The Irrational (2023) s02e18 Episode Script
The Exchange
1
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Any update, Professor Johnson?
Well, they're still saying
we need to go through customs.
Right, but we're not actually
entering Russia.
- It's just an emergency landing.
- I know.
Apparently, it's the law here.
My mom's wondering
when we're gonna be back.
[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
♪
That's my ADHD medication.
Don't say anything.
♪
[BOTH SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
Who does this belong to?
♪
Uh, they're mine.
I have a prescription.
Not allowed here. Contraband.
I understand.
We didn't know that
we would be landing here.
- Come with us.
- Wha
Wait. Where are you taking him?
Professor Johnson! Professor Johnson!
♪
You're awfully quiet.
[SIGHS]
I'm still processing
that you have a husband.
I told you.
Not a real husband.
Not the kind you're thinking of, anyway.
So you weren't romantically involved.
We were, briefly. Not seriously.
And only after MI-6 had
arranged for us to be married
as a cover assignment.
Being a spy is isolating.
You can't tell anyone what you do.
You work impossible hours.
You disappear without explanation.
It makes dating rather difficult.
[SIGHS]
We weren't involved long.
Mostly we were friends,
like you and Marisa.
Marisa and I are divorced,
and you knew all about her.
You're angry.
No, I'm not angry. But I am
curious why you never mentioned him.
[SOFT MUSIC]
When I was outed,
it didn't just impact me.
A lot of people were affected.
He was one of them.
They had to stage his death.
And that's why you're still married.
Kind of hard to divorce a dead person.
Honestly, I didn't think I'd
ever see or hear from him again.
Mm.
So what's he doing here now, in D.C.?
I guess we're going to find out.
♪
Moonlit night on a riverbank.
That's on brand.
Studies show
the location has a profound impact
on decision-making.
Spy 101. He's setting the stage.
It means he wants something.
Mm.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Rose, you changed your hair. Too bad.
I was kind of fond of the pink streak.
Your hair's different too.
You seem to have a lot more gray in it.
It's good to see you.
Likewise.
- This is my partner.
- Alec Mercer.
- Logan Rajesh.
- Not his real name.
Not relevant.
So, Logan,
you can skip the dog and pony show
and just tell me exactly
what it is you want from me.
I'm not here for you, love.
♪
I'm here for him.
For the past few months,
I've been assisting
with a delicate exchange with Russia.
A prisoner exchange.
A Brit and an American,
unlawfully detained in Russia
for a Boris Novikov,
serving 15 years
in a U.S. federal prison
for money laundering.
Two for one, then.
Boris was part of
the Kremlin's inner circle.
The Russians desperately want him back.
It was arranged, terms negotiated,
nearly implemented,
when Boris went
and offed a corrections officer
inside the prison.
And now the U.S. is
balking over the idea
of trading away a cop-killer.
Exactly, and unless we can produce
Boris in Geneva by Wednesday,
the deal's basically dead.
This is you are
my last-ditch effort
to salvage the deal.
Why would a prisoner so close to freedom
sabotage his release?
Irrational question.
I hear that's your bailiwick.
What does Boris say in his defense?
Nothing he trusts no one,
thinks everything's a trick.
So you want me to get him to talk,
to see if there's an explanation.
If anyone can, you can.
I heard you got Ben Delano to
confess to multiple homicides.
And I heard that you were dating Rose.
Thought I'd cut through some chaff.
So you used me to get to Alec.
The prisoners who are they?
♪
Yusuf Khan. Charity worker.
Hiking in Kazakhstan,
accidentally crossed
the borders into Russia.
So he's a spy.
Lost hiker.
And U.S. Navy pilot Nancy Lewis.
She was flying over the Black Sea
and had to ditch into Russian waters.
You do know Alec's not a spy.
He's a professor.
No tradecraft skills needed.
May I speak with you for a moment?
♪
I can do this on my own.
If I'd known that
he was gonna ask you this,
I never would have agreed to have met.
I don't want you to do this by yourself.
Are you sure?
No, but I'm sure I want to help you.
[SOFT MUSIC]
OK.
Fine.
If he's involved, I am too.
Understand?
I'm looking forward
to working together again.
♪
This doesn't look like
the State Department.
We're trying to keep a lower profile.
The special delegate
will meet us inside.
I'll head on in.
- Oh.
- What is it?
It's Phoebe just reminding me
I need to get a picture
for that book I'm writing.
I was hoping to wait till next week
after my scar surgery,
but I guess they can take
a photo of my good side.
- Yes.
- Noelle.
- Alec?
- Hi.
Uh, Noelle, this is my partner, Rose.
Noelle's husband, Derek, and I
coauthored a study together.
What was that like, ten years ago?
Are you here to help him?
No, I'm sorry. Why? What happened?
[TENSE MUSIC]
You don't know.
♪
Of course not. Why would you?
Four months ago,
Derek took a student group
on a cultural trip to India.
On the way back, there was
a problem with the plane.
They landed in Russia,
and they took him.
For what reason?
They found pills belonging to a student.
Legal prescription pills here.
Derek wanted to protect him.
Oh, my God.
Noelle, I'm sorry. I didn't know.
Most people don't.
Derek's not military or a sports hero.
There's always been
someone more important,
- but he's important to me.
- Of course.
His trial's in less than three days.
If they take him to
a labor camp, he won't make it.
If there's anything you can do
♪
Rose.
It's been a while. We met in Berlin.
Of course.
Officially, that meeting never happened.
Alec, I'd like you to meet Greg Dodd,
U.S. Special Delegate.
Dr. Mercer. Heard great things.
Have a seat.
Alec has put together a list
of strategic approaches with Boris.
Thanks for agreeing to dig into
this with us on such short notice.
I haven't actually agreed yet.
But I will, under one condition.
I want to bring Derek Johnson home too.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Well, I think we can rule out accident.
Officer Bower was in his sixth year
as a federal corrections officer.
Boris was rumored to be ex-KGB.
They call it FSB now.
KGB sounds scarier.
The inmates saw Boris fleeing the scene
and the murder weapon was
found in Boris's cell.
But it was wiped clean.
Did Boris know about the deal?
Well, he wasn't informed officially,
but according to Rose, word gets around.
The CO probably
didn't love the fact that
Boris was getting out early.
He attacks Boris. Boris fights back.
Maybe the CO was bullying him.
Maybe Boris did it on purpose.
Who wants to go back
to Russia these days?
Who wants to spend even
more time in federal prison?
Just so I'm clear, we're trying to help
a Russian money launderer
who evaded sanctions?
We're trying to bring
Professor Johnson home.
We need to clear Boris
for the deal to go through.
Even if we do, how do we get
Russia to add him to the deal?
♪
We agreed. Boris for Lewis and Khan.
That's two for one. Now you want three?
As you're aware, Boris killed a CO,
which means his price has gone up.
The United States government
is still interested in a trade,
but the terms have changed, Yulia.
We're prepared to offer three options.
[SCOFFS] Three options?
Yes.
It's the decoy effect.
You offer two
less desirable decoy choices
to make the third choice
the real option.
Works 90% of the time.
Option one: no Boris.
Lewis and Khan for Dmitry Petrov,
who's serving time in Kansas
for copyright infringement.
Option two: Boris for Lewis and Khan.
But you also agree
to reduce the sentences
of three American detainees.
