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I've got 30 years in the craft,

so do me a favour...

Don't ask me to cover

what you can't bear to face.

- I wasn't doing that.

- Yes, you were.

It's understandable.

Nobody wants to face that pain again.

Let the past go.

Or it's gonna get in the way when it counts.

Good night.

(BEEPING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

PAYNE:
Marburg virus is a Category A

bio-threat threat agent

that may just trump Ebola

for the nightmare trophy.

Intercepts are flagging Russia

as the most likely source.

The Soviets produced a weaponised strain

in the '80s called Variant K.

It's on every jihadi's wish list.

(WOMAN IN RUSSIAN OVER PA)

And the courier?

PAYNE:
We snatched him last night.

We have him waiting.

(GROANS)

PAYNE:
It's not what he knows, sir.

It's that Mercer won't have met him yet.

The imam never uses the same courier twice.

So if we crack the courier for any

recognition measures needed for the meet,

switch him out with one of our guys,

we can change the message to

whatever we want.

And if Mercer buys it, he can shut him down.

It was all going beautifully

until our interrogator's ticker gave out.

Are you telling me we don't have

another interrogator in the UK?

BARRETT:
Our best people are in the sandbox.

PAYNE:
There is another case officer

with London station.

Alice Racine. But...

But what? Call her.

Actually, sir,

she's had a rocky couple of years.

Who's her COS?

I am, sir.

Background?

Racine was a teen runaway.

European born, her mother brought her

to the States when she was 12.

A year later, Child Protective Services

found her on the street.

Multiple foster homes. Six different schools.

She broke her teacher's arm when she was 15.

Suspected he was touching her classmates.

- He was.

- Mmm. Born a bloodhound.

The cops on her case got her

into the Police Athletic League.

Three years later, she had a full

athletic scholarship to Northwestern.

Now we recruited her because she

scored off the charts on the Kolbe Index

and Special Activities needed interrogators.

What's the rocky part?

ROMLEY:
The mastermind of the 2012

bridge bombing was her interrogation.

She broke him, too late to stop it.

The death toll was a fraction

of the 2015 attacks but she took it hard.

She tried to quit after that,

but her chief at the time

talked both her and the agency

into a transfer

to a cover job in East London

in a jihad-prominent community.

Which is why we didn't consider her.

It's been two years since

she's been in the booth,

and just wasn't enough time

to knock the rust off.

But given the circumstances,

do you have a better idea?

Anyone?

MAN:
Alice?

Frank Sutter, London station.

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