03x04 - Inherited

[bunniefuu]

[LAUGHTER]

Quick, ask me a question
about ad content on Zoom.

Do you have any
child protection filters?

Or a way to screen out
ad content for, like,

hair removal and capri pants?

- Yes and yes.
- [CHUCKLES]

- Now this was a work dinner.
- [GASPS]

Does your expense account have a limit?

I don't know. It's only been two weeks,

but let's find out.

ALL: Ooh! [LAUGHTER]

- Cheers.
- Cheers.

Thanks for eating early, ladies.

My schedule's been so weird lately.

- Mm.
- Tell Mark I said hello.

- Will do, tell Stephen hello.
- Will do.

I'll tell my wine bottle hello.

Merlot beats Richard any day.

I want to believe you're right.

Richard feeds his cat
on the kitchen table.

- The kitchen table!
- Okay, the cat I miss.

[ALL CHUCKLE]

Okay, you guys.

- Bye.
- Bye.

Uber will be here in,
like, five minutes.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪

[SCREAMING] No!

[ALL SCREAMING FRANTICALLY]

- Hey!
- [SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY]

♪

[GRUNTS]

Hey!

[g*nshots]

Get back!

- Take it easy.
- All you people, get out.

Go back to your own country!

[GRUNTS]

It's time for cup number three.

Nectar of the gods. Thank you.

- Muah.
- She ready to go?

No, we finished a little
late, even though her last time

was two seconds faster than her first.

- That's great.
- It's amazing.

[HORSES NICKERING SOFTLY]

You smell that?

Smells like it.

Tali! What are you doing?

- Nothing.
- Give that to me.

- And the rest of it.
- I don't have any.

What is going on?

Hey! That's mine!

- I'm sorry.
- First you get sent home

from school for vaping,
now you're vaping pot?

[TENSE MUSIC]

There's nothing else in there.

Where'd you get the pot from?
Is it Daniel?

Is it?

Tali, it's not even : in the morning.

You need to go to school.

- Stay out of this!
- Hey, hey, hey.

Don't talk to her like that.

[PHONE RINGING]

LaCroix.

You know, just because
you stay in our house

does not mean you can tell me
what I can and can't do.

A little bit. A little bit, it does.

I'm heading over now.

- Now?
- Now?

Can you take her to school?

- I guess so.
- Good.

We'll finish this conversation
when I get back home.

Dad, it's just pot.

Great, then it'll
be a short conversation.

You're grounded.

- What?
- You heard me.

♪

- I have to go.
- Yeah.

God, I can't stand you.

Yesterday, in West Windsor, New Jersey,

Carrie Chen was leaving
an early dinner with friends

when she was abducted
outside a restaurant

and taken in a cargo van.

Her friend and a man
who tried to help her

were both sh*t dead.

The assailant was a white male

and all the victims were Asian American.

According to witnesses,
her abductor yelled,

"All you people,
go back to your own country,"

or words to that effect.

Well, it sounds like a hate crime.

Carrie's husband
is a well-known professor

and researcher at Princeton,

making this a high-profile case.

The Jersey Field Office
has asked for our assist.

Cameras turn anything up on the van?

Witnesses place it traveling south,

and our unsub appears
to be working alone.

Carrie and her husband have been married

a little over three years.

He's on his way back from an
academic conference in Boston.

Officers are meeting him at the
airport and they will notify us

as soon as he lands.

We can't rule him out.

Neither have criminal histories.

They both have regular salaries.

No ransom demands yet.

- And no body.
- Yet.

So you think this att*ck was random?

Mm, it's a possibility.
One of the victims

had no connection to Carrie
or her friends.

Just a Good Samaritan
walking down the street.

But our unsub was willing
to k*ll to grab Carrie,

so he could have been following her.

- Maybe a fixation on her.
- I don't know.

Hate crimes can escalate pretty fast.

A perceived side-eye can erupt
into a lynching mob.

First fight I had started
with someone calling me a name

that my father had to explain to me.

- I didn't even know the guy.
- Point taken.

You and I will head up
to Hate Crimes Division.

Barnes, Kristin,
take Carrie's workplace.

