(indistinct, overlapping chatter)
(utensils clinking)
(indistinct conversations, soft music playing)
Hey!
Wallets, purses, cell phones,
everything on the table.
If you hold back, you get shot.
Do it, do it now!
Too slow! Rapido!
Don't think. Do it!
(cell phone beeps)
Everything on the table.
I'll shoot you in the face.
Don't look at me.
(man grunts, patrons scream)
LAPD! Don't move!
Drop the weapon.
Put your hands in the air.
Now!
(speaks Spanish)
(gun thuds onto floor)
Put your hands
in the air.
Tranquilo.
(people screaming and shouting)
Vamonos. Rapido!
Let's go, let's go.
Stay seated.
You move, you die.
(yelling in Spanish)
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
(classical music playing)
(indistinct chatter)
This is a disaster.
This tux is very...
It's very itchy.
Stop whining.
As promised, you look like James Bond. You do.
My circle-circle tangent joke
went right over the senator's head.
Come on. External similitude humor isn't for everybody.
I laughed my head off.
Millie, I'm no fundraiser...
No, but you know what you are?
You're a fund magnet, all right?
Your five minutes with the senator
raised us a quarter of a million dollar grant.
- Really? - Yeah.
- That's not too bad. - It's fantastic.
Are you kidding?
That's five new jobs in five minutes, all right?
That is a real victory.
Listen, these lobbyists, these politicians, all right?
They don't want to understand what they're funding.
They could care less.
They're bored.
They want to be impressed.
You are so impressive.
You're the one and only Charlie Eppes--
more dazzling in person
than your legendary name would suggest.
Legendary. Don't go too far.
You just keep doing what you're doing.
You reel them in, and I will seal the deals, all right?
In astronomical terms, it's called syzygy.
It's where all of the planets are in perfect alignment.
You, me... (phone ringing)
...and a room full of money for the university.
- What? - Hey, Don.
Well, I-I'm kind of in the middle of something right now.
Oh.
Yeah. Okay.
I'll be right there.
I'm sorry.
This is really important.
Could have guessed. I understand.
See you.
OFFICER: No way to predict where they go next.
COLBY: All right, yeah, I understand.
Well, listen, this is Agent Eppes.
- Why don't you brief him? - Hey. How you doing?
Uh, well, uh, we were chasing a pattern robbery.
Two guys, in masks, with body armor, in and out
of upscale restaurants in under ten minutes.
COLBY: They were grabbing purses,
wallets, cell phones.
No jewelry, never touched the register.
They've been hitting all over the Valley.
No way to predict where they'd go next.
We had to split up.
Two-man spotter teams in a dozen restaurants
with Rapid Deployment Teams waiting for the signal.
What, they didn't call it in?
They did.
We weren't fast enough.
I screwed up.
Bad plan,
bad intel.
(sighing): I got these guys killed.
All right, Jim,
you just got to give yourself a break, all right?
Give yourself some air here.
You didn't get anyone killed, all right?
Just give us a minute, all right?
All right.
So the, uh, witnesses said
that the officers ID'd themselves.
They were able to disarm the robbers,
but then two customers over here
popped up with handguns and opened fire.
And they collected their bullet casings before they left.
So, what, they come in, they scope it out,
they signal the other two...
Don.
Nice.
Very, uh..
James Bond.
No.
Yeah, no, I didn't think so, either.
So, two police officers were hurt.
They were killed, actually, in a robbery here.
There have been eight restaurant robberies,
all at upscale places.
Hmm. This is pretty spread out.
I mean, I can tell you
that no geographic pattern jumps out at me.
Maybe with more data on methods and times...
DON: What about those
bank robberies you predicted? Remember?
Was that the time you got shot?
Yeah.
I mean, they killed two cops here, you know?
So, needless to say, we'd like to shut these guys down
before they hit again.
I'll find them for you.
MEGAN: So,
we went through the reservations.
The inside couple used a fake name, bogus number.
Yeah. Well, go figure.
But I went back, and I cross-checked it
with the other robberies.
I figured, you know, if they're part of the M.O.,
maybe they screwed up somewhere--
they used the same name, or the same phone number.
- Right. And? - And they didn't screw up.
I have nothing.
