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You shouldn't have done any of this.

Am I Subject 17?

Yes.

I need to find Pembrook.

CALLEN (over phone): Leah, your life is in danger.

14.

I'd like to stay with Leah.

This is still an active threat.

We both want the same thing,

to kill Pembrook.

He is still a monster, 17.

The doctors give any prognosis?

No. They're saying she's showing signs of consciousness,

and now we just have to wait.

The facility they recommended specializes in rehabilitation,

so that's a good sign.

We're ready to roll.

Elevators and hallways secure? OFFICER (over comms): Yes, sir.

All right, let's move, quickly.

Anything else I can do?

Ah, nobody will know the location of the facility.

She's being checked in under an alias

and no visitors.

We'll keep her safe. All right.

Let me know how she's doing. Will do.

(grunts) (engine starts)

I didn't want to say anything back there,

but they just found Clayton's body.

Geez, if they can get to Clayton,

they can get to anybody.

We need a plan.

Everybody wants to meet, now.

Set it up.

Hang tight back there. We'll be five minutes.

NURSE: Sure. Let's go.

They found Clayton.

Yeah, I heard.

His wrists were zip-tied.

Eyes burnt out with cigarettes.

They wanted him to give the rest of us up.

None of us are safe.

(gunshot)

(gunshot) (grunts)

(gunshot) (grunts)

This way, this way. MAN: Gun!

(gunshot) (cries out)

(indistinct shouting, screaming)

(gunshot)

♪ ♪

What do we got?

Whoa, that's not a good look.

Trust me, it's only gonna get worse as the day goes on.

Looks like somebody skipped their 15 minutes of mindfulness.

Four people, including

a CIA officer named

Avery Lamica, were shot dead

40 minutes ago in the middle of Pershing Square.

Wait, that's where you sent Kensi?

Yes, and Callen

was with Lamica just before

she was shot.

Callen said he was gonna be with Leah Novak.

Lamica was part of Novak's

CIA protection detail.

So we think this has something to do with Drona?

It would appear that way.

What else did the CIA say?

We're about to find out.

Morning, gentlemen. This is

CIA Officer Rafael Cortes.

Admiral Kilbride.

This is Investigator Deeks,

Special Agent Rountree.

Where are Agents Callen and Hanna?

Hanna is taking a personal day out of town

and won't be joining us.

And Callen?

Callen is en route to the crime scene.

I don't want Callen running point on this.

Well, that's not a decision for you to make.

You asked for our help on this and...

We asked for information.

CIA doesn't need your help.

FBI is handling the shooting.

Callen let Anthony Beltran get away.

Beltran knew as much about Howard Pembrook as anybody.

Call Callen back to OSP

so I can question him.

I have a feeling that he wouldn't come back

even if I did order him,

which I am not going to do.

Look, Leah Novak was obviously transported via ambulance.

Does CIA have intelligence on where that ambulance is now?

No. ROUNTREE: Who else was a part

of the protection detail, besides Lamica?

CIA Officer Chris Behr,

but we haven't been able to locate him.

Do we know why Lamica was in the park?

My guess is she was meeting with other Drona team members.

Why?

Howard Pembrook ran black ops for DoD,

NSA...

And CIA. CORTES: Yes.

That was, until they all started killing each other.

Anthony Beltran said it was because they were filing

a civil suit against Pembrook

for what he did to them as children.

As far as I'm concerned, they're all ticking time bombs.

Pembrook made monsters,

including Agent Callen.

(sirens wailing, indistinct radio chatter)

(sighs) So, that's Lamica.

She was just at the hospital.

What about the other CIA officer?

Behr. He's not here. Hey,

LAPD get anything from the witnesses? KENSI: No. Nothing yet.

So Lamica goes down first.

The rest of them try and get away in this direction.

Well, other than Lamica, they were all shot from behind

as they ran.

We're gonna have to go through every one

of those office buildings to try and find

the sniper's location.

Yeah, and judging by the angle,

it was probably one of the top floors.

I'll look at the victims again. I'll do the math.

I'll narrow it down. Fatima,

see there's any traffic or security cam footage

from South Olive around the time of the shooting.

Looking for an ambulance.

FATIMA (over comms): Yeah. Checking.

Agent Callen, there is a CIA Officer Cortes here

who would very much like to speak to you.

Well, we have a few of them here right now.

CORTES (over comms); Agent Callen,

I need to talk to you.

FBI can handle this investigation.

Well, they're not even on the scene yet.

Callen, they think Lamica was there

meeting with Drona subjects.

