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Exercise extreme caution.

We have a positive ID on the target.

Backup in place.

You're running out of time. Make a decision.

I don't know what room the hostage is in. I need infrared.

You didn't ask for infrared.

The hostage dies in five seconds.

Simulation failed.

Crap! Training session concluded.

That was pretty good.

I died.

But there's points for style.

I like the role.

Come on, let's go.

Go where?

Who are you?

Washington.

I'm Nicole Scott, and you're my new partner.

No, I can't be. I'm still training.

And a little girl has disappeared.

If we don't find her, she's dead.

The goal is out.

You ever hear of Assistant Director John Pollock? He's in the organizational

chart right near the top.

You read the chart?

I read all the material. He handles special ops.

And he's our new boss, though. I guess you're special.

I don't suppose Brooke is here.

Brooke who?

Hazlitt, my old partner. She transferred to San Francisco. And I hope she likes

the fog.

Do you work here all the time? Only come in for the disciplinary hearings.

Hey. Hey.

Unless it seems like everybody knows you.

Like you're famous or something.

Famous? Infamous? Who knows?

I like that thing about the disciplinary hearing. You're kidding, right?

You look nervous.

No, I'm not nervous. I just don't want to get fired on my first day.

Could save some time.

From what I know about Pollock, that might not be a bad thing.

Kill the lights.

What'd I say?

Sorry, Mr. Pollock.

Security camera footage from a shopping mall in Wheaton, Maryland.

At this moment, we're releasing it to every news outlet in America.

Shauna Seabrook, 15 years old.

Now add someone we don't know yet.

Go down one floor.

And when the doors open, they're both gone.

The whole country's going to want to know what happened to her.

Who can you win me now? Me, I'm here holding it down.

Connecting the dots, got no delusions.

Wearing my options out.

Searching through every shroud of truth.

It's my conclusion.

Time will stand still.

That's it? Just find her?

I'm sorry, what did you expect?

Want some formal introductions?

No, but... Special agent Nicole Scott.

Eight years in the Bureau, six different offices. Can't hold a job or keep a

partner. Too busy saving lives.

Eat your next meal. Special agent Jess Mastroianni.

Mastroianni, prepare to become part of the legend of Nicole Scott.

Or John Pollock. I'm not actually an agent. I'm still training at Quantico.

anymore. I graduated.

I'm an agent? I don't want you to swallow.

You're still on probation. I happen to need you at this moment.

Whenever I stop needing you, you'll go back to the fry basket and paper hat.

If your partner hasn't killed you.

Girl, don't listen to him.

Do you go through a lot of partners or something? Some people can't keep up.

You'll do fine.

I'll try. I just have to... I'm an agent now.

Pollock only pulled you up early because of your sobriety in Indiana.

That psychic thing of yours?

That's what he's after. I don't actually call myself a psychic. I just have

visions. There's a difference?

Well, I don't see the answers directly. I just have dreams, kind of, and they're

hard to figure out.

Well, I'll help you, and you'll help me.

Start with the parents.

She left the house about 3 o 'clock.

She didn't come back.

That's it.

Do you know where she was going?

We thought to Kara's house, her friend, but no.

You thought?

She's not overly truthful.

That's exaggerated.

That is exaggerated. Shauna's a good person. She is a good, good girl.

She's had a lot in her life, and she's handled it.

What do you mean, a lot?

Her father, my last husband, he was

violent. So she saw things when she was little.

And she was 11 when I married Jack, and he already had Jared. I don't know. I

just think it was hard for her.

She's not a mixer. It's been hard for her to fit in.

What would she be doing at the mall?

She lives there more than here.

Do you recognize the man on the tape?

No.

The Bureau has everything on this missing tape record.

And I mean everything.

This is the truth.

Did you send it home?

Yeah.

Upstairs.

Don't yell. You'll scare him.

Thanks for death.

You hurt your eye?

Yeah.

How?

Shauna hit me.

Why?

I don't know.

Did it have anything to do with her disappearance?

No, she just ran.

Did she tell you where she was going?

