Without a Trace s05e02 Episode Script
Candy
Previously on Without A Trace: Those tests can be wrong.
I mean, are you sure? The doctor confirmed it.
Look, I got two kids already.
I wasn't expecting any more.
Jack, I'm 45 years old.
I've never had kids, this is a big decision.
Look, I am hanging onto this guy by a thread.
- Jack, the warrant is not gonna happen.
- Well, I am not letting him go.
Everybody down! Give me the gun.
FBI.
Put your hands in the air where I can see them.
Do one decent thing in your life.
Tell me where she is.
I'm all right.
The suspect died almost immediately as a result of the gunshot wound.
Agent Cassidy was found nearby in a hangar.
And exactly how long had you and Agent Cassidy been dating at the time of this incident? Six months.
Did, uh, all the members of your squad know about this relationship? We weren't hiding it.
- I didn't know.
- I didn't send out a bulletin.
We weren't hiding.
What's this got to do with anything? The suspect disarmed you, shot up the FBI and took your girlfriend as a hostage.
You didn't inform me about this relationship.
You continued to lead the investigation.
And you eventually shot and killed the suspect in question.
Look, I didn't shoot the guy because he had my girlfriend hostage.
I shot him because he was pointing a gun at me.
If you'd told me about the relationship, you wouldn't have taken the shot and we wouldn't have this situation.
It was a good shoot.
I want you to take responsibility, Jack for a critical lapse in judgment.
How about if I offer to replace all the glass in the office? Why don't you think about it for a couple of days and we'll meet again.
Whatever you want.
Show Tiffany some love, gentlemen.
She's headed down to your tables to make some of you very happy.
And let's welcome our next delicious dancer Miss oh-so-sweet Candy.
We got a female, 34, married with a kid disappeared after she left her job as a stripper.
- Uh, how long has she been missing? - Two days.
Anything on the husband? He told N.
Y.
P.
D.
That he didn't have a problem with her stripping.
- And they believed that? - It takes all kinds.
Danny and I are gonna go check him out.
Okay, great.
Now, don't get fired before I get back.
I don't wanna miss the drama.
I can't make any promises.
She usually gets home around 4 a.
m.
Sometimes she drives but if I have to take our son someplace, she takes a taxi.
So when you woke up and she wasn't here, did you call Lace? Yeah.
I talked to the owner, Leo.
He said she left when they closed at 3 a.
m.
Mr.
Peterson, we'd like to talk to your son, if that's okay.
Um.
He's in back.
But, um Is there some kind of a problem? He doesn't know his mom works at a strip club.
So where does he think she goes every night? Duane Reade.
She worked the day shift there until five months ago.
- Hmm.
- Pharmacy strip club.
That's a big difference.
Look, Cindy never graduated.
She was making 10 bucks an hour and we needed more money.
I'm assuming you needed a lot of money otherwise she would've just added a shift.
Eighteen months ago, I quit my job and I bought a boat business.
Right before people stopped buying boats.
No, she never really talked about work.
Never really talked about work? Does that mean that she, uh, kind of-sort of talked about work? Noah, look.
I know this has to be extremely hard for you.
But right now, I need you to help me find your mom.
Do you understand? A couple of days before she went away Mm-hm.
I got up early and came downstairs to use the computer and she was sitting outside.
- Mom? What happened? Are you okay? - It's nothing.
I, uh, hit my head on a shelf.
- Does it hurt? - Aches a bit.
But that'll teach me not to clean up a spill on Aisle 4.
I think the night shift sucks.
Yeah, but only because it keeps me away from you.
She asked me not to tell my dad.
She said he would be worried.
Is that it? She put on a Mets cap when we came in to cover it.
But I saw there were marks.
What kind of marks? Red ones.
Like fingers.
You did good.
Did she mention any customers' names? No.
Excuse me.
Huh.
Did you know that four days ago, somebody hit your wife at work? She told me she hit her head on a cabinet.
Well, apparently she lied.
Do you have any idea who could have hit her? No.
If I would have known about it I would have gone down there and taken care of it myself.
If Candy had problems with a client, she never told me.
- I think you mean Cindy.
- Whatever, she was a nice lady.
She got along with the customers and the girls.
But I got no idea what happened to her.
We're gonna have to talk to your employees and your customers.
That's not gonna happen.
Oh, really? Why's that? Cindy left this building at 3: 10 a.
m.
With everybody else.
See, I run a private gentlemen's club.
My lawyer tells me you've got no probable cause.
So without a warrant, you can't stay.
- Why don't you call Anne and get one? - Gladly.
Hi, this is Agent Spade.
Hey, how much do you make on this FBI gig? - Excuse me? - Whatever it is you could make more here.
Build up a nice private clientele, get some online exposure.
And I happen to be hiring.
This must be my lucky day.
Yeah, this is Agent Spade.
No, everybody's mute down here.
We're still waiting on that warrant.
Yeah.
I gotta go, I gotta go.
Excuse me.
I'm Agent Fitzgerald with the FBI.
I need to ask you a couple of questions.
- What's your name? - Melissa.
Melissa, do you recognize that woman? That's Cindy.
Is she in some kind of trouble? She left here a couple of nights ago.
Hasn't been seen since.
How well do you know her? Uh, as well as the other girls, but I like her better.
You a dancer here? Uh, I'm a little past that, but thanks for the thought.
I tend bar.
Yeah, we, uh, we think that she got into some kind of altercation four days ago.
- You know anything about that? - Uh, I don't.
Cindy have any problems at the club that you know of? Only that she wasn't cut out to be working in it.
I got some lame tippers tonight.
