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You know, before
I met you, my life

was a shambles.

I was broke, I had
a drinking problem,

I was in a relationship
with an abusive man.

I was on the verge
of killing myself.

I know you were.

But how did you turn
your life around?

It was because of you.

The things
you taught me,

the way you helped me
to believe in myself.

No, Corinne,
it was you.

You were the one
with the will.

You were the one
who faced your fears,

you were the one that decided
who you wanted to be,

and then you made it happen.

I just gave you
the tools.

Corinne McCormick,
one of over 20,000 people

who have found the power
within themselves

using the techniques
of Life Rules.

And cut.

That is a wrap.

Great. Thanks.

Hey, that was fantastic, huh?

How do you feel?

Good. Great.

I´m just so honored

that you would want me
to do this for you.

Will, come on.

Got to get you to the airport.

Thank you.
Bye.

Bye.

All right, so the limo´s
out front,

Stephanie´s going
to meet you

at the Buffalo airport
with a car service

and you´re going to go
straight to Niagara Falls

for the first night´s
orientation.

I thought this went
well today.

Yeah, absolutely
went well.

Gary, relax.

It´s all going the way
it´s supposed to.

Hey, thanks.

I´m going to miss you.

So, come with me.

Mm, and compete
with the throng?

Well, it´s Niagara Falls.

We could get
married again.

I´ll be fine here.

Suitcase is in
the car, Will.

Shirt´s on top this time.

Thanks, Jules.

Hey...

good luck.

It´s not about luck.

I just said
that´s not my concern.

Gary.

It´s not my concern.

Gary!

Can you hold on
a second? What?

Another limo just
showed up.

They say they´re here
for Will.

They´re...?

I guess helping people
really pays.

I know you got
a summer pad

just like this one,
don´t you?

A couple of ´em.

So what´s the skinny
on this guy?

Will Sterling,
33 years old.

He´s a self-help guru.

You know, the tapes,
the seminars.

Actually, the guy´s gaining
quite a following.

Never heard of him.

He just shot his first
infomercial this morning.

After that he was supposed
to catch a flight

to Niagara Falls
to teach a seminar.

Never made it to the airport.

Ransom demand?

Not yet, but look
at this place.

We ever find the limo?

Ten miles from here
on the side of the road.

They must have
transferred him
to another car.

What´d the limo company
have to say?

That their driver showed up
15 minutes after Sterling left.

Is the limo hot?

Stolen early this morning
from a dealership in Huntington.

So the car shows up early,
Sterling hops in

and the rest is history.

Whoever put this whole plan
together knew exactly

what time Sterling
was leaving to the airport.

Inside job.
Uh, huh.

We better find
this guy fast

because there´s
200 people sitting

in a hotel ballroom
in Niagara Falls

waiting for Will Sterling
to change their lives.

Using the techniques

of Life Rules.

I grew up having
every disadvantage.

My father left my mother
when I was six.

My mother was
a Methadone addict.

Social Services took me from her
when I was 12.

Then I got passed around from
one foster home to the next.

You can probably guess
what happened to me.

Drugs, jail, degradation.

But then one day,
in the prison library...

He discovers self-help books.

Read every one
he could get his hands on.

When he gets out of jail,
he gets into

the self-help
business himself.

Six years later,
he is a millionaire.

American dream
comes true.

Yeah. This is
the footage

from the infomercial
he was making.

Up until recently,
he marketed himself

mostly by word of mouth,
on the Internet,

and he´s pretty much
based out of New York.

Now he´s trying to expand.

Maybe the timing´s
not so coincidental.

It´s possible that somebody
didn´t want him to go national.

Like a disgruntled employee.

Steven Pine,

the Life Rules
Junior Vice President.

Now the founder of an anti-Will
Sterling Website,

and he´s still
on the company payroll.

I´m calling him in.

Guys like Sterling
have a lot of power over people.

He´s bound to inspire
some pretty strong feelings.

Why? He´s not Jim Jones, Jack.

He´s a smart,
ambitious guy

with some good strategies
for tackling life.

Have you listened to the tapes?

As a matter of fact,
I have.

Just for a little while,
a couple of years ago.

They´re actually very helpful.

Really?

So what´s the hook?