Behr and Lamica could be Drona.

Which would explain why

they were put on the protection detail.

There has to be several of them in the Agency.

CORTES: Including you, Agent Callen.

You were in the CIA.

You were also a Drona subject. CALLEN: You know what?

Y-You're breaking up. I'm gonna have to get back to you,

all right?

Looking at the entry

and exit wounds on Lamica's body,

there is no way that those gunshots came from the building.

It is too steep.

So where was the shooter?

I mean, all I can think of is a helicopter.

They'd be one hell of a marksman.

All right, according to civilian air traffic control, there were

eight helicopters in the vicinity at 8:16 this morning.

We're looking at something due northeast at about 1,400 feet.

This one. KILBRIDE: Who owns it?

Let's see.

Tail number is November-0418.

It's owned by a corporation called

Cypress Park Industries.

There should be a point of origin.

Camarillo Airport.

Somebody must've seen who got on that helo.

Deeks... Yeah, I'm about to find out.

Last chance, Agent Callen,

or I'll have the FBI escort you from the crime scene.

Everything I know about Pembrook and Beltran

is in my report.

Besides, we're already done here. I'm headed back in.

(cell phone buzzing)

(chimes)

Guys, give us a sec.

Who is this?

PEMBROOK (over phone): We need to talk.

PEMBROOK: Don't feel.

Remember?

Feelings cause pain.

There's nothing I'd like more.

It's a conversation that's been

a long, long time coming.

I've waited my whole life for it.

PEMBROOK (over phone): You're at the bottom

of a deep, dark ocean,

Grisha, and you have no idea

which way is up.

Hey, Fatima, trace the call coming into Callen's phone now.

And you're gonna show me the light, huh?

I understand your anger.

You cannot begin to understand it.

So what do you want to do?

You want to hurt me? You want to kill me?

I think I choose both.

Then let me give you the opportunity.

But you have to listen to my instructions very carefully.

No other agents.

This is between you and me.

Why would I agree to that?

Because we both know you'd do anything

to face the monster of your childhood.

I think you give yourself a little too much credit.

There's a water bottle under a bench

on the south corner of Pershing Square.

You'll find an address on it.

What's going on?

Pembrook's here. What?

South corner of the park by a coffee cart.

Fatima, do you have anything on Pembrook's phone?

I lost the signal. (phone buzzes)

The FBI is now on scene. Give them the sitrep.

Kens, you're not gonna find him. He's gone.

He left me an address.

(earpiece beeps)

I got to do this alone. (siren wails)

KENSI: FBI.

Go, go.

I'll stay close.

Yeah, we'll get it to you.

I don't know if you guys are overhearing this, but

the aviation tech just confirmed Beltran

and three other people were on that helo,

but no Pembrook. Copy that.

As soon as you get that footage, I want it sent to Langley

for facial-rec identification.

Well, of course.

I'm at the address. KENSI (over comms): Just watch your six.

Anybody inside?

Yeah, nobody's answering.

Just an empty van in the driveway.

Look, it said "pool" on the bottle.

I'm gonna go around back.

There's a box at the bottom of the pool.

Can you fish it out?

He's got cameras all over the place.

I think he's watching me.

He wants me to go in the water

so I short out any tracking devices.

Do not go offline,

Agent Callen.

KENSI: Callen, I know what you want.

Do not let Pembrook manipulate you into doing something stupid.

(beeping)

We've lost Callen's comms.

You have no control over your agents.

We can still track him via his car.

I'll stay close.

I don't want to lose him.

I am sending Agent Rountree

to assist Agent Blye.

On my way, Kensi.

Callen's car still hasn't moved.

You're gonna get your agent killed.

Kensi, move in.

Let's see what the hell Callen's up to.

On it.

Hello, Grisha.

This is the conversation you wanted to have?

At gunpoint?

When I trained you, I taught you the language of violence.

And I can assure you I'm still fluent.

Toss me your gun.

I need you to understand what I'm about to tell you.

And having this seems to be the only way to get you to listen.

You're not wrong about that.

Drive the van.

I'll tell you where to go.

(sighs) (engine starts)

Camarillo Airport gave us access

to their security footage.

That's Beltran.

Do you know who these other people are?

No, but I'm gonna find out.

Send them to me, and I'll forward them to Langley

for facial rec. I can just

run those here. Send them to me.

Sending now.

(door closes)

(sighs)

Callen's not here, and he's changed clothes.

He said there was an empty van outside, but it's gone now.

Agent Namazi, let's find that van.