(clears throat) Getting anywhere
with the profiles?
Three guys and one girl.
It really could be any number of dynamics, so...
unless a witness can remember something other than
big guns and Hispanic accents, um...
- Right. - COLBY: Think we know
why they're taking the cell phones.
DAVID: Victims can't cancel their credit cards
before they're maxed out.
They've been getting over 60 grand a hit.
How are they burning the cards so fast?
They're doing it online.
Uh, victims are being charged for big ticket items:
plasma TVs, hotel reservations.
Right. Well, what about tracing the goods?
COLBY: Well, that's the thing.
There aren't any goods. They're setting up
these dummy Internet corporations,
they're running the charges,
and then shutting them down the next day.
That's money laundering in the new millennium.
Yeah. So I got our techs on the service providers.
See if we can get some names,
find out who's building the sites,
and where the money's going.
Wait. You remember that guy?
Uh, what was the name, Ricky Jones?
He was hitting all those Beverly Hills jewelry stores,
and they were leaving the gold and taking the...
the customers' credit cards?
I know what you're talking about.
I'll reach out to him.
MEGAN: You know, I still believe
most criminals are not perfect at first.
You know, they make mistakes, they leave
evidence behind.
And now that we know the M.O.'s, maybe we should go back and look
at those first robberies again.
Yeah.
Why-Why don't you guys go, huh?
Sweet.
FBI's paying for lunch.
(quiet laugh)
No.
No...
Moron.
That's absolutely incorrect.
Makes no sense whatso...
(gasps)
Oh!
I'm sorry.
(laughing): I didn't mean to startle you.
(gasps) In Antarctica, we're used
to doing everything very quietly.
It's like a-a big
library with penguins.
Sorry about leaving last night.
Oh, no. Don't be.
Actually, the school made out very well.
You made us a lot of dough. Thank you.
Oh, yeah?
Interesting analysis, huh?
Yeah. Used it a couple years ago
to predict bank robberies, but it's not quite
lending itself to the current problem
as easily as I'd hoped.
You know-- and don't take this
as a criticism, but...
Is it criticism? Yes.
Okay then. A couple months ago,
I read about the system used to differentiate
between institutional targets-- you know,
like banks and stuff-- and civilian targets-- like a...
- Like restaurants? - Yeah.
Wait. Are-are you...
Are you talking about Homeland Security's threat matrix?
Yeah.
I think it might serve your purposes a bit better.
Yeah, there was an article about a year ago.
Mm-hmm. It was this one.
(laughs)
How did you know?
I don't know.
How'd I know? Let's see.
You run off to help the FBI, and, uh,
I read an article about two police officers being killed.
My advanced math degree allows me
to put two plus two together.
Professor... Millie, thank you.
You're welcome.
Oh, and after you left,
I spoke to a couple lobbyists from MacMillan Pharmaceuticals.
Apparently, they're looking for a reason
to dump their excess riches
into our humble coffers.
A reason... Mm-hmm.
Such as...? Oh, I don't know.
Maybe having one of the world's greatest minds as point man
on their new pharmacokinetic modeling project.
Talking about me? My mind?
Now, you know, they just require a little dazzling.
No tuxedo required.
Okay. Just set it up, and I'll-I'll be there.
Great. Done.
You know, Sinclair, every time you pull me out
to pick my brain, my credibility drops.
Well, yeah, you have cred,
and you have good word with the parole board.
You have a choice, brother.
Well, you're not looking local.
I don't know of any crews that ambush cops.
You think it was an ambush?
Oh, hell, yeah.
This type of work attracts
two kinds-- the ones
that are about money,
and the ones that are about violence.
If it's about money, you might hit somebody,
show him his own blood,
but you don't pull the trigger. All that gets
is more panic and less time
to get clear.
Okay, so you think these guys--
this-this crew-- they're about violence.
No.
I don't think so, no.
They're not wild enough.
Ricky, dude, help me out, man.
You're doing business.
Suddenly there's cops everywhere you want to be.
Most people in my line of work will either
lay low or move on,
but these guys
decided to send you a statement.
You think they're trying to back us off by killing cops?
Who'd be dumb enough to think that?
I don't know,
but they're a different kind of crazy.
