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(priest and choir singing in German)

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Your dad nailed me for being late.

Who cares? Did you finish it?

All right.

So where we going to post it?

Where else?

Oh, shit.

The recruiting Web site?

I found a way onto it last night.

Word of advice, retards:

If you declare yourself the Cyber Caliphate,

change your system password.

Our work here is done.

Who is that?

I don't know.

Who is that? "Gabe could"?

"Gabe H. Coud."

It's "douche bag." Backward.

So not a jihadi, then.

Not the handle I'd choose.

Ping him.

Ping him.

No way.

Ask him who he is.

We do that and we lose our cover.

Dude.

They are poking around like we are.

They're not supposed to be here, either.

Doesn't mean they're our friend.

What?

He's pinging us.

Wait, no.

Let me see who it is first.

The I.P. address...

is non-attributable.

So?

So it's probably government.

We don't want to be showing them anything.

What's he doing?

Nothing.

Hanging outside the firewall.

Can you tell who he is?

No.

Can you tell where he is?

That's the point of the proxies.

He doesn't want us to know.

But if you care about that Web site,

you're probably here in Germany.

Hold on a second.

He's trying to get in.

There's a zero day defect on this firewall.

We can get through brute force,

just need...

computing power.

No, you can't.

My dad will kill me.

Dude, I said no.

Hey, I said no!

Hey, I said no, man!

What? What is it?

He's attacking us.

Who is? Douche Bag?

What the fuck?

What? TECH: He's in.

Shut it down. Shut it down, shut it down!

Shutting down.

We're getting it shut down right now...

Holy shit, it's the CIA.

I know.

It's down.

All right, sweetie.

You ready for school? Look, look,

all your friends are here.

See? Ilsa

and J.J. and Fraulein Schnee.

And they're gonna be so excited to see you.

'Cause it's your birthday!

What do we say? We say,

"Auf Wiedersehen," which means

"Till we see each other again."

Which will be really soon.

At your party. I love you.

Mwah.

Who's that?

What is that?

Morning. He's with the Lebanese ambassador.

Oh. Thank you.

Oh, here she is. Ambassador,

I'd like you to meet my head of security, Carrie Mathison.

Carrie, Ambassador Jamil.

Hello, sir.

We weren't expecting you until next week.

There's been a change of plans.

I'll tell you all about it.

Otto, keep in touch.

I will.

Jonas. I wish you were my lawyer.

Can't have him.

Thank you both.

We are going to Lebanon.

Okay.

I told the ambassador

we could leave in three days.

You want to tell me what I just missed here?

ISIS is regrouping in Raqqa

for a new offensive against the Syrian regime.

I know. We talked about it.

But it's not playing out the way anyone thought.

There's a mass exodus of civilians underway.

A refugee crisis is developing at the border.

I want us to visit a camp there.

In Lebanon.

Us.

Yeah. You, me,

some additional security.

"Additional security"

is what we take to conferences in Geneva.

This is a war zone.

We're really not equipped.

Well,

we have three days.

You're on.

There.

This is Peter Quinn.

He's been on the ground in Syria

for the past two years.

We're all eager to hear about your experience there.

I just got back from the Al-Raqqah province

in the oil-producing regions...

Could you speak up?

Please?

It's a big table.

: Al-Raqqah.

It's where I've been for the past few months.

Our approach has remained constant.

U.S. air strikes prepare targets for surgical intervention

by special forces,

initially against Assad, then al-Nusra,

and most recently against the Islamic State.

I've been heading up

a team of special ops

more or less continuously for the past 28 months.

We've been busy.

Doing what?

What the hell is actually going on over there?

Well, if you've read the after action reports...

I have.

Every one of them.

A handful of enemy dead here.

Another handful there.

I honestly have no idea what it all adds up to.

The program has been effective, sir.

I believe it should be continued.

You do?

Assad is still in power.

ISIL is still growing.

Are we really getting anywhere in Syria?

I just said yes.

You said a program should be renewed.

I'm asking, is our strategy working?

What strategy?

Tell me what the strategy is.

I'll tell you if it's working.

See, that right there is the problem.

Because they, they have a strategy.

They're gathering right now in Raqqa

by the tens of thousands.

Hidden in the civilian population.

Cleaning their weapons.

And they know exactly why they're there.

Why is that?

They call it the end times.

What do you think the beheadings are about?

The crucifixions in Deir Hafer?

The revival of slavery?

You think they make this shit up?

It's all in the book.

Their fucking book.

The only book they ever read.

They read it all the time.

They never stop.

They're there for one reason

and one reason only.

To die for the caliphate

and usher in a world without infidels.

That's their strategy.

And it's been that way since the seventh century.

So do you really think that a few special forces teams

are gonna put a dent in that?

Well, what would you do?

You offering me a promotion?

I'm offering you a hypothetical.

200,000 American troops on the ground indefinitely

to provide security and support for an equal number of doctors