Setting: Los Angeles - Intelligence Operations Center.
Kendall: Agent Bristow, you're asking me to give Irina Derevko forty-eight hour….
Sydney: I'm asking you to consider it.
Kendall: But you can't tell me why.
Sydney: She won't say why.
Kendall: Sloane tasked you to acquire Uzbekistan's ground force communication codes. And how does success or failure risk what we've been…
Sydney: My mother is clearly worried about something else. Some unintended consequences that we can't predict.
Vaughn: Sir, thus far, Derevko's intel has been a hundred percent right of the time.
Sydney: We didn't catch this woman. She turned herself in. She agreed to be escorted by a Special Forces team and wear a tracking device. She will not get away.
Kendall: Jack you have been awfully quiet.
Jack: Sorry, when it comes to Irina Derevko my judgments proven to be impaired.
Kendall: Well I would like your opinion. Jack: Perhaps they're right. Perhaps releasing her is worth the risk to satisfy our curiosity.
Kendall: Well hell when you put it that way then the answer is definitely no. If Irina Derevko wants out of here, she is going to have to tell us more. Otherwise you are going to proceed as planed. Agent Vaughn will give you your counter-mission.
Kendall walks away.
Sydney: Thanks. You told Kendall your judgment wasn't to be trusted and then agreed with me to reinforce his doubt.
Jack: Kendall's ego predisposes him to favor decisions in which he is overruling others. You argue your way. I'll argue mine.
Jack leaves.
Vaughn: Your counter-mission is simple. You'll dead-drop a copy of the codes when you get back from Uzbekistan so we can figure out what they are really for.
Sydney: I have to go pack.
Sydney walks out of there.

Setting: Los Angeles - An Empty Parking Garage Vaughn and Will meet at an empty parking garage to talk.
Will: I know. Sydney told me about Project Christmas and how it was developed to identify future spies. And you're worried about how that Russians may have used it to recruit American children back in the eighties.
Vaughn: About that…
Will: The thing is I think there maybe something to your theory.
Vaughn: Really?
Will: Remember those weird test questions you gave me? The ones that the KGB developed. I found them. Integrated into a series of standardize tests that were administered here in nineteen-eighty-two.
Vaughn: How many kids took that test?
Will: Five million.
Vaughn: Will, look, I didn't think Devlin, my superior, would mind me having you research this but he did. And he ordered me to let you go.
Will: Wait a second. There's something here. Okay look, I'll narrow the test scores to a small group of kids. Devlin won't be able to deny the value in that.
Vaughn: He thinks that since you're a journalist, you've been trained to report what you know that you're a security risk.
Will: Don't sweat it.
Vaughn: Here's what I owe you. There's seven hundred.
Vaughn hands Will an envelope.
Will: I didn't work that many hours.
Vaughn: Seriously, I didn't know how you did it so fast. I told you to take your time.
Will: Thanks. But um… my time is all I expect to get paid for.
Will counts the money, puts some back in the envelope, and hands it back to Vaughn.

Setting: Los Angeles - The Warehouse
Sydney: The CIA is just going to ignore everything Will found out?
Vaughn: Actually when Devlin heard that five million first graders took a standardize test that KGB may doctored, he sent Will's research to the FBI.
Sydney: And?
Vaughn: We're still waiting for the results. That's the second time that Will has come through for us. I… I wish there was something more I could do for him. I really do. He's a good guy.
Sydney: Thanks.
Vaughn: Syd… this watch belonged to my father. It's broken now. But it used to keep perfect time and when he gave it to me he said that you can set your heart to this watch. It stopped October first, the day we meet.
Sydney's pager goes off. She checks it. Then Vaughn's pager goes off too. He checks his pager.
Vaughn: Kendall.
Sydney: Me too.

Setting: Los Angeles - Intelligence Operations Center. Sydney and Vaughn rush in.
Sydney: What's going on?
Jack: We just heard from analysis about those codes you acquired in Uzbekistan. Sloane and Sark gave us a half-truth. The codes are Uzbeks but they have nothing to do with troop communication.
Sydney: What are they for?
Kendall: They are for the control codes for six portable nuclear warheads that the Uzbeks and Defense Intelligence have confirmed went missing six months ago.
Sydney: SD-6 is in procession of six nuclear weapons?
Jack: No this morning Sark electrically messenger the codes to an unknown third party. Couldn't trace the link.
Vaughn: And all we know about them is that they are working with Sloane and Sark?
Kendall: Why did Sloane keep you in the dark on this?
Jack: I don't know.
Sydney: This is what my mother was talking about. We should have listened to her.
Kendall: Well, if she was so concerned about helping us staying ahead of SD-6, she could have told us what was a stake.