We are looking for the connect,
if there is any,

between Carrie and her abductor.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

I almost didn't hire Carrie.

We upload premium content for children,

and her online presence is
inconsistent with our mission.

What do you mean? She writes mostly

about restaurant openings
and what she ate there.

Ah, that's because we scrubbed

her most recent history,
everything that denigrated

China's overhauling of Hong Kong.

Overhauling?

I've heard it called a takeover.

That's one of the words Carrie used.

She was born in Hong Kong.

The shutdown of the protests
spun her into overdrive.

The changes in their school curriculum,

the f*ring of civil servants...

- And she posted about it all?
- Yes.

She was very passionate.
And we can't have that here.

Our company partners with China.

Well, how can you be sure
she's still not posting?

Maybe under an alias.

I can manage my employees.

So you monitor their emails,
right, their personal emails?

So if her posts were inflammatory,

were there any death threats
made against her?

She did receive a fair amount
of hate mail.

Much of it in Mandarin.

She had a lot of enemies, then?

A whole country.

How often do victims of hate
crimes know their attackers?

The pattern we're seeing
in anti-Asian incidents

is that the more violent the crime,

the more likely the victim
doesn't know the offender.

Just this week,
a -year-old woman was stabbed

outside an H Mart
by some rando in the street

blaming her for the "China virus."

I've heard it called a lot of things.

Since COVID, we've seen a big increase

in crimes against Asian Americans.

And we only catch the violent cases.

We have no way of documenting
the countless microaggressions,

the drive-by "ching chong"
and nail salon jokes.

These are all the informants,
known actors,

and parolees connected to or suspected

of anti-Asian hate crimes in this area.

Any abductions prior to Carrie's?

- Completely honest here...
- [PHONE BUZZING]

Carrie Chen's kidnapping is one
of the worst-case scenarios

we thought could happen and
hoped like hell it wouldn't.

Go through these with Barnes.

Carrie's husband just landed.

Thank you, Arya.

My, uh, first flight was
canceled because the...

The crew never showed up.

Try to calm down if you can, Mr. Beck.

We all want to find your wife.

I can't believe this is happening.

Anything unusual happen
over the last few weeks?

Aggression towards you or your wife?

Yeah, yeah, sure,
but that's not unusual.

Look, I'm a white man
in a white neighborhood

married to an Asian woman, I mean...

Even before the pandemic...

well, I'll leave it to your
imagination what we were called.

And what about Carrie?

Yeah, she's been spit on,

she's been locked out of stores, but...

I don't... I don't know those people.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

You were at a conference,
is that correct?

Uh, a meeting.
I was... I was at a meeting.

And the meeting, what was it
about, who was it with?

Uh, Brice Lonner.

Uh, he runs R&D at ParGen.

You're meeting at their headquarters?

ParGen's one of the biggest
pharmaceuticals out there.

Well, they have
a small office in the city.

I didn't want to go to Boston.

My brother lives there,
so I was spending the night with him.

And the meeting, what was it about?

What does this have to do
with my wife missing? Please!

We have to get as much
information as we can.

Uh...

Look, they... they underwrite
some of the studies in my labs,

so I was just up there
looking at some equipment.

And you left yesterday morning?

Yeah, it was a four-day stay.
That was the plan.

I can't be away from my clinical trials

for longer than four days.

Is there a chance you were

looking forward to some time away?

I wanted her to come, she...
She just started a new job.

You're a busy couple.

♪

Our work schedule's
really normal for us.

But maybe she was unhappy.
Maybe she was having an affair,

and that's... and that's why
she was abducted.

Is that what you're trying to get at?

Do you suspect she may
have been having an affair?

- No, I don't.
- Were you?

♪

A, no, B, no time,

even if I wanted to, which I didn't.

And C, I was merely just playing out

a plausible scenario for you guys.

Look, I need an explanation for this...

For all of this!

We're looking for one.

[PHONE CHIMES, VIBRATES]

They want , for her.

It's Mercer County.

That's not too far from here.

Yeah, and that's, uh,
minutes from now.

All right, let me try
calling this number back,

though I'm sure it's a burner phone.

I'll see if we can
get approval on the money.

Uh, I... I have it.

The cash, I... I have it right here.

