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Previously on "Clarice"...

Two dead women floated
down the Anacostia River.

Somebody sliced them to ribbons.

Stab wounds. Bite marks.

Looks like a serial guy to me.

Sir, that man is a professional.

He was paid to clean up after
some kind of clinical trial.

Those women were whistleblowers.

You will go to the press,
and you will tell them

that these murders were
the work of a serial killer.

Thanks to the ViCAP Task
Force, we got the guy.

And they were not random
victims of a serial killer.

They died trying to tell a story.

A story that isn't over.

Twizzlers and Diet Coke
are food groups now?

Oh, I see.

We're starting the day
cleaning a deadly weapon.

Okay.

Enough of that.

They're gonna make you apologize.

You goingto apologize?

This is not a serial killer.

It's a series of killings.

Krendler issued a statement
that I spoke prematurely,

and that all the evidence
I found was inconclusive.

He has to salvage an investigation

that you just kicked into the toilet

by letting the bad guys
know we're onto them.

Someone had to speak up
for those families.

And you know better.

I know!

I know.

I lost control.

I shouldn't have said it that way.

Coulda, woulda, shoulda.

You also shot a guy yesterday.

You haven't done that since Bill.

Think that might have
something to do with it?

Maybe.

I don't know, Ardelia.

Maybe I should just
go back to the BSU lab.

Good.

Hide like a bridge troll.

Your best is in the field.

You know that.

But here's the thing.

Going rogue like that

sends your team the message
that you don't trust them.

That's no way for anyone
to survive out there.

I know.
You know.

You know.

I better know you if
you calling this early.

Starling there?
Oh.

We need her here ASAP.
Yes.

Starling.

A siege is under way
in Eastern Tennessee.

It began early this morning
when an ATF agent...

...when an ATF agent
was shot and wounded

by a fringe militia group

who call themselves The Statesmen.

The agent is being
treated at a local hospital

and is expected to
make a full recovery.

The incident began...
The incident began

when the agent was prevented
from serving a warrant.

The leader of the group, Lucas Novak,

has issued a statement

that he will not allow
the federal government...

So, how long has it been?

When's the last time you went
back to "Appalaysha"?

Appalachia.

It's been years.

A lot of old ghosts.

Lucas Novak, standard-issue
country gentleman,

described as "charismatic."

Novak leads a group that calls
themselves The Statesmen.

Started off as a hillbilly rehab clinic

and somehow turned into

a heavily armed secessionist militia

who want to form their own
state within Tennessee.

The Statesmen shot an ATF agent

serving a search warrant.

He's in stable condition,

but now we're in the
middle of a standoff.

So, let me address
the elephant in the room.

This won't be another Waco.

Those of us who were there know

it was a cluster seven different ways.

This is Tennessee.

It's the AG's home state,
and she sent ViCAP.

We want the weapons,
we want the shooter,

we want to make it home.

Good?

Good.
Good.

Special Agent Paul Krendler.

Sheriff Tucker Rowan.

Pleased to have you on the scene.

We know there are women inside.
Any kids?

No reports of children among them.

And no word from anyone inside?

They don't acknowledge
federal authority.

That's why they wouldn't
let ATF serve the warrant.

They're not gonna give us the shooter,

and they want the feds
off the property.

What were you guys looking for?

Our intel says they're strapped...

Modified rifles, black market stuff.

So we'd better use caution,

'cause we both know how
fast this can go south.

Let's get
that PA system going. You got it.

Need to talk to the man inside.

Starling.

A word.

Agent Krendler, I want to... No.

I talk, you listen.

I want to be clear...
When we get back to Washington,

I'm gonna formally request
your transfer off of ViCAP.

Yes, sir.

Clarke.
Yeah.

You're on Starling.

Have her set up cell towers.
Keep her away from the press.

You went wildly off-script
at the press conference.

The only reason you're here

is because I don't trust
you out of my sight.

If you can't follow orders,

you're gonna get somebody killed today.

Got it.

ATF's pretty hopped up.

I understand.
One of theirs is down.

I've been at this 30 years.

And now you got this.

Met Novak a dozen times.

Seemed smart, decent,
really wanted to help people.

Eccentric, sure, but we
got a lot of eccentrics.

Think he'd light up that
place, risk everyone inside?

I don't know.

But why does a man keep
that many automatic weapons?

10 steps forward, you're
in speaker range.

Thanks.

What?

Did you have a criminal
profiler at Waco for Koresh?

You want to tell me it would've
worked out differently

if we just maybe
listened to the shrink?

I wasn't there.
I wouldn't say that.

