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[Airborne Toxic Event's
Changing plays]
♪ ♪
♪ All these
buckets of rain ♪
♪ I've heard enough about it ♪
♪ you say that I lied ♪
♪ I am a gentleman ♪
♪ didn't I ask for
a place I could stay ♪
♪ what were we both thinking ♪
♪ the next part
just got in the way ♪
♪ you were just always
talking about changing ♪
♪ changing ♪
♪ what if I was
the same then ♪
♪ same then ♪
♪ the same I always was ♪
♪ ♪
♪ all these things
that you say ♪
Hey, watch it!
♪ The mind-numbing games
that you play ♪
♪ I am a gentleman ♪
♪ didn't I pay
for every laugh, every dime ♪
[Sneezes]
Excuse me,
I wasn't getting out of line.
Just needed to--
you're the one
who almost ran me over.
I didn't see anyone
at the O.H.B. crosswalk.
Well, I wasn't actually
in the crosswalk.
There you go.
Drip coffee. Black.
♪ And then you
feed me some line ♪
♪ I won't hear one more word
about changing ♪
Two, lots of milk
and lots of sugar.
Coffee.
At your 10:00.
Thanks.
This Alpha Barbie
almost mowed me down
in the parking lot
this morning,
and then she took
my spot in line
at the coffee cart.
You had me
at "Alpha Barbie."
So the day's already
conspiring against you?
Yes.
Are you dressed for
a wedding or a funeral?
A little bit of both.
You are standing
in front of the new head
of the Office
of Congressional Affairs.
That's huge!
Congratulations!
Thanks.
Wait.
Your desk isn't cleaned up.
It's cleaned off.
You're leaving?
Well, you went
from thrilled for me
to sad for you
in two seconds.
You're gonna lose
your covert status.
Am I gonna be able
to see you?
We'll make it work.
But not like this.
Not every day.
Believe it or not,
this was a very hard decision.
And I'll still be keeping
an eye on you,
so to speak.
The O.C.A.
is a great job.
It is.
And you'll be on the seventh
floor with the big boys.
Can always come by
and visit.
Just make
an appointment first.
Groan. Eye roll.
Briefing time, Annie.
Sounds like somebody's day
is about to get better.
I heard something
about NASA.
Really?
You've forgotten me already.
Good luck today.
Thanks.
Have fun with the astronauts.
This area
of Northwestern Colombia
is now friendly to Colombia's
rebel army, FARC.
Just to orient you,
Colombia's Batallon Cartagena
military base.
This is what
our analysts saw
over Batallon Cartagena
for two hours yesterday.
The area went dark.
The first images
following the blackout
show at least ten LAV-150s
near the base's perimeter.
FARC's spreading
its wings.
They've gotten bolder,
and, as the satellite
corruption proves,
more sophisticated.
If FARC
takes the border area,
they could drive
into Panama itself
and conceivably overtake
the Canal Zone.
This represents a very real
danger to U.S. interests.
NASA wants a discreet
domestic inquest
into its satellite
maintenance program.
If this can happen
to one U.S. satellite,
it could happen
to all of them.
Jai, I want you and Annie
to work on the inquest team,
along with Reva.
Who's Reva?
Auggie's replacement.
No one can ever
replace Auggie Anderson,
but Reva Kline, everyone.
Reva came from science
and technology
where she was the youngest
lead project manager
ever to hold that position.
Let's make her feel at home.
Hi.
It's good to be here.
Can You Save Me?
By Apple Trees and Tangerines
♪ Covert Affairs 02x05 ♪
Around the Sun
Original Air Date on July 5, 2011
== sync, corrected by elderman ==
♪ Can you save me ♪
♪ from this nothing
I've become? ♪
♪ it's just something
that I've done ♪
♪ I never meant
to cause you worry ♪
♪ don't you blame me ♪
♪ for this nothing
I've become ♪
♪ it's just something
that I've done ♪
♪ I never meant to show you
my mistakes ♪
Is that your pedal foot?
Ha ha.
Very funny.
Annie's a fast driver.
My sister wants us to do
the Marine Corps Marathon.
Training started
last night.
Is she married?
Yeah.
Hmm.
What?
Nothing.
