Alert: Missing Persons Unit (2023) s03e01 Episode Script

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[COXSWAIN] Good job, good job!
More leg. Longer!
Good. That was a little late, Amelia.
Nice and long, ladies. Yep.
More legs, Tally! Good.
That's good square it up!
[COACH] I'm not seeing any unity here.
Drive it through!
Come on, ladies! Get the power on!
If you wanna win next weekend,
you're gonna need to pick it up.
'Kay, you heard Coach,
ladies! Put your backs into it.
[ENGINE SPUTTERING]
What the hell? Max?
Keep going! I'll meet you at the dock!
The engine was working fine.
How does it suddenly stall out?
[COXSWAIN] You heard
Coach! Dig in, ladies.
Come on, Bells. No Coach, no crunch!
Let's just quiche, and call it a taper.
Some of us can't afford to lose!
Coach will see the Coxbox
data. She'll know if we coasted.
You're just worried 'cause your dad
is monitoring your Apple Watch.
It's too early for this.
Tally's right! And what we
really need to be focused on
is beating those d-bags
from Rittenhouse. Okay?
So dig in, ladies! First positions.
Ready! And
Row!
Late, Tally.
Good, Kate.
Square it up! Genevieve, a
little less leg? Good, good!
- [THUD]
- [GROANING]
Nice going, Bella. You
steered us into the rocks.
Well, if Kate had listened
when I told her was catching off-port
You talk so much, I
filter some of it out, okay?
Coach is gonna kill us!
Okay, I'll stop the stroke counter.
Does that make everyone happy?
I'd be happier if we waited
for the men's team to save us.
Let's see if I can get us unstuck.
- [CRYING OUT]
- [CREWMATES SCREAMING]
Tally!
[CREWMATES SCREAMING]
[PHONE BUZZES]
[CHUCKLES LIGHTLY]
- Hey
- Mm.
- You up?
- Mm.
- Mm-mm.
- You gotta get up.
- Mm-mm.
- No, you do, you gotta get up.
I got something very
important to tell you.
Can it wait till after I brush my teeth?
No. It can't. Um
See, there's a, um
Spot on your body
Mm?
That I haven't been able to get to.
- Mm?
- And I really want to get to.
[METAL CLICKING AND RATTLING]
Are we going to the MPU?
No. We're not going to MPU. You
are going, uh
Anywhere you want actually.
"On behalf of the
Pennsylvania Parole Board,
you are officially
released?" No, no, no
Yeah. You are a free
woman, Wayne Pascal.
- I mean, seriously?
- Yeah.
[SQUEALS] Yes!
[CHUCKLING]
Mm.
[LAUGHING]
Hey! How was the honeymoon?
Ah, Santo Domingo was
amazing! The beach, the food
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
What about the husband?
The husband was epic!
Okay, everybody calm down.
Um, I have a wedding gift for you.
We said no gifts.
You are gonna want this one. Okay?
So, I ran into a friend from Admin
Actually, she's not a friend,
she's annoying as hell
Uh, but she said
that Bill Houston has
temporary oversight
of the Division.
[BOTH] Yes!
Unlike certain men whose
names we shall not mention,
he does not micromanage.
This is good news. It's good news.
[NIKKI] Mm-hmm.
Are you the Missing Persons Unit?
Yes, we are. How can I help you?
I coach Gladwyn University's crew team.
- Mm-hmm?
- My ladies were on the river
this morning, and now they're gone.
Five girls. Just vanished.
I'll call the Police Marine Unit
[QUICKLY] They've been
searching all morning
nothing.
They think the boat capsized.
My girls are elite swimmers.
They would've made it to land.
Is there something else we should know?
I keep pace with them on my launch,
but it died a few minutes into practice.
It is a brand-new motor
that shouldn't have happened.
What, you think someone sabotaged it?
Get Jay.
I'll call the Marine Unit.
This way.
[RESPONDER RADIOS CRACKLING, INDISTINCT]
[JASON] Lemme-Lemme
just ask you a question.
What do you What do you do
for somebody's first day of freedom?
Is it like, you know
steaks at Ocean Prime,
do I take her to the
shore for the weekend?
What do I do?
That's what you're worried about?
No, what I'm really worried about
are those honeymoon
puka shells on your wrist,
but I can handle that
with a pair of scissors.
- Ha, ha, ha. Very funny!
- Uh-huh.
I think you're missing
the big-ticket item here.
Wayne is no longer
confined to Motel Hell,
so you better step up to the plate.
What What plate is that?
The plate with four walls, a roof,
your insane vinyl collection.
Oh, you think she's gonna
expect to move in with me?
