Without a Trace s07e16 Episode Script

If somebody's trying to rape you, you don't get points for style.
You put them down so they stay down.
Good class.
Baby's in the house.
- Hi, honey.
- How are you? He's so cute.
Thanks.
You know, we're kind of in a hurry.
Great.
Money.
We all chipped in for Hayden.
Once they found out you were coming, I couldn't stop them.
Aren't they hilarious? You guys, they're great.
Thank you.
- Open this one.
- That's so nice.
I got to get to work.
I'll see you later.
What's kicking his ass? - He's working two jobs.
- Can I hold him? I'm sorry, he's kind of starting to freak out - with people he doesn't know.
- That's okay.
Okay, everybody, it's probably nothing, but we still got to leave.
So, everybody, please calmly exit the building.
Jaime, herd them to the front door.
I'm going to check out the locker rooms.
- You good? - Yeah.
Yeah, I just got to get his pacifier.
I'll be right out.
Everybody out of the locker room and move toward the exit.
I used to bring the girls here for swimming lessons when they were kids.
What's going on? Kara Westfield, 27, and her three-month-old baby boy, last seen here at 8:00 this morning.
She came in with her husband.
He left, went to work.
She stayed with the baby.
Fire alarm goes off everybody comes out except for them.
- Was there a fire? - Nope.
Seems like the alarm was just a distraction.
The back door was pried open from the outside.
Pretty convenient that the husband took off just before all this went down.
Yeah.
He's going to meet us at the office.
We've set up a trap and trace in case there's a ransom call.
Well, let's just hope this is about money.
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Kara worked here about a year.
She started off as a student, but I need someone to help me teach, so I hired her.
- And she only taught women's classes? - Yeah.
She always used to say, someday "defenseless woman" would be an oxymoron.
Sounds like she was on a mission.
I loved her passion, but she got way too involved in people's problems.
I kept telling her it was going to bite her in the ass someday.
Do you think these problems could be responsible for her disappearance? There was this girl from the neighborhood who came in Becky Williams.
Her boyfriend Terence was a hitter.
So Kara convinced her to get out of the relationship.
A week later, Becky got murdered.
Was the boyfriend charged? There wasn't enough evidence.
But Kara would tell anybody who would listen he killed Becky.
I had these printed, and I'm putting them up around the park where they found Becky's body.
What, are you nuts? Terence killed her.
You don't have any proof.
- These will get me the proof.
- Those will get you two in the back of your head and maybe two in the back of mine.
Just let the cops handle this.
She's just another dead body to them.
She was my friend and I let her down.
How? All the signs were there.
She was an object to him.
Something he owned.
I should have known he would punish her for trying to leave.
She didn't get it.
You put yourself in the middle of a situation and there are consequences.
Did did Kara ever have contact with Terence after Becky's murder? Yeah.
About a month ago, he showed up at a memorial service they had for Becky.
As soon as he got there, Kara went after him.
She got in his face, started calling him a murder, a coward.
When he left, he made it real clear what he was going to do to her next time he saw her.
How are we doing on Kara's history? Terrible.
I just started and I'm already depressed.
Listen to this.
Her mother died when she was six.
Then there were the allegations that her father was abusing her.
Then when she was ten, she got thrown into the foster system.
Where's the father now? He drank himself to death three years ago.
Any luck on Becky's boyfriend? Terence Mitchell fit a whole lot of nasty into 19 years.
Got arrests here for assault, robbery, carjacking.
His parents, they, they must be so proud.
They most certainly are.
They're serving federal time.
- You're kidding.
- No.
Okay, Becky filed this restraining order against him a week before she died.
The court clerk says that Kara was with her.
- You have an address on the boyfriend? - Not recent.
He disappeared after the memorial service.
Have you seen him around? I have here that you and Kara got married a little over a year ago? Yeah.
You two didn't waste too much time starting a family.
We like kids.
So what? Are we keeping you from something? No, I I just don't understand why you're asking me this stuff.
Because your wife and kid are missing, that's why.
You know what I was thinking, Martin? That first year of marriage, is usually very stressful.
Can you imagine adding a baby to that? No kidding.
He gets somebody he barely knows pregnant.
Suddenly he's married, working two jobs, feeling trapped.
Thinking how much better it was when he was single.
You know I'm right, because I can see it in your eyes.
You know what I think we need? I think we need a little break.
I would love to have some coffee.
