Without a Trace s05e17 Episode Script

Coming.
I'll be right there.
It's beautiful.
I should have come out here an hour ago.
From the quarters of Capitol Hill to the heart of Manhattan the disappearance of high-profile United States Senator Patricia Mills has gripped the nation.
Authorities are not releasing any details at this time but the family is set to make a statement.
And we'll bring that to you live as soon as it happens.
Cut.
That's a good one.
Welcome to the show.
- Somebody should alert the media.
- Are those Knicks tickets? I like to carry them around.
Gives me the illusion of a personal life.
Sorry about your day off.
That's all right, I'd rather look for a missing senator than watch the Knicks.
So where are we? Senator Patricia Mills, 37, been in office all of three months.
Told her husband that she was flying back to Washington for an emergency meeting.
- But? - There was no meeting.
Her staff didn't know that she was coming back.
A U.
S.
Senator involved in deceit.
There's a shock.
She make it to Washington? TSA said that she booked the flight but never boarded the plane.
- What about the husband? - Uh, "Allen Crane," mid-level tax attorney.
Been married for six years.
You'll get some face time with him after the press conference.
I can't wait.
Okay, this will be short.
To my daughter, Patti: If you're out there listening, we're gonna find you, sweetheart.
We will not rest until you're safely back to us.
And to the person responsible for this, we're gonna find you too.
I promise you that.
Allen, you got anything you wanna say? No.
- That's it then.
No questions.
Does the FBI have anything? Suspects? Act of terrorism? I don't know whether he's upset or insulted.
I find it interesting that the father gives the statement and not the husband.
If it was my wife, I'd be running point on this.
Call your husband, tell him you're never coming home.
- Oh.
- This one's going into overtime.
Hello? Hello? We can hear you.
Hello? Hello? Yes, Jack, go ahead, we can hear you.
Hello? Can you hear me? Yes! Okay, great.
Every politician, agency and talking head is gonna be waiting for us to screw up so let's keep it tight.
- Has anybody contacted Mills' office? - Her secretary e-mailed her calendar.
So we're going through all her meetings over the past month.
Okay, go back further.
Dig into her life here and in D.
C.
It's been 15 hours.
If this was a kidnapping we'd have a ransom call by now.
She's attractive, always on TV.
- Maybe she has a stalker.
- Uh, what about political enemies? She is the pro-gun, pro-choice face of the Progressive Right.
She's gonna have enemies on both sides, we'll look into it, Jack.
Right.
We get anything from her cell phone yet? Yeah, uh, pinged off a tower at 5: 17 p.
m.
Yesterday out near Black Rock Harbor in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
There's been nothing since then.
Okay, let's send the Coast Guard out there to have a look.
I want you guys to follow every lead until it dead-ends.
Aside from the branches of government, I'm gonna have Olczyk way up my ass.
I'm already up it, Jack.
And I'm not coming out until you find Senator Mills.
Hey, listen, would you mind checking my prostate while you're up there? All right, guys, let's get on it.
Why didn't you speak at the press conference this morning? I was going to, but I felt physically sick.
When was the last time you saw your wife? Yesterday afternoon, she was packing for Washington.
I kissed her goodbye, and then I went to my office.
How long were you there? From about 3 to 9-, 9:30.
Was there any problems between you and your wife? No, not at all.
She wasn't exactly up-front.
I get that you have to do this, but Patti and I were good.
Listen, I I think that you should try and find Fasil Mazari.
- Who's that? Her chief of staff.
- She fired him three days ago.
- Why? Patti was working on a health-care thing.
Something for immigrants.
But she was having a hard time getting the dinosaurs in her party on board.
Fasil leaked a story to the Post detailing Patti's frustrations.
It named names.
It called some of the senior Republicans to the carpet and they didn't like that.
It killed the initiative and she had to let him go.
These women deserve at least the bare minimum of pre-natal care.
- Aren't most of them illegals? - Well God, it's warm.
Doesn't matter.
Women get pregnant, babies get born.
It's a lot cheaper if they're born healthy.
Patricia, why haven't you called me back? - Lower your voice, Fasil.
- You're not being fair.
Hey, calm down.
Allen, just give us a second.
I screwed up.
I thought it would help you.
Please, believe me.
I do.
But I don't trust your judgment.
