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- [horn honking] - You believe this idiot?

- Do you want me to drive? - No, thanks.

- You had some wine at lunch. - So? You had some wine, too.

- [tires screeching] - Oh, this is--

[Ava] Jerry!

- Why don't you just calm down? - I'm calm. I'm calm.

[tires screeching]

- [Jerry] Take that, fool! - [Ava] What are you doing?

- [thudding] - [Ava exclaiming]

God!

- [engine revving] - [cars crashing]

You know what? This guy's crazy!

[tires screeching]

- [Jerry yelling] - [glass shattering]

[theme music playing]

[music fades]

[siren wailing]

- Hey, Tony. - Hi.

- [Munch] What's going on? - Got a signal-32.

I have two bodies.

Dominick Chewning

is in the State Road Management vehicle.

- [Kellerman] Right. - And a Jerry Dietz who's in the Taurus.

Who left in the ambo?

That would be Ava Dietz, Jerry Dietz's wife.

She's critical.

Well, can't you guys in Traffic handle this?

- Why call us? - Usually, we do.

But we have a witness who says

the driver of the truck forced the car off the road.

[siren wailing]

- Thanks. [sighs] - Thanks.

Even if it is a murder, the driver of the truck's dead.

- Who are we supposed to arrest? - Well, better alive.

If it's a homicide, he's a murderer.

The fellow in the truck,

he was thrown through the windshield.

He had a fractured skull, a broken right leg,

and he probably had major internal injuries.

Well, what about the other guy, Dietz?

Brought back memories of Jayne Mansfield, let's say.

Voluptuous starlet, who was decapitated in a car accident?

Dietz was decapitated?

Yep. Take a look for yourself.

Ouch.

[Cox] All right, guys, I'm out of here.

Meet me in a few hours, I'll give you more of the blow-by-blow, okay?

- Thanks, Doc. - [Cox] All right.

Guys, this is Paul Sanders. He saw the accident.

What can you tell us, Mr. Sanders?

I could see 'em coming from way up the highway.

Truck was banging into the car.

Looked to me like they were trying to kill one another.

Driving crazy up the highway, and coming right at me.

I jumped out of the way, and I got up on the wall.

They were coming at me so fast, I just did a Greg Louganis.

Forward dive with a single twist. [laughs]

That's a very nice suit.

Thanks. Got it on sale at Syms.

Hugo Boss. Double-breasted.

Snazzy.

How about responsible?

Today's my final custody,

and the judge is gonna make a ruling.

This is my last chance to make a good impression.

Hmm. Scratch snazzy, then. Reliable.

- [Falsone] Yeah? - [Ballard] Yeah.

You know, funny thing is,

I don't know if I want to win this case.

What do you mean?

I mean, you know, they ask you enough questions,

you start to doubt yourself.

Like, maybe he's happier with his mom in one home.

I mean, I don't know what the best thing is for the kid.

Yeah, but Daniel's got two parents

that care for him, you know.

Whether he brushes his teeth at your house or her house,

you're still gonna love him.

Don't worry about it.

[sighing] I'm gonna need that kind of pep talk

when this is all over.

- You gonna be around later? - Yeah, I'll tell you what.

I'll take you to dinner. Either way.

Congratulations or commiserations.

- You got a deal. - Wear that suit, you can't lose.

I've worked murders all over this city,

and never had one in Fort Holabird.

Before they tore the fort down, it used to be a prison.

I think this is where John Dean did time for his Watergate gig.

Really? What was it before that?

Something armed services.

Yeah, army, navy, air force, marine, what?

What am I, the Maryland Historical Society?

Hey, what'd you dig up, Rogers?

One deceased white male. 40s.

- Shot? Stabbed? Strangled? - None of the above.

Apparently, he was buried alive.

Buried alive?

We got an anonymous 911 call

telling us there was a body buried

under the Fort Holabird parade grounds.

Got here. Looked like a fresh grave.

- Dug it up. - And found?

A wooden coffin in splinters, we found a high tech cellphone,

a water bottle, flashlight, an air tube for breathing.

Whoever buried this guy wanted to keep him alive.

But the coffin collapsed, and the grave became real.

[Bayliss] So what's it look like?

Asphyxiation.

His mouth and throat are filled with dirt.

Was he alive when he was buried?

Probably.

Won't know for sure till I get him on the table.

Well, what about the anonymous 911 call?

Did they leave any more information?

