Without a Trace s03e14 Episode Script
Neither Rain Nor Sleet
I didn't see you walk up.
My bad.
I forgot the first rule of postal etiquette: Never sneak up on a coworker.
They might sneak up on you.
They might sneak up on you.
Why do people love this video game so much? Can't tell you.
I don't let it in my apartment.
My kids don't need to be reminded how nasty people can be to each other.
I wish the 5 trillion New Yorkers who ordered the game today agreed with you.
Yeah.
It's gonna be a long day.
Let me.
I'm going in anyway.
Thanks.
Have a nice ride.
Hey.
What do we got? Postal truck 4281, assigned to a Rosie Diaz from the Carpenter Street station.
She left there at 6:30 this morning.
Three hours later, the cops found the truck like this.
This alley on her route? Not even close to it.
Locals checked where she was supposed to be.
There's absolutely no sign of her.
Is anything missing from the truck? Well, today was the drop ship for a new video game.
It's called "Demon Storm.
" Soldiers reseal the gates of hell.
I take it Reggie's a fan? I don't like it, but if I don't let him play it at home he'll go to somebody else's house to play and I don't see him enough as it is already.
Right.
This is from the Department of Labor.
Probably an unemployment check.
There's a lot of valuable stuff in the truck.
My guess is whoever hit it just wanted the games.
Why take the mail carrier? Maybe something went wrong with the hijacking.
I mean, postal carriers get mugged.
Crackheads think we're delivering money.
We've never had anything like this.
Do you know how many video game packages she had on the truck? Three hundred and sixteen.
Worth about $ 12,000 in retail.
And the same amount as everybody else? She probably had twice as many.
Who knew that? Postmaster.
Anybody in sorting.
Did she have problems with any of them? Maybe somebody here at the station? No.
She's great.
Worked here a long time.
Never been or had any trouble.
A couple people on the floor mentioned that you guys were dating.
"Were" being the operative word.
She broke up with you? Yesterday.
Come on, I can't talk right now.
I gotta go.
Cross town traffic is gonna cost me a half hour.
I think you owe me an explanation, okay? Look, Scott you're a really nice guy, and you've been really sweet to me but I got some stuff going on, and I need to take care of it.
Like what? It's not your problem.
I might be able to help.
No.
We don't have to stop seeing each other.
If you need space, I can give you that space.
Scott.
I'm not gonna change my mind.
Now, I gotta go.
I looked for her.
I couldn't find her.
I thought she was avoiding me.
Now, what sort of thing did she have going on? It might have been about the kids.
But she has no dependents or family listed in her personnel file.
She was a foster mom.
Had two dozen kids through her house since she started here.
How many does she have now? There's two.
A brother and a sister.
Were they any trouble? Not that she mentioned.
You know, but I have to say, the whole thing made me a little nervous.
I mean, some of these kids what does she really know about them? She's missing? I've only been here six months.
I've never had this happen before.
What am I gonna say to Chantal and Malcolm? I'm assuming that those are Ms.
Diaz's foster kids.
Yes.
At least until I had them removed two days ago.
You took them away from her? We got an anonymous call saying they were being abused.
It's protocol pending the investigation.
I'm required to remove them.
How did she react when you showed up? Better than the children.
Becky is just making sure I'm taking good care of you.
That's all.
But you are.
Well, she has to make sure.
It's just for a couple of days, right? Right.
What was it? Were we too much trouble? Chantal Did we cost too much? That's not it.
She's not getting rid of us.
What are you, stupid? Chantal.
You stop it.
Malcolm do you remember what I told you when you got here? Don't wear my shoes in the house.
After that.
I told you that I would do anything I could to make your life better and that I would keep loving you and your sister until you both felt comfortable and safe enough to love me too.
Give me a break.
Do you know I love you? You remember that, okay? Until you come back.
You better follow her before she leaves the apartment.
Malcolm cried all the way back to the residential facility.
Have there been any previous calls about Ms.
Diaz's care? No.
So there's no substance to the accusations? Absolutely not.
I know.
I'm new.
Maybe I don't wanna believe.
I don't wanna believe it either.
Ms.
Gialimaki, I'm gonna need records of all the kids that Ms.
Diaz has taken care of over the last few years.
I'll be right back.
I'm with the FBI.
Did you see your mail carrier today? No.
Did you get your mail? Yes.
Okay.
Yeah, that'll work.
Okay, thanks.
N.
Y.
P.
D.
'll let us know if any of those stolen games turn up.
Looks like she made it to the 1300 block of Nealy Avenue, right here.
Any sign of her car? Nope.
It's not on her route.
Or at the post office.
I got an APB out on it but she disappeared in a busy neighborhood no sign of a struggle, nobody saw, and her car's missing.
Well, not that every criminal is a mastermind but robbing your own truck and fleeing in your own car? That's generally considered a bad plan.
Unless, of course, she really needed the money, which would Well, she doesn't have a big float, but she pays her bills on time and spends most of her money on her foster kids.
Maybe one of her foster kids got into trouble and she's just bailing him out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, that'd work.
All right, oh, so I told you, she didn't touch me.
I just had to make sure.
I'm gonna go get my colleague.
I wanna see Malcolm.
Soon, Chantal.
Jack.
You've been living at Rosie's for the last seven months.
What was that like? Okay.
You think she ever hit your brother? I don't know.
Becky says you and your brother are really close.
Wouldn't he tell you? Who knows.
Malcolm is messed up.
That can happen when you come home and find your mother's brains all over the kitchen floor.
According to Becky, when she got there, it appeared that you and Rosie had been having some kind of fight.
There was something going on with her.
What makes you say that? About a week ago, she freaked out.
Here's my English essay.
Two pages on How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
Great.
Is it 500 words? I counted to 270 and there were a lot more.
It's enough.
Can I go out? You've been going out a lot the last couple of weeks.
We're gonna watch Sword of the Broken Fist.
I'm not watching that stupid movie.
