MAYOR: The people who depend on us
are expecting us to make the tough choices.
Which is why, with all due respect,
I believe, in the 21st century,
it takes more than a village,
it takes a city.
And in the case of New York,
the greatest city on Earth.
WOMAN: Yes.
Yes! MAN: Well said.
That's New York! MAYOR: Thank you.
Thank you for your continued support.
And a special thank you to Ron Skinner
for hosting this event.
Please, buy one of his apartments.
But if you don't, you can always donate
the $80 million to my campaign.
Darn, I left my checkbook at home.
You know, I looked at one of these apartments.
It wasn't for me-- not enough windows.
SKINNER: I think you can see around you why Skinner Plaza
will soon establish itself
as Manhattan's preeminent "glamortech" address,
so please, grab a Blu-ray prospectus on your way out.
And for God sakes, make me an offer.
CARRIE: Can we have another--
what was I drinking, whiskey?
Carrie, may I say how lovely you look.
Oh! Well, thank you, Eliot.
And your plus one.
Why, thank you Eliot.
I believe that's the closest you've ever come
to delivering a genuine compliment.
Easy, Jo, it was anything but genuine.
Okay, why don't you two just kiss and make up?
Did you guys hear the mayor?
He insists we show up
and then doesn't even acknowledge Major Crimes.
Yes, but he did take credit for all of our work.
Ah, well, I suppose getting a shot at Ron Skinner's
legendary Bordeaux collection is worth it.
Well, that, and these fabulous crumbly things.
I think we should be honored
that the mayor invited us.
"Should" being the operative word.
The truth is, you're right-- I wouldn't want
to be trapped in a room with either of them
for more than four minutes.
Excuse me. Hello?
Yes...
How's life at Chez Skinner?
CARRIE: There's still hope for some excitement.
Eliot okay with Webster taking my place?
Yeah! You know how Eliot and Jo love each other.
You know, if I bail now, I could be there
in 15 minutes.
CARRIE: No, you can't.
You're the groomsman, Al.
I know you want to rub elbows with the mayor,
but your loyalty is with Peter and Lacey today.
Going solo to this wedding was a big mistake.
I'd make you dance with me if you were here.
Aw. But I don't dance.
Okay... I guess I'll just have to dance
with Lacey's sister Andrea.
AL: She's had a little crush on me
for a while, if you recall.
You remember her?
Of course you remember her, she's beautiful.
Even I remember her.
Carrie?
Al is very sad that he is not here for all the hobnobbing.
And it's killing you
that he didn't invite you to the wedding. Not true.
I don't like weddings. And I do believe
that men and women can be just friends.
Yeah, and with hard bodies and great hair like you two--
oh, no, you cannot.
Uh-oh.
Oh, here comes Tom and Jerry. Here they come.
You must be the crime-fighting superhero
that Eliot was telling me about.
No, I'm just the coroner, but I get that a lot.
Welcome to my building.
Ron Skinner.
Oh! Carrie Wells.
Hello.
How about the private tour?
I'd love it!
The more the merrier.
Actually, we-- we're going to get going soon.
We gotta work.
And, uh, but, we'll take a rain check.
Carrie, you... you really should take this opportunity
to get to know one of the city's great benefactors.
I'll take the express tour.
Great.
Ellie, you are shameless forcing that jerk on Carrie.
The mayor approves our budget, Joanne.
Which means he pays for those electrons
in that electron microscope of yours.
Aha. Yeah.
And Skinner pays for the mayor.
Mm-hmm. Okay. It's as simple as that.
That being said, go save her in three minutes.
That man is a pig.
And this is where the magic happens, as they say.
Is that what they say? The magic, huh?
What are you going to do, pull a rabbit out of something?
Hah! Ha, ha!
No, y are the real magician here.
CARRIE: Oh, well...
Go ahead-- dazzle me with that memory of yours.
What do you know about me?
You don't need me... Please.
Show me your gift.
Okay.
Ronald Skinner,
married Olivia Francis
May 1997; divorced April 2000.
Married again in 2002, divorced again in 2005.
Married Melody in 2009 and divorced Melody in, well, 2009.
