Judge, Jury and Executioner

**Jury and Executioner** is the sixth episode of the first season and the sixth overall episode of **The Endgame**.

## Synopsis:

An inmate on a quest for redemption escapes prison. Jonathan Doak comes up with a plan to take back one of the banks.

## Summary

When Elena Federova

The episode opens on Val Turner and Elena Federova in Federova's cell after Federova gave her Isaac Bigby's address. Val accuses Elena of being cruel and trying to manipulate her. Elena compliments Val's investigative skills and says that she understand why Val might feel like that. Val points out that she could easily kill Elena before anyone could stop her. Elena says that she's trying to free Val from her past and she has given Val the truth in an "act of a true friend."

Elena tells Val that the death of Isaac Bigby was faked and that, should Val investigate the address she gave her, she'll find out that Bigby is still alive. She claims that she's trying to help Val deal with the grief she has over her mother's death by giving her the opportunity to kill the man who destroyed her life. Elena asks Val how well she sleeps as Val is leaving.

Val goes home and destroys the address that Elena had left for her to find. She picks up a photo of her mother and herself and hears gunshots as her apartment is shot at. She wakes up to find herself in her chair, still holding the paper after inadvertently falling asleep. She then goes to the address and watches the apartment while Anthony Flowers looks up the name of the resident living at the given address.

The tenant is listed as Lawrence Oliver but Val points out that it could be a fake name. Anthony only got surface level information because he was worried about Val staring at her mother's killer and making the wrong choice. She tells him that she's torn up about everything that's happened and, now knowing that Bigby might still be alive, she doesn't know what to do. Anthony convinces her to get coffee with him and they leave together in the car.

Rogelio Réal meets with Caroline Walsh, a judge who he is implied to have a romantic relationship with when they were in college. Caroline says that she doesn't need protection and her presence in the photograph is purely coincidental. She insists that she has dealt with this before and Rogelio tells her that she's part of the pattern and in danger.

Their conversation is intercut with a man escaping from prison as Rogelio tries, and fails, to convince Caroline to go with him to a safer location. He asks her about the photograph and she tells him that it looked like a military operation that she had nothing to do with.

As he leaves, he checks in with the FBI agents waiting at the door. As soon as he gets in his car, a woman comes up and distracts the FBI agents. A third party shoots the agents in the neck with what is presumably tranquilizing darts. A group of people in the signature masks enters the judge's home and the escaped inmate reveals his face to the judge. They take her into their waiting van and the last one out the door flashes an envelope with "Agent Val Turner" written on it in Elena's handwriting at the security camera.

Jonathan Doak is still working on the banks, checking in with an agent about the progress the bank robbers are making. He is told that they are trying to break into Elena's frozen accounts.

Val, Anthony, and Rogelio arrive at Caroline's brownstone. Rogelio reads the note that was left and Val confirms that it's Elena's handwriting:

> How many people can you fit into a Three-hundred-square-foot store?
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Papers are strewn all over the floor and Anthony confirms that the escaped prisoner, Jamie Alfonso, had been driving the van with the Snow White operatives. Alfonso was put in jail for killing a man named Carlos Bella from the Mirabile family in 2010 by Caroline.

Val tries to convince Rogelio that Elena's plans have never involved physical violence since their game started but Rogelio is not convinced. He receives a phonecall from Doak after Val leaves and is informed that Elena's people are hacking into the bank files. Doak suggests doing something "unconventional" and asks for snipers in order to take down the thieves.

Rona and one of her colleagues are using Elena's money to purchase crypto currency while they are in the bank's system.

Val and Anthony join CSI at the abandoned van and Anthony says that it's not about the van, it's about the location. Val is proud of him and they investigate the area. They talk about how Alfonso went from petty crimes to murder unexpectedly. He thought he could beat the charges so he skipped a trial and went straight to Caroline Walsh who then decided his fate.

Val and Anthony spot a man who is sweeping the street and find out that he knows Alfonso. They learn that Alfonso's family was forced to watch as Alfonso was dragged out of his home by the police. After his arrest, his family was forced to move. The man gives Val another envelope:

> Follow the Corruption
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In Fort Totten, Elena sits as Rogelio barges into the room to try to get information out of her. Elena says that corruption starts small and builds over time. Rogelio threatens Elena's people with Doak's plan and Elena suggests that this is the first step towards Rogelio's won corruption.

Doak calls Rona in the bank and offers a trade for all the hostages for Louie Tang. Rona and Doak agree to the trade and the computer finally breaks into Elena's account. The money is used to buy crypto and Rona calls Doak back to agree to release the hostages one by one. Snipers ready themselves on the rooftop.

