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Uh, okay.

How about the one

about the two lengths of burning rope

and how you can measure

the amount of time it takes

for them to burn?

Yeah. [PHONE RINGS]

Wait. Hold on a second.

Hello?

Oh yeah, hi Jenny, I'm,

yeah, I know you're on a deadline for your trivia puzzle but...

an eight letter word for grit, tenacity.

Does that work?

Okay. Bye.

Sorry. Uh, how about I just,

uh, type up these puzzles and email them to you?

How many you need?

Twenty. No problem, I'll get them to you in the morning.

Yeah. Bye.

I'm late for the kids.

- ID please.

Thank you.

Thank you.

- Dr.Crandall.

- What's it looking like Leo?

- Uh, a little chop over the Rockies.

- Find any wind sheers?

- None reported.

- So, we all set?

- Yes, sir.

- Then let's go.

- O' Connor here.

- Ready when you are.

- On route.

Yeah, he's taking off now.

ETA 1500 your time.

All right.

- Which one is he?

- That's him there.

He's heading for a cruising altitude of 24 thousand feet.

- Looking good.

Let's call Washington.

- We got a problem.

Niner. Lema. Sierra.

Niner. Lema. Sierra.

Come in. Come in.

- Put him on speaker.

He's losing altitude.

- Niner. Lema. Sierra.

- McMasters, are you all right?

McMasters?

- My god.

- We lost him.

He's going in.

- What's that?

- He's pulling up.

Niner. Lema. Sierra.

Can you read me?

- Yeah. Yeah.

I think so.

- Are you all right?

- I'm putting her on autopilot.

- We're quoting time coordinates.

- McMasters, what happened?

- I'm not sure.

I, I just, ah, my head.

- Okay, what's the closest airport?

- Uh, Agua Dulce.

- Have him set it down there.

Okay, good.

Plane landed all right.

Is everybody okay?

- The pilot is unconscious.

They're taking him to the

hospital for observation, but

we got a problem with Crandall.

- Well, is he all right?

- He's not here. We looked everywhere.

- Crandall's not on the plane.

[dance music]

- Was that good?

I mean, there's more acrobatics,

but it's really small in here.

- Well, you know what? Maybe if you smile a little bit and,

and act like you love it

and kind of get funky.

[LAUGH]

- There you go.

Mom!

[LAUGH]

Better?

- So much better.

- You're gonna be at tryouts, right?

- Yes, of course I am.

But, uh, I want to see it again,

but I have to go to the market

before your Dad gets here.

Okay? - Okay.

Thank you.

- Smile.

Hey, hey, what are you doing?

- I can't bear to watch.

It's humiliating enough that my sister's so brain dead

that she's going to subject herself to being a cheerleader.

- You couldn't even make the nerd squad if there was one.

- All right. That's enough. You go upstairs.

You go to my office and finish you homework.

And you stay apart until I get home.

- Interesting.

Hmm.

Hmm.

[LAUGH]

Bye, bye guys.

- You gotta be kidding.

You know what your problem is Darnell?

Just can't help showing off.

- So?

You abducted me from here.

Now you're taking me to my neighborhood market.

- I'm not abducting you.

I'm escorting you.

There's something I want you to see.

- Well, at least we know the meat is fresh.

Federal building wasn't secure enough for you?

- Not anymore.

- Before we get too cozy, Frank,

let me remind you that

I left the Central Security Agency

a long time ago.

I think you know why.

- Cathy, I wouldn't a brought you here

if this wasn't important

and I didn't think I could count on you.

- Well, you always needed somebody to do your heavy thinking for you.

What happened to Professor Skipwell?

- Unfortunately he died.

Natural causes.

- Frank, no one needs to know who I really am.

Didn't have to do all this just to impress me, Frank.

- I'll show you around.

- So, let me guess.

You're stumped.

- No, not necessarily stumped.

I think with some time we could work our way through it.

- But you don't have any time.

- Thought you'd be less cynical by now.

- Cynical. I'm not cynical.

First you recruited me into the CSA

and then I dropped out of Stanford,

and then you stole every idea I had

and took credit for it.

I'm not cynical, Frank.

I just have a good memory.

- Cathy, look.

You got a right to be angry about what happened back then.

I was ambitious and I was selfish.

I'm sorry.

- Oh, you're sorry now because you need me?

- I do need you.

I'm Bureau Chief out here now.

We've got a national security emergency.

- So your job's at stake.

Frank, I have a husband and two great kids.

- I agree.

I think Jack's a terrific guy.

- You're spying on me.

- Cathy, this agency has been keeping tabs on you ever since you left.

What'd you expect?

- I'm flattered.

- Uh, Harper, pull up those graphics.

- Yes, sir.

Put the, uh, simulation on the main screen.

- Intertech Aerospace has been developing a top communications satellite

for us for the past six months.

The software was just completed by their head R and D guy.

A guy by the name of Miles Crandall.

He was scheduled to fly to NORAD headquarters

in Colorado Springs to deliver the software.

Yesterday about 11 o'clock

he went up in the plane.

Plane got to about 14 thousand feet

where we lost radio contact with the pilot.

- The pilot had blacked out so the plane went into a dive.

And the plane went off the radar right about here.

Now, the pilot came back around in time enough to pull the plane out of the dive.

He barely managed to land it in Agua Dulce.

When the plane landed Crandall was gone.

- Fuselage door open?

- It's closed.

- Parachute missing?

- Yeah.

- Laptop was gone.

What do you know about Crandall?

- Excellent guy.

He's top notch.

- Yeah. I want them in the air

until the last possible second. Hello.

