All language subtitles for The Equalizer s04e11 Trial by Ordeal

It is the contention of the prosecution
that McCall and Control were in

collusion.

Second, that Control committed murder.
That is a lie. We had a hidden camera in

my corner. We picked up every word.

Damn you!

These violations carry the maximum
penalty. You are going to execute this

deserve to die.

Are you insane?

You are out of order. You are out of
order! Everyone here is a...

tone, please state your problem and the
telephone number at which I can reach

you. If the phone is not available to
you, please suggest a time and place

we can meet.

I assure you, I will receive your
message. Thank you.

Mr. McCall, this is Message Central.

Message from Control follows.

Your meeting scheduled for tomorrow has
been changed to 8 p .m. tonight.

Control asks that you come to 7 East 9th
Street.

He will meet you inside the building.

Charlie?

Charlie McGinn?

Hello, Robert.

What are you doing here all dressed up?

I'm supposed to be meeting control.

I know.

Put your hand in your coat and take out
your pistol.

Very slowly, please.

This is the way to treat an old friend,
is it?

I suppose you tell me, Charlie, what's
going on here.

Mr. McCall, I think you know what this
is.

Oh, yes, I know what this is.

This is a company tribunal, a bloody
kangaroo court.

So who's on trial?

Oh, well, I suppose it had to happen
someday.

Please escort Mr.

McCall to his chair. No!

I think not.

Mr. McCall, it is my duty to inform you
that internal operations have convened

this trial.

Just stop right there. Let's wait. Just
wait!

Now, since... I am no longer employed by
the company. I do not acknowledge the

authority of internal operations to
convene anything.

I am now leaving.

I then escort Mr.

McCall to his chair.

It's been three years since you
attempted to leave us.

In that time, we have been very patient.

But now, you have been reclassified.

Category Red.

I believe you understand what that
means. When I resigned, control took

pains in communicating to me the
company's displeasure, including the

Category Red.

McCoy, you've got to come in. Look, I've
been keeping the wolves off.

They're starting to cough your blood.

I am an old war horse let out to
pasture. You are the most dangerous man

ever known.

Now, you keep that thought.

You've got too much information in your
head. Places, names, dates, entire

networks. You know the other side would
have a field day pulling that stuff out

of here.

They could try.

McCall! McCall!

Wait a minute. Look, I know... I know
why you resigned. I didn't have to read

the letter, all right?

McCall, come back.

I cannot do that.

You're too great a security risk for
them to tolerate, you understand?

Then you take your best shot.

Mr. McCall, you think your resignation
has made you untouchable. It is my duty

to remind you that when you joined this
company 29 years ago, You signed an

irrevocable oath, placing yourself under
the jurisdiction of this company.

That document with your signature is
right before me now.

Did you understand what you were
signing?

Yes, indeed, I fully understood what I
was signing.

I was selling my soul to the devil.

If I am on trial here, let's not waste
any more time.

I want to know what the charges are, and
I demand to meet my accusers face to

face.

Very well.

Mr. McGinn, proceed.

Ah.

That's your cue, is it, Charlie?

I'm the prosecutor, Robert.

Gentlemen.

Robert, I'm going to ask you some
questions.

You will answer truthfully and fully.

Oh, yes, of course, of course.

realizing that the company never asks a
question to which it doesn't already

possess the answer.

Just watch the screen, would you?

February 17th, 3 p .m.

You and Control met and exchanged an
envelope.

Would you tell the tribunal what exactly
were the contents of that envelope?

All right, I'll tell you, Charlie.

It was a mail order for a dozen new bow
ties. I had just discovered a secret

source.

Don't presume on our friendship, McCall.
And don't you presume on my patience,

McGinn. I'm answering no more questions
until I find out what I'm charged with.

You're not charged with anything.

Then what the hell am I doing here?

The person on...

I think you'd better cooperate with him.

Well, what's Control supposed to have
done?

Control is charged with establishing his
own independent worldwide intelligence

infrastructure, thereby breaking his
oath and jeopardizing the security of

very organization he was sworn to
represent.

Specifically, Vionation No. 28.