Maybe I need to show more cleavage.
Hey, you shouldn't flash that around.
Everyone here needs more money.
What'd you do anyway? Rob a bank? It's from a customer.
You could ride that wave all the way home.
- It's not like that.
He's a nice guy.
- Then why's he hanging out here? He wants to fly me to Saint Bart's for a weekend.
He wanna fly your husband too? Oh, God, at this point, Jim might not even care.
There's so much tension.
He hasn't touched me in months.
Saint Bart won't fix that.
Come on, I'm not really going anywhere.
Ha, ha.
Good, because the gig's in here.
Out there's your real life.
Nothing good happens when you mix the two.
Some guys don't have our girls' best interests at heart.
- Any idea who the guy was? - She never said.
- Think anyone in the club might know? - No one's gonna talk to you.
They're not gonna have a choice when our warrant shows up.
Yeah, well, there's talking and there's saying something.
Then why don't you say something? Why don't you try to find Margot Hennessey? Maybe she can help.
Who's that? A dancer who used to work here till a few weeks ago.
- We done? - Yeah, yeah, we're done.
I checked out Margot Hennessey.
This bartender was on to something.
Her bank accounts are dormant and her landlord hasn't seen her for three weeks.
- That's right when she left the club.
- Maybe she went on vacation.
I spoke to the bank.
Cindy's husband dumped everything into the business.
Lost his savings, the house.
He even got one of his cars repoed.
Phew, should've just put the money in a hole and covered it with dirt.
I think Cindy bolted.
A stripper's like a nurse, she could get a job anywhere.
- Think she left without her son? - It happens.
Hey.
- Hey.
- I didn't expect to see you.
I just came up to check on the warrant.
Oh.
Barring anything unforeseen, you should have it in an hour.
Which is exactly what I told Agent Spade when she asked me 20 minutes ago.
Ahem.
Right, it's just that it's important.
I am aware of that.
So how did your session go with Dr.
Harris? I had to move it.
Something come up? Yeah.
Yeah, it did.
Listen, I have a meeting with the deputy director two minutes ago, so Then go.
The real-estate agent said there's an apartment in Chelsea I really don't have time for it today.
I'm thinking we should have her stop looking altogether.
You know, that's not what I said.
No, no.
Ha.
Jack, Margot Hennessey's car's been collecting parking tickets in Brooklyn.
- Any sign of her? - Not yet.
Do you wanna take a ride? One more and she'd have been towed.
Oh.
I don't think she'd mind.
Phew.
I've never seen her before.
Who is she? She was a dancer at Lace with your wife.
Her name's Margot Hennessey.
Cindy never mentioned her.
Well, we dug into Margot's finances and recently she made some very large cash deposits.
Twenty thousand dollars in a C/D last month.
- Does that sound familiar? - No.
Why would it? Well, your wife made a $ 14,000 payment to a credit card last month.
I'm assuming you knew about this.
Yeah, what's the problem? They both worked at the same club.
They were both throwing around the same sort of money.
Margot is dead and Cindy's missing.
Now, is there any chance that her relationship with her customers involved more than dancing? Cindy and I have our problems but she would never do that to Noah.
- Undercover? - Mm-hm.
The club is the, uh, direct link between the dead woman and our missing person.
Okay, what's going on with the warrant? We got one, and we got all the financials.
But nobody at the club's talking.
We need access from the inside.
Samantha can't do it, she's been made already.
- I'd do it myself, but - Yeah.
I understand if you don't wanna do it.
It's all right.
Won't be a problem.
Okay.
We'll start tomorrow.
Okay, um, thanks for giving me the shot.
We'll run through the protocol in the morning.
Your stage fee is $ 100 a night.
You give the bartender and the bouncer each 5 percent.
- What's left is yours.
- And how much is that? Depends on how nice the customers think you are.
What about feature dances? No, that's based on seniority.
- Am I working at GM? Heh.
- Ha, ha.
Yeah.
Without the jumpsuits.
That's Nicki.
Here's your locker, there's your makeup table.
Hey.
Um.
That's the girl that cop was asking me about? Yeah.
So, what happened to her? I wish I knew what happened, then I could get them out of here.
I'll meet you in the main room.
Any other questions, Bubbles here will answer them.
If you want, I could keep that stuff till she comes back.
She your friend? Yeah.
Well, sorry.
Yeah, that makes two of us.
Good luck.
Where are we with the ATM records? Checked them against Cindy's shifts.
A lot of customers have criminal records.
None of them were there the night she went missing, so far.
Whoa, hey.
Someone forget to give me the Casual Tuesdays memo? No, I'm going to the club.
Undercover.
- Uh, oh.
Heh, heh.
- They make those jackets for men? Excuse me.
I'll call Elena, let her know you're coming.
Yeah, well I'll call you as soon as I make contact.
Hey, a cosmo and a bourbon on the rocks for Table 8.
Okay, go into Leo's office, get me some cherries, will you? Door's just down the hall.
You looking for the bathroom? Nope.
I was just looking for these.
Heh.
I saw you checking out the client list.
Um, I wanted to see how many of the clients the girls have so I know what to expect.
I don't suppose Leo knows.
You can tell him if you want.
- No, it's cool.
- All right.
Just don't poach any of Nicki's guys.
- Why, are you the boyfriend? - Yeah.
Ahh.
Well, I'm Erika.
Kyle.
I have to deliver some cherries, so excuse me.
Right.
Hi, I'm Michael.
Hello, Mike.
How are you doing? How do you think I'm doing? I'm cold.
Buy yourself a sweater.
Then my tips will be no good.
You hear anything? Order a drink.
- I'll have a club soda.