Good.
I was gonna say

that behavioral science can be
used for your offense, too.

Anyone who lives
like this, the... Delusional crap?

The mental effort it takes
to hold it all together.

It's a lot to maintain.

Spinning plates. A lot of pressure.

You shouldn't be here, Starling.

Well, Krendler's gonna transfer me.

Shouldn't be at the Bureau.

I... Look, I get it.

I'm just ViCAP's resident
knuckle dragger.

But you broke ranks
at the press conference.

Maybe you regret it maybe not.

But something's eating you,
and that's true wherever you go.

And if you stay in the field,

Krendler's right... we're all at risk.

Yes, sir.

You tell me you sleep
eight hours a night yourself,

and I'll hand in my
credentials right now.

Wire cutter ain't worth a damn.

I'll get you a new pair.

My toolbox is in the tent.

Reesey!

Reesey!

The police are here!

Something happened to Daddy.

We got to get home.

Wait! Please!

Are you from inside?

My name's Clarice Starling, FBI.

What's your name?

Wait!

Was that a kid?

Heat-mapping says 20 people
inside, armed to the teeth.

The blueprints on file don't show

anywhere near this square footage.

House has been added onto
over the years.

Probably carved up like
a rabbit warren inside.

Boss, there's a kid in the house.

You said there were no children.

Could be some local kid
checking out the commotion.

He ran into the farmhouse, sir.

This changes things.

Get me the Attorney
General on the line.

There's movement at the front door.

Please advise. It's a boy.

There's something in his hand.

It does not appear to be a weapon.

I repeat, it does not
appear to be a weapon.

Lucas Novak wants to talk!

But he'll only talk to the woman I saw.

He wants to talk, but only to her.

So, the transmitter's
built into the clip.

We'll hear everything,
but he won't see it.

Alright, alright, here, let me.

You going somewhere after this?

Half the people in that
file are young women.

Lucas Novak collects them.
He controls them,

even if it is getting them clean.

And you really believe
that's what he's doing?

I believe he's a narcissist.

I want him to think I took
the time to put my face on

before he saw me.

Okay, are we good?

Yeah. We'll get pretty much
everything you say in there,

but, uh, try to get close
if you can, okay?

That a good idea?
Probably not.

We can hide a weapon for you.

Maybe I can't trust them,
but they've got to trust me.

Okay.

We want to trust you, too, you know.

I'm a counter sniper. I work alone,

but I can't do a damn thing
without my team.

The team clears a space for me to work.

I clear the space for the team.

You don't trust us, we can't trust you.

Where's that leave anybody?

He doesn't just want you
in there because you're a woman.

You're also Clarice Starling.

You're all over the news.

It's a power play.

If you get in trouble
in there, look for us.

Let us know where you
are. We'll be there.

Alright, then.

Just give me five minutes
to get into position, okay?

Good afternoon.
This is the official statement

from the Department of Justice.

The militia group The Statesmen
have reached out,

and we have begun communication.

When did she record this?
A few hours ago.

Her plane's already touched
down here in Tennessee.

She's on her way.

I'm traveling there because I am
a human being who understands

that every person in
there is someone's child.

I've already sent down ViCAP, my team,

and the woman who saved
the life of my daughter.

They're talking she might
run for governor down here.

So it has to be a nuanced resolution,

not rolling in the tanks.

What if Novak decides
to start World War III

with Starling in there?

But my promise to the American
people is that we will not leave

until there is a peaceful resolution.

Thank you.

Starling is moving into position.

Jones, we count four hostiles

on the roof facing southeast.

Copy that, I see them.

Moore, watch your 3:00.

We got two more armed
hostiles on the balcony.

I got eyes on Starling.

She's with the boy.

Hey, there.

I brought y'all some food.

I'm Clarice.

Are you famous?

Sort of.

I saw you rubbing your shoulder.

Did you fall or something?

You know he saw you on TV?

I like cartoons.

My mom's friends like soaps,

even though TV is bad for you.

So, is that who you live with?

Your mom and her friends?

Yeah.

My brother and I,

we used to watch the Roadrunner.

I don't like him 'cause he don't talk.

She's making her way toward the house.

All those crazy artificial colors

are gonna kill you someday.

You know what I see when I look
at these gifts you brought?

The clutches of late-stage capitalism.

No one knows what real
nectar tastes like anymore.

It's all just chemicals.

Yellow's just a number.
Red ain't red.

I think that's why all these people

are losing themselves now, don't you?

I'm not sure I follow, sir.

The commodification of a person.

We're all just receptacles
for corporations

to pour chemicals into.

