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In New York City's war on crime

the worst criminal offenders are pursued

by the detectives of the Major Case Squad.

These are their stories.

Sorry I'm late.

I wanted to find that wine you like

and I had to go all the way to the Bowery.

Al? Honey?

What?

No way.

No way.

Pick up. Pick up.

It's me.

I thought things were really great and...

and now I find this typed letter, not even signed.

You have to talk to me, Al.

If this has anything to do with my parents coming,

it's really not okay.

I'm not mad.

I just want to talk.

Maybe he's just scared of committing.

The way you talk about your dad...

It's not my dad. It's him.

He's got somebody else.

I could just kill him.

If you could find him.

Oh, I'll find him.

Watch this.

Al, this is Leslie again.

If you don't call me in the next 12 hours

you're in big trouble.

I know what's been going on at school.

Like that ever works.

I got to go to the gym.

See you.

Please, honey, just call me.

Please.

MAN: If you don't have enough money

why don't you put back the vermouth?

You can't make a martini

without vermouth, okay?

How much you need?

Oh, no, that... that's okay.

She needs 80 cents.

Here.

If you give me your address

I'll send you the money.

Forget it.

MAN: Thanks for letting us in.

I don't know.

She didn't meet us at the airport.

Leslie?

Yoo-hoo! It's mom. We're here.

What's this?

Leslie?!

Her purse and her wallet and her keys are here.

Please call the police.

Maybe she's visiting somebody.

Call them now.

Use your cell.

And don't touch anything.

Missing woman is Leslie Dornan.

Neighbors haven't seen her since yesterday.

Did she have a boyfriend? Girlfriend?

Not according to her folks.

Her father's a cop.

Pittsburgh PD, retired.

Guess he knew which strings to pull

to get Major Case here.

If this turns into anything

we'll put you in on the collar.

Go ahead, impress me.

It's Aramaic.

It's the language that Christ spoke.

Parts of the Old Testament were written in it.

But don't ask me what it means.

This is Aramaic, too.

Mr. and Mrs. Dornan...

Is... is that your daughter's handwriting?

I don't know.

I can't tell.

This wall-hanging here...

My mother brought that back from Turkey.

It's the Lord's Prayer but, uh... I...

I don't think that Leslie knew that language.

EAMES: The last time you talked to her

how did she sound?

FATHER: She sounded fine.

Leslie wouldn't hurt herself.

She loves life.

She's a fighter.

The detective said you didn't think

Leslie was involved with anybody.

No, she wasn't.

Well, she definitely had a regular visitor.

Uh... this is hair gel.

He liked to sit here and... and watch TV.

Rest his head against the wall.

Those are scuff marks.

He liked to put his feet on the table.

Well, he's tall.

Six... six-foot-four.

If she had a boyfriend...

Why didn't she tell you?

EAMES: How about you tell us

about her boyfriend?

Al? They broke up last Tuesday.

Leslie came home, his stuff was gone.

She was furious.

She kept leaving

messages on his phone

how she was going to make trouble for him.

Let's start with Al's full name. Alan what?

It's not Alan. It's Ali Al-Javad.

He's Moroccan.

He's a grad student at Hunter.

Is that why she didn't tell her parents about him?

Because he's Moroccan?

Her dad could be pretty intense.

She must have really liked him.

He made her feel so special.

He bought her expensive gifts, antiques...

I noticed the coffee table.

That was a gift?

Yes. He had me buy that for her in Amsterdam last summer.

He just gave you a bunch of money

and told you to buy what you want?

No. He gave me the name of the antique store.

They took care of the shipping.

Who picked up the coffee table on this end?

We all did.

We took my brother's van to the customs broker in Jersey.

Just the table? Nothing else?

Yes. If you're trying to freak me out, it's working.

How did Al and Leslie meet?

You're embarrassed.

Did he pick her up in a bar?

Or maybe a chat room?

It's not sleazy.

It's... it's the Singular Singles website.

You can see their video, hear what they have to say.

It... it's not like a total pickup.

I love dancing salsa

and singing karaoke.

This is the boyfriend-- Ali Al-Javad.

My dream girl is a full-figured American lady

who loves to laugh.

Give me some mail.

No, he's not Moroccan.

