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Alex: Eight hours ago,

I was trapped inside the hostage crisis

at the G20 Summit.

It was the work of a group calling themselves

the Citizen's Liberation Front.

I saw the First Lady decapitated

and discovered a biological weapon

being used as a suicide fail-safe,

making all rescue attempts impossible.

I was captured, tortured, rescued.

The CLF released almost 1,600 hostages,

but 122 are still inside.

I don't know who's still alive.

I don't know who the Citizen's Liberation Front are

and what they want.

I just know the FBI has to stop them,

which is how I ended up here.

All right, Parrish.

What'd you get yourself into this time?

Hannah? What are you doing here?

I think the better question is, what are you doing here?

The center of a conspiracy

that no one magically knows about but you, again.

Alex Parrish, national hero,

in the wrong place at the right time

two years running.

You're gonna tell me everything.

And you're gonna convince me that you're not a part of it

so I can convince the FBI before a Hellfire missile,

launched by our own government,

strikes a hostage crisis in downtown New York,

killing everyone inside, including the hostages.

So...

pretend we never met.

Pretend the fact that I didn't like you,

then grew to respect you but still... didn't like you,

never happened.

You told me this crazy story once before

that turned out to be true.

You better be able to do it again.

10 months ago, I went undercover

at the CIA recruitment facility known as The Farm.

- Undercover? - For the FBI.

With your ex-husband.

Your ex-fiancé.

I never thought I'd miss this place.

You know, some good stuff happened here.

Yeah, it did.

It looks good on you.

Too bad this is the only place I can wear it.

Or... was the only place.

Or is?

You know that I can't talk to you about FBI business

now that you're no longer an FBI agent,

including where the new safe house might be,

or... if there even is one.

You okay?

Yeah, I'm good.

Really.

I feel like a weight's been lifted off me

since I lost an "Inception" layer.

You know, now I'm just a CIA operative in training,

not an undercover FBI agent

posing as a CIA operative in training...

much clearer lines.

But you still can't wear the ring in public.

Alex: I know.

I said a layer has been peeled off.

I didn't say there weren't still 20 more to go.

We were there to spy on other CIA recruits

potentially being enlisted into a rogue group

inside of the agency.

You failed. You left the FBI.

Yeah, they thought I couldn't do the job.

Were they right?

Eight square blocks of downtown Manhattan

say otherwise.

So, this hidden group,

Ryan infiltrated them, but you didn't?

Harry: So, you're on the outside now?

Depends on your perspective.

I may not be with the FBI, but I'm still at The Farm,

rising up on the Murder Board.

Well, if you wanted to simply be in the CIA,

that would be fine, but you don't.

You want to solve the riddle of the terror threat

that's growing inside of something

neither you nor I are a part of,

but something you still know next to nothing about.

- Hannah: This Harry Doyle... - MI6.

He went through The Farm with us,

but was there on an exchange program,

where someone from British Intelligence

learns U.S. training and vice versa.

And you brought him in to your undercover mission?

Well, he pushed his way in.

I want to find out who's above the recruiter,

who Owen is recruiting for.

Okay, how do you propose to do that, Alex?

I'm gonna go back into Owen's house

and take those phones that I found in his false wall.

Yeah, okay. What, this false wall?

You see, after our little chat the other day,

I got curious and did some snooping,

and it seems like your only lead...

those phones... have vanished.

Maybe this is a good thing.

If the phones are missing, it means they're in play.

Yeah, but you missed the window.

The sale is over. The merchandise is gone.

How can you track down something that you couldn't even get

when it was right in front of you?

If the AIC is now training,

Owen is training them.

I just need to figure out...

What? Cozy up to him? Get him to trust you?

Yet you tried that, and you failed.

So, I'm sorry, Alex, but I can't help you find the AIC.

The AIC?

That's just the name we gave it.

CIA in reverse.

"We"?

Where was Ryan in all of this?

Still working undercover for Miranda Shaw.

[James Vincent McMorrow's "Rising Water" plays]

So, the text you got

with the three of you killing that man disappeared?

Yeah. Not even a minute after we got it.

It's like something out of "Mission: Impossible."

You did the right thing.

Doesn't feel like the right thing.

This is a game-changer for us, the step-up that we needed.

You said that there were three of you.

Did you pull the trigger?

No. That was León.

- Then somebody up there likes you. - Yeah.

The suspects, those fellow recruits,

the ones you thought were part of this AIC at The Farm,

how did you know who they were?

They all got special phones.

And you didn't?

- Still no contact from the AIC phone? - No.

Has Owen approached you?

And your fellow insurgents,

how are they holding up after what you all did?

Better than you, I hope.

Well, one more so than the other.

Oh.

Hey.

Dayana, you...

Took longer in the bathroom than usual.

I know.

Are we still on for dinner tomorrow night?

I thought I told you I can't.

- Shelby Wyatt? - She was my handler till I left the FBI,

but then she made a connection with León

and went undercover herself.

Your top-secret job.

When are you gonna tell me about that?

I think I've proven myself trustworthy.

It's better that you don't know any more.

You haven't talked about Sebastian Chen.

- Oh, you're back. - I am.

And you're talking to me. Wow.

He's two people...

the one you see and the one he hides inside.

I took some extra time, ran a Kairos retreat.

Had the chance to, uh,

contemplate my relationship with my Savior,

help others do the same.

Never felt better.

Yeah. Seems like it.

So, do you want to talk about Alex now?

That's under control.

That has been a lot of things,

but it has never been under control.

She doesn't know about this.

And she's not going to.

She won't be a problem. I won't let her be.

Hannah: Tell me about this recruiter, your instructor.

Alex: Owen Hall?

Why was he having a hard time?

Well, his daughter, Lydia, was there

teaching with him and then she left.

Something happened between them.

Gathering human intelligence

is the core of what you'll do as operatives,

but the one true skill that will determine your success

as a case officer is asset recruitment.

You don't look so good.

As case officers, you must be able

to recruit people face-to-face

and develop a personal relationship with them

in order to utilize that relationship for intelligence,

you know, when, um... when the time is right.

A relationship like that can begin anywhere...

at an airport bar, a university,

in your own bedroom, even in this very classroom.

Wherever it takes place, any active recruitment

must start with a form of seduction,