04x03 - Into the White

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Previously on Covert Affairs...

My name is Calder Michaels, and I'm the station chief here in Medellin.

So you're like the sheriff this here town?

What were you doing trying to access my accounts?

You're the Puma?

My friends call me Teo.

Arthur, I know Teo is your son.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have engaged in an extramarital affair.

I am resigning my post, effective immediately.

I'm here for you.

Is that invitation for dinner still open tonight?

I want to search Seth Newman's house.

[Grunts]

[Tires squeal]

[Struggling]

[Grunts]

[Yells]

I need you to go back down to Colombia as soon as possible.

The ALC is planning an att*ck on American interests.

Teo Braga is behind it.

Are you asking me to k*ll him?

I need absolute honesty, Arthur.

I know I'm not your boss anymore, Annie, but that doesn't mean you can make demands.

I'm trying to help you, and there are a lot of gaps to fill.

Have you told Joan about Teo?

Yes.

Are the two of you on speaking terms?

That's personal.

Well, I need to know if you can work together on actionable intel.

Is there something to act on?

[Door opening]

Were you followed?

Of course not.

Annie.

What's going on?

Joan, thank you for coming.

I needed to speak to you both together.

You said it was time-sensitive.

I just received this from Henry Wilcox.

It's intel that suggests Teo may be involved in a b*mb thr*at against an American target in Colombia.

A total lie.

I'll get this to South America desk, loop in the CTC and out to the stations right away.

Wait, you're moving on this?

It's a b*mb thr*at, Arthur.

No, it's my son.

If Teo's done nothing wrong, he has no reason to fear the hunt.

Unless the hunt blows his cover.

What cover?

First you tell her about your son before you tell me, then you fail to tell her everything when she actually needs to hear it.

There's a possibility that Teo really is involved in the b*mb plot, but it doesn't mean he's a t*rror1st.

He's an undercover operative inside ALC.

That's what the payments were for.

Why didn't you just tell me?

I had a responsibility to protect his mission.

I told you before that Teo's mom d*ed.

It was an ALC b*mb.

As Teo grew older, he-- he became obsessed with the idea of revenge.

And the only way he could get next to the man was to join ALC himself.

It was a bold and dangerous move, one I begged him not to make, but, well, he was adamant.

We trained him off book.

Teo learned quickly. He became a double inside ALC, all while pursuing the man who k*lled his mother.

Two years ago he finally found him.

ALC viewed the k*lling as a power move.

Teo eliminating one of his rivals.

He earned respect.

But he started missing dead drops, he'd fall out of touch for weeks at a time, and now he's...

Well, he's virtually off the radar.

You think he's gone rogue?

No, I think he's working his cover.

That assumes he hasn't turned.

He wouldn't be the first deep cover Op to lose his moral compass.

He cut off all contact with you.

Or it could mean he needs help and he can't reach me.

That's a father talking, not a handler.

I believe in him.

He's still working his mission, and he'll protect his cover at whatever cost.

He still knows true north.

So what's the plan?

We treat him like an operative who wants to come in from the cold?

Yes. I'll give you the exfiltration protocols.

Make contact, get him to a safe facility in Panama.

I'll meet you there.

You still have access to a safe facility?

You do. I can get a plane ticket.

Joan?

We'll still actively pursue any leads on a b*mb thr*at.

I can keep this part of the mission separate from the larger investigation for two days.

That's all you get.

Thank you.

Don't thank me. Thank Annie.

Thank you, Annie.

I'll see you in Panama.

Did you talk to Joan about Seth?

It didn't come up.

Which is another way of saying I couldn't bring myself to talk about it.

I can talk with her.

Thanks.

I'm sorry. I know that won't be a fun conversation.

It's okay.

Is that what's bothering you?

I think Arthur's asking you for too much.

It was my idea.

It was your idea to share the intel with them.

The rest is Arthur calling in a favor.

It's not a favor.

It's my job to help a fellow operative.