(door opening)
Hey.
Thanks. Hey. How's it going?
Oh, I don't know.
Um, how'd it go at the restaurant? You find anything?
Just an overdone steak.
The owner said
these guys knew the layout, 'cause
they clipped the wires to the security camera.
MEGAN: If there was a learning curve, it was somewhere else.
All she could remember
were Spanish accents-- one so heavy
she could barely understand him.
COLBY: Yeah, they knew their guns,
they maintained discipline, policed their brass.
I'm thinking it's possible
they might have been ex-military.
Right, and this guy says that they were sending us a message.
You know, soldiers
from an unstable political environment would be more likely
to go head-to-head with authority figures.
- Right, and the accents. - Yeah.
I mean, we've trained a lot
of Central and South American Special Forces over the years.
It could have been a group up here on a rotation,
and they got the lay of the land,
and then decided that
robbery pays better than soldiering.
Sure. Why don't you run with that, see what we get?
Okay.
All right...
Um, I saw your envelope.
From Trauma Recovery.
I got the same thing last month.
It's on the spree killing?
Yeah. It's ridiculous.
I mean, you, know, the Review Board already cleared me.
Yeah, but, you know, the thing about therapy--
if you put a little bit in, you get a lot out.
Yeah, well, the guy better sign the thing
and get me out of there.
CHARLIE: This threat matrix isn't quite right yet.
It's set to predict the unpredictable--
terrorist attacks-- but robberies, they're...
they have their own unique set of characteristics, you know?
Why did you start out with the threat matrix to begin with?
It was Millie's suggestion.
Oh.
So after all that kicking and screaming about the tuxedo,
it sounds like you guys did some bonding.
Yeah, I mean, I have to say, it wasn't so bad, you know?
I mean, you dazzle them with a little Pythagorean wit
and their checkbooks crack open.
I'll tell you, if we can get this MacMillan
pharmacokinetic modeling project, well,
who knows what else the...
MacMillan Pharmaceuticals?
Yeah.
What?
I mean, they have a reputation
for exploiting Third World countries.
They'll charge $500
for a vial of AIDS serum that costs 50 cents.
I didn't know that.
I'll talk to Millie about it.
I think that would be wise.
What's missing here?
Something's missing here.
I don't know.
Uh, food?
Where are those menus?
Right.
(drawer sliding)
(paper rustling)
That's it.
Hey, Dave, did you find anything on the money trail?
Yeah.
I followed the phony Web site and credit card charges
back to an anonymous offshore bank account in Nauru.
Nauru?
A small island in the South Pacific.
Bank's refused to cooperate unless we can prove
that specific deposits came from a felony.
We can't point to specific deposits
if they won't let us look at the accounts.
And that particular Catch-22
has made the small island of Nauru
a favorite financial center
for all kinds of high-end lowlifes.
That's great.
Yeah, I came up empty on the ex-military angle, too.
Seems over the past 30 years, we've been a foreign exchange
program for just about every country south of Texas.
Trained paramilitary groups, special forces--
as soon as the country turns or the army stops paying...
A lot of unemployed soldiers who need work.
All right.
Maybe Charlie could help us narrow down the list.
So Amita and I
adapted Homeland Security's threat matrix
to examine these eight robberies
by target, time, location and security.
We came up with this list of similar targets.
Then we went even further, evaluating
the restaurants in terms of architecture and access
to fast escape routes.
It looks pretty much like the LAPD's list.
Right, so I figured I was on the right path,
but set theory wasn't really working,
so then I applied
multidimensional graph Laplacians
and PageRank matrices...
Yeah, that's what I would've done, too.
Well, of course you would've because that's a way
to investigate a group of things
and identify their shared properties, right?
Think about a refrigerator
stocked with groceries-- a steak, wine, apples, a pie.
Now, each of those items is unique
and can be purchased at several different stores,
but more likely, a family makes a single shopping trip.
You figured out where the robbers
are shopping for their targets?
Simon's L.A. Restaurant Guide.
Yeah. The eight restaurants they attacked
scored 93% or higher on food quality and price.
Cost I get-- these guys, they're after the fattest credit cards.
And the higher the food scores, the trendier restaurant,
the fattest credit cards.
