NCIS: Hawai'i (2021) s02e07 Episode Script

1
(PANTING)
(EXHALES)
(GROWLING)
Stella? (CHUCKLES)
We got to get Theo to school.
(BARKING)
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
Excuse me.
- What floor?
- Uh, six, please.
(BARKING)
I'm so sorry. I don't know what's gotten
- into her this morning.
- Oh, no worries at all.
You're just trying to
protect your mom, huh?
(BARKING)
(CONTINUES BARKING)
(BELL DINGING)
(BELL DINGS)
♪
- Good morning.
- Good morning
and apologies in advance.
- What happened?
- Kate insisted
we try this new café that serves
"Chagaccinos."
- Come again?
- Super healthy
mushroom lattes. She's obsessed,
and she wants me to be, too.
Like liquified mushrooms.
- Sounds gross.
- Agreed.
But Kate and I
are in a really good place.
I don't want her need to be healthy
to get in the way of that, so drink up.
Ugh.
It tastes like compost.
I promise I'll make it up to y'all.
I doubt it.
Boss wants to see you, by the way.
I'm not that late, am I?
(PHONE RINGS)
Agent Boone.
Alone?
He tell you what he needs?
All right, yeah, I'll be right there.
(KNOCKING)
Morning, Lucy. Have a seat.
Here you go. Before you say anything,
I know I'm late and I'm sorry.
I had a hectic morning,
but that's not an excuse
Well, I wouldn't have
even known you were late
if you hadn't just told me.
And you're not in trouble.
Then why did you shut the door?
(CLEARS THROAT)
Yeah. Um
Because
you were just awarded the
Special Agent Afloat position
aboard the Ronald Reagan.
Congratulations.
How? When
When I applied last year,
they turned me down.
Well, there was a medical
emergency with the current agent
who had to be evac'd,
so your name popped up
to the top of the list as a replacement.
Is there any way we could
unpop it? (CHUCKLES)
I-I don't mean to be
ungrateful after you supported me
through the whole application
process last year.
And I-I was
so excited about the prospect
of being the sheriff
of a floating 5,000-person town
But life is just a little different now.
♪
I know it's not easy
leaving your life behind.
Okay? Even just temporarily.
Look, I struggled every time a
mission took me away from my kids.
(GASPS)
- I just don't want any regrets.
- I get that.
But, look, this is a door
that swings both ways.
Being an agent afloat,
this could be good for your NCIS career.
Is that your way of saying,
"Not going isn't an option"?
This is my way of saying
I need an answer by tomorrow.
They want you in Singapore next week.
♪
- Hey, Brooksy. Where is he?
- Hey.
- Over there.
- Okay. Thanks.
Theodore?
I go by Theo.
I'm Special Agent Jesse Boone.
I go by Jesse.
The guard told me
that you rode your bike
all the way here from Waikiki?
Yeah. I can't get a phone until I'm 12,
so I don't have Uber or anything.
Are you the boss?
Not quite.
But I'm still very good at my job.
- How can I help you?
- I need to report a missing person.
My mom didn't come back
from her run this morning.
And my stepdad is on a submarine
and said we should come to Pearl
if we needed help.
Okay, how long has she been gone for?
A couple hours.
And I know it's not official
until someone's missing for 24 hours,
but Google also says you should
contact law enforcement
if you're worried about
a person's welfare.
And I am.
What makes you think
she isn't just out running an errand?
Because Stella came home alone.
Stella?
Our dog.
She was, she was scratching
at the front door,
but Mom wasn't with her.
Jesse, you have to go find her.
I'm gonna get right on it.
But before I can do that,
have you eaten?
'Cause I microwave
a mean breakfast burrito.
Come on.
♪
Hey, I got the kid set up
in the conference room.
Did you reach his stepdad?
JESSE: He's on a sub
off the coast of Myanmar
and there's no nonessential
communications allowed.
Any other guardians listed?
No. I notified the Command Ombudsman
and they're ready to send
a Family Advocacy rep to take Theo
into custody if we don't track
down his mom by the end of day.
Did Kai and Lucy turn up anything
at the family's apartment?
Not yet.
But that might be because
Theo asked them to fill up
the dog's water dish while
they're there. (CHUCKLES)
He forgot to before
he rode his bike over here.
