Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 4, Episode 11 - Breaking Point - full transcript

It's been nearly a week

since veteran investigative
reporter Bonnie Parks

was reported missing.

Now the FBI has
joined the investigation

into her disappearance.

Bureau officials have
been tight-lipped about

their involvement, saying
it's too soon to comment.

So, for now, Parks' whereabouts
and fate remain a mystery.

The security guard called
in the plates after he realized

the car had been
here a couple of days.

Checked out surveillance video.



It shows Bonnie
Parks entered the lot

at 10:08 Tuesday morning.

Are we sure it was her?

No question. From what
I can tell, she was alone.

Joining me is Professor
Charles Eppes,

a Cal Sci mathematician who
frequently consults for the FBI.

Are you here to help the
FBI find Bonnie Parks?

You know what? I'm
not at liberty to say.

It's an ongoing investigation.

Your brother Special Agent
Don Eppes is the lead investigator

on the case.

You've done your homework.

Uh, I hope to help in
whatever way I can.

Hopefully, we can find
out what happened to her.



DAVID: Interviewed shop
owners and employees.

Some remember her from TV,

but no one actually
remembers seeing her.

COLBY: Surveillance cameras
never picked her up entering,

so she didn't even
make it into the mall.

In a missing
persons case like this

there's any number of
analyses we can perform.

For instance, we know Miss
Parks' car was recovered

at the San Marino Mall.

Based on traffic-flow patterns,

I can construct a probable
egress path away from that area.

Maybe she was followed,
maybe she was meeting a source.

Yeah. I mean, all we know
is she rolled in the parking lot

Tuesday morning at 10:08;

she parked her car...

Then she vanished.

CHARLIE: We know that
Miss Parks... through her work...

Made a number of enemies.

We can mathematically
evaluate each of those enemies

to determine what
threat they might pose.

But it's still early and
still gathering data.

REPORTER: Is your presence
here going to be the difference

between finding or not
finding Bonnie Parks?

CHARLIE: I hope to find
her, if that's what you mean.

It's a cardinal rule:

you don't discuss an
ongoing investigation.

ALAN: Don, I don't really think

he disclosed that
much about the case.

Well, Dad, the Assistant
Director thinks different.

I'm really sorry.

Well, it doesn't matter,

Charlie, you're sorry;
the damage is done.

Where are you going?

To Cal Sci to do the
work that I didn't do

because I was helping Don.

He's not one of your agents.

You know that, right?

(sighs) Forget
about it. It's nothing.

Thanks, dopey.

I don't really need to
see while I'm driving.

Gee.

All right, fine. You know
what? Go ahead. Go ahead.

(tires squeal)

(tires squealing)

What do you want?

(knock at door)

I come beseechingly.

In my effort to rid
my office of clutter,

I may have dispensed
with certain staple items,

my copy of Fisher &
Boyd being one of them.

You want to borrow mine.

Here.

Ah.

(knock at door)

Oh, hey, Larry.

Hey. Charlie.

Did you sleep here last night?

Uh... yeah.

I didn't realize you
had so much work.

I would have helped.

It wasn't work.

I think I was kind of

being followed last night.

What do you mean? Where?

In my car on the way here.

I'm probably just
being paranoid.

Maybe you accidentally
cut somebody off in traffic.

I mean, your driving
is questionable.

There's nothing
wrong with my driving.

So the chorus of car horns
that follows in your wake...

(both laughing)

What is that? A
spontaneous phenomenon?

Um, did you talk to Don?

What did he say?

(sighs) Don...

I'm supposed to be
at the FBI right now.

Ah, great.

This is one more thing for
him to give me crap about.

Charles, is
everything all right?

PARKS: Despite
assurances from all six

of the Mexican
pharmacies we visited,

our investigation
found that nearly half

of all the drugs dispensed
to American patients

were either mislabeled, expired

or placebo,

a dangerous health fraud
that could have serious,

even fatal consequences.

The woman's got guts.

In the last six years, she's
taken on just about everybody:

the Mexican Mafia,
crooked Border Patrol agents,

bad cops, judges, mayors.

So she's got plenty of enemies.

Yeah, I counted 28
companies or individuals

who have reason to
go after her for revenge.

I mean, either went to jail,
forced to pay huge fines,

or kicked out of office.

I think I can find a way
to narrow your choices.

Yeah, you mentioned
that in your interview.

Yeah, among other things.

