- [first lines]
- Dr. Kimberley Wells: [operating on a patient] I know it's scary, but you're doing great. Tomorrow, I'll see you in recovery. And the best part is you'll see me, too.
- Josh Wells: Hey, sweetie. How's it going?
- Dr. Kimberley Wells: It's amazing. This morning, I had a man who saw his wife for the first time in twenty years. He cried so hard, I almost cried.
- Josh Wells: Oh, yeah? You sure his were happy tears?
- Dr. Kimberley Wells: [amused laugh] Seriously, this whole experience is incredible. Thank you for being so understanding.
- Josh Wells: I'm not that understanding. In fact, I'm making a list of ways you're gonna make it up to me when you get back.
- Noah Morgenthau: Hannah. Did you find an apartment around here?
- Hannah Rivera: No, I'm renting downtown. Why?
- Noah Morgenthau: 'Cause I live ten minutes away, I look like this. You live twenty minutes away and you look like that.
- Hannah Rivera: I have a go bag.
- Noah Morgenthau: Well, you're not in the field anymore. You're an analyst, so you can ditch the go bags and embrace the coffee machines.
- Hannah Rivera: [seeing Patricia] I can't believe she's actually here.
- Noah Morgenthau: You're still new. You don't know her.
- Hannah Rivera: Her only son died in combat ten days ago.
- Noah Morgenthau: And now there's a crisis. She'd be here no matter what.
- Patricia Campbell: Okay, 'till we get a team on the ground, there are two leads that we will follow. The first is a ransom call when it comes through. Noah, we may not know who has her, but we can make them think they've grabbed a Rockefeller. The second is Kimberly Wells' driver, who - surprise, surprise - was a last-minute sub. Now, her NGO is claiming that there is no way of finding out who that mystery man was. Hannah, you will prove them wrong. The director wants to send a message that no attack on an American civilian will be tolerated. It is up to us to send that message for him. Let's do it.
- Patricia Campbell: I have a mission brief coming through for you on a secure channel. I need your team wheels up within the hour.
- Adam Dalton: Okay.
- Patricia Campbell: It's a personnel recovery of one Dr. Kimberly Wells, kidnapped by a group of unknown hostiles outside of Damascus three hours ago. We have a lead on a driver, but otherwise it's like she's vanished into thin air. We've got no other HUMINT or SIGINT, and not for lack of trying. I don't have to give you a primer on the politics of this one. You'll be going into a non-permissive environment in a state of civil war. And into a city where half the population will shoot you on sight if they figure out who you are. There'll be no support on this one. No cavalry.
- Adam Dalton: Right. We are the cavalry.
- Adam Dalton: [startled by Jaz] Damn it, Jaz. You're like a ninja, you know that?
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: Yeah. So should you by now.
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: Man, I appreciate the effort, but when are these bleeding hearts gonna learn that it's just too dangerous to try and help people over here, man?
- Ezekiel 'Preach' Carter: God gave us two hands for a reason, my brother. One to help ourselves and one to help lift others.
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: Thank you, Preach.
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: [holding her rifle] I got better uses for mine.
- Ezekiel 'Preach' Carter: Oh, now.
- Amir Al-Raisani: Were you raised Muslim, Jaz?
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: I was raised a New Yorker.
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: Whoops.
- Adam Dalton: Guy we lost, guy you replaced, was her best friend.
- Hannah Rivera: So, these are the final forty-five minutes of pings from Kimberly Wells' cell phone. We're matching that trail to the trail of every employee related to the NGO. Find a match, we find our man.
- Noah Morgenthau: Okay, here. Right here. Switch it over. Take it down. Don't forget to blur the edges out. It's perfect. Make him a CEO, boost his portfolio. Richer the victim, the better they treat 'em, longer they're willing to negotiate.
- Hannah Rivera: Got an ID on that driver.
- Patricia Campbell: Let's see him.
- Hannah Rivera: Nassim Taub. Married, one son. No known terrorist affiliations.