Option three:
Boris for Lewis, Khan,
and Derek Johnson.
Of course,
there's always a fourth option,
where we all return home empty-handed.
But I think that would
disappoint the Kremlin.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Fine.
We'll include Johnson
if the Kremlin agrees.
But I'll remind you
the exchange we agreed to
takes place Wednesday in Geneva.
There's 50 pages of parameters,
and if any of those
circumstances change
The deal will have to be renegotiated.
And who knows?
The mood in the Kremlin
may change at that time.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Your decoy effect worked.
Realistically, I'll never get
the State Department on board
if we can't clear Boris.
We've got nothing
if you can't get him to talk.
Leave that to me.
You've got 72 hours.
♪
I am so happy that
you came here for breakfast.
I'm sure your firm must have
put you in a nice hotel
with a great restaurant.
But then I wouldn't
get to spend time with you.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
I need an ambulance at 1950 Dorothy.
Agent down. I repeat, agent down.
Marisa?
You OK?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Uh
it's just that this mug belongs
to someone I cared about.
The agent.
The one you were telling me about.
The one who, uh, passed away.
Look, I hope you don't mind me asking,
but why didn't you move?
Well, I thought about it.
A lot.
But the divorce had just been finalized,
and Jace's death
it's just all the change I could manage.
All right. Well, how about now?
[SOFT MUSIC]
[SIGHS] Ooh.
Yeah, that's hard to imagine.
But it's also nothing
for you to be worried about.
♪
Look, when I was looking
at moving to D.C.,
I saw some pretty sweet condos.
It's a buyer's market out there.
[SIGHS]
Sometimes change can be a good thing.
♪
Just make yourself at home.
You have knickknacks.
That's new.
They came with the place.
This flat is downright charming.
Ooh. Coffee press.
No tea kettle?
How utterly American.
[GROANS] I'm really not here
all that often.
- You can ask Alec.
- She's not.
Off cleaning up
Tristan's billionaire messes?
There's a lot more to it than that.
Sure there is.
Let's just stick to the case, shall we?
What can you tell me about
Boris other than he won't talk?
Oh, he'll talk.
About the weather, his favorite books.
He'll talk your ear off.
Just not about what he's accused of.
Boris doesn't appear
to have ever done any, uh,
what do you all call it,
wet work before.
He's not a killer by nature,
so why would he turn to violence now
if it weren't in self-defense?
- [PHONE BUZZING]
- Hmm.
You can ask him yourself.
You've just been given
clearance to talk to Boris.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Am I in trouble?
Just the opposite.
Your case work has been top-notch,
and you crushed TEVO.
You've shown enormous potential.
And it's come to my attention
that you're an independent contractor.
OK.
Well, frankly, we could use
more agents like you here.
OK.
There's a new class starting
at Quantico soon.
How would you like to train
to become a special agent?
Wow.
Thanks for that.
Is there a way that
I could think about it?
Of course. You should think about it.
You could have
a real future here, Kylie.
If you want it, it's yours.
You should know that I
don't work for the government,
but I might be able
to help you salvage
your prisoner exchange.
Your shoulders look tight, my friend.
You seem to be carrying
a great deal of tension.
I can't help you unless you tell me
why you killed CO Bower.
You need a way to release your stress.
Ever tried fly-fishing?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
I grew up in a poor town.
I have only ever done deep-sea fishing.
Hmm. Deep sea.
Speedboats, brute force, live bait.
There's no art in that.
As opposed to fly-fishing?
- Interesting strategy.
- You wouldn't understand it.
What's that supposed to mean?
Just don't underestimate him.
He knows what he's doing.
And what about what you're doing?
I can't imagine you're satisfied
playing Dr. Mercer's sidekick
or Tristan's lackey.
Waste of your talents.
Says the man who's officially dead.
My family always ate what we caught.
What about you?
You catch and release or catch and keep?
The great debate.
I eat my catch.
To do otherwise feels cruel.
All that struggle, the hook.
It should serve a purpose.
How do you kill the fish?
My dad uses a priest.
A club.
Hits him on the back of the head.
I always hated that part.
Mm.
I prefer the Japanese method, ikejime.
Spike the hindbrain just so.
Pop.
It's instantaneous
and it preserves the meat.
Tastes better.
Fast and painless.
♪
[SIGHS] So we got nothing.
On the contrary, I learned a lot.
Like learned why he killed that CO?
I don't think he killed him at all.
Boris is a methodical person.
So much so, he kills fish
without even making a mess.
Someone like that kills methodically.
The CO's murder was sloppy and frenetic.
Well, it's not as if he had
an abundance of options.
Besides, the weapon was
found on his bunk.
Wiped clean. And that's another thing.
Someone this careful wouldn't
hold onto the murder weapon.
A witness saw him.
Prisoners are unreliable witnesses.
A man that can kill a fish
painlessly and efficiently
will kill a person the same way.
I think someone set him up.
To scuttle the deal?
Maybe.
If you're right,
we have to prove it, and soon.
We've only got 63 hours left.
Then we'll work fast.
♪
Whoever set Boris up,
they want him alive,
but here in the U.S.
I'll call some old contacts,
see if there's any chatter
about the deal and anyone
who's not happy about it.
You really like playing
these spy games, don't you?
[LAUGHS]
I like doing important work,
being part of the secret
history of the world.
It's what got me into the field
in the first place.
Logan was right. You've missed this.
- [LAUGHS] Is it that obvious?
- Mm.
Your vocal cords are
tightening up a bit.
And your eyes are lighting up.
No.
That would be those headlights.
We're being followed.
- By whom?
- No idea.
[TENSE MUSIC]
What are you gonna do?
Hang on. We're going to play spy games.
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
It was a black SUV, an American car.
A Ford, if I'm not mistaken.
Maryland plates.
And you managed to lose them?
I think it's whoever set up Boris.
We got away too easily.
I don't think they were
trying to catch us,
but to warn us to stay away from him.
Which goes with your theory that
they want him right where he is.
Well, they aren't the only ones.
Law enforcement worked their asses off
to put Boris behind bars.
This is a "get out of jail free" card.
Yes, the system is irrational,
but it's the only way
to bring Derek Johnson
and the others home.
Deals like these only
encourage places like Russia.
It undermines the entire justice system.
Boris didn't kill that CO.
Whoever did is getting away with it.
The justice system isn't
supposed to work that way, either.
♪
No. No, it is not.
Federal prisons are FBI jurisdiction.
I thought you might be able to help.
♪
So you think we're looking for a hit man
inside the prison and someone
outside who hired him?
I'm looking into Boris's enemies.
We thought you could focus
on finding the hit man.
In prison?
Odds are there's more than one.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SNIFFLES]
♪
[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
I don't speak Russian.
♪
[THUD, BLOWS LANDING]
♪
So according to our research,
the man who took Boris's post
after he was arrested
is a technocrat named Mikhail Balakin.
But apparently he's on
shaky ground at the Kremlin.
So if Boris returns, Mikhail's out.
Mikhail wouldn't be able to kill Boris
without being blamed,
so maybe he tried the next best thing.
Scuttle Boris's deal.
Keep him alive, but in prison.
Blame America.
Good work, you two.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Also, uh, we thought we should tell you,
- Simon and I are
- Dating.
How long have you known?
Never mind. Why did I even ask?
It's OK. It's a good thing.
