Quotes
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Any update?
Robert Hicks : The companies have confirmed the employees that were taken hostage.
Jessica Cortez : All hourly workers; janitor, IT, retail.
Dominique Luca : So, what, they kidnap Jane Lunch Lady and force companies to choose between profits and blue-collar victims?
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Yeah, it looks like it.
David 'Deacon' Kay : What better way to highlight class inequality?
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Robert Hicks : In their written instructions, the Emancipators want $540 million wired to an anonymous Bitcoin account to be distributed to various charities. They're keeping $17 million as a service fee.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : [sarcastic] Oh, how charitable.
Jessica Cortez : Three months ago, they were modeling themselves after the SLA, but this is something different.
Dominique Luca : So the intel my grandfather gathered fighting the SLA 45 years ago...
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Yeah, I'm afraid that's not gonna help us this round, Luca.
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Robert Hicks : RHD is spread thin; other departments are stepping in. Patrol is rounding up hostages' families, bringing some to SWAT for protection. Ask them if they've seen anything or anyone suspicious in the past few weeks.
Jessica Cortez : Meanwhile, Digital Forensics is studying the video for any clues to their hideout.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : No, it didn't work last time.
David 'Deacon' Kay : What about the companies? Have you heard from them?
Robert Hicks : Mayor Barrett's meeting with the five CEOs at Caldow Pharmaceutical corporate headquarters. I've heading over now to advise. Cortez has command.
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Victor Tan : RHD got a hit on our dead guy, Bayo. Our prints show his real name is Ronald Campbell. Dr. Ronald Campbell. 29. Post-doc out of UC Santa Cruz. Wrote a thesis titled "Efficacy of Radical Protest Groups". Quit his teaching gig at Northridge a year back. RHD's searching for a last known address.
Jessica Cortez : Be ready to roll as soon as we get it.
David 'Deacon' Kay : These guys got away from us last time.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Not this time.
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Jessica Cortez : [turning on the TV] We may have a problem.
Dewitt : Yonas is a valued member of our community. His wife wants her husband back. His children want their father back. And to these Emancipators, these cowards going after people who can't defend themselves, well, you listen to me. You harm this man, and I will use all the resources at my disposal to hunt you down. And if you've got an issue with that, you can come to my office and take it up with me face to face. Thank you. Thank you.
Jessica Cortez : Can't imagine that going over well with our radical friends.
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Jessica Cortez : Hondo, security took DeWitt out a back entrance.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : We know they're using a cell phone trigger. Did we shut down those cell towers yet?
Jessica Cortez : Just got confirmation. Every tower in a half-mile radius is down.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : ETA on the bomb squad?
Jessica Cortez : It's gonna be at least fifteen minutes.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Captain, that's cutting it too close. We're going in.
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Jessica Cortez : I was on the radio when you laid into your team. A little rough, don't you think?
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : I don't want to see these guys get away a second time, someone lose their life.
Jessica Cortez : No one does. But Luca and Street were in an impossible situation. They couldn't chase a guy they couldn't see. There were teammates and civilians in danger. What would you have done? Look, if this were a one-time thing, I wouldn't have brought it up. It's your team. You've earned the right to run it the way you see fit. But there's something definitely going on with you recently. Even I can see it, and I'm not as close to you as I used to be. I just want to make sure you're okay.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : I don't know what's been up with me lately. But... as soon as this case is over, I'll try to figure it out.
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Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Kate Stein. Booked for disorderly conduct for protesting an oil pipeline at Stanford. Wow. Where you were a, uh, theater major. How fitting.
[showing her a tablet]
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Is that you, Kate?
Gelina : Don't use that name.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Let's see, before that, Westfield Prep in Marin, where your family had their name on the side of a building. Tell me something, how does daddy's little rich girl fall in with these lowlifes?
Gelina : I renounced my family name three years ago. They're no better than those corporate stooges hiding out in Caldow Pharmaceutical's high-rise right now.
Jessica Cortez : How are you any different, threatening to kill hardworking men and women for cash?
Gelina : For social change.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Tell us where the hostages are, Kate.
Gelina : I said don't use that name. Call me Gelina.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : You know, you guys are something else with these names and masks. You think we're supposed to take you seriously? You're nothing but trick-or-treaters with guns.
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Gelina : It's a mistake to underestimate him.
Jessica Cortez : Who? Cinque?
Gelina : He's chosen.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Chosen, huh? What, like Manson? Koresh, Jim Jones? How'd things turn out for their followers, Kate? See, I got another theory. Cinque is using all of you, and convinced you to take the fall for him while he nets millions.
Jessica Cortez : Honestly, I expected a Stanford grad to be smarter, Kate.
Gelina : Don't. Use. That. Name.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Listen to me, you tell me where the hostages are and then you're...
Gelina : Oh, the hostages, the hostages! It's not about the hostages. It's about cutting the head off the snake!
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : [realizing] The CEOs.
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Jessica Cortez : Hondo, I just spoke with building security. Shots are coming from the twelfth floor. It's under renovation. They must've used a construction elevator to get up there.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Roger that.
[the team moves in]
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : The last time you thought you had them cornered...
David 'Deacon' Kay : They had some surprises waiting.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Stay sharp.
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Jessica Cortez : The FBI is investigating connections between Kate Stein and the original suspect that took his own life. If there are any more Emancipators left out there, the feds will find them.
Daniel 'Hondo' Harrelson : Let's hope so. Hey, about earlier, you checking up on me. I appreciate it. I'm gonna do better.
