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- Previously, on The Border: - Is that the minister?

- We worked together in Bosnia. - Beautiful woman, bombs,

bullets, yeah, yeah, I get it...

- Let's just eliminate conversation from this relationship.

Silent sex. Isn't that just a workaholic's dream?

Why did Kessler leave JTF2?

- Some Bosnian op went south. Civilians died, there was a cover up.

- I have seen people who lived in peace for over 30 years start killing each other overnight.

- Be careful, Dad. You almost said Bosnia.

Make it a double.

- It's been one of those decades. - I feel your pain.

- Oh, I could do with a bourbon myself.

What, I'm freezing my tits off.

- This gear is so retro. I can't even pan and tilt...

I could use a chaser.

I think we can accommodate.

- I used to play a little baseball. I think you just

told that guy to steal second base.

- Wouldn't know. Football's my game.

- What's up? - That man, I know him.

Him? He's barely visible.

- Can you enhance him? - No. Camera's fixed lens.

There's no zoom.

- Excuse me... Gotta use the can.

- Hey boss? Boss? He's on the move...

Package delivered.

- Immigration and Customs Security!

- Get your hands up where I can see them!

Stay seated!

Sorry folks, dinner's over...

And no, we do not provide doggie bags...

You're under arrest

for illegal weapons possession and trafficking in a controlled substance.

- Alright folks, stay calm, have your identification ready and we'll be around

- to speak to each of you in turn. - The people at that table... who were they?

How the hell should I know?

Dad?

Dad! Are you okay? You were yelling.

- Hey sweetheart. What are you doing here?

- I crash here, remember? So I wouldn't have

to drink and drive back to Mum's? - Of course.

- Did you sleep here all night? - You want some breakfast?

Uh...

Yeah, I guess I could handle a piece of toast.

We can do better than that.

- So tell me about this nightmare.

How about some french toast?

You know this isn't

the first time you've had nightmares.

You used to wake up yelling all the time.

Really freaked me out.

- Really? - I was 6,

7 when you got back from Bosnia?

I remember having you home felt really strange.

I'd been gone a long time.

I would wake up

and you would be

yelling or prowling around the house like a ghost.

I had no idea.

- Yeah, when you'd tuck me in at night

and tell me there were no monsters under the bed? Zero credibility.

Vlatko Radman. Last I heard,

he was sitting in the Scheveningen Detention Centre in the Hague,

awaiting trial for crimes against humanity.

- Scheveningen. Isn't that where Slobodan Milosevic was killed?

He died of a heart attack.

- Yeah, right. After they tampered with his meds...

- Find out if Radman's still in prison.

I need iron-clad verification, and recent photographs.

- The Hague can be kind of tricky.

- Layers of lawyers, no problem. - And I'll need our video surveillance

- from the restaurant. - Hey boss?

American woman's here.

- Congratulations on your arrests last night.

- I wasn't aware Homeland Security took an interest.

- When Afghan heroin crosses the Atlantic into Canada,

it usually ends up on our streets.

That's why the waiter you arrested last night

is an American Drug Enforcement Agent.

- Please tell me you're not operating an undercover op on Canadian soil.

Not me: the D.E.A.

And you didn't warn me?

- The RCMP knew about it. They should have warned you. - Unbelievable.

If it's any consolation,

they didn't tell me either. We're both out of the loop.

- Do you find it's getting harder and harder to tell?

- Who it is we're fighting? Yeah.

- I'll release your man. Make it like

- he was never there. - Thank you. Major.

- Vlatko Radman, Croatian warlord

and mass murderer. Killed 18

unarmed Bosnian men in a bus outside Ahmici.

- That's what they arrested him for, anyway.

- Why? Is there something else we don't know about?

- There was more. - Where's Radman now?

- Dead. - Since when?

- Four months ago. He died of 'sudden-onset brain cancer'.

