Without a Trace s05e24 Episode Script

Previously on Without a Trace: Oh, man.
It's you and her now, huh? I trusted you, Danny.
It's gonna come back to you, man.
Sofie's been kidnapped.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
It was Carlos.
Where's my daughter? You cannot resort to these cowboy tactics.
You set us back.
I guess that bitch talk doesn't fly right today, right? Danny, do not take the shot.
- I'm sorry I made you that angry.
- You broke my heart.
Do you hear me? Do not take the shot.
Come on, let's go.
Are you crazy? - Lady, are you okay? - I'm fine.
Go, please.
Take the West Side Highway uptown.
- Back up.
- Don't move.
You can have all my money.
Please.
Help me.
I e-mailed it to Lucy.
Hopefully she can get a plate number.
Cabbie get a look at the man? - Yeah.
African-American, 6 feet, bald.
I'm having the sketch artist work up a composite of our missing person first.
Anything that might help us figure out who she is? Homeless guy saw her talking on a payphone.
I'm running the records.
ERT's checking for prints on the phone and cab.
Not much to go on, huh? - Sarah, show Agent Johnson that paper.
- Sure.
This was in her sweater that she left in the cab.
Looks like the Eye of Ra.
Egyptian symbol of protection.
There's a lot of exclusive clubs.
It could be a passkey.
Yeah, could be a date gone wrong, sexual assault.
Yeah.
So much for an eye of protection.
I didn't see her until she jumped in front of my cab.
I could've killed her.
When the gunman grabbed her out of the car, did he call her by name or say anything that might help us figure out who she is? No.
I'm sorry.
You told the police that tonight was the first time you'd seen this woman? Yes.
We ran records from a payphone she was using and she placed a call to your cell phone.
How'd she get your number? I do some work off the books.
If my boss finds out about it, he'll fire me.
Hard to get a new job from jail.
I picked her up yesterday.
You like pizza? Excuse me? My son, he just discovered American pizza.
So I want to know where I can find the best.
- He's very handsome.
- Thank you.
Me and my wife, we come here so we can raise him like an American but it's not easy.
Ha.
He sees what all these kids have.
You know, the cell phone and this iPod.
I tell him he needs to work for it.
He misunderstands "land of the free.
" If you ever want another ride call me at this number.
I'll come extra fast and I'll give you a better rate, okay? Thanks.
I don't know if it's the best but, uh, I like the pizza at Nicki's on 102nd.
Thank you.
I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth.
Please, if there's any way we can keep this a secret We'll see what we can do.
But tell us where you picked her up and where you dropped her off.
Uh, I picked her up at the corner of 50th and Lexington and dropped her off at Tompkins Square Park.
So when Agent Delgado left the FBI offices did you know she was going to attack Kwon and bring him into the FBI at gunpoint? She did not bring him in at gunpoint.
She pulled a gun on him? Detective Kwon realized that he was compromising our search for Sofie Delgado.
He came to the FBI voluntarily.
After Agent Delgado pulled a gun on him and tried to force him to reveal the defendant's whereabouts.
- Objection.
- Sustained.
Agent Malone on March 4th, 2007 did you instruct Special Agent Johnson to tell Ray Sykes that Sofie Delgado was dead in order to get him to confess to kidnapping her? Agent Johnson used completely legal means to extract a confession from a suspect.
So I guess the answer is yes.
I would like to call these witnesses from Agent Malone's other cases in order to substantiate a pattern of deceptive behavior that goes far beyond my client's case.
If she was gonna call additional witnesses my office should've been notified.
- I didn't know until now when Agent Malone admitted to lying, cheating, stealing - Objection.
This goes far beyond - Under cover as an agent of the Enough.
Approach the bench.
She might be barking up the wrong tree but I have no interest in being overturned on appeal.
I want your motions for and against on my desk in the morning.
Until then, the witness is dismissed and court is adjourned.
The judge'll give me a continuance to prepare for new witnesses but the damage may be done.
Without Kwon's testimony you still have a conviction on the kidnapping charge.
Not if his attorney convinces the jury you would have done anything to find Sofie.
We would have.
I'll call you after I talk to my boss.
All right, Lucy got the first two letters off the Lexus' license plate: CG.
Okay, I'll start cross-referencing vehicle registrations.
Was ERT able to pull any prints? Yeah, between the cab and the payphone, 28 sets.
Twenty-eight? Great.
That's gonna keep us busy.
What's this? The cab ride our missing person took the day before she disappeared.
Dropped off at a battered-women's shelter.
So she may have been there.
