Allegiance

Previously on Allegiance...

- Alex O'Connor. - You're Bill Adams.

Don't use your real name with me.

Our comrades in Moscow have a task for you.

You turn your son into a spy.

An SVR defector was caught last week and dealt with.

The man had stolen hundreds of thousands of computer files

and hid them somewhere.

You don't understand Alex.

He'll turn us in the moment he finds out who we are.

Then you're stuck.

An SVR officer said he was close to launching an operation

that would bring America to it's knees.

Do you know what an Easter egg is?

A hidden digital cache.

I think there's a trove of information

vital to the SVR still out there.

Maybe if we can figure out who Mikhail was,

we can find it before the Russians do.

You may actually be crazier than she is.

They get what they want from Alex without him knowing.

He trusts us.

We have access to his car, his phone, his computer.

We're the perfect people to spy on him.

Langley has our deceased narrowed down to one name:

Mikhail Vostrov.

I remember one time when I was a kid

you called your friend Nikolai "Mikhail" by mistake.

You can tell me everything, or I can turn you in.

Hey, Alex. Who died?

You can tell me everything from the beginning,

or I can turn you in.

Everything's fine, Sarah. Go to your room.

Seriously? You guys are all crazy...

Go to your room, Sarah.

DA?

This is impossible.

He was like a brother to me growing up.

If you grew up with him, then you knew his name was Mikhail.

Then why did you lie about it?

Alex, I lost touch with Mikhail in 1975

when I was sent outside Russia to go to boarding school.

12 years later, I'm walking down 5th Avenue with your father,

and I see Mikhail across the street.

I yelled out his name, I ran to him.

Instead of a smile and a hug,

he told me that he was living here under an assumed name

after barely escaping arrest...

So the whole house is bugged?

Mikhail is a dissident, Alex. He is not a spy.

Dissidents don't do the things listed in that file.

He was no dissident. He was a Russian spy.

Katya, maybe Alex is right. Maybe he...

Wh... what are you talking about? You know Mikhail.

Well, he bumped into us nine months after I started

at Roche Aerospace.

I just started working on their most classified project.

No, no. I saw him.

He... he didn't bump into me.

He put himself where you could see him.

I'm calling Mikhail right now.

- He won't answer. - What?

But you know that.

Alex, what are you talking about?

He's dead. He was executed.

What?

The SVR discovered he was a traitor.

Who?

The Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki.

The Russian foreign intelligence service.

The KGB rebranded itself after the Soviet union broke up,

but she knows that since she works for them.

What is wrong with you?

What the...

Is wrong with you?

You accuse me of spying for the Russians?

Because one time I called my old friend by his name?

- Because... - August 18, 1994.

You snuck out of the house at midnight,

didn't come back till 5:00 A.M.

Your mother was working in the ER back then on call.

I know.

You told me that's where you were when you came home

and found me waiting at the top of the stairs.

But Kings County Medical Center was evacuated

on August 18, 1994.

Tropical storm Beryl flooded the bottom two floors

and blew out all the power.

You lied to me.

Alex, I know that I wasn't around enough

when you were young and struggling.

- I know that. - June '96, dad was in Beijing.

You left me with Natalie to go

to a pediatric oncology conference in Boston.

The conference never happened.

It didn't exist. I can keep going.

- Stop. - Then stop lying to me!

Alex, you don't want to know the truth

about where I went all those nights.

Tell me the truth, or tell the FBI.

Your choice.

Okay.

I was having an affair.

Mark, I'm so sorry.

Please tell me that's not true.

You were overseas for months at a time and...

making a living for us.

- I was... I was so lonely. - Lonely?

I was lonely too.

I...

I'm so ashamed.

You wanted the truth, so now you have it.

Dad, uh...

I'm sorry. I...

Alex, please.

I think you should go.

Your mom and I need to talk.

Your mother is very good.

Cheap energy, Wall Street gambling, and propaganda

are the only things propping it up.

This operation will answer the American aggression forcefully.

Collapsing their economy in a single blow.

American influence over the world will erode,

and we will be able to operate as we wish

in the Ukraine, in Europe, and beyond.

We are calling it "Black Dagger".

Madness.

This plan will kill thousands of Americans.

Tens of thousands.

Madness is the last of Russian sovereignty.

Madness is American sanctions forbidding us

from accessing our own bank account.

Now even in Switzerland.

This is madness.

There is a line, Mr. Bok.

Black Dagger crosses it.

We're merely answering sanctions with sanctions.

American sanctions don't have a blast radius.

You don't have to destroy the house.

I want them gone.

I should have come to you first.

Everything's going to be all right.

Alex knew I was lying about all those nights that I wasn't here.

I reached for the only explanation

that he wouldn't have considered.

And it worked.

You know what would have happened

if you couldn't convince him?

The SVR would have killed us.

I'm afraid he'll never forgive me.

He will.

You are his mother.

He'll get past it.

You're late for work.

Go.

I'm sorry.

I'll see you tonight.

Using our K-31 ramjet, with the doped fuel mixture,

we can produce a block V that would fly at Mach 4.75.

Same range and payload as the block IVS

the Navy's currently using but with six times the speed.

It's a no-brainer.

Alex, how long have I been following you?

- What? - Three blocks.

You looked straight ahead the whole time.

I was walking forward.

Am I in trouble?

I don't know... is there something you're not telling me?

No.

Good. Then stop blabbing and walk with me.

Irina's murder convinced Washington

that the SVR really is planning attack on U.S. soil.

DC is setting up a joint task force to stop it.

You're being detailed to it.

Really? And you?

Look, I'm just saying, Jeter really was

the heart and soul of the team, man.

Can't talk shop when a stranger's passing nearby.

I'll have a kind of observer status.

Can't run a New York station if I'm assigned to a task force.

Since this is a domestic investigation,

the Bureau will have final say on what you do.

But don't forget, you still work for me too.

We're in here.

This is not a government building.

Oh, it's not.

This is a covert task force, bill.

- Hey, Jeff. - Sir.

Gentlemen.

Phone.

Come on.

Sam, good to see you again.

Michelle, keeping out of trouble?

Mm, courting it.

Ah, this is Alex O'Connor,

but out in the world, he's in alias as Bill Adams.

Isn't that right, Bill?

- Michelle Prado. - Alex O'Connor.

Uh, Adams. Damn it.

Let me introduce you to Special Agent Brock.