Well, it was the first fancy party
you had ever taken me to.
I wanted my hair to look nice.
It looked more than nice.
It was big.
You said I looked beautiful.
What can I say.
I was young, in love
and the rest of you looked beautiful.
You have never been a good liar.
Oh! I left my credit card at Bloomingdale´s.
You did not.
You just want to return
those plaid boxer shorts I made you buy.
Yes, but I won´t.
Okay.
I´ll be right back.
I´ll meet you at the car. All right.
MAN: Let her go.
WOMAN: Oh, my God, he took the car.
He took her, he took her car.
Emily?
Emily?!
( tires squealing )
Emily Muller, 36.
Lives in Harbor City with her husband.
He didn´t see anything.
But four other witnesses say
a male assailant forced her into the car and drove away.
MARTIN: Got an APB out on the car and the plate--
a silver BMW X-5.
Nice car.
Fast. Very. If he´s topping it out
they could be a hundred miles from here.
Fast car, you want a fast road.
Odds are, head straight for the thruway.
Choppers are on it.
We set up a concentric search flaring inward
from Exit 13 West and Exit 26 East.
Media´s got it already
which will help.
Anything else?
She´s got a cell phone.
Hopefully it´s with her and it´s on.
9-X is tracking it for us.
Her husband said she has an E-ZPass for tolls.
JACK: A couple dish towels, three pairs of boxers
and a blouse.
Just another day at the mall.
Did you get a look at the assailant?
Uh, by the time I´d turned around
they were out of the parking lot.
When you were inside the mall, did anything seem strange?
Did you notice anyone out of the ordinary?
No.
Not at all.
You know, we were just...
running errands.
She didn´t... she didn´t do anything.
How could this happen?
They´re in her silver BMW.
I´d been shopping in the mall for about an hour.
I started to walk into the parking lot
and I heard a scream.
They were struggling.
I think he had her by the arm.
And I just started running.
And you didn´t get a good look at him?
No. No, I´m sorry.
I was trying to get it closed
but this thing sticks all the time.
That´s when I heard her hollering.
Green coat wearing a baseball cap?
Yeah.
Are you sure? Yes, ma´am.
Because the guy that you´re describing
sounds a lot like
that guy over there.
I don´t know how I got mixed up.
Do you remember anything else? Anything?
You never know what could help.
I know Emily a little.
So I can´t be sure...
but for a moment
when she first turned around
I thought she knew him.
The assailant?
That´s when she screamed?
Um, no.
It wasn´t until he was pushing her
into the car.
Stay in contact with the news stations.
Try and get some break-ins.
We need a lead in at 5:00.
So I´ve got three composites on our suspect.
White, maybe not white.
Brown haired or balding.
Bearded man with a mustache.
You got to love eyewitnesses.
Me, I´ll take an old-fashioned
grainy security video any day of the week.
There´s one witness unaccounted for--
the homeless lady crossing the parking lot
with the cart.
She´s missing, too?
Apparently, she took off after the carjacking.
Guess she was freaked.
Talk to me about the witness who knew the victim.
Well, she said Emily recognized the assailant.
Maybe recognized.
And he probably just charmed that out of her.
Well, the wife goes missing
the husband´s the last one to see her.
We don´t need to talk about those percentages, do we?
VIVIAN: I love the way your brain works.
Always goes to the dark side.
Well, the husband mysteriously walks off
at just the right moment, somebody nabs the wife--
somebody she recognizes.
Suspicious, wouldn´t you say?
Yeah, if there´s a motive.
Well, let´s go and find one.
VIVIAN: Besides her husband
you were the last one to see her.
Did you usually go to her house for appointments?
She called me early and asked if I could come by
on my way to work.
I do that sometimes to make a little extra money.
How´d she seem to you?
Good.
Actually, better than she had in a long time.
She seemed really happy.
Now, are you sure about this?
Very.
I´ve been trying to get you to do this forever.
What´s the occasion?
It´s... just time for a change.
Yeah?
Okay, so...
Above the shoulder, a couple highlights.
Oh, above the shoulder´s great.
Let´s hold off on the highlights.
Come on.
No. One thing at a time.
( sighs )
You ready?
I´m ready.
Well, she really wanted me to finish
before Duncan got back from the gym.
