01x11 - Asalah

[bunniefuu]

FERRIS [on speaker]:

Don't underestimate Bryan.

- He must be valuable.

- [g*nshots]

But he's had his own troubles.

Maddox pulled him out of an

M.P. prison in Afghanistan.

When I was in Surobi,

I destroyed families.

- BRYAN: Garcia.

- GARCIA: You're still taking the injections.

BRYAN: When they send them to me.

GEORGE: I need to build

a device to track

a very dangerous piece of Debris.

I need Laghari's files.

FINOLA: I know what grief

can do to a person

how it makes you feel alone.

BRYAN: I know from experience.

Everyone's got a past, Bryan.

I can't help but wonder

who was in the picture

you were looking at.

- FINOLA: Hey!

- BRYAN: Another time.

[device scanning]

Are you reading this?

Close to maxed.

It's not just me.

Never seen a signal like this.

It's peaking.

No one get closer.

We can go in with Vector Twos.

We don't know that will be safe, either.

Just bring me one.

You'd prefer a civilian find this piece?

We don't have a choice.

If I'm not back in ten minutes,

quarantine the area.

[device scanning]

MAN: This is Hazmat Team Four.

We're onsite and seeing Laghari

readings in excess of 700.

[device scanning intensifies]

[device scanning]

What are you doing here?

[device scanning intensifies]

Bryan Beneventi.

Bryan Beneventi.

[theme]

FINOLA: Oh, my God!

It's everywhere! Everywhere!

I spy with my little eye

somebody who's, like, very

- very grumpy.

- Yeah.

I just don't understand.

Just help me understand

why you're even balancing it

- on a dashboard.

- It's a pothole.

Potholes are unforeseeable.

- It's why they call them potholes.

- I foresee them. I foresee them.

Now here I am.

I'm gonna smell like mint chip.

- Macchiato. Sorry.

- Macchiato? What? I

I'm sorry, okay?

Please accept my apology.

- I'm trying.

- You looking for another coffee shop?

- Yeah.

- If you are,

I'd like a caramel Frappuccino.

I'm calling Garcia

to find out about my dad,

and you really need

to quit with the sugar.

- Pump three, please.

- [phone ringing]

And, uh, would you happen

to sell aluminium foil?

- Aluminum foil?

- Yes.

- No, we don't. Sorry.

- [ringing continues]

- I think that's you.

- Oh! Oh!

- Oh! Thank you.

- Yeah.

- GEORGE: Yes.

- Dad?

Hello, sweetheart. How are you?

Yeah, fine. We're headed back to you.

Why are you answering Garcia's phone?

Garcia lent me his van and his phone.

I'm at a petrol station

Why are you at a petrol station?

I'm on my way to the the antennas.

Antennas?

Yes. The antenna fields in Virginia.

So you're telling me

that you were driving

all the way from Oregon

to Virginia alone?

I'll be fine. I need a way to

to boost the scanner signal

once I'm done.

You're asking a lot of questions.

And I can't concentrate.

I've got a lot on my plate.

Please don't worry.

I'm perfectly capable.

Okay.

Finola,

you have to get the Laghari files

to me as soon as possible.

Yep. I'm working on that.

And I'm gonna speak to Ferris, okay?

Well, I'll contact you once I'm there.

Okay.

- [phone vibrates]

- FINOLA: Oh, my God.

- Yeah.

- It's Tom.

You need to come to Cedarville,

Maryland, right away.

Okay. Why?

We found a woman out here

affected by Debris,

and she asked for you.

What do you mean?

She's asking for you by name.

She just keeps saying your name.

Didn't see an order

come through for this.

I could have it ready for you.

Come on, you know how these things go.

It was a last-minute thing.

I just gotta run some tests.

It could help me with

a new piece we just found.

Thanks, Kelso.

- Check these readings.

- Uh-huh.

- Tom.