What does this Sterling guy sell

that the other con men don´t?

Nothing that original.

He sort of condenses everything

from other self-help
philosophies

into seven basic life rules.

Want to hear them?

Oh, not particularly.

Okay, these are forensics
on the limo.

No prints, no blood,
no evidence of a struggle.

They must have
wiped the car down.

That sounds
like a professional job.

Yeah, but where´s
the ransom demand?

If this is about money,

the kidnappers are in
for a big surprise.

Sterling is leveraged

up to his ass.

The house, the business,
there´s not a lot of cash flow.

Okay, we should check
his core group,

the people
that are closest to him.

We should also look
into his background.

He is an ex-con.

It could have
caught up with him.

Life Rules, huh, Sam?

Did you walk over the coals?

It´s the first cigarette
I´ve had in three years.

Will´s the one

who got me to quit.

Did the two
of you meet

in one of his seminars?

No. Will never dated
any of his students,

and believe me,
he had plenty of opportunity.

No. We met at a restaurant.

I was on a date, actually.

He was alone at the bar.

I think he was
waiting for someone,

and I got up
to go to the bathroom

and he followed me.

He said that I was
the woman of his dreams

and there was no doubt about it
and that I should go back

and finish my date
and meet him at the corner

of 73rd and Central Park West.

That´s the kind of guy Will is.

He sees something he wants
and he goes after it.

Is there anything

specific you could tell me
that you think might help me?

Last week, must have been
Wednesday night.

It was late, we were upstairs
in bed and the phone rang.

( phone rings )

Who is that?

It´s probably Gary.

Hello.

Wait, hold on a second.

Yeah, no. Slow down.

I want to talk
to you about this.

I really do.

I want to help you
get through this. Just...

I will call you back
in two minutes, I promise. Okay?

I, uh... I´m going

to take this downstairs.

Who is it?

It doesn´t matter, Hil.

It matters to me, Will.

It was one of my clients.

At 1:00 in the morning

on a private line?

I will tell them
not to call like that again.

But listen, somebody´s in
a crisis and they need my help.

Okay?

I love you.

I´ll be back up
in a few minutes.

And he wouldn´t
tell you specifically

who was on the phone?

I think he was
protecting their privacy.

Does Mr. Sterling
give out his private number

to all of his clients?

No, not usually.

It scares me sometimes.

The need that people
have for him.

I found a late-night call

to Will Sterling´s house.

Corinne McCormick, 34 years old,
lives in Bayside.

What have we got here?

Ah, registered handgun.

That´s the girl
from the infomercial

they were taping today.

She was at the house
right before Will left.

Strange, she´s stalking him
and he´s putting her in a video

as one of his
star students.

Well, just because
she called him

when she was having trouble
doesn´t mean

she was stalking him.

It does when
she calls his house

eight times
in the same day.

Can anybody say Enron?

Shredded documents?

Standard operating procedure,
or so they say.

A lot of corporations shred
documents.

I´ve got five more

of these babies downstairs.

Our guy´s going to have a very
nice time pasting this together.

So you and Will started
the company together
six years ago?

Actually, Will´s the genius
behind the whole thing.

I´m just here to run
the day-to-day operations,

but together we make
a pretty good team.

Well, we understand
that financially

you´re not in such great shape.

Well, Will insists
on putting everything we earn

back into the company.

I mean, he, uh,
always bets on himself.

That´s what he teaches,
and that´s what´s worked.

So when you say
"back into the company,"

does that include
this place?

Yeah, well, this is the hub
of our activity.

I mean, it´s a pretty good
business investment.

When people see this place,
they see success, you know?

Do you mind holding off on that
till we´re done?

Sure.
Are you aware that

one of your own employees
has a very negative Website

attacking both Will
and the company?

Are we talking
about Steven Pine?

That´s right.
Yeah.

But he´s still
on your payroll.

Severance package.

Hmm. So why´d you
have to fire him?

Um...

let´s just say that Steven...
overidentified with Will.

( whistles )

Will?
Yeah.

I need to talk to you.

What´s up, Steve?

Well, I-I was just thinking
that I would really like

to go with you on that
Niagara Falls trip.

Oh.

Well, I think Gary
really needs you here.

