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Previously on "the assets"...

This is everyone.

All our assets.

Why are you doing this?

My wife spends
a lot of money.

Sandy:
We've missed you around here.

Things have
really slipped.

I don't know
about that.
They have.

O'neill:
No one knows counterintelligence
like jeanne does.

She will run
this investigation.

What --
to our asset losses?
Yes, exactly.

They've
brought in someone.

Does she suspect you?
She suspects everybody.

Jeanne:
Arthur has you meeting
at the soviet embassy,

But you don't have a record
of that meeting in your log.

[ voice breaking ] I think
I just forgot to write it down.

Don't let it happen again.

[ door creaking ]

[ flashlight clicks ]

Eliza: There was --
yeah, yeah, it was a little.

Nichols: Really?

[ both laugh ]

Yeah, yeah.

He didn't seem
to mind at the time.

[ both conversing indistinctly ]

Oh, I got to get you
an elevator, honey.

I got to get me
an elevator.

[ laughs ]
[ groans ]

So...

Was that opera
really about tractors?

[ both laugh ]

[ groans ]

[ sighs ]

[ clears throat ]

Mmm.

Nothing gets me going

Like fat women
singing about farm machines.

[ chuckles ]

God.
Mm!

Oh, you are...
You are so...

[ both laugh ]

Six dead assets...

In seven months.

Word must have
gotten around the kgb,

'cause we haven't had
a new recruit in a year.

Nobody wants to be
under cia protection,

And, quite honestly,
who can blame them?

To that end,

I've given jeanne greater leeway
on our task force.

She'll need help,
and we're it.

Everyone here
reports to her now.

The nightmare begins.

This will be our headquarters --
the back room.

And only the people
you see around you now

All documents are
highly secure handling,

And no document
may leave this room.

What goes on in here
stays in here.

Jeanne, you have the floor.

As far
as I have determined,

There are
three possible explanations

For our asset losses.

One is poor tradecraft.

We made mistakes
in how we spy.

Two is
communications failure.

The kgb is somehow intercepting
our secure messages.

And three...

...Is human penetration.

Someone in this building
is a traitor.

Sandy and louisa,
you will investigate tradecraft.

Did our assets use
similar methods to each other?

Could the kgb have figured out
what those methods were?

Mitch, I need you
to assist arthur,

Who will be testing
our cable system.

We'll send out false messages
from overseas stations

And then see if the soviets act
on that false intelligence.

And I will continue
looking for a mole.

Sandy: Yeah.

Sandy?

We're not gonna have trouble,
are we?

I don't know, jeanne.
Are we?

I hope not.

Same here.

[ sighs ]

[ clears throat ]

Eliza: Honey, did you pack
a button-down shirt?

Nichols:
Eh, it's vacation.

I think
you're gonna regret that.

Honey?

Have you seen
my black boots?

Uh, [clears throat] have you,
uh, checked the hall closet?

Yeah.

I did.

Not there.

Listen, you know what?
I've been thinking.

We've both been rushed
off our feet.

Why don't we just, uh,
cancel the trip,

Stay home, and relax?

Hey...

If you're too tired...

...That's no problem.

Gt-weigh
always used microdots,

And he signaled contact

By opening
a front-upstairs window halfway.

Gt-vanquish
liked the rollover.

When he wanted
to make contact,

He left a black shirt
on a clothesline.

Gt-fitness was fond
of the brush pass.

He had his own method
of dead-dropping microfilm.

I don't see any overlap.

This is a dead end.

[ sighs ]

Jeanne will want us
to keep looking.

[ groans ]

[ sighs ]

Next asset.

Mm-hmm.

[ motor turns over ]

[ engine revving ]

All these boxes of files
can go back to records.

They're clear.

These files stay.

I want to interview
each one of them.

[ woman speaking russian
on p.A. ]

O'neill: When are you going back
to cameroon?
Higgins: Tomorrow.

There's a g.R.U. Colonel
there.

Boris noskov,
pride of soviet intelligence.

He's busy extorting money
from minor officials.

Locals call him
"the white donkey."

[ chuckles ]

How'd you like to see him
recalled back to moscow?

Nothing would please me
or the nation of cameroon more.

Write a cable.

Send it to a handful of people.
I'll give you a list.

In it, say that colonel noskov
now works for the cia.

Care to tell me why?

Just testing a theory.

[ woman speaking russian
on p.A. ]

[ groans softly ]

[ sighs ]

[ door closes ]

[ sighs ]

I'm sorry about the cameras.
They were not my idea.

Code name gt-prologue

Is a mid-ranking
kgb officer.

Two nights ago, he approached
moscow station chief

On the red arrow train
to leningrad,

Handed him surveillance photos

From inside
the chief's apartment.