Well, what about a game of gin rummy? And I still got plenty of chocolate ice cream left.
Or maybe we just watch something I pick out.
I don't see why not.
If there is anything.
Boring.
Where did you get these, from your grandmother? Or maybe we'll just watch one of your training videos.
He'll learn to deal with angry dogs and angry owners.
Hey.
No.
Give me that.
Give me that right now.
You learn to respect.
It's from work.
If it breaks, I would have to pay for it.
Maybe it's not a good night for a movie.
Rosie doesn't get mad.
When she's upset, she just gets disappointed.
So this was really out of character.
Did you ever find out what was on that DVD? I looked for it later and it was gone.
Hey, check out what I found hidden underneath her mattress.
Well, pop it in.
Billy.
Well, I understand why it was hidden under the mattress.
Kiddie porn.
You played a great game today.
Come sit next to me.
That boy can't be much older than her foster son.
Right here.
There's a bunch of kids in this.
Why didn't any of them tell somebody about it? If she was doing something like this with those foster kids she had a lot of people fooled.
Well, not all people who abuse kids look like monsters.
White walls, generic lockers.
Could have been made anywhere.
My guess? It wasn't shot in her apartment.
There was no signs of DVDs, no video cameras.
Sam, do we know if any of the kids are Rosie's foster kids? Not yet.
I'm still trying to track down five kids who aged out of the system.
If a kid wanted revenge for this, why take the video games? Maybe to make the abduction look like something else.
Maybe they realized they stumbled into a gold mine.
Making porn? Rosie? No way.
No, maybe not with you, but one of the other kids Didn't happen.
Rosie would scratch her own eyes out before she let anyone hurt a kid in her house.
You left her house five years ago.
A lot could have happened since.
How can you be so sure? I see her all the time.
That's unusual.
Most kids that leave the system never look back.
Well, being at Rosie's, it's not like being in the system.
Four months after I moved in, cops picked me up for tagging.
She took a week off work.
Like she wanted me to know she'd make sure I turned out okay.
When was the last time you saw her? Two nights ago.
She was gonna work a second shift and I was gonna watch the kids for her.
Yo.
Hey, Rosie.
Hey.
What's going on? Nothing.
Must be, or you wouldn't be smoking in front of Malcolm and the little princess.
Yo, where are they? Rosie, what happened? Social Services came.
Someone said I'd abused them so they took Malcolm and Chantal to a group home.
Well, that's ridiculous.
I'll call DSS right now tell them you didn't.
No, no, no.
It's not gonna help.
They need to finish their investigation.
Well, these won't help me.
Here.
I'll get that.
You know, Luis I'm supposed to make their lives better.
You know, not just be another person who disappoints them.
You couldn't disappoint someone if you tried.
Not Malcolm and Chantal not Ernesto or Julia or Charles.
I could keep going if you want to.
Remind you of every brat like me who came here and left happier and better off.
You know they've only been gone an hour and I already miss them so much.
Hey you're gonna get them back.
You didn't do anything.
No.
But some things, you know they cast long shadows.
She sent me home.
Said everything would sort itself out.
What do you think Rosie meant by "long shadows"? I assume she meant that because she got accused of something that DSS wouldn't trust her anymore.
You think it's something else? Sam, if she's not into kiddie porn, why does she have the DVD? A lot of porn movies move through the mail.
Maybe she suspected someone on her route and stole it to make sure.
And when she gives the DVD to the authorities she goes to jail for mail tampering and loses her kids.
Maybe she couldn't ignore it, felt she had no choice decided to confront them.
And the abuse call? That was just somebody trying to get her to back off? Martin, do we have the rundown of the customers on Rosie's route? Yeah, I just finished.
Thanks.
Malcolm, if there's anything you can tell us, anything at all it might help us figure out what happened.
Did you ever see a video camera in Rosie's house? Malcolm? Excuse me.
Sure.
You wanna go home, right? So why don't you help me out.
Did you ever see anyone, a friend, a family member anyone, bring a video camera into Rosie's house? Could we talk outside? Sure.
I'll be back to get you in a second, okay, sweetie? Nice to meet you, Malcolm.
Is he always like this? Does he ever speak? We keep the boys and girls separated at the group home.
I knew he'd have problems being away from Chantal but I had no idea he'd relapse so quickly.
What kind of relapse? When he's under stress, he withdraws.
After his mother died, he spoke only to his sister for almost six months.
Take my card.
If he says anything you think is relevant give me a call.
Sure.
We'll talk about it when I get home.
Yeah.
I know.
Sorry about that.
Everything okay? Yeah.
We're here because you're on the sexual predators list.
That conviction was bogus.
The girl told me she was 17.
But she was 15.
Call me old fashioned but getting kiddie porn in the mail may not be the best idea.
You should be harassing that mail carrier.
She stole that from me.
That's why you asked the post office to hold your mail? No.
I didn't wanna give her idiot friend any reason to come back to my house.
What idiot friend? The one she brought to knock me around.
What did you do, steal the DVD out of my mail? It doesn't matter how I ended up with it.
I just want to know where it came from.
I won't turn you in.
How many have you stolen? I'm gonna have your ass fired.
I want my stuff.
Get your hands off! Don't touch her! It's legit.
You disgusting freak! Stop it.
It's from Hot and Legal magazine.
Listen to me.
Leave him alone.
God, I shouldn't have let you come with me.
Go.
Go.
I'm gonna call the cops.
I'm gonna call them on both of you.
She came back a couple days later, apologized.
She went to the newsstand and looked at the magazine.
You can check it out.
Why didn't you call the cops? I didn't need the attention.
Who's the guy who attacked you? I don't know.
A Puerto Rican.
We'd like you to come downtown and give us a sketch of that Puerto Rican.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Porn king didn't make the anonymous call to DSS.
At least not from his home or cell phone.
The postal inspectors looked at the rest of his mail.
He's telling the truth.
All his porn is legal.
Great.
