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RAFI: It's called speed chess.

You get the concept, right? Speed. Fast.

- You didn't answer the question.
- About your ex's wedding?

All I've done today
is answer that question.

New question.

Things are going great with Erica.

We're really connecting.

Should I bring her to the wedding?

Sure. Yes. Definitely.

Bring Erica to Natalie's wedding.

What if the wedding
makes her uncomfortable?

Am I rocking the boat?

Maybe I shouldn't go at all.

Question,

are you carrying a gun?

If so,

please shoot me in the head.

Okay, you're right.
I'm dominating the conversation

and the board.

What's going on with you?

Are you still failing out of Coast State?

Try straight A's.

The highest average in Dr. Orsi's class.

She got me a night janitor job,

and I get to use her lab after hours.

I'm like a Syrian Good Will Hunting.

Yeah, well, Syrian Good Will Hunting

just lost his knight.

Boom.

How do you like them apples?

Checkmate.

I got to hit the road.

Two and a half hours discussing
a wedding invitation.

You are not the same guy
I met in Syria, my friend.

Oh, yeah?

Worse guy or better guy?

Happier guy.

Later.

(STARTS ENGINE)

TRISH: Honest, accountable,

and fair.

That's the kind of
district attorney I plan to be.

And you can quote me on that.

(TRISH AND DARYL LAUGH)

- Please.
- ROGER JR.: Pops,

um, yo, can you get Mom
to mention the dispensary name?

- The-the...
- Roger.

- The full name is...
- Roger.

I'm on it.

Listen, your mother's not gonna
promote your head shop.

Now, you take your sister
and go in another room.

(CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES) Uh, when's the
official announcement?

- Well, I hope to make it...
- It's the day after tomorrow.

(CHUCKLES) O-Outside
the Criminal Courts Building.

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DARYL: Relax.

Be yourself. If there's anything
you want off the record,

just remember to say "off the record."

- Cool.
- Cool. All right.

Let's start off
with a little bit of background.

Who is Roger Murtaugh?

Well, here's Roger Murtaugh in two words.

A consummate partner.

A partner at home, to our future D.A.,

and a partner here at work,

to this guy!

(CHUCKLES): Hey, partner!

Hey, Roger. Who's your plus-one?

Well, L.A. Tribune is
doing a story on me.

- Uh, a story on Trish.
- And me.

And I was explaining to him how partners

let each other shine.

They speak each other's
language, so to speak.

Don't you agree?

Cole. Do...

He agrees.

SCORSESE: Victim is a
Professor Janet Orsi.

Mechanical engineering?

SCORSESE: Yeah. Cause of death,

blunt force trauma.

Weapon of choice,

this here telephone.

Campus cop spotted a suspect.

- (PHONE RINGING)
- MURTAUGH: Let me guess.

Male. Had access

to the lab.

So, probably a student.

(WHISPERS): Write that down.

(QUIETLY): Rafi,

where are you?

Something happened at school.

I know. I'm here now.

- I had nothing to do with it.
- Let me help you.

Okay? Just tell me where you are.

Rafi.

MURTAUGH: Considering

the abandoned janitor's cart,

I posit our perp is

a 20-something on a work-study,

maybe even in the engineering department.

- Write that.
- Wrong on all counts.

What? Excuse me.

Our witness I.D. is unreliable.

Footprints indicate

orthotic shoes, so the suspect
is probably in his 50s.

Clearly German descent.
And, uh, most likely a vagrant.

Keep swinging for the fences.

(SNIFFS)

So, everything he just said,

off the record.

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

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I understand you and Rafi are close.

I know you feel responsible for
what happened to his brother.

That has nothing to do with this.

But it does.
This is a high-profile murder

- in an election year.
- Meaning what?

Meaning every protocol you ignore,

every law you break on behalf
of your friend will get noticed.

- (PHONE VIBRATING)
- Trust me to do my job.

I got a warrant to track Rafi's phone.

Bailey and Gutierrez

are on it.

You guys are not.

Are we clear?

Yeah, yeah. Sounds good.

What is this? Is this a bit?

No, you make good points.
You convinced me.

