Original subtitles

Hey, look at this, Kyle.

Mom.

Oh, my God. Put it back.

But it's Tommy Bonzai.

I don't want to wear Tommy Bonzai on my shirt.

Why not? I thought you loved the Bonzai Brigade.

'Cause I gotta look cool.

'Kyle's gotta look cool.'

Tell her why.

Tell her why.

Shelby's gonna be in my class this year.

Shelby Bryman?

And everyone knows Miss Drake seats alphabetical, so..

She'll sit next to me.

Got it.

Strikin' Tommy.

Look, how do these grab you for cool? Hmm?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

25 bucks a pop.

Come on, it's just a couple of shirts.

One shirt?

Maybe one.

Let's hit the dressing room.

I can go by myself.

I don't know.

I'm not a baby, Mom.

He'll be fine, I promise.

Kyle?

You got to pretend to try these on for mom.

Kyle.

Kyle?

Kyle!

Kyle!

[intense music]

[music continues]

[church bells tolling]

Father.

[male #1] 'John.'

Thanks for dropping by.

Oh, thanks nothing. You owe me a dime.

Aah.

Our Lord rested on Sunday.

Apparently, so does the Sixers defense.

[laughing]

Yeah..

Janie was here yesterday.

Yeah.

Final arrangements for the baptism.

Yeah.

Her boy is growing like a weed.

Something going on with her?

Not that I know of.

Have you talked lately?

Well, it's been a few weeks. I'm swamped at work.

Well, work is why I called you.

In 1998, I took confession from a neighborhood kid

Bernie Gantz.

He was caught up in a kidnapping.

- Kidnapping of who? - A little boy. Kyle Bream.

They found him dead in Salem Harbor.

Hmm.

Has Gantz confessed to the murder?

No, said he was just paid to watch him.

Where do I find him?

All Saints ground.

He got himself killed last week, robbing a jewelry store.

Bernie never did much with his life.

Maybe some good can come from his death.

I'll pull the job, take another look.

And give Janie a call.

Yeah. I will.

[theme music]

Kyle Bream, nine years old disappeared

from a department store in Torresdale.

'A day later, the parents get a ransom call.''

FBI come in?

They set up a money drop, put undercovers at the scene.

Hey.

Hey.

Dad puts the cash in a prearranged Dumpster.

Ten minutes later, a guy comes digging the Feds move in.

He's the wrong guy just a vagrant.

Kidnapper never showed.

Figured he made the Feds, got spooked.

And the Breams never saw Kyle again.

Body was found a month later, drowned.

So the heat's on, kidnapper cuts his losses and kills the kid.

Did they ever get close on who snatched him?

No phone trace.

Nothing on store cameras.

[Will] Maybe the late Bernie Gantz gets us closer.

Oh, Gantz is the guy who told your brother

he was paid to watch Kyle?

Mmm. What did you find on him?

He was small time theft, credit card fraud, a forgery charge.

Tried to fake a Power Ball ticket.

It's a real brain trust, huh?

His older brother Manny.

'Same shed, different tool.'

A lot of the same arrests as Bernie.

Could be a team?

Hey, Manny.

Mind if we step into your office?

Of.. Office? I just eat here.

It's the best kubide west of the Nile.

[John] 'We want to talk to you about Kyle Bream.'

- Who? - Nine year old.

Got abducted, and murdered in '98.

Yeah, your brother Bernie was in on it.

Bernie had his own life.

Well, you got mirror-image rap sheets that say different.

You were partners.

We can't get Bernie on murder

him being dead and all, but we can still get you.

Whoa! Back the truck up.

We had nothing to do with that kid dying.

So just the kidnapping then?

You can talk to us or the Feds

they'd be real interested in your little operation here.

Operation?

It's just some fake ID's for kids.

Selling forged papers out of a Middle Eastern restaurant.

Two words, Manny. Patriot Act.

They could put you in a hole no lawyer, no trial..

No kubide.

This guy hired us to watch the kid.

We were baby-sitters that's it.

What guy? Give us a name.

No names, that's how he wanted it.

- 'Anonymous-like.' - How'd it work?

