Without a Trace s03e15 Episode Script
Party Girl
Chelsea, do you mind? We have a lot to go over.
Okay, you really need to make good with Georgina from Extra.
You ignored her at their party last week.
And Kelly from ET.
Yes, Liz, I know.
I've only done this 6000 times.
Did you see the cover of Us Weekly? Couldn't do anything about the title? I see her! Over here, Ms.
Prince! Chelsea.
Hey.
We didn't interrupt a date or anything? No, just an intense game of solitaire.
Who's he? His name's Tony Marcus.
He's Chelsea Prince's personal driver.
The Chelsea Prince? Publishing heiress? She was on her way home from a party in SoHo.
Guess when the ruckus broke out he pressed the panic button the OnStar system.
They called the police, the police called us.
I have a wave file recording of the incident.
Wanna hear it? Sure.
This is OnStar.
What's the problem, Mr.
Marcus? They took Chelsea.
Chelsea Prince.
Are you hurt, sir? There was a bunch of them.
One guy smashed my window Please help me! beat me up and put a gun to my head.
Then they took her.
They took her.
The police are on their way, Mr.
Marcus.
This feels like a contract job to me.
They say she's worth a half a billion dollars.
There's your motive.
Is it true that the driver was kidnapped too? I told you, I don't know anything.
This could just be a rumor.
Wasn't her car found at the side of the road? As I said before, you know as much as I do.
This is a private party.
I'm pretty sure we're on the list.
Oh, my God.
Is Tony okay? Well, he's on his way to the hospital.
I can't believe this.
This is crazy.
Who knew that Chelsea would be here? Everybody.
Max Miller's birthday party is the biggest event of the season.
Besides, we were promoting Glitterati.
What's Glitterati? Our new makeup line.
Chelsea and I started it together.
How did you two get separated at the event? Oh, she didn't go inside.
Why not? Well, she shows up for the press line.
How do you think she does four events a night? But you went inside.
It's good for business.
It's good for Chelsea if I work the party.
So where was she headed? Back to the hotel.
She's staying at the W this month.
I thought she lives in New York.
She does.
But she sold her apartment, right? She moves from one hotel to the next.
Is that for security? No, no.
She just gets bored.
Do you think this is about money? Probably.
But we haven't ruled anything out.
Does she have a boyfriend? Well, I wouldn't exactly call him a boyfriend.
Yeah, she was with this guy for a couple months.
As long as she ever saw anybody.
What's his name? Babak Mansur.
He owns, like, half the clubs in the city.
He also happens to be married.
She's not seeing him anymore? No.
No, it ended about a month ago.
I need to speak to you.
I'm busy.
It's my club.
So kick me out.
Hey, Babak.
You look pretty good on that video.
So it's true? You recorded us? Oh, come on.
What's a little sex tape between friends? I suggest you get me that tape or you're gonna have trouble.
And not just from me.
Come on, come on.
Let's kiss and make up.
You don't understand, okay? I have a wife and a child.
Hey, if that tape gets out, you'll ruin my whole life.
Don't worry, Babak.
I am not gonna leak the tape.
Unless there's a dry period.
You think it's funny? You're just a useless, empty little bimbo.
These people are only hang out with you because you're famous.
And that's not gonna last long.
Babak married into big money, right? Like billions.
His wife's family is very conservative and they would not look kindly on him cheating.
So were you gonna leak the tape? I don't even know what she did with it? What about her security? Where were they tonight? Well, she didn't have any.
She hasn't had any security since last week.
Why? She said she got sick of having them around.
You've been in charge of Chelsea's security for a long time, right? Her parents hired me as a private consultant in '89.
They died a couple years later in a plane crash.
But you stayed on? Yeah.
Her parents were good people.
I think she would've turned out a lot differently if they were still alive.
I heard that Chelsea didn't want you around lately.
What was that about? Growing pains.
I've seen it before.
Client wants to be a normal person, so they tell you to go away.
Then there's an incident, and they ask you back.
I guess this was the incident.
Now, do you think there's any chance Chelsea put this whole thing together herself? Why would she do that? Publicity.
I doubt it.
How about her publicist? Oh, Liz Murray.
They met on the club scene.
Chelsea was 15, Liz was an assistant at a big PR firm.
They've been joined at the hip ever since.
I don't think Liz even has any other clients.
Now, how about obsessed fans or stalkers? I'll bet Chelsea has a few.
More than a few.
This is all the fan mail from last year.
Some of it is definitely in stalker territory.
I've tagged it according to the threat assessment.
You've got your work cut out for you.
Yeah, I'd agree.
We're expecting a ransom demand.
How accessible are her accounts? We have a good K and R policy, $200 million max.
And all her finances run through you? At least until she's 25.
Her parents set it up that way.
She has no living relatives? She had an uncle.
He died a couple years ago.
He had custody of Chelsea until she was 18 but he never paid any attention.
Too much time on his yacht in Cannes.
Meanwhile, she's 14 years old, hanging it out in clubs, doing drugs.
Any chance that she's still doing drugs? I don't know.
But she came to me for a large amount of cash a couple of weeks ago.
Really? What do you mean, "no"? It's my money.
You have to give it to me.
We set up corporations for tax purposes.
The money must be accounted for.
You can't withdraw huge sums at will.
I swear I won't tell a soul.
Please, it's important.
Important.
You mean for drugs? No, I swear! Then what? You're obviously in trouble.
I'm not in trouble.
I'm not in trouble.
You come in here, you ask me for 100,000 in cash.
You've refused to have security, you won't tell me why.
I've gotta have some answers.
Look, I promise I won't ever ask you for anything like this again.
Please, Roberta, just this one time.
Something in her voice.
She had such conviction.
