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Megan.

Megan.

Look, can we talk about this?

There's nothing to talk about, Jamie.

How many times do I have to tell you?

I didn't do it.

You know me.

Don't raise your voice to me.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean it to come out like that, okay?

Stay away from me.

This isn't over.

More papers for me to sign?

Never ends.

Yeah.

You alright?

Yeah, I'm fine.

It's just a headache.

Listen, this can wait.

Go home, get some rest.

No, I'm fine, really.

No, you're not.

All this business, this stress, I mean, it just eats you up.

Just take the rest of the day off.

Maybe you're right.

Have you heard anything about the money?

We're going to the police.

I sent Jamie home.

He's under investigation.

I feel terrible about this.

Never feel bad about doing the right thing.

And remember, Jamie brought this on himself.

Go home.

Thank you, Todd.

Can I see what you're drawing, Brian?

I recognize that carriage house.

You've remembered every detail.

It's beautiful.

Thanks.

Let's take a walk to the community center after lunch.

Hmm?

You can bring your drawing and show everyone.

Okay.

Hold up, I forgot my phone.

Where do I put it?

Just hang on.

Wait right there, Brian.

Brian?

Brian?

Mark, Rex, glad you two got here quickly.

What have we got?

Well, it's twofold.

Emma Jansa reported her 12-year-old autistic son, Brian, missing.

Banished from the neighborhood.

Yeah, take a look at this.

This was recorded from the office's own security camp.

You see Brian and his mother here on the street?

And the mother ducks in for a second.

Brian waits on the sidewalk when a woman crosses the street and walks past the Van.

Watch this.

Snatch job.

You know who the victim is?

Megan Schaefer, according to the ID found in the purse she dropped.

She's a lawyer right here at Wilkins Law.

And the abductor?

No idea.

The Van's plates were stolen off of a car in Flat Rock three days ago.

I put a bolo out on similar vans, but they're super common.

So Mark arrest?

Yeah.

Okay, so here, here's Brian running away.

Traumatized.

There's not enough doubt.

Okay, so we can't see the face of the abductor, but the boy may have.

Okay, call me when you get back.

We need to move on this.

Find the boy fast.

Right.

That boy can save Megan's life.

Yeah, we have dozens of uniform officers

scouring the neighborhood, but so far nothing.

What is it, Rex?

What do you got there?

Pencil crayon.

Brian's an accomplished artist.

Yeah.

His mother found the picture he dropped.

It's inside.

Here you go.

Oh, Sarah's in there now.

Okay.

Well, Rex and I will check in before we begin the search.

Megan's parents just received a ransom demand.

I'm gonna talk to him.

Okay.

Hey, okay.

What do you have?

I never leave Brian alone.

Never.

When Brian was young, we noticed something was different.

Eventually, we got the diagnosis of autism.

And a couple years later, my husband died in a car crash.

It was just Brian and I.

I must have been very difficult.

Yeah, it was devastating, but we kept going.

And eventually, Brian did speak.

No, it was never about speaking.

It was about him finding his own way of communicating.

One day, his grandmother bought him some colored pencils, and he he just started

making these amazing drawings, and everything changed.

Oh no, they are amazing.

It's incredible detail.

Yeah, he does it all from memory.

So drawing became his way to communicate?

He rarely speaks, just a word or two every once in a while.

This is his latest.

It's from this morning, and as soon as I saw

it on the sidewalk, I knew something was wrong.

We're gonna find him.

We've got officers to call me in the neighborhood.

Emma, there's a chance that your son saw something that

could help us find the young woman who's been abducted.

He must be so scared.

Do you have any idea where Brian might have gone?

No, but I wish I did.

He has a range of responses when he gets upset.

He can be really disoriented and fight back if he feels threatened.

Canada, Rex and I take the drawing.

His scent will help us track him.

Of course.

Thank you.

Okay, Rex, come on.

Wait at home instructions to come.

Follow precisely or there will be consequences.

Who would do this?

Megan's never hurt anyone.

