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We are just now getting word of a story developing out of Hong Kong.

Sources say authorities there have apprehended...

...legendary criminal Raymond Reddington.

He's been on the FBI's most wanted list longer than any other fugitive...

...but tonight, sources are confirming...

...Reddington was arrested in Hong Kong just hours ago.

Reddington was once a rising star at the Pentagon.

Sources say he was being groomed for admiral...

...when, on Christmas eve, 1990, while on his way home...

Reddington vanished.

WOMAN: Four years later, Reddington resurfaced...

...and was charged with treason...

...for selling American intelligence to foreign states.

From this point forward, you don't exist.

Oh, heh, that's a load off.

MAN: Just hours ago, the U. S. State Department confirmed...

...Reddington has been remanded into U. S. custody...

...but officials will not comment on his current location.

Reddington's off the radar.

What do you mean? We don't know where Reddington is?

- CIA's not saying. - Why not?

Reddington's our asset.

Only 41 people in the U.S. government know.

I've talked to all of them. Nobody knows.

He's been on the run for years. His arrest was bound to happen.

He moves too fluidly to get caught up in something

...as obvious as a public assassination in Hong Kong.

- No, he wanted this to happen. - What if he didn't?

Why would Reddington wanna get captured?

SAMAR: His arrest was overseas. He must've wanted proximity to something.

If he's grabbed, it's either by the CIA ground branch or JSOC.

You think it's an intelligence apparatus that's holding him?

Scrub our sources at Langley and do it fast.

Once they drop him in whatever hole he's headed for, he's not coming back.

[DOOR BUZZES AND THEN CLOSES]

[DOOR CLOSES]

- 2-0-2, 5-5-5, 0-1-5-1. - You speak when you're spoken to.

2-0-2, 5-5-5, 0-1-5-1.

Call the number. Ask for a houseman.

Call the number.

Fifty thousand dollars will be transferred into the account of your choice.

Fifty thousand.

All I want is two minutes with your warden.

All right. We found him.

RESSLER: Hey! Hey. We got him.

CIA analyst confirmed they're holding Reddington...

...at a lockdown called The Factory.

That's bad news. That's really bad news.

- That place is real? - The Factory? Wait, what's The Factory?

A level-10 detention facility specifically designed to process detainees...

...trained to withstand interrogation.

Assets are brought in, information is squeezed out.

Data, intel, anything of value.

- This place is a slaughterhouse for spies. - They reduce them to ones and zeroes.

What's left is a husk that either rots away behind bars or is executed outright.

- We gotta get him out. - Think the CIA will let us talk to him?

- Just walk in there? No. - He's our asset.

No, they're gonna keep him all to themselves.

If he went there on purpose, I suspect it was to make contact...

...with somebody he couldn't get to on the outside.

He gave up 25 years of freedom to see this guy.

I wanna know who he is...

...and what intel he's got that's so damned important.

Master Sergeant Desmond says you offered him a bribe.

- Care to explain? - Within 12 hours...

...inmate Luther Todd Braxton will break out of his cell.

When he does, he will steal a classified intelligence packet...

...that contains secrets vital to your national security.

The means for his escape and his team are already in place.

This story feels like a desperate last gasp from a dying man.

Could be.

Regardless, if you don't move quickly, the prison will be overrun...

...and the dozens of innocent men and women who operate this facility...

...will be subdued and executed, beginning with you.

Luther Braxton is in solitary.

Not for long.

[DEVICE POWERING UP]

[DEVICE STOPS]

MAN 1: He's not cooperating.

MAN 2: Take him back to his cell. We go again in two hours.

Agent Cooper, Kat Goodson.

The director has brought me here to liaison with your task force.

Of course. We've met.

- The correspondents' dinner. - Huh.

You were the scotch, neat.

Please, tell us what you know.

I'm not at liberty to say.

The Clandestine Service is aware...

...of the arrangement your task force has with Reddington.

It's why we're running point through your office.

The director should've notified me before sending Reddington to The Factory.

The section chief sent a cable from the warden.

It said that Reddington claims...

...that a detainee, one Luther Braxton, poses a national security threat...

...and we're hoping that you can tell us something about their connection.

