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These were gamma tongs.

Enough fissile material to fuel a chernobyl-level event

right here in Los Angeles.

The cartel was the infrastructure

to smuggle this material into the us.

If anyone knows who they handed it off to, it's Lopez.

- Who's this? - Whoa!

Looks like a cop to me.

Javi wants to test us. He's given us a run.

If we can get it through, he'll trust us.

- 500 kilos of heroin. - Fifty million.

- You delivered. - Come on. Don't I always?

The man at the port did this. Give me a name!

Volchek. Volchek.

What the fuck am I doing?

What the fuck?

Happy birthday, daddy.

Are you sure it's my birthday?

Yes!

Okay. Come here, guys.

I love you.

Look who's awake.

Mister big 4-0.

Thank you, baby.

Okay.

What do we have here?

- Strawberry. My favorite. - No.

- No? - That one's not good.

- Chocolate. - No.

That's… no, that's very bad. No.

- Really? - You will not like it.

- Is it? - Yeah.

- Yeah, that one's very good. - Yeah.

- That one's good for you. - Pistachio?

Get out of here. Both of you.

Thank you. I love you guys.

One each.

Don't load up too much. We've got dinner later.

Copy that.

You know, I would love nothing more than to scoop you up

and take you to Hawaii.

But this thing is all hands on deck.

I know.

And that's why I love you.

Now how about you get your birthday butt into the shower and get to work?

Yes, ma'am.

It's not bad.

Got it. Cut, cut.

What the…

Let's roll sound, please.

Rolling!

Jesus.

Yeah, no. It's your world, fuck stick.

Still rolling.

- Hey. - Hey.

Saw that you called.

Sorry, I was…

Yeah. No, I was just checking to see how you were

after that bomb went off in our face last night.

- Ready to rock. - Yeah?

Yeah. 100%.

- You? - Yeah. Let's catch this shithead.

Yeah.

New kings lieutenant, Javi Lopez, and his enforcer, Antonio a ya la,

were pronounced doa before reaching health white memorial.

Best we can tell, the explosive device was standard c-4.

It was wired to the ignition switch inside the engine of Lopez's Land Rover.

We've got local FBI ert, as well as bomb tech and LAPD

supported by the lab in Quantico, conducting a post-blast investigation.

What about that name volchek?

Lopez's last words sounded like a dying declaration to me.

Shepherd?

Yeah, there are many variations on that surname.

But the most common and most likely is v-o-l-c-h-e-k.

- Etymology? - Belarusian.

Now, Belarus is a Russian satellite state in the truest sense of the word

since the Soviet breakup in '89.

They also backed the recent aggression in the eastern European region,

drawing rebukes from state and, our friends at NATO.

Timur novikov.

What?

Palmdale, I shared a cell block with an inmate named Timur novikov.

He was from Minsk.

Palmdale?

Yeah, I was… I was uc. It's a long story.

How well did you know him?

Pretty good.

He's like one of those little dogs thinks he's a big dog.

Had some beef with the vice lords. Almost got smacked.

I stood up for him. He owes me.

But, we spent a lot of time talking.

He's definitely tapped in with the Belarusian underground here in la.

He's connected to robbery crews, narcotics, guns, you name it.

So, if our case has anything to do with some guy from Belarus, he would know.

Where you going with this?

You gotta put me back in jail.

You sure you wanna go back inside?

No inmate trusts a transfer.

You start asking questions,

they're gonna smell something funny a mile away.

- What? - Aw.

- No. - You care about me.

- No. - That's very sweet.

I don't want anyone in this task force to get himself killed.

Okay, honestly, I'm touched. I am.

You make it so hard to like you.

It's a gift.

How's the little league season progressing?

We're undefeated.

- Is that right? - Yeah.

- We won our first two. - Nice.

And how's Cora doing with everything?

She's hanging in there. Some days…

You know…

You just sit on the couch in a way,

you open the refrigerator door, and you catch a memory of Noah.

Big smile, and the shoes always untied and…

It's a mountain to climb, but we're climbing it together.

Honestly, if I didn't have Cora, I'd have walked into the pacific,

headed for Catalina, and just keep on going.

Well, when this thing is over, if you ever need to talk,

or you just wanna grab a beer and not talk.

I know. Thanks.