We don't talk much.

Yeah, who does she talk to?

I don't know.

Kara, maybe?

That's her friend.

They're ready for us at the mall, Jess. I'll take evidence at work.

You take the witness statement.

Give me your gun. I've got to shoot somebody.

Use your own gun. I'm going to shoot them and get away with it.

I'm not scheduled for weapons until tomorrow.

You mean you're on my six without a gun?

Here.

I can't take it.

I've got another one.

Where do you have another one? I can't show you in public. Now, come on.

Who are you planning on shooting?

The evidence specialist.

What did he do?

If I told you, I'd have to shoot you.

I thought I saw you skulking around.

How you been, agent?

Homicidal.

Sorry to hear that.

I've been fine, thanks.

I'm Jess Mastroianni.

Hi, I'm her partner.

Welcome to the Funhouse.

Special Agent Antonio Cortez.

Agent Scott and I work together.

Where was that again?

I don't remember.

Phoenix, 9899. It was a remarkable time.

Okay, so you guys know each other. That's great. What have we got?

We've got an empty elevator with a trap door, but no one saw him get out.

Forensics? I'm a speaker now, but there's probably a thousand people in

today. What about mall security?

I got the file right here.

Thank you. It's maintenance records on the elevator, staff lists, tape logs.

You should be a cop.

Got four applications in.

Guess there's higher entries right through Maryland.

What are the camera positions?

Elevators, food courts, parking garage.

I've been after them to cover the exits, but you know how it is.

How is it?

Securities always last.

Got money for landscaping, free valet. We're up to our necks in clowns every

Saturday, but they won't spring for more cameras.

Now look where they are.

Anything out of the ordinary yesterday?

No. A couple of white OGs got in a fight.

Some electronics were stolen from the loading dock.

You'd think they'd put a camera there too, but no.

So how did he get her out of the elevator?

You're the FBI.

Can't even make suburban cops.

So, Special Agent Cortez.

What about him?

He seems nice.

He's a charmer.

You don't want to talk?

Sure, I'll talk.

When did these visions of yours take him?

I don't know.

I learned a lot from Dr. Tanner at Quantico. We found the trigger for the

visions, which we'd never known before.

And that is?

I need to have an emotional connection to the subject.

It can be anything as long as I get some sense of what they must be feeling.

And? So I used to have to sleep to have the visions, and now they can come at

any time.

Like now?

I'll let you know.

School policy requires me to be present whenever a student's interviewed by the

police. No problem at all. We won't be long.

Hello, Kara.

I'm Special Agent Nicole Scott.

This is my partner, Agent Mastriani.

You're Shauna's best friend. You must be worried about her. Sick.

Was there anything unusual going on with Chana before she disappeared?

No.

She had some kind of fight with her brother, maybe?

She hit him, like you wouldn't have noticed.

And did she say why she hit him? No.

I mean, it's just family stuff, right?

Different kind of families, different kind of stuff.

Look, at least she has a family.

My mom split to Burning Man with her hippie boyfriend, and they're gone till

next week.

What about your father?

So you don't think Shauna wanted to disappear?

We're 15. We all want to disappear.

But she didn't run away.

She got in the elevator with that guy and he took her.

And you don't recognize the guy on the tape?

No.

I wish I did.

I'm sorry.

Am I done?

Thank you, Kara.

What do you think?

I think young people like this have hard lives.

They have no idea who loves them, who they should love.

They're just at sea trying to figure it all out.

You're sounding like that.

It fits the pattern.

Broken homes, blended homes, no homes.

It's so hard for them to put a life together.

Some of us manage.

Then you beat the odds.

Please find her.

She doesn't deserve this.

So when does this psych stuff of yours kick in and solve the whole thing?

It doesn't work like that.

Yeah, but she vanished in an elevator in front of 300 people and we have

nothing.

So if you're ever going to see something, this might be a good time.

that simple. I've got to be connected to the person. I can't just make it

happen.

Oh, my God.

What?

I got connected.

What'd you see?

It was Shauna. She was in a barrel. A barrel?

