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Set up Hogan Engine RET regarding offshore launch systems and the NASA

next month.

Ah, no.

I'm meeting a friend for dinner.

Thank you, Sam. That'll be all.

Yes, sir.

Linda's confession was an act. He wasn't giving up Holder. That was business as

usual. The cabbie dropped Holder off at the mall, disappeared into a sea of

tourists.

Jared's too smart not to know Halder was operating under a different agenda.

I've left messages.

Not good enough.

He'll have to be good enough. It's the only number I've got.

Both Langley and Interpol have less information on Theodore Halder than we

Looks like Social Security, IRS.

Someone has to have something on this guy.

I've notified NCIC of Halder's known aliases.

He's wanted for the murder of Secret Service agent Todd Baxter and for

questioning at least a dozen other murders.

So why don't we squeeze Lyndon? He's got to know where Halder is.

Lyndon won't turn him over.

They have a relationship based on mutual needs, marriage of power and violence.

Halder was a gun for hire, but Lyndon called the shots.

Please, you don't really expect me to wear those, do you? Doing time is

new to Lyndon.

If I'm right, he'll work from prison.

Arrange for Halder's excommunication from the States.

Passports, cash, ID.

Precipitating the need for Halder to stay underground until Lyndon's

Bailey, Lyndon was released from Arlington 15 minutes ago.

Son of a bitch. Made a side bet.

U .S. Attorney's Office isn't compelled to proceed with charges against Lyndon.

Guy's got half of Washington in his pockets.

My friends are worried about this one, Theodore.

Too much exposure.

They feel that it's in everybody's best interest.

If I'm extricated.

I hope you understand.

Upper dermis is nearly cut clean through.

Almost took his head off. Professional job.

I think one of them could have shown a little restraint.

Unless it wasn't professional.

The killer might have known Lyndon and wanted him to find Halter dead.

Whoever Lyndon answers to found it in his best interest to kill them both.

We've been asked to assist in the investigation.

Turn off findings over there with Talbot. We tried log by the end of the

We weren't given a timeline.

Yeah, well, I'm giving you one now.

Deputy Director made the initial request.

Too bad he doesn't know what you guys do.

That's a clean -up.

Seems pretty obvious to me there's no psychological motive here.

Not obvious to me.

Well, it will be by the end of the week.

Someone's installed a foreign agent into the Secret Service.

I'm sure you can appreciate my reluctance to expose the department to

outsiders.

Restraints. On his ankles, too.

But none on Lyndon? He was the one in custody.

These aren't from handcuffs.

We need to find out where Halder was prior to this meeting.

Held against his will.

Kinky sack.

Could be on with anything.

Could mean anything doesn't work for me, Gracie. If the body's on the table,

ASAP. All right.

Halder could have been held. The worst thing to killing Lyndon.

That's why he has the markings and not Lyndon.

Fits with the lone assassin.

Yeah, but why here?

Too public for a conspiracy, too private for a message.

Spooks don't send messages.

This wasn't Jared.

Jared helped bring the situation out.

He was the one who brought these two to bear. That doesn't answer the questions

I have about him.

His whereabouts are a priority, Rachel.

Last person to see Halder alive was his partner, Jared Wilkes, who I'm still

waiting to interview.

Someone convinced Halder that Lyndon was going to move on and then use that

meeting to eliminate them both.

Yeah, but the force of the kill, it suggests more emotion than motive.

Like a lone wolf or someone who feels he's making the credit he deserves.

Lyndon's web of influence left a lot of people vulnerable to exposure.

Their deaths would end that concern.

Yeah, but this doesn't feel like business to me.

I pulled protocol on both of the victims, Baxter and Radcliffe, the

was breaking the story.

They both have ligatures that match the marks consistent with halter, just not

as deep. Was there anything to suggest that they were captured or tortured?

Well, the ME wasn't looking for that, so I only have his report to go on.

The only standout is a mention of scarring on some of the internal organs.

