Without a Trace s04e15 Episode Script

- That's how he sculpted it.
- Yeah.
- You're right, I agree.
- Yeah, it's great.
Yeah.
- Well, what can I get you? - Bourbon, please.
Well, I got white bourbon and red bourbon.
- Or three flavors of water.
- White.
So, what do you think of the paintings? He's supposed to be a genius.
I think they're sad.
Maybe ugly, I don't know.
Yeah, I only like the one over there in the corner and it's the only one nobody's bought.
Thank you.
Ma'am, your purse.
Think you can just walk away from me like that? - Come back here so we can finish this.
- Please, just leave me alone.
Just come back here.
I mean it, just Come back.
Okay.
I'm really sorry about this morning, sweetie.
- Can I take a rain check? - Someone's gone missing.
I think my bagel and egg sandwich can take a back seat to that.
Thank you.
That's the assistant in Legal Affairs.
So what? I mean, for all she knows, we could be having an early meeting.
Except we weren't.
- Look, it's none of her damn business.
- Jack.
Come on.
My husband worked here.
He died in the line of duty.
It doesn't matter what we were doing.
FBI business, having sex or breakfast.
They're gonna talk.
I don't want people talking about me.
Fine.
Look, Little Miss Legal Adviser has just walked into the elevator.
Anyway, I gotta meet Samantha and Martin over at Hawth You have a nice day too.
I worked late.
And when I got home, there was a note in the kitchen saying that she went shopping for a potluck and she had defrosted lasagna for me.
So when the local police called last night at about 10:30 you were home? Asleep.
We've been married for 17 years.
I don't know what she was doing in the city.
She hates going into the city.
You don't happen to own a blue velvet jacket, do you? No, why? Your wife had an encounter or a fight with a man at the gallery.
Do you have any idea who that might be? No, no.
What did he look like? Is it possible that your wife's having an affair? No, it's not possible.
Did you or your wife have an altercation with somebody recently, or? Yeah, I had a client.
His name is Stephen Douglas.
He had some trouble with an insurance policy I sold him.
He came over here to talk about it when I wasn't home.
- No, no, Pete, just stay there.
I'll get it.
- It's not for me.
Someday it will be, and the beautiful girl on the other side will be sent home.
Fine.
No grandkids for you.
- Where's Ken? - He's not here.
I need to talk to him right now.
- Go to his office - I called.
He doesn't return my calls.
- He denied my claim.
- Your claim? The kerosene had nothing to do with the fire.
- Should I call Dad? - No, Pete, sit down.
Your dad loves his rules, no matter how much they screw people.
Get out of my house now.
I'm gonna wait here until Ken gets back because I need to talk to him.
No, no.
Get out now.
Now, go on.
Go on, get out.
I mean it.
Go.
She called me after he left, but I talked her out of calling the police.
Why was that? Well, I figured I didn't wanna make a big deal out of it.
Might be bad for business.
But I talked to him, you know? I thought we worked it out.
He was fine.
Where's your son? Oh, he has junior-high nature camp this week.
He left four days ago.
Our minister is on the way over to get the directions to pick him up.
Do you make it a practice of leaving guns lying around the house? It's not loaded.
I keep the ammunition with my hunting stuff.
We're gonna need that gun.
Yeah, sure.
I keep it over here.
It's gone.
The insurance guy's gone missing, and so has his car.
Well, we cannot place him in the gallery.
Nobody remembers the face of a guy in a blue jacket.
And nobody remembers Leah at all.
And this guy, he knew exactly where she lived so why bother following her all the way into the city? - Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
- No.
Well, maybe she was having an affair.
We should go through her datebook looking for a pattern of meetings.
Let me get this straight.
This is a lovely housewife who is a mother.
She's gonna turn into a gun-packing, affair-having crazy woman? No.
Well, in my experience sometimes there's a very thin line between the two.
I don't know anything about an affair.
- Would Leah have confided in you? - Well, she hasn't.
