Oh, I-I'm sorry.
Excuse me.
ALAN: I see.
So, it's not just at home
you drop your things all over the place.
Thanks. What do you got there?
Uh, it's a police scanner.
Well, it's not just the police.
The "Double-E" guys did some modifications.
Picks up pretty much
every law enforcement band there is.
You're not close enough to the action as it is?
You have to monitor radio calls now?
I just don't want to miss anything.
(indistinct radio transmission)
Oh, wow.
Didn't we move you in here around, what,
three weeks ago?
Oh, my gosh, Charlie.
You have to see what I found-- these are amazing.
CHARLIE: What are you doing here?
I thought you were headed downtown.
Oh, well, that was a lie,
so I could surprise you.
- Oh. - I wanted to get
all your stuff unpacked and put away.
And I asked Sharon to transpose your work off the boxes.
Sharon?
- Sharon, thanks. - Hi.
Anybody else buried in the rubble around here?
Nope, just the two of us.
But, Charlie, you have to read these letters.
I found them in the old wall secretary.
Oh, then Beiderman must have left them...
But one is from Beiderman,
but another one is from Knox,
and another one is from Newberry.
And this one...
dates all the way back to 1922.
It was written by Hightower.
- May I? - Wow.
Those are the professors that preceded you
- in this office, right? - CHARLIE: Yeah.
Those guys were giants in the math world.
Yeah, but they weren't giants when they wrote these.
That's what's so cool about them.
I mean, they were just starting out.
The letters are about their goals and expectations,
what they hoped to accomplish in their careers.
Hightower wrote the first one right after he moved in,
almost 90 years ago.
And then, he left it behind for Knox.
Then, Knox did the same for Newberry,
who did the same for Beiderman.
That's quite an incredible tradition
when you come to think of it.
- Yeah. - I know.
And now Beiderman left them behind for you.
How cool is that?
Well, it was different for those guys
'cause, you know, they started out in this office,
and I just moved in from down the hall.
Yeah, but it might be fun, though, huh?
Trying to imagine what it will be like 20 years from now,
what you'll be doing.
WOMAN (over radio): Supervisor requests FBI presence
at possible 211.
These guys were smooth.
They got at least six figures and were long gone
before the first call went out.
This here is the branch manager, Clifford Hansen.
How are you doing, Mr. Hansen?
So, what can you tell us?
Uh... guy came in wearing a maintenance uniform.
Went, uh, right for the alarm panel.
By the time the teller alerted me,
I guess he'd already cut the alarm and the cameras.
And it was just the one guy?
Three more came in right after, pulling on masks.
Camera only caught the first one, though.
And what kind of, uh,
masks did the other three wear?
Two of them wore, uh, ski masks, you know,
and the third guy, the guy who looked like he was in charge,
he wore a Bill Clinton mask.
And they put you all in a back room?
And they separated you:
employees in one, customers in the other.
Yeah.
How did you know that?
I'm getting a big-time dГ©jГ vu thing about now.
Yeah, two of them cleared out the tellers' drawers,
and the other two hit the vault.
Nikk, come on... you're starting to freak me out.
Hey, did you hear any gunshots?
HANSEN: We didn't hear anything.
I waited 10 minutes, like they told us,
and then, when I came out here, they were gone.
No, no, not all of them.
No, only three of them left.
How did you do that?
COLBY: This is our dead jack-in-the-box.
His name is Greg Berlin.
Habitual B and E guy
who specializes in high-end security systems.
Well, that's our best lead.
Let's get into him.
We can, but I'm pretty sure it's a dead end.
Here we go again: the Amazing Nikki.
NIKKI: Look, the robbery this morning
is an exact copy of one I rolled on
back when I was a rookie cop.
When you say "exact copy"...
I mean every detail,
right down to the stiff in the cabinet.
Now, if they stuck to the old plan,
they hired this guy on right before the heist.
COLBY: As soon as he finished his bit
with the alarms, they put the bullet in his head.
LIZ: Which is why they left him behind.
He's doesn't connect to the rest
of the crew-- can't lead back to them.
And he's the only one caught on camera.
Other three might as well be ghosts.
Well, we got to have a file from that first one, though.
We do-- 2002. I pulled it already,
but it's unsolved-- there were no suspects.
