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The one thing that made the United States so dangerous for so long was that

your people believed in a fantasy of freedom. Spare me the fucking lectures

on failed societies.

How bad can this fucking thing get? SVR has some knowledge

of the lioness program, but they don't have definitive proof.

Joe can provide that. Okay, NSA has a hit. All right, he's gonna hang a right

fucking hero. Can you put us on the roof? You got a bird?

Bobby. Blood on the floor? Looks like you missed a spot, motherfucker!

We have diplomatic immunity.

Tale number?

M-5.

Departed 1107.

They loaded her onto a Challenger 300.

She's on a jet. Destination unknown. Transponder disabled.

We're still a step behind, and time's not on our side.

I think I said it earlier, and I meant it. Are you gonna tell me I'm the

prettiest girl?

How'd you know?

I wish I could take you home.

You can.

Yeah? Yeah.

You just gotta sign me out.

Okay. Yeah? Yeah.

Wait here. Okay.

Let me get my things.

Stay right here.

I'll be back.

Ready for me?

Right and left don't damn don't take this pretty serious

That

it need a fucking

blood sample or anything, huh

See you tomorrow.

Where's your bedroom?

That way.

You have really good taste.

I can't take credit.

My company owns this apartment.

Your company has really good taste.

It's your lucky day.

You ain't fucking kidding.

Hey! What the fuck?

Our thoughts exactly.

What the fuck, Cade? What the fuck would motivate the son of two

anesthesiologists who went to Georgetown, who grew up with every

possible advantage in life to take money from a foreign agent? More specifically,

what did you sell them?

What trade secret of Booz Allen's did you fucking sell them?

I want a lawyer.

I would too.

If we were the FBI.

But we aren't.

I'm here to get the name and the contact information of your handler, or my

associate over here is gonna carry you out the patio, and he's gonna throw you

out the fucking building.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Jesus!

Hey, no, wait, okay?

All right, wait, okay, hey! What, you got something to say?

My phone!

A name, Cade. Rooster. It's under Rooster. Rooster.

What does that mean you got something? What do you got?

It just depends on whatever he's looking for. He? Who is he?

Is it Rooster? Who the fuck is Rooster? I don't know. Cut the fucking bullshit.

I don't know. What does he look like?

Like a fucking math nerd.

Set him down.

Fuck! Fuck!

How did you meet Rooster?

He gave me a test. A test?

The answers to a data structures and algorithms test.

Gave them to me and fucking now I don't have a choice. Do you understand me? I

don't get money.

He owns my fucking degree, my whole future.

Do you get it? My whole future.

Not anymore, he doesn't.

We hold it now.

So you get something. You send him a text.

He sends you an address and you meet him there. Is that it?

Yes.

Get dressed.

Do you have a coffee machine in your kitchen?

Huh? A coffee maker. Fuck, Cade.

Yeah. Can someone figure out coffee?

Our meet is at 0800.

Am I on coffee duty?

If the shoe fits, baby.

Since when did I become sound fucking home here?

Tucker, you want to explain to Kate who we are?

Shut the fuck up is what we are.

Not another fucking word, you understand me?

Yes, I know. What the fuck did I just say?

That's who we are.

Thank you.

Have a seat, Richard.

Uh... Charlotte didn't mention a boyfriend.

Did you mention a wife?

Um... Slipped my

mind.

Four children.

You got me, man.

You got me.

Yes.

I do.

There's also video.

Two hours of it.

Well... That Viagra's no joke. What

can I say?

This is funny to you, huh?

There's a certain irony to it.

Yes.

I see no irony.

Hands! Hands! Hands!

Hands!

You see it now, don't you? Hands!

Turn the fuck around. Face down. Hands behind your head to interlock your

fingers. Now lower your head down to your knees. Head all the way down.

Don't move.

Stand up.

Turn around. Hands behind your head. Why me? I don't got shit to do with this.

Don't bullshit a bullshitter.

Get the fuck up. Get up!

What the fuck?

I have rights!

No, you don't.

Not anymore.

I hope you were a fucking convict.

I'm serious.

I hope you were, too.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You really fucked that stripper? Hey, I'm a method actor. Okay,

bro? You ground brass guys are fucking nuts.

Oh, okay. We're nuts. Okay. You deal on the way. Check your signal. Yes, ma'am.

Coming our way when?

You're already late.

Yes, ma'am.

This kid's gonna pass out.

He needs to calm the fuck down. Tell him.

I'm trying.

Are Bravo and Charlie in place?

Bravo, Charlie, this is Alpha.

