Special Ops: Lioness (2023) s02e01 Episode Script

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Dad? Dad?
No! God, help me! No! No
No!
Go!
Shit.
What are you doing?
What does it look like I'm doing?
Starting a fire.
I'm making you breakfast.
You should let dad do that.
I felt like doing it.
Guess there's a first time for everything.
- What's burning?
- Our breakfast.
She should let dad do it.
I've already made that point.
Do we have to eat it?
I mean, Christmas is a long way away,
so we have all the leverage.
I heard that.
Wasn't trying to keep it a secret.
Ha, ha. Whoa.
- What's burning?
- For crying out loud.
I was trying to do something nice.
Honey, you were not
trying you were trying
- to make breakfast?
- Yeah.
No, stay in your Lane, baby.
What is my Lane?
You come upstairs, and
I'll show you your Lane.
Okay, you guys
do know we can hear you, too, right?
That is really gross.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got an idea. Waffle palace.
Waffle palace!
Nice save.
Yeah, dad, that's a great idea.
I yeah, breakfast.
- At least that.
- Tried to make us breakfast.
- You're cute honey.
- I've made breakfast before.
No. Objection, your honor.
There is no evidence
for the defendant's claim.
You're such a dick.
I've made breakfast before.
Hey.
If you wanted waffles, you should have
- just ordered waffles.
- Okay.
- Not you too!
- Everything tastes better
- off your plate.
- It does taste better.
- See? You know this.
- Really? No.
Not the whole thing.
Stop. You literally have
a mountain full of pancakes.
All right.
That's gonna taste worse.
Fresh link. Thank you. Yeah.
Look how much food you still have left,
and you're You're stealing.
Yeah, I know. Was that four links?
I need to make, leftovers for tomorrow.
Why are there holes in Honey?
One second.
Acted out by cartels on both sides
of the border,
though no U.S. congress member
has ever been held hostage.
It is worth noting that
congresswoman Hernandez
has been pushing legislation
that would allow U.S. military forces
to be deployed on
U.S. soil, which would be
a major escalation in
the administration's war
against illegal immigration
along the borders
of Texas, new Mexico,
Arizona and California.
Hold on. You're gonna
need a badge to get through.
State department can't
enter a crime scene.
Shit. That's the wrong one.
Hang on.
There you go.
Where's your field office?
- San Antonio.
- Who's your senior agent?
Jason Kennedy.
Give him a ring. I'm sure
he'd love to talk to you.
Agent Jason Kennedy's office?
Do you have an agent Kyle sanford?
What's he doing in Van horn?
El Paso has the scene.
Understood.
- Sorry.
- Don't be sorry.
You got the right attitude.
Don't trust anybody.
We're about 30 miles north of
where I can be any help, Alan.
We are 30 miles north, but she ain't.
Whole family's on 360.
And smart lady she's got a tracker.
Both the phone and the
tracker are in the same place.
Holding her in a house in ojinaga.
Probably move her
south when it gets dark.
All right, well, send an
hrt team to go get her.
I can't send hrt into Mexico.
Don't you have informants down there?
Yeah, I got informants,
but I don't have a fucking strike team.
Fine. I'll call federal police in Mexico
and hope for the best.
See how that works out.
All right, all right.
Let me, let me make a
call, see what I can do.
All right.
Sir, look, I don't know
what you want to do with this info, but,
we got a location on
the congresswoman.
She's on a tracker.
Yes, sir. Not going anywhere.
I'm watching it now.
That depends.
Langley or the white house.
Which one is it?
The white house.
Be careful.
Is there a protest today?
Cartel would never do that on their own.
I'm aware. It's a probe.
Come on.
Any thoughts you
want to share with me?
Take a look at Mexican
exports on your drive over.
Particularly oil.
I'll do it.
It's gonna be one of those days.
We don't have much intel
to shed light on this, Byron.
We should call in Kyle.
We spoke. He's on the scene.
Congresswoman's wearing a tracker.
They're holding her
just across the border.
They're gonna move her
deeper in-country at night.
I don't think they wait for night.
I think they're waiting to
see what we're going to do.