DAVID: That's just no official suspects, right?
I mean, the lead agent, he'd have some kind
of theories. Yeah, who is it?
(chuckles softly)
Take a look at this.
The lead agent: Roger Bloom.
(chuckles)
What? Who is Bloom?
Agent we teamed up with eight months back.
DAVID: Don caught him with his hand in the cookie jar.
- Ended Bloom's career. - COLBY: All right.
I'll tell you what-- Nikki and I will go give him a try.
- Why me? - He hasn't met you.
He won't hate you yet.
(Nikki sighs)
COLBY: Hey, Bloom.
Why don't you let me give you a hand?
I don't need anything from you, Granger.
Hey, he's just trying to help.
Yeah, I'm sure you are.
I'm sure you both drove out here
just to help me dig up my sewer line.
You're right.
Actually, we came out here 'cause we need your help.
(laughing)
We're working a bank heist.
(laughing): Yeah.
You find that funny? Funny?
I find that hysterical.
I put in 32 years.
What did I get?
Forced retirement,
my pension's revoked, I'm standing
in a mud hole in the middle of my front yard
'cause I can't afford a plumber.
All because of the FBI.
Good luck with your case there, agents.
Actually, Bloom, it was your case.
Bank robbery, 2002.
Farmers American Bank.
Four-man crew.
Capped one of their own, left him behind.
COLBY: Looks like they're back at it.
An exact duplicate happened this morning.
Now, in your file,
I noticed you had no suspects listed,
but I'm assuming you had somebody in mind,
or a theory at least.
Yeah, there was a guy named, uh, Curtis Brennan.
Why did you suspect him?
'Cause the pieces fit.
He had the smarts, he had the history.
And word was that he spent a lot of cash afterwards.
I just couldn't make it stick.
You think Brennan and his crew
could be back at it?
(chuckling): Yeah, they might be...
if they didn't get themselves killed three years ago
doing a casino job.
No, I think you're wrong
about making a connection with today's heist.
More likely, you were wrong about Brennan to begin with.
Yeah, well, I guess that we're done then, huh?
AMITA: I think Knox's letter is my favorite.
Here he is, what, 27 when he writes it,
and he already knows exactly what he's going to accomplish.
(indistinct radio transmissions)
Charlie.
I'm sorry... I'm sorry.
Why am I the only one fascinated by these?
(turns off scanner)
I mean, you worship Knox.
When you taught ergodic theory,
you lectured on his work for two weeks.
I think Knox was amazing.
So, why aren't you
more excited about these letters?
If I were you, I would be thrilled to write one.
I tell you what.
You can write mine.
Charlie.
What?
Both Knox and Newberry
were huge proponents of collaborative work.
I'm sure neither of them would roll over in their grave
if you did a first draft for me.
Why are you so reluctant to do this?
I don't know. (knock on door)
LIZ: Wow, love what you've done with the place.
Oh, well, I've been kind of busy.
Then, we're not going to be any help.
Uh, we're working on a bank robbery.
Yeah, Don told me-- guys got away seven years ago,
- and now they've done it again? - But there's no way
these were their only two crimes.
I mean, these guys are experienced.
They had to pull other jobs,
maybe even got caught somewhere else.
Okay.
You remember how you helped me on the Sneaker case,
how we ran a search algorithm to look for similarities
between the current crime and past crimes?
Yeah, we analyzed a break-in
and found a suspect who used a similar methodology.
We're hoping you could do the same thing here,
maybe tie these guys to a previous crime.
I can take a look.
I'm going to need all the old files.
You really want us to bring them here?
Oh... no.
I... I better come to you.
All right, what?
What, what? You're clearly pissed.
I mean, you've been giving me the chill
ever since we left Bloom's.
What, you think I went too hard on him?
You were getting him to open up,
and I shut him down, right?
Wow.
You really are psychic,
'cause yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.
You know, I'm sorry, but a dirty cop is a dirty cop.
You even know what he did?
I know he took a lot of money that wasn't his.
Do you know why?
He was chasing this kid who embezzled some money
from a bunch of different companies,
and he thought the FBI wasn't giving it enough attention.
So, he stole money and then blamed it on the kid?
With no intention of actually keeping it.
