[DOOR OPENS]
[MAN 1 CHANTING IN ARABIC IN DISTANCE]
[MAN 2 SPEAKING IN ARABIC]
[RAT SQUEALS]
[PHONE RINGING]
- Hello? ERIC: Sam.
MAN [ON TV]: Dust catcher drill attachment makes quick work
of any of your small household jobs
that require you to drill into your drywall,
[PHONE RINGING]
Wood frames, panels, door frames, just about anything.
I know you're sick of all that dust falling into the...
- Yeah? ERIC: Kensi, we've got something.
How fast can you be here?
COMPUTERISED VOICE: Can you translate this?
[CALLEN SPEAKS IN ARABIC]
[RECORDED VOICE SPEAKS IN ARABIC]
This should be translated.
[CALLEN SPEAKING IN ARABIC]
[PHONE RINGING]
- Callen. ERIC: Hey, G. We got a lead.
You gotta get in here right away.
- A video just came in. - When?
What do we know?
This appeared on a known jihadist website
less than an hour ago.
SAM: "The evil empire of the West
hides behind its false words of peace and its United Nations,
the infidel war machine
designed solely to deny Islam and destroy the Muslim world.
If you do not release our falsely- accused brother, Ala A Din Keshwar,
within 24 hours,
this man shall be executed."
Oh, my God. Dom.
Eric?
It looks like it was uploaded at an Internet café in Rabat, Morocco.
CALLEN: Strip the hell out of that footage.
I want full audio and visual forensics, voice analysis and the works.
Identify what's in the room, on their clothes, background noises, anything.
Send copies to FBI and NSA. Anyone who can help.
Kensi, find out who these people are. Where do they operate,
where are they getting funding?
Nate, put together whatever you can about Ala A Din Keshwar,
- and keep Director Vance in the loop. - Got it.
KENSl: What about Dom's parents? - What about them?
- Shouldn't we contact them? SAM: To tell them what?
Your son's not dead, but about to be executed?
At the very least, they could be praying.
- They need to know. - I'll have Nate speak with them.
Hopefully by the time we talk to Dom's parents,
it will be to tell them that he's safe and sound.
We need to secure a transport.
We could put together a basic outfit, gear up once on the ground overseas.
Overseas where?
We don't even know where they took him.
Not yet, but as long as we're wheels up,
we can land anywhere in the Middle East or North Africa
as soon as we find out who the hell this Ala A Din guy is,
who's got him, and where he's being held.
What happens if we're over the Atlantic
and we discover that he's being held in the Philippines or Indonesia?
- They had him over two months, G. - But he looks strong.
It looked like he was hanging in there, right?
All this time, we still don't know who grabbed him,
why they grabbed him,
or what they hope to get out of a brand-new agent.
Maybe he was a hostage of opportunity.
They brought in Colombians to snatch him. They hired pros.
You think someone's trying to get to us?
If they have Dom, they already have.
All you're giving me is excuses, and I don't have time for it, Dick.
Monty, you owe me, and you know it. Just man up.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
Blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]
All right, listen up, you flaccid, bureaucratic eunuchs.
I want full cooperation from each of your agencies,
and unrestricted access to Tunisian airspace,
or by God, my next call is to Fradkov,
and I will outsource this whole damn operation.
Feel better? Something tells me you've done this before.
- Where are we? - We are playing catch up in the dark
with a ticking clock.
Well, I may know someone who can help.
- So, what are we waiting for? - Well, I'm certain he can help.
I'm just not certain that he'll want to.
- But he owes me a favour, or ten. - Well, maybe if you ask him nicely.
Seemed to work with the other gentlemen on the phone.
I doubt that any of them are gentle, and they're certainly not men.
So who's this contact?
SAM: She didn't give you a name?
- What agency is he with? CALLEN: She didn't say.
SAM: We're wasting time.
CALLEN: This guy could be with Animal Control for all I care.
I trust Hetty.
How is the Duchess of Deception?
- She's well. - How do you know her?
She helped me out of a jam here and there back in the day.
- You know what we're up against? - Not really.
Ala A Din is a brand-new player.
Nobody's even got a positive ID on this guy.
- Who's he work for? - We believe his group is called TAJ,
Talib al Jihadiya,
and they are working very hard to make a name for themselves.
Now, there were reports he was killed after a bombing in Pakistan.
TAJ denied it.
But the latest rumour is he's been captured
by one of our own agencies,
but nobody's copping to it.
Do you know who has him?
Defence Intelligence, Special Activities Division,
National Clandestine Service. Take your pick.
Whoever's got him ain't sharing.
How come we haven't heard any of this?
Nobody has.