Well, I think you better at
least clear out a dresser.
That's all I'm saying.
How you doing? Sergeant Sherman.
- Detective Grant.
- What's up, buddy?
What do you got?
Dredge team is working
their way downstream,
but nothing so far.
We got five missing girls. That's it?
Hey, Honeymoon Harry? Come over here.
What do ya think here?
We figured they hit a rock.
A rock? In 30-feet-deep
water? "They hit a rock"?
Yeah, you think maybe they drifted?
Well, it's, uh, scratched
on both sides of the fin here.
It's called a "skeg".
Is it, Encyclopedia Brown? Thank you!
The point is, if it's
scratched on both sides,
it didn't hit a rock.
If you hit a rock, it
scratches one side. No?
I mean
'Kay. Fun facts
the, uh, buoy out there
what what does that do?
What's the point?
[PMU COP] To keep the
motorcraft in the middle,
away from the rowers.
[JASON] Uh-huh.
So the girls have gotta
stay on one side of it?
Yup. Traffic rules.
All right. All right.
Tch.
Where the hell's he going?
I don't know. Excellent question.
Hiya.
What are you doing?
There's nothing down there
that could've made those marks.
They're looking in the wrong place.
Come on, Jay, this is their turf.
No. No. There's missing girls.
This is my turf. Your turf.
Check this out.
[MIKE] What the hell is that?
[JASON] This is a chain
connected to that buoy,
running to this rock
It's what stopped that boat.
So they're not lost they were taken?
That is correct.
[CHAIN CLATTERS]
[WATER SPLASHES]
I don't care if they're
getting jammed up.
If they wanna build in Fishtown,
they gotta pay us, right?
[MISSING ALERTS BEGIN BLARING]
[OVERLAPPING ALERTS BLARING]
[MAN] Come on! Keep it moving.
[GIRLS WHIMPERING]
If this is some kind of sick game,
it isn't funny!
- Gen, stop it, don't
- Just go.
No. No!
[SHOT RINGS OUT]
- [CREW SCREAMING]
- No! Gen! Gen!
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER, INDISTINCT]
So, Genevieve's father
is on his way from Jersey,
but we still haven't been
able to find Bella's parents.
They're not listed on
her emergency contacts.
I'll put you in touch with
the Registrar's Office.
My daughter has been
missing since 6:00 this morning!
I need to know what happened to her!
I know that, Lena.
We're just trying to help.
You're supposed to be
responsible for their safety!
Mr. Johnson, we have confirmed
that Rachel's boat was sabotaged.
There was nothing she
could've done differently.
Whoever took your daughters
knew when and where to target them.
Rachel, it's gotta be Rittenhouse Tech.
The two schools have a rivalry.
Rittenhouse's men's team
has gotten pretty aggressive
Holes drilled in shells,
loosened rigger nuts.
If this is some kind of sick prank
We will look into it. I promise you.
I will let you know the
second I have news.
[INDISTINCT EXCHANGE]
[QUIETLY] Find the
Rittenhouse boys. Now.
Gotcha.
You talk to Wayne?
No. The only people she wants to talk to
are Dolce and Gabbana.
Single-handedly gonna
boost the local economy.
- Wait, with your credit card?
- Yeah.
[VOICES CARRYING, INDISTINCT]
We're gonna be rowing in circles
out there this weekend!
This is ridiculous.
Why do I hate this kid already?
- Stop drinking water!
- I'm right there with ya.
Hey, you, with the, uh, the whistle
We gotta talk to you.
Philadelphia PD.
We got a little bit of a situation.
We got five missing girls.
We're in the middle of practice.
Oh, yeah? Do me a favor. Blow.
- Blow, blow, blow, blow!
- [BLOWS WEAKLY]
Practice is over. Come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
Sorry.
You took an Uber at 5:00
in the morning to the river?
What were you doing out here, Nate?
The hull needed a polish
before the regatta this weekend
and I drew the short straw.
Why do you have Kate
Johnson's contact in your phone?
We texted once in a while.
We're just acquaintances. That's it.
"I'm gonna make sure Gladwyn loses."
That's how you talk
to your acquaintances?
Yeah. Disappearing the team
That's a pretty sure-fire way
to make sure they lose, huh?
We hooked up at the Head of the Charles.
Kate got clingy and sent
a bunch of crazy texts.
Look, go ahead, read
them, if you don't believe me.
What about the stunts that
you and your teammates
pulled at NCAAs?
We put Gladwyn's rigger on backwards.
- Big freaking deal.
- Well, it is
It is a big deal because five
girls are missing right now,
and you guys are our only suspects.
