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That's Steve Porter's drill.
He got something on it during an op.
- Mm-hmm. - And he asked me if I would take it in
to have our labs test it.
What did the lab have to say about it?
Just had dirt on it.
But if you really want to know what's on this thing,
I got to send that out to our lab in Germany.
Can you keep that quiet?
The real story
is rare-earth metals.
Stuff's in cell phones, laptops.
And apparently this country is sitting
on about a trillion dollars' worth just underneath the dirt,
just waiting for somebody to drill.
So last night we hear that someone's planning to hit
our congressional delegation,
and today, Abu Ali,
one of the world's best assassins, turns up in town.
You think that's a coincidence?
I sure as hell hope so.
RAY: Gun at two o'clock.
(SCREAMING)
- RAY: He's on the move. - JASON: Bravo 2,
frag him.
We got a phone.
MANDY: A text came in after you picked it off him.
JASON: Whoever hired that sniper
thinks he's still alive.
(CERBERUS BARKING)
Come on.
TOC, this is Bravo 1.
Negative on the target. We were too late.
Did not find our assassin.
_
Hey, where is Abu Ali?
Huh? Abu Ali?
SONNY: I'm confused.
So we're faking raids to make it look
like we're searching for a sniper
- that's already dead? - Yes, Abu Ali.
Yeah, and grabbing our interpreter
accomplishes that how?
Well, we want to make it look like we're trying
to smoke him out, Sonny. He doesn't mind.
- Do you mind? - If I want to spend my life
pretending to be a terrorist,
- I would move to Hollywood. - SONNY: Hey, listen.
Quit your whining, or I'm gonna put that bag
back on your head.
(LAUGHS)
TOC, this is Bravo 1.
We're heading back, unless you want us
to do some more fake hits.
What's that, our fourth one tonight?
Ninth once you add in Alpha Team's.
I think we're good.
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, I think anyone that's paying attention's
got to believe we're looking for somebody.
Copy that, 1.
Come on home.
You got to be kidding me, huh?
There's no way I'm drinking that, okay?
If we're gonna call it a night, I'm gonna need something
a lot stronger after four hours of SDR.
- Amen. - Well, I got vodka.
You got vodka?
No, I do not have vodka.
(SIGHS) Come on, Davis. Don't play me like that.
MANDY: The raids are working.
- Fake raids aren't raids. - Fake raids.
Okay, fine. The fake raids...
SONNY: Well, speaking of fake raids,
can we start using fake SEALs?
Where are we gonna find some fake SEALs?
Any bar in Virginia Beach.
MANDY: As I was saying,
the fake raids seem to be working.
According to the chatter,
so far everyone believes the sniper who shot Salim Hakan
is still alive and in the wind.
That ain't gonna hold forever.
Doesn't have to hold for long.
Just until we find the client who hired him.
Guy on the other end of this phone.
What exactly is your plan?
The last text the client sent
said the remainder of Abu Ali's payment
would be available in 48 hours,
about midday today.
Our plan is to send the client a text
saying the money never got to us.
You're gonna impersonate the sniper?
Over text.
What if they were using a code, he and the client?
DAVIS: They weren't.
We went over the entire correspondence history
with the techs.
They're speaking standard Arabic.
No suspiciously odd grammar, no suspiciously repeated words.
JASON: That's great, but what about after the 48 hours?
What exactly are you gonna text back to them?
- "Show me the money." - Only way
this gets us somewhere is if the guy on the other end
of the phone shows up somewhere we can grab him.
SONNY: Do you think a guy
that brings in a sniper from Syria
to take out a high-profile target
is gonna drop off his own money?
- Come on now. - If he sends an underling,
we follow the underling back to whoever he works for.
Yeah, the people who took out Echo Team.
Look, the phone's our only link between our assassin
and the guy who hired him.
All right, if we're gonna use that phone
to get the client to stick his head out,
then we need to do it before he realizes the assassin's dead.
- On second thought... - JASON: Whoa.
Where-where exactly are you going?
I'm gonna see if I can't buy us some more time.
You're not an easy woman to get a hold of.
Well, I've been a little busy hunting the sniper
who targeted an American congressional delegation.