Like, say, the victim's name?

His name is Ashley Ashford Akton,

of Chattanooga.

[somber music playing]

Who are you?

I'm his wife, Delphine Akton.

Mrs. Akton,

when was the last time you heard from your husband?

Two hours ago.

He phoned me from his grave.

We have a body buried alive

under the parade grounds at Fort Holabird?

- [Bayliss] Mm-hmm. - A murder?

Even though the victim got into the coffin himself,

and he carried with him water, a cellphone

and a special tube for breathing,

the lid of the coffin had been tampered with,

causing it to collapse.

Right, our only witness is a little slow.

But she said that she saw five men arrive in a BGE truck.

Four of the men buried the fifth.

But she can't give a description of any of the guys.

I called BGE.

They have no record of a truck

anywhere near Fort Holabird last night.

Check on CIC alumni organizations.

CI what?

Fort Holabird was a spy school.

During the early years of the Cold War,

it was the largest and most renowned training center

for secret operations in the world.

So, we'll do some research.

And what did the wife say?

We got her waiting in The Box.

She's been very cooperative, but hasn't given up much.

Did her husband call her from the coffin?

Did the wife call 911?

No. It was anonymous.

Ballard, Gharty, find out who called 911.

Also, check the victim's cellphone records.

He called his wife. He may have called someone else.

Like the killer, maybe?

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

It'd be too easy that way.

[siren wailing]

I think this case is a murder. Truck driver killed Dietz.

The truck driver is deceased, so we get an automatic clearance.

Right, you're saying that based on one witness's testimony.

The only two people who really know what happened are both dead.

What about the wife?

Well, if she remembers anything.

May I help you?

Detective Munch, Detective Kellerman.

Baltimore Police.

We heard that Mrs. Dietz was stable.

We'd like to ask her a few questions.

I'm Lynne Judson, the Dietz family attorney.

What's the prognosis?

She's still in shock. Concussion.

She's also paralyzed from the neck down,

and the doctors don't know

whether or not it's permanent or temporary.

[Ava] Lynne? Who's there?

It's the police, Ava.

They just want to ask you a few questions.

[Ava] All right.

[machine beeping]

[Munch] Mrs. Dietz, can you tell us what happened?

[Ava] He kept ramming into us.

The driver of the truck was deliberately hitting your car?

My husband...

he accidentally cut him off.

Then...

[groaning]

it was like the driver wanted to kill us.

[Ava groaning]

Uh, I'm gonna have to ask you all

to come back later, Detectives.

I called home to talk to Ash.

When the answering machine picked up,

I checked the messages.

I'm at the fort! I'm under the parade grounds!

That's when I heard Ash's voice.

Quite terrified.

Call the police!

And you didn't feel it necessary to call the police?

You have to understand my husband.

Help! I've been betrayed!

I'm trying very hard to do that, Mrs. Akton.

Ashley flitted from one eccentricity to another.

Being buried alive.

Ash's father and his uncle were grand adventurers.

They received military instruction at Fort Holabird.

Ash was quite obsessed with the history.

So he had been to Fort Holabird before?

Oh, yes. Many times.

And who did he do his adventuring with?

He couldn't have done that alone.

No.

He had all sorts of compatriots,

sycophants,

lackeys.

Oh, do you know the names of any of these lackeys?

I have no idea.

He was as secretive as...

as he was incompetent.

- Hey, twerps! - [Pembleton] Yo, Seattle.

- Akton's cellphone. - [Bayliss] Oh.

It is a custom-made, high-speed model,

sold at the Silent Service spy store on Eastern Avenue.

Okay. Come on. Let's get out of here.

All right, great work.

Mr. Chewning, the driver of the truck,

committed the ultimate sin.

He wasn't wearing his seat belt.

Cause of death was a torn aorta,

which caused massive internal bleeding.

He have any alcohol or drugs in his system?

No. He was clean.

What about our boy Dietz?

Besides the decapitation,

Mr. Dietz also had major internal injuries,

and a blood alcohol level of. 09.

So that's still below the legal limit.

He wasn't drunk.

Well, for a man his size, 220 pounds,

...09's right at the line.

I don't suppose you could tell us

which one of these guys caused the crash.

Well, if I could, I wouldn't be cutting bodies for a living.

I'd have my own psychic hot line!

[chuckles] Gee's gonna love this.

- Ready? - Yeah. I'll catch up to you.

Yeah, okay.