Scarring tells you what? Nothing if Radcliffe and Baxter recently had the

High fever and dehydration could have caused the hemorrhaging, but what did

a bell?

They either gave blood recently or they both had an IV drip in their arms.

Conditions of fever could have been introduced artificially.

That's what I was thinking, but it would take some pretty exotic proteins.

I'll have tox screenings by morning. Shall I take this to Talbot?

Hold off on that.

Thanks, Tracy.

Sense of duty.

If he's torturing people, maybe it's not for information. Maybe it's a way to

justify his impulse to kill.

I mean, if all he wanted to do was to expose corruption, he could have

himself up, gone on 60 Minutes.

Because he can't come forward. He's protecting his own agenda.

You know, if somebody's killing out of misplaced duty, we should look on the

bottom of the food chain, not the top.

Not someone who Lyndon answers to, but someone who answers to him.

I'll have George compile a background on it. Everyone who works under Lyndon.

Focus on government lifers.

disgruntled workers, anyone in the uniformed service who's been passed over

a promotion.

You sound, uh, keyed up.

Why don't you meet me for a night camp?

You know what? I just had my dinner sent up, or else I wouldn't. Well, don't

stay up.

I'll let you know when I hear from Jared.

You know, I keep trying to call you, but your line is always busy.

For three days?

I had to take care of some things.

Lyndon was booked on a flight to Austria the night of the double murders under

the name of Paul Purifoy.

Halder on a red -eyed prod.

Who made the arrangements?

I'm still working on that one.

Under what portfolio your undercover assignment ended with their death?

I didn't know that I needed credentials to care if people's lives were being

destroyed.

Look, all I want to do is find the truth behind Todd Baxter's death, which I

know you don't suspect has anything to do with me, or you never would. have let

me into your hotel room besides i know a friend when i

feel all i want to do is finish what i've started and i can't do that without

you that's what you're gonna end up like your last partner holder was playing

both ends against the middle i'll keep a better eye on you take care of this

Dad, I'm fine.

No, you don't need to come over.

Okay, look, someone's buzzing. I gotta go.

I'll talk to you later. Bye.

Yeah? It's me. I need a favor.

I thought this was over.

He's with you, isn't he?

I told you I don't know where he is.

I can't be tied to this, Emily.

Haller's dead already. It doesn't matter.

What's a little more evidence against him?

Emily Fadler came to Washington to make a difference.

What she found was greed and the perversion of truth.

My powerful men.

I need to crush her dreams and break her heart.

She was on Lyndon's payroll.

Answerable to him.

Unofficially.

Lyndon threatened to kill her father if she didn't lie to the authorities about

her last night with Baxter.

I think it makes her a pretty good target.

Or bait.

The ideal is to compromise the supplements too often.

Jared gave you this for a reason.

Suspicion wasn't the reason he asked us to look after her.

I think he cares, Bailey.

I don't think he can walk away from injustice.

That fits with your sense of duty.

But not with Jared's.

There's no motive behind his concern.

My antenna goes up when someone's this aloof.

He's just being careful.

People with something to hide have to be.

Tell me where he is.

What happened? I thought... Emily Sadler?

A friend buzzed downstairs. I thought you were him.

The guy in the first floor unit said he heard noises in the basement.

Figured I'd better take a look.

His clothes are soaked with sweat.

Dermis is starting to separate.

He boiled to death, basically.

Like something he was given intravenously?

Whatever it was, he got more than the others.

With the other victims hooded, I'll have to go back over the fibers.

Carragating them is only part of what he wanted.

Now it's more about judgment or punishment.

Give us an extension on our deadline.

You gonna be all right?

I mean, I can't save you. No, I'll be fine, Dad.

I'll call you later at the shop, okay? Okay.

What was your relationship with Special Agent Talbot?

I knew him.

Look, this isn't a fundraiser, and I'm not making idle conversation.