So you and Marty seem Well, you seem something.
Yeah.
We are.
Good.
It is good, Sam.
Why are you hiding it? Just Taylor.
All right, thanks.
I faxed over the sketch to the post office.
Nobody recognizes Rosie's muscleman.
I've never seen him before.
Did Rosie talk about anyone? Maybe a new boyfriend? No.
There was that guy from the post office, Scott.
I don't know about anybody else.
But I go out a lot.
What about your brother? What about him? Do you think that it's possible that his withdrawal is a result of witnessing something traumatic? He woke up with a nightmare.
It was about someone being in the house.
When? Five days ago.
A week, maybe.
He has so many nightmares.
Or at least he used to.
I didn't think anything of it.
Malcolm may know what happened.
Do you think you could get him to talk to us? I'll do whatever I can.
It might be easier for Malcolm to open up to you if we're not nearby.
This is gonna help us hear what you're saying.
What if he won't talk? Hopefully he will.
See if he recognizes the man in the sketch.
If he does, we need to know everything about him.
His name, how many times he's been to Rosie's house what they talked about, if he threatened her.
We'll only use this if we need to ask specific questions.
Okay.
And don't worry.
Whatever you find out, it's more than what we know.
Hi, Malcolm.
Becky told me that you didn't sleep good last night.
Were you cold? I was cold.
Remember you told me about that nightmare last week? About the person who made the storm? It was a man, wasn 't it? Someone with Rosie.
I know, he scared you.
But now you need to tell me what happened.
Don't be afraid, Malcolm.
I got you.
Close your eyes.
What did the man want? He wanted money.
What is this? Nine hundred? Not enough.
That's all I've got.
There's gotta be something you can sell.
Don't There's nothing else.
I've sold the car.
I've given you the money I was saving.
I gave you Chantal's DSS check.
No There's nothing else.
If I give you more, I can't feed my kids.
I don't care about the kids! Stop it! Leave her alone! Stop it! I mean it, let her go! Malcolm.
Malcolm.
I mean it! He's not gonna hurt me, Malcolm.
He's not gonna hurt me.
Just put the gun down.
Just put the gun down.
Look at me.
Look at Mommy, look at Mommy.
Just put the gun down.
Rosie, I'm sorry.
Get out.
Now! I just need the Honey.
Okay, sweetie? He's not gonna hurt This is the reason that I've never wanted you in my house, around my kids.
Now, just go.
Malcolm where did you get a gun from? It was in our closet in a box.
I found it a long time ago.
What was the man's name? Do you know his name? I don't know his name but Rosie said he was her brother.
Nothing here even points to her having a brother, let alone where he might be.
Nobody even knew she had a family.
Why did she hide him, keep him away from the kids? I don't know.
You wanna tell everybody, don't you? Sam, you already know how I feel, and now Danny's asking but this isn't the right time to talk.
Fine.
We won't talk about it.
Fitzgerald.
Hey, what's up? Where? Okay, thanks.
Some guy tried to mail one of the stolen video games to his cousin in Las Vegas.
Still had the original bar code.
Where did he get it? Subway entrance at Bronxdale, in White Plains.
Let's go.
I got "Demon Storm" here, 25 bucks.
Two for 40.
"Demon Storm," anybody? Twenty five, two for 40.
"Demon Storm," right here.
Hey, buddy.
It's half the price FBI.
Hands on the table.
What's going on? Where did the games come from? I don't know.
They look right off the truck.
Let me help you.
They were stolen off a postal delivery truck.
Hey, I don't know anything about that.
I got them from a guy named Marquez.
I sell them, he gives me a cut.
Is this him? No, I never seen him before.
Where do we find this Marquez? I don't know.
You sure about that? I got a phone number.
All right.
Let's go give him a call.
Bag these up.
Okay, fellas.
Let's box this stuff up.
I think I found the brother.
I found the guy that bought Rosie's car.
She must've been in a hurry to unload it.
She left a bunch of stuff inside.
Look at that picture.
It was clipped onto the visor.
Flip it over.
"Rosie, 17, Manny, 7, 1978.
" That would make Manny, what, Same age as the guy in the sketch.
Check out the palm trees.
Florida? California? Why don't I run it over to tech, see if they can get a read on the plate.
Okay? Your daughter's been missing since yesterday.
Yesterday? Yes, I'm sorry.
You have any idea what happened? No.
That's why I'm here.
I'm hoping you can tell me something to help me find her.
I don't see Rosie much.
Maybe once a year.
She writes when she can.
I don't know what to tell you.
Maybe you can help find her brother, Manny.
Manuel? He died.
When? When I went to prison, Rosie was 17.
She wanted the family to stay together, so she fought for custody.
But, you know, things happen.
There was an accident.
He never saw the car coming and he died right there.
The ambulance came, but there was nothing they could do.
I'm sorry.
Oh, Manny.
I'm so sorry, Mama.
I was supposed to watch him for you, but I didn't.
It's all my fault.
No, baby girl.
I'm his mother.
I should have walked away from your stepfather no matter how much he hit me.
Then I wouldn't be in here and you wouldn't have had to take care of Manuel.
I'll take care of Jorge better.
I promise.
I'll keep him safe for you.
I know you will.
I'm so sorry, Mama.
She and Jorge moved up north right after that and she would never even talk about Manuel when she would come to visit.
Maybe that's why she's so focused on taking care of other people.
Like all those foster kids.
Yes.
Like all those foster kids.
Now, Jorge Diaz, he's your other son, right? Jorge Hernandez.
He and Manny had a different father than Rosie.
And do you have any idea where he might be? He lives in Pennsylvania.
Scranton, I think.
I haven't heard from him in years.
Rosie tells me how he is.
You'll let me know when you find her, right? Yes, ma'am.
I sure will.
You can get back to me No, we're trying to with the number I gave you.
Well, thank you for checking.
That's not what I was looking for.
Let me know.
Thank you.
Great.
Thanks.
