- Will Keaton: There is no redemption for people like you. You're a traitor and you're a killer.
- Erica Shepherd: You don't think I know that? I wake up every day knowing those four people are dead because of me.
- Will Keaton: They have names! Those four people have names.
- Erica Shepherd: Steven Haibach, Brian Lanich, Desiree Villareal, and Laine Heffron, your fiancée. I know their names, Agent Keaton. I know the names of their parents and their children. I know everything about them because I've lived with their ghosts for the last three years.
- Will Keaton: And so have I. You've been in my life too long. When Laine was at the CIA, she would... she would come home. And she would tell me all about this... this brilliant woman she worked with. She didn't just look up to you. She wanted to be you.
- [turning to leave]
- Will Keaton: If it weren't for you.
- Will Keaton: Erica Shepherd, you're under arrest for espionage and conspiracy against the United States of America.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: We got three attacks, three different cities. Philadelphia, New York, and here in D.C.
- Will Keaton: Victims?
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Fourteen dead so far, including a Treasury Department officer, a U.S. District Attorney, and three CIA operatives.
- Will Keaton: What time were the attacks?
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: 8:00 a.m. All three.
- Will Keaton: This was planned. Synchronized, just like before. This is Tal.
- Will Keaton: Mikhail Vassily Tal, 49 years old, former Russian SVR agent, and one of the greatest threats to America today. In 2015, he carried out the bombing of Flight 6175 in Boston. 21 people were ripped apart when the bomb was detonated while the plane was at its gate. Had that plane been airborne, the death toll would've risen to include every single one of the 283 passengers aboard that flight. That's what most of you know about the attack. What most of you don't know is that the bombing of Flight 6175 was a trial run for twenty more bombings just like it. Thousands of American lives were saved by the intel that was gathered by the CIA. But months later, Tal retaliated, using Erica Shepherd to find and kill the four operatives who stopped the bombings.
- Elizabeth Cordova: You're certain Tal was behind this?
- Will Keaton: There is not a doubt in my mind.
- Elizabeth Cordova: The attacks three years ago were retaliatory.
- Will Keaton: Danyal?
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: The victims killed this morning were part of a CIA-led task force targeting Mikhail Tal's finances.
- Will Keaton: Tal is out there. He's well-funded and he's planning an attack on American lives as we speak.
- Elizabeth Cordova: You've been investigating Tal for three years and this is all you have?
- Will Keaton: Hunting Tal is like hunting a shadow at night.
- Elizabeth Cordova: Well, this shadow just killed fourteen people, Agent Keaton. There has to be someone who can help you find him.
- Richard Bregman: The Deputy is right, Will. We need to bring in another weapon.
- Will Keaton: Huh, so who is it? Another agency? Foreign intel?
- Richard Bregman: No. No, it's someone else, someone who knows Tal better than anyone. I want to bring in Erica Shepherd.
- Will Keaton: What?
- Richard Bregman: She sees the world differently, Will. She was one of the best code breakers in the history of the CIA.
- Will Keaton: Yeah, she's also a traitor.
- Richard Bregman: She worked with him. She knows how he thinks. Hell, she was point on Tal for years at the CIA.
- Will Keaton: She killed Laine. She killed my fiancée. Did you forget that? No. No, I'm not doing it.
- Richard Bregman: Then I'll have to find someone who will.
- Will Keaton: You're not taking this case from me.
- Richard Bregman: You're not giving me a choice, Will. Americans are dead. God knows how many more are at risk. Erica Shepherd is the only chance we have to find the man responible. I know what she took from you. Believe me, I do. But this is the last card we have left to play. Now, I'm not asking you to like it, Will. I'm asking you to do your job.
- Erica Shepherd: Hello, Agent Keaton.
- Will Keaton: This won't take long. I want to be here about as much as you do.
- Erica Shepherd: I doubt that.
- Will Keaton: I'm here to make you an offer. The FBI and the Department of Justice is willing to grant you certain concessions in exchange for your cooperation.
- Erica Shepherd: With what?
- Will Keaton: Mikhail Tal.
- Erica Shepherd: I haven't cooperated before. What makes you think I will now?
- Will Keaton: Because you live in a glass box. Because you haven't been allowed to see a visitor in over three years. Because, believe it or not, I can make life even worse for you.
