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Hey, stay together.

I heard a rumor.

Oh, my God.

Gorgeous. From my tent, my husband gave me a crock pot.

Wow. If Randy ever gave me earrings like that, I might stop getting so many

headaches.

Lindsay, come here.

Honey, tie your shoe.

What's that guy doing by our car?

Honey, you know, they're waiting on you. Go play.

Go on.

That's it.

Back to your line.

Hey Mike

I was going through the basement.

I don't know how I wound up with all your coffee table books.

You got the coffee table.

So, how's it going?

The, uh, wedding plans?

Well, the wedding plans are going just fine, thank you.

You know, it's been pretty exhausting.

I don't know how much you remember about our wedding. I remember not getting a

wink of sleep the night before.

Yeah, well, nothing like that this time around.

Sorry to hear.

Daniel has his first quarter conference at the end of March, and I start my new

job next week.

Though there really isn't a whole lot of time after the wedding.

Next week?

That's, uh, however commute.

I'm, uh, not commuting.

You moved already?

I moved in with Daniel.

Before the wedding?

Yes.

With the wedding plans and relocating.

What kind of message are you sending the girls?

Bailey, they are not children.

Ariana's 14.

Ariana is with my mother.

She will finish out the school year and move in this summer after we're married.

What do you want from me, Janet?

You keep sending me these signals.

Signals? Am I supposed to sit back and watch you throw your life away?

Can I care for the father of my children without you thinking that I'm asking

you to save me? Not asking, Janet. Screaming from the top of your lungs.

excuses to see me.

Moving in with him to force my hand. Oh, I am not forcing. How do I know this

whole wedding thing isn't just to get my attention? Oh, this wedding thing?

Yeah, with the guy who lives in Atlanta.

Am I supposed to think that was an accident?

In addition to the abduction of Josie Wells and the two victims found in

Boulder, a third victim was found an hour ago by New Mexico State Police.

Subject is moving south.

INS and U .S. Border Patrols have all been notified.

He could be making a run for the border. Try to use her to get across.

Hispanic, 16 to 18 years of age, medium build, and no one fitting his

description has been reported missing.

Any gang affiliation?

The point of attack was too far away.

An argument was reported, but no one was close enough to hear what was being

said. So there's no clear verdict.

Carjacking was ruled out when her car was found abandoned.

Now, the locals think he was after a pair of earrings she received as an

anniversary present.

Yeah, but why argue? Why would he take her?

She put up a fight.

Didn't want to give him up.

Well, I had the presence of mind to keep talking.

Created distraction until someone came to help.

Yeah, but he had no problem killing a man, so why would he go to all this

trouble?

You think he's looking for a ransom?

Well, there's been no attempt to contact the family, but until the body turns

up, we can't rule it out.

No, Josie doesn't have any druggy friends. Look, the kid mugged her.

I know it seems unnecessary to go back over the details.

This is a gated community. I pay extra so people like that can't get in here.

Anything unusual happen?

No. She dropped the kids off at school.

She did a little shopping and she called the office, but I was in a meeting.

What time was that? I don't know. It was morning sometime.

I couldn't reach her. Does she carry a cell phone?

Yeah, it's still in the damn charger. She forgets it half the time.

So, what do you think here? You think that this kid was watching us and

her? At this point, it's hard to say how or why he focused on her.

Well, how else could he have known about the earrings?

Are you going to find my mommy?

Of course she is, Mindy.

I'm Barbara, Josie's mom.

There you guys are. Okay, come on. Let's go. Everybody up to bed.

Let's go. Up.

I'll, uh... I'll be up in a minute to tuck him in.

I never should have got her those earrings.

She didn't even want them.

We talked to the neighbors.

Nobody saw anything suspicious or anybody matching his description.

I'll post a unit outside your home for the next few days.

Why haven't we heard anything?

We will. We've got the entire southwest covered.

It's been more than 24 hours since your wife survived the initial attack.

The chances are good that she'll get out of this alive.

Alive? She loses it if the nanny is five minutes late.

My wife can't handle this. She can't make the simplest decision on her own. I

have to do everything.

I'm going to go up and put the kids to bed.

