't kill her.
It's the worst thing you can do.
I've already done the worst thing I can do.
Have they complied? We need more time.
Death is inevitable, Sam.
No matter how much time we have, it's the second law of thermodynamics.
Inescapable.
This isn't inescapable.
There are alternatives.
Let's be clear.
Dr.
Sam Waters is going to die today.
But we all share in her destiny.
It's only a matter of timing.
Now, we can all fill a million graves with nuclear weapons and bury them forever, or you might as well take a gun and put it to your own head and pull the trigger.
Bailey, Coop, for god's sakes, get there.
Get there! There! Stay back! I'll kill her! Inner perimeter, be advised that they're on the north side.
Suspect and hostages are heading toward the van.
Deadeye one, this is Bailey Malone.
Do we have a green light on Zahn? Negative.
No confidence.
Deadeye 2? No confidence.
Should I neutralize Radford? Not if we can't get them both.
Stay on them.
If you get confidence, fire at will.
Johnson, get a chopper in the air.
Have him track the van VIP.
Do not approach or harass.
Eye contact only.
You got it? Go.
Can anybody get a shot at Zahn? Negative.
Cannot engage.
Damn it.
- Son of a bitch! They've turned onto a secondary road outside of Alexandria.
There's not much there - a few farms, treatment plant for the municipal water district and Mckenna Airfield.
It's got to be Mckenna.
Let's get all units to McKenna Airfield.
Is she all right, Bailey? Last I saw.
He needs her to get out.
She'll make it.
Yeah.
- John? Yeah I know.
How are we doing with his brother? I found him-that is, I found out what happened to him, but it wasn't easy.
The reason he fell off the map is that the Libyans have him on a hit list.
The Pentagon's very cagey about the whole thing.
They said no way is he going to come out to a public place.
Let's locate this guy, John.
I'll keep working on it.
I don't much go in for shopping since taking my vows, but I still like to look.
That's how I feel about being married.
I don't care what they said to you.
What they said is wrong.
May I sample some of these tobaccos? For yourself, sister? Hey, it's the nineties.
Thank you.
Hmm.
Do you have something, uh, that smells a little sweeter? That would be a special blend.
Something custom.
It was.
It was custom.
I remember Carruthers mentioning that he had to pick up something at a store, something custom-made.
Hmm.
Something a little more floral.
I got a few.
Excuse me.
Can I help you? Uh, yes.
Could I have some lighter fluid, please? Uh-huh.
Thank you.
Secure! Step down, please.
You two, stay.
Stay put.
Mr.
Radford, make sure that Mr.
Donner and Mr.
Mettzinger stay in the van.
You follow me.
Well, it didn't take them any time at all to hot-wire this switchboard.
Agent Malone.
Is everyone alive? Oh, we're just fine.
We've apprehended the sniper you left on the roof, and none of your men have been killed.
We can still work this out.
Let me talk to Dr.
Waters.
Bailey? - Sam, you all right? - Yeah.
I'm fine.
Sorry we can't chat.
You mentioned about working this out? I think not.
Hundreds of thousands have died, and there are hundreds of thousands more.
For that reason, I think you're going to honor my demands within the hour or this time Dr.
Waters is going to die.
Are your colleagues willing to sacrifice you rather than promise not to launch a nuclear pearl harbor? Dr.
Zahn, you can't destroy lives in order to save them.
I mean, isn't that your whole point? Boy, isn't that just like a psychologist? Answer a question with a question.
Next time, you're going to want to know about my parents.
Do you understand your own thinking as well as you do mine? That's a good question.
I do miss my mother and father.
My brother is the only one left in the family, and I haven't seen him in months.
Just as well.
Why? Are you ashamed of what you're doing here? Do you know how you were born? I'm not exactly sure how you mean that.
My mother used to tell this story.
I was born in one of the worst thunderstorms in the history of Illinois.
The hospital lost all of its power.
I was delivered in the dark.
There was thunder, lightning all over the place.
They say it was very dramatic.
And as I took my first breath, my decent, god-fearing father got down on his knees and prayed to god that the devil not be in his child.
So they treated you differently.
Oh.
All my life.
I was, uh, somehow anointed.
Big things were expected of me.
And they were always afraid what some of those big things might be.
Well, I found out.
I have the devil in me.
I have breathed hellfire into a world that is too fragile to possess it.
I have got to undo what I've done.
Yes, but you can't expect the government to give you what you're asking for.
Why don't you tell me what it is that you truly want, and maybe I can help you.
Don't you mean help you? I mean, you just want to live.
Yes, I do want to live.
But I'd like to see this end peacefully.
All I have to do is, uh, trust you, right? Just let me get you some help.
It sounds like help is already on the way - for you.
And for you, if you'll let us.
All right.
I'll surrender.
But I will surrender only to my brother and only if he will forgive me.
