05x09 - The Litvinov Ruse

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Saul: Previously on Homeland...

You ever been in a w*r zone?

Didn't think so.

There's a line between us that you drew.

Forget that-- it's a f*cking wall.

Stay on our own sides of it, okay?

Now, listen-- you represent the greatest penetration of American intelligence in f*cking history.

You have two choices.

Either we turn you back over to the CIA or maybe I can get you to Israel.

I can't do it.

Welcome to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

That bad, huh?

Worse. Sit.

What I need is two weeks in the West Indies.

Saint Lucia.

There's a little bar on a beach.

Banana Joe's.

Best daiquiris on the planet.

You cannot take weapons into Syria.

What weapons?

(grunts)

Saul.

You have to go.

Tovah made a deal with Dar Adal.

He's on his way to get you.

Come, come, this way.

Did you find the man you were looking for?

Not exactly, but I have his laptop.

Carrie.

I'm in Ahmed's computer.

What just happened?

Just a screen saver.

Push the space bar. That'll get rid of it.

Allison: There's a little bar... Banana Joe's. Best daiquiris on the planet.

Allison.

(woman speaking German)

Carrie: Christ, I really thought I left all this behind.

Male reporter: The Islamic State !sis proclaimed itself to be a worldwide caliphate with authority over...

...redraw the map in the Middle East.

Female reporter: The soldiers are hackers, the b*ttlefield is online, and it's not a matter of...

Edward Snowden is a coward.

...extremely disappointed that the Russian government would take this step.

Laura: It's against the law, it's against the f*cking law.

Carrie: All that suffering, and nothing changes.

Crocker: Is our strategy working?

(woman speaking German)

(phone disconnect signal beeps)

(woman speaking German)

(man speaking foreign language)

Saul: I actually convinced myself we were gonna change the world.

Quinn: Carrie will never be free.

Carrie: Spend my life on the run, give up my daughter?

Jonas: I don't know how you live with yourself.

Al-Amin: I will fight you forever.

Carrie: Who's after me?

Jonas: So many people, so much blood on your hands.

Homeland - 5x09
"The Litvinov Ruse"

What is this place?

A friend of mine's son is a sculptor.

Studio's on the third floor.

Thank you.

You broke his heart, you know.

When you lobbied against his bid for the directorship.

Both our hearts got broken.

Well, his is older, weaker.

(sighs) Well, I wish I were bringing him better news now.

♪

Quickly.

Saul.

Come here.

A screen saver.

A photograph of the exact same bar in the West Indies Allison mentioned all those years ago.

Mentioned?

Well... more than mentioned.

She went on and on about it.

It was her favorite place on Earth-- the drink, the view, the gorgeous men.

Well, that's hardly definitive, Carrie.

It connects her to Ahmed Nazari.

She's already connected to him.

You said he was her asset in Baghdad. An important one.

Well, this suggests a deeper, more personal relationship.

You mean sexual?

Well, I'm not sure.

Well, what, then?

There was some suspicion Nazari was embezzling American dollars earmarked for the justice sector.

So the motive might be money.

Well, there was a hell of a lot of it floating around at that time.

True.

I'm still not clear why that makes you think Allison's working for the Russians.

Because Nazari is.

And because who else had access to your killbox operation with Quinn?

She wanted me dead, Saul.

She tried three times.

Anything to stop me from getting a look at those hacked documents. Anything to keep from being exposed for what she truly is.

You're still not convinced?

Frankly, no.

Why not?

Because I don't want to be.

The implications are serious, I'm aware.

Implications are catastrophic.

It'd mean the Russians have been inside our intelligence apparatus in Europe for almost a decade.

Exactly.

Which is why you can't just ignore this, Saul.

You need to know, one way or the other.

(engine humming)

(engine humming)

(engine stops)

(creaking and clanking)

(speaks Arabic)

(grunting)

Get up, man.

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(power tools whirring)

(chatter in Arabic)

(grunts)

(chain rattling)

(grunts)

(speaks Arabic)

Man: Good.

(speaks Arabic)

Those drums you picked up in Kosovo-- you have any idea what was in 'em?

Drink.

You don't have a clue.

Methyl difluorophosphite.

DF. Combined with isopropyl alcohol, it makes sarin gas.

And you've never k*lled anyone.

There's enough in those drums to k*ll thousands of people.

Sarin is a f*cked-up way to die.

Don't talk. Drink.

It att*cks the respiratory center of the nervous system, paralyzes the muscles around the lungs.

You convulse, you vomit, your bladder and your bowels evacuate.