You've lost him completely.

FATIMA: Kaleidoscope found Callen's van.

I tracked him to Van Nuys, then to the 101, to the 405,

past LAX.

Your agent is being hunted by highly trained killers.

Kaleidoscope is a tenuous connection at best.

Pray you don't lose him. (cell phone buzzes)

Go.

CIA may have identified

the three operatives with Beltran.

(sighs)

You could've killed me.

You didn't.

So what are we doing?

I'm trying to talk to you.

I'm trying to understand how you feel.

No, no. We're not doing that.

You are not my therapist.

You just tell me

exactly what you want.

I want to save your life.

I want to save Leah's life.

And, hopefully, my own in the process.

Well, let me be really clear--

I don't give a damn about your life.

Full stop.

Turn right.

There's an underground garage on the left, turn into it.

I got another hit on Callen's van

crossing 6th and Harbor.

That's San Pedro, by the water.

Yeah, if Pembrook's looking to kill him,

there are a lot better places to do that.

Well, let's just hope he's not looking

for a place to torture him.

You do realize that's what Pembrook does.

He's a sadist.

(cell phone buzzes) Yes, I am well aware of that.

Langley identified the two men and one woman with Beltran

at the airfield. You should have it.

The Agency says they believe

they are Russian operatives or Russian military contractors.

But they don't seem to be FSB.

We had hits a few months ago when they entered the country,

but we don't have any intel on why they entered the U.S.

Now what?

You are obsessive

and consumed with anger.

This isn't about me. Do you deny it?

Decades of searching for answers about your past,

that only led to more questions.

Your anger drives your obsession.

You're not working through your past,

you're banging your head into it, over and over.

What do you want?

Understand, in no uncertain terms,

I did horrible things.

I'll never deny that.

We were children. Yes.

Making it that much worse.

At the time, I thought...

my training methods were justified

for the greater good of the children and, uh,

society, but...

it's been clear for decades that

I couldn't have been more wrong.

And I am consumed with remorse every day of my life.

I don't care.

I'm not asking you to.

My only solace is that you fought through

much of your early childhood trauma.

Stop talking about me.

You don't know me.

Actually, I do, Grisha.

I know everything about you.

I've been watching you for 35 years.

Thank you. Uh, transferring you now.

That was NCIS Director Vance's assistant.

They want you to hop on

a conference call in three minutes.

I'll send it to your office.

Perfect timing. Excuse me.

Actually, I've kept tabs on all the children who went through

Drona.

Tried to help the ones who suffered the most.

Why don't I buy this?

If we get out of this alive,

as proof of my benevolent motives,

I will...

get you your paper file.

In it is everything known about Grisha Callen since

long before your mother's death to the present day.

All my notes are in there.

(sighs)

It's authentic. It's handwritten.

You can date-test the ink.

In it, I talk about

my fear of doing harm.

I talk about my own childhood.

I, too, was denied emotion.

I don't care about your childhood,

but I want that file.

I know you do. You should've had it

long ago. I'm sorry.

So that's what this is all about?

Some sort of apology?

(sighs)

My whole life since Drona has been an apology.

Understand, it has taken me years

to trust any relationship.

I have gone from

jobs at DEA,

CIA, NCIS, all to distract me from...

having to face what you did.

You broke in me

the most

elemental aspect of being human.

I tried to kill your ability to feel.

I know.

It was a terrible thing to do.

It was a terrible thing to do.

I'm sorry.

Well, just so you know, I don't accept your apology.

Of course.

(phone line rings)

Where the hell is that call from Director Vance?

KILBRIDE (over comms): Agent Namazi?

(laptop beeps)

Because we haven't gotten any other hits on the van,

I believe it could've stopped

somewhere near its last known location.

Pembrook worked closely with our agency.

He might be using a CIA safe site.

That makes sense.

Officer Cortes,

may I speak to you in my office?

Of course. Agent Namazi will direct you.

Did you talk to Director Vance about this situation? No.

Come on in. Close the door.

Have a seat.

Do you really think this is a time

for sitting?

I think there's always time

for two men to sit down,

look each other in the eye, and have a conversation.

Sit.

Especially when there has been...

dishonesty.

Dishonesty?

I have one of my agents in the crosshairs of an assassin,

so I'm gonna need some straight answers.

I'm an officer of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Straight answers might be hard to come by.

Well, I'm an aggravated old son of a bitch

who knows how to shake the life out of a tree

until it drops its fruit.

Are you threatening me?

We also did facial rec, and they came back as Americans.

I'm sure they were backstopped.

