Tuesday: an armed Agent Helen Brody (Carrie-Anne Moss) walks to the counter terrorism unit in Los Angeles' FBI field office. She holds a meeting with Agent Paul Vincent (Gil Bellows), DJ Jackson (Brandon Routh) and others. Afterwards, Agent Phillips (Joshua Harto) hands her a file on Henry Harold 'H' Humphries (Samuel L. Jackson). Vincent and the other agents watch a news report on Younger. They’ve been scooped by media. Assistant Director Jack Saunders (Martin Donovan) orders Brody to round up all terror suspects and their families, due to high priority matters. As he watches agents approaching his house on surveillance cameras, H sends his kids to bed and calls Charles Thompson (Stephen Root) and informs his family's cover has been blown.
DJ tracks down Steven’s family. Thompson calls Brody and tells her that the H file was sent by mistake and to withdraw her agents. Vincent and DJ arrive at H’s house. They bring him in for questioning. Saunders and Thompson barge in and release H. Additionally, the agency will be moved to a centralized command facility of an undisclosed location.
Wednesday: at night, Brody arrives with Vincent and DJ. They’re greeted by young sergeant (Geoff Meed) and General Paulson (Holmes Osborne). He tells Brody they’ll be helping him and informs her that the Defense of Authorization Act of 2007 entitles him military jurisdiction on home soil (to suppress any insurrection, unlawful combination or conspiracy).
H and Thompson arrive. Saunders plays the Younger video, which has a bomb in the background. Younger says there are nuclear bombs in three American cities and that he has demands that will be announced later. He shows all three bombs in their cities and plans to start detonation on Friday 21st at noon PST, which is in four days. Younger is a former career military specialist who can speak Farsi and Arabic and has had dealings with Iran. The team's top priority is finding the bombs. He has already been arrested after volunteering himself up at a mall.
The team walk to his interrogation room where he’s being drenched with water. H enters and starts beating the guard. He’s detained. Brody walks in and informs him that Younger's situation is illegal and starts drying him off. Brody argues with Saunders outside. The next day, Brody holds a meeting with the team and hands out assignments. In his cell, H and Brody talk. Paulson and Thompson show up and H informs them he will be working with Brody. An older gentleman tells them all to give H what he wants. When H shows up at the interrogation center, Paulson sends most people away except for military personnel. Paulson puts Colonel Kerkmejian (Michael Rose) in command. Alvarez (Benito Martinez), as well as MP Winston (Dayo Ade) are also present.
Younger’s arm is secured and H starts chopping off his fingers. “What? It’s only a finger.” H is told to stop. “Alright, no more fingers.” Alvarez places a plastic bag over his head and H cuts a hole in it so Younger can breathe. He then rips the bag open. “All your worries and fears, all your nightmares, are right here.” H takes a knife to Younger’s penis. Brody visits Saunders, who tells her that they’ll be able to hold the military accountable down the line for inhumane treatment of Younger, but finding the bombs is priority #1 right now. H beats Younger. In the bathroom, Brody and H discuss the merits of physical torture. He gives her the opportunity to question Younger. She tries to elicit Younger's sympathies in order to find the location of one bomb, but it doesn’t work. H recommences his torture. “The winner gets to take the moral high ground, because they get to write the history books. The loser: just loses.” He spits in his face.
Thursday: the torture continues. H's Bosnian wife Rinas (Lora Kojovic) shows up for lunch. H tells Brody to wait for the adrenaline to wear off Younger before she approaches him. He hands her a device to shock him if he falls sleep, but she says she won’t use it. “I’m a prisoner here myself. Ask the CIA," H tells her before leaving. Younger falls asleep and Kerkmejian administers the shock, which he’s unable to stop due to a technical glitch devised by H, until it short-circuits. She finds H and complains, before having a conversation with Rina. She shares her horrendous Bosnian back story.
In a communications room, Brody discusses matters with the team. A truck is found and Brody begins to make educated guesses as to where the bombs are. H plays some classical music and has Brody give Younger a massage. He explains that Rina is a nurse who killed her captors, as well as their wives and children. They met after her arrest. Younger finally breaks. He agrees to a taped message to the president where he makes his lofty list of demands. Brody implores Younger to give up the bomb locations, but he won’t until his demands are met. H continues with the torture.
In the communications room, the team watch video footage of Younger, who appears like he wanted to be caught. They discuss whether or not the bombs exist and if this was all a ploy by Younger to make a point about torture techniques. Brody arrives in the interrogation room and tells H he can put the drill down that he was using on Younger’s teeth. She tries to get him to fess up a bomb location again by playing good cop. “Can’t you see you’ve already won. You’ve proved that we’re exactly the kind of people we say we aren’t. Look what they did to you. You are the bravest man I know, but it’s over now. There’s no proof. There are no bombs, are there?” He confesses that there weren’t any bombs. She writes down on a piece of paper where she thinks the bombs are, and he nods his head.
The team arrive at the location, but Brody and Vincent suspect that the building might be booby-trapped. On the roof, they find Younger’s picture. Someone pulls the picture off and it sets off a bomb in a shopping mall killing 53 people. Brody returns and yells at Younger. She takes a knife to Younger’s chest. Winston takes the knife for her.
Friday: DJ and Vincent think they’ve detected a bomb in Dallas set to explode in three hours. In the interrogation room, H expresses his doubts that Younger may not crack. Brody has to negotiate with Younger’s wife Jehan (Necar Zadegan), who they bring in to see her husband. She says they know nothing about the bombs. H is ready to take a knife to Younger, but slices his wife to death instead. Later, H is informed that government officials have been evacuated to nuclear shelters.
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| Okay, the kid on the right is not even trying |
Brody finally tells H, “Just do what you have to do.” (So much for integrity!) “What I have to do, Agent Brody, is, unthinkable.” (Hence, the title.) He orders Younger’s children (Jillian Bruno, Coby Seyrafi) in. Younger freaks out and surrenders three addresses. After one address is verified, H informs the team that he is going to continue with the torture, despite promising earlier that he wouldn’t harm them, because he believes there are more bombs Younger is hiding. They break into the interrogation room, subdue loose cannon H and confiscate the kids. Brody chews Thompson out. H tells everyone that there is a fourth bomb. “Can’t you fucking count? Four-and-a-half times three is thirteen-and-a-half, times four, is eighteen.” Kerkmejian orders the children back into the room. H orders Brody to retrieve them. Brody, ever the voice of conscience, says this all must stop. H unties Younger: “You can’t prosecute a man with no fingernails.” Kerkmejian draws a gun on him and tells H that they have his children.
Younger grabs keystone cop Kerkmejian's gun and pulls it out on everyone before committing suicide. Kerkmejian informs everyone that Younger and his family never existed. Okay.
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| One of these child actors is not like the other one ... |
Brody takes the children, because the children are always better off with a woman.
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| Way to go Austin! |
Hot Austin Nichols as a bomb disposal expert types something into an Excel spreadsheet and disarms one of the bombs. We watch as another bomb nearby, hidden, counts down to zero. Black out, roll credits. Duh, duh, duh.
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