Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 2, Episode 14 - Harvest - full transcript
A crime scene drenched in blood leads the team to a form of human trafficking, and Amita to her past.
In Looking around
this auditorium tonight,
I am reminded of a comment
that Sir Isaac Newton made
to the Royal Academy of Science.
Newton told the
group that doing math
was like standing on the
shoulder of giants to see the future.
But then, of course,
in Newton's age, uh,
all the men wore shoes with
buckles and four-inch heels.
Each year, we conclude this
symposium by announcing the Milton Prize.
And Professor Charles Eppes, a past
winner, will present this year's award.
I didn't know Charlie
won a Milton Prize.
Well, he was still at
Princeton. It's an award...
This is important. Sorry.
It is a great honor to
present the Milton Prize
this year in particular,
because I happen
to know the winner.
To me, this person has become
much more than a colleague.
We have collaborated closely
together on a number of projects.
So without any further ado,
the winner of this
year's Milton Prize
is Amita Ramanujan.
Amita, it's you!
Thank you all so
much. I can't believe it.
What, you got something
else you want to do tonight?
It's Friday night, we're
running down anonymous tips.
Well, it was a call to
Homeland Security, actually.
There's something going on in a
basement here. It's the garment district.
Yeah?
I'm thinking someone with
a sweatshop wants help
putting the competition
out of business.
Well, maybe we can oblige them.
Gentlemen. Yeah. Hey.
You with the hotel? If
this is about your luggage,
we're doing everything
we can to find it.
It's not about our luggage.
You're not with the
convention group? That's right.
We received a tip about
suspicious activity in your basement.
Suspicious... W-W-What
does that mean?
Well, it means you
show us the basement.
Right this way, sir.
So, this is it?
Careful, the floor is, uh,
the floor's a little uneven.
Mmm-mmm. What's in there?
Uh, just, uh, some
more rooms. Just...
Let's go. CLERK: Okay.
Seems pretty quiet.
If the Health Department
was down here,
Yeah? They'd condemn the place.
I don't think the Health
Department's ever been down here.
What's in there? CLERK: Uh...
Storage, I think.
Never been inside.
Let's you open it.
Whoa!
Against the wall.
Against the wall.
- Where are the lights?
- Right there.
Turn them on.
Hands behind your back.
- I didn't...
Behind your back. Let's go.
Yeah, we got a lot
of blood down here.
We got a whole
scene. I want backup.
- Requesting backup, immediately.
- Copy that.
It's freezing in here.
You see this car battery?
- Yeah.
What the hell
happened down here?
Looks like some
kind of nightmare.
Hey, you hear that?
This way.
This is the FBI!
We need you to come out with
your hands where we can see them!
This is the FBI!
Hey.
Okay, all right, all
right, take it easy.
Hey, we're with the
FBI. You're okay.
It's okay. We're with the FBI.
I'm not going to hurt you.
We need an ambulance.
Hotel Barclay, downtown L.A.
If you know what you're doing,
you can do a lot of
damage with a car battery.
Is that a professional opinion?
You see some things working
military CID in Afghanistan.
Things you'd rather not see.
You really think
this is about torture?
That would explain the girl.
She's been traumatized by
something. I can't get through to her.
Yeah. Begs the question
what it is she knows.
And who else wants to know it.
Hey, guys, I... I just got off
the phone to Washington.
They want us
wall-to-wall on this.
So I think you should
get back to that hotel,
see if you can find
anyone who saw anything.
I mean, it's a big place. There's a lot
of people coming in and out of there.
Megan, how's the girl?
Acute stress disorder.
Showing signs of avoidance.
I'm nowhere with her.
Any idea where she's from?
Right now, I have her listed as a
foreign national, unknown circumstance.
What about this car battery?
I mean, what do you make of it?
Well, that would explain why she's
not even making eye contact with me.
All right, so what do we do?
I mean, how do we reach her?
Charlie, Don's
probably busy right now.
We can just tell him tomorrow.
We're not gonna be long.
You know what? He's going
to be so happy that you won.
Whoa, look at you.
Whoa, look at both of you.
What's going on? Hi.
Hey. What's up?
What are you doing?
We have dinner reservations
nearby, so we just thought we'd stop by
and say hello, that's all.
Is it a special occasion?
Amita, just won the Milton
Prize for her dissertation.
Okay, that... that's a really big honor
and it comes with a cash award, so...
That's great. So, I guess,
you're paying for dinner, huh?
Congratulations. Thank you.
I wasn't expecting it. DON: No?
Hmm. What happened here?
Yeah, well, that's
the $64,000 question.
You think that ice has
anything to do with it?
Yeah, something. I mean, why?
Well, If I can take
two of these photos,
I can probably tell you how
long the ice has been there.
Yeah, I mean, that'll at least
give us a starting point. Yeah.
Uh, see this plastic?
This plastic is a
non-wetting surface.
So I can do an interval
analysis of the pooled water,
that would tell... That would
help us determine the rate of flow.
Right. From there, we can
work backwards to determine
when the ice first
started to melt.
Well, how long would that
take? Depends, you know.
The tricky part is figuring out
how fast the ice was melting.
But once we know that, we can determine
how long it took the puddle to grow,
which is the result of
two competing forces,
the melting and
the surface tension.
Surface tension? Molecules
on the surface of water
exhibit strong
cohesive properties.
It's why certain bugs can run over the
top of a pond or why raindrops are round.
It's like a balloon.
The rubber surface of a balloon
acts much like a puddle does.
It constrains what's inside.
So as air flows into a
balloon, it gets bigger.
Well, how fast the balloon
grows depends on the rate of air
going into the balloon versus the
strength of the balloon's surface.
The same thing
goes for a puddle.
As more water flows into
a puddle, it gets bigger.
But the surface tension
constrains the shape of the puddle.
All right, wait, just, what do
you need from us to do this?
Um, if I can take the first crime
scene photo and... and the last.
I mean, that'll give us the
greatest interval of time.
Thanks, Charlie.
Does that girl have
something to do with this?
Yeah, she does. Why?
She said something to me.
She spoke to you?
Yeah, when I first came in. I
think she was asking for help.
Wait, in English? No, in Tamil.
My family moved to the
United States from Chennai,
in southern India. Tamil
is what they speak there.
What did she say?
I'm not sure, um,
I... I think that she's
asking for help.
Honestly, I haven't heard much
Tamil since I was really little.
I, uh, I think she may have
said something about her sister.
Okay, um, I'm
gonna get a translator.
We can... Wait. Megan.
Is it okay if I stay with her?
Yeah. Yeah.
Hi.
My name is Amita.
My name is Santi.
I don't remember
seeing anything unusual.
I was on the main level
most of the evening.
Okay, maybe you heard
something. Banging, screaming?
Nothing like that.
Is there more than one
ice machine in this building?
Just the one on the third floor.
That means the ice
didn't come from the hotel.
Cubes are the wrong shape.
What's this room
usually used for?
Nothing. It should've
been locked.
A long time ago, it was a laundry
room. But we outsource all that now.
You have your
laundry delivered? Yes.
What else do you
guys have delivered?
Uh, staff uniforms,
morning papers
and a bakery brings the bread
for the, uh, continental breakfast.
All right, we'll need to see a
schedule of all your deliveries.
No problem.
All right, we've got the same humidity.
What else do we need to know?
Uh, we need to know
the heat exchange rate
as determined by the thermal
boundary layers of the ice.
In essence, how fast ice melts.
Right. Now we've replicated
all the variables involved,
what the ice was sitting
on, ice purity, humidity,
air movement,
room temperature...
Hey, what are you
two doing? Hey, Dad.
It's freezing in here.
We're watching ice melt.
Yeah, Don got us a temperature
reading from the crime scene.
We've set the house's
thermostat to match.
Crime scene? What, did someone
kill an Eskimo? The ice is liquefying.
