The Last Frontier
Season 1 – Episode 9
Episode title: Converge
Original air date: November 28, 2025
Plot: Bradford lands in Fairbanks with a CIA task force and new primary target. Sidney makes a desperate attempt to expose the truth.
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The Last Frontier – S01E09 – Converge | Transcript
Get up. Where is she?
[grunts, pants]
[Frank] Is she in a vehicle or on foot?
[panting]
Where the fuck is Scofield?
[groaning] Where is she? Huh?
You won’t find her. Trust me.
Trust you? We already tried that.
[Havlock] Have I ever lied to you? Huh?
[Frank] You never told me about her.
I didn’t fucking know.
Been trying to tell you the CIA downed the plane.
Thought she might have something to do with it, but I didn’t think for a minute it’d be her fucking plan from the start.
[panting]
Dispatch, I got a 1050 involving multiple vehicles. Troopers are down.
I’m requesting immediate EMS support.
[phone buzzing]
Where are you?
[Sidney] Frank, I’m so sorry.
I understand you can’t appreciate why I had to do what I did.
Appreciate it? People are dead, Sidney.
[Sidney] I’d love to explain.
Maybe at some point, but right now I am calling to warn you.
Getting in the middle of what’s happening with Bradford and me, don’t do it.
Where the hell are you?
If you get involved, you’re gonna get hurt.
And that’s the last thing that I want.
Please, for your own safety, Frank…
Since when have you given a shit about anybody’s safety?
I know how this looks.
Bodies are everywhere, Scofield.
You don’t understand.
I understand you downed the plane.
You have blood on your hands.
Hey, you need to turn yourself in.
I can’t. Not yet.
There’s something I gotta do first.
The Archive. [sighs]
I know you’re the kind of man that feels like he’s gotta do something about this.
To make it all right, to put a stop to it.
But don’t.
I’m telling you, Frank, for your own good, stand down.
And I fucking told you if you jeopardize the lives of the people in this town, there was gonna be hell to pay.
So now I’m gonna make good on that.
Make like the wind, lady, and giddy the fuck up ’cause I am coming for you.
[sighs] You don’t wanna do that, Frank.
Oh, it’s all I want.
Okay. But I warned you.
[phone clatters]
[theme music playing]
[Griffin] The marshals have Hartman in custody.
We’re trying to find out where they’re holding him.
Scofield?
Undetermined.
But there’s been a wrinkle.
We’re getting word that Hartman compromised one of our SIGINT posts on the Bering.
We have confirmed casualties.
What did he want?
Too early to tell, but our analysts believe he could’ve downloaded up to a petabyte of data.
Son a bitch.
The woman who built Hartman’s dead man’s switch lives in Philadelphia?
Yeah. Hunting Park.
[Jacque] Hartman was in Russia, which means he had to send Archive 6 digitally.
I don’t follow, ma’am.
Any SIGINT post in the Bering is siphoning data traveling along the trans-Arctic cable, which means Hartman, if he sent that to his hacker friend, we likely intercepted it.
Which means it’s on our servers.
That fucker breached our post to recover the Archive.
That’s what he downloaded.
He made a hard copy.
And if he doesn’t have it, Scofield sure as shit does.
Okay, listen up.
This is a contain-and-clean operation.
Primary target is Sidney Scofield.
She is in possession of classified intel and should be considered highly dangerous.
You are to terminate with extreme prejudice.
The secondary is Levi Taylor Hartman.
He is in custody, but I want him off the board.
Keep a low profile.
Leave no footprints.
Get to work.
[“Converge” playing]
[chains clinking]
[music continues]
[music stops]
[Frank sighs] You’re the last person I wanna depend upon, but I need the truth.
So I need your help.
[Havlock] I can’t help you if I’m locked up.
[Frank]
Well, you’re staying locked up, okay?
You kidnapped my wife, you killed my men, your wife’s on the run, and Jacqueline Bradford just touched down at Fort Wainwright.