Not about that.
So you think that she and Ken have a pretty solid relationship? I believe so.
One to 10 on the confidence scale, I give that answer about a five.
I see Ken on Sundays.
But Leah If you're the chair of a church committee she's the first person you call.
Right.
Not that she doesn't have a real commitment to God but I think she's also searching for something.
Everything from the shelter's list is here.
But I thought: "They're going on job interviews.
The women will wanna look their best.
" - So I got them some makeup too.
- I'm sure they'll appreciate that.
They've worked hard to turn their lives around.
- Least I could do.
- I'm gonna miss the bus.
- Say hello to Minister Barnes.
- Hey.
Hey, Pete.
Mom.
- Have a good day, honey.
- I've got basketball.
I see his back more than any other part of him.
Feels like I went from indispensable to unnecessary in about two weeks.
What's that expression? Idle hands? You wouldn't know an idle hand if it came up and slapped you on the cheek.
You'd be surprised.
I think she needed a new purpose to define her life.
I couldn't find the directions the camp gave us.
- I had to have them fax me a new one.
- No problem, Ken.
Well, I guess I should go.
- Is that okay? - Yeah.
- My prayers are with you.
- Thank you.
- Can I make you some coffee? - Yeah, sure.
I I forgot this is broken.
Leah was gonna get a new one.
It's okay, don't worry about it.
Where is she? Okay, thank you.
Okay, so the guy she pulled a gun on has an alibi.
He was having a job interview in North Carolina.
Then we're both nowhere.
All I'm getting out of the datebook is that she doesn't have a social life.
Apparently dinner with her husband merits an entry.
Guys, a valet at the gallery thought he saw the velvet jacket get into a car with Jersey plates.
Well, most of the people on the invitation list live in New York.
I'm gonna get started on the Garden State residents.
Yeah? Okay.
Well, thanks for getting back to me.
Right.
Bye.
Is there a Staci Newman in her address book? Staci Newman.
Let me see.
I followed up on a credit-card charge.
They split a lunch bill like three days ago.
Yeah, got it.
Okay, Staci Newman used to be Staci Rogers and before that, I have here What is it here? Staci Jones.
Must be a lot of Mr.
Stacis.
So you had lunch with Leah.
What was the occasion? We just had some stuff to talk about.
What kind of stuff? There was an event a couple weeks ago at the club.
And a bunch of the girls were complaining about their sex life.
And Leah said she had the opposite problem that whenever Ken came home from his hunting trips he was insatiable.
Did she say that he was ever sexually aggressive with her? No, but we started giving her a hard time saying that he was just feeling guilty.
That he must be doing his secretary.
It was It was just a joke.
But Leah took us seriously.
- Hello? - You were right.
You were all right.
I followed him when he left on his hunting trip.
- Leah? - Now he's in He's in front of this diner with some big-breasted redheaded waitress.
You should see them.
It's sick.
Just because he's talking to a woman in a parking lot doesn't mean he's cheating.
- I'm sure it's nothing.
- It's not nothing.
- He's hanging all over her.
- Leah, listen to me.
Leave now before you do something you regret.
I drove two hours to find the truth.
- I am not leaving now.
- Leah? Listen, Le Leah.
I called her right back, but she wouldn't pick up.
I got through to her the next day, and I insisted we have lunch and then she didn't wanna talk about what happened.
- And how'd she seem to you? - Agitated.
Do you know the name of the diner she saw him at? It's the It's The Hungry something.
Anything on those cafés? There's a Hungry Trucker Diner off Route 84.
They had a waitress fit that description.
What do you mean "had"? She was murdered less than a week ago.
Her name's Mary Peterson.
She finished her shift at The Hungry Trucker at 8.
That's the last anybody saw of her until kids found her body on their way to school.
- What caliber was the pistol? - Nine mm.
Same as the Robinsons' missing pistol.
