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In here.

It's just the prototype, but it's fully functional.

It can be scaled up for any population...

...into the millions.

This is gonna make you an incredibly rich man.

For your own protection...

...I'm gonna need anyone intimately familiar with this...

...to sign a non-disclosure.

I've only shown my wife.

Well, then...

...I guess there's nothing left to do...

...but celebrate.

Here's to a better future.

The paralytic you've just consumed...

...is proprietary as well.

It was discovered accidentally...

...during development of an ADD medication.

Paralysis was an unwanted side effect.

It must feel amazing, dying knowing you invented something...

...that will change the world.

Honest to God, third time this month?

My fifth grader's more punctual than you.

This won't go unnoticed by HR.

This'll be reflected in your performance review.

One to ten, please.

Nobody's gotten a minus before, but they broke the mold with you.

Dust off your shoulders. You got dandruff everywhere.

There's gotta be something I can do.

- There isn't. - It's not just Agnes.

It's Liz, it's Kirk. He's telling her things.

Things about her past, you know?

And I think she's starting to trust him.

We're doing everything we can.

- You gotta understand that. - I do.

But there's gotta be a lead I can run down.

- I told you... - Or a dead end I can revisit, please.

Please.

The Kremlin hates Kirk just as much as we do.

I reached out to the D.C. station chief...

...to take a look at their intel. Got a big fat nyet.

If you want to revisit that dead end, be my guest.

Maybe your methods will be a bit more persuasive.

The station chief, who is he?

Vasily Komarov, a cultural attaché...

...at the Russian Embassy. It's a cover allowing him...

...to run U.S. operations for the SVR under diplomatic immunity.

- Vices? - None that we know of.

Trust me, we looked.

- Thank you. - For what?

This conversation never happened.

Conversation about what?

He sicced me on the SVR for intel on Kirk. Not behind your back.

- I was gonna tell you... - You don't have to apologize...

...for trying to find our daughter.

I know you think he won't hurt her or you can draw him out...

Agnes is missing because of Kirk's obsession with me.

If I were you and our daughter were missing...

...because of something that had nothing to do with me...

What I believe is that we should do everything we can...

...to bring our daughter home.

- I'll call you if I get anywhere. - Not if.

When.

The doctor has been baptized...

...and is ready to make his confession.

I'm getting hitched on the 16th.

Wee Chapel at the casino.

Extend the invite to Mr. Kaplan.

As Alexander Kirk's hematologist...

...I assume you oversee his transfusions...

...and coordinate with his specialists.

I want to know how it works...

...where you meet, with whom, and when.

Please.

He's a sick man.

Perhaps another go with the candiru fish.

I understand they burrow...

...into the most impossible nooks and crannies.

All right, I...

I give him blood transfusions once a month...

...and weekly erythropoietin injections.

When did you last see him?

About six days ago.

Then you'll be seeing him within the next 24 hours.

Where?

I don't know.

No, I don't. I don't know...

...until they call me with the next location.

Please.

Fish him out of the tub, and, Dembe, while you're at it...

...have him take a look at that mole.

It's a freckle.

Let me guess:

You and the pastor are dear friends.

Never met the man.

I am, however, a benefactor...

...for the artist they hired to lead the restoration.

As luck would have it...

...sprucing up the old apse hole will take months.

You're squatting in a church.

I usually have a devil of a time getting to sleep, but here...

...I sleep like a babe in the manger.

- Did you get Kirk's doctor? - Yes.

He's going to lead me to Kirk.

I want to be there when he does.

The Lindquist Concern.

- Don't change the subject. - I'm not.

The doctor gets us Kirk.

The Lindquist Concern gets Kirk to give us Agnes.

Why? Who are they?

A group that corporations pay...

...to suppress inventions that would undercut them if brought to market.

Companies do that all the time.

Buy up patents just to shelve them.

Big oil did it to the NiMh battery in the '90s.

When they can't kill the invention...

...they have the Lindquist Concern kill the inventor.

Like Omar Najjar. He was working on revolutionary technology...

...with the potential to save millions of lives.

