Without a Trace s04e09 Episode Script

- Why are you so nervous? - I don't do this often, Jack.
Look, he's a really nice guy.
Nothing like me.
He's He's fun, he's capable of having a commitment.
- Hey, come on, you're married.
- And your point is? Look, he's the kind of guy The kind of guy who comes home to dinner.
- Okay.
Yeah.
- Okay? And he's got a job, unlike your other loser boyfriends.
He's He's like one of the best agents I've ever worked with.
You're the best agent you worked with.
- I am the best agent I ever worked with.
- What about me? - You're the prettiest agent.
- Thank you.
No, okay, no, you're fantastic.
Hey.
Hey, he's coming.
Yeah, just the one? He's cute.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Anne, Max.
Max, Anne.
- Anne.
- Hello.
- Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Thank you.
You're even smarter than Jack said you were.
I didn't say she was smart.
- Are you drinking? - Yeah, I would love a drink.
Thank you.
- You have a beautiful smile - Thank you.
Ray.
- I wanna see him.
- I don't know if that's a good idea.
- What happened? - There was a shooting.
We don't know the full story yet.
Do you have any idea what Jimmy was doing all the way out here? Not at this hour.
Could it have been for the case? A lead he couldn't follow during work hours without blowing his cover? I don't know.
We got a woman, claims she spotted a late-model Audi leaving the scene, headed on Briggs Street.
Did she get specifics, plates, partials, anything? - Just saw the car, then the body.
- Did she see the driver? - Afraid not.
- Okay.
Let's extend our perimeter, see if we can find someone who got a look at that car.
Listen.
I'm gonna need an update on yours and Jimmy's investigation.
Why don't you go back to the office, start a statement? - Max, you hear me? - Yeah.
We're gonna find out what happened to Jimmy.
What are these people doing? Shut this area down.
Let's go.
- Come on, come on, come on.
- Okay.
Yeah? Hi, Ray.
What's up? When was this? Did he swipe his ID through security? Okay.
Did you look in the parking lot? Check for his car? Yeah.
Of course you did, sorry.
What about Anne? You talk to her? I'll tell you what, let me follow up with her.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Let me know if you hear anything else.
Thanks.
- Hi.
- Hey.
How you doing? - Have you heard anything? - No, not yet, no.
Get in the car, come on.
I'm sorry this is happening, honey.
You know, I checked the messages.
He did call last night.
And I didn't hear it.
I was asleep.
I don't know, too tired.
Received 2:34 a.
m.
It's me.
Oh, God, I wish I was talking to you right now.
I just I just don't know what to do.
Everything's so screwed up.
Jimmy was shot tonight.
It's all my fault.
I'm so sorry, honey.
For everything.
But no matter what happens, I want you to know that I love you.
That's it.
What is it that he thinks is all his fault? Jimmy and Max were working on an industrial espionage case.
Jimmy wanted to go undercover.
Max didn't think he was ready.
Max was his supervisor.
If he didn't want the kid undercover, how'd he get there? Jimmy went over his head.
Went right to Pallides.
It's been so hard for him lately, Jack.
So hard.
It's all right, honey, we're gonna find him.
Okay.
So, what you got on Max Cassidy? - Everything's in motion.
Nothing so far.
- What about his cell phone? The call to his wife was the last activity, and that came from around LaGuardia.
Okay.
Jimmy took one shot to the head, two to the chest from a.
22.
Professional hit.
Whoever shot Jimmy might have followed Max when he left the crime scene.
- Well, no John Does have turned up.
- So maybe he's running though I don't understand why he doesn't come in for help.
What were they working on? A mechanical-engineering firm in West Orange thought one of its employees was stealing corporate secrets.
Jimmy was undercover trying to find out who.
Danny and Elena are talking to the CEO.
My God, Jimmy Haggerty's dead? Yes, and Max Cassidy has been missing since late last night.
- Max must have been right.
- Right about what, Mr.
Hinners? - The investigation being compromised.
- He told you that? Last week, someone inside the company tried to get into Jimmy Haggerty's personnel records.
I didn't think it was a big deal.
The security software sent an alert to the administrator who shut down access immediately.
- Jimmy's was the only file affected.
Yeah, but I'm sure it's nothing.
Sorry, but we can't ignore the fact that Jimmy's cover may have been blown.
