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NYPD, open up.

Got word from our dispatch you're silent alarm tripped.

No, I don't think so.

Name? Width.

Gary Width.

I'm not security here.

Everything's fine, officer.

We still gotta check the premises.

On your knees now.

This is a big mistake.

I worked here.

I haven't done anything wrong.

Not true.

You let us in.

Security.

You're not going to be able to get in there.

Security systems down.

We're good to go.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy our games, but why do I feel that you've

coming here for another reason?

You have good stories. I like to hear them. That's all.

You're thinking Ponda F4. My knight will take it, you'll recapture, and your

queen will be exposed.

Oh, my God. Maybe I should stop coming to see you.

Hmm? Now you're eyeing your bishop?

Peter!

Let me play.

Oh, no.

Yeah. Duty called.

Oh, we got a heist at the Rushman Gallery.

One dead.

Don't tease me. Come on. Give me a peek. I can't do that.

You don't work for the BAU anymore?

I don't know.

Retired is retired.

Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.

Come on. One little look won't hurt here.

The alarm didn't trip.

On -duty guard was murdered, and the thieves made out with five paintings.

All on loan in a cultural exchange from European allies.

Which is why it's in our jurisdiction.

The guard's murder wasn't part of their plan, you know.

Well, I guess we'll see.

Mm -hmm. Bye, Peter.

Have a good day.

Hey.

Away inside already?

Yeah. How are you holding up? Oh,

how have I seemed?

I don't know. Missed Amy, too.

Look, I'm here to talk if you want.

Thanks, Maggie.

Probably better to just focus on the day -to -day, though, right?

I hear you.

I got this.

All right.

Morning. Special Agents Skola and Bell.

You the owner?

Walter Massari, yes.

Gary Wittek had been working here going on 13 years.

Kind man.

Loyal. Father of two.

Sorry for your loss.

It's like he was zip -tied over there. Must have got out of them and made a run

for them.

He really cared about this place.

Maybe too much.

So what did they take?

It's a fiasco.

This exhibit is a high -profile international cultural exchange.

Every painting in here is essentially priceless.

Those were on loan from France, Denmark, Ukraine, and those were lent by the

Orsini family in Italy.

Not only did they take out the interior cameras, they also demagnetized the

whole system.

All right, what about the backup to the cloud? They wiped those too.

They knew exactly how to stay invisible.

That'd be an inside job, no?

Maybe. I could take offense to that.

So are we thinking they took Gary's key card to get in here?

No, no, they'd need more than a basic work badge to do that.

Only a few employees can access this gallery after hours.

Upper management.

You upper management?

I wouldn't benefit from this if that's what you're implying.

The lenders retain legal ownership of the pieces, and they all have nail -to

-nail policies in place to cover for any eventuality.

We're going to need the name of every employee with access.

Morning, folks. So last night, thieves broke into the Rushman Gallery and

murdered this guy, Gary Wittek, who was the on -duty guard. They made off with

five paintings and... seem to cover their tracks.

Combined value of the paintings is worth an estimated $31 million.

Yeah, but on the black market, it'd only be worth a fraction of that. All right,

well, a fraction of a big number is still big. And it looks like they came

with a shopping list.

which suggests they already had a buyer lined up. So how do we track down our

murderers? Well, the special exhibit is protected by a laminated glass door to

maintain environmental conditions for art preservation. It can only be

with a designated key card. But the thieves wiped the gallery's security

Except that this key card reader stores all data on an internal drive. I was

able to access the log and see who swiped in last night. At 1 .41 a .m.,

door was unlocked by Teresa Almonte, special exhibit director at the Rushman.

Okay, what do we know about her? Teresa started at the Rushman right out of grad

school, PhD in art history, had several essays published in respected academic

journals.

Doesn't exactly scream criminal mastermind. Well, three months ago, she

defaulted on her student loans.

The DOE default resolution group came knocking, demanding payment, jacked up

interest rates.

Last week, the government started garnishing her wages.

So she followed her passion. Next thing she knows, she's bankrupt.

That's the hat trick.

Means motive and opportunity.

Let's bring her in.

I can't believe this is happening.

Is Gary really dead?

Yeah, I'm afraid so.

I was tutoring him in art history.

Anything I gave him to read, he just... Oh, God. These poor kids.