I gave in to her.
It is possible that she's being blackmailed.
Does she have anything to hide? I wouldn't think so.
I should've pushed harder, made her tell me what the money was for.
Why didn't you? Because I spoil her.
We've all spoiled her.
Where'd you find him? He's there now? Yeah, bye.
We've got a bead on Chelsea's ex, Babak Mansur.
Danny's headed over to have a word.
Good.
You know, we could make a sex tape, post it online here and then you wouldn't have to tell anybody about us.
That's cute.
What do you got on the driver? In surgery.
Doctors say we'll be able to speak to him in a couple hours.
He check out? His financial records don't show any big deposits.
Viv went through his phone records, found nothing.
And frankly, I'm not sure any amount of money is worth brain damage.
Think about it.
Anything in the fan letters? It's unbelievable how these young girls idolize her.
For what? She's rich, beautiful and famous.
What else is there, right? Famous for being rich and beautiful.
Take a look at this.
How the hell did they get that? That's a damn good question.
MPEG file's all over the Internet.
It was sent 15 minutes ago.
And every news station has got it on the air? I downloaded it off the network's website.
Nice of them to call us.
Let's hear it.
"My name is Chelsea Prince.
And I don 't deserve to live.
I've done nothing I've done nothing in my life.
Created nothing or accomplished nothing.
I'm only here now because I don 't exist unless I'm on camera.
" Okay, where are we? Not much to work with.
It's a standard MPEG.
The camera could be fixed to this location, controlled by remote.
The file was sent anonymous account through a server in the Ukraine.
Did you contact Legat in Kiev? Yeah, but I'm not holding my breath.
They've got other problems over there.
That looks like asbestos, which would make the building pre '70s.
I can't figure out why the light's pulsing.
A problem with the camera, a loose bulb? Could you zoom out for a sec? She doesn't look like she's been physically harmed.
She's still wearing her ring.
Yeah, the rock's worth about 2 mil.
Could you play it again with sound? "My name is Chelsea Prince.
And I don 't deserve to live.
I've done nothing I've done nothing in my life.
Created nothing or accomplished nothing.
I'm only here now because I don 't exist unless I'm on camera.
" I don't think professionals would want to make her seem so worthless.
Yeah, it feels more like a personal vendetta.
Yeah, maybe.
Check this number.
It's a little light.
Which one of you is Mr.
Mansur? How can I help you? I'm Danny Taylor.
I'm with the FBI.
I'd like to talk to you.
Alone.
I assume this is about Chelsea.
Well, you assumed right.
Any thoughts on who may have kidnapped her? No idea.
Not that I'm surprised.
A lot of people think she's bad for society.
How about you? Do you think she's bad for society? I think she was bad for my marriage.
Does your wife know? No.
Not yet.
Well, she might.
There's a little sex tape going around.
Not anymore.
No? Unless she was lying.
What are you talking about? I don't know why exactly but a few days after I found out about it, she came to her senses.
Can I get you anything else? What are you doing here? Can we talk for a second? What do we have to talk about? This.
It's the only copy.
Thought Liz was gonna send this to the tabloids.
She was, but I changed my mind.
I told her not to.
Chelsea, you could have easily made another copy.
Well, I guess you're just gonna have to take my word for it.
Chelsea.
What? Why the sudden change of heart? It doesn't matter.
Something just happened today.
Well, thank you.
Don't know why she gave it to me, I'm just happy she did.
When was that? Think about it, because I need an exact date.
It was a friend's birthday party.
A Friday.
It must have been January 28th.
What about the ex's alibi? He was at the club all night.
Our beauty queen grew a conscience.
I wonder why.
Come on, Viv.
She's young, with too much money and no one to look after her.
That's no excuse.
Danny, you said Chelsea gave him back the tape on January 28th, right? Yeah.
According to her publicist that coincides with a book signing.
She wrote a book? Oh, yeah.
Looking Like a Princess: A Girl's Guide to Makeup.
Oh, please.
Babak Mansur said something happened to her that day.
Maybe it happened there.
So you were here that day too? It was our big event of the month.
Chelsea was two hours late.
She didn't apologize when she finally showed up.
Then she had the nerve to spend Did she seem coked up to you? No.
Just vain.
Here's Scott.
What's up? Scott, this is the FBI.
Tell them about that weird guy who came up to Chelsea.
Oh, yeah.
That was pretty out there.
He was like a stalker or something.
Everybody just be patient.
I know you've been waiting a long time.
No, no, I'm not going lower than Thank you.
Are we almost done? I have a manicure in, like, 20 minutes.
Sir, you're gonna have to wait your turn.
Sir.
Do you want me to sign something for you? You want me to sign this? That's my sister.
She idolized you.
She wrote you dozens of letters and you never wrote back.
I get a lot of letters.
I'm a busy person.
Maybe you should tell your sister to get a hobby.
She had hobbies.
She made jewelry and art.
She had talent.
Real talent.
That's all over with now.
She killed herself.
She slit her wrist because of you.
Can I just ask you all something? Have any of you ever heard of Maya Angelou or the Bronte sisters, huh? No? So this? This is your role model? Look, I'm sorry about what happened to your sister.
You're sorry? These companies that you promote they pretend any girl can be a beauty queen so long as she has the right clothes and the right makeup.
Not every girl can look like Chelsea Prince, okay? So, what happens if she can't? What happens? I printed these up off my sister's computer.
It's all the letters she wrote to you.
So maybe you can take some time out of your busy shopping schedule and read them.
It was really bizarre, and he was kind of scary.
Chelsea was pretty thrown by it.
Do you know who the man was? No, I have no idea.
Do you have any receipts from that day? It wouldn't help, he didn't buy anything.
