Alert: Missing Persons Unit (2023) s02e01 Episode Script
Bus 447
1
Come on, guys, move it, move it.
The bus waits for no one.
- [DRIVER] Come on. Come on.
- [ANDREW] Kayla, that means you.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
[BACKGROUND CHATTER, INDISTINCT]
- You too.
- Let's go, guys.
Mom would never have done this.
You're right your mom
would have the good sense
not to volunteer, but, unlike
her, I'm a sucker for punishment.
Butt on bus. Now.
- Come on. Let's sit by Jordan.
- Shh!
My dad, he's so annoying!
- [TEACHER] Come on, sit down, kids.
- You need a raise.
[LAUGHS] Yes, I do.
[DRIVER] Here we go field
trip to the Wagner Institute.
Dad, what are you doing?
Grace is sitting here!
Okay.
[BACKGROUND CHATTER, INDISTINCT]
Okay, here we go.
[♪]
[♪]
Hey, Jordan
pass that to Kayla for me.
Kayla?
- Huh?
- Here's your water.
[CHUCKLES AWKWARDLY] I don't need water.
Stop hovering.
[BACKGROUND CHATTER, INDISTINCT]
[♪]
- [TERSELY] Put your phone down and stay put.
- What's wrong?
Hey!
[STRUGGLING AND GROANING]
[THUD]
Dad! [GASPING]
- [SHRIEKS] Dad!
- [BLOWS LANDING]
[GASPING]
Dad!
[♪]
[GROANING]
Ah!
Why? Why?
- [DING]
- Hey.
You just wake up?
No, no. I've been up for hours.
Worked out, had a smoothie.
Fantastic. The house
is looking, uh, nice.
- Coming together new house.
- You like?
Looks great.
I-I do, I like, I just
have one question
you let him hang a
baseball bat on the wall?
That bat was used by J-Roll
to hit a game-tying triple
against the Cincinnati Reds,
all right? Watch your mouth.
Hi, Mike. I don't care what it is.
You made me keep all my
sports stuff in the garage.
Your "sports stuff" was dirty
sneakers and a skateboard.
[MIKE] Yeah, I'm staying out of this.
Hi, Mom and Dad.
- [JASON] Hey, hey!
- Hi, baby.
What are you doing? You just wake up?
I don't have class until 11,
and can you remind me again
why we have to do this
at the crack of dawn?
- Mom's idea.
- Is that mascara?
You still have mascara on?
And whose t-shirt is that?
Yeah, it's not your t-shirt.
Uh, I know this, 'cause
you don't go to Penn.
- Who goes to Penn?
- It's Penn State, Dad,
and stop detective-ing me, both of you!
Sid, I love you more than
anything on the planet,
but I need you to know something
college guys are like piranha
only piranha want food,
- and college guys,
- Jason
- they want Well, I'm just
- Dad!
Just saying, Sid. Uh, truth is,
- you are the most amazing girl
- Dad!
on the planet, so,
everybody should respect you,
but I don't know
beer pong and things like that,
gets outta hand, all right?
Gets out of hand and
Uh-huh.
- Blame it on the beer pong.
- That's the plumber.
Just got her. She's great.
Both of you, just promise
me you're using protection.
Okay! Goodbye! Love you, Sid, very much.
I love you. [SMOOCH] I gotta go.
- Hollis Braun.
- Yes.
Great to meet you. I'll be
taking over the division
Homicide, Major Crimes, MPU and, uh,
disregard the mustache. I lost a bet.
No, it's very, um
"Commissioner Gordon."
- My inner eight-year-old thanks you.
- You're welcome.
Well, I'm sure Bill
Houston filled you in,
but he took an arms-length approach.
So I hear
- MPU's closure rate is excellent, truly stellar.
- Oh, thank you.
But the Jason Grant situation
I know, you two have history,
but he's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Shooting at parked cars?
Turning the video off in interrogation?
Detective Grant is also
the best cop in Philly.
My team all of us we
focus on getting the job done.
You wanna explain how
eggs play into that?
One of my people is a shaman.
And one of my dogs likes to
eats his own crap, if I let him,
but I don't, because I
know better. The thing is
you tick all my boxes, Nikki
- Right.
- and I have many,
so if you're not quite
in control of your team,
don't worry, we'll get you there.
I'm a world-class expert
in making problems go away,
except for this damn mustache.
[JANGLING]
Enjoy the new offices.
- Thank you.
- [ELEVATOR DINGS]
- I didn't say that!
- Wow. Wow!
I-I I just cannot believe you
let him put us in headquarters.
Yeah, well, I didn't have a choice.
He wants to keep an eye on us.
- You, especially.
- Hmm.
[NIKKI] This is it.
Oh kay. Uh-huh.
Wow.
Well, this makes Sidney's dorm
room look tidy that's good.
It's a nice view. I think.
We are gonna need some
serious sage up in this joint.
Yeah, I think that's off the table.
[PHONE RINGING]
Pick it up.
MPU. This is Mike Sherman.
[♪]
Wait. Whoa-whoa-whoa! Hey,
hey. You gotta slow down.
[NIKKI] What is it?
[♪]
Yeah, yeah. We'll get right on it.
[HANGING UP]
That was the Transit Authority.
Apparently, a city bus just disappeared.
[SIREN WAILING]
'Sup, bro?
They just reviewed the footage
at Transit Authority headquarters.
The traffic cam on the
other side saw the bus enter,
but, according to this
one, it never came out.
Never came out?
Just ten tons of bus,
just poof just disappeared?
We got a David
Copperfield situation here?
How many passengers?
According to the
real-time service info, 27.
Well, don't these
buses have transponders?
Either it's malfunctioned or off.
- Or something.
- Hey!
Let's get a perimeter set up
hundred yards out, on
each side of the tunnel.
I need you to canvas those buildings,
get me boots on the ground
on the other side. All right?
- Hey, Mike!
- Yeah?
What do you got?
I think somebody was up
here with climbing boots.
We should look at that camera.
Now, when you say we, you mean
- You. You.
- Yeah, no, I figured that.
- I'm not climbing that damn pole!
- You're not?
Well, I'm certainly not. I
have a bad back. You know that.
Bad back, my ass.
All right. Give me a boost.
- A boost?
- Yeah, a boost.
'Scuse me! You young back
help the sergeant up
here up the pole, please.
- Yes, sir.
- Thank you.
But if I fall, Nikki's gonna kill you.
She's killed me for less.
[GRUNTING]
[JASON] Wow! Very impressive.
We should back up in case he falls,
I don't want you to get injured.
Yo! Somebody hijacked the feed.
That bus didn't disappear. It was taken.
[♪]
Hey, Jay! Take a look over there!
[♪]
Hey. Hey!
You okay?
- Hey, talk to me.
- [SPUTTERS] Help me.
I'm gonna help you. What
happened? What happened?
My daughter, she's on the bus.
[NIKKI] Any sign of the bus?
Okay. So whoever took Bus 447
knew the placement of the CCTVs.
If they had gone
straight down 5th Street,
this one would have picked them up.
Um, turned east, this
one would have seen them.
My best guess is that
they went west, here.
Okay, so all they had to do was
avoid a couple blocks of cameras
And disappear into a city
with 1,300 identical buses.
But why would anyone
want to kidnap a city bus?
We're not gonna know until we
figure out who's on that bus,
other than those kids.
When you swipe your transit card,
the bus transmits the information
to the Transit Authority.
- I mean, if we got authorization to access
- No, that'll be too long.
Well, not if we go the nuclear option.
Hiya.
- Hi.
- I don't have time for this.
No, I-I don't either.
That's why I need your, um,
your login credentials.
Hell, no. You gotta run
that through my supervisor.
You know what I hate more than anything?
Red tape.
Okay. So we can sit here
for the next couple hours,
I can call my boss, who's
gonna call your boss,
who can't find her boss, because
she's playing pickleball,
or whatever, or
we can act like men and
help these passengers
you and I.
Uh, there's kids on the bus.
Don't make me shoot you. Come on!
Come on. Come on, come
on, come on, come on.
I'm ex-military.
It was just automatic.
If I'd have stayed in my damn seat,
I'd still be with her.
I'd have done exactly what you did.
We lost her mom last year.
Cancer.
Kayla's been through so much
and I've been trying, but
Do you remember anything
about the man who took the bus?
He, uh, had a hat
a gator.
He's White,
and, uh, I don't know, maybe 40s.
- Okay. That's something.
- Hey
please, please, just
just help me find my kid.
She's been pushing me,
and pushing me away,
and there's just so much
that I should've said,
but I was hurting, too.