- See you, Munch. - [Munch] See you.

You free for lunch later?

Yeah. Much later. What do you have in mind?

Lunch. At the Waterfront.

[clicking tongue] I don't know, Mikey.

I don't know if that's such a good idea,

you going to a bar and all.

- I think I'll be fine. - [Cox] I don't know.

You weren't so fine the last time we were there.

Meldrick got suspended.

Georgia Rae Mahoney's suing me.

I got a little screwed up. I think I'm okay now.

[sighs] Okay. Three o'clock?

- I'll be waiting. - [Cox] Okay.

Excuse us.

May I help you?

Yeah, I'm-- I'm Detective Bayliss,

and this is Detective Pembleton, Baltimore Homicide.

Nelson Broyles.

Oh, is that-- is that real dynamite there?

- [Broyles] Yes, it is. - What's it used for?

To induce reluctant tongues to waggle, of course.

This technique was very popular

with the East Germans in the '50s.

If their captive wouldn't talk,

they would strap him into this vest

with his thumbs holding down the detonation buttons.

He'd eventually grow too weary

to keep his fingers on the buttons.

And he'd blow himself up.

[chuckling] Yeah.

Is there something you needed, Detectives?

Yeah, I just needed to know if you sell this model phone.

Oh, yes. We call it "The Mumbly."

Do you know who might have purchased this particular phone?

I...

only knew him by his code name.

Well, what was his code name?

[sighs] Johnny B. Goode.

Well, can you tell us anything more about Johnny B. Goode?

Johnny B. Goode demanded the best.

That phone alone is $3,000,

plus a maintenance contract, monitoring service.

Monitoring service?

We monitor all ingoing and outgoing calls.

Did your monitors hear what happened last night?

Of course. Goode was, uh...

suffocating.

That's why I called 911.

You called 911?

Well, why didn't you leave your name?

That would have been a breach of our customer's privacy.

We're gonna need a copy of the audiotape

of that cellphone call.

I am sorry.

That would be against our confidentiality clause.

I'll be back with a subpoena.

All right, we have case number 98-21-47.

Would anyone like to take a shot as to cause of death?

Yes.

Traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhaging?

[Cox] Continue.

From initial observation,

there appears to be transverse linear bruising

behind his left ear.

[Cox] Very good hypothesis.

Aaron, you can prepare the body for autopsy.

- [Randolph] Julianna? - Hey!

- Hey! - Jesse! Wow!

What brings you down to the depths?

Well, I was in the neighborhood.

I thought I'd check up

on our award-winning Chief Medical Examiner.

[chuckles] Everyone, I would like you to meet

Jesse Randolph, assistant to the director

of the State of Maryland Department

of Health and Human Services.

Affectionately known as our boss.

Hey, Scheiner. How's it swinging?

Not so great.

We're on rounds right now. You wanna see a few autopsies?

Actually, I'd like to talk to you.

- You got a minute? - Oh, absolutely. Sure.

Hi.

I hear the portable X-ray machines arrived this week.

[Cox] Oh, they did, they did.

Many thanks to the state

for allocating the necessary funds.

Ah, we try to take care of our own.

So, what's up?

We were doing a periodic review of some cases,

and noticed something with case number 98-21-32.

- 21-32? 21-32? - The Dietz accident?

Oh, the passenger car

and the State Road Management vehicle.

Right. What about it?

The blood alcohol level. It said. 09.

Dietz probably had a few glasses of wine. Why?

Well, we have some other information that says

that the level should've been higher.

Is it possible for blood alcohol to have dropped

in the time between the accident and the autopsy?

Yeah, it's possible, but--

Could you double-check the results?

You know, run the tests again?

- Yeah. Sure. No problem. - Thanks.

[Akton] Breathing tube A-OK.

Flashlight, water supply, A-OK.

The next 12 hours will be a piece of cake.

Maybe this was just some middle-aged fraternity ritual gone wrong.

Then why haven't his compatriots come forward?

We need to find the four mystery men

that did the burial.

What about the CIC alumni groups?

Most of them are obsolete.

I did find a few groups that are still active in the area,

but none of them have heard of Ashley Akton.

What about the call to his wife? Did Akton give any names?

[Baylis] This is the last thing that we heard before he died.

[Akton] Oh, God!

I'm at the Fort, I'm under the parade grounds!

Call the police! I've been betrayed!

[Ashton coughing]

The question being,

who betrayed him and why?

