All language subtitles for Without.a.Trace.S02E23.Lost.and.Found.WEBRip.x264-ION10

Morning.
Good morning.

Hey.
Hey.

Yankees got their ass
kicked last night.

So I heard.

You all right, Jack?

You look a little,
uh, flushed.

Um...

My wife...

was, um...

offered a really good job
in Chicago, and she took it.

So she´s moving there.

And, um...

I´ve decided to go with her,

so I put in for a transfer.

Wh-When do you leave?

Two weeks.

Uh, will you, um...

will you be doing
Missing Persons?

No. Domestic Security.

Good for you, Jack.

We´re happy for you,
if that´s what you want.

It is.

There´s no word
on my successor yet,

but as soon as
I hear anything,

I´ll let you know.

I, uh...

VIVIAN:
Sam,

Martin, there´s a girl
in reception

says she needs
our services.

Why don´t you go see
what it´s about.

Sure. Excuse me.

Hi.
Hi.

I´m Special Agent Fitzgerald.
This is Special Agent Spade.

What can we do for you?

Um, I was on the Internet
last night,

and I put my name in a search,
and I found this.

That´s me.

I was kidnapped 13 years ago.

Do you know who kidnapped you?

No, I-I don´t know.
I don´t remember.

That´s why I´m here.

I really want to know who I am
and what happened.

Can you help me?

JACK:
I have a girl says
she was adopted

three months after
Serene Andrews was kidnapped.

This is a photo from when
she was, uh, first adopted.

Mm, adopted parents?
Yes.

What did they say?

They don´t even know
she´s here.

For all Serene knows,
they´re the ones

that could´ve kidnapped her.

It´s hard to tell
if this is the same girl.

Yeah, I know.

I ran those
photos through

the facial-recognition
software.

The results were inconclusive.

And the girl has
no recollection
of being taken.

No, she was three years old.

She´s downstairs
with Dr. Harris.

She´s gonna try
and hypnotize her.

Well, here´s what
Newark sent over
from the old case.

Serene Andrews was grabbed

from a foster care home
in Camden March 18, 1991.

The foster parents
were inside the house.

The child was
playing out back.
Nobody saw the grab.

How did she end up
in foster care in
the first place?

Her biological mother, um...

Lauren Andrews,

was a crack addict
in the Camden projects.

She was doing a stint
in a state rehab facility

when her daughter was lifted
from the foster home.

And her father?

None listed.

What about the original agent
that worked on the case?

He retired in ´97,
died last year.

So we´re starting from scratch.

Not really. We got the girl.

Maybe we got the girl.

HARRIS:
Put everything
out of your mind

and just breathe.

Now, I want you to think
about when you were

three years old.

Whatever you can remember,
whatever you see.

Just let go.

I´m in the hallway.

Where is the hallway?

I don´t know.

I´m walking, I think.

And there are other...
other voices now.

HARRIS:
Whose voices?

( children talking
and laughing )

SERENE:
There are other kids´ voices.
They´re really loud.

I´m walking down the hall,
and they´re bumping into me,

and they´re running around
and... and yelling really loud.

I´m sorry. I lost it.

It´s okay.

You´re doing great.

Serene, that place
you were just remembering,

is that the place
you were taken from?

I have no idea.

It´s all really fuzzy.

I don´t want to do this anymore.

Okay.

That´s okay.

Um...

Let´s just talk, okay?

What did your parents tell you
about your adoption?

I can´t remember
the first time

that they talked
to me about that.

Well, it doesn´t have to be
the first time.

Um... just...

whatever comes to mind.

I can remember
asking my mom about it

when I was about eight.

Mom?

Yes, sweetheart?

Tell me about my adoption.

What do you
want to know?

How did you get me?

Well...

I couldn´t get pregnant,

but your father
and I really wanted
to have a child,

so we went to
what´s called an
adoption agency.

And the man at the agency

showed us many,
many children.

Well, we had
one look at you--

that beautiful
face of yours,

that beautiful smile--

and we knew.

We knew you were
meant to be with us,

and that we were meant
to be your parents.

What about my real parents?

They didn´t want me?

Your biological parents
loved you very much.

