Walker

Thank you so much for helping with the build, Dad.

Yeah, when you dangled bacon in front of me until my eyes went crossed,

I had no earthly idea what I'd signed up for.

Well, we couldn't build all this

for the horse rescue without you.

You've got more experience than the both of us combined.

That was real sweet of you to say, sis.

I mean, I love it when my expertise is acknowledged, really.

Oh, August, that's a good joke.

Been funnier if you hadn't oversold it.

Like, "That's sweet of you to say, sis."

See? Sweet, simple, clean, funny.

I don't know, I think I like it better the way he did it.

Just kind of went on and on.

Watch... Hey, Stella, can you set me up again

with the line that you said to your grandad?

What is going on here?

Go ahead, show them a thing or two about comedic timing.

When Mawline was your age she was the star of a comedy troupe.

That's sweet of you to say, sis.

And that's what's known as a callback.

Okay, how am I just finding out about this?

Can we focus on building the stables?

We can't board the rescues at the Davidson Ranch anymore.

Colton said their stables are packed.

What's this? Cordell send someone over to help because he's too busy today?

Too busy today, too busy every day.

For weeks.

Howdy there, Walkers.

Heard you could use an extra hand.

I invited Kevin.

Well, he-he kind of asked

to help after he hooked us up with the horse donor lady.

Uh, Georgia May of Happy Horse Farms

is not a mere horse donor lady, Augie.

She happens to be one of the most

influential philanthropists in all of Texas.

She also happens to see a lot of potential in your horse rescue,

as do I, which is why I'm here.

You didn't have to do that, Kevin.

I know how busy you are at the mayor's office, but thank you.

Oh, no, honestly.

Helping at a grassroots level

is what I really love anyway.

Although, Georgia did show me your timeline to launch.

Yikes. Not exactly what she had in mind.

But don't worry, 'cause I'm here to help

get those trains rolling on time, you know what I mean?

And save your relationship with the mayor's donor?

Win-win.

So, what? Clay Cooper's been hiding for 20 years?

Maybe he wasn't hiding.

Maybe he was captured and turned.

- Hey. - Hey.

So I know we've gone down a dozen dead ends

the last few days, but I found something, okay?

I found something that connects the dots

from the Clay Cooper I thought I knew to the Clay Cooper who

very well might be the head of Grey Flag.

Yeah, it's just, it's a lot of dots to connect.

Maybe we should look at other theories, not force it.

All the evidence points to this.

I mean, every single Marine in our unit was targeted

- and murdered. - So, you're still working

from the premise that Coop went all "Winter Soldier"

after he thought you guys left him for dead in Afghanistan?

I stopped trying to understand the why,

and started trying to figure out the how.

Walker, we've got two teams of FBI agents

working day and night on this.

I know that. I know.

But they don't have the history with Coop that I do.

- Whoa, whoa. - There's no way he hit that.

- Wow. - I don't know how,

but you cheated.

Fellas, if I'd known you threw darts as bad as you shoot an M4...

What've you done now, Duke?

Gentlemen,

I apologize for whatever sort of antics

Corporal Culpepper here's been up to,

but I hope you boys will let him atone by buying y'all a round.

Oorah!

PFC J.B. Hardage.

- Thank you for setting things right. No.

Sergeant Fred Frausto.

- Don't mention it. I heard Coop

use that alias before...

Fred Frausto.

And when Julia and I looked into it, we learned

that a certain "Fred Frausto" booked a room in Kandahar

four months after Coop's so-called death.

Okay. Beyond the possibility that he may have survived

a few months after he was declared KIA,

I'm not sure I see the relevance.

Julia and I connected that alias to a different one.

One that rented a car

here in Austin, last week.

Wait, wait, wait. A different alias?

- Yeah. - So, Fred Frausto

- didn't rent a car in Austin? - No.

But an alias connected to that one did.

Okay, look, Coop kept his assets liquid,

and he never used an alias for more than six months.

But he still had to move his assets

- from one alias to the next. So...

you used forensic accounting to connect the aliases,

followed the money every time he moved it to a new identity?

Exactly.

So once we established the connection,

Julia and I tracked down the names until we got a hit.

That rental.

- Here in Austin. - Okay.

It's not bulletproof, but it's definitely actionable.

The rental agency equips all their cars with

the QuikRekover stolen vehicle recovery systems, so...

So, use the tracker to find the car you think he rented?

That... tracks.

Great, because I already spoke to a judge

we trust, and got a warrant for the tracker.

Uh, all right, Cassie.

- We got to move on this. Yeah.

Hold on, hold on. Cordi, hey, listen.

This guy was your mentor, man.

If you do find him, are you sure you're gonna be able to

slap the cuffs on him, or worse?

Listen. My gut is telling me that if I can just talk to him,

I can deescalate this, and then no one else has to get hurt.

(sighs) I don't know, Walker.

I mean, you said that the guy's edge of the coin, like you.

How do we know that the coin doesn't fall on tails?

Which, in this metaphor, is a bad thing.

Look, the bottom line is this... If he really murdered

everybody in your unit, he's not gonna let you take him alive.

He's just not.

If it comes to that...

I'll have what it takes to stop him.

All right.

And just in case you don't have it in you,

Cassie'll be there to take the shot.

Yeah. We've got this.

Yeah. Of course.

Take it. Hold this.

All right, give it to me.

Clear.

All right, come on.

- (both groaning) - (alarm blares)

You can't even clear phase one.

I thought y'all were supposed to be

the dream team after you survived some dumb mission.

Which was meant to be a milk run.

How'd you get shot on a milk run?

And how're y'all even up for the Elite Squad when me and Snyder did this trial

in a minute flat?

You completed it in a minute...

but Snyder dropped the bag when he ascended.

A fatal misstep.

Fatal?

If you make the cut,

there'll be seven pounds of C-4 packed in that bag

on the actual mission.

Enough to tear down a building.

Unless you're not up for the task?

Yeah, we're up for it.

Ain't that right, Lana?

Yeah. Yeah. We got this.

Get yourselves back to the barracks now.

Get a move on.

They're resetting the elevator.

You need to prep blast charges for another run at the trial.

And maybe try not to blow us up next time?

Excuse me? My blast charge was just fine.

- Hmm. - What's your problem?

You're the one that's been off all morning.

You never answered my questions about our last mission.

Like where'd you get the combat gauze?

And I heard a woman's voice when we were under fire...

All while you were triaging me.

You couldn't have done all that.

Not without support. So, who was helping you?

- Who was that woman? - I'm a medic.

I came prepared with combat gauze.

- Besides, you were half-conscious anyways.

You don't know what you heard.

I know what I heard.

You know what?

I requested you as my partner

because nobody else would take you.

You need to get your act together.

I have to be on this mission in the Elite Squad.

Why?

With the way they're keeping all the jobs of the mission separate,

no communication between teams, I mean,

we don't even know what the full Elite Squad will be tasked with.