Bailey, I went from the Pentagon to the State Department to the National Security Advisor and then back to the Pentagon.
Albert Zahn is in the air.
Once he found out his brother was at a secure location, he agreed to come.
He'll be there by chopper in ten minutes.
Great work, John.
Okay, there are no windows, the roof is aluminum, so we can't go climbing around without making a racket.
But I did get a bug in the ventilation, so hopefully, we'll be able to listen.
The only way to get in is through those doors, if we have to.
Zahn's brother is on the way.
And you said you would surrender to your brother if he forgives you.
Forgives you for what? For contaminating his perfect and ideal world.
What do you mean his perfect and ideal world? It's pure science.
My brother was never bothered with having a conscience.
Scientists don't.
He could never understand my weakness for humanity.
What? Your brother is living in a fantasy.
We all have to deal with the consequences of what we do, whether it's science or not.
I agree with you, and that's why we're here.
We happen to be in a minority.
My brother and Donner and Mettzinger don't think that way.
Well, your brother works at FissionDyne.
It makes sense that he and Donner think the same way.
Yes.
They have no conscience.
But my brother supposedly left Donner's company to go and make nuclear weaponry for North Korea and-and Libya and Iraq.
But he did it with Donner's money.
And all the time helping Donner sell technology.
Cute.
No wonder Albert didn't like getting out in public much.
Whenever one of these upstart nuclear wannabes would get close to actually building a-a working weapon they'd step in and blow the whistle.
It kept the nuclear pot boiling, made Donner millions.
You know, patriotism and capitalism do make strange bedfellows.
What are you talking about? They've been sleeping together for a long time.
We've been shooting craps with the future.
The problem with this game is that you can only lose once.
I told my brother that once, and he laughed out loud.
Then he turned against me.
You didn't kill me when you had the chance.
And you weren't going to.
You think that because you dream up weaponry that it makes you a killer, but it doesn't.
No.
I learned too late the irreplaceable value of one single life.
Your daughter? Yes.
She died of leukemia, didn't she? I killed her.
Not her, really, but others like her.
Tell me, what is the difference? I think that her death gave birth to your conscience.
Is that when you went to your brother? I told him, enough.
I told him I thought we could turn this thing around, just the two of us.
We could-we could stop this madness.
He told me he thought I was losing my mind.
No.
You weren't losing your mind.
SAM, YOU'VE COME BACK TO ME.
Know what it's like to lose somebody.
I, uh I lost my husband.
Oh.
Illness? Uh accident? No.
Just a man.
Where the hell is she going? Inside his head.
Could you kill him? Could you kill that man? Would you die? I would to protect my daughter.
That's him.
Lord, let this be over.
You see, the inescapable or the unthinkable is thinkable under certain circumstances.
That's what they told me when I built my bomb.
Is that what's going on here? Because I don't think this has anything to do with forgiveness.
Before we left the hotel, you put only Donner and Mettzinger by the front door.
I wanted them together.
Yes, yes, I know, to use as a shield to get you to the van.
You have orchestrated an elaborate chess game, and you've played it brilliantly so we'd wind up here.
Now I'd like it very much if you told me why.
I just want Albert to forgive me.
No.
That is inconsistent with everything that you have said.
I would like it if you told me the truth.
Just take your time.
We all need more time.
She said it.
Radford, line them up.
Let's go.
Now! Come on.
Come on.
Dr.
Zahn! Your brother has arrived! He would like to speak with you! Martin, this is Albert.
Can I come in? I think we should talk.
Martin! Open it.
Albert come into the hangar.
Please put your hands up.
Albert I wish you and I had never been born.
Don't move! - Stay down! - Don't move! - Stay down! Secure the suspects.
Weapon? No.
Sam! You all right? Yeah.
It worked.
The old bait and switch.
Dr.
Waters? I wasn't going to kill you.
Hi.
How did you know what he was going to do? Remember when I had a chance to kill Jack, and I was tempted, but I couldn't? Well, he was going to kill his brother and the others.
Only I think he was going to kill himself as well.
Clean sweep.
How could he think that would help? I guess he thought it was a start.
How's your head.
It's ringing.
I'm there.
You shouldn't have done that, Coop.
Well, I couldn't help myself, Sam.
I'd do anything for you.
Could you stop the rain? - Guys, cut the rainmaker.
Turn off the rain shower! Thank you! - Hey, you're welcome.
So, uh getting comfortable here? Next thing I know, you'll have a teardrop tattooed next to your your eye.
I already have a tattoo.
Want to see it? Probably not.
How'd you like to get out? Yeah? Yeah.
I know I haven't been there for you, Frannie.
Let's give it another try.
You game? I am if you are.
I want you to come home with me to Atlanta.
Will you do that? You came for me.
My girl.
My little girl.
There's a fire! Come in.
Just let me finish this one little thing.
I'll be right with you.
Take all the time you need, Sister.
