Original subtitles

- Look, glove. - Dad was right.

Sutcliffe isn't the shooter.

- Less jewelry than I remember. - It was time.

- I guess I forgot I can rely on somebody I'm not related to.

- You can rely on me anytime.

[knock at door]

- Hey. Brandon Hayes, NSA.

- We've been married for over 30 years.

- Well, we shouldn't be.

- Why do you have a photo of David?

- This man, this is David?

Could you give me his phone number,

anything you have on him?

[jet engines whirring softly]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

[thumping and rattling]

[tone chimes]

- Folks, this is the captain speaking.

We apologize for the choppy skies.

We should be clear of this in another few minutes.

We're going to turn the seat belt sign on,

so please remain in your seats

with your seatbelts fastened.

♪ ♪

[lock clicks]

♪ ♪

[thumping and rattling]

[tone chimes]

[knock at door] - Sir?

Everything all right in there?

[knocking at door] Hello? The seat belt sign is--

oh.

- There's a bomb on this plane! [people screaming]

There's a bomb on this plane. - Hey!

♪ ♪

- Hold his arm! - No! You have to let me!

- I can't believe you ditched out on homemade cinnamon rolls

and a Hitchcock marathon.

- You know I love nothing more than

sitting on the sofa watching movies with you,

but I have to work today.

- On a weekend?

My Sunday scaries have migrated over to Saturday

ever since Logan died.

- Well, I'd be there if I didn't have to transport

an old friend to USP Coleman.

- Keeping company with criminals now, are we?

- Only this one.

Elliot Bloom, the kid who cracked

our Witness Protection database at 19 just to prove he could.

- You had to relocate 40 families in one night.

- Elliot is a frequent flier.

Government moves him around to patch holes

he's smart enough to find in our system.

But he's managed to slip two of my details during transfers.

If you want something done right--

[phone buzzes] - And here I thought maybe

it was too much time with me.

Oh, no. The stove just caught fire.

- Hold on. Just got a little distracted.

- I'd ask if you want to share, but I already know the answer.

What did you say the third time I asked you

if you wanted to talk about your Terry breakup?

That's in the past. - That's in the past.

- Let's leave it there. - Let's leave it there.

- My favorite thing about this family,

you can get close, but not too close.

- I'm your mother.

You don't need to know every detail of my life.

- And yet, somehow, when I say that to you--

- We're at the plane now. I gotta go.

- Have a safe flight.

- Bye.

[phone buzzes]

[phone buzzes]

[soft upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- Is this trip just an excuse

to avoid time with family, Jane?

Is that what happened between you and Mike?

And are you guys still separated,

or did you finally sign those papers?

- Oh, you've kept tabs on me.

- It's shocking what you can accomplish

from the comfort of a prison computer.

- Jane Hollingsworth, U.S. Marshal.

And this is my prisoner.

- Elliot Bloom, hacker.

- I'm the federal air marshal on this flight.

You can call me Norris.

- Ah, Marshal Hollingsworth. It's nice to meet you.

- If he starts acting up, I'm just right over there,

but doesn't look like he'll be too much trouble.

- I could kill you with code.

♪ ♪

- Middle seat.

- Middle seat? - Middle seat.

- I see you've spared no expense.

♪ ♪

[phone ringing in distance]

- Why did you want to meet me here?

Couldn't you have just called?

- You need to see this for yourself.

- [sighs] - See what?

- You were right.

The quarterly, Hoyt Sutcliffe,

didn't shoot former President Barnes.

We ran the footage from that day through AI.

See this man with the gloves?

- It was 80 degrees and raining that day.

- Here's that same man

stepping behind Sutcliffe moments before the shot.

And here he is

dropping the gun beside him moments afterwards.

- Sam Antosca, longtime Barnes donor.

- Antosca?

I've shaken his hand more than once at Barnes' events.

This is our would-be assassin?

Why would one of Barnes' friends want to kill him?

- We don't know, but...

it gets worse.