That's code for 'a Serbian

inmate smashed his skull against the concrete

in the exercise yard, while the guard he bribed turned his back

- and smoked a Russian cigar.' - Where was Radman buried?

Actually, he was cremated.

His ashes are interred in Bosnia.

- I want to see the death certificate.

- Ah, I checked it out. It looks legit.

- And the warden's statement? - Also looks good.

- Get him on the phone get an interpreter if you have to.

- I want to speak to him. - Yeah, he's on an extended

leave in Montenegro. Health problems.

- Perfect. - You don't believe it?

- Where's that surveillance footage? - Right... here.

- Okay, fast forward to just before Gray leaves the bar...

Zoom in on the man in the coat...

That's the best you can do?

- No optical zoom. - You don't really think that-- - Grab a frame and compare it

- to Radman's photo. - O-kay...

- It's impossible to tell. - The resolution on the frame's

too degraded for our facial recognition software.

- And he's been cremated, so we can't have his body exhumed.

Exhumed?

- Don't you think you're being just a tad obsessive here--

- Obsessive is so the wrong word. - Just keep digging.

Uh, Mike?

Isn't this a little far-fetched?

I mean you just caught a glimpse of the guy

on a really bad surveillance video.

Hey!

What was that all about?

- Oh, I don't know. He's got a bug up his ass

about some Croatian warlord who died in prison.

- I just learned Vlatko Radman died 4 months ago. - He saved

the War Crimes Tribunal a lot of time and trouble. - You didn't notify me?

- I didn't want to open old wounds. - That's bullshit.

- I beg your pardon? - You knew I wouldn't believe it.

- Oh for god's sake... - Vlatko Radman isn't dead.

- The chief prosecutor for the Hague's War Crime Tribunal

is one of my oldest friends.

She personally briefed me on his death.

I saw him last night.

I thought we were past this.

- I know what I saw, Suzanne. - Do you, Mike, really?

- Don't patronize me. - He's dead.

Let it go!

- [Knock! Knock!] - Sir?

- Come in... - Thank you.

- Um, there's something I need to tell you

- about the shooting in Quebec. - I understand you've completed your psychiatric treatment.

Yes sir, but...

The boy's rifle wasn't aimed at me.

It was pointed at the ground.

Was he starting to raise it?

- I suppose, but I should have waited-- - Waited for him to kill you?

I might have taken him alive.

- Shootings are never by the book, Sergeant.

We do what we have to, and hope that most of the time,

- we're right. - And when we're not?

- We wash the blood off our hands, and carry on.

- You did the right thing. - Yes, sir.

- I've been locked out! - By whom?

- Everybody! Everybody! The Hague, the International Tribunal

for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia, the government of

Bosnia-Herzogovina, the U.N.,

- NATO... - Anyone with an official relationship to Vlatko Radman.

- Really? You think all those heavy hitters

- are stressing over this one guy? - Yes, I do.

- In 1994, Canadian Peacekeepers were in Bosnia with the U.N.

The Serbs had overwhelming firepower.

The Pentagon and others decided to redress the balance

and assist the arming of the Croats and Muslims.

- Vlatko Radman was the leader of

a Croatian paramilitary unit in Central Bosnia.

A warlord, helping himself to the spoils.

Looks like a real slimeball.

- In November 1994, he and his men

crept up at dawn and surrounded the village of Zubak.

- They massacred 228 Muslim men, women, and children,

with mortars

and Colt-Canada C7 Assault Rifles.

- Where'd they get Canadian guns?

- Where do you think? Was CSIS involved?

We were in Bosnia.

- Captain Mike Kessler. - Andrew Mannering. CSIS.

- What the hell happened? - Ah, this is what the Serbs call it 'ethnic cleansing'.

Well, they target a Muslim village, and the kill everyone.

They rape the women and then take the men prisoner.

- Serbs didn't do this. - I beg your pardon?

- One of the marauders. He's Croatian,

he's got the insignia.

