- Harold Harper: Nice of you to join us this morning.
- Raymond Waters: Well, no one called me about the early start.
- Harold Harper: [gibe] Is that a fact? I heard you made a move on Agent Adams yesterday.
- Raymond Waters: [hypocritically] Oh, me? No, no, never happened.
- Harold Harper: [skeptically] Are you calling her a liar?
- Raymond Waters: I don't like to use that word. Maybe she was confused. Sometimes I just... I get curious. Can't help asking questions, that's all.
- Harold Harper: And what'd she have to say about your questions?
- Raymond Waters: Oh, she told me to go fuck myself.
- Harold Harper: Yeah.
- Raymond Waters: Probably should have known I wouldn't get any answers from her, though, huh?
- Harold Harper: Oh, I don't know. When I was in your shoes, sometimes I'd ask questions to get an answer. Sometimes I'd ask questions to see what kind of reaction it got. Sometimes I'd ask questions and watch the billiard balls bounce for a while on the off chance one of them led somewhere interesting.
- Raymond Waters: [bewildered] That's funny. I'm trying to figure out which one of the three you're doing with me right now.
- Harold Harper: [sneering] It's fun, isn't it?
- Young Faraz Hamzad: Why are you here?
- Young Dan Chase: As long as the Agency is backing your rivals, it's gonna be an uphill struggle for you to keep up.
- Young Faraz Hamzad: All struggles are uphill. That is why they call them struggles.
- Young Dan Chase: Not with my help.
- Raymond Waters: What's happening?
- Joe: Oh, we found the guy.
- Raymond Waters: You found him? Chase?
- Joe: I think so. Older couple was stopped at a roadblock yesterday. Husband didn't have ID. Wasn't red-flagged because he wasn't alone. Didn't fit our criteria, but the boss man pulled it from the low-priority pile.
- Raymond Waters: The boss pulled it out?
- Joe: Well, I'm not sure why that surprises you. They teach a class at the academy about fugitive mindset. Half the reading is about him. Local branch tracked down the police officers that made the stop. We sent over Chase's Vermont driver's license photo. We're waiting on confirmation, but if it's a match, we move.
- Raymond Waters: Hmm.
- Angela Adams: [to Zoe on phone] A name is just a name. And if a new name is the price to be paid for freedom, for meaning, for purpose, for finding a place in the world to stand and do something good... then it's a small price to pay.
- Julian Carson: [phone conversation] You do understand what it is I do, yes?
- Harold Harper: ...went to great lengths to make sure I'd never be on one of them again. I was offered your number. I took it. I don't know why I took it. I guess I figured it was okay because there was no way I'd ever be able to use it.
- Julian Carson: Why wouldn't you be able to use it?
- Harold Harper: The guy I wanted you to visit... I figured there was a good chance he'd never be found again.
- Julian Carson: It's hard to disappear in this world. You're giving this guy a lot of credit.
- Harold Harper: Are you good at this?
- Julian Carson: Beg your pardon?
- Harold Harper: Are you good at this?
- Julian Carson: I don't think you would've been given my number if I weren't.
- Harold Harper: I don't think so either, but I'd like to hear you say it Yeah.
- Julian Carson: I know what I'm doing.
- Zoe: There's a moment... when you know they're only seeing the version of you that they want to see. And then there's another moment... where they realize that they were wrong. There's another version of you in there somewhere. Probably always was there. And you just see it wreak havoc on them. I mean, with my husband, it wasn't all that surprising. Before I said anything to him, I... I suspected that... he would struggle with a version of a wife who wasn't working... so hard to prevent his discomfort. But with my son... That's the hard part. To feel your kid looking at you in that way.
- Dan Chase: In what way?
- Zoe: Like someone who... isn't worth the trouble.
- Dan Chase: Mm.
- Young Dan Chase: [escorts four Afghan women to the village laundry wash] Mind if we join you? Your English is good.
- Young Abbey Chase: Thank you.
- Young Dan Chase: University abroad? Or Kabul?
- [no response]
- Young Dan Chase: I'm not who you think I am. Want to help your husband win this war. That's it. There's no other agenda here. Do you believe me?
- Young Abbey Chase: When I was seven years old, my parents told me we were moving to Ohio. They were professors, and they secured positions at the university there. I was weeks away from being a little girl from Columbus. I remember the pamphlets on my father's desk. The pictures of young people, so full of hope. I would stare at them for hours. I wanted to be them. Then came the coup here. And plans changed. And things got dark. Next Americans I knew... were from the CIA, working so very hard to bend our war to their purpose. That's when I realized there's two kinds of Americans. The kind so determined to be better, there's no progress they believe to be out of their reach. And the other kind, the monsters so determined to be right, there is no violence they believe to be unjustified to secure their ends. Until I know which kind you are, I will assume the worst and protect my husband from it.
