Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 6, Episode 5 - Hydra - full transcript
What starts as a kidnapping becomes more complicated when the team learns the child may be a clone and her guardians may not have her best interests in mind.
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Monet painted the same
image over 30 times.
All of the Rouen Cathedral.
And no matter how similar
they may look at first glance,
each of them was
created uniquely,
using different brush
strokes, different colors.
And as every painting is
unique, every car's engine,
through wear and
tear, tuning and usage,
will create a distinctive sound,
allowing us to create
an audio framework
to identify the kidnapper's car,
following the
acoustic signature.
Now, if Flynn stays
in the same car,
- we can track her.
- We're dealing
with a mother who abducted
her five-year-old daughter,
not a professional criminal.
Well, we have a
lot of opportunities
to hear Flynn's car and
match it to the audio signature
and the security footage
from the initial kidnapping.
For instance, a lot
of red light cameras
have an audio component,
so we can cross-check
the acoustic hits
with the video and try
to confirm her location.
And highway checkpoint
data, the Sig Alert program,
which uses speed
bars and microphones
to correlate traffic patterns.
Now all we have
to do is filter out
L.A.'s other 11,999,999 cars.
And a little bit of
luck wouldn't hurt.
I didn't know Anne that well.
Um, she was a mistake.
I supported her
financially during
the pregnancy, but after CJ
was born, she just took off.
We never saw her again.
And I was okay
with that, because...
I had CJ.
Well, she was institutionalized.
That's what they tell me.
- Yeah. Twice.
- But she didn't
have any relationship
with your daughter?
No letters, phone...?
Not until she kidnapped her.
Listen, that woman is
crazy and dangerous,
and she has my little girl.
Hey, Don.
Charlie's acoustic thing
says her car was in Encino
about an hour ago. Gave us three
side streets to check out.
Okay, so, uh, check out
vacant properties in the area.
Granger, we'll have addresses
to you by the time you get there.
FBI! Open up!
- Clear.
- Clear!
Kitchen clear.
Clear.
Clear.
- Checking the yard.
- Yeah.
Damn it.
They were here.
Looks like they left in a hurry.
We just missed 'em.
Well, we're on the
right track at least.
I mean, the acoustic
signature worked.
If they stay in the same
car, it should work again.
Well, maybe we can
use her initial trajectory
from here to here to
get a direction of flight.
You want me to tell the father?
No. I got it.
Where's he at, smoking?
He took a call, then left.
Dr. Bramon!
What the hell?
Hey!
- Hey! Hey!
- Out of the way! Move!
- Move!
- Hey!
Oh, whoa, whoa!
- Stop! Stop!
- Whoa! Whoa, whoa!
Hold it! Hold it!
Dr. Bramon, hold
on! What's going on?!
- Really?
- Whatever the problem is,
man, we can handle it.
Open the door.
Now.
Guys. Guys.
Before you talk to Dr. Bramon,
you need to talk to me.
All right, thanks.
Yeah, it checks out.
Gives you about 20
seconds to explain yourself.
Look, I'm sorry we
had to meet like this.
We just landed from
Virginia; we had to move fast.
I know we came on
- kind of strong.
- You think?
Bunch of private security
goons flashing muscle
in front of a federal building.
You have to understand
that a lot of Dr. Bramon's work
with LEBENS Pharmaceuticals
has national security implications.
Obviously, he's
under a lot of stress.
The company just
wanted to make sure
that he doesn't lose it
completely and start
leaking information
that's above all our pay grades.
No offense, but
you're a rent-a-cop for
a pharmaceutical corporation.
How much kidnap recovery
experience do you guys have?
- No offense?
- All right, hey, hey.
- Come on.
- I don't think CJ
is in any immediate danger.
Anne Flynn wants money.
You're in contact with her?
Active negotiations.
Since the girl was
taken in Virginia,
Dr. Bramon brought us
in and we started talking.
When Flynn bolted to California,
- he panicked and he called you guys.
- That's exactly
what he should've
done in the first place.
If Flynn is looking for money,
- why would she bring the kid here?
- Leverage.
California has more
liberal custody laws.
She probably figured that
she could twist Bramon's arm
and have a bigger payout.
Look, we're here to cooperate.
Besides, we can be a lot
more help than Bramon.
Carla Reed.
Who's that?
That's Flynn's lawyer.
She won't return
our phone calls.
But, uh, we're not FBI.
So Anne Flynn left CJ at birth
and spent time in
mental hospitals,
and now she wants
to be a mother...
I mean, what's,
what's driving her?
Maybe her biological
clock caught up.
Maybe.
- You know...
- I've been thinking...
About kids?
About kids, yeah.
I mean, you don't
propose marriage
and not think about them.
So, I, uh, I've done
some breakdowns
of the top API for schools
within a 200-mile
radius of CalSci.
And maybe I've done
some hot-zoning
of neighborhoods...
I'm leaning towards three.
Three?!
Three... children?
Well, I'm worried
that two might create
this weird social dynamic
they'd be stuck
with their entire lives.
Oh, like me-me and Don?
When you get married in
India, you marry the entire family.
Somebody should tell Don.
Or maybe you guys
want to volunteer at the
community center some time.
I mean, we could start
you guys off with, like,
a Big Brother,
Big Sister program.
You can get some
hands-on experience
with young people.
Well...
that sounds like
an interesting idea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You ever hear of
a biotech company
called LEBENS Pharmaceuticals?
You have, too.
Every time you take a cough
drop or get a vaccination.
Well, Trey Bramon
works for them.
They sent their
private security team
to help him get CJ back.
I didn't know kidnap recovery
was part of anyone's
benefits package.
I was wondering why
a biotech company
would be interested
in a kidnapping.
You think there's an
underlying motive?
Big corporation,
government
contracts, pull in D.C.
You know, we could put together
a Stochastic Opponent
Modeling Agent.
You could?
SOMA was designed by
the Department of Defense
to understand the motivations
and assign probabilities
to the actions of terrorist
organizations like Hezbollah
- and Hamas.
- It's a lot like
coaches studying game tape.
Take soccer for instance.
A corner kick gives
the attacking team
a hefty advantage.
They decide the initial
variables of the play...
When to kick it,
where to kick it,
how to curve the ball.
Now, it's up to the
opposing team's coaches
to know these variables,
to use them to predict
the play for their defense.
Will they bend
the kick into the net
or punch it out to a rushing
attacker for a head-on try?
The team that
studies their opponent
will be more likely
to stop the goal.
That explains why every
soccer match I ever watched
ended zero-zero.
Yeah.
Similar to coaches
using historical variables
to put together a game plan,
we can use past and
present data about LEBENS
to reason out their goals
for getting involved
in a kidnapping case.
Yeah, let's just hope
it's the same as ours...
Getting that girl back alive.
Techs will need work lights.
Techs will need a HazMat suit.
Flynn obviously wasn't
big on housekeeping.
Or cooking.
Or parenting.
Hellboy II and Role Models.
Neither of those are
appropriate for a five-year-old girl.
They were only here three days.
Hate to see what
she'd do with a year.
You know, there's no landline,
no record of a cell phone.
I don't know how
anybody would contact her.
You all right?
Every case that
has kids involved...
Never get used to them.
Yeah.
Girl's size six.
- Is that blood?
- Could be abuse.
Disturbed woman takes a girl
she's never known, doesn't
get the money she expects,
then the FBI closes in.
Or it could just be that CJ
had a bloody nose, you know.
Yeah.
Could be.
Never actually met
Miss Flynn in person,
and I don't know where she is.
Or where CJ is either?
