Listen, we got a problem.
"Vigilante cop abuses power"?
Dwayne Pride is dangerous,
and he needs to be held accountable.
RITA: It's a coordinated attack, Dwayne,
and you're the target.
Suspect's name is Max Burris,
former intelligence operative out of Virginia.
I'm gonna find out who he answers to
and why he's been targeting me.
PRIDE: You help us find this man,
and I will hand you the biggest story of your career
about a conspiracy to take me down
that goes all the way to Washington.
DELL: Since I have it on good authority
that you've got no evidence Mr. Burris committed murder,
it seems that he's free to go.
That article exposes you
and the DOJ to any number of civil lawsuits.
Why are you doing this, Karen?
It's not me, Dwayne, or my boss, not even his boss.
Get yourself a lawyer, a good one, fast.
(jazz music playing)
♪ Ready, Freddy ♪
♪ Where you goin'? ♪
♪ Goin' to the house, gonna sleep like a bone... ♪
Yeah! (laughs)
♪ Ready, Freddy, where you goin'? ♪
♪ Goin' down to the house, gonna sleep like a bone... ♪
Newman, Newman. Hey, hey. Hey, you good?
Listen, uh, I'm kind of in a rush here.
I need to ask you for a favor.
You kidding? Whatever you need, Dwayne. I owe you.
And don't worry, I don't believe none of that crap
about what the media's been saying about you. It's all crap.
Actually, not-not all of it,
but that's not the point. State bar reinstated you,
means you can practice law again, right?
(scoffs) Ain't nobody been knocking on my door.
Been a bit of a dry spell
since that corporate firm railroaded me,
bribed the jury.
- Cheers. - H-H-Hang on now.
I'm afraid I need you sober for this.
Long story, but the bottom line is I'm being set up.
I just turned in my shield,
then I get a tip the FBI's coming to arrest me
so that I don't take off before the grand jury indictment.
What do you mean "indictment"? On what charges? When?
All the matters is that I'm being railroaded, too,
and the only way I can find out who's behind it
is if you make sure I don't get indicted.
I'm telling you, Fred,
you can do this, I know it.
Listen to me.
This could be the chance that you've been waiting for.
The one that could keep me out of jail
and get you back on your feet.
What do you say?
Last thing I ever want to do in life is
let you down, Dwayne, but...
H-How much time do I have to decide?
(door creaks open)
I need you to decide now.
♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪
♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang ♪
♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom ♪
♪ How, how, how, how ♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
Dwayne's been arrested.
♪ You gotta come on. ♪
Dwayne's been arrested.
What? When?
Last night at the bar.
They let him have one phone call this morning
before the grand jury convened.
The grand jury's not wasting any time
It's not the jury that's in a rush.
It's whoever's trying to destroy Pride's good name.
We gotta figure out who's pulling the strings here.
And what trying to destroy Pride has to do with all this.
What? But I thought you were close to getting the guy
responsible for the media leaks on Pride.
Well, we were,
but apparently this Max Burris
has friends in high places.
Friends no doubt connected to
whoever Pride's enemies are in D.C.
'cause the Feds released them.
Has Sebastian still got his eye on Burris?
He just called in. Said Burris is still
at the law firm that freed him.
PATTON: Ten bucks says that law firm is
deep inside the D.C. baddie's pocket.
No doubt they're trying to spirit Burris out of town
before we can get our hands on him again.
GREGORIO: Too bad we don't have enough evidence
to prove he killed the Navy sailor
after he made her release the files on Pride.
PATTON: Right.
'Cause if we did,
his federal friends couldn't protect him from us,
because murder is a state charge.
Exactly.
LASALLE: All right, then, Patton.
You and Sebastian need to find proof.
LASALLE: Talk to the reporter Burris leaked it all to.
Get his digital fingerprint on the funding.
All we need is probable cause to arrest.
Soon as we relieve Sebastian,
I'll send him to the motel Burris stayed at,
see if he can find any trace evidence.