We got choppers scouting the entire high desert.

We haven't found anything yet and we're losing the light,

and I don't believe we've met.

- I'm sorry. Uh, Russ O'Connor, this is Marge Redman.

She's the consultant I was telling you about.

- Ah, yes.

The CSA is hiring consultants.

Well, I'm sure we can use your expertise on this Miss Redman.

At least Frank's convinced we can.

- That's my decision.

- Wait a second. I haven't agreed to anything

especially since I don't know what you want me to do.

- The software on Crandall's laptop can be sold

on the international black market for millions of dollars.

- And with this program it'd be possible for someone to

punch a hole in our firewalls and access our defense communications.

- We need you to help get that laptop back

before it gets into the wrong hands.

- And time is not on our side.

- Will you excuse us, Mr. O'Connor?

I'd like to speak to Frank.

This is a big case, Frank, and I got out of this game a long time ago.

I am a housewife now.

- Your country needs you.

My guess is that still means something to you.

- I'll think about it.

Isn't Marge Redman the bimbo you dumped me for?

- That was such a long time ago I don't even remember.

I, uh, I took care of that shopping list for you.

- Thanks.

I think.

- Talk to you tomorrow?

- You can't be serious, Frank?

- Huh.

Cathy?

- Hi.

- Hi. How'd it go today?

- Oh, it was kind of a crazy day,

but I finished the puzzle for Harper Brothers.

- Oh. - How was yours?

- Well, I'm still employed.

Luckily the guys got the rest of that drywall hung.

Nobody boils water like you do, sweetheart.

- Mmm.

Pasta. - Ah, it is my turn to cook dinner

so I will open up the jar of spaghetti sauce.

You can open up the wine.

- Sounds good.

I was, uh, offered another consulting job today.

- That didn't take long.

- Yeah. It kind of just fell out of the sky.

- Hmm. What company?

- The U.S. Puzzle Company.

- Never heard of them.

- Well, they've been around for a long time.

They're just kind of under the radar.

- I'm sure that you will put them on the map.

- Well, it's gonna take me, um,

out of the house a little bit more than usual.

- Why is that?

- Oh, you know, executive meetings,

uh, research, fieldwork.

It's a whole lot more complicated of a puzzle.

But it's potentially a really big project.

- Well, I hope they're making it worth your while.

- I, I haven't said yes because I really wanted to talk to you first.

I'm afraid it might get in our way

'cause I have to sign a disclosure agreement.

I won't even be able to tell you about it.

- Well, that's all right. I, I was...

never very good at solving your kind of puzzles anyway.

- Yeah?

Well, the puzzle I can't seem to solve is what you see in me.

- In you

I see everything I ever needed.

- Is this going to take long?

Some of us would like dinner.

- Go get your sister.

- I said I was hungry, not desperate.

- Go on.

And remember, without her you'd be an only child.

[LAUGH]

- Don't tempt me.

- Sweet.

Come on you guys.

- Cheerleading tryouts are at 3:30. You're going to be there, right?

- Absolutely. - Okay.

- Hurry up.

- You know, she's not the only one with issues.

- My issue is that you've gotta get ready honey.

Go on.

- Why would he, why would he even do that?

I mean. - Well, I, uh, for the same reason any guy might.

[LAUGH]

- Oh, was that one great.

[LAUGH]

- Oh, I hate to interrupt

the hilarity, but the kids have to get to school.

Uh, it's your turn.

- It's nice meeting you, Frank. - Same here.

- Come on, kids. We gotta go.

- How'd he get in here?

- He knocked. I answered.

Says he's your new boss.

Seems like a nice enough guy

although I wouldn't mind if he was a little less handsome.

- Oh. Bye, have a good day.

- Bye, see you. - I love you.

- All right. Knock them dead.

- Thank you.

- You got a very nice family, Cathy.

- Let's get one thing straight.

You leave them out of this.

- You don't have to worry about that.

It's done.

I think they'd be very proud of you

if they knew what you were doing.

- I don't like lying to them, Frank.

- I understand.

- Bye, Mom. - Bye, honey.

- I think it's smart you keeping him and the kids out of it.

It protects them.

- I know the drill, Frank.

You have complete deniability in case,

parish the thought, something should happen to me.

- It won't.

This is nothing but mental gymnastics for you.

- [LAUGH] Where have I heard that before?

Lebanon?

Chile? Or...

- Cathy, I'm not gonna let anything happen to you.

- I gotta give it to you, Frank.

You're still a great salesman.

- You haven't changed much either.

- Bye the way, what's my code name?

- Oh yeah. I...

Jane Doe.

[LAUGH]

- We're the only ones allowed

axis since Crandall disappeared.

- Um, I'd like to see Crandall's assistant, please.

- Yeah.

- Any chance he made a copy of the program?

- There was a CSA agent with him at all times.

Now, no phone lines in, no phone lines out.

Completely secure room.

And Crandall,

he locked his computer in this safe.

It can only be locked or unlocked with two keys.

One key his and one key ours.

- Hi, I'm Heather, Mr. Crandall's assistant.

Is something wrong?

- Why do you ask?

- Well, there's all these agents around

asking a lot of questions about Mr. Crandall.

Is he okay?

- Oh, we hope so.

- Um, what do you know about his private life?

- Well, he's very quiet.

Uh, uh, but he's very devoted to his work.

Oh, and he has a sister, Diana.

She calls sometimes.

Not often, but she does call.

- Um, is this her?

- Yes, ma'am. That's her.

- Did you notice anything different

about his behavior, say in the last three weeks?

Anything at all?

