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No, no, no, no, no.

What's going on?

Does anybody know what happened?

They're saying there's some kind of exposure.

Exposure to what?

Kevin said all we know is a few kids have died in a daycare worker, too.

Every second we wait, it gets worse. I'm sorry. Please, come on. Do you have

kids? You've got to be able to tell us something.

Hey! No, I gotta get back! You can't get through, ma'am. It's not safe. No, I

gotta get... My daughter's inside!

You'll have to wait with everyone else till Hazmat's cleared the scene.

Let me go!

No! Oh, God, no!

My baby!

My boy!

Walt!

Walt!

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

Hey, what are you doing back here? I already told you, you can't be here.

Sorry, sorry, I just, I can't find my kid.

Excuse me, you're the owner, right?

Yeah. You know this woman?

She says her kid goes here.

No, I've never seen her before in my life.

All right, drop the bag and put your hands where I can see them.

Nice and slow.

Ron Natalini, Newburgh Police.

Thanks for making the trek. Yeah. What do we know, Ron?

Nothing good. Looks like two kids, four years old.

Must have found the drugs back behind the daycare.

Dug out a brick and opened it. They didn't know.

Died on sight.

What kind of crude drugs are a product behind a daycare?

The kind we're gonna bring in, yeah?

Oh, man.

Fentanyl? That's right.

After the kids went down, they died trying to revive them.

Killed during CPR, so this is a potent strain.

Street name, Pompeii.

ODs all over in the Northeast with the same story.

Bodies left frozen in position.

That's how quick they die.

You know where it's coming from?

Not local.

None of my guys can pinpoint what state it's coming from.

Neither can our CIs, why we called you all.

But I'd start with the cruise gopher.

We got her in a squad car in front.

I already told the cops. I don't know anything.

Okay, well, you can either talk to us or beg the judge for leniency, but those

ODs are going to fall on you unless you cooperate.

Now, we both know that you are low men on the totem pole.

You had a job to pick up the drugs, so you can either tell us who those drugs

belong to or the prosecution will prove that they were yours, and then three

felony murders are going to land on you.

No, it was not like that.

You see, what happened was I, um...

I heard about those kids, and people were saying they found a package, and I

shouldn't have done it. It was stupid, but I'm... I'm an addict, okay?

That's why I was back there.

Emily, stop.

Those kids found the drugs at a dead drop. The neighbor spotted you several

times, said you parked over there, walk along the house, pick up the package,

and go. Now, this is what the jury is gonna see. Kimberly Mitchell, she's the

daycare worker that died trying to save the kids that were killed by the drugs

you were supposed to pick up. Stop it. Look.

That's Grace.

That's Walt.

Just four years old. They are no longer here because of what you did.

Who do those drugs belong to?

I don't know.

My boyfriend.

He's nobody.

He sells.

My job is I pick up the package and I bring it to him. Okay, we'll deal with

your boyfriend, but we're not the cops. We're the FBI. We need to know the

source of the supply. So again, whose drugs were those?

I don't know. I swear.

One time, I got here early, and I saw the car that made the drop-off. Can you

describe it to me?

Grace Kessler. She wanted to be a gymnast.

Next week would have been her birthday.

She would have been five years old.

Walt Calloway wanted to be a firefighter, just like his father.

This morning, their parents got the worst news of their lives, along with

two dozen other families across the Northeast who have lost family members

to a deadly strain of fentanyl called Pompeii.

I demand to know where these drugs are coming from so that we can shut this

operation down.

Okay, so the drug mule that O.A. interviewed claims that she saw the

bricks dropped off behind the daycare by someone driving a black Caprice.

The daycare has security cameras. We've been combing through footage from the

past few days.

Take a look at this.

All right, there's the black Caprice.

Switching angles to behind the daycare.

Here's our guy in the backyard making the drop. Can we get an ID?

Not enough for facial rec, and the plates are stolen.

Hey, hey, we may have gotten a break.

NYPD just pulled that car over in Briarwood. Good.

Have them hold the driver until we can get a team there.

FBI, we need to inspect your vehicle. You need a warrant for that. Not when

there's an active amber alert and your car matches the description of the

vehicle.

Pop the trunk.

You see a kid in my car?

That's why I'm asking you to pop the trunk.

Or we can stay here until we get the warrant you're so concerned about.

Okay.

Okay.

Now...

All clear.

Okay, you're good to go.

Yeah, I was in a place, I'm recording.