Got a rather
gruesome mystery here.
Ooh!
Yeah! I can see that.
What was it? We don't
know. We don't know.
But whatever happened, it happened
between 7:15 and 7:30 this morning.
So, we've got a
time for the crime.
And depending on what happened,
the time may be very important.
For starters, we
can tell the FBI
when witnesses might
have seen something.
Yeah, I see.
You think you can get this crime
scene cleared up before breakfast?
Charlie says the ice arrived
yesterday, right around this time.
Which means this delivery guy
might have been here then, too.
Hey, are those still warm? Do
you want one? Help yourself.
Uh, thanks. I thought
cops ate donuts.
Well, we're FBI.
You make a delivery
here yesterday morning?
And the morning before
that and the one before that.
We're only interested
in yesterday, though.
Did you notice anything unusual?
Nothing sticks out.
How about somebody carrying in
an unusually large quantity of ice?
Ice? No, I... I think I would've
remembered something like that.
Sorry, guys.
The ice had to get
in there somehow.
Somebody had to deliver it.
Hey, you didn't see
anybody else down here?
Uh, it's just usually
me in the morning.
But there was an ambulance.
An ambulance?
I think it was a
private company.
It was... It was
parked over there.
- Thanks for your cooperation.
- You bet.
All negative. I can run
through them again, if you want.
Hey, you guys get
anything from the 911 logs?
Not that puts an ambulance
anywhere near the hotel.
Well, what about
where it went once it left?
I could try the emergency rooms.
Yeah. Let me know. Okay.
Excuse me. I'm
looking for a girl
that might've been
brought in last night
who was Indian, extensive internal
injuries. Dr. Jenloe was the attending.
LAPD? FBI.
The LAPD forwarded
me your report.
What can you tell me
about the Jane Doe?
Uh, late teens, early
20s, Southeast Asian,
came in with severe
internal bleeding.
Do you know how
she was brought in?
Uh, no. You'd have
to ask at the front desk.
They do all the
admitting paperwork.
And what about her injuries?
You don't know? Don't know what?
I just figured that's why
the FBI was interested.
Interested in what?
She was hemorrhaging
and in shock.
There wasn't
anything we could do.
They had to break the rib. That's not
uncommon in this sort of procedure.
Whoever performed it either
didn't know what they were doing
or they made a serious mistake.
What kind of procedure
are we talking about?
Someone removed
this girl's kidney.
So the coroner just confirmed
what the ER doctor told me.
The artery was severed
when they removed a kidney.
And the blood in the
hotel matches the dead girl.
All right, organ theft.
I always thought that
was an urban legend.
It's no legend, man.
We were working the
villages outside Kandahar,
these girls would show
up with new passports.
They'd leave and come
back with new scars.
Called them
"Transplant Tourists."
And these girls
did this willingly?
What's "willingly" when you're
poor and desperate, you know?
Pay 'em 1,000 bucks, it's like two or
three years' salary for their families.
So we're thinking someone's
got the girl's kidney, right?
Yeah, but who? It's not like
they're gonna come forward now.
Right. If they knew how
the kidney was acquired,
that would make them
an accessory to murder.
Well, there's transplant lists.
Maybe you can see if
someone took himself off
in the last few days, you know?
I'll look into it.
Thanks for coming. No problem.
Think I'll actually be helpful?
I think you will.
She really seemed to
connect with you last night.
You were the one who
figured out she spoke English.
I... I didn't actually
figure it out.
She just started talking to me.
Is Santi under arrest?
No, but we do have to hold
her, at least until I get her story.
The situation wasn't ideal,
but it was the best one I had.
Thank you. GUARD: Sure.
Hi, Santi. I'm Agent Reeves,
and you remember Amita?
Hi.
We think we know what
happened at the hotel yesterday.
It's okay. Agent
Reeves is here to help.
You asked me about your sister?
You found her? You found Prita?
We found her last night.
No.
I'm so sorry.
This isn't my sister.
This is Sonali.
There were three of you?
Four of us. Prita,
me, Jaya and Sonali.
And you were all here
to sell your kidney?
It's okay, Santi. Anything
you tell Agent Reeves
will help her find your sister.
A man came to our village,
promised us each $1,000.
Do you know who he is? Do
you know what his name is? No.
He was from the
city, from Chennai.
How long have you been here?
Five days.
Where have you been staying?
At the hotel.
You mean where we found you?
In a room, upstairs.
Later, they bring
us to the basement.
It's okay.
For the kidney, I was next.
But something happened to Sonali
and everyone started to yell.
And I think they
forget me, so I ran.
How did you get
back to the basement?
When I stop running,
I am alone.
You went back?
Prita was still there.
Hey, so there were four
girls staying at that hotel.
Two of which are still missing.
So that night manager
held out on us. Yeah.
You and David should go
over and pick him up, huh?
Hey, by the way, did David get
anything off those transplant lists?
He did, yeah. There's a guy named
Benjamin Riley. Took himself off the list.
Ends up in ICU with
complications from his new kidney.
Dr. Bainsworth?
I'm Allen Kelly. I'm with
the hospital's legal office.
Dr. Bainsworth
intends to cooperate.
And you're just here in the
spirit of that cooperation?
What is it you'd like to know?
For starters, how did you
patient obtain an illegal kidney?
I advised him very
strongly against doing this.
Oh, so he just showed up
with a black-market organ.
You don't know
anything about it?
I had nothing to do
with his transplant.
But I still have a
responsibility to my patient,
even if he chooses
to ignore my advice.
You always do what your
doctor tells you, Agent Reeves?
We're not talking about
lowering my cholesterol.
A girl was killed. Lawrence,
don't respond to that.
Where was she from?
India.
It's not surprising. There's
an area outside of Chennai.
It's called "Kidney Village."
So you're saying there's
regular traffic in human organs?
There are over 80,000 people on
the transplant waiting list in this country
and every day, 17
of them die, waiting.
I'd really like to
speak to your patient
about who performed
this operation.
His transplant took place in
less-than-ideal circumstances.
He has post-operative sepsis, a severe
infection. He's in critical condition.
So, what, he's too sick to talk?
Andy knows what
he did was illegal.
Whoever sold him the kidney
coached him to keep silent.
I doubt he'd speak to
you, even if he could.
Then I want his blood
work and tissue samples,
and everything you have on him.
The night manager
was a dead end.
He quit the same day
we interviewed him.
So he was in on it? Well, yeah,
but with him in the wind,
that leaves us with no
connection to these two girls.
Well, the paperwork
from the emergency room
said that the victim was
brought in by ambulance.
Oh, so we trace that 911 call.
I did that. There
was no 911 call.
The ambulance was there,
at the hotel, waiting for him.
The driver was in on it.
Santi said something went wrong.
Maybe the ambulance that was
supposed to transport an organ
ended up transporting
a body as well.
What's up? It's the
Milton Prize winner.
Hey.
Are you... You okay?
Yeah.
You know, we should
reschedule our celebration.
Yeah.
I don't know. I'm not really
in the mood to celebrate.
Is it okay if we hold
off, maybe? Yeah.
You're upset for that girl that
you met at the FBI, aren't you?
I went to see her this morning.
You know, Megan thought a
familiar face might help her cope.
But I mean, how do you
cope with something like that?
Besides, you know, there's not really
that much in common between us.
She comes from the
same place as your family.
She does.
But, you know, I grew
up in California, Charlie.
I mean, I know more about
surfing than I do about India.
When I was little, you know, kids used
to make fun of me because I was different.
But I didn't want
to be different.
When my grandmother used to
tell me stories about what it was like,
I just tuned her out.
And I wanted to push
away that part of who I am.
You wanted to fit in here.
But now, you
know, seeing this girl
and what she's going
through, I have to help her.
But I don't know how.