Yeah, someone was putting her inside a barrel. It was a blind man or a woman,

and water started pouring in.

So whoever took her was going to drown her in a barrel?

No, look, it's not that literal.

Hey,

that woman said that Shauna was at sea, right? Right.

Meaning that she was lost, so the water's probably a metaphor.

That's how it works.

I can't use the metaphor, the finest girl, Jess.

I need something solid.

We got a name.

Whose name?

The guy in the elevator. We got him on camera at the food court, found a match

and a photo file from the army. He's Donald Pastores. He lives about three

from the mall.

Is he blind?

Blind men don't usually qualify for commando training.

He was discharged in a medical three months ago. What kind of medical?

Mental instability.

He's a commando?

Well, this job wouldn't be fun if it wasn't easy.

Let's wait half an hour. See if he's home.

Why do we wait?

I've got to cue media relations, and they're going to have cameras there when

you bring Pastorius out.

Whatever you do, do not talk to anyone with a microphone. That's my job.

I can't believe it. You told me to have a vision, and I did.

I've been working towards that.

Did you bring the monoshock?

The what?

The battering ram in case you want to open the door.

For Quantico, we trained with a DQB Thunderbolt monoshock.

19 ,000 pounds of kinetic force.

Do I look like I'm carrying 19 ,000 pounds of kinetic force?

The skirt is tailored.

But a certain amount of force tells the whack job we're there and he goes Alamo

on us.

On the other hand, a hot black woman wearing a fierce skirt and some badass

boots knocked at his door.

You see where I'm headed with this?

I'm just going by what they taught us.

Forget about King's School.

When you've got some mother down a hole, the trick is not to tell him what

you're doing until you do it.

Is

this

why you told me to wait?

I can't help it if you're late to the scene, agent. Okay, where do you want

Back in the car.

No way, I can handle this. You can handle it alone without breaking a

He's not in there. I'll say that. You don't know that.

His parking spot is empty, and his phone has been ringing off the hook since I

doubted five minutes ago.

Target's not there, sir. It's empty.

I did not allocate nor request tactical resources for this mission, sir.

I suggest the team stand down while me and my partner further our

Sir.

I don't suppose Shauna was in there.

She wasn't.

Barely slept all night.

It's one thing to be a guidance counselor, but who do I turn to when I

guidance? What's this about, Ms. Boyle?

A man's reputation.

Yesterday after you left, Kara Cooper came back to me.

Shauna's friend? Yes.

She hadn't been trying to conceal anything from you when you spoke with

she doesn't like police.

And? She said that Shauna has been involved.

The teacher at the school.

Which teacher?

Robert Newell.

Senior drama.

She knows that, or she's just saying?

She has it on video.

Truth or dare?

Um, truth.

Who do you secretly think is hot?

Scott. I said secretly.

Okay, okay.

Um, well, Mr. Newell is fine.

Oh my God, you like him?

And he likes me.

Oh, you lie.

How do you know? Believe me.

Look at that.

What do you see?

A little girl that needs our help.

So you found the commando's mother?

Yep, who has a history of assaulting police.

Maybe I should have gone to see the high school teacher with Antonio.

It's not enough to be so frightened for the now I have to deal with these false

charges. I'm not charging you.

I just want to know about you and Shauna.

She's a student.

I'm a teacher.

Beginning, middle, end.

Well, how'd she feel about you?

You have to ask her that. Well, she's not around.

You close with her?

She was the lead in the play. We worked together, but there was nothing

inappropriate.

Any private rehearsal time?

Look, I am not an idiot agent.

We all know how vulnerable these young women are.

And so are the men who teach them.

We all hear the stories.

They never recover from false charges.

So where were you on Sunday?

You know what?

I can tell you.

I was at the garage getting an oil leak fixed. What garage? Scott's on Waverly.

I'll call him. Yeah, I'll count on it.

Look, I'm sorry.

Obviously, I'm very upset. We all are.

But please, bring it back to us.

Boy, you weren't fooling about the mother.

For the record, she really hates cops.

Mm -hmm.