"The coward who martyred our great friend and ally,
- General Salim Hakan." - Yeah, I read the DoD statement.
Amazing what death can do for your public image.
Salim was always a savvy PR man.
And no truth to the rumor
the assassin was killed at the scene?
If the assassin's dead,
who are we so busy looking for?
How should I know?
Maybe you guys are using this manhunt as an excuse
to further intimidate the local population.
Since when do we need an excuse?
So he's alive, the sniper?
Far as I know.
I don't suppose you've I.D.'d him yet.
Or, if you have, you'd care to share.
Mm.
We think he's a Syrian national
known as Abu Ali.
Long resume of high-profile murders-for-hire.
Wow. Thank you.
Should I assume that this is off-the-record?
You can quote me as an unnamed source
from the intel community.
(EXHALES)
- What? - I'm just not used
to you giving me anything.
Usually you bat your eyelashes
and ask me to do something that provides exactly zero benefit
for me or the people I work for.
Well, consider it a thank-you.
- Two-way street. - Exactly.
We believe he's still in J-Bad, by the way.
Abu Ali. He's laying low
until we get tired of looking for him.
Smart. Guys get caught when they move.
I wish I could figure out how you're playing me.
It's such a shame to see such cynicism
- in one so young. - (LAUGHS)
Yeah, right.
It's been almost an hour since the time they set.
If the client's planning on paying our dead sniper,
he's done it by now.
I know.
Then we good to go?
Look, it's a good plan.
(SIGHS) Yeah.
It's the plan we got, anyway.
Read me the message we're sending one more time.
"Where's my money? This is unacceptable."
Send it.
SONNY: Our dead sniper's back in action.
All right, so what now?
Now we wait.
SONNY: Okay.
For how long?
We wait, Sonny. That's what we do.
As long as it takes, we wait. (COMPUTER BEEPS)
Oh, here we go.
Guy wrote back. "What do you mean?
The money should be in the account."
What do you want me to say?
Tell him
all you know is it wasn't there when you checked,
and anyway, now that the media has your name,
you're gonna need the payment in cash so you can disappear.
You get all that?
Yeah.
SONNY: Now we wait again.
(SIGHS)
- (JASON CLEARS THROAT) - Come on.
Sonny, get him, get him.
- Yeah, come on. - Oh!
Oh, here we go.
- Get him. - Got to reload.
JASON: Almost. Oh, that was almost your foot.
- All right, listen up. - Listen up, Sonny.
- Ay, ay, ya. - Listen up.
This is Sergeant Percy Jacobs.
He's a case officer
with the Army's Criminal Investigative Division.
Okay. So what's he investigating?
No one's under investigation.
I'm following up on the death of a noncombatant.
- Do you mind? - JASON: No.
A local family brought us
this cell phone footage.
(LAUGHING)
The boy was ten years old.
We believe he was hit
by an M67 fragmentation grenade.
Well, that's sad and all,
but what has that got to do with us?
It happened when we were running down the sniper.
Kid lived right beside the target building.
JACOBS: Now, before I go looking into your AARs,
- does anyone... - It was my frag.
- Ray. - ERIC: Hey, we don't know that.
RAY: No, I...
I threw a frag to flush the guy out.
It missed.
ISR and comms will confirm.
- So you weren't targeting the boy? - SONNY: Hold on a second.
- Did you really just say that? - RAY: It's okay, Sonny.
No, I wasn't targeting him.
I just made a bad throw is all.
You understand it's my job to ask?
RAY: I understand.
So, what happens next?
We'll go over the comms logs, any ISR footage.
If it happened the way you said, shouldn't be much of a problem.
I've assured Sergeant Jacobs
that he has our full cooperation.
The sooner he can finish his inquiry, the sooner
we can all put this behind us.
All right, then. Let me start getting you what you need.
Good.
JASON: Ray.
Ray, look at me. Hey.
It's not your fault, all right?
War's messy. I mean,
could've happened to any of us, right?
- Right. - Right?
- If you say so. - All right, look at.
Whatever happened, it's on all of us.
I'm the one that killed that kid, Jason.
I don't see it that way.
And I know the guys don't see it that way, either.
We got you.
Nothing to get.
Ray.
Got your back.
Copy that.