I don't know.

Who's Luther Braxton?

Braxton is a thief. Interpol's been hunting him for years.

He plans his heists to occur in the midst of chaos.

He is organized, meticulous, and he is bloody.

He stole 282 million dollars from Baghdad...

...in the middle of Operation Shock and Awe...

...abducted a CIA asset out of Iran during the '09 election protests.

Later, he sold his secrets to Beijing.

The CIA announced his death two months ago.

We say that about a lot of inmates at The Factory.

Truth is Braxton's being interrogated for secrets he stole...

...from the Chinese, from the Iranians, us.

RESSLER: My money's on the fact these two have a history.

Reddington, Braxton, they're planning something.

Whatever it is, you'll find out.

- Oh, we don't have authorization. - You do now.

Get to Reddington. Find out what he's up to.

Hey, Braxton, chow!

[ALARM WAILING]

We have a code Oscar, block B, Dorm 6! Activate critical response!

We need an emergency response team in block B now!

[DOOR OPENS]

MAN 1: Get away from the door! Fire one!

[EXPLOSION]

[GRUNTING AND GROANING]

Tell me what you know.

I tried. It's too late. You've lost the facility.

You tell me I'll have an escape before it happens. Now you're getting evac'd out?

Why the hell am I getting evac'd out?

Orders from up top. Bureau's cleared to send a team.

- Tell them to turn around. - What's happening?

- We got a problem. ERF failed. - Radio the chopper.

- Get him to the evac team! - Radio the chopper!

MAN 2: Back up, back up!

"Inmate number 2532, Xavier Chavez." I know this name.

He was a court-martialed special operator out of Fort Carson.

We got Kun Phan, a.k.a. Cambodian Carl.

Did 10 years in USP Florence for hacking U. S. missile defense agency.

SAMAR: What are you thinking?

RESSLER: I'm counting five, maybe more...

...who've all been processed into this facility within the last three months.

Got a munitions expert, special forces.

I'm counting eight guys here.

Khalid Sankar, Yemeni medic, Jonah Rodriguez, ex-marine...

...and Cyrus Choy, he's a Red Pole enforcer out of Taiwan.

LIZ: He's got an entire team in place.

What the hell is he doing?

LUTHER: Go!

Go!

Sir.

Nest command to ACR, block B has been breached.

We need tactical reinforcement.

MAN 1: Sir, we just lost video!

MAN 1: Camera 2 is down!

MAN 1: We got a problem. MAN 2: We got gas.

We got smoke!

[ALL COUGHING]

Gotta turn you back! We're in a full-facility lockdown!

We've had a breach! Detainee has taken... Aah!

[GRUNTING]

[MAN SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Weapons on the ground! Weapons on the ground now!

Weapons on the ground now!

Easy!

Desmond to deck command, prisoner for transport, come back.

That $50,000 is still on the table, Desmond. It's yours for the taking.

All you gotta do is help me to help you stay alive.

[COMPUTER BEEPING]

You sure about this?

Do it.

MAJOR [OVER COMM]: Eagle, eagle, this is major.

We have breach alert. Please authenticate.

Eagle, eagle, this is major. We have breach alert.

- Please authenticate. - The eagle's dead.

MAJOR [OVER COMM]: Identify yourself.

I'm the man who took over your gulag...

...and you're gonna put me in touch with somebody who matters. Clear?

[GROANING]

- Samar. - Ressler...

...I can't put any weight on my foot.

Horrible, isn't it?

This room.

This is where all the prisoners come to die, after you break their minds.

They're led here like cattle for you to slaughter.

When they put down your rebellion, pal...

...you're gonna take my place up here, I swear.

[MAN CHUCKLES] Hey!

Get on your feet! Get your feet!

Get on your feet! Get on your feet!

Stay! Get on your feet!

[COUGHS]

ARAM: Sir! Sir, we have a situation.

We've lost contact with Agent Keen.

- Ressler? Navabi? - Nothing since they touched down.

I reached out to Langley. The entire facility is dark.

We've got Braxton. The CIA's patching him through.

This is Agent Rosenberg, our hostage negotiator.

Tread lightly, Agent Rosenberg. Those are my people inside.