- Erica Shepherd: What concessions?
- Will Keaton: Extra showers. Up to an hour of music per week, to start.
- Erica Shepherd: Here?
- Will Keaton: No, if you agree to cooperate, you'll be transferred to a federal detention facility in D.C.
- Will Keaton: There's been chatter that Tal is planning to carry out another attack on members of the U.S. intelligence community. The FBI wants your help to stop him.
- Erica Shepherd: [amused laugh] Liar.
- Will Keaton: Excuse me? What'd you say?
- Erica Shepherd: You want information on Mikhail Tal. That much is true. But the FBI didn't send you, of all people, halfway across the country because Tal is planning an attack. You're here because he's already carried one out.
- Will Keaton: I want to know how to find him.
- Erica Shepherd: You will never find him.
- Will Keaton: Tal killed fourteen people this morning. Three of them were CIA agents. You used to be one of them. I need to know who he's working with.
- Erica Shepherd: You need to look for someone on the inside.
- Will Keaton: No. No, see not everyone is capable of selling their soul like you are.
- Erica Shepherd: You have no idea what people are capable of.
- Will Keaton: [throwing a chair and getting in her face] I know what you're capable of! I know what *you're* capable of!
- Richard Bregman: Back off, Keaton, now. Get him out of here.
- Erica Shepherd: Wait! You should look for someone on the inside. That's how Tal did it with me last time. And as for helping him find Tal... when do I leave?
- Will Keaton: We're gonna implant a GPS transponder into your body. It'll be locked around your subclavian artery. You try to remove it, you'll tear a vessel and bleed out within sixty seconds. You're not going anywhere without us knowing.
- Erica Shepherd: What are you eating for breakfast?
- Hannah Shepherd: An energy bar.
- Erica Shepherd: That's a candy bar in gym clothes. You should eat eggs.
- Hannah Shepherd: Why don't you make me some?
- Erica Shepherd: I'll learn how to cook 'em tomorrow. Come on, let's go. We're late. Hurry up and I'll let you drive.
- Hannah Shepherd: Really?
- Erica Shepherd: No.
- Hannah Shepherd: Mom.
- Erica Shepherd: Someday. Not in my car.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Heads up, Keaton just pulled in downstairs.
- Kate Ryan: What? He's back already? What was he doing in Colorado, anyways?
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: He wouldn't say.
- Kate Ryan: Well, you're an interrogator, Daniel. Can't you pull it out of him?
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Even I'm not that good.
- Will Keaton: [leading Erica into the FBI office] Rangers. You're looking at Agent Bragg's watch. Tactical G-shock, so you're thinking former military, but you're not sure which unit. Rangers. Sit.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: What is going on, Will? Why is Erica Shepherd sitting in our office?
- Will Keaton: Bregman wanted to bring her in because he thinks she can help catch Tal.
- Kate Ryan: And you went along with it?
- Will Keaton: I didn't have a choice.
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: You sure, Will? 'Cause it kind of looks like we just gave the worst traitor in the last fifty years a visitor's badge.
- Will Keaton: Either we work with Shepherd, or Bregman's gonna assign the case to someone that will.
- Kate Ryan: But...
- Will Keaton: But what, Kate?
- Kate Ryan: What about Laine?
- Will Keaton: The man that killed Laine is still out there. If I have to work with the devil to catch Tal, I will.
- Will Keaton: Where are we on the car shooting in Philly?
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Witnesses report seeing two men riding motorcycles, but no license plate numbers or descriptions of the drivers.
- Will Keaton: Video?
- Kate Ryan: There's no security cameras on the country roads, but I'm searching other sources.
- Will Keaton: What about the bombing in New York? What do we know?
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Not a lot. Forensics are still working on the cause of the explosion.
- Will Keaton: Tell me we have something on the Union Station hit.
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: Well, Metro PD's still processing the scene. I mean, it could be tomorrow morning until we get anything useful.
- Will Keaton: Okay, it's been sixteen hours and we have nothing.
- Erica Shepherd: That's because you're dealing with Mikhail Tal. He knows how your investigation works and he knows how to beat it. That's why he's still out there. To find him, you have to start pulling on threads that you never thought to before.
- Erica Shepherd: In the past, Tal was known to go after his targets' cell phones.