- Well, gee, I don't think so.

- You've been very helpful, Heather.

- We'll let you know if we need anything.

- Right. - Thank you.

- I'll just be right outside.

- I'm gonna need a copy of his personal files

and the phone number and address of his sister.

- We've already interviewed her.

- Good. Than I'll need that too.

- Okay. - Thank you.

- I don't believe I've had the pleasure.

I'm Trevor Martin.

I run this sweat shop.

- Oh, Mr. Martin, uh, this is, uh, Marge Redman.

She's a special investigator with my office.

- Oh.

Well I am very concerned with Miles safety,

and that the Jupiter program doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

So whatever I can do to help.

- Actually, we'd like to see your air services

control office if that's possible.

- Right this way.

- So, Mr. Martin, is this where you saw Crandall get put on the plan?

- That's right.

- We had two agents walk him on the plane.

- Huh. How many planes do you have?

- Two executive jets.

Two turbo props.

- Why so many planes?

- Well, we do a lotta work for the Department Of Defense,

and we're advised to keep our key people off commercials jets.

- Oh.

Um, why did you put Crandall on a turbo prop instead of a jet?

- The jets were in use and the turbo prop gets you there just as quickly.

- Oh.

- Why do you ask?

- Oh. No reason. I'm just here to learn.

I don't think we need to keep Mr. Martin any longer, do we?

-No. No. Thank you.

- Keep me informed, would you?

- Ah, So uh,

Perkins, Leo.

Leo, Uh, can I call you Leo? - Sure.

- Um, now, exactly how long was the plane off your scope?

- I kept it in the log.

Uh, at 1115 hours it went below my radar so

it's about 200 feet.

- When did it come back on?

- Ten seconds later.

- Estimated speed?

- Would calculate the estimated

rate of dissent at about 400 knots.

- Have you ever seen anything like this before?

- Uh, I seen planes pull outta dives deeper than this one.

- File an FAA report?

- Oh yeah.

- I'd like a copy of that

and I'd also like a copy of, uh,

Crandall's departure on the videotapes out there.

- Don't you think this is overkill, maybe just a little?

- Only one way to find out.

- Okay.

- Thank you. - Thanks.

Mr. McMasters?

Hi.

I'm Frank Darnell with CSA.

This is Miss Redmond, my associate.

I believe you know Russ O'Connor.

Look, I'm sorry about the timing,

but we need to ask you some questions.

- Sure.

- What exactly do you remember about what happened?

Just blacking out.

- How'd you get the bump on the back of your head?

- Uh, maybe when the plane was going into a dive

I, uh, I hit it.

- Well, maybe somebody hit you.

- Well, there's nobody on the plane but Crandall.

What? Are you trying to tell me that Crandall hit me?

- That's what we're trying to figure out.

- Well, why don't you talk to him?

- Now we plan on doing that just as soon as we can find him.

- What do you mean? [O Connor's phone rings]

- Is it possible that Crandall hit you on the back of the head

and that's why you passed out?

- I don't know, but

why would he do that?

- Well, that's something else we're gonna have to ask him.

- We just found something.

Where is it? - In the van.

- Where'd you find this?

- Right over there.

Spots marked.

One of our choppers spotted it from the air.

- And you're sure this is from our plane?

- Well, Intertech Air Services confirmed the ID number.

It's their's.

- Okay. What else?

- Oh. Where did you find these?

- A few yards from the chute.

- Anything else?

- Yeah.

Car tracks come off the asphalt to here and back to the road.

Footprints of two, maybe three men.

We're making impressions of the footprints and the tracks.

- Good. Good.

Okay. I want you guys, - Excuse me.

You found these between

the chute and the dirt path?

- Yeah.

- Why do you ask?

- Uh, no reason.

- That's not an answer.

- It's just that if I wanted someone to find them,

that's where I'd put them.

- Why would Crandall want somebody to find them?

- I don't know.

- Okay.

Excuse me. I'm gonna do some work.

- Come here.

You want to tell me what that was about?

- I was just thinking.

- Thinking what?

- Well,

if you were gonna jump out of an airplane,

wouldn't you take your glasses off first

and put them in your pocket?

- Well, he's in a hurry remember?

- That's true. But,

something's weird about this, Frank.

- What's weird?

I'm late. Uh... - For what?

- I, uh, I, I have to get a ride.

Uh... - What? Now?

- Thank you, Lydia.

- And next up is, uh, Susan Davis.

You get that?

- Got it.

Susan Davis.

[techno dance music]

- Very nice.

- Whoo hoo. Whoo.

- Thank you, Susan.

- Thanks a lot.

Nice job. - Whoo hoo. Whoo.

- So, how's it going with the new company?

- Well, I've met a lotta people,

but there's a lotta politics.

[PHONE RINGS]

- Hello?

Yes, this is her, she.

Oh.

Yes.

Thank you for calling.

I'm in! I'm in! Ah. I'm in!

Daddy, I made the cheer.

I made the cheer line.

- That's great.

- Everybody stay off the phone.

I have some calls to make.

- Oh. Our daughter the cheerleader.

- Ooh. Oh.

Well, on that note.

I'm gonna try to get some work done. - Okay.

Leave us with all of this?

Good for her, huh?

- Splendid.

- You know, I'm working on this really hard puzzle right now.

I was hoping you'd help me.

- This isn't some kind of therapy is it

because on a certain level

I'm happy about this cheerleading triumph.

She'll be around a little less.

- That's not very charitable.

- Well, I'm not a charity.

- Hey, let's leave all this stuff.

Come help me. You're my whiz kid.

Come on.

Here's the problem.