Yeah, come on,
that´s true, Steven.

You know you´re
valuable here.

I appreciate that,
I really do,

but I think if I´m
going to grow within
this company,

I need to be out there
at the seminars

learning from you.

Well, I...
I love your enthusiasm

and your drive
and your passion.

That is all great,
and it´s where you should be.

But you got to know
how to harness that
for the task at hand.

Remember what
we talked about--

knowing your long-term goals

but keeping the short ones
achievable, right?

I want to go
to Niagara Falls.

Steven.
There´s no reason why
I´m not ready, Will.

Steven.
No reason.

Think about where

you´re channeling
your energy right now.

Forget it.

Just forget it.

You just want to keep me down.

I mean, he started out
as our computer geek,

and then we promoted him
to mid-level manager

and the next thing you know
he´s got these

delusions of grandeur.
So did he know the date

that Will was traveling
to Niagara Falls?

Yes.

And the flight.

The reason that they fired me
is ´cause Gary couldn´t handle

that I was very clearly
becoming the number two.

Will counted on me

for more and more,
and Gary was threatened.

So why did you
turn on Will?

Will couldn´t stand up
to Gary.

I mean, this guy
preaches all this

self-fulfillment crap,

and he winds up
a total hypocrite.

You sound pretty
disillusioned.

Let me... let me
tell you something.

Now that I´m out of there
and I have a little time
to reflect on it.

I realized the whole
thing is a scam.

You buy the tapes, right?

And the tapes get
you to the seminars.

The seminars get you
to the inner circle,

and every step costs
more and more money

until you get to
the Sterling circle,

which costs three
grand for a weekend.

You know, it´s interesting,
for all this talk of money,

the company was almost broke.

Well, I´m not surprised.

Why are you not surprised,
Mr. Pine?

Well, because they
had some pretty

funky business practices,
I´ll tell you that.

Funky? Funky how?

You know, little things,
you know, cutting corners,

writing off questionable
stuff as business expenses.

I mean, Gary...

sends a $5,000 check to
his brother every week,

and his brother doesn´t
even work at the company.

What would the name
of this brother be?

Paul Moscowitz.

$5,000 a week for at least
the last four months.

Where have the checks
been going?

Lakeside Convalescence Home
down in Cleveland, Ohio.

SAMANTHA:
All right, guys,

here´s what I´ve got
on Paul Moscowitz.

According to the IRS,
he has not received
a paycheck or paid taxes

in the last six years.

The last known address
is in Cleveland

in ´97.

He is, however,
still an active member

of SAG and AFTRA.

An out-of-work actor--
that would explain

why his brother´s still
taking care of him.

We´ve got to go to Cleveland.

Can I help you?
We´re with the FBI.

We´re looking
for Paul Moscowitz.

He´s right over here.

I can show you his room,
but I don´t think

he´s gonna have very much
to say to you.

Why´s that?

He´s been in a coma
for six years.

You sure that´s
Paul Moscowitz?

Positive.

How can I help you?

Mr. Adler, we´re with the FBI.

I understand that

you have power of attorney

over Paul Moscowitz.

That´s right.
That´s fairly unusual

for a hospital administrator
to have power of attorney

over a patient,
isn´t it?

That´s the way his family
wanted it.

Can you explain to me
why it costs $5,000 a week

to maintain this patient?

Well, all this machinery,
and the nursing...

Costs $1,400
a week.

We read the records.

Can you explain to me

why Gary Moscowitz
is paying

$3,600 a week extra
to maintain his brother?

I think I better speak
to my attorney.

Take it easy, Mr. Adler.

We´re not interested
in arresting you.

We just need some
answers, okay?

That´s not Paul Moscowitz.

His real name
is Will Sterling.

So if Will Sterling´s
lying in a coma in Cleveland,

who the hell is on the cover
of this box?

This guy, uh,
happens to be my brother.

Paul Moscowitz.

So your brother
switched identities

with an ex-con in a coma?

That is right.

Why?

´Cause America
loves an underdog,

and Will Sterling
is a lot better of a story

than Paul Moscowitz.

I mean, wouldn´t you
rather get advice

from an ex-con who heroically
rose from the ashes than a...

boring middle-class kid
who wants to be an actor?