Well, evidently it's someone who's trying to extort money from you.

You have a chain of successful produce stores, but could also be other motivations.

Such as?

Someone who's trying to hurt you by taking Megan?

No one.

No one dislikes us that much.

Are you sure?

Possibly someone who's upset with your business?

Well, we've had a few unhappy customers, an

angry supplier or two, but nothing serious.

Still, we'll need a list of names.

Of course.

It could also be someone with a grudge against Megan.

Someone associated with one of her cases, perhaps.

That's Jamie.

I'm sorry, who's... who's Jamie?

Jamie Brenton.

He works at the same firm.

He and Megan were living together till recently,

but she moved back home a couple weeks ago.

She texted that she was leaving early from work

today, walking, because she had some thinking to do.

And what happened with this Jamie?

She... she wouldn't tell us.

She's an extremely private person.

We've always respected that.

How did Jamie take the break-up?

It's like Richard says, Megan keeps these things to herself.

But who takes getting dumped well?

To be honest, I've always thought there was something off about Jamie.

Stop.

Brian.

Hey.

No, it's okay.

I'm with the police.

Your mom... your mom said us to find you.

Right?

Everything's all right.

Just... just... just calm down.

No, no, Rex...

Nice work, partner.

And Brian still isn't communicating?

No, nothing.

I was trying to help by getting Brian to draw

what he saw, but he's been through a lot.

Any idea how long it'd be like this?

He's our only eyewitness.

No, no, his mother says he'll come out of it when he's ready.

Okay, until then, we focus on the abduction.

Megan's parents said that she broke up with a boyfriend from the same outfit.

The mother wasn't too fond of him.

You know what, Mark?

Meet me at her firm.

I will do.

Anything?

No, and I know Brian would want to help try and find Megan, but right now he can't.

I understand you're both doing everything you can.

Rex and I need to rejoin the search for Megan.

Yeah, of course.

That poor woman.

If something changes with Brian, will you... I will.

Rex?

Thanks for.

Speaking with us, Todd.

What can you tell us about Jamie and Megan?

They came to me about a year ago to ask about interoffice relationships.

You know, they weren't breaching any HR policies, so the firm gave them the okay.

They seemed like a nice happy couple.

Megan's parents told me that they broke up recently.

They had, just a couple weeks ago.

Any idea why?

This is rather sensitive.

I think that they were already having problems, and Megan came to me with a

complaint she received from one of our developer clients.

What sort of complaint?

They noticed irregularities in several of their

escrow accounts, and Jamie was the point person here.

The long and short of it is, funds that should be in the account aren't.

We were actually just about to come to the Ask JPD for assistance.

You think that Jamie took the money?

We can't be totally sure, but it seems likely.

Did you confront him?

Yes.

As a matter of fact, he was suspended this morning.

The uniforms are jacked.

There's no sign of Jamie at his apartment.

So Jamie's suspended.

He's angry at Megan.

Plus, he needs the ransom money to replace what he stole.

He knows the route that she would take home.

So he waits out front, and when she passes, he grabs her.

But what I don't get is how he thought he'd get away with it.

I mean, he must have known that we'd be on to him right away.

Well, maybe he wasn't thinking straight.

The most important thing is that if it is Jamie, we find out where he is,

and what he's done with Megan.

Why are you doing this?

Just let me go!

Okay,

what do you got on Jamie Bregden?

32 years old, graduate of University of Toronto in Osgoode Hall.

Called to the bar four years ago.

Moved here when he was offered the position at Wilkins.

Has he gotten in any trouble before?

Fender bender, traffic tickets, that's it.

I don't like tracking him down, I take it.

We've got Ebola out on him.

Does he own any other property?

Any place that he might have taken Megan?

None that I can find.

And we've been interviewing his friends, colleagues, but no luck there either.

Is there anything else?

Well, tracked Jamie's cell phone and went dark just after 10 A.M.

What about the vehicle?

It was an SUV, Van's not his.

Okay, check stolen vehicles, rental companies,

any place where he could have gotten that Van.