Could this plane land,

let off a passenger,

and take off again in less than ten seconds?

- Not unless the passenger was prepared

to jump out of a plane going over 150 miles an hour.

- Not a good idea.

- Only if sudden death is your goal.

- Yeah, well,

that's why they call it puzzles.

Hey, look, honey.

What's going on with you?

- Nothing.

- Nothing?

- That's the problem.

It's great that Susan can do something

as mindless as cheerleading

and be popular,

but I just don't seem able to make friends.

In fact, if you counted the kids who really avoid me

I'm probably about minus 50 on the friendship charts.

Let's be real.

I'm a nerd, totally.

- You know, this may seem hard to believe,

but I was a nerd too once.

- You were?

- Oh yeah. I wasn't a cheerleader or part of any clique.

I was way more into calculus and trigonometry,

and I really loved molecular biology.

[LAUGH] - Well, you still are kind of

a nerd.

- Yeah.

Look. We'll find a way to increase your popularity.

I know school is hard.

It's very competitive and everyone's trying

to get ahead of each other, but

it's not hopeless.

Look, uh, I'm gonna go out to the market right now

and get some chunky monkey ice cream

and then we're gonna share it in secrecy.

- Okay.

- I'll be right back.

- So, what drags me out at this hour?

- You said Crandall was a top notch guy.

Something doesn't add up.

- Like what, for example?

- Glasses and the parachute.

Maybe they were put there just to make us think

that Crandall parachuted off the plane.

- As opposed to what? Vanishing into thin air?

Look, Cathy, I know you love a good puzzle,

but maybe you're creating one that's not there, you know?

- That's really insulting especially

since I'm trying to save your job.

- Saving my job?

What's that supposed to mean?

- Well, if my instincts are correct,

there's more to this than meets O'Connor's eye,

like taking your job.

If you don't solve this case fast he's gonna get it.

- Okay.

You stay on it a little while longer.

But you report only to me, right?

- Hard to pay alimony out of unemployment benefits.

- Never said I was divorced.

- One TV dinner?

[rowdy crowd, engines]

- Problem?

- Grill is stuck.

Can't lower. I want to cook some chicken,

but it'll be too far from the flame.

- Open to suggestion?

- Sure.

- Well, since you can't lower the grill raise the fire.

Add more briquettes.

- Now, that's an idea.

- I'll do it.

So, you come out here a lot?

- Every day I'm not working I'm out here riding.

- How often is that?

- I'm unemployed.

- Well,

this yours?

- Yeah.

- Wow. - Want a ride?

- Well,

but aren't these things a little bumpy?

[hard rock and engine revs] Oh.

Over there. - Huh?

- Over there.

Thank you.

Oh.

- You okay?

- Oh yeah.

Never better.

- What the are you looking for?

- Well, a little after 11 a couple days ago

a man parachuted out of a plane

and landed right over there.

- I don't think so.

- Where were you?

- Well, I was about two, three hundred yards over that way,

but I was driving in that direction.

- Thanks.

You know, I think I'll walk back.

- Whatever.

- Are you sure you don't want any herbal tea?

I grow the herbs myself.

- Oh, um, no.

Not right now. Thank Miss Crandall.

- Oh, call me Eunice, okay?

- Uh, your brother's assistant called you Diana.

[LAUGH]

- That's my email name.

- Are you close with your brother?

- Yes.

If you mean we like each other.

Yeah.

Talk to each other about once a week.

- Oh, does he discuss his work with you at all?

No. No. No.

He's the bright one in the family.

Uh, he's totally right, left brain,

whatever it is that they are and he's totally sweet.

- When was the last time you spoke with him?

- Well, it's been about a week.

Um, I expected him to call yesterday, my birthday.

- Huh? -Um no, no.

And, uh, you know, he,

he never misses sending me a card

and then a little something in the mail, a small check.

Pottery Market is in something of a slump.

- Oh, wow.

This is a very, uh, interesting mug.

Actually, it's a vase.

- Well, I'll take it.

I got this for you today.

- It's amazing.

Uh, what is it?

- It's a pencil holder.

Pencils might make a comeback some day.

- Well, I will treasure it always.

- Good.

- Well, before I forget, what is up with Nick?

- He says he's unpopular.

- Is he?

- I think he is. He's kind of shy.

- Well, I'm gonna have to give this some thought.

- Thank you.

- Oh. [Susan plays loud music]

- Go on. Your daughter. - Yeah. But your turn.

- Ah.

Susan, your father is very,

- Mother?

- There you are.

- What is it?

Mom, are you all right?

- Oh yeah. Yeah. You just need some volume control, okay?

- Okay. Well, we were just finishing.

- Oh, well, bye Debbie.

- I'm sorry.

- Well, McMasters is probably unconscious at that point.

- Mm hmm. - So, Crandall could have opened the fuselage door.

He wouldn't have even heard it.

- Yeah, but the door was shut when the plane landed.

- Right. But the airspeed of the dive probably closed it.

- Oh yeah. Yeah.

Let me ask you, what are these numbers about?

- These are your N numbers. It's kind of, well, it's like a license plate.

This is how we tell this plane from any others like it.

- Oh. Is there another airfield within ten or 15 minutes of here?

- Yeah, Whiteman.

Just east of the freeway.

- Yeah. Thank you.

That's great.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- You look like you might be lost.

- Oh, I was just admiring your plane.

- Ah, I wish it was mine.

I just fly it.

- Oh, well, I was, I was just, uh,

thinking about hiring one of these for some of my friends.

- Well, go talk to them at the front office.

I'm sure they'll help you out.

