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Hey,

Ben, are you almost done? I really gotta go.

Almost.

Go on. I got you. You're the best.

Hey, a bunch of us are getting together by Sam's tonight.

If you want to come by, hit me up.

I'm pretty beat.

I think I'm just going to lock up and stay home and call it a night.

Right.

So, next time.

Next time.

All right. Later, Ben.

Hey, you need a ride to your car?

No. I'm good.

Okay, you guys can go.

Mr. and Mrs. Pateros. Mr. Shaw, thank you so much for coming.

Came as quickly as I could.

There's someplace else we want to talk. No, here is fine. Everyone knows what's

happening with Ben.

She's been gone since last night.

He never came home after his shift. Twelve hours.

Yeah, we've been trying to sell all night.

His friends, no one has heard anything from him. Now, we know he's 18, but it's

not like him to disappear like this, you know, without a call or something.

You contacted the police?

Of course.

They said unless there's signs of foul play, it could be a voluntary

disappearance. Are there any circumstances in your son's life I

about anything in particular?

Ben never deposited the cash into the bank last night. How much cash are you

talking about?

Would have been a few thousand dollars.

Is there a chance he was robbed?

Yes. It's very possible. There have been a lot of muggings in the area recently.

I see.

I hate to ask.

Any possibility maybe your son took the money? There have been changes in Ben's

behavior. Okay. Like what?

He's 18.

He's restless. He's trying to figure his life out. That's not a crime.

That's why we called you, Mr. Shaw.

We're at a loss.

We're not rich, but we pulled together $10 ,000 for the reward.

If Ben is hurt or... Or even in trouble. We just need to find him.

Yeah, I'm going to do everything I can.

It's over here.

Which one is Ben's? 25.

So he doesn't keep... All of his stuff in the back office?

No, he wants his lockers by the other employees.

Got it.

Matt? No, please.

She mentioned earlier something about Ben's behavior. Is there anything in

specific you might share with me that might help us understand why he

disappeared? He's been coming home from work, not talking, just going to his

room for hours.

Any idea what he's doing? He says he's online.

I try to talk to him about it, but he gets angry, so I don't push.

My wife, she doesn't want to hear this, but I don't think Ben wants anything to

do with this place.

It comes because we ask him to, but maybe he wants to do something else with

life. He wants to help people.

How so?

Activism, maybe.

He's been vocal about the problems in the world, fighting injustice, that kind

of thing.

Well, that's good, right? I think so.

But my wife, she thinks it's just a phase. She wants to keep him close.

There's something in here.

Wow.

Spent cartridge from a taser.

I didn't even know he had one.

Depositing large sums of money at the end of the night, maybe he felt like he

needed protection?

Maybe.

When he leaves here, where does he go? What's that look like? He locks up, and

then he takes the trash out to the back to the bin.

Okay, can you show me? Yeah, this way.

The trap is this way.

Don't have a normal route that he takes.

Most everybody uses the alley before cutting up to the street where it's

lit, you know, for safety.

Yeah, that way.

What that camera I record last night don't has been hammering me for a month

fix it, but they got away Come

here

And phone all right whether he did that thing on

purpose that he didn't want to be tracked or something happened to him

May even drop it. Your kitchen's not open yet today, right?

No, not till 11.

The woman down there is eating stuff out.

Sometimes Ben gives food away we don't sell unless we're home.

Excuse me. Miss.

Hi.

Young man gave you that bag of food last night?

Yeah. Yeah, I left it by the door like he always does.

See where he went?

I don't want any trouble. Oh, no, I don't want any trouble either.

No, no, no trouble at all.

I just want to know if you saw anything. That's all. He's gone missing.

We just want to know if he's okay.

Car drove up.

Big dog got out.

Dark skin, leather jacket.

They were fighting, sounded like.

That guy take Ben?

Yeah.

When the car drove off.

Is there anything else you can tell me about the car?

DeVille, maybe?

Oh, God.

What? You know who owns it? Yeah.

Ellis Bronner. He used to work at the restaurant.

Okay. Here you go. Hey, take this. Stay warm, okay?

Write that name you want it.

Ellis Bronner? We got theft, assault, minor drug charge.

Why do you think he came for Ben?

Ben's father fired him for stealing about a month ago. Maybe he didn't go

quietly. But you think he took Ben to get back at his folk?

Anything's possible.

Any other connection between the two?

Uh -huh.

Got a number of calls going back and forth between them last night.

I don't know.

Maybe Ellis was threatening him?

Maybe.

Where am I going to find this guy?

Found his apartment.

Send it to you now.

Thanks, Brady.

Hey, is Colter all right?

Yeah, we might have something on this missing 18 -year -old kid. Good.

Well... All right, I'm just about to walk into a meeting, so if you guys need

hand with anything, let me know.