I don't know what to say
and I don't know what to do...
Well, maybe you should
ask your grandmother, I mean,
she seemed to have
some good ideas.
And even if you didn't
used to listen to her...
Thank you, Charlie.
You really are a genius.
Are you the manager? Yeah.
We're looking for an
ambulance of yours.
It was seen parked
behind a hotel downtown.
You got a number? All
the rigs have numbers.
No, this one dropped off a
patient at the University General
around 8:00 a.m.,
day before yesterday.
That'd be Proderman, but
he's still out on the street.
Yeah? Has he got a radio? Yeah.
Call him back in.
Actually, I don't need to. That's
him right now, pulling in the driveway.
Hey!
Let's go!
Unit 365.
365, go.
In pursuit of a homicide suspect
driving a red-and-white van.
Look, it's an ambulance.
We're traveling west on
Normandy. Just crossed 54th.
Requesting backup. DISPATCH:
Copy, 365. All units be advised.
First the night manager,
now the ambulance driver?
365 requesting backup
at Normandy and 54th.
Hold all radio traffic.
He's not gonna make that turn.
Hey, I don't think
this dude cares.
Dispatch, suspect T.A.'d a
taxi at 56th and Normandy.
Show as code six, requesting
emergency medical assistance.
Hey, buddy, you all
right? You're gonna be fine.
I want you to just lay down and
take it easy, okay? Okay, I'm okay.
All right? You all right? Yeah.
Paramedics are on the way.
Well, maybe they can
check and see if he's a donor.
Hi.
Oh, no, this isn't official.
We just came to see
how you were doing.
Santi, this is my
friend, Charlie.
Hello.
Hi.
So,
how are you doing?
I am okay.
We brought you some
stuff. Um, some clothes.
And...
Here's some shampoo. Hello?
Yeah. That's no
problem. I'll be right there.
And a hairbrush. And some
toothbrush and toothpaste.
I've got to get back to the FBI.
You gonna be all right
in this place? Yeah.
Okay. I'll be fine.
Santi, the FBI's doing everything
they can to find your sister.
Thanks for coming with me.
It will be very
nice to wash my hair.
I'm so glad to hear
you say that. Um...
I... I didn't know what to get.
I mean, I don't know that
much about where you're from.
You're not from
India? No, I'm not.
My family is.
But I was born
here in California.
Actually, I've never
even been to India.
I could've gone once with my
dad for business, but I didn't...
I... I didn't end up going.
And what is it you
do in California?
I work in math and
astrophysics, at a college.
Uh, I... I'm in school.
Oh, I was in school once.
When I was little, I liked school.
Uh, I brought you
something else.
My grandmother thought
you might like to have this.
For a puja. A prayer.
Thank you.
What's the red string for?
We tie a bracelet after.
To remember.
That the trip log we got
out of the ambulance?
Yep, I've been
through the entire thing
and every entry in it checks
out against the 911 calls.
All right, so Proderman was
only recording official trips.
Doesn't leave us much
to go on. No, it doesn't.
Which is why I called Charlie.
He was nice enough to come
down here on short notice.
Hey, Charlie. How you
doing? Thanks for coming down.
I was around here. I was at
that, uh, that detention center.
With Amita and... and the girl.
Is that that log book
you called me about?
Yeah, it is, but like I told
you, it's just the official runs.
Well, then you were probably
able to get the total distance
driven by the driver
on each of his shifts?
Well, yeah, the company records
daily mileages for each driver.
How's that gonna help us, Charlie?
He still could've gone anywhere.
No, his destinations
are limited.
By the total miles
driven in each shift.
Okay, well, we still don't
know where he went.
And more importantly, where he
could've taken those other girls.
Well, keep in mind that where he
went couldn't have been random.
You know, his choices
were influenced by things.
By the time of day
and his location.
So, you mean, like, if it was
noon, it's likely that he went to lunch.
Exactly. So first what we'll do
is, we'll take the total mileage
and plot all the
possible routes,
as well as all the known
destinations from the ambulance log.
Then I can use a
Hidden Markov Model,
as well as an elliptical analysis
to narrow the possibilities
of the most likely hidden
destinations and unrecorded routes.
It's a...
It's a treasure map.
We have ourselves a list of starting
points, routes, destinations, times,
but it's incomplete. Not
every stop is recorded.
Now, based on what
information we do have,
I can reveal the most likely locations
and times for the unrecorded stops.
Imagine you held a candle to
the bottom of a treasure map
to reveal the sections
written in invisible ink.
I don't know, Charlie,
I mean, it still feels like
we're pretty much guessing
about where he went.
Okay, yeah, a
little a-a-at first.
But this log is extensive. I mean,
it... it goes back several months.
So as we continue to analyze the
possibilities, patterns will emerge.
And with all this data, my
algorithm will be able to tell us
what his favorite place
for lunch is, you know,
where he probably gets his coffee, maybe
where he shops for shoes. Who knows?
We just need it to tell us where
he could've taken those girls.
Right.
Hello?
Anyone home?
Yeah. In the kitchen, Don.
Hey, Dad.
I made some coffee,
you want some? Nah.
I could use a drink, though.
Oh?
Tough day?
We just got these two
missing girls from India.
India? Yeah.
What are they doing here? Well,
selling their kidneys, believe it or not.
Crazy, right?
I mean, they're dirt poor, they get
1,000 bucks and a plane ticket here.
What?
Oh, I was thinking about my
friend Lou, you remember him?
He used to work for the Parks,
Department of Recreation.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, he died last year
of, um, kidney failure.
I'm sorry, Dad, I
didn't know that.
Yeah. I remember his
family was so desperate.
They couldn't find a match
among them for a transplant.
Not even his two brothers.
You'd think brothers
would match.
Well, actually, it's only one chance
in four when it comes to siblings.
Hmm.
They even tested me.
And then they put
him on this long list.
Waiting for a donor.
Must've been
hundreds ahead of him.
That man could've lived.
Yeah, I mean, you know,
look, I see what you're saying.
But, you know, these kids are
dragged halfway across the world
so some back-alley quack
can cut them up for parts.
Yeah, I know, I'm not
saying it's right. I'm just saying
that when it comes to
looking at your own mortality,
ah, you'd grab on to
anything to save your life.
Hmm.
All right, Larry,
we've reached the last few
entries in the ambulance log,
and we've got
point C-36. Okay?
Uh, two kilometers
north-south, three east-west.
You know, when I was a child,
I was plagued by a nightmare
involving the theft
of my internal organs.
You were? Yeah.
Boy. Uh...
Centering on, um,
on point Y-12, half a click up,
one kilometer side to side.
The dreams recurred
at regular intervals
till I was 13 years
old. It was horrible.
Well, like what? Like, was there a
monster attacking you or something?
Well, I mean, no. Actually,
it was my Aunt Louise.
God, I can see her even
now, wearing this hairnet.
All right, this is
the last coordinate.
Uh, D-16.
One by one and a half.
And the 13th time is the charm.
The hospital again?
Hospital again.
Wow.
All right, so let's summarize.
In our analysis,
University General shows up as a more
likely destination than any other place?
Yeah, but it's not unusual for
an ambulance to go to a hospital.
Yeah, but these were in
addition to his official stops.
None of them were recorded.
Which means the ambulance driver
may have had a contact
at University General.
What are you... Hey, you're
not supposed to be down here.
Are you in charge?
I'm the only one here.
You ever run into a guy
named Proderman down here?
Who are you?
FBI. He drives an ambulance.
You know him or not?
No. No, not really.
Sounds a lot like a yes.
I've seen him around, I...
He's usually looking for Michael.
Michael?
Michael Tolchuck. He
works days in the morgue.
And nights at a hotel downtown?
Where is he right now?
I don't know. I haven't
seen him around.
You know, I think maybe
I should just call my boss.
I think you should as well.
