FBI (TV Series)
Compromised (2018)
Zeeko Zaki: FBI SA Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan
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Quotes
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Special Agent Maggie Bell : You know, they're not all criminals.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : What, the people in WITSEC?
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Yeah. 15% of them are innocent. Wrong place, wrong time.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : You do a stint in the Marshals Service before this?
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Put someone in WITSEC when I was a cop in Indiana. Curtis, sixteen years old, witnessed a gang shooting at his after-school job.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : You encourage him to testify?
Special Agent Maggie Bell : I did. He was one of the good ones. It was heartbreaking seeing him say goodbye to his family.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : Kind of like living undercover, just permanently.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Yeah, all to find the bad guy. I don't think I could do it.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : To save your life, to save your family's life, you could.
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[SPOILER:]
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Takes a certain type of animal to prey on the vulnerabilities of those they're entrusted to protect, Ackerman.
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : I didn't mean for innocent people to get hurt.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : You going with that for your defense?
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : You're young and unblemished. I wouldn't expect you to understand this.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : You took an oath, just like us.
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : You two get to play heroes every day. I protect scumbags. I give criminals who wanna rat out their friends a second chance. What about me? What about my second chance?
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Your second chance? Whether your witnesses were criminals at one point or not, they chose to obey the rules and do the right thing. They turned their lives around.
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : Can a leopard really change his spots? They chose their fate.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : So did you.
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Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : You brought up the importance of sticking to WITSEC rules more than once. I can't help but think there's something behind that.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Curtis was my old witness.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : He break the rules?
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Yeah, but he couldn't help himself.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : What, family?
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Yeah. His mom's 50th birthday. So he called her to reach out, but 15th Street Gang was listening to her calls. But the thing is is that these people were being so careful.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : Doesn't make what happened to Curtis any less tragic.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : No.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : Would you still encourage people to go into the program?
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Without a doubt.
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U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : Welcome to hell. Chief Deputy Paul Ackerman, U.S. Marshals Service. I know the FBI's used to this kind of thing. This is a fiasco.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : Eyewitnesses?
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : No, they made sure of that. Took out this passing motorist and-and this kid on a skateboard. Including my Marshal there, that's three dead. Now, my other man is stable, but the uh... the witness is in surgery.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Government witness?
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : Yeah.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Tell us about him.
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : Damon Cruz. My deputies were gonna escort him to Los Angeles so that he could testify in a Jairo Cartel case.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : Blood patterns are smeared.
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : Yeah, that's Cruz. He got shot five times.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : He knew to tuck and roll to protect his vital organs while being shot at.
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : Majority of our witnesses are formal criminals. Their instincts are hard-wired.
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Special Agent Maggie Bell : What was Cruz's involvement with the Jairo Cartel?
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : Money laundering, and he was good at it, too. He helped the Jairo Cartel screw over a lot of good people.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : Shooter got out of the car to get a better shot at Cruz.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : So Cruz was the primary target. The rest were just collateral.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : And his wife?
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : She's at the hospital, but she... she didn't know that Cruz was in witness protection.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : He didn't tell her?
Special Agent Maggie Bell : No, he couldn't. Not if he met her after he already entered the program.
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Analyst Kristen Chazal : Damon Cruz, formerly Damon Soto. He testified against the Jairo Cartel four years ago, then entered WITSEC.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : So, who was he scheduled to testify against this time?
Analyst Kristen Chazal : Two high-level Jairo players extradicted from Mexico. Cruz's testimony was expected to put them away.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Oh, yeah, Cruz was a strong witness, so I guess we don't have to go searching for motive.
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Special Agent Maggie Bell : You know, with no eyewitnesses or video surveillance, that motive is our only jumping-off point.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : ERT's processing shell casings and everything else from the scene.
Dana Mosier : The Jairo Cartel has resources all over the country. Finding someone to kill Cruz would be easy.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Finding his location wouldn't be.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Well, it shouldn't be. So how did the cartel track him down?
Dana Mosier : See what you can get from the surviving Marshal, Jim Ruhde.
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Analyst Kristen Chazal : Vincent Marino, amateur paparazzi turned blackmail artist.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jubal Valentine : Yeah, the kind of guy who makes a living collecting hush money from divorce attorneys and clients with things to hide.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Makes sense, given what we found. His cell phone, laptop, SD cards are all missing.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : GPS trackers and surveillance equipment all over this place. This guy was a professional scumbag.
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Special Agent Maggie Bell : Two witnesses dead in two days. With all those names out in the open, is the Marshals Service gonna move everyone in the program?
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : We're talking 15,000 people. There's no way we can move that many in time, not even with FBI's help. But then again, maybe we don't have to.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Why?
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : Of the 60 cases my office oversees and the five deputies in my office, both of these witnesses were under Jim Ruhde's supervision.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : Marshal Ruhde is the source of the leak.
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Jim Ruhde : Hell, no. This is impossible. No way I'd compromise my cases.
Special Agent Maggie Bell : Well, how did this happen?
Jim Ruhde : You don't understand. I-I care about these people. I'd never put them in any kind of danger.
U.S. Marshal Paul Ackerman : Office hasn't detected a breach in our software. All of our hardware is accounted for. I'm sorry, Jim, if the list is secure internally...
Jim Ruhde : I'll take a polygraph, boss, hand over my log-in, credentials...
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : Marshal Ruhde, did anyone know about scheduled visits with your witnesses?
Jim Ruhde : No one. And visits varied on a case-by-case basis, protocol.
Special Agent Omar Adom 'OA' Zidan : Mind if I have a look in your garage?
Jim Ruhde : Whatever you need to do.