Without a Trace (2002–2009): Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot - full transcript
A young successful marketing executive goes missing. Although her life seems full of happiness and achievement on the outside, the team learns she is actually living a sad and lonely life full of drugs, family issues, and failed relationships. Martin has a serious lapse in judgment on his first day on the job.
( siren wailing in distance )
MAN:
Her name is Maggie Cartwright.
She´s a marketing executive,
28, single, Caucasian.
The doorman places her
going through the door
at 10:45 Tuesday night.
She didn´t show up for work
the next day.
She didn´t call anybody
to let them know
where she might be going.
She´s been missing
for 34 hours.
This was the last place
she was seen.
( elevator bell dings )
Hey, Frankie.
How you doing?
Ah, bum knee,
too much alimony.
Other than that,
I´m peachy.
Let´s see
what we got here.
No forced entry.
The door
was left unlocked.
All the lights on,
the radio on.
Nothing stolen,
as far as we can tell.
No sign of a struggle,
no bags packed
toiletries still here
passport in the desk.
Keys, cell phone, purse,
Palm Pilot, all left behind.
No evidence whatsoever
that she was leaving.
A little bit after 11:00,
she calls her mom.
Typical mother-
daughter stuff.
Apparently they spoke
almost every day.
Needless to say
the mother´s
pretty wound up
about all this.
Maggie´s
her only child
and she´s thinking
the worst.
Anyway, they spoke
for a few minutes.
She finishes her call
and after that, vanished.
Who called it in?
Her boss, uh, about 5:00
yesterday afternoon.
She didn´t come in for work,
he got concerned.
You canvass the neighborhood?
FRANKIE:
Cursory stuff, and nothing
from the other tenants.
We checked the hospitals,
psych wards, morgues.
No Maggie Cartwrights,
and no "Jane Does."
( whispering ):
Maggie, Maggie,
come on, come on.
Give me something,
give me something.
Karma and Reincarnation.
"Through his past works
"he shall return once more
to birth
"entering whatever form
his heart is set on."
1996. A little backpacking
after college?
There´s no
India or Tibet.
So where does the
Hindu kick come from?
WOMAN:
Her computer´s
not here.
It´s at her office.
Okay. Maggie Cartwright.
Born and raised in Westchester.
Graduated Duke University
in 1995.
She worked the last three years
at Sebol Publishing.
V.P. of Marketing.
No criminal record
no history of mental illness.
Family?
Mother Nancy, Father Paul.
Divorced 1982.
Paul´s still single
and lives in Alphabet City.
Nancy remarried
Lawrence Highsmith.
They live in Scarsdale.
Viv?
Since she disappeared
no credit card charges,
no Amtrak, Greyhound
car rental or
airline activity.
I´m moving on her
bank records and
brokerage accounts.
Great. Danny?
Night doorman´s got a record.
Five years for dealing coke.
Run it down.
How´d you do
with her phones?
11:02, she called her mom
from home, six-minute call.
11:48, she placed a call
to a Tom Wilkins.
32-second call.
We have not located
him yet.
32 seconds-- could
be a message.
Let´s get a complete package
on this guy.
If he was the last person
she called
then he´s the first person
we need to talk to.
How about the security tape?
10:47 confirms
the doorman´s story.
Can´t tell much else.
She left work at about 6:00
and took a train out to
her mother´s place in Scarsdale.
Hung out there
for about an hour
then hopped an 8:30
back to the city.
We found a ticket stub
in her apartment.
She got into Penn Station
at 9:15
but didn´t make it back
to her apartment
for an hour and a half.
No one knows where she was
right here.
May not mean anything...
But it could
mean everything.
All right, as
you all know
we have a new
member of the team
joining us today--
Martin Fitzgerald.
Let´s make sure
we give him
the frosty welcome
that all rookies deserve.
This is Vivian Johnson
Samantha Spade...
Danny Taylor.
Okay, the
clock´s ticking.
Let´s get out there.
Two years working
white-collar
in Seattle
and he gets
this assignment?
Doesn´t hurt to be
Victor Fitzgerald´s kid.
Mmm. No wonder
he´s smiling.
Not a bad smile, either.
I was surprised that
your father didn´t
call me about you.
I asked him
to stay out of it.
I don´t want any
preferential treatment.
Good, ´cause
you´re not getting any.
So, where do we start?
Right now, we don´t know
if she´s been kidnapped
or murdered,
or killed herself
or run off to Rio
with a dermatologist.
We´ve got to work
from the inside out.
Once we find out
who she is
odds are we´ll find out
where she is.
In most cases, after 48 hours,
they´re gone.
You know, you were the last one
to see her that night.
That´s a trip, man.
It´s a crazy city.
How´d she seem to you?
Same as always.
I don´t pay
too much attention.
She ever bring guys
home with her?
Nah. I never seen nothin´.
How long
you work there?
About a year.
A year, huh?
She never brought
anybody home?
Not even once?
Look, Chico
I´m not here
to mess with you
but whatever you
got on that girl
I need it.
MAN:
Like I told the police
we had a meeting that day
between 2:30 and 5:00.
That´s the last time
I saw her.
And how did
she seem to you?
Composed, as always.
She was magnificent
in that meeting.
A real fireball.
Probably the strongest
presentation she ever gave.
MAGGIE:
...very nicely.
Thank you.
You did a great job.
She is a tireless
worker.
Not only ambitious,
she´s charming,
she´s beautiful...
she has it all.
They were going to come back
the next day with the CEO.
Maggie worked incredibly hard
on that account.
When she didn´t show up,
I knew something was wrong.
How are her relationships
within the company?
Oh. Everybody
respects Maggie.
I´m about to promote her
to president of marketing.
She involved
with anyone here?
What, you mean romantically?
Mm-hmm.
( chuckling )
No. Maggie´s too smart
to do anything like that.
Did she ever mention
a Tom Wilkins?
No. Not to me.
We have a very professional
relationship
and she likes to keep
her personal life personal.
Thank you for now.
Oh.
All right.
( clearing throat )
I think he´s sleeping with her.
The way he
talks about her
and she´s climbing
that corporate ladder
pretty quick.
He may be in love with her,
but he´s not sleeping with her.
Never even thought about it.
He´s gay.
What, because he called
her a fireball?
No... ´cause he was checking you
out.
SAMANTHA:
Let´s just start
from the beginning, okay?
Why did Maggie come
out here that night?
Well, as you can see
I´m in the process
of redecorating
and I´d been bugging her
for weeks to help me
with some of the patterns.
Then, out of the blue,
she showed up.
I think I´d like florals
in the living room.
But then I don´t know
what I´d do with the drapes.
Maggie?
That sounds good.
You know,
if you´re not interested
you didn´t have to come
all the way out here.
Mom...
I know
this is nonsense to you.
It´s just that we´ve been
over this so many times.
I thought we´d figured
it out already.
I know, but I
saw these colors
and I thought they were nice,
and I...
I know how
you feel about...
I thought
you were on the patch!
I am.
Doesn´t work.
You can´t smoke on the patch,
Mother.
So, what do you care?
I haven´t even seen you
in three weeks.
I´ve had a lot on my plate.
I´m not some tidbit
on a buffet table.
All right.
I´m sorry, Mom, okay?
Will you just show me
the samples, please?