- Will Keaton: Kate?
- Kate Ryan: Uh, we checked the recovered cells. There's no sign of cloning.
- Erica Shepherd: That's because he doesn't clone them. He rips them.
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: What's the difference?
- Kate Ryan: Cloning lets you see incoming calls and texts. It's like listening in on a second line. Ripping is when you make a digital copy of the phone. It is also impossible to detect.
- Erica Shepherd: Almost impossible. When a cell is being ripped, it can't receive incoming calls.
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: So...?
- Erica Shepherd: So if a call comes in during the twenty-minute process, it shows up on the phone records...
- Erica Shepherd, Kate Ryan: But not...
- Kate Ryan: ...on the phone itself.
- Erica Shepherd: You find the discrepancy, and you not only find evidence of a ripped phone, but you find the exact time and date that it happened.
- Will Keaton: Unless you're lying to us. Unless you're telling us anything to keep us from following the real leads.
- Erica Shepherd: You're right, Agent Keaton. I could be lying. But you're still gonna check those phone records, unless you wanna keep searching for video surviellance of coutry roads.
- Will Keaton: If you're wrong about this, you're on a plane back to ADMAX tonight.
- Kate Ryan: Treasury official Joseph Sebring had a call come in at 3:28 p.m. on Tuesday, the 13th. But the call never showed up on the phone. That's impossible, unless Shepherd was right.
- Will Keaton: So how'd he do it?
- Kate Ryan: Tal, or somebody working for him, would need to be within ten feet of the target's cell in order to rip it remotely.
- Will Keaton: Which means we're looking for someone who was within ten feet of Sebring at 3:28 on the 13th.
- Kate Ryan: [over the next scene] We've got her. She's a hacker named Ines Nguyen. We caught her on security footage at a cafe with Sebring.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: You're here because you were caught on camera ripping the cell phone of a Treasury official. An official who was killed in an office explosion yesterday. So you have a problem. Look, I'm trying to help you fix your problem, but the only way I can is if you start telling me the truth.
- [Ines is non-responsive]
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Okay.
- Ines Nguyen: [he takes his jacket and makes to leave] I was contacted by a man named Victor Nemec.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: What did Nemec want from you?
- Ines Nguyen: He paid me four grand to rip this guy Sebring's cell.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Where's Nemec now?
- Ines Nguyen: I don't know. I have the phone number he gave me. That's... that's it.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: What about Mikhail Tal? Did Nemec ever mention his name?
- Ines Nguyen: No, never.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Was there anyone else with him?
- Ines Nguyen: No.
- Erica Shepherd: [watching the surveillance camera outside] She's lying.
- Will Keaton: What?
- Erica Shepherd: She's lying about... something.
- Will Keaton: No. Someone.
- Will Keaton: Who was with Nemec?
- Ines Nguyen: What?
- Will Keaton: Someone else was with Nemec. Who was it?
- Ines Nguyen: I don't... I don't know.
- Will Keaton: You don't know. She don't...
- [throwing his chair]
- Will Keaton: WHO WAS WITH NEMEC?
- Ines Nguyen: I don't know her name! I don't know her name. When I heard that Sebring's office had been bombed, I-I freaked out, so I went to see Nemec. He, um, he was putting a woman in his car. Her hands were bound. She... She looked really messed up. She... I don't... I think that maybe she was in that explosion.
- Will Keaton: [showing her headshots] Was that her?
- Ines Nguyen: No.
- Will Keaton: Is that her?
- Ines Nguyen: No.
- [recognizing Anna Cruz]
- Ines Nguyen: Wait, that's... that's her. That's the woman Nemec was putting in his car. She's alive. She's alive.
- Erica Shepherd: How long have you been at the FBI, Agent Ryan?
- Kate Ryan: Six years.
- Erica Shepherd: Have you always been in counterintelligence?
- Kate Ryan: Yes.
- Erica Shepherd: Under Agent Keaton?
- Kate Ryan: Yes?
- Erica Shepherd: How long have you been in love with him?
- Will Keaton: Listen up, Anna Cruz is out there alone and in danger. She's counting on us. Her family is counting on us. So no mistakes, no excuses. We find her and we bring her home.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Here's who we're looking for: Victor Nemec. 43 years old. Wanted by seven different countries for espionage and political assassination. We checked his last known address, came up empty, same with known associates. Let's concentrate on his cell.