We would never hurt
them! That was just a joke.
Well, it's getting pretty
intense for a joke.
Our team has no money, okay?
How do you think it feels
when Gladwyn suddenly has
new shells, new ERGs?
Support staff that do everything,
while I'm out here, polishing
my boat at the crack of dawn?
You have any idea how
they get their money?
I don't know.
According to Kate,
uh, it had something to
do with their coxswain
That "Bella" girl.
Okay, so I pulled Bella's file
from the Gladwyn registrar,
and she's a freshman 3.8 GPA.
Nothing remarkable, except for this
Her tuition was paid by money order,
which is weird to
put it mildly, and
Her parents aren't
listed on her application.
Anything from her socials?
I mean, she just seems
like a smart, driven girl,
who loves rowing and The Masked Singer.
Are there any family
members in her followers?
Uh, none, But she seems
to be mutuals with, like,
half the university, so she's popular.
You know what? Mike
and Jay are still at the river.
I don't want to wait.
- All right.
- Let's go!
I don't really do cops.
And I don't really do sorority girls,
but this is urgent.
Can you tell us what
you know about Bella?
We went through Rush together.
She lives down the hall.
Doesn't party, but she
must be a freak in the sheets.
- Okay!
- Okay.
Um specifics?
Every Sunday night,
she gets picked up by
some gray fox in a Mercedes.
You mean like a date?
A date with benefits.
Gave her a purse that costs
more than my mom's car.
She's 18 with a sugar-daddy?
Does this sugar-daddy have a name?
Yeah but I don't know it.
Sorry. I'm late for Biophysics.
Um, thank you.
- Have a good life.
- [CHUCKLES DRYLY]
Okay, so we have a rich
old guy with a Mercedes.
That is practically
every man in Society Hill.
We just need one of them
to smile for the camera.
Emergency phone it has CCTV.
Pull the footage from Sunday night.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, a fisherman
called in off of the alert.
[RINGING]
Who's video-calling me?
- Hey, I think you got the wrong
- Nope! Nope.
I am officially a woman
with a smartphone.
Have you been on TikTok?
It is amazing in there!
And Philadelphia I
mean, I love it here!
Who would've thought?
I mean, I guess I was
here for that one job
and then to courthouse, and
then straight to house arrest,
so I'm starting with the
Liberty Bell, and then
I I gotta go. I'll talk to ya later.
- Congratulations.
- Told you.
[JASON] Yep.
Hey. Uh, detectives. You
called in about the alert?
You found something?
That one okay?
- Yeah, he don't like sushi.
- Ah.
- [SPLAT]
- You sure?
Yeah, I'm fine. What d What
do ya got? What do ya got?
Oh, yeah, yeah. I found it on my way in.
- Hang on.
- [SPLAT]
[MIKE] My shoes, man.
[THUMP]
This is bad, right?
One of our rowing girls got shot.
Thanks.
[GEN CRYING OUT] Oh!
They shot me! They frickin' shot me!
[GASPS]
We'll get you help, Gen, I promise.
- [POUNDING DOOR]
- Help! Somebody please help us!
[HINGE CREAKS]
Get the hell back!
This isn't happening!
- Who would do this to us?
- I I don't know.
If my shoulder is busted for the season,
- my dad will kill me!
- You should've thought of that
before you ran away
from a guy with a gun!
- At least I did something!
- You did something stupid!
We can't fight! We
have to stick together.
Stop trying to fix everything, Bella.
- [TALLY] I'm scared.
- It's okay. It's okay.
My people are now searching the river.
We are talking to possible witnesses
I came as fast as I could!
It's okay, Mr. Shaw. You're here now.
It's not okay.
Genevieve is an amazing kid.
I pushed her too far.
And I will make sure
you get to tell her that,
but we need your help.
Anything. Anything at all.
Uh, Kemi said still no
luck finding Bella's family.
In the meantime, we'd
like to swab for DNA.
What do you need it for?
My team has found a Gladwyn sweatshirt.
There was blood.
[OVERLAPPING GASPING]
[WHISPERING]
[SOBS] I'm so sorry.
If I could trade places with your girls,
I would do it in a heartbeat.
Please
Captain Batista, find them.
I am doing everything I can,
and that starts by getting your DNA.
Please.
We can't give up. I have a plan.
You're not the boss anymore, Bella.
If you hadn't made us keep going
after Coach's launch
died, we wouldn't be in here.
Oh, please! Like Amelia
wasn't pushing us to keep going?
Well, some of us are here
for more than just boys, Kate.
Yeah, well, you're
only here for your dad,
so what the hell's the difference?