The Post reported the reason for
your disharmony was infidelity-- yours.
Again.
Hmm.
You know, I'm on the lookout for my next bride.
Oh!
I miss married life.
See, I think...
you miss cheating.
Fiery. I like that.
Uh-oh, careful-- your neighbors will see.
Uh, no... uh, no lookey-lookey.
I spent millions in
state-of-the-art security windows.
Meaning what?
Meaning... I value my privacy, Carrie.
Oh.
And I think we should take advantage of that privacy
while we have the chance.
You're lucky I'm unarmed.
You... I'm gonna show you something.
But you have to promise to keep it a secret.
All right.
WEBSTER: $80 million for an apartment,
and I have yet to find a bathroom.
So, Joanne, Ronald here, was, um...
just finishing up his tour.
SKINNER: In fact, I was...
finished.
You two can show yourselves out.
Was it something I said?
Great event.
All good things must come to an end, Ron.
Ellie and I gotta be heading out.
Quite a place you got here.
It's a little cramped.
My team's waiting downstairs.
Oh, hold on, Mr. Mayor, I'll head down there with you.
Ellie.
Thanks. Thank you for coming.
WOMAN: Nice to see you, sir. And you.
(mellow Muzak playing over speakers)
Really nice event, Ron.
You can cut the crap, Mike, and tell me you'll take care of
my air rights problem in SoHo.
And you know I can't tell you that.
The Board of Estimates is up my butt on that.
Hello! Mike! I just raised a half-mil
for you in there.
You need to at least tickle my--
With all due respect-- Mr. Skinner,
the mayor has fast-tracked every permit you applied for.
That's some serious tickling.
Aren't you the slippery one.
So much for the most high-tech building in New York.
Oh, great.
He's been studying up.
Oh.
MAN: Sit down!
That was a gunshot.
Yeah, I know the caterers were bad, but still, this is--
My phone's completely crashed.
Well, mine, too.
We have to go see what's going on.
CARRIE : Let's go.
Eliot?
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Well, hello, Mr. Policeman.
What's happening?
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Five, four, three, two, one...
Enjoy the ride.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: $100 million in 60 minutes,
or I drop them the rest of the way.
Building's locked down,
security gates are lowered, all entrances sealed.
ESU reports no sign of security guards or doormen.
Bad guys have taken control of the building.
And according to these records,
Skinner's the only resident of the building.
Doesn't open till spring.
Any word from Carrie and Jo?
Most of the guests left the party.
We don't know who's still in there.
Any idea who's doing this?
We're in the dark. No visual on the perps.
Jay...
who could hack into both Skinner's building
and the NYPD system?
Someone who's got skills, sophistication,
and a big set of freakin' stones to go after the mayor.
Dangerous trifecta,
but it gives you somewhere to start.
All right... Five? Thanks.
Eliot's being held up there,
maybe Carrie and Jo, too.
We're not losing anyone today.
I'm sure she's all right, Al.
Get down! You! Shut up!
You heard him-- don't move!
MAN: I'm gonna stay by the door. MAN 2: Get down!
Bring 'em in here!
Come on! This ain't musical chairs!
Sit on the floor! Sit down!
Let's go!
Come on, people! Come on!
Keep your mouths shut!
Nobody else has to get hurt.
WEBSTER : It looks like one of the caterers.
Shoulder wound.
MAN: Security guards and doormen
are all locked up downstairs.
Ike's watching the lobby.
Look, that's an awful lot of blood.
It could be the brachial artery.
By shooting that guy, they are saying take us seriously.
MAN: Andrew's dealing with the package.
Good. Sweep upstairs for stragglers.
: Let's go.
Shh.
ELIOT: Well, I suppose getting a shot at Ron Skinner's
legendary Bordeaux collection is worth it.
CARRIE : Please be the same as the wine cellar.
Please be the same.
Yes.
Come here. Go, go.
(mellow Muzak playing over speakers)
Who's after me, Eliot?
Please...
I'm the one they're after.
My guys get threats like this every week.
Really?
Like this
Well, I really appreciate you asking us over, Ron.
Okay, so, who is it, terrorists?
No, we will not negotiate with terrorists. Oh, please.
