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MAN: I believe what we all
believe in,

and I believe that there is no
higher calling

than that of public service.

(applause)

And where others see
the State Senate

as a steppingstone
to higher office,

let me assure you,

I can see no greater service
to the people I love.

OPERATOR:
911. What's your emergency?

There's a man with a gun
at the Quincy Hotel.

...making California safe to
threats from without and within.

Hey, Bill.

Don. Thanks for
coming, guys.

Chippies are
stretched thin today.

- We can use more eyes out there.
- So what's the deal?

Why's the Senator still here
with a death threat?

He wouldn't let us pull him out.

COLBY: So we have absolutely no
control over who's already been let in.

Let's get the uplink
to my people.

Why don't you guys
hit the floor.

SENATOR: ...by a series of reforms designed
to overturn 30 years of misguided optimism

about the heart of a criminal
and what resides there.

Thank you.

God bless you all and God bless
the great state of California.

All right, guys,
here comes the uplink.

Now.

I'm up.

Yeah, so are we.

I've been waiting
for an opportunity

to give my crowd dynamics
program a shakedown.

Look, if this works,

the security applications
alone are staggering.

It's amazing.

We're getting a real-time
analysis of movement patterns,

ongoing flow rate projections.

We're looking for a male,
one male,

probably with a handgun.

Lot of people in the area.

Hope you guys
can narrow it down.

I'm fishing for body language
and microexpressions,

but with this many people,

it's really just fishing.

Charlie?

Look, the software we're using is
designed to determine corridor flow,

maximize efficiency
of ingress and egress.

You know, but what's really interesting
here are the continuum approximations.

By analyzing the crowd as if it
were a liquid-like substance...

We're looking for anomalies,

like someone breaking the
pattern of the reception line.

Got to get in fast and close
for a shot at the senator.

Thank you. Thank you.

It's a pleasure.

Do you see that?

All right,
we'd better double-check it

against high-density,
bidirectional flow results.

MEGAN: Charlie,
there's a time for double-checking

and a time to make
an educated guess.

Okay, then, we have an unaccountable
congestion near a center table.

I have a male Asian, 60s,
near the center table.

The body language is right.

He has slumped shoulders
and a slack expression.

He's holding his jacket
with his right hand.

DON:
Bingo. I got him, guys.

- Two o'clock, two o'clock.
- I got him.

(crowd screaming)

FBI! Get down! Move!

Put it down!
Right now!

Don't do that!
Don't do it!

Vanh Minh,
former Vietnamese citizen.

Joined the Vietcong at age 15,

eventually became a recon
platoon leader in Dinh Tuong.

Senator Tallman was
in the Army, right?

- In the '60s?
- Never went to Vietnam.

Never even went overseas.

As far as we can tell, these two
men never even met each other.

All right, so this guy disappears
in '68, resurfaces in '78...

as a US citizen?

Wait, how's he pull that off?

He's not a registered voter.

He has no political affiliation
whatsoever.

I mean, it looks like a...
classic lone gunman.

Yeah, but why kill a politician
you don't even know?

Doesn't make any damn sense.

Landlord says that
Minh paid his rent on time

and kept to himself
and fixed his own faucet.

Yep, and he kept a diary.

All in French,

so I think we're gonna
need a translator.

He planned this thing out
in advance.

He bought the suit, the tie,
and the shoes a week ago.

Even had time
to get the pants taken in.

Well, careful prep is consistent
with the murder-suicide.

"Brutus climbed into my mind

and stopped me from functioning
as a normal person."

Wow, she speaks French.

She dated a hockey player.

"Before Brutus, I was
curious and intelligent."

You know, Brutus could be
a code word for Tallman.

Yeah.

Did he happen to mention
what he had against this guy?

He might not have had
a specific grudge.

He's showing manifestations
of schizophrenia.

Non-existent relationships,
repressed rage.

And medication.

Nice grab.

(chuckling)
Thanks.

Dextroamphetamine sulfate.

That's speed.

Well, abuse would explain
high levels of aggression.

Yep.

Answers a lot of questions.

Yeah, and begs a few more like
who prescribed this and for what.

Yeah.

Also, why was he receiving
pension checks from the Army?

The United States Army.

CHARLIE:
Your mail.