- That'll be $ 12.
- Twelve bucks for a club soda? - Yeah.
Listen, honey, I just dance.
I don't set the prices.
Thank you.
Cindy has three platinum clients.
One of them could be our guy.
And now, welcome our newest lovely, Erika.
Really? You don't seem like an Erika.
Shut up.
Please go outside, have a smoke, anything.
- I don't smoke.
- I don't care.
- Come back when I'm done.
- Okay.
Thank you.
July 16th, July 21 st, August 8th.
ATM records show that, uh, you withdrew money from the club only on the nights that Candy worked.
- I go other times.
You pay extra to smack her in the head? What you talking about? I didn't hit her.
Well, we have a witness who says different.
So the "I didn't do it" thing really isn't going to work out.
We'd hang out sometimes.
She danced.
But we talked too.
I liked her.
You'd think I'd learn.
The 20s just buy the dances, nothing else.
But I thought Candy was different.
Beautiful! How do I make you feel, Donny? Do you need to ask? We should go out sometime.
The club is nice, but it's loud.
Dinner and dessert might spoil the magic.
I don't think so.
We get along.
Don't get all serious on me.
The other girls wanna go out with me, but I would rather go out with you.
Steer clear of the other girls.
Why? You jealous? I'm just trying to keep you out of trouble.
Look, if you go out with some girl here you'll get an envelope full of pictures of your bare ass.
You'll pay a ton to keep them away from that wife you're scared to leave.
So don't be stupid.
Who the hell do you think you are? Hey, hey, hey.
Come on, let's go.
They said they wouldn't press charges as long as I didn't come back.
Any idea who was involved in this blackmail scheme? No.
Sure you don't wanna rethink that? I think I'm done answering questions.
I'd like to see a lawyer.
Okay.
You got it.
Set it up.
- No more questions.
- Okay.
- No more questions.
- Okay.
Six foot, muscular, right-handed.
That's pretty impressive, considering you had a knife pressed against your neck.
You recognize the voice? Nope.
I'm gonna pull you off this.
It's getting too tight.
Jack, come on, it was a warning.
If I don't go back, the cover's blown.
All I have to do is act scared and make him believe that it worked.
It's okay.
Come on, please.
I'm gonna have somebody watching you 24/7.
- Lf something goes down, you call out.
- No problem.
Now, focus on the blackmail angle.
- I need to know who the players are.
- Will do.
- Have you moved your daughter? - Right before I came in.
It's all good.
Elena.
- Hey.
- What happened in there? - I'm gonna go back to the club.
So a knife to the throat's not enough for you? I'll be fine.
I promise.
All right? Danny.
I had a funny feeling about Jim Peterson, so I combed through his phone records.
He called Duane Reade a couple times a week last month.
It's where she worked.
- She quit her job five months ago.
- Right.
Right.
- Great.
- That's what I thought.
I ran into Olczyk at the meeting.
He asked me if I thought your judgment was affected during the Davis case.
And what did you say? Yes.
- You said "yes"? - I said yes.
I warned you about proceeding with the Davis interrogation.
You wanted to turn him lose on the street.
With surveillance.
I did not suggest you buy him a plane ticket out of town.
Look, I followed protocol.
What about common sense? I'm not gonna buckle under pressure from you or anybody to admit to a mistake that I did not make.
That man had your gun at my head.
I'm aware of that.
Agent Johnson, is there any news? Where's your son? - He's visiting a friend's house.
- Good.
Because I don't want him to overhear this conversation.
Why did you keep calling Duane Reade for the last couple months? - What are you talking about? - Cindy quit her job five months ago yet you kept calling at least twice a week.
- Who told you this? - The supervisor.
You see, they had a deal.
Whenever you called, he would say that she was taking inventory.
He'd call her at the club and tip her off and she'd call you at home.
But you stopped calling last week.
So what happened? You find out she's a stripper and things get out of hand? No.
No, listen.
I would never hurt Cindy.
Then stop lying to me.
It was after she paid off the credit cards.
I thought she had some sugar daddy so I followed her to work one night.
What are you doing here? Shouldn't I be asking you that question? What the hell is this, Cindy? - Up there.
- I'm sorry.
All these guys staring at you shaking your ass.
How could you lie to me? - You would never have let me.
- Right.
It's something you wanted to do.
- You think I wanna do this? - It looks like you did.
You're judging me? You put us in this spot, I had to do something.
By next week, I'll have enough, we can start clean.
Then I'll quit.
No, you need to quit now.
- Jim - No.
I'm the one that got us into this mess.
I'll unload the business.
I'll meet you at home.
We'll talk about the rest tomorrow.
She never made it home.
Why did you pretend you knew? Because I know how you guys think.
You were gonna focus the investigation on me.
I didn't want anything to get in the way of finding Cindy.
- What'd I do to deserve this? - Nothing yet.
- What do you want? - I wanna get to know Erika.
Do you have any tips? - Beats me.
That's not what I do.
- Keep it, keep it, keep it.
Here's my number, just in case you get any ideas.
That good-looking Latin guy? The one with the flowers on his shirt? - Uh-huh.
- He wants to be your friend.
- Not interested.
- Seems like he's got a lot of dough.
Well, maybe I'll dance for him and he can buy me an iPod.
You could get more than that.
It's not worth it.
Erika don't walk away from a good thing.
Okay, so you haven't spoken to me two words since I've been here, right? So, what's up now? We're best friends? I'm sorry.
I just think there's a way this can work out for both of us.
I'm listening.
Elena said that the bouncer insisted that she take me to this building.
They have a room rigged with cameras to take pictures.