You know, and, uh
sh-she's a great girl, Captain Batista.
Just
[ANDREW, ON VIDEO]
All right, young lady.
You go ahead.
[BLOWING]
What'd you wish for, little bunny?
I wished to get Mom back.
We're gonna find her, Mr. Barosso.
- [QUIETLY] 'Kay.
- It's what we do.
[KNOCKING]
So sorry.
Uh, Jason got a password. I'm in.
[KEMI] So these are all the kids,
and these are all the passengers
that swiped transit key cards.
Look, the cash payment
that's probably our guy.
[KEMI] Yeah.
Uh, we got all the numbers
for all of the passengers
who registered their key
cards with transit accounts,
but all the numbers go to voicemail.
They either turned the phone off
or they're using blockers.
So we can't track the
bus or the passengers.
Issue the alert.
[ALERTS BLARING, OVERLAPPING]
[SLIDER SWISHES AND THUDS SHUT]
I have 50 officers out
there looking for a bus.
Please tell me you've got something.
Okay, based on a fast records check,
there's no obvious kidnap motive
no restraining orders,
no pending lawsuits
just people trying to live their lives.
Well, if it is a ransom play,
then the Transit Authority and City Hall
- would hear from the kidnappers.
- I don't want to wait.
We got something.
Someone spotted one of those
kids at Washington Square.
Full team to Washington Square, go!
[♪]
[WOMAN] My little boy was on that bus!
[MAN] Please, my daughter's only 11!
It was just a field trip!
How do you lose a bus?
Ladies and gentlemen!
Ladies and gentlemen.
Captain Batista will
do everything possible
to bring your children
and loved ones home.
Our officers will take
your contact information.
The best way to help
right now is to go home.
- [IN SPANISH] Ay no. Yo no voy pa'casa.
- Yo tampoco.
- [MURMURS OF DISSENT]
- No.
No one wants to go through this alone.
We can set up a room
can't we, Inspector?
I'll see what we can do.
[QUIET MURMURING, INDISTINCT]
Officer, you can
please, one at a time.
[NIKKI] Hey, Baxter.
I'm glad we found you
in Washington Square.
We're trying to find your friends,
so I guess it's a good thing
you skipped the field trip.
I mean, it's only to
the Wagner Institute.
I've already seen the fossils,
like, five times, so I
I get it. It's okay.
Hey, do any of your
friends have smartphones?
Pretty much all of them, but
Well, you know, the
reason why I'm asking
is because we are looking
for any communications
that may help us find your friends.
- Are they gonna be okay?
- I hope so.
That's why we're looking to identify
the person who did this,
and, so far, it looks
like none of your friends
have posted photos from the
bus, but maybe you got a text?
A post?
You know, my-my son Keith,
he used to be a handful.
He was a smart kid, but, ooh,
the stuff he got up to
I used to tell him that
I wouldn't be upset with
him if he made a mistake,
and I'd be really happy
if he told the truth.
I'm sure your mom feels the same way.
[♪]
Well, according to the boy
who skipped the field trip,
we need to check a "Finstagram."
Okay, Gramama, uh, everyone
just calls it "Finsta,"
short for "fake Instagram." Okay?
Um, so, lot of kids create these pages,
uh, with different handles
so that their parents
can't see what they're up to.
Ah-hah! You think
Sidney has one of those?
I don't know, but Kayla Barosso does
that's the daughter of the
man who got pushed off the bus.
It's @sexyinpinnk.
"Pink" with two "N"s.
Is she 12 years old? "Sexy in Pink"?
I tell you what we find her,
you can give her a lecture.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She posted this morning.
Okay, all I see is the kids.
None of them are our
cash-paying bus-napper.
So it's a dead end?
I mean, if we could access the
"live" version of the photo,
we could see more, but
to do that, we'd have to
hack the cloud.
[NIKKI] Hmm.
No. Uh, none of my guys are
comfortable with that, so, no.
- 12 kids, Jay.
- Okay,
I got, uh, one maybe one option.
- Black-hat or white-hat?
- Grayish.
Uh, brilliant,
uh, a little unpredictable,
maybe uh, Wayne.
Oh, the hacker you worked with
in Afghanistan? That's great.
Bring him in.
Okay.
[KEYS CLACKING]
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
[WHACK]
Are you outta your
mind? I come in peace.
Wonderful. You can leave the same way.
[SHUTS DOOR]
Wayne, I know that I let you down.
I know that I let you down.
Okay? But this this is urgent.
So was showing up to my
sentencing hearing six months ago!
Okay, in my defense,
I had a lot going on.
You knew the situation with Keith.
No, I knew that, after hacking you
into every phone and
computer in Afghanistan,
you didn't so much as text me back.
I suck. I know. I suck. Okay?
What "sucks" is being stuck in a
motel room with an ankle monitor
that is giving me freakin' eczema!
That does suck.
[CALMER] Yeah.
I've had I've had no phone,
no computer, no Internet.
I've had nothing except
for the Cartoon Channel
and a view of an insane paint job
and a dead tree.
Do you have any idea what
that does to a person?
Oh, come on. It's not that bad.
I mean, you made it
four nights in a cave
with half the Taliban looking for you.
Yeah, except there's a
difference. I had you
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
You were telling me Dad jokes and doing
your Eminem impression
- Mm-hmm.
- Which, by the way
- it sucks.
- No, it doesn't!
It does. I'm sorry to tell ya.
It's good to see you.
And I m I may have a way
to get you out of this
place, uh, temporarily.
Did our ex-bosses send you,
or you come up with this yourself?
Uh, the Philadelphia Police Department.
There's a busload of missing kids,
and, um, we need you.
- Do I get a computer?
- Absolutely.
Right.
[BED FRAME THUMPS]
All right.
Uh, so Jay's little military buddy
got a year house arrest for
hacking the Russian Consulate,
so can you remind me
how this is a good idea?
They worked for the
same military contractor.
Jay trusts him
her.
Heard y'all need some cloud hacking?
Wayne Pascal, this is Captain Batista.
Ah! The ex.
You never mentioned Wayne was a woman.
My parents have a sense of humor.
She's got a great sense
of humor, too, so, you guys
are gonna get along great.
[DRYLY] Mm-hmm.
Okay, well, we have
a desk set up for you,
- right over here.
- Um, actually, I'm gonna take the bar.
Um, if you just want to
drop that over there
you had some primo stuff
in that evidence locker, so.
Right.
- Yeah.
- Please.
City Hall just received a ransom demand,
and we have four hours
to release John Maritz,
currently being held
in the detention center.
John Maritz um, he's a jerk.
Um, he helps rich folks do
away with their problems.
Yeah, till he pissed
a couple of 'em off.
He got 16 years for
wire-tapping and racketeering.
What's the ask?
If we don't release him
in the next four hours,
they start killing passengers.
[♪]
Captain Batista says
you people are the best.
Now's the time to prove it.
No. The bus hasn't been located yet,
but we are doing
everything that we can
I know my husband he's
gonna try and be a hero,
- but he's not.
- You're Mr. Cobi's wife,
the bus driver, is that right?
- Please, just find him.
- Why did they do this?
- Why did they take our kids?
- Ladies and gentlemen,
MPU is doing everything we can.
This is my Grace.
Please know that, right now,
we believe that your kids are safe.
How do you know that?
There's been a ransom demand.
What? Ransom? I can't afford a ransom.
- [GASPING]
- Wait!
It may not sound like good news,
but as long as the
kidnappers are negotiating,
- there's hope.
- Who did this?
Folks, I'm sorry, but sharing
details could compromise
Is the City gonna
agree to their demands?
[INSPECTOR BRAUN] Mr.
Barosso, it's a process.
[BANG] She is my daughter!
I know, look, I've been in your shoes.
My son, Keith
he was taken. We never got him back.
That is why I joined the MPU
to make sure that no other
parent has to go through that.
So I hear you. I do.
I know how you feel,
and I'm not gonna say that
this is going to be easy
every minute will feel like a year
but we will get your children back!
Every single one of them.
[♪]
Listen.
You gotta take it easy now that
Braun is breathing down Nikki's neck.
Easy?
I mean, "easy" is my middle name.
Since when?
- Are you saying that's on me?
- Well, it's not not on you.
- [LOCK BUZZING]
- Heads up.
John Maritz. Look how
the mighty have fallen.
Aw, it's not so bad.
Lost a few pounds,
caught up on my reading.
It's kind of relaxing, not dealing
with other people's problems.
"People." I heard the best people
used to have you on speed dial.