I sort of assumed she was doing it for him.
Did Duncan have a preference
for short hair?
I think she wanted to do something new.
You know, give him a change.
They had a rough go of it.
How so?
Duncan didn´t mention it?
Oh.
Well, I guess he doesn´t
like to talk about it.
They lost a daughter.
Celia.
Must be almost two years.
How?
Leukemia.
That poor thing--
she was sick most of her little life.
That must have been tough on their marriage.
It was, but they stuck together.
And that morning when Duncan got back
how did they seem?
See, that´s what´s so hard.
They seemed really happy.
For the first time in so long, she seemed happy.
( whispering softly )
Do you have news?
The police found your wife´s car.
Where?
It was on the shoulder of a thruway.
Why... why would a kidnapper abandon
a car in the middle of nowhere?
That´s what we want to talk
to you about.
I´m sorry.
Agent Malone, FBI.
This is Agent Spade.
Uh, Jeff Blye...
a business associate of Duncan´s.
Please, sit down.
So, uh, you said that the kidnapper
left the car.
There may have been another car stashed near the thruway
or maybe he had a partner.
Nothing was taken.
Her purse, cell phone, Palm Pilot
were all still in the car.
Oh, so... so now what?
SPADE: One of our witnesses
thinks Emily may have recognized her assailant.
What does that mean?
It means this may not have been random.
Is there anyone you can think of
who would have wanted to hurt you
or your wife?
No. No.
Did your wife
seem distracted or agitated at all
in the last few days?
Hmm... no, no, not at all.
How´s everything in your marriage?
It´s fine.
We´re fine.
Mr. Muller, all we care about
is getting your wife back.
Anything you tell us
would be kept confidential.
I mean there´s nothing, really.
I wish there were.
His wife´s abducted and he goes to the office?
Yeah.
And when we talked about the car
you noticed how he went straight to kidnapping
not carjacking.
And he never asked if there was any sign of a struggle.
And how about that business associate of his?
Mr. Blye... he seems a little nervous to me.
Well, you can be very intimidating.
So, what, you think they arranged a kidnapping?
What´s the motive?
Money, another woman, revenge.
Call me old-fashioned
but when a marriage isn´t working
divorce is probably the answer.
You want to put someone on him?
Absolutely.
There´s Frick and Frack now.
Looks like we´ll just have to do it ourselves.
MARTIN: Here we go.
Jeff Blye...
attorney at law, Thompson and Blye.
What kind of lawyer?
Estate planning.
How´s that situation
with the homeless woman?
Locals are all over it.
Guess they´re tough to find when they´ve got no address.
Okay.
Divorce lawyer?
Estate planning.
Think he´s here to mail his will?
Damn it, that´s a ransom.
You got a ransom note, didn´t you?
What are they asking for?
You can´t prevent my client from paying a ransom.
You know that.
If you do this alone, you´ll only create
more danger for Emily.
Duncan, we´ve got to be going.
At least tell us where you´re sending the package.
Duncan...
I can´t.
I knew it. I knew it right from the beginning.
This is not a carjacking.
But if it was premeditated
why do it in a a crowded shopping mall?
They´re trying to throw us off.
You say "they."
Does that include the husband?
Look, I feel bad for this guy that his daughter died
but he´s hiding something.
I say we put him on the box.
He´s lawyered up.
No interview, no polygraph.
Maybe it´s time we start digging
through his dirty laundry.
Her sister just got back in town.
Maybe she´ll give us something.
Can´t you make him cooperate?
I mean, isn´t it illegal to pay ransom?
No.
And, unfortunately, he doesn´t have
to include us in any way.
But you´re going to stay involved, right?
Absolutely.
Right. We´re doing our best to try and figure out
who may have taken your sister
but Duncan is making it very difficult for us.
Oh, God, he´s stubborn.
I like Duncan.
I feel terrible for him
about everything.
But he just always has
to do things his own way.
How would you describe their marriage?
Celia was sick for so long.
That´s what their life was about.
And then when she died
I think that they didn´t know how to be with each other
or anyone else, for that matter.
Is there anyone you can think of who would want to hurt them?
Well, there are a lot of unhappy people
since Spring Hollow.
Spring Hollow? What´s that?
