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MALE NARRATOR: Previously on Class of '09...

It's fine. You can date. You don't have to be alone.

QUANTICO POLYGRAPH TESTER: You concealed anything during this process

which might negatively influence your application?

Yes.

If it doesn't work out, the woman always comes off worse.

She always takes the hit.

LENNIX: You can do it on your own. I get it.

And I've loved you for 20 years.

This time, you're gonna have to tell me it doesn't stand a chance.

This is an intelligence nothing like our own.

TUPIRIK: Well, you think you caught me.

But I'm exactly where I wanna be.

- MICHAELS: All locked up in here, really? - Mm-hmm.

Why is that?

'Cause I get to see the expression on your face when you hear the news.

- (BLOWS WHISTLE) - (GUNSHOTS)

- MALE FBI TRAINEE 1: Shooter! - (GROANS)

- (GUNSHOTS) - (MALE FBI TRAINEE 2 GRUNTS)

- (GUNSHOTS) - (GRUNTS)

Hey. I'll take the heat if I'm wrong, but we need to evacuate this building.

Hey, freeze!

LENNIX: We have to go now!

(GRUNTS, PANTS)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

You've all successfully concluded the firearms component.

We have in our hands a great responsibility.

Which is why we've brought you here.

On this wall are the names of every special agent

who lost their life in the line of duty.

And spaces for the names of agents who will lose their lives in the future.

Our FBI family is loved and missed.

They served their country with compassion,

determination, and vision. They embody our mission.

They embolden our resolve.

They exemplify fidelity, bravery, and integrity.

(SIREN WAILING)

- (CROWD CLAMORING) - (HELICOPTER CLATTERING)

MAN 1: Move!

MAN 2: There's more on this side!

LENNIX: I can't feel my arm.

POET: It's right here.

It's right here. I'm right here, okay?

Hey, don't stop talking. It scares me.

(CHUCKLES) You're not scared of anything.

I'm scared of losing you. (WHIMPERS)

- (SNIFFLES) - LENNIX: You're never gonna lose me.

(SOBS)

You know what?

It occurs to me... (CHUCKLES)

I never said I love you.

Hey! (EXHALES)

'Kay. (EXHALES) Don't stop there.

(BREATHES HEAVILY) Just stay with me, okay? (SOBS)

(INHALES) We can, uh...

Uh, I can sing, okay? (WHIMPERS)

(SOBBING, SINGING) ♪ I got sunshine on a cloudy day ♪

♪ When it's cold outside... ♪

♪ I got the month of May ♪

Please. (SOBS)

MAN: Hello? Hello. Is anyone down there?

POET: Help!

- Help! - MAN: Hello?

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

(THEME MUSIC ENDS)

CONGRESSMAN: Executive Assistant Director Michaels.

We have read your report into the litany of failures

that preceded the bombing of the Hoover Building

and the mass shooting at Quantico.

For those who haven't had the time to read all 2,000 pages,

how would you summarize your findings?

Well, put simply, sir, it wasn't that we missed the facts.

They were in front of us.

We failed to understand them.

What is that down to?

MICHAELS: The old way of investigating doesn't work.

The question is, "What is the new way?"

The shooter at Quantico was vetted by our best brains.

The construction workers we entrusted to rebuild our foundations

wanted to tear them down.

And Tupirik, the mind behind it all, was questioned multiple times

and still declared a person of no concern,

even as he was planning to kill my colleagues and my wife.

I had to breach protocol to investigate him.

What we're trying to determine is whether these are the failures

of numerous individuals or a systemic failure.

These failures...

happened...

different places...

with different people and different processes.

Systemic fail. Thank you.

What measures have been enacted to prevent another attack?

It is my conclusion, Senator, that...

rebuilding our headquarters isn't enough.

We have to rebuild our entire approach or another tragedy is inevitable.

This attack won't take place at our headquarters, but it will happen.

And when it happens, we will be right back here wondering...

wondering how we missed it.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - (CAR ENGINE RUMBLING)

POET: Hey, on the way back to Quantico, maybe we shouldn't sit together.

- LENNIX: Why not? - It's a little high school, you know?

Everyone knows. It's not a secret.

I know. But we don't have to make a whole thing of it, you know?

Okay, what do you want me to do? Sit in the back of the bus?

- Not make eye contact? - I'm just trying to be more professional.

I'm just trying to be funny.

