"_" "_" "_" "_" "_" "_" "_" "_" "At 10:00 tonight, blackouts began ravaging the west coast." "Hospitals, nursing homes, emergency services all running off of emergency power." "This thing's 10 times the size of what happened in New York." "All our fears regarding the aging grid have proved legitimate." "It will take days just to restore the damage that has already occurred." "We're facing panic, riots, the closing of critical infrastructure " "Excuse me for asking this, but isn't this a D.O.E. and FEMA issue?" "The cyber-defense division has identified an advanced cyberworm inside the power grid." "This is a hack?" "Yeah, an incredibly sophisticated one." "We have the entire fourth floor working to break the worm's encryption." "It could take days." "I should take a look." "No, no, no." "No, no, no, no, no." "Bad idea." "This worm is like a python." "It wraps itself around a system, squeezes the life out of it." "If you tried to enter the power grid, it would immediately see you as prey." "It could destroy the chip." "You seem to know a lot about it." "Oh, we've seen it before." "This puppy was built by Cortez." "Seriously?" "No one?" "Guys, Cortez -- he's a legend!" "Do you remember the Americana Mutual hack?" "No one knows how he broke into that closed system!" "Nelson." "Cortez has used this identical worm in at least three grey hat scams that we are aware of." "What's a grey hat scam?" "Install a destructive worm into a corporation's system, then you blackmail them." ""Pay me, and I'll shut down the worm."" "it's also called hostage-ware, and Cortez practically invented it." "So, why hack a power grid?" "That doesn't fit the extortionist M.O." "Well, most likely, it's a, uh... ego thing." "You see, these high-level hackers are all out to prove that they're the best." "The physical grid is just the next frontier." "Wait a second." "Cortez screwed up with the power grid." "How so?" "It's just the nature of the security system." "It only allows access from local I.P. addresses." "This worm had to have originated in Los Angeles." "Gabriel, Riley, Nelson," "You're going to L.A. to find Cortez." "Cassidy, keep working with the fourth floor." "See if we can't dissect the worm from the inside." "Jameson, coordinate with all the other agencies." "Any chatter about Cortez, I want to know about it." "Everyone, this is the cyber attack we've all been afraid of." "Millions of lives are affected, and we may not have seen the worst yet." "Nelson?" "You're awake." "Fantastic." "Okay, check out the monitors." "Do you see it?" "Huh?" "Can you see me?" "See what I'm walking like?" "Oh, the camera records your shadow?" "Not a shadow -- that is millions of wireless signals tracking my movements visually!" "You're seeing me through the wall!" "Like sonar?" "Exactly." "And with this little nugget, anybody can have X-ray vision." "All you need is a wi-fi connection." "And a camera and a monitor, unless you're me." "All right, we get it." "You have a chip in your brain." "You're amazing." "Los Angeles looks strange without the lights." "Nelson, what do hackers do in a blackout?" "Uh, okay, well, it wouldn't affect the real pros." "They're as dependent on power as they are on water, so they would all have contingency plans in the form of backup-generator systems." "That's it." "That's how we find Cortez." "We look for the lights." "About 10,000 computers are still accessing the Internet from the Los Angeles area right now." "Are any of those encrypted?" "14 government buildings, 21 police stations, 106 fire stations, 122 hospitals, all using encrypted networks to access the Internet under emergency power." "Okay, look in residential areas." "A guy like Cortez would need a lot of bandwidth." "It's very rare." "Uh, you're looking for a high data rate of at least 45 megabits." "Got him." "Cortez lives downtown." "Nice!" "At least they have emergency lighting." "We need him alive." "Relax." "I'm not gonna shoot anybody." "Cortez, federal agents." "Drop your weapon." "We don't want to hurt you." "Put the gun down now!" "Uh-oh." ""Uh-oh"?" "What happened to not killing him?" "What the hell?" "Whoa!" "Who the hell are you?" "Troy Ricksen." "Nah, man." "You got the wrong guy." "Troy, where are your parents?" "Deceased 10 years ago." "Car accident." "After the accident," "Troy and his older brother were put into foster care, split up." "Oddly, Troy ended up with Ms. Schuster." "Why "oddly"?" "She died in 1901." "Start talking, kid." "He