- Pretty responsible 11-year-old.
- Yeah.
I keep picturing Jake
in his shoes, you know.
I think he'd be freaking out.
So I want to reassure him, but
I don't want to lie to him either.
Well, listen, it's best
to not say anything
until we know exactly what happened.
If it's a simple explanation,
there's no need to worry him.
If it's not, it's better to be specific.
Yeah.
So, what did the building manager say?
Uh, he knows zilch about the Acostas.
Barely sees them.
But he says they pay their rent on time,
they never submit work orders,
so he gives them a thumbs up.
Did you find anything at the apartment?
No, nothing of interest.
The next-door neighbors
aren't much help either.
Just said that
Allie's dog gets so excited
about their morning jog
it wakes up the whole floor.
Oh, this is why cats are better.
Owning a cat is like having
a psychopathic roommate
who destroys your furniture.
And they're loyal only to themselves.
Cats are very loyal.
They're just more discerning.
Okay, what about this case?
You really think a cat would look
for help if its owner was kidnapped?
I think you're giving Allie's dog
a little more credit than she's due.
She just came home. She didn't call 911.
You're right.
Ah, that's the fastest I've ever won
the "cat versus dog" debate.
No, no, no. The home part.
- Stella rode the elevator, right?
- Yeah.
So unless she knows
which floor she lives on,
either Allie or someone who knows her
took the dog upstairs.
Uh, building manager's sending
CCTV footage to Ernie as we speak.
So that'll show us what happened.
- Okay.
- Oh, and for the record
Mm?
cats would know
which floor they live on.
(SCOFFS)
Why are we using a
tiny screen instead of
the big monitor the government provided?
Because her son is sitting
in the conference room.
Maybe it's better he doesn't
see what you've got,
- which I hope is something helpful.
- Yep.
- There's your guy.
- JESSE: How can you be so sure?
Because of what happens next.
(STELLA BARKING)
Dogs are experts
at nonverbal communication.
She's reading the man's pheromones
and body language like a book,
knows the guy is bad news
before Allie does.
This is why I bring Pepper
on all my first dates.
No better way to vet potential lovers.
- Please don't call them lovers.
- Please tell me you have
- something more than a barking dog.
- (EXHALES SOFTLY)
He was casing the building from his car
for the last couple of days.
- Did you run the plates?
- Car's a rental.
Did the company send
over the rental contract?
Yep, along with a picture
of the guy's driver's license.
Name's Mitchell Smith.
(SCOFFS) I'll work on getting a real ID.
No need. This is his real ID.
Which is kind of a relief
because, you know,
using a name as boring
as "Mitchell Smith"
as your alias is just
sad?
In any case, he's one of 72
other Mitchell Smiths living
in the greater Chicago
metropolitan area.
But ours flew in
from O'Hare four days ago.
So he came to Oahu to kidnap someone.
- Why isn't he covering up his tracks?
- You can ask him directly.
According to his rental contract,
he's turning the car in today.
JESSE: Freeze! NCIS. Put your hands up.
What the hell is this all about?
We're looking for a missing person.
Allie Acosta.
We have reason to believe
you know her whereabouts.
She's in the trunk.
You know that makes you
incredibly guilty.
I'm a licensed bounty hunter.
An officer of the law, just like you.
(GIGGLES)
You need to surrender her immediately.
Allie Acosta is dangerous.
Look at my eye.
All right.
What the hell?
- She was just right
- (TIRES SCREECH)
Wait!
(GROANS)
So we show up to rescue Allie
only for her to run away from us.
Starting to look like
she doesn't want to be helped.
Cuffs? Seriously?
On what grounds are you holding me?
How about unlawful imprisonment?
Oh, please.
I handle myself with
the upmost professionalism.
I approached her calmly,
explained who I was.
Showed her my license when she asked.
And how do you think she responded?
By punching me in the face
and trying to get away.
Again.
(QUIETLY): Something tells me
he deserved it.
Allie Acosta is not
who you think she is.
So, who is she, exactly?
Allison Perez, a white-collar criminal.
Used to be a controller
at an insurance firm,
where she was stealing
tens of millions of dollars
until the FBI finally caught up to her.