Are you set? Bravo set.

Charlie set.

Good to go.

Acid's in place.

Why are you sweating?

Hungover as fuck.

This didn't need to happen today.

I don't like having all this shit on the drive.

Green light. Green light. Let's go.

Bravo, Charlie, you are green.

You didn't think this was over, did you?

I'm just getting started.

You can't hold me.

My student visa gives diplomatic immunity.

That's why you kids have got to stop getting in use from TikTok.

Only diplomats who are registered with the U.S. Department of State are granted

diplomatic immunity.

You're not on that list.

Believe me.

We checked.

So, you're going to be charged with 18 U.S. Code 1831.

And 18 U.S.C. 793-794.

I don't know what those mean.

Well, your lawyer's going to explain it when you get one.

Now, let me tell you the penalty.

When you're found guilty, which you will be because there is caught red-handed

and caught with your dick in your hand and somehow you found a way to do both,

and we have it on video...

Let me get back to the penalty, which is life imprisonment times three, a maximum

security prison based on your threat to national security.

Can you imagine the commodity?

A handsome young man who can't weigh more than a buck fifty would be to a

bunch of drug traffickers who have surrendered to the fact that they will

never get to love a woman again.

This is my senior case officer.

And she, she's going to determine whether you can provide us with enough

information that we're going to pause our demand for justice.

And when I say justice, I mean vindictive retribution.

Understand the game?

I think so.

Trade information for freedom.

No.

We're not trading anything.

You're gonna dazzle me.

With hard data, names, and explicit information to the structure, financing,

and execution of all your operations.

I'm gonna need to understand your flow of information as well as you do.

Or...

I'm gonna drive to the county jail with a stack of 100s as thick as my fucking

neck. And I'll spend the next six hours cherry picking your cellmate for the

evening.

And then tomorrow, we get to do it all over again.

So what are all you Belarus fuckers doing running around Washington, D.C.?

I'm Lithuanian.

Your passport's Lithuanian.

But last I checked, Belarus' military wasn't allowing Lithuanians in their

military.

I've never been to Belarus.

I don't know Belarus.

Boy, you gotta give me a little more fucking credit here.

I'm a senior case officer for the CIA.

So if I want data on someone, I just take the fingerprints from their visa

application and I run it through a little program at the NSA which cross

-references those fingerprints with Interpol, EU Entry, Privium, ETAS,

not to mention the database of military enrollment in virtually every nation

that pays a pension or has a Veterans Affairs Department, which...

and stealing data from since the Internet went live.

You joined in 2010, accepted the SSU in 2012,

served in the 5th Spitznaz Brigade, where you participated in putting down

the 2020 uprising in Brest, where you guys... you guys just started smoking

fuckers.

Wow. I mean, that...

I must really simplify dispersing protesters as a foreign national

entering the U.S. on a fraudulent passport and engaging in espionage,

which is a big no-no around here.

The constitutional protections that lawful visitors, immigrants, and

citizens enjoy, they don't apply to you.

So I'm not gonna sit here and listen to your memorized lies and your bullshit

intel that you're gonna try and float me.

What I am gonna do...

I'll send you to Guantanamo Bay.

Stick you in an 8x8 cage, no ceiling, feed you three times a week while you

cook in the fucking heat and we blast Metallica at 110 decibels 24

hours a fucking day for three years.

Then we'll see if you feel like telling me the truth.

Hey.

You ever had dengue fever?

You're gonna love it.

Yeah, the locals call it bone break fever because I guess that's what it

feels like.

It's not a matter of if you get it. I promise you, I promise you, you're gonna

get it.

Because it's the first thing we give you.

Have a good trip. We'll see you in 2028.

Yep.

All right guys bring him back in let's hear what he has to say

Go far, guys.

Hey.

I want to introduce you to somebody.

What do you think of that?

A fucking Russian double agent in the flesh.

I mean, you just... Jesus, you just don't see that every day, do you?

What do you think it means that I told you who she is?

It means... I'm never going free.

ever All we do today is pick a prison And

believe me when I tell you there are levels to that game

They're five minutes out. Both of them? Caitlin, do you care to bring us up to

speed? Sure.

We began our operation targeting known assets of Russian intelligence. We have

apprehended four individuals in one sting, two individuals in another,

although the second appears to be an asset of the Chinese Ministry of State.

Our two senior case officers are meant to be here now. They're conducting

interviews, and they're en route to debrief.

NSA has been processing the information provided.

They're also mining information from seized computers and cell phones.