You can hear yourself right now, right?
Look, the guy logged 30 years.
Okay, he ran kidnap rescue.
He ran the bank division.
He won every commendation
there is to win. (scoffs)
He did a thousand things right
in his career, and then messed up once-- that's it.
You know, it's a good thing
that you can't read my mind right now.
LIZ: Is it going to disturb you guys
if I run through some video?
DAVID: I don't think anything's going to bother Charlie.
He's in that zone.
And I got a week's worth of bank footage to go through.
I'm hoping one of the crew
was going to case the place before the robbery.
Well, that sounds like a lot of faces.
I'll mark anyone who looks suspicious, go back later
and run them against facial recognition.
Hey, I think I found something...
or the search algorithm did,
and it's not what we were looking for.
- DAVID: What do you mean? - Uh...
two months ago, someone hit a bank in Riverside.
It's an exact duplicate of a 1994 robbery.
And then, there was another
five months ago in... Fountain Valley,
and the details match perfectly
with a 1989 robbery.
So, it wasn't the first time these guys
recycled one of their old heists?
Well, uh, that's the thing.
Given the dates
and the vast differences in their MO,
it seems like none of the original three
were committed by the same crew.
Meaning...?
Someone's copycatting old bank robberies.
Somehow, they're finding these old crimes,
unsolved cases where the FBI or police
never even had a suspect.
Perfect crimes.
In essence, yeah.
This, uh, a new crew, they're replaying
Bank Robberies' Greatest Hits.
These are the three?
Charlie ran a search algorithm
on the Farmers American Bank job,
see if we the MOs match anything
other than just the '02 heist.
And we can't keep doing that?
I mean, we have three more robberies,
which means more data.
I mean, more likely you can find similarities, right?
Uh, yes, but no
because similarities aren't what's important now.
What's important are the differences.
What we really need is a good
heuristic anomaly detection scheme--
uh, something as simple as, uh--
well, let's say you're using a copy machine.
You're making copies of a number of photographs.
You run each one through the machine
and you compare the copies to the originals.
Now, similarities are irrelevant.
They're expected.
After all, you're making a copy.
However,
if you discover differences--
flaws, for example, that aren't in the original--
well, now you've got something relevant.
You have found a signature feature
of the individual copy.
If we look for enough differences
in enough copies...
Then we'll be able to tell what photocopier they used.
- Right. - DON: Look at this.
All these were checked out recently.
NIKKI: By who?
DAVID: Excuse me.
These three files right here were recently signed out.
We need to know who had them.
Should say in the back.
Well, whoever it was didn't want
their signature to be recognized.
You have to show a badge ID to get 'em, right?
(sighs)
Give me the file numbers.
They're all 91A-LAs.
21-245,
13-545, and 41-808.
Okay.
Those were all checked out by Agent Sinclair.
I'm Sinclair.
I want to know who had them before me.
Next back would be Agent Bloom.
NIKKI: Agent Roger Bloom?
He checked out a bunch of files--
all unsolved bank robberies.
DAVID: Bloom hasn't been an active agent
since last November.
Why would you let him check out files?
I had no idea he wasn't active.
He was the lead agent on most of the files.
Look,
David, she's not the one we should be talking to.
Thank you.
(mutters)
(sighs)
(slams file on table)
That your signature?
Wow, that is bad penmanship.
(sighs)
All right, for the sake of argument...
yeah, I'll say yes.
Yeah, for argument's sake,
you checked out two dozen old bank files.
Why?
Because I ran bank division for 14 years
and I got nostalgic.
COLBY: Bet he never thought he'd be back in here again.
You feeling sorry for him?
I'm just saying it's got to be humiliating,
being back here like this.
Impersonating an FBI agent is a felony.
You know that.
I never told that clerk that I was an active agent.
Right,
but you never said you weren't either, did you?
What are you doing, Eppes?
What you did to me is not enough already?
Are you trying to make a case out of these ancient files?
DAVID: There was a bank robbery this morning.
Okay, every detail of this file recreated.
You checked it out
three weeks ago.
Are you saying that I robbed the bank?
Say you didn't.
I'm not saying another word.
Colby, check this out.
It's two days ago.
Guy at the counter.
Okay, what about him?
