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Countdown Season 1 Episode 2 - Full
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00:01What was Darden's purview of CBP?
00:03Monitoring border activity of Los Reyes Nuevos.
00:06You know Los Reyes?
00:08They are a whole nother level of nasty.
00:12On your back, Kirk!
00:13You have a ticking time bomb on your team, Nathan.
00:16The risks of surgery, they outweigh the benefits.
00:19That's why you picked me.
00:20It's because nobody in our departments will miss us when we're gone.
00:25Where the hell is he going?
00:30That's why we're at the taker.
00:35Thinkers
00:40Music
00:46Music
00:52Music
00:54Oh, my God.
01:24Oh, my God.
01:54Oh, my God.
02:23Oh, my God.
02:53All right, every Alphabet House has been read in on what we believe went down last night.
03:00Smuggled fissile material through the port of Los Angeles into the U.S.
03:04That means the Bureau, NSA, DHS, DOD, CIA, and the White House.
03:08Nuclear Emergency Support Team.
03:10While they ramp up a coordinated response, we're to continue running point with our mission.
03:14Find out where the material is, who has it, and what they plan to do with it.
03:17So, where are we?
03:17Hitman Cesar Murillo was pronounced dead at LBMC.
03:21Good.
03:21Two other members of the New King's cartel were wounded and captured.
03:25We'll get a full interrogation debrief as soon as we sync with the port police.
03:29Oh, uh, I spoke to, uh, my guy in commercial crimes.
03:32There was a, um, stolen Border Patrol vehicle that was discovered abandoned about nine miles northeast of the port in Compton.
03:38I saw that vehicle flee the scene.
03:42You gotta look inside?
03:43I couldn't pick anyone out of a lineup.
03:45There were two men in front, two men in back, Caucasian, if I had to swear on it.
03:48Well, that doesn't sound like Tijuana cartel.
03:50We'll need to comb through the images at the port in the days running up to the incident.
03:54Identify anyone who doesn't belong on scene.
03:55Were there men there claiming to be logistics or shipping or customs agents surveilling Hangar 31?
04:00Yeah, I'll get Shepard on that.
04:01And I want an evidence response team on that vehicle.
04:03Hair, fibers, fingerprints, DNA, nuclear signature, uh, soil deposits, all of it.
04:08Yep.
04:08Who are these guys?
04:16My cover, two years ago, was a smuggler on both sides of the border.
04:20I worked with a Reyes Nuevos lieutenant named Javi Lopez.
04:23Last night, I met with a woman at La Luna Bar in Huntington Park to reestablish contact.
04:27She's a runner for Lopez.
04:29Successful?
04:29I think so.
04:31I mean, the cartel was the infrastructure to smuggle this material into the U.S.
04:34If anyone knows who they handed it off to, it's Lopez.
04:36I can set up a meet.
04:37Take Meechum with you.
04:39He can be your muscle.
04:40Yeah, well, I'm good with that.
04:41I just, I usually work solo.
04:43Sir?
04:44This isn't a task individual.
04:45The L.A. district attorney is here.
04:47He's in the lobby downstairs.
04:49Asked to speak with you immediately.
04:50Special Agent Blythe, I understand you have an operation running in my city.
05:12A federal operation.
05:13Yes, well, I believe.
05:16You have a couple of LAPD detectives loaned to you.
05:19And since they fall into my purview, I'd like to be included in your investigation.
05:24Make an inquiry with the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.
05:28We don't have to be so formal, do we?
05:30I'm making a gentle request.
05:36I don't see why we can't stay in that sandbox.
05:40I appreciate the visit.
05:41Uh, I'll see you.
05:50Mr. Balwa.
05:52Special Agent Keontae Bell, you work with my father, Isaiah.
05:56Oh, of course.
05:57Yeah.
05:58Isaiah was a great help when I started.
06:00He said the same about you.
06:01How's he doing?
06:02Pretty good.
06:03He is getting used to the private sector now.
06:05Global Security Director for Oracle.
06:07So, um, you know, missing the mission, not hating the money.
06:10I'll bet that's right.