My guess is whoever's got him is keeping his capture a secret,
hoping to smoke out the rest of his group.
Because the guys with the biggest trophies get the most funding.
Do you have any idea where he is now?
No.
This is all I've got on the TAJ terrorists.
They're thought to have training camps set up in Sudan, Eritrea,
possibly even Somalia.
But nothing's been confirmed yet.
I'm sorry about your man.
No one deserves to go out like that.
He's not dead yet.
Good luck.
Oh, and tell Hetty
they still had her picture up in that bar in Velika Krusa.
[LAUGHS]
She'll get a kick out of that.
No. There.
- The other one. - Stop hovering.
- I'm just trying to help. - You aren't. It's a computer.
- It only takes one person to work it. - Apparently not.
Guys, I haven't been able to find anything on this Ala A Din character.
- Neither can Eric. - Or you.
- Pointing fingers is not going to help. - Maybe this will.
- What is it? - Information
on suspected TAJ terrorists.
- See what you can dig out. - Where'd you get it?
- Couldn't tell you if I wanted to. ERIC: We've got video. No audio.
We haven't been able to find anything. I mean nothing.
"Ala A Din" must be an alias.
KENSl: How much time do we have? - Twenty hours at the most.
We may be able to reset the deadline
if we can give the terrorists some indication
they're making progress with their demands.
Eric, stop the video. Now zoom in.
Is that your friend Moe?
Yeah.
SAM: Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
Moe's foster parents haven't heard back from Moe
since he fled back to Africa, which is the same night Dom was abducted.
Safar Jadallah recruited Moe and the other boys
from the Ethiopian Youth Centre to become jihadis.
- He's gotta know something. - No, he's in Guantanamo Bay.
It'd take eight hours to get him here. Question him there.
Okay, I'll give them a heads-up.
Moe's father was Janjaweed.
The Sudanese government hired him to fight the rebels.
Only problem was, they were worse.
Well, hence the nickname. Devils on horseback with guns.
I killed Moe's father saving some aid workers.
Maybe this is payback.
If Moe is part of Ala A Din's group and they have Dom,
there's a good chance Dom is in Sudan.
There's also a good chance he's being held in Chad,
or Libya or Somalia.
If we can't track Moe's movements after he arrived in Chad,
we have no idea where he could be.
If we take a plane to Manda Bay, Kenya, we'd be in striking distance.
We are better working the case here, using time and resources to find Dom.
We should be there. We owe it to Dom.
Let's just find him first, okay?
Having Moe involved, that was our first big break.
- At least we have a place to start. - The youth centre.
- May I help you? - Federal agents
from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
This is a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant...
You have already searched here. Two months ago.
Safar Jadallah has already been arrested.
We're interested in a terrorist organisation
known as the Talib al Jihadiya.
Callen, we've got a runner.
Federal agent.
Stop.
No, no, no.
Let me go! Let me go!
- Leave me alone. SAM: Stay still. Stay still.
- Leave me alone. - Don't move.
Way to go, Flipper.
Think we'll be able to get something off it?
I sure as hell hope so.
I didn't order any room service.
CALLEN: Where is he? - I don't even know who that is.
Mowahd Dusa. Goes by Moe.
Used to hang out at the youth centre
until he went back to Sudan to become a terrorist with the Talib al Jihadiya.
If you say so.
This man?
Special Agent Dominic Vail. He goes by Dom.
He was kidnapped and is being held by TAJ terrorists
- who are threatening to execute him. - I don't know anything about that.
- Why did you run at the youth centre? - I was late for a class.
That why you threw your computer in the pool?
- Slipped out of my hand. - And the knife you pulled?
I was just trying to hand it over to him.
- He is smug. YARl: Can I go now?
You know how I feel about smug.
No, it's good. Means he thinks he's smarter than Callen.
So, what's the verdict?
Don't take your computer swimming.
Look, to do this properly, I should flush it with distilled water
and dry it with a desiccant over several days.
I don't care about properly, I care about quickly.
There's information on that computer we need now.
I know. But if I power this up and there's moisture on the components,
I could fry the motherboard and cause a lethal short to the CPU.
But if we don't, we waste valuable time.
This computer may hold the only chance we have
of finding Dom in time to save him.
Come on. Do it.
Son of a bitch. You know, I told you...
- Now what am I supposed to do? - Fix it.
You help me, I may be able to help you.
If you don't, it is out of my hands
and you are on a one-way trip to Guantanamo Bay.
And I promise you their idea of water sports
- does not involve a day at the beach. - Your threats do not frighten me.
Do you know the difference between courage and stupidity, Yari?
No?