Kidnapper could be a pissed-off husband.
Yeah.
Fitzgerald.
Yeah, what's up? Oh, no, that's great.
Thanks.
Guy from Nicki's Pizza recognized our missing person.
Says her name's Terri, and he remembers an address.
Great.
She works nights.
Telemarketing for a credit card company, I think.
Jeez, I hope nothing bad's happened to her.
- Does Miss Long have a daughter? - Jennifer.
- Would you mind checking the bedroom? - Yeah.
- What about the father? - I never seen him around.
They're divorced.
Know where the daughter goes to school? - No, I'm not sure.
- Okay.
I'II, uh, see you on the way out.
- Jack? - Hmm? I found it in the mom's dresser.
We should get that downtown to Forensics.
I thought you could use a little pick-me-up.
- Well, thank you.
- You wanna talk? - Mm.
Where are we on the case? - Well, we were finally able to ID her.
Her name is Terri Long.
She's 34, single.
She has a daughter that we're trying to track down at school.
N.
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P.
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Narcotics identified the symbol.
It's used by a dealer.
Dane Hopkins.
Now, he and his associates traffic meth, weed, coke and pharmies.
One-stop shopping.
Doesn't this guy look a lot like our gunman? Ebony and Ivory.
What's up? Why don't you start by telling us what you did with Terri Long? - Never heard of her.
- Really? Because we found the same drugs in her apartment that the cops found on you.
You wanna charge me with possession, be my guest.
All right, let's make a deal.
- You don't have anything I want.
- I don't know about that.
Right now Dane's got you riding sidecar.
Don't you wanna be behind the wheel? Frank, we're not looking to make some penny-ante drug bust here.
Waste of our time.
Tell us why Dane made you grab her and we'll work something out.
Simple as that.
Yeah, I remember.
She was harassing people outside a club where Dane deals.
Scaring people away because they thought she was a narc.
Dane got wind of it, had me bring her in.
Party's over.
Let's go.
So this is the lady that's been screwing with my business the last two nights? - Just tell me where my daughter is.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
I went to her school.
Her friends said that she buys pot from that club.
I've never seen her before.
- Did she owe you? What did you do? - Nothing.
I won't stop until you tell me what you did to her.
You should leave.
I want my daughter.
She wouldn't stop.
Had it in her head that Dane made her girl disappear.
Did he? - I wouldn't put it past him.
- What about Terri? Dane didn't know what to do.
He told me to watch her and he left.
When he came back hours later, he said he'd made arrangements.
- What arrangements? - Getting rid of her.
Where'd they go? To a condemned building off the Merrick.
Freeze.
FBI.
Put your hands in the air.
Come down.
Down the stairs.
Turn around.
Now.
Come on.
I've got Terri Long.
- Where's Jennifer Long? - I got no idea.
Really? Is that why you were trying to kill the mother? For fun? I already told her, I've never seen her daughter.
She's a girl you've been selling drugs to.
Now, you wanna help yourself, you help me.
Wallet's in my back pocket.
My lawyer's card's inside.
- Be gentle.
- I will be.
Okay.
I'm gonna need to ask you a few questions, okay? When was the last time you saw your daughter? Three days ago.
- Where? - At our house.
- How was school? - Fine.
And the test you had in fifth period? Good.
What would make me feel better is if your mother had started a fight with Sharon, and if my mom I was just at school.
Got the check for selling the car.
I thought we could celebrate.
- Only you weren't there.
- I had a free period.
Me and some friends went off campus and then I came home.
I talked to your principal and he showed me these.
Am I supposed to know what they are? Notes excusing you from school that I apparently wrote.
Are you smoking pot again? Is that where you've been? - I don't get high anymore.
- Then explain this to me.
You wouldn't understand.
Jenny, I know how painful it's been with everything that's happened between me and your dad.
You have no idea what it's been like.
It's been hard on me too, but I am trying to make this work.
Well, I'm sick of trying, okay? I wish you'd just leave me alone.
I had a late-night shift, so I had to go to work and I thought by the time I got back she'd be home.
What happened with her father? He walked out on us two years ago.
I've had to work double shifts ever since.
It hasn't been easy on Jen.
Do you think it's possible that she went to try and see her father? They don't get along.
Besides, he's on some oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
Why didn't you call the police when she went missing? I did.
Jen ran away from home three weeks ago.
It was only for a day.
This time the police said I had to wait Okay, the first time she ran away, you remember where she went? Tompkins Square Park.
I already went and looked, but no one had seen her.
Don't worry, we're gonna find your daughter.