Well, let's see who this guy kicks up to, yeah?

I got eyes on a second individual walking out of the residence.

They must have realized we found their drop spot at the daycare.

Looks like they're pulling back all their runners.

Diego, chill, chill, chill. There's no meat for that, all right? You're two

hours late.

I swear to you, it was an amber alert. Cause, pull me over. We're looking for

some kid.

What alert?

I don't know. I don't know.

Okay, that is Diego Torres, 25, long sheet, drugs and weapons charges.

Well, there's our bigger fish.

Everybody hang back till we got eyes on the drugs, then we move in.

And they pulled you over?

Yeah. Well, yo, they ain't find a trap. We clean, baby.

You see?

Whatever, man. We always got some kind of story.

Get this in the bag and get it inside.

And there is the rest of our product. Same stamp as the drugs at the crime

scene. This has got to be one of the stash houses.

All units, move in.

where we can see them.

We've got exposed powder.

I would not do that if I were you. Or what?

You know exactly what. You start shooting, everybody in here dies from

exposure. Put your weapons down.

Now!

Man's right.

Hands up.

Hey! I'm on it.

Diego Torres, you're under arrest.

Possession, distribution, assault battery, extortion, larceny. Quite a

diversified portfolio, Diego.

Two innocent four-year-olds lost their lives this morning, along with their

teacher. We will prove that their deaths were caused by your product, dropped off

by a vehicle, tracked back to your stash house.

This will all come down on your head.

You don't scare me.

Your wife, Lillian, she's on parole, right?

Don't talk about my wife.

We charge you today. We violate her parole for associating with criminals.

She will be held without bail.

Lillian's got nothing to do with this. I'm not done.

Once we pick up your wife and your kids, Marisol and Rafael...

Suddenly, they have no parental guardian.

They will be placed in foster care, and you will not see them again.

You bitch.

You bitch.

I'm trying to help you.

You're at a crossroads, Diego.

You can either watch your whole family be torn apart from behind bars, or give

me a name.

Who do you kick up to?

You do that, and you walk out of here.

You can have dinner tonight with Lily and the kids.

All you gotta do is give me his name.

Hector Vega.

You okay?

What do we know about Hector Vega?

DEA sent over a list of probable stash houses, allegedly all run by Vega.

And we think Vega's responsible for the deaths in Newburgh this morning. Looking

like it.

So Vega started dealing in Jersey, street level.

Tried but acquitted. Here's he's built himself up since then. He's made a name

for himself, moving Fent from New York City to upstate dealers and beyond.

Yeah, he slipped their hook a few times, but the DEA says that Vega runs pretty

tight op. Tying him to this, be a chance to put him away for good.

Not to mention a big win.

Looks like we have a new long-range op on our hands.

Everybody go home, get some sleep, and tomorrow we will start sitting on some

stash houses.

You coming?

Uh, yeah. I'll be right there.

Mr. Bagel would like a word.

Thought you learned your lesson, counselor.

Yeah? What lesson is that, Hector?

Too ambitious.

You run in and run in before you can walk.

Well, maybe that's both of our problems.

Man, I seen your ass pull up outside before you even parked.

I see it all, know it all.

Trust.

Okay.

What do you think you know?

I know you hit a house this afternoon, scooped up my boy, got D locked up.

Oh, yeah, Diego.

He's real chatty.

That boy don't know nothing.

He only knows what I let him know.

My turn.

You know what I know?

You operate an interstate drug trafficking network selling fentanyl we

can link to 20 deaths so far.

The drugs are distributed from stash houses that you run here all over New

York, where we seize 20 kilos if you're stashed just today.

That's knowledge and intent, agreement, overt acts to constitute a federal drug

conspiracy. This case is a slam dunk.

Hey, boss, know you're here?

Working this so-called slam dunk case?

See, it's funny.

You got a fantasy.

You're trying to get back at me for how I did you wrong before.

Problem is, if we did have other houses like the one you're talking about, they

already cleared out.

You ain't gonna find nothing else on me.

The New York field office is running a large-scale drug bust right now.

And the mugshot that's pinned all the way to the top of the org chart is

yours.

You really want to try this again?

You want to come at me a second time, not catch me?

That's going to be really bad for you.

Isn't it?

I'll tell you what.

Why don't you put aside this little beef that you have with me, grow up, and we

work together?

Are you serious?

I could serve one right up to you.

Dude's a menace.

Moving major weight.

Yeah, what is he?

A competitor you want us to clear the board for you? Not even.

