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- I'll be running our new integrated cross-border initiative.

- What's it called? Operation "Piss off the Canadians?"

Previously, onThe Border...

- Dr. Gorman recommends that you see somebody 3 times a week.

I'm taking you out of the field, desk duty only.

- Who's the girl? - That's my daughter. Don't worry, she's not yours.

- We're on the same side here, right?

- With all due respect, you were CSIS.

- Who do you think provides the muscle to protect your fine ideals?

Who are you?

Major Mike Kessler.

This is Superintendent Maggie Norton.

Immigration and Customs Security.

- Looking for my customs declaration?

It's two bottles and a carton of smokes.

We'd like to come aboard.

- Sorry, Major, we're real behind schedule.

- We intercepted a radio transmission from this ship 4 days ago.

It came from one of your crewmembers.

So?

- He said you had stowaways onboard.

You know, that's unlikely.

We need to search your ship.

- Tell me, you got a warrant? - I can get one.

- Permission to come aboard denied.

Hey! Hey! There! Sir! Sir!

♪♪♪

[S.S. Taipei...]

[Speaking Mandarin]

[Halifax...]

Is that your voice?

As you can hear, your message is a bit garbled.

Can you tell us what you were trying to say?

Captain, uh...

find stowaways onboard.

- When? - After we leave port.

What happened?

I refugee. I stay in Canada?

- You can make a refugee claim.

You will have to establish that you are at risk

of persecution, torture or execution

if you return to your home country.

The Captain know many people.

- He want to see me dead. - Did he threaten you?

That's why I jump off ship.

He not...

not want me to talk.

- He kill me. - We can help you,

but you need to tell us what happened on that ship.

My wife, sons

in Jakarta. You help me bring them to Canada?

- Well, our sailor seems pretty clear about what he wants.

- Think we're being had? - I don't know.

That was one helluva jump. I think his fear of McKay is real.

- Keep talking to him. See if you can

separate fact from refugee application. - We got grounds for a warrant?

- With your charm? What judge could refuse you?

See if Mr. Chong has any friends left on the crew.

Starboard hatch is open.

- This the guy giving us a hard time?

Captain Ryan McKay.

Born into a prominent military family in San Diego,

attended Annapolis,

top of his class-- he's a one-man recruiting campaign.

- How does a star navy captain end up commanding

- an empty bulk carrier? - It's like a Grand Prix driver shuttling rental cars.

What's the story on the ship?

The S.S. Taipei left Jakarta

in February. Docked in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Offloaded her cargo. It's nothing juicy,

just refinery equipment.

McKay's taking her back to New York. She's headed to China early next year.

- Looks like she's ready for the scrap heap. - Yeah.

35 million to refurbish. 75 million to build new.

There's gold in them there rust-buckets.

- Bound for New York. What's she doing in Halifax? - It's bad weather.

Took a beating in the storm, had to change course.

- Bet McKay wishes he'd limped over the border.

- Guy's got a history of bad decisions-- golden boy went golden gloves.

Bopped a senior officer. Two years in naval prison,

dishonourable discharge, blew town the day he was released.

- Resurfaces as a freighter captain?

- Yep. - Hmm.

- No record of how he spent the 10 years in between.

How much clearer can I be?

Ship's crawling with them. Get this resolved.

- Is that everyone? - 29 crewmembers accounted for.

- Thanks, Sergeant. We'll take it from here. - Major.

Captain. You wanted a warrant?

- You're so far off base with this.

- Where are they? - Who? - The stowaways. Where are they?

- That the angle Sam's using on you?

He'd do anything to get out of Jakarta.

- Maggie, bring Mr. Chong aboard, would you?

- Laos, Cambodia, Thailand--

- Never stays too long with any one company, he's always on different ships.

- Fights with customs brokers, harbour masters--

How did this guy keep working?

- See what you can find out about the "in-between" years.

- Agent LaGarda, as I said, Major Kessler

- isn't here right now. - Where is he?

I, I don't know.

- Can I help you, Special Agent LaGarda? - Who's that?

I need to speak to the Major.

- He's in the field. I have acting command.

What field might that be?

- That information is classified.

- Really? Because Major Kessler and I had a meeting.

What is so damn important that he couldn't pick up a phone and reschedule?

- Uh, lunch with Bin Laden or drinks with Kim Jong-Il?

Right, okay,

you gotta go. That's cool. I'll be here if you need me.

- I saw the radio transmission from the sailor.

- [The captain's an American citizen. You know what our northern friends are like.]

[We don't want him tangled up in red tape.] - Was he involved?

- [Of course not. Pull him out as quickly as possible.]

