"Now, for Watson and Crick... the moment finally arrived in a sudden flash of inspiration:" "Two nucleotides." "One twisting upward... the other down." "Why is it all clumping together?" "Okay, picture it." "What does a DNA molecule look like?" " It's stringy, right?" " Stringy?" "That's exactly right." "Rich, you're smarter than you look." "Exactly right." "And the legend has it... the night they made this discovery, Crick went out to a bar, ordered a beer..." "Guinness, I like to imagine... and announced that he discovered the secret of life." "A great moment." "I hope you each have a moment like that." "Without the beer, of course." "Mr. Abrams, wasn't Watson 23 or something?" "Yes, he was." "Which gives you all about six years to get your acts together." "Starting... all right, tomorrow morning." "Go." "I just wanted you to know I dropped AP Spanish." "How'd your dad take that?" "I told him what you told me." "I think he's all right." " I think it's the right choice." " Thanks, Mr. Abrams." " Mr. Abrams?" " Yeah." "Do you have two seconds to look at my chi-square numbers?" "You know what, Riley, not tonight, okay." "First thing tomorrow." " Promise?" " Get out of here." "Go." "This is three." "Just two more to go." "Why is it that no one in a walk-up ever lives on the first two floors?" " Vampires." " Really?" "They have all the lower apartments all to themselves." " No direct sunlight, right?" " Exactly." "Plus, they live to be 160 years old, so the apartments never turn over." "That's good to know." "What've you got, Sam?" "Okay." "His name is Josh Abrams." "Twenty-six." "Science teacher at Thomas Dewey up in the Bronx." "Last seen leaving the school two days ago." "Long way here from the Bronx." "How does he commute?" "Subway." "Police are canvassing the station up by the school." "Anything missing?" "Nothing obvious." "And there's no sign of forced entry." "What'd you get from the landlord?" "There is no landlord." "Abrams owns the whole building." "Not bad for a public school teacher." "Take a look at this." "Went public at $16." "Topped off at $135." "He got out right before the bust." "One of the lucky few." "Money." "Look at this." ""Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."" "There's some pressure for you." "Guys." "Creatine, amino acids, vitamin supplements." "Heroin." "How do you know it's not wheat germ?" "This is a dealer's bag." "Young, idealistic teacher turns out to be dealing smack." "If we're not careful, this'll end up on the front page of the Post." "You talk to Vice?" "Yeah." "They're gonna get us a list of known drug dealers in the Bronx." "Anything from the hospitals or morgues?" "NYPD is checking their incident reports and transit logs from that night... but nothing so far." " Where are the boys?" " Headed up to the school." " You got anything else?" " Yeah." "A young woman by the name of Carmen Daniels... called Josh on his home phone four times on the day that he disappeared." "Don't take your coat off." "You're gonna meet the parents back at Josh's apartment in 20 minutes." "It's five flights of stairs." "Better than a StairMaster." " Hey, where's Jack?" " He's gonna meet you over there." "Is there something going on with him?" "Come on, Viv." "It's his daughter Hannah." "She's still a little spooked out by Freddy Cattan." "I mean, the guy showed up at her school." "God." "I don't know how you guys do it." "Me, neither." "So he's the kind of teacher that kids turn to with their problems." "Public school guidance programs aren't what they used to be." "Josh fills a need." "Maybe he got in over his head?" "If Josh had a really troubled student, I think he'd say something to me." "So you're friends?" "Beats me regularly at racquetball." "He tried to get me into rowing." "What's up, Ben?" "Here we go." "Josh's pride and joy." "He developed this program for advanced students... so they could run their own experiments." "Two of his kids made it to the Intel Science Semifinals." "I wouldn't touch anything." " That's a working plasma laser." " I knew that." "Josh is completely dedicated to these kids." "8:00, 9:00 p.m., he's still here working with them, talking to them." "Josh's students are beside themselves." "If you'd have asked me three years ago..." "I didn't think he'd make such an impression." "Why is that?" "Ivy League do-gooder out to change the world." "That show usually closes pretty quick up here." "Kids are tough at this school?" "Tough and smart." "Which can be a nasty combination." "Mr. Wesmar, do you have a drug problem here?" "No more than anywhere else." "They're teenagers." "I heard about Hannah." "Is she okay?" "It's complicated." "Did you tell her her dad caught the bad guy?" "I told her there are no bad guys." "What do we know about these parents?" "Well, the father's a teacher, the mother's a social worker." "Community service runs in the family." " Only child?" " Yep." "How has your son been lately?" "Not himself." "He's been withdrawn, preoccupied." "We used to see him at least twice a week