Gone (2018) s01e06 Episode Script

1 .
[birds chirping.]
[soft string music.]
[rooster crows.]
- And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever.
Amen.
- Amen.
I'll go wake up Gabriel.
Gabriel, it's time to wake up.
Ga-- [tense music.]
He's not in his room.
- What? - Gabriel? Where are you, sweetie? - Gabriel? - Gabriel! Gabriel! [door opens.]
- Gabriel! [door closes.]
- Cal.
[police sirens wailing.]
[upbeat music.]
- Come on, Dutch.
Are you checking or betting? - Montecristo number two.
- Huh.
- You in or you out? - I'm thinking.
- Well, take your time.
It's not like you're at the state basketball championships with six seconds on the clock.
- Well, I was fouled.
- So you've been saying for the last 40 years.
I tell you what, though.
You win, the smokes are yours.
I win, you got to call Trina.
Human relationships, Frank.
We all need them.
- Isn't that what I got you for? Besides, even if I wanted to call her, a man can't walk on burnt bridges.
- He can if he's willing to get wet.
You know how to swim, Frank.
Aces, eights.
- Dead man's hand.
- Mm-hmm.
- I got a boat.
Say hello to Trina for me.
- I think you had help.
- Who? The man upstairs? No, he doesn't approve of gambling.
Speaking of which, I would love to see you at my 9:30 mass on Sunday.
- What's the sermon? - How the hell do I know? It's only Wednesday.
[phone buzzes.]
Work? - Yeah.
Hmm.
- Well, good luck.
Hey, remember.
I won that bet.
- Okay.
- [chuckles.]
- A lot of what I teach is about mindfulness.
Like, be mindful of how to take a guy's knees out in two seconds.
- I always knew you'd find a way of hitting people for a living.
I should tell Mrs.
Korb.
I'm serious.
- No, don't tell Mrs.
Korb.
She'd never believe you.
[sighs.]
That entire school thought I was defective.
- Well, they were idiots.
This place is amazing.
If I get this job, I'm moving back here, and I am gonna take your class.
- Really? You--you think you're ready to grapple with me? - Well, I'm definitely open to trying.
[doorbell rings.]
- Kick.
I've been calling you.
We got to go.
- Sorry.
I--I left my phone.
- Hi.
Noah.
- Yeah, uh - Hey.
- Noah, this is Bishop.
Bishop, this is Noah.
- You the boyfriend? - No, no.
- No.
No, no, no.
- Uh, I should take off.
Um, great seeing you again, Kit.
- You too.
- Bishop.
- Noah.
- Yeah, good luck with that interview.
- Thanks.
[doorbell rings.]
- Yeah, he, uh [chuckles.]
He was the only kid in high school that wasn't totally freaked out by "kidnap girl.
" - Well, I had a feeling you two were tight.
Well, he called you "Kit.
" You didn't bash his face in.
[jet engines roaring.]
- Gabriel Carter, eight years old, from Helena, Ohio.
Taken from his own bed.
- How'd they get in? - Cut a hole in the screen and pushed their way in.
- Do we have a timeline? - Yeah.
Sometime between 11:00 p.
m.
when his parents last checked on him, and 6:30 a.
m.
when they realized he was gone.
- Well, it looks like their house is the only one around for miles.
- Yeah.
No neighbors.
And there's something else.
Go ahead, James.
- Yeah.
In the last few months, three teenagers have gone missing along I-76.
Now, one turned up a couple of days later.
She didn't want to talk to police, but they think she may have been abducted.
The other two haven't been found.
- Frank, you think these could be connected to Gabriel? - These kids are older.
But we're gonna keep this on the radar.
For now, all we know Gabriel's been missing for five hours.
[sighs.]
[dog barking.]
- You coming? - Gabriel was scared, but he fought.
- Pulled from his bed.
Forced through the window.
Stranger abduction, most likely.
- We're in the middle of nowhere.
- Kidnapper could have seen him in town.
Lured him online.
Eight-year-old kid.
Let's talk to the parents.
Stop.
Let them finish.
- [inhales.]
- I read him his favorite story, and then I tucked him in for the night, and that's it.
- We saw a humidifier in Gabriel's room.
Is he sick? - Colds settle in his chest.
He's had a rough couple of weeks.
- He's a sweet, innocent boy.
I can't think of anyone who would want to hurt him.