(DART STICKS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
The client has agreed to pay in cash.
Okay, all right. Took him long enough.
He's careful. Wouldn't even discuss
the idea of a face-to-face.
Took us this long to get him to agree to a live drop.
Where's the drop?
Azahrin Spice Market.
4:00 this afternoon.
- Y'all know he's gonna send a courier. - MANDY: Probably, but you know
how this works. Roll him up,
get him to give us the next guy up the ladder.
Sooner or later, it's gonna come to the son of a bitch
that put a hit out on Echo guys.
- Let's go get him. - (GRUNTS) Yeah.
Let's go get it, make it mean something.
- Ray? Huh? Yeah. - Right.
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The Azahrin Spice Market, as promised.
The drop zone is here. After he makes the drop,
he's most likely gonna exit here.
(CLEARS THROAT) All right, look, if it's not too crowded,
we might be able to get a scooby van in. That's tight.
How many civilians you think'll be on the ground?
4:00 in the afternoon? A lot, I'd imagine.
Well, that definitely works in the guy's favor, right?
Harder to spot the courier, harder to follow.
CLAY: Yeah, but also harder for him to spot us following.
- We don't need to follow him. - JASON: What are you thinking there,
- Sonny? - Use Ray and Khalid
as spotters, have 'em blend in to the market.
The rest of us will be out of sight in the scooby van.
Once Ray and Khalid I.D. the money guy, we'll swarm on him,
and we'll have him flexcuffed on the van floor
before anybody knows we're in the market.
- Okay. - CLAY: Okay.
If Sonny's gonna start doing all the op plans, then I'm gonna...
I'm gonna need a request a transfer.
I have hidden gifts there, Mr. Spenser.
All right, any objections?
You know he definitely is gonna have a guy on overwatch.
ERIC: That's possible.
That's why we need to get in and out of there double-quick.
This could work, Sonny.
Hey?
Yeah.
How's he holding up? Is he okay?
- Yeah. He's fine. - All right.
- How you holding up? - I'm fine, too.
- All good, okay? - All right.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
- Mm. - Hey, what's going on?
- You're not gonna believe what I found. - All right, just slow down.
You're gonna choke on your sandwich, all right?
Okay. The drill you gave me to check out, belonged to your friend?
(WHISPERS): Wait.
All right. All right.
So my guys in Germany got back to me.
Guess what they found on it.
Something more than your basic Afghan dirt?
Does basic Afghan dirt have a lanthanum concentration
of over 500 parts per million?
All right, let me back up.
Lanthanum is a rare-earth metal, okay?
Uh, it's used in all kinds of stuff,
like from telescopes, cameras,
especially anything with a rechargeable battery.
Anything?
Yeah, from, like, laptops to hybrid cars.
- Right. - So you can imagine the value.
Phew.
And where'd you say your friend was poking around?
- Under poppy fields? - Irrigation tunnels.
Right. So my guess is,
there's got to be a huge lanthanum deposit down there.
I mean, it wouldn't surprise me.
This country's supposed to be loaded
with rare-earth metals, right?
Problem is, they can't stop fighting
long enough to actually mount a mining operation.
So if somebody got this drill bit tested,
and they're saying that it came back
just your basic Afghan dirt?
Well, then, they're idiots, or they're lying, or both.
Is everything okay?
Yeah. Just keep this between us, okay?
Yeah. Oh.
(AIRCRAFT PASSES OVERHEAD)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Hey. - Hey.
- You okay? - Why?
Guy looking into your past work.
Could put a lesser man on edge.
Thank God...
I'm not a lesser man.
Ray?
I'm fine.
You forgot your comms earpiece in the TOC.
Hey, it happens.
Not to him.
Guy's got a six-month-old little boy at home, you know?
Gets showed a video of him
killing somebody else's kid accidentally.
That's enough to mess with anybody's head.
Yeah. If you say so.
(HORN TOOTS)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
We're in position with good eyes on the drop spot.
Stand by.
JASON: Good copy, Bravo 2.
Snatch team standing by.
(ENGINE REVS)
Ray, moped.
Calm down. I got him.
TOC, guy on a moped making his second
circle around the fountain.
Could be our guy.