You were the one who cleared Antosca's credentials that day.

[tense music]

- I put Antosca in front of Barnes?

- Anyone would've. He's Barnes's friend.

It was an honest mistake.

- We don't get to make mistakes, not like that.

- There's a bigger problem.

Antosca is on the guest list

for Barnes' luncheon today at the library.

- So we pick him up now.

- I haven't been able to locate him.

- And even if you could,

with a six-year-old enhanced photo,

a closed case, and a dead supposed shooter,

no U.S. attorney would touch that.

- Why did he show up now?

He's had six years to finish the job.

- Maybe he wasn't planning on trying again.

Just been hanging around as if nothing ever happened.

- Or maybe he was so freaked he missed the first time,

it's taken this long to find the courage to try again.

Think about it.

The ribbon cutting was full of agents, press.

This luncheon is private.

Far less security.

- What do you want to do, Dad?

- Thank you both for bringing this to my attention.

- Wait, what about us? We brought this to you.

Shouldn't we-- - Let him take it from here.

He said Sutcliffe wasn't the shooter for six years

and nobody listened.

Today, he gets to prove it.

- Not only did a federal marshal

get killed in our office, but we're at a standstill.

My money says they disband the task force

and give it solely to the FBI.

- The FBI are the ones who stuck us in a strip mall

that shared a return duct with a dental office.

Anyone with a ladder could have crawled into that ceiling.

The place was made the day we moved in.

- I'll push them to stand up a new site.

What I can't stand up is another "we're working on it"

for the people upstairs.

We need to give them a name.

Do you have one?

- I'm working on a theory,

but I can't bring it to anyone until I know for sure.

- If you can't produce one within the week,

they'll find someone who can.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- We searched the plane and there's no bomb.

Why build a detonator for an imaginary one?

What was the plan?

- FAA is saying there are similar incidents

aboard four more aircraft.

- More bombs? - No.

On one, a passenger triggered a depressurization alarm.

On another, someone set off the smoke alarms.

One cut power to the cabin.

One rushed a cockpit.

All in the last 20 minutes, all Apex Airways.

- I did my part.

♪ ♪

- You're saying Sam Antosca, my old friend

who bankrolled a big part of my re-election campaign,

tried to shoot me and might do it again?

- We don't know for sure he's planning anything for today,

but we can't locate him, and that worries us.

- We need to cancel the luncheon.

- As for the past, sir,

I was the one who cleared Antosca that day.

- How could you have known?

He's supported me since my congressional run.

You're sure?

- There's no way we're gambling your life on this.

- If his goal is to kill me,

he's had chances.

But if you're worried, why not draw him out now?

Catch him when he gets to the door.

- I already let the man get too close once.

I won't do it twice.

- Then let this be the last time.

Set a trap and end it.

I don't want to spend the rest of my retirement

looking over my shoulder.

- He's right, Dad.

We cancel today and he vanishes.

We may not get another chance.

- When you catch him,

and you will,

I want to look him straight in the eye and ask why.

- And so do I, sir.

- Hey, could I get some peanuts and a glass of the cab?

If they don't take Bitcoin, I'll get you back.

[sighs]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- Stay put.

- Get away from me. - Sir. Sir!

You can't be in here. What are you doing?

[pounding and thumping]

Sir! - Hey, what are you doing?

- No, no, no!

- Hey!

- [groans]

♪ ♪

- What is this? What is that?

[people screaming]

♪ ♪

- Flight deck. - This is Air Marshal Norris.

A passenger just put a device in the avionics.

What are we dealing with?

- What did you do to this plane?

What did you do? Answer me!

- They lost readings

from every instrument on the aircraft.

We're flying blind.

Which means-- - We can't land the plane.

- Andrew, is there anyone else working with you?

Is there another device on board?

- Flight deck says avionics are corrupted.

Every reading is wrong.

he's got us level for now,

but he's flying this thing blind,

so we should expect it to get choppy.