But they were too young
to take care of you,

and they knew that you would
have a better life with us.

Do you ever wish...

you had a real child?

You are our real child,
and I don´t wish for a second

that anything happened
any other way.

Okay?

Yep.

Mom, will you lay down
on top of me?

Sure.

I used to do that with her.

I guess it...

used to make me feel safe,
you know?

Yeah.

Mrs. Barnes?

Yes.

Special Agent Jack Malone
with the FBI.

I´m here to talk to you
about your daughter.

Did something
happen to her?

No, she´s, uh, she´s fine.

She´s in our offices, downtown.

Your offices? Why?

Um... would you mind

if we continued
this conversation inside?

Foster parents?

Nobody ever told us
about foster parents.

This is preposterous.

Like I told you,
this Serene Andrews

may be an entirely different
girl than the girl you adopted;

in which case, this will
be over very quickly.

Now, um, I need to know
as much as possible

about your daughter´s
biological parents.

We don´t know anything.

It was a closed adoption.

Well, according to Serene
you tell stories about them.

When she asked, we told her

what we thought
would make her feel good,

but we never knew anything
for real,

other than that she was healthy
when we adopted her,

and that we fell in love
with her

the moment we laid eyes on her.

MRS. BARNES:
It was the best day
of our lives.

Just out of curiosity,

with so many adoption
agencies in New York,

why did you choose one
in New Jersey?

It´s so competitive at
the ones in the city.

We found that we weren´t
getting enough attention.

Friend of ours recommended

Linderman Hall.

We thought we´d give them a try.
They were great.

We want to see Serene.

Unfortunately, that´s
not possible right now.

What are you talking about?

Why not?

Because I doubt that
either one of you

can tell me where you
were March 18, 1991.

You think
that we kidnapped Serene?

Is that what she thinks?

She doesn´t know what to think.
That´s why she came to us.

Yeah.

She goes to you.

She goes to you, and not to us.

Serene´s always had difficulty
trusting people.

Even us.

When we first brought her home,

it took her almost a year
before she´d let us hug her.

According to Social Services,

there were 14 foster kids
living in this house

when Serene Adams
was left there.

Well, if it is
the same girl,

she´s probably
better off

living as Serene Barnes
on Madison Avenue.

I´d say.

Tim Hendricks?

Yeah.

Special Agent Johnson

with the FBI.

This is Special
Agent Fitzgerald.

Yes?

We´re here about Serene Andrews.

What about her?

We think we may
have found her.

Alive?

We think that
might be her.

She was only with us
for a couple of months.

It´s been so long...

I´m sorry.

We know this
is difficult,

but maybe you
could tell us

something about
what happened that day.

It was March, I think.

But warm...

because all the kids
were playing around out here.

Come on, Serene.

Don´t you want to play
with everybody else?

Everyone come
in for lunch.

Let´s go.

Come on.
Let´s go eat.

HENDRICKS:
All those kids.

Serene never came in.

By the time we noticed,
she was gone.

It couldn´t have been
more than 15 minutes

she was out there by herself.

Well, according to

the police report,
the neighbors saw

a white, four-door sedan
parked in the alley that day.

I´m the one
who told the cops that.

But I don´t know anything more.

( phone ringing )

You recognize either
of those people?

Johnson.

No.

Thanks for your time,
Mr. Hendricks.

Okay, thanks.

We found the Barnes´
adoption agency.

It´s in Morristown.

Jack wants us
to go check it out.

All right.

Here we go-- Serene Barnes.

Adopted June 14, 1991
by Fran and Adam Barnes,

New York, New York.

May we see the file, please?

Thanks.

Birth certificate.
Mm-hmm.

Ah, Serene Caldwell.

Born in Bradford,
Pennsylvania

to mother
Theresa Caldwell.

Do you remember anything

about this Theresa Caldwell?

No, the thing
about this job--

for every happy moment

there´s an unhappy moment

where someone gives
that same child away.

I guess there´s a yin and yang

to it, but...

the happy moments

all kind of blur together
for me at this point,

but the unhappy ones--

you tend to remember those.

Say good-bye to Mommy now,

all right?