Roger, Bravo 2. ISR has got eyes on the moped driver.
My view is blocked. I can't see what he's doing.
He appears to be kicking at something.
Could be trying to kick-start his bike.
That's him. Moped driver's making the drop.
Go, go, go, go, go.
Punch it!
Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
TOC, this is Bravo 1. Target secure. We're moving.
(GROANING)
(CAMERA CLICKING)
(MAN SPEAKING PASHTO)
Shut up!
He's, uh, he's saying that somebody gave him
20 American dollars if he leaves this bag by the fountain.
He's never seen the guy before in his life.
- Boss? - Yeah.
He doesn't look like anyone we've rolled up before.
No, he's not a true believer.
Yeah?
Found smokes on him.
Hey, I think you guys should see this.
We were right about the overwatch.
Look, this is a video of the takedown. Look up
- at the balcony. - ERIC: Yeah. What are they doing?
They're watching the drop.
Maybe waiting for Abu Ali?
I don't know. Hold on a second.
Bravo 1, we may have found somebody watching the drop,
making sure that payment got through.
JASON: Any chance you recognize him?
DAVIS: Oh, my God. Tell me that is not who
I think it is.
ERIC: Bravo 1, hang tight.
We may have something.
MANDY: Hamid Gul Baladur.
Yeah. We still believe Baladur's the number two guy
in the entire Halani network?
Yep.
Okay. So Nouri Halani put the hit on Salim?
Baladur's always been an order-taker.
If he organized the Salim hit,
it's because the Halanis told him to.
It means that they're probably behind the hit on Echo Team.
Either way, we got one of our biggest fish
finally sticking his head out in a place
where we can reach out and touch him.
When's the last time Baladur was seen outside the Tribals?
Been years.
Which is why we should be so eager to catch up with him
before he gets back in the Tribals.
Bravo 1, I need you back here ASAP.
We got a new target.
Hamid Gul Baladur, friend and protector
to those who serve the Halani network.
Death to everyone else.
He's masterminded a number of hits against journalists, Afghan officials
and coalition forces.
Nouri Halani is the man in charge.
He's descended
from a long line of warlords who've controlled large
swaths of Nangarhar, Paktia and Khost provinces
for most of the last few hundred years.
His father was a key U.S. ally, killed by the Soviets in '86.
Now Under Nouri's leadership, the Halani network
works mostly like a crime family.
They collect protection money from local businesses,
especially poppy cultivation.
- What about the younger brother? - Abad Halani.
He grew up in his older brother's shadow.
He's reportedly an indecisive leader,
a drinker, and even somewhat of a womanizer.
Oh, should have sent him to Vegas, and had Moe Greene
sort him out.
Hmm?
Fredo Corleone?
Michael sent him to work at the casinos?
Come on.
"He was banging the cocktail waitress, two at a time."
Okay, it's actually not a-a terrible analogy.
Come on. Thank you.
If the Halanis are a crime family,
then Baladur's the consigliere.
Makes sense that Nouri'd use him to set up the hit on Salim.
And Echo Team.
Starting to see a pattern here.
MANDY: Remember, the Halanis
might have had reasons to want Salim dead
that had nothing to do with Echo Team.
At least superficially,
this guy was getting pretty buddy-buddy with our side.
No, no, no. They killed him because they knew we were about
- to grab him for the Echo hit. - Their Echo hit.
No, we don't know that.
And if we kill Baladur, we might never know.
Which is why we're gonna take him alive.
Yeah, it might be easier said than done. Davis?
Suicide belt.
Legend has it Baladur never takes it off.
So the guy'd rather get blown all the way
to hell and back than get taken alive.
Well, it sort of makes it his call.
No, it doesn't. Not necessarily.
If we want to get information from a suicide bomber,
there's one technique we would use to take him alive.
Yeah, but you need three guys to take him down.
Two to hold the arms, one to choke him out.
Which means getting awful close to a guy with a bomb belt.
Yes, it does.
MANDY: Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
At the moment, Baladur is still in the wind.
Okay, so we still have the sniper's phone.
- Right. - Right? Okay, so why don't
we text Baladur and tell him we want another meet?
It's gonna be a little bit of a hard sell,
because the last one was a trap. (JASON SIGHS)
All right, look. Baladur thinks that Ali set him up.