And I can't afford another mistake.
Don't do this to me.
You did this to yourself.
And I'm sorry, but we're just gonna have to move on.
So that's it? You're just gonna cut me out? Do I mean that little to you? You did this, not me.
You're making a mistake.
I would have done anything for you.
Patti! It crushed her.
She put her ass on the line for Fasil.
How? He's a devout Muslim of Pakistani descent.
Not exactly the Republican prototype for a chief of staff.
But Fasil's been her closest friend since Yale and Patti's loyal to a fault.
Any chance they were having an affair? No.
God, no.
I mean, that never occurred to me.
Who does that yacht belong to? Well, Hayden owns it but everyone knows that it belongs to Patti.
It's her sanctuary.
Is it docked in Black Rock Harbor? Yeah.
Why? Well, we got a ping from your wife's phone from that area yesterday.
That doesn't make any sense.
I don't know what'd she'd be doing out there.
Would you mind if we looked at the boat? Of course, if it will help.
Anything, all right? Anything that you need.
Allen Crane's alibi checks out.
The security at his office saw him come and go.
The cameras in the lobby confirm that.
Anything on Fasil Mazari? MIA.
Capitol police checked his D.
C.
Apartment.
Super said he hasn't seen him in a couple of days.
Any other addresses? No, but he has family in Dearborn, Michigan and New Jersey so I'm gonna check with them.
Okay, I wanna show you something.
I was able to verify every single appointment in Patricia's calendar except this one right here from five days ago.
"E.
A.
" That's gotta be initials.
Maybe could be a location.
What'd her secretary say? When she asked about it, Patricia went ballistic and accused her of snooping into her personal life.
If she wants it to be a secret, what is it doing in her calendar? I'm not worried about that.
I don't care, just do it.
Find her.
I'll call you in 10 minutes.
Mr.
Mills.
Sounds like you're rounding up the posse.
I would strongly advise against doing that.
I'm not putting my daughter's life in the hands of a civil servant.
If your people get in the way I will arrest them and you for impeding a federal investigation.
You had some questions for me? Yeah.
Um Did your daughter confide in you about her, uh, personal life? Patti and I are very close.
Tells me a lot of things in confidence.
Is it possible that she was having an affair? Specifically, with Fasil Mazari? Are you asking me if my daughter was a whore? People have affairs for lots of different reasons, Mr.
Mills.
Why don't you get your nose out of the FBI manual get some boots on the ground looking for my daughter? - You're wasting time, Agent Malone.
- What do you think happened? - I don't know.
- When's the last time you talked to her? About a week ago.
Patti's so damn busy but she squeezed me in.
Did you see me on C-SPAN? I looked so pale and washed out.
- I didn't even recognize myself.
- You looked fine.
You shouldn't wear blue.
Red is your color.
- Heh.
It's not the Bloods and the Crips.
- Ha, ha.
You guys are worse.
At least they have a code.
- Look at you.
- What? And I thought you'd lost your way after college when you started digging toilets in India for that hippie cult.
- You mean the Peace Corps? - Whatever.
I was afraid you'd become a trust-fund do-gooder putting my money where your mouth is.
Beneath the suit, I still am a hippie do-gooder.
You've never let me down, Patti.
Not for a second.
I am so proud of you.
But you gotta promise me you're never gonna become like this.
Hmm? Always remember who you are, and never do anyone's bidding.
I promise.
Drink to it.
Make it real.
PATTl: Ha, ha.
Senator Mills.
- Hey, Leslie.
- It's a great pleasure to see you.
Nice to see you.
Well, your daughter's been making a lot of noise on the Hill.
- Looks like I bet on the right horse.
- Ha.
You bet on every horse, Leslie.
Well, I didn't wanna interrupt.
It's so nice to see you.
- Well, thanks for stopping by.
Enjoy.
You better wash your hands.
Oh, come on, it's just part of the job.
Anyway, you were busy telling me how impressed you are with me.
Was I? - Yeah.
- Ha-ha-ha.
Patti's mother passed away when she was 9.
Since then, it's just been the two of us.
Is it possible that, uh, this Leslie Warrick character had a beef with you or your daughter? Not that I know of.
Anybody else? Like who? You started at the Hudson River Terminal, right? Everybody comes from somewhere.
Yes, they do.