- [villages observe a cargo plane drop]
- Young Dan Chase: [Dari] Four cases of M21 sniper rifles. With scopes.
- [English subtitles]
- Young Dan Chase: [returns to English] I'm not who you think I am. I'm no monster.
- Raymond Waters: [standing behind Adams, quietly] He's good. You know, if we're being honest, I can't imagine a guy like that will ever have to answer for anything he's ever done. It's just guys like that, they just never do. You, on the other hand... If you got secrets, if you got things you don't want out in the open, tread lightly. Because if he fucks me over again, I'm gonna dig those things out of the ground, and I'm gonna use them to hold you responsible.
- [Adams turns and menacingly glares at Waters]
- Raymond Waters: I'm gonna get us that meeting you wanted. Careful what you wish for.
- Angela Adams: You don't seem too concerned about this.
- Harold Harper: Well, I can understand why you'd be. That's how I taught you to play the game. Like a cop.
- Angela Adams: Mm.
- Harold Harper: To a cop, a puzzle is a thing to be solved. But the other game, the one that Chase and I played when we were young... the one I'm starting to realize we're playing again... that game has no rules. Its puzzles have no solutions. They just lead to other puzzles. That's what makes this game so interesting. It's not for the faint of heart. But it's a hell of a drug.
- Raymond Waters: [to Adams] Oh, no, no, no, no. No. You don't want to be here for this. Trust me.
- [Harper and Adams look to each other]
- Raymond Waters: Okey doke. Do you want to start or should I?
- Harold Harper: I'm not sure what you mean.
- Raymond Waters: Yeah, that's what I thought.
- [sighs]
- Raymond Waters: Faraz Hamzad is getting anything he wants from the U.S. government. And when he finds out that the U.S. government just lost his man again, heads are gonna roll. I do not know exactly what happened out there, but after watching you just so clearly intervene and help Chase escape the first time, I'm-a go out on a limb and guess that today wasn't an accident. I'm not gonna get left holding the bag here. I'm reporting this up the chain. Call your wife. Call your lawyer. You're in deep shit trouble.
- Harold Harper: "Faraz Hamzad is getting anything he wants."
- Raymond Waters: What?
- Harold Harper: You're the second person to tell me that this week.
- Raymond Waters: So?
- Harold Harper: Why would anyone from Langley choose you, an unqualified busybody with no friends, no network, to lead an operation this important? I could never make any sense of it till right now. No one at Langley chose you. Faraz Hamzad did. He asked for you himself. Or someone just like you, at least. Someone who would beat the bushes, ask questions, dig things out of the dirt. I figured this was a revenge story. Figured that Hamzad wanted Chase alive so he could kill him himself. But maybe Faraz Hamzad wanted Chase delivered alive, yeah, and wanted the nosiest motherfucker in the history of the CIA to do the delivering because Faraz Hamzad has questions that he wants answered. There's something he wants to know. Tell me I'm wrong.
- Raymond Waters: Listen, if...
- [interrupted]
- Harold Harper: Don't bother. I'm not wrong. But what the hell kind of questions does he have? I know what started all this. It's ugly, it's dangerous, but there's no mystery to it.
- Raymond Waters: What do you know?
- Harold Harper: 30 years ago, Dan Chase stole Faraz Hamzad's wife, and I helped him do it. That's it. That's the story. That's why we're here. years ago, a woman living in the Hindu Kush met an American, started fucking him, saw a chance for a better life and easier access to a Walmart.
- [pans to Adams leaning inside against the conference room door]
- Harold Harper: So she left her warlord husband and followed the American back home. And here we are. But what is Hamzad hoping for, that after all this time, he'll find her and, what, just spirit her away? She's been dead for years. Either he's got some serious smelling salts... or...
- [interrupted]
- Angela Adams: Stop it.
- [Harper turns to look at Adams]
- Angela Adams: [Adams inhales deeply] This isn't getting us anywhere. We're heading in the wrong direction. Dan Chase profiles as a true believer. Somebody who fights for causes. A guy that absolutely, at no matter what cost, has to believe that he is on the right side of whatever fight he's in. A guy like that, the kind of woman that would follow him halfway across the world, their story is going to be a lot more complicated than that. And if you're right and Hamzad is chasing answers here, then we have to find out what the questions are. And the only way to do that is to ask him ourselves.
- Raymond Waters: Ask him... him who?
- Angela Adams: Hamzad.
- Angela Adams: [chuckles] Come on.
- Angela Adams: I'm supposed to believe that you can't get a message to Hamzad?
- Raymond Waters: Not can I. Why would I?
- Angela Adams: And what's the alternative... you go back there and admit you failed? Or you don't fail and the three of us get Hamzad the answers that he's looking for. We put the genie back in the bottle and everyone wins.