I don't see Teo as a fellow anything.

I don't like him, and I don't think Arthur's capable of seeing him clearly.

Well, that's what this assessment is for.

I know.

But you can still take this.

It masks which cell towers you bounce off so it is totally untraceable and secure.

It's my new prototype. You're the only one who has it.

I love it.

Hey, while you're in the mood to give gifts...

You just packed my favorite T-shirt, didn't you?

I was hoping you'd think it was in the wash.

And then I felt bad.

Both: [Laugh]

It's okay.

You can take it... on one condition.

Promise you'll bring it back.

I promise.

♪ Covert Affairs 04x03 ♪
Into the White
Original Air Date on July 30, 2013

[Speaks spanish]

[Speaks spanish]

[Speaks spanish]

Hmm?

Both: [Speaking spanish]

Mm, hmm.

Both: [Speaking spanish]

[Whistles]

[Knocks]

As head of the DPD, you are responsible for monitoring threats on American soil.

Is that correct?

It is.

We all reviewed the intelligence surrounding Jai Wilcox's death.

We also read a closed file about an unnamed operative who was sh*t in her house here in Washington.

Those events were both terrible tragedies.

They haunt me.

And they motivate me to be smarter in preventing future ones.

That's very noble.

And it makes sense that you'd only want us to look forward.

I'm not sure I understand.

Well, a look at your past is very troubling.

Forgive me, Senator, but--

Your path at the agency is one that Arthur Campbell cleared for you so you tell me why you think you'd even be sitting here today if it weren't for your husband.

I've built my own department.

Cultivated my own operatives.

All of my successes at the Agency have been entirely my own.

So you stand behind your choices.

I do.

Your judgment is strong.

It is.

And yet you didn't know that your husband was having an affair.

No.

So you tell us, would you trust a spy to identify threats against the nation when she can't identify threats against her own marriage?

Eric.

Hi, Joan.

What brings you to the hill?

My Q and A with the Senate Intelligence Committee.

You're up for the DCS job too.

Yeah.

This won't be awkward, will it?

No. Good luck.

Thanks.

Oh, how'd it go in there?

It went well.

Good.

Auggie.

We okay to talk?

Yeah. I'm good.

I'm sorry, Joan, but this isn't gonna be easy to hear.

Well, rip off the band-aid, Auggie, my armor is strong these days.

Henry has moles inside Langley.

Yeah, I know. I saw the file he gave Annie.

And Annie just discovered that Seth Newman was one of them.

How?

She overheard Seth conspiring with Henry.

What do you mean "was"? "Seth was one of them"?

He att*cked Annie two days ago.

She had to act in self-defense.

I'm sorry, Joan.

Where's the body?

We don't know.

Somewhere in the Potomac.

Where did the att*ck happen?

It started at Seth's place.

And did Annie go back and wipe the scene?

There wasn't time.

But don't worry, I'm gonna figure something out.

Well, who's gonna do it?

Annie can't. You can't.

We can't trust any CIA cleaner who might be in bed with Henry.

I mean, it has to be me.

No, Joan--

I know his place.

I've been there.

It's a huge risk.

There's no other way.

End of discussion.

[Gasps]

What are you doing?

I'm returning your dead drop to you.

It's an Agency-vetted exit package.

Just leave me alone.

Teo, there's intel linking you to a b*mb plot.

Arthur thinks if we could just talk for a minute--

Not now.

Why not?

Teo, just give me a minute.

Go home.

Wha?

Teo.

[Phone rings]

Annie.

Well, that didn't go well.

You didn't get the GPS thread on him.

No, I did, but my version of the meeting going well was not needing to geolocate him.

What was your read?

He's locked in damage control.

He sees anything new as a thr*at, even when it's a lifeline.

So you think he still can be saved?

Auggie, I know how you feel about him, but he has all the markings of an operative that doesn't know how to come home.

I will happily be wrong if it means Henry's intel is too, but how you gonna get him to leave with you if he won't even speak to you?