How long ago did she land?
No, you tell me what I’m walking into.
I know you think the CIA brought down that plane to kill you because you found something.
What did you uncover?
A CIA database.
Archive 6.
Yes. The Archive proves that Bradford’s running a kill list.
She’s naming enemies and she’s killing them without judicial procedure.
So Scofield wants to bring down the whole Agency.
[Havlock] Not the Agency. No.
She wants to bring down Bradford and expose her program.
Doesn’t care about who she hurts along the way.
It’s not as simple as that.
Maybe that depends on which side of the fucking fence you’re on.
Oh, come on, Frank.
Collateral damage for the greater good.
You of all people understand that sometimes that is unavoidable.
I’ll tell you what I understand.
I’m gonna put an end to all this shit, I’m gonna bring your wife in, and she’s gonna spend the rest of her life in prison.
That’s what I know.
Not if Bradford gets there first, Frank.
She’s not here to arrest her, Frank.
She’s here to kill her.
She knows that Sidney has the Archive.
She knows she’s gonna transmit it, so she’ll do whatever it takes to stop her, keep her little fucking secret safe.
You let me out of here, and I can help you stop Bradford.
Not gonna happen.
All right. Understand this, Frank.
Then you and whatever men you have left are all that stands between the CIA executing my wife and the truth being exposed.
Then you get to work quick, Frank, because if she dies, the truth dies with her.
[Frank] Okay, everyone.
Come on, let’s bring it in.
One more fugitive’s been added to our list, and it is one of our own.
Sidney Scofield is now at large and is now wanted for questioning over the downing of USM flight 207.
She was last seen on the Dalton, five miles south of Prospect Creek.
She’s on foot, so she is still in the area.
Let’s alert the state troopers, the FPD, social media.
I want her picture everywhere.
Look, I know we’re tired, all right?
Our bodies hurt. We wanna go home.
So I’m gonna remind you that Scofield is the reason we’re all here.
The reason our hospital is full, our children are terrified.
The reason our town has been under siege for the past week.
So find your second wind.
Get angry if you need to.
‘Cause none of us get our lives back until we bring this woman in.
We have one goal and one goal only, and that is to find Sidney Scofield.
So let’s get to it.
[claps hands] I know who you are, Vincent. I do.
I know you were close friends with Robert Scofield.
That he gave you a life in this country.
I know that you’ve known Sidney since she was a little girl, which I assume that’s why you helped her.
‘Cause you care about her.
Which is why you need to help me bring her in safely.
Even if I wanted to help you, I can’t.
I don’t know where she is.
Sidney’s off book.
You know what she wants.
To expose the Archive.
Take down Bradford, which she will do.
Bradford’s here.
But she brought a team with her to eliminate Sidney, which is why you need me to get to her first.
Tell me how to do that.
I don’t think you really understand the woman you’re hunting.
Everything in Sidney’s life has pointed her to this moment.
The murder of her father, the betrayal of her family, her life as a spy.
Bradford has exploited Sidney and all she loves in an effort to keep her secret safe.
She intends to make that right.
Expose the truth.
Sidney isn’t a fugitive.
She’s an operative.
Failure is not an option.
Forgive my candor, but I’m not worried about Bradford finding her, and I’m not concerned about you getting to her first.
Truth is, all my money is on Scofield.
[gun cocks]
Who the fuck are you? Get up.
[“Free Bird” playing on radio]
[grunts]
[both screaming, grunting]
[screams]
[grunts]
[song continues]
[both straining]
[screaming]
[screams]
[music ends]
[radio clatters]
[panting]
Frank.
Yeah.
There you are. This is–
Jacqueline Bradford. Deputy Director, CIA.
I know who you are.
I understand you have had your hands full up here.
Good work by you and your team.
Is there somewhere we could speak privately?
About Scofield?
Uh, it’s a little more complicated than that.