hacked the system." "You're Cortez?" "Who the hell are you?" "And who's that?" "The guy that was about to kill you." "You're welcome." "Gabriel Vaughn -- one of our nation's most decorated soldiers." "He's a hero, and now our country's most secret weapon." "Gabriel possesses a rare genetic mutation that allowed us to implant a microchip in his brain." "We connected his mind directly to the information grid." "It's something the chip does that nobody expected." "I can create a virtual snapshot of an event in my mind and then walk through it." "It's like a virtual evidence wall." "At U.S. Cyber Command, we created a highly specialized unit around him..." "Satellite in five." "...and assigned an agent to protect him." "Run!" "He's the first of his kind -- the next evolution of intelligence." "You keep calling me "Cortez,"" "but I ain't never heard that name before." "October 10th, Genus Corporation was hacked by a cyberworm that tore through their system, shutting down their servers." "30 hours later, they received an encrypted e-mail, offering to fix it for a price." "What's that got to do with me?" "That e-mail came from your computer." "Bet you used the ransom money to pay for this sweet setup." "I still don't know what you're talking about." "I read the e-mail, Troy." ""Dear Genus geniuses, want your server back?" "I can deliver it"." "No way you could've found that." "I bounced that thing through 12 different countries." "You see?" "Look, man, I had nothing to do with the power-grid hack, for reals." "For reals?" "Then explain to me how your worm ended up inside the grid." "Who are you working with?" "Nobody, I swear." "You saw that dead guy in there." "He was sent here to kill you." "Why do you think that is?" "What went wrong, Troy?" "You stiff them on the deal?" "What deal?" "Someone paid you for that worm." "Since the power outage, 36 people have died already, including a 6-year-old girl who died in an elevator this morning, trapped without her Insulin." "How much?" "Excuse me?" "How much you gonna pay me to fix it?" "Are you serious?" "20 g's." "20 g's." "Call it a patriotic discount." "The hard way, then." "Hands behind your back." "Oh, whoa." "Aah!" "Ow." "You're Cortez?" "You reprogrammed the MCM virus to spread through a closed network before anyone even heard of frog-hopping or Stuxnet." "You can't prove that." "No, no, I'm like a huge fa-- wait, how old are you?" "You want an autograph?" "Maybe." "Nelson." "Can you pull up the infected power grid so Troy can take a look at the worm?" "Yes." "See?" "It's your worm, all right." "No, someone must've cloned it." "Soon as I find out who, I'm-a bust some heads." "Just shut it down, Rambo." "I can't." "Can't do anything till it finds its target." "Target?" "You don't know what's going on?" "You're the I.T. guy." "Oh-ho-ho!" "I'm not the I.T. guy." "This kid." ""Kid"!" "Kid, kid." "I'm a genius." "U.S. freakin' Cyber Command can't hack me." "Start talking, genius." "Okay, school's in session." "The worm eats through a system, looking for a specific target, understand?" "Yeah." "We understand." "So, it's not targeting the power grid." "No." "Right now, the worm is like a kitten playing with a ball of string." "Any sec, this kitten will become a tiger." "Right." "When is that?" "When it smells the meat." "Big man's right." "So, what's the meat?" "Give me five minutes on your system, and I'll tell you." "You mind?" "Oh." "You talk." "Nelson types." "Whenever you're ready." "Did he say anything else?" "He's in prison, Alyona." "He does not have much to say." "Was he angry?" "About what?" "That I have not been to see him." "I'm his wife, after all." "That was his decision." "What about -- Enough of the questions!" "I apologize." "This cannot go on." "You know that." "Co." "Speak." "There were complications." "Complications?" "Just tell me -- is Cortez dead or no?" "No." "And Piotr is dead." "Cortez is the only one who can stop the worm." "Do you want to be the one to tell my brother how you've failed us?" "No, sir." "I will kill Cortez myself." "You really hacked your way out of foster care?" "I didn't hack my way out." "Hacked my way through." "You ever think about all the things you could do with that gift of yours?" "Yeah." "I could get a tight crib with a view, a 911 turbo drop-top, and some sick-ass gear." "Oh, wait." "I-I did get all that." "You stole all that." "Kid's a genius, all right -- a criminal genius." "Oh, my gosh." "What?" "Hit "pound