Which is exactly why you're losing the badge.

Well, we have to identify ourselves or we're gonna be in violation.

Mrs. Eileen Pastorius.

Who are you?

Kim Little.

Maryland Social Services.

Child welfare.

Who's she? Unwed mother.

Just had number three.

How many daddies?

Uh...

Three, I'm supposed to scare her straight.

She brought her here. I'm just doing what they tell me to, ma 'am.

Now, this is about your son, Donald Pastoreus?

Well, he's not here.

Uh -huh. Well, I'm working on that Shauna Seabrook thing.

Missing girl, 15 years old. I seen it on the TV. Well, it is a child welfare

case, runaway.

But I think you should know that the police, they have a theory about your

Bastards. They think your son may have taken her.

Because of that tape.

He got the elevator with her. That's not a crime. I know.

But they handed it over to the FBI.

Feds?

Bastards. Uh -huh.

But what we're afraid of is at the office.

We're afraid the feds will shoot them down as soon as they find him and say

whole thing. So you know how they are.

So if you have any idea where your son might go and we could find him first, I

think it would be better for his health.

Well, I don't talk to him much since he come out of the Army.

They're supposed to fix somebody's stranger now.

Then I sold him my old television. He said it didn't work. So I said, look, it

was working when I gave it to you. Is there anywhere that he might have gone?

What do you care?

I'm just concerned.

Yeah, well, you should be concerned with saying no.

Three kids your age.

So if you have any idea where your son might go.

Sometimes when he's feeling a little under pressure, he goes camping with a

friend of his. Who?

Oh, I don't know. He calls him Pretty Boy.

Pretty Boy? Don't say it like that.

I'm sorry. Donald's all man.

He just packs up his big yellow tent and says, I'm going to go see the Pretty

Boy.

Okay, you never told her you were FBI. That is totally against regulations. Not

true. I've done a lot of undercover work. Okay, but this is not an

operation. No, but tell her we're Bureau and she's slamming the door. Well, the

truth is... The truth is a tool, Jess.

Sometimes it's useful.

Like a hammer.

Just right when you need to drive in a nail.

But sometimes you gotta put in a couple of screws and that hammer just won't

work. You get that?

Yeah. I got it.

Good.

What's up?

You see something?

Yeah.

The barrel, it was falling. Then it blew up. Meaning?

That's the tricky part. I don't know what it means. Okay, okay, don't quit on

here.

What comes in barrels and explodes?

That sounds like a bad joke. No.

Gunpowder. Gunpowder used to be packed in barrels.

Okay, so the gunpowder falls.

There's a state park called Gunpowder Falls not far from here. In the park,

there's a reservoir.

Guess what it's called?

Reservoir. Uh -huh.

Oh, yeah.

You loaded?

Of course I'm loaded. Attorney May told us we... Do you know you're loaded?

This ain't training, Jess.

This is life.

What do you think?

I think they ought to pay me for my dry cleaning bill.

Look at this unlock.

Go left.

You can tell us what she is.

I guess reality isn't everything it's cracked up to be.

What's that supposed to mean?

That you're supposed to be getting on the elevator and never getting out.

But here I am.

Yeah.

Here you are.

Let's go over this again.

How'd you get off?

And what'd you do with Shauna?

Maybe I never got off. Maybe this is an illusion and I'm still in there.

With Shauna?

I don't know.

Didn't even notice her.

Then why'd you run away?

I tried waking up, finding yourself on every channel.

I knew what you'd do to me.

Commando head case.

Won't eat his meds the way they want him to.

Hey. Hi.

You okay?

Yeah, yeah, fine. I'm waiting for Nicole.

So, uh, what do you do when you're not dissecting bodies?

Well, I got a major chance for cars.

Really? Mm -hmm. What kind of cars?

You wouldn't know them.

Mopar muscle cars.

I love Mopar. Yeah? Yeah.

You packing?

Don't worry.

When I finally cap your ass, you won't see it coming.

Uh, that drama teacher had an alibi.

He took his car to get fixed Saturday afternoon. Two cracks in the oil pan.