It's just that
in 35% of failed marriages
the wife usually takes up
a sport or a pastime
as a precursor to divorce.
Although running is a really
great way to work things out.
Besides, it's cheaper
than therapy, right?
Okay, so, Annie, you're going
to use your Smithsonian NOC
to infiltrate NASA.
Great, I can use all that
knowledge I got at Space Camp
when I was 12.
I had no idea
you were a space geek.
Get to know me.
It's the final frontier.
Space, I mean.
Not me.
Reva, what do you think
of space exploration?
If you look
at the numbers,
the NASA missions
waste in inordinate amount
of our nation's
science budget.
Do you honestly think
you can put a price
on bold explorations
of new frontiers in space?
I try to.
I have a spreadsheet here
if you'd like to see it.
Okay, mission.
Annie, you'll head down to NASA
headquarters on "E" street.
There's a Mars day
reception in the lobby.
NASA employees and their
families will be there.
You'll take the oral histories
of four NASA staffers
who contributed to the
maintenance of the satellite.
And I'll take your video
and use facial
and body language
micro-expression analysis
to hone in
on potential suspects.
So you're gonna watch my
interviews and look for tells,
like in poker?
It's not a primitive gut
instinct like in a card game.
It works.
Annie, you'll ask
four general questions.
Three of which are lead-ups
to the control trigger question.
And one more thing,
budget cuts at NASA
have been severe.
So don't be disappointed
if morale--
Isn't as high as yours.
Okay.
You're still here
with us regular folk.
Bureaucracy never
ceases to amaze me.
I had to fill out 12 forms
just to get this key card
for the seventh floor,
where I have to fill out
more forms.
NASA wants us to investigate
scientists and astronauts.
Well, if NASA's
requesting it,
it's an internal audit,
so you're not breaching
CIA charter.
It still feels weird.
Because it's Americans
or because it's NASA?
Both.
[Elevator dings]
Joan knows how you feel.
That's probably
why she picked you.
Why is that?
Because she knows you care
enough to get this right.
[Electronic beeping]
Now I don't know
if you caught that,
but I just hit seven.
My opponents
on the intelligence committee
are gaining momentum.
They're prepared to ask
for an investigation
and hearings into Arthur
as early as next week.
At least that's what
we're hearing.
Maybe you know something else.
Chet?
Are you sure
this is decaf?
Positive.
Yeah.
Don't worry about hearings.
Those clowns
on the intelligence committee
have to justify
their jobs.
You're in good hands
with me.
So listen,
I have a tennis date
in Hilton Head.
We'll revisit
when I get back.
I'm confused.
Are we rescheduling
the meeting?
Or was that the meeting?
[Upbeat music]
♪ ♪
How did you come
to work for NASA?
I was a double major
in Physics and
Aeronautical Engineering.
Not everyone can work on
ozone mapping spectrometers.
With a minor
in Applied Mathematics.
Air Force.
Fly, fight, win.
I had PhDs in Musical Theory
and practical philosophy.
I've always wanted
to work for NASA
since I was
a little boy.
What are you working on
specifically right now?
T.O.M.S. volcanic emissions,
ozone mapping.
I'm an astronaut.
I supervise
a team of technicians
in the satellite
maintenance office.
We always have
a contingency plan,
and no program is green lit
until we know every solution
to every possible
externality.
Where do you see yourself
in five years?
Out of H.Q. in D.C.
and down to Canaveral
where the action happens.
Space.
Did I mention to you
I was an astronaut?
Can I--I'm sorry,
can I go now?
I'm a NASA guy,
so I'll probably
be working right here.
Tell her how close
you came to serving
on the Presidential Commission
for Space Exploration.
That's not a plant.
He's my son, Charlie.
My dad should be
in the Smithsonian.
Basically started working
for NASA when he was ten.
I saw the Apollo 15 space
launch at Cape Canaveral.
Really?
Yes, my folks drove down
from Charlottesville
in our Ford Country Squire
station wagon.
What's your favorite
mission, Charlie?
Pioneer Ten.
Back from the dead
and 7 billion miles away.
And still going.
See ya, Earth.
I'm with Carl Sagan on that.
We're just a pale-blue dot.
Excuse me.