Which do you think is harder?

Funny's getting harder every day.

GABRIEL: For the past nine years,

trainees have been visiting the National Holocaust Museum in D.C.

It's no longer acceptable for the Bureau to teach abuses of power

by law enforcement just with reference to the Nazis.

There is a plan to bring trainees to the MLK Memorial in Washington D.C.,

but it isn't finished yet.

So, we made the decision to bring you here to Dr. King's childhood home.

We have arranged a guest speaker. You will listen with respect.

DREW: And we're dressed this way for a reason.

We will not disturb the public's experience of this place.

So, don't... You know.

(CHUCKLES) Act too FBI?

Trainee, it is possible to think those comments and not say them.

- All right? - All right.

Let's go.

- Hi. - MALE FBI TRAINEE 1: Hi.

I'd like to introduce esteemed civil rights attorney,

Dr. Vivienne McMahon. She will be our tour guide today.

Esteemed civil rights attorney is a fancy way of saying,

"I'm the person you call if you want to sue the cops." (CHUCKLES)

Ma'am, with respect, how come you're talking to us?

Well, because winning cases wasn't enough.

They kept happening no matter how big the settlement,

so I agreed to work with law enforcement.

And this is why Dr. McMahon agreed to take this class.

On one condition. We... we do this my way.

We start where I decide,

which is to explain why you can't wear your uniform here.

- Why is that, ma'am? - Because the FBI tried to kill Dr. King.

I'm sorry. You said the FBI tried to kill him?

Tried to convince him to take his own life.

Yes, ma'am. I have a copy of the letter right here.

I'm about to read it to my tour group.

Where y'all from?

MALE FBI TRAINEE 2: Nevada.

- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - (HORN HONKING)

SHANNON: I finished your report, Agent Michaels.

What does rebuilding our entire approach mean to you?

We have this criminal database. We spent a lot of money on it.

Too much, in my view.

And it still depends on agents sifting through tons of data

and hoping that they come to the correct conclusions.

No one person can read hundreds and thousands of emails

or look through every crime scene photo on record.

It also goes to show that no one person can stand apart

from their own personal experiences to see the world the way it is,

rather than how it appears to them.

What I'm proposing, sir, is a deeper kind of learning.

Did Agent Nazari ask you to petition for this?

- No, she did not. - You're disgruntled on her behalf?

Right now, there's a crisis of confidence

in our ability to function as an institution.

MICHAELS: I agree, sir.

We couldn't even protect our own headquarters.

How can we protect the country?

Isn't that what people are saying?

Among other things, yes.

And you want to declare the age of agents is over?

That is not what I'm proposing at all, sir.

- WARREN: Our agents would never accept it. - I was an agent.

With respect, you have never done field work.

You have never solved a case. You're an attorney.

You don't know what it's like to know that the answer

is right there and you can't reach it.

Revolutions never work. They're not what institutions are about.

And what are institutions about then, sir?

Thousands of people over hundreds of years,

each person laying their brick in the wall.

It's not my job to rip that wall down.

Is that clear?

- Agent Michaels? - Very clear, sir.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

Mr. Garcia...

thank you for taking the time.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC FADES)

Call me Amos.

- Amos. Pleasure. - And how could I refuse?

My job is to predict what people want, and...

I have no idea what you're about to ask for.

You are about to ask for something, though, aren't you?

Yes, I am.

GARCIA: What do you know about me?

Well, I know that you amassed a tremendous fortune

building an artificial intelligence that's used to predict

what people buy online.

GARCIA: One which knows customers better than they know themselves.

Can we lose the lawyers, please?

- (BIRDS CHIRPING) - (WATER RIPPLING)

Look, there are only a handful

of deep learning intelligence systems in the world.

China has one. Google has one. Facebook has one...

and you have one.

And right now, one of the most powerful neural networks in the world

is being wasted, in my personal opinion, on trying to figure out

if I want half-off cookies over discounted donuts,

and I... I just want to change that.

You would have it working on criminal justice reform?

MICHAELS: I would.

Rocket trip to Mars might be an easier challenge.

(SCOFFS)

(SMACKS LIPS) Amos, I'm gonna be completely candid with you.

You know as well as I that you and I

shouldn't even be standing here right now.

In practice, the system of law enforcement

is not built to protect men who look like me and you,

but to keep men who look like me and you in check.