We met when I first came to town, a lifetime ago.

He was about way insider, I wasn't.

He had no interest in sex.

At least no interest in sex with me.

He also claimed not to have a sexual relationship with Todd Baxton.

Todd and I went to Columbia together.

We were friends.

That's all.

Did Talbot give you any indication of what he wanted?

Did it have something to do with Jared Wilkes?

Is he looking for Jared?

I told you he didn't say.

Jared's your friend, isn't he?

He saved my life.

I'm placing you under federal protection.

We'll have you moved to a safe house.

Wait, I can't go to a safe house.

If Worth gets out that I'm under federal watch, my career will be over.

Your career isn't all you should be worried about.

I'll leave two agents at your door while you pack.

The Emmy combed black cotton fibers off the back of Radcliffe's neck.

They match fibers consistent with the hood that we found on Talbot.

A killer doesn't want to look his victims in the eye.

Lyndon and Halder were spared his shyness.

The others had tetanitis globulinum.

Hort serum, basically.

Not as exotic as I had originally thought, but hard to get and very

The more you get, the higher your body temperature rises.

How long were they exposed?

Ten, fifteen minutes.

I doubt that their body temperatures rose above 105.

Talbot's temperature was 110 plus for more than an hour.

His vitals were soup.

Well, he couldn't have known what the killer wanted.

Talbot would have sold his mother out at the sight of an evil.

Malone. Hey, I got something on Ellis Talbot.

He had a couple of offshore accounts waiting for him in Aruba to the tune of

million.

How'd he get there?

Deposits were made from Lyndon's PR firm, where Talbot is listed as a

consultant. So Talbot was in on it, too.

Yeah, and something else, too. A couple of weeks before his death, Todd Baxter

took out a life insurance policy.

Nothing big, just enough to keep his mother comfortable.

Which he might do, you know, if he thought his life were in danger.

Or someone took the policy out for him to give the appearance he was afraid for

his life.

Well, the policy was executed telephonically, so I'm having the tape

from the insurance company.

Get me an address for the mother.

Tell Rachel to meet me outside in five.

Okay, boss.

He was a good son.

Those things they were saying about him in the papers weren't true.

Mrs. Baxter, did your son ever mention that he thought his life was in danger?

No.

But I doubt he would have worried me with it if he had.

Was there any sort of change in his behavior?

Did he seem agitated or anxious about something?

Last few months he seemed sad.

Felt like people he had once believed in had changed.

People?

Emily was his biggest disappointment.

Todd said they were just friends, but I think he still liked her.

I never said anything to him, but I never trusted that girl, anybody that

do what she did to get ahead.

I knew someday she'd hurt him, but I never...

It's so ironic he would die in that river.

He loved to swim.

Swam three miles every morning at the Veterans Hall.

It's not right to marry a child.

This is outrageous. What do you think I've got in there?

Cell phones and pagers pose a security risk.

What if someone's trying to reach me? You'll have outbound access to a hard

once you've settled in.

You won't even tell me where you're taking me. You need to keep this to

bags. If you need anything else, we'll send someone for it.

Agent Bertram?

If she gives you a hard time, just try and remember she's stressed.

Why don't you grab lunch? I'll make sure she's ready.

What a small world.

Todd Baxter was a good man.

He was a good son.

He was trying to do the right thing.

They were following us.

I promised I would keep an eye on you.

I was keeping an eye on you.

How well do you know Emily Sadler?

We talked, Mother. She looked convinced of her innocence.

Todd's mother is in mourning.

Yes, but she's still his mother.

I don't know about yours, but my mother's always had a pretty good

it's come to my friends.

Well, I never actually knew my mother.

What does your antenna tell you?

There's an element of shame involved in these killings. Even though the killer

feels it's necessary to end... The killer wants to remove anyone that was

involved in the corruption.

It's pragmatic.

The need to kill is...

Satisfying something in the killer.

The blindfold.

