- Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine: So, we have visual confirmation of the three bombs. They're all on timers. They're all highly sophisticated.
- Assistant Director In Charge Rina Trenholm: How sophisticated?
- Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine: Very. According to the techs, the only way to disarm them is with a code. Vargas told us where they were because he wanted us to know that we are screwed, that we need him.
- Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille: All right, start clearing people out of there as calmly as possible. Have NYPD set up a perimeter. Let's keep new bodies from entering the impact zone.
- Special Agent Maggie Bell: Rojas just got a text from Vargas about a meet.
- Special Agent Stuart Scola: Can we ping his cell?
- Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan: I tried. It's scrambled.
- Special Agent Maggie Bell: The good news is that the meet is happening this morning at 9:45 a.m., just like he said.
- Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille: So what's the problem?
- Special Agent Maggie Bell: The meet is at an industrial park in Queens. It's a surveillance nightmare. There's about 20 different ways to enter and exit.
- Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan: Right next to the BQE.
- Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille: I'm guessing that's why he picked it.
- Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan: It's gonna be really hard to use a decoy there. We don't know how many people he's got surveilling the place.
- Assistant Director In Charge Rina Trenholm: Disable the bombs now, and we will take the death penalty off the table.
- Antonio Vargas: Your offer is life in a steel cage? I don't think so. First, it's impossible to evacuate Grand Central Station and the surrounding areas in less than two hours. It'll take you five, maybe more. Second, let's imagine that you're right, that you can miraculously clear out every single person in the area. The bombs would still destroy one of New York's most famous landmarks, and at least 20 other buildings in a half a block radius. We didn't just stick those bombs anywhere. We hired a structural engineer to tell us exactly where to place them. You are going to release me. I know, and you know it. So please, let's cut out all this needless bluffing and posturing. You did it the last time. You'll do it again.
- Antonio Vargas: You still think I haven't taken steps to protect myself?
- Assistant Director In Charge Rina Trenholm: No. You're not bluffing your way out of New York this time. So please, save your empty threats.
- Antonio Vargas: Oh, they're not hollow. I have three bombs hidden in Grand Central Station. 750,000 people walk by them each and every day. They've been there for two months, just in case I got caught and was extradited here to New York. The second my plane landed here, the timer was set. They will explode today at 3:00 p.m. Unless I disable them, of course.
- Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille: You've got a lot of guts, Miguel. Most people who gun down the son of a drug lord would be worried. You nervous about what would happen when the news gets out, when he gets put in prison? If we charge you with these five murders, you are a dead man. But you know that, right? I'm willing to offer you a deal.
- Miguel Rojas: What kind of a deal?
- Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille: You help me find Vargas, and I'll help you stay alive. Change your identity, place you in a prison with no connections to the Durango cartel.
- [seeing his subtle nod of agreement]
- Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille: Good. Good, but first, we need to know. Do you know where he lives?
- Miguel Rojas: I got no clue.
- Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille: Do you know his phone number?
- Miguel Rojas: I never called him. All the communication went through Felix.
- Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille: What about his wife, Sofia? You know her last name, where she lives?
- Miguel Rojas: No.
- Special Agent in Charge Isobel Castille: [standing to leave] I'm trying to help you, Miguel, but I need information. No intel, no deal.
- Miguel Rojas: I got plenty of intel. You've just been asking the wrong questions. Vargas is coming to New York. I'm supposed to meet with him tomorrow morning.