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- Hey. It's okay.

There's nothing to be worried about.

I handled it.

I promise.

Uh, it went as well as it could.

All right.

I'll be home soon.

[car starting]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Hey, you okay? What happened?

- It's fine. - Talk to me.

- Close the door. You don't need to--

- Kosey, where've you been?

- You don't need to worry about it.

- Kosey, talk to me. - Hey, it's okay, it's okay.

♪ ♪

- Kosey!

- [gurgles]

♪ ♪

[knife slashes] [grunts]

- [whimpering]

♪ ♪

[tense music]

- I promise I'm not trying to just make the sale.

It really has been an incredible ride.

Every case is an opportunity to affect someone's life,

and that is why this is such an amazing profession,

and that is also why we recruit the brightest and the best

from all walks of life,

from poor, rich, Black, white, Middle Eastern...

and it will continue to stay that way

as long as folks like us continue to join the ranks.

Yes. - How's the money?

- Well, you won't get rich.

But you won't live paycheck to paycheck either.

- What about being a minority?

Have you found that it's something that helps

your career or hurts it?

- Well, that's complicated. I think the, um--

- It's actually not that complicated,

so I'll answer that one, Omar.

I joined this Bureau 30 years ago.

10 years later, 9/11 happened.

It wasn't a great time to be a Muslim in New York City.

Trust me.

But the Bureau made me feel like I belonged,

like I was a part of the family.

It can be that way for all of you

if you put in work and honor the badge.

- Special Agent Bashar gave me that same exact speech

seven years ago when I was recruited,

and I can promise you I have no regrets.

[phone buzzing]

Oh, I'm sorry. That is work.

I have to go, and no, this wasn't planned.

Thank you. [applause]

- Hey, folks, NYPD asked us for help

regarding a potential hate crime.

So listen up.

- 22-year-old Kosey Khan, a Pakistani student here

on temporary visa,

had his throat slit last night.

His younger brother, Amir, was also stabbed,

and he is currently in surgery.

- Let's talk about what we know about the victims.

- Yeah. Kosey was enrolled in Columbia,

an engineering major at 3.9 GPA.

His younger brother, Amir, worked at a local restaurant.

Doesn't seem to be here legally.

- Neither appear to have a social media footprint.

- Mm-hmm. What about criminal history?

Anything? - None.

Not even a parking ticket.

- So why them?

Why attack them at their home?

- Right, hate crimes typically happen out on the street,

so maybe there's a personal connection.

All right, so dig into the victims' personal lives,

friends, neighbors, classmates,

anyone in their orbit with hate-related priors,

or racist social media posts.

The answers are out there. Let's find them.

[dramatic music]

- Upstairs neighbor called it in.

Heard someone yelling for help.

Uniforms knocked and didn't get an answer,

so they made entry and found the victims.

- Any signs of forced entry? - None.

Door was unlocked.

- There cameras in this building?

- Negative.

Place is as basic as they come.

Rent's cheap, and the amenities reflect it.

- It's not the best neighborhood.

Doors stay locked.

So our suspect was either invited in,

or he waited for the victims to open the door.

- All right, we're gonna need your help

canvassing the area for witnesses.

- Yeah.

- Maggie.

A ton of valuable electronics untouched.

- Maybe they were looking for money or drugs.

- What makes you think it was a hate crime?

- Well, I wasn't sure at first.

But the victims' Imam showed up about an hour ago,

said he had proof that they were targeted.

- What kind of proof?

- Something about domestic terrorist threats

against these kids' lives.

I told him because of that,

we need to bring the FBI on board.

He wasn't exactly thrilled to hear that.

- [grunts]

- Omar! - I'm Agent Bell.

This is Agent Zidan.

- [speaking native language]

- How are you, Omar? It's been a long time.

- It has. I'm good. I'm good.

I'm sorry, this is my Imam, Ali Mustafa.

- It's nice to meet you.

- Haven't seen you at the mosque in years.

Is that because of the job, or do you no longer worship?

- No, no, no. Of course I still worship.

Things have been, uh, a little crazy,

but inshallah, you'll see me there again soon.

- Inshallah, inshallah.

- Uh, we understand you have information about the attack.

- Not just an attack. It was a hate crime.