- [sighs] Whatever you want, now is the time.

The in-flight service is about to get a hell of a lot worse.

- It doesn't matter if he can't undo the damage to the systems.

- Can you, Andrew? Can you undo this?

- I did my part.

- [inhales deeply] What are you thinking?

- I'm thinking I may know someone

who has the skills we need right now.

- We're moving into some rougher air.

I need everyone seated now.

Flight attendants may take your seats.

- Rough skies.

What seems to be the problem, officers?

- Avionics issues.

We are hoping that you might know how to fix them.

- That's hardware. I only do software.

It's like asking a surgeon to fix a car.

How's the Wi-Fi? - Won't work.

He took out the cabin's comms. Wi-Fi, data, cell.

Flight deck still has radio to ATC,

but you've got no line to the ground.

- Hmm, well, that's a shame.

- You're in this with us.

We can't land and we can't circle forever.

- The pilot said we have just over two hours of fuel left.

[tense music]

- Status on Stallion?

- Locked down at Camp David

with Sequoia, Sparrow, and Splinter.

Any luck reaching Mom?

- Straight to voicemail. What's the word from the FAA?

- [sighs] Every Apex flight is stacked in a holding pattern

until they get a clear picture.

They can't land until they figure out

which one of them's rigged with what.

- Dad. - Are you on this?

- I brought her in, sir. Raul Amara, FBI.

- What does your team know?

- Six incidents on six Apex Airways.

Five are still in the air.

Attackers subdued on five of the six.

Nobody's made a demand.

- All each of them says is, "I did my part."

I was with the first guy for an hour.

Got those four words and a thousand-yard stare.

- First plane's grounded.

The crew and the passengers are all safe

on four of the five remaining planes.

All of them are on radio with ATC.

- And the last one?

- It's Mom's.

We can't reach her.

- I'll get Apex's ops center up.

They got a link to that aircraft.

I'll find a way.

- Six aircraft? That has to be coordinated.

Who the hell is behind that? - Yeah, we don't know.

But five of them barely did anything.

There was cut power, an alarm scare.

Mom's is the only one that took out the entire avionics system.

- Five stunts and one real.

Why? - That's what scares me.

Somebody wanted this big for a reason.

Russ will be here with the DOJ anytime.

- Yeah, and hopefully some answers.

[approaching footsteps]

- Detail's rolling.

- OK, I'm not going anywhere.

- Dad, I've got this.

- Not until I get my wife back--

your mother back on the ground.

- Well, I'm actually the one who's supposed to do that,

so go do your job.

- Dad, let's get to the luncheon.

- Hey, Dad, are you OK?

- Just take care of your mom.

- Hey.

- It's almost as if he had an emotion in there.

- Yeah, Mom was the same way this morning.

- Quite a pair. Cold in a crisis.

- Put it on the family crest.

Did you find anything? - Yeah.

Every database, every watch list, they're all clean,

so I ran them against each other.

Addresses, employers, schools, banks--nothing.

These are six strangers who have never once crossed paths.

- Whatever they have in common,

it's never touched a federal database.

- Not the public ones.

I have a friend at the NSA who can look where we can't.

- Yes.

- Clare. Clare.

One satellite channel hooked to your mom's phone

and bridged to our line.

The JOC can jump on, but don't lose it.

We'll lose her.

- Mom? Are you there?

- Yes, I'm here.

- Oh, thank God. Are you OK?

- We're steady and circling, but the instruments are down

and the attacker will only

say-- - "I did my part"? Yeah.

That's what all five of them said.

- There are five other incidents?

- Yeah, but as far as an endgame,

we're still in the dark.

- Then we lean on our subjects, get answers.

But-- [sighs]

If I can reach you, the cockpit can reach ATC.

Why can't they just talk us down?

- The instruments are lying.

We--we don't have any information on airspeed,

on the actual altitude.

They'd be landing on a guess.

Guess wrong and you crash.

- Put me on with the FAA. I want to know all our options.