One crew to snatch the kid, one...to watch..

No names, no faces..

I only saw the guy once.

- Gin. - Oh, you rat bastard!

'Hey, kid, you want to play?'

You can't do any worse than this mook.

My dad's coming to get me.

'Sure he is.'

I'm gonna miss the first day of school.

That's the breaks, kid.

I'm supposed to sit next to Shelby.

[knocking]

That's him.

Dad?

- Take him in the other room. - Come on.

- Kyle's in the other room? - Yeah, you're clear.

- He okay? - Keeps asking about his dad.

Worried school started without him.

This'll all be over soon enough.

I gave the parents the terms.

They'll get the kid as soon as they pay up.

What if they can't pay up?

They've got 100 large in bearer bonds in their safe.

They'll pay.

Bonds in the safe.

- How'd he know about that? - Beats me.

All I know is that when the drop went south

he got cold feet he paid us off.

And you left Kyle with him?

It was business.

Yeah.

So is this.

We packed up Kyle's room last year.

It's hard to...know what to keep, what to let go of.

Sure.

Or what to do with the room.

Maybe one day it'll be a nursery again.

We might have a lead.

Someone involved in the kidnapping.

Did you own some bearer bonds, Mr. Bream, back in '98?

Yeah.

We cashed them in for the ransom.

The FBI thought our best chance

was to go along with their sting.

I didn't want to.

Did they go against your wishes?

Ken thought we should take their advice ...so we did.

[Ken] 'They explained the percentages.'

This was our best shot.

Unfortunately, those percentages didn't apply to us.

- That's not Kyle. - They said to stay back.

It's not him they can't put Kyle in that bag.

He's gone, baby. Oh, God, he's gone.

- You said to work with them. - I thought--

You said that's how we'd get him back.

You said he could go by himself to the dressing rooms.

- Baby.. - You promised he'd be fine.

[sobbing]

Anyway.

We believe whoever knew about the bonds

had something to do with the kidnapping.

No one knew about them.

[Nick] 'You sure about that?'

Yeah, I never told a soul.

What?

My sister.

I told her... in case something

'ever happened to us I wanted them to know.'

Them?

She and her husband.

You told Ed?

Who's Ed?

[Scotty] 'Things didn't turn out so good between'

you, and Tina Bream's sister, huh, Ed?

Didn't even make it to his second anniversary.

I had a problem.

I guess you guys know that.

Locked up three times for drugs, twice for theft.

I was stealing to support my habit.

Slippery slope.

Petty theft...kidnapping..

- Murder. - No.

Manny Gantz picked you out of a photo spread.

You snatched Kyle killed your own nephew.

- I didn't kill no one. - You needed money.

The in-laws had it you knew how to get it.

Yeah, but when things got hinky with the ransom

you got nervous, and now Kyle's a liability.

- I'm out of here. - Hey, Eddie.

You ain't listening?

We got a witness.

Okay.

I'm a scumbag.

I took Kyle, but..

[gasps]

...when I saw the Feds at the drop

I got scared, so..

...I made other arrangements.

So you're Kyle.

You like comics, Kyle?

Some.

They made this one into a movie, right?

It was a video game first.

Right. You like video games?

My mom says... Sega makes your head soft.

Hey, I got a Sega.

My head's okay.

You can come play games at my house if you want.

I want my mom and dad.

Mm.

I'm told they went on a trip.

Without me?

I don't know why.

Was it 'cause..

...m-my shirt costs $25 a pop?

Wow.

You know, that is a lot of money for a shirt.

Hey.

Shh.

No worries.

See...you and me..

...we could take a trip of our own.

'An adventure.'

You can have your own secret identity.

Like Peter Parker inSpider-Man?

Exactly.

Parker.

'I like that name.'

Me and this guy made a deal.

What kind of deal are we talking about?

What'd you do with Kyle?

[exhales]

I sold him.

Hey, babe. How are you?

I thought you'd bring the baby.

He's with Mom.

She coming Friday?

Of course.

I saw your uncle yesterday, and uh..

...he thought you seemed upset.

No.

Janie?

What?

I saw Brad Witham last week.

I was having dinner at Olson's.

