01x04 - The Choice of Failure

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Marine Cruz Manuelos is tasked with befriending the daughter of a suspected t*rror1st who is being surveilled by the C.I.A.
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01x04 - The Choice of Failure

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[MUSIC]

[LAUGHING]

What a whore.

You know her?

No, I'm talking about him.

You should write him off before he gives you a disease.

How is the match making going?

Match making?

Your uncle.

No takers yet, I guess.

Do you know the families he is considering?

To be honest, marriage is the last thing on my mind right now.

I just I want to finish school.

I want to have my own life.

You're so American.

Woo!

Let's swim out to the sand bar.

How far out is it?

It's a swim.

Don't go too far.

[PHOTO SHUTTER CLICKING]

Second floor, far left window.

We got a spotter.

Spotter on the roof as well.

There's a spotter on the roof.

Another in the house.

Roger that. I ain't doing nothing.

Just laying here.

I'm not seeing a sand bar.

That's 'cause I made it up.

Can't hear the music.

Just the ocean.

They should outlaw music on the beach.

The time for music is later.

I don't want to get married either.

Then don't.

What I want is not

factored into the equation.

Could be worse, I guess.

At least he's kind.

I don't want to get old.

I absolutely dread it.

Let's swim back before

the sharks get us.

I was thinking the same

thing. I really was.

I know, that's why I'm laughing.

Where's our girls?

Bedroom.

Said they're seasick.

I don't give a sh*t if they're seasick.

They can be sick on

the f*cking sun deck.

Let's go!

Let's go.

Think I'm gonna be sick.

That'll happen when you

drink a bottle of champagne

at eight in the f*cking morning.

What do you want us to do?

Go lay on the deck. Take selfies.

And drink some water,

you'll feel better.

Got any Dramamine?

Dramamine and alcohol's a great idea.

No Dramamine.

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

Well, this is why they're

staying in a house

owned by Qudrah Petrol.

This is Ehsan Al Rashdi.

- That's the fiancé?

- Yeah.

Who's the beach boy?

They're brothers. This is

Khamal Al Rashdi.

He's here on a student visa.

Ehsan's here on a work visa.

A Saudi royal marrying

a Kuwaiti national.

What do you think?

Beats the f*ck out of me.

Never heard of Qudrah

Petrol till last week.

You're the spy, what do you think?

I think it makes no f*cking sense.

These marriages are arranged.

Why arrange it with the

daughter of a known t*rror1st?

Does it matter?

The wedding is the place to get him,

but if the party ends up in

the Emirates or Saudi Arabia,

she is going to be really

difficult to cover.

How did that thing in the south go?

You could have prepared

us a little better

for what that was, boss.

What was it?

It was a f*cking mess is what it was.

Daytime extraction on

an interstate off-ramp.

I'm stunned you guys

aren't on f*ckin' news.

This m*therf*cker lets off an EMP

and we find ourselves

in a six car pile up.

That was before the sh**t out, mind you.

- The sh**t out?

- Mm-hmm.

Did you miss me?

- Get to a secure line.

- I'm on one.

I called you on your cell.

Stop acting like it's

your first day on the job.

- I'm texting you a number.

- Two minutes.

- KIAs on this op?

- f*ck yeah there were KIAs.

How many?

We engaged four, another

three from the wreck.

m*therf*cker.

You're not in Syria, you

assh*le, you're in Texas!

Look, it was a mess but

the op was successful.

State police linking it

to the local cartel.

We're good.

- Have you debriefed?

- Half an hour.

Call me after.

I swear to God, if any of this

stink gets on my team

There's no stink. There may

be a little bit of noise,

but there's no stink.

Just call me after!

I swear

[GRUNTS]

No good deed.

[MUSIC]

Sorry.

Look, just keep us out

of a Texas penitentiary,

we're all good.

I'll give it my best sh*t.

That's not encouraging.

[CRUZ] So, uh, this all we gonna do?

We're back on line.

We lay here until we are too hot,

then we go back in the

water, then back out,

then back in the water.