Or where CJ is.
According to LEBENS,
you're involved in, uh,
- ransom negotiations.
- Ransom?
Anne doesn't want money.
She wants her daughter.
Psychological evaluations
of Anne Flynn from two separate
stays at psychiatric hospitals.
"Shows signs of
delusion and paranoia.
"Miss Flynn insists that
Trey Bramon is intending
to physically dissect
Cynthia Jane."
I can't give you privileged
lawyer-client information,
Agent Sinclair, but I can
tell you, without hesitation,
that I would never
have taken Anne's case
if I thought she was insane.
How'd she find you?
I specialize in
difficult custody cases.
Sperm donors
and, as in this case,
surrogate mothers.
You're saying Flynn
was a surrogate?
They didn't even tell you that?
Last week,
the court ruled that
Anne was a nonparent
without standing to contest
Bramon's custody of CJ.
You couldn't know
that, because LEBENS
used the Patriot Act
and a national security
letter to seal the case.
Of course, with all the lies
piling up, I can understand
how Bramon might fail
to mention that to the FBI.
Just hold on. So, if it's sealed
and Flynn is a surrogate,
then what's your case?
Bramon has no
biological claim to CJ.
He's not her father.
LEBENS railroaded
us out of court,
and then used the government
to pressure the judge
to issue a gag order.
Anne Flynn is not insane.
And you're being played.
According to Reed, Anne Flynn
was paid six figures
over two years,
carrying CJ as a surrogate
with the understanding
that Bramon would be
the one adopting her.
Okay, so who are
her biological parents?
Well, I'm just gonna
have to ask Bramon, huh?
Hey, guys.
The lab matched the blood
on the shirt we recovered
to a woman who
worked for LEBENS.
- Jordan Smith.
- All right, where is she at?
That's the thing.
She died over a year ago.
What?
So, a little over a year
ago, Jordan Smith fell asleep
at the wheel and
rolled her car six times.
Her parents had to contribute
DNA samples to
confirm the identity.
How'd you guys get
a match so quickly?
It sounds like a
lab screwup to me.
I mean, that'd be some
kind of coincidence.
The lab accidentally
I.D.s the DNA
of a dead LEBENS
employee... at the crime scene?
You didn't tell us
Bramon isn't the father.
He adopted her at birth.
He's the only parent
she's ever known.
Is he ready to talk?
Do I have a choice?
How do you think a dead
woman's blood figures in?
I don't know.
Lab's redoing the DNA test.
That might be a waste of time.
Why is that?
You asked why
LEBENS would intervene
in a simple custody case.
I mean, you said it yourself...
That the ultimate motivation
of any major corporation
in any of its
endeavors is profit.
Yeah, not much profit
in kidnap recovery...
I mean, especially
when you're willing
to pay the ransom.
Unless it's an investment.
Our SOMA system
helped us examine LEBENS
and what it's famous for:
vaccinations, medicines.
Ten years ago, they
got into gene therapy,
and they hired one
of the top geneticists
to run their program.
Trey Bramon.
Two years later,
he made the unusual
choice of hiring Jordan Smith
as one of his
research assistants.
Why unusual?
Research assistants
at a place like LEBENS
are highly sought.
Ph.D. required.
Smith was studying
to be a personal chef.
We found this.
That's CJ.
No.
This... is CJ.
Yeah, that first
picture is Jordan Smith
in 1978, at age five.
So Smith is the birth mother?
With a partial DNA match, yes,
but you had a 100% DNA match.
Smith's DNA, as far as we
can tell, is almost perfect.
No obvious
mutations or diseases.
Healthy and stable.
So, why do you hire a chef
with a flawless genetic code?
Well, the best answer
we could come up with
is that CJ...
is her clone.
That's it, sweetheart.
Come to daddy. Come to daddy.
Oh, you know you want some.
Get it.
Get it, get it.
Oh, yeah!
Uh, Professor Lazlo.
Did you see that?
That... that is how
the hydra feeds.
Got to be in the
top five hydra kills
I've seen all day.
Only top five?
Oh... you must be Charlie.
Excuse me... Professor Eppes.
- I apologize.
- I like Charlie.
Oh, cool.
I like Laz.
Okay, you can sit next to
the replicas of, uh, Dolly.
She was cloned from
a mammary gland.
See, Dolly, Dolly Parton.
The mamm... you know.
That's... it's not very nice.
I shouldn't say that.
She's probably a nice person.
- What'd you want to talk to me about?
- Cloning...
of a human being.
Well, A, it would be miraculous.
B, you would have
increased longevity.
Formerly fatal diseases
would be, like, a
minor inconvenience.
Uh, no more dying while you
wait around for a kidney donor.
Organ farming.
Which is terrible.
The cost of a single human clone
can be measured by thousands
of failed ones,
and if you're lucky,
some are stillborn, some
die after they're born.
I mean, it-it-it's
completely immoral.
No one's currently working
on a human cloning program.
Not, not that I know of, no.
Why, do you want
to start one up?
No.
Oh.
Human cloning is possible?
Yeah, it's not science fiction,
if that's what you're asking.
Human cloning has been
possible for, like, 30 years.
You take an egg,
you remove the nucleus,
you inject donor DNA into it,
and then you implant
it into the surrogate.
Then you let
statistics do the rest.
- Trial and error.
- Trial and error?
Sure, if you're willing
to fail hundreds,
if not thousands of
times to get a viable
human being, then
yes, technologically,
it's... easy.
But you'd have to be
a pretty cold bastard
to go through with it.
So, this is CJ's blood,
found at the kidnap house.
And this is the matching blood
of one of your
employees... Jordan Smith.
They're an exact match.
We've been over this.
Obviously, the lab
made a mistake.
So, Smith worked directly for
you as a research assistant?
I knew her, yes.
Why'd you hire a cook
to do a job that required
scientific expertise?
And how does this
help us get CJ back?
This was taken in 1978.
I've never seen it before.
I didn't think to
collect early photos.
She was beautiful.
Is CJ her clone?
Look, come on, now.
Yeah, it sounded kind
of out there to me, too.
We got experts who
say it wouldn't take
much forensic
evidence to establish.
You're talking like
this would be a crime.
Well, cloning
may not be illegal,
but the misuse of
federal funds... that is.
And how many
government contracts
did you say LEBENS had?
We knew we couldn't hide this.
I told you.
Yes.
CJ is one of the
first human clones.
One of the first?
Maybe the very first.
Others have made claims,
but nothing's verified.
She's still mine.
I don't think
a father could be
more proud of his...
I need to talk to your boss.
Look, I get it... you're pissed.
But I wasn't authorized
to tell you about CJ.
I'm sorry, but come on.
What was I supposed to do?
Oh, so now you're
looking for a favor?
A little discretion.
We're sitting on a
powder keg here.
You remember Terri
Schiavo and the media circus
surrounding her life support?
Well, this would be a
hundred times worse.
Only, it would all focus
on a five-year-old little girl.
A girl.
We're talking about a girl.
Let's just clarify that.
Not some science experiment.
It's in LEBENS' best
interest to treat CJ
with the greatest
care and respect,
and to keep her with
the father who loves her.
And the government may not
have sanctioned this
experiment, but they sure as hell
- don't want this getting out.
- That's a conversation
that's going to happen
above both our heads.
Right now, my job
- is to find that kid.
- Fair enough.
You know, I've been
asking around about you.
And you got to wonder what
a guy with your arrest record
is doing in middle management.
You can see all
sides from the middle.
You ever thought about
transitioning into
the private sector?
