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- [BUZZER BLARES] - Come on, ladies.

You don't got places to be, but some of us do.

Slide in. Slide in.

Make some room.

Let's go. Keep it moving.

What's the matter, Tiguere?

Wife had a headache again last night?

Don't start with me, Genesis.

Oh, you take no pride in your work.

These shackles are loose.

Raise your hands.

Mm.

Wouldn't want anything bad to happen now, would we?

- Just get your ass in the van. - [SMOOCHES]

[CHUCKLES]

OK, lock it up.

Locking main deck.

That's fine. Keep walking.

[TENSE MUSIC]

[ENGINE STARTS]

♪ ♪

You couldn't just get in the van, huh?

[CHUCKLES]

Like you weren't enjoying the show, Mami.

♪ ♪

That mouth of yours ever stop running, Genesis?

You want something in this life,

you gotta reach out and take it.

♪ ♪

Ay, the American dream is nothing but a scam.

They make you believe anything's possible

so you don't rise up against them.

No one wants to hear it.

[SCOFFS] I know, Mami.

This country only ever hears you when you're loud.

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[ALL SCREAMING]

- What's happening? - Get out of the van!

Hands up!

[PEOPLE SCREAMING]

Give me your keys!

♪ ♪

Move now!

[SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY] What'd I tell you?

♪ ♪

Synced & corrected by -robtor- www.addic7ed.com

[PHONE RINGING IN DISTANCE]

Are the rumors true? Because you know

when it reaches this floor, it's a big deal.

Maggie, slow down.

- It's 9:00 a.m. - I don't care.

Is Nina getting her own task force or what?

- Thank you. - Wow. OK.

Which one of you is the good cop?

Can you just answer the question, Scola?

All right.

OK, fine.

Yes, Nina has been offered her own task force,

her own hires, her own budget.

- Wow. - The real deal, man.

- It's a big step up. - Yeah.

Well, I mean, she hasn't accepted the offer yet, but...

She has to... I mean,

this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

No, is it. It is, yeah.

It's just, that is a lot more work.

You know, Dougie's getting older.

But she earned it.

And, you know, I support her, whatever she decides.

There it is. Good man.

[CLEARS THROAT]

What are you not saying right now?

Nothing.

Nothing.

Oh. OK.

All right, listen up.

NYPD just issued a citywide tac alert.

A prisoner transport was attacked on Flatbush

10 minutes after leaving MDC.

Eight female convicts were able to escape.

- Anybody hurt? - I don't know.

I am being told that U.S. Marshals

are coordinating the fugitive recovery operation.

We are being asked to round up the inmates

and figure out who did this.

All right, folks, you heard her.

We're on it.

[SIREN CHIRPING]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Hey. FBI. Scola, Ramos.

- You got a second? - Yeah, I'm good.

Tear gas. Stings like a bastard.

Are you OK? Can you walk us through it?

It went fast.

Our tires blew 10 minutes after we left MDC.

Thought it was a flat.

Second I slammed the brakes, they hit us.

Gas round came through the windshield.

Just zip-tied us up, took my keys.

OK. You get a look at the attackers?

Partial. Tear gas blinded me quick.

Three, maybe four of them.

Medium height, medium build.

They were wearing masks.

They were looking for somebody in this van, huh?

Your guess is as good as mine.

Most of the inmates were low-level,

but we had a few hard cases on board.

So they're now all roaming free in Brooklyn.

They ain't running far.

They were chained together.

Caltrops. Nasty little buggers.

We used them overseas to stop suicide bombers

from getting to our outposts.

The spikes are hollow.

They'll flatten a tire in seconds.

Looks like they stopped the van exactly where they wanted to,

'cause we're in a blind spot, in between cameras.

Yeah, this was well-planned, tactical.

Hey, NYPD just got a 911 call.

Witness saw orange jumpsuits slipping into an auto mechanic

six blocks west of here.

We're on it.

[ENGINE REVVING]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[MACHINERY WHIRRING]

♪ ♪

- OA. - Yeah.

♪ ♪

FBI. Hands off the table.

This close, girl.

Yo, I didn't do anything, for real.

Escaping a prison transport, evading arrest.

And breaking and entering or assaulting that mechanic.

We saw an opportunity, and we took it.

You'd have done the same thing.

You want something, you gotta take it.

Genesis only be looking out for herself.

Yeah, and if we'd have run faster, maybe we'd be gone by now.