- Why?
- The pandemic.

Look, my wife was worried...
So was I, that the...

You know, the banks would close.

It's... it's just a variable
we planned for.

♪

We can't use your cash.
FBI bills are marked.

And we have a GPS tag in the bag...

Wait, how long will that take?

Castille's office, please.

We have an emergency reserve.

Where... That's New York!

That's, like, minutes from here.

- I'll have it brought here.
- No, no, none of the rules

you guys use can apply right now.

My wife is missing,
and I have the cash right here!

Listen, we do this,
we may never find the money.

But I will have my wife back.

♪

Please.

I'm willing to take that chance.

But you need to do
exactly as I tell you.

Anything.

♪

Take that out. There's that side.

You gotta take it back.

- Bring it.
- Come on, you pass.

- Come on, now.
- Come on, man.

Get the water bottle too.

Take that, take that,
take that, take that!

Come on!

[PARTYGOERS CHATTERING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

He's in the park.

I see him.

I may have something.

♪

That guy matches
the description of our suspect.

Got a black car pulling
into the lot right now.

Got two Asian males in black suits

heading in the direction of Stephen.

g*n. They've got a g*n.

I got the party covered. Barnes?

I got your back. Get down, get down.

Ortiz, cover those bad guys.
I got 'em, I got 'em.

Walk very quietly and calmly that way.

Clear back this way, please.

FBI, I need you to go to the back table.

Stay behind it, all right?

- FBI, drop your w*apon!
- Drop your w*apon!

♪

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

They're down.

Ortiz, stay with our suspect.

I got him.

Stop the car!

Stop the car! Stop!

[TIRES SQUEAL]

[POLICE SIRENS WAIL]

He's in a light blue Crown Vic,
license plate starts with C L.

I'm telling you. I'm sure.

I've never seen these guys before.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Stephen, you'll be escorted back home.

We'll have officers posted
at your house.

Here's your backpack.

[POLICE RADIO CHATTER]

Let's say the man you were on
was Carrie's abductor.

PD lost him in traffic.

He seemed to be operating
independently from the two sh**t.

Then why'd they converge
on the ransom money?

That's what we need to find out.

Thank you.

It's been almost hours
since Carrie was taken.

If most kidnapping victims are
m*rder*d in the first hours...

That means we have five hours
left to find her alive.

What we need to do is ID these two men.

[ZIPPER CLOSING]

Yao Li Hao and Huang Zan
entered the country

on two diplomatic passports.

They said they were
a chef and a chauffeur

for the Chinese Consulate.

What do two Chinese nationals
have to do with Stephen's

missing wife and the death
of one of her friends?

- And the Good Samaritan.
- Right.

Well, Stephen's been to China
a handful of times

since he and Carrie have been married.
Last time was in June.

He was granted a work visa
for a conference in Shanghai.

- A chemistry conference?
- Biochem.

Thalassemia and gene editing.
He presented a paper there.

Thalassemia is a blood disease,

inherited, usually fatal.

Must be the clinical trial
that he's running.

Doesn't seem like any of this
has anything to do with Carrie.

Why don't you two see if you
can find out what a chauffeur

and a chef have to do
with a chemistry professor?

Kristin, let's head to Princeton.

That's not my chauffeur.
And our chef is Wong Thai Ping.

He has been for many years.

You're sayin' you don't know these men?

I don't. I'm sorry.

Well, they entered the country
on two diplomatic passports.

Hundreds of those are issued every year.

Only our government knows to whom.

Well, there must
be record of them on file

if these documents are legit.

I'll send these passport
numbers over immediately.

But if there is no record of them,

if these are forged documents,

then these are invisible men.

They're not invisible men.

They're two bodies unclaimed
in the morgue.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

Candidly, our resources are roughly

the same as yours right now.

In essence, dealing with
our state departments.

Despite our best efforts,
people enter the country

on fake passports all the time.

These are really good fakes.

One can make anything in China.

♪

Stephen's like the kid
who won the cakewalk.

Everyone wants a piece of what he's got.

We only won him with
the golden lasso of tenure.

Can you help us understand
what it is that he does?

The short answer
is that he can cure blindness.

- Seriously?
- Yeah.