Right? So why don't we just flip it?
Have the sniper accuse Baladur
of being the guy behind the setup.
I mean, all Baladur knows is that the Americans were there.
Hell of a long shot.
What do we have to lose?
NAIMA (on Skype): Baby, you'll get past this.
It's not your fault.
No. I threw that grenade.
It was an accident.
RAY: That boy who died,
he had nothing to do with any of it.
One second he's playing with his dad, and...
NAIMA: Well, what does Jason say?
What do you think he says?
It's nobody's fault, it's war.
- Things happen. - Well, it is and they do.
It doesn't matter what he says, anyway.
CID wants to find the serviceman responsible
for killing some kid, that's what they're gonna find.
- But you didn't do anything wrong. - I know I didn't.
Why does everybody keep saying that to me?
What is going on, Raymond?
What do you mean?
Raymond Perry,
just 'cause there's 7,000 miles between us,
doesn't mean I can't tell when you're hiding something.
Naima...
What are you not telling me?
It's nothing. It's just...
my shoulder's been hurting a little.
- Oh, my God. - And when I threw that frag,
if my shoulder wasn't messed up,
I make that throw, that boy'd still be alive.
Ray, listen to me. Who else knows you deployed hurt?
That you never went to see a doctor to get clearance?
- No one. - Good.
That's how you keep it.
I can't lie to CID, Naima.
Yes, you can.
You are in a war, Ray.
You are risking your life every second.
You are a hero, and whatever happened on that roof,
you can't let them take that away from you.
You will not mention your shoulder.
You've got to look out for yourself 'cause I'm not there
to do it for you.
Tell me you understand, baby.
Yeah.
Kiss the kids for me, okay?
And you didn't tell Jason?
No.
I love you.
I love you, too.
Bye, baby.
(TAPS KEY)
(SIGHS)
Still no answer from Baladur?
Think he's done with us?
Could be he's checking with the Halanis
- for his next move. - (JASON GROANS)
(SNIFFS) You mind if I get
a hit of this coffee? I'm a little tired.
You know, sleep is not a sign of weakness.
(COMPUTER BEEPS)
I'll be damned.
Well.
He's saying he didn't set us up.
Tell him...
tell him that he's got to prove it, all right?
Tell him that he's got to bring you your money in person.
Okay.
(TYPING)
MANDY: He wants to know why he should come in person.
Well, to prove that it's not a setup.
(TYPING)
MANDY: "If you're there, you can't summon the Americans,
because they'll arrest you, too."
"What makes you think the Americans would arrest me?
You don't even know who I am."
Sure we do.
You are awful sly sometimes.
JASON: Well, you know what? I have my moments.
What did you say?
"I know you very well, Hamid Gul Baladur."
Good. Let him chew on that.
(COMPUTER BEEPS)
(SNIFFS)
We're back on.
See that? We're back on.
Baladur wants to meet at a tea house off of 40 Meter Road.
It's a relatively low traffic area,
and there's only one entrance as far as we know.
Well, we got to snatch him outside of the building
before he goes inside the building,
because he's got on an S-belt.
My guess is Baladur is looking to kill the sniper.
It's the only reason he's not already back in the Tribals.
- (SIGHS) - So...?
So he's got to figure Ali's looking to take the same shot at him.
Yeah, he's probably worried about getting his ass shot off
on his way in,
so he's probably gonna stay out of sight
until he positive I.D.s Ali.
Okay, so where does that put us?
I mean, 'cause the last time I checked, old Ali
didn't really seem like he was in the mood to be drinking tea.
So we send in a decoy.
How you doing?
You might want to roll those back down.
I think that's the way Ali was wearing his.
- You sure? - Yep.
Good lookin' out.
And for today's mission,
Raymond Perry is bringing sexy back
with the Syrian sniper look.
Okay, Sonny. You might want to get your ass on the bus.
Roger that.
Hey, I want to tell you something.
I look really hot as a paid assassin?
Well, there is that, yes.
No, about what's going on.
I can handle it, Davis.
I really can.
Okay, but CID can make your life miserable if they want to.
One time I supplied a dozen bridging ladders
to some Marines training in Qatar,
a couple of them fell apart when they were extended.