Oh, thanks again for use
of your address, Charles.

Since the steam tunnels,

Professor Mildred has cut off
all use of my faculty mailboxes.

And the... the magazine.

Charles.

Yeah. I-I believe
this is my copy

of the Quarterly Review
of Cosmology.

Yeah, it is.

Why are we engaged
in combat over it?

Well, be -- I'll tell -- because --

There's, there's something on
the cover that may very well,

um -- no, it is, it is
going to upset you.

I was going to throw it out,

and then I figured you'd find it
sooner or later.

Just give it to me already.

"Igby's Law Redefines
Gravity Flux Motivated

by Sound Wave Propagation
in Bose-Einstein Condensates."

Professor Johannes Igby?

Um, I know you publicly
disputed Igby's approach.

The man is
an anthropic imbecile.

You know, so what

i-if, if he's been proven right?

He's had a law named after him.

So what if he's been put
on the short list

for the National Medal
of Science Award?

He has?

It's on page 87.

So look, I mean,
it, it may sting

a little bit, you
know, at first,

but, um...

You're smiling.

I am? Are you, are you in
stunned shock?

It's okay. I'll call
the campus medic.

Actually, don't do that.

Tell you what you can do.

Take over my Computational
Physics class.

Well, the last time
I covered that class,

- one of your students...
- Thank you so much, Charles.

OPERATOR:
911.

MAN: There is a man with a gun
at the Quincy Hotel.

Can I have your name?

He is going to kill
Senator Martin Tallman.

It may already be too late.

No, I mean, he doesn't sound 60
and he doesn't sound Vietnamese.

No.

Voice recognition says male,
Caucasian, 25 to 40.

And that call came in at 12:17
from a pay phone in the lobby.

By that time, Minh was
already in the ballroom.

Autopsy results are in.

Death from a gunshot wound
to Minh's head.

We need an autopsy
to tell us that?

I was actually more interested
in the pathology.

ME confirmed

Minh had been taking large doses
of dextroamphetamine sulfate.

That prescription was written
on a stolen pad.

Which suggests
intentional abuse.

It's like he was

getting himself angry enough
to kill Tallman.

Did you get anywhere
with the pension checks?

No, the VA had no records
on him,

so pulling in a favor
who's pulling in a favor.

And your favor's favor
called me.

Agent Eppes.

Raymond, Central Intelligence.
We need to talk.

All right, Raymond,

let's take a little walk.

RAYMOND: We'd be interested in
doing an information share

on the Tallman assassination.

Uh-huh.

Why are you guys so interested
in a California State Senator?

Vanh Minh's citizenship and
pension were functions of work

he performed for
us during Vietnam.

What, double agent?

I couldn't say.

Well, see, you know,
as file-sharing goes,

we're off to a bad start here.
I mean...

What I mean is I don't know.

Minh was part of a defunct program
from a war we lost 30 years ago.

So what are you saying?

The guy was in the wind
for 25 years?

And now he's front page news.

And I'd like to know what kind of
damage control we're looking at.

No chest beating,

just a request to keep
a colleague in the loop.

All right, fair enough.

Thanks.

Minh's .38 was one
of three purchased

at a Nevada gun
store last month.

Buyer used a stolen ID.

The store's name is Longan Ammo.

On the ATF's watch list.

Have a reputation for playing
things a little fast and loose

when it comes to background
checks and waiting periods.

We got a straw purchase.

Yeah, then he sold it off
to Minh.

What do we got?
A white male, 30s.

You really think we have some
kind of conspiracy going on?

I don't know.

I think we'd better find
those other two guns.

CHARLIE:
So a black market dealer

sends a buyer into a gun store.

Right, in this case,
with a fake ID.

And the buyer purchases
multiple guns legally...

Mm-hmm.

And then returns them
to the dealer?

Yeah, it's called
a straw purchase.

AMITA: Gun stores can do that?

Just sell pistols
to anyone with money?

They're not supposed to,

but these people can find a way
to make a buck.

I know what you're thinking.

An inductive application
of the network effect.

Starting from Metcalfe's law?

No, you know how I feel
about Metcalfe's law.

You know, it's value-
based, so in my opinion,

it just, it vastly overst...
(knocking)

BOTH:
Hi.

Can we come in?

This is perfect.