In my experience,
mixing relationships and work
only enhances both.
Hmm.
Well, in that case, uh,
we're gonna go order some food.
[PHONE BUZZING]
Oh, it's Logan. I should take this.
You OK with that?
I'm the one who hired Simon,
so I think of them
as two people who found
each other 'cause of me.
♪
[SIGHS]
Derek was in some kind of prison row.
He's alive, but they have taken him
to the infirmary unconscious.
We have to get him out of there.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
[BEEPING]
♪
[KNOCKING]
- Hey, Alec.
- Hey.
So Derek was attacked in prison.
Is he OK?
Rose is finding out his condition.
I got your message, so I had
the car drop me off here.
- What's happening?
- I looked into Balakin.
He's no saint, but I couldn't find
anything that tied him to this.
- Dead end.
- So far.
Still looking into him.
I did some digging into the prison.
The only place that you can find shivs
like the one that killed
the CO: the metal shop.
Guy named Emilio.
I convinced him to share
the customer list with me.
As in, guys who bought shivs in prison.
Yeah. I asked Kylie to dig into it.
She's looking for families
of the prisoners
who might have made
extravagant purchases lately.
- Follow the money.
- Mm-hmm.
You're looking at condos?
Yeah. Um, Cam sent me that.
He thought I might be
interested in moving.
Oh.
A lot of tough memories here.
A lot of good ones too.
Yeah.
But our evolutionary
defense mechanism has a way
of making the negative
experiences stand out
more than the positive ones.
Yeah.
[PHONE BUZZING]
Hey, Kylie.
OK, so my search for prison folks
whose families got rich went nowhere.
But then I realized we were
only looking at the prisoners.
We hadn't looked at the employees.
Did you find something?
♪
I'm gonna check these plates.
It's a nice truck
for a prison lieutenant.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Purchased the day after the CO died.
Who paid him?
[DOOR OPENS]
Oh.
You're not the gas company.
[BOOMING]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Any chance this was an accident?
It was meant to look like one.
But given the timing
and everything that's happened,
my guess is someone's trying
to tie up loose ends.
So someone paid Lieutenant Bash
to kill the CO and frame Boris,
then kill Bash to cover their tracks.
Yeah.
The FBI is all over this.
We'll find them.
Just give us some time.
I would, but if we don't get Boris
on that tarmac in 38 hours,
this deal falls apart.
Agent Clark?
I'll be right back.
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
[BOOMING]
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
♪
Alec?
Are you all right?
I'm fine.
Physically, anyway.
Any word on Derek?
He's got a concussion.
His arm is broken, but apparently
it wasn't enough to delay the trial.
Any chance this clears Boris?
Only if we can prove
that it wasn't an accident.
I might be able to help with that.
We found this in the gas line
of the stove.
It's part of an explosive device.
We're lucky that we were here
to call the fire department so fast.
Otherwise, it probably
would have incinerated.
Does that logo mean anything to you?
I've never seen anything like it.
I have.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
This is the device used to blow up
the prison lieutenant's home.
I've seen that design before.
- In Sao Paulo.
- Come on, now.
You don't seriously think
I had something to do with it.
♪
What possible reason would I have
to impede the deal I came here to make?
I have no idea.
But the first rule of spycraft
is to never take anything
or anyone at face value.
♪
Fair enough.
If you must know, last night,
I was with a woman.
[CHUCKLES, SIGHS]
Did you get her name?
Mm.
Among other things.
Mm-hmm. All right, James Bond.
If it's not yours, then whose is it?
Well, you can't just
pick one of those up
- at Walmart.
- Exactly.
But we're not
the only ones to have them.
CIA, FSB, Mossad.
And of course,
there are other suppliers too.
One in particular who happens
to service the D.C. metro area.
- Sasha.
- Want me to call her?
[LAUGHS] No, definitely not.
Last time we were all together,
you got into
a drunken political argument
with her wife.
And you went home with the bartender.
[CHUCKLES]
I'd forgotten that part.
- Mm-mm-mm.
- [SCOFFS]
I'll text her. Same number?
Ah, this is fun, right?
I mean, you, me, working together again.
It's like old times.
[CHUCKLES]
[PHONE BUZZING]
- It's Sasha.
- Tell her I said hi.
She wants to meet in
an unmarked warehouse downtown.
Want to come with?
Ooh. On second thought,
better off if she still thinks I'm dead.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[CHUCKLES]
Impressive.
I was well-trained.
You had a natural gift.
♪
So what is it that you want?
♪
Sorry. Can't help you.
[LAUGHS] Come on.
Something like this pops up
in D.C. metro,
and you don't know anything about it?
And if I did, what's in it for me?
Oh.
What was in it for me
when I kept your name out
of all that business in Bogotá?
♪
Fine.
But honestly, I don't know who it was.
They paid through a Swiss bank account.
The account number, please.
♪
Whoever paid Bash used the same account
to purchase the device
to blow up his home.
Indicating a murder for hire
and coverup.
In light of which,
the American authorities
have approved exchanging Boris
with the Russians.
Oh, that is good news.
We'll get in touch with Derek's wife
to let her know he's coming home.
[SIGHS]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
They'll release the other two,
but I'm sorry not Derek Johnson.
What?
Did they give a reason?
He's too valuable to them.
Derek too valuable? Rubbish.
Now that Boris is innocent,
they simply don't like the idea
of trading three for one.
Pushing them further just
risks losing the deal we have.
This is still a very big win.
Let me talk to Yulia again.
Alec, your country thanks you
for everything you've done,
but your service is no longer needed.
We'll get him next time.
♪
I am so sorry, Noelle.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Next month is his birthday.
We were gonna go to Japan.
I haven't given up.
I will get them to start a new deal.
I promise you.
His trial's tomorrow.
♪
I think I need to wrap
my head around the fact
that he may never come home.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
♪
Alec, I talked to Logan
to see if the British
government might intervene
on Derek's behalf if the U.S. won't.
- No luck.
- Damn it.
I won't accept that.
No, but we're running out of options.
Legal ones, anyway.
It's because he's not important.
No media attention,
no one fighting on his behalf.
It's not right.
I keep thinking to myself,
what if it were me, not him?
I write books.
I have world leaders on
speed-dial that owe me favors.
If I were unjustly imprisoned,
the powers that be would find
a way to get me out.
But someone like Derek,
they leave behind.
We've got to find another way.
Take another shot at Yulia.
Or go over her head somehow.
We've got nothing else to offer them.
How do you get someone to
give us something for nothing?
We did an experiment
about that a while back.
It was a game.
We gave each participant $100,
and we instructed them
to share the money
with a randomly assigned partner
that they couldn't see,
and they'd get nothing in return.
Most people gave $30, 30%,
so we changed the variable.
Rizwan told them that
they would switch roles
in the next game.
That inspired people to divide
the money in half, 50%.
Finally, we tried a variable
that brought the average up to 70%.
What was the variable?
We let them see their partners' faces
when they got the money.
It's called
the watching eyes effect.
We're actually motivated
by the vicarious reward we get
by seeing someone get a gift
they didn't expect.
But we need Russia to give us
all of Derek, not 70% of him.
I'm right there with you.
There was one outlier who gave 100%.
Why?
It turns out in that case,
the subject and the partner
knew each other.
She got a flat tire the day before,
and he stopped to help her out.