We didn´t make any decisions,
and then she said
she had to get back
to the city.
And as far as you know,
she was headed straight home?
She said she had to prepare
for a big meeting the next day.
At least that´s
what she told me.
Why did she call you that night?
Oh, she said she...
She just wanted...
( sniffs )
...to tell me that...
I should go with butterscotch...
for the drapes.
No personal touches.
She didn´t want
to bring herself in here.
( computer beeps )
Okay, the tracer´s kicking in.
We´re in.
Everybody´s skeptical
of you white-collar guys.
Yeah, I´ve noticed.
What´s her password?
Nepal.
Think it means
something?
What´s your password?
See.
( phone rings )
Danny boy.
Doorman says Maggie
used to bring home this guy.
Doesn´t know his name
but he thinks
it´s somebody she works with.
Now get this.
The night after she disappeared
same guy shows up and slips
Chico a couple of "C" notes
to say he was never there.
Guess a couple "C" notes
doesn´t buy you what it used to.
Listen, was this guy
a brunette with a goatee?
No, blond, about six-one.
Okay, listen,
call Samantha.
Have her contact
the family.
See if they have any
insight into this.
Okay.
Maggie wasn´t as smart
as Ricardo says.
She was fooling around
with somebody here.
Well, we´ve got her e-mails.
VIVIAN:
His name is Tom Wilkins.
He arrived at Heathrow
last night on flight 43
and checked into Claridge´s.
Yes, yes, we need
a complete interview.
I don´t care
what time it is in London.
Right now, he´s our only suspect
in a potential kidnapping.
Yeah. Yes.
Thanks. Cheerio.
What´s her
next e-mail?
This one was sent
to Brian Daugherty
1:45 p.m. Tuesday.
That was the day
she disappeared.
"Brian, I really appreciated
your honesty this morning.
"It certainly helped clarify
my position on that account.
As ever, Maggie Mae."
All right.
Next one was
sent to, uh...
Read that back to me
one sentence at a time.
"Brian, I really appreciated
your honesty this morning."
Honesty. Intimate.
"Certainly helped clarify
my position on that account."
Very stiff, formal.
"As ever, Maggie Mae."
That´s very intimate.
Doesn´t fit.
What´s the account, then?
"Account" is her code
for relationship.
It´s her position
in their relationship
that just got clarified.
This is the guy
she´s been sleeping with.
Look alive, Martin.
We just found ourselves
a viable suspect.
Brian, it´s not like tipping
a guy in a restaurant
to get a better table.
You paid off a witness to lie
in a federal investigation.
That´s obstruction of justice.
I´m sorry.
I panicked.
It´s just...
My wife and I are trying to have
a baby now.
If she ever found out
that I´ve been having an affair
she´d be gone in a heartbeat.
I swear.
I cut it off with Maggie months
ago.
I mean, it was just supposed
to be a fling.
I thought you understood that.
That´s what you wanted.
Have your cake
and eat it with whipped cream.
Why is this coming up today,
all of a sudden?
I thought you´d moved on.
I... um...
I-I think I may have
loved you.
I am sorry, Maggie
but I love my wife.
Then what were you doing
with me?
You give off this vibe,
like...
I didn´t think you´d get
emotional about it.
Well, I guess you were wrong.
I saw her later in the hall.
She seemed all right.
Like nothing ever happened.
Do you know of anyone
that would want to hurt her?
My God, no.
Believe me, if I had
any useful information
I´d be knocking down your door.
So where were you
the night she disappeared?
In Philadelphia,
for a conference.
You want me to run
out his alibi?
I´m going to give
that to Danny.
Jack, her hard drive was
completely reformatted
two weeks ago.
Except for her recent e-mails
her entire Internet history´s
been wiped out.
Why?
I don´t know,
but it was done here.
I want you to find out
who did it, and why.
Then meet me back
at the office.
SAMANTHA:
Your ex-wife has reason
to be concerned.
We´re running out of time.
Her mother loves to worry
but she probably just took off
for a while.
I mean, uh,
Maggie´s very independent.
She...
I´m sure she´ll be back
in a couple of days
and we´ll be sorry
we wasted your time.
But you can think of
no concrete reason
why she´d go on a trip.
Uh, no.
You and Maggie had lunch
the day she disappeared.
Who scheduled that,
you or her?
Her, actually, uh
which I was
thrilled about.
She´s usually so
busy at work
she doesn´t have time
during the week.
And how did she seem to you?
Same as usual.
I mean light... fun...
full of life.
And she´s unbelievable in bed.
( laughing )
Well, that´s worth something.
Sometimes it´s
worth everything.
So, how´s your love life?
Presently, I´m playing
the role of Sister Maggie
the reluctant nun.
Who´s playing the priest, Brian?
Brian´s... a dud.
If he wasn´t married,
he wouldn´t even be interesting.
You women are all alike.
Or so you´d like to think.
So, we still on
for Saturday night?
Dylan? Of course.
I made reservations at Carmine´s
for afterwards.
Yum.
You know the way
to a girl´s heart.
Dylan and dinner
with my daughter.
Has a nice ring to it,
don´t you think?
So what do you know
about Brian Daugherty?
Oh...( laughs )
he was just a fling.
I mean, she didn´t take him
very seriously.
Maggie´s pretty sophisticated
that way.
Ah, I don´t think Brian
would be dangerous to her
if that´s what you´re asking.
I mean, she has enough sense
not to get involved
with anybody like that.
How about a Tom Wilkins?
You ever hear of him?
I think she dated a Tom
for a couple of weeks
uh...
about a year ago, maybe.
Yeah, I remember now.
He was, uh,
too straight-laced for her.
So, you met him?
No, no, she told me
about him.
Maggie tells you
about all her affairs?
What, you think that´s weird
because I´m her Dad?
Yes, we tell each other
everything.
Father knows best.
He´s barely got a pot to piss in
and he´s taking his daughter
to a $300 dinner
on a Saturday night?
Well, think about it.
He abandons her
when she´s a kid.
He doesn´t know
how to deal with it.
Now he wants to be
her best friend.
It´s classic guilt.
Is it guilt or romance?
You don´t go to Carmine´s
unless it´s Valentine´s Day
or you´re going to propose.
How would you know?
Look, if there was anything
really naughty
he´d be hiding it more.
He treats her
like she´s his mistress.
Yeah, and she goes along
with it, doesn´t she?
She´s a role player.
Everyone we talk to,
we see a different Maggie.
MAN:
Yeah, she called down
to Tech Support.
She said she was having
all kinds of problems
with her computer.
It freezing on her all the time,
losing files, you know.
Trouble with internal e-mails.
So she asked you to reformat
her entire hard drive?
Well, I told her I could just
run a couple of systems checks
but she, uh, really wanted me
to clean the whole thing out.
You know,
she was pretty specific
about what she wanted done.
And nothing stuck out to you
as suspicious
in her e-mails or files?
No interoffice romance
or anything like that?
No, nothing like that.
Oh.
Does the name Tom Wilkins
ring a bell?
No. Does he work
at the company?
Tom Wilkins.
He´s a tax attorney
at Dobbs and McGlincy.
41 years old
divorced, no kids.
Two convictions
for DUI in ´94.
Since then, he´s clean.
And he left for London
yesterday morning.
On business.
He´s due back next week.
LEGAT London got a lead on him?