Underbuck says he's on the phone to his claims adjuster the second we leave.

Why would she risk her life for a pair of earrings she didn't want?

Hey, I must have fallen asleep.

Whoa, that looks cool.

Oh, he's going to be mad.

Oh, I hated it blind.

It's all I care about is that I'm beautiful to you anyway.

Uh,

Joss, um... Oh, I know.

It's okay.

Well, it was an accident, though, because... Well, once I saw those

I... Shh, shh, shh.

It's okay.

We're going to survive this, okay?

Everyone would have found out about us, and they would have never let us see

each other again.

I couldn't live with that.

What's wrong?

Joss!

Hey, Joss!

Josie!

Hey, what do you mean? Just an old poncho like that when we're trying to

here, huh? You got a problem with that?

Oh, do I have a problem with that? I don't know. Do we have a problem with

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We do have a problem with that.

Hey, if you got an inch that bad, maybe me and my buddy here, we can show the

boy how it's done, huh?

Hey,

don't walk away from me now.

I'll be a little Mexican boy.

Let's get out of here.

You drive.

I drive.

I'm tired. I need some sleep.

Look at

her home life. Her environment.

Her husband is posing her and her children. He's putting them on display.

She didn't forget herself, huh?

It was at least that she refused to marry.

So what, she snapped and ran off with this kid?

Maybe he made her do it.

Easier to hide a hostage that way.

If she's a hostage, she doesn't need to change her appearance.

West along the Arizona border, no longer moving south.

She's destroying her image.

She's disgusted with his image of who she ought to be, the perfect wife.

Rejecting her life.

To be with him.

The antithesis of everything that she's rejecting.

Like that Patty Hearst kind of thing?

No. She knows this boy.

We need to identify the boy.

Check and recheck with missing personal reports.

Radio, television, get someone to come forward.

Get some guys on it. Have George run a background on Josie.

Work up a computer and answer Odo.

Black hair, shorter cut.

She needs to survive this failure.

Her instinct as a woman may be taking over at this point.

It's not the woman, her husband is right.

He doesn't have a clue as to who his wife really is.

Voila.

Hey, why didn't you leave a message?

Because it was him.

Baby,

you've got to tell your mother you're okay.

What? She never cared before.

Marrying that bastard, letting him beat me like that?

He's never going to touch you again.

Yeah, I know.

I should have done them weeks ago. I knew them.

No.

I don't even care if they know.

I don't even care if I ever see them again. I just want to go and I just want

keep on going.

Okay.

Then that's what we'll do.

Bailey? It's impossible.

She's afraid of guns.

You know, you can't do anything to help, so you have to blame the victim.

ATF records indicate your wife purchased the gun six weeks ago.

Under her maiden name.

Same caliber used in the killings.

What are you people saying? That my wife has gone on some killing spree with a

kid she doesn't even know?

No, actually, we think that she knew him.

How? Where?

I could have met her at the mall, car wash.

Did your wife work outside the home? No.

She did volunteer work, answering phones at a crisis center, the

Wheaton House or Center. She wasn't a counselor or anything. It's just being

around her just made her miserable.

Bringing all those other people's problems home, I couldn't stand it.

So you made her quit?

She doesn't have enough compassion for her own family.

Malone.

Great.

We've got an idea on the boy.

Miss, you can't go in there.

Alex is a good boy.

He didn't do this.

This is Roberta Lopez, Alex's mother.

I heard on TV that he could be in trouble.

Mrs. Lopez, do you know where your son is?

He didn't come home last night.

Then this morning...

I found these letters from her.

Three and four a day.

Filthy letters.

A woman throwing herself at a child.

My son is not to blame.

Your wife is to blame.

Hold her in the next room until we finish this.

It should take a little while to work up a handwriting program, but after that

they should scan pretty quickly.

We're looking for repeated words and phrases, variations in spelling. I know

psycholinguistics works, Bailey.

Say again, George? You're cutting out.

I said I feel a little voyeuristic reading somebody else's mail.

Wow. His letters are full of sex.

Adolescent. She's preoccupied with him. There's nothing about her, her feelings.

That's what a 16 -year -old wants to hear.

