Imperium

You have the phone?

Should I do it now?

Not yet. Wait until we get to the checkpoint.

Okay, guys, this is it.

Hey, Ivy League's gun, put that gun back away.

- What are you talking about? - I don't need some egghead

who just scored an 81 on his 'qual shooting my dick off, okay?

This is my fucking guy! I'm not just gonna sit here while you-

Guys, enough! Nate, just follow our lead, okay?

Is your heart clear?

Are you sure you want to do this?

The signal will be better outside.

Here it is.

- Did it work? -

- Drop it! - Freeze! Hands in the air!

- Turn around! - Hands behind your back!

You have the right to remain silent, Usman.

Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

You have the right to an attorney.

Hello, Usman. I can help you.

I can get you phone calls with your parents, your friends...

My parents?! I wish they were dead!

And I don't have any friends.

Oh, wow, he's a real prince, this one.

Can I get in there?

Salam alaikum.

What the fuck, Tom? I have this room at 4:00!

I know you don't get a lot of news downstairs, Zamparo,

but we just broke up a massive terrorist plot, all right?

Try and keep up.

Um...

What? What is it?

Sir, when I flagged up this guy's email,

I thought the investigation was only gonna proceed

if there was substantive criminal evidence to back it up.

We've got hours of him talking about waging jihad and killing children.

Right, but talking, though, sir, not... he's not doing anything.

Isn't that the point?

Hey, Tim. How's it going?

You celebrating something, Nate? You seeing someone special, huh.

Uh, yeah, actually. How'd you guess?

- - Genius,

emergency meeting in the conference room!

The crash was off 301 around 2:00 last night.

Local police controlled the scene, so, thankfully, the press knows nothing.

These containers carried cesium-137.

It's used for radiotherapy applications in hospitals,

but, it's highly regulated and had no business being on that truck.

When we tracked the shipment back to Baltimore,

the customs record showed eight containers, not two.

So there's six more of them out there, all of them in the country illegally.

If that quantity made it's way into a radiological device,

we could be looking at thousands of casualties,

mass evacuations and radioactive contamination throughout the D.C. area.

Tom?

Uh... lab analysis puts the cesium coming from North Africa.

So the guys on four, they put together this map.

It's an analysis of Muslim communities in D.C., Maryland and Virginia,

along with their countries of origin.

What we'd like each and every- yes?

What about leads on the DT front?

Well, given the cesium came from North Africa,

we don't think domestic is really in the picture.

The last time anyone tried to build

a dirty bomb on US soil was James Cummings.

He was a white supremacist living in Maine,

he was going to set it off at Obama's inauguration.

He had uranium, thorium, and he was trying to acquire cesium.

I'm sure you're familiar with the case.

It goes without saying, anyone here is welcome

to pursue any leads they think are fruitful.

Okay, would you fucking stop-

- Oh, I'm so sorry. - Hi.

- Hi. - I'm Angela Zamparo.

- Nate Foster. - I know.

You got a couple minutes?

DT's downstairs.

There's only one perk to being down in this shithole.

Nicorette just isn't the same.

So, Nate... you seem like you've got

a bit more going on than most around here.

You remember Oklahoma City?

Well, yeah, I guess I was... five but, sure.

What do you know about Timothy McVeigh?

He was... some kind of lone extremist... in a militia?

Don't be an asshole who bullshits questions

you don't know the answer to. Here.

Timothy McVeigh was a decorated Gulf War veteran.

He was not insane. He was not a lunatic. And he was not stupid.

He was a white supremacist, following a plan.

What plan?

A plan from a book called The Turner Diaries.

It's about a "race war" to exterminate blacks, Jews, and "mud people. "

You know how the war gets started?

The hero drives a truck bomb into a federal building.

Timothy McVeigh was reenacting that scene from The Turner Diaries.

He was carrying the book with him when he was arrested.

What he was trying to do was start the race war.

You're focused on the Islamic guys. I get it.