Enough! We have to be a team.
Coming from the girl who sits
in the boat and does nothing?
We've never been a team.
We're just people who row together.
Fine. Whatever.
There's plenty of time
to be jerks to each other
after we get out of here.
And how are we gonna do that?
I got the Coxbox off the shell.
Are you seriously wanting us
to study our split times now?
If we throw it in the river,
then maybe somebody
will find it and go to the cops.
I I just need help getting up there,
and over to that window.
Come on, guys. Let's at least try.
Yeah.
I've got left foot.
- On your back.
- On your count, Bella.
Ready. And lift!
The blood on the sweatshirt
is from Genevieve Shaw.
Mm, her father said
that she was stubborn.
Maybe she tried to get away.
Hey. We, uh, confirmed
Rittenhouse's alibi.
They were all at practice
when our girls disappeared.
- So that's a dead-end.
- Yep.
And then our Marine
Unit found this in the river.
It's got the Gladwyn logo on it.
I'll see if I can pull prints.
- [KNOCKS]
- Yo. I may have found something.
Okay, so the parents
were taken to campus.
Uh, they called in
some trauma counselors.
We need to find their girls.
Okay, so campus police gave me access
to their blue-light camera system,
and I, uh
Scrubbed through last Sunday,
based on the tip that we
got from Bella's sorority sister.
She said Bella had a sugar-daddy.
I didn't find him,
but I did find his car.
[MIKE] All right. So what do you think?
He and Bella got in an argument?
Maybe she blackmailed him?
The best way to get revenge on Bella
would be to ruin the
thing she wants most.
And, according to her socials,
that is winning the Head
of the Schuylkill Regatta.
Right. Can we pull a license?
Not from this angle,
but I can check other cameras on campus.
- Let me see.
- Don't bother.
I recognize that driver.
He works for Charlie McGannon.
You talking about your
Irish mob informant?
If he's behind this,
I'll kill him myself.
[DOORBELL CHIMING]
Nikki Batista. I'm here to see Charlie.
Nikki, we meet at last.
Renee Conway. I'm Charlie's accountant.
Charlie bragged about you.
He said that you're the only thing
standing between him and the I.R.S.
Well, I save him from the I.R.S.,
and you save him from his rivals.
Guess that makes us "Charlie's angels".
Ah, except angels don't
enable drugs and gun-running.
Not to mention extortion
of the builders' union.
I need to speak to him. Urgently.
I'll let him know you stopped by.
No. I have a situation. I
need to talk to him right now.
Between us girls,
sometimes, you're better off
doing things without Charlie's help.
He causes problems as
often as he solves them.
Well, with all due respect, I
have five young women missing
so if he doesn't want
to help, I will make him.
Renee?
You can go.
Nice to meet you.
I'll call you.
How was the Dominican Republic?
Oh, we will circle back
to why you're keeping tabs on me later.
If you have anything to
do with the disappearance
of these Gladwyn girls, tell me now.
No idea what you're talking about.
Oh, no? Your car was seen on campus
picking up one of the missing girls.
I am not playing with you, Charlie.
This isn't what you think.
- Then what is it?
- I'm the victim here, Nikki.
They're trying to get
a ransom out of me.
That's why Renee was here.
I needed her to free up some cash.
Why didn't you call me, Charlie?
If your girl's in trouble, you
know that this is what I do.
This is way above your head, Nik.
This is a top-shelf operation.
Th They want the ransom delivered
via crypto "sound" wallet.
What the hell does that mean?
I transfer Bitcoin to an account,
then I send the kidnapper a sound file
to decrypt the account key.
Untraceable. Smart.
You are going to a lot of trouble
for a side piece, Charlie
even a young pretty one.
She's not my lover, Nikki.
This is my daughter.
Charlie married his
childhood sweetheart.
It was a disaster,
but Charlie's Catholic,
so no divorce, just plenty of cheating.
He got a waitress pregnant and, uh
She had a daughter Bella.
So someone's using her for leverage.
Yeah. Poor girl didn't
even know him till this year,
but Bella's mother died,
and Charlie came back into Bella's life.
Which explains the Sunday dinners.
You know, I didn't take
Charlie for a family man.
Charlie would coach Little
League, if you let him
- Hmm.
- But he wants us out.
He says he'll get Bella back himself.
Okay, what about the other girls?
Yeah.
Whatever this is, it'd better be good,
because I was just
about to hit up the shoes.
And, oh, girl! [LAUGHS]
Well, that is something.
You look amazing!
Thank you.
Hey. I got the 911. What's up?
Well, five girls have been kidnapped.