- Well, how about anyone who'd want to hurt you? No work disputes, disagreements with neighbors, that sort of thing? - We could speculate, but it's not right to make false accusation.
- Yeah, but if he's not guilty, then there's no harm.
- And no blame, if there's anyone you can think of.
- Matthew Greene.
The pastor of our old church.
- We left the congregation a few months ago.
We were concerned about Pastor Greene's lax convictions.
Several other members followed us out.
- So, you took his flock? Maybe he took yours? - [crying.]
My little boy.
- God's gonna bring him back to us.
We just have to have faith.
- We'll let you know as soon as we know anything.
In the meantime, if you can think of anything else, don't hesitate.
So let's talk to this Pastor Greene.
- You don't want to wait for divine intervention to find Gabriel? - Yeah, I'm not so good with the waiting.
[thunder rumbling.]
You're not a believer.
- [exhales.]
Yeah, you could say that.
I just find it hard to believe in a god who lets little kids get taken.
- What about a god who helps them get found? - Frank found me.
I believe in him.
- Cal thought I was involved? No.
No, there's no way I would ever take someone's child.
- Well, can I ask where you were last night? - Here.
With my wife and some friends.
I can give you their names.
Poor Gabriel.
He used to come over and play with my sons all the time.
- So the boys aren't close anymore? - Cal didn't like the kids being away from him and open to temptation.
- Those kids always seemed happier out of that house.
Ruth left as soon as she turned 18.
- Ruth? - Their daughter? She lives in Akron now.
- Was Ruth not as devout as her parents? - Few people are.
- Including you? Isn't that why the Carters left your church? - The Carters didn't leave.
They were asked to go.
- Why? - We didn't see eye to eye on certain things.
My disapproval of the sort of corporal punishment they believe is sanctioned by the Bible.
- Are you saying Cal and Elizabeth abuse their kids? - There were bruises.
Nothing out of the ordinary for active children, but throw in the talk about why the family relocated from Iowa.
- Hmm.
- Pastor Greene was right.
Seven years ago, the Carters were living in Iowa.
Someone filed an anonymous complaint.
Child Protective Services was called in.
- What'd they find? - Nothing definitive.
The Carters left the state, and Child Protective Services lost track of them.
A couple months later, they turned up in Ohio.
- Anything more recent? Say, after they moved? - That's what's weird.
I can't find anything after the move.
No school registrations, no vaccination records, nothing.
It's like the entire family went off the grid.
- Thanks.
[phone buzzes.]
The Carters are hiding something.
- Bishop.
Yeah, we'll be right there.
The search dog just found something on the Carters' property.
[dog barking.]
I think we just found Gabriel.
.
- Heads up, guys.
We got the preliminary report on the remains.
So the deceased was a ten-year-old boy.
And he was buried six years ago.
- So it--it's not Gabriel? - No, it's not.
- And get this.
The techs processed that window screen from Gabriel's bedroom.
If someone came through that window, we'd expect to find some clothing or hair fibers on that screen.
There weren't any.
- So no one came in or out of that window.
- This abduction was staged.
[tense music.]
- So the remains removed from your property are not Gabriel's.
- Of course they're not.
Why are you wasting your time? Gabriel's missing.
- And we are trying to find him.
Whose body is buried in your backyard? - Hisname is David.
He was our son.
- He got sick.
We tried everything.
He was only ten years old when he passed.
We laid him in the yard there to keep him close to us.
- We said our prayers.
We anointed the ground.
He had a proper burial.
- You never mentioned having another son.
- We don't have another son.
David belongs to God now.
Broke our hearts, but that was his will.
- David had asthma.
One day he had a terrible attack, and he couldn't breathe.
He just - Asthma's a manageable disease.
You know that, don't you? - We don't believe in medicines that don't come from God.
- And letting your boy die? You believe that was God's will? - We did everything we could.
It was the worst test the Lord's ever put us through.
Until now.
- Well, you've got one more test to go through, and that's with the local police, who are gonna want to know what happened to David.
- The Carters are telling the truth.
DNA and forensics confirms it.
The person found in their backyard was their son.
Died of natural causes.
- With an assist from the parents.
- David fell through the cracks.
- Look, just because they didn't lie about David doesn't mean they didn't lie about Gabriel.
- And there's still the fact the abduction was staged.
I mean, that points to the parents.
- Pastor Greene said they have a daughter who moved out as soon as she turned 18.
- Ruth.