On my way.

[Speaking Mandarin]

- If you've got nothing to hide, why the threat?

- I'm impressed. - You don't have to speak Mandarin

- to recognize that. - Just show us where the stowaways are hidden.

- And you're coming with us. Can I borrow your cuffs, please?

Come on, let's go.

This way.

- Does anyone ever clean this place?

- We had a woman come in once a week, but she couldn't handle the commute.

- In there? - Yeah.

[Knocking]

[Speaking Mandarin]

The stowaways. They were right here.

- This has been fun. Really, it has.

Now, get the hell off my ship.

What have we got on Sam Chong?

- [He and McKay sailed together for the past 3 years.]

Born in China. Moved to Indonesia in '79.

He's got a wife and 2 kids in Jakarta.

- He could be just a working stiff looking for a new life in Canada.

- But he grew up on the Malacca Straits.

- [What are you getting at?] - Well, yo ho ho and a big frakkin' machete.

It's not all wooden legs and parrots

- like it used to be. - What, you think he's a pirate?

Yar!

- We were behind schedule when we got here. We're way behind now. Rust is money.

- We can work together on this, it could take 2 hours.

We can butt heads and it'll take 2 weeks. - I prefer the 2-minute option.

- Tell me where the stowaways are hidden.

- You're gonna have to ask Sam that, Major, because they are a figment of his imagination.

You're going to regret this.

- Let me know when you're ready to level with me.

- Sam is having a bad day.

- Well, if he's playing us, his day's about to get a whole lot worse.

You think he's lying?

- Working conditions aren't to his liking.

He has a score to settle with the captain.

He and his wife always wanted to come to Canada.

Let's try to speed things up. I don't want to spend any more time on this wreck

- than I have to. - Right. Okay, let's go. Come on.

Hey. Nice to see you back.

Thanks.

Everyone watching me, waiting for me to screw up.

Hey, it beats the desk, right?

Sergeant Hourani, Jackson.

We've got the Captain's word against Sam.

One of these guys is lying. I want to turn this ship inside out.

- Well, what exactly are we looking for? - Stowaways, bodies,

any evidence of criminal activity.

- What if we don't find anything? - Well, we go home

and leave Sam to argue his refugee claim with the locals.

- Imagine being stuck on this scow for months. - I'd go nuts.

- Thought you'd already been there.

- Your sensitivity knows no bounds.

How do people live like this?

- There's no landlord, no junk mail--

freedom and adventure on the high seas.

- Why do I feel a song coming on?

- I don't know there are stowaways on ship

until we are two days at sea.

Out of Port Harcourt?

Nigeria. Yes.

- You found the stowaways? - Captain told me.

He say company not like stowaway.

Make us pay big fine--

$20,000 each.

So what happened?

- The captain order me to kill them.

- You sure you don't miss that nice clean desk of yours?

Not even a little.

[Scurrying sound, squeaking]

What was that?

It's probably a rat.

I saw one the size of a raccoon back there.

I'll look over here.

Captain, he, he, ah,

order me to bring stowaways food.

He put drug in it

to make them sleep.

- Easier to throw them overboard if they're unconscious.

Yes. The Captain tell me:

make sure they eat.

- Thank you. - Kunle, Titi.

Come have something to eat.

It's a father, mother,

two children.

A boy and girl.

- There were children? - The captain

not tell me this.

- I have wife and children. - What did you do?

- I tell captain, "Leave them alone."

Later that night, I am on night watch.

I see him.

They were chained. The woman,

she lie there.

I do not know if she is sleeping

or dead.

Take me.

My wife will cause you no trouble.

We have children. They need their mother.

I see Captain throw them over.

What happened to the kids?

I run back to cabin.

I take them away.

Hide them so he never find them.

I send radio message.

- Where are the kids now? - I don't know.

You drugged them that night?

- No, no. Captain put something in food.

They eat. I do not know what to do.

- And then they just disappeared.

How did two drugged children

keep themselves hidden?

I don't know.

I think...

I think Captain find them.

Maybe he kill them.

- Why would Sam high dive off of a ship if he had nothing to hide?

- I didn't hire him for his brains.

Don't you people up here have terrorists to track, huh?

Keep him, keep Sam, keep him!

Do whatever the hell it is you do up here with wannabe refugees in Canada.

Just give me back my crew, Major. Let me get the hell out of here.

- I'm not the one making this difficult, Captain.

- This is right up there with cleaning out my hockey bag.

- You hate anything that doesn't include an adrenaline rush.

- Hey, you didn't see the size of that rat back there. My adrenaline rushed plenty.

I hope we don't find anything.