And then we'll go to dinner at Moby's,

where we'll make all the boys

jealous at the Surf Lodge.

Surf Lodge? Ugh.

Then don't go.

What's Surf Lodge?

It's a thousand white boys

trying to get in your pants

and 1500 dizzy blondes

staring death at us.

They'd rather go to Gurney's

where people pretend to like you.

Better we go to the dive bar

and we dance on the tables.

You like dancing on tables?

I feel like I'm spying on spring break.

You are.

I'm getting a hangover

just listening to 'em.

Is there any ice?

This is

Ow.

That would be funny if it

wasn't happening to us.

Take us in before one of

these girls falls overboard.

Yep.

Got it. Whole ice machine back here!

- Imagine that.

- Right?

How do we turn on the music?

I weep for this next generation.

We're off the target. Keep eyes, Bobby.

Roger that.

Oh, f*ck.

Hey, I'm Kamal.

Hey, how ya doin'?

Look I'm a lesbian, so none of that

sh*t's gonna work on me.

- Sure about that?

- Yep.

You're missing out.

I'm so sure of that.

You're posted up too close.

I'm thirty yards away.

That fucker hunts more

territory than a wolverine.

Hey, they're packing up.

[MUSIC]

Afternoon.

Have a seat.

[CLEARS THROAT]

You have a contract agent

within the Sinaloa Cartel.

Yes, that's correct.

And that contact was

arrested three days ago,

and yesterday he was taken

from police custody by force.

Seven dead on the scene.

Two separate scenes, actually.

It appears his cartel

launched the as*ault.

Multiple witnesses report

vehicles ceasing to function,

cellphones destroyed.

In fact all electronic devices

at the scene were disabled.

Sounds like an EMP.

Yeah, it does.

This is surveillance

footage from Border Patrol.

And this footage is from

about two miles down the road.

Who's that? Looks a whole lot like you.

I mean, it is uncanny.

Oh, f*cking stop it!

You put together a team

and you took him!

Congratulations, Kyle, you might

be the first CIA case officer

to make the FBI's most wanted list.

Ma'am, if I could

Don't f*cking "ma'am" me.

Supervisor Meade.

I've earned the title,

and if I haven't I sure as sh*t

will trying to keep you out of prison.

Where'd you get the team?

I can't divulge that.

Right.

Do you know anyone with

higher TS clearance than me?

I see things the f*cking

president can't see.

Where did you get the team?

I used the Lioness QRF.

That will be all.

You chain yourself to your

desk until we figure this out.

- In my defense

- You have no defense.

My contract agent is bringing over

five known Al Qaeda

operatives next week.

If he would have been transferred to BP,

he would have been

k*lled by his own cartel.

I lose the five.

I didn't have a f*cking choice.

You have ID on all five?

Sinaloa is holding them in

a safe house in Chihuahua.

They cross on Sunday to a

safe house in San Antonio.

I got that f*cking house

wired and ready.

- You have proof?

- I'll get you proof.

Get it fast.

Did you bring the FBI in on this?

So they can f*ck it up?

I didn't say let them run it,

you need cover.

Can't bring them in now.

I'll talk to DIA, see what

cover we can get.

Dismissed. Get me the proof.

[DOOR CLOSES]

You want to talk to the

Governor or the Senators?

You can take the Senators.

Let's be real careful,

we could pinch this off

and be done with it.

Now we're digging a bigger hole.

The bigger this becomes the

more justified it appears.

But if there aren't five

Al Qaeda in a house

in Chihuahua, this is hanging

us all in the wind.

[MUSIC]

Tell me these girls aren't local.

Westchester.

Get 'em straight back, I don't want

them wandering the bars here,

blabbing about the Yacht

they were paid to party on.

Roger that.

You didn't want to mention

the gunfight on the border?

Isn't that why you sent us, Joe?

[PHONE VIBRATES]

- This is my cell.

- Yep.

- How'd it go?

- Not good.

How not good?

Did you hang me out?

They already knew.

How would they know, Kyle?

[PHONE BEEPS]

f*ck.

- Hey.

