The Border

-Immigration and Customs Security. May I have your attention?

- Immigration and Customs Security polices our borders and arrests evildoers.

Previously on The Border... - Homeland Security is sending up some hotshot agent.

- There's this story I heard of a captain,

of a top-secret squad of elite commandos.

- Captain Mike Kessler. - Andrew Mannering, CSIS.

- This man witnessed a terrible event and he was ordered

by his superiors to just cover it all up.

- Shall we add paranoia to your list of delusional behaviors?

- Paranoia is the only sane response to a man like you.

- You haven't been sane since you cracked up in Bosnia.

- He'd forget what he had seen so he went off the rails, had a breakdown.

- He slipped through my fingers once and it won't happen again.

- Radman is asylumed in exchange for testifying against a bigger fish.

But the past surfaced again and he may not be thinking clearly.

- You will never mention the name Vlatko Radman again. If you try to find him,

you'll be dismissed and charged under the Official Secrets Act

and that goes for Friar Tuck, Little John and all the rest of your band of merry men.

- Your behavior has become erratic.

Leave Vlatko Radman alone.

You may be stripped of office and tried for treason.

- : Suspects were last seen heading towards the river.

Holy shit!

Let's go!

- What the hell you doin', sir? - What do you think?

- We're swimming to Canada? - You see a boat?

- Well, I'm sure I won't be the first Black man to drown in this river.

Decomp! Help!

Help me!

[Radio conversation in the background]

- This doesn't really concern ICS.

No? Last I checked,

illegal border crossings were top of our job description.

- Just tell your people to hand over my prisoners,

and you can go back to a dry bed.

- Yeah, Coast Guard picked them up on our side of the river.

That makes them our prisoners. - Lt. Ulysses Grant Davies,

First Battalion, 64th Regiment.

- Corporal Zachariah Metski, First Battalion, 64th Regiment.

- Private First Class Gordon Harvey, First Battalion,

Combat Team, 34th Infantry. - At ease.

- We fulfilled our contract with the United States Army.

We came to Canada as refugees from the policy of "stop-loss."

[Siren sounding in the background]

[Banging aggressively at the door]

- Open the door, or we'll break it in!

- I'll put on some coffee.

Tear the place apart.

I'll take the bedroom.

You do have a warrant?

- Facted down to the last comma.

Naming you as a suspect in Radman's murder,

and authorizing me to search for the weapon.

Sir?

[Siren sounding in the background]

Get me the pry bar.

Or I could unlock it.

Well, well, what have we here?

Army-issue Remington-700 sniper rifle.

The very thing for picking off Croatian warlords.

- It hasn't been fired in ten years.

Has it not.

Excuse me.

Kessler.

- We brought in some U.S. Army deserters who are claiming refugee status.

- Deserters don't have refugee standing. -

wants these guys pretty bad - they put on a real manhunt.

They were stop-lossed.

Layla thinks we should hear 'em out.

Knock yourself out. I'll be in the shower.

A lot of heat for some guys

low on the military food chain.

- Yeah, you special in some way we should know about? - Well, actually ma'am,

we're war heroes. - Heroes?

You were running away. - We did our time, sir.

- Private Harvey here was awarded the Purple Heart.

- Yeah, Lieutenant Davies' got a Purple Heart and a Silver Star.

And, well, I got two Purple Hearts and a Silver Star,

so I guess that'd make me the winner, now doesn't it? Ha! Ha!

- You got vending machines?

I could really use a Twinkie.

Uh, dude,

I don't think they have those up here.

No more blood for oil!

- We're protesting the detention of these 3 American soldiers.

- : Free the soldiers! Free the soldiers!

[Phone ringing and protesters chanting "Let them go!"]

Shit!

Hey, Dad.

- Shelter from the Storm? - The new underground railroad.

We help deserters cross the border and find homes and jobs when they get here.

That's illegal, Zoe.

- Well, so is the Army trying to stop-loss the soldiers

who've finished their contracts.

- Those soldiers should have read the fine print.

They can be forced to serve as long as a war continues.

- So that's what, the next twenty years?

Besides, Iraq is not a war. It's a military engagement.

Why are you really here, Zoe?

- I'm one of the organizers.

