The Numbers Station Page #2

Retire your broadcaster.

Did you copy that?

Got it.

What? What'd

they say?

Sit tight.

Did you hear that?

They're drilling through.

check the security cameras.

Find out what happened

to David and Meredith.

Sh*t.

All the cameras are down.

Audio's on a separate file.

Yeah.

Pull it up.

Nothing.

What time was that?

One hour ago.

Earlier.

be a f***ing hero?

Go back further.

out a couple of hours

till Emerson gets

here and then I hope...

Tell her to come out right now!

Take a f***ing seat!

We know you have to open

the door from the inside.

Can you get her to do that for us?

It'll be a lot easier.

F*** you.

I need to get inside

the broadcast room.

I need the girl

to open the door.

I need her to take care

of some numbers for me.

Now this is something

only she can do.

And I'm kinda on

a tight schedule.

about the change in schedule.

We got here early.

I know about you and the girl.

We know, okay?

Now we can offer you two a

way out, a way through.

And if you do what we say, if you

help us, we won't have to hurt her.

There's no need for violence.

Violence is what got us all

in this place to begin with.

This is the end of violence for us.

This is a new beginning.

It's a partnership.

And it starts by you getting

her to open that door.

Your leg.

Oh, my God.

I don't even feel anything.

That's usually a bad sign.

You always know

what to say to a girl.

Up.

You have training in this

kind of a thing, right?

What?

Field surgery?

Dressing wounds?

Yeah.

I mean, it's not my area of

expertise but I know a little bit.

Okay.

Is all this blood normal?

Well, you have a piece

of truck in your leg.

No way is a joke gonna make

me feel more comfortable

in your ability to

not kill me right now.

Grit your teeth.

Looks like we

missed the artery.

But it's gonna be okay, right?

You could still bleed out.

Emerson, lie

to a girl, will you?

Bite down. I think

it's starting to hurt.

Bite.

That was bizarre.

Emerson!

Emerson!

Yeah.

I thought you left me.

How long was I out?

Little while. Not long.

We were ambushed.

Yeah.

So, what? What? They wanted

to stop the broadcasts?

You know as much as I do.

Yeah, but we didn't

do anything wrong.

Right? We were ambushed.

Sit back down.

All the audio files are there. We

had nothing to do with it. So...

They can't blame

us for anything.

Why are you looking

at me like that?

We're fine. We were ambushed.

Calm down.

I am calm. But what

are we gonna do next?

Stop walking

around on your leg.

I'm fine. What

do we do next?

Just tell me what we do now.

Mmm-hmm.

We'll have you out of there

in less than two hours.

Has everything been

taken care of at your end?

I can't confirm that.

Is there a problem?

No.

Get it done, immediately.

What?

Two hours.

Ugh, this drilling

is driving me nuts.

I wanna find

David and Meredith.

You sure no one

else could be in here?

What?

Nothing.

I was just thinking they wanted

something in

the broadcast room.

Gotta get over there.

Think they got

what they came for?

Let's find out.

It's pretty standard activity.

Two broadcasts yesterday.

Three last night.

There's gotta be something.

What? What

do you got?

Fifteen broadcasts

this afternoon.

What?

Just 20 minutes apart.

Whoever broke in here didn't

do it to stop the broadcasts.

Well, that's a good

thing, right?

Katherine, when you

send a broadcast

you're sending out these numbers

to the agents in the field

to deliver specific

assignments they cannot

trust to normal

communication lines.

Do you know what that means?

Fifteen broadcasts.

Fifteen assignments.

Unauthorized.

Assassinations, bombings.

Could be anything.

Murders?

Gonna fix it.

Here, what does it say?

Can't read that.

Agents in the field carry, like,

one-time notebooks, like pads.

Each page is a new cypher.

When you broadcast something,

the agent matches

up the first set

of numbers to

the page in the notebook.

Now he knows he's

using this page,

and this page only,

to decode the message.

When he's done,

he destroys the page.

So we send another broadcast

to cancel this one.

Every cypher's

a one-time deal.

Totally random.

Completely impossible

to crack the code

unless you have

the original cypher.

That changes with every shift.

So we need the cypher?

Yes, we need that cypher.

seems like we're here

to hurt you,

to kill you, I assure you,

both of you,

that's the

worst-case scenario.

Must have left

the computer running.

It doesn't scare me.

Shut the f*** up!

Back off!

Please. Let me

rephrase that.

You think someone like me

is afraid of being shot?

Back off!

Meredith. This is

between you and I.

The rest of these guys, they don't matter.

This is just you and me.

And a choice.

You're shaking now.

You're getting angry.

You're letting your emotions get

the better of the situation.

The adrenaline is

really kicking in.

But what I know, the reason

that I'm not shaking

is because this is a choice

not dictated by emotion.

This is logic.

Pure, simple.

My boy over there is rated 4th

in the world on the Glock 30.

You know what that means?

What's it mean?

It means I could

shoot you from Texas.

Now, that's, of course, an

exaggeration but the point stands.

He knows what he's doing.

He's a professional.

And you're you.

You've already dropped the gun.

Because this is a choice within a

very strict set of parameters.

Right now you're in control.

What you don't wanna do

is put him in control.

Don't give him the choice.

That way is death.

That way is the unconditional

end to future choice.

That's it.

Good girl.

I know, I know.

It's always a tough

lesson to learn,

to realize that you don't have

the stomach to do what's needed.

Don't kill her.

But you, on the other hand...

Don't! Please, please.

No! Please, please.

David!

Please!

No!

You'll do exactly what we want.

You'll broadcast my

numbers because now

you know every

choice has a consequence.

Stop it!

Stop it!

Try the other zones.

Who's in the basement?

what's down there.

We're clear.

My God.

He only fired two shots.

Oh, my God, it's David.

he was dead. Bled out.

He knew there was

a gun hidden down here.

You still with me?

Yeah, feel nauseous.

Yeah, well, puke

if you have to.

I haven't puked since college.

Keep talking.

Where did you go?

Brown.

Yeah, how long?

Two years.

Before you dropped out, huh?

They're looking for this.

Mainframe's connected

to the computer.

So whatever's on this...

You said the codes

were impossible to crack.

Unless you have

the original cypher.

But whatever they're looking

for, it's on this, so can you?

Yeah, I'm on it, I'm on it.

Who's this?

Oh, it's the Director of

Clandestine Operations Overseas.

Somebody's boss's boss's boss.

Somebody high up in the company.

Director Atwater.

Director Collins.

Templeman.

Keep going.

Yeah, these are

people being groomed

for top slots in

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