When Moroccans speak English, they sound French.

I'd put this guy further east.

How 'bout we put him in this seat?

You talk to his college?

Well, he registered two years ago.

Took a full load the first semester

and then one class each semester after that--

just enough to satisfy the requirements

of the student visa.

And then he found a girlfriend--

someone vulnerable, grateful for the attention.

Somebody who'd be afraid to ask too many questions.

Moved in with her.

Everything's in her name.

He stays off the radar.

He's a sleeper.

Maybe... just maybe this guy doesn't like school.

Maybe he's just here for a good time.

We still have a missing woman.

A 33-year-old, single woman

who'd been drinking-- who'd been dumped.

Uh, someone is trying very hard

to convince us she committed suicide.

This is the translation off their wall writings.

It's from the Old Testament: "The Song of Songs."

"Night after night on my bed, I have sought my true love.

"I have sought him but not found him.

I have called him but he has not answered."

They wanted to write a suicide note

but they couldn't fake her handwriting

so they wrote it in Aramaic.

Ali took a flight out of Newark to Germany Tuesday night--

the day before Leslie disappeared.

One of his buddies must have taken care of her.

He left the country the same day he left her?

Whatever job he had to do here-- it was over.

Look at this itinerary.

He had to connect through AtlantaandParis.

No. He could have flown direct from JFK

for half the price.

Maybe he was hooking up with somebody in those cities.

Or maybe it was about leaving out of Newark.

He had something to do in New Jersey

before getting on that plane.

Now, the table...

the table he had Leslie's friend buy in Amsterdam--

it was shipped to a customs broker in Jersey.

An antique that he could have bought in Soho for less money.

It was a dry run.

He was testing the customs inspection.

He brought something else in.

He had to take delivery of it

or maybe hand it off to somebody

before leaving the country.

WOMAN: Tuesday. Um... yes.

Mr. Al-Javad picked up a crate

of household goods from the Netherlands.

Did Customs inspect it?

Inspect? Oh, the crate.

You're kidding, right?

I guess we are.

How large a crate was it?

Three foot by three foot.

Weight: 80 pounds.

The container the crate was shipped in--

where would that be now?

Ali's crate was loaded in first.

That would put it somewhere in the back.

You know, we get about six million

containers a year coming in

and we only check about two percent of them.

The more I know, the less I sleep.

This corner here is positive for explosives.

Do you have any idea how much?

Judging by the way Homer's bouncing around

I'd say a lot.

So much for sleep.

came back positive for Titadine.

It's a high-yield, high-grade form of dynamite.

Titadine. There was an advisory

on that stuff last year.

Eight tons of it were stolen

from a factory in France.

Yeah. Most of it is unaccounted for.

Until this morning.

The Feds and the joint Task Force

are going to be all over this.

Well, you're not suggesting that we bow out.

Hell, no.

We've got a suspected homicide to clear.

Where are we with Mr. Al-Javad's accomplices?

We found a number of prints from the rental van.

I like this guy... Jorge Galvez.

His prints were on the inside

of the cargo area of the van.

He's got a juvenile record in Baltimore.

It's gang-related.

Then he served three years here for assaulting a motorist

over a fender bender.

A rage-aholic.

Since he was paroled two years ago

he's been clean.

Not even a parking ticket.

His last year in prison

he worked in the library.

Got his GED.

Something put him back on the straight and narrow.

A religious conversion?

He wouldn't be the first person

to find God behind bars.

Some people find Allah, some people find Jesus.

There are a lot of teams in the league.

Galvez finished his parole

but maybe his P.O.'s still in touch with him.

MAN: Jorge hasn't worked here since a year ago last spring.

What happened to him?

Went to the hospital.

His appendix burst.

After that, he disappeared.

His last paycheck-- I mailed to his apartment.

It got returned.

You meet any of his friends?

Just the people from the prison outreach program.

What about his religious friends?

His parole officer

told us that he converted to Islam

when he was in prison.

Now, I can see that you sell halal chicken--

meaning it's slaughtered according to Muslim tradition.

I know that your community has had a rough year

and we are not looking to make things any worse.

There's a missing girl.

Jorge might be involved.

We need to find him.

I took him to our mosque.