He bring it in himself?

That's where there's traction.

The time he signed in doesn't match the time stamp on the work order.

How much is it all?

Forty minutes.

So he could make it look like he got to the garage a lot earlier than he did.

And he could have been at the mall when Shauna disappeared.

Right. There's something else. I saw the barrel again.

I thought the barrel exploded.

They're dreams. They don't come in order.

In this one, Shauna's inside the barrel and the water's rising.

She's running out of time. What barrel? You think the water means Waterbury High

School? Maybe.

There's something else. There was a snake next to the barrel. What barrel?

has vision.

Shauna's brother has a snake.

Hey, hi.

New guy standing here.

You get vision?

Like... You solve cases?

Not that directly, no.

I'm going to go interview the brother again.

Because of the snake?

But Don Pastore is what's wearing snakeskin boots.

That fits, too. Still, I want to go talk to the brother. Okay, you should.

Cortez. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll check to teach her on the sun in time.

Visions.

What are you going to do?

I've got a working theory.

Which is?

If I keep working, I'll get a theory.

Okay, check this out. This is the second floor elevator.

Shauna gets on with Don Pastore.

Now, here's the first floor. The elevator doors open.

They don't get off.

But look.

The shadow.

By the time we go from the second floor to the first, the shadow's moved.

Maybe they're different on the two floors.

They're not.

I was there.

The shadows are identical.

They're cast by a pillar that runs the entire height of the building.

So the shadows seem to jump because two pieces of video aren't continuous.

The second one, from the empty elevator, is from a few minutes later.

Then the time code is wrong, and we don't see them get off the elevator

they got off, what, five, ten minutes earlier?

Someone cut a chunk of the surveillance tape.

Shauna didn't vanish.

She was edited out.

By someone who had access to the surveillance tape and knew how to change

FBI, don't move!

Get your hands off me.

You're under arrest.

She turns up dead.

You're an accessory to homicide.

Well, no one wants that.

Tell you what.

Give me something to drink, I'll tell you what happened.

I know what happened.

Some electronics were stolen from the loading dock.

You'd think they'd put a camera there too, but no.

You ran on the theft.

And you cut a couple of minutes out of the tape to hide it.

Right?

Okay, yes.

You stupid mother.

A little girl could be dying and you didn't tell us. How come?

You do it by yourself? No, I got a partner, Dominic. And you protected him

instead of that little girl?

How you working it?

I just set it up. My partner commits the crime.

I wear the uniform, I got him, I tell him when the stuff's at the loading

And you bring him out away from the security cameras? Yeah, except he's

He went past the camera at the elevator.

So you had to erase that part of the video and reset the time code.

If Shona didn't vanish, you'd just made it look that way.

Why wouldn't you tell me?

Because then I'm in the joint and I'll never get to be a cop. What would you

Stay there till we get back.

You might live long enough to get to the joint.

So I restored the video, and the guy's a moron. He left a file marker in the

allocation table.

Sometimes I'm glad I don't know what you're saying.

He doesn't touch her. He didn't do it, and Kessler obstructed us, but he didn't

take Shauna.

Look, Pistorius goes the other way.

Maybe nobody did.

What do you mean?

Well, all we've got now is she gets on an elevator, she walks away, she's

unhappy at home, she smacked her older brother, she thinks she's into this

guy.

I've run away for life.

Well, that's what the brother says happened.

Yeah, I buy that car for one thing. What's that?

Drama teacher's lion.

After I talked to him again, I took a print of the old stain in his parking

space. Two cracks in a pan leave a distinctive pattern on the ground.

My team just told me it matches the stain they found in the parking lot at

shopping mall.

I'm telling you, the guy was there.

On Saturday?

I can't tell.

We don't need to.

You've got enough for a search warrant right now.

In what jurisdiction?

Iran? We don't have the evidence.

I'll tell you what, agent. I won't ask you where you get your search warrants,

and you won't ask where I get mine.

Okay, let's turn Newell's place over and talk to him.

You missing anything in here, Mr. Newell?

