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I was supposed to pick up my daughter Haley. Now I can't get a hold of her or

ex. Lisa!

What is it?

Lisa!

You have to save my daughter.

Encryption, rerouted servers, ghost loops. Nothing I've ever seen before.

did find the last phone call that she answered on her personal phone. A guy

named Raymond Ackman.

So this is the guy that took Haley? I had no choice.

They're going to kill my sister.

I just heard from my friend at the Denver Sheriff's Department.

Harriet Ackman's body was found an hour ago.

Yeah, what does that mean, Colton? Nothing good.

Come on, Colton. Look, Haley's good. The job is done.

Hey. You have interrupted the process, and there will be consequences.

Good night, Hoppy.

This can't be happening again.

We have Nikki back.

We did everything we were supposed to.

They sent a text.

It said, welcome back to the process.

Your successor has failed.

What did you have to do?

I had to handle Achmed's sister.

We can't do this anymore.

We have to call the police.

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

I killed someone.

You understand?

And you know what happens to people who try to go to the police? They'll run

away. They will find us and they will tell Nikki.

Do you want to risk that? No.

Then we have no choice.

The only way out...

All right, Reena, keep me posted.

Reena's at the jail right now. She's talking to Ackman, seeing if she can get

any more information on the process.

And the guy was terrified when we found him. So was Lisa.

Random instructions via text was threatening enough for them to be

risk their own lives.

What about the messages that we got? What did the police say about that?

Yeah, they say that Ackman is a high school computer science teacher capable

setting up the whole thing.

Oh, no. Something doesn't seem right.

Yeah.

Randy. Ha.

What's up, man? You must be Russell.

The legend is real. Must be Randy.

Legend is also real. Oh, well, thank you.

Get us some T -shirts.

Can I start you off with something?

Oh, yeah. Hey, can I please get exactly what he ordered, plus the extra side of

bacon, and biscuits, and gravy, and a cinnamon roll?

Did you order enough food?

I'm stress -eating, man. All this work I'm doing for you. What do you got?

Finally trace the sender.

Those messages you got.

The number was spooked using call hopping, meaning that it bounced from

original source to dozens of locations before it even got to you two. It took a

lot of grinding to go backwards, but once I got to number 105, guess who it

belongs to?

Raymond Ockman at his home address.

So he sent the messages?

No. I think it's a mislead.

Just in case someone like me did a deep dive. They want us to think that

Ockman's the source.

Because here's the thing. The encryption from the sender to Lisa's burner phone

is, like, ultra -sophisticated.

So either Ackerman is a computer genius, and I'm not saying a high school

teacher can't be, or we got something completely different on our hands. So

process is real.

We got to find out who's behind this game.

Put an end to it.

You want to be my lawyer?

Yes.

Raymond, do you understand what you're being charged with here?

The kidnapping of Haley Rogers and the murder of Kurt Foster, as well as your

own sister. But I would never kill my own sister.

I was trying to save her.

And I could have if those two guys hadn't interfered. Okay.

Okay. I believe you.

So who would do this to you, huh?

It's the process.

I already explained it to the detectives. I had to follow

I am a victim here.

And why would the process target you?

I don't know.

But they seem to know everything about me.

All right, let's do this.

Raymond, I need you to tell me everything you know about this process,

From the very beginning. No detail is too small.

So when was the first time they contacted you?

I was coming home from a school swim meet.

I think that was probably the first time.

Yeah, this wouldn't make God.

Do you know him?

Oh, the guard?

No. Yes, you do. You just signaled him. I saw you.

Raymond, I was just being polite.

Oh, my God, you're one of them, aren't you?

One of who?

The people running the process.

I should have known.

Come here offering to be my attorney.

You wouldn't let me go.

Raymond. It's never that simple.

Guard. Raymond.

I'm done here. You can take me back.

Raymond, wait. No.

I can help you. Raymond.

This is strange. Here, look at this. It's the only phone ping without an

address. Just coordinates.

Odd, right? I noticed that, too. So I already looked it up. There's nothing

there. I'm going to just empty a patch of land.

I mean, we're checking out. Where is it?

Two hours west in Eagle County.

Reena, what do you got?

Well, Ackman got spooked.

Everything was going fine until he thought that I was part of the process

freaked out.

Well, they killed his sister. Maybe it's that... They'd do the same to him.

Yeah. I mean, he did say that they would never let him go.

