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| The Coup |
| Episode 14: The Coup [Hong Kong - in front of Tyno-Chem A man running out yelling in Chinese. Then a man dressed in black shoots him] [SD-6 - Conference Room] SLOANE: You�re looking at surveillance footage taken from outside Tyno-Chem engineering, which is you know is the front company for FTL Headquarters. Now, you may recognize the man on the ground as Quan Li. SYDNEY: W-w-wait, wait. Quan Li was assassinated? DIXON: The head of FTL? SLOANE: Yes. His entire Security detail was ambushed inside the building, leaving Li utterly defenseless. SYDNEY: Have you ID�d the shooter? SLOANE: His face didn�t appear in any of our databases. DIXON: He doesn�t seem to mind being photographed. SLOANE: Now, this young man led a commando unit into FTL headquarters and precisely the same time that we were attacked here. The objective was the same. They were there to steal a Rambaldi artifact. JACK: Their agent roster was compromised and their entire network crumbled within hours of the attack. DIXON: What you�re saying is that FTL no longer exists. [Jack nods] MARSHALL: Um, sorry, um, stupid question but since FTL is, sorry was, an enemy for, like, ever, shouldn�t we be drinking champagne? JACK: Someone had the means to launch a unilateral attack on us and FTL and we haven�t got a clue who�s responsible. SLOANE: In addition, they now have the most significant collection of Rambaldi artifacts in the world. They may, in fact, have enough to uncover what Rambaldi was ultimately working on before we do. MARSHALL: Oh. Yeah, that does suck. JACK: This new enemy isn�t stopping there. Our assets in Vladiovaskak intercepted a communiqu� last night. A group claiming responsibility for the two attacks has contacted K-Directorate. They�ve proposed to a meeting later on this week to discuss the sharing of Rambaldi technology. SLOANE: This man�s name is Brandon Dahlgren. He lives in a penthouse at the Regal Casino. He�s a go-between K-Directorate. Dahlgren is expecting a phone call detailing the time and location on this meeting. This is information that we need. Dixon, you�re on point for this one. Sydney, you�re on comms. JACK: You�re going in as Darien Buchanan. He�s a delegate from the Jamaican Parliament, who plans to make a visit to Los Vegas next week. As soon as we know that he�s actually en route, you�ll go in posing as Buchanan. You�ll be flagged as a VIP, so you can play in the casino�s private gaming suite where Dahlgren regularly plays. That�s where you plant the bug. Marshall�s making one that matches a ring Dahlgren wears. SLOANE: Be prepared to leave as soon as Buchanan�s plane is in the air. That�s it. Sydney, stay a minute. [everyone exits the room except for Sloane and Sydney] SYDNEY: Is everything okay? SLOANE: That�s funny. I was about to ask you the same question. Listen, I don�t mean to pry, but I had a conversation with your father� about your mother. He told you that she was KGB. I�m sorry. SYDNEY: It�s okay. SLOANE: I want to tell you again how much I appreciate your service to SD-6 during the incident last week. Every person here owes you their life. SYDNEY: How�s the finger? SLOANE: Well, I�m told that it�s gonna heal nicely. Thank you. Shall we? [Sloane opens the door and the employees start clapping for her. Sloane smiles.] [SD-6] JACK: We just heard from our surveillance team in Jamaica. Buchanan�s pilots have been called to the airstrip. It could indicate that he�ll be off the ground by the end of the day. You should be ready to leave late this afternoon. SYDNEY: That�s fine. I just need to swing by school. JACK: How, uh, how�s that going? SYDNEY: School? Good. JACK: Okay. [he offers a smile then turns to walk away] SYDNEY: Actually, since you�re asking. I�ve gone from thinking that my mother was a literature professor to finding out that she was KGB. I�m sure when you found that out, you must�ve felt as lost as I do. [Jack looks around, distracted. Perhaps thinking of the past.] SYDNEY: Last week, I was ready to leave SD-6. But maybe I was focusing on the wrong place. I think, maybe I only went to grad school because Mom did. She was a teacher, so I always thought that was something I wanted to do. Now, that I know that it was just her cover, that it didn�t mean anything to her. I�m thinking that I should just drop it. Dad? [Jack snaps out of it] JACK: Yes, um, I understand. It�s just, um� I�m not sure I�m the best person to ask. SYDNEY: Oh, okay. I should go. [Sydney gathers her stuff and walks off and Jack watches her leave.] [Will�s office - Sydney on phone] SYDNEY: Hello? [cut to Jack at SD-6 on phone] JACK: It�s me. Your trip to Vegas was a success; I just thought you should know. [back to Will�s office] SYDNEY: Well, that�s good. [back to SD-6] JACK: We intercepted a phone call to Dahlgren off the transmitter you planted. Linguistics is translating it now. [back to office] SYDNEY: Is there anything I can do? [back to SD-6] JACK: If you have the time, I�d like you to meet me somewhere. [Park - at a carousel] SYDNEY: So, why are we at a carousel? JACK: You always loved this spot. Your mother and I used to bring you here. I�d just been transferred to the Los Angeles field office you were two years old. We�d watch you go around the carousel; we�d talk about our day, the future and sometimes foolishly my work at the CIA. I never imagined that our conversations were being passed along to the KGB. I haven�t been back to this park in twenty years. SYDNEY: Why did you bring me here now? JACK: When you asked me the other day about school, I couldn�t help you. I� I�m out of practice when it comes to, uh, personal matters. SYDNEY: Dad, I�m in no rush. JACK: Believing that your mother was a professor may have influenced you somewhat, but the decision to go back to school was yours. And I�d trust that. I think that, uh, if you stick with it, you could become the kind of teacher that your students will always remember. SYDNEY: Thank you. [Jack offers another smile. They turn around and look at the carousel go around.] [SD-6] SLOANE: Linguistics successfully decoded Dahlgren�s phone call. But we still don�t know who the mystery agency is or who�s behind it. Learning that information and getting a visual ID of The Man is our top priority. I�m tired of referring to him as �The Man.� I want to know who he is. JACK: The meeting with K-Directorate is scheduled to take place twenty hours from now at an office building in Moscow. Your mission is to surveill the meeting in hopes of getting any information that may lead us to The Man. |
| Thanks to the Madhatter for this transcript ! JBE! |
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