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00:02I cannot believe you got us into the all-time love.
00:06What?
00:06It's like you give us a comeback tour?
00:08See, and then it was our first date.
00:10Yeah, but how did you even afford the tickets?
00:12The show was sold out.
00:14Five years married, you deserve the best for our anniversary.
00:18Meaning I don't want to know.
00:22I love my wife!
00:24Whoa.
00:25I'm sorry about that, guys.
00:27Why don't you watch where you're walking?
00:28Calm down. It was an accident.
00:30Calm down? You want to go right now?
00:32Okay, okay. My husband had a few too many.
00:35He didn't mean anything by it. He's sorry.
00:37No harm, no foul. Right?
00:41You guys have a nice night.
00:47It's Fleet Week.
00:49What, are you trying to start a fight with the whole freaking Navy?
00:51I can take him.
00:53Because your love makes me strong.
00:56Okay. I love you, too.
00:57Come on, let's get you home if you're trying to find it in the Army, too.
01:15I'll be honest.
01:16It's a lot.
01:18But I have taken the time.
01:21And I've really let myself feel all of it.
01:23And I know that grief is a process.
01:25It's going to come and go.
01:27But I have been taking care of myself.
01:30And I just had my last session with my EIP counselor, and he agrees.
01:34I'm ready to be back.
01:36I got his recommendations.
01:38But I have to sign off that you are okay to return to the field.
01:42Maggie, losing your sister, that was an incredible trauma.
01:46And you said the exact same things after losing your husband.
01:51Verbatim.
01:52I wish I could say I haven't been here before.
01:57But I have.
01:58I'm just...
01:59I'm worried.
02:01Are you saying what we need to hear?
02:03No.
02:05The man who killed my sister is dead.
02:08I got justice for Aaron.
02:10I mean, as much as I could.
02:12It wasn't the same thing with Jason.
02:14It took me years to get closure for him.
02:19Isabel, I'm good.
02:22You ready to get back into it?
02:23Jubal just flagged a double homicide in Flatbush.
02:26I'm ready.
02:30Okay.
02:36That way.
02:38Keep an eye on her.
02:41I always do.
02:44Hey, I wanted to say thanks for checking in with me back in Indiana.
02:48You're really...
02:49I know.
02:50Yeah.
02:51If I lost my sister, you would have done the same for me.
02:53I know.
02:55FBI?
02:56Yeah.
02:56Detective Hill, NYPD.
02:58Uh, it's Special Agent Maggie Bell.
02:59This is Special Agent Zidane.
03:01We got a call?
03:02Yeah.
03:02The wife there?
03:03She's a federal employee.
03:04Office of Inspector General.
03:06Guess we're up to bat.
03:07Sorry to pass the buck.
03:08What can you tell us?
03:10Mel, her husband, Charlie Hackinson, executed after leaving a show at King's Theater late last night.
03:15Working theory was gang initiation.
03:17Kids killing random civilians.
03:19Wrong place, wrong time.
03:20It happens.
03:21Any witnesses?
03:22Some sailors on shore leave from Fleet Week.
03:24They called 911.
03:26I was just about to interview them.
03:27We can handle that.
03:28Thanks, Detective.
03:29Sure thing.
03:29Good luck.
03:30Thanks.
03:32I exchanged some words with the husband, but we were walking away when I heard the tire squeal.
03:36So they weren't on foot.
03:38A dark van pulled up next to them.
03:40Driver sprayed them with a pistol.
03:41It was over in a second.
03:42Over in a second.
03:43There's two dozen shell casings on the ground.
03:44It couldn't have been that fast.
03:45It was automatic.
03:47Had an extended clip.
03:48Never seen anything like that.
03:50We ran over to try to help.
03:52Maybe do CPR, but they were clearly dead.
03:55That's when I called 911.
03:57Did you happen to get a visual of the assailant?
03:59Or a plate?
04:00Sorry, ma'am.
04:01No.
04:01It was dark.
04:03Okay.
04:03Thanks for your help.
04:06They're all .40 caliber.
04:07Pretty common.
04:08Yeah.
04:09I'll get them to ballistics.
04:10Also, we should check out the security cams.
04:12Maybe we can ID the assailant that way.
04:16I mean, gang initiation?
04:18I don't know.
04:20And she's back.
04:22What do you think?
04:23Well, we've been popping off this many rounds
04:24and making sure they were dead.
04:27Doesn't sound random.
04:28That sounds targeted.
04:35All right, people.
04:36I need a coffee and a sit rep.
04:38Talk to me.
04:39So Mel and Charlie Hackinson,
04:41age 32 and 33,
04:43shot dead late last night
04:44after a show in Flatbush.
04:45Are we finding any reason
04:46why somebody would have wanted them dead?
04:48Not really.
04:49Social media indicates
04:50they were happily married five years.
04:51We're following up with family and friends,
04:53but so far,
04:54it doesn't sound like the Hackensons
04:55had any enemies.