06:11Yeah.
06:12Yeah, good man.
06:13Good man.
06:14Wish him well for me.
06:15I will.
06:16Oh, uh, Special Agent Bell, are you on the Federal Task Force for Nathan Blythe?
06:25No need to answer.
06:26I withdraw the question.
06:29Thank you for your service and keep us safe.
06:38What was that all about?
06:39D.A.
06:40D.A.
06:40Who wants to be Attorney General.
06:42You know what A.G. stands for?
06:44Aspiring Governor.
06:45Mm-hmm.
06:46He's on a fishing expedition looking for a camera-friendly rug on his way to the State House.
06:51What'd you tell him?
06:52Pound salt.
06:53You know, politicians can play rough.
06:55So can I.
06:56Did you learn that at Princeton?
06:58Army.
06:59Princeton and I learned to drink.
07:00Army?
07:01You know, my father wanted me to be a lawyer.
07:04Had the whole map drawn out from Greenwich to the Ivy League, clerking for SCOTUS.
07:10Then the Twin Towers came down and I was in a recruitment office the next day.
07:14Infantry?
07:16Intelligence.
07:17You?
07:18Reserves.
07:21Greenwich?
07:22Don't.
07:23Ooh.
07:24Hey, you just, you grew up in some very expensive real estate, that's all.
07:29Maybe you can tell me what it's like to be rich while we go over the badge entry data from the poor.
07:33Or we do it silently.
07:34You all right?
07:46Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:47Um, just...
07:49Just take some Advil and wait for it to kick in.
07:54I gotta know you're 100%.
07:56I'm 100%.
07:57One mistake, we are dead.
07:59Well, that's why there won't be any mistakes.
08:00Hey, where'd we meet?
08:01What?
08:02Oh, um...
08:05Italian restaurant on the Grand River, downtown Detroit.
08:09Greek place.
08:10Yeah, what'd I say?
08:11Italian.
08:12Oh, Greek-Italian.
08:13There is a large Greek population in Detroit.
08:16There's probably Italians, too.
08:18You know what?
08:19That's it, I'm calling it.
08:21Just kidding, okay?
08:23Yes, Greek restaurant.
08:24The Golden Fleece.
08:27Just fucking with you.
08:28Besides, it's a cover story, who cares?
08:29I care.
08:30Being under is not about memorizing some stupid backstory, okay?
08:34It's about improv.
08:35It's being able to roll with the flow.
08:38You know what?
08:39It's not...
08:39It's...
08:39You didn't even...
08:40It's go with the flow, okay?
08:43It's go with the flow or roll with bunches.
08:46Now you're getting it.
08:47It's like they want us to join their book club.
08:57It's like they want us to join their book club.
09:11To Harry Potter fans, you can tell.
09:13Should we say hi?
09:14Oh.
09:14What's she need?
09:18Who are you?
09:19Who I am, lady?
09:20Who are you?
09:23Tell Javi Lopez I want to talk.
09:25There ain't no Javi Lopez here.
09:26If I got to say it again, Morito, you're going to hate what comes next.
09:39Cute kid.
09:47Go wait in the garage.
09:49Where?
10:13Hey.
10:14Maya told me you'd be back in town.
10:17Where you been, Daniela?
10:18I got pressed, man.
10:19I had a bounce.
10:20What do you mean you got pressed?
10:21You remember Cricket?
10:22Yeah.
10:22Yeah, he snitched on me.
10:23I'm lucky I'm not in Linward.
10:25Good thing Cricket's dead now.
10:27I know.
10:28That's why I'm here.
10:29I'm looking to get back in it.
10:30Is that right?
10:32Who's this?
10:33Whoa!
10:33Whoa!
10:34That's my shadow, man.
10:37Looks like a cop to me.
10:40What'd you call me?
10:42Tell me I'm lying.
10:43Once you drop that gun, I'll do more than tell you.
10:45Hey, okay.
10:46Look, Javi, you've always been smart.
10:48Okay?
10:49He's with me.
10:49Shut the fuck up.
