(Richmond House)

(Note reads
Go Outside)

Mimi: Stanley?

(Mimi smells the rose, and goes outside)

Stanley: Good morning.

Mimi: What is this?

Stanley: It's a celebration for your first day on the job at Jennings & Rall.

Mimi: Could you be any sweeter?

Stanley: Probably not.

Mimi: Wow. This looks great.

Stanley: I know. This is -- This is a big day. You get to be an accountant again. Count things, add things up. Maybe even a little subtraction, right?

Mimi: Well, I have to say I cannot wait to work in that office. You wouldn't believe how organized the Jennings & Rall people are. Everything is bar coded. I have so missed bar codes and spreadsheets. I mean, every component and package and food stuff, every ounce is accounted for. Where it's been, where it's going. Oh, I've forgotten how beautiful order can be.

Stanley: That's probably the most boring story I've heard in months. No, I love it. I mean, just a few weeks ago, we were sitting at this table, trying to figure out how to defend our farm from the next town over. And now, we're sitting here, we're about to eat pancakes with actual chocolate chips in them and you're blabbing on about tracking packages, it's...

Mimi: We're boring.

Stanley: We are. We're boring.

Mimi: Yeah, we are.

(They kiss)

(Helicopter flies in)

Ken: Stanley Richmond?

Stanley: Yeah.

Ken: Hi, I'm Ken Calley. I'm the president's deputy communications director.

Mimi: The President?

Ken: Yes, ma'am. President Tomarchio wants to address the nation today. From... uhh... right here, on your front porch.

(Town)

Jake: Okay, let's get the rest of these cars out of here, all right?

Man: Right away.

Beck: Sheriff Green. Nice uniform.

Jake: I'm pacing myself.

Beck: Well, it's a start. And for today, you and your men are going to have to wear these credentials.

Jake: I've got deputies rerouting traffic and I told them to keep an eye out for anything unusual. Although I think Secret Service has got you covered. Come on, what do you need me for? Trying to keep an eye on me?

Beck: Local intel always beats eye-in-the-sky. We wanna know the hazards in the area. Condor's gonna be here in a few hours.

Jake: Condor?

Beck: Code name for the president. Biggest bird in the west.

(Hunting Cabin)

Chavez: The Watch Room is in Town Hall. The president will be making a stop outside of Jennings & Rall first before heading out to the farm for the speech.

Hawkins: And how long is he scheduled to be on Main Street?

Chavez: Twenty minutes. Shake some hands on the rope line, meet and greet with the mayor.

Hawkins: Well, that sounds like the time for us to make our move. You got the password yet?

Chavez: I will. How about evac?

Hawkins: Okay. Here is your escape route. Got transportation here. Diversions here and here. Should give you enough time to get out on the open road. I just wish there was a way of doing this without getting you burned.

Chavez: Riding with the Army was always a means to uncover the truth. And the truth is coming to us. All goes well, by this time tomorrow I'll be in Texas and we'll be changing history.

Hawkins: Or we'll be dead.

(Watch Office)

Beck: They call this the White House on wheels. Unloads and reloads at every stop during the tour. Command and control capabilities equals anything we had before the attacks. The president could fight a war from this room.

Ken: Change of plans, the president has struck a stop from his itinerary. That ETA of three hours is now 28 minutes.

Beck: Copy that. Lieutenant Parker, take a patrol out and secure the routes in and out of town one last time.

Chavez: Roger that. I'll send them out now.

Beck: No, I want you to do it, Parker. We need all eyes out there.

Chavez: Yes sir.

(Bailey's Bar)

Hawkins: What took you so long?

Darcy: We've got a problem. Secret service cut the last stop short so the president will be here in less than 30 minutes.

Hawkins: We can handle that.

Darcy: That's not the problem. Chavez got sent out on patrol.

Hawkins: Did he get the password?

Darcy: I don't know. I mean, if he did, he didn't have a chance to give it to me. What if he's not back in time?

Hawkins: Well, I'm assuming that he's not gonna be. So I'm gonna have to do it myself.

Darcy: How, Robert? You'll never get past all that security.

Hawkins: I gotta get a hold of one of their secure walkie-talkies.