- He's one of Vlatko Radman's men. - Really. - And he's carrying

a Colt Canada C-7 Combat Rifle.

Where did Vlatko Radman get Canadian guns?

- Why don't you leave the investigating to CSIS?

- So you can investigate yourselves?

What's CSIS relationship to Vlatko Radman?

You were brought in

to secure the area, to evacuate any survivors,

and to bury the dead.

- You could have brought in any military unit for that.

- Why JTF2? - Because JTF2's operations

are classified as secret.

Captain.

- Radman was eventually arrested, but not for the Zubak massacre.

According to official records, it never happened.

- How'd you know about it? - Isn't it obvious?

You were there?

- Last night, at the Zagreb Restaurant,

I believe I saw Vlatko Radman.

- You said he was in prison.

- Apparently, he managed to fake his death and escape.

Fake his own death? C'mon.

Just find him.

He slipped through my fingers once. I'm not going to let it happen again.

- You know Slade thinks this Radman guy doesn't even exist.

- Kessler didn't make him up. - But think about it.

He's in a Croatian restaurant, chasing Croatian bad guys,

and who does he glimpse but his own personal Croatian demon.

- You think he's losing it? - It happens.

- What about fingerprints? - No, the table's been cleared and wiped.

- Hey! Here it is. Table seven. They had lamb,

strookli, and a bottle of Zhlatina white.

- $86.30, including tip. Andro Tomasic.

- Good job on shutting down the Croatian heroin connection.

As it turns out, the restaurant owner is a major player.

Glad it worked out.

You do good work, Major.

I'd hate to see you throw it all away.

Is that what I'm doing?

- You know, there's this story I heard.

Of a Captain

of a top-secret squad of elite commandos.

- Like JTF2. - This man witnessed a terrible event,

and was ordered by his superiors

to just cover it all up.

Of course he couldn't forget what he had seen.

So he went, as you say,

off the rails. Had a breakdown.

- Is there a point to this story?

- This young Captain is a Major now,

a man of power and authority.

But the past surfaced again

and he may not be thinking clearly.

- Agent LaGarda, I'm sure you mean well.

My superiors need to know

the head of ICS is not chasing shadows

when he should be chasing terrorists.

- I talked to this old woman I know. A real old-fashioned matriarch.

I helped her out back in the day

when her son got picked up stealing cars.

Mustangs, back when they meant something.

- And? - Well, the old girl makes it

her business to know everything there is to know about the Croatian community.

So, I showed her the picture from the restaurant video. - And what did she say?

- She's never seen the guy before. Now, I believe her.

I think she's telling the truth, I know her pretty well.

Thank you.

- Ah, you mind if I throw my 2 cents in here?

That depends.

Well, um, back then

there was a couple guys that slipped by me.

This one guy in particular, he...

...he raped and he killed a ten-year-old girl.

There's not a day that goes by I don't think about hunting this guy down

and trying to put a bullet in his brain.

- What stops you? - I don't know really.

But something does... you know, God maybe.

The law.

Sir?

We found the couple who had dinner with your mystery man.

- Do you know this man? - No.

- That's odd. Because you had dinner with him last night.

Show me again...

Why are you after him?

His visa expired or something?

- Is this the man you had dinner with?

- I've never seen the man in that photo.

- I've never seen the man in the photo.

Why don't I believe you?

- You immigration cops believe what you want.

You think you can treat people like shit for wanting better life.

- The man in this photo killed a lot of people.

Who's the big liar now?

- I hope you're not hiding any nasty little secrets,

because we're about to turn your life upside down.

- What do you mean? - Your employment records,

- your tax history-- - Health records, parking tickets,

whether or not you beat your dog-- - Emails, visa receipts--

- Emails, visa bills, who you called on the phone and when, and why--

- I hope you're not cheating on your wife, because we're about to find out.

- I happen to love my wife. I'd never cheat on her.

