My name is Danny McNamara.
I used to work for the FBI.
And I'm Lexi Vaziri.
I used to be a thief.
Excuse me, a master thief.
We're back on the hunt after the Vatican
was attacked by a mysterious group
led by someone who calls himself the Great Khan.
He's looking for an ancient Mongolian artifact
called the Spirit Banner.
Also known as the Soul of Genghis Khan.
And they're leaving a path of destruction
in their wake to get their hands on it.
So it looks like it's up to us to stop them
by finding the Banner...
Before they do.
Previously on Blood & Treasure...
I can stop the bleeding, but if we don't get her
to a hospital quickly, this could go south really fast.
- I'm calling the police. - I was at the Vatican the night it was attacked.
The Vatican and CIA worked together
as a group called Arcanum Gladio.
They thought they could end the Cold War with one swing of the sword.
By wiping out the entire communist world
with an engineered plague.
You've been a screwup since day one.
- Kate, come on. - What happened, Dwayne?
You just couldn't cut it?
The CIA sent you to hire me to hack them?
Just needs to be tested to be sure.
- What's happening? - Thanks to you,
we're eliminating all the top White Hat hackers all over the world.
Somebody at the Vatican is cleaning up everything
related to Arcanum Gladio.
And now that includes you.
I'm going back to Rome to find out who.
We've been on the trail of a Spirit Banner
called the Soul of Genghis Khan.
I send the Banner north with a monk, to return it to Mongolia.
- Do you remember his name? - Gen Huang.
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Oh, no, no, no, no.
That's a $600 bottle of wine you're stealing.
Not stealing.
It's borrowing.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was talking to Lexi.
Shaw, you know I'm good for it. I just...
I need Vince to help us find someone.
Then why don't you pay him with money, like an adult?
I maxed my credit cards out.
Treasure hunting on your own dime is expensive.
Yeah, expensive for me.
Who you got Vince finding for you now?
Gen Huang.
The Chinese monk who took the Banner from Laos
and promised to return it to the Mongolians.
But we are running out of time.
I mean, Simon said the Horde is planning a massive attack
in a few weeks on Chinese New Year.
Speaking of Chinese New Year,
- How are you and Lexi? - Great.
Who knew crash-landing a helicopter in Laos
would bring you closer?
Wait, what does that have to do with Chinese New Year?
Convergence.
Follow me.
On my journey of self-discovery,
I've been steeping myself in different cultures.
Especially this:
the Chinese zodiac.
Each year falls under one of 12 animals,
then the cycle repeats.
And you, my friend, were born under the Year of the Rat.
The rat.
Awesome.
But one shouldn't make any big changes
in the same year as his birth sign; bad juju.
So if you want to propose,
you better do it before the Chinese New Year.
No offense, Shaw, but...
I don't really buy into juju, East or West.
I've come to respect the wisdom of the ancients.
And the Chinese New Year came up twice today.
You brought it up a second time.
Convergence.
Just think about it.
You don'?t have to convince me. I'm already there.
It's just a matter of timing for something that important.
What's important?
I was just, uh... Shaw was, you know,
telling me the best time to water the orchids.
I suppose it's a good thing you are so...
dreadful at lying.
Oh, good, you're both here.
Well, well, the prodigal Reece returns.
Planning on kidnapping yourself again?
- Okay, I deserved that. - You think?
Shaw, I'm-I'm sorry about what I said last time I was here.
A lesser man would throw you out,
but I'm willing to let bygones be bygones,
seeing as how I am the bigger person.
Thank you.
Forgiveness makes for good karma.
Wisdom I learned from the ancients.
Best not to ignore them.
We, uh, heard how you counter-interrogated him and Chuck.
I mean, really, Kate, how very unbecoming.
You tased and kidnapped me.
Kate... show her what you found.
Wait, what?
You knew she was coming?
She wanted to make her case to you in person.
Did she?
I was called into the CIA station in Manila for a debrief
when the world's top White Hats were killed.
As in hackers.
Yes. Specifically a group
protecting vital infrastructure.
All murdered on the same day across the globe.
The Khan just lowered the world's cyber shields.
I want to bring the CIA back in to help us find the Banner.
You said the CIA was compromised by the Khan.
Which is why I was in Manila.
The Agency finished a full investigation
and found only one bad apple,
the Khan's handler, who was killed.
- And you just took their word for it? - No.
I took 30,000 words for it.