They do now.
I had to read them
the riot act
to get them to put down
their fish and chips.
This was the only picture
she had in her office.
Guess Tom was not just
some fling she had a year ago.
Anything on
Brian Daugherty?
Danny ran down the alibi.
He was in Philly.
What´d the technician say
about Maggie´s computer?
She specifically asked him
to clean it out.
Sounds to me like she was
trying to hide something.
Sam?
You in a trance?
We still don´t know
where she was
between 9:15 and 10:47.
( claps )
I got something.
It´s the footage
from the security camera
in Maggie´s alley.
Look at that.
That could definitely be her.
Is that a backpack?
Zoom in.
( computer beeping )
Tighter.
( beeping )
Here we go.
Yin and yang.
They match.
Yes, they do.
What time was that taken?
2:32 a.m.
Where´s she going?
Maybe it´s a booty call.
Your mind is always
in the gutter.
There was no call.
Tom Wilkins, 11:48.
In my experience, there´s
usually not a three-hour lag
between the call
and the, uh...
( clears throat )
...delivery.
When she first
came in that night
she didn´t have the pack.
But there it is.
So, what´s in it?
A change of clothes
for the next day.
She sneaks out of her own
apartment
without her wallet or her keys.
Doesn´t make sense.
None of it makes sense.
( footsteps approaching )
( yawns )
( sighs )
Think a fresh
change of clothes
will make up for a
lost night´s sleep?
Well, if I looked
as good as you in black
I wouldn´t need to change.
Jack... your collar.
You´re starting to sound
like my wife.
You should listen
to your wife.
You do this for Dr. Fred?
Sure.
How is Dr. Fred?
Busy and unavailable,
just the way I like ´em.
( sighs )
You know, I keep wondering
why she went out the alley door.
She´s... hiding.
Or escaping.
What´s in the backpack?
Personal items, mementos.
Things that we wouldn´t
even notice were missing.
Like a teddy bear
from her childhood
or a necklace from her father,
or favorite outfit.
You´re not thinking suicide.
You think about all the
different roles she played--
she didn´t have
any real friends.
She was an only child.
I mean, this was a...
this is a very lonely girl,
I think.
Yeah, but there´s no history
of mental illness
there´s no indication
she was depressed...
Either way...
it´s been 51 hours.
We´ve lost her.
( phone rings )
( sighs )
Yep?
Where?
When?
Okay.
We just got a ransom note.
And there´s proof of life.
The problem is that
paying the ransom
isn´t gonna bring us
any closer to your daughter.
We´ll do whatever
you advise us.
Well, whatever they advise us,
they don´t even have any leads.
I mean, God knows
where she is
what she´s
going through.
I mean, as far as
I´m concerned,
we pay now
and pray we get her
back as soon as we can.
You heard what they said, Paul.
Besides, its not your money,
anyway.
Have you, for one moment,
ever thought
about anything in your life
but yourself?
Well, I´m not the one
who ran off, am I?
JACK:
Enough.
The number one priority here
is finding your daughter.
Let´s focus on that.
This is not about you.
This is about Maggie.
The longer
we stall the kidnappers
the more chance we have
of finding her.
Agreed?
It´s her money.
JACK:
Her mother got the e-mail
at 4:22 this morning.
It´s pretty straightforward.
One million dollars by 5:00 p.m.
That gives us less
than ten hours.
What have we got
on the ransom note?
The e-mail was bounced
all over the world.
Our computer squad´s on it.
All right.
Let´s talk theories.
I´ve got something.
In September of last year
Maggie started making ATM
withdrawals all over the city.
$50 a day, then $100.
Six months later,
she´s up to $200 a day.
Then all of a sudden,
it stops.
Her activity goes back
to the way it was before.
Drugs.
Or blackmail.
What does a girl like that have
to be blackmailed
about?
Its drugs.
She´s doing blow.
Her doorman´s
her dealer.
He knows that she comes
from a lot of cash,
so he decides
"Okay, I´m going to
get rich quick."
Go see him.
Brian Daugherty.
The office boyfriend.
We know that Maggie went
to see him that morning, right?
Well, what if
she threatened
to tell his wife
that they were
having an affair?
He freaks out,
sneaks back from Philadelphia
kills her, and then
sends the ransom note
to throw us off the trail?
I thought his alibi checked out.
It did.
He ordered up room service
at 10:28, and nobody saw him
until the next morning
at 9:00.
Last train
out of Philly´s at 10:30.
We know he didn´t
rent a car
so how did he get back
to New York?
Did he swim?
There´s an 11:15
New Jersey Transit
to Newark.
Transfer there,
and you´re into New York City
by 2:00 a.m., leaving him
at least four hours
to do what he needed to do
and still get back
for his eggs Benedict.
Okay.
Run it out.
Well, there´s always
Daddy dearest.
This way he gets the money
and the girl.
You have a chip
on your shoulder.
In case anyone cares,
my money´s
on Tom Wilkins.
Then get him back
in the country.
Guess he´s more
than just a pretty face.
I thought you checked all this
out already.
I just want
to clarify some things.
So, you were at
the hotel all night.
Right.
All by yourself.
Right.
You didn´t
order up a movie?
No. Is that crime?
And you didn´t call your wife
to say good night?
It was late.
She´s usually in bed by 10:00.
Pretty.
What´s her name?
Linda.
How long you been married?
Almost four years.
What is this?
It just occurred to me
you can´t prove
you were in the hotel all night.
And you can´t prove
that I wasn´t.
Oh.
I really don´t want to have
to talk this over
with Linda, but I will.
Talk to her all you want.
I already told her everything.
Am I under arrest?
Not yet.
Then I don´t have
to listen to this.
You know that lying
to a federal officer
is a felony.
It´s like perjury, Chico.
I told you--
I don´t do that no more.
Well, you hold out on me now,
I´m going to go sniffing around.
And if I
find anything
anything at all
you´re going
back to Dannemora.
I´m going
to make sure of it.
Now you come clean with me
and I lose your parole officer´s
phone number.
Yeah?
All right, look.
I used to sell to her
but, uh, she hadn´t
gotten anything
for a while.
Till that night.
She came downstairs
about 2:15.
MAGGIE:
Hey, Chico.
Uh, I need some.
CHICO:
I gave her a bag
and then she went
back upstairs.
I never saw her again,
all right?
You want to take a polygraph?
Yeah, whatever, man.
Bring it on.
You want all the
e-mails, huh?
From the entire company.
You know how
many there are?
Let´s start with Brian Daugherty
and see how we do.
Is Brian a suspect?
Everybody´s a suspect.
I just got a call from my friend
at Prudential Securities.
Turns out, Maggie liquidated
all her stocks and bonds
eight days ago.
That´s over $200,000 worth.
So, she knew she was leaving.
She withdrew five grand in cash
and moved the rest
into a private account.
In London.
Where Tom Wilkins happens to be.
She and Tom faked
her kidnapping.
She calls him
at 11:48 to confirm
buys a little bit of courage
from Chico at 2:15
ducks into the alley,
and she´s on her way to London.
Okay, but tell me this.
Why doesn´t she take
her passport?
We find Tom Wilkins,
we´ll know the answer.
So, it looks
like you were right.
She was planning on leaving
for a lot more
than a couple of days.