Gregorio, you're with me.
Where are we going?
Well, they gotta move Burris
sooner than later,
and when they do, I want to be there,
hopefully with proof to grab him.
Uh, what about Dwayne?
I still don't understand how the judge allowed
all that evidence to be presented.
It made you look like you're a danger to the community.
Pretty sure that's their plan.
Still,
I-I let you down in there.
I'm sorry, Dwayne.
I knew I was not ready to go up against...
It's not your fault, Newman.
The grand jury was gonna hold me over for trial
no matter who was defending me.
They'll probably set bail high.
But maybe if I can petition to reduce bail at this...
(door opens)
Do you know who I am?
Name's Eric Barlow.
I am the associate attorney general.
The associate attorney general?
Long way from D.C. What brings you here?
You do, Agent Pride.
I've been keeping an eye on you
for quite some time now.
Is that a fact?
It's not a good fact.
Anybody gets on my radar,
usually doesn't bode well.
With that said, I'm gonna offer you a deal.
It's a one-time-only offer,
so I would take it seriously if I were you.
I'm listening.
It's not just the media environment
that's not on your side these days.
Uh, public attitude against law enforcement
crossing the line...
I didn't cross the line.
Grand jury says otherwise.
So will a trial jury, trust me.
Convicted on all charges,
20 years? Maybe more.
Or... you can quit NCIS.
Retire. Play piano at that little bar of yours.
Enjoy what's left of your life.
He keeps his pension?
Sure. Why not?
We accept. No, we don't.
But... BARLOW: Like I said,
I'm only offering this once.
Then I'll only have to turn it down once.
Either way works for me.
Remand him into custody.
What's this?
Huh.
Lucky you.
Looks like you just made bail.
PRIDE: You didn't have to do that, Loretta.
The hell I didn't.
I wasn't gonna let you rot in jail, Dwayne.
Wasn't gonna rot. Look,
before you get all judgy on me
and tell me it was too much money, it wasn't.
Ten percent on a hundred grand.
$10,000? That's it?
Yeah. I thought I was gonna have to
mortgage the house, borrow against my 401K,
considering everything they were charging you with.
Well, that doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense the he didn't seem
to mind my getting out, either.
WADE: Who is he?
Associate Attorney General Barlow.
And if I'm right, he's the D.C. guy
who's been after me all year.
He seems familiar.
Just can't quite put my finger on it, though.
You sure?
What I'm sure of is that he's sure of himself.
Which means whatever he's got planned,
he doesn't think I can stop him.
Wait...
I gotta go, okay?
But thank you for bailing me out.
No, no, no, wait, Dwayne.
Ooh, and do me a favor.
Tell LaSalle to stand down.
All right? Tell him that's an order.
I don't want anyone else
getting caught up in this, too.
Dwayne, wait. What are you gonna do?
Tell me you're not going to go rogue again.
(mutters indistinctly)
All right, thanks for calling.
I promise to keep an eye on him.
Miss Loretta thinks King's got something
up his sleeve-- wants to keep us out of it.
GREGORIO: Fat chance. LASALLE: Yeah, exactly.
Still, the sooner
we can figure out what this is all about,
the sooner we can keep King
from making things worse for himself.
Well, I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer,
but if AAG's really behind this,
chances of success aren't good.
Yeah. But if we can get Burris to flip on AAG,
we'll have him dead to rights.
Only if we can connect him to the murder.
We need leverage first.
Which might be a problem,
because there he is right now-- he's leaving.
I wonder why they're
letting him leave now.
What do we do?
I guess we follow him,
don't let him get away, and worry about leverage later.
(engine starts)
You see that?
(tires screeching)
Looks like a hit.
(tires screeching, car horn honks)
(gunshots)
Get down! Get down!
(gunshots)
Don't shoot! Don't shoot!
Idiot, we're not gonna shoot you.
We just saved you. Get out!
Come on, let's go before they kill us all.