Where's Alan?

He's in Oakland until Monday.

Yeah, he's, he's over there consulting
on a waterfront renovation project...

LARRY:
Um...

- I think maybe we should wait.
- No, we can't wait.

Wait for what?

Um, Larry has some
really big news.

I'm leaving CalSci.

I'm leaving Los Angeles
in fact, more specifically,

I will be leaving
the planet Earth,

though I will remain in orbit...

Okay.

If you don't tell them,
I'm going to.

I will be on the next shuttle to
the International Space Station

leaving roughly
three weeks from now.

- You are not...
- Wait, wait.

Wait, wait,
hold on. What?

You must have
suspected something.

I mean with my
unorthodox living situations,

my unexplained absences.

I thought that was you being...

- You.
- No.

And you knew about this?

Well, I knew he was taking
more trips to Houston.

But no, I never pierced
the "veil of mystery."

Yes, I guess my work in the
cosmic microwave background

had some relevance to the NSA's
satellite signals technology and, uh,

they contacted me
last September.

Last September?

Yes. Handshakes transpired,

oaths were taken and the
long and the short of it is

that I was made alternate
payload specialist.

He's going on the space
shuttle for six months.

Wow.

Why didn't you
ever say anything?

Because it was always
just such a long shot,

but with the recent
good fortune of the

original payload specialist,
Johannes Igby,

Igby's Law.

His new responsibilities sadly prevent
him from taking his seat on the shuttle.

So, so T-Minus?

Um, we're scheduled
for departure on the 7th.

I will be leaving for Houston
next week for final training

and my flight physical.

Larry's got the right stuff.

All right, I'm getting
some champagne.

- Congratulations, Larry.
- Oh, thank you.

(chattering)

- So why Chicago?
- I do not know.

Go ask my publisher.

I think you've got a girl there.

Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.

- Girl in every port.
- Mmm.

To a girl in every port.

Uh, can I help you?

(clicks)

Stan. Oh, God.

Somebody call the cops.

Oh...

Male, Hispanic, 40s.

The guy walks up to this table,

puts five shots into the victim,

turns the gun on himself,
misfires, walks away.

Sounds a lot like
the Tallman shooting.

LAPD made the same connection.

So they checked the serial
number against our straw purchase.

Do we have a match?

Yeah, you think I'm going
to call you out here,

on your night off if we don't?

Victim is Stanford Davis.

This is his wife.
He's a psychiatrist.

Just wrote a book called New
Methods of Operant Conditioning

and Its Impact on Neuroanatomy.

- I'll wait for the movie.
- Yeah.

One gun purchase has given us
two execution-style murders.

And one and a half suicides.

You used Metcalfe's Law
after all.

You know, no one likes to hear
"I told you so." Okay.

What are those?

It's a second gun
from a shooting last night.

I'm tracing the past patterns of
transactions across the network

and it's-it's revealing
some very predictable dynamics.

It's really something --
about Larry.

What, the whole, uh...

space station thing?

Yeah, you seemed a little, uh...

A little what?

I don't know... upset?

Upset?

What do you mean?
No, I'm-I'm upset?

Of course not.
I'm not upset.

I mean maybe I would be

if I thought he was actually
going to go through with it.

Larry asked Dr. Finch
for a leave of absence.

I mean, he put his car
in storage.

I have known Larry Fleinhardt

for 15 years.

He's not going anywhere.

I think you should talk to him.

Why? There's nothing
to talk about.

Besides I've got to present
my findings to Don, so...

DAVID: Shooter left a
pretty good print on the strap.

It comes back to...

Carlos Costavo.

He came to the US from Cuba

with the 1980 Marielito exodus.

All right, so political
refugee or a criminal?

No, he's definitely a criminal.

He got here, spent
ten years at Chino

for robbery and assault.

Costavo.

He hasn't been home
in three days.

But we did find
government pension checks

and dextroamphetamine sulfate.

- Same as Minh.
- Yeah.

Something really strange
is going on here.

DON: We got the same MO,
same medication.

Senator, psychiatrist, a
Vietnamese POW, a Cuban refugee.

- And the guns.
- Right.

Well, looks like I'm right on time.

CHARLIE: Now here we have a
list of gun sales from Longan Ammo,

going back about two years

and the suspected straw
purchases are here in red.