I can't find a death certificate for Manny or Manuel Diaz or Hernandez anywhere near Miami.
Any chance it's lost in a file room somewhere? Oh, there's always that chance.
All right.
An 8 year old gets hit by a car playing in the street.
Nobody does an autopsy, right? Probably not.
Fitzgerald.
Yeah.
Oh, hey.
Thanks for getting back to me.
Really? When? Hold on.
Yeah.
Okay.
And the police never made an ID? Okay, thanks.
No, no, this was a huge help.
Yeah.
Bye.
That was a reporter at The Miami Register.
A couple of years ago they were building a mall near where Rosie lived.
While they were laying the foundation they found the remains of a 7 to 10 year old boy.
Manny was 8.
And this body was in the ground for a long time.
How did he die? Blunt force trauma to the head.
Could he have been hit by a car? Yeah, but why bury him like that if it was just an accident? Right.
Rosie's brother is Jorge Hernandez.
He lives in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
In Scranton.
There are four guys who have that name.
These are them.
They have to make sure they have the right one.
Are any of these the right one? It's okay if they're not.
Just tell Chantal the truth.
Okay.
That's good, Malcolm.
Thank you.
Why was he mean to Rosie? We don't know.
Sometimes brothers and sisters get mad, Malcolm.
Just like you and me.
But they still love each other.
Rosie and Jorge are gonna take care of each other.
We checked you out, Mark.
You and Jorge spent eight months together in Sussex County Jail.
Isn't that a coincidence? That his sister drove the truck with the games? Yeah, he looks sort of familiar.
He better start looking a lot more than sort of familiar because we got you for tampering with U.
S.
Mail and possession of stolen property.
Plus, you're aimed at kidnapping.
I had nothing to do with anything like that.
Well, here's the thing: He's not here to take responsibility, so we're more than willing to blame you.
Look, I was just there to buy the games.
That's all.
Jorge and his sister, they were still at the truck when I left.
That's 3000.
All right, all right, all right.
Three, four, five, six.
Hey, we talked about 10,000, right? Yeah, and you told me there'd be 7 or 800 games.
I counted 300 and change.
I can't sell things I don't have.
Hey, Rosie, what happened? I said a lot.
I didn't know how many.
All right, all right.
How about you give me $ 15 a game? What? You're gonna sell it for double.
Sorry, man.
Don't even think about it.
You ripping me off? Gonna rip me off? Take what you got.
It's not enough, Rosie.
Take what you got.
I owe 11,000 and I only got 6000.
It's okay, you got something.
Listen to your sister, Jorge.
She's smarter than you are.
All right, all right.
He was on edge.
No doubt about it.
You have any idea how he dug himself into an $ 11,000 hole? Jorge would bet on two cockroaches running across a kitchen floor.
Told me he'd been on a cold streak.
You know, he's still 5000 short.
Yeah.
Where's he been playing around here? I don't know.
Mark, come on.
He's been here for over a week.
Where'd he go to scratch the itch? There's an underground club.
Where? Off Pawling Avenue.
Membership card.
You guys take a hike.
We're with the FBI.
I'm Agent Malone.
Agent Johnson.
Put your hands where I can see them.
Two hundred bucks? That's all you got left? We're looking for your sister.
Mark Ryan told us about the truck and the games.
He said that when he left, you were with Rosie.
You called Social Services and accused her of abusing the kids to get them out of the way.
Now, those kids are waiting for Rosie to come home.
What did you do with her? I just thought if we went to the ATM we could get a little more money.
I don't have any more.
Rosie I screwed up, okay? I know, I know.
I know.
But they're gonna kill me.
You've gone too far, okay? If they take my kids away, who'll take care of them? You have to help me, Rosie.
Okay? I have helped you.
I have helped you every single time for 25 years.
Ever since Manny died.
That wasn't my fault! I shouldn't have left him with you.
I didn't mean to kill him.
He made me so mad.
Jorge, listen to me.
Today was a very bad idea, okay? So now I have to go home and try and get my kids back.
You have to help me.
No.
Rosie.
Rosie! Rosie, don't walk away! She gave you everything she had and it wasn't enough.
Where's your sister, Jorge? I took her to a park.
My sister's in the park.
When she told him that she couldn't help him that she had to look after the two of you He shot her.
She really loved you.
Will there be a funeral? Our first mom didn't get a funeral.
I'm sure there will be.
Malcolm He can't go through this again.
Another home? Loving someone else? I think he'd be better off if it were just me.
Would you help me? So that I can take care of him.
You're only 16.
I'll be 17 in a month.
But there's so much to think about.
You need to finish high school, you have to get a job.
After your birthday, if you still want to, I'll do whatever I can to help.
Now, do you want me to tell him? No.
I'll do it.
Thank you.
What are you still doing here? I didn't realize how late it was.
That paperwork will keep until tomorrow.
Why don't you go home.
I should.
Is there anything I can do to help you? No.
Look I know that you think that I haven't always been there for you.
And you're right, I haven't.
But I'm here for you now.
If there's any way that I can help you This, you can't do anything about.
But thanks.
Good night.
The wall between the two ventricles is enlarged, obstructing the flow of blood.
It's called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
In layman's terms, it's a deterioration of the heart muscle.
And the high blood pressure and shortness of breath? Are both caused by it.
I'm gonna start you on some medications.
And that'll be all? For now.
We have to see how you respond.
Vivian this can be very serious.
Possibly it's what killed your uncle.
It's hereditary? Yes.
Then I ought to get Reggie checked out.
I would.
The earlier you find it, the better the prognosis.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Okay.
Where? I'll be there in 20 minutes.
All right.
Gotta go to work.
We have a lot more to talk about.
I'll make another appointment on my way out.
Vivian, I'm sorry.
Hey.
What do we got? Postal truck 4281, assigned to a Rosie Diaz from the Carpenter Street station.
She left there at 6:30 this morning.
Three hours later, the cops found the truck like this.