He was behind the bar.

Are you sure it was him?

I know that smile.

Right.

Remember how you wanted to press charges?

- Yeah. - Or at least go find him, and..

You and Mom stopped me.

I wish you hadn't listened to us.

Oh, Janie.

Why was I worried about what people would think of me?

Who cares about that now?

You were so sure of what you wanted.

- You begged me-- - I know.

You wanted to just forget it.

Well.

I was 18.

I was wrong.

So, what do we know about this guy who bought Kyle Bream?

- Name's Rudy Tanner. - Was, anyway.

- Suspect's a cold job, too. - For real? How'd it go?

The guy was shot a few months after Kyle turned up dead.

School administrator, 45

lived in Morrell Park. Nice neighborhood.

Well, someone took him out in his nice tomato garden.

[Lilly] 'The assigned took evidence from the home computer.'

Turns out Tanner was running a website.

"Boys-in-bloom.com."

- Kiddie porn-- - Oh, man.

- Kyle was an investment. - Um, so why kill him?

Let's get with the Feds, see if they

red-flagged visitors to the site.

This guy got family?

Uh..

...it looks like he had a wife.

Didn't she get the prize.

This boy may have stayed with you

and your husband in the fall of '98.

Rudy and I were separated by then.

Was that because of his website?

I found out about that after he died, like everyone else.

Never suspected?

I had a night job, a weekend job, plus this during the week.

I didn't have time to monitor him.

- So you divorced him. - He left me.

Ditched me to raise Archie on my own.

- Archie's your son? - Yeah.

Did he ever spend time with his dad after you two split?

He'd stay with him on the weekends when I worked.

You weren't worried about that?

Rudy would never..

Not his own son.

You ever see this kid?

- But his hair was different. - How so?

It was blond, like Archie's I remember

thinking they could've been brothers.

- Where was this? - At Rudy's house,

One Sunday when I went to pick up Archie.

Archie!

[blender whirring]

Got to go! Right now!

'Archie!'

Mom? In here. Y-You're early.

And I want to get to the store before

it closes, so get your stuff.

But Dad wanted me to make milkshakes.

If I don't shop tonight, I can't go again

until Wednesday, so let's move it.

Put your coat on. I'll get your stuff.

No, Mom, y-you can't go in there.

That's Parker, some family friend.

Why is he in your bedroom?

His parents are out of town, so dad gave him my room.

[Kyle] 'I don't like Samurai Planet.'

He got the wrong ones. I like Bonzai Brigade.

I've got all 24 issues at home.

What are you doing here, Sandra?

I-I got off early.

- Let's go, Archie. - Can't I just stay?

I mean, maybe Dad could bring me home.

Next time, kiddo. Get your coat.

Nap time in ten minutes, star.

His parents are colleagues of mine.

They're both sick.

It's a real tragedy.

Archie said they went out of town.

It's a cover story.

He looks like Archie when he was--

Nine.

Yes, he does.

Such a wonderful age.

I didn't know anything was wrong.

I didn't.

Your mom saw this kid at your dad's place.

Yeah, that's, um..

That's, what's his name? Uh... Parker.

Parker?

Yeah, my-my dad took him in for a while.

He was having some problems at home.

That's what your pop said, huh?

Yeah, he was like that generous.

The kid's real name was Kyle Bream.

He got murdered after your dad took him in.

'Murdered?'

You're not saying my dad had anything to do with that?

Your dad bought Kyle from the man who kidnapped him.

- No. - Archie.

- He was a child pornographer. - Oh, not that crap again.

There's evidence his website.

My dad gave this kid a home after

his own parents bailed on him.

Can we throw the football, Dad?

'Practice my spiral?'

Sure. Later.

What's wrong, Parker?

Nothing.

Tell me.

I didn't really care if I had cool shirts.

I know, but people get overwhelmed sometimes.

That's what happened to my mom and dad?

A little boy can be very expensive.

That's why they didn't want me?

Yeah.

But Uncle Rudy does.

And he won't leave you.

Can we practice now?

Whatever Parker wants.

Parker isn't good at football.

My dad just tried to help him.