We're aware of your financial situation.

You think I had something to do with it? Your key card was used to open the

special exhibit last night.

That's not right. Your wages are being garnished. Your back's up against the

wall. Makes sense that you throw these guys your key card. In return, they give

you a cut of the money. No, no, no. I have my key card right here.

I have it on me. It doesn't make a difference, okay?

They could have used it last night, given it back to you this morning. No,

listen.

I went into debt getting an advanced degree because to do what I do, you need

one. Now I earn $64 ,000 a year between bills and my student loans. It's not

enough to live on, but the Rushman Gallery is my whole life.

I would never do anything to jeopardize my position there.

What?

I think I know who did this.

A few days ago, I was walking the gallery, and this guy was like

just looking.

But on his way out, he started flirting with me.

So?

Men don't generally flirt with me, Agent Skola.

But he talked my ear off, asking me all about my job and the special exhibit and

the gallery.

His name was Cooper.

He said he liked my laugh.

We even swapped phone numbers, but later when I tried to text him, it just

bounced back.

You know about what time Cooper stopped by the gallery?

All right, folks, so Teresa Monti said a suspicious man came into the gallery

asking questions. I know our thieves wiped the security feed from that night,

but can we pull any footage from three days earlier?

Yeah, we should have access. Yeah?

Yeah, here we go. All right, good news.

This is three days earlier, right? Let's scrub to midday. She said it was right

after her lunch.

Okay, stop it there. Let's watch.

That guy's looking suspicious to me, right?

He's aware of the camera. He's not giving us much for facial rec. Yeah, and

is he doing with his hand there? Zoom in?

Looks like he's scanning her key card. He's making a dupe.

Right. How do you do that? Well, it used to be you needed an RFID reader, but

now there are apps that can do it.

Kept Teresa talking, she didn't even notice.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, Mr.

Suspect, you gonna show us your face?

Come on, look up here.

Yes, here we go. That could be enough. Hang on.

Got it.

Jasper Ray.

A known art thief with a record of burglaries, trafficking in stolen goods,

a penchant for sex workers.

And he's about to add a murder rap to that list. Ping his phone.

Not finding him on any of the major providers.

Uh, he's got an alias. Cooper Mott.

Still nothing.

Okay, every database in here. Cooper Mott, Jasper Ray. If either of those

have popped up in the last 12 hours, I want to hear about it.

Got a hit. Mr. Cooper Mott just checked himself into the penthouse suite at the

Ravel Hotel.

The Ravel? Feeling flush.

Let's grab him.

FBI, open up!

Open it.

Clear.

Clear.

Come on, check it out.

Must have been the key card he made.

Yeah, but this is a 9mm.

That doesn't match the caliber of the gun that would kill the guard.

Could have had another weapon.

Wow.

That is a lot of cash.

You think they offloaded the paintings already?

Magnum.

FBI Jasper Ray hands where we can see them.

I'm on.

It's over.

We know that you broke into that gallery. We know that you killed that

No, no, no, that wasn't me. I didn't kill him. Okay, that's good.

We just want to talk to you.

You're not going to believe me.

We just want to hear what happened. This wasn't my fault, okay?

We didn't have any time to plan. They pushed us to do it this week.

Who did?

No, no idea what these people are capable of, all right?

Then tell us.

We can help you.

Stop. Stop.

No, it's okay. Don't come forward! Jasper. You can't help me!

No one can.

Hey, no! Jasper!

What the hell just happened?

Why would he jump over some paintings?

There's something else going on here.

Something bigger.

All right, people.

There's more to this robbery than just stolen paintings, and we need to figure

out what it is.

Now, unfortunately, Jasper Ray, our only suspect, elected to jump to his death

rather than rat out the people who hired him. Ballistics confirm Jasper's gun

wasn't used to kill Gary Wittek.

Well, it sounds like he had a partner. This was definitely a two -man job.

so Jasper's partner's our best bet to track down the buyer, so how can we ID

him? Hey, I just got off the phone with the art crimes team.

This is Cecil LaFont.

He was a highline fence until he started working for us. They say if anybody

knows who Jasper's been working with these days, it'd be LaFont. All right,

let's put that to the test.

Oh, the interrogation room.

This venue meant to frighten me?