Well, you
have no idea
how much her mother´s
made her suffer.
How much she suffocates her
with all of that... need.
( scoffs )
So back at the house,
you wanted Nancy to pay
because you were afraid
Maggie´s behind this.
( sighs )
Well, if she is,
I don´t want her to get caught.
You´re thinking
that sounds like a motive.
Me, living here
in this dump
and Nancy with all
of that money.
You probably think
I´m a suspect?
We´ve discovered
Maggie had a problem
with cocaine.
( sighs )
I mean, here I am, sitting here
thinking that... I know her
thinking that
she tells me everything
and I don´t have a clue
to the first damn thing
that´s going on with her.
Jack.
What´s up?
That was LEGAT London.
They found Tom Wilkins
this morning.
When he heard
about Maggie´s disappearance
he booked himself
on the Concorde
and he´s due back
in New York at 3:00.
JACK:
What were you
doing in London?
We have a couple
of big clients there.
I... I go at least once a month.
Did you ever
take Maggie with you?
No.
Why not?
We don´t have that
kind of relationship.
What kind
do you have?
Uh, we dated a few times.
Then we realized
we were much better as friends.
When was the last time
you saw her?
Tuesday night.
The night she disappeared?
That´s what´s been
driving me crazy.
She called me
that morning
said she wanted
to see me.
I was leaving
for London the next day.
I didn´t really have time.
But she said
it was important, so...
You know, you know, it´s
the same old song and dance.
Subscription levels,
readership profiles
blah, blah, blah.
What about you?
How´s the woman?
It´s good.
You okay?
Mm, I´m fine.
You´re using again.
Maggie...
A little bit.
With who?
Someone from work.
Did you ever call
that therapist I gave you?
Not yet.
Why not?
I don´t...
I don´t need you
to save me, okay?
Then why´d you call?
You know, I haven´t seen
you in a while, and I...
I just wanted...
What?
Nothing, it´s nothing.
( sighs )
Just forget about it.
Maggie.
Maggie!
Maggie...
Hey, it´s all...
Talk to me.
I... I´ve got to go.
JACK:
And that´s it?
You never heard from her again.
No.
And you have no idea
where she might be.
Nope.
Does this help?
Oh, my God.
Yeah, it´s
pretty convenient.
She transfers
all her money to London.
You go there on business,
and she disappears.
Hey, wait a minute,
you don´t think I...
I´ll tell you
what I think, Tom.
You´re lying to us.
You said you never
heard from her again.
I didn´t.
She called you.
She did not.
The phone company said she did.
That night.
Then I must´ve been sleeping.
Why didn´t you tell us
she left you a message?
I´ve been crazed.
I haven´t checked them
since I left for London.
( keypad beeping )
ANSWERING MACHINE:
You have four new messages.
First new message:
sent Tuesday at 11:48 p.m.
Hey it´s me.
Um, I just...
uh, I wanted to say that
uh, you´re the only guy
who ever really cared.
And... ugh,
I´m sorry about tonight.
So... have a really
great trip to London
and don´t worry about me, okay?
No matter what happens.
Okay, bye.
MACHINE:
Message saved.
Maybe she left that message
to cover for him.
Nah, you´re reaching.
Tom´s not the guy.
If she wanted to extort
a million dollars
out of her mother
why is she calling
her that night
to talk about
the drapes?
To make things
look normal.
Yeah, but things
weren´t normal.
Think about everything
she did that day
from the beginning.
First there was Brian,
then her father
then her mother,
then finally Tom.
She was saying good-bye.
And when she slipped out
that back alley door
she didn´t think
she was going to be
part of her own kidnapping.
She was on her way to whoever
was going to help her leave.
Except they didn´t help her,
they turned on her.
This new guy from work.
The guy she´s been using with.
Maybe.
Viv.
Here we go-- Sebol employees
traveling internationally
in the next 48 hours.
Just give me the men.
Okay.
Simon Granger going to Paris
David Connors to Rome
and Bartholomew Higgins
going to London
connecting to Katmandu, Nepal.
Nepal?
That´s our guy.
Who is he?
He´s the computer technician.
4:30 is a bit late for
lunch, don´t you think?
Yeah, no kidding.
I´m going to check this out.
You wait here.
Excuse me.
Do you, uh, you know
where Bart went for lunch?
He usually goes home.
He only lives a
couple blocks away.
Thanks.
Danny.
We can´t
find the guy.
Where´s his office?
Follow me.
Where´s Martin?
I don´t know.
( door unlocking )
Hey, Bart.
I´m sorry to bother
you at home, man.
I´ve got some more questions
about Maggie´s computer.
Mind if I come in?
I wasn´t feeling
too well
so I just figured I´d
come home for the day.
Well, this
shouldn´t take long.
I was just
wondering about
that bit sector retrieval
that we were working on.
( sirens approaching )
FBI!
Clear.
Clear.
( sirens approaching )
Freeze! FBI!
( woman screams )
Stay down! Stay down!
Get your hands up!
Okay, den´s on the right,
I´ll cover the bathroom.
( moaning )
( crying )
You have the right
to remain silent.
You give up the right
to remain silent
anything you say can
and will be used against you.
Yeah, they´re
coming out right now.
Is he going to be okay?
So stupid.
Jack...
Maggie going to be all right?
Yeah, no thanks to you.
You almost got her killed.
You never should have
gone in there alone.
Take him
to the hospital.
Make sure he gets
his head checked.
Yes, sir.
We´re talking to Maggie now.
She´s shaken up
but unharmed.
Oh, my poor baby.
I just wanted
to disappear for a while.
I-I was going to
let everybody know.
I was going to call,
just as soon as I...
We believe you, Maggie.
You just wanted to get
back to Nepal, right?
Tell us about Bart.
I´ve only known him
a few weeks.
I-I was having some
trouble with my computer.
( frustrated scream )
( beeping )
You know, that won´t
really accomplish much.
Please help me.
We started
hanging out after work.
I liked him.
I... I felt like
he understood me.
My stupid fantasy about
getting away from it all...
changing my life.
Then, one night,
he offered me some coke.
And the more I did
the more it seemed like
it was possible.
And, all of a sudden,
I found myself going for it.
I´m doing it, Bart.
I´m getting out.
Really? You serious?
Tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow? Wow! That doesn´t
give me much time to pack.
What?
Well, it´s what
we talked about, isn´t it?
I mean, going to Nepal.
Geez, Bart, I-I-I didn´t mean
for you to get
the wrong impression.
I...
So what are you doing here?
I... felt like you
understood, and I...
I didn´t want to be
at my own place anymore.
And I thought maybe
you could drive me
to the airport
in the morning.
Have you already
booked your flight?
Not yet.
Well, how long
are you going for?
I don´t know.
Damn it, I brought
the wrong passport.
This is my old one.
It´s expired.
I´m... I´m just going
to have to go get the new one.
Bart, what are you doing?
Next thing I knew...
he was coming up
with this whole ransom thing
and suddenly he was the one
going to Nepal.
Why´d you leave the apartment
the way you did
unlocked,
with everything on?
I-I don´t know.
I honestly don´t know.
It was, it was like I was
in a dream or something.
You wanted to be found.
I am so sorry.
It´s our job.
It´s what we do.
Um... what do you, what you
think Bart was going to do...
I mean, if you hadn´t found me?