Then she skipped town
the moment she got out on bail.
And I've been on her tail ever since.
Over ten years.
Almost caught her in Cleveland
about eight years ago,
but she got away.
How'd you find her here?
One misplaced phone call after a
death in the family gave her away.
I let the bondsman know and I
hopped the first flight to Honolulu.
You travel alone or with a partner?
If a bounty hunter needs a partner,
he's not very good at his job.
(CHUCKLES) Maybe you could
benefit from a coworker
'cause from where I sit, all you
seem to do is catch and release.
You know, if it weren't for you people,
I'd have Allie halfway back
to Chicago by now.
NCIS cost me 100 grand.
That's not our problem.
What do you want from me?
Your cooperation.
With what?
Look, you're right.
We have no grounds to hold you.
But you essentially kidnapped
a mother with a minor son
without letting her make
arrangements for his care.
So when you find Allie,
you have to let NCIS know right away
so we can place her son with a guardian.
So you want me to do the legwork,
and then just (CHUCKLES)
hand her over to you?
Just to resolve
the custodial arrangements.
Once that's done,
you are free to bring Allie
back to Chicago and get paid.
Yeah. Okay. Fine.
(MITCHELL GROANS)
Hey, since you guys let Allie
get away with my car,
could you give me a ride
to the rental place?
♪
Got it.
We can't just wait for Smith
to find Allie Acosta.
Yeah, something tells me
he's not gonna honor our agreement
- if he finds Allie first.
- Key word being "if."
He's gonna have a hard time finding her
now that his cover's been blown.
For all we know, she could
already be off the island.
Won't be easy for her to get a
flight with the BOLO we issued.
And do you really think that she
would leave without her son? (SIGHS)
JESSE: I hope not.
I don't want to have to tell
Theo that his mom skipped town.
Okay, well, don't get his hopes up.
Finding Allie is gonna be though.
She's been a fugitive for 11 years.
She must've had a contingency plan
if the law ever caught up with her.
Yeah. So, what's next?
We're gonna loop Whistler in.
Get the FBI involved.
Allie is a fugitive
who's crossed state lines,
so this is their jurisdiction, too.
I'll read her in.
In the meantime,
I'm gonna have Ernie build
a full criminal profile on the
real Allison Acosta or Perez.
At least that way we'll have an idea
of what to look for.
Sounds like a plan, boss. After I'm
done on the phone, I'll talk to Theo
and bring him up to speed gently.
Okay.
♪
We had just gotten to Japan
and all my buddy Blake
and I wanted to do
was just get off the damn ship
for a few hours at least.
So we were about to disembark
when some genius below deck
decides to use
a fire main pipe as a ladder.
Was this due to a Navy
ladder shortage or laziness?
Oh, laziness, for sure.
So thanks to that,
and the fact that
the dude was, he was huge,
Whole pipe buckled under his weight,
triggering an automatic emergency dump
- of the bilge tanks.
- Oh, that doesn't sound good.
Oh, the whole ship listed 45 degrees.
(CHUCKLING):
Blake almost fell overboard.
I'll never forget the look on his face.
When I said I wanted to know
what life's like at sea,
I didn't mean an exhaustive
list of the dangers.
Come on. You knew what
you were getting into, right?
Sure, but I didn't know it'd feel
like being one sardine in a giant,
rocking tin filled with
5,000 other queasy sardines,
which is what you're describing.
Wait
Something tells me
your concerns are less to do
with being at sea,
and more to do with Whistler.
What's she think about
all this? (GROANS)
I kind of haven't 100% told her yet.
Why are you coming to me before her?
Because I want to figure out how I feel
before dealing with how Kate feels.
Okay, well, um
You know, being an agent afloat,
it's a, it's a great opportunity.
♪
(GAME MUSIC PLAYING)
- My son plays that game.
- Everybody does.
Yeah.
Well, I'll have to try
playing it sometime.
So quick update. We saw your mom.
- Can you take me to her?
- Not yet.
She wasn't quite ready to talk to us.
Why not?
Because she doesn't know
we're the good guys yet.
- Which means there are bad guys?
- No.
It just means she's scared.
Did your mom
ever talk to you about being in trouble?
No.
What if you don't find her today?
Where am I supposed to sleep?