Yeah, I'm already on it and I've been tracking Jamie

and Megan's bank card transactions, but so far nothing.

What about the text from the kidnapper?

He was sent via an anonymous texting site.

He also used a VolP burner app and, I suspect, a burner phone.

It's gonna take a while to ID him.

Okay, keep working on it.

And dig deeper into the missing money from the law firm.

There may be something there.

You betcha.

Sarah has forensic results.

Oh,

hey, I was just coming to see you.

Yeah, me too.

Other than the victim's briefcase and purse, the only meaningful evidence we

recovered are a few strands of brown hair that we think belong to the abductor.

Jamie has brown hair.

So do tens of thousands of other Islanders.

So nothing directly linking him to the abduction?

No.

Any word from the kidnapper?

Not yet, but it's coming soon.

I think our best bet is Brian providing us with a description of the abductor,

because then we can either eliminate Jamie as a

person of interest or we make him our prime suspect.

Agreed, but how do we get him communicating again?

Autistic children often react positively to animals, especially dogs.

And Rex did calm Brian when we found him.

Maybe he can help him again.

You think you can do that?

Yeah.

We've never had a pet.

Just being a single mom, it never seemed like... It seemed like too much.

But Brian seemed to connect with Rex.

I mean, I saw it firsthand.

Rex calmed her son when he was overwhelmed.

And he still is overwhelmed.

Brian's been through a really traumatic experience.

It would be for any kid.

He just... He needs time to process and calm down.

Okay.

But the truth is, we might not have that much time.

Time to find Megan alive.

And if Rex can help Brian process faster and find that calm...

I have an autistic cousin, Emma.

We grew up together.

So I have a little understanding of how hard this must be for you.

But I think you know that Brian would want to help if he could.

He's a good kid.

And sensitive.

Artistic.

I think growing up, he'll want to know that he did everything he could.

And Rex can help him get there.

You really think you can help Brian?

Because he sure could use a friend right now.

I'll eat your pencils out for you.

You sit here?

Thank you for doing this.

We know it's hard.

Yeah, even if it works, it's going to take time.

Of course.

Rex, you stay here with Sarah.

Help Brian.

Just do what you can.

Okay?

Go on.

He's giving him space.

He seems to know what he's doing.

Ransom demand just landed.

I have to go.

Um, keep me updated.

He wants 2 million dollars in unmarked and untraceable bills.

And the money is not to be tampered with in any

way or he says that something terrible will happen.

There will be more instructions coming.

Mom, Dad, I love you.

Delivered via the same anonymous texting method as last time.

Still not allowed tracing it?

None.

And nothing on Jamie's whereabouts either.

Any success figuring out what's happening with those accounts at the law firm?

Some.

But it's complicated.

I've actually asked forensic accounting to assist with this one.

So, the long and short of it is that there's some serious

cash sitting in an account that it shouldn't be in.

So, where'd it go?

Well, if Jamie stole it, it's really well hidden.

Well, maybe he spent it already.

Have you looked into gambling debts, stock market losses, drug use even?

I didn't see anything like that.

Thing is, is that he's still carrying $100 ,000 in student debt.

Keep digging, Jesse.

Come with me.

Yeah, call in some favors to cover the ransom.

So, what happens next?

Well, the kidnappers will reach out again with specifics about the delivery.

And once we have those details, we'll formulate a plan.

What happens if the kidnappers get onto you?

How do we know they won't hurt Megan?

We'll be ready for anything.

This is Shaffer.

In the meantime, we do have a few questions.

Of course.

Did Megan mention any problems at work?

Perhaps money-related?

Nothing like that.

Did she mention anything about Jamie's personal life?

Family, friends, or perhaps she mentioned a place that Jamie might have taken her?

Jamie's from Saskatchewan.

His whole family's back there.

He moved to St. John's when the firm hired him.

Yeah, we never heard about any of his friends.

Excuse me, I have to take this.

Jesse, tell me you found Jamie.

No, but a rental company reported that one of its fans was overdue to be returned.