Can you get us an address? [knocking at door.]
- Bishop, look.
- We'd better pick the lock.
Remember what Cal said about Gabriel? - Yeah, that colds settle in his chest.
- Gabriel has asthma too.
Just like David did.
And Ruth saw one brother die.
She wasn't gonna let it happen again.
- Mm.
She's taking him out of town.
- I bet she has keys to her parents' house.
Now, that would explain no fibers on the screen.
- Hmm.
- All right, Ruth snuck in the front door, took Gabriel out the same way.
Made it look like someone else did it.
- Let's find Ruth.
- I tried pinging Ruth's phone, but it must be shut off.
DMV records didn't help.
As far as I can tell, she doesn't own a car, but-- - Do we know where she works? - [chuckles.]
[keys clacking.]
- Food truck company.
- I'll have the carnitas.
- She didn't show up for her shift yesterday, which isn't like her.
- Have you tried calling her? - Of course I did.
She's not only my best cook, she keeps the books for the whole business.
Three trucks.
I left her a bunch of messages.
Plus, I let her borrow my car.
- Did she say why she needed it? - No, and I haven't heard from her since.
She in some kind of trouble? - Kenny, what kind of car is it? - Uh, 2014 green Honda.
Specialty plate, "KENNYZ.
" Did you know there's over 100 specialty plate options in Ohio? - James.
- Okay, I'm in.
I used the VIN number to tap into the car's GPS history.
- You can do that? - Any car built after 2010 is a hack waiting to happen.
Kenny's car was at the Carters' house in Helena last night.
- We were right.
Ruth took Gabriel.
Well, where's the car right now? - Industrial district, east of downtown Akron.
I'm sending you the address now.
[intense music.]
- Kick.
Jesus.
- Oh, my God.
Is that Ruth? - I got it.
[glass shattering.]
She's alive.
- Ruth? - Ruth? [grunts.]
- She okay? - I got you.
Here.
- Ruth? - She's been drugged.
- Oh, God.
Ruth.
Hey, Ruth-- - [screams.]
- Hey, hey, hey.
- No, stop, get off! - Hey, we're with the FBI! Ruth, it's okay.
Hey.
We're with the FBI.
You're okay.
Ruth.
Where is Gabriel? Where is he? - They took him.
[panting.]
.
- Gabriel has really bad asthma.
Just like my brother David did.
No way was I gonna lose another brother.
So when Doug offered to help-- - Is Doug a friend of yours? Do you know his last name? - Um He--he told me when I first met him.
Weston? Wel--Welkins? I don't know.
It was months ago.
He stops by the truck on Fridays.
We'd talk while he was waiting for his order.
He said he had a son the same age as Gabriel.
Last week, I went by my parents' house, and Gabriel couldn't breathe.
When I told Doug, he said he had a doctor friend who could treat him.
I knew my parents would never let that happen, so-- - So you took him, right? You cut a hole in the screen.
You made it look like an abduction.
- I needed time to get him well and get him out of town.
I--I can get a bookkeeping job anywhere.
I can take care of him.
- Look, you're not in trouble.
Okay? We just need you to tell us what happened that night as best you can.
- I met Doug at the industrial park like we planned.
He said the doctor was running late, so he brought us some snacks and ginger ale.
I started feeling really weird.
- Ruth! Ruth, wake up! Ruth, wake up! [grunts.]
Ruth, help! Help! Ruth! Ruth! - [crying.]
What kind of person steals a little boy? - Ruth never saw Doug's car? - No.
He must have parked out of sight.
And he only paid in cash.
- So no credit card receipts.
- I get no hits in Akron from Doug Weston or Doug Welkins.
I'm gonna expand the search, but as of right now, we got no last names and no car to trace.
- And not much at the scene, either.
I've got the lab processing the soda can we found in Ruth's car.
Aside from that, these guys left no prints.
No tire tracks.
Now, Doug may have been playing a long game.
Grooming Ruth.
Getting her to trust him.
- Do you think this could be connected to the I-76 kidnappings? - We know Doug didn't do this alone.
We may be looking at a network trafficking in stolen kids.
- Join us.
Ruth.
If we pray, God will bring Gabriel back.
- Then what? You let him die, too? - God was watching over Gabriel.
You put him in danger.
- Because you're more worried about pleasing God than protecting your own children.
[door opens.]
- Everything all right? My people need to speak to Ruth, so I'm gonna have to ask you two to leave.