She seduced him.

This might connect a few dots.

Alex, the stepfather, has a few drunken disorderlies.

Put the kid in the emergency room a couple of times.

And the Lopez phone records show 27 calls to the Wheaton Center in a period

two weeks.

That's how they met.

She's probably a victim of abuse herself.

Is there any indication where they're headed?

I doubt they know.

Get this out over the wire. We're looking at a spree filling.

I want a ten -state heads up and everyone on the job.

All right, let's assume for the moment.

that she is in control of her life for the very first time, right? But she's

very insecure. She's paranoid.

Probably prone to sense of jealousy.

It's like a schoolgirl, right? I mean, she's writing obsessively three, four

times a day.

So if they are rejecting conventional society, then they may try to legitimize

their feelings for each other in some sort of mock ceremony.

I'll get with Caballos.

Identify wedding venues in the region, chapels, lakes, vantage points.

If their anger is aimed at conventional society, who are they likely to target?

The priests, ministers, judges.

Anyone who judges them who doesn't accept their union.

The victors in the park had a history of assault. That attack may have been

provoked.

You getting

hungry?

Yeah. But I thought we were low on cash.

We're all right.

You know, when I get to the majors, we're not going to have any money

You're all I want.

Would you look at that?

We need some witnesses.

Yeah.

You may kiss the bride.

Nice.

Have a nice life.

That would bring me back to reality.

I don't think that we should release it.

I'm just not sure how it will affect her.

We've got to do something to flush them out. There's zigzagging across the four

-state area. I can't throw out that many roadblocks.

Concentrate your manpower here.

Cut a full route south and east and drive them back with us.

I'll never betray you. I'll love you forever.

Every emotion is an extreme. It's never forever. She gives him unconditional

commitment. It's almost as if she's never known what she's...

Wanted or what she's felt.

Until now.

She's in love.

Whether it's real or even returned.

She knows how it feels to love someone.

You're lucky to feel that once in your life.

Hey,

give that song a rest, would you? You're going to wear out its groove.

It's fidgeting. It doesn't have grooves.

Don't worry about it. It's digits.

Another round. They can dance to whatever they want. Tender?

Yes, ma 'am.

I never was good at that.

Why were you looking at her?

Looking at who? That bride.

He was looking at me, I guess.

Because you think he's sexy?

I think you're sexy.

Don't lie to me, Alex.

Josie, come on and dance with me. I'm not kidding.

Come on and dance with me, Josie.

Don't lie to me, Alex.

I mean it.

Josie, I love you. I'm never going to betray you.

Inside. I lost a kid.

Can't be far. Okay.

It's like your boyfriend ran out on you, honey.

Hey,

come on. I got you.

Right over there.

Come on. Give me the gun. Get in the car. Come on.

What are you doing? Get in the car.

I think he's dead.

Get in the car.

Michael was treated.

He's being held overnight.

When this is said, they struggled.

She shot Castaneda four times.

The kid just stood there with a gun in his hand, watching.

He was looking for attention. She's got it now.

Which one tried taking her into custody?

Castaneda. It could be more personal.

Maybe he looked at her in a dismissive way or objectified her, diminished her

feelings for Alex.

Her first shot was reactive, the second, psychological.

They were here for about two hours. Told everybody they'd just gotten married.

Guess they bought quite a few rounds in honor of the occasion.

She's buying acceptance.

Get playing.

Got a hold of my heart.

Dancing to it.

What year did that come out?

I think around 82.

He wasn't even born.

Might mean something to her.

I'll have George add lyrics to his word search.

No, no, it's not the words. It's time in her life.

Fifteen. Coming of age.

I'm going to have the mother brought in.

Someone needs to get a pot of black coffee to these people.

Guy could barely remember the make of his car, let alone a license plate

No idea which way they're headed.

Or keep talking a little baseball with the kid, other than that.

Aren't there a lot of spring training camps around here?

Yeah, within a few hundred miles.

As long as they're fitting into those fantasies.

I've got I -17 and US -60 sealed off from here to the Arizona border. That

should block them off from Mesa, Tempe, all the major spring camps.

Still leaves 1 ,000 miles of unprotected road.