Helped him with his Arabic so he could read the Koran.

Jorge had this big chip on his shoulder.

Talked a lot of trash about America-- how oppressed he was.

I told him, you stop breaking the law

you won't feel so oppressed.

When Jorge went to the emergency for his appendix

who took care of him? A girlfriend?

A nurse. He was in Mount Sinai for over a week.

A week? I like your health coverage.

Our health coverage is my wife's chicken soup.

No, we don't cover hospitals.

Somebody had to guarantee that hospital bill.

I just signed the hospital papers.

The prison outreach program I was working with at the time--

they had a fund for that sort of thing.

Have you seen Jorge since?

No. Once his parole was up

we didn't keep in touch.

Excuse me.

That's a smart question, Randy.

That's your name, right?

Randy asked why the Greek bible is called the Septuagint.

"Septua" means "70."

And the story is that it took 70 scholars

to translate the Hebrew bible into Greek.

At the great library at Alexandria in Egypt.

Right, Mr. Edwards?

Right.

The library and its 700,000 books

were destroyed by fire over 1,300 years ago.

My mother was a librarian.

They just built a new library on the site of the original--

this time with state-of-the-art smoke detectors.

You've been?

I've read about it.

I'm one of five people

who actually reads theSmithsonian Magazine.

Six.

One of six.

I should get back to class.

Substitute teacher.

You must like punishment.

I like making a contribution.

I wish you could make one to our case.

He had an uncle in Baltimore.

A dry cleaner.

He was talking about hitting him up for work.

I hope that helps.

Jorge's uncle, the dry cleaner, died three years ago.

So either Jorge lied to Edwards, or Edwards lied to us.

What's this?

It's the Smithsonian article on the new library in Alexandria.

When Edwards mentioned smoke detectors

it didn't ring a bell.

You actually read this when it came out?

The magazine's the perfect size for my treadmill.

There's nothing in here about smoke detectors.

And, since there's no reason

Edwards would mention a detail like that...

He's been to Egypt in the last year.

The State Department would know.

The Egyptian consulate in Munich issued a tourist visa

to Ethan Edwards a year ago last June.

A week later, they issued another one to Jorge Galvez.

They both got passports in April last year

they both left the country in the same week

and they both got back two months ago.

Sounds like they had a meeting of the minds.

Edwards' coworkers at the outreach program--

they knew he was a Muslim--

but he didn't become political until he met Jorge Galvez.

The school board have an address on Edwards?

Just a P.O. box.

I'll get Carver working on a subpoena

for the postal records.

You two call the Task Force.

Bedroom clear!

Bathroom clear!

Living room clear!

Oh, this is not good.

It's rat poison.

Rat poison's an anticoagulant.

Suicide bombers in Israel

they use it to mix with the shrapnel in making bombs.

The idea is, when their victims are wounded

they bleed to death.

Suicide bomber?

When the hell did this kid

decide that's what he wanted to be

when he grows up?

Doesn't look like he'splanning to grow up.

This is the crate they shipped from overseas.

The K-9 unit came up positive for explosives.

Once we get all this weighed

we'll know how much Titadine we have to worry about.

Edwards lived here alone until a couple weeks ago--

another man described as male Hispanic.

Galvez.

We couldn't get a positive I.D.

At this point, we're not sure

which one's the actual suicide bomber.

Could be a suicide bomber.

Or they might try and use a remote-control device.

I'm going with a suicide bomber.

You see here, here and here?

Something was taped

to the... to the wall

and the paint was ripped off when it... it was taken down.

And, uh... duct tape residue.

This sheet was used as a backdrop

and, uh... these marks

probably from a tripod.

I think they made a... videotape.

A suicide note.

The Bureau feels releasing any information to the public

is counterproductive.

It might even provoke these people

to step up their operation.

They already know we got their scent.

We weighed that crate.

They have 50 pounds of Titadine.

They made a vest.

They're good to go.

Agent O'Dell, it's established practice

to let the eyes and ears of the American public

help us deal with terrorist threats.

For once, we have more to offer them than color schemes.

We have the actual photos of the terrorists

which the district attorney willrecommend

be released to the media.

I'll let my people know that.