SISTER MARY CALLED AT 3:00 PM PLEASE CALL BACK.
Sister Mary, did I wake you? I've been praying for you, Sam.
No.
It looks like my prayers have finally been answered.
I'll have everyone out of the way soon, so please be patient with me.
What have you done? What have you done? Bailey.
Bailey!
He was one of the first to accept the philosophy of mutually assured destruction, a philosophy which met many opponents.
Democrat and republican hawks were dumped.
There isn't anyone who doesn't know the name of Martin Zahn.
And so it is with great pleasure that I present to you this afternoon a man of great principles, Martin Zahn.
Don't panic! You won't be harmed.
This room secure? - Secure.
After my demands are met, you'll all be released.
You should be happy.
This is the day when my lifetime of wrongs will finally be made right.
Washington D.
C.
, The home of the latest terrorist action to assault this country.
Do you believe that? You can't toss a rock without hitting some nut with a gun.
Martin Zahn, founding member of patriots for peace, a group which advocates I'm Bailey Malone.
I believe we spoke on the phone this morning.
My daughter Frances called me.
Agent Malone, I'm Deputy Durand.
- What's she doing in lockdown? Sir, I know you're in Atlanta, and I don't know what she's told you, but this isn't her first time in the system.
Vandalism last month.
Last week, she was arrested in a video/music store.
Shoplifting.
Last night, she was pulled in as being an accessory.
Alleged accessory.
Yes, sir, alleged accessory.
But for a felony.
Armed robbery.
Take me in.
I want to see her.
Yes, sir.
You take all the time you need.
Daddy! Look at you.
You're so thin, Frances.
You're not sick, are you? No.
No, I'm all right.
I just forget to eat sometimes.
Look, can we go now, 'cause the food here sucks worse than mom's.
I wish you'd teach her how to cook, daddy.
I actually had a dream about your homemade linguini last week.
Frannie, why didn't you call and tell me you were in trouble? I'm not in trouble.
I didn't do anything.
Some some guys, they lied to me, and I just happened to be there.
The cops, they made up a lot of that stuff.
What guys? Look, we were just hanging out, and we were gonna go see a movie.
Randy said that, you know, we had to stop and pick something up.
I didn't know.
What about the music store? Oh, that.
Well, um I put this CD in my pocket, you know, because a lot of my school books and stuff I read your file, Frannie.
The CD wasn't in your pocket.
It was in your backpack, and there were twelve of them.
It-it was a setup, daddy.
These cops, they - come on, they're always out for us kids.
Always! Ok.
Then give me a good reason why three different police officers would want to file false reports on you.
I'm your father, Frances, and I love you.
But I can't help you if you lie to me.
Let me guess, something more important than me.
There's nothing more important to me than you and your sister.
Nothing.
I'm going to make some calls, see what I can do to get you out of here, but it's going to take time.
Great.
And what am I supposed to do in the meantime? Think about your life and where it's going.
When I get back, I want to hear your plan.
These are very fine shoes, Billy.
Some other kid wore them first.
Yes, and look how much he played in them.
They must be very good shoes.
Dr.
Waters! What a lovely surprise.
Sister Mary, I just wanted to drop by and see how you're doing.
Oh, I'm just fine.
I was just on my way to chapel.
Cute little boy.
Oh, yes.
And very smart, too.
He's always asking who the men in the dark suits are.
I can handle hand-me-down shoes, but I don't know how to explain FBI agents on the playground.
Well, it's a necessary precaution until we make sure that Jack isn't coming back, Sister.
I know.
Now, I have done what you've asked, and I think I'm making some progress, and - yo, Charlie! Now, Mr.
Carruthers - Jack, as you call him - always had a pleasant scent about him.
I was thinking maybe it was his aftershave.
It was floral.
Could it have been rose water? No, my grandmother wore that.
That's lovely, but this is something else.
Oh, sorry.
Oh, I have to get back to the office.
Well, listen, Sister, if we compiled various samples, do you think that you might be able to recognize the scent? Most definitely.
All right, great.
I'll arrange a meeting then.
And if you remember anything, anything else at all, please don't hesitate to call me.
All right.
Sam, we've got fifty-five gold-plated hostages, five terrorists, and the guru of our nuclear arsenal, Dr.
Martin Zahn running the show.
It went down about an hour ago at the park plaza hotel in D.
C.
A few special agents and some private guards, the terrorists were on top in minutes.
It was very clean.
The radio said they were shooting inside.
We have wounded.
We're not too sure exactly how many.
Nobody killed.
Now, Zahn was getting an award from a coalition of Political Hawks known as the Patriots for Peace.
The show was going around the world.
What does he want? Three things.
Let him tell you.
I simply want sanity, but you apparently want specifics, so number one: No first strike.
Now, the president must say once and for all that we will never be the first to use nuclear weapons.
Number two: Full disclosure of the size and deployment of our strategic arsenal.