I think he's been casing the place.
That's Bloom.
Is all this necessary?
Moving him in here, making him play
the isolation game like he's some felon.
It is if he is a felon.
Don, the guy's an ex-agent.
I mean, that's got to count for something.
Yeah, well, then it cuts both ways.
Then he should be cooperating with us.
All right.
How long you planning on sweating him?
I want to search his apartment while we got him here.
Call Robin and get a rush warrant, all right?
- No, Don... - Hey,
it's not a debate.
Hey, how's your heuristic anomaly detector thing going?
I'm still working out the initial algorithm.
And did you tell it
that ex-Agent Bloom is now our suspect?
Well, that would only introduce an unnecessary bias.
W-We don't want to influence the analysis
unfairly by presupposing Bloom's guilt.
You sound like Colby.
So how long is it going to take to run?
Hopefully I'll have something for you later tonight,
maybe tomorrow. So for now,
the only connection between the current crimes
is the obvious one-- Bloom.
(chuckles)
Page three of the FBI interrogation manual.
(chuckles) "After the initial isolation period,
"try to establish
"a rapport with the suspect
"through a token gesture, like a candy bar,
"cup of coffee...
bottle of water."
(door opening)
All right, so how do you want to do this?
Want to go room by room or you want to split it up?
I don't have to keep an eye on you or anything in here,
do I?
You're not gonna do anything stupid?
- Is that a joke? - I mean,
you're not gonna try to cover anything up
or leave some kind of sign so Bloom would know we were here.
Really? You think that I'd do that?
Well, normally, no,
but I can't get any kind of handle on you on this one.
DON: Your last investigation...
We're not going all the way back to Kevin Oliver's case,
are we?
Well, there's $10 million missing.
I don't care that IA couldn't prove it.
You and I both know you took it.
The only thing
we both know is that every penny was returned.
Yeah, well, that leaves you $10 million light.
And maybe if you talked to me,
but you don't.
Look, I just see you feeling sorry
for this guy, defending him,
and I just can't make any sense out of it.
Yeah.
You know what, Nikk, I don't know how much
anybody might have told you about my father.
I know he died when you were 15.
Yep.
He was going up into the mountains on a fishing trip.
There was 20 miles of road
and there was a steel guardrail that...
(sighs)
...covered every single inch of it...
(clears throat)
...except for one 50-yard stretch.
That's the spot that his truck went off the cliff.
I'm sorry.
That is some serious bad luck.
Yeah, it's either bad luck
or that's the spot he was aiming for.
What, you think he killed himself?
I'll never know.
All I do know is that he spent 20 years
as a foreman in a machine shop
pounding out tractor parts.
Then he makes one mistake and they can him.
He just never get over how that one mistake just erased
everything else that he'd done for them.
You do a lot of thinking since you got fired?
Play it over and over in your head?
Maybe you started to rationalize.
You're the one that was wronged, you're the victim.
Now you're on page 19
of the manual.
"Attempt to agitate the suspect,
elicit an emotional reaction."
Oh, come on, Eppes.
I spent 30 years on that side of the table.
You're not going to get a confession out of me.
And without a confession, what have you got?
I got you in the bank
two days before the robbery.
I got you with a file detailing it three weeks before that.
Maybe there's a whole other explanation.
So give it to me, Roger.
Let me help you.
(chuckling): Help me like you helped me right out of a career.
You think I wanted
to do that, really?
Pal, I joined the Bureau 'cause of guys like you.
It killed me to turn you in.
You gave me no choice.
It was my sister,
Eppes.
He took every penny of her life savings.
What wouldn't you do
for your brother?
NIKKI: Hey, Colby, in here.
Southern Coast Savings and Loans.
He's got blueprints, photos, diagrams of traffic patterns.
He's even drawn out the interior.
Here's a copy of an FBI file.
Robbery at this very bank in 1998.
Let me guess.
Unsolved?
Looks like Bloom's got plans.
You know, you guys are just shining examples
of law enforcement.
I don't have to give you
the whole "don't leave town" speech, do I?
Oh, please.
No way he'll know you were there, right?
We were careful.
(elevator bell dings)
(crickets chirping)
Oh... what is this for?
It's for you.
Don't get too excited until you see what it is.
All right.