Could have just asked if you needed help on the nastiness that went down with

the rushman.

An innocent guard was killed during that robbery.

Yeah, I heard.

It's a tragedy.

Well, we know one of the thieves was Jasper Ray, but we actually think it was

his partner who pulled the trigger.

Jasper's a small time.

Yeah, he's good with tech, but not a murderer. We were told that you might

who Jasper's been running with.

Hmm. One thing at a time.

My cooperation agreement has become a burden.

So this information, if I have it, will complete our arrangement.

And I would like a guarantee that I have satisfied our deal.

Why would we do that?

A source may have told me one of the Rushman pieces is

already on the market.

Who's trying to move it?

He doesn't meet with strangers.

He's twitchy. He's paranoid.

Believe me when I tell you, he could never get close.

But he would meet with you.

All right, this guy's going to be here in a few seconds. Let's go over the

details again. This is Evan Hessel, our second gallery thief and Jasper Ray's

partner in crime.

Hessel did a seven -year bid for armed robbery of a museum back in 2010.

He's known to be smart but violent. Right now, he is our best chance at

whoever is behind this heist. Right. Now, cooperators, set up this in -person

meeting with Evan Hessel under the guise of a block market sale.

If Hessel's willing to sell one of the Richmond paintings, he will know where

the others are stacked.

Exactly.

Only question is, do we have the right guy playing our crooked buyer?

Come on now. I was born for this.

Where's your buddy here? He's already, what, ten minutes late?

I left you home.

He trusts me.

No sign of Evan Hessel yet.

Wait. Is that him?

Yep.

We have eyes on the target. He's about 15 seconds away from you.

Yep, copy that. Remember, we just need to confirm Hessel is in possession of

of the Rushman paintings, and then we follow him to his stash house.

Ah, here he is.

Evan.

This better be worth it.

I am a habit of wasting your time.

Sit.

My client, Mr. Forsyth.

So you're a private equity guy?

$765 million?

Under management, looking to expand my collection.

Sotheby's not good enough?

What can I tell you? You just said that you came into some pieces.

I was intrigued.

What firm?

Offshore Capital.

Never heard of it.

Are we looking here? He's on our site.

While he's browsing, I'll backdoor into his contacts, pull his text

conversation. Going for extra credit.

I like it.

You want my college transcripts as well?

Serious here? Adam, please.

Mr. Forthight's pedigree is beyond reproach.

Who's in your collection?

What, you want to know how many original Cult of Biancos I have? This is

ridiculous. I don't need this. Sue will call me later.

Wait, wait.

I do have an early 20th century piece I could part with.

All right, he bought it.

What? Come on, but you said he had five.

No, I heard he had five.

Four are already spoken for.

But I am willing to part with the Freedmen. My price at two mil gallery

charge twelve.

Okay, Hessel just confirmed you're still in possession of the stolen painting.

Maggie O .A., get ready to tail this guy to his stash house.

We're on the board.

Two million's a deal, Stuart.

I take it.

All right, I'm going to need to see the condition of the piece. You got a photo

so I can check the extent of the damage? Money first, man.

Okay.

I'm not going to hand you $2 million out here on the street. You know that.

Just show him the photos, Evan.

His money is green.

Heading to the river. We'll double back.

Evan Hessel, you're under arrest.

Interstate transport of stolen property, 10 years. Theft of major artwork, 10

years. It's a violation of the International Cultural Treaty.

That's judge's discretion, but spoiler alert, minimum 10 years.

We can place you at the gallery.

And ballistics confirm that the round that killed Gary Wittek was, in fact,

your gun.

That's murder during the commission of a federal felony. We have you dead to

rights, Evan.

So really the only question is, are you going to do the smart thing and tell us

what's going on?

Come on.

Who are your buyers?

Okay, why did you have to rob the gallery this week? Well, what was the

can't help you.

Okay, clearly you're in a tough position.

I mean, we know that Jasper was afraid of your buyers. That's why he jumped off

the roof of a building earlier today.

Yeah.

We want to protect you, Evan, but we can't do that unless you tell us who

are.

They sent me a picture of my son.

Your buyers did?

Yeah.

Walking up to our apartment, Eli's seven.

They knew his name.

They knew everything about me. They made it clear.

