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They're not telling us what's going on.

- I know! I know! - We need to stop.

- I'm cold! - Open the fucking door!

Let's go! Let's go!

This morning,

our eighth-largest consumer bank, American homestead,

was the target of an apparent cyberattack.

As of this hour, the bank and its customers

are unable to access their accounts.

I know! I know you're frustrated.

We're doing everything we can to restore your account information,

and we'll open as soon as we can.

Our first priority must be to safeguard

the rest of our financial system, which is why, just moments ago,

congress passed the emergency measure I've now signed into law placing

an immediate freeze through the weekend on all financial activity.

No wire transfers, no withdrawals, no credit card transactions.

All markets will be closed

until we are certain that we can protect other institutions from a similar attack.

Let us in and give us our fucking money!

- What happens after the weekend? - Are any of our systems safe?

I spoke with former president mullen just moments ago.

As of this morning, he believes that he has a suspect in custody

who may be at the center of both events.

Is that Evan green?

He has a suspect.

Mullen is driving us all off a fucking cliff.

You need to take back the wheel.

Let me guess, and hand it to you?

The bank is its own thing, unrelated to zero day.

And Evan green's got nothing to do with it.

Yeah? And how would you know that?

I chaired house judiciary for eight years.

I talked to more people at the FBI than the damn director,

and they all say this is another copycat.

I hired the damn director.

If he has something to tell me, he'll call me.

Advocating the overthrow of our banking system,

the erasure of customer data,

redistribution of wealth,

segments you repeatedly aired three months before the attack.

I'm… I'm sorry. I'm… I'm a little… confused.

You… you brought me down here just to tell me you're a fan of the show?

Tell us about Leon, Evan.

How he and his reaper friends spread the zero day malware.

How they attacked American homestead this morning.

Tell me about Anna sindler.

You're three weeks in.

Three weeks, and you got nothing.

That's pathetic.

You can keep me here as long as you like. It's great for ratings.

Every minute I'm here, my audience grows.

We have texts, emails, dozens of them, from you to members of the reapers,

openly colluding.

And you must know no hard drive is ever truly erased.

So what are we going to find when we restore yours?

Well. Teens, gang bangs,

cbts, small penis humiliation…

You just think this is a big fucking joke, don't you?

Tearing this country apart, lighting fires just to make a buck.

You're a fucking parasite.

I'd like my lawyer. Now.

As a detainee of this commission, you are not entitled to counsel.

That's okay, Carl. Let the man have his lawyer.

Well, how sure are we that green is behind both attacks?

We're following the evidence.

Mullen believes green might be hiding something.

You need to talk some sense into him.

You can't still think that he listens to me.

I just mean, are we considering other suspects?

Says the guy who gave us the fucking photos?

Look, this is going south fast.

Come Monday, if we don't reopen the banks, we're fucked.

And if we do,

and everyone wants their money because we haven't solved this

- yes. Then it's a disaster. I know. - I just think

don't think. Get to your desk.

Call dod. White house wants to deploy 200,000 additional national guard.

- We need to coordinate. - Okay, okay.

It all comes apart. Your father can't help us anymore,

but he can hurt us.

He needs to understand that.

So, how's your day?

Peachy.

How I always pictured the apocalypse.

Fuck, what time did we go to sleep last night?

God, I don't even know.

What do you think he'd do right now?

Nick?

Run.

Not look back.

Why don't we?

Just fucking

run.

We find us

some cozy little place in,

I don't know, Belize?

New Zealand?

Costa Rica?

It's really not that crazy,

considering the fucking shit storm

that we're in.

If things continue,

and the mob storms the castle and comes for all of our heads,

everyone's gonna be trying to figure out where the nearest exit is,

and we could just be gone.

Right?

Yeah, I think we'd probably kill each other in, like, two days.

Hey.

You've known my dad a really long time, right?

I mean, you probably know him better than me at this point, so just

what is going on with him?

He hasn't been himself.

The kill chain analysis is still underway.

Sir, even with the transaction freeze,

people want to be sure that their balances are intact.