- Well, I was wondering if I could look inside first, you know.

- Kick the tires, so to speak.

- Yeah.

- Go on up.

- Thank you.

- Yeah, it's nice.

This one has a range of 1500 miles.

Carries ten people and comes with a pilot, that would be me,

copilot, and a flight attendant.

- Uh, you know the one at Intertech Aerospace looks exactly like this one.

- You've been up in one of these before.

- Oh, no, no, no. I...

I just did some work for them and I saw their plane

and it gave me the idea.

- Well, it's a pretty good idea.

- Ah.

Okay.

So, do you fly this often?

- I do. When it's really busy

maybe two, three times a week.

- Is this the busy season?

- You really should go talk to the owner about availability.

I don't want to make any promises I can't keep.

- Yeah. Of course. I, um, I'm late, uh, anyway.

I was just, you know, window shopping.

Thank you.

- It's me.

We need to talk.

- Wow.

Juices and power drinks.

Trying to become a healthier, thinner bachelor?

- No, no. I'm just trying to stay in shape.

- Oh.

- Back in the marketplace.

You know, gal like you, happily married.

You don't have to worry about it.

You can let yourself go.

- Let yourself go?

- Well, yeah, you know what I mean?

- Unfortunately I do.

- Well, I don't mean it that way. You still look good.

You do. - Good.

That's not what you used to say.

- Let's not get into that. It's ancient history.

- Ancient history.

- All right. Forget it.

What's, what's, just, what's the big news?

- Your friend Crandall didn't jump out of that plane

'cause he was never on it.

- But we got him on videotape getting on the plane.

Two agents escorted him aboard.

- Well, you put him on a plane all right,

but it wasn't Intertech's.

There were two planes.

Oh, Look.

Mmm, spuds in a box, your favorite.

- Hi. - Hi.

Guess what? They're going to elect a head cheerleader in two days

and I think I got a real shot at it.

I just got onto the squad and already two of the girls are nominating me.

And I think I can get Becky's vote with a little flattery,

and just seems a little reserved,

but I think I can, excuse me.

Mom?

- You know, if you saw me on the street

and you didn't know me, how old would you think I am?

- How old?

- Yeah. If you had to describe me to somebody else.

- I don't, I don't know.

Middle aged.

Middle aged?

- I don't know.

I mean, what then?

- How about youthful or stylish or cool?

- Mom, I mean, what difference does it make?

- Well, I'm sorry I asked.

There he is.

Hey, honey.

- Hey, Mom.

- How was your day?

- Swell.

The janitor said hello to me, but I'm not sure if he meant it.

- Why don't you lighten up a little?

Depression can be contagious.

- You could use some. - Hey, hey.

You guys are getting a little self involved here.

Hey, Nick, how old do you think I look?

- I think you look great.

- Thanks.

- Certainly better than some cheerleading clone.

- You're so annoying. - I'm not annoying.

You're the one who's annoying. - No, you're so annoying.

- At least I don't have to do this to make friends.

Totally for sure I think I'll get a manicure.

- Oh, what a loser.

- Look, Sandy, I don't care what your shyster lawyer tells you.

If I don't have the money I can't pay it.

I've been late a couple a times before.

You know that I'm good for it.

Fine.

Do whatever you think you have to do.

Can I help you?

- Maybe.

My name's Frank Darnell.

I'm with CSA. - Uh, if you're looking for the owner,

he's not here right now.

- Well, actually, Mr. Hartmann, I was looking for you.

- Really? Why is that?

- The, uh, flight plan

that you logged on Monday

says that you took this plane out.

- I did. So.

- What was that? About, uh, 11 o'clock in the morning?

- Uh, that sounds about right.

- Did you land anywhere before you came back?

- Ah, you're really starting to sound like my ex wife.

Yes, I did.

- Oh, you did, huh? Where was that?

- There's an old strip about 50 miles east of Acton.

- Why'd you go there?

- I do a little dirt biking up there.

- I got a bike myself,

but I don't seem to have much time to ride it.

- You know, maybe you got your priorities all wrong.

- [LAUGH]

You know. You're probably right.

Not enough hours in the day, huh?

Thanks for your time.

- Hey?

Is that it?

- For now.

Thanks again.

- How'd it go?

- Oh, I shook his tree a little.

See what drops.

- Should I tail him?

- Wouldn't hurt?

- Report to O'Connor?

- No. No. Let's get something solid first.

- So he really is that much of a threat to you, huh, Frank?

- Look. I do not want to be in front of a congressional inquiry

without having all my bases covered.

- Particularly since you think I'm right.

- You're getting way ahead a yourself.

- Here you are sir. - Yeah.

- Here for dinner?

- Mmm, no thank you. Just a drink.

- Oh, very good.

- Double scotch.

Neat. - You got it.

- I'm telling you. This fed is all over me.

- What'd you tell him?

- I didn't tell him anything,

but he knew plenty already.

- Like what? - Like my flying out Monday.

- Look, so they're a little bit faster than we thought.

They don't know anything.

I want my money.

I want all of it and I want it now.

- That wasn't the deal.

- I don't care what the deal was.

Neither was having this fed playing games with me.

- Gotta make a phone call.

- You do that.

- Yeah. He's running scared.

He wants his money.

All right.

He says okay.

- Good.

- Look, you're not dealing with a bunch a crooks here.

- When does he do the wire transfer?

- Tonight.

- As soon as I get that money I'm outta here.

- You and I gotta meet first.

He's got you on a ten o'clock to Acapulco.

He wants me to see your passport and your plane ticket,

then I take you to the airport and make sure you get on the plane.

