01x08 - L'Affaire Contre John Lakeman

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01x08 - L'Affaire Contre John Lakeman

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- Hey.
- Yeah.

Pop?

Yeah?

Why the long face?

What does that mean?

What?

Why the long face?

When are you going to be British?

You've been here 25 years.

What does it mean, long face?

Why so blue?

I have a task.

I have some work this year.

So, what?

It involves your brother.

I'll need your help, Kkyman.

I'm going to ask a good deal from you.

It seems.

This year, Kkyman.

Thanks for having a cold one with me, man.

Sorry I'm a bring down right now.

But, I'm blue, man.

Yeah?

I'm f*cked up.

My brother, man.

He was messed up.

Little messed up from stuff.

I came here to help him.

But now he's gone.

He's missing.

It's f*cked up.

You have a brother?

Or a sister or something?

A brother, yeah.

It's f*cked up.

Yeah. Yeah, that would be f*cked up.

Blue.

It doesn't readily appear in nature.

Blueberries, maybe.

Bluebirds.

But not much else really.

You know, the ocean's not really blue.

Nor is the sky. Nor me.

Ever, really.

Till now.

I feel so weird.

Let me put some of those up,
on my way back to the hotel.

You gonna be okay?

Hey, man.

Just knowing you cared...

just knowing you cared enough
to stop and have a cold one?

That's something.

Be cool.

I can't not be.

I can't not be either.

How can you say?

For certain.

I can say. For certain.

I need you to finish his work.

What was it?

Tell me.

There was a bag...

Luxembourg is the money-laundering

capital of the world.

We allow business to be
transacted among countries

and parties who are
banned from doing business

together elsewhere.

Every 9th businessman in Luxembourg

conducts business under an assumed name.

Every 9th bag trafficked
through the airport holds cash.

A guest at the King Gerald
wrote down the address

of the m*rder victim on this paper

the evening of the m*rder

on baggage handling time cards

where the foreman was assaulted.

It's clear that
someone well-to-do,

someone staying at the
expensive King Gerald,

intersected with private baggage

at the Luxembourg City airport.

The brother of our m*rder
victim works handling bags.

I surmise

Edgar Barros discovered a sum of money

in a passenger's checked luggage.

This passenger, flying
under an assumed name,

sought him out that
evening, fought for the bag

at the Barros apartment,
at 77 de Champlain,

to the extent of which a man d*ed.

I have interviewed each guest of

the King Gerald that evening, but one:

John Lakeman.

He abruptly left our
scheduled interview session.

His whereabouts at the time
of the m*rder are undetermined.

His colleague stipulated that
he missed an essential meeting

because his airline misplaced his bag.

John Lakeman is at the center

of an unusual circle of v*olence

on an unusually violent
night in Luxembourg.

Additionally, John
Lakeman phoned, upon a time

during which every other member of his

professional traveling
party phoned their wives,

a woman named Alice Taylor,

who is married to a man

who is working as a
quote unquote "consultant"

to an intelligence gathering department

of the United States government.

I respectfully submit my request
to interview John Lakeman,

in the third party country
of the United States,

on the date of May 22nd, tomorrow, 2012.

Concerning the appeal of Luxembourg City,

of the country of Luxembourg,

the court provides its
approval to interrogate.

Hey.

She's coming. Approved.

Just now. She's probably on her way.

My guess, she shows up
tomorrow. They show up at work.

It's safer.

I found the book.
Structural Dynamics of Flow.

Where?

The guy with the girl's name.

- No sh*t?
- No. Yeah.

Get it to Edward, John.

I may want you out of there.
I may pull you out of there.

Today. Before she comes.

Cool.

I'm gathering some information.

I'll reach back out to you today.

Okay.

She's good.

She was cited this week for
two instances of child neglect

for leaving her daughter
alone in her apartment.

Her kid's seeing things.
The neighbors narced.

So... she's really cramming
in the hours on your case.

She's not a bad mom, I'm guessing;

I'm guessing she's just a good cop.

What does she have on you?

I don't know.

Her daughter drew a picture of me.