- Patricia Campbell: Till now. Where is he?
- Hannah Rivera: Well, looks like he turned his phone off an hour after the kidnapping, but we should be able to get an idea of where they took her, at least.
- Patricia Campbell: [watching the route tracking] There's not gonna be a ransom call. They just drove her into the Al-Nusrah controlled part of the city. Al-Nusrah doesn't ransom Americans; they chop off their heads.
- [dialing her phone]
- Patricia Campbell: Dalton, you need to find that driver. Kimberly Wells' lifespan just shrunk from weeks to days.
- Noah Morgenthau: Now, we're all familiar with the Al-Nusrah front's... work, including a bombing in Istanbul, the coordinated attacks in the Fedura Market, which killed 87 civilians, including fourteen children.
- Patricia Campbell: People like this are why we come to work every day. Last week, we dropped a JDAM on a meeting of ANF principals, killing their leader, Burhan Baghdadi. It seems Wells' kidnapping is in retaliation for something we did, which means she will be executed, very publicly, in the next seventy-two hours. That's our clock.
- Patricia Campbell: Where's Dalton?
- Hannah Rivera: In position around the driver's apartment building, but it's a tactical nightmare. Ground feed's just coming in now. Dalton's plan is to take the driver, interrogate him, make him give up Wells' location.
- Noah Morgenthau: Jesus. Look at that place.
- Adam Dalton: All right, Preach, got any movement in that apartment?
- Ezekiel 'Preach' Carter: Walls are pretty thick, so the signal's not very strong. There's definitely multiple voices, though.
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: Wonder if I have kids.
- Ezekiel 'Preach' Carter: Really, bro?
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: What? I wouldn't be the first guy to get a call like that. Besides, I think I'd be a great dad.
- Ezekiel 'Preach' Carter: That's what you deduced?
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: Yeah, man. I dated a single mom once. I think I stuck around for the kid more than anything. I liked the way he looked at the world, you know? It was all innocent, asking questions, no clue how bad it really is.
- Ezekiel 'Preach' Carter: You ever think maybe it was the kid who had things figured out as they are and you're the one who needs the adjustment?
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: No, Preach, I didn't. And stop with that spiritual jujitsu you do where I say something and then you turn it around on me.
- Ezekiel 'Preach' Carter: I got multiple shots. Nine mil. Double taps. Whoever this guy is, he's a pro.
- Amir Al-Raisani: He's coming out.
- Patricia Campbell: Whoever that guy is, he's our only chance of finding Wells.
- Adam Dalton: Jaz, let him walk.
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: He's coming down.
- Amir Al-Raisani: He killed 'em all. Driver, wife, and son.
- Patricia Campbell: See if you can get a good image for facial recognition.
- Adam Dalton: Nah, you don't need it.
- Patricia Campbell: Why's that?
- Adam Dalton: You don't need it. That's Abu Al-Akmuti, Baghdadi's top lieutenant. We follow him, he takes us to Wells.
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: I thought you were gonna end that guy in the market.
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: They get grabby, I get crabby.
- Ezekiel 'Preach' Carter: You know, show me a man who believes in something greater, that's a man I'll fight beside.
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: Amir, doesn't it make you a little angry to be sitting in a mosque praying next to a guy who might blow your head off someday?
- Amir Al-Raisani: Makes me angrier than you, as a non-Muslim, could ever understand.
- Adam Dalton: I understand Amir is new, but he spent three years undercover with ISIS. I vetted him. I trust him. If he tells me it's gonna work, it's gonna work.
- Noah Morgenthau: It's risky.
- Hannah Rivera: Of course it is. Look, the analyst running my op was at the top of his game. It did not change the fact that his mistake got me carved up and left for dead.
- Adam Dalton: Okay, so then what's the alternative? We take him to a CIA safe house? It's gonna take them a week to break him. That's time that we don't have. The only way Akmuti gives up Wells' location is if he doesn't know he's doing it.