You publish the list in ten major newspapers.
I will know if you're lying.
Martin, you're overwrought here.
- FBI in D.
C.
Coffin Woodrick.
He's also a Patriot for Peace.
Now, just take it easy, will you? Oh! Ah! Oh! Please, Martin, this is absurd! You're be - The slick in the pinstripes is Chase Donner, CEO of FissionDyne.
Made his millions processing weapons-grade uranium and the like.
Sit down! In uniform, four stars, General Quentin Mettzinger, second from the top in the gulf war.
He kept advising the joint chiefs to nuke Baghdad.
Schwarzkopf had to keep telling him no.
Number three: For my friends who stand with me to put an end to our nuclear nightmare, I want full amnesty.
I'm through deliberating.
I want full cooperation, or I will escalate, and I do understand the concept.
You give me what I want by four o'clock, or I will-I will start the killing.
Then he pulled the plug.
Cut the cameras.
I was in Maryland when I got word.
Frances.
I'll tell you later.
So, why do they want you to handle it? The guy we just saw - Coffin Woodrick, Chief Negotiator for the D.
C.
Hostage Rescue Team.
I trained him.
I'm the backup.
Zahn made out the guest list himself.
Zahn wants all the edge he can get.
He must think he can hamstring the HRT with an unfamiliar voice.
First impressions? Well, it's obvious Zahn isn't telling us everything.
I mean, his demands are plausible enough, but he's smart enough to know that the president can't allow National Security Policies to be changed by these bullying tactics.
He could go along with the first-strike thing, say that we'll never be the first to launch the missiles.
It's only words.
But full disclosure? Zahn designed half the weapons.
He'd know if a list was accurate or not.
We'll never do it.
Hostage takers have suicidal tendencies and are quite often delusional.
I mean, maybe he's just raving, or maybe what he really wants, he hasn't gotten to yet.
That's what we have to figure out.
The chopper's standing by.
We'll get a little more background under our belts, then you and I will head to D.
C.
John will coordinate here.
Agent Cooper on line 4.
Coop's on-site in D.
C.
Hey, Coop, I've got you on the speaker.
What do you got? Well, we got a mess.
We can't get into the room, so we're setting up microwave mikes as we speak, and I think we got the video.
Have you been getting our pictures yet? Yeah, we got 'em, Coop.
How close to Zahn can you get? There's a parking lot out back, we got the lobby, got the upper floors, but you can forget about taking him down without a fight.
His people have already wired the doors with grenades.
We I.
D.
'D their van but can't get to it 'cause they've got a man on it with a rifle.
He sent a warning shot across my bow when I tried.
You should leave it alone, Coop, until we can ascertain how serious he is about harming the hostages, so freeze the situation till we get there.
You got it.
See you soon.
We just downloaded Zahn's Department of Defense dossier.
He's 59, credited for the work behind our newest generation of warheads.
Last guy in the world you'd think would suddenly want to ban the bomb.
He's a widower.
His daughter died last year of leukemia.
Maybe he's suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that would explain the 180 in his behavior.
His only living relative is his younger brother Albert, also a scientist, works for FissionDyne, Donner's company.
It's quite a club.
I can look at the rest of this in the air.
If Zahn drew up the guest list, I'd like to get a background on everybody in that room, John.
Yeah, you bet.
We're also getting a visual-recognition team on board to try and I.
D.
the terrorists.
Also give us a deep background on Zahn, his brother, friends, any other family.
I already started that, came up with something already.
Zahn hasn't been too happy on the job.
Got disenchanted with his defense work recently.
So much so his brother turned him in.
So why is patriots for peace giving him an award? He mended his ways.
Well, lucky for us.
Otherwise, we'd have real trouble.
Coop.
- Hey.
What's the sit rep? Pretty much the same.
We still don't know who's hurt or how bad.
We tapped a hard line into a phone that rings at the podium.
That's your end right there.
The mikes working? Yeah.
All we're getting so far is a lot of low chatter.
He probably knows that we're listening.
This is not a desperate man lashing out.
This guy has planned every step.
He knows exactly what he needs to achieve his goals, whatever they might be.
Why don't we ask him? Zahn here.
- Hello, Dr.
Zahn, you'd be Bailey Malone, - I'm Bailey Malone - Twenty-three years with the FBI, former Chief Negotiator for the D.
C.
Hostage Rescue Team.
You hand-picked and trained our guest Coffin Woodrick.
You did your homework.
I'm not surprised.
You have three and a half hours to deadline.
I hope you're using your time wisely.
We are.
Dr.
Zahn, the President is Consulting with the Executive National Security Council as we speak.
Hello? He didn't hang up.
He may have a way of verifying what you're saying, Bailey.
Hello? You're a liar, Malone.
We've been monitoring the White House communications frequencies and the president is still in Arizona.
Stop wasting time.
They have a SAT-Com link.
I expected as much.