04:57Nothing's jumping out.
04:58Well, nothing yet,
04:58but we're just warming up, right?
05:00Marnie, you don't have to do that.
05:02You're my new favorite.
05:04Oh, wait.
05:05We have a video, don't we?
05:06Yes.
05:06Maggie and OA found a camera
05:08that caught the shooting.
05:09We get a look at the shooter?
05:10Uh, no, but we ID'd the van.
05:12NYPD reported it stolen two days ago,
05:14although no footage of the theft.
05:16Okay.
05:16But we found casings at the scene, right?
05:18We get anything from that?
05:19Yes.
05:19Ballistics ran it.
05:20The ejector marks
05:21on the underside of the casings
05:22confirmed that weapon
05:23is a Glock pistol.
05:24Best guess,
05:25given it was chambered
05:25in .40 cal,
05:27Glock 22.
05:27Wait, but the witness said
05:29he saw an automatic, right?
05:30Uh, yeah.
05:30It was probably modded
05:31with illegal parts.
05:32Using an auto-seer
05:33can turn any pistol
05:34into a fully automatic
05:35spray-and-pray handgun.
05:37Okay.
05:37Any way to trace the mods
05:39through the shells or something?
05:40Unfortunately, no.
05:41Streets are swimming
05:41with modified handguns.
05:42ERT is dusting casings
05:44for prints,
05:44but I'm not holding my breath.
05:45Right.
05:46So a whole bunch
05:46of nothing so far,
05:48but clearly somebody wanted
05:49this married couple dead.
05:50So let's open up
05:51their story a bit.
05:52Where do they work?
05:52Where do they play?
05:53Any red flags?
05:54Charlie worked
05:55at the Port of New York
05:56as a longshoreman
05:57unloading freight,
05:58not so much
05:59as a parking ticket
05:59on his record.
06:00Mel was an analyst
06:02with the Office
06:03of Inspector General,
06:03investigated complaints
06:05of fraud and waste
06:06inside the federal government.
06:08Right.
06:08She basically pissed people
06:09off for a living.
06:10That can relate.
06:11That could easily be
06:11a motive there, right?
06:12So let's bring her boss in,
06:13see what Mel was working on.
06:16OIG employees,
06:17they get threats
06:17all the time.
06:19Now we got these
06:20citizen journalists
06:21digging in
06:22on everything we do.
06:23We get paid peanuts
06:25to keep people honest,
06:26and then now this?
06:29I'm sorry.
06:31It's okay.
06:32What did Mel do exactly?
06:34She was an analyst,
06:36just crunching numbers,
06:37making sure they lined up.
06:38And these are all
06:39of her active audits?
06:40Yeah, Mel oversaw
06:41just a handful of
06:42NGOs, federal contractors.
06:44Okay, and if she stumbled
06:45upon something
06:46during one of these audits?
06:48She would have flagged it,
06:49and then she would have
06:49reported it to me.
06:55There's something
06:55you want to tell us, Abe?
07:00Look, Mel was a great employee.
07:03Never any issue.
07:04I knew I could count on her,
07:05you know?
07:06Three days ago,
07:07I get this alert.
07:07Mel had logged into
07:09one of our digital forensic tools
07:10after hours,
07:12completely off book,
07:13not tied to any
07:14approved investigation.
07:16She was digging into some guy,
07:18his personal life,
07:20way out of bounds.
07:22I was going to confront her
07:24about it.
07:25Today,
07:27I don't know what
07:27she was looking for,
07:29but nothing good
07:30was going to come out of it.
07:33we're going to need a name.
07:36All right, folks,
07:37eyes up.
07:37One of our Vicks
07:38was running an off-book
07:39investigation into this man,
07:41Donnie Slomkowski,
07:42so run him through
07:43your systems, yeah?
07:44All right, what do we know?
07:44Okay, Donnie, 34,
07:46born and raised
07:47in New Brunswick.
07:48He's got a spotty work history,
07:50but he was busted in 2014
07:51for armed carjacking,
07:53sentenced to 15 years
07:54in New Jersey State Prison,
07:55paroled out two weeks ago,
07:57last known address
07:57this is his mother's house.
07:58Okay, this sounds promising.
08:01Can we connect the thread
08:01between Mel Hockinson and Donnie?
08:04Who was he to her?
08:04Why was she looking into him?
08:06Yeah, it took a deeper dive
08:07into Mel's social media.
08:09Looks like she, Charlie, and Donnie,
08:10they all knew each other
08:11from high school.
08:11They were friends.
08:12Uh, more than friends.
08:14Mel and Donnie used to date,
08:16even signed a lease together
08:17in 2013.
08:18Right, so they were getting serious.
08:20New York lease?
08:20That's commitment to me.