Four days ago, I saw a man

threaten these boys outside my mosque.

- What do you mean "threaten"?

- He called them terrorists,

told them to go back to their country.

You know, that kind of thing.

It would've turned violent too, but I chased him away.

- What did this guy look like?

- White, in his 20s, medium build.

He was wearing a hoodie, so I couldn't see his face.

- Okay, you chased them away.

Did they get away by foot or by car?

- By foot.

You are the FBI.

Why didn't you stop this man before he attacked?

- Yeah, well, I mean, we would've

if we had known about it-- - You did!

I called the FBI right after the man left.

I talked to an agent about it.

But you did nothing, and now Kosey's dead.

- Uh, what agent did you talk to?

- I didn't catch a name,

but it's the number given to me

by the Muslim Outreach Program run by that guy, Bashar.

He ignores any complaint I make, no matter how serious.

Can you believe that?

A Muslim turning against his own people?

- Look, I don't know about that specific complaint,

but I will look into it. I promise.

Good to see you.

♪ ♪

- No love lost between Bashar and your Imam, hey?

- Well, ol' Imam Mustafa

isn't really known for being subtle.

Neither is Bashar.

- Perfect. Marriage made in heaven.

- More like hell.

- Well, hopefully that's not why Bashar's team

ignored the complaint.

- I don't know. Bashar's complicated.

He spends his life trying to thread a very tiny needle.

Protecting the U.S. from terrorism

and then not trying to stomp on the rights

of Muslim Americans,

decent, hard-working people

just trying to live their lives.

- That's a tough line to walk.

- Yeah.

- But a valid hate-crime complaint

should not be ignored,

so we need to find out what the hell really happened.

- Yeah, Mustafa. My guys looked into the call.

They even located some footage of the altercation

from surveillance we're running.

But it was inconclusive.

Poor angle on the guy, so no facial rec.

- Could we get that footage sent to the JOC?

- Not a problem.

- Uh, "surveillance you're running"?

What's that mean? Is there something going on

at the mosque that we should know about?

- Uh, yeah, but, uh, I can't go into detail.

At least not yet.

- No disrespect,

but if you looked into Mustafa's complaint,

why didn't you or one of your agents let him know?

You know, out of courtesy.

- There was nothing to say and I have no interest

in extending him any courtesy.

I don't like him. Simple as that.

- Told you. Not very subtle.

- Hmm.

- Bashar was right.

There's no facial rec from this angle.

[indistinct yelling]

- Guy's pretty brazen for broad daylight.

Okay, here's the Imam running him off.

♪ ♪

- What's going on?

- Uh, yeah, we have a possible lead.

Elise, you wanna...?

- Uh, there was no clear shot for facial rec.

But the good news is

by accessing nearby traffic cam footage,

I was able to track the suspect after the altercation.

Still no shot of his face,

but did manage to see where he landed.

- Great. Now we're getting somewhere.

♪ ♪

What is that building he just went into?

Property records indicate

it's Columbia's School of Engineering.

- And since he swiped his ID to get access,

we think he either goes there or works there.

- Just got off the phone with campus security.

The only person to enter the building at that time

was a janitor named James Tinker.

- They've had run-ins with the guy

and said he's a real piece of work.

- What does that mean?

- He's a wannabe cop.

Challenges people whenever he thinks they're up to no good,

but the problem is he's usually wrong.

- And they think he's capable of something like this?

- Yeah, they do.

♪ ♪

- Bring him in.

- FBI, search warrant!

- He's moving to the back. Hit it.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- Federal agents!

[indistinct yelling]

♪ ♪

- Watch your six.

It looks like he just accessed the gun safe.

- James! This is the FBI. Open the door.

- No way. You ain't real cops.

♪ ♪

- [quietly] Keep him busy.

♪ ♪

- Okay, James.

There's my badge. Do you believe us now?

- Hell no.

I'm standing my ground till the NYPD gets here.

♪ ♪

- You need to open this door right now

before someone gets hurt. Do you understand?

- I'm calling the NYPD.

You don't try to come in here

till I know the real cops are here.

- He's a real agent.

So am I.

Now put the rifle down, or I will shoot you.

♪ ♪

Nice and slow.

♪ ♪

Clasp your hands behind your head.