I can't tell.

Maybe people tore the place apart.

The snipe in the dishwasher?

used that one in a while. I haven't been doing much cooking.

Judging by the slot here, it's a real big one.

I don't have to say anything without a lawyer.

No, you don't.

But it'll take an hour or two to get one in here.

And Sean, I could die in that time.

It was nothing improper.

So what was there?

She needed help, and she wouldn't go to anyone else. She'd hit her brother, and

she had feelings for me. Yes, the wrong kind of feelings, but I couldn't just

ignore her.

So? She was crying. She was upset. She wanted to come to my house, but I said

no. I said we'll go somewhere public where there wouldn't be any suspicion.

The mall?

Yeah. She never... She never showed up.

So you just took the car in to be fixed.

I couldn't wait forever. I thought she'd changed her mind. You lied when you

signed the car in at the garage. You put the wrong time. Why? I don't know why,

all right? I... I felt guilty.

I didn't want any questions.

So there was nothing wrong with this, but you were worried.

I haven't through it all before.

When?

Last term. Same thing all over again.

The girl starring in the play became obsessed with me. Who was that?

Shauna's friend.

Kara Cooper.

There was phone calls, letters, unexpected visits.

Look, I wanted no part of it. What was the play?

It was Wait Until Dark.

Every school does it.

Did she play the blind girl?

How'd you know?

Kara Cooper. What's a Cooper?

I just realized a Cooper is somebody who makes barrels.

Look, you know, stuff happens.

It just happens.

I mean, I just wanted to keep you away from Mr. Newell.

You know he's mine.

How was I to know they'd put you on TV?

It's like, where's Shauna's new hit show so I can't just let you go?

You love him.

Don't lie to me. I can see it.

I can't believe you would do this to me, Shauna.

After you knew, you knew what I had in my heart for him.

have to kill you now care

of the permit make a perfect sense she put her mother without a towel it's

be can't you drive any faster i suppose you could yes

actually then you drive next time well it doesn't matter we're way ahead of the

response team we're gonna have to wait what did your last vision tell you the

girl is out of time right you believe in my vision don't you Yeah, but we still

have to go in force. It says so in the manual.

Show me.

What, now?

Yeah, now. I know you got it on you.

Show me.

I know it by heart. Let me help you out.

What was that?

That's becoming partners.

Now let's go do some good.

want to know what I did.

I told them about you and Mr. Newell.

So they think he has a thing for you.

And then I broke into his house.

And I took this.

It's apartment 401.

You take the front, I'll take the back. Okay.

You ready?

Count on it.

I do.

It's going to be messy.

That's why I got that plastic sheet.

Simulation failed.

Why did you have to do this to me, Shauna?

There's noise inside.

Over, Kara.

Over.

It's okay. I'm sorry. I could have handled it better. Hey, hey, hey.

Go make your first dress.

Myra, it's your collar.

It's all right, sweetie.

We're here.

Kara Cooper, you are under arrest. You have the right to... I got it.

Kara Cooper, you're under arrest for kidnapping and attempted murder.

Read our rights, agent.

You have the right to remain silent.

Anything you say can get the use of...

Rescued by a special FBI squad headed by Assistant Director John Pollock. I'm

fortunate to have a great many selfless staffers here at the Bureau, united by a

solid command structure.

He'll never whisper our names. They won't be famous anyway.

I feel totally unfair.

Well, fair has nothing to do with it. I was trying to give me your ID.

You're off probation.

Congrats.

Uh, hey.

Mm -hmm?

Hitting someone?

Did your job, agent. That should be its own reward.

Oh, but in recognition of your outstanding work, I'm assigning Agent

your team.

Permanently.

That's a reward?

Sure seen the punishment.

So, hi.

Welcome. Thank you.

Are you really into Martha Carth?

Got a 71 Barracuda.

You should come by and check it out sometime.

She ain't seeing nothing of yours between here and Judgment Day.

You're buying me a drink.

Well, we're working together. I have to get to know him.

A bunch of drinks.

Cosmopolitan. They're expensive.