Kyle had brown hair.

So?

Your dad changed it to look like yours.

Your mom said you could have been brothers.

And your meaning is what?

My father was a good man.

- 'Hey, boss.' - What's the latest?

Well, this Rudy Tanner did a Stockholm Syndrome on Kyle.

Had him believing his parents ran out on him.

That explains how he kept him there.

Also had his son Archie thinking he was the world's greatest dad.

Hmm, a kid's got to believe in someone.

[Will] 'Got the FBI file on Tanner's website.'

There's pictures.

Of Kyle?

Among others.

That might not be the worst of it.

Federal watch list for paying members to the site.

Check the B's.

Ken Bream?

Kyle's dad had himself a membership.

You like boys, Ken?

What are you talking about?

Your membership to boys-in-bloom.com.

Kyle showed up on that site...as a model.

Yeah, that's some kind of coincidence.

It's not what you think.

[Nick] 'Then what is it?'

[Tina] 'My husband didn't have anything'

'to do with what happened to Kyle.'

You don't really sound convinced of that.

I just shouldn't have believed him.

About what?

That Kyle would be okay by himself

at the store.

We're not talking about the dressing room, Tina.

Then what?

[Will] 'Mrs. Bream, your husband was accessing'

child pornography on the Internet.

I know.

[Nick] 'Rudy Tanner.'

- You know him? - No.

See, the innocent answer would have been "Rudy" who?

- Or just "Who"? - I would have taken either.

- I didn't know him. - 'Didn't ?'

Hey, pervert. We're talking to you.

- What'd you call me? - 'I know what you are.'

I make a study out of people like you.

You don't know anything.

Then tell us.

It was Rudy Tanner's site.

Pictures of little boys?

Including Kyle.

I'm the one who told Ken about it.

How did you know?

We got...crank calls after Kyle died.

Letters.

You don't know how cruel.

At first, I thought she was one of them.

M-Mrs. Bream?

I, uh..

I saw your boy.

What?

Your son, Kyle I..

...I saw him.

My son is dead.

Last fall, in a house on Highland Street.

Don't do this.

The man who lives there

Rudy Tanner, he hurt my boy too.

- I don't believe you. - It's true.

He took pictures of your boy.

- There's a website-- - Get away from me.

'He likes Bonzai Brigade.'

But not Samurai Planet.

'He said he had all the good comics at home.'

'24 issues.'

Rudy lied to me.

But I believed him.

I'm..

I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry.

She told me, and I told Ken.

Why not go to the police?

I didn't have a lot of faith in the authorities

at that point.

Right.

It was time to make things right.

I went to that site

that woman told Tina about.

I bought a password.

And there was Kyle...in..

We know.

She blamed me

'for-for losing him'

and for the FBI.

I had to make it up to her.

By doing what?

[mellow music]

Turn around.

Who are you?

I was Kyle Bream's dad.

Oh! The boy in the harbor.

I read about him. I'm so sorry.

- You got nerve. - No, Mr. Bream.

'You know that feeling when you wake up'

from a nightmare and you realize it was just a dream?

How good that feels?

That relief?

When I wake up.

I realize it was all real.

- I didn't kill him. - I saw the pictures.

That's all it was. It was just pictures.

And that was enough.

You deserve worse than this.

But it'll have to do.

Then let me tell you the truth.

Dad.

He was the best piece of..

[gunshot]

[gunshots]

I never thought I'd get away with it.

Then, months went by, then years.

You know we're going to have to charge you.

It was wrong, I know, but..

...I'm not sorry.

It didn't help, though.

He's still gone.

[Lilly] 'You told Tina Bream what was going on in that house'

'but you didn't tell us.'

I've got caravan in ten minutes.

You knew what was happening with Kyle.

Plus a client is waiting for me to call.

Hey, Sandra, stand still.

He was her son.

She deserved to know.

Telling her got your husband killed.

Is that kind of what you intended?

I saw that boy's picture in the paper

and I knew what Rudy had done.

I thought he should pay.

For what he did to Kyle?

Or to Archie?

He never touched Archie.

You told Mrs. Bream Rudy lied to you.