- Noah Morgenthau: All right, listen up, people. We're gonna be blind in there. I want to isolate Amir's feed so he can't hear the rest of the team. Slightest distraction at the wrong time could give him away.
- Hannah Rivera: And we'll need the name of someone high enough in the ANF for Akmuti to have heard of, but not someone operational. Um... a financier, ideally.
- Noah Morgenthau: That's your man. Khamal Benin. One of Baghdadi's chief financiers.
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: [setting a trap for Akmuti] All right, let's go.
- Amir Al-Raisani: [McG cuts his zip tie restraint] That's enough.
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: All right.
- Amir Al-Raisani: [holding up his arm] Now I need blood. Cut me.
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: Are you sure about that?
- Amir Al-Raisani: It's gotta be real to sell this. I'm not giving you a chance to punch me in the face.
- Adam Dalton: All right, if Akmuti gives up Wells' location, I want you to take him out. Look, if I'm giving you a shot, it's because I know you can make it.
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: I know. You're the only CO I've ever had who looks at me and doesn't see a woman first.
- Adam Dalton: Well, I may not see it, but... I don't forget it. Because I know that getting here was harder for you than I'll ever understand.
- Noah Morgenthau: Got it. ANF compound two blocks west. It's the perfect place to hold her.
- Patricia Campbell: Redirect the drone. Get eyes on that compound.
- Hannah Rivera: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That's less than a mile away. I don't care how good Amir is; if he goes in there, he's never coming out.
- Patricia Campbell: Dalton, you have a green light.
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: You still think I can make that shot?
- [seeing Dalton's expression]
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: That's what I thought.
- Noah Morgenthau: Get an eye on the compound?
- Patricia Campbell: Charlie, zoom in.
- Noah Morgenthau: [noticing something] What is that?
- Patricia Campbell: That's a convoy. They're moving her.
- Noah Morgenthau: Dalton, they're headed east in quadrant one into quadrant two.
- Adam Dalton: Yeah, we're on 'em. Any guess where they're going?
- Hannah Rivera: Convoy's still moving east.
- Noah Morgenthau: And heading deeper into Al-Nusrah controlled territory every minute.
- Patricia Campbell: Dalton, what about an ambush on the run?
- Adam Dalton: Three armored trucks in the middle of the city?
- Patricia Campbell: They could be driving her to her death.
- Adam Dalton: Well, trying an ambush is only gonna speed that up. All right, hold on, hold on, hold on. Pulling off the main road.
- Noah Morgenthau: No, no, he's right. Convoy's slowing down. They're turning into these gates. Looks like they're heading for this large structure. Anybody want to explain to me why the ANF just drove their only hostage into a city hospital?
- Patricia Campbell: Get me an ID on everybody with her.
- Adam Dalton: Preach, get video.
- Ezekiel 'Preach' Carter: Sending.
- Adam Dalton: Anybody else get the idea she's on a one-way trip?
- Adam Dalton: Amir, Jaz, I want you two to couple up. You should have no problem getting inside. McGuire, I want you to maintain a line of sight to this entrance. Preach, I'm gonna need you to grab their air.
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: What are you gonna do?
- Adam Dalton: Wing it.
- Patricia Campbell: That's Baghdadi's wife.
- [realization dawns on her]
- Patricia Campbell: They didn't kidnap Kimberly Wells to get revenge. They kidnapped her because she's a surgeon. Baghdadi's still alive.
- Dr. Kimberley Wells: I can't perform the surgery without the proper equipment. There's too much fine shrapnel...
- Amara Baghdadi: This is a hospital, not some tent in a field. You're going to do the surgery, not because I'll kill you if you refuse, but because I'll kill your husband, your parents, and anyone else who comes looking for you.
- Joseph 'McG' McGuire: I'm not saying I'm gonna enjoy killing these guys, but you kidnap a woman, you get what you deserve.
- Ezekiel 'Preach' Carter: Yeah, well, unfortunately, there is evil in the world. Sometimes power only bows down to more power.