Understood. They'll be fine.

We're gonna take our time, hear what he has to say...

...and get everyone out alive. You ready?

Mr. Braxton, this is Agent Phillip Rosenberg.

The director of NCS has instructed me to open a dialogue with you.

We're not having a dialogue.

I'm hereto listen, but I need to talk to the warden.

I need to make sure that he's okay and can confirm the hostages are okay.

No, you are a water boy...

...a bureaucrat with a stack of cue cards.

Just need to talk to the warden.

Of course you do. Protocol.

I have him right here.

This is Warden Mills.

Mr. Mills, everyone's okay?

Some casualties, but all accounted for.

That's terrific. Glad to hear your voice.

See that, Mr. Braxton? I just wanted to talk to the warden.

Mr. Mills? Warden?

- Mr. Mills? - I'm done talking to you, Mr. Rosenberg.

I wanna speak to somebody of real authority.

This is Harold Cooper, assistant director for the FBI.

Hello, Harold Cooper.

I'm pretty sure you see how this works. I get what I need, or somebody dies.

From here on forward...

...I am the warden.

[GROANS]

- What the hell are you doing here? - I came to help get you out.

You came out of curiosity.

Or maybe I actually care about what happens to you.

- Your government is being robbed. - From here? How? What's he after?

The Fulcrum.

I don't know what that is. What is that?

It's a blackmail file, proof of the existence...

...of an extraordinarily powerful clandestine organization.

If their activities were made public, some of the most powerful...

...and influential men would go to prison or be executed.

And it's here, this Fulcrum?

No, The Fulcrum isn't here...

...but information critical to finding it is...

...and that's what Braxton wants. But I'm here to stop it.

- I can help you. - No, you need to leave.

Ressler and Samar have been taken hostage.

They shouldn't even be here. You never should've come here.

Why didn't you come to us?

Why don't you want me here?

I'll get to Ressler and Samar as soon as I can.

- You get back on that chopper. - Not without Ressler and Samar or you.

Now, how are we gonna stop Braxton? He has an entire team.

Well, sadly, there isn't a prison on earth where I don't know a few guys.

If Braxton wants the secrets they beat out of us...

...he's gonna need to get into the server, which is only accessible from The Nest.

How about during a lockdown?

This facility's like a submarine.

It's compartmentalized. Can only be shut down by sections.

Security protocols render the entire server room inaccessible.

How do you know that? I didn't know that.

Khan has broken out of seven prisons. This will be eight.

This server room, where is it?

KHAN: Northwest quadrant, basement.

We can't get you inside, but the German, he has an idea.

Who is she? Who is this girl?

She's with me.

Your idea?

The boiler room.

It's located next to the server room.

If you could get there, you could reprogram it to overload.

The pressure would cause an explosion.

- That would blow up the server room? - If you're lucky...

...it will take out the server room. If you're unlucky, the whole prison craters.

"If you could get there."

Yes, the only way into the boiler room undetected is through a single air duct.

It's less than 24 inches square.

Looks like I'm the tunnel rat.

All right.

Khan will guide you to the boiler room.

Gernert and I will be waiting for you to let us in...

...then you'll reprogram the system.

What about me? What's my job?

You don't have one. You're here because of what your cartel did...

...to Felix Moralez and my people in Reynosa.

Okay. Shall we go to work?

Braxton, you need to see this.

Approximately... [PHONE RINGING]

I'm sorry. The warden can't get to the phone right now.

May I please take a message?

Nothing?

Not a "Hello, how are you?"

Say something, Luther.

Reddington.

- That's me. - You're locked out, Red.

I have complete control over this hellhole.

I'm confident you've got a plan for every imaginable scenario...

...but it's the scenarios you can't imagine that bite you in the ass, Luther...

...like me here.

Do you think this is something that snuck up on me?

After Belgrade?

[SIGHS]

Belgrade.

Boy, things got nasty in Belgrade, didn't they?

LUTHER: It's funny, up until then, I was aimless, just an ordinary thief.

But after Belgrade, I became known as the man...

...who bested the great Ray Reddington. - You didn't best me, Luther.

You butchered, clawed your way into my pockets...

...and innocent people died in the process.