Read the report. Our house is clean.
The Agency can help us end this.
Lexi...
I agree with Kate.
Well, your instincts haven't exactly been great
where she's concerned.
Look, both of you think the CIA occasionally does bad things
for the greater good, but all I saw growing up
was them protecting oil interests and powerful people.
People like Jacob Reece.
I need Danny. I don't need you.
You think I'm just gonna step aside
after the Khan killed my best friend?
I will not stop until that bastard is buried
or behind bars.
With or without either of you.
How about this?
We call the CIA after we find the Banner.
They can't help us much until we get it.
Fine.
Great.
Go team.
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Vince.
Shaw said you found Gen.
Depends. That bottle for me?
Payment in full.
French.
C'est magnifique.
Gen last worked in a monastery in Kunming, China.
He was easy to find.
Turns out monks rely on snail mail to communicate,
so they register their address wherever they move.
That's it?
That's worth about a glass, tops.
Spoke to a clerk in the monastery.
Turns out Gen left the faith years ago, but stayed in town.
I got his address.
Vince can go as your translator.
For a small fee.
Say... two more bottles?
- Deal. - What?!
- Who do you work for? - Myself.
- Ten percent. - Sounds reasonable.
Shaw, you coming?
We could use the extra gun if we hit trouble,
like we did in Laos.
Plus, major karma points if you help us catch the Khan.
Karma points don't pay the rent.
Yet my heroic nature compels me to help anyway.
Hahn, watch the bar.
This better come with a raise.
We'll talk about that when I come back.
You always say that.
So, what was the business with killing all those hacker nerds?
You should ask the Great Khan.
I thought you were some genius
that was gonna bring the whole operation home.
No, not me, I'm just a foot soldier, same as you.
Mine is not to reason why.
Mine is but to do and die.
Tennyson.
I know who wrote the poem, bro.
I got a BFA from UCSD.
I just didn't come here to die.
We tracked McNamara and Vaziri
to a Buddhist monastery in Laos.
They left empty-handed, but...
You suspect that they followed the Banner's trail there.
Yes.
Your mission remains the same.
Just find the Banner before they do.
I've been trying, I've been trying.
And failing.
Yes, forgive me.
Being party to the murder of innocent people
has somewhat dimmed my usual enthusiasm.
No great change has ever been made
without great loss.
What great change are we making?
Knowledge comes with loyalty.
Oh, I love that.
Th-That's priceless, that is.
What, are you reading these off the back of fortune cookies?
Well...
Buddhist monks in the region have historically been
sympathetic to the Mongolian cause.
The Banner was stolen from a Buddhist monastery
by the Russians, after all, so...
I'd have thought that the monks would have wanted to
return the Banner to the Mongolians.
Which means that they would have started...
heading north from here.
Now, the only safe place on this journey
for a secret Mongolian religious icon
would be other Buddhist monasteries.
The person that stole the Banner
would have sought refuge in one of these temples in China.
If I were you, I'd start there.
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I thought I saw her die in an explosion in Kazakhstan.
Found in the rubble, like you.
In the time that she's been conscious,
she's been quite spirited.
Spirited. That's, like, code for difficult.
And you want me to employ my gifts of persuasion?
You have 48 hours to extract useful information
that we can use to find McNamara and Vaziri.
Gain knowledge...
prove loyalty.
Yes, but what if she doesn't know anything?
Her body will feed the crocodiles.
Everyone has a use.
How's that for a fortune cookie?
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Gen's maid said he and his wife are somewhere
in the lantern festival selling dumplings from their cart.
We can wait until they get back.
Waiting isn't a plan.
Actually, it is. It's called a stakeout.
With the Khan's army nipping at our heels,
you want him out there unprotected?
Or is that CIA protocol?
- Hey, I don't even need you. - Okay.
Let's split up and search.
Shaw and I will take the south side.
We will?
Yeah, okay.
I guess... Kate and I can cover the north.
Vince, where will you be?
Hello? Earth to Vince.
Oh, sorry. I'll be at the bar.
Someone's got to stake out the house in case Gen comes back.
Speaking of, I've got his photo from the maid.
I'll text it to all of you right now.
Everyone turn comms on.
You see someone with a brand or a gray sash,
that's the Horde, so speak up.
Roger, Agent McNamara.
Shall we talk business?
To the Khan.
- To the Khan. - To the Khan.