What are the odds?
It's basic reciprocity.
But Russia doesn't owe us anything.
No, but I know someone else who does.
Congratulations, Boris.
I understand
you'll be going home soon.
I am a lucky man.
Wasn't just luck.
No. No, it wasn't.
I need your help.
A man named Derek Johnson was
unlawfully detained in Russia.
He was cut out of the current deal,
and I want to get him back in,
and I need to know
who can make that happen.
Did you try fly-fishing yet?
No.
You should visit Kamchatka.
Best fly-fishing in the world.
You can go alone,
but it's better with a partner.
I'm listening.
My favorite fishing partner
is a bartender
at one of the best pubs
in all of Russia.
A bartender?
I used to go fly-fishing
with him in Kamchatka.
You'd have a lot in common with him.
He's very popular with my old friends.
If you find yourself in Moscow,
stop by Violet's Pub
and say hi to Andrey for me.
Mm.
♪
Do you have a way to get a
message to this bartender in Moscow?
♪
[DOOR CLANKING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
Trial?
♪
[ATTEMPTS RUSSIAN]
[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
How did you get in here?
This is a restricted area.
You know better than to ask me that.
Never mind that. Why are you here?
This deal is done, Alec.
Not quite.
The Kremlin's authorizing
Derek's release.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
You know anything about that?
First I'm hearing of it.
He's flying in tonight.
I've got a plane going to Russia
and a plane going to the U.S.
stopping in London.
If these planes don't take off
by midnight,
all the terms are void.
He'll be here.
Yeah, we can't take that risk.
Neither can we.
We make the exchange now.
♪
Boris
He'll be here in time. I promise.
Fine, but the planes leave at midnight.
♪
I'm gonna have to call it, Alec.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
It's him. It's Derek.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- I need to make a call.
- [CAR DOORS OPENING]
♪
Alec!
Oh, my God, you did this?
I had a lot of help.
Thank you.
♪
On the count of three!
Three, two, one!
Cross.
♪
[PHONE BUZZING]
♪
It's all good, Marisa.
Everybody's going where
they're supposed to go.
We were able to trace the Swiss account
to Mikhail Balakin.
When we investigated him
at first, he was clean.
Except for the fact that
he was cheating on his wife.
Cheating on his wife?
Any idea with whom?
Well, it took us a while
to find her name.
She used an alias with
a forged French passport.
But get this former FSB.
Where's Yulia?
Why?
Because she's the one
behind all of this.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You really don't want Boris
to go home, do you?
♪
[SUPPRESSED GUNSHOT] [GRUNTS]
Help!
[SIREN BLARING]
♪
- No luck?
- We called Interpol.
She couldn't have gotten far.
So she paid a hit man to frame Boris
to kill the deal
without taking the blame.
It's clever.
They're probably both in on it together.
She was willing to kill to keep
Mikhail in a position of power
and to keep her proximity to that power.
Wherever she went, she's desperate.
Well, Boris is on the plane now.
Her window of opportunity is closed.
Not yet, it isn't.
Where's Logan?
[GASPING]
Logan? Logan!
- Can you hear me?
- She's headed east.
You may still catch her. She's on foot.
She put a bomb on the plane.
[GROANS] Go!
If I don't keep pressure
on it, you'll die.
Then I die, Rose.
The mission takes priority.
You know that.
[TENSE MUSIC]
- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
- Go!
♪
Good thing I'm not a spy anymore.
- Come on.
- [GROANS]
♪
Yulia did this?
You have to find her.
♪
[INDISTINCT PA ANNOUNCEMENT]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
You're wondering how I found you,
especially since you weren't
sure where you'd go yourself.
The thing is,
we make unconscious decisions
all the time.
It makes them much easier to predict.
I wouldn't do that.
The police have the place covered.
I figured you'd go to the Maldives.
It's a non-extradition country.
And your boyfriend, Mikhail,
owns property there.
It's a direct flight from Paris.
The police figured that
you'd take that flight,
especially since you have
a falsified French passport.
But people have an aversion to traveling
in the wrong direction,
even if it's faster.
You'd have to drive north to fly south.
So I figured you'd come here to Milan.
You're smart, resourceful.
You got Mikhail to put you in charge
of the prisoner exchange.
I worked for everything I got.
You did.
But you'd lose it all
if Boris came home.
And he couldn't be killed on your watch.
So you paid Lieutenant Bash
to frame Boris for murder.
And then you blew up his house
to destroy the evidence.
When we cleared Boris, you
tried to sabotage his plane.
Fortunately,
we disabled the bomb.
You really don't want
Boris to go home, do you?
- Shooting Logan
- [SUPPRESSED GUNSHOT]
Was a last resort.
So now the only question is,
in which country
will you be going to jail?
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[KNOCKING]
Knock, knock.
[GROANS, CHUCKLES]
You know I'm allergic to sentiment.
Well, in that case
I brought another gift.
Divorce papers.
Really, love? [CHUCKLES]
Just as I thought things were
starting to get good again.
They're backdated
to before your disappearance.
Sign them
or I'll tell everyone at the service
you wear socks to sleep.
They keep my feet warm.
[LAUGHTER]
Maybe you're serious about
this guy, the professor.
Maybe I am.
How do you think he'll feel
about us working together again?
In a professional, not-married capacity?
You mean come back to MI-6?
- Mm.
- [LAUGHS]
That's impossible.
I've been outed, burned.
A burned spy can be a useful cover.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
They want you back, Rose.
The question is, what do you want?
Have you given any more
thought to Raina's suggestion?
Me, a Fed? Seriously?
You're good at what you do.
Yeah.
You know what's crazy?
My old boss has offered me
another job
one that pays high six figures
to work from home.
Well, I wouldn't be mad
if you took that one.
- I'm not going to.
- Mm.
But I don't think
I'm going to Quantico, either.
So you're gonna stay where you are?
I don't know.
But whatever my next move is,
it won't be backwards.
It'll be forward, you know?
- Yeah, I do know.
- Mm.
Maybe it's time for us all
to open the door to something new.
Ooh, I like that.
Mm-hmm.
Thank you for the party
♪
But I could never stay long ♪
♪
I want to thank you
For letting me be myself
[PHONE BUZZING]
Again
Hey, Rose.
♪
Just wanted to talk to you
about something.
You're going back to MI-6.
Not exactly.
I miss saving the world.
But I don't miss that life,
where the mission always came first
and no one cared if I made it
home or if I lived or died.
Rose
Now I have you.
I don't want you
to give up anything for me.
I'm not giving anything up.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I'm starting a new chapter.
Here.
♪
You're starting your own agency.
I signed a three-year lease.
I'll let clients pay
what they can afford,
save the world in a different way.
♪
I'm opening this place for me,
but I'm doing it here in D.C. for us.
[CHUCKLES]
Mm.
[CHUCKLES]
Then congratulations to you,
Ms. Dinshaw.
Oh, we should go.
We have to prepare
for your scar surgery tomorrow.
I decided not to do it.
Why?
The scars don't just
remind me of the bombing.
They remind me of the
second chance I got that day,
to take more risks,
to try new experiments.
How I got here,
it's just as important as being here,
which reminds me.
♪
What do you think?
I think it's perfect.
[LAUGHS]
[PHONE BUZZING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
What's wrong?
♪
Alec?
Someone's been following me.