Well, we called your
Family Advocacy rep.
She can find you a place.
♪
I need to do my homework.
Okay, yeah.
Do you need a notepad
or some pens or something?
No. My workbooks are at school.
Can you take me to pick them up?
(CLUCKS TONGUE) Yeah.
WHISTLER: Lucy!
(GASPS) Oh, hey!
- What's up?
- I texted you two hours ago
about having lunch in the park.
I mean, you never responded so I
just came to see if you were okay.
Yeah! No, lunch at the
park sounds wonderful.
Let's!
What's going on?
(CHUCKLES) Nothing.
Ish.
You never ignore my texts.
And you're never this enthusiastic
- about outdoor activities.
- Oh, I am if they involve food.
And you. (CHUCKLES)
I-I just haven't looked
at my phone all day.
You're literally holding it.
(SIGHS)
Okay. You're right.
I've been avoiding you.
I was selected for the
Special Agent Afloat position
aboard an aircraft carrier.
They want me to leave
for Singapore next week.
Selected, like, out of the blue?
No, not exactly.
I applied last year.
After we broke up.
(STAMMERS)
You were so mad at me you wanted
to be as far away as you could?
On a boat in the middle
of the thing you hate the most?
Everything on this island
reminded me of you.
I just I wanted to get away.
But that's not how I feel now.
- So what are you gonna do?
- (PHONE CHIMING)
(SIGHS) Tennant wants me
in the War Room.
- It's perfect timing.
- I'm sorry.
We're obviously gonna discuss this.
I love you and I'm not gonna do anything
without talking to you first, okay?
Okay.
This is Allie Acosta,
back when she was Allison Perez.
Once upon a time, she was a
financial controller at Globe Equities,
a large insurance firm in Chicago.
Then, in early 2011,
the FBI arrested her for embezzlement.
Nearly $20 million
stolen over five years.
Yikes.
According to social media,
everyone in Allie's life was shocked.
She had always been
an incredibly hard worker.
A buttoned-up rule follower who'd
never even gotten a traffic ticket.
Then, in keeping with
the seeming shift of character,
Allie skipped bail in late 2011
and has been in the wind ever since.
You find any signs
she's spending the money?
Because she didn't use it on her condo.
- It's completely paycheck appropriate.
- Nothing so far.
TENNANT: Theo's around 11 years old.
The timeline makes me think
that Allie skipped bail
because she was pregnant.
LUCY: Which begs the question,
why would Allie leave town
without her son now?
She won't.
Well, good thing the kid's
secure here at Pearl.
Except he's not.
(SCHOOL BELL RINGS)
Hey, boss. Yeah.
Theo just grabbed his stuff.
He just popped into the restroom
real quick before we head
Let me call you right back.
(DOOR OPENS) (GASPS)
Hey. Sorry.
Theo?
Theo, buddy, come on.
Come on, we got to go.
Damn it.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪
Ouch! Watch out!
Hey! What are you doing?
(ENGINE IDLING)
Why are you hiding from me?
What are you doing in the parking lot?
You were supposed to be in the bathroom.
I was going to meet my mom.
But when I went out the bathroom window,
two guys started chasing me.
Was one of them this guy?
No. Two other guys.
All right, I-I'm here now.
Let's get you back to Pearl.
He's sure there were
two men chasing him?
Yeah, and that neither
were Mitchell Smith.
I showed Theo his photo.
I wonder if they were
bounty hunters, too.
JESSE: Doubtful.
Theo said that these goons knocked
over a kid while they were chasing him.
That's a move that could lose
a bounty hunter their license.
LUCY: Okay. Let us know what they say.
So far, no one at the school
got a good look at 'em,
but Kai's checking with security.
All right, I'll call
the Family Advocacy rep,
see if they have someone
that can come tonight.
Best to keep him safe at Pearl
until we ID these guys.
Do we think the kidnappers are
connected to the bounty hunter?
Smith said he was working alone.
I buy it, as much as I distrust him.
I mean, I think if he had
other people working with him,
Allie wouldn't have
gotten away so easily.
LUCY: You said your bounty
hunter reached out to the bondsman
when he got a lead on Allie.
Could be someone involved
in her original crime
bribed the bondsman
to get that information?