All right. I'm gonna get on the horn to the warden at palmdale corrections

and see what we can do about inserting meachum back into Timur novikov's block.

Yeah, I know someone at doc. I can help arrange that.

As soon as we have more information on these bomb materials,

- I want it in my hands. - Got it.

Well, these are the record books from Javi Lopez's body shop.

He kept everything off-grid, just hard copies.

Figured we could sort through, see if we can find the name volchek

or anything Belarusian.

- It's worth a shot. - Okay.

Okay.

So, I might have low-key looked up

everyone on the task force's employee profiles at the dhs, DEA and FBI.

And why would you do that?

Well, it doesn't really matter why.

What matters is that today is finau's birthday.

- No shit? - No shit.

He didn't say anything.

I get the feeling he's, like, this all-business type.

Which is exactly why we're gonna break him.

What does that mean?

- We're gonna get him a cake. - Who?

Yeah. Keep it on the down-low, okay?

It's classified.

Top secret.

Zoom with warden Gil Thompson in the conference room is a go.

I don't have to think about it. The answer is no.

Capital n, capital o.

- I'm not sure you understand... - No, you don't understand.

Detective meachum undercover in palmdale was the worst nine months of my career.

I praised hallelujah when you took him out of here

with his head still attached to his goddamn body.

- Warden... - If he had gotten killed, that was my ass.

And he did everything in his power to get hisself killed too.

He caused a goddamn riot in the yard.

And it was but for the grace of god

that he did not get himself shanked five ways to Sunday.

So no, sir. Not gonna do it.

It was a bad idea then. It is a worse idea now.

You know Tim Larson in victorville?

Yes, sir. What's he have to do with it?

He said you were the best sheriff they ever had.

Well, I don't know about that. But Tim is a good man.

Said you knew how to lead.

All I'm asking is for a day.

I got a mission here that can save thousands of lives,

and that is no exaggeration.

If you could prevent another 9/11,

wouldn't you do everything in your power to stop it?

I need to put my man meachum with your inmate Timur novikov

to see what he knows.

If I go at this straight on, he's gonna zip his mouth so shut

you'll need a jackhammer to open it, but he trusts meachum.

I'm sorry, sir.

I'm not letting that man inside my jail.

Sorry, I'm not.

What if we

don't actually have meachum enter palmdale?

Convict! Let's go.

It's your lucky day, novikov.

Your lawyer says you get an appeals hearing.

Transfer to foltz downtown until the judge'll see you. Let's go.

I told you, assholes. I tell you!

I tell you, yeah! You fucking eat this.

Get the fuck out of here!

Let 'em know. Stand by! Transport 50, let's go!

Straight ahead, gentlemen.

Shit!

You're not gonna make me ride with this asshole, are ya?

Walker!

Look at you.

I can't wait to hear about this.

What a day!

That's all right, you don't have to chain him up. I'll watch him for you.

Where have you been, Walker?

Shook, man.

Guards trying to testify that I started that yard riot,

even though they know the abs jumped me.

So I went from infirmary up to goddamn central,

someplace in the high desert, and then…

Fuck. Honestly, I lost track.

Shit. You're like a jumping bean.

Yeah.

Fuck.

- You all right? - Yeah. My head is murdering me.

You never did get in with Alice baker?

Hell no. I'll stretch any way I can, but I ain't joining those Aryan bastards.

I don't care what they do to me.

- Lone wolf. - Yeah, that's me.

You were at hdsp?

Yeah.

I heard the yard over there can get crowded.

Fuck you talking about? There ain't no yard over there.

Only daylight you get is in those, concrete wedges between blocks.

Twenty inmates at a time.

Guards looking down at you like it's a goddamn nature show.

Fuck, I dream about a yard.

Yo, you remember wang? Matt wang, that crazy Chinese dude.

He had one eye looking at you,

the other looking at the wall at the same time.

Yeah, he left palmdale about six months ago.

That's who I'm talking about. He's up at the high desert now.

Block b. I had to help him get adjusted.

You did that for me too.

Yeah, well, why'd you go and piss off the vice lords

ten minutes into being in the lockup?

- Dumbass. - You remember that?

I don't forget a thing.

I would've been easy pickings.

Nah, man, you just needed a crew looking out for you, that's all.

So, why you back in socal?