As long as it's congenital
and not environmental,

though we're working on that too.

This is a CRISPR lab.

And CRISPR fixes typos
in the genetic code,

- is that right?
- Yeah, yeah, that's right.

It allows us to go in and
write over so-called mistakes.

So the example I always like to use is,

if you're typing "hello"
and you spell it H-E-T-L-O,

we can go in and change the T to an I.

In fact, that's what that
machine right there is doing.

And... and which typo
is Stephen trying to fix?

A blood disease, thalassemia.

It reduces the amount of oxygen
in the body.

It presents as anemia at first,
but it can be fatal.

Prevalent in the Asian community.

He presented the first results
of his clinical trial

in Shanghai this past year.

You have the dates he was there?

Yeah.

So Stephen's Shanghai
conference was four days.

Barnes just confirmed
his visa was for ten.

That's a long time to go
sightseeing on a business trip.

- Yeah.
- So Stephen's got

unaccounted for days in China,

two unidentified Chinese men
tailing him...

Armed Chinese men, and grand in cash.

Yeah.

You know, I've got
an old friend in the CIA

who might be able to help with this.

We think Stephen could be a spy.

Think he could be working for
the Chinese Communist Party.

We don't know for sure,
but he's been on our radar

for the last two years.

That's about when he started
his current clinical trial.

Mm-hmm. Telling that he presented

the results in Shanghai, ain't it?

Chinese have been working
their own CRISPR magic.

Almost in tandem.

So it's a race.

The work that Stephen does

eighty-sixes the development
of congenital diseases.

Okay, so his lab explained
to us how that works,

how blood is taken from an individual,

CRISPR-ized in Stephen's lab,

reintroduced back into the patient

where it replicates, repairing the body.

But what if you could bypass all that?

Make it so the person never
got sick in the first place.

CRISPR becomes God technology.

Exactly.

Yeah, but we're already doing that.

One of my new colleagues
has an IVF baby,

another one on the way.

Well, I mean, we're allowed
to create embryos.

We're just not allowed
to tinker with 'em here.

And no such law exists in China.

Nominally, sure it does.

But there's already been two babies born

who are HIV immune and they're thriving,

and there could be more.

This is an expression
of my genetic code.

My preternatural disposition
toward spirits.

Now, you CRISPR-ize me way back when,

and you turn this alcohol
into amm*nit*on.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

They're building an army?

We don't have any proof,

but these would be super soldiers...

Enhanced eyesight,
increased muscularity,

rapid response time.

Stephen's research could let the PLA

engineer people who have higher
oxygen content in their blood.

Lance Armstrong without the doping.

Except this would
be a generation of soldiers.

All these modifications
all get passed down.

[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Here you go.

Guessing our DOD's all over this?

No idea about that.

- If Stephen is an asset...
- Potential asset.

Carrie could have been
abducted to coerce him.

Also could explain the
welcome committee at the park.

We need to talk to him again.

Local PD has him at his house.

♪

I got two officers down.

Damn it!

That front door's open.

Barnes, you're with me.

Clear.

- Clear.
- Clear.

Stephen's gone.

Only sign of a struggle's in here.

Looks like his backpack's missing.

With the ransom money in it?

Let's get ERT here now.

[HAGGARD BREATHING]

- Stephen!
- Sweetheart.

Are you all right?

You see what you made me do?

Who are you?

Yes, good.

I have your attention now.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

It's been roughly hours
since Carrie's abduction.

since Stephen's.

No more ransom demands,
but I doubt we'll get one

if Stephen's working
for the Chinese government.

I'm stuck on something though.

Why lure Stephen to the park?

When he was abducted
from his home anyway.

I'm with you.

It doesn't add up.

Okay, so we've been to his home.

We've been to his lab.

We haven't talked to whoever
he had his meeting with

the day his wife was taken.

His name's Brice Lonner.

ParGen has deep pockets,
endless resources.

They'd have to want Stephen's technology

bad enough to kidnap him.

Someone obviously does.

[PHONES CHIMING]

ERT got an ID on Stephen's abductor.

Trace amounts of blood
were left on the broken lamp.

He must've fought back.

Rodney Harlock, .