- I can get to the airport just fine by myself.

- That's the way he wants it.

- All right.

Where and when?

- Meet me in front of San Pedro Salvage

nine o'clock.

- You make sure you're there.

- Thank you, sir.

- He's on board.

Yeah.

- Thank you, Kevin.

- Well, hi.

You're working some overtime.

I suppose you're looking for Frank.

- As a matter of fact I am,

but, uh, he's not answering his phone.

- Well, he's in Washington. Had to take

a little heat from the select committee.

He's flying back tonight.

- Oh.

- Are you having any luck?

- No.

Not really. Just odds and ends.

I'm trying to tie them together.

- You are keeping me in the loop here?

- We're all on the same team, right?

Yeah. Well, uh, that's a good question.

Some of us seem to be more on the team than others.

- Some of us are more ambitious than others.

- Well, you know, I'm always here to help, Cathy

Davis.

Right?

The legendary Cathy Davis?

It is amazing what we can find out here at the CSA.

I do have to ask you a question.

What did you ever see in Frank Darnell?

- Um, I have no idea.

[LAUGH] I was very young.

Uh, I was gonna leave him a note,

but will you just make sure he knows to call me right away?

- Sure.

- Thank you.

Night.

- Night, Cathy.

- Frank, it's me.

I've got a very important new development in our puzzle.

Call me.

- Susan's not wrong, Mom.

- About what? - Everyone thinks I'm a geek,

which is true,

but it shouldn't be fatal.

The bottom line is I just don't know how to make friends.

- I've been thinking about that.

Um, aren't the school elections coming up?

- Where is this going?

- Just hear me out. How about running for office?

- You're not serious.

- Well, I am serious.

We'll make a poster with your picture on it.

Your Dad can help you with that, and you just go up to kids,

introduce yourself, and ask them to vote for you.

- That sounds really humiliating.

- Not with the proper attitude.

I mean, you'll meet kids you don't know

and break the ice with the ones that you do.

You got nothing to lose.

Ask your Dad.

- About what?

- About, uh, getting popular.

- Well, I'm pro popularity.

- Honey, honey. Help him with this.

I, I have a meeting.

- At this hour?

What are these people, vampires?

- Oh, the new CFO from this puzzle company wants me to meet him at LAX

in this conference room because he's on his way to Thailand.

Oh, I won't be long.

Soon.

- Mom thinks I should run for office at school.

- Well, it's an idea.

- A bad idea.

- No, it's a real idea.

What you need is a campaign.

So, what are you running for?

At least we know where to start.

- All right.

You got everything? - Look, let's just

slow things down here, all right?

First just turn around.

What's wrong? You got something to hide?

- Do you want me to frisk you?

Trust goes both ways, man.

- Listen, I just want to get this whole thing over with.

- All right. Show me your passport and your ticket.

- I'll show you what I got when you give me some kind of proof

that that money's been transferred to my account.

- I'm on a timeframe, man.

- Hey.

- All right. All right.

But you're killing me.

You know what? On second thought.

- Oh, hey man, hey.

- Wow.

Yeah.

[Franks voice mail] I'm not in right now. Please leave your name and number

at the sound of the tone. Thank you.

Guy's crazy.

Wait, where'd he, where'd he go?

- Central.

- Yeah, emergency.

Port of Los Angeles birth 154.

- Noted. HRT en route.

- Come quick.

In the water.

- It certainly took you long enough to get back to me. - I'm sorry.

Look, I was driving home from the airport when I got your message.

All right. They fished Hartmann's body out of the drink.

We played the Central Security Agency card and kept your name out of it.

- Well, did they bother to check the place where he disappeared on me?

- Yep, not a trace.

- That's not possible.

- All right. Unless you made the wrong turn.

Did you make a wrong turn?

- Didn't happen.

- I guess you got another puzzle on your hands.

- Whoa.

- Hey, listen, relax.

Hang in there. You'll figure it out.

You will. - Uh.

- You look suspiciously like my wife.

- I'm surprised you recognize me.

- How'd it go today?

- I've had better days.

- What happened?

- Oh, how'd it go with Nick?

- Oh, I'm gonna make up some posters at the office.

He's running for class secretary.

Projects modesty.

He's gonna try to get some volunteers at school tomorrow and give it a shot.

- That's good.

- I'm glad you're doing what you love,

but don't overdo it, okay?

- It's all a part of the deal. It will be over soon.

- I'm just starting to miss you.

- I love you.

- I love you too.

Oh, come here, come here.

- I need to pick your brain on something, Nick.

- What game are you working on now?

- It's a very realistic new game called super spy.

Um, and I could use your creative thinking on how a car could just disappear.

- Why would a car disappear?

- I don't know. Uh, it's just part of the game.

It's how the bad guys allude the good gal.

- Oh, okay.

- So, imagine you're on a long dead end road with no alleys, garages, or doors.

How does a car just disappear?

- Mirrors?

- Oh, you can do better than that.

- Crane.

- Not enough time.

- Secret panel.

- That's good.

But where?

- I don't know, but

in a realistic game bad guys gotta eat.

- True.

Huh.

- You realize you're just making this difficult for everybody.

You sure you don't want one?

- No thanks.

- Got you the vegan special.

Look, Mr. Crandall, why don't we be reasonable about this?

We haven't harmed you.

We haven't even threatened to harm you.

All we want to do is reward you for giving us access to what's inside this laptop.

- I have no intention of doing that.

- I know you don't want to do it now,

but once you have a couple a million in the bank you'll feel better.

We all will.

- Well, let me save you some time Mr. McMasters.

