Missing (2012) s01e02 Episode Script

Previously on Missing Michael moved out of his dorm two weeks ago, and nobody knows where he went.
Something's happened to my son.
Dov'e mio figlio? Who is this woman? Rebecca Winstone active 1989 to 2001.
In two hours, every intelligence service in Europe will be looking for you.
Including Interpol.
I've already found you.
We're not having CIA personnel running their own agenda! I am not CIA.
I am a mother looking for her son.
Issue an agency-wide alert for her.
I applied to a summer architecture program.
It's in Rome.
I don't need you to protect me anymore, mom.
I'll always protect you, Michael.
It's my job.
Aah! Aah! Bonsoir, monsieur Hayden.
Madame.
We have something very private for you in the corner.
LA table dix-huit, s'il vous plait.
This way, madame.
What are you doing here? I've been shot.
Who shot you? I don't know.
I didn't see their face.
You have people for this.
No, I don't.
Not anymore.
You know I can't be seen with you.
Sylvie, my son Has been kidnapped And I need your help.
Please.
Etes-vous certain? Becca Winstone? Oui, je sais.
You're on the watch list for French intelligence And on every other security organization in Europe.
Are you still active? No.
No.
I need the truth.
The truth is I've been raising my son for ten years.
I'm on the P.
T.
A.
I go to soccer.
I own a flower shop.
I'm out.
If someone took your son, you're not out.
Lussier knows you're in France.
He will find you and kill you and likely myself as well for helping you.
Sylvie, I came to you because you're a mother.
If I've put you in danger, I'm sorry.
You're wrong about me.
I'm a grandmother now.
Me.
Not even 40.
I've only seen the baby once.
This life, the life you once led, is no place for children.
Go find your son and stay out, and whatever you do, keep as far away as possible from Antoine Lussier.
Very clever, surrendering to the police.
When I'm with you, I like to have witnesses.
By returning to France, you voided the agreement between our countries.
Now you can be prosecuted for killing two of my men.
You don't want me talking about what I know in court.
A lot of things can happen to you before it gets to that.
There's always that possibility.
I understand from the CIA bulletin that your son has been kidnapped.
C'est tragique.
He's in France.
Until yesterday, he was being held at a warehouse At that address.
You're asking for my help? Not the most logical choice.
I'd like to make a deal.
I don't make deals with people that have tried to kill me.
Antoine, if I had tried to kill you, you'd be dead.
Enjoy the hospitality of our penal system.
I know where the hard drive is.
Your own agency admitted 12 years ago that your case against me was without merit.
No, my case was swept under the rug to avoid an international incident, but my evidence of your corruption was solid, and it still is, but here's the thing.
I don't care.
I just want my son, so use your connections to find him, or I'll turn the hard drive over to the CIA, Interpol, and "Le Monde.
" You are in no position to threaten me.
I will do anything to get my boy.
Very well.
If your son is in France, I will find him for you Thank you.
But in exchange, you will turn the hard drive over to me.
I prefer my way.
A simple exchange the hard drive for your son.
Yes or no? We're gonna need all closed-circuit TV on that station, okay? They're claiming she's been released.
They're right.
Video's up.
Freeze frame.
Okay, tighten on that guy.
Antoine Lussier? Okay.
We got a probable connection between Becca Winstone and the deputy director of French intelligence.
An actual cold beer to anyone who can tell me what that is.
Becca.
Giancarlo.
How did you get out? Lussier let me walk.
In exchange for what? You shouldn't be here.
If Interpol knew you were here I'll tell them the truth.
I'm here to help you find your son.
Hey.
Hey, hey.
What happened? Aah.
I just got shot.
Just a graze.
I wasn't gonna tell you.
Yes, because you knew I would take you out of France, which is exactly what I'm gonna do.
You can't do that.
You're a suspect in the murder of an Italian agent.
If I have to arrest you to keep you safe, I'm gonna do it.
Look, I got shot because I got too close to whoever has Michael.
Look at these.
They've been following us for years school, home, vacations.
This kind of surveillance who would do this? We need to bring in Interpol.
What I'm about to do, you cannot be a part of.
