Without a Trace s06e06 Episode Script

We have unconfirmed reports that the suspect, Terry Lee Wicker is wanted for recent murders in the Las Vegas area.
But for now, authorities will only say that he is armed and extremely dangerous and that they are very concerned for the ten-year-old boy abducted yesterday outside a school in Boulder City.
Reporter Kelly Walker was there for this morning's press conference.
Clark County Sheriff Diego Nunez delivered a stark assessment of the suspect this morning, saying that this child abduction was not Wicker's first.
The FBI told us Wicker kidnapped a four-year-old in New York City six years ago and the boy hasn't been seen since.
We want Kobe Farentino back safe and sound in Boulder City and we're not going to stop until he is, but we're gonna need the public's help.
According to the sheriff, Wicker is six feet tall, thin with brown hair.
He is 35 years of age.
If you see him Excuse me, sir.
My son's not feeling well.
I think you need to get him off the bus, see if I can find a doctor.
Jack Malone, FBI.
Gil Grissom, Las Vegas Crime Lab.
Nobody touched anything except Lenny.
He got here about 10:00.
Saw the bus to the gate at auto lot.
Realized all the keys in the lockbox were missing.
Does Lenny know which car was stolen? He's not much of a record keeper.
Any kind of a surveillance system here? No, sir.
Think this Wicker's involved? Bus driver said he dropped him off nearby.
Do you know if any of the businesses around have security cameras that would catch a piece of the street? - See what I can dig up.
- That'd be great.
Thanks.
So what do you think? I think somebody rubbed up against this door recently.
This is where the car was.
Right.
"Rift of " Drift off.
OTC sleep medication.
- That'd be enough to subdue the kid.
- Yeah, but nobody sleeps forever.
Malone.
- Are you two still in Hillside? - No, it's just me.
Gil Grissom's headed back to Vegas to finish processing Gina Farentino's car.
What's going on? It's more than likely that Wicker's gonna abandon the car he stole, so we're checking rail yards and airports within a 200-mile radius.
Any luck finding any known associates? Well, Wicker has a sister listed as an emergency contact at his last known job.
We're trying to track her down.
- What kind of work did he do? - He worked maintenance on the railroad and got fired about nine and a half years ago.
That fits perfectly.
Explains why he travels on trains.
We have a home address? He had an apartment in Astoria about ten years ago, but a neighbor said he disappeared after Kobe was born and then Gina moved out two weeks after that.
That fits the timetable of Jason's adoption.
Yeah, and since we don't know the identity of his birth parents, it's possible that Kobe is Jason Taylor.
You should bring in his sister, see if she can confirm it.
Yeah, that's definitely him.
That's the man that picked Kobe up.
And you just let him? Normally, Kobe walks home.
He didn't need permission to leave school grounds.
Did he seem alarmed? No, no.
But why would he? The man who come by the school earlier that day with Kobe's mother.
Is that him in the green shirt? No.
Hey, Miss Farentino.
Hi, Mr.
Polchek.
Kobe, your mom's here! No, you don't have to interrupt him.
Kobe, come here! It's lunch.
I'm not interrupting anything.
Mom, I got a "perfect" on my history test.
Hey, Kobe.
- This is your uncle.
- Terry.
You know, from back east.
He's a friend of the family.
Your mom tells me you're quite the artist.
I'm okay.
I'm not in town very long, Mr.
Polchek.
Could I go look at Kobe's pictures? I'm sure we'll have time for that later.
I'd like to see them now.
We got about Why don't you go through there to the office? Tell them I said it was okay.
Kobe's a good boy, but he needs a male influence in his life.
I thought an uncle was a good thing.
Did he talk to anyone later? His friend Angelica.
I'm gonna need to speak to her.
Of course.
Gina must be worried to death.
This is 11:50 this morning.
No front plate.
Arizona, not a requirement.
I didn't see the boy.
Well, maybe he's asleep in the back seat.
Maybe.
What is that, a late '80s buick? That would be my guess.
All right, I'll update the APB.
Viv, we know Wicker abducted Jason Taylor six years ago in New York.
Now, if Kobe's our kid, how did Wicker lose track of him and then have to abduct him again? Well, maybe Gina was in on it originally, but killing the baby-sitter wasn't part of the plan.
So she got scared and ran.
Wouldn't you? She shouldn't have stopped running.
Mr.
Polchek tells me that you're Kobe's best friend.
Best school friend.
You're not friends outside of school? He plays soccer.
I play piano.