Oh, it's a pen.
Mm-hmm.
To write the letter.
Don't tell me you didn't see that one coming.
Why is this so important to you?
For the same reasons it should be important to you.
She's not going to let up, you know that, Charlie?
And I have to say I think she's right.
I know she's right.
I know I should write this letter.
I just don't know what the future holds, so...
Well, what do you want it to hold?
Write about that.
Yeah,
what about your emergence work?
You seemed to be having a real breakthrough a few weeks ago.
Yeah, and then my brother got stabbed
and then there was the serial killer case.
And what does that got to do with writing the letter?
Never mind.
Thank you for the pen.
DON (over radio): Anyone got eyes on him?
Nothing yet, but we have got a clear view
of the side approach.
Colby, how about you?
Negative.
Man, this guy's been dragged in
and grilled.
He's already got the take from the last three robberies.
If it was me, I would just quit while I was ahead.
Now, the crime he's copying from '89--
they hit just after lunch, so if
they're following the old plan...
Wait a minute.
I got him. Gold four-door
rolling down Sixth.
DON: Yeah, I got him.
Looks like he's alone.
You really didn't think he'd come, did you?
Oh, what's he doing?
I don't know.
Waiting, I guess.
On them.
COLBY: It looks like we got more players
in the two-tone Chrysler.
All right, let's hold tight, everyone.
Let them get in for SWAT.
DAVID: Bad guys are moving.
COLBY: All right, Bloom's out.
NIKKI: Oh, what the hell is he doing?
Freeze!
He's gonna try and stop them.
(automatic gunfire)
FBI! FBI!
(yells)
Get in!
(tires screeching)
Bloom, put the gun down!
Put it down, Bloom.
(indistinct shouting)
Why isn't he in cuffs?!
He wasn't with them, Don.
Yeah, he wasn't, all right?
He was actually trying to stop them.
How did you know they'd be here, Bloom?
14 years in the bank division, Eppes.
I figured it out.
I almost had them at the last job.
COLBY: Wait a minute.
You've been working this case from the beginning?
Five months.
Ever since the Fountain Valley job.
I've been way out ahead of you guys.
That's why you had the files, that's why you were in the bank.
Didn't I tell you there was another explanation?
Turn around, give me those hands.
Oh, are you kidding me?
Give me your hands.
Prior knowledge of a felony, failed to report it.
(handcuffs clicking) You're an accessory, Bloom.
Not in a million years.
You endangered all these people around here, not to my agents.
Not one person got hurt, except, of course, for a bad guy, Don.
Let me make this as clear as possible, okay?
You are not an agent.
You are nobody as far as this case goes.
All right, he's got the message, Don.
- He's got the message. - Take him in.
(helicopter blades whirring)
(indistinct radio transmissions)
Charlie, what are you doing here?
I caught it on the scanner.
- We got 'em, huh? - DAVID: No, it wasn't Bloom.
He was chasing them, just like us.
CHARLIE: We've been overlooking something.
Information flow.
The guys we're after
had to have learned the details
of the original heists somewhere, right?
Yeah, until now, we thought they got it from the FBI files.
But if it's not Bloom?
LIZ: Where would they learn about the crimes?
It's not like there's a bank robber newsletter, or
a social club where they sit around and swap stories.
Yeah there is-- prison.
Maybe somebody from the new crew did time
with one of the old guys, right?
Old guys get to bragging about scores they pulled off, but
never got caught for.
If the new guy's a good listener, and takes good notes.
Charlie, isn't there some sort of social
network analysis you can use?
Figure out where and when their paths might have crossed?
No, no. Not with two pools
of unknown variables.
See, the new crew had to have learned the details
of the old crimes from the old crews,
but right now, we don't know enough about either group.
Believe it or not, it's not unlike, uh, decorator crabs.
A decorator crab camouflages itself
by collecting tiny bits of its environment,
and sticking them on its back.
As a result, if you looked at just the decorator crab alone,
you could get a pretty good sense
of what its habitat looks like.
Conversely, if you looked at just the habitat,
you could make a pretty good guess
as to what the decorator crab would look like.
And the problem is, we don't know enough
about the habitat, we don't know enough about the crab.
There's no way to use one
to make a determination about the other.