I trust you to do your job.

You just got a text.

What did it say?

It was from Roger. He wants
to get something to eat.

You are very suspicious.

I dig that about you.

- Mm-hmm.
- See you tonight.

An engineering student on a work-study.

(CHUCKLES)
You were right about all of it.

Not a rare occurrence around here.

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(CHUCKLES)

In fact,

he just invited me to an early lunch.

Fajitas.

You see? No spiraling.

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You should've told me about Rafi.

You didn't have to do
the whole smoke screen

and throw me off the trail.

The smoke screen wasn't for you.

We're partners, Roger.

You telling me you didn't
know what I was doing?

Okay, yeah, maybe I did.

Course you did.

Just like you knew there's
no Mexican restaurant here.

No?

Yeah, yeah. I knew that.

Wait a minute. Is that, uh...
Put those away.

This is my friend Rafi.

Rafi, this is Roger Murtaugh.

Thank you for helping me.

Can I talk to you
in the office here a second?

Look, we're not on this case anymore.

Gute and Bailey are looking
for this kid right now.

I know. And they're tracking his phone,

which means we have to go. Now.

Murtaugh, you have to back my play.

Rafi didn't do this.

(JACKHAMMERING, HORNS HONKING)

00:13:19,564
This can't be right.

I would have known if he was lying.

How?

Same way that you knew

that I'd be bringing him back
to that motel room.

DARYL: So, you and Cole
were protecting Rafi?

It's called backing your partner's play.

In work,

as in life, Daryl,

the last thing you want to do is let down

those who depend on you.

(PHONE RINGS)

Write that down. I-I have
some more thoughts on this.

Hey.

RIANA: Dad, where are you?

I'm supposed to be at the SATs
in 20 minutes.

Right, SATs. Uh...

Look, if you jump in the
car, you can make it.

No, I can't drive myself.

We discussed this.

My tutor said I'm supposed to be calm

and meditative before the test.

Calm and meditative!

(STAMMERS): Yes, yes, yes.
What about an Uber?

It's too late for an Uber!

Okay, hey, everything's gonna be fine.

Two words.

(SINGSONGY): Police escort.

What?

Yeah. There's a unit in the neighborhood.

It could pick you up.

Sirens. Flashers.

(SINGSONGY): Red light privileges.

Okay, you're telling me you
want me to show up to the SATs

in the back of a police car?!

Oh, my God. I'm gonna fail.

No. No, you're not.

Remember what your dad always says.

A test is but one test,

whereas life is a series of tests.

What?

You never say that.
What does that even mean?

I'm gonna vomit.

Okay, I'm hanging up.

Cop, husband, father.

We're all just firemen

putting out the flames

wherever they may spark.

(WHISPERS): Yeah, write that down.

Hey, Jim. Can you help me out?

- Why did you lie to me?
- RAFI: I didn't.

I got an "A" on the midterm,
A-minus on the final.

- That's not what it says here.
- It's wrong.

Someone changed my transcript.

I swear on my brother's life.

I'm not lying.

Okay.

Okay, so you were alone in the lab.

You went to the restroom.

Then you heard what?

Dr. Orsi came in arguing with a guy.

They were really yelling.

- About what?
- She said

he stole her research.

Adhesion dynamics data.

Aerospace stuff. So maybe
another engineering professor.

That's a dead end. We talked to
everybody in the department directory.

That's not everyone.

There's got to be someone you missed.

COLE: Rafi was right. We missed someone.

Brian Li. A visiting professor
from Beijing

with connections to
the Chinese government.

MURTAUGH: Cole.

As suspects go, this guy's a long shot.

You know... you know
who's not a long shot?

I trust Rafi. We have a history.

Right, from your past life.

(CAMERA CLICKING)

The CIA. Syria.

You know what? I'm just saying
not everyone from that life

was an angel.

I seem to remember
a certain mentor of yours

who had you buried alive in the desert.

_

COLE: Rafi's a part of my past,
not a part of that life.

He's not a killer.

_

Wesley Cole.

_

_

- Hey, isn't that, uh...
- Professor Li!

Stop! LAPD!