You talking about
working for a corporation?
What do you do now?
You take orders from some guy
who takes orders from some guy
who takes orders from a senator
who gets lobbied
by a corporation.
Look, you could be looking
at 200K a year, plus perks.
And... an opportunity to
make some real changes.
It's something to think about.
She hit the 405 South from
Burbank three hours ago.
I wish we could tap into
the system in real time.
One more hit, and I think
we can get a
probable trajectory.
Famous saying goes:
the constant monitoring
of a quantum subsystem
drastically slows
down its dynamics.
How to Cut a Cake?
Uh, the question
you posed about, uh,
the optimal number of children.
Two kids... one cuts the cake,
one chooses the slice.
You throw a third
kid into that equation,
and the variables explode.
I was starting to
think that the idea
of three kids is a lot of work.
Actually,
the idea of one is
kind of freaking me out.
So, you're thinking
that David's right...
We need some, uh,
practical experience?
Being a Big Sister for
a couple hours a week
seems like a good way
to put a toe in the water.
It's just a matter
of finding a couple
of hours a week.
Hey, Professor Eppes,
I've been thinking
about... Oh. I'm sorry.
You must be Professor Ramanujan.
- I can come back.
- Oh, no, come on in.
- Oh, no, it's okay. Come in.
- Oh, good.
- Do you have a table?
- You can use my desk.
No, this works. This works.
Look at this. Look at this.
Scam, scam, scam.
Have you tested the girl yet?
All right, check this
out... The Raelians.
It's a cult that believes
humans were cloned from aliens.
They got some heat
from France for their views
on human cloning, so
they, so they, uh, moved,
and they branded themselves
as a business venture
in Las Vegas called Clonaid.
They announced they had
their first human
clone... A girl named Eve.
But, of course, when it
came time for a peer review,
they refused to
produce the clone.
And now LEBENS?
It's the same thing.
Big company makes
outrageous claims,
then refuses to
produce the clone...
Just like LEBENS and CJ.
Well, so far, they're
keeping it quiet.
That's interesting.
Maybe it's not a scam,
because it's backwards.
They lost the clone, but
they don't want the publicity.
The exception proves the rule.
This is very exciting.
I mean, to me.
Look at this.
It says Dr. Bramon
spends over a hundred
hours a week at his lab.
Well, that doesn't
leave a lot of time for CJ.
No, it leaves too much time.
If she's the only experimental
subject, doesn't it follow
that CJ's at the lab over
a hundred hours a week
being poked and prodded?
Explains why she's not smiling
in any of the photos
we have of her.
Is this about the cake problem?
What's the matter with
you mathematicians?
Cake is never a problem.
This is everything?
Yeah.
If you told me five years ago
I'd be trying to
recover a clone...
And that she'd be a little kid.
You know, it's
kind of anticlimactic.
It's like a new version
of in vitro
fertilization, right?
I mean, what happens when
this becomes mainstream?
People just gonna
clone themselves
and call it a do over?
Well, people already do that.
It's called having kids.
This is a limited edition
bear given to abused children
at a local shelter
that lists you
as the director of operations.
Maybe it was two years of
signing release forms and taking
experimental fertility drugs, but
somehow Anne Flynn realized
that she was carrying
a clone, didn't she?
I know you lied about not
having contact with her,
but I need you to
tell me where CJ is.
What makes you think I
would turn against my client?
Because you fight
for the underdog...
Abused women,
fathers who lost custody
just because of their gender.
- And?
- And you like to win.
You only take cases
where you have a
good shot, like this one.
Surrogate cases, you know,
they're tough, but
it gets a little easier
when neither parent
is biologically related.
You add in cloning.
But you are not going to be able
to win this one just because
you know their secret.
They already have you gagged.
I can take them down.
There are laws against
using taxpayer money
- for these kinds of experiments.
- If they recover CJ,
you go back to
fighting gag orders
and national security letters.
Miss Reed, listen carefully.
LEBENS won't be able to
lie if the FBI has CJ tested.
And what about Anne?
Is she still a
kidnapper in your book?
I won't make you
any promises, okay?
But I know my team,
and I know my boss.
We will do everything
to make sure
that you, Anne and
CJ have your shot.
What other choice do you have?
LEBENS has armed
men looking for her.
If they get there first, we
will not be able to help you.
No one will.
They're driving
south on the PCH.
Hey, you see that?
Matches.
Miss Flynn?
Anne?
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Where's CJ?
Where is she?
Anne? Anne, please,
look at me.
Where's your daughter?
You'll never get her now.
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Miss Flynn...
Anne, can you tell me
what happened to CJ?
Don't you want to explain to
us why you did what you did?
Ten years.
Ten years of work and research
just... gone.
She had no respect
for what I was
trying to do for the human race.
What he is saying is, this
comes as a terrible shock.
It's not a shock!
We knew this was
a distinct possibility.
Flynn's behavior was
erratic at the best of times.
But you got to get
so many volunteers,
screening gets lax.
All right, well...
I'm sorry for the
loss of your daughter.
There's no point in keeping
up a pretext anymore, is there?
I don't cry when I
toss out a petri dish.
CJ can be replaced.
There's more eggs.
But the years we invested.
They're gone forever.
I can't believe it.
It's horrible.
Life is fragile, no matter
what the origins are.
Yeah.
Have they tested
the remains yet?
There's no body yet.
And they combed the beaches
where they found Anne
Flynn, but, you know,
even if they locate her,
she'd still be part of an
active murder investigation.
After that, the courts
decide who gets the cadaver.
It's the same question
as when she was alive.
W-What, what legal
status does a clone have?
And for that matter, the
surrogate mother of a clone.
She never even
had a shot, did she?
Wait a minute.
She was looking for
money... The mother, huh?
I-I don't know.
Uh, my experience tells
me that people like Miller
aren't usually telling
us the entire truth.
Okay, so,
LEBENS wanted CJ
for the amount of money
that could be made
off cloning, right?
And Bramon was just
looking after his legacy.
Okay, I got it. I...
I don't got it. I don't got it.
Either Anne Flynn wanted CJ,
or she wanted the money for CJ.
Killing CJ doesn't get either.
Well, she isn't exactly stable.
Who told you that?
Miller.
Who put her in the
psychiatric hospital
in the first place.
They 5150'd her...
Involuntary psychiatric hold.
They probably had one of
their own doctors sign off on it.
Did she get out after 72 hours?
- Both times.
- Okay.
So the first time, they
released her right away, right?
But the second time...
Man, think about it.
Those psychiatrists are
going to make damn sure
she's sane before
letting her go again.
She's got to be of sound
mind to get through those tests.
I mean, God knows, I
wouldn't stand a chance.
This completely sane
woman kidnaps her kid,
runs off to California,
and then kills her.
Yeah, it doesn't
make sense, does it?
No.
I don't believe she
drowned her daughter.
I don't know.
200 women kill their
children every year.
A fourth of all women
on death row have
killed their own kids.
She hired a lawyer,
broke into Bramon's
home to kidnap her,
ran across the country.
That's a lot of effort
if you're just going to
toss her in the ocean.
Liz, she's been
institutionalized twice.
What's going on?
Five years ago, you gave birth
to Cynthia Jane... CJ?
Is that right?
I want a shot at her.
It was one week ago that
you took CJ into custody
and left Virginia for
California, is that correct?
Hey. Thought you were
in the box with Flynn.
Yeah.
Liz is taking a shot.
How'd it go with Miller?
Guy actually offered me a job.
Does he know
who he's talking to?
Does he know you're a lifer?
Hmm. Lifer?