The Morrison Directives.

That's treason!

ridiculous. Not against the United
States.

Against the company.

Which we consider to be one and the
same.

Excellent.

All we need now is Alice and the White
Rabbit. After all, we're already in

Wonderland. Robert, tell them the truth.

Answer any question that they ask.

And don't hold anything back. Madam,
with your permission, I would like to

withhold my questions regarding the
contents of that envelope for a later

examination.

Robert, I want you to tell the tribunal
the nature of your relationship with

control. Yes, I could do that.

But it would be totally beyond your
comprehension.

Well, why don't you try us?

We are friends.

Now, am I right in thinking that, both
for you and Control, that friendship

proved to be very advantageous?

Friendship usually does prove
advantageous. What's your point?

I would like the tribunal to note that
Control utilized company resources and

broke the law for no other reason than
his friendship with McCall.

And I want to submit into evidence a
record of events in which...

Robert McCall was framed.

I am right, am I not, in assuming that
this is not a setup by one of your

people? No, no, I'm not guilty.

Because there are a few of them who are
very pleased about it, but they didn't

do it.

Who wants you this bad?

It would fill a telephone book, wouldn't
it?

I don't know.

I don't know.

My client pleads not guilty, Your Honor.
So noted.

Now, seeing as this is a first -degree
murder charge, it is the opinion of the

District Attorney's Office that
defendants should be remanded... Your

object. My client is a... Your client is
accused of a crime of premeditated

violence, and thus the defendant is seen
as presenting a danger to society.

Therefore, I'm forced to concur with the
wishes of the District Attorney's

Office, and I'm denying bail.

Your Honor, I... I am ordering
defendants for hearing.

All grand jury action at a future date.

Next case.

Case number 62312.

People of the state of New York versus
Mark Lewis.

Suppose I owe you one.

Now, let's just say they were even.

Forever.

Control, I did not ask to be broken out.

Well, you wanted to clear yourself.

Yeah.

Robert, seriously, my help ends here.

You don't call Jimmy, you don't call
Kosmeyer, or any of my people. We're out

it now, all right?

All right, don't call me. I'm going to
Bermuda.

You bloody hate Bermuda.

I bloody hate this.

All I want from you, Robert, is the
truth.

The evidence is absolutely clear.

So why don't you admit it?

Control utilised company personnel and
classified information to support your

private business ventures.

You consider saving my life a private
business venture?

I do.

Then consider this.

The vast majority of my enemies...

were acquired when I was working with
the company.

Now, when Control released me from that
jail, we had every reason to suspect

that I was about to come face to face
with one of them.

That's a ridiculous rationalization, and
we reject it. This case is just another

example of a barter relationship.

For every service that Control
performed, repayment was expected in

That's a lie. A damned lie.

We didn't keep a ledger sheet, either of
us.

As proof that Robert McCall is lying, I
submit for the tribunal's examination

this document, 1207E.

Now, this document was found in Controls
Personal Safety.

On the left -hand pages of this book,
you will find listed dates, places, and

specific company resources made
available to McCall for his personal

On the right -hand side, please note the
activities control demanded of McCall

in return, which included helping him to
establish a personal network of

operatives around the world. The
document is accepted as potential proof

purge.

Let the record show the document 1207E.

includes the two lists described, and in
control, own handwriting.

Madam Judge, Robert McCall was not aware
of that document.

That is irrelevant.

The fact that it exists is proof of the
Barter relationship.

But not proof of Pershing. It is merely
proof that control is an obsessive list

maker, which any of his colleagues will
be only too happy to verify.

Oh, I see.

So there was no...

formal obligation when you accepted
control's help.

No, none whatsoever, except the
obligation of friendship.

It is the contention of the prosecution
that Robert McCall and control were in

total collusion from the very beginning,
protecting each other at every turn.

No clearer evidence of such activity can
be presented than the events of the

24th of November, 1987.

I enter into record this document.

127 .6, which includes a Senate
transcript and other documents obtained

company surveillance.

Mr. McCall, 24th of November.

Would you care to tell us what happened
on that date?