Height, weight, fits the description
of the guy who took Carrie.

This could be our unsub.

No history of employment.
He's been in and out of jail

for theft and carjacking.

Lucky he's in the system at all.

Kristin, you're on ParGen.

Think a pharmaceutical
company's gonna come clean

about a double kidnapping
involving a potential asset?

You never know.
You're a very charming person.

Barnes, Ortiz,

hit up Rodney's last known address.

[GRUNTS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

- Clear.
- Clear.

- This looks like my place.
- Does it smell like this?

[LAUGHS] I keep my workouts in the gym.

Well, maybe Rodney doesn't
have that luxury.

Look.

I'll get this sent over to CART.

I don't think we'll find a digital trail

that leads us back to the Chinese.

Maybe he's a g*n for hire.

All right, we got cargo shorts,

T-shirt with a stain on it,

and a back brace.

- Work clothes?
- Thought he wasn't working.

Well, maybe he gets paid in cash.

Maybe.

- Either way...
- Doesn't look like the kind

of person China would hire
to kidnap a scientist.

No. Not at all.

- Thank you.
- Of course.

It's awful what's going on.

I'm sorry for Stephen...
And his wife too.

He said he was meeting
with you about a lab grant.

That was part of it, sure.

It's how we got him
on a plane to Boston,

but we've been courting him
for lots of reasons.

Such as his CRISPR research?
Is that what you're after?

Stephen turned us down,
along with every other Big Pharma.

He thinks it's a conflict of interest

and we should stay out of academia.

Said his brain isn't for sale,
neither is his work.

So you'll move on to someone else?

No, no, there's no one like Stephen.

We were hoping to mass market
his cure for thalassemia.

But his research depends on a
patient's blood being scrubbed

and put back into their bodies,
so how do you mass market that?

Well, we believe it can
be used for other purposes,

blood thinners, for example.

But his clinical trial
is for a congenital disease.

Our goal is to eradicate that disease.

And how far are you willing
to go for that?

- Do you have kids, Ms. Gaines?
- Two.

And I'm sure
you'd do everything possible

to keep them safe and healthy?

So what if you could start
at the beginning,

before they're even born,

and eliminate the chance
of certain diseases?

Well, embryonic gene splicing
is illegal in this country.

It is now, but laws change all the time.

Yeah, especially when you have

powerful lobbyists on your side.

This research is currently
happening in mice and rats.

What we do there will help keep
our children safe and healthy.

That's all ParGen wants to do.

That and make billions
of dollars in the process.

[CHUCKLES]

This is America.

Yeah.

ParGen could easily be behind
Stephen's abduction.

I don't buy it. It sounds too Hollywood.

Rodney Harlock is a good
person to hire as a middleman.

It's hard to connect the dots
between the two.

Same is true if Stephen's a spy, right?

CCP could have hired Harlock to
abduct both Stephen and Carrie.

Well, who's to say ParGen isn't
working with or for the Chinese?

So what are we missing here?
Do we have this backwards?

Is Carrie the intended target after all?

She did speak up against the
Chinese takeover of Hong Kong.

On Instagram,
not in "The New York Times."

We looked into her family,
came up with nothing.

[PHONE RINGING]

'Scuse me.

Hey. Is now a good time?

- Now's as good a time as any.
- How are you?

Your case has been on the news nonstop.

If I stop to think how tired I am,

it just makes me more tired.

I wish there was something
I could do from here.

Thanks.

How's things with you and Tali?

Is it still Arctic
between the two of you?

Well, she made me a peace offering

plate of eggs and toast
before she left this morning.

Well, that's nice, right?

No, Jess, it's because
she wants something.

She says there's this
study group at Daniel's today

after school and she won't
be home till after dinner.

- I don't think she should go.
- Why?

Well, because she's grounded

and I feel like she might be lying.

I don't think so.
If she says she's gonna study,

I think it's fine to go.

Even with everything that's going on?

I have to trust what she says.

- What's up?
- Just got a call from the lab.

Stephen Beck broke in last night.

I got to go.

Hopefully I'll be home sometime soon.

- Sure.
- See you.

This was : a.m.

This footage can't leave
the lab for security reasons,

but a protocol was completed
at Stephen's station.