You're such a snob, Red.

Always considered yourself above the fray...

...with your handmade suits and your fancy wine, your private jets.

Do you even drive?

You got everybody convinced you're so hard, Red, but I know better.

You're soft.

You're not getting The Fulcrum.

And how you gonna stop me, Red?

Bore me to death with Beethoven?

Put me to sleep quoting Nietzsche?

Come on.

We both know that in order to stop me, you gotta have balls.

You gotta run the gauntlet.

And after Belgrade, well...

...that's just not gonna happen.

So tell me, how are you gonna stop me, Red?

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question...

...than a fool can learn from a wise answer."

Was that Nietzsche?

No. Bruce Lee.

This man has an abdominal wound.

He's going to die.

[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Who forgives and does the right thing will be rewarded by Allah.

Please!

RESSLER: Let him down.

Damn it, let him down!

[GROANING]

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

Okay, Harold, let's test your reflexes.

This facility has been put into lockdown, meaning...

...all existing codes that ran this prison have been invalidated.

- We're aware of that. - Good, then you must also be aware...

...that one code has been generated by the mainframe...

...a master code giving the CIA and any rescue units all access.

- I want it. HAROLD: Understood.

I can get my people working on that right away.

Okay. Your reflexes, Harold? Shabby.

Mine, however...

...lightning quick.

You just cost an innocent woman her life...

...which means we 'II just have to get ourselves another one.

Let me set the scene...

...just like them old radio dramas your granny used to listen to.

I'm standing in front of a tall...

...fit...

...very attractive Persian girl...

...by the name of...

...Samar Navabi.

Maybe you're familiar with her.

Anyway, Miss Navabi has a noose around her neck...

...her very long, lovely neck...

...which is about to get a lot longer unless you give me the code.

I'll give you 10 minutes.

We're gonna give the code, right?

Sir, I'm sorry, but you have to give the code.

It's a black site. Nobody will know we're negotiating. I'm sorry, but...

...we're gonna give the code!

I am not allowing that maniac to lynch one of my agents.

You can't give him the code.

You know the protocol.

That negotiator gave me all the relevant details...

...including the master code. Why wouldn't I give it to him?

Braxton doesn't want the code to break out.

He wants it to break into our network.

What network?

The Factory isn't just a black site.

It's a level-six intelligence node.

It communicates with Langley, Pentagon, White House Sit Room.

The intel being squeezed out of these targets, our highest-level targets...

...is mission-critical.

We needed our interrogators and our operatives...

...working together in real time, so we removed any latency...

...between the time we received a lead and our ability to act on it.

You put an access point to the country's most sensitive data...

...in a prison with the country's most dangerous enemies?

Yes.

Which is why I am asking you...

...do not release that code.

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

Sir, Braxton's back online.

- Cooper. - The code.

What assurance do I have that no hostages will be harmed?

None.

The code.

[GROANING]

You hear that sound, Harold?

That's the sound of Agent Navabi's neck being broken.

- Please. Stop. - The code.

Dallas, Foxtrot, one, Charlie, three, seven, two. Now let...

[LINE DISCONNECTS]

Braxton?

Braxton, respond.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[BOTH SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Are you enjoying inflicting this pain?

Pray to your God he lets you live.

Answer me.

If the person deserves it, then yes.

We've done nothing to deserve this torture.

You're FBI. You did more than enough.

Please. Allah is ever-pardoning, ever-forgiving.

- We're ready here. - Good. Get to the server room.

I'll radio you once the system's back online.

- Where are we? - I have attacked this from every angle.

Once Braxton reboots the servers, he'll have access to the intelligence network.

- How do we lock him out? - We can't...

...not without flipping the switch on the entire network, and he knows we won't.

- What would that entail? - Our DOD satellites shutting down...

...a temporary loss of real-time communications.

- So CENTCOM would go dark. - Assuming we could get authorization...

...it would take hours to shut it down.

KHAN [OVER COMM]: Once you make that last turn...

...it's about 10 more feet.

- You'll see a vent there going down. - Yeah, I think I see it. I'm here.

KHAN: Follow that, and you're in.

CARL: Braxton, we're in.