LASALLE: Who hired you to kill
Petty Officer Bowers
and to destroy Agent Pride?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Stow it, Burris. You know we can link you
to the intel leak against Pride, we've already proven that.
That's old news. My attorney already got me off.
Except for now, more than likely,
his law firm's trying to off you.
And if so, they'll try again, too.
You know they will.
GREGORIO: They consider you loose ends--
ones that need tying up so you don't tell us
who's behind it all and why.
Which you need to do
if you want to avoid the needle.
Oh, wait.
First off, you guys don't have jack on me for murder.
If you did, you would have arrested me already.
And second, I didn't kill her.
All right, then, who did?
One of the guys that just tried to kill me, actually.
His name's Lonzo.
"Lonzo" what?
I don't know.
But I do know he's gonna come after me again,
which leads me back to what are you offering?
Well, if it proves out you didn't pull the trigger,
maybe, uh, accessory to murder, ten to 15 years.
(scoffs)
Are you kidding me? I won't make it a day in prison.
You guys really don't know who you're dealing with here.
These people, they have connections everywhere.
Then tell us who they are so we can protect you.
I won't make it across the street before they take me out.
LASALLE: Which means, for you
to have a chance to live,
you need to tell us who you're working for,
and help us stop
whatever they got planned.
Captain Estes, what are you doing here?
Wondering what the hell's going on, that's what.
Has anybody heard from Pride since he got arrested?
Only that Doc Wade bailed him out.
I can't believe all the crap they're putting him through.
Is he okay? Where is he?
Apparently, staying in the room above his bar,
and we don't know how he is, 'cause he's not telling us.
Apparently, trying to protect us.
What does that mean?
What is he doing? We don't know.
But what we do know is we need
to figure this out fast before he tries
to figure it out himself.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what worries me.
Yeah, us, too.
But Max Burris did give us a lead, and it's a good thing
you're here, too, because we need you to keep him safe
until we see if his lead pans out.
We need to keep it quiet, too,
because these guys got reach, if you know what I'm saying.
They already tried to kill Burris once to shut him up,
so watch your back.
Oh, don't worry about me.
Nobody's gonna scare me away from doing
everything I can to help Pride.
All right, we got something.
Need you to deep dive on a person named Amelia Parsons.
Burris says that's his contact at the law firm.
He says she's the facilitator, so whatever's going on
goes through her, so if we can get something on her...
Might be able to bust up the conspiracy.
Yeah, or at least work our way up the food chain,
see who everybody's answering to.
All right, let's do our thing.
No, we'll work with Patton.
I need you to do surveillance.
Oh. O-Okay, who am I surveilling?
Someone who's a pro, savvy, and if you're not careful,
you will be spotted.
All right, I'm down. Who is it?
Pride.
Dwayne Pride?
NEWMAN: Turns out AAG Barlow
is from New Orleans originally.
Started out at St. Martin's Episcopal,
then, went to boarding school in D.C., then to Harvard, Oxford.
Hold on.
Is his father Frank Dumet?
Yes, but he took his mother's maiden name
once Dumet went to prison for corruption.
Now I know why he seemed so familiar.
You know Barlow?
Of him.
His father and my father used to run this city back in the day.
Looks like Dumet was grooming his son to do the same.
Huh.
The prodigal son returning home.
No wonder he wants me sidelined.
Which is exactly where you should stay,
as far as I'm concerned.
That's both my professional and my personal opinion.
Going up against Barlow is like David going up against Goliath.
Didn't David win?
My point is that...
I know what your point is, Newman.
My point is,
if I don't stop him, who will?
But you don't even know what you're trying to stop him from.
Well, that's what my team's for.
Your team? But I thought you said you weren't willing
to risk putting your agents...
Not that team, my other team.
You got to be pretty desperate if you called me, Dwayne.
(laughs) Hey.
But your buddy Kane, here, filled us in.
It's Crane.
It's Oliver Crane.