08:22Yeah, but while Donnie
08:23was in prison,
08:24it ends,
08:25and plot twist,
08:25Mel marries Charlie,
08:27sends Donnie a note
08:28to explain it's in his file
08:29because afterwards,
08:30he sends her a series
08:31of threatening letters
08:32until he loses male privileges.
08:35Okay, let's track him down.
08:37Yeah, this is easy math, right?
08:38Donnie goes to prison,
08:40Mel breaks up with him
08:41and then marries his old pal Charlie,
08:42and nine years later,
08:43Donnie gets out.
08:44He's a scorned, jilted lover
08:45looking for payback,
08:46and Mel, concerned that Donnie's out,
08:48looks him up.
08:49Boss.
08:49Yeah, where's Donnie now?
08:50A plate reader just picked up
08:51a vehicle registered to him
08:52crossing the Brooklyn Bridge.
08:53Have a team pick him up.
09:07Donnie Slymkowski,
09:08FBI!
09:10He's booking it!
09:13Hey!
09:16Get off!
09:17Let's go.
09:18On the ground, now!
09:22Donnie Slymkowski,
09:24you're under arrest.
09:31Mel and Charlie are dead?
09:34Spraying 20 rounds into people
09:36can have that effect on them.
09:38Well, we're not telling you
09:39anything that you don't already know.
09:41Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
09:42I didn't have anything to do with this.
09:43When was this?
09:44Donnie, stop, all right?
09:45We know that you were in love with Mel.
09:47You went to prison,
09:49she broke your heart,
09:50and married your best friend.
09:51I did not!
09:52I would never hurt Mel or Charlie.
09:56When was this?
09:57When?
09:58Yeah, when they get killed.
09:5911.30 last night.
10:01In the city?
10:02In Flatbush.
10:03Yeah, see, I was in Jersey
10:05all night.
10:06I have to be.
10:08It's part of my parole.
10:08I can't leave the state.
10:09Donnie, my partner fed you
10:11New York State pavement
10:13not more than an hour ago.
10:14That's why I ran.
10:16I didn't want to get violated.
10:17I stayed at my cousin's last night
10:18in Jersey.
10:20There's like four people
10:21who can vouch for me.
10:21So what were you doing
10:22in the city today?
10:28Charlie had something going on.
10:31Easy money, he said.
10:33He said he'd cut me in.
10:34He called like a week ago.
10:36Knew I got out.
10:37Life-changing money, he said.
10:41All right, I'll bite.
10:44So, what can you tell us
10:46about this life-changing money scheme?
10:48The ports.
10:49His boss had it all figured out.
10:50They were smuggling things
10:51in through the ports.
10:52That's what he said.
11:00They're really gone.
11:02Yeah.
11:05All right, so this is Charlie's boss.
11:07Yeah, Ron Stromberger, 58.
11:09He's been a longshoreman for 20 years,
11:12foreman for six.
11:13He's divorced, kids are with the ex-wife.
11:16Seems like a solid citizen on paper.
11:18Any criminal record?
11:19Uh, misdemeanor drunk in public
11:21from 15 years ago.
11:22Otherwise, no.
11:23All right, so what is he moving
11:24to generate all this cash?
11:25Drugs, guns, what?
11:27Whatever it is,
11:27maybe he didn't want Charlie's
11:29ex-con buddy cut in on it.
11:30Oh, yeah.
11:31Blue slip sinks ships.
11:33The shady foreman Ron
11:34flies off the handle,
11:35silences his guy
11:36for getting sloppy.
11:38That plays.
11:38Where's Ron now?
11:40His phone is picking at home.
11:42Mid-work day.
11:43Let's go have a chat.
11:53Maggie.
11:54I see it.
12:15Joey?
12:17That looks like an eyeball.
12:18Yeah.
12:35Whoa
12:38Ron Strumberger
12:40What's left of him?
12:47All right, so Ron Strumberger, a person of interest in our double homicide, just up and found himself murdered, which
12:53either makes it a triple homicide or, I don't know, maybe this is an eye for an eye kind of
12:57thing.
12:57No way he could have been involved in the hit on the Hackensons. Preliminary ME report on Ron came in.
13:02He was tortured and killed roughly 18 hours before.
13:05Right. Okay, so he smuggled something through the port and Ron's afoul of the people he's working with, and so
13:12they torture him until he gives up Charlie. No, we're missing something here.
13:18Yeah, that picture's still pretty blurry, but ERT processed partial prints from Ron's body.
13:22All right, tell me when it spits something out. Oh, and keep digging into Ron and Charlie. Let's turn their
13:26lives inside out.
13:27What passes illegally through this port? Drugs, weapons, counterfeit goods. You know what, Elise? Let's have a team talk to
13:34the CBP supervisor at the port. Maybe they can help shed some light.
13:38Me and Ron locked horns a few times, but he was good, Pete. I can't believe he and Charlie are
13:43dead.
13:43Well, not just Charlie. His wife, Mel, was killed, too.