Her husband has an affair, so she kills a waitress? Still doesn't explain the guy from the art gallery.
Ken Robinson's downstairs.
How long before Vivian and Elena get to the diner? About an hour.
- Let's go.
- Okay.
I didn't tell you I was having an affair, because I wasn't having one.
Okay, so you don't know who she is, then? - No.
- Her name's Mary Peterson.
Your wife saw you screwing around with her in a diner parking lot.
- Leah followed me? - What'd she see? I was flirting, okay? A little.
But that's all.
I go on these trips, and I do a little hunting.
I smile at a pretty girl.
There's no harm in it.
I mean, ask her.
She'll tell you.
Nothing happened.
That's gonna be hard to do, Ken.
She's dead.
So your wife killed her because you smiled at her.
My wife hosts church potlucks and bakes birthday cakes.
She would never do anything like that.
Did your wife confront you about her suspicions when you got back from your trip? No, everything was normal.
- Was your son there when you got back? - Yeah.
Do you mind if we speak to him? Sure.
Do you know where my dad is? He's in the city, helping my colleagues look for your mom.
That's good.
Pete, is there anything you can tell Agent Fitzgerald that might help? - Like what? - Oh, it could be anything.
Something you saw or heard.
For example, have your parents been fighting recently? They never fight.
How about when your dad got back from his hunting trip last week? No.
I mean, Mom was sad, but they didn't fight.
Do you know what she was sad about? I think it was about the animals.
You know, the killing? It was so cold, the air felt frozen.
But I just waited, totally still until she walked across my sightline, and then - It was a great hunt.
- Cool.
- Can I wear this to school tomorrow? - We should wash it first.
Speaking of which, I need to shower before we go out to dinner.
Nothing romantic about dirt.
I'm not sure I'm up for dinner tonight, Ken.
Oh, a quiet evening at home is always nice too.
I'm just not feeling that well.
Okay.
Whatever you want, honey.
I'm glad you like the shirt, Pete.
Is that okay? Mom, what is it? You don't like your present? No, no, it's fine.
It's just the hunting.
I'm not sure how I feel about it anymore.
You're such a girl.
I can't wait until I can go with him.
I'm gonna go put my shirt in the washer.
Cold, right? - Right.
- Okay.
When I left for nature camp, she was fine.
Pete, where are those plates? They're right over there So why take a souvenir plate? Because in her mind, every plate represents a girlfriend.
We're hoping to catch her while she's tracking them down.
Question is, why didn't her husband tell us they were missing? Great.
Print that.
We ID'd the guy at the art gallery.
His name is Trey Hinton.
He's not home, but I got surveillance at his house.
What do you got? One plate down and nine affairs to go.
Everybody's still upset about Mary.
She was a great gal.
I still can't believe anyone would do that to her.
Did you see this woman hanging around before Mary died? Well, not then, but she was here.
- When? - A couple days later.
They said you wanted to talk to me? Yeah, I'm looking for one of your waitresses.
A redheaded woman? - Mary? - I don't know her name.
We have a mutual friend.
I'm real sorry.
Mary's She's dead.
- What happened? - She was murdered.
- Oh, my God.
- Yeah.
- Couple days ago.
- How? Who killed her? They don't know yet.
What did you want to see her about? Maybe I could help you.
Oh, God.
I saw her outside leaning against her car like she was gonna be sick.
Thought about going out to help her but she got in her car and drove off.
- You're sure about when she was here? - Yeah.
It was the same day as Mary's memorial.
- Okay, thank you so much.
- Thanks.
She wouldn't come here looking for the waitress if she'd just killed her.
Danny and I started running background on diners where Ken got his souvenirs.
Everywhere he bought a plate we found an unsolved case of a missing or dead woman.
Here are photos of the bodies recovered.
Some of them were shot.
These two were strangled.
These two women were stabbed to death.
The killings don't have a pattern.
Nobody was able to link them together.
- How far back do the crimes go? - About 14 years.