I don't fix-and-tell.
That's very noble.
How can we help you gentlemen?
Well, we were wondering if your client
had a particularly creative way
of fixing his incarceration problem.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Uh-huh. 'Kay.
Uh, there was a kidnapping today
28 people, and 12 of
them are just little kids.
I assume you're talking
about the missing bus.
That's your problem, not my client's.
Well, the hijackers are demanding
his immediate release, so
I would say it's very much his problem.
Okay. Uh, John, look.
We know your accounts are frozen,
but we figured you
probably found a workaround,
so just tell us, and
we'll get out of here.
- Who'd you pay?
- I didn't pay anyone.
Okay, then who did?
You know, you're the detective.
Why don't you tell me?
Oh, wait. Jason Grant, right?
All temper, no finesse?
Apparently couldn't even
get his own son back.
Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Jay, Jay. Easy, easy, easy.
- I think we're done here.
- Yeah, we're done here.
[KNOCK-KNOCK]
[LOCK BUZZES]
Not bad.
What in the garbage dump of hell
are they teaching kids these days?
- Did you get into Kayla's account?
- No, not yet,
but it should take maybe 30 seconds,
because, apparently,
no one told your girl
about two-factor authentication.
- You're gonna hack her password?
- [WAYNE] Oh, hell, no.
Let's see. Uh, "first pet's name"
[CLACKING]
Well, this is the Insta
account her parents know about.
- Mm-hmm.
- "Missing my Daisy"
crying face, heart emoji. "Daisy."
Nice. Mother's maiden
So, um, what exactly did you and
Jason get up to in Afghanistan?
The usual. Did he
tell you about the time
- we kidnapped a camel?
- No, he didn't.
He seems to have left
out a number of things.
Well, Jay is like a book
with half the pages torn out,
and we put up with him,
because, whatever's on those pages,
he's got the biggest heart in the world.
Oh! Old people, bingo!
This has gotta be the grandparents.
Checking metadata
latitude, longitude [GASPS]
Hey, babe?
Who owns the house at 354 Ardmore Lane?
Um
[CLACKING]
Linda and Mason Hill,
and for the love of
God, do not call me babe.
- Thanks, babe.
- You got it, babe.
All right, yeah, Hill. He seriously
didn't tell you about the camel?
- [NIKKI] No, he didn't.
- Interesting.
Not really.
Okay, one more. Um name
of her elementary school.
Uh "Hayward."
[CLACKING]
[WAYNE] All right. We are in.
Live photos. Knock yourself out.
[♪]
[KEMI] And there!
Mm. Not enough to I.D. him.
- Great.
- Yeah. I got you.
Fast.
[C, MUTTERING TO SELF] No, a beach.
No a forest.
A forest. No, no, a beach.
A beach.
Okay. No, wait. A river.
Okay.
- [GASPS]
- I'm fairly certain you're in a park.
- [HE EXHALES DEEPLY]
- Hello.
[C LAUGHS]
Honestly, thank you.
You saved me. This is
From what?
Rachel thinks that the Coroner's Office
is spiking my anxiety, so
I'm-I'm trying meditation.
- Okay
- But this app is asking me
to "locate my happy place."
Okay, is it possible that
you're missing the point?
No, the point is, unless
there's an emergency,
I'm committed to 15 minutes a day,
- so, goodbye.
- Well
Is this the kidnapper from the bus?
Yeah. And we need you to I.D. him.
Bingo-boingo! We got
an emergency! Let's go!
[HUSHED] Why'd they take our phones?
[QUIETLY] So we
couldn't call the cops
but they must know by now.
We just have to stay calm.
I want my dad.
I don't even know if he's alive.
Don't even think that, Kay.
He pushed him off the bus!
[SEETHING] I'm stuck
with a bunch of kids.
What the hell is taking so long?
Please, just let us go!
- [BANG]
- [GASPING AND YELPING]
Little girl, shut your mouth!
[STUDENTS WHIMPERING]
Okay, we're on our way.
Blow through this stop sign! Now!
[♪]
[CAR HORNS HONKING]
[♪]
[SHOT FIRES]
[ALL CRYING OUT]
Next one the next one's on you.
All right, so C's working his
magic on a facial composite.
Philadelphia Transit Authority says
they can't stop all the buses.
I tried.
I really tried.
You okay?
If the city won't release Maritz,
I have to tell those
parents that, in three hours,
one of their kids may die,
and on top of that,
Braun has read your file in detail.
Look, Nik, if you want
me to fall on my sword,
- I will.
- No. We are who we are.
It's why we're good.
He's smart, he'll figure it out.
But why is she still here?
Oh, um
I, um, I dropped an earbud
in, um, in Maritz's lawyer's briefcase,
and she's tracking it.
Why?
'Cause I don't think Maritz was
able to do this from the inside,
and I got a sneaky suspicion that, uh,
his lawyer is in
contact with whoever did.
How does an earbud help?
Maybe you don't want to know.
Oh, there's another thing
you're keeping from me.
Come on, Nik.
Why is it you never mentioned
that Wayne was a woman?
I mean, not that it's any of
my business anymore, but
Um
okay, um, when you,
um, when you called me
and, uh, told me that
Keith was missing, I
was 8,000 miles away
from anybody that mattered to me,
um, and I, um, I lost my
mind, Nik. I couldn't
I couldn't talk, I couldn't move.
I couldn't I couldn't do anything.
Wayne said she didn't want
me to travel home alone,
so she flew all the
way to Philly with me
18 hours, then
went right back on a plane to Bagram.
I don't know why I didn't tell you.
Okay, I-I just I didn't
know how you'd react.
But I owe her, uh
big time.
[♪]
Where is he taking us?
[ECHOING THUD]
We are trying, but if
they don't release him,
I have a busload of kids who
[SIGHING] Yeah.
Yeah, keep me posted.
What's up?
Uh, the Inspector says that the
city doesn't want to release Maritz.
All right, then we have a little more
than two hours to find those kids.
I have this voice in my
head that keeps saying
that we always figure this out,
- but I I don't know, this feels different.
- Hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
We got this, all right?
I got an I.D.!
"Baz Marsh."
Convicted of killing a woman
in Fairhill two years ago.
It got overturned on appeal.
Looks like he's got priors
on aggravated vandalism,
larceny, theft
I mean, these are all
crimes of opportunity.
There's no way this creep is
capable of planning a hijacking.
Then find out who did.
- Last known address?
- Yeah, right there.
All right, Marsh took the bus
but how does a fancy jerk like Maritz
get lined up with a scumbag like him?
I don't know you
sprinkle enough cash around,
it ends up in the right pocket.
Wayne's tracking the lawyer.
- Hopefully, we get something there.
- Yeah, Wayne.
- She seems resourceful.
- Oh, yeah.
She hacked a drone with two
sticks of gum and a flip phone.
You and her have a thing?
Who's asking, you or-or Nik?
I'm just wondering what
the excuse is gonna be
when Braun figures out
there's a convicted hacker
sitting at our desk, on our computers.
I don't know burning
desire to save 28 people?
- Oh, okay.
- And we're just friends.
- Ish.
- Yeah. There it is.
All right. [SIGHING]
Marsh's house should be
right here on the corner.
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[CREAKING]
You ever hear of knocking first?
Didn't I?
All right, Marsh,
what do you got for us?
- [SNIFFS]
- We got a bore brush.
Smells like solvent.
Cleaned a gun in the last day or so.
[PAPER RUSTLING]
Doesn't seem to me like a
manila-envelope type of fella.
Oh
oh!
Also didn't think that he had $3,852
for a security deposit.
It looks like he leased
a commercial property.
Starts with "C-A-L." I don't know.
The address is ripped off,
but the ZIP is South Philly.
[JASON] Look at this.
He targeted that bus 'cause he
knew the kids would be on it.
Son of a bitch.
Yeah, whoever's working with Marsh
is setting us up for maximum pain.
[♪]
Say hello?
Hi.
I'm Detective Jason Grant
and I'm coming for you. 'Kay?
All right, let's get
the hell outta here.
[♪]
[CLATTERING]
[CRUNCHING]
[MIKE] The phone we found
at Marsh's was a burner,
but there's only one number on it,
and that's a dead-end.
[JASON] They want to know
if we I.D.'ed him, Nik.
Kemi, what do you have on the bus?
Uh, they said South Philly, right?
- Yep.
- Okay, so I overlaid the bus, uh, routes
- with the traffic cam footage.
- [WHOOSH]
There's one anomaly.
This was 20 minutes ago.
That's not on a route?
