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all the way here for interference.

Wanna tell me what you're thinking?

I want you to tell me

what you're thinking.

I don't know what I'm thinking... yet.

But there is an explanation.

(Orland) That was the first sighting.

Three others just like it.

The last was different.

It involved a member of Delta Force,

that makes it particularly sensitive.

This is Fran Madison with CIA.

What Special Ops does here

is done under CIA covert operations.

You need to sign this

before we go any further.

- What is this?

- It's an SCI oath.

You're acknowledging it's life in prison

if you reveal anything you're told.

(door buzzing and clanging)

(beeping)

(door buzzing)

- (Fran) Cue up the Davis file, please.

- (man) Yes, ma'am.

Three days ago

we conducted a raid in mid-city.

Our communications were intermittent,

and a guy got separated from the group...

where he ended up killed in action.

He got closer than anybody.

Too close.

(radio static)

(whirring)

(Davis) Dagger Team 1, you seeing this?

There's some kind of disturbance here.

(man over radio)

Davis, what is that? What are you seeing?

(Davis) What the hell?

(radio static)

Sergeant Chris Davis.

Three-tour combat vet. Best of the best.

In the last few weeks

we've been finding bodies around the city

that were killed in the same way.

The autopsies defied all explanation.

Their internal organs were frozen

and yet, their skin was burned

and corroded.

The only response from the allied Moldovan

military contact is shock, confusion.

And there's anger.

There's teenagers spray-painting

"genocide aratare" at kill sites.

- Genocide...?

- "Aratare."

It's a local myth. The ghosts of war.

"As nightmarish as."

That's the literal translation.

- That's very poetic.

- (Fran) Well, they're superstitious.

They somehow think...

the horrors of the war have

kicked up something unnatural.

- We hope you have an alternate theory.

- What do you think?

- Think you need a new name for them.

- Beyond that.

- Give me a copy of the data, some time...

- That's not possible.

You want me to figure this out right now?

- (Orland) We want your assessment.

- I don't have one yet.

Then, I think we have to send our

working theory up the chain of command.

- I don't wanna do that.

- Okay. What is your working theory?

The agency thinks

this is some kind of cloaking technology.

Insurgent soldiers wearing

active camouflage.

In this country? Something that advanced?

CIA knows a few groups in Europe and Asia

could be working on active camouflage.

DARPA's worked on cloaking technology.

We're years away from a prototype.

- Maybe somebody beat you to it.

- DARPA is the leader in the field.

Are you certain of that?

The regime spent heavily

on weapons research.

Corruption, loose legislation.

You're a military lab and want obscurity?

- This is a great place to work and hide.

- Okay.

Let's say it is cloaking technology.

- How do you account for cause of death?

- A shock delivered to the victim.

I think you're reaching.

Our business requires us

to make suppositions.

My business requires us to prove them.

Your technician's job is to find glitches,

so, he sees glitches.

Your job is to find the enemy,

so, you see the enemy.

Locals believe in spirits,

so they see spirits.

Everyone is biased, in one way or another.

So, my answer to you right now is that

we lack data to support any theory.

Okay.

What do you need

to make a more definitive statement?

First, you need a better shot.

That's what I'm looking for,

a better shot.

How?

- Right here, sir.

- That's it.

I brought this from DARPA.

A hyperspectral camera.

A more powerful version of the helmet cams

your guys are using.

It sees deeper into the spectrum of light.

Visible or invisible,

if something's there, this'll pick it up.

Can you mount this thing...

on a Delta vehicle?

- I don't see why not.

- (Orland) All right, good.

We run missions into the city every day.

I'll put you with our field tech,

tell him how to operate it.

I wouldn't put a tech in between

this camera and myself.

So, you wanna operate it?

If you want that kill shot... you'll need

a fast reaction time out there.

Next mission, you ride with Delta.

They're gonna get you close to this thing.

You get me the kill shot...

you can go home to Virginia

without unpacking.

(man 1)

Got a bad rotor, you gotta swap that out.

(man 2) Weld it onto the front panel.

(indistinct chattering)

Well, well, well. Toll, check that out.

- (man 1) What's this guy up to, man?

- (man 2) I don't know.

(man 3) Believe this guy?

- (man 4) If it works.

- (man 5) For real.

(whistles)

Heard you're installing a camera

on our truck.

Which was fine

until you ripped out that 50 cal.

You're taking down a gun

to put up a camera?

It's the only place large enough

to mount it.

(Toll) You guys get that, right?

I know it sounds like a terrible idea.

We prefer to dance with who brung us...

Dr. Clyne. You get that, right?

"Dance with who brung you"?

No, actually, I don't.

This truck has saved our lives,

many times.

I understand.

(Cabrera) You guys know Dr. Clyne's team

built that truck?

Clyne works over at DARPA.

I've worked closely with his group.

Been to their facilities in Virginia.

- Good to see you, Dr. Clyne.

- Good to see you, Captain Cabrera.

They retrofitted these trucks

with tougher, lighter weight armor.

They designed the mechanical loaders

that do the heavy lifting,

so you boys don't strain yourselves

too hard.

Matter of fact, Dr. Clyne himself

developed the thin weight Kevlar

body stocking that literally...

(Toll grunts) (soldiers groan)

Protects your balls.

So, I would think there'd be nothing

but goodwill in this group for Dr. Clyne.

- Major Sessions.

- Captain, have your men fall back.

- (man 1) Get back to it.

- (man 2) Get her done.

This is Dr. Clyne.

He's worked with us eight or ten times

over the last five years.

You ever go out with the assault team?

No, sir.

He's a good man, major.

That's great. I'm just not a fan

of taking tourists on combat missions.

Sir, I'm not a tourist.

If you're not carrying an M4,

you're a tourist.

I'll carry one, if you'd like.

We gotta get Dr. Clyne out in the field

to track the target force

and get a kill shot.

How long before

this equipment's operational?

A few hours.

- Is it gonna work?

- If we get close enough.

Let me tell you something.

Sergeant Davis... he got close enough.

That's the best Delta that we had.

Make sure your equipment

is top-notch this time.

- They were like brothers.

- I get it.

Okay.

Evening, doc.

(indistinct chattering)

(Cabrera) Hear you two hit it off bigtime.

(chuckles)

- She can come off a bit intense.

- Yeah. So can you.

I'm just here to find this thing.

You're willing to go on

a combat mission to find it.

She is, too.

She's under a lot of pressure from D.C.

They want an answer

and it's her job to give them one.

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