Zahn has clearance with the White House Comm Net.
Woodrick and you.
He knows how we work.
We need to throw this man a curve.
He knows our personnel, he knows our playbook.
So, let's re-write it.
Playbook says that when the negotiator is on the scene, the kidnapper hears that single voice.
Let's give him another voice.
Let me try talking to him.
Let's do it.
Surprise him.
Hello? Dr.
Zahn? My name is Samantha Waters.
I'm a Forensic Psychologist for the FBI.
Where's Malone? I'll give you Agent Malone in a minute.
The FBI would like me to verify that you keep your word about the hostages if we meet your demands.
How do you propose to do that? Well, I'll need to speak with you, Dr.
Zahn.
You think you can get to know me by talking to me for a few minutes? You have a very high opinion of your skills, Ms.
Waters.
Well, I'll know you better than I do now.
By all means.
I thoroughly approve.
Let's get to know each other.
I'll tell my people to let you come in.
I'll get back to you.
I guess I'll go have a little chat with Dr.
Zahn.
That's not the greatest idea I ever heard.
Coop, I think we have to take advantage of this.
I mean, he's got the situation under control.
He's got a roomful of hostages.
I've a better chance of finding out what his true agenda is face-to-face.
Yeah, but there's got to be another way of doing that, right? Coop- There are plenty of ways, coop.
This is the quickest.
She knows what she's doing.
She's going in.
Then I'm going with her.
Ok.
You'll pose as a medic.
Recon the setup.
Ten minutes under a white flag.
That was fast.
Ten-minute truce, Dr.
Zahn.
I'm coming in, but I am bringing a medic with me to care for the wounded.
Ok.
Unarmed, of course.
- Of course.
Ok.
Now, the place is miked, so you can give a verbal signal.
"We need more time.
" No, Sam, that's it.
Ten minutes.
No, no.
Bailey, that's the signal if I need you to bail me out.
"We need more time.
" You hear that, you just break down the damn door, all right? Of course.
You know I will.
Look, Sam, later, in case I don't get a chance to tell you - Coop, I know.
No, no.
I need you to remind me not to call Bailey "Man.
" He just hates that.
Dr.
Samantha Waters, a member of the Violent Crime Task Force, was carted to Dear god, don't you take my Sam On conditions, the reports are that Dr.
Waters is now being held hostage along with Dear god don't you take my Sam! They're clean.
No weapons, no bugs.
Give that to me! I need my medication.
General sit.
You're not in charge here.
Oh, no.
What's he see? Contrary to popular opinion, John, I'm not superman.
I can't see through walls.
Let's filter out this background.
These the only wounded? There are five of them.
Dr.
Waters? Thank you for letting me come.
You're not a member of Coffin Woodrick's hostage negotiating team, are you? No.
I count fifty-five hostages, five of them wounded, and one may be critical.
Why did he send me a psychologist? They want me to make sure that you're telling the truth about releasing the hostages.
Oh.
I don't need therapy.
You know what I need.
There are five shooters maintaining clear fields of fire.
They have customized FN-Fal assault rifles and grenades.
FN Fals.
That's a hell of an assault rifle.
What audio surveillance is your team using? Microwave or structural? Tell him, Sam.
Both.
- Good girl.
Ah, of course.
If all of this should fall apart, what's the code phrase you're going to use to signal your men? "You're passionate in your beliefs.
" You must think that I'm crazy.
No.
Being passionate doesn't qualify you for insanity.
At least, you haven't done anything insane, like kill any of these people yet.
I have advanced the madness of nuclear warfare and gifted our country with first-strike capabilities.
Don't tell me I haven't killed.
I have killed beyond imagining.
Dr.
Zahn, I can understand that that might weigh heavily on your mind but- I'm not interested in your understanding.
I want the United States to renounce first strike.
Even Russia did that.
Do you have any kids? Yes.
I have a daughter.
Oh.
Billions are spent constructing weapons that can never be used.
Schools aren't being built.
The homeless aren't being housed.
The hungry aren't being fed.
The sick aren't being taken care of.
That's a beautiful dream, Dr.
Zahn.
That's not my dream.
That's my mission.
Excuse me.
I count five people who need to go to the hospital.
Can I get some help in here to carry them out? Oh, by all means.
Take as many as you need back here.
I won't be needing them.
You're releasing the hostages? Some of them.
Easier to feed, easier to guard.
Radford? Sir? Prepare to release forty-five hostages.
Keep ten, including the general here and Woodrick, and Chase Donner.
This is good, sir.
This will help with the negotiations.
The only thing that's going to help with negotiations is if you convince your team that I'm not going to budge an inch, because, in an hour, I'm gonna start killing everybody who's left.
Are you ok? - Yeah.
Wait.
You stay.
Dr.
Zahn, why don't you tell me what you want specifically so that I can negotiate on the outside for you? I like you.
You can do all that from here.