Charlie McGannon got the ransom demand.
The head of the Irish mob?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yikes.
Charlie's trying to freeze us out.
And all we know is that
the ransom is electronic
Crypto wallet, the whole deal.
The only way to track him
is if you hack his cellphone.
So now we're hacking
the head of the Irish mob?
And if he finds out
you illegally accessed his cellphone,
it screws up all the
other cases against him.
Uh, not to mention, if he finds
out that I accessed his phone,
there's gonna be a
bullet through my brain.
[CRIES OUT] You're a free woman!
- Oh!
- [WAYNE] Yes, uh
- Mazel tov!
- Exciting
Helen! Helen, focus, baby.
- Do you have something?
- I do!
I pulled prints off
the blade of the oar.
Our guy must've grabbed
it from underwater.
Does "our guy" have a name?
Yes! Casimir "Caz" Ceraficki.
Take a look at his known associates.
Oh, wow. All Polish
names, all with priors.
Yep, looks like our
boy, Caz, is crewed up.
Okay, we got some work to do.
- Yeah.
- Let me look at this.
All right.
So, I spoke to my buddy
in Organized Crime.
The gang's headquartered
out of Nowak's Quality Meats.
Ahh, delicious!
Yeah, well, not for McGannon's crew.
They've been cuttin' into his skim
from the builders' union.
There's a lot of bad blood
between Charlie and the Poles.
I see. So you're saying they have beef?
What they have is extortion,
loan-sharking, and trafficking ecstasy.
- So, hey hey!
- Wha
Tread lightly.
They call me "Twinkle
Toes", babe, come on.
[ENTRY BELL CHIMES]
How you doing? Philly PD.
I need to talk to your boss.
- I'll see what I can do.
- Great.
[GRINDER WHIRRING]
What do you think goes in there?
I don't know don't ask questions
you don't want the answers to.
What can I do for the PD?
Mr. Nowak, thanks for seeing us.
Yeah.
We need to talk to you
about Caz Ceraficki.
Ah. Funny name. Never heard of 'im.
That's interesting. Um
Caz has been arrested, what, 18 times?
Well 19, if you count the time
that he set a Health
Inspector's car on fire
after he dinged you for roaches.
Right. So tha that's
the interesting thing.
All of his arrests, all of his crimes,
they benefited you, somehow.
Right? You don't see
where I'm goin' with this?
Yeah, so maybe I should
send him a fruit basket.
Listen. Five college girls
have been kidnapped,
so it's not a joke, we're
not playing around.
Five little rich bitches?
Like I give a crap? Come on.
Hey.
No, no no no no, no, no.
- [GRUNTS] What the hell, man?
- [GASPS]
[GRINDER WHIRRING]
You care now? You care now?
- [WHIMPERING]
- You care now?
An efficient machine.
You'd better start talking.
Can't talk? All right,
we'll do the talking.
'Kay. My partner's got a
theory. What's your theory?
That you and your boy, Caz,
take Charlie McGannon's
daughter and her friends,
to put pressure on Charlie.
And then, see, you're
going to tell us where Caz is,
or we're gonna ruin
this perfectly good
batch of kielbasa. Okay?
I found out Caz was freelancing,
so I cut him loose,
and I haven't seen him in a year!
Haven't seen him in a year?
What do ya think? Let him go?
What, for that useless
intel? Absolutely not.
I swear to God! I haven't talked to Caz
since that that thing in Pittsburgh!
- Don't move.
- [WHIMPERING]
[GRINDER CHUGGING]
- [SNIP]
- [GASPING AND WHEEZING]
[CLICKS GRINDER OFF]
All right.
What thing in Pittsburgh?
- Huh?
- Hey.
Unless you're gonna arrest me,
get the hell out of my shop!
Where's the gratitude? I just
saved you from a horrible tie!
You want some kishka?
No, I'm good.
[GROANING] Oh that hurt.
Yeah, your back.
Ohh God, man!
Maybe next time you jump over the thing.
[GROANS]
[DOORBELL CHIMES]
[SPEED DIALING]
[LINE RINGING]
You didn't hear it from me,
but you've got a problem.
- [KNOCKING]
- Hey.
Okay, so based on what
Nowak told Mike and Jason,
I called Pittsburgh PD
to see if Caz Ceraficki
popped up in their system.
And?
He was a suspect in a
murder case last year
And you'll never guess
who the victim was.
Sean Conway survived by his wife
Renee Conway.
[NIKKI] Charlie's accountant.
I knew there was something off with her.
It's about time.
What was I supposed to do?
Tell Charlie the guy
I hired to kidnap his daughter
- is waiting for me?