This alley on her route? Not even close to it.
Adapted by:
My bad.
I forgot the first rule of postal etiquette: Never sneak up on a coworker.
They might sneak up on you.
They might sneak up on you.
Why do people love this video game so much? Can't tell you.
I don't let it in my apartment.
My kids don't need to be reminded how nasty people can be to each other.
I wish the 5 trillion New Yorkers who ordered the game today agreed with you.
Yeah.
It's gonna be a long day.
Let me.
I'm going in anyway.
Thanks.
Have a nice ride.
Hey.
What do we got? Postal truck 4281, assigned to a Rosie Diaz from the Carpenter Street station.
She left there at 6:30 this morning.
Three hours later, the cops found the truck like this.
This alley on her route? Not even close to it.
Locals checked where she was supposed to be.
There's absolutely no sign of her.
Is anything missing from the truck? Well, today was the drop ship for a new video game.
It's called "Demon Storm.
" Soldiers reseal the gates of hell.
I take it Reggie's a fan? I don't like it, but if I don't let him play it at home he'll go to somebody else's house to play and I don't see him enough as it is already.
Right.
This is from the Department of Labor.
Probably an unemployment check.
There's a lot of valuable stuff in the truck.
My guess is whoever hit it just wanted the games.
Why take the mail carrier? Maybe something went wrong with the hijacking.
I mean, postal carriers get mugged.
Crackheads think we're delivering money.
We've never had anything like this.
Do you know how many video game packages she had on the truck? Three hundred and sixteen.
Worth about $ 12,000 in retail.
And the same amount as everybody else? She probably had twice as many.
Who knew that? Postmaster.
Anybody in sorting.
Did she have problems with any of them? Maybe somebody here at the station? No.
She's great.
Worked here a long time.
Never been or had any trouble.
A couple people on the floor mentioned that you guys were dating.
"Were" being the operative word.
She broke up with you? Yesterday.
Come on, I can't talk right now.
I gotta go.
Cross town traffic is gonna cost me a half hour.
I think you owe me an explanation, okay? Look, Scott you're a really nice guy, and you've been really sweet to me but I got some stuff going on, and I need to take care of it.
Like what? It's not your problem.
I might be able to help.
No.
We don't have to stop seeing each other.
If you need space, I can give you that space.
Scott.
I'm not gonna change my mind.
Now, I gotta go.
I looked for her.
I couldn't find her.
I thought she was avoiding me.
Now, what sort of thing did she have going on? It might have been about the kids.
But she has no dependents or family listed in her personnel file.
She was a foster mom.
Had two dozen kids through her house since she started here.
How many does she have now? There's two.
A brother and a sister.
Were they any trouble? Not that she mentioned.
You know, but I have to say, the whole thing made me a little nervous.
I mean, some of these kids what does she really know about them? She's missing? I've only been here six months.
I've never had this happen before.
What am I gonna say to Chantal and Malcolm? I'm assuming that those are Ms.
Diaz's foster kids.
Yes.
At least until I had them removed two days ago.
You took them away from her? We got an anonymous call saying they were being abused.
It's protocol pending the investigation.
I'm required to remove them.
How did she react when you showed up? Better than the children.
Becky is just making sure I'm taking good care of you.
That's all.
But you are.
Well, she has to make sure.
It's just for a couple of days, right? Right.
What was it? Were we too much trouble? Chantal Did we cost too much? That's not it.
She's not getting rid of us.
What are you, stupid? Chantal.
You stop it.
Malcolm do you remember what I told you when you got here? Don't wear my shoes in the house.
After that.
I told you that I would do anything I could to make your life better and that I would keep loving you and your sister until you both felt comfortable and safe enough to love me too.
Give me a break.
Do you know I love you? You remember that, okay? Until you come back.
You better follow her before she leaves the apartment.
Malcolm cried all the way back to the residential facility.
Have there been any previous calls about Ms.
Diaz's care? No.
So there's no substance to the accusations? Absolutely not.
I know.
I'm new.
Maybe I don't wanna believe.
I don't wanna believe it either.
Ms.
Gialimaki, I'm gonna need records of all the kids that Ms.
Diaz has taken care of over the last few years.
I'll be right back.
I'm with the FBI.
Did you see your mail carrier today? No.
Did you get your mail? Yes.
Okay.
Yeah, that'll work.
Okay, thanks.
N.
Y.
P.
D.
'll let us know if any of those stolen games turn up.
Looks like she made it to the 1300 block of Nealy Avenue, right here.
Any sign of her car? Nope.
It's not on her route.
Or at the post office.
I got an APB out on it but she disappeared in a busy neighborhood no sign of a struggle, nobody saw, and her car's missing.
Well, not that every criminal is a mastermind but robbing your own truck and fleeing in your own car? That's generally considered a bad plan.
Unless, of course, she really needed the money, which would Well, she doesn't have a big float, but she pays her bills on time and spends most of her money on her foster kids.
Maybe one of her foster kids got into trouble and she's just bailing him out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, that'd work.
All right, oh, so I told you, she didn't touch me.
I just had to make sure.
I'm gonna go get my colleague.
I wanna see Malcolm.
Soon, Chantal.
Jack.
You've been living at Rosie's for the last seven months.
What was that like? Okay.
You think she ever hit your brother? I don't know.
Becky says you and your brother are really close.
Wouldn't he tell you? Who knows.
Malcolm is messed up.
That can happen when you come home and find your mother's brains all over the kitchen floor.
According to Becky, when she got there, it appeared that you and Rosie had been having some kind of fight.
There was something going on with her.
What makes you say that? About a week ago, she freaked out.
Here's my English essay.
Two pages on How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
Great.
Is it 500 words? I counted to 270 and there were a lot more.
It's enough.
Can I go out? You've been going out a lot the last couple of weeks.
We're gonna watch Sword of the Broken Fist.
I'm not watching that stupid movie.
Well, what about a game of gin rummy? And I still got plenty of chocolate ice cream left.
