We are just now getting word of
A story developing out of hong kong.
Sources say authorities there have apprehended legendary criminal
Raymond reddington.
He's been on the fbi's most wanted list
Longer than any other fugitive.
But tonight, sources are confirming
Reddington was arrested in hong kong just hours ago.
Reddington was once a rising star at the pentagon. (cameras clicking)
Sources say he was being groomed for admiral when,
On christmas eve, 1990, while on his way home...
...To visit his wife and daughter, reddington vanished.
Female anchor: Four years later, reddington resurfaced...
And was charged with treason in absentia
For selling top secret
American intelligence to foreign states.
From this point forward, you don't exist.
(chuckles) that's a load off.
(tires screeching)
Male reporter: Just hours ago, the us state department
Confirmed reddington as being remanded into us custody,
But officials will not comment on his current location.
(upbeat music playing)
Reddington's off the radar.
What do you mean? We don't know where reddington is?
Cia's not saying.
Why not? Reddington's our asset.
Only 41 people in the us government know that.
I've talked to all of them. Nobody knows where he is.
Samar: He's been on the run for 25 years.
His arrest was bound to happen.
Reddington moves too fluidly to get caught up in something
As obvious as a public assassination in hong kong.
No, he wanted this to happen.
What if he didn't?
Why would mr. Reddington want to get captured?
Samar: His arrest happened overseas.
We have to assume he wanted proximity to something.
Well, if he's grabbed, it's either by the cia ground branch or jsoc.
You think it's an intelligence apparatus that's holding him?
Scrub our sources at langley and do it fast.
Once they drop him in whatever hole he's headed for,
He's not coming back.
(buzzer beeps)
(door closes)
202-555-0151.
You speak when you're spoken to.
202-555-0151.
Call the number. Ask for houseman.
Call the number.
Fifty thousand dollars will be transferred
Into the account of your choice.
Fifty thousand.
All I want is two minutes with your warden.
(door opens)
Found him.
Hey, hey. We got him.
Cia analyst at langley confirmed
They're holding reddington at an off-book lockdown called the factory.
That's bad news. That's really bad news.
That place is real? The factory.
Wait, what's the factory?
It's a level 10 detention facility specifically designed
To process detainees who have been trained
To withstand interrogation and torture.
Assets are brought in, information is squeezed out.
Data, intel. Anything that may be of value.
This place is a slaughterhouse for spies.
They reduce them to ones and zeroes.
What's left is a husk that either rots away behind bars
Or is executed outright.
We've got to get him out of there.
You think the cia's gonna let us talk to him?
Just walk right in there? No.
He's our asset!
No, they're going to keep him all to themselves.
If he went to this factory on purpose,
I suspect it was to make contact with somebody
He couldn't get to on the outside.
Reddington gave up 25 years of freedom to see this guy.
I want to know who he is
And what intel he's got that's so damned important.
Master sergeant desmond says you offered him a bribe.
Care to explain?
Within 12 hours,
Inmate luther todd braxton will break out of his cell.
When he does, he will steal a classified intelligence packet
That contains secrets vital to your national security.
The means for his escape and his team are already in place.
This story feels like a desperate last gasp from a dying man.
Could be.
Regardless, if you don't move quickly
The prison will be overrun
And the dozens of innocent
Men and women who operate this facility
Will be subdued and executed, beginning with you.
Luther braxton is in solitary.
Not for long.
(machine whirring)
(electricity crackling)
Guard: He's not cooperating.
Take him back to his cell. We go again in two hours.
(indistinct talk)
Agent cooper. Kat goodson.
As you know, the director has brought me here
To liaison with your task force.
Of course. We've met.
The correspondents' dinner. Ah.
You were the scotch. Neat.
Please, tell us what you know.
I'm not at liberty to say.
The clandestine service is aware of the arrangement
Your task force has with reddington.
It's why we're running point through your office.
Well, then perhaps the director should have notified me
Before sending reddington to the factory.
The section chief sent a cable from the warden.
Said the raymond reddington claims
That a detainee, one luther braxton,
Poses a national security threat
And we're hoping that you can tell us
Something about their connection.