In the last hour, we've seen the apps and websites

of perfectly healthy banks crash with all the traffic.

And that has spawned mass speculation online

that all bank accounts have been "homesteaded," zeroed out.

Well, we have to work even harder on getting the truth out.

It's not that simple.

A lot of the traffic isn't organic.

It's being amplified, along with some increasingly pointed criticism of you

by Monica kidder.

She's putting this second attack at your feet.

So, what are the options?

Change the narrative.

Accept the invitation to testify at the oversight committee.

No, I won't be testifying. Not until we're done.

Has green shared anything useful?

Not yet. He's meeting with his lawyer. Then he's meeting with me.

Good. Thank you. That's all.

Carl mentioned you asked green something odd

about someone called Anna sindler.

I threw a lot at him just to keep him off balance.

We need him to break, which is why I have to get back to work.

My followers must be through the roof, right?

And did you check the spike in traffic to the site? Will you?

And… and when you get out of here, I want you to call Jason.

Let's get that merch going.

Let's get t-shirts. Let's get cups. Let's get hats. People fucking love hats.

And, you know, let's get my face on it with… with, like, mandela, mlk.

Evan, I don't think you grasp how serious your situation is.

Come on, Bob, will you relax?

Okay? Relax.

They can't keep me in this shithole forever.

And I'm telling you they can.

As you pointed out repeatedly on your own show,

they threw out the constitution when they authorized this commission.

Yeah, but come on.

I'm a prominent public figure with a grassroots movement behind me.

Who just wiped his hard drives with no explanation.

- How do you think that looks? - Now that they hauled me in here?

That looks pretty fucking smart.

You need to talk.

You have to tell them everything you know

about the whack jobs you love slumming it with.

That's who they're after.

First thing, Bob, they're called guests, okay?

Just because I have them on my show doesn't mean I'm shacking up with them.

- Evan. - Jesus Christ, Bob.

Are you buying their bullshit too?

It's still a free country last time I checked.

No, it's not.

Not anymore.

I'm not here as your lawyer, Evan.

You don't get one.

The only reason they let me in here was to try to talk some sense into you.

And if I have failed to do that, then god help you.

Because if you don't give them something,

I can't tell you what they'll do next.

Mr. McKenna?

I'm Valerie white sell. I work for...

I know who you work for. I want nothing to do with it.

No, no, no. Please. I came to talk to you about proteus.

Looks like somebody's brought it back.

I need your help, and I'm running out of time.

Please.

- How'd you find me? - It wasn't easy.

You were the only scientist from the original team

that I was able to track down.

- Well, the others are all dead. - So you're suggesting

well, we were secretly designing neurological weapons

for the United States government.

Complete violation of the Geneva convention

and every single other international arms control treaty that there was.

So, yeah.

We knew the risks.

I need to know what proteus would do to a person

if somehow it was revived and the weapon was completed.

The idea behind proteus was to inflict a traumatic brain injury

from a distance with surgical precision.

An injury whose origin could never be definitively traced.

So if someone somehow has perfected it, and they are using it right now,

what would the symptoms be?

I'm beginning to wonder

if George mullen's approach to this investigation

has been entirely ineffective.

We were told the entire point of this commission

was to guarantee another attack wouldn't happen again.

What did I always say during the campaign?

Don't forget the purell.

Ignore the noise.

You came through.

You always have. You've always come through.

Come on. Please, sir.

The next few hours, you watch. We're gonna solve this thing.

Green is gonna break.

- No cash, no groceries. - No cash, no groceries.

I can't get cash.

How am I supposed to eat?

Where you from?

Baltimore.

Originally.

Baltimore.

- That's not what I mean. - I know what you mean.

Otieno.

I'm gonna guess… Ethiopia.

- Kenya. - Kenya.

Kenya.

Yeah.

Kenya.

You know about the mau mau rebellion, right?

What the British did there to quash it.

Real nasty shit.

Executions.

Concentration camps.

Well, Mr. Otieno.