- Meaning what? - I'm gonna have to pull Jimmy out.
The software worked.
Whoever was trying to FBI protocol clearly dictates if there's any concern over an agent's safety he must be extracted immediately.
Does protocol say to kiss off all the progress too? We've narrowed the list of suspect employees down to four.
We'll keep investigating.
Somehow I don't find that entirely reassuring.
Phil, I've been doing this a long time.
This is the right thing to do.
And also, it's your only option.
But then he called later that night.
Said he'd changed his mind and decided to leave Jimmy in after all.
Why did you call the FBI in the first place? We're finalists for an Army contract.
It's a new fuel system for a desert vehicle.
Two months ago, someone broke into our server.
They didn't get the designs but I was afraid they'd come back.
You're sure that this is what they were after? It's a pretty big contract.
And Max never told you why he left Jimmy inside the company? No, I just assumed he found out his ID was still secure.
But now, I mean it It looks like we were both wrong.
So everybody I talk to about this case, they've heard rumors.
Max had some kind of run-in with AD about five years ago.
Max blew the whistle.
Something about misappropriation of funds.
Yeah, was he right? Well, apparently, it didn't matter.
The AD got to retire Max was blackballed, went from Major Crimes to White Collar.
No good deed goes unpunished.
I'm sure you all know Special Agent Anne Cassidy.
- Hey.
- Hi, Viv.
So how we doing? Well, I've got a list of four suspects in Max's espionage case.
Do you recognize any of the names? - No.
- Okay, I think I got something here.
The night Max did his 180 on Jimmy, he was at a bar on Eighth Street.
He spent $ 107, closed his tab out right before 10.
That's a pretty sizable tab.
He could have been there for a while or he wasn't alone.
Either one of those ideas a possibility? Well, he liked to go out for a drink after work but that's pretty big even for him.
Listen, if you wanna use my office while we do this Sam, could you meet me at the elevator? - Sure.
- Thank you.
- You working the bar last Friday night? - Every Friday, why? You recognize this guy? Sure, Scotch on the rocks.
Planted himself right where you are.
- Hung out for a few good hours too.
- That's a pretty good memory.
It's not every night we get an old-timer squaring off with a guy half his age.
- Like hell, you're not pulling me out.
- People are getting suspicious.
- They're trying to find out who you are.
- Think about what you're doing here.
I know exactly what I'm doing, and that's enough for you.
Stop pretending you're trying to protect me.
Guys, take it easy or take it outside.
Okay.
You wanna pull me, Max? Go for it, but don't be surprised when Anne comes asking where you really were all those nights that you were supposed to be out with me.
I think it's gonna break her heart when she finds out you were really off banging your new girlfriend.
Don't you think? Thanks for the drinks, boss.
Young one said his piece and left, your guy stayed a bit longer.
Seemed pretty rattled, if you ask me.
Thank you.
You've been a lot of help.
I know that you said that Max and Jimmy were having some problems.
- Yes.
- But it would appear that it's a little more complicated.
Okay.
Jimmy was blackmailing Max.
He found out that Max was having an affair, and He was threatening to disclose it.
Sorry to break the news to you this way.
I knew about it.
- I know about the affair.
- What do you mean you knew? - How? Did Jimmy tell you? - No.
Jimmy didn't have to tell me.
I'm the wife.
The wife knows these things.
I followed him from the office.
Just to make sure.
Complex.
- Think about it and I'll be right back.
- Yeah, all right.
- What's going on? - Annie, hi.
What? You didn't think I'd find out? What? Oh, Megan? Oh, she's from the office.
No, no.
I know all the women from the office.
I work there.
- What I meant was she's a contact on - I'm not stupid, Max.
I thought it was work.
I knew you were unhappy.
I just thought it would pass.
I didn't I didn't I didn't think you could do anything like this.
I mean, to me? Why would you do this to me? - Annie, I don't know what to say.
- There is nothing you can say.
He came back home.
Much later.
He begged me to forgive him.
He told me he'd stop seeing her.
And we're still working it out.
How long has this relationship been going on? Why? About a month.
- Has he had other affairs? - No.
No! I don't understand why you didn't tell me.
Because it's my personal business.
But it's relevant.
He could've run off with this woman.
No, his disappearance has to do with Jimmy.
I don't have to tell you that withholding this information makes you a suspect.
