Dig Episode 1.08 Sisters of Dinah

Peter shows up at Lynn's apartment to confront her about their failed meeting in the park the night before. As they work through it, they realize that someone is playing them both-and that person must be on the inside. Since they both suspect it's Ambassador Ridell, they devise a plan for Lynn to bait her with false information about someone from the Jerusalem Heritage Center helping Peter escape whoever was chasing him. Lynn is also going to look for a connection between the Ambassador and Yussef Khalid the night of the reception.

Margrove and his assistant Assaf have narrowed down the three places in Jerusalem that mention the word "Dinah" and then pinpoint the Sisters of Dinah convent. To gain access to the convent, Margrove and Assaf claim to have been sent from the British Museum to authenticate the "Revenge of Dinah" relief that's located in their basement.

Avram is now at the Jerusalem Heritage Center, but the red heifer is not. Rabbi Lev is furious that Avram failed his mission but he has a plan to fix the boy's mistake.

Peter, Golan and Emma pay a visit to Professor Zohar, who teaches at Tel Aviv University. He says his former colleague John Donaldson was a romantic who believed there was a mythic vault of riches under the Temple Mount and that Margrove was nothing more than a dimwitted, greedy treasure hunter. He explains that Margrove encouraged Donaldson to publish his paper in 1988, which fed the intifada, in which sixty Israelis and over a hundred Palestinians were killed. After that, Donaldson was totally ruined. One night, he came home drunk, slit his wife's throat and then his own in front of their kids. All Zohar knows is that the evidence Donaldson referred to in the video was locked in a secret room but not where. Peter, Emma and Golan wonder if that's the same room seen in Donaldson's video, which looks like it could be located in a building in Mishkanot Shananim.

Now armed with a rifle, Debbie approaches the compound and then sneaks in through the loading dock. When she ducks into a room that turns out to be a lab, she goes through some files and is horrified to discover sonogram photos from women in the compound, including Faye and Sandra.

Lynn goes to see her friend Phil, the head of security at the consulate, to ask him if the security cameras were turned off the night of the reception. He says the logs don't indicate any outages but he'll have the backup records sent from the states. She thanks him and asks for his discretion.

Peter and Emma's search for the building Donaldson made his taped confessional in leads them to the Sisters of Dinah convent. His room has been left undisturbed because the rent is still being paid regularly. The room is dusty and covered with notes, photographs and the scrawled ravings of a mad man. They discover a trap door beneath a rug, which reveals a ladder leading into the tunnels beneath the convent.

Meanwhile, Margrove takes a hammer to the Dinah relief, a rare relic itself, to reveal the symbol of Moriah behind it and then drills into the center of it. His assistant sends a camera through the hole, just as Peter and Emma are exploring the other side of the tunnel. The camera reveals skeletons of the Essenes who were sealed in the vault to protect the treasures in the afterlife around the time of the first Crusade. Soon they spy their precious bounty: the suddenly-no-longer-mythical Temple Treasures.

As Debbie makes her way through the halls of the compound, she encounters Officer Parry and shoots him point blank. Debbie manages to locate Joshua and escape with him, setting fire to a gas can in their wake. Later, when Debbie and Josh pull over to get some rest, Josh leans in from the back seat and slits Debbie's throat. Then he calls Billingham from Debbie's phone, says it's done and asks him to come get him.

Phil brings Lynn the second set of camera logs, which confirms that certain cameras were down for brief periods of time. This gives her enough information to trace the path that Yussef Khalid took the night of the reception, which leads right to Ambassador Ridell's office. Lynn's search of the office is cut short when the Ambassador comes in. While Lynn is hidden, she hears Ridell say that Rabbi Lev's people are in Qumran and that "it will get done." Then Phil, who was summoned by Ridell, comes in. He doesn't hesitate in telling the truth when she asks what Lynn was having him investigate. Ridell's next call is to order that Lynn be taken out of the field in the next twenty-four hours, but quietly.

While Golan stakes out the JHC, he sees men putting weapons into car trunks and tails them out to the desert to Qumran. After leaving a message for Peter to meet him there, a man posing as a goat herder knocks out Golan. When Peter and Emma show up that night looking for Golan, they see a gathering of Essenes in white robes, with Shem, whom Peter recognizes as the man who saved him in the park, leading Red to the center. Two Essenes come up behind them with guns cocked. Peter and Emma are bound and marched to the center of the circle. Shem explains that they're Essenes who have kept their existence a secret for 2,000 years. Rabbi Lev's armed men approach and open fire, setting off a major gun battle. Lev's men grab the red heifer, killing several Essenes in their wake. It isn't until Emma approaches Peter after Lev's men are gone that they both realize he has been shot in the chest.