- Around nine A.M.,

satellite scan picked up

disturbances in the atmosphere

When the Situation Team arrived, they

found her here waiting for them.

You ever see her before?

- No.

- Who is she?

Mariel Caldwell,

a local high school teacher.

Wildlife preserve camera

picked her up on a hiking trail

just south of here.

But check this out.

We don't know where

that shimmer came from,

but it disappeared when it reached her.

BRYAN: Seems like it's following her.

We have a team searching

the area for Debris.

- She didn't say anything else?

- No.

She just keeps repeating your name.

- Where is she now?

- Where we found her.

BRYAN: Hi.

Your name is Mariel?

You're asking for Bryan

Bryan Beneventi.

I'm Bryan Beneventi.

How do you know my name?

You said my name. How do you know me?

[stammering]

Surobi.

The A01 Highway.

Surobi?

Are you talking about

Surobi, Afghanistan?

It's in my brown paper folder.

It's moon dust everywhere.

Birds are coming in.

What does that mean?

What is she talking about?

Afghanistan.

Movie night after Dee-Fack.

I hate movie night.

Dust Dust Dust

Dustoff Inbound.

FINOLA: What's going on?

Do you understand

what she's talking about?

MARIEL: Watch your flank, Frenchie.

- Yes.

- MARIEL: I got your six.

Somehow, this woman knows

things about my life.

She's reading at zero now.

Whatever happened is over.

[sighs]

[sighs]

Mariel, how do you know me?

Where did you hear my name?

[whispering, indistinct]

Let's do a sweep

two kilometers to the west.

It never ends around this place.

How do you know parts of my life?

Jensen. Jensen!

How are you doing that?

I'm gonna miss you when you're gone

Bryan.

What does that mean?

I'm gonna miss you when you're gone.

Bryan.

That's the last thing

that my mother said to me

before I deployed to Afghanistan.

This woman is repeating

conversations from my life.

Please verify there is no ACM

in that area, Frenchie.

Beneventi, stand back.

They're firing even closer

to us right now.

If you do that,

then we'll get along very well.

Very, very, very well.

FINOLA: Hey!

[wind blowing]

[Mariel whispering, indistinct]

Everything okay?

[wind intensifies]

Yeah.

Yeah, all good.

- FINOLA: Bryan!

- We need help in here!

Hey. Bryan. Bryan, can you see me?

WOMAN: He's not responding!

Get him to the scan room!

- What did you do to him?

- [muttering]

What did you do?

Guess you got a new goal to aspire to.

Bryan! Listen to me!

Can you hear me? Can you see me?

Look at me!

My girlfriend's new boyfriend is

taking her out for Valentine's Day.

Y'all done with this water bottle?

On Valentine's Day,

that's tough, Frenchie.

LEBLANC: Yeah, tell me about it.

BRYAN: We loaded, fellas?

- Yep.

- Yeah, good to go, Benny.

Hey, hey, hey, Frenchie, wait.

- [laughter]

- Yo! Who in the hell?

- Bro, that is definitely my bad.

- That was nasty, Jensen.

I am definitely gonna being paying

your mother a visit for this

when I get home.

She's lonely, she's not that lonely.

Benny, Colonel Kellogg

is en route for a visit.

Advance plan op board has just

been posted.

Command finally approves an op, huh?

Thank you, Sergeant.

So Colonel's coming in

to brief us up personally.

Look at that.

We made the big leagues, boys.

[chuckles]

Thank God.

It's a little late here

to make a difference.

- Fun times.

- Yeah.

Oxygen 50, pressure 210 over 100.

- Pulse 120.

- Nystagmus.

- Agonal breathing, diaphoretic.

- What is happening?

He's having an idiopathic

neurological event.

We're doing all we can.

- [phone vibrating]

- Yeah. We're still searching.

FINOLA: The Debris has to be

somewhere out there. It has to be.

The shimmer came from somewhere.

There's some sort of connection

between them.

We have to disable the Debris in order

to break its hold on Mariel

and her link to Bryan.