His real name
is Joseph Deemer.
He´s wanted for murder
in Delaware.
He would´ve killed you.
Thank you.
( elevator bell dings )
MAN:
Her name is Maggie Cartwright.
She´s a marketing executive,
28, single, Caucasian.
The doorman places her
going through the door
at 10:45 Tuesday night.
She didn´t show up for work
the next day.
She didn´t call anybody
to let them know
where she might be going.
She´s been missing
for 34 hours.
This was the last place
she was seen.
( elevator bell dings )
Hey, Frankie.
How you doing?
Ah, bum knee,
too much alimony.
Other than that,
I´m peachy.
Let´s see
what we got here.
No forced entry.
The door
was left unlocked.
All the lights on,
the radio on.
Nothing stolen,
as far as we can tell.
No sign of a struggle,
no bags packed
toiletries still here
passport in the desk.
Keys, cell phone, purse,
Palm Pilot, all left behind.
No evidence whatsoever
that she was leaving.
A little bit after 11:00,
she calls her mom.
Typical mother-
daughter stuff.
Apparently they spoke
almost every day.
Needless to say
the mother´s
pretty wound up
about all this.
Maggie´s
her only child
and she´s thinking
the worst.
Anyway, they spoke
for a few minutes.
She finishes her call
and after that, vanished.
Who called it in?
Her boss, uh, about 5:00
yesterday afternoon.
She didn´t come in for work,
he got concerned.
You canvass the neighborhood?
FRANKIE:
Cursory stuff, and nothing
from the other tenants.
We checked the hospitals,
psych wards, morgues.
No Maggie Cartwrights,
and no "Jane Does."
( whispering ):
Maggie, Maggie,
come on, come on.
Give me something,
give me something.
Karma and Reincarnation.
"Through his past works
"he shall return once more
to birth
"entering whatever form
his heart is set on."
1996. A little backpacking
after college?
There´s no
India or Tibet.
So where does the
Hindu kick come from?
WOMAN:
Her computer´s
not here.
It´s at her office.
Okay. Maggie Cartwright.
Born and raised in Westchester.
Graduated Duke University
in 1995.
She worked the last three years
at Sebol Publishing.
V.P. of Marketing.
No criminal record
no history of mental illness.
Family?
Mother Nancy, Father Paul.
Divorced 1982.
Paul´s still single
and lives in Alphabet City.
Nancy remarried
Lawrence Highsmith.
They live in Scarsdale.
Viv?
Since she disappeared
no credit card charges,
no Amtrak, Greyhound
car rental or
airline activity.
I´m moving on her
bank records and
brokerage accounts.
Great. Danny?
Night doorman´s got a record.
Five years for dealing coke.
Run it down.
How´d you do
with her phones?
11:02, she called her mom
from home, six-minute call.
11:48, she placed a call
to a Tom Wilkins.
32-second call.
We have not located
him yet.
32 seconds-- could
be a message.
Let´s get a complete package
on this guy.
If he was the last person
she called
then he´s the first person
we need to talk to.
How about the security tape?
10:47 confirms
the doorman´s story.
Can´t tell much else.
She left work at about 6:00
and took a train out to
her mother´s place in Scarsdale.
Hung out there
for about an hour
then hopped an 8:30
back to the city.
We found a ticket stub
in her apartment.
She got into Penn Station
at 9:15
but didn´t make it back
to her apartment
for an hour and a half.
No one knows where she was
right here.
May not mean anything...
But it could
mean everything.
All right, as
you all know
we have a new
member of the team
joining us today--
Martin Fitzgerald.
Let´s make sure
we give him
the frosty welcome
that all rookies deserve.
This is Vivian Johnson
Samantha Spade...
Danny Taylor.
Okay, the
clock´s ticking.
Let´s get out there.
Two years working
white-collar
in Seattle
and he gets
this assignment?
Doesn´t hurt to be
Victor Fitzgerald´s kid.
Mmm. No wonder
he´s smiling.
Not a bad smile, either.
I was surprised that
your father didn´t
call me about you.
I asked him
to stay out of it.
I don´t want any
preferential treatment.
Good, ´cause
you´re not getting any.
So, where do we start?
Right now, we don´t know
if she´s been kidnapped
or murdered,
or killed herself
or run off to Rio
with a dermatologist.
We´ve got to work
from the inside out.
Once we find out
who she is
odds are we´ll find out
where she is.
In most cases, after 48 hours,
they´re gone.
You know, you were the last one
to see her that night.
That´s a trip, man.
It´s a crazy city.
How´d she seem to you?
Same as always.
I don´t pay
too much attention.
She ever bring guys
home with her?
Nah. I never seen nothin´.
How long
you work there?
About a year.
A year, huh?
She never brought
anybody home?
Not even once?
Look, Chico
I´m not here
to mess with you
but whatever you
got on that girl
I need it.
MAN:
Like I told the police
we had a meeting that day
between 2:30 and 5:00.
That´s the last time
I saw her.
And how did
she seem to you?
Composed, as always.
She was magnificent
in that meeting.
A real fireball.
Probably the strongest
presentation she ever gave.
MAGGIE:
...very nicely.
Thank you.
You did a great job.
She is a tireless
worker.
Not only ambitious,
she´s charming,
she´s beautiful...
she has it all.
They were going to come back
the next day with the CEO.
Maggie worked incredibly hard
on that account.
When she didn´t show up,
I knew something was wrong.
How are her relationships
within the company?
Oh. Everybody
respects Maggie.
I´m about to promote her
to president of marketing.
She involved
with anyone here?
What, you mean romantically?
Mm-hmm.
( chuckling )
No. Maggie´s too smart
to do anything like that.
Did she ever mention
a Tom Wilkins?
No. Not to me.
We have a very professional
relationship
and she likes to keep
her personal life personal.
Thank you for now.
Oh.
All right.
( clearing throat )
I think he´s sleeping with her.
The way he
talks about her
and she´s climbing
that corporate ladder
pretty quick.
He may be in love with her,
but he´s not sleeping with her.
Never even thought about it.
He´s gay.
What, because he called
her a fireball?
No... ´cause he was checking you
out.
SAMANTHA:
Let´s just start
from the beginning, okay?
Why did Maggie come
out here that night?
Well, as you can see
I´m in the process
of redecorating
and I´d been bugging her
for weeks to help me
with some of the patterns.
Then, out of the blue,
she showed up.
I think I´d like florals
in the living room.
But then I don´t know
what I´d do with the drapes.
Maggie?
That sounds good.
You know,
if you´re not interested
you didn´t have to come
all the way out here.
Mom...
I know
this is nonsense to you.
It´s just that we´ve been
over this so many times.
I thought we´d figured
it out already.
I know, but I
saw these colors
and I thought they were nice,
and I...
I know how
you feel about...
I thought
you were on the patch!
I am.
Doesn´t work.
You can´t smoke on the patch,
Mother.
So, what do you care?
I haven´t even seen you
in three weeks.
I´ve had a lot on my plate.
I´m not some tidbit
on a buffet table.
All right.
I´m sorry, Mom, okay?
Will you just show me
the samples, please?
We didn´t make any decisions,
and then she said
she had to get back
to the city.
And as far as you know,
she was headed straight home?
She said she had to prepare
for a big meeting the next day.