13:46The wife, too? That's off.
13:49Help us out. How's all this work?
13:51Ron and his guys unload the cargo from the ships, get it organized for inspection. Clears Customs, it's free to
13:56leave the port.
13:58Now, it's possible that Ron and Charlie could have made a container go missing before it hit inspection.
14:03It happens in history.
14:06Hey, Odell! Lunch was over an hour ago. Get back to work!
14:11You personally sign off on every container that comes through here?
14:14Special Agent Bell, take a look around.
14:16I got 21,000 cans coming through here on a slow day. Meanwhile, I lost 20% of my inspectors
14:22to federal budget cuts.
14:23There's just simply no way that we can inspect all of them.
14:27It's Chuck.
14:31Hey, Jubal. I'm speaking with the supervisor. What's up?
14:33Hey, we got a hit on those parcels ERT pulled from Ron Stromberger's body.
14:37Is the suspect got a criminal record?
14:39Worse. He's a fed. He's the guy you're talking to.
14:41Border Patrol supervisor Wallencutt. You need to bring him in.
14:49Got it.
14:51Cuff him.
14:53What?
14:55Fingerprints are on Ron's body.
14:57Oh, I didn't kill him.
15:00Look, I heard about Charlie's murder on New York 1 this morning.
15:03I was spinning out, so I went to go check in with Ron.
15:06Except when I get there, I find him in that chair, missing an eyeball.
15:08So I checked his pulse. That's it. You know, I swear I didn't kill him.
15:16He was ice cold when I got there.
15:18Well, you should have called 911.
15:23I think I need to talk to a lawyer.
15:25Why, because you're involved?
15:26You have every right to talk to a lawyer, but that's going to slow everything down.
15:30And the killer's going to walk away.
15:31And it will reduce the value of your cooperation.
15:35I want immunity.
15:37Utility at USA.
15:38All right, we can talk to them, but we can't make any promises.
15:40David, you want to help yourself?
15:42This is your moment.
15:47I've been helping Ron for years.
15:49Letting the odd container slip through without inspection.
15:52What were they smuggling?
15:53I didn't want to know.
15:55I just took my cut, looked the other way, kept it clean.
15:57Well, there's nothing clean about three murders, so what changed this time?
16:01Ron got suspicious, peeked in the container, saw something.
16:05Got greedy.
16:06I went to go squeeze his clients for even more cash.
16:09A shakedown?
16:10Sure.
16:11Ron told Charlie to drive the container out of the port, stash it someplace while he went back to them.
16:16Must have rubbed them the wrong way.
16:17I warned him.
16:19I did.
16:19Got to push his luck.
16:21Who's the client?
16:23I'm telling you.
16:25I wasn't involved like that.
16:26Only Ron knew.
16:28Okay, what about the container?
16:29Can you ID it?
16:31Sure, but it's long gone.
16:33And only Charlie knew where Ron wanted to hide it.
16:36Don't be so sure.
16:37Let's go.
16:41All right, listen up.
16:42Wallencott says this is the container we are looking for,
16:45and whatever was inside already got three New Yorkers killed.
16:47We got full cooperation from Customs and the Federal Maritime Commission,
16:50so let's find it before anyone else dies.
16:52What do we know?
16:53All right, the container in question was loaded onto the MV Mayguard Messina in Istanbul two weeks ago
16:58by a Turkish distributor, Behrend Exports.
17:01Now, according to the manifest, it was coffee.
17:04Well, I like Turkish brew as much as the next guy,
17:07but something tells me this is not about beans.
17:09Well, isn't Java the go-to good for drug traffickers,
17:12trying to throw off the scent-sniffing dogs?
17:13Well, yeah, less vital when the dogs are on the payroll, but...
17:16Hey, uh, tracking the Messina's course,
17:18it looks like the container arrived at the port of New York and New Jersey three days ago.
17:21Okay, what happened next? Can we track its movements out of the port?
17:23There are cameras located throughout the terminals.
17:26I am cross-referencing with Charlie's last few shifts.
17:29Here we go.
17:30Yeah?
17:30Once it was offloaded from the ship,
17:32Charlie placed it in secondary holding.
17:33Then two days ago at 12.48 p.m.,
17:36Charlie exits the port at Essex Avenue, driving the container out.
17:39Okay, can we trace it via GPS?
17:41Uh, no, the cab isn't outfitted with ELD tracker,
17:44and there's no GPS devices on the container.
17:46All right, well, finding a 40-foot shipping container in New York City
17:49should not be that difficult.
17:50Somebody prove me right.
17:52Yes, I may have a way if I pull images from the container's big ID numbers,
17:56like so.
17:57I can cross-reference it against street cams, pole cams, social media posts.
18:02Looks like something's happening.
18:04Yeah, got something.
18:05It's a post from a tagger a day ago.
18:07Container in the background.
18:08Yeah, I'm geolocating the image.