h-c."" "You'll get there 10 times faster." "That shortcut only brings up recent activity." "See?" "Someone doesn't know everything." "Do they?" "Okay, slow it down." "Stop." "Check it out." "Every third character after the asterisk." "Oh, I am so stealing that." "You got this?" "What do you mean, does he got this?" "He would have to, like -- oh, no." "What?" "Yeah, what?" "Yeah, what?" "San Jacomo the nuclear power plant." "My people estimate it will hit San Jacomo's nuclear reactor in less than five hours." "The worm will wipe the reactor's health-physics system, initiating a full-scale meltdown." "I recommend an immediate evac of the 50-mile exposure radius." "That's more than 4 million people." "That would be difficult under normal circumstances, but in the middle of a blackout?" "Everyone, hold a moment." "Onscreen for everyone -- we've just received some demands." "The Novyy Svit Rvolyutsioneriv are responsible for the attack on your power grid." "As you now know, we have ability to destroy your reactor, or to abort the attack if you simply release our comrade," "Dominik Salvi." "If you do not comply, your country will suffer the same dismal future that Chernobyl gave to our children." "What do we have?" "Brothers Torbin and Dominik Salvi are leaders of an anti-nuclear terrorist organization known as the NSR." "FBI arrested Dominik on charges of bombing a nuclear research facility in Moscow which killed 52 and injured hundreds." "We're set to extradite him to Russia tomorrow." "And it is no accident the video mentions Chernobyl." "The Salvi boys grew up in a small town close to the, uh, ill-fated reactor." "They likely witnessed all kinds of illnesses, deformities." "Yeah, apparently, the NSR believes the world turned a blind eye to their community." "Now, where does Troy fit into all this?" "There's a black market for every kind of weapon on earth, including cyber weapons." "Torbin is the buyer." "Troy is the seller." "That doesn't fit with Troy's M.O., though -- blackmailing large corporations." "Perhaps." "But we need to focus on the person who's blackmailing us." "Well, surely, this Torbin Salvi knows our government doesn't negotiate with terrorists." "It's not our government he's worried about." "It's the Russians, who plan to execute his brother." "There's no trace on the video." "Its signal was pinged off of thousands of servers to mask its location." "We need to work Troy harder." "Let's get him back in here." "Troy doesn't know Torbin Salvi." "You sure about that?" "What do we know about Troy?" "Well, we know he's a genius." "He's an arrogant, selfish pain in the ass." "Okay." "Einstein was obsessed with Mozart." "He felt that while Beethoven created music," "Mozart found music, as if it were left for him by the universe." "We're comparing Troy to Einstein and Mozart now?" "Okay, when I look at a computer, I see code." "Troy sees code, too." "The difference is, Troy... doesn't see the computer." "You've never met anyone like him before." "Yes, we have." "I'll talk to him." "What's this -- little man-to-man chat?" "Who are you performing for right now?" "It's just you and me, and I ain't buying." "I ain't selling." "You always selling... that you don't care about anything, that you're better than the rest of us." "You heard what your girl said." "I got a gift." "Yeah, she says that a lot." "What happened with your brother?" "Excuse me?" "Drew." "He's old enough to take care of you, even has a kid of his own." "That was the plan when you ran away, right -- live with him in Oakland?" "What happened?" "Where -- where you getting this?" "Why the hell would I want to live with some dude's ho and his wack kid, when I can be living on my own, doing my thing, nobody telling me what to do?" "If that's true, why do you spend so much time looking at the pictures he posts online of his family?" "In my job, sometimes we deal with big numbers -- thousands of people affected by this or that." "It's good to remember they're real people, Troy, people like your brother." "That all you got, Dr. Phil?" "Look, I think you know more about this worm than you're letting on, Troy." "Think you're the only one with a gift, huh?" "I got a gift, too." "And the man that gave it to me told me we live in a world where one person and a computer has the power to end this world or save it, depending on how they choose to use it." "And what's this gift he gave you?" "Let's just say he trusted me to choose." "Just stay here and think