One innocent misunderstanding, one wrong turn, one wrong place,

one wrong move, and we wouldn't have even gotten this far.

Hell, we wouldn't have gotten anywhere.

I'm talking about reinventing our entire system,

not just tinkering at the edges.

No more lip service to the idea of justice for all.

No more being invisible when you need to be seen, and visible when you don't.

No more living in fear of the very people whose job it is

to protect men like me and you. No more...

feeling the weight of knowing

that this biased system is against you no matter what you do.

MALE POLICE OFFICER 1: What's up?

MALE POLICE OFFICER 2: How's it going?

MALE VOICE: (OVER RADIO) Radio... What's your location?

FEMALE VOICE: (OVER RADIO) All right, head over.

Hey, isn't... isn't that the agent they pulled from the rubble?

MALE POLICE OFFICER 3: I think it is.

A little small for the Bureau, huh?

What's small about it?

FEMALE VOICE: (OVER RADIO) ...is at 75, 85 around Lake Tahoe,

in both directions.

In fact, then, there'll be a break then. Over in the south...

(EXHALES)

Caroline?

Caroline?

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

(LINE RINGING)

POET: (OVER CELL PHONE) Hi.

Did you consider not answering?

- I always consider not answering. - LENNIX: (OVER CELL PHONE) When I call?

When anybody calls.

How are ya?

I'm okay.

You?

LENNIX: (OVER CELL PHONE) I'm okay.

POET: (OVER CELL PHONE) How's Caroline and the kids?

They're good. (INHALES) What are you up to?

Right now, I am...

reading a victim's diary.

Every day she would write something kind about herself.

Like what?

"Smiled at Simon today. He smiled back. Think he likes me."

What are you working on?

The interstate killings.

Women, poor, their bodies are discarded by the freeway.

(OVER CELL PHONE) Over a thousand unsolved murders.

Hey...

I never asked you.

Do you remember anything from that time?

In the rubble?

Not really, no.

Do you?

- (HELICOPTER CLATTERING) - MALE: (VOICE OVER RADIO) Round off to...

(SIREN WAILING)

NAZARI: Two hostage takers. They're wearing masks,

but we identified them through their car. Twenty and 19 years old.

No history of violence. Indications of online radicalization.

SOLDIER 1: (OVER VIDEO) Breach team. Entering the synagogue.

MICHAELS: What's the strategy?

NAZARI: Delivering food and water

while our cameras surveil the suspects and hostages.

SOLDIER 1: (OVER VIDEO) Around the corner? Through the doors?

HOSTAGE TAKER 1: (OVER VIDEO) Yup.

MICHAELS: And your assessment is?

NAZARI: Gutierrez.

HOSTAGE TAKER 1: (OVER VIDEO) Put it on the ground. On the ground.

MICHAELS: What about the vests?

I've received confirmation. The vests are fake.

The wires aren't connected.

That's why we couldn't trace them through the explosives.

HOSTAGE TAKER 1: (OVER VIDEO) Get out. Go, go. Get the hell out of here.

The tactical team is standing by. They're ready to take the shot.

- Are you sure about the vests? - As sure as we can be.

SOLDIER 1: (OVER RADIO) Alpha team, are you ready to take the shot?

- ALPHA SOLDIER: (OVER RADIO) Ready. - SOLDIER 1: (OVER RADIO) Bravo team?

BRAVO SOLDIER: (OVER RADIO) Ready.

Take the shot.

NAZARI: (OVER RADIO) You are a go.

SOLDIER 1: (OVER RADIO) Green, green, green.

(GUNSHOTS)

SOLDIER 1: (OVER VIDEO) All right, team. Let's go.

Agents entering.

SOLDIER 1: (OVER VIDEO) First gunman is dead.

Men, right.

SOLDIER 2: (OVER VIDEO) Clear. Clear left. Clear.

SOLDIER 1: (OVER VIDEO) Second gunman is down.

Everything is okay. Remain calm and we'll get you out.

(EXHALES) Both assailants dead.

SOLDIER 2: (OVER VIDEO) Ma'am, ma'am. Let me help you up.

SOLDIER 1: (OVER VIDEO) Sir. Right this way, sir.

SOLDIER 1: (OVER VIDEO) I got you, sir.

SOLDIER 2: (OVER VIDEO) Clearing the temple with the hostages.

Everyone is safe and sound.

Good job. Good job, everybody.