It´s Duncan´s big mall project.
It´s going under.
There are a lot of people
who lost a lot of money.
Emily didn´t even know about it until the day
before she was taken.
She was really upset.
I´m sorry to be the one to tell you.
I assumed you knew.
No, I did.
I mean, I knew there were problems.
I just...
What about your investment?
Don´t worry about me.
The good news about not having a lot to invest
is you don´t have a lot to lose.
I just can´t believe he wouldn´t tell me.
What´s going on between you two?
I don´t know.
Is Duncan having an affair?
You know, I almost wish he was.
´Cause then at least I´d know he was actually alive.
Are you?
Yeah. That´s really my style.
I wouldn´t judge you.
I see what´s happened.
I need to talk to him.
She stormed out of the house and headed over to his office.
I called her that night and left a message
but she never called me back.
JACK: Her sister says they were miserable.
The hairdresser says there were happy.
Sister, hairdresser--
almost equal levels of intimacy.
There´s a lot more than pain here.
There´s a lot of secrets in this marriage.
Aren´t there secrets in every marriage?
Hey, Samantha. Yeah?
Did Duncan Meyer ever tell us why
he took his wife to a fancy dinner
the night before she was kidnapped?
No, he never mentioned it. Why?
Well, I´ve been going over
his personal credit card records.
In the last six months this guy never dropped
more than 84 bucks on a meal.
That night, he drops $250
at the Augusta Grill.
That´s a lot of cheeseburgers.
Yup.
Especially for someone who´s going bankrupt.
Mm-hmm. Thanks.
Did they come here often?
Maybe once before.
Alex can check the book for you.
Was there anything out of the ordinary?
They brought their own wine.
It was a pretty old cabernet, I think.
Is that what you mean?
How did they seem to be getting along?
Great, I guess.
They talked all night.
He held her hand.
She got up to go to the ladies´ room
and I remember he stood up and he gave her a kiss.
Did you overhear any of their conversation?
Not really.
The loudest thing to me was a 30% tip.
Sorry, excuse me a minute.
That dinner; emotional alibi.
He was trying to establish the state
of their happy marriage.
And the big tip?
Only guaranteed that the waiter would remember
to give it to us.
How long did you and Duncan work together?
We put together our first real estate project
15 years ago.
A strip mall in Hastings.
Nine retail units and the best damn falafel
north of Times Square.
How about Emily?
I introduced them. Well, sort of.
Emily and I were set up on a blind date.
That was nine years ago.
I was pretty smitten.
But we ended up running into Duncan.
Of course, the rest is history.
And when´s the last time that you saw Emily?
She was in here the other day--
the day before what happened at the mall.
She was looking for Duncan.
I kind of got stuck running interference.
I´d never seen her like this.
Her and Duncan never had secrets.
You should really talk to Duncan.
Well, he´s not here, so I´m asking you, Peter.
I´m not comfortable being put in the middle here.
I just don´t understand.
When did this start happening?
It´s been happening, Emily.
After the rezoning, they hung us up
over the EI statements.
And then it was one thing...
How bad is it?
Bad.
Remember the Westcott Hotel?
Duncan and I had dated about six months.
He brought me up here to see the big foam model.
He asked me what colors I would pick for the interior.
I thought he was showing off.
Wanted me to know what a big shot he was.
But when I went to the opening of the hotel
there they were--
all the colors I had suggested.
I always hated those colors.
She waited here for Duncan and they had it out.
You heard the conversation?
No. But anyone could tell by their body language.
Have you had any threatening letters, phone calls
anything from angry investors?
Threatening, no.
Angry.
We´d like a list of those names, please.
I´ll have my secretary look into the phone logs.
You have kidnap insurance, right?
Of course. It´s included in the basic package
for all investment companies.
How extensive is it?
Just the basic coverage
for reimbursement of ransom payments.
You can´t think after all they´ve been through
that Duncan could possibly do something like that.
I doubt he even knew we had the coverage.
I knew.
SPADE: He´s in love with her.
Probably.
Think Duncan knows?
Probably.
Maybe a safe place for her to land.
He´s familiar. He´s got just as much to lose as she does.
I don´t know. She lost a child.
If she was looking for an escape
she probably picked somebody that was completely separate
from her real life.