Let's get you into the ambulance, okay? No sign of Jennifer in the condemned building.
Dane Hopkins still denies he did something to her and I can't find anything to contradict him.
I went to Jennifer's school, played Hippie Sticks with the burnouts.
Apparently she stopped hanging out with them.
That was around the first time she ran away.
Maybe she was telling the truth about not smoking pot.
Look, pot is a gateway drug.
Maybe she moved on to the harder stuff.
Lucy just pulled a bunch of MapQuest searches from the kid's computer.
- Where was she looking to go? - Residential addresses in the tristate.
Danny and I are gonna split up.
We'll check it out.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've seen her.
She and this other wacko came by last week.
What do you mean by wacko? I mean, she was spouting some mumbo jumbo about a church.
Look, I'm not making any donations.
If you need a signature for a petition, we can talk about it.
I'm not looking for any money.
My name is Jennifer.
I'm from the Church of Restored Beginnings.
I'd like to discuss how we can help strengthen your relationship with God and give you a more happy and fulfilling life.
Sweetheart, I already have my own version of happiness.
It's called divorce.
Wait.
The church can help you.
It helped me.
Ever since I joined, my life's completely turned around.
What are you, like, 12? Look, you're wasting your time, okay? Maybe I could come in just for a glass of water? No.
I'm sorry.
He talked to her for a couple minutes.
He really seemed to have her under his spell.
Then they went next door.
- What was the name of the church? - The Church of Restored Beginnings.
All right.
Thanks for your help.
The State of New York would like to dismiss the charges against Aguilar without prejudice, reserve the right to re-file at a later date.
The defendant will be released and his bail is ordered set aside or returned.
Thank you, Your Honor.
I would remind Mr.
Aguilar that there is a restraining order in effect.
Once he leaves this courtroom he's not to be closer than 300 yards to his daughter or her mother.
- Of course.
- I'd like to hear him say it.
I understand, Your Honor.
It won't be a problem.
It better not be.
Case dismissed.
I'm sorry, Jack.
I messed up.
I'm so sorry.
Oh, come on.
It's not your fault.
It's your trial.
I would have done the same thing.
I want you to get out of here.
Let's go.
Let's go.
- Spare a minute.
- Agent Malone? I just wanna remind you that I stopped my agents from killing you.
Yeah, I'm sure that was hard.
Don't make me regret it.
Church of Restored Beginnings operates out of Tompkins Square.
We know she's been there before.
It's a good bet that's where she hooked up with these guys.
Minister Gary Sedgwick.
Yeah, he's the man she's been going door to door with.
- Pat Robertson or a David Koresh? - A little bit of both actually.
They do have a practice that's potentially dangerous called Ascension.
It's where a follower goes into the woods alone and fasts for a week.
With Jennifer's life, it makes sense she'd be a prime target for this nut-job.
- Do we know where he is? - Not yet.
N.
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Has picked up another runaway though at the church.
Child Protective Services are bringing him in.
All right.
Thanks.
Okay, I got a new wrinkle on the Church of Restored Beginnings.
Apparently, three of the houses that Jen did a MapQuest search on were robbed last week.
I'm Agent Johnson, this is Agent Malone.
- Kristie Donovan.
- Yeah, nice to meet you.
- What are you listening to? - Uh, Panic at the Disco.
- Oh, my kids listen to that.
- That's cool.
Todd, we're looking for a girl from your church, Jennifer Long.
I don't know anybody by that name.
Well, do you recognize her? Yeah, I do.
- She's been around a couple times.
- When was the last time you saw her? I don't remember.
Todd, we're aware of the scam that the church fronts involving burglaries.
Do you think that has anything to do with her disappearance? Todd, you need to tell the truth.
I heard about something that happened a couple days ago from this other kid, Henry.
He works on the same route as Jen.
- No one's home.
- Good.
As the stuff comes out, we'll leave it.
You move it to the truck.
I don't wanna go in this time.
But I need you to show me the lay of the land.
The owner must have been asleep.
Well, did your friend see what happened to Sedgwick and Jennifer? No, no.
He just hauled ass out of there.
He thought he was gonna get shot.
- And you haven't seen her since? No.
What about Sedgwick? Uh, the next day he said that Jen had quit the church and wasn't coming back.
How did Jen get involved with all of this? Well, they target runaways.
And we're thinking that they came across her about three weeks ago.
Can I see the pamphlet from the church? Sure.
"Find strength in a community of love.
" Heh.
"A family for those who haven't found one yet.