I don't know. Who is luther braxton?
Liz: Braxton is a thief.
Interpol has been hunting him for years.
He plans his heists to occur in the midst of chaos.
He is organized, meticulous,
And he is bloody.
He stole $282 million from baghdad
In the middle of operation shock and awe.
Abducted a cia asset out of iran during the '09 election protests.
Later, he sold his secrets to beijing.
The cia announced his death two months ago.
We say that about a lot of the inmates
At the factory.
Truth is, braxton's being interrogated for secrets he stole,
From the chinese, from the iranians, us...
Ressler: Well, my money's on fact that these two have a history together.
Reddington, braxton, they're planning something.
Whatever it is, you're going to find out.
We don't have authorization.
You do now. Get to reddington. Find out what he's up to.
Hey, braxton, chow!
(crackling)
(alarms blaring)
We have a code oscar, block b, dorm six.
Activate critical response.
We need emergency response team in block b now.
(locks thudding)
Guard: In position. Suppression on the ready.
Get away from the door. Fire one!
(smoke grenade explodes)
Guard 2: Hands up! Get on the ground. (explosions)
(guard screaming) (gunfire)
Tell me what you know.
I tried. It's too late. You've lost the facility.
No. You tell me I'm gonna have an escape before it happens?
Now you're getting evac'ed out?
How the hell am I getting evac'ed out?
Orders from up top.
Bureau's been cleared to send a team,
Incoming now. Radio that chopper.
Tell them to turn around.
Why? We got a problem. Erf failed.
They're sending in the riot squad. Radio the chopper.
Get him to the evac team. Radio the chopper!
(guards shouting indistinctly)
(beeping) (locks clicking)
Inmate number 2532, xavier chavez. I know this name.
He was a court-martialed special operator out of fort carson.
We got kun phan, aka "cambodian carl."
Did 10 years in usp florence
For hacking the us missile defense agency.
Samar: What are you thinking? Ressler: I'm counting three,
Five, maybe more guys who've all
Been processed into the facility
Within the last three months.
We got a munitions expert, special forces...
I'm counting eight guys here.
Khalid sankar, yemeni medic, jonah rodriguez, ex-marine,
And cyrus choy, he's a red pole enforcer out of taiwan.
Liz: He's got an entire team in place.
What the hell is he doing?
Braxton: Let's go!
Go!
Sir.
Nest command to acr. Block b has been breached.
We need tactical reinforcement to the nest. (static over radio)
Man: Sir, we just lost video.
Camera two is down.
(muffled explosion)
(all coughing)
(rod crackling)
We gotta turn you back. We're in a full facility lockdown.
We got a breach. Detainee has taken...
(groaning)
(samar screams)
(speaking arabic)
Man: Easy.
(alarms blaring)
(panel beeping)
Desmond to deck command,
Prisoner for transport. Come back?
That $50,000 is still on the table, desmond.
It's yours for the taking.
All you've got to do is help me to help you stay alive.
(monitor beeps)
You sure about this?
Do it.
(keys clacking)
(alarm stops)
Man over radio: Eagle. Eagle, this is major. We have a breach alert.
Please authenticate.
Eagle. Eagle, this is major. We have a breach alert.
Please authenticate.
The eagle is dead.
Identify yourself.
I'm the man who just took over your gulag.
And you're a desk jockey
That's gonna put me in touch with somebody who matters.
Clear?
(breathing heavily)
(grunting)
Samar? Samar: Ressler.
I can't put any weight on my foot.
Horrible, isn't it? This room.
This is where all the prisoners come to die
After you break their minds.
They're led here like cattle for you to slaughter.
When they put down your rebellion, pal,
You're gonna take my place up here.
(men laughing) hey!
Get on your feet, lift your feet.
Get on your feet. Get on your feet.
Stay up. Get on your feet.
(choking)
Sir, uh, we have a situation.
We've lost contact with agent keen.
What about ressler? Navabi?
Nothing since after they touched down.
I've reached out to langley. The entire facility is dark.
We've got braxton. The cia's patching him through.
This is agent rosenberg, he's our hostage negotiator.
