WITHOUT A TRACE 1X02: BIRTHDAY BOY ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON CBS: 10/03/2002 TRANSCRIBED FROM CBS Written by HANK STEINBERG Directed by DAVID NUTTER Transcript by Intrepid Courtesy of http://www.webphilia.com/~anthology (Brought to you in HDTV by Samsung Digitall Everyone's invited.) [Captioning sponsored by CBS and Warner Bros. Television] Please do not archive without permission. RATING: TV-PG-L ========================== DISCLAIMER: ========================== "WITHOUT A TRACE" and other related entities are owned, (TM) and (c) by JERRY BRUCKHEIMER Television, CBS Productions, and Warner Bros. Television (an AOL Time Warner Company). All Rights Reserved. This transcript was made without their permission, approval, authorization or endorsement. Any reproduction, duplication or distribution of this material in any form is expressly prohibited. It is absolutely forbidden to use it for commercial gain. Leave the headers/disclaimers in tact because it lists all those who have painstakingly made this transcript possible for your enjoyment and provide a link back to the site where this file originated http://www.webphilia.com/~anthology For corrections / inaccuracies, please contact the Transcriptionist at (intrepidly002@yahoo.com) ========================== SUMMARY: The team is called in to investigate the disappearance of a little boy on his birthday. ========================== WITHOUT A TRACE 1X02: BIRTHDAY BOY ========================== COLD OPEN: [EXT. NEW YORK CITY (STOCK) - DAY] [EXT. NEW YORK CITY SIDEWALK NEAR THE SUBWAY (STOCK) - DAY] CUT TO: SCENE #01: [INT. NEW YORK SUBWAY -- DAY] (The crowd walks down the subway stairs. A Father and son walk side-by-side down the stairway. Each wearing their baseball cap.) BOB FREEDMAN: And we used to sit there in the bleachers in that short right field. We could practically touch Roger Maris. GABE FREEDMAN: How about Mickey Mantle? BOB FREEDMAN: Well, Mickey, he was in center field and that was 465 feet back then and it was different than it is now. Oh, hey ... here you go. (BOB FREEDMAN hands his son his subway ticket.) BOB FREEDMAN: Happy birthday, kiddo. GABE FREEDMAN: Thanks. (They arrive at the entry gate.) BOB FREEDMAN: Okay, you go first. (The father runs his card through the gate and his son walks through. He runs his card through the gate again, and the red "Expired" light shines.) BOB FREEDMAN: Damn it. (The father looks up at his son standing on the other side of the gate and tells him to wait.) BOB FREEDMAN: You stay right there. I got to put more money on this, okay? You stay. (The son nods his head and the father leaves to find the token booth. The son watches his father stand in line. The father keeps a nervous eye on his son.) (The subway train arrives. GABE is standing closer to the train. The subway horn blows.) GABE FREEDMAN: (waves to his father) Dad, come on. (The father holds out a hand and warns his son.) BOB FREEDMAN: Wait. (The longer he stands in line, the more nervous he gets. BOB FREEDMAN pushes his way forward to the head of the ticket line.) BOB FREEDMAN: Excuse me, my son ... ATTENDANT: Ten dollars, please. (GABE FREEDMAN waits for the attendant as he makes the purchase. In the meantime, BOB FREEDMAN, has made his way in front of the closed train doors. He turns around to look for his dad as the doors open.) GABE FREEDMAN: Dad! (Worried now, BOB FREEDMAN starts to push his way to the entry gate.) BOB FREEDMAN: Excuse me. Excuse me, that's my son out there. I'm sorry. GABE FREEDMAN: Dad. (BOB FREEDMAN continues to push his way to the gate, but there are a lot of people between him and his son.) BOB FREEDMAN: Gabe! GABE FREEDMAN: Dad! BOB FREEDMAN: Gabe! (BOB FREEDMAN gets through the gate, but it's way too late, his son is already on the train. BOB starts to run to the train doors.) GABE FREEDMAN: Dad! BOB FREEDMAN: Gabe! GABE FREEDMAN: Dad! (The train doors close as BOB finally makes it to them. He tries to get them open, but they're closed shut. Inside them, GABE stares at his father.) BOB FREEDMAN: Gabe! Open the door! Get off at the next stop! Open the door! (Train begins to move with his son on it.) BOB FREEDMAN: Gabe ... get off at the next stop. (The train picks up speed. BOB starts to run with the train, hoping his son got his instructions.) BOB FREEDMAN: Get off at the next stop! Get off at the next stop! (The train takes off leaving the BOB FREEDMAN behind.) FLASH TO WHITE. [EXT. TRAIN (STOCK) -- DAY] (A red train travels on a bridge away from Manhattan. The signs on the lamppost below the bridge read: "Macombs Dam Bridge Under Construction No Trucks Use Alt. Routes". The second sign says "To Manhattan" and it has an arrow pointing in the opposite direction that they train is headed.) SCENE #02: [EXT. ABOVE STATION -- DAY] (The camera pans around and away from the bridge and shows a news reporter and crew setting up. In the background, we hear a second news reporter already giving her report.) REPORTER (WOMAN): (o.s.) ... were separated at the west end and 7th street station ... (The camera travels in toward the male news reporter just starting his segment.) REPORTER (MAN): What began as a classic American rite of passage a father taking his son to a baseball game on his 11th birthday has become the worst American nightmare. (The Reporter holds up a MISSING! poster with BOB FREEDMAN'S name and picture on it. Underneath it, it reads: "Last seen at ... Subway stop going to Yankee Stadium." REPORTER (MAN): Police say that they need your help in finding this young man. Without you, they say, they really don't have... (The camera moves past the reporter to where we see a volunteer passing out flyers to the sidewalk public as they pass by.) VOLUNTEER: Yeah. Any information you may have will be appreciated. (The camera continues on and we now see JACK MALONE walking along side SAMANTHA SPADE filling her in on the details of the case.) JACK: The father says he thought that Gabe would be at the next station. So, he jumped the next train to meet him there. When he wasn't there, he came all the way up here ... (JACK indicates the place somewhere in front of him.) JACK: ... Checked the platform, checked the gate then finally checked the seat. SAMANTHA: The boy had his own ticket? JACK: Apparently. SAMANTHA: And then the father called the NYPD. (Both JACK and SAMANTHA are looking at the Stadium.) JACK: Last night, 7:00. SAMANTHA: Why the hell did they wait till this morning to call us? JACK: I know, I know. (VIVIAN joins the two.) VIVIAN: The Yankees are calling in everyone who worked last night. Hopefully someone saw something. SAMANTHA: We don't even know if he ever made it here. VIVIAN: Even if he did, it was the Red Sox last night -- over 50,000 people, 10,000 kids his own age. (JACK MALONE turns and looks around. VIVIAN JOHNSON leaves. In the distance, JACK sees GABE FREEDMAN in his blue jacket and baseball hat walking along the parking lot with his train ticket in his hand. GABE stops, turns and looks straight at JACK.) (Camera cuts to JACK MALONE as this is his vision. Cut back to GABE who vanishes right before his eyes as a crowd of people going to the stadium walk by. These people also vanish.) JACK: Nobody would have even noticed him. CUT TO: [WHITE BOARD FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPH OF GABE FREEDMAN] (A photograph of a smiling GABE FREEDMAN hangs on the whiteboard next to his file number, 7A-NY ... and his name "GABE". The camera PUSHES IN close to the photo.) FADE TO WHITE. END OF TEASER. ROLL TITLE CREDITS. (COMMERCIAL SET) FADE IN. [EXT. NEW YORK CITY (STOCK) - DAY] SCENE #03: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSON'S UNIT -- DAY] (The camera travels through the missing person's unit where JACK and his team are sitting at the conference table having a meeting.) JACK: Missing 16 hours and counting. He got on the subway at 6:05 but that's all we know about it so far. DANNY: How do we even know that? Father's word? SAMANTHA: We checked his metro card. It supports his story. MARTIN: There are no eyewitnesses? SAMANTHA: Tons of eyewitnesses ... just none that we can find. DANNY: This would've never happened at Shea. VIVIAN: (smiling) It's so sad how bitter Met Fans are. JACK: Okay, Danny, you pick up the subway detail with the NYPD. (JACK pushes away from the table and stands up to face the clear map. He points to emphasize the area.) JACK: I want you to cover all the way from here to the Bronx. DANNY: Got it. SAMANTHA: I'm into convicted child abusers and pedophiles in the same vicinity. JACK: Check all the ones above 57th street. If he was lifted at that time it was probably by somebody on there way home. Now, Mr. Fitzgerald, we've got a missing kid all over the news. We're going to have a ton of incoming calls, most of them bogus but they've all got to be run down. (MARTIN nods his head. He gets the point.) MARTIN: So, you want me here? JACK: Break major protocol on the first day that's what happens. (JACK leaves. MARTIN sighs.) MARTIN: How long does it take to get out of his dog house? (DANNY smiles and stands.) DANNY: Depends on the dog. (DANNY leaves.) SAMANTHA: Don't mind Danny. He's just, uh, marking his territory. (MARTIN picks up his files and gets up from the table.) CUT TO: (As VIVIAN and JACK leave the office, VIVIAN asks.) VIVIAN: You going to polygraph the father? JACK: We'll see. I hate this part. (VIVIAN and JACK walk off camera.) CUT TO: SCENE #04: [INT. FREEDMAN'S RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM -- DAY] (Camera Close-up of a framed photograph of GABE FREEDMAN) BOB FREEDMAN: And I-I thought he understood what I was saying, but then he wasn't at 66th street. (BOB FREEDMAN sits on the sofa next to his wife who's holding their baby. JACK sits on the chair facing them.) BOB FREEDMAN: So, then I assumed that he must have gone ahead to the stadium. God, I don't know what I was thinking. I don't know why I didn't just call the police right away. JACK: Look, I understand that this is difficult. Mrs. Freedman, uh, I'd like to have a word with your husband alone, if you don't mind. (MRS. FREEDMAN glances at her husband hesitantly.) MRS. FREEDMAN: Uh ... okay. Uh, it's time to feed the baby, anyway. (She stands with the baby.) JACK: Thank you. (With a backward glance at her husband, she leaves the room.) JACK: Are you having any financial problems? BOB FREEDMAN: We struggle, like everybody. JACK: Any, um, problems in the marriage? BOB FREEDMAN: No, not beyond the normal marital stuff, no. JACK: The normal marital stuff? What does that mean exactly? BOB FREEDMAN: I don't understand how this is remotely relevant to anything. JACK: It may not be, but I have to ask. BOB FREEDMAN: (sharply) I mean, some sick son of a bitch may be out there with my son. You're in here asking me questions about my marriage? JACK: Look, I've worked hundreds of these cases and certain patters develop. Now, I may not like the pattern, but I can't ignore them. You want to know what those patterns are? (After a moment, BOB FREEDMAN nods.) JACK: When a child goes missing, whoever claims to have seen them last is usually the one that took them; and if that person happens to be one of the parents, the incidence doubles. Now my gut says you're okay, but I don't know you. I'm trying to get to know you so that I can help you, but I can't help you unless you earn my trust. BOB FREEDMAN: Next thing you'll be asking me to take a lie detector. JACK: It may come to that later. (Camera holds on BOB FREEDMAN'S surprised look.) CUT TO: [EXT. NEW YORK CITY (STOCK) - DAY] SCENE #05: [INT. SUBWAY -- DAY] (In the 57th street subway at platform B & D, DANNY is speaking indistinctly with several officers. They are holding the flyers being passed out at the teaser.) CUT TO: [EXT. NEW YORK CITY - YANKEE STADIUM (STOCK) - DAY] SCENE #06: [EXT. SIDEWALK VENDORS -- DAY] LEGEND: 18 HOURS MISSING (VIVIAN is speaking indistinctly with a group of people.) CUT TO: SCENE #07: [INT. FREEDMAN RESIDENCE - DINING ROOM -- DAY] (JACK is sitting at the dining room table continuing to question BOB FREEDMAN.) JACK: Did you usually give Gabe his own ticket to hold? BOB FREEDMAN: No. JACK: Why yesterday? (BOB turns to look at JACK, a little annoyed at being asked his motives in giving his son his own ticket to hold.) BOB FREEDMAN: It was his birthday. He's 11, I wanted him to feel that he was old enough to be trusted with it, okay? JACK: Okay. You and Gabe been fighting lately? BOB FREEDMAN: No. JACK: Was he playing hooky from school? BOB FREEDMAN: No. JACK: Does he have any friends that could lead him into trouble? BOB FREEDMAN: No. JACK: Is he involved with drugs? (BOB FREEDMAN turns around to look at JACK.) BOB FREEDMAN: No, he isn't. (JACK doesn't say anything. Camera holds on BOB FREEDMAN.) CUT TO: SCENE #08: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSONS UNIT -- DAY] (MARTIN is at his desk manning the incoming phone calls.) MARTIN: You think you saw him where? (pause) Mm-hmm. (pause) Okay, what time was that? (pause) All right, thank you. (pause) No, we appreciate it. Every tip is useful. (MARTIN hangs up the phone. He stands and marks it on the map with yet another red push-pin.) CUT TO: [EXT. NEW YORK CITY TRAIN ROUTE (STOCK) - DAY] LEGEND: 22 HOURS MISSING SCENE #09: [EXT. YANKEE STADIUM -- DAY] (Camera close up of a man holding GABE'S "MISSING" poster. DANNY is standing near the man, questioning him.) MAN: Yeah, I seen him. DANNY: You sure? MAN: Yeah, I'm sure. He came upon me yesterday. It must have been between 6:00, 6:30. (Quick flashback to GABE FREEDMAN walking down the stairway. GABE stops in front of the map. He looks at it a moment, then turns to ask the man who is holding a violin.) GABE FREEDMAN: Excuse me. This isn't the stop for Yankee Stadium, is it? MAN: You got off too soon. It's the next one, 161st street. GABE FREEDMAN: Thanks. (GABE leaves and starts to walk up the stairway he just came down.) MAN: I like your jacket. (GABE stops and looks back.) GABE FREEDMAN: Thanks. (GABE continues up the stairway. White flash to end of flashback. Resume to present.) MAN: He went back up to the subway and that was it. (DANNY looks at the stairway, then turns to look at the MAN.) DANNY: Did he mention his father? MAN: No. DANNY: Did he seem nervous or worried? MAN: No, just seemed like a nice kid on his way to the ball game. DANNY: Thank you, sir. (DANNY leaves.) CUT TO: [WHITE BOARD: 6:35 PM - GETS ON THE SUBWAY TO YANKEE STADIUM?] SCENE #10: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSONS UNIT -- DAY] (MARTIN stands in front of the map. He finishes adding another red dot to the map and turns around to go back to his desk. SAMANTHA is leaning against his desk looking at the map.) SAMANTHA: Lots of little red dots. MARTIN: Phone's ringing every 15 seconds. Must be a lot of little brown-haired kids unaccounted for. (MARTIN picks up a piece of paper and heads back to the map. On his way there, he turns around to face SAMANTHA.) MARTIN: Look, I know people are trying to be helpful but, for example, this lady, she keeps calling me. She's convinced that she saw Gabe on TV this morning ringing the bell to open the stock exchange. SAMANTHA: Trouble is, just when you thin you've got every nutcase in America calling your number that's the exact moment you get a live one. Thank you. (Someone off screen hands SAMANTHA a piece of paper. She takes it and looks at it. MARTIN, meanwhile, is busy meticulously fixing his little red dots on the map.) MARTIN: Well, one better come in soon, 'cause I'm running out of push-pins. SAMANTHA: Okay, I got a guy. (SAMANTHA stands up and approaches the map.) SAMANTHA: Gerald Deerborne, recently paroled. Committed lewd acts with a minor and neighbors saw him on 118th at a McDonald's with a kid fitting Gabe's description. What have you got around Morningside Heights? (MARTIN checks the map.) MARTIN: Well, let's see. I got two sightings. One at 125th and the other, I think ... (MARTIN looks down and checks his paper.) MARTIN: Yeah, was outside the Columbia gym. Both are around 9:00 am. SAMANTHA: See? Could be our live one. (SAMANTHA turns to leave the room. MARTIN calls out to her.) MARTIN: Hey. Need an extra body? SAMANTHA: Maybe next time. (MARTIN sighs and returns to his desk.) CUT TO: [EXT. NEW YORK CITY (STOCK) - DAY] SCENE #11: [INT. BUILDING -- DAY] (SAMANTHA runs up the