for dinner." "The last couple of months we could barely get him on the phone." "We've been very concerned." "But he kept insisting that everything was great." "Better than ever." "Do you have any idea what had him so preoccupied?" "A few days ago, we decided enough's enough." "We've got to talk to him, find out what's going on." "So we came over here to wait for him." "We have our own key, so we let ourselves in." "About 10:00 he walks in the door and he's a mess." "Mom, Dad." "What are you doing here?" "Josh, what happened to your shirt?" "I was just wrestling with a couple of kids at school." "It was stupid." "All right." "There's something going on with one of my students." "He's having trouble and I've gotten myself in the middle of it." "What kind of trouble?" "I don't want to get into it too much." "Josh, between the two of us, your father and I... have 40 years of experience with social work and children psychology." "We can help." "And if I think it's something I can't handle, of course, I will call you." "If you're handling it, what happened to your shirt?" "Listen to me, honey." "You are devoted to these kids and that is admirable... but you have got to be careful." "You cannot solve all of their problems." "Look, I love you." "I appreciate your concern." "But I know how to take care of myself." "I'm fine." "Really." "We should've pushed him." "Whatever it was, we should've known." "He didn't talk about what it was exactly?" "He didn't tell you who the student was?" "No." "It was the first we heard of it that night." "Wow." "Just a little bit controlling." "I wonder if they'll let him go to the bathroom by himself." " Key to his apartment?" " I know." "If he were 16 instead of 26, I'd say he ran away from them." " Do you like Mr. Abrams?" " Yeah, he's a great guy." "What do you mean great guy?" "I mean, he just helps you out with your personal problems." "He cares about his students and stuff." "He usually stays late at school?" "This is Riley Martin." "Special Agent Fitzgerald." "Hi, there." "You don't look like an FBI agent." "We're trying to find out if Mr. Abrams was having trouble... with any of his students." "None of the kids in his class would do anything." "We love him." "What about kids outside his class?" "Do you think that we could talk privately?" "Sure." "It's okay." " I'll be over here." " All right." "About a week ago, I was coming out of the school... and I saw Mr. Abrams arguing with Mace Williams." "Who is Mace Williams?" "He's our student body drug dealer." " You got to give it back to me." " What?" "Are you out of your mind?" "You're lucky I didn't drag you down to Wesmar's office and have you expelled." "Mr. Abrams, please." "You're too smart to be mixed up in this kind of stuff." "You don't understand." "I'll catch hell from my supplier for this." "Supplier?" "Yeah." "I don't make this stuff in my basement." "All right, look." "You tell your supplier to come and see me... and I will straighten this out." "Okay?" "What kind of drugs has he been dealing?" "Pot, coke, just about everything." "Have you seen him today?" "I think I saw him hanging out by Exit 8." "All right." "Thank you." "Wait." "Please don't let him know that I told you." "It'll be our secret." "Danny." "Hey, Mace!" "Where you going, brother?" "I swear to God, I don't know where Mr. Abrams is." "You know something or you wouldn't be running." "Let's go." "I swear to God, I didn't do anything to Mr. Abrams." "Shut up, stop swearing to God, start telling us why you were running." "I seen you coming up on me, I figured you heard something." " What would we hear?" " I don't know." " What?" " How about this." "Josh Abrams took your drugs, you got pissed and took him out." " No way." " Then maybe you told... your supplier where he could find him so he could take him out." "You'll have to tell us here, or behind bars." "If I were you I'd do it here." "I tell you, he's gonna kill me." "Come on." "No one's gonna kill you, Mace." "You're gonna be in our custody." "All right, I had no choice." "I told Panda." " Panda?" " Blue Panda." "I think his real name is Jackson or something." "Great." "Where can we find Blue Panda?" "All right, then." "Is it Mr. Blue or Mr. Panda?" "It's Mr. Jackson to you." "As in Michael or Stonewall?" "If I were you, I'd pick Michael... 