- You need to come in.

I'm on a mark.

Then I'll come to you.

Send me an address.

You son of a bitch.

[MUSIC]

[LAUGHING]

[BEEPING]

Vicryl suture, please.

Dr. McNamara, your daughter

has been in a car accident.

She's on her way here now.

Everything okay?

Uh, my daughter was in a car accident.

- How bad?

- I don't know.

Bad enough they're bringing her here.

- Emily, will you take over?

- Mm-hmm.

[SIREN BLARING]

Code blue!

All right, what do we got?

Non-responsive teenage female,

multiple contusions to the chest,

looks like her sternum is

fractured. Head trauma.

ER one.

Compound fracture. Systolic at 50.

Notify OR, on call ortho,

on call cardio.

My leg!

Hey, honey.

Daddy!

What's presenting?

Severe pain right thigh,

no movement below the injury,

you can see the swelling.

Severe neck pain, nausea en route,

looks like a concussion.

Okay. Look at me.

- What hurts the most?

- My leg!

Your leg. What about your head,

do you have a headache?

I don't know! I don't know!

HR 126, BP 101 over 52.

- What room?

- 11.

It's my leg, it hurts! My leg!

It's okay, we're here.

My leg!

We'll worry about your

leg in a second, honey.

Let's go.

No, we got it. We got it, we got it.

All right, my count. One, two, three.

[GASPS]

- Does she have any medicinal allergies?

- No.

- Ever had anesthesia?

- No. Neurology been called?

- Where is neurology?

- Coming now.

Hey, Kate, what a crummy way to see you.

How's she doing, Neal?

Pain's a nine on right thigh,

can't move below the knee.

Anybody take pictures?

- 2 liters LR.

- 2 liters running now.

I'd like to elevate your leg a little.

I know this is going to hurt.

- [SOBBING]

- It's okay.

[SCREAMING]

I don't see any swelling except

along the orbital socket,

You see this fracture along C-1.

And on C-3.

Looking at the femur here,

there is a complete oblique fracture

to the distal region

of the femoral shaft.

You're gonna have to

surgically stabilize that.

Absolutely.

I'll support it with an

intramedullary nail

insert through the top of the shaft.

I'd like to get her in

first thing in the morning.

Let me order a cranial

CT once her BP levels.

What about the others?

Prepping one now.

Comminuted open fracture.

That one's not gonna wait till morning.

The other one didn't make it.

[MUSIC]

[PHONE VIBRATES]

Hey.

Kate was in a car accident.

How bad?

She broke her femur,

fractured some vertebrae.

She was in shock, but she's stable now.

She's awake but she's pretty shook up.

One of the kids didn't make it.

She's going into surgery in the morning.

Where are you?

I'm in New York.

Not that it matters, what happened?

I don't know. I don't

have any specifics.

Surgery's at 7:00. It should

be about three hours.

Two hours in recovery.

Can you make it by noon?

I'll find a way.

RHC?

Yeah.

Where's Charlie?

Charlie's at the neighbors.

Should I Should I call her?

No, just let her rest.

I haven't delivered all the news yet.

Are you gonna be reachable?

Not really.

I'm on one, ya know?

Okay.

I won't tell her you're coming

in case you can't peel away.

I'm coming.

Okay. We'll see you tomorrow.

Neal.

Blood work's back.

Buddy, she's pregnant.

Now, you know that traumatic injury

during the first trimester

creates a severe risk

of fetal injury, as does the anesthesia.

I assume it's unplanned,

so her aborting probably

not the worst thing.

- She's f*cking 14 years old.

- I know.

It's early enough we can prescribe her

Mifepristone and Misoprostol.

I'd prefer to do the surgery

first and then prescribe it.

Yeah, me, too.

That's what we'll do.

[MUSIC]

Where's my clothes?

They cut your clothes off, honey.

I lost my phone.

Don't know what happened

to everyone else.

You just worry about

yourself for now, okay?

Do you know?

I know some.

I know two of the girls went

to a different hospital.

I can find out, but honey.

Don't expect good news.

What do you know?