Killing the victims to end their suffering.

There's a shame involved in this.

Even though he feels it's part of his duty.

Emily Sadler is not proud of her part in Todd's death.

She's lying.

Look, she may be a liar, but she is not a killer.

I'm sorry. I just can't stop defending her.

That's okay.

I find myself defending you to Bailey.

Really?

Well, don't go sticking your neck out for me.

I'd do it for you.

I just think that I know a good friend when I see one.

God, I never do this.

You never do what?

Get involved with someone that I, uh... That you work with?

I'm without portfolio, remember?

Ah, that's a technicality.

What's a little technical difficulty between friends?

I don't suppose that you could pretend that didn't happen.

I can pretend to do many things, but that would be pretty difficult.

Burke.

Thanks, George.

It was Emily Sadler's voice that was on the tape.

She bought the insurance policy.

Emily did a lot of Lyndon's dirty work.

Yes, but now that Lyndon's dead, that makes her a loose end.

Agent Bertram will drive you to the location.

You're welcome.

She's all yours.

You faked your own death.

They were going to kill me, Emily.

They used you to set me up.

I know they threatened to kill your father if you didn't go along with it.

You can't trust these people.

They were taking me to a safe house. They were going to eliminate you.

Here.

I didn't want you to see that.

Thank God I got to you before they did.

But Jared... Jared's one of them. Don't you see that?

They must have gotten to him.

Look, they don't want their dirty little secret exposed, and they're willing to

kill anyone in their way.

I had to make them think I was dead. It was my only chance.

I found out what they were going to do to you.

Who, Tom? Who's behind this?

Until I know you're safe, the less you know, the better.

I'm going to see through this, Emily.

In my word.

Agent James Bertram, age 29.

His birthday is next week. Poor kid should have given up information sooner.

might have seen 30.

The agent in charge turned Emily over after securing her effects in the trunk.

Circumstances at the time prevented Agent Manning from getting a good look

the driver. Described him as solid build with dark features.

I've got George running a list of disgruntled or passed over agents with

or higher clearance.

Yeah, thanks.

They found a car abandoned a few blocks from her condo. He made the switch right

away. No witnesses. She must have put up a fight.

Somebody would have noticed.

He may have rendered her physically or psychologically incapable of struggle.

Dad!

He never leaves the door unlocked.

Dad!

They got him.

Who got him?

What did they want with him? You know who, Emily.

Jared Wilkes is a phantom.

I searched FBI files, CIA, Interpol. He doesn't exist.

Someone that deep is a threat to national security.

There's no answer at home.

We can stop this, ma 'am.

What are you talking about? Jared saved my life. What did he want you to think?

Or did he just happen to show up as you were being attacked?

Emily, Jared scared you into thinking that your life was in danger, so you

trust him.

Your father's in danger, Emily.

You gotta trust me.

The interrogation is a practical means to an emotional end.

He's asking them questions that they can't answer, so he's got no choice but

kill them.

Eliminating everyone involved isn't just to expose them.

He's purging himself.

He may have had honorable intentions at one time, but they got twisted up or

compromised.

I'll discuss with his own moral shortcomings. That might be the trigger.

So the killer is torturing his victims to admit their corruption as a way of

making up for his own.

I take it I'm no longer a suspect.

You've got a pretty strong ally on your side.

And we can use your help.

Tetanite is globulinum.

Horse serum.

I cleaned stalls one summer.

You know what? Maybe the killer did, too.

George? Yeah, that'll winnow down the list.

No, I mean... Agents in Washington with Level 3 clearance are about as rare as,

I don't know what, expense accounts.

Problem is, since the killings, central computing has shut down access to the

mainframe. Since when does that include you?

Well, 128 -bit encryption.

I just haven't been able to break through it.

Is there any way to get the right algorithm sequenced through the internal

security system?

If I had access to the right IP address?

Well, make me a copy. I'll see if I can collude something together that will get

you in the back door.