He's bringing in nitazine.

Selling it in my city.

You're drowning.

No lie.

Synthetic opioids.

1,000 times more potent than morphine.

You go to your boss, you tell him what we talked about.

My offer is simple.

We clean up this city together, everybody wins, and you, you climb out

of that little hole that you dug for yourself.

Don't leave town.

Why would I?

We got work to do, Counselor.

It's been fun.

Come on. Morning ambush with no coffee? What is...

And

that's it.

I think it hasn't until he wants to trade it.

Night of the Network in New York.

He's right. There'll be more bodies than we can count.

Yeah, but I don't buy it. I think he's just trying to wriggle off the hook.

That's not your call.

Off-book surveillance.

No backup.

Didn't just put your job in jeopardy, the case in jeopardy.

You took on a bunch of unnecessary risk.

His name flashed up on the board, Eva.

The three of us were doing background on the guy. You knew every single detail,

and you said nothing?

What is that?

You don't know what it's like. No? So try me. Hector Vega has been living in

my head rent-free for years.

I was a young prosecutor.

I was too cocky to know what I didn't even know, and Vega was using his job.

at a Patterson distribution center to distribute product across Jersey.

And he was smart.

It was pills and oxy, and most of the evidence was circumstantial. And I had

one witness, a forklift driver, Joe Caruso.

And he was so scared.

And you convinced him to testify?

I promised him.

With his testimony, I could get Vega once and for all.

And he had him killed.

A day before the trial, Joe disappeared.

His body was never found.

I never proved it. And Vega walked.

And you know what the worst thing is?

I had to look Joe's wife and his nine-year-old son in the eye and tell

them the bad guy got away with it.

You can't carry that.

Look, I get it. I know we have to take this to Isabel, but you have to have my

back.

UNODC has issued a warning advisory about Nidazine. It has spread across

Europe like wildfire.

If it is in fact here in New York and Hector Vega can help us stop the source,

we are going to listen.

To your respect, Vega is a cockroach.

Okay, this could just be another angle that he's trying to play. Right. I think

we trust, but we verify.

Do we have a problem here?

No.

They get smart enough to know what happens.

If he cries wolf, regardless, I think we got to run this thing down, no?

Agreed. If he is right, he gets the deal. If he's wrong, he does his time.

So does this mean I'm out?

No. No, I think that you can be useful.

With Maggie on bereavement, we are down an agent, but you two need to get on the

same page.

You guys need to get your house in order.

Agent Ramos, we are going to work with Vega to stop something even bigger than

him. Do you understand?

Yes, ma'am.

I expect you to put the greater good ahead of any personal crusade or

vendetta you have against Vega.

That's our job.

For every one of us.

Okay, this is a standard cooperation agreement.

A lighter sentence in exchange for your cooperation.

Now, seeing how you poisoned two children, I'd say this is more than

generous.

Your turf, your rules.

Ain't that right, counselor?

Oh, my bad. I meant, uh, Agent Ramos.

Let's get this straight.

Everything that you say, we have to document and prove in court.

All right?

So who's the source of this Nidazine that you claim is being sold in New

York?

Jalen Turner.

But you ain't gonna find him in your files because he don't exist.

No priors, no picture, probably not even his real name.

But he is real, and he's moving some serious weight.

How serious?

Well, he's been slinging eight balls since he was 12, moved up to Keys before

he could drive, and now he's bringing in Nidazine that he designed himself.

Taught himself a little chemistry.

And he's selling to kids in my backyard who are dumb enough to try anything.

I want this guy gone.

Okay, how do we find him? Dude's paranoid.

Never sleeps in the same bed more than three nights.

And he's worked hard to keep his name out of your guys' mouths.

He's even killed for it.

No one's untouchable, so... True.

Which is, uh... why I know he's got a shipment coming up off a truck today

from Kulia Khan.

You really plugged in.

How do you know that?

Got a little spy inside Turner's network.

But I ain't gonna let you near him.

You expose him, he dies. We hear you.

Turner's a bad dude, man.

If you don't stop him, you're gonna be stacking bodies, you understand?

Okay. That is an awful lot of negative space on our workup.

Agree. Jalen Turner is very careful.

No idea if that's his real name or street name. No arrests that match the

description Vega provided.

There is a Jalen Turner who bounced around foster care in New York and

Connecticut. If that's him, he'd be about 50 now. Anything from our friends

at the DEA? Yes, they were able to confirm the intel about the truck.