Is there a problem? No.
And don't make one.
I don't intend to.
Uh but I do want to remind you, the deal was we both come in for ten minutes, then we both leave.
Now, I've been through a lot of these things, and it's better for everybody if we all stick to the rules.
I don't think there's any more you can do here.
With all due respect, Dr.
Waters, I can't walk out of here without you.
I'd never live it down- Oh, my god! Stay down.
Where's Sam? She's still inside.
Oh, hell.
There was nothing you could do.
- What happened? One of the gunmen clipped you on the back of the head with a rifle butt.
You want to go to a hospital? No.
Bailey, I'm fine.
I'm ok.
Ok.
Let's go inside.
Tell me what you saw.
I can't believe I let that happen.
You didn't have a choice, Coop.
- She's alone in there, Bailey.
I know.
Well, I hope so, 'cause it was a hell of a lousy idea to let her go in in the first place.
You're the one who left her, Coop.
Bailey's deal was a ten-minute white-flag face-to-face.
I got news for you, John.
There is no white flag in that room.
It's more like weapons and insane people.
You clear on that? It was my call.
I take full responsibility, if that's what you need to hear, Coop.
Now let's stop wasting time and energy.
The only way to help Sam, and that's what we all want, is to come up with a plan, and I want that in ten minutes.
Ok, so what's the deal on releasing hostages? That's a bad move for Zahn, any way you look at it.
It was his idea.
Fewer people to watch, he said.
Well, I don't buy that.
What's really going on in there? Let's leave that for a moment, John.
If Sam needs us to come in after her, she knows what to say.
Oh, yeah.
"We need more time.
" Ain't that the truth? Try and focus, Coop.
What did you see inside? The gunmen were all clean-shaven, and there was one African-American, one Asian, and two caucasians.
It's quite an eclectic group.
We're not talking shining path or Al Fatah.
Or militia.
White supremacists don't mix with Blacks and Asians.
Whoever they are, they were totally strapped.
They had flak jackets and hand grenades, at least four apiece.
They had banana clips, probably thirty rounds a pop.
The guy in charge was maybe 6'3", salt-and-pepper crewcut, hazel eyes.
He was favoring his left shoulder like he had an old injury.
He, uh he was wearing some kind of green leadership tabs on his epaulets.
Well, that's not regulation.
But it gives me something to work with.
Oh, by the way, Coop, what was that "oh, no" stuff before you left the room? You break a nail? Huh! You don't miss a beat, do you? I spotted their SatCom device.
Next to it was a whole bunch of big-ticket electronic countermeasure equipment, which means it's just a matter of time before they jam our mikes.
Leaving us deaf and blind.
John, I want Coop's description of the terrorists turned into faces and identified.
I have money.
Let me buy us out.
I really don't think that that's what they're interested in.
Well, he could try.
Just know that you have a blank check.
Look, I took this extra shift for the 20 bucks.
They don't need me.
I'm nobody.
Well, I am somebody.
You have no idea.
Please.
People are working very hard to get us out of here.
You just have to try to stay calm.
Everything is going to be fine.
Turn on the camera.
Agent Malone, I've been very reasonable.
I've allowed medics to come in here and care of the wounded.
I've released forty-five hostages.
In return, I have received nothing.
Now, you're playing me like a fiddle.
In fifteen minutes, it's going to be four o'clock, and that's when the killing is gonna start.
And it's going to start with Dr.
Waters.
Thank you! Well, that's it.
They're jamming us.
That's not it.
Find another frequency.
The problem is, their system scans automatically, then jams whatever it hits.
It's a hard machine to stay ahead of.
I'm well aware of that, Coop.
Find another frequency.
Dr.
Zahn.
Dr.
Zahn, we need more time.
They've had more than enough time.
I'm sorry.
Oh, great! What have we got, John? We just I.
D.
'd the leader.
He is a mercenary.
Bryce Radford.
Never served, but does private jobs out of Belgium.
His green leadership tabs were the giveaway.
The other four are his team.
Fits with using the assault rifles.
What do we have on family and friends? Yeah, here's the background on Zahn's brother Albert, all right? He worked for Donner's company until '93, then he took a contract for nuclear weapons work with the Libyans.
He must've come back to have that blowup with Zahn last year.
I'll keep digging.
Use a bulldozer, John.
All right, let's avoid spectator interference.
Let's take the General, Donner, put them back here against the wall.
Now, everybody else on this side of the room.
You come with me.
Come on! Move! Come on! Violence isn't going to further your cause.
You should know that more than anyone.
I know more than anyone what I have to do.
Martin, you're smarter than this.
Don't kill her.
It's the worst thing you can do.
I've already done the worst thing I can do.
Have they complied? We need more time.
Death is inevitable, Sam.
No matter how much time we have, it's the second law of thermodynamics.
Inescapable.
This isn't inescapable.
There are alternatives.
Let's be clear.