His cover is an ALC t*rror1st, right?

So we treat him like one.

If you're saying what I think you're saying...

I won't go in alone.

To be discussed further.

I'll text you as soon as he lands somewhere.

Thank you.

Hi, I have patch code 45-9-633.

Can you connect me to Yellowstone?

[Beeps]

[Beeps]

[Whooshes]

Hey, I got your text.

Has Teo moved?

Nope, he's still at the coordinates I sent so I ran the location through a couple of satellites.

Is the terrain urban or jungle?

Way outta town.

Can you tell me the people that are inside with him?

Yeah, we got a couple of hits on some heat signatures.

My best guess would be about a dozen other bodies.

Well, that's less than I thought.

Annie, you don't have to go in there.

You are well within your rights to tell Arthur it's not worth the risk.

Auggie, like I said before, I'm going in with the best team around.

Who?

[Sighs]

The sheriff.

Annie?

I'll call you back.

Why does no one like to give me the heads up when you're in town?

I'm giving you the heads up personally.

I came right away.

You've been here for 12 hours.

Is that your idea of "right away"?

I came here to help you.

I've got an ALC att*ck to stop, and Langley decides to send the one officer whose ass I had to save the last time she was down here.

What if that officer also knows the location of an ALC stronghold?

Bullshit. I'm calling bullshit.

I'm serious.

I'll give you the credit for the win.

You can capture the intel and the personnel.

All I want is Teo Braga.

How could you have possibly found something that my nation-wide network of assets hasn't?

I planted a silver ion thread on him that directs to a block 3 satellite every four seconds.

How did you get close enough to plant a thread?

It's not relevant.

Teo Braga is a known t*rror1st who is implicated in a b*mb thr*at, so if you got within one foot of him, yeah, that's relevant.

Do you want the location to the stronghold or not?

You know I do.

You run the raid, I get Teo.

We have a deal?

Sure. What the hell.

Annie's about to walk into an ALC stronghold.

Are you aware of that?

Come on in. Keep your voice down.

You told me I couldn't read her in, but the second your son is involved, you turn right around and tell her yourself.

What exactly are you objecting to?

That you weren't the one delivering the brief?

You compromised my operative's trust in me.

Oh, Annie understands the meaning of "need to know."

I am her handler, Arthur.

Trust between us is paramount.

You are her boyfriend, and trust between you is paramount.

Yes, I am, and, yes, it is.

Annie is taking huge risks to repair your shortcomings.

I make no apologies for having objections to that.

Annie is a highly-trained operative with a good metric for risk/reward and an inability to walk away from actionable intelligence.

No, she couldn't walk away from you.

You preyed on her sense of loyalty.

If you want to yell at me because you can't be totally open with your girlfriend, fine.

It has nothing to do with the mission.

Forgive me if I don't want to take relationship advice from you right now, Arthur.

Oh, I am exactly the one you should be taking it from.

If you can't live with secrets, you shouldn't be dating a spy.

I'll take that under advisement.

Don't ask me to keep things from her again.

I won't do it.

Done one of these things before?

I've been in a tough spot before, but I'm not gonna insult you by saying this is the same thing.

Surprise is your friend, and maybe your only friend.

But that goes away in 20 seconds.

So whatever you have to do, you have to do-- in 20 seconds.

Yeah, and what are we doing?

I thought we were going to an ALC stronghold to get Teo Braga.

There's that word again. "Get."

It's a tricky word, isn't it?

How so?

I studied German growing up on the base.

And their words are very specific, and I hear you're good with languages.

'Cause you know the power of the right word.

You wanna "get" Teo Braga, meaning interrogate him, lock him up, or put a b*llet in his head?

Would it be a horrible spy cliche if I said my interest in him is classified?

Yes.

Well, I want him captured alive.

Alive is the toughest option.

Well, that's why I came to you.

You're the only CIA man in Colombia with the resources and the expertise to pull it off.