Vega's spy sent us a photo of the 18-wheeler. Here.

It crossed the border at the Laredo Port of Entry 36 hours ago. Truck belongs to

a vegetable distributor, Callier Wholesale. All right, if we're going to

substantiate our claims about Jalen Turner's network, we've got to find that

truck and track it back to one of his strongholds. I hate to say but, but we

don't know where it's going.

DEA has no known locations for any stash house operated by Jalen Turner.

What about its distribution?

Where is it sold? Anything that can put us on to Turner's base of operation?

Working our sources, but Nidazine is still new to New York.

FBI, NYPD, DEA, zero leads on where that truck is headed.

We do have one lead.

I told you guys everything I know.

The truck, the route.

Listen, that truck stops two times for gas, all right?

North Carolina and Jersey.

Same gas station every time.

After that, when the truck hits the city, I don't know, man, Mars, Yankee

Stadium, I got no clue. Eyes on any of the stash houses?

I told you guys that this guy was careful.

I mean, you guys are the FBI, Patriot Act and whatnot.

I mean, you guys got cameras everywhere, and what, you really ain't find nothing?

Are you serious?

If we don't know where the drugs are going, we need to grab the shipment

before it gets to the city.

Dude, I'm telling you, if the FBI stops that truck, Turner goes underground,

he's gone.

You'll never find him.

The feds.

Cannot touch that truck.

Okay, fine.

The FBI won't touch that truck.

But the thing is, truckloads like that get robbed every day.

That'll be $11.43.

Can we get $30 and pump through?

Okay, any movement out there?

Nothing yet. Road's clear. We don't know what we're walking into.

You know what, Vega?

There could be another shoe to drop.

Police just got a plate hit six miles south. This truck is coming, all right?

Turner could just reroute this shipment.

Easy, partner.

It's no fun when you're out of sync.

It's not me. It's Vega.

He spins me out.

Look. Skola lost a partner. He's trying to protect himself, and he's trying to

protect you.

You kept him at an arm's length.

Some friendly advice?

I wouldn't do that again. Not to him.

There's our shipment, guys.

Grab you a soda or you'll want one of those nasty energy drinks.

Get out. Get down on the ground. Walk forward.

On your knees. On your knees. Put your hands behind your head.

You do what you're told and you'll get out of this alive.

I got him. Go.

On your back.

Stay inside and stay low.

Got it.

You know who you're robbing?

Shut up.

We got a vehicle coming in hot.

Oh, you're in trouble now.

So.

Come on Eva.

So, what did you find?

Dr. Vega's intel was good. So there's drugs inside the angels?

Well, technically, the angels are the drugs, in a manner of speaking.

You could touch them. They're harmless in this form.

So the process is called neutralizado, chemical concealment.

Smugglers will use formulas to break these drugs down into their precursor

components, and then they'll shape them into everyday items.

Toilets, tools, toys.

Seems good for shipment, but not for distribution.

Right. Well, chemists will reverse the process at secondary extraction labs to

reconstitute the drugs.

You see that?

Positive for aminoethyl chloride.

Nitazine precursor.

So the Ripon-Turner shipment was a success.

Not exactly. All we have are the precursor chemicals. The angels on their

own aren't illegal.

That's true.

So to bust Turner, we have to combine this with the other ingredients that

he's shipping into the city.

We have to track him down.

So these three phones were recovered off of Turner's guys at the truck stop.

All three are burners and all of them only called one number. So we're

assuming that's Turner.

So we're going to dial the number. If he picks it up, this thing's on you.

It's going to be a short call, man. Well, then you better make a good first

impression.

You set a meet or the deal's off.

Hey, thanks to me, you got the drugs, all right? Thanks to you, we almost got

killed.

A precursor doesn't satisfy your side of the agreement.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, man, whatever. Just, I'll get you what you

need. Dial this bitch, all right?

Pest control.

Detective Vega.

Who? Yeah, you know who I am.

Well, I found your shipment, man. Guys took it off you down there, exit 13.

I thought you might want it back.

Exit 13.

Yeah, these clowns didn't know what they stepped in.

But, um, I took it off their hands, said I could get it where it's supposed to

be.

You messing some angels?

I don't know about any angels.

Package is worth 10 mil.

10 mil, easy.

I'll tell you what.

You cut me in for 10%, it's all yours.

Little finder's fee.

You do all of your business on the phone, Mr. Vega.

The Triangle off of Union Avenue, 4 p.m.

