01x06 - The Last Link

[bunniefuu]

[in French] Two thousand.

- What? On the phone you said 'one'.
- [chuckles]

And you were too
quick to say 'yes'.

You're still full
of sh*t, Matis.

How about I tell the tax
department about your shop?

Right.

[inhales sharply, stammers]

How about I punch you and
your friend in the face?

What would you say?

- Stop it.
- We have a deal?

- [speaking French, chuckles]
- [Taylah speaks French]

[Matis kisses]

[speaks French]

[Matis sighs]

[whistles]

- Here.
- [Taylah] Thank you.

[Matis] Bonus.

[sighs] Hey? Hmm? Hey?

- [chuckles]
- Stop.

[Matis] Here.

[in English] Hey.

[imitates engine accelerating]

[chuckles]

You must be joking.

It's gonna take us two
hours to get to Orléans.

Austerlitz station is
swarmed with surveillance.

And Jane said to stay off radar.

Uh, I've never been on
one of these before.

You promise I won't die?

That-That was a joke.

Comedy equals tragedy
plus time, Ed.

- What?
- It's math. Just work it out.

[sighs]

[grunts]

What's going on? They landed.

Calm down.

They probably just got
held up at customs.

I don't like it.

Grayson, Taylah Sanders.
Track her phone.

She's protecting
an important asset.

Okay. [clicks tongue] Um...

Phone's on.

[Tom] Yes, she's
here. She's in Paris.

[Andrew] Okay. This is a
city of 2.2 million people.

Maybe we should narrow
that down a little, huh?

[Tom] Right. Uh...

They're moving fast.

Um, heading over the Pont de
Neuilly to, uh, La Défense.

What is your strategy?

Could be going dark,
protecting the asset.

When you go dark, you
don't leave your phone on.

Your dog has broken its leash.

Fix it. Discreetly.

[tires screech]

Stop where you are!

[Matis] Whoa! Hey!

[NSA officer] Don't move!

[in French] What are you doing?

Stop! Stop! What's the
matter? What's happening?

Surprise, surprise...

...a little surprise...

[chuckles]

Is it her phone you
want? [chuckles]

[Taylah, in English] It's part
of the Mersenne collection.

I'm sorry but our collection
is not on public display.

It's by appointment only and requires a
letter from your academic institution.

[sighs, clears throat]

Are you a historian?

- Um...
- [clicks tongue] Mathematician.

Oh.

[sighs] Please. We've-We've
come a very, very long way.

Okay. Um...

Yeah, I'm sorry but we're
closing in a few minutes.

[director] Simone.

[speaks French]

[stammers] Uh, will you excuse me
just for one second? Thank you.

Yeah, she likes you.

- What?
- [chuckles]

So just smile, be nice and just make her
think that you're gonna come back here

- and ask her for her number.
- But...

Do you want to complete
the math, or not?

[Ed sighs]

Sorry. Oops, sorry. [chuckles]

Um, I'm sure this
is very short notice

a-and-and I know you-you probably
want to get home to-to your...

Uh, cat. I only have a cat.

Right.

This is very important
for my doctorate.

Those tablets were inscribed
in the ninth century

and-and the archaeologists who made
the impressions of those tablets

did so in the 17th century.

Look at it this way, you could
be the last link in a chain

that stretches back
over a thousand years.

[sighs]

[stammers] Let me
see what I can do.

I mean...

wow.

This way.

Wait here.

[inhales deeply]

Is that it?

Uh, how-how many of
these do you have?

Twelve in the catalog.

[Ed] Okay, there's a...

there's a very specific piece
of the puzzle that I'm missing.

It's this one.

The spiral as it
intersects the box.

Could you open these up?

Please. He hasn't exactly
been house-trained yet.

[chuckles] No problem.

He's just very passionate.

[Ed] Exactly.

[groans] No.

[inhales deeply]

No. No, no, no. It's not any of these.
Uh, co-could you get the other ones out?