You're going to a meeting with Bubbly? I don't want to jinx it, but it could be

good for us.

Oh, goody -goody.

Sending you all the good vibes.

I will take them.

Maxine, all I have is this swill lying around, so there's no promises.

Oh, we better make sure it's swill. We better.

And my assistant is ordering us some food in.

Great.

So, I heard about your work in Houston from a friend of mine down there.

The private jet broker case and that little domestic issue.

Yeah, that got kind of messy, didn't it?

We cleaned up pretty nicely.

Minimal leaks or so I thought.

Oh, that's all I heard.

Grant Hardwick told me when I called around about you.

Don't worry, that's the only T he spilled.

He did say you were a killer, though.

I like that you did your homework on me.

Not homework.

It's the job.

Horrible. I get from one of my more difficult clients.

Bastards always give as good as they take, right? I mean, every time.

So, tell me.

How can I be of help?

Help's not really the right word.

So, our firm has taken on a case against a real estate development giant.

Class action, a lot of layers, a lot of billable hours.

This case requires more manpower than we can muster internally, so I pitched my

partners on looking to co -counsel outside the firm.

Find a few snipers, such as yourself, and let them loose.

With the full guidance and protection of the firm, of course.

It's just, in a case this size, it's, you know, those little things that can

kill you at trial.

Yeah, little things.

What I just heard was grunt work.

I was going to say shoe leather, but... Oh.

Look, I think if this ends up being a match, it could be very, very worth your

while.

In return, we are in a position to flow very promising clients your way.

We think this could be a mutually beneficial situation.

If... It's something you're up for, that is.

Okay, I will do my research.

Make sure that I can deliver on what you're asking.

You know, devil's in the details.

Always.

Send me the file.

I'll have a look.

NDA first.

Send the file.

Of course.

Well, we need to talk.

Ben Pateras.

I know you picked him up last night. What'd you do to him? Man, I didn't do

nothing, man. Pateras fired you. I know that, too. What, is this payback?

That was a misunderstanding, bro. I didn't steal nothing, all right?

Man, I was just trying to pick up some overlays Ben left in one of the lockers.

His dad caught me, and I didn't want to rat Ben out, so I took the fall. That's

it.

Ben's my boy. We're business partners.

Were you running fake IDs?

Yeah, man, we got an ID business.

Ben's the tech side of it. I know the folks that need him.

Were you working together last night?

No.

No, he just called me out of nowhere, asked me to pick him up.

ASAP, so I peeled over.

I just yelled at him for dragging my ass out of bed. He needed something to hurt

him. Yeah.

He had to grab some IDs and buy my car off me. You took the bill? No.

No, man, I got a junker sitting on the side, just not doing me no good, so,

yeah, I hooked him up.

He paid cash.

It's the only thing I take.

Why? He took it from the restaurant.

Why would he need a car?

He didn't say.

But, man, he was stressed.

Something about your business?

No, no, he would have told me that.

Man, this felt personal.

So I was just like, yeah, all good, man. You want the car, you got it.

I think it might have been about some girl. I overheard him talking on the

phone.

Any sense?

No.

Is he okay?

I don't know.

Parents are worried you didn't make it home.

Damn.

Man, I hope you didn't get into anything stupid with those IDs.

That laptop of your plate, is that Ben?

Yeah, why?

Because I need to take a look at it.

That's why.

Mm -mm.

Seriously? There's more?

I cannot believe this lady's sending over all these damn files.

Yeah. Has no one ever digitized any of this?

Apparently, Renie says that big firms are like old ships that turn slow.

All right. What does this lady, Max, actually want us to do?

Well, her firm is filing a class action suit against some big real estate

developer, and they want us to find witnesses that can speak to the

corporate malfeasance.

Why do they want Renie to do that?

I don't know. I guess they heard good things.

Come on. You see what I'm saying?

It's a little sus, right?

I mean, it could not be as simple as just running down some witnesses.

I think Rini likes that Max is kind of a badass.

You mean scary.

So scary. Very scary.

Terrifying. Yeah.

Anyway, Rini's hoping you can run these names for her.

She's still debating whether to take the case and kind of wants to talk to some

of these people, figure out what she'd be getting into.

I'm on it.

Thank you. You're welcome.

What's up, man? You find Ellis?

Yeah. It turns out he didn't kidnap Ben. They were working together as business

partners selling fake IDs.

I saw some fake IDs one summer.

I almost got pinched. Twice.

He needed IDs and a car.

Maybe it had to do with some girl.

A client?

Ellis doesn't seem to think so, but I got Ben's laptop here. Can you get into

this thing via my phone?

Let's do it.

Take me two seconds.

Looks like Ben wrote his own code over the default.

I'm impressed.

Sorry, bro. It's going to take me a little minute to find my workaround.

All right, I'll tell you what. In the meantime, I'm going to send you

information on the car that Ben bought.