I had nothing to do with Max's disappearance.
You know it.
- Well, it doesn't change anything.
- Come on.
- You know the drill.
- Come on.
Just sit tight.
Hey, we found the hacker Jimmy and Max were looking for.
- What's his name? - Gary Raymond.
Works in system engineering.
He was at work when Jimmy's file was accessed.
Pick him up? He was MIA until about 15 minutes ago.
He ran when a Port Authority cop recognized him.
- Let me know when you set it up.
- Will do.
Have you been married to Max Cassidy for 15 years? No.
Have you been married to Max Cassidy for nine years? Yes.
Was Max Cassidy having an affair? Yes.
Was Max Cassidy alive the last time you saw him? Yes.
Did you participate in any way in the disappearance of Max Cassidy? Absolutely not.
Please, just yes or no.
No.
No more.
That was unnecessary.
You would have done exactly the same thing.
- What? Humiliate you? - I wasn't trying to humiliate you.
You hear about Anne? Cheated on by her husband.
- Suspect in his disappearance.
- You didn't give me much choice.
I work here.
I see these people.
I would never have done the same to you.
Ever.
I don't know anything.
What's up with the 35 grand we found in the back of your closet? What were you doing? Selling military secrets? No.
- Look, I didn't shoot Jimmy.
- But you know who did.
No, I don't.
Maybe this'll jog your memory.
A man approached me after work a few months ago.
Said he'd pay me to make a map of the server.
Then two days ago he gave me money to copy some files.
That's all I did.
That's all you did.
That's espionage, you idiot.
I didn't know it would get anybody killed.
This her? Yeah, that's the woman from the car.
- What's her name? - That I don't know.
How did you contact these people? How did they contact you? E- mail.
I tried writing them after what went down last night.
But the address is dead.
We're gonna need that e-mail address and the names of the files you passed.
Jimmy got in the way.
It's what got him killed.
Why would he follow this guy without backup? Maybe he didn't trust Max.
What, for pulling him off the case? Maybe he thought Max and the girl were in it together.
He's your friend.
You think he's capable of that? I don't know.
No, I'm sorry.
A lot of people eat here.
Oh, my God.
Listen, I'm talking about just a few days ago.
Come on.
- Please, think.
- You think I remember every customer? Listen, honey, listen.
I understand they caused a bit of a scene and you can't say that about most of your clientele.
Thankfully, no.
But still, I'm sorry.
Her name is Megan.
She might look a little something like this.
She would have been here with this guy.
Yeah, I've served them a few times actually.
He's pretty regular, and I wanna say that she's local.
Really.
How local? - We may have delivered once or twice.
- Do you have an address? No, I don't, but our delivery service might.
- We're gonna need to check on that.
- Sure.
Thanks.
Megan? Megan Lewis, FBI.
Clear.
No Megan, no Max.
They're not here.
Is this the right place? This is the address the delivery service gave us.
- Do you think they ran away together? - I don't know.
Can I help you? Yeah, FBI, we're looking for Megan Lewis.
Oh, she's popular today.
What do you mean? There was another guy looking for her.
He had one of those too.
Max? When was the last time you saw Megan? Yesterday afternoon.
She'd been here a couple of months, then just up and left.
Didn't even bother telling your friend.
Hey, bud, what are you doing in here? - Where is she? - I don't know.
She was just here yesterday.
Where did she go? I don't know, pal.
I'm guessing this is her way of breaking up with you.
You need to tell me everything you know about her.
Now.
All I had was her rental application.
She didn't give notice, didn't leave any forwarding info.
- Did she ever write any checks? - No, cash.
Month to month.
We're gonna need that rental application.
- Yeah, sure.
- Thanks.
Here's what I think.
Max hears there was an Audi at the crime scene.
He remembers that his girlfriend has the same car.
And suddenly, he thinks she might be playing him.
So he comes here sees she's cleaned the place out, and realizes he was right.
- You think he's still looking for Megan? - I think he might have already found her.
And she may have taken him out too.
Megan Lewis doesn't exist.
All we've come up with is dead ends.
Driver's license and the social listed on her application only goes back one year.
So personal references, prior address, there's nothing.
Her landlord never ran a credit check.
She paid first, last and security in cash.
- The Audi? - No registration in her name.
Either she was driving somebody else's car or it's registered under an alias.
Let's keep canvassing the neighborhood.
