Allegiance

Previously on Allegiance...

This operation will collapse the American

economy in a single blow.

We're calling it Black Dagger.

D.C. is setting up a joint task force to stop it.

The best plan we have to stop it

is to find the SVR files Mikhail stole.

They're on encrypted hard drives,

secure inside a laptop.

If Alex beats you to that laptop,

you'll all be dead.

Alex and the FBI team aren't driving.

They're flying.

- We got it. - There's nothing here.

The SVR got here first.

That one. Black Dagger.

The entire hard drive is deleting.

Did you decrypt the file?

We're talking about a half a mile blast radius.

Whoever planned this operation

was probably filmed with that camera.

The judge, well, he may just decide that this task force

is nothing more than a recipe for constitutional infringement

and shut you all down.

What do you got, Alex?

See? There he is.

It was you, wasn't it?

Yes.

And now, it's time to tell you everything

so you understand why.

- How long? - It started when I was 17.

You knew?

Since before we were married.

I don't... how?

Who does this?

I'm on my way.

On your way? Did you go get air in Connecticut?

I know. I'm sorry.

- I lost track of time. - Michelle.

Hey, it's Sam.

What part of "this FISA judge could shut our task force down"

did you not understand?

I'm sorry.

You best darken this doorway in the next five minutes,

comprende?

I'll be there.

I didn't have a say in what my future would be.

My father sent me to boarding school in Switzerland

under an alias when I was nine years old.

When I was 17, I came back to Russia

and learned that my father was a KGB general,

and I was shipped off to the red banner institute

to begin my training.

Did you hurt anyone? Any Americans?

No. It was just intelligence collection.

Against your own country.

You were asked to recruit him.

Your father was living in Moscow.

Then he was working for an American energy company.

The KGB wanted to steal its deep water drilling technology,

but your father refused.

We fell in love instead.

All your father ever tried to do was to get me out of a life

that I was forced into,

a life that I never wanted.

I agreed to keep my eyes open,

that's all,

to try to spot people vulnerable to recruitment.

How long did it take them to get you to do more than that?

They threatened to hurt my family, Alex.

Then, you should've gone to the FBI.

- You should've gotten out. - I did get out.

For seven years, and then they came back.

Why?

You.

They came for you.

Remember your steps, Alex.

Oh, remember your steps, Alex.

Our whole life, it's a lie.

No.

Not the love.

Not the family.

I know this is a lot.

I can't imagine what you're thinking.

I think you're traitors.

This is about something much bigger than us right now, Alex.

The SVR has a plan.

Codename Black Dagger.

How do you know that name?

It was on Mikhail's laptop.

Which you stole from City Hall.

Yes, and then we brought it to the FBI field office

- to turn it in. - That's a lie.

I would've heard about that.

When we arrived at the federal building,

we checked the laptop to make sure it had something real.

We triggered an auto-delete program.

We were only able to catch a few fragments before it was gone.

Read this.

Five psi blast radius of half a mile in New York City.

That's... tens of thousands of people would die.

This has to be a fake.

This would start another war.

Only if someone could prove that Russia did it.

Nothing stays secret for very long anymore.

They know that. They would never take this risk.

Alex, you figured out that Mikhail stole the files

that he did.

These are the files that were on Mikhail's computer.

Well, I only have your word for that.

Yes.

Even though you've been lying to me every day

of my entire life.

Let the judge know we're ready.

Are you okay?

I'm okay.

Good, because Judge Dale is a pit bull.

He'll rip your throat out if he doesn't like

what you have to say.

All right, let's begin.

Black Dagger is real, and we need to try to stop it.

If it's real, then we need to take this to the FBI.

If we do that, the SVR knows that their plan has been burned,

and they change the when and the where and the how.

What are you talking about?

They have a mole inside the U.S. government.

How else could they catch Mikhail before he could defect?

And how could they know what case the CIA

put you on before you even arrived in New York last week?

You have an answer for everything, don't you?

Just like you did my entire childhood.

Where are you going?

I'm late for a hearing with a FISA judge.

My colleagues are expecting me to swear to new evidence

we found that someone broke into Philadelphia City Hall

and stole Mikhail's laptop before us.

Then we're asking for a warrant for the Masonic Temple's

security footage which you will be on.

Are you actually asking me to let you march a forensic team

back to Philadelphia City Hall, again in secret,

as well as to mandate a Masonic Temple,

arguably protected by first amendment religious freedoms,

to turn over all its internal camera footage?

Mr. O'Connor and I just returned from Philadelphia where

we discovered an old tunnel running from the Masonic Temple

to the basement of City Hall.

This would explain how Russian operatives

could've gotten past several layers of security

and into the room where we believe the laptop was hidden.

Further, we acquired video that showed one,

possibly two, figures entering the back entrance of the temple.

Finally, we found residue of what we believe is

a chemical agent thieves use to freeze and break the lock.

Think about what you're doing.

Think about what you've done.

If you turn us in, your mother and I go to prison, Natalie too.

I think you belong there.

And Sarah, where does she belong?

You will destroy our entire family and for what?

We don't have enough information yet for the FBI or the CIA

to stop Black Dagger,

but we might be able to stop it if you help us.

On our own?

Do you realize how crazy that is?

Is it? We beat you to City Hall.

You know how governments work.

You can't defeat the SVR playing by the rules.

Mr. O'Connor.

Mr. O'Connor?

This whole thing was your idea, correct?

Based on your theories,

and you've been staring into space for the last five minutes?

Sorry, sir.

I take it you will attest to the same facts

as Special Agent Prado?

Sir, I need a minute to consider my answer.

The CIA and FBI have resources you don't.

Resources we'll have if you help us.

You work the leads your task force can handle.

We'll do everything else they're not allowed to.

We work together as a family.

The moment we have enough information to prove

that Black Dagger's real, we go straight to the FBI.

I'm sorry, Alex...

About everything.

Don't.

Alex, no matter what happens,

we love you.

I don't want you to consider your answer.

I want it unvarnished. And remember, you're under oath.

That is what I'm considering.

- The boy's gone off the rails. - He'll be fine.

Mr. O'Connor, when you're under oath, you tell the truth.

It's simple.

Do you believe this to be an SVR operative?

I believe there's every possibility

that the man in that footage is not breaking into the temple.

Wind speeds during the day were between 8 and 12 miles per hour.

He was most likely shielding himself from the wind

trying to light a cigarette.