Okay.

All right, that's an old car.

I don't have a GPS.

Let me see what I can do.

Boom. All right, got a hit.

Looks like a traffic cam picked it up about an hour ago across town.

Did I lose it?

Where'd it pick him up?

Next to some scrap yard.

You send me an address?

Yeah, I already did.

I got it. Thanks, Randy.

You got it, man.

Colter Shaw?

Yeah. Detective Blake.

Thanks for calling us in.

Yeah.

Did you ID the victim yet? Nadia Fadosh.

I'm here from Romania on a tourist visa that expired three months ago. I'm going

to have to ask you to keep this to yourself. I'm putting out a bolo on Ben.

Oh, no, Ben didn't kill that young lady.

Oh, no, someone else did. They ditched the body here with the car.

What makes you say that? Let me show you what I found here.

Look at this.

Two -step tire tracks right here.

Someone drove Ben's car in here, right?

And then took off in another.

or it's just another car drove in, unconnected. I thought about that. I

think so, though, because this right here, see that?

These are drag marks from where the body was dragged over into the trunk. Now, I

bet if you take a look at the body, you're going to find dirt on it.

Yeah, there was.

So whoever took Ben was here, and they have something to do with that body.

Take my card.

If you find out anything else, let me know.

I will. Thank you, Detective.

Hey, Randy.

Were you able to get into Ben's laptop?

Wasn't easy, but yes.

Look, all I did was create a virus that tricked the system into going into

default. From there, coded the back door to get me in.

Any idea what kind of trouble he was in? Yeah, nothing there.

Just got a bunch of IDs.

Some finished, some in progress.

Anything for a Nadia Fadosh?

This girl's body was found in a car that Ben got from Ellis.

Damn, man.

Uh, let me search.

Here we go.

Nadia Fadosh.

I got photos. I got a license.

Looks like Ben was trying to make her a green card.

So what you thinking? Ellis set Ben up?

No, I don't think so.

The only thing Ellis seemed to know is that Ben was worried about some girl.

The girl must be Nadia, right?

Yeah. I just wonder why Ben wouldn't tell Ellis about her. Maybe she was more

than just a client.

Maybe. Or maybe she got herself into a situation.

Ben didn't want Ellis to get involved.

Okay, so Ben goes to drop off the IDs and gets taken by whoever killed Nadia.

That's what I'm thinking.

You got an address for her?

The address on the ID Ben gave her is fake, and there's no other address on

file.

Okay. What about the photo that was sent?

Is there a way we can find out where that was taken?

You're good.

Yeah, let me see if I can strip the metadata.

Maybe we'll get lucky.

No way.

Boom. Got a geolocation.

Looks like the photo was taken at some house that's five miles away from me.

Sending it now.

Thanks, Randy. Good work.

Can I help you?

Oh, uh, yeah. Sorry to bother you. My name is Rainey Green. I'm looking for

Simone Arthur.

Is she home?

Can't help you.

Hi.

Yes, I am very sorry to bother you, but I really need to speak with Simone.

It's... Regarding her relationship with the former employer, Prater and Rockwell

Properties Group, I believe she was the site manager for Elk Run Canyon Housing

Development.

Look, I'm interviewing some potential witnesses for a class action lawsuit,

Simone's on the list. So any participation could really help a lot of

financially if we win, including her.

You? Are you Simone Arthur?

And Josephine, her mother. Okay. Okay, great. Nice to meet you. Is she here?

You want to see Simone?

Yeah.

Fine.

Thank you.

You people just don't quit, do you?

You people?

What?

You think you're the first lawyer to come knocking?

You want to see Simone?

There she is.

Um, I'm so sorry.

I truly had no idea. I... When did she... Two months ago.

Cancer.

My deepest condolences, Josephine. I truly...

Like I told the guy who came before, Simone wanted nothing to do with any

lawsuits.

Okay.

Um, I understand.

Well, you can see yourself out.

All right, Ben.

Let's try this again.

What's that thing with that thumb? Cam house?

Yeah, it's like a run -down house. And you walk in, you go downstairs, and

there's a bunch of rooms, mattresses, webcam.

Looks like they were locking these girls up.

Oh, I know what this is.

Predators luring girls from foreign countries with promises of being a

Only when they get here, the pathports are taken.

Yeah. You work or else.

So maybe Nadia went to Ben for a fake ID so she'd get out of here. She got

caught by a handler.

They had to make an example of her.

Something's not adding up.

Nadia was killed a couple days ago, right?

Well, Ben was just here in a room. The name Kendall.

Written on the door. It had hats on the floor, sign of a struggle.

All right, looks like Ben made Kendall an ID, too.

Except this just happened last night, bro.

So maybe that's who Ellis overheard Ben talking about.

What, are you saying he came to arrest her? I don't know.