Then we used those variables to narrow it down even further.
So you think one of these restaurants
is their next target?
Right, and you can't cover all 15, so...
this site has the highest probability.
(overlapping chatter)
Go, go, go.
Move, move.
(speaking Spanish):
Wallets, purses, cell phones.
(patrons screaming) On the table now!
Now!
Everything goes in the bag.
If you hold back,
you'll get shot.
(phones ringing)
DAVID: Three guns through the front door.
These guys didn't even bother with the couple
in the back this time.
Double tap.
So it looks like an execution.
They killed two cops to get away last time.
Wonder what this guy did?
Could be trying to send us a message, you know.
Third World countries, paramilitaries and drug gangs,
they'll execute civilians
just to warn the local authorities
if they don't back off, they got to expect more bodies.
Yeah, well, it ain't going to work here.
CHARLIE: They didn't hit the most likely location.
DAVID: Charlie, you got the date
and time right, man, you just missed the exact place
where they were going to hit, that's all.
No, no, I actually missed something else.
Look, this place barely showed up on my threat matrix.
If I'm off by this large a margin,
there is no way I can pinpoint these attacks.
All right, Charlie, just relax, okay?
First of all, it's not your fault, you know?
Just keep working and do your thing.
I mean, come here, don't worry about it.
MEGAN: The State Department had no luck
with Nauru.
Their courts turned down
our application for bank records.
Island's whole economy is pinned on banking.
These guys are just protecting their asset.
Yeah, but they're making our life so difficult,
'cause with no account information,
we have no identifiers.
There's no way to trace back to the killers.
Well, try Treasury.
I mean, we've shut down offshores before.
We just need a soft spot, someone in L.A. we can pressure.
You have a thing with the psychologist?
Yeah.
I know this is just an appointment for you.
Okay. But?
But you never know what's going to happen
till you walk in that door.
Think I need help?
I don't think they've made the person yet who doesn't.
(scoffing): This is a waste of time.
CHARLIE: Millie.
Hey.
Oh. Professor Eppes.
What can I do for you?
Oh. How goes your threat matrixing?
It didn't work.
Really?
Oh, wow. I thought it was a good approach.
Yeah, I know; so did I...
What do you know about MacMillan Pharmaceuticals?
MacMillan. Oh, well, I know
that their pharmacokinetic modeling
could save the lives of the-- what-- 16,000 people
who overdose on simple,
over-the-counter painkillers every year.
That's what I know.
Well, did you know that drug companies
exploit Third World countries.
They sell them
overpriced and expired medication...
Look, these companies, they're not demons, they're not angels.
They are profit-seeking concerns--
some better than others, some not so great.
It just seems to me that it should be as important
to know where the money's been as where it's going.
I've done my homework, Charlie, thank you.
As corporations go, I would characterize them
as relatively responsible now.
Relative?
Yeah.
Relative to what?
See? I should've known better
than to try to get that word past a fellow math geek, huh?
TouchГ©.
Have a seat.
No, I have the originals.
So...
Look, is there some kind of problem?
There's not a problem.
FBI just wanted us to talk.
What about?
Anything.
Look, I don't hate my dad, all right?
I like women, I respect them as people,
I don't get off on pulling my gun.
What else do you want to talk about?
How do you feel when you pull your gun?
(scoffing): Give me a break.
You brought it up.
Listen...
Yes, I shot Crystal Hoyle,
a spree killer who kidnapped one of my agents
and was driving straight at a roadblock
with a car full of grenades.
There was a trained sniper on the scene.
An Agent, uh... Edgerton.
Why do you think he didn't take the shot?
Well, uh, 'cause I took the shot first.
Because you're a better shot?
- No. - Oh, well, I don't get it.
Let me tell you something, all right?
Every single day, I have to make decisions
that affect a lot of people's lives.
Now, I don't expect you to understand that.
I expect you to just
sign this document and let me
get back to my job, please, sir.
Why do you think I wouldn't understand what you do?
'Cause it's not a textbook.
If you're not in it, it's impossible to explain.
Well, I wasn't in the FBI.
Yeah, well...
But I was undercover narcotics in East L.A.
I did two years
on a CRASH team in Compton, too.
Well, you know, I'm sorry.