$20 million's a lot of money.
That was no easy theft she pulled off.
She might have had partners.
And if she double-crossed
those partners,
then they'd be motivated to find her.
Hanging out at Theo's school
might have been their only play.
So what do they do next?
I don't know.
Knowing who they are
will help us figure that out.
Lucy, go help Ernie. He's digging
into the case that got her arrested
- 11 years ago.
- Yeah, will do.
Theo and his mom
have been communicating.
Jesse, you think you can talk to him?
Yeah, convince him that helping us
is better than lying to us.
Please and thank you.
My dad used to make sundaes like this
when I would get into trouble.
He made you sundaes
when you got into trouble?
Eh, well, sort of.
He'd made sundaes
and then, if I came clean,
I'd get to eat it.
If I didn't,
I'd have to watch him eat it.
All right.
Time to talk.
Man-to-man.
Be straight with each other.
I can go first.
So
You kind of made me look like an ass
in front of my boss
and you put yourself in danger
when you ran away at the school.
I know you did it because
your mom told you to.
'Cause she wants
you two guys to be together.
She said she has a plan.
Oh, it'd better be a really good plan
because she's in the kind of trouble
that's hard to get out of by herself.
- Then I'll help her.
- How?
You can't get to her, and
she can't get to you right now.
Theo,
I know you don't want anything
to happen to your mom.
I don't.
So you can help by telling me
how you're communicating with her.
♪
Go ahead 'cause
if I eat it, then I'm gonna
have to go for a run
or something
and I don't want to do that.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(GASPS) You've been talking
in the game chat?
(SIGHS)
Okay. Bring your sundae.
Let's go talk to Tennant.
ACH for major bills,
credits cards for most other expenses.
The only money going into her account
are the couple's paychecks.
If she stole $20 million,
she's doing a really
good job of hiding it.
LUCY: Yeah.
Just like you did with this
agent afloat assignment.
- I wasn't hiding it.
- (CHUCKLING)
You just didn't tell anybody.
When I applied,
I knew you all would tell me
I was being reactive
to my breakup with Whistler.
And then I didn't get picked,
so what did it matter?
Now you got it.
How do you feel? (SIGHS)
Obviously, the timing's painful.
But being
the sole NCIS agent
on an aircraft carrier?
All that power and responsibility?
All that fear of falling overboard.
I'd get over that, wouldn't I?
(LAUGHING)
I can't tell if that laugh
is good or bad.
Come on. You got to have
some advice for me.
Yes. When you got together
with Whistler,
you should have pulled your application.
You know, time travel is
your solution to a lot of things.
It's my way of saying
it's an unsolvable problem
without actually having to say that.
(TYPING)
What about the original investigation?
Wow, nice topic bust.
She was accused of siphoning money
out of small business
insurance settlements
with the imbalances getting lost
in some reconciliation accounts.
- Where'd she siphon the money to?
- Investigators never found it.
So, settlements, that's payables.
Imbalances, that's accounting.
Reconciliations, that's auditors.
I feel like I'm in that
home economics class
balancing my checkbook all over again.
You took home ec?
I loved home ec. (CHUCKLES)
What's your point?
Hmm.
So, Tennant has a hunch
that Allie wasn't working alone.
She was a low-level controller,
and when Globe Equities went bankrupt,
these three guys started a new company
with the same business model.
I'm not following.
How is three executives starting
a new company a red flag?
Because the new company
went bankrupt two years ago
after $8 million disappeared
into tax shelters and bad investments.
- Okay, I'm seeing the flag now.
- Mm-hmm.
These three guys may have continued
stealing money under a new banner,
which means they may have been
Allie's accomplices
at Globe Equities 11 years ago?
It's possible.
Do you think my relationship
with Whistler
will work if I take
the agent afloat job?
(SIGHS)
You know me, I have
an opinion about everything.
On this, though, I'm gonna take a pass.
♪
I feel like I'm getting
my mom in trouble.
I understand why you feel that way,
but you're not.
Okay? We're worried about your mom
and we want to make sure she's safe.
I'm gonna start the chat now, okay?
Okay.
(GAME CONSOLE CHIRPS) Okay.
Message sent.
What did you say?
I introduced myself,
I said that you were with us
and that you gave me permission
to use your game to talk to her.