In a flashback to 1990, a young Val and her mother are walking down the street in Queens. Her mom talks to her about honesty and how one little lie will escalate. Her mother encourages honesty and explains how corruption begins with the tiniest lies that spiral into something more.

In the present, Rogelio calls Val to check in on the case. Val reexamines the case from the beginning and she and Anthony go track down the location of the witness. Elena taunts Rogelio through the glass and Rogelio receives a video of Caroline tied up and gagged.

Louie is brought to the FBI van and Doak promises that he will make it hurt.

Val and Anthony show up at a storefront that Anthony estimates is 300-square-feet and discover that it's a front. Val finds another note posted on a bulletin board waiting for her, also in Elena's handwriting.

If the judge lies, she's a dead woman!

Doak and Louie make a deal about the engagement ring before the tradeoff begins. Doak makes sure that Louie understands that they will not hesitate to shoot if they don't cooperate.

In the prison, Sergey and Owen see that Sergey's old friend from Ukraine is out of the hospital. They argue about whether or not they should have killed the man.

Val calls Rogelio after checking the original murder scene. She tells him about the storefront and about how it's money laundering. He tells her that he has to assume that Caroline is innocent as Elena watches from below.

Doak lines up snipers and they start to make the trade, one hostage at a time. When Rona ducks her head out, the shooters fire a bullet at the door but miss. She and the others duck back inside, Louie with them. Louie and Rona reunite and run off. Doak has his men force the door open but it's too late; everyone has already escaped through a hole they drilled in the hole. He sends people down after them and realizes that the ring was taken by Louie when he wasn't looking.

Val and Anthony speculate that the storefront is paying people to serve as witnesses in Caroline's cases. Val and Anthony go to check out where the murder was witnessed.

Back at the prison, Sergey speaks to his old friend. The friend says that he was poisoned by eye drops but he fortunately grew up drinking poor quality water so it didn't effect him much. He asks if the plan is moving forward "in two weeks" and the two embrace like old friends. The friend is seen talking to another man and Owen and Sergey watch. The man's name is Samson and is in prison for arson. Owen says that the Ferret making a friend is bad for them.

Val and Anthony enter an apartment building and hear someone crying. They open the door and find the judge held at gunpoint by the escaped criminal. Val diffuses the situation and sees that there's no way that the person in this apartment would have never been able to see the crime. He points out that Caroline locked up more than 25 people through fake witnesses. He forces Caroline to confess to paying people to convict innocent people. Alfonso throws himself and the judge out an open window and Val rushes to see that the judge landed on the fire escape one floor down and is fine.

Rogelio comes to meet them at the apartment building and Val confirms that what Alfonso said was true. She also tells him that the shell company that owns the "Watch Repair" store owns the Lebed Storage, where the body was found in a freezer. They suggest that the judge has been covering up crimes committed by the Beloks by convicting innocent people to pull the heat off of them. Val suggests forming a task force to deal with the Beloks.

Rogelio confronts Caroline about what she did. He is upset and disappointed and Caroline threatens his job. He asks if it's the money. He asks Caroline if her corruption started with a bang or with a whimper, the same question that Elena posed to him earlier in the episode. The judge is then arrested for her crimes.

Rona and Louie are on a bus and Rona is admiring the ring he gave her. Doak shows up behind them and Louie figures out that there's a tracker in the ring. Doak reveals that the shots were fake in order to get the hostages out. Rona leaves behind the pamphlet they used earlier to write down the numbers for the crypto currency in the bus and Alfonso sits at her vacated seat. He takes the pamphlet which reads:

> Good luck. 10 million. you earned it.
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Anthony calls Val and confirms that the man Elena told her about is Bigby. He had been put in witness protection for being an FBI informant. Val tells Anthony that he doesn't need to worry because her mom wouldn't want her to hurt anyone on her behalf. She goes to bed but can't sleep. All she can think about is what Elena said to her about wanting to "right that wrong" for what Bigby did. Val goes to confront the man who murdered her mother at his home.

Val tells him that her mother was special and tearfully tells him that he murdered her. He tells her to leave and grabs his delivery from someone before telling her to leave. He pulls out a cigarette and she leaves. As she reaches the street, he collapses. She calls for an ambulance.

Val goes to confront Elena at Fort Totten and tells her that she knows that she laced the cigarettes. Elena tells her that it's closure. She tells Val that she's too righteous and tells Val that she put an operative in place so that he could be murdered when she was there. Elena insists that she did this to help her and that it's the first step in their relationship. Elena tells Val that she'll sleep better now that she got to watch the man who ruined her life and killed her mother take his last breath.

The power goes out and Rogelio, Louie, and Rona are also seen to be in Fort Totten.