What I can confirm is I need to detain two fugitives who are in your custody.
One goes by the alias Vincent Thiago, the other is a former CIA asset named Levi Hartman.
Codenamed “Havlock.”
Yes. Is he here?
Yes.
Got a warrant?
You don’t understand.
This is a matter of national security.
Court documents?
I appreciate that, but these men have rights.
So I’m gonna ask you again.
Do you have any court documents?
[Jacque] Marshal, this is not up for debate.
The two men in your custody are violent, nonstate actors who pose threats you couldn’t possibly understand.
Fair enough.
Look, you ever heard of Little Diomede?
Excuse me?
It’s a tiny island in the Bering Sea.
It’s got a population of about 80 people.
They live in a small cluster of huts on a hillside.
Probably the most remote settlement in the whole US of A.
Okay.
[Frank] Two miles to the east of it is Big Diomede, which is part of the Chukotsky District of Russia.
And the Russian-US border runs right down the middle of these two islands.
I’m not following your point.
My point is that despite our proximity, Alaska is not part of Russia.
Even Little Diomede Island, which is way out there in the Bering Sea, is US soil, which is what you are standing on right now.
And the CIA has no legal jurisdiction in America.
So unless you have a court order from the AUSA recognizing you as an authorized officer of the law, you can just get the fuck out of my command center.
[Jacque] Mr. Remnick. Frank.
I think we got off on the wrong foot.
I think I can agree with that.
What did he tell you?
That he’s one of the good guys?
That he stole intelligence that proves the CIA is, what, dirty?
Corrupt?
Not the CIA. No. No, no. Just you.
He told you a story. That’s what he does.
Hartman is trained in PSYOPs.
He knows how to manipulate people.
[guard] Eat up, piece of shit.
Did you even see the Archive he told you about?
No, I did not.
There you go.
He convinced you of the existence of something that’s not real.
It’s a magic trick.
[Frank] Well, it’s a pretty convincing one.
[Jacque] Levi Hartman is a traitor.
He enlisted his wife to help him betray his country, and when things went south, she made sure to protect herself.
Scofield brought that plane down, not to expose some Archive.
She brought it down to get rid of the only person who could implicate her and destroy her life.
These are the kind of people you’re dealing with.
Look, I don’t know what is on your Archive and I don’t really care.
I just wanna bring Scofield in.
People are dead because of her, and she needs to be held accountable.
So if you’ll excuse me, that’s what I’m gonna do.
I know they all love you up here.
[sighs] I’m sorry?
You got out. Saw the big city.
And then you came home to the simple life.
I imagine you’re a real hometown hero.
Yeah.
I know you didn’t come back here because you love it, or because you lost your little girl.
You came back to East Jesus with your tail between your legs because you couldn’t survive in the real world.
Because this place is safe.
Because this place does not matter.
Well, now you got a real-life situation, a real-life problem, with real consequences.
Boxing me out will be your biggest regret yet.
Is that a fact?
You walk out that door, this does not end well for you.
You know, that almost sounds like a threat.
Mmm, it’s more like a word of caution.
Let me offer you a little friendly word of caution.
Your influence doesn’t count for shit up here.
Neither does your title or your DC connections.
In fact, everything that empowers you in Washington is a liability up here.
So you go right on ahead.
You underestimate me. I’m used to it.
But I will bring Scofield in, and I will hand Hartman over to the FBI, and Thiago too.
And if you get in my way, I’ll arrest your crooked ass as well.
[music plays softly in store]
Oh, let me help you with that.
I’m such a klutz.
[chuckles] Not at all.
Can I help you find anything today?
[Sidney] No. Thanks.
No? Okay. Just let me know.
Actually…
Yeah?
…there is something you can help me with.
[attendant] Oh, great. Name it.
Hey, guys. We just got a hit on the tip line from Schiller’s Pharmacy.
A witness there spotted Scofield.
She said she’s certain it’s her.