Save it for the press release, Mike.
So, I'm just supposed to pony up $100 million?
Okay, slow down, both of you.
We need to figure out who we're dealing with first.
Great, no service.
MAN : Good afternoon, gentlemen.
Apologies for the inconvenience, but there's business
to take care of. Mr. Skinner,
if you are indeed interested
in "ponying up my tab," as you say,
feel free to call.
There's a cell phone in the call box that works.
And, yes, I can hear everything you say in there.
Now, Mr. Delson, I consider myself fortunate
you chose to ride with your two friends.
Gives me a direct line to the NYPD.
And tell me while you're otherwise engaged,
with whom would you suggest I communicate?
Lieutenant Al Burns, he's with Major Crimes.
Thank you. Now, sit back, relax,
and I'll be with you again soon.
He better be good.
Yeah, he's good.
Al, you got a call coming in
on line two.
Al Burns.
MAN: Lieutenant Burns, my congratulations.
You've been chosen by the mayor to be my liaison.
Must be my lucky day.
Forgive me for rushing through this part.
I can see everything outside the building,
thanks to her own cameras,
and the NYPD's vast surveillance network.
Come within 50 yards of Skinner Plaza,
and the elevator drops.
Try to breach the building, the elevator drops.
If I see a helicopter,
sniper, anything untoward...
The elevator drops.
Very good.
Failure to follow my orders, and all the hostages die.
You have 47 minutes to get me my $100 million, Burns.
Hail Eris.
JAY: Hey, Al,
REPORTER: At this time, take a look.
we have very little, but it appears
the entire building is being held hostage.
We have, uh, ESU here on site. Now he's got the whole world's attention.
I hear word of ten
to 12 hostages.
Yeah.
MAN: Number four,
what's the status of the elevator?
Yeah, everything's all set here.
Get everything set for the others.
I'll let you know when it's time.
Okay, I'm coming up.
What the hell are you doing in here?
Oh!
No, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, wait.
Here,
tie him up.
This won't work.
All right, thanks. Okay.
ESU estimates there are ten people in the penthouse.
I don't get it; he's got
the mayor of New York in the elevator.
Why does he need all the hostages?
Collateral, in case we upset him.
You find anything?
Talked to the contractor.
He said Skinner's paranoia led him to build
the most secure residential building in New York.
You can't see inside the windows from outside, and get this,
they're protected against thermal body imagery,
which means even snipers can't even see inside the damn thing.
I bet he's rethinking that decision.
And apparently he's such a safety nut,
he's got cameras looking at every inch outside the building.
It's a virtual fortress, but there's got to be a way in.
: Keep an eye out.
Come on, come on, Al, come on, come on.
Now who?
Yeah?
Al.
Carrie. Yes!
Thank God. You all right?
Listen to me, I don't have much time.
There's gunmen; they may have taken over the building.
I'm on the roof with Jo.
They haven't found us yet,
but they had ten hostages that I've seen,
and they've already shot one.
Eliot, Skinner and the Mayor are trapped in an elevator.
The man claiming responsibility
says he's going to drop the elevator,
if he isn't paid $100 million within the hour.
What
We don't know,
but he's seeing everything going on outside.
Don't, please, don't be a hero.
You're outmanned, and outgunned.
Stay hidden till we find a way into the building.
No, listen to me, Al.
If-if you try to breach the building,
you'll get all of us killed, I guarantee it.
We're running low on time and options.
You have one option.
You have me.
You think you saw the guy in charge?
Maybe, maybe, I-I don't know.
Think, just, just think.
Two of the gunmen, they were at the party.
They were talking to a guy, Caucasian,
early 40's,
maybe six foot, bald,
he was wearing blue tinted glasses.
I'll see if we can get a hit off of that; you lay low.
Al, I got ten hostages, four terrorists,
and three people trapped in an elevator.
I got to get them out.
I can't lay low.
They'll drop the elevator before you get near them.
Wait, wait, wait.
What happens if we cut the power?
Right, maybe we activate the elevator's emergency brake.
All right. I'll get on that.
Listen to me,
these guys aren't messing around.
Do what you have to, but I need you
to walk out of that building
for me.