I don't care.
I'm coming with you.
Just let me do what I have to do, and if I need you, I'll call you.
Becca.
What did you give up in there? Everything.
Oui.
I'm trying to do my job, but the file I have on Becca Winstone is useless.
All her service in France has been redacted.
That information remains need-to-know, agent Miller.
Well, if I don't need to know, who does? Your orders haven't changed.
You're to put Becca Winstone on a plane out of Europe.
Chief, this woman is looking for her son.
It's not about politics.
She's a mother.
If she contacted Lussier, it must be because she feels he has some way of helping her find her son.
But you don't know that.
With all due respect, ma'am, that's because you won't show me the file.
I'll see what I can do, but if there's blowback It's on you.
Agent Winstone.
Hello, Hard Drive.
You look different.
It's been 12 years.
Yeah.
I remember exactly what you looked like But what I mean has nothing to do with time.
I assume this is not a social visit.
It's time for you to testify against Antoine Lussier.
I would know if Lussier had been taken into custody.
We can't bring him in without you.
My answer is the same as 12 years ago.
I will not say a word against him until he is behind bars.
It's not my call, Hard Drive.
Just here to collect.
I'm sorry, but these were not the terms we agreed on.
Don't try to make me feel sorry for you.
You should be in jail for what you did.
You're the one who hid me here, gave me a new identity.
I gave you 12 years.
Yes.
12 years of good memories.
I don't want to lose that.
We have to go.
May I stable my horse? He'll be fine here.
I am not your adversary.
I know that.
Then why treat me like one? Isolate your target in neutral territory.
Avoid familiar surroundings, anything that may offer the target an advantage.
All standard protocol for approaching an adversary.
Old habits.
My car is over the hill.
Man, what did he tell Langley to get access to this file? He gave them the name of a Russian spy in the agency.
Nice.
Yeah, they should be here for you any minute.
So it seems Winstone's thing with Antoine Lussier was personal.
One of her assets and his entire family were killed.
She linked Lussier to the murder.
Sounds personal to me.
- She never proved it was him.
- Never had a chance to.
She turned one of Lussier's inner circle, code-named "Hard Drive," had him ready to testify, but the attempt to detain Lussier turned south.
Whoa, and she took out two French intelligence guys in the process? French raise a big stink.
Agency blames Becca.
Case disappears.
No wonder she doesn't trust us.
What about the witness, Hard Drive? Can we stop calling him "Hard Drive"? Well, he really is a hard drive.
Superior autobiographical memory.
The guy remembers everything.
Kind of takes away the point of drinking.
He's the perfect witness or pawn.
Hard Drive's in hiding.
Becca placed him.
She's the only one that knows where he is.
So she trades him to Lussier for her freedom? No, she's only interested in one thing her son Michael.
She thinks Lussier knows something, and hard drive is her leverage.
So maybe he helps her.
Not Lussier.
The guy's toxic.
He's gonna figure out a way to take out both of them, so we have to find them before he does.
What is your favorite memory? I'm not here to play games.
It will give us something to do other than count trees.
I'd rather not.
Oh, just one.
The first that comes to mind.
Michael's first word.
He was 14 months.
I was making his bottle, and all of a sudden, he said, "banana.
" It does.
It looks exactly like a banana.
A perfect banana.
Did you notice, when asked, you remembered something nice? Most people do, because the bad memories, they let fade away.
Unfortunately I don't have that option.
I wasn't supposed to make the exchange.
My role was to track things the corruption, the money.
I could do so without writing things down.
But on that day, Antoine gave me an envelope and told me who to give it to.
I couldn't help but look inside.
It was an address in Marseille, where, it turns out, your asset was on vacation.
Two days later the house was bombed.
Two adults Three children killed.
They showed gruesome images on TV.
I see those images vividly Every day.
So when you say I never went to prison for what I did, you're wrong.
My prison is here.
Where are you going? Gotta make a phone call.
I hope you have good news.
Things have changed.
I'd like to come to a different arrangement.
Before we change the terms, there's something you need to see.
Get away from me.
Get away from Hold it up.
Hold it up! - Hold it up! - Mnh.