18:10Scrap metal dealer in Brooklyn.
18:12All right, get a team there now.
18:17Jacques said I was here.
18:20First day back.
18:21You doing all right?
18:23Isabel asked you to check up on me?
18:26It's not a conspiracy, Maggie.
18:27I was going to do it anyway.
18:30It's tough.
18:32You'll be all right.
18:37Boy.
18:40Custom seal's broken.
18:43Okay, whatever they were smuggling's got to be long gone by now.
18:56All I'm seeing is what was on the manifest.
19:03Who kills three New Yorkers over coffee beans?
19:10Come here.
19:13Move these.
19:27I don't think they were smuggling drugs.
19:29Transporting someone.
19:31But who?
19:34So ERT obtained saliva samples and prints from the cans found in the container.
19:38We ran the DNA through NDIS.
19:40Nothing popped.
19:41Then we tried the Interpol database, and that's where it gets interesting.
19:47Anzor Gary, the Chesham bomb maker.
19:50Legendary bomb maker.
19:51Yeah.
19:52Read notice by Interpol.
19:53He's on their terrorism watch list for ties to multiple groups in Eastern Europe.
19:57Are you saying what I think you're saying?
19:58Someone smuggled a terrorist into New York City and executed anyone who knew about it.
20:07What has Anzor Gary been up to lately?
20:09So, according to Interpol, he specializes in building highly lethal IEDs.
20:14He's suspected in attacks that have killed pro-Russian forces in Chechnya.
20:18He's also linked to transnational organized crime rings operating in Eastern Europe,
20:22who've used his explosives to blast open bank vaults.
20:25Interpol lost track of Anzor when he disappeared in Chechnya three years ago.
20:30Rummined was that he was taken to a Russian black site or killed.
20:34And now he's back from the grave.
20:36Well, whoever murdered our victims, they smuggled Anzor here for a reason.
20:39Right.
20:39We find him.
20:40We find our killer.
20:41Can we tie this guy to any known groups operating stateside?
20:44Teams digging in.
20:44So far, nothing.
20:45Meaning we don't know who Anzor is working with or what they could possibly want on U.S. soil.
20:49Well, whatever it is, we won't like it.
20:51You know what?
20:51Let's have our agents press their CIs, see if they've heard any whispers.
20:56I know someone who might be able to help.
20:58Yeah.
20:59But he's not going to be happy to see us.
21:02Us?
21:15Hey, maybe you can help us.
21:17I'm looking for an anniversary gift for my lovely wife.
21:21You've come to the right place.
21:24Anything particular?
21:25But you know what?
21:26I'm going to let her tell you.
21:31Do you have any of your marquee cut garnet pendants?
21:35The way they catch the light is so beautiful.
21:38Unfortunately, we've not had Shippenton quite a while.
21:43You do not want to disappoint my wife.
21:46Trust me.
21:49Yeah, well, I have some other pieces in the private showroom you might be interested in if you just join
21:57me.
22:05It's been a while, Ruslan.
22:10When you took out Alexia and his psychos, you told me I was done.
22:14My debt has been paid.
22:17My debt has been paid.
22:17Well, CI agreements may conclude, but relationships never end.
22:24Anzor Gary is here in New York.
22:28Impossible.
22:29We have his DNA.
22:31There's no doubt.
22:32We need your help.
22:33Do you have any idea where Anzor could be hiding?
22:37No.
22:39Whatever operation he's involved with it is quiet.
22:43I haven't heard a thing.
22:45We believe the people that Anzor's working with have already murdered three New Yorkers.
22:52Groszny, 2023.
22:55Anzor set off an IED made out of TATP.
22:59Took out a building while attacking a pro-Russian convoy.
23:0427 civilians dead.
23:06You'll have a lot more death on your hands if you don't catch them.
23:09Then give us something to work with.
23:12It's not my world anymore, Agent Castile.
23:18Get out of my shop.
23:27All right, folks.
23:28So, uh, Isabel's CI was a bust, but he did mention that Anzor had used TATP as an explosive material.
23:34What is that again?
23:36TATP, a.k.a.
23:38Mother of Satan, favored by terrorists because it could be made from everyday chemicals.
23:42Right, so Anzor could manufacture it using off-the-shelf ingredients.
23:44Yeah, but he would need a lot of hydrogen peroxide.
23:47That's one of the active ingredients.
23:49But if he is buying in bulk, it would pop up on our radar.
23:51We would be aware.
23:52Which is why I'm looking into hydrogen peroxide manufacturers.
23:55Okay, great.
23:56We're thinking, uh, some bulk order, some wholesale purchase.
23:59Yep.
23:59Yeah, you could do that or buy the whole damn company.
24:03Look at this.
24:03New Jersey-based chemical manufacturer bought out of bankruptcy two months ago by an offshore firm.
24:08Crown Chemicals.
24:09Crown Chemicals.