Why waste time?

You've got it all there.

Yes, but we would much prefer to hear
your version.

Very well.

I was summoned to Washington.

to a hearing of the subcommittee of the
United States Senate.

Control was being investigated because
he had caused the company to invade the

privacy of a United States senator.

This is a preliminary investigation
which, according to our findings, may or

not lead to a full subcommittee hearing.

I am at your service, Senator.

Information has come to light that five
years ago, my personal life...

was subjected to official but illegal
scrutiny by operatives from your former

agency. Senator, if I might be
permitted, Mr. McCall... And

brazen incursion into my privacy was
carried out in response to a direct

from your former associate.

Is it true that control ordered the
before -mentioned surveillance of

Claremont?

Yes, it is true.

And to the best of your knowledge, did
Control know that this surveillance was

illegal? To the best of my knowledge, he
was aware that the surveillance was

illegal. Yes.

Well, well.

You know, the places I had to check out
before I found you.

There's some time for dessert.

You buried me in that hearing room
today.

I simply told the truth. Yes, I know.
That's what buried me. Now, I want to

know... what you intend to say tomorrow.

Control, I don't think we should be
talking about this just now. I do, I do

understand what you're getting at. Then
what are you going to tell them

tomorrow?

I don't know, but I'm sure I'll think of
something.

The purpose of your appearance here, Mr.
McColl, is to provide further

information on the allegation against
Control.

Yes, it is. Yesterday you testified that
Control ordered the surveillance of

Senator Claremont.

Senator, might I have a word with you
off the record?

Just answer the question.

Very well, sir.

I did not advise control as to the
impropriety of his actions because the

investigation was ordered by a higher
authority.

That authority, sir, being your dear
friend and mentor, Senator Robert

Williamson.

Williamson? Yes, sir. He has serious
doubts about your military clearance.

He was deeply concerned that his
involvement in this investigation should

be traced.

Therefore, he ordered Control and myself
to keep it secret.

Senator, I think we ought to put this
matter to rest.

So, without the slightest compunction,
you reveal highly classified information

at Senator Claremont's hearing.

Yes, I did.

Were you aware that the senator had
access to top secret files, and was in

considered a security risk?

A rationalization always used by the
company for any illegal act against

Congress. As a matter of fact, there was
no proof at all against the senator,

and it was assumed by most people that
he was the victim of a personal

And with that excuse, you breached
security, and for no other reason than

protection of control.

Oh, there were other reasons, I do
assure you.

What were they? Well, for one, having
left the company, I took great joy in

telling the truth.

Oh, yes, yes, of course.

And, Control, you never reported
McCall's action?

No, I did not.

No. In fact, once more, you covered it
up.

Isn't that true?

I asked you a question.

The tribunal wishes to inform the
defendant that if he fails to answer...

An automatic verdict of guilty will be
rendered.

Oh, that's wonderful.

Bravo! Bravo!

Now he's being forced to incriminate
himself.

Mr. McCall, you are out of order.

I redrafted Mr.

McCall's last testimony to the
subcommittee.

You changed the congressional
surveillance report?

Yes, I did.

Madam Judge.

Let me review what the prosecution has
proved to this point in the trial.

First, control allowed McCall to
renounce his oath of service and

him in this illegal action.

Secondly, on numerous occasions, control
bartered company personnel and

resources in exchange for McCall's
independent service as a non -aligned

operative.

Control condoned in the most flagrant
way breaches of security on the part of

McCall for no other reason than his own
personal particularity. Now these

violations alone would carry the maximum
penalty.

This isn't a trial at all.

A tragedy of justice by the company's
warped standards.

This man is one of the most faithful
servants the company has ever had.

Madam Judge.

May I ask what you are going to do with
him when he is found guilty, as of

course he will be? In the event of a
guilty verdict, we will follow the

directive.

You are... You are going to execute this
man?

Mr. McCall, you seem to have forgotten
the seriousness of what it means to be a

member of this organization.

Every piece of evidence that has been
presented so far indicates both cynicism

and derision on your part for what we
represent.