He also handed him
a letter

Saying he wanted
to leave his wife

And come to america,

So until we can
exfiltrate him,

We are treating him
as a full-blown kgb volunteer.

We have a new asset, people --
first one in almost a year.

Whoo!
That is --
yeah, good news.

Art?

Anyone vetted him?

Jeanne:
He's not controlled.

How do you know?

The kgb doesn't
dangle officers.

They're afraid they'll give up
real information.

That doesn't mean
it won't happen in the future.

Statistically insignificant
chance.

My gut says
we should be careful.

Gut instincts --
sure path to ruin.

Well, reliance on statistics
is delusional.

Oh, so it's delusional
now --

Wallace:
Uh, okay, okay.

Let's assume for the moment
he's not a kgb dangle,

Just like he's assuming that
we fixed our internal problems.

How are the kgb
getting our information?

We need to keep him alive.

Meeting over.

You two remind me
of my brothers.

You should just
get it over with.

Punch her in the face.

Can I do that?

Worked at my house.
[ chuckles ]

Is this all the intel
prologue has given us?

Louisa:
Um, I think so. Why?

It just strikes me as...

A little too careful.

Buon giorno.

Caffe per voi.

You can't be in here!
Paperwork for my transfer
finally came through -- Italy.

You need to get out
now!

Please leave!

What is this?

Rick!
Can't be in here.

You need to get out!

The investigation
of the asset losses, right?

Apologies, apologies.

Sorry.

Just thought I'd, uh,
bring you the news.

Sandy:
Well, thank you.

[ sighs ]

[ keypad beeping ]
I forgot to lock it.

[ keypad buzzes ]

It won't happen again.

Think.

Think.

Tradecraft.

Communications.

Mole.

Man: I did as you asked, art,
but he's still here.

Saw him yesterday --
drunk as a skunk.

All right, thanks.

There's this woman
at work.

I really hate her.

Hate?

Strong language.

She's such a...

[ groans ] I just want
to tear her eyes out.

I always found hate and love
to be closely connected.

Please.
This isn't high school.

Sounds like high school
to me.

You know
what they say --

Keep your friends close...
And your enemies closer.

[ sighs ]

No, you're right.

We have far too much sex.

[ sighs ]

Okay if I leave
a little early?

My boyfriend flew in
from ohio this morning.

Sure, kara.
Knock yourself out.

Good night, sir.

Night, clayton.

Good night, ma'am.

[ brakes hiss, door opens ]

[ keys jingling ]

Hello?

Anyone here?

Man:
Hey. You're home.
[ chuckles lightly ]

I found some wine
and two glasses.

Forget the wine.
I want you.

[ russian accent ]
kara jensen.

Who the hell
are you?!

You work at cia,
moscow station.

For you.

[ papers rustling ]

[ gasps ]

[ indistinct talking ]

[ sandy sighs ]

[ keypad beeping ]

Thanks.

Sorry I'm late.

Louisa and I cross-referenced
all methods of tradecraft

By every single one
of our assets.

There's virtually
no overlap.

Statistically insignificant
chance

Poor spying
is our problem.

Secure cables went out
to 25 different stations.

We dangled a g.R.U. Colonel
in africa,

But nobody's
rolled him up.

Can't be sure,

But it doesn't seem to be
communications, either.

Regarding
human penetration,

I've been going through
h.R. Files

And interviewing
case officers,

And I've managed to narrow down
our list of possible suspects

From over 600 to 200.

[ door beeps ]

S.E. Division,
are you ready for this?

We have another new asset,
people.

For the moment,
we're calling him mr. X,

And he says he has
the answer to our problems.

"mr. X" --
that's original.

[ laughter ]

He says we have
a communication breach.

And for the sum of $50,000,
he will elaborate on his claim.

They haven't read
our most recent cable.

Two new assets
in a few weeks...

You know what? I agree.
Don't we need to test him?

But we don't want
to scare him off right now.

Besides,
the entire seventh floor,

The chief of c.I.,
and the deputy director

All believe he's legit.

They figure
the kgb is ultra-cautious.

At a female officer's apartment
after midnight.

Come on.
That's just not their style.

Or maybe we're putting
too much weight

On our preconceived notions
about what the kgb's style is.

I mean, has anyone
really gone over

What gt prologue gave us?

I'd say it's low-value,
at best.

What, detailed accounts of
how the assets were rolled up?

Who? When? Where?

He's told us what the kgb does
once they find our assets,

But he hasn't
explained

How they find them
in the first place.

Wallace:
He might not know.

The kgb has always done things
a certain way,

And they know
that we know this.

What if we've gotten comfortable
with their behavior?

What if they're using the
assumptions we make about them

Against us?

What if
they're gaming us?

It's what we would do
to them.

Well, sandy, that's...
A certain number of "what ifs."