That's what we're thinking.
I'm gonna send Samantha and Martin in, they can check the adjacent apartments.
But I'm gonna need to catch them in the act, so you gotta keep it going.
- How's your, uh, stamina? - You'll get your show.
Yeah, I'll bet.
Hey.
- Hey.
Ha-ha-ha.
- Are you ready for this? - Do I have another option? - It's hot in here.
- Okay, so take off your jacket.
Good.
Come on.
Is it microphoned? I don't know.
Yeah.
Proceeding down the hall.
FBI.
Keep your Um Sorry.
Just stay in your apartment.
- I love that movie.
- 404 is a no.
How's Samantha doing? Nothing yet.
Upstairs.
Anything? Nothing yet.
Okay.
FBI! Keep your hands where we can see them.
- You got him? - Yeah.
Stand up.
Let's go.
All right, Taylor, you can put your lips away.
- Danny? Danny, do you copy? - Yes, I copy.
We got him.
This is a nice collection you got going here.
Aren't you guys supposed to do something serious, like stop al Qaeda? You know, when we need some help with that, we'll give you a call.
But we're pretty good at multitasking.
On my mother's grave.
I had nothing to do with that.
Margot Hennessy worked for you.
And we found a tape in your collection of her with one of your marks.
Why would I kill her? She made me money.
Well, maybe she mouthed off to one of your marks like Cindy Peterson did.
- What does Cindy have to do with this? - Margot is dead and Cindy is missing and you are the common link between both.
Now, blackmail will get you jail time.
I've got enough circumstantial evidence to make a jury convicts you of murder.
Unless you got something to add I'm happy to put this in the hands of the U.
S.
Attorney and let you hang to dry.
Now, you gotta believe me.
The only problem I had with Cindy was that she wouldn't put out.
You didn't get enough when I was on stage? I like it better when you don't know I'm looking.
I like it better when I'm leaving.
- Where are you going? - Home.
That's a shame.
I thought we could get to know each other.
Maybe we can go to Starbucks some day.
Get a Frappuccino.
Yeah, I get it if you don't wanna play ball with the customers.
But there's other ways you can make yourself useful.
I was thinking the same thing.
Only at home, not here.
What's this for? You can give them to the next girl.
I followed her out, but she jumped into somebody's car and took off.
What kind of car? Silver Mustang.
Hey, Nicki, does your, uh, boyfriend live with you? Why do you care about Kyle? I wanted to confirm that you borrowed his car to pick Cindy up Friday night.
Why? The bouncer saw her getting into a silver Mustang.
The same one I saw drop you off at work.
- I didn't do anything to Cindy.
- Well, someone did.
And you were the last person seen with her.
Look, it was Kyle's idea.
Not mine.
What idea? To borrow money.
Uh, I borrowed money from Cindy a while back.
She lent me money for, uh, medicine, for my mom.
- For your mom? - Yeah.
- What's wrong with her? - She's got a stomach problem, it's bad.
Let me show you something.
Three months sober.
I want you to stop lying.
I know a junkie when I see one.
- No - I think you tried to borrow more.
She turned you down, you killed her.
- I didn't.
- Do you know how the law works? An accomplice does the same amount of time as the person who committed the murder.
Now, if you help me, we can work something out.
All right.
L Kyle and me, we went We went really deep on a package and then the dealer wanted his money.
Then she told me she was quitting the club.
And that's when you called Kyle.
Yeah.
He said we had to get it that night.
So I offered her a ride home.
Kyle got stuck with the zoning paperwork.
He should be done by now.
I'll get you back home.
Hey, ladies.
- You talk to her? - No, what's going on? Look, Cin, we got a money problem and we were wondering if we could borrow more.
I don't think I can help you.
Where's the money you've been flashing around? - I used it to pay some credit cards.
- We need some money.
Like I said, I don't have any.
Just what I made today.
Check it out.
- Come on.
- Here it is.
What's this? That's it? I said I didn't have any more.
Let's go to your house, huh? - I told you, I don't have any more.
- Get in the car.
- You wanna die? - No.
- Then let's go for a ride.
- You stay away from my family.
It happened really fast.
He just lost it.
Where's the body? He tied her to a cinder block and he dragged her to the river.
He let go and she just disappeared.
I tried to stop him.
Sounds like you were a big help.
Well, N.
Y.
P.
D.
Found the guy who killed Margot Hennessey.
He was her last blackmail target.
They ID'd him from the, uh, tapes that we seized.
Well, at least something good came out of this.
Yeah.
Hey, have you, uh, heard from Harbor Patrol yet? About 15 minutes ago.
Divers found Cindy's body.
Ah.
- Does, uh, her husband know yet? - I gotta go tell him.
All right.
Good luck.
Yeah.
- You good? - I'm good.
I got it.
I wish I could sleep this peacefully.
I know, me too.
You know, she's gonna wake up in the morning and she's gonna see me.
But Cindy's boy Doesn't seem right, you know? Well, that's because it's not.
All right, guess I should let you go.
I know.
Well, thanks for your help.
Your mascara is a It's a mess.
I'll take it off when I get home.
- Good night.
- Good night.
- See you tomorrow.
- Yup.
It is tomorrow.
Your, uh, secretary's missing.
Here.
What's this? It's my report to Olczyk on the Davis shooting.
With the appropriate sense of self-awareness and responsibility.
Good.
You know, the whole time he had you all I could think of was that I had to find you, because if I didn't I would never be able to fix this.
Fix what? This, everything.
The The baby.
When you told me that you were pregnant what I should have said was: "That's great, that's fantastic.
" Because that's how I really feel, I think.