24:10Hey, Homeland, can you check if Crown Chemicals comes up in connection to any Eastern European organized crime ring?
24:16According to bankruptcy documents, one of the assets purchased was a large stock of hydrogen peroxide.
24:21It's in a warehouse in Bayonne.
24:23Okay, let's coordinate with our New York office, get our agents and SWAT down there to investigate.
24:29Sniper on Overwatch hasn't seen any movement inside.
24:31There's a lot of chemicals in there.
24:37Breach it.
24:37Greaches.
24:40Greaches.
24:42Greaches.
25:16FBI, get up on your feet.
25:18Oh, God.
25:23Andrew, Gary, keep those hands so we can see them.
25:26No, no, no. You do not understand.
25:28They forced me.
25:29They made me do it.
25:39You have to understand.
25:41I never wanted to make bumps.
25:43Says the man responsible for the deaths of 27 civilians.
25:47The blood on my hands is a stain I can never wash away.
25:50Three years ago, I was abducted from my home by Chechen separatists.
25:54They knew what I was capable of.
25:57They forced me to build IEDs to use against pro-Russian forces in Chechnya.
26:02Well, you're a long way from Chechnya, so how'd you get out?
26:05When the Chechens needed more funds for their cause, they sold me to Houthi fighters.
26:12Oh, rebels in Yemen.
26:13I refused to work with men.
26:15They were ruthless, cruel men.
26:17They beat me.
26:19But that only strengthened my resolve until they threatened to kill my wife and son.
26:26I'm sorry.
26:28But I did not want to do what they forced me to do.
26:31You're telling me the Houthis smuggled you into the United States?
26:35Yes, Agent Skola.
26:36The Houthis are here, planning an attack.
26:39They blame you, America, for the deaths in their country.
26:43People will die.
26:45The Houthis are on the ground here.
26:46I thought they were pirates in the Red Sea.
26:48Well, they're insurgents waging civil war against the Yemeni government.
26:51The U.S. is unofficially at war with them.
26:54Wait, where are you going?
26:56If there's any truth to what he said, I gotta make a call.
26:59Where's the attack happening?
27:01What's the intended target?
27:02They never said, but they needed bombs.
27:05They made me build two shaped charges, 50 pounds each.
27:10Small enough to fit in a backpack.
27:12Backpack bombs means they could be headed anywhere in the city.
27:15They're carrying enough explosive power to blow up an entire city block.
27:19I didn't want anything to do with this.
27:22You must believe me.
27:23Okay, if what you say is true, Anzor, you won't be held responsible.
27:26But we need to know who is behind this attack so we can stop them.
27:30He never told me his name.
27:33I only heard his men refer to him as Al-Sakar.
27:38Arabic for the Falconer.
27:43Thank you, Nikki, for coming down.
27:45Sure, New York Station's always happy to help our friends, the FBI.
27:49So, Falconer is stateside, huh?
27:51Yeah, what can you tell us about him?
27:53Well, his real name is Hamza al-Haddad.
27:56He's a senior commander with the Houthis.
27:58He needs a unit that's been firing anti-ship missiles into the Red Sea for months.
28:03Al-Haddad is violent. He shows no mercy.
28:05All right, so he's tough on his own turf, but what about an away game?
28:09He had the resources to pull off an op here.
28:11And then some.
28:12Yeah.
28:12CIA's CT Mission Center has tracked intel that international shipping firms have been sending the Houthis $180 million a month
28:20in protection.
28:21It's all under the table, of course.
28:23They make sure their shipments aren't attacked while transiting the Red Sea.
28:27If Al-Haddad is on the ground in New York, you've got your work cut out for you.
28:32Do you have any idea about his targets?
28:35Best guess, he'll go with what he knows.
28:37His container ship at the ports?
28:40Maybe cruise ship terminal?
28:41Well, we'll dig in.
28:43Wait, Jewel.
28:43Yeah.
28:44Look.
28:48It's Fleet Week.
28:49We just brought the perfect target straight to him.
29:00Everybody listen up.
29:02I just got off with the Pentagon.
29:03We believe Al-Haddad and his Houthis militants are targeting Fleet Week.
29:08Currently, we have eight U.S. Navy ships docked at Pierce throughout this city for visitation by the public.
29:14This is Nikki Raynard from the State Department.
29:16She will be lending a hand.
29:17Don't worry, folks.
29:18I won't slow you down.
29:19Okay.
29:19So, so, NYPD, let's start evacuating civilians from those areas.
29:23Uh, Kelly, Marnie, we need to scrub every street cam from Lower Manhattan.
29:27Let's see if we can get a fix on Al-Haddad.
29:29Uh, at least look for some kind of connection between Al-Haddad and these ships.
29:32If we can figure out what his target is, I think we'll have a fighting chance, right?
29:36How vulnerable are these ships?
29:37I mean, Navy has security checks, no bag policies, but we know these bombs are compact, right?