Let me guess, it's the same model used by the kidnappers.

Exactly.

And here's the thing, that fan has a GPS in it.

What's he doing?

Well, he thinks Brian is ready to draw.

Ken, can you help?

Hey.

Rex is pretty amazing, huh, Brian?

This is his friend, Sarah, and she'd like to talk to you.

Hey, Brian.

So, um, Rex needs your help finding the woman who you saw being taken on the street.

Her name is Megan, and she's in danger.

Did you see the man who took her?

You think you can draw him for us?

I know you've been through a lot, and what happened would upset and disorient anyone.

You know what, Rex?

Rex here could help you, if you want.

Right, Rex?

Jesse,

any progress in getting the overdue Van's location?

Oh, you know what, I'm all jammed up waiting for

judicial authorization on a trace for the GPS.

It's a kidnapping.

Yeah, but they're just, they're covering their bases, you know.

Oh, wait, okay, here we go.

Wait a minute, authorization just came in, I got the search loaded, give me a second.

Well, good news, I got a ping, which means he didn't jam up the GPS.

It's zeroing in on an area of paradise.

That's a big area.

It's triangulating, give it a second.

Waiting for it to resolve.

Okay, it's a parking lot outside of a commercial laundry on Drover's Road.

He's keeping her in a laundromat.

Well, the Internet tells me things, I tell you things.

Okay, just text me the address, how some uniforms meet me there.

You know, Mark, I'm just hoping you didn't dump the Van there and take her elsewhere.

I think he's finished.

Can I look at your picture, Brian?

No, it is almost like a photograph.

Sarah.

Mark, hi.

Brian just gave us a drawing of the kidnapper.

The man we're looking for isn't Jamie Bregden.

I know, I'm looking at Jamie Bregden.

He's dead.

Preliminary results from Jamie's autopsy indicate cause of death was a single stab

wound to the heart, so either the killer was

very lucky or... They knew what they were doing.

Yeah, also there was nowhere near enough blood

in the Van for it to have been the murder scene.

Meaning Jamie was killed elsewhere and transported there.

So what do we think is going on here?

Brian's drawing makes it clear that it wasn't

Jamie who snatched Megan off the street.

Right, but he still could have been involved, right?

I could have had a partner who wanted all of the ransom money to himself.

You know, once they had Megan, the partner would

have realized they didn't need Jamie anymore.

Right, that's my thinking too.

Jesse, did you get in touch with that Van rental agency?

Yeah, the Van was rented using a fake ID and a credit card.

The problem was first of the month and all the clerks were swamped with people

renting vans to move, so... Great, so no one remembers what this guy looks like.

Well, but we do have Brian's drawing of the suspect.

Maybe we use that like an artist sketch to put out an APB.

You know what?

I might be able to do you one better.

I'm beta testing some facial recognition software.

I've been using Brian's drawing as a test case.

You're thinking it can work from a drawing?

It's worth a shot.

I'd have to upload it and get permissions.

It would take some time, but it's... Oh, Jesse,

the details of the ransom drop just came in.

I'm sending you a link.

Yeah, okay.

The money is to be placed in a duffel bag.

And don't try marking the ransom.

He'll know.

Dad, take the bag to Forest Road Cemetery at three o'clock sharp.

Drop it on the bench by the exit, walk away, and don't look back.

Forest Road Cemetery is wide open.

It's going to be hard to have surveillance there and not be spotted.

There's no way we let this guy get away.

This might be our own chance to save Megan.

I have an idea.

The killer said not to Mark the money, but what

if we did in a way that only Rex could detect?

Then Rex can follow the money after it's delivered.

Exactly.

How would you do that?

Synthetics.

The canine unit uses synthetic scents to train the dogs.

Pseudo-cocaine or explosive powder.

Both are entirely undetectable by humans.

I could spray the money with one of them.

Do it.

Okay.

I've got eyes on Megan's father.

He's crossing to the drop zone.

He made the drop.

And now we wait.

Yeah, maybe not for long.

We've got some action here.

I've got a teenager.