Is that from your infidelity handbook?
Chapter three.
Well, I hate to contradict the book
but if you´re wrong, it leaves Duncan plenty of motive.
Agent Malone
I would like it to be noted
that my client is cooperating fully
in this investigation.
Apart from hiding
every crucial piece of information
your client has been very cooperative
and we´ll be sure to make a note of that.
Now, Mr. Muller
I would really like to believe
that you have nothing to do with this.
I really would.
But you have to look at this from our perspective.
You have a failing business
and you have a kidnap policy.
Wait a minute.
You and your wife are having problems
yet the night before her abduction
you were seen in public
having a romantic dinner with her.
And before she´s taken, you turn and you go
back into the mall.
That´s it.
You hide the ransom note from us.
We have no idea what´s in that package.
It´s over. If you´re saying my client...
I´m saying that your client
has been less than candid
and has every reason to stage a kidnapping
to save his company!
No! There is no way to save my company!
The money that I sent them
that´s all that I had left.
It was a loan against my retirement accounts.
I was going to put it into Spring Hollow.
Now, I do not care.
I just want to get her back.
If you want to get her back
tell us everything that you know.
They told me I wasn´t supposed to say anything.
They said, they said they´d kill her.
Duncan, they might kill her
but you can stop it if you tell me the truth now.
You want the truth?
Everything that me and Emily were about
is buried in a three-foot grave.
It´s why every time I´d look at her
all I could see was our pain.
Until that day
she came to my office
she faced me down and we had it out.
And that night...
at that dinner...
I started to feel that, for the first time
we might have a second chance.
Now she´s gone again.
She´s not gone, Mr. Muller.
And we want to bring her home
but we need your help.
The, uh... Jeff got the ransom call.
Emily must have given them the numbers.
They asked for $100,000.
This is where they told us to mail it.
Thank you.
When would the package have been delivered?
If it was dropped off at Harbor City yesterday
it would have been routed to White Plains
and delivered here this morning.
In the box by noon.
It´s 12:40.
"4203, 4203..."
Ah, here.
Great. Empty.
That box belongs to Ethel Robbins.
Mrs. Robbins, I´m Samantha Spade...
You´re here about the box.
Thank God. And so fast.
I only called a few minutes ago.
You called?
Sure I did.
As soon as I got home
and saw that it didn´t have my name on it.
No name, just an address.
Who sends a package like that?
I thought "Turley Jenkins."
She´s always forgetting things.
But she´s on a cruise.
That´s why I figured
it must be one of these unabombs.
Mrs. Robbins...
Why they picked me, I have no idea.
Mrs. Robbins, we don´t think
anyone sent you a bomb.
You think that´s such a good idea?
Maybe I should wait in the yard or something.
TAYLOR: But we got no connection
between the old lady and the Mullers.
Yeah, but why would somebody take the money out
and send the old lady an empty box?
Maybe Duncan never put the money in.
Or maybe his lawyer took it out without Duncan knowing?
Or the kidnapper somehow got to it
after the old lady picked it up.
Or maybe they sent the empty package
because they knew we´d be sitting around
with 18 different theories; that´s the point.
If the package never arrived
then we´d be left with one theory--
that somebody nabbed it en route.
The post office.
Or between post offices.
Oh, that narrows it down
to about a thousand disgruntled postal workers.
If I´m right.
Forensic says the package was covered in partials.
No clean hits.
I got the E-ZPass info on Emily´s car.
In the last six months
she´s traveled up the thruway
at least once each week
and gotten off at exit nine.
Tarrytown.
What´s in Tarrytown?
Who´s in Tarrytown?
There´s nothing in her Palm Pilot
or credit card statements to explain the trips.
She´s having an affair.
SPADE: Has to be.
I´ll see if the business partner
crosses with Tarrytown.
Hey, Westchester sheriff
found our homeless woman.
She´s back at the mall.
It´s been 27 hours.
I´m going to do a Jane Doe tap at the morgue.
That´s a good idea.
If our guy´s got his money
he´ll have no more need for Emily.
And if he doesn´t, he´s panicking
and hopefully he´ll make a mistake.
What was that about?
Nothing. Just, uh... a little something at home.
Let´s go to the post office.