It's an extraction.

- What, like a tooth?
- No.

MSS. Chinese intelligence.

_

_

They're trying to slow us down.

I saw this move in Shanghai.

Couldn't it just be a power outage?

It's Shanghai, 2010.

_

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♪

_

(TIRES SCREECHING)

- (HORNS HONKING)
- Roger. Roger, stop.

(TIRES SCREECH)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

I know. Shanghai, 2010.

We're looking at a ten-day trial
minimum, so clear your...

Professor Orsi's murder? It's part of

- a human intelligence operation.
- Cole, I'm in the middle

- of a staff meeting.
- Definitely a black bag job.

Foreign nationals,
maybe a security agency.

I am not clearing another room

- for you, Detective.
- It's not Rafi.

So, to be clear, you don't
have this Brian Li in custody,

and you haven't spoken to Brian Li.

Because he was exfiltrated
by a team of agents.

Or he's just out to
lunch with his friends.

- That's not what happened. I saw.
- I know.

Secret agents who shut down power grids,

mess with traffic lights,
alter transcripts.

Don't you see what's happening here?

Rafi is being set up.

Right. Because everyone's
wrong except for you.

My office, LAPD, the university.

- You have zero evidence.
- That's why I need you

- to slow things down for me.
- Oh, oh, you need me to?

His arraignment is set for tomorrow.

What do you want me to do?

Walk into the courthouse
and steal the paperwork?

Yes. Do that.

Or get me access,

- alarm codes so I can...
- Cole, stop.

You can't barge into my office
and ask me to defy my boss,

break the law

and end a career
I've spent 15 years building.

You're talking to a D.A.

Thought I was talking to a friend.

I don't know what kind of relationships

you've had in the past,

but if this is how you treat people...

You know, Natalie wouldn't think
twice about breaking the law for me,

and we're not even together.

Well...

maybe it's why you're not together.

Hey. Uh, Dad said set up
the table before Mom gets home,

- so help out, would you?
- No, you got it.

I, uh, had a long day. SATs.

Right, yeah. How were the SATs?

A battle, but I persevered.

Really?

Persevered pretty quickly
considering I saw you

on Ventura drinking coffee
20 minutes after

- the SATs started.
- Oh, my God. Yes.

I walked out of the SATs.
And I'll help you set the table,

but please don't tell Mom and Dad.
(STAMMERS) It's gonna be okay.

I had a panic attack,

and I just couldn't be in that room,

and now my future's down the toilet,

and I'm through. I'm done.

No. No, you're not.

Listen, take it from someone

who's flaked on every commitment
he's ever had, okay?

It's gonna be okay. 00:21:19,510
I skipped the SATs." Now you try it.

(CLEARS THROAT)

Mom, Dad...

"I skipped the SATs"?

Perfect. Great plan, RJ.

I got it. I got it. Uh, Pops,

um, standardized testing
doesn't really measure

- your, uh, your intelligence.
- Shut up. Sit down.

I'm talking to your sister.

What happened, Riana?

I got you a police escort and everything.

No, but I wanted you
to drive me, not a stranger

with a gun and a siren!

It was so loud, Dad.

So loud.

Okay, here's what we're gonna do.

When your mother comes home,
not a word about this.

Okay? We're gonna be all smiles...

and zip it.

Let's see those smiles.

MURTAUGH: Hey...

There she is.

The candidate.

A police escort...

to the SATs?

Who's the rat?

The L.A. Tribun Roger. It went online

- 30 minutes ago.
- RIANA: It's online that

I went to the SATs in a police car?

ROGER JR.: "In a single day, the husband
of would-be D.A. Trish Murtaugh

"led his LAPD department

on a high-speed chase,
aided a fugitive and..."

"...and sent a police cruiser
on a personal errand

for his daughter."

RIANA: Oh, my God.

I am going upstairs, and
I'll see you all in ten years.

TRISH: 48 hours, Roger.

All I wanted was 48 hours
to focus on my campaign.

Right, but...

48... hours.

(WHISPERS): I forgot to
say "off the record."

(WHISPERS): Should've said it.