'cause singing works a lot better than silence around here." "Real funny." "You make that up all by yourself?" ""Grand larceny, assault with a deadly weapon..." ""four counts of felony drug possession, three counts of distribution."" "I'm sniffing Lifetime Achievement Award." "What do you think?" "I'm sure his momma's real proud." "You guys are real good." "Maybe you and Opie should take this over to Star Search." "We got a respected teacher gone missing... two days after he confiscated a quarter kilo of your heroin." "We got four witnesses who saw you outside the school..." " the night he went missing." " You're going away, Mr. P." "Ten years for selling smack to minors, or life for taking out this teacher." "So if you got something to say, say it now." "Man, that kid was whacked." "So you saw him that night?" "Look, I'll tell you all something, but I ain't signing no statements." "What's up, teach?" "Who are you?" "Mace Williams says you're the man I need to talk to." "So you're Panda?" "Why don't you just give me back my goods, man?" "Why don't you just stay away from my school?" "You tripping." "You think you Charles Bronson or something?" "Now look here." "You don't wanna see your boy Mr. Mace get hurt, right?" "So why don't you just give me back my stuff?" "Meet me here tomorrow night, same time." "Just like that?" "On one condition." "You take your business somewhere else." "Away from Mace." "Away from this school." "Or I get the cops involved." "You got yourself a deal." "So the next night I was there, he wasn't." "That's all I know." "This guy's a piece of crap... but we don't think that he had anything to do with the disappearance." "Make your deal with Mace Williams... and throw the book at Jackson on the drug charges." "I've been into Josh's financial records." "He arranged to withdraw $100,000 from one of his bank accounts." "He picked it up in cash the day before he disappeared." "I'm thinking that sounds like some kind of payoff money." "So far, the guy's squeaky clean." "Yeah, so far." "I'll keep digging." "Okay." "Thanks for coming in, Miss Daniels." "It's the least I can do." "I'm so worried about Josh." "You called him four times at his home the day before he disappeared." "Was something wrong?" "I hadn't seen him for a few weeks, and I was just jonesing for his company." " And did he call you back?" " No." "So I went over there... and that's what's got me so freaked out now." "He was acting so weird." "Josh, it's me, Carmen." "Jeez, I have been knocking for, like, 10 minutes." "How'd you get up here?" "What kind of a greeting is that?" "Listen, Carmen, now's really not a good time." "I'm drunk and I'm hungry." "Come on." "You make me some of your famous turkey chili." "Look, I have a lot of work to do." "Have you got somebody in here?" "Carmen, please." "Let me walk you downstairs, okay?" "Come on." "No!" "Damn it, Josh, what's wrong with you?" "I was just joking around." "I'm sorry." "Never mind." "Carmen, I'm really sorry." "I can't imagine what was going on in there that he couldn't tell me." "Josh withdrew a lot of money from his account yesterday." "Could he have been running away?" "From what?" "He loves his life." "Maybe so." "But he wouldn't let you in." "He was hiding something." "$100,000, our mystery guest... feels like this guy left on his own volition." "But there's nothing in his profile to suggest he'd do something like that." "You didn't meet his parents." "Maybe he cracked under the pressure of being Mr. Perfect." "Grabbed $100,000 and jetted off to Bangkok." "What, and left $10 million in the bank?" "It'll be there when he gets back." "Listen to this." "I just got a call from the Harbor Patrol." "They found a rowing scull floating under the docks down by South Street Seaport." "The scull was from a private rowing club up on the Harlem River." "They did a check." "The only boat that's missing belongs to Josh Abrams." "Tourists spotted it caught below the deck about 40 minutes ago." "That boathouse is 8 miles up the river?" "The harbormaster says it's been choppy all day." "What about the traffic?" "Busiest in the mornings, mostly headed north." " What did the divers find?" " Nothing yet." "We're trying to track a flow pattern from the Harlem River... but the currents are fierce." "Forensics is waiting to take a look at the boat now." ""Five thirty-six." It's definitely Josh's." "Someone better call the family." "It doesn't make sense." "Josh would never go out in this weather." "How often did he take his scull out?" "Spring, summer, fall, a couple times a week, but never in the winter." "Okay." "Our forensics team examined the boat... and the oarlocks had been broken with a tire iron." "What does that mean?" "It means that they were probably broken intentionally." " To make it look like an accident." " Yeah." "Oh, my God." "What ever happened with that student, the one Josh was having problems with?" " Did you find him?" " We're still working on it." "Hi." "I'm Special Agent Samantha Spade with the FBI." "This is Special Agent Jack Malone." "We're looking for Calvin Fuller." " What's he done?" " Nothing that we know of." "We just wanna talk to him about a teacher that's gone missing." "Cal!" "Cal, come out here." "They're with the FBI." "They wanna talk to you about that teacher." "What about him?" "Cigarette?" " No." "Thank you." " No." "Thanks." "You were having some problems in Mr. Abrams's class, I believe." "No, not really." "Really?" "D's, F's." "Incompletes, multiple absences." "So I haven't been doing well lately." "So what?" "So what was your relationship with him?" "Not much." "What about that kid you punched out in class a few months back?" " How about him?" " Mr. Abrams talk to you about that?" "Wait." "You think my