Tread lightly, agent rosenberg.
Those are my people inside there.
Understood, and they're going to be fine.
We're going to take our time, hear what he has to say,
And get everyone out alive. You ready?
(call connecting)
Mr. Braxton? This is agent phillip rosenberg.
The director of ncs has instructed me to open a dialogue with you.
We're not having a dialogue.
I'm here to listen. But first, I just need to talk to the warden.
I just need to make sure that he's okay
And can confirm the hostages are okay.
No. You're a waterboy,
A bureaucrat with a stack of cue cards.
Just need to talk to the warden.
Of course you do. Protocol.
I have him right here.
This is warden mills.
Mr. Mills. Everyone's okay?
Some casualties, but all accounted for.
That's terrific. Glad to hear your voice.
See that, mr. Braxton? I just wanted to talk to the warden.
Mr. Mills? Warden?
Mr. Mills?
I'm done talking to you, mr. Rosenberg.
I want to speak to somebody with real authority.
This is harold cooper, assistant director for the fbi.
Hello, harold cooper.
I'm pretty sure you see how this works.
I get what I need or somebody dies.
From here on forward,
I am the warden.
(footsteps)
(gasps)
What the hell are you doing here?
I came to help get you out.
You came out of curiosity.
Or maybe I actually care about what happens to you.
Your government is being robbed.
From here? How? What's he after?
The fulcrum.
I don't know what that is. The fulcrum. What is that?
It's a blackmail file.
Proof of the existence
Of an extraordinarily powerful clandestine organization.
If their activities were made public,
Some of the most powerful and influential men would go to prison
Or be executed.
And it's here? This fulcrum? (gasps)
(footsteps)
No, the fulcrum isn't here,
But I believe information critical to finding it is
And that's what braxton wants.
I'm here to stop him.
I can help you.
No. You need to leave.
Ressler and samar have been taken hostage.
They shouldn't even be here.
You never should have come here.
Why didn't you come to us?
What aren't you telling me? Why don't you want me to be here?
I'll get to ressler and samar as soon as I can,
But you need to get back on that chopper...
Not without ressler and samar. Or you.
Now, how are we going to stop braxton?
He's got an entire team.
Well, sadly there isn't a prison on earth
Where I don't know a few guys.
If braxton wants to access the secrets they beat out of us,
He's gonna need to get into the server
Which is only accessible from the nest.
How about during a lockdown?
This facility is like a submarine.
It's compartmentalized so it can only be shut down by sections.
The security protocols render the entire server room
Completely inaccessible.
How the hell do you know that? I didn't know that.
Khan has broken out of seven prisons. This will be eight.
This server room. Where is it?
Khan: Northwest quadrant. Basement.
I can't get you inside, but the german, he has an idea.
Who's she?
Who's this girl?
She's with me.
Your idea?
The boiler room.
It's located next to the server room.
If you could get there, you could reprogram it to overload.
The pressure would cause an explosion.
That would blow up the server room? If you're lucky,
You'll take out the server room.
If you're unlucky, the whole prison craters.
You said if you could get there.
Yes. The only way into the boiler room undetected
Is through a single air duct
That's less than 24 inches square.
(sighs) looks like I'm the tunnel rat.
All right.
Khan will guide you to the boiler room.
Gernert and I will be waiting for you to let us in,
Then you'll reprogram the system.
What about me? What's my job?
You don't have a job.
You're here because of what your cartel did to felix moralez
And my people in reynosa.
Okay. Shall we go to work?
(monitor beeping)
Braxton. You need to see this.
(telephone ringing)
I'm sorry, the warden can't get to the phone right now,
May I please take a message?
Nothing? Not a, "hello. How are you?"
Say something, luther.
Reddington.
That's me.
You're locked out, red.
I have complete control over this hellhole.
I'm confident you've got a plan for every imaginable scenario.
But it's the scenarios you can't imagine
That bite you in the ass, luther.
Like me. Here.
You think this is something that snuck up on me?
After belgrade?
Ah.
Belgrade.
Boy, things got nasty in belgrade, didn't they?