Wish me luck.
All right.
I'm running the description Carrie passed on.
Any luck narrowing down suspects on your end?
The voice signed off with, "Hail Eris",
customary Discordian salute to Eris,
the Greek goddess of chaos,
used by anarchists and computer hackers.
"Anarchist and hackers", great.
It could be any one of the online groups,
uh, or a disgruntled military or NSA type.
And don't forget Hans Gruber.
I don't know Gruber.
Really What?
No, really, you never saw Die Hard?
What? AL: What do you got?
Uh, we're thinking it's some kind of super-hacker.
We should have an ID for you soon.
If you're looking for a hacker,
I got someone who might be able to help.
Hey, all hands on deck.
In the meantime,
we're going to kill the building's power.
ESU's going in already.
They're not moving.
We're just trying to improve our hand.
All right, kill it.
We're going to blind this guy.
Oh, no you don't.
Uh, power's still up.
Someone's overriding us.
Try it again.
Al Burns.
MAN: Cutting the power?
Yawn.
Is your strategy to bore me to death?
Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.
You got my attention for the next 34 minutes.
Disobey me again,
and I kill hostages.
Now give me my money.
All right.
That pastry chef is going
to bleed out soon; I have got to help him.
No, it is too dangerous.
You will get yourself killed.
You stay with me.
I can do more good as a hostage,
since you work better alone.
All right,
but you do not antagonize the bad guys.
Jo, I'm serious.
"Antagonize"
Uh, yeah, you.
Look, all I want is for you
to get us out of here and be safe.
Oh.
You sparkle above us, I'll sparkle below.
Be careful.
Hi everybody, did you hear fireworks?
Oh boy.
Kind of you to join us.
This is Tanya Sitkowsky.
Joint Task Force for Cyber Crimes.
Spent some time on the dark side of the hacker world.
The dark side, uh...
I'm not sure I see it.
I dabbled, but it didn't take.
Okay, in your dabbling,
you ever, uh, come across this guy?
Sure, yeah, that's Alpha Omega.
Positive?
Cause I got him as Jonathan Brody,
former financial analyst.
Did nine months
on an embezzlement charge four years ago.
You're not wrong.
Do you mind?
Uh, no.
He was a suit, but only ever really on the outside.
He studied robotics and game theory at MIT
before Wall Street snatched him up.
After he got of jail, he went back to his roots,
but with a decidedly anarchic bent.
Fancies himself as some sort
of visionary super-hacker.
So what's Omega's vision?
All right, here we go.
This guy has declared war,
on "the hideous hydra-headed dragon of money
that holds the world its jaws."
"Hideous hydra-headed." Nice.
What's a dorky mission statement
without some good alliteration, right?
I agree. It's like General Zod,
who swore to be freed forever...
From the Phantom Zone.
Wow, uh, you read DC?
Is there anything else?
Is this gonna be some separated at birth thing, or...
All right.
So we know Omega
tried planting a logic bomb
in the World Bank's collection archives last year,
and their security systems, barely held.
What was he trying to accomplish?
Chaos? That's generally his objective.
Hail Eris.
Exactly.
And, hacking banks is one thing,
but taking hostages
and threatening to kill innocent people for ransom?
Doesn't fit the profile.
He try to do something like this before?
Not on this scale,
but he's definitely been ramping up to it.
Intelligence suggests he was involved in the crash
of a State Department C-130
taking medical supplies into Islamabad four months ago.
Yeah, I remember that; the pilot reported having
massive computer systems failure right before.
MURRAY: Medical supplies?
I don't get it.
Alpha Omega sees all foreign aid as America's attempt
to extort cooperation from other countries.
He was making a point.
Okay, Jo is posing as a hostage to help the wounded guy.
AL: Jay found out who we're dealing with.
Former banker named Jonathan Brody.
He's a nut, and his stunts
have gotten more and more violent.
If he's threatening hostages,
I'd take him seriously.
All right.
Well, it's time to get everybody out then.
I was afraid you were going to say that.
You got a plan?
Oh, you know, my usual.
I'll improvise.
I was afraid you were gonna say that, too.