And NSA is sending information in real time as they gather it. Director

Westfield, would you care to elaborate on CIA's decision to completely exclude

FBI's counterintelligence from this operation?

All our officers have.

FBI credentials, ma'am. This was, in essence, a CED operation. Okay, without

any oversight, without any adherence to the chain of command. So, in other

words, this operation was and is complete bullshit.

And those credentials are a convenient workaround to avoid violating the

National Security Act of 1947 and Executive Act 12333, which you still

violated. Okay. Number one...

CED was informed once the targets were detained and are in FBI custody as we

speak. Oh, yeah? All of them? Two are still being interviewed.

Are any of my agents present at those interviews?

Sworn agents of the FBI are present, yes. No, I don't mean your agents. I

mean my agents.

Can we...

Pause the dick-measuring over jurisdiction here and discuss what has

been uncovered thus far, okay? If this procedure is not followed to the letter,

those cases will not be prosecutable. I couldn't give a shit about prostitution.

I care about what secrets have been stolen, who has those secrets, is our

national security compromised, and to what extent.

Crimes against national security give us extreme latitude in detaining

individuals, as they are essentially war crimes, which suspends the due process

clause, as well as the search and seizure protections of the Fourth

Amendment. We can detain them for years without trial. If we assess that they

are a continued threat to national security, we can detain them

indefinitely.

That is why I don't care about prosecution.

Which brings us to the question, is our national security at risk?

Without a question.

Give us an example.

So my lioness was in contact with a software engineer at a leading defense

firm with heavy focus on AI enhancement.

This individual was extorted by a Chinese Ministry of State contract agent

into providing sensitive, privileged information on multiple occasions.

NSA is processing the exposed data to make a threat and damage assessment.

What's most concerning is this agent seems to have been activated.

by a professor at a university where both these individuals obtained advanced

degrees in software engineering.

The Chinese agent himself is a software engineer at Raytheon.

We are in contact with their head of security and he has isolated all of this

individual's accounts and is processing with DIA and NSA as we speak. It appears

a software engineer professor that taught both these individuals is also

complicit based on statements by the detainee.

We have obtained a warrant through CED, and we will be picking him up this

afternoon. Another Chinese national.

American citizen.

A Richard Ely, born 9-22-67 in Boston, undergrad at Cornell.

Advanced degrees in both computer science and software engineering.

He taught at UM-Ann Arbor until 2018, and then he came here.

And how's he involved?

Apparently he provides exam answers to Mr.

Lin, codename Rooster, which then he peddles down to students who seem to

lack a level of moral integrity.

How is his professor compensated? Our source says no compensation.

It appears that our professor believes that our government and our economic

system are fatally flawed, and he's more aligned politically with the Chinese

governmental structure.

So he's a communist.

It's hard to call him a communist with a professor's salary of $280,000 a year

and an IT consulting firm. But he certainly appears to be a communist

sympathizer. So beyond this professor, how far does this go?

We'll have a better understanding after I interview him.

What we learned in Afghanistan is those motivated by ideology never cooperate.

With all due respect, ma'am, but what we've learned in Afghanistan is those

motivated by religion never cooperate.

Because our God is with them everywhere.

In prison, in exile, and in death.

Ideology is useless in those places.

Besides, he's got a wife and two kids, both of them in private school, and a

beach house in Hilton Heck.

It looks like his ideology remains on campus.

Anything else?

More tomorrow, I hope.

So we placed an operator undercover posed as a salesman for a defense

contractor Placed him in a bar known for honeypotting and by the end of the night

He made contact and provided necessary evidence to convince Russian foreign

agents to move on him What was the evidence if I may ask?

Well typically

These honey potters perform sexual acts on the subjects providing blackmail

material that allows them to be subjugated by the agent Forcing them to

provide Intel and any number of forms.

Are you saying that your operator?

Allowed sexual acts to be performed on him. I recall from the video my operator

did most of the performing ma'am Okay, so this has gone completely broke Okay

with With all due respect, we are not infiltrating some biker gang selling

stolen guns and speed.

These are enemies of the state actively seeking means to weaken us as a nation.

We broke no laws.

Two consenting adults had sex.

No money exchanged hands.

The fact that one of them did so with the intent of extorting one of my

officers, that's a crime, and one you should charge her with.

Oh, and by the way, you can slap a treason charge on top of it. You're

welcome. Okay, I can do without the flippancy. Yeah, and I can do without

the inference of impropriety towards my officers at every fucking turn. Oh, can

we stop the dick-measuring of jurisdiction and procedure?

Kyle, please continue.

Okay, well, what's interesting is these Russians all have Belarus citizenship.