Fine.

(bottle thuds)

No water for you.

You see for yourself-- there's videos online.

Google "Ghouta, Syria."

I wouldn't go that far, Herr Adler.

The case against her is compelling on a number of fronts.

I've heard the case. Now tell me why we're here, what you want from us.

We have an operational proposal.

We need your help to put it into effect.

Naturally.

The aim is to deliver proof of her treason.

Evidence that would stand up in an American court of law.

That's asking a lot.

That would require a full surveillance package.

Car, apartment, drive-by teams.

Correct. Ideally getting her on tape, incriminating herself.

Which means we'd also have to plant something on her person.

A mic in her handbag, software on her phone.

I can do that part.

How the hell, Saul?

I owe her a visit anyway.

Are you sure that's a good idea?

I'll make it unannounced.

Adler: And all this without any consultation or sanction from Langley?

Neither of us is in a position to pitch anything to our service.

No kidding. I believe you're the ones considered to be disloyal at the moment.

Adler: What's in it for us, anyway?

The last time we stuck our necks out for you, it wasn't a happy ending.

Fair enough.

But if Allison Carr's a Russian agent, you've got as much to lose as we do.

Arguably more.

(sighs) Okay. We're listening.

(indistinct conversations)

♪

(doorbell ringing)

Saul.

Couldn't risk calling.

What the hell's going on?

Everyone's furious at you.

Including you?

Including me.

I take it you never heard from Carrie.

No, I never did.

Are we ever gonna get those documents back?

I don't know.

Jesus, Saul.

Here, sit down.

I need to tell you something.

I'm being offered political asylum in Israel.

That's not what I heard.

I heard they want nothing to do with you.

Well, you heard wrong.

You were scheduled to be turned over to the FBI, and instead, you made a run for it.

No, Allison, I'm here to say good-bye.

I'm leaving for Tel Aviv in the morning.

I wanted to see you before I went.

You realize how guilty this makes you look?

What, you-you've secretly been a Mossad agent all these years?

No, you can't have been.

It's too ridiculous.

I told you, Mossad had nothing to do with blowing up that plane. It was the SVR.

You keep saying, Saul, but that doesn't make it true.

Well, that's what Carrie's out there trying to prove anyway.

In any case... it's doubtful you and I will see each other again.

Now you're being melodramatic.

Maybe so.

I'm gonna miss you, Allison.

I was asleep for ten years.

You woke me up.

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(unzipping)

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(phone beeps)

(phone buzzes)

Everything all right?

Just needed a drink of water.

Go back to sleep.

Mm-hmm.

(crickets chirping)

(footsteps approaching)

Man: Polycarbonate.

Ballistic glass. I didn't touch anything.

I was just looking.

Perfectly fine.

You're Bibi's cousin, right?

Yes. Qasim.

Dr. Aziz.

They got everything right except for the tubing.

See this?

The retracted length is 15 centimeters shorter than it needs to be.

It's easy enough to fix, though.

You made this?

It's my design.

It's beautiful, huh?

Yes.

Although I have no idea what it's meant to do.

It's a testing chamber.

It measures and records the efficiency of the sarin.

But you're not releasing the gas while we're in the building?

(laughs)

The chamber is double-sealed.

A leak is highly unlikely.

But not impossible.

We'll each have one of these, just in case.

Atropine.

It blocks the acetylcholine in the nerve receptors, limits the effects of the gas.

Limits?

I wouldn't worry.

Why all these cameras?

To record the effects of the gas on our subject.

Bibi was planning on abducting a soldier or a Jew.

Al-hamdu lillah, the American was found instead.

Back up a second.

Where'd he make the approach, this wannabe defector?

At a trade conference in Vienna.

Astrid: But we've been doing the dance with him, on and off now, for more than a year.

Forgive me for not following you, but, uh, is he defecting to you or to us?

To you, through us.

It's unorthodox, I know, but not unheard of.

So he's a consular official in the Russian embassy there?

No.

No?

This is a senior Moscow Center chief with deep knowledge of their agent networks in Germany, Britain and Turkey.

What's his name?

Adler: Calico.

What's his real name?

All in due course, Frau Carr.

Astrid: He's asking not to be referenced in any kind of electronic communication.

Apparently, the SVR's broken some of our mutual encryption codes.

Adal: Huh. What are his terms?

Adler: Five million dollars and asylum in the United States under a new identity.

Astrid: He wants to live in Boca Raton, of all places.

The dollar amount will prove difficult.

He considers it a minimum requirement, given the level of his information.

Astrid: We have until Friday to respond.