- Excuse me.
- [sighs.]
Blaming your daughter isn't gonna bring Gabriel back.
- She's not our daughter anymore.
- You see these two officers coming toward us? They're coming to arrest you for medical neglect and improper burial.
So you might want to fix this.
- There's nothing to fix.
- Ruth did what she thought was right.
You can't forgive her? - That bridge is already burned.
Man can't walk on burnt bridges.
- Bridges.
I know the phrase.
Okay.
[sighs.]
[keys tapping on phone.]
- Please leave a message.
- Trina Um, I thought I'd call.
Hope you're okay.
Bye.
By the way, it's your dad.
- Doug's nose is a little thinner.
- It's closer, but I don't know.
- Ruth, um a long time ago, I had to testify at a trial, and, um I had to remember things that I had made myself forget.
And a doctor told me that we don't actually see with our eyes.
We see with our minds.
And sometimes eyes just get in the way.
So, what if you close your eyes, and I help you to see what you saw that night? Does that sound good? - Mm.
- Okay.
What does your body feel like right now? - [moans.]
It's cold.
My heart is pounding.
- Ruth! - Can you see Doug? - He's worried.
He won't look at me.
His lips are thinner than what--what we picked.
- Okay, now what about his eyes? - They're blue.
He looks tired.
His eyelids are heavy.
He's reaching back to Gabriel to shake his hand, but Gabriel won't.
Oh - Hey, what is it? What is it? - The other man is here.
I can't see his face.
- Okay.
What about, uh, clothing, or a tattoo, a birthmark, or anything-- - Yes.
Yes, he has a tattoo on his arm.
Something--something "V"? And Doug's wearing a jacket.
The one he always wears.
It's green.
There's a logo on it.
- Like a--like a company logo, or a sports team, or something? - Um, maybe like a club or something? I don't know, but it's an eagle.
- Good.
Really good.
- Is this Doug? - [exhales deeply.]
.
- Got a hit on the soda can.
Forensics found traces of the drug Doug used to knock Ruth out.
The DEA says the drug isn't on the market yet.
Proprietary rights belong to one company.
Eagle View Pharmaceuticals.
[suspenseful music.]
- Huh.
Looks like Doug forgot to read the employee manual.
If you're gonna kidnap somebody, don't wear a company jacket.
- Doug Weaver.
Drug rep for Eagle View Pharmaceuticals.
Drives a weekly route between Pittsburg and Cleveland along I-76.
Heya, Doug.
Now, Doug, you should know, she's meaner than I am.
- [grunts.]
- I tried.
- [heavy breathing.]
[door opens.]
[door closes.]
- How's your wing? - Look, I--I know that I'm screwed, here.
- Well, I'm not gonna lie to you, Doug.
But you can help yourself out.
You can help your family out.
You want to see your son again, don't you? Jackson? You want to see Jack again, don't you? Gabriel's sick, Doug.
If he dies-- - Okay.
I took him.
But not--not for me.
For them.
- The network? [tense music.]
So how does that work? You take these kids, and you hand them over.
You're a procurer? Or-- - No, no.
It--it's not like that.
[stammering.]
See, these guys, they - These guys, they what, Doug? - I want a lawyer.
- Doug, the only person who could help you right now is sitting right across from you.
- I wanta lawyer.
- He's more scared of the people he works for than he is of us.
- How are we gonna find these people, then? Gabriel's already been gone for 36 hours.
It's too long.
- I think we got one last shot.
All those disappearances on I-76, one girl came back.
Remember? - Yeah.
- Go talk to her.
- She's been through hell.
I just want to protect her.
- Jody I know this is really hard.
But there's a little boy out there who's going through exactly what you went through, and you could really help to bring him home.
- Jody? Have you ever seen this man? - II ran away about a month ago.
After a week, I I ran out of money.
I was outside the 7-11, and these guys came up to me.
I asked them for a smoke, and they laughed at me.
And then they grabbed me and pulled me into their car.
- She's yours for half an hour.
Let's go.
- All right, man.
[door closes.]
- No, no.
This is messed up.
[indistinct shouting outside.]
[cars honking.]
They--they gave me half an hour.
Go.
You're wasting time.
Now.
- Oh, it's okay, baby.
It's okay.
- Doug didn't kidnap her.
- He let her go.
So why'd he take Gabriel? We talked to Jody.
The girl you set free.