Definitely no place for kids.

Gray?

You got something?

- Agent LaGarda. Homeland Security.

- It's all right. She can come aboard.

Major.

- To what do we owe the pleasure?

- I understand you are holding an American citizen.

- You came 1,000 miles to say that?

- Just making sure his rights are being protected.

- What's he being charged with? - We're in the middle of an investigation.

- He hasn't been charged with anything. - He's been accused

- of 2 murders, possibly 4. - Right.

Accused by whom?

I'll be right down.

Excuse me.

- It's okay. It's okay. We're here to help you.

- The doctor will be here soon.

- He's got a fever. - She won't stop shivering.

- Did either of them say anything when you found them?

- They were barely conscious. We don't know what language they speak.

- I.D.? - All they've got are the clothes they're wearing.

- Someone just threw them down there and left them to die.

- They could have been drugged.

- They're completely dehydrated. Probably haven't eaten for days.

We've got to get some fluids into them.

- Do your best until the doctor gets here.

Gray! He's bleeding.

- The Major's sending his secretary now?

- Special Agent Bianca LaGarda. Homeland Security.

- I'm here on your behalf. - Good.

Get me out of these things and put me back in charge of my ship.

They found children.

- Did you know about them? - No.

LaGarda. Cuban, right?

American.

I left Cuba in 1980.

Mariel boatlift?

I pulled a bunch of you folks out of the water off Key West.

- Maybe we met. - Not unless you were a fisherman out of Miami.

- There was one little girl I rescued-- she looked just like you.

I hope she's done as well for herself as you have.

- You can save the charm, Captain.

I have been tasked to get you out of here.

Are the handcuffs really necessary?

- Those kids are in pretty rough shape.

They would've been dead by tomorrow. - You have no proof.

What, you just decide who is guilty and lock him up?

Bonus points if he's an American? Right?

- You drug the kids like you did their parents?

- I'll let you in on a little secret, Major. Maybe it'll help you, maybe it won't.

Just because you're the captain of a ship doesn't mean you know everything that happens onboard.

- We'll see what the kids have to say. - You know,

people stash their kidson ships

all the time--

bring them to America and give them a better life.

Bring Sam on board.

- Only Nigerian contact I have

is that nice man who wants my account number

so he can return that stolen money to its rightful heir.

- I might know someone I can call.

So CSIS parked you

- in Nigeria? - In the neighbourhood.

- That would have been what? The nineties? - Around then.

Congo?

Whoa, Sierra Leone?

Ivory Coast?

- Ethiopia-Eritrea! - Okay. - Oh, not Guinea?

- Come on, gimme a break! - The guys I used to know are in Nigeria now.

I'm going to go see what I can find out.

He was our man in Africa.

- Yeah, that's as far as I got, too.

Jesus. Wait outside.

How long have they been like this?

- We just found them. - They may have boarded in Nigeria. We're not sure.

- You think they're contagious? - Well,

I haven't examined them yet, have I?

[Speaking foreign language]

- Were they conscious when you found them? - Barely.

- This is the first time she spoke.

- Let's keep physical contact to a minimum.

[Speaking foreign language]

- These kids are very ill. - Mommy! Mommy!

[Speaking foreign language]

Get out of here! Now!

- How'd he do? - She was terrified when she saw him.

- Then you have your answer, Major. - I'm not done yet.

- You said the girl was scared to death. - That's only half the story.

Let's see how she feels about your friend.

I told you to get out!

That was fun.

You want to tell her or should I?

That girl took one look at me and reached out

like I was her guardian angel.

Congratulations.

Looks like your impromptu line-up worked.

- Remember when we said one of these guys was lying? - Yeah.

- Well, we were wrong. They both are.

- Anything you can find out: family history,

medical records, point of origin,

that would certainly help.

- We don't even know their names.

What is it?

High fever, fatigue,

severe joint pain and internal bleeding.

They're all consistent with viral hemorrhagic fevers.

Best-case scenario, Lassa fever,

or maybe dengue.

- Worst case? - We won't know what we're dealing with

until we get the results back from the lab in Winnipeg.

These kids are in pain.

- I can bring in IV's and oxygen,

but I can't give them intramuscular injections

or aspirin because of the bleeding.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa. Where are you going?

To call my team.

No one in or out.

- What's the worst case here?

Ebola.

Or something new.

Shit.

[Coughing]

[Coughing]

- If you saved the girl's life, why was she afraid of you?

Sleeping when I hide them.

Never see me.

That is why she is scared.

Do not know me.

- Why wasn't she scared of the Captain?

Don't know.

Well, Major?

Return the crew.

Let the Captain get back to work.