Darcy: I can get one.

Hawkins: Baby, this is not eavesdropping or xeroxing some fax pages. This it the real thing.

Darcy: It's lifting a walkie-talkie from a tray of walkie-talkies without being noticed. I can do that.

(Richmond Farm)

Stanley: I didn't realize how much I'd let this place go.

Mimi: I don't know, the glare from the shell casings really make the window treatments pop.

(Bonnie signs something)

Mimi: The grass? I'm still trying to figure out how to make our wedding registry vital to national security.

Stanley: You're already planning our wedding registry?

Mimi: Yeah, since I was 12. And I've taken off the list of luxury items that we already have such as your Star Wars collector glasses.

Stanley: Okay. Well I hope your friends are buying the high-ticket items because I'm not inviting anybody who can afford an espresso maker.

(Bonnie looks at Stanley)

Mimi: I'm gonna go make sure that they're not scratching up the floors.

Bonnie: (Signing) She doesn't have anybody to invite. Use your head.

(Watch Office)

Beck: It's facial recognition software. Takes a 3-D picture of every face, checks them against the database we keep here at the Watch Office. The flagged ones will be prohibited from secure areas today.

Jake: Since when does a criminal database cross-reference people's voter registrations, DMV files and library records?

Beck: September 2006. Take a look through the ones we've flagged so gar. I've scanned them, but you know these people better than I do. Let me know if there's anyone I need to be worried about.

Jake: I should warn you I might be in there.

Beck: You aren't.

Jake: You've seen my file?

Beck: I don't know. A lot of files come across my desk.

(Mayor's Office)

Eric: Gray? You got a minute?

Gray: Sure. Yeah, I was just gonna come looking for you. Mr. Calley has asked me to greet the president. And I was hoping, Eric, that you and Jake would join me. I'm sorry. Am I missing something here?

Eric: Show him what you showed me.

Emily: Jennings & Rall just received a crate of these new history textbooks.

(Book: A New America: A comprehensive History)

Emily: They want them distributed by the end of the week.

Gray: And why is this a problem?

Emily: Look at the chapter titles. The section after World War II is called: "The Decline and Fall of the First Republic"

(Chapters:
The Emergence of Modern America 1898 - 1929
Chapter 22 America Becomes a World Power: 1898 - 1913
Section 1 Problems with Spain
Section 2 The "Splendid Little War"
Section 3 The Nation Increases Its power
Section 4 New Leadership for a New Century
Section 5 Roosevelt's Other Achievements
Section 6 "As Strong as a Bull Moose"
Chapter Summary and Review

Chapter 23 World War I: 1913 - 1920
Section 1 The War Begins in Europe
Section 2 The United States Stays Neutral
Section 3 America Enters the Great War
Section 4 Wilson's Plan for a permanent Peace
Chapter Summary and Review

Chapter 24: The Roaring Twenties 1920 - 1929
Section 1 American's Want to return to Normal Times
Section 2 Society Changes: Fords, Flappers and Radios
Section 3 The Spirit of the Jazz Age
Section 4 Social Problems in the 1920's
Section 5: American Confidence Rises and Falls
Chapter Summary and Review

The Decline and Fall of the First Republic
1945 - Present:
How weak policies led to the demise of the United States

Chapter 29: A Time of Challenge and Change
Section 1 The Search for Peace
Section 2 The Cold War Begins
Section 3 War in Korea
Chapter Summary and Review

Chapter 30: The Failure of the Cuban Missile Crisis;
The lack of action against the Soviet Union
Section 1 New Challenges
Section 2 The Kennedy Administration
Section 3 Struggles at Home
Chapter Summary and Review

Chapter 13: Vietnam: The premature withdrawal of troops in 1975
Section 1: The Nixon Administration
Section 2 New Movements to Change
Section 3 The politics of Protest
Section 4 Nixon's Foreign Relations
Section 5 The Watergate Scandal
Chapter summary and review)

Eric: Talks about how the United States died because we got weak. That the Cuban Missile Crisis was a failure because we didn't attack the Russians. That we pulled out of Nam in 75' too early. I mean, it goes on.