At least that´s
what she told me.
Why did she call you that night?
Oh, she said she...
She just wanted...
( sniffs )
...to tell me that...
I should go with butterscotch...
for the drapes.
No personal touches.
She didn´t want
to bring herself in here.
( computer beeps )
Okay, the tracer´s kicking in.
We´re in.
Everybody´s skeptical
of you white-collar guys.
Yeah, I´ve noticed.
What´s her password?
Nepal.
Think it means
something?
What´s your password?
See.
( phone rings )
Danny boy.
Doorman says Maggie
used to bring home this guy.
Doesn´t know his name
but he thinks
it´s somebody she works with.
Now get this.
The night after she disappeared
same guy shows up and slips
Chico a couple of "C" notes
to say he was never there.
Guess a couple "C" notes
doesn´t buy you what it used to.
Listen, was this guy
a brunette with a goatee?
No, blond, about six-one.
Okay, listen,
call Samantha.
Have her contact
the family.
See if they have any
insight into this.
Okay.
Maggie wasn´t as smart
as Ricardo says.
She was fooling around
with somebody here.
Well, we´ve got her e-mails.
VIVIAN:
His name is Tom Wilkins.
He arrived at Heathrow
last night on flight 43
and checked into Claridge´s.
Yes, yes, we need
a complete interview.
I don´t care
what time it is in London.
Right now, he´s our only suspect
in a potential kidnapping.
Yeah. Yes.
Thanks. Cheerio.
What´s her
next e-mail?
This one was sent
to Brian Daugherty
1:45 p.m. Tuesday.
That was the day
she disappeared.
"Brian, I really appreciated
your honesty this morning.
"It certainly helped clarify
my position on that account.
As ever, Maggie Mae."
All right.
Next one was
sent to, uh...
Read that back to me
one sentence at a time.
"Brian, I really appreciated
your honesty this morning."
Honesty. Intimate.
"Certainly helped clarify
my position on that account."
Very stiff, formal.
"As ever, Maggie Mae."
That´s very intimate.
Doesn´t fit.
What´s the account, then?
"Account" is her code
for relationship.
It´s her position
in their relationship
that just got clarified.
This is the guy
she´s been sleeping with.
Look alive, Martin.
We just found ourselves
a viable suspect.
Brian, it´s not like tipping
a guy in a restaurant
to get a better table.
You paid off a witness to lie
in a federal investigation.
That´s obstruction of justice.
I´m sorry.
I panicked.
It´s just...
My wife and I are trying to have
a baby now.
If she ever found out
that I´ve been having an affair
she´d be gone in a heartbeat.
I swear.
I cut it off with Maggie months
ago.
I mean, it was just supposed
to be a fling.
I thought you understood that.
That´s what you wanted.
Have your cake
and eat it with whipped cream.
Why is this coming up today,
all of a sudden?
I thought you´d moved on.
I... um...
I-I think I may have
loved you.
I am sorry, Maggie
but I love my wife.
Then what were you doing
with me?
You give off this vibe,
like...
I didn´t think you´d get
emotional about it.
Well, I guess you were wrong.
I saw her later in the hall.
She seemed all right.
Like nothing ever happened.
Do you know of anyone
that would want to hurt her?
My God, no.
Believe me, if I had
any useful information
I´d be knocking down your door.
So where were you
the night she disappeared?
In Philadelphia,
for a conference.
You want me to run
out his alibi?
I´m going to give
that to Danny.
Jack, her hard drive was
completely reformatted
two weeks ago.
Except for her recent e-mails
her entire Internet history´s
been wiped out.
Why?
I don´t know,
but it was done here.
I want you to find out
who did it, and why.
Then meet me back
at the office.
SAMANTHA:
Your ex-wife has reason
to be concerned.
We´re running out of time.
Her mother loves to worry
but she probably just took off
for a while.
I mean, uh,
Maggie´s very independent.
She...
I´m sure she´ll be back
in a couple of days
and we´ll be sorry
we wasted your time.
But you can think of
no concrete reason
why she´d go on a trip.
Uh, no.
You and Maggie had lunch
the day she disappeared.
Who scheduled that,
you or her?
Her, actually, uh
which I was
thrilled about.
She´s usually so
busy at work
she doesn´t have time
during the week.
And how did she seem to you?
Same as usual.
I mean light... fun...
full of life.
And she´s unbelievable in bed.
( laughing )
Well, that´s worth something.
Sometimes it´s
worth everything.
So, how´s your love life?
Presently, I´m playing
the role of Sister Maggie
the reluctant nun.
Who´s playing the priest, Brian?
Brian´s... a dud.
If he wasn´t married,
he wouldn´t even be interesting.
You women are all alike.
Or so you´d like to think.
So, we still on
for Saturday night?
Dylan? Of course.
I made reservations at Carmine´s
for afterwards.
Yum.
You know the way
to a girl´s heart.
Dylan and dinner
with my daughter.
Has a nice ring to it,
don´t you think?
So what do you know
about Brian Daugherty?
Oh...( laughs )
he was just a fling.
I mean, she didn´t take him
very seriously.
Maggie´s pretty sophisticated
that way.
Ah, I don´t think Brian
would be dangerous to her
if that´s what you´re asking.
I mean, she has enough sense
not to get involved
with anybody like that.
How about a Tom Wilkins?
You ever hear of him?
I think she dated a Tom
for a couple of weeks
uh...
about a year ago, maybe.
Yeah, I remember now.
He was, uh,
too straight-laced for her.
So, you met him?
No, no, she told me
about him.
Maggie tells you
about all her affairs?
What, you think that´s weird
because I´m her Dad?
Yes, we tell each other
everything.
Father knows best.
He´s barely got a pot to piss in
and he´s taking his daughter
to a $300 dinner
on a Saturday night?
Well, think about it.
He abandons her
when she´s a kid.
He doesn´t know
how to deal with it.
Now he wants to be
her best friend.
It´s classic guilt.
Is it guilt or romance?
You don´t go to Carmine´s
unless it´s Valentine´s Day
or you´re going to propose.
How would you know?
Look, if there was anything
really naughty
he´d be hiding it more.
He treats her
like she´s his mistress.
Yeah, and she goes along
with it, doesn´t she?
She´s a role player.
Everyone we talk to,
we see a different Maggie.
MAN:
Yeah, she called down
to Tech Support.
She said she was having
all kinds of problems
with her computer.
It freezing on her all the time,
losing files, you know.
Trouble with internal e-mails.
So she asked you to reformat
her entire hard drive?
Well, I told her I could just
run a couple of systems checks
but she, uh, really wanted me
to clean the whole thing out.
You know,
she was pretty specific
about what she wanted done.
And nothing stuck out to you
as suspicious
in her e-mails or files?
No interoffice romance
or anything like that?
No, nothing like that.
Oh.
Does the name Tom Wilkins
ring a bell?
No. Does he work
at the company?
Tom Wilkins.
He´s a tax attorney
at Dobbs and McGlincy.
41 years old
divorced, no kids.
Two convictions
for DUI in ´94.
Since then, he´s clean.
And he left for London
yesterday morning.
On business.
He´s due back next week.
LEGAT London got a lead on him?
They do now.
I had to read them
the riot act
to get them to put down
their fish and chips.
This was the only picture
she had in her office.