Dr.
Sam Waters is going to die today.
But we all share in her destiny.
It's only a matter of timing.
Now, we can all fill a million graves with nuclear weapons and bury them forever, or you might as well take a gun and put it to your own head and pull the trigger.
Bailey, Coop, for god's sakes, get there.
Get there! There! Stay back! I'll kill her! Inner perimeter, be advised that they're on the north side.
Suspect and hostages are heading toward the van.
Deadeye one, this is Bailey Malone.
Do we have a green light on Zahn? Negative.
No confidence.
Deadeye 2? No confidence.
Should I neutralize Radford? Not if we can't get them both.
Stay on them.
If you get confidence, fire at will.
Johnson, get a chopper in the air.
Have him track the van VIP.
Do not approach or harass.
Eye contact only.
You got it? Go.
Can anybody get a shot at Zahn? Negative.
Cannot engage.
Damn it.
- Son of a bitch! They've turned onto a secondary road outside of Alexandria.
There's not much there - a few farms, treatment plant for the municipal water district and Mckenna Airfield.
It's got to be Mckenna.
Let's get all units to McKenna Airfield.
Is she all right, Bailey? Last I saw.
He needs her to get out.
She'll make it.
Yeah.
- John? Yeah I know.
How are we doing with his brother? I found him-that is, I found out what happened to him, but it wasn't easy.
The reason he fell off the map is that the Libyans have him on a hit list.
The Pentagon's very cagey about the whole thing.
They said no way is he going to come out to a public place.
Let's locate this guy, John.
I'll keep working on it.
I don't much go in for shopping since taking my vows, but I still like to look.
That's how I feel about being married.
I don't care what they said to you.
What they said is wrong.
May I sample some of these tobaccos? For yourself, sister? Hey, it's the nineties.
Thank you.
Hmm.
Do you have something, uh, that smells a little sweeter? That would be a special blend.
Something custom.
It was.
It was custom.
I remember Carruthers mentioning that he had to pick up something at a store, something custom-made.
Hmm.
Something a little more floral.
I got a few.
Excuse me.
Can I help you? Uh, yes.
Could I have some lighter fluid, please? Uh-huh.
Thank you.
Secure! Step down, please.
You two, stay.
Stay put.
Mr.
Radford, make sure that Mr.
Donner and Mr.
Mettzinger stay in the van.
You follow me.
Well, it didn't take them any time at all to hot-wire this switchboard.
Agent Malone.
Is everyone alive? Oh, we're just fine.
We've apprehended the sniper you left on the roof, and none of your men have been killed.
We can still work this out.
Let me talk to Dr.
Waters.
Bailey? - Sam, you all right? - Yeah.
I'm fine.
Sorry we can't chat.
You mentioned about working this out? I think not.
Hundreds of thousands have died, and there are hundreds of thousands more.
For that reason, I think you're going to honor my demands within the hour or this time Dr.
Waters is going to die.
Are your colleagues willing to sacrifice you rather than promise not to launch a nuclear pearl harbor? Dr.
Zahn, you can't destroy lives in order to save them.
I mean, isn't that your whole point? Boy, isn't that just like a psychologist? Answer a question with a question.
Next time, you're going to want to know about my parents.
Do you understand your own thinking as well as you do mine? That's a good question.
I do miss my mother and father.
My brother is the only one left in the family, and I haven't seen him in months.
Just as well.
Why? Are you ashamed of what you're doing here? Do you know how you were born? I'm not exactly sure how you mean that.
My mother used to tell this story.
I was born in one of the worst thunderstorms in the history of Illinois.
The hospital lost all of its power.
I was delivered in the dark.
There was thunder, lightning all over the place.
They say it was very dramatic.
And as I took my first breath, my decent, god-fearing father got down on his knees and prayed to god that the devil not be in his child.
So they treated you differently.
Oh.
All my life.
I was, uh, somehow anointed.
Big things were expected of me.
And they were always afraid what some of those big things might be.
Well, I found out.
I have the devil in me.
I have breathed hellfire into a world that is too fragile to possess it.
I have got to undo what I've done.
Yes, but you can't expect the government to give you what you're asking for.
Why don't you tell me what it is that you truly want, and maybe I can help you.
Don't you mean help you? I mean, you just want to live.
Yes, I do want to live.
But I'd like to see this end peacefully.
All I have to do is, uh, trust you, right? Just let me get you some help.
It sounds like help is already on the way - for you.
And for you, if you'll let us.
All right.
I'll surrender.
But I will surrender only to my brother and only if he will forgive me.
Bailey, I went from the Pentagon to the State Department to the National Security Advisor and then back to the Pentagon.
Albert Zahn is in the air.
Once he found out his brother was at a secure location, he agreed to come.
He'll be there by chopper in ten minutes.
Great work, John.
Okay, there are no windows, the roof is aluminum, so we can't go climbing around without making a racket.