Do you think she's mad
that I came to you guys?
No, I think she knows
you're just worried about her.
And I told her that we were, too.
Usually, she writes back right away.
Do you think the guys
who chased me found her?
I've lived long enough
to know that, usually,
your scariest worries don't come true.
(GAME CONSOLE CHIRPS)
See? She just needed
a minute to respond.
(CHUCKLES)
She wants to know
what her favorite snack is.
JESSE: Ah, your mom's smart.
She wants to make sure we have you
and not just your device.
Pickles.
(QUIETLY): I love pickles.
(GAME CONSOLE CHIRPING)
What kind?
The hamburger slice ones.
What did she say?
She said she'd meet us.
And I'm supposed to tell you
that she loves you very much.
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
Hey.
Jesse, can you take Theo to the kitchen
with his half-melted sundae?
Will do.
Hey.
School cops saw two guys sitting
in a car outside the school.
They wrote down the plate number.
- You get anything from it?
- It's another rental.
They didn't use their real names.
All right, I'll fill Whistler in.
You and Jesse should go
meet her at Kalakaua Avenue
and pick Allie up.
- I'll drop the pin.
- Okay.
Hey, Kai
She claims she's innocent
and says she has
documentation to prove it.
Make sure we get it.
Okay.
♪
So, Whistler, how are you
feeling about everything?
I'm not sure.
Aren't you Mr. Sensitive
all of a sudden?
Well, it's a big deal,
Lucy thinking about taking
an agent afloat position.
What?
What? You didn't know?
No.
But that doesn't matter.
What matters is how you feel.
Still not sure.
Hey, is that our bounty hunter?
He must have followed us here.
Whistler, go find Allie.
Kai, you and I, let's go slam this guy.
(PANTING)
(GRUNTING)
WHISTLER: Guys, Allie's got a new tail.
Stop! Federal agents!
Copy. Stay with him.
(ALLIE SCREAMING)
Stop! Let me go!
MAN: Get in!
ALLIE: No!
(GRUNTING)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
Go!
WHISTLER: Hey.
Are you okay? (PANTING)
Not really.
I have no idea who those guys were.
- How'd they know we'd be here?
- No clue.
You're the cops. That's your job.
Okay, you understand that agents
of two different federal agencies
are asking you questions?
That if we put our heads together,
we could find a way
to put you in federal prison
just for that dumb look on your face?
(CHUCKLES)
I was waiting outside the gate
at Pearl Harbor and followed you.
- Did they follow you?
- Not that I saw.
And I was checking
'cause I wanted to make sure
that you folks weren't
following me following you.
(GROANS) You said you got
close to her once.
Where was that?
Cleveland.
She was living in some dumpy apartment,
working as a bookkeeper on some
mom and pop dry-cleaning operation.
When you almost caught her,
did you think someone else
was trying to find her?
No.
KAI: Hey.
HPD found the car empty
less than a mile away.
Got them doing a search of the area.
Hey, can you take these cuffs off me?
Not until you've been booked.
For what?
U.S. Code Chapter 73.
Obstruction of Justice.
Allie told Tennant
that she was innocent.
That she had
the documentation to prove it.
And now that some hired guns
just kidnapped her,
I'm thinking she's telling the truth.
The guys who grabbed her
are probably working
for whoever really embezzled that money.
They want her proof.
They don't seem nearly as stupid
as that bounty hunter.
Ernie needs to figure out how
those thugs knew where we were.
And fast.
♪
Did you get her?
Where is she?
- Look, Theo, we weren't able to get
- Where's my mom?
We're still working on it.
You're supposed to make sure she's safe.
I know, bud. We're trying.
No, you're not.
- Hey, hey, where are you going?
- To find my mom.
- She's in trouble.
- We're doing everything we can, Theo.
You're not!
You need to stay in the conference room.
All right? If I have to watch you,
that's one less person
looking for your mom.
♪
There was a tracking device on
the bounty hunter's second rental car.
That doesn't help us much,
since we have the bounty hunter
in custody and don't need to find him.
True, but I'm betting that the tracker
belonged to the guys that grabbed Allie.
And this particular tracker
connects to a phone app.
You think they'd be dumb
enough to leave it running?
