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These are gametons. Enough missing fissile material to fuel a Chernobyl

event right here in Los Angeles.

I mean, the cartel was the infrastructure to smuggle this material

.S. If anyone knows who they handed it off to, it's Lopez.

Who's this?

Oh! Looks like a cop to me. Javi wants to test us. He's giving us a run. If we

can get it through, he'll trust us. 500 kilos of heroin, street value 50

million. Deliver it!

Come on, don't I always... The man at the port did this.

Give me your name! Oh, Volchek!

Volchek!

Are you sure it's my birthday? Yes!

Okay.

Come here, guys.

I love you.

Look who's awake.

Mr. Big 4 -0.

Thank you, baby.

Okay. What do we have here?

Oh, strawberry, my favorite. No. That's not good.

Chocolate. No, that's very bad.

Really? You will not like it. Is it?

Get out of here. Both of you.

Thank you. I love you guys.

Don't let up too much. We've got dinner later.

Copy that.

You know, I would love nothing more than to scoop you up and take you to Hawaii.

But this thing is all hands on deck.

I know.

That's why I like you.

How about you get your birthday butt into the shower and get to work?

Yes, ma 'am.

Well, yeah, no, it's your world, fuckstick.

Hey. Hey.

Saw that you called.

Sorry. Oh, yeah. No, I was just checking to see how you were after that bomb

went off on our base last night.

Ready to rock.

Yeah? Yeah. How's it going?

You? Yeah.

Catch this shithead.

Yeah.

New King's Lieutenant Avi Lopez and his enforcer, Antonio Ayala, were pronounced

DOA before reaching Healthwide Memorial.

Best we can tell, the explosive device was standard C4.

It was wired to the ignition switch inside the engine of Lopez's Land Rover.

We've got local FBI ERT as well as bomb tech and LAPD supported by the lab in

Quantico conducting a post -blast investigation.

What about that name, Volchek?

Lopez's last word sounded like a dying declaration to me. Shepard?

Yeah, there are many variations on that surname, but the most common and most

likely is V -O -L -C -H -E -K.

Etymology? Belarusian.

Now, Belarus...

is a Russian satellite state in the truest sense of the word since the

breakup in 89.

They also backed the recent aggression of the Eastern European region, drawing

rebukes from State and, uh, our friends in NATO.

Timur Novikov.

What? At Palmdale, I shared a cell block with an inmate named Timur Novikov. He

was from Minsk.

Palmdale? Yeah, it was, uh, that was UC.

Long story.

How well did you know him?

Pretty good.

He's like one of those little dogs who thinks he's a big dog.

Had some beef with the vice lords, almost got smacked. I stood up for him.

owes me.

But we spent a lot of time talking.

He's definitely tapped in with the Belarusian underground here in L .A.

He's connected to robbery crews, narcotics, guns, you name it.

So if our case has anything to do with some guy from Belarus, he would know.

Where are you going with this?

You got to put me back in jail.

You sure you want to go back inside?

No inmate trust to transfer. You start asking questions, they're going to smell

something funny a mile away.

What? No.

You care about me. No. That's very sweet. I don't want anyone in this task

to get himself killed.

Okay, honestly, I'm touched. I am.

You make it so hard to like you.

It's a gift.

How's the Little League season progressing?

We're undefeated.

Is that right?

Oh, yeah. We won our first two.

Nice.

How's Cora doing with everything?

She's hanging in there some days.

You know.

You just sit on the couch and away.

You open the refrigerator door and you catch a memory of Noah.

Big smile and the shoes always untied.

It's a mountain to climb, but we're climbing it together.

Honestly, if I didn't have Cora, I'd have walked into the Pacific, headed for

Catalina, and just keep on going.

Well, when this thing is over, if you ever need to talk or you just want to

a beer and not talk... I know. Thanks.

All right, I'm going to get on the horn to the warden at Palmdale Corrections

and see what we can do about inserting Nietzsche back into Timur Novikov's

block. Yeah, I know someone at DOC. I can help arrange that. As soon as we

more information on these bomb materials, I want it in my hands. Got

Well, these are the record books from Javi Lopez's body shop.

He kept everything off -grid, just hard copies.

I figured we could sort through it, see if we can find the name Volchak or

anything earlier soon.

Shut up. Okay.

Okay.

So,

uh, I might have low -key looked up everyone on the task force's employee

profiles at the DHS, DEA, and FBI.

And why would you do that? Well, it doesn't really matter why. What matters

that today is Fina's birthday.

No shit.

Oh, shit.

He didn't say anything.

I mean, I get the feeling he's like this old business type, which is exactly why

we're going to break him.

What does that mean?

We're going to get him a cake.

Who?

Yeah, he's been on the phone now, okay?