But you made a lot out of a little and probably had to crush a few skulls along the way.
Could your daughter's disappearance be some form of payback? I doubt it.
What about recent businesses? Any of them go sour? Not more than usual.
Mind if we looked at your books? If I think it's relative to my daughter, fine.
If not, no.
- Good place to hide out, it's desolate.
- Is the uncle around? He's been traveling in Pakistan for the past month.
Fasil Mazari, FBI.
Open up.
Somebody's in there.
No TV, no computers, no books.
- Nothing to do here but pray.
- Any sign of a note? - No, nothing.
- This is his Koran.
Fasil was a devout Muslim, suicide would go against his belief.
Well, listen, maybe killing Patricia was too much for him to handle.
So were you able to pull anything off of Patricia's laptop? She's been downloading a ton of stuff regarding a proposed deep-sea oil-drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico called Milwaukee Depth.
- All in the last week.
- And all authored by the same guy.
A geologist at Columbia, "Dr.
Elliot Arrow.
" Elliot Arrow.
- That's gotta be the E.
A.
She met with.
- I can't imagine that went well.
According to this Arrow recently testified before the Senate subcommittee that Senator Mills sits on.
He blasted Milwaukee Depth.
Calling it " a money-grab with potentially catastrophic environmental results.
" The Republicans blasted back, with Patricia leading the charge.
- They go after his research? Mm-hm.
And his tenure.
Soon after he testified it came out that he lied on a federal-grant application 10 years ago.
Well, you know, a professor, all he has is his reputation and tenure.
If he was on the verge of losing both maybe he went after Senator Mills himself.
So you saw Senator Mills five days ago.
I don't have time for this.
I have packing to do.
Must've been angry when her colleagues had you investigated.
You mean the witch hunt? Did you not lie to the government to obtain a grant? If your government would cough up some decent funding, I wouldn't have to.
Professor Arrow, the longer you stonewall us the more you look like a prime suspect.
I suggest you talk to us now or losing your tenure will be the least of your problems.
She called me.
She wanted to meet.
- Yeah? - Professor Arrow? For now.
We'll just have to see what the board of regents decides.
I'm sorry about that.
You didn't seem sorry when you were cutting me to shreds.
- Warrick Industries.
- They're criminals.
Can you prove it? Yeah.
- You want a drink first? - No, thanks.
You might need one.
The oil in the Gulf lies under 10,000 feet of water five miles of rock, packed sand, and thick salt.
You have to pipe it up through that, then to a refinery onshore.
That costs hundreds of millions of dollars.
Warrick Industries wants to offset that expense by using a cheaper, experimental material for the pipes.
Problem is, the material ruptures.
You're looking at the ecological equivalent of Iraq.
We saw Warrick's test results.
Those pipes are safe.
What you saw was pie-in-the-sky speculation polished up by Warrick.
These are the actual numbers.
The pipes ruptured Well, why didn't you present this at the hearing? Those are classified internal documents that I stole from Warrick's R & D Department.
And now you have them.
Be careful who you talk to about this.
She took the documents.
She seemed convinced.
Convinced enough to vote against the project? I hope so.
So how did you steal these documents from Warrick Industries? Mills is probably dead because of those documents.
- I'm not getting anyone involved.
- It's late for that.
Until we can clear you and your friend, you're the prime suspect.
Arrow's story checks out.
His source inside Warrick Industries was a Dr.
Lee.
He conducted the initial tests and then goosed the results as instructed by his superiors.
Okay, well, I think I figured out why Senator Mills is so concerned about Warrick Industries.
Warrick contributed 5 million to her election campaign.
- That violates campaign finance laws.
- Yeah, but he was very smart.
Looks like he had his employees donate the maximum amount.
Reimbursed them through bonuses.
That way everything looks on the level.
For 5 million, he would expect that she would throw him a vote.
See if we can get him in here.
Coroner's office just ruled Fasil's death a homicide.
They found a second set of marks on his neck.
He was strangled before he was hanged.
That's Newark P.
D.
's problem.
Make sure they keep us in the loop.
- Got it.
ERT get anything off the boat? Not yet.
Still working.
I'm gonna head down there, see if I can light a fire under their ass.
- It's a little chilly for diving, isn't it? - Can I help you with something? Sorry, yeah, I'm with the FBI.