Now that it's in the hands of the Lindquist Concern...

...it will save none.

I'll call it in, but if you have a line on Kirk I'm staying with you.

Agent Navabi. I have your next case.

Ian Pugachevsky worked on a cold-fusion device...

...in his basement for 20 years.

Two weeks after claiming he had a breakthrough...

...he vanished while hiking in the Sierras.

This is Karen Rose. She developed an alternative to opiate painkillers...

...that was just as strong, non-addictive, and had fewer side effects...

...but before reaching clinical trials she died...

...of an apparent overdose.

According to Reddington, they were murdered...

...their ideas suppressed and their research never found.

Well, did he say how any of this relates to Kirk?

No, but he did say that a number of accidental deaths...

...of amateur scientists and inventors...

...are actually homicides committed by the Lindquist Concern.

Who was the most recent?

- Omar Najjar. - Married, no children.

Chemical engineer in R & D at Bethesda Plastics.

Start there.

If someone hired this Lindquist Concern to kill Najjar...

...I want to know what revolutionary technology they got their hands on.

Make it quick.

He gets massages twice a week...

...from a woman who moonlights as an FBI informant.

- Does he? - He does now.

I need you to get contracts and a payment history...

...documenting her work.

And by "get" you mean fabricate.

Name's Annabelle Dixon.

I'm asking you to help me get intel on Alexander Kirk.

I am asking you to help me get my daughter back.

Let me see what I can do.

We do high-volume injection-molded plastic components.

Not to speak ill of the dead...

...but Omar wasn't exactly a rock star.

- What's that mean? - I don't know.

He was quiet, kept to himself. Hard to get to know.

- You worked together how long? - Three years.

You know how many times we saw him at the Christmas party or picnic?

Zero.

He was smart and recently super-excited.

He'd had some kind of breakthrough.

- On what? - I don't know.

Not anything he was doing here.

We have IP clauses in our contracts...

...that allow us to pursue outside projects.

Theo, these need your signature.

Excuse me. Omar Najjar, did you know him?

Not really. I wish I could help.

Sorry to interrupt.

I don't know what Omar was working on, but it was big.

If you're here because you think it got him killed, talk to his wife.

If anyone knew what he was up to, it was her.

Somebody down here?

"My husband Omar was my life.

I can't go on without him.

To end this pain I must end my life. Please understand.

Suicide was my only option.

Mona Najjar."

M.E. says no criminality.

No defensive wounds, no bruises, and the body wasn't moved postmortem.

If he's wrong and she really was killed...

I mean, look at all that blood.

It tells me that someone cut her wrist while she was still alive.

And look at this.

- Fun summer reading? - Hidden inside...

...Omar and one of the coworkers that I spoke with.

What about it?

She said she didn't know him.

It won't come.

What?

Forgiveness.

For Kate.

For what I did.

You did nothing.

Exactly.

Your daughter is safe.

You've seen Agnes?

Alexander's taking excellent care of her.

- Where is she? - I don't know.

He moves so Reddington can't find her. He's protecting her from him.

Do you know what he did to me?

Your daughter being with a man capable of that kind of cruelty?

You could be asking me that about either of them.

I can't defend everything Alexander has done.

I can defend why he did it.

Alexander's a good man.

Mind your bedside manners.

Hello?

Yes.

I understand.

Go ahead.

Tell Mr. Kirk I'll be there.

Goodbye.

Dembe, please inform Edward we're going to Geneva.

Elizabeth, I need all the satellite intel the task force can get their hands on...

...for this address as well as schematics for the building.

Listen to me.

This doesn't need to be another one of your scorched-earth raids.

A curious concern for a mama grizzly going after her cub.

In my experience, when people lie about knowing the victim...

...they were involved in the murder.

I wasn't involved in Omar's murder.

I was involved with him.

You lied to keep the affair secret.

Nobody at work knew about us...

...or about what he was working on.

- Which was? - A desalination process.

Six hundred million people don't have access to clean water...

...and Omar invented a way to extract it from seawater...

...that's efficient and cheap and can be scaled to service entire cities.

Who else did Omar talk to about this?