[PA announcer speaks French]

[Simone] Oh, we have
to close. I'm sorry.

You're kidding. We-We're
not gonna be very long.

Please, I really
shouldn't be doing this.

[sighs] Come on.

- But I'll be here again tomorrow.
- [Taylah] Sure.

Tomorrow.

That's fine.

Thank you.

[inhales deeply]

[sighs]

[clicks tongue]

[sighs]

[sighs]

[groans]

[sniffs]

[clicks tongue, sighs]

- [door opens]
- [inhales sharply]

[Ed sighs]

You really do
creep up on people.

Well, that's generally
how surveillance works.

So, you want to eat something?

Have you, uh, had
contact with the NSA?

Yeah. Why?

I don't know. It would just be good
to know that they've got our backs.

Oh, relax, Eduardo.

Oh, do me a favor and
never call me that again.

- Eduardo. Eduardo.
- No, seriously. Don't call me that.

What? It could be
like a safe word.

- [sighs] God.
- What? It's cool.

Geeks can be cool.

[both laugh]

Kinda. [chuckles]

Yeah, there you
go. You can smile.

[Ed sighs]

[sighs]

What happened to you?

Hmm?

I mean...

it was an accident, right?

So, that shouldn't be a
life sentence for you.

Hmm. Shouldn't it?

No, I don't think so.

The guy who died... [stammers]

...if I was his
brother or whatever...

[stammers] ...I wouldn't want
your life to be over too.

Mmm.

What if I told you I was drunk

and persuaded him to get
on the back of my bike

and proceeded to
blow a red light?

Then what?

[sighs]

He died because I was
careless and stupid.

Because I couldn't
take care of him.

I should be in prison.

But I didn't even see the
inside of a courtroom.

Thanks to Jane.

Yeah, but that doesn't
help with the guilt.

[sighs]

You know, I still think
about him every night.

And I think about his family.

[sighs]

And the fact that no
one paid for his death.

Maybe...

[stammers] Maybe she
left you no choice.

No, I had a choice.

We all have choices.

What I've learned is that it's
the ones we make that define us.

[sighs]

All right. [sighs]

Let's get some rest.

- Night.
- Night.

[door closes]

[NSA officer] That's
him. That's him.

We got him.

Signal's up! Uh, Brooks is on his
phone. Two hours away. Orléans.

What's in Orléans?

[Tom] Not sure yet.

- Do you have a lock on him?
- Yep. We did.

Signal's gone.

All right. Well...

- [sighs]
- Brief our team.

What is it, Tom?

Yeah, I'm sorry. It's just,
um, people are wondering.

Andrew Carter's wondering.

Taylah Sanders.

Is she still with us?

Jane.

He's-He's ready to blow.

[sighs]

I'm afraid to tell you that the
collection has been taken on loan.

[Ed] On loan?

La Directrice told
us this morning.

[Taylah] Overnight?

A private collector,
substantial donation.

I'm sorry I can't help.

Don't you think it's weird?

We come here, ask to see the piece
and then the next day it's on loan?

Yeah, I think it's weird.

Monsieur Vlahovic. It was a
pleasure doing business with you.

[Taylah] sh*t.

It's not a private
collector, it's him!

[director] Au revoir.

[Ed] You're kidding me.

[Taylah] We need to find out
where he's taking them. Let's go.

[Taylah] God, it's a tank.

Looks like you could sit out
a nuclear w*r in that thing.

You don't think you should
get your godmother to help?

No need. Hang on.

[clears throat]

What do you mean
there's no need? Taylah?

- [Taylah] Number plate?
- [Ed] What? Uh, um...

- EC-117-VM.
- [whispering] EC-117-VM.

They're taking them to the UK.

Channel Tunnel. We're gonna
have to be on that train.

- You're kidding.
- We need to steal it.

Steal it? What?

[stammers, sighs] Taylah, he
k*lled a man with his bare hands.

You need to call it in. Taylah,
we can't do that by ourselves.

