Breakout Kings Episode 2.08 SEALd Fate

In an overgrown field by a river, two sweaty cons in jumpers chop up weeds, their hands and legs cuffed together. One of the inmates, Jonah Whitman, eyeballs the three guards on watch while Casey, the inmate chained to him, runs his mouth. Jonah turns towards Casey, asking him if "they sent him here." Casey, confused, tells Jonah that he just went where he was sent. Out of nowhere, Jonah pops the smaller man in the nose with two quicks jabs. Casey grabs his face in pain and Jonah realizes that he's not with "them." He apologizes, then slams the butt of his shovel into Casey's face, knocking him to the ground. The weeds provide cover as Jonah raises the shovel over his head, then thrusts it down into Casey's ankle. Again. And again. He slides the cuff off Casey's hacked-off foot and runs towards the river. The guards spot him and aim to kill as Jonah dives into the water, his hands still cuffed.

The guards aim their rifles at the water and take a few shots, waiting for Jonah's head to pop up. Moments go by with no sign of the inmate. Suddenly, one of the guards spots Jonah climbing out of the water on the opposite shore, upstream and unscathed. They take aim and fire, but completely miss as he ducks behind a tree. Calmly, Jonah takes his left thumb in his right hand and dislocates it with an audible crack. With his thumb now hanging downward, he slides the cuffs off then hurriedly snaps his thumb back into place. Jonah runs off into the coverage of the woods.

Lloyd lays on his bunk in his cell and pours his heart out about Julianne to his cellmate, Shakes, a wrinkled old lifer who hovers over the toilet, stirring toilet wine with a wooden spoon. Shakes offers Lloyd a cup, but he politely declines as the guard calls him out for work detail.

Erica, Shea, and Lloyd exit the elevator as Julianne gives them their files. Lloyd lingers, mustering up the courage to ask her about the pen she left on his desk. Julianne explains to Lloyd that the pen was a sign of friendship rather than stronger feelings towards him and that he's important to her, but only as a friend. Lloyd is stunned. Before he can recover, Ray calls for him to come into his office.

A mopey Lloyd staggers into the office where Ray hands him a new postcard from Damien. Lloyd flips it over to read the message on the back: "I Persevere. I Excel. What's your condition?" Ray asks Lloyd if he's ok since he's quieter than normal - and Lloyd is never quiet. Lloyd can only nod as they head back into the bullpen.

Ray tapes a photo of Jonah on the board and briefs the team. Jonah was ten months into a six year sentence after nearly killing somebody in a bar fight. Shea complains about the lack of information in Jonah's file, which is almost entirely blacked out. Ray reveals that Jonah is a former Navy SEAL and used high level survival tactics to make his escape, including swimming 100 yards underwater and upstream, and cutting his flesh to free his foot from his chains. It also explain why much of his file is redacted. Lloyd, lost in thought, stares blankly at Julianne. Ray notices and yells at Lloyd, who quickly snaps out of it. Erica notices that Jonah left the SEALs to work for a company named Alastor. Ray explains that Alastor is basically a paramilitary organization that's contracted by Uncle Sam for overseas covert missions the government doesn't want their prints on.

Lloyd, attempting to focus, flips through Jonah's file, noticing that he was known for sporadic violent outbursts, delusions, advanced paranoia and forced psychiatric care. Not typical behavior for a former Navy Seal.

At a coffee shop/internet cafe, Jonah, now dry, stands in the doorway casing the joint. All the computers are being used, but his eyes land on a computer user sipping coffee. Jonah moves over, and "accidentally" jostles the cup. It spills on the guy, who jumps up, angry, and rushes to the bathroom. Jonah slips into his seat. He pulls up an email account and types: "SEE YOU SOON." He hits send and begins to walks out, but not before casually swiping a jacket off the back of another customer's chair.

Erica and Pete finish a passionate kiss in Pete's office. Erica moves to go, but Pete stops her, asking when he can see her again. She stares at him, obviously starting to fall for this guy, and tells him that it's been a while since she had someone waiting for her on the outside. Before she leaves, Pete asks her if she could track down his cousin, Tommy Fitzgerald. He explains that he hasn't seen him in awhile, but heard that he's in town and he's dying to find him. She tells him that cons aren't allowed to access the Marshals' database, otherwise she would help him out.

Ray and Lloyd sit in the interrogation room with prison psychologist Andrew Deitz. He tells them that despite all of his counseling, Jonah remained belligerent and violent. On top of that, he didn't trust anybody and thought everyone was out to kill him. As Deitz gets up to leave, Lloyd asks him what a Cornell grad is doing working as a prison psychologist. Deitz recites Cornell's motto in Latin, which translates to "Lacking Moral Sense, Laws are in Vain" and tells them that he's just trying to give back. Deitz leaves and Lloyd looks at Damien's postcard, realizing that "Perstare et Praestare" translates to "Persevere and Excel" - NYU's motto. Ray tells Lloyd to hang back and work on the Damien case with Julianne while the rest of the team goes on the hunt for Jonah.