stairway. She calls up to the OFFICER walking down the stairway.) SAMANTHA: What do we got? OFFICER: Neighbors saw the pervert this morning with a boy. Sounds like the kid could be yours. SAMANTHA: (nods) Let's go. (SAMANTHA and the other OFFICERS hurry up the stairwell.) CUT TO: SCENE #12: [INT. DEERBORNE'S APARTMENT - DAY] (The door to GERALD DEERBORNE'S apartment bursts open, surprising GERALD DEERBORNE who was sitting on the couch with a pair of earphones on. He takes the earphones off as soon as he sees the OFFICERS in his apartment.) OFFICER: Freeze! Get down to the ground. (GERALD DEERBORNE puts his hands up and stands up, extremely nervous and scared at the intrusion.) GERALD DEERBORNE: I didn't do anything. OFFICER: Get on the ground. GERALD DEERBORNE: I didn't do anything. (GERALD DEERBORNE falls to the floor face down.) OFFICER: Hands behind your back, Gerry. OFFICER: Easy. Stay still. GERALD DEERBORNE: I didn't do anything. I'm clean. SAMANTHA: I'll go look for the boy. OFFICER: Take it easy. (SAMANTHA turns away from DEERBORNE and starts to search the apartment for the missing boy.) OFFICER: Bring him out. Bring him out. CUT TO: SCENE #13: [INT. GERALD DEERBORNE'S BEDROOM - DAY -- CONTINUOUS] (SAMANTHA pushes aside the curtain separating the bedroom from the rest of the apartment and enters, gun drawn. She walks deeper into the room and around to the side of the bed where there are abandoned pizza boxes, Chinese take out boxes and other fast food wrappers on the messy, unkempt bed and on the side table. SAMANTHA puts her gun down.) CUT TO: SCENE #14: LEGEND: 24 HOURS MISSING (JACK is inside GABE FREEDMAN'S bedroom. A typical kid's bedroom with models on the dresser top and a telescope set up near the window. He walks around the bedroom and looks around.) (JACK looks over at GABE'S desk, complete with computer. He envisions GABE sitting behind his desk and typing on the keyboard.) (MRS. FREEDMAN appears in the doorway behind JACK as he stares at the desk.) MRS. FREEDMAN: You wanted to speak to me alone? (This startles JACK. He turns around.) JACK: Sure, if you've got the time. MRS. FREEDMAN: It's all right; she's finally asleep. JACK: She's beautiful. (MRS. FREEDMAN smiles and relaxes a bit. She walks into the bedroom and sits down on GABE'S bed, facing JACK.) MRS. FREEDMAN: Gabe could never sleep when he was her age. He had so much energy. I want to apologize for Bob. He-he knows that you're just doing your job. JACK: It's okay. I don't think I'd be as patient if I were in his shoes. MRS. FREEDMAN: Do you have any children? JACK: Two girls. MRS. FREEDMAN: How old? JACK: Six and eight. MRS. FREEDMAN: That must be nice, having them so close together in age. JACK: (looks away) Yeah, it is. MRS. FREEDMAN: I've heard that, um, if you don't find a child within the first 48 hours, that ... JACK: (interrupts her) ... that's not always the case. Luckily, we're involved in this early. (JACK'S phone rings. MRS. FREEDMAN stares at it and stands, wondering if it's about her son. JACK answers the phone.) JACK: Yeah? (pause) Okay. (pause) Okay. Uh, bring it to the office and check for prints. (JACK hangs up.) JACK: (to mom) Somebody showed up in Gabe's seat yesterday in the third inning. Luckily, they struck up a conversation with the people sitting around them. He claims to have bought the ticket from a scalper outside the stadium. MRS. FREEDMAN: How did a scalper get Gabe's ticket? JACK: That's what we're going to find out. CUT TO: SCENE #15: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSON'S UNIT -- DAY] (Close up of the computer scanning the fingerprint database looking for a match. VIVIAN is sitting behind the computer, working on it. MARTIN is standing up behind her.) MARTIN: What do you got? VIVIAN: The stub from Gabe's ticket had six partial prints on it. I'm trying to find a match. How's the office treating you? MARTIN: The office is fine. I think Danny's got a bit of a problem with me, but ... VIVIAN: Well, when you found that he missed something on that alibi last week, you didn't have to bring it up in front of everybody unless, of course, you wanted to show him up ... (VIVIAN turns around to look at MARTIN.) VIVIAN: ... or show off. (MARTIN now gets why DANNY'S treating him the way he has been. The computer beeps and both people turn back to the fingerprints.) VIVIAN: Here we go. (Hits a few more keys on the keyboard and the name and photo to match the fingerprint pops up on screen.) VIVIAN: George Lincoln. Auto theft, petty larceny ... did ten months at Riker's. MARTIN: He lives in the Bronx. CUT TO: [EXT. NEW YORK CITY - NIGHT] LEGEND: 28 HOURS MISSING SCENE #16: [EXT. SIDEWALK -- NIGHT] (Camera close up of a pair of feet walking along the sidewalk. The camera moves up and we see a young black man holding an open soft drink can in his hand and a bag slung over his shoulder.) (Walking toward him at angles meant to intercept the young man's path are VIVIAN and DANNY in front of him and behind him, JACK approaches.) JACK: George Lincoln? (GEORGE LINCOLN turns around to look at JACK who holds up his ID.) JACK: FBI. (GEORGE LINCOLN turns back around to see DANNY and VIVIAN blocking his path.) JACK: We need to talk to you. CUT TO: SCENE #17: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSONS UNIT -- NIGHT] (Close up of GABE'S "MISSING" poster as GEORGE LINCOLN is looking at it. JACK is sitting on the desk in front of GEORGE LINCOLN. VIVIAN, DANNY and another AGENT are also there.) JACK: You recognize him? GEORGE LINCOLN: I mean, I bought a ticket off him yesterday-- so what? JACK: He's been missing since yesterday and you're the last person to see him - - that's "so what." GEORGE LINCOLN: Man, I ain't got nothing to do with that. All I did was a little business with the kid. (Quick flashback to the day that GABE FREEDMAN went missing. GEORGE LINCOLN is standing in front of the stadium trying to sell tickets.) GEORGE LINCOLN: Got two. Anybody need some? (A hand from a person wearing a familiar blue jacket reaches up and taps GEORGE on the shoulder. He turns around to see GABE FREEDMAN standing behind him.) GABE FREEDMAN: I got one. GEORGE LINCOLN: All right, little man, let me see. GABE FREEDMAN: I hold it, you look. GEORGE LINCOLN: Oh, you a smart little cracker, ain't you? All right, look, I'll give you 30 bucks for it. GABE FREEDMAN: Face value's $45. GEORGE LINCOLN: Hey, man, that's a single and the game's about to start. GABE FREEDMAN: It's the Red Sox, and it's a sell-out. (GEORGE smiles at the tough kid.) GEORGE LINCOLN: All right, I'll give you face. GABE FREEDMAN: $50. $50 or I'm walking. (GEORGE chuckles.) (White flash to end of flashback. Resume to present.) GEORGE LINCOLN: I gave him $50. He went his way, I went mine. VIVIAN: You see where he went? GEORGE LINCOLN: No, man. I mean, on to the next, you know. Look ... I got fifteen other guys that'll put me at that stadium till eleven o'clock. (JACK looks at GEORGE LINCOLN who seems a tad worried that they may not believe him. JACK looks up at the OTHER AGENT who was standing behind GEORGE.) JACK: Get their names. (JACK stands and walks away. VIVIAN and DANNY follow. They leave that area and walk back across the office.) JACK: He's clean. VIVIAN: Smart little kid, huh? DANNY: Smart enough to blow off the Yankees. JACK: And his father. (JACK stops and sighs.) JACK: Where the hell was he going? (Camera pans around to show us what they're looking at. Hold on the Whiteboard photo of GABE FREEDMAN.) FADE TO BLACK. (COMMERCIAL SET) FADE IN. [WHITE BOARD TIMELINE: 7:00 PM - SELLS TICKET TO SCALPER] SCENE #18: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSONS UNIT -- DAY] (JACK walks across the office.) JACK: Okay, it's 37 hours and he's slipping away. Sam? SAMANTHA: We know Gabe got to Yankee stadium and sold his ticket for fifty bucks. Sets him up at seven o'clock, Friday night. Question is, where was he going after that? MARTIN: His parents have no idea? JACK: No, they would have volunteered that information by now. I can't go back there until I have more. DANNY: Maybe it's not like the father says. Maybe the kid gave his old man the slip on the subway. VIVIAN: Why would he do that? DANNY: Well, 'cause