And where´d you guys
find Will? Coma Will.

He´s our foster brother.
Oh, yeah, it was great.

Our parents thought it´d be
fun and charitable to, uh,

have a round-robin
of other kids

constantly passing
through our house,

stealing things
and getting arrested.

And as for the real Will,

he was with us
for a couple of years,

and then gangs, drugs...

Then about six years ago,
he, uh, overdosed.

And that´s when
Paul got the idea

to steal Will´s identity
and trade on it?

No, it was my idea.

Everything´s been my idea.

Let me see if I
get you straight.
Right.

I take Will´s name,

his background, his life.

Yes, that becomes
your new identity.

And then I move to New York,

and we set up a
self-help business.

Yes, I told you.

You are the front man,
and I am the man
behind the scenes.

Gary, this is crazy.

Is there actually
any money in this?

Millions.

We-We´d be helping
people, right?

Yes. I told...

I´ve read every book.

I´ve gone to every one
of these seminars,

and I am telling you
right now,

half of these guys,
they are freaking quacks.

None of them have the charisma
or the good looks that you have.

So you´d... coach me
on what to say?

I´m gonna teach you everything:
strategies, the presentation,

the seven simple rules
to change your life.

You´re gonna be a guru
in two months.

Well, then why don´t we
just make up my past?

Why do we have to steal his?

Because when we
succeed at this,

people are gonna want
to look up your past,

and we´re gonna have

the paperwork
to back that up.

This is insane.
Would you rather
do regional theater

in Cleveland for the rest
of your life?

Because this is the role
of a lifetime, Paul.

Life Rules.

Mm-hmm.

So I knew Paul
would eat it up.

And frankly,

between you and me,

he´s kind of over-the-top
as an actor,

but I knew he´d be
perfect for this.

So you arranged
the switch with the
hospital administrator

and you´ve been paying
him off ever since.
That is right.

So who else knows about
your little identity swap?

Just me and Will.
I mean, uh, Paul.

I guess I should say,
at this point.

Not even his wife?
Not even his wife.

His name is Paul Moscowitz,

and-and he and Gary
are brothers?

Mrs. Sterling...
Is-is that my name?

I mean, he´s the fraud.
Mrs. Sterling.

But is my marriage
a fraud?
Mrs. Sterling.

No, I mean,

is my name actually
Hilary Moscowitz?

Mrs. Sterling,
that´s a question

you need to ask
your attorney.

I don´t know--
I know this is

a lot to digest,
but I need

to ask you about
Corinne McCormick.

Maybe her name
is Moscowitz, too.

Apparently,
she´s the one who made

that late-night call
last week.

Do you think there´s

a possibility that maybe

your husband and her...
Of course.

I mean, now I´d say
just about anything
goes, wouldn´t you?

When I first met Will,
my life was... a shambles.

I was broke.

I had a drinking problem.

I was in a relationship
with an abusive man.

I was...
On the verge
of killing yourself,

I know.

I watched the videotape,
Ms. McCormick.

Well, it´s all true.

Will turned my life around.

Now I own my own business.

I´m financially independent,

and I have a community of people
who enrich my life.

Does Will enrich your life?

It´s not what you think.

He helps me.

You were supposed to go
to Niagara Falls with him.

Who told you that, Gary?

A flight booked
in your name.

The ticket was then canceled.

We know that
you kept calling

his house that day.

You must´ve been pretty upset.

Look...

I was angry at Gary, not Will.

That´s what I called
to talk to him about.

Gary is the one
who canceled my trip.

Gary was trying
to keep me away from Will.

Why´s that?

He said it was to protect me.

From what?

From having my heart broken.

Truth is, I think Gary

is jealous of Will.

WILL:
Before you can make any change,

you need to look at yourself
cold and hard.

and think about
what holds you back.

What is it that makes you see

a beautiful woman
across the room

and not go talk to her?

What is it?

It´s fear.

It´s fear of rejection,

fear of failure.

Even fear of success.

I want to suggest to you
that it is that fear,

the fear of your own power,
that holds you back.

Pretty interesting, huh?

Yeah. Uh... Jack wanted me

to look at these tapes.

I mean, you know,
there is a lot

of useful
information.
Mm-hmm.