Factory District, south of 18th.
Wait. The receipt said C-A-L.
The old Calloway factory!
Uh, uh "Calloway."
- Yeah. Here.
- Right here.
It'll be 15 minutes until
we can get SWAT on site.
That's great. We got 42
minutes till the deadline.
[TIRES SCREECH]
Well, uh
we could wait for SWAT to breach or
do you have a tow rig on this thing?
I do not. Why?
I don't need it. Never
mind. I got a better idea.
[GRUNTS]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[ENGINE IDLING]
[♪]
[ENGINE REVS]
[♪]
[♪]
I'm going right.
[♪]
Aw, damn it.
[♪]
[SIGHS]
The cell phone at Marsh's house
As soon as they knew we I.D.'ed him,
he became a liability.
If this is the kidnapper,
then who the hell has the passengers?
- Please they're children.
- [SMACK]
[ALL GASPING]
Sit down! Anybody else got a complaint?
[CLICK]
[♪]
Hey! Driver. Get up!
Get up.
- Please.
- Get up!
- Please!
- Move it!
Quit stalling!
- I have a wife!
- Shut up!
[SCREAMING]
[♪]
Hurry up!
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
Please, mister.
[DOOR RATTLES]
Get Nik over here.
Nik!
Hey.
Anything?
Oh, hey. Jay. Jay!
- Oh, no.
- [NIKKI] Talk to me.
Yep, they came through here.
All right, Nik. The railyard's
a couple hundred yards away.
I think these bastards
wanted to keep 'em moving.
We're one step behind, and
those kids are paying the price.
There are 31 freight trains
currently in the yard.
[JASON] So just shut
the whole thing down.
Jason, that's not a thing! A
train leaves every four minutes,
or the whole East Coast
transportation system shuts down.
Look, hey, hey, if we
have to search every car,
it'll take hours.
Give me one second.
- Where you going?
- Hey, what do you got?
[WAYNE] Your earbud says that
Maritz's lawyer is in a coffee shop
near his law firm.
If he uses their WiFi, I
can get into his devices.
No, no. Anything you
find will be inadmissible.
Dude, this was your plan.
I-I know that, okay?
I just I just don't
want this to blow back.
Are you more worried about the ex,
or the fact that we have, like,
no time to stop this creep?
All right. Do it. Do
it. Do it. All right?
What is that look? What? What?
That's what.
[♪]
[MODULATED VOICE] The
city has failed to release
John Maritz in the time allotted.
- [GUNSHOTS]
- [SCREAMING]
Don't let it happen again.
[JASON] Son of a bitch.
[MODULATED VOICE] 30
minutes, or she's next.
[JASON] Son of a bitch.
Wait.
Does that look like the inside
of a railway container to you?
Yes, it does.
I want drone coverage of that yard.
Please get me every
warm body that we've got
down there and searching, now!
[SIRENS WAILING]
[♪]
[DING]
I spoke to the Mayor.
Between the dead bus driver
and the thought that
one of the kids is next,
he's agreed to release Maritz.
Thank God.
You did this.
I just walked him past
the conference room,
where the families are waiting.
Thank you, Braun.
Which brings me to the part
that you won't thank me for.
I want MPU to stand down.
What? No!
I want you there once
release conditions are set.
In the meantime, you don't poke a bear
when he has a kid in his mouth.
I'm happy the Mayor is giving
those passengers a chance,
but I have zero reason to
trust the people behind this.
Did you miss the part
where I give the orders?
You know I'm right.
[DOOR RUMBLING OPEN]
12 kids.
Don't screw this up.
[DOOR RUMBLES]
Jason and Mike are still searching,
but it's a needle in a damn haystack.
Anything on the drone?
- Nothing so far.
- Uh, but we might have something else.
Um
don't look at the passengers,
focus on the chain.
- Will you isolate it for her?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[NIKKI] Okay, it jumps
every second or two.
Is the train still moving?
No. The car is stationary.
- Just the chain moves.
- Which means that it's on a siding,
next to a moving train.
And we counted how many
times the chain moved,
- and it was 42.
- Which means that it's next to a track
that has a 42-car train passing by.
And according to the freight system,
there is only one train
that fits the bill,
and it left on track seven.
- Pull the drone view back up.
- Uh, yeah.
- [HITS KEYS]
- [TRILLING]
[KEMI] That's track seven.
There. On that flatbed.
- Get me a container number.
- Yeah.
[CHUGGING]
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
Let's set up a perimeter
that way. Wait for my call.
- Jay, where are you?
- South side of the tracks.
All right. East side, by track seven.
Container number 7-Oscar-9-1.
- Get here now!
- [JASON] All right, all right. Coming.
[GUARD] John Maritz coming through.
[DOOR LOCK BUZZES]
[♪]
[PHONE BUZZING]
Hey, I'm kinda in the middle of it here.
I got into the lawyer's phone.
Looks like he repped our
dead bus-napper Baz Marsh.
I gotta go. I gotta
go! I really gotta go.
I don't have time right now. Wayne
Not only that he made multiple calls
to another former client,
also a felony all-star.
Come on. Okay, so if that's
the guy who shot Marsh,
that's the same guy who's got the kids.
It's him, it's him.
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLARING]
What the hell is all that noise?
Just me almost getting
killed. I really gotta go. Bye.
Hold it down. Wait for me. Wait for me.
Take low. I'm going up.
[♪]
Where's your car? We
need to make that call.
Right outside.
[♪]
- [WHIMPERING]
- No!
Hello!
I got the gun. I got the gun.
[MIKE] Get up!
- [THUD]
- Hands behind your back.
Hey, I got good news for you, buddy,
you're gonna spend the rest of
your life in jail, with your lawyer.
- Huh?
- Screw you!
- Hey, check on those kids.
- Are you guys okay?
Let's go.
[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]
We're good. Cut 'em loose.
Detective Jason Grant.
Game over, Counselor. You should
probably get yourself a lawyer.
Oh, my God, we're screwed.
Get us out of here!
- Now!
- Maritz, stop!
[EXPLOSION ROARING]
[ALL TALKING EXCITEDLY]
Oh!
[INDISTINCT EXCHANGES]
- There's your dad. Go, go.
- Daddy!
[ANDREW] Oh!
I promised your mom I'd keep you safe.
I'm so sorry, Kayla. I'm so sorry.
I promise to never go on another
school field trip without you again.
I think you'll get over that!
But it's okay, I love you.
So much!
You follow football, Nikki?
It's Philly. Do I have a choice?
An individual can make a
difference, but a team
can make a miracle.
"Fly, Eagles, fly."
Let's wrap this up.
You got it, boss.
[BRAUN] I can now report
that the hijacking of Bus 447
was engineered by an attorney
representing John Maritz.
The Mayor and I, along
with Missing Persons Unit,
mourn the passing of Bus
447's driver, Elliot Cobi,
whose heroics will not be forgotten.
As to the explosion that took the
lives of Maritz and his attorney,
the Homicide Department will not stop
until we find the person,
or people, responsible.
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
[WAYNE] It was fun while it lasted.
[CLASPING]
Can I interest you in a nightcap?
I mean, I've got a fine vintage Gatorade
and there is an ice
machine just down the hall,
if you like it cold.
- Yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
Um
I don't I don't know
if I'm ready for Gatorade.
Right.
Well you know where
to find me, when you are.
Yes.
- [BUMP]
- [CHUCKLING]
- All right.
- ["RIGHTEOUS" BY DEVON GILFILLIAN PLAYING]
And you can be real ♪
Righteous ♪
How could we see eye to eye ♪
When you're standing
on top of your hill? ♪
Thank God.
Yeah, Maritz buried a lot of secrets
- for a lot of powerful people.
- Mm.
Yeah, I guess one of 'em
got scared he was gonna talk.
Yeah, I'm not sure we'll ever know.
Braun gave the car bombing to Homicide.
Yeah, well, no matter what,
those kids are sleeping
in their own bed tonight.
Yeah.
[MIKE] You wanna do the honors?
Oh, no. It's usually your thing. Go.
Well, consider it an
early wedding present.
Okay.
But you don't
really know how to heal? ♪
You can be righteous ♪
Righteous ♪
And you can be real ♪
- Righteous ♪
- How do we see eye to eye ♪
- You are right.
- Mm-hmm!
That feels good! [LAUGHS]
Well, you know what
would feel even better?
- What?
- Nice back rub
- Mm!
- Nice glass of wine, hot bath.
[NIKKI] I'd like that.
[♪]
Tell me we're gonna be okay here.