Uh, it's called an asymmetric
threat assessment.

We've done threat
assessments before,

but I think I can use
this one to analyze

and calculate
motive. But Charlie,

all 28 of the suspects are
presumably after the same thing:

that's revenge, right?

Yeah, that's true,

but each suspect is
motivated to a different degree.

You know that carnival game

where you shoot a squirt gun

into a clown's mouth
to fill up a balloon?

An asymmetric threat
assessment allows us

to measure the factors that
feed motive in each suspect

just like the mechanism in the
game measures the flow of water

into each clown's mouth.

It doesn't matter

if the suspects all
have the same motive.

We just have to find

the one case in which motive
has been fed to the point

where the suspect
eventually pops.

And that only considers the
suspects that pose a threat

to Bonnie Parks.

Just as important are the people

who are afraid of her,
who she threatens.

You mean anyone

she's investigating who
has something to hide.

Do we know what she
was working on? No, not yet.

We have a meeting
set with her producer.

All right, good.

Well, you know what to do

and we know what to do,

so let's get to it.

You coming?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Hand me the
nine-sixteenths, will ya?

(metallic clanging)

There you go.

Hey, what's goin' on?

Ah, the filter
pump's been making

some horrible sounds lately.

I'm surprised you
hadn't noticed.

Yeah, no, I did.
I just been busy.

Hey, Charlie. Ray?

Dad, you called a
tenured university professor

to come and fix the koi pond.

Relax, your dad
mentioned the trouble

the other day after class,

I volunteered. You know I
like to get my hands dirty.

Looks like the
bearings are shot.

Really?

Well, they're easy
to replace, huh?

Yeah, but you might
want to get a new pump.

Old one like this,
it's inefficient.

Gobbles power like a
South American dictator.

Matter of fact, couple
things you could do

to green this old
place up a little.

Probably save
money in the long run,

do the planet a favor
at the same time.

What are you talking about?

Charlie drives a hybrid.
We're already doing our part.

To tell you the truth, yeah.

It's something I've
been thinking about.

No, come on. The house is fine.

I mean, it's old, but it
works, you know, mostly.

I mean, it's a lot like me.

(laughing)

Well, you can see
she hardly ever uses it.

Where does she work?

At home probably. I don't know.

She's always real secretive
during her investigations.

She would work alone until
it was time to start shooting.

So you don't know who she
was currently investigating?

No.

How about someone
in her personal life?

Is there anybody there
who might be able to tell us?

If she had a personal life.

Here's the thing.

Bonnie was always
just about her work.

She was an
absolute professional,

but I never saw her
try to make friends

or even try to be liked.

"101st Airborne."

I used to bunk with some
of these guys in Afghanistan.

That's her younger brother's.

He was killed in Iraq.

What about a computer?

She have a laptop maybe
she takes with her to work?

Bonnie doesn't use computers.

She doesn't trust
that they are secure.

So she writes
everything out by hand.

She's old school.

Yeah, which means
we go old school.

Check this out.

I can see indentations.

Can you make anything out?

No, but maybe
somebody at the lab can.

What do you think
happened to Bonnie?

I mean,

do you think she's still alive?

I really, really wanted to
sneak up on you and yell, "Boo!"

But I thought it might not be

the best idea right now.

Yeah, I appreciate
the restraint.

You have no idea.

This threat assessment?

Yeah, it's for Don's
missing reporter.

It's running, but I keep
reworking the algorithm.

It's a pretty large value for N.

She had a lot of enemies.

Why does Alan keep grumbling

about Ray trying
to ruin the house?

You know, I'm not sure

because all Ray's saying

is that he wants
to make the house

a little more eco-friendly

and get off the
grid a little, so...

And Alan's against that?

Wasn't he the biggest
activist hippie in the '60s?

City planning's
all about efficiency.

It doesn't make any sense.

(computer beeping)

Charlie...

Your computer's done.

Oh.

All right.

I'm gonna take this over to Don.

You want me to ride with you?

No.

Are you sure?

I'll be fine by myself.

(computer beeping)

DON: What's that,
the parking lot?

Yep.

Everything that
entered or left the mall

the morning she pulled in.

Any license plate I
can read I'm running.

That's a lot of plates.

Yeah. So far, she could be
stashed in any one of these.

The guys at the lab had
no problem pulling off

what was on those pads
we found in her office.

It was kind of interesting.

Take a look at it.