And if I'd have said it this would all be different.
I'm sorry.
Adapted by:
I mean, are you sure? The doctor confirmed it.
Look, I got two kids already.
I wasn't expecting any more.
Jack, I'm 45 years old.
I've never had kids, this is a big decision.
Look, I am hanging onto this guy by a thread.
- Jack, the warrant is not gonna happen.
- Well, I am not letting him go.
Everybody down! Give me the gun.
FBI.
Put your hands in the air where I can see them.
Do one decent thing in your life.
Tell me where she is.
I'm all right.
The suspect died almost immediately as a result of the gunshot wound.
Agent Cassidy was found nearby in a hangar.
And exactly how long had you and Agent Cassidy been dating at the time of this incident? Six months.
Did, uh, all the members of your squad know about this relationship? We weren't hiding it.
- I didn't know.
- I didn't send out a bulletin.
We weren't hiding.
What's this got to do with anything? The suspect disarmed you, shot up the FBI and took your girlfriend as a hostage.
You didn't inform me about this relationship.
You continued to lead the investigation.
And you eventually shot and killed the suspect in question.
Look, I didn't shoot the guy because he had my girlfriend hostage.
I shot him because he was pointing a gun at me.
If you'd told me about the relationship, you wouldn't have taken the shot and we wouldn't have this situation.
It was a good shoot.
I want you to take responsibility, Jack for a critical lapse in judgment.
How about if I offer to replace all the glass in the office? Why don't you think about it for a couple of days and we'll meet again.
Whatever you want.
Show Tiffany some love, gentlemen.
She's headed down to your tables to make some of you very happy.
And let's welcome our next delicious dancer Miss oh-so-sweet Candy.
We got a female, 34, married with a kid disappeared after she left her job as a stripper.
- Uh, how long has she been missing? - Two days.
Anything on the husband? He told N.
Y.
P.
D.
That he didn't have a problem with her stripping.
- And they believed that? - It takes all kinds.
Danny and I are gonna go check him out.
Okay, great.
Now, don't get fired before I get back.
I don't wanna miss the drama.
I can't make any promises.
She usually gets home around 4 a.
m.
Sometimes she drives but if I have to take our son someplace, she takes a taxi.
So when you woke up and she wasn't here, did you call Lace? Yeah.
I talked to the owner, Leo.
He said she left when they closed at 3 a.
m.
Mr.
Peterson, we'd like to talk to your son, if that's okay.
Um.
He's in back.
But, um Is there some kind of a problem? He doesn't know his mom works at a strip club.
So where does he think she goes every night? Duane Reade.
She worked the day shift there until five months ago.
- Hmm.
- Pharmacy strip club.
That's a big difference.
Look, Cindy never graduated.
She was making 10 bucks an hour and we needed more money.
I'm assuming you needed a lot of money otherwise she would've just added a shift.
Eighteen months ago, I quit my job and I bought a boat business.
Right before people stopped buying boats.
No, she never really talked about work.
Never really talked about work? Does that mean that she, uh, kind of-sort of talked about work? Noah, look.
I know this has to be extremely hard for you.
But right now, I need you to help me find your mom.
Do you understand? A couple of days before she went away Mm-hm.
I got up early and came downstairs to use the computer and she was sitting outside.
- Mom? What happened? Are you okay? - It's nothing.
I, uh, hit my head on a shelf.
- Does it hurt? - Aches a bit.
But that'll teach me not to clean up a spill on Aisle 4.
I think the night shift sucks.
Yeah, but only because it keeps me away from you.
She asked me not to tell my dad.
She said he would be worried.
Is that it? She put on a Mets cap when we came in to cover it.
But I saw there were marks.
What kind of marks? Red ones.
Like fingers.
You did good.
Did she mention any customers' names? No.
Excuse me.
Huh.
Did you know that four days ago, somebody hit your wife at work? She told me she hit her head on a cabinet.
Well, apparently she lied.
Do you have any idea who could have hit her? No.
If I would have known about it I would have gone down there and taken care of it myself.
If Candy had problems with a client, she never told me.
- I think you mean Cindy.
- Whatever, she was a nice lady.
She got along with the customers and the girls.
But I got no idea what happened to her.
We're gonna have to talk to your employees and your customers.
That's not gonna happen.
Oh, really? Why's that? Cindy left this building at 3: 10 a.
m.
With everybody else.
See, I run a private gentlemen's club.
My lawyer tells me you've got no probable cause.
So without a warrant, you can't stay.
- Why don't you call Anne and get one? - Gladly.
Hi, this is Agent Spade.
Hey, how much do you make on this FBI gig? - Excuse me? - Whatever it is you could make more here.
Build up a nice private clientele, get some online exposure.
And I happen to be hiring.
This must be my lucky day.
Yeah, this is Agent Spade.
No, everybody's mute down here.
We're still waiting on that warrant.
Yeah.
I gotta go, I gotta go.
Excuse me.
I'm Agent Fitzgerald with the FBI.
I need to ask you a couple of questions.
- What's your name? - Melissa.
Melissa, do you recognize that woman? That's Cindy.
Is she in some kind of trouble? She left here a couple of nights ago.
Hasn't been seen since.
How well do you know her? Uh, as well as the other girls, but I like her better.
You a dancer here? Uh, I'm a little past that, but thanks for the thought.
I tend bar.
Yeah, we, uh, we think that she got into some kind of altercation four days ago.
- You know anything about that? - Uh, I don't.
Cindy have any problems at the club that you know of? Only that she wasn't cut out to be working in it.
I got some lame tippers tonight.
Maybe I need to show more cleavage.
Hey, you shouldn't flash that around.