Guess Tom was not just
some fling she had a year ago.
Anything on
Brian Daugherty?
Danny ran down the alibi.
He was in Philly.
What´d the technician say
about Maggie´s computer?
She specifically asked him
to clean it out.
Sounds to me like she was
trying to hide something.
Sam?
You in a trance?
We still don´t know
where she was
between 9:15 and 10:47.
( claps )
I got something.
It´s the footage
from the security camera
in Maggie´s alley.
Look at that.
That could definitely be her.
Is that a backpack?
Zoom in.
( computer beeping )
Tighter.
( beeping )
Here we go.
Yin and yang.
They match.
Yes, they do.
What time was that taken?
2:32 a.m.
Where´s she going?
Maybe it´s a booty call.
Your mind is always
in the gutter.
There was no call.
Tom Wilkins, 11:48.
In my experience, there´s
usually not a three-hour lag
between the call
and the, uh...
( clears throat )
...delivery.
When she first
came in that night
she didn´t have the pack.
But there it is.
So, what´s in it?
A change of clothes
for the next day.
She sneaks out of her own
apartment
without her wallet or her keys.
Doesn´t make sense.
None of it makes sense.
( footsteps approaching )
( yawns )
( sighs )
Think a fresh
change of clothes
will make up for a
lost night´s sleep?
Well, if I looked
as good as you in black
I wouldn´t need to change.
Jack... your collar.
You´re starting to sound
like my wife.
You should listen
to your wife.
You do this for Dr. Fred?
Sure.
How is Dr. Fred?
Busy and unavailable,
just the way I like ´em.
( sighs )
You know, I keep wondering
why she went out the alley door.
She´s... hiding.
Or escaping.
What´s in the backpack?
Personal items, mementos.
Things that we wouldn´t
even notice were missing.
Like a teddy bear
from her childhood
or a necklace from her father,
or favorite outfit.
You´re not thinking suicide.
You think about all the
different roles she played--
she didn´t have
any real friends.
She was an only child.
I mean, this was a...
this is a very lonely girl,
I think.
Yeah, but there´s no history
of mental illness
there´s no indication
she was depressed...
Either way...
it´s been 51 hours.
We´ve lost her.
( phone rings )
( sighs )
Yep?
Where?
When?
Okay.
We just got a ransom note.
And there´s proof of life.
The problem is that
paying the ransom
isn´t gonna bring us
any closer to your daughter.
We´ll do whatever
you advise us.
Well, whatever they advise us,
they don´t even have any leads.
I mean, God knows
where she is
what she´s
going through.
I mean, as far as
I´m concerned,
we pay now
and pray we get her
back as soon as we can.
You heard what they said, Paul.
Besides, its not your money,
anyway.
Have you, for one moment,
ever thought
about anything in your life
but yourself?
Well, I´m not the one
who ran off, am I?
JACK:
Enough.
The number one priority here
is finding your daughter.
Let´s focus on that.
This is not about you.
This is about Maggie.
The longer
we stall the kidnappers
the more chance we have
of finding her.
Agreed?
It´s her money.
JACK:
Her mother got the e-mail
at 4:22 this morning.
It´s pretty straightforward.
One million dollars by 5:00 p.m.
That gives us less
than ten hours.
What have we got
on the ransom note?
The e-mail was bounced
all over the world.
Our computer squad´s on it.
All right.
Let´s talk theories.
I´ve got something.
In September of last year
Maggie started making ATM
withdrawals all over the city.
$50 a day, then $100.
Six months later,
she´s up to $200 a day.
Then all of a sudden,
it stops.
Her activity goes back
to the way it was before.
Drugs.
Or blackmail.
What does a girl like that have
to be blackmailed
about?
Its drugs.
She´s doing blow.
Her doorman´s
her dealer.
He knows that she comes
from a lot of cash,
so he decides
"Okay, I´m going to
get rich quick."
Go see him.
Brian Daugherty.
The office boyfriend.
We know that Maggie went
to see him that morning, right?
Well, what if
she threatened
to tell his wife
that they were
having an affair?
He freaks out,
sneaks back from Philadelphia
kills her, and then
sends the ransom note
to throw us off the trail?
I thought his alibi checked out.
It did.
He ordered up room service
at 10:28, and nobody saw him
until the next morning
at 9:00.
Last train
out of Philly´s at 10:30.
We know he didn´t
rent a car
so how did he get back
to New York?
Did he swim?
There´s an 11:15
New Jersey Transit
to Newark.
Transfer there,
and you´re into New York City
by 2:00 a.m., leaving him
at least four hours
to do what he needed to do
and still get back
for his eggs Benedict.
Okay.
Run it out.
Well, there´s always
Daddy dearest.
This way he gets the money
and the girl.
You have a chip
on your shoulder.
In case anyone cares,
my money´s
on Tom Wilkins.
Then get him back
in the country.
Guess he´s more
than just a pretty face.
I thought you checked all this
out already.
I just want
to clarify some things.
So, you were at
the hotel all night.
Right.
All by yourself.
Right.
You didn´t
order up a movie?
No. Is that crime?
And you didn´t call your wife
to say good night?
It was late.
She´s usually in bed by 10:00.
Pretty.
What´s her name?
Linda.
How long you been married?
Almost four years.
What is this?
It just occurred to me
you can´t prove
you were in the hotel all night.
And you can´t prove
that I wasn´t.
Oh.
I really don´t want to have
to talk this over
with Linda, but I will.
Talk to her all you want.
I already told her everything.
Am I under arrest?
Not yet.
Then I don´t have
to listen to this.
You know that lying
to a federal officer
is a felony.
It´s like perjury, Chico.
I told you--
I don´t do that no more.
Well, you hold out on me now,
I´m going to go sniffing around.
And if I
find anything
anything at all
you´re going
back to Dannemora.
I´m going
to make sure of it.
Now you come clean with me
and I lose your parole officer´s
phone number.
Yeah?
All right, look.
I used to sell to her
but, uh, she hadn´t
gotten anything
for a while.
Till that night.
She came downstairs
about 2:15.
MAGGIE:
Hey, Chico.
Uh, I need some.
CHICO:
I gave her a bag
and then she went
back upstairs.
I never saw her again,
all right?
You want to take a polygraph?
Yeah, whatever, man.
Bring it on.
You want all the
e-mails, huh?
From the entire company.
You know how
many there are?
Let´s start with Brian Daugherty
and see how we do.
Is Brian a suspect?
Everybody´s a suspect.
I just got a call from my friend
at Prudential Securities.
Turns out, Maggie liquidated
all her stocks and bonds
eight days ago.
That´s over $200,000 worth.
So, she knew she was leaving.
She withdrew five grand in cash
and moved the rest
into a private account.
In London.
Where Tom Wilkins happens to be.
She and Tom faked
her kidnapping.
She calls him
at 11:48 to confirm
buys a little bit of courage
from Chico at 2:15
ducks into the alley,
and she´s on her way to London.
Okay, but tell me this.
Why doesn´t she take
her passport?
We find Tom Wilkins,
we´ll know the answer.
So, it looks
like you were right.
She was planning on leaving
for a lot more
than a couple of days.
Well, you
have no idea
how much her mother´s
made her suffer.
How much she suffocates her
with all of that... need.
( scoffs )
So back at the house,
you wanted Nancy to pay
because you were afraid
Maggie´s behind this.