- On it.

And Mom...

Everything's gonna be--

- That later. Now we do our job.

[dramatic music]

- You'll get her home, Clare.

- Yeah, I know.

- Yes, an account taking deposits under a David Waldron,

W as in whiskey.

- What can we do for you? - I need the address of record.

A subpoena went over this morning.

- One moment, please.

[keyboard clacking]

Ma'am, are you there?

- Yes, I'm here. - 139 Wells Street.

- [sighs] That's perfect. Thank you.

- Think Antosca's gonna show? - We'll find out.

- Any more updates from Clare?

- Not since she first made contact.

- Mom's been in tough spots before, but nothing this bad.

- Your mother and I used to play this game.

We'd come home from long days and compare who had it worse.

Whoever lost had to buy the other a bottle of something.

I bought your mother a lot of bourbon.

Blue Ridge killer,

a prison transport that went off the road into the Potomac.

- Damn, she never told me about the Potomac.

- The point is, she always came home.

- You ever win a bottle off of her?

- The day Antosca nearly took out Barnes.

I spent every day since wishing I'd lost.

[phone buzzes]

[suspenseful music]

- Is that Mom?

- Daryl's team got a plate hit on Antosca's car.

K Street Northwest.

He's parked under the Whitehurst bridge.

Team has eyes on him now.

- That's five minutes out.

[tense music]

- Took you long enough.

Anything?

- Ran all six names through

every foreign collection I'm not cleared to be in.

None of the subjects talked to each other.

- That means there's zero connection?

- Means one person's pulling all their strings.

- Clare, you hear that?

- I did.

♪ ♪

Whoever you're working for, they don't care about you.

If one of those planes crashes, you get tried as a terrorist.

That's a life sentence.

- Or you can give us something.

♪ ♪

- If they promised you money when this is over,

it's gonna be hard to spend it from a cell.

- Prison?

We're gonna be at the bottom of the Atlantic

if Andrew here doesn't speak up.

- I don't get it. On paper, you're a good man.

Your wife's in shock.

She can't fathom why you'd do something like this.

- Deb's with your agents?

She's OK?

- She's fine. We picked her up an hour ago.

Why are you asking like that?

- My kids, do you have my kids?

- I don't understand. You're not afraid of prison?

- No, they're scared of what will happen to their families

if they don't obey.

Andrew, your family is in FBI custody, safe

and waiting for you to come home,

which is still possible

if you tell us what's really going on here.

- They kept sending me videos.

- My wife at her office, my son on the playground,

my daughter in her-- in her bedroom.

They said they'd do awful things if I didn't--

- Do your part?

- These subjects aren't terrorists.

They're hostages.

How did they reach you?

- Off this app.

- BlackCase. That's why nobody caught it.

It's end-to-end encrypted with no U.S. carriers.

- Can you trace it?

- Bounced through ten servers across four continents,

and they all come back to the same building.

Federal correctional facility.

FCI Petersburg in Hopewell, Virginia.

- Who the hell could have

pulled this off from a prison cell?

- My detainee,

Elliot Bloom.

[dramatic orchestral music]

- We know you're pulling the strings.

- I had a speech ready for when you pieced it together,

but you took so long, I lost the thread.

- What do you want? - My freedom.

On paper and signed

before this plane runs out of fuel and crashes.

- So you can reverse this?

- Of course.

I wrote the code in the device that broke the system.

- And you left us with 90 minutes to negotiate.

Why wait?

- Because a scared government that has no time

or clever alternatives is a generous one.

Why don't you see if Russell

can rustle up a deal at the DOJ?

- Keep an eye on him.

[tense music]

Russ, can you get a deal together?

- Immunity that would actually hold

needs a U.S. Attorney and Main Justice above that.

It would take weeks, not 90 minutes.

- I just need Elliot to believe it's possible.

I don't think he's willing to go down with this plane.

- You sure?

30 years feels like a life sentence in your 20s.