Tell you what, I got a webcam here, the laptop. Can you get into this thing?

Yeah, you know I can do that.

Got it.

Looks like recording started when the camera hit the bed. Here, take a look.

So maybe, maybe Ben didn't come here to save Nadia. Maybe he came here to save

Kendall.

And he was taken.

Gotta be connected to Nadia's murder somehow.

The colonel found out what happened to her friend. She called Ben for help.

And where were they taken?

The house was rented to some shell company.

I'll call you back.

Call her.

Don't.

Gun, drop it.

Drop it.

Where's Ben? Where is he? I know you had a security. Where is he?

I was just told to keep him alive. Why?

Why? To find the girl.

Kendall.

Who's looking for her?

Give me a name.

Don't make me do this.

What?

Eliza, Nico.

They run this place. That's all I know.

Eliza and Nico Watts, brother -sister duo.

Records for assault, intimidation, and they were persons of interest in three

different missing person cases.

All having to do with women?

Bingo. All here on tourist visas.

Same as Nadia. Yeah, but they can never find enough evidence to put them away.

Until Kendall found out they killed Nadia. Meaning she could actually take

down. Yeah, now they're cleaning up their tracks.

And using Ben to find out where they took her.

Once they get what they want... They're gonna kill him too.

We need to find out where they took them.

All right, anything in the guy's wallet?

Yeah, I got some cash here. There's an ID, credit card.

I got a business card. It's called Celebrity.

Okay, looks like Celebrity is a nightclub across town.

Hold up.

Dude, looks like it's owned by the same shell company that's running out the cam

house. Yeah, I just sent you a pin.

I'm on my way.

Be careful, dog.

On two.

On two.

Get one. Get two.

What's up?

Copy that.

Yeah, I'll take care of it.

All right.

Well, it's all right, kid.

Stop the person.

You're okay.

I can help you.

Who are you?

Colter. Parents hired me.

My parents?

Come on. Get the hell out of here.

No, I can't go.

I have to save her.

Kendall. You didn't see it. They went through my burner, figured out where

hiding. They're on their way to kill her.

And those phones still got no voicemail.

Do you think her battery died?

So why didn't Kendall go to the cops as soon as she found out what happened to

Nadia? When she found Nadia's body hidden in the closet, she panicked. I

she'd get blamed for it somehow, or maybe even deported.

Okay, so she called you.

I set up a place for us to go.

To hide out until we could come up with a plan.

Is that why you ditched your phone? You guys want to run away together?

I wanted to help her. I couldn't call the cops. I couldn't tell my parents.

Thought you could save her.

I had no idea what her and Nadia were involved in. And then one day she told

the truth.

They're victims.

Living like prisoners.

So why'd you make an ID for Nadia first?

She'd been there longer. It's time for her to go.

Kendall is waiting. Hold on. Hold on.

She's waiting on who?

For me.

So how do you know she's going to be at this place you set up?

Well, that was the plan.

She's got no place else to go.

Ben, is that you?

You've been a busy girl, Kendall.

No, no way. No, you stay here. I want to help. Call the police. Tell them what's

going on here. We're going after Kendall.

We don't want this to be any more painful than it needs to be. Tell us who

knows about what happened to Nadia.

Who else did you tell?

Besides the kid.

Come here, Phantom. Come here.

Put the knife down.

Put it down.

We're gonna be okay, right?

We're gonna be okay.

Thanks.

I love you, too.

All right.

Hey, how's the job with Coulter?

He found the kid and his girl, too.

And he shut down the Predators' illegal cam operation.

In culture we trust.

Damn straight.

Hey.

How'd your interviews go?

I... Yeah, I mean, they were mostly fine. It was just this last one that I

to. Simone Arthur.

I found out she recently died of cancer.

What? Yeah.

That's crazy that that didn't pop up in my search, though.

I know.

There's something strange about this case, and I can't quite put my finger on

it, but, I don't know, something just feels off.

So are you going to path on it? I don't know.

I'm not sure what's going on, but whatever it is, I'm going to find out

Okay. So go get more.

If you get to a place where you can talk to us, I...

I'm okay.

You're okay.

Come here.

I'm sorry.

No, no. We're just glad you called.

Um, there's someone I want you to meet.

This is Kendall.

Hello.

Is it okay if she stays with us for a while?

She has nowhere else to go.

It's nice to finally meet you, Mrs. Pateras.

Are you hungry?

Oh, yes.

I'll whip something up this way.

Thank you for everything, Mr. Shaw.

Glad everything worked out for you.

I can't help but think if I'd have been more open, more understanding, maybe Ben

could have come to me.

Maybe I could have helped sooner.

Oh, I... I don't know. I think you did everything the right way.

It's a great kid.

It means you were our savior.

We're forever in your debt, Mr. Phil.

Not at all.

Enjoy your family.

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