Oh, my God.
Surely there's something else you want.
Hard drive is not a threat to you.
In the age of Wikileaks, I don't like loose ends.
If you want to see your son alive, bring hard drive to Pont au Double.
You have one hour.
Who were you talking to back there? Doesn't matter.
August 22, 1998, our second meeting.
I asked what would happen if you didn't get Antoine.
You said the CIA would protect me, but your eyes didn't move.
That's your tell, Becca.
That was the only time you lied to me until now.
Becca, what's happening? Someone has my son, and Antoine Lussier is getting him back.
I'm being traded? You can't do this to me.
I have a wife and children.
What? Audrey is 6.
Adele is 8.
Why didn't you tell me? I was protecting them! They don't know anything about my past, who I was, or wh-what I've done.
Oh, Becca, you can't do this.
Lower your weapon! Get him out of the car! I won't ask again.
Get out.
No, you can't.
I don't have a choice.
Becca, I was your friend.
There are no friends in our world.
I can't believe I fell for that.
He never had Michael.
Antoine knew you'd be a mother first.
That's his brilliance, finding where you're most vulnerable.
I'm sorry.
How did you know That it wasn't your son? Ohh.
Michael broke his left foot skateboarding when he was 12.
Foot turns out a little bit when he walks.
Nobody would notice but me.
Hard Drive, where's your family? At the farm.
We have to move them.
Lussier says Winstone shot at him and wounded an operative.
10 to 1, they shot at her first.
It doesn't matter.
France is an ally.
Look, Antoine Lussier is all kinds of crooked.
Why don't we use hard drive to take him down? That is not our agenda.
The devil we know, Miller.
- Not about that, huh? - No, you're right.
You're right.
It's about damage control.
You are to go to Lussier and make a deal.
What kind of deal? Tell him we'll work together to find them.
- In exchange for what? - In exchange for hard drive.
Our priority is to get her out of there before this blows up in our faces.
Please get this family to safety.
Yeah, I'll take them to the Interpol station in Paris, but until he testifies, Antoine Lussier will keep looking for him.
You just keep them safe, and I'll take care of Lussier.
Becca.
Mon bebe.
Mon bebe.
Do you think maybe your baby is a little scared? Mm-hmm.
You know what mommies do for their babies when they're frightened? Mnh-mnh.
They hold them in their arms, and they rock them very gently And just like that, they're not frightened anymore.
Mm.
Good job.
Mm.
What? I think you must be a very good mother.
Until last week, I thought I was.
Yeah, and that is your problem.
What do you mean? The Becca Winstone I knew was cold in the field, calculating.
Mothers don't think that way.
They operate on instinct, passion, and fear.
I can't just quit being a mother.
Of course not, but you have to stop thinking like one.
Becca, if you want to save Michael, you have to treat him like just another missing asset.
Well, obviously Lussier never had Michael to begin with, but he does have a video of him in captivity, so the question becomes, how did he get it and from whom? He must have traded something for it.
Yeah.
But what? Lussier is a powerful man.
He can shut down the highways, turn off utility grids, you name it.
There'd be a record of something that big.
Yes, but not necessarily a public record.
Yeah? The only place you'd be sure to find it is on Lussier's own computer in his office.
Okay.
What? You were right.
My thinking was undisciplined.
Uh-huh.
I have to hack Lussier's computer.
I'm gonna break into French intelligence.
What are you doing? I'm going with you.
You need me.
I know this building, literally, inch by inch.
Why would you help me? My family will never be safe, as long as Lussier is free.
He must keep records of his illegal activities.
You said he never wrote anything down.
That was when he had me, but he hasn't had me for 12 years.
All right.
We'll go together.
Let's go get my son.
I am very busy.
What do you want? Let's talk about what's keeping you so occupied.
Still drinking American coffee, I see.
Not all things French are better.
No, just the ones that matter.
What is your ethnic background, anyway? I'm American, and I'm not trying to hide who I am.
So You have Becca's old file.
You can't believe everything you read.
No, but I do believe Becca Winstone.
What is it with you two, some kind of puppy love? Be careful.