Funny. Up until then I was aimless. Just an ordinary thief.
But after belgrade
I became known as the man who bested the great ray reddington.
You didn't best me, luther.
You butchered and clawed your way into my pockets
And innocent people died in the process.
You're such a snob, red.
Always considered yourself above the fray,
With your handmade suits and your fancy wine,
Your private jets. Do you even drive?
You got everybody convinced you're so hard, red,
But I know better.
You're soft.
You're not getting the fulcrum.
And how you gonna stop me, red?
Bore me to death with beethoven?
Put me to sleep quoting nietzsche?
Come on.
We both know that in order to stop me you gotta have balls,
You gotta run the gauntlet.
And after belgrade, well,
That's just not gonna happen.
So tell me, how you gonna stop me, red?
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
Than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
What is that, nietzsche? No.
Bruce lee.
This man has an abdominal wound.
He's going to die.
(speaking arabic)
(breathing heavily)
Ressler: Let him down.
Damn it, let him down!
(door opens)
Okay, harold, let's test your reflexes.
This entire facility has been put into lockdown.
Meaning that all existing codes
That ran this prison have been invalidated.
We're aware of that. Good.
Then you must also be aware
That one single code has been generated by the mainframe.
A master code giving the cia and any rescue units all access.
I want it. Cooper: Understood.
I can get my people working on that right away.
Okay, your reflexes, harold, shabby.
Mine, however? Lightning quick.
You just cost an innocent woman her life,
Which means we'll just have to go get ourselves another one.
Let me set the scene for you,
Just like them old radio dramas your granny used to listen to.
I'm standing in front of a tall, fit,
Very attractive persian girl
By the name of
Samar navabi.
Maybe you're familiar with her.
Anyway, ms. Navabi has a noose around her neck,
Her very long, lovely neck
Which is about to get a lot longer unless you give me the code.
I'll give you 10 minutes.
We're going to give the codes, right?
Sir, I'm sorry, but you have to give the codes.
It's a blacksite, nobody will know we're negotiating.
I'm sorry, but...
We're gonna give the code.
I am not allowing that maniac to lynch one of my agents.
You can't give him the code.
You know the protocol.
The minute that that negotiator got here,
He gave me all the relevant details on the factory,
Including the master code. Why wouldn't I give it to him?
Braxton doesn't want the code to break out of prison.
He wants it to break into our network.
What network?
The factory isn't just a blacksite,
It's a level six intelligence node.
It communicates directly with langley,
The pentagon, the white house sit room.
The intel being squeezed out of these targets,
Our highest level targets, is mission critical.
We needed our interrogators
And our operatives in the field
Working together in real time.
So we removed any latency
Between the time we received a lead
And our ability to act on it.
You put an access point to our country's most sensitive data
In a prison with the country's most dangerous enemies?
Yes. Which is why I am asking you,
Do not release that code.
(knock on door)
Sir? Braxton's back on line.
Cooper. The code.
If I give it to you, what assurance do I have
That no hostages will be harmed?
None.
The code.
(samar choking)
You hear that sound, harold?
That's the sound of agent navabi's neck being broken.
Please. Stop. The code.
Dallas foxtrot one charlie three seven two.
Now let... (call disconnects)
Braxton? Braxton, respond!
(breathing deeply)
(speaking arabic)
We're ready here. Good.
Get to the server room.
I'll radio you once the system's back online.
Cooper: Where are we?
I've attacked this from every angle.
Once braxton reboots the servers on his end,
He'll have full access to the intelligence network.
How do we lock him out? We can't.
Not without flipping the switch on the entire network,
And braxton knows we won't do that.
What would that entail?
Our dod satellites shutting down,
A temporary loss of real time field communications.
So centcom would go dark.
Assuming we could even get authorization to do that,
It would take hours to shut it down.
Okay, once you make that last turn,
It's gonna be about 10 more feet.
You'll see a vent there going down.
Yeah, I think I see it. I'm here?
Follow that and you're in.
Cambodian carl: Braxton, we're in.
Dallas foxtrot one charlie three seven two.
(machine powering up)
(liz coughing)
You all right? Liz: Yeah.
