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[ door opens ]

[ door closes ]

A table for lunch.

For yourself?
No.

I'm, uh --
I'm meeting someone.

[ clears throat ]

Would you like anything
to drink, sir?

No.

Actually, yes.

Martini, vodka,
straight up.

Yes, sir.

[ door opens ]

[ swallows ]

Waiter.

[ swallows ]

[ groans ]

Check! Please.

I was supposed to meet one of
your attachés 45 minutes ago.

My name is aldrich ames.

I work for the cia.

I think he'll want to meet
with me...

...After he reads this.

Hartman: 21 before 9:00
right now. For most of us,

Pancakes are something we eat
at breakfast,

Then add a few other things
to the crepe...

Sandy:
You're kidding me, right?

Nobody wears that
to your school.

Everybody wears this
to school.

The boys, too?
[ giggles ]

Tell mom this is normal.

Sandy, I've been instructed
to inform you

That the obscene clothing
your daughter is wearing

Is, in fact, normal.
[ scoffs ]

Dad!

I appreciate
the fighting spirit.

Honest, I do.
Now go change.

[ scoffs ]

Thanks for having my back.

It's us against them.

You okay?

Hey, you better hurry.
You'll miss the bus.

Yeah, I got to run.
Mm.

Bye.

Jennings: One thing
that's become very clear

About the soviet position
in the last several months

Is their outright antagonism

To the president's
star war proposal.

The soviet threat
was there this morning

On the front page of the
communist-party newspaper --

"unless there is an end
to the star wars project,"

Said pravda,

"there will be a new and deadly
spiral of the arms race."

Our bureau chief in moscow,
walter rodgers,

Has a report on the overall
soviet attitude

To negotiations.

Rodgers: The thaw
in soviet-american relations

Has been enthusiastically
welcomed by the soviet people.
[ elevator bell dings ]

For more than a year,

They've been told
the United States

Was on the brink of launching
a nuclear war.

With the superpowers now
launching disarmament talks,

The russian people are eager
for them to succeed.

Grimes.

Staffer, wally's office,
five minutes.

Last-second heebie-jeebies.

Who panicked?

Ames.

He's got his head
up his ass.

[ chuckles ]
you are a model of compassion.

I call them as I see them.

Which is why you have
so many friends.

Oh, but you still love me,
though, right?

Hey.
6:00 p.M. In moscow.

Do you know where
your case officer is?

Getting drunk
with the kgb.

Oh, staffer
in five minutes.

Austin's office, I know.
Thanks, louisa.

Good morning, lorraine.
Nightly cable traffic.

Okay, two routine,
one night action,

Three immediate,
all restricted cases.

Also, there's a staffer.

Aldrich:
It's a mistake.

He doesn't want to take the cash
across the border.

Dead-dropping money inside
the soviet union's too risky.

The asset
picks up the package

And anyone could see him
with it.

But having him travel
with the money is just as bad.

There are kgb agents
at every border crossing.

Sandy, 20,000 rubles is not easy
to conceal

In a dead-drop location.

If they find cash on him,
they'll kill him.

Cash could be a sign of criminal
activity, not espionage.

And anyway, this is a perfect
opportunity to show him

That we are capable of
communicating with him

Inside the soviet union.

The asset code named
gt weigh

Is a highly placed
kgb officer.

He was a primary asset for us
in the '70s.

He gave us invaluable intel
on overseas operations.

When he resurfaced
10 weeks ago,

We promised him more money,

And we need to make good
on that promise.

But more than that,
we need to prove to him --

To ourselves --

That we can run a viable
operation inside kgb territory

Right under their noses.

Okay. Why prove it
with such a valuable asset?

If this is a test case,
let's use a small fry.

This isn't a test case,
rick!

It's how we do business.
It's what we do.

Art.

Don't look at me, wally.

It's why they pay you
the big bucks.

Drop the money.

Tell moscow
to move forward.

And keep me updated.

Sandy:
Restricted access.

Immediate action traffic,
moscow station.

Proceed with gt weigh funds
dead drop as discussed.

Update asap.

"proceed with gt weigh.

"funds drop.

As discussed."

Here we go, chief.

Just hope they know
what they're doing.

I hope we all know
what we're doing.

You move with foot traffic
and you blend in,

Especially around bars.
Understood.

Double back on every
other street corner,

Two hours' worth
at the very least.
Got it.

And look for casuals --
men in parked cars,

Pedestrians who change direction
ahead or behind you.

You drop only when you are
positive you are black.

Absolutely positive.

Jack,
I've done this before.

You be safe.

[ wings fluttering ]

[ horn honks ]

Traffic from moscow station?

[ light knock on door ]

Sorry about earlier.

I just -- you know, I...

I didn't agree.

You're entitled
to your opinion, rick,

Even if it's wrong.