It's, um, it's just numbers.

There's two full pages of it.

Yeah?

Any theories what they are?

Could be some kind of code.

Maybe we should
get Charlie on that.

Yeah, all right.
I'll give him a call.

Maybe we're looking at
this whole thing wrong.

Most of the time with
disappearances like this, right,

it always comes back
something personal.

You know, you got
a spouse, ex-spouse,

you got an angry boyfriend.

Yeah, but that's the thing.

I mean, I checked. There's
just, there's no one in her life.

There isn't anybody.

This is the last time
anyone saw her, right?

Where is she now?

CHARLIE: Hello?

Look, I need you to take
a look at some numbers.

Yeah, yeah, I'm on my
way down there right now.

I just finished my
threat analysis.

Yeah? Anything?

No. No, nothing unusual.

No one stands out.

Really? Of all the
people she took down?

Where are you?

Charlie?

Hey, can you hear
me? Are you there?

(sighs) Yeah, uh,
you know, I'm sorry.

Yeah. I'll be there in,

like, 15 minutes, okay?

All right. All righty, bye.

(tires screeching)

(gasps)

No!

Oh, God!

(tires squeal)

(horn beeping continuously)

Hey, you all right?!
I'm all right. It's all right.

Well, you're gonna see a doctor.
I mean I don't care what he says.

Believe me, I'm not gonna
refuse any medical attention.

This actually kind of smarts.

Let me see. Hey,
Charlie, you have any idea

who might have tried to do this?

I couldn't see them that well.

Think about it for a second.

Anybody hanging
out weird on campus?

Maybe at any of
your book signings?

Did you flunk any students

or get in any fights with any
of them, anything like that?

No, my students
aren't trying to kill me,

although sometimes
it seems like they are.

That wasn't the first
time I saw that truck.

I think he followed
me last night.

What are you talking about?

Why didn't you tell me?

Because you were
already so pissed off

about my interview.

Charlie...

So I just didn't tell you.

Come on, Charlie. You can
come to me with anything.

Hey, guys, let me
talk to you for a minute.

Yeah.

Charlie gave a description
of the truck to the cops:

silver pickup, fog lights,

body work on the right
front fender and hood.

All right, so?

The same truck was
at the San Marino Mall

the morning Bonnie
Parks disappeared.

SINCLAIR: Are you sure?

I saw it on the video.

It pulled out of the parking
lot only a couple minutes

after she pulled in.

Why are they going after
Charlie? They saw his interview.

They knew he was
working the case.

He's an easy target.
He doesn't shoot back.

I want someone on
him 24-7, all right?

CHARLIE: Come on,
man. Now this is ridiculous.

There's not gonna be
anybody in my office.

Charlie, you really
can't be too careful.

You're wrong.

This is proof right here

that you can be too careful.

Charlie, if anything
happened to you on my watch,

Don would have my head.

Okay?

Let me do my job. It's clear.

Thank you. Did you
bring the numbers?

AMITA: What numbers?

What is that?

It's a list of numbers we found

in Bonnie Parks' office.

Charlie, you're not still
working on this case?

Why wouldn't I be?

Do I really need to
explain this to you?

What happened
shouldn't change anything.

In fact, I'd rather just
forget it happened at all.

Oh, that's a very rational plan.

I mean, it really
works for ostriches.

Charlie, please, you
should not be working...

I have to!

Okay.

Hey, if I could have ducked
out during the middle of that,

I would have.

Yeah... me, too.

Her brother Clay was killed
by an IED three years ago.

The last family she had.

Everything all right?

Man, you can't blame yourself.

I mean, what if they'd hit him?

They didn't.

Well, we just gotta find out
who she was after, all right?

Her editor said she didn't
do much work in her office,

but it certainly seems

like she didn't do
much here, either.

All right, well, let's
get out of here.

I'm thinking about sticking
around for a little bit.

I kind of get this feeling
there's something more to her

that everybody's missing.

Maybe I can figure
it out, you know?

All right, good.

I'll see you back at the office.

♪ ♪

♪ I'm coming up only ♪

♪ To hold you under ♪

You about ready?

Would you check focus?

'Cause the last one
was a little soft to me.

♪ To show you wrong ♪

♪ And to know you
is hardly wonder ♪

It was November.

Judge Booth was still
presiding over the murder trial

when he lured the
defendant's wife Dennis to this...