I think we just found your first case.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Any update, Professor Johnson?
Well, they're still saying
we need to go through customs.
Right, but we're not actually
entering Russia.
- It's just an emergency landing.
- I know.
Apparently, it's the law here.
My mom's wondering
when we're gonna be back.
[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
♪
That's my ADHD medication.
Don't say anything.
♪
[BOTH SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
Who does this belong to?
♪
Uh, they're mine.
I have a prescription.
Not allowed here. Contraband.
I understand.
We didn't know that
we would be landing here.
- Come with us.
- Wha
Wait. Where are you taking him?
Professor Johnson! Professor Johnson!
♪
You're awfully quiet.
[SIGHS]
I'm still processing
that you have a husband.
I told you.
Not a real husband.
Not the kind you're thinking of, anyway.
So you weren't romantically involved.
We were, briefly. Not seriously.
And only after MI-6 had
arranged for us to be married
as a cover assignment.
Being a spy is isolating.
You can't tell anyone what you do.
You work impossible hours.
You disappear without explanation.
It makes dating rather difficult.
[SIGHS]
We weren't involved long.
Mostly we were friends,
like you and Marisa.
Marisa and I are divorced,
and you knew all about her.
You're angry.
No, I'm not angry. But I am
curious why you never mentioned him.
[SOFT MUSIC]
When I was outed,
it didn't just impact me.
A lot of people were affected.
He was one of them.
They had to stage his death.
And that's why you're still married.
Kind of hard to divorce a dead person.
Honestly, I didn't think I'd
ever see or hear from him again.
Mm.
So what's he doing here now, in D.C.?
I guess we're going to find out.
♪
Moonlit night on a riverbank.
That's on brand.
Studies show
the location has a profound impact
on decision-making.
Spy 101. He's setting the stage.
It means he wants something.
Mm.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Rose, you changed your hair. Too bad.
I was kind of fond of the pink streak.
Your hair's different too.
You seem to have a lot more gray in it.
It's good to see you.
Likewise.
- This is my partner.
- Alec Mercer.
- Logan Rajesh.
- Not his real name.
Not relevant.
So, Logan,
you can skip the dog and pony show
and just tell me exactly
what it is you want from me.
I'm not here for you, love.
♪
I'm here for him.
For the past few months,
I've been assisting
with a delicate exchange with Russia.
A prisoner exchange.
A Brit and an American,
unlawfully detained in Russia
for a Boris Novikov,
serving 15 years
in a U.S. federal prison
for money laundering.
Two for one, then.
Boris was part of
the Kremlin's inner circle.
The Russians desperately want him back.
It was arranged, terms negotiated,
nearly implemented,
when Boris went
and offed a corrections officer
inside the prison.
And now the U.S. is
balking over the idea
of trading away a cop-killer.
Exactly, and unless we can produce
Boris in Geneva by Wednesday,
the deal's basically dead.
This is you are
my last-ditch effort
to salvage the deal.
Why would a prisoner so close to freedom
sabotage his release?
Irrational question.
I hear that's your bailiwick.
What does Boris say in his defense?
Nothing he trusts no one,
thinks everything's a trick.
So you want me to get him to talk,
to see if there's an explanation.
If anyone can, you can.
I heard you got Ben Delano to
confess to multiple homicides.
And I heard that you were dating Rose.
Thought I'd cut through some chaff.
So you used me to get to Alec.
The prisoners who are they?
♪
Yusuf Khan. Charity worker.
Hiking in Kazakhstan,
accidentally crossed
the borders into Russia.
So he's a spy.
Lost hiker.
And U.S. Navy pilot Nancy Lewis.
She was flying over the Black Sea
and had to ditch into Russian waters.
You do know Alec's not a spy.
He's a professor.
No tradecraft skills needed.
May I speak with you for a moment?
♪
I can do this on my own.
If I'd known that
he was gonna ask you this,
I never would have agreed to have met.
I don't want you to do this by yourself.
Are you sure?
No, but I'm sure I want to help you.
[SOFT MUSIC]
OK.
Fine.
If he's involved, I am too.
Understand?
I'm looking forward
to working together again.
♪
This doesn't look like
the State Department.
We're trying to keep a lower profile.
The special delegate
will meet us inside.
I'll head on in.
- Oh.
- What is it?
It's Phoebe just reminding me
I need to get a picture
for that book I'm writing.
I was hoping to wait till next week
after my scar surgery,
but I guess they can take
a photo of my good side.
- Yes.
- Noelle.
- Alec?
- Hi.
Uh, Noelle, this is my partner, Rose.
Noelle's husband, Derek, and I
coauthored a study together.
What was that like, ten years ago?
Are you here to help him?
No, I'm sorry. Why? What happened?
[TENSE MUSIC]
You don't know.
♪
Of course not. Why would you?
Four months ago,
Derek took a student group
on a cultural trip to India.
On the way back, there was
a problem with the plane.
They landed in Russia,
and they took him.
For what reason?
They found pills belonging to a student.
Legal prescription pills here.
Derek wanted to protect him.
Oh, my God.
Noelle, I'm sorry. I didn't know.
Most people don't.
Derek's not military or a sports hero.
There's always been
someone more important,
- but he's important to me.
- Of course.
His trial's in less than three days.
If they take him to
a labor camp, he won't make it.
If there's anything you can do
♪
Rose.
It's been a while. We met in Berlin.
Of course.
Officially, that meeting never happened.
Alec, I'd like you to meet Greg Dodd,
U.S. Special Delegate.
Dr. Mercer. Heard great things.
Have a seat.
Alec has put together a list
of strategic approaches with Boris.
Thanks for agreeing to dig into
this with us on such short notice.
I haven't actually agreed yet.
But I will, under one condition.
I want to bring Derek Johnson home too.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Well, I think we can rule out accident.
Officer Bower was in his sixth year
as a federal corrections officer.
Boris was rumored to be ex-KGB.
They call it FSB now.
KGB sounds scarier.
The inmates saw Boris fleeing the scene
and the murder weapon was
found in Boris's cell.
But it was wiped clean.
Did Boris know about the deal?
Well, he wasn't informed officially,
but according to Rose, word gets around.
The CO probably
didn't love the fact that
Boris was getting out early.
He attacks Boris. Boris fights back.
Maybe the CO was bullying him.
Maybe Boris did it on purpose.
Who wants to go back
to Russia these days?
Who wants to spend even
more time in federal prison?
Just so I'm clear, we're trying to help
a Russian money launderer
who evaded sanctions?
We're trying to bring
Professor Johnson home.
We need to clear Boris
for the deal to go through.
Even if we do, how do we get
Russia to add him to the deal?
♪
We agreed. Boris for Lewis and Khan.
That's two for one. Now you want three?
As you're aware, Boris killed a CO,
which means his price has gone up.
The United States government
is still interested in a trade,
but the terms have changed, Yulia.
We're prepared to offer three options.
[SCOFFS] Three options?
Yes.
It's the decoy effect.
You offer two
less desirable decoy choices
to make the third choice
the real option.
Works 90% of the time.
Option one: no Boris.
Lewis and Khan for Dmitry Petrov,
who's serving time in Kansas
for copyright infringement.
Option two: Boris for Lewis and Khan.
But you also agree
to reduce the sentences
of three American detainees.
Option three:
Boris for Lewis, Khan,
and Derek Johnson.