♪ ♪

Walk towards me.

Stop.

On your knees.

♪ ♪

[handcuffs rattling]

♪ ♪

- I didn't kill anybody.

- We have you on video harassing the victim.

- Damn straight.

It's 'cause he's one of those sleeper-cell types,

hiding in plain sight.

You know what I mean? - No, we don't, James.

So why don't you explain it to us?

- They come over here for college.

They learn how to make stuff, then boom!

- You ever been under psychiatric care, James?

- I'm not crazy.

The guy was stealing from the school's work lockers.

There's no reason for that unless you're up to no good.

- What was he stealing?

- I saw him take thermoplastics from a school locker.

Found out the next day

he wasn't authorized to be using that kind of material.

- Okay, so in your mind,

theft means terrorist.

Is that what you're saying? - No.

I'm telling you

the kid was building something.

Couple of nights ago, I saw him with his laptop

hooked up to the school's 3D printers, making parts.

I confronted him.

That's when the coward sucker-punched me.

Grabbed whatever he was printing and ran.

- Okay, what kind of parts was he making?

- Oh, I don't know.

But I'm pretty damn sure

it wasn't anything to do with school.

- Sounds like he's trying to lay out a defense.

- Maybe. Or he's telling the truth

and the victims weren't so innocent.

[dramatic music]

- You don't have any bruises.

Did you hit him back?

- I'm not trying to get fired.

- Okay, well, did it ever occur to you

that maybe Kosey hit you because

you were stalking him at his school and his mosque?

- [scoffs]

You see something, you say something.

- Oh...

- It's people like him that need to get outed

to the rest of the country.

- But that's not what you did, is it?

You didn't report the incident.

You took it into your own hands,

and you hurt Kosey and his brother

before they hurt anyone else. Isn't that right?

- No. No way.

I had nothing to do with that.

♪ ♪

Talk to my girlfriend.

I met her for dinner last night.

I'm sure the restaurant's got cameras.

- [sighs]

♪ ♪

- Okay.

Hey, James' alibi checks out.

Doesn't mean he's innocent,

but it does mean he's not our killer.

- Okay, what about his story regarding Kosey?

Are we believing that these kids

were up to something sketchy?

- I mean, James is a lot of things,

but he hasn't proven himself to be a liar.

- Bashar seems to think that James is onto something.

He asked that Counterterrorism be updated

given the mosque's history.

- What history? - Bashar says that there was

previous terrorist activity there.

- Does he think the attack is related?

- It's too soon to say,

but I think that we need to focus right now

on finding the attacker. - Yeah.

We know ERT already searched Amir and Kosey's place.

But at that point, they were looking for evidence

relating to the attack, not evidence relating to

the possible terrorist activity, so.

- All right. We'll look back into it?

- Yeah.

I mean, we find the motive, we find the killer.

♪ ♪

- That seal's broken.

- Cover me.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- What are you doing here?

- [scoffs] We could ask you the same question.

- I'm looking for intel.

These two victims might be connected

to something we've been investigating.

- All due respect,

this is our crime scene.

- For the homicide, yes,

but my focus is counterterrorism,

which pretty much trumps anything.

So really, this is my crime scene.

- Okay, well, it looks like

we're looking for the same thing,

so what's good for you is good for us.

We need to look at more of your surveillance footage

from the mosque.

- My guys are scrubbing it now.

If we find something relevant, I'll let you know.

- We appreciate that.

Is there any way you could just give us a snapshot

into what your investigation is about?

Come on, Bashar, we're on the same team here.

- It's still ongoing,

but the short version is we pulled a known terrorist

out of Mustafa's mosque two years ago.

Been watching it for other players ever since.

- I'm sorry. Two years off of one arrest?

- It's still ongoing.

One arrest so far.

- Based on what, exactly?

- Don't be naive.

- Excuse me?

- If there's one terrorist, there are others,

and right now, this victim and his brother

just might be the others,

which to me,

justifies our prolonged interest in that mosque.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- [quietly] No.

♪ ♪

Check it out.

A laptop under the carpet.

- Find anything else under there?

- No.

- My team can crack that pretty fast.

- We'll take a look at it first.

James Tinker said that Kosey had a laptop

connected to a 3D printer.