If he doesn't hear from us by then, he'll assume the deal is off, and he takes his information elsewhere.

Adler: There are some ground rules we would insist on, as well, provided you're willing to move forward, of course.

Adal: Yeah. Reimbursement for the cost of bringing him in, a finder's fee. What else?

Adler: The first cr*ck at him.

Seven days in a BND safe house before we turn him over to you.

Adal: Three days.

And we get a full video transcript of the debrief.

Adler: Done.

Adal: Good for you, Allison?

Allison?

Yeah, good for me.

Excuse me.

(quiet chatter)

(footsteps on video)

(sighs)

(Allison panting)

(sighs)

Are we tracing the number she's texting?

We are.

(phone chimes) _

(phone chimes) _

(phone chimes) _

Hans: A code of some kind, maybe?

(phone chimes)

If it is, it's a strange one.

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(grunts softly)

Ah.

Thank you.

I brought you some fruit.

Grapes, dates, figs.

Did you go online?

Hard to watch, isn't it?

Just ordinary people, innocent.

Like the ones you're condemning to death here.

Nobody's innocent.

Not when you're sending soldiers to slaughter Muslims and occupy our lands.

Your lands? You were born and raised in Germany.

This country has never been my home, and never will be.

And that justifies burning it down?

Terror is the necessary prologue to a caliphate.

If the West gives us what we want, we won't have to use the gas at all.

And what do you want?

Assad out of Syria.

And recognition by the UN of the Islamic State.

That will never happen.

It might.

After we send them a warning.

What kind of warning?

Proof of the w*apon.

A demonstration.

Oh. So that's why I'm still alive.

That's what you're building in the next room.

Yes.

Demonstration will accomplish nothing.

Your demands will not be met.

Then the att*ck will go forward, and the blood will be on their hands.

No, Qasim. The blood will be on your hands.

The blood of women and children.

Whatever happens is Allah's will.

Maybe it's Allah's will that you stop this.

Even if I wanted to stop it, how could I?

I can't betray my brothers to the police.

I would never do that.

Forget about the police. Get rid of the DF.

Without it, Bibi can't make sarin.

He'll know it was me.

Then leave before he finds out.

Dump the DF into the ground, walk away and don't look back.

It's been almost six hours.

Maybe we missed it.

Maybe the signal to her handler was nonverbal.

Maybe she's not what you think she is.

You're hoping against hope, Saul.

Fact is she's not running.

Anything more on her dinner date?

Definitely a civilian.

Though the hedge fund he works for does do business with the Russian oil and gas sector.

Allison: What happened to you?

Man: Traffic was terrible.

Allison: What did you bring me?

Amatriciana, arugula salad, and a torta della nonna for dessert.

Allison: Yum.

I know what you like.

Carrie: You told her the defector was a high-ranking SVR chief?

Astrid: I did exactly as we discussed.

Carrie: Yet here she is, going about her business, like it's another day at the f*cking office.

Literally.

What do you mean?

(panting, moaning)

Saul?

What's his problem?

You don't know?

(moaning continues)

Know what?

He and Allison...

(panting, moaning)

Oh, Christ.

Saul.

Don't. Don't say a word.

I just want to know if you think that she's onto us, if this little performance that we're watching is for our benefit.

How the hell should I know?

I don't know one g*dd*mn thing about her, apparently.

You didn't give her a heads-up, did you?

What?

A word in her ear.

One lover to another.

I did not.

I've been there, Saul, as you well know.

It's hard not to be conflicted.

I said no.

Then we have a problem, because she's not taking the bait.

Or do you still believe that she's innocent?

I don't know what the f*ck to believe anymore.

(sighs)

Well, the BND is not gonna humor us much longer.

If we don't drive her into the arms of her handler and soon, all bets are off.

Fine.

We up the ante, then.

Good.

I'll go talk to Astrid, and I'll get back to you with a game plan.

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(vehicles rumbling, horn honking)

(speaking German)

Astrid's arriving at the cafe.

Screen on.

Closer, please.

Astrid: Thanks for meeting me out of the office.

Allison: No problem. What's going on?

Astrid: Didn't want to tell you on the phone.

This morning, Calico put his wife and children on a plane to Tallinn, supposedly to visit her relatives there.

Why?

He's insisting we accelerate the timetable.

But I thought the plan was for next week. What happened?

That's just it. We're not exactly sure.

What do you think happened?

Well, he's clearly spooked.

And it appears to have something to do with Berlin.

He's refusing to do the handover here.

The handover to us?

Correct.

Anywhere but Berlin, he says.

