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scares the hell out of him.

As far as he's concerned,

you're sending him a Section

8 with an ax to grind.

What happened to that

kid on the beach,

it changed him.

You can't train

that into someone.

His psych profile is exactly

what I've been looking for.

Polygraph?

Flying colors.

All right. Good

luck with Hurley.

Oh, Irene.

We'll have fresh

intel on the Russian

plutonium situation

in two hours.

Stay by your phone.

Yeah.

You can take the blindfold off.

So, what do I need to

know about this guy?

Stan Hurley.

He's a warrior.

Ex-Navy SEAL.

My daddy served with him

in the Persian Gulf.

Did you go through this program?

I went through a program.

Not this one.

It's not like becoming

a spy or Special Ops,

none of those things.

Good.

So, what are your goals, Mitch?

My goals?

My goal is to have them

lie awake at night,

knowing I'm coming for them.

I thought you were supposed

to be on the patch.

You saw those tests.

Yeah, I saw them.

He's off the charts.

I've seen off the charts before.

And he's got none

of the bad habits

he'd have to unlearn if

he had military training.

Unlearn?

Come on, Stan.

You drop one of your Navy

SEALs in an urban setting,

you can spot the boot

camp on them a mile away.

We're not fighting the...

Cold War?

Yeah, I know.

You keep telling me that,

Miss Deputy Director.

Oh, wow. "Miss

Deputy Director."

Your daddy would agree with me.

I'll be checking in with

you every 48 hours.

I'm on a plane to

London in the morning.

And go back on the

patch, for God's sake.

Don't prove me wrong.

She ain't coming back.

Hey.

Eyes front and center.

Sorry.

"Sorry"? Do I look like one

of your college professors?

You talk to me, you

call me "sir," son.

Yes, sir.

What the f*** you doing here?

Did you have some bad

things happen to you,

some shitty things

happen to you?

Now you wanna kill those

mean old terrorists.

Go get some bad guys.

What makes you think

you can make it

through my selection process?

Permission to speak, sir?

Sure, go ahead if you

got something to say.

Like this is all a big mistake

and you wanna go home.

You wanna go home? Good.

Get the f*** out of here.

I'll drive you myself.

Not at all, sir.

I was gonna suggest we maybe

speed this whole thing up?

My guess is, if you and

I go hand-to-hand,

you could probably figure

out inside of 20 seconds

whether or not I have

what it takes to make it

through your selection process.

So, what do you think?

We got an empty cot,

empty footlocker.

They're both yours as

long as you can last.

Sounds good.

Follow me.

See you out there.

Heard a lot about

you, by the way.

Excited to see what you got.

Kill me.

People think you can slice

a man's throat like this.

That's only in the movies.

Right there.

Do it.

No noise. No mess.

Victor, you're up.

What the f***, man?

Who grabs a f***ing blade?

Come on, you f***in'

p*ssy. Let's go!

You gotta have eyes in

the back of your head.

You flinch, you die.

Orion is about the mission.

It ain't about you.

You go down out there, you're

a ghost, you don't exist.

There's nobody, nobody

coming back for you.

You're about to be captured.

Bye-bye.

We now know 15 kilos

of plutonium-239

went missing during

the Russian breach.

It's enough to build a

full-scale nuclear weapon.

But that would likely require the

resources of a nation-state.

As Iranian Chief

of General Staff,

I share your concern.

We have been monitoring the

situation as you have.

I'm afraid we too

are in the dark.

For Iran, of course,

a nuclear weapon

is off the table.

We have a treaty.

You have countrymen who are

not too happy about that.

We monitor your nuclear enrichment

program pretty closely,

but black market

plutonium-239 from Russia...

Would be difficult for

inspectors to detect.

Ms. Kennedy, yes?

Mmm-hmm.

I assure you as

Minister of Defense

that we in Iran recognize how

much the spirit of comity

between our nations

would be compromised

if we were to acquire

weapons-grade plutonium

from any source.

Yes, it would.

Same goes for your

clients outside Iran,

Hezbollah. Hamas.

The Houthis.

Nuclear weapons are a danger

in any hands, Director.

Wasn't that your pretext

for your invasion

of our neighbor to the west?

One that cost

500,000 Iraqi lives

and left a wake of destruction

from which our region

has never recovered.

General Rostami, we came only

to tell you what we know.

Is that a threat?

Of course not, Minister Behruz.

Gentlemen, I very much

appreciate you meeting with us.

Not at all.

I only wish we could

offer more insight.

Thank you.

I don't trust General Rostami.

We need to keep this quiet.

How ready is Orion?

I'll check in with Hurley.

Why is there no one on watch?

You're all dead.

Yeah, yeah.

I got it, I got it.

You're dead.

What?

You wanna say something to

me? Say it. Go on, say it.

You got 30 seconds!

These are your targets.

Memorize them.

It's your responsibility to

be able to identify them.

You shoot a combatant,

you get a point.

You miss, you get a shock.

You shoot a noncombatant,

you get a bigger shock.

Combatant shoots you...

Let's just say you're

gonna feel it.

Ready?

Go.

What's Hurley doing?

He's f***ing with his head.

F***!

F***ing AR bullshit.

Shall we?

Okay.

That's clever.

Raw plutonium.

Highly enriched, as promised.

Let's hope.

Wow, that's a beautiful

sound, gentlemen.

May I?

Okay.

Wire the money.

That, I can do.

This is a cell phone.

Gotta move all the vans. The

Cardinal's visiting.

Okay.

Okay. Five minutes.

What's going on in there?

Souvenirs.

Possible code red,

backup needed.

There's nothing going on.

Come in.

It now appears that

all seven victims

were shot with a single weapon,

believed to be a Glock 29.

Traces of weaponized plutonium

were detected inside the van

where the bodies

of three Russians

and two Warsaw police

officers were found.

The Russian government

has confirmed

that the chemical footprint

of the plutonium in question

is a match to the

plutonium that was stolen

from the decommissioned

processing facility in Tobolsk.

Security footage is being

analyzed by Polish police,

now working in conjunction

with Interpol,

to identify the shooter

and his connection

to the missing plutonium.

The identity of the shooter

remains unknown...

Hi, excuse me.

- How can I help you?

- Question.

May I help you?

No, thanks. I'm okay.

- Ow! Ow! Ow!

- Hey! Hey! Hey!

Rapp! God damn it!

You have to stay under control.

D*ckhead!

A**hole doesn't

know when to quit.

You're kidding me, right?

I just saved your ass.

You've gotta know when the

mission's been accomplished, Rapp.

- Sir, he's a f***ing...

- Which he did.

Never assume your target

is the only target.

The enemy dresses like a deer

and he kills like a lion.

And that's what we gotta do.

We just gotta do it better.

All right.

You're an a**hole.

We got a problem.

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