No one until last weekend.

He met this amazing guy.

He knew everything about bringing an idea to market.

For a surefire self-confidence booster...

...groom yourself, dress nicely...

...stand tall, prepare.

- Where did they meet? - At the Inventors' Expo in Trenton.

He gave Omar hours of free advice...

...and Omar walked him through every step of the invention.

If this guy, whoever he is, if he killed Omar and his wife...

...I could be next.

I'm the only other person who knew what he was working on.

You gotta find this attorney.

Magnesium is more abundant, less reactive...

...and cheaper to produce than lithium.

- I'm so sorry. - Sorry about that.

- There you go. - Thank you.

Hold on. This doesn't say "patent pending."

You're not pitching your invention without intellectual-property protection?

Oh, no, I mean...

Yeah, I was.

I know. I'm a huge moron, right?

Not if your idea sucks.

If it's brilliant, then yeah, you're a moron.

Find good patent counsel.

VC's won't invest unless they know your technology's protected.

Then protect me.

You're an attorney, right?

I stood behind you in the lunch line. Eavesdropped.

What's your name?

Riley Emerson.

You have a working prototype, Riley?

Like you said, "Show no one until it's patented."

Let me know if you want me to take a look.

Maybe I can file the patent application pro bono.

Here's my cell.

You'll never get past my assistant.

She's there to protect me from people like you.

What is this?

- Who are you? - That doesn't matter, Vasily.

What matters is that you're passing state secrets to the FBI...

...through Annabelle Dixon.

- Please. - She works for them. She's your handler.

I'm prepared to keep that fact secret...

...if and only if you give me the SVR file on Alexander Kirk.

- I have no time for this. - Surveillance photos.

Signed confession witnessed by Special Agent Donald Ressler.

Go ahead and ask her. She'll deny it.

But by then, your reputation's gonna be destroyed.

All I'm asking for is intel on a man that your own government detests.

So I'll give you one hour to decide whether you want to ruin his life...

...or yours.

Elise, hey.

I'm not really allowed to Facetime at work.

Yeah, I know, but it's kind of an emergency.

The dishwasher...

I know. Disaster.

I was trying to clean up, not that you're a slob.

I'm not great with appliances.

So if you don't want your apartment to turn into a bubble bath, maybe you...

- ...could help me out here... - Bad time?

No.

Maybe.

The footage of Omar meeting our suspect.

Were you able to enhance the video?

Yes, but not enough to run the image through a database.

What I did find...

...was this.

A business card.

"Goodwin, Benham and Yates, L.L.P."

It's a D.C. law firm specializing in I.P. and patent law.

"Charles T. Gellner"? Okay.

Looks like I will be paying Mr. Gellner a visit.

My dishwasher, it's...

...super-finicky.

I almost always dry by hand.

I'm gonna go.

Right, I'm just saying it wasn't her fault, the bubbles.

FYI.

Charles Gellner. Agents Navabi and Ressler, FBI.

- We need you to come with us. - Why? What's wrong?

- This doesn't concern you. - I think it might.

- And why is that? - Because I'm Charles Gellner.

I'm afraid to tell you that someone's stolen your identity.

What makes you think that?

Well, sir...

Because you're black.

Not a crime.

- Hello? - Mr. Wellington, hey.

This is Riley Emerson. We met in Boston.

Riley. Funny, I was just talking about you with my managing partner.

About whether I was brilliant or a moron?

About your idea.

We think it's very interesting.

We'd like to talk about helping you out.

Oh, my God. That's so great.

Do you want to get together, let me show you the prototype?

I'd like nothing more.

The law firm checks out.

Lindquist agents assume the identities of patent experts...

...to lure inventors into revealing their ideas and their research.

The number on the card. Where are we on that?

Three of the numbers were hidden...

...so I had to run down a few hundred combinations...

Two hundred and forty-six, to be exact.

...And in addition to two PTA presidents and an amazing doggie day care...

...I found this burner phone.

I had the cell carrier triangulate its location...

...to this apartment building in Oak Hill.

- How many people live there? - One hundred and twelve.