[ chuckles ]

Go for a smoke?

Trying to quit.

Good for you.

I wish.

Well...

Let me know
how it goes, huh?

[ woman speaking russian
over p.A. System ]

Arthur: Grimes.

Nothing yet.

Keep me informed.
Yeah, first to know.

All right.

[ shouting in russian ]

[ dog barking ]

You're breaking my arm!

[ barking continues ]

[ door closes ]

Get me up to speed.

We were proceeding with
the dead drop for gt weigh.

Kgb officer
leonid poleshchuk.

Encrypted names only.

Oh, for crying out loud,
he's a human being.

Arthur.
Follow protocol.

For gt weigh in our operational
location in petrovsky park.

Our case officer started
the operation at...

1420, gmt.

I was told he had two hours to
evade detection and go black.
And then?

He never reported back
to his station chief.

Who was first contact
to us?

The case officer's wife
reported

That he hadn't
returned home.

What time was that?

1830, gmt.

So he took two hours
to go black,

Filled the drop, was arrested,

And his wife took an extra two
hours grace time and called us.

Arthur: We need to face facts
here, people --

They rolled up
our case officer.

They probably know why
he was there.

Which means...

Gt weigh's
been compromised.

Told you.
This was a really bad idea.

Rick,
not the moment for blame.

Whether our asset
has been compromised

Is a guess on our part.

Seems like an educated guess,
wallace.

Let's just focus
on what we know for sure.

Where's our case officer now?

We believe he's being held
in lubyanka prison.

Notify the state department.

Wake up the u.S. Ambassador.

Get your hands off me!
I am an american diplomat!

I work -- I work
at the u.S. Embassy!

I am an american diplomat!
Ohh!

I work at the u.S. Embassy.

[ russian accent ]
20,000 rubles.

That's a lot of money.

I'm an american diplomat

Working at the u.S. Embassy.

I hereby request that you call
the u.S. Ambassador

And alert him
to this illegal detention.

Yes.

Let's talk of legality.

You are american citizen

Leaving 20,000 rubles

In piece
of broken concrete...

In downtown moscow.

By any reading
of soviet law,

That speaks to impending
criminal activity.

You care to explain?

I'm an american diplomat,

Working
for the u.S. Embassy.

Perhaps it was for a woman.

Have you fallen in love

With one of
our russian beauties?

Hmm? A mistress?
Hmm?

She wants you
to take care of her.

That would be...

Plausible cover story.

What do you think?

Or shall we just be honest
with each other? Huh?!

You are no more
american diplomat

Than I am comrade worker
in lada factory!

We are both spies!

And caught you spying!

[ chair clatters ]

[ chair thuds lightly ]

[ sighs ]

You know...

All you really have to do
to make this all better,

To be released
to your family,

Is confirm that the man
we arrested was your asset.

Hey. Spit it out, grimes.

Our case officer's sitting
in a prison cell right now.

God only knows how the kgb
is interrogating him.

I'll call the state department,
they'll scream and yell,

And we'll get him
out of there.

But that's not what you're
really worried about, is it?

[ door closes ]

The asset -- poleshchuk.

I spent a month with him
in panama.

Wild man,
drank like a fish.

But I grew to like him.

He told me this story,

Said he wanted to bribe
a potential recruit

With a bottle of whiskey,

But his kgb boss
wouldn't pay for it.

That stuck in his craw
so bad,

The next day,
he volunteered for the cia.

[ chuckles ]

He's probably the only spy
we ever got

For a single bottle
of booze.

Well...
I could be wrong.

We can't be sure
he's been compromised.

Poleshchuk has a wife
and children.

He knew what he was
getting into.

Did he?
Are you so sure?

They'll haul him in front
of a phony judge,

They'll stage a mock trial,

Pronounce him guilty,
sentence him, and then --

They'll drag him out
into a courtyard

And put a bullet
in the back of his head.

Sandy...

It's not your fault.

I pushed to have him dead-drop
the money inside the ussr.

If I hadn't,
maybe he'd be free now,

Home with his family.

It was
the right thing to do.

But it blew up on us!

And we have
no idea why yet.

Grimes, you stay on task.

You keep your nose
to the grindstone,

But mostly you keep everything
in your life separate --

Work, family, assets.

You have got to
compartmentalize.

I don't know
if I can do that.

I don't know
if I'm that person.

Well...

If you can't,
this job will tear you apart.

[ door opens, closes ]

Poleshchuk:
There is only one place to have
a private conversation

In entire kgb building.

And do you know
where that is?

Broadcasting the name
of your employer in a bar

Might not be
the smartest move.

Maybe we should take this
conversation someplace else.

You and I,
we could be the best spy team.

[ laughs ]

Just the two of us --
paris or maybe tahiti.