I understand that, but we're

not getting anything here.

No signatures. And there's about

a thousand acres to cover.

Okay. I've got some more agents

on the way to you now.

Keep me posted.

What have you got?

Her heart rate is matching Bryan's.

Blood pressure, oxygen levels,

all match.

So these are the MGRS coordinates.

Four. Two. Sierra.

MGRS

That's the Military

Grid Reference System.

- Yeah.

- Eight-five.

MARIEL: That's not very far from here.

FINOLA: It's Surobi again.

Same old recon until

the colonel gets here.

It's your chance to show command

that you're leadership material.

Don't forget us when you're at the top.

Set up for me to fail.

"Heightened threat of Taliban

attacks from the mountains."

It's always the case in this country.

Exactly. So why even

bother sending that?

Semper Gumby.

BRYAN: That boy over there?

I've never seen him before.

Who is he? Why is he here?

I've seen him around. His dad

runs a new shop by the entrance.

- You didn't read the flyer?

- He can't read.

- What, you think he's a b*mber?

- LEBLANC: He's just a kid, man.

I've learned the hard way.

- Nelson, go check it out, please.

- All right.

Benny, we found that girl

that was injured on the last op.

I'm taking her to get her hand

checked out.

BRYAN: Thanks.

JENSEN: Heightened threat, my a*s.

Taliban haven't come

through here in weeks.

That doesn't mean anything.

If command thinks there's an increased

Taliban presence, I trust it.

You're too trusting, Nelson.

They get it wrong, too. Far too often.

Yeah, well, I'd rather not be

the one who winds up dead.

Just do your job. They want more

recon, we'll give them more recon.

- [Asalah shouts in native language]

- [r*fles c*ck]

[Asalah continues in native language]

- Stay alert.

- Copy that.

WOMAN [on speaker]: Bravo Company,

you are cleared in Sector Nine.

- You speak English?

- Yes.

You're the one who saved me.

- What's your name?

- Asalah.

My name is Bryan.

It's too dangerous for you

to be out here alone.

Bryan, my Baba

my grandfather

I don't want him to be k*lled.

I know you're looking for

a bad man in the village,

but he is not a bad man.

He's a good man.

Where are your parents?

I've been separated from them.

And my brother.

My Baba said they're

not able to travel back,

so he's all I have left.

Your grandfather is a good man.

Right? Okay.

He has nothing to worry about.

We're not here to hurt anybody.

Does that make sense?

Sometimes we stop outside the base.

I like the music they play there.

Music is ghazairoo.

Ghazairoo?

I don't know what that means.

Food for soul.

Your grandfather's

gonna be safe, Asalah.

MAN [on radio]: This is Bravo

Company over in Sector Nine.

Possible insurgents sighted.

Could use an extra patrol over here.

Hey, Miller wants to know if we want

to meet his unit in Sector Nine.

What's he looking to hit

a home run today?

Yeah, he really wants

to hit all the bases.

Sometimes you just

gotta home run for it.

It's really messed up, Jensen.

Well, I'm not gonna let Miller

get all that glory, Beneventi.

Let's roll.

Where are we at?

His condition's nowhere near stable.

His heart rate's dropping.

We tried everything to stop it.

We have no idea what she's doing to him.

How does she know

these things about him?

Where does she get this information?

We're still not sure.

It's been relatively quiet

in the region.

What did the shimmer look like?

Nothing. It was the usual

prismatic appearance,

nothing different than

the normal shine attributes.

The first thing she mentioned

was a village in Afghanistan.

Surobi. Bryan knew what she meant.

It's as if she's recounting, um

an experience he had there.

Why do you think that?

She's using military terminology,

listing coordinates.

It just sounds like she's

reciting conversations he's had.

Bryan, welcome

to Operation Desert Falcon.

FINOLA: Desert Falcon?

Have you heard of that before?

MARIEL: intel that

a high-value target

has arrived in the region Al-Malik.

