FBI: Most Wanted (2020) s06e04 Episode Script
Pig Butchering
1
- A little more this way.
- [GRUNTS]
Okay, I think the light's better.
If you just push it
Okay, Sheryll, I think it's good.
You've moved it five times.
Looks great. Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Are you okay?
Yeah. My leg's better.
Not your leg.
You seem unusually particular.
What the hell does that mean?
You know, the situation
with Charlotte and your kids,
this isn't some small thing.
Hana, I'm good. I swear.
The kids love D.C.
And, you know, finally,
I can do the things
I've always been meaning to do.
Okay.
I'm glad you're good.
Okay, one last thing, I promise.
One last thing.
What do you think about
moving the chair over there?
- Come on.
- Oh, my God.
Let's do it.
- [GRUNTS]
- Come on.
You've been home three days
and you haven't unpacked?
Do me a favor and do not open
this until after I've left.
- [WATCH BEEPS]
- Okay.
Which is now.
Come on, Milo,
We're going to the groomers.
That's very nice of you,
helping Ethan with Milo.
It's very girlfriend-y.
Uh, yeah, yeah.
Um, Ray keeps going on
about this roller rink.
Tomorrow's '90s night. You in?
I can't.
Taking my parents to dinner.
That's nice.
Doing all the stuff
you finally get to do.
- Yeah.
- See you at work.
All right. I'll see you at work.
Come on, Milo.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[PHONE RINGING]
Yep, you forgot your jacket.
Don't worry.
I'll bring it to the office.
Hello. Uh, may I speak
with Sheryll Barnes?
- Who is this?
- I'm Jessie.
I'm calling from the IRS.
It appears someone made
an unauthorized withdrawal
from your bank account.
I know this is a scam.
I understand why you may think that.
- But give me a minute to
- Just stop, okay?
I'm an FBI agent.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
They won't let me leave.
Who won't let you leave?
I don't I don't know their names.
It's a man and a woman.
They call each other C and D.
Listen to me.
If this isn't a scam, I need
you to hang up and dial 911.
There are blocks on the phones.
I can only call preapproved numbers.
Where are you?
I don't I don't know.
- How old are you?
- I'm 17.
♪
Hold on. Just hang on a second.
♪
Good.
Uh, that way, we can avoid
you paying the late fee.
I'll work on that now.
- Jessie?
- [LINE BEEPS]
Hello?
♪
We need everyone in the office.
♪
[DOOR CLOSES]
You want to take this, C?
Some of you have been working hard,
bringing in your share.
And when you hit your quota,
you're free to go.
Others of you
have not been doing your part.
And for those people
it's time to start taking
things seriously.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
♪
[ALL GASPING]
Don't!
Or you'll be next.
[CHOKING]
♪
Hey, hey.
Hey, there she is.
- Hey.
- Look who's back.
Aw.
- I missed you.
- Oh, I missed you.
Yeah, I missed you
picking up the lunch tab.
But I digress, all right?
- [LAUGHS] Good to see you.
- Good to see you.
- You forgot that.
- Thank you.
- How are the kiddos?
- Anais is amazing.
She already has a new best friend.
I FaceTime with her
and Theo every night.
Glad it's working out.
Oh, I, uh I got you something.
- Hmm.
- [LAUGHS]
Thank you.
And in a bizarre twist, we have no case
waiting to be assigned.
We don't have a fugitive?
Don't jinx it. We're taking
full advantage of this.
You two are heading to Staten Island
for firearms makeup qualification.
- Okay.
- We already did that.
I'm aware, which is why you
two get to deliver evidence
to our Bronx warehouse.
See you after lunch.
I'll meet you in the car, okay?
Okay.
Knock, knock.
- Well, this is cool.
- [CHUCKLES]
When did this become your office?
When I realized I get
more work done not listening
to Hana and Ray debate
vegan cuisine and Bad Bunny.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
How you doing?
You good?
Well, it's an adjustment.
But seeing how quickly the kids
settled in was helpful.
And we're gonna set up
a regular visiting schedule,
so that'll be nice.
I'm okay.
Well, if there are any not-okay days,
just know I'm here.
Thanks. I appreciate that.
So I got a
what seemed like
a scam call this morning
from a 17-year-old girl.
And she claimed she's being
forced to work and can't leave.
I think we should look into it.
- Where is she?
- I don't know.
- Is she in danger?
- Well, I can't say for sure.
But she sounded really scared.
[SIGHS]
Well, if it's legit,
that's no bueno.
Sounds like a child-labor violation,
maybe wire fraud.
Kick it over to Jubal.
Well, Remy, because she called me
Sheryll, we're not private detectives.
Our job is to hunt
and catch wanted fugitives.
Jubal, okay?
♪
Yeah.
Well, maybe her not getting
out is part of the scam.
No, I don't think so.
I heard real fear in her voice.
She sent me a link to this crypto site.
Fake IRS asking for crypto?
It might actually be a pig butchering.
What's that?
Okay, so you find a pig, the victim,
and then you get them
interested in crypto.
You usually say you work
for the government,
or you meet them on a dating site,
and you get them to set up
a crypto account.
Surely, people know that's a scam.
I mean, these guys are crazy smart.
So you put the money in,
and you start making
an unbelievable amount
of money fattening the pig.
And when you go to cash out,
the account's closed.
The pig's been butchered.
You should, uh, pass this off to Remy.
I did.
He said kick it to Jubal.
What did Jubal say?
You haven't been to Jubal.
I need to find her.
I get it, but I really like my job.
Hana, you know my suitcase you saw?
For some reason,
I just can't seem to unpack it.
I don't know why.
Maybe it'll all feel official,
like I left my kids forever.
You know, I keep having this nightmare
where Anais, Theo,
and I we're walking down Seventh Avenue,
and I turn around, and they're gone.
And I look everywhere,
but I can't seem to find them.
I literally wake up screaming.
And I'll see them again. I know that.
This girl I want to find her, Hana.
I need to.
[TENDER MUSIC]
♪
Okay. I can try to help you.
♪
Thanks.
Okay, Jessie's phone call and texts
were routed through a VPN.
- So it's a dead end?
- [SCOFFS]
Have you forgotten who I am?
Okay, the VPN's local,
like, super local
New Rochelle.
It's registered to a Howard Merger.
Remy's not expecting us back
till after lunch.
Well, then let's hope that
Howard's in a helpful mood.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
It's warm. He's here.
♪
FBI!
[FAUCET SQUEAKS, WATER RUNNING]
Howard Merger, open up!
Be right there.
Is that blood?
♪
FBI! Hands up!
You can't just come in here.
We can if you were disposing
of evidence.
You ever heard of the Fourth Amendment,
or is the government
destroying that now, too?
Oh, shut up. Sit your ass down.
Is there anyone else in here?
Yeah, it's a real party in here.
Clear.
Where's that blood from?
[SCOFFS] You're gonna lose your job.
Barnes.
♪
- We need to call Remy now.
- No, he's gonna be mad.
Yeah, and if we don't call him,
we're really gonna feel his wrath.
The only way out of this is
if we bring him something solid.
Hey, bitch, I want a lawyer.
And I want my wife not to
have left me for another woman.
Guess not all our wishes are granted.
[SCOFFS]
- You see anything?
- It's a mess.
There's a couple of suitcases
that have been pulled out.
Going on vacation, Howard?
Well, he's not gonna give us anything.
No.
But his phone will.
♪
- Anything?
- He's using Covert-34.
It's a messaging app
that deletes messages once they're sent.
His location services are
a little friendlier.