he's 11, and when you're 11 going to a ball game with your dad could be lame. Maybe you want to meet a friend or girlfriend or whatever. Maybe he was planning on ditching his dad once he got to the game, but then he got this opportunity with the subway and he took it. JACK: If you're right, that's one pissed-off kid. VIVIAN: Yeah, but he's not so pissed off that he doesn't go home for 37 hours. I mean, he's never done anything like this before. SAMANTHA: According to his parents. JACK: No, I think Viv's right. Something happened to him between seven o'clock and the time he was planning on showing up at home that night. MARTIN: Any chance this kid just ran away? JACK: Why that day? Why like that? DANNY: I think he took the fifty bucks, got back on the subway and went to go meet someone. SAMANTHA: Which means we got to profile this kid like an adult. Find out everything about him. JACK: Exactly. Okay, let's do it. CUT TO: SCENE #19: [INT. CLASSROOM -- DAY] LEGEND: 38 HOURS MISSING (VIVIAN and SAMANTHA are interviewing GABE'S teacher. They all walk into the classroom.) TEACHER: I know I'm not supposed to play favorites but Gabe's one of those kids that when I go home at the end of the day, no matter how tired I am, it's worth it. VIVIAN: Well, you're here on a Sunday morning. That says a lot. SAMANTHA: How is Gabe in class? (GABE'S TEACHER looks away and shakes her head as she remembers something.) SAMANTHA: What is it? (GABE'S TEACHER sits down at a student desk.) TEACHER: I could just shoot myself. I didn't think anything of it at the time. He was usually so attentive. But lately, I think something might have been going on with him. VIVIAN: Like what? TEACHER: I don't know. It's hard to describe but something was different. SAMANTHA: Drugs? TEACHER: I don't know; I don't think so. Maybe I'm crazy because of what's happened, but then ... his birthday. The last time I saw him, we had a cake we all sang "Happy Birthday" and he just ran out of the room and I tried to talk to him about it after school, but ... (Quick flashback to after school that day. GABE is sitting at his desk, his TEACHER approaches him.) TEACHER: What's going on, Gabe? Talk to me. GABE FREEDMAN: I told you nothing. TEACHER: Nothing's the matter but you react like that to "Happy Birthday"? GABE FREEDMAN: Birthdays are stupid. TEACHER: Is there something going on at home? GABE FREEDMAN: Everything's fine. Can I go, please? (GABE stands and starts to put on his backpack.) TEACHER: Okay. But whatever it is I want you to know that I'm here, all right? (GABE turns and nods at his teacher before leaving.) (White flash to end of flashback. Resume to present.) TEACHER: I was going to talk to his parents about it on Monday, but now ... (VIVIAN and SAMANTHA look at each other.) MOTHER: (prelap) I can't imagine what that was about ... CUT TO: SCENE #20: [INT. FREEDMAN RESIDENCE -- DAY] (MRS. FREEDMAN takes a seat at the dining table across from JACK who is already sitting there.) MRS. FREEDMAN: ... He seemed fine that morning. And, and, I thought he was excited about going to the game with his dad. JACK: His teacher says he's been withdrawn lately. Have you noticed that? MRS. FREEDMAN: She said that? JACK: Mm-hmm. (MRS. FREEDMAN thinks about it a bit.) MRS. FREEDMAN: God, maybe a little. I thought it was probably just his reaction to the baby, or-or ... moving. JACK: You never mentioned that you moved. MRS. FREEDMAN: Yeah, about-about six months ago. How could he have gone to that game and sold that ticket? What is he involved in that I don't know about? CUT TO: SCENE #21: [INT. FREEDMAN RESIDENCE - DAY] (JACK is standing in the room with his cell phone open. BOB FREEDMAN walks around the hallway corner and into the room. JACK puts the cell phone away when he sees BOB FREEDMAN.) BOB FREEDMAN: (quietly) You were right, asking me those questions, you know. Apparently, there was some stuff going on with Gabe that we didn't know about. JACK: Well, every parent can say that. (BOB looks away for a moment, then back at JACK. He's hesitant to even ask.) BOB FREEDMAN: I know she thinks it's my fault. She won't say it, but I can see it in her eyes. JACK: I don't think so. BOB FREEDMAN: I'd like to take that polygraph, if that's all right. JACK: (nods slightly) Sure. We'll set it up. CUT TO: SCENE #22: [INT. FREEDMAN RESIDENCE - GABE'S BEDROOM -- DAY] (Behind GABE'S desk, an FBI TECHNICIAN and DANNY are working at getting into GABE'S computer.) DANNY: Let's check that one right there. (JACK walks into GABE'S bedroom and closes the door.) JACK: Find anything? DANNY: He was surfing some porn sites. (JACK walks toward the desk.) DANNY: Look at that. (On the computer monitor is the front page for lickalicious.com, a "you must be 18 or older to view this site" page.) JACK: Geez. I didn't know what girls looked like when I was his age. DANNY: I was all over it. My brothers were good for something. JACK: Any weird chat rooms? DANNY: No. This kid doesn't feel like predator prey to me. (JACK walks away from the desk and winds up picking up GABE'S skateboard.) JACK: Where would an 11-year-old go skateboarding around here? DANNY: Well, there's e-mails from and they keep talking about these old loading ramps downtown, the west side. JACK: Let's check it out. DANNY: Okay. (JACK puts the skateboard down.) CUT TO: [EXT. NEW YORK CITY (STOCK) - DAY] LEGEND: 40 HOURS MISSING SCENE #23: [EXT. WEST SIDE -- DOWNTOWN - OLD LOADING RAMPS] (Amidst a stream of teenaged kids skateboarding through a make-shift course consisting of old cars, and open doorways, DANNY and JACK interview WALLY, a street-wise older teenaged boy and GABE'S old friend.) WALLY: I didn't call 'cause I didn't think I had nothing to say. DANNY: You didn't think him coming here the night he disappeared would be helpful to us? WALLY: Well, I figured some guys like you would be all over it. JACK: What's your name again? Is it Wally? WALLY: Yeah, Wally. JACK: Okay, Wally, don't worry about it. Just tell us what happened that night. What time did you get here? WALLY: Got here about seven. Little man came just a little bit after that. JACK: What, like 7:30? WALLY: Yeah, something like that. Anyway, when he came up, (Quick flashback to the night that GABE disappeared. A bunch of teenaged kids are hanging out at the old skateboard loading ramps.) WALLY: (v.o.) I notice like, a little extra pep in his step, you know? (GABE approaches the group.) GABE FREEDMAN: Yo, what up, Dawgs? Check what I got. (WALLY skateboards up to GABE and grabs the roll of bills out of his hands. He immediately begins to count the money.) WALLY: Where did you get this? You must have mugged some old lady or something, huh? GABE FREEDMAN: Ditched my old man on the subway. Scalped my ticket. WALLY: Yo, you trippin,' man-- he's gonna whup your ass. GABE FREEDMAN: Yeah, whatever. You got a board for me? (GABE reaches up and snatches the money away from WALLY. White flash to end of flashback. Resume to present.) JACK: Then what? WALLY: Not much. He hung out for a few hours, you know, till, like, 9:00, 9:30. and then we took off. DANNY: Did he say where he was going? WALLY: Home, I think. I mean, we figured his dad was going to smoke him, you know? The little man wasn't even sweating it. JACK: He didn't tell you it was his birthday? WALLY: Nah, I didn't even find out about that till I seen it on the news. It's kind of wack, huh? (DANNY snorts and looks at JACK. Camera holds on JACK.) CUT TO: [WHITE BOARD TIMELINE: 7:30-9:30PM - BOARDING WEST SIDE] SCENE #24: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSONS UNIT -- DAY] (MARTIN is once again on the phone standing near his desk.) MARTIN: (on phone) Right. Well, thank you and we appreciate your help. (MARTIN sits down and hangs up the phone. He presses the button to answer the next phone call.) MARTIN: Fitzgerald. (pause) Right. (pause) Right. (pause) Port Authority. (pause) Okay, when? (pause) You recall what color the jacket was? (MARTIN pauses and leans in, elbows on his desk as he continues his questions over the phone.) MARTIN: (on phone) And the sleeves? (pause) Was there a logo? (pause) You say this was ten minutes ago? Hang on. (MARTIN puts the caller on