And this is ATF's list of
suspected street-level gun dealers

and their sales patterns.

Now, what I did was
I applied networking theory

to a directed graph,
using the source

and known nodes to determine
the sink.

Which is kind of like...

Kind of like...

kind of like, oh,
kind of like a telephone,

which is actually the classic
example of networking.

Okay, so we have
stores and purchasers,

dealers and buyers.

There all part of the same network.

Right. Now, what I did
was study the call patterns,

the straw purchases and I
listened for the ringing telephone.

Now, I'm going to call
a bullpen extension right now;

and how about you guys tell me
which one I'm calling.

(telephone rings)

Oh, it could be about
half a dozen phones right now.

So we've already narrowed
down the possibilities considerably.

The more calls I make...

the easier it becomes
to find the right one.

(telephone ringing)

Hello.

Yeah, sorry, I'm just
demonstrating networking theory.

She hung up.

So the ringing phone
we're looking for

is the black market dealer,
who bought the three guns.

I was actually looking
for patterns of distribution,

arrests that connect
to straw sales

according to time and proximity,

not to mention the kind
of weapons transacted.

Now by looking at the way that
Longan Ammo made straw gun sales

and then the appearance
of the guns on the street...

You came up with a name.

Off of Senator Tallman's shooting,
I came up with four names,

and given the second shooting,

I was able to narrow it down:

Sam Finney, a major gun dealer.

All teams, move in.
(men shouting)

- We got a runner!
- Copy, a runner.

FBI. You're under arrest.

FBI? What'd I do
to you guys?

You picked up the wrong phone.

DON:
Automatic weapons,

RPGs... if you do time
by the bullet,

you got some problems here.

Yeah. And you can make them all
go away, right?

Nah, I think that would take
like a presidential pardon.

But I'll tell you something,
Sam, you help me,

maybe I get it down
to five to ten.

I won't wear a wire.

Three Smith & Wesson Model 64s,

bought in Nevada last month.

Longan Ammo.

Guy runs the place
like he's selling socks...

Get your hands back
on the table.

Where'd they end up?

Some guy.

Some guy. All right, Sam.

Marcus.

All right, his name was Marcus.

Tried to move him up to Glocks,

but he said he wanted
to keep it simple.

Did he say what
he wanted them for?

Yeah, they're a little
expensive for paperweights,

- you know what I mean?
- Yeah, that's funny.

I didn't ask.

That's it?
That's what you got for me?

Brown hair, blue eyes,
40, maybe 45.

Real quiet, talked like
he was in a library.

All right, sit tight.
Keep your hands on the table.

Yeah, right.

Problem with these
Identikit pictures,

they're only as good
as the description.

And Finney's wasn't great.

Hey, it's what we got, you know.

Okay, Stanford Davis was a prison
psychologist at Chino from 1983 to 1985.

Wait, Costavo was there
from 1981 to 1991,

so, so they knew each other.

Yeah, and here's a little-known fact
about the California Penal system:

they have a long and proud
history of experimenting on prisoners.

I know that pharmaceutical
companies test on inmates.

Yeah, but that's voluntarily,
and in pretty limited circumstances.

I'm talking about behavior
modification programs,

sensory deprivation,
chemical treatment, psychosurgery,

many of which are underwritten
by the Department of Defense,

where the CIA friend came from.

Including one "Brutus Project,"

which Davis worked on.

The same Brutus as
in Minh's journal?

And the same Davis as in the
shrink who was our second victim.

Julius Caesar's assassin's
full name was Marcus Brutus.

Finney said he sold guns
to a guy named Marcus.

So, now we've connected
Costavo to Davis,

possibly to Minh.

Guess which State Senator
has been pushing legislation

to repeal the ban
on prison testing?

Uh, Tallman.

A equals B equals C equals D;

it's like one of
Charlie's equations.

Can't believe I just said that.

Spring cleaning?

Oh...

As per Dr. Finch's request,

I have now thoroughly
vacated my lair.

I do take some comfort however,

in remanding
my few prized possessions

into the custody
of my closest friend.

Aw, well, thanks.

What do we got in here?

Oh, wow, the Newton Lacy Award.

My goodness.
Uh...

Of course, uh,
some jazz recordings.