I guess the shoe's on the other foot now?

My dad came here when he was a kid.

Lost his parents, his sister… everyone.

Still wakes up screaming all these years later

until he remembers he's in queens.

In the United States of America.

I get it.

You were born on third base.

Take all this for granted.

Have no idea what happens if it all really falls apart around us.

Not me, Evan.

My dad never let me.

So, yeah, the shoe's on the other foot, and the foot's on your fucking neck.

This. This is real.

So who hacked homestead, and what's the plan for Monday?

- I don't know. - Yes, you do.

I don't know who hacked it, and I don't know the plan.

I do know that "grigori,"

his name is guy stark man.

"Phenex" is a guy named Mickey grondahl.

"Fourthseal," his name is Josh Simon. And, yeah.

Yeah, they were all guests on my show.

But if they are who you say they are, why don't you haul them in and ask them?

Run the names.

Round them up and everyone they've interacted with in the last six months,

and tell Carl not to let up. Green's still holding out.

- Yes, sir. - What's this?

Complete inventory of the reapers' farm.

Data recovery failed. Servers were all toast.

Chameleonmini, ubertooth one,

a long range am radio. O.Mg elite cable…

Sir, you're gonna want to see this. Could you pull up that clip, please?

It was the great Benjamin Franklin who said

those who would give up essential freedom

to purchase temporary safety deserve neither freedom nor safety.

Now, I'm told mullen isn't online.

But if people share my concern,

I suggest they find a way to make their voices heard,

you know, in the real world.

Okay, thanks.

Local news caught her coming out of her office.

This clip has gone viral again with her help,

and now there's a protest being organized for tomorrow outside of your house.

There's also been a significant bump

in personal threats against you that we're tracking.

It's mostly lone crazies jumping on the bandwagon.

But not to worry, sir. They won't get close.

This has to stop.

Sir, I know Monica. She's not unreasonable.

She just wants respect. She wants to be invited in.

You could make her an ally.

- So, what are you saying? - Thirty minutes. One-on-one.

You're seeing how much damage she's doing as a Thorn in your side.

Imagine how much she could help.

Fifteen. That's it. No more.

I will call her team at panoply and set it up.

I need to speak to you.

Proteus.

You mentioned it at your press conference,

but it was never a cyberweapon.

It's neurological. You should have known that.

I met with one of the people who developed proteus

before we shut it down.

He described everything that it could do.

Well, I…

I've had episodes

with symptoms like… this.

And sometimes.

I… I hear sounds that aren't there,

or I might see faces that may or may not be there.

Anna sindler?

She did die. I spoke to the coroner myself.

The one you sent Roger to.

So,

you're saying proteus could be… being used on me?

I think it's possible.

Here you go.

Long-range am radio from the pocatello raid.

Great, thanks.

What do we do?

Well, the engineer I spoke to said that the weapon targets specific locations.

My house. Well, that's where it started.

So then, I don't think you can go back there.

You can sleep here?

- And what about Sheila? - Well, she's not who they're after.

And she's not exhibiting any signs.

Well, I... I'd need a portable scif for my office. Something secure.

And your circle around you is tight, but we're gonna make it tighter.

People like Roger…

- I know you love him. - All right.

Everything will go through you from now on.

Mullen was a fine idea. Safe, unifying.

I may not have liked it, but I never said it wasn't smart.

We all hoped it would work out.

I'm here to offer you a pivot.

A chance to change direction

while protecting yourself from any blowback.

You'd do that for me, dick?

I get it. You hired him.

You damn well can't fire him without looking like a fool.

But he could resign, and that would be on him and not on you.

George mullen, resign? Now?

There is precedent, of course.

George mullen walked away from this office when no one else does.

Would anybody really be surprised if he quits again?

Not the same. Back then it was personal.

Everyone knew that his family was coming apart, and so was he.

And everyone knows that history tends to repeat itself.

All banks and savings and loans have been ordered

to cease the financial freeze.

People are reminded to line up in an orderly fashion.