Although it's not fashionable to believe
so, within our company, the concept of

treason still exists.

In 1952, the revelations of William
Morrison, after he was indicted as a

agent, cost the lives of 17 operatives.

That proved the need for a secret trial.

and immediate execution.

Mr.

McGinn, continue with your case, bearing
in mind that if control is convicted,

Robert McCall stands trial on the same
charges.

The prosecution's next witness.

is an individual who has entered into a
plea bargain agreement.

In exchange for his testimony on
control, we have agreed not to file

treason against him.

Bring in the witness.

The prosecution calls Michael Kostmeyer.

Michael Kostmeyer.

How long have you known Control?

I guess about nine or ten years.

And you were brought into the company by
Robert McCall, is that correct?

Yes. Does the name Exton Incorporated
mean anything to you?

Wait a minute.

Mr. Coxmire knows nothing whatsoever
about that. This really is a totally

pointless line of interrogation.

Mr. McCall, if you wish to remain in the
room, you must be silent.

Silence! Madam Judge, I was merely
pointing out that Mr. Kostmeyer here

nothing whatsoever about X -Ten. It was
kept from him. I ask the question again.

Does the name X -Ten mean anything to
you?

Yes.

How did you know about it?

Control was in trouble.

I was working for McCall. We were trying
to help him out.

But Control and McCall did not know.

is that I was working for the Director
of Operations as well.

You were what?

I had no choice at all.

I'm sorry.

So you observed them both throughout the
incident in question?

Yes.

I followed them everywhere.

Their first meeting was in a warehouse
by the river.

I had alerted company surveillance, so
we had a hidden camera and microphone in

position.

He picked up every word.

I believe that his mission is to kill
me.

Well, there's a hundred agents in the
company who are very too glad to shoot

one night. Why come to me?

Well, I can't go to the company.

Why not?

It's to say I can't, all right?

I know what I'm doing, Robert.

Same as last week.

Motto of any suicide mission, eh?

Listen, how many times, Control, do I
have to tell you I am not in the

anymore and I have no desire to return
to it? Do not understand. I am asking to

become one of your clients.

I find this very difficult to accept.

I've never known you with a problem you
couldn't handle.

Will you help me?

All right, what do you want me to do? I
just want you to keep him under 24 -hour

surveillance. I need a free hand for a
while. To do what?

You don't want to know. Don't ask.

Just watch Coble, is that it?

And don't take any action unless it's
absolutely necessary. With Coble, action

was always necessary. Let's just try and
keep you alive.

From your mouth to God's ear.

So, Mr. Cosmire, you tell us that
Control became McCall's client.

Yes. Madam Judge, before proceeding, may
I ask why it is that apparently Control

has no one to defend him?

Control waived his right to defend
before the trial began.

That's because there was no one I could
trust.

Then do you wish to retract that waiver?

Only if Robert McCall is allowed to
defend me.

What?

I can't do that.

I'm not qualified.

According to the Morrison Directives,
any senior member of the company may act

as defense counsel.

All right.

All right, I'll do it.

Let the record show that Robert McCall
has been appointed defense counsel.

Mr. Kostmeyer, will you tell us what
happened the night after control became

McCall's client?

McCall followed control into a very
elegant townhouse.

And would you tell us what you overheard
there?

Exton Incorporated?

You followed me.

Well, it wasn't very hard, which is
strange because that is so unlike you.

Don't you think it's time you told me
the truth?

All right.

Exton Incorporated is a front.

The company's been getting out of hand
for the past few years, so much so that

committee has been formed.

To oversee its actions is kind of a
watchdog debate.

Left hand checking on the right hand.
Only in this case, the right hand

know that the left hand is checking.

How the hell did you get involved in
this in the first place? About five

ago, a request came down to the highest
level that I'd be consulted on internal

security.

And you found a breach?

A year ago, the KGB accomplished a major
coup. They infiltrated not just the

company, but X -Dev and the mole.

Someone we trust, John Furman.

He put him in as a secretary to a new
committee member.

Somehow, the man got access to the files
that he photocopied.

That's what we were looking for when he
died.

He died.