Listen to me, I need you...
I need you to be okay.
Yeah.
Let me call you back.
All right.
Bone's been damaged,
but the artery's intact.
Give me your scarf.
This cost $900.
Really?
It's okay, it's okay.
I'm gonna need a finger here please?
Can I have a finger please?
Do something nice for a human being for once?
I promise you can kill him later, if you want.
: I didn't mean that.
Thank you.
: Okay, it's okay.
Because?
Because I'm good for it, that's why.
And you tell him that I will come to Brunei personally,
and kick his butt if he doesn't get back to me.
There some kind of problem, Ronald?
ELIOT: I have a problem...
How can the most technologically advanced building in the world
still have Muzak in its elevators?
My portfolio is complicated.
It's not like you crack open the piggy bank
and take out $100 million.
Really?
I thought it was just like that.
Guy, this really, really doesn't help.
Nine phone calls,
and he still doesn't have the money.
You want to write the check?
Go ahead, write the lunatic a check.
You get us out of here!
Okay, that's it!
Right now, Mr. Mayor,
you get in that corner,
and you think about nice things to say about my people
when they come save you.
And you, you get in that corner
and you get the damn money,
so we don't all die! You can't talk to me like that!
How dare you talk... Shut up!
Good.
ABE: Sounds like a fire alarm.
Go check it out.
*
That worked.
I don't want to be a pest,
but could we have a bathroom break?
Shut up!
MAN: Yeah. WOMAN: I could go...
Do you ever hear those commercials...
: ...about people with a "going problem"?
That's about me.
CARRIE: Drop it!
Give me your weapon and stay quiet.
Now, give me your weapon.
Everyone stay quiet. Jo, take his gun.
Now you're the one with a going problem,
'cause they're all going out of here.
I want you to get 'em outta here, Jo, now.
Quiet. Everybody up.
For your information,
I have never lost control of anything.
Shoot him if he tries anything. How 'bout you, you okay?
I'm fine, I'll cover you. Okay.
Go, go, go, go, go, go. Come on, come on, come on, come on...
*
Someone's on the deck.
Get out there.
Go, go, go.
*
ALPHA: So you're the pretty lady
who's caused all these problems.
We're gonna have to breach the buildings
if Skinner doesn't come up with the money.
With all those cameras, Omega will know we're coming.
We had to override them.
We tried cutting the power
to the building, Omega was ready.
Okay.
Well, let's say we kill the downtown power grid.
Like downtown Manhattan?
Wouldn't have any power to draw from.
Well, I mean, you're gonna tick off a lot of people,
but, yeah, that would probably work.
It's probably our only choice.
Whoa, whoa, hold on guys.
We turn the power grid off,
that's exactly what Hans Gruber wanted.
We kill the grid, he unlocks the vaults,
he gets the bearer bonds.
Die Hard's a movie, Jay.
And Hans Gruber died at the end of it.
I doubt he's involved here.
AL: Yeah.
ALPHA: You're almost out of time.
Skinner's close to having your money.
Good, then you won't mind me
moving the deadline up.
You got 15 minutes.
A little more time, and you'll be paid.
Be reasonable.
I've been more than reasonable.
So, now,
I'm going to send you a little something
to prove my resolve.
Or should I say someone?
We have no choice. We have to kill the grid.
I'm heading over there.
I'm on it.
CARRIE: All right.
All right!
What are you doing?
I noticed you at the party.
I'm so pleased you stuck around.
Yeah, well, I never like to leave a party before last call.
Oh...
Bet you wish you could say the same about your hostages.
Party poopers.
Well done.
Oh... but who needs them
when I've got one of New York's finest?
And from what I gather,
perhaps the finest of New York's finest.
Carrie Wells?
I'm in the presence of greatness.
I wish I could say the same, "Omega."
More like an iota.
You know your Greek. Mmm...
Well, then, you also know
that I am the first and the last.
The beginning...
and the end.
Well, that's one way of putting it.
Another is, um, a deranged psycho.
These demerits on your file make sense.
Insubordination... Oh...
conduct unbecoming.
That's a quality we share.
The established order longs to control us,
but the tyrant powers we bow to
have outlived their time,
rather like the Titans of old.