- What do you mean, find out? - Charges on your Visa bill

for gifts or hotel incidentals. Repeated calls to the same number...

- You can't tell Andro, you'll destroy him.

- Uh-huh. - If I tell you about the man

in the photo, you won't tell him?

That's how it works.

- I can't say for sure, he looks very different now.

It could be the man we had supper with.

An old friend of Andro's father

- Bojan Goric. - Bojan Goric manages

a men's wear store in Oakville.

It's been there forever, as far as I can tell. - If Goric is Radman,

he was in Scheveningen prison up until 4 months ago. - I gotta say, if it is a cover,

it's a pretty damn good one. I mean,

his immigration papers are immaculate, and they're like, over 20 years old.

- And his tax records? - Employment history,

health insurance, driver's license... they're all pristine.

- Did you ever even see this man up close?

- I was there when the survivors identified him.

I'm not likely to forget his face.

- Mike, if there is one scintilla of doubt, one tiny little hanging chad...

- Anybody here? - Hello!

How can I help you?

I need a new suit.

- Then you're in the right place.

I have some Merino wool, just came in yesterday from Italy.

I was thinking off the rack.

As you wish.

- What are you, a 40? - 42 tall.

- I don't think you're being honest.

Why don't I measure?

You really should let me make you

a proper suit.

The one that you're wearing

- doesn't do you justice. - No?

No.

Is that a military pin?

Army. I was stationed

in Bosnia during the civil war.

You must have seen

some terrible things.

Were you ever there?

No, I'm from Dubrovnik.

I was lucky enough to be here during the war.

Safe in Canada.

Yes.

You, ah... really should see

the Merino.

It's as fine as silk.

Here, let me get it for you...

Wait... Wait!

- Always a pleasure. - What the hell

are you doing, hacking into classified files at the Hague?

- Vlatko Radman is dead. - Really.

- It's time you buried the past. That's not a suggestion, by the way.

- No? - No. It's an order

from Minister Fleischer. Our boss.

It's Kessler.

Book me on the next flight to Ottawa...

Captain! Captain!

- This boy's alive! - Medic!

- Medics! - You are going to be alright.

You are going to be okay. I'm going to get you out of here...

Interpreter! I need an interpreter!

Interpreter!

- Tell him we're taking him to an army hospital.

The doctors will make him well again.

- Is she okay? - Her name's Sonja.

The medics say she was beaten and repeatedly raped.

- Mike Kessler, JTF2. - Suzanne Fleischer,

Media Liaison.

- How are you going to spin this to the press?

Women and children massacred by Canadian guns?

- The press can never find out about this.

You've got to be kidding me.

- We're not the only ones implicated.

Vlatko Radman was Washington's man.

They counted on him to lead the eastern front against the Serbs.

- Why fight the Serbs when you can rape and plunder Muslim villages?

Where did he get his guns?

There are rumours. Iran...

...via Zagreb...

...with the help of the Pentagon and others.

Including CSIS?

It wouldn't surprise me.

The order to cover this up comes from the top.

- We have no choice. - You always have a choice.

- We signed the Official Secrets Act.

We'd be committing treason.

- Thank you very much. Thank you.

Mike. This is an unexpected pleasure.

- What's Vlatko Radman doing in Canada?

And don't tell me his ashes are buried in a Bosnian grave.

The United Nations Tribunal

- cut a deal with him. - They did what?

Radman gets asylum

and a new identity in Canada

in exchange for testifying against a bigger fish.

- You were there, Suzanne. You saw what Radman did.

- External Affairs granted the asylum.

If it means anything, I tried to fight it.

- Were the Americans involved? - What do you think?

- The bigger fish is Draco Koscak. They call him the Monster of Bihac.

He believed God spoke to him

and told him to kill every Muslim in northern Bosnia.

He built prison camps,

- starved thousands to death. - I know what Koscak did.

I saw what Radman did.

- I understand. - Yesterday, when we met. You knew Radman was still alive.