He's nervous.

No one's with him.

He doesn't seem to be under duress.

Well, maybe he wasn't
kidnapped after all.

You suggesting
he k*lled those cops and ran?

K and the backpack
weren't at the house.

Maybe he took it with him.

[TENSE MUSIC]

Hmm.

♪

Could we see it again?

[KEYBOARD CLACKING]

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

Doesn't seem natural, does it?

Oh, he knows where that camera is.

He's turning the monitor deliberately.

[KEYBOARD CLACKS]

Sam Zhao.

Could that be a patient
in his thalassemia trial?

No, there are only eight participants

and I know them all by heart.

He clearly wants the blood.

The question is why,
and where is he taking it?

Are you sure you want to do this?

There are no more options.

I've tried them all.

Blood transfusion, bone marrow, chemo...

Chemo is why we couldn't
admit him into my study and...

We were told my son...

My son...

Fell outside the parameters of
inclusion because of his age.

That too.

I never look at the individual patients.

Just the datapoints for entry.

Look at him!

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

Can I confide in you?

Yeah.

I'm afraid.

I'm as afraid as you are right now.

I see how exhausted you are,

how hard you've already fought,
but right now,

we're both afraid of the same thing...

How this will go, where it may lead.

Right now, Sam is stable,

but this could trigger seizures that...

That will be far more painful
than what he's feeling

right now, and it might not even work.

There's a chance that it could.

That's all I'm asking you to do.

Just give us that chance.

Do it.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

[WEAKLY] Dad?

Hey. This man is here to help you.

Later. I'm tired.

♪

What does Dave Grohl never miss?

An encore.

[LAUGHS SOFTLY]

Does he need to be awake?

Or can he keep sleeping?

We had a long night.

Yeah.

We all did.

[SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪

I got something.

I'm tapped into the campus
external video feeds.

Here's a cargo van entering and
exiting the lot early this morning.

- Let's see.
- Stephen must've

logged everyone
who applied for his study.

I can access that for you.

It's possible that Sam Zhao
didn't make the cut.

Okay, the van belongs
to a moving company,

Essex Quality Move.

- Uh, company owner, Frank Zhao.
- That's Sam's father.

Let's get the family's
address and let's move.

I want an ambulance there when we land.

Thank you.

What do you want to do with them?

[SIGHS]

Who?

What do you mean, who? Those two.

What did you think was gonna happen?

You're gonna walk away
after all this is over?

Well, no one was supposed to get k*lled.

We can't let them go.

They'll go straight to the cops.

I know, and I'm prepared for that.

Because my son will be alive

and that's all that matters to me.

Yeah? Not to me.

I sh*t two cops. I'll die in prison.

Then you handle it,
whatever you want to do.

- I want money.
- You have the K.

- Like I promised.
- More money.

Situation has changed, Frank.

Well, I don't have it, Rodney.

Well, get it!

You're not being reasonable.

[MONITOR ALARM RINGS]

- Hey!
- Get off me!

Hey! Hey! Hey!

I told you.

I want more money!

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

It's Rodney.

[MONITOR ALARM RINGING]

You gave him something fake.

- Some kind of placebo!
- I promise you, I didn't.

His body's reacting,

doesn't recognize his own blood.

We're with the FBI. Lower your g*n.

Frank, put your w*apon down.

We have an ambulance on the way.

We may have to intubate.

You're here just to keep our son alive!

Frank.

Lower your w*apon.

You're a good dad, Frank.

You'll do whatever it takes
to keep your son alive.

Right now we need to get Sam
to a hospital, okay?

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

But you'll take him away from me.

[WHISPERING] No.

I'm gonna put my w*apon down, okay?

All right?

I want to talk to you father to father.

Sometimes it seems like the worst
thing you can do is love your kid.

It'd be so much easier
if you didn't feel that...

That pull, that...

That makes us do things we'd never do.

But that's love, I guess.

Love for your child...

that makes us the craziest of all.

Desperate...

when we can't protect them.

[MONITOR FLATLINES]

- He's not breathing.
- [SOBS]

♪

[GRUNTING]

Sam's illness isn't your fault.

But he got it from me.

Yeah, but did you know you had it?