It is anticipated that once the banks reopen,

there could be quite a rush.

They're queuing up outside Manhattan financial institution.

We do not know… hi, mom.

No, I'm… I'm fine. I just...

I'm worried about dad.

Free Evan green! Deep-state George! Free Evan green! Deep-state George!

Free Evan green! Deep-state George! Free Evan…

- Hey. - Hi. I didn't think you'd pick up.

Well, no, actually I was just about to call you.

The protest.

Tom said you can't even hear it. Just stay in the house.

Yeah, George, I just had a long talk with Alex about you.

Okay. What'd you talk about?

You told me that you were fine and this episode with Wayne was a mistake.

She says that that's not the case.

I can't talk about it now on the phone.

Well, we'll talk about it when you're home.

Well, that's why I was about to call you. I'm not gonna be coming home.

Thanks.

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En route to 7-8-9-0-1-2-3.

Current status is yankee bravo 32 Lima.

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Confirm yankee bravo 32 Lima.

Next status update November echo one-two-hundred.

Ms. Kidder, thank you for coming to talk.

Well, thank you for inviting me.

I must admit, I assumed you'd have more important things to do

than worry about a little bad press.

No, I don't mind bad press.

I don't even mind the crazies camped outside my house.

Well, it doesn't much matter if you mind or not.

If we're still pretending that the constitution is intact.

Well, what I do mind, though, is the intentional spread

of dangerous disinformation.

I'm told that there are levers that you can pull.

Levers that, until now, have been used to sow panic and fear.

This country would be grateful,

I would be grateful,

if, instead, you would use those levers to encourage calm.

Now you want my help.

You'll recall, three weeks ago, I offered precisely that.

To be part of the solution. You chose instead to rely on government employees

to resolve this mess.

Men and women who no doubt are as well-intentioned

as they are severely limited in their actual talents.

And so here we are, on the brink of total collapse.

Ms. Kidder, your offer to help with the investigation was gracious,

but hard to accept due to the fact that the DOJ is investigating you

for 19 violations of the sherman antitrust act.

Every aspiring autocracy begins by insisting that the private sector

bend a knee.

And who's the one trying to stop a run on the banks to secure your billions?

You tech people, you all want government to be hands-off,

until you don't.

Mr. President, I have no idea how secure my billions are.

I have an entire floor of accountants who cannot log on and find out.

Well, okay.

Thank you for coming.

Of course.

By the way, the Franklin quote? I think you got it wrong.

It's "Liberty" we shouldn't sacrifice for safety. Not "freedom."

What's the difference?

"Freedom" is what allows people like you to do whatever you want.

"Liberty" is what protects the rest of us from people like you.

Thanks for the tea.

Free Evan green! Free Evan green! Free Evan green!

Free Evan green!

Fry Evan green!

Keep him off the street!

Fry Evan green!

Keep him off the street! Fry Evan green!

You can't do that!

Hold it right there!

Where's my fucking money? Where's my fucking money?

Where's my fucking money?! Where's my fucking money?!

These men green named, now in custody under active interrogation,

traded dozens of emails mentioning "bank attack" in just the last few weeks.

Have any of them acknowledged actual responsibility

for either American homestead or the zero day attacks?

- They will. - By sunrise tomorrow?

Can you guarantee that?

Worst case, we extend the freeze.

People can't buy food, George.

Green knows more. We're close. I'm telling you

unless he is just another fucking blowhard

who has nothing to do with this.

You're aware that American homestead was hacked last spring?

No. There was no mention of anything like that.

They didn't report it because they paid a ransom in violation of FBI guidance.

Dreyer has a friend on the board who tipped him off.

Same exact target, similar method.

This could easily be just another shakedown.

George,

I need to know that you have this under control.

I'm worried that you don't.

There's too much at stake not to be certain.

Extend the shutdown and give me the time to find out for sure.

The national guard is maxed out.

They say we'll be lucky if we make it to morning

without widespread civil unrest.

If it's not a one-off, the same malware could be on the verge of spreading

to 1,000 banks.

