Summary: A secondary arrest at the bust of a meth lab leads to an even bigger crime.
Original air date: April 4, 2008 (US)
Written by: Ken Sanzel
Directed by: John Behring
Opening numbers:
15: Guns
10: Destinations
2: Houses
1: Black Swan
Family Concepts: (character development)
- Amita’s parents moved back to India “a year ago”.
- When Amita’s parents come to visit, their traditions include hiking and waffles at Roscoe’s
- Amita’s parents are consulting with the Indian Minestry of Finance.
- Colby is a jogger
- Megan isn’t sure anymore about her FBI work
- David is a Beatles fan; and so is Charlie
- David went to Cornell University
- David likes “classic” video games like Missile Command and Frogger
Episode Quotes:
- David: You get the feeling we’re lookng a the tip of a whole other iceberg?
- Charlie: We’ll need Amita, dry erase boards; lots of dry erase boards.
- Colby: I’ve been to plenty of gin mills in my day, man. Who are these women that just drag you home? Where do I find them?
- Amita: I know they’re busy and their work is very important.
Charlie: Consulting on the national finances of the second largest population on the planet … but if you’re angry, so am I. Within whatever acceptable boundaries won’t come back to haunt me later. - Larry: [to Megan] I’m merely suggesting that if you’re reasons for doing this work have been challenged or invalidated, then yeah, you need to find some new reasons … or find some new work.
- Colby: Colby, go down the elevator shaft. Colby, jump in the bay. Hey, Colby, climb the 6th Street Bridge.
- Don: That’s the whole meal? That’s it? Just waffles?
Episode Synopsis:
While working a bust a a meth lab, Don notices Isaac Meechum at the scene. Following his instincts, Don asks he be held so the FBI can talk to him more, Meechum runs. After he is caught Don and David find guns, duct tape, and other supplies needed for a kidnapping in the back of his van. Meechum swears the items were all purchased legally and the FBI has no cause for holding him. Don disagrees and the FBI starts digging more into Meechum’s identity. They find out he’s a member of a group calling itself the New America Front, an anti government group whose leaders were arrested the year before for trying to blow up an IRS office building in Montana.
Colby and David take Meechum’s van back to a bar he frequents and get lucky when a car with two men, Joshua Quigley and Bernard Laikin break in to the van and take the supplies in the back. Colby and David follow the car back to a house and set up a surveillance. They observe Quigley and Laikin smoking outside and makes trips for shopping. When they get in the house to plant a bug, Colby realizes there is a third man in the group who never seems to leave the house.
Charlie, Amita, and Larry try to work out a pattern of Meechum’s travels using his navigation system as a starting point. Their results aren’t very successful as no pattern seems to appear through the data. Charlie visits David at the stake-out and while talking about video games, Charlie realizes they could be using the data from when Meechum doesn’t use the GPS as well.
Megan and Don are still trying to work out what Meechum and the New America Front are up to, and Megan isn’t happy with Don’s methods of investigation, she feels they’ve had a lucky break when their assumption of domestic terrorism seems to be panning out. Don realizes Quigley and Laikin are always outside to smoke and figures the house is being used, not to make drugs but to make bombs. Meechum wasn’t at the lab the FBI busted to buy drugs, but bomb making supplies.
Colby and David rush the house as Quigley and Laikin are leaving; Laikin is killed, but Quigley gets away. Don and Megan question Meechum more and find out the target is probably an office building. An analysis of the bust in Montana shows the attack was initiated after Farmer’s American Bank reported suspicious activity in banking accounts. Don’s team finds Quigley in the LA office of Farmer’s American and Don manages to get Quigley to put down his bag of pipe bombs and surrender by pointing out how pointless killing himself would really be.