(laughing)

I'm sorry. It was supposed
to be "Denise," not "Dennis."

I think we should do that
over again. What do you think?

♪ Ooh... ♪

Come on. Come on.

This is crazy
having a bodyguard.

I mean, do you really
have to lurk like that?

I have a better vantage
point from back here.

I can see more. More what?

Come on.

Charlie, please.

Charlie, can we get
where we're going, please?

Charlie, I just heard.

You should have
called me last night.

It's not that big a
deal, all right? I'm fine.

Amita's of a contrary
opinion. She came to see me.

She wants me to dissuade you

from staying on this case.

I got to say

I tend to agree with her.

Hey, Eppes, check it out.

The very latest in
home photovoltaics.

You thinking of
going solar here?

Can we take this
inside the office maybe?

Not out here. Agent Sinclair,

what are you doing over there?

He's getting a
better vantage point.

Somebody tried to
kill Charlie last night.

Can we not?

No offense, but if you
got to get a FBI bodyguard,

why not get that hot one we
worked with... Agent Reeves?

Pretty sure she was digging me.

You know, actually, Ray,
Agent Reeves... or Megan...

And I... we're, we're
kind of involved.

(laughs)

You serious?

Yeah, I am.

And a little less incredulity

on your part would
be appreciated.

No, Larry, sorry. It's just
how often do women like that

get involved with guys like us?

Nice going.

Okay, well, thank you.

(loud crash)

You okay?

I'm fine.

And I'm really sick

of having to tell
everybody that.

Hey.

Hey, Donnie.

Didn't expect to see you.

Everything all
right with Charlie?

Yeah, David's with him.

You know, Dad...
I'm kind of thinking

that maybe he shouldn't
work for me anymore.

Well, I can't say
that wouldn't be safer.

No, it's not just that. It's...

What is it?

You and Mom... you
sacrificed so much

for him to do something
great, you know.

And what, you think he's
supposed to be doing something

better than what you do?

Yeah.

You know, uh...
none of us can tell

where Charlie's path to
greatness might take him.

I mean, even the
FBI might be part of it.

Besides, he likes
working with you.

I don't think you
could stop him.

I don't know...

Oh, and Donnie...

we all made those
sacrifices for Charlie,

especially you.

(clattering)

(beep)

(phone dialing)

(line ringing)

DON: Eppes.

Hey, Don, she gets two
power bills delivered here.

One's for an address down
in the warehouse district.

Maybe that's where
she does her work.

I need the address. I'm
coming from the house.

It's 819 Third Street, #104.

(men conversing indistinctly)

MAN: Guys, let's
get out of here.

FBI! Don't move!

Man, it's cool.

(siren blaring)

You all right? Yeah.

Yeah, 819 East Third.

That was the truck that
Charlie described, right?

Yeah.

You know what, I'm
pretty sure I wounded

a second one of those guys.

You all right? You good?

Yeah, probably more lucky
than good, but... I'm fine.

Those guys were clearing out

Bonnie's place.

Take a look at this.

It's more of those lists

of numbers like we
found in her office.

Got stuff on this guy
named Richard Taylor.

Richard Taylor?

He's a big real
estate developer.

I wonder if that's who

she was investigating.

Wait a minute.

This guy was one of the guys
who just took off in the truck.

You sure?

Yeah, I'm positive.

This is getting closer,
but we still have

to make better use of
the plaza space here.

The traffic flow
along the boulevard...

Taylor?

You or any of your people

ever come near my family again,

I'm going to tear you
apart. You hear me?

Yeah, I don't know you.

That's you.

This guy tried to kill
my brother last night.

What, some guys walks
up to me on the street,

you take a picture,

that's supposed to
be proof of something?

Take it as a warning, pal.

Let me tell you something.

I started in this business

swinging a hammer when I was 15.

I got to deal with Mafia,

unions, extortion scams.

You don't scare me.

Next time you see me it's
going to be to lock your ass up.

Is that one of the guys
who came after me?

Yeah. You recognize him?

I couldn't really see

anything when it was
happening. I'm sorry.

You don't have anything
to feel sorry about, okay?

It's just a little weird,

you know, he's dead now.

Charlie, look, that guy's
dead because he shot at me.

I had no choice
but to shoot back.

A-DIC's been looking for you.

I just spent 20 minutes
getting chewed out by him.

That wasn't a smart move, Don...

Threatening Taylor.