Of course.

An old... yeah,
an old T-shirt.

Old T-shirt, worn on the day I
first posited causal solutions

to ultrahyperbolic
wave equations

and more memorably,

when I vanquished
Professor Musgrave

at the CalSci's Texas
Hold 'Em tournament.

Wow, then this
is one lucky shirt.

Yeah, well, not to dwell
on the negatives.

I am mindful of
the risk involved

in sitting atop
two million liters

of combusted liquid
hydrogen and oxygen.

Larry.

Do you remember...

when I was in my junior year

and, uh, I decided to
grow my moustache out?

The word "moustache" would be
a charitable characterization.

You said that my follicle count

failed to achieve critical mass.

Oh, dear... sorry.

No, you were being brutally
honest with me, you know.

And sometimes friends have to be
brutally honest with each other.

Larry...

What?

You know this thing isn't
really going to happen.

Because?

People die in space
shuttles, Larry.

You know and at some point

you're going to make a rational
assessment of this situation.

You're going to realize that
shooting yourself out of a cannon

would just be feckless waste.

Let me get this right.

You are actually comparing
my brushing the heavens

with your barely
postpubescent moustache.

No, I'm just being realistic.

It's a very fortunate
thing for you

that I am on the verge of
fulfilling one of life's dreams.

- Fortunate for me?
- That's correct.

Because were in a less
ebullient frame of mind,

I might well just
bop you in the nose.

Excuse me.

Have you ever heard of MK-ULTRA?

What, that's a CIA program
in the, what, '50s.

LSD, mind control...

Right, right,
LSD was part of it.

But they tried
sensory deprivation,

radiation, ELF.

Uh-huh. What's that?

Extreme Low Frequency.

Certain pulses can actually
affect a subject's emotional state.

MK-ULTRA was one
of many programs.

Right, like Brutus?

The idea was to program enemy
agents with posthypnotic suggestions,

then send them home
as sleeper assassins.

Assassins.

Programmed to kill themselves
after the assassination,

keeping the program invisible.

All right, so Minh's Vietcong...

Who we never officially
identified as a POW.

Costavo: Marielito.

Someone figured they could
get him close to Castro.

See, the thing is,
Brutus never worked.

30 years of experiments never
produced a single viable candidate.

So the program was discontinued,
the subjects cut loose.

Yeah, with pensions.

Well, I mean, that last gun's for
somebody connected to all this.

I've compiled a list

of subjects known to be
in the Los Angeles area.

If Marcus has gotten the
Brutus conditioning to work --

and it looks like he has --

every one of these men
is a potential weapon.

What's this list?

Anyone who ever
worked on Brutus.

Marcus didn't just pick his
killers from the program,

but his victims, too.

Marcus is sending the lab rats

after the scientists.

712 subjects in one
mind-control experiment

in just Los Angeles?

There's no telling how many the Soviets
worked on during the same time period.

Oh, that's a really good
Cold War way of thinking.

They're doing something bad,

so let's do something
worse and bigger.

Please.

Why didn't you tell us about
this after the first shooting?

Why would you try and
protect a failed program?

You want to see
how Marcus got it to work.

Think about it.

You capture a terrorist,
you condition him,

you send him back
to his cell -- bang.

"Condition" is a really
polite word for "torture."

When you're fighting
for a way of life,

you use whatever weapon
is available.

And before you know it,

you've given up
your way of life.

Charlie, what...?

We got people for this.
What are you doing?

What your people are doing,
they're trying to match

a rudimentary sketch against
thousands of CIA personnel files.

What I'm doing here is
trying to save you time

and increase success
potential considerably.

Now, by weighting the value
of the search criteria

to look for slight deviations --

let's say Finney chose
eyebrow set #33 --

what I'm doing is, I'm allowing
the possibility of a near-miss.

Eyebrow set 32, set 34.

All right, cool.

Well, thanks.

Hey, um, are you guys planning

any kind of party
or anything for Larry?

He's not going anywhere.

Well, I don't know
about that, Charlie.

He sure seems to be
going someplace.

(laughs)
Don...

can you seriously picture

Lawrence Fleinhardt
in outer space?

Yeah. I don't know.

I mean, more than
anyone else I know.

Things change.

I mean, that's the way life is.

People get married;
they move on.