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: All right, we counted four roving patrols, and there's sentries at each entrance; two tangos on the third floor outside the O.R.
- Adam Dalton: So they're using Wells to operate on Baghdadi
- Amir Al-Raisani: Which means they'll kill her as soon as she's served her purpose.
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: What does D.C. want us to do?
- Adam Dalton: They've gone quiet.
- Noah Morgenthau: We can't do this. You can't do this.
- Patricia Campbell: Burhan Baghdadi's alive. If he gets away, there's no telling how many more innocents he will kill.
- Noah Morgenthau: Which is why we hit him with a drone strike when he leaves the hospital. What we do not do is sacrifice Kimberly Wells so that we can get Baghdadi instead.
- Hannah Rivera: If Dalton goes after Wells, it'll tip Baghdadi off that we're on to him. He'll slip out of that hospital, disappear into the city...
- Noah Morgenthau: You don't know that for sure.
- Patricia Campbell: Nobody wants to save Kimerly Wells more than I do. But we are fighting people that want to wipe us off the planet. That means we have to be as ruthless as they are. Get me Dalton.
- Patricia Campbell: If you cannot eliminate Baghdadi, you are to withdraw without engagement so as not to tip his people off that we are on to him.
- Jasmine 'Jaz' Khan: So Wells is dead.
- Patricia Campbell: Adam, our target is Baghdadi. But as far as I'm concerned, how you get him is at your discretion. Is that clear?
- Adam Dalton: All right, officially, we have been re-tasked to get Baghdadi. But Director Campbell's given us some latitude as to how we do that. We're outmanned. We're outgunned. And even if we could get into that O.R., we can't fire a shot 'cause we're stuck inside of a damn hospital. We got one thing going for us. That's that she doesn't know who we are. All right, I got a plan. It's risky, but as far as I'm concerned, we didn't come this far to leave Kimberly Wells behind.
- Adam Dalton: [in Arabic] You took an American. I want her back.
- Amara Baghdadi: [in English] I don't know who you're talking about.
- Adam Dalton: [switching to English] Dr. Kimberly Wells. You're using her, probably to patch up a few of your guys. I don't care. Free surgeries are over.
- Amara Baghdadi: Who are you?
- Adam Dalton: I'm the guy getting paid to bring her back in one piece. Now, I suggest you make it your business to help me with my business.
- [taking Amara's walkie-talkie]
- Adam Dalton: Go ahead. Try your radio. I got your comms immobilized and the rest of your roving patrols look like these two crash test dummies right here. Jaz?
- [Jaz enters with her gun trained on Amara]
- Adam Dalton: Either you send out my girl, my team and I, we go away quietly. Or you don't, in which case we put you down, and we go into that O.R., we make a real mess. It's your call.
- [Amara is indecisive]
- Adam Dalton: Come on. Neither of us want to lose our people over this, do we?
- Adam Dalton: Dr. Wells, I'm with the American government. We're here to take you home. Do you understand? Kimberly, do you understand? Every hostile that's seen your face has either been eliminated or is back in that operating room, which means that you and I can walk out of here without anyone stopping us. Can we do that?
- [she nods]
- Adam Dalton: Okay. Let's go.
- Patricia Campbell: That was a pretty soft goal there, Adam.
- Adam Dalton: You wouldn't be wasting valuable drone time spying on your operators now, would you?
- Patricia Campbell: Well, it turns out the mood up the food chain is pretty good right now, so I thought I had a little latitude. Funny how that worked out, huh? Turns out the best way to get Baghdadi just so happens to require you to save Wells.
- Adam Dalton: It's funny how that happens, huh? Well, I'm not complaining.
- Patricia Campbell: No, neither am I. Adam, please tell your team good job for me.
- Adam Dalton: All right, will do. Same to yours.
- Patricia Campbell: Thanks.
- Adam Dalton: Hey, Patricia, it's good to have you back.