10:51Yo, I don't know who the fuck you think you're talking to.
10:53I deliver what for you?
10:54Forty jobs and now you want to disinterprese?
10:55I said shut the fuck up!
11:00Yo.
11:02It's Palmdale, Inc.
11:03Get it, Rasmus.
11:12Oh.
11:13You want to die a day?
11:15Huh?
11:15Oh, I've been dead lots of times.
11:17Oh, no.
11:30Oh, my God.
11:30I don't know.
12:00Okay, Daniela, talk.
12:05I've been to Michigan, all right?
12:07Running Oxygen X from Windsor to Detroit, but I'm going to be real with you.
12:10I got fucked by a customer, and I need cash.
12:13I hear you got heat on you, or I wouldn't be here.
12:17I could take your high-risk deliveries.
12:20I could be a shield for you.
12:23I need this, Javi, okay?
12:25You know I'm good.
12:27What you know about heat?
12:29Your girl told me.
12:30I'm going to have something for you.
12:37I'm going to have something for you.
12:43I'm going to have something for you.
12:45I'm going to have something for you.
12:54I'm going to have something for you.
13:02I'm going to have something for you.
13:04I'm going to have something for you.
13:05So let's do this.
13:06Antoine, what is all our youth? You needed to drink. I gave you to drink.
13:19You needed to sleep. I allowed you to sleep.
13:23Tell me, what happens?
13:28How much is it?
13:3110.30.
13:34What? 10.30?
13:36Boris, you need me. Please go with me.
13:47I wrote an American, who said that I work in a good company Harry's Sport Handeer.
13:51He said that you would pay me for real money in Belarus,
13:55and that's the same for the statistics.
13:58You can pay for it.
14:00You can pay for the supervisor.
14:02Oh, Antoine.
14:14How could you be with such a fool?
14:17Now he wants to talk to you, Boris.
14:19What happens to you?
14:20What happens to you?
14:22I'll be dancing.
14:36Dennis, this is the same man I told you.
14:45What's happening in the corner like?
14:46I'm talking English.
14:52Your brother took my money, then tried to cheat me.
14:55I'm sure you're confused.
14:58Not confused, Boris.
15:01He owes me, which means you owe me.
15:09Money doesn't matter.
15:11What matters is the debt.
15:14I'm sure we can...
15:15Boris, you work in the defense ministry for Pavel Kastenko.
15:20I need you to give me all electronic mail between Kastenko and the Kremlin
15:25over the last four months.
15:34Yes, but not that way.
15:46Get me those emails by Monday.
15:50Your brother may fall down a stairwell and not get up so easy.
16:05Poppy wants to test us.
16:06Manning.
16:07He's giving us a run.
16:08He's got a truck full of contraband coming up from Rosarita,
16:11but with the heat on Los Reyes, he thinks it's gonna get jammed up at the border.
16:14You know what's inside?
16:15Gotta assume heroin.
16:16If we can get it through, he'll trust us.
16:18And he'll tell us who he made the fissile delivery for.
16:21So we clear the truck through Border Patrol.
16:23That's not gonna work.
16:24Lopez has some skinny little Agent Shepard type working for him.
16:27No offense.
16:28What offense taken?
16:29No, I just mean like a, you know, clickety-clackety... whatever.
16:33He ran my cover through NCIC.
16:35And that's the law enforcement database?
16:36Exactly.
16:37Cartel's gone Gen Z.
16:38He used a Border Patrol login.
16:40I saw him.
16:41Damn, that's messed up.
16:42Yeah.
16:43We don't know who's corrupt down there.
16:44We still, we want BP to cover our truck.
16:46Forget about our cover.
16:47They will know we're police.
16:48Bell, Shepard, I want maps and logistics.
16:51Olivares, Meach, and Fino, get me everything you have on Border Patrol
16:54on the Mexican side and federalities out in Tijuana.
16:56Anyone we can trust down there.
16:58We got one shot at this before cartel closes ranks.
17:00Drew in my office.
17:08Our trapping Specialist Firemen
17:22is airing the control of all the weapons.
