Unforgettable (TV Series)
Omega Hour (2014)
James Hiroyuki Liao: Jay Lee
Quotes
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Al Burns : ESU estimates there are ten people in the penthouse.
Jay Lee : I don't get it; he's got the mayor of New York in the elevator. Why does he need all the hostages?
Al Burns : Collateral, in case we upset him. You find anything?
Jay Lee : Talked to the contractor. He said Skinner's paranoia led him to build the most secure residential building in New York. You can't see inside the windows from outside, and get this, they're protected against thermal body imagery, which means even snipers can't even inside the damn thing.
Al Burns : Bet he's rethinking that decision.
Jay Lee : And apparently he's such a safety nut, he's got cameras looking at every inch outside the building.
Al Burns : It's a virtual fortress, but there's got to be a way in.
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Cherie Rollins-Murray : I'm running the description Carrie passed on. Any luck narrowing down suspects on your end?
Jay Lee : The voice signed off with "Hail Eris", customary Discordian salute to Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos, used by anarchists and computer hackers.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : Anarchists and hackers, great. It could be any one of the online groups, uh, or a disgruntled military or NSA type.
Jay Lee : And don't forget Hans Gruber.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : I don't know Gruber.
Jay Lee : Really? Hans Gruber?
Cherie Rollins-Murray : What?
Jay Lee : No, really, you never saw "Die Hard"?
Cherie Rollins-Murray : What?
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Cherie Rollins-Murray : This is Tanya Sitkowsky. Joint Task Force for Cyber Crimes. Spent some time on the dark side of the hacker world.
Jay Lee : [giving her a once-over] The dark side, uh... I'm not sure I see it.
Tanya Sitkowsky : I dabbled, but it didn't take.
Jay Lee : Okay, in your dabbling, you ever, uh, come across this guy?
Tanya Sitkowsky : Sure, yeah, that's... that's Alpha Omega.
Jay Lee : Positive? 'Cause I got him as Jonathan Brody, former financial analyst. Did nine months on an embezzlement charge four years ago.
Tanya Sitkowsky : You're not wrong. Do you mind?
Jay Lee : [standing up and offering her his chair] Uh, no.
Tanya Sitkowsky : He was a suit, but only ever really on the outside. He studied robotics and game theory at MIT before Wall Street snatched him up. After he got out of jail, he went back to his roots, but with a decidedly anarchic bent. Fancies himself some sort of visionary super-hacker.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : So what's Omega's vision?
Tanya Sitkowsky : [typing] All right, here we go. This guy has declared war on "the hideous hydra-headed dragon of money that holds the world in its jaws."
Jay Lee : Hideous hydra-headed. Nice. What's a dorky mission statement without some good alliteration, right?
Tanya Sitkowsky : I agree. It's like General Zod, who swore to be freed forever...
Jay Lee : From the Phantom Zone. Wow. Uh, you read DC?
Tanya Sitkowsky : Is there anything else?
Cherie Rollins-Murray : Is this gonna be some separated at birth thing, or...?
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Tanya Sitkowsky : So, we know Omega tried planting a logic bomb in the World Bank's collection archives last year, and their security systems barely held.
Jay Lee : What was he trying to accomplish?
Tanya Sitkowsky : Chaos? That's generally his objective.
Jay Lee : Hail Eris.
Tanya Sitkowsky : Exactly.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : And hacking banks is one thing, but taking hostages and threatening to kill innocent people for ransom? Doesn't fit the profile.
Jay Lee : He try to do something like this before?
Tanya Sitkowsky : Not on this scale, but he's definitely been ramping up to it. Intelligence suggests he was involved in the crash of a State Department C-130 taking medical supplies into Islamabad four months ago.
Jay Lee : Yeah, I remember that. The pilot reported having massive computer systems failure right before.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : Medical supplies? I don't get it.
Tanya Sitkowsky : Alpha Omega sees all foreign aid as America's attempt to extort cooperation from other countries. He was making a point.
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Al Burns : We're gonna have to breach the building if Skinner doesn't come up with the money.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : With all those cameras, Omega will know we're coming.
Al Burns : We had to override them.
Jay Lee : We tried cutting the power to the building; Omega was ready.
Al Burns : Okay, but let's say we kill the downtown power grid.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : Like downtown Manhattan?
Al Burns : Wouldn't have any power to draw from.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : Well, I mean, you're gonna tick off a lot of people, but yeah, that would probably work.
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Jay Lee : We looked into some of Skinner's finances. So, get this; there's a good reason why Skinner couldn't come up with the money. He doesn't have anything close to $100 million. Not even $10 million.
Tanya Sitkowsky : Skinner Plaza's way over-budget, and Skinner's overleveraged himself. He's pretty much cash-broke.
Al Burns : Dangerous game he was playing bluffing.
Carrie Wells : Yeah, but if we can get into Skinner's finances, then so can Omega. Which means he knew Skinner didn't have any money.
Al Burns : Why hijack a building and try to extort a fortune from a man who doesn't have one?
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Carrie Wells : What could Brody do to temporarily shut down the security systems en masse, and then turn them on again all at once?
Tanya Sitkowsky : Well, when the systems switch back on, they'd be vulnerable while the passwords and protocols reboot.
Jay Lee : Yeah, but why would he break into something he's already in?
Al Burns : If Brody just wanted the power off, why not let us kill it when we tried earlier?
Carrie Wells : Because Skinner Plaza was never his goal. His aim is to get the city to shut off the entire downtown power grid. I mean, look at us, look! We're surrounded by the world's biggest banks, right?
Jay Lee : I told you, it's "Die Hard"!
Carrie Wells : Not quite. He needs the power to come back on so he can put his computer virus into the system. He's not trying to steal money. He's trying to reset the whole financial system by knocking it out altogether.
Al Burns : Then we have to keep the power off 'till we find him.
Tanya Sitkowsky : No, that's impossible. It's not like a lightbulb. The grid's got too much power. You can't stop it from turning on once it's started.
Carrie Wells : All right, what would Brody need to do to get his virus into the system?
Jay Lee : It's just software. All he needs is a laptop and a cell signal, right? He could be anywhere.
Al Burns : There must be some clue somewhere.