I think you're nothing but a bunch a cheap crooks

willing to sell out your own country,

but you're not gonna get any help from me.

- You don't want to play the game this way.

- If anyone tries to punch in a password

into that computer and it isn't mine,

every file in there will be deleted,

and everything will be lost.

So not only will you be unable to kill me,

but if you make me really angry by trying to torture me

all I'll have to do is type in a different password

and you will get nothing.

- If you don't change your mind, quite frankly

I don't see you getting out of this alive.

- What are you waiting for?

Go.

- Pop that door will you?

It's open.

I don't see anybody.

Well,

Got anything?

Nothing.

Huh.

Nothing.

- Check the inside.

Close it.

And, uh, check in that, uh, machine room, all right?

- Sounds good.

- Doesn't anybody answer their phone?

Where's Frank?

- Um, I don't know. What's going on?

- I found him.

- Who?

- Crandall.

Up there. Up there.

- Clear.

Clear.

- Nothing.

They're gone.

- How'd we do?

- I'm sure I got away clean,

but somehow McMasters found out I was here.

- Great.

- Well, at least we know that Crandall wasn't in on it.

- All right. Let's take a break. Russ, let me get up to speed.

You got it figured out.

- I didn't say that.

- Yeah, I've seen that look on your face before.

Add that to the fact that Crandall's not in on it.

It tells me you've got it figured out.

- Trevor Martin said he saw McMasters and Crandall

get on a plane at Intertech Aerospace.

Well, it wasn't McMasters.

He had arranged for Hartmann to put on a wig and take his place,

and it wasn't even the Intertech Aerospace plane.

See, it had been switched with an identical one from Whiteman Field.

Complete with tail numbers painted to match

and the same transponder numbers.

- So McMasters, he drove over to Whiteman Field, which is only about ten minutes away,

got into the real Intertech plane,

took off,

flew under the radar

and landed in a desert strip and waited.

Now, you watched as the fake plane with Hartmann and Crandall took off,

reached a cruising altitude and then went into a dive.

As soon as that plane got under the radar

McMasters flew off

and took its place.

Now, McMasters had already planted the parachute beforehand

and here's the part that I actually like.

- When McMasters landed in Agua Dulce

he had to bash himself in the back of the head.

So anyway, when you got to the plane it appeared as if

Crandall had bailed out when in fact he is no traitor.

He was just kidnapped.

- Well, I still think you could have brought me in on this a little sooner.

- Well, up until now it was just a theory.

- All right. Well,

we still gotta catch the guy, so,

- That was brilliant.

- Thank you.

We still have to find Crandall.

- So, I tried to get some volunteers for my campaign,

but I couldn't get anyone.

- What time is dinner?

- Eight o'clock, why?

- Cheryl invited me over to her place for the evening.

Can I go? - What's the occasion?

- The election for head cheerleader is tomorrow

so if I can get Cheryl's vote than I should have it locked.

- Why not offer her money?

That might work assuming she can count.

- Envy is a sickness you know.

- Maybe Mom can recommend a doctor for you.

- Maybe she can make you disappear.

- All right. All right. All right. All right.

You may not believe this, honey,

but one day your sister's gonna be your best friend and your,

- You're right. I don't believe it.

- You know, you know, I have an idea.

Why don't you two finish cooking dinner together

and I have to go.

- What about my overnight?

- After you finish dinner. I'm sorry, honey.

I...

- What can I do to help?

- Well, um, I was thinking about your brother and how close you are,

and I was wondering, did you email?

- All the time. He never used snail mail unless he was sending me a check.

- That's what I thought.

Would you mind opening them up?

I'm just looking for any clue to help us find your brother.

- Not at all.

- When the investigators were here,

did they look at these?

- Yeah, but I guess they didn't think they were important.

- Would you mind printing them out?

I know it's an imposition,

but then I could take them with me.

- Absolutely.

- Apollo?

- Yeah.

Apollo and Diana are brother and sister.

Yeah. I miss him.

- Thanks.

- The evening was great, the dinner was great, and so were you.

By the way, I have an idea.

You're smart, so why don't you make yourself available to some of the kids

that need help with their homework?

Could win you a few swing votes.

- I don't know.

- Well, give it some thought, okay?

So, are you, uh, coming upstairs soon?

- Oh, I'll be right there.

Just, um, I have a, a little homework.

- Well, they're certainly getting their money's worth out of you.

- Yeah.

They have me running around a lot, but it's only temporary.

- Honey, your Dad's idea was a good one.

- Beats paying for volunteers,

which was my next move.

- Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Come here.

Come here.

I want you to know that no matter how it turns out

I'm really proud of you for making the effort.

- Thanks, Mom.

Good night.

- Night.

Floss.

- Okay.

- Oh, come on you guys, you're gonna be late. You're Dad's waiting.

Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on.

Give me that. Go.

Have a good day. Love you.

- Bye.

[PHONE RINGS]

- Cathy, this is Frank.

Listen, I need you down at the marina ASAP.

I got a situation here.

I got some bad news.

You're job's not over yet.

Crandall's dead.

- What happened?

- Looks like somebody broke his neck.

We'll get a full work up from the ME this afternoon.

I got something I want to show you.

Come on.

- His boat?

- Evidently not.

The neighbor saw that someone left the light on and came on board.

We ran a check on the boat.

It's been repo'd by the bank.

- I wouldn't touch that.

- Why? We dusted it for prints and checked it for explosives.

It's clean. - It's password coded.

You type in the wrong password it'll erase every single file.

Thank you.

- This is strange.

- What is it? - It's not password coded.