- He's got a younger sister,

raised her after their parents abandoned them.

He still calls her on Sunday.

He's got something to live for.

He just needs a little hope.

- Mom, I'm-- I'm here if you need--

- Russ, just work on the deal

or at least the appearance of one.

- Russ is your son?

Look, I know it's not my business,

but sounds like he really cares about you.

- You're right. It's not your business.

[tense music]

- Six attacks on six planes, and Elliot never left his cell.

- Yeah, well, two more just touched down.

That leaves three in the air, including my mom's.

What if he didn't act alone?

The surveillance videos of these families,

the devices he got on board.

what about that convenient transfer he got from JPATS?

He had help.

- Help from who?

- That's what we're gonna figure out.

- That's David.

- The bank has this as his home address.

That's weird.

- Super weird.

But you could ask him when he comes in.

He just put in an order for pickup on the app

five minutes ago.

[tense music]

- Jack, don't move! Stop! Stop!

♪ ♪

[camera shutter clicks]

♪ ♪

- DOJ is working on a deal.

It's not signed yet, but you have to fix the avionics first.

- You're bluffing.

- Elliot, you know how slow the wheels of justice can be.

You have my word.

I will do all I can to get you a deal.

Please trust me.

- You hold out, and we all die.

Is that how you want to be remembered?

Just think of your sister.

- You're right.

But the only way I see my sister again

is with a signed deal.

You won't let this plane crash.

You'll fold.

- Pull everything you can on the air marshal.

- Raul and I already did, along with everyone else

on that plane, looking for an accomplice.

20 years in service, multiple commendations.

Norris is clean.

- Something's not right.

He knew about Elliot's sister,

but I never mentioned it to him.

[whispering] Check his house. See what you find.

- It's gonna be hard to get a warrant.

- Then let's not ask.

I'll knock on the door,

look for exigent circumstances to search.

- Let me send my agents.

- By the time you brief a team, Mom's got an hour of fuel.

I'm going.

- I'll come with.

Like old times.

[tense music]

[sirens wailing]

- So how do you want to handle this?

- I'm going in first. Antosca's in that car.

- I'm right by your side.

[tense music]

- Sam Antosca, step out of that vehicle now.

- Hello? Anybody home?

Mrs. Norris?

♪ ♪

- Sam Antosca,

step out of that vehicle now with your hands up!

♪ ♪

[muffled straining]

[muffled shouting]

- I'd call that exigent.

- Super exigent.

♪ ♪

- Is there anyone else in the house?

- Let's go!

Step out of the vehicle now!

♪ ♪

- Bullet went clear through his head.

He took the easy way out.

- It's over. Barnes is safe.

This is good news.

♪ ♪

- Did Russ find something at the air marshal's house?

- I did. The real Air Marshal Norris.

- What do you mean?

- The man on that plane is not Norris, but whoever he is,

he's clearly in control now.

♪ ♪

- Ladies and gentlemen,

we've been asked to hold a little while...

- I know the air marshal's in charge.

We're both being played right now.

- No, you're wrong. I'm in charge.

- Then why'd the air marshal use his credentials

to move you off JPATS onto the one plane that can't land?

- Norris and I are partners.

- His name isn't Norris.

The real Air Marshal Norris is tied up in his own kitchen.

You never met him in person, did you?

- We talked through encrypted chats.

He said he had a buyer who paid to ground Apex's whole fleet

for one day, a market play.

I didn't ask.

I just--I just took the deal.

- He used you, Elliot. - W-we built this together.

He needed the tools, I needed the way out.

He said the plane lands.

- Even if it did,

you're not walking away with a deal now.

Cooperating against an act of terror is worth something.

Fix the avionics

and you can get off this plane alive.

Maybe even see your sister again.

- I don't let her visit me in prison.

- It's kind of you to protect her from that.

- I'm afraid if she saw me like that, I'd lose her.

[sighs] Protection--

it's a funny euphemism for pushing people away.

