[to Womack discreetly]

I need to talk to you, right now, alone.

[Both Paxton and Womack are outside]

Now you told me I'm on a need-to-know basis. And I'm tellin' you right now, I need to know who the **** John Mason is right now, sir?

All right, you wanna know? 1962, J. Edgar Hoover is head of the FBl, some say the country. It's no secret he kept microfilm files on prominent Americans and Europeans: de Gaulle, British members of Parliament, even the prime minister. I mean, this guy had dirt on everybody in the world.

Yeah, I know all the cloak-and-dagger stories. Where does Mason fit in?

Mason was the British operative who stole the files. But our Bureau agents caught him at the Canadian border. Of course, the British claimed, 'They'd never heard of him.' And we held him without trial until he gave up the microfilm... but he never did.

Well, I'm surprised Hoover didn't use his daughter as leverage.

Hoover was dead in '72. She wasn't born yet. Today... well, it's a different Bureau.

So you held this guy without trial his whole life. No wonder he's pissed.

This man knows our most intimate secrets from the last half century: The alien landing at Roswell, the truth about the J.F.K. assassination. Mason's angry, he's lethal, he's a trained killer. And he... is the only hope that we have got.