After printing all that bull about Pride,
you're lucky it's not Oliver Twist.
I don't even know what that even means.
It means you're lucky you're not breathing out of a tube.
You started this mess.
I was used.
You were played.
You're an idiot.
I like her.
Where'd you find her?
Triple Frontier.
Long story. Whoa.
Elvis Bertrand.
Sydney Halliday, Oliver Crane.
This is Fred Newman, he's my attorney.
Sorry, but I'm a little confused.
How exactly are they gonna help us with Barlow?
By hook or by crook.
Take a load off, let's get started.
Do they have any idea how dangerous he is?
Yeah, well, Barlow is very dangerous.
If I'm right, he's already had people killed,
which means you need to know
that he will not hesitate
to kill again if he has to.
CRANE: Doesn't matter.
He used me to burn you.
I'm here to return the favor.
ELVIS: This sounds like one of those deep state
conspiracy deals, which is great,
because that's what I live for.
SYDNEY: And I guess I've sort of made
a habit lately
of saving Pride's butt,
ever since he saved mine.
ELVIS: Is that like one of those
Native American life debt deals?
Guess you've still got friends in this town after all.
WADE: Don't forget about me.
Thank you for calling.
Thought you could use some moral support.
Hold on, here. Loretta...
Ah, ah, ah, don't even try, Dwayne.
After all, I've got a financial stake
in your well-being,
remember?
It's my bail money.
So,
where do we set up?
♪ I've been waiting in vain ♪
♪ For this station... ♪
PRIDE: Been using the upstairs for storage
since I bought the bar.
All right, we can just push everything to the sides.
We got, uh, plenty of tables, lots of chairs.
The bathroom door's right back there, against that wall.
It's kind of stuffy, you mind if I open the balcony door?
No, no, go ahead.
They just haven't been opened in years, though.
So what's the plan?
Plan is,
So what's the plan?
Plan is,
we know that all roads lead to Barlow
and the law firm,
so we learn everything we can about both,
figure out why they want me out of the way so bad.
I'm gonna hack into their central server,
and get all information I can on you and the NCIS leak.
CRANE: And the offshore accounts
that they used to pay Burris to set up the bots.
Primanalytica, key that in, too.
ELVIS: Bots?
These guys got bots?
Man, they mean business.
NEWMAN: Still, whatever you do,
you can't leave any digital trace.
If the U.S. attorney's office finds out
that Dwayne is behind it, revoking bail
will be the least of his problems.
SYDNEY: Might have to breach that law firm
physically, instead.
Can you pull up any blueprints, schematics?
Ask, and ye shall receive.
PRIDE: Crane.
- Yeah? - I need you to deep-dive Barlow.
I mean, he's awfully cocky,
but I can't believe he doesn't have a weakness.
- Okay. Yeah, let's get to work, man. - All right.
I don't like it either, Sebastian.
Just stay put, and holler at me if they make a move.
Pride's working with Elvis?
Not only Elvis, but also
his lawyer and that Oliver Crane dude,
Sydney, and Miss Loretta's even helping King.
Helping him with what?
Getting into a whole bunch of trouble
if we don't figure this out first.
Got anything on Amelia Parsons?
Yeah. I cross-checked every alphabet database--
Interpol, too.
She's like the female Jason Bourne,
complete with multiple IDs and passports.
More than that, she's been a person of interest
in several high-profile FBI cases over the last few years.
She's like Teflon, nothing sticks.
Got friends in high places like Burris had?
Ha. Way up, all the way up to Associate Attorney General
Eric Barlow.
Small world, too. Barlow's father
was a founding partner at-- wait for it--
Connor and Hughes.
Even has an office there still.
Means Amelia could lead us to Barlow
if we can get some incriminating evidence against her.
Yeah, then, hopefully, we can bust
the conspiracy and clear King.
Hey, any chance you can hack into her computer at the firm?
I've been trying.
I've been working on breaking through her firewalls
using proxy sites and passive attacks.
