Allegiance

Previously on Allegiance...

Do you know the name Oscar Christoph?

Operative for hire, assassin.

He's the man the SVR have hired to carry out Black Dagger.

He makes his attacks look like accidents.

And he uses existing materials from his targets

as the fuel source for his bombs.

- I love you. - Oh, I love you.

Is everything prepared?

Yes. Our window of opportunity is 42 to 46 hours from now.

And your source for this information... she's a loose end.

Touch her, I kill you.

Aah!

- Please! -

There are dangerous men out there,

really dangerous men, and they're planning

to hurt a lot of innocent people.

And we are trying to stop them.

When I found out about Mom and Dad, I was mad too.

All this time, they were living this lie.

Alex O'Connor...

the prime suspect in the murder of his partner, Michelle Prado.

He is a traitor, and now he is a fugitive.

I'm taking you in, Alex.

Sam, stop.

Faber's the mole. He killed Michelle.

You were trying to get out of town pretty quick, weren't you, Oleg?

Why the hurry?

What are you running away from?

I know nothing, same as you.

Sorry, pal.

Let's talk about you turning yourself in.

Get out of here before anyone sees you,

and find us something to use on Christoph.

It will all be over soon.

- You don't know that. - I do.

- I'm going to end it. - End it how?

Cut the head off the snake.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

The Rezident?

That's suicide, you can't just kill the Rezident.

I can if those above him sanction it.

Why would the Kremlin ever sanction that?

The Kremlin isn't running SVR anymore.

I'm going to talk to the people who actually are,

the people who ordered Black Dagger.

You don't even know who they are.

Not all of them, no.

But whatever group is pulling the strings,

I'm willing to bet Uri Adulov is involved.

Adulov...

the billionaire whose dad was the head of the KGB...

you'll never get within a mile of him.

Adulov is in town.

He's partners in Club Bliss in Brooklyn.

I will go to him,

and he and I will have a heart-to-heart.

The club does not open for six hours.

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Your plan is to have a heart-to-heart with him.

I'm talking to an insane person.

He will kill you,

because he's a cold-blooded killer.

Who only cares about his own interests.

That's what I'll appeal to.

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You'll be outnumbered, outgunned, alone.

- I can handle it. - If you can't, you're dead.

If I can't... we're dead.

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I love you.

And if this ends in tragedy,

it will be because we were fighting back.

Victor Dobrynin.

It's a nice place. My compliments.

Resourceful man, Victor.

You actually convinced me to see you.

Well...

There are issues at the Rezidentura.

From what I gather, you are the issue.

No. It's the Rezident.

I need your blessing...

to kill him.

You want to kill the Rezident?

- He has failed you. - In what way?

Black Dagger.

I know about it, and others do.

I would describe that as failure in every way.

Call off Black Dagger.

If you don't, you ensure a war.

Do you understand what Black Dagger is?

It's not an attack.

It's a reordering...

a gravitational shift.

It is only way to prevent war.

America has subjugated us for too long,

humiliated us, sanctioned us.

Now there's coming a reckoning

to restore Russia back to her proper place.

The only question is, does it come by open conflict

or a single decisive act?

And if thousands die?

It's better than millions.

So, for sake of peace...

my answer is no.

Black Dagger will happen. You cannot kill the Rezident.

And because you know about Black Dagger

and you're working against it...

you will die.

I'm sorry you couldn't see things my way.

Victor...

No, no, please.

You are alive for one reason...

to deliver a message.

To who?

General Sergeyev.

Alex, how long have I been... Three blocks.

You thought I was looking forward the whole time.

- I wasn't. - You're learning.

Just don't get cocky.

The task force find anything on Faber?

Not yet, they still have no idea he was a mole.

- What? Why? - Faber was good.

It's the reason he went 30 years without being caught.

Is there no way to help them along?

No, it's too risky.

Right now he's getting the fallen-hero treatment.

We start pointing fingers, we may implicate ourselves,

taint what they find.

You said you had something.

I need a guarantee from you first.

This is not a used-car lot, Alex.

- There's no bargaining. - I'm not. It's not for me.

I want protection for my family.

You know the SVR will stop at nothing to get to me.

All right, I'll tell Brock to put a protective detail

on your parents' home.

I'll sell it as surveillance, in case you go back.

- What did you find? - Oleg Zhulov.

The guy who spilled the beans about Black Dagger

to Irina Semovetskaya?

I found something in the files you gave me...

a connection between Christoph and Zhulov.

- You're kidding. - No.

Zhulov was in many of the same places as Christoph

in the last year Christoph was known to be active.

I think he was Christoph's set-up man...

opening accounts, commandeering supplies,

arranging logistics.

You need to get to Zhulov and talk to him.

Zhulov hasn't said a word since we took him down.

As I recall, he told me to screw myself forever.

Because you never had any leverage over him.

Now, with his connection to Christoph, you do.

I'm not sure even that would be enough to make him talk...

unless...

unless he already has.

- I'm checking out the van. - Yes, jet-black cargo van.

All right.

It must be the exact model...

a perfect match, down to the tinting.

Not a problem. Same tires?

That is correct... all-season treads.

- All right. - Good.

Deliver it to the address and time provided to you.

ÿQué tal, mi Amor?

How's Boston?

- Oh, it's cold. - Your interview go okay?

Ah, very well, but I have to schedule a follow-up interview.

You know it never ends.

Oh, well, I was wondering, if you wanted to,

maybe you could take the early train home?

Is everything all right?

Yeah, everything's fine.

Um, we'll talk when you get here.

Basame mucho, mi Amor.

Sam says the task force still hasn't figured out

Faber's the mole.

Then they still think you're the mole.

And I'm concerned they'll track me here,

and you'll all be arrested for harboring a fugitive.

Well, it's better if the FBI finds us here than the SVR.

I think you'd be safer going back home.

We'll just be sitting ducks for the SVR there.

Sam agreed to put an FBI detail on the house

as surveillance in case I came back.

The SVR would never try anything in front of the FBI.

Sarah would be safe there.

Well, we can't stop Black Dagger

if we're just sitting around the house.

The SVR will eventually find this place.

Not if Victor gets to the Rezident first.

Even if he succeeds, there's no guarantee

the SVR will stop hunting us

just because the Rezident goes down.

Sarah's not safe here.

No, she's not leaving my side again.

Mom.

Alex is right. She's safer there.

You, Dad, and Alex keep working. I'll take her home.