We have to keep talking
to both gt prologue and mr. X

Because if one of them
can tell us

What's happened
to our people,

That'll be worth
considerably more than $50,000.

As of right now,
they are both real assets.

Well...

We could
have another look.

Hey,
let's do that now.
All right.

You're right.

Excuse me?

I agree with you.

The evidence points
to us being taken for fools.

Keep up the good work.

Don't let it
go to your head.

[ sighs ]

Man: [ russian accent ]
the kgb has a new plan.

They want to tie up
the moscow station.

Tie us up how?

They're going to start
sending you fake assets.

They will approach your people
unawares...

Come, as you say,
out of the woodwork.

You must treat these assets
as you would real volunteers.

Otherwise, the kgb will know
that they have a mole.

They will suspect me 'cause I
have access to this information.

And then
my life will be in danger.

Louisa: He said
they're all dangles?

But moscow station has to treat
them all like they're real,

And manpower
and ties up our case officers.

Which would seem to
be exactly what the
soviets would want.

I want
to take you to dinner.

They're gonna throw
something else at us next.

When they do, you and I
should be on the same side.

[ typewriter keys clacking ]

Do you eat here often?

On fridays.

Every Friday?
Yes.

Wednesdays at mario's.
Mondays at the rod and reel.

Tuesdays, thursdays,
and saturdays, I cook.

Sundays, I get takeout.

You must know the menu
pretty well.

No, I always ask
for the same thing.

Look, jeanne,
I know you don't like me,

But we need
to put that aside --

I dolike you.

You're just not
living up to your potential.

Well, you see, that's
what really gets in my craw --

You judging my potential.

Oh.
So you don't like me.

[ chuckles ]

You hardly speak,
and when you do,
you criticize me.

My criticism
is meant to help you

Be the best case officer
in the agency.

You have that in you.

I'd like to see it
realized.

As for my not speaking,
that's just who I am.

I'm too old
to change that.

Chatter is for children.

I think both prologue and mr. X
were sent by the kgb.

I agree with that.

Because they know
we're looking for our breach,

And they don't want us
to find it.

I agree with that, too.

So we're on the same side?

For the moment, yes.

"for the moment"?

Meaning...?

I'm not good at making political
alliances within the agency.

I do my job.

I peel away
the layers of the onion,

And eventually,
the truth is revealed.

Who's with me or against me,
I can't control that.

I'm not really
a people person.

[ sighs ]

Hey, jeanne.
The usual?

Yes, please.

And for you,
ma'am?

Uh, I'll have
the linguini with clam sauce,

A side salad with ranch,
and a glass of white wine.

Very good --
two linguinis with clam sauce,

Two side salads with ranch,
two white wines.

[ footsteps depart ]

Lonetree: It's not
that I don't like you. I do.

I like you -- a lot.

And I would really like
to be with you.

It's just
that I'm a marine.

You know?

We're not allowed to fraternize
with foreign nationals.

We will simply not see each
other anymore, and that's it.

Louisa: Hi.

Hi.

Thank you for coming.

I know
it was a long flight.

We wanted to talk to you
about mr. X.

W-when he came to my door is the
first time I'd ever seen him.

And...
How about gt-prologue?

Never met him.

But I did meet his wife

At an embassy function
a few weeks ago.

Prologue said he was
leaving her to
defect to the u.S.

Uh [chuckles]
I doubt that.

T-they'd just come back
from vacation in odessa.

She was tan and beautiful
and seemed very happily married.

Eric. Jeanne here.
I need your help with forensics.

I can't let him in...

To the u.S. Embassy.

But just as a tourist.
He's interested.

Well, all russians
are interested

What mighty america
is like.

That is
breaking every rule.

But he's my uncle.

[ scoffs ]

He's harmless.
Clayton, please.

For me? Hmm?

...Everything since '82.

I need them brought to me,
because I need to know...

That would be great.
Thank you.

Hey, jeanne.

Have you heard?

My transfer
finally came through.

No, I didn't.

Yeah -- Italy.

How nice.

This time next year,
I'll be rome station chief.

Will you?

Yes.

Tell me, how's
the elephant hunt going?

Oh. It's going fine,
aldrich.

Well, that's --
that's -- that's good.

Good to hear.

Arrivederci.

Eric: Oh, jeanne.

I have your, uh,
forensics answer.

[ door closes ]

Jeanne: Forensics
compared mr. X's handwriting

With other kgb-generated
material that we intercepted,

And...There's
a strong resemblance.

So if mr. X
is the kgb...

And he said
it was communications...

Then there's no way
it's communications.

'cause our cameroon g.R.U.
Colonel was never rolled up.

The truth is revealed.

I've completed
my first round of interviews,

And a further 45 officers
are in the clear.