about that." "Wait, what do you mean, a "kill switch"?" "I found it embedded in the code." "It's the key to the whole idea." "Hacker sets a worm loose that only he can stop, because only he has the kill switch." "Come on, Nelson." "You see it?" "You recognize that encryption?" "Biometric authentication." "Bi-biometric?" "That could be a thumbprint, a retinal scan, even voice authentication." "It is something unique to the hacker." "Dad, check it out." "The code is mimicking an EKG reading." "A heartbeat." "That's it." "Troy used his own unique heartbeat as the password." "That's the perfect kill switch!" "It's impossible to fake!" "How'd you do?" "I got him thinking." "Good." "Because he's literally the only person who can stop this thing." "Kid hacked our car." "Yeah." "I'm glad you got him thinking." "The President wants a S.I.T. report." "I'd like to tell him something more encouraging than" ""We lost our hacker." Tell him we're three hours away from a reactor meltdown, and we should begin a large-scale evac now." "I believe I said "encouraging."" "He will want to pull Gabriel out." "You know that." "The kill switch won't work without the hacker." "Gabriel tracked the car using its GPS and is on his way to get him now." "Thank you." "Exactly where I said he'd be." "Dude, Troy, check this out." "This infant troll's trying to screw up my site." "It's freakin' hilarious." "What did you do, Danny?" "You all right, T?" "I saw your routing algorithm on the worm." "That distance-vector protocol is all you." "The hell are you talking about?" "You stole my worm." "You got any idea who you're working for?" "They're terrorists." "Don't tell me some fool comes looking for code, and you figure you can make an easy buck if you don't ask too many questions." "I don't have your skills, all right?" "I can't just hack my way out of this dungeon." "I-I was being entrepreneurial." "Entrepreneurial?" "People are dead now 'cause of you." "'Cause of me." "You gonna go to the cops?" "I ain't going to prison for your stupid ass." "We're gonna stop this thing, you and me, before anybody else gets hurt." "Now, where do we find these guys?" "No joke, bro... they'll kill me." "Yeah, they're gonna kill a lot more people than you." "Now, where is the mothership?" "Danny!" "Aah!" "Shots fired." "We need tactical units to 111 Fordham East Street." "I can't see any surveillance-camera feeds." "Try tapping into the wi-fi signals." "Right, Nelson's new toy." "It's working." "I'm in." "Troy's in a back room, under a desk." "They're closing in." "Riley." "Are you okay?" "They killed Danny." "I'm sorry, Troy." "I'm sorry, too." "But there'll be time to mourn your friend." "Right now, we need you to focus up, okay?" "We need you to use your kill switch." "W-what do you mean?" "We know about the heartbeat authentication." "What, do you think I can just jump on any computer and turn this thing off?" "I can't do anything without the mothership." "Mothership?" "The original computer that launched the worm." "We call that the mothership." "It controls the code, the kill switch " "All of it." "That's why you came here." "You were trying to track it down." "You should've said something." "You need to trust us, Troy." "I know what I need to do." "What's that?" "Find the dirtbag that stole my worm, get my code back... right after you shoot him." "Due to a technical malfunction at the San Jacomo nuclear power plant, the nuclear regulatory commission has mandated an evacuation of the immediate areas surrounding the facility." "The NRC main" "Dominik ever told you about Mitya, our younger brother?" "He had an eye that could not see... and lungs that did not work right." "Our parents brought him to doctor, but the doctor refused to help Mitya." "The surgery was too expensive, too impractical." "That was when we knew." "Knew what?" "It's us against the whole world." "If you succeed, there will be many more children like Mitya." "Yes." "But they will be no longer so easy to turn away." "Let's see if I understand -- you want to give in to Torbin Salvi's demands in exchange for the mothership computer?" "I'm not saying we give in." "I'm saying we pretend we're giving in." "We release Dominik long enough for Troy to engage the kill switch and shut down the worm." "The state department spent months negotiating Dominik's extradition." "You know things are tense with Moscow." "We are on the brink of a nuclear event." "Doesn't that trump the politics?" "We have less