I don't think so.

Oh.

I would be haunted
forever...

...If I didn't at least try.

[ glasses clink ]

He's part
of my diplomatic staff

And, by international law,
has immunity.

Interpreter: You have violated
the laws and integrity

Of the union
of soviet socialist --

We have absolute respect

For the territorial integrity
of the soviet union.

We make every attempt to abide
by your sovereign laws.

You are lying.

We know you run spies
in my country.

This is a terrible insult
to the soviet union.

We would not employ a spy within
the sovereign borders of --

20,000 rubles
was obviously...

That is not the issue here.
...A bribe...

To get our citizens
to betray their country.

If I have to get the white house
involved, I will.

[ click ]

I believe he hung up, sir.

You are being released
from detention.

The charges against you
still stand.

From this moment,

You are persona non grata
in soviet union.

You have two hours to collect
your belongings

And leave the country.

A letter to this effect has been
sent to your embassy.

He's here, isn't he?

In the building.

In another cell.

Russians have saying
about lubyanka prison.

They call it the tallest
building in moscow.

You know why?

Because,
from the basement,

You can see all the way
to siberia.

[ laughs ]

Our case officer has been
released from lubyanka.

He has two hours
to leave the country.

They're putting him
on a plane right now.

[ applause ]

All right.
Thank you.

One crisis averted.

I'll write
to all station chiefs.

You handled gt weigh
in the past.

Let them know
there's a possibility

He's been compromised.
Good.

And, sandy...

Ask them to double check
their operations.

Employees with access,

Communications,
tradecraft --

Compromise could have come
from anywhere --

A tiny mistake
from any of them.

You tell them to look hard.

Louisa: Uh, hey.

Austin said you had
an immediate-action cable

To go to como?

Uh, yeah.

You knew him.

I'm sorry.

We don't know
that he's been lost.

You're right.
My mistake.

[ grunting ]

Ah!

[ grunts ]

[ grunts ]

[ gun cocks ]

I did everything
you told me to do.

I took two hours
going black.

I was alone well before
I got to the park.

Is there any chance
you missed your tail?

I don't think so.

No, the tradecraft was good.

Did anything strike you
as different,

Out of the ordinary
when you left the embassy?

They follow me out of that
embassy every single day.

Every day,
it's always the same.

It was the same last night.

The kgb --
they're relentless.

What about at the park,
before the arrest?

Was there anything,
you know, strange or...?

I saw someone.

I thought it might have
been the asset.

He waved, but then...

It all happened so fast.

Wallace:
Let's take a 10-minute break.

One more thing.

My interrogator at lubyanka

Kept asking me
to confirm the name of the asset

I was dropping for, but...

I think he already knew.

Sandy: If the man in the park
was the asset,

Why would he come
to the dead drop?

The whole point
of a dead drop

Is you aren't in the same place
as your case officer, ever.

Maybe he was afraid
he was under suspicion.

He waved to warn
our case officer off the drop.
Sandy.

If that's the case,

The kgb wouldn't be sure
gt weigh was a spy.

They'll need more proof.

Sandy, sandy...

This came in
half an hour ago...

From a low-level in-place source
at lubyanka.

Poleshchuk was executed
yesterday.

[ paper rustles ]

We're gonna need a report
to take to the seventh floor

First thing
tomorrow morning.

[ breathing heavily ]

Jennings:
President reagan said today

That the great measure of
success at the geneva summit

Was his one-on-one
conversations alone

With mikhail gorbachev.

The soviets tried
in a couple of ways

To stop the american program
for a missile defense in space.

[ newscast chatter ]

Mom, where have you been?

I need to talk to you
about Saturday night,

Because benji parrell wants to
take me to this party, and --

Not now! [ sighs ]

[ sighs ]

That was bad.

I'll go apologize.

Talk?

You know I can't.

She's never around.

And when she is,
she's so obnoxious.

I can't stand
to be around her.

Yeah.

[ sneakers squeaking
and coach chattering ]

You ready?
I think so.

Keep it short
and to the point.

Wallace:
Art. Sandy...

Thanks for coming.

You know the director.

It's good to see
you again, sir.

Sir, as you probably know,

Our dead drop to gt weigh

Was intercepted two days ago
in moscow.

Our case officer
was arrested,

And we had reason to believe
our asset had been compromised.

Last night,
we learned with certainty

That gt weigh had been executed
in lubyanka prison.

We're now beginning the process
of investigating the nature --

I brought you here under
slightly false pretenses.

While I do want the d.C.I.

To hear the details
of the operation,

More importantly,

I wanted to fill you all in
on something else.

The compromise of gt weigh
is just the tip of the iceberg.

The situation is far worse
than you can possibly imagine.

We've lost more assets
in the last three months

Than at practically
any other time in our history.