This girl knows how to protect herself.
But every program has a backdoor,
and Crack-a-Hack is about to kick it in.
(alarm sounding) Whoa, hold up.
I'm not the only one trying.
What do you mean? What's going on?
What's going on is someone hijacked my idea.
And they're blocking me.
How? What are you talking about?
Narrow bandwidth,
there's only room for one of us.
And the only other person I know who knows how to do this
is Elvis.
Elvis?
Wait, but if he's helping Pride...
That means Pride is probably about to make his move.
(jazz music playing)
Hold on.
Sebastian, what are you doing here?
Probably about to make you really mad.
Where are you guys going?
None of your business. Let's go.
Well, actually, I'm under strict orders
to not let you leave.
Sebastian, listen to me.
LASALLE: Sorry, King.
But he listens to me now.
Not my choice. HQ says.
Christopher, what is going on?
We can't let you do whatever it is you're about to do.
Otherwise, we're gonna have to arrest you.
What she said.
You were surveilling me?
Now, just hold on, before you go and get
all upset. He already is, look at him.
I thought I made it perfectly clear.
I didn't want you...
Involved, we know. Doc told us, but too bad.
We care, so get over it.
ELVIS: Whoa, I forgot how spunky you were.
Do you guys know each other?
WADE: Look, in the interest of time,
which, I'm gathering, we don't have much of,
can we just dispense with the bravado back and forth,
and, perhaps, combine forces?
- Loretta. - No, Dwayne, no.
I know you don't want anybody else to get in trouble,
but I'm watching you waste your precious time trying to convince
these people not to help.
So...
...let them.
Do I have a choice?
ALL: No.
All right, sit down.
I'll tell you what we know so far,
or at least, what we suspect.
Associate Attorney General Barlow...
Is probably the D.C. powerbroker that's been gunning for you.
How do you know that?
LASALLE: Because the facilitator of the whole deal
does his dirty work for him.
Amelia Parsons.
Wait, you know about Amelia?
He knows about her; he's been trying to block me
from getting her server the whole time.
ELVIS: That was you, Patton?
Oh, my gosh, great work
h-hacking into that puppy.
NEWMAN: But I thought you said you couldn't
get past her last firewall?
I couldn't, I've never seen anything like it, either.
Which is why we were about to go break into her office instead.
Well, yeah, I hope you guys are prepared
to break into an air gap room.
An air gap, what-- you mean, like, a Faraday cage?
Whatever it's called, it's apparently the reason
why you guys couldn't break into Amelia's computer.
PATTON: At least from the outside, anyway.
She has all the content digitally protected.
The only way to access it
is to disable the air gap
inside, first.
ELVIS: Must be some pretty juicy stuff
in there, Dwayne, to go to this extreme.
Could be the whole conspiracy.
We could take down the whole house of cards.
NEWMAN: And maybe Barlow, too.
Might be the only way to exonerate you, Dwayne.
Look, all I care about is finding out
why he's gone through all of this
and stopping whatever he's planned.
Sounds like breaking into the law firm
might be the only way to do it.
Not gonna be easy, though.
No doubt that building
is covered in armed guards and security cameras.
Means you can't do it alone.
Yeah, she means without us.
Let's figure out a way to kick some ass.
Yes! Come on!
Yeah!
Who's with me?
Everything looks pretty normal, based on the outside.
The law firm is on the top floor,
so pretty sure their guards
keep a low profile unless they're needed.
PATTON: You got that right.
Now, all the security cameras
are running through a high-tech command center,
just like in a casino.
I can override them to an extent,
but guns'll come flying out if anything looks hinky,
believe me.
Look, let's just hope that they get in,
get what Amelia's got and get out
before setting off alarms.
What are the chances of that?
GREGORIO: We're about to find out.
Here come Pride and Newman.
Crane just texted.
Said he found more dirt on Barlow.
Says you're not gonna like it.
What more is there not to like?