son had something to do with this guy's disappearance?" "Look, I like Mr. Abrams." "He's a good guy." "I'm the one who's been screwing around lately." "He had the right to give me bad grades." "Would you mind if I used your bathroom?" " Down the hall to the right." " Great." "You said you've been screwing around." "What do you mean exactly?" "I'm Samantha Spade." "I'm with the FBI." "Sam Spade." " Like in The Maltese Falcon?" " Don't remind me." "My mother was a big Bogart fan." "I would've thought that movie was a little bit before your time." "We read all the Hammett books last year in English." "Did you like them?" "They're okay, most of them." "What's your name?" "Terri." "Do you wanna tell me what's going on, Terri?" "I can't." "Why not?" "Because I just can't." "Who hit you?" "We can protect you, Terri." "Yeah, right." "I've heard that before." "Not from an FBI agent, you haven't." "It's my father." "Why did he hit you?" "'Cause I was there." "And he was drunk." "Did Mr. Abrams know about this?" "Yeah." "He saw me at school and came up to me." "I barely even know the guy, but he really wanted to know what happened." "I wouldn't tell him but I guess he knew about my dad because of Cal." "Did he confront your father?" "He came over here that same night." " It's none of your business." " I think it is." " Yeah?" "How's that?" " She's in my school, is my responsibility." " Yeah, is that right?" " Yes, it is." "What are you gonna do about it?" " Dad, come on!" " Dad, stop!" "What are you gonna do about it?" " Come on." " Get off!" "You hear me?" "You stay away or I'll kill you!" "Let go!" "I don't know how to say this." "But the night Mr. Abrams went missing..." "Cal and I were at home, and my dad didn't get in until real late." "Now I'm afraid." "You think he did something to Mr. Abrams." " You're working late." " It's been a tough day." "Any news about Josh?" "What do you know about Gary Fuller?" "I've met him." "I know Josh was very worried about Cal." "Apparently, he's been smacking Terri around." "Josh went to confront him about it and it got a bit ugly." "Terri?" " Have you talked to her?" " Yes, we have." "Police brought her father in on assault charges... and Social Services is watching her now." "Oh, man." "This is terrible of me that I haven't told you before, but I was still hoping...." " Trying to protect Josh." " Okay." "Josh has been a little off lately." "He missed some faculty meetings." "He was late with some evaluations." "So I called him into my office last week." "What is going on with you, Josh?" "I'm in love." "Well, that's good news." "Not really." " Why not?" " 'Cause she's a student." "Don't tell me you've acted on it?" " No." " Who is she?" "Come on." "You know I can't tell you that." "You're a great teacher." "Why jeopardize everything you've built here?" "I don't know." "I just can't get her out of my mind." "My whole life, it's been about doing the right thing." "But this, just being around her is unbelievably exciting." "Stu, I've never felt like this before." "You be careful, Josh." "And you never reported this?" "I didn't think there was anything to report." " He hadn't acted on it." " Any idea who she is?" "I started keeping my eyes open after that." "At first I thought it was Riley Martin, the girl you talked to earlier." " But now...." " Now you think it's Terri." "I don't know how she got out." "I went to the bathroom for a few minutes, and she must've dashed out." " Where's Cal?" " He's in his room." "He's very upset." " Where's Terri?" " I don't know." " Did she say anything before she left?" " No." "I don't know where she is, all right!" "She's gone!" "What do you want from me?" "Cal, how long has this been going on between Mr. Abrams and Terri?" "I don't know, a couple of months, I think." " And you didn't take these pictures?" " No." " Do you know who did?" " No." "Did your father see these?" "Does he know about this?" "Cal, is this why he hit Terri?" "I don't know." "Probably." "All right." "You'll have to come to the office with me." "Right now." "Let's go." "It's Terri." "You know what to do." "It's Cal." "I'm worried about you." "Call me on my cell." "Every 10 minutes, okay?" " She's got to call back sooner or later." " Let's hope so." "Look." "Her father found out about it, killed Abrams." "She's scared." "And now she's running." "Or she's running away to meet Josh and $100,000." "I don't believe it." "Why?" "Because that means she took us for fools?" "Okay." "What about the boat?" "Josh broke the oarlocks himself, made it look as if he'd been killed." " Give him a shot at a new life." " What about her?" "If I'm right, she went voluntarily." "She's 16, Viv." "It's statutory rape." "It is kidnapping, and he is a fugitive." "She's 17 in three weeks." "And if she consented to go" "Without her father's permission" "It's a hard case to make, and you know it." "I don't think it's that hard." "Okay, we're back to Cal's father." "A Ford Taurus was spotted outside the boathouse that morning." "She's scared." "What's