- I got a call.
Some cops from MPU are after me,
which means Charlie's
gonna be after me
Charlie never gave a crap
about anybody but himself.
He'll take the loss and move on.
You want to mess me around, Caz?
Because the last man
who did that is dead.
This is Charlie we're talking about.
And I've waited a year
to get what I deserve
out of that piece of crap,
so either hold it
together or I cut you out.
- That what you want?
- I want my money!
It just hit my crypto wallet.
I'll get your cut in cash.
It's four now. I'll be back by five.
You're not, these girls are gone.
Don't threaten me, Caz.
It won't end well.
[WHISPERING] They're gonna kill us.
Not if we get out of here first.
Quickly, while they're still out front.
[UNDER HER BREATH] Okay. Okay
[GRUNTING WITH EFFORT]
Oh! [SOBS]
I don't want to die.
Hey! Look, if we can beat
Rittenhouse's top seed,
we can handle these guys. Okay?
It's gonna be okay.
Stop saying that. It's not!
And I am sick of you two
playing high and mighty.
Gen tried to take your
scholarship. Did you know that?
It wasn't me. It was my dad.
And if we're gonna point fingers,
maybe now's a good time
to tell Kate how you
hooked up with Marcus
over the winter break.
She didn't give a crap about him!
This is all my fault.
What are you talking about?
[TEARFULLY] I think
this is because of my dad.
I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.
I ran the Conways through our system
and there are two domestic
disturbances filed by Renee
against her husband.
He was beating her.
So she outsourced a hit
on her jerk of a husband
to Caz Ceraficki?
[KEMI] I mean, that's
what it looks like,
but if she was so valuable to Charlie,
why didn't she ask him for help?
Uh, Charlie just transferred
2 million in Bitcoin
an hour ago.
Wait, if Charlie paid the ransom,
why haven't they released the girls?
I don't know. I I can't actually see
who received the money.
The file was encrypted.
Oh, it was Renee. It's gotta be Renee.
Assume that, and work backwards.
- Aye-aye, Captain.
- Marine Unit
found this a mile north of
where they found the boat.
It's some kind of rowing computer.
It must have drifted after
they grabbed the boat.
Uh, nope. The Schuylkill
actually runs southeasterly.
Uh, I know that,
because I had brunch on
the boardwalk this morning.
Oh, that's so nice.
[HELEN] If it didn't drift,
how did it end up a
mile north of the boat?
I mean, the girls must
have taken the Coxbox
right when they were grabbed.
And either dropped it
or threw it from
wherever they were taken.
They left us a breadcrumb!
We have a breadcrumb!
I mean, a possibly useless breadcrumb.
This thing took a hit.
The seal is broken.
There's water damage.
It won't even turn on.
[WAYNE] Uh, get me
a five-pound bag of rice
and an oven. Okay?
[OVERLAPPING] Oh!
What? Has Has nobody
seen hosiery before?
I'm gonna get some
rice from the cafeteria!
- Yeah.
- Uh I have an oven.
- You're the best.
- Thank you.
- [PHONE BUZZING]
- Oh, God.
Jay? Please tell me we
have some good news.
Mike and I checked Renee's house.
Neighbor says she left
with suitcases an hour ago.
She's runnin', Nik.
Yeah, no kidding.
[CHARLIE] I don't have time for this.
I know that you paid the ransom,
but they haven't released the girls.
Now we do it my way.
I find out who's behind this,
they're gonna wish they were dead.
We think it's Renee, Charlie.
[SCOFFS]
No. You're out of your mind.
She's been working with me 20 years.
I'd trust her with my life.
Did she trust you with hers
when Sean started beating her up?
She asked you to stop him, didn't she?
She's a big girl.
I told her to deal with it.
Look, I know Sean worked for me, but
Is that how you treat your
valuable employees, Charlie?
You did nothing,
so Renee hired Caz
Ceraficki to take care of it.
And what does this
have to do with Bella?
She knew that Bella
was your Achilles' heel.
She had access to the girls' schedule,
to the rosters, to to everything.
So do a lot of people.
Yeah, but Renee just skipped town.
She was just waiting
for the chance to get
even with you, Charlie,
and cash out.
Nah, nah. Nah, you got this wrong, Nik.
[WAYNE] No. No, she doesn't.
Renee got that Bitcoin transfer.
Uh, whoever this is,
you're guessing
It's untraceable.
Wayne Pascal. And I don't guess.
According to her credit card,
Renee purchased a
burner laptop last Tuesday.