Excuse me?
You have paperwork
for four bodies right here.
So? So.
I count five.
Looks like she could
be one of our girls.
The morgue is actually a
great place to hide a body.
It's ironic.
Immigration showed Santi
the fax, this isn't her sister.
Yeah, well, she's a lucky girl.
'Cause he just gave me his
preliminaries. Both kidneys were taken.
Liver, corneas,
even bone tissue.
Well, if they took more than
the kidney, something's changed.
Murder wasn't part
of the deal before.
I think when the first girl
died, it was an accident.
And after that, Tolchuck just
decided to cover his tracks.
Makes the witness
problem a payday.
He said that the parts
were worth over 300 grand.
$300,000?
The organs are valuable if
they have a recipient match.
And biotech firms use
skin, bone, even fat tissue
to make all sorts of
implants and prosthetics.
Well, if that's the case, Santi's
sister is worth more dead than alive.
As long as he finds
matches for her organs.
Which should give us a
chance to find Tolchuck first.
Yeah. Mike, we'll
see you later, thanks.
Thank you.
Doctors and hospitals use an optimization
theory developed at Johns Hopkins
to determine the best matches
between organ
donors and recipients.
If we only consider a single variable,
let's say, blood type, then the match
between only two items
is simple to achieve.
But transplant doctors are
trying to find complex matches
for entire immune systems,
based on a number of variables.
Blood type, cross match and
a range of immunoproteins.
An optimization algorithm
is used to determine
what donors are best
suited for each patient.
Okay, so how do
we use any of this?
Santi told me that each of
the girls was given a blood test
to find a match
for their kidneys.
Now, the National Organ Sharing
Network keeps blood type, cross match
and HLA compatibility information on
every patient waiting for a transplant.
So, what, we run the
sister's results against that
to find out where
the kidney'll wind up?
Exactly. We might be able to
determine the transplant patient
before the surgery takes place.
Yeah, but there's
one thing. What's that?
We don't have any blood
work on the missing girl.
No, we don't, but we can run blood
and HLA compatibility tests on Santi.
We can use her results. They're sisters.
- From what I understand,
there's only one in four
chances that siblings will match.
Well, a one in four chance
is better than no chance at all.
Sorry, Amita, but Santi's data
just isn't producing a result.
Well, then let's test the
algorithm against known matches.
We already tried that.
Amita, I don't think the
equation's the problem.
Then the database of patients waiting
for transplants must be an incomplete set.
You know, if we consider
we're dealing with a black market,
it's possible, even probable,
that we're looking for a patient
who cannot obtain an
organ in the normal way.
So they wouldn't be
on any official lists.
Yeah, but it's much more likely
that Santi isn't a match for her sister.
I was hoping this would work.
Yeah, well, we all were.
Well, we aren't giving up.
Wow, this doesn't look good. I assume
you guys haven't found anything yet.
No, well. You know,
we were only working
with a 25 percent chance
of success to begin with.
An absence of proof is not the
same thing as a proof of failure.
Yeah, she's right about
that. She's right about what?
We don't know that Santi
isn't a match for her sister.
We only know that we aren't getting any
results from this current set of patients.
Well, David and Colby found
some data on the patients
in Tolchuck's
computer at the morgue.
Let me see.
This is a potential list of
customers? We think so.
Our elusive black-marketeers?
We have a match. Thank God.
Well, now that we know
where the kidney is going,
what I need to do is find Santi's
sister before she gets there.
Dad,
these people are from the FBI.
They want to ask
you some questions.
What kind of questions?
Well, sir, I'll make this
as quick as possible.
Are you aware that buying
human organs is a Federal crime?
I don't know what
you're talking about.
Mr. Eckworth, two women
have been murdered.
There's still another
girl out there.
Who happens to be a
perfect donor match for you.
What girl? What
are talking about?
We're investigating a murder of two
girls who were killed for their body parts.
I said I don't know anything.
My father really isn't well
and I need to get back to work.
So, if there's nothing else...
All right. Thanks.
He's lying. You saw that. Yeah.
So why did you
take us out of there?
I don't think
he's going to talk.
And I think she's been in
the dark until now, you know?
So he believes the people we're
trying to find are gonna save his life
and he's never gonna talk? You see the
way she looked when you said "murdered"?
You think I should talk to her?
I think he made the choice and
she's finding out what it entails.
My father told you we
didn't know anything.
Right now, I'm not that interested
in what your father knows.
Without a new kidney,
my father will die.
But he has a blood disorder that
disqualifies him from getting a transplant.
I know this is
difficult. Difficult?
Every day I watch as my
dad dies a little bit more.
You know, he raised me. It
was always just the two of us.
You know, none of
this would be happening
if I were a match, if I
could give him a kidney.
I'm sure you'd do
anything to save your father.
But two girls have
already been killed.
I don't know
anything about that.
Maybe not before,
but now you do.
And there is
another girl out there
just waiting to be carved up.
Look, I'm sure you would do
anything to save your father,
but this may not
be the best way.
The last person who received
a transplant from these people
died a few hours ago
from a massive infection.
He told me that I need
to be ready to pick him up
to take him to the hospital.
From where? And when?
At a hotel.
Tomorrow.
In Romania, I was a surgeon
at the best hospital in Bucharest.
Now I'm reduced to washing
my hands in the toilet.
I made one mistake
on a patient who would have
died in six months anyway.
Tomorrow, I'm retiring.
What do you plan to
do with your share?
Forget I asked.
FBI! Drop that scalpel! MEGAN:
Move away from the table!
Turn around! Put your
hands behind your back.
Prita?
Jimmy. Put them up!
Prita? Jimmy, get in here.
Prita, can you hear
me? We need a medic!
How did you know
she would be okay?
You gave us the
information we needed.
And I believe in the people
that were looking for her.
And, uh...
Thank you.
Mmm, that smells so
good. I hope it's good.
It's embarrassing, but I actually had
to ask my grandmother what to get.
It was absolutely unnecessary
for you to buy dinner for us.
Well, after what Don did to get Prita
and Santi out of the detention center,
it's really the least I can do.
Hey, where is Don, anyway?
He should be here by now.
So, what's gonna happen
with these girls, Amita, huh?
What?
Amita is using the money
from the Milton Prize
to... Well, why
don't you tell them?
I'm going to use the money to
pay for the girls to go back to school.
Well, that's an admirable
use of your award.
Let me know if I can
contribute in any way.
That's sweet, but it's
actually not necessary.
I'll have enough
money to pay the tuition
and have extra left over
for a trip I want to take.
You're going to India?
Yeah, with my grandmother,
over spring break.
Hey, that's... that's great.
Hey, guys, sorry I'm late.
I got stuck at the DMV.
What were you doing at the DMV?
Well, I'm now officially an
organ donor. Check it out.
Hey, look at that. - Cool.
Nice, huh?
All right, so now I get treated with a
little more respect around here, huh?
You know, if more people
took that simple step,
can you imagine
the ramifications?
Basic economic theory.
Black markets rely on a
shortage of a regulated commodity.
That's right. Increase the supply,
the black market disappears.
Well, here's a couple extra
applications in case anyone wants.
No, that's all right. I
already got my sticker.
Yeah, look I've been
an organ donor for years.
Yeah, me, too. What
about you, Charlie?
I don't know.
I kind of want to hold on to
my internal organs, you know.
Uh, Charlie, they don't actually take
them until you've finished with them.
I'm aware of that, Father.
Yeah, well, then there's
nothing to worry about.
It's just, you know,
what if I'm not dead
and they think I'm dead,
because I, like, look dead?
Yeah, well, in your case, I
could see that happening.
Don't worry, Charlie.
You got your family around to make sure
that something like that never happens.
Yeah, Chuck, we got your back.
Your spleen...
Well, I got his heart.
It's his brain that I
think people want.