She figured out how the process got our phone numbers.

No, unfortunately.

Hold on a second.

He's got a text from Cal.

Lisa's awake at the hospital. He needs with her. Okay, that's great news. Yeah,

I'm going to head over there now, see if I can find out how she got tangled up

and all that.

All right, bye.

I'm going to go check out these coordinates, see what we see.

Stay right here. Sit here and let my food digest.

Sounds like a plan. Hey, uh, you think Greeny would be down to guide me out

there? Do I think Greeny wants to be your chauffeur? Probably not. No? I'll

her anyway. Okay. Good plan.

I love you, Hayley.

I love you too, Mom.

I'll see you later.

I don't know how to thank you for finding her.

Maybe you could tell me how you got caught up in all this.

Lisa, I know this isn't easy.

I'm just trying to get some information so I can figure out what the hell is

going on.

This nightmare started when I got that call.

Hello?

I have your daughter, Haley.

What? I'm only doing this because they have my sister.

You'll be getting a text message soon with the instructions you have to follow

if you want to save Haley. Who is this?

I'm a victim just like you. If you follow the instructions, they'll let my

sister go.

You're a part of the process now.

I found Kurt dead.

At first I thought it was someone shady from his world who did this.

But now I know.

I realized he was just

trying to stop that man from taking Haley.

I needed money fast.

They warned me about being tracked. I couldn't use my ATM.

Bank cards.

I knew Kurt had cash in his safe.

A biometric safe.

That's why you cut off his hand.

I am a surgeon.

I was desperate.

So I went to his apartment and I took the cash and gone from his safe, bought

burner phone and texted the number I was told to.

That's when the instructions really started.

I just steal a car and go to a money transfer place and wire $10 ,000 to an

account and pick up an envelope with a key to an office.

I was supposed to find suite 109, pick up a briefcase, and deliver it to a

location. Lisa! Lisa!

Then you showed up, and I never made it inside.

Do you have any idea why you might have been targeted?

They knew stuff about me.

Things I had done that I'm not proud of.

After Cal divorced me, I was in a...

Bad place.

Then I met Kurt, and I wanted things to work out, so maybe I had blinders on.

I knew he was running a scam, and I helped him get my coworkers and family

invest money with him.

I knew you wouldn't go to the police because you didn't want to get caught

what you did.

I wanted to save Haley.

I felt like it was my fault that she was taken because I was being punished.

I already felt so guilty. I couldn't. Disobey the instructions and let her die

because of me.

Do you not think I'm a terrible mother?

I don't think that.

I don't judge.

I'm scared this isn't over yet for me. Have they contacted you again?

No, but I think they must have people everywhere.

Watching. Waiting.

Are we good?

This is for you.

I thought it was done.

No, we're never done. I thought it was finished seven years ago. I was wrong.

How many people are involved in this? I don't know.

Don't ask any questions.

Just know you can always be called on to handle interruptions and loose ends.

Just do what they ask you to do.

You know what happens if you don't.

Oh, this is nice, right?

You, me, it's the open road.

See, aren't you glad I convinced you to come along?

I'm not sure how you can be so relaxed given the circumstances.

I don't know, I'm just kind of one of those guys, you know, good at

compartmentalization.

You know, my worried part of my brain does not mix with the part that has a

time. Yeah, maybe I don't have that set of skills.

Haven't you got skills?

Hmm?

Okay.

I mean, you know, like you're resilient, right?

Colter kind of told me a little bit about what happened to you.

Did he?

Yeah.

And what about you?

You said you're between gigs?

Oh, uh, yeah, yes, I am.

So, you got a plan?

I don't know.

It usually just kind of hits me.

You know, like maybe I'll get some land out in Arizona, start up a tactical gun

range. I like the dry heat.

What about you?

What about me? I definitely have a plan.

Does it involve that lawyer friend of yours?

If you must know,

Elliot and I ended things last week.

Oh, no.

Are you okay?

Yeah. Sort of mutual, I guess.

Just processing everything we went through.

Listen, if you ever want to talk about, like, for real, I'm here.

I appreciate that.

Mm -hmm.

Because, you know, pretty scary.

There was this moment where I thought this was the end, you know.

I mean, he could have died.

Yeah, but he didn't.

He didn't, and you made it through to the other side, and that's what matters.

Yeah.

Well, if you want to talk about it, I'm always ready to yak.

Because I know my brother, he's like talking to drywall.