Hit up the Rushman this week, or they'd hurt me, my family. I didn't know what

else to do.

No idea what they had on Jasper, but it was something we knew we had to work

quick and never look back.

Did you meet your buyers in person?

Did you ID a photo?

No, we never met.

They cold contacted us over signal.

No number.

No name.

Offered 75K each in cash up front plus a shopping list.

Even told me I could keep the Freeland for myself.

What did you do with the paintings?

Where are they now?

We dropped them.

At a storage unit.

The second half of our cut was there.

That's all I know.

I swear.

All right, talk to me about the storage unit in Little Haiti. Unit F938, but the

name on the rental agreement's a fake. We checked it against every database we

can think of coming up empty. Yeah, they paid for the unit in Cass. There's no

way to ID the people who commissioned the robbery. Which led to the murder of

Gary Wittek. What about eyes on the unit? They have an older model CCTV

I'm piggybacking it now.

Okay, I'm into the cloud backup.

Yeah, this is from 3 a .m. last night. That is unit F938 on the left.

Yeah, okay, there they are.

Our two thieves, Jasper Ray and Evan Hassel, dressed up as NYPD.

Explains how they got in the gallery without tripping the alarm. They drop

paintings, pick up the payment.

In and out, less than three minutes.

Let's go forward. Maybe we're lucky enough to catch our buyers picking up

paintings.

When was this?

18 minutes ago.

I want eyes on every road leading out of that storage facility.

Send Maggie and O .A. to that location now.

Jubal, we're outside of the unit. No sign of the buyers.

Well, they must have grabbed the paintings and flipped to a blind spot.

you can find any evidence we can use to ID him.

Open it.

It's them.

What?

They're all here.

These buyers went through a lot of trouble to get these paintings.

And we know they were just here.

This doesn't make sense, Maggie.

What are we missing?

So, you recovered the missing paintings, you prevented an international fiasco,

and you solved a murder.

Yet, something's bothering you.

The Byers knew everything about the Tice crew.

They leveraged them to rob the gallery on their timetable.

They were meticulous, motivated. They were careful every single step of the

They were even at the storage unit before we were. They could have taken

paintings.

They didn't.

How do you explain that?

Behavioral anomaly.

Well, either your meticulous buyers made one big mistake... Or they let

us find the paintings on purpose.

So what exactly are we looking for?

I'm not sure.

We know that there were 31 minutes between when the buyers cut the CCTV

we arrived.

That is more than enough time to take the paintings and go.

Maybe they were being extra cautious, kill the cameras, come back later for

art. I don't think so.

Look, they cut these four paintings out of their frames, but then for some

reason left this one intact.

The Knife Grinder, painted in 1912 by Ukrainian artist Kazimir Malovich, who

founded the Suprematism style.

What's going on here?

Looks like discoloration.

Yeah, the edges of the canvas are more saturated.

Could have sustained damage over the years. Can you pull up a photo of it

hanging in the gallery?

Sure, hang on.

No discoloration.

How's that possible?

Do you see that this frame is narrower than that one?

You're right. I mean, we're talking only a fraction of an inch, but those frames

aren't the same width.

What if they use that 31 minutes to swap the frame?

So the frames were switched.

And then the new frames exposed paint that had been covered up for years that

would never fade it. Okay. I need you to pull this from evidence. I want to

check it out myself.

We don't have it anymore.

Why? It was returned to the lender, the Ukrainian consulate. The Ukrainian

consulate? The buyers took the painting on purpose, swapped the frame because

they knew we were going to return it.

And these other four were just decoys?

What if they put something in the frame?

A Trojan horse. Could be a surveillance device.

That is a massive play.

Smuggling something into a foreign consulate on U .S. soil.

Okay, we need to run this up the ladder.

Hey, this is Anna Vorp, a counterintelligence officer from OGA.

Special Agent Bell, the Dan.

Pleasure. OGA, other government agency.

Indeed. Isabel has sung her praises. How's my girl doing?

She's getting better every day. Good.

She knows how this game is played.

So I understand that you're concerned about some dusty old paintings, and for

some reason you need counterintelligence to weigh in. Did I get that right?

Well, we suspect someone hid a surveillance device inside a painting's

spy on the Ukrainian consulate. And we were wondering if we didn't just stumble

over another three -letter agency's op.