Well, they're pissed about that riot,

so they're drumming up six counts of forgery

tacked onto my original charges.

- What for? - My fucking cousin.

He found some pads that we stole,

allegedly, when we knocked over that pharmacy.

Started writing scrips for Xanax and stuff.

And then he, boom, put the whole thing on me.

So, additional charges, new hearing.

I don't know, man, to be honest, it beats that high desert.

- What about you? - Appeal.

Yeah? What'd your shark say?

I don't know yet. Just found out.

Shit! Tire blew!

Hey, assholes! This dude's hurt back here!

Clement, we gotta help him!

Radio's busted.

Rescue the prisoner first, then we'll call it in from my phone.

- Sit all the way back. - Yeah, take her gun!

- Hey, hey. Okay. - Shit.

- Don't move! Don't move, I swear to god. - Take it easy.

Shut the fuck up!

Unlock him. Unlock him or your partner gets it.

Shit.

- I'm not fucking playing around! - Okay!

Okay.

Fuck.

Get rid of your gun.

Take your gun out, put it on the pavement. Your radio too.

Get her gun, get her radio.

- How we looking? - Come on, baby.

Come on, come on, come on. We gotta go, we gotta go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't fucking move.

Yeah, come on. Get those off.

Get those off.

All right. Big boy, let's get up. Get in the Van. Nice and slow.

- Yeah, yeah. - You think this is funny?

Get your fucking ass in the Van!

Lock yourself up.

Get rid of that shit, man. Get rid of that shit.

- All right. That went pretty well. - Man, fuck you. You almost shot me.

- Yeah, but I didn't. - I thought it looked really good, man.

I know, right? All right, see you on the other side.

Come on, let's dump it, dump it, dump it.

- What? - Everything.

- The guns? - Yes, the guns.

- Come on, use your head. - Bro.

- Let's get the hell out of here. - Yeah.

Hey.

Nice.

We gotta put some distance between us and that Van.

All right, got about ten minutes till this place is flooded with cops.

Look, I got nobody left in la who gives a shit about me,

so I'm open to ideas.

My uncle can get us not just out of the city,

but out of the whole damn country.

- For real? - No bullshit.

He's tapped in. Just need a phone.

No.

Yo.

We gotta go.

That was fun.

Fun?

Man, give me undercover in the field any day.

That is my jam.

When I'm at a desk, I wanna scratch my eyes out.

How you feeling?

Like I'm gonna punch meachum in the throat next time I see him.

- Too real? - You think I agreed

to let him fire a live round at my head?

Yeah, that was… that was pretty crazy.

I nearly died on my birthday.

Aw. Happy birthday.

How many candles?

4-0.

My gravestone was almost perfectly symmetrical.

Wow, I thought you were...

If you say older, we're gonna have a problem.

Thirty-eight. Man, I thought you were 38.

Say.

By the way, I know Shepherd has planned some kind of surprise for me.

So now I gotta act like, "wow! Thank you so much,"

when we get back to headquarters.

- This thing gonna drive? - Yeah.

Yeah, barely tapped it.

Put some glycol in a canteen next to the radiator

so when we bumped the curb, it'd spill out and smoke.

Dope.

Hey. Anything?

… …I'm expanding the search for derivations on the name volchek,

spelling it with a "ck," spelling it with two "I's,"

and… …so far, I have convicted men still serving time,

or dead guys who haven't yet cleared the system.

Well, I have run ncic, bureau indices, LAPD gang database,

and I've started in on dhs and state.

Cbp entries, ice files, us visas, and, so far, I'm coming up blanks.

- Okay. That's good. - All right.

Quick question.

- Yeah? - Cake or cupcakes for finau?

I don't know. What're you thinking?

Well, I mean, cupcakes are great 'cause you get an assortment of flavors.

Great. Cupcakes then.

Yeah, but-but, I mean, cake is more personal, you know?

It's like, "hey, we did all this for you."

Okay, I can see that.

Yeah, cupcakes are like, "sure, we care." But do we?

Now I know what was at the top of your college application.

"Evan Shepherd is detail-orientated."

Actually… okay, so I was on the school newspaper,

and our principal had set up a PayPal account for the pta donations,

- controlled by himself, of course. - Of course.

And our school was not rich. At all.

I mean, I'm talking a few thousand

from parents that really didn't have that much to give.