Did he say anything about the man that he met yesterday? It's okay, honey.
He said it was a secret.
You know, Angelica, there sthere are some secrets that are not so good, and I'm just trying to make sure this is not one of them.
Kobe said he was gonna go look at the art projects.
That's on my game last week.
I scored a goal.
It wasn't like the winning goal or anything.
Well, still, that's Yeah, it was cool.
I wish I could have seen it.
Be nice to hang around together, wouldn't it? I guess.
You know, kick a ball, eat hamburgers, that kind of thing? You're gonna have to ask my mom.
All right.
Your mom doesn't think this is the right time for te to mell you this, but Tell me what? I owe you a big apology, Kobe.
I wasn't smart before, and I ran out on you and your mom.
I'm your dad.
My dad's dead.
I understand why she told you that.
She was just trying to protect you, but look at me.
I'm definitely not dead.
Listen.
You can't tell anyone we had this talk, not even your mom.
Not yet.
Why not? I'm setting up this vacation for the three of us, and if we tell her, she might not want us to go right now.
So you want to go on vacation, don't you? Where are we going? First stop's here.
Maybe we'll do some camping.
You like camping, don't you? Yeah, me too.
I think it's gonna be a great adventure.
Did he say where they were gonna go? Tucson.
Jack Malone, FBI.
How you doing? Deputy wheelock.
The buick from your APB's right over there.
I think we may have found something of interest next to this structure.
There's some dirt here that's been recently disturbed.
Do me a favor, will ya? Go have yourself a cup of coffee.
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
Wicker bought two roundtrip tickets from Tucson to New York.
The gate agent screwed up and didn't realize he let Wicker on the plane until he got home and saw him on the news.
What time did the plane land? About an hour ago.
We sent units, but he was nowhere to be found.
Okay.
Thanks.
There's a reason he came back.
Well, from what we've been able to find out he spent a lot of time in the area, and I suppose there's comfort in the familiar.
Yeah, but he's a fugitive.
It doesn't make any sense to come back to a place where he'd be identified.
Could be he thinks the Vegas luck rubbed off on him.
We were able to get a hold of his sister.
She should be here in about 20 minutes.
Hopefully, she can tell us where he might have gone.
Does she know he's here? No.
She hasn't talked to him in a long time.
Command post.
Yeah, sure.
Thanks.
That was security.
CSI Grissom from Las Vegas is here.
New York here? Lobby here.
He's on his way up.
Grissom.
What the hell are you doing here? Hello, Jack.
You know, when I asked for the evidence to be transported to New York, I didn't expect you to deliver it personally.
These are my boxes.
I want to make sure I get them back.
Also, I have news.
When they exhumed the child's body in Tucson, it was clear from the state of decomp that it had been in the ground a long time.
I also found a circular stain on the clothing around the child's neck.
Whatever made the stain had been removed.
And what would that be? I don't know yet.
I have more work to do.
Would you have some place where I could do it? We have We have a lab in the base Oh, Elena.
Agent Delgado, I'd like to meet Las Vegas CSI Gil Grissom.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you, too.
Would you mind escorting him to the lab? The Oh, okay.
Let's take the rear elevators.
I never even met the baby.
Terry and Gina were married before he was born, and the relationship ended almost immediately.
Your brother was introduced to Kobe as an uncle, so I'm assuming they were estranged.
Terry has a hard time connecting to people.
Do you really think he took Kobe? Oh, yeah, we're positive.
Well, I'm sure Gina's scared, but there's no way he's going to hurt their son.
How long since you've seen your brother? Must have been about six years ago.
Sylvia.
- Hey! Terry.
- Hey.
- How are you? - Good.
Good.
It's been two hours since you called.
I was beginning to think you weren't coming by.
I just took me a little while to get here.
I brought you something.
You didn't need to do that.
You're my sister.
You like it? Yeah.
I just I just think you should use the money to take care of yourself.
I'm fine.
Thanks.
Hey, before we go in, I just I need you to know that I'm seeing someone now.
Oh, yeah? Roger.
And he's got two kids.
That's great.
- Yeah - Yeah.
But that means that you can't stay with us.
Not this time.
We just don't have a room.
We can't have you hanging around for 2 weeks only to disappear without knowing where you're going.
The kids wouldn't know what to make of that.
I'll find someplace else.
Terry I just think you got to get your life together.
You were so happy when you were with Gina.
I screwed it up.
So it didn't work out, try again.
Go back to the therapist you were seeing and figure out what happened.