You know, I mean, I
always thought 30 years
and a condo on the side of
a mountain was all I wanted.
Yeah. And now?
I don't know.
I look at Charlie...
Getting married.
He's always writing these books.
I don't know.
I just always put
everything off,
'cause, like, a new
case or assignment...
Like finding a kid
because nobody else can?
Yeah.
So...
what was it like to kill her?
I want you to remember
back to the moment she died.
What was the
last thing she said?
Did she ask you why
you were doing it?
Did she look in your eyes
before you threw
her off that cliff?
She scream all the way down?
Thinking about it now?
What it felt like to kill CJ?
Tell me.
Tell me what it felt like,
and I'll believe you.
You can't.
'Cause you didn't
kill her, Anne.
Where is she?
You're working with Bramon.
No, we're not.
I did.
I took their money.
She was born...
and then I left.
You came back to fight for her.
She grew inside of me.
She's a part of me.
And she is not
going back to that lab,
because it's your
turn to play good cop.
LEBENS is looking for her,
and if I don't find CJ,
be damn sure they will.
You can't understand.
Oh, I understand.
Oh, I understand
a loss so powerful
that it becomes
almost irrational.
I was pregnant once.
Unplanned, while I
was still in college.
I didn't know what to do.
But I never got to make a choice
because I lost it early on.
My friends congratulated me
for not having my
life ruined by a baby.
I stayed in bed for a week, then
I transferred, and I never
talked to those friends again.
I know you're not crazy, Anne.
You're desperate, and so am I.
CJ needs all of us right now.
CJ's alive.
She's with the lawyer.
Anne was ready to
take this all the way,
to go to the chair
if her daughter
could disappear
into a normal family.
- Okay, so, where's Reed now?
- Taking CJ up the 5.
She's gonna hand her off to
Flynn's cousin at a truck stop.
- Which one?
- She doesn't know.
We're gonna roll.
How about you call CHP,
have them put an AMBER Alert
out on Reed's car, okay?
CHP received reckless
driving complaints
on two black SUVs and
a car matching Reed's.
They're right there.
Miller's guys are trying
to run her off the road.
They trying to kill her?
Get out the way!
Pull over! Move!
Let's go, hands up!
FBI! Turn around and
get down on your knees.
Hold on. Hold on!
Where is she?!
Where did you take her?!
There were two cars!
They ran me off the
highway before you got here.
The other car took
her, they took CJ.
CJ was in my office
watching Blue's Clues.
She complained, said
the show was too baby.
I called Anne's cousin
from a pay phone.
You thought they were
tapping your phone?
I've been in court
against LEBENS.
I know how they do business.
But you didn't
think they would tap
her cousin's phone?
Excuse me.
LEBENS corporate jet just
filed a flight plan with the FAA.
Left Virginia 20 minutes
ago, headed for Bakersfield.
All right, then we
got about five hours
before CJ's on that plane.
So, the Bakersfield
airport is the anchor point.
Is this what you guys do?
Two to three times a week.
The FBI's
monitoring this region.
When do you find time to teach?
I've skipped, like, four classes
since I met you guys. Oh, God,
- office hours are gonna be a bitch.
- I think
it has to be one of these.
Uh, these seven hotels
within the optimal
probability ring
for a centroid
spatial distribution.
Yeah, you're making
sentences up now.
I-I get those words separately,
but I don't see how this
is gonna help us find CJ.
Actually, we have an
audio recording of the SUV
we're trying to find.
We used it to acoustically
track the vehicle
from the 5 to the 99 to
downtown Bakersfield,
narrowing our search parameters
to a very specific
geographic profile.
Minimum likelihood
due to density function.
These two can be eliminated.
They're nonoverlapping
optimal paths.
Why are we
bothering with hotels?
W-We know the airport
that she's gonna be at in, like,
like, 97 minutes.
She's with her legal guardian.
Right, the FBI can
arrest Miller's people,
but that's not gonna stop
CJ and Bramon from
getting on that plane.
Okay, low hit score on
the probability distribution.
Well, what about us?
We know what happened.
We could testify or we could
do something to help
Anne get CJ back.
That's what we're doing now.
Oh!
Oh, got it.
All right, only two left.
Okay, in your ring of...
W-What do you call it?
- Redness?
- Optimal probability.
Okay, so, so which,
which one is it?
Less than an hour
before the plane lands.
Yeah, and Bramon smokes
more than two packs a day.
He'll be out before then.
You okay?
Sure.
Guess you, uh,
you have to spill your guts to
a suspect every now and then.
Yeah.
There he is.
So we got one of
your guys in custody
for attacking Carla Reed.
He acted without my approval.
You didn't tell
him to kidnap CJ?
We have three minutes.
We are authorized agents
of Cynthia Jane Bramon's father.
It was a rescue and a recovery.
Possession is
nine-tenths of the law.
Hope you're not going for a gun.
The girl is safe.
Your job's done.
So what are we really
talking about here, Don?
What do you really
want to talk about?
How about your future?
I'm offering you something.
Better job, a better life.
♪ Fighting for a
system built to fail... ♪
- Hands.
- Keep them where we can see 'em.
I just can't see you
flying out your 30 as a GS-14.
Step on the wrong shoes,
and you get an involuntary
reassignment to Fairbanks.
Fairbanks. Never been there.
CJ?
CJ?
Hey, sweetie.
I'm here to take you home.
Away from the bad guys, okay?
To your mom.
Is that okay? You
want to go to your mom?
I knew it. Okay.
See, the private sector
offers you opportunities
you haven't even thought of yet.
What do you really want, Don?
Couple more years with
my mom would be nice.
You can't give me that, can you?
But I just gave it to CJ.
Hey, what are you up
to? Hey, wait a minute!
What...
Did you jam my phone?!
Me? Nah.
Although I heard
they had some kind of
passive cell blocking in there.
You hear that, Marcus?
Where is she?
♪ The lords of war ♪
♪ Just profit from decay ♪
♪ And trade their
children's promise ♪
♪ For the jingle ♪
♪ The way we trade ♪
♪ Our hard-earned
time for pay... ♪
You can show him the way out.
Get off me. Hey!
One phone call and you'll
have to give her back.
You know, the saying is
possession is nine
points of the law.
Anne Flynn's got them all now.
Good luck with that call.
Great day.
Do what we got to do.
Hey, David tells me
you're doing the
Big Brother thing.
Uh, yeah, I don't know.
We're so busy.
Oh, he finds time.
You know, I actually do, too?
You're a Big Brother?
You should come.
All right.
Ah, we did it!
We did it!
Ooh, what are you drinking?
This is the beer of professors.
So, what did you find out
about CJ's genetic makeup?
Nothing.
Wait, you-you confirmed
she's a clone though, right?
Nope.
She's gone,
off with someone who doesn't
look at her as an experiment.
What... But in about
a hundred years,
no one's gonna know
the name of Clone Zero.
Who she was, what
she went through.
- She's gonna be anonymous?
- You know,
there's nothing wrong with
that, as far as I'm concerned.
Are you gonna get
in big trouble for this?
Well, you know,
I don't think we're gonna
be seeing the word "clone"
on any official reprimands
anytime soon.
- What are they gonna do?
- But your superiors...
I mean, they're not gonna
be too happy about this.
There'll be fallout.
So what?
It's not like I'm a lifer.
You are killing me!
The scientist inside of me
laments the loss of a
valuable specimen, guys.
Yeah, but what does the
other part of you think?
He's extremely happy
that Cynthia Jane Flynn
is gonna live a
relatively normal life
with a loving mother.