One of them went to USC.

He played football there.

Now, I know Coach Robinson.

I texted him directly.

He remembers the guy. He was not backstopped.

Okay,

so they're U.S. citizens.

And you are not leaving my office until you tell me

everything you know about Pembrook and Beltran.

And you're gonna stop me?

With force?

Don't tease me.

Hey, Fatima, Rountree just got here.

FATIMA (over comms): Because we haven't gotten another hit on the van,

the thought is it's parked somewhere in the area,

so just hang tight there. KENSI: All right, got it.

Anything else on the Russians?

Yeah, I don't think they're Russian.

The CIA isn't telling us the whole truth.

Kilbride's going mano a mano with Cortes right now.

KENSI: All right, keep us posted.

Will do.

If you care so much about these Drona subjects,

why do you keep killing them?

And finally we get to the present day.

I've been running a team of former

Drona subjects for years.

We were running black operations...

Tell me something I don't know.

Beltran was part of my team.

He and several other operatives

decided to do

missions for hire. You tried to stop them?

The only way to stop them was to kill them.

You have to understand, in Ethiopia,

in an effort to change the course of an election,

Beltran and his team

murdered a democratic candidate for hire,

along with his entire family.

They killed this man's children

for a paycheck.

That's why Beltran and his men are after you and your team.

Yes.

Drona produced men and women

who are psychopathic killing machines.

You did that.

And now they've turned on me.

And you, Grisha.

(gunshots) (yells)

Give me my gun.

Give me my gun!

(gunfire continues)

We got to move.

There's a stairwell over there.

I'll cover you.

Go to the door and you cover me. On three.

One. Two. Three.

(gunshots continue)

Ah!

Move! Move!

(coughing) You all right?

Let's go.

(exhales)

Do you have a phone?

I... I ditched the burner at the park.

I'm also out of ammo.

We got to keep moving.

Let's go.

Come on.

(door opens)

Come on, come on.

BELTRAN: Clear the cubicles.

CALLEN (quietly): Let's go.

WOMAN: Next floor.

You can begin by sharing all your files

on Pembrook's black ops.

That's not gonna happen.

You can have the CIA's full cooperation, Admiral,

without everything we do being fully transparent.

CORTES (over comms): You can't expect us to expose operations

that are irrelevant to this investigation.

FATIMA (over comms): Cortes also worked with

the same black ops team as Beltran.

(phone buzzes) Okay, the Agency is sending me

a list of CIA safe locations

near the last hit on Callen's van.

If Beltran and Cortes worked with the same people...

Then we must assume the transitive property.

If A equals B

and B equals C, then A must equal C.

Cortes is working with Beltran.

Excuse me?

I'm sorry, I'm just doing the math.

What would that math be?

That would be geometry,

Officer Cortes. More specifically,

geometric proofs.

(door closes)

Wait.

This is a server room.

It's soundproof, it's flameproof.

Steel door, bolts from the inside.

This would buy us some time.

It'd also trap us.

Not you. Me.

I can't run anymore. I'm bleeding.

Go, Grisha.

There's only one more floor.

Running out of real estate.

Okay.

Let's do it.

Let's clear it.

You and Anthony Beltran worked with

the same black ops team.

I really don't know what you're talking about.

Yes, you do.

I need you to explain to me

precisely what your role in all this is.

My role?

(laughs)

Hey, over here!

It's a steel door.

See if there's anything around here

that we can use to get it open.

CORTES: This is stupid.

It's been nice working with you.

Sit down. You'll never make it to the door.

Yes, I will.

Are you insane?

(sighs)

My life is over as I know it.

You're Drona.

You're part of

Pembrook's team, and you're working with Beltran.

Now you understand the desperation of my situation,

and the lengths I'll go to to get out of this building.

We have a situation.

Admiral, I wanted...

You're going to need to move right now.

The Admiral and I are leaving.

No, you're not.

I'll ask once more. Move.

Just listen to him, Agent Namazi.

Sir, I believe he needs to listen to me.

Officer Cortes,

please take a look around you.

Go ahead.

All I want to do is leave this office.

You really want me to shoot him over that?

Or you?

Stand up.

The next one, I put into her face.

Stand up.

Tell them to lower their weapons.

Lower your weapons.

Walk to me.

Come on.

It's that way.

Now move away from the door.

Which way?

To the left.

To the left, like the Beyoncé song? Move.

Okay, my left or your left?

To that left.

(grunting)

(yells)

(whirring)

We got to find another way out of here.

(metal clanks)

Stop.