Yeah, great idea.
Me, too.
You? I'll be back.
Okay.
We have been fighting lately.
But it wasn't me that wasn't happy.
It was Kara.
Why? Why was she unhappy? I don't know.
A lot of it, I think, was postpartum depression.
I kept hoping it would go away, but it just kept getting worse.
Hey.
I'll give you a kiss if you help me open my beer.
So you didn't go to the market? I forgot.
I'll do it myself.
In pajamas? It's midnight.
Hey, hey, come here.
Stop.
Stop.
I know it's hard.
How would you know? You're hardly ever here.
- Well, I'm working.
- And what I do isn't work? That's not what I said.
I'm the one getting up with Hayden every night, who's with him all day.
When I'm not doing that, - I'm cleaning up after you.
- I'll help out a little more.
Kara.
What's the matter? Maybe we made a mistake.
What are you saying? You regret having Hayden? I wasn't talking about him.
She seemed okay the next morning, but now I don't know.
So you're telling me that Kara was so fed up with you that she just took the baby and left? You guys said it yourself.
Everything happened so fast with us.
The physical evidence says other people were involved.
Well, maybe she had help.
Maybe she just needed some time to clear her head.
I don't know.
Right.
And apparently she suffered from a slight case of postpartum, so I'm going to subpoena her medical records and see if she has - a history of depression.
- I'm right behind you.
Bye.
I'm going to subpoena her medical records and see if she had a history - of depression.
- I don't think this girl just ran off.
The back door was pried open.
The fire alarm was set off.
So we can cross Becky's boyfriend off of our suspect list.
NYPD just found him O.
D'd by LaGuardia.
He was dead before she disappeared.
So that just leaves us with the husband.
Well, maybe not.
A worker at the community center saw Becky's father in the parking lot when Kara disappeared.
So he's on his way in.
If Kara's missing, it has nothing to do with me.
I don't even know why I'm here.
You're here because you told a police detective that you wished she was dead.
Becky had just been killed.
I blamed her.
Because she had convinced your daughter to break up with her boyfriend Terence? The restraing order set him off.
I thought if Kara had stayed out of it, my daughter might still be alive.
But we made our peace.
She was a She was very beautiful, your daughter.
You must miss her.
I do.
I don't know.
If it was me that lost a child, I don't think I could be so quick to forgive.
- It's a process.
- Yeah, I can imagine.
I mean, every time you walk past her door, it must it must just tear you up.
Every time that you dream about her, and you wake up, there must be that split second where you forget.
And then you realize that she's never coming back.
Doesn't that piss you off? Doesn't that make you want to hold somebody accountable for this? So you don't blame Kara? Then what the hell were you doing in the parking lot when she was taken? Where the hell were you when Becky went missing? Nowhere! Because she'd run away before, we went to the back of the line.
Well, my daughter died alone.
But I don't blame Kara, I blame you! Really? You blame me, personally.
- You people.
- What about you? Ever blame yourself? What were you doing there? I live nearby.
I heard the fire alarm, so I came over to see what was going on.
Any sign of the baby? Did you get a license number? What color was the van? You know, the truth is quick.
Lying takes a lot longer.
Silver.
What about the men? When I saw the gun, I just took off running.
I didn't even know it was Kara till I saw it on the news.
But you knew that they were carrying somebody in that carpet, yet you did absolutely nothing nothing about it.
Why is that? They saw my face.
I have a wife and an other daughter.
They could have come after us.
Yeah, they could have.
I guess.
Armed men and a waiting van suggests that it wasn't a random kidnapping.
- Do you know who those men were? - Not yet, but whoever it was knew that the alarm was at the back, and that Kara would be there.
Can you think of anyone that might have known those things? Other than yourself, of course.
You think I did this? I don't know.
You tell me.
Kara could have told a lot of people we were stopping by.
- Why do you think it was me? - Because your emotions and your reactions are not consistent with this situation.
- Meaning what? - Meaning, Mr.
Westfield, I just told you that your wife and possibly your infant son left that building rolled in a rug and you haven't flinched.
Well, not everyone reacts the way you want them to.
Unless you're arresting me, I'm leaving.
I'll get someone to walk you out.
Finding a silver van in New York City is like putting out an APB on a hot dog cart.
However, I did manage to find something on Kara.
Three and a half years ago, she disappeared.
No address, no phone number, no credit cards.