- Why don't we let you get back to work?

I'll keep you posted if anything remotely concerning US Security comes up.

- I'll decide what concerns US security, Major.

- The doctor thinks the kids are contagious.

Boat's quarantined. Nobody leaves.

[Little girl speaking foreign language]

- Our African language specialist says she's speaking Yoruba.

- Get a translation yet? - Yeah.

"Mama. The dog. Mama.

Where is my mama? Get away from us. You stay away."

Any clues to the accent?

- Best guess-- somewhere along the Niger Delta.

Yeah, 250 dialects

in an area the size of New Brunswick. Well, smaller than New Brunswick, actually.

- If it's Niger Delta, I may have a lead on the kids' father.

Andrew Motumbo.

- It's the Ogoni rebel leader? - He was mobilizing resistance

to the oil companies. Word is they put a price on his head in Port Harcourt.

- So the guy goes into hiding. That doesn't mean he's skinny- dipping in the Atlantic.

- Motumbo's family is missing too. Nine year-old girl,

- 8-year-old boy. - Oh, man. That's way past coincidence.

How are the children?

They're being taken care of.

How did that little girl know you?

- I don't know. Maybe I remind her of somebody.

- If you knew there were stowaways on board, why did you lie?

I'm trying to help you out here.

Give you the benefit of the doubt.

- Tell Major Kessler what you told me.

- [Sighing] - Two days out of port, I couldn't sleep.

I got up, took a turn on deck.

Sam was there.

He was pushing something overboard. I thought it was garbage. Then I realized

they were bodies.

I told him to get the hell away from those kids.

That's why he jumped ship.

He knew I was going to turn him over.

- Why not arrest him, throw him in the brig?

- Have you seen Mutiny on the Bounty,Major?

Sam's my first mate. I had no idea who else was in on it.

- Why would Sam want to throw a family overboard?

- I don't know. You're going to have to ask him. - I'm asking you.

- Just maybe they made the mistake of paying the full amount up front.

- If you knew Sam killed two people, why not lead with that?

- I was waiting to dock in New York to report it.

I didn't want end up here with you, Major Kessler.

Who are they? The stowaways?

- I have no idea. Never saw them 'til that night.

- You saved their lives. You didn't talk to them?

- They were drugged. I didn't know they were sick.

And I hid them

so that Sam and the rest of my crew couldn't find them.

Major,

he saved their lives.

It seems to me the man you should be arresting is Sam.

- I know it's hard to believe, Major.

It's the poor Asian who's the bad guy in this,

and not the privileged white guy.

Gotta be pretty hard on that bleeding heart of yours.

- I see our land and water poisoned with oil.

I see our men and women hungry.

I see our children begging for food

or being recruited to kill.

We must give them another choice.

The oil company tells us

that we will have roads

- and hospitals... - Nigeria was once poised

to become an African superpower.

It had independence, stability,

enough natural resources to make its people rich.

- We must take back our land and our water!

[Cheering]

- Now it's one of the poorest countries on Earth.

- We've got to get our oil from somewhere.

- Check your email. A friend of a friend said he'd send us something.

- I'm sorry, you gave them my email? Whoa, whoa!

[Yelping]

Back away, okay? Nobody touches the girls but me.

Sorry.

- Who did you say your friend was in Nigeria? - I didn't.

- Son is Kunle. The daughter is Titi.

No way he'd leave without them.

- Gray? I got something you need to take a look at.

- [Coughing] - It's them.

[I'll call the boss.]

- Kunle and Titi Motumbo. - They look happy.

- Their father took on the oil companies in Nigeria.

Kunle and Titi.

- What are we going to tell them when they wake up?

If they wake up.

- You couldn't have stayed on desk duty one more week, eh, Hourani?

- Then who would keep you company for your last hours on Earth?

- This isn't exactly how I'd figured I'm going out.

- Let me guess-- a hail of bullets?

Sounds about right.

What about you? Bungee jumping? Skydiving?

- I actually thought I'd have a life first.

Get married, have kids...

Golden retriever?

- Cocker spaniel. [Chuckling]

Tell anyone and I'll punch you in the throat.

[Coughing]

Enough is enough.

Are you going to remove these cuffs or should I find a bolt cutter?

Hey, boss?

- 304-- that's Virginia, isn't it?

- It certainly is. - May I? [Dialling]

- Man: [Hello?] - Any instructions for McKay?

[Hey, who is this?]

[Dial tone]

- Do you know who that was? [Phone ringing]

You better answer that. He sounded pretty upset.

- Who is McKay and why is he speaking to Langley?

- Great. Thanks. - When did those calls come in? - Two days out of port.