- So, they got him to open it and they broke his neck.

- Maybe.

All the files have been deleted.

- We're too late.

- That's great.

You know, we should hire more former agents, Frank.

- Take it easy. - Why? Who's gonna explain this?

- So far no one can.

- I'd like to take this with me.

See if I can find something.

- At this point I'd say yeah, that's a good idea.

- Well, I've got my campaign staff on the job.

- Oh, that's great.

- I went to the homeroom where all the kids on detention go after school.

I spent the afternoon helping them with their homework

and tomorrow they're all campaigning for me cool or not.

- That's really great, honey.

- Whose laptop?

- Well, it's a part of the game.

I need to see if I can open up this email

because there might be some clues to a password in here.

- What have you found out so far?

- Well, the character in this game, he calls his sister Diana.

- The moon goddess.

- Exactly. And she calls him Apollo, the god of the sun.

And that's about all I have.

I don't know.

- Yeah. Try Apollo.

- I tried that, but it didn't work.

Wait a second.

Hmm.

- It worked.

I'm impressed.

[knocking]

- Yes.

- Hi. Uh.

I guess we should have called first, but I don't know, this seemed better.

- Really?

- We've made a potential breakthrough in the case.

- I thought you'd like to hear this personally.

- Sounds exciting.

- All right. Well. I first got suspicious

when I could open Crandall's laptop

on the boat that he was murdered in.

All the files were deleted, but he still had emails.

Then I thought, well, he would never have sensitive material

on a computer he got emails on because someone might hack in.

Well, then I realized that Intertech Aerospace,

like a lotta high tech companies, issues laptops

and Crandall might have had two

and they're all identical like this one for example.

- Just what is your point exactly?

- Well, I always thought that the charade required an inside man.

You always seem so calm, and you're the one

with the best connections to sell this program.

- Please... - I think you should just listen.

- You didn't count on Crandall not talking so you had him murdered.

And then you were arrogant enough to think that with enough time

and all of your technology you could crack the code.

So may I?

- No offense, but I'd rather you didn't.

This is my personal laptop.

- We can either do this here or down at headquarters.

- All right.

- If this is Crandall's computer and I type in the wrong code

it'll erase all of his files

and all of the top secret programs.

So

let's hope I'm right.

- And I am.

- Gentlemen,

please escort Mr. Martin to headquarters.

- I still don't understand why Martin would steal from his own company.

- I don't know.

- Where's the car?

- Well, it's probably on its way.

And hey, look, Cathy, um, for, uh,

for what it's worth I thought that was some real nice work.

- Thank you.

- And I could take that off your hands.

What's the problem?

- Where is Frank?

- He'll be along.

- No. He was supposed to meet us here and,

uh, he's never late. - Cathy, look, I don't

have time to play games here.

Just give me the computer.

- Is that an order? - Give it to me.

- I'll drop it.

Perfect symmetry.

Two planes,

two laptops,

two traitors.

You were Martin's boy all along.

That was very slick.

Oh.

- You're just a little too cute for your own good.

- You don't want to do that.

- Don't make me beg.

[GUN SHOTS]

- Let me see your hands.

I got cover. Go. Go.

- Hands behind your back. Don't move, O'Connor.

- We clear? - Clear.

On your feet you.

- What took you so long?

- Need a ride?

- Yeah.

Phew.

- You know, that was a little more than mental gymnastics, Frank.

I'm giving notice.

- Oh, come on. It wasn't that bad.

I suspected O'Connor ever since he didn't put a agent on that plane with Crandall.

- You might have told me that.

- No. It worked out this way.

He rolled over on McMasters and his buddies

and we got every one of them.

- Except for that I might have ended up as a real Jane Doe.

- No.

We were tracking him the whole time.

I wouldn't let anything happen to you.

- Unless it was absolutely necessary.

- What do you think? These tomatoes a little ripe?

- I'm afraid you're gonna have to figure that out for yourself now, Frank.

- I won. I won. I won.

Can you believe it?

I'm so happy.

- Congratulations! - You are the man.

Good job. - Oh, thanks, Dad.

Where is Susan? I want to tell her too.

- Um...

- I just heard.

- Please, no gloating.

I couldn't handle that right now.

- You got on the squad.

That's a big deal in itself, right?

We're all proud of you.

- You are? - You are my sister.

- Tina double crossed me and voted for herself.

- Well, politics is a dirty business.

- How'd you do?

- Well, it wasn't a landslide, but it wasn't voters fraud either.

- Congrats! I'm proud of you too.

- Okay. Then we'll call a truce.

At least until after dinner.

- Thank you.

- Dinner.

- I'm gonna freshen up.

- Forget politics.

I'm heading for diplomacy.

- Since it went so well maybe you'll get another assignment.

- Mmm.

I don't think so.

I don't think I could go through that again.

- Why not? It's what you do best.

Well,

second best.

- Honey, I just,

I don't think that I can have a job

where I have to keep things from you.

I hate it.

You know, I told you before we were married

that I did some sensitive work for the government.

Well, I was an operative for the CSA.

I was really pretty good at it.

I wasn't even supposed to tell you that,

but

the truth is I wasn't working for the U.S. Puzzle Company.

CSA asked me back to work on a very important case

and we solved it.

- But I was afraid if I

told you anything I'd put you and the kids in jeopardy.

But I told them it was a one time case.

That's it.

I'm over and done with it.

Can you understand, honey?

Honey?

Did you hear me?

- Mm hmm.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. I don't want you to work for the NBA.

Nicky's not gonna be tall enough anyway.

Good night, sweetheart.

I love you.

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