Julianne tells the team that somebody matching Jonah's description was last seen near a strip mall. Ray, tired of Lloyd giving Julianne the old puppy eyes routine, asks her what's going on between them. She says nothing, but Ray makes it clear that he needs them both focused and working.

Meanwhile in an affluent suburb, Chase Lansing enters his car garage and walks over to the fuse box. His wife, inside the house, harasses him to hurry up and fix the electricity because kids will be arriving soon for their son's birthday party. Chase hears a noise behind him and turns as Jonah emerges from the shadows and shoves him up against the wall. Chase looks surprised, but they clearly know each other. Chase tells Jonah that everyone is looking for him. Jonah, now inches away from Chase's face, asks him who made the call. Chase tries to reason with him, saying that Jonah is sick and needs professional help, but Jonah isn't having it. He covers Chase's mouth, pinching his nose. Chase struggles for breath, but Jonah is far too strong. He falls to the floor, dead, as Jonah's eyes land on a rusty, old axe on the wall. Jonah picks it up and walks over to Chase's lifeless body. He raises the axe to Chase' head and swings it down - hard.

Chase's house is now a crime scene. Cops escort his distraught wife back into the house while Ray talks to Erica and Shea, telling them that Jonah beheaded Chase, and took the head with him.

Lloyd tries his best to stay focused on the postcard but it's hard with Julianne around. He cracks and asks her how she can say she doesn't have feelings for him when she kissed him. Julianne, fed up with explaining herself, blurts out that she regrets the kiss. Lloyd plays it cool, saying that he agrees it was a mistake and that it's ancient history. Just as Julianne starts to apologize, a lightbulb goes off and the puzzle pieces of Damien's postcard come together. Damien was making a Babylonian reference as well as referencing Lloyd's diagnosis. Lloyd tells Julianne to search the NYU library catalogue for Esagil-kin-apli, the Godfather of Pharmacology. Julianne gets a hit and Lloyd heads for the elevator. She stops him, saying that she's under his watch and he can't leave without permission from Ray. Lloyd says that if she has a problem with it, she can call the Marshals and report his escape since he's just a con to her anyway.

Ray, Erica, and Shea wait in the conference room at Alastor. Shea eyes the bubble security camera on the ceiling and tries to hide his face from it. Ray notices and gives him a look, but Shea says he doesn't want to be on Big Brother's radar. Their conversation comes to an abrupt halt as Alastor's Executive Director, Kendra Park, and the stone-faced Chief of Security, Richard Drake, enter the room. Ray tells them that Jonah killed their employee Chase Lansing a few hours ago. Kendra, stunned by the news, looks to Richard, who quietly makes a call on his radio as she processes this new information. Ray asks if she can think of any one else who may be a target. Before she can continue, a piercing alarm sounds throughout the complex. Kendra calmly informs the team that they're having a minor security issue, and asks them to wait here while they go deal with it. They leave the room and the doors lock behind them.

Erica, Shea, and Ray try to open the door, but it's locked from the outside. Ray points out that the locks are controlled by an optical scanner, and Erica puts it together. Jonah needed Chase's head to gain entry into the building. Jonah is inside Alastor.

Outside in the commotion, Jonah sneaks up behind a security guard and stabs him. The guard drops to the floor, dead. Jonah takes his gun just as another security guard turns the corner. Jonah is fast. He fires and drops the guy. He picks up his bag and walks menacingly toward his goal.

Inside the data hub, surrounded by computers, Greg Bleers is frantically deleting files when the electronic lock on the door clicks open and Jonah walks in, holding an open bowling ball bag containing a human head in one hand and a gun in the other. Jonah, jamming the gun to Bleer's head, tells him to bring up all of the files on the Yemen Operation.

Richard re-enters the conference room and Ray is immediately in his face threatening to get a warrant for Alastor's security footage if he doesn't start getting some answers. Richard laughs, telling Ray that clearance for that footage is way over his head, and that they wouldn't release it to a dirty cop and a team of cons in any case. The Breakout Kings stop, realizing that Big Brother does know everything. Richard mentions Erica's five murders, insinuating that they could connect her to them. He then looks at Shea, revealing his real name - Seamus - and telling him that they know his great-grandfather had ties to the IRA. Richard stares at Ray, telling him that such anger isn't surprising coming from someone who was abandoned by his father and put in foster care when his mother couldn' take care of him. Ray makes a move for Richard, but Erica holds him back. Kendra emerges from the doorway, sensing the tension, and zeros in on Richard, telling him to leave. She admits to the team that Jonah was on the premises, but there's no sign of him.