They need to die
so that a new order can be born.
Is
But only by cutting away the dead and useless
can there be new life.
A new beginning for this system.
For all of us.
A new beginning...
What do you want, Omega?
You'll never know.
Sorry, Carrie.
Like Icarus, you soared high,
oh, so high.
But your hubris,
thinking that you could defeat me,
has led to your fall.
And what a long,
glorious fall it will be.
Take her.
Let her test her wings.
OFFICER: Over here...
Deputy Mayor, Skinner's not coming up with the money,
We need to shut the grid down, now.
You understand you are talking about
wreaking havoc with city services,
transportation, emergency response.
This doesn't work,
it could really hurt the mayor in the polls.
This doesn't work,
he's gonna be hurt a lot worse.
This has to be the Mayor's call.
You talk to the Mayor
and Omega knows what we're up to.
Killing the grid
gives us our best chance of saving everyone
in that building. Our on chance.
Okay.
We can shut it down.
But we've got to bring it back up
as quickly as possible.
Webster and the hostages are all safe.
They even got one of the perps, but he's not talking.
Carrie? Jo says she went after Omega.
Of course she did.
We may need to kill the grid
before we hear from Carrie.
We'll hear from her.
Okay, all right! Get out there.
No!
Hah!
*
You okay?
Yeah. I didn't get Omega.
AL: That's fine.
We're gonna shut down the power grid and move in.
CARRIE: Listen to me.
Even if the emergency brake works,
Omega and his men can still get to Eliot and the mayor
before ESU can get up here and save them.
We're shutting down the grid in three minutes.
I better get moving, then.
I should be there with you.
You are.
Okay, here we go, guys.
Grid's shutting down.
Power grid's going down! Be ready!
*
Oh, boy...
Hey, boys.
Carrie. So, listen.
They've, uh, wired a bomb
to the cable up here.
We got to go.
It's, uh, it's my building.
I-I go first.
Whatever happened to the developer goes down
with the development? Yeah.
Let's go, go, go! Take my hand, come on!
Go! Come on!
Let's go...
There you go.
Very nice work.
All right, Mr. Mayor, it's your turn.
Okay.
Yup!
All right. We got it.
Come on. Thanks.
I want you to go right up that ladder, okay?
Yup.
All right, you got this.
Hi, Eliot.
Just go. Save them.
As if that's gonna happen.
All right.
I've always been lousy with orders.
Believe me... I've never been more appreciative of that fact.
Come on, I'll boost you up.
Pull me up.
The explosion was pretty much confined to the elevator shaft.
That's all we know. You see Detective Wells?
Like I said, that's all we know.
I got guys going floor to floor.
What do you have?
Found him tied up in the utility closet
off the lobby, says he's building security.
Nobody gets cleared till we put this all together.
Just hold him for now. Yes, sir.
All right, come with us. Let's go.
On me.
Drop your weapon! Drop it!
We're on the same team here, boss!
My team doesn't wear wingtips!
Take his helmet off.
Do it. Let's go.
I see you met Carrie. Got him.
Where's Omega?
Omega might try to slip out.
I need you to check every uni, medic, hostage.
Anybody coming out of the building.
You got it.
Hey, Al?
Al!
I needed you to walk out of that building and you did.
Ah, sometimes I obey your orders.
Sometimes. Yeah!
You should've taken me to that wedding.
Uh, yeah, you're telling me.
We got to get Omega, Al.
We don't know where he is.
He might be gone already.
Yeah, Jay?
I found something curious.
Hey.
I mean we did.
Me and Tanya.
We looked into some
of Skinner's finances.
So, get this-- there's a good reason why Skinner
couldn't come up with the money.
He doesn't have anything close to a hundred million.
Not even ten million.
Skinner Plaza's way over-budget.
And Skinner's overleveraged himself.
He's pretty much cash broke.
Dangerous game he was playing bluffing.
Yeah, but if we can get into Skinner's finances,
then so can Omega.
Which means he knew Skinner didn't have any money.
Why hijack a building and try to extort a fortune
from a man who doesn't have one? I don't know.
Building's power's coming on.