29:43So...
29:44Well, Al-Haddad smuggled a Chechen bomb maker into this country.
29:47He can get around a bag policy.
29:48We have a target-rich environment.
29:50He could take out multiple ships.
29:52Okay, so we need to get agents to each one of these Fleet Week locations, yeah?
29:56No, no, it's more personal than that.
29:58The USS Maldonado, a guided missile destroyer, was deployed last year in an anti-Houthi operation.
30:05The Navy was trying to protect commercial shipping.
30:08The Maldonado was in the Red Sea.
30:09It had an incident during deployment.
30:12The Maldonado launched the Maldonado launched a strike against a suspected Houthi missile site.
30:16It had bad intel.
30:18The strike killed 20 civilians, including Al-Haddad's wife and daughter.
30:24Okay, okay.
30:25All right, this is a revenge mission.
30:29How many sailors aboard the Maldonado?
30:32Yeah, a full complement, over 300.
30:34Where is it docked now?
30:35Pier 124, out near the Throcknec Bridge in the Bronx.
30:38Isabel, I need to update my team.
30:40I'll walk you out.
30:41Okay, we need to spool up a helicopter.
30:43I want a team on the Maldonado.
30:44If there's a bomb already aboard that ship, I want to find it.
31:10Captain Hannah Green.
31:12Special agents, Ramos and Skola.
31:13Thanks for coming aboard.
31:14Is this the device?
31:15FBI bomb tech.
31:16This is a handheld explosive detector that will collect trace amounts of TATP.
31:19Understood.
31:20Where are we at?
31:21Our ship's clear of civilians.
31:22I've got every sailor sweeping the ship as we speak.
31:24Nothing to report yet.
31:25Your crew noticed anything suspicious on today's tours?
31:27It's fleet week.
31:28Number of tourists, families passing through.
31:30It'd be easy to slip away if you knew what you were doing.
31:32How much of the ship did you take the public through?
31:34Main deck, the bridge where we're standing.
31:36Never the lower levels.
31:37We're still going to sweep the entire thing.
31:39If there are bombs on board, we're going to find them.
31:42Have you heard from me when Skola yet?
31:44They're in mid-sweep, nothing yet.
31:45As if the bombs are even on board.
31:47Jubal got a report of shots fired off of 127th Street out in Queens, right on the waterfront.
31:51All right, yeah, put up a map.
31:56It's clear line of sight across the East River to Pier 124 in the Bronx.
31:59That's where the USS Maldonado's docked.
32:02That's what?
32:03Two miles as the crow flies?
32:05Or a drone.
32:07Yeah.
32:09It's worth checking out.
32:10Get Maggie and O.A. there now.
32:20FBI!
32:21Need a backup?
32:22So I'll be here in a minute.
32:23What happened?
32:25My partner tried to sight him for a living parking near the water.
32:30Out of nowhere, he pulled the heavy artillery and started blasting.
32:35We believe that these men have control over two bombs.
32:38Jesus, Mary.
32:38Okay, we need to move fast.
32:40Can you lay down some press of fire for us?
32:42Hey, FBI wants some glory.
32:43Let's help them out and pin these guys down.
32:48Go!
33:07I got a Glock 22 with a switch.
33:10Patkinson's killer.
33:12Any of these guys all head out?
33:14No.
33:15Five shooters down.
33:16Hadad's not here.
33:18Someone else.
33:18Let's go.
33:29Are those the bombs?
33:32They were.
33:35Oh, eh?
33:37They're on the drones.
33:50Captain, we just got word that two drones have launched from the opposite side of the East River
33:54and are likely targeting this ship.
33:55Sound general quarters, spin up our radar and activate the CIC.
34:00General quarters, general quarters.
34:01Captain confirmed.
34:03Two birds in the air bearing 357 degrees.
34:05Range 3,400 meters, closing fast.
34:08So, what's the plan, Captain?
34:11Our Aegis combat system is offline.
34:13Half the crew is on shore leave.
34:15Our closed-in weapon system isn't traveling with a full loadout.
34:18Wait, are you telling me that a warship the size of a building doesn't have a way to combat a
34:22drone attack?
34:23We shouldn't need weapons systems in New York Harbor.
34:25Do we need to evacuate the remaining sailors on board?
34:28This is a U.S. naval warship, Agent Ramos.
34:30We don't evacuate.
34:33This is the Church Neo 150, a kamikaze attack drone.
34:36Its dimensions match the transport cases that Maggie and O.A. found on the beach.
34:39Okay, so we got two of these in the air right now.
34:41Each carrying a 50-pound bomb.
34:43How long till impact?
34:44FAA is tracking the drones based on their speed.
34:47A little over four minutes.
34:48Two 50-pound bombs can do a lot of damage to that destroyer.
34:50Can we just shoot them down?
34:52No.
34:53No, the FBI doesn't have that kind of anti-drone technology, and we are not shooting bombs out of the
34:57sky above New York City.