He's approaching the bag.

He's looking.

He's picking up the bag.

He's got it.

He's on the run.

Let's go.

Go, go, go, go, go.

Stop right there.

Easy, easy, easy.

Hey, kid, just, just set down the duffel bag.

No, no, no.

Don't, don't do anything stupid.

No, don't, don't, don't.

Turn around.

You're under arrest.

You're telling me you have no idea where Megan is?

I told you, I don't know any Megan.

I'm just supposed to believe you had no idea what was in that duffel bag.

Well, I didn't know there was money in there.

It wasn't just money.

It was ransom.

And that makes you an accessory to kidnapping and murder.

You're going to spend the rest of your life in prison.

I swear, I'm telling the truth.

Then tell me again, how exactly did you get involved?

I played this online game, Star Quest.

One day this player named break jam showed up and in the

chat, they offered me a bunch of game credits and skins.

If I did something for them, what was the ask?

To go to the cemetery and watch for a man

dropping a bag and then grab it when he's gone.

Then what?

Run to the railing and drop it into a truck waiting below.

If I was late, I got nothing.

So who is this break jam?

What does he look like?

I don't know.

I keep telling you this.

You have to believe me.

I would tell you in an instant if it would help get this person back.

I thought it was just a prank or something.

Please.

I didn't want to hurt anyone.

Do we believe the kid?

I think so.

I mean, it's a smart setup.

Totally anonymous contact when recruiting them and at the backdrop.

What do we know about this pickup truck?

Well, it turns out it was stolen from the ghouls about a week ago.

Okay.

Can we use security cameras to track it down?

I tried, but I lost it leaving downtown.

And what about this break jam?

Is that like a play on Jamie Bregnan?

Indeed.

Indeed, I traced it back to a gaming site based in Cyprus.

Problem is, is that they used a VPN to mask the IP.

I will get it, but it'll take some time.

Well, time is what we do not have.

Kidnapper has the money and he's already killed one person.

Why would he let Megan live?

Yeah, we need to find her now.

Okay, facial recognition software just got a match for Brian's drawing.

Tell me we got a hit.

Actually, looks like we got 33 across the country.

Still, that's incredible.

Just from Brian's drawing.

I'm just narrowing it down to search for people on the island.

Okay.

Okay, that leaves three.

Well, let's focus on the one with the long criminal record, shall we?

Agreed.

Earl Blackburn, 43 years old, and did some time for armed robbery and assault.

Ran a high-end chop shop disassembling stolen

cars, and those are just the highlights.

Do we know where this guy is?

Yeah, he did parole, so I have home address.

Why don't you look at that?

Looks like Earl Blackburn is represented by the law firm that Megan works for.

Stunned.

Earl was a model prisoner.

He did all the programs.

He had a great psych assessment.

I really thought that he would fall.

Well, we need to find him as quickly as possible.

He's not at his home address.

Do you have any idea where he might be?

No, no idea.

I haven't heard from him since his parole board meeting.

Did Megan have any interactions with him when he was represented by the firm?

No, but you know who did.

It's Jamie.

So let's say Jamie is running some collapsing scam.

He's in desperate need of cash.

Megan has turned on him.

So he cooks up a kidnap scheme.

Makes revenge on Megan and ransom from her parents.

But Jamie decides he can't do it alone, turns to Earl

Blackburn, who he met while working on his parole case.

Right, only Earl turns the tables on Jamie.

Yeah, but if this is the plan, then why didn't he give himself an alibi?

What do you got, Sarah?

Uh, more results from Jamie's autopsy.

I can place time of death at 18 hours ago.

Not long after Megan was taken.

No.

What else you got?

Several tiny shards of chromium were found in the stab wound.

Have a look.

The type you didn't expect to find in something like an industrial plant.

Or maybe a professional chop shop.

I'll have Jesse run down some locations.

Hello, Mark.

It's me.

I searched every location that Earl Blackburn worked at in the past,

and most of the buildings they've been sold or leased out to legitimate businesses.