Okay, thank you.
All right.
So he printed out copies of his sister's letters.
We didn't find them in the hotel room? I'll check.
You all right, Viv? Yeah, fine.
Listen, have you found any letters from a girl, 12 years old, desperate? Thousands.
Okay.
This one wrote to Chelsea a bunch.
Chelsea never wrote back.
She was probably getting more and more desperate.
Okay, hundreds.
You tried checking her hotel room? Danny's tearing it apart right now.
Nothing so far.
I need you guys to take a look at something.
This website just posted.
You've gotta be kidding.
Deadline's tomorrow, 9 a.
m.
"Make an informed decision.
" It's a highlight reel of her exploits.
So, what do you think is your greatest achievement? I would definitely have to say it's my fashion sense.
Chelsea, what are your thoughts about the war in Iraq? I think we should do whatever the president says.
I mean, he is the president.
Oh, yeah.
These aren't exactly her best moments.
No.
Yeah, baby! Can't we track this site? He's using a data haven.
We can't pinpoint the location.
Could be the guy from the bookstore.
Eye for an eye.
He would've needed help.
Leopold and Loeb.
Sometimes they come in twos.
Hey, look at this.
The tally's started.
She's losing.
Thank you for coming.
My name is Liz Murray.
Some of you may know me as Chelsea Prince's publicist.
She's also my best friend.
I want everyone voting for her to die to know that she is a real person.
She isn 't just fodder for the tabloids.
She laughs and cries and feels like all of you.
She's a good person, and her life is not just something that can be decided like you're voting for a game show contestant.
What's she trying to do, get Chelsea killed? Well, she's a publicist.
Go pick her up and shut her up before she does any more damage.
Has that limo driver come out of surgery yet? But the doctors say he's not ready to talk.
Hey, if he's conscious, he's ready to talk.
They put her on the Internet? People are voting whether she should live or die.
What? That's crazy.
You spent a lot of time with Chelsea.
Can you think of anybody that would do that? Chelsea hangs out with all types, but nobody comes to mind.
Tony, who else knew Chelsea's itinerary last night? Me, Liz, I guess maybe Garrett Palmer, Chelsea's security guy.
What do you remember about the attack? Nothing.
Not much.
Must've blacked out.
So you don't remember how many guys there were? Three? I don't I don't know.
They were wearing masks.
You just said that you were blacked out.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I was I was in and out.
All right.
Do you recognize this man? Who is he? It's not important.
Do you recognize him? Never seen him before.
Okay.
Now, if I told you that you and Chelsea were attacked by a single assailant, what would you say? Really? Yeah, okay, maybe.
I don't know.
But according to the OnStar recording, you said there was a bunch of them.
Yeah, well, it's what I thought.
Look Look, I don't know.
It's all really hazy right now, okay? Thank you.
Feel better.
Thanks.
I had to do something.
You should've called us first.
If ever we ask someone to make a public plea, it's usually family.
Well, I am her family.
I'm sorry.
I just couldn't sit there and let this happen.
Can't you write a computer program to sway the votes? We're working on it, but there may not be enough time.
I just can't believe that people are voting for her to die.
They can vote as often as they want, and the whack jobs are voting more.
What about all the young girls who love her? Aren't they voting? We know that this man approached her at her book signing a few weeks ago.
You were there, right? Yeah, but I was on the phone the entire time.
She had so many appearances that week that I could barely keep up.
But she was acting weird when she got back to the car.
Tony noticed too.
And what about Tony? Could he be involved? Why would you ask that? The kidnappers put him in the hospital.
How was he with Chelsea? Was he ever resentful? Was there ever any problems? I don't think so.
Oh, God.
This is all my fault.
And why would you say that? Because she didn't even wanna go to Max's birthday party last night.
Why not? Because she wanted out.
Of what? The life.
You're so quiet lately.
You haven't been going out, you're clean as a whistle.
Where's the party girl? I think maybe we need a break.
What are you talking about? Just take some time apart, try something different.
Chelsea, we have a lot of commitments, and you're just burnt out.
Let's take a spa day.
I don't need a spa day.
I need to be done with all of this.
Has something happened? What? What's going on? Maybe I need something more than just shopping, partying and paparazzi.
Well, what are you gonna do? I don't know.
She said she'd finish the launch for Glitterati, but then she was out.
That was four days ago.
If I hadn't been so worried about our new company this wouldn't have happened.
You should've told us this before.
I honestly didn't think it mattered.
Does it? Well, she's coming back.
Maybe the plea actually helped.
Sam, listen to this: "Dear Miss Prince.
Thank you for reading to us.
Can we read Harry Potter next time? Thank you, Cindy P.
" There are all these letters from kids at a school in the Bronx all written within the last two weeks.
Two weeks? Just after the guy went off on her in the bookstore.
He made her feel so bad that she decides to start reading to kids to? To give something back? Chelsea Prince, the South Bronx Unless Unless the little girl that killed herself went to school there.
We understand that Chelsea's been coming here to read to the kids lately.
Yes.
She was just here yesterday.
Did she say why she chose here specifically? Well, I've known her for a long time.
You have? Oh, yes.
I was her sixth grade teacher.
At Phillips Academy.
Ms.
McPherson I know this may sound like a strange question but have any of your students committed suicide recently? No, but I think I know what you're talking about.
Chelsea came here because of that poor girl.
Chelsea? Oh, my God.
What a surprise to see you.
What are you doing here? I sort of just looked you up.
Yeah, well, here I am.
Why'd you leave Phillips Academy? Oh, well, you know, I wanted a bit of a change.
Meaning you got sick of spoiled brats like me? You weren't a brat.
I wasn't? Hey, come here.