[Giardello] This case is connected to Fort Holabird.

I've got a contact with inside information.

[phone beeping]

Sam.

It's El Diago.

[speaking in Russian]

El Diago, they haven't hanged you yet, thanks to God.

You before me, Ilya Ivanovich!

[both laughing]

These are two of my detectives, Pembleton and Bayliss.

This is Sam Dunn,

otherwise known as Ilya Ivanovich Poliafkov.

What can you tell us about our murder victim,

Mr. Dunn?

Ah, yes, your man in the box.

Let's get a whiskey.

I will give you a crash course

in what the Russians refer to as "zhazdushchiy."

What you might call "wannabes."

Wannabes?

Wannabe spies.

The wannabes are drawn to the skills

that were once taught at Holabird.

Lock-picking, tapping, bugging, surveillance.

Then, of course, there was brain surgery,

methods of interrogation.

Why torture and terrorize when you can mind-bend?

So these wannabes are, what?

They're waiting for the next Cold War?

They wish the Cold War had never ended.

Why not enlist in the CIA?

Make the fantasy a reality?

You check his background.

I will guarantee you,

you will find a string of failures.

Denied applications for CIA, NSA, FBI.

Possibly even local law enforcement.

Well, what about these other wannabes?

Akton's compatriots?

They probably had fathers at Holabird as well.

He may have known some of them from childhood, from school.

Then it also follows that these fellow wannabes

would also have applied to the CIA, the NSA.

But these agencies must get

thousands of applications a year.

They're not gonna keep around 20-year-old rejection notices.

Sam.

How about making a few calls?

El Diago, I can refuse you nothing.

- Dr. Cox? - Yeah.

Lynne Judson, attorney for the Dietz family.

- [Cox] Oh. Hello. - I'm here to pick up a copy of the autopsy report.

The autopsy report?

We have pending litigation against the State of Maryland.

Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Judson,

but it's not ready yet.

We're still waiting for some more lab results.

We're double-checking some data.

Jerry Dietz's head was cut off,

and I need to prove that the man driving that truck

was grossly negligent.

The State is seeking sovereign immunity.

It's bad enough Ava may never walk again.

- Who's Ava? - Mrs. Dietz.

CAT scan showed swelling around the spinal cord.

I'm sorry, I can only state

the medical facts as to cause of death.

You can reach me at this number.

- Great. - Thank you.

A loving and attentive mother

who, from the day of his birth,

has shaped her life

around her son's every need.

Or a rookie homicide detective,

who spends his days, and probably most nights,

chasing killers.

If Daniel were your child...

whom would you choose?

Thank you, Mr. Zaymore.

This hearing is concluded.

I'll review the testimony given, and the evidence presented,

and will be back with a ruling in half an hour.

[Randolph] Julianna.

- What'd you find out? - Hey, Jesse.

Um, where is it?

There you go.

Blood alcohol still says. 09.

Yeah, that was my finding.

Even given the timetable,

I really don't believe it could be any higher.

I can't take this back to the director.

We need the level to be higher. ...11 or even. 10.

It's only one or two infinitesimal numbers.

I'm sure you can...

- What are you asking? - [Randolph chuckles]

We like you, Julianna.

You've done wonders in making this one

of the top-notch forensic facilities in the country,

but there's a lot at stake with the Dietz case.

All we're asking for is a minute change that,

based on your expertise, no one will question.

And if I don't make that change?

I think that's a conversation we don't want to have.

Here.

[Cox sighs]

Yeah.

I'll give it another pass. Maybe I...

you know, maybe I didn't fully factor in the timeframe.

I've been busy.

Yeah, you have.

[dramatic music playing]

Yeah, Akton was rejected by the FBI in 1973,

and again in 1974 and 1975.

He was also turned down by various police departments

in Kentucky, Tennessee and Maryland.

- So Sam was right? - Yeah.

Akton went to the University of Southern Maryland,

he was graduating class of '72.

We're cross-checking his classmates, but so far--

So far, I'm coming up dry.

Yeah, wait a minute, you guys.

Three of Akton's classmates who applied to the FBI

the same year Akton did, two were rejected.

One took the training program and then dropped out.

Frederick Napes, Jerome Optner,

and-- aha, Nelson Broyles.

- Nelson Broyles? - Uh-huh.

[Giardello] Who is Nelson Broyles?

Well, Nelson Broyles, he's the owner

of the Silent Service spy shop.