Jack, a lot of these women have never been found but Mary Peterson's body was only 30 yards away from the road.
- Looks like Ken is getting a little sloppy.
- Not sloppy, bored.
Serial killers get bored which is usually one of the reasons they get caught.
Surveillance is in place.
Three units to cover the house and Robinson.
- Let me know if you get any activity.
- Yep.
You know, if she confronted Ken about the murder maybe this guy at the gallery was sent to take care of her.
It's a possibility.
- Hey.
- Hey, Anne.
How are things with the Robinson case? - They're fine.
- Olczyk called Legal Affairs.
We might be able to smooth out any jurisdictional problems between you and local law enforcement.
Well, I wasn't anticipating any.
I wasn't gonna tell them about Ken Robinson until we found his wife.
I'm not sure that's such a good idea.
You know, I'm gonna go see if I can find a connection between Ken and this guy at the art gallery.
He's the primary suspect in 10 open murder investigations.
Those dead women aren't going anywhere.
No, but there is a responsibility to protect the integrity of those cases.
That's why they have me and 10 other lawyers upstairs, to make sure we don't catch criminals we're forced to release because we haven't followed procedure.
If we share information, there's gonna be a leak.
- There's not - There's going to be a leak.
It's gonna compromise our ability to find this woman.
- I need a few more days.
- Sorry.
In my opinion, withholding is not a good idea.
With all due respect to your opinion I'm not gonna put my squad to work making those calls.
Well, then my agents will take care of it.
Excuse me, Jack.
Trey Hinton came home.
We're bringing him in.
- Okay, good.
Thank you.
- Okay.
Are we done? Yeah.
The bartender at the gallery said you were stalking her.
No, it was more like she was stalking me.
Look, Trey, clearly you're a very sexy guy but I don't believe that she was stalking you, so cut the crap.
She wanted to talk about my sister.
- What's your sister have to do with it? - Well, she's been missing for six years.
I don't know what that woman was about, but she was obsessed with it.
How'd you find me? I lied to your roommate.
I told him there was an emergency.
- He said you'd be here.
- Well, it was a long time ago.
I don't wanna talk about it.
Just tell me, did this belong to your sister? - No.
- Are you sure? Here, look at this charm.
It's dogwood.
You and your sister grew up in Virginia.
- That's the state flower of Virginia.
- It's not my sister's, okay? She didn't even wear jewelry.
Just this stupid pair of ladybug earrings my dad gave her before he died.
- Ladybugs? - Ladybugs.
But blue, not red.
How did you know that? Wait.
How did you know that? I need to use the ladies' room.
I'll be right back.
So when she didn't come back and I saw her standing at the bar I went after her.
But she got in the elevator before I could catch her.
- And that's the last you saw of her? - Yeah.
My sister just went away one day and we never saw her again.
I don't think she's alive anymore but I even gave up thinking we'd ever know what happened.
But this woman she knows something, doesn't she? Leah suspects her husband's a killer.
So she goes on a mission to prove she's right? - More likely to prove she's wrong.
- Come on.
Her husband's a VP belongs to the Rotary Club, doesn't get tickets.
It's gonna take a lot to convince her he's killing women dragging them into the woods.
The guy gave his wife trophies from women he killed.
- Earrings, bracelets.
Come on.
- Maybe she's already confronted him.
That would explain the missing jewelry and the plates.
He knows he's caught, so he's trying to cover his tracks.
Makes sense.
- Where's the surveillance van gonna be? - Around the corner.
Robinson likes to control women.
He might get upset.
- Lf you feel threatened, just walk away.
- Okay.
Hey, Anne.
Hi.
A colleague told me you have a warrant for a body recorder.
Yeah, Vivian's going undercover to talk to Robinson.
Yeah, I'm gonna use my significant charm and a little dishonesty to see if we can find out whether he thinks his wife's alive or not.
- Can I get a mike check, Viv? - Mothballs.