I better go.
He called collect once more to ask if he could come by and stay.
And I said no.
He hung up and that's the last I heard from him.
Do you have any idea what therapist he saw? Someone through the union.
I don't know his name.
Okay.
I'd like your permission to get your phone records, see if we can figure out where he could have called you from.
You just need to sign right here.
You know Terry was in jail once for stealing.
Has he done something like that again? We have strong evidence linking him to recent murders in the Las Vegas area.
What? Oh, my God.
No, that that can't be true.
You approach with stealth.
Something I picked up in 'Nam.
I'm I'm Samantha Spade.
You called upstairs.
Oh, right.
I mentioned the gift card that I found in my report, but I thought maybe your team would like to have the actual evidence itself.
Thank you.
You get any prints off of this? Just smudges, small ones, probably belonged to a child.
You know, I hope you won't take this personally, but it smells down here.
Does it? Of chemicals.
Okay, then.
Well, it was nice meeting you.
Jack.
I checked the dental records.
The body from Tucson is Jason Taylor.
Allright.
There were no broken bones, no blunt-force trauma, no obvious signs of violence, but without tissue, I can't determine COD.
I doubt the cause of death is gonna be any consolation to his parents.
No.
I'm about to run a 3D algorithm on the shirt fragment to see what was around his neck.
I'll get you an image as soon as I have one.
Thank you.
These are murders that fit his pattern: victims near railroads, women covered with blankets.
Now here's what's interesting: when Wicker was able to communicate with his sister, he would go by and visit her or call her after every murder, but he'd murder with less frequency.
After their break in communication, the frequency of his crimes increased.
Now how long after that visit did he kidnap Jason and kill the babysitter? Three days.
Gina used to live in that neighborhood while Wicker was in jail.
If Kobe had the same babysitter as Jason, maybe Wicker went by there looking for his son.
Well, he obviously had some emotional attachment to Jason, if not, he wouldn't have buried him the way he did.
He thought Jason was his son, he buried him with something important around his neck.
And since he went back for it, maybe whatever it is, he's using it to make a connection with Kobe.
- Hopefully, this buys us some time.
- Hey! That gift card that Grissom turned us on to was swiped in Astoria.
- Where? - Welling and 30th.
Hold on a second.
You know, Wicker lived out in Astoria in '96, I'm pretty sure about that.
Let's see It's right here.
Yeah, 732 North Hampton.
It's your mom Say hi, Mommy.
Jack! Got a body in here.
My dad went to New York and all I got was this stupid murder weapon.
You know, this fits Wicker's MO: home invasion, find a weapon on-site, kill the resident, except this time, he left the weapon.
You know, I don't think Wicker came here to kill.
This is where he lived when Kobe was an infant and his life was the most stable.
My guess is, he's trying to recreate that.
Hey, Grissom We got lipstick.
According to the landlord, Weiss didn't have a girlfriend.
Maybe Wicker does.
I had no idea.
I haven't seen Terry in years.
Part of me always worried about what became of him.
Well, we subpoenaed your records, and they show that you treated Mr.
Wicker about nine and a half years ago.
That seems right.
Did he mention Kobe in your sessions? Yes, frequently.
What was his wife's name again? Gina.
When Gina had the baby, Terry had a steady job.
He seemed stable and happy maybe for the first time in his life, but it didn't last.
When I treated him, he was having difficulty managing his anger and his home situation was deteriorating.
Let's talk about how you can communicate those feelings of anger, that's why you're here.
Let's get it straight: I'm here because that union rep said so.
Considering your outbursts at work, do you disagree with her? Only thing I know is I got this bad feeling inside me and where it wants me to go is nowhere good.
Is this a new feeling? No.
Wasn't there when things were going good: when Kobe was born, when I worked down at the yard, Regina wasn't all over my ass.
How about before that? Did you have that specific feeling before? Sort of, I did.
Well, if we can find out what caused it, we can stop it.
Tell me the first time you felt this way.
You can't go back to work until I sign off on it.
Around the time I was a kid, my dad used to drag me and my brother to look for buried treasures.
He had one of those metal detectors.
One day he found this medallion thing in the dirt.
A gold lion I remember how much I really wanted it.
But he always gave the best stuff to my brother.
Dad was so excited he ran to the truck to get the camera.
All I could hear was this hissing in my ears, like those bugs down south, what do they call them? Cicadas.
It kept getting louder and louder.
I just wanted to stop the noise.
I found a rock.