He's the guy who made the 911 call.

All right, pick up Mr. Broyles.

Oh, wait, wait, wait a second.

Our witness said that four men buried Akton.

Now, Gee, we might be missing out on a real grand opportunity

to put these guys all away at once.

I don't get it.

Well, we still have that cellphone, right?

- [Pembleton] Yes, in Evidence Control. - Right.

And the cell phone was monitored by the spy shop, okay?

So I make a bogus call off that phone to Danvers,

and I talk about the imminent arrest

of these four participants in Akton's death.

Well, then, Broyles, he'll monitor the call and he'll panic.

Sure, unless he suspects a trick.

[Bayliss] Well, this guy is no real spy,

so I think he's gonna panic either way.

And he phones the other three guilty parties.

And we get a hat trick plus one.

By spreading disinformation?

It's a classic spy technique, Frank.

Give it a try.

But one way or another,

I want to see a classic homicide technique.

Nelson Broyles in The Box.

Your bosses want you to change the blood alcohol levels

in the Dietz case?

- [laughing] Yep. - [Kellerman sighing]

I mean, first I thought it was just a periodic review.

It wasn't until later I found out

there was a major lawsuit in the works.

Well, they want to prove Dietz was drunk.

You know, muddy the waters.

Get themselves off the hook for liability.

Dietz was drinking. He just wasn't drunk.

What's going on with the investigation?

Who do you think caused the crash?

That's still inconclusive.

Traffic's conducting their own investigation,

analyzing skid marks, damage to the vehicles.

I mean, even if it is called a murder,

with the driver dead, it's still only gonna matter on paper.

No.

No, it matters to Ava Dietz.

It affects her lawsuit.

So does her husband's blood alcohol level.

There's a lot of money at stake here, Mike.

They are really putting on the pressure.

You're not gonna change the results, are you?

I don't know.

I worked really hard to get where I am.

Medical school, internships, residency.

And, my God, thousands of autopsies.

I mean, I could lose everything.

You should go to the press, discreetly.

- [Cox laughing] - Leak the report.

Leak it?

Right. They find out, I still lose my job.

No, I mean, you play your cards right, you're gonna stay insulated.

I mean, look at Gee. Right?

That guy has made plenty of quiet phone calls in his day.

He's still running the squad.

We're just talking about a couple of numbers here.

And if I factor in his weight,

three or four drinks puts him over the limit.

- It's possible. It's possible. - No, no, it's crap.

Okay, I know you're not the kind of person

who just follows orders and says,

"What choice did I have?"

If I want to keep my job,

maybe that's the kind of person I'm gonna have to be.

[Falsone grunts]

He's probably back there flipping a coin.

Heads for mom, tails for dad.

[sighing] I screwed up in there.

I froze. I didn't say what I should have.

I mean, I'm out there every day.

I see how life works.

These kids, 14, 15,

getting shot at, shooting at each other.

The mothers, they show up sometimes to bail them out,

but the father, he's never in sight.

[Falsone sighs]

I mean, I was 12, 13 on the street,

causing my share of trouble.

- You know, my pop-- - Your father was an alcoholic.

I know.

He drank a little too much.

But he was there for me.

He knew right from wrong.

And if today, I'm a cop instead of a criminal,

he gets all the credit.

And that's what I want to be for Daniel.

- And I can't do that? - I don't know.

Maybe you can. I don't know, Janine.

I just want my kid turning out okay.

And if him staying with you is gonna make that happen,

that's the best thing, and I have to respect that.

I mean, what the hell? I mean, it doesn't matter where he brushes his teeth.

I'm not gonna love him any less.

[lawyer] The judge is back in. We're ready.

So, how long ago did the third man enter the shop?

20 minutes ago. The first two were here ten minutes before that.

- So far, nobody's left? - Nah.

And the place doesn't seem to do much business.

After the third guy got here, they put out the closed sign.

Okay, let's do it.

[glass smashing]

[indistinct shouting]

Hey! Hey! Baltimore Police!

Put your hands over your head!

You gentlemen mind identifying yourselves?

Uh, I'm Frederick Mapes.

This is Millard Pruit, Jerome Optner.

We've broken no laws here.

Yeah, we just want to ask you some questions

about Ashley Akton.

Well, what happened with Ash was-- it was totally accidental.

You accidentally buried him alive?

Our organization is called the Sons of the Silent Service.

Ash was on a training mission.