EAMES: We're still tracking down Galvez's associates

and relatives here and in Baltimore.

We got some background on Edwards.

He might have family up in Westchester.

Which one is the designated martyr?

Galvez took electronics courses in prison.

He probably assembled the bomb

which leaves Edwards the job of carrying it.

What are his qualifications?

Theology major at Manhattan University

with a minor in languages.

He speaks Spanish, Arabic--

working knowledge of Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic.

Everything you'd need to study the Bible in the original texts.

He volunteers in soup kitchens, mentored kids

in inner city schools.

How could a man with that background

murder innocent people?

Well, that's probably why he made a tape--

to explain himself.

We can always ask his parents.

MAN: It's because of his religious beliefs.

That's why you singled him out.

Mr. Edwards, will you please just answer my question?

He called last July.

He was in Phoenix.

He'd just gotten back

from traveling around Europe.

And Egypt.

He got a visa for Egypt last year.

Yes, he visited Egypt.

Why aren't you telling us anything?

Has he been hurt?

We spoke to Ethan three days ago.

He's working as a substitute teacher in Queens.

Did you know that's what he was doing?

No. If Ethan wanted us to know he was here

he would have told us.

Mr. Edwards, I need you to unlock the door to the garage.

This woman is missing.

Leslie Dornan.

Maybe Ethan... knows what happened to her.

Is she his girlfriend?

No. Uh... it's complicated.

Ethan would never hurt anyone.

He's a very ethical person.

Well, he's certainly

familiar with the Ten Commandments.

He's got the Torah, the Koran, the Bible

with notes in the margins.

He followed a path of study.

He probably would have been a minister

if it weren't for his father.

Your husband doesn't like religion?

Joe's a chemist.

He likes tangible things.

And Ethan embraced the intangible.

You ever talk to him about his conversion to Islam?

He said it had made him feel centered and connected

to something bigger than him.

When was this picture taken?

That's the summer

I took Ethan to do volunteer work in Appalachia.

He was just 10.

Did your husband take that picture?

No, Joe didn't go with us.

It wasn't a good time in your marriage?

Maybe it brought you and Ethan closer.

When Ethan was traveling

maybe he contacted you more than your husband.

He sent me emails.

He called me once after the attacks.

I wasn't sure where he was.

Did he talk about the attacks?

He wanted to know if anyone we knew had been hurt.

He sounded very shaky, he wanted to come home

but he said he had things he had to do first.

You're probably the one person

that he's afraid to disappoint.

Oh, he knows that couldn't happen.

You said that Ethan was looking for a connection

to something bigger than himself.

Now, if he found people that offered that connection

he might be persuaded to do things

that he found morally repugnant.

What things?

A suicide bombing.

Oh, no.... my God, no... oh, Ethan.

You can help us bring him in.

As we reported earlier, Vera Edwards, the mother

of fugitive terrorist suspect Ethan Edwards

suffered a massive heart attack after being informed

that her son might be a member of a terrorist cell.

A spokesperson for St. Beatrice Hospital

says that Mrs. Edwards remains in very critical condition.

We're monitoring the hospital

the parents' house, phones, E-mails...

In the hopes he'll reach out to his dying mother?

CARVER: Detective Goren feels she's a role model for Edwards.

They've got something.

You raised me to believe you can't take without giving back.

So really this is a path I was always meant to walk.

Tell everyone that there's a message coming

and America better read it carefully.

Because it's being written in a language it understands.

It was E-mailed to his parents.

It's clean, nothing embedded.

No way to trace where it came from.

This is a streaming video, right?

Like the... like the videos on Singular Singles?

The software to process and send a streaming video

are they all the same?

No, there're different kinds.

And each one would have a signature on the video?

Sure. Why?

How'd you like to take a trip

into the world of video dating?

Hello, I'm Khalid.

I'm a stock analyst with an MBA from Wharton School of Business.

I enjoy sports...

The only video I found on Singular Singles

that uses the same software

as the Edwards video.

...deep sort of person.

I like

romantic gourmet dinners and long walks in...

Let's give him his long walk.

Get his phone number and address from the website.

I got pizza.

(rattling)

Police!

(gun firing)

He was going to kill Edwards.

To keep Edwards from talking.