Lloyd scans a row of bookshelves at the NYU library until he finds The History of Pharmacology. As he flips through the text, a note attached to a folded newspaper article falls out, reading, "Killing one COED is fine but more is better - D.F." Lloyd rips off the note and unfolds the newspaper article to reveal a photo of himself on his perp walk, cuffed and escorted by police. Lloyd is gut punched as he looks at his past.

Ray, Erica, and Shea enter the Bullpen. Julianne tells Ray that Lloyd is at the NYU library following up on a Damien clue and that there was a firm ID of Jonah at an internet cafe at the strip mall. Ray tells Julianne to have ESU trace all of the emails sent from the cafe. She informs the team that the prison psychologist Andrew Deitz was frat brothers with Richard Drake from Alastor. The team realizes that Andrew was planted at the prison by Alastor. Shea gets twitchy, his anti-government paranoia finally starting to make sense. He tells the team that Alastor is framing Jonah to prevent him from talking about something, but what?

Erica enters Pete's office and explains to him that it means a lot to her that he trusts her, despite the fact that he doesn't know her that well. She hands him a piece of paper with Tommy Fitzgerald's address on it, telling him that she did it because she trusts him as well.

Julianne tells the team that, after ESU did some digging in Alastor's system, they discovered a massive download of information taken off the server while Jonah was there. Shea says that whatever the download was, it's serious enough for him to kill for it and for them to get killed. Ray agrees, and tells Julianne to call up Lloyd because they need everyone on this case.

Lloyd stands on the steps outside the NYU Library, clutching the article in his hand, clearly affected. His cell rings. Lloyd pulls it from his pocket and sees that it's Julianne. He ignores the call and puts the phone back in his pocket. Before he can leave, a hand creeps from behind him, holding a syringe, and stabs Lloyd in the neck. His eyes roll to the back of his head as he falls limp.

Back in the office, Shea, his paranoia at an all time high, tapes newspaper to the window as Erica studies the files. Julianne tells Ray that Lloyd's phone keeps going straight to voicemail. Erica holds up photos, telling the team that all members in Jonah's unit have died within the last twelve months. Two of the three bodies were found, the exception being Lawrence Perry, who died in a "fishing accident." Shea tells the team that it sounds like hits were put out on all of the members of the squad and Lawrence must have faked his death before Alastor could get to him. The team realizes that Lawrence was the recipient of Jonah's cryptic email.

Lloyd sits, slumped over and tied to a chair in a dusty abandoned warehouse. Slowly, his surroundings come into focus, and he sees Damien standing in front of him, setting up a video camera. Damien tells Lloyd that he knows he likes games of chance. He walks over to a footlocker and lifts it up, to reveal a young coed, bound, gagged and scared for her life. Lloyd's face goes white.

Julianne enters Ray's office, handing him a piece of paper with information about the email alias used to send the "SEE YOU SOON" message. Julianne lingers in Ray's office after handing him the paper, finally admitting that she kissed Lloyd and that she's afraid he may have decided to run after she told him she doesn't have feelings for him. Ray jumps out of his seat, pissed, telling her that her actions could compromise the whole team.

Jonah cautiously enters a rundown cabin in the middle of the woods. After walking through the door, he's grabbed from behind and a knife is put to his throat. Lawrence Perry lowers the knife and the two SEAL partners hug. Jonah tells Lawrence that he wants to go after Alastor together with the tape of evidence Lawrence has. Lawrence tells Jonah that he's dead to them, and doesn't want to risk it. At first hesitant, he eventually agrees to give Jonah the tape and tells him to take them down.

In the abandoned warehouse, Lloyd, still bound to the chair, stares at the blinking red light of the video camera. The girl is now tied to a chair, bound, gagged, barely conscious. Damien sits across from them, and asks Lloyd if he felt powerful after the coed he gave the prescription to died. Lloyd shakes his head, and tells Damien it's a mistake he'll never make again. Damien smiles and pulls out a deck of playing cards and poker chips.Back at the cabin, a scotch bottle sits on the table as Lawrence contemplates a photo of him and his SEAL team. Out of nowhere, a gun presses to the back of his head. He tells the assassin to go ahead and kill him, then turns to see Ray, Lloyd, and Erica in the cabin. They convince him that they're not with Alastor and tell him that if he wants Jonah to live, he'll have to tell them everything he knows so they can get to him before Alastor does.

Lawrence briefs them. His SEAL team was sent to Yemen. The orders were to eliminate a safe-house full of insurgents. They lit the place up. After the dust cleared, they realized that the so-called insurgents were actually tribal elders who were about to vote down a measure to run an oil pipeline through their village. Alastor was hired to "fix" the situation. Lawrence tells the team that after Jonah realized they killed innocent people, he made Lawrence download the film of the massacre that was taken by their helmet cameras onto a jump drive as evidence. Lawrence adds that Jonah has enough information to bring down all of the bigwigs at Alastor.