I didn't know that.
No, you didn't.
You're gonna walk in here with no respect for my work,
expecting me to respect yours.
No, man, that's not it. It's just...
Thing is, I'm hung over, and I'm hungry,
and you are my last session before lunch,
and I was ready to run through a half dozen routine questions,
listen to your routine answers, and walk you out that door,
and now I don't know.
(phone ringing)
You got to take that?
(phone beeps off)
No, I don't.
So, I hear that, uh, you and Millie had a, uh,
philosophical discussion about ends and means?
What, do you and Millie just talk about me a lot?
You're a very interesting topic, Charlie.
Yeah, so, what do you think... about MacMillan Pharmaceuticals?
- What do you think? - Oh.
Commerce versus ethics, huh?
You know, I spent 30 years
dealing with that very subject,
and I still don't have a good answer,
and I wouldn't trust anyone that said they did.
But if budget's not important,
then you can judge a project on any grounds you want--
you know, morals, ethics.
Of course, if I had turned down all those corporations
with a spotty track record,
a lot of low income housing would never have been built.
Well, Dad, if I take the money,
then I'm just tacitly approving of their methods.
I feel if we can turn some of these giant
corporations down, then we can get them to change their ways.
Oh, I applaud your idealism, Charlie.
Got it from you.
Experience has tempered my activism with pragmatism,
and I would like to think
the wisdom to continually balance the two.
CHARLIE: And which way do you think
this balances out?
I have no idea,
but right now, I'm just an angry renter,
wondering when his landlord is gonna
send the spider people around again.
You know what?
I have to go.
Uh. Don't worry.
I'll load the laundry.
Hey, where is everybody?
Hey, what do you mean, they're working.
Hey, look, I know I screwed up.
Come on, hey, Charlie,
look, seriously, with all you do for us?
Well, my math wasn't wrong, but my assumptions were wrong.
You know, I assumed that all the data
belonged to the same set.
Right.
I mean, it's like, it's like searching
for a spider or its prey,
by studying its web.
You see, we use tension values of the silk web,
like vibrations and weather conditions,
and other variables to reliably predict where the spider is
and where the next insect is going to get tangled.
However, there are some species...
that build overlapping webs.
You see, I was assuming that only one robbery team
was responsible for all that data, and that,
that's where I was wrong.
So you're saying it's two teams working together?
Not together, in tandem.
Right, planning together but executing separately.
That's all you need to do...
is untangle those webs.
(speaking Spanish)
(shouting, rapid gunfire)
FBI!
DAVID: What's your name?
What are you doing here?
When did you...
When did you get in this country?
(over speaker): You want to play games?
DON (over speaker): What's your name?
When did you enter the country?
(tapping fingers)
Why are you here?
You can't talk?
Come on, tell me. Where you from?
When did you sneak into this country?
We've got to put an end to this.
You want to be in there?
They're clearly trained in counter interrogation.
Probably by us.
See the way they're sitting, their body posture,
they're refusing to make eye contact...
the tapping on the tables--
they're just trying to throw off the interrogator's rhythm.
We're all operating off the same manuals.
All right, so, I mean, nobody's talking, right?
No, we got no hits on Interpol,
we got nothing on the U.S. database.
They're... ghosts.
And your web thing, you think that's going to help
us find the other team, or no?
No, I doubt it.
By catching one team,
we've already sort of changed the variables.
If there are more robberies, then, yeah,
maybe I can revisit the threat matrix, but...
The minivan they used wasn't stolen.
The car registration
came back to a Jaime Lopez, deceased.
So it's another dead end?
Nah, not exactly.
In addition to robbing and killing,
our guys are scofflaws.
Four parking tickets on the 900 block of Alvarado
in the past five weeks.
And only six houses on that block are occupied,
and four by families that have been there
15 years or more.
And one of the other two houses belongs to this guy--
Bernardo Infante.
MEGAN: Should that name ring a bell?
Only if you served in the Mexican Army.
Up until last year, he was a colonel
in the Corps of Military Police.
Now, they regard interrogation as an art form,
so he would be the guy to teach you how to resist it.
And what's he doing up here?
Believe it or not,
the guy's an elementary school teacher.