17:25We know that what we got mostly on the棋ies him and and that's time.
17:32What's your business in medical?
17:57Hogs.
18:02You ever been to Mexico, Special Agent Bell?
18:27Cancun.
18:28That's not Mexico, that's Disneyland.
18:31You all right?
18:32Yeah, why?
18:33You've been squinting your eyes.
18:34Well, it's bright out, so...
18:38Go look at me and watch the road.
18:39Go look at me and watch the road.
18:43Watch the road.
18:44I've seen him.
18:45All right?
18:47Yeah, why?
18:48You've been squinting your eyes.
18:53Yeah, why it's with your eyes well, it's bright out so
19:02We're looking at me watch the road
19:23Oh
19:33Geez yeah, the smell is why they won't check out trailer. Oh, but that's right
19:41Hey
19:46Gregorio Ruiz
19:53Vas a despertarlo
20:03Nos mando Javi Lopez
20:09We got a problem
20:12How much cash you got a couple hundred why you see it
20:15Do you want 20 40 all of it?
20:23Okay
20:35Despiértalo
20:37Nueve
20:45Number nine
20:49You're gonna need a receipt for that
20:51Uncle Sam
21:01All those times
21:02Sometimes when I imagine what it'd be like to have my freedom
21:08Not be so uptight, live my best life
21:12Oh what a fool, I was only dreaming
21:16I'm going down, down, down
21:18I'm going down, down
21:20I'm going down, down
21:22Fuck!
21:24Oh shit
21:26You alright?
21:28Yeah, yeah, yeah
21:29You need some first aid
21:30I'm okay
21:32I'm okay
21:33Wait, can you drive?
21:34Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm alright
21:35El can take over
21:36Yeah, I'm good to go and say the word
21:40Let's just get out of here
21:42I'm good, I'm good
21:44Alright
21:46Alright, let's roll
21:47Alright
21:51Ah, piece of shit
22:02I'm going down, down, down, down
22:07Love me now
22:10I'm going down, down, down, down
22:15Let me hold on. There'll be now
22:18Chìš´
22:19Choo
22:20Chou
22:24Choo
22:26Choo
22:30Choo
22:32Choo
22:34Choo
22:36I'll follow.
23:06All right, plan A, truck gets through, zippity-doo-dah, nobody's the wiser.
23:12Plan B, all hell breaks loose.
23:14The slate plans off go to shit.
23:15Well, if it does, don't even think about me.
23:17Just get that truck through, okay?
23:18Why would I think about you?
23:21Okay.
23:36Okay.
23:43Okay.
23:45We are approaching the border, we need that truck through clean, so eyes on the prize.
24:10Wow.
24:34Let's go!
24:35Go ahead, go ahead!
25:04Meechum?
25:10I got him.
25:17Stay patient.
25:19Getting that truck through clean equals information.
25:34I got him.
26:04We're gone.
26:26Good.
26:32Point of origin?
26:33It's your water.
26:35What are you doing?
26:37Come on, come on, come on.
26:51Give me a minute.
26:53Sure.
26:55They're running OCR on Finau's truck.
26:57Shit.
26:59Shit.
27:01Shit.
27:03Shit.
27:05Shit.
27:07Shit.
27:09What's your destination?
27:11LA.
27:13Time to blow it up.
27:15What's your destination?
27:17LA.
27:19Time to blow it up.
27:21This is special agent charged Nathan Blythe.
27:23I want to report a suspicious vehicle trying to cross the Tijuana border.
27:27Yeah, I got it on satellite now.
27:29License plate Foxtrot Delta X-ray 542.
27:33I got it on satellite now.
27:34License plate Foxtrot Delta X-ray 542.
27:35I got it on satellite now.
27:36License plate Foxtrot Delta X-ray 542.
27:39You can get the life.
27:44What is that?
27:48Put it there, put it down.
27:50Put it down, put it down.
27:52What is that?
27:54What is that?
27:57I got it in the office.
28:00There's no death in the case for him.
28:02You will get him.
28:04What is it?
28:05When you get the ship him.
28:06Would you get the bar in theì?