I oversee all multimedia
projects at the Smithsonian,
and the first I've heard
of this film
is a phone call I got
about 15 minutes ago.
Who exactly signed off
on your project?
Dennis Stephens.
I have no idea
who that is.
I'm calling--
The Board of Directors,
he's on it.
He's in charge of fundraising
for the next two years,
including the Heritage Fund.
- You familiar with that?
- Yes, I am.
Sorry to interrupt.
No, it's no problem.
Sorry.
The irony of a view
you can't enjoy
is not lost on me.
I didn't want to give you
a different office
just 'cause you can't
appreciate blue skies.
By the way, we replicated your
D.P.D. workstation to the inch.
Not exactly.
You added
state-of-the-art speakers
and some other goodies.
Catered lunch at 1:00 p.m.
You're in
the big leagues now.
[Sighs]
[Chuckles]
Wow, you've really
made this place your own.
And so quickly.
Annie,
I had to sift through
a lot of your NASA
interview footage.
Next time try to
put the control question
in the same place
during each interview.
You varied it once.
Duly noted.
In 84% of perjury cases,
the subjects display
common physical behaviors,
and in 70%
of those cases,
they actually try
to hide themselves.
They put up a physical
barrier like an arm.
What are you working
on specifically right now?
I, um, I supervise
a team of technicians
in the satellite
maintenance office.
That's it?
That's our start.
The arm across
his waist is the tell,
so we dug deeper.
The tensile quality
in his oculi and oris muscles
is inconsistent
during this answer.
An involuntary
sign of deceit.
Or he was just nervous.
He's got motive.
NASA refused
to fund his project
on satellite refueling
six months ago.
His wife left him last year.
And while he was initially
admitted to NASA
through
the astronaut program,
he never got
to go up in space.
Of all the guys
I interviewed there,
will was the only one cut
from genuine NASA cloth.
NASA engineers are poorly
paid and underappreciated,
two qualities that fit
the treasonous profile.
We need to get him
under surveillance.
That's N.S.A. purview.
We'll get Joan to liaise
with Fort Meade.
No.
No way.
Absolutely not.
A wiretap means
we're in bed with N.S.A.
And they would control
the legacy switch.
Sorry.
Uh, an R1 wire transmitter
could get around
the legacy switch.
Supersede
the rule of law?
Destroy our tenuous relationship
with justice and the N.S.A.?
If you'll let me
just finish--
No.
Reva, you're new,
so I'll let you in
on the way things work
in my division.
There is no socratic
method here.
My decisions are final.
You okay?
Um, I'm fine.
I just have allergies.
The pollen counts
are at 8.5.
Just so you know,
you're not the first person
Joan's bawled-out
on their first day.
Really?
She's actually kind of cool.
Well, maybe not cool,
but not so bad
once you figure her out.
In D.S.T. we didn't have
to figure out people.
We just generated files
and charts and studies and--
I transferred here
to the D.P.D.
because I wanted
more of a challenge.
And clearly
I've gotten it.
Around here, it's a bit more
of a two-way street,
human intelligence
and hard facts.
Yeah.
What about
one-way surveillance?
Bug their home?
Why not?
We could do it ourselves.
We'd only hear
one side of the phone call.
But we'd hear everything
that was going on
in their house.
We'd maintain jurisdiction
over the investigation,
and we wouldn't have
to interface with N.S.A.
That'll work.
How should we get
inside their house?
Create a diversion?
Call in a bomb threat?
No, that's likely
to tip off the FBI,
and we don't want that.
How 'bout this?
What are you doing?
Are you calling
the target?
- Hello.
- Hey, is this Will?
Yes.
Who's this?
This is Annie Walker
from the Smithsonian.
I filmed you for Mars day.
If was wondering if I couldn't
drop off a photo we have here
as a small thank you
for doing our piece.
- Today?
- Yeah, today'd be great.
I could even take
you guys out for a bite.
Charlie and I were planning
to grill on the rooftop.
Nothing special of course.
You're welcome to come.
Around 6:30 or 7:00?
I love a good barbecue.
I'll see you tonight.
Annie, when you were
up at NASA,
did anything seem
out of the ordinary?
Uh, P.R. rep asked me
what I was doing,
but I handled it.