Of course,
there's always a fourth option,
where we all return home empty-handed.
But I think that would
disappoint the Kremlin.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Fine.
We'll include Johnson
if the Kremlin agrees.
But I'll remind you
the exchange we agreed to
takes place Wednesday in Geneva.
There's 50 pages of parameters,
and if any of those
circumstances change
The deal will have to be renegotiated.
And who knows?
The mood in the Kremlin
may change at that time.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Your decoy effect worked.
Realistically, I'll never get
the State Department on board
if we can't clear Boris.
We've got nothing
if you can't get him to talk.
Leave that to me.
You've got 72 hours.
♪
I am so happy that
you came here for breakfast.
I'm sure your firm must have
put you in a nice hotel
with a great restaurant.
But then I wouldn't
get to spend time with you.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
I need an ambulance at 1950 Dorothy.
Agent down. I repeat, agent down.
Marisa?
You OK?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Uh
it's just that this mug belongs
to someone I cared about.
The agent.
The one you were telling me about.
The one who, uh, passed away.
Look, I hope you don't mind me asking,
but why didn't you move?
Well, I thought about it.
A lot.
But the divorce had just been finalized,
and Jace's death
it's just all the change I could manage.
All right. Well, how about now?
[SOFT MUSIC]
[SIGHS] Ooh.
Yeah, that's hard to imagine.
But it's also nothing
for you to be worried about.
♪
Look, when I was looking
at moving to D.C.,
I saw some pretty sweet condos.
It's a buyer's market out there.
[SIGHS]
Sometimes change can be a good thing.
♪
Just make yourself at home.
You have knickknacks.
That's new.
They came with the place.
This flat is downright charming.
Ooh. Coffee press.
No tea kettle?
How utterly American.
[GROANS] I'm really not here
all that often.
- You can ask Alec.
- She's not.
Off cleaning up
Tristan's billionaire messes?
There's a lot more to it than that.
Sure there is.
Let's just stick to the case, shall we?
What can you tell me about
Boris other than he won't talk?
Oh, he'll talk.
About the weather, his favorite books.
He'll talk your ear off.
Just not about what he's accused of.
Boris doesn't appear
to have ever done any, uh,
what do you all call it,
wet work before.
He's not a killer by nature,
so why would he turn to violence now
if it weren't in self-defense?
- [PHONE BUZZING]
- Hmm.
You can ask him yourself.
You've just been given
clearance to talk to Boris.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Am I in trouble?
Just the opposite.
Your case work has been top-notch,
and you crushed TEVO.
You've shown enormous potential.
And it's come to my attention
that you're an independent contractor.
OK.
Well, frankly, we could use
more agents like you here.
OK.
There's a new class starting
at Quantico soon.
How would you like to train
to become a special agent?
Wow.
Thanks for that.
Is there a way that
I could think about it?
Of course. You should think about it.
You could have
a real future here, Kylie.
If you want it, it's yours.
You should know that I
don't work for the government,
but I might be able
to help you salvage
your prisoner exchange.
Your shoulders look tight, my friend.
You seem to be carrying
a great deal of tension.
I can't help you unless you tell me
why you killed CO Bower.
You need a way to release your stress.
Ever tried fly-fishing?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
I grew up in a poor town.
I have only ever done deep-sea fishing.
Hmm. Deep sea.
Speedboats, brute force, live bait.
There's no art in that.
As opposed to fly-fishing?
- Interesting strategy.
- You wouldn't understand it.
What's that supposed to mean?
Just don't underestimate him.
He knows what he's doing.
And what about what you're doing?
I can't imagine you're satisfied
playing Dr. Mercer's sidekick
or Tristan's lackey.
Waste of your talents.
Says the man who's officially dead.
My family always ate what we caught.
What about you?
You catch and release or catch and keep?
The great debate.
I eat my catch.
To do otherwise feels cruel.
All that struggle, the hook.
It should serve a purpose.
How do you kill the fish?
My dad uses a priest.
A club.
Hits him on the back of the head.
I always hated that part.
Mm.
I prefer the Japanese method, ikejime.
Spike the hindbrain just so.
Pop.
It's instantaneous
and it preserves the meat.
Tastes better.
Fast and painless.
♪
[SIGHS] So we got nothing.
On the contrary, I learned a lot.
Like learned why he killed that CO?
I don't think he killed him at all.
Boris is a methodical person.
So much so, he kills fish
without even making a mess.
Someone like that kills methodically.
The CO's murder was sloppy and frenetic.
Well, it's not as if he had
an abundance of options.
Besides, the weapon was
found on his bunk.
Wiped clean. And that's another thing.
Someone this careful wouldn't
hold onto the murder weapon.
A witness saw him.
Prisoners are unreliable witnesses.
A man that can kill a fish
painlessly and efficiently
will kill a person the same way.
I think someone set him up.
To scuttle the deal?
Maybe.
If you're right,
we have to prove it, and soon.
We've only got 63 hours left.
Then we'll work fast.
♪
Whoever set Boris up,
they want him alive,
but here in the U.S.
I'll call some old contacts,
see if there's any chatter
about the deal and anyone
who's not happy about it.
You really like playing
these spy games, don't you?
[LAUGHS]
I like doing important work,
being part of the secret
history of the world.
It's what got me into the field
in the first place.
Logan was right. You've missed this.
- [LAUGHS] Is it that obvious?
- Mm.
Your vocal cords are
tightening up a bit.
And your eyes are lighting up.
No.
That would be those headlights.
We're being followed.
- By whom?
- No idea.
[TENSE MUSIC]
What are you gonna do?
Hang on. We're going to play spy games.
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
It was a black SUV, an American car.
A Ford, if I'm not mistaken.
Maryland plates.
And you managed to lose them?
I think it's whoever set up Boris.
We got away too easily.
I don't think they were
trying to catch us,
but to warn us to stay away from him.
Which goes with your theory that
they want him right where he is.
Well, they aren't the only ones.
Law enforcement worked their asses off
to put Boris behind bars.
This is a "get out of jail free" card.
Yes, the system is irrational,
but it's the only way
to bring Derek Johnson
and the others home.
Deals like these only
encourage places like Russia.
It undermines the entire justice system.
Boris didn't kill that CO.
Whoever did is getting away with it.
The justice system isn't
supposed to work that way, either.
♪
No. No, it is not.
Federal prisons are FBI jurisdiction.
I thought you might be able to help.
♪
So you think we're looking for a hit man
inside the prison and someone
outside who hired him?
I'm looking into Boris's enemies.
We thought you could focus
on finding the hit man.
In prison?
Odds are there's more than one.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SNIFFLES]
♪
[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
I don't speak Russian.
♪
[THUD, BLOWS LANDING]
♪
So according to our research,
the man who took Boris's post
after he was arrested
is a technocrat named Mikhail Balakin.
But apparently he's on
shaky ground at the Kremlin.
So if Boris returns, Mikhail's out.
Mikhail wouldn't be able to kill Boris
without being blamed,
so maybe he tried the next best thing.
Scuttle Boris's deal.
Keep him alive, but in prison.
Blame America.
Good work, you two.
[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Also, uh, we thought we should tell you,
- Simon and I are
- Dating.
How long have you known?
Never mind. Why did I even ask?
It's OK. It's a good thing.