Or maybe we just watch something I pick out.
I don't see why not.
If there is anything.
Boring.
Where did you get these, from your grandmother? Or maybe we'll just watch one of your training videos.
He'll learn to deal with angry dogs and angry owners.
Hey.
No.
Give me that.
Give me that right now.
You learn to respect.
It's from work.
If it breaks, I would have to pay for it.
Maybe it's not a good night for a movie.
Rosie doesn't get mad.
When she's upset, she just gets disappointed.
So this was really out of character.
Did you ever find out what was on that DVD? I looked for it later and it was gone.
Hey, check out what I found hidden underneath her mattress.
Well, pop it in.
Billy.
Well, I understand why it was hidden under the mattress.
Kiddie porn.
You played a great game today.
Come sit next to me.
That boy can't be much older than her foster son.
Right here.
There's a bunch of kids in this.
Why didn't any of them tell somebody about it? If she was doing something like this with those foster kids she had a lot of people fooled.
Well, not all people who abuse kids look like monsters.
White walls, generic lockers.
Could have been made anywhere.
My guess? It wasn't shot in her apartment.
There was no signs of DVDs, no video cameras.
Sam, do we know if any of the kids are Rosie's foster kids? Not yet.
I'm still trying to track down five kids who aged out of the system.
If a kid wanted revenge for this, why take the video games? Maybe to make the abduction look like something else.
Maybe they realized they stumbled into a gold mine.
Making porn? Rosie? No way.
No, maybe not with you, but one of the other kids Didn't happen.
Rosie would scratch her own eyes out before she let anyone hurt a kid in her house.
You left her house five years ago.
A lot could have happened since.
How can you be so sure? I see her all the time.
That's unusual.
Most kids that leave the system never look back.
Well, being at Rosie's, it's not like being in the system.
Four months after I moved in, cops picked me up for tagging.
She took a week off work.
Like she wanted me to know she'd make sure I turned out okay.
When was the last time you saw her? Two nights ago.
She was gonna work a second shift and I was gonna watch the kids for her.
Yo.
Hey, Rosie.
Hey.
What's going on? Nothing.
Must be, or you wouldn't be smoking in front of Malcolm and the little princess.
Yo, where are they? Rosie, what happened? Social Services came.
Someone said I'd abused them so they took Malcolm and Chantal to a group home.
Well, that's ridiculous.
I'll call DSS right now tell them you didn't.
No, no, no.
It's not gonna help.
They need to finish their investigation.
Well, these won't help me.
Here.
I'll get that.
You know, Luis I'm supposed to make their lives better.
You know, not just be another person who disappoints them.
You couldn't disappoint someone if you tried.
Not Malcolm and Chantal not Ernesto or Julia or Charles.
I could keep going if you want to.
Remind you of every brat like me who came here and left happier and better off.
You know they've only been gone an hour and I already miss them so much.
Hey you're gonna get them back.
You didn't do anything.
No.
But some things, you know they cast long shadows.
She sent me home.
Said everything would sort itself out.
What do you think Rosie meant by "long shadows"? I assume she meant that because she got accused of something that DSS wouldn't trust her anymore.
You think it's something else? Sam, if she's not into kiddie porn, why does she have the DVD? A lot of porn movies move through the mail.
Maybe she suspected someone on her route and stole it to make sure.
And when she gives the DVD to the authorities she goes to jail for mail tampering and loses her kids.
Maybe she couldn't ignore it, felt she had no choice decided to confront them.
And the abuse call? That was just somebody trying to get her to back off? Martin, do we have the rundown of the customers on Rosie's route? Yeah, I just finished.
Thanks.
Malcolm, if there's anything you can tell us, anything at all it might help us figure out what happened.
Did you ever see a video camera in Rosie's house? Malcolm? Excuse me.
Sure.
You wanna go home, right? So why don't you help me out.
Did you ever see anyone, a friend, a family member anyone, bring a video camera into Rosie's house? Could we talk outside? Sure.
I'll be back to get you in a second, okay, sweetie? Nice to meet you, Malcolm.
Is he always like this? Does he ever speak? We keep the boys and girls separated at the group home.
I knew he'd have problems being away from Chantal but I had no idea he'd relapse so quickly.
What kind of relapse? When he's under stress, he withdraws.
After his mother died, he spoke only to his sister for almost six months.
Take my card.
If he says anything you think is relevant give me a call.
Sure.
We'll talk about it when I get home.
Yeah.
I know.
Sorry about that.
Everything okay? Yeah.
We're here because you're on the sexual predators list.
That conviction was bogus.
The girl told me she was 17.
But she was 15.
Call me old fashioned but getting kiddie porn in the mail may not be the best idea.
You should be harassing that mail carrier.
She stole that from me.
That's why you asked the post office to hold your mail? No.
I didn't wanna give her idiot friend any reason to come back to my house.
What idiot friend? The one she brought to knock me around.
What did you do, steal the DVD out of my mail? It doesn't matter how I ended up with it.
I just want to know where it came from.
I won't turn you in.
How many have you stolen? I'm gonna have your ass fired.
I want my stuff.
Get your hands off! Don't touch her! It's legit.
You disgusting freak! Stop it.
It's from Hot and Legal magazine.
Listen to me.
Leave him alone.
God, I shouldn't have let you come with me.
Go.
Go.
I'm gonna call the cops.
I'm gonna call them on both of you.
She came back a couple days later, apologized.
She went to the newsstand and looked at the magazine.
You can check it out.
Why didn't you call the cops? I didn't need the attention.
Who's the guy who attacked you? I don't know.
A Puerto Rican.
We'd like you to come downtown and give us a sketch of that Puerto Rican.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Porn king didn't make the anonymous call to DSS.
At least not from his home or cell phone.
The postal inspectors looked at the rest of his mail.
He's telling the truth.
All his porn is legal.
Great.
So you and Marty seem Well, you seem something.
Yeah.