We all create a narrative based on what we think is important.

We see what we want to see.

But just because you're not looking at something...

doesn't mean it's not there.

So, why are you telling me this?

I'm talking about a blood and guts, in the streets,

kill or be killed race war.

I have information about a truck accident

outside D.C. last night,

involving classified, radioactive material.

But now the FBI is trying to cover it all up. Why?

Because something big is happening,

and it's bigger than 9/11, and it's bigger than Oklahoma City.

So be warned, be armed, and be ready.

His name is Dallas Wolf.

He gets 20,000 listeners a night.

We believe he's based just outside of D.C.,

but almost nobody knows him personally.

But, I have an informant, a skinhead in a gang.

And the leader of that gang is friends with Wolf.

So, I need someone to get in there, and get close to him.

Right, and I'm trying to tell you that this is not my thing!

I barely passed the PFT!

What do you think undercover work is?

Beating guys up and shooting at them?

No, it's people skills. It's controlling situations.

It's this.

Seriously?

This is the only undercover training you'll ever need.

I saw you with that Muslim kid. You got most of this going on anyway.

Look, I read your file. High IQ, great people skills,

but, not your typical FBl profile.

Introverted, an outsider, unhappy childhood.

Single mother, always moving around a lot,

always the new kid, bullied at school, no close friends or-

Okay, okay, okay, fuck you! That's- this is an invasion.

What gives you the right to look around-

Because we don't have time to dick around here!

You don't smuggle a boatload of cesium into the country

and then just let it fucking sit there!

Fine, but I'm trying to tell you, I don't have the skills for this!

I can't even defend myself!

You do have the skills, and they mean you will never have to!

What did you say to that kid?

"You want to change things, so nobody has to suffer the way you did. "

A dirty bomb is any kind of crude, explosive device that, when detonated,

disperses radiation around and beyond the blast.

What you would do is irradiate a large territory.

Some of these things have a half-life of 30 years.

In many cases, this material cannot be seen,

it can not be smelled, cannot be felt, cannot be tasted.

The more technically capable an adversary is

the more likely they would be to find ways

to spread the radioactive material over larger areas.

One ofthings that we've been taught in recent years

is that we must be able to prepare for the unthinkable.

A terrorist cell smuggling weapons of mass destruction

into the country in a shipping container.

An American Hiroshima.

Are you out of your fucking mind?

Do you know how management looks at undercover, Nate?

You think this office is bad?

They'll have you chasing pedophiles on an Indian reservation.

I just want to discuss the option, sir.

Discuss the option?

Of what, of killing your whole career?

In the beginning was the word.

When the word found us we were unconscious.

But the word awakened us.

It made us conscious.

Our enemies were everywhere.

Our eyes were opened.

And they were filled with shame.

We have been violated, betrayed, and humiliated.

For we had allowed this to happen.

And so the word spoke to us, and told us to stand up!

To take back what had been stolen from us!

To fight for race, soil, and honor!

Do you know what they do to informants, Nate?

You know what a "necktie" is?

They slit your throat,

and they pull your tongue right out through it?

- Oh, shut the fuck up! - Oh, what, so you

want him to go in blind, so he has no idea what he's getting into?

- You're just trying to manipulate him! - Oh, and you're not?

You do whatever the fuck you want.

But you better think long and hard about this.

The Turner Diaries, it's sold over a half a million copies.

Who do you think is buying it?

Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Bomber, Wade Page, who shot up the Sikh Temple.

Larry Ford, developing typhoid and cholera.

Liam Krar, with the Cyanide Bomb,

anthrax, ricin, botulism, C-4, IED's,

I could go on like this for hours. And all of them are white supremacists.

My name is Nate Thomas.

I was in the Marines for three years, on a WMD squad in Iraq.

But, I saw a lot of things over there that changed me.

- And I'm startin' to wonder... - No.

My name is Nate Thomas.

My name is Nate Thomas.

My name is Nate Thomas.