Judging by how fast Lexi went with Shaw,
I'm guessing she hates me now?
Well, you did try to sideline her.
Yeah, I could have handled that better.
Well,
I can't say I've handled everything perfectly...
with either of you.
You know, after the engagement,
I was too much of a coward to break things off.
You deserved better, Kate.
I'm sorry.
Breaking up with you is...
It was the best thing that happened to both of us.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
When I lost you, I found the CIA.
I found myself.
Not that I haven't wondered about that road we didn't take together.
I'm guessing there would have been a lot less gunfire...
for both of us.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
- Does it hurt? - No.
Nearly done.
Much better.
You know, it's a miracle you didn't get gangrene.
No thanks to those idiots out there.
Thank you for getting them to take my handcuffs off.
It's the least I could do.
Maybe you'll return the favor someday.
It's Violet, isn't it?
And you're Simon Hardwick.
Even if I didn't know you from Kazakhstan,
I'd recognize you from the news.
Funny, you don't seem like a maniac.
Yeah, well, looks can be deceptive.
To be honest, the news coverage wasn't exactly fair.
Tell me, Violet...
how do you know Lexi?
I taught that girl everything she knows.
Saved her life more times than I can count.
But somehow she keeps leaving me behind.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Actually, I can relate.
I was abandoned by my father when I was a child.
He pretended I didn't exist.
His only son.
So I read.
Well, it's all right. He's dead now.
No love lost.
May I?
Yeah, that's the thing about me.
Help me, and I want to help you.
Hurt me...
there'll be a receipt for that if it's in my power.
I suppose that makes me...
trustworthy to a degree.
Your friend Lexi and her beau, Danny,
never anything but honest with me.
And I respect that.
I suppose we developed a strange kind of rapport
while they chased me across the world.
But they put me in prison...
and I feel this strange kind of loyalty to them in a way.
I have no loyalty to this man who freed me from prison.
Isn't that strange?
Where are we going with this?
Well, we're both on Team Lexi, right?
I want to help you, but you have to help me.
The Great Khan has tasked me with getting information out of you.
That's what this is.
I hate to break it to you, evil genius,
but I already knew that.
Did you also know that unless I give him something useful,
he intends to kill you at sundown tomorrow?
Can you believe her nerve?
And Danny, always taking her side.
He's supposed to be on myside.
Oh, come on.
Danny literally dragged your butt
through the jungle to save you.
If that's not love, I don't know what is.
What if love's just not enough?
Danny and I, we are so...
different.
What if this whole time
we've just been trying to change each other
into something we're not?
No.
Is that Vince?
Who's he talking to?
Khan soldiers.
What the hell is going on?
Gen is right there. Let's get him.
We might have a bigger problem.
Vince is working for the Khan.
We got to stop him now.
Vince!
McNamara. Horde soldiers are here.
Yeah, and you were very friendly with them.
I saw it, too.
What are you doing?
The Khan has followed us ever since we landed in Hanoi.
From Russia to Kazakhstan to Laos to China.
Followed us ever since we met...
Vince.
Vince is working for the Great Khan.
Wait, what?
Simon hitched a ride on our last hunt.
The Khan's been following his M.O.
This is ridiculous.
You're not going anywhere.
How can we be sure?
Danny, that's Gen.
My wife!
Why were you talking to Gen's kidnappers?
I was getting information.
But why would they be talking to an ex-cop?
They don't see a cop. They see a criminal.
I was dirty.
You were kicked off the force.
I had a kid brother. Followed me onto the force.
Good, honest cop.
That's a problem when everyone's on the take.
Even me.
"Grow up! Take the money," I said.
The look on his face, I knew I broke his heart.
He refused. Found him in the alley the next day.
They beat him to death.
So I left the badge,
never looked back.
Now I use my old rep to get criminals
to trust me as a P.I.
I've made criminal contacts all over Asia.
Vince, I'm...
Apologize to Gen.
I don't know up from down anymore.
The Khan has been right on our trail.
There's a chance you just picked the wrong person.
You think it's Kate?
My feelings for her aside,
she's been talking to the CIA this whole time.
Someone there could be tipping off the Khan.
Maybe... maybe she can help us get her husband back.
Gen has to be leading the Khan somewhere he's been before
with the Banner.
She may know a clue from his past
- that can lead us there.Yes. - Yes.
We just need a translator.
They met when he was a monk.
He took refuge at a local temple.