Maybe we should keep
that and put it on eBay.
No, that goes to a museum.
this auditorium tonight,
I am reminded of a comment
that Sir Isaac Newton made
to the Royal Academy of Science.
Newton told the
group that doing math
was like standing on the
shoulder of giants to see the future.
But then, of course,
in Newton's age, uh,
all the men wore shoes with
buckles and four-inch heels.
Each year, we conclude this
symposium by announcing the Milton Prize.
And Professor Charles Eppes, a past
winner, will present this year's award.
I didn't know Charlie
won a Milton Prize.
Well, he was still at
Princeton. It's an award...
This is important. Sorry.
It is a great honor to
present the Milton Prize
this year in particular,
because I happen
to know the winner.
To me, this person has become
much more than a colleague.
We have collaborated closely
together on a number of projects.
So without any further ado,
the winner of this
year's Milton Prize
is Amita Ramanujan.
Amita, it's you!
Thank you all so
much. I can't believe it.
What, you got something
else you want to do tonight?
It's Friday night, we're
running down anonymous tips.
Well, it was a call to
Homeland Security, actually.
There's something going on in a
basement here. It's the garment district.
Yeah?
I'm thinking someone with
a sweatshop wants help
putting the competition
out of business.
Well, maybe we can oblige them.
Gentlemen. Yeah. Hey.
You with the hotel? If
this is about your luggage,
we're doing everything
we can to find it.
It's not about our luggage.
You're not with the
convention group? That's right.
We received a tip about
suspicious activity in your basement.
Suspicious... W-W-What
does that mean?
Well, it means you
show us the basement.
Right this way, sir.
So, this is it?
Careful, the floor is, uh,
the floor's a little uneven.
Mmm-mmm. What's in there?
Uh, just, uh, some
more rooms. Just...
Let's go. CLERK: Okay.
Seems pretty quiet.
If the Health Department
was down here,
Yeah? They'd condemn the place.
I don't think the Health
Department's ever been down here.
What's in there? CLERK: Uh...
Storage, I think.
Never been inside.
Let's you open it.
Whoa!
Against the wall.
Against the wall.
- Where are the lights?
- Right there.
Turn them on.
Hands behind your back.
- I didn't...
Behind your back. Let's go.
Yeah, we got a lot
of blood down here.
We got a whole
scene. I want backup.
- Requesting backup, immediately.
- Copy that.
It's freezing in here.
You see this car battery?
- Yeah.
What the hell
happened down here?
Looks like some
kind of nightmare.
Hey, you hear that?
This way.
This is the FBI!
We need you to come out with
your hands where we can see them!
This is the FBI!
Hey.
Okay, all right, all
right, take it easy.
Hey, we're with the
FBI. You're okay.
It's okay. We're with the FBI.
I'm not going to hurt you.
We need an ambulance.
Hotel Barclay, downtown L.A.
If you know what you're doing,
you can do a lot of
damage with a car battery.
Is that a professional opinion?
You see some things working
military CID in Afghanistan.
Things you'd rather not see.
You really think
this is about torture?
That would explain the girl.
She's been traumatized by
something. I can't get through to her.
Yeah. Begs the question
what it is she knows.
And who else wants to know it.
Hey, guys, I... I just got off
the phone to Washington.
They want us
wall-to-wall on this.
So I think you should
get back to that hotel,
see if you can find
anyone who saw anything.
I mean, it's a big place. There's a lot
of people coming in and out of there.
Megan, how's the girl?
Acute stress disorder.
Showing signs of avoidance.
I'm nowhere with her.
Any idea where she's from?
Right now, I have her listed as a
foreign national, unknown circumstance.
What about this car battery?
I mean, what do you make of it?
Well, that would explain why she's
not even making eye contact with me.
All right, so what do we do?
I mean, how do we reach her?
Charlie, Don's
probably busy right now.
We can just tell him tomorrow.
We're not gonna be long.
You know what? He's going
to be so happy that you won.
Whoa, look at you.
Whoa, look at both of you.
What's going on? Hi.
Hey. What's up?
What are you doing?
We have dinner reservations
nearby, so we just thought we'd stop by
and say hello, that's all.
Is it a special occasion?
Amita, just won the Milton
Prize for her dissertation.
Okay, that... that's a really big honor
and it comes with a cash award, so...
That's great. So, I guess,
you're paying for dinner, huh?
Congratulations. Thank you.
I wasn't expecting it. DON: No?
Hmm. What happened here?
Yeah, well, that's
the $64,000 question.
You think that ice has
anything to do with it?
Yeah, something. I mean, why?
Well, If I can take
two of these photos,
I can probably tell you how
long the ice has been there.
Yeah, I mean, that'll at least
give us a starting point. Yeah.
Uh, see this plastic?
This plastic is a
non-wetting surface.
So I can do an interval
analysis of the pooled water,
that would tell... That would
help us determine the rate of flow.
Right. From there, we can
work backwards to determine
when the ice first
started to melt.
Well, how long would that
take? Depends, you know.
The tricky part is figuring out
how fast the ice was melting.
But once we know that, we can determine
how long it took the puddle to grow,
which is the result of
two competing forces,
the melting and
the surface tension.
Surface tension? Molecules
on the surface of water
exhibit strong
cohesive properties.
It's why certain bugs can run over the
top of a pond or why raindrops are round.
It's like a balloon.
The rubber surface of a balloon
acts much like a puddle does.
It constrains what's inside.
So as air flows into a
balloon, it gets bigger.
Well, how fast the balloon
grows depends on the rate of air
going into the balloon versus the
strength of the balloon's surface.
The same thing
goes for a puddle.
As more water flows into
a puddle, it gets bigger.
But the surface tension
constrains the shape of the puddle.
All right, wait, just, what do
you need from us to do this?
Um, if I can take the first crime
scene photo and... and the last.
I mean, that'll give us the
greatest interval of time.
Thanks, Charlie.
Does that girl have
something to do with this?
Yeah, she does. Why?
She said something to me.
She spoke to you?
Yeah, when I first came in. I
think she was asking for help.
Wait, in English? No, in Tamil.
My family moved to the
United States from Chennai,
in southern India. Tamil
is what they speak there.
What did she say?
I'm not sure, um,
I... I think that she's
asking for help.
Honestly, I haven't heard much
Tamil since I was really little.
I, uh, I think she may have
said something about her sister.
Okay, um, I'm
gonna get a translator.
We can... Wait. Megan.
Is it okay if I stay with her?
Yeah. Yeah.
Hi.
My name is Amita.
My name is Santi.
I don't remember
seeing anything unusual.
I was on the main level
most of the evening.
Okay, maybe you heard
something. Banging, screaming?
Nothing like that.
Is there more than one
ice machine in this building?
Just the one on the third floor.
That means the ice
didn't come from the hotel.
Cubes are the wrong shape.
What's this room
usually used for?
Nothing. It should've
been locked.
A long time ago, it was a laundry
room. But we outsource all that now.
You have your
laundry delivered? Yes.
What else do you
guys have delivered?
Uh, staff uniforms,
morning papers
and a bakery brings the bread
for the, uh, continental breakfast.
All right, we'll need to see a
schedule of all your deliveries.
No problem.
All right, we've got the same humidity.
What else do we need to know?
Uh, we need to know
the heat exchange rate
as determined by the thermal
boundary layers of the ice.
In essence, how fast ice melts.
Right. Now we've replicated
all the variables involved,
what the ice was sitting
on, ice purity, humidity,
air movement,
room temperature...
Hey, what are you
two doing? Hey, Dad.
It's freezing in here.
We're watching ice melt.
Yeah, Don got us a temperature
reading from the crime scene.
We've set the house's
thermostat to match.
Crime scene? What, did someone
kill an Eskimo? The ice is liquefying.
Got a rather
gruesome mystery here.