Special Agent Jack Malone.
What's your name? Sarah.
I do maintenance on the boats.
You out here a lot? With spring coming, I've been prepping the boats pretty much non-stop.
Do you know the owners of that boat? Yeah.
Why? Well, I'm, uh, investigating the disappearance of Patricia Mills.
I heard about that.
- You ever talk to her? Sure.
Patti's great.
Loves to talk about boats.
How about her husband? - Not a fan.
- Why is that? Put it this way, if my breasts had eyes, we'd make a lot of eye contact.
Got it.
Uh Has he been around the boat in the last week or so? About four days ago I was sealing a boat.
Patti and Allen were just docking.
Why can't you do this thing for me? That's all I'm asking.
Who the hell do you think you are? You're not so righteous, you just like to seem that way.
PATTl: Don't you dare.
Unh! I'm just really starting to wonder what I'm getting out of this marriage.
- I've never seen them go at it like that.
- Um Give me a call if you think of anything else.
I gotta get a boat.
- Get a hold of Warrick? - Nope.
- He's hiding behind his lawyers.
- I think Allen Crane killed his wife.
You find something on the boat? Classified documents from Warrick Industries that Arrow gave Patricia.
Wouldn't that point more towards Warrick than her husband? He stands to lose billions if she votes against Milwaukee Depth.
Except I have an eyewitness that places Allen with the documents arguing with Patricia on the boat.
I think he has a stake in this.
Jack, his alibi checks out.
Then let's re-check it.
See if we can find a hole in it.
Okay.
Jack.
Allen Crane is here to see you.
Mr.
Crane.
Did, uh, one of my agents call you? Nobody's called me.
That's why I'm here.
Is it true that Fasil killed himself? It's undetermined.
So, what does that mean for Patricia? Well, it's a little early to speculate.
That's not good enough, Agent Malone.
L I wanna know what you are doing to find my wife.
Well, we have some leads.
Some promising, some not.
Let me tell you something that you may not know.
I can make a call right now and have you shipped out to North Dakota within the week, okay? - I can do that.
- Why are you threatening me? Because when I ask you about my wife, I want an answer.
Are you aware that your wife was gonna vote against the Milwaukee Depth Project? I knew that she was leaning that way.
Why? Were you conflicted by that? The way that my wife votes has got nothing to do with me.
I support her unconditionally.
- Is that because she demands it? - No, it's because I offer it.
And your wife's success, does it, uh? Does it cause you any personal problems? Okay.
I don't get to see her as much as I'd like.
But Patti becoming a senator is all that we've ever wanted.
We worked very hard to make that happen.
We? We.
That's right, we.
My wife and I are in this together.
Side by side.
She's living her dream.
And, yeah, I've I've had to make some sacrifices.
But that's what you do when you love somebody.
You sacrifice.
She'd do the same thing for me.
That's the way it is with us.
Sounds like the perfect partnership.
It's a marriage, it's not a partnership.
Right.
Right.
Allen Crane's law office doesn't trust their employees.
They use a software on their computer network that records everything.
They even count keystrokes.
So let's see what Mr.
Crane was doing between the hours of 3 and 9:30 p.
m.
Last night.
He logged on at 3:05, then no activity till 9:07 when he purchased a wine thermometer before logging off at 9: 17.
Okay, that's six hours we can't actually account for him.
Except we see him coming and going on the lobby cameras.
Unless he didn't exit through the lobby.
I need to know if Crane could've gotten to and from Black Rock Harbor in that time.
Let's see.
Based on average traffic flow for that time of day that would put him in Black Rock in about two hours.
Four hours to take his boat out, kill his wife, get back to the office.
He'd have to catch nothing but green lights.
But he could do it.
Milwaukee Depth? You brought me here to talk about oil? She was gonna vote to block the drilling.
What relevance is that to you? - Trying to find her.
- Not under your desk.
- Get out there, do something.
- And how's your investigation going? Turned up any leads? You have to let me do my job, okay? It's not a pissing contest.
I am trying to find her and bring her back alive.
You understand? What do you need from me? Tell me about your son-in-law.
Allen? He's fine.
Fine? That's the extent of your opinion of the man that married your daughter? Patti always viewed marriage as some kind of an affront to women's lib.
I told her it's that much harder for a single woman to win a senate seat.