Everyone here needs more money.
What'd you do anyway? Rob a bank? It's from a customer.
You could ride that wave all the way home.
- It's not like that.
He's a nice guy.
- Then why's he hanging out here? He wants to fly me to Saint Bart's for a weekend.
He wanna fly your husband too? Oh, God, at this point, Jim might not even care.
There's so much tension.
He hasn't touched me in months.
Saint Bart won't fix that.
Come on, I'm not really going anywhere.
Ha, ha.
Good, because the gig's in here.
Out there's your real life.
Nothing good happens when you mix the two.
Some guys don't have our girls' best interests at heart.
- Any idea who the guy was? - She never said.
- Think anyone in the club might know? - No one's gonna talk to you.
They're not gonna have a choice when our warrant shows up.
Yeah, well, there's talking and there's saying something.
Then why don't you say something? Why don't you try to find Margot Hennessey? Maybe she can help.
Who's that? A dancer who used to work here till a few weeks ago.
- We done? - Yeah, yeah, we're done.
I checked out Margot Hennessey.
This bartender was on to something.
Her bank accounts are dormant and her landlord hasn't seen her for three weeks.
- That's right when she left the club.
- Maybe she went on vacation.
I spoke to the bank.
Cindy's husband dumped everything into the business.
Lost his savings, the house.
He even got one of his cars repoed.
Phew, should've just put the money in a hole and covered it with dirt.
I think Cindy bolted.
A stripper's like a nurse, she could get a job anywhere.
- Think she left without her son? - It happens.
Hey.
- Hey.
- I didn't expect to see you.
I just came up to check on the warrant.
Oh.
Barring anything unforeseen, you should have it in an hour.
Which is exactly what I told Agent Spade when she asked me 20 minutes ago.
Ahem.
Right, it's just that it's important.
I am aware of that.
So how did your session go with Dr.
Harris? I had to move it.
Something come up? Yeah.
Yeah, it did.
Listen, I have a meeting with the deputy director two minutes ago, so Then go.
The real-estate agent said there's an apartment in Chelsea I really don't have time for it today.
I'm thinking we should have her stop looking altogether.
You know, that's not what I said.
No, no.
Ha.
Jack, Margot Hennessey's car's been collecting parking tickets in Brooklyn.
- Any sign of her? - Not yet.
Do you wanna take a ride? One more and she'd have been towed.
Oh.
I don't think she'd mind.
Phew.
I've never seen her before.
Who is she? She was a dancer at Lace with your wife.
Her name's Margot Hennessey.
Cindy never mentioned her.
Well, we dug into Margot's finances and recently she made some very large cash deposits.
Twenty thousand dollars in a C/D last month.
- Does that sound familiar? - No.
Why would it? Well, your wife made a $ 14,000 payment to a credit card last month.
I'm assuming you knew about this.
Yeah, what's the problem? They both worked at the same club.
They were both throwing around the same sort of money.
Margot is dead and Cindy's missing.
Now, is there any chance that her relationship with her customers involved more than dancing? Cindy and I have our problems but she would never do that to Noah.
- Undercover? - Mm-hm.
The club is the, uh, direct link between the dead woman and our missing person.
Okay, what's going on with the warrant? We got one, and we got all the financials.
But nobody at the club's talking.
We need access from the inside.
Samantha can't do it, she's been made already.
- I'd do it myself, but - Yeah.
I understand if you don't wanna do it.
It's all right.
Won't be a problem.
Okay.
We'll start tomorrow.
Okay, um, thanks for giving me the shot.
We'll run through the protocol in the morning.
Your stage fee is $ 100 a night.
You give the bartender and the bouncer each 5 percent.
- What's left is yours.
- And how much is that? Depends on how nice the customers think you are.
What about feature dances? No, that's based on seniority.
- Am I working at GM? Heh.
- Ha, ha.
Yeah.
Without the jumpsuits.
That's Nicki.
Here's your locker, there's your makeup table.
Hey.
Um.
That's the girl that cop was asking me about? Yeah.
So, what happened to her? I wish I knew what happened, then I could get them out of here.
I'll meet you in the main room.
Any other questions, Bubbles here will answer them.
If you want, I could keep that stuff till she comes back.
She your friend? Yeah.
Well, sorry.
Yeah, that makes two of us.
Good luck.
Where are we with the ATM records? Checked them against Cindy's shifts.
A lot of customers have criminal records.
None of them were there the night she went missing, so far.
Whoa, hey.
Someone forget to give me the Casual Tuesdays memo? No, I'm going to the club.
Undercover.
- Uh, oh.
Heh, heh.
- They make those jackets for men? Excuse me.
I'll call Elena, let her know you're coming.
Yeah, well I'll call you as soon as I make contact.
Hey, a cosmo and a bourbon on the rocks for Table 8.
Okay, go into Leo's office, get me some cherries, will you? Door's just down the hall.
You looking for the bathroom? Nope.
I was just looking for these.
Heh.
I saw you checking out the client list.
Um, I wanted to see how many of the clients the girls have so I know what to expect.
I don't suppose Leo knows.
You can tell him if you want.
- No, it's cool.
- All right.
Just don't poach any of Nicki's guys.
- Why, are you the boyfriend? - Yeah.
Ahh.
Well, I'm Erika.
Kyle.
I have to deliver some cherries, so excuse me.
Right.
Hi, I'm Michael.
Hello, Mike.
How are you doing? How do you think I'm doing? I'm cold.
Buy yourself a sweater.
Then my tips will be no good.
You hear anything? Order a drink.
- I'll have a club soda.
- That'll be $ 12.