hold, stands up and leaves his desk.) CUT TO: SCENE #25: [EXT. PORT AUTHORITY BUS TERMINAL -- DAY] (Following up on the tip from MARTIN, JACK exits the parked car. DANNY and VIVIAN also get out of the car. They all cross the street to the station) CUT TO: [INT. PORT AUTHORITY BUS TERMINAL - DAY -- CONTINUOUS] (Inside the station, DANNY and JACK look around. VIVIAN walks up to SAMANTHA, they're also looking around.) (Off in the distance, SAMANTHA sees someone walk by wearing the same blue jacket GABE was wearing when he disappeared.) SAMANTHA: That's him. (SAMANTHA and VIVIAN start to run toward the person.) SAMANTHA: (to radio) We got him near the concourse. DANNY: (to radio) Copy that. SAMANTHA: Gabe! Gabe! (SAMANTHA reaches him, puts a hand on his shoulder and turns him around.) SAMANTHA: Hey! (It's not GABE.) GIRL: Hey, what the hell's your problem, lady? SAMANTHA: : We're FBI. JACK: Where'd you get the jacket, son? LEO: What do you mean? It's mine. JACK: Check it. GIRL: Leave him alone. (SAMANTHA checks the back label and sees "GABE FREEDMAN" on it.) SAMANTHA: It's Gabe's. Come on. (SAMANTHA moves to remove the jacket from LEO, when she finds something else: a large blood stain.) SAMANTHA: Jack ... there's blood on the sleeve. (Camera holds on JACK as he looks at SAMANTHA.) CUT TO: (COMMERCIAL SET) FADE IN. [WHITE BOARD TIMELINE: 4 AM - BLOODY JACKET AT PORT AUTHORITY] SCENE #26: [INT. STATION - DAY] (LEO, the boy who was wearing GABE'S jacket, is being questioned by DANNY and JACK.) LEO: I swear to god -- I found the jacket right there in the garbage. I never even saw him. DANNY: And you didn't notice the blood? LEO: I didn't know what the hell it was. I thought it was paint or something. JACK: It was dry already? LEO: Yeah. (JACK stands up and takes a few steps away. VIVIAN joins him.) VIVIAN: Leo's girlfriend corroborates his story. JACK: She confirms the time? VIVIAN: Uh-huh. 4:00 A.M. She remembers because the diner was closing. And we ran Leo's name. His mother reported him missing eight months ago in Baltimore. Abusive stepfather. JACK: What about the girl? VIVIAN: She ran away from her foster home in Boston. No abuse, she says -- just neglect. I'm going to go call social services. JACK: Okay. (VIVIAN turns and walks away. Camera holds on JACK.) CUT TO: [EXT. NEW YORK CITY (STOCK) - DAY] SCENE #27: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSONS UNIT - DAY] LEGEND: 42 HOURS MISSING (The team is sitting around the conference table, updating each other on the status of the case.) VIVIAN: NYPD is canvassing ticket agents, vendors and janitors but so far, nothing. JACK: Okay, we know he scalped his ticket at 7:00. He then took a train downtown to the west side and hung out till about 9:00 or 9:30. Then the bloody jacket shows up at 4:00 A.M. At the port authority. The question is, how did the jacket get there, and why? SAMANTHA: Maybe he was running away. Maybe that's what this is all about. JACK: From what? DANNY: Maybe he wasn't running away. Maybe he was running to something, someone. MARTIN: You can't get too far on fifty bucks. DANNY: We don't know how much allowance he already had in his pocket. SAMANTHA: Okay, but just because the jacket was there doesn't mean he was, right? MARTIN: No, but he might have been in the vicinity. (MARTIN stands and pulls the map with the sightings marked with red push pins toward the conference table so that everyone can see what he's talking about.) MARTIN: We got three sightings in that ten-block radius -- a movie theater, a diner, and a Cyber Café but the Cyber Cafe is the only sighting that fits our timeline. Plus, this place got busted last month for letting underage kids have access to porn. JACK: Samantha, check that out, will you? SAMANTHA: Yeah. (MARTIN nods as he sees another assignment passing him by.) DANNY: We don't even know if he made it anywhere near the Port Authority. (Someone hands JACK some papers. He reads through them.) DANNY: For all we know, those boarders ripped off his fifty bucks, killed him and dumped his jacket. JACK: Okay, forensics. The blood on the jacket is "O" positive same as Gabe's. (The news hits the team grimly. JACK sighs as he hands out assignments.) JACK: (to SAMANTHA) Cyber cafe, (to DANNY) skateboard, (to VIVIAN) Port Authority ... (to MARTIN) ... office. MARTIN: ... office ... JACK: You got it. I'm going to go see the parents. (Everyone stands to get to their assignment.) CUT TO: SCENE #28: [INT. FREEDMAN RESIDENCE -- DAY] (JACK is updating the FREEDMANS on the forensics findings.) JACK: (quietly) We're not going to know it's his blood until we do a DNA test. (MRS. FREEDMAN takes a deep breath.) BOB FREEDMAN: What do you need? JACK: His toothbrush ... or a comb. (BOB looks at his wife. She nods her head and gets up.) MRS. FREEDMAN: Okay. (As MRS. FREEDMAN leaves, she turns to look at BOB.) CUT TO: SCENE #29: [EXT. WEST SIDE -- DOWNTOWN - OLD LOADING RAMPS -- DAY] (Down at the old loading ramps, kids skateboard while loud rap music plays in the background. DANNY is off to the side questioning WALLY again.) DANNY: I'm not a cop, so relax. I don't give a damn about what you do. I just want to find your friend. That's it. (DANNY leans in and speaks to WALLY in a low voice.) DANNY: (in Spanish) Lo sientes? Lo que tu tienes que tener es confianza. Confianza. (loose translation) Do you understand me? You can speak to me in confidence. Hmm? (DANNY moves around WALLY and sits down next to him. He holds up his hand in a fist, fist pointed toward WALLY.) DANNY: (loose translation in Spanish) Trust me. (WALLY hits the fist with his own fist by way of greeting.) WALLY: Look, I wasn't there when it happened. So I don't know so much, all right? DANNY: What do you mean what happened? WALLY: The guys-- they went to go have some fun with one of them Koreans. DANNY: What Koreans, Wally? WALLY: You know, from one of them delis. I'm not even sure which one. They just went to go mess with the guy. DANNY: What do you mean, "mess with"? WALLY: Yo, it was stupid, man. They go in there, they trash the place, maybe grab some smokes. Like I said, it's stupid. DANNY: And Gabe was with them? WALLY: I tried to tell him not to go ... but I guess it kind of got out of hand or something. (DANNY nods slightly.) WALLY: Like I said ... I really don't know. DANNY: Thank you, brother. (DANNY stands up and leaves.) CUT TO: SCENE #30: [INT. CYBER CAFE -- DAY] (SAMANTHA is at the Cyber Cafe questioning the owner.) CYBER CAFÉ OWNER: You're not going to run me in for this? SAMANTHA: Just need the information. CYBER CAFÉ OWNER: Yeah, he was here that night. Came in around 11:30 or so. (Quick flashback to that night. GABE approaches the CYBER CAFE OWNER as he wipes down the tables.) GABE FREEDMAN: I need to use one of your computers. CYBER CAFÉ OWNER: Can't do it. You got to be 16. GABE FREEDMAN: Hey, please. Just five minutes. Please. (The CYBER CAFE OWNER looks up at GABE for a moment and seeing GABE'S pleading face, he relents.) CYBER CAFÉ OWNER: Go ahead. (Flash to white.) CYBER CAFÉ OWNER: (v.o.) It wasn't five minutes, though. (End of flashback. Resume to present.) CYBER CAFÉ OWNER: He logged on. Looked like he sent one e-mail, en just sat there staring at the screen not doing much of anything for... maybe a half an hour. Then all of a sudden, he starts typing away like crazy. SAMANTHA: Did he have blood on his jacket? CYBER CAFÉ OWNER: Not that I saw. SAMANTHA: Which computer was he on? (The CYBER CAFE OWNER turns around and points to the computer behind him. SAMANTHA walks over to the computer and out of camera frame.) CUT TO: SCENE #31: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSONS UNIT -- DAY] LEGEND: 45 HOURS MISSING (MARTIN walks from the map of sightings back to his desk where he sits down. He's on his cell phone talking with DANNY.) MARTIN: I checked all the logs. There was no violent crime reported in that area the night of the disappearance. INTERCUT WITH: [EXT. NEW YORK CITY SIDEWALK - DAY] DANNY: On a Friday night? You're sure? MARTIN: Yes, I'm sure. I even ran Chelsea and the West Village. Nothing during the time period we're looking at. DANNY: (disappointed) Yeah. MARTIN: I did, however, check all