Sounds good to me.
- Cheers to CJ.
- To CJ.
Monet painted the same
image over 30 times.
All of the Rouen Cathedral.
And no matter how similar
they may look at first glance,
each of them was
created uniquely,
using different brush
strokes, different colors.
And as every painting is
unique, every car's engine,
through wear and
tear, tuning and usage,
will create a distinctive sound,
allowing us to create
an audio framework
to identify the kidnapper's car,
following the
acoustic signature.
Now, if Flynn stays
in the same car,
- we can track her.
- We're dealing
with a mother who abducted
her five-year-old daughter,
not a professional criminal.
Well, we have a
lot of opportunities
to hear Flynn's car and
match it to the audio signature
and the security footage
from the initial kidnapping.
For instance, a lot
of red light cameras
have an audio component,
so we can cross-check
the acoustic hits
with the video and try
to confirm her location.
And highway checkpoint
data, the Sig Alert program,
which uses speed
bars and microphones
to correlate traffic patterns.
Now all we have
to do is filter out
L.A.'s other 11,999,999 cars.
And a little bit of
luck wouldn't hurt.
I didn't know Anne that well.
Um, she was a mistake.
I supported her
financially during
the pregnancy, but after CJ
was born, she just took off.
We never saw her again.
And I was okay
with that, because...
I had CJ.
Well, she was institutionalized.
That's what they tell me.
- Yeah. Twice.
- But she didn't
have any relationship
with your daughter?
No letters, phone...?
Not until she kidnapped her.
Listen, that woman is
crazy and dangerous,
and she has my little girl.
Hey, Don.
Charlie's acoustic thing
says her car was in Encino
about an hour ago. Gave us three
side streets to check out.
Okay, so, uh, check out
vacant properties in the area.
Granger, we'll have addresses
to you by the time you get there.
FBI! Open up!
- Clear.
- Clear!
Kitchen clear.
Clear.
Clear.
- Checking the yard.
- Yeah.
Damn it.
They were here.
Looks like they left in a hurry.
We just missed 'em.
Well, we're on the
right track at least.
I mean, the acoustic
signature worked.
If they stay in the same
car, it should work again.
Well, maybe we can
use her initial trajectory
from here to here to
get a direction of flight.
You want me to tell the father?
No. I got it.
Where's he at, smoking?
He took a call, then left.
Dr. Bramon!
What the hell?
Hey!
- Hey! Hey!
- Out of the way! Move!
- Move!
- Hey!
Oh, whoa, whoa!
- Stop! Stop!
- Whoa! Whoa, whoa!
Hold it! Hold it!
Dr. Bramon, hold
on! What's going on?!
- Really?
- Whatever the problem is,
man, we can handle it.
Open the door.
Now.
Guys. Guys.
Before you talk to Dr. Bramon,
you need to talk to me.
All right, thanks.
Yeah, it checks out.
Gives you about 20
seconds to explain yourself.
Look, I'm sorry we
had to meet like this.
We just landed from
Virginia; we had to move fast.
I know we came on
- kind of strong.
- You think?
Bunch of private security
goons flashing muscle
in front of a federal building.
You have to understand
that a lot of Dr. Bramon's work
with LEBENS Pharmaceuticals
has national security implications.
Obviously, he's
under a lot of stress.
The company just
wanted to make sure
that he doesn't lose it
completely and start
leaking information
that's above all our pay grades.
No offense, but
you're a rent-a-cop for
a pharmaceutical corporation.
How much kidnap recovery
experience do you guys have?
- No offense?
- All right, hey, hey.
- Come on.
- I don't think CJ
is in any immediate danger.
Anne Flynn wants money.
You're in contact with her?
Active negotiations.
Since the girl was
taken in Virginia,
Dr. Bramon brought us
in and we started talking.
When Flynn bolted to California,
- he panicked and he called you guys.
- That's exactly
what he should've
done in the first place.
If Flynn is looking for money,
- why would she bring the kid here?
- Leverage.
California has more
liberal custody laws.
She probably figured that
she could twist Bramon's arm
and have a bigger payout.
Look, we're here to cooperate.
Besides, we can be a lot
more help than Bramon.
Carla Reed.
Who's that?
That's Flynn's lawyer.
She won't return
our phone calls.
But, uh, we're not FBI.
So Anne Flynn left CJ at birth
and spent time in
mental hospitals,
and now she wants
to be a mother...
I mean, what's,
what's driving her?
Maybe her biological
clock caught up.
Maybe.
- You know...
- I've been thinking...
About kids?
About kids, yeah.
I mean, you don't
propose marriage
and not think about them.
So, I, uh, I've done
some breakdowns
of the top API for schools
within a 200-mile
radius of CalSci.
And maybe I've done
some hot-zoning
of neighborhoods...
I'm leaning towards three.
Three?!
Three... children?
Well, I'm worried
that two might create
this weird social dynamic
they'd be stuck
with their entire lives.
Oh, like me-me and Don?
When you get married in
India, you marry the entire family.
Somebody should tell Don.
Or maybe you guys
want to volunteer at the
community center some time.
I mean, we could start
you guys off with, like,
a Big Brother,
Big Sister program.
You can get some
hands-on experience
with young people.
Well...
that sounds like
an interesting idea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You ever hear of
a biotech company
called LEBENS Pharmaceuticals?
You have, too.
Every time you take a cough
drop or get a vaccination.
Well, Trey Bramon
works for them.
They sent their
private security team
to help him get CJ back.
I didn't know kidnap recovery
was part of anyone's
benefits package.
I was wondering why
a biotech company
would be interested
in a kidnapping.
You think there's an
underlying motive?
Big corporation,
government
contracts, pull in D.C.
You know, we could put together
a Stochastic Opponent
Modeling Agent.
You could?
SOMA was designed by
the Department of Defense
to understand the motivations
and assign probabilities
to the actions of terrorist
organizations like Hezbollah
- and Hamas.
- It's a lot like
coaches studying game tape.
Take soccer for instance.
A corner kick gives
the attacking team
a hefty advantage.
They decide the initial
variables of the play...
When to kick it,
where to kick it,
how to curve the ball.
Now, it's up to the
opposing team's coaches
to know these variables,
to use them to predict
the play for their defense.
Will they bend
the kick into the net
or punch it out to a rushing
attacker for a head-on try?
The team that
studies their opponent
will be more likely
to stop the goal.
That explains why every
soccer match I ever watched
ended zero-zero.
Yeah.
Similar to coaches
using historical variables
to put together a game plan,
we can use past and
present data about LEBENS
to reason out their goals
for getting involved
in a kidnapping case.
Yeah, let's just hope
it's the same as ours...
Getting that girl back alive.
Techs will need work lights.
Techs will need a HazMat suit.
Flynn obviously wasn't
big on housekeeping.
Or cooking.
Or parenting.
Hellboy II and Role Models.
Neither of those are
appropriate for a five-year-old girl.
They were only here three days.
Hate to see what
she'd do with a year.
You know, there's no landline,
no record of a cell phone.
I don't know how
anybody would contact her.
You all right?
Every case that
has kids involved...
Never get used to them.
Yeah.
Girl's size six.
- Is that blood?
- Could be abuse.
Disturbed woman takes a girl
she's never known, doesn't
get the money she expects,
then the FBI closes in.
Or it could just be that CJ
had a bloody nose, you know.
Yeah.
Could be.
Never actually met
Miss Flynn in person,
and I don't know where she is.
Or where CJ is either?
Or where CJ is.
According to LEBENS,
you're involved in, uh,
- ransom negotiations.