Curious about that myself.
We have a few gray
work guys standing by.
Intercept when they move her.
Same guys we used in Ukraine.
That won't be quiet.
Not sure they want quiet.
They just don't want a seal team.
Step in, please.
Sir, what we know now
is they are holding her
just across the border.
We have a unit in place to
either take her at the house
or en route when they move her.
What branch?
Forward detachment. Our guys.
We should send in devgru.
You are 12 hours from
making that a reality.
My guys are standing
by at the border now.
No, no, we can't send
uniforms over there.
What's your level of confidence
that she can be returned safely?
It's high, sir.
They do not have a
tactical equal in Mexico.
If they have one anywhere.
How messy is this gonna be?
It's not gonna be clean.
Do you want it to be messy?
I want it on television.
And when we are done
with it, we kick this to you.
Our treaty with Mexico
doesn't allow us to operate
in that space, ma'am.
No criminal organization is
gonna do something this reckless
without the Mexican
government being complicit.
And the Mexican government
would never be complicit
without extreme pressure
from an outside force.
You think Russia?
Well, it does fit their covert ops strategy,
but they don't have the leverage
to force something like this.
It's China.
We think that's a likely possibility.
Why do you think so?
It's an unusual move for them,
but it clearly puts the
president in a very bad spot.
A U.S. military operation
on Mexican soil?
It's a political disaster.
His own party's gonna turn on him.
The other side of the
aisle, they will destroy him.
Some form of Vietnam
in this hemisphere
shifts our focus from the east
and it drains our resources
even faster than Ukraine.
Now, China is Mexico's
number-one trade partner
in crude oil and natural
gases as well as gold.
So, any military response
to this on Mexican soil
renders our opposition
to a move into Taiwan
as hypocritical to both
NATO and the u.N.
And with Russia chairing
the security council
China has free rein
for a Taiwanese invasion
with little to no consequences.
Certainly not militarily,
and our economies are
too linked for sanctions.
We feel the same way about it.
We're increasing CIA
presence in Mexico,
particularly special activities.
We'd like to put your team in as well.
Get a lioness on the ground.
Or two. This all, of course,
depends on a successful extraction.
How soon do you think you
can get somebody in place?
At first, I would need to find a Mark.
Then I need to pull an asset or build one.
This isn't I-I need
time. How much time?
Can I have three months?
You can have three weeks.
There is an election in November.
I want trophies on the
wall by the convention.
Big trophies.
What are my trophies? Well, the area
of the abduction is the territory
of los tigres, correct?
- Correct.
- We'll start with their leader.
Find us intel connecting him
to the Mexican government.
A lioness isn't designed
to gather intel, ma'am.
We hit hard targets.
All right. After you kill the guy,
could you be so kind
as to grab his fucking
phones and computers
and anything else that might
have some fucking intelligence?
You can't do anything but kill people?
We can do it, sir.
Can I have a delta team? No delta,
no seals, you can have as
many gray men as you like.
Thank you. Joe.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
You're green. Go get her.
A forward detachment?
A bunch of guys so cooked
they dive for cover when a balloon pops?
They fight outside the lines, Joe.
That's what you'll need.
What I need is an sf oda.
How is one lioness
supposed to eliminate
the target and mine hard data?
It's a ridiculous ask and
it's impossible to execute.
You have a qrf, we will
place a forward detachment
under your command.
Lioness hits the target,
qrf retrieves the lioness,
tfo mines the intel.
Then tfo gets into a gunfight
with the Mexican military.
That's my problem.
Your problem is a target.
Meet up with the ground
detachment in del rio
and go find one.
You got your kit in the car?
Of course.
- Jet at Langley?
- Dulles.
Where's your team? Spread out.
You know, they're off the clock.
Put them on, get them to bliss.
- We'll work out of there.
- Yeah.
Careful over there.
It's too early for decorations.
Well, that's why we have an artificial one,
so we can enjoy it longer.
Can we at least wait until, like,
I don't know, Halloween is over?
Walmart doesn't, so why should we?
Mom said not to do
decorations till she got home.
Well, these are not
decorations, these are lights.