28:07What is there? What is there?
28:09What is there? What is there?
28:19Hey, let's get up!
28:27Let's get up! Let's get up!
28:29What's your name?
28:31What's your name, Daniels?
28:33Go, I need you. Help them. Who?
28:35Go! Now! Go! Go!
28:41Leave!
28:43You won't get me right here.
28:45Look at that!
28:47Get me out of the way!
28:49Hey, wait!
28:51Get me out of the way!
28:53Get me out of the way!
28:55Fiat! Fiat! Fiat!
28:57Fiat! Fiat!
28:59Get me out of the way!
29:01Come on!
29:03Get me out of the way!
29:05I don't know!
29:07Let's get in trouble!
29:09Get back!
29:11Get back!
29:13Get back!
29:15Get back!
29:16Get back!
29:17Okay, you see this? You see the badge?
29:19Yeah, I got it.
29:25Back it up! Back it up! Come on, let's move!
29:28Back it up! It comes down!
29:47Back it up!
30:18You stop me, Boris.
30:23I'm supposed to go back to the rifle for you.
30:27Good.
30:32You served in the transport corps?
30:36Saper.
30:39Are you ready?
30:42Yes.
30:43So.
30:47Help me to place the right hand in the mechanical brigades
30:51safe and safe.
30:55First of all you eat, okay?
30:58Yes, friend Kostenko.
31:00I'll do it.
31:13Good night.
31:27Good night.
31:43Yes, Dad.
31:44You're alright.
31:47So bad.
31:49Good night.
31:51Good night.
31:53Come on...
31:59Warwick, радful!
32:03Virtually turned out to me,
32:05Mom.
35:36Can you imagine working with that smell all day?
35:42I can't, actually.
35:43Oh, I heard it as soon as it came out of my mouth.
35:45There's got to be at least six a bag here.
35:59There's got to be at least six a bag here.
36:02I'm thinking 500 kilos of heroin, street value, 50 million.
36:14Fine.
36:15Fine.
36:15Give Javi Lopez a truck, find out what he knows about the fissile material exchange.
36:21All right, you heard the mail.
36:23Let's rendezvous at Ops 1 and nail down the logistics for the exchange.
36:27Fino.
36:27Now, you know, once you roll a bell, I'll drive the rig.
36:29You sure?
36:30I got it.
36:31All right.
36:32Keys are inside.
36:33All right.
36:42You all right?
36:46I thought of dropping that much dope on the street makes my fucking skin crawl.
36:57My, uh, my rookie year at LAPD.
37:00Oh, God.
37:01Just hear me out.
37:04My rookie year.
37:06There are these detectives that were building this, uh, this huge robbery sting.
37:10Some guy had been knocking over high-end apparel stores in the fashion district.
37:13So LAPD's building this case.
37:16They want to catch him in the act.
37:17You know, really seal the deal.
37:19And they know where and when he's going to strike next.
37:21Before that day happens, a woman named Shelley Reed calls in an assault charge.
37:29It's McNamara's mistress.
37:30Tells 911 he roughed her up pretty bad.
37:35Guess who the responding officer was.
37:39So I show up and she's, I mean, she's got the works, you know, black eye, busted lip,
37:45loose tooth, bruises all up and down her neck.
37:48So I write up the report, seething, just furious.
37:54I don't like seeing people get worked over like that.
37:56I don't care who you are.
37:57I tell her I'm going to get this guy.
38:01He's never going to hurt her again.
38:03And I meant it.
38:05She asked me, do you promise?
38:07I didn't hesitate.
38:08I promised.
38:10So I get back to the Hollywood station.
38:12And these detectives tell me not to file the report.
38:17To stand down.
38:19That the, uh, burglary charges are going to eclipse this little domestic assault that probably
38:25would never make it into the inside of a courtroom.
38:28You know, who's going to believe a mistress?
38:30Could have been anything.
38:31She could have fell down the stairs.
38:34You let it go so they can make their bust.
38:36It's haunted you ever since.
38:37No, I slapped the bracelets on that son of a bitch and charged them with assault and battery.