We are.
Good.
It is good, Sam.
Why are you hiding it? Just Taylor.
All right, thanks.
I faxed over the sketch to the post office.
Nobody recognizes Rosie's muscleman.
I've never seen him before.
Did Rosie talk about anyone? Maybe a new boyfriend? No.
There was that guy from the post office, Scott.
I don't know about anybody else.
But I go out a lot.
What about your brother? What about him? Do you think that it's possible that his withdrawal is a result of witnessing something traumatic? He woke up with a nightmare.
It was about someone being in the house.
When? Five days ago.
A week, maybe.
He has so many nightmares.
Or at least he used to.
I didn't think anything of it.
Malcolm may know what happened.
Do you think you could get him to talk to us? I'll do whatever I can.
It might be easier for Malcolm to open up to you if we're not nearby.
This is gonna help us hear what you're saying.
What if he won't talk? Hopefully he will.
See if he recognizes the man in the sketch.
If he does, we need to know everything about him.
His name, how many times he's been to Rosie's house what they talked about, if he threatened her.
We'll only use this if we need to ask specific questions.
Okay.
And don't worry.
Whatever you find out, it's more than what we know.
Hi, Malcolm.
Becky told me that you didn't sleep good last night.
Were you cold? I was cold.
Remember you told me about that nightmare last week? About the person who made the storm? It was a man, wasn 't it? Someone with Rosie.
I know, he scared you.
But now you need to tell me what happened.
Don't be afraid, Malcolm.
I got you.
Close your eyes.
What did the man want? He wanted money.
What is this? Nine hundred? Not enough.
That's all I've got.
There's gotta be something you can sell.
Don't There's nothing else.
I've sold the car.
I've given you the money I was saving.
I gave you Chantal's DSS check.
No There's nothing else.
If I give you more, I can't feed my kids.
I don't care about the kids! Stop it! Leave her alone! Stop it! I mean it, let her go! Malcolm.
Malcolm.
I mean it! He's not gonna hurt me, Malcolm.
He's not gonna hurt me.
Just put the gun down.
Just put the gun down.
Look at me.
Look at Mommy, look at Mommy.
Just put the gun down.
Rosie, I'm sorry.
Get out.
Now! I just need the Honey.
Okay, sweetie? He's not gonna hurt This is the reason that I've never wanted you in my house, around my kids.
Now, just go.
Malcolm where did you get a gun from? It was in our closet in a box.
I found it a long time ago.
What was the man's name? Do you know his name? I don't know his name but Rosie said he was her brother.
Nothing here even points to her having a brother, let alone where he might be.
Nobody even knew she had a family.
Why did she hide him, keep him away from the kids? I don't know.
You wanna tell everybody, don't you? Sam, you already know how I feel, and now Danny's asking but this isn't the right time to talk.
Fine.
We won't talk about it.
Fitzgerald.
Hey, what's up? Where? Okay, thanks.
Some guy tried to mail one of the stolen video games to his cousin in Las Vegas.
Still had the original bar code.
Where did he get it? Subway entrance at Bronxdale, in White Plains.
Let's go.
I got "Demon Storm" here, 25 bucks.
Two for 40.
"Demon Storm," anybody? Twenty five, two for 40.
"Demon Storm," right here.
Hey, buddy.
It's half the price FBI.
Hands on the table.
What's going on? Where did the games come from? I don't know.
They look right off the truck.
Let me help you.
They were stolen off a postal delivery truck.
Hey, I don't know anything about that.
I got them from a guy named Marquez.
I sell them, he gives me a cut.
Is this him? No, I never seen him before.
Where do we find this Marquez? I don't know.
You sure about that? I got a phone number.
All right.
Let's go give him a call.
Bag these up.
Okay, fellas.
Let's box this stuff up.
I think I found the brother.
I found the guy that bought Rosie's car.
She must've been in a hurry to unload it.
She left a bunch of stuff inside.
Look at that picture.
It was clipped onto the visor.
Flip it over.
"Rosie, 17, Manny, 7, 1978.
" That would make Manny, what, Same age as the guy in the sketch.
Check out the palm trees.
Florida? California? Why don't I run it over to tech, see if they can get a read on the plate.
Okay? Your daughter's been missing since yesterday.
Yesterday? Yes, I'm sorry.
You have any idea what happened? No.
That's why I'm here.
I'm hoping you can tell me something to help me find her.
I don't see Rosie much.
Maybe once a year.
She writes when she can.
I don't know what to tell you.
Maybe you can help find her brother, Manny.
Manuel? He died.
When? When I went to prison, Rosie was 17.
She wanted the family to stay together, so she fought for custody.
But, you know, things happen.
There was an accident.
He never saw the car coming and he died right there.
The ambulance came, but there was nothing they could do.
I'm sorry.
Oh, Manny.
I'm so sorry, Mama.
I was supposed to watch him for you, but I didn't.
It's all my fault.
No, baby girl.
I'm his mother.
I should have walked away from your stepfather no matter how much he hit me.
Then I wouldn't be in here and you wouldn't have had to take care of Manuel.
I'll take care of Jorge better.
I promise.
I'll keep him safe for you.
I know you will.
I'm so sorry, Mama.
She and Jorge moved up north right after that and she would never even talk about Manuel when she would come to visit.
Maybe that's why she's so focused on taking care of other people.
Like all those foster kids.
Yes.
Like all those foster kids.
Now, Jorge Diaz, he's your other son, right? Jorge Hernandez.
He and Manny had a different father than Rosie.
And do you have any idea where he might be? He lives in Pennsylvania.
Scranton, I think.
I haven't heard from him in years.
Rosie tells me how he is.
You'll let me know when you find her, right? Yes, ma'am.
I sure will.
You can get back to me No, we're trying to with the number I gave you.
Well, thank you for checking.
That's not what I was looking for.
Let me know.
Thank you.
Great.
Thanks.
I can't find a death certificate for Manny or Manuel Diaz or Hernandez anywhere near Miami.