We'll have to go
through security.

So metal detectors.
He won't be armed.

Tay... That makes it
in-incredibly simple then.

He'll be vulnerable.

Thirty-five minutes
underground. No moving.

We just have to get him
away from the vehicle.

Taylah, please. W-Why-Why
are we not just calling Jane?

'Cause we don't have time.

Okay?

If we wait for the NSA,
we're gonna lose our chance.

Come on.

{\an8}[Jane] What are we
doing here, Andrew?

{\an8}[Andrew] I want
you all to myself.

So Bogdan?

Meathead from Novi Sad?
That's our third party?

I assume he's just some
modest rung on the ladder.

Well, now he's been
spotted in Orléans.

So who's he working for,
Jane? Who's riding him?

I don't know yet, Andrew.

You know our friends on the
sideline are getting concerned.

[sighs]

Do you like Paris?

I could take it or leave it.

- "City of Love" thing.
- [sighs]

You know, my parents
honeymooned here.

Four Seasons. Avenue George V.

Mmm.

You know that thing that
couples do when they first meet?

The whole dance they do.

All the little
rituals of courtship.

They're pretending to be
something they're not.

And yet anyone knows if you
want a relationship to last,

lies, not the best currency.

I think the same
goes for colleagues.

Did you rehearse this speech?

All morning. Do you like it?

What's going on with
Taylah? Why'd she run?

You promised me we could trust her and
now we both know that that was a lie.

Okay.

I gave her one job.

To keep Edward safe.

You may not like it, but
that's what she's doing.

She's protecting him.

- Bullshit.
- [sighs]

Now...

[clicks tongue] ...I'm gonna
be super clear here. Okay?

I don't give a single grain
of sh*t about this girl

or your personal
feelings about her.

You are compromised and she is
causing this agency problems.

Drawing attention to
our little secret.

Now, I get it.

You got nothing real in
your life outside this job.

- You've gone all in on your goddaughter.
- [scoffs]

- But she is now a ticking time b*mb.
- She knows what she's...

No!

This is not just us talking.

Axiorn are breathing
down our necks.

When you get into bed with private
money, that's the whole ball game.

You have no choice here.

Edward Brooks is the most important
person on the planet right now.

So clean this mess up, Jane,
or we are both on the bonfire.

[boat announcer speaks French]

[Jane sighs]

[announcer] Ladies
and gentlemen.

Next stop, the Eiffel Tower.

[sighs]

[boat announcer speaks Spanish]

[crew member speaks French]

[shuttle announcer] For
your safety and comfort,

we recommend that you
stay in your vehicle.

Do not walk between the
vehicles during the crossing.

[Tom] Uh, so, we
tracked Bogdan Vlahovic.

Uh, he's bought tickets on Le Shuttle.
He's obviously headed to the UK.

[Jane] Taylah will
be on that train.

I want eyes in there now,
everything we've got.

And I want confirmation
that Brooks is with her.

Yep.

Hey, Ramos?

Get me access to Le Shuttle.
Calais to Folkestone.

[engine rumbles, stops]

Hey. Um, excuse me. I'm
sorry to bother you.

It's just, it's me and my friend's
first time in the Channel Tunnel.

We're just a little bit nervous.

- [chuckles] Don't be, it's very safe.
- But I-I just get claustrophobic.

It's fine. Claustrophobia
is very common.

Yeah. I-I mean, what
would happen if,

uh, the train broke down and
we were still in the tunnel

or, you know, if
something went wrong?

Let me show you.

There are actually
three tunnels.

These two have trains
running back and forth.

But the third is a service
tunnel right in the middle.

We'd evacuate
passengers into that,

and they then board the service
train in the other train tunnel.

And how long would it take for
the relief train to get here?

Eleven minutes.

You won't have to wait too
long. [inhales sharply]

- Now, if you'll excuse me?
- Yeah.

That's reassuring,
thanks. Give me a minute.

[shuttle announcer] Ladies and
gentlemen, your attention please.