- Will Keaton: Kate, now where are you on that trace?
- Kate Ryan: Nemec's cell pinged off of a tower near the bombing site 36 hours ago, but nothing since then.
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: 78 minutes after the attack, somebody texted Nemec a photo from a blocked number.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: The Seine River in Paris?
- Will Keaton: That building right there. What is that?
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: Yeah, we looked into it. It's a children's hospital.
- Will Keaton: Well, why is Nemec being sent a map of a children's hospital in Paris?
- Erica Shepherd: He's not.
- Erica Shepherd: It's called a location cutout. It's been decades since they were used. They were common spycraft for the Soviet nations during the Cold War. Correspondence was constantly intercepted back then. So operatives couldn't risk sending a map of their actual location. So they would send a section of a map from a different city that looked like theirs. A cutout. Most cities have similar features, right? Roads, bridges, parks. In this case...
- Will Keaton: An island. Nemec was last seen in Brooklyn. Kate, pull it.
- Kate Ryan: Already on it.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: The Governors Island is closest to Brooklyn. Try that one.
- Will Keaton: [no match] No. What else is nearby?
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: Roosevelt.
- Will Keaton: Pull that up.
- [the two look similar]
- Will Keaton: Overlayer.
- [the two maps match]
- Will Keaton: That building that's pinned on the Roosevelt map. What is that?
- Kate Ryan: It's an apartment building.
- Will Keaton: We got Nemec. Danyal, call the New York office. Get 'em on that building ASAP. How long for the plane?
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: If we leave now, we can be wheels up in twenty minutes.
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: [indicating Erica] Whoa, whoa. What about Hannibal Lecter?
- Erica Shepherd: [being led back to her holding cell] Don't do this. You wouldn't even know Anna Cruz was alive if it weren't for me.
- Will Keaton: If it weren't for you?
- [wry laugh]
- Will Keaton: If it weren't for you. Hmm, yeah. That's a happy thought.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Bragg, are you hit? Are you hit?
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: I think it caught the vest. Daniel, get his gun.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Let me see.
- [feeling for a wound]
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: No blood. You're good, you're good. Let's get you out of here.
- Will Keaton: She was in our custody. How the hell did she escape?
- Richard Bregman: She had a medical emergency and she was transported off-site.
- Will Keaton: Where is she now?
- Richard Bregman: We don't know.
- Will Keaton: You don't know. You don't know. The woman's a walking threat to national security and you don't know where she is. What about the device that was implanted in her chest?
- Richard Bregman: It's gone dark. She escaped wearing a lead apron. We think it's why the GPS device isn't transmitting.
- Richard Bregman: We're sitting on Shepherd's old address and her ex-husband's place. Nothing yet. You knew her better than anyone. Where is she going?
- Will Keaton: I have no idea. Okay, as far as I know, she hasn't spoken to anybody in three years. We lost Cruz. There's no sign of Nemec. I'm gonna come back to D.C. to find Shepherd.
- Richard Bregman: No. No, no, I need you to stay there. I'll find her.
- Will Keaton: How are you feeling?
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: Like I just got shot in the chest.
- Will Keaton: What'd the medic say?
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: Couple of cracked ribs. I'll be all right.
- Will Keaton: Yeah, it probably hurts a lot.
- FBI Agent Jason Bragg: You know, Will, only when I breathe.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Just scanned the laptop we found. Someone made multiple searches for Logan Airport, Pier 19 Terminal, and North Station. I think Nemec is headed to Boston.
- Richard Bregman: Yes, Bregman.
- Will Keaton: Shepherd didn't want to just get out of prison. She wanted to go home. I know where she is.
- Will Keaton: Hey, Kate, what's up?
- Kate Ryan: Shepherd's taken into custody and is being escorted back to holding.
- Will Keaton: Any word on Nemec?
- Kate Ryan: A silver sedan was spotted entering the Pier 19 shipping terminal.
- Will Keaton: Daniel, we got Nemec. Pier 19.
- Kate Ryan: Be careful!
- Erica Shepherd: They found Nemec?
- Richard Bregman: He was spotted heading into a shipping terminal in Jeffries Point. Keaton and the team are moving in now.
- Erica Shepherd: Tal's leading them back to Boston.