He never saw it coming.
When I get mad like that I don't see straight.
What happened to your brother? I was just making that stuff up, I didn't hurt him, okay? Can we find something else to yap about? Terry, I think you're telling me this because you're afraid you're gonna hurt your son or Gina.
This is over.
- Terry - Look, I got to go.
- Please sit back down.
- I said I got to go! I checked with the county sheriff.
Their record showed that Terry's brother died from head wounds in an accidental fall.
Did you see Wicker again? No.
Did the medallion that he was wearing look like this? Well, it was an animal.
Yeah, it looks like the same thing.
I was told that you wanted to talk to me.
Yeah.
I analyzed the lipstick from the cup.
The brand name is Chameleon, the color: crimson ride.
The sample also showed traces of spermicidal lubricant.
The last outgoing call from the murder victim's apartment was to a pager.
Three minutes later, Wicker got a return call from a payphone in Battery Park.
You know, in Vegas, we would speculate that that call came from a lady friend.
An escort.
A hooker.
In New York, we just call them hoes.
Where's Terry Wicker? Who's that? This guy over here.
We traced your pager and we got his number.
We also know that you called him back on a on a payphone.
And if I did? Excuse me a second.
If you did, I'm willing to bet that this lipstick matches the lipstick we found in the apartment along with the fingerprints, and then you can explain to us how you know absolutely nothing about the dead body we found there.
Hold on.
I didn't have anything to do with that.
So what were you doing? When Terry paged me, I thought it was for his usual.
Hey What brings you to town? Make him stop crying.
Honey, you know I'm not into that kind of thing.
Just make him a sandwich or something.
You're gonna pay me a hundred bucks to make the kid a sandwich? There's nothing I could do.
The guy had to go.
Why? - Why did he? - Stop crying! Honey, let the boy go.
I'm sure there's something I could do to help you calm down.
I told you to make him a sandwich.
All right.
I'll make him a sandwich.
Everyone's gonna get a sandwich.
I know! I know! You know what? I know there's nothing you could do.
I'm okay.
Tell her to go, and we can watch the tape again.
I'd like to watch the tape again.
That kid saved your life.
It was a creepy scene, that's why I jammed out of there as soon as I could.
You got to believe me: I have no idea what happened.
- Any idea where he went? - I didn't want to know.
But I know he was driving.
I saw some keys on the counter.
Keys? What kind of keys? For a Toyota.
The kid's playing along to stay alive.
Yeah, but Wicker's not stupid, he's gonna figure it out sooner or later.
And when he does he's not gonna need the kid anymore.
Wicker's been in New York for nearly two days and NYPD lists 28 stolen Toyotas in that time.
Well, we need to narrow it down by borough.
Now the apartment where Ed Weiss was killed is near LaGuardia, so let's focus on Queens and work our way out.
You know, I'd wait on that.
An assault took place and it was linked to a stolen Toyota.
The witness ID'd the subjects as Kobe and Wicker.
- Thomas Mitchner? - Yeah.
You seen these two? Yeah, that's the guy who sliced me.
Why don't you tell us what happened? Well, I came to paint the trim on the place here.
I needed to move my truck closer, but the car was in the way.
I had seen a guy walk away about 20 minutes before, so I talked to the kid.
Hey, kid.
I need to offload my compressor, when's your dad coming back? He's not my dad.
Okay Got any idea when he's coming back? Not really.
Look, I know it's none of my business, but do you need some help? I don't know.
Maybe you could call my mom.
What's going on? I need to park my truck here.
I'm leaving right now.
Is everything all right here? Yeah, why wouldn't it be? Well, the kid wants me to call his mom.
The kid wants an X-Box too.
Why don't you get him one? Why don't we just wait and call the police? Back off! I called the cops right then.
Please tell me that kid is okay.
We haven't located him yet, but you probably saved his life.
- All right, you take care.
- Yeah.
Thank you.
Kobe only ran off an hour ago, they might still be in the area.
Yeah? Hey, Jack, it's Martin, it was definitely them.
And the boy made a run for it.
Any violence? Terry sliced a witness with a knife.
I'm gonna need some support for house-to-house.
I'll call it in.
Great, thank you.
Wicker and his son were seen fighting.
Apparently, Wicker assaulted the witness and then took off after the kid.
Now it's possible that the kid figured out what his father really is.
That would shatter Wicker's fantasy.
Wicker doesn't tolerate conflict.
Nearly everyone he's had a run-in with has ended up dead.