Ooh!
Yeah! I can see that.
What was it? We don't
know. We don't know.
But whatever happened, it happened
between 7:15 and 7:30 this morning.
So, we've got a
time for the crime.
And depending on what happened,
the time may be very important.
For starters, we
can tell the FBI
when witnesses might
have seen something.
Yeah, I see.
You think you can get this crime
scene cleared up before breakfast?
Charlie says the ice arrived
yesterday, right around this time.
Which means this delivery guy
might have been here then, too.
Hey, are those still warm? Do
you want one? Help yourself.
Uh, thanks. I thought
cops ate donuts.
Well, we're FBI.
You make a delivery
here yesterday morning?
And the morning before
that and the one before that.
We're only interested
in yesterday, though.
Did you notice anything unusual?
Nothing sticks out.
How about somebody carrying in
an unusually large quantity of ice?
Ice? No, I... I think I would've
remembered something like that.
Sorry, guys.
The ice had to get
in there somehow.
Somebody had to deliver it.
Hey, you didn't see
anybody else down here?
Uh, it's just usually
me in the morning.
But there was an ambulance.
An ambulance?
I think it was a
private company.
It was... It was
parked over there.
- Thanks for your cooperation.
- You bet.
All negative. I can run
through them again, if you want.
Hey, you guys get
anything from the 911 logs?
Not that puts an ambulance
anywhere near the hotel.
Well, what about
where it went once it left?
I could try the emergency rooms.
Yeah. Let me know. Okay.
Excuse me. I'm
looking for a girl
that might've been
brought in last night
who was Indian, extensive internal
injuries. Dr. Jenloe was the attending.
LAPD? FBI.
The LAPD forwarded
me your report.
What can you tell me
about the Jane Doe?
Uh, late teens, early
20s, Southeast Asian,
came in with severe
internal bleeding.
Do you know how
she was brought in?
Uh, no. You'd have
to ask at the front desk.
They do all the
admitting paperwork.
And what about her injuries?
You don't know? Don't know what?
I just figured that's why
the FBI was interested.
Interested in what?
She was hemorrhaging
and in shock.
There wasn't
anything we could do.
They had to break the rib. That's not
uncommon in this sort of procedure.
Whoever performed it either
didn't know what they were doing
or they made a serious mistake.
What kind of procedure
are we talking about?
Someone removed
this girl's kidney.
So the coroner just confirmed
what the ER doctor told me.
The artery was severed
when they removed a kidney.
And the blood in the
hotel matches the dead girl.
All right, organ theft.
I always thought that
was an urban legend.
It's no legend, man.
We were working the
villages outside Kandahar,
these girls would show
up with new passports.
They'd leave and come
back with new scars.
Called them
"Transplant Tourists."
And these girls
did this willingly?
What's "willingly" when you're
poor and desperate, you know?
Pay 'em 1,000 bucks, it's like two or
three years' salary for their families.
So we're thinking someone's
got the girl's kidney, right?
Yeah, but who? It's not like
they're gonna come forward now.
Right. If they knew how
the kidney was acquired,
that would make them
an accessory to murder.
Well, there's transplant lists.
Maybe you can see if
someone took himself off
in the last few days, you know?
I'll look into it.
Thanks for coming. No problem.
Think I'll actually be helpful?
I think you will.
She really seemed to
connect with you last night.
You were the one who
figured out she spoke English.
I... I didn't actually
figure it out.
She just started talking to me.
Is Santi under arrest?
No, but we do have to hold
her, at least until I get her story.
The situation wasn't ideal,
but it was the best one I had.
Thank you. GUARD: Sure.
Hi, Santi. I'm Agent Reeves,
and you remember Amita?
Hi.
We think we know what
happened at the hotel yesterday.
It's okay. Agent
Reeves is here to help.
You asked me about your sister?
You found her? You found Prita?
We found her last night.
No.
I'm so sorry.
This isn't my sister.
This is Sonali.
There were three of you?
Four of us. Prita,
me, Jaya and Sonali.
And you were all here
to sell your kidney?
It's okay, Santi. Anything
you tell Agent Reeves
will help her find your sister.
A man came to our village,
promised us each $1,000.
Do you know who he is? Do
you know what his name is? No.
He was from the
city, from Chennai.
How long have you been here?
Five days.
Where have you been staying?
At the hotel.
You mean where we found you?
In a room, upstairs.
Later, they bring
us to the basement.
It's okay.
For the kidney, I was next.
But something happened to Sonali
and everyone started to yell.
And I think they
forget me, so I ran.
How did you get
back to the basement?
When I stop running,
I am alone.
You went back?
Prita was still there.
Hey, so there were four
girls staying at that hotel.
Two of which are still missing.
So that night manager
held out on us. Yeah.
You and David should go
over and pick him up, huh?
Hey, by the way, did David get
anything off those transplant lists?
He did, yeah. There's a guy named
Benjamin Riley. Took himself off the list.
Ends up in ICU with
complications from his new kidney.
Dr. Bainsworth?
I'm Allen Kelly. I'm with
the hospital's legal office.
Dr. Bainsworth
intends to cooperate.
And you're just here in the
spirit of that cooperation?
What is it you'd like to know?
For starters, how did you
patient obtain an illegal kidney?
I advised him very
strongly against doing this.
Oh, so he just showed up
with a black-market organ.
You don't know
anything about it?
I had nothing to do
with his transplant.
But I still have a
responsibility to my patient,
even if he chooses
to ignore my advice.
You always do what your
doctor tells you, Agent Reeves?
We're not talking about
lowering my cholesterol.
A girl was killed. Lawrence,
don't respond to that.
Where was she from?
India.
It's not surprising. There's
an area outside of Chennai.
It's called "Kidney Village."
So you're saying there's
regular traffic in human organs?
There are over 80,000 people on
the transplant waiting list in this country
and every day, 17
of them die, waiting.
I'd really like to
speak to your patient
about who performed
this operation.
His transplant took place in
less-than-ideal circumstances.
He has post-operative sepsis, a severe
infection. He's in critical condition.
So, what, he's too sick to talk?
Andy knows what
he did was illegal.
Whoever sold him the kidney
coached him to keep silent.
I doubt he'd speak to
you, even if he could.
Then I want his blood
work and tissue samples,
and everything you have on him.
The night manager
was a dead end.
He quit the same day
we interviewed him.
So he was in on it? Well, yeah,
but with him in the wind,
that leaves us with no
connection to these two girls.
Well, the paperwork
from the emergency room
said that the victim was
brought in by ambulance.
Oh, so we trace that 911 call.
I did that. There
was no 911 call.
The ambulance was there,
at the hotel, waiting for him.
The driver was in on it.
Santi said something went wrong.
Maybe the ambulance that was
supposed to transport an organ
ended up transporting
a body as well.
What's up? It's the
Milton Prize winner.
Hey.
Are you... You okay?
Yeah.
You know, we should
reschedule our celebration.
Yeah.
I don't know. I'm not really
in the mood to celebrate.
Is it okay if we hold
off, maybe? Yeah.
You're upset for that girl that
you met at the FBI, aren't you?
I went to see her this morning.
You know, Megan thought a
familiar face might help her cope.
But I mean, how do you
cope with something like that?
Besides, you know, there's not really
that much in common between us.
She comes from the
same place as your family.
She does.
But, you know, I grew
up in California, Charlie.
I mean, I know more about
surfing than I do about India.
When I was little, you know, kids used
to make fun of me because I was different.
But I didn't want
to be different.
When my grandmother used to
tell me stories about what it was like,
I just tuned her out.
And I wanted to push
away that part of who I am.
You wanted to fit in here.
But now, you
know, seeing this girl
and what she's going
through, I have to help her.
But I don't know how.
I don't know what to say
and I don't know what to do...