But I did get a bug in the ventilation, so hopefully, we'll be able to listen.
The only way to get in is through those doors, if we have to.
Zahn's brother is on the way.
And you said you would surrender to your brother if he forgives you.
Forgives you for what? For contaminating his perfect and ideal world.
What do you mean his perfect and ideal world? It's pure science.
My brother was never bothered with having a conscience.
Scientists don't.
He could never understand my weakness for humanity.
What? Your brother is living in a fantasy.
We all have to deal with the consequences of what we do, whether it's science or not.
I agree with you, and that's why we're here.
We happen to be in a minority.
My brother and Donner and Mettzinger don't think that way.
Well, your brother works at FissionDyne.
It makes sense that he and Donner think the same way.
Yes.
They have no conscience.
But my brother supposedly left Donner's company to go and make nuclear weaponry for North Korea and-and Libya and Iraq.
But he did it with Donner's money.
And all the time helping Donner sell technology.
Cute.
No wonder Albert didn't like getting out in public much.
Whenever one of these upstart nuclear wannabes would get close to actually building a-a working weapon they'd step in and blow the whistle.
It kept the nuclear pot boiling, made Donner millions.
You know, patriotism and capitalism do make strange bedfellows.
What are you talking about? They've been sleeping together for a long time.
We've been shooting craps with the future.
The problem with this game is that you can only lose once.
I told my brother that once, and he laughed out loud.
Then he turned against me.
You didn't kill me when you had the chance.
And you weren't going to.
You think that because you dream up weaponry that it makes you a killer, but it doesn't.
No.
I learned too late the irreplaceable value of one single life.
Your daughter? Yes.
She died of leukemia, didn't she? I killed her.
Not her, really, but others like her.
Tell me, what is the difference? I think that her death gave birth to your conscience.
Is that when you went to your brother? I told him, enough.
I told him I thought we could turn this thing around, just the two of us.
We could-we could stop this madness.
He told me he thought I was losing my mind.
No.
You weren't losing your mind.
SAM, YOU'VE COME BACK TO ME.
Know what it's like to lose somebody.
I, uh I lost my husband.
Oh.
Illness? Uh accident? No.
Just a man.
Where the hell is she going? Inside his head.
Could you kill him? Could you kill that man? Would you die? I would to protect my daughter.
That's him.
Lord, let this be over.
You see, the inescapable or the unthinkable is thinkable under certain circumstances.
That's what they told me when I built my bomb.
Is that what's going on here? Because I don't think this has anything to do with forgiveness.
Before we left the hotel, you put only Donner and Mettzinger by the front door.
I wanted them together.
Yes, yes, I know, to use as a shield to get you to the van.
You have orchestrated an elaborate chess game, and you've played it brilliantly so we'd wind up here.
Now I'd like it very much if you told me why.
I just want Albert to forgive me.
No.
That is inconsistent with everything that you have said.
I would like it if you told me the truth.
Just take your time.
We all need more time.
She said it.
Radford, line them up.
Let's go.
Now! Come on.
Come on.
Dr.
Zahn! Your brother has arrived! He would like to speak with you! Martin, this is Albert.
Can I come in? I think we should talk.
Martin! Open it.
Albert come into the hangar.
Please put your hands up.
Albert I wish you and I had never been born.
Don't move! - Stay down! - Don't move! - Stay down! Secure the suspects.
Weapon? No.
Sam! You all right? Yeah.
It worked.
The old bait and switch.
Dr.
Waters? I wasn't going to kill you.
Hi.
How did you know what he was going to do? Remember when I had a chance to kill Jack, and I was tempted, but I couldn't? Well, he was going to kill his brother and the others.
Only I think he was going to kill himself as well.
Clean sweep.
How could he think that would help? I guess he thought it was a start.
How's your head.
It's ringing.
I'm there.
You shouldn't have done that, Coop.
Well, I couldn't help myself, Sam.
I'd do anything for you.
Could you stop the rain? - Guys, cut the rainmaker.
Turn off the rain shower! Thank you! - Hey, you're welcome.
So, uh getting comfortable here? Next thing I know, you'll have a teardrop tattooed next to your your eye.
I already have a tattoo.
Want to see it? Probably not.
How'd you like to get out? Yeah? Yeah.
I know I haven't been there for you, Frannie.
Let's give it another try.
You game? I am if you are.
I want you to come home with me to Atlanta.
Will you do that? You came for me.
My girl.
My little girl.
There's a fire! Come in.
Just let me finish this one little thing.
I'll be right with you.
Take all the time you need, Sister.
SISTER MARY CALLED AT 3:00 PM PLEASE CALL BACK.
Sister Mary, did I wake you? I've been praying for you, Sam.
No.
It looks like my prayers have finally been answered.
I'll have everyone out of the way soon, so please be patient with me.
What have you done? What have you done? Bailey.
Bailey!