He's been hanging out
in this radius of the Bronx.
Well, that radius is a mile or two.
- Can we not narrow it down?
- Not really, not unless
Did you smell something strange inside?
No. Why?
♪
Realize you made a mistake?
Then maybe you should apologize
before I have my attorneys
make your life a living
You think that's blood?
I don't know.
[CAR DOOR OPENS]
It smells sharper than blood.
It's soy sauce.
♪
He was at a Chinese restaurant.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Excuse me.
FBI Agents Barnes and Gibson.
This about the guy down the street?
- What guy?
- The poker game.
It's friendly. I keep telling people.
No, we're not here about that.
Have you seen this guy?
No.
No, not today or not at all?
Never. We haven't opened yet.
- You want me to keep an eye out?
- Uh, we're good.
Thanks.
Soy sauce.
It matches the set from his house.
♪
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
♪
So what you heard
when I said "kick it to Jubal"
was to go rogue and run
an off-the-books investigation,
then drag Hana into it?
I didn't get dragged into anything.
- Then you're next.
- Remy, I was right.
Something is going on.
They're killing people.
We need to find Jessie
and whoever else they have.
We don't have to do anything.
They slit this boy's throat.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Who is he?
Cesar Hernandez, 18, from Texas.
He came to New York to be an actor.
Social media posts stopped
six months ago.
I ran the name Jessie
through missing persons.
Only one hit was a 17-year-old girl
Jessica Davis.
She was reported missing
by a social worker.
Was she in foster care?
She was living in a shelter
in Manhattan.
And what'd that guy have to say?
That he wants a lawyer.
His name is Howard Merger.
We were just at his house.
Ray, Nina, talk to the social worker.
You two with me, because
apparently you need adult supervision.
We're going back to Howard's.
♪
Oh, did Jessie's boyfriend do this?
- Her stepdad.
- Explains why she ran away.
Unsurprisingly, Jessie has
some trust issues.
But eventually she connected
with another girl, Shandy,
who's also missing.
And all of Shandy's
information is in these files?
Yes.
- This is their room.
- Okay.
Kayla, these are FBI agents.
They're looking for Jessie and Shandy.
Uh, those are their beds.
And didn't Life Skills start
10 minutes ago?
Uh, Kayla, hi. I'm Nina.
Do you have any idea what
happened to Jessie and Shandy?
Not really.
I know Shandy was interviewing
for a job.
She was tired of being broke.
- Where was she interviewing?
- I don't know.
I think it was, like,
a toothpaste company, or something.
Would it happen to be
Crest Shares Management?
Yeah, that sounds right.
I hope you guys find them.
They're the nicest girls
I've lived with here.
Thanks.
All right. So the registered agents
of Crest Shares Management
are Carson and Denny Cobb.
They may be Howard's partners.
I doubt they're working
from their business address,
but I'll send agents over.
I'll call some print shops,
see if I can find out something
about this bag.
Looks like a husband-and-wife team.
Denny and Carson Cobb
are Howard's partners.
Jessie said the people holding her
called each other C and D,
so that's got to be them.
You get anything from the servers?
I mean, Howard's a jerk,
but he's a genius.
He's got everything encrypted,
intrusion detection, and tripwires.
Can you pull anything from Jessie's ISP?
We don't really have the time.
The best I can do is try
and shut them down.
No. They'd know we're onto them,
and I don't want them disappearing.
Howard's boss says he was
in meetings all morning,
so he couldn't kill Cesar.
Which means Denny and Carson
probably killed him.
So they needed help with the body,
and they messaged Howard on Covert-34.
[PHONE RINGS]
Jessie?
Sheryll, they killed my friend, Cesar.
Jessie, tell us anything
you can about where you are.
- Who is that?
- That's my boss, Remy, okay?
We're all trying to find you.
I don't know where we are. [SNIFFLES]
The windows are glazed,
but I can see red on a building outside.
You were interviewing
for a job in Manhattan, right?
Yeah.
I was so stupid.
Who interviews at 8:00 at night?
Jessie, this isn't your fault.
I need you to focus.
Where was the interview?
Near Spring Street Park.
Shandy met D the day before,
and he gave her
a free tote bag and 50 bucks
to bring a friend to the interview.
And when you guys showed up,
they just took you both?
- Yeah.
- How long was the drive
from where they snatched you
to where you are now?
I was so scared, it felt like forever,
but it took 20 minutes maybe.
[SNIFFLES] Okay.
Uh, thank you for your patience
while I look into things.
- [LINE CLICKS, BEEPS]
- Damn.
[SNIFFLES]
What?
I'm sorry I got you into this.
You didn't know.
We're gonna get out.
We just need to make
them a little money,
and then we'll be on a bus to L.A.
And we'll finally get
to see those palm trees.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[DEVICE BEEPS]
Howard's not answering the messages.
Maybe he's busy.
He could be dying, and he'd answer.
You think the cops
caught him with Cesar?
If they caught Howard with a body,
he's gonna flip.
He knows our names.
Yeah, but he doesn't know where we are.
We're going through Tor to his VPN.
Where did you meet him with the kid?
At his place.
He was gonna put him
in a suitcase and dump it.
If the cops didn't catch him with Cesar,
they could have gotten
to Howard through the VPN.
What if they're onto this?
We've been flying under
the radar for almost a year.
Why now?
We've been hard on them.
What if one of them is a mole?
How?
They can't call anyone.
They're all preprogrammed numbers.
Still, we have to be ready to go.
I'll pick up the latest
tote-bag order from Carla.
That's our main exposure.
I'll talk to the kids.
♪
This guy was a pack rat.
Carson was an electrician,
and Howard and Denny worked
together at Summit Tech.
Carson was let go during COVID,
and Denny was fired 18 months ago.
Didn't you say it was two years ago
these scams started in Asia?
- [CLATTERING]
- Yeah.
They're sitting around home,
out of work.
They learn about a scam
and decide to run one.
Well, who better to run your servers
than someone you already know?
What's this?
Looks like Howard got
an email a few days ago.
There's no name,
just the sender's address.
"You're a dead man."
- What's that all about?
- You tell me.
- [PHONE CHIMES]
- [SIGHS]
Finally, some good news.
Ray and Nina found the shop
that printed the tote bag.
Hi.
Uh, we're FBI Agents Chase and Cannon.
- We just need to ask you a
- [PHONE RINGING]
Oh.
This is Carla. Hold, please.
- Sorry about that.
- No problem.
Any information you can give us
on the person who ordered this?
[DOOR CLOSES]
Um, like the fact that the guy
is standing right behind you?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Hi.
Oh!
FBI! Stop!
- Excuse me.
- Hey!
[CAR HORN HONKS]
- Whoa! Hey!
- Hey!
♪
- Where'd he go?
- I don't know.
♪
Nina.
♪
[WHISPERING] Start heading out, now.
Go. Go, go.
[WHISPERING] Get out of here. Go.
♪
[NORMAL VOICE] Hey, hey, Denny.
- [WHIMPERING]
- Hey. We just need to talk.
There's nothing to talk about.
Well, you got two options.
We can talk
or I can shoot you.
What you want to do?
- I pick option three.
- [SCREAMS]
[GUNSHOT]
Hey, Nina, we need an EMT!
Calling. Go, go, go!
♪
[GRUNTS]
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
So how was Milo's day at the doggy spa?
[LAUGHS] It was good.
Ethan hates it when
they put bows on him.
So I asked them to put extra.
[CHUCKLES]
You did a great job
at avoiding me, by the way.
How are things with you guys?
Fine. Good.
"Fine, good."