It's pretty good.

I pull you out of there today,

she shows up, John Lakeman's a ghost.

Okay.

Midnight.

Hey, maybe it's time to come home.

Okay.

How we doing with that paperwork, John?

Not as yet.

Clock's ticking.

For sure.

John? I'd like to share
my demands with you.

Yeah?

John, what do you know about
non-sexual, same-sex cuddling?

Nothing.

Well, that's what I want to do.

Yeah?

Yeah, I demand it.

Okay, more soon.

- See ya.
- See ya.

Hey, John. How we doing?

Pretty good.

Hey, thanks for k*lling those birds.

Yeah.

Hey, so I'm making the
rounds, letting McMillan

know we're bankrupt pretty much

and I've turned essentially
all my authority over to Leslie.

Okay.

Big announcement tomorrow.

Then we're all going to pitch in,

right the ship and secure
that Denon deal. Right?

Then the future's so bright
we'll have to wear shades.

Cool.

Sir?

Yeah?

Stephen remembers you being in
the vicinity of his accident.

Can you help shed some
light on his final moments?

Not really.

You seem to have, um,
an indifferent attitude

towards Stephen's recovery.

Can I share with you why it's so important

that he have full recollection,

including his accident?

Humor requires your
entire whole full being.

Stephen is incomplete, he'll
never regain his sense of humor.

If he doesn't regain his sense of humor,

he'll never laugh.

And no one will ever love him.

That's pretty heavy.

Yeah. It is.

So get with it.

For sure.

You sound "not all in." FYI, I'm a fighter.

And I am fighting for these memories.

So, are you on my team?

Count me in.

Hey, just wanted to give
you an update about my life.

You ever stay in the kind of a shitty hotel

that has the TV and
it's chained to the wall?

Well, that's where I live now.

And I look at it, and
I think even if I could

get the TV off the chain,
I couldn't steal it,

because I have nowhere to take it

because I have no home now.

Hey, John. We got an e-mail.

It was for you.

It was from a foreign policewoman.

She's gonna interview you tomorrow.

Take care.

Hey.

Stay there. No matter what happens.

I pull you out of there today,

she shows up, John Lakeman's a ghost.

Okay.

Hey, maybe it's time to come home.

Okay.

Anything, Tim?

Yeah.

We picked up a phone call...

It's a conversation between an unknown male

and the wife of your Egyptian
physicist Mohamed El-Mashad.

She was told to remain in
Luxembourg until the 27th,

and then take a bag from them at 3:00 PM

at the Bettborn Station.

They said they'd have the bag?

- Then?
- Yeah.

And the Japanese girl? Well, she's 23.

She's a student at the
Luxembourg School for the Arts.

That's all. That's all she is.

She got arrested for stealing a dog leash.

Somebody's dog?

Just the leash.

That's weird.

Yeah, I don't know.

She's being released from
the Luxembourg Police Station

at the same date and time
they mentioned to the woman.

To El-Mashed. Just an hour earlier.

She got a five day sentence.

Sounds about right for
a dog leash, I guess.

Anyway, she'll be let go.

She'll get her belongings
back and be let go

at the date and time they mentioned

they can get the bag to
the physicist's wife. Right?

They're going to take the
bag from that little girl.

So, get there first.

Here's your chance to
ravel it back in, Tom.

I like your odds.

All your man has to do is get the bag back

from a 23-year-old
Japanese puppeteer.

A puppeteer? What?

Puppetry. She's a puppeteer.

Student. Straight A's.

Yeah. That's all he has to do.

Jesus Christ. Could it
really be that simple?

Thanks, Tim.

You can have a heart att*ck now.

f*ck you, buddy.

Hey?

Stay there. No matter what happens.

Stay and fend off whatever
comes at you this week.

We're going to get it all
back on the 27th, John.

Can't we just do it the cafeteria, Brent?

I think doing Fellowship in the cafeteria

makes some people uncomfortable.

It's a government building.

It sucks in here.

You know what doesn't suck, Andy?

- What?
- The Constitution.

Okay, hi.