Yeah. I recognize what she's saying.

MARIEL: One of the Taliban's

top commanders in Nangarhar.

We cannot allow him to expand

his hold in Surobi.

This was your real mission.

This was a very important

mission to Bryan

for many reasons.

This is a jackpot target.

Al-Malik's fighters are hiding

out amongst the locals.

Your orders are to identify

any Taliban laying low here

and to capture Al-Malik should

you come across him.

This won't be an easy task.

But I know I am surrounded

by the most capable men

in all of Afghanistan.

Yeah. So they tell me.

We'll get it done, boys.

- Right?

- [all affirm]

"Won't be an easy task?"

Understatement of the century.

These guys are armed

to the teeth by the Iranians.

Beneventi, a word.

Relax, gentlemen.

Congratulations on making

commanding officer.

That's badass.

Thanks, Benny.

Both come a long way

since that last tour.

Yes, sir.

So what do you think about this op?

No joke. We're gonna pull it off.

Great.

I need there to be

a positive result out of this.

Yeah. No fail missions.

You're looking a lot better

than the last time I saw you.

You're in good hands here.

Keep me up to date?

- This is him.

- Asalah, what are you doing here?

They're taking my stitches out soon.

Sit down.

How did you learn English?

My grandfather,

he was a doctor in Kabul.

He could speak five languages.

I want to go to America one day,

so I have to be better before then.

Well, you speak it very well already.

I want to be able to play piano there,

but my brother says

I'll never be good enough.

[chuckles]

Have you ever heard of Elton John?

- No.

- No?

Elton John is a

very famous musician.

Plays the piano.

- She's got electric boots ♪

- Here.

A mohair suit ♪

You know I read it

in a magazine, ohh-oh ♪

B-B-B Benny and the Jets ♪

Wears weird sunglasses,

even when he's indoors.

So we might have

to get you a pair of those.

Hey kids, plug into the faithless ♪

Maybe they're blinded ♪

But Bennie makes them ageless ♪

We shall survive ♪

- It's beautiful.

- Let us take ourselves along ♪

I want to learn how to play it.

- Where we fight our parents ♪

- Yeah, me too.

Out in the streets ♪

To find who's right and who's wrong ♪

The only piano I know of here

is 40 kilometers away.

I'm not allowed to go over there

because of the conflicts.

Hopefully, I will be able to

when the conflict is over.

Yeah.

Once the conflict is over.

You don't think it'll be over?

It's complex.

I think what we're doing here is

for all the right reasons,

but sometimes good intentions go wrong.

Sola is possible always.

Sola is peace, right?

Bryan, can I make you a deal?

You want to make me a deal?

Yeah. Go ahead. Make me a deal. sh**t.

I will help you find

the Taliban in the village,

show you where they are.

Well, that's not the sort of help

that we need.

Promise me Please promise me

nothing will happen to my Baba.

Oh, we're going to look after him,

but you don't need to do anything.

I want to help.

It's too dangerous.

That's why we're here.

I need my Baba to be safe.

I understand that.

Promise?

[exhales]

I promise you, but stay out of this.

Thank you.

- Still at it?

- Reports are coming in

that Al-Malik is only in Surobi

temporarily to resupply.

- That's great for us.

- No.

That means they'll be

out of reach of our operation.

- Beneventi?

- Yeah.

Keep a better eye on your stuff.

Where did you get this?

The Afghan girl you were speaking

to earlier in the medical tent?

- Yeah.

- Said she found it on the ground.

[Bryan whistles]

LEBLANC: What?

Hot damn. That's Al-Malik.

FINOLA: They've tried everything.

They still don't know what's happening.

Nothing's working.

Why Bryan? Why him?

Why was this woman asking

for him specifically?

You remember there was a piece of Debris

that cloned him back in Pennsylvania.

You think that this is related to that?