We're gonna be okay.
[♪]
Come on, guys, move it, move it.
The bus waits for no one.
- [DRIVER] Come on. Come on.
- [ANDREW] Kayla, that means you.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
[BACKGROUND CHATTER, INDISTINCT]
- You too.
- Let's go, guys.
Mom would never have done this.
You're right your mom
would have the good sense
not to volunteer, but, unlike
her, I'm a sucker for punishment.
Butt on bus. Now.
- Come on. Let's sit by Jordan.
- Shh!
My dad, he's so annoying!
- [TEACHER] Come on, sit down, kids.
- You need a raise.
[LAUGHS] Yes, I do.
[DRIVER] Here we go field
trip to the Wagner Institute.
Dad, what are you doing?
Grace is sitting here!
Okay.
[BACKGROUND CHATTER, INDISTINCT]
Okay, here we go.
[♪]
[♪]
Hey, Jordan
pass that to Kayla for me.
Kayla?
- Huh?
- Here's your water.
[CHUCKLES AWKWARDLY] I don't need water.
Stop hovering.
[BACKGROUND CHATTER, INDISTINCT]
[♪]
- [TERSELY] Put your phone down and stay put.
- What's wrong?
Hey!
[STRUGGLING AND GROANING]
[THUD]
Dad! [GASPING]
- [SHRIEKS] Dad!
- [BLOWS LANDING]
[GASPING]
Dad!
[♪]
[GROANING]
Ah!
Why? Why?
- [DING]
- Hey.
You just wake up?
No, no. I've been up for hours.
Worked out, had a smoothie.
Fantastic. The house
is looking, uh, nice.
- Coming together new house.
- You like?
Looks great.
I-I do, I like, I just
have one question
you let him hang a
baseball bat on the wall?
That bat was used by J-Roll
to hit a game-tying triple
against the Cincinnati Reds,
all right? Watch your mouth.
Hi, Mike. I don't care what it is.
You made me keep all my
sports stuff in the garage.
Your "sports stuff" was dirty
sneakers and a skateboard.
[MIKE] Yeah, I'm staying out of this.
Hi, Mom and Dad.
- [JASON] Hey, hey!
- Hi, baby.
What are you doing? You just wake up?
I don't have class until 11,
and can you remind me again
why we have to do this
at the crack of dawn?
- Mom's idea.
- Is that mascara?
You still have mascara on?
And whose t-shirt is that?
Yeah, it's not your t-shirt.
Uh, I know this, 'cause
you don't go to Penn.
- Who goes to Penn?
- It's Penn State, Dad,
and stop detective-ing me, both of you!
Sid, I love you more than
anything on the planet,
but I need you to know something
college guys are like piranha
only piranha want food,
- and college guys,
- Jason
- they want Well, I'm just
- Dad!
Just saying, Sid. Uh, truth is,
- you are the most amazing girl
- Dad!
on the planet, so,
everybody should respect you,
but I don't know
beer pong and things like that,
gets outta hand, all right?
Gets out of hand and
Uh-huh.
- Blame it on the beer pong.
- That's the plumber.
Just got her. She's great.
Both of you, just promise
me you're using protection.
Okay! Goodbye! Love you, Sid, very much.
I love you. [SMOOCH] I gotta go.
- Hollis Braun.
- Yes.
Great to meet you. I'll be
taking over the division
Homicide, Major Crimes, MPU and, uh,
disregard the mustache. I lost a bet.
No, it's very, um
"Commissioner Gordon."
- My inner eight-year-old thanks you.
- You're welcome.
Well, I'm sure Bill
Houston filled you in,
but he took an arms-length approach.
So I hear
- MPU's closure rate is excellent, truly stellar.
- Oh, thank you.
But the Jason Grant situation
I know, you two have history,
but he's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Shooting at parked cars?
Turning the video off in interrogation?
Detective Grant is also
the best cop in Philly.
My team all of us we
focus on getting the job done.
You wanna explain how
eggs play into that?
One of my people is a shaman.
And one of my dogs likes to
eats his own crap, if I let him,
but I don't, because I
know better. The thing is
you tick all my boxes, Nikki
- Right.
- and I have many,
so if you're not quite
in control of your team,
don't worry, we'll get you there.
I'm a world-class expert
in making problems go away,
except for this damn mustache.
[JANGLING]
Enjoy the new offices.
- Thank you.
- [ELEVATOR DINGS]
- I didn't say that!
- Wow. Wow!
I-I I just cannot believe you
let him put us in headquarters.
Yeah, well, I didn't have a choice.
He wants to keep an eye on us.
- You, especially.
- Hmm.
[NIKKI] This is it.
Oh kay. Uh-huh.
Wow.
Well, this makes Sidney's dorm
room look tidy that's good.
It's a nice view. I think.
We are gonna need some
serious sage up in this joint.
Yeah, I think that's off the table.
[PHONE RINGING]
Pick it up.
MPU. This is Mike Sherman.
[♪]
Wait. Whoa-whoa-whoa! Hey,
hey. You gotta slow down.
[NIKKI] What is it?
[♪]
Yeah, yeah. We'll get right on it.
[HANGING UP]
That was the Transit Authority.
Apparently, a city bus just disappeared.
[SIREN WAILING]
'Sup, bro?
They just reviewed the footage
at Transit Authority headquarters.
The traffic cam on the
other side saw the bus enter,
but, according to this
one, it never came out.
Never came out?
Just ten tons of bus,
just poof just disappeared?
We got a David
Copperfield situation here?
How many passengers?
According to the
real-time service info, 27.
Well, don't these
buses have transponders?
Either it's malfunctioned or off.
- Or something.
- Hey!
Let's get a perimeter set up
hundred yards out, on
each side of the tunnel.
I need you to canvas those buildings,
get me boots on the ground
on the other side. All right?
- Hey, Mike!
- Yeah?
What do you got?
I think somebody was up
here with climbing boots.
We should look at that camera.
Now, when you say we, you mean
- You. You.
- Yeah, no, I figured that.
- I'm not climbing that damn pole!
- You're not?
Well, I'm certainly not. I
have a bad back. You know that.
Bad back, my ass.
All right. Give me a boost.
- A boost?
- Yeah, a boost.
'Scuse me! You young back
help the sergeant up
here up the pole, please.
- Yes, sir.
- Thank you.
But if I fall, Nikki's gonna kill you.
She's killed me for less.
[GRUNTING]
[JASON] Wow! Very impressive.
We should back up in case he falls,
I don't want you to get injured.
Yo! Somebody hijacked the feed.
That bus didn't disappear. It was taken.
[♪]
Hey, Jay! Take a look over there!
[♪]
Hey. Hey!
You okay?
- Hey, talk to me.
- [SPUTTERS] Help me.
I'm gonna help you. What
happened? What happened?
My daughter, she's on the bus.
[NIKKI] Any sign of the bus?
Okay. So whoever took Bus 447
knew the placement of the CCTVs.
If they had gone
straight down 5th Street,
this one would have picked them up.
Um, turned east, this
one would have seen them.
My best guess is that
they went west, here.
Okay, so all they had to do was
avoid a couple blocks of cameras
And disappear into a city
with 1,300 identical buses.
But why would anyone
want to kidnap a city bus?
We're not gonna know until we
figure out who's on that bus,
other than those kids.
When you swipe your transit card,
the bus transmits the information
to the Transit Authority.
- I mean, if we got authorization to access
- No, that'll be too long.
Well, not if we go the nuclear option.
Hiya.
- Hi.
- I don't have time for this.
No, I-I don't either.
That's why I need your, um,
your login credentials.
Hell, no. You gotta run
that through my supervisor.
You know what I hate more than anything?
Red tape.
Okay. So we can sit here
for the next couple hours,
I can call my boss, who's
gonna call your boss,
who can't find her boss, because
she's playing pickleball,
or whatever, or
we can act like men and
help these passengers
you and I.
Uh, there's kids on the bus.
Don't make me shoot you. Come on!
Come on. Come on, come
on, come on, come on.
I'm ex-military.
It was just automatic.
If I'd have stayed in my damn seat,
I'd still be with her.
I'd have done exactly what you did.
We lost her mom last year.
Cancer.
Kayla's been through so much
and I've been trying, but
Do you remember anything
about the man who took the bus?
He, uh, had a hat
a gator.
He's White,
and, uh, I don't know, maybe 40s.
- Okay. That's something.
- Hey
please, please, just
just help me find my kid.
She's been pushing me,
and pushing me away,
and there's just so much
that I should've said,
but I was hurting, too.