What's going on, Chelsea? I don't know.
I've just been going through some stuff.
Okay, tell me.
It's okay.
Someone killed herself.
A little girl.
Because of me.
Because I didn't write her back.
Now, I'm sure that's not true.
God, honey, if she killed herself, she must have had other problems.
I went to see her brother.
I wanted to apologize, to do something for the family.
I gave him money.
A hundred thousand dollars.
He was so angry.
He called it blood money and didn't accept it.
So I just left it in his mailbox.
I didn't know how else to help him.
Honey, he's grieving.
You know what that's like.
Besides, there's not much you can do to help him.
I want you to look at these.
These are her letters.
I want you to read them.
Why? Because you work with kids.
You understand them.
I want you to tell me what was wrong with her.
What I could have done.
Maybe you can show them to the school psychologist.
You can tell me what her problem was so I can help other kids like her.
Okay, sure.
Sure.
I'll do what I can.
You wanna know what you can do? What? Oh, honey, these kids idolize you.
You could read them a story.
I can't.
Of course you can.
She started coming here a lot after that.
To read to the kids.
Do you still have any of those letters? Yeah.
They're in my desk.
We're gonna need to see those.
Tell me, Chelsea.
What do you offer society? I don 't know.
Have you ever done anything of value? No.
Never.
Then what makes you so worthy of fame? I don 't know.
I don 't deserve it.
And this still isn't live? No, it's recorded.
He's not going live until the execution.
He must be afraid that if people see her suffering all day long they'll vote for her to live.
I just got a call from Sam.
She found the girl that killed herself.
Her name is Stacy Reinecker from Albany.
Reinecker? Yep.
That's R E I N E C K E R? Right.
Why do I know that name? All right, here we go.
I've got five Reineckers in Albany.
Any with a criminal record? No.
The limo driver.
He called a Doug Reinecker.
When? Two days ago.
That's him.
It wasn't supposed to go this far.
He told me we'd split the ransom.
Nobody was supposed to get hurt.
Didn't quite work out that way.
I'm telling the truth.
He went crazy.
How'd you meet? He was following us around.
I thought he was a paparazzi.
He tipped me a couple hundred bucks, I gave him a couple places we'd be so he could get a good picture.
How did it evolve? He approached me a few days ago.
I was waiting for Chelsea at the hotel.
That's when he told me the truth.
You hear me, Tony? She thought she could pay me off.
Like my sister's life had a price tag on it.
She was 12 years old, man.
Where are your parents? Mom's dead.
Dad's in jail.
It was just the two of us.
I was raising her on my own.
Look, that sucks, man.
It really does.
But what the hell are you doing here? I'm trying to make things right.
How's that? Man, I see the way she treats you.
Like you're invisible.
Like you're nothing.
Part of the job.
You've been working for her how long now? Six years? Has she ever even once asked you about your family? What's your point? I got $ 100,000 upfront money for you.
Once we collect ransom, there'll be enough for us to live out our lives.
You mean kidnap her? You said she doesn't got any security right now.
We can make it look good.
No problems.
There she is! There she is! Chelsea! Over here.
Right this way.
I don't wanna go to jail for the rest of my life.
So I'll do whatever I can to help you.
Just help me get a good deal.
You want a deal? Please.
Okay, then give me something.
Where'd you take her? He never told me where he was taking her.
I didn't wanna know.
No hits off of Reinecker's plates yet.
His car's gotta be somewhere.
I'm not getting anything from his finances either.
Albany checked his house.
No sign of him.
You know, I just can't believe people can be this cruel.
How did it swing back? How were the exit polls off by eight points in Ohio? Well, the tech said that some people are voting hundreds of times so who knows what the real count is.
Maybe somebody's fixing it.
Wait a minute.
Maybe he's the one fixing the vote.
Why not just kill her? Because he needs the justification.
I've broken it down by city.
We need Albany.
Eight hundred thousand and change.
Albany County only has around 200,000 people.
Seventy six percent say die.
They gotta be coming from one place.
Four hundred and twenty two thousand votes.
MicroJava Internet Cafe.
That's it.
We got it.
Have you seen this man? No.
Have you seen this man before? No.
No.
Excuse me, have seen this guy before? Have you seen this man before? No.
Nothing.
No one's seen him.
We checked their server with all the computer users inside.
There's a wireless connection to an unknown source.
If he's using this router, he's gotta be around here.
We're looking for a building constructed before the '70s.
That's half the buildings on this block.
Yeah.
The final vote's in.
He's gonna kill her.
Vote's in, Chelsea.
No.
No, please, no.
Please, please.
All right, can you blow that up? No, please, help me! Okay, Jack, there is some kind of a fan behind Chelsea.
Is it an industrial fan? Ceiling fan? Window fan? Window fan.
Yeah.
Do you see it? Think so.
Sam, you got anything for me? Damn it.
He's cutting her wrists.
Let's go.
You guys go down there.
Clear.
Help.
Help.
I'm in here.
Okay, Jack, she can hear you.
She can hear us.
Oh, please, please.
She must be close.
Jack, look at that light? Clear.
She's losing a lot of blood.
Martin! FBI! Freeze! Freeze! FBI, freeze! Don't move.
Put your hands where I can see them.
Here.
Hold this arm.
Come on, let's go.
Man, you okay? Just need a couple of minutes, that's all.
You sure? Okay.
Anything you want to tell us? Chelsea! What is her condition like? How's she doing? There he is! There he is! Doug Reinecker, the mastermind behind the Prince kidnapping, was taken into He had no prior run ins with the law.
It's unclear what motivated this man.
All right, back up, back up.
Watch your head.
Right here.
Oh, he's right here.
Reinecker.