Genesis Perez?

- She was on the manifest. - Yeah.

You think Genesis was behind this?

She ran the block, took no crap.

And she was running her damn mouth before the truck got hit,

- like she knew it was coming. - Yes.

Like, Genesis always gets her way.

She had the juice.

So where would she run?

She didn't have to.

After the van got hit, we were all on foot.

But Genesis had an SUV waiting.

Her and Laila got in and flew out of there fast.

Let's go.

Good news, folks.

Maggie and OA and have two more inmates in custody.

Her and her.

So where does that leave the tally?

Uh, yeah, the marshals apprehended

four more inmates, so they're off the board.

That leaves only this pair still at large...

Genesis Perez and Laila Sarbani.

Laila Sarbani's a model prisoner.

She's got no write-ups, no affiliations.

She's low-risk.

Five years for embezzling from a company she worked for.

OK, well, Maggie said the two they caught thought

Genesis Perez masterminded the breakout.

That makes more sense.

Genesis Perez, 35, high-ranking member

of the Inwood Kings street gang.

She was in federal lockup for racketeering

and attempted murder of an undercover federal agent.

Her husband is Luis Perez.

Luis Perez? Oh, yeah.

This guy, he is... he's as bad as they come.

Number two for the Kings.

He's a real player, and he'd have plenty of muscle

to pull this job.

Oh, AUSA is bringing a RICO charge

against Luis this month.

Maybe he was getting ready to run.

And he'd want his old lady with him.

I buy that.

All right, I want agents hitting

all Inwood Kings' known safe houses and hideouts, yeah?

Let's hunt her down.

JOC said there's no sign of Genesis

at any of the other hideouts.

Well, you feeling lucky?

Well, certainly not today, but it's still early.

So let's see what happens.

Hit it.

- [THUDDING IN DISTANCE] - Hold.

Hear that?

- Yeah. - Come on.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

FBI! Do not move!

Stay right where you are!

[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

Need a shotgun breach.

[GUN CLICKS, GUNSHOT]

Corner! Corner!

FBI! Stop!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

- [GRUNTS] - [GRUNTS]

♪ ♪

[GRUNTS]

[CLANGING]

[GRUNTS]

[GROANS]

You don't hear so good, huh?

Still missing one by my count.

♪ ♪

Laila Sarbani, what'd you do with her?

I ain't touch her, for real.

Well, you were chained to her

for an hour and a half,

so where is she?

I don't know.

I was just a passenger, lady.

Laila's crew was behind the whole thing.

- Laila's crew? - Yeah.

I was as surprised as you are.

Girl was quiet like a mouse, but Laila...

[CHUCKLES] She had people waiting.

They pulled us into an SUV, and we just peaced out.

So how'd you end up here?

They pulled over, cut the chain,

and dumped my ass on the side of the road.

They took off with Laila. I don't know where.

This is Laila Sarbani, locked up for white-collar crime,

pulled off a tactical hit on a transport van.

- That's your story? - It's not a story.

- It's just facts. - OK.

Look, we'll be looking into those facts,

and you better not be lying.

This was her crew, Fed.

These men were armed for war.

Now, I don't give a damn what Laila Sarbani looks like in your file.

[SCOFFS]

That girl cooked up the whole thing.

And I hope you don't ever find her.

[CHUCKLES]

♪ ♪

And then there was one, Laila Sarbani.

Hard to imagine she is the mastermind

behind this morning's extraction,

but that is where the evidence is pointing.

So what aren't we seeing?

Laila served five years in MDC

for embezzlement and wire fraud.

She's 38, Afghan-American, grew up in California.

Her parents emigrated in the '80s.

She graduated from Stanford in '09.

Eventually got a contract job with a defense firm

in 2013 doing government work.

Oh, wow.

- She pinged in a DOD server. - Mm.

She was an operational support contractor

on a U.S. Army base in Afghanistan during the war?

She did SSE.

Sensitive Site Exploitation, right?

Yeah, they go in after military raids and gather intel.

Break into safes, crack hard drives...

anything they can exploit to develop new targets.

It says here Laila is fluent in both Pashto and Dari.

So she's a multilingual analyst

who knows her way around cracking a hard drive.

Mastermind's starting to fit the bill.

If Laila did plan her own escape,

she'd need to coordinate with whoever broke her out.

Who visited her at MDC?