No, Major. I wasn't briefed.

- The optics are good for Washington.

If they put away Koscak, they show the Muslim world

the White House can be on their side. - I don't disagree.

- We armed Radman. - No.

Our superiors did, not us.

They make the mess. You and I clean it up.

Um...

I shouldn't be here.

Why not?

Two friends sharing dinner.

Yeah.

I'm seeing someone.

Oh.

- I'd have told you on the phone this um,

it's just that you sounded so...

I don't know, alone.

- Actually, I was hoping to get some free legal advice.

Oh.

Okay.

That I can do.

Have you ever been involved

in the prosecution of a war criminal?

Peripherally,

- on a couple of cases. - As I understand it, a war criminal

arrested here can be prosecuted for crimes committed in a foreign country.

- Technically, maybe, but it's nearly impossible to pull off.

There goes Plan A.

Is there a Plan B?

- Have you ever defended a client accused of treason?

- Why? Are you planning on spilling a few state secrets?

'Cause there's one or two I wouldn't mind knowing.

Stay tonight, Yvonne.

I told you... I can't...

Stay...

- There are only 3 survivors to the Zubak massacre.

The first, a 12-year-old boy, died in the ambulance.

The other 2 emigrated to Canada.

- Sonja Oric and Maia Pelac are the only two

living witnesses to the Zubak massacre.

Their testimony could put Vlatko Radman back behind bars.

Guy like that won't go easy.

Sonja Oric's address.

You and Darnell bring her in. I'm putting her into protective custody.

What about Maia Pelac?

I'll pick her up myself.

- I'm just saying, when I roll with Hourani, I do the driving.

- That's because you're an annoying passenger. - Come again?

Hi.

- Hello. - We're from

Immigration and Customs Security. We're looking for Ms. Sonja Oric.

- Did she enter the country illegally?

- No, it's nothing like that. We just need to talk to her.

- I haven't seen Sonja for over a month.

One day, she just didn't show up for work.

- Is that typical? - In the 3 years

that she worked here, I don't think she missed a day.

- Did you phone her? - Of course.

I left messages on her voicemail, but she

never answered. I owe her 8 days' pay.

- Did you ever see Ms. Oric with this man?

- No, but I have seen this person.

He came by one day when Sonja wasn't here,

and asked about her.

Did he leave a name?

- No. He wanted her phone number, but I didn't give it to him.

Something about him I didn't like...

Okay, thank you.

[Knock Knock!]

Chicha!

Hi Maia. How are you?

- Mr. Mike, is wonderful to see you.

Come in, come in.

- I bring you tea. - Oh, don't go to any bother.

- Bother, for you? Is no such thing.

So, I hear you made premed.

Nina keeps me up to date on everything.

- She takes out a full-page ad every time I get A.

- Her professor is recommending her for a scholarship.

Congratulations, sweetheart.

- Hey, come on. I won't get it. The competition is brutal.

- So how come you visit like this

- in the middle of the week? - Tetka!

- Is trouble, no? - I'm afraid so.

Vlatko Radman has turned up in Canada.

- How can this happen? He's supposed to rot

- in a prison! - I need you to pack

some things. I'm going to take you somewhere safe.

- For how long? - Until Radman's taken care of.

- We checked Sonja Oric's apartment.

dust on the furniture, rotten food in the fridge.

- Super hadn't seen her, she still owed him last month's rent.

He said let it slide because it never happened before.

Check all the Jane Does

that have gone through the morgue in the past 6 weeks.

Hey boss? Mannering's here.

You defied a direct order

- to lay off Vlatko Radman. - Did the massacre of children

make no impression on you at all? - You can't allow your

personal feelings to interfere with the greater good. - You don't lecture me

- on the greater good. - Why? Because you're Saint Kessler, protector

- of widows and orphans? - What are you talking about? - Maia Pelac,

the Bosnian orphan you sponsored. You were seen visiting her home.