Reinecker, why'd you do it? Do you wanna give a statement? You've got a chance to right now.
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Okay, you really need to make good with Georgina from Extra.
You ignored her at their party last week.
And Kelly from ET.
Yes, Liz, I know.
I've only done this 6000 times.
Did you see the cover of Us Weekly? Couldn't do anything about the title? I see her! Over here, Ms.
Prince! Chelsea.
Hey.
We didn't interrupt a date or anything? No, just an intense game of solitaire.
Who's he? His name's Tony Marcus.
He's Chelsea Prince's personal driver.
The Chelsea Prince? Publishing heiress? She was on her way home from a party in SoHo.
Guess when the ruckus broke out he pressed the panic button the OnStar system.
They called the police, the police called us.
I have a wave file recording of the incident.
Wanna hear it? Sure.
This is OnStar.
What's the problem, Mr.
Marcus? They took Chelsea.
Chelsea Prince.
Are you hurt, sir? There was a bunch of them.
One guy smashed my window Please help me! beat me up and put a gun to my head.
Then they took her.
They took her.
The police are on their way, Mr.
Marcus.
This feels like a contract job to me.
They say she's worth a half a billion dollars.
There's your motive.
Is it true that the driver was kidnapped too? I told you, I don't know anything.
This could just be a rumor.
Wasn't her car found at the side of the road? As I said before, you know as much as I do.
This is a private party.
I'm pretty sure we're on the list.
Oh, my God.
Is Tony okay? Well, he's on his way to the hospital.
I can't believe this.
This is crazy.
Who knew that Chelsea would be here? Everybody.
Max Miller's birthday party is the biggest event of the season.
Besides, we were promoting Glitterati.
What's Glitterati? Our new makeup line.
Chelsea and I started it together.
How did you two get separated at the event? Oh, she didn't go inside.
Why not? Well, she shows up for the press line.
How do you think she does four events a night? But you went inside.
It's good for business.
It's good for Chelsea if I work the party.
So where was she headed? Back to the hotel.
She's staying at the W this month.
I thought she lives in New York.
She does.
But she sold her apartment, right? She moves from one hotel to the next.
Is that for security? No, no.
She just gets bored.
Do you think this is about money? Probably.
But we haven't ruled anything out.
Does she have a boyfriend? Well, I wouldn't exactly call him a boyfriend.
Yeah, she was with this guy for a couple months.
As long as she ever saw anybody.
What's his name? Babak Mansur.
He owns, like, half the clubs in the city.
He also happens to be married.
She's not seeing him anymore? No.
No, it ended about a month ago.
I need to speak to you.
I'm busy.
It's my club.
So kick me out.
Hey, Babak.
You look pretty good on that video.
So it's true? You recorded us? Oh, come on.
What's a little sex tape between friends? I suggest you get me that tape or you're gonna have trouble.
And not just from me.
Come on, come on.
Let's kiss and make up.
You don't understand, okay? I have a wife and a child.
Hey, if that tape gets out, you'll ruin my whole life.
Don't worry, Babak.
I am not gonna leak the tape.
Unless there's a dry period.
You think it's funny? You're just a useless, empty little bimbo.
These people are only hang out with you because you're famous.
And that's not gonna last long.
Babak married into big money, right? Like billions.
His wife's family is very conservative and they would not look kindly on him cheating.
So were you gonna leak the tape? I don't even know what she did with it? What about her security? Where were they tonight? Well, she didn't have any.
She hasn't had any security since last week.
Why? She said she got sick of having them around.
You've been in charge of Chelsea's security for a long time, right? Her parents hired me as a private consultant in '89.
They died a couple years later in a plane crash.
But you stayed on? Yeah.
Her parents were good people.
I think she would've turned out a lot differently if they were still alive.
I heard that Chelsea didn't want you around lately.
What was that about? Growing pains.
I've seen it before.
Client wants to be a normal person, so they tell you to go away.
Then there's an incident, and they ask you back.
I guess this was the incident.
Now, do you think there's any chance Chelsea put this whole thing together herself? Why would she do that? Publicity.
I doubt it.
How about her publicist? Oh, Liz Murray.
They met on the club scene.
Chelsea was 15, Liz was an assistant at a big PR firm.
They've been joined at the hip ever since.
I don't think Liz even has any other clients.
Now, how about obsessed fans or stalkers? I'll bet Chelsea has a few.
More than a few.
This is all the fan mail from last year.
Some of it is definitely in stalker territory.
I've tagged it according to the threat assessment.
You've got your work cut out for you.
Yeah, I'd agree.
We're expecting a ransom demand.
How accessible are her accounts? We have a good K and R policy, $200 million max.
And all her finances run through you? At least until she's 25.
Her parents set it up that way.
She has no living relatives? She had an uncle.
He died a couple years ago.
He had custody of Chelsea until she was 18 but he never paid any attention.
Too much time on his yacht in Cannes.
Meanwhile, she's 14 years old, hanging it out in clubs, doing drugs.
Any chance that she's still doing drugs? I don't know.
But she came to me for a large amount of cash a couple of weeks ago.
Really? What do you mean, "no"? It's my money.
You have to give it to me.
We set up corporations for tax purposes.
The money must be accounted for.
You can't withdraw huge sums at will.
I swear I won't tell a soul.
Please, it's important.
Important.
You mean for drugs? No, I swear! Then what? You're obviously in trouble.
I'm not in trouble.
I'm not in trouble.
You come in here, you ask me for 100,000 in cash.
You've refused to have security, you won't tell me why.
I've gotta have some answers.
Look, I promise I won't ever ask you for anything like this again.
Please, Roberta, just this one time.
Something in her voice.
She had such conviction.
I gave in to her.
It is possible that she's being blackmailed.