The answers that we need are probably on that.

- It's password protected.

- My guys, like I said, can scrub it fast.

- We're good.

Thank you for the offer.

♪ ♪

- The password encryption software Kosey used

wasn't very sophisticated.

- Well, that's good, because we're hoping

that whatever's on this laptop

will help us find a motive for Kosey's death.

- Well, I'd say you're definitely on the right track.

You ever hear of Moonshade? It's an anonymous text app.

Kosey used it but just messaged with one other person,

someone identifying as "USER6386."

- Kay, USER6386:

"How fast can you get it done by?

We need it by next Saturday."

Kosey replied, "No problem. $4,000 each."

- Right, and Kosey says,

"You're not gonna be using these

"for anything bad, right?

Just for protection?"

Then USER sends a thumbs up,

and then Kosey starts getting cold feet,

keeps asking why they need it by Saturday,

and then he just stops replying.

Based on these angry follow-up texts,

USER6386 didn't like that.

- Okay, well, Saturday is today.

- Yeah.

Okay, were you able to trace USER's IP?

- I've tried. Uh, the guy used multiple VPNs.

♪ ♪

- Hey, click on this 3D printing icon here.

- Right, okay.

♪ ♪

- He printed two thermoplastic guns?

- Right.

- Okay, Bashar might be right about all of this.

Those things are nearly impossible to detect.

If they get them onto a plane, we could...

[exhales deeply]

Be looking at another 9/11.

- Yeah, it appears Kosey thought he was building

those guns to help someone protect himself,

when he found out that wasn't the case,

he backed out of the deal.

- So he was killed for the guns?

- That is the working theory, yeah.

- This is New York.

You can buy guns off the street.

Why kill for them? - Right.

Not guns like this.

They're made out of thermoplastic.

So you can walk through a metal detector

without setting it off.

- What about the bullets? They metal?

- Yeah. Bit easier to sneak bullets through security

than a gun, I guess.

- Hey, I just got a phone call from the hospital.

The brother, Amir, he's out of surgery.

- Okay. Have OA and Scola head over there ASAP.

See if he can get us some answers.

- We know your brother printed two guns

and that they were stolen.

- [breathing heavily]

- Who attacked you and stole the guns, Amir?

[dramatic music]

- [sighs]

- Stay with us.

Amir, focus. What did they look like?

- Two men.

♪ ♪

Light-skinned.

♪ ♪

Beards.

- Okay. Two men.

There anything else you can tell us about 'em?

Scars, tattoos, anything?

- Our mosque.

Gu--

Gold car.

- They go to your mosque, and they drive a gold car?

Okay.

Okay, that's good.

- [panting] K--

Kosey.

My--my brother.

Where is--where is Kosey?

♪ ♪

Whe--

Where--where is Kosey?

- Amir, um...

Kosey didn't make it.

- No.

- Ko... - But I promise you

we're gonna do everything in our power to get these guys.

- [panting] [monitor beeping]

both: Hey.

- Nurses! - Hey, come on.

- Nurse! - Kid, you gotta stay with us.

Okay? Hey, keep fighting.

- Get me a crash cart now.

- Crashing 50 over 20.

♪ ♪

- Wait, so now you're saying

whoever attacked those two boys

attends this mosque?

- Yes. Amir said that there were

two men, light-skinned with beards

that drive a gold-colored car.

- [sighs]

This is absurd, Omar.

I call in a hate crime

and the FBI uses it as an excuse

to hunt terrorists in my mosque?

- We're just following the evidence.

- You don't think I see through this?

That I'm not aware the FBI's constantly watching us?

- This has nothing to do with that.

- It does.

Did Bashar tell you what happened two years ago?

How I reported one of our members

because I had concerns?

- No, he didn't. - Of course not,

because he used my honesty,

my desire to protect innocent people

as an excuse to persecute us.

- What are you talking about?

- He started using informants,

forcing people to tattle on their friends,

on their relatives.

In the past two years,

Bashar has deported 20 members of my mosque

for visa violations, including my brother.

- We can't speak for anyone else.

We're here to find the men who attacked Kosey and Amir.

- Then get me their names, and show me proof they did it.

Then I will help you.

- We don't have their names.

That is why we're here. That's why we need your help.

