FBI agent Vasquez shows up instead of the contact
Felix Vasquez himself arrives at the lunch meeting, refuses to confirm the letter and advises Mickey's team to leave it alone.
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19 moments.
Agent Vasquez testifies Alex Grant is not under investigation
Called by Andrea, Vasquez explains target letters as a scare tactic and hesitates over a qualifier before answering no.
Mickey seizes on Vasquez's hedged answers
Through a wall of objections, Mickey gets Vasquez to concede target letters don't go to people the Bureau thinks are innocent.
The FBI wants Mickey to do its work, Legal realises
Vasquez hints the Bureau wants Grant on the stand, and Mickey admits to Legal he baited the feds with reporters at the subpoena hearing.
Grant on Bondurant's debts, the failed inspections and the FBI letter
Grant blames Bondurant's money trouble on others; Lorna explains the bribery theory as Mickey lines up the letter's dates.
Agent Vasquez warns Mickey the Bureau has a long memory
The FBI agent accuses Mickey of using him to get Grant on the stand only to plead the Fifth.
Mickey decides to take the FBI to court
Told the FBI killed the story, Mickey skips a FOIA request and has Lorna draft a state court order, calling in the judge's debt.
Serving the FBI with a court order
After a paleta stop, Mickey and Cisco march into the FBI office, are refused, and get the order served anyway as staff call for backup.
FBI agents threaten Mickey at his door
Agents Vasquez and Ruth show up at Mickey's house, hand back his court order with contempt and warn him off Sam Scales for good.
Mickey pins his frame-up on mobster Alex Gazarian
After an FBI visit from Agent Vasquez, Mickey argues Gazarian, ruined by Lisa Trammell's trial, may be behind Sam's death and Biogreen.
Mickey baits Agent Ruth with a fake informant call
Posing as informant Kirk Lennon, Mickey gets the FBI's Agent Dawn Ruth on the line, waves from below her window and threatens to release a video.
Officer Betty reveals the FBI collected Kirk Lennon
Over speakerphone, Mickey charms a records officer who finds a stop-sign stop that ended with Sam handed to Agent Vasquez.
Officer Roundtree reveals the FBI took Sam
The patrol officer recounts stopping Sam under his alias, an FBI flag, and handing him to an agent, while Agent Ruth watches from the gallery.
EPA scientist explains 'bleeding the beast'
Dr. Schultz describes biofuel subsidy fraud on the stand, then names the two FBI agents who ran the Nevada case.
Agent Ruth tells Mickey the FBI will let him go down
Driven to a secret meeting, Mickey learns the Bureau will never testify, and he pushes Agent Ruth to admit she leaked him the report.
Ruth explains the biofuel scam and Sam's role
Agent Ruth lays out the nationwide label-swapping fraud, why the FBI turned Sam, and why it was not his informing that got him killed.
Lorna's paleta ambush on Agent Ruth
Lorna summons Agent Ruth outside and warns her Jeanine is about to tell the jury everything.
FBI and the DA offer to drop the charges
In chambers, the FBI's LA chief asks to block Jeanine's testimony, the judge asserts control, and the DA offers to dismiss the case.
Agent Ruth realizes Lorna's threat was a bluff
Ruth demands Jeanine's location, only to learn the testimony was a ruse, while Cisco readies Jeanine for the Marshals.