Dig Episode 1.09 Jehoshaphat

After being hit in the head at Qumran, Golan awakens inside the trunk of his car—in a parking garage in Haifa. After extricating himself, his office tells him they found the detective who worked the Donaldson case fifteen years ago, so Golan heads to a kibbutz in the Negev to speak to him.

When Ambassador Ridell goes into her office bathroom, Lynn has the opportunity to look at Ridell's desk phone for the last numbers dialed and then sneak out. Figuring she can trust Liat, she arranges to meet her at a coffee shop to ask her to discreetly find out about a pastor arriving today with a "special delivery" as part of Ridell's delegation.

Still at Qumran, Peter goes in and out of consciousness as Shem and his fellow Essenes tend to his gunshot wound. When he wakes up, Shem tells Peter that the Order of Moriah is able to carry out their mission now because of advances in technology and cloning. Soon they'll slaughter the unblemished red heifer and burn her. They'll mix her ashes with the ashes of the original red heifer, at which point they'll be able to rebuild the Temple. According to Shem, Peter has a part to play to bring healing to himself and the world, but Peter brushes off the notion that he was destined to be involved. Shem then shows Peter and Emma the caves where the Essenes have been hiding out, some of which reach all the way to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.

Golan's visit to Mordecai, the detective who worked on the Professor Donaldson murder-suicide case, doesn't turn up much information. The case file is missing from the station but Mordecai doesn't have it. Meanwhile, Gregory Donaldson, who was just a child when his father killed his mother and then himself and was left with their bodies for three days before being discovered by the police, is still at the psychiatric institution, writing the word "Jehoshaphat" over and over again all over the walls of his room.

Golan sends Peter to his brother Itay's apartment to get the bullet removed from his chest. Itay says Peter and Emma are welcome to stay there and rest. While Peter is taking a shower, Emma comes in to join him.

Liat gives Lynn flight manifests for all the planes arriving today but said she couldn't find any instructions around a special delivery. Liat catches on that Lynn isn't asking for this information as part of her duties to protect the ambassador but says she's still in. As she's going through the manifest, Lynn notices a page is missing so she makes a call posing as Liat and has the document emailed. Reverend Tad Billingham is on the list, which makes Lynn wonder if Liat was trying to obscure that fact. Lynn heads directly to see Golan to tell him what she knows so he can share it with Peter.

After being taken at Qumran, Red is now back at the JHC but Avram is not allowed to come in contact with her. With the help of a friend, Aaron, Avram sneaks in to see Red at the retreat center where she has been moved. He spray paints two white lines down her back in order to protect her. But when Rabbi Lev arrives, he tells Aaron to wash the calf. He will not let this stop him.

Golan arrives at his brother's apartment to pick up Peter. Golan notices Emma in bed asleep and chides Peter for crossing the line with her. They go to the airport to await the arrival of Ridell's "delegation." They watch as Ridell greets Billingham and Faye with a handshake but then goes up to Joshua and bows her head to kiss his hand.

Later, Liat comes in to Lynn's office to give her the missing page from the manifest but says something that confirms Lynn's suspicions about her. Lynn attempts to leave the building but Ridell's henchmen try to stop her. She gamely fights back but Liat knocks her out and deletes her text to Peter warning him of it all being a trap.

Peter and Golan have followed Ridell, Billingham, Faye and Joshua to an airplane hanger. Billingham pulls one of his books out of a crate and tells Ridell that they are "undetectable." Faye gets a call that the FBI knows they're there and Billingham says it doesn't matter because in two days, the FBI and the world won't exist. He says, "First Jehoshaphat, and then Armageddon." Golan wants to grab them before they board their helicopter but Peter says they should wait to see who else is involved. Peter remembers that Gregory Donaldson was obsessed with "Jehoshaphat," so they drive to the psychiatric institution and sneak into his room. He's drugged out of his mind so Golan gives him something to counteract the anti psychotic meds.

Avram sneaks into Lev's house with a hammer, intent on murdering him. Shem grabs him from behind and drags him outside. Avram asks why Shem stopped him. Shem says killing Lev won't save Red or the world. The only relevant target is the only person who can kill a red heifer because he's pure and has been training for it his whole life: the high priest.

Margrove calls Peter because he has had second thoughts about what he has enabled and needs to meet with Peter immediately, so Peter goes. Golan stays with Gregory Donaldson. After Gregory becomes more coherent and is able to give Golan the pertinent information he needs, Golan heads outside. As he's leaving a message for Peter, a car comes out of nowhere and purposely hits him. Then the mysterious driver steps out to deliver the final blow-a knife to the throat. As Golan fades, he realizes that the driver is none other than Emma Wilson.