You had me followed?

- That's what we do at CSIS, we follow people.

That way we know when the head of ICS

goes careening off the rails.

- Maggie, Darnell! Escort Agent Mannering off the premises.

That won't be necessary.

- I'm ordering an emergency sweep for bugs, here and in my apartment.

- The office was swept last Sunday.

- Don't you think that's a little hypervigilant? - You were CSIS.

- There's no such thing. - Ah, boss?

Bad news on Sonja Oric. Her description matched

a Jane Doe found on the Don Valley under the Eglinton bridge.

Cops called it in as a jumper.

- Eric. Good to see you. - Always a pleasure, Major.

- Eric was the toughest sergeant in JTF2. You couldn't be in safer hands.

- Pretty good cook too, if I do say so.

- Will I see you soon? - Absolutely.

I'll call you every day. No cells phones,

just landlines.

Okay, right this way.

- Did you have fun last night, Major?

Playing hide and seek like some twelve-year-old schoolboy?

- That's CSIS' game. You invented the rules.

- When I'm done, you'll never mention the name Vlatko Radman again.

If you try to find him, you'll be dismissed

and charged under the Official Secrets Act.

And that goes for Friar Tuck and Little John,

and all the rest of your band of Merry Men.

- You don't have the authority to issue ultimatums.

Perhaps not, but she does.

- I'm told you ordered extra security sweeps.

- Shall we add paranoia to your list of delusional behaviours?

- Paranoia's the only sane response to a man like you.

- You haven't been sane since you cracked up in Bosnia.

There's a fault line running right through you.

- It's pathetic. - That's enough!

You were both there!

You wiped the blood off your boots.

For Christ's sake, it was war!

- Your behaviour has become erratic.

- Going to all that trouble to hide Maia Pelac.

Did you really think we wouldn't find her?

- You're lying. - Am I?

- Listen very closely, Major-- - Do you remember Sonja Oric?

You held her hand when they loaded her into the ambulance.

What about her?

Well, this time

the bastard finished the job.

Leave Vlatko Radman alone.

Or you'll be stripped of office and tried for treason.

We have no choice.

[Telephone]

- Yeah... - Eric? It's Mike.

Maia's position may have been leaked. - No worries, Major.

Let the bastard come I'm ready for him.

Hey boss?

Whatever you need.

- I'm in. - Me too.

- Sure thing. - Oh God, I love this,

this is great. Guys come one, this is so, ah, you know,

Magnificent Seven, right?

We are gonna kick Eli Wallach's ass! Yeah!

Walk with me a minute.

What do you need?

CSIS may know Maia's location.

You think you were tailed?

Darnell was with me.

He was with CSIS for how long, 8 years?

- Oh no, no. Don't even go there.

Old loyalties die hard.

- Major. - I think it's time you called me Mike.

Be careful, Mike. For a man

like you, formality is a suit of armor.

Did you get the location?

If I tell you where Radman is,

what do you intend to do with him?

- Arrest him for war crimes. - You'd never make it stick.

Too many governments want Radman's help.

And all the survivors are dead.

One's still living.

The girl.

You know about her?

- I think you care about her very much.

When you rescued her,

you brought good into the world.

If Radman finds her,

he'll kill her.

- They're moving him tonight at 10.

Crown Key Hotel.

- Thank you, Agent LaGarda. - You're in deep waters, Mike.

I hope you know what you're doing.

Jesus Christ!

- Is that thing loaded? - Sorry, no.

No, no, of course not.

What's wrong with you?

I'm, I'm just cleaning it.

- That thing is evil. I'd forgotten we had it.

What are you doing here?

I just forgot this...

Man, you're scaring the shit out of me!

Where are you going? Zoe?

- Get me an ambulance! And an arrest warrant

for Major Mike Kessler!

- On what charge? - Murder, of course!

Of whom, exactly? That man

died in prison 4 months ago.