I am counting on the general
forgetfulness of people
where technology is concerned.
(ELECTRONIC CHIRPING)
Yes!
- They left the tracking app connected?
- They did.
Now where are they?
Got 'em.
They're at Allie and Theo's apartment.
That must be where she left
her proof of innocence.
Call Jesse. Tell him
I'm on my way upstairs.
♪
If both of the thugs
are in her apartment,
how are we going to get her out safely?
It's a good question.
Why don't you go around back, Luce,
in case they get past us.
Let's go see the building manager.
That's your plan?
Ask the building manager to talk to 'em?
If that would work? Then, yes.
Apartment next to Allie's.
You think this is a good idea?
Not really, but you have a better one?
No.
- All right. On the six.
- On the six.
I'll see you in 30 seconds. I hope so.
♪
(ALLIE SCREAMING)
(SIREN WAILING)
Okay, thanks.
So, agent afloat?
(SIGHS) I'm sorry I didn't tell you.
You were bonding with the kid,
and I didn't want to mess with
your head. (GLASS CLINKS)
You wouldn't have.
- Because you don't care if I go?
- No.
Because you'll only
be gone a few months,
and the photos of you
green around the gills
will be totally worth it.
(LAUGHS)
So I should do it?
What's your reason not to?
Whistler.
She's solid.
If you've got reasons,
they're yours, not hers.
♪
If I go, who's gonna pick
glass shards out of your hair?
I'll just leave them in there
until you get back.
(LAUGHS)
Once I figured out what they were doing,
I started downloading
the reconciliations
at the end of every day. For proof.
Did you ever contact the authorities?
No.
It took me several months
to be sure that they were
actually embezzling money.
- And, once I was
- You were pregnant.
Yeah.
I guess I got scared and sloppy.
I left a trail in the system
showing I'd been copying files.
That's probably when
they decided to pin it on me.
I don't have any family, I
I-I just couldn't take
a chance on my baby
being put up for foster care
for something I didn't do.
Do you still have the proof?
I think so.
They watched me deleting the files
on my laptop,
but they were smart enough
to know I had cloud storage.
This was a virus to wipe it out,
but you guys jumped in before it did.
You're gonna need to
testify against them.
I know.
And if I have to go to jail,
Theo's got his stepdad.
He'll be okay.
Hopefully it doesn't come to that.
(KNOCK AT DOOR)
Come in.
(SOBBING)
Jesse.
Yeah.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(MOUTHS)
♪
Hey.
(SIGHS)
How are you doing?
I'm not good with big decisions.
They sort of make me sick
to my stomach. (CHUCKLES)
Hey, well,
whatever you decide, my sweet
it's not forever.
It just feels,
I don't know,
fraught.
How come?
Well, when, um (CLEARS THROAT)
When I was in high school,
my first girlfriend
- and I
- What was her name?
Marcella.
- Was she cute?
- Very.
Are you gonna let me tell my story?
- Yes.
- (LAUGHS) Are you jealous?
- No.
- Yes, you are.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
Anyway, Marcella and I would sit on this
small hill because there were
no real high places to sit
in our part of the world, and
she'd talk about all the
adventures we were going to have
after we left Texas.
Only, I-I didn't want
to have adventures.
I just wanted to sit
on the hill with Marcella.
♪
I'm not going anywhere.
It's hard for me to believe that,
'cause I don't know if you've
noticed, but I have trust issues.
No!
(CLUCKS TONGUE)
Oof, best girlfriend ever.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
(SIGHS)
So
I think I have to do it.
I have to go on the big boat, if
you're sure you're okay with it.
- Dramamine?
- Jumbo sized.
- Wait, you knew I was gonna go?
- Yes.
- How?
- Because I was gonna insist upon it.
I mean,
you're conquering your fears
and doing something good for you career.
And
And what?
We are strong enough to survive
four months of your misery.
(LAUGHING): I'm gonna be
so miserable, aren't I?
Oh, that big boat is
just floating out there,
waiting to torture you.
Come here. (SIGHS)
Baby, our love's not lost ♪
(SNIFFLES)
I'm really gonna miss you.
(CRIES SOFTLY)
And before you know ♪
I'll be coming home ♪
Ooh ♪