It´s all right, honey.

It´s okay.

You´re going to have
a new mommy soon.

A better mommy, okay?

I promise.

She´s really going

to a good home?

A great home.

Trust me.

I tell you...

you never get used
to that part of the job.

You did
all the background checks,

hospital records, everything?

Absolutely. Always.

What´s this all

about, anyway?

I think it´s probably
just a misunderstanding.

We´ll get this back to you
as soon as it´s cleared up.

Be my guest.
Thanks.

Well, our girl, Serene,

Well, if this
all checks out,

there´s still a
Serene Andrews out
there somewhere.

We ought to be
looking for her.

I don´t know;
something´s not right.

That memory she had...

She remembers a place

where there were
a lot of children.

That could be anywhere.

And sometimes
with hypnosis,
people give you

what they think
you want to hear.

Right. Or what
they want to believe, right?

Yeah.

You know, if this is
true, it´s good news.

She was never kidnapped.
She was legally adopted.

That should
make her happy.

Yeah. I don´t want to tell her

just yet.

Not until we´ve done
our due diligence.

I just... I think

she´s been on
enough of a roller coaster.

I think that´s smart.

And very sensitive.

Don´t be all proud, okay?

I was smart and sensitive
before our sessions.

Samantha?

Yeah?

I heard about
Jack leaving.

Yeah.

If you want to talk about it...

I´m fine, Lisa.

Thank you.

Hey. I haven´t had

much luck with
Lauren Andrews.

After the kidnapping
in ´91, she finished up

a rehab
and she moved to Virginia.

After that, nothing.

Her trail dead-ends in ´95.

Name change?
Nothing on record.

I´m checking with old
co-workers, friends, but...

Martin and Viv
didn´t have

much luck with Social Services.

The, uh, filing system
is from the Stone Age.

What happened with that woman

that gave up our girl
for adoption?

We found her in East Brunswick--
Theresa Caldwell.

She´s coming in.

Jack, I... I have to say,
I-I hate to see you leave.

I´d take you with me

if I thought I could drag you
away from New York.

Not a chance.

This is my city.

Mine, too.

Hey.

Hey.

What did you find out?

Well, we don´t have
all the facts yet,

but we do know
that your parents
did not kidnap you.

They wanted you
pretty badly, but...

not badly enough
to do that.

That´s good to know.

They´re on their way in.

They really want
to talk to you.

Okay, let´s go.

How awful for her--

finding something like that
on the Internet

and thinking it´s her.

Yeah.

I guess
when you´re adopted,

you always wonder

where you come from.

It took a lot of courage
for her to come in here.

Giving up Serene was...

the hardest decision
that I´ve ever made.

I´m sure.

Miss Caldwell, I can´t
tell from the records

who the, uh, natural father is.

He´s dead.

I´m sorry. Uh...

When did he die?

Uh, about a year
after she was born.

That´s part of the reason
why I had to give her away.

And what was his name?

Steve Rogers.

We never married.

That´s why his name
isn´t on the birth certificate.

And how did he die?

A car accident.

In, uh, Morristown?

Trenton.

In 1989?

Tell me about
your decision

to give Serene
up for adoption.

Um, like I said, it was...
very difficult.

I-I would never say
that I regret having her.

I mean, I would never say that.

Yes, but what

was the catalyst
for making that decision?

Why are you doing this to me?

What am I doing?

Making me talk
about all of this.

Miss Caldwell, there is
a very vulnerable young woman

waiting down the hall
to meet you.

Trust me when
I tell you

she´s going to ask you

exactly the same questions
I´m asking you.

I just want you

to be prepared.

She´s here now?

Two doors down.

Look, I don´t think

that I´m going to be able
to handle meeting her, okay?

It was a closed adoption.

It´s my right to privacy.

MARTIN:
Yes, Serene Caldwell.

We believe she was born
at your hospital

January 22, 1988.

I know that was a long time ago.

Before computers--
yes, I get that.

Look, if you can just have
someone check the old file room

and get back to me,
that would be great.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

Okay, I just got a little bingo
on Lauren Andrews.

Her new name
is Lauren Dardis.