the local hospitals. A Korean deli owner checked himself into the E.R. At St. Vincent's around 11:00 P.M. Head wounds. DANNY: Why didn't you tell me that in the first place? MARTIN: Because you never told me you were looking for a Korean deli owner. I had to hear that from Jack. (DANNY looks up, but he doesn't say anything.) MARTIN: You want the address? DANNY: Yes, I want the address now. (DANNY pulls out a pen from his jacket pocket.) CUT TO: SCENE #32: [INT. DELI/CONVENIENCE STORE -- DAY] (DANNY is questioning the Korean Deli Owner who sports a large bandage on the right side of his forehead.) DELI OWNER: I'm here just doing business and they come in with their skateboards and making trouble. I would have called police but they don't do anything. DANNY: I understand. Just tell me what happened. DELI OWNER: They come in over there. (The Deli Owner points to the glass double doors. The camera pans over and...) (Quick flashback to the night of the incident in the Deli / Convenience Store. A group of five boys walk into the deli, GABE is in the lead. The other hold their skateboards. GABE is obviously the youngest looking of the five. They walk in casually. GABE seems the most nervous of them all. He glances at the Deli Owner who stands behind the counter watching them carefully. The door remains open and one of the boys stands near the door looking outside.) (GABE passes the counter and heads toward the refrigerators in the back where the snacks are kept. GABE pauses by a rack of potato chips and other snacks. GABE nervously glances at the older boy some distance away from him. The Deli Owner watches everyone carefully sensing that something is about to happen.) (GABE suddenly grabs a bag of chips and makes a break for the door. The other four boys holding on to their skateboards and standing nearer to the doorway, get away easily. GABE, who was the furthest inside the store and who was the only one to pass the counter has a difficult time getting out. He makes his way to the door, but the Deli Owner is just as fast on the other side of the counter between GABE and the door.) (GABE slips and falls to the floor. The Deli Owner catches him. They both struggle. GABE pushes the Deli Owner backward and into a stack of water bottles. The Deli Owner falls over backward onto the floor. GABE gets to his feet just as the DELI OWNER looks back at him, his face bloodied from the cut in his forehead. The DELI OWNER falls back to the ground, unconscious.) (GABE sees this and thinks the worst.) DELI OWNER: (v.o.) I wake up later and go to hospital. I nearly died! (Flash to white. Resume to present.) DANNY: That's probably what he thought. CUT TO: [EXT. PORT AUTHORITY BUS TERMINAL -- DAY] SCENE #33: [INT. PORT AUTHORITY BUS TERMINAL -- DAY] (VIVIAN shows GABE'S "MISSING" Poster to the ticket seller.) VIVIAN: Have you seen him, Sal? SAL: Yeah, sure. I remember this kid. He was here Friday night looking to buy a ticket. (Quick flashback to that night at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. GABE walks up to the ticket counter.) GABE FREEDMAN: Excuse me. Where do I buy a bus ticket? SAL: Depends on where you're going. GABE FREEDMAN: Texas. SAL: Is the ticket for you? GABE FREEDMAN: Yeah. SAL: Sorry, kid, you got to be at least 15 and if you're going to go across state line you got to have a note from your parents or be accompanied by an adult. (GABE doesn't say anything. He walks away.) SAL: (v.o.) I don't know what happened to him after that. (End of flashback. Resume to present.) VIVIAN: An 11-year-old wandering around here by himself at midnight, trying to get to Texas. Why didn't you call a cop? SAL: Hey, kids like that come here every day. (VIVIAN shakes her head and leaves the counter.) CUT TO: [WHITE BOARD TIMELINE: 12 MIDNIGHT - TRIES TO BUY BUS TICKET] SCENE #34: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSON'S UNIT -- DAY] (JACK walks into the office. SAMANTHA intercepts him. She's holding a piece of paper.) SAMANTHA: Hey, we got the e-mail from the cyber cafe. You ready for this? "Dad, I really messed up, and I'm in big trouble. Please e-mail men when you sign on, I'm waiting." JACK: What was the response? SAMANTHA: We don't know. There were some instant messages but we can't read them. JACK: "Dad"? SAMANTHA: (nods) "Dad." FADE TO BLACK. (COMMERCIAL SET) FADE IN. [EXT. NYC (STOCK) - DAY] LEGEND: 47 HOURS MISSING SCENE #35: [INT. FREEDMAN RESIDENCE - LIVING ROOM -- DAY] (SAMANTHA updates the FREEDMANS on their investigation.) SAMANTHA: It wasn't Gabe's blood on the jacket. It was the Deli Owner's. Gabe must have thought he killed him. He didn't know what to do. So, now he walks the streets tries to get ahold of himself figure out a plan and finally, a couple hours later he heads for Port Authority. When he saw the blood on his sleeve he panicked and threw it in the garbage. MRS. FREEDMAN: Oh, my god, he ran away. SAMANTHA: He tried to buy a bus ticket for somewhere in Texas. MRS. FREEDMAN: We don't know anyone in Texas. BOB FREEDMAN: You said "he tried". He tried to buy a ticket? SAMANTHA: He's too young. So, they wouldn't sell him one. We think maybe he asked someone at Port Authority to buy the ticket for him. We're checking all children's tickets bought during that 12-hour period. MRS. FREEDMAN: This doesn't make any sense. If he got into trouble, why wouldn't he come to us? SAMANTHA: That's what we were trying to figure out ... (SAMANTHA looks at BOB.) SAMANTHA: ... until we found the e-mail. MRS. FREEDMAN: What e-mail? JACK: The e-mail he sent to your husband. BOB FREEDMAN: What the hell are you talking about? JACK: He sent you an e-mail asking for help. (BOB sighs.) BOB FREEDMAN: This is insane. This is absolutely insane. (BOB stands, angry now.) BOB FREEDMAN: You think I was e-mailing my son in the middle of the night? After all of this, you still think I know where he is? You people are unbelievable! I wasn't even on the computer that night. (BOB turns to his wife.) BOB FREEDMAN: You were here. (MRS. FREEDMAN shakes her head, confused.) MRS. FREEDMAN: I don't know. I don't remember. JACK: Look, we know you don't want to get your son in trouble. BOB FREEDMAN: I swear to god I have not seen or heard from my son in two days. SAMANTHA: Well, whoever he was communicating with he was calling him "dad." MRS. FREEDMAN: Oh, my god. (BOB turns to look at his wife. She stands up and walks over to her husband. Behind them, JACK watches and listens intently.) MRS. FREEDMAN: He found him. He found him. (Suddenly, JACK realizes what she's talking about.) JACK: (quietly) The birth father. (SAMANTHA looks confused.) JACK: Gabe's adopted, isn't he? (BOB turns around and looks at JACK.) SAMANTHA: Why didn't you tell us this from the beginning? MRS. FREEDMAN: He's our son. He's been our son since the second day of his life. JACK: You never told him? SAMANTHA: We wanted to wait until he was older. We thought that he would handle it better. BOB FREEDMAN: I don't understand this. You're saying he's been communicating over the internet with his biological father. Then he gets into trouble and he goes to him, not to us? JACK: Right now, he doesn't trust you. He probably feels like he's been lied to his whole life. That's why he acted out. It's why he reacted the way he did to his birthday at school. That's why he didn't want to go to the ball game with you. BOB FREEDMAN: And it was a closed adoption. We don't even know who the birth father is. (Feeling as though they've run into a brick wall, the FREEDMANS turn to each other. Camera holds on SAMANTHA.) CUT TO: SCENE #36: [INT. ADOPTION SERVICES -- DAY] (MRS. CANNON, an adoption worker, walks into the office with VIVIAN and DANNY at her heels. She has a stack of papers in her hands and goes through it as she makes her way back to her desk.) MRS. CANNON: He couldn't have found the kid through us. We don't give out that information. Not without the consent of the adoptive parents. DANNY: Maybe he hacked into your computers. MRS. CANNON: Anything before 1994 was never input in the computer. VIVIAN: We'd appreciate your help. MRS. CANNON: Listen, I'm sorry but we need to protect the anonymity of our clients. DANNY: Look, Mrs. Cannon, we