But I got you.

Okay.

Hey, let's hit the next gas station we see. I need to hit the men's room.

What?

We just got on the road.

Well, I don't have to tell you. When you got to go, you got to go.

Randy, what's up? Yo, you at the location Lisa was supposed to be at? The

109? Walking there now.

Yeah, well, I hacked into the building's tenant list and found out who's renting

it. This guy by the name of Jed Hu.

He prepaid for six months out, but this guy's phone number's disconnected and

his home address does not exist.

I don't think the guy's real.

Oh, you there?

What's the door now?

See anything?

I don't think anyone's using the space.

What about the briefcase? You find that?

Not yet.

Got it.

The photos.

Of what?

Ackman and a high school boy.

Like one of his students?

Yeah, it could be. It's definitely an inappropriate relationship.

Not the kind of photos Ackman would want out in the open.

So this is what they're doing. They had leverage against Lisa, and this is the

leverage they have against Ackman.

Hey, Randy.

You picture that briefcase I tell you? Yeah, man, but don't expect no miracles.

I found the manufacturer, but the serial number's pretty much obliterated.

All right.

Do me another favor, will you?

Check the tenant list.

See who else is on the first floor.

Checking.

Yeah, it's mostly empty.

There's a dry food exporter and a dancewear company.

All right, thanks, Randy.

Okay.

Thanks for letting me know.

What was it?

Raymond Aukman is dead.

He was found hanging in his jail cell.

He killed himself?

That's what they're saying, but when I met with him, he was scared. Okay, not

suicidal.

Okay, well, if the process got to him there, then it has serious reach.

I mean, he was paranoid that one of the guards was part of the process.

Maybe he was right.

I'm going to have the cops send someone over to check on Lisa and Haley.

Yeah.

You good?

I thought I saw someone following us earlier.

Wait, are you for real?

I haven't seen anybody, so either they gave up or it was nothing.

But just to be safe, I think I should drive.

Nothing against your skills. You're great.

But, uh...

Just make me feel better, okay?

Yeah, all right, fine.

I've had this car like three months, okay? So don't do anything rustly.

Yes, ma 'am. Thank you.

Ever tell you about that one time I spent a year pretending to be a

an Irish pub in Moscow just to get some intel?

You did not. Oh, yeah.

It was, uh...

You know, that story's gonna have to wait. We got our tail back.

With the blue sedan?

Yeah.

Listen, I'm trained, okay?

I told you not to do anything, Wesley.

Hang on.

I'm fine

Hey, rise and shine.

Where am I?

I wouldn't worry about that.

Are you going to kill me?

That depends on the answers you give me.

I can't help you.

I think you can.

What does the process want with me and my brother?

I don't know what you're talking about.

You think I won't lose this?

You're going to tell me the truth.

You understand me?

I know Randy around this guy's license.

What is this place?

It's a safe house.

I got resources.

How's Renee doing? She's okay. She's trying to get more information on

death. I also got a policeman in full detail on Lisa and Haley. If the process

finds out that Lisa's talking, it could be in danger.

Good thinking.

The guy's in bad shape. Did you do any of that to him? No.

No, it's a car accident.

Get anything out of him?

Not yet.

We're just getting started.

Uh -oh.

Well, now you're in trouble because the enforcer's here.

Because I'm the nice one.

So?

We know you work for the process.

I don't.

You have to give me that.

Have you handled Russell Shaw? What if we say no? You can't, or they're going

take my son again.

I don't work for the process, but they make me do things, and I can't get out.

They targeted you?

Yeah. They took Mickey, my son.

But we got him back, and I thought we were done. We tapped the next person,

he failed.

That next person, was that Raymond Aukman?

So what? Then the process comes back to you.

Yes.

You can be called upon at any time to handle interruptions.

Anything that stops the process from moving forward.

Like me and my brother.

All right, tell us who's running this damn thing.

I have no idea.

I was told by the person before me that the process has been going on a long

time, at least ten years.

From the hallway outside Ackman's cell.

He used the bed sheet as a noose to hang himself.

Wait, hold on.

Look.

Ackman only leaves frame for a few seconds.

That's not enough time for what happened.

There was a guard posted in the visitation room when I was here before.

Okay, Altman was very afraid of him. Please, I'd like to talk to him.

He worked the morning shift. He was a part -time temp, filling in for a

shortage. I need a name and address.

We don't give out confidential employee information.