Talk about what? We got the bomb.

One of the bombs.

This vest weighs about... 40 pounds.

Minus the shrapnel

you've only got about 20, 25 pounds of explosives here.

There's another vest out there.

EAMES: Our search of Khalid's place

didn't turn up any leads

to Jorge or to what their target might be.

These items were in Ethan's knapsack.

We're not sure what this is. 1/55 at 31.

That doesn't correspond

to any address.

O'DELL: Bureau's assuming

Galvez and Edwards were planning a coordinated attack.

First man detonates in a crowd

the second man waits for rescue personnel to arrive

or targets the crowd fleeing the first explosion.

All we need is when and where.

Well, they'd pick a confined space to maximize

the concussive power of the shock waves

bouncing off the walls.

If we assume Galvez sticks to the plan.

Do we have a choice?

EAMES: Task Force turned up

an e-ticket in Khalid's name

for a flight out of JFK to Madrid tomorrow night.

If this follows the M.O.

it means that his part of the job would be over by then.

Which puts

the target date for the operation

within days from now.

Step into him fast.

You're an American citizen, Ethan, born and raised.

Free to worship in the religion of your choice.

How can you sit there

and let Jorge kill innocent Americans?

Well, maybe what they say is true.

You're a traitor, the worst kind of scum.

I'm not a traitor.

One nation under God.

My allegiance is to God, to Allah.

Killing in the name of God is good?

It's better to kill in the name of oil?

I don't get it, Ethan.

Your family told us you were upset by 9-11.

That was a mistake.

It was too much.

But then America sent gunships

and killed hundreds of innocent people.

Women, children...

9-11 was a terrible lesson that no one learned.

So we need what? A refresher course?

I'm sure that he has it all worked out.

Anyway, this is all, you know, big picture stuff.

My partner and I, we're here for the little picture.

For Leslie Dorn.

Her parents just want to bury her.

You know, it just occurred to me

that you haven't asked about your mom.

You don't want to know how she is?

How is she?

EAMES: We're working on the barter system here, Ethan.

You give us something, we give you something.

You're afraid.

Yeah, you're afraid

that you're going to fail this test.

That those other guys were right.

Who?

What are you talking about?

Well, the reason why Khalid tried to kill you.

To protect the operation, I accept that.

He knew it.

And, and, and the...

and the other guys at the training camp

they knew it, too.

Ethan, when it comes right down to it

this is really not your fight.

I mean, you don't have centuries of injustice

and colonial oppression to harden your resolve.

I'm a Muslim.

It's my fight, too.

You know...

I-I read the Koran, uh, a long time ago.

When I was in the army, I was stationed in Germany

and there was this girl who lived

near the base, she was Turkish.

She was Muslim.

I wanted to impress her.

And, you know, it's really not what you'd expect.

For example, they recognize the right for women to vote

to own and inherit property

to divorce their husbands.

And this was written, what, like 1,300 years ago.

It's the true word of God.

Well, you would know.

You've been looking for the true word.

You've been... searching for God.

But there's one thing that...

that I couldn't find in here.

And, and, and that's the part where Allah, you know

he tells everybody to just go ahead

and indiscriminately kill innocent people.

I mean, that part, that's not in here.

Where is that?

Must be in some

secret chapter, but it isn't.

Because I didn't miss it, did I, Ethan?

It means exactly what my Muslim friends told me

that it's not in the Koran.

That there's no sanction

for what you are planning to do

and what Jorge still plans to do.

No. We weren't...

You wanted to what?

Let me show you something.

This X ray

is of a suicide-bomb victim in Israel.

This victim has no external injuries

no shrapnel wounds.

Just this white mass.

Emergency room doctors call this "the white butterfly."

It's what the heart

and lungs and other internal organs

look like after they've been turned into soup

by the concussion from the bomb.

Ethan, what I want to know is you went searching for God,

how'd you end up looking for targets?

(knocking on window)

That's probably news about your mother.

By the way

this X ray is of a five-year-old girl.

I was sent by God.

So were we.

We have to consider another option:

sodium amytal.

Truth serum?

I've seen it used on Soviet defectors

and it didn't work.

If we inject him

we'll lose his trust and it'll waste time.

Ethan's a difficult subject.