Hey, Bloom?
What now, Granger?
What could there possibly be left to say?
You're gonna need a ride back to your car.
Listen, Bloom, for what it's worth, I know
what it's like to be the agent on the outside.
Yeah?
I was cuffed, interrogated
and locked up by my own team.
Yeah.
But you cleared your name, didn't you?
For good or for bad, it's forgotten.
You know why?
Because up there, it's all short-term memory.
They only remember the last thing you did.
Look, I read the paper, I saw the bank robbery,
I made the connection.
I thought, this is my chance.
Bust the bank crew,
you give them something new to remember you by?
So, maybe you could just kind of
keep me in the loop here, you know?
Bloom, you got to let it go.
Listen to me.
The only reason you're not locked up right now
is because it'd be bad press.
An ex-agent triggers a shoot-out
while a dozen current agents look on?
But I guarantee you, you mess with this again,
they'll get over the embarrassment.
Look, I know that I messed up
with the Kevin Oliver case.
I accept that.
But I can't let that
be the last thing I did.
AMITA: It's all right.
I'm unarmed.
No pen, no pad of paper.
I know.
I've got 'em right here.
You're writing the letter.
Let me ask you something.
It has to do with the letter.
Actually, it's more about us.
Okay. You know, there's never been any question
as to what I was supposed to do with my life.
I was eight
when they called it destiny
that I would go on
to achieve some level of academic greatness.
You should be writing this down.
Oh, no, no, no. Wait, wait.
When we met,
I was that math wunderkind on the rise.
Uh, and
the whole time we've been together,
you've pretty much known
what you've signed on for.
Pretty much, right?
(laughs)
So, I guess, uh,
this is a, uh,
"would you still love me
if..." question.
If the ride turned out to be something else entirely,
and if I didn't fulfill the destiny...
Is that why you haven't really moved into the office?
And why you're so stuck on this letter?
Because you don't think you're worthy?
Charlie,
you belong in that office.
You are every bit as talented
as Beiderman or Knox or any of them.
Trust me.
ALAN: All right, knock it off, you two.
Charlie, you got visitors.
(door closes)
- Hey. - Hey, Charlie.
You remember Roger Bloom?
- Yeah, sure. How you doing? - How you doing?
So I was thinking he could give you some help with the case.
Um...
I already have the files.
I know facts that never made it into the files.
I was the lead agent.
I mean, I'll tell you right now.
Unless you can give me suspects...
I can.
All right, not official suspects.
Just suspicions that I had working on the case.
COLBY: Charlie, the fact is,
he has been way out ahead of us on this one.
What's my brother going to say about this?
I'll work on Don.
I can help you.
Looks close to the description
of that bank suspect you guys are looking for.
Didn't want to touch him till we figured out
whether he was yours or not.
What do you think?
That's him.
That's right where I tagged him.
My guess is,
whoever dumped him here figured he wouldn't be found so quick.
Why do you say that?
Building remodel's been stalled a couple of months.
Contractor just happened to come by to pick up some equipment.
You guys are lucky.
Luckier than this guy, anyway.
Thanks.
CHARLIE: What you're saying
has absolutely no scientific validity.
So what? We know that they show
a preference for targets with easy
ingress and egress.
CHARLIE: Right, but their pattern
of behavior is going to change
now that they know they're being pursued.
Listen, imagine that you're a mountain goat,
trying to get to the next peak, and
you know that there is a snow leopard in the valley below.
A mountain goat?
How about if I imagine that I'm a bank robber
looking for a target?
Whatever.
ALAN: Look, look.
Look, you may be coming at this
from two different directions,
but the question remains the same.
There are nine so-called perfect crimes in the files
that these guys have not reenacted yet.
You're right.
But whatever they choose,
they're looking for one last big hit.
Well, yeah, it is likely
that they are going to want to choose a target
that offers a greater payout.
So, uh, we're in agreement?
(wry laugh)
ALAN: They're, uh...
they're making progress.
Only reason you're here is 'cause Colby stood up for you.
I want you to understand that.
We found the point of convergence.
Everyone that Roger suspected
in the original crime did time at Lompoc
at one point or another, so we're thinking
that someone from the new crew was incarcerated with them.
So that's how they found out about the heists?