Go ahead. Go ahead.

Talk. Go ahead.

The deal with Warden Gil Thompson and the conference room is a go.

I don't have to think about it.

The answer is no.

Capital N, capital O. I'm not sure you understand. No, you don't understand.

Detective Meacham, undercover in Palmdale, was the worst nine months of

career. I praised Hallelujah when you took him out of here with his head still

attached to his goddamn body.

Warden. If he'd gotten killed, that was my ass.

And he did everything in his power to get himself killed, too. He caused a

goddamn riot in the yard, and it was but for the grace of God that he's not

getting himself shanked five ways to Sunday.

So no, sir. Uh -uh.

Not going to do it. It was a bad idea then. It is a worse idea now.

You know Tim Larson in Victorville?

Yes, sir.

What's he have to do with it? He said you were the best sheriff they ever had.

Well, I don't know about that, but Tim is a good man.

He said you knew how to lead.

All I'm asking is for a day.

I got a mission here that can save thousands of lives, and that is no

exaggeration. If you could prevent another 9 -11, wouldn't you do

your power to stop it?

I need to put my man Meacham with your inmate teamer Novikov to see what he

knows. If I go at this straight on, he's going to zip his mouth so shut you'll

need a jackhammer to open it, but he trusts Meacham.

Sorry, sir.

I'm not letting that man inside my jail.

Sorry, I'm not.

What if we...

don't actually have Meacham enter Palmdale.

It's your lucky day, Novakov.

The lawyer says you get an appeals hearing.

Transfer to Fultz downtown until the judge will see you. Let's go.

I told you, asshole.

I told you.

I told you. Yeah, you fucking need this.

You're not going to make me ride with this asshole, are you?

Fuck yeah.

Look at you.

Oh, I can't wait to hear about this.

Oh, what a day.

That's all right. You don't have to change them. I'll watch them for you.

Where have you been, Walker?

Shook, man. Guards trying to testify that I started that yard ride, even

they know the A .B.'s jumping.

So I went from infirmary up to goddamn Central, someplace in the high desert,

and then, fuck, honestly, I lost track.

Shit, you like a jumping bean.

Yeah.

You all right?

Your head is murdering me.

You never did get in with Alice Baker?

Hell no.

Look, I'll stretch any way I can, but I ain't joining those Aryan bastards.

Look at what they do to me.

The one wolf?

Yeah, that's me.

You were at HGSB, huh?

Yeah.

I heard the yard over there can get crowded.

What the fuck he talking about? There ain't no yard over there.

Only daylight you gets in those concrete wedges between blocks.

20 inmates at a time, guards looking down at you like it's a goddamn nature

show. Fuck, I dream about a yard.

Yo, you remember Wang?

Matt Wang, that crazy Chinese dude.

He had one eye looking at you and the other looking at the wall at the same

time. Yeah, he left Palmdale about six months ago. Yeah, that's what I'm

about. He's up at the high desert now.

Block B.

Had to help him get adjusted.

He did that for me, too.

Yeah, well...

Why'd you go and piss off the Vice Lords ten minutes into being in the lockup?

Dumbass. You remember that?

I don't forget a thing.

That would have been easy picking.

Nah, man, you just need a crew looking out for you, that's all.

So, why are you back in SoCal?

Well, they're pissed about that riot, so they're drumming up six counts of

forgery, tacking on to my original charges.

What for?

My fucking cousin.

He found some pads that we stole.

Allegedly.

We knocked over that pharmacy, started writing scripts for Xanax and stuff, and

then he, boom, put the whole thing on me.

So, additional charges, new hearing.

I don't know, man, to be honest.

It beats that high desert.

What about you?

Appeal. Yeah?

What'd your shark say?

I don't know yet.

Just found out.

Sit all the way back.

Yes! Get the gun!

Don't move, I swear to God.

Take it easy. Shut the fuck up!

Unlock him.

Unlock him or your partner gets you.

I'm not fucking playing around!

Okay!

Okay!

Give me your gun.

Take your gun and put it on the pavement.

Your radio, too.

Get her, John. Get her radio.

Are we looking?

Come on, baby.

Come on, come on, come on. We got to go. We got to go.

Go fucking move.

Yeah, come on.

Get those up.

All right, big boy.

Let's get up.

Get in the van. Nice and slow.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, you think this is funny? Huh?

Get your fucking ass in the van. Lock yourself up.

Get rid of that shit, man. Get rid of that shit.

All right.

That went pretty well. Man, fuck you. You almost shot me. Yeah, but I didn't.

thought I looked really good. Really good. All right.

See you on the other side.

Come on. Dump, dump, dump it. What? Everything.

The gun?

Yeah, the gun. Come on. Use your hand.