She lives in Yonkers.
She´s married,

and she´s got two kids.

She cleaned herself up.

Yes, she did.

Hi.
Hi.

You´re not mad at me?

Of course not.

We´re just worried
about you, honey. That´s all.

SAMANTHA:
Serene?

I need to show you something.

Sure.

Do you know this woman?

Who is this?

Is this my mother?

Is she here?

We don´t know anything
for sure yet.

I just need you
to look at the picture, focus,

and tell me if you

remember her, okay?
Okay.

I know her.

SAMANTHA:
You do?

Yeah.

I knew her, but I...

But what?

( beeping )

She doesn´t think
Theresa is her mother.

No, neither do I.

The dates don´t match.

Miss Caldwell?

I´m sorry, but I-I just...
I can´t wait here anymore.

I just have a few more
questions to ask you.

Well, maybe I could
just come in another time,

or you could call me,
but right now,

there´s someplace
I have to be.

Right. Uh, excuse me, uh,

you, uh,
have a hair.

Oh.

( nervous chuckle )

Thank you.

Thanks.

Want to put
a tail on her?

Yeah. And get a sample
of Serene´s hair.

We´re going to do
a DNA test.

( doorbell ringing )

Lauren Dardis?

Yes.

Formerly Lauren Andrews
of Camden, New Jersey?

Yes.

I´m Danny Taylor.

I´m with the FBI.

Do you recognize
this girl?

This is my daughter.

Are you sure?

She´s my daughter.
Of course I´m sure.

Where is she?

that someone took Serene,

I was doing good.

I was clean.

They told me...

when they put me there,

that that´s the only way
that I would ever get her back.

And there I was, clean, finally.

But she was gone.

You have no idea who
might have taken her?

No...

No.

How about her father?

I told the police at the time,
I don´t even...

I don´t even know
who her father is.

That´s what my life was like
back then.

That´s why
they took her from me.

( child crying )

GIRL:
Are you okay, Ma?

Mama, are you okay?

Are you okay?

Shut up.

Are you okay...?

Shut up!

I can´t hear.
( phone ringing )

WOMAN:
Miss Andrews,

you got a call
from your neighbor.

Where are you,
Miss Andrews?

LAUREN:
You know, my husband--

he knows about my past.

The drugs...

and everything else,

but I never told him
about Serene.

Now, maybe you can.

Same girl.

Now, that makes things simpler.

MARTIN:
Yeah, thank you.

Much simpler.

There´s no record
of a Serene Caldwell being born

at Bradford County Hospital
in 1988.

The birth certificate
is a fraud.

Let´s go see Mr. Yin-yang.

It´s not like

those birth certificates
have bar codes on them.

They´re pretty
easy to duplicate.

When somebody comes to you
ready to give away their kid,

you don´t call the hospital
to double-check,

make sure
it´s actually their kid?

Of course we do.

That was 13 years ago.

You know how many assistants

we´ve had since then?

I´m sure, at the time,

I had somebody check it out.

So how did Theresa Caldwell
find you?

I don´t know.

You think I remember?

Well, do you remember

if you ever had contact

with her
before or after the adoption?

No.

Then you won´t mind
if we have a look

at your old phone records.

Not as long
as you´ve got a subpoena.

My poor girl.

I just hope
whatever she learns out of this,

it frees her in some way.

I mean, she was looking
for herself on the Internet

because there was something
she needed to know.

Mrs. Barnes?

Yes.

Um...

I´ve just been speaking
with a woman

who claims to be Serene´s
biological mother.

She says that

Serene has a birthmark
just below her right shoulder,

shaped like a thimble.
Is that true?

That´s right. She does.

She´s here.

She´d like to see Serene.

Hi.

Hi.

Serene should be in
any minute.

I don´t know
what I´m going to tell her.

I mean, about who I am.

I mean... about who I was.

Just tell her the truth.

That´s all she wants to hear.

Yeah, I guess so, huh?

After all this time.

( footsteps approaching )

I´ll just leave
you two alone.

Hi.

Hi.

Okay.

Let´s sit, okay?

SAMANTHA:
Aren´t you going
to miss this?