than an hour, Adam." "I'll make the call." "Thank you." "We'll head to Victorville penitentiary now." "Okay, once you have Dominik in custody," "I'll contact Torbin and set up the exchange." "How did this happen?" "Dominik Salvi is already in Russian custody." " What?" "How?" " The state department secretly moved up his extradition... a day early, just after they received the demand video." "Small-minded, fear-driven bureaucrats." "The Russian ambassador's plane is set to depart from Burbank Airport right now." "Mr. Ambassador, I'm asking for your cooperation." "If Torbin Salvi succeeds, these chickens will only be coming back to Russia to roost." "Yes, but here I have my chicken in hand." "Dominik Salvi is personally responsible... for the deaths of hundreds of innocent Russians." "My country deserves to see him pay." "And they will." "Please... just delay your flight for a few hours." "I'm sorry, Ms. Strand." "We'll talk again from Moscow." "Too late." "It's taking off." "Gabriel, we can't let our only bargaining chip with Torbin Salvi leave that runway." "I need you to get me in range." "Close enough?" "I'm in." "A few seconds." "How mad do you think the Russians will be?" "What the hell just happened?" "We got lucky." "I'll count your technical issues as a win for us, Mr. Ambassador." "Yeah, well, the truth remains the same." "I must bring Dominik Salvi back to Russia today." "I'm only asking for two hours." "If Timothy McVeigh were sitting on a Moscow tarmac, would you not be demanding his immediate return?" "Not if a delay might help prevent a nuclear incident." "I need you to work with me here, serge." "We've exhausted our options." "Without Dominik Salvi, we won't be able to stop this worm in time." "I need your guarantee you'll return Dominik alive." "You have my word." "All right." "You just make a promise you can't keep?" "Let's hope not." "Wanted to see me?" "We have a very small window here, and we need to ensure that Torbin Salvi holds up his end of the deal and brings the mothership with him." "Understood." "I'm only going to agree to the trade if the exchange is made inside the exposure pathway." "This way, if Torbin goes back on the deal, he and his brother will die in the meltdown they created." "That would also mean you'd be potentially exposing Gabriel, Riley, Nelson." "Yes." "I'm aware of that." "Lillian." "As soon as we lose control of the nuclear reactor's coolant system, the radiation will breach the containment vessel." "Hydrogen explosions will wipe out everything inside the exposure pathway." "I know that, doctor." "If they are there when the worm hits the reactor " "They will all die." "That's why it's the right call." "As long as Torbin Salvi understands that, he'll be personally invested in preventing the meltdown, right?" "We're all ready to go." "That's the EKG authenticator?" "Yeah, it's pretty cool, right?" "It's more accurate than a medical device and reads his heartbeats through his thumbprints." "I need a moment alone." "You got it." "You meant the kid." "Thanks for sticking it out with us." "Half this job's just showing up." "What's the other half?" "Not screwing up." "This pep talk sucks." "You want to call him?" "Who?" "Your brother." "Wasn't his fault they split you up." "He was 16." "You were 5." "You were easier to place with a family." "Yeah, well, that sucks." "That's my point." "Drew never left you behind." "Truth is, he never stopped looking for you." "You can't know that." "Actually, I can, and I do." "Come on." "Keep him safe." "Of course." "In the backseat." "O-one of us has to check out the computer and make sure it's the real deal." "Gabriel's got it covered." "No, no, no, we got to wire it up, make sure it's really transmitting the code, not just pretending." "You -- Gabriel will know." "Trust me." "I need to verify the computer." "Take off his shackles first." "No." "You show me the computer, or your brother will be the first to die in this gunfight." "We'll take my brother now." "You can keep the computer." "Get ready." "In 2 minutes, that laptop's gonna be sitting right here." "Then in 3 minutes, I'm-a kill it." "Yes!" "You want to knuckle it?" "Is that what the kids are doing?" "You know what?" "I'm good." "I knew you would come home to me." "No!" "Get down." "Get down, come on!" "We have to get the mothership." "I'll cover you." "You okay?" "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Torbin Salvi was sleeping with his brother's wife?" "How