Sure.

And I just wanted a new printer for the paper.

Mr. Spilatro cried poor. He said, "school's out of money."

And I'm like, something's up.

So, I did break into his computer, and not by any special skills or anything.

I mean, he taped his password under the keyboard.

But it turns out he had transferred all the money

to his personal accounts.

And guess how much a new hot tub costs?

Which he had just installed in his backyard.

I broke the story, Mr. Spilatro went to jail,

and I went to Stanford.

Well, they… they were very lucky to have you.

- Keep it up. - Yeah.

Cake it is.

As far as I could tell, he bought it all the way.

They took off running and are in the wind.

As soon as meachum reaches out, I wanna know.

- Of course. - Good work.

Thank you, sir.

Thoughts?

If this guy knows the name volchek, meachum'll get it.

- Hey. - Hey, babe.

I know you can't talk right now, but the girls have soccer after school,

so I moved the musso's reservation from 7:00 to 7:30.

Yeah.

I don't think I'm gonna be able…

No, I'll be there. 7:30?

- Listen, if you can't make it... - No, no, no.

Forget I said that, okay? I'll see you and the girls at 7:30.

- I'll have to meet you there though. - No problem. We will see you there.

Love you.

Love you too.

District attorney valwell's here.

- In the lobby? - On the way up.

Da valwell, this is a restricted area

I just received a very disturbing call from my friend, warden Gil Thompson.

Of palmdale corrections?

I believe you told him a man on your task force

was gonna oversee the transfer of one of his convicted inmates.

Except there was no transfer.

Instead, there was a bright idea to aid and abet an escape!

Have I lost my mind?

Is that what I just said? That you allowed a convict to...

Let me stop you right there.

I'm not on trial, and this isn't a courtroom,

so you can stop performing like you're in front of a jury.

You're not allowed up here.

I don't care who you are, you don't have the clearance.

And I will not have you or anybody else tell me how to run my investigation.

Your investigation destroyed government property,

damaged relationships with the doc

and is, in fact, right now, endangering the lives of angelenos

that I have sworn to protect.

An armed convict is out on the streets.

Free as a bird!

Doing god knows what.

You know, I tried with you.

I really tried.

I offered you a helping hand, but you decided to bite it off like a...

Hey, hey, hey. I've worked three task forces with Nathan blythe,

and he is the best tactician I've ever seen

- I don't give a rat's ass... - Endangering the lives of angelenos?

- Damon... - No, Nathan. No, no.

I'm not gonna let this go unchecked.

Sac blythe is one of the only people standing between the citizens of this city

and a very dangerous, very imminent threat.

But you wanna be governor someday, is that what this is all about?

You wanna get up in our business so you can take credit.

Or you can avoid blame, depending on which way the wind blows.

But, you know what? This isn't politics to us.

This is what we fucking breathe.

So go Mark your territory somewhere else, on some other day. Let's go.

I have plenty of friends in Sacramento and more in DC.

So hear me now, both of you.

Your days on this task force are numbered.

Shit.

Come on.

Hey, we need a phone. I'll line up a ride to my uncle's place.

He'll get us out no problem.

Hey.

We got 40 seconds till that thing locks again.

Let's go.

Hey! Yo! Yo, this you?

- Sorry? - Is this… is this yours?

- I'm sorry. What? - I just… is this…

- Is this coffee yours? No? - No.

- I didn't get a coffee. - My bad. I… I thought it was…!

- I'm so sorry. That's-that's… - shit.

That's my bad. Let me…

- Here, let me... - No. No. Hey. Hey, hey.

- I'm-I'm good. All right? - Okay.

- Can I buy you something? You good? - I'm fine. I got it.

- My bad, y'all. I'm sorry. - Idiot.

Sorry.

Okay. My cousin's gonna meet us one block over.

All right. Let me see the phone.

Get rid of this thing before he turns on the tracking app.

Yeah, yeah.

- Come on, let's go. - Yeah.

This one. Thank you.

So, we went with cake?

- Yep. - All right.

- Wow. Looks great. - I agree.

Except it says "happy birthday, final."

- What? No. No, no, no, no, no. - Yeah.

- I spelled it for him twice. - That's okay.

All we have to do is…

You heard from meachum yet?

No.

- Yo, man. Where are we headed? - What?