Family values and all that crap.
She finally came around and Allen was in the right place at the right time.
She got married to get elected? Look, that's me talking.
She loves Allen.
- For whatever reason.
- Was he ever violent with her? Allen's a slippery guy.
But I don't see him doing anything like this.
Frankly, he doesn't have the stones.
Honey, you have to bring it up.
Maybe there's a reason that he hasn't asked me.
PATTl: Look at me.
You're brilliant and you're talented.
And I love you.
Okay? Come here.
And he's in a good mood, so come on.
I think our waitress clocked out.
Ha, ha.
- Oh.
Well, listen, gentlemen, I just need to use the ladies' room.
Tell him what you want.
Oh, I hate this restaurant and everybody in it.
Ha, ha.
Well, hey, the beer's cold.
Hard to screw that up.
Patti says that you guys are, uh, looking for a new VP of Acquisitions.
I'm drinking, Allen.
I don't wanna talk business.
Okay, but when you are ready to talk I have some interesting ideas that I wanna run by you.
What, are you throwing your hat in the ring? Yes, sir, I am.
Hayden, I can make you a lot of money.
Allen, you couldn't run a Dairy Queen.
Look, I like you, son but, uh, I'm not your daddy and I don't owe you anything.
You hear me? I hear you.
Now, Patti's got this election coming up.
I think we're all best served if you, uh, just stand down a while, huh? Support Patti.
Yeah.
I You're You're right.
There she is.
To the future senator from New York.
Ha, ha.
- Thank you.
Here, here.
PATTl: Cheers.
Ha, ha.
How'd he handle that? He made his play.
Can't fault him for that.
- But he fell in line.
- You smacked him down pretty hard.
- There must have been some resentment.
- Sure, but he never showed it to me.
Ah, because he's probably afraid of you.
But that resentment would have to be focused somewhere.
You think he did something to Patti as payback? It's possible.
Taking the boat out? Just trying to keep busy and let you do your job.
- Do you have an update for me? - No, unfortunately not.
I wish I did.
- Well, that's disappointing.
- Yeah.
Why is it whenever I'm on these things I feel like I should be scrubbing the deck? Ask your shrink.
Sounds like a self-esteem issue.
He's just gonna tell me it's a product of my working-class background.
- You grew up in Camden, New Jersey? - I sure did.
So you get it.
Guys like us are the same breed.
Although when you married Patricia you thought Hayden would take you in.
My father-in-law and I are very close.
Close, yeah, but you're never gonna be one of them.
To him you're always gonna be a low-rent scrub from Jersey.
But you clean up nice so he lets you hang around so you can be his daughter's handbag.
You know what? You are way out of line.
One second.
Yep? Hey, Bridgeport P.
D.
Just found a body matching Patricia's description washed up on the beach at Seaside Park.
I'm heading to the morgue now.
See you there.
Did you kill your wife, Mr.
Crane? Get off my boat.
If you come near me again without my lawyer present I will file a harassment complaint.
You do that.
Don't plan any long trips.
Has a puncture wound in her back but her lungs were filled with water.
Cause of death was drowning.
And judging from how well preserved her body is I assume she was stuffed in some kind of container.
Ah.
Like an ice chest? That would work.
Any physical evidence? Sorry, the water washed her clean.
Jack, they're here.
Okay.
Um, cover her up her body, would you? Absolutely.
Is it her? I'm gonna need one of you to make a positive ID.
- I'll do it.
This way, Mr.
Mills.
You know, your wife was still alive when she was shoved into that ice chest.
It's her.
- Are you sure? - Yes, I'm sure, it's Patti.
Son of a bitch! Don't you wanna see your wife? I lied to you.
Mr.
Mills? I knew Patti was going to vote to block Milwaukee Depth.
I just put myself in Warrick's pocket.
That's the game, Patti.
No, it's bribery.
I'm voting to block Milwaukee Depth.
Listen to me, you're a junior senator.
You gotta go along to get along.
Get established.
Then you can start pushing your own agenda.
Warrick gave the committee bogus test results.
- The pipes are not safe.
- That's Warrick's problem.
But you need to vote the way you said you would.
- I never promised anything, look at this.
- I've seen it.
You're in bed with Warrick.
You made a promise when you took his money.
Oh, my God.
