Lioness

Well, we got your boy in Ukraine.

Not 48 hours later,

senior case officer overseeing the mission had

two Russian contract agents

at her fucking

front door. You round-tripping for Russia?

These fucking Russians, they're a different breed.

Don't you fucking call me that.

That's what you are. You're a fucking Russian.

I'm calling a family meeting.

Okay, let me have it.

We want you to quit.

Girls,

I'm a soldier, and a soldier's job

is to fight until the soldier is unable to fight

or until the fight is over.

I'm sorry this followed me home.

Your fucking people came after me and my family!

Well, you know what they say.

A soldier's oath is his family's oath.

My number's in it.

We start now.

The one thing...

that made the United States so dangerous for so long...

...was that your people believed in the fantasy of freedom.

But now...

that fantasy is fading.

In its place, the reality

that man is not meant to be free.

We're a pack, like the wolf.

And like the wolf, we need a leader.

His rule can be just, it can be fair...

...but it must be absolute.

Your people are waking up to that reality.

They don't know it's what they need yet.

First they must lose everything, all order.

Then they're gonna throw away their freedom like trash

and beg for leader.

You already did it once with COVID.

One bad call shattered the illusion

that your independence is yours.

Is that what Russia has, huh?

A just leader?

Fucking career KGB agent turned dictator?

You really think that moron's a pack leader, huh?

You're getting the shit kicked out of you

by the most obsolete, inept

and corrupt army in all of Central Europe.

You want to know why that is?

'Cause we put a few hundred boots on the ground

and we stopped your punk asses cold.

Your entire shitty, half-witted, convict-ass army...

...using the same weapons

the Taliban shoved up your fucking asshole in 1980.

Afghanistan is using your weapons now.

The weapons left behind...

...when you ran away.

This birdbath water drip.

It's a nasty trick.

I might have to steal that.

But spare me the fucking lectures

on failed societies.

Okay? Russia disproved

every political theory Marx ever made

in spectacular fashion.

You even managed to kill more of your own people

than the whole fucking German army ever did in the process.

A failed monarchy, a failed democracy,

failing as a dictatorship.

The only reason why Russia still exists

is because nobody wants

to take away that frozen shithole from you.

But I get it.

You got to go through the motions and try to flip me.

Be my guest.

I'll just lay back and listen.

This is not my job.

Once we get you home,

I'll show you my job.

And I am expert.

We missed.

QRF retrieved her beacon.

Her beacon, not her?

- That is correct. - Any indication

- where she is now? - NSA has

a database of vehicles that have entered

and exited the Russian embassy.

We're cross-referencing that

with state police license readers.

What's that going to accomplish?

By now, an SVR case officer

is almost certainly overseeing her movements.

Any senior level case officer

is going to have diplomatic immunity.

We are cross-referencing diplomatic plates

with PD database to see if any were

in the proximity of her last known location.

What is their objective?

Logistically, it's to get her out of the States,

get her back to Russia, where I assume

they're going to reach out to negotiate a trade with Yurimov.

And Yurimov is in Gitmo, right?

Yes, sir.

Can I assume your officers have interviewed Mr. Yurimov?

- You can, sir. - And did anything

of value come out of those interviews?

Yeah. We are investigating

the information that he's provided thus far.

We expect it to appear useful on the surface,

but most of the information is likely planted

with the purpose of it being offered, sir.

- Of course. - Any valuable intel

that Yurimov holds, the Russians are likely altering as we speak.

Talk us through

the worst-case scenario here.

Worst-case?

How bad can this fucking thing get?

SVR has some knowledge of the Lioness program.

They even have some limited knowledge

of, uh, specific operations,

but they don't have definitive proof of those operations.

Joe can provide that.

What intelligence value

- do past operations hold? - None to speak of,

but that's not the purpose.

What would be the purpose?

Knowledge of specific Lioness targets

could be released publicly,

creating severe diplomatic consequences for us

with various strategic partners in the Middle East-- the Saudis,

Qatar, UAE, Egypt.

It would greatly compromise us in the region.

And the political damage domestically, that's...

that is very difficult to predict.

I mean, what position does the UN take?

What is the position of Congress?

Do they see this as an opportunity

to blame the administration?

Based on the current climate, I would certainly think so.

This is the worst-case scenario?

- No, ma'am. - It gets worse?

Worst-case scenario is,

Russia does not release the information.

Russia turns her over to Iran.

Iran releases the information, tries her...

and finds her guilty.

I need a timeline.

She is most likely still in the D.C. area.

Moving her by vehicle is risky.

Every time they do so, they increase the chances

that we intercept. They're gonna need

to get her on a plane out of the area

and then another plane out of the United States.

24 to 36 hours, and she is likely

on a plane to Russia indirectly.

Eh, possibly Cuba, but that's unlikely, given the fact

that we are monitoring every aircraft in that region.

We have FBI and CED at Dulles,

Reagan, National College Park,

- Manassas-- - A more reliable

method of moving human cargo,

albeit slower, is by ship.

We are moving resources to the ports of Virginia,

Baltimore, Philadelphia. JSOC has units in Wilmington,

Morehead City, and the Inland Port in Charlotte.

I think it's time to inform the president.

I... disagree.

What?

Respectfully, I disagree, sir.

I think the fewer people that know this, the better for now.

POTUS is going to be inclined to inform Senate Intelligence,

and then Senate Intelligence informs 700 staffers,

and then we've just told the whole world.

Find her, Byron.

Fallout from this shit is limitless.

We are aware, sir.

- Do it. - Thank you.

Great.

Thank you.

This thing is headless right now.

You get to Quantico and take it over.

Bring in Delta, Ground Branch, everyone.

Yes, sir.

Yes. Okay, NSA has a hit.

- All right. - Yankee Romeo

656759.

Seven, five, nine. All right.

Where are you, you motherfucker?

Okay, I got him on 16th, uh,

about three hours ago.

495 to the 95.

Find me a ping on a tower, Bobbo.

Working on it.

195. Oh, he's going

- to the fucking airport. - Damn it.

- Get me a cell, Bobbo. - Working on it.

All right, he took, uh, he took Friendship.

All right, I got him.

Is he still there?

- Mm-hmm. - All right,