Allegiance

- Previously on Allegiance. - You turn your son into a spy.

An SVR officer said he was close to launching an operation

that would bring America to its knees.

They'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.

This is Alex O'Connor,

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

Michelle Prado.

Tell me the truth, or tell the FBI.

I was having an affair.

Duplicates of the shirts Alex bought.

One button on each is a recorder with a burst transmitter.

Where are the files now?

They're held in an encrypted hard drive

secured inside a laptop. I uploaded a virus onto the laptop

that will auto-delete the files.

- How long? - 48 hours.

Got to hold them off for three or four minutes tops.

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- - 10-13, 10-13.

Multiple shots fired.

Federal agent needs help. Brooklyn Navy Yard.

He was going to kill Alex.

Katya, let's go.

What are you doing?

Come on. I'm buying us another week

before they realize they have the wrong weapon.

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Put your finger in the wound. You have to stop the bleeding.

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The password, Vasso.

We need the password to the laptop.

They're setting up a perimeter.

We need to get outside of it.

88-24. Perimeter set at Concord and the BQE.

Copy that.

33-40, let's get you reposted.

South End, the BQE.

One down. Gunshot wound to the chest.

Multiple perps still in the area.

Copy that! Moving in now!

Just remember,

48 hours.

- 48 hours. - Hey. Hey. Hey!

Hang on! The ambulance is almost here!

Alex.

- Alex. - Come on!

Alex.

He's gone.

- Hello. - What the hell are you doing

in the middle of a crime scene?

Are you here?

No. You know why, Bill Adams?

- No. - Because the CIA encourages

its undercover officers

to avoid places filled with reporters and news cameras.

We leave that to our friends at the FBI.

Right.

Get the hell out of there.

There, all done.

Not so bad, was it?

Last time she screamed her head off.

Can we get you to do her booster in three months?

Oh, I only practice one day a week now.

Oh, what do you do the rest of the time?

Take care of my family.

Hi.

Are you okay? You look exhausted.

I pulled an all-nighter for work.

Did Mikhail ever confide in you

or ask you to keep anything secret?

No, just his real name.

He never introduced you to any colleagues or friends? No one?

No, no. Why?

Mikhail was executed to prevent him from defecting

with information about a plot against us.

Last night a colleague of his was killed for the same reason.

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I washed my hands three times.

Blood doesn't come off easily. It stains.

I'm a doctor.

- I love you, Alex. - You too.

Okay.

Hey, Alex.

I found something in the web history

of Mikhail's Anatoly Motinkin alias.

- What's that? - About a month ago,

when we believe Mikhail was searching

for a place to hide the egg,

Anatoly Motinkin joined a dating site for older divorced people.

- Okay. - Well, the one time

he visited the site, he viewed 97 profiles in 12 minutes.

Then he contacted one woman: The last profile he viewed.

She's a human resources employee at McGregor-Aldrich,

the construction company.

Even if you're right and Mikhail hid the egg

at one of McGregor's job sites, they probably have a hundred...

217 on the East Coast.

I'm assuming Mikhail wouldn't have wanted to fly,

given all the security cameras at airports.

Alex, how are you doing?

What do you mean?

Watching someone die,

plugging their chest wound with your index finger...

That's not in the analyst job description.

We need to find his laptop.

I need to find it.

Okay.

You know the office alarm rings in the rezidentura.

- I disabled it. - Are you sure?

Depends on how good the training I got

from your colleagues was.

My brother was almost killed last night.

Do you really think the SVR wants to kill Alex?

He's an important source for them.

Then why did they send in a hit team?

It was a capture team for Vasso.

- With a sniper? - In case Vasso

couldn't be taken alive.

If anything happens to him, I'm blaming you.

Do you have any idea how much I've done

to protect Alex?

To protect the rest of your family?

Right. Because you care about them so much.

Because of you.

Why can't I stay away from you?

Can I help you?

I'd like some samples.

Sure. Which ones?

All of them.

Just stay on this side of the glass.

I need to go back to Mikhail's apartment.

Okay.

Okay, you gonna tell me why we came all the way over here?

Philadelphia City Hall.

- What? - The egg.

The laptop with the SVR files.

Mikhail hid it in Philadelphia City Hall.

I concluded Mikhail sought out McGregor-Aldrich ID

to hide the egg at one of their job sites.

Next, I needed to determine the exact scent

of cut stone I smelled in his closet on Wednesday.

I found it with this: Pennsylvania bluestone.

It was only used at one McGregor job site in the last month:

A renovation of Philadelphia City Hall.

Bluestone was used exclusively

to renovate a ceremonial room called Conversation Hall.

The original city charter from 1682 is displayed here,

along with this historic vault.

And you think he posed as a workman

to hide the hard drive we're after in that safe?

A safe that's not in use is never opened

inside of an alarmed room, inside of a building

with airport-style security at its entrance.

Well, it's secure and just about the last place

the SVR would think he'd hide their stolen files.

It's also a place he'd be familiar with,

since his first U.S. posting was to Philly.

It's worth a look.

All right, call the U.S. attorney in Philly.

Let's get a search warrant for a government...

No, Sir. I'm not sure we should do that.

Um...

If we get our hands on those files

and the SVR find out about it,

they'll adapt to protect their assets and operations.

Those files will become almost worthless to us.

I propose that we obtain authorization

to surreptitiously enter Conversation Hall,

retrieve Mikhail's laptop,

and then place another laptop inside the vault

containing SVR documents of a low classification level.

When the SVR recover the fake laptop,

they'll conclude they never suffered the massive breach

they now think they have, and won't change their behavior.

Meanwhile, we'll be able to watch them,

and we'll learn what we need to, to foil their plans to harm us.

Do you have any idea how big a deal it is

to get the directors of the CIA, the FBI,

the Attorney General, and ultimately a FISA judge

to legally authorize the secret break-in

to the seat of government of a U.S. city?

Especially over the weekend.

You're crazy.

Two days ago, you were lecturing us

that there was no time to put surveillance

on Mikhail's apartment with the specter of an SVR attack

looming over us.

And today, suddenly,

the government doesn't work weekends, Bill?

That laptop auto-deletes in 36 hours.

And every hour from now until then

is another hour that the Russians could beat us to it.

If we want to stop that attack,