Listen carefully to the
following safety information.

[broadcaster speaking French]

[shuttle announcer] ...and your
vehicle is in first gear or park.

For your safety and comfort,
we recommend that...

[phone buzzes]

[shuttle announcer] ...please
open sunroofs or vents,

and keep your windows opened
halfway throughout the crossing.

[phone buzzes]

We'd like to remind you
that for safety reasons,

flash photography and smoking
are strictly prohibited...

[phone buzzes]

Hello?

[Jane] Edward Brooks?

[Ed] Yeah?

This is Jane Torres. I'm...

Yeah, I know who you are.

Put Taylah on the
phone, will you?

How did you get this number?

I don't think you need me
to answer that question.

You're a pretty smart guy.

She's not here, but
we need your help.

- We need backup.
- Ed, who are you talking to?

And why do you have a phone?

It's your Fairy Godmother.
I asked for backup but...

Jesus.

Hello?

[Jane] Don't hang up.
Just listen to me.

You need to get off that train.

You will be in an enclosed
space with a very dangerous man.

Oh, my God, Jane. Don't
pretend like you give a sh*t.

Taylah, this is... this is
big-picture stuff, okay?

My God, you should
hear yourself.

- It's complicated.
- No.

You know you really should have prepped
this conversation. You know that?

Listen, let's get you home
and we can talk it out, okay?

So who do we have now? Robert
Mallinder, Ricky Olson.

To add to the trail of
destruction you left in Baghdad?

We can... [stammers]

- [stammers] "Did you get him? Hmm?
- I need you... I...

- Did you get him?"
- Just shut up and listen to me!

Somewhere on that train is a
private security operative.

- Bogdan Vlahovic.
- Yeah. Okay, so you know.

We cannot let him get
his hands on Edward.

Okay, so, wait, now I'm confused.
You're concerned about his well-being?

[inhales deeply]

- You saying your plans have changed?
- Jesus Christ, Taylah.

At this point, that
young man is everything.

What he knows is everything.

I swear to you, on my mother's
grave, that is all I want.

You and him. Safe.

You look exhausted.

Taylah?

Are you listening to me?

I am the only friendly face you
will ever see at this agency.

I am your lifeline.

You know my secret...

but I know yours.

[line beeps]

[sighs]

What's going on?

I told you to lose
the shitty phone.

What did she say?

[blows]

[chuckles]

[sighs]

[Ed] So? Is she gonna help?

We don't have a lot
of time. Now focus.

[stammers] I'm feeling like I
don't believe you anymore, Taylah.

Look, I'm just trying
to protect you, Ed.

[stammers] By-By lying to me?

- No, I'm not lying to you.
- Protect me from who?

Look, I-I-I told you. We just
don't have time for this, okay?

[sighs] I need to find a number.

- We're on our own, aren't we?
- [train starts]

Oh, sh*t.

[train whistle blows]

[Taylah] I'm gonna call
in a security threat.

That way they'll have
to stop the train

and evacuate all of the
passengers into a service tunnel.

- Hmm. Jesus. Wha...
- No, no, no,

that'll give me time to
pick the locks on the van.

You just have to go in and identify
the piece that we're looking for.

No. No. How-How-How
am I supposed...

If the steward comes to you to
load you into the relief train,

just... [stammers] ...I
don't know, hide, improvise.

Look, I don't have
all of the answers.

Yeah, I get that,
but-but I c-can't just...

Do you want the
missing piece or not?

Tell me what she said to you.

Okay, um.

We've entered the tunnel. Clock's
running. Let's get started.

Security passcode
clearance Artemis.

[receptionist] How can
I direct your call?

Can I speak to Antoine
Gorecki at the BSI?

[receptionist] Connecting you.

[security] State your code.

We received a Code Zero on
a UK-bound shuttle train.

Just entered the tunnel.

Immediate action required.

What's a Code Zero?

[security] Acknowledged. b*mb
alert on northbound shuttle train.