That's your specialty, isn't it?

Identify someone's weakness and then you twist.

You twist a wire. You turn an asset.

To the asset it feels the same.

Sometimes you can turn a man to your side, but sometimes you have to recognize that he is lost and that choice, that decision, is the real work we do.

Lots of people can smile sweetly and seduce someone with what they want to hear.

But is your judgment solid enough to recognize whether you should even waste the words?

Calder, we're on the same team.

We want the same thing.

I said I'd help you get Teo, whatever that means.

And I will.

[Cocks g*n]

The rest remains to be seen.

[People chattering]

Six.

Remember. 20 seconds.

Stay behind me.

[People chattering]

Compadres!

[Various shouting in spanish]

[g*nf*re]

Raw materials.

[Grunts]

Stay down! Stay down!

[Speaks spanish]

[Speaking spanish]

We got him!

No!

That's not him.

[Grunting]

Calder!

Don't! Don't!

[Grunts]

This one's ours now.

You had 200 pounds of cemtex, Mr. Braga.

That's enough to level a ten-story building.

Tell us which building.

What was your target?

Okay.

Your silence is a choice.

And it's an aggressive one.

[Exhales]

[Coughs]

I'll be honest.

I wanted you to die in that jungle.

And even though that's true, I'm still the guy that you should talk to.

[Grunts]

Come on.

No? Oh, there you go. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

[Exhales]

[Metal clatters]

[Faucet pours]

What was your target?

Hey.

Give me a minute to talk to him.

Guess I could use a cup of coffee.

You can go too.

Wait outside.

He can kick out five feet, so stay back at least six.

Teo, it's just you and me.

Your father told me how highly classified your mission is, so I didn't want to do anything to compromise your cover.

What the hell are you talking about?

Teo... It's okay. I know who you are.

Tell me what the ALC target is, and I think I can get you out of here.

Really?

Yeah.

[Speaks spanish]

[Spits]

Hey, it's Annie. I need your help.

I'm here.

I'm at site 6412-Foxtrot with Teo Braga.

We found a cache of b*mb-making materials at his stronghold.

Were you able to speak to him alone?

Yes. He was combative in response to questioning.

[Sighs]

I hate to admit this, Joan, but I think Henry's intel might bear out.

So what do you need?

What are the parameters for using extraordinary measures?

Well, you have a thr*at on an American target and a combative prisoner.

That's what extraordinary measures were made for.

But this is Arthur's son.

I know, let me handle Arthur.

You just work your mission.

Thank you.

Annie.

Yeah.

I know what happened on the bridge.

Joan, I'm sorry.

No, I'm sorry you had to experience that, but I need you to know you don't need to worry.

Do you understand?

I do.

You have my support on whatever you need.

Thank you.

[Grunting]

Teo!

What the hell?

Walker!

Teo!

Calder, I need you to stop for one second and take a look at something.

That was the guy you thought you could turn, huh?

You should've let me sh**t him.

Royce.

Calder?

Where's that ambulance?

We'll need four units at RNI.

I have an idea.

I'm in the middle of cleaning up your last idea.

I know what Teo's target is.

Yeah?

So right before he almost k*lled my guard he decided to spill his guts to you?

No, he didn't say anything.

This is a brochure for the Jardin Nacional Hotel.

Solstar executives are coming into town for a meeting there today.

Look.

There are laptops full of intel in here.

You do not know for sure that this meeting is the target.

Maybe he saw a gap in our security and pounced, but maybe he was extra motivated to find that gap, because he has an att*ck to complete.

Are you gonna wait around to find out?

I hope you have a b*mb squad.

Units five and six, bring around the trucks and get Antonio on the phone.

I still do not trust your ass.

[Gavel bangs]

Good afternoon, Mrs. Campbell.

Are you ready to make your official statement?

Yes, and I've brought some accompanying materials, if that's all right.

Please.

Thank you.

There you go.

I hope you take my candidacy seriously, Senator Pierson.