Setting: Los Angeles - Irina's Prison Cell
Irina: What would you have done? Given Sydney false control codes to hand over to SD-6? Sark may have know the difference and she would have been exposed as a double agent. I wasn't willing to risk her life that way.
Kendall: Do you know where the nukes are?
Irina: Yes, I do.
Kendall: Where?
Irina: I've spent the last thirty-six nights lying on a steal mattress.
Kendall: And what the hell is that suppose to mean?
Irina: It means I would appreciate a pillow and a blanket.
Kendall: Done. Tell us about the warheads.
Irina: They're in Kashmir under what used to be a maximum-security prison camp. It's now the stronghold for a mercenary group - The People's Revolutionary Front.
Kendall: So Sloane and Sark have in fact partnered with this organization.
Irina: It would appear.
Kendall: Can you give us the prison camp's exact coordinates?
Irina: Yes.
Kendall: I'm going to recommend that the Defense Department an immediate air strike. When the smoke clears we can dig the warheads out of the rubble.
Irina: I wouldn't do that. Now that the PRF has the control codes, they may have set the warheads to detonate in the event of sabotage or pre-empted strike.
Vaughn: What about sending a commando unit?
Irina: If they were familiar with the facility then I would say it was a good idea.
Sydney: That was what you were planning on doing.
Irina: Yes.
Jack: That's impossible to verify.
Kendall: Alright Ms. Derevko, you are gonna leading us into that prison.
Irina: Oh no, I'm not. My offer expired the detonation codes were acquired.
Kendall: Do I have to remind you, your immunity deal is contingent upon your continued cooperation?
Irina: I have cooperated Agent Kendall. You didn't listen. Now if you would bring me my pillow and blanket…
Kendall: Now listen to me, I am authorized to put you in solitary. You are lucky you have view of this hallway.
Sydney: Agent Kendall, may I speak to my mother alone please.
Vaughn, Jack, and Kendall leave.

Setting: Los Angeles - Irina's Prison Cell Jack puts the necklace layered with C-4 on Irina, Then Sydney, Kendall, Vaughn and two other agents enter the cell.
Kendall: All right, here's how this works. Derevko will detail your infiltration into the facility once you reach it. Until then, you have operational control. The unrest in Kashmir has caused both Pakistan and India to seal their borders so you'll board a train in New Delhi. There's a three-mile stretch of track that passes through the eastern tip of Kashmir. That's where you'll get off. Your gear will be planted in the baggage car.
Vaughn: Once you're off the train you'll rendezvous with the CIA contact who will provide you with the op tech you'll need to infiltrate the facility.
Sydney: How did you clear this with Sloane?
Jack: I took care of Sloane.
Kendall: There's a C-5 prepped and waiting at the Van Nuys airport. They'll escort you. Good luck. On their way out, Vaughn stops Sydney.
Vaughn: I'll talk to you when you reach the contact.

Setting: Los Angeles - Park Vaughn is sitting alone. Will comes up and sits down next to him.
Will: Hope I didn't pull you away from something too important.
Vaughn: No, it's all right. What's up?
Will: Look, except for you, Sydney, and Jack, everybody I know and a lot of people I don't - they think I'm a lying junkie, okay? And helping you, doing something for the CIA, it felt like a chance to do something that mattered again, you know? Like, I don't know, maybe I went through all this crap for a reason.
As Will is talking, he pulls out a magazine from his backpack.
Vaughn: What is this?
Will: I know you can't pay me. It doesn't matter. You're looking at forty names. Those are forty kids that got a perfect score on the standardized test that included the Project Christmas questions.
Vaughn: How did you get this?
Will: Between '80 and '85, Carnegie Mellon conducted a cultural bias study on standardized testing. Not only did they have the results, but they cross-referenced them by name and ethnicity
Vaughn: The FBI has been trying to narrow down a list of kids for as long as you have and so far they haven't come up with a single name.
Will: That's probably because they don't know that the test records from '82 were missing from the testing service archives.
Vaughn: What do you mean they're missing? Who took them?
Will: I don't know yet.

Setting: New Delhi - Street market Saeed, the CIA contact, sits at a table outside. His cell phone rings.
Saeed: Hello.
Vaughn (on the phone): I'm sorry, I was trying to call information.
Vaughn is sitting at his desk back.
Saeed: Perhaps I can help.
Vaughn: Our team is en route. They'll be at the rendezvous at 2200.
Saeed gets up and starts walking.
Saeed: I understand.
Saeed hangs up.


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