He was a simple man with nothing,
and they fell in love.
They're very different.
Like Yin and Yang.
And it's not always easy.
But that's the nature of Yin and Yang.
Different, but they're always there for each other.
Gen disappeared for a while, but came back for her.
And that was in '84.
That's the same year he took the Banner.
Gen met his wife when he came to this town
seeking refuge with the Banner.
He disappeared because he had to continue on his journey.
Do you know where he went?
So?
So, how do I know you, of all people,
are not just manipulating me?
That's a fair question.
Look, I'm not lying to you, Violet.
You're my only chance of survival.
The great Khan has me searching for his precious Banner,
but once that psycho finds it, he'll kill me.
So whether I deliver the intel or not, I'm a dead man.
Unless...
we help each other escape.
Escape?
Are you serious?
Uh, yeah.
And we have an ace up our sleeve.
Danny McNamara.
I spoke with him in Kazakhstan. We made a deal.
He got the better half of the deal.
I spy on the Great Khan in return for his help later on.
And here I was underestimating you.
You give me information, I tell the Khan.
That buys us freedom of movement in the compound.
So that you can contact Danny,
and he can call in a rescue mission.
Oh, aren't you clever.
You have no idea.
Except you forgot one thing:
Danny and Lexi are gonna need an army to get in here.
I saw a photo of Danny on a board out there
with Kate Reece. That's...
That's his ex and my half sister.
- Your... - It's a long story.
Well, it's not all that long. She's CIA.
I only found out last year
while I was digging into my father's family secrets.
So Kate is gonna call the cavalry.
Only if you give me valuable intel
that I can give the Khan, Violet.
You are good with that silver tongue, aren't you?
Okay, fine.
Aiden Shaw.
He's been working with them.
He's got a bar in Hanoi he won't shut up about.
And Danny and Lexi are staying in the apartment right above him.
- I mean, it's not much information... - No, that's brilliant.
It's perfect.
That'll draw the Khan to their associates and their whereabouts.
We've just gotta pray that they can handle themselves,
'cause we actually need their help to escape.
You know, I, um...
I've never really worked with a partner before.
Certainly not one that could keep up.
It's, uh...
It's rather stimulating.
Are you Master Woo-Ping?
I am.
How can I help you?
A man calling himself the Great Khan
has kidnapped your former monk, Gen Huang.
We believe he's being forced to bring the Khan's men here.
Why?
To steal Genghis Khan's Spirit Banner.
Like us, they discovered he brought it to this temple.
We came to warn you.
They had a two-hour head start. How did we beat them here?
Maybe let's not question small miracles.
No miracle.
Gen is a clever man. He must have stalled his captors.
Is the Banner still here?
No.
Years ago, Gen met a tribe of Mongolians in this courtyard
to give them the Banner,
but as they met, white foreigners were already giving chase.
Only one group that could have been back then:
Arcanum Gladio.
The bastards are trying to steal the Banner back,
after Sister Victoria sent it away to Laos.
Tried, yes.
But Shaolin monks have trained in kung fu
for over 1,500 years.
We, as you Americans say,
kicked their butts to death.
Yeah, I say that one all the time.
We gave the Mongolians time to escape with the Banner.
After the battle,
we found relics on the foreigners,
including this.
Are you familiar with the secret history of the Mongols?
The earliest history of Genghis's life,
and the oldest surviving written work in the Mongolian language.
Haven't you been watching the videos I sent?
When do we have time?
Your friend is right, with one exception.
The book has been missing a chapter,
swallowed up by history.
This scroll is that lost chapter.
It is believed
to contain directions to the tomb of Genghis Khan.
The location of the tomb of Genghis Khan is
one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
Now we know why.
He didn't want it to be found.
His soldiers killed everyone they came across
on the way to bury him.
Then the soldiers who buried him were killed
to keep the secret, and the ground run over
by hundreds of horses to obscure the burial site.
You think the Mongolians brought the Banner back to Genghis
and buried it with him?
Yes. That is why we kept the scroll a secret.
We tried to find the tribe to return it to them,
but to no success.
So we kept it hidden here.
Does Gen know about the scroll, too?
He does.
A convoy of armed men has been spotted
five minutes to the east.
Ready your men.
The Horde's coming.
We must prepare our defenses.
Good luck to all of you.
Where the hell are you going?
My brother thought being right was enough; it's-it's not.
If you're smart, you'll run.