There is. He talks
about his youth in Cleveland,

about his foster brothers.

Did you know he
used to be fat?

So, what do we got?

Meet Reese Randall.

Not a nice person.

Lived with
the Moscowitz clan

for 18 months
in 1985.

In and out of juvie,
served three years

for armed robbery,
assault and battery,

drunk driving, domestic abuse.

Just got off the phone
with his landlord in Cleveland.

she says
she hasn´t seen him

for a couple
of days,

and that his
car is missing.

From what I remember
from those tapes,

he was really close

to his foster
brothers, right?

According to
these phone records,

he still talks to them.

Reese Randall?

No, Carlos
Gonzalez.

He has
a local cell phone.

What do we know

about Mr. Carlos Gonzalez?

Not much.

A DMV photo,
three years old.

It was issued
by the State of Ohio.

I still haven´t
been able to find

a local address for him.

Have you been able
to get him on his cell phone?

I wish. He doesn´t answer it.

All right, I´ll
get into it.

All right.

Enjoy your research.

Jack, they found this
at the mansion.

I thought it was a seminar tape,

but it turns out
that our out-of-work actor

wasn´t always out of work.

I don´t want you to go.

Oh, it´s only

three days.

I know, I know,
it just feels

like 300 already.

Oh, honey...

This is a classic.

I think he made
a wise choice

getting out of acting.

Hi, Mr. Hastings.

Uh, where´s your wife?

What are you doing here, Burry?

The other driver
said you were sick.

What are you talking about?
I´m fine.

Stella. Stella...

Stella!

Those schmucks.

This whole thing is a hoax.

I do not have
the slightest idea

of what
you are talking about.

Come on, Gary.

We saw the old movie.

Well, I haven´t.

Uh, Gary,
this just came for you.

Let me see that.

Who brought this to you?

I don´t know; a courier.

And you opened it?

He took off already;
he´s gone.

All right, I need a VCR.

See this?

This here is
Will Sterling.

The man with the plan.

Except the plan´s
changing.

I got me a
very expensive

piece of property
right here,

and I intend to
collect on it.

$5 million,
to be exact.

$5 million by
tomorrow at 9:00,

or he´s dead.

Be contacted
at 8:00 in the morning

and told where
to leave my money.

That´s all for now.

Thanks for playing

Life Rules.

$5 million?

We do not have
$5 million.

What did he mean,
"the plan´s changing"?

How the hell
should I know?

Gary...

...didn´t know
about any of this.

You want to fill me in?

He should be back by now.

They were never
supposed to ask

for money,
you have

to believe me.

Something has gone wrong.

It was not supposed to happen

like this.

Will came to me

the night before,
you know, the kidnapping

and told me
what he was planning.

You´re having yourself
kidnapped?

I´ll have a limo
pick me up here

to take me
to the airport.

Ten minutes later,

the real limo will arrive

and everyone will think
that I´ve been kidnapped.

And then what?

Well, then I lay low
for 24 hours

and then they let me go.

And what the hell
will that accomplish?

They´ll videotape me
at gunpoint

and I´m going to talk them
out of it

using the techniques
of Life Rules.

The cops will find
the videotapes,

they´ll get released
to the media.

A week later
the infomercial comes out.

I will go through
the stratosphere.

Honey, you´re not
doing well enough

as it is.

You really need
to do this?

I did not get
where I´ve gotten

by playing it safe, Hil.

You´ve got to go
after it in life.

Does Gary know
you´re doing this?

No, this is just me.
You and me.

No one else knows.

Will, this is crazy.

No, it´s inspired.

I should have tried to stop him,

It´s just when these things
come out of his mouth,

you believe them.

I really hope you´re
not lying to me right now.

I swear to God.

Will is in trouble.

As I said,

we do not have $5 million.

And even if we hock
this place,

with all of our debt,

I don´t think we could raise
more than two.

When the kidnappers contact us
tomorrow, we´ll try and counter.

Hopefully, that will buy us
some time.

Okay, good. That´s good.

You set this up, didn´t you?

Huh?

Say what?

Come on, Gary.

You´re the brains behind this.

Your brother´s just a front man.

He could never pull off a scam
like this without you.

Um, are you kidding me?