Let's get the hell out of here. Yeah.

You got a freaking distance between us and that van.

I got about ten minutes, but this place is flooded with cops.

Look, I got nobody left in L .A. who gives a shit about me, so I'm open to

ideas. My uncle can get us not just out of the city, but out of the whole damn

country. For real? No bullshit.

He's tapped in.

We just need a phone.

No. No.

We gotta go.

That

was

fun. Fun?

Yeah. Give me undercover in the field any day. That is my jam.

When I'm at a desk, I'm gonna scratch my eyes out.

How you feeling?

Like I'm gonna punch Meacham in the throat next time I see him.

You real? You think I agreed to let him fire a live round in my head?

Yeah, that was, uh, that's pretty crazy.

And then he died on my birthday.

Aw.

Happy birthday.

How many candles?

Four -oh.

My gravestone was almost perfectly symmetrical.

Oh, wow. I thought you were a... If you say older, we're going to have a

problem.

38. Man, I thought you were 38.

Mm -hmm.

Dag. Huh?

By the way, I know Shepard is playing some kind of prize for me, but now I've

got to act like, oh, wow, thank you so much, when we get back to headquarters.

Yeah? Is the thing going to dry? Yeah.

Yeah, I barely tapped it.

Put some glycol in a canteen next to the radiator so when we bump the curb,

it'll spill out in the smoke.

Oh.

Hey, anything?

I'm expanding the search for derivations on the name Volchek, spelling it with a

CK, spelling it with two Ls, and so far I have convicted men still serving time

or dead guys who haven't yet cleared the system. Well, I have run NCIC, Bureau

of Indices, LAPD gang database, and I've started on DHS and State, CBP entries,

ICE files, US visas, and so far I am coming up legs.

Okay, that's good.

Oh, uh, quick question.

Yeah. Cake or cupcakes for Fina?

Uh, I don't know. What are you thinking?

Well, I mean, cupcakes are great because they get an assortment of flavors.

Great, cupcakes.

Yeah, but, I mean, cake is more personal, you know? Like, hey, we did

for you.

Okay, I can see that.

Yeah, cupcakes are like, sure, we care.

But do we?

Now I know what's at the top of your college application.

Evan Shepard is detail -oriented.

Actually, okay, so I was on the school newspaper, and our principal had set up

PayPal account for the PTA donations, controlled by himself, of course. Of

course. And our school was not rich at all. I mean, I'm talking a few thousand

from parents that really didn't have that much to give.

Sure. And I just wanted a new printer for the paper.

Mr. Spolatro cried poor. He said, school's out of money.

And I'm like, something's up.

So I did break into his computer.

And not by any special skills or anything.

I mean, he taped his password under the keyboard. But it turns out he had

transferred all the money to his personal account.

And guess how much a new hot tub costs?

Which he had just installed in his backyard.

I broke the story.

Mr. Spolatro went to jail.

And I went to Stanford.

Well, they're very lucky to have you.

Keep it up.

Yeah.

Take it in.

As far as I could tell, he bought it all the way. They took off running and are

in the wind. As soon as Meacham reaches out, I want to know.

Of course.

Good work.

Thanks, sir.

Go on.

If this guy knows the name Bolchak, Meacham will get it.

Hey. Hey, babe. I know you can't talk right now, but the girls have soccer

school, so I moved to Lucille's reservation from 7 to 7 .30.

Yeah.

Um, I don't think I'm gonna be able... No, I'll be there.

7 .30?

Listen, if you can't make it... No, no, no.

Forget I said that.

Okay, I'll see you when the girls are 7 .30.

I'll have to meet you there, though. No problem. We will see you there.

Love you.

Love you, too.

District Attorney Valwell's here.

In the lobby?

On the way up.

DA Valwell, this is a restricted area. I just received a very disturbing call

from my friend, Warden Gil Thompson.

The Palmdale corrections?

I believe you told him a man on your task force was going to oversee the

transfer of one of its convicted inmates?

Except there was no transfer.

Instead, there was a bright idea to aid and abet and escape.

Have I lost my mind?

Is that what I just said, that you allowed a convict to... Let me stop you

there. I'm not on trial, and this isn't a courtroom, so you can stop performing

like you're in front of a jury.

You're not allowed up here.

I don't care who you are. You don't have the clearance.

And I will not have you or anybody else tell me how to run my investigation.

Your investigation destroyed government property.

damaged relationships with the DOC, and is in fact right now endangering the

lives of Angelenos that I have sworn to protect.

An armed convict is out on the streets, free as a bird, doing God knows what.

You know, I tried with you.

I really tried.

I offered you a helping hand, but you decided to bite it off. Hey, hey, hey.

