Treadstone

- Where is the money, Tara? - What money?

No!

Enter the access key!

Nolan, it's Tara Coleman.

Tell me what you know about Treadstone.

Ask me again if you're ever passing through Moscow.

What are you planning on doing with Stiletto Six?

That is not your concern.

Are you selling the missile?

- Petrushka... - I deserve to know.

A group of North Koreans are purchasing it.

Speaking Russian...

That's the woman who woke you up?

This is a rogue agent

helping a psychopathic killer escape the authorities,

and none of it is agency sanctioned.

This ends now!

Both speaking Korean...

I ran into some people from Treadstone.

I overheard them talking.

They're sending a team to our house.

And they're planning on killing

some guy named Marcus Sachs tonight.

They're sending another asset.

They're gonna murder him and his wife.

We need to help him, Sam.

We got to do something.

Oh.

- Marcus? - My wife.

He's using your wife as a trap.

- Who? - The man sent here to kill you.

- I need to see my wife! - Hey.

That's exactly what he wants you to do.

Trust me. Listen.

Get back behind that corner, stay low, avoid the windows.

Hey, move, please.

Okay?

Hey, listen, we got you, all right?

Just shh. Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.

Vincent, please.

It's okay. It's okay.

Sam?

They're both dead.

This is where both of us are gonna end up...

just two bodies lying on the floor somewhere.

I don't want you to die in my arms.

Okay, listen, let's keep moving.

We can't move fast enough.

That guy you followed, he's gonna let Treadstone know

that you're alive, and they're gonna find us.

Doug.

It's gonna sound crazy, but hear me out.

He's my height. He's my weight. Complexion's close enough.

Sam, I can pass as him.

Yeah, I mean, if you shave and cut your hair, but... wait.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, this is insane.

But sure, if... I mean, if they think you're dead,

it will buy us time.

I'll code in as Vincent.

Let's see if we can access his phone using facial recognition.

Okay.

We tell 'em the target's down.

We tell 'em I'm down, too.

And then you're Vincent?

Send it in.

It's an order to destroy your body.

Let's do it.

*TREADSTONE* Season 01 Episode 08 Episode Title : "The Mckenna Erasure"

Yuri.

I put my best men on the job.

Then...

Tell Nolan Tara Coleman is here.

Tara Coleman.

Hey, Tara.

I need your help.

What is this?

Oh, we're harvesting footage

from a Pakistani Air Force drone.

For who?

Corporate clients thinking about investing heavily

in Karachi.

Tell me about Treadstone.

Huh, nice to see you, too.

I just watched a mercenary hold a gun to Meghan's head

and pull the trigger.

We both know she'd want us to keep pushing ahead.

What does that entail?

- Getting answers. - Answers about what?

Treadstone, Stiletto Six,

Yuri Leniov, the North Koreans...

We could get killed for just having this conversation.

Slow down.

My moves are only as good as the information that I have,

and I need more of it.

- That's not a plan. - Did you have a plan

when you leaked the Crypt 4 story to me?

Do you remember Blackbriar?

The CIA black ops unit

that got exposed in the press years ago.

Blackbriar was part of Treadstone.

At first, I thought it was some kind of assassination program,

but it's deeper than that.

They deal with human performance and enhancement.

I'm talking about the next wave of military operations.

And tell me about Yuri Leniov.

I will never let this come back on you, Nolan.

All right, listen up.

Get me everything on Yuri Leniov.

We got about an hour before the CIA tracks us down.

I'm working on a plan.

You need to turn me in.

No.

You have to, Edwards.

Make them think you're cooperating.

In their eyes, I'm aiding a killer.

They want both of us dead.

Okay, cut a deal with them, then... your life for mine.

I won't do that to you.

You said you want to know who's waking us up.

- I do. - Then you have to keep going

without me.

We'll figure this out.

Look, you did your part, okay?

You gave me the chance to see my daughter.

And I'm good.

I need to go back to Treadstone.

What?

I'm gonna reach out to them and find out

what the hell is going on.

They will fucking kill you, Sam.

No, no, they know me.

They'll want to hear me out first.

What are you gonna tell them?

I don't know.

I'll tell 'em that you disappeared on me

three days ago and that I'm fucking scared.

I'll tell them that I made a mistake,

I'm sorry, I want to make things right.

- I'll improvise. - No, this is too dangerous.

Don't you want to find out what the fuck is going on?

When does this end?

It just has to end when we know that we're safe.

And it ends when we're back together.

I saw a quarry on the way over here.

We can drop Vincent there, okay?

Yeah, okay.

So, like most ex-KGB guys

who got rich after the Cold War,

Yuri had most of his files sealed or destroyed.

It says here he worked

on the Stiletto Six missile program.

Almost everyone else who worked on it with him is dead.

This guy Max Schneider... He was found dead

just a couple days ago.

FSB called it a suicide.

Slashed his own wrists open in the bathroom.

He was one of Yuri's investment partners

dating back to the 1990s.

What else did Yuri and Max work on together

whilst they were in the KGB?

Something called Cicada.

General Kwon in London...

he said, "They're waking people up.

The cicadas... It's starting again."

- Cicada's analog. - Meaning?

It's an older physical file. It was never digitized.

I need to see it.

Kwon mentioned Cicada and was leading me

to Stiletto Six... There's a connection.

It's in the RGVA...

Russian State Military Archive.

And it was opened for academic research in 1990.

Do you know where it's located?

Oh, it says here

the file's stored in an access-restricted room.

If you can harvest Pakistani drone footage,

you can get me credentials.

Special Activities will have a unit waiting to intercept us.

I told you they want us both dead.

Edwards...

trust me.

They're heading west on Anderson Highway

at 52 miles an hour.

Target will make contact with Alpha Team in 30 seconds.

Hive, this is Alpha One.

Be advised, we have visual on the target.

Clear copy, Alpha One.

Confirm weapons free.

Repeat, confirm weapons free.

There has to be another way, Dan.

Haynes has killed seven people.

Edwards is still one of ours.

Are you willing to bet our careers on it?

Testify to that in front of a fucking Senate committee?

Alpha One to Hive.

We have a visual on the target.

Please confirm weapons free.

Permission to engage.

No, I'm not doing this.

Yeah.