Are you kidding me?

I am furious at him for this.

Don´t you get it?
He risked everything we built.

Not to mention risking
his own life.

Yes, of course,
but I never would have...

I never wanted him
to do the infomercial.

It´s easy to look
at a situation

and see the problem.

And believe me,
I understand that as executives,

that´s what you´ve
been trained to do.

To anticipate what will go wrong
and prepare for it.

But what you need
to do is ask yourself--

and everyone around you--
to think boldly.

To be daring and to take risks.

And just so you don´t think
that I´m living on a cloud,

when we get back from lunch,

we´ll move on right to our next
chapter: Crisis Management.

Then we´ve got steaks
and lobsters

and all sorts of great
stuff in the dining room.

And anyone interested
in being in the infomercial

should talk to Gary.

Thanks.

( light applause )

That went well.

I thought we were still
debating on the merits

of doing this infomercial.

Could you give me a second?

No, I decided.

We´re going ahead with it.

We´re going...?

Actually, can we go outside
for a second, please?

Thanks.

Okay, I´m your partner.
You don´t just decide.

Gary, I am great at this.

I want to share it with
as many people as possible.

No, no. I don´t think
you understand.

Will, if you expose us
to this next level of scrutiny,

sooner or later some guy
from the New York Times

or the Wall Street Journal,
they´re going

to come sniffing around
and the jig is up.

So what, you just want
to rest on our laurels?

When things are going well,
you do not get complacent.

That´s rule number six, Gary.

Okay, don´t... Don´t start
quoting those rules to me, okay?

I´m the one
who wrote them.

Well, apparently, you´ve stopped
following them.

Look, if things are getting
too hot for you here,

you´re welcome to go.

What? What did you say to me?

I´m the guy on the box, Gary.

It sounds like he drank too much
of his own Kool-Aid.

Apparently, that was
the tip of the iceberg.

Now I´m beginning to feel

like I´m Doctor Frankenstein
chasing after his own monster.

Well, if he wouldn´t trust you,
who would he trust?

Honestly, I could not tell you.

Do you stay in contact
with your foster brothers?

Carlos Gonzalez? Reese Randall?

Carlos? God, I haven´t heard
from those guys in years.

What about your brother?

What are you saying?

that he might have used one
of them to pull off this stunt?

It´s possible. They´re ex-cons.

I, uh...

All of our foster brothers
were in and out

over a long period of time
and he did not have that

kind of relationship
with any of them.

I certainly don´t think
he trusted any one of them

enough to do something
like this.

VIVIAN:
That´s today´s paper.

The Chronicle´s tough

to get out
in the Hamptons.

The kidnapper might
live in the city.

Or maybe he´s holding
him in the city.

I can´t figure out
why they even bothered

shredding some of this stuff.

Well, when you build
something on a lie,

you get paranoid.

Gary may have been careful,
but Will certainly wasn´t.

I mean, can you
imagine the hubris

to stunt your own kidnapping
for good publicity?

After watching those tapes,
one thing is clear--

this guy thinks
he can do anything.

Oh. Carlos Gonzalez.

The foster brother with
the local cell phone.

Uh-huh. Check this out.

He´s asking Will
to help him out
with money.

Is there a return address?

No. Just says to call him
on that cell phone.

The courier service
is in Cold Spring Harbor.

Let´s check
for Carlos Gonzalez.

All right.

What is that right there?

Hey, do me a favor and enhance
that area right there.

( computer beeping )

Is that a wall calendar?

A plaque?

"Wood...

Woodbury Bowling League."

Wait a minute.

Woodbury-- isn´t that

near Cold
Spring Harbor?
Next town over.

Right.

These guys

aren´t too bright.

DANNY:
Nothing in

Cold Spring Harbor.
MARTIN:
Woodbury.

He´s being held in Woodbury.

Woodbury.

SAMANTHA:
We got him.

♫ ♫

SAMANTHA:
Got one down.

I got your back.

( soft groan )

( loud gasp ):
Who are you?

I was just about

to ask you the same question.

Carlos.

Carlos Gonzalez.

Where is Will Sterling?

He´s in a coma, Cleveland.

Paul Moscowitz--
where is Paul Moscowitz?

I don´t know.