Do you know why terrorists target youth groups?
Because young people are impressionable.
It's a lot easier to convince teenagers to be suicide bombers.
To become a martyr. Shahid is to die for what you believe in.
The old Istishhad versus Intihar debate.
Okay, I got another one for you.
Do you know the difference between suicide bombers and martyrs?
Trick question.
There is no difference.
We pick up both their pieces in a sandwich bag.
It's kind of hard to make out,
but the thing that looks like a bowl of fruit salad,
now that's what's left of the skull of an 11 -year-old boy
who detonated a bomb that was strapped to his chest.
I wonder if the heavenly virgins dig the headless-horseman look.
YARl: Look.
If you wanna help this man,
you can trade him for Ala A Din.
How much time we gonna waste on this human detritus?
- We don't negotiate with terrorists. - Well, that's too bad. For your friend.
I can only imagine the look on his face when they cut off his head.
Sam? Sam.
And you will be an accessory to murder.
NATE: Sam.
CALLEN: Sam, let him go.
SAM: I'm giving him what he wants.
- You want shahada? CALLEN: Sam, stop it.
This is it. You wanna be shahid?
You're on your way to paradise, my friend.
Sam, listen to me. He is no good to us dead.
He's no good to anyone.
And for the record, you don't deserve to die by my hands.
SAM: I messed up, G.
CALLEN: He'll live.
I thought bringing Moe here was the right thing to do.
It was.
Think about where he'd be right now if you hadn't taken him out of Sudan.
- He'd be dead. - Yeah.
And Dom would be safe.
The only one who thinks this is your fault is you.
If you wanna blame yourself, do it after we find Dom, okay?
Because right now I need your A game, big guy.
So does Dom.
You think this guy Yari's gonna talk?
He might,
after you opened a can of jihad on his ass.
The guy is an armchair terrorist at best.
I think we made it pretty clear we're not messing around.
[PHONE RINGING]
Give me some good news, Kensi.
I have a resignation letter from a former worker.
What's her name?
Great.
All right. Send whatever you find to my phone.
Kensi found a resignation letter from a worker at the centre.
A woman by the name of Ameenah Shah
quit because she disapproved of what was going on there.
- I'm liking this woman already. ERIC: Oh, come on.
Come on.
You know I despise your wardrobe. Particularly those flip-flops.
Not to mention your surfboard leaning precariously close to my car,
the sand you track into the op centre,
or the millions of dollars of top-secret technology you use
to play your frivolous video games.
I only left my surfboard near your car once.
Or twice. But I don't do it anymore.
But I tolerate it all, for the most part.
And do you know why, Mr. Beale?
My playful kitten-like personality?
I don't know why I just said that.
I make jokes when I'm nervous.
I use humour as a defence mechanism.
It's a bad habit. I don't even know why I'm still talking.
I tolerate it
because you are unequalled at what you do.
I am the way I am because I demand the best.
This is an elite unit,
whose unparalleled success
rests on the superior skills of those who work here.
And that's why I know that if anyone can fix this,
it is you.
- I'm trying. - I know. I know, and I'm sorry.
I should have trusted your judgement earlier.
And because I pushed you, I may have buggered everything.
But I have complete faith in you, Mr. Beale.
Do what you do.
That's for good luck.
Thanks.
Yes. Come on, baby.
[ERIC CHUCKLES]
Come to Papa.
WOMAN: Thank you for coming, and enjoy the rest of your visit.
Have a good day. Bye-bye. Thank you.
CALLEN: Ameenah Shah? SHAH: Yes.
CALLEN: Special Agent Callen. This is Special Agent Sam Hanna.
We're from NCIS.
SAM: We'd like to ask you some questions
about your time spent working at the Ethiopian Youth Organisation.
You know a young Sudanese man from the centre?
- Mowahd Dusa? - No.
I worked mainly in an administration capacity.
Organising schedules, classes.
Your resignation letter cited concerns about what they were teaching there.
Ideological differences are not a crime.
They are if they lead to terrorist activities.
I should be getting back to work.
The man in this video is a federal agent.
He is also a friend and he will be executed if we can't find him.
I'm sorry, but I know nothing about this.
Ameenah, you have a degree in early childhood education.
Clearly, you care about young people.
Something happened at that youth centre that caused you to quit.
Now, I think it's the same thing
that caused several of these boys, like Moe, to disappear.
These same young men are about to murder a federal agent
and they will be terrorists.
This is your chance to save a lot of lives.
There was a man who started to teach religious studies
that became more and more radical.
- Safar Jadallah? - Yes.
Yeah, we picked him up a while back. Who else?
There was another man who started to come around after Safar got arrested.
