SEAL Team

Previously on SEAL Team...

This is Sergeant Percy Jacobs.

The Army's Criminal Investigative Division

believe he was hit by a fragmentation grenade.

It was my frag. If my shoulder wasn't messed up,

that boy would still be alive.

That's Steve Porter's drill.

He got something on it during an op.

The real story is rare-earth metals.

Remember Steve Porter's drill bit?

Well, I had it tested again. So, either you lied to me

- or your lab guys lied to me. - I didn't lie to you.

Your boss, Cutter,

people do a lot of funny things when it comes to money.

Maybe, uh, murder a bunch of operators?

This is Amanda Ellis.

This is Abad Halani.

My brother, Nouri Halani,

he is the one who blew up your commandos.

This is Abad Halani.

First, I congratulate you on the capture of Hamid Gul Baladur.

I never thought he could be taken alive.

Second, my brother, Nouri Halani,

he is the one who blew up your commandos some weeks ago.

Why are you telling me this?

I want to deliver him to you.

And we're sure that's Abad Halani?

The voice recognition

was a probable match.

The guy did a pretty good job scrambling the signal,

but we managed to track it to Northwest Pakistan.

Halani Central.

You're offering to betray your own brother?

He betrayed me and all our people.

My brother has gone mad.

He wants to rule the world.

He will kill anyone he thinks is an enemy.

He thinks I am an enemy.

Why?

Because I do not want to rule the world.

Hey, look, it still don't make no sense.

Big, bad Nouri Halani kills Echo Team

because they burnt down some little poppy field?

Come on.

The bottom line is Nouri Halani killed our Echo guys.

Fact of the matter is

Abad says he can get us Nouri Halani.

He's asked for an in-person meeting tomorrow afternoon

in Karachi, iron out the particulars.

Plan's for us to get eyes on him at that meeting,

surveil him until we got Nouri rolled up,

and then roll up Abad right after.

First things first, I got to get the Pakistanis

to sign off on me being there, so...

And if they don't?

You're gonna, uh, just call the whole thing off?

Actually, I was thinking in that case,

I just have to sneak in with you guys.

Hey, suckers. Join you?

Be my guest.

You down with the mission?

Ah, it's just a big waste of time, if you ask me.

We should just drop a big bomb on them and call it a day.

That is a very nice international incident

you are proposing.

See, I like the sound of that right there.

It's got a little ring to it, doesn't it?

I've been having trouble getting in touch with Danny.

Well, how long has it been since you talked to him?

Week.

You want me to reach out to him or...?

- No. No, no, no. - No?

- No. Thank you. - Look, I tell you what.

- I owe a call to my buddy Tyler. - Mm-hmm.

I will have him stop by and check up on him.

Hey, it'd be nice to know he's alive.

Well... sure.

All right, all set. Consider it done.

- Thank you. - There you go.

Hi, babe. Sorry that I missed you.

Again. Uh... know we really need to talk.

I just really need to get to class on time today.

I just really miss you.

I really can't wait for us to be in the same time zone again.

Um, you said that you were getting back

the week after next.

Do you remember that MLA conference at Duke?

It starts the exact same week.

So I don't know that I will be able to meet you when you land.

Sorry. I... you know, it would be helpful

to know exactly when you land outside of a five-day window.

Wish we could talk about this in person.

I really have to go.

Uh, be careful.

I love you. I'll talk to you soon.

Bye.

Hi.

Hey. Good news.

Guy I met in Islamabad

is working at the Pakistani Consulate in J-Bad.

Hmm.

Pretty sure he's gonna be able

to get me permission to go into Karachi.

Wow. Hey, that is good news.

Yeah. I'm gonna meet him at his office in an hour.

Hour? You want some company?

No. Just between spooks.

So what do you know about Xeon?

Xeon Tactical? The contractors?

I mean in an official capacity.

Oh, you want to know what we know about them.

Yeah.

Uh, well, like Blackwater and DynCorp,

they have their share of bad press.

It's heartily deserved.

What about Cutter?

Alan Cutter founded Xeon about five years ago

after he retired from British Special Forces.

Bit of an operator, if you pardon the pun,

but maybe it's just the accent?

He's definitely not the kind of guy you want to cross.

Why are you asking me about this, anyway?

Why don't you ask your new friend, Amy?

She works for him.

Where are you going with this?

What if I told you that Xeon may have been involved

in Echo Team's deaths?

Involved how?

Well, Steve Porter may have gotten himself

into something that got him killed.

You know, Xeon mining these rare-earth metals

that he, uh, found while he was, uh, you know,

in the tunnels underneath the fields they burned.

Yeah, he took that information to Amy,

and Amy took it to Cutter,

and I think that he, uh, lied to her.

Or I don't know, I think maybe sh-she may have lied to me.

I don't know yet, but...

Okay, well, what does this have to do with Echo Team?

Well, you're gonna go meet with Abad,

so I figured that maybe you could talk to him about it.

Talk to him about what, Jason? You don't have anything.

Not yet.

When you find something real... Mm-hmm.

I will be more than happy to run it down for you.

In the meantime, watch out for Cutter.

S01E20 Enemy of My Enemy

Ah, Mr. Hayes.

Cutter.

It's a pleasure to see you again.

I'm glad you could stop by.

What I have to say is not gonna take too long.

Well, take as long as you like

'cause I was just cozying in to my afternoon dram.

Can I interest you in some?

No, I'm not interested. So, buddy of mine,

uh, and his team performed a-a routine burn of a poppy field

about 20 klicks east of here.

Are you familiar with that procedure?

Yeah, absolutely. We do it all the time.

It's one of Xeon's main tasks in theater, actually.

My buddy, Steve Porter, had that soil tested.

- Used this drill bit. - Mm-hmm.

Sent it to your lab.

Ah. I think I know where you're going with this.

Right. So there's lanthanum on there.

- You know that, right? - Right. Jason...

Right. So why would you or one of your people

tell my buddy, Steve Porter, that there wasn't?

Why would you say something like that?

First of all, I'm sorry about Steve

and all your comrades who perished

in this bloody, fractious country.

But what you've just learned from that

is how immensely giving it could be.

Place is a virtual gold mine,

for those who got the eyes to see it and the means to take it.

So you knew there was lanthanum in that soil?

I'd be a poor CEO of a modern, diversified contracting company

if I didn't.

Lanthanides.

Rare-earth metals.

Why'd you lie to Steve?

Hmm?

We didn't.

What Steve found we all found.

Xeon, KNR, China National.

It's no secret.

Traces of lanthanides, yes, but traces only.

There's no great vein of precious minerals

running under that poppy field, Jason,

or any poppy field in Nangarhar Province.

Please. Take a read.

That's the history of Xeon's failed exploration in this area.

I told Steve the same thing.

You talked to Steve?

Yeah, sure. He came to see me. He sat right where you are.

You're saying that Steve knew

there was lanthanum in that soil?

Yeah, of course.