dean believes pintero is behind the smear campaign as revenge for a prior case, with help from brill, a secretive contact of banks. dean sets up a meet with brill, to which the nsa sends an impostor, but the real brill rescues dean. brill explains that his pursuers are nsa agents and rids him of tracking devices hidden in his clothing. with dean and brill in hiding, the nsa agents kill banks and frame dean for the murder.