Is it any wonder when
someone goes real dark,

starts to cut us apart?

When there's no person
left inside anymore.

Come on, Peter. Come on.

Go watch your stories on the TV.

Maggie.

Wouldn't be proper for a
man to lay hands on you.

I appreciate your consideration.

I'm Special Agent Clarice Starling.

But I'm guessing Peter
already told you my name.

Oh, sure, sure.

You're the person
who's been looking into

the terrifying mouth of what
we're all slowly becoming.

I'm pleased to make your acquaintance.

You know, Buffalo Bill...

Buffalo Bill was a man
who breaks my heart, actually.

Thinking somebody would
care for him if he was different.

But who hasn't thought that, hmm?

That Kentucky I hear in your accent?

West Virginia, sir.

Then I imagine what you see
here is all too familiar.

How's a good girl like you
become a fed, Clarice?

Only place to go was up or out.

There's always down, isn't there?

I didn't think you'd, uh,

have a sense of humor, sir.

I can't help myself.

No, I hate the feds.

But you...

you are what this country's all about.

Or should be.

I'd like to shake your hand.

Oh.

Used to hard work.

Dry hands.

Maggie.
Ew.

I hate this guy.

Castor oil and rose water
will take care of that.

That's really not necessary...

No, no, no, it's my pleasure.

You'll like it, right, Emma?

I sure do.

I know how hard that
road is to up and out.

You have to give up a
lot, leave people behind.

Did you leave behind people?

Family?

Someone who didn't get up or out?

Now, don't... Don't wipe it

on your clothes. It'll stain.

M-Mr. Novak, a federal agent
was shot on your property.

We need the shooter.

We need to get in here
and search the place.

You know this.

There's steps to this going
away, and I need to take them.

I-I truly don't know who
shot your man, Clarice.

I know it's unorthodox what I do here.

I get people clean

'cause I won't take the padlock
off the damn door for two weeks

while they shiver so hard
they think they're gonna die,

and I know that looks like
unlawful imprisonment,

but we are dying down here.

I built something.

And I can't let the feds
take it away from us.

You know your law, but that's not what

we're here to do, sir.

Wasn't there someone in your life

could've used someone like me?

I know there was. I can
see it in your eyes.

My brother.

Hmm.

S-Sir, I find it strange

that you don't know who the shooter is.

This is your place.

I saw you look at Emma's
little one, our Rabbit.

I thought maybe you had
a kid of your own,

but now I see it different.

You had a brother.

Maybe some of your
people know something

about what happened here today.

You ever make leather
britches out of beans?

String them up to dry.

All the time when I was little.

Please.

Emma, we're gonna
need more green beans.

Mama, was that Daddy's cap?

What happened to Daddy? I want
to know what happened to Daddy.

Clarice, tell your brothers and sister

to wash up and come to the table.

Sir, may I please use the restroom?

You were still a trainee
when you stopped Buffalo Bill

from skinning and killing more women.

These things make me think
this agent needs to be

out of rotation until
she can heal from PTSD

of the most egregious kind.

Don't.

Don't.

Oh, she's on the edge.
Now's the time.

Tell the boys on the
roof to start raising hell.

FBI security,

we are approaching with
the Attorney General.

Two minutes out.

Sir, I got movement on the roof.

Get off our damn land, pigs!

Incoming!

Take cover! Take cover, take cover!

We've got a situation.

Hostiles on the roof riling up ATF.

Aah!

Take cover.
We just got shot at!

Open fire! Open fire!

Who fired?

One of ours misfired.

Who the hell is shooting?

This is getting bad.

Agent Starling!
Agent Starling!

Okay, wait!
Y-Your people need you.

Got to get everybody out here safely.

Just let my team come in.

It can't be the feds.

My people are scared of the feds.

Local sheriff... it has to be.

Come on! Come, come, come!
Get that sheriff in here.

Starling?
Are you there?

Starling?

If you're in there,
Starling, take cover.

Starling, do you copy?

This is Starling inside the house.

Hold fire, hold fire!

Novak says he'll negotiate,

but only with local law enforcement.

Hodge, cease fire.

The Attorney General
is here. Cease fire.

Hold your fire!

Lower your weapons!

Our time here's coming
to an end, Agent Starling.

I saw you were upset when
you went in the bathroom.

Tell me about "don't."

"Don't"?

What makes you say
that word to yourself?

Lucas Novak, we're coming in!

That's far as you go!

We ain't gonna shoot,
but we don't want to

get shot at neither.

That's the way I look
at it, too, Lucas.

Go.

I'm Sheriff Rowan.