You got enough troops for that?

Twenty-three hours, 17 minutes.

I can't hold congress off any longer.

That's all you got.

Starkman and Simon may have been pen pals,

but they never met.

Never met Leon, were never even in the same zip code,

and I'm not sure either of them knows how to update an iPhone,

let alone orchestrate a wide-scale cyberattack.

I'm gonna go back to green.

I hate to say it, sir, but we've hit a wall there.

- You're gonna have to break through it. - I don't have the tools to do that now.

We will not surrender our moral standings.

Moral standing?

Sir, we've played by the rules till now, and we're losing.

Want to protect your conscience or this country?

Okay, well, Carl's right. You know?

Uncooperative subject, ticking time bomb,

enhanced interrogation methods, precisely what the situation needs.

And one of the reasons you were tapped to do this job was to prevent this scenario.

You know what it looks like when we cross this line, sir.

George.

I'm here to tell the American people

that congress will not be extending this shutdown.

There were cyberattacks before zero day,

and there will be cyberattacks in the future.

But in the absence of hard proof

that the hack of American homestead was anything more than a isolated event,

the likes of which we've dealt with before,

we must be prudent.

Our constituents have to eat.

They have to pay their bills.

And people need to take a breath and stop this hysteria.

Mr. Speaker, how can you be so sure it was an isolated event?

I actually worried that I might be overreacting.

Sheila, we have reason to believe

that George is being targeted by a neurological weapon.

Is that why my husband is sleeping in a tent in his office?

Sleeping in the scif was my idea.

Forgive me, but I don't find that reassuring.

It's called proteus.

Whoever's responsible for zero day may also be using this weapon

to try to impede the work of the commission by attacking George.

It causes memory loss, temporary confusion.

How about a sudden affinity for fascism?

- Is that on the list? - That's what this is about?

I told you to take this job, not because you're perfect.

The three of us know that you are far from that,

but the one thing I thought I knew about you

is that you would always put your country first.

If you're not fit to lead because of this weapon,

anything else, then you have to step down.

- I'm fine. - Prove it.

What? How? What?

I don't know. A doctor. Take a psych evaluation

and then pass it tonight.

I don't have time for that.

Well, I'm out of Patience.

You prove to me that you are of sound mind,

or I will tell the country that you are not.

All right, Costa Rica.

Costa Rica. I pick Costa Rica with the ducks.

Chickens. They're wild chickens, Alex.

Sorry, sorry. They're wild chickens.

Ten minutes, and I'll be outside your apartment with a full tank of gas.

Just say the word.

Yeah.

I might be counting on that.

And tonight, are we meeting up?

Yes. Give me… give me an hour.

All right.

Macallan neat.

Could you do me a favor?

Could you please tell lyndon, or whoever the fuck sent you,

to fuck off?

Thank you very much, and Roger Carlson is closed for business.

You don't get to decide that.

You know that.

And why is that? Because you're going to tell the whole world what a scumbag I am?

No, no.

Just Alex.

Trust me.

Don't do that.

We hear mullen isn't right in the head. Time's come.

It's best for everyone if he handed over the reins of this commission

to someone else.

He admits to mental health challenges.

He quits.

These days, no one will think twice.

You want me to say mullen is sick publicly?

I want you to get us proof.

I may have something.

I'd encourage you to be more specific.

Ready?

Go.

You'll have three minutes to observe this figure drawing.

Now, draw it from memory.

Ready? Go.

I'm going to read you a list of words.

Face. Velvet. Church. Daisy. Red.

Select the colored button that corresponds to the color of the word.

Go.

Place the pegs in the shape that you see in the picture.

Go. I read some words to you earlier.

I'd like you to repeat as many of those words as you can remember.

Ready? Go.

Face.

Velvet.

Church.

Daisy.

Red.

Okay.

And what day of the week is it?

Sunday.

And right now, how many people are in the room with us?

Just you and me.

And what music am I playing?

Describe the music, Mr. President.

There isn't any music.

Hey, Allison, how's it going?