According to him, Berlin Station's been penetrated.

Wait a minute, does he mean me?

My station is?

I'm afraid so.

Human or electronic?

He didn't say.

But I thought you should know.

I don't believe it.

Astrid: Now you can get out in front of this, at least.

Before your bosses find out.

I would hope you'd do the same for me one day.

No. I mean, I don't believe it.

He's making this sh*t up to exaggerate his own value.

I'm not sure that would be smart on his part.

Anyway, we'll know soon enough.

How do you figure?

He's promised to provide us with evidence of the penetration.

That is, copies of actual material passed to the SVR.

You'll let me know when that happens?

Of course.

When are you bringing him in?

Tonight. Across the Latvian border.

He'll be at a safe house in Hamburg by morning.

Then we get him three days later?

Just not in Berlin.

Just not in Berlin.

Okay.

Allison: You can't stay for lunch?

Astrid: I'm afraid not.

I've been summoned to appear before Joint Steering.

Allison: What fun. Thank you, Astrid.

Astrid: Good luck. And I'm sorry.

(indistinct chatter)

She's a very cool customer, this one.

(sighs)

Come on, baby.

Time to move. Time to run.

(cell phone buttons clicking)

(line ringing)

Woman: Hello?

Nina, it's me.

When's the next InterCity to Copenhagen?

Nina: Hold on a second.

2:26 PM.

Book me a first-class ticket. I'll pick it up at the station.

What about your afternoon meetings and the conference call with London?

Reschedule them for next week.

Nina: Will do.

Get advance teams to the Hauptbahnhof and somebody inside that first-class compartment with her.

Man: Yes, sir.

(line ringing)

(click)

(indistinct chatter)

(beep)

Shh!

(chatter stops)

(beep)

(beep)

(beep)

What the hell is that?

That's a call code.

We used them in Baghdad. Two for this, three for that.

Private and prearranged between asset and base.

She's on the move.

(speaking German)

♪

Switch to satellite.

Woman: Make sure teams all have contact.

Her cell phone signal just stopped sending.

She's tearing it down.

Exactly what I would be doing right now, if I were her.

What's the range of the wireless transmitter I put in her purse?

Unlimited. It's a satellite unit.

Saul: Better be.

We just lost our backup.

(zips purse)

(sighs)

Hans: She's on her way to Hauptbahnhof Station.

Do we have a team on the ground yet?

Got her.

(indistinct chatter)

(indistinct chatter)

(speaking German)

The ICE train is a feint.

She's headed for the S-Bahn.

Alert drone surveillance.

Man: Yes, sir.

(bell dings)

(chiming)

(indistinct chatter, announcement over speakers)

(S-Bahn braking)

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(electronic chiming)

What's happening? Where is she?

At the Hauptbahnhof Station. Platform 15. In full flight.

16. She just crossed the platform.

That's the train to Potsdam Hauptbahnhof, right? - Right.

Call Hauser at the BVG. Ask him to delay the train down the line, and see if you can get units waiting for her at Nikolassee.

Why Nikolassee?

Because it's four stops before Potsdam Hauptbahnhof, and there's a Russian safe house there, apparently.

You hear that?

Man: I'm on it.

Gates, dogs, electronic security, the works.

Man: Drone is five out.

Woman: - Ja. MAN: Copy that.

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(chatter in German)

Allison Carr.

Ja. Ja.

That was Adler.

A warrant for Allison Carr has just been approved.

He wants you to make the call when to execute it.

Tell him I appreciate that.

Man on the ground knows best.

Hans: Train.

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Man: Drones on station.

♪

(speaks German)

No need to maintain visual contact.

Drone's overhead, plus we're tracking her on GPS.

♪

(buttons beeping)

(speaks German)

Have him take the drone up another 2,000 feet, but stay on the other side of the main road.

Man: Copy that.

(chatter in German)

Wait a minute, we just lost two screens-- what's going on?

Man: GPS is down.

Woman: Audio, too.

Hans: She's about to go inside. We need that audio.

See if you can get the satellite to reboot the transmitter.

That's what I'm doing.

Nothing. It's gone dark.

Because it's not receiving a signal.

Explain, please.

She's saying it's a dead zone. The entire compound.

There must be jamming towers at the perimeter of the property.

What about a workaround?

I can try, but...

Try now.

Man: Entering courtyard gate.

She'll be inside in less than a minute.

Without ears on, we need to know that's an SVR safe house, and we need to know it conclusively.

How the hell do we do that?

What else could it be, Saul? The security measures are through the f*cking roof.