Looks like Barlow is the one that spearheaded
that shipyard the Navy nearly built last year,
until you stopped it.
Explains why he's got it out for me.
Wonder what he's gonna do this time.
Hey, relax.
All we're doing is going there to talk to him.
Still, what if he gets suspicious?
What if he figures out we're just trying to keep him
away from Amelia's office?
I can take the meeting alone.
No. No, you're right.
I need to do this for me, too.
Yeah. Come on.
Ah, very kind.
Hurry. You've got 40 flights to climb.
ELVIS: Right. How about you climb the stairs
and we take the elevator?
SYDNEY: Come on, let's go.
Connor and Hughes, how may I direct your call?
Please hold.
May I help you?
Uh, Dwayne Pride and Fred Newman to see Mr. Barlow, please.
I'm sorry. Is Mr. Barlow expecting you?
No. Just tell him it's Dwayne Pride.
He'll definitely want to see us.
WADE: Excuse me.
I'm here for the paralegal position.
Uh, up the stairs to the left.
Thank you.
Ooh. I'm late.
Hurry.
Easy for you to say.
(grunts)
(groans)
I'm having a frickin' heart attack. Go, go, go.
I thought I made it clear the deal was a one-time-only offer.
You want us to leave?
NEWMAN: What Agent Pride means is that
we'd like to discuss your proposal
in more detail, Mr. Barlow.
PATTON: Here we go.
Miss Loretta's in.
We're on the clock, LaSalle.
Excuse me, is this Recruiting?
Um...
I'm sorry. I seem to be lost. I'm here for the paralegal job.
You're in the wrong place. Recruiting's upstairs.
It is? Mm-hmm.
Oh, my. I swore the nice lady said downstairs.
I'm sorry. I'm a bit turned around.
Um... would you mind
showing me where it is?
I, um, I just don't want to be late.
Sure.
This way.
Thank you so much.
And we're in, Patton.
Don't let Amelia come back until we're done.
Bingo. Guard the door.
I got to disable the Faraday cage.
Okay...
(Elvis muttering softly)
Cool. I'm in. I'm downloading files.
I'll have this in no time.
PATTON: You better,
because we got two minutes tops before all hell breaks loose.
You got to hurry up, 'cause Amelia's leaving Wade
and heading back down to you.
LaSalle, text Pride.
(cell phone buzzes)
I'm sorry. I-I don't understand what you're saying.
Do you want the deal or don't you?
Well... Actually, more I think about it,
the less I think I need it now.
I think we're done.
Done? What do you mean?
What the hell is going on?
Wow. You really think you're something, don't you?
The great Dwayne Pride,
New Orleans' favorite son,
talk of the town.
Although not in a good way anymore, hmm?
Excuse us.
What do you want, Barlow?
I want to know why you really came here,
because it wasn't to make a deal.
Excuse us.
Get out of there. She's on her way.
ELVIS: The files are still transferring.
Just pull it out.
I can't. It'll corrupt the files.
Well, it's better than getting killed.
I thought you said you could do this.
It's not an exact science.
Oh, cool. I got it.
Let's jam.
Stop.
Dare I say that went rather well.
(alarm blaring) Crap.
Elvis and Sydney make it out yet?
NEWMAN: There. There they are.
Let's get out of here.
My God. Quick. Come on.
Keep going. Go, go. Come on, just go!
Go, go!
Come on, Patton. Start the van.
Let's go. Go, go, go.
Oh. This is bad. This is really bad.
They weren't supposed to see us.
Newman, just relax, okay?
Is there...
- Y'all okay? - Yeah.
Elvis? Yeah.
Hey. Hey. Yeah. Yeah. All right.
I need you to figure out
what's on Amelia's files fast. Okay?
Okay. Oh. They're probably encrypted.
Ah, they're definitely encrypted. Yeah.
I'm counting on you, Elvis. All right?
- Go, go. - Okay, okay.
I'll coordinate with Patton.