Using passports from Lithuania, Latvia, Malta. Also, the senior contract agent

fed me intel, which was all planted. How do you know this information was

planted? Because it all checks out.

Everything he gave me, NSA can verify, which means, obviously, we already knew

it. And our double agent verified that these gives are all standard offerings

that most Russian agents would utilize if detained.

So we are gonna send him to Gitmo. I'll let him cook for a bit and see if his

intel improves.

Do you feel the Belarus agents are connected to Russian forces directly

or indirectly?

My best guess, they're guns for hire.

Seeking information valuable to our adversaries, Qatar, Syria, Iran,

Venezuela, possibly China, but doubtful since Russia sees China as an adversary

as well.

So beyond picking up this professor, what's the next steps?

This was a pretty splashy first day.

They know we're hunting, which was the goal.

They'll clam up.

Their sources will get nervous. They'll possibly even reach out to us looking

for a parachute. We have a very strong list of Russian sources in the U.S.

NSA has already dug into their bank accounts and found some very big, big

ticket purchases that don't necessarily align with their income.

Most of these sources are U.S. citizens, so they'll be coming your way, Director

Wexler. Okay, so why not this professor?

Let us take it from here.

We have a latitude in questioning that the FBI does not have.

Because we're not investigating a crime, nor can we charge him with any, we're

simply seeking information in the interest of national security.

So no Miranda rights, no fourth, fifth, and fourteenth to limit the scope or

manner of our inquiries, and certainly anything that we uncover will still be

admissible in court as witness testimony on our part.

All right.

Good work, Joe.

Stay with it.

One last thing. What we're about to divulge requires TS clearance. It is

Yankee White only.

Caitlin, Kylan, I don't have that clearance.

You don't need it.

You're the ones who mine the intel.

We have a source in the Russian SVR.

This individual has provided us with a list of Russian sources who are

currently working in the U.S. We're aware.

What you aren't aware of is some of the more prominent names on that list. How

prominent? executives at multiple television networks, senior editors at

The Post and The Times, four district court judges, two circuit court judges,

seven members of the House and two in the Senate.

My God.

But you know this. Not speculate.

Know it. We have the SVR files, ma'am, which contain bank account information,

routing numbers, pay schedules through various foundations and NGOs, typically

as campaign contributions.

The evidence is damning.

The question is...

What would you like us to do with it?

Our worry is that whether we detain or FBI arrests, it's going to send a

shockwave through the higher learning institutions, through the major media

outlets, through the public officials both elected to office.

Will it cause a collapse in confidence?

through these institutions that is actually more helpful to the Russians

than the sources they have in place. We could do arrest in stages over a period

of time. What period of time are we talking about? Once one of the dominoes

falls, they all fall, whether we knock them down or not.

May I?

Joe, let us figure this out. I just... No, I'd like to hear what she has to

say. Go ahead, Joe.

Look, Kyle and I are the only spies in the room, right?

If we're spies who hooked these fish, you can arrest them.

Sure. But we can switch the hooks.

Remove theirs, put in ours.

Explain that.

We approach every compromised official, we present them our evidence, and we

give them the option of retiring in the next 24 hours or they face prison.

We don't offer them immunity.

We don't offer them anything.

We simply withhold action.

They tell us everything, they give us everything, and from this day forward,

they are our sources.

Who are these senators?

Olsen and Meyer.

Meyer's a freshman.

It's likely they had him before and were just instrumental in his decision to

run. We audited his campaign contributions.

Energy company in Crimea, Armenian IT company, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu. Jesus.

Yes.

Well, your plan makes sense, Joe.

They're removed from power immediately.

They have no means of defying the demand.

Because we can prosecute.

We'd be forced to in this instance.

No statute of limitations on treason.

We could prosecute any time we see fit.

Okay, you two.

You take Myron.

I'll take Olsen.

Yes, sir.

You two start working the house.

With pleasure.

Director Wexler.

Sir. If we can have special agents from CDD at all of these meetings, anyone

that says no is arrested.

Let the chips fall where they may.

God have mercy on us all.

You think your guys were connected with the guys in my house? How many contract

agents in Belarus can there be in D.C., right? There gotta be. Before you ship

your guy off, ask Push.

My guy ain't talking.

Not for a few months, anyway. Just ask anyway.

Plant the seed before you stick him in a box. It'll be the thing he trades to get

out. I'll ask him.

Have fun with your professor.

I plan to.

Those are houseguests.

Pretty quiet, except for your big prize.

Yeah? What's he saying?

Been praying.

A lot of good that's gonna do him.