- There's nothing. - What do you mean? No visitors?

No. No calls, no letters.

No contact with the outside world.

- I'm not buying that. - She barely made a ripple.

According to prison logs, she spent most of her time

in the prison chapel.

So what, she pray her way out?

Who oversees the chapel?

That would be this man,

Father Andrew Discano.

He's a visiting priest.

Comes and goes, but they spent

about 10 hours a week together.

Really?

In a place conveniently outside the view

of any prison security cameras.

You think she exploited him?

I mean, it's literally one of her skill sets.

A priest walking in and out of MDC every day

wouldn't raise any red flags.

Smart way to get messages to any co-conspirators.

It's time to see if our padre has anything to confess.

[DOOR BUZZING]

I do rounds at all sorts of places.

I'm a shepherd, ministering to God's flock.

Whatever Laila did, she's lost.

When we were reviewing her logs,

we saw that you were the only one that visited her on a regular basis.

What are you implying, Agent Ramos?

Laila was planning her escape

by communicating with someone on the outside.

So if we find out you were an accessory to that in any way...

I have no idea what you're talking about.

OK.

Uh, Father, smuggling messages out of the MDC

is a federal crime.

So if you were a part of that in any way,

you're looking at conspiracy, obstruction,

assisting escape.

That's decades in prison.

Who was she sending messages to?

[TENSE MUSIC]

I don't know.

You know the drill here, OK? We can do this the easy way,

or we can do this the hard way, all right?

In fact, there's a few stories about that in your book here.

I really don't know.

She had me leave her notes at some bench in McGolrick Park.

I don't know who picked them up

because I... I didn't want to know.

But you knew she was gonna be there today.

I did.

♪ ♪

So how does a man of the cloth

stray so far from the good book?

♪ ♪

Um, a few months ago,

Laila came to the chapel, and she was adrift,

lost, and I believed I could help her.

She shared her story.

We talked about everything, and it was clear as day

Laila didn't deserve to be locked up.

She has a beautiful soul and a good heart, and...

You fell in love with her.

I felt things for Laila

I've never felt for anyone else in the world.

♪ ♪

She wanted to spend the rest of her life with me.

She had friends who could get her out,

assured me that no one would get hurt.

So I agreed to help.

Looks to me like she used you, Father.

No, no. What we have is real.

Then where is she?

♪ ♪

You're supposed to meet her today?

♪ ♪

Where?

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪ ♪

This guy, I don't know.

What he's willing to sacrifice for love...

Well, he met a girl and lost his faith.

He's a priest, OA.

People lose faith every day, Scola...

in what they believe in, in who they think they are.

The world has a special way of knocking good people off their feet.

♪ ♪

Andrew's in position.

Everyone, just keep your eyes open for Laila.

♪ ♪

Is this her now?

♪ ♪

No. It's not her.

It's a false alarm.

I don't think I can do this.

Andrew, you need to stay calm and stick with the plan.

When you see Laila,

You're gonna get her talking, and we're gonna come in.

She'll never forgive me.

[PHONE RINGING]

Who is it?

Unknown number.

Answer it.

If it's Laila,

keep her talking as long as possible.

[PHONE BEEPS]

- Hello? - Andy.

Laila, where are you? I'm at the park.

Are you close?

Got it. Tracing now.

No, I'm sorry, Andy.

I don't understand.

Everything we talked about... you're not coming?

No.

What about our plans? What about our life together?

I don't have time to explain.

I... I just wanted you to know that...

So you used me. You never loved me.

Don't say that. I do love you.

I don't know if I can do this.

I need more time.

Andrew, we need you to keep her on the phone.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Uh, wait, Laila. Wait, just listen to me.

I need to see you again.

♪ ♪

Laila, are you there?

Are they listening in right now,

whoever's forcing you to do this?

♪ ♪

I'm sorry.

You're gonna hear some bad things about me, Andrew,

but I need you to know that you helped me find my path.

That's why I had to do what I'm doing.

I have to make things right.

What does that mean?

It's OK.

[ALARM BLARING]

I forgive you, Andrew.

♪ ♪

I gotta go.

We lost her.

Our agents were only able to narrow the call

to an approximate location.

550-yard radius around a cell tower in Greenpoint.

OK, how do we narrow that down?

Hey, uh, that alarm blaring on Laila's call,

I ran the audio through an AI tool to ID it.

Got a match to the Sentinel Onyx series alarm.