Phone tracking data put her at
the Harold Washington Library
the next day, where I'm assuming
she downloaded an ISO file,
that she then burned to a USB drive
that she purchased with cash
from the minimart
that we tracked her to,
using her car navigation history.
Later that day,
she got a macchiato
at a local coffee shop,
so, I checked the WiFi history.
Sure enough, there was an anonymous user
that logged into "Bitaddress,"
the site of choice
for creating anonymous crypto wallets.
It's Renee.
All of this is Renee.
Man, they just don't make bad guys
as good as they used to.
[CHARLIE SIGHS HEAVILY]
I'm sorry, Charlie.
I made such a big mistake here.
There's two women
in my life that I trust
You and Renee.
Now, all I got's you.
You gotta find Bella.
My dad's the head of the Irish Mob.
And my mom's the Queen of Sheba.
[BELLA] No, I'm serious.
He came into my life last year,
and I didn't tell you guys about it
because I was scared
of what you'd think of him.
So you don't have a sugar-daddy?
What?
Oh, my God! Wait. Is that
what everyone thought?
[LAUGHTER]
[CHUCKLING CONTINUES]
While we're at it
My dad was a pig about
the scholarship thing.
I told him so.
And I'm sorry about Marcus.
Babe water under the
loser-boyfriend bridge.
Bella, we all suck in
one way or another.
We don't care who you're related to.
We just care that you call
"Power 10" on the right stroke.
- Mm-hmm.
- Even though I just shout orders
while you're all working so hard?
Dude, you have to get my
ass up and moving at five a.m.!
You're the hardest-working
woman in Philly.
[ALL LAUGHING]
Point being, Bells,
we love everything that makes you "you".
Oh, hey do you think your dad
could put the fear of
God in my Stats teacher?
- [SNICKERING]
- I really need a "B".
Oh, my God. Screw a "B".
If we get outta here alive,
I'm getting you all 4.0s.
What are you doing?
Praying. Can't hurt, right?
I guess.
- How's it going?
- Uh
getting there.
Okay, here we go.
Uh
- [BEEP]
- [GASPING]
- Yes!
- Okay!
Your gods have great reception!
They really, really do.
- [KEYS CLACKING]
- [KEMI] All right, I'm seeing
a stroke count at the start of practice
and then a second set of data.
Zero stroke counts
But it traveled a distance of two miles.
How is that possible?
The girls must have activated it
and then thrown it into the water
from wherever they were being held,
and it traveled a two-mile distance
- in the current
- Which means
They just gave us a search radius.
- Yes!
- [SQUEALING]
Good job, Helen!
Oh, thank you, gods!
The Coxbox was thrown into the river
somewhere in this area.
Charlie, is there anywhere in there
where Renee might be holding the girls?
Well, we did a thing right here
A couple years ago.
I don't know if that
means anything, Nik, but
You gotta get her back.
You think Charlie
was jerking our chains?
I don't know. Looks like
nobody's been here in years.
[JASON] Hey. Hey, hey.
Someone's here now.
Oh, now you wanna give me a boost?
Come on.
Come on, damn it! Answer.
[QUIET GASP]
[HUSHED] Uh, never mind.
She's not answering.
Either she got caught,
or she's screwing me.
Two bogeys east side,
facing away from the door.
- [HUSHED] What are you doing?
- Helping.
Bella, don't!
Um in case you didn't know,
my dad's Charlie McGannon.
He doesn't care about these
girls, so if you let them go,
uh, I I can call him for you,
we can figure something out.
You got a big mouth
for such a little girl.
Yeah? What're gonna do?
- Girls, get down!
- [SHOTS FIRE]
[GIRLS SCREAMING]
[SHRIEKING] Help!
You shoot, I kill her!
Ahh!
Go, go, go. Go after them. Go!
[BELLA] Help!
- Let go of me!
- Let's go.
[SHRIEKING] Help!
- [GRUNTS]
- Ow!
- [GRUNTING]
- [THUDDING]
Ah!
Ohh!
[BLOWS LANDING]
- [BELLA CRIES OUT]
- [CRACK]
[PANTING]
- [MIKE] Jay!
- Yeah, we're clear!
Nicely done. Thank you.
I do dry-land training for a reason.
Yeah. Why don't you give me that?
- Yeah, right.
- Thanks.
Hell, yeah, Bella.
I got you.
Easy, easy, easy.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
Go, Gladiators!
You're okay, Kate?
You promise?
[KATE] Now I have a killer
new story for my Hinge profile.
[CHUCKLING]
Just so you know
We actually were making pretty good time
before we got, like, kidnapped.
[ALL LAUGHING]
I'm glad you're all right.