- Omar, you know I'm a fair man,

but I have a responsibility to my congregation.

I will not expose them to unfocused harassment.

They deserve their privacy just like anybody else.

- Okay, if you choose not to cooperate with us,

you're forcing us to get a warrant.

- You'll be wasting your time.

I do not keep names or lists.

I delete the security camera footage every 72 hours.

We use it to keep the mosque secure,

not to help the FBI harass our members.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Let's talk to Bashar.

We'll look at his surveillance footage.

♪ ♪

- Yeah.

♪ ♪

Thank you.

I appreciate you helping us.

- Of course. I'm just surprised

you actually went to see the Imam in the first place.

Waste of time.

- I don't think so.

If we had more evidence, he would've cooperated.

- He's not our friend, Omar.

- [sighs] - Look, I get it.

Mustafa is an Imam. That title demands respect.

But when it comes to investigating crime

and potential terrorist activity,

he has a different agenda: protecting his community.

- Is that so bad? - Yeah.

If he has information that could help us thwart a threat,

just imagine what would happen

if another Muslim terrorist slipped through the cracks,

and a major attack occurred.

It would set us back 20 years,

erase all the progress we've made.

Look, I'm trying to help our people too,

but I'm just doing it in a different way.

♪ ♪

Hope the video helps. Didn't come from me.

♪ ♪

- You havin' any luck with that ID?

- Not a single hit anywhere.

Their faces are not in our system.

- Really? What of the license plate on the Honda?

- It's cold. DMV records show

it belongs to a blue Ram truck. - Okay.

- Maybe we should put a BOLO out on that car

and the suspect photos. - Yeah, yeah.

Let me see this.

- If the suspects wanted the guns today,

we are running out of time. - Yeah, I know.

We're doing everything we can. Can't catch a break.

♪ ♪

- Okay, listen.

If the suspects attend the Grand Shah Mosque,

we need the Imam's cooperation.

I understand you've been getting pushback,

but you have a personal relationship with the Imam.

Use it, and get some answers.

- [exhales] Okay. I can try, but...

it might help if I can talk to him alone.

- That guy's not gonna fold just because we're nice to him.

Trust me.

♪ ♪

Come on. I'll go with you.

♪ ♪

- Yeah. Go.

♪ ♪

- Uh, look.

No offense, but I think this might be better

if I do it on my own.

- Why, because I might offend him?

- Honestly, yeah.

- Let me ask you a hypothetical question.

If this were a Catholic priest,

would you be struggling so much?

- I don't think that's a fair comparison.

- Of course it is.

Just follow my lead.

I'll push his buttons, get him worked up.

You come to his defense, ingratiate yourself,

chase me out the door.

When you're alone with him,

get the answers we need.

- That doesn't work for me.

- I don't give a damn what works for you.

That's what we're going to do.

That's an order.

- [quietly] Copy that.

- These men killed Kosey?

You have proof?

- We don't have proof.

But Amir gave us a physical description

and a car color and that photo is a match to both.

- But you're not sure?

What is this?

- That's a photo taken yesterday.

Your brother talking to three known terrorists.

They've met in the same Egyptian marketplace

four times in the last three weeks.

It means they're planning something.

♪ ♪

- No, no.

See, Omar?

This is exactly what I'm talking about.

To this man, anyone who doesn't believe America is perfect

is a terrorist.

- State Department says those men are terrorists,

not me.

Next time they show their faces,

one of our drones will be taking them out.

- Get the hell out of my mosque.

- I want the names of those two men.

♪ ♪

Don't ever lay your hands on me.

Am I clear? - Guys, enough.

We are in a mosque. Please. - He's threatening my brother!

How do you expect me to deal with a man like this?

- I know. I'm sorry.

Okay, I apolo-- - Don't ever apologize for me!

Not my fault his brother hates America.

- Get out of my mosque!

- Bashar, please, just go.

♪ ♪

I am sorry, but you know me, and I wouldn't lie to you.

We are just looking for the people

that attacked Kosey and Amir. That's it.

♪ ♪

- [sighs]

♪ ♪

The two men in that photo approached me a week ago.

Asked me what the prophet says about retribution.

- And what did you say?

- That to forgive is great and will be rewarded.