- And if she is alive? - We'll arrest him.
His wife found out about the murders.
She may be afraid to come in while she thinks he's free.
And if we don't know what he thinks? Then we'll leave him alone and we'll keep looking for her until we run out of leads.
Okay.
Since we haven't been fully briefed on the other investigations would you try not to mention evidence we have? Of course.
Thank you.
I hope this helps you find her.
- This shirt itches.
- Looks good, though.
- Hello.
- Hi.
- Can I help you? - I'm Vivian.
Leah sent me.
- Do you wanna come in? - No.
I'd rather stay out here.
How do you know Leah? I live at the Willows Shelter, where she volunteers.
She's a real nice lady.
One day we got to talking, figured out we had a lot in common since we've both been treated bad by the people we love.
What do you want? Leah says that she will disappear for $50,000.
I don't think I can help you.
Yeah, well, if you change your mind, here's my cell phone.
Come on, Ken.
Come on, take the bait.
Look, if you know where my wife is, could you please tell her to come home? - Her son and I miss her very much.
- I'll be sure to tell her.
Thank you.
- Viv, that was very nice.
- No way to tell what he knows.
He'd have been an idiot to play it any other way.
See if he reaches out to you.
If he does, we're in business.
Samantha just called.
We got a hit on Leah's credit card.
Thanks for the loan of your car, Delgado.
She arrived last night, upset, no bags.
She paid cash.
I figured she was on the run.
Is she? Did you talk to her at all? Not really, but I got a noise complaint about some kind of screaming, blaring TV so I came to check it out.
Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am, can you hear me? Ma'am? Ma'am, hello? Ma'am? Ma'am? Ma'am, it's the manager.
Are you all right? - Just go away and leave me alone.
- Okay, I'm sorry.
- I had a complaint.
- Please leave me alone.
This whole room was damp.
She must have been in that shower for hours.
- When did she check out? - She left without coming to the desk.
The housekeeper found a broken lamp when she cleaned up.
That's why we ran the credit-card number.
She make any phone calls while she was here? Yeah.
I charged her credit card for that.
- We're gonna need those numbers.
- Okay.
So she's got the plates.
Which is the only evidence we've got tying Ken to the murder locations.
Let's just hope we get to her before Ken does.
Yeah, if he hasn't already.
- Jack.
Jack, you better come out here.
- I'll call you back.
- What the hell's going on? - I represent Mr.
Robinson.
And it's come to his attention that the materials he voluntarily provided to assist you in the search for his wife are being used to investigate him.
So his cooperation has officially ended.
Think that's it.
I got copies of everything.
That's not the point.
There was a leak.
Robinson knows we're onto him.
Any chance we had of finding his wife just blew out the door.
Nice work, counselor.
This is the top page from the motel notepad.
Okay, you see that the grooves in the paper throw different shadows? - They all don't have the same depth.
- What does that mean? Well, that the writing was done on different pages.
So we could matrix the shadows and then pull the ones that match and isolate the pages that we need.
It looks like she's tracking the jewelry.
Hey.
You know what? His wife was playing detective.
She's been putting the pieces together.
Most of the calls from the motel were to victims' families but one was to Pete's camp which would explain why Leah's doing this now.
She finds out about the murders, decides to take care of this assuming that Pete's safely away from Ken.
Except that he's not, and now she knows it.
I bet she's gonna try and contact Pete.
Unless she already has.
Who's on surveillance? - Danny.
- All right.
You see that? Yeah.
Listen, we think that Leah may have reached out to Pete.
Would you mind going to talk to him? He did what? When? No.
No, I'll take care of it.
Thanks.
The minister picked Pete up from the house about an hour ago.
I'm so sorry.
Yes.
Yes, of course.
I know how difficult it must be for you.
All right, well Well, yeah, I'll let you know if we find anything at all.
Okay, thank you.
Yes.
Looks like she got through to two of the families last night.
What could she have wanted to say to them? Well, she lied.