- They're still decorations.
- No, no, no.
Lights are electric, which places them
in the home improvement
and enhancement category,
which falls under my purview.
We can hang lights.
Now, we start hanging candy canes,
we're gonna be in deep trouble.
Hey. Everything all right?
Not really.
Hold on a second.
Tail number
November-Mike-one-one-three-niner.
Something happened.
I'm gonna be a few days.
The congresswoman?
You know I can't talk about that.
Yeah, no, I, I know the drill, honey.
Would you like us to wait on the tree?
No, don't wait for me.
Okay. Got it.
I love you.
I love you, too.
This must be a bad one.
Kiss the girls for me, okay?
I will.
I mean it.
Yeah, I'll do it.
Okay, bye.
All right, green light.
Let's decorate the tree.
Charlie, you grab the little ones.
You help me with the lights, okay?
What do we got for mags?
We have 15 of the drums, 35 of the .30.
Of course.
Hey. Glad you made it.
You might as well be wearing a t-shirt
that says you're CIA on it.
You, you got something festive
in that bag you can throw on?
Sure, let me just look into my kit
and get out a fucking sundress.
Fuck you, Kyle.
Don't worry, we got plenty
of options for you there.
- Are you fucking kidding me?
- Matches your eyes.
I'd love to see you do a snatch and grab
in a fucking miniskirt.
I'll do it. It's not happening.
- Don't you dare me.
- It's not happening.
It's just to get us across the border.
Once we're over, we'll
gear up somewhere.
I grabbed you armor,
figured you for a medium.
I have my own gear. It's long time, Cody.
Yeah, it's been a minute. Getting a little
long in the tooth for this, aren't you?
You think?
I do. Yeah?
Well, you know what they
say, Joe, beware the old soldier.
He's old for a reason.
That's tracer, he's a squad.
That's Dean, he's d squad.
Who do I hide behind in the gunfight?
Take your pick.
Everybody's from the unit.
We're all man hunters.
All right, boys, let's
load up, let's go to work.
Fuck.
Here we go.
Just Be my girlfriend
for a minute, all right?
Just look at me, smile and laugh.
You got it.
How you doing?
What's that?
- What's he asking?
- I don't know.
I don't know I don't
know. I don't know, man.
I don't know what that means.
We don't know, buddy. Sorry, sir.
- All right. Thank you.
- Thank you.
You got a mag bag back there?
Yeah. Driving with one.
Fuck, just the small one.
Put that shit down. A small one.
You got a small one back there?
- No.
- We should Kyle, we should
pull over and tac up as soon as we can.
Let's get out of town first.
No, no, no. No. No, no.
No, no. No
All right, bogey.
I count one, two, three.
If these guys get squirrely,
I want you to get in there.
You got it.
Amigos, we're having some car trouble.
No bueno the, radiator.
You guys got tools?
Maybe you can help us.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
God, fuck, get in there. Go in there.
Take them right. Take their focus right.
Just trying to just trying to fix it.
I'm just on vacation.
Babe, what the fuck?
Just fix the fucking car.
Hey, babe, just Baby
- I'm just asking for help here.
- Hola, hola.
Babe, are those guns?
Hola, hola.
- Baby Those are guns!
- Hey!
Let's move. Move, move.
Then you got drums and everything?
Drums are up.
Hey, our target's moving.
- Target's moving?
- Yeah.
You play a pretty mean drunk.
Fuck you, Kyle.
Good?
Ready?
- Cody, you want your rifle?
- No, I'm gonna run my pistol.
There's a mag pouch on
the bottom there, set it right.
You get the congresswoman in here,
you lay her on the floorboard
in case the exfil gets hot.
- All right?
- You got it.
All right, everybody strap in.
Don't t-bone this fucker,
clip him in the rear.
Head shots only in the
vehicle. Know your target.
- Mira esto cabron alla.
- ¿qué está haciendo?
Cody, tell me this is bulletproof glass.
- Fuck!
- All right, everybody hold on.
Here we go. Brace.
- Congresswoman?
- Yeah.
All right, you stay there. Stay right there.
Someone will come get
you. All right, you're clear.