[ manhole cover clatters ]

Gt taw was an extremely
successful tap

We'd been running on
a kgb phone line underground

In central moscow.

It was a highly restricted case.
Very few people knew about it.

The line was difficult
to access,

But the intel we gained on it
was invaluable --

Operational detail,
officer names,

Locations,
kgb strategic intelligence.

Three months ago,

While an officer was retrieving
tapes from a tapped line,

An alarm sounded.

We had set up the alarm
to warn case officers

In case the tap
had become compromised,

Which it had.

That was just the beginning.

Last month, a longtime asset
for us in munich

Was recalled by the kgb
to moscow.

They told him his grown son
had a health issue

Which needed his immediate
attention back home.

When the asset called family
friends in the soviet union

And established that the story
about his son was false,

We recommended he be
exfiltrated immediately.

The kgb came after him, hard.

We got lucky,

And the asset escaped unharmed.

He's currently in a safe house
inside the u.S.

But gt weigh, obviously, is not.

Either the kgb has gotten
extremely lucky of late

Or we have a serious problem
on our hands.

Whatever it is,
we are getting hammered,

Destroying our eyes and ears
inside the soviet union.

Not to mention
killing people.

[ bag rustles ]

This needs to stay in the
building as long as possible.

The president doesn't know.

The press certainly
cannot know.

We need to
figure this out fast.

Your team in s.E. Division

Needs to get their heads
back in the game

Before we go completely blind

And lose the damn cold war.

[ footsteps approaching ]

Whatever it is,
you will beat it.

You're the smartest,
the toughest,

The most heroic woman
I've ever met.

And is that okay?

I mean, do you want a wife
who can be that tough,

Who compartmentalizes
her life?

Family here, work there?

Who keeps secrets from
the one person she loves most?

We all keep secrets, sandy.

Imagine how much we'd worry

If we knew every single thing
about kelly's life...

[ chuckles ]

...If we knew every word
she said.

Sometimes a secret
keeps the hurt away.

You know,
I married you...

Because it was clear to me
you were out to save the world.

Whatever it took,
you would make that happen,

And that I would be proud of you
when you did.

Everyone in this family
knows why you do what you do.

But do you know
why you do it?

Because you are a warrior.

Protecting your country.

You do it for us.

To keep us safe.

[ exhales ]

I have to go back
to the office.

[ chuckles ]

I won't be waiting up.

[ sighs ]

Morning, guys.

[ beeping ]

The man in the park
who waved.

You been here all night?

He wasn't trying to warn
our case officer off the drop.

He was making sure
our case officer saw him,

Noticed him.

You didn't get any sleep,
did you?

The asset was here

When he waved.

The case officer said

That the kgb came
from around this building.

Well, look at the geography
of the park.

The asset
would have seen them.

He would've known
the kgb officers were there,

Hiding, waiting,
which means...

He wasn't the asset.

He was a plant, a double.

Which means...

The whole thing was a setup.

The kgb wanted to make sure

That it got reported
back to us

That the asset was followed
and arrested in the park --

To make it look like
they just figured out

That poleshchuk was a spy.

Maybe that they had suspicions,
had him under surveillance,

But they knew,

And they must have known
for a while.

I'd put even money

That poleshchuk had been sitting
in a jail

For a month
when they executed him.

The whole operation in the park
is meant to confuse us.

Pure theater.

And they'd only
put on a play if --

If they were covering up
something more important --

A lot more important.

Kgb's hiding
the true problem.

They have an in
to the agency, art.

They've cracked us.

[ sighs ]

Go home, get some sleep.
That's an order.

Oh, and, grimes --

See you tomorrow.

[ footsteps approach ]

Want to grab
an early smoke?

No. I quit -- for good.

You're leaving?

Yeah.
Been here a while.

Tell me --
solve gt weigh?

Not yet.

But we'll get there.

See you, rick.

[ softly ] see ya.

Gary: Wow.

Nobody leaves this house
without a nutritious breakfast.

What do they say
in the commercials?

The most important meal
of the day.

Now, that's a school outfit.

These are pajamas, mom.

Yeah, well,
they're appropriate pajamas.

I like them.
Gary?

Love them.
Boys will, too.

[ chuckles ]

Help yourself
if you want any more.

A feast.

[ laughs ]
maple syrup.

Yay.

They got an in to our setup.

We just got to peel back
the layers and find it.

Your concept?

No, a group came up
with it.

Well...

Grimes, mostly.

All right.

Let's get to work, then.

Stop the bleeding.

God only knows what
they'll throw at us next.

[ bell tolling ]

[ russian accent ] yes,
my name is vitaly yurchenko.

I am phoning you
from the telephone box

In front of the embassy.

I am senior counterintelligence
colonel in the kgb...

And I wish to defect.