Hey, I'm good.

I just left some paperwork in there that I need to grab.

- Okay. - All right.

I should caution.

Testing of this kind is inexact.

In this case, I do think the results are conclusive.

I can't speak to your state of mind prior to tonight,

but as for this moment, I see no cause for concern, Mr. President.

Well, okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

I guess this means your choices in this job have really been yours.

Congratulations.

Sheila… - deal's a deal.

I'll see myself out.

There's still time left.

Let's get to work.

I gave you names. I gave you email addresses.

Come on, guys. It's just a fucking TV show.

It's like you said, I'm just a scumbag trying to make a buck.

What are you... okay, you're hurting me.

You…you gotta let me out of here. Okay, I cooperated.

I… I… I got nothing on the malware or the reapers

or whatever the fuck else it is you think I know.

Okay, look.

My speaking fees.

I take most of them under the table.

And the merch. The merch goes to offshore accounts.

It… it's 50 kinds of tax evasion. That's what was on the hard drives.

All right?

Are you fucking satisfied now?

I thought we said an hour.

Why didn't you answer your phone?

Hello?

Jesus, what now?

I love that lake.

That... what lake?

Your dad's friend's place.

In Tahoe?

That first August after everyone started to figure out that we were together?

- Y… yeah. - We took the boat out. I lied.

Told everyone I could drive it.

And then Nick got me drunk.

And we jumped in the water, and we nearly froze to death.

Yeah, then I put you guys in the sauna.

I loved that.

Right?

And then right after that, your dad asked me to come work for him.

And

he said it was his idea, but… but I knew it was your idea.

Are you, like, writing a memoir? Wh… what are you talking about?

Roger.

What is going on?

Will… will you come sit down?

- Just tell me what's going on. - Please.

Please come sit down.

I have to tell you something.

There's going to be some things that come out about me

in the press tomorrow.

Or maybe tonight, even.

And I'm telling you because I want you to know that it's true. Okay?

Okay.

A couple months ago,

when I ran into you at the hearing,

after all the stuff came out about your ex in the post.

- That wasn't a coincidence. - What wasn't a coincidence?

The… the emails on the front page or you running into me?

You hacked his phone?

What?

I… I saw it as a way to get back.

To get us back.

I was… I was not supposed to even be at the hear

you hacked my fucking phone too, didn't you?

- Roger, did you hack my fucking phone? - There's more. There's more.

…as uncertainty lingers over what will happen

when the U.S. financial system soon comes back online

with still no answer as to who was behind the American homestead hack.

Many estimated that president Mitchell

would extend the market freeze into the coming week.

But as chaos spread at banks and businesses around the country,

Mitchell has decided to hold firm

to her initial plan of reopening all American financial institutions

this morning.

Across the country,

American homestead customers wait anxiously

sorry, man, I changed my mind. I… I can't help you.

George?

George?

Tell me it's good news.

It is, ma'am.

Is it green? Did he break?

No.

It's Roger.

Good morning.

I'm pleased to report

that the FBI has identified the criminals

behind the cyberattack on American homestead bank.

They call themselves "sinecure"

and have no apparent connection to the zero day attack.

In fact, they are the same ransomware gang

that targeted the bank in a previously unreported breach

last spring.

Thankfully, under fear of prosecution,

one of their members is now cooperating

to help unwind the malware.

And when markets open shortly,

depositors will find that their accounts are fully intact.

Speaker dreyer can answer any questions.

Speaker

is it true president mullen was advocating for an extension of the financial freeze?

- Is Evan green still being held? - These are reasonable questions.

Unfortunately, president mullen has refused our request to answer them

before the house oversight committee,

which is why later today we will be subpoenaing his wife.

We have strong reason to believe that the former first lady

possesses important insight into her husband's decision-making

these past several weeks.

What if she refuses?

Then she'll be held in contempt of congress the same as anyone else.

As you know, Mrs. Mullen has aspirations to serve on the federal bench.

I have high hopes that she has more… respect for the law than that.

Speaker dreyer...