38:44No.
38:45Sarge lit me up.
38:47Says you blew it, Meachum, you blew it.
38:50Gave me 12 months traffic duty.
38:52And I mean the graveyard stuff, when the red lights go out, that kind of shit.
38:55But I took it.
38:58I didn't say a word.
38:59I didn't complain.
39:02I did my time.
39:04Just waited out their anger.
39:08My point is,
39:10if you've got another angle,
39:13different way to work this,
39:16I'm game.
39:19Hell, now more than ever.
39:22What's that mean?
39:23Now more than ever.
39:25Nothing.
39:28Just seeing things through clear eyes these days.
39:34But I mean it.
39:35I'll play this however you want to play it.
39:38Whatever the consequences.
39:55You don't look happy to see me again.
40:02D.A. Volwell, how can I help you?
40:04I understand there was a dispute at the U.S.-Mexico border this morning.
40:09When the State Department requested an expedited transfer of a U.S. citizen arrested on the Mexican side,
40:15I was a little curious.
40:16I have friends in law enforcement across the state, Nathan.
40:23So do I.
40:25You're going to need someone like me to help cover your tracks when challenges like this arise.
40:30Don't you think you should bring me in now, rather than when things get complicated?
40:34There's no reason we can't be friends.
40:38There's no reason we can't be friends.
40:39There's no reason we can't be friends.
40:40There's no reason we can't be friends.
40:57I don't know.
40:57Hey.
40:59Hey.
41:00Did you get some sleep?
41:01Yeah.
41:02Shower a couple hours.
41:04You?
41:04A little bit.
41:06So, uh, how do you want to move forward?
41:08I'm taking one kilo.
41:13To do what with?
41:14You might think it's stupid, but it's one brick that's not going to end up in some kids' arm.
41:20Where's it going to end up?
41:21Bottom of the river. Flushed. I'll take care of it.
41:38Let's get this truck to Javi.
41:57Antoine!
42:05Antoine!
42:08Antoine!
42:19Antoine!
42:20Do it.
42:38Do it.
42:50Do it.
43:00Do it.
43:06Do it.
43:10Do it.
43:14Fuck you.
43:18Sis.
43:22Your emails.
43:24Never contact me again.
43:48Delivered.
43:50Come on, don't I always?
43:52Good to have you back.
43:54Now we want those bigger jobs.
43:56Well, there'll be plenty of work.
43:58You drive.
44:00Word is, Los Reyes Novos are working with high-end Chinese smugglers or European guys to bring in hazardous material.
44:16That's where the cash is.
44:18And that's what I want in on.
44:20I don't know about no Chinese, but the guys we used to do a job for from one of those Russian countries.
44:24Russia?
44:25Yeah, like around there.
44:39Serbia?
44:40Croatia?
44:41Shit, something like that.
44:42Why you asking?
44:44I think I know that guy.
44:45Well, what's his name again?
44:46I can't remember.
44:51Hop in the truck and follow him into the warehouse and we can store the rig.
44:59You good?
45:00You good?
45:01Yeah.
45:02You good?
45:04Javi, the man at the port did this.
45:06He did this to you, Javi.
45:08Listen to me, I need a name, ok?
45:10I need a name, we'll find him.
45:11Gimme a name.
45:12Gimme a name.
45:13Gimme a name!
45:14Volcic.
45:15Volcic.
45:16Volcic.
45:17What?
45:18What?
45:19Volcic.
45:20No, Volcic.
45:21No, Volcic.
45:23No, Volcic!
45:26Gives me a name!
45:28Volcic.
45:29What?
45:31Volcic.
45:34Volcic.
45:35Volcic!
45:36No, Volchek!
45:38Volchek!
45:50What about that name, Volchek?
45:52Lopez's last words sounded like a dying declaration to me.
45:55Etymology?
45:56Belarusian.
45:57Timor Novakov.
45:58If our case has anything to do with some guy from Belarus, he would know.
46:02Where are you going with this?
46:04You gotta put me back in jail.
46:34This whole...
46:44This whole...