All right. Notify FPD.
Tell them we’re on the way.
The Bureau’s en route and preparing to take Hartman into custody.
They should be on site within the hour.
They’ll detain Thiago too.
He’s the bigger problem.
Hartman’s more or less neutralized.
Thiago goes back to the old man.
You want to divert resources?
One problem at a time.
Scofield is the priority.
Contact OSB. Find out where she could go to transmit that Archive.
It’s not like she’s posting selfies.
She’d need a SIPRNet network.
There can’t be that many places up here that could handle a data upload like that.
[radio dispatcher] All units be advised.
1066, possible fugitive sighting.
2120 Lathrop. Units in vicinity, respond and assist.
Subject is considered armed and dangerous…
That’s her. Alert the team. Let’s go.
We wanna be there before the LEOs.
Go now!
[music plays softly in store]
Hey, Winnie. Is your dad here?
Hey, Frank.
No, he’s fixing the sump pump at my grandma’s.
What’s going on?
Uh, we had a 911 call on a fugitive.
Have you seen this woman?
I ain’t seen her nowhere.
You sure the call was from here?
You been here all day?
Pretty much. Yeah.
You want me to call Dad?
In a minute.
I need to see your security footage.
[Winnie] Yeah.
Keep moving. Head around back.
Excuse me.
You seen this woman?
Think she was talking to Haroldo.
Where’s Haroldo?
Bathroom’s the other end of the hall.
What are you doing?
Hey. You’re not allowed back here.
Wait. Wait. Stop!
What are you doing? Stop it.
All right, stop.
Hold it right there. That’s her.
What is she holding?
[groans] It looks like hair dye.
Looks like Lady Lustrous RC1.
Terracotta Chili.
Terra-what?
Terracotta Chili.
It’s this medium-bold red.
It’s a popular shade.
I can’t pull it off though.
Who is she with?
[Winnie] That’s Haroldo.
He was just here.
Whoa!
[stammers] Nina, you seen Haroldo?
Why is everyone looking for Haroldo?
Who’s everyone?
The old lady. In the pants suit.
[Frank] Hutch.
Hey, listen, we’re too late.
Bradford’s been here already.
If this is about Ramy’s party at the Chowder House, I was drinking, but I left before they trashed the pla–
Stop talking.
Listen to me.
You talk to this woman?
I, um… I think so.
What did she want?
She, um… She bought some hair dye.
Is that all? Think long and hard, Haroldo.
I asked her if she needed anything for her trip,
but she said she was good.
Her trip?
Yeah. On, uh, the Denali Star.
She asked me for directions to the station and I told her how to get there.
[line ringing]
Look, am I in some sort of trouble?
Aren’t you supposed to tell me I can have a lawyer or something?
I need eyes on the Fairbanks Depot.
Denali Star.
You can’t just leave me here!
I have fucking eczema!
Hey!
Dickwad.
Hey, Frank.
I think I got something here.
[Frank] It’s Briggs.
It’s about the Archive you were talking about.
Yeah.
If this file is as big as you say it is, Scofield’s gonna have limited options for uploading it, so assuming she doesn’t have access to compression software, she’s gonna need to find a data center or a facility with a direct link to a data center.
Something with, like, a really big power footprint.
So where can she do that?
Well, my first thought was the colos used by the UAF, but I just got wind that the school shut down the servers for some spot maintenance.
[Hutch] Where else could she go?
One of the bases?
Like a utility company? II don’t know.
I’m trying to figure it out but I need more time.
The longer Scofield is out there, the more dangerous this becomes.
We need to find out where she’s headed before Bradford does.
[announcer on PA]
The Denali Star is now boarding.
It stops at Healy, Denali, Talkeetna, Wasilla and Anchorage.
Departing in five minutes.
Alpha Team, you got anything?
[Alpha Team member]
Searching the tracks now.
We don’t have a visual.
[Jacque] She’s there. Trust me.