Ray calls Kendra to offer her protection from Jonah, but she tells him she can handle herself. As her car pulls up to her house, she sees a single armed guard manning the entrance. She yells at her men, telling them that it's Jonah they're dealing with and that she wants two armed guards at every entrance.

Lloyd and the girl are now both seated at a table. Damien shuffles a deck of cards from his seat across from them. Two piles of poker chips are already divvied up. Damien deals two hands and tells Lloyd that the fate of the young girl rests on his shoulders. If he wins, she goes free. If not, they both die.

An operative sits in an SUV in front of Kendra's house. As he relays orders into his radio, a sheetrock knife flashes through the open window, slicing open his throat. In one swift move, Jonah is on top of the guard at the door. He snaps his neck. Two kills in twenty seconds.

Lloyd sweats as he and Damien study their cards. Damien lays down his hand - ten high. Lloyd lets out a huge sigh of relief as he proudly lays down his cards - Queen high. Lloyd wins. Damien smiles and shakes his head, telling Lloyd that he was so close, but can't win because he forgot the most important variable - Damien is insane. The murderer takes out a cellphone and dials 911 on speaker. He identifies himself to the operator and tells them that he's about to add more bodies to his list. He puts the phone down, grabs the syringe, and advances towards Lloyd.

Back at Kendra's estate, Jonah, weapon drawn, moves silently through the living room. A gunshot rings out, and rips through his shoulder. He drops his gun and falls to the ground as Kendra stands over him, and puts her own gun to his head. Meanwhile, the Kings race to the front door. Ray hands Shea and Erica guns as they cautiously walk inside. Kendra asks for the flash drive. Jonah grunts in pain as he slowly reaches for it, hidden in his sock. Suddenly he lashes out, sweeping her leg and sending her to the floor. The gun drops and as she reaches for it, Whitman kicks it across the room with his other foot. Brutal hand-to-hand combat ensues: kicks, open-hand punches, closed fists to the body. She holds her own but Jonah gets the upper hand, pinning her down to the ground momentarily - until she pulls a knife strapped to her calf and jams it into Jonah's side. He goes limp. Before she can enjoy her moment of victory, Shea hits her over the head with the butt of his gun and she falls to the ground, unconscious.

Shea rushes over to Jonah, convincing him that he's a good guy and that he told his team about the Alastor conspiracy. Jonah, instinctively trusting Shea, hands him the two drives that were in his sock. He tells him to keep it because once they take him back to jail, he's a dead man. Shea stealthily pockets the drives as Ray walks in. Two men approach Jonah as he's being wheeled out on a gurney. They tell Ray that they're from the CIA and that Jonah has something that belongs to them. Ray tells them that they searched Jonah and he's clean. The hand Ray transfer papers, telling him that Jonah is now their prisoner. Jonah locks eyes with Shea as the EMT slides him into the ambulance. The CIA agents jump in their SUV, following the ambulance. As they drive away, Shea furtively pulls out Whitman's drives, throws them on the ground, grinds them with his shoe, and sweeps the shattered pieces away. Before the Breakout Kings can get back in the car, Ray gets a call from Julianne, telling him about Lloyd. Ray tells her that they're too far away and the she needs to get down to the warehouse ASAP.

Julianne rushes into the warehouse, swarming with cops. She stops dead in her tracks at the sight of a body bag being wheeled towards her. Devastated, she can't move. A detective walks up to her and points out Lloyd, who's sitting around the corner, being tended to by a paramedic. She runs to his side, but Lloyd stares right through her. He is broken.

Jules debriefs Ray at her desk. They glance towards Lloyd, sitting alone in Ray's office. The elevator door opens and Inspector Bergman walks in and tells Ray that their system indicates that a search of Tommy Fitzgerald was run from a computer in their office and that Tommy is now in a coma after being severely beaten. Erica looks up, instantly concerned, but says nothing. Ray tells Bergman that the name doesn't ring a bell, but that he'll look into it. As Ray walks Bergman to the elevator, Erica steps out the back. She steps to Pete's door. It's open just a crack, so she pushes it wide to reveal that the whole office has been cleared out. No sign of Pete, no sign of anything.

Ray sits with Lloyd in his office, telling him that nobody should have seen what he saw. But that's it. Lloyd has had it. He stands up and tells Ray that he's done with all of this and wants off the team. Ray tries to reason with him, but it's hopeless. He stands and walks out of Ray's office, and past Shea and Erica, who can only watch. He steps into the elevator and slams it shut.