But you know that.

- You'd be surprised how family can show up if you let them.

Why don't you give yourself a chance to find out?

- The air marshal will never let me

anywhere near that panel.

- Leave him to me.

You fix the plane.

[soft suspenseful music]

Don't make me regret this.

[aircraft rattling]

♪ ♪

- Mom? I've got an update.

Brandon ran the jet bridge footage

through facial recognition.

We got a match on your air marshal.

- Who are we dealing with?

- Former Air Marshal Troy Boone.

He's named in a lawsuit.

Remember Apex Airways Flight 419?

- Crashed over the Atlantic three years ago? No survivors?

- His daughter was on the plane.

Boone quit his job and sued the airline

citing cut corners with the plane's communication systems,

but Apex denied it and he lost.

- He's a grieving parent.

Only child?

- She was.

- Then he has nothing to lose.

He wants to send a message,

make an example of the airline

so what happened to his daughter never happens again,

and he's willing to die to do it.

There's no negotiating with him.

- Then what are you gonna do?

♪ ♪

- Why are they keeping this sealed?

- Because of the service. Come on, Dad.

They're putting you up for the Director's Award.

- Why now?

- Uh, because you cracked a massive conspiracy

single-handedly?

- No. Why did Sam Antosca kill himself now?

- He realized we were on to him.

Agents were tearing up his house, his office.

He saw somebody. - So he kills himself?

We didn't have evidence enough to arrest him.

We don't even have a motive. - Dad.

- He had six years to try again.

He had access.

President Barnes has had dinner with the man.

Why did he-- - Stop it.

What's it gonna take? We caught him.

The bad guy's brains are

painting the roof of his Mercedes.

- There is more to it, Junior. - You don't know that.

You just have a hunch.

Do you know how many times I've had to defend you

when people call you obsessed?

- And I was right. - You were.

You were finally right.

And you still can't let it go.

I kept waiting for the day this ends for you,

but there isn't one, is there?

You won't stop until you implode.

- Dad? - Yeah.

- Mom wants to talk to you.

- [sighs] Jane, I'm here. What can I do?

- I bet my day is worse than yours.

- Yeah? What do you got?

- I'm trapped on a plane that can't land

and betting my life on a smartass hacker our kids' age.

- I'm facing a mistake

that nearly cost an important man everything,

a dead body, a whole lot of shame,

and a feeling I can't shake that it's still not over.

- Did I mention I have to face down an armed air marshal

who's willing to go down with the plane

for what he's certain serves the greater good?

- Sounds like I owe you a bottle of Woodford.

- Game, set, and match.

- [sighs] Jane, I wish there was something

I could do to help.

- I'm just grateful to talk to you.

- Sometimes it just feels good to be heard.

- It does, doesn't it?

[somber music]

Oh, Mike, I think you've helped me after all.

Hey, will you do something for me?

- Of course. Anything.

- Whatever happens,

make sure the kids are OK?

- Of course.

And Jane, I want you to know--

- Tell me over Woodford later.

- OK.

♪ ♪

She'll get through this.

- And you? Back to chasing your white whale?

- You know, Junior,

Antosca was damn close when he took that shot.

Too close to miss

unless he wanted to.

- Why the hell would he do that?

- To serve the greater good.

- Boone.

Step aside

and let Elliot help us get this plane on the ground.

[tense music]

It's over.

[aircraft rattling]

[people scream]

[engines roaring]

♪ ♪

- It's over when the fuel runs out.

- Stay back.

Lower your weapon or I'll kill him.

- You said I would walk away.

- You were never walking away.

You were going to be the name they pulled from the wreckage

when it was over.

- I just want to see my sister again.

- I'll never see my daughter again.

- Troy,

I know your daughter was on Flight 419.

Apex cut corners on their comms and it led to the crash.

The warnings were right there and nobody read them.

And for three years...

nobody has said her name.

Erica.

- You don't get to say her name.

- Then you--you say it. You tell me.