You handled it?
Did it ever occur to you
that you might have blown
your cover yesterday?
I mean, what are the chances
of them having a barbecue
the night you invite
yourself over?
This is a trap.
You get all that?
Yes.
And are we responding
to a request
to declassify these three
Afghanistan missions?
This is voluntary.
It's part of
my transparency push.
Some of our assets
in Kashmir
have used their influence
to open up the region.
Yes, sir.
And, Auggie,
have some fun with this.
We built
a school for girls.
It's the feel-good hit
of the summer.
Yes, sir.
[Knocks]
Hey.
Come on in.
Apollo 15.
You remembered.
I thought you'd
appreciate it.
Thank you.
I swear, the sun
was brighter back then.
I'm sure that's
just 'cause Florida
is closer
to the equator.
Charlie is upstairs
lighting the coals.
Can I get you
something to drink?
- Beer?
- Sure.
[Upbeat music]
♪ ♪
It's clean.
It's just we're not
big folders around here.
No judgment.
Should we go upstairs?
I'm hungry too.
Let's go.
Remember, Annie,
you need to give Jai
coverage in the apartment
from 7:00 to 7:15 for
the surveillance installation.
Don't come down from the roof
until 7:15.
First star of the night, dad.
Antares beat Scorpio.
Oh, there's Boötes.
- I can just see Spica.
- Where?
It's nice
you guys take the time
to come and do this
once in a while.
Not just once
in a while.
I come home from work to look
at the stars with Charlie
every night
no matter what.
Let's eat.
Delphinus was the first
constellation I ever learned.
My dad taught me.
I got chicken pox
the first day
before third grade.
He carried me out
into the backyard,
pointed straight up,
and told me the story
of Delphinus.
So every autumn
when you look
at the small cluster
of Delphinus,
you must think of him.
Yeah, I do.
[Laughter]
Charlie,
set up the telescope.
Come on.
Oh, wow.
Are, uh, you married
or anything?
Uh, not that I know of.
You should hang out
with my dad.
He's really cool.
Whoa.
I mean, he can be kind of
a dork sometimes,
but he built
this telescope.
It is impressive.
I know our apartment
looks really depressing,
but it's just 'cause my dad
never asks for a raise.
He doesn't believe
in asking for anything.
He's really proud
about that.
- What about you?
- Nah, not so much.
I've got my eye
on a really sweet Vespa.
[Laughs]
Oh.
[Thunder rumbles]
Wow, the weatherman's
finally right.
Storm's on its way.
Better get downstairs.
Actually,
I'm still hungry.
Could I have
one more bratwurst?
Yeah, I got you
loud and clear.
Walking through right now
talking out loud
like a crazy person.
You got that?
Okay, I'm gonna set one more.
It's all we've got time for.
This was really good.
You can take
that downstairs.
You don't have to eat it
out in the rain.
Oh.
[Thunder rumbles]
Just made it.
Oh, uh, I left
my sweater upstairs.
You guys head on down.
I'll get it.
Thanks, Charlie.
Feel great.
Had a light supper.
Went to bed early.
I slept like a rock.
Yeah, I ate too much
and went to bed late.
But thanks.
Hey, can I ask you something?
Sure.
Is everything okay
with you and Michael?
I know he's been
traveling a lot.
It's fine.
I mean, it's weird.
It's hard to explain.
Try me.
I mean, it's nothing
earth-shattering.
- It's just...
- Danielle, what is it?
I don't miss him much.
At all.
- Danielle, I'm so--
- No, it's fine.
That's what's so crazy.
I'm fine.
What happened?
I don't know.
[Sighs]
Do you think
it's possible to...
slowly fall out of love
with someone?
[Dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Any thoughts? Hello?
Let's keep running
and talking.
[Dramatic music]
So I don't know whether
I should talk to Michael.
Annie.
[Laughs]
Hey, slow down!
I just wanna finish.
You wanna win!
Sorry.
Danielle,
I wanna talk about this,
but I realized I just dropped
my phone back there.
The museum's
gonna kill me.
It has everyone's
home number on it.
- Well, I'll help you.
- No, uh, don't.
Go home.
Please.
The girls have to
get ready for school.
- Well, I'll call--
- No, you can't.