(WOMAN SCREAMS)

SOLDIER 1: (OVER VIDEO) Need help over here!

SOLDIER 1: (OVER VIDEO) Get the medical team out here.

- The hell is happening? - I have no idea.

FBI AGENT: (OVER VIDEO) Help!

SOLDIER 1: (OVER VIDEO) Get him on his side!

- Need help! - (RETCHES)

SOLDIER 1: (OVER VIDEO) Hey! There's another sick, too.

Go right, go. Somebody help...

Now! We need some help!

(SIREN WAILING)

(INDISTINCT SPEECH OVER RADIO)

Talk me through it.

Well, they used a needle to puncture through the tops

so the seals weren't broken.

They hadn't allowed any of the hostages to drink.

They were...

dehydrated, desperate.

They saw us coming in with the water. They... they had no reason to suspect...

Tell me more about the poison.

Arsenic.

No taste, no smell.

(EXHALES) They knew that if they shot, we'd storm the synagogue.

This way... the deaths will be televised.

Broadcast all over the world. Livestreamed.

Who thinks like that?

The people we're up against.

(SIREN WAILING)

- (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING) - (INDISTINCT CHATTER)

What is this?

(SIGHS) This is about, uh, one-tenth of the information your database collected

on the synagogue killers.

We read it all, and we tried to imagine how they'd act,

and the reality never even crossed our minds.

I mean, how could we have known?

See, that's... that's the question I'm trying to answer.

Can you give us a minute? Take a break.

(EXHALES)

They were gamers, and in a forum, they were talking about

the best way to kill their enemies. See, they, uh...

Uh. "You shoot a gun,

"they start screaming. We should do it like they did in the war.

"With gas, to trick them."

There are a million different discussions right now on gamer forums

about the best way to kill someone.

Yeah, but how do we know which one is more than just gamer talk?

- No one could've found them. - No one person could.

No process we put in place is going to prevent every tragedy, Tayo.

The problem isn't your database.

The problem is people.

(DOORBELL RINGING)

Sir, do you know this man?

I come bearing gifts.

Everyone presumes these deep learning systems

are about numbers, but they're not.

VIVIENNE: What are they about?

Oh, I... I keep no secrets from my wife.

There's plenty from you.

(INHALES) Yeah, she's also funnier than me, so...

Mm-hmm.

Do you know what a logic gate is? On-off, zero-one binary?

Mm. I do.

The way I see it, crime is binary.

How so?

Are they a suspect or not? On, off. Zero, one.

Go on.

In law enforcement, what's the process when a crime takes place?

Round up the usual suspects, right?

Something like that, yes.

What if, for every crime, every person in the country

was considered a suspect?

- The whole country a suspect? - What about the presumption of innocence?

What about it? I mean, who are we kidding right?

It doesn't exist. It's never going to exist.

The only way for everyone to be equal

is for everyone to be considered a suspect.

My system runs through everyone, no exceptions,

and simply asks, "Suspect or not?"

Over and over and over again, each time with a new data point.

Location, gender, age. The computer keeps running,

"Suspect or not." On-off. Zero-one.

Until it's out of data, and you're left with a list of suspects.

It's the closest to fair we're going to get.

So, what, you can just go back and ask the system why they...

why it eliminated such-and-such person as a suspect?

"Here's a photo of him buying bread a 1,000 miles away."

And at the end?

Maybe you're left with 10,000 suspects, maybe you're left with two.

- And maybe you're left with one. - GARCIA: If you had enough data.

VIVIENNE: That person would be guilty.

In my eyes, yes. In the eyes of the law, no.

Mm. I'll say.

Make the arrest and find out.

(INHALES SHARPLY)

So, the agent... the agent still decides?

The agent always decides.

(ALARM BEEPING)

MICHAELS: Well, this isn't the reunion we imagined, is it? (EXHALES)

What is this, Tayo? Because it's not the law.

- Are we under arrest? - No.

Sure feels that way.

POET: If this isn't an arrest, what is it?

It's, uh, a warning.

But the person you're warning us about is you?

I'm not warning you about a person.

(INHALES)

Look, I know you've all become skeptical of the system.

Arrests that make no sense. Orders that aren't questioned.

Agents being told what to do, where to go, who to arrest.

The system was only supposed to be held in check by people.

The findings are only advisory.

If people were supposed to be the check, people clearly weren't up to the task.