- That's interesting.
- Very interesting.
Look at this.
She was living in Jersey, then nothing for two years until she pops up in the South Bronx.
I'm thinking prostitution, drugs something.
I'll check into it.
- How did the husband take the news? - Better than he should have.
And when I pointed that out to him, he asked to leave.
- How about I follow him? - Good.
Hopefully I shook him up enough for him to do something stupid.
Hopefully.
Socks match the shirt.
Now, any mom could do that, right? But, see, the pacifier You text? Yeah.
We we pulled this off Kara's laptop.
Back it up before the call.
You're my beautiful baby boy.
You're my angel straight from Heaven.
You know that? So, one day, when you're a teenager and you hate my guts, take this moment and put it in your heart.
I love you, Hayden.
Don't you ever forget that.
- Is this a good-bye video? - Just keep watching.
Come here.
Here you go, little man.
Superbaby! Superbaby! - No, he's in the other room.
- Freeze it.
Did you notice how she's kinda looking around for Jonah when she saw who was calling? It made me curious.
So I ran the phone records cross-checked them with the time-stamp on the video.
Call came from a Tim Richardson.
- He lives in the South Bronx.
- Here are his DMV records.
Okay, now Before Kara met Jonah, she lived in the South Bronx.
Exact same address.
Could be an ex.
Or not so ex.
She was frustrated, she wasn't happy with her relationship with Jonah, right? So maybe she went to what was more comfortable.
We assumed that she got pregnant right after they got married.
Maybe she was pregnant before.
Who's your daddy? What, he's trying to sell his wife's car? Either that or he gets off on letting strangers drive him around the block.
This is great.
This guy is trying to get the price down.
He found corrosion in the wheel well.
Nice catch.
Try selling the bus you're in when you're done.
That's very funny, Jack.
All right, it looks like yeah, they have a deal.
This guy's not expecting his wife to come home.
- Doesn't mean he killed her.
- Why else would he be selling her car? Ransom.
Just because we haven't received a demand doesn't mean he hasn't.
- Just stick with him, okay.
- You got it.
Thanks.
So, NYPD found the rug from the community center.
- And? - It was empty.
- Where'd they find it? - Behind a school nearby.
The janitor got sick of people using his dumpster, so when he saw the van drop the rug, he called it in.
- Did he get a tag off the van? - He got a partial.
But he saw the name of a rental company on the license plate frame.
- Malone.
- Jack.
It looks like our guy is getting ready to take a little bus trip.
- Elena, you got anything? - Right, a silver van.
With a plate that has a consecutive 4-7.
All right, he's on the move.
He's heading towards a bus.
Okay, do not approach him.
Tell me the name on the credit card.
I need to know who rented that van.
He just gave money to a guy.
Sorry.
All right, Jack, it looks like they're splitting up.
- Come on, Elena, I need a name.
- Sir, we're in a bit of a rush.
Which one am I taking down, the husband or the kidnapper? Jack, make a decision - or I'm going to lose 'em both.
- The husband.
- All right.
- Thanks.
Jonah rented the van.
Bingo.
FBI.
If you move, I'll shoot you.
Got it? I can explain all of this.
So can I.
You hired someone to kill your wife and child.
You paid them half up front, when the job was done, you sold her car to pay the rest.
That's not it.
We'd been looking to sell that car since she quit working.
Were you also looking to carpool in the van that you rented to cart her body away? Maybe you didn't appreciate her trading calls with this man.
This is her friend, Tim.
They waited tables together.
Hayden's got his eyes, don't you think? You think Tim is Hayden's father? Tim is gay.
Vivian, can I see you for a sec? Someone dropped off a baby at a hospital in North Nyak.
Clothing matches Hayden Westfield.
Any idea who? No witnesses.
And whoever it was managed to avoid the security cameras.
What about the mother? No sign of her yet.
Thanks.
Someone just dropped your son off at a hospital.
What do you mean? Who? A better question would have been, "Is he okay?" Well, is he? As far as we know.
What about Kara? There's still no sign of her.
Now, in my estimation, that's the best news we've had all day.
But you seem more worried now than when I suggested that they were both dead.
I need to get out of here.
Well, that's not gonna happen.
You need to give me a really good reason not to arrest you.
Something went wrong.
Kara would sooner die than let Hayden go.
No, wait.
Five years ago, me and a buddy stole 20 grand from a Western Union in Minneola.