We all lived together:
Gary, Paul,

me, Will, Reese...

Reese Randall, right?

Yeah. There was so many kids
going in and out

of that house all
the time with Gary

and Paul, and...

We´re all, like, the
same age, you know,

so it was like we had
our own little basketball team.

That´s a great story, Carlos.

Let´s get to the part
about the kidnapping

and what happened
to your head.

Paul and I

stayed in touch over
the years, you know,

even after he became

Will Sterling or whatever,

and he was always trying
to help me.

He would even send me
those tapes.

You know, he-he
really wanted to get
me out of my rut,

and... and that´s why

I ended up moving
to New York.

How ´bout Gary? You talk to him?

No. He-he told me
not to tell Gary

that I knew about their gig
or even that I´d come

to New York.
All right,
let´s go back a month.

You´re writing Will
letters.

You´re asking Will

for money. Why?
Yeah,

it was for a job, though--
I wasn´t trying

to blackmail him or nothing.

So he hired you to pull off
a fake kidnapping.

Look, he calls me up,

right, and he says
that he´ll give me 30 grand,

and all I have to do
is find the limo

and pick him up
at his house,

bring him back here--
we hang out for the night,

and in the morning,

we make a video of him
talking his way out of it,

and then I´d let him go.

Carlos, that´s not the video
you made.

You´re not even
in that video, brother.
I-I know that.

That´s what I´m trying
to explain to you guys--

that it´s got to be Reese
who made that tape

after he hit me over the head
and tied me up.

How did Reese become a part
of this whole plan?

I was nervous about the job...

so I called Reese for backup.

Backup? Backup?

It was a staged
kidnapping, Carlos.

What the hell
you need backup for?

I know that.
I thought even
with the mask,

I thought that somebody
might figure out that it was me

in front of the
camera, so I
called Reese

and he said he didn´t have
a problem with it, okay,

so he drove up from Cleveland,

and we were going to split
the 30 grand.

Okay? It was
supposed to be

easy money...
until Reese turned on us.

When do you want
to make that tape?

Few minutes.

All right.

Don´t be nervous, Carlos.

It´s all going to work out
like clockwork.

I just hope nobody saw me
at your house yesterday.

What a putz.

I don´t know why you didn´t
call on me to begin with.

I could have taken care
of everything.

Haven´t heard from
you in eight years.

Well...

...if I´d have known
you were running

some self-help racket
under Will´s name,

I would´ve called on you.

Can believe that.

You should take a seminar.

Free of charge.

Yeah... maybe I´ll do that.

( grunts )
Carlos!

Change of plans,

Paulie boy.

Sit down.

I don´t know what happened,

okay?

We had it all figured out.

Anybody else know
about this?
No. Nobody.

Carlos, do you have any idea
where Reese would´ve taken

Will or-or Paul or...?

I don´t know. No, no, no, man,
but he´s unstable.

What do you mean?

He could kill him.

He´s crazy.

MARTIN:
Unbelievable.

What is it?

I got Gary Moscowitz´s
cell phone records.

He and Reese Randall
have been talking quite a bit

over the last three days.

Only over the last three days?

Carlos said that he panicked
and needed back up, right,

so he called Reese.

Then almost immediately,
Reese turns around

and calls Gary.
So Reese
must´ve heard

from Carlos that Gary
was the one who was
really running the show,

so he squeezes him
for some extra cash.

Yeah, and then Gary heard
about the fake kidnapping plan,
and he went through the roof.

I mean, as far
as Gary´s concerned,
Will is going to blow

everything and then
take them both to jail
in the process,

and this kidnapping stunt
was the perfect opportunity
for Gary to get rid of him.

Gary, thanks
for coming in so late.

Yeah, sure,
it´s not like I was...

you know, getting any sleep
or anything, so...

Well, it turns out
that, uh, we were right.

It appears that one of your
foster brothers is involved.

Really?

Who?
Reese

Randall.

Reese Randall?

Mm-hmm.
We´re going

to need you
to do something for us.

Sure.

Anything.

We need you to talk to him
on the phone.

Me?
MARTIN:
Yeah.

We´ll connect you to him
from here and make it look

like it´s coming
from your cell phone,

and, uh, hopefully,
he´ll pick up.