Now let us join hands and walk like Christ

in grace and love.

Can I just say...

very clever to orient this exercise

around Stephen's favorite movie.

It keeps it personal,

and yet adds an important touch of fun.

I think we're in a good place with this.

It's really come along, Ally.

You've really come a long way, son.

Thanks Leslie, to you.

You kept me regularly
focused on my recovery.

Well, you did all the heavy lifting, kid.

Well, as the Wolf says
in my favorite movie,

"Pulp Fiction", let's not start

sucking each other's dicks quite yet.

- Wow.
- Wow.

Show us what you got.

You got what you wanted, man.

Why am I here?

We're not done yet.

I did my part.

What were you gonna do to me

with your stupid tree branch?

Brutalize you.

Break all the bones in your face

to signal to you what I'm willing to do

to continue the job I'm doing.

John, how dark are you?

If I blow the whistle, the job you're on...

it's over.

Well, you can keep doing
the job you're doing,

if you do one last thing for me.

Do what?

Tomorrow, some time
during the day, at work...

k*ll me.

People think I'm stupid.

Maybe it's my face.

Name doesn't help, I guess.

You know?

Do I look stupid?

I've never really looked at you.

Well, people think I'm stupid.

I had a period when I was a policeman,

I'd try to show off,
I'm embarrassed to say,

by using a large and
unnecessary vocabulary.

I had the habit of drinking, too.

One morning, I was in my car.

4:30 in the morning. I'm drunk.

I'm playing Scrabble.

Call comes, Latino purse
snatcher on my street.

Latino blurs by my window.
Bag on his shoulder.

I get out. I draw.

I yell "halt."

He reaches into his bag, I sh**t.

I come up on him.

Paperboy.

ret*rd.

14.

Not 9, like people say,

but, 14. Just 14.

I couldn't just yell "stop"
like anyone else, you know?

My friends, cops, came and swept my car.

They swapped my blood.

What did I put in the box?

Drunk blood. Mine.

I wasn't trying to be found innocent, John.

I was trying to be found guilty.

Wrongful death convictions,

the civil settlements
are 400 percent greater.

I wanted that family to have something.

Then this judge lets me off.

Thought he was helping me out. Yeah.

In the last 20 years,

17 police officers have
been charged for killings

for incidents that happened on the job

in the U.S. None convicted.

The system's bent, I guess.

Anyway, my insurance expires tomorrow.

Yeah. So k*ll me at work.

'Cause that's another 75,000
for getting k*lled on the job.

It's in my stupid security guard contract,

because it never happens.

k*ll you how?

Just whack me in my stupid f*cking head.

Do your tree branch thing.

Just go a little darker, John.

Ladies and gentlemen,

due to mechanical difficulties

we'll have to return to the gate.

Thank you for your patience

and we'll do out best
to get you to Milwaukee.

Hey.

Hello.

Hey, are you okay?

Yes.

I'm...

Actually, I've never done this before.

Rented a car in America.

Or driven a car in America.

Where are you driving?

- Milwaukee.
- It's short.

It's just a...

It's a straight line. You'll be fine.

Where are you driving?

Same.

It's just, um, it's
an hour-and-a-half.

Next.

I would like to rent a car please.

Are you returning the vehicle
to its point of origin?

What is this point?

Of origin.

Its return.

Um, she just wants to know

if you'll be returning the car here.

After your trip.

Yes. Thank you.

In-state travel?

In-state?

No. Milwaukee.

Yes, I am bound for
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Can I see your drivers license please?

Where's this from? Is this a country?

Yes.

I've never heard of it.

Well, it is one.

- One what?
- One country.

Hi, um...

- Hey.
- Hey.

What are you doing?

Working on my bearings.

What are you doing in Milwaukee?

Traveling. For work.

Do you want a ride?

Why are you going to Milwaukee?

I'm visiting someone.

Why are you?

I'm interviewing someone.

For what? For a job?

No...

That's not cool.

Yeah.

Just a little wave. That's all it takes.

Yeah, I invented an app that...

you aim at them and it tells you
if they're going to thank you.