You sure? Uh-huh.
Have you ever heard of bruno ashmanskis?
The most skilled cat burglar
I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
Bruno mostly did jobs on commission,
But he always wanted to do something for himself.
Something special.
So he got it into his head
That he was going to break into
The fitzwilliam museum in cambridge
To steal an imperial vase from the qing dynasty
Worth millions.
The single biggest trophy of his career.
What happened? I never heard from him again.
I'd always assumed he'd succeeded.
That he was sipping some umbrella-clad cocktail
On a beach in tahiti,
Until five years later, during a remodel of the fitzwilliam,
They removed a wall, and there was poor bruno.
What was left of him, anyway.
Stuck inside a heating duct, still clutching that vase.
I prefer to think of old bruno on that beach in tahiti.
Gernert: We have a problem. Hmm.
What?
Man: Our asset is tracking the extent of the breach.
It appears braxton's team has penetrated your country's network.
Do we have confirmation on what it is they're looking for?
Director: Yes, we do.
The fulcrum.
So reddington does not have it.
I never believed he did, actually.
And his efforts to stop braxton only confirm my suspicions.
What's our collateral exposure?
Honestly, none.
We're mirroring braxton's search algorithms
And if the fulcrum comes into play, we will find it.
Chinese woman: So mr. Braxton is a liability.
Oh, yes.
And mr. Reddington may no longer be a threat.
We haven't touched him for fear
That he'd use the fulcrum as...
Well, to expose us, but he's bluffing.
You can't be sure of that.
Alan fitz didn't think so.
Whether he is or not, it's a moot point.
He needs to be eliminated.
This prison of yours,
The factory,
I understand the american public
Is unaware of its existence.
Perhaps they would not
Notice if it were to disappear.
Khan: How much longer? We've had a setback.
Gernert here is working on alternatives.
I'm telling you, there are no other options.
This model has redundant computerized safeguards.
If I attempt to overpressurize the boiler tank,
Those safeguards kick in automatically.
And there's nothing you can do to override it?
It would have to be done manually.
That means someone standing here,
Resetting this pressure relief valves every 90 seconds
While someone else mans the temperature controls
Until this pressure cooker hits 700 psi.
That is not going to be me.
You're not going anywhere.
Yeah, I am.
Because whoever stays here to do this manually
Is going to be blown into a million pieces.
Or just one. Liz: Wait.
You shoot him, they'll hear.
They'll be here within 60 seconds and then what?
We can do this.
You and I.
After the pressure reaches 700,
How long do we have until it explodes?
Anywhere from 10 to 20 seconds.
But there's no way to know for sure.
You're better off walking away now.
(speaking german)
Look, red, you know that after delhi I'd do anything for you.
But the truth is, you'll be lucky to get off this rig,
And whatever your plan is, I'm not a part of it.
I've helped you, I've done my piece.
The way I see it, we're even for delhi.
(door opens)
We can do this.
Director: If we don't stop this, the death toll
Isn't going to be in the dozens,
It's going to be in the thousands.
And the world is going to look quite different,
With braxton in control of all our servers.
Every operative, every analyst,
Every case officer in his pocket.
And mr. Cooper has given him the keys to our kingdom.
We have to make sure
He never has the chance to use them.
Kat: We have federal agents on site.
Buy me more time.
Let me activate an extraction team.
No.
No, just order the strike.
Yes, sir.
I'll have planes in the air within the hour.
The target will be destroyed.
Sir, you gotta see this.
I just got confirmation that two f-22s
Were scrambled out of wright-patterson.
They seem to be headed toward the factory.
Eta to target?
Twenty-four minutes.
Get kat goodson. Now.
(computer beeping)
Braxton. Accessing information now.
One.
Two.
Three.
(monitor beeping)
650 psi.
A few more and the boiler blows.
So when are you gonna tell me the truth?
What truth?
About why you came here.
The blackmail file. The fulcrum.
I can't allow braxton to get it.
Why? What difference does it make to you if he gets it?
If he exposes this... Cabal?
The group believes I have it.
It's one of the reasons I'm still alive.