For the rest,

I will be re-interviewing them,
asking more specific questions.

In our hunt for this mole,
we must remain focused.

We must let nothing distract us
from this investigation.

Nothing.

[ indistinct conversations,
light music plays ]

Nichols: My little princess.
[ laughs ]

[ laughs ]

You were actually twirling
around the dance floor.

I thought you were gonna
give that man a heart attack.

[ laughs ]

I didn't know.

I thought he should get us
to clear the --
sir?

Yes?

I, uh --

I just, uh...

Son,
are you all right?

No, sir, I am not.

Well, what is it?

My name is
clayton lonetree,

I'm a marine guard
at the u.S. Embassy,

And I have aided and abetted
the kgb, sir.

[ people murmuring ]

You need to arrest me
right away.

Nichols: And her friend?

He called himself...

Uncle sasha.

And you let
this uncle sasha...

Into the u.S. Embassy?

I didn't know
he was a kgb.

Like a russian friend
of a beautiful woman

Who asks to look inside
the u.S. Embassy?

And you didn't think
he might be a kgb agent?!

I was in love with her.

I loved her.

I was just...

[ whimpers ]

I was so lonely.

[ crying softly ]

The building's
been breached.

And we're gonna...
Pack up the entire place --

Every file,
every bit of tradecraft,

Every lamp, every couch,
every damn table...

[ sighs ]

...And ship it
back to langley.

[ sighs ]

The entire u.S. Embassy?

Every stick of furniture?

That went through the embassy
in the last five years.

This is insane.

A marine guard
is not the breach.

He'd need computer access,
door codes, passkeys.

I concur.

If it looks like a distraction
and smells like a distraction...

I'm afraid
to ask what's next.

Arthur: I'll tell you
exactly what's next.

Gt-prologue has finally asked
to be exfiltrated.

We cannot
exfiltrate prologue.

He won't show. No way.

You think he's lying
about having marital problems.

I don't think he's lying.
I'm certain.

I'm telling you,
he's controlled.

We can't give him a play-by-play
of our exfiltration procedures.

Sandy --

Fine.
Don't believe me.

But at least
listen to jeanne.

[ sighs ]

Tell him, right?

If we exfiltrate prologue
and he is controlled,

That we try and get an asset
out of the country,

The kgb will know
exactly what to look for.

Sandy is correct
in her assessment.

Prologue is
happily married.

He has no interest
in leaving the u.S.S.R.

He is a kgb dangle.

Look,
it's out of my hands.

Lonetree was most likely
the root of the problem.

Lonetree is just
another calculated distraction.

I don't know how the kgb
manipulated him, but they did.

The seventh floor
doesn't agree.

Moscow station has been
packed up and shipped home.

We noticed.

And they want your group
to do the review.

They want every page
of every file

Organized, read,
and disseminated.

If the kgb has access
to our secure cables,

We need to know
exactly what they know.

It'll keep us
from doing the real work.

They think
that is the real work.

Sandy, exfiltration of
gt-prologue starts in one hour.

Moscow station chief
is meeting him

On the red arrow
at 0300.

By Friday, he'll be with us
in washington.

And since you two
are such good friends now,

You can be
initial debrief.

[ scoffs ]

[ telephone rings ]

Hello?

Sandy, it's art.

He didn't show.

[ telephone rings ]

What a waste of time.

Jeanne:
We do our jobs.

Well? They bug us?

No, sir.

[ door beeps ]

[ sighs ]

Incoming.

[ door closes ]

The lonetree case has been
thoroughly investigated.

Moscow station is clean.

There's no way lonetree
could have gotten access

To any asset files
or other secure material.

I, uh [clears throat]
I have more.

The good news is we haven't lost
an asset in almost six months.

We believe
the crisis may be over.

The seventh floor decided
to put the past behind us,

Mark down our losses
to a variety of causes,

And shut down
the task force.

What?!
Louisa:
But you can't.

Do -- do you know
how hard we've worked?!

Sandy, sit down!

[ slaps table ]

It's over.

[ scoffs ]

Let's pack up the back room
and...

Get on with the task
of running a spy agency.

From here on,
we look to the future.

Thank you
for your hard work.

[ sighs ]

[ typewriter keys clacking ]

[ stomps foot ]

[ man speaks russian ]

Ahhhh!

[ buzzer ]

[ hinges creak ]

[ speaks russian ]

Ahh.

[ sighs deeply ]

This is nuts.

You and I both know
the problem still exists,

And we both know
that if we shut this down,

Then whoever
compromised our assets

Will get away with it
scot-free.

In fact, they're probably
in this building now,

Drinking coffee,
chatting up a secretary.

It's unconscionable!

I'm not giving up, jeanne.
I won't -- not ever.

[ door opens, closes ]

Neither will I.