Well, what do you... what do you
want me to say to him?

Well, just stay calm.

Tell him that you´re trying
to organize the money,

but it´s taking a little longer
than you thought.

Just keep him talking.

We´re putting
a trace on the call.

Okay.

We´ll be right here
for you.

Great.

Grab a seat.

You ready
to patch him through?

Yeah.

Pick up the phone.

Ted, patch us in.

( phone ringing )

Yeah?

Hey, Reese, it´s, um, Gary,

buddy, Gary Moscowitz.

What do you want?

How-how´s Paul doing?

I haven´t done it yet.

Well, that´s great.

Don´t do anything violent,

´cause we´re going
to get you your money.

What do you mean,
don´t do anything violent?

Listen to me, Reese.

Just don´t hurt him--
we´re going to get you

whatever you want--
just do not hurt him.

I know you´ve had a raw deal

in life.

There´s just no reason
to take it out on Paul.

Now, whatever you´re feeling,

pal, I swear to God,

we are going to get you
whatever you want...

whatever it takes.

Reese?

Yeah, okay, bye.

Reese, are you...?

Did you track that?
Almost.

God... damn.

We´re going
to have

to try that again.

No.

What do you mean, no?

Well, I don´t... I mean...

Don´t you think that went well?

Why would we want

to do that-- that
seemed to go

pretty well, I mean...
he seemed

like he was being reasonable.

Why would we...
why would I want to provoke him?

We got a call
coming in--

same transponder.

It seems like he wants
to talk to you.

Pick it up.

Hello?

You know, I don´t get you, man.

I thought you´d be calling

to ask me why I hadn´t

killed him yet,
now you´re telling me

not to kill him.

I don´t know what
you´re talking about, Reese.

Oh, don´t give me that, man.

I got Mr. Life Rules over here

talking my head off
for the last 12 hours.

Got me thinking about my dreams
and aspirations.

I´m all screwed up.

Yeah, you know what--
you are all screwed up,

and you know what
we´re going to do, buddy?

We´re going to get you some help
for that, okay?

( phone clicks )

Ree...? Hello? I...

You know what? He´s crazy.
Jack, we got
a location.

1564 Newman
in the Bronx.

Uh... Martin,

do me a favor and, um,
arrest him.

Stand up.

What goes up must come down.

Who taught you that one?

Clear.

( whispering ):
Guys, that way.

PAUL:
Gary gave in to his pettiness
and his jealousy

because he
doesn´t see what´s
really possible.

You do.

You have the tools...

so this is a big
step for you, Reese,

and I think you´re
ready for it.

Now, what say
me and you,

we walk out of
here together?

You´re going to go
forward with your life,

and I´m-I´m going
to forget this whole
thing ever happened.

( sniffling )
What do you say?

Thank you, Paul.

Thank you.

Oh, hey, call me Will.

Oh, please.

I can´t believe
I have to say this.

Freeze, FBI.

Drop the gun.

It´s okay, Reese,
do what he says.

Use your tools.

You shut up...

...and you drop the gun.

Stand up.

Turn around.

Am I covered?
Yep.

Put your hands
behind your back.

Take Moscowitz.

You all right?

Yeah.

He just needed someone
to see him, someone
to believe in him.

What are you talking about?

Your brother was the brains

behind this whole operation.

So you-you guys
know everything?

Yes, Paul, we do.

Well, you-you saw
what I just did.

I mean, he-he was going
to kill me.

Right.

Gary was going to
pay him $100,000,

and he was going
to kill me.

I talked him out of it,
and whatever you report,

you´re going to have
to report that, too.

Right... just in time
for the release
of your infomercial.

That´s right.

Yeah. Too bad you´ll be
doing time for false report.

Turn around, please.
Turn around.

Lying to a federal officer...
obstruction of justice.

See, here´s the thing,

Mr. Sterling:
the truth will come out.

Ow!
That´s also...

one of life´s rules.
Let´s go.

( clears throat )

Hey.

Hey, you know,

these may become
collectors items.

I won´t tell anyone
if you want to take one home.

Thanks, I appreciate that,

but I´m fine.
Okay.

Good night.
Good night.

Good night.
Good night.

Go!
( chuckles )