OK, is that commercial grade or residential grade?

More like critical infrastructure grade.

The Sentinel Onyx is sold to military facilities,

- casinos. - Banks?

I'm getting an alert that Trust National Bank

on McGuinness just activated their internal alarm.

Which is smack in the middle of Greenpoint.

Laila knows how to crack a safe.

She broke out of prison to rob a bank.

Get a team down there now.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[ALARM BLARING]

♪ ♪

On me.

[ALARM BLARING]

♪

FBI!

We got enough! Go, go, go!

[GUNFIRE]

[PEOPLE SCREAMING]

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

- Go! Let's go! - It's Laila.

- Let's go. - [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

Going around.

♪ ♪

FBI!

[TIRES SQUEALING]

[GRUNTS] [GLASS SHATTERING]

Civilian down! Civilian down.

We got her! Go get him!

♪ ♪

Suspect bailed on foot.

Need a perimeter.

South Third Street.

Hey. You see 'em?

♪ ♪

No. Nothing.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Excuse me. Where did they go?

- I don't know. - I don't get it.

Do you want to call it in?

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

Jubal.

[CROWD CHEERING]

"Take what is owed"?

We got eyes on the suspect.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

They're gone.

- They ditched their gear. - Jubal, we lost them.

All right, we're gonna need NYPD

to help us search this building.

OK, fine.

So Laila, she breaks out of prison,

and then she robs a bank.

But then why give up all the cash?

Worked for Robin Hood.

♪ ♪

NYPD is still scouring the building

for Laila Sarbani and her crew.

So far, nothing. How's it going with the cell phone footage?

Not great. I mean, a lot of people filmed the money drop,

so we're gonna find something eventually.

You said you saw three on the balcony, right?

So maybe the fourth robber took off his mask

and blended in with the crowd.

[EXHALES SHARPLY] It's possible.

How much cash was that?

It's about $465,000.

ERT said that they recovered only a fifth of that.

Vigilante crew pulls a Robin Hood gig,

gives the money away.

I mean, half the city's gonna be rooting for these people.

She's done this before.

I was reading Laila's file, and prosecutors suspected

that all the money she embezzled was

wired overseas to Afghan refugees.

So everything she's stolen, she's given away.

She's an ideologue.

Her banner is in English and Pashto.

They dump the money in a neighborhood

with the highest concentration of Afghan refugees.

It's clear she wants Afghans to get this money.

Laila said she wanted to make things right.

- She's obviously after justice. - Or atonement.

It'd be a whole lot easier

if we knew who Laila was working with.

Yeah, agreed.

Hang on. This guy.

He's looking up at the balcony,

but nothing has fallen yet.

You're right.

It's like he knows what's coming.

Hmm.

Let's get his face to the JOC.

Are you OK?

'Cause you seem sort of tight.

Oh, yeah, no. Sorry.

It's just, um, Nina's promotion.

- It's... - Right.

OK.

Come on. Come on.

I've never seen anyone so stressed out about good news.

Job's in San Diego.

San Diego... as in San Diego?

Yeah, that San Diego.

She got the offer four days ago.

It's everything she's ever wanted.

She'd have to move to California, so...

[SOLEMN MUSIC]

Would you?

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

She's worked so hard for this, you know?

- Yeah, her whole career. - Her whole career.

But we have a life here.

We would have to uproot everything.

Just the sacrifice that's need...

needed if Nina takes this gig...

I just don't know if our family would survive that.

♪ ♪

So what are you gonna do?

I told her not to take it, Eva.

♪

I said she shouldn't accept the promotion.

♪ ♪

[SIGHS]

All right, so the guy knew half a million dollars

is about to drop out of the sky.

- He's not a psychic, huh? - No, buckle up.

His name is Idris Sherazi, Afghan refugee.

Came over after Kabul fell in 2021.

He's married, has a daughter.

No criminal record.

What's his connection to Laila Sarbani?

Idris was an interpreter

for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

He was attached to Laila's unit.

- They worked together. - There it is.

So I assume you're trying to locate him, yeah?

Uh, we're running his face against CCTV footage

- as we speak. - All right, keep at it.

Folks, if you haven't heard,

the guy who knew it was gonna rain green,

he is a part of Laila Sarbani's crew.

His name is Idris Sherazi,

an interpreter for the U.S. in Afghanistan.

If anyone finds any intel on this guy

that can help us track him down, please speak up.