Does she have anything to hide? I wouldn't think so.
I should've pushed harder, made her tell me what the money was for.
Why didn't you? Because I spoil her.
We've all spoiled her.
Where'd you find him? He's there now? Yeah, bye.
We've got a bead on Chelsea's ex, Babak Mansur.
Danny's headed over to have a word.
Good.
You know, we could make a sex tape, post it online here and then you wouldn't have to tell anybody about us.
That's cute.
What do you got on the driver? In surgery.
Doctors say we'll be able to speak to him in a couple hours.
He check out? His financial records don't show any big deposits.
Viv went through his phone records, found nothing.
And frankly, I'm not sure any amount of money is worth brain damage.
Think about it.
Anything in the fan letters? It's unbelievable how these young girls idolize her.
For what? She's rich, beautiful and famous.
What else is there, right? Famous for being rich and beautiful.
Take a look at this.
How the hell did they get that? That's a damn good question.
MPEG file's all over the Internet.
It was sent 15 minutes ago.
And every news station has got it on the air? I downloaded it off the network's website.
Nice of them to call us.
Let's hear it.
"My name is Chelsea Prince.
And I don 't deserve to live.
I've done nothing I've done nothing in my life.
Created nothing or accomplished nothing.
I'm only here now because I don 't exist unless I'm on camera.
" Okay, where are we? Not much to work with.
It's a standard MPEG.
The camera could be fixed to this location, controlled by remote.
The file was sent anonymous account through a server in the Ukraine.
Did you contact Legat in Kiev? Yeah, but I'm not holding my breath.
They've got other problems over there.
That looks like asbestos, which would make the building pre '70s.
I can't figure out why the light's pulsing.
A problem with the camera, a loose bulb? Could you zoom out for a sec? She doesn't look like she's been physically harmed.
She's still wearing her ring.
Yeah, the rock's worth about 2 mil.
Could you play it again with sound? "My name is Chelsea Prince.
And I don 't deserve to live.
I've done nothing I've done nothing in my life.
Created nothing or accomplished nothing.
I'm only here now because I don 't exist unless I'm on camera.
" I don't think professionals would want to make her seem so worthless.
Yeah, it feels more like a personal vendetta.
Yeah, maybe.
Check this number.
It's a little light.
Which one of you is Mr.
Mansur? How can I help you? I'm Danny Taylor.
I'm with the FBI.
I'd like to talk to you.
Alone.
I assume this is about Chelsea.
Well, you assumed right.
Any thoughts on who may have kidnapped her? No idea.
Not that I'm surprised.
A lot of people think she's bad for society.
How about you? Do you think she's bad for society? I think she was bad for my marriage.
Does your wife know? No.
Not yet.
Well, she might.
There's a little sex tape going around.
Not anymore.
No? Unless she was lying.
What are you talking about? I don't know why exactly but a few days after I found out about it, she came to her senses.
Can I get you anything else? What are you doing here? Can we talk for a second? What do we have to talk about? This.
It's the only copy.
Thought Liz was gonna send this to the tabloids.
She was, but I changed my mind.
I told her not to.
Chelsea, you could have easily made another copy.
Well, I guess you're just gonna have to take my word for it.
Chelsea.
What? Why the sudden change of heart? It doesn't matter.
Something just happened today.
Well, thank you.
Don't know why she gave it to me, I'm just happy she did.
When was that? Think about it, because I need an exact date.
It was a friend's birthday party.
A Friday.
It must have been January 28th.
What about the ex's alibi? He was at the club all night.
Our beauty queen grew a conscience.
I wonder why.
Come on, Viv.
She's young, with too much money and no one to look after her.
That's no excuse.
Danny, you said Chelsea gave him back the tape on January 28th, right? Yeah.
According to her publicist that coincides with a book signing.
She wrote a book? Oh, yeah.
Looking Like a Princess: A Girl's Guide to Makeup.
Oh, please.
Babak Mansur said something happened to her that day.
Maybe it happened there.
So you were here that day too? It was our big event of the month.
Chelsea was two hours late.
She didn't apologize when she finally showed up.
Then she had the nerve to spend Did she seem coked up to you? No.
Just vain.
Here's Scott.
What's up? Scott, this is the FBI.
Tell them about that weird guy who came up to Chelsea.
Oh, yeah.
That was pretty out there.
He was like a stalker or something.
Everybody just be patient.
I know you've been waiting a long time.
No, no, I'm not going lower than Thank you.
Are we almost done? I have a manicure in, like, 20 minutes.
Sir, you're gonna have to wait your turn.
Sir.
Do you want me to sign something for you? You want me to sign this? That's my sister.
She idolized you.
She wrote you dozens of letters and you never wrote back.
I get a lot of letters.
I'm a busy person.
Maybe you should tell your sister to get a hobby.
She had hobbies.
She made jewelry and art.
She had talent.
Real talent.
That's all over with now.
She killed herself.
She slit her wrist because of you.
Can I just ask you all something? Have any of you ever heard of Maya Angelou or the Bronte sisters, huh? No? So this? This is your role model? Look, I'm sorry about what happened to your sister.
You're sorry? These companies that you promote they pretend any girl can be a beauty queen so long as she has the right clothes and the right makeup.
Not every girl can look like Chelsea Prince, okay? So, what happens if she can't? What happens? I printed these up off my sister's computer.
It's all the letters she wrote to you.
So maybe you can take some time out of your busy shopping schedule and read them.
It was really bizarre, and he was kind of scary.
Chelsea was pretty thrown by it.
Do you know who the man was? No, I have no idea.
Do you have any receipts from that day? It wouldn't help, he didn't buy anything.
Okay, thank you.
All right.