We may get some alarms as the security system reboots.
...but only by cutting away the dead
and useless can there be new life.
A new beginning for the system.
For all of us.
CARRIE: What is it you want, Omega?
A new beginning?
You'll never know.
Al, we got to get a look at Omega's computers.
Come on.
JAY: Carrie, Al, you only got three minutes till the grid powers up.
Guys?
What could Brody do to temporarily shut down
the security systems, en masse,
and then turned them on again
all at once?
Well, when the systems switched back on
they'd be vulnerable while the passwords and protocols reboot.
Yeah, but why'd he break into something he's already in?
If Brody just wanted the power off,
why not let us kill it when we tried earlier?
Because Skinner Plaza was never his goal.
His aim is to get
the city to shut off the entire downtown power grid.
I mean, look at us, look!
We're surrounded by the world's biggest banks, right?
I told you, it's Die Hard!
Not quite-- he needs the power to come back on
so he can put his computer virus into the system.
He's not trying to steal money.
He's trying to reset the whole financial system
by knocking it out altogether.
Then we have to keep the power off till we find him.
No, that's impossible. It's not like a light bulb.
The grid's got too much power.
You can't stop it from turning on once it's started.
CARRIE: All right, what would
Brody need to do to get his virus
into the system?
JAY: It's just software.
All he needs is a laptop and a cell signal, right?
He could be anywhere.
There must be some clue somewhere.
He's still got to be in the building.
Right?
Please, show me your gift.
CARRIE: You miss cheating.
Fiery.
I like that.
Those candy wrappers are from Skinner's bedroom.
Now, what was Brody doing in Skinner's bedroom?
He was here.
But doing what? I...
I'm gonna show you something.
But you have to promise to keep it a secret.
Al?
Skinner was gonna
show me something before Jo came in
and interrupted us.
JO: $80 million for an apartment,
and I can't seem to find a bathroom.
Skinner is obsessed with personal security.
He-he kept bragged about how many millions
he'd spent...
to make this place safe.
And?
And somebody messed with that book.
It was right side up before.
Take this.
Hands! Show me your hands!
A simple press of a button and I change the world.
A simple click of the trigger
and your day gets even worse.
The ancients believed that fame
is immortality.
And I'm about to become very,
very famous.
You like your Greek myths, don't you?
You know the story about the Gordian knot?
Of course.
A knot so intricate no one could untie it.
Until Alexander the Great came and cut it in half
with a single stroke.
Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
OFFICER 1: All right, hold him right there.
OFFICER 2: I got him, heading out.
Let's go. Okay.
Come on, move it.
Hmm.
Yeah.
So we know what Omega was doing in here.
What exactly were you doing in here?
Skinner was giving me a tour.
Oh, you had to kick off your heels?
Well...
it was in the line of duty.
Oh, is that what you call it?
Yeah, I had to save the world.
Have you seen how high these things are? All right.
Yes, you did. I did.
Saved your life, too.
Mr. Mayor, these are the prized members of my team.
This is Carrie Wells.
I owe you a debt of gratitude, Carrie.
It was an honor, Your Honor, but the real gratitude
belongs to this guy right here.
Lieutenant Al Burns. Gutsy move,
Lieutenant, I mean, killing the power like that.
Thank you. But...
weren't you concerned about the consequences
of taking out the grid?
Well, your deputy mayor explained
her various political concerns ...
I'm talking about the bearer bonds.
Like the movie, you know?
Ah, of course, I was.
But saving you was worth that risk.
Let's get out of here, Mr. Mayor.
Thank you.
Bye.
"Saving you was worth that risk."
Had to say something.
You really do have a, have a future in politics.
Thanks for looking out for me.
I'll always look out for you. Really?
Now, how about that dance?
I don't dance. Oh, you do.
No, I don't dance!
No! Aw, come on.
Oh, your shoe's untied.
Well, it sure is. Mmm.
Can't wait to get out of these shoes.
Finally.
Way to go, Burns.
I'm tying my shoe, Jo.
Well, we still have something to celebrate.
Open it up.
I'm way ahead of you.
To a job well done.
Cheers.
ALL: Yippy-kay-yay.
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