♪ ♪

- They killed my little girl.

I told them.

I stood in their offices, in their courtrooms,

and I begged them to own it, to fix it!

And nobody listened.

One plane goes down,

and they just call it a malfunction, a tragedy.

- But six?

- Every incident on every one of these planes today

exposes a failure in Apex's systems.

And when we crash,

the world will know loud and clear

what they did to my baby girl, Erica.

- Not like this.

Please let us go. Let Elliot go.

- And then what?

I lower this gun and I'm just some crazy hijacker.

They bury this like they buried her.

I become the story, not them.

- You crash this plane and I guarantee she's not the story.

You die a terrorist and no one ever says Erica's name again.

- I can't.

I'm sorry.

[sniffling]

It had to be this way.

[engines roaring] - [groans]

- What just happened?

♪ ♪

- I lost someone, too.

My son, Jack.

I know what it does to you,

the grief.

Like someone has ripped your soul out of your body.

It cost me my marriage.

It cost me my kids.

I pushed them away.

Put a mile between us

so I'd never have that much to lose again.

I keep telling myself I'll find my way back to them.

And I'm trying now.

They're listening. I know they can hear me.

Will you give me the chance to keep trying, Boone?

Will you give everyone on this plane a chance?

You're a father whether she's here or not.

You know what that love feels like.

Everyone on this plane is somebody's kid.

You want someone to answer for what happened to her.

I--

I understand that more than you know.

But loss doesn't have to make more loss.

Nobody has to die here today.

[somber music]

♪ ♪

[tense music]

Now.

♪ ♪

Okay.

♪ ♪

[people screaming]

♪ ♪

[intercom chimes]

- Folks, we've got the aircraft.

[cheering]

[cheers and applause]

[peaceful music]

♪ ♪

[applause and chuckling]

♪ ♪

- [sighing]

- Jane? Are you still there?

- Yes.

- I'll see you on the ground.

- [sighs]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- I did warn you.

♪ ♪

- Antosca wanted to miss.

- Junior, you don't have to--

- You were right to be obsessed about all of it,

even this.

Barnes was ahead by most metrics.

And then right before the shooting,

he was quietly bleeding out in Macomb County.

Blue-collar,

the people who vote first and drag the whole map.

- He was gonna lose reelection.

- He just didn't know it yet.

Then Antosca took his shot and missed and the numbers healed.

That attempt didn't almost end Barnes.

- It saved him.

- And a big donor like Sam Antosca's

investment in him.

I'm sorry about before.

- You don't owe me an apology.

- Yeah, I do.

My whole life, you were this legend.

And I grew up wanting to stand beside you

and to be just like you.

And today, I watched you be wrong,

unsteady, and human,

and I couldn't take it.

- Don't do this job for me, Micah.

Do it for you.

- Yeah, here's--

here's what I still don't get.

How did Antosca do it alone?

- He didn't.

He got help from someone on the inside.

We got these preliminaries

from the medical examiner on Antosca's body--

he had skin cells under his fingernails.

He fought somebody in that car.

- So Antosca was murdered.

- And whoever killed him, that's who I'm after now.

- I'm coming with you. - Not this time.

Your mom's waiting. Go see her.

- Well, what about you?

- She needs her kids now.

And this is mine to close.

[indistinct radio chatter]

[peaceful music]

- The other planes?

- On the ground. Everybody's safe.

♪ ♪

- People will remember what happened here today.

You will get to tell your story.

♪ ♪

I'm going to talk to some old friends

about how you helped in the end.

Keep your nose clean, maybe one day, you walk out.

I bet your sister will be standing there when you do.

- Want to hug it out?

- Not with you.

- [chuckles]

♪ ♪

- Raul.

- Hey. Thanks for helping out today.

- Thank you for bringing me in.

- Everything okay?

♪ ♪

- All my life, my parents never really let us in.

They were always running away to work.