Any chance it's lost in a file room somewhere? Oh, there's always that chance.
All right.
An 8 year old gets hit by a car playing in the street.
Nobody does an autopsy, right? Probably not.
Fitzgerald.
Yeah.
Oh, hey.
Thanks for getting back to me.
Really? When? Hold on.
Yeah.
Okay.
And the police never made an ID? Okay, thanks.
No, no, this was a huge help.
Yeah.
Bye.
That was a reporter at The Miami Register.
A couple of years ago they were building a mall near where Rosie lived.
While they were laying the foundation they found the remains of a 7 to 10 year old boy.
Manny was 8.
And this body was in the ground for a long time.
How did he die? Blunt force trauma to the head.
Could he have been hit by a car? Yeah, but why bury him like that if it was just an accident? Right.
Rosie's brother is Jorge Hernandez.
He lives in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
In Scranton.
There are four guys who have that name.
These are them.
They have to make sure they have the right one.
Are any of these the right one? It's okay if they're not.
Just tell Chantal the truth.
Okay.
That's good, Malcolm.
Thank you.
Why was he mean to Rosie? We don't know.
Sometimes brothers and sisters get mad, Malcolm.
Just like you and me.
But they still love each other.
Rosie and Jorge are gonna take care of each other.
We checked you out, Mark.
You and Jorge spent eight months together in Sussex County Jail.
Isn't that a coincidence? That his sister drove the truck with the games? Yeah, he looks sort of familiar.
He better start looking a lot more than sort of familiar because we got you for tampering with U.
S.
Mail and possession of stolen property.
Plus, you're aimed at kidnapping.
I had nothing to do with anything like that.
Well, here's the thing: He's not here to take responsibility, so we're more than willing to blame you.
Look, I was just there to buy the games.
That's all.
Jorge and his sister, they were still at the truck when I left.
That's 3000.
All right, all right, all right.
Three, four, five, six.
Hey, we talked about 10,000, right? Yeah, and you told me there'd be 7 or 800 games.
I counted 300 and change.
I can't sell things I don't have.
Hey, Rosie, what happened? I said a lot.
I didn't know how many.
All right, all right.
How about you give me $ 15 a game? What? You're gonna sell it for double.
Sorry, man.
Don't even think about it.
You ripping me off? Gonna rip me off? Take what you got.
It's not enough, Rosie.
Take what you got.
I owe 11,000 and I only got 6000.
It's okay, you got something.
Listen to your sister, Jorge.
She's smarter than you are.
All right, all right.
He was on edge.
No doubt about it.
You have any idea how he dug himself into an $ 11,000 hole? Jorge would bet on two cockroaches running across a kitchen floor.
Told me he'd been on a cold streak.
You know, he's still 5000 short.
Yeah.
Where's he been playing around here? I don't know.
Mark, come on.
He's been here for over a week.
Where'd he go to scratch the itch? There's an underground club.
Where? Off Pawling Avenue.
Membership card.
You guys take a hike.
We're with the FBI.
I'm Agent Malone.
Agent Johnson.
Put your hands where I can see them.
Two hundred bucks? That's all you got left? We're looking for your sister.
Mark Ryan told us about the truck and the games.
He said that when he left, you were with Rosie.
You called Social Services and accused her of abusing the kids to get them out of the way.
Now, those kids are waiting for Rosie to come home.
What did you do with her? I just thought if we went to the ATM we could get a little more money.
I don't have any more.
Rosie I screwed up, okay? I know, I know.
I know.
But they're gonna kill me.
You've gone too far, okay? If they take my kids away, who'll take care of them? You have to help me, Rosie.
Okay? I have helped you.
I have helped you every single time for 25 years.
Ever since Manny died.
That wasn't my fault! I shouldn't have left him with you.
I didn't mean to kill him.
He made me so mad.
Jorge, listen to me.
Today was a very bad idea, okay? So now I have to go home and try and get my kids back.
You have to help me.
No.
Rosie.
Rosie! Rosie, don't walk away! She gave you everything she had and it wasn't enough.
Where's your sister, Jorge? I took her to a park.
My sister's in the park.
When she told him that she couldn't help him that she had to look after the two of you He shot her.
She really loved you.
Will there be a funeral? Our first mom didn't get a funeral.
I'm sure there will be.
Malcolm He can't go through this again.
Another home? Loving someone else? I think he'd be better off if it were just me.
Would you help me? So that I can take care of him.
You're only 16.
I'll be 17 in a month.
But there's so much to think about.
You need to finish high school, you have to get a job.
After your birthday, if you still want to, I'll do whatever I can to help.
Now, do you want me to tell him? No.
I'll do it.
Thank you.
What are you still doing here? I didn't realize how late it was.
That paperwork will keep until tomorrow.
Why don't you go home.
I should.
Is there anything I can do to help you? No.
Look I know that you think that I haven't always been there for you.
And you're right, I haven't.
But I'm here for you now.
If there's any way that I can help you This, you can't do anything about.
But thanks.
Good night.
The wall between the two ventricles is enlarged, obstructing the flow of blood.
It's called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
In layman's terms, it's a deterioration of the heart muscle.
And the high blood pressure and shortness of breath? Are both caused by it.
I'm gonna start you on some medications.
And that'll be all? For now.
We have to see how you respond.
Vivian this can be very serious.
Possibly it's what killed your uncle.
It's hereditary? Yes.
Then I ought to get Reggie checked out.
I would.
The earlier you find it, the better the prognosis.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Okay.
Where? I'll be there in 20 minutes.
All right.
Gotta go to work.
We have a lot more to talk about.
I'll make another appointment on my way out.
Vivian, I'm sorry.
Hey.
What do we got? Postal truck 4281, assigned to a Rosie Diaz from the Carpenter Street station.
She left there at 6:30 this morning.
Three hours later, the cops found the truck like this.
This alley on her route? Not even close to it.
Adapted by: