[dogs barking]
♪ Do not sleep, my starling ♪
♪ Sleep, my doe ♪
♪ She is wrapped in curtains ♪
- [helicopter blades whirring] - ♪ Laid in snow ♪
♪ She will bury you ♪
♪ Inside her fur ♪♪
[song stops abruptly]
♪ ♪
[Carmichael] I wanted to bring you together today
to tell you about a covert operation
that we've conducted in the last few weeks.
It's not possible.
What?
An attempt was made by an American whistleblower
to sabotage our operation
and expose you all to great danger.
I'm happy to say that three of our operatives
worked together in London and Barcelona
to eliminate the threat and retrieve the intelligence.
Mia,
Jules, Sandy, please step forward.
Sandy took out the whistleblower with expert skill,
Jules neutralized the intended recipient of the intelligence,
and Mia went deep undercover within the operation
that tried to bring us down, at great risk to herself,
and destroyed them.
However, this operation did not come without a cost.
Leo Garner was killed in action in Barcelona.
And Clemency Jones also sacrificed her life.
Both are mourned and celebrated here today.
They have fallen...
but remain with us.
[trainees] They have fallen but remain.
♪ ♪
[flashbulb pops]
[woman speaking indistinctly over P.A. system]
This is Williams at 1300 hours.
I'm going to lunch. Returning at 1355 precisely.
- How are you? - Yeah, good, thank you.
Just the usual table, please.
Thank you.
[gentle piano music by Chopin playing]
How was it, sir?
Yeah, good, thank you. Can I get the check, please?
- The bill has been taken care of. - Excuse me?
Somebody just paid. Lucky you.
Don't leave.
Dessert is lovely here.
What?
My name is Marissa Wiegler.
You're looking at a list of targets for assassination
by a rogue CIA unit.
All the other names on the list are young,
politically motivated, socially conscious,
but they're civilians.
You're a CIA analyst
that works across central and eastern Europe.
Why is your name on the list?
I'm not CIA.
I just work back-office at the embassy.
Ethan, I know who you are.
I head up Paris station.
Code Vesuvius. You can look me up.
Look... I just do standard data trawls,
- some deep-drill coverage... - Did you get involved
in anything off-grid in the last two years?
Why should I trust you?
You have a girlfriend in the city.
She's expecting a child.
Consider what your best options are.
I'll call you on this phone.
Get me everything you know.
♪ ♪
[young woman] Mia, you must be really proud of yourself.
- Congratulations. - That was really cool.
Thanks, guys.
Hi.
Why didn't you say something?
You know how it works, Sandy. I was just following orders.
[trainee] You guys are amazing.
- [Hanna] Thanks. - Well, you did a damn good job.
[helicopter blades whirring in distance]
♪ ♪
[Stapleton] We're gonna be here for a while.
We want to be sure that the run-up
to operational green-light goes to plan.
That's fine with me.
I assume everything's ready in the Pumphouse.
We'll need full access to all CCTV.
[Carmichael] No problem.
[Stapleton] You didn't inform us
you were sending Mia Wolff undercover.
[Carmichael] I didn't know who to trust.
Someone in Washington leaked the target list to Gelder.
Could have been anyone.
Could have been you.
And you're sure Wiegler's dead?
Mia shot her in Barcelona. I disposed of her body.
Well, don't ever leap the chain of command again, okay?
[door closes]
[indistinct chatter]
- [beep] - [latch clunks]
♪ ♪
[clears throat softly]
♪ ♪
[bolt cutters clipping]
[snips]
♪ ♪
[engine starts]
Do they suspect us?
I don't think so.
You lie well.
Thank you.
Everything okay?
[Hanna] Yeah.
- We have visitors. - Yeah, I thought you might.
- [line rings] - [clicks]
- [Ethan] Where are you? - [Marissa] I'm in the Bavarian countryside.
- This network is secure. - Are you alone?
[Marissa] Yes, I'm alone.
[Ethan] I looked you up. The CIA file
- says you're dead. - And we want to keep it that way.
So what do you have for me?
I don't have a lot of time.
[Ethan] I'm sending some material through.
Two years ago, this woman flew into Vienna.
Brianna Stapleton.
Said she was with covert ops in Langley.
She recruited myself and a computer programmer
I worked with to a new project.
The programmer's name?
Max Kaplan.
Our spec was to create a database
of potentially subversive civilians.
People under 30 years of age who, based on current analysis,
might become a problem to U.S. interests in the future.
Max and I got access to millions of social media feeds,
emails, even school projects.
We started to generate the list.
And then what happened?
I didn't feel comfortable.
We were heading way beyond the protocols.
Spying on kids as young as 13
because the CIA thought they might become dangerous
in 20 years' time.
That's not what I signed up for.
So I quit.
Anything else?
I did some digging.
Turns out Stapleton wasn't with covert ops.
She was from a group called Pioneer.
It was run by one man.
In her private emails,
she referred to him as the Chairman.
- The Chairman? - Yeah.
Then I got scared and stopped digging into it.
Max went back stateside, and the whole thing
went quiet. That was a year ago.
Okay, good.
Do you always eat lunch
- at the same restaurant? - Yeah.
If I pay for your food again,
it means you may be in some danger.
Meet your partner and call me immediately.
[Hanna] That's her.
The visitor.
[Marissa] Did you know about any of this?
I was given a kill list. I didn't know how they made it.
Well, now you know.
Who is the Chairman?
[quietly] I don't know.
[Marissa] Someone in government? Public figure?
I manage the trainees, Marissa.
I don't come close to that kind of information.
Okay, listen, I need the first five assassinations in Europe.
I need Hanna in Paris,
and I need her given the first target: Abbas Naziri.
- I'm not sure I can achieve that. - Do you want them to know
that you nearly blew their operation wide open?
Just make it happen.
[departing footsteps]
[door opens]
[door closes]
[whispers] I want to know who Stapleton's reporting to.
Who the Chairman is.
Whatever you find out stays between us.
Okay.
Hey.
Are you okay?
I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?
Well, you're in that place alone.
Yeah. I'm used to it.
I don't have any expectations.
You should. You're still young.
You know that if we're successful
you could have whatever life you want.
Marissa, even if you gave me the life I always wanted,
I wouldn't know what to do with it.
I only know how to fight.
Okay, folks,
I want to talk to you today about what'll happen
in a few weeks' time.
You're going out into the wide world,
and you won't be coming back. You're ready.
- [quietly] But I want to say this... - But I want to say this:
your targets will be ready, too.
They won't hesitate to kill you given the chance.
So you have to surprise them, and you have to be ruthless.
You're soldiers, but, unlike normal soldiers,
- you don't have to fight by the rules. - [grunts]
In this war...
anything goes.
[fierce grunt]
[grunting continues]
[yells]
[grunting continues]
Go!
-♪ ♪ -[grunts]
- [grunts] - [gasps]
[grunting]
[yells]
[straining]
- [choking] - [man] Hey! Hey! Hey! Withdraw! Withdraw!
- ♪ ♪ - [birds chirping]
Uh, I'll discuss that with the Chairman.
♪ ♪
[clanks faintly]
[Stapleton continues speaking indistinctly]
That's all.
Hey.
Hi.
You took a risk not telling us what was going on.
They could've killed you in London.
- In your dreams. - [chuckles]
What's up?
Just not sleeping.
[sniffs]
Keep seeing that journalist I...
killed.
It's funny, they...
they tell you so much about what you're supposed to do
before you do it.
Forensic preparation.
And...
not one word about what happens after.
By the way, Sandy's still suspicious of you.
She thinks you're playing us.
Well, soon we'll be leaving,
and Sandy and I won't have to see each other, so...
Why don't you try talking to her?
If you're really with us, what have you got to lose?
I don't have to prove myself to anybody.
No, you never did.
That's why you're alone.
♪ ♪
- [clunks] - [grunts softly]
[panting quietly]
[liquid dripping in distance]
♪ ♪
[indistinct voices]
[Benson] Meeting's going on longer.
- She wants coffee now. - I can take it.
Well, leave it outside the door. They don't want to be disturbed.
[cat meows]
[man] I mean, look at that map.
That's got to be 40 miles.
- Couldn't do that in a day. - [man 2] You'd be surprised
at what those girls can do.
♪ ♪
[man] I guess the terrain's pretty good back there.
Over there, it's like...
- Let's do it. - [man 2] Sounds good.
From the logistics side.
[Chuck] These girls are something, man.
[Lee] Army of shadows.
[Chuck] Think you could take her?
[Lee] Well, I don't want to have to try.
[man] I want the first wave of 20 missions
to be completed within a year.
[Stapleton] That's fast.
[man] Is it achievable?
[Stapleton] It should be, assuming nothing goes wrong.
[footsteps approaching]
- [knock on door] - [lock beeps]
[man] How's John Carmichael?
He's adapting to orders.
And what he says happened in Barcelona, you believe him?
Don't you trust him?
I don't trust anybody, Brianna.
You should know that by now.
We've waited a long time for this.
Let's make sure we're not making any mistakes.
- [meows] - Shh.
What is that?
[Benson] It's just that cat.
I thought we were getting rid of it.
Give me a minute.
[yowls]
[man] I need excellence here, Brianna.
I think you know I don't like disappointment.
[car passes in distance]
[buzzes]
[voice mail beeps]
[speaking French] Hafeez? This is Rachelle Sarrault.
You made some passports for me a while back.
Yes, fine. I need another favor.
I got to say, Mia's pretty special.
She tops all the stats.
And she's killed before.
You want to put her up first?
That's your choice.
Where do you suggest we send her?
Berlin, maybe.
No. She's been there before.
There's too many memories. It's too risky.
Yes, of course.
Paris, then?
Keep it close.
Oh, one thing I have been wondering, John.
Um, you were in on Utrax right from the beginning,
and yet, all these years later
you're still a middle-ranking delivery guy. Why?
When you reach the top, it's a long way to fall.
Oh, of course. You drank for a while, huh?
Um...
that was a long time ago.
I was your age, maybe younger.
I let the pressure get to me.
Now I just do my job.
[Carmichael] You're on first mission. Paris.
Abbas Naziri.
Hanna.
What did Marissa talk to you about when we met?
She was just checking after my welfare.
She thought I was maybe struggling...
emotionally.
And are you?
I don't think so.
Do you?
[trainees chattering]
- Well... - [chatter stops]
This is the moment we've all been waiting for.
And I have to say I'm very proud.
Tomorrow you will be entering a period of service.
This is the chance for you to live the life you've created
here at the Meadows.
You'll be deep undercover, with minimum contact home.
You'll inhabit your role fully and in plain sight.
You will learn your target, their patterns,
how they live, how they operate.
Trust no one.
We're counting on you.
♪ ♪
[speaking French] Do you agree with how society works?
Have you ever thought about it?
Because if you've never thought about it, then you're asleep,
in a coma or completely brainwashed.
You gotta re-examine your thoughts. Your every thought.
You gotta ask yourself: what's true, what's good for me?
You gotta learn to think for yourself.
Because if you go along without thinking then you are complicit.
[quiet chatter]
[Terri taps key]
[tapping keys]
[bird calling]
♪ ♪
- [speaking French] - ...or some pre-established beliefs.
Are your thoughts your own?
Did you believe what your parents told you,
- or did you have your own beliefs? - [electronic chime]
Were you free, or did you think
just like your community thought?
[tapping keyboard]
[Stapleton] Good evening, everyone.
I represent the government of the United States of America.
I wanted to say a few words on this, your last night
at the Meadows.
First of all, to thank you for what you're doing
in service of your country.
You will not meet again after tonight.
You will complete your years of service alone,
in different places in the world.
At present we do not know how long that service will last.
But when you complete it, you will be free
to live the life you have created for yourself.
That is the reward for the years of service you offer us.
And, uh, who knows, maybe in those future days
a class reunion will at some time be possible.
But for now, it's time to say our goodbyes.
So...
enjoy tonight.
Have a few beers on us.
Your future begins tomorrow.
Everybody has to down one shot for every letter of their name!
Unlucky for you, Savannah!
One, two, three, "H"!
You got this, you got this, you got this.
[laughter]
[♪ O'Sisters: "Queens"]
♪ Queen, queen, queens ♪
♪ Queen, queen... queens ♪
♪ Queen, queen, queens, queen, queen, queens ♪
♪ Queen, queen, queens, queen, queen ♪
♪ Queens... ♪
♪ Educated, advocated, levitated ♪
♪ Manifest to stack my stashes and invest it ♪
♪ I've been trying to get out and tested ♪
♪ Cut my losses, count my blessings ♪
♪ Love the flow, so learn my lessons ♪
♪ Learn the pulse but not through pressure ♪
♪ Feel the prophet, spread the message ♪
♪ Try to violate, you played yourself, no chess ♪
- ♪ Played yourself no chess, no checkers ♪ - [cheering]
♪ I've been out here too long, queens ♪
♪ We've been out here too strong, queens ♪
♪ Don't you step on our throne, queens ♪
♪ Love the fact that we own, queens ♪
♪ Don't you step on our throne, queens ♪
♪ Love the fact that we own, queens ♪
♪ Love the fact that we, love the fact that we ♪
♪ Love the fact that we own, queens...
[yelling, laughing]
♪ Queen, queen, queens ♪
♪ Queen, queen, queens ♪♪
Are you proud?
These are your creations.
What happens to 'em when this is all done?
Do they really get a reunion?
♪ ♪
[Jessie] This time next week we'll all be
on different sides of the planet.
[Jules] Do you think we'll ever see each other again?
[Helen] Sure we will.
After our period of service, when we have normal lives,
we can travel to see each other whenever we want.
[Jessie] How will we find each other?
You ever heard of social media, Jessie?
Our whole fucking lives are on there.
Literally.
[laughter]
Man, I'll never forget this place.
[Jules groans]
[Jules] Helen, you're so sentimental.
[Helen] But we've all become
someone different here, haven't we?
[others laugh]
[Jessie] Don't you feel that, Mia?
Uh, maybe.
I think it's different for me.
- [Jessie] Why? - I don't know.
I do.
[Helen] Hey, Sandy.
You owe us five shots of tequila.
I'm not in the mood for drinking.
[Jessie] Why not? It's our last night.
I don't know. Something's bothering me.
[Jules] Sandy, what is this?
Maybe I'm trying to figure out why,
if Mia was undercover, she shot three bullets at my skull
in that Spanish hotel room.
Or maybe I want to know who you met last night.
Over there by the offices.
[Sandy] What's wrong?
Cat got your tongue?
What's going on?
[Sandy] Who did you meet last night, Mia?
Uh, whoa.
I didn't meet anyone.
I just needed a walk.
- In the middle of the night? - Yes. I've not been sleeping.
[Jules] Why? Why can't you sleep?
Talk.
- Sandy! - Keep out of this.
Who did you meet?
- I want the truth. - [Jessie] Sandy, just give her
- a fucking break. - [Jules] Jessie, keep out of this.
[Sandy] You're planning to betray us?
Who did you meet?!
I met no one.
I told you, I can't sleep.
I go to the place where I secretly met Clemency.
Why? Why would you do that?
Because I killed her.
In Barcelona.
I shot her in the back of the head as she fled the villa.
She was the traitor, Sandy.