What, is he a reliable car?
I mean, yeah, usually, when he's around.
But hasn't been a lot lately.
Well, that kind of makes
sense with an air marshal, right?
So is that a deal-breaker?
No, I think I'm getting
used to him being away.
I mean, sometimes I worry
about us breaking up,
and it scares me.
I hear you, yeah.
When it comes to matters of the heart,
there's too many things
you can't control.
Good morning.
Any updates on the woman from the diner?
She didn't make it.
All right, let's find them
and arrest them.
- You okay?
- Yeah. Why?
I mean, chasing a case
without Remy's stamp
it's a gutsy move.
That little girl's voice just broke me.
I'm sure you all
would have done the same thing.
Switzerland.
There's just too much baggage there.
Where are we?
Uh, security cameras from the diner
and from surrounding businesses
did not catch where Denny went.
What about the hat and jacket he tossed?
There's nothing in the pockets.
But an evidence tech
is running forensics.
And the address for
Denny and Carson's business,
Crest Shares Management, is empty.
They moved out of their
apartment three years ago.
The credit card Denny used
to pay for the bags
is registered to a shell corp
whose address is Howard's house.
These idiots are smart.
There's always a layer between
them and what they're doing.
Well, that's not all
we got from the card.
Someone's been using it to rent cars,
as recent as last week.
The week that Jessie and Shandy
went missing, they rented a van.
That's worth looking into.
Ray, Nina, hit the rental agency.
What about
the "you're a dead man" email?
Written by a student at NYU
Jacob Anderson.
Let's go talk to this boy genius.
Keep digging.
- I didn't send any email.
- Jacob, we saw the email.
Can you guys leave, okay?
I got to go to work.
Maybe this will help.
The guy you emailed
we arrested him for murder.
- Seriously?
- Seriously, dude.
Who'd he kill?
Why don't you tell us what you know
before we start tearing
this place apart?
[CLEARS THROAT]
My mom died a few years ago.
And my dad was so lost.
It took him a while to start
going out again, but
he found this woman
on an online dating site.
And she convinced him
to invest in crypto.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Some things just hit you
like a hurricane.
Come out of nowhere
and destroy your life.
Anyway [CLEARS THROAT]
He knew that crypto could be a scam.
So, instead of going through her,
he opened up his own account.
His money doubled in a couple of months,
but when he tried to cash out,
he was locked out.
- Scammers on the site?
- Yeah.
He lost his life savings,
his house, my tuition,
everything.
He tried to be so careful
his whole life,
and now he's living in a camper
in my sister's backyard,
drinking again.
Sorry, Jacob.
And you started looking
for the people who scammed him?
I only got as far as a VPN.
I pulled some encrypted emails,
but the admin must have seen me
and locked me out.
I couldn't decrypt them.
Any chance you saved those emails?
Yeah. Why?
Uh, yep, and here's the car he rented.
Yo, how long does it take
to be an FBI agent?
Why? You thinking about applying?
Yeah, man, this place
doesn't pay me enough.
Okay, the 2019 Honda CRV
says it has a GPS.
- Can you track it?
- Uh, looks like it's broken.
Or he disabled it.
What about the van that he rented?
All of our vans are pretty old, so
Yeah. No, sorry.
Can you print out what
you have on the van?
I'm gonna put a BOLO out on this.
So how long does the FBI thing take?
Academy is about five months.
You got a bachelor's degree?
- BA in Greek studies.
- All right.
- [PRINTER BEEPS]
- Printout on the van.
- All right.
- What do these lines mean?
So those are where they used
the van's E-ZPass.
All right, so they took
the Holland Tunnel a few times.
Yeah. 8:27 p.m. a month ago.
That was right after they
interviewed Jessie and Shandy.
So they're not in Manhattan.
They're in New Jersey.
One more FBI question.
How many, uh, felonies can you have?
None.
Damn.
Looks like Denny and Carson
might be in Jersey.
You think that's where Jessie is?
Ah, it makes sense.
The commercial real estate crisis means
lots of empty spaces.
She did say they were driving
for only 20 minutes.
Fear distorts time.
Between 15 and 25 minutes.
Hana, bring up Spring Street Park.
[KEYS CLACKING]
[SIGHS]
8:00 at night.
Traffic would be a lot lighter.
[KEYS CLACKING]
That narrows it down to
the entire state of New Jersey.
How we doing with the email decrypting?
Almost there.
It looks like Howard was emailing Denny
updated server info,
and it wasn't just about work.
Did he say where he was?
No, but look.
"The basilica reminds me of my parents
forcing me to go to church."
In New Jersey,
there's only one basilica,
and it's in Newark.
My mom's religious.
We're going to Newark.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Remy, I know you're still mad.
Can we just talk about it?
We're on the case.
You got what you wanted.
- All I wanted to do
- Yeah, what you wanted to do.
- Remember that.
- [PHONE RINGING]
- It's her. It's Jessie.
- Put it on speaker.
Hey, Jessie.
Sheryll, are you close?
We're working on it,
but we need to know more
about the building you're in.
- [INDISTINCT ARGUING]
- Um, I don't know.
I was blindfolded on the floor of a van
- when they brought us here.
- Okay.
And when they took you out of the van,
what else do you remember?
Um, it smelled like
like car exhaust or gasoline.
And it was echoing.
- Were you inside or outside?
- Inside.
Uh, the floor was smooth, so
Okay, could it have been
a parking garage?
Yes, yes. That's what it felt like.
And when they took us
inside, they
I could hear an elevator door closing.
I think I heard us moving up.
Do you know what floor you're on?
No, they didn't take the blindfolds off
until we got into the office.
What makes you think it was
an office and not an apartment?
[ARGUING CONTINUES]
It's just this big space.
There are cubicles
and fluorescent lights.
- [GRUNTS]
- Please come soon.
They know that you're looking for them,
and they're beating people up
trying to find out
if someone's talking to you.
We're working as fast as we can.
Right now I just need you to focus.
Do you hear anything?
Um, just cars honking sometimes.
And there's a train
in the morning.
Okay, train.
What else can you tell us
about the train?
I don't know. I don't think
it's on a pattern or a schedule.
Other than you, how many
people are they holding?
- Nine.
- So ten total?
♪
- Jessie?
- [LINE BEEPS]
Oh, my God, Jessie.
They're not gonna let us go,
no matter how much money we make.
♪
They're gonna kill you.
Shandy, you're my best friend.
You can't tell them.
I'm trying to save all of us.
[CLAPS HANDS]
Everyone stop what you're doing.
Wrap up your calls.
♪
I hope our mole is happy
watching their friends suffer
for their actions.
This person did something wrong
and is fine watching all
of you pay for it.
You really want to protect
someone like that?
Hmm?
No one?
Well, here's the thing.
Someone here knows something,
and I'm gonna find out who.
And the longer it takes,
the more painful it will be.
♪
Jessie says we're looking for a building
with an underground parking garage.
I mean, it makes sense.
I doubt that they would
walk two blindfolded girls
down the middle of the street.
She also says that she can hear trains.
So she's got to be somewhere
within the vicinity of the tracks.
I have to believe that the
building isn't fully occupied.
Right. They wouldn't want
the other tenants
in the building to hear
the kids if they screamed.
Okay, Newark License Office
says a lot of these buildings
are 50% occupied,
which still leaves dozens
of buildings and hundreds
of thousands of square feet
of office space.
And the red color outside the building,
that means what to us?
I don't know. A brick building?
Or a billboard or mural.
Denny and Carson must know
we're onto them by now.