Stand by, Artemis.

[indistinct dialogue]

[sighs]

[shuttle announcer] Attention
please. Attention please.

An incident has occurred
which requires...

What now?

[Taylah] We've got 11 minutes till
the relief train arrives. Let's go.

[passengers clamoring]

[attendant] Nothing
to worry about, folks.

Just leave your vehicles.

You'll be evacuated
into the service tunnel.

[Bogdan speaks indistinctly]

- [attendant 2] You cannot.
- I cannot...

- You speak English? You speak English?
- [attendant 2] Everyone has to leave.

I understand, but
you cannot stay here.

No, you don't understand.
We tried to explain to you.

You don't understand, my friend.

[attendant 2] We make no
exceptions to the rule.

No, you have to.

- Nothing we can do.
- Lock the van.

[Philippe] Thank you.

[attendant 2] Thank
you, monsieur.

[Taylah] Let's go.

It's going to be okay, sir.
Just please go that way.

[attendant] Nothing to worry about,
folks. Just leave your vehicles.

You'll be evacuated
into the service tunnel.

[door clangs]

[shuttle announcer
speaks French]

Security team.

This is not happening.

[attendant] Won't
be long, folks.

There's another train on
its way to pick you up.

You will be reunited with your
vehicles upon reaching the UK.

[attendant] Now we just need
to check we've got everyone.

Two, four, six, eight.

- [attendant 2] Keep going forward.
- [attendant] Yes. Thank you.

[attendant 2] Thank you.

[shuttle announcer]
...illuminated green signs.

Please follow all
instructions...

- Come on. Come on. Come on. [sighs]
- They're getting closer.

- [guard] Okay, clear here.
- [sighs]

Okay.

- We've got seven minutes.
- [guard] Okay, good. Clear.

[Ed] Not if we get caught.

[guard] Come and
check that one for me.

Taylah.

Um. sh*t. Uh, just forget it.

Just get underneath the van.

- What?
- Just get underneath the van.

- Just do it. Go!
- No. [sighs]

[guard] Sweep the rear of
that car, please, mate.

- [sighs] This is insane.
- [guard] Check under the passenger seat.

What can you see?

- [grunts]
- [guard] Okay, good.

[sighs]

[whispering] Okay, okay, okay.

- [sighs] Um...
- [guard] Hey, you shouldn't be in here.

...sorry, I just have to, um... I just
need to get something from my car.

I thought it was just a few...

- I don't care. You need to leave.
- But it'll just take, like, two minutes.

[guard] The relief train's
on its way. We need to move.

- No, it would...
- Now.

[Taylah] Got it.

[shuttle announcer
speaks French]

[sighs]

[bell chimes]

It's all right, folks.
It's your relief train.

We'll get you all on board

once we've sealed the doors
of the first train tunnel.

[passengers clamoring]

[guard] Watch your back.

Coming through.

[bell chimes]

[shuttle announcer]
Please remain calm and...

Excuse me. We are
two people short.

Just one now.

Ah.

I'll go back to the
van. Distract the guard.

Thank you.

[Philippe] Can you tell me how
long this is going to take?

[Ed mutters] No, no.

[guard] Stand by
to seal the doors.

- [banging]
- [Bogdan grunting]

[grunts]

[Bogdan grunts]

[grunts]

- [groans]
- [car alarm blares]

[horn honks]

[bell chimes]

[shuttle announcer] The doors
will be sealed in 30 seconds.

[beeping]

- The doors will be sealed in 20 seconds.
- [panting]

[panting]

The doors will be
sealed in ten seconds.

- [guard] Stand by to seal the doors.
- Come on, Ed.

- ...six, five, four, three...
- [panting]

- [exclaims]
- [Ed grunts]

- [passengers exclaiming, clamoring]
- Sorry!

[shuttle announcer]
Doors closing.

Oh, sh*t.

[passengers clamoring]

[panting]

[Ed] Taylah!

Let's go.