Uh-huh. Being buried alive?

Like he would've been by the East Germans in the '50s.

- But something went wrong. - Very wrong.

Someone switched the caskets.

Ash insisted we leave.

He wanted to fly without a safety net.

We argued but, ultimately,

the decision was made to honor his wishes.

Uh-huh. And who insisted that you leave?

Nelson Broyles?

- Where is Broyles? - He left.

No. We had a uniform posted outside.

No one left.

Do we have to tell you all our secrets?

[Bayliss] Yes, you have to tell us all your secrets!

There's an underground passageway out the back.

We want to cooperate any way we can, Detective.

Good. That's good.

Because until I know the truth, you're all under arrest.

- What? - But we haven't done anything.

- [Gharty] Come on. Come on. - Come on. Come on.

[Optner] Wait a minute. Please!

[indistinct crosstalk]

[somber music playing]

- [knocking on door] - [Cox] Hey, Al. You got a minute?

Dr. Cox, come on in.

Mind if I close the door?

Yeah, go ahead. What can I do for you?

I need your advice.

Yeah. Anything.

The Dietz case.

The accident

with the State Road Management truck.

Traffic is still investigating that one.

Yeah, well, I was asked

or encouraged, rather,

to change Dietz's blood alcohol level,

so that it would appear he was DWI.

Who asked you to make that change?

The state.

My boss.

The director?

Well, not directly.

That's why I'm asking for your help.

I wanna leak the story.

So who do you know in the media?

These are never easy decisions.

It's evident that both parties

have a great deal to offer their son.

However, given the boy's age,

taking into account the lifestyle

and personalities of both parents,

I've decided to rule in favor of Mrs. Falsone.

Daniel will continue to reside with his mother,

spending every other weekend with Mr. Falsone.

Paul.

Daniel can stay with you this week.

- That's okay. - No, really.

He'll stay with you, then with me.

What does the judge know, right?

Lots of people work it that way.

We can give it a try at least.

- [lawyer] Okay, Janine. - Hey. Wait a minute.

Okay, we'll give it a try.

Okay.

[Cox sighs]

[elevator dings]

- Hey! - I need to speak with you.

About?

I got a call from The Baltimore Sun

regarding the Dietz case.

- Really? - Yeah.

They implied that they had knowledge

of Dietz's blood alcohol level at the time of the accident.

There's been a leak.

- Not from here. - Yeah, well, where else would it come from?

Look.

Ava Dietz's husband is dead,

and she may well be paralyzed for the rest of her life.

You are asking me to lie, Jesse,

and for what?

To save the state a couple of lousy bucks?

How can you, in all good conscience,

stand there and accuse me of doing something wrong?

I am doing my job.

So am I.

I think you should go see the director.

Sounds like I'm being sent to the principal's office.

[tense music playing]

Hi, I'm Julianna Cox,

and I'm here to see the director.

Good. He's expecting you.

Hi. You know, I've been waiting a really long time.

He just called. He's been delayed in a meeting.

He did ask me to give you a message.

- Okay. - He says you're fired.

[laughs]

Thanks.

So where the hell's Nelson Broyles?

Well, his description's on the wire,

and we got uniforms from every district on a manhunt.

So, the rest of these nut-jobs are giving him up?

Yeah, but according to Danvers,

given that Akton was a willing participant in the stunt,

we'll just need a confession

to bring any kind of a case against Broyles.

Nobody move, or I'll blow up the entire building!

[all shouting]

Detective Bayliss.

I understand you've been looking for me.

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[Cox sighing]

- Hey. - Hey.

You know, when I first came here to Baltimore,

I fired this Dr. Rivlin for falsifying a report.

'Cause, you know, this job isn't about doing favors.

This job is about finding truth.

And you were right, Kellerman.

It's a hell of a lot easier living with that

than it is being somebody's pawn.

So that's it? You're out?

You know, they say you can't fight City Hall.

Well, if so,

then the State of Maryland is Mike Tyson.

And yeah. Yeah.

I don't have the heft to go nine rounds, you know.

So what are you gonna do now?

- Leave. - [Scheiner] Night, Dr. Cox.

See you in the morning.

[Cox] All right, Scheiner. You take it easy.

[Scheiner] Thank you.

- He doesn't know, does he? - [laughs] No.

They'll find out tomorrow.

I can't stand all that sentimental goodbye crap anyway.

You want to get a drink with me?

You do remember how this vest functions, Detective Bayliss?