So he printed out copies of his sister's letters.
We didn't find them in the hotel room? I'll check.
You all right, Viv? Yeah, fine.
Listen, have you found any letters from a girl, 12 years old, desperate? Thousands.
Okay.
This one wrote to Chelsea a bunch.
Chelsea never wrote back.
She was probably getting more and more desperate.
Okay, hundreds.
You tried checking her hotel room? Danny's tearing it apart right now.
Nothing so far.
I need you guys to take a look at something.
This website just posted.
You've gotta be kidding.
Deadline's tomorrow, 9 a.
m.
"Make an informed decision.
" It's a highlight reel of her exploits.
So, what do you think is your greatest achievement? I would definitely have to say it's my fashion sense.
Chelsea, what are your thoughts about the war in Iraq? I think we should do whatever the president says.
I mean, he is the president.
Oh, yeah.
These aren't exactly her best moments.
No.
Yeah, baby! Can't we track this site? He's using a data haven.
We can't pinpoint the location.
Could be the guy from the bookstore.
Eye for an eye.
He would've needed help.
Leopold and Loeb.
Sometimes they come in twos.
Hey, look at this.
The tally's started.
She's losing.
Thank you for coming.
My name is Liz Murray.
Some of you may know me as Chelsea Prince's publicist.
She's also my best friend.
I want everyone voting for her to die to know that she is a real person.
She isn 't just fodder for the tabloids.
She laughs and cries and feels like all of you.
She's a good person, and her life is not just something that can be decided like you're voting for a game show contestant.
What's she trying to do, get Chelsea killed? Well, she's a publicist.
Go pick her up and shut her up before she does any more damage.
Has that limo driver come out of surgery yet? But the doctors say he's not ready to talk.
Hey, if he's conscious, he's ready to talk.
They put her on the Internet? People are voting whether she should live or die.
What? That's crazy.
You spent a lot of time with Chelsea.
Can you think of anybody that would do that? Chelsea hangs out with all types, but nobody comes to mind.
Tony, who else knew Chelsea's itinerary last night? Me, Liz, I guess maybe Garrett Palmer, Chelsea's security guy.
What do you remember about the attack? Nothing.
Not much.
Must've blacked out.
So you don't remember how many guys there were? Three? I don't I don't know.
They were wearing masks.
You just said that you were blacked out.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I was I was in and out.
All right.
Do you recognize this man? Who is he? It's not important.
Do you recognize him? Never seen him before.
Okay.
Now, if I told you that you and Chelsea were attacked by a single assailant, what would you say? Really? Yeah, okay, maybe.
I don't know.
But according to the OnStar recording, you said there was a bunch of them.
Yeah, well, it's what I thought.
Look Look, I don't know.
It's all really hazy right now, okay? Thank you.
Feel better.
Thanks.
I had to do something.
You should've called us first.
If ever we ask someone to make a public plea, it's usually family.
Well, I am her family.
I'm sorry.
I just couldn't sit there and let this happen.
Can't you write a computer program to sway the votes? We're working on it, but there may not be enough time.
I just can't believe that people are voting for her to die.
They can vote as often as they want, and the whack jobs are voting more.
What about all the young girls who love her? Aren't they voting? We know that this man approached her at her book signing a few weeks ago.
You were there, right? Yeah, but I was on the phone the entire time.
She had so many appearances that week that I could barely keep up.
But she was acting weird when she got back to the car.
Tony noticed too.
And what about Tony? Could he be involved? Why would you ask that? The kidnappers put him in the hospital.
How was he with Chelsea? Was he ever resentful? Was there ever any problems? I don't think so.
Oh, God.
This is all my fault.
And why would you say that? Because she didn't even wanna go to Max's birthday party last night.
Why not? Because she wanted out.
Of what? The life.
You're so quiet lately.
You haven't been going out, you're clean as a whistle.
Where's the party girl? I think maybe we need a break.
What are you talking about? Just take some time apart, try something different.
Chelsea, we have a lot of commitments, and you're just burnt out.
Let's take a spa day.
I don't need a spa day.
I need to be done with all of this.
Has something happened? What? What's going on? Maybe I need something more than just shopping, partying and paparazzi.
Well, what are you gonna do? I don't know.
She said she'd finish the launch for Glitterati, but then she was out.
That was four days ago.
If I hadn't been so worried about our new company this wouldn't have happened.
You should've told us this before.
I honestly didn't think it mattered.
Does it? Well, she's coming back.
Maybe the plea actually helped.
Sam, listen to this: "Dear Miss Prince.
Thank you for reading to us.
Can we read Harry Potter next time? Thank you, Cindy P.
" There are all these letters from kids at a school in the Bronx all written within the last two weeks.
Two weeks? Just after the guy went off on her in the bookstore.
He made her feel so bad that she decides to start reading to kids to? To give something back? Chelsea Prince, the South Bronx Unless Unless the little girl that killed herself went to school there.
We understand that Chelsea's been coming here to read to the kids lately.
Yes.
She was just here yesterday.
Did she say why she chose here specifically? Well, I've known her for a long time.
You have? Oh, yes.
I was her sixth grade teacher.
At Phillips Academy.
Ms.
McPherson I know this may sound like a strange question but have any of your students committed suicide recently? No, but I think I know what you're talking about.
Chelsea came here because of that poor girl.
Chelsea? Oh, my God.
What a surprise to see you.
What are you doing here? I sort of just looked you up.
Yeah, well, here I am.
Why'd you leave Phillips Academy? Oh, well, you know, I wanted a bit of a change.
Meaning you got sick of spoiled brats like me? You weren't a brat.
I wasn't? Hey, come here.
What's going on, Chelsea? I don't know.
I've just been going through some stuff.