Let's turn this damn city
upside down if we have to.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS] Anything from Jessie?
No.
Uh, the lab just sent the forensics
on Denny's hat and jacket.
They found dirt,
probably from the sidewalk.
But, uh, on both the hat and jacket,
they found generic carpet fibers.
Carpet fibers, my ass.
This stuff was just sitting
on the floor of his office.
[SIGHS] Ridiculous.
♪
Yeah, I'm not seeing anything.
Kind of feels like
we're stabbing in the dark.
Agreed.
I bet it's a lot
of fun in the other Tahoe.
- Remy seems pissed.
- Yeah.
I've gone rogue before
and gotten my ass chewed
six ways to Sunday.
Was it worth it?
Ultimately, yeah.
Sometimes you have a hunch,
and you got to follow it.
Not sure the boss sees it that way.
[GRUNTS]
You're lying!
[GROANS]
You think this is a game, huh?
This isn't a game!
Huh?
[GRUNTING]
♪
Get out of here.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
It's time.
We haven't talked to everybody yet.
The longer we stay, the closer they get.
Think about what you're saying.
We don't have time to move the kids.
And if we leave them here,
we're erasing a year of work.
You are standing
in the middle of a castle
that is burning to the ground.
If you stay, you burn.
If we walk away,
we can set up somewhere else.
♪
Let me talk to one more.
And if we don't find the leak,
we kill them all and go.
♪
[DOOR OPENS]
Shandy.
Come here.
♪
There's too many red buildings,
and we're not even
halfway through checking
all the buildings near train tracks.
Hana, the lease check shows
zero hits for Denny and Carson.
And what about
Howard's shell corp?
- Also zero.
- All right.
So they're either renting
off-book, or they're squatting.
If they're squatting, how
are they getting electricity?
Carson was an electrician.
She'd know how to tap
into the panel box.
Okay, I'm pulling up Newark buildings
where electricity usage
increased over the last,
let's say, 12 months.
Damn, that's a long list.
What if you take the
buildings with increased usage
and overlay them with our search radius?
- Or check the cell towers?
- Okay, okay.
Here's one that's by train tracks
and next to a carpet
distribution warehouse.
Nina, Ray, we're sending you
the address.
Light them up.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
I don't know.
- [GRUNTS]
- [SOBS]
You want me to stop?
- Then tell the truth!
- It's not me.
That's the truth.
Hold her.
No. No, no.
[SCREAMING, CRYING]
If I keep pushing, your wrist will snap.
It's not me!
[SCREAMING]
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop, stop!
It wasn't her. It was me.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
What did you do?
One of my calls was an FBI agent.
But I didn't know.
It was pre-programmed.
Who are they?
It's someone named Sheryll Barnes.
- What did you tell her?
- Um, nothing.
I mean, I don't even know your names.
- I don't even know where we are.
- They're closing in.
So you must have told them something!
Just that I was in an office
and I wasn't allowed to leave.
I'm sorry. That was it.
See, I don't think you're
telling us everything.
No, no, no! I swear, I swear!
I didn't tell them anything else!
I can tell Sheryll whatever you want!
Please don't hurt us!
They got cameras covering
the whole building.
You want me to try and jam them?
No, it'll tell them we're here.
Well, I got the red banner.
That means they're on the west side.
We got ten innocent people in there.
No kidding. What are we looking at?
Okay, so, over this side,
we've got an elevator.
Over here, we've got a stairwell.
Barnes, Hana, with me.
We'll go to the top and flush them out.
Ray, Nina, cover the exits.
Stay on comms.
Let's get it.
I don't think
you're telling me everything!
- No, that was it!
- Tell me the truth!
I No!
- They're here!
- No!
[DISTANT GUNSHOT]
We got shots from upstairs.
We heard the shots below us.
We're getting off now.
♪
There's not enough time! We got to go!
[WHIMPERING]
[LABORED BREATHING]
Shandy!
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry, Shandy. I'm sorry.
Oh, my God.
Are you okay?
♪
FBI!
Ray, Nina, they're in the stairwell.
They're heading to you.
Hey, I got them here!
FBI! Stop right there!
- I'll cut them off!
- Got it!
♪
[TRAIN BELL CLANGING]
♪
[TRAIN HORN BLARING]
Drop it!
[GRUNTING]
[CLANGING CONTINUES]
♪
Suspect's down!
♪
- Jessie?
- [KNOCKING ON DOOR]
- Jessie, you in there?
- Sheryll, please hurry!
They shot my friend!
Okay, hang tight! We're coming in!
We need the paramedics.
What about this thing?
We need an RFID card reader.
Let's go old school instead.
♪
Jessie?
- Jessie.
- Sheryll.
- Okay.
- [SOBBING] Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
- It's okay.
- [CRYING] Thank you so much.
- [LABORED BREATHING]
- Okay, keep breathing.
It's gonna be okay. I promise you.
[PANTING]
- Come on.
- Keep breathing.
Line them up.
Stand along the wall.
Hands where I can see them.
Hands up.
♪
Hang in there, okay?
You'll be all right.
Remy.
Hey, Remy.
Would you just stop?
I'm sorry I went behind your back.
I couldn't help it.
My gut knew something was wrong,
and I just followed it.
Just because something feels personal
doesn't mean you get to drag
the entire team into it,
especially without me knowing it.
Just like when we all helped
you look for Mikey's killer?
That was completely different.
I asked for your help
instead of going off on my own.
And let me remind you,
in case you forgot,
I run this.
I'm the boss.
I get to decide which cases
this team takes.
I know, but, look, I was right.
We saved all those kids up there.
Listen, I'm not blind.
I get what's going on.
But when you let whatever's
going on in your life
cloud your professional judgment,
that doesn't work for me.
I know.
I like you, Barnes.
I really do.
But this is not the first time
we locked horns.
So I'm gonna keep it real for you.
You pull a stunt like that again,
you're off the team.
♪
[KNOCK AT DOOR, DOG BARKS]
Oh, who's that? Who's that?
- Hey.
- Sheryll.
I hope I'm not disturbing you.
No, come on in.
I was just, uh, getting ready
for Ray's roller-skating '90s thing.
Yeah. [CHUCKLES]
I thought you said
you had plans tonight.
I did.
Your mom and dad okay?
No, I mean, I did say
I have plans, but I lied.
I didn't want you to know my real plans
were to sit at home all night
and feel sorry for myself.
Uh, no, I mean, come in. Sit down.
I hate being alone in that place, Hana.
It used to be so busy and alive.
Yeah, I hear you.
Sometimes I miss the smell
of Ray's stank oatmeal
in the morning around here.
And you were right.
Charlotte broke my heart.
But we also had
some good years together.
And now I got these two amazing kids.
And I could lock my heart
in my apartment
and shrink my life so small
that I never care
about anyone else again.
Yeah, my heart would be safe,
but it would also be dead.
I can't be afraid of living.
Good for you.
Hana, you're in the same boat.
If you give in to the fear
of getting your heart broken,
you're gonna miss so much of life.
Don't give up on Ethan.
♪
I know.
I haven't.
Thank you. That's very good advice.
So, I got a proposal.
As much as I love roller skating
what do you say about opening this,
ordering some Chinese,
and finding an old movie to watch?
I say done.
Look, I was in grade school in the '90s.
I barely remember it.
There's a wine opener right there.
Get to that. I'll get some glasses.
Okay.
[SOFT MUSIC]
Hana, I appreciate this.
Feeling's mutual.
- Okay, the only thing is
- What?
You bought a backup bottle, right?