Thanks, Dad.
Bella saved the day, you know.
That's my girl.
And she said you'd help
us boost up our GPAs.
Thanks a million.
Yeah, that's not really my thing.
I mean, you kinda owe us one.
Aside from all the money
you gave to the team.
That was you?
You should come to
the regatta this weekend.
You've been missing out on all the fun.
These girls'll make you proud.
I just might do that. Thank you.
- Gimme a sec.
- Yeah.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
How can I repay you, Nik?
Oh, come on.
It's my job, Charlie.
- Thank you.
- Of course.
You know, your business
put someone you love in jeopardy.
I would think on that, Charlie.
[CHARLIE] Yeah.
Yeah.
[CHARLIE] She work for you?
Not officially.
[CHARLIE] You should gimme her number.
- [NIKKI LAUGHS]
- No, she's got skills!
Will you stop hustling and
go take care of your kid?
- All right.
- Come on.
[NIKKI SIGHS]
I want you to know
that I'm on your side ♪
Okay, ladies!
We're about to pass them!
We can do it! We can do it!
It's three a.m.
You're still alive ♪
Good job. Good job.
Deep water ♪
[ANNOUNCER] At the thousand-meter mark,
Rittenhouse is pulling away.
Darby in second.
Gladwyn and Fosser fighting for third.
Charlie? Jason Grant.
- Good to meet you.
- Thanks. How are you doing?
I appreciate what you
boys did for my Bella.
You got "lightweight," "coxed,"
"fours"
I don't know what the
hell any of this means.
Yeah. What we do for our kids, right?
Yeah. Should've gotten
into Bella's life a little sooner.
I could have talked her
into a more sensible sport,
like golf.
Ah.
But this is nice, too.
So, I know why I'm here
What about you two?
We're, uh we're looking for Renee.
Looking all over the place. No luck yet.
Any idea where she is?
[SHOVEL STRIKES EARTH]
Not a clue.
But you won't have any trouble
putting your case together.
You got Ceraficki and his colleague
all in lock-up
pending trial.
[JASON] Yeah, we do.
[FLESH TEARING]
See?
Happy endings all around.
Yeah, well, how's this
for a happy ending?
The back-channel with you and Nik
has officially run its course.
We're gonna have a sit-down with her,
but in the meantime, you're
on notice. You understand?
See, Charlie, you
know, people around you,
they, uh, they get hurt.
- You won't have a problem.
- Mm?
Nikki was right.
My business put somebody
I care about in danger
and, uh, it ain't worth it.
Yeah, well, Nikki brings
out the best in all of us.
She and I, we had a real good run,
but it's all over now.
It's time to turn the page.
[BELLA] Good! Keep going!
Keep going! We're so close!
[ANNOUNCER] In the home stretch,
Gladwyn is digging deep,
but they're still almost
a full boat-length behind.
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
[CROWD CHEERING]
[BELLA] All together now! Good job!
Square it up. Square it up.
You got about two seats,
let's keep it there. Okay?
Good job, Genevieve!
I see you back there!
Tons of power! Amazing!
Go, go, go, go, go!
[ANNOUNCER] And here they come
Gladwyn pulls ahead to win the battle!
[CHEERING]
Good job!
Look at that eight hands, one heart.
Charlie, in the future,
if you, uh, feel the urge
to reach out to Nikki,
do me a favor, and don't, okay?
- Good to see you.
- Message received.
We'll be seeing you.
Being a free woman is exhausting!
Aw, man.
It's, uh, it's gonna be a
little difficult to kiss me
from across the room.
Yeah, oh, I just, uh
I just want to ask you a question.
Yes, I did use your credit card,
but I will pay you back.
No, that's that's that's fine.
Um um
I know things are uh
up in the air, right now,
and if you, um
if you temporarily need a a, um
a place to stay, you can stay with me.
Um, but u unless you
have somewhere else to go.
So, there you go.
You really struggled through that one.
Yeah. What do ya think?
I think you are adorable.
And you are off the hook.
- Am I?
- Mm-hmm.
Yeah, the, uh, the motel manager
said I could stay here for free
as long as I help hide
their one-star Yelp reviews.
Aren't they all one-star Yelp reviews?
They were! Um, but now it's
"spectacular service
in a boutique setting."
- I like that.
- Yeah, you like it?
Mm-hmm.
I would still love to see
your apartment, though,
because I hear you have
a really huge bathtub.
- I do.
- Mm-hmm?
We could go now if you want.
I mean we could.
- Yeah?
- But
- But?
- Why rush, hmm?
Mm. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm?
- Okay.
- [GIGGLING]