I'm aware of that, Don.

I do notice that
nowhere on that list

did you include
"fly away in a rocket ship."

Charlie, I'm just saying,
I know it can be tough.

The toughest part is...

The toughest part is sitting around
while people fuel his delusion.

You see, 'cause that's not
gonna help him any

when reality ultimately sets in.

His delusion.

All right, if you say so.

♪ C-Come on ♪

(upbeat dance music playing)

♪ Bounce with me ♪

(stopwatch beeps)

♪ Bounce with me... ♪

Very impressive.

Mens sana in corpore sano.

So, what do you think?

Am I being too short-sighted

in my acceptance
of this mission?

Are you kidding?

I mean, setting aside
the experiment itself,

there's no telling
what kinds of insight...

No, no, no, no.

Talking about
my abdication of my life,

my responsibilities,
my burgeoning relationship.

You know, there's some parallels
here to your own dilemma --

Harvard versus CalSci, Charles.

Well, the difference was,

Harvard wasn't offering
me the better job.

What if they had?

It's only six months.

And Megan seems
genuinely supportive.

Yeah, whereas your beau...

I don't know.

He seems to think that
an 11th hour rethink

will reveal my ambition to be...

well, I believe the word
"feckless" was used.

You know, he's never dreamt
of something he couldn't reach.

So he has no idea what
it's like to want something

that you might not
be able to get.

So how could he understand
how much you'd give up

if this chance comes along?

I know. I know.

You ready?

- What?
- Let's go.

(whimpers)

WHITTAKER:
Give me the bottle.

Got to take a leak anyway.

You guys are Parole, right?

Drug test?

FBI.

Questions.

About Carlos Costavo.

You and he
bunked together in Chino?

Chino was three mistakes ago.

I'm way too old for a fourth.

Contact with
discreditable persons

gets me sent back
for the rest of my nickel.

So does lying to the FBI.

His phone records
have your number on them.

He calls me from time to time.

Mostly to complain.

About?

Excuse me.

Whichever boss...
Come on, come on, come on.

Whichever boss
or girlfriend or stranger

ticked him off this week.

Guy's always had
a short fuse, you know.

- Headaches.
- Headaches?

Some kind of drug
therapy or something in stir,

got six years
dinged off his bid.

Wasn't like he was right in the
head in the first place, but...

You got any idea how we can
get in touch with him?

Does it help me
or hurt me if I do?

He spends a lot of time
at MacArthur Park.

Watches the old men play chess.

Thanks.

(rap music playing)

Chess tables are right up here.

And you know that because...

'Cause I spent 13
months in a tent.

It's either chess or skin rags.

Hey, check it out.

FBI! Move! Back!

He ran into the garage!

Carlos!

Get down!

COLBY:
Carlos, don't do it!

Do not jump, Carlos.

Hey! Get down
from there, Carlos!

- Carlos! Carlos.
- Who are you?

A guy who doesn't want
to see you get hurt, all right?

Well, you're 20 years too late.

I've tried to
do this before, you know.

Never quite took the last step.

Because you don't want to.

And then the one time,

the one time
I go through with it,

the damned gun misfires.

But maybe...

maybe this time,
I can finally make it.

Look at me, Carlos!

Look at me!
Look at me!

I don't want to do anything.

Just want to talk to you.

Okay?

Give me two minutes.

Go on and do whatever
you got to, okay?

Just talk?

Just want to talk.

You lied to me!

David, apologize to the
man for saving his life.

The things
that sick bastard did...

You volunteered.

Yeah, well, after the first
electroshock treatment,

I tried to un-volunteer.

Davis said they'd put
the six years back on

and another 25 for violating
a federal agreement.

That was a quarter
of a century ago.

Why'd you go after him now?

That's when the government guy
came around.

Marcus.

Marcus said he was working
for the government?

Said he was a doctor.

Some kind of posttraumatic
follow-up program.

Kind of late for that.

He gave me some drugs,
but they didn't work.

Dextroamphetamine sulfate.

COSTAVO: He said I was
clinically depressed

and that they would help.

I mean, the more we talked,
the madder I got!

And that was...

Sit down.

He let slip where Davis worked.

And I started following him.

Gustavo, where'd you
get the gun from?

Gun?

Yeah.