She said that she was a reporter following up on the murders.
- Did she ask about the dogwood charm? - No.
It turns out they were given to runners-up of the Miss Richmond State Fair.
Okay, so it should be easy to find out if any of them are dead or missing.
That is the line we routed from the shelter.
Okay, pick up.
Willows Shelter, how can I help you? Yeah, Vivian.
Yes, yes, we've got two here.
Yeah.
Yeah, she's here.
She's not allowed to use this line.
You can leave a number so she can call you from the payphone.
Okay.
Thanks, yes.
God bless.
- Ken is checking up on you.
- Good.
And that's gonna be him.
Hello? Yes, this is Vivian.
I want you to tell me where my wife is.
Leah don't want you to know that.
That's why she sent me.
I don't know if you're trying to extort me or she is.
I'm not gonna give either of you any money: Are you sure about that, now, Ken? See, Leah's got these real nice pictures of a charm bracelet that she's ready to send to the papers.
You know the one? The one that Lucy Salter had before you killed her? Look, you tell her I have Pete and that she needs to disappear.
She does, he'll be fine.
You won't hurt your son.
You have no idea what I'll do.
He doesn't know where Leah is which means he hasn't had a chance to destroy all the evidence.
Okay, get a warrant and pick him up.
Now we just gotta find that kid.
Where's Pete? And don't lie to me, because I know you picked him up at his house.
Tell me where he is.
You have no idea what's going on.
No.
No, I do.
- Leah called me.
- When? After lunch.
She asked me to meet her.
- How many were there? - There were 10 plates.
But after I looked into three of them, I just I didn't wanna know any more.
One of the women, he strangled.
He killed her with his bare hands.
I can't believe Ken would do any of this.
All those women.
- And I did nothing to stop him.
- You didn't know.
What could you do? I don't know, but we were married a long time.
I should have seen something.
There must have been something.
- I'll go with you to the FBI.
- No.
I can't stay here.
It's gonna be everywhere.
On the news.
People will be talking, pointing, and Pete will be in the middle of it.
I can't let that happen.
You have to get him and bring him to me.
- Leah, you can't just run away.
- What choice do I have? I can't let him hurt Pete any more than he already has.
Please, Greg.
Please.
So I took Pete to her.
He thought we were going for ice cream.
And what about the evidence? Where's the evidence that she had? At the church, in my office.
She wanted me to wait two days before I gave it to you.
I want you to stay here.
Excuse me.
You got a sec? - Hi, what can I do for you guys? - Have you seen this woman? Yeah.
Yeah, she was hanging around here this afternoon.
Eventually took off with a kid.
- How long ago? - An hour? - Which way did she go? - I don't know.
But she did buy a deluxe map of the Southeast.
You sure about that? - Yeah.
- Okay, thanks.
Sure.
- Should I put out an APB? - No, not yet.
Let's get out of here.
Ken Robinson you are under arrest for the murder of Mary Peterson.
This is a waste of time.
You have nothing on me.
So it wasn't your DNA the cops found all over the crime scenes.
You have a right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
You have the right to an attorney if you so desire - Did you find Leah Robinson? - No.
But we got what we needed.
I'm sorry.
You really could've screwed up my case.
I meant about this morning.
Okay.
I don't really care what anyone around here thinks or knows about us.
I don't care.
But there is There is something.
Maybe I'm just not good at relationships.
That's possible.
Or maybe this all happened too fast and I wasn't ready, but Well, what do you want? I don't know.
What do you want? You.
I wanna be with you.
Even after today? You know, today was just one of those bad workdays, honey.
- But you wanted me to trust you.
- It would've been nice but maybe next time.
Next time.
- Are you heading out? - Yeah, I am.
Let me Let me help you with that.
- It's pretty cold outside.
- Yeah.
You want me to wait back a bit so that you can leave unobserved? No.
Okay.
Okay.
- Let's go.
- Let's go.
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