He's been praying in Arabic.

Ah, you gotta be shitting me.

They all going to Gitmo?

No, just the prize.

You guys ready to travel? We have a moose holding for us out at Andrews. The

wheel's up at 1900, though.

This won't take long.

Well, you've been holding out on me.

Didn't realize you were a religious man.

Been listening to you a la Akbar for the last couple hours.

You a Lipka Tatar?

Huh?

That's not very Muslim of you, helping the Russian state.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Now we're getting somewhere.

All right, well, listen, you're about to ship off to Camp Hell in a few minutes.

So while you're there, sitting in the 100-degree heat, buck naked, with about

1,000 mosquitoes the size of fucking sparrows sucking you dry,

I want you to think about this.

Two Belarus contract agents made an abduction attempt on a case officer in

Virginia.

You know what I'm referring to?

This is news to me. Oh, come on. Give me a fucking break.

You got less than 40,000 people in your entire fucking army, a few hundred in

SF. All you fuckers know each other, and you know exactly what I'm talking about.

But when you feel like talking, you just tell that Marine sergeant who

beat you with a baton before every meal.

But that's how you make the pain stop, Alex.

And it's the only way.

What is paramount to understand?

AI will likely render what I do and what you aspire to do as obsolete.

Likewise to careers in marketing, accounting, engineering, whether

software, biological, mechanical, data analysis, research management, all of

these careers will disappear in the next decade.

You must alter the focus of your education to include machine learning,

computer vision and management strategies, NLP engineering.

computer vision engineering.

And you must prepare yourselves for a world in which your endeavors are not

compensated with money.

Your compensation is in the collective betterment of our society, of our state.

What, no money, you say?

Yep, that's the future.

Your efforts will be compensated through the services provided to you in return

from the state.

Housing, healthcare, food, clean transportation, entertainment.

And as you prepare yourselves for a career in the future, you must prepare

yourselves also for a world that replaces the imperialist goals and

economic meddling of a free market society with a dedication to a state

that in turn dedicates itself to an equitable

life for all humankind.

Interesting position.

It's not a position, it's the inevitable truth.

Let's say the inevitable becomes true tomorrow.

Are you willing to pull your kids out of private school, turn your beach house

over to the government, and allow them to seize the four million in equities

Fidelity manages for you?

I bet not.

You strike me more as a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too kind of

guy.

Who are you?

I am the inevitable consequence of your actions, Mr. Ely.

And what actions would you be referring to?

Selling exam answers through your TA to students with the intent to extort and

recruit them to provide information to the Chinese Ministry of State Security.

The legal definition for that action is treason, Mr. Ely.

I guess you'll be surrendering your money and your property to the U.S.

government after all.

Do you have a warrant?

I do.

I want a lawyer.

I would too.

You're not free to go, Mr. Ely. I want a lawyer.

I don't know who you people are.

Get the fuck out of my way.

Bad call, Richard.

We got a vehicle out back.

We're gonna spare you the indignity for now.

You haven't read me my rights.

Let me show you my other badge.

You don't have any rights with this badge.

Why are we even messing with this guy anyway?

Could have had CED pick him up, bring him right to us.

If this guy... If this guy lived in a shitty apartment and donated his entire

salary to the Communist Party, I could at least respect his commitment to the

cause.

This asshole lives better than we do than advocates tearing down the system

that allows him to do it.

No, fuck him I want to look him in the eye when his fucking world crumbles

Perks

of this job are endless ain't they boss

Hi, hey

Sure

How was your day?

I saw a 16-year-old girl with stage 3 colon cancer.

And a teenager?

Yeah.

I didn't think that was possible.

Yeah, it's becoming more and more common.

There's got to be something environmental.

Microplastics or some preservative or, you know, something with greed at its

root.

It's pretty deep, babe.

Pretty philosophical for a physician.

Maybe so, but still true.

I'd ask you about your day, but... You can ask him.

How was your day?

It was illuminating.

Illuminating? How so?

Every enemy we have...

has been waging a 50-year covert war against us, attacking us with the

tiniest of cuts.

What kind of cuts?

To our infrastructure, our government, our schools,

social media, everything.

We're not really following how they do that.

Lenin used to call.

compassionate progressives in the West, useful idiots.

Because on the surface, what they wanted appeared to be what he wanted.

And he used that.

That's how he took power.

And now, they're all doing it. They've been doing it for so long. Like spies?

Influencers, information peddlers, and an army of useful idiots.

For 50 years.

And now we're infested with them.

Open mouth.

Open mouth.

Thank you.