What did I say were the two

things that have the most

likelihood of altering

the course of your life?

Cars and sex.

And they both did.

- I wasn't driving.

- I'm not accusing you.

I don't know what happened.

I don't know whose fault it is,

but I do know that cars

k*ll more teenagers

than any other cause combined.

And it almost k*lled you, honey.

Did it k*ll anybody?

It did.

Who?

Holly.

[CRIES]

Who else?

I don't know. I'll find out.

I wish I could give you

more time to process that,

but we don't have that today.

So are you ready for the next one?

Next one what?

You broke our deal.

What deal?

With boys. You broke our deal.

You're pregnant.

What?

No, that's not

That's not possible?

Are you gonna look me in

the eye and lie to me?

I have your blood work

and urinalysis, honey.

You're going into surgery tomorrow.

We test for these things, okay?

Now it's very likely that

the trauma you've experienced

terminated the pregnancy.

And if it didn't, it's quite

likely that the anesthesia

would terminate the pregnancy.

But if somehow the fetus

survives all of this

you're gonna have a very,

very big decision to make.

This is this is

Too much to handle?

Yes.

That's why you don't

have sex at fourteen.

And that's why your

mother and I forbid you

from driving in a car

with a teenage driver.

And it breaks my heart

that this is the way

you need to learn these lessons.

I'm sorry.

No, you don't apologize to me.

You forgive yourself.

Now at least you can learn

consequences of actions

while still benefitting from the lesson.

Holly won't get that chance.

Do you understand me?

[CRYING]

["HER" BY MEGAN THEE STALLION ♪]

I don't care if these

b*tches don't like me ♪

'Cause, like, I'm pretty as f*ck ♪

Just the other day I heard a ho say ♪

Matter of fact, what could a ho say ♪

With a face like this

and a bitch this paid ♪

sh*t, what could a ho say

I'm her, her, her,

her her, her, her, her ♪

She, she, she,

she she, she, she, she ♪

I can make all that bruise go away.

Know what would look hot on her?

Oh!

- Yes, but not slicked back.

- No, loose. A little messy.

Messy, messy, it's the beach.

There you are.

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

We're moving up to the house in Montauk.

I'm coming.

[MUSIC]

[ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC PLAYS]

Cristal. Three bottles.

I'll send a server over as well.

Who are all these people?

Charles Schwab, Bankers Trust,

Alpha Investments,

Ziegler and Company, and Goldman Sachs.

No one from Goldman is here.

They are at Gurney's.

Where I wanted to be.

Oh, yawn.

This is where they will end up

when they get hungry.

We should get eyes on her.

You sure about that?

We don't cover that close in Lebanon.

We don't need to cover

this close in Lebanon.

This isn't two girls talking

while they do laundry in a well,

there's six of them and security.

Well, the jock's already

made contact with me.

- So I'm out.

- Tex, you're up.

So here's the thing. There's a

bunch of 25-year-olds in there.

I look like their f*cking dad.

[CHUCKLING] That's true.

You're not gonna work.

Hell, no.

Fine, I'll go.

I'll be in touch.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

- My group is in there.

- Name?

Al Rashdi.

Thank you.

What the f*ck, you let her in?

Look at her then look at you.

That's our cue.

YOLO.

- Are you coming?

- I'm coming.

What a surprise.

Something to drink?

Light beer. In a bottle.

- No glass?

- No glass.

Okay.

You a model?

Yeah.

You look like one.

You here alone?

I'm with my husband.

Yeah, what's he do?

He plays professional football.

You're in his spot.

That wouldn't be good for you.

'Nuff said.

[PHONE VIBRATES]

- How is she?

- [NEAL] The same.

Look, you and me got a deal.

We don't lie to each other

and we don't keep secrets.

No, we don't.

Kate's pregnant.

[MUSIC]

Guess the pants didn't

stay on after all.

No.

Goddammit.

Look, this is This is too

big to be mad about.

Yeah.

We're sacrificing our children,

that's what we're doing.

We're trading them for professions.

I don't disagree.

Look, all I have is problems today.