could wait another hour till we get a court order, or you could help us now make it home in time to have dinner with your family and give us a real shot at finding this boy. SHORT TIME CUT TO: (MRS. CANNON holds the adoption record in her hand and she reads off the information to DANNY and VIVIAN.) MRS. CANNON: "Gabe Freedman. Biological mother: Barbara Young. Lives in San Francisco. Biological father: Edward Perkins. Died three years ago. (MRS. CANNON looks up at the agents.) DANNY: Hmm, then who is he running to? CUT TO: SCENE #37: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSONS UNIT -- DAY] LEGEND: 49 HOURS MISSING (SAMANTHA is sitting at her desk. Everyone else is gathered around the area updating each other.) SAMANTHA: So far all we got on that e-mail address is that it's registered somewhere in Texas. JACK: That doesn't help us much. We already knew he was headed there. (MARTIN who has been some distance away, now joins the group.) DANNY: Hmm, so the theory is that some friend, some family member someone that worked at the adoption agency someone that knew that Gabe was adopted broke the news to him over the internet has been using that information to prey on him and has now lured him to Texas? SAMANTHA: Right. DANNY: Why would that work? I mean, Gabe didn't know he was adopted. Why would he ever believe him? JACK: Maybe they have a copy of his records. Maybe they know about a birthmark on his right shoulder. Maybe they're just preying on the normal insecurities of a kid that has a new baby coming into the family. (MARTIN nods a bit, but doesn't say anything.) SAMANTHA: Look, either way, someone convinced him and managed to con him into not telling his parents. JACK: The first contact must have been an e-mail. (SAMANTHA'S phone rings. She answers it.) SAMANTHA: (b.g. to phone) Yeah. JACK: After that it must be instant messages because there's no record of the communication on Gabe's computer. SAMANTHA: (to VIVIAN) John Scaparelli from Greyhound. (VIVIAN nods and leaves to pick up the extension. MARTIN shares his theory on GABE'S motivations.) MARTIN: I think Gabe found out he was adopted and he's the one who initiated all this. There's a bunch of these find-your-parent find-your-child web sites. Most of them aren't regulated and like Danny was saying, any John Q Pedophile who wants to lure these kids into his lair puts one of these on the net and he's in business. Now, these kids log on, they give them their names ... they ask for help. These guys go along with it and they pretend that they're doing all this research and then they say, "I found your father. Here's his e-mail address." JACK: Except it's not the father's e-mail address. It's the pedophile's and the pedophile convinces the kid to communicate using instant messages so they can keep it their little secret. DANNY: Makes sense to me. MARTIN: And I ran background checks on all these web sites and one of them is registered in Amarillo, Texas. Got the computer guys on it now. VIVIAN: One adult ticket, one child ticket purchased at 1:30 A.M. on the night of the disappearance but not to Texas-- to Santa Fe. MARTIN: Santa Fe? Well, that's 300 miles from Amarillo. SAMANTHA: Well, if you're Gabe, Santa Fe's a lot closer than New York. DANNY: So, some good Samaritan buys him a ticket escorts him on the bus and thinks he's doing him a favor. JACK: We better call the regional authorities right away. TECHNICIAN: (o.s.) Fitzgerald. (MARTIN turns around to answer the TECHNICIAN.) MARTIN: Yeah? TECHNICIAN: We got a hit. (MARTIN turns to look at JACK. JACK stands up to follow MARTIN and the TECHNICIAN.) CUT TO: SCENE #38: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSONS UNIT - DAY -- CONTINUOUS] (Camera close up of the computer screen: [CONNECTION STATUS --- ONLINE: SERVER ADDRESS: 128.115.257.24 SERVER CONNECTION ROUTE - CONNECTED @ 128.115.257.24: bytes =32 time=40MS TTL=124 ROUTE: 39.145.281.15 : 186542081 -> 39.146.281.23 : 2831853728 -> 39.146.267.3 : 186542081 -> 39.145.258.5 ; 2892712413 -> 39.146.288.13 ; 186542081 -> 132.19.9.281 ; 2831563726- > ] (The TECHNICIAN, JACK and MARTIN enter the workstation.) MARTIN: How long? TECHNICIAN: Just came online. (The TECHNICIAN sits down. JACK and MARTIN remain standing behind him.) TECHNICIAN: Here we go. We got the kid. (The box monitoring the remote online messages shows the following from "Jitter Mail".") [INSTANT MESSAGE FROM: gabeboard@jittermail "Dad, it's me." ] TECHNICIAN: We got the kid. (After a moment, a second box pops up.) TECHNICIAN: Here comes daddy. [COMPUTER SCREEN: JITTER MAIL INSTANT MESSAGE FROM: TEXASJOHN@JITTERMAIL "Where are you? I'm waiting for you." ] (MARTIN shakes his head.) MARTIN: (mutters) Sick bastard. (JACK looks over at MARTIN, perhaps realizing for the first time how passionate MARTIN is about finding this missing kid.) SHORT TIME CUT TO: [BACK AT THE CONFERENCE TABLE] (JACK and MARTIN return to the conference table where JACK shares the results of the latest intercepted conversation between GABE and his "DAD". There's a new electricity in the air, a renewed sense of movement, as they're on the verge of both finding the missing kid and nabbing the pedophile.) JACK: Listen up, guys. Gabe is staying put in Santa Fe. "The dad" is driving from Amarillo to meet him there. Now, if we hop on the next jet, we might beat him. (to VIVIAN) Viv, I need you to call Santa Fe, tell them I'm on my way. (to SAMANTHA) Sam, contact the parents. (to DANNY) Danny, you come with me. (JACK starts walking away from the conference table intending to leave the office, DANNY close behind him. JACK turns around and points directly at MARTIN.) JACK: Martin, you, too. (MARTIN puts down his pen and gets up from his seat to follow the men. SAMANTHA watches him leave.) CUT TO: [EXT. PLANE LANDING (STOCK) -- NIGHT] LEGEND: 54 HOURS MISSING SCENE #39: RANCHEROS DE SANTA FE PARK SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO [EXT. -- NIGHT] (In the park, there are five men sitting at the park table. Three of them are playing cards by the light of a small lantern. MARTIN is sitting on the park table next to them. JACK is sitting on the park table bench facing MARTIN. They're sitting there waiting with the nervous energy that comes just before they're about to close the case. They're all waiting for GABE.) JACK: Sometimes I wish I'd never quit smoking. (MARTIN gets up and leaves the table.) JACK: (to the mike) Any sign of the boy? AGENT (WOMAN): South entrance, negative. AGENT (MAN): East entrance, negative. (DANNY, who is sitting at another park table with a woman, also answers.) DANNY: Snack bar, negative. (A lone figure sitting on a bench near the lake gets up. It's a man reading something. Cut to an AGENT adjusting his shoe laces nearby. Cut to JACK getting up from the bench and looking around.) (Near the park toys, GABE appears. DANNY spots him first.) DANNY: Possible ID on the boy coming from the jungle gym. JACK: Hold your position. (The man with a paper tucked under his arm walks in a direction meant to intercept with GABE.) (The agent fiddling with his shoe laces keeps his eye on GABE.) AGENT (MAN): I've got the boy. JACK: (through the mike) Just hold. (GABE walks around the playground, looking around. The man with the newspaper continues to walk in a direction that brings him closer to GABE.) DANNY: (to mike) Man with newspaper heading towards the boy. AGENT (MAN): (to mike) The boy's within reach. Should we grab him? JACK: (to mike) Do not seize the boy. Do not seize. (quietly) C'mon, c'mon, c'mon ... AGENT (MAN): (to mike) Got a go here, Jack. JACK: (to mike) No, just wait. You got five more seconds. Just wait. (The man with the newspaper continues to head toward GABE.) AGENT (MAN): Suspect confirmed. Moving in. (The AGENT pulls out a gun and yells out to the man holding the newspaper.) AGENT (MAN): FBI, get down on the ground! Now! Get down on the ground! Get down! (The man holding the newspaper automatically puts his hands up and gets down on the ground. DANNY and the other FEMALE AGENT dash to the site to assist.) (GABE sees the commotion and immediately assumes that it's his dad. In a dead run, now, DANNY grabs GABE out of the