You´re not going
to have moments like this

working Domestic Security
in Chicago.

Yeah, I´m going to miss it.

I, uh...

I´ll, uh, check on Theresa
Caldwell´s phone records.

Hey.

We left two surveillance units

outside the adoption agency.

I´m gonna finish

that background on Porter.

Okay.

( sighs )

I spoke with Van Doren.

I recommended

that you take over the unit.

That wasn´t my main concern,
but thank you.

She supports it.

It´s just a question of getting
through the bureaucracy.

Is this what you really want?

It´s the right thing.

If you have something
to ask me, Martin,

go ahead.

Uh...

am I, uh...

Am I the only one
who didn´t know?

Vivian knows.

I´m not sure about Danny.

We tried to be discreet.

Oh. Well, that´s good.

It was over two years ago,
Martin.

It was before you got here.

Yeah.

Well, I guess
old feelings die hard.

They don´t die.

They just

fade,

and then you feel bad
that they faded...

because you wonder...

You wonder what they meant
when you had them.

Well, I guess
if they didn´t fade, there...

There wouldn´t be room
for new ones.

No, I guess there wouldn´t.

( footsteps approaching )

What´s the matter?

My mother,

Lauren, that woman...

She says she wants me
to come live with her.

She says

that I´m her daughter,

and I should be with her.

She can do that?
She can take her?

Technically, Lauren Andrews
never lost custody.

I-I don´t get it.

You... you said

she was living
in a crack house.

That the state

took her away because

she was unfit
in the first place.

It was a temporary injunction
pending her recovery.

She recovered.

So what?

She-She can walk out of here
with our daughter?

Is-Is that what
you´re telling me?

Look,

the results from the DNA test
come in tomorrow, okay?

Until then, you have
temporary custody of Serene.

In the meantime, I suggest
you contact your attorney.

Now if you´ll excuse me.

We got Theresa Caldwell.

JACK:
You rented

a white Buick
four-door sedan.

March 18, 1991.

Is that correct?

It was 13 years ago.

That was the same day
that Serene Andrews

was kidnapped.

Well, actually, um,

I remember I was having a lot
of car trouble

around that time.
You didn´t even

own a car at the time.

In fact, that was the first time
that year

that you even rented a car.

It´s just a coincidence.

Is that the same coincidence

that the neighbors saw
the same car

parked in an alley
behind Serene´s foster home

on the same day?

We checked the hospital records.

The birth certificate is phony.

Steve Rogers,
the man you allege

to be her father, died a year
before she was born.

We ran DNA tests,
yours against hers.

Guess what? No match.

You are not the mother.

It wasn´t my idea, okay?

And whose idea was it?
Michael Krause?

Michael?

Yes.

He´s listed as the second driver
on this car rental agreement.

Oh, God.

Who is he?

Does he work
for the adoption agent?

No.

Do you?

We weren´t working

for anybody, okay?

We just wanted her.

Hey, Serene.

Sweetheart.

Hi. Hi, darling.

Come on.

Come on.

I´m going to give you
a better life, I swear.

I am going
to give you a better life.

Go.

LAUREN:
Michael is not a kidnapper.

He´s my brother, okay?

I did this for him.

Then why is he
so invested in Serene?

Serene is his daughter.

DANNY:
Okay, last time

I spoke to you, you said

you didn´t know
who the father was.

I don´t.

Apparently someone
named Michael Krause

thinks he´s
the father.

Michael?

Krause.

He and his sister are the ones
that took Serene.

But that´s impossible.

He was in jail at the time.

No, he got out
three weeks early

on good
behavior.

Oh, my God.

I had no idea.

Was he your boyfriend?

Yes.

At the time that
Serene was born.

Yes, but I told him then

I wasn´t even sure
if she was his.

He wound up
in jail

six months after she was born.

I never heard from him again.

I guess he did
a little soul-searching

while he was in jail

Son of a bitch.

Have you talked to him?

Where is he?

( buzzer beeping )

KRAUSE:
Look, I want to make

one thing clear here.

None of this

should come down on Theresa.

I made her do everything.

That´s going to be up
to the prosecution,

Mr. Krause.