Emily: How should we handle this?

Gray: I don't know.

Emily: You don't know?

Gray: What do you want me to tell you? Teach from it or don't teach from it. It's your classroom. Make a decision.

Eric: There's a bigger issue here, Gray. This new Government, first they change the flag. Now our History? At what point is this a country we don't even recognize?

Gray: These people have saved this town from annihilation, to say nothing of the millions of people whoa re still alive right now because of them. I don't know, I think that earns them the right to a point of view.

(Watch Office)

(On screen:
Emily Sullivan
AKA: NA
ID: 344303-3743
Database Record:

Record:
N/A

Arrests:
Vandalism, Trespassing, Disturbing the peace

Record: N/a

Info:
Known Associates:
Jonah Prowse, father: wanted in connection with the following:
Grand theft auto, arson, Assault and battery, wreckless endangerment of a minor

Personal info:
Gender: Female)

Alex: These terrorists just keep getting better looking, don't they?

Jake: Can I help you?

Alex: Alex Utley.

Jake: Jake Green. The Modesto Bee, huh?

Alex: The second largest paper in California now. Though we had a little help getting there.

Jake: Is that a joke?

Alex: Guess not. Friend of yours?

Jake: She's a school teacher. Says she's flagged because of her father.

Alex: Jonah Prowse. What did he do?

Jake: He runs a road gang in the area. Although I'm not sure why that makes her a threat.

Alex: Well, I think they'd say that there's no such thing as being too careful.

Jake: Are you reporting on them or for them?

Alex: Yes.

(Jake sees Darcy take a walkie talkie)

Radio: Break, break. Condor is arriving. Condor is arriving.

Soldier: (to Jake) sorry sir.

Man: Mr. President! Mr. President!

Secret Service: Folks, stay back please. Please stay back. Stay back.

Man 2: Mr. President!

(Bailey's)

Darcy: Got it.

Hawkins: Okay. I need you to give me as much time as you can before you let them find it.

Darcy: Okay.

Hawkins: Okay? Head back to Town Hall.

Darcy: Okay.

Hawkins: I'm not far behind.

Jake: What's going on?

Hawkins: I don't know what you mean.

Jake: I just saw Darcy put something in her purse back at the Watch Office. Now what are you up to?

Secret Service Agent: Jake Green. We're missing a secure walkie-talkie. Did you take one from the Watch Office?

Jake: no.

Secret Service Agent: Let's go, turn around. Utley. On your feet. You were in the office as well.

Alex: I'll assume the position.

Secret Service Agent: Let's go. Sir, nobody told you to move. Sheriff and the reporter are clean.

Radio: Copy that.

Tomarchio: Gray Anderson. Good to finally meet you, sir.

Gray: Mr. President.

Tomarchio: Eric Green, my condolences on your loss. Your father sounded like a wonderful man. Wish I could have known him.

Eric: Thank you.

Tomarchio: I have to tell you guys I am truly humbled at the sacrifices you've all endured. I think the country needs to hear this story. Mayor, would you consider representing the area at the upcoming Constitutional Convention?

Eric: Constitutional convention?

Tomarchio: We have an opportunity to write the next chapter in American history. The triumph of democracy over the forces of evil. Think about it. We'll need good men like you guys to help keep this country strong.

Gray: Thank you, sir. I'm-- I'm honored.

Female Agent: Crash, Condor. Repeat, crash, Condor.

Radio: Crash Condor. Crash, Condor. Condor is secure.

Secret Service Agent: Yes, Sir. Sir, I've got confirmation that Condor is secure at the Citadel. Checkmate is moving to Billboard. Copy That? Schultz, please confirm you have the new positions.

(Town Hall)

Beck: Darcy, hold it. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you. I just didn't want you wandering outside of the office. We're in a crash.

Darcy: What's a crash?

Beck: Secret Service Procedure. If they believe the principle is in jeopardy, they freeze everyone where they are. A secure walkie went missing about 15 minutes ago. until that's recovered, we stay put.

Darcy: Okay.

(Watch Office)

(Hawkins is downloading something.

(Bailey's)

Alex: Have a seat. This will take a few minutes.