It's not good enough, Carrie.

Well, what about her behavior?

The call code, destroying her cell, booking a fake trip to Copenhagen.

We're gonna lose her, Saul.

Look.

Who's that?

Hans: Enlarge the image.

It's Ivan Krupin--

SVR Berlin Station Chief.

Send in the arrest teams now.

(Hans speaking German)

(man speaks German)

I'm b*rned. You have to get me out of Germany now.

What do you mean, burn...

You're not b*rned.

Maybe not yet. But I will be by tomorrow morning.

Shh, shh, shh, shh.

You're shaking. Come on.

It's okay. Let's go. Go inside.

Man (over radio): Red Team standing by.

(indistinct chatter)

Red Team standing by.

One of your deputy chiefs is defecting across the Latvian border tonight.

He's promising to bring evidence of a Russian mole inside Berlin Station.

What type of evidence?

Material that I've passed to you over the years.

Actual classified material that they will trace to me in a heartbeat.

That's impossible.

Why impossible?

Because it doesn't work this way.

Only two chiefs have access to your material, or even knowledge of your existence.

Both of them left last week for a fishing trip. Kola Peninsula.

Are you sure?

Yes, I'm sure.

I was supposed to go with them.

Look, it must be some kind of misunderstanding.

No, no.

Or a stupid...

sh*t.

You've been played.

What?

(alarm blaring)

What the hell is that?

(alarm continues)

(chatter in Russian)

You led them here.

No! I was not tailed.

I took every precaution.

Obviously not.

You have to get me out here.

Now.

How? They're in the compound.

(yelling in Russian)

Ivan, calm down, please.

Calm down?

Oh, I'm calm.

I'm very calm.

How the f*ck could you be so careless, huh? Unbelievable.

Fall for this bullshit-- some f*cking defector.

(yelling in Russian)

Loo... Stop!

Stop...

Ivan.

Stop.

Think.

(exhales)

What's the point? It's over.

I said think.

We're done, Allison.

We f*cking lost.

No, we have not.

Now, listen to me very carefully.

♪

(speaking German)

Fan out.

(all shouting in German)

Man: Knees! Knees!

(officers speaking German)

(cuffs fastening)

You're under arrest.

(officer speaking German)

Hans: Shut it down.

Man: Copy that, sir. Drone is RTB.

(chatter in German)

Well, that's quite a story.

Talk about bringing down the temple.

Has the obvious benefit of explaining a lot.

A lot.

I didn't want to believe it, either, Dar.

Adal: No, no, you misunderstand-- you've made your case. Both of you.

I just don't know who to be more disgusted with.

Her or us.

Saul: Contract cuts both ways.

Always has.

(beep, door opens)

They just brought her in.

She's in Interrogation 2.

(beep, lock clicks)

(Adal sighs)

So?

I don't want to be a cliché, but do you mind telling me who's responsible for this travesty?

I imagine you are, Allison, in the end.

I am? Some f*cking clown-- and I sure hope it wasn't you, Dar-- just tore apart 12 years of painstaking work.

Adal: Well, I agree with you there.

So... you want to start by sharing some names with me.

Names?

Every one of Ivan Krupin's active agents here in Europe and Britain.

Ask him yourself. He's in the next room, isn't he?

I hardly think he'll talk to me.

Of course he will. You're forgetting-- he's got diplomatic immunity.

Immunity? What are you talking about?

No doubt the horse trading with Moscow's already begun.

Dar, you can't just send him back to Russia.

They'll put him against a wall and sh**t him after what he's done for us.

Done for us?

Who do you think I've been getting my intel about troop escalation in eastern Ukraine from?

Or the Kremlin's plan to interrupt international oil production? It's been Ivan all along.

Come on, Allison. You're his agent, not the other way around.

Otherwise, why would you run today?

Run? I wasn't running.

You touched off an instant-ignition call code, then crashed your cell phone and took refuge at an SVR safe house.

I was told by Astrid this morning about a mole in my station.

You can imagine my panic. I feared for Ivan's safety.

His very life was at stake.

My tradecraft was meant to fool his people, not ours.

Then explain what you were doing at the safe house.

I was bringing him in, for God's sake.

I have brought him in.

He was my Joe for 12 years, Dar.

Surely you can understand that.

♪

(chains rattle)

(man speaks Arabic)

♪

(speaks Arabic)

(whispers): Run.

(grunting, shouting)

(quietly): Maybe you will live.

Man: Let's go.

(Quinn groaning)

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(gas hissing)

(rapid breathing)

(Quinn grunting)