What do you think, Ramos?

I don't know.

He'll be there.

He wants his stuff back.

Okay, the meet is five minutes out. Everyone's in position.

We got eyes on the entire area. SWAT is in position and ready to move.

I know a number.

Must be Turner. Put on speaker.

Changed my mind.

Wait, wait. Hold up, man. What you talking about?

He's about to switch up locations.

Yes, he is.

I'm sending you a new spot.

You have 20 minutes.

He's sending us out to Queens.

He smells a trap.

He wants home field advantage.

Okay, pull him up high in the sky to get a layout out of the area.

It's an abandoned mall.

Last tenant moved out four years ago, scheduled to be demolished later this

year. You sure you want to pivot like this, this late in the op?

We bail on him now, Turner will get paranoid and disappear.

Eva, I get it. All right, you want to win here? You do not have to do this.

No, I think I do.

Isabel, what are we doing?

We have an opportunity.

We maintain focus and take down our target.

Copy that.

Body camera's live.

Hey, when we get in there, I'm in charge. You got it?

You're not in charge.

You're just the mount.

All right?

We're going to handle the rest.

You can be mad all you want, but let's not forget that it's your offer I took

today, all right?

Better just back up off me, or go ahead and violate my deal right now.

Eva, Vega is not our target.

Heads up, need to search him.

Remember, we need confirmation that he is in possession of the second nitosine

precursor chemical before we move in. What can Turner see?

The SWAT has to hang way back. We'll be seen if they cross Maine.

Well, does the mall have any cameras that we can piggyback? Uh, connecting

now.

Wait, hang on.

Yeah, it looks like Turner has his own system in place. I should be able to...

Yeah, I'm in.

Hey, Ian, can you loop him? Yeah, I should be able to. Stand by.

Might provide us cover if things go sideways. We need to move in.

Is that him?

I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine.

Follow me.

You Jalen Turner?

Hey, I'm talking to you, homeboy.

You the dude or just some guy he sent or what?

I'm here to recover what was stolen.

We don't need to turn this into a social visit.

This will be the one and only time that we transact.

If I see you again after today, you will not enjoy it.

Who the hell are you? Hey, hey, hey.

Don't talk to her like that. That's my girl, all right?

Where's my money?

No product.

No deal.

All right.

Show them.

This look familiar?

We got bags of these things stashed somewhere you'll never find.

You give us the cash and we'll give you the location.

You're forgetting a crucial step.

You need to test the product.

Moment of truth.

We'll know if it's real in approximately 60 seconds.

If it's red, you're dead.

Once we have confirmation that he has made the nidazine, SWAT can move in. Not

before then.

While we wait, one detail.

Regina! Would you come out here?

Recognize any of these people?

You don't think I have people up and down the coast.

Take a good look.

Ring any bells?

Yeah.

Her.

She was there, all right.

Eva's cover's been blown. Get them out of there now.

You stole from me, and then you sell back what was taken.

That's a short-timer mentality.

And short timers don't live long.

You want the deal or not?

Well, look at that.

Yeah, she brought back my supply.

Now where's the rest of it? Somewhere safe.

You give us the cash and I'll give you the angels.

I have a counter offer.

Your girl takes one of my guys, gets the rest of my supply.

This guy's funny.

Yeah, and what am I supposed to do, huh? Just wait?

No.

I wait.

You don't.

All teams execute.

Turner's making a run for it. We're pinned in.

Same here. Eva, you're the closest.

Eva, do you copy? Stay on Turner.

Don't move.

Go.

Jalen Turner, you're under arrest.

Eva?

You alright?

You good?

Yeah.

Hey, where's Vega? I left him at the meet.

Oh wait, do you have eyes on Vega?

No.

His vest is here, but he's split.

I'm sorry, Eva.

He got away.

You want the good news or the bad news?

There's good news?

Sure.

Jalen Turner is off the street. He shut down a major supplier of a dangerous new

drug. But Hector Vega's in the wind.

DEA checked every associated address.

Ex-girlfriend, sister, mom.

If he's smart, which we both know he is... Yeah. He's out of this city and

still moving.

His Pompei fentanyl killed two toddlers. We'll get him, Eva.

He's the guy, huh?

Flipped the switch.

Made you want to go from U.S. Attorney's Office to the FBI.

When I heard his name yesterday, I was right back there to that same girl who

thought that she was so clever.

Eva, you're not that girl.

You know why?

She didn't have me backing her up.