[MONITOR FLATLINING]

No.

So would you have had him
if you did know that?

[CHOKING UP] Yes.

Can you forgive yourself?

[SOFTLY] I don't know.

- He's back.
- But he's still not stable.

[MONITOR BEEPING]

You decide how this one ends, Frank.

[BREATHING SHAKILY]

Frank, enough.

[SIRENS WAILING DISTANTLY]

Frank.

[MUFFLED] Dad?

Come on.

It's okay.

That's it, give me the g*n. Come on.

- In here!
- I'm sorry.

It's all right. Listen to me.

Whatever happens next, you're
a father who loves his son.

- [HANDCUFFS CLICKING]
- That's all that matters.

My wife.

- Baby.
- [MUFFLED CRY]

- Baby, we're safe, we're safe.
- [PANTING]

Are you okay?

- Yeah.
- Oh, I'm so glad.

I'm so glad you're okay.

[CRYING] I was so scared.

I didn't think I'd ever get out of here.

I thought I'd never see you again.

It's okay. We're safe now.

[SOBBING]

♪

You see that ring she's wearing?

Are you talking about the
wedding ring or the jade ring?

The jade ring.

Stephen had it made for her in China.

That's what he was doing there
those extra few days in June.

It was a birthday present,
supposed to be a surprise.

Supposed to be?

Well, he told her
the minute he got back.

You know, I don't think
that guy's much of a spy.

No, my friend in the CIA
didn't have the whole picture,

but he did reiterate
that he wants a piece

of Stephen's brain,
Stephen's very valuable brain.

That explains the guys in the park.

Yeah, they were watching him
for months, saw an opportunity.

You know, I understand
what Frank did for his son.

I mean, not the way that he did it,

but if it were Tali...

[SIGHS]

You know, when Tali was little,
she would have tantrums.

I'm talking really little.

And she would kick and scream
and kick and scream.

The harder she kicked
and the louder she screamed,

the tighter I would hold her and...

[CHUCKLING] The storm would pass.

Harder now, isn't it?

It's different now.

But yeah.

You are ruining my life!

- I cannot believe you!
- Please stop yelling.

You don't even know what you did!

- I know exactly what I did.
- No, you don't.

I do.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.
What the hell's going on?

She dragged me out of Daniel's house

in front of all my friends.

- I didn't drag you.
- Yes, you did.

And now they're all gonna think
that I'm the huge baby.

- We were just studying.
- Tali, don't lie.

There were six kids there.
The parents were not home.

I saw some of the boys with beers.

- You are not my mother!
- Tali!

When will you understand that?

Hey, where do you think you're going?

Outside. Anywhere away from her.

[DOOR SLAMS]

It's going great.

You were right.

- Yeah, I was.
- I'm sorry.

I should've listened to you
and talked to her myself.

You'd have to be home to do that.

Ouch.

That came out wrong.

Did it?

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

I love Tali.

I do, I just wish
that you were here more.

I understand.
You don't feel like a priority.

I mean, I'm not.

[SIGHS]

Tali's my daughter.

I'm sorry, but...

Nothing comes before her.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I did not mean that.

I mean, she's your priority.

She should always be your priority.

And I know that
I've never been a parent,

and I know I've never had kids,
but if this is gonna work,

if I'm gonna stay here
and be responsible for her,

then...

but I need you to help me out.

Maybe just trust me
as much as you trust her.

- I do trust you.
- Do you?

Yes, a hell of a lot more
than I trust her.

I don't... I don't need that.

[LAUGHING] Come here.

[SIGHS]

Oy.

It's hard. [CHUCKLES]

Thank you for everything that you do.

You're doing a great job.

I'm probably doing a terrible job.

- According to Tali.
- No, no, no.

According to Tali,
you're doing too good a job.

You're not afraid of the newness.

You're running right towards it.

I'm trying.

I love that about you...
That you're fearless.

Cheers.

What else do you love about me?

Hm?

Hm?

I love the way you are in the ring...

- Uh-huh.
- With the students.

- Your confidence.
- Okay.

But?

But what?

[SCOFFS LIGHTLY]

Do you love me?

Yeah. I do.

♪

[WOLF HOWLS]