All right, go for it-- shake him up, see what he does.
So what's eating you?
Nothing.
Donny, even for you, this is taciturn.
I just got to go see this guy.
What guy?
This hard-ass psychologist.
Because of the Hoyle shooting.
You know, like I'm trigger-happy or something.
Is that what he said?
Basically.
And what did you say?
I don't have time for this crap.
Well, maybe you ought to make time.
Yeah, well, here we go-- what, you, too?
A) I don't see anything wrong with talking to someone.
And B) maybe he ought to understand
that you're the one that will always take the shot.
Yeah, thank you, you know?
I mean, I was doing my job.
Well, it's also Megan's job, David's job and Colby's.
It seems like you save
all the dirty jobs for yourself.
Dad, I do what has to be done, period.
You know, it's not like I like doing the dirty work.
Don, I've always been proud of the way
that you shoulder other people's burdens.
I mean, even when you were a kid and you sacrificed for Charlie.
But if you're going to regard your life's work
as just a series of dirty jobs
then I think it's worth talking about.
I mean, to... someone.
(children shouting, talking playfully)
Don't.
FBI.
Agent Sinclair.
Agent Granger. We need you to come downtown
with us right now.
And then?
Just stop moving, SeГ±or Infante.
Don't make another move toward these kids.
What do you want?
Are these friends of yours?
No, are they friends of yours?
We need you to come downtown.
We want to ask you a few questions about these people.
Those aren't people.
(woman speaking Spanish)
Death squads?
That's what you call them here, right?
Men and women who kill outside the law.
No one kills outside the law.
Well, here, perhaps not.
In Mexico, it's different.
I was a colonel.
I had to watch these death squads work.
In one village, they killed every man,
every woman...
and almost every child.
Do you know who the men in these death squads are?
I know their type.
I trained their type.
Convincing myself that my only duty
was to be a good soldier and follow orders.
(sighing): This village that I mentioned,
three young children survived.
That's six young eyes
that saw the faces behind the masks.
Now, as a soldier, I had a choice to make.
Turn these children over to the death squads,
or smuggle them to Los Angeles.
These men followed you all the way up north,
for the children?
They tried to wring words from a man who taught silence.
They would have killed me,
but they knew if they did, my secret would die with me.
They watch me.
Waiting to see if I make a mistake.
Give over the ones that they want to kill.
So why the robberies?
In Mexico, they killed farmers for coins in their cushions,
or gold fillings in their teeth.
But here, they're with those with real money.
If you trained these men, did you teach them how
how to launder the money as well?
There are lawyers here in Los Angeles,
men who you go to when you need your money cleaned,
to run your operations...
my operations.
We can help keep the children safe.
You can't keep your own police safe from these animals.
DON: This is unbelievable.
All he gives us is a... a list of lawyers?
He doesn't trust us.
I mean, I don't agree with him, but I understand him.
Right.
Got a file from the Treasury on our offshore.
These type of banks
require a legal go-between to open an account.
It's called an Introducer.
What's an Introducer?
It's a fence for rich people.
And for legit offshores,
it's a way of insulating themselves from dirty money.
What about the ones that aren't legit?
The ones that funnel stolen credit card charges
from dummy Web sites?
Well, they still need an Introducer,
just one that's not so clean.
There's a list of dirty go-betweens
for our offshore in there.
We have a match to Infante's list.
Yeah?
Luis Salazar.
The DEA suspects
he spent the better part of the '90s laundering drug money.
Contacts with paramilitaries...
The cartels hired him for their security.
Sounds like the Death Squads' banker.
Yeah. Does it say where he is now?
In a penthouse downtown.
Wow, help the cop killers and live the good life.
Hey, go pick him up.
DAVID: Luis Salazar!
FBI! We want to...
Heads up.
Unlocked door at the shady lawyer's apartment.
It's never a good sign.
The guy needs to hire a maid service.
Guy needs to hire an arsonist.
David...
I'm no doctor, but I don't think this guy died in his sleep.
Ballistics matched the bullets in Salazar's head
to the ones used to kill the parking valet.
All right, so then how are we doing on the money trail?
Salazar's murder gave us the wedge we needed
with the offshore bank.
They handed over the transfer records this morning.