After what I went
through with Remy today,
you best believe it.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
♪
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]
- A little more this way.
- [GRUNTS]
Okay, I think the light's better.
If you just push it
Okay, Sheryll, I think it's good.
You've moved it five times.
Looks great. Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Are you okay?
Yeah. My leg's better.
Not your leg.
You seem unusually particular.
What the hell does that mean?
You know, the situation
with Charlotte and your kids,
this isn't some small thing.
Hana, I'm good. I swear.
The kids love D.C.
And, you know, finally,
I can do the things
I've always been meaning to do.
Okay.
I'm glad you're good.
Okay, one last thing, I promise.
One last thing.
What do you think about
moving the chair over there?
- Come on.
- Oh, my God.
Let's do it.
- [GRUNTS]
- Come on.
You've been home three days
and you haven't unpacked?
Do me a favor and do not open
this until after I've left.
- [WATCH BEEPS]
- Okay.
Which is now.
Come on, Milo,
We're going to the groomers.
That's very nice of you,
helping Ethan with Milo.
It's very girlfriend-y.
Uh, yeah, yeah.
Um, Ray keeps going on
about this roller rink.
Tomorrow's '90s night. You in?
I can't.
Taking my parents to dinner.
That's nice.
Doing all the stuff
you finally get to do.
- Yeah.
- See you at work.
All right. I'll see you at work.
Come on, Milo.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[PHONE RINGING]
Yep, you forgot your jacket.
Don't worry.
I'll bring it to the office.
Hello. Uh, may I speak
with Sheryll Barnes?
- Who is this?
- I'm Jessie.
I'm calling from the IRS.
It appears someone made
an unauthorized withdrawal
from your bank account.
I know this is a scam.
I understand why you may think that.
- But give me a minute to
- Just stop, okay?
I'm an FBI agent.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
They won't let me leave.
Who won't let you leave?
I don't I don't know their names.
It's a man and a woman.
They call each other C and D.
Listen to me.
If this isn't a scam, I need
you to hang up and dial 911.
There are blocks on the phones.
I can only call preapproved numbers.
Where are you?
I don't I don't know.
- How old are you?
- I'm 17.
♪
Hold on. Just hang on a second.
♪
Good.
Uh, that way, we can avoid
you paying the late fee.
I'll work on that now.
- Jessie?
- [LINE BEEPS]
Hello?
♪
We need everyone in the office.
♪
[DOOR CLOSES]
You want to take this, C?
Some of you have been working hard,
bringing in your share.
And when you hit your quota,
you're free to go.
Others of you
have not been doing your part.
And for those people
it's time to start taking
things seriously.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
♪
[ALL GASPING]
Don't!
Or you'll be next.
[CHOKING]
♪
Hey, hey.
Hey, there she is.
- Hey.
- Look who's back.
Aw.
- I missed you.
- Oh, I missed you.
Yeah, I missed you
picking up the lunch tab.
But I digress, all right?
- [LAUGHS] Good to see you.
- Good to see you.
- You forgot that.
- Thank you.
- How are the kiddos?
- Anais is amazing.
She already has a new best friend.
I FaceTime with her
and Theo every night.
Glad it's working out.
Oh, I, uh I got you something.
- Hmm.
- [LAUGHS]
Thank you.
And in a bizarre twist, we have no case
waiting to be assigned.
We don't have a fugitive?
Don't jinx it. We're taking
full advantage of this.
You two are heading to Staten Island
for firearms makeup qualification.
- Okay.
- We already did that.
I'm aware, which is why you
two get to deliver evidence
to our Bronx warehouse.
See you after lunch.
I'll meet you in the car, okay?
Okay.
Knock, knock.
- Well, this is cool.
- [CHUCKLES]
When did this become your office?
When I realized I get
more work done not listening
to Hana and Ray debate
vegan cuisine and Bad Bunny.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
How you doing?
You good?
Well, it's an adjustment.
But seeing how quickly the kids
settled in was helpful.
And we're gonna set up
a regular visiting schedule,
so that'll be nice.
I'm okay.
Well, if there are any not-okay days,
just know I'm here.
Thanks. I appreciate that.
So I got a
what seemed like
a scam call this morning
from a 17-year-old girl.
And she claimed she's being
forced to work and can't leave.
I think we should look into it.
- Where is she?
- I don't know.
- Is she in danger?
- Well, I can't say for sure.
But she sounded really scared.
[SIGHS]
Well, if it's legit,
that's no bueno.
Sounds like a child-labor violation,
maybe wire fraud.
Kick it over to Jubal.
Well, Remy, because she called me
Sheryll, we're not private detectives.
Our job is to hunt
and catch wanted fugitives.
Jubal, okay?
♪
Yeah.
Well, maybe her not getting
out is part of the scam.
No, I don't think so.
I heard real fear in her voice.
She sent me a link to this crypto site.
Fake IRS asking for crypto?
It might actually be a pig butchering.
What's that?
Okay, so you find a pig, the victim,
and then you get them
interested in crypto.
You usually say you work
for the government,
or you meet them on a dating site,
and you get them to set up
a crypto account.
Surely, people know that's a scam.
I mean, these guys are crazy smart.
So you put the money in,
and you start making
an unbelievable amount
of money fattening the pig.
And when you go to cash out,
the account's closed.
The pig's been butchered.
You should, uh, pass this off to Remy.
I did.
He said kick it to Jubal.
What did Jubal say?
You haven't been to Jubal.
I need to find her.
I get it, but I really like my job.
Hana, you know my suitcase you saw?
For some reason,
I just can't seem to unpack it.
I don't know why.
Maybe it'll all feel official,
like I left my kids forever.
You know, I keep having this nightmare
where Anais, Theo,
and I we're walking down Seventh Avenue,
and I turn around, and they're gone.
And I look everywhere,
but I can't seem to find them.
I literally wake up screaming.
And I'll see them again. I know that.
This girl I want to find her, Hana.
I need to.
[TENDER MUSIC]
♪
Okay. I can try to help you.
♪
Thanks.
Okay, Jessie's phone call and texts
were routed through a VPN.
- So it's a dead end?
- [SCOFFS]
Have you forgotten who I am?
Okay, the VPN's local,
like, super local
New Rochelle.
It's registered to a Howard Merger.
Remy's not expecting us back
till after lunch.
Well, then let's hope that
Howard's in a helpful mood.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
It's warm. He's here.
♪
FBI!
[FAUCET SQUEAKS, WATER RUNNING]
Howard Merger, open up!
Be right there.
Is that blood?
♪
FBI! Hands up!
You can't just come in here.
We can if you were disposing
of evidence.
You ever heard of the Fourth Amendment,
or is the government
destroying that now, too?
Oh, shut up. Sit your ass down.
Is there anyone else in here?
Yeah, it's a real party in here.
Clear.
Where's that blood from?
[SCOFFS] You're gonna lose your job.
Barnes.
♪
- We need to call Remy now.
- No, he's gonna be mad.
Yeah, and if we don't call him,
we're really gonna feel his wrath.
The only way out of this is
if we bring him something solid.
Hey, bitch, I want a lawyer.
And I want my wife not to
have left me for another woman.
Guess not all our wishes are granted.
[SCOFFS]
- You see anything?
- It's a mess.
There's a couple of suitcases
that have been pulled out.
Going on vacation, Howard?
Well, he's not gonna give us anything.
No.
But his phone will.
♪
- Anything?
- He's using Covert-34.
It's a messaging app
that deletes messages once they're sent.
His location services are
a little friendlier.
He's been hanging out
in this radius of the Bronx.
Well, that radius is a mile or two.