" Well, who wouldn't want that? These kids are more vulnerable because they're estranged from their families.
Estranged? Nice way of saying my daughter didn't feel like I loved her.
I'm, uh, not making any personal judgments.
I just wanna help you find your daughter, okay? Can you think of any reasons why she would be open to these people? Well she has a lot of reasons to want a better family.
Did you think I wouldn't find out? I don't know who you're talking about.
In front of the drugstore during my delivery.
I saw you talking to him.
I was running errands.
If I talked to someone, it's just because they wanted directions.
- Daddy, stop it.
- Go back to your room.
She didn't do anything.
Jenny, it's okay, baby, just listen to your dad.
Lou, I promise, it'll never happen again, okay? You're right.
Nobody's gonna wanna look at you after I'm through.
Daddy, stop it.
I mean it.
The both of you are gonna be sorry you got out of bed this morning.
No.
No.
Little bitch.
Call 911.
Jenny, call 911.
He didn't want anyone to know how it happened so he lied to the paramedics.
And when he got out of the hospital he left town.
You told me he just walked out.
Well, I was ashamed of the truth.
We were her parents.
We were supposed to take care of her.
I was supposed to take care of her.
No.
Because she should hear it from me, Mom.
Just keep telling her you don't know.
Exactly.
Say you couldn't get in touch with me.
Please.
Okay? Okay, bye.
- What's going on? - My mom picked up Sofie from school.
She knows today is the court day so you can imagine, she's asking what happened.
Danny, I feel so bad.
She keeps having nightmares about Carlos taking her again.
I mean, how am I gonna tell my daughter that because of something I did this guy's gonna go free? I don't know.
You wanna come over tonight? I know it's gonna make her smile and feel safer.
Yeah, how about you? Me too.
Okay, I'll come over.
Taylor.
Really? Okay.
Okay.
No, thanks.
Bye.
Sedgwick went back to the church.
They're bringing him in.
I have the constitutional right to pursue the religion of my choosing.
Yeah, you look like a really spiritual guy.
You should spend some time with us.
You'll see that a restored beginning is possible if you Save it for the marks.
You know, it's easy to start again when you have, uh, somebody else's When you have a one-and-a-half-karat diamond ring.
When you have $ 1800 in cash.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah, the victims say that they let your followers into their homes a couple of days before they were robbed.
Yeah, well, some of the kids I work with are very troubled.
Like her? Witness says that she was shot at a robbery and you were there.
If she went down, the homeowner would have called someone.
Either you got her out, and didn't get her help or you did something to her because you thought she was gonna talk.
I don't know where she is.
We got three counts of robbery so far.
Abuse to a minor, lying to a federal officer.
We're at 15 years and counting.
Unless? Unless you tell us something that we don't know that helps us find her.
Well, she didn't get shot that night.
We got lucky, the guy missed both of us.
The worst thing that happened to Jen was she sprained her ankle when we ran.
- Sure your mother's not coming home? - I told you, she's at work.
- She won't be home for a couple hours.
- All right.
You know, you should tell everybody that you twisted your ankle on a curb.
- I will.
- All right.
It was dark, you tripped.
I won't say what happened.
Why do we do it? - Do what? - Go into people's houses.
Take their stuff.
People use material objects to fill a spiritual void.
We use what we take to spread the word of the church to make people whole again.
To build the community of love? Yeah.
You didn't even ask me about my ankle.
Yeah, that's a big surprise.
- Todd I wasn't thinking.
L I'm sorry, Jen.
How's your ankle? Don't worry, Gary.
Why don't you go? I'll make sure she's okay and we'll see you tomorrow.
And I left.
- And that's the last I saw of her.
- What was Todd doing there? He was just a kid I brought along for the job.
He said that was a boy named Henry.
Henry quit a year ago.
Well, do me a favor.
If you find him, don't let him get away again, okay? Thanks.
All right, that was CPS.
They put Todd in a group home and 20 minutes later he ran away.
- Any history on where he might go? - No.
I ran him through the system.
- Name, address, all bogus.
- He might be with Jennifer.
It's possible.
You know, we're getting real good at letting people walk away, Jack.
Why don't you go and talk to the other cult kids and see if you can find out his real name.
Jack.
I've got his prints.
- Yahtzee.
- I beg your pardon? We've got a match.
His name's Bradley Foster.
Okay, armed robbery, battery.
Wait a minute.
Lewd acts with a minor? Okay, well, the good news is he has an address and a Chrysler we can put an APB on.
What's the bad news? According to his driver's license, he's 26 years old.