We handed them over to Charlie this afternoon.
I mean, so that's the thing.
Why kill your bank contact
if you're just going to steal more credit cards, right?
AMITA: The stolen credit cards charge
large transactions through dummy online stores,
who sends the money
to an offshore bank in Nauru.
Right, and then we figure Don's postulate,
that the money then headed to Mexico.
Okay.
Charlie, there's just too much.
I mean, we can data-stream mine all day long
and still not find a discernible pattern in all this muck.
No, I think it-it-it's...
No, we need something else.
We know how much and where it's going.
And the offshore bank
sends the money into Mexico City, but you know,
we're looking for a few hundred thousand dollars
out of $40 billion of identical transfers.
Ah, you're right.
We need something else.
I talked to Millie
and she's set on taking MacMillan's money.
And you're set against it.
Yeah, well, someone has to be.
I don't know.
I mean, literally, I do not know.
You both make such compelling points.
That's the paradox.
It just seems like everyone's right.
I mean, I just-- still I think I need to go to that meeting
with my eyes and my mind wide open.
And what if you don't like what they have to say?
Well, then Millie's out of luck.
Fair enough.
Since when did you become my conscience?
Around the same time we started making out.
ALAN: Hey, hi, Millie.
I-I was going to cook for you, you know,
'cause you always cook-- you're such a good cook--
and then I realized I don't cook.
Ah.
Well, I have been known to eat an occasional pi--
uh, uh, pi-pizza once in a while.
Thank you.
No, no, I mean, thanks for the food.
No, well, thank you for the haven.
(chuckles) Yeah, well,
um...
You know, I really thought that I was ready for this,
but the politics are killing me.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I mean-- and no offense, but the geniuses are exhausting.
(chuckles)
Go ahead, tell me about it.
But of, of course I had, um, a lot of help...
DON: Hey, Dad.
Hey, where's Charlie?
Oh.
Hi, Millie. It's all right.
Uh, we w-- we were just, uh, going to have a, uh, a, um...
MILLIE: Pizza.
Hey, what's happening, man?
So, listen.
Oh, hey, Millie, good.
You know what? I left you a message.
- I know; I got it, Charlie. - Listen, I have some concerns.
Can I talk to you one second?
I have some concerns.
I know; it's just one second.
I have serious concerns.
(mumbles)
I don't think she's here for you.
Oh. Right? And it, and it--
the thing is broken and I don't even know how to fix it
and you're the only one probably, so, uh...
- Oh. - Thanks.
DON: We'll just be outside.
Ah... you know what, it's poetic justice
'cause he walks in on me and Amita all the time.
Right, look, we just got to cut him some slack,
I think, you know?
Cut him some slack?
Man, he's dating my boss, all right?
So I'm allowed to have my issues.
Ah, I understand.
Hey, look, you can take my shrink appointment.
- Shrink appointment? - Yeah.
They're making me see a therapist.
Are they really?
This post-shooting thing.
Which shooting?
(sighs) I mean, there, there have been a few.
Don't tell me you haven't noticed.
What do you mean? Of course I've noticed.
I mean...
Anywho.
So what's going on with that money trail?
It's not a trail,
it's a damn river.
Upstream.
- Swimming upstream. - What?
Wait a minute. W-What are you talking about?
I gotta go find Amita.
CHARLIE: Now, even after the bank
in Nauru gave us access to their accounts,
we still lost track of the money
in the massive transfer to Mexico.
Most of the money stayed in Mexico.
In a death squad retirement plan, I guess.
But some of it had
to return to Los Angeles to keep the robbers
in business.
Okay, so they're living off the land?
Well, death squads can't be cheap,
so to find the returning money,
it was a matter of using an optimization model,
something called Outlier Detection.
- Oh boy. - No, no, it's not a big deal
because Charlie helped develop it
for the Treasury Department's
Terrorist Financial Tracking Program.
Right, you see, at first
we were doing a "brute force" search
in which you cast a net over a river of information
and you try to catch everything.
Outlier Detection, however, is target specific.
It's like fly fishing in the data stream,
choosing a spot by spawning behavior,
selecting the right bait,
a method in which we were able
to cast our rod in the spot we wanted
and catch the exact type of fish we needed.