(PHONE RINGS)

Is this about the poultry truck?

That doesn't sound like
an apology... but no.

It's about Cole.

He just called and asked me

to help him break into a courthouse.

Is that slang for something else?

I wish. He asked me to do the same thing.

But I didn't return the call.

Well, if he's going
in alphabetical order,

that means Scorsese is next,

and you know he'll say yes.

I'm not worried about Scorsese.

You're not? Then who?

One of those crazy lunatics
from his past, maybe? Barnes?

Not really. I mean,
after what that guy did to him?

Cole would never.

Are you asking me, or are you telling me?

(ELECTRIC GUITAR PLAYING BLUES)

♪

(BLUES SONG CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)

(SIGHS) I didn't think
I'd hear from you again.

- I didn't think you'd show.
- Why?

Because you threatened to kill
me last time we talked? Come on.

That's how I know you care.

You've looked better.

You sleeping?

I'm stuck.

I wouldn't have called
if I had any other options.

I know.

So, Rafi Rahal...
I remember that was a hard deal

with his kid brother.

He had a good head on his shoulders.

He still does.

Like I said, I just need information.

I think he may be caught
in the middle of something.

You're not wrong.

Brian Li has been recruited
by Chinese intelligence.

The MSS commissioned him with
stealing aerospace technology.

He got caught in the act.

So the MSS is cleaning up his mess

and pinning it on Rafi.

Once they get him to Beijing,
Rafi's toast.

That's correct.

I know where he is.
I know when he's leaving.

Question is: do you
want more than information?

Because you know me...

I'm willing to help any way I can.

It's your call.

Hey. Big announcement day.

That's a bold wardrobe choice.

I'm calling the whole thing off.
The campaign?

- Mm-hmm.
- No.

Look, baby, I know I dropped the ball...

No, Roger, it's not your fault.

I asked you to take on too much.

You see?

Just you saying that let's me know

that you would be the best D.A.
this city has ever seen.

Hmm. How can I enforce the law

when my husband ignores it?

You believe that?

No.

It was a line in the article.

It's too much, Roger.

And I've come to terms with
what we can and cannot handle.

And this family?

A campaign?

That's something that
we're not built for.

Another line in the article?

Nope.

That's all me.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

For you.

I'm on an apology... tour.

Sorry I didn't call you back

about breaking into the courthouse.

It wouldn't have helped, anyway.

It was a bad plan.

Look, I know how much
you care about Rafi,

- and I'll do anything to help.
- I appreciate it.

See you at work.

Uh, thanks for the coffee?

CIA?

You went to Barnes?

I'm going down every road there is.

My friend's life is in danger.

Oh, great plan. You keep
working with this guy,

and your life is gonna be in danger, too.

I'm not working with him.

I just went to him
for information, that's all.

Brian Li? Confirmed Chinese asset.

So, does Barnes know where he is now?

No. Probably halfway to Beijing.

- Okay, so, then, what are we gonna do?
- Well, what I'm gonna do

is hit up every airport...
LAX, John Wayne...

convince a TSA agent to give me access

- to their restricted databases.
- Now, how are you gonna do that?

Bribes, threats, intimidation.

You're welcome to come along.

Look, Cole, this is not just illegal...

So when you said
you'd do anything to help,

you didn't really mean anything.

Did you?

Close the door on your way out, Roger.

(DOOR CLOSES)

GUTE: Captain, Cole's theory

about the Coast State murder
might be dead-on.

A ton of files from
Professor Orsi's hard drive

were transferred to a server
owned by the Chinese government.

- That's tenuous.
- And a surveillance van

that our guys were chasing is registered

to the Chinese consulate.

Less tenuous.

Look, if Li's in town,
I bet that's where he is.

The consulate's foreign soil...
we don't have jurisdiction.

I know... which means
someone's gonna have to walk

into our friend the D.A.'s office

with a big smile on their face
and request extradition.

- Not me.
- Not me.

ERICA: You want a letter
requesting an extradition?

It doesn't have to be a
long letter... a paragraph.

To whom it may concern.
End with "best wishes."

There is no evidence
Brian Li killed Orsi.