She was working with Wiegler the whole time, not me.
I didn't want to speak about it.
Dishonor her name.
[Sandy] Not even to Carmichael?
- You could have told us. - No.
Because she was my friend.
I didn't want to, but they made me do it.
- And it's none of your business! - That's bullshit.
Sandy, why are you so angry with me?
All I ever did was try to help you.
I helped you belong here.
Helped you grieve for your sister.
Don't bring my fucking sister into this.
I have a past.
A real past.
I can't change that.
And it's not my fault that you don't.
But trust me, if I'd shot at your skull in Barcelona,
I would have hit it.
I'll see you at the reunion.
Okay.
I think we're good.
[♪ PINS: "Girls Like Us"]
[thunder rumbling]
♪ Do you see me like I see you? ♪
♪ You couldn't if you wanted to ♪
♪ You lust, lust because you must ♪
♪ It's all good for girls like us ♪
♪ Now all my friends are enemies ♪
♪ And this place means nothing to me ♪
♪ I don't know who you think I am ♪
♪ No one will ever understand ♪
♪ I think I've gone mad, but it was fun ♪
♪ I think I've gone mad ♪
♪ But it was fun ♪
♪ I think I've gone mad, but it was fun ♪
♪ I think I've gone mad ♪
♪ But it was fun ♪
♪ Whoo! ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪ - ♪ Whoo! ♪♪
[speaking French] Okay. We'll talk tomorrow.
Okay.
I love you, sweetheart.
- Excuse me. Excuse me. - I love you very much.
- Sorry. - Wait. Wait, I'll call you back, sweetie.
Sorry, I'm looking for a student house.
It's on, uh, Boulevard Dreyfus. Do you know?
- Uh, yeah, it's up there. - Okay. Thank you.
I can... I can show you, if you want.
- Really? - Yeah. I'm going there.
Thanks.
What are you doing here?
Um, I'm a student. I'm studying politics.
My name's Mia, by the way.
- I'm Abbas. Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
[Hanna] Sorry to interrupt your call.
[Abbas] No, no problem.
So, what are you reading?
[Hanna] Uh, we're reading Fanon.
He says, "Each generation must discover
its mission," its reason to exist.
Fanon? Strong words, huh?
[Hanna] Yeah.
Growing up, my father showed me everything--
Fanon, Arendt--
and, uh, their words, they make sense to me,
- so that's why... - Why do they make sense to you?
I don't know, I guess they give...
they give me that reason, yeah? [sniffs]
To exist, huh?
Okay, it's just up there.
Okay. Thank you.
Hey, Mia.
I was, uh...
Do you want to maybe get a drink someday?
Uh... yeah.
Oh, yeah? Can you...
can you give me your number?
Okay.
- Thanks. - Well, see you around.
See you, bye.
♪ ♪
[click]
[speaking French] Okay, everyone, thanks for coming!
I hope you found it okay.
And a thank you to the university security
- for looking after us! - [laughter]
Our speaker today is writer and activist Abbas Naziri
who will ask "What Is Resistance in a Globalized World?"
[whooping]
[clears throat]
Good evening.
[audience] Bonsoir.
Resistance.
The word is rich in meaning, rich in history
in this country of France where I was born.
Resistance against the Nazis. Against Vichy.
Benson?
[Benson] I'm outside. Ready and waiting.
The word is even richer in meaning
in the country of Algeria where my father was born.
Resistance against colonial oppression.
But how do we resist now?
In order to find a place for resistance, the right place,
we must first identify the power structures that dominate us.
These structures are hidden everywhere.
They are hidden in the government, in the universities,
in the banks, in the mass media,
in what you eat, in what you drink, in what you breathe,
in your telephone, in your computer,
in your social media account.
Many people say to me: I don't do politics.
I'm not political.
But everything is politics
including the meat on your plate.
Saying I don't do politics
is to accept and submit to these structures
and to let them decide your life and destiny for you.
