- Patterson: Okay, so, as we all know, the text on Jane's back is a mish-mash of various passages from famous literary works. Buried in there are Bible verses from the Book of Genesis, including Genesis 3:25.
- Edgar Reade: [reading] "But it was the Father who sent his envoy, the serpent, to tempt his children and lead them astray."
- Tasha Zapata: I haven't been to church in a while, but that doesn't sound familiar.
- Patterson: That's because it doesn't exist. There is no Genesis chapter 3, verse 25. But this morning, one of my systems picked up the phrase "Genesis 3:25" over some chatter, and I was able to track it to a man named Jared Wisnewski. Single guy, runs a local farmers co-op upstate. A few hunting rifles registered to his name.
- Edgar Reade: Okay, so a mild-mannered farmer references a Bible verse that doesn't exist in the chatter? Barely a lead.
- Patterson: I thought so, too. But the coincidence didn't sit well with Weller, and he wanted us to dig into it.
- Tasha Zapata: How exactly did this alert your tattoo database?
- Patterson: I don't want to bore you with the intricate details.
- Edgar Reade: Since when?
- Patterson: It's... it's just... it's a whole mess of algorithms and just so much math.
- Edgar Reade: All right, we're gonna head up to Wisnewski's farm and see if we can find anything.
- [he and Tasha turn to leave]
- Edgar Reade, Tasha Zapata: Let's move.
- Edgar Reade: [at Wisnewski's farm] Home shooting range?
- Tasha Zapata: That seems a little excessive.
- Edgar Reade: [picking up a shell casing] I don't remember him having an AK-47 registered in his name.
- [cut to another part of the farm]
- Tasha Zapata: This guy's got a huge stockpile of automatic weapons.
- Edgar Reade: And all the ingredients to make an ANFO bomb. I'm gonna call in a warrant.
- Tasha Zapata: I'll let Weller know.
- Tasha Zapata: We seized a huge cache of automatic weapons, demolition charges, nitrogen fertilizer, and diesel fuel.
- Patterson: Wisnewski isn't a mild-mannered farmer. He's using his farm as a domestic terrorist training camp.
- Kurt Weller: So he's making an ANFO bomb?
- Jane Doe: ANFO?
- Edgar Reade: Aluminum Nitrate Fuel Oil explosive. Same type of bomb they used in Oklahoma City.
- Kurt Weller: How exactly did you crack the Bible verse tattoo? You told me on the phone you picked up the phrase on some chatter.
- Patterson: You're never this interested in how I solve the tattoos.
- Kurt Weller: This one points to an off-the-book program being run out of this office, so I need to know what is happening under my watch, and I need to know now.
- Patterson: Uh, okay. I linked the tattoo database to a secret NSA data collection program.
- Kurt Weller: Omaha? Nas told me it's very similar to Daylight.
- Patterson: Daylight on steroids is more accurate.
- Kurt Weller: So you've been using illegal wiretaps to solve these tattoos?
- [Patterson is reluctant to say anything]
- Kurt Weller: [losing his patience] Patterson.
- Patterson: This was the first one.
- Kurt Weller: Really?
- Patterson: I know. It's just I have to use every resource that I have. We're running out of time to figure out what all of this adds up to.
- Kurt Weller: That is my call to make, not yours. Understand?
- Kurt Weller: [hearing an old conversation between Ron Clark and Mayfair] She never told me that I was up for that.
- Patterson: Maybe she didn't want to get your hopes up.
- Kurt Weller: Clark blocked the chance for me to be promoted, to relocate to D.C. He wasn't just talking baseball gibberish.
- Patterson: What do you mean?
- Kurt Weller: He told me that I was playing for the Mets; the New York Mets. But he said I should have been a National; the Washington Nationals. He was trying to tell me about that transfer, but he said they could never let it happen.
- Patterson: "They" being Sandstorm?
- Kurt Weller: That phone call was from last year, so Shepherd wanted me to stay in New York, to be here when Jane showed up in that bag.
- Tess Bartell: Back off!
- Kurt Weller: Give me the detonator.
- Tess Bartell: Or what? You shoot me, I blow the truck, and we're all dead.
- Kurt Weller: You've gotta listen to me, Tess.
- Tess Bartell: You don't understand.
- Jane Doe: We do understand. The system does have problems, but killing innocent people isn't the answer.
- Tess Bartell: This is the only way for our voice to be heard. The only way to make things change.
- Kurt Weller: You're a soldier, right? So you've seen what happens when people use violence to send a message; how many lives it destroys. That is the easy way out, and you know it. Soldiers are trained to do what's right, not what's easy.
- [lowering his gun]
- Kurt Weller: You need to give me that detonator, Tess.
- Nas Kamal: It's a control freak's worst nightmare to find out that someone else was at the wheel for the most crucial parts of their life.
- Kurt Weller: You think I'm a control freak?
- Nas Kamal: [they share a smile] Shepherd may have once had a say in your future, but Kurt, don't let her drive you mad today by second guessing your leadership over this office.
- Kurt Weller: If someone else was sitting in that chair, they might have seen Agent Boyd's program sooner. I've just been so focused on Sandstorm.
- Nas Kamal: And personal complications?
- Kurt Weller: Yeah, that's part of it.
- Nas Kamal: Great leaders know that it is impossible to take everything on themselves. You do that, and you really do start to lose sight of the bigger picture.
- Kurt Weller: But as a leader, there are some things I can do better.