He got caught I didn't.
I thought it was behind me.
Babe, I gotta get this.
I'll start loading the car.
Hello.
Yeah, yeah, he's good.
I think What's up, Westfield? Brody? Man, I didn't even recognize you.
I thought you didn't get out for another couple years.
I played nice.
Left early.
You're kidding me? That's that's great.
That it? - What are you talking about? - I did five years for us, and that's all the love you can fake for me? No, man Listen Sorry about the way how things went down.
- I wanted to come visit you - I don't give a rat's ass.
You got me mixed up with a guy used to drink 40s with you by the tracks.
Look, I know what you did for me.
No, you don't.
The moment I went upstate, you forgot all about me.
But I kept my mouth shut about you, right? - So what do you want from me? - I want my half of the take.
I don't have it, man.
I was gonna put it together - by the time you got back - You spent it? I had to to get my life back.
You got a sweet little life now, right? I always wondered what would have happened if the cops would have nabbed you and not me.
I might have had a nice little life, too.
Nice little family.
- They got nothing to do with this.
- They do now.
You got two days to get me my money before I start living out my fantasies on your girl and your kid.
- We clear? - Yeah.
Doing time really messed him up.
I mean, he was rowdy in high school, but now I wouldn't step into an alley with that guy in broad daylight.
So you had your family taken to protect them from him? He was tailing us.
I needed more time to get the cash, so we made a plan to distract him with the fire alarm at the community center.
Who's "we"? Me, Kara and Tim.
And we got Mickey's dad to help.
Hal said he was just a witness.
Hal was just scared.
And we didn't expect to get questioned by the FBI.
You staged a kidnapping.
What did you think would happen? It wasn't meant to look like that.
The back door was supposed to be open.
We didn't count on Giselle calling the cops.
Where did they go to hide? Tim's folks own a hotel in North Nyak.
The Sixth Street Hotel.
I don't understand.
I sold the car.
I gave Brody all our savings.
He said we were square.
He served five years in prison.
Maybe money wasn't enough payback.
NY State Correctional Services confirmed Brody got out early on good behavior.
What about Jonah? - Is he on the hook for this? - No, no, not yet.
The cops know that Brody had a partner.
They just don't know who.
You didn't tell them that we caught their man? Not yet.
Don't tell me you're starting to feel sorry for him.
No, I no.
It's He made a mistake.
Yes, it was a long time ago.
He has a wife and a kid now.
I just I don't see why they should have to pay for it.
Hey, we don't choose who gets hurt, we just work here.
Okay, let's hold him until we can find the wife, and call the D.
A, okay? FBI! It's clear.
This is bad.
Yeah, let's hope the kid still has a mother.
Agent Malone.
Patrol picked him up circling the block.
My name is Tim Richardson.
- Kara is my friend.
- I know who you are.
Where is she? I don't know.
I thought we'd be safe here.
Look, I'm just saying, how long have you known Jonah? Some people you know you can trust.
You had no idea he was a fugitive.
Who's to say he won't turn into another violent meathead? He won't.
He's different.
Besides, I'm different.
Before, I couldn't handle being alone, no matter how bad things got.
Now I'm okay on my own, but I'd still rather be with Jonah.
- Who is it? - Police.
Open up.
Open the door, please.
No, Tim, don't.
Kara, I know you're in there.
- This can't be happening.
- Who the hell is that? I just need to talk to you.
Go into the bathroom and lock the door.
No, Tim, you have to take Hayden.
- Go out the bathroom window.
- What? - I won't leave you.
- Open up! I can't go.
He's just gonna keep following us.
Please - Tim, just take him somewhere safe.
- I can hear you in there! Go, now! I climbed out the window and I ran to my car.
Who was the man? I don't know.
I thought it was that Brody guy.
And you just left her? I dropped the baby at the hospital and I circled back, but she was gone.
Okay, bring him in.
I'd like to question him anyway.
Thanks.
Jersey State Police just found Brody in Atlantic City.
If he's all the way down there, he couldn't have gone to that hotel.
Plus, it like the guy who grabbed Kara knew her personally.
Yeah.
I may know who he was.
I just got Kara's medical records, and during that two-year gap in her history, she was admitted twice to hospitals in Pennsylvania.
A broken nose, detached retinas, second-degree burns.
Both times, the bills were sent to - a Steven O'Malley.