We had people at the border waiting for the guys to cross.

- And now you're here at my place of work.

: Freedom!

- You think this is about you? - Isn't it?

- I've been around political exiles and torture victims my whole life.

This stuff is in my blood. - At the moment, it's outside my parking lot.

- Would you rather I didn't give a shit?

- Actually, yes, I would. Now, if you'll excuse me,

I have political exiles

and torture victims to persecute.

- : Free the soldiers! Free the soldiers!

- Hello, Major. - Agent LaGarda.

- These are the extradition papers

for Lieutenant Davies, Corporal Metski, and Private Harvey.

- You must really want these boys. - Not me, the army.

I have orders to return them to Fort Dix for court martial.

- They could get five years in military prison.

Seems pretty steep for soldiers who've served out their contract.

- It's not for us to decide.

- Your soldiers have applied for refugee status.

They're entitled to a hearing. - We've done this dance before.

I think we both know how it's gonna end.

- Looks like our deserters have made themselves at home.

- Is it just me, or are they, like, twelve years old?

- Better move them down to holding.

- Were you guys in the same unit? - Uh, no sir.

We were all in B-dad, but they were in Jamia and I was in Sadr City.

- Yeah, we met in group. - Group? - Therapy.

At Lincoln Army Hospital in Ohio.

- Yeah, we're all whack jobs. Can't you tell? Batshit crazy.

- Post-traumatic stress. - Friggin' A, man.

- Figures. You gotta be crazy to try and swim across the Niagara Gorge.

- Yeah, that was some seriously messed-up shit.

This war's crazy, not us.

- L.T.'s in denial. It's sad, really.

Face it. You're a beautiful psycho freak.

- Back it up, Corporal! - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

- Is that an order, sir? - Hey...

You wanna ease up?

Like I said, stress.

They're just kids.

- The Pentagon itself is pressuring the PMO to extradite.

- [I'd understand if they were high-ranking officers.]

- We can't afford to piss off the Pentagon. Not with our troops fighting next to theirs.

- The deserters have organized support.

We've got press and picketers outside our gate. -

- They deserve a hearing, Minister. -

Get this done quickly before things gets out of control.

I think you want to see this.

General Ralph Davies.

Four stars. He's one of the big boys.

This morning at 0-100 hours,

my son, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant Davies,

was arrested by Canadian authorities

after deserting his post and crossing illegally into Canada.

- This guy makes old Blood-and-Guts Patton look like a yoga-mat metrosexual.

- Rest assured, my son will get no special treatment.

On the contrary, I intend to do all in my power to ensure

that Lieutenant Davies and the enlisted men with him

are prosecuted to the fullest extent of military law.

This country asked no more of...

- Five years without parole. And I thought my Dad was cold.

Then again, he's dead, so technically he's colder...

That explains the manhunt.

- I've been ordered to bring them back in leg-irons. - See, it's Dad all over again.

- You can't have them. Not yet, anyway.

As refugee claimants, they're entitled to a fair hearing. Maggie?

- Yeah, boss? - Take their statements.

See what they have to back up their claims. Darnell can help.

- Uh, he's upstairs with Agent Mannering.

Mannering's upstairs?

- Mm-hm. Apparently he's taken over an office. - : We're fighting a war.

And we can't do it without troops.

- I was woken this morning by a battering ram at my door.

Agent Mannering searched my apartment.

- What did he find? - Nothing.

My old army-issue sniper rifle.

- That's not nothing. - It hasn't been fired.

But Agent Mannering's convinced I shot Radman.

Well...

Didn't you?

No.

: Come on, Mike...

I'm the one who told you where to find him.

I keep telling myself I didn't know you planned to shoot him.

But if I'm honest ... - Maybe Washington thought it was risky to set Radman free.

- On the contrary, they're furious he got killed.

And I've been officially reprimanded.

I did not shoot Radman.

Someone else

was up on that roof.

- Only three people knew where he'd be that night.

Mannering,

me, and you.

If someone else was there...

- Then we have a serious breach of security.

- Private First Class Gordon Harvey, of the 34th Infantry,

United States Army.

Everybody just calls me Decomp. - As in 'decompensate?'

It means 'fall apart.'