We have nothing to leverage him with.

We have a sense of morality.

That sense of morality is what got us here in the first place.

The FBI has access to it, doesn't it?

I'm not getting squat without authorization from Justice.

The new FBI.

Isn't that what the President said?

"You're either with us or against us"?

He sees the world in high contrast.

It's black and white.

Our way or the highway.

He has no idea what we sound like

to the rest of the world.

Washington's still making up its mind.

Progress?

GOREN: So you're going

to lead us out of our ignorance?

I just want America

and the West to stop trying

to control the destiny

of my Muslim brothers and sisters.

Surgery?

So you think by blowing yourself up

it's a step in the right direction?

Martyrdom has a lot of symbolic value.

Buddhist monks set themselves on fire

to protest religious persecution.

EAMES: A man did it at the Pentagon

in the '60s to protest the Vietnam war.

GOREN: They were understood

loud and clear, because they didn't

muddy it up by killing other people.

You ever think about that instead of a suicide bomb?

I'm sure things made a lot more sense

six months ago.

They were much clearer...

I'm just tired.

No, no, no, no.

You had doubts

long before you ran into us

about how all this killing squares up

with the will of a merciful God.

Of course, I had doubts.

I'm not a psychopath.

You had more than doubts.

You knew you were lost.

"Night after night on my bed

"I sought my true love

"I sought him, but not found him.

I call him, but he does not answer."

In the trade, we call this a "tell," Ethan.

You didn't write the verse

on Leslie's wall by mistake.

You wrote it 'cause

you were calling out to God.

And he's not answering.

And you haven't felt this lost

since that summer you went to Appalachia

when your parents separated.

And that is your personal struggle

your jihad.

To find connection to something bigger than yourself.

And nothing's bigger than God.

And the moment you realized

you lost connection with him

was when you were watching Jorge kill Leslie.

It wasn't supposed to happen.

He was just going to talk to her.

So if Leslie had to die to protect your mission

then maybe there was something wrong with your mission.

Something unjust.

That's what was going through your head.

I wouldn't kill innocent civilians.

EAMES: Well, Leslie's dead

and more innocent people will die

if Jorge sets off his bomb.

There's only one way back to God.

There's only one way to make your parents understand

that you're not about this or this.

If I tell you where she is, what do I get?

We'll tell you how your mother's doing.

I'll write down the address.

If you tell us where Jorge is...

how we can stop him

we might let you know where your mother is.

Whatever happens is God's will.

EAMES: I hope this doesn't turn out

to be the consolation prize.

GOREN: Loose hairs under Leslie's fingernails.

Yeah. Blond hairs, short, razor cut, black roots.

Jorge's gone blond.

I have shoe prints here.

Boots.

Anyone do boots?!

What do you think, military issue?

Regular Army, mid-'90s, brand-new.

Probably came from a surplus store.

He's got a crew cut.

And he may be wearing military... clothing.

Ethan said they wouldn't kill civilians.

Civilians.

Tomorrow's Veteran's Day.

The Veteran's Day Parade down Fifth Avenue.

That's a two-mile long target.

Look--

the note we found from Ethan's backpack.

"1/55 First and 55th."

That's the Mechanized Infantry Battalion

and, and "31" could be 31st Street--

their muster point for the parade.

Why that battalion?

First of the 55th were deployed... to the Gulf.

These are, are Desert Storm veterans.

Authorities are still seeking information on the whereabouts

of suspected terrorists Ethan Edwards and Jorge Galvez.

Police are investigating reports that Galvez was spotted

in his native Baltimore.

Other sources tell us authorities now believe

the suspects may have fled the country.

In other news, Mayor Bloomberg was spotted today...

(drumroll cadence and bagpipes playing)

EAMES: We have a possible I.D.

East of Madison, south side of the street.

Hey, Desert Storm, right?

I could tell by your uniform.

I was 171st Armor.

You were what, uh, 55th Mechanized Division

huh?

You got your I.D.?

You know, they're checking I.D.s.

You want a smoke?

You know, I quit seven years ago

but being back in the uniform really plays a trip on my head.

You got a light?

Police! Clear out of the way!

(Goren screams)

(gunshot)

God's will.

Let's hope so.