Talk to shopkeepers, neighbors.
Anybody that's in close proximity to that apartment.
That girl wasn't invisible.
Neither was her car.
Okay.
Hey.
Hi.
I had you take a polygraph because it would be easier than having you sit in a room and tell me about your personal relationship.
But now, huh? Max had an affair with a woman that kills people.
After they moved him to White Collar his cases became less interesting.
His team got smaller and smaller.
Now, after all that he's done he hated it.
Eventually, he stopped talking about work.
And I stopped asking.
I know.
You have less and less to talk about.
Suddenly there's nothing.
If he said anything to this woman, and I doubt he did it's because I wasn't listening.
You know, he doesn't get a pass just because he was lonely.
I get why he's not reaching out to me.
But you're friends.
Why isn't he calling you for help? Because he didn't trust me.
A couple of months ago, he came in to see me.
He heard I was gonna add a member to the squad.
You know as I do, it takes even the best agent at least two years to get up to speed.
And I retire in three.
Hardly worth the trouble, right? Why do you want the headache of joining anyway? - I got enough headaches of my own.
- I know they screwed you.
It's gotta kill you to be strapped to a desk.
- But joining this unit is not the answer.
- Sure it's not just political, Jack? You're not up for the trouble getting me out of White Collar would cause? You know what? I'm just doing what you taught me.
You put the unit first.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I just didn't I didn't feel like I had a spot for him.
I tried to call him.
I left him a bunch of messages, and he never returned return my call.
And I just let it go.
I feel like I let him down.
We both did.
Let me get this straight.
This is the design file that was stolen? Yes.
Actually, I'm very relieved.
So I take it it's not the Army's fuel system? No, this is some sort of high-pressure nozzle, right? It's a high-end microdissipation sprayer.
It's capable of delivering droplets smaller than a micron.
We sell them to manufacturers for painting and industrial applications.
So it's on the market already? Yeah, and, well, it's a highly profitable item.
I have no idea why anyone would wanna steal it.
Well, actually, Mr.
Hinners, someone killed for it.
Could the sprayer be modified and used for something other than industrial purposes? It's ingenious.
The nozzle reduces the liquid in stages which is how they can get particles to such a small size.
To disperse a chemical, you wouldn't have to weaponize it? - Right.
- What are these people gonna do? - Build one? - They got one, weeks ago.
One was stolen from a shipment to South Korea.
Does Counterterror know their target? Until we know, we won't be able to narrow it down.
Excuse me? A liquor store close to her place has an ATM out front.
The camera took a picture of our girl loading boxes into her car around 3:30 yesterday.
- We get license plates? - Yeah, and the owner.
Apparently, Megan's real name is Laura Simmons and she moved here seven years ago from Nevada.
- Any address? - Well, all roads lead to a P.
O.
Box.
Except one, that is, there.
Well, she's been wiring a thousand dollars a week to that sushi bar for two months.
Let's check that out.
Hey, thanks, miss.
You see that? I'm gonna go in.
Oh, thank God you're here.
- What happened here? - We were robbed.
They took everything.
Who's they? - Two gangbangers busted in the place.
- Really? Did you? - Clear.
- Did you happen to call the police? No time, I mean, I got here and it was a wreck.
All the money's here.
- I came from the bank, they took that.
- Interesting.
Listen.
Take a break.
Come on, please.
Outside.
Come on, it's not up to him.
Come on, come on, come on.
- What do you want? - Why don't you take a seat? We know about the thousand-dollar bonus you've been getting.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Okay.
Did this man break your window? Have you seen him? Hey.
We're federal agents.
You better stop pissing me off and start talking.
All right.
Yes.
Yes, he was here an hour ago.
- Open up.
- Not open yet.
Come back at I wanna talk to you.
Open up.
Hold it right there.
- Where's Megan? - I don't know any Megan.
She was in here every time I was.
It wasn't any coincidence.
- You know her.
You introduced us.
- She just liked you.
That's all.
No.
She set me up.
And you helped her.
And I know you know where she is.
She paid me to call when you would come in.
I don't know why.
I didn't wanna know why.
Tell me how I can reach her.
- I got a phone number.
- What is it? That's not the number we have for her apartment.
Maybe Laura got herself someplace else to call home.
- Pupils nonresponsive.
- I'm going over there.