Okay, tell me.
It's okay.
Someone killed herself.
A little girl.
Because of me.
Because I didn't write her back.
Now, I'm sure that's not true.
God, honey, if she killed herself, she must have had other problems.
I went to see her brother.
I wanted to apologize, to do something for the family.
I gave him money.
A hundred thousand dollars.
He was so angry.
He called it blood money and didn't accept it.
So I just left it in his mailbox.
I didn't know how else to help him.
Honey, he's grieving.
You know what that's like.
Besides, there's not much you can do to help him.
I want you to look at these.
These are her letters.
I want you to read them.
Why? Because you work with kids.
You understand them.
I want you to tell me what was wrong with her.
What I could have done.
Maybe you can show them to the school psychologist.
You can tell me what her problem was so I can help other kids like her.
Okay, sure.
Sure.
I'll do what I can.
You wanna know what you can do? What? Oh, honey, these kids idolize you.
You could read them a story.
I can't.
Of course you can.
She started coming here a lot after that.
To read to the kids.
Do you still have any of those letters? Yeah.
They're in my desk.
We're gonna need to see those.
Tell me, Chelsea.
What do you offer society? I don 't know.
Have you ever done anything of value? No.
Never.
Then what makes you so worthy of fame? I don 't know.
I don 't deserve it.
And this still isn't live? No, it's recorded.
He's not going live until the execution.
He must be afraid that if people see her suffering all day long they'll vote for her to live.
I just got a call from Sam.
She found the girl that killed herself.
Her name is Stacy Reinecker from Albany.
Reinecker? Yep.
That's R E I N E C K E R? Right.
Why do I know that name? All right, here we go.
I've got five Reineckers in Albany.
Any with a criminal record? No.
The limo driver.
He called a Doug Reinecker.
When? Two days ago.
That's him.
It wasn't supposed to go this far.
He told me we'd split the ransom.
Nobody was supposed to get hurt.
Didn't quite work out that way.
I'm telling the truth.
He went crazy.
How'd you meet? He was following us around.
I thought he was a paparazzi.
He tipped me a couple hundred bucks, I gave him a couple places we'd be so he could get a good picture.
How did it evolve? He approached me a few days ago.
I was waiting for Chelsea at the hotel.
That's when he told me the truth.
You hear me, Tony? She thought she could pay me off.
Like my sister's life had a price tag on it.
She was 12 years old, man.
Where are your parents? Mom's dead.
Dad's in jail.
It was just the two of us.
I was raising her on my own.
Look, that sucks, man.
It really does.
But what the hell are you doing here? I'm trying to make things right.
How's that? Man, I see the way she treats you.
Like you're invisible.
Like you're nothing.
Part of the job.
You've been working for her how long now? Six years? Has she ever even once asked you about your family? What's your point? I got $ 100,000 upfront money for you.
Once we collect ransom, there'll be enough for us to live out our lives.
You mean kidnap her? You said she doesn't got any security right now.
We can make it look good.
No problems.
There she is! There she is! Chelsea! Over here.
Right this way.
I don't wanna go to jail for the rest of my life.
So I'll do whatever I can to help you.
Just help me get a good deal.
You want a deal? Please.
Okay, then give me something.
Where'd you take her? He never told me where he was taking her.
I didn't wanna know.
No hits off of Reinecker's plates yet.
His car's gotta be somewhere.
I'm not getting anything from his finances either.
Albany checked his house.
No sign of him.
You know, I just can't believe people can be this cruel.
How did it swing back? How were the exit polls off by eight points in Ohio? Well, the tech said that some people are voting hundreds of times so who knows what the real count is.
Maybe somebody's fixing it.
Wait a minute.
Maybe he's the one fixing the vote.
Why not just kill her? Because he needs the justification.
I've broken it down by city.
We need Albany.
Eight hundred thousand and change.
Albany County only has around 200,000 people.
Seventy six percent say die.
They gotta be coming from one place.
Four hundred and twenty two thousand votes.
MicroJava Internet Cafe.
That's it.
We got it.
Have you seen this man? No.
Have you seen this man before? No.
No.
Excuse me, have seen this guy before? Have you seen this man before? No.
Nothing.
No one's seen him.
We checked their server with all the computer users inside.
There's a wireless connection to an unknown source.
If he's using this router, he's gotta be around here.
We're looking for a building constructed before the '70s.
That's half the buildings on this block.
Yeah.
The final vote's in.
He's gonna kill her.
Vote's in, Chelsea.
No.
No, please, no.
Please, please.
All right, can you blow that up? No, please, help me! Okay, Jack, there is some kind of a fan behind Chelsea.
Is it an industrial fan? Ceiling fan? Window fan? Window fan.
Yeah.
Do you see it? Think so.
Sam, you got anything for me? Damn it.
He's cutting her wrists.
Let's go.
You guys go down there.
Clear.
Help.
Help.
I'm in here.
Okay, Jack, she can hear you.
She can hear us.
Oh, please, please.
She must be close.
Jack, look at that light? Clear.
She's losing a lot of blood.
Martin! FBI! Freeze! Freeze! FBI, freeze! Don't move.
Put your hands where I can see them.
Here.
Hold this arm.
Come on, let's go.
Man, you okay? Just need a couple of minutes, that's all.
You sure? Okay.
Anything you want to tell us? Chelsea! What is her condition like? How's she doing? There he is! There he is! Doug Reinecker, the mastermind behind the Prince kidnapping, was taken into He had no prior run ins with the law.
It's unclear what motivated this man.
All right, back up, back up.
Watch your head.
Right here.
Oh, he's right here.
Reinecker.
Reinecker, why'd you do it? Do you wanna give a statement? You've got a chance to right now.
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