- Must have been when McKay got his marching orders.

- Slade traced the call.

Blocked number out of an exchange from Langley, Virginia. - Langley?

You're lying.

Give it to me straight or I'm out of here.

Captain McKay,

you're a company man.

[Cheering] I get the picture.

Motumbo's getting too popular, making the multinationals nervous.

Your government decides to help out their pals. [Laughing]

- You missed your calling, Major.

You should have been a fiction writer.

- Two days out of Port Harcourt, McKay gets a call from his handler.

Motumbo disappears. Problem solved.

Show me the evidence.

- Only they don't count on Sam jumping ship.

Now the folks at Langley need your help to escort the good Captain home.

- You've got nothing. - We'll let the Canadian courts decide that.

- Andrew Motumbo has orchestrated numerous attacks

against US oil companies in Nigeria. He was a known terrorist.

- Your government is big on that word these days. - What should I call him?

His militants abducted oil workers, ran their speedboats into a compound,

- and killed 6 people. - There's absolutely no evidence

to connect Motumbo to those events.

- Four of those people were US citizens.

- Why kill him? Why not just arrest him in New York?

Was the Company worried that an arrest would only help publicize Motumbo's cause?

Was it best for everyone concerned that he and his family just disappeared?

- For all we know, the Motumbos are alive and well.

We are past that, Captain.

Thank you.

We'll be pressing charges.

- This will never make it to a Canadian court.

- Yes, it will. And I can't wait to see you

trot out the "I was just following orders" routine.

- If I did take the stand, I'd stress the importance

of stopping dangerous terrorists.

- A mother and father are dead. That's murder.

[Phone ringing]

Kessler.

Cut the bullshit, Captain.

I need to know the whole story.

- The Company sent Motumbo into hiding

with a story that he was going to be killed.

And they put him on to my ship.

You got paid to kill them?

- I didn't know he was going to bring his whole family.

I don't kill kids.

No, just orphan them.

- Look at you, all puffed up with your self-righteousness.

I bet you think you still can tell right from wrong.

Seems pretty clear to me now.

Keep the oil flowing out of Africa

at any cost.

- I don't do politics. I do my job. We both work for the same boss.

No. You're wrong.

I protect the safety, security and freedom

of the American people, not the economic interests of oil companies.

Don't kid yourself.

We both work for big oil.

We all do.

- Titi's alert. She remembers what happened.

[I'll put her on.]

Go ahead, Titi.

- Just tell us everything you remember from that night.

I was with my family.

We were very sleepy

after we ate all our food.

Mama tucked me in.

She seemed sad.

Be strong.

- Look after your little brother.

Always remember

your father

is a great man.

I fell asleep.

When I woke up,

we were outside.

I couldn't see Mama

and Papa.

That bad man was there.

He tried to grab Kunle.

The white man saved us.

[He hid us so the bad man wouldn't find us.]

- Do you remember what happened after that?

I fell asleep again.

Then I saw...

him.

Where are Mama and Papa?

- Could you give us a moment, please?

- Sure. - Thank you.

So, what are we doing?

We? You will be arrested.

You will remain briefly

in Canadian custody. Then you will be extradited.

To prison?

No way.

- [Laughing softly] - I'm not going to make a double murder charge disappear.

Listen to me, Agent LaGarda.

The Company might have recruited me in jail,

but I don't plan on ending up there.

I might get bored. I've done a lot of work for the Company

over these years, you understand me?

Really?

You would betray the safety

of the United States to save your own skin?

- No, but you get me out of these cuffs and you give me a 5 minute head start

and I'll disappear.

What are you doing?

She asked me to step out.

- McKay's gone. Get the word out.

He's presumed armed and dangerous. - Suspect at large.

[10-30-alpha. 10-30-echo.]

Drop the weapon.

I can't do that.

- I'm going out that hatch, Major.

[Two gunshots]

- I just heard back from Winnipeg. It's dengue fever.

The fatality rate is less than 10%.

I've lifted the quarantine. And we'll transfer them to the hospital.

- Hospital? - It's okay. We're going to go with you.

- So how you figure this is going to play in Virginia?

- Like it always does-- denial and distance.

A rogue soldier acting alone.

- We'll make arrangements to ship the body home.

- Were you just following orders back there?

What do you mean?

You know exactly what I mean.

- You might want to thank me for saving your life.

Or maybe some other time.

[Crowd clamouring]

- Motumbo's followers reacting to his death.

This guy seems to be the man of the hour.

- Jackie Ogansi. - You know him?

Textbook sociopath.

They're going to wish they never got rid of Motumbo.