So if braxton gets it, they'll know you don't have it
And they'll kill you. Is that it?
(monitor beeping)
What's the number? Six-eighty.
So that's what this is about, this whole thing.
Protecting yourself.
It may be hard for you to imagine,
But I once had a relatively normal life.
Bills to pay. Playdates.
Family, some friends, people to care about.
I lost all that.
Lost how?
In mexico, there are these fish
That colonized the freshwater caves
Along sierra del abra.
They were lost,
They found themselves living in complete darkness.
But they didn't die, instead they thrived.
They adapted.
They lost their pigmentation, their sight,
Eventually even their eyes.
With survival they became hideous.
I've rarely thought about what I once was,
But I wonder,
If a ray of light
Were to make it into the cave,
Would I be able to see it?
Or feel it?
Would I gravitate to its warmth?
And if I did,
Would I become
Less hideous?
I didn't want you to come here.
Follow me here.
Because the truth is, if I don't stop braxton,
What he will discover
Is that he can't get the fulcrum without you.
(monitor beeping)
What does that mean, "without me"? (alarms blaring)
(gunfire)
Get out of here.
(pipes creaking)
What the hell is that? We're offline!
Get down to the server room. See what's going on.
(liz groaning)
(liz coughing)
Liz: Red.
Reddington!
Breathe.
Oh.
Oh, my god. Red. Breathe.
Breathe, you son of a bitch!
Man: Down here, the boiler room.
(man grunts)
Take her to braxton.
Pilot over radio: Paper-dog, we are ten-zero minutes from primary target.
Requesting authorization to arm and engage.
You can't let this happen.
Kat: Don't put this on me.
You gave up that code.
You have three federal agents
And at least 40 innocent hostages in that facility.
Inmates included, over a hundred lives will be lost.
I don't agree with this course of action, but I understand it.
We're doing damage control
Because you couldn't make the tough call.
We don't even know what braxton's after.
What the hell is so important in that database
That someone wants to kill all those people
On the chance he might get it?
If you think I'm just gonna roll with this, you're wrong.
What are you gonna do?
Go to the post? The times?
This whole operation is deep black. It doesn't exist.
Every trace will be incinerated
The moment reddington's a confirmed kill.
You know what happens to whistleblowers.
Kooks. Paranoid freaks.
You'll be a key-note speaker at their next woo-woo convention,
And your people will be just as dead.
Reddington, get up.
You gotta get up. (reddington coughing)
Where is she?
(door closes)
Who the hell are you?
The server's gone. She blew it up.
Carl's dead and so are the others.
Get beck and wolcott on it.
You don't understand. The prisoners are loose.
If they find out we've gotta chopper en route,
We're gonna have a real problem. We need to go now.
(liz grunts)
Where's reddington?
He's dead.
Desmond: I count at least a dozen cells destroyed.
We've got inmates in the south-east quad.
Reddington: You seem like a decent guy, desmond.
You should do something else for a living.
I just told you, the animals are loose.
You can't get to the nest without going through them.
They're going to kill you out there. What are you going to do?
I'm going to get her back.
(indistinct shouting)
Inmate: Hey.
I'm talking to you.
I'm gonna need that shotgun.
(alarms wailing)
(grunts)
It's over. The server's destroyed.
Sir, we've got reports of gunfire in the north hall
And now I can't raise anyone on the comms.
Reddington.
Head him off.
Get the chopper, let yousef to handle the hostages.
(shotgun fires)
Pilot over radio: Paper-dog, eta two minutes.
Making final approach to target.
(cocking gun)
(gunshots)
All this, luther, and you don't even know
What the hell you're looking for.
I know what it's worth.
It's not what you think.
It's not a golden ticket, it's a target on your back.
I know all the stories, red.
(sighs)
I know where it was 20 years ago
And I know when it disappeared.
I know about the house, the fire, the girl...
(monitor beeping)
Sir, I just got word.
The missiles have been launched.
Impact in 30 seconds.
No wonder you came for her.
She was there that night, wasn't she?
She's the one.
Shoot him.
Shoot him! (missile approaching)