- Is she stable? - Yes, ma'am.
Hey, hey, hey.
I want to talk to you.
You see what happened over there? Here's 20 bucks.
You see what happened to her? Yeah, I saw.
This guy just came and beat her up.
Did you get a good look at him? Good enough.
Yeah, I need an ambulance right away.
parking structure.
It's a woman.
She's been beaten bad.
He sped out of here.
The paramedics and the cops showed up about 10 minutes later.
Okay.
Thank you, honey.
You did good.
Take care of yourself.
Do me a favor, take a hike.
Where's Cassidy? You know what? I already got you for killing a federal agent.
That's the death penalty.
You help me, I help you.
- Come on, come on, come on.
- Fine.
Whatever you want.
Get her out of here.
- Jack.
- What's up? I found it in the glove box.
I bet Ballistics will tie it to Jimmy's murder.
- Bag it, take it there and find out.
- Yep.
Okay, thanks, yeah.
All right, the reason Laura Simmons didn't pop up at this address is because her brother, a Terry Simmons, is the one on the lease.
Terry, he's on the counterterrorism-watch list.
He's part of a militia group.
His father was killed by a cop at a white supremacist rally.
Terry is a cop hater.
Lahey says he may be targeting the annual meeting for the National Sheriffs' Association.
- That starts tomorrow.
- Yeah.
If we find Max, we find Simmons.
Jack, all right, 911 dispatch gave us the number that Max called from.
- It was Laura's phone.
- Is it still active? Five minutes ago, it was pinging off in Brooklyn.
All right, I'll meet you in the Tech Room.
We got a number for Max.
All right, guys, we are hot.
- Max? - Jack, is that you? Hey, buddy, long time no talk.
You don't have to do this by yourself.
We're prepared to send a team out to help you.
You'll never get here in time.
Come on, Max, help me out here a little.
I got stupid, Jack.
Yeah.
You screwed up.
The woman played you.
I let her.
I walked right in, gave up everything.
Didn't even realize it.
I understand that you wanna make it right but this is not the way to do it.
Remember? Remember that story you used to tell me when you'd gotten out of Quantico, solved that case that everybody had marked cold? The moral is I pissed off a lot of people by not listening to my superiors.
Maybe, but I always took the moral to be trust your gut, follow your instincts.
Now, I know that you found Terry Simmons.
Just let us help you, okay? At least tell me where you are.
Max? You'll find me.
Anne, are you there? Yes, Max.
I love you, babe.
I love you too.
Okay.
I got him.
I got him.
Right, just sit tight, don't do anything stupid.
Okay, we're on our way.
Sweep around the back.
Martin, take your guys and cover the front entrance.
Jeez, Max.
- What the hell did you do to yourself? - Simmons, he got up the stairs.
- Shut up and relax.
Danny.
- I got it, I got it, I got it.
- Martin, got Simmons headed your way.
- Copy that.
I got a man down, need a medic now.
Shots fired.
FBI, drop your weapon.
Drop it.
Cover the exits.
Cover the exits.
I'm going up.
Simmons.
Drop the gun.
Suspect's headed for the roof.
Forget about it, forget about it.
You're wasting your time.
Sit down, talk to me.
Talk to me.
Talk to you? What the hell do you wanna talk about? I told you you'd find me.
If you weren't such a stubborn bastard, I would've found you sooner.
Listen.
I got a 25-year-old bottle of McManis in my desk at the office.
Don't let those OPR guys get it.
You should never have told me, you cheap bastard.
I'm gonna get there first and drink it myself.
Just take it easy, okay? I got help coming.
- So tired.
- I know, just Just take it easy.
Jack? What? - Anne.
Take care of Anne.
- Take care of her yourself.
Get on the ground.
Get on the ground.
Primary suspect has been apprehended on the roof.
Martin, you all right? Yeah, I'm fine.
Jack.
They found ricin in the building.
A hell of a lot of it, all right? Let's go, we gotta evacuate.
I'm not going anywhere.
Listen, once the building is secure, we'll come back and we'll get Max.
But right now we have to evacuate, come on: I'll see what I can do.
Hi.
Hi.
Here.
Max did a great thing.
And they couldn't have done it without him, right? No.
Make sure everyone at the bureau knows that, okay? - Yes, I will.
- Okay.
Oh, God.
I just wanted everything to be all right.
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