You haven't been able to find him.

That's right.

That's why Coble is in New York. Robert,
I have to find those photocopies. I

have to find them, and I have to keep
them from the KGB, and I have to keep

from the company.

Robert, everything is in there.

What do you mean, everything? I mean
everything.

Oh, great.

Sir, a separate organization was
established to collect highly classified

information and watchdog company
activities.

That's my understanding.

Subsequent to this, the papers referred
to by control were recovered.

You did read them, did you not?

I did. And what was in them?

Madam Judge, I submit that since this
incident happened some two years ago,

and since these papers were in Mr.
Cosmire's hands for a short sort of

would have been impossible to have done
a full evaluation. Do you remember what

you read in those papers, Mr. Cosmire?

Yes.

It was a complete list of
assassinations, actions to destabilize

manipulation of currencies.

In short, everything the company has
managed to pull off in the last 25

Places, dates, and names.

Why do you think X -Con would compile
such a list?

What kind of a question is that? I
merely want the evaluation of a trained

operative. No, you won't.

You were asking for an opinion.

An opinion!

Here is a man on trial for his very
life, and you...

are talking about conjectures. You want
conjectures? Very well, sir, you shall

have conjectures.

Cosmo, in all your experience, have you
ever known control do or say one thing

that was in any way disloyal to the
company?

No, never.

Is it not so?

That extent was formed by control
because he felt that the company was in

being out of bounds.

And he, as a loyal member of the
organization, wanted the company to get

to its ethical foundation, is that not
so? I object.

How can you object?

What reason do you have to object? You
want opinion?

Fine. Then let's have opinion.

But on a subject where your witness has
a certain amount of authority, please.

Robert, don't.

What the hell are you doing sitting here
like a sacrificial lamb? They are going

to tear you apart. Your life is at stake
here.

Mr. McCall, you are out of order.

No, madam, I am not out of order. You
are out of order.

Everyone here is out of order.

All of you talk about freedom and
justice.

You don't know the meaning of the word.

Be quiet or I shall have you removed.

Robert, defend me. Don't destroy me.

Mr. McGinn, continue with your
questions.

So, based on Mr. Kastmeyer's report to
the Director of Operations, the Extern

building was placed under surveillance.

I would now like to present the final
piece of evidence regarding Control's

involvement in that organization.

Document 1344H.

Just as I thought.

You weren't asked to handle the security
for the Extend Committee.

You are the Extend Committee.

John Furman was your secretary.

He was killed.

I've always admired your powers of
deduction.

Thank you.

Which brings me to the main thing.

Still to be resolved.

Yeah, which is?

Why the hell you lied to me?

It's what I do for a living.

So, Control himself was Eggerton
Incorporated. Indeed.

He collected information,
misappropriated company assets, and even

committed murder.

And to what purpose?

The subversion of the very organization
he had sworn to defend.

Supposition. No proof whatsoever.

Wrong again, McCall.

I would like to bring back into question
the contents of the envelope I

mentioned earlier.

McCall, would you care to tell us now
what the contents of that envelope were?

No. Totally private. Of no concern to
anyone here.

Another lie.

Well... Thanks to the ongoing
surveillance of Mr. Kothmeyer, your

now irrelevant.

I have here a photocopy of the content
of that invoice.

And I would like to submit it to the
tribunal along with my final arguments.

There was excellent.

A front organization...

created by control to collect classified
data and observe company activities,

but extant served its purpose and was
superseded by something far more

dangerous.

The envelope that McCall gave to control
contained the final confirmation of

the most damaging network that's ever
been assembled.

An affiliation of top agents from around
the world dedicated.

to the destruction of company interests.

The Sandstar Confederation.

That is a lie.

Not so.

In your hands, Your Honor, is a
photocopy of a document bearing 93

And above those signatures, the Sandstar
Declaration.

And I quote, We, the undersigned, pledge
our lives and our resources...

to the worldwide defense of human
rights, accepting as our mission the

of any force that shackles the freedom
of human conscience by unjust

enforcement, false trial, torture, and
execution.

Do you disavow this document?

No, I do not.