You all right, Agent Starling?

Yes, sir. We still
don't have a shooter.

They gonna back off?

Not until the shooter is in custody.

I don't know who he is.

I'll show you my armory...
Show of good faith.

Hell, maybe the weapon
he used is in there.

David.

You've done a fine job here.

Agent Krendler wants
you back at command

now that we got the area secure.

Sir, the boy's still inside.

We'll find him.

Don't be a stranger, now.

Clarice, what are you doing?

Agent Merengue, switch
to channel Adam 4.

Esquivel to Agents
Sad and Flaccid, over.

Who shot first, ATF or Statesmen?

Statesmen were throwing bottles,
but ATF definitely shot first.

Well, it'd be good to find out
if local ATF are friendlies.

Can we do that quietly?

I don't trust anyone at headquarters

not to blab to the ATF.

You don't trust anybody, period.

I do.

Starling has a friend back
at Buzzard's Point.

Find Ardelia Mapp.

Tripathi, put more paper
in your fax machine.

There's a lot coming.

Everyone on that ATF unit
down there turned up clean.

Okay, there's a contact
I trust from Quantico.

It turns out he's been keeping
a file on, and I quote,

"That crooked son of a bitch
Sheriff Rowan for years,

but nothing ever sticks."

You think all the assault
weapons might've got the feds

interested in you?
This is on you.

ATF showing up at my door.
You're losing it.

Yeah, well, who shot
the agent on your watch?

I don't know! You got to hand him over.

Get rid of the feds, I'll find out.

We got to give 'em someone.

Once they have someone in custody,

they'll pull the hell out.

Maggie.

She's a good girl.
She'll keep quiet.

Extortion, narcotics, prostitution.

They made an arrest.

Whoever they're serving up is a patsy.

We only got the shooter 'cause
we agreed to pull out.

We cannot leave while Novak's in there

with a bunch of women and a kid.

Sheriff Rowan is wired deep down here.

We have to be strategic.

We're not escalating.
Pull the team out.

Ma'am?

Do you want another Waco?

Do it.

Hey.

You got to get out of here.

Novak told the people
on the roof to throw bottles

at the police.

When you were in the bathroom.

Why?

He wanted them to start shooting.

He wanted things to escalate.

He wanted Rowan in.

Peter, you have a big old bruise

on your right cheek,

and you've been rubbing
at your shoulder.

Rifles are heavy, and they
have a lot of kickback.

It's like getting kicked by a mule.

Peter?

Did you shoot the ATF agent?

I didn't mean to hurt anyone.

I just wanted someone to come.

Someone to...

Help?

You were calling for help.

Why didn't you ask
Sheriff Rowan for help?

Mom says he's the worst one.

When he gets mad,

my mom's friends end up
dead in the woods.

Okay.

They call you Rabbit, right?

You got to rabbit right now.

Get to the command tent.

Go on.

Get.

The standoff
that started early this morning

outside of a Tennessee compound
looks to be coming to an end

as the shooter of the ATF agent
who was shot and...

...informed us that the shooter of

the ATF officer has been
identified and arrested

outside of the Tennessee compound.

I can't believe
she's making us lie down.

New AG got in the sewer real quick.

Be right back.

Agent Krendler, this is Starling.

Starling, where the hell are you?

Sir, I'm trying to be real quiet.

Rowan and Novak are operating
a prostitution ring.

Well, Rowan just made
an arrest for the shooting.

Who confessed, Maggie?

Yes.

She's lying.
They made her confess.

I have evidence video
about the prostitution.

That directly implicates Sheriff Rowan?

- No.
- Then end of discussion.

We have her in custody,
we're pulling out.

That's from the AG.

I'm out of moves on this side.

She wants to take
the arrest for the win.

Sir, Novak deliberately
escalated things

to get Rowan in because he knew
Rowan would get him out.

I can make Novak give
it up, give them both up.

Sir, I need your authorization.

I know you have every reason
not to, but I'm asking anyway.

I know guys like this.

You're breaking up.
I can't hear you.

Use your best judgment, get back
here A.S.A.P. Command out.

Better check your equipment.

The incident began

when the agent was prevented
from serving a warrant.

The leader of the group, Lucas Novak...

You're still here?

You come to watch TV?

It was on.

They're playing a lot
of stories about you.

They can't get enough of you.

What the hell is she doing?

She's telling us where she is.

You pull her out now.

I can't. Her HT is off.

Esquivel? You have a line of sight?

Negative. No visual.

I can picture you,

sitting here, relaxing at night.

You're thinking about me?

You remind me of someone.