did we miss that?" "It wasn't on anyone's radar -- not CIA, not FSB." "The mothership?" "Destroyed." "Did we just lose this one?" "I don't know." "How bad is it?" "Silicon substrate's gone." "Copper connections burned out." "It's toast." "Gabriel, we're out of time." "So -- so, just give up?" "And I just killed all these people?" "I didn't say that." "We're not giving up." "Right?" "Right." "Okay, walk me through it again." "How's this worm work?" "It's -- it's like a heat-seeking missile, programmed not to stop till it hits its target." "So why hasn't it yet?" "Because the power grid is complicated, okay?" "The worm got distracted by a myriad " "That's it." "Distract it." "Countermeasures!" "We have a countermeasure vehicle that trails the presidential motorcade." "It jams electronic-guidance systems, I.E.D. detonators, and even attracts heat-seeking missiles away from the president." "I don't get it." "We can't stop the worm from hitting its target, so we give it a new target." "We build a virtual nuclear reactor." "You think it can be done?" "Theoretically, yeah." "The worm identifies its target by looking for a unique set of heuristics." "If we concocted a digital structure with an identical signature, we might be able to coax the worm to our honey pot instead of the real reactor." "Might?" "Well, if our analysis of the worm told us anything, it's that it's nearly impossible to predict." "I believe that was intended in the design, yes?" "Yeah, I figured if I couldn't predict its sequencing, nobody else could, either." "This is immensely complicated." "Even with Gabriel, we won't have time for the proper testing." "There is no guarantee that this will work." "But there is a guarantee what happens if we don't try." "All right, Gabriel." "Let's do it." "We'll start with the reactor blueprints." "Okay, I'm compiling the system code to build our reactor's H.P. network." "You're compiling?" "It's a figure of speech." "Gabriel's on with Cybercom, where they're building the phantom reactor." "Okay, Troy." "We've got the basic build." "Now we have to ensure our reactor gets hit first." "How do we make this thing sexy to the worm?" "It's about the payload." "The bigger our target, the more likely it'll distract from the real thing." "San Jacomo puts out 2,400 megawatts." "Let's do 10,000." "10,000 megawatts could light up the moon." "That should do it!" "Okay." "Mousetrap's all set." "You see it?" "Whoa!" "There it is." "Our own nuclear reactor, baby." "Let's see if the worm bites." "What are we seeing?" "Gabriel just injected the digital reactor into the power grid." "Do you see it?" "It's awesome..." "Well, as long as the worm recognizes it." "Now, if he does, the worm will enter the phantom reactor, destroy the code structure, and disintegrate along with it." "And if it doesn't?" "It'll pass through the digital sequence unimpeded... slam into the real thing." "The worm stopped." "Why?" "What happened?" "Found the phantom reactor." "Check it -- it's sniffing it out." "Wait." "No." "No." "It's moving again?" "Look like the worm called us out." "It saw the phantom reactor for what it is." "A fake." "Wait." "It's turning around." "Our data's disappearing." "It took the bait." "It took the bait!" "Yee-ha!" "It took the bait!" "Yes!" "Whoo!" "You did it." "We did it." "Can't believe it worked." "Of course it worked!" "You're a genius!" "That's what I've been saying the whole time!" "Oh!" "I love this kid!" "Oh, my gosh." "The city of Los Angeles is back to status quo." "Far as anyone is concerned, the pipe leak at San Jacomo has been repaired with no lasting damage, and the power surge that caused the blackouts has been restored." "Dominik Salvi?" "Still in the wind." "You did the right thing, however the hammer falls." "Oh, the hammer will fall, make no mistake... which is why we will have to find him." "Yeah." "Mmm." "Is this the last meal I eat before I go to prison?" "Guess so." "Good call on the burgers, though." "That what you think -- we're putting you away?" "Look, Troy." "You have something nobody else has." "Yeah." "Yeah, I got a gift." "It's not a gift." "Then what is it?" "It's a duty." "But you have to choose." "When you turn 18, you got a job waiting here for you." "No." "For reals?" "For reals." "Somebody here to see you." "Well, I was hoping to see that pretty face again." "Why'd you do this?" "Because I'm your friend." "T-man." "It's really you." "You're with me now." "You hear?" "You're with me now."