Well, maybe you should
ask your grandmother, I mean,
she seemed to have
some good ideas.
And even if you didn't
used to listen to her...
Thank you, Charlie.
You really are a genius.
Are you the manager? Yeah.
We're looking for an
ambulance of yours.
It was seen parked
behind a hotel downtown.
You got a number? All
the rigs have numbers.
No, this one dropped off a
patient at the University General
around 8:00 a.m.,
day before yesterday.
That'd be Proderman, but
he's still out on the street.
Yeah? Has he got a radio? Yeah.
Call him back in.
Actually, I don't need to. That's
him right now, pulling in the driveway.
Hey!
Let's go!
Unit 365.
365, go.
In pursuit of a homicide suspect
driving a red-and-white van.
Look, it's an ambulance.
We're traveling west on
Normandy. Just crossed 54th.
Requesting backup. DISPATCH:
Copy, 365. All units be advised.
First the night manager,
now the ambulance driver?
365 requesting backup
at Normandy and 54th.
Hold all radio traffic.
He's not gonna make that turn.
Hey, I don't think
this dude cares.
Dispatch, suspect T.A.'d a
taxi at 56th and Normandy.
Show as code six, requesting
emergency medical assistance.
Hey, buddy, you all
right? You're gonna be fine.
I want you to just lay down and
take it easy, okay? Okay, I'm okay.
All right? You all right? Yeah.
Paramedics are on the way.
Well, maybe they can
check and see if he's a donor.
Hi.
Oh, no, this isn't official.
We just came to see
how you were doing.
Santi, this is my
friend, Charlie.
Hello.
Hi.
So,
how are you doing?
I am okay.
We brought you some
stuff. Um, some clothes.
And...
Here's some shampoo. Hello?
Yeah. That's no
problem. I'll be right there.
And a hairbrush. And some
toothbrush and toothpaste.
I've got to get back to the FBI.
You gonna be all right
in this place? Yeah.
Okay. I'll be fine.
Santi, the FBI's doing everything
they can to find your sister.
Thanks for coming with me.
It will be very
nice to wash my hair.
I'm so glad to hear
you say that. Um...
I... I didn't know what to get.
I mean, I don't know that
much about where you're from.
You're not from
India? No, I'm not.
My family is.
But I was born
here in California.
Actually, I've never
even been to India.
I could've gone once with my
dad for business, but I didn't...
I... I didn't end up going.
And what is it you
do in California?
I work in math and
astrophysics, at a college.
Uh, I... I'm in school.
Oh, I was in school once.
When I was little, I liked school.
Uh, I brought you
something else.
My grandmother thought
you might like to have this.
For a puja. A prayer.
Thank you.
What's the red string for?
We tie a bracelet after.
To remember.
That the trip log we got
out of the ambulance?
Yep, I've been
through the entire thing
and every entry in it checks
out against the 911 calls.
All right, so Proderman was
only recording official trips.
Doesn't leave us much
to go on. No, it doesn't.
Which is why I called Charlie.
He was nice enough to come
down here on short notice.
Hey, Charlie. How you
doing? Thanks for coming down.
I was around here. I was at
that, uh, that detention center.
With Amita and... and the girl.
Is that that log book
you called me about?
Yeah, it is, but like I told
you, it's just the official runs.
Well, then you were probably
able to get the total distance
driven by the driver
on each of his shifts?
Well, yeah, the company records
daily mileages for each driver.
How's that gonna help us, Charlie?
He still could've gone anywhere.
No, his destinations
are limited.
By the total miles
driven in each shift.
Okay, well, we still don't
know where he went.
And more importantly, where he
could've taken those other girls.
Well, keep in mind that where he
went couldn't have been random.
You know, his choices
were influenced by things.
By the time of day
and his location.
So, you mean, like, if it was
noon, it's likely that he went to lunch.
Exactly. So first what we'll do
is, we'll take the total mileage
and plot all the
possible routes,
as well as all the known
destinations from the ambulance log.
Then I can use a
Hidden Markov Model,
as well as an elliptical analysis
to narrow the possibilities
of the most likely hidden
destinations and unrecorded routes.
It's a...
It's a treasure map.
We have ourselves a list of starting
points, routes, destinations, times,
but it's incomplete. Not
every stop is recorded.
Now, based on what
information we do have,
I can reveal the most likely locations
and times for the unrecorded stops.
Imagine you held a candle to
the bottom of a treasure map
to reveal the sections
written in invisible ink.
I don't know, Charlie,
I mean, it still feels like
we're pretty much guessing
about where he went.
Okay, yeah, a
little a-a-at first.
But this log is extensive. I mean,
it... it goes back several months.
So as we continue to analyze the
possibilities, patterns will emerge.
And with all this data, my
algorithm will be able to tell us
what his favorite place
for lunch is, you know,
where he probably gets his coffee, maybe
where he shops for shoes. Who knows?
We just need it to tell us where
he could've taken those girls.
Right.
Hello?
Anyone home?
Yeah. In the kitchen, Don.
Hey, Dad.
I made some coffee,
you want some? Nah.
I could use a drink, though.
Oh?
Tough day?
We just got these two
missing girls from India.
India? Yeah.
What are they doing here? Well,
selling their kidneys, believe it or not.
Crazy, right?
I mean, they're dirt poor, they get
1,000 bucks and a plane ticket here.
What?
Oh, I was thinking about my
friend Lou, you remember him?
He used to work for the Parks,
Department of Recreation.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, he died last year
of, um, kidney failure.
I'm sorry, Dad, I
didn't know that.
Yeah. I remember his
family was so desperate.
They couldn't find a match
among them for a transplant.
Not even his two brothers.
You'd think brothers
would match.
Well, actually, it's only one chance
in four when it comes to siblings.
Hmm.
They even tested me.
And then they put
him on this long list.
Waiting for a donor.
Must've been
hundreds ahead of him.
That man could've lived.
Yeah, I mean, you know,
look, I see what you're saying.
But, you know, these kids are
dragged halfway across the world
so some back-alley quack
can cut them up for parts.
Yeah, I know, I'm not
saying it's right. I'm just saying
that when it comes to
looking at your own mortality,
ah, you'd grab on to
anything to save your life.
Hmm.
All right, Larry,
we've reached the last few
entries in the ambulance log,
and we've got
point C-36. Okay?
Uh, two kilometers
north-south, three east-west.
You know, when I was a child,
I was plagued by a nightmare
involving the theft
of my internal organs.
You were? Yeah.
Boy. Uh...
Centering on, um,
on point Y-12, half a click up,
one kilometer side to side.
The dreams recurred
at regular intervals
till I was 13 years
old. It was horrible.
Well, like what? Like, was there a
monster attacking you or something?
Well, I mean, no. Actually,
it was my Aunt Louise.
God, I can see her even
now, wearing this hairnet.
All right, this is
the last coordinate.
Uh, D-16.
One by one and a half.
And the 13th time is the charm.
The hospital again?
Hospital again.
Wow.
All right, so let's summarize.
In our analysis,
University General shows up as a more
likely destination than any other place?
Yeah, but it's not unusual for
an ambulance to go to a hospital.
Yeah, but these were in
addition to his official stops.
None of them were recorded.
Which means the ambulance driver
may have had a contact
at University General.
What are you... Hey, you're
not supposed to be down here.
Are you in charge?
I'm the only one here.
You ever run into a guy
named Proderman down here?
Who are you?
FBI. He drives an ambulance.
You know him or not?
No. No, not really.
Sounds a lot like a yes.
I've seen him around, I...
He's usually looking for Michael.
Michael?
Michael Tolchuck. He
works days in the morgue.
And nights at a hotel downtown?
Where is he right now?
I don't know. I haven't
seen him around.
You know, I think maybe
I should just call my boss.
I think you should as well.
Excuse me?
You have paperwork
for four bodies right here.
So? So.