Yeah, I know that, David.
Thank you very much.

All right.

Well, we put some information
together on Taylor, so...

All right.

COLBY: His firm's working on
this massive redevelopment project.

I got restaurants,
movie theaters,

condos, the whole bit.

DON: Yeah, yeah, I saw it.

It's this model right here.

And to the city, this
thing makes Taylor

look like a big hero...
Bringing a revenue center

to a formerly blighted area.

Right. The thing
is, Bonnie Parks

doesn't see him that way.

She's been talking with
mostly poor local residents

who've all been forced out to
make room for the development,

and they've been
terrorized by Taylor's thugs.

Forced them to sell.

Here's the thing:
his project's not

free and clear yet.
He's still waiting

on a big vote from
the zoning commission.

Can't afford any organized
opposition to his project.

Right. And especially
not bad press.

I mean, if Bonnie

does the exposé

and shows what
Taylor's been up to...

It gets voted down

and he loses the beaucoup bucks.

DAVID: And there's your motive.

The problem is if Bonnie had

any kind of proof, you
know... it's not here.

We're working this guy, right?

Yeah, we still have the
number streams, too.

Charlie, have you had

any luck with those?

I, uh... I'm still
working on it.

Okay, well, sooner
would be better than later

if she's still out
there somewhere.

What about a downturn
analysis approach?

Downturn analysis would require
that I know what I'm analyzing,

and I don't, so
that's the problem.

But we know it's got
to have something to do

with Taylor's
development, right?

So what if it's

a list of investors

or, I don't know...

Okay, okay, here's another idea.

Admittedly, it's tangential,
but seeing as how

it would appear
you're at an impasse...

I'm not at an impasse.

Would...

will you just give me a
moment to think, please?

Whoa, how's it coming?

Well, we haven't cracked it
yet, if that's what you mean.

It would appear
Charles' patience

is taxed

as well as his aptitude.

I'm right here, Lawrence.

Is there anything
I can do to help?

Sure you want to
be involved in this?

If my help will make it
go away any faster, yes.

Look, she wouldn't have
made this list of numbers

if they weren't important.

I mean, she's too deliberate
and focused for that.

You sound like you know her.

Hey, the Eppes' garage has
become a Cal Sci faculty club.

Look what I got.

Third gen electric
solar sheet incorporating

semiconductor quantum
dots and nanoparticles.

Thought I'd throw my
sales pitch at your dad.

He's in the kitchen.

I'll go with you.

Don, I'm running down
Colby's dead guy, Randall Platt.

Dude had more than
a dozen arrests, right?

Half the time his bail was
posted by his brother-in-law

Sonny Leyva.

Guess what Sonny drives.

A silver pickup?

Yeah, I had LAPD do
a roll by his apartment.

Truck's right out front.

You call SWAT?
Already suiting up.

David?

We're good to go.

All right, here we go.

FBI! Don't move!

Get down! Turn
around! On your knees!

On your knees!

Cuff him.

Don't move!

That's the guy Colby shot.

Oh, he's dead.

They're clear in there.

You've got loads
of south-facing roof,

which is the optimal
angle for gathering sunlight.

Sunlight?

Most of the roof
is shaded by trees.

So we'll trim the trees
a little. It's not a big deal.

And you've got space
for at least 50 panels,

which is enough
probably to generate

50 kilowatt-hours

on a good sunny Pasadena day.

Yeah, but that's
more than we use.

So how sweet would it
be to see the electric meter

spinning backwards?

Hey, guys, I'm all for going green,
saving the planet, and all that,

but Charlie and I
got some work to do.

I can't.

I can't. You saw I tried.

So let's go on back there and let's
try again... Colby, it won't do any good!

Charlie, there's a
woman out there... Bonnie,

she may or may not
be alive, but the fact is,

we got to keep working on this.

Yeah, and you don't
think I know that, right?

You don't think I'm
aware of the stakes!

I can't do it.

Colby, I...

My mind won't think. I...

I look at my boards

and it's all out of focus.

I can't do it. I can't.

So just stop
asking me, all right?

Please.

DAVID: Your silence isn't
going to help you, Sonny.

It's only going to get you in

deeper, you know that, right?

DON: See, that's you

leaving the San Marino
Mall eight minutes

after Bonnie Parks pulled in.

You and your friends

had her stuffed down
on the floor, didn't you?

Sonny, let me
tell you something.