♪ ♪

If these men did the things you say,

I have failed...

as an Imam and as a human being.

So I pray that you're wrong.

♪ ♪

Your colleague there just crossed the line,

accusing my brother of being a terrorist,

attacking his reputation.

He won't get away with that.

♪ ♪

- I'm gonna talk to him, okay?

- No, that's not good enough.

I'm filing a complaint,

and I expect you to support me on this.

♪ ♪

If not, you can forget about worshipping here in the future.

♪ ♪

- You get the names?

- Yeah. - Good.

I was hoping that Photoshop ruse would move the needle.

Let's go.

- I'm sorry. You fabricated these photos?

♪ ♪

- You accused his brother of associating with terrorists.

Bashar, we can't do that.

- Who cares? It worked.

We got what we needed.

♪ ♪

- All right, people. We have our suspects:

two cousins named Rasul and Papa Petrov,

and whatever they are planning could be happening as we speak.

So let's pin down their location immediately, please.

- Yeah, there's no permanent addresses we can find.

Neither have an online presence.

- Okay, what about a search outside the U.S.?

From the driver's license, I'm saying they're, what,

Russian? Chechen?

- Chechen-Muslims.

From what I can tell, it looks like both suspects

left Grozny, Chechnya in 2010.

But after that, their trail goes cold,

presumably because they snuck in illegally.

- Right, well, that makes sense.

2010 is right after the Second Chechen War.

A lot of people fled the country around then.

- I may have something. - Tell me.

- A Rasul Petrov was issued a loitering ticket

by a beat cop in Queens two weeks ago.

- Tell me he supplied an address.

[dramatic music]

- An apartment in Coney Island.

- Ding, ding, ding.

- All right.

S.W.A.T.'s still five minutes out,

so let's get containment of this building

before they get here. - Copy that.

Hey, I got a visual on Papa and Rasul.

- FBI!

Keep your hands where I can see them.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- [grunts]

- [grunts]

♪ ♪

[grunting]

♪ ♪

- Stop running!

[gunshot fires]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- OA, I lost Rasul.

I think he may be doubling back toward the boardwalk.

♪ ♪

- [grunts]

♪ ♪

[gunshots fire]

[car honks] [tires squeal]

♪ ♪

- Are you okay? - Yeah, I'm okay.

♪ ♪

- [grunts] [gunshots fire]

[screams]

- Papa, put the gun down!

- Ah! [gunshots firing]

[grunts]

♪ ♪

[groans]

[speaking Russian]

- What's he saying? - I don't--I don't know.

Here, put pressure on him right here.

- Ambulance-- - [speaking Russian]

- Ambulance is five minutes out.

- [speaking Russian]

♪ ♪

- Come on, come on, come on...

Come on! Come on!

- I think I got it.

♪ ♪

- [speaking Russian] - Play it again.

- [speaking Russian]

- It's definitely Russian, but mine's rusty.

I can't translate it.

- According to this Russian translation program, it means,

"Dig three graves, forest beast, revenge."

- What the hell's that mean?

- He wants revenge.

- [scoffs] Thanks.

All right, so let's assume Rasul

still wanted to get this revenge.

The question is: on whom?

- Hey, just got off the phone

with our legal attaché in Moscow.

The suspects were originally

from a rural village called Shatoy.

Apparently there was some alleged massacre back in 2002.

- Yeah, yeah, 35 innocents

were executed by suspected Russian OMON forces.

Houses were burned,

women and children.

Three of the listed victims

share the last name as Papa and Rasul.

- Okay, so our suspects believe their loved ones

were killed by Russian military.

Maybe that has something to do with

what they planned to use these guns for.

- It says in this article I'm reading

that the Russian special forces believed to be responsible

were under the direction of Dmitry Borchin,

an ex-KGB officer.

Chechens refer to him as "the Beast of the Forest."

- "Forest Beast," that's what Papa said.

All right, that's gotta be our guy.

Throw 'em up. Here we go. Take a look.

Dmitry Borchin. That's our suspect's target.

- Where's Borchin now?

- Uh, CBP is saying Borchin

arrived in the U.S. yesterday.

He's here with his wife and three sons.

- I thought he was a war criminal.

- Well, according to the NSA brief

on the incident, that's not the case.