Jake: Isn't this something you should be covering?

Alex: Cheyenne doesn't like incidents like this covered. And they control my credentials.

Jake: What the hell kind of reporter are you?

Alex: The working kind.

Jake: So that's your idea of being a journalist? not making waves?

Alex: Let me ask you this, you guys heard of the Hudson River virus?

Jake: Yeah, from the news. They stopped it at the Mississippi.

Alex: of course, they don't want a panic so they won't let us publish reports that says it's jumped the Blue Line.

Jake: The Blue Line?

Alex: Yeah, what they call the Mississippi. It's got UN peacekeepers all up and down it.

Jake: So nobody's reporting the real news. That gets you off the hook.

Alex: I used to work for the L.A. Times. Before the attacks, I won two Pulitzers. So I've got a pretty good idea about what it means to be a journalist. And they don't exist anymore.

(Watch Room)

Gray: Is your mother gonna come out to the farm for the speech?

Eric: She just left. Went to Cedar Brook. To stay with some family we contacted after the roads were cleared.

Gray: Yeah, it couldn't be easy for her to be around here anymore.

Eric: You should be glad she's not here. She would've thrown that new history right in the President's face.

Gray: Oh come on.

Eric: He wasn't elected Gray. How does a government no one voted for change the Constitution? We found time to have an election. Of all people, I'd think you would remember that.

(Bailey's)

Jake: So you're a real reporter, huh/ And the news also says that the attacks were North Korean weapons financed by Iran. Is that the whole story?

Alex: Well, there's plenty of theories out there to pick from. What's yours?

Jake: I'm not a conspiracy nut.

Alex: Let me guess, you know a guy who knows a guy--

Jake: What if there were more to that story? What if-- what if the government nuked two countries who had nothing to do with attacking us.

Alex: What if a guy wrote an expose about the appalling gaps in port security three years before the attacks, and it ended up on page C-18 because it doesn't have any zazz? People get the news they deserve.

Jake: No, people get the news they're given. It just takes someone willing to give it to them.

Alex: When I was a kid two guys took down the White House with a typewriter because people listened. They got angry, they acted. If I thought anybody was willing to listen anymore, believe me, I'd be talking.

(Watch Room)

(Download 56% complete)

(Download 62% complete)

(Town Hall)

Secret Service Agent: Ma'am I'd like to take a look inside your purse.

Beck: Is that really necessary?

Secret Service Agent: Yes, sir, it is.

(Download 78% complete)

(Darcy hands him her purse)

Beck: You searched the entire office, huh?

(Secret Service Agent finds the secure walkie talkie)

Secret Service Agent: All stations on the net. This is Citadel 2. We found the radio. Repeat, the radio is secure.

Radio: Copy that.

(Bailey's)

Eric: Hey, the crash is over. They found the walkie-talkie.

Jake: Where?

Eric: Overheard it was in the Sheriff's office. They're pretty embarrassed. Had the whole group out looking.

Jake: And a light staff at the Watch Office. He caused the crash on purpose.

Eric: What?

(Download 95% complete)

(Download complete)

(Chavez knocks a Secret Service Agent Out)

Beck: Halt.

Cop: Hold it.

Chavez: (to Jake) Find Hawkins.

(Hunting Cabin)

Jake: You had a guy inside Beck's camp and you didn't tell me? He hurt one of my deputies.

Hawkins: What makes you think I got a guy inside?

Jake: Well, before Beck arrested him, he attacked me and he told me to find you.

Hawkins: Check your pockets. Check them.

(Jake finds something)

Hawkins: Okay.

Jake: What's going on?

Hawkins: There were some very important files in that Watch Room and I copied them. But my guy inside, Chavez, he couldn't get the password to me to open them. So he gave it to you. I told him if he was in trouble, he could trust you.

Jake: That's what this is all about? Files?

Hawkins: A conspiracy this big leaves footprints, Jake. Thank you. You know, immediately after the attacks, the 23 blast sites were tested by the military to determine the origin of the fissile material in the bombs. The results said the bombs were milled in North Korea.

Jake: You're saying they doctored the results? They falsified them?

