Extraction Page #2

not on high-ranking CIA officials.

It's for my dad.

(BEEPING)

I've got Robertson.

Oh. Hey, Ken.

- Sitterson.

- Higgins, from the top.

Leonard Turner, former clandestine

service officer and field operative,

went missing this morning

in Newark, New Jersey.

- You're in.

- KEN:
You said "former."

HIGGINS:
Yes, sir. They pulled him

from the field due to his antics,

he was three weeks before retirement.

What the hell was he doing in Newark,

New Jersey, on a Level 1 assignment?

- I can answer that.

- Oh, good. Please, Ken. Enlighten us.

Leonard and I go way back.

I knew the Agency was looking to railroad

him and that retirement would kill him.

So I gave him one last shot at field work,

and I requested his participation.

- In order to...?

- In order to secure the CONDOR prototype,

and escort it back

to DARPA HQ in Arlington.

When he didn't report in, I initiated

the protocol for a missing agent.

(CHUCKLES)

So you... so you sent a washed-up,

skid mark of an agent to secure the CONDOR?

That "skid mark", nice term

of endearment, by the way,

is the best goddamn field operative

the agency's ever produced.

Oh, yeah, apparently not.

Okay. Continue Higgins.

Approximately, sixty minutes

after Agent Turner went missing,

the CONDOR went active.

Okay. So, for those of us who didn't grow up

jerking off to some science magazine,

can you please explain to me

the significance of this latest revelation?

In layman's terms, Director Sitterson,

the CONDOR is the ultimate hack,

allowing whoever has it,

complete control over any

government's major communications.

- How long do we have?

- 24 hours from the moment CONDOR goes active.

- Why 24 hours?

- (DOOR OPENS)

Because it takes 24 hours for the CONDOR

to go active and hack all the programs.

- That's Internet, nuclear platforms, GPS...

- Okay. He can stay.

How did you do that?

(BEEPING)

A smart boy.

We'll talk about this later on.

What's the fallout?

If the CONDOR comes online and the government's

affected trace it back to us, at best,

- we lose their trust.

- At worst?

They see it as an act of war.

Look, is there any way

to reverse the activation?

Yes. My team developed a Patriarch Key.

It'll decompile the entire system,

but it has to be physically uploaded

onto the CONDOR. Cannot be done remotely.

Alright. Get me this Patriarch Key,

and I'll ensure that it gets hand-delivered

to our lead agent

who's already on the ground.

Agent, sir? As in singular?

This gets out it's a PR nightmare

for the agency.

The way it is now, technically,

it's FBI jurisdiction,

which we are not so subtly

pissing all over.

It's just better that we keep

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