- Twelve bucks for a club soda? - Yeah.
Listen, honey, I just dance.
I don't set the prices.
Thank you.
Cindy has three platinum clients.
One of them could be our guy.
And now, welcome our newest lovely, Erika.
Really? You don't seem like an Erika.
Shut up.
Please go outside, have a smoke, anything.
- I don't smoke.
- I don't care.
- Come back when I'm done.
- Okay.
Thank you.
July 16th, July 21 st, August 8th.
ATM records show that, uh, you withdrew money from the club only on the nights that Candy worked.
- I go other times.
You pay extra to smack her in the head? What you talking about? I didn't hit her.
Well, we have a witness who says different.
So the "I didn't do it" thing really isn't going to work out.
We'd hang out sometimes.
She danced.
But we talked too.
I liked her.
You'd think I'd learn.
The 20s just buy the dances, nothing else.
But I thought Candy was different.
Beautiful! How do I make you feel, Donny? Do you need to ask? We should go out sometime.
The club is nice, but it's loud.
Dinner and dessert might spoil the magic.
I don't think so.
We get along.
Don't get all serious on me.
The other girls wanna go out with me, but I would rather go out with you.
Steer clear of the other girls.
Why? You jealous? I'm just trying to keep you out of trouble.
Look, if you go out with some girl here you'll get an envelope full of pictures of your bare ass.
You'll pay a ton to keep them away from that wife you're scared to leave.
So don't be stupid.
Who the hell do you think you are? Hey, hey, hey.
Come on, let's go.
They said they wouldn't press charges as long as I didn't come back.
Any idea who was involved in this blackmail scheme? No.
Sure you don't wanna rethink that? I think I'm done answering questions.
I'd like to see a lawyer.
Okay.
You got it.
Set it up.
- No more questions.
- Okay.
- No more questions.
- Okay.
Six foot, muscular, right-handed.
That's pretty impressive, considering you had a knife pressed against your neck.
You recognize the voice? Nope.
I'm gonna pull you off this.
It's getting too tight.
Jack, come on, it was a warning.
If I don't go back, the cover's blown.
All I have to do is act scared and make him believe that it worked.
It's okay.
Come on, please.
I'm gonna have somebody watching you 24/7.
- Lf something goes down, you call out.
- No problem.
Now, focus on the blackmail angle.
- I need to know who the players are.
- Will do.
- Have you moved your daughter? - Right before I came in.
It's all good.
Elena.
- Hey.
- What happened in there? - I'm gonna go back to the club.
So a knife to the throat's not enough for you? I'll be fine.
I promise.
All right? Danny.
I had a funny feeling about Jim Peterson, so I combed through his phone records.
He called Duane Reade a couple times a week last month.
It's where she worked.
- She quit her job five months ago.
- Right.
Right.
- Great.
- That's what I thought.
I ran into Olczyk at the meeting.
He asked me if I thought your judgment was affected during the Davis case.
And what did you say? Yes.
- You said "yes"? - I said yes.
I warned you about proceeding with the Davis interrogation.
You wanted to turn him lose on the street.
With surveillance.
I did not suggest you buy him a plane ticket out of town.
Look, I followed protocol.
What about common sense? I'm not gonna buckle under pressure from you or anybody to admit to a mistake that I did not make.
That man had your gun at my head.
I'm aware of that.
Agent Johnson, is there any news? Where's your son? - He's visiting a friend's house.
- Good.
Because I don't want him to overhear this conversation.
Why did you keep calling Duane Reade for the last couple months? - What are you talking about? - Cindy quit her job five months ago yet you kept calling at least twice a week.
- Who told you this? - The supervisor.
You see, they had a deal.
Whenever you called, he would say that she was taking inventory.
He'd call her at the club and tip her off and she'd call you at home.
But you stopped calling last week.
So what happened? You find out she's a stripper and things get out of hand? No.
No, listen.
I would never hurt Cindy.
Then stop lying to me.
It was after she paid off the credit cards.
I thought she had some sugar daddy so I followed her to work one night.
What are you doing here? Shouldn't I be asking you that question? What the hell is this, Cindy? - Up there.
- I'm sorry.
All these guys staring at you shaking your ass.
How could you lie to me? - You would never have let me.
- Right.
It's something you wanted to do.
- You think I wanna do this? - It looks like you did.
You're judging me? You put us in this spot, I had to do something.
By next week, I'll have enough, we can start clean.
Then I'll quit.
No, you need to quit now.
- Jim - No.
I'm the one that got us into this mess.
I'll unload the business.
I'll meet you at home.
We'll talk about the rest tomorrow.
She never made it home.
Why did you pretend you knew? Because I know how you guys think.
You were gonna focus the investigation on me.
I didn't want anything to get in the way of finding Cindy.
- What'd I do to deserve this? - Nothing yet.
- What do you want? - I wanna get to know Erika.
Do you have any tips? - Beats me.
That's not what I do.
- Keep it, keep it, keep it.
Here's my number, just in case you get any ideas.
That good-looking Latin guy? The one with the flowers on his shirt? - Uh-huh.
- He wants to be your friend.
- Not interested.
- Seems like he's got a lot of dough.
Well, maybe I'll dance for him and he can buy me an iPod.
You could get more than that.
It's not worth it.
Erika don't walk away from a good thing.
Okay, so you haven't spoken to me two words since I've been here, right? So, what's up now? We're best friends? I'm sorry.
I just think there's a way this can work out for both of us.
I'm listening.
Elena said that the bouncer insisted that she take me to this building.
They have a room rigged with cameras to take pictures.
That's what we're thinking.