34:58Hey, the drones aren't autonomous, which means they're being piloted.
35:01Oh, okay.
35:02So, so odds are, Ahadad's in control.
35:04Can we piggyback the signal?
35:05Get control of the drones from here.
35:07Less than four minutes.
35:08I'll try.
35:08Please do.
35:09Hey, Maggie, O.A., listen up.
35:11We believe Ahadad has the controls.
35:12You need to find him and secure that controller.
35:14Copy that.
35:15He could be anywhere.
35:17No.
35:19No, I think he'd want a front-row seat to watch that ship go down that killed his wife and
35:22daughter.
35:27Did you hear that?
35:28Yeah.
35:33Maybe the jock can trace it.
35:35It's a Motorola R7.
35:36Hey, Ian, we can trace that, right?
35:38Theoretically, but it has to be in use.
35:40Less than three minutes to impact.
35:42Okay.
35:43Maggie, O.A., we might be able to reverse trace the signal from the radio.
35:46But it needs to be transmitting.
35:54Hamza Al-Hadad, this is Special Agent Maggie Bell.
35:57We know what you're trying to do.
35:59This attack isn't going to make everything right.
36:05We're running out of time.
36:07Hamza.
36:09I know you can hear me.
36:11Hamza.
36:13Come on, talk to me.
36:15I want to help you.
36:16You cannot understand.
36:21Got a hit?
36:22Okay, okay.
36:23Maggie, keep on talking.
36:24Tell me why.
36:26Why can't I understand?
36:28We've got two minutes to impact.
36:30You can talk to me.
36:32Please.
36:34My wife was killed.
36:36My daughter was killed.
36:37And for what?
36:38For what?
36:40That ship killed them.
36:43They had no part in this fight.
36:45Hamza, I'm sorry for what happened to your family.
36:48But killing innocent sailors isn't going to bring them back.
36:54Those sailors were not innocent.
36:57Would your wife want this?
37:00These murders make her proud?
37:02She was more forgiving than me.
37:04Hamza, don't do this.
37:08Ian, please tell me you got a location.
37:10No, not enough for a trace.
37:13You heard that, right?
37:15He was talking over some machine.
37:18Move her there.
37:19Let's try.
37:20Come on.
37:221.30 to impact.
37:29This is the clearest sight line.
37:30He's got to be around here.
37:32Down there on the beach.
37:36Hamza, it's over.
37:39Drop the controller.
37:40You cannot stop this.
37:42One minute.
37:46Put it down now.
37:48Jesus.
37:4950 seconds.
37:50What's going on?
37:51Jubal, we have one of the controllers.
37:53Okay, how did she disable it?
37:55An override code.
37:56I thought that had to have programmed it
37:57when he armed the drones.
37:59Boy, I don't know how to disable this.
38:01They're locked on.
38:02It's too late.
38:04They will pay for what they did to my family.
38:08T minus 30 seconds.
38:10Race.
38:12Hmm.
38:14Okay, you gotta try.
38:16What is the code?
38:19Okay, I'm jamming the drone signal.
38:20Try to take control.
38:24You got it?
38:25You got it?
38:26Come on.
38:26You got it.
38:29You got 10 seconds.
38:34Five seconds.
38:36Okay, I got one.
38:57Ava, Skola, are you okay?
39:00Yeah, yeah.
39:01A little shook up, but I think we're all good here.
39:15Great work, everyone.
39:28You said that I wouldn't understand what's fueling you.
39:31I know grief, and I know anger.
39:36And believe me when I say I know the emptiness you feel inside.
39:39You know nothing.
39:49Come.
39:52Skola and Ivar are on their way back to 26th Fed.
39:56No one was hurt.
39:56They're okay.
39:58Good.
40:06He thought that revenge would fill the hole in him.
40:14Nothing's gonna make that go away.
40:23And I realized something today.
40:27I think I've been trying to push past the same way I did with my husband.
40:36And I can't.
40:41I'm not okay.
40:44Stefano killed my baby sister.
40:47And I tried to tell myself that it's not my fault.
40:52But I had to watch my parents
40:57sob at Aaron's funeral.
41:01I'm the reason they're in pain.
41:05And I tried to take it day by day.
41:09It's like I'm not even here anymore.
41:14You know, like I'm in this nightmare that I can't wake up from.
41:22I'm never gonna be the woman that I was before.
41:29I don't know who I am now.
41:32So, how do I look my teen
41:34in their eyes and say
41:36you can rely on me?
41:40How?
41:44I've got to figure this out, Isabel.
41:46Because the truth is
41:47this job
41:49is the only thing I have left.
41:58Maggie, we've got you.
42:00We're gonna get you through this.
42:04This is where you're meant to be.
42:05you're gonna get me through it.
42:08Thanks to Mr.
42:35How are you?
42:35You're coming with me.
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