If my thumbs release the two detonation buttons

they're holding down,

the dynamite explodes.

What is it you want, Mr. Broyles?

[Broyles] Don't take me for a fool!

Nobody wants to do that.

To think I had anything to do with Akton's death!

I'm innocent! Mr. Tutti Frutti, you tell 'em.

No need for code names, Nelson. They know who we are.

You've betrayed the Silent Sons?

[Mapes] For God's sake, no, none of us--

No! You don't come any closer!

No!

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None of you understand.

If it wasn't for the skill

and the courage of intelligence operatives,

the Cold War would have turned hot!

The A-bomb would have dropped.

Right, they saved the world from annihilation.

Ashley Akton's father, your father, among others.

What do you know about my father?

About your father?

Well, your father, he trained at Holabird.

He had skill, courage.

Do you?

The Silent Sons carry on the traits of honor!

Is it honorable to blow up 50 innocent people?

You'll go down in history as a mass murderer.

[all gasping]

Better dead than a captive!

What did they teach at Fort Holabird?

What did they say was the true torture?

Not being buried alive. That's just small potatoes.

Not being strapped into a dynamite vest.

No one wants you to surrender.

We want to interview you.

I mean, surely you can resist...

simple law enforcement techniques?

Of course.

Of course.

Then let's go.

- [all shouting] - [Bayliss] Whoa, whoa, whoa!

[clock ticking]

The vest cut-off switch is under my left arm.

I got it. I got it.

I'll take care of it.

- [Bayliss] Oh. - [switch beeps]

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My mind

has been trained to resist

the most powerful brainwashing techniques

known to the military.

[Bayliss] Here.

You're not gonna get any confession out of me.

All right, I confess.

I confess. I killed Akton.

I confess. I switched the coffins.

I killed Akton. I switched the coffins.

[sighs] Why?

Akton was a dilettante, and a drunk.

He couldn't be trusted.

He revealed our secrets to outsiders.

And for that he had to die?

We're still at war, Detective.

They may not report it in the newspapers,

or on the TV,

but we are still very much at war.

A war against our own complacency.

True espionage, good spydom

must be preserved at all costs.

Akton knew what the rules were.

If you wanted Akton dead, why did you call 911?

I don't know.

[Bayliss] You had second thoughts, didn't you?

Lacked the courage of your own convictions.

You're not a spy.

You're a failure.

You're not the man that your father was.

- [Broyles gasping] - [Bayliss] Here.

Go ahead.

- [Bayliss] Right there. - Where?

[Bayliss] Right there.

[Broyles sniffling]

[Bayliss] That's great.

The human mind is a very fragile thing.

- [Gharty] Hear, hear. - That's the truth.

You really used those brainwashing techniques?

The basis for brainwashing is deprivation of sleep.

Deny the mind rest, it will bend.

Did you ever meet anybody that you couldn't brainwash?

[Sam] There was only one man.

His determination was inhuman.

Who was it?

Al Giardello.

[Bayliss] Whoa! Wait a second! Wait a second!

Gee, were you a prisoner of war?

I'd rather not talk about it.

I was still with KGB on loan to Hanoi.

I tried mind-bending El Diago

for over four months.

He convinced me to defect.

You talked Dunn out of being a communist agent?

Me and $300,000.

Hey!

Seems like old times seeing you two drinking together.

Munch, can I get a Wild Turkey?

[Munch] Mm-hm. Jim Beam?

- Please. [grunts] - [Munch] Coming up.

You sure about leaving?

You're not gonna fight this?

Thanks.

No. Nuh-uh.

I need a change.

I've been working around the dead for so long,

it might be nice to smell something in the air

other than formaldehyde. [laughs]

Maybe I'll travel.

Isn't that what you're supposed to do when you're fired? Travel?

The State of Maryland has made a settlement

for a sum of $45 million in the Dietz accident case.

Did you gets guys hear that? $45 million? That's good for Mrs. Dietz.

[Dawn] The Dietz family attorney, Lynne Judson, says

she is satisfied with the surprise outcome.

[news anchor] Thank you, Dawn. And now...

You did good.

Yeah, I did. [chuckles]

You want another?

No. I'm about ready to go.

But if you leave town, what happens to us?

Well, much to my dismay, there never was an us.

You stay out of trouble, okay?

[sighs]

Hey, where's Julianna going? The night is young.

She had to leave.

I'll take another.

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