You weren't just talking about that day with Kyle, were you?

That's why all the night jobs.

The weekend jobs.

'Never going home.'

'Would have meant having to deal with it.'

I never thought a man like Rudy would look at someone like me.

So you let him hurt your own boy?

I pretended I didn't see.

It was easier that way.

To believe..

What?

That I was his star.

He always called me that, he..

Before Archie was born, "Star".

[Scotty] 'Your mom's sorry, Archie'

for what your dad did.

For not stopping him.

I don't know what she means by that.

Why are you protecting him? He hurt you.

He hurt Kyle too, didn't he?

He was there for me.

She wasn't. She was never around.

She worked three jobs to support you.

To avoid me, you mean.

Look, whatever your mom's feelings were

your dad did worse.

No.

No, he..

...he loved me.

That ain't love, Archie.

He couldn't have hurt Parker

because Parker went away.

[mellow music]

[slurping]

You make a mean milkshake, son.

'Doesn't he, Parker?'

'Yeah.'

I got to go to the bathroom.

Come here.

[grunts]

Hey, keep the door open.

Why do you watch him like that?

Like what?

He's never going away, is he?

I'm going online. Keep off the phone.

- Dad? - What, Archie?

Why...why don't you like me anymore?

[doorbell rings]

Get your stuff before mom blows a gasket.

[Rudy] 'A deal's a deal. He's bought and paid for.'

[Eddie] 'I'll get your money back.'

[Rudy] 'I don't want the money.'

- I have what I want. - Please..

[Eddie] 'I made a mistake.'

Uncle Ed?

You saying Kyle's uncle came to the house?

I told you my dad was innocent.

What happened when Ed came?

He took Kyle away.

That was the last time that I ever saw him.

I told you, I gave Kyle to that Tanner guy.

Sold him.

And that was the last you saw of him?

- Right. - That's weird.

I got a witness puts you at Tanner's place after the fact.

- What witness? - His son.

[Will] 'He said you came back for Kyle.'

[Scotty] 'Did a repo.'

Someone offer you a better price?

Maybe you thought it was safer for you if Kyle was dead.

- No tracks. - Come on, no.

- No, you didn't go back there? - Yeah, okay.

- I went, but that's not-- - He was your nephew, Eddie!

It's blood.

[sighs]

I smoked up all the money.

Six weeks straight I'm flying.

Then I come down

seen what I done.

I went back there to make things right.

[Kyle] 'Uncle Ed?'

Uncle Ed, what are you doing here?

I came to take you home.

This is his home.

- Right, Parker? - Parker?

Archie, take him to his room.

Kyle, don't you want to go home?

He ishome!

'It's okay, Uncle Ed.'

I'm too expensive.

What'd you do to him?

I loved him.

Which is more than you can say, Uncle Ed.

So, the parents, they don't know about the whole child

peddling side of the family.

Aren't you the black sheep?

You can't just keep him here like this.

'That's why we're gonna go away.'

- Where? - Canada maybe, or Europe.

Just him and me, no distractions.

[Eddie] 'You're crazy.'

'Kyle, get out here!'

Kidnapping, 25 to life.

That means stone-cold sober in a six by nine cell.

Think about it.

Oh, you're out of money.

'Don't be ashamed.'

We all have our needs.

Will a thousand do it?

Two?

Get away from me.

Five?

We have a winning number.

God, help me.

I left him.

I hadn't had a hit in days.

You don't know what it's like.

No, I guess I'm missing out.

Archie said you took him.

I'd give anything if that were true.

How's the drink?

Good.

- What are you having? - Scotch, neat.

- McCallan? Oban? - Well.

Pretty girl. Maybe you'll get lucky, huh?

You never know.

[chuckles]

Get a few drinks in her, take her home

she's good to go, right?

Ah.

Even if she says otherwise.

Do I know you?

You don't remember.

Maybe the name, Stillman.

- Janie's dad. - Hmm.

It's been like 20 years.

Eighteen.

Look, I don't know what she told--

She lives in this neighborhood now.

This is her home.

So, tonight..

...you're going to quit this job.

You can't tell me what to do.

I can do a lot, Brian.