People have always been the problem.

Why aren't you wearing any tech? No microphone, no camera.

Why don't you want your system watching?

Talk to us. We're here. We wanna help.

(CHUCKLES)

After all these years, Poet,

after all these years, you are still trying to help.

And help with what, hmm?

POET: Maybe this is what Garcia wanted all along.

No one person can shut it down. But all of us together can.

Let me be very clear. We are never going back.

You're free to go. You're free to live your lives,

but you are not free to shut it down.

- I can't speak for everyone, but... - And yet you do, Poet. You do.

Can't you see?

They're all here because of you.

I'm not going to stop because somebody powerful asks me to.

I've done what I can.

But know this.

There will be no more warnings.

(INHALES) Listening to me, you might think that I consider the situation

in this country to be hopeless. But I have hope.

Including the hope that some of you will not only deal

with the threats outside your institution, but the threats inside as well.

- Thank you, Dr. McMahon. - VIVIENNE: Thank you.

- What are you do... - I don't get it, but okay.

What don't you get?

(EXHALES) My foot is on the gas. Yours is on the brake.

There's a good reason for that. Quantico is 20 weeks.

That's all we have to figure out if we're a fling or something else.

It's already halfway over.

Okay, I got it.

The clock is ticking.

Sir, I know this, uh, is crazy, but, um, I need to go back.

- We're about to leave. - Yes, I understand, sir,

but there's something that I really need to do.

We can wait, can't we?

Sure, we can wait.

Thank you. (EXHALES) Thank you, sir, ma'am. Thank you.

We don't write this one up.

We write everything up. How can we not write it up?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

- Dr. McMahon! - VIVIENNE: Okay. And nice to meet you.

Thank you very much. Hi.

MICHAELS: Hey, uh...

(CHUCKLES)

I just need to know the answer, and... and.. and if it's no, that's okay.

I just... don't wanna spend the rest of my life wondering

what would've happened if I hadn't tried.

The answer to what?

Right, right. (LAUGHS) Uh...

Vivienne...

will you see me again?

Yeah, I'll see you again.

(CHUCKLES)

CONGRESSWOMAN: Judge...

I'm sure you've heard accounts of inexplicable arrests.

Mm-hmm, they concern me.

In today's court, how many times

does a jury go against the verdict of the system?

You could very easily find out those statistics for yourself.

"Never" is the answer.

The judgement of the jury is a matter for them.

- CONGRESSWOMAN: Is it? Or are they afraid? - Afraid of what?

VIVIENNE: I don't know what you're implying,

but Tayo is not vindictive. He is not malicious.

- He's not the one I'm worried about. - Then who are you worried about?

I'm worried about our justice system being put on autopilot.

Senator, I might not live with Tayo anymore...

but I would still trust him with my life.

Would you feel the same way if someone else was in charge?

The senator, she's agreed to meet us, but it has to be today.

And she's critical of the system, too.

How Tayo says it's independent of people, but then claims only he can oversee it.

Which is why she's our best bet.

How are we supposed to make it across the city without being tracked?

- We can't. - I'm counting on it.

You want Tayo to know.

How the system reacts

to being investigated is the investigation.

Welcome to the Pilgrim Church of Deanwood. Please follow me.

POET: Senator.

I know who you all are, so let's not waste any time on introductions.

Say what you're here to say.

What exactly are you expecting to happen?

We're expecting agents to show up. The arrests are becoming predictive.

To better prevent crime,

it arrests people likely to commit a crime,

- people who haven't done anything yet... - (DRONES HOVERING)

NAZARI: ...people who might not ever

commit a crime, but who fit the patterns it seems to recognize.

CONGRESSWOMAN: This isn't a crime.

- We are not alone. - It's the Bureau drone.

PRIEST: It can't enter this space.

- Yes, it can. - It still needs a warrant.

Well, who would deny it?

We have to get you out of here, Senator. It isn't safe.

This way.

(DRONES BUZZING)

PRIEST: This is my church. I'll handle this.

This is a sacred space.

This is a place of worship.

No.

This is an outrage!

- (DEVICE BEEPING) - What is this?

Sir, the system has identified a threat.

Stand it down.

- Stand it down! - (VOICE OVER SYSTEM): Smash the window.

PRIEST: You're in a sanctuary!

Are you out of your mind? (GRUNTS)

MICHAELS: Why couldn't I stop it?