In my experience,
mixing relationships and work
only enhances both.
Hmm.
Well, in that case, uh,
we're gonna go order some food.
[PHONE BUZZING]
Oh, it's Logan. I should take this.
You OK with that?
I'm the one who hired Simon,
so I think of them
as two people who found
each other 'cause of me.
♪
[SIGHS]
Derek was in some kind of prison row.
He's alive, but they have taken him
to the infirmary unconscious.
We have to get him out of there.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
[BEEPING]
♪
[KNOCKING]
- Hey, Alec.
- Hey.
So Derek was attacked in prison.
Is he OK?
Rose is finding out his condition.
I got your message, so I had
the car drop me off here.
- What's happening?
- I looked into Balakin.
He's no saint, but I couldn't find
anything that tied him to this.
- Dead end.
- So far.
Still looking into him.
I did some digging into the prison.
The only place that you can find shivs
like the one that killed
the CO: the metal shop.
Guy named Emilio.
I convinced him to share
the customer list with me.
As in, guys who bought shivs in prison.
Yeah. I asked Kylie to dig into it.
She's looking for families
of the prisoners
who might have made
extravagant purchases lately.
- Follow the money.
- Mm-hmm.
You're looking at condos?
Yeah. Um, Cam sent me that.
He thought I might be
interested in moving.
Oh.
A lot of tough memories here.
A lot of good ones too.
Yeah.
But our evolutionary
defense mechanism has a way
of making the negative
experiences stand out
more than the positive ones.
Yeah.
[PHONE BUZZING]
Hey, Kylie.
OK, so my search for prison folks
whose families got rich went nowhere.
But then I realized we were
only looking at the prisoners.
We hadn't looked at the employees.
Did you find something?
♪
I'm gonna check these plates.
It's a nice truck
for a prison lieutenant.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Purchased the day after the CO died.
Who paid him?
[DOOR OPENS]
Oh.
You're not the gas company.
[BOOMING]
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Any chance this was an accident?
It was meant to look like one.
But given the timing
and everything that's happened,
my guess is someone's trying
to tie up loose ends.
So someone paid Lieutenant Bash
to kill the CO and frame Boris,
then kill Bash to cover their tracks.
Yeah.
The FBI is all over this.
We'll find them.
Just give us some time.
I would, but if we don't get Boris
on that tarmac in 38 hours,
this deal falls apart.
Agent Clark?
I'll be right back.
♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
[BOOMING]
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
♪
Alec?
Are you all right?
I'm fine.
Physically, anyway.
Any word on Derek?
He's got a concussion.
His arm is broken, but apparently
it wasn't enough to delay the trial.
Any chance this clears Boris?
Only if we can prove
that it wasn't an accident.
I might be able to help with that.
We found this in the gas line
of the stove.
It's part of an explosive device.
We're lucky that we were here
to call the fire department so fast.
Otherwise, it probably
would have incinerated.
Does that logo mean anything to you?
I've never seen anything like it.
I have.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
This is the device used to blow up
the prison lieutenant's home.
I've seen that design before.
- In Sao Paulo.
- Come on, now.
You don't seriously think
I had something to do with it.
♪
What possible reason would I have
to impede the deal I came here to make?
I have no idea.
But the first rule of spycraft
is to never take anything
or anyone at face value.
♪
Fair enough.
If you must know, last night,
I was with a woman.
[CHUCKLES, SIGHS]
Did you get her name?
Mm.
Among other things.
Mm-hmm. All right, James Bond.
If it's not yours, then whose is it?
Well, you can't just
pick one of those up
- at Walmart.
- Exactly.
But we're not
the only ones to have them.
CIA, FSB, Mossad.
And of course,
there are other suppliers too.
One in particular who happens
to service the D.C. metro area.
- Sasha.
- Want me to call her?
[LAUGHS] No, definitely not.
Last time we were all together,
you got into
a drunken political argument
with her wife.
And you went home with the bartender.
[CHUCKLES]
I'd forgotten that part.
- Mm-mm-mm.
- [SCOFFS]
I'll text her. Same number?
Ah, this is fun, right?
I mean, you, me, working together again.
It's like old times.
[CHUCKLES]
[PHONE BUZZING]
- It's Sasha.
- Tell her I said hi.
She wants to meet in
an unmarked warehouse downtown.
Want to come with?
Ooh. On second thought,
better off if she still thinks I'm dead.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[CHUCKLES]
Impressive.
I was well-trained.
You had a natural gift.
♪
So what is it that you want?
♪
Sorry. Can't help you.
[LAUGHS] Come on.
Something like this pops up
in D.C. metro,
and you don't know anything about it?
And if I did, what's in it for me?
Oh.
What was in it for me
when I kept your name out
of all that business in Bogotá?
♪
Fine.
But honestly, I don't know who it was.
They paid through a Swiss bank account.
The account number, please.
♪
Whoever paid Bash used the same account
to purchase the device
to blow up his home.
Indicating a murder for hire
and coverup.
In light of which,
the American authorities
have approved exchanging Boris
with the Russians.
Oh, that is good news.
We'll get in touch with Derek's wife
to let her know he's coming home.
[SIGHS]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
They'll release the other two,
but I'm sorry not Derek Johnson.
What?
Did they give a reason?
He's too valuable to them.
Derek too valuable? Rubbish.
Now that Boris is innocent,
they simply don't like the idea
of trading three for one.
Pushing them further just
risks losing the deal we have.
This is still a very big win.
Let me talk to Yulia again.
Alec, your country thanks you
for everything you've done,
but your service is no longer needed.
We'll get him next time.
♪
I am so sorry, Noelle.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Next month is his birthday.
We were gonna go to Japan.
I haven't given up.
I will get them to start a new deal.
I promise you.
His trial's tomorrow.
♪
I think I need to wrap
my head around the fact
that he may never come home.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
♪
Alec, I talked to Logan
to see if the British
government might intervene
on Derek's behalf if the U.S. won't.
- No luck.
- Damn it.
I won't accept that.
No, but we're running out of options.
Legal ones, anyway.
It's because he's not important.
No media attention,
no one fighting on his behalf.
It's not right.
I keep thinking to myself,
what if it were me, not him?
I write books.
I have world leaders on
speed-dial that owe me favors.
If I were unjustly imprisoned,
the powers that be would find
a way to get me out.
But someone like Derek,
they leave behind.
We've got to find another way.
Take another shot at Yulia.
Or go over her head somehow.
We've got nothing else to offer them.
How do you get someone to
give us something for nothing?
We did an experiment
about that a while back.
It was a game.
We gave each participant $100,
and we instructed them
to share the money
with a randomly assigned partner
that they couldn't see,
and they'd get nothing in return.
Most people gave $30, 30%,
so we changed the variable.
Rizwan told them that
they would switch roles
in the next game.
That inspired people to divide
the money in half, 50%.
Finally, we tried a variable
that brought the average up to 70%.
What was the variable?
We let them see their partners' faces
when they got the money.
It's called
the watching eyes effect.
We're actually motivated
by the vicarious reward we get
by seeing someone get a gift
they didn't expect.
But we need Russia to give us
all of Derek, not 70% of him.
I'm right there with you.
There was one outlier who gave 100%.
Why?
It turns out in that case,
the subject and the partner
knew each other.
She got a flat tire the day before,
and he stopped to help her out.
What are the odds?