'Cause you
don't have your phone,
and I dropped mine.
I'll be careful.
I promise.
Okay.
[Dramatic, suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[Tires screech,
horn honks]
[Tires screech]
[Crash]
[Horn honks]
[Panting]
[Line ringing]
- Hey, Annie.
- I was surveilled this morning.
I need you to get in touch
with Rock Creek Park police
and see if anyone I.D.'d
a female involved
in a parkway pileup.
Blue top
with a long braid.
Okay, will do.
As for you,
protocol directive 2408.
Got it.
I'll watch my tail.
No. That means
you shouldn't come in today.
[Laughs]
Not gonna happen.
I'm in sticker shock.
It's not even itemized.
Neither are
our bills to Congress.
He knew we had
nowhere else to turn,
he knew we needed
a fat cat attorney,
and he got us to dip
into our retirement funds
for a tennis vacation
in Hilton Head?
Yeah,
don't personalize it.
I was wrong...
to insist
that we hire him.
So what should we do?
I need you to be
every bit as gallant
as I know you can be.
This doesn't sound good.
I need you to pay him,
and then I need you
to fire him.
Please.
[Sighs]
- I thought you--
- I wasn't tailed.
How can you be sure?
I took three buses,
two Metro lines,
and the Agency jitney
dropped me off
at the front door.
All in all,
I'd say public transportation's
a better deal
than my parking spot.
[Laughs]
Your boy Will
has an active nightlife.
[Beep]
That was the woman
who tailed me in the park.
She was with Will?
Last night, almost
immediately after you left.
Then will came back home
and we got this.
[Beep]
I have another drop.
Same time and place.
Will's our guy.
Auggie.
This press release
about our missions, the school,
my efforts
to open up the Agency...
Yes, sir.
It reads like
Crime and Punishment,
except with
no information in it.
You're maddeningly obtuse.
If we're gonna depress
the hell out of everyone,
let's not bother voluntarily
declassifying anything.
I mean, Auggie...
We built a girls' school.
A girls' school.
And I included that.
Along with vague,
conditional information
about the purpose
of the school itself.
Let me save you
some cat-and-mouse.
Girls will show up.
They will learn.
Lives will improve.
It's straightforward.
Now, I underestimated
how difficult a transition
it would be for a good
covert operative like yourself,
especially one with such talent
on the battlefield.
It's not difficult, sir.
I'm asking you
to run against every instinct
to maintain secrecy.
I learned those skills.
I can unlearn them.
Well,
unlearn them quick.
The press conference
is tomorrow.
[Sighs]
Annie Walker
and icy-hot menthol.
[Laughs]
Marathon training
is no picnic.
Hey, these new digs
are incredible.
Yeah, I've got
my own thermostat.
And free lunch.
All I ever wanted
was a job with free food.
But you're not here
to talk about my job, are you?
The D.P.D. has their
NASA traitor dead to rights--
phone calls,
surveillance photos--
but something about it
does not line up.
Talk to Reva.
I vetted her with Joan.
She's good.
- She's not you.
- Annie.
I'd love to help you,
but I can't.
What do you mean you can't?
You always know what to do.
I just bombed out on
my first assignment for Arthur,
and I've gotta turn it around
by the end of the day.
You were the first friend
I ever made at this Agency...
And no one
I have met here
has impressed me
more since.
You're gonna do great
at this job.
[Door bangs shut]
I wanna make it clear
we're just talking.
You're free to go
at any time.
In the way
I'm free to not take
the field sobriety test?
Meaning what?
Meaning that,
by not talking,
it's a presumption
of guilt.
We can talk about talking,
or we can talk.
Or we can sit
and not talk.
I didn't know
who they were at first.
- You know who they are now?
- Colombian rebels.
I'm going to advise you
to get an attorney...
- [Sighs]
- Because we're gonna have to
hand our investigation
over to the Feds.
I'll tell you
everything.
I'm tired of lying.
How did the
Colombians make you?
I don't understand.
How did they turn you?
How did they convince you
to spy for them?
I was at a science fair
of Charlie's.
He was a finalist
in the national competition.
She was a very attractive
American woman
who said she was
from the private sector.
She said her company
had heard of my work
and that no price
was too high
to woo me away
from NASA.