Dallas, Foxtrot, one, Charlie, three, seven, two.

[DEVICE POWERING UP]

[GRUNTS]

[LIZ COUGHS]

- You all right? LIZ: Yeah.

- Are you sure? - Uh-huh.

Have you ever heard of Bruno Ashmanskis?

The most skilled cat burglar I've ever had the pleasure of working with.

Bruno mostly did jobs on commission...

...but he wanted to do something for himself, something special...

...so he got it into his head to break...

...into the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge...

...to steal an imperial vase from the Ching dynasty worth millions.

The single biggest trophy of his career.

- What happened? - I never heard from him again.

I'd always assumed he'd succeeded...

...that he was sipping some umbrella-clad cocktail on a beach in Tahiti...

...until five years later during a remodel of the Fitzwilliam, they removed a wall.

There was poor Bruno... What was left of him, anyway.

...Stuck inside a heating duct, still clutching that vase.

I prefer to think of old Bruno on that beach in Tahiti.

GERNET: We have a problem.

What?

Our asset is tracking the extent of the breach.

It appears that Braxton's team has penetrated your country's network.

We have confirmation on what they're looking for?

Yes, we do. The Fulcrum.

So Reddington does not have it.

I never believed he did, actually...

...and his efforts to stop Braxton only confirmed my suspicions.

- What's our collateral exposure? - Honestly? None.

We are mirroring Braxton's search algorithms...

...and if the Fulcrum comes into play, we will find it.

WOMAN: So Mr. Braxton is a liability?

Oh, yes, and Mr. Reddington may no longer be a threat.

We haven't touched him for fear that he'd use The Fulcrum as a...

Well, to expose us, but he's bluffing.

You can't be sure of that.

Alan Fitch did not think so.

Whether he is or not, it's a moot point.

He needs to be eliminated.

This prison of yours, The Factory...

...I understand the American public is unaware of its existence.

Perhaps they would not notice if it were to disappear.

- How much longer? - We've had a setback.

Gernert is working on alternatives.

I'm telling you, there are no other options.

This model has redundant computerized safeguards.

If I attempt to over-pressurize the boiler tank...

...those safeguards kick in automatically.

There's nothing you can do to override it?

It would have to be done manually. That means someone standing here...

...resetting those pressure-relief valves every 90 seconds...

...while someone else mans temperature controls...

...until this pressure cooker hits 700 psi, and that is not gonna be me.

You're not going anywhere.

Yeah, I am.

Because whoever stays here to do this manually...

...is gonna be blown into a million pieces.

- Or just one. LIZ: Wait.

You shoot him, they'll hear.

They'll be here within 60 seconds, and then what?

We can do this, you and I.

After the pressure reaches 700, how long do we have until it explodes?

Anywhere from 10 to 20 seconds...

...but there's no way to know for sure.

You're better off walking away now.

[SPEAKS IN GERMAN]

Good luck.

Heh, Red, you know that after Delhi, I'd do anything for you...

...but you'd be lucky to get off this rig, and whatever your plan is...

...I'm not a part of it.

I've helped you. I've done my piece.

Way I see it, we're even for Delhi.

[DOOR OPENS]

We can do this.

DIRECTOR: If we don't stop this,

the death toll isn't going to be in the dozens...

...it'll be in the thousands...

...and the world is gonna look quite different...

...with Braxton in control of all our servers.

Every operative, every analyst, every case officer in his pocket.

And Mr. Cooper has given him the keys to our kingdom.

We have to make sure he never has the chance to use them.

We have federal agents on site.

Buy me more time.

Let me activate an extraction team.

No.

No, just order the strike.

Yes, sir.

I'll have planes in the air within the hour. The target will be destroyed.

ARAM: Sir, you gotta see this.

I just got confirmation that two F-22s were scrambled out of Wright-Patterson.

They're headed toward The Factory.

- ETA to target? - Twenty-four minutes.

Get Kat Goodson. Now.

Braxton, accessing information now.

One.

Two.

Three.

[ALRAM WAILING]

Six-fifty psi.

A few more, and the boiler blows.

When are you gonna tell me the truth?

- What truth? - About why you came here.

The blackmail file, The Fulcrum.