It's not you I'm
after, you hear me?

It's Taylor I want.

How long do you
think it's going to take

for us to put this
whole thing together?

Do yourself a favor, man.
Earn yourself some points.

It might help you

avoid the death penalty.

Death penalty?

Oh, man, I didn't kill nobody.

You saying Bonnie
Parks is still alive?

Yeah, last time I checked.

Wait a minute.

So Richard Taylor only
needed her out of the way

until he got that vote from
the zoning commission.

That's right, isn't it?

He asked you guys
to stash her away

somewhere for a few weeks.

Where is she?

She's safe.

She's safe, man.

But without me, she
ain't got no food, right?

She ain't got no water, man.

Now I can't tell you
how much longer

she going to last like that.
Uh-huh, so what are you after?

I walk.

Free and clear.
You give me that...

I'll tell you where she is.

No way. It's not
going to happen.

Then the body's on
you, man... Not on me.

You've either got a lot of guts

or very little brains
coming back here.

What I got is Sonny Leyva.

Last time you said if you came
back, you'd be locking me up.

So where are the cuffs?

No, I just thought it'd be
more fun to watch you sweat.

'Cause you know
when I find Bonnie

she's gonna finger Sonny.

And there's no way that
Sonny's gonna be doing

a kidnapping rap on his own.

Sorry I'm not sweating.

Sure you are.

You know Sonny's
gonna roll on you.

For that, you need Bonnie alive.

And I just don't think
you're gonna find her in time.

What are we doing here?

When I was being held on
that freighter and they had me

handcuffed and Lancer
was sticking me with needles,

there's one thing
that kept me going.

That was knowing that my
team was coming for me.

No matter how screwed
up things had gotten,

that you and David and Megan
and Don were working hard

and you were going to
come through that door.

The thing is, Bonnie Parks,
she doesn't have a team.

She's got nobody.

And she's locked up,
handcuffed, in the dark,

I don't know what.

But what I do know

is that I want to be the one
who comes through that door

for her. I want to help you.

But I cannot control
what's going on in my head.

You don't understand.

That's the thing,
Charlie. I do understand.

'Cause I went through
this exact same thing

when I first saw
combat in Afghanistan.

You have to talk
about the attack...

Every detail, every memory,

every thought that went through
your head when it was happening.

You can't keep it all locked

inside of your head. You
can't just keep going around

telling everybody you're fine.

Well, obviously, I'm not fine.

That's why you got to
do something about it.

It doesn't matter
how scared you were.

Doesn't matter if you
wet your pants, man.

There's nobody out
here who's gonna hear it.

I was just... driving.

I'd just hung up
the phone with Don.

I saw some taillights up ahead.

It was only out of
the corner of my eye

that I realized it was...

My heart started racing.

I was scared.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Real estate.

The numbers describe
individual properties.

Yeah, ten-digit
property ID numbers,

square footage, track numbers,

assessed values, only
they're all obscured.

Yeah, Bonnie Parks
had somebody inside

the county assessor's
office feeding her information.

All this information
is in the public record.

Why would she bother
to disguise it with a code?

Well, we think Bonnie
realized there was something

wrong with the numbers, but
she didn't know what it was.

Yeah, here's the thing
about property values:

they're not independent
from one house

to the next. Right,
the value of your house

is related to what your
neighbor can get for his.

Right, in fact,
property values behave

has similarly to, let's say,

a rope of buoys
strung across a pool.

If you apply force
to a particular buoy

pulling it down
toward the bottom,

that buoy will in turn exert a
force on its neighboring buoys,

pulling them down as well.

Now at the same time,
those neighboring buoys

will help hold up
the weighted buoy.

It's an interconnected system.

Each buoy's function,

each property's value,

they're only semi-autonomous.

You said she found something
wrong with the numbers, right?

Well, Richard Taylor

found a way to
underassess the home prices.

He was able to
artificially undervalue

all the properties in the area
that he wanted to develop.

Essentially, he was
able to submerge

the entire line of buoys.
That would save him

millions as he bought
back those properties.

Hundreds of
millions, potentially.

Okay, now if Bonnie Parks
was gonna expose him,

that'd be more than
just bad press, right?

I mean, we're talking about
major real estate fraud.

Good job, Charlie, man, thanks.

How much longer
do you think she has?

No way to know.

All right,

Sonny and his
thugs, they were hired

to stash Bonnie
somewhere, right?