But our suspect's name is Silas Gouldsberry.

- How do you know? - He is the only tenant...

...who works for the patent office.

Get there now.

- Navabi. - Samar, hi.

I hope this isn't weird, me calling you.

My name is Elise. I'm a friend of Aram's and...

Elise. Hello.

I hope you didn't flood the apartment again.

He told you about that.

Why wouldn't he? He tells you everything.

- I'm a little jealous. - Can I help you with something?

From what I can tell, you know him so well...

...and the point is, why I called...

Aram, his perfect date.

What would that be?

That's why you're calling? For dating advice?

Yeah, I mean, you're his best friend.

And after nearly destroying his place today...

...I want to give him a night he'll never forget.

How would you do that?

He admires Kirk.

Says he's a good man.

He shouldn't.

And he's not.

I'm in the middle.

Between you and Kirk, between Tom and Kirk.

Can you at least admit how difficult that is?

No.

It's only difficult if you accept the premise that Kirk is your father.

I don't.

At the church...

...what was Dembe praying for?

Salvation...

...that will never come.

- FBI! - Federal agents!

Kitchen clear.

- Bathroom clear. - Clear.

- Bedroom clear. - What's down that hall?

It's a bit of a directory of registered patent attorneys and patent agents.

He's got half a dozen doctored IDs...

...with matching business cards:

"patent agent, angel investor, patent attorney."

"Charles Gellner."

- What's that? - His next victim.

A magnesium battery is the holy grail of energy storage.

Everyone and their mother is working on one...

...but no one could find a magnesium-friendly electrolyte.

- That's the stuff... - The material that allows...

...the ions to flow between electrodes.

Hey, you know your stuff.

And you, all of 24, have cracked it.

That is pretty young...

...to be a billionaire.

This is Riley. Leave a message.

Riley, this is Special Agent Samar Navabi with the FBI.

We believe you may be in danger.

I am going to file for expedited status on the patent application.

Anyone who knows anything about this is gonna have to sign a non-disclosure.

And that includes me.

Haven't really had anyone else to tell.

You know, you're the first person to ever really believe in me.

Thank...

You okay there?

Yeah. No, I mean...

I don't think you are.

So stupid.

You should never use a car engine to power anything in a garage...

...with no ventilation.

There's a car running.

Got it.

Ressler!

It's okay.

Ressler! Got her!

The car...

I need an ambulance. 310 Northview Drive.

During World War II, the Oeuvres de Secours aux Enfants...

...smuggled Jewish children out of France to Switzerland.

This was one of their staging areas.

Now it's mine.

Are you planning an extraction or a land war in Asia?

My plan is to make contact with you...

...as soon as Alexander Kirk is in my possession.

What do you mean?

I'm going with you.

Given your conflicted feelings for Kirk...

...I believe that would be unwise.

I gave you the satellite intel on Kirk's location.

I'm the reason you're able to get him.

Which I appreciate, but as you said, you're in the middle.

Given our mission, that's not a point of view we can indulge.

I'm not going anywhere.

My point exactly.

UNITED STATES PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

I have a subpoena here for Silas Gouldsberry's...

...phone, computer and employment records.

And I need you to revoke his employee-access card.

I can revoke the card, but it won't do you much good.

Why is that?

He's in the building.

Navabi, what do you know?

He's here. Gouldsberry swiped in two minutes ago.

- Do you have a visual? - No, but security's alerted.

The building is in lockdown.

We'll set a perimeter. Agent Ressler, get there now.

I have a visual. Basement, sector five. Sir...

Buttercup, glad you could make it.

Now HR can...

Everyone, on the ground!

What's on the other side?

Server room.

Call for backup.

Silas Gouldsberry?

FBI.

You've gotten yourself cornered and you're looking for a way out.

Let me help you.

- I don't need your help. - Sure you do.

What do you want?

I want money.

Twenty million, in unmarked bills.

Nonconsecutive serial numbers.

In 30 minutes, or I start shooting the hostages.

Kirk's medical suite is being set up off the Rue Baulacre.

He'll have a man stationed on the perimeter here.

Here.