The men in her life tend to meet unhappy ends.
I'm here to offer you a deal.
Under protest, I imagine.
I know what you did to that family.
If it were up to me, you'd get one shot through the brain stem, my only regret being you wouldn't feel any pain.
Sadly, though, it's not up to me.
Are all people from Texas this Frank, or just the ones from blessing? Of course your family lives in London now, isn't that right? We know you cut a deal with Winstone.
We will find them first, and we'll turn hard drive over to Interpol.
He'll tell them everything he knows about you, and you will go down.
And if I find them first, there will be no such conundrum.
Langley suggests a partnership.
We work together.
When we find them, we get Winstone.
You get hard drive, to do with as you see just.
Hmm.
It's a deal.
Please tell your superiors this will go a long way toward improving relations.
I'm not Western Union.
Oh.
What is he like the boy you nearly traded me for? You'd love him.
He's doing graduate-level work as a freshman For one thing.
In what field? Architecture.
Mathematics and engineering Combined with artistic talent.
Both sides of the brain.
Quite formidable.
That he is, and funny, very gentle, has a lot of empathy.
A boy like that will figure out how to survive until you find him.
You were wrong before, you know.
About what? There are friends in our world.
Let's do this.
Yo, Fitzpatrick, anything on the location? Yeah, maybe.
Have a look.
You promised you'd talk to them hours ago.
- Please put them on.
- You're too late.
Rodney's at ballet, and Stacy's at karate.
- I think you got that backwards.
- I didn't.
If you'd talk to your kids more often, you'd know that.
Will you have them call me? Why, so you can disappoint them again? Just give me a break, Candace, and have them call me, please.
- Fine, then.
Bye.
- Chief, we may have something.
Okay, we had a report of a stolen car here.
Right outside police headquarters.
That car was dumped here, and another one was stolen two blocks away and left at the train station here.
20 minutes later, another car was lifted five stops down the track.
But that would have been doubling back for her.
That last car had LoJack, but it was disabled near a farm outside Auxerre.
Could be nothing.
It's her.
What is that pattern, some kind of protocol? No, but it was 12 years ago.
All right, people.
We know her patterns.
We know her location.
I don't need to remind you, she was trained by the same people you were.
Shouldn't we notify Antoine Lussier? Forget Antoine Lussier.
Let's find her first.
Come on, come on.
Nice work.
Well, this isn't right.
It's against protocol to keep private offices locked.
He must not have gotten the memo.
How much time do we have? Security will start sweeping this floor in two minutes Or perhaps sooner.
What are you going to do? I have no idea.
Use finesse.
Finesse.
I think we have wildly different dictionaries.
Clear.
Clear.
They left in a hurry.
This hard Drive guy I guess being able to remember everything doesn't make you smart.
- Why is that? - If I had a target on my back, I'd have gone to ground, moved every couple of months.
Well, he couldn't.
He was rooted.
He has a family.
All right.
Phone it in.
Get any aerial shots of the place taken in the last three hours.
Anything? Here we are.
Just an hour before he showed you the photo of your son, Antoine authorized clearance for a private medical evac flight out of Le Bourget.
Why would someone trade a video of Michael for that? Because medical flights are exempt from security procedures.
They're moving him.
Oui, in 20 minutes.
Use the private staircase.
Hard Drive, you can't stay.
I'm not leaving until I find evidence against Lussier.
I'll do what it takes to keep my family safe.
You, of all people, must understand that.
Giancarlo will get you to your family.
Good.
- Becca? - Yeah? When I said you looked different I figured it out.
Motherhood becomes you.
- Miller.
- I need a favor.
There is a plane about to leave from Le Bourget airport.
Can you stop it? Why would I help you? My son might be on that plane.
Please just try to stop it.
I'll see what I can do.
Hey, look at this.
Where the hell is all this coming from? Oh, man, this guy is gonna go down hard.
Audrey, Adele Papa! Mon cheri.
Michael! Mom! Mom, please! Help me! Michael! Mom! Mom! Michael! Mom! Help me, mom, please! Mom! Mom! Please.
Please! Help me! Mom! Mom! Help me! Mom!