You know, and, uh
sh-she's a great girl, Captain Batista.
Just
[ANDREW, ON VIDEO]
All right, young lady.
You go ahead.
[BLOWING]
What'd you wish for, little bunny?
I wished to get Mom back.
We're gonna find her, Mr. Barosso.
- [QUIETLY] 'Kay.
- It's what we do.
[KNOCKING]
So sorry.
Uh, Jason got a password. I'm in.
[KEMI] So these are all the kids,
and these are all the passengers
that swiped transit key cards.
Look, the cash payment
that's probably our guy.
[KEMI] Yeah.
Uh, we got all the numbers
for all of the passengers
who registered their key
cards with transit accounts,
but all the numbers go to voicemail.
They either turned the phone off
or they're using blockers.
So we can't track the
bus or the passengers.
Issue the alert.
[ALERTS BLARING, OVERLAPPING]
[SLIDER SWISHES AND THUDS SHUT]
I have 50 officers out
there looking for a bus.
Please tell me you've got something.
Okay, based on a fast records check,
there's no obvious kidnap motive
no restraining orders,
no pending lawsuits
just people trying to live their lives.
Well, if it is a ransom play,
then the Transit Authority and City Hall
- would hear from the kidnappers.
- I don't want to wait.
We got something.
Someone spotted one of those
kids at Washington Square.
Full team to Washington Square, go!
[♪]
[WOMAN] My little boy was on that bus!
[MAN] Please, my daughter's only 11!
It was just a field trip!
How do you lose a bus?
Ladies and gentlemen!
Ladies and gentlemen.
Captain Batista will
do everything possible
to bring your children
and loved ones home.
Our officers will take
your contact information.
The best way to help
right now is to go home.
- [IN SPANISH] Ay no. Yo no voy pa'casa.
- Yo tampoco.
- [MURMURS OF DISSENT]
- No.
No one wants to go through this alone.
We can set up a room
can't we, Inspector?
I'll see what we can do.
[QUIET MURMURING, INDISTINCT]
Officer, you can
please, one at a time.
[NIKKI] Hey, Baxter.
I'm glad we found you
in Washington Square.
We're trying to find your friends,
so I guess it's a good thing
you skipped the field trip.
I mean, it's only to
the Wagner Institute.
I've already seen the fossils,
like, five times, so I
I get it. It's okay.
Hey, do any of your
friends have smartphones?
Pretty much all of them, but
Well, you know, the
reason why I'm asking
is because we are looking
for any communications
that may help us find your friends.
- Are they gonna be okay?
- I hope so.
That's why we're looking to identify
the person who did this,
and, so far, it looks
like none of your friends
have posted photos from the
bus, but maybe you got a text?
A post?
You know, my-my son Keith,
he used to be a handful.
He was a smart kid, but, ooh,
the stuff he got up to
I used to tell him that
I wouldn't be upset with
him if he made a mistake,
and I'd be really happy
if he told the truth.
I'm sure your mom feels the same way.
[♪]
Well, according to the boy
who skipped the field trip,
we need to check a "Finstagram."
Okay, Gramama, uh, everyone
just calls it "Finsta,"
short for "fake Instagram." Okay?
Um, so, lot of kids create these pages,
uh, with different handles
so that their parents
can't see what they're up to.
Ah-hah! You think
Sidney has one of those?
I don't know, but Kayla Barosso does
that's the daughter of the
man who got pushed off the bus.
It's @sexyinpinnk.
"Pink" with two "N"s.
Is she 12 years old? "Sexy in Pink"?
I tell you what we find her,
you can give her a lecture.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She posted this morning.
Okay, all I see is the kids.
None of them are our
cash-paying bus-napper.
So it's a dead end?
I mean, if we could access the
"live" version of the photo,
we could see more, but
to do that, we'd have to
hack the cloud.
[NIKKI] Hmm.
No. Uh, none of my guys are
comfortable with that, so, no.
- 12 kids, Jay.
- Okay,
I got, uh, one maybe one option.
- Black-hat or white-hat?
- Grayish.
Uh, brilliant,
uh, a little unpredictable,
maybe uh, Wayne.
Oh, the hacker you worked with
in Afghanistan? That's great.
Bring him in.
Okay.
[KEYS CLACKING]
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
[WHACK]
Are you outta your
mind? I come in peace.
Wonderful. You can leave the same way.
[SHUTS DOOR]
Wayne, I know that I let you down.
I know that I let you down.
Okay? But this this is urgent.
So was showing up to my
sentencing hearing six months ago!
Okay, in my defense,
I had a lot going on.
You knew the situation with Keith.
No, I knew that, after hacking you
into every phone and
computer in Afghanistan,
you didn't so much as text me back.
I suck. I know. I suck. Okay?
What "sucks" is being stuck in a
motel room with an ankle monitor
that is giving me freakin' eczema!
That does suck.
[CALMER] Yeah.
I've had I've had no phone,
no computer, no Internet.
I've had nothing except
for the Cartoon Channel
and a view of an insane paint job
and a dead tree.
Do you have any idea what
that does to a person?
Oh, come on. It's not that bad.
I mean, you made it
four nights in a cave
with half the Taliban looking for you.
Yeah, except there's a
difference. I had you
- Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
You were telling me Dad jokes and doing
your Eminem impression
- Mm-hmm.
- Which, by the way
- it sucks.
- No, it doesn't!
It does. I'm sorry to tell ya.
It's good to see you.
And I m I may have a way
to get you out of this
place, uh, temporarily.
Did our ex-bosses send you,
or you come up with this yourself?
Uh, the Philadelphia Police Department.
There's a busload of missing kids,
and, um, we need you.
- Do I get a computer?
- Absolutely.
Right.
[BED FRAME THUMPS]
All right.
Uh, so Jay's little military buddy
got a year house arrest for
hacking the Russian Consulate,
so can you remind me
how this is a good idea?
They worked for the
same military contractor.
Jay trusts him
her.
Heard y'all need some cloud hacking?
Wayne Pascal, this is Captain Batista.
Ah! The ex.
You never mentioned Wayne was a woman.
My parents have a sense of humor.
She's got a great sense
of humor, too, so, you guys
are gonna get along great.
[DRYLY] Mm-hmm.
Okay, well, we have
a desk set up for you,
- right over here.
- Um, actually, I'm gonna take the bar.
Um, if you just want to
drop that over there
you had some primo stuff
in that evidence locker, so.
Right.
- Yeah.
- Please.
City Hall just received a ransom demand,
and we have four hours
to release John Maritz,
currently being held
in the detention center.
John Maritz um, he's a jerk.
Um, he helps rich folks do
away with their problems.
Yeah, till he pissed
a couple of 'em off.
He got 16 years for
wire-tapping and racketeering.
What's the ask?
If we don't release him
in the next four hours,
they start killing passengers.
[♪]
Captain Batista says
you people are the best.
Now's the time to prove it.
No. The bus hasn't been located yet,
but we are doing
everything that we can
I know my husband he's
gonna try and be a hero,
- but he's not.
- You're Mr. Cobi's wife,
the bus driver, is that right?
- Please, just find him.
- Why did they do this?
- Why did they take our kids?
- Ladies and gentlemen,
MPU is doing everything we can.
This is my Grace.
Please know that, right now,
we believe that your kids are safe.
How do you know that?
There's been a ransom demand.
What? Ransom? I can't afford a ransom.
- [GASPING]
- Wait!
It may not sound like good news,
but as long as the
kidnappers are negotiating,
- there's hope.
- Who did this?
Folks, I'm sorry, but sharing
details could compromise
Is the City gonna
agree to their demands?
[INSPECTOR BRAUN] Mr.
Barosso, it's a process.
[BANG] She is my daughter!
I know, look, I've been in your shoes.
My son, Keith
he was taken. We never got him back.
That is why I joined the MPU
to make sure that no other
parent has to go through that.
So I hear you. I do.
I know how you feel,
and I'm not gonna say that
this is going to be easy
every minute will feel like a year
but we will get your children back!
Every single one of them.
[♪]
Listen.
You gotta take it easy now that
Braun is breathing down Nikki's neck.
Easy?
I mean, "easy" is my middle name.
Since when?
- Are you saying that's on me?
- Well, it's not not on you.
- [LOCK BUZZING]
- Heads up.
John Maritz. Look how
the mighty have fallen.
Aw, it's not so bad.
Lost a few pounds,
caught up on my reading.
It's kind of relaxing, not dealing
with other people's problems.
"People." I heard the best people
used to have you on speed dial.
I don't fix-and-tell.
That's very noble.