I don't have any solutions.

But we should seek some.

Agreed.

- Just be here tomorrow.

- I will.

She needs it.

I need it, too.

Bottle of water?

We used to say I love you, a lot.

Maybe we should go back to doing that.

Yeah. We should do that more.

I'll think on solutions.

There's no easy ones.

Never are.

You a model?

I'm a student.

You look like a model.

It's just an observation.

I'm here with a friend from work, and

I don't know a soul here.

People who look like you

typically make a living from it.

I was just making conversation.

You the designated driver?

No, it's just hot on the dance floor.

You wanna dance?

Heck, yeah I want to dance.

Heck yeah you wanna dance?

Hell yes.

f*ck yes.

What do you want me to say?

Come on.

What the f*ck is she doing?

This is boring the f*ck out of me.

Mission focus, Tex.

I'm focused, I'm just saying.

Hey. Hey, hey hey.

[MUSIC]

Where is she?

She's on the mark.

Can you pull and replace?

- Not here.

- I'll stay close.

Have her reach out when she can.

f*ck was that about?

That was about us.

[MUSIC]

Two Solento Sandias.

What's that?

Watermelon juice and vodka.

Hey!

- f*ck you.

- assh*le.

Ah!

[SHRIEKS]

You wanna go?

Come on!

[ECHOING] You okay?

Let's get you out of here.

Cruz

f*ck.

sh*t.

She's been snatched.

White male, pale blue shirt, tan pants.

They're exiting the north side of club.

Let's go.

What the hell, man? Come on!

Zara!

Zara's still inside!

We will come back for her.

Call her from the car.

[MUSIC]

Randy, do you see her?

Yeah, she's moving north.

She's outside the hotel.

She stopped moving. In the trees.

Four hundred meters north east.

In the trees, two hundred

meters, your 12:00.

You're so f*cking hot.

[GRUNTS]

Fucker.

Come here.

[GRUNTING]

Aw, f*ck.

Okay, all right.

What do you got, what do you got?

Heart rate 44.

[GRUNTS]

We're looking, we're

looking, we're looking.

38, okay, I got something

here to wake us up.

Here we go. Oh, yeah.

Okay.

What the f*ck? What the f*ck?

Okay.

Look at me. Look at me.

All right, now, yeah.

Get her back to the house. Now.

Yes, ma'am.

[GRUNTS]

Oh, f*ck!

Stretch him out.

[SCREAMS]

This is what we did to

rapists in Afghanistan.

It was highly effective at

stopping habitual offenders,

of which you clearly are.

When you try to explain this

in the hospital,

I highly recommend you tell them

you never saw your attackers.

Because if you tell them anything

we'll f*cking k*ll you.

Get me DNA samples.

[SCREAMS]

Cruz, relax. Relax.

Relax. Hey, Cruz, relax.

It was too soon for this.

We're in it now.

You don't have the skills

for clandestine work.

I can. I'll learn.

There's bogeys, bandits,

and marks in this world.

And nothing else.

They don't trust me.

I was trying to fit in.

If she can't manage a

weekend in New York,

how is she going to navigate

Riyadh or Damascus?

[PHONE BUZZING]

Get her water.

We've never had anyone this close

to a tier one target before.

She's in.

I'll get her there.

What choice do we have?

The wedding's in Dubai.

That's where she wants it.

And she gets what she wants.

We can cover her there.

If you can make it that long.

I can make it.

I need to talk to you

about something else.

My daughter was in an accident.

Surgery's in the morning.

Can we talk on the way there?

Yeah, we can talk on the way.

Thought you wanted to talk.

We will.

Tell me about the accident.

I don't know. 'Cause I wasn't there.

I'm f*cking here.

Don't do that to yourself.

No? Then else who do I blame?

If not me?

I don't know how you and

Errol did it. I really don't.

- What did we do?

- Stayed together.

Raised a family.

You're here to talk Texas, so

Let's talk Texas.

Your team is on Border

Patrol surveillance footage

performing a hot extraction

with multiple casualties.

[MUSIC]
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