All right, were we able to trace his phone?

Didn't turn up any cell records for him,

so no number to trace.

- Hey, got him. - Yep.

Exiting an E Train station in Queens,

uh, about a half hour ago.

He's got a black duffel.

OK. Well, he could've gone anywhere from there.

- Can we pick up his trail? - Yeah.

Tracing pole cams from the station.

Yeah, got him.

Entered Triborough Hospital three minutes ago.

Well, he does not look like he's injured.

So what, they rob the bank, they drop the money,

and then he goes to the hospital?

During their getaway, they hit a woman with their car.

She was injured pretty badly,

and EMT took her to that exact hospital.

Oh, OK. Get a team there now.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Excuse me.

There was a woman who was hit by a car.

- Where is she? - Second door to the right.

♪ ♪

Idris Sherazi. FBI.

You're under arrest.

Put your hands up now.

♪ ♪

[DOOR BUZZING]

Can we get you anything, Idris?

- No, thank you. - OK.

Well, we spoke to your wife, Zohal.

She was shocked, to say the least.

Said she warned you not to go down this road.

You went to the hospital to leave money

for the woman you hit in your getaway, right?

Your wife was right.

You have a good heart.

Zohal has nothing to do with this.

Well, it's gonna affect her,

as it is your daughter, whether you like it or not.

Because of today's robbery,

immigration will be taking a closer look

at your family's refugee status.

You're an interpreter for the U.S., right?

The Taliban's still in power back home.

What would happen if your family were to be sent back?

What kind of man are you?

I don't make the rules, and I didn't put you in that chair.

- I had no choice. - Like hell, you didn't.

Look, you've got one play left.

So give us some names, now.

I have principles.

Is that why you broke Laila out of MDC?

Ah, you wouldn't understand.

I worked with an interpreter like you in Helmand.

We can help you.

The U.S. government already promised us visas status.

None of that came to pass.

So what, today's robbery was, uh, for retribution?

No one is gonna hire an Afghan refugee without papers.

And your country makes sure I can't get them.

So how will I provide for my family?

My daughter's sick, and I cannot afford her medicine.

There are thousands just like me.

Afghan refugees in despair, fighting for dignity

after sacrificing everything for this country.

And Laila wanted to help you.

It was all her idea.

She saw how much we sacrificed

and how we were left behind by this country.

She would never make us whole, but she had tools and skills.

Yeah. She was your safecracker.

We can help you. We can help your daughter. We can help your wife.

But we need to know where your friends are.

[CHUCKLES]

It's always just one more sacrifice with you.

But this time I will not make it.

My friends have more work to do.

Where's the next bank, Idris?

All right, folks, Idris Sherazi gave us

more than a few reasons to believe his team is not done yet,

which means he has another target in mind.

There are 1,700 bank branches in Manhattan alone.

Yeah, well, they'll want ones with cash on hand.

Can we pull up cash amounts

for all local banks in the area?

Won't take long. They're empty.

What do you... what do you mean?

Uh, look.

Um, these are all the local branches

in Brooklyn and Queens.

Consumer banks, they get daily cash deliveries

from tier-1 financial institutions

known as correspondent banks.

Now, the main correspondent bank in the area...

First Central Savings Bank in Brooklyn.

But due to an elevated security threat

from this morning's heist,

First Central put a hold on all future cash deliveries.

So you're saying they hit a small bank

to send a scare through the system

and corral all that cash to one target?

- More or less. - All right.

So how much money is sitting

in the First Central vault right now?

Roughly $4 million.

That is quite a haul.

Get all the teams there right now.

NYPD, you guys too. Mount up.

Let's hope we're not too late.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

What was that? Why'd you stop?

Caltrops.

All units, be advised,

we have an obstruction on South Elliot

that needs to be cleared.

All right, well, let's keep moving on foot.

♪ ♪

We got eyes on the bank.

♪ ♪

OK, I'm seeing movement inside.

Oh, my God.

That's not a robbery crew.

No.

It's a human barricade.

♪ ♪

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪ ♪

All right, JOC's up on CCTV.

Should be coming through now.

OK, the sniper team's in position,

but they used their hostages to block our line of sight.

OK, how many robbers by their count?

We've got three confirmed.

All right, so same crew.

I mean, one of them's gotta be Laila.

SWAT has prepared an emergency assault plan

if it comes to that.

There's gotta be 25 hostages in there, easy.