- Ransom?
Anne doesn't want money.
She wants her daughter.
Psychological evaluations
of Anne Flynn from two separate
stays at psychiatric hospitals.
"Shows signs of
delusion and paranoia.
"Miss Flynn insists that
Trey Bramon is intending
to physically dissect
Cynthia Jane."
I can't give you privileged
lawyer-client information,
Agent Sinclair, but I can
tell you, without hesitation,
that I would never
have taken Anne's case
if I thought she was insane.
How'd she find you?
I specialize in
difficult custody cases.
Sperm donors
and, as in this case,
surrogate mothers.
You're saying Flynn
was a surrogate?
They didn't even tell you that?
Last week,
the court ruled that
Anne was a nonparent
without standing to contest
Bramon's custody of CJ.
You couldn't know
that, because LEBENS
used the Patriot Act
and a national security
letter to seal the case.
Of course, with all the lies
piling up, I can understand
how Bramon might fail
to mention that to the FBI.
Just hold on. So, if it's sealed
and Flynn is a surrogate,
then what's your case?
Bramon has no
biological claim to CJ.
He's not her father.
LEBENS railroaded
us out of court,
and then used the government
to pressure the judge
to issue a gag order.
Anne Flynn is not insane.
And you're being played.
According to Reed, Anne Flynn
was paid six figures
over two years,
carrying CJ as a surrogate
with the understanding
that Bramon would be
the one adopting her.
Okay, so who are
her biological parents?
Well, I'm just gonna
have to ask Bramon, huh?
Hey, guys.
The lab matched the blood
on the shirt we recovered
to a woman who
worked for LEBENS.
- Jordan Smith.
- All right, where is she at?
That's the thing.
She died over a year ago.
What?
So, a little over a year
ago, Jordan Smith fell asleep
at the wheel and
rolled her car six times.
Her parents had to contribute
DNA samples to
confirm the identity.
How'd you guys get
a match so quickly?
It sounds like a
lab screwup to me.
I mean, that'd be some
kind of coincidence.
The lab accidentally
I.D.s the DNA
of a dead LEBENS
employee... at the crime scene?
You didn't tell us
Bramon isn't the father.
He adopted her at birth.
He's the only parent
she's ever known.
Is he ready to talk?
Do I have a choice?
How do you think a dead
woman's blood figures in?
I don't know.
Lab's redoing the DNA test.
That might be a waste of time.
Why is that?
You asked why
LEBENS would intervene
in a simple custody case.
I mean, you said it yourself...
That the ultimate motivation
of any major corporation
in any of its
endeavors is profit.
Yeah, not much profit
in kidnap recovery...
I mean, especially
when you're willing
to pay the ransom.
Unless it's an investment.
Our SOMA system
helped us examine LEBENS
and what it's famous for:
vaccinations, medicines.
Ten years ago, they
got into gene therapy,
and they hired one
of the top geneticists
to run their program.
Trey Bramon.
Two years later,
he made the unusual
choice of hiring Jordan Smith
as one of his
research assistants.
Why unusual?
Research assistants
at a place like LEBENS
are highly sought.
Ph.D. required.
Smith was studying
to be a personal chef.
We found this.
That's CJ.
No.
This... is CJ.
Yeah, that first
picture is Jordan Smith
in 1978, at age five.
So Smith is the birth mother?
With a partial DNA match, yes,
but you had a 100% DNA match.
Smith's DNA, as far as we
can tell, is almost perfect.
No obvious
mutations or diseases.
Healthy and stable.
So, why do you hire a chef
with a flawless genetic code?
Well, the best answer
we could come up with
is that CJ...
is her clone.
That's it, sweetheart.
Come to daddy. Come to daddy.
Oh, you know you want some.
Get it.
Get it, get it.
Oh, yeah!
Uh, Professor Lazlo.
Did you see that?
That... that is how
the hydra feeds.
Got to be in the
top five hydra kills
I've seen all day.
Only top five?
Oh... you must be Charlie.
Excuse me... Professor Eppes.
- I apologize.
- I like Charlie.
Oh, cool.
I like Laz.
Okay, you can sit next to
the replicas of, uh, Dolly.
She was cloned from
a mammary gland.
See, Dolly, Dolly Parton.
The mamm... you know.
That's... it's not very nice.
I shouldn't say that.
She's probably a nice person.
- What'd you want to talk to me about?
- Cloning...
of a human being.
Well, A, it would be miraculous.
B, you would have
increased longevity.
Formerly fatal diseases
would be, like, a
minor inconvenience.
Uh, no more dying while you
wait around for a kidney donor.
Organ farming.
Which is terrible.
The cost of a single human clone
can be measured by thousands
of failed ones,
and if you're lucky,
some are stillborn, some
die after they're born.
I mean, it-it-it's
completely immoral.
No one's currently working
on a human cloning program.
Not, not that I know of, no.
Why, do you want
to start one up?
No.
Oh.
Human cloning is possible?
Yeah, it's not science fiction,
if that's what you're asking.
Human cloning has been
possible for, like, 30 years.
You take an egg,
you remove the nucleus,
you inject donor DNA into it,
and then you implant
it into the surrogate.
Then you let
statistics do the rest.
- Trial and error.
- Trial and error?
Sure, if you're willing
to fail hundreds,
if not thousands of
times to get a viable
human being, then
yes, technologically,
it's... easy.
But you'd have to be
a pretty cold bastard
to go through with it.
So, this is CJ's blood,
found at the kidnap house.
And this is the matching blood
of one of your
employees... Jordan Smith.
They're an exact match.
We've been over this.
Obviously, the lab
made a mistake.
So, Smith worked directly for
you as a research assistant?
I knew her, yes.
Why'd you hire a cook
to do a job that required
scientific expertise?
And how does this
help us get CJ back?
This was taken in 1978.
I've never seen it before.
I didn't think to
collect early photos.
She was beautiful.
Is CJ her clone?
Look, come on, now.
Yeah, it sounded kind
of out there to me, too.
We got experts who
say it wouldn't take
much forensic
evidence to establish.
You're talking like
this would be a crime.
Well, cloning
may not be illegal,
but the misuse of
federal funds... that is.
And how many
government contracts
did you say LEBENS had?
We knew we couldn't hide this.
I told you.
Yes.
CJ is one of the
first human clones.
One of the first?
Maybe the very first.
Others have made claims,
but nothing's verified.
She's still mine.
I don't think
a father could be
more proud of his...
I need to talk to your boss.
Look, I get it... you're pissed.
But I wasn't authorized
to tell you about CJ.
I'm sorry, but come on.
What was I supposed to do?
Oh, so now you're
looking for a favor?
A little discretion.
We're sitting on a
powder keg here.
You remember Terri
Schiavo and the media circus
surrounding her life support?
Well, this would be a
hundred times worse.
Only, it would all focus
on a five-year-old little girl.
A girl.
We're talking about a girl.
Let's just clarify that.
Not some science experiment.
It's in LEBENS' best
interest to treat CJ
with the greatest
care and respect,
and to keep her with
the father who loves her.
And the government may not
have sanctioned this
experiment, but they sure as hell
- don't want this getting out.
- That's a conversation
that's going to happen
above both our heads.
Right now, my job
- is to find that kid.
- Fair enough.
You know, I've been
asking around about you.
And you got to wonder what
a guy with your arrest record
is doing in middle management.
You can see all
sides from the middle.
You ever thought about
transitioning into
the private sector?
You talking about
working for a corporation?
What do you do now?
You take orders from some guy
who takes orders from some guy
who takes orders from a senator
who gets lobbied
by a corporation.