According to his pattern, he'll kill the kid and jump the next train out of town.
Jack, forget the pattern.
He broke the pattern years ago when he had an emotional connection to one of his victims.
Wicker took the time to bury Jason Taylor's body.
Then he called his sister.
Did you find Kobe? No, not yet.
Ms.
Wicker, we're gonna need your help.
What do you mean? Well, if your brother's patterns remain consistent, we believe that he's going to call you.
And when he does, we'd like you to talk to him for as long as possible.
Oh, my God, did he hurt Kobe? We're not sure.
I've been thinking this whole time about my brother and there's just no way he would've done those things.
He just wouldn't.
Ms.
Wicker, I'd like to show you some pictures.
This is Gaby Lawson, from Wyoming Emily Temper, from New Mexico and Tamara Fox, Tucson.
You recognize the jewelry? He gave them to you, didn't he? Well, all of these women are dead.
And I know that it's hard for you to believe that he'd be involved in something like this, but he is.
So do we have your cooperation? Transferring to the hard line.
We're in.
You can go ahead and answer.
Hello? Hey Syl, it's me.
Hi, Terry.
How are you? Oh, okay, I guess.
Just thought I should check in.
He's using his cell.
It's pinging off a tower in South Newark.
That that's great, I'm I'm glad.
I've been I've been thinking a lot about you, Terry, and I don't know You don't know what? What's going on? You cryin'? No, no, I'm It's Are you okay? Yeah.
You sound kinda strange.
I can't.
Sylvia What's going on? Terry This is special agent Malone from the FBI, do not hang up.
Where's Sylvia? She's sitting here right next to me, okay? You put her back on or I'm hanging up.
No, no, don't you hang up, okay? Right now, I have her for possession of stolen jewelry from the women that you killed.
I have enough to charge her as an accessory to murder.
What do you want? I want you to let your son go, I want you to turn yourself in.
And your sister she walks.
Look, Terry, I know you wanna stop, okay, that's why you called your sister, that's why you took your son.
We both know that you're afraid of killing him too.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Yes, I think I know what I'm talking about and I think you know what I'm talking about.
Terry, come on.
Listen to me, we can make a deal.
I got a visual on the suspect.
Late model pickup.
I'm not sure if it's Wicker.
Remember, we got to take him alive.
He's the only one who knows where the boy is.
You alone? What do you think? I got FBI agents crawling all over this place.
But they don't do anything unless I say so.
I guess that makes you the big boss Not right now.
Not while you have the boy.
Where is he? I need to see my deal.
Yeah, I got it right here.
Show me! Not until I see your son.
Where is he? Is he in the truck? Doesn't matter.
It matters to me.
You wanna cut a deal for your sister or not? I wanna see the boy.
Believe me, I I didn't want to hurt him.
You run away from me I mean it! No, stop it, stop it! I promise! I won't do it again.
No No, please.
I won't do it again.
I promise.
Go.
Go.
Kobe, run.
Run! Come on, Terry, you're a cold-blooded killer.
You honestly expect me to believe that you just let him walk? He's my son.
I couldn't hurt him.
Let's say I believe you.
Your sister still wants to know if he's okay.
She knows what I done? Hey, I'm not gonna lie to you, Terry.
I told her everything.
But you have a chance to fix this.
What she say when you told her? Look, I'm not here to talk about your sister, all right? I'm here to close the deal.
I want your son.
Come on What am I gonna do now? Who do I got left? You got plenty left, Terry.
You can keep your sister out of prison, just give me your son.
Tell her I'm sorry.
No! He's not in the truck.
You'd think the kid would have gone to the police by now.
He's a kid, he's scared.
Where do you think he's hiding? The one place his father told him he'd be safe.
There's a warehouse rail staging area a quarter of a mile east from where Kobe Farentino ran off.
It's at Meeker, east of Newark Avenue.
Okay Meeker, east of Newark Avenue.
Great.
Jack and Martin will be there in 20 minutes.
Okay.
It's okay, we're here to help you.
Come on.
Your aunt's here.
Okay? You know, six years ago I got a phone call about Jason Taylor, and I drove out here and I looked around and I just thought: "How the hell can anything bad happen here?" It hasn't changed much in six years.
Yeah, well, six years of not knowing must have changed something.
Ever think about hanging it up? Every day.
At least you got your pay.
I do, yes.
What do you got, Jack? The people that we get back.
'Cause there doesn't seem to be enough of them anymore.
Want to come in? I'd rather not.
Me neither.