It's basic reciprocity.
But Russia doesn't owe us anything.
No, but I know someone else who does.
Congratulations, Boris.
I understand
you'll be going home soon.
I am a lucky man.
Wasn't just luck.
No. No, it wasn't.
I need your help.
A man named Derek Johnson was
unlawfully detained in Russia.
He was cut out of the current deal,
and I want to get him back in,
and I need to know
who can make that happen.
Did you try fly-fishing yet?
No.
You should visit Kamchatka.
Best fly-fishing in the world.
You can go alone,
but it's better with a partner.
I'm listening.
My favorite fishing partner
is a bartender
at one of the best pubs
in all of Russia.
A bartender?
I used to go fly-fishing
with him in Kamchatka.
You'd have a lot in common with him.
He's very popular with my old friends.
If you find yourself in Moscow,
stop by Violet's Pub
and say hi to Andrey for me.
Mm.
♪
Do you have a way to get a
message to this bartender in Moscow?
♪
[DOOR CLANKING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
Trial?
♪
[ATTEMPTS RUSSIAN]
[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
How did you get in here?
This is a restricted area.
You know better than to ask me that.
Never mind that. Why are you here?
This deal is done, Alec.
Not quite.
The Kremlin's authorizing
Derek's release.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
You know anything about that?
First I'm hearing of it.
He's flying in tonight.
I've got a plane going to Russia
and a plane going to the U.S.
stopping in London.
If these planes don't take off
by midnight,
all the terms are void.
He'll be here.
Yeah, we can't take that risk.
Neither can we.
We make the exchange now.
♪
Boris
He'll be here in time. I promise.
Fine, but the planes leave at midnight.
♪
I'm gonna have to call it, Alec.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
It's him. It's Derek.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- I need to make a call.
- [CAR DOORS OPENING]
♪
Alec!
Oh, my God, you did this?
I had a lot of help.
Thank you.
♪
On the count of three!
Three, two, one!
Cross.
♪
[PHONE BUZZING]
♪
It's all good, Marisa.
Everybody's going where
they're supposed to go.
We were able to trace the Swiss account
to Mikhail Balakin.
When we investigated him
at first, he was clean.
Except for the fact that
he was cheating on his wife.
Cheating on his wife?
Any idea with whom?
Well, it took us a while
to find her name.
She used an alias with
a forged French passport.
But get this former FSB.
Where's Yulia?
Why?
Because she's the one
behind all of this.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You really don't want Boris
to go home, do you?
♪
[SUPPRESSED GUNSHOT] [GRUNTS]
Help!
[SIREN BLARING]
♪
- No luck?
- We called Interpol.
She couldn't have gotten far.
So she paid a hit man to frame Boris
to kill the deal
without taking the blame.
It's clever.
They're probably both in on it together.
She was willing to kill to keep
Mikhail in a position of power
and to keep her proximity to that power.
Wherever she went, she's desperate.
Well, Boris is on the plane now.
Her window of opportunity is closed.
Not yet, it isn't.
Where's Logan?
[GASPING]
Logan? Logan!
- Can you hear me?
- She's headed east.
You may still catch her. She's on foot.
She put a bomb on the plane.
[GROANS] Go!
If I don't keep pressure
on it, you'll die.
Then I die, Rose.
The mission takes priority.
You know that.
[TENSE MUSIC]
- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
- Go!
♪
Good thing I'm not a spy anymore.
- Come on.
- [GROANS]
♪
Yulia did this?
You have to find her.
♪
[INDISTINCT PA ANNOUNCEMENT]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
You're wondering how I found you,
especially since you weren't
sure where you'd go yourself.
The thing is,
we make unconscious decisions
all the time.
It makes them much easier to predict.
I wouldn't do that.
The police have the place covered.
I figured you'd go to the Maldives.
It's a non-extradition country.
And your boyfriend, Mikhail,
owns property there.
It's a direct flight from Paris.
The police figured that
you'd take that flight,
especially since you have
a falsified French passport.
But people have an aversion to traveling
in the wrong direction,
even if it's faster.
You'd have to drive north to fly south.
So I figured you'd come here to Milan.
You're smart, resourceful.
You got Mikhail to put you in charge
of the prisoner exchange.
I worked for everything I got.
You did.
But you'd lose it all
if Boris came home.
And he couldn't be killed on your watch.
So you paid Lieutenant Bash
to frame Boris for murder.
And then you blew up his house
to destroy the evidence.
When we cleared Boris, you
tried to sabotage his plane.
Fortunately,
we disabled the bomb.
You really don't want
Boris to go home, do you?
- Shooting Logan
- [SUPPRESSED GUNSHOT]
Was a last resort.
So now the only question is,
in which country
will you be going to jail?
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[KNOCKING]
Knock, knock.
[GROANS, CHUCKLES]
You know I'm allergic to sentiment.
Well, in that case
I brought another gift.
Divorce papers.
Really, love? [CHUCKLES]
Just as I thought things were
starting to get good again.
They're backdated
to before your disappearance.
Sign them
or I'll tell everyone at the service
you wear socks to sleep.
They keep my feet warm.
[LAUGHTER]
Maybe you're serious about
this guy, the professor.
Maybe I am.
How do you think he'll feel
about us working together again?
In a professional, not-married capacity?
You mean come back to MI-6?
- Mm.
- [LAUGHS]
That's impossible.
I've been outed, burned.
A burned spy can be a useful cover.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
They want you back, Rose.
The question is, what do you want?
Have you given any more
thought to Raina's suggestion?
Me, a Fed? Seriously?
You're good at what you do.
Yeah.
You know what's crazy?
My old boss has offered me
another job
one that pays high six figures
to work from home.
Well, I wouldn't be mad
if you took that one.
- I'm not going to.
- Mm.
But I don't think
I'm going to Quantico, either.
So you're gonna stay where you are?
I don't know.
But whatever my next move is,
it won't be backwards.
It'll be forward, you know?
- Yeah, I do know.
- Mm.
Maybe it's time for us all
to open the door to something new.
Ooh, I like that.
Mm-hmm.
Thank you for the party
♪
But I could never stay long ♪
♪
I want to thank you
For letting me be myself
[PHONE BUZZING]
Again
Hey, Rose.
♪
Just wanted to talk to you
about something.
You're going back to MI-6.
Not exactly.
I miss saving the world.
But I don't miss that life,
where the mission always came first
and no one cared if I made it
home or if I lived or died.
Rose
Now I have you.
I don't want you
to give up anything for me.
I'm not giving anything up.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I'm starting a new chapter.
Here.
♪
You're starting your own agency.
I signed a three-year lease.
I'll let clients pay
what they can afford,
save the world in a different way.
♪
I'm opening this place for me,
but I'm doing it here in D.C. for us.
[CHUCKLES]
Mm.
[CHUCKLES]
Then congratulations to you,
Ms. Dinshaw.
Oh, we should go.
We have to prepare
for your scar surgery tomorrow.
I decided not to do it.
Why?
The scars don't just
remind me of the bombing.
They remind me of the
second chance I got that day,
to take more risks,
to try new experiments.
How I got here,
it's just as important as being here,
which reminds me.
♪
What do you think?
I think it's perfect.
[LAUGHS]
[PHONE BUZZING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
What's wrong?
♪
Alec?
Someone's been following me.
I think we just found your first case.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