I know you don't speak for all of them. No, I can, actually.

And the answer is no.

If the U .S. wanted to spy on the Ukrainians, we wouldn't need a painting

it. We'd have planted microphones in the walls when we renovated their building

seven and a half years ago. But I admit that the timing is concerning.

What was that?

Well, there's a rumor that earlier this week the Ukrainians picked up Igor

Petrovich in the city.

A rumor?

A highly verified rumor.

They still have Petrovich detained at their consulate. So are we talking about

the Russian warlord?

Yeah, he's the head of the Strauss group. They're a well -funded private

full of ruthless mercenaries wanted by at least a dozen countries.

So you're saying he's been here in New York? We had a special unit hunting for

him on an ICC warrant, but handed to the Ukrainians. They got to him first.

Well, that makes sense.

He ordered a massacre on a Ukrainian town full of women and children.

Yeah, he's a real shoot first, think later kind of monster.

So if the Ukrainians scooped him up, they're going to want to fly him home to

make him face charges on their soil, right? Let's say there's no listening

device in the frame.

But what if there is an explosive?

One of Petrovich's enemies is trying to take him out.

All right, people, eyes up. This is Anna Vorp with OGA.

She'll be running point with us. Now listen, right now, Igor Petrovich, the

Russian warlord and head of the notorious Strauss group, is being held

in the Ukrainian consulate. And to make matters worse, we believe an unknown

third party is planning to assassinate him on U .S. soil.

That would have major geopolitical ramifications. The whole world...

Wants this monster dead or alive, so let's be the team that finally brings

in once and for all. I'm on hold with the Ukrainian Consul General, just to

him a heads up. Okay, our team is en route to the consulate, just in case.

Okay, great.

NSA, liaise with GCHQ.

DOJ. Hey, wake up our legal attachés in London and Brussels.

See if they have any intel as to who could be behind this play.

As the dice roll, Strauss Group has marks in Nigeria, Sudan, Libya. There's

shortage of enemies who want to take this guy off the board.

Jubal, phone line just went dead.

What? You trying to back?

I can't get through.

Okay, what's going on here, people? Okay, boss, yeah, it looks like there

power outage, some kind of surge. It's isolated, though. It just hit one

building. The Ukrainian consulate. Yeah. All right, talk to me. What could do

this? A low -yield, short -range, custom -built EMP. That must have been what

was hidden in that frame.

Well, whatever it is, it just blew out every circuit in that building.

Whoever's coming to take out Petrovich, it's happening now.

Warn our field teams.

Maggie?

FBI don't vote!

Who got eyes on Petrovich?

Let's go!

AK -47.

Where are they taking him?

He's free now.

They'll never find him.

Martian. From the Strass Group.

This wasn't an assassination.

No.

It was a rescue mission.

Our two Russian mercs...

just ripped Igor Petrovich out of Ukrainian custody in broad daylight.

Now, where the hell did they go? Come on. It turns out the plates on the van

were stolen, but we issued a bolo based on the van's description.

These guys did their homework. Whatever route they're taking, they're not

showing up on traffic cams. Yeah, well, the Strauss group is well -funded and

trained in urban warfare. We are not letting them get away.

Jubal, they finished processing the Russian that Maggie wounded.

Okay, thank you. Keep looking.

You coming?

Why not?

Sneaking a custom EMP into a foreign consulate.

Human smuggling of a wanted Russian warlord, attempted murder on federal

I'm not going to lie to you, Andrei.

This is going to land on you like a hammer.

Unless you talk to me.

How are you planning on getting your friend out of the country?

You're asking me to kill my own brother?

No, I'm asking you to cooperate.

You don't understand.

I did not free Petrovich out of loyalty.

This man is nobody's friend. He rules with money and cruelty.

Wait, so what does this have to do with your brother?

Mikhail is in Belarus.

Petrovich could get to him easily.

It's his insurance policy.

He saw me fall today. He knows you have me.

If I give up Petrovich now, he will have Mikhail killed.

I cannot help you.

You cannot help me.

What if I can guarantee your brother's safety?

You cooperate with us, and we will get him out of Belarus.

Who is she?

Nobody.

Okay, so listen up. One of Petrovich's men just revealed they're moving their

boss to a private airfield somewhere outside the city.