You will if you don't want to be slapped with a civil suit for wrongful death.

Up to you.

All right, I got it. Another bicycle hours.

So, uh, who's supposed to handle my brother here?

I don't know. It could be anybody who's ever been involved in the process.

Can't trust anybody.

Well, we're gonna stop it. You can't. They will figure it out, and then my

in danger.

Please.

It's his birthday today.

Call your son.

It's his birthday.

Hey, buddy. It's Daddy.

Happy birthday.

Yeah, I know. I know I promised I'd be there, but... Hey, I'll be back soon,

okay?

Why don't you save me a piece of cake?

Okay. Daddy loves you.

Thank you.

They know I do anything for Nikki.

What does the process have on you?

That's how this whole thing works, right? Leverage? Yeah.

I stole money from my former employer.

Here you go.

What's it say?

It says the process may resume. You have three hours to arrive.

What does that mean?

What does that mean?

There's a new target.

On the last link, Aukman failed.

So the process returned to me, and now I have to contact the next target.

And if I don't show up, they'll kill my son.

Yeah, Aukman didn't kill himself.

It just came from the jail.

Did you see the surveillance video? Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was doctored.

we've got a problem. We have a jail warden who is not motivated to

He basically shut me down because I'm not technically Aukman's attorney, and I

don't have any jurisdiction there, so... Hold on, Randy wants to talk to you.

Yo, Cole.

I analyzed briefcase orders that you sent. Checked the serial number?

Yeah, I got what you want.

And I got some shipment information on this model.

Good job.

No, Colter. You're supposed to say great job, okay? Because it turns out that

they didn't sell a ton of these models, but a bunch were sold to a Dr.

Susanna Tate at Southeast Colorado University back in 02.

You get contact information on her? Yeah, she's retired now, and she lives

outside of Denver. But I just sent you the address, and, uh, oh, yeah, you're

welcome. Thank you.

Hey, Colter, tell Russell that I am still mad at him, and I would like my

back, please.

Right, uh, about that, he's gonna need your car for a little bit longer.

Wait, why?

Why?

Think it's best you don't know.

Yeah, this looks like one of mine.

I used to give them as welcome gifts to my grad students.

It used to make them feel important to carry their papers in a briefcase.

Like their work was valuable.

Exactly, Bill.

Top secret.

So much of our thinking can be modified by little things.

You did a lot of research on behavioral modification under duress, right?

Yes. Pretty far out there stuff.

It was, but I'm retired now.

What was it you were hoping I could help you with?

What can you tell me about the process?

How do you know about that?

It's happening right now.

That's impossible. Three people have already died.

So please, tell me what you know.

It was an experiment in a class I was teaching about leverage and obedience.

Volunteers were either subject of blackmail or the blackmailers themselves

made their victims follow strict rules.

It was short -lived.

So you ended the experiment.

Why is that?

One of the subjects ended up seriously hurting her roommate.

It became too dangerous, not just for the subjects. Several of the grad

that were on the project, they started to exhibit out -of -bounds behavior.

What kind of behavior?

Power intoxication, increased capacity for cruelty.

So I did the responsible thing, and I ended it.

I buried the research, and I moved on to new areas of study.

Do you think it's possible that one of your old grad students continued your

research out in the real world?

I hope not.

I did have three students in particular who strongly objected to my shutting

down the project.

And what were their names?

I've always remembered them because they were so insistent. Don Schneider,

Jillian Meeks, and Philip Jost.

Schneider in particular worried me.

My study exposed something in him, a kind of...

enforcing sadism.

He took pleasure in the rules of the process and he felt like the subjects

deserved punishment.

The experiment ended. He continued to reach out to me.

I blocked him. I told him to move on with his life.

But I think I created a monster.

You were afraid of this guy?

Yes.

Do you have any idea where this guy might be now?

I don't. I don't know. I lost touch with all of them. I heard Jillian Meeks is

in London, but the other two, they could still be in the area.

It's strange.

They didn't come after me.

They created a system where if someone stepped out of line, they would either

blackmail them or kill them. You had no way of knowing this was going on. But I

feel responsible.

They took your idea and they twisted it. How long has this been going on? A long

time. Too long.

The important thing is we put an end to it before anybody else gets hurt.

Well, we're here.

Now what?

We wait.

No.

Hey, um, I don't think I can do this again.

We have to.

Here we go.

Scream, don't scream.