Hawkins: Yes. But somewhere in here are the original results.

(Documents:

C://Access
BOXCAR
DATA029
FILE09394
0029364
0029366
0029387
0029388
0029389
002390)

(Enter Password
***** Approved)

(Fissile Material Retrieval Manifest
Prepared by: US Dept. Of Energy
Updated 6/11/06

ID: FISSILE TYPE WEAPON PACKAGE

940389-20 Plutonium SRBM
902730-23 Plutonium MRBM
985065-98 Uranium SAM
455722-11 Plutonium ICBM
903948-03 Uranium ICBM
934855-02 Plutonium SS)

(Fissile Type 544722-11
Weapon Package ICBM
Country of Origin Soviet Union
Updated 01/13/2001)

Hawkins: Here.

(11/07/1979 Plutonium milled in Seversk
04/11/1980 Entered active arsenal
09/18/2000 Recovered in Ukraine
01/08/2001 Arrived NS Norfolk)

Jake: The plutonium was milled in Seversk. That bomb wasn't from North Korea. It's from an ex-Soviet nuke. This is proof the lied about the attacks.

Hawkins: Oh, this is just the paper trail.

Jake: And your bomb is the hard evidence.

Hawkins: Unfortunately getting that evidence out is gonna be damn near impossible.

Jake: What do you mean out? Out where?

Hawkins: Texas. They're close to joining Cheyenne, and if they do that, then Cheyenne is gonna be too strong for us to bring down. So we have to make sure that that does not happen. Now where did they take Chavez?

Jake: Holding him in a lock-up for now. I heard they were gonna transfer him to someplace called Loomer Ridge.

Hawkins: That is a supermax prison in Colorado. That's the kind of place you don't come back from.

Jake: He's well guarded.

Hawkins: I'm not gonna risk the greater mission trying to rescue him. But Chavez had the contacts in Texas. And I've gotta find a way of getting this information to the right people by myself.

Jake: You gonna drive around Texas with a bomb in the back of your car looking for someone you don't even know yet?

Hawkins: You know, when you put it like that, Jake...

Jake: There may be another way to get the information out. There's a reporter-

Hawkins: No, the media's in Cheyenne's pocket.

Jake: This one may be different. All right? Let met feel him out.

Hawkins: Jake--

Jake: I'll keep you insulated, all right? Unless you can think of a better way. I've been trusting you. Now it's time for you to trust me.

(Bailey's)

Alex: That's a lot of information to take on faith. You can't give me your source?

Jake: no, not yet. First, you have to convince your paper to publish the information on the flash drive. I've gotta know you're gonna follow this through to the end.

Alex: I--I don't know.

Jake: What don't you know? God, this is the biggest news story in American History.

Alex: That's the problem. It's gonna make a god-awful mess of everything.

Jake: It is a god-awful mess.

Alex: All right, let me call my editors now.

Jake: On a government issued phone? Are you crazy? You'll have to leave the press pool immediately. You can't talk to anyone. Drive straight through to Modesto.

Alex: So you want me to sit on the biggest new story in history for two days?

Jake: Yeah, that part's non-negotiable. But you can drive as fast as you want. Are you in?

Alex: Two guys and a typewriter huh?

(Alex shakes Jake's hand)

(Richmond Farm)

Stanley: Trish.

Trish: Mr. Richmond.

Stanley: Oh, Mr. Richmond's my dad. I'm Stanley.

Trish: Oh, Stanley, I'm pretty busy.

Stanley: Oh, okay. Well, here's the thing. I kind of need a favor.

Bonnie: (signing) We can wait. Don't be annoying.

Trish: (Signing and talking at the same time) Oh, no, he's not annoying. I really am busy.

Bonnie: (signing) You can sign?

Trish: (Signing and talking) Yeah, it's mandatory for all Jennings & Rall managers to learn many languages, so I picked sign language.

Stanley: Okay, so about this favor. I hear you guys are really good at tracking things, so I need-- (Bonnie stops him) Yeah, fine.

Bonnie: (signing) He's getting married. To Mimi.

Trish: But she scares me.

Bonnie: (Signing) Me, too. But it just so happens that I like her.

