dean obtains the disc and brill identifies reynolds in the recovered video, but the disc is destroyed during an escape from an nsa raid. brill, whose real name is edward lyle, tells dean of his past as a communications expert; he was stationed in iran during the iranian revolution; his partner, rachel's father, was killed, but lyle made it out and has been in hiding since. lyle tries to urge dean to run away, but dean is determined to clear his name.