You said something about an uncle.

Yeah, my uncle mikhail owns a Belarusian dance hall in Burbank.

It's being renovated.

That's where we're gonna hole up?

He can get us away.

Like I said, he's connected.

- To what? - Everything.

He's gonna help us both out, right?

Of course.

He loves me.

I'm like son to him.

All right, dmitry.

What the hell are you doing here?

- Uncle. Relax… - relax?

Who the fuck did you bring to my restaurant?

Why are you yelling?

I just got out of jail… got out? Got out how?

I got out.

You are going to bring the police here, you imbecile!

Hey, yo, man. I got to hit the head.

- Is that… yeah. - It's there.

- The toilet. - Hallway.

Where was I supposed to go?

He helped me get here.

Anywhere but here!

- This is oliveras. - Hey, listen.

I don't have time to talk, okay? We stole this phone.

Have Shepherd keep it online in case the owner tries to block it.

- Okay. - You can just track me with it.

- Got it. You okay? - Yeah.

Hey, nice work on selling the escape, by the way.

Finau's ready to murder you.

- Yeah, well, hopefully he gets the chance. - You sure you're okay?

Yeah, you know what it's like.

You're not really living unless you're close to dying.

What?

I gotta go.

I just heard from meachum.

How'd he sound?

I'm not sure. I got a bad feeling though.

What did he say?

Some bullshit. It's… I'm just… I'm reading between the lines.

- You got a location? - He stole a phone. Shepherd's tracking it.

Did he directly ask for backup?

No.

Well, what do you wanna do, boss?

You wanna put eyes on him or give him some rope?

This is absurd.

We're family and you're going to yell at me two seconds after I walk in the door…

Yes, and I'm going to keep yelling

because you have the sense of a goat.

Hey, man. I'm just looking for the… for the bathroom.

What are you doing down here?

Like I just said, I'm-I'm just looking for the bathroom.

- I got a little twisted around. - The bathroom right next to the stairs?

- Yeah. Yeah, I must have missed it. - And I don't believe you.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What's going on here?

Shut up.

Uncle, this is crazy! He literally saved my life!

I said shut up! You have no idea what you've done.

Who's that?

He's seen it.

Seen what, uncle? What does he

Timur, what's happening here? Come on.

Timur, I say this to you so you will fucking listen to me.

We have to get rid of him and we have to do it now.

- Get rid of? - Yes. Hear me. Yes.

Out back. Right now.

- You, move upstairs. - Yeah. Okay.

- Okay. - Okay. All right.

And if you try to resist, I will Bury bullet in your skull.

- Do you understand? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Look, man. Just listen to your nephew, all right?

- Shut up and move! - All right.

Take it easy, my guy.

Look, I don't know what I walked into here but if you just point me south…

Come on, man. I've spent a lot of time in jail,

I can keep my mouth shut, okay?

Timur, shut the fuck up.

I'm like a champion of say nothing, see nothing. The whole thing.

Come on, man. Listen to your nephew.

This is some bullshit.

Just go forward.

Listen. Out the door. Go.

Yeah, okay. All right. Shit.

- All right. Come on. - Go.

- There! - Come on, man. That's enough. Look…

Just let me run and I… you'll never see me again, okay?

Let him go, uncle.

Come on, Timur. Tell him. Tell him I know you.

Tell him I saved your ass when you were gonna get shanked.

I know him.

Both of you, shut the fuck up!

You, on your knees.

Do it!

Do it.

All right.

All right. Probably saving me some trouble anyway.

But, you know what, you're gonna look me in the eye when you do it.

Fuck you.

What's that?

- Don't shoot me! - It's meachum!

Two suspects, armed! At least one more inside.

- Damn! - The cops!

Take this… there.

Crossing.

Ready?

Go now!

- Moving up! - Covering!

Timur, to me, now!

One down.

Timur!

Fuck, it's jammed.

Finau!

- I think he got hit! - Go! Go!

Stop, you son of a bitch!

Hey, where are you hit?

- Where are you hit? - He missed.

- What? You sure? - He missed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Shit. Drew?

- Shit. - Somebody call it in.

We need a 10-1 immediately at Chestnut and brand.

GSW to the abdomen. I'm losing him!

I saw something in the basement they didn't want me to see.

Officer drew…