- Can we not narrow it down?
- Not really, not unless
Did you smell something strange inside?
No. Why?
♪
Realize you made a mistake?
Then maybe you should apologize
before I have my attorneys
make your life a living
You think that's blood?
I don't know.
[CAR DOOR OPENS]
It smells sharper than blood.
It's soy sauce.
♪
He was at a Chinese restaurant.
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Excuse me.
FBI Agents Barnes and Gibson.
This about the guy down the street?
- What guy?
- The poker game.
It's friendly. I keep telling people.
No, we're not here about that.
Have you seen this guy?
No.
No, not today or not at all?
Never. We haven't opened yet.
- You want me to keep an eye out?
- Uh, we're good.
Thanks.
Soy sauce.
It matches the set from his house.
♪
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
♪
So what you heard
when I said "kick it to Jubal"
was to go rogue and run
an off-the-books investigation,
then drag Hana into it?
I didn't get dragged into anything.
- Then you're next.
- Remy, I was right.
Something is going on.
They're killing people.
We need to find Jessie
and whoever else they have.
We don't have to do anything.
They slit this boy's throat.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Who is he?
Cesar Hernandez, 18, from Texas.
He came to New York to be an actor.
Social media posts stopped
six months ago.
I ran the name Jessie
through missing persons.
Only one hit was a 17-year-old girl
Jessica Davis.
She was reported missing
by a social worker.
Was she in foster care?
She was living in a shelter
in Manhattan.
And what'd that guy have to say?
That he wants a lawyer.
His name is Howard Merger.
We were just at his house.
Ray, Nina, talk to the social worker.
You two with me, because
apparently you need adult supervision.
We're going back to Howard's.
♪
Oh, did Jessie's boyfriend do this?
- Her stepdad.
- Explains why she ran away.
Unsurprisingly, Jessie has
some trust issues.
But eventually she connected
with another girl, Shandy,
who's also missing.
And all of Shandy's
information is in these files?
Yes.
- This is their room.
- Okay.
Kayla, these are FBI agents.
They're looking for Jessie and Shandy.
Uh, those are their beds.
And didn't Life Skills start
10 minutes ago?
Uh, Kayla, hi. I'm Nina.
Do you have any idea what
happened to Jessie and Shandy?
Not really.
I know Shandy was interviewing
for a job.
She was tired of being broke.
- Where was she interviewing?
- I don't know.
I think it was, like,
a toothpaste company, or something.
Would it happen to be
Crest Shares Management?
Yeah, that sounds right.
I hope you guys find them.
They're the nicest girls
I've lived with here.
Thanks.
All right. So the registered agents
of Crest Shares Management
are Carson and Denny Cobb.
They may be Howard's partners.
I doubt they're working
from their business address,
but I'll send agents over.
I'll call some print shops,
see if I can find out something
about this bag.
Looks like a husband-and-wife team.
Denny and Carson Cobb
are Howard's partners.
Jessie said the people holding her
called each other C and D,
so that's got to be them.
You get anything from the servers?
I mean, Howard's a jerk,
but he's a genius.
He's got everything encrypted,
intrusion detection, and tripwires.
Can you pull anything from Jessie's ISP?
We don't really have the time.
The best I can do is try
and shut them down.
No. They'd know we're onto them,
and I don't want them disappearing.
Howard's boss says he was
in meetings all morning,
so he couldn't kill Cesar.
Which means Denny and Carson
probably killed him.
So they needed help with the body,
and they messaged Howard on Covert-34.
[PHONE RINGS]
Jessie?
Sheryll, they killed my friend, Cesar.
Jessie, tell us anything
you can about where you are.
- Who is that?
- That's my boss, Remy, okay?
We're all trying to find you.
I don't know where we are. [SNIFFLES]
The windows are glazed,
but I can see red on a building outside.
You were interviewing
for a job in Manhattan, right?
Yeah.
I was so stupid.
Who interviews at 8:00 at night?
Jessie, this isn't your fault.
I need you to focus.
Where was the interview?
Near Spring Street Park.
Shandy met D the day before,
and he gave her
a free tote bag and 50 bucks
to bring a friend to the interview.
And when you guys showed up,
they just took you both?
- Yeah.
- How long was the drive
from where they snatched you
to where you are now?
I was so scared, it felt like forever,
but it took 20 minutes maybe.
[SNIFFLES] Okay.
Uh, thank you for your patience
while I look into things.
- [LINE CLICKS, BEEPS]
- Damn.
[SNIFFLES]
What?
I'm sorry I got you into this.
You didn't know.
We're gonna get out.
We just need to make
them a little money,
and then we'll be on a bus to L.A.
And we'll finally get
to see those palm trees.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[DEVICE BEEPS]
Howard's not answering the messages.
Maybe he's busy.
He could be dying, and he'd answer.
You think the cops
caught him with Cesar?
If they caught Howard with a body,
he's gonna flip.
He knows our names.
Yeah, but he doesn't know where we are.
We're going through Tor to his VPN.
Where did you meet him with the kid?
At his place.
He was gonna put him
in a suitcase and dump it.
If the cops didn't catch him with Cesar,
they could have gotten
to Howard through the VPN.
What if they're onto this?
We've been flying under
the radar for almost a year.
Why now?
We've been hard on them.
What if one of them is a mole?
How?
They can't call anyone.
They're all preprogrammed numbers.
Still, we have to be ready to go.
I'll pick up the latest
tote-bag order from Carla.
That's our main exposure.
I'll talk to the kids.
♪
This guy was a pack rat.
Carson was an electrician,
and Howard and Denny worked
together at Summit Tech.
Carson was let go during COVID,
and Denny was fired 18 months ago.
Didn't you say it was two years ago
these scams started in Asia?
- [CLATTERING]
- Yeah.
They're sitting around home,
out of work.
They learn about a scam
and decide to run one.
Well, who better to run your servers
than someone you already know?
What's this?
Looks like Howard got
an email a few days ago.
There's no name,
just the sender's address.
"You're a dead man."
- What's that all about?
- You tell me.
- [PHONE CHIMES]
- [SIGHS]
Finally, some good news.
Ray and Nina found the shop
that printed the tote bag.
Hi.
Uh, we're FBI Agents Chase and Cannon.
- We just need to ask you a
- [PHONE RINGING]
Oh.
This is Carla. Hold, please.
- Sorry about that.
- No problem.
Any information you can give us
on the person who ordered this?
[DOOR CLOSES]
Um, like the fact that the guy
is standing right behind you?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Hi.
Oh!
FBI! Stop!
- Excuse me.
- Hey!
[CAR HORN HONKS]
- Whoa! Hey!
- Hey!
♪
- Where'd he go?
- I don't know.
♪
Nina.
♪
[WHISPERING] Start heading out, now.
Go. Go, go.
[WHISPERING] Get out of here. Go.
♪
[NORMAL VOICE] Hey, hey, Denny.
- [WHIMPERING]
- Hey. We just need to talk.
There's nothing to talk about.
Well, you got two options.
We can talk
or I can shoot you.
What you want to do?
- I pick option three.
- [SCREAMS]
[GUNSHOT]
Hey, Nina, we need an EMT!
Calling. Go, go, go!
♪
[GRUNTS]
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
So how was Milo's day at the doggy spa?
[LAUGHS] It was good.
Ethan hates it when
they put bows on him.
So I asked them to put extra.
[CHUCKLES]
You did a great job
at avoiding me, by the way.
How are things with you guys?
Fine. Good.
"Fine, good."
What, is he a reliable car?