Train’s about to leave. You want us to canvass the crowd for the next one?
No! She is on board.
Send your team in and find her.
Board the train. Alpha, start your sweep from the rear.
Echo, begin at the top, make your way to the back.
[train whistle blows]
Move to the back.
What?
Face the fucking wall!
All right.
I just found out three federal agents are dead because of that little stunt you pulled on the highway.
Two more are in the ICU!
[grunts, groans]
One of them was Agent Loftquist who I served with in Afghanistan.
He survived two combat deployments, and now he’s dead and gone because of you!
[Havlock] Oh, shit! [groans]
[guard] Get the fuck up.
[groans, pants]
[panting] You know what that is?
It’s an improvised fragmentation grenade.
They used to make them in the Vietcong out of bamboo and tin cans.
Okay. Just hold on a second.
Not sure how strong the primer is on this one.
I’m sure it’s got at least a five-meter kill radius.
But you know that, don’t you?
Because you served.
And because you served, you know it’s not only fucking stupid, but against regulation to bring a loaded firearm into a detainee’s cell.
Now, why don’t you get on the fucking floor!
[grunting, panting]
Now…
Thank you.
[grunts] Give me your jacket and your keys.
[zipper opens]
OSB’s preliminary list of data uplink facilities in the area.
There’s too many here.
Tell them to narrow it down.
Check the itinerary on that train, use the stops along the line for filters.
I need a status report.
[operative]
I’ve cleared the luggage and cargo holds.
Alpha and Echo are checking the passenger cars now.
She is there. You find her.
[Alpha Team member] Command, this is Alpha. Car seven is clear.
[Echo Team Member]
Echo Team reporting. No visual.
[operative] The primary is here.
That redhead is on board, armed and hostile.
[shushes]
[train whistle blows]
[Havlock] Hey.
If you’re here to kill me, you’re doing me a favor.
I’m gonna spend the rest of my life in prison.
How’d you do it?
The plane?
No. How did you convince Sidney?
You obviously told her that I needed to die to expose the Archive. How’d you do it?
I didn’t need to convince her of anything.
You know Sidney.
[sighs] Her choices have always been her own.
Sidney signed my death warrant.
No.
She made a decision that was bigger than you, or her, or any one of us.
She’s not afraid to put herself in the crosshairs to stop Bradford and avenge her father’s death.
My role was to be a facilitator.
I vowed to do whatever I could to help Sidney carry out her mission.
Even if it meant sacrificing yourself?
A small price to pay after what she and her father have given me.
Hope. A vision.
Those are the kinds of beliefs that are worth the sacrifice of a few lives, including my own.
And that’s why I will do whatever I can to help Sidney see her mission to the end.
Well, you and I have more in common than I thought.
What’s that supposed to mean?
What’s this? What are you doing?
[Havlock] I’m asking you to help me so I can help her.
[passengers gasping]
[grunting]
[groans]
[both grunting]
[screams]
[Sidney screams]
[gunfire]
[announcer on PA]
Welcome to Healy Station.
This is an Anchorage bound train departing in five minutes.
We lost her.
What do you mean you lost her?
We took casualties and we need containment.
It won’t be long before the locals are on site.
I will deal with the locals.
Talk to me about Scofield.
We don’t know where she is.
But she can’t have gotten far.
She got off the train at Healy.
Healy. Let me see the list.
What is it?
Is there a data center in Healy?
[Jacque] No. It’s the next best thing.
Nenana Hydroelectric Dam.
It powers the army’s cold weather training facility at Black Rapids, which means secure satellite uplinks and the kind of bandwidth she would need to transmit the Archive.
She wants to commandeer their uplink.
Which is why we have to get there first.
Notify the team. Let’s go!
Two degrees outside.
Yeah. Well, fuck him.
This is what he was wearing on the way in.
He can wear it on the way out.
He’s not an animal.
Show a little compassion.