And at least two covering the south entrance here.

I want everyone to memorize the way out of the interior.

- I don't want any missteps. - Excuse me.

There are three medical personnel there, all good men and women.

- You can't hurt them. - I'm sorry, Dr. Reifler...

...but you're not part of the planning committee.

As requested, doctor, your medical team's safe and sound.

Bravo.

- Dr. Reifler? - Yes, Alexander, I'm here.

We just passed Rue du Clos. We'll be right there.

Very good.

- He's five minutes out. - In five.

I need assurances...

...that your evidence will be destroyed...

...and your word as an agent is definitely not satisfactory.

That's good, because I'm not an agent.

Or a spook. And the SVR did not task me...

...to find out whether you're compromised, which you're not.

What, then? Who are you?

I'm a dad.

Alexander Kirk took my little girl.

And I'll do anything to get her back.

So if you pick up your hand...

...and that is your intel on Kirk...

...on my daughter's life you have my word...

...that my intel on you will be destroyed.

You won't believe what I'm doing.

- The lead Ressler gave me... - Nothing.

We found Kirk. He's in Geneva.

Our first lead, and Reddington leaves me behind...

- ...with a couple of armed guards. - What do you mean, Geneva?

That's where Kirk's meeting his doctor. He's headed there.

No, he's not. He's in Russia.

- What do you mean? - The lead Ressler gave me.

It panned out. I got the SVR file on Kirk.

- It had actionable intel... - That Kirk's in Russia?

This morning, they raided a safe house, but he was gone.

I need to call you back.

- Put him on. - Elizabeth.

Tell him it's a trap.

You're walking into a trap.

She says this is a setup.

Laurel. Now is not a good time.

I know. That's why I'm here.

The patent office. I want an update.

Twenty hostages, one wounded, one dead.

Barricaded into a server room. The demand is 20 million.

We have 22 minutes before he starts shooting.

And the inventions, the ones he kills for, where are they?

- How do you know about that? - I'm the national security adviser.

My job is to know about anything impacting national security...

...and it's my understanding they do.

How did he know? How did Kirk know?

I don't know. It wasn't me, okay?

I was with you the whole time.

Tend to my men.

Raymond.

Yeah?

What happened?

Is everyone okay?

No. Men are dead, others gravely injured...

...because someone warned Kirk.

You don't think...

I called to warn you.

I know that.

You don't sound convinced.

We're at cross purposes, Elizabeth.

Not about Agnes. About Agnes, we're in lockstep.

But about Kirk, about who he is...

...what he wants, we're at odds.

That's because you can't accept that Kirk has answers to questions...

...I've been asking my entire life.

Your call saved my life.

Thank you.

Silas.

What condition is your wounded hostage in?

Better than he deserves.

I see a lot of blood loss here. Why don't you send him out?

Where's my money?

I'm working on it, but that amount of money takes time.

"Better than he deserves." What did you mean by that?

You ever invented anything?

You ever experience that moment of discovery?

It's a revelation.

And the man you shot?

Will never know what that feels like.

But I do.

I've come up with an idea that doesn't need a patent.

An idea that is going to change the world.

I don't see anything world-altering about this.

You will...

...in 19 minutes.

- What are we looking at? - I've got access...

...to the patent office's servers...

...and there is an alert from the TCP retries counter...

...meaning someone is uploading data. Like, a ton of it.

Why do you think it's Gouldsberry?

- Can you see what's being uploaded? - No, but I can see how long it'll take.

Fourteen minutes. Same time he gave Navabi to get the money.

Money he could have made ten times over selling the inventions he has.

- So it's a smokescreen. For what? - Aram.

If he had enough schematics, could uploading them take this long?

Sure, maybe, but if he did that, then they'd become available...

...to the many at the expense of the few.

- He's open-sourcing them. - Is HRT in place?

- Yes. - Send it in now.

- If I do that, hostages will die. - If you don't...

...national security will be compromised.

- We don't know that. - Harold...

...the ideas he has are revolutionary, right?

In medicine and in energy...

...and for all you know, in computers and next-gen weaponry.