Now, would you mind
telling us

how this whole thing
went down?

I got out in ´91.

The first thing I did was go
looking for Lauren and Serene.

I went over to her apartment,
it was boarded up,

and the super said they dragged
her off to some rehab

and they put Serene
in a foster home.

Nobody would tell me
where she was.

So I did some...

looking around,

and I found this...

adoption broker.

Anyway,
he tells me

there´s no way in hell

that I´m going to get custody,

even if they did
one of those paternity tests.

Said I´m not going to get
custody ´cause I´m a felon,

even though
the mother´s a junkie.

So what, this broker,
he offers to, uh,

dig around for you?

Yeah, he had some
connection downtown

with some social service.

Anyway, he finds Serene,

and he tells me
where she is.

I got down there and
the place is a dump.

Got kids running around
all over the place,

and she´s sitting
there all alone.

No one´s taking care of her.

I mean, she looked
so, so unhappy.

I said to myself,
"There´s no way my girl,

is going to live this life."

I go back to the broker
and he tells me if I can get

my hands on her,

that he´d get me
the papers I needed.

Forged birth certificate.

Right.

Tells me
it´ll cost me five grand.

He does it all the time.
There´d be no problem.

So we took her.

So you got through
all of this to get her,

and then you give her up?

Why?

Couple of months go by
and he calls me,

tells me he wants his money.

I tell him I don´t have it.
I´m broke.

He tells me

if I don´t pay him,
he´s going to go to the cops.

Then he tells me...

that he´ll give me $5,000
for Serene.

That he found a family
that would take her.

They live in Manhattan
on Madison Avenue.

She ain´t going to do
better than that.

Okay, but after
all we went through

to get her,

are you sure you want
to do this?

Theresa, it´s not about me.

It´s about what´s
best for her.

They look like

nice people.

I didn´t have a choice.

If I didn´t do what he said

he´d rat me out,
and then what?

She winds up
in some lousy foster home,

or with Lauren,
smoking crack in some ghetto.

Did you ever deal
with anybody else

from that
adoption agency?

No, just him.

Look.

This guy was
a real scumbag, all right.

I mean, selling
and trading kids?

I mean, it´s sick.

What if
that family

he showed me...

was in on the scam?

I mean,
what if she...

she didn´t wind up
with a good family?

She did end up
with those people.

And as far
as we can tell,

they´re wonderful parents.

What do you...
what do you mean?

You saw her?

She´s a great kid.

So she´s in the right place?

Yeah.

She is in the right place.

Here he is.

My God, he´s beautiful.

I can´t believe
you got this

done so fast.

You´re a miracle
worker.

I just know my business.

FBI.

Charles Porter--

you are under arrest
for accessory to kidnapping,

child endangerment,
and extortion.

We have to take
the baby

until we can
sort this out.

Wait, what´s
going on here?

This is our
baby.

This may not
be your baby.

You´re going to have
to come with us.

This is a mistake.

It´s okay, okay.

It´s okay.

( doorbell chimes )

Hi.

Hi.

Mrs. Barnes
has something

she´d like
to discuss with you.

I´ve thought about it,
and, um...

I´ve decided that this
is where you belong.

And it´s not because
I don´t want you.

It´s because these
are your parents now.

And I don´t want to get in
the way of your happiness.

My lawyer will have
the adoption papers
drawn up

to make it
official.

I would like to see you
sometimes, though, you know?

Maybe on
the weekends,

or whenever it feels
right for you.

Yeah, that sounds good.

If it´s all right with you.

Of course.

Okay, okay, so...
I got to go.

Lauren.

Okay.

You talked to her?

I may have said something.

Thank you.

You take care, Serene.

Hey.

Hey.

I was just talking

to Dr. Harris.

About what?

About you.

Oh.

About us, I should say.

I´m afraid to ask.

Don´t be. It´s, um...

What we had, it was good.

It was what

we both needed at the time.

Yeah, I guess it was.

In another life, maybe?

Maybe.

Yeah.

I, um...

I really hope that you and Maria

will be happy
in Chicago.

I´m sorry if I ever hurt you.

Me, too.

I better keep doing this
or I´m going to lose my nerve.