They've got six hours on us. Get out some public awareness.

Caution avoidance obscene. It's a manhunt.

Extreme prejudice applies.

Got it.

She only killed one of them.

The one that touched her.

I don't think that this is about them anymore, Bailey.

What's wrong with the radio?

Husted. Looks like the rest of this... Oh, I'm

sure

glad you stopped.

I don't recall anything special that year. A place where she might want to

return to.

I don't understand what's gone so wrong.

She had a happy childhood, has a wonderful family, two beautiful girls.

You're divorced from her father, aren't you?

She was only six, barely remembers him.

He passed away a few years ago.

And you never remarried?

No.

No long -term boyfriend? No.

Mrs. Hinkley, these are the letters that your daughter wrote to Alex.

There may be some significance... I don't want to read those.

Mrs. Hinkley, your daughter has run off with this boy. That boy abducted her,

took her from her family, her girls.

In the letters, she talks about sex in a very adolescent way.

She isn't comfortable with being a woman.

It usually indicates a person who doesn't trust their own feelings.

Feels as if their feelings have betrayed them in the past.

There's been nothing like that with Josie.

She had a perfectly wonderful childhood.

Loving, warm. I gave her everything.

A mother couldn't ask for a better daughter.

And you would know if there was a problem? There were no problems.

I mean, she wouldn't even look at the letters. She just kept telling me about

her daughter's perfect childhood.

I don't know. I get the feeling that something really bad happened to Josie

girl. You think she was sexually abused?

Yeah, I do.

But she either, A, didn't tell her mother because she wanted to protect her

mother's feelings, or, B, she did tell her and her mother didn't believe her

because she wanted to uphold that image of her perfect child.

So we're talking about neighbor, relative.

Anyone that she would trust.

Anyone who could betray her.

But that still only tells us why.

I'll get George on it.

You know what? I don't think he's going to pull this one out of a computer.

Maybe we go back to the letters.

You got a plate number on the car that stole the bar?

Possible fighting along the Paz Canyon Road.

Thanks. Let me pick up the tram.

Well, I'm not going back to your sweater now.

Should have thought about that a hundred miles ago.

Well, what if I get a chill?

I'll keep you warm.

Funny that your car wouldn't start all of a sudden.

Yeah, I know.

I was in a repair shop for miles.

I like your husband.

You know, people didn't approve of me and Emory at first.

He's a Christian scientist and I'm Jewish.

Not to mention the difference in our ages.

He's four years younger.

Oh, it hasn't always been easy.

My mother never did forgive me.

But you've got to follow your heart, dear.

140 letters in 47 days for a grand total of 282 ,056 words,

out of which five words repeat an average of 1 ,700 times. Love, betray,

loyal, and forever.

The repeated use of the words loyal and betray suggests a broken trust in

people, presumably male, since she seems to be emotionally distant from the men

in her life.

Alex is a man.

He's only 16, Joe. Yeah, Alex is a boy.

If there was abuse, she would be afraid of men who are her own age or older than

she is. What about her husband?

He's playing a role for her husband.

He doesn't realize that she has known to him that she is just tolerating his

touch.

George, what about the word touch?

Uh, word touch appears twice.

Twice in 280 ,000 words.

How's it used?

Um, as a noun.

A touch better.

Just a touch.

She's afraid of touch.

Of personal contact.

She's not afraid to touch Alex.

She may not use the word, but she gets her point across.

Here's a fun one.

The phrase is, I will always and I will never each appear exactly 631 times.

Exactly? Well, I will always appears 633 times, but it's close enough.

And you sat up a little.

Sounds like conflict to me.

Love, loyal, forever.

This woman is afraid of being abandoned.

And an older couple may have just given a ride to our fugitives.

They didn't kill them?

Nope. Said they were rather likable.

Dropped them off about 70 miles outside of Steamboat, right along the old Barber

Parkway.

And you know, I was thinking, why don't we take their car?

I was hoping that we can catch some spring training, because Mesa's only a

couple hours away from here, and the Angels are on Tempe. We're not going to

Tempe.

But you just said... I said we're not going.

Josie, look, there's your kids.

What?