He was very angry that Safar was gone.
I think he donated money to the centre.
His name was Kalil.
I don't know his last name. I'm sorry.
I must get back to work.
[SPEAKS IN ARABIC]
[PHONE RINGS]
- Yo. CALLEN: Eric, it's Callen.
I need everything you can find on a guy named Kalil.
He was connected with the youth centre.
Don't have a last name, but he provided funding.
Yeah, yeah. His name's in Yari's computer.
- You got it working? - Getting there.
Yeah, here it is. Kalil Abramson. Heavy hitter in commercial real estate.
Single. Envious bank account.
One outstanding parking ticket for an expired meter on Robertson.
Find him.
[DOOR OPENS]
[MAN SPEAKING IN ARABIC]
Here you are, sir.
Welcome.
- Kalil Abramson. - Yes.
Federal agents. We'd like to ask you some questions
concerning your involvement with the Ethiopian Youth Organisation.
That's one of my pet projects.
I'm very active in youth and environmental issues.
But please have a seat. Join us.
Not a good idea, considering your credit cards have been frozen,
along with the rest of your assets.
I'm sorry. I don't understand.
We will explain after you come with us.
I don't mean to be rude, but I'm in the middle of a business meeting.
Then why'd you ask us to join you?
- I was being polite. - Well, I'm not.
You're under arrest on charges of knowingly funding terrorist activities.
Well, then I'm very glad that I'm here in the company of my attorneys.
[MAN YELLING IN ARABIC]
MAN: We're gonna need a new camera.
CALLEN: Kalil Abramson was tipped off.
He was surrounded by a wall of lawyers before we got to him.
KENSl: He's not gonna help if it means implicating himself.
He might if it mitigates charges of conspiracy, terrorism,
- and the murder of an agent. - There's been no murder.
Dom's not dead. Stop referring to him in the past tense.
It was a worst-case scenario for Abramson.
Forget about worst-case scenarios. There's one case scenario.
That's finding and rescuing Dom.
Moe once told me he felt safest with his friends at the youth centre.
Maybe he's still in touch with them.
NATE: If they were culling potential jihadists from the youth centre,
it makes sense they'd...
There's a SEAL team on standby aboard the USS Cole.
They're off the Horn of Africa as part of NATO's Operation Ocean Shield.
The minute we give them a location, they'll hit it hard.
I've called in every favour I can think of.
I don't think I can go through this again.
- We're gonna find him, Hetty. - Do you really believe that?
Yes.
Because we're not gonna stop looking until we do.
I'm going to hold you to that.
Extreme situations occasionally require extreme measures, Mr. Callen.
But at the end of the day,
one's methods are seldom questioned
when they bring about the necessary results.
MOE: Keep moving.
DOM: Where'd you learn to speak English?
Television.
DOM: Well, what's your favourite show?
What's your name?
You shouldn't have done that.
Why? You're just gonna kill me anyway.
That's not certain.
My country does not negotiate with terrorists.
So if you don't help me escape, you'll be a murderer too.
And I know you don't want my blood on your hands.
How do you know that?
Because you're talking to me in English.
- You know this man? - No.
- Do you know this guy? - No.
One of you tipped off Kalil Abramson.
Well, don't look at me, man.
NASSIR: What the hell are you doing?
I wanna know which one of you tipped off Kalil.
I don't even know who that is. And I've never seen this guy before.
- Tell him. I don't know you, do I? - No.
No.
I didn't know that guy and I didn't tip off Kalil. I swear to God.
Whose god would that be, huh?
What makes you think I believe in any of them?
You can't do this. I haven't done anything.
- Exactly what he said. - Please. I can help you.
You don't know anything.
And unfortunately, you just saw me kill a man.
Wait, wait, wait. I know about Mowahd Dusa.
And other boys who left the centre and went to Chad.
- You know where they are? - No.
You know where they're holding Agent Vail?
No, but I know who does. Kalil Abramson.
He paid to recruit the young men to become jihadis.
He bought the plane tickets, the training,
he even paid the Colombians to kidnap the agent.
He's the man behind all this.
He knows where your friend is.
- Agent Nassir, you all right? - Fine.
- Did he talk? - Yeah.
- Kalil Abramson's behind all of this. - What about his lawyers?
It's gonna take more than lawyers to save him this time.
CALLEN: Anything else from the TAJ terrorists?
- Messages? Videos? Anything? - Nothing.
We've got less than 40 minutes until our 24-hour deadline.
What else have you got on Abramson, Eric?
Get anything else off of Yari's computer?
The money trail is hard to follow. Kalil's been very careful.
Also, he's been travelling a lot.