[passengers clamoring]

[Ed panting]

[panting]

[Bogdan grunts]

Security clearance code
Artemis. We have a situation.

Alert Security to meet us on
the platform at Folkestone.

Carriage Eight.

[grunting]

[Taylah] Violent passenger out of
control. I've just sent his stats.

[panting]

[Taylah] Did you get it?

[panting]

[train honks]

Got it.

- [Taylah] Hmm.
- [Ed sniffs]

[sniffs] How long?

What?

[Ed] How long have you known
that Jane couldn't be trusted?

[sighs] Baghdad.

- [exhales] Baghdad, right?
- Yeah.

Yeah. [inhales sharply]

That's when you realized.

[exhales sharply] f*ck.

That guy who tried to
k*ll me in the market...

- Ed.
- That was arranged by your boss.

Yes.

And the NSA.

[exhales deeply]

Look, I... [sighs]
...I don't know, okay?

Why didn't you tell me?

I-I needed... I needed time
to work it all out, Ed.

- Oh, yeah, how's that going for you?
- No, I-I was just trying to protect you.

Protect me?

- You let me carry on just...
- No, I... [stammers]

I tried to make sure
that we were ahead.

Just in case, if we found
anything to use against them. Ed!

I have crossed continents
to keep you safe.

Safe?

- Me or you?
- For you.

Everything for you. So, I-I don't
know, you can live out your dreams,

your-your-your-your
destiny, whatever.

- I don't do destiny.
- Okay. Doesn't do destiny. Got it.

So-So, what do you
do again exactly?

You create math so toxic, it-it
poisons every single thing in its path?

[groans] We're gonna
do this again, are we?

- Yes, Ed. Morality.
- [breathes deeply]

Cause and effect.

Look around you. There is a
trail of destruction behind us.

And I hate to be the one to tell
you, but there's no neutral ground.

Not for you. Not for me.

The-The last speck of innocence
died with Safiya, Robert Mallinder,

- Ricky Olson.
- Wasn't my fault. That wasn't my fault.

[stammers] That's what
I'm talking about.

It's that easy for
you. You don't care.

[shuttle announcer] We are now
approaching Folkestone Terminal.

Please gather your belongings
and proceed to the exits.

[sighs] It's just the work.

[sniffles] It's just
pure mathematics.

No. Pure?

Ed, it's a forest fire. It's-It's
a plague. It's a weapon.

Everything in the wrong
hands is a weapon.

Oh, my God.

Every commercial flight,
every power station.

It's not what I create, it's
what the world does to it.

Oh, my God!

- You are just so willfully blind...
- [groans]

...and you don't even see it.

This could break every
lock in the world, Ed.

A world without
privacy. N-No secrets.

Secrets?

Secrets, yeah. [sucks teeth]

Coming from the woman
who k*lled her boyfriend

then ran away to the NSA so
they could cover it all up.

It's not like running away
to the circus, Taylah.

You... You are the moral
coward here, not me.

I mean, no wonder you're scared. Look
at you, you're sh1tting yourself.

Yeah.

Okay? I-I'm scared.

I'm scared and I
k*lled someone I loved,

but I have to live with that
for the rest of my life.

But you, you-you-you-you
create this stuff in your head

and the rest of the world
has to live with it.

Don't follow me.

Ed, you're not safe!

God, Ed! Nothing in
this world is pure.

[sighs]

[Taylah sighs]

[breathing heavily]

Keep coming, ladies and
gentlemen. This way please.

The coach to the right.

[sighs]

[Jane] Track him. He's
got work to finish.

[coach crew member] The
first coach is now full.

Please take the
coach to your left.

[coach announcer] For your safety,
CCTV recording is in operation

- during this journey.
- [sighs]

Emergency exits are located at
the front and rear of this vehicle

and are clearly marked.

Now please sit back, relax
and enjoy your journey.

[sighs]

[sighs]

[Jane] I guess I'm left to
clean up your mess again.

Okay.

Let's talk.