Why didn't you use it?

Well, cause I didn't actually invent it

because I don't know anything
about that kind of stuff.

I just invented it in my mind.

Well, anyway,

if you ever actually
invent one, I'll buy one.

Thanks.

I invent stuff that I
don't really invent, too.

Like what?

What?

Nothing.

What?

I just didn't expect you
to throw it like that.

In that way.

I'm just a little surprised.

Well, I'm throwing with my left hand.

Why?

Because I have to be left handed today.

Why?

Because someone's coming
to interview me today.

f*ck.

So you summoned me here just
to practice being left-handed?

Yeah.

Why do you have to do it all day?

Because I think she's just
going to appear in the office.

Like last time.

And if she appears and
I'm like, in that moment,

pouring coffee with my
right hand, I'm f*cked.

f*ck.

Should be an interesting day.

f*ck.

Fat Face?

Yeah. Fat Face.

So it's an image of your face?

Yes, it's an image of your face

on the refrigerator.

And then when you select items
from your fridge like ice cream,

your face on the fridge gets fatter...

so it will show you what you
would look like, if you ate

that amount of ice cream for a year.

- That's great.
- Thanks.

That's a great non-invention.

Yeah. Fat Face.

It doesn't exist.

What's the name of your
app that doesn't exist?


I've been calling it Cool
Guy or Douche I guess.

Yeah, that's good.

Yeah?

One, two, three...

Kramer.

Thanks.

Come on. You have been so gracious.

You're a guest here. No way.

- I insist.
- So do I.

- Seriously.
- I'm serious, too.

Rochambeau?

Yeah, okay.

You're pretty good.

I work with kids.

We sort things out like this a lot.

- You are a teacher?
- Yeah.

Well, you're right.

People think this is a game of chance.

But it's a game of skill.

If someone has experience regarding people,

reading people, like a job like yours,

they can excel at it.

Very good.

You've made it further than
anyone I think I've ever played.

Now I can take the bill.

It is good.

Yeah.

I feel like I've heard it before, it's...

I don't know...

Here's my e-mail.

Send me yours and I'll give
you the name of that album.

Cool, I'll write you later.

I'm kind of excited. To go.

Where are you meeting your friend?

At his work.

Do you need a ride?

No. Thank you.

I'll take a cab.

You've been so helpful already.

I don't want to take more of your time.

Hey, Chicago.

Sorry?

This is the executive parking section.

For executives.

F.Y.I., Chicago.

I'm sorry.

No big deal, Chicago.

- Dennis?
- Yeah?

I need your help.

Okay.

- He's right inside.
- I can't go inside.

I'm not even supposed to be here.

Will you just tell him?

Yeah, sure.

How did you even, like,

find me or know about me?

He wrote a song about you.

I mean it wasn't about you,

it was about how he wants to k*ll himself.

But in it he said

that there was one cool
thing about where he was and

that was he made friends with
a guy at work named Dennis.

And I looked you up on the company website.

Thank you for joining us this morning.

This new morning.

An exciting new morning of changes

and the introduction of
a new shared leadership.

I'd like to announce, as of this morning,

Divisional head Leslie Claret
will now be sharing leadership

with me in every capacity,
across every department,

side-by-side.

Let's welcome Leslie
Claret on this new morning.

Leslie.

Thank you, Lawrence.

Folks, what do we do,
essentially, here at McMillan?

We design complex delivery systems for...

Wrong. Sit down.

No, seriously.

We're sending mixed signals.

Sit down.

We make circles.

Circles don't exist in nature, folks.

The sun? No.

Planets? Not quite.

Circles are perfect.

And nothing perfect exists in nature.

Flaws in all.

Slightly oblong,

our planets, the sun.

Like us.

But here, at McMillan, we make them.

And we place them in the world.

The perfect form across the world.

We make circles.

And all you have to care about,

the only thing that you have to care about,

is this one little thing:

Perfection.

Aw, come on, now.

It's just a goal. It's not a demand.

No one is perfect.

But what I need to know, what I need to see

in you is capacity for perfection,

the desire to be perfect.