18 years ago, my daughter kept me and you apart

but times change.

You get me?

You and Kyle's uncle tell different stories, Archie.

You're going to believe a meth-head kidnapper or me?

Well, you agree on one thing.

Ed came back for Kyle, but he didn't leave with him.

Your dad persuaded him otherwise.

My dad wouldn't kill Parker.

Even after he got tired of him?

Like he got tired of you?

No.

Not Parker.

Why not?

Because he was his "Star".

Huh.

'Non-filters.'

Reminds me of home.

Yeah, my mom had a two-pack a day habit.

Good for her.

'And a little vodka to..'

...smooth it all out.

Yeah, some nights more than a little.

Then it was my job to clean her up, put her to bed.

That sounds great.

'It sucked.'

I did it anyway.

Hmm. Know why?

Because after I tucked her in some nights

she'd reach out..

...like this.

And that made it okay, her doing that..

...loving me.

I would have done anything for that.

Yeah?

Yeah.

'Like you did.'

For years.

For your dad.

Yeah, but then Kyle came along.

Right?

Took your bedroom, your stuff.

[Lilly] 'Your dad found someone new to love'

'and he was going to take him away'

and leave you behind.

Canada or Europe.

You were only 13.

You needed your dad.

I believed him, you know?

You believed?

What he always told me.

That I was his "Star."

I couldn't let Parker have my dad.

[bell jingling]

[whispers] Hey.

Come on, get up.

We're leaving.

Wh-Where are we going?

Tell me where you live. I can take you home.

I amhome.

No, this is my home, not yours.

Y-Your mom and dad never went away.

They didn't?

'They've been looking for you.'

'That's you.'

Yeah.

You ready to go home?

Those lights, that's Torresdale.

That's where your house is.

This is as far as I go.

The rest is up to you.

I can't swim that far.

Listen to me.

Your mom and your dad

they're there waiting for you.

'Look, you can make it, little guy, go on.'

Can you come with me?

No. This is myhome.

- He doesn't even like you. - He does like me.

He's mydad.

Look, he's coming, Kyle. You gotta go.

- Where is he? - He's right behind us.

You gotta go now.

I can make it, right, Archie?

Yeah.

Keep going.

You can make it, little guy.

[Oasis singing "Don't Go away"]

♪ Cold and frosty morning ♪

♪ There's not a lot to say ♪

♪ About the things ♪

♪ Caught in my mind ♪

♪ And as the day was dawning ♪

♪ My plane flew away ♪

♪ With all the things ♪

♪ Caught in my mind ♪

♪ And I wanna be there when you're ♪

♪ Coming down ♪

♪ And I wanna be there ♪

♪ When you hit the ground ♪

♪ So don't go away ♪

♪ Say what you say ♪

♪ Say that you'll stay ♪

♪ Forever and a day ♪

♪ In the time of my life ♪

♪ 'Cause I need more time ♪

♪ Yes I need more time ♪

♪ Just to make things right ♪

♪ Damn my situation ♪

♪ And the games I have to play ♪

♪ With all the things ♪

♪ Caught in my mind ♪

♪ Damn my education ♪

♪ I can't find the words to say ♪

♪ With all the things ♪

♪ Caught in my mind ♪

♪ And I wanna be there when you're ♪

♪ Coming down ♪

♪ And I wanna be there ♪

♪ When you hit the ground ♪

♪ So don't go away ♪

♪ Say what you say ♪

♪ Say that you'll stay ♪

♪ Forever and a day ♪

♪ In the time of my life ♪

♪ 'Cause I need more time ♪

♪ Yes I need more time ♪

♪ Just to make things right ♪

♪ Me and you ♪

♪ What's going on ♪

♪ All we seem to know ♪

♪ Is how to show ♪

♪ The feelings that are wrong ♪

♪ So don't go away ♪

♪ Say what you say ♪

♪ Say that you'll stay ♪

♪ Forever and a day ♪

♪ In the time of my life ♪

♪ 'Cause I need more time ♪

♪ Yes I need more time ♪

♪ Just to make things right ♪

♪ So don't go away ♪

[Female narrator] Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.