Clear.
- Clear.
- Any sign she was here? No.
But there's a lifetime supply of Nair in the bathroom.
Keeping his 5:00 shadow at bay must have been a full-time job.
What's that? All right.
What is that? That's her.
From when she was last seen, she could be there for days without food or water.
Well, I called Sedgwick, and he had no idea that Todd was an adult.
But that he'd been a member of the church for two years.
Good hunting ground for a predator looking to take advantage of kids.
Hey, Sam, what's up? It looks like the IP address is bouncing off a mirror site in eastern Europe.
- How long till we can get to the source? - Maybe another hour.
This guy's onto us.
He could be heading there right now to kill her.
Hey, hang on a second, all right? Looks stalker-like.
What do you think? Another victim? I don't know, she's a bit mature for his taste.
I'm gonna take these to the office and see if I can get an ID.
Okay.
Hey, I'm back.
So, what do you need me to do? - Make sure the connection stays open.
Yeah, I will.
Hey.
We got a hit on Brad Foster's car.
Seven-eight-one-one to 9033, cover the back of the diner.
We need this guy to lead us to the girl.
Nine-oh-three-three, copy that.
Remember those photos we found at Foster's apartment? - Yeah.
- I think that diner's a match.
Yeah, right.
I'm gonna text Viv.
You wanna talk about what happened to Carlos? Why? The guy walked, that's it.
And what? And if you had let me take a shot at Carlos Sofie and Elena wouldn't be in danger right now.
That's what.
You know what? I saved your ass.
If I'd let you take that shot you'd be in an OPR investigation that would end your career.
Jack, I'd rather be doing security at a mall and know they're safe.
Okay, fine.
Next time you see Carlos, shoot him.
I'm starting to get it.
The only one who can bend the rules is Jack Malone, right? If you don't like my decisions, why don't you take an application out at the mall? What the hell's he doing here? I don't know, because the APB had a no-approach alert.
He's gonna screw this up over a busted taillight? - See if you can get him out of here.
- This is 7811.
Please connect me to N.
Y.
P.
D.
Dispatch.
I'll put you through.
Come on, just write him a ticket.
Go.
FBI.
He's dead.
Great.
That's just perfect.
We don't know the origin of the feed? He was either a genius or he had help.
The trail dead-ends at a bank in Virginia.
Someone built a Trojan horse in the system so they could use the bank's data links.
- Hang on.
- I didn't find anything on the girl but I did find these keys.
This one's for the Chrysler.
And this one looks like it opens a padlock.
Samantha, are there any public storage units around here? Uh, let me check.
Hey, Jack, how close is that train? It's about 400 yards.
Okay, I think that train is driving by her right now.
It's blocking the light.
- I think Brad was on his way to see her.
- It's 6:30.
The sun's going down.
- I'd say she's east of the tracks.
Okay, thanks.
Get the paramedics down here right now.
Holy mother of God.
Jennifer? Jennifer? No.
Get away.
No, no, no, it's okay.
It's okay.
Listen, my name's Jack.
I'm a policeman, and I'm here to help you.
He's coming back.
- Who's coming back? - Todd.
I don't wanna be here when my mom comes home.
- No, he's not coming back, honey.
- He always comes back.
Trust me he's never coming back.
I just wanna help you, okay? Please.
Come on.
I wanna talk about what happened in the car.
I think we've talked enough.
How are you? Well, that should be an easy question to answer.
Hey, listen, did we ever get any traction on this girl? Now, a girl matching her description works at the diner where Foster was shot.
She was running errands when I called.
I left a message asking to call me back.
Well, she might have been the next victim.
- Then she got lucky.
- Yeah.
What's up? Nothing.
Nothing that a good bourbon wouldn't fix.
Quinn's? Meet you in a half an hour.
I gotta stop and pick something up.
Okay.
Jack Malone.
Did you find someone and save the day? Oh, don't worry, man, I'm not packing.
I am.
What are you doing here? I can't be near my daughter.
I can't be near her mother.
Not a lot of places in the city I'm allowed to be.
Then I would take the hint and move.
Heh.
I might have to.
With no job, it's been hard keeping up with the rent.
I guess.
Anything else you want? Yeah.
I want you to know I'm not going away that easy.
I had a rash like that once.
Yeah.
Catch up with you later.
Oh, you bet.
- Angela? - Yeah? I forgot to give this to you.
Some lady from the FBI called, she wanted to talk to you.
- About what? - Probably that guy that got shot.
- She wants you to call back.
- All right, thanks.
- Good night.
- Good night.