Someone with holes in his portfolio would be natural to take the fall for

I've managed to stay under the radar this long.

People we're talking about are good. Well, then I'll have to be better.

Emily's made some bad decisions, but if she's involved, it's not by choice.

If he wanted to kill her, he would have had plenty of opportunities to do so.

He probably thinks that she knows the names of other people that were

That's what worries me. I don't know what she knows, or even if she's aware

she knows it.

Good luck.

Hi, this is George. Leave your message after the tone.

George, it's Jared.

I have something I'm going to download to you. It's about 9 .30.

You know something? I didn't want to believe it.

You don't look surprised to see me.

Well, it would have been if I hadn't read a profile that made me think

otherwise.

Turned down by the Bureau three times.

Repeatedly passed over at the Secret Service.

When a man has his head against the ceiling that many times, he's bound to

resentful.

I guess your life didn't turn out the way you planned, did it?

What happened to you?

You're the one with the profile. You tell me.

We used to be friends, Todd.

You were in trouble and needed a ride that doesn't make us friends.

Well, I guess you live and you learn. Get your shoes.

Where's Emily?

Safe, so I know you won't do anything to jeopardize that.

Your shoes.

Bailey, Jared's using himself for bait.

Yeah, I've got it moving wet on LaSalle.

LaSalle, they're at the white.

This would have been a lot easier if Jared had to give Vanessa a heads up.

I know, he tried.

Whatever it was he wanted me to download, he just never got the sense.

Lyndon, Halder, Talbot, they're powerful, corrupt men.

Eliminating them was a necessity the killer enjoyed.

But it's not a true victory without Jared.

The man responsible for stealing his thunder.

He's been killing his victims systematically, working his way towards

Aware of Emily's feelings for him.

Jared knew how vulnerable Emily was.

That's why he turned himself over. To the killer.

There's not enough to kill Jared.

The killer needs to discredit Jared in front of her. He needs to be the hero.

Where to now, Georgie? You're right there. Maybe 20 yards ahead of you.

You should be right on top of it. There's nothing here.

There has to be.

Bailey, what's there?

Got something.

What is it, John?

Bailey?

Bailey?

Bailey, is Jared okay?

Bailey.

Jared knew what he was doing.

He felt responsible.

People were dying because of him.

Why would someone go through so much trouble to mask their life? What's he

hiding?

What's he running from?

Maybe it's something he's running to.

Something from his past.

Lyndon burned a lot of people. The list of disgruntled cronies who fit the

profile is long. We have to turn another corner. I have turned everything I've

got. You have to find one more.

The killer sees himself as someone heroic.

Someone who justifies those actions, compensating for a sense of

with dreams of greatness, a willingness to do what others won't.

I have a history of embracing organizations that justify their need to

action. Law enforcement, the military.

A stoic sense of honor and duty.

Of doing what it takes.

Making sacrifices.

Sacrifices that make him feel better about himself.

Maybe even the ultimate sacrifice.

What's more heroic than to die?

Beyond some hero.

George. Yeah, give me everything you can on Todd Baxter.

What have you done with my father?

Emily. What have you done with him? If something happened to your father, I had

nothing to do with it. I swear to you.

You should go downstairs.

What are you going to do? Find your father.

Don't believe him.

Emily, don't. Emily, don't believe him.

What happened to you, Todd?

What happened to the guy that saved my life? What happened to the guy whose

is worth saving?

Where's her father?

Is he tied up somewhere, too?

Or did you kill him?

I don't kill people unless I have to.

And what about that agent that was driving Emily to the safe house? Did you

to kill him, too?

He was just a pawn in their pawn.

I had to kill Emily to save Emily.

The only person that Emily needs saving from is you.

What's the plan, Todd? You tell her I confessed to everything?

Oh, her father's living proof of that.

You become the hero who uncovered it all and saved the girl.

You make me sick.

You've been exploiting her for instance since the very beginning.