Madam Judge, I demand to be heard by
this court.

And I demand a verdict.

A verdict will be rendered.

Because of the overwhelming evidence
presented, this tribunal finds control

guilty on all counts.

According to the Morrison Directives,
the sentence of death cannot be carried

out without a unanimous vote by ten of
the defendant's peers.

Madam Judge!

He has the right to make a statement
before that vote is taken.

Control, do you wish to make a
statement?

Yes, I do.

Very well, proceed.

I know that I have taken actions that
seem to violate my oath to the company.

want you all to understand that I... My
loyalty to everything that we represent,

to all of you, has never wavered.

Every person sitting in this room is an
agent or has been one. Every one of you

knows the paradox that we face in
attempting to defend our country, our

governments, our rights.

Sometimes we become the instruments of
oppression.

Which one of you hasn't lost a little
bit of his own humanity, a little bit of

his spirit? We watch while innocent men
and women are imprisoned.

are tortured, are maimed, and are
murdered by the same damned, soulless,

that we are forced to maintain in power.

Well, a balance has to be struck.

The Sandstar Confederation was created
for this purpose.

To give prisoners of conscience the
opportunity, whether they disagree with

or not, to live without fear and in
freedom.

All our intelligence organizations...

continued to maintain our allied
governments, Sandstar was designed to

independently to save victims, the same
victims that we created.

It exists for no other purpose.

If the defense of individual liberty is
a crime, well, then I am guilty.

And by God, I deserve to die.

So be it.

Now may I call for the vote?

Each of you has a card.

One side is white, the other black.

I must remind you that a unanimous vote
is necessary for the sentence of death.

Gentlemen, please hold up your cards.

Control, it is the duty of this tribunal
to sentence you to die in the electric

chair.

According to the Morrison Directive,
that sentence must be carried out

immediately.

Are you insane?

You are just going to sit there and
watch him die?

Are none of you going to say anything?

You've known this man for years.

You all work for him.

Most of you owe your lives to him.

You, Markland.

He got you promotion when every single
person wanted you executed.

And you, Stevens.

The new royal...

Thank you, Mickey.

Charlie, that really was very well done.
You make a fine, fine prosecutor.

Very nasty.

Part fugitive.

Oh, you're so kind, McCall.

And thank you, Ellen.

The tribunal was marvellous.

Authoritative ad nauseam.

And you, gentlemen of the jury, I'm sure
you must be wondering what on earth has

been going on here.

Call it trial by ordeal, if you will.
However, it's not Control who's been on

trial here today, but each and every one
of you, the ten key members of his

staff.

Matter of fact, Control has not been
indicted by the company at all.

He's just been promoted.

Both Northern and Southern Controls are
now under his leadership.

He has some doubt as to the ethics and
loyalties of certain of his

functionaries. And what better way to
test those loyalties than by allowing

of you to vote on his life.

And gentlemen, I do think you would now
agree with me that control has now a

very, very good picture of each and
every one of you.

Gentlemen, I believe we have a great
deal to discuss.

I'm sure the fear of death had taken
their little yucky minds away from

intrigue. Oh, yes, indeed. And I have
put the fear of death into them. Each

of them is very busy contemplating his
own potential execution.

By the way, Robert, you did a
commendable job. That was an award

performance, you know.

Thank you.

So, I may assume that they are going to
be allowed to live. Oh, yes. Loyal staff

is very hard to find. And I think after
a season of penance, they'll be

extremely loyal. I think they'll
probably be very grateful.

You know what fascinates me? What do you
find fascinating?

This fantasy that you created, Fanstar
and the rest, when we were about halfway

through, I suddenly got a rather strange
joke.

You too.

Fanstar Confederation is real, isn't it?

You actually have created a shadow
organization to free prisoners of

Robert, I'm surprised at you.

That would be treason.

Interesting. But underneath that crass,
company, slavishness, there finds itself

a heart.

Please, old son.

Somebody might think that I have caught
your disease.

Absolutely brilliant.

Well, next Saturday, our season of
audience classic continues.

The next on plus trial by order for the
Equalizer.