But there is one that remains vacant on the

market and has been for the last six months.

It's at 11 Clyde Avenue and Mount Pearl.

We're on our way.

Have a SWAT unit meet us there.

You got it.

There's no signs of activity or Blackburn's truck.

Yeah, Laverax and I take it close to one.

Go.

He's in there.

Any sign of Megan?

No, but I can't be sure she's not there.

And he's got a gun.

We need to move inside.

Take him down fast.

Copy.

It's the vehicle Blackburn used to achieve the ransom.

Nothing.

Where is she?

Where is she?

She better be alive.

This is really necessary.

Brian's been through so much.

I know I need him to officially identify Earl Blackburn as an eyewitness.

Brian, do you think you can help the police?

Brian, I need you to look at someone and tell me if they're the man you drew.

Can you do that?

I want you to try and remember.

Brian, is that the man who you saw taking the woman in front of your house?

Yeah.

Oh, Brian, thank you.

I want you to know how much we all appreciate what you've done.

I know it wasn't easy.

We got an eyewitness, Blackburn.

We know you took Meghan.

So where is she?

We've got Jamie's blood on the chop shop floor.

We've got the truck you picked up the ransom in.

So give yourself up and give us Meghan.

You know, all this time I thought you were in this with Jamie.

And this is what bothers me.

If Jamie was your partner, how come he didn't do anything to cover his tracks?

There's someone else involved, isn't there?

Someone who needed cash, needed a scapegoat.

Someone at the firm who'd have access to the accounts

and has the smell of blood money all over them.

Okay.

I'll tell you.

Detective, got a very full slate today.

How can I be of assistance?

Well, I wanted to let you know that we've captured Earl Blackburn.

Well, unfortunately, we didn't find her, which

is, which is why I wanted to speak with you.

Yeah, of course.

Come on in.

How can I help?

All along, I've had a notion that there was something off about this kidnapping.

How so?

Well, from the get-go, everything was pointed towards Jamie, but he's a lawyer.

He's a smart guy and he had to have known we'd be onto him.

Well, it's not as if Jamie was a seasoned criminal, unlike Blackburn.

But then how could Blackburn know that Megan would leave work early?

Yeah, I don't know unless he was just waiting, watching for her to go.

Yeah, maybe.

But then there's the money that was stolen from the escrow accounts.

There is no sign that Jamie ever had it, which makes me wonder where it went,

or if he even took it.

I'm sorry.

I don't get what you're implying here.

We checked, Todd.

And there is one other person at the firm who has access to those accounts.

And that is you.

I suspect that if I open this, I'm gonna find $2 million.

Tell me where she is, Todd.

I have no idea.

And you know that's a lie.

Tell me.

I believe I have the right to remain silent.

And you have the right to an attorney, but you

also have the right to be a decent human being.

Talk to Blackburn.

He's your abductor.

Blackburn's not gonna crack and you know it.

So far, you've had him do all your dirty work, but

this time it is you who is gonna let Megan die.

You really want to do that?

Ask yourself.

She's in an abandoned machine shop in the Goulds.

Megan, it's okay.

Police officers.

My partner, Rex.

Here you go.

Everything's gonna be okay.

You see, when Megan went to Todd to talk about the

missing funds, he saw a way out of his troubles.

And he hired Earl Blackburn to kidnap her and

framed it up to make it look like Jamie did it.

And then Todd had Blackburn kill Jamie?

Todd was betting that the investigation into

those missing funds would end with Jamie's death.

Then he and Blackburn would split the ransom.

So they were gonna kill me too.

Jamie told me he had nothing to do with the missing money.

I know.

If only I had believed him.

Hello.

Come on in.

Hi.

How's Brian doing?

Better.

Oh.

He's out of the shell he went into.

I think a lot of that has to do with Rex.

Rex understood Brian in a way none of us could.

Yeah, it's good to have her, Rex.

It sure is.

Would it be okay for Brian to visit Rex sometimes?

Yeah, sure.

I think, uh, I think Rex probably would love that.

Rex.