Look, you could be looking
at 200K a year, plus perks.
And... an opportunity to
make some real changes.
It's something to think about.
She hit the 405 South from
Burbank three hours ago.
I wish we could tap into
the system in real time.
One more hit, and I think
we can get a
probable trajectory.
Famous saying goes:
the constant monitoring
of a quantum subsystem
drastically slows
down its dynamics.
How to Cut a Cake?
Uh, the question
you posed about, uh,
the optimal number of children.
Two kids... one cuts the cake,
one chooses the slice.
You throw a third
kid into that equation,
and the variables explode.
I was starting to
think that the idea
of three kids is a lot of work.
Actually,
the idea of one is
kind of freaking me out.
So, you're thinking
that David's right...
We need some, uh,
practical experience?
Being a Big Sister for
a couple hours a week
seems like a good way
to put a toe in the water.
It's just a matter
of finding a couple
of hours a week.
Hey, Professor Eppes,
I've been thinking
about... Oh. I'm sorry.
You must be Professor Ramanujan.
- I can come back.
- Oh, no, come on in.
- Oh, no, it's okay. Come in.
- Oh, good.
- Do you have a table?
- You can use my desk.
No, this works. This works.
Look at this. Look at this.
Scam, scam, scam.
Have you tested the girl yet?
All right, check this
out... The Raelians.
It's a cult that believes
humans were cloned from aliens.
They got some heat
from France for their views
on human cloning, so
they, so they, uh, moved,
and they branded themselves
as a business venture
in Las Vegas called Clonaid.
They announced they had
their first human
clone... A girl named Eve.
But, of course, when it
came time for a peer review,
they refused to
produce the clone.
And now LEBENS?
It's the same thing.
Big company makes
outrageous claims,
then refuses to
produce the clone...
Just like LEBENS and CJ.
Well, so far, they're
keeping it quiet.
That's interesting.
Maybe it's not a scam,
because it's backwards.
They lost the clone, but
they don't want the publicity.
The exception proves the rule.
This is very exciting.
I mean, to me.
Look at this.
It says Dr. Bramon
spends over a hundred
hours a week at his lab.
Well, that doesn't
leave a lot of time for CJ.
No, it leaves too much time.
If she's the only experimental
subject, doesn't it follow
that CJ's at the lab over
a hundred hours a week
being poked and prodded?
Explains why she's not smiling
in any of the photos
we have of her.
Is this about the cake problem?
What's the matter with
you mathematicians?
Cake is never a problem.
This is everything?
Yeah.
If you told me five years ago
I'd be trying to
recover a clone...
And that she'd be a little kid.
You know, it's
kind of anticlimactic.
It's like a new version
of in vitro
fertilization, right?
I mean, what happens when
this becomes mainstream?
People just gonna
clone themselves
and call it a do over?
Well, people already do that.
It's called having kids.
This is a limited edition
bear given to abused children
at a local shelter
that lists you
as the director of operations.
Maybe it was two years of
signing release forms and taking
experimental fertility drugs, but
somehow Anne Flynn realized
that she was carrying
a clone, didn't she?
I know you lied about not
having contact with her,
but I need you to
tell me where CJ is.
What makes you think I
would turn against my client?
Because you fight
for the underdog...
Abused women,
fathers who lost custody
just because of their gender.
- And?
- And you like to win.
You only take cases
where you have a
good shot, like this one.
Surrogate cases, you know,
they're tough, but
it gets a little easier
when neither parent
is biologically related.
You add in cloning.
But you are not going to be able
to win this one just because
you know their secret.
They already have you gagged.
I can take them down.
There are laws against
using taxpayer money
- for these kinds of experiments.
- If they recover CJ,
you go back to
fighting gag orders
and national security letters.
Miss Reed, listen carefully.
LEBENS won't be able to
lie if the FBI has CJ tested.
And what about Anne?
Is she still a
kidnapper in your book?
I won't make you
any promises, okay?
But I know my team,
and I know my boss.
We will do everything
to make sure
that you, Anne and
CJ have your shot.
What other choice do you have?
LEBENS has armed
men looking for her.
If they get there first, we
will not be able to help you.
No one will.
They're driving
south on the PCH.
Hey, you see that?
Matches.
Miss Flynn?
Anne?
♪♪
Where's CJ?
Where is she?
Anne? Anne, please,
look at me.
Where's your daughter?
You'll never get her now.
♪♪
Miss Flynn...
Anne, can you tell me
what happened to CJ?
Don't you want to explain to
us why you did what you did?
Ten years.
Ten years of work and research
just... gone.
She had no respect
for what I was
trying to do for the human race.
What he is saying is, this
comes as a terrible shock.
It's not a shock!
We knew this was
a distinct possibility.
Flynn's behavior was
erratic at the best of times.
But you got to get
so many volunteers,
screening gets lax.
All right, well...
I'm sorry for the
loss of your daughter.
There's no point in keeping
up a pretext anymore, is there?
I don't cry when I
toss out a petri dish.
CJ can be replaced.
There's more eggs.
But the years we invested.
They're gone forever.
I can't believe it.
It's horrible.
Life is fragile, no matter
what the origins are.
Yeah.
Have they tested
the remains yet?
There's no body yet.
And they combed the beaches
where they found Anne
Flynn, but, you know,
even if they locate her,
she'd still be part of an
active murder investigation.
After that, the courts
decide who gets the cadaver.
It's the same question
as when she was alive.
W-What, what legal
status does a clone have?
And for that matter, the
surrogate mother of a clone.
She never even
had a shot, did she?
Wait a minute.
She was looking for
money... The mother, huh?
I-I don't know.
Uh, my experience tells
me that people like Miller
aren't usually telling
us the entire truth.
Okay, so,
LEBENS wanted CJ
for the amount of money
that could be made
off cloning, right?
And Bramon was just
looking after his legacy.
Okay, I got it. I...
I don't got it. I don't got it.
Either Anne Flynn wanted CJ,
or she wanted the money for CJ.
Killing CJ doesn't get either.
Well, she isn't exactly stable.
Who told you that?
Miller.
Who put her in the
psychiatric hospital
in the first place.
They 5150'd her...
Involuntary psychiatric hold.
They probably had one of
their own doctors sign off on it.
Did she get out after 72 hours?
- Both times.
- Okay.
So the first time, they
released her right away, right?
But the second time...
Man, think about it.
Those psychiatrists are
going to make damn sure
she's sane before
letting her go again.
She's got to be of sound
mind to get through those tests.
I mean, God knows, I
wouldn't stand a chance.
This completely sane
woman kidnaps her kid,
runs off to California,
and then kills her.
Yeah, it doesn't
make sense, does it?
No.
I don't believe she
drowned her daughter.
I don't know.
200 women kill their
children every year.
A fourth of all women
on death row have
killed their own kids.
She hired a lawyer,
broke into Bramon's
home to kidnap her,
ran across the country.
That's a lot of effort
if you're just going to
toss her in the ocean.
Liz, she's been
institutionalized twice.
What's going on?
Five years ago, you gave birth
to Cynthia Jane... CJ?
Is that right?
I want a shot at her.
It was one week ago that
you took CJ into custody
and left Virginia for
California, is that correct?
Hey. Thought you were
in the box with Flynn.
Yeah.
Liz is taking a shot.
How'd it go with Miller?
Guy actually offered me a job.
Does he know
who he's talking to?
Does he know you're a lifer?
Hmm. Lifer?
You know, I mean, I
always thought 30 years
and a condo on the side of
a mountain was all I wanted.