Keep going.

It's too small.

(breathing heavily)

That's not gonna work.

We're in.

Cortes has been sending all our info

about Callen's location

to someone this entire time.

I would imagine that is Beltran.

Do you have the number? Yeah.

We're gonna need to find the location of that phone, quickly.

It's an empty office building,

one block from the last hit on Callen's van.

It's probably a CIA safe site.

That's how Beltran found them.

Rountree, Kensi?

Go. FATIMA: I'm sending you

an address for Callen.

It's one block east of you,

but proceed with caution.

We believe Beltran's in there as well.

We can't wait for Deeks. We're moving.

(drill whirring)

It's close.

Grisha, wait.

When Henrietta

found out what I was doing,

she pulled you from the program immediately.

Blame me for everything.

Not Hetty.

ROUNTREE: See the smoke?

Where there's smoke...

(drill whirring)

Why didn't she tell me?

(coughing) Rountree, anything?

No bodies.

I got blood.

KENSI: Come on.

(grunts)

Got it.

Hey.

I got nothing. All right, next floor.

Hey, guys.

Where's Callen?

I don't know, we split up.

Keep searching for him.

Mm. (inhales through nose)

Everyone always thought you were evil.

(coughs) Some kind of monster.

(chuckles)

(chuckles)

But I knew different.

That's gonna be your downfall.

I wish that were true.

Because you know what?

Living with what I've done

is much harder than dying.

Well, then...

...let me put you out of your misery.

(inhales)

(grunts)

ROUNTREE: Federal agents!

KENSI: Federal agents!

On the ground, now.

Down. Get down. Down.

You okay?

He needs an ambulance.

Quickly.

Fatima, we need an ambulance now.

(sirens wailing in distance)

Okay, thank you.

Leah and Officer Behr are safe.

Good.

NCIS agents are going to escort you to the hospital.

After you recover,

you're gonna be held for questioning.

I want everything you've done with Drona on record.

It's not going to happen that way, Grisha.

Agent Callen.

These are agents from both

DoD intelligence and NSA.

We're taking Howard Pembrook into our custody.

Do you know what he's done?

Very much so.

I'm also from the program.

There are a lot of us.

He made us.

For worse and for better.

Hold on.

Walk away, Agent Callen.

Why didn't Hetty say anything?

Why didn't Hetty tell me

I was taken...

♪ ♪

(sighs)

(phone buzzes)

Who is this?

PEMBROOK: I can't make up for what I did...

...but I can take away the pain of not knowing.

Meet me outside.

(call beeps off)

Hello, Grisha.

Um, I didn't want to leave like that,

but it-it wasn't the place.

So answer me now.

If Hetty pulled me out of the program,

why didn't she ever tell me that?

It's not something you'd ever see in her,

but Hetty was consumed with guilt

for putting you in the program in the first place.

Well, her guilt doesn't make up for it, okay?

I was used.

She was trying to turn children into super agents.

That wasn't her intention. She put you into the program

because you were brilliant and you were gifted,

and she wanted you to fulfill your potential.

Her version of my potential.

She couldn't teach you the violin.

That world was all she knew, it's all she had to offer you.

It's a mistake parents often make.

She's not my parents.

You're missing the most important part.

Call her what you will...

you mean everything to her.

And you always have.

What are you saying?

You were as close to a son

as she's ever had.

How do you know that?

Because she told me.

Even Henrietta Lange needs someone to talk to

once in a while.

Now, I know you think

you have been alone in this world

all this time,

but you have been...

...you've been far from an orphan.

You've been loved deeply.

So...

Anyway, here's your, uh...

...here's your file.

It's everything.

Grandparents, birth, siblings,

adolescence.

Your life.

If you don't mind taking some advice...

...don't make your life be just about the past.

Let it be about the present and...

...and now, the future.

By the way, con... gratulations on your engagement.

I wish you all the happiness in the world.

I really do.

Yeah.

Oh,

take a look in that file.

You'll see

who gave Hetty the dossier

on Senior Chief Petty Officer Sam Hanna.

You?

I thought he'd make a great partner.

No, that's not true.

I thought he'd make a great friend.

♪ I need the call... ♪

Despite everything, I, uh...

...I tried to look out for you.

I...

I tried to make up for it all.

♪ Home ♪

♪ I wanna go home ♪

♪ It's why I'm going on home ♪

♪ I'm going home ♪

♪ I'm following the lead ♪

♪ Of the setting sun ♪

♪ And I'm going back ♪

♪ Where I came from. ♪

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