I-I don't know.

I don't remember.

One day, it was just there,
on my bed.

Look, you know,
I'm really tired.

These headaches, they make it
so hard to sleep.

I mean, it boggles the mind.

I mean, they give speed to
a guy who's mentally disturbed,

hand him a gun,
and then point him toward

the people who tortured him.

Yeah, it's not
exactly brainwashing,

but it's not exactly different.

What do you think?
Revenge or blackmail?

Trying to show us
what he can do?

He's got to have some kind
of psychological background.

He knew exactly
which subjects to pick.

He knew exactly
which buttons to push.

CIA says there was no program
that even remotely resembles

the one he was talking about.

I'm gonna go back to the original
people that worked on the program.

Maybe Marcus is on the list
of victims somewhere.

Hold on a second.

You all right?

About Larry?

(chuckles)

You know, it's hard to feel
badly when you feel so proud.

But, yeah, the timing sucks.

Why do you ask?

I don't know.

Charlie seems to be
struggling...

I just thought...

I'm just trying to take care
of my own, that's all.

(chuckles)
Oh, well,

that would explain that throbbing
vein in the middle of your forehead.

Thank you.

Well, I'm here if you need me.

Costavo's description isn't
exactly the same as Finney's, is it?

It's a big break for us

because more data is
always better data.

So by weighting the commonalities
between the sketches...

Oh, like if the same chin
comes up twice,

then it's probably
the right chin.

I've actually tried to make this
algorithm even more sophisticated.

So were looking for values
that fall in a common range,

not just perfect matches.

Since we've already
inventoried the facial points

of all of the
potential suspects,

we should whittle our way down
to a few candidates relatively.

Didn't see that coming.

Uh, are you sure this is every
person with access to the Brutus files?

Yeah. Yeah.

Feels to me like were
missing something so obvious

we must've forgotten about it.

You know, can't see
the forest for the...

Trees.

Are you thinking
what I'm thinking?

No.

So when Charlie's filter
returned zero matches,

- we realized...
- "We"?

CHARLIE: Yeah, "we."

We realized that what we have is a
classic example of Euclid's Orchard.

You see, because each
perspective of an orchard is unique,

not only giving us information
about the trees

but about the position
of the observer.

We started from Minh and Costavo
and worked our way backward.

Figuring out where
all the information

about their participation
in the Brutus program existed,

and who might
have been privy to it.

The common denominator was
the Freedom of Information Act.

Guys, Brutus was top secret.

You're right, but portions of it
were declassified,

in the 1970s with MK-ULTRA.

And then again in the '90s,
they made more of it public

with the class action suit
against Chino.

There were a few dozen people
who had access to these files.

One of them in particular...

Lawrence Dryden.

He's a practicing psychiatrist
in Santa Monica.

Now he happens to have a brother
named Porter,

who actually served time
in Chino in '89.

This guy Porter was definitely
a patient of Davis's?

Brother Lawrence certainly
seemed to think so.

He filed suit against
the US in 2000,

but the case was dismissed
in '03.

And where are the Dryden
brothers now?

Porter OD'd and died
four years ago.

Lawrence still lives
on the west side.

Most significantly,
my facial recognition algorithm

shows us that Lawrence Dryden

is an 87% match
to our sketches of Marcus.

(knocking)

Man (over radio):
Alpha team, stand by.

Dryden, step out.

We got a search and arrest
warrant for you. Let's go, guys.

- Turn around.
- Of course.

Go ahead and look.
The guns aren't here.

You want to save us some time
and tell us where they are?

Where they'll do the most good.

You haven't changed anything;

after this next killing,
the truth will have to come out.

I want that third gun.

You think I'm a killer?
I'm not.

I'm a hero.

And how is that?

Because I'm willing
to make hard decisions

and suffer the consequences
for a greater good.

My brother was no saint,

but what they did to him
should never happen, not here,

not in this country.

Your brother OD'd 14 years
after Brutus was over.

Porter never used heroin,
not until after Chino.

It was the pain from
those experiments

that drove him to the drugs.

I went through the courts,
I went through the press.

Everyone either didn't believe
it or didn't care.

After all,
these men are just prisoners.

So I knew
if I wanted to stop Brutus,

that I'd have to take
stronger measures.