[officer] Gun! Whoa!
Back off. Now!
Put the fucking gun down.
Tell them to back off or I’ll pull the trigger.
[FBI agent grunting]
[Cole] Everybody stay calm.
One last time. Put the gun down.
[handcuffs clicking]
[grunts] All set?
Just like we said. Everything on schedule?
Let’s go. We don’t have much time.
[line ringing]
[Frank] Go for Frank.
[Marks] We got a situation, Frank.
Give me some good news, Marks.
I just got an incident report about some kind of physical altercation on the Denali Star which just pulled into Healy Station.
Yeah, what kind of physical altercation?
They’re saying we got casualties.
I only just got word. I wanted to call.
And there’s witnesses too.
All right. Have the railroad pull the security footage.
Lock it down. We’re on the way.
It’s gotta be her, right?
Yeah, it’s her.
What the hell is she doing?
[sighing] I don’t know, Hutch.
I don’t know.
[Jacque] Smart girl, Sid.
Is the team in place?
We’re in position. No sign of her yet.
Mobile Two, you have anything?
Negative. All quiet here.
[Jacque] Stay alert. She’ll be here.
[Jane] How the hell did he get a key into the command center, let alone a weapon?
This is one of ours.
[Cole sighs]
[Jane] Frank, we lost him. Havlock’s gone.
What the hell happened?
He overpowered one of the guards, got to Thiago.
They created a diversion and he’s gone.
You want me to split up the search party, send half after him?
No. No, we stay with Scofield.
She’s the priority.
Hey, Frank. Are you there?
Give me a moment, Jane.
I know that look. I don’t like that look.
There were witnesses on the train, right?
Right.
Just like there were witnesses
at the pharmacy.
Which is weird because…
We’re talking about Scofield.
She’s CIA, Hutch. She trained Havlock.
You don’t think she knows how to avoid a camera?
So she screwed up.
Yeah, once maybe, but now she creates a scene on a train?
[radio beeps]
Listen, Jane.
Have 911 pull the call of the sighting of Scofield at Schiller’s Pharmacy.
What about Havlock?
[Frank] Just pull the call.
[“In Loving Memory” playing]
I’ve got her. South bank of the river.
She’s alone.
All teams, move into position.
[clattering]
[door closes]
[music ends]
[shotgun loads]
[footsteps approach]
End of the line, Sid.
Where is it?
You got your daddy’s sense of humor.
Yeah.
I inherited a lot from my dad.
The good and the bad.
You’re the last person to be the judge of what’s good and bad.
Oh, but you’re wrong.
I am absolutely qualified to be that judge.
You have no idea what I have seen, day after day, for years.
Innocent people slaughtered.
Your friends betrayed.
Children murdered.
All in the name of this cause or that flag.
When you rub up against the rough places in the world, it either wears you down or it sharpens you.
There is evil out there, Sidney.
Not some gray, existential morality.
Real evil. Actual evil.
And it is up to those of us who have the will to fight it.
Your father had the vision but he didn’t have the will.
He wasn’t strong enough to finish what he started.
So you killed him.
Like I said, some of us are stronger than others.
Now, where’s the Archive?
Frank, we pulled the 911 phone call for you.
[operator] 911, what’s your emergency?
[Sidney] Hi. I saw on the news that you’re looking for that woman, Sidney Scofield.
I think I… I think just saw her at Schiller’s Pharmacy.
That’s Scofield.
She called in the tip on herself.
Why would she do that?
[sighs] You remember Vivian Pike?
Yeah. The con woman we caught.
She called the tip on herself.
She wanted to be caught.
Which is what Scofield’s doing?
No. Scofield’s too smart for that.
She doesn’t wanna be caught.
She wants to be followed.
[Jacque] It was only a matter of time, Sidney.
You had to know I was always gonna find you.
I knew you would find me.
In fact… we made sure of it.
Hey, Jacque.
Glad you could make it.