Sure.
Want a bite?
It´s got jimmies.
Uh, no, I´m lactose intolerant, but thanks.
So, you were saying?
Mmm, I was just pushing my cart
minding my own business
and then all of a sudden, it was just crazy.
( grunts )
( revs engine )
So, he bumped into you. Are you sure?
Yeah.
He gave us a pretty good dent
but what are you going to say?
I mean, he was trying to save that lady, right?
I guess.
Here you go.
All of my people, all of the shifts.
If you told me a little more of what this is about...
Thank you. This will be very helpful.
Martin, why am I here?
I have a hunch and I need your help proving it.
And you thought you´d call me
because if it didn´t pan out I´d go easy on you?
Exactly.
Okay, that cone over there is where Emily´s car was.
And right here is where Brad Dunsmore
our Good Samaritan, was standing.
He told me he heard the scream
turned and ran straight at the assailant.
All the other witnesses said Brad grabbed the guy
before he ever got in the car, right?
Yeah, and got a bloody nose for the effort.
So, he hears a scream and, bam, off he goes.
Now, by all accounts
Emily struggled with her assailant
for no longer than ten seconds
at some point during which she screamed.
That means, best case, Brad had ten seconds to get to her.
So...
time me.
I´ll start over here where Brad was.
You´re not going to ask me to scream, are you?
Scream.
Eight seconds. It´s doable.
Yeah, that´s what I thought.
So, what are you saying?
Brad had a limp?
No, it´s better.
Our homeless lady
had a very clear recollection of what happened yesterday.
According to Wilma
Brad tripped over her cart, stumbled, then got up
and ran toward Emily´s car.
So, you´re saying he didn´t get to the car.
No, we know he did.
Here´s what I am saying.
Will you time me again?
( sighs )
Go.
12 seconds.
Brad never mentioned Wilma to me
and if he did bump into her cart like she told me
he couldn´t have made it to her car in time.
She would have been out of the parking lot.
Unless...
Unless he started running before Emily screamed.
Which means he knew what was happening.
He was part of it. Right.
You do a background check on this guy?
It´s on its way.
Good.
I´m getting the feeling you think it was one of my people
who took that package.
Just trying to be thorough, ma´am.
( cell phone rings )
Yeah?
Jack, it´s Martin.
I just got this: Brad Dunsmore, our Good Samaritan witness--
he works there at the Greendale post office.
Okay, thanks.
Excuse me, ma´am.
Did Brad Dunsmore have access to that package?
Yes, but...
Where is he now?
He was in the back.
Said he wasn´t feeling good, though.
Took off to go home.
He´s our guy. Let´s go.
I need you to make sure
the patrol cars stay out of the way.
I don´t want my suspect getting spooked.
Yeah, two unmarked Bureau cars should be there
to pick up surveillance in six minutes.
Yeah.
I still don´t know why he tried to stop it.
Well, there was that one eyewitness
who thought Emily knew her assailant.
What are you thinking?
That it wasn´t the assailant Emily recognized.
It was Brad.
Then how do they know each other?
I´m working on it.
Copy that. Yeah, thanks.
Looks like our little Good Samaritan
is on the run.
Go get him.
We believe there were two people involved
and that one of them may have got cold feet.
Oh, my God.
Do you recognize him?
This is the guy from the parking lot, right?
I-I-I don´t understand.
I thought he tried to save her.
All right, thanks. Jack? Excuse me.
Suspect´s on the move.
Staties picked him up
heading north toward Tarrytown.
Emily and the Good Samaritan.
You want to tell him?
No.
We´ve plenty of time for that later.
What´s the situation?
He went in about 25 minutes ago.
Audio picked up some activity at first, but it´s dead now.
Is he in there alone? Unclear.
Everybody in position.
Let´s go!
Down on the ground!
Get down on the ground!
Get down! Down!
Okay, where is she?
Where is she?!
I don´t know!
And she´s not here.
She´s supposed to be here.
His name is Stan Watkins.
We went to high school together.
We planned to meet here after my shift today
and split the money.
Why Emily?
Stan was always coming up with these ideas.
Get-rich-quick stuff, you know.
One day he figured out this way
for sending ransom through the mail.
We thought it was brilliant.
