Front Toward Enemy

Cinnamon coffee?

I got the good stuff from the spice shop on Atlantic.

I look that bad?

You look how you should look.

Have you been sleeping?

No.

Let me write you a prescription.

You know I hate that stuff, Mom.

Rafi called for you again.

Yeah?

You tell him I'm bedridden? Crippled with grief?

I'm not telling him anything. It's not my place. But, Dinah...

as much as I approve of this, it's not you.

Talk to me at least.

I can't stop thinking about it, Mom.

What do you remember?

There...

There were bullets flying everywhere.

And it's like that happened in slow motion.

When...

When Sam was dying...

that happened so fast, I couldn't stop it.

And my brain keeps rewinding it over and over again.

And now you're wondering what right you have to be alive.

You can't answer that question.

But it's normal to ask it.

But blaming yourself isn't helping you to get through this.

His... His mom's asked me to speak at his funeral.

What am I supposed to say?

That... That he died doing what he loved? Well, that's a lie.

That he wasn't alone at the end? What the hell does it matter? He's dead.

-Sweetheart-- -He believed in what I told him.

He died for the truth.

So do I tell the truth, or do I just say things to make them all feel better?

What do you need to tell them?

- Anything? - Same.

She hasn't gotten out of that bed since we got here.

I think she's devastated.

I don't think she had anything to do with her partner's death.

Tell you what. She's either dirty...

or the woman is a total shit magnet.

Why don't we just send her a little encrypted e-mail...

set up a meet?

Remember the last time you sent her an e-mail, right?

You wound up dead.

-Look, you agreed to contact her, right? -Yes, I did.

You acted like an asshole, and I agreed.

If we're gonna do this, we only got one shot.

Treat her like a high-value target.

I gotta take a leak.

Oh, man.

- -

- -

What you're looking at is video taken by an employee

of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms field office at the Wall Street pier.

Two other explosions occurred at the NYPD's 10th Precinct

and the federal courthouse in Foley Square.

And we should say, everyone in this video is alive,

though some others were not so lucky.

We are hearing several people have been killed and dozens more injured.

The FBI and the police department are at the scenes...

"If you do not, I will know that you are one of them."

"If you do not, I will know you are one of them."

"The United States government has become a tyrannical force...

using its power to persecute teachers and citizens...

trying them in a court like criminals

for seeking to defend themselves as the Constitution allows.

They wanna take away our guns, our freedom...

and then we will be unable to defend ourselves."

"I have acted in defense of our liberty and identity.

I have acted for all of us, to do what is right."

This letter's from the bomber.

- Sure sounds like it. -Mm-hmm.

And... And he sent it to you directly. Did... Did you touch this?

Well, yes, obviously, until I realized what it was.

Okay, so the first thing you wanna do is, we're... we're gonna call the FBI.

This letter may be the only evidence of who this guy is,

what he intends to do, what his state of mind is.

God, I don't know if I'm horrified or excited.

Maybe a little bit of both.

Guess that makes me just half a terrible person.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. This just got interesting.

"You have championed the common hero before, Miss Page.

I believe you understand that sometimes a man has to make a stand

for what is right, what is true, even if the law stands against him.

I ask you in the name of this country we love

to print my words as a call to arms. If you do not..."

"If you do not, I will know you're one of them..."

"...and you and everyone at your liberal paper will be on my list."

-Then he writes... -"Give me liberty..."

"...liberty, or give me death."

"...death."

Ah, yes. Real original.

Patrick Henry, one of our Founding Fathers and a real anti-Federalist.

Okay, so, yeah, not so excited. He just threatened the entire paper.

Yeah, well, I feel sick.

That this guy thinks that I'd approve of what he's done?

That is the last thing that I meant.

Look, what if we print the letter and a reply?

No, I wanna tell him and everyone else how this makes me feel.

Okay, well, that's not up to you or me.

We have to see what the authorities think is the best way to catch this guy.

Surely that's making this public?

Someone might know him, might recognize his handwriting

-or phrasing or-- -Yeah. Maybe.

Just stop. Stop, okay? Don't...

Don't do anything. Don't say anything.

-Don't mention this... -Ellison.

...until we have official instructions--

Ellison, we have an opportunity to lead the debate on this.

The Bulletin will publish an editorial if the FBI okays it.

Okay, but I wanna put my name on it.

No, he wrote to me. I'm not hiding behind the paper.

That's dangerous. I mean, he's already singled you out.

Yes, he has.

All right.

All right, fine. I'll say something to the FBI.

You can start writing. I'll make the call.

-Do not touch that! -Of course.

There's nothing in this world I hate as much as a goddamn bomb.

Goddamn cowards.

They think they're gonna scare people into making them do what they want.

They're wrong.

It just pisses people off, you know, brings them together, makes them stronger.

New York doesn't forget.

Whoever this is, they're in for a world of shit.

You know, if they bring Madani into work, we might get our chance.

Come on.

Whole city's got its eyes open.

Last thing we're gonna do is go after a Homeland agent.

What do you wanna do? Nothing?

It's better than doing something stupid.

How is it going out there?

FBI and NYPD are running things on the ground, and...

we're working intelligence.

How is Dinah?

I'm not letting you talk to her. She's a mess, Rafi.

Gee, thanks.

I'm okay.

I'll be right down the hall.

I want you to have all the recovery time you need.

But whatever you've done...

you left that office completely unprepared for these bombings.

My SAC is out, I have several dead agents...

and I don't know why.

You might not wanna know.

Survivors say you refused to name the target...

and filed a false tactical plan.

Have you identified the guys we killed? Who they worked for?

Were they government-affiliated?

You need to answer the questions, not ask them.

Talk to me, Dinah.

-You ever had a partner die on your watch? -No.

-No. You ever shot anyone, been shot at? -You know I haven't.

Every time I close my eyes, I see Sam Stein's face staring up at me.

He had this look when he was dying.

He wasn't sad or scared. He was... surprised.

Like he couldn't believe it was ending that way.

I can't shake that look.

What do you want me to say?

That this has nothing to do with Ahmad Zubair and Kandahar.

That Sam Stein and the others didn't die chasing your ghosts.

I cannot protect you if I don't know the truth.

The truth?

The truth is what brought us here.

No one wanted to hear it.

This bomber is intent on spreading fear, but I'm not scared.

I know this city will pull together like it has so many times before.

The Bulletin may have printed his words,

but we've also given his letter to the FBI,

because we have faith in the institutions that he seeks to destroy.

"We must not tolerate those who use violence to communicate.

This man is not a patriot.

He's a coward, a terrorist."

Jesus Christ, Karen. Why you goin' after him like this?

-Well, we're about to find out. -What are you talking about?

- -Girlfriend's on the radio.

Turn that up.

Up next, The Ricky Langtry Show.

Good morning, New York.

You are listening to The Ricky Langtry Show,

and I am your host, Ricky Langtry.

We have two guests on the show this morning.

Senator Stan Ori,

a vocal, long-standing proponent of tougher gun control laws.

Is that fair to say, Senator?

Ricky, thanks for having me. And yes, it certainly is.

And we have Karen Page, Bulletin journalist,

to whom the bomber wrote personally.

Karen, you responded with a pretty, uh, pissy editorial this morning.

You addressed this individual directly by calling him...

-You called him a terrorist? -Mm-hmm.

Do you have sympathy with his point of view?

Uh, no. None.

The irony of this bomber's point of view is terrifying.

You're referring to the idea that...

that he is using violence to defend the second amendment?

Yes, I am. We have a killer committing murders in our midst

to protest against efforts to reduce the murder rate in this country.

Well, that's your takeaway, Senator.