I count five.
Looks like she could
be one of our girls.
The morgue is actually a
great place to hide a body.
It's ironic.
Immigration showed Santi
the fax, this isn't her sister.
Yeah, well, she's a lucky girl.
'Cause he just gave me his
preliminaries. Both kidneys were taken.
Liver, corneas,
even bone tissue.
Well, if they took more than
the kidney, something's changed.
Murder wasn't part
of the deal before.
I think when the first girl
died, it was an accident.
And after that, Tolchuck just
decided to cover his tracks.
Makes the witness
problem a payday.
He said that the parts
were worth over 300 grand.
$300,000?
The organs are valuable if
they have a recipient match.
And biotech firms use
skin, bone, even fat tissue
to make all sorts of
implants and prosthetics.
Well, if that's the case, Santi's
sister is worth more dead than alive.
As long as he finds
matches for her organs.
Which should give us a
chance to find Tolchuck first.
Yeah. Mike, we'll
see you later, thanks.
Thank you.
Doctors and hospitals use an optimization
theory developed at Johns Hopkins
to determine the best matches
between organ
donors and recipients.
If we only consider a single variable,
let's say, blood type, then the match
between only two items
is simple to achieve.
But transplant doctors are
trying to find complex matches
for entire immune systems,
based on a number of variables.
Blood type, cross match and
a range of immunoproteins.
An optimization algorithm
is used to determine
what donors are best
suited for each patient.
Okay, so how do
we use any of this?
Santi told me that each of
the girls was given a blood test
to find a match
for their kidneys.
Now, the National Organ Sharing
Network keeps blood type, cross match
and HLA compatibility information on
every patient waiting for a transplant.
So, what, we run the
sister's results against that
to find out where
the kidney'll wind up?
Exactly. We might be able to
determine the transplant patient
before the surgery takes place.
Yeah, but there's
one thing. What's that?
We don't have any blood
work on the missing girl.
No, we don't, but we can run blood
and HLA compatibility tests on Santi.
We can use her results. They're sisters.
- From what I understand,
there's only one in four
chances that siblings will match.
Well, a one in four chance
is better than no chance at all.
Sorry, Amita, but Santi's data
just isn't producing a result.
Well, then let's test the
algorithm against known matches.
We already tried that.
Amita, I don't think the
equation's the problem.
Then the database of patients waiting
for transplants must be an incomplete set.
You know, if we consider
we're dealing with a black market,
it's possible, even probable,
that we're looking for a patient
who cannot obtain an
organ in the normal way.
So they wouldn't be
on any official lists.
Yeah, but it's much more likely
that Santi isn't a match for her sister.
I was hoping this would work.
Yeah, well, we all were.
Well, we aren't giving up.
Wow, this doesn't look good. I assume
you guys haven't found anything yet.
No, well. You know,
we were only working
with a 25 percent chance
of success to begin with.
An absence of proof is not the
same thing as a proof of failure.
Yeah, she's right about
that. She's right about what?
We don't know that Santi
isn't a match for her sister.
We only know that we aren't getting any
results from this current set of patients.
Well, David and Colby found
some data on the patients
in Tolchuck's
computer at the morgue.
Let me see.
This is a potential list of
customers? We think so.
Our elusive black-marketeers?
We have a match. Thank God.
Well, now that we know
where the kidney is going,
what I need to do is find Santi's
sister before she gets there.
Dad,
these people are from the FBI.
They want to ask
you some questions.
What kind of questions?
Well, sir, I'll make this
as quick as possible.
Are you aware that buying
human organs is a Federal crime?
I don't know what
you're talking about.
Mr. Eckworth, two women
have been murdered.
There's still another
girl out there.
Who happens to be a
perfect donor match for you.
What girl? What
are talking about?
We're investigating a murder of two
girls who were killed for their body parts.
I said I don't know anything.
My father really isn't well
and I need to get back to work.
So, if there's nothing else...
All right. Thanks.
He's lying. You saw that. Yeah.
So why did you
take us out of there?
I don't think
he's going to talk.
And I think she's been in
the dark until now, you know?
So he believes the people we're
trying to find are gonna save his life
and he's never gonna talk? You see the
way she looked when you said "murdered"?
You think I should talk to her?
I think he made the choice and
she's finding out what it entails.
My father told you we
didn't know anything.
Right now, I'm not that interested
in what your father knows.
Without a new kidney,
my father will die.
But he has a blood disorder that
disqualifies him from getting a transplant.
I know this is
difficult. Difficult?
Every day I watch as my
dad dies a little bit more.
You know, he raised me. It
was always just the two of us.
You know, none of
this would be happening
if I were a match, if I
could give him a kidney.
I'm sure you'd do
anything to save your father.
But two girls have
already been killed.
I don't know
anything about that.
Maybe not before,
but now you do.
And there is
another girl out there
just waiting to be carved up.
Look, I'm sure you would do
anything to save your father,
but this may not
be the best way.
The last person who received
a transplant from these people
died a few hours ago
from a massive infection.
He told me that I need
to be ready to pick him up
to take him to the hospital.
From where? And when?
At a hotel.
Tomorrow.
In Romania, I was a surgeon
at the best hospital in Bucharest.
Now I'm reduced to washing
my hands in the toilet.
I made one mistake
on a patient who would have
died in six months anyway.
Tomorrow, I'm retiring.
What do you plan to
do with your share?
Forget I asked.
FBI! Drop that scalpel! MEGAN:
Move away from the table!
Turn around! Put your
hands behind your back.
Prita?
Jimmy. Put them up!
Prita? Jimmy, get in here.
Prita, can you hear
me? We need a medic!
How did you know
she would be okay?
You gave us the
information we needed.
And I believe in the people
that were looking for her.
And, uh...
Thank you.
Mmm, that smells so
good. I hope it's good.
It's embarrassing, but I actually had
to ask my grandmother what to get.
It was absolutely unnecessary
for you to buy dinner for us.
Well, after what Don did to get Prita
and Santi out of the detention center,
it's really the least I can do.
Hey, where is Don, anyway?
He should be here by now.
So, what's gonna happen
with these girls, Amita, huh?
What?
Amita is using the money
from the Milton Prize
to... Well, why
don't you tell them?
I'm going to use the money to
pay for the girls to go back to school.
Well, that's an admirable
use of your award.
Let me know if I can
contribute in any way.
That's sweet, but it's
actually not necessary.
I'll have enough
money to pay the tuition
and have extra left over
for a trip I want to take.
You're going to India?
Yeah, with my grandmother,
over spring break.
Hey, that's... that's great.
Hey, guys, sorry I'm late.
I got stuck at the DMV.
What were you doing at the DMV?
Well, I'm now officially an
organ donor. Check it out.
Hey, look at that. - Cool.
Nice, huh?
All right, so now I get treated with a
little more respect around here, huh?
You know, if more people
took that simple step,
can you imagine
the ramifications?
Basic economic theory.
Black markets rely on a
shortage of a regulated commodity.
That's right. Increase the supply,
the black market disappears.
Well, here's a couple extra
applications in case anyone wants.
No, that's all right. I
already got my sticker.
Yeah, look I've been
an organ donor for years.
Yeah, me, too. What
about you, Charlie?
I don't know.
I kind of want to hold on to
my internal organs, you know.
Uh, Charlie, they don't actually take
them until you've finished with them.
I'm aware of that, Father.
Yeah, well, then there's
nothing to worry about.
It's just, you know,
what if I'm not dead
and they think I'm dead,
because I, like, look dead?
Yeah, well, in your case, I
could see that happening.
Don't worry, Charlie.
You got your family around to make sure
that something like that never happens.
Yeah, Chuck, we got your back.
Your spleen...
Well, I got his heart.
It's his brain that I
think people want.
Maybe we should keep
that and put it on eBay.
No, that goes to a museum.