Says there's a high probability that Borchin and his troops

were used as Chechen propaganda.

- Always two sides to every war.

What is he doing here now?

He's here for a private speaking event

on Russian-American relations

at the Lucas Auditorium in Brighton Beach.

It starts in half an hour.

- All right, get the team over there now.

- Yup.

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- FBI. We have reason to believe that

Dmitry Borchin's in danger. - What kind of danger?

- We don't have time to explain.

We need your men to stand down till we can locate the suspect.

- [speaking Russian]

Hey!

- [sighs]

- Move,

or I'll have every one of you arrested for obstruction.

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- Anybody got eyes on Rasul? - Negative.

We need to shut this thing down.

There's way too many bystanders in the line of fire

if this thing goes south. - Agreed.

But Borchin's our target, so let's secure him first.

- Too late.

He's already making his way to the stage.

Okay, we need to split up and cover him now.

Let's go. Guys.

- Hey, Tiff, with me.

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- Welcome, everyone.

My name is Anastasia, and I'll be your moderator.

Thank you for joining us this evening.

Tonight's event is sponsored by the Turley House.

Our special guest tonight is Dmitry Borchin,

a leading expert on Russian-American relations.

[applause]

- Okay, I am not seeing Rasul anywhere in the audience.

[applause]

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- Dmitry, what do you make of the current relations

between our countries,

and where do you see the relationship trending

in the next five years?

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- What do I make of it? A lot.

But I take it you want the five-minute version?

The truth is revisionist history is more powerful

than you or I could ever know.

On its face, it's a narrative told from the heroes affected,

but at its core, it's a propaganda tool.

I remember watching news of the Cuban Missile Crisis

with my father and I asked him why they were fighting.

He said, "Because America put missiles in our backyard

but are pissed that we feign to them."

[continues indistinctly]

- Get up. - [gasps] Oh...

- Go, go. Get out of here.

- And therein lies some of the problem.

It's complicated.

At its best, it's a healthy mixture

of cooperation and competition.

At its worst, it's the calm before the storm.

Now, this is just my opinion,

but America is the real antagonist.

They make a decision

and expect the world to agree with their choice.

When another country makes its own decision,

they throw the red flag.

America made the first move. Russia just countered them.

Yet we are the bad guy, and they are the hero.

America is the real antagonist in most situations.

This country likes playing at big brother

to the rest of the world.

And we in Russia, we are offended.

We're just as capable of making our own decisions

as they are to do what is best for our country.

- Gun.

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[crowd screaming]

[grunting]

[gunshots firing]

[both grunting]

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- I just called the hospital.

Kosey's brother, Amir, is in stable condition.

It's gonna be a long recovery, but he'll live.

- That's good to hear.

Look.

I don't wanna cross the line.

But for the record, I think I could've gotten

the answers we needed from Imam Mustafa

without all of the anger and the lies.

- It's possible.

What if you were wrong? What if we couldn't have?

Look, I don't play favorites, Omar.

I just follow the leads.

- And I am not saying that you need to play favorites.

I am just saying that it almost feels like

you go out of your way to.

- To what?

Go after Muslims?

Are you accusing me of being anti-Muslim?

Look, we work for the FBI.

Not Muslims, not Middle-Easterners.

We go where the crime is, where the danger is

regardless of our personal beliefs and hopes.

You wanna help Muslims?

Start a charity.

- Don't you think that's a narrow view?

- No, I think it's a realistic view,

because I hate to break the news to you,

Brother Zidan.

But some of us are, in fact, criminals,

and some of us are, in fact,

connected to terrorist organizations.

That's just how it is.

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- Can I speak to both of you in my office?

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- [sighs]

- I just got off the phone with Imam Mustafa.

He said that you threatened his brother's life

and that you assaulted him.

This is my case. My name is on that file

so I need to know what happened.

- We needed answers. Mustafa had them

and chose to obstruct,

so we played a little good cop, bad cop.

Things got heated then physical.

- How physical?

- He tried to push me, so I blocked his hand.

- Is that what you saw as well?

♪ ♪

- Yes.

- So there's no need for me to pursue his complaint?

♪ ♪

- No.

We did our job.

Special Agent in charge, Bashar, did nothing wrong.

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