In a minute, Barlow will turn over
the security camera footage to the authorities,
which means that in less than a minute,
the FBI will be here to arrest you again.
Can't he say he was just having a meeting with Barlow?
No. Won't take them long to attach me to what everybody did.
Breaking and entering, contempt of court...
Retaliation against an officer of the court,
obstruction of justice.
Barlow will throw away the key.
Why Patton's working on erasing the footage as we speak.
Well, what if he can't?
Dwayne, listen to me. This is serious.
They are coming for you
and there's nothing I can do to stop them.
You can stall them, can't you?
Sorry? Wow them with legalese.
Be the lawyer you used to be,
the one you still can be.
This is your chance.
Just buy us enough time to get Barlow's plan.
It still won't hold up in court.
It was stolen.
Fruit of the poison tree.
Newman, it doesn't have to hold up in court to stop him.
We just need to get them into the court of public opinion
and let the media do the rest.
It worked against me, didn't it?
Eh. As soon as Elvis
decrypts the files,
we'll send them to Crane to publish.
Shouldn't take the authorities long to investigate.
Sydney, stay with Newman.
Help him out.
I'm gonna go help Elvis.
(groans)
This is crazy.
Every single time I get past one of their firewalls...
Another one pops up, I know.
I can't hold an image long enough to erase anything.
Intrusion detection system?
Got to be, but mutating firewalls?
That's about as sophisticated as it gets.
Yeah, well, Barlow obviously has a lot to protect,
and they got to know what we're trying to do.
Got to do it, too, 'cause otherwise,
Pride is dust and LaSalle is in charge permanently.
Oh, man, now you're really scaring me.
What's going on? Uh, no-- I'm joking.
Joking about what?
Never mind, you guys erase the footage yet?
Still trying.
Well, we're running out of time.
Just got an earful from the Deputy Director,
who got an earful from the AAG.
Barlow's filed a complaint against Pride.
Guys, FBI's on their way to Pride's bar to arrest him.
PRIDE: Thanks, Chris.
That's why I didn't want you guys getting directly involved.
The FBI can't pin anything on you,
so don't give them a reason to,
no matter what happens to me, understood?
FBI's on their way. Any luck?
I wish I had better news for you, pal, but I don't.
Can't say as I'm surprised
based on who we're going up against here.
It's gonna take some time to decrypt these files.
He doesn't have time.
They're here, and Amelia's with them.
Whatev... forget it and get out of here.
No way. I mean it, Elvis.
They're not gonna stop with me and you know it.
If they have me on tape, they got you, too.
Damn it, Dwayne, I'm not gonna run, okay?
Not from this, not from what
Barlow's trying to do you,
so let me finish my work.
Please.
(clears throat)
Time to nut up, Newman.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jackson,
and I have an arrest warrant for Dwayne Pride. Where is he?
I'd like to see the warrant first, please.
And you are?
Fred Newman, Esquire.
I'm Mr. Pride's personal attorney.
And he's part of the break-in, too. We've got him on tape.
I was merely accompanying my client to a meeting
with the Associate Attorney General.
Then how come you're with her?
She broke into my office and stole sensitive files.
The warrant, please?
You and me have got some unfinished business.
Looking forward to it.
Got it.
(phone buzzing)
Mm. Felony warrant's not signed,
makes it invalid.
(clears throat)
Let me see.
That's a minor technicality.
The warrant's based on irrefutable evidence.
Yeah? Let's see it.
I don't understand. What happened?
You saw it, we had it.
They must've erased it somehow.
Whoa! Talk about conspiracy theories.
What I mean to say is,
prove it.
Hmm.
(sighs, chuckles)
Pride's still free.
That's okay.
Still, he's got the files. It's only a matter of time
before he pieces it all together.
I'm aware.
So what do we do?
Eliminate some of the pieces.
(jazz music playing)
MAN: Hey, Pride!
What?
Nothing. It's just...
despite it all, you seem so... calm.
