EXT. ROAD - DAY

Emily’s car drives along a low traffic road.

INT. EMILY’S CAR - DAY

Emily is focused on the road; her driving mechanic, her thoughts elsewhere. An occasional glance at the rearview mirror is the one time she diverts her attention.

EXT. GAS STATION – DAY – FLASHBACK

Emily’s cell phone rings. After checking if no one’s around, she answers it.

EMILY

Hello?

We hear the voice from the other side for the first time.

MARGARET (V.O.)

Emily? It’s mom, honey.

A beat. Emily still in shock. Her heart gaining speed. Then...

MARGARET (V.O.)

I can’t talk much now. Listen carefully: someone is following you. You must outtrack before you meet your father.

EMILY

How do you-

Click.

INT. EMILY’S CAR – PRESENT

Holding the steering wheel with her left hand, Emily reaches over the passenger seat and opens the glove compartment. Keeping her eyes on the road, she retrieves a thin manila folder. She puts it on her lap, opens it and looks at a 6/6 snapshot of Mr. White.

EMILY

I know it’s you, bastard.

But if you think I’m running again, you got another thing coming.

I’m done running.

Emily closes the folder and tosses it on the passenger’s seat. She picks up her cell phone and dials a number.

INT. THE CENTRE. MISS PARKER’S OFFICE – DAY

Miss Parker is back at her office. While she is organizing her desk, she finds a post-it with a word scribbled on it: Lazarus.

She looks at the air vent. No surprise about who left the message there.

Raines bursts in.

RAINES

Where were you?

MISS PARKER

(without looking)

Out.

RAINES

Let me remind you, Miss Parker, that although our family status has changed, the rules of the game are still the same.

MISS PARKER

The only thing that’s changed between us is that the man I believed to be my father is now dead. That’s it.

RAINES

Sooner or later you will have to accept your heritage.

MISS PARKER

I’ll eat a can of live worms before I even think of you as more than just a walking corpse with emphysema.

RAINES

I suggest you use that energy of yours in finding Jarod.

The new Chairman expects results, not insubordination.

MISS PARKER

I wouldn’t worry much about the new Chairman if I were you.

RAINES

What-

Someone knocks at the door.

Without waiting for a reply, Broots enters in a rush, carrying some papers.

BROOTS

Miss Parker! Miss Parker! I-

(finally sees Raines)

S-sorry, I’ll come back another time.

MISS PARKER

Stay where you are, Broots. Mr. Raines was just leaving.

RAINES

(nods)

We’ll continue this another time.

MISS PARKER

No, we won’t.

Raines leaves the office. Broots approaches the desk.

MISS PARKER

What happened, Broots?

You look like you’ve seen the Big Bad Wolf.

BROOTS

I wish. I saw what drove him away.

(hands her the papers)

MISS PARKER

What’s this?

BROOTS

(looks around and whispers)

Is it safe to talk?

Miss parker nods.

BROOTS

Well, I was doing some maintenance on the security mainframe when I intercepted an e-mail to Raines’ office.

MISS PARKER

What’s so scary about that?

BROOTS

The Triumvirate is relieving Raines off his duties.

They issued a sanction order on him.

MISS PARKER

A sanction order on Raines?

Who issued it? And why would someone warn him in advance?

BROOTS

That’s just it. The e-mail was deleted before Raines had any chance to see it.

MISS PARKER

How do you know?

BROOTS

Because I could see Raines and Lyle from my station while I was reading this.

It was as if...

MISS PARKER

What?

BROOTS

As if someone knew I was checking Raines’ account at the time.

MISS PARKER

Do you know exactly who sent the e-mail?

BROOTS

It’s a recent account. High level of encryption. My guess is that guy...

(has trouble saying the name)

Perrgo... something.

MISS PARKER

(mutters)

A dead man’s final wish.

BROOTS

Sorry?

MISS PARKER

So, he sends an e-mail meant to be intercepted. And then someone erases it before Raines is able to see it.

(thinks)

Can you find out who erased it?

BROOTS

I already did. It was the same person who sent it.

MISS PARKER

Broots, when was the e-mail sent?

BROOTS

An hour or so before you arrived.

MISS PARKER

That leaves our new friend out of the loop.

BROOTS

Why’s that?

MISS PARKER

I put two bullets in his chest. I saw him dead.

Broots

You... what?!

Miss parker

Nevermind. Focus, Broots!

Broots

Ok, ok. Maybe... maybe he programmed that e-mail to be sent at a specific time and to automatically erase itself.

But it would have to be someone with enough clearance to access Raines’ account.

(pauses)

Oh my...

MISS PARKER

What?

BROOTS

Raines’ personal account can only be accessed through the computer at his office.

Whoever erased that e-mail had to be there.

And if he was...

MISS PARKER

The camera’s got him.

Get to work, Broots.

BROOTS

Right away, Miss P.

Broots is about to leave the office, when Miss Parker notices the post-it left on her desk.

MISS PARKER

Hold on, Broots.

He turns. She gives him the memo.

MISS PARKER

Run a search on this too.

Broots reads the post-it, puts it in his shirt pocket, nods and leaves.

INT. MAJOR CHARLES’ CABIN - DAY

Major Charles is dozing off on the couch when his cell phone rings. He wakes up and answers it.

MAJOR CHARLES

Hello?

EMILY (V.O.)

Dad, it’s me.

MAJOR CHARLES

Emily?

(straightens up)

Where the hell are you? What’s taking you so long to get here?

EMILY (V.O.)

I left Chicago a few hours ago. Something came up.

(beat)

Mom called me.

MAJOR CHARLES

(straightens up)

Your mother? How is she? Where? What did she say?

EMILY (V.O.)

Calm down, dad. I don’t know where she is. She only told me someone is following me.

MAJOR CHARLES

Did she say who?

EMILY (V.O.)

She didn’t, but I know who he is.

It’s White, dad.

MAJOR CHARLES

That bastard.

Tell me where you are. I’ll meet you there.

EMILY (V.O.)

No. You need to be there. I don’t know why. I just feel it.

MAJOR CHARLES

Your brother is the psychic one. You’re trying to take his place now?

EMILY (V.O.)

Call it a woman’s intuition.

MAJOR CHARLES

What about White? Think you can outtrack him?

EMILY (V.O.)

I’m not running away, dad.

MAJOR CHARLES

Emily, no! you don’t want to stand up against him on your own!

EXT. PARKING LOT - DAY

Emily’s car is parked in a diner’s parking lot, facing the building’s big sized window.

Hiding behind a tree, Emily sees a white sedan arrive at the parking lot and park on the opposite row.

The driver exits his vehicle. Unsurprisingly, it’s White.

EMILY (CONT’D)

Don’t worry about me, dad.

I just twisted the rules of the game and poor Whithey doesn’t know it yet.

White goes inside the diner.

Emily closes her cell phone and moves swiftly from her hiding spot to White’s car.

She sneaks behind his car, watching as White sits at a booth and waits for a waiter to get his order.

A waitress approaches, pen and pad in hand.

White makes his order, takes a picture from his pocket and shows it to the waiter.

The waiter nods.

White puts the picture back in his pocket.

The waiter walks away.