I've dedicated my life to serving the Central Intelligence Agency.

Yes.

[Chuckles]

I'm--I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to recuse myself.

Senator Pierson, is everything all right?

Yes. Yes.

Excuse me, please.

May we begin?

Listen up. Regular reports from everyone.

Unit five, sweep for the target.

Unit six, secure the premises.

Let's go.

Sorry for kicking you.

CIA black sites are wired to the gills.

I couldn't admit my cover on the record.

So all of a sudden you admit to being an undercover operative?

After you refused every attempt I made to help you?

I had a mission to complete.

Is that why you almost k*lled one of the guards escaping from the facility?

I know exactly what I did to him.

I know that four blows to the head and not five will be the difference between the hospital and death.

And that's my position.

The only way to defeat them is to become one of them.

I need you to put down the r*fle.

I can't do that.

[Tires squeal]

Who are you trying to k*ll, Teo?

Just leave me alone or something very bad will happen.

I can't let you k*ll anyone.

Put down the r*fle.

I'll sh**t you.

If you sh**t me, good people will die.

You can trust me.

Don't do it, Teo.

Do you trust me?

[g*nsh*t]

[g*nsh*t]

Here. Look.

Those are Solstar executives.

[People shouting]

Who's the man you sh*t?

His name is Pedro. Pedro Mendez-Bara.

One of ALC's most devoted.

He could've k*lled the entire delegation.

What's the ALC gonna think?

That the CIA has the best sn*pers in the world and they caught up to us.

And now the CIA is specifically hunting you.

Every man from the local station chief to the ex-DCS, a man named Henry Wilcox.

I am familiar with the man.

I read that the ALC is trying to go global.

I believe that's your idea.

I think it's time for the Puma to take it there...

With help.

I'm not looking for a partner, darling.

I think I've earned it.

This is the second time I've saved your life.

Deciding not to k*ll someone is not the same as saving them.

Yes, it is.

Here.

Every time this phone rings, I want you to answer it.

It's untraceable.

Ask any tech, they'll confirm it.

Take it.

What's the catch?

You gotta give me something.

A real piece of intel.

A win for you to show off back at the Agency?

It's not for them. It's for me.

So I know we have a pact.

Wendy and Xu Chen.

Two Chinese nationals leaving D.C. who move billions of dollars for organizations like ALC.

They moved the money for that dead guy and his b*mb.

We'll be in touch.

[People chattering]

Where you been?

Just combing the perimeter.

You see anyone over there?

No.

Sorry.

So some mysterious gunman kills a guy out of nowhere.

Apparently.

I've been trying to sort it out myself.

Really?

Because I have a nagging suspicion that you have it all sorted out already.

It was a pleasure working with you.

I got a plane to catch.

[Knock at door]

The gifts have been pouring in.

There you are.

Thank you.

Can I just say that it's such an honor to be working for the first woman to be DCS?

I feel like I'm part of CIA history.

And I suppose we are.

Anyways, thank you.

I'm excited to get started.

[Airplane whooshing]

You're alone.

Sorry, Arthur.

You couldn't get him out of the black site?

He got out.

Then what?

He took the exit package and left on his own.

So he refused to see me.

He's leaving Colombia. He's going deeper.

He even gave us a new piece of intel.

You were right, Arthur, he still knows true north.

We succeeded, Arthur.

Okay.

Thank you.

We should take separate routes home.

[Speaks spanish]

Gracias.

You wanna ride home with me?

Oh, as long as I get the window seat.

You're not calling from the phone I gave you.

It's a long story.

I've got time.

You think I was crazy to let him go?

It's okay, you can say it.

I think you were bold.

And boldness is rewarded in our business, but what are you gonna tell Henry?

I'll think of something.

It looks like we pushed this cheap little battery as far as it can go.

Save the last bit. I'll see you soon.

[Knocks]

Hi.

Hi.

Can I have my T-shirt back now?

[Laughs]