My father.

My daddy.

He was a sheriff.

A sheriff?

You must've adored him.

You bet I did.

He died before I left home for good.

You know, he used to take
me for root beer floats.

And the soda jerk who made
them, he was not a kind man.

Wonder why he chose to be around kids.

Maybe that's why he chose
to be around kids.

Maybe.

Hadn't thought of that.

There was this one time,
we found this neighbor boy

crying 'cause of the
soda jerk's meanness.

If there was one thing
my daddy couldn't stand,

it was someone who picked
on folks weaker than them.

He told the boy to come inside with us.

And when my daddy, the sheriff,

walked into that store,

the soda jerk cowered.

He got small.

How did that make you feel,

seeing the power your daddy had?

It was...

intoxicating.

Though I didn't have
that word at the time.

How does it feel

when your people...

your women give themselves over to you?

It feels intoxicating.

And I understand your daddy.

I have dedicated my
life to helping my girls.

It makes me feel, um...

I don't know, like...
Like your daddy felt, I guess.

You're not getting it.

You'rethe soda jerk.

Wait, now.

Oh, geez.
Other men

remind me of my daddy.

Sheriff Rowan, he
has that kind of walk,

that kind of power.

And he'll use it to hurt you,
to punish you.

He can't hurt me.

He's nothing without me.

He's the lawman. He has the walk.

He feeds me johns. I pay him.

He's my bitch.

Come on.
Come on, bring it home.

Come on, Lucas,

everyone says that
Rowan is the big dog.

The locals say it. Hell,
Magistrate Cotton says it...

Because Rowan needs to believe that.

I let him believe that.

All those nitwits down in
government, that Jefferson,

Cotton, McGeary...

McGeary? Wait, which one is he?

It's the whole damn courthouse, girl.

I'm the big dog. They're mine.

You don't talk

when I am talking.

She did it.

Did she just... She got it.

She got every crook in the courthouse.

I want every copy of that tape.

Esquivel, you got eyes?

Negative. No clear shot.

She's with Novak in
the southwest corner.

Lucas Novak, you are under arrest

for violations of the Mann Act.

Girl?

We have you on tape
operating a prostitution ring.

Oh, that's smart.

You might have a little wire on you.

Mm.

But you know what you don't have?

You don't have backup.

You're pointing your weapon
at a federal officer.

Seems to me we're all alone.

You want to play
police like your daddy?

Here you are, a little girl
all on your own.

You don't mean nothing
to them feds over there.

That's why I chose you.

That, and I was
thinking it might be nice

to see what was
under that skirt of yours.

Esquivel.

Please, sir, please let me go.

Lock!
"Please"?

Come on, girl.

I thought you'd have a little
more fight in you than that.

Sir, you have no idea.

Starling? Agent Starling,
what's your twenty?!

Agent Starling, come in! What's your twenty?!

Agent Starling?

Feeds me johns. I pay him.

He's my bitch.

Come on, Lucas,
everyone says that Rowan

is the big dog.

The locals say it. Hell,
Magistrate Cotton says it...

Because Rowan...

Fabric's awfully thin,
Madam Attorney General.

You try to squeeze
those trousers on me,

I might just split 'em up the back.

These officers have
active Internal Affairs

investigations against them.

You're Secretary of the
Eastern Tennessee

Fraternal Order of Police.

There must be 50 names here.

I want half of them relieved of duty,

or I play this tape
for everyone Novak named,

and you and I both know

that powerful people
don't like trouble.

You have six months to resign,
or I'll fire you publicly.

Rowan's not gonna be prosecuted?

Even with the tape?

Welcome to the world, Clarice.

It's a long game.

I extract Rowan,
someone takes his place.

I have leverage thanks to you.

We're getting rid
of dozens of dirty cops,

and in six months, Rowan will
turn state's witness.

How do you know that, ma'am?

Because men like him always do.

Ma'am, real people,

decent people have to
live here in all this.

And you're going to say it
can't be a political decision.

And I'm going to say

everything's a political decision.

I'm taking this as a win.

You should, too.

Do you want a ride back?

I'm gonna go with my team.

Earlier today, Agent Krendler
requested I transfer you.

He's concerned I have some
residual trauma from Bill.

Is he right?

Doesn't get in the way, ma'am.

He withdrew the request.

You spoke of your father.

Catherine was close to her father, too.

My father was a lawman shot on duty.

I'm so sorry.

I appreciate that.

You ok?

I wanted to say...

I told you I had your back.

We all do.

Don't interrupt me.

I was doing you a favor.

Thanking me might make
your head explode.