You don't work for the network.
You never did.
You're a customer.
But when the time came-- - I couldn't.
She was just a kid.
- So you let her go.
But when the men came back-- the men who do work for the network - They put a gun to my head and said if I didn't replace what I lost, if I didn't give them a new-- a new kid-- - They'd take yours.
They'd take Jack.
- My son's 11.
He's innocent of all this.
Of my weakness.
- Right, so you gave them Gabriel instead.
He's not your kid, right? [tense music.]
- You're a sick man.
But you know the difference between right and wrong.
And you already did the right thing once.
You didn't let them hurt Jody.
Don't let them hurt Gabriel.
- You have no idea what-- what these kind of men are capable of.
- Actually, Doug [sighs.]
I do.
- Route 42.
Exit 9.
There's a house just off the fire road.
.
[suspenseful music.]
- Tac team's five minutes out.
[knocking at door.]
- [breathing shakily.]
- Look at you, getting so big.
[gun clicks.]
[gunfire.]
- Are you hit? - [exhales.]
No.
- Shots fired.
Suspect down.
- Copy.
We're three minutes out.
[soft music.]
- House is clear.
We missed them.
Gabriel's gone.
Kick? - When I was with Mel, I moved around a lot.
Andin every house we went to, I would leave one of these.
Spelling out my name, hoping that someone would find them and find me.
I was here.
I was in this house.
[breathing shakily.]
[gasps.]
Gabriel! - Hey.
Hey, buddy.
Come on, let's get you out of here, Gabriel.
We're the FBI.
All right? We're here to help you.
Come on.
- Oh, my God.
- It's okay.
It's all right.
Come on.
- [crying.]
Am I gonna stay with you now? - Uh-huh.
I'm gonna get a bigger apartment.
I've got it all picked out.
You'll have your own room and everything.
- But won't Mom and Dad miss us? - Definitely.
And we're gonna visit them.
But for now, it's just gonna be us, okay? [jet engines roaring.]
- That house that we found Gabriel in.
It's a safe house, isn't it? - When Mel took you, he wasn't a lone wolf.
He was a procurer.
- For a network? - Mm-hmm.
Trading in missing and exploited teenagers, and runaways, and abducted kids.
[sighs.]
These networks have been around for years.
And if you ask me, Legion was the worst.
- "Legion"? - That's-- that's his screen name.
We never learned his real name.
I think he was Mel.
[soft music.]
The network went dark after he was in jail.
- Frank, I hit auto-nuke.
II destroyed all the files.
I destroyed all of your leads.
- You were just a kid.
There might have been nothing in those files.
We don't even know what was in those files.
- It could have been everything.
[sighs.]
- Come here, listen to me.
Look at me.
Look at me.
This is the world we live in.
But you didn't make it that way.
Don't forget that.
[gate buzzing.]
[gate closing.]
[tense music.]
[door closes.]
- You don't write.
You don't call.
[chuckles.]
Where'd you find that? - Kick found it when she rescued a missing boy.
She works with me now.
What do you know about the I-76 abductions? - I've been in here for 15 years.
I--I don't know anything.
Legion's back, isn't he? - You are Legion, aren't you? The network's gone dark ever since you've been in here.
- And now I've figured a way to get it up and running again.
Is that your theory? Please give my best to Beth.
- Beth Foster's dead.
As far as Kick's concerned, so are you.
[calm music.]
- All right, it just doesn't make any sense.
- Well, a lot of things don't make sense.
I mean, pineapple on pizza? Non-alcoholic beer? It doesn't mean I can't still believe in beer.
- Okay, so do me a favor and go back to the beginning.
All right, the big bang.
That is a random act.
It's a car crash in space.
That's it.
- Wait, you-- You don't know that.
- Okay, so you're saying that God planned the big bang, then? - No, I'm saying, look around.
All right, that random car crash in space eventually led to you and me, here, walking down the street.
- Right, so God planned this conversation, then? He must be stoked with how it's turning out.
[chuckles.]
- Well, how about this.
If you hadn't been abducted and taken to that house, we wouldn't have found Gabriel.
Same if I never met you.
Some things happen for a reason.
- So you're a believer? - Oh, hell no.
[laughs.]
No.
No, I've seen enough to know God doesn't exist.
But [clears throat.]
I've survived enough to know he or she has to.
[both laughing.]
- Good night, Kick.
- Good night.
[soft pop music.]