Mostly in Europe, but on April 6th, he hops a plane from Athens to Cairo.
Then he goes from Egypt to Khartoum in Sudan.
Then he pops up in Asmara, Eritrea. He's there for a couple days,
then goes to someplace called Berbera in Somalia
before heading into Yemen.
It's a terrorist tour group.
Sudan, Eritrea, and Somalia are the same three countries
thought to hold training camps for Talib al Jihadiya.
Dom's in one of those camps and Kalil Abramson knows which one.
Eric, can you turn on Kalil's cell phone?
ERIC: Way ahead of you.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to pick up any audio.
His phone's at his house in Malibu. Hasn't moved in several hours.
Son of a bitch is sleeping when Dom's about to be executed.
I'm open to ideas, guys. Think. We're running out of time.
What about extraordinary rendition?
Well, Kalil Abramson obtained his American citizenship six years ago.
Citizenship could be revoked for acts of treason.
Rarely, and only after a lengthy process.
I've secured a fully-crewed, fully-fuelled C-130
at Edwards Air Force Base.
If you were to put Kalil Abramson on that plane
under the guise of an unlawful enemy combatant,
which he is, for all intents and purposes...
On his way to a black site for interrogation.
I've heard rumours that Bondsteel in Kosovo is particularly ugly.
You're suggesting torture by proxy?
No, of course not.
But if Kalil thinks that's what's happening,
well, I'm sure he'll start talking before you hit Barstow.
None of which would hold up in court.
This isn't about building a court case. This is about rescuing Dom.
NATE: Whether you rescue Dom or not,
Kalil Abramson and his lawyers will come after us with a vengeance.
And Abramson will walk because of it.
Not to mention something like this
could end the career of everyone in this room.
Saving a fellow agent is more important than any career, Nate.
- I'm with Sam. - Me too.
Someone once told me that extreme situations
occasionally call for extreme measures.
What the hell?
I really wanted to be a magician, anyway.
Far be it for me to thwart your dreams
of a career in prestidigitation, Mr. Getz.
But if anyone is going to take the fall for this, it will be me.
[BEEPING]
ERIC: He's in motion. Kalil. He's moving.
CALLEN: Let's do it.
Do you know how much time I have?
No.
Wait. Wait.
I want to send a message to my parents.
I can't help you with that.
I'm sorry.
Eat your breakfast.
[GROANING]
ERIC: He's turning onto Broadway.
Looks like he's stopping.
CALLEN: Eric, he's headed into the Palace Theatre.
It's kind of early for a matinée.
Kalil Abramson bought that theatre a few years ago.
He's turning it into a centre for the performing arts.
Oh, wonderful.
The proceeds from tonight's performance of Equus
will be donated to help support your local Taliban.
SAM: We need to keep an open line to the USS Cole.
The minute we get Kalil to tell where Dom is,
- they have to scramble that team. - Copy that.
- We could use a layout of this place. - Will do. Got it.
[MAN CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[MAN SPEAKING IN ARABIC]
Is anybody out there?
Eric, we've got shots fired.
Sounds like it came from above.
I'll see if I can find a camera.
[GRUNTING]
Kensi.
ERIC: I found a couple of security cameras on the building next door.
I'm trying to access them now.
Oh, my God.
CALLEN: Kensi, what is it?
I'm in the room where they were holding Dom.
This is where they shot the video.
Callen, he never left L.A.
ERIC: I've got two camera feeds. They're from the roof next door.
Moe?
Moe, wait a minute. Moe.
I've got Dom. He's on the roof.
- Dom's on the roof. - Moe's here too.
He's one floor above you, G. I'm going to the roof.
I got him. I got Dom. He's alive. Dom.
Come on.
Get down. Get down.
- Come on. ERIC: Zooming in on camera B.
- You've got a shooter on the roof. - Yeah, tell me about it.
[YELLS]
Kalil's in the stairwell.
- You okay? - Yeah. I knew you would find me.
Look out.
Sam!
No. Dom. Dom's been hit.
Dom's hit. He's down. Dom's down.
- Eric, medevac. Now. - Right.
Hang in there, buddy. Hang in there.
I'm pinned down.
- Kalil's down. Kensi. - All clear.
- Medevac is en route. - Keep your eyes open.
SAM: Come on. Hang in there, Dom.
Oh, God. I think they cut a femoral artery.
Where's the damn medevac?
Medevac's on the way.
Come on.
Sam.
Sam, all you're doing is pumping out what blood's left in his body.
- Come on, Dom. Fight, man. - Sam.
He's gone, Sam.
I ain't giving up on him, G.
You didn't.
None of us did.