I mean, I am not positive,

but in order to clone him,

the Debris had to have access

to his memories,

and maybe maybe at that moment,

his memories just shot

around every piece of Debris.

And if I am right

his information was part of the Debris

that Mariel Caldwell

came into contact with.

Wait a minute, you're saying that, what,

that the Debris pieces could be

communicating with each other?

I mean, Laghari himself speculated

that the Debris uses

the spectrum to communicate,

so is this really that far-fetched?

Okay, so you're basically

saying that Bryan's memory

was backed up into

some sort of a network

that the Debris is all connected to?

Right.

Everything in our world is connected.

Why wouldn't theirs be too?

But why this mission specifically?

I don't know.

The Debris read you too,

back in Kansas.

I suppose it did.

Well, if I'm right,

the Debris holds pieces of me

in its network too.

- [phone vibrating, beeps]

- Go ahead.

Yeah, we found the Debris

just off one of the trails.

I'm sending you the images right now.

FINOLA: Well, shut it down.

See that's the thing. It is shut down.

When we found it, it was

barely registering at .006.

It's dead.

Has anything changed there?

No. But we saw the shimmer

following her.

And then it disappeared.

It must be part of her now.

Okay, let me call you back.

I think we should try

what you suggested.

What did you suggest?

We could try to reset his brain.

Reboot him.

Electroconvulsive therapy.

Maybe we can disrupt the connection

she has over him that way.

All right. Tell me what you need.

Okay.

When was the last time

he had his injection?

Is that what you think drew it to him?

I'm not so sure. We just sent him one.

I've been monitoring

his blood work for any markers.

They might be losing

their effectiveness.

If he gets out of this,

I want you to up the dosage.

BRYAN: Asalah!

You believe me now?

It's one of the bravest things

I have ever seen,

but it is too dangerous.

- You can't do that.

- You want my country to be free?

- Yes.

- So do I.

We're all the same

America, Afghanistan.

Different countries.

But good men are good men,

and bad men are bad men.

I agree with that.

Most people around here

Don't see it that way.

I cannot lose my grandfather.

He's all that I have to hold on to.

ASALAH: You've no idea

how important that is.

And I tried to be brave,

but it is hard to keep hope.

I don't know how much longer

I can do it without him.

And you have no idea how much

I understand that.

I will not fail you.

I will not fail you.

I promise you, Asalah.

- ORBITAL TECH: The doctor's ready.

- FINOLA: Thank you.

Still no response.

It's the only thing we can do.

Okay.

[electricity surging]

BRYAN: He's in Surobi. Those

were taken just a few hours ago.

I don't wanna know how you got these.

From what we understand,

they are mostly centralized

in these homes right here,

just off the village square.

- [scream]

- [electricity crackles]

[gasps]

- If we enter

- From the

[Mariel gasps]

Come on.

That'll leave you exposed

along the mountainside.

But when at night,

use darkness as cover.

Come on.

[electricity crackles]

Maddox.

Now, how do you know my name?

[power charging]

[electricity crackling]

- But that will leave you

- Exposed along the mountainside.

But when at night,

use darkness as cover.

Good work. We go in tonight.

Yeah, your plan is smart.

Plus we finally have some usable

photos we can I.D. these guys with.

I've been watching you

for a while, Bryan,

I've been really impressed

with your accomplishments.

Good luck tonight.

Thank you, sir.

Man, this w*r is wearing me down.

Just so easy to forget anything

we're doing here matters at all.

Everything we're doing here matters.

When I joined I thought

we could change the world.

That's what I thought.

We can.

We'll see how you feel after

a couple more tours.

Look, every w*r has its challenges, bro.

Is this about that villager on the road?

She asked me to protect her family.

I want to do that.

I want to prove to her that we

can make sense of this world.

We're out here to protect

a lot more than one family.

[sighs] Oh, man.

[sniffs]

She has so much hope.

I wanna protect that.

Oh, man, I need to protect that.

Been a long time since I thought

things could be good.