You really want to open source that to Russia, China, Iran and North Korea?

What I want is to let this play out for another 13 minutes.

Resolve it without a bloodbath.

That's not a risk I'm willing to take.

Send in the breach order or I will.

I was 23 when I sold my first invention.

I was gonna be a star.

The company that bought it, they had a plan.

We were gonna save lives and change the world.

Three weeks after signing it over...

...they killed it.

Shelved my idea for the sake of their bottom line.

After that, I'd tell anyone who cared to listen what happened.

I warned them.

But they didn't see the censorship.

All they saw was the payday. The money.

Team's in position?

Perimeters are set. We enter on your ready.

People start out with a pure idea.

It gets corrupted.

That's why I came to work here.

So I could be exposed to breakthrough technologies...

...and prevent them falling victim to corporate greed.

You think I'm trying to suppress inventions?

I'm doing the exact opposite.

That's my great idea.

I'm gonna set them free.

I can't let you do that, Silas.

In eight minutes, it'll be done.

You enter before that...

...the hostages die.

Call in the order, Harold...

...or that countdown's what's left of your career.

I'm not sending my men in guns blazing.

Sir, I think I have another way.

- The fire-suppression system. - Yes.

If you set it off, safety override...

...should open the doors.

You should be able to access it from a utility module...

...in the fire panel.

All right, Aram, talk to me.

There should be a circuit board on the lower right corner.

- What the hell's going on? - We're working on it.

We have less than a minute.

I found the circuit board. What now?

We're gonna kill the power to the fire system.

Doing so will release a fire-suppression agent.

It's an inert gas, so it's safe, but you might have a problem with...

Aram!

The plug with two red wires just below the green blinking light.

- Pull it now. - A problem with what, Aram?

Visibility.

Drop it!

Don't pull out the flash drive. To corrupt the entire zip file...

...hit "abort" on the data transfer dialogue.

Yes.

We didn't get Agnes.

I know.

I talked to Ressler.

This SVR report, when I talked to you earlier, I hadn't finished reading it.

Did you find something about Agnes?

No.

Then what difference does it make?

It's about you.

And your father.

What's this?

It's a DNA report.

Here they are.

Hey, you did great work today.

What's she doing here?

You have the data file?

I wish I could meet all the people who dreamed up what's on here.

Every one of them killed...

...for no other reason than the power of their imagination.

You know who she is, and you're gonna give her that?

Yes, Agent Ressler, he does...

...but apparently, you've forgotten.

She is your boss' boss' boss' boss.

Well, my boss' boss' boss' boss...

...is a killer.

See, I know you murdered Reven Wright...

- ...and one day, I'll prove it. - Harold...

...I'll give the president your regards.

Excuse me.

Thank you.

That's the only invention you're interested in?

Yes.

Because I've seen the rest, and they're incredible.

Good afternoon, Laurel.

- All right. - Per our agreement...

...no friends-and-family discount.

Our compatriots on the Cabal pay full market value.

My cut is 50 percent. That sounds greedy.

Forty-five percent.

Our asset made contact.

Reddington survived.

- Have you seen Aram? I need his report. - He left earlier.

Right, date night.

So she order takeout from Pacos Tacos?

Oh, yeah. And a ginger beer...

...and crispy beef from Ho Kow...

...and chicken from that disgusting Italian place he likes.

- That place got a B. - She's really working it.

If he likes her, I'm happy for him...

...but there's something about her that bugs me.

It's terrible. She's nice to him. I mean, personally...

...I hate it when cute girls buy me crispy beef.

She may be cute, but trust me. She'll age badly.

I've been to that Italian place. They dump garlic on everything.

That was kind of a genius move, you telling her to go there.

It wasn't a move.

He won't want to kiss her with garlic breath.

Okay, that's just gross, Ressler.

You got nothing to worry about.

I'm not worried.

You lied to me about everything.

May I pour you a glass of this delicious Aglianico?

What's this?

A DNA report.

Proof that Alexander Kirk is my father.

You told me my father was dead.

That I killed him.

Everything you've said from the start...

...from the very beginning...

...all lies.