My entire life you tell me never to sell out and you just put me on the auction block? It's one vote.
Don't make it bigger than it is.
Get your head on straight.
Do the right thing here.
That's exactly what I intend to do.
Patricia, you gotta trust me on this.
I always knew that you stepped on people to get your own way.
But I never thought it would be me.
- Look, sweetheart - Just go.
- Look - Get out of my office, go.
That was the last time we spoke.
What was your involvement with the deal? Warrick promised my company the contract to run production platforms if I could deliver Patti's vote.
I assumed she was gonna vote for it anyway.
It was a no-brainer.
I always hated that Patti was gonna grow up.
You get older, you get cold and beat-up.
I was waiting for Patti to get that way, just dreading the hell out of it.
But she never did.
She was always my little girl.
I'm very sorry for your loss, Mr.
Mills.
Oh, come on, Alex, you can't be serious about this.
Patricia Mills is now a homicide.
As such, we're handing her case off to Violent Crimes.
I know this case better than anybody.
Makes no sense to pull us out.
Well, that's the way it is.
- This isn't protocol, this is politics.
- Oh, you bet.
- Allen Crane murdered his wife.
- Can you prove that? You have anything we can charge him with? That hole in his alibi is not gonna get it done.
I can nail this guy.
I need more time.
Jack.
This is coming from above me and I'm above you, so that's the call.
Now, prepare your report and have it on my desk by Thursday.
Three days after the discovery of Patricia Mills ' body Allen Crane has not commented on whether or not he will push to fill the senate seat left empty by the death of his wife saying only that he is grieving a terrible loss and will address the issue when the time is right.
Senator Mills will be laid to rest this afternoon in a private ceremony.
Jack, you got a second? Yeah, sure.
I was combing through the statements gathered by police regarding Mills and Just stop.
Just stop, okay? Somebody else is heading it now.
You sure you're not interested? A little.
The maître d' at Capital Grille remembers seeing Allen Crane having a martini with Leslie Warrick.
Can we verify that? I can put Allen there.
He paid with his credit card.
The manager faxed the receipt over to me.
Now, in terms of work, we're gonna have to go with a witness statement.
This was four days before Patricia was killed.
I just thought I'd bring it to your attention.
Almighty God, we come before you, the supreme judge and to Jesus, and to all the spirits of the righteous made perfect.
Almighty and ever-living God, in you we place our trust and hope.
You, the dead whose bodies were temples of the spirit find everlasting peace.
As we take leave of our sister, give our hearts What are you doing here? Just paying my respects.
Mansion you have prepared for her in heaven.
Because God has chosen to call our sister, Patricia from this life to himself.
We commit her body to the earth.
For we are dust, and unto dust we shall What does he offer you? Stocks, cash, seat on the board? What did who offer me? Leslie Warrick.
Give it up, Agent Malone.
And the Lord may embrace her in peace.
You always wanted to be a player.
And when you heard that Patricia was gonna change her vote and that she'd had a falling out with her father, you made your move.
I can guarantee you Patti's vote on Milwaukee Depth.
Hayden said she's left the reservation.
I can bring her back.
If her father can't, then how do you think you can? I'll handle it.
Look, are you interested or not? If you shake my hand, you make me a promise.
Don't break your promise, Allen.
But Patricia wouldn't roll.
I can't have a conversation without considering how it would reflect on you.
Just stop it, Allen.
This has worked out pretty well for you.
You throw my family's name around town like it's your own.
Look, I need this.
You owe me.
I'm not gonna do it.
I am not gonna cast a senatorial vote to preserve your brittle little ego.
You know, if you and my father want a vote so bad then maybe you should become a senator.
Why can't you do this one thing for me? That's all I'm asking.
- Who the hell do you think you are? - You're not so righteous.
You just like to seem that way.
That was a real problem for you when you realized that you couldn't deliver the vote that you promised.
You asked Patricia out to the boat.
And it was easy to get her out there.
As you said, it was her sanctuary.
You even staged Fasil Mazari's suicide just to get us off the track.
May her soul and all the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
- Amen.
- Was it worth it? You have no idea what you're talking about.
Fact that you're speaking to me while your wife's lowered into the ground tells me everything that I need to know.
If you could prove any of this, you wouldn't be here.
You can't touch me.
You're right.
I can't.