( sighs )
Well, if she is,
I don´t want her to get caught.
You´re thinking
that sounds like a motive.
Me, living here
in this dump
and Nancy with all
of that money.
You probably think
I´m a suspect?
We´ve discovered
Maggie had a problem
with cocaine.
( sighs )
I mean, here I am, sitting here
thinking that... I know her
thinking that
she tells me everything
and I don´t have a clue
to the first damn thing
that´s going on with her.
Jack.
What´s up?
That was LEGAT London.
They found Tom Wilkins
this morning.
When he heard
about Maggie´s disappearance
he booked himself
on the Concorde
and he´s due back
in New York at 3:00.
JACK:
What were you
doing in London?
We have a couple
of big clients there.
I... I go at least once a month.
Did you ever
take Maggie with you?
No.
Why not?
We don´t have that
kind of relationship.
What kind
do you have?
Uh, we dated a few times.
Then we realized
we were much better as friends.
When was the last time
you saw her?
Tuesday night.
The night she disappeared?
That´s what´s been
driving me crazy.
She called me
that morning
said she wanted
to see me.
I was leaving
for London the next day.
I didn´t really have time.
But she said
it was important, so...
You know, you know, it´s
the same old song and dance.
Subscription levels,
readership profiles
blah, blah, blah.
What about you?
How´s the woman?
It´s good.
You okay?
Mm, I´m fine.
You´re using again.
Maggie...
A little bit.
With who?
Someone from work.
Did you ever call
that therapist I gave you?
Not yet.
Why not?
I don´t...
I don´t need you
to save me, okay?
Then why´d you call?
You know, I haven´t seen
you in a while, and I...
I just wanted...
What?
Nothing, it´s nothing.
( sighs )
Just forget about it.
Maggie.
Maggie!
Maggie...
Hey, it´s all...
Talk to me.
I... I´ve got to go.
JACK:
And that´s it?
You never heard from her again.
No.
And you have no idea
where she might be.
Nope.
Does this help?
Oh, my God.
Yeah, it´s
pretty convenient.
She transfers
all her money to London.
You go there on business,
and she disappears.
Hey, wait a minute,
you don´t think I...
I´ll tell you
what I think, Tom.
You´re lying to us.
You said you never
heard from her again.
I didn´t.
She called you.
She did not.
The phone company said she did.
That night.
Then I must´ve been sleeping.
Why didn´t you tell us
she left you a message?
I´ve been crazed.
I haven´t checked them
since I left for London.
( keypad beeping )
ANSWERING MACHINE:
You have four new messages.
First new message:
sent Tuesday at 11:48 p.m.
Hey it´s me.
Um, I just...
uh, I wanted to say that
uh, you´re the only guy
who ever really cared.
And... ugh,
I´m sorry about tonight.
So... have a really
great trip to London
and don´t worry about me, okay?
No matter what happens.
Okay, bye.
MACHINE:
Message saved.
Maybe she left that message
to cover for him.
Nah, you´re reaching.
Tom´s not the guy.
If she wanted to extort
a million dollars
out of her mother
why is she calling
her that night
to talk about
the drapes?
To make things
look normal.
Yeah, but things
weren´t normal.
Think about everything
she did that day
from the beginning.
First there was Brian,
then her father
then her mother,
then finally Tom.
She was saying good-bye.
And when she slipped out
that back alley door
she didn´t think
she was going to be
part of her own kidnapping.
She was on her way to whoever
was going to help her leave.
Except they didn´t help her,
they turned on her.
This new guy from work.
The guy she´s been using with.
Maybe.
Viv.
Here we go-- Sebol employees
traveling internationally
in the next 48 hours.
Just give me the men.
Okay.
Simon Granger going to Paris
David Connors to Rome
and Bartholomew Higgins
going to London
connecting to Katmandu, Nepal.
Nepal?
That´s our guy.
Who is he?
He´s the computer technician.
4:30 is a bit late for
lunch, don´t you think?
Yeah, no kidding.
I´m going to check this out.
You wait here.
Excuse me.
Do you, uh, you know
where Bart went for lunch?
He usually goes home.
He only lives a
couple blocks away.
Thanks.
Danny.
We can´t
find the guy.
Where´s his office?
Follow me.
Where´s Martin?
I don´t know.
( door unlocking )
Hey, Bart.
I´m sorry to bother
you at home, man.
I´ve got some more questions
about Maggie´s computer.
Mind if I come in?
I wasn´t feeling
too well
so I just figured I´d
come home for the day.
Well, this
shouldn´t take long.
I was just
wondering about
that bit sector retrieval
that we were working on.
( sirens approaching )
FBI!
Clear.
Clear.
( sirens approaching )
Freeze! FBI!
( woman screams )
Stay down! Stay down!
Get your hands up!
Okay, den´s on the right,
I´ll cover the bathroom.
( moaning )
( crying )
You have the right
to remain silent.
You give up the right
to remain silent
anything you say can
and will be used against you.
Yeah, they´re
coming out right now.
Is he going to be okay?
So stupid.
Jack...
Maggie going to be all right?
Yeah, no thanks to you.
You almost got her killed.
You never should have
gone in there alone.
Take him
to the hospital.
Make sure he gets
his head checked.
Yes, sir.
We´re talking to Maggie now.
She´s shaken up
but unharmed.
Oh, my poor baby.
I just wanted
to disappear for a while.
I-I was going to
let everybody know.
I was going to call,
just as soon as I...
We believe you, Maggie.
You just wanted to get
back to Nepal, right?
Tell us about Bart.
I´ve only known him
a few weeks.
I-I was having some
trouble with my computer.
( frustrated scream )
( beeping )
You know, that won´t
really accomplish much.
Please help me.
We started
hanging out after work.
I liked him.
I... I felt like
he understood me.
My stupid fantasy about
getting away from it all...
changing my life.
Then, one night,
he offered me some coke.
And the more I did
the more it seemed like
it was possible.
And, all of a sudden,
I found myself going for it.
I´m doing it, Bart.
I´m getting out.
Really? You serious?
Tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow? Wow! That doesn´t
give me much time to pack.
What?
Well, it´s what
we talked about, isn´t it?
I mean, going to Nepal.
Geez, Bart, I-I-I didn´t mean
for you to get
the wrong impression.
I...
So what are you doing here?
I... felt like you
understood, and I...
I didn´t want to be
at my own place anymore.
And I thought maybe
you could drive me
to the airport
in the morning.
Have you already
booked your flight?
Not yet.
Well, how long
are you going for?
I don´t know.
Damn it, I brought
the wrong passport.
This is my old one.
It´s expired.
I´m... I´m just going
to have to go get the new one.
Bart, what are you doing?
Next thing I knew...
he was coming up
with this whole ransom thing
and suddenly he was the one
going to Nepal.
Why´d you leave the apartment
the way you did
unlocked,
with everything on?
I-I don´t know.
I honestly don´t know.
It was, it was like I was
in a dream or something.
You wanted to be found.
I am so sorry.
It´s our job.
It´s what we do.
Um... what do you, what you
think Bart was going to do...
I mean, if you hadn´t found me?
His real name
is Joseph Deemer.
He´s wanted for murder
in Delaware.
He would´ve killed you.
Thank you.
( elevator bell dings )