Trish: okay, so what's the favor?

(Lockup)

Beck: Stand down, gentlemen. What was in that room that was so important? This is probably your last chance to tell me what's going on before somebody drops you in a hole somewhere, Parker. If that's even your real name. We fought together. At least tell me who you are.

Chavez: I'm a dead man.

Beck: Lieutenant.

Lieutenant: Sir.

Beck: Send his prints and ID to Camp Liberty. We'll find out who he is soon enough.

Lieutenant: Yes, sir.

(Outside Town Hall)

Eric: Hey.

Jake: Hey.

Eric: Headed to the farm for the speech. You wanna ride?

Jake: Uh. No, I'll meet you out there. What is all this?

Eric: Some guy had a heart attack at Bailey's. He was dead when they found him.

Jake: All right, I'll see you there.

Jake: hold up.

(We see that it is Alex Utley)

(Richmond Farm)

Tomarchio: Citizens of Jericho, I am honored to be standing here today with you on this most hallowed ground. Those who died here gave their blood to protect our lives and liberties. And so we honor them.

Soldier: Detail, present arms.

(Hunting Cabin)

(Hawkins opens up boxcar)

Jake: It's over. He's dead. The reporter's dead.

(Richmond Farm)

(Soldiers roll up the flag. They present it to President Tomarchio. President Tomarchio gives it to Gray.

Tomarchio: Accept this on the behalf of a grateful nation.

Soldier: Arms. Ready, aim, fire. Aim, Fire. Aim, fire.

Hawkins: They killed him.

Jake: If they killed him, why didn't they kill me?

Hawkins: Well, if they suspected you were a threat, they would have. Best guess, the reporter called his paper to prep them for the expose on the new government and the call was intercepted.

Jake: We need to get a hold of that phone log. I wanna know who he talked to, and I want an autopsy.

Hawkins: You will never see that body again. And we're lucky they didn't take him alive, because he would have given us up.

(Richmond farm)

Tomarchio: You've lost loved ones. And here you are again. Still strong. Still proud. This is the best of America. (the Crowd claps) But infighting has left us weak and vulnerable to our enemies. Remnants of the old Federal Government have fallen back to Columbus Ohio. After the attacks, that government endlessly debated our response. So in a vacuum of leadership, I acted to let the world know that America was down, but not out. (More clapping)

(Hunting Cabin)

Jake: We can't just let them get away with this.

Hawkins: They already have. Listen Jake. I have gotta figure out what I'm gonna do next.

Jake: You figure out what you're gonna do. I can't let this go.

Hawkins: Jake, I need you not to be my problem right now.

(Richmond farm)

Tomarchio: The federal government of the eastern bloc states no longer has any governing authority beyond the Mississippi. You've seen the flag. This is the flag of a new country. Flying from the Mississippi to the Pacific. The 13 stripes of red and white still represent the 13 colonies, but they run in a new direction. Just as must chart a new direction for ourselves. In a few short weeks Mayor Anderson will represent you as we ratify a new constitution for this new nation that will be known to the world by a new name. The Allied States of America. And with this new name, a clean slate. Our debts have been forgiven and we are open again for business. That means job,s stocked shelves, a return to life as we knew it. And in teh fall, we'll have elections where we can all take part in building a new government as a safer, stronger Americ. God bless you and God bless the Allied States of America. (Crowd Cheers)

(Holding Cell)

Jake: Where are you taking him?

Beck: He's being transferred.

(Jake punches Chavez out)

Jake: You son of a *****.

Beck: Hey. Whoa. Whoa. Pull him off. Get him out of here.

Beck: Nobody wants to do that more than me. He put one of my men in the hospital too. Oh he'll get his due. I assure you.

(Beck's office)

Beck: Lieutenant.

Lieutenant: Sir, the info on Parker is back. He's dead.

Beck: What do you mean?

Lieutenant: I mean Parker's name and identity belonged to a dead soldier.

Beck: "R.F. Parker, U.S. Army, Killed in action. Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 11 May 2003." He's black ops. Echo 3, this is Echo 1, over. I need a SITREP now on the transport of a Lt. Parker to Loomer Ridge. I repeat Echo 3, this is Echo 1. Come in. Over.