♪ ♪

Gonna have to do this old-school.

♪ ♪

This is Special Agent Stuart Scola with the FBI,

and we've got the building surrounded.

We would like to get this resolved peacefully

without anybody getting hurt.

Bank manager on duty is a Jenn Heidlemann.

We're gonna call her phone.

When it rings, pick it up so we can talk.

♪ ♪

Come on, pick up.

Pick up.

She's not answering.

I don't like this.

Nothing.

[PHONE BUZZING]

Hold on.

"Send the guy who was just talking.

No guns."

Absolutely not.

It goes against every SOP.

It's the only way they're gonna talk to us.

Scola, no, wait.

How old do you think that girl is?

15, maybe 16.

Yeah.

- I need you in my ear, OK? - OK.

Cover me.

♪ ♪

FBI.

Coming in.

Turn around. Show me your waist.

No weapons.

Inside.

Now!

♪ ♪

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Everybody OK in here?

If you don't pull your officers away from this bank,

bad things will happen to all these people.

So let's figure out how to get everybody out of here

nice and safe, OK?

That includes you and your friends.

How's that sound, Laila?

♪ ♪

What are you doing?

He already knows who I am.

I also know why you're doing this.

There's no gun in your hand.

You don't want to hurt these people.

You just want to make things right.

You think you know us?

You think you know what we've been through?

I'm just trying to help you.

Hey, hey, hey. Easy, easy.

[WHIMPERING]

You think you know what we're capable of?

Take it easy.

I will blow a hole in her head

if you do not do exactly as I say.

No, no, no, no, you don't want to do that.

Pull your agents back.

This is our money.

We are not leaving without it. You have 10 minutes.

We can talk about that,

but you have got to give me something in return.

All right?

Let me have five of the hostages.

[GUN CLICKS]

Laila, please make him understand.

Rus doesn't answer to me.

I don't want anyone getting hurt,

but that doesn't mean we're not serious.

If he shoots someone, SWAT will breach that door,

and more people will get hurt.

These men bled for this country.

I saw it with my own eyes.

Now they are taking what is owed to them.

You want to help?

Get out of our way.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

At least let me have the kid.

♪ ♪

Here we go. That's it.

You're doing awesome, OK?

I'm gonna pass you right over to my friend.

Right this way.

All right, they're die-hards.

They are not gonna negotiate. This is existential.

♪

We have pinned your crew inside the bank.

They have taken hostages.

Now, I'm afraid Laila is about to walk your friends

across a line they cannot return from.

The woman that you hit, you put in the hospital...

she succumbed to her injuries.

[SIGHS]

How many more people have to die

for Laila to prove her point?

It's not her.

- It's Rustam. - Who is he?

A village schoolteacher.

But the war broke him, and now...

I didn't want him to be a part of this.

- So he's dangerous? - And angry.

The war forced him to become a killer.

He's willing to do anything to anyone to get what he's owed.

He was driving the car, hit that poor woman.

He didn't even flinch.

He will never surrender.

Nikki, thank you for coming in.

Yeah, well, don't thank me yet.

You are dealing with Rustam Sadiqi.

He and his younger brother, Tamim,

were in the same Afghan army basic training class

as your man in custody.

And the two brothers were interpreters?

Only Tamim.

Rustam was... he was one of ours.

- One of ours? - Mm-hmm.

During the war, the agency set up local forces in Afghanistan

to augment our clandestine operations there.

- Zero Units. - Elite Afghan commandos.

They were hunter-killer strike teams

that worked directly for the CIA.

So Rustam was a hunter-killer?

When Kabul fell in '21,

they were the only local force that we could trust

to help pull us out.

We brought thousands of Zero Units

and their families back to the U.S.

Many fell through the cracks.

Promises weren't kept.

I don't blame your robbery crew for being angry.

They were fed a raw deal. I would be angry too.

Idris says they'll never surrender without bloodshed.

Would you back down if you were in their shoes?

We've got over two dozen hostages

that are still inside of this bank, Jubal.

- We've got to do something. - And we are.

Our best bet is... is to wait 'em out.

You know, they're gonna get hungry,

they're gonna get thirsty,

and they'll realize they have to negotiate.

OK, so cross our fingers

and hope that they change their mind...

that's our best move here? What are your thoughts, Eva?

Well, they feel what they're doing is justified.

That's a hard place to negotiate from.