How can we help you gentlemen?
Well, we were wondering if your client
had a particularly creative way
of fixing his incarceration problem.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Uh-huh. 'Kay.
Uh, there was a kidnapping today
28 people, and 12 of
them are just little kids.
I assume you're talking
about the missing bus.
That's your problem, not my client's.
Well, the hijackers are demanding
his immediate release, so
I would say it's very much his problem.
Okay. Uh, John, look.
We know your accounts are frozen,
but we figured you
probably found a workaround,
so just tell us, and
we'll get out of here.
- Who'd you pay?
- I didn't pay anyone.
Okay, then who did?
You know, you're the detective.
Why don't you tell me?
Oh, wait. Jason Grant, right?
All temper, no finesse?
Apparently couldn't even
get his own son back.
Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Jay, Jay. Easy, easy, easy.
- I think we're done here.
- Yeah, we're done here.
[KNOCK-KNOCK]
[LOCK BUZZES]
Not bad.
What in the garbage dump of hell
are they teaching kids these days?
- Did you get into Kayla's account?
- No, not yet,
but it should take maybe 30 seconds,
because, apparently,
no one told your girl
about two-factor authentication.
- You're gonna hack her password?
- [WAYNE] Oh, hell, no.
Let's see. Uh, "first pet's name"
[CLACKING]
Well, this is the Insta
account her parents know about.
- Mm-hmm.
- "Missing my Daisy"
crying face, heart emoji. "Daisy."
Nice. Mother's maiden
So, um, what exactly did you and
Jason get up to in Afghanistan?
The usual. Did he
tell you about the time
- we kidnapped a camel?
- No, he didn't.
He seems to have left
out a number of things.
Well, Jay is like a book
with half the pages torn out,
and we put up with him,
because, whatever's on those pages,
he's got the biggest heart in the world.
Oh! Old people, bingo!
This has gotta be the grandparents.
Checking metadata
latitude, longitude [GASPS]
Hey, babe?
Who owns the house at 354 Ardmore Lane?
Um
[CLACKING]
Linda and Mason Hill,
and for the love of
God, do not call me babe.
- Thanks, babe.
- You got it, babe.
All right, yeah, Hill. He seriously
didn't tell you about the camel?
- [NIKKI] No, he didn't.
- Interesting.
Not really.
Okay, one more. Um name
of her elementary school.
Uh "Hayward."
[CLACKING]
[WAYNE] All right. We are in.
Live photos. Knock yourself out.
[♪]
[KEMI] And there!
Mm. Not enough to I.D. him.
- Great.
- Yeah. I got you.
Fast.
[C, MUTTERING TO SELF] No, a beach.
No a forest.
A forest. No, no, a beach.
A beach.
Okay. No, wait. A river.
Okay.
- [GASPS]
- I'm fairly certain you're in a park.
- [HE EXHALES DEEPLY]
- Hello.
[C LAUGHS]
Honestly, thank you.
You saved me. This is
From what?
Rachel thinks that the Coroner's Office
is spiking my anxiety, so
I'm-I'm trying meditation.
- Okay
- But this app is asking me
to "locate my happy place."
Okay, is it possible that
you're missing the point?
No, the point is, unless
there's an emergency,
I'm committed to 15 minutes a day,
- so, goodbye.
- Well
Is this the kidnapper from the bus?
Yeah. And we need you to I.D. him.
Bingo-boingo! We got
an emergency! Let's go!
[HUSHED] Why'd they take our phones?
[QUIETLY] So we
couldn't call the cops
but they must know by now.
We just have to stay calm.
I want my dad.
I don't even know if he's alive.
Don't even think that, Kay.
He pushed him off the bus!
[SEETHING] I'm stuck
with a bunch of kids.
What the hell is taking so long?
Please, just let us go!
- [BANG]
- [GASPING AND YELPING]
Little girl, shut your mouth!
[STUDENTS WHIMPERING]
Okay, we're on our way.
Blow through this stop sign! Now!
[♪]
[CAR HORNS HONKING]
[♪]
[SHOT FIRES]
[ALL CRYING OUT]
Next one the next one's on you.
All right, so C's working his
magic on a facial composite.
Philadelphia Transit Authority says
they can't stop all the buses.
I tried.
I really tried.
You okay?
If the city won't release Maritz,
I have to tell those
parents that, in three hours,
one of their kids may die,
and on top of that,
Braun has read your file in detail.
Look, Nik, if you want
me to fall on my sword,
- I will.
- No. We are who we are.
It's why we're good.
He's smart, he'll figure it out.
But why is she still here?
Oh, um
I, um, I dropped an earbud
in, um, in Maritz's lawyer's briefcase,
and she's tracking it.
Why?
'Cause I don't think Maritz was
able to do this from the inside,
and I got a sneaky suspicion that, uh,
his lawyer is in
contact with whoever did.
How does an earbud help?
Maybe you don't want to know.
Oh, there's another thing
you're keeping from me.
Come on, Nik.
Why is it you never mentioned
that Wayne was a woman?
I mean, not that it's any of
my business anymore, but
Um
okay, um, when you,
um, when you called me
and, uh, told me that
Keith was missing, I
was 8,000 miles away
from anybody that mattered to me,
um, and I, um, I lost my
mind, Nik. I couldn't
I couldn't talk, I couldn't move.
I couldn't I couldn't do anything.
Wayne said she didn't want
me to travel home alone,
so she flew all the
way to Philly with me
18 hours, then
went right back on a plane to Bagram.
I don't know why I didn't tell you.
Okay, I-I just I didn't
know how you'd react.
But I owe her, uh
big time.
[♪]
Where is he taking us?
[ECHOING THUD]
We are trying, but if
they don't release him,
I have a busload of kids who
[SIGHING] Yeah.
Yeah, keep me posted.
What's up?
Uh, the Inspector says that the
city doesn't want to release Maritz.
All right, then we have a little more
than two hours to find those kids.
I have this voice in my
head that keeps saying
that we always figure this out,
- but I I don't know, this feels different.
- Hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
We got this, all right?
I got an I.D.!
"Baz Marsh."
Convicted of killing a woman
in Fairhill two years ago.
It got overturned on appeal.
Looks like he's got priors
on aggravated vandalism,
larceny, theft
I mean, these are all
crimes of opportunity.
There's no way this creep is
capable of planning a hijacking.
Then find out who did.
- Last known address?
- Yeah, right there.
All right, Marsh took the bus
but how does a fancy jerk like Maritz
get lined up with a scumbag like him?
I don't know you
sprinkle enough cash around,
it ends up in the right pocket.
Wayne's tracking the lawyer.
- Hopefully, we get something there.
- Yeah, Wayne.
- She seems resourceful.
- Oh, yeah.
She hacked a drone with two
sticks of gum and a flip phone.
You and her have a thing?
Who's asking, you or-or Nik?
I'm just wondering what
the excuse is gonna be
when Braun figures out
there's a convicted hacker
sitting at our desk, on our computers.
I don't know burning
desire to save 28 people?
- Oh, okay.
- And we're just friends.
- Ish.
- Yeah. There it is.
All right. [SIGHING]
Marsh's house should be
right here on the corner.
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[CREAKING]
You ever hear of knocking first?
Didn't I?
All right, Marsh,
what do you got for us?
- [SNIFFS]
- We got a bore brush.
Smells like solvent.
Cleaned a gun in the last day or so.
[PAPER RUSTLING]
Doesn't seem to me like a
manila-envelope type of fella.
Oh
oh!
Also didn't think that he had $3,852
for a security deposit.
It looks like he leased
a commercial property.
Starts with "C-A-L." I don't know.
The address is ripped off,
but the ZIP is South Philly.
[JASON] Look at this.
He targeted that bus 'cause he
knew the kids would be on it.
Son of a bitch.
Yeah, whoever's working with Marsh
is setting us up for maximum pain.
[♪]
Say hello?
Hi.
I'm Detective Jason Grant
and I'm coming for you. 'Kay?
All right, let's get
the hell outta here.
[♪]
[CLATTERING]
[CRUNCHING]
[MIKE] The phone we found
at Marsh's was a burner,
but there's only one number on it,
and that's a dead-end.
[JASON] They want to know
if we I.D.'ed him, Nik.
Kemi, what do you have on the bus?
Uh, they said South Philly, right?
- Yep.
- Okay, so I overlaid the bus, uh, routes
- with the traffic cam footage.
- [WHOOSH]
There's one anomaly.
This was 20 minutes ago.
That's not on a route?
Factory District, south of 18th.
Wait. The receipt said C-A-L.