We're talking three or four broken bones, that's it.
The Navy investigators came after me
like I had personally sabotaged those ladders.
All I'm saying is be careful.
And all I'm saying is is I can handle it.
But thanks.
Hey. Listen, Ray.
Look, I know we want to bring this guy in alive,
but I don't need anybody doing anything stupid out there.
All right? This guy is wearing an S-belt.
If he's hell-bent on going out in a bang,
then you stand back and you let him.
All right?
Roger that.
All right.
(ENGINE SPUTTERING)
JASON: TOC, this is Bravo 1.
We're in position across from the tea house.
We got eyes on the door.
You are good to go.
Nothing on ISR so far.
Bravo 2, on you.
Switching to text communication only.
Roger. On the move.
He looks convincing.
Yeah, let's hope so, right?
As-salaam alaikum.
Wa alaikum as-salaam.
(BOTH SPEAK PASHTO)
(CLEARS THROAT)
(MAN SPEAKS PASHTO)
Hey, Bravo 1, this is TOC.
Ray is at the right-hand
rear table.
(WHISPERS)
He said there's not a lot of friendly faces in there.
Maybe seven or eight men.
(SPEAKS PASHTO)
He says the guy across from him is sending a text.
He could be telling Baladur the meet's on.
Be my guess.
Where the hell is this guy?
TOC, this is Bravo 1.
Any updates?
Still nothing on our end.
(SIGHS) Guy's got to show up soon.
For all he knows, Abu Ali is in there waiting,
getting madder by the minute.
Bravo 1, he's got eyes on Baladur.
How'd he get inside?
Bravo 1, be advised.
The target is inside the building.
Must've been tunnels.
TOC, we're preparing to engage.
ERIC: Negative. Tell them to hold.
We're not charging into an S-belt.
DAVIS: All call signs hold.
SONNY: Come on, Ray.
Abu Ali?
Go, go.
(SHOUTS IN ARABIC)
(GROANS)
(SHOUTING IN ARABIC)
- Ray! - Over here. (PANTS)
Chest plate caught it.
Baladur squirted. I'm good.
JASON: TOC, Bravo 2's okay.
No sign of Baladur.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Come on, come on, come on. Got him.
He's two doors down, exiting north side.
JASON: Copy that.
Sonny, Brock, lock this place down.
Clay, Derek, on me.
SONNY: This is Bravo 3.
1, 6, and Alpha 2 are in pursuit of the squirter.
You okay?
Yeah, I'm good, brother.
(PANTS, GROANS)
Go that way. See if you can cut him off.
(GRUNTING)
What is he doing? Why isn't he shooting?
MANDY: He's trying to take him alive.
(GRUNTING)
All call signs,
Bravo 1 has engaged.
(GRUNTING)
Don't let him pull the belt.
Get his left arm.
(GROANS)
Can you get 'em?
(FLEXCUFFS ZIPPING)
Got it?
- Boom. - Okay. That's good.
Get this big son of a bitch off me, will you?
(EXHALES)
(SIGHS)
(EXHALES) Thanks.
I know you're from Pakistan.
I know you speak English.
I know who you work for.
Nouri Halani.
Your boss is gonna wonder how we caught you.
Even if you get out of here...
Which you probably won't...
He'll never trust you again.
Baladur,
the man known as Death,
has been captured.
So maybe I do let you out of here, let them
pick you up on the side of the road, let them know
you were broken by the Americans.
By a woman.
You think you know what you're fighting here.
But, believe me...
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) you don't.
What does that mean?
(LOUDER): What's that mean?
You couldn't even send yourself to heaven.
Now you have to sit here, with all of us,
for as long as we want.
Hello.
When you said you wanted to come by and talk,
I thought that was something that people say. (CHUCKLES)
Can I come in?
Yeah, come in.
(GROANS SOFTLY)
(EXHALES)
Let me guess, you're going back with your wife.
- No. Why don't you guess again. - You can tell me. I'm a big girl.
And it's my... it's my fault anyways
- for breaking my "no married guy" rule. - Amy, stop.
(CHUCKLES) Okay? Stop. You know what this is about.
No, I actually don't know what this is about.