Asalah, hey, Asalah.

You need to go home and take

your grandfather to safety

up to the mountains and not look back.

Will you find us out there?

Hide by the road that leads

to Jegdalay, where we spoke.

I'll come check on you after.

The most important part

is that you disappear.

That is the best way

that I can ensure your safety,

and your grandfather's.

Thank you.

I've been wondering about

what you said to me earlier.

You told me you know

what it's like to keep hope,

to have something to hold onto.

I was wondering what that is for you.

Get your Baba to safety.

[electricity crackles]

From what I understand, they're

mainly centralized in these homes

off the village square.

Please, Bryan. Please, just wake up.

MARIEL: We're trapping Al-Malik

from the north and the south.

[electricity crackles]

Move it.

[speaking Pashto]

[speaking Pashto]

NELSON [on speaker]:

All stations, troops in contact!

We are under fire. Repeat

- Contact.

- [g*nf*re in distance]

Reloading.

Lay down some hate, Frenchie!

Decided to show up?

Get Frenchie in!

Frenchie!

Frag out!

[groans]

Hey. Don't move.

Cease-fire! Cease-fire!

I know what's gonna happen here.

I know what's gonna happen.

What are you talking about?

Get down.

I have to stop it.

[wind blowing]

[whispers] I have to stop it.

Why?

Why did you make me

go through this again?

Why me?

[electricity crackles]

[gasping]

Bryan!

You're okay. You're okay.

Hey.

Mariel

I need to see her.

- I need to see her.

- Okay. Yeah.

GOLDMAN: She's dead.

Hey, I know about Asalah.

You're okay.

You're okay.

After I told her grandfather

what happened,

he told me that Asalah heard

that we were gonna be ambushed,

and

[sniffles]

and she was so worried that I would

think that she had betrayed me

that she came back

to the village to warn me.

So the next night,

we went up into the mountains

with my unit on a follow-on op

to see if we could find any of the

Taliban that might have escaped.

Sure enough, we found some

of them hiding in a cave.

So I took revenge.

I didn't know at the time

that that was a

different group of insurgents,

protected group team not to be touched,

because of some ongoing CIA operation.

And is that why you were in prison?

And I probably still would be if

Maddox hadn't have pulled me out.

They were going to charge me

with a w*r crime.

Here.

Thank you.

I don't carry this

so that I can remember her.

I carry it so I don't forget

what it's like to invest

in something that I can lose.

Can you remember anything else

about your experience?

Why it happened?

I don't think it was over

when you pulled me out.

I asked her why I had to relive

that that memory.

It showed you for a reason.

It felt like that.

I think all of the Debris

may be connected.

What?

I think the Debris is experiencing us

the same way that we're experiencing it.

I agree.

[phone vibrates]

[sighs]

Ferris just sent me the Laghari files.

Hey, are you going to be okay?

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay, I'm gonna go and call my dad.

Thank you.

[machine whirring]

I decided to start with

doubling your dose, all right?

What happened to me had nothing to

do with the injections not working.

We have to cover all of

our bases and make sure.

I wish you hadn't have stopped it.

I could have learned more.

Hey, you might not have survived.

It was too much for her system.

You happened to be a little

stronger, that's all.

But you were almost there.

So I don't know why

this happened to you.

I just know that I don't want it

to happen again.

As far as I know, you're the only

person Debris has ever sought out.

DAHKEYA: It all began when

the Black Water Grandfather

threw his energy to the four directions.

To the east, he laid black metal

in the earth.

To the south, blue metal.

To the west, yellow metal.

And to the north, white metal.

In the next phase,

Black Water Grandfather

threw black wind

towards the earth.

MAN: We have found

Agent Beneventi. Over.

[beep]

Repeat. We've found Agent Beneventi.

[beep]

WOMAN: He's in a state of confusion.

There's a laceration on his chin

and a wound on his upper chest.

[beep]

MAN: What the hell

happened to these men?

[beep]