Jericho
"Jennings & Rall"
Episode 3 Season 2
(Police Station)
Hawkins: What did the prints turn up?
Beck: nothing. Came back classified. Top secret.
Hawkins: Mason or John Doe?
Beck: Both. I'm gonna call DHS, must be some sort of mistake.
(Hawkins stops him)
Hawkins: It is not a mistake.
Beck: Get your hand off the phone.
Hawkins: Okay. But you don't realize that you just stepped on a land mine?
Beck: What are you talking about?
Hawkins: Two subjects, both reclassified profiles. One killed the other, and it's a professional hit and she has avoided capture for months despite a full-scale manhunt. Come on, major. You're not hunting a terrorist. You're hunting a spook. You see those profiles? They would not be locked for any reason other than a former involvement with a covert agency.
Beck: There are plenty of valid reasons for a terrorist file to be sealed.
Hawkins: Yes, but your orders are to kill on sight, aren't they?
Beck: My orders are my orders.
Hawkins: Well, they want you to find her and kill her before you figure out what it is you're involved in. You call your bosses and you tell them that you are even onto a scent of it, and they will remove you from the situation. Or worse.
Beck: Get me Valente on the conference now.
Hawkins: Ask him if Sarah Mason ever worked for the government.
Beck: Step out.
Hawkins: You just ask him. Because he will either say yes and explain her involvement in your investigation, or he will say no. If he says no, then understand, you have just stumbled into a government conspiracy that will stop at nothing to protect itself.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 4:02 PM Pacific-timezone USA Wednesday 11/05/2025