I'm actually here to save your life, but you need to follow my instructions very

carefully. Do you understand?

Ruffalo, you all right?

Hey, yeah, so far so good. Process doesn't know we're playing him. They get

with new targets?

Yeah. Yeah, that's a young couple, newlyweds.

We pretended to kidnap the wife, and then the husband gets his first text

message from the process on a burner phone.

Let me guess, tell no one, deposit some funds into an account.

Yeah, yeah. We're kind of slow playing here, so he's going to make a transfer

a little bit, buy some time.

I think I might have found out who's behind this.

Some former psychology grad students have gone off the grid.

Get the sender's number, get it to Randy.

I already did that. Yeah, that's what I was calling. So he backtracked the spoof

number. One of the pings came from the coordinates in Eagle County, where we

were going to go visit.

That can't be random, right?

Yeah, yeah, I agree. All right, I'll meet you there.

Coordinators are about a mile up that way. I figure it's better if we walk

there.

That's who we're looking for.

Got it.

There's so much for nothing being out here.

How was that?

I got it.

I will not miss next time, I promise.

Nice to see you dead, man.

I'm not armed.

You don't want to charge?

No. Who is?

Shiner.

Give me a kiss.

Come on.

Don't move. It's over.

Are you going to shoot me?

Because that won't stop the process. It doesn't need me.

Can I show you something?

What would you be willing to do to save your mother and your sister?

Answer the question.

Which one would you save first?

I'm not here to play your game.

Oh.

You're afraid of the choices you would make? Why did you do this?

I know you had your victims wire you money, but this isn't just about you

getting rich.

There's more to it, right?

Dr. Tate says you're enforcing status. This is pleasurable to you.

Dr. Tate?

That failed academic?

Aren't you curious how it all works?

We created an algorithm to select targets automatically.

It's self -sustaining.

There's nothing you can do to stop it. You're proud of this?

You want to be admired?

That's why you were sending me those texts.

He wanted me to find you.

Come in here and see you.

Your power.

Your superiority.

You've been anonymous too long.

Even you can't beat the algorithm, Coulter.

It chooses flawed individuals who would rather not go to the police.

How well do you know your family?

What are the chances that someone has a secret to hide?

Hey.

You alright?

Alright.

I got what I needed from him.

Was he trying to use Dory and Mom for leverage?

Tried.

Didn't work.

You ready to do some damage?

Shut down the process?

Let's do it.

So, Don Schneider's been taken into custody.

He's not talking, no surprise there. But the FBI is doing forensic analysis on

the servers.

Good we didn't trash everything.

Yeah, and... Their IT specialists have confirmed that you did stop the process.

Lace is very grateful to you.

How's Harith Holmes?

He's ready to answer for what he's done, but he's glad his son is safe.

So this whole thing's really over?

Hopefully. I mean, the feds are trying to track down his third grad student,

Jillian Meeks. You know, just to be sure.

They haven't found her yet? I bet it's only a matter of time. But anyway, I've

got to run. I've got to lunch with the client.

Then I'll send you a bill for my car repairs.

Hey, call me.

Anytime. I mean, any...

I have to talk about Echo Ridge's mom at some point.

Yeah.

Well, I'm not ready to talk to her if that's what you're asking. Well, I just

need to know what to tell her when she asks me. Tell her, you know, that I need

more time.

Okay.

Yeah, take as much time as you need.

It's just, you know, family stuff.

The kind of stuff I like to sweep under the rug and forget about. But that's not

your jam. That's fine.

No, it's not.

Oh, the phone number that you found in Dad's journal.

You want I could look into that for you?

You'd do that for me?

Sure.

I don't have a hell of a lot on my docket right now.

What is next for you anyway?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Maybe I'd like to be my own boss.

You know, maybe something adventurous.

You help people who need help, that kind of thing.

Any tips?

I'm all ears.

You're asking for my advice?

Seems like you got a good thing going here.

Yeah, it's not bad.

I mean, the Airstream's a little weird, but, you know, you're doing all right.

The Airstream's cool, man. You know, weird's cool.

I guess I just want to do something.

Use my skills for good.

Like the greater good.

Did you ever find out who painted your nails?

What? Who painted your nails? The monkey, Jakarta?

You know what? That's a story better told over a beer.

Or several beers.

And you'd be buying. I know a spot.

Yeah? And steak.

They got those?

I'm in.

Sounds like a plan.