I'm gonna send Samantha and Martin in, they can check the adjacent apartments.
But I'm gonna need to catch them in the act, so you gotta keep it going.
- How's your, uh, stamina? - You'll get your show.
Yeah, I'll bet.
Hey.
- Hey.
Ha-ha-ha.
- Are you ready for this? - Do I have another option? - It's hot in here.
- Okay, so take off your jacket.
Good.
Come on.
Is it microphoned? I don't know.
Yeah.
Proceeding down the hall.
FBI.
Keep your Um Sorry.
Just stay in your apartment.
- I love that movie.
- 404 is a no.
How's Samantha doing? Nothing yet.
Upstairs.
Anything? Nothing yet.
Okay.
FBI! Keep your hands where we can see them.
- You got him? - Yeah.
Stand up.
Let's go.
All right, Taylor, you can put your lips away.
- Danny? Danny, do you copy? - Yes, I copy.
We got him.
This is a nice collection you got going here.
Aren't you guys supposed to do something serious, like stop al Qaeda? You know, when we need some help with that, we'll give you a call.
But we're pretty good at multitasking.
On my mother's grave.
I had nothing to do with that.
Margot Hennessy worked for you.
And we found a tape in your collection of her with one of your marks.
Why would I kill her? She made me money.
Well, maybe she mouthed off to one of your marks like Cindy Peterson did.
- What does Cindy have to do with this? - Margot is dead and Cindy is missing and you are the common link between both.
Now, blackmail will get you jail time.
I've got enough circumstantial evidence to make a jury convicts you of murder.
Unless you got something to add I'm happy to put this in the hands of the U.
S.
Attorney and let you hang to dry.
Now, you gotta believe me.
The only problem I had with Cindy was that she wouldn't put out.
You didn't get enough when I was on stage? I like it better when you don't know I'm looking.
I like it better when I'm leaving.
- Where are you going? - Home.
That's a shame.
I thought we could get to know each other.
Maybe we can go to Starbucks some day.
Get a Frappuccino.
Yeah, I get it if you don't wanna play ball with the customers.
But there's other ways you can make yourself useful.
I was thinking the same thing.
Only at home, not here.
What's this for? You can give them to the next girl.
I followed her out, but she jumped into somebody's car and took off.
What kind of car? Silver Mustang.
Hey, Nicki, does your, uh, boyfriend live with you? Why do you care about Kyle? I wanted to confirm that you borrowed his car to pick Cindy up Friday night.
Why? The bouncer saw her getting into a silver Mustang.
The same one I saw drop you off at work.
- I didn't do anything to Cindy.
- Well, someone did.
And you were the last person seen with her.
Look, it was Kyle's idea.
Not mine.
What idea? To borrow money.
Uh, I borrowed money from Cindy a while back.
She lent me money for, uh, medicine, for my mom.
- For your mom? - Yeah.
- What's wrong with her? - She's got a stomach problem, it's bad.
Let me show you something.
Three months sober.
I want you to stop lying.
I know a junkie when I see one.
- No - I think you tried to borrow more.
She turned you down, you killed her.
- I didn't.
- Do you know how the law works? An accomplice does the same amount of time as the person who committed the murder.
Now, if you help me, we can work something out.
All right.
L Kyle and me, we went We went really deep on a package and then the dealer wanted his money.
Then she told me she was quitting the club.
And that's when you called Kyle.
Yeah.
He said we had to get it that night.
So I offered her a ride home.
Kyle got stuck with the zoning paperwork.
He should be done by now.
I'll get you back home.
Hey, ladies.
- You talk to her? - No, what's going on? Look, Cin, we got a money problem and we were wondering if we could borrow more.
I don't think I can help you.
Where's the money you've been flashing around? - I used it to pay some credit cards.
- We need some money.
Like I said, I don't have any.
Just what I made today.
Check it out.
- Come on.
- Here it is.
What's this? That's it? I said I didn't have any more.
Let's go to your house, huh? - I told you, I don't have any more.
- Get in the car.
- You wanna die? - No.
- Then let's go for a ride.
- You stay away from my family.
It happened really fast.
He just lost it.
Where's the body? He tied her to a cinder block and he dragged her to the river.
He let go and she just disappeared.
I tried to stop him.
Sounds like you were a big help.
Well, N.
Y.
P.
D.
Found the guy who killed Margot Hennessey.
He was her last blackmail target.
They ID'd him from the, uh, tapes that we seized.
Well, at least something good came out of this.
Yeah.
Hey, have you, uh, heard from Harbor Patrol yet? About 15 minutes ago.
Divers found Cindy's body.
Ah.
- Does, uh, her husband know yet? - I gotta go tell him.
All right.
Good luck.
Yeah.
- You good? - I'm good.
I got it.
I wish I could sleep this peacefully.
I know, me too.
You know, she's gonna wake up in the morning and she's gonna see me.
But Cindy's boy Doesn't seem right, you know? Well, that's because it's not.
All right, guess I should let you go.
I know.
Well, thanks for your help.
Your mascara is a It's a mess.
I'll take it off when I get home.
- Good night.
- Good night.
- See you tomorrow.
- Yup.
It is tomorrow.
Your, uh, secretary's missing.
Here.
What's this? It's my report to Olczyk on the Davis shooting.
With the appropriate sense of self-awareness and responsibility.
Good.
You know, the whole time he had you all I could think of was that I had to find you, because if I didn't I would never be able to fix this.
Fix what? This, everything.
The The baby.
When you told me that you were pregnant what I should have said was: "That's great, that's fantastic.
" Because that's how I really feel, I think.
And if I'd have said it this would all be different.
I'm sorry.
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