Where would they put her?

Well, I mean, Taylor's
company owns 46 properties.

There's no way they'd
stash her on one of those.

It's too risky.

Too much chance
she'd be heard or seen.

Hold on.

Bonnie's list has 49 properties.

You just said 46.

Yeah, you're right.

I mean, he owns three other
ones that we excluded from the list

'cause they weren't part
of the appraisal scam.

All right, where are they?

Well, they're rural tracts.

That's isolated, man.

That's a good place to
hide somebody, right?

Yeah, this one's just
raw acreage, though.

There's nowhere to put her.

(typing, computer trills)

Yep, that one, too.

Come on.

(computer trilling)

Wait a minute. There we go.

There's an old house.

♪ ♪

♪ Really too late to call ♪

♪ So we wait for ♪

Anything?

Anyone? Nothing.

She's not here.

(grunts loudly)

It's all right, man. We're
gonna find her, okay?

It's just not this one.

Where, David? This was it.

♪ To know me as hardly golden ♪

Guys, wait. Hang on a second.

Guys, wait a
minute. Stop moving.

(distant clank)

It's coming from below
us, in the basement.

♪ And every occasion, I'll
be ready for the funeral ♪

Shh!

Do you hear that? Back there.

♪ Every occassion once more ♪

(muffled screaming)

♪ Is called the funeral ♪

(muffled screaming continues)

Bonnie! My name is Colby, FBI.

(coughs)

You okay?

I wasn't sure you'd hear me.

Yeah, we heard you.

Let me get that.

Think you can stand up?

Let me give you a hand. No.

I can make it.

Don't touch me.

♪ I'm coming up only
to show you down for it ♪

(sighs)

I'm sure what she meant
to say was "thanks."

♪ I'm coming up only
to show you wrong. ♪

Phase one and phase
two are ready to go.

We're waiting...

Oh come on, Eppes.

I don't have time for
you. Give it a rest already.

This is a warrant
for your arrest.

Here we go.

We found Bonnie.

(handcuffs tightening)
And Sonny did roll,

just like I promised
you he would.

You're not sweating
there, are you?

This is crap.

It's nothing but a
personal vendetta.

Yeah, you got that right.

Let's go.

GALUSKI: Structurally,
you're in great shape.

These panels weigh
next to nothing.

We'd barely have to modify

the roof at all.

Modify the roof?

First, we're talking about
trimming a few trees.

Now we're going
to modify the roof.

It's just a little
reinforcement.

These solar panels
are lightweight.

It seems simple enough.
ALAN: I still don't see

why Charlie feels the
need to change everything.

Alan, it's just the roof.

"Just the roof," huh?

Yeah, that's the roof

that Donnie and I put
up after their mother died.

What happens when we
have to tear apart the walls

to put in that new
heating system?

Look, I-I didn't realize that...

It's not just walls and
roof shingles to me.

Yeah, I really don't
think Charlie's trying

to destroy your memories here.

I mean, if anything,
he's... preserving them.

He's bringing the
house up to date.

You know, he's making it

functional for another
hundred years.

GALUSKI: Besides, the
whole spirit of Craftsman

architecture was
a belief that beauty

and practicality were the same.

If this technology were
available back in 1909,

I bet the original
builders would've used it.

Well...

I suppose I did
sell him the house,

so it's his now. Yeah.

Let Charlie hang up a
few of his own shingles.

Whoa, what are you
doing? You need a hand?

Yeah. Hey. Whoa, where
are you going with this?

Right behind you.

Right just back there.
What, just down?

All right. Okay.

So we got Taylor sealed up

pretty darn tight.
We sent it over

to the US Attorney. Good.

Then it's safe for
me to drive again.

Look... I've kind of been
thinking about you working for us.

This one got a little scary.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, I don't know if we

would've found her in
time without you, but...

Well, you know I'm
always glad to help.

The thing is, do
you think that...

you know, I've been
holding you back?

From what?

Just... you know,
doing something better.

No.

'Cause if you ever do,
you've got to tell me.

You've got to promise
me you'll tell me.

Sure. Deal.

Good.

(remote clicks) All
right, let's see now.

Come on.

There it is.

Yeah, works like a charm.

Good job.

(chuckles) Just like
the old days, huh?

You know what? I
think it's about time

I had a beer. You want beer?

Ah, you know me. Yeah.

That's the real
reason you came over.

DON: No, no, no.