Look, they think this money is owed to them, right?

For promises that we made.

So why don't we step aside and let 'em take it?

Let them believe that they can have the money?

[TENSE MUSIC]

Do it.

♪ ♪

- You're out of time. - All right.

Wait. I got an offer.

Look.

You guys want the money.

We want the hostages, right?

So this is what we're willing to do.

We're gonna pack up, move out,

and let you drive out of here with that cash.

I am so tired of hollow American promises.

I'm serious.

You leave those hostages, you can have the money.

♪ ♪

Yeah. This is good.

Scola, we're in position.

I don't believe you.

Of course you don't, right?

Why would you?

With everything that's happened?

♪

If you leave those hostages in here, unharmed,

you are free to go.

♪ ♪

Thank you.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Risky move, leaving hostages behind.

It's gonna work, all right?

It's got to.

Yeah, but if it doesn't,

Scola, I don't want you to carry that.

♪ ♪

OK. Looks like they're wrapping up.

- What is she doing? - What?

Oh, damn!

She just took the bank manager as insurance.

Get a team on that van now!

[ENGINE REVVING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

♪ ♪

Van's tagged.

What the hell just happened?

Scola, they took a hostage.

They threw her in the back and fled with the money.

Who did? Rustam?

Laila.

She didn't believe you, and now they're running.

♪ ♪

I want that getaway car found now.

- How are we doing? - Uh, tracker's live.

Signal's strong.

They can run, but we'll find 'em.

All right, they've got millions in cash and an innocent woman.

She does not die on our watch.

Where are they headed?

Just blew a red light on Franklin.

Yeah, OK. Scola, listen up.

[ENGINE REVVING]

Getaway car's fleeing north on Franklin.

Just crossed Kent.

OK, we're in pursuit, but we need a way to box them in.

Yeah, NYPD's gonna help you box them in.

Oak Street is shut down for construction.

On it.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Eva, brought the cavalry from 26 Fed.

- Where are we at? - Medical is finishing up.

Then we interview the hostages.

♪ ♪

[TIRES SCREECHING]

Turn off the engine, and get out of the vehicle.

Do it now!

Laila, turn it off.

Throw the keys out the window.

♪ ♪

[KEYS JINGLING]

Now step out of the car slowly.

♪ ♪

Turn around. Put your hands in the air.

Please.

Idris, Rustam, Tamim, they are...

they are such good, decent men.

They served this country.

They gave everything, and for what?

For what? Nothing.

A sacrifice worth nothing.

That doesn't make what you did OK.

Now turn around and put your hands on your head.

♪ ♪

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

- Help us! Help us! - Get behind me.

Get behind me.

Don't move.

♪ ♪

Scola, these are the hostages!

What?

Hands behind your back.

Where the hell are Rustam and Tamim?

You gotta be kidding me.

Hey, throw the bank footage back up there.

Maggie, listen up.

Rustam and Tamim are still in the bank,

likely posing as hostages.

You need to find them.

We're looking now.

♪ ♪

Eva. Rustam, FBI!

Stop!

Show us your hands.

Turn around.

Where's your brother?

We have Rustam.

Tamim's in the wind.

So what'd you do with the money?

It is now where it belongs.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

So JOC searched all the footage

from the scene at the bank.

Finally found Tamim.

Wow.

That's how they got the money out, huh?

Yep.

The cameras, they lost track of him

a few moments after, and JOC thinks that

he had a getaway vehicle a couple blocks down.

He will slip up,

and we'll grab him, one way or another.

You know, I feel bad for them.

[SIGHS]

But this crew, they...

they made a hell of a mess today.

Yeah.

They were promised something that they didn't get, right?

[SOLEMN MUSIC]

So they lost sight of what it means to serve.

And to serve is to sacrifice.

And that is our reward.

Are you trying to convince me or yourself?

♪ ♪

I don't know, Eva.

Maybe I lost sight of it too.

You can't stand in Nina's way

just because it's... it's gonna be hard.

♪

Good night, Scola.

Thank you.

For what?

For all of it.

Anytime.

♪ ♪

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

♪ ♪

[LINE RINGING]

You've reached Nina Chase. Please leave me a message.

[LINE BEEPS]

Hey. Uh, it's me.

Uh, I've been thinking more about San Diego.

Um, I think you should take the job.

It's worth it.

And we'll... we'll figure it out, OK?

I love you.

♪ ♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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