- And what's the connection? He's a reserve officer for the Pennsylvania State Police in Harrisburg.
I spoke to his supervisor.
He was on duty when Kara's bulletin went out.
He disappeared, hasn't been heard from since.
An abusive boyfriend matches her profile.
Yep.
How we doing with O'Malley? Harrisburg PD raided his place.
They found pictures of Kara everywhere.
They also confirm, she did run away three years ago.
He's in the police reserve, you know? I'm surprised.
He has all the resources to find her, but he hasn't.
Except she moved to New York, she married Jonah.
All of her financials are under his name.
Put an APB out on the car? I was about to until I found out that he's got a police radio in his car.
- Good catch.
- Yeah.
Okay, let's maintain radio silence.
Let's get his information out over the secure frequency.
- You got it.
- Right.
I am positive.
I've never seen him before.
His name is Steven O'Malley.
Kara lived with him in 2005, 2006.
Why would he come after her? We believe he was abusing her.
And what makes you say that? Her medical records.
The doctors can't prove anything, but all the signs are there.
How did he find them? He's a cop.
He heard about Kara over the wire.
Tim said he knew about the hotel because she used to hide there from him.
Tim knew about this guy? Look, are you sure she didn't say anything about him? Anything that might help us in finding her? But It all makes sense now.
How she acted when I told her about Brody - What in the hell were you thinking? - I wasn't thinking.
- I needed the money.
- For what? When my sister got in that wreck, she didn't have insurance.
And if we didn't pay the damages, she was going to jail.
You lied to me.
I'm sorry.
I was gonna tell you.
I just But I thought I had more time.
You lied to me.
I trusted you, and you hid this from me.
You're not the person I thought you were.
It was a one-time thing.
- How do I know that? - 'Cause all I am now is you and Hayden.
Please, I need you.
You gotta swear to me that you will never do something like that again.
I swear to God.
Okay? I won't.
Whatever he did to her, suddenly I come at her with this.
She must've thought I'd turn into him.
You know, for what it's worth, she told Tim she still trusted you.
Thank God.
I'm so sorry.
Yeah.
I swear, I'm never gonna let you go again.
Any word on Danny and Elena? They called when the chopper landed in Harrisburg.
We still think that O'Malley's taking her home? It's our best bet.
Plus, he doesn't know we're after him.
But we did catch a break.
The cop radio in his truck, it has an emergency feature on it that allows us to key into it remotely.
- We have a warrant for this? - Yep, just came in.
I'm still tweaking the frequency.
You wanna play with me? You think I'm stupid, don't you? I saw the baby stuff at the hotel.
I heard the baby crying before I got in there.
You were pregnant when you left me.
I found the test in the trash.
Where's my son? You don't have one.
It was all over the radio.
You went missing today with a baby.
He's three months old.
Do the math.
He couldn't possibly be yours.
That doesn't mean you didn't have my kid.
I didn't.
I miscarried.
The day I left, you threw me against the kitchen table, remember? I woke up in the middle of the night in agony, I was bleeding.
Then why didn't I find any blood? Because I cleaned it up.
I snuck out and went to the clinic, but when I got there it was too late.
You killed my kid.
You killed him.
You you bitch! You had nothing when I found you.
I took you in.
No, I didn't do anything wrong.
I'm a good person.
No, you are pathetic! I have people who love me.
Kara?! Get back here! Okay, Lucy, look for 911 calls reporting gunfire in and around Harrisburg.
So, on one of those days, when you're a teenager and you hate my guts, you take this moment and put it in your heart.
Okay? Harrisburg dispatch just got a report of gunfire at an abandoned YMCA at Fourth and Lincoln.
Danny, we got a location.
The locals will meet you there.
FBI! Suspect down.
Hold your fire.
You're my beautiful baby boy.
You know that? It's true.
I love you.
I love you, Hayden.
Don't you ever forget that.
Kara, are you okay? Are you okay? I'm Danny Taylor.
I'm with the FBI.
Where's - where's Steven? - Steven's dead.
What about my baby? He's fine.
He's with your husband.
I'm gonna need some paramedics.
We found her.
She's all right.
Thank you.
You hear that, peanut? They found your mom.
Yeah, she's coming home.
This is for you.
Yeah, it's me.
Thank God.
Are you okay, baby? Yeah, I'm okay.
You wanna call the D.
A.
now? Sam's taking care of it.
Okay.
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