Yeah. And now?
I don't know.
I look at Charlie...
Getting married.
He's always writing these books.
I don't know.
I just always put
everything off,
'cause, like, a new
case or assignment...
Like finding a kid
because nobody else can?
Yeah.
So...
what was it like to kill her?
I want you to remember
back to the moment she died.
What was the
last thing she said?
Did she ask you why
you were doing it?
Did she look in your eyes
before you threw
her off that cliff?
She scream all the way down?
Thinking about it now?
What it felt like to kill CJ?
Tell me.
Tell me what it felt like,
and I'll believe you.
You can't.
'Cause you didn't
kill her, Anne.
Where is she?
You're working with Bramon.
No, we're not.
I did.
I took their money.
She was born...
and then I left.
You came back to fight for her.
She grew inside of me.
She's a part of me.
And she is not
going back to that lab,
because it's your
turn to play good cop.
LEBENS is looking for her,
and if I don't find CJ,
be damn sure they will.
You can't understand.
Oh, I understand.
Oh, I understand
a loss so powerful
that it becomes
almost irrational.
I was pregnant once.
Unplanned, while I
was still in college.
I didn't know what to do.
But I never got to make a choice
because I lost it early on.
My friends congratulated me
for not having my
life ruined by a baby.
I stayed in bed for a week, then
I transferred, and I never
talked to those friends again.
I know you're not crazy, Anne.
You're desperate, and so am I.
CJ needs all of us right now.
CJ's alive.
She's with the lawyer.
Anne was ready to
take this all the way,
to go to the chair
if her daughter
could disappear
into a normal family.
- Okay, so, where's Reed now?
- Taking CJ up the 5.
She's gonna hand her off to
Flynn's cousin at a truck stop.
- Which one?
- She doesn't know.
We're gonna roll.
How about you call CHP,
have them put an AMBER Alert
out on Reed's car, okay?
CHP received reckless
driving complaints
on two black SUVs and
a car matching Reed's.
They're right there.
Miller's guys are trying
to run her off the road.
They trying to kill her?
Get out the way!
Pull over! Move!
Let's go, hands up!
FBI! Turn around and
get down on your knees.
Hold on. Hold on!
Where is she?!
Where did you take her?!
There were two cars!
They ran me off the
highway before you got here.
The other car took
her, they took CJ.
CJ was in my office
watching Blue's Clues.
She complained, said
the show was too baby.
I called Anne's cousin
from a pay phone.
You thought they were
tapping your phone?
I've been in court
against LEBENS.
I know how they do business.
But you didn't
think they would tap
her cousin's phone?
Excuse me.
LEBENS corporate jet just
filed a flight plan with the FAA.
Left Virginia 20 minutes
ago, headed for Bakersfield.
All right, then we
got about five hours
before CJ's on that plane.
So, the Bakersfield
airport is the anchor point.
Is this what you guys do?
Two to three times a week.
The FBI's
monitoring this region.
When do you find time to teach?
I've skipped, like, four classes
since I met you guys. Oh, God,
- office hours are gonna be a bitch.
- I think
it has to be one of these.
Uh, these seven hotels
within the optimal
probability ring
for a centroid
spatial distribution.
Yeah, you're making
sentences up now.
I-I get those words separately,
but I don't see how this
is gonna help us find CJ.
Actually, we have an
audio recording of the SUV
we're trying to find.
We used it to acoustically
track the vehicle
from the 5 to the 99 to
downtown Bakersfield,
narrowing our search parameters
to a very specific
geographic profile.
Minimum likelihood
due to density function.
These two can be eliminated.
They're nonoverlapping
optimal paths.
Why are we
bothering with hotels?
W-We know the airport
that she's gonna be at in, like,
like, 97 minutes.
She's with her legal guardian.
Right, the FBI can
arrest Miller's people,
but that's not gonna stop
CJ and Bramon from
getting on that plane.
Okay, low hit score on
the probability distribution.
Well, what about us?
We know what happened.
We could testify or we could
do something to help
Anne get CJ back.
That's what we're doing now.
Oh!
Oh, got it.
All right, only two left.
Okay, in your ring of...
W-What do you call it?
- Redness?
- Optimal probability.
Okay, so, so which,
which one is it?
Less than an hour
before the plane lands.
Yeah, and Bramon smokes
more than two packs a day.
He'll be out before then.
You okay?
Sure.
Guess you, uh,
you have to spill your guts to
a suspect every now and then.
Yeah.
There he is.
So we got one of
your guys in custody
for attacking Carla Reed.
He acted without my approval.
You didn't tell
him to kidnap CJ?
We have three minutes.
We are authorized agents
of Cynthia Jane Bramon's father.
It was a rescue and a recovery.
Possession is
nine-tenths of the law.
Hope you're not going for a gun.
The girl is safe.
Your job's done.
So what are we really
talking about here, Don?
What do you really
want to talk about?
How about your future?
I'm offering you something.
Better job, a better life.
♪ Fighting for a
system built to fail... ♪
- Hands.
- Keep them where we can see 'em.
I just can't see you
flying out your 30 as a GS-14.
Step on the wrong shoes,
and you get an involuntary
reassignment to Fairbanks.
Fairbanks. Never been there.
CJ?
CJ?
Hey, sweetie.
I'm here to take you home.
Away from the bad guys, okay?
To your mom.
Is that okay? You
want to go to your mom?
I knew it. Okay.
See, the private sector
offers you opportunities
you haven't even thought of yet.
What do you really want, Don?
Couple more years with
my mom would be nice.
You can't give me that, can you?
But I just gave it to CJ.
Hey, what are you up
to? Hey, wait a minute!
What...
Did you jam my phone?!
Me? Nah.
Although I heard
they had some kind of
passive cell blocking in there.
You hear that, Marcus?
Where is she?
♪ The lords of war ♪
♪ Just profit from decay ♪
♪ And trade their
children's promise ♪
♪ For the jingle ♪
♪ The way we trade ♪
♪ Our hard-earned
time for pay... ♪
You can show him the way out.
Get off me. Hey!
One phone call and you'll
have to give her back.
You know, the saying is
possession is nine
points of the law.
Anne Flynn's got them all now.
Good luck with that call.
Great day.
Do what we got to do.
Hey, David tells me
you're doing the
Big Brother thing.
Uh, yeah, I don't know.
We're so busy.
Oh, he finds time.
You know, I actually do, too?
You're a Big Brother?
You should come.
All right.
Ah, we did it!
We did it!
Ooh, what are you drinking?
This is the beer of professors.
So, what did you find out
about CJ's genetic makeup?
Nothing.
Wait, you-you confirmed
she's a clone though, right?
Nope.
She's gone,
off with someone who doesn't
look at her as an experiment.
What... But in about
a hundred years,
no one's gonna know
the name of Clone Zero.
Who she was, what
she went through.
- She's gonna be anonymous?
- You know,
there's nothing wrong with
that, as far as I'm concerned.
Are you gonna get
in big trouble for this?
Well, you know,
I don't think we're gonna
be seeing the word "clone"
on any official reprimands
anytime soon.
- What are they gonna do?
- But your superiors...
I mean, they're not gonna
be too happy about this.
There'll be fallout.
So what?
It's not like I'm a lifer.
You are killing me!
The scientist inside of me
laments the loss of a
valuable specimen, guys.
Yeah, but what does the
other part of you think?
He's extremely happy
that Cynthia Jane Flynn
is gonna live a
relatively normal life
with a loving mother.
Sounds good to me.
- Cheers to CJ.
- To CJ.