There is no way that I will ever confess to your crimes.

We'll see about that.

Todd Baxter faked his own death to expose corruption and to win Emily over.

And he'll have used their friendship to build a trust, convincing Emily that

Jared's the enemy, lying to her to get to him.

Four years with the Secret Service and he never rose above a GS -10.

Rejected by the Bureau three times. Which has made my job easier, for once.

I mean, you know, Bureau applicants are viciously screened for security.

He volunteered for every dangerous assignment the Service has to offer.

High -risk security details, all kinds of undercover work. Anything to prove

himself worthy.

The one numbers his mother's getting, maybe it's him.

Checking on her.

Making sure she's okay, but not for her sake, for his sake.

That's what a dutiful son should do, right?

Got anything on Baxter's dental records?

Oh, yeah. They were accessed through the Internet on January 18th, which is the

day before Baxter was pulled from the river.

The dental records that were used to identify the body were the amended ones.

Have D .C. police send over a list of missing persons reported around the time

of Baxter's death.

Baxter probably lured some homeless guy with booze or cash, then used that body

to fake his own death.

Just got off the phone with Hagerstown PD.

Emily Sandler's father owns a bakery there. He's missing.

Baxter's got him.

That's what he used to finally get Emily to turn on Jared.

There's a disgrace and shame where he was punished or abused. I don't know.

Uh, this might be something.

When Todd was eight, he was hospitalized for dehydration. So was I, after almost

every football game I played.

Yeah, but you weren't suspended from school the same afternoon for fighting,

were you? What did his father do for a living?

George Baxter was a phys -ed teacher. He was also an ROTC sergeant and the local

scoutmaster. He had a leader.

Disciplinarian. He was probably harder on his son than he was the other kids.

Might have punished him at home, locked him up in a room without water for

beating up on some poor kid. Father died in 74 of diabetes.

Todd was just a boy.

Handed the house when he was 10.

Where was home at the time?

Where did Baxter and his father share a roof?

Fairfax County, Virginia. His mother still owns the house, but it's been a

rental since 89.

Is it occupied?

Yeah, by the Hearn -Wallace family. They've been there for six years. I call

them. Still their voicemail. Keep digging.

Lyndon and Halder were never going to pay for their crimes.

Extortion, murder, so -called suicides. They were going to sweep them under the

carpet like it never happened. And you were going to expose them, right?

Until you came along.

Now I'm going to expose you.

In a moment, you'll tell me everything.

Who you are.

Where you're from.

What your mission is.

You're not Jerry Wilkes, are you?

Tell me who you are.

Running when I met you. You're still running.

Who are you running from, Jared?

What have they done to win your allegiance?

When I was a child, I was

taken from my family. Tell me.

Tell me everything.

Emily, no.

No.

Don't talk.

0 .3 cc's of epinephrine administered some

cutaneously. Shh, it's okay. We've got you.

It's okay.

It's gonna be okay.

What was it?

They found him in the trunk of Max's car.

The boy, his father locked him in that attic for hours as a punishment.

Some summers it would get to 120 degrees.

So you figured out that Todd would want to be a hero in the place he least felt

like one.

You know, we almost skipped over that place, but George dug deeper.

Turns out that some of the tenants are the power and the phones turn out in a

rental in Baltimore.

Baxter quietly evicted them a few months ago.

I, for one, am glad for George's tenacity.

I wasn't sure I could have held out much longer.

You know, I'm surprised you held out as long as you did. Well, I read Gray's

protocols.

Countermeasure wasn't too difficult to come up with. A background in chemistry,

too.

Something like that.

You know, I'd like to see you again.

That's funny, because I'd like to see you again, too.

Will you trust me to get in touch with you?

Only if you promise you will.

It's a promise.

All

right,

the next time we meet, I'm going to make you something even better than

Bluebecks. Really? Mm -hmm.

That's the deal.

The next time we're together, I'm going to tell you everything.