Why'd you do that?

I'm sorry, Justin.

We can go back. No, we can't go back. No,

we cannot go back. Don't you hear me? We can't go back. They don't exist

anymore. We don't exist anymore.

You will never, ever play in the majors. There's nothing.

There's nothing.

I'm scared, Joseph. I know. I know you are. But listen, we're going to be all

right. I promise.

Didn't I promise I'd take care of you?

Josie?

All right, where she said you'd be.

Picked the right time to release that tape.

Probably saved that boy's life.

I told you, I'm like, I don't know where she's going.

Well, she had to have some place in mind.

No.

And you know what? Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell you.

Why'd she give you up, Alex?

I don't know. She just got mad.

About what?

We say the dumbest things when we're angry.

You don't want the last conversation you ever had with her to be an argument, do

you?

What was it over?

Tempe. I wanted to go to Tempe.

And you didn't.

Going kind of easy on him, don't you think?

Well, he's not going to get anywhere abusing a kid who's been abused his

life.

Yeah, George, it's Sam.

Yeah, listen, I want you to do something for me.

I want to see if she has any connections to Tempe, Arizona.

All right?

Yeah. So, what are you?

Angels fan?

Padres? Maybe you wanted to play someday.

Be on the show.

Only no one believed in you.

Encouraged you.

But Josie did.

She was there for you when no one else was. Not your coaches, your stepfather,

the bastard who beat you.

Told you every day of your life you'd never amount to anything.

I'm not excusing what you've done, Alex.

But I know a little something about being in over your head.

What it feels like to be in love.

When it's just you and her and nothing else matters but waking up in each

other's arms.

What you feel for Josie is what any young man your age would feel.

But with those feelings comes responsibility.

Josie is an adult.

Buying you a gun to protect you from your stepfather may feel like love, but

look at the mess you're in.

And when she realized that, that wasn't betrayal, Alex.

She gave you up to save your life.

Do the same for her.

Tell me where Josie is before she gets hurt.

I mean, you should listen to yourself sometimes.

Never trust anyone who takes his own advice.

There's one thing that bothered me.

Why didn't you want to go to Tempe?

No, I got George on it already, but... Maybe that's why she was abused.

Maybe by giving up Alex, she was admitting defeat.

Planning to end a physical life where her emotional life died.

I found something in 83, the year after Got a Hold on My Heart came out.

Josie's mother filed for a marriage license that same year.

I thought she never remarried.

No, she didn't, or at least they never filed a joint return. The other name on

the license is Lawrence Karsh, and he moved to Tempe 11 years ago.

He sold his practice, and he moved there in August of 88.

His practice?

Yeah, he's an orthodontist.

Personal. Intimate.

Requires trust. That's the guy.

He's on him left way.

Get me the address, George. It's on its way.

She was within 70 miles of Tempe at one point, then turned and headed back in

the opposite direction.

She must have thought about killing him, but she couldn't.

Joseph. Rick took the girls out.

Honey,

everyone's looking for you.

How's Larry?

Have you talked to him recently?

Joseph, you didn't do something to Larry.

Honey, you need to go to the police. I didn't get a card from him this year.

I look forward to his cards.

They always make me smile.

Do you like my smile?

I mean, you paid enough for it, but it was worth it. You know, all that time,

all that money, sending me back again and again and again till it was perfect.

Josie.

Why? I trusted you.

Even after I told you what he was doing,

He did nothing.

Nothing.

Continued to date him, pursue him. You were just a child.

You had such a vivid imagination. He said I was lying.

That I was jealous.

That I didn't want you to marry him, so I was trying to come between you.

Preoccupied with sex, I was throwing myself at him.

I mean, he's only human, right?

Had to be something that I was doing.

Even after you knew what he was doing, you kept sending me back to him, sitting

in his chair with his fingers in my mouth, touching me, making me

touch him.

You knew what he was doing, and you just let him.

Get the paramedics.

His letters weren't for Alex.

They were for her.

She wanted her mother to hear her.

Life.

Bailey.

Can I come in?

Daniel's not here.

I know.

Something wrong?

I hate that the conversation we had the other day turned into an argument.

Anything else?