Well, been through worse.
Really?
I'm not so sure.
Dwayne, you amaze me.
You're still trying to save the city
even though they turned the city against you.
Guess I'm just a glutton for punishment.
I don't know, Loretta.
It's not like I'm trying to prove anything to anybody.
I'm just... trying to do what's right.
Yeah.
Even though it bites me in the ass sometimes.
It's who I am.
Besides, born and raised here, what else am I gonna do?
I... I love this city.
Feel like I owe it.
(chuckles)
ELVIS: Hey, Dwayne, I got something.
What is it?
Still working on decrypting the rest,
but this looks like a list.
I got names and profiles and itineraries.
Yeah, surveillance and route maps.
Looks like they're being cased.
Is it a hit list?
Can you get me any names? Yeah, let's see, here.
Well, you're on it, natch.
I can't-- Can you make out that name? It's funky.
Mayor Taylor's on it.
That's Max Burris.
Captain Estes.
Hey, that's dated tonight.
(phone ringing)
Should've known
you'd find a way to dodge
that arrest warrant, Dwayne.
Carl, where are you?
Me? Just getting in my car to head home.
Okay, listen, Carl.
What's the problem?
PRIDE: Listen to me, it's important.
You're in danger.
You got to get back inside. They're after you.
Carl? Carl, are you there? C...
Can you...
Can you hear me, Carl?
(indistinct radio chatter)
Can't believe he's gone, King.
We're gonna get the people who did this, Christopher,
I promise.
No doubt.
Hold up. How'd you know? Who called you?
Nobody called. I knew.
Elvis found a hit list in Amelia's files.
Carl was on it.
Dwayne.
Does his wife know?
Not yet.
I was just about to...
go over to the house, and, uh...
I don't want her to hear about it from anyone else.
Thank you.
Chris, you know Deputy Chief Gossett.
Yeah, 'course. Sorry for your loss, Chief.
I appreciate that.
I'm almost afraid to ask this.
This have anything to do with NCIS?
I'm afraid so.
But, honestly, Cedric,
the less you know, the better.
What're you talking about?
If you know who killed Carl...
I don't, not for sure.
But if I'm right, he's as powerful as they get
and I don't want something
like this to happen to you.
I'm not just gonna let this go, Dwayne.
I'm gonna find the bastard who did this...
Oh-- I-- Okay, I-I get it.
Okay, I just want you to be careful.
Last thing Carl...
The last thing that Carl would want
would be if anything would happen to you.
I'd better go tell June.
Barlow's gonna pay for this, Chris.
Yeah, still, I don't know what killing Estes
has anything to do with...
Yeah, well, I don't either,
but we better find out before anybody else gets killed,
starting with Mayor Taylor.
Wait, the mayor was on the list?
I-It's okay. I got NOPD doubling up on protection.
Well, who else?
Elvis was still working on decrypting other names.
I got to tell him and the others
to get away from here till it's over.
It's not s... It's just too dangerous.
Max Burris was on the list, too.
That means we got to, we got to move him... Wait a second.
to a safe house. King, you didn't hear?
What?
Officer found Max Burris in his cell,
hanging from a sheet.
Pride, should you be here?
Doesn't matter, all bets are off now.
Elvis, what're you doing here?
Needed help decrypting the rest of the files,
and we're making great progress, too.
Meaning what? PATTON: Meaning we just hit
the mother lode, that's what.
We done unlocked the whole kit and caboodle.
Well, not all of it.
But enough to know what it looks like Barlow's targeting.
What?
You're not gonna believe this.
LASALLE: Wait.
The Navy? Yeah, not just our navy.
Apparently, he's targeting the British
and Canadian navies, too.
All right, but how and why?
I don't know how, don't know why, just where.
All those ships, they're coming up the Mississippi tomorrow
for Fleet Week.
To celebrate the city's tri-centennial,
the biggest event of the year.
♪ ♪
Uh-oh.