Now, knowing the exact variables--
how much stolen money existed,
the robbery dates, where the transfer originated from--
we were able to zero in on seven wire transfers
from Nauru to an East L.A. wire office.
AMITA: Well, the transfers weren't exact matches
for the numbers
or times, but they fit a general pattern.
To pick up a wire transfer,
you need a driver's license, right?
Isn't this...
the same woman that David tried to interrogate?
Yeah, it is. Her name is Maria Campos.
AFI report from Mexico.
Maria Campos is married to one Hector Campos.
Ex-Fuerzas Especiales,
did a training program at Fort Ord
in '93.
Supports the ex-military angle, right?
Yeah, he specialized in commanding two-team black ops.
It's a family business.
He runs one team, lets his wife run the other.
It's got to be him.
Trying to kill three kids.
I mean, the border patrol has him coming up
a couple of months ago... one way.
Mexican authorities
haven't seen him, no sign of a return,
and Maria Campos gave the wire transfer office
an address in East L.A.
Colby and David are on their way over.
Excellent.
All right.
Go, go, go!
On the floor! Federal agents! Search warrant!
Clear.
Smells like gun cleaner.
- Yeah, it's strong, too. - All clear, sir.
(on radio): Team inside, no suspects in sight.
5.7 rounds.
Well, that team we took down,
- they had a P90, right? - Uh-huh,
but they only had one. We got about 300, 400 rounds
missing out of these boxes.
These guys are
all armed up now.
All right, take a look at this.
They got the restaurants they hit marked in this book
with about half a dozen others.
Oh, have a look at that.
You recognize that?
Is that Infante's school?
Yeah.
These guys have killed entire villages.
Remember that?
(tires screeching)
(siren wailing)
Run! Run!
Run! Go! Go!
Don't move!
Down!
Run! Go! Go!
(children screaming)
(girl sobbing)
Call the paramedics!
DAVID: It's okay.
Come here.
DISPATCH: Copy your request for medical unit.
Rescue ambulance is rolling.
ETA for your location-- five minutes.
MAN: Professor Eppes.
- Hello. - A true pleasure to meet you.
Pleasure to meet you.
MacMillan Pharmaceuticals could not be happier
- to have you involved. - Oh, well...
Uh, Mr. Meisner and I were just finalizing the funding
and clinical trial schedule.
In all honesty, Professor,
I could not see this project going forward without you.
Mm-hmm, which is why Cal Sci will administer
the trials and monitor the drug every step of the way.
Well, not all.
MacMillan will do
its own in-house trials.
No, uh-uh.
Everything goes through Cal Sci.
In fact, all the computational analysis
will be carried out
by Professor Eppes and his staff.
Sorry, that's just the way we roll here.
(chuckling): I'll have to run that by my people.
Oh, no, of course; yeah, run that by...
Oh, and while you're running stuff by, run by them
that five percent of the gross of the profits
will go towards a group
of Third World AIDS organizations
that Professors Eppes and Ramanajun
will be putting together for you.
Uh, five percent?
Gross, not net.
We barely have a profit margin
- as it is. - (chuckling): Mr. Meisner,
a pharmaceutical company with no profit margin?
Come on.
I can't agree to that.
Sure you can.
You can if you want the participation
of Professor Eppes.
Isn't that right, Professor?
That's right.
(sighs)
Oh, relax, Mr. Meisner.
95% of one of the world's greatest mathematical minds
is worth a whole lot more
than 100% of nothing.
I'll call you.
Pleasure. Thank you, sir.
(sighs)
What just happened here?
Well, you made my life a little more difficult
and a lot more interesting.
Well, I pretty much can say the same thing about you.
Yeah?
Hey.
Agent Eppes.
* ...if I shall be released...
You got any, uh, time, by any chance?
Uh, well, if you don't mind hanging out for a while,
I'll shake loose ten minutes and sign you off.
No, well, I mean,
I was kind of hoping for a little more than that.
I'm pretty booked today.
I mean, just a half hour would be great.
You know, I'll hang out or whatever you want.
(phone ringing)
You gotta take that?
Uh...
Nah.
Okay.
* I will do...
Thanks.
* Whatever it takes to believe
* A new day will come
* New day.