(SNIFFS) You remember this?
This drill bit? Steve Porter's drill bit?
Remember you had it tested by your-your lab guys at Xeon?
And it came back as your basic Afghan dirt.
- You remember that? - I remember that.
Well, I had it tested again.
Okay.
Lanthanum. Do you know what that is?
Enlighten me.
It's a rare-earth metal.
Used in high-tech stuff.
It's worth a fortune.
So either you lied to me or your lab guys lied to me. (SCOFFS)
I didn't lie to you. I didn't lie to you.
I didn't lie to Steve.
I wouldn't do that.
Your company does mining operations, right?
- Yes. - Your boss, Cutter,
S.A.S. badass turned, uh, contractor millionaire.
How much do you really know about him?
Okay.
You can go now.
I-I appreciate you stopping by.
This stuff is worth a lot of money, Amy.
People do a lot of funny things when it comes to money.
I don't know.
Maybe, uh, murder a bunch of operators.
I thought disinformation campaigns
went out of style in the '60s.
- Well, that's awfully naive of you. - You lied to me.
(CHUCKLES) First day of secret agent school,
they tell us never to answer a vague accusation.
You think this is funny?
I think you're gonna have to be a little bit more specific.
The sniper who shot Salim Hakan was killed at the scene.
Three days ago. Yesterday, you told me
you believed he was still alive.
Yes.
That's all you're gonna say?
I gave you gold. I gave you stuff nobody else had.
I gave you the sniper's name, his bio...
So I'm not supposed to be mad
because most of what you told me was true?
The guys who hired the sniper are the same guys
who blew up Echo Team. Only way to get to them
was have them believe the sniper was still alive.
It's my job to make that happen.
- You could've used another reporter. - Well, I used you.
To publish your lie. (CHUCKLES)
- There's that word again. - What do you call it?
- My job. - Yeah? What about my job?
A journalist trades on his credibility.
Not only did you get me to report fake news,
you made me look like I'm carrying water
for the U.S. military, which a lot of people are already primed
to believe because of who my father is.
It has taken me years
to build a reputation as a truth-teller.
Well, you'll understand if I'm less concerned
about preserving your reputation
than I am about finding justice for our dead operators.
- Mission first. - Damn right.
(CHUCKLES)
Before friendship.
Before anything.
I feel sorry for you.
(CRYING)
That was wild.
What's that?
Didn't I hear somebody say you need at least
three guys to take down a man with an S-vest?
(SNIFFS) I didn't have three guys.
That's not happening.
Blackburn's pretty angry with you for taking such a big risk.
Huh. Yeah. I know.
He laid into me during the AAR. I got it.
So, Baladur, is he talking?
Mm, not really.
No surprise, hard-core guy like that.
You think you'll be able to break him?
Maybe. But even if we can't,
his capture's gonna be a big blow to Nouri Halani.
Guy spent the last 17 years thinking he's untouchable.
All of a sudden, we roll up his number two?
You think he's gonna panic?
Figure he's gonna do something.
We just have to be ready to take advantage when he does.
Yeah.
Listen, you know anything about these rare-earth elements?
Uh, lanthanum or whatever?
Only what I read in the paper.
Afghanistan is sitting on a...
billion dollars' worth of it or something?
Trillions, I believe.
- Okay. - The world's crazy enough
for someone to slit your throat
for a couple bucks out of your wallet;
can only imagine what they would do
to get a piece of that trillion, huh?
Where are you going with this?
Hey. Phone call for you. Line four.
You know who it is?
It's a potential source, maybe.
Guy called the tip line, said he had information
about Salim's murder, asked for you by name.
- Mm, can we trace it? - We're trying.
Sounds like he's scrambling his signal.
We're recording, obviously.
This is Amanda Ellis.
This is Abad Halani.
(WHISPERING): It's Abad Halani. Come here.
First, I congratulate you on the capture of Hamid Gul Baladur.
I never thought he could be taken alive.
What makes you think we have Baladur?
Second, my brother, Nouri Halani,
is behind the killing of General Salim Hakan.
He is also the one who blew up your commandos some weeks ago.
Why are you telling me this?
You want to impress me with tales of your brother's power?
No.
I want to deliver him to you.
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