- Congresswoman Hernandez?
- Yeah.
- Can you walk?
- I don't know.
Let's go.
We're up. We're good.
Look at me.
I'm gonna cut you loose.
For your safety, lay on
the floorboard, please.
Eagle's nest, this is eagle one.
We are jackpot, en route
to primary exfil location.
Have a Lane open for me.
Roger that, eagle one.
Left Lane is held for exfil.
- Proceed with caution.
- Keep eyes on us.
Roger that. Have eyes on now.
Hang in there.
My family.
What did they do to my family?
We'll talk about it at the base.
Tell me.
It's my family, tell me!
They killed them.
Eagle one, you sure that
scene was locked down?
Yeah, scene is locked.
All bandits kia?
Roger that.
Okay. Eagle one, they
have eyes in the sky.
Police are blocking off Benito juarez.
We need to find you another
way to the port of entry.
Fuck. No, fuck that.
No, we gotta get out of the
city. Check your isr, dude.
Do you have anything?
Tell 'em to find us another route.
Negative. Find us a
road that meets the river,
have a BP helo ride us parallel.
All right, everyone, give us a minute
to seek an alternate route.
Heads up in the back.
Enemy has eyes on.
Enemy vehc, six o'clock,
150 meters and closing.
Okay, Joe, you got left side. Got it.
And I'll take right side, Joe.
I got nine o'clock at your right side.
Permission to fire.
Yeah, fucking shoot him.
Shoot.
Eagle's nest, I need a
route and an extraction point
- fucking now!
- Nine o'clock!
Say again. Say again.
Three kilos north, turn right.
There's a dirt road that winds to the river.
There's a drop-off from
the road to the riverbank.
How big's the drop-off?
Unclear from the air. Six or eight feet.
Three klicks north, dirt road on the right,
winds the river, drops
off about eight feet.
- Eight feet?
- Yeah. I didn't pick it.
It's-it's eight feet. All right.
- In the back, fresh bags.
- Reload.
I've got two enemy vehcs approaching.
Make that four!
We have got a lot of
fucking heat on our ass.
There's two more!
Cody, get us out of here!
Joe, pass me my rifle, would you?
Where you want to do this?
Look, we gotta do this on the pavement.
We get on the dirt,
those humvees are gonna
move to flank us.
We're gonna intercept up here.
We need to switch sides.
Now!
- All right, are we ready?
- Ready.
All right, and three,
two, one. Here we go.
Load up!
- Load up!
- Load up!
Run!
We're off! We're up!
Let's go!
- Fuck.
- Anybody hit?
Dean, tracer.
- We're up.
- Good.
- Take the wheel.
- Yep.
- Eagle one
- Swap 'em out.
River's a half klick to the
north straight ahead of you.
Be advised, military vehicles
approaching from your three o'clock.
It's gonna be close.
Is it eight feet and then river?
Or is it eight feet and then
riverbank and then river?
What? Eagle's nest.
The depression eight feet above the river
itself or the riverbank?
Directly above the river, eagle one.
- Depth?
- Pretty deep.
Cartel won't cross migrants here.
There's a better place
to cross to the east,
but you'll need to turn toward
the approaching vehicles.
Better crossing towards enemy vehcs.
We don't want a better
crossing. We want deep.
We're going in water.
Dump everything that'll weigh you down.
I need you on this side right now.
Dump mags, dump
sidearms, dump everything.
Eagle's nest, this is eagle two.
We need some fucking
air support down here!
Eagle two, a little bird is inbound.
Eta?!
I got a visual, two o'clock.
Everybody, face coverings all around.
I'm gonna strap you.
Cover your faces!
- Kyle?
- Yeah?
If we get through this, I swear
to fucking god I'm gonna kill you.
I hope you get the chance.
In the back, hold on.
Is she strapped in? Five seconds.
She is strapped in. I'm not strapped in.
- Here we go. Boy.
- I need five seconds, Cody.
I don't think I can give it to you.
I don't think I can slow down.
- That's more than eight feet.
- I'm aware.
Cody, it's bigger than eight feet!
I'm fucking aware. Hang on!