I used to think it was avoidant,

but now I'm starting to wonder if maybe

it was their way of processing to let it move its way through

instead of wallowing in it.

I've been going through something personal myself

for a while now and...

I've been running away to work and not sitting in it.

And I don't know which way is right,

but I do think it's time for me to

move forward with my life.

[soft upbeat music]

Do you want to get a drink with me?

♪ ♪

- Are you asking me out on a date?

- I am asking you out on a drink.

- Yeah, anytime.

♪ ♪

- That was fun.

You and me in the field again.

Kind of missed it.

- [chuckles] Same.

Hey, you still want to hang this week?

We could have dinner and talk about the bad old days in Kabul.

- Yeah, been too long.

I'll--I'll bring my girl, Megan.

You'll love her. Everyone does.

- Yeah, of course.

I'll see if Natasha's free. Make it a double.

- Oh, good. [chuckles]

♪ ♪

See you, Russ. - See ya.

♪ ♪

- Only took a six-plane hijacking

to get Mom to talk about her feelings.

- What, like we were any better?

I screamed at Dad today and realized

it's only because I built my entire career around him.

- You just figured that out?

OK, I'm no better burying myself in work

to try and avoid feeling pain. [phone buzzing]

- You guys really are chips off the old blocks, aren't you?

- At least you turned out all right.

Right, baby bro?

- Yeah, I did.

[peaceful music]

♪ ♪

- [gasps]

♪ ♪

- Cinnamon rolls and "The Birds," take two?

- Yeah.

♪ ♪

- Dad had something he had to handle.

- It's OK.

Let's go.

Yeah? - Yeah.

- You ready? - Good idea.

♪ ♪

- Mike, this is crazy. - No, it's not.

The assassination attempt was all just theater, Daryl,

to get Barnes a second term.

- Mike, this is all just speculation.

- No, this is real and terrifying.

- [scoffs]

- Something this clean needed someone senior,

someone with reach who could recruit a man like Antosca,

bury it for six years,

and be there to tie off the loose ends when we got close.

- The loose end being Antosca? - Yes.

Someone killed him to silence him.

The medical examiner found skin cells under his fingernails.

He fought his attacker in that car.

Someone got to him first,

someone who knew exactly when we were getting close.

- You're talking about a conspiracy in your own house.

You could use a drink.

[tense music]

- In our house, Daryl.

You ran detail that day six years ago.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- You know what I always loved about Barnes?

That man could talk,

pull you right in,

make you feel like you were standing inside

something bigger than yourself.

And for a thing like that,

you make sacrifices for the greater good.

You and I aren't that different, Mike.

We both loved him. We both believed in him.

So do you want to pick up a phone and tell your hero

that his entire legacy was a lie,

burn yours down with it?

After everything?

♪ ♪

[glass clinks on table]

♪ ♪

- You killed Sutcliffe, didn't you?

And Antosca for poll numbers in Macomb County.

- I never laid a hand on anyone.

I put the right people in the right places

and let the country get what it needed.

That's the job.

I protected that man

more than you protected anyone in your whole career.

So Mike,

do you want to burn it all down?

Or live with the lie that this country needs?

♪ ♪

- [groaning softly]

People will come looking for me.

They're probably on their way.

- No one's coming to save you, Agent.

That was cute,

watching you play detective.

You really thought that you were ahead,

but I left you every single crumb.

[scoffs]

You followed me right into this room.

That's how easy it was for me.

I can reach you whenever I want,

hurt you whenever I want.

Hurt the ones you love whenever I want.

Family is...

is a burden, isn't it?

Especially an ailing parent.

- Stay away from my mother.

You want to hurt someone, hurt me.

Go on, do it!

- Only if you make me.

- What do you want? - Silence.

You stay quiet.

Make sure that nobody learns that I'm alive,

most of all my family.

- And if I do?

What are you gonna do to me? W-what happens now?

- Oh.

[tense music]

That's simple.

♪ ♪

- [gasps]

- Run.

[tense music]

♪ ♪