It's has been over for years.

- They're planning to do it again.
- Who?

Tallman was lobbying for
relaxing California's restrictions

on prisoner experiments,

and that sadist Davis,

offering his so-called
expert testimony.

I just turned their own monsters
against them.

And why's that?

Couldn't pull the trigger
yourself?

No, these men have already been
destroyed by Brutus.

In death, think of how many
other lives they can save.

That sounds to me exactly what
the CIA probably said

when they started the whole
thing to begin with.

So you tell me, what's the
difference between them and you?

- Hey.
- Hey.

I'm not going to apologize
for expressing my opinion.

Well, I'm not going to apologize
for choosing to ignore it.

You got an interesting
problem there.

Yeah, yeah.

It's based on a subject,
Lawrence Dryden's,

access to Freedom
of Information files.

See, he had his pick of any of
two dozen potential assassins,

and I'm just trying to narrow down
those candidates by accessibility,

by health, predisposition.

I just don't think I can be
narrow enough, quickly enough.

Have you considered
incorporating target selection theory?

You mean Von Neumann and the
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Well, actually, before then,

Von Neumann's acolytes
had been doing work,

more applicable I think, in the
arena of conventional bombing.

The theory being that if you
kept bombing high-value targets,

over time, the enemy would
concentrate their defenses there.

But if you bombed
low-value targets,

yeah, you'd siphon off
some of their defenses,

but over time, you would
sacrifice manpower,

gasoline,
deplete your bomb supplies.

So you're suggesting,

and as always, feel free
to correct me if I'm wrong,

that I analyze
not only potential killers,

but potential victims as well.

The list of people
publicly endorsing

increased prisoner
experimentation.

So refining my previous analysis
of Dryden's motivations

and assessment of his likelihood
of success...

Well, Larry, you are...

...gone.

CHARLIE:
Hey, Don, so I just finished

my target select theory analysis

and the most
probable next victim

is an army colonel
who served at Leavenworth.

He supervised experiments on
military prisoners for the Brutus Project.

DON: Great, Charlie.
That's good.

Megan's got the colonel.

I'm on my way
to clear his house now.

And the killer?

CHARLIE:
He's a man named Gates.

He was one of the prisoners
at Leavenworth.

DON: All right, we got David and
Colby on their way to pick him up.

(indistinct shouting)

Gate's isn't here.

Drop it now!

Drop it!

(gunshots)

DON:
Guys, guys, we're clear.

Man (over radio): Subject down.
Repeat, subject down.

(indistinct radio transmission)

Now that we have Marcus
and all three guns,

I guess this case is closed.

What are you talking about?

We don't even know
who else Dryden got to.

Case closed?

Okay, maybe I misspoke.

We're not going to allow you to
open up any more lines of investigation.

Say what?

This is a national security
issue.

You're going to cover
this up, aren't you?

This was never about the past;
this is about the future.

So Dryden was right?

Tallman was pushing prison
testing legislation?

This is just a back door
to restart Brutus?

You've got to be kidding me.

MEGAN: What are
you going to do with him,

stick him in Guantanamo so he
can't talk to anyone?

Your assistance
has been appreciated,

but this doesn't have to do
with you anymore.

I shot a man tonight.

And your country thanks you.

I'd stay down unless
you want to get hit again.

♪ I had a dream the sky
was set on fire... ♪

LARRY:
The night of the 18th,

I will be right there,

between Cancer and Leo Minor,

visible for roughly 14 seconds.

Hmm.

Then I'll have
to get a telescope.

I guess I could pull strings,

get you access to
CalSci's Celestron.

Maybe I'd like to watch you
from my own bedroom,

by myself.

Listen...

you know, I realize
our relationship

hasn't been exactly...
forward-leaning.

I do want you to know my heart
will remain yours in my absence.

While you're in a space capsule
with three guys?

(chuckles)

I should hope so.

You know what I mean.

I do know what you mean.

But maybe for tonight,
we should just...

lean forward a little.

♪ And for a while... ♪

♪ I don't care
what comes tomorrow... ♪

Charlie?

♪ I'm alive... ♪

He's really going to do it,
isn't he?

♪ And that's
all I need today... ♪

He's going to go.

He's going to go.

♪ I had a dream
the sky was set on fire. ♪