way.) GABE FREEDMAN: Dad! OFFICER: Hands behind your back! Left hand, right hand! (There is some confusion as GABE continues to yell for his DAD and as the officers apprehending the man with the newspaper continue to yell out instructions. Additional police officers in cars drive up with their sirens on and blaring.) (Off to the side, JACK watches the scene. He doesn't move. He continues to take it all in. Then some distance to the side, he sees it.) (In the shadows, another figure approaches the scene. A man walking toward the playground with a purpose ... until he sees the confusion and the police.) JACK: (to the mike) Hold your position. Second subject running towards lake. (The man slows at the scene. He stops as he takes it in, then turns to run. JACK pursues the man.) (The figure runs alongside the lake. JACK continues to run after him.) AGENT (MAN): We got him. JACK: (to mike) No, you don't. (JACK continues to pursue the second figure. Out of nowhere, MARTIN jumps the second suspect and knocks them both into the lake. MARTIN stands and grabs the surprised suspect. JACK reaches them. He holsters his gun.) JACK: (dean pans) Where'd you learn that? White Collar? MARTIN: Sixth grade swim class. (MARTIN hoists the suspects on to the lake bank. The suspect coughs, sputtering out lake water he's swallowed in the tackle.) JACK: I was gaining on him, you know? MARTIN: Sorry about that. (The suspect continues coughing.) CUT TO: [EXT. NEW YORK CITY (STOCK) - DAY] SCENE #40: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSONS UNIT -- DAY] (SAMANTHA is briefing GABE'S stunned parents.) SAMANTHA: His name is Darren Oaks. He's a paralegal, he's married and he has two children. We know he's contacted boys on the internet before, but we don't think he's ever tried anything like this. VIVIAN: Gabe's on his way up. (BOB and his wife hold hands, seeking comfort and strength from each other.) MRS. FREEDMAN: I don't know what to say to him. SAMANTHA: Just tell him what you told us. (MRS. FREEDMAN nods her head, then turns to look at BOB.) CUT TO: SCENE #41: [INT. FBI - ELEVATOR - DAY -- CONTINUOUS] (GABE rides up the elevator accompanied by JACK, DANNY and MARTIN.) GABE FREEDMAN: So, they know everything that happened? JACK: Everything that we've been able to tell them so far but you're going to have to fill them in on the rest. GABE FREEDMAN: They're going to kill me. JACK: No, they're not. They love you. GABE FREEDMAN: So ... if that wasn't my real father, then who is? JACK: Your parents can explain that better than we can. (DANNY and MARTIN look beat, but pleased.) CUT TO: SCENE #42: [INT. FBI - MISSING PERSONS UNIT - DAY -- CONTINUOUS] (The group arrive at the front door to the office. GABE walks in with JACK'S hand on his shoulder. MARTIN and DANNY follow.) (At the back of the room, The Freedmans talk with VIVIAN. They turn as they see GABE walk into the office. MR. and MRS. FREEDMAN run to their son and hug him. GABE is just as happy to see them also.) LYRICS: ... I am the future boy ... (Cut to MARTIN carrying in his bag and walking toward his desk. He gives SAMANTHA a salute as he reaches his desk.) SAMANTHA: Heard you got a little wet. MARTIN: (counters) Beats sweating my ass off in the doghouse. (SAMANTHA chuckles.) LYRICS: ... No, you're still the future boy / Yes, I'm still the future boy / We'll build you a time machine to get back home ... (DANNY reaches his desk and puts his bag down on it. Taped to his monitor are tickets. He picks them up.) DANNY: Uh-huh. (VIVIAN walks by.) VIVIAN: The red sox in October. (DANNY smiles, trying not to laugh, but it's too much for him and he chuckles out loud.) LYRICS: ... still the future boy / still the future boy / still the future boy ... (JACK turns and watches the FREEDMANS with their son. They get up and leave the office. Just before he leaves, BOB FREEDMAN turns to look at JACK. He nods his thanks. JACK nods back.) LYRICS: ... Oh, I'm still the future boy / still the future boy / still the future boy ... (JACK walks over to the Whiteboard. He reaches up and removes the photograph of GABE FREEDMAN. Case closed.) LYRICS: ... I'm still the future boy ... ======================== FADE TO BLACK. ======================== CUT TO: ANTHONY LaPAGLIA: (v.o.) If you have any information on this real missing person, please contact your local FBI office. MISSING: JAHI TURNER DOB: 02-10-2000 MISSING: 04-25-2002 AGE NOW: 2 SEX: MALE HEIGHT: 30 INCHES WEIGHT: 30 LBS HAIR: BLACK EYES: BROWN MISSING FROM: SAN DIEGO, CA www.fbi.gov or contact your local fbi office FADE TO BLACK. ======================== THE END ======================== [Captioning Sponsored by CBS and Warner Bros. Television Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.Wgbh.Org] Many thanks to Nancy and Laura for the Spanish Translations in Act 3. For corrections / inaccuracies, please contact the Transcriptionist at (intrepidly002@yahoo.com) Courtesy of http://www.webphilia.com/~anthology/wnp.html Please do not archive without permission. ======================== BEGINNING/TITLE CREDITS ======================== WITHOUT A TRACE 1X02: BIRTHDAY BOY ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON CBS: 10/03/2002 TRANSCRIBED FROM CBS Starring ANTHONY LaPAGLIA as Jack Malone POPPY MONTGOMERY as Samantha Spade MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE as Vivian Johnson ENRIQUE MURCIANO as Danny Taylor ERIC CLOSE as Martin Fitzgerald Created by: HANK STEINBERG Starring: DAVID PAYMER as Bob Freedman MEGAN GALLAGHER as Mrs. Freedman DAVID HENRIE COLTON JAMES JOANNA LIPARI BRAD GRUNBERG TOSHI TODA as the Korean Deli Owner FRED PINKARD JEFF RICKETTS Producer: JAN NASH Producer: GREG WALKER Produced by: STEVE BEERS Co-Executive Producer: JACOB EPSTEIN Co-executive Producer: HANK STEINBERG Executive Producer: JONATHAN LITTMAN Executive Producer: ED REDLICH Written by HANK STEINBERG Directed by DAVID NUTTER ======================== END CREDITS ======================== JERRY BRUCKHEIMER Television CBS Productions Warner Bros. Television, An AOL Time Warner Company www.warnerbros.com Associate Producer: NANCY VAN DORNEWAARD Executive Story Editor: ALLISON ABNER Director of Photography: JOHN PETERS Production Designer: AARON OSBORNE Editor: SCOTT EILERS Music by JOHNNY KLIMEK and REINHOLD HEIL Unit Production Manager: SCOTT WHITE First Assistant Director: LEIGH A. WEBB Second Assistant Director: KRISTIN KILLEY Casting by: GARY M. ZUCKERBROD, C.S.A. Original Casting by RONNA KRESS, C.S.A. / TRACY KAPLAN, C.S.A. Co-Starring ADAM PILVER as Dearborn CARMEN MOLINARI as Flores DAVID RAIBON as Lincoln MICHAEL ESPARZA as Wally KERRIS SEWARD as Bones DANIELLA GARCIA as Girl PABLO GUZMAN as Reporter STEVE TANCORA as Parole Officer TY MILLER as Tech FBI Technical Advisor: MARK LLEWELLYN Set Decorator: JEANNIE GUNN, S.D.S.A. Property Master: JOHN HARINGTON Costume Designer: LUKE REICHLE Costume Supervisor: SUE BUB Make-up Artist: TINA ROESLER KERWIN Hair Stylist: STEPHEN A. ELSBREE Production Sound Mixer: JAY PATTERSON, C.A.S. Location Manager: MICHAEL PAOLILLO Transportation Coordinator: JIMMY DEPUE Supervising Sound Editor: VICTOR IORILLO Music Supervisor: JASON ALEXANDER Music Editor: JOSHUA WINGET Re-recording Mixers: JIM FITZPATRICK / ALEX GRUZDEV Film Processing by FOTOKEM Main Title Design by SKIP FILM Visual Effects by ASYLUM The producers wish to thank the New York office of the FBI for their help and cooperation. The characters and events depicted in this motion picture are fictional. Any similarity to any actual persons, living or dead, or to any actual events, firms, and institutions or other entities is coincidental and unintentional. This motion picture is protected under the Laws of the United States and other countries, and its unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution. Copyright (c) 2002 Warner Bros. Television. All Rights Reserved Production #175651? Country of first publication: United States of America Warner Bros. Television is the author of this film/motion picture for the purpose of Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and all national laws giving effect therein. Dated: 10/22/2002~lky http://www.webphilia.com/~anthology/wnp.html