S4 | E5 The Brooklyn Job (Part 3)

Break in the Case

New York Citiy Police Department

True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Bomb Factory. In Part 3 of The Brooklyn Job, a six-man team prepares to enter the suspects’ apartment. If what the informant says is true, and there is a satchel full of bombs in the apartment, they have a 50/50 chance of making it out of the apartment alive.

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0:00.0	This episode contains strong language. Please be advised.
0:14.5	It's 4 a.m. The parking lot at Brooklyn's 88th precinct is filled with emergency vehicles.
0:21.6	Abdul Rahman Masaba stands next to an ESU van.
0:27.6	He blinks at the kaleidoscope of flashing red and blue lights.
0:31.6	A small brigade of emergency vehicles is about to set out for a raid at his apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn,
0:39.3	where his roommates have been making bombs.
0:42.3	He takes comfort in the rookie cops standing next to him, his translator.
0:47.3	The guy could have been his younger brother,
0:50.3	calm, focused, and willing to help him,
0:53.3	a poor immigrant chasing the American dream in New York City.
0:58.8	Masaba's story is like many immigrants.
1:01.7	America is where he wants to raise his family.
1:04.9	It's a world away from where he'd been just 15 days earlier.
1:09.9	He comes from a place where police, corruption, torture, and kidnapping are the norm,
1:15.7	a place where police officers can't be trusted.
1:19.0	And yet, here he is, in Brooklyn, tipping off the police and joining them on a raid.
1:33.3	Music joining them on a raid. Misaba was born in a sleepy village on the Nile River,
1:37.4	near the ancient capital of Luxor,
1:40.1	just a few miles away from the temples and tombs of the pharaohs.
1:44.7	His family had high hopes for him.
1:47.0	They sent him to university in Cairo, where he earned a degree.
1:52.0	After graduating, Misaba got married.
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