Stephen. John. Come up here.

Show me how you can conjure perfection.

Show me your attachment
to the form we place

so lovingly, under our shared world.

Stephen. Lakeman.

How about it?

Draw your most perfect circle.

Draw it out of you, and then
draw it on the screen here.

Show me your attachment
to the perfect form,

to perfection.

So how are we doing,
John, on this new morning?

Pretty good.

You know, John, I spent
some time last night just...

Well, pondering how I was going
to respond to you this morning.

On this new morning.

Cool.

Yeah, it was cool.

I thought...

Do I just fire him, first thing?

Say, hey, not a good fit.

Because I give two shits about this place

and you don't, so not a good fit.

So adios.

And then I thought,

hey, we all deserve a second chance.

I know that. Hell.

You know?

Yeah.

So I thought, I'll just give the kid

something simple to do.

We'll start with that.

We'll... We'll build from there.

I'll ask the kid

to just draw a little circle.

And maybe, in the simple
act of trying his best,

maybe he'll win me over

with a simple circle.

Here's the impression your
little circle made on me, John.

It lacked focus, ambition,

clarity, precision,

dedication, passion and honesty.

And well,

it reminded me of you.

So...

it seems you'll be staying on

for this weekend's duck hunt.

And then it seems you'll
have a new morning of your own

at some new endeavor.

I wish you well.

An accounting discrepancy

concerning a file under your office.

I'd like to arrange a
visit at your convenience

to help me make some sense of it.

Again, Brent Paddocks.

General Accounting Office. Extension 775.

Hey.

How's it going?

Pretty good.

John, I just learned of a complication.

This interview, this policewoman?

Yeah?

Ace that. We can't get derailed.

Tom, hey, you asked us

to pay some attention to an Alice Taylor.

She didn't show up for work today.

She didn't call in sick. Just a no show.

Okay, so you remember being in
the company of your colleague

moments before your accident.

Let's orient there.

What were you doing in those moments?

He told me that his interview went poorly.

John.

And I told him that I crushed mine.

Then I tried to f*cking cheer him up.

Locker room talk.

Got it.

Pull it back.

Yeah.

Okay. So then? What
happened next on that day?

Then we just stood here.

Then I felt a feeling...

John.

John, you're wife's here.

Hey, Dennis.

Hey, John.

John, come here.

Are you okay?

I'm sorry, man.

I made things hard for you.

I shouldn't have even
ever tried to help, man.

Help me, Dennis. Right now.

f*ck yeah.

Take this baton.

What?

I'm holding a baton. Take the baton.

Why are you holding a baton?

Just take the baton.

Keep hugging me and take the baton.

Okay, I have the baton.

Conceal the baton.

Okay, I concealed the baton.

Walk away with it. The detective's coming.

I'm walking away with the baton.

John Lakeman?

Yeah.

- Good morning.
- Good morning.

Detective Agathe Albans.

I'm in the Office of Homicide,

in the police department of
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.

I have formal authority to
ask you a series of questions

concerning a homicide that took place

on the evening of May 11th.

The m*rder of Hector Barros.

Can we do this today?

I've got a lot going on today.

My expectation is this will
take an hour of your time.

You caught us in a transition today

I'm trying to make up some ground today.

Today would be best. For me.

Today would be bad. For me.

Tomorrow would be good. For me.

Tomorrow would be bad. For me.

Rochambeau?

What's the nature of your work?

Circles.

In what sense?

In the sense that pipes are circles.

And I just deal with pipes.

You're very good at this.

Thanks.

You, too.

You're remarkably good at this.

Thanks.

You, too.

Darn.

Yeah.

So you'll field my questions today, Sir?

Well, we had a deal, so...

Yes, we had a deal, sir.

Probably going to be on the
later side, is that okay?

Please find time at your
earliest convenience.

Yeah, of course.

It's become late.

Now is the last possible
minute we can begin

my series of questions and
have you fulfill your agreement

to interview today.

Be right in.

Is there anything you would
like to say as we begin?

Yes.

Proceed.

I'm not really an industrial engineer.
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