I can't allow Braxton to get it.

Why? What difference does it make to you if he gets it and exposes this...

Cabal?

The group believes I have it.

It's one of the reasons I'm still alive.

So if Braxton gets it, they'll know you don't have it...

...and they'll kill you, is that it?

[ALARAM WAILING]

- What's the number? - Six-eighty.

So that's what this is about, this whole thing?

Protecting yourself?

[SCOFFS]

It may be hard for you to imagine, but I once had a relatively normal life.

Bills to pay, play dates, family, some friends, people to care about.

Lost all that.

Lost how?

In Mexico, there are these fish...

...that have colonized the freshwater caves...

...along the Sierra del Abra.

They were lost.

They found themselves living in complete darkness.

But they didn't die. Instead, they thrived.

They adapted.

They lost their pigmentation, their sight...

...eventually even their eyes.

With survival, they became...

...hideous.

I've rarely thought about what I once was.

But I wonder...

...if a ray of light were to make it into the cave...

...would I be able to see it?

Or feel it?

Would I gravitate to its warmth?

And if I did...

...would I become...

...less hideous?

I didn't want you to come here, follow me here.

Because the truth is, if I don't stop Braxton...

...what he'll discover is that he can't get The Fulcrum without you.

[ALRAM WAILING]

What does that mean, "without me"?

Get out of here!

[RATTLING]

- What the hell is that? - We're offline.

Get down to the server room, see what's going on.

[LIZ COUGHS AND GROANS]

Red?

Reddington?

Oh, God.

[SIGHS]

Breathe.

Oh, my God.

Red, breathe.

[GROANS]

Breathe, you son of a bitch!

MAN: Down here! The boiler room!

[GRUNTING AND GROANING]

Take her to Braxton.

Paper-dog, we are 10-zero minutes from primary target.

Requesting authorization to arm and engage.

You can't let this happen.

Don't put this on me. You gave up that code.

You have three federal agents and at least 40 innocent hostages...

...in that facility. Inmates included, over a hundred lives will be lost.

I don't agree with this course of action, but I understand it.

It's damage control because you couldn't make the tough call.

We don't even know what Braxton's after.

What the hell is so important in that database...

...that someone wants to kill those people on the chance that he might get it?

- I won't just roll with this. - What are you gonna do?

Go to the Post? The Times?

This whole operation is deep black. It doesn't exist.

Every trace will be incinerated the moment Reddington's a confirmed kill.

You know what happens to whistle-blowers...

...kooks, paranoid freaks.

You'll be a keynote speaker in their next woo-woo convention...

...and your people will be just as dead.

Reddington, get up. [RED COUGHS]

You gotta get up, Red.

Where is she?

Where is she?

Who the hell are you?

The server's gone. She blew it up.

- Carl is dead and so are the others. - Get Beck and Wolcott on it.

You don't understand. The prisoners are loose.

If they find out we have a chopper, we'll have a real problem.

We need to go now.

[GROANS]

Where's Reddington?

He's dead.

Ah, I count at least a dozen cells destroyed.

We've got inmates in the southeast quad.

You seem like a decent guy, Desmond. Do something else for a living.

The animals are loose. You can't get to The Nest without going through them.

They'll kill you. What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna get her back.

MAN: Hey!

I'm talking to you! I'm gonna need that shotgun.

[GROANS]

It's over. The server's destroyed.

Sir, we got reports of gunfire in the north hall.

- We can't raise anyone on the comms. - Reddington.

Head him off.

Get the chopper. Let Yousef handle the hostages.

PILOT: Paper-dog, ETA two minutes. Making final approach to target.

[GROANING]

[GROANING]

All this, and you don't even know what the hell you're looking for.

- I know what it's worth. - It's not what you think.

It's not a golden ticket. It's a target on your back.

I know all the stories, Red.

[SIGHS]

I know where it was 20 years ago, and I know when it disappeared.

I know about the house, the fire, the girl.

[COMPUTER BEEPING]

Sir, I just got word.

The missiles have been launched. Impact in 30 seconds.

No wonder you came for her.

She was there that night, wasn't she?

She's the one?

Shoot him.

Shoot him.

[AIRPLAN ES DRONING]