I´d just pick it up somewhere
along the route.
I´d seen Emily at the post office
and... we picked her because she was rich.
Was the plan always for you two to get involved?
No. No. I was only supposed to follow her
track her habits, that kind of thing.
Then one day, we sort of bumped into each other.
We started talking.
A couple of days later, I decided to bump into her again.
I asked if she wanted to have some coffee.
Truth is...
I never met anyone like her.
She was beautiful and smart.
She made me feel needed.
I don´t know what I was thinking.
The sweep on his phone came in.
The night before the abduction, he got a call
from a pay phone at the Augusta Grill.
She called you that night.
She ended the relationship, correct?
Brad, I´m sorry, I can´t talk about it right now.
Okay, that´s fine. How about Thursday.
I can´t.
Is there something going on?
Emily, are you okay?
I´m sorry.
I can´t do this anymore, Brad.
Wait a minute.
I can´t see you anymore.
I´m... sorry.
Emily, wait, I don´t get it. Where did all this come from?
I have to go. Emily, wait.
Emily...
I´d been putting Stan off for months.
I kept telling him the timing wasn´t right.
When she called
I... guess I sort of lost it.
You triggered the kidnapping?
I followed her to the mall
to make sure everything went okay.
But when I saw her... I couldn´t go through with it.
Have you had any contact with Watkins
since the parking lot?
Yeah. He called a couple hours later.
He was pretty pissed off.
Told me if I didn´t go through with things
according to plan, he was going to hurt her.
Honor among thieves, right?
Is there another cabin or remote place
he might take her?
I don´t know.
( cell phone rings )
It´s him. It´s Stan. Answer it. Tell him you´ve got the money.
I don´t want to talk to him. Answer it, tell him you´ll do...
I´m not talking... Answer him!
Yeah?
Yeah, I´ve got it.
Just tell me what you want.
Hartsdale Train Station--
5:00 a.m. Good.
Look, Stan, don´t hurt Emily, all right?
Stan...
Okay.
We´ve got 11 hours. First break we´ve had all day.
Come on.
I want Brad to make the exchange
and he´s agreed to do it.
He kidnapped my wife.
SAMANTHA: They´re friends.
If we put one of our agents out there
Watkins could panic and hurt Emily.
How do you know that he´s not going to double-cross you?
That´s not going to happen.
We need Brad to lure Watkins into the open
so that we can apprehend him.
No. No, it´s my money.
I´m not going to do it like that.
Duncan, please.
This man
could kill Emily.
I want to meet him.
I don´t think that´s a good idea.
Well, how can I decide what to do
if the only thing
that I know about him
is he was screwing my wife?
( quiet sigh )
My name is Duncan Mohler.
Emily´s my wife.
I want to help you get her back.
Why should I believe that?
You got her into this.
I´m sorry.
Did she say why?
Why?
Yeah. Yeah, why she was with you?
She didn´t talk about that.
W-W-Wait, was it because of Celia?
I mean, did she say that?
I mean, was it? Duncan, stop...
I don´t know!
I don´t even know who Celia is.
She´s our daughter!
I didn´t even know you had a daughter.
( quietly ): All right...
just tell me something.
Why do you want to do this?
I don´t really think you want me to answer that question.
I´ll get her back.
Let him do it.
Anything?
Nothing from one.
Nothing from two.
Watch three reporting. Zip.
Visual contact, moving along the platform.
Blue jeans, brown jacket.
Can´t see if he´s carrying.
Martin, Danny, take an angle on them.
Don´t intercept.
Vivian, cut off the back door.
Sam, now.
FBI! Get down! Get on the ground!
Get on the ground! FBI!
Get down! FBI!
Hostage secured.
Suspect disarmed.
I´m sorry.
Duncan... No, Emily...
please... not now.
EMILY: I was so lonely.
I missed her so much. I missed you.
( quietly ): Well, we´ll talk about this at home, okay?
We need to take your statement. Okay.
So, what do you think their odds are?
Are you all right?
Marie and I separated.
When?
Three months ago.
Three months.
Yeah.
Well, I don´t know what to say.
Well, you know, we were trying
to work it out, and, uh
we´re in kind of, uh... limbo.
I´m going to go home.
Okay.
Good night. Good night.