I've worked three task forces with Nathan Blythe, and he is the best

I've ever seen. I don't give a rat's ass. Endangering the lives of Angelenos?

Dammit. No, Nathan, no, no, no.

I'm not going to let this go unchecked.

SAC Blythe is one of the only people standing between the citizens of this

in a very dangerous, very imminent threat.

But you want to be governor someday. Is that what this is all about?

You want to get up and own business so you can take credit. Or you can avoid

blame, depending on which way the wind blows.

But you know what? This isn't politics to us.

This is what we fucking breathe.

So go mark your territory somewhere else on some other day.

Let's go.

I have plenty of friends in Sacramento and more in D .C.

So hear me now, both of you.

Your days on this half -force are numbered.

Yeah, we need a phone. I'll line up a ride to my uncle's place. He'll get us

no problem.

Hey, we got 40 seconds till that thing locks again.

Let's go.

Hey, yo.

Yo, is this you?

Sorry? Is this yours?

I'm sorry, what?

This coffee is yours. Oh, no. I didn't get a coffee. Oh, my bad. I thought it

was yours.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Oh, shit.

Hey,

hey, hey. I'm good.

Okay. Can I buy you something?

I'm fine. I got it. My bad, y 'all. I'm sorry.

Sorry.

Okay, my cousin is going to meet us one block over.

All right, let's do the phone.

I'll get rid of this thing before he turns on the tracking app. Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

Let's go.

Don't we want the cake?

Yep. All right.

Oh, wow. Looks great.

I agree.

Except it's a happy birthday final.

What? No.

No, no, no, no, no. Yeah.

I smelled it for him twice.

That's okay. All we have to do is...

You heard from Meacham yet?

No.

Fuck you, Timur, you...

I'm like a son to you.

Good night, Dmitry.

What the hell are you doing here?

Uncle, calm down. Calm down?

Who the hell did you bring to my restaurant?

Why are you yelling?

I just got out of prison.

Got out?

How did you get out?

I got out on my own.

You don't understand that you will bring here a cop, a whore.

You mean I get to hit the head? The toilet?

The hallway.

Where did I go wrong?

He didn't help me. He threw me here.

Where did you go wrong?

Not here.

You don't understand that you didn't throw me here.

Zola Bear?

Hey, listen, I don't have time to talk, okay? We're still on this phone.

Have Shepard keep it online in case the owner tries to block it. Okay. You can

just track me with it. Got it. You okay?

Yeah. Hey, nice work on selling the escape, by the way.

If he knows we're going to murder you.

Yeah, well, hopefully he gets a chance.

You sure you're okay?

Yeah, you know what it's like. You're not really living unless you're supposed

to die.

What? I gotta go.

I just heard we meet him.

How'd he sound?

I'm not sure.

I got a bad feeling, though.

What did he say?

Some bullshit.

I'm reading between the lines. You got a location?

He stole a phone. Shepard's tracking it. Did he directly ask for backup?

No.

Well, what do you want to do, boss? Do you want to put eyes on him or give him

some rub?

And you start screaming at me for two seconds after I walked through the door.

So I will scream at you.

Oh, hey, man.

I'm just looking for the bathroom.

What are you doing down here?

Like I just said, I was looking for the bathroom. I got a little twisted around.

The bathroom right next to the stairs?

Yeah, yeah. I must have missed it. And I don't believe you.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's going on here?

Zyapy, Zyapy.

Zyapy, Zyapy, you don't know what you did.

Who is this?

He saw this.

What's happening here, man? Come on.

Okay.

Okay. And if you try to resist... I will bury a bullet in your skull. Do you

understand? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Look, may I just listen to your nephew, all right? Shut up and move! All right.

Take

it

easy, my guy.

I don't know what I walked into here, but if you just point me south...

Come

on, man. I've spent a lifetime in jail. I can keep my mouth shut, okay?

the fuck up i'm like a champion and say nothing see nothing the whole thing come

on man listen to your nephew this is the bullshit just go forward listen out

that door go okay all right

All right, come on. All right, come on, man, that's enough. Look, just let me

run and you'll never see me again, okay?

Come on, tell him. Tell him I know you. Tell him I saved your ass when you were

gonna get shat.

Both of you, shut the fuck up. You, on your knees.

Do it.

Do it.

All right.

This thing will be some trouble anyway.

But you know what? You're going to look me in the eye when you do it.

Fuck you.

What's that?

Meet him! Who's suspect?

I'll have to leave one more in sight!

It is a truth.

Where are you heading? Where are you heading?

Amen. What?

Amen. You sure?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bro?

Somebody call an ambulance.

We need a 10 -1 immediately at Chestnut and Brandt.

I'm losing him. I saw something in the basement they didn't want me to see.

Officer Drew.