I mean, yeah, usually, when he's around.
But hasn't been a lot lately.
Well, that kind of makes
sense with an air marshal, right?
So is that a deal-breaker?
No, I think I'm getting
used to him being away.
I mean, sometimes I worry
about us breaking up,
and it scares me.
I hear you, yeah.
When it comes to matters of the heart,
there's too many things
you can't control.
Good morning.
Any updates on the woman from the diner?
She didn't make it.
All right, let's find them
and arrest them.
- You okay?
- Yeah. Why?
I mean, chasing a case
without Remy's stamp
it's a gutsy move.
That little girl's voice just broke me.
I'm sure you all
would have done the same thing.
Switzerland.
There's just too much baggage there.
Where are we?
Uh, security cameras from the diner
and from surrounding businesses
did not catch where Denny went.
What about the hat and jacket he tossed?
There's nothing in the pockets.
But an evidence tech
is running forensics.
And the address for
Denny and Carson's business,
Crest Shares Management, is empty.
They moved out of their
apartment three years ago.
The credit card Denny used
to pay for the bags
is registered to a shell corp
whose address is Howard's house.
These idiots are smart.
There's always a layer between
them and what they're doing.
Well, that's not all
we got from the card.
Someone's been using it to rent cars,
as recent as last week.
The week that Jessie and Shandy
went missing, they rented a van.
That's worth looking into.
Ray, Nina, hit the rental agency.
What about
the "you're a dead man" email?
Written by a student at NYU
Jacob Anderson.
Let's go talk to this boy genius.
Keep digging.
- I didn't send any email.
- Jacob, we saw the email.
Can you guys leave, okay?
I got to go to work.
Maybe this will help.
The guy you emailed
we arrested him for murder.
- Seriously?
- Seriously, dude.
Who'd he kill?
Why don't you tell us what you know
before we start tearing
this place apart?
[CLEARS THROAT]
My mom died a few years ago.
And my dad was so lost.
It took him a while to start
going out again, but
he found this woman
on an online dating site.
And she convinced him
to invest in crypto.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Some things just hit you
like a hurricane.
Come out of nowhere
and destroy your life.
Anyway [CLEARS THROAT]
He knew that crypto could be a scam.
So, instead of going through her,
he opened up his own account.
His money doubled in a couple of months,
but when he tried to cash out,
he was locked out.
- Scammers on the site?
- Yeah.
He lost his life savings,
his house, my tuition,
everything.
He tried to be so careful
his whole life,
and now he's living in a camper
in my sister's backyard,
drinking again.
Sorry, Jacob.
And you started looking
for the people who scammed him?
I only got as far as a VPN.
I pulled some encrypted emails,
but the admin must have seen me
and locked me out.
I couldn't decrypt them.
Any chance you saved those emails?
Yeah. Why?
Uh, yep, and here's the car he rented.
Yo, how long does it take
to be an FBI agent?
Why? You thinking about applying?
Yeah, man, this place
doesn't pay me enough.
Okay, the 2019 Honda CRV
says it has a GPS.
- Can you track it?
- Uh, looks like it's broken.
Or he disabled it.
What about the van that he rented?
All of our vans are pretty old, so
Yeah. No, sorry.
Can you print out what
you have on the van?
I'm gonna put a BOLO out on this.
So how long does the FBI thing take?
Academy is about five months.
You got a bachelor's degree?
- BA in Greek studies.
- All right.
- [PRINTER BEEPS]
- Printout on the van.
- All right.
- What do these lines mean?
So those are where they used
the van's E-ZPass.
All right, so they took
the Holland Tunnel a few times.
Yeah. 8:27 p.m. a month ago.
That was right after they
interviewed Jessie and Shandy.
So they're not in Manhattan.
They're in New Jersey.
One more FBI question.
How many, uh, felonies can you have?
None.
Damn.
Looks like Denny and Carson
might be in Jersey.
You think that's where Jessie is?
Ah, it makes sense.
The commercial real estate crisis means
lots of empty spaces.
She did say they were driving
for only 20 minutes.
Fear distorts time.
Between 15 and 25 minutes.
Hana, bring up Spring Street Park.
[KEYS CLACKING]
[SIGHS]
8:00 at night.
Traffic would be a lot lighter.
[KEYS CLACKING]
That narrows it down to
the entire state of New Jersey.
How we doing with the email decrypting?
Almost there.
It looks like Howard was emailing Denny
updated server info,
and it wasn't just about work.
Did he say where he was?
No, but look.
"The basilica reminds me of my parents
forcing me to go to church."
In New Jersey,
there's only one basilica,
and it's in Newark.
My mom's religious.
We're going to Newark.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Remy, I know you're still mad.
Can we just talk about it?
We're on the case.
You got what you wanted.
- All I wanted to do
- Yeah, what you wanted to do.
- Remember that.
- [PHONE RINGING]
- It's her. It's Jessie.
- Put it on speaker.
Hey, Jessie.
Sheryll, are you close?
We're working on it,
but we need to know more
about the building you're in.
- [INDISTINCT ARGUING]
- Um, I don't know.
I was blindfolded on the floor of a van
- when they brought us here.
- Okay.
And when they took you out of the van,
what else do you remember?
Um, it smelled like
like car exhaust or gasoline.
And it was echoing.
- Were you inside or outside?
- Inside.
Uh, the floor was smooth, so
Okay, could it have been
a parking garage?
Yes, yes. That's what it felt like.
And when they took us
inside, they
I could hear an elevator door closing.
I think I heard us moving up.
Do you know what floor you're on?
No, they didn't take the blindfolds off
until we got into the office.
What makes you think it was
an office and not an apartment?
[ARGUING CONTINUES]
It's just this big space.
There are cubicles
and fluorescent lights.
- [GRUNTS]
- Please come soon.
They know that you're looking for them,
and they're beating people up
trying to find out
if someone's talking to you.
We're working as fast as we can.
Right now I just need you to focus.
Do you hear anything?
Um, just cars honking sometimes.
And there's a train
in the morning.
Okay, train.
What else can you tell us
about the train?
I don't know. I don't think
it's on a pattern or a schedule.
Other than you, how many
people are they holding?
- Nine.
- So ten total?
♪
- Jessie?
- [LINE BEEPS]
Oh, my God, Jessie.
They're not gonna let us go,
no matter how much money we make.
♪
They're gonna kill you.
Shandy, you're my best friend.
You can't tell them.
I'm trying to save all of us.
[CLAPS HANDS]
Everyone stop what you're doing.
Wrap up your calls.
♪
I hope our mole is happy
watching their friends suffer
for their actions.
This person did something wrong
and is fine watching all
of you pay for it.
You really want to protect
someone like that?
Hmm?
No one?
Well, here's the thing.
Someone here knows something,
and I'm gonna find out who.
And the longer it takes,
the more painful it will be.
♪
Jessie says we're looking for a building
with an underground parking garage.
I mean, it makes sense.
I doubt that they would
walk two blindfolded girls
down the middle of the street.
She also says that she can hear trains.
So she's got to be somewhere
within the vicinity of the tracks.
I have to believe that the
building isn't fully occupied.
Right. They wouldn't want
the other tenants
in the building to hear
the kids if they screamed.
Okay, Newark License Office
says a lot of these buildings
are 50% occupied,
which still leaves dozens
of buildings and hundreds
of thousands of square feet
of office space.
And the red color outside the building,
that means what to us?
I don't know. A brick building?
Or a billboard or mural.
Denny and Carson must know
we're onto them by now.
Let's turn this damn city
upside down if we have to.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS] Anything from Jessie?