There is even less evidence
he's in the consulate.

That's why the letter
doesn't have to be long.

(SIGHS) And even if he was,

there is no way in hell
they'd hand him over.

Well... Rafi's going to court
tomorrow... it's a Hail Mary.

What's the downside?

Murtaugh and Cole are
radioactive around here.

If I do this, any nonsense
falls right on me.

There will be no "pulling a Cole."

Zero nonsense. I can guarantee it.

Murtaugh's going by himself.

Cole won't even know about it.

What is going on with Cole?

Feels like he's headed off a cliff.

He's fighting for a friend.

Even though it may not seem like it,

it's one of his better qualities.

(SIREN WAILING)

BARNES: All right, quick review.

It's a simple extraction.

Well, you keep telling yourself that.

Now, on the perimeter,

a high-voltage electrified fence.

So just like Kabul.

Higher voltage.

Think Bogotá.

15,000 watts

with a recharge gap of ten seconds.

I do like a challenge.

Yeah, well, there's
armed security teams outside

and on every floor.

You want to go over the exit strategy?

Nope. It's all up here.

Put me in, coach. I'm ready.

Just like old times.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

(ELECTRICAL BUZZ)

So the fence is still on.

Yeah, good thing you checked.

(OVER RADIO): Okay, on my signal,

you'll have ten seconds.

Power's off in...

three,

two,

one. Ten,

nine, eight, seven,

six, five,

four, three,

two, one.

I'm through.

That was the easy part.

Your feedback used to be more positive.

(BARNES CHUCKLES)

Security team's on the east corner.

Don't get killed.

Better?

(SPEAKS CHINESE)

Ah.

He's back.

I recognize you, friend.

From the university.

I have that kind of face.

Who sent you here?

COLE: Is that for me?

That's so thoughtful.

Do you have anything in sparkling?

(MUFFLED GRUNTING)

It's an extradition request.

It's really not that long of a letter.

I can summarize for you.

LAPD is asking you to hand
over Mr. Brian Li to us.

I'm sorry.

- We can't help you.
- Huh.

I brought you a fruit basket.
You like fruit?

Come on.

Help a brother out.

(MUFFLED GRUNTING)

(COUGHING)

My friend...

you are in a foreign country.

We can keep you here as long as we like.

No one... is coming for you.

(PANTING): That's not true.

I ordered some soup.

Detective Murtaugh.

My apologies, but we have
no record of this man's visit.

Professor Li isn't with us.

I never said he was a professor.

Your request is denied.

Well, I'll just wait
until it isn't denied.

(TYPING RAPIDLY)

Cole, I'm buying you three seconds.

Better act fast.

One more time. Who are you working for?

LAPD...

or CIA?

That...

is a very good question.

(MUFFLED GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

(ALARM BLARING)

(MEN SPEAKING CHINESE)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTING)

(GRUNTS)

What took you so long?

To be honest, I wanted
to hear you answer the question.

LAPD or CIA?

(MEN SPEAKING CHINESE)

(ALARM CONTINUES BLARING)

BARNES: Head to the northwest corner.

The guest quarters should be
behind the door on the right.

Your right or my right?

Eeny,

meeny, miny...

(GRUNTS): Moe.

Professor Li. (SPEAKS CHINESE)

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You're gonna miss that flight.

00:39:36,241
And now this train is out of my control.

What if it's too much for us?

You say the family's not built for this?

Maybe not,

but I'm telling you, you are.

And we will just build ourselves
into the family that you need.

(LAUGHS SOFTLY)

22 years later.

I learned a thing or two.

You learned more than a thing or two.

- I'm very impressed, baby.
- Yeah?

Yes. (LAUGHS)

COLE: I want to thank you again.

You really came through for Rafi.

I did that for you, pal.

I've asked you before.

Are you holding up okay?

I mean, uh, starting
a whole new life of your own...

that's not easy.

I had one, didn't I?

A whole life... before this.

It's still there, waiting for you.

I've known you forever, kid.

I've seen you at your best,
at your worst.

And for what it's worth,

you were at the top of your game tonight.

It was fun, wasn't it?