(We see that Chavez has escaped)

(Mayor's office)

(Eric hands Gray the flag)

Eric: You left this at the farm. You didn't even ask him one question. All you did was say yes.

Gray: Well, I wanna go to that convention and interrogating the president is a good way to make sure that never happens.

Eric: Well, safe travels.

Gray: Eric, wait. (Gray puts up a picture saying "Don't Tread On Me")

Eric: It was my dad's. Hung in his old office before the renovations. I thought it was lost.

Gray: Well, I found it in storage when the Army needed the space. I thought about bringing it down here and hanging it up. But it just isn't me. I'm going to Cheyenne to ask those questions. And I'm gonna keep asking the questions until I get some answers. I just don't want them to see me coming. And I was hoping that while I was gone, that you'd be willing to act as mayor. And try not to get us into too much trouble.

(Police Station)

Valente: What has happened today is unacceptable.

Beck: I understand sir.

Valente: How did your men lose him?

Beck: Don't know, sir. There's absolutely no record of him existing. Either through fingerprints or DNA. Not to mention that every piece of paper with his name or picture on it has disappeared from my CP.

Valente: How's your search for Sarah Mason going? That's what I thought. You're overwhelmed. I'm sending you a private contractor who knows the area. He'll take care of the day-to-day administration of the town while you find the terrorist.

(Video goes out)

(Beck doesn't seem to like it)

Beck: Jake. I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how a handcuffed prisoner guarded by three soldiers escaped from the back of a humvee. Any ideas?

Jake: I heard he was a spook. Figured he picked the lock on his cuffs and fought his way out.

Beck: Sounds plausible. Suppose I should have thought of that. Thanks for your help today. It's appreciated.

(Richmond Farm)

Mimi: Little help here. What's going on?

Bonnie: (signing) Tell her.

Mimi: Tell me what?

Stanley: nothing, nothing. There's nothing to tell.

Bonnie: (signing) You said you'd have no one at the wedding... so we asked Jennings and Rall to trace your family.

Mimi: What did you find?

Stanley: Nothing. I mean we found your father's second cousin on a census in Indiana, but the area had already been evacuated. And there was a woman with the same last name in a nearby refugee camp, but she wasn't related.

Mimi: Thank you.

Stanley: I"m sorry. I'm sorry. I really wanted you to have your family at the wedding.

Mimi: I will. You're my family. You and Bonnie, from here on in. (Group Hug)

(Hawkins is wandering outside)

Chavez: Thank Jake for me. You were right about him. He's got good hands. I just wish he'd learn to pull his punches a little better.

Hawkins: Yeah, em too. (Hawkins gives Chavez the flash drive) So Darcy scrubbed the office. There won't be any pictures for them to trace you with.

Chavez: A good woman you've got there.

Hawkins: Yeah, so she keeps telling me. You got everything you need? Car? Map?

Chavez: Actually, I've got something for you. The phone's clean. When I get to Texas and meet up with my contacts, I'll call.

Hawkins: I'll be waiting. Say hey, you ever heard of a Project Boxcar?

Hawkins: No, what is it?

Hawkins: It was a file on the flash drive. It was the only thing that the password wouldn't open.

Chavez: That's strange. That password should've opened everything on that disk.

Hawkins: Yeah. I guess I'll keep working on it.

Chavez: Remember when this job used to be easy?

Hawkins: Ahh... No.

(Jake's house)

Jake: Hey.

Eric: Hey.

Jake: Hey.

Emily: Hi. Did-- you umm. Did you hear about your brother?

Jake: No.

Eric: Gray appointed me acting mayor in his absence.

Jake: Mayor Green.

Emily: Nice to hear that again, huh?

(Outside of City hall, Humvees show up with the Ravenwood Logo on them)

Emily: Long day?

Jake: Yeah, things with Beck are getting pretty dicey.

Eric: Well, we've dealt with worse. We're still here. We can handle it.

(Outside town HalL0

Beck: Major Beck, 10th Mountain Division. You Goetz?

Goetz: Tactical operations officer. I'll take it from here.