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Welcome back.
Thanks.
Ryan.
- Get any sleep? - Yeah, a few hours.
- You get the wife set up? - Yeah.
NROC got her and the girls set up in a safe house in Annandale.
Excellent.
Location checked out.
We got sat images and we're establishing
persistent surveillance with RPAs.
We're still waiting for visual confirmation
that Suleiman is on site,
but POTUS is ready to approve a HALO insert for ISR advance.
JSOC is working up an assault plan.
Good work, gentlemen.
Kill team in position.
Going internal.
Go, go, go.
Move right.
Hold left, clear right.
One male combatant down.
Moving to target bedroom. Moving to target bedroom.
Open, open.
Get up now, motherfucker!
Move! Now!
Not bad.
Bring it in, guys.
If he goes down, who's next in the room?
Good.
Who's got Casevac?
Who's responsible for SSE?
All right, y'all. Any other questions?
Uh, yeah. Who gets to keep the blonde?
Okeydoke, gents.
Let's take five.
Clear.
What side of the bed does he sleep on?
Here.
What about guns?
Does he sleep with a weapon near the bed?
He keeps a rifle by the bed,
a pistol under the mattress.
He also keeps a knife in the bedside drawer.
Is that all?
All right, well, I'm gonna take a leak before we do this again.
You better be right about her, Doc.
This is us going through that door, not you.
Samir.
Samir?
Samir.
Based on drone reconnaissance,
we believe there are 36 occupants,
29 military-aged males, six women, one child.
Jesus, he's got a fucking platoon in there.
Let's cut to the quick here, Sue.
Is Elvis in the building or not?
Well, our analysts assess
with moderate confidence that Suleiman is on site.
The president is not authorizing kinetic action
on the basis of moderate confidence.
Moderate to high.
- It's not happening. - Bobby.
That man and his followers killed
306 people in that church.
306 French people on French soil.
There were 27 Americans in that church, too.
- Exactly. - I get it, Jim.
Why don't we give the location of the compound to the French
and let them extract their pound of flesh?
We're not even sure he's at the compound.
We know enough.
The second MEU is on alert in the Red Sea.
All we have to do is redirect them to the Persian Gulf,
get a squadron of F-18s within striking distance
of that compound before breakfast tomorrow.
Ground assault.
Sir, we've had a JSOC team training for this for 36 hours.
Blue trained for a month before the Abbottabad raid.
Ryan, why would the president risk American lives
when he doesn't have to?
An air strike may very well kill Suleiman,
but you will not neutralize the threat
to the United States and to its allies.
This is an international organization.
They have cells in France,
Yemen, Syria, and those are just the ones we know about.
Sir, you drop a bomb, and we lose all vital intelligence
on his larger operations,
not to mention the plans that he's already put into action.
I believe Dr. Ryan has made his position very clear.
A ground assault is off the table.
You want an air strike, Marcus?
Get me confirmation that Suleiman is at the compound.
Will do.
What was that?
We present intelligence.
We give them options, if they ask for it.
What we don't do
is fucking advocate a course of action.
- Dr. Mueller? - Yes.
My name is Sergeant Grant. This is Specialist O'Shea.
We're from the Army Medical Research Institute
for Infectious Disease.
We'd like to ask you some questions
regarding a cable you sent about an Ebola containment breach.
Okay.
We have a car waiting downstairs.
- Right now? - Yes, ma'am.
You wanted to see me?
Dr. Nadler, I have something for you.
What is that?
Antibiotics, acetaminophen,
iodine tablets, multivitamins. Go ahead.
That's everything you asked for, yes?
Yes.
Yes. Thank-thank you.
Uh...
how is, uh, your son?
Have you thought about letting me examine him?
My son is fine.
Are you sure?
Quite sure.
Okay.
Everybody, take one of each, and then, uh...
then pass them around.
No, no, no, no. Easy.
What are you doing?
Well, he's had a fever for three days.
His arm's broken in two places.
He's got cracked ribs
and God knows what other internal injuries.
So, to answer your question, Ben, I'm...
I'm giving him an aspirin.
He's the reason we're here in the first place.
As long as we have breath in our lungs,
we're doctors first.
Don't forget that.
Where were you guys?
We had a meeting on the seventh floor.
Why? What's up?
What's up? I'll tell you what's up.
This photo was taken
at a private airfield in Azerbaijan six months ago.
Azerbaijan? What are they doing there?
I have no idea, but guess where they were coming from.
I don't know, the North Pole?
Liberia.
I ran a manual check on every flight
arriving in Azerbaijan that day.
One private plane
chartered out of Roberts Airport in Liberia
listed two French nationals bringing home the remains
of a relative to be buried.
They took a body from Liberia to Azerbaijan?
Holy shit.
USAMRIID asked CTC Africa to send a rep to an emergency brief,
discussing an Ebola-infected corpse
that went missing from Liberia.
Well, when's that brief?
- 20 minutes. - Shit.
Damn.
He's clear.
You were successful in treating
and containing the EVD-27 outbreak
in Western Africa last year.
Is that accurate?
Me and my team, yes.
Uh, in the Konteke province.
Given that this particular strain of Ebola is vaccine-resistant,
what does the CDC have in the way of treatment options?
Well, like influenza, Ebola is a virus that mutates rapidly.
Right now, we do not have an effective treatment
for EVD-27.
James Greer, Jack Ryan, CIA.
Colonel.
Go ahead, Jim.
I'd like to present some recent findings to the doctor.
These should help clarify the situation for her.
Dr...?
- Mueller. - Dr. Mueller.
You spent time on the ground in Liberia, is that right?
Yes.
This was taken at Roberts Airport,
six months ago.
Do you recognize either of these two men?
This is the man from the video from the attack in Paris.
Yes.
The other man is his brother.
Was his brother.
He's recently deceased.
I'm sorry, but how am I involved in any of this?
Dr. Mueller,
we believe that the body you reported missing was stolen
by these two men and flown by private plane to Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan?
The Caucasus region is notorious
for its Soviet scientist defectors.
They set themselves up at universities
with research grants, and they use the labs for black biology,
creating bioweapons to be sold on the black market.
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