No.
Uh, the lab just sent the forensics
on Denny's hat and jacket.
They found dirt,
probably from the sidewalk.
But, uh, on both the hat and jacket,
they found generic carpet fibers.
Carpet fibers, my ass.
This stuff was just sitting
on the floor of his office.
[SIGHS] Ridiculous.
♪
Yeah, I'm not seeing anything.
Kind of feels like
we're stabbing in the dark.
Agreed.
I bet it's a lot
of fun in the other Tahoe.
- Remy seems pissed.
- Yeah.
I've gone rogue before
and gotten my ass chewed
six ways to Sunday.
Was it worth it?
Ultimately, yeah.
Sometimes you have a hunch,
and you got to follow it.
Not sure the boss sees it that way.
[GRUNTS]
You're lying!
[GROANS]
You think this is a game, huh?
This isn't a game!
Huh?
[GRUNTING]
♪
Get out of here.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
It's time.
We haven't talked to everybody yet.
The longer we stay, the closer they get.
Think about what you're saying.
We don't have time to move the kids.
And if we leave them here,
we're erasing a year of work.
You are standing
in the middle of a castle
that is burning to the ground.
If you stay, you burn.
If we walk away,
we can set up somewhere else.
♪
Let me talk to one more.
And if we don't find the leak,
we kill them all and go.
♪
[DOOR OPENS]
Shandy.
Come here.
♪
There's too many red buildings,
and we're not even
halfway through checking
all the buildings near train tracks.
Hana, the lease check shows
zero hits for Denny and Carson.
And what about
Howard's shell corp?
- Also zero.
- All right.
So they're either renting
off-book, or they're squatting.
If they're squatting, how
are they getting electricity?
Carson was an electrician.
She'd know how to tap
into the panel box.
Okay, I'm pulling up Newark buildings
where electricity usage
increased over the last,
let's say, 12 months.
Damn, that's a long list.
What if you take the
buildings with increased usage
and overlay them with our search radius?
- Or check the cell towers?
- Okay, okay.
Here's one that's by train tracks
and next to a carpet
distribution warehouse.
Nina, Ray, we're sending you
the address.
Light them up.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
I don't know.
- [GRUNTS]
- [SOBS]
You want me to stop?
- Then tell the truth!
- It's not me.
That's the truth.
Hold her.
No. No, no.
[SCREAMING, CRYING]
If I keep pushing, your wrist will snap.
It's not me!
[SCREAMING]
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop, stop!
It wasn't her. It was me.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
What did you do?
One of my calls was an FBI agent.
But I didn't know.
It was pre-programmed.
Who are they?
It's someone named Sheryll Barnes.
- What did you tell her?
- Um, nothing.
I mean, I don't even know your names.
- I don't even know where we are.
- They're closing in.
So you must have told them something!
Just that I was in an office
and I wasn't allowed to leave.
I'm sorry. That was it.
See, I don't think you're
telling us everything.
No, no, no! I swear, I swear!
I didn't tell them anything else!
I can tell Sheryll whatever you want!
Please don't hurt us!
They got cameras covering
the whole building.
You want me to try and jam them?
No, it'll tell them we're here.
Well, I got the red banner.
That means they're on the west side.
We got ten innocent people in there.
No kidding. What are we looking at?
Okay, so, over this side,
we've got an elevator.
Over here, we've got a stairwell.
Barnes, Hana, with me.
We'll go to the top and flush them out.
Ray, Nina, cover the exits.
Stay on comms.
Let's get it.
I don't think
you're telling me everything!
- No, that was it!
- Tell me the truth!
I No!
- They're here!
- No!
[DISTANT GUNSHOT]
We got shots from upstairs.
We heard the shots below us.
We're getting off now.
♪
There's not enough time! We got to go!
[WHIMPERING]
[LABORED BREATHING]
Shandy!
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry, Shandy. I'm sorry.
Oh, my God.
Are you okay?
♪
FBI!
Ray, Nina, they're in the stairwell.
They're heading to you.
Hey, I got them here!
FBI! Stop right there!
- I'll cut them off!
- Got it!
♪
[TRAIN BELL CLANGING]
♪
[TRAIN HORN BLARING]
Drop it!
[GRUNTING]
[CLANGING CONTINUES]
♪
Suspect's down!
♪
- Jessie?
- [KNOCKING ON DOOR]
- Jessie, you in there?
- Sheryll, please hurry!
They shot my friend!
Okay, hang tight! We're coming in!
We need the paramedics.
What about this thing?
We need an RFID card reader.
Let's go old school instead.
♪
Jessie?
- Jessie.
- Sheryll.
- Okay.
- [SOBBING] Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
- It's okay.
- [CRYING] Thank you so much.
- [LABORED BREATHING]
- Okay, keep breathing.
It's gonna be okay. I promise you.
[PANTING]
- Come on.
- Keep breathing.
Line them up.
Stand along the wall.
Hands where I can see them.
Hands up.
♪
Hang in there, okay?
You'll be all right.
Remy.
Hey, Remy.
Would you just stop?
I'm sorry I went behind your back.
I couldn't help it.
My gut knew something was wrong,
and I just followed it.
Just because something feels personal
doesn't mean you get to drag
the entire team into it,
especially without me knowing it.
Just like when we all helped
you look for Mikey's killer?
That was completely different.
I asked for your help
instead of going off on my own.
And let me remind you,
in case you forgot,
I run this.
I'm the boss.
I get to decide which cases
this team takes.
I know, but, look, I was right.
We saved all those kids up there.
Listen, I'm not blind.
I get what's going on.
But when you let whatever's
going on in your life
cloud your professional judgment,
that doesn't work for me.
I know.
I like you, Barnes.
I really do.
But this is not the first time
we locked horns.
So I'm gonna keep it real for you.
You pull a stunt like that again,
you're off the team.
♪
[KNOCK AT DOOR, DOG BARKS]
Oh, who's that? Who's that?
- Hey.
- Sheryll.
I hope I'm not disturbing you.
No, come on in.
I was just, uh, getting ready
for Ray's roller-skating '90s thing.
Yeah. [CHUCKLES]
I thought you said
you had plans tonight.
I did.
Your mom and dad okay?
No, I mean, I did say
I have plans, but I lied.
I didn't want you to know my real plans
were to sit at home all night
and feel sorry for myself.
Uh, no, I mean, come in. Sit down.
I hate being alone in that place, Hana.
It used to be so busy and alive.
Yeah, I hear you.
Sometimes I miss the smell
of Ray's stank oatmeal
in the morning around here.
And you were right.
Charlotte broke my heart.
But we also had
some good years together.
And now I got these two amazing kids.
And I could lock my heart
in my apartment
and shrink my life so small
that I never care
about anyone else again.
Yeah, my heart would be safe,
but it would also be dead.
I can't be afraid of living.
Good for you.
Hana, you're in the same boat.
If you give in to the fear
of getting your heart broken,
you're gonna miss so much of life.
Don't give up on Ethan.
♪
I know.
I haven't.
Thank you. That's very good advice.
So, I got a proposal.
As much as I love roller skating
what do you say about opening this,
ordering some Chinese,
and finding an old movie to watch?
I say done.
Look, I was in grade school in the '90s.
I barely remember it.
There's a wine opener right there.
Get to that. I'll get some glasses.
Okay.
[SOFT MUSIC]
Hana, I appreciate this.
Feeling's mutual.
- Okay, the only thing is
- What?
You bought a backup bottle, right?
After what I went
through with Remy today,
you best believe it.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
♪
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WOLF HOWLS]