She works for FARC.
I know that now.
I knew that her company
was coming at me
with a strategy
of seduction, but I--
I just didn't care.
After a couple
of rough years
both personally
and professionally,
she was a tonic.
Then what happened?
Then I met her again...
This time
at the planetarium.
She asked me
for a manual
that I'd written on, uh,
satellite maintenance.
Which they
could reverse engineer.
So after you
gave her the manual,
is that when she revealed
who she worked for?
[Sighs] By that time,
they had their hooks in me.
They blackmailed me
for more information
about the satellite.
I was--
I was trapped.
You weren't trapped.
You could have
come to us
after handing over
that first manual,
but you chose not to.
I'm sorry.
You wanna talk
about it?
There's nothing
really to say.
Maybe it's
just a temporary lull
or a passing funk.
Michael's a good father.
You always see the best
in everyone.
- Maybe I'm naive.
- No.
I just need to
take a beat and refocus.
Why don't you go
for a romantic night out?
I'll watch the girls
this weekend.
I could do that.
[Clears throat]
I'm just into
Will's finances.
He listed NASA
as a beneficiary
of part of his 401k.
So?
So this is not a guy
who hates
his institution.
Annie, you helped the D.P.D.
nail NASA's mole, okay?
It's in the Feds' hands now.
Can we move on?
Uh, normally this is the time
where my former tech op
would encourage me,
support my gut instinct,
and assist in my research.
Have you heard
of the hummingbird project?
Was that the one
two years ago
where D.S.T. was making
surveillance birds?
Yes, remote-controlled
hummingbirds
that could monitor
outdoor conversations.
I was behind that.
And even after it failed
a very critical test run
due to interference,
I kept pushing it.
I couldn't let it go.
Well, it sounds
like a cool idea.
Well, it was.
Until we took it out
to Camp Peary
for a second test run.
There was one thing
we didn't count on,
was the weather.
I mean,
when the wind blew,
we couldn't control
the damn things.
My blind faith
in that project
set me back two years
at the Agency.
So...take some advice
from me
and get out of
your own way.
We're done
with the NASA operation.
Move on, okay?
You know what I get
from that story?
You were fired up
about something.
[Departing footsteps]
Auggie, you are
the Ernest Hemingway
of good news.
Turns out I was right.
You're a natural at this.
[Exhales]
You're a quick study.
You're gonna help move
the Agency into a new era.
[Clattering]
Reporters are like
tigers in captivity--
if you wanna clean
the cage,
you gotta distract 'em
with a piece of meat.
Many good operatives
have come in from the cold.
Yes, sir.
There is a life,
a fulfilling life,
for an overt officer, Auggie.
[Chattering,
camera shutters clicking]
Come on, Auggie.
It's time.
Micro-expressions
don't lie, right?
Well, I don't like
to use absolutes, but yes,
statistically,
micro-expressions
are excellent baselines
of truthfulness.
And putting up
a physical barrier,
like your arm
or a coffee cup,
means a lie, right?
- Right.
- Okay.
[Beep]
How did they turn you?
How did they convince you
to spy for them?
I was at a science fair
for Charlie.
He was a, uh,
a finalist
in the national competition.
Wait a second.
That's his tell.
[Beeping]
Right?
You're right.
He's lying.
Exactly.
How could he be lying
both times?
[Door clicks open]
[Chuckles]
Somehow I knew
that a beautiful filmmaker
who loves space
was too good to be true.
What happened
to the aspiring astronaut?
Annie,
in the scope of things,
I didn't ruin the world.
Life--or the expansion of
the galaxy, for that matter--
continues to go on
for billions of years,
with or without me.
We're just
a pale-blue dot.
Charlie quoted Carl Sagan
when he was talking
about pioneer 10.
It wasn't you they made
at the science fair.
It was Charlie...
Wasn't it?
He was only a boy.
A very smart
16-year-old boy.
And then she came along.
That's all it took
to snag a kid
with his own ambitions,
who also wanted his old man
to be a hero again.
How'd he get
the information?
At first
it was just my resume.
Then it was a paper
I wrote.
He thought
he was giving my work
to someone
in the private sector.