We grow up and we are told what to learn and how to learn,
what to say and how to say it.
We are told to believe in the wisdom of authority
but, in reality, wisdom is not in authority.
And so the most dangerous place of all... is here.
The first resistance today must be against ourselves.
Against our mind.
But the question we must ask is: can we do it?
Are we brave enough?
[applause, whooping]
[conversing in French]
That was great!
You liked it? Thank you.
- You know Mia, right? - Mm-hmm.
I'm glad you came.
I really liked what you said.
Oh, thank you.
[Stapleton] They're on their way.
Copy that.
- Taxi! - [indistinct chatter]
[Virginie] A-Abbas, Mia?
No, she's coming with me.
I have my motorcycle.
Mia, you sure?
No, it's okay. I'll go with him.
Okay. Bonsoir.
[Stapleton] Watching brief only.
♪ I'm the perfect girl ♪
You've ridden before?
- Uh, just once. - Mm.
♪ You're the nightmare ♪
- [Abbas] C'est bon? - [starts engine]
- ♪ I'm the dream ♪ - Let's go.
♪ It's a perfect world ♪
♪ I'm the perfect girl ♪
[horns honking]
♪ ♪
♪ It's the darkest hour ♪
♪ In our forest home ♪
♪ You climbed the tree to my heart ♪
♪ And you came alone ♪
♪ It's a perfect world ♪
♪ I'm the perfect girl ♪
♪ It's a perfect world ♪
♪ And I'm the dream ♪
♪ I'm the perfect girl ♪♪
I have eyes on her.
[Stapleton] Stay back.
Not too close.
[Stapleton] You stay clean until she's done.
[Benson] Roger that.
[Abbas] Not too fast for you?
No, it was not too fast. I don't scare so easy, no.
Okay, that I can believe.
What is it?
Nothing. Let's go.
[Stapleton] What is going on?
She's going in.
[electronic dance music playing]
[rapping in French]
[Hanna] Could you loan me a cigarette?
[Abbas] Sure, yeah.
[Hanna] You want to go find a rooftop or something?
Okay, Mia, let's do this.
You sure you're okay?
Yes. Why?
I don't know, you seem nervous.
No.
♪ ♪
Let's smoke first.
You know, I don't try to kiss every girl,
- if that's what you think. - I don't think that.
Then what, you're just a stoner?
- No. - [thump in distance]
- What is it? - I don't know. Did you hear something?
- No. - Someone's there.
- No. - What are you doing?
- You're lying to me. - No.
[grunts]
[grunting]
- [static over radio] - What happened?
We've-we've lost audio.
Benson, get in there.
[panting] Shh. Shh.
[Stapleton] Benson, status report.
[Benson] I can't see them.
[panting]
[whispers] Listen very carefully.
[Stapleton] What is going on?
[Benson] I've lost visual.
Moving in.
[three gunshots over radio]
[Benson] Did you hear that?
[Benson] She's done it.
[speaking French] What the fuck? It's Naziri!
Light him up! Do it. Do it.
[Benson] Wait. Something's happening.
We've got locals on the scene.
[men speaking indistinctly]
[Benson] Jesus.
They're burning him.
Get out of there, both of you.
[Benson] Copy that.
[woman vocalizing]
♪ I can remember I was dreaming ♪
♪ In the moonlight ♪
♪ Gently, I was floating ♪
♪ I didn't know that I was sinking ♪
♪ In my lonely bedsheets ♪
♪ I was dying ♪
♪ When you're away ♪
♪ I think that I'll escape ♪
♪ You're a king, but you're a slave ♪
♪ This love will end today ♪
♪ I wanna watch you fall in love ♪
♪ You'll love me like a kid ♪
♪ You needed someone close ♪
♪ And I never really did ♪
♪ I find you on your knees ♪
♪ And you beg for me to be ♪
♪ The woman on your throne ♪
♪ But I'd rather be alone ♪♪
[vocalizing]