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his own family alive.

-What good is he to us?

-Brett.

What the f*** did you say?

You heard what I said.

What the f*** did you say?

Guys!

Don't put your hands on me.

Don't put your hands on me.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Hey, hey, hey!

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

Okay, big boy, come on.

Hey,

You're not used to being

in the dark. I get it.

But whoever's doing this

isn't finished yet.

We still have a job to do.

We do it as a team.

You got that?

-Yes, sir.

-As a team.

We need him.

I want the air, water,

everything checked.

Let's figure out what happened

here last night. Move out.

Air's clear in corridor C.

All right,

655-876-5871 disabled.

Have you tried logging in

with a different interface?

-Gabriel.

-Yeah, go, Saeed.

Come see me at the loading bay.

Now.

Yeah, sure, be right there.

Saeed?

Loading bay!

Loading bay!

Saeed? Saeed?

Saeed!

-F***.

-F***.

Sy!

Sy!

Sy...

Goddamn it.

Where you at, bastards?!

Where you at?!

What the f***

is going on?!

Where you at?!

Who the f*** did this?!

-What the hell is that?

-What are you talking about?

Whoever did this

is still inside.

I say we start blasting

our way out of here.

-Agreed.

-It's not a democracy.

I'm not leaving until

we figure out who did this.

Yeah, even if you end up right

next to everyone in the cooler?

Alex, Rainier, Tilson,

Thomas, Saeed, O'Neill,

none of those lives

mean anything to you?

-Not as much as saving my own ass.

-F***ing a**hole.

-You think I give a sh*t what you think?

-Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

- Riley, come on!

- What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?

-Come on!

-What are you gonna do?!

-Easy!

-Save it.

Save it for the enemy.

If only we knew

who that was, Chief.

Maybe the better

question is why.

The f*** does that mean?

Temples are hooked into the most secure

intelligence systems on the planet

including facial recog

at airports.

You compromise a Temple,

you can travel

anywhere you want.

-It's just like I said.

-No, no, it's not a hack.

And since we're stuck on means and

opportunity, let's consider motive.

Who'd wanna kill

a couple CIA spooks, right?

Can only think of a few

million suspects.

Yeah, but how many are gonna go through

the trouble of something like this?

They're sending us a message.

Well, message received.

Everybody's dead.

Not everyone.

You again.

The builder of Temples.

The architect of truth.

Five minutes, no more.

We're on borrowed time.

There's no way out, Ahmadi.

What the hell's he doing?

You have all those itchy trigger

fingers out there waiting for you.

Tell me what happened.

I was in your f***ing tank.

I know.

I heard you scream.

Power's dropping

faster than planned.

Gabriel knows

what he's doing.

It is a devil's house

you've built.

You would know.

Today's ally

is tomorrow's enemy.

Perhaps your past

is catching up to you.

What'd you see in there?

Why don't you ask

your mechanical god?

Very well.

This is what the Temple

saw in your head.

Isaac?

Let's give him time.

He's going deep.

No! Tell me what

happened!

Tell me what happened, Ahmadi!

Why would the Temple deliver you

right into the lion's den?

Temple power system failure.

Temple interrogation

analysis complete.

Who is that?

Should put a bullet

in this a**hole right now.

Pretty clear Ahmadi's got

nothing to do with this.

Somebody's messing with us.

Means we missed

something.

Let's find it.

Still no luck

on what this drawing is.

Langley's code base would make

this a hell of a lot faster.

We keep backups

in the server room.

-C corridor, room 36.

-Seriously?

Yeah, Temples copy down

all DBs every hour.

They'll be as recent

as last night.

You're going to need

a remote unit.

That wasn't

in your schematics report.

An incomplete CIA report?

There's a shocker.

Let's see what's hiding

in your head, Ahmadi.

Facial recognition initiated.

Need more power.

Stay back!

What are you

trying to show me?

There's one second missing.

What...?

Hello?

Hello?

Who's up there?

Hello?

Hello?

-Hey...

-Jesus!

What is it?

Nothing, I thought...

Nothing.

You all right?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm fine.

I got to get back

to work.

Isaac.

Go for Isaac.

Come meet me

in the generator room.

Copy that.

Tell me what you see.

I see a woman I recruited from

INSCOM ten years ago being murdered.

But by what?

If I measure the wavelengths

in the room,

there's a range

of colors.

And the only source of pure

blackness is right there.

Now black is

an absence of color.

It's an absorber of light.

It's a void.

And if I isolate

that patch of black...

What the...?

Our enemy is not just

inside these walls.

It's in the code.

O'Neill was screaming

not just for her life,

but at the sight of whatever

was holding her under.

Maybe you should head

back to command

until we sort this all out.

I'm no safer there

then I am here.

Don't you understand

what's doing this?

It's the Temple.

The Temple is a system, Gabriel.

Not anymore.

And it's judged us

deserving of punishment.

The question is why.

Just tell me

you haven't felt it.

-Felt what?

-The presence all around us.

The Temple has reached

a tipping point.

So you're suggesting

that it's thinking for itself?

I'm not suggesting it.

I'm stating it.

There's no more barriers.

There's no dimensions

that it won't expose.

Hey, Gabriel?

Go for Gabe.

Can you come see me?

I think I figured something out.

The cuneiform

is an ancient language,

but it's not a word,

it's a symbol.

Noshaq Mountain

in the Takhar province.

It's the second-highest peak

in the Hindu Kush.

Like Ahmadi, that's another link

back to Afghanistan.

Why?

Riley?

Temple power system failure.

I have to get back

to the generator room.

Listen, keep digging,

find out what's so important

-about that location.

-Okay.

Hey!

Tyler!

Hello?!

Tyler!

Hey!

Tyler!

Tyler...

Tyler! Tyler!

Riley! Hey.

What happened?

I thought

I saw something.

-Hey!

-Yeah.

-Talk to me.

-No, I'm good.

Just got locked in.

-I'm good.

-You sure?

Keep it together.

Stop! Come back!

Don't shoot!

Temple power restoration

in progress.

Hello?

Facial recognition complete.

Warning.

Sensory deprivation

system breach.

What the...?

What the f***'s going on?

I want to believe you, Acum.

I really do.

You know, these guys,

you know,

they're going to need

more verification

to know that

we're on the same page.

What does that mean?

It means we need to make sure

you're not full of sh*t

and you're not

working against us.

We want to be friends, Acum.

We really do.

But there's a long history of good

friends becoming bitter enemies.

An even longer one of good

people being abandoned by...

I found this in his dwelling!

American issue.

An alliance phone.

He's been listening

to our every word.

No.

Help! Help!

They've been following us,

our every move.

I listen to everyone's move to lead

my people away from the battlefields.

-Where'd you get it?

-Salvage on the M45.

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