Yeah. We just can't figure out where they're gonna hit next.
LAPD just found the body of a guy
named Billy Devarro, one of the crew from yesterday.
BLOOM: Let me guess.
He did a lot of time at Lompoc, too.
No, but his brother Teddy did.
The guys are on their way to pick him up now.
DAVID: We good?
DAVID: FBI!
We have a warrant!
Clear!
The bathroom's clear.
Clear.
He's cleared out.
LIZ: It's too late. We missed him.
Take a look at this.
Looks like recon for their last few jobs.
I don't see anything
that says where they're going next, though.
All right, that's it.
With Devarro, the pieces fit.
They're going to recreate the 1981 holdup
at the downtown Federal Reserve.
Mm, mm, mm.
Oh, come on. You disagree with me again?
No, I completely agree with you.
Well, then I'm confused. What's the problem?
Whoever's doing this
is preserving every detail of the original crimes.
The 1981 heist-- 11 people slaughtered.
BLOOM: All right-- 1981, four men
enter the Federal Reserve building downtown
before it opens.
There are two security guards,
eight employees and one of the employees' wives in the bank.
CHARLIE: Now, the crew used Periformol,
which is a Vietnam-era poison gas.
Most likely, they all died
before they even knew that they
- were being robbed. - BLOOM: Once they got rid
of all their witnesses, they used magnesium burn bars.
They cut right through a side wall of the vault.
The take: a little less than $2 million.
NIKKI: A Vietnam-era gas?
That has to be inert by now,
if it hasn't all been destroyed.
And all federal vaults have been fortified since.
Yes, they were, in direct response
to this robbery.
So, duplicating the old crime won't work.
It will if they modernize it.
Look, same crime, 21st century tools.
It's consistent with my anomaly detection scheme.
One of the differences between the copies
- and the originals... - You don't use
the magnesium burn bars.
You have a laser cutter, maybe.
All right, so what about the gas?
I'm thinking Haldite nerve gas.
- Based on what? - NIKKI: And from where?
The U.S. signed the Chemical Weapons Convention back in '93.
But there's a facility in Seal Beach that contracts
with the government, and they destroy
chemical weapons collected overseas.
Now, they had a break-in
six weeks ago. A security guard
that works there is being detained right now,
but they still haven't recovered the Haldite that was taken.
We need to talk with that security guard.
Six weeks in federal holding, Marcus.
No visitors, no phone calls.
It sounds like you got nobody.
I don't need nobody, 'cause I got nothing to say.
Yeah, we heard you've been real quiet.
But how are you going to feel
when six weeks turns into six months
or six years?
Want to hear my guess?
I think you're holding out for one of those
big paydays somewhere down the line.
That's why you can deal with all this:
'cause you know if you keep quiet
about the gas and you protect who has it,
you're going to get some big, uh, cash reward
somewhere in the end.
But here's the wrench in your plans.
We already know
who has the gas
and what he plans to do with it.
That's a load of crap.
You ever play Clue, Marcus?
Oh, I'm going to guess Teddy Devarro,
in the Federal Reserve with the Haldite gas.
Looks like I win.
I don't know how much Teddy promised you.
Marcus, that payday is not coming.
And if people die from the gas that you helped steal,
they will put you down.
What do you want?
Tell us where to find Teddy and the gas.
(low, indistinct chattering)
COLBY: All right, I see movement.
There's definitely someone in there.
You try a mass evacuation,
you tip them off,
it could get very ugly.
Hey, you're just here to watch, okay?
I'm just saying.
All right, listen up, everyone.
I want to keep SWAT and Hazmat out of sight.
We're going to clear the businesses on both sides.
We hit them tonight, we'll get less people around.
It doesn't look like much, does it?
Yeah, well, it scares me.
LIZ (over radio): This one looks empty.
It's all locked up.
DAVID (over radio): I'm clearing store to the east.
COLBY: I don't believe it.
Don, there's someone out front right now.
DON (over radio): David, Liz, stop.
Stop where you are.
- Open the damn door! - Run! Go!
We gotta move. Hit it. Send SWAT in back.
- We're going! - Stay right here.
DAVID: Get out the way!
(people shouting)
Door is locked.
(groans)
MAN: Okay, okay, I'm coming out!