- Shit!
- Get down!
Cover!
Fuck. Get down!
Stay down!
- Heads down!
- Heads down.
All right, everybody, out of the vehicle.
Get out of the fucking vehicle right now.
It's stuck! Cut it!
Get out!
Come on.
Cody, can you stand?
It's gonna be a swim.
Come with me. Come on.
Come to me. Come to me.
Come here. You're all right. We got you.
Get it open!
Kyle, help me get him
out of here. He's gone.
In an incredible unfolding of events,
U.S. law enforcement
made a daring rescue
of congresswoman Hernandez,
seen escorted by what
we are told was FBI's hrt team.
Sources say FBI agents made
What was that. What happened?
Whatever, it's just the news
Let's start supper.
Charlie, what do you want?
Ice cream. Ice cream? No.
Ice cream sounds like
an after-dinner type deal.
Let's talk about the
dinner part of the deal.
We skip the dinner part of the deal,
and skip to the ice
cream part of the meal.
Okay. Lot of deals going on there.
What now?
What now what?
What do you do next?
Now we play offense.
Do me a favor.
I'll try.
I'm an elected official.
I should remain
unemotional, and seek justice
and nothing else.
But I'm gonna be a wife and mother first.
When you find the
people that did this to me
Justice is a different agency.
My agency Doesn't do courtrooms.
Good.
Good.
You weren't kidding.
"Beware of the old soldier."
Yeah.
We still have our uses.
You want one?
I don't smoke.
Yeah.
Neither do I.
I'm sorry about Dean.
You know, of all The shit we got into
it weren't no bullet that got him.
Or ied or some fucking helo crash,
or any of the other shit out there, nope.
It's just
Chose to climb in the
back of a suburban.
But that's war, you know?
- Can't make no sense of it.
- No.
Are you sticking around for this deal?
Yeah, they usually only send me in
when the deal gets real fucked up.
But
if you fuck up the
deal, I'll come a-runnin'.
Be lucky to have you.
At least you can offset
the level of fucking dipshit
that comes with this Ken doll.
Go easy on ol' spy Barbie, there.
Hey, motherfucker.
That was your one free shot.
I'll take my fucking chances.
Fuck!
Goddamn it, Joe.
Shit.
I have a fucking family.
We go kamikaze through the desert
with no fucking plan.
- You almost got us killed!
- No fucking plan?
We just executed the fucking plan, Joe!
And it worked.
She's back.
And we're a man down.
Man down is the price.
And we all signed up to pay it.
When's the last time
you were in a firefight?
And I'm not talking about
some bimbo's bodyguard.
- Fuck you!
- I mean a fucking battle.
It's been a while, hasn't it?
I'll tell you what.
I'll give you another one.
You need an adrenaline dump,
fucking dump it right here.
We're working together now.
You want to do some
fucking cowboy shit,
you do it on your own.
Never fucking do it with my team.
You know what I would
be doing if I were you?
I ca I can't wait to hear this.
I'd be calling that family you got.
You're right.
That's exactly what I should be doing.
That should be enough. It's sticky.
You just, like, spread it all
it's not sticking to the pan, dad.
Hey.
Hey.
You okay?
Yeah.
Rough day at the office?
You can say that.
Are the girls there?
- Can I talk to them?
- Yeah.
Yeah, which one?
Just put me on speaker.
It's falling apart.
Girls, it's your mother.
- Hi!
- Hi, mom.
Mom, are you okay?
Hi, baby. I'm fine.
I'm good.
Are you sure?
I'm I'm great, I'm great.
How are you?
We're making supper.
Yeah, what's for supper?
Pizookie.
A what?
Well, mom, you take a
whole batch of cookie dough
and you spread it out in an iron skillet.
And it makes a cookie the size of a pizza.
A pizookie.
That sounds healthy.
It is if you have ice cream with it.
They make ice cream out of milk.
Boy, do they have you trained, baby.
Yeah, I'm aware.
I sure wish I could have some.
You can.
When are you coming home?
Soon, baby.
Soon.
I love you.
- Love you.
- Love you, too.
- Love you, mom.
- Bye-bye.