The old Calloway factory!
Uh, uh "Calloway."
- Yeah. Here.
- Right here.
It'll be 15 minutes until
we can get SWAT on site.
That's great. We got 42
minutes till the deadline.
[TIRES SCREECH]
Well, uh
we could wait for SWAT to breach or
do you have a tow rig on this thing?
I do not. Why?
I don't need it. Never
mind. I got a better idea.
[GRUNTS]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[ENGINE IDLING]
[♪]
[ENGINE REVS]
[♪]
[♪]
I'm going right.
[♪]
Aw, damn it.
[♪]
[SIGHS]
The cell phone at Marsh's house
As soon as they knew we I.D.'ed him,
he became a liability.
If this is the kidnapper,
then who the hell has the passengers?
- Please they're children.
- [SMACK]
[ALL GASPING]
Sit down! Anybody else got a complaint?
[CLICK]
[♪]
Hey! Driver. Get up!
Get up.
- Please.
- Get up!
- Please!
- Move it!
Quit stalling!
- I have a wife!
- Shut up!
[SCREAMING]
[♪]
Hurry up!
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
Please, mister.
[DOOR RATTLES]
Get Nik over here.
Nik!
Hey.
Anything?
Oh, hey. Jay. Jay!
- Oh, no.
- [NIKKI] Talk to me.
Yep, they came through here.
All right, Nik. The railyard's
a couple hundred yards away.
I think these bastards
wanted to keep 'em moving.
We're one step behind, and
those kids are paying the price.
There are 31 freight trains
currently in the yard.
[JASON] So just shut
the whole thing down.
Jason, that's not a thing! A
train leaves every four minutes,
or the whole East Coast
transportation system shuts down.
Look, hey, hey, if we
have to search every car,
it'll take hours.
Give me one second.
- Where you going?
- Hey, what do you got?
[WAYNE] Your earbud says that
Maritz's lawyer is in a coffee shop
near his law firm.
If he uses their WiFi, I
can get into his devices.
No, no. Anything you
find will be inadmissible.
Dude, this was your plan.
I-I know that, okay?
I just I just don't
want this to blow back.
Are you more worried about the ex,
or the fact that we have, like,
no time to stop this creep?
All right. Do it. Do
it. Do it. All right?
What is that look? What? What?
That's what.
[♪]
[MODULATED VOICE] The
city has failed to release
John Maritz in the time allotted.
- [GUNSHOTS]
- [SCREAMING]
Don't let it happen again.
[JASON] Son of a bitch.
[MODULATED VOICE] 30
minutes, or she's next.
[JASON] Son of a bitch.
Wait.
Does that look like the inside
of a railway container to you?
Yes, it does.
I want drone coverage of that yard.
Please get me every
warm body that we've got
down there and searching, now!
[SIRENS WAILING]
[♪]
[DING]
I spoke to the Mayor.
Between the dead bus driver
and the thought that
one of the kids is next,
he's agreed to release Maritz.
Thank God.
You did this.
I just walked him past
the conference room,
where the families are waiting.
Thank you, Braun.
Which brings me to the part
that you won't thank me for.
I want MPU to stand down.
What? No!
I want you there once
release conditions are set.
In the meantime, you don't poke a bear
when he has a kid in his mouth.
I'm happy the Mayor is giving
those passengers a chance,
but I have zero reason to
trust the people behind this.
Did you miss the part
where I give the orders?
You know I'm right.
[DOOR RUMBLING OPEN]
12 kids.
Don't screw this up.
[DOOR RUMBLES]
Jason and Mike are still searching,
but it's a needle in a damn haystack.
Anything on the drone?
- Nothing so far.
- Uh, but we might have something else.
Um
don't look at the passengers,
focus on the chain.
- Will you isolate it for her?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[NIKKI] Okay, it jumps
every second or two.
Is the train still moving?
No. The car is stationary.
- Just the chain moves.
- Which means that it's on a siding,
next to a moving train.
And we counted how many
times the chain moved,
- and it was 42.
- Which means that it's next to a track
that has a 42-car train passing by.
And according to the freight system,
there is only one train
that fits the bill,
and it left on track seven.
- Pull the drone view back up.
- Uh, yeah.
- [HITS KEYS]
- [TRILLING]
[KEMI] That's track seven.
There. On that flatbed.
- Get me a container number.
- Yeah.
[CHUGGING]
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]
Let's set up a perimeter
that way. Wait for my call.
- Jay, where are you?
- South side of the tracks.
All right. East side, by track seven.
Container number 7-Oscar-9-1.
- Get here now!
- [JASON] All right, all right. Coming.
[GUARD] John Maritz coming through.
[DOOR LOCK BUZZES]
[♪]
[PHONE BUZZING]
Hey, I'm kinda in the middle of it here.
I got into the lawyer's phone.
Looks like he repped our
dead bus-napper Baz Marsh.
I gotta go. I gotta
go! I really gotta go.
I don't have time right now. Wayne
Not only that he made multiple calls
to another former client,
also a felony all-star.
Come on. Okay, so if that's
the guy who shot Marsh,
that's the same guy who's got the kids.
It's him, it's him.
[TRAIN WHISTLE BLARING]
What the hell is all that noise?
Just me almost getting
killed. I really gotta go. Bye.
Hold it down. Wait for me. Wait for me.
Take low. I'm going up.
[♪]
Where's your car? We
need to make that call.
Right outside.
[♪]
- [WHIMPERING]
- No!
Hello!
I got the gun. I got the gun.
[MIKE] Get up!
- [THUD]
- Hands behind your back.
Hey, I got good news for you, buddy,
you're gonna spend the rest of
your life in jail, with your lawyer.
- Huh?
- Screw you!
- Hey, check on those kids.
- Are you guys okay?
Let's go.
[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]
We're good. Cut 'em loose.
Detective Jason Grant.
Game over, Counselor. You should
probably get yourself a lawyer.
Oh, my God, we're screwed.
Get us out of here!
- Now!
- Maritz, stop!
[EXPLOSION ROARING]
[ALL TALKING EXCITEDLY]
Oh!
[INDISTINCT EXCHANGES]
- There's your dad. Go, go.
- Daddy!
[ANDREW] Oh!
I promised your mom I'd keep you safe.
I'm so sorry, Kayla. I'm so sorry.
I promise to never go on another
school field trip without you again.
I think you'll get over that!
But it's okay, I love you.
So much!
You follow football, Nikki?
It's Philly. Do I have a choice?
An individual can make a
difference, but a team
can make a miracle.
"Fly, Eagles, fly."
Let's wrap this up.
You got it, boss.
[BRAUN] I can now report
that the hijacking of Bus 447
was engineered by an attorney
representing John Maritz.
The Mayor and I, along
with Missing Persons Unit,
mourn the passing of Bus
447's driver, Elliot Cobi,
whose heroics will not be forgotten.
As to the explosion that took the
lives of Maritz and his attorney,
the Homicide Department will not stop
until we find the person,
or people, responsible.
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
[WAYNE] It was fun while it lasted.
[CLASPING]
Can I interest you in a nightcap?
I mean, I've got a fine vintage Gatorade
and there is an ice
machine just down the hall,
if you like it cold.
- Yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
Um
I don't I don't know
if I'm ready for Gatorade.
Right.
Well you know where
to find me, when you are.
Yes.
- [BUMP]
- [CHUCKLING]
- All right.
- ["RIGHTEOUS" BY DEVON GILFILLIAN PLAYING]
And you can be real ♪
Righteous ♪
How could we see eye to eye ♪
When you're standing
on top of your hill? ♪
Thank God.
Yeah, Maritz buried a lot of secrets
- for a lot of powerful people.
- Mm.
Yeah, I guess one of 'em
got scared he was gonna talk.
Yeah, I'm not sure we'll ever know.
Braun gave the car bombing to Homicide.
Yeah, well, no matter what,
those kids are sleeping
in their own bed tonight.
Yeah.
[MIKE] You wanna do the honors?
Oh, no. It's usually your thing. Go.
Well, consider it an
early wedding present.
Okay.
But you don't
really know how to heal? ♪
You can be righteous ♪
Righteous ♪
And you can be real ♪
- Righteous ♪
- How do we see eye to eye ♪
- You are right.
- Mm-hmm!
That feels good! [LAUGHS]
Well, you know what
would feel even better?
- What?
- Nice back rub
- Mm!
- Nice glass of wine, hot bath.
[NIKKI] I'd like that.
[♪]
Tell me we're gonna be okay here.
We're gonna be okay.
[♪]