Vince!
- We need all the help we can get. - Just let him go.
We can call someone else for help, the CIA.
They already know where we are, don't they, Kate?
You still think I've been leaking to the CIA,
and that's how the Khan knew where to find Gen?
I kept my word, not to bring them in
until we found the Banner.
And we'd be a lot better off now if I hadn't.
So we're on our own now.
Maybe Vince was right. We should run.
I agree. If we leave with the scroll now,
we might still get away.
Well, then we're sitting ducks if they catch us on the road.
I say we stay here, use anything we have to our advantage.
I agree with Lexi.
We have allies here.
It's their turf.
This temple has stood for centuries against many invaders.
It will not fall today.
Remain here. Guard the scroll.
Oh, we'll guard it all right.
Here we go.
The scroll.
Let's go get it.
Ming, stop.
Vince.
Been a long time, Ming.
You're with them?
There is a lot more money for you if you play this right.
Don't be stupid.
I'm not gonna take any more bribes from you, Ming.
I'm also not gonna shoot you.
There's been enough death.
What's your game, Vince?
Just want to talk.
You still have a wife and a kid, right?
Two now.
And everything I do is for them.
No, it's not.
That's what we tell ourselves to feel better about our choices.
You can go home and hug your kids.
You can leave this life forever, like I did.
Or you can die for some Khan who doesn't even know your name.
I promise you, Ming,
if you go back there, you will die.
We've been following a trail of dead Horde soldiers
all over Asia.
How can I trust that they're not gonna kill me or turn me in?
You have my word.
We just want the scroll.
Go home to your family, Ming.
Wait. The monk you kidnapped.
Where is he?
I'll let him go.
But don't try to follow me.
Gen is safe. He's being taken to a hospital.
Did he have any more information about the whereabouts of the Banner?
When the Mongolians who took it left,
they said, "The Soul shall return to the soul."
Sounds like a riddle.
You're a smart guy, you'll figure it out.
Vince...
I'm sorry.
Well, stopping any further bloodshed with Ming
was the first time I haven't felt ashamed in a long time.
Your brother would be proud of you.
Hold that.
You know...
I think I need to update the CIA's file on Dwayne Coleman.
It mentions nothing about how he helped us find the Banner
while in the field.
Yeah, Dwayne Coleman is long gone.
Maybe I'll be able to bring him back to America with me.
If he'll let me act as a character witness.
It's peaceful here.
Yeah, it's peaceful.
You, uh... you meditating?
Thinking.
About?
Us.
Okay.
I was wrong about Kate.
Oh, that is so hard to say.
And I realize Kate isn't the problem.
And-and it's not you.
Well, it's a little bit you.
- But mostly me. - I don't...
- Darling, I'm still talking. - Wait.
Let me get this out.
I was mad at you for letting Kate ambush me,
and then I was mad at you for just
being you when you were with her.
And then for wanting me to be someone different than who I am.
- Because we both know... - I don't want you to ever be anything...
I'm not... I'm not blaming you at all.
But if I can't trust the people closest to me,
then I can't trust my own instincts.
So it's like this.
I have had two
very important people in my life.
Two people that I would kill for at the drop of a hat.
You and Violet.
And now I just have you.
So I need to know that you have my back.
You know, Gen's wife said
that they were like Yin and Yang.
Different, but always there for each other.
When Kate tried to sideline you, I didn't fight for you.
I should have, Lexi.
I don't care about where I live.
I don't care about the house that, you know,
the stupid picket fence.
Home for me is you, but it...
it is loyalty.
Hey...
I always have your back.
Always.
Good.
Hatchet buried. Over and out.
And, um...
whatever comes our way,
we'll handle it.
You bet your ass we will.
We've located Mr. Shaw's bar.
You will have your freedom within these halls.
Thank you, my Khan.
All right, keep your eyes and ears open.
There's a chance he might finally reveal what his crazy plan is.
Then we can call the cavalry, be free of this maniac.
Yeah.
The Spirit Banner is nearly at hand.
We must send a strike team to Mongolia to secure it.
Enough!
The only reason you'd ask for another strike team
is because the first one in China is dead.
What are we wasting all these lives for?
Where's the money and power?
Silence.
I'm taking over.
Meet the new Great Khan.
The Khan is still alive.
And she does not like to be challenged.
You were promised wealth and power.
I ask for your loyalty.
Give me that...
and the world will be ours.
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