- Richard Bregman: What?
- Erica Shepherd: It was the site of the first attack. The bombings in Logan Airport. Tal doesn't just care about getting Anna Cruz. He wants to take out as many American lives as possible.
- [Bregman turns to leave]
- Erica Shepherd: Five years ago, I had a team of operatives that were hunting Tal in Belgium. They followed him to the port of Antwerp, and when they got there, it was a trap. He had planted explosives. Half a dozen Belgian police officers were killed by IEDs. He is leading them!
- [Bregman leaves]
- Erica Shepherd: Warn Keaton!
- Will Keaton: Daniel, I just got a call from Bregman. He has intel that Tal may have planted IEDs here. So eyes open, okay?
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: Copy that.
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: I got a silver car a hundred yards ahead!
- Will Keaton: It's Nemec.
- [they give chase, but Daniel crashes his car avoiding an IED]
- Will Keaton: Daniel, you okay?
- FBI Agent Daniel Zain: I'm good. Go, go! Get after him! Watch out! There might be more IEDs!
- Erica Shepherd: I didn't think I'd see you again, not after today.
- Will Keaton: Wasn't really worried about it. Knew they'd catch you sooner or later.
- Erica Shepherd: Do you really think I'd be here if I wanted to escape?
- Will Keaton: What are you doing, Erica? Why are you cooperating with us? Why'd you warn me about the port?
- Erica Shepherd: I'm not sure I can answer that.
- Will Keaton: Well, I'm gonna have to tell Bregman that he either sends you back to Colorado tonight or I quit. I need to know. What happened the day Laine was killed? I need to know why, who did it. The real reason why you did it.
- Mikhail Tal: Hello, Erica. I'm watching your daughter.
- Erica Shepherd: Tal.
- Mikhail Tal: She is a beautiful girl. You should be very proud. I want their names. The four CIA operatives who stopped those bombings.
- Erica Shepherd: Don't hurt her!
- Mikhail Tal: That isn't my decision to make. It's yours. It's up to you whether your daughter dies today or not. It's a simple choice.
- Erica Shepherd: Can we talk?
- Mikhail Tal: Your daughter's life or theirs.
- Erica Shepherd: Wait! Wait!
- Mikhail Tal: Five. Four.
- Erica Shepherd: Just stop counting!
- Mikhail Tal: Three. Two. One.
- Erica Shepherd: Steven Haibach, Brian Lanich, Desiree Villareal, Laine Heffron!
- Mikhail Tal: Thank you.
- Erica Shepherd: I didn't work with Tal. I didn't spy for him. I made a choice to save my daughter.
- Will Keaton: Then why didn't you say anything? Why did you keep it a secret for three years?
- Erica Shepherd: Hannah. Telling the world would mean she'd have to live the rest of her life knowing she was responsible for the death of four people. I couldn't do that to my daughter.
- [crying]
- Erica Shepherd: People say they would die for their children, but the truth is that's easy. Living for them is hard. Suffering for them... giving up your freedom, being hated by your country, that... that's hard. I want to be close to my daughter. I want to fight every day to earn my way back into her life. I want to be the parent my father never was. But I also want to catch Tal. Not just because he destroyed my life, but because every day that he is free is a day that my daughter's life is unsafe.
- Erica Shepherd: Tal didn't come after me because I helped stop those bombings. He came after me because of what I was about to discover. In 2013, there were a few dozen rogue spies like Tal operating in the U.S. In 2014, a hundred. But in 2015, that number skyrocketed to 3,000, and it is still growing. These are highly-trained, deadly operatives in every city, in every state, hiding in plain sight as teachers, engineers, husbands and wives. Ticking time bombs. This is not random. This is a coordinated effort.
- Will Keaton: To do what?
- Erica Shepherd: I don't know. Not yet. But I know that Tal is connected. You can stop him, Agent Keaton. You can save this country. But you cannot do it without me.
- [last lines]
- Mikhail Tal: Are you alone? Can you speak?
- Anna Cruz: Yes.
- Mikhail Tal: Does the FBI suspect anything?
- Anna Cruz: No, nothing.
- Mikhail Tal: How long before you make contact with Agent Keaton?
- Anna Cruz: I already have. Your plan worked perfectly, Mikhail. I'm in.