They told him that,
just by doing that,
he had violated
the State Secrets Act,
and they just kept
asking for more.
When did they have you?
As soon
as Charlie told me.
I took over
the relationship.
I gave them the information
about the satellites, and...
I didn't know
what else to do.
What did Charlie
think was happening?
He thought
I'd fixed it all.
He thought things
were back to normal.
It's been hard
since his mother left.
But it wasn't over,
was it?
No.
Why the phone call?
When I walked you
out of the building
after the barbecue...
I saw they left me
a signal.
There was a bike
locked up
to the bus stop.
That meant they wanted me
to meet them immediately.
What did they say
at the meeting?
Oh, they thought
you might be on to me.
When you walked
in the building,
they said someone
followed you in
and climbed out
the fire escape
just when we came down
from the rooftop.
They assumed
that you'd bugged my place.
Then why
would you go home
and make
an incriminating phone call?
[Sighs]
[Chuckles]
Wait...you were trying
to get caught?
That was just a message
I left on my own voicemail.
Once you were out to us,
FARC's pipeline
to NASA's information
would be shut down.
And Charlie
would be useless to them.
Well, what was
your contingency plan?
All of this.
[Exhales]
This wasn't a space mission.
I had to protect my son,
no matter what the cost.
[Phone rings]
Reva.
Annie Walker.
I remember you.
Auggie.
I'm back.
[Sighs] Because you
missed me so much?
[Laughs]
Ah, you're good,
but you're not
that good.
I wasn't ready
to blow my cover.
Besides, you are clearly
helpless without me.
Completely
and utterly helpless.
Are you read in?
Yeah. It's not over, Annie.
- Why?
- Charlie made a call.
He offered to give up everything
about his dad's research
on satellite
rendezvous capacities
if they'll let will go.
He thinks will
is being held by FARC?
You gotta get to him
before they do.
[tires screech]
[Suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
Charlie,
listen to me.
Your dad's safe.
We wanna help you.
He told us about FARC.
I'm here to protect you.
88 constellations
move across the sky
each year.
Cast your eyes upward
toward
the Northern Hemisphere,
and we will explore
just one part
of the celestial field
that has mesmerized...
[Suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[Lever clanks]
[Approaching footsteps]
Both: [Groaning]
Charlie,
get the gun!
Both: [Groaning]
[Panting]
It's over.
It's gonna be okay.
[Sirens wailing]
[Indistinct conversation
over police radio]
Do you have
other relatives here?
I mean,
who will you stay with?
My grandma for now.
Downside, lots of chores.
Upside, folded laundry.
When can I see my dad?
I don't know yet.
What I do know
is I've never seen two people
so loyal to each other.
That will count
for something, Charlie.
Come on. Let's call
your grandmother.
Chet, we wanted
to talk to you.
Look, there's no reason
to thank me.
This is what I do.
That's what we
wanted to talk about.
I got him
in the third set.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
We could be having
a very different conversation
if my tennis elbow
had flared up.
We're talking about
why we hired you.
Yeah, I know, Joanie.
No hearings.
Who do you think
I was playing tennis with?
I have no idea.
The esteemed Senator
from Kentucky.
Jensen?
He told his committee
this morning
there's no reason
to pursue an investigation.
Get some sleep, chief.
[Door bangs shut]
[Upbeat pop music]
[Laughter]
To everything
in its place.
Hear, hear.
[Glasses clanking]
Mm...
What happens
to you now, Reva?
Um, back to D.S.T.
but with a bump
in pay grade.
Hmm. They're nowhere near
as much fun as we are.
But they're
more predictable.
Oh, you say that
like it's a compliment.
Time for more drinks.
Oh...
I gotta go.
I have a date.
- Well, well.
- Ooh!
Here it is.
It's old.
Did you find it?
My dad gave it to me
for my birthday
when I was just
a little older than you.
You guys are really lucky,
and not just because
I'm babysitting tonight.
There's a really bright star
I'm gonna show you.
Plus there's a story
to go with it.
[Giggles]
♪ La, la, la, la ♪
♪ la, la, la, la ♪
♪ the wrong miracle,
'cause all I wanted was you ♪
♪ the wrong miracle,
but I guess it will do ♪
== sync, corrected by elderman ==