Drop the gun!
Nice and easy-- don't move.
Don't move! Come here!
LIZ: Put your hands behind your back.
Turn around.
Where's Devarro?
DAVID: Where the hell is that damn canister?
Hey, yo, check this out.
Hey.
It leads up and over.
He is coming out the front.
He's getting away-- he's coming out the front.
Hey.
- No, my baby! - Shut up!
- Back! - Please...
- Back up! - Please, don't.
No, my baby!
- Get back! - My baby, please!
- Shut up! - Please don't hurt my baby!
You know what this is, don't you?
Teddy, you're not going anywhere.
- No, my baby! - Somebody,
- Back off! - help my baby!
DON: Teddy, put it down!
Back!
(woman screams)
Put it down!
- My baby! - Back off!
Shut up!
Get out!
- Get out! - No!
- Get out now! - My baby!
(woman screams)
Get out.
(grunting and groaning)
I got it, I got it, I got it.
DON: Don't move. Don't move!
Okay.
I got it.
(handcuffs clicking)
So, you just don't listen, huh?
Old habits.
About a thousand ways that could have gone wrong.
Yeah, but it didn't.
(chuckles)
We got lucky.
That's the best I'm ever going to get out of Eppes.
He's right, you know.
But I'll tell you something.
People will be talking about that one for a long time.
(guitar plays gentle melody)
You know, I gave the Bureau my whole life.
Never got married, none of that stuff.
But, man, if I had a son...
* One hand on this wily comet
Thank you very much.
* Take a drink just to give me some weight *
My pleasure.
* Some uber-man I'd make
Hey, uh, David said there's a kick-ass pizza place
down the street, so we're going to go
get something to eat, so if you want to come...
Yeah, I'm starving.
Actually, I wasn't talking to you, Granger,
but, uh, I guess you can come, too, if you want.
What do you say?
I could eat.
* Start with my eyes
* Down so the lines form a grimacing smile... *
(indistinct radio transmission)
DON: Dang.
Nice digs.
(chuckling)
Well, I don't understand.
Dad said it was like
a disaster, like my room when I was 15.
He was right, by the way.
Um, no, Amita came by today
and did all this.
It's nice of her.
You've definitely arrived, kid.
Yeah.
I've arrived.
Don't know how long I'm set to stay.
What are you talking about?
You've been working for this your whole life.
Yeah.
My destiny.
What if my future has changed, you know?
What if it's not being an academic?
What, you mean the FBI stuff?
You don't seem to have a problem doing both.
It's become
increasingly difficult for me to be here in this bubble
lecturing about set theory,
knowing that there are real lives at risk,
that there are real lives being lost out there.
You know, Charlie, I've seen a lot of good agents burn out.
You know, guys that just
don't want to go home
because they're afraid they'll miss something.
What is...
(shuts scanner off)
I don't know about the whole destiny thing.
You've had it pounded into your head
since you were a kid.
Why don't you just...
do what you want on any given day?
Okay?
Just live a little.
I don't know.
Yeah, well, I do.
AMITA: Hey.
Am I interrupting something?
No, I was just, uh, heading out, actually.
Good.
'Cause I need Charlie.
All right.
Congratulations.
Uh, this is nicer than my apartment.
See you later.
I'm taking you to dinner.
Mm-mm.
I owe you for fixing up my office.
No, actually, I owe you.
I screwed something up.
Let's go.
Okay.
* There is a numbness
Where are we going?
Brianni's, and we're late.
Brianni's, wow.
You must have really screwed up.
Charlie, um... the other night,
when we were talking in the garage
about the letters and the office,
and, um, you asked me a question...
The "Would you still love me if..." thing?
And I went on and on
about you doubting yourself and you deserving the office,
which I'm not retracting or anything,
but I realized that I never answered your question.
Charlie...
there is no "if."
I love you no matter what.
There aren't any conditions on that.
* Still to come
* The worst part and you know it... *
You're amazing, you know that?
(chuckling)
(screaming): No! No!
Charlie!
No, let go!
No! No!
No, let me go!
No! Charlie, help me!
- Amita, Amita. - Charlie!
Let go of me!
No!
AMITA: Charlie! Charlie...!
(tires squealing)
(song ends)