Unfortunately, he was never told the exact name.

There are at least a half dozen options.

All right, let's narrow that down. I want everyone on this. We know they were

driving a black Sprinter van, stolen plates.

We should be up on traffic cams on every highway heading out of the city.

Hey, I think I got him. Yeah? Heading towards the 59th Street Bridge. Yeah,

yeah, yeah.

Okay, so what is in that direction?

Liberty Airport in Long Island is their best bet.

That's got to be it.

Okay, sending our team to head them off.

Maggie? Yep, see it?

Eyes on the van.

They know we're on their tail now.

Skola, they're headed west.

South on Gapton.

We got him pinned in.

Moving west on Queens Plaza.

Joanie? Jubal, suspects are fleeing on foot. We're in pursuit.

The van is clear. Hey, keep this place locked down.

It's not him.

I don't have him.

Hey, Maggie, you know I got the mercs.

Scola, you're on Petrovich.

Be careful. He is dangerous.

Petrovich! It's over.

Show me your hands.

Hands!

Hey, Jubal, it's not him.

That's not Petrovich either. No, that's Ronan Vosnoboy, another one of his

private soldiers.

Right, but Maggie saw three men get into that van.

Two Morks and Petrovich. Something's not adding up.

How the hell did we lose him? I don't get it. I'm looking at traffic cams. The

van never stops after leaving the consulate. There was no time to drop him

anywhere.

The van.

Heads up, Petrovich never got out of the van. He is still in there.

Go away.

Yeah, I heard that.

Hey, take him.

An oxygen tank.

We have two officers down. Send Ambo to our location.

What the hell happened?

Petrovich was hiding in a false compartment.

So they could smuggle him into the airport.

Jubal, we lost Petrovich. Hey, did you see someone?

Which way did they go? He ran that way.

Okay, wait with them.

Let's move.

Jubal, we think that Petrovich came into the food market. We need to set up a

perimeter. Yeah, I'm already on it. This is not good. This place is packed with

civilians.

Yeah, he did this on purpose.

The group killed civilians with a tactic.

You need to approach with extreme caution, okay? I'll go around, flank us

other side.

Let's move.

Is this the only angle we have? The market has limited cameras. I want every

view you can find. We need eyes at the market. Jubal, he won't care how many

people he kills.

Send every resource we have. All right? All hands on deck.

Send all the medical you can.

We need to get down.

I lost her. Get down.

I got him.

Away.

I don't have a shot.

I don't either.

Hey, move, move.

Because he's got a hostage.

FBI, drop your weapon.

I said, drop your weapon.

She's innocent.

Drop your weapon and we can talk.

Give me helicopter to Liberty Airport or I blow her brains all over the place.

All right, Jubal, we need a sniper team and a negotiator here.

I don't know, Skola. Just wait.

I'm a charter jet.

You hear me? Direct to Moscow.

Ten minutes or her death will be on your soul.

Come with me.

One step closer, she dies. Maggie, what are you doing?

Back away.

Maggie.

Back away.

Now.

Or I kill you.

Then do it.

Igor Petrovich, you're under arrest.

How'd you know it was empty?

You shoot first, think later kind of monster.

He wasn't shooting.

Hey. I just wanted to say it was great riding with you, Valentine.

Yeah, yeah, me too.

One more thing.

Regarding Andre Orlov's brother in Belarus.

Yeah.

It's the big no -can -do.

Okay, but we looked into that guy's eyes. We told him we'd protect his

You're new to the SAC chair.

If it's how the game is played.

I know it doesn't feel like it, but that was a win.

The way you read Petrovich, like a book, it's just brilliant.

Flattering me, I see.

Hoping I leave my diagonal open.

Nice try.

You have a gift, Maggie.

You are a natural profiler.

BAU would be lucky to have you.

And I would be very happy to put in a word.

No. Well, yeah, thank you. But that's not what I want.

I love where I am. I love my team.

Then what do you want?

I think this past year is...

made me feel off balance.

I feel like when I look around, I don't really recognize the world anymore.

So I guess I was hoping that if I could get deeper into the minds of the

criminals that were hunting, then maybe I could make sense of something.

I think you're well on your way.

However, your chess strategy still needs some work.