this?" "What do you think it is?" "We found 30 more just like it in Terri's room." "I've never seen this before." "I think you have." "I think that's why you hit Terri." "I swear to God I've never hit Terri." "Selective memory." "Okay, what about this?" "This guy, this teacher... sticking it to your daughter." "And he comes into your house and tries to tell you what's what." "That'd be enough to set you off, wouldn't it?" "I didn't do anything to him." "You threatened to kill him three days before he disappeared." "It was just talk." "What would you do if some guy... came into your home and told you how to be with your family?" "Where were you two nights ago?" " I was at home watching TV with the kids." " That's not what they say." "They say you were out, didn't come in until after 2:00." " They're lying." " Why would they do that?" "I don't know." "They're always bitching." "Come on, Gary." "Your car was seen... outside the Harlem River Boat Club the morning of the disappearance." "What are you talking about?" "Abrams' boat." "You put it in the river." "You broke the oars to make it look like an accident." "What boat?" "I have no idea what you're talking about." "Look, I'm not the world's best father." "And I've got a problem with my temper when I drink." "But I'm not a killer." "Okay, I found a little wrinkle." "Stuart Wesmar, our cooperative assistant principal... friend and mentor of Josh." "He filed an internal misconduct report on Terri Fuller six months ago." "I thought he said he barely knew her." "And according to this report... she propositioned him sexually in order to get a grade changed." "She was transferred out of his class and no action was taken." "I think you're gonna like this." "Somebody from the school... called Terri on her cell phone six times over the last two days." "Had to be Wesmar." "This son of a bitch has been lying to us since minute one." "I was calling her because after Josh disappeared..." "I thought she might know something." "And you somehow failed to mention that to me before." "I called lots of students that day." "Come on, Mr. Wesmar." "You didn't think we were gonna find this report?" "I told you, I don't recall this incident." "'Cause teenage girls hit on you every day." "I didn't say that." "You recognize these?" "Let's see." "That's Josh and that's Terri." "Very intimate poses." "Telephoto lens." " We know you took those, Stuart." " That's crazy." " That's crazy." " That's crazy." "Okay, fine." "You don't wanna tell us, we'll tell you." "It all started when Terri made a pass at you." "You know, this girl's sexy, but she's not for me." "So that's when you came up with this harebrained idea." "You knew how desperate Terri was to get away from her father... so you went to her with a plan to help her do just that." "All she had to do was set her sights on Josh." "Because he was the perfect mark, right?" "Repressed mama's boy, never been in love." "And you would know this because you were his friend." "And if anybody needed a little passion, it was him." "So, you just take your sweet little pictures here... and at the right moment... you dropped them on Josh and then you get yourself a little bankroll." "And then you and Terri split the money." " I think you're on the right track." " Damn right." "Okay, look, it wasn't like I forced her." "She was into the idea." " How much can we get?" " Are you kidding?" "The guy made millions when he got out of that lnternet company." "He'd probably drop $200,000 easy, just to keep us quiet." "What if he doesn't go for it, for me, I mean?" "Come on, I've seen your intro." "It's very convincing." "No." "I don't know." "I mean, Mr. Abrams is a really good guy, you know?" " Doesn't that make it easier?" " Shut up." "Terri, $100,000 would make a very nice start for you somewhere." "We might even get more." "He is pretty cute, isn't he?" "Seemed like a good plan." "What went wrong?" "I don't know." "She kept saying, we should get more explicit photos." "We could get more money out of him that way." "And Josh disappears." "Terri says she doesn't know where he went or why." "Now she's gone." "She totally shafted me." "He was your friend." "Why would you do this to him?" "Why?" "He walks around the school like a damn Mother Teresa... thinking he's gonna change everyone's lives." "Everybody's hero." "And there I am." "Eighteen years in." "I'll never get higher than assistant principal making $61,000 a year." "I wanted to get something back for myself." "Where are they, Mr. Wesmar?" "I swear the thing got out of my hands." "I have no idea where either of them are." "Maybe her father was telling the truth." "Maybe she drove the car up to the boathouse." "And broke the oarlocks by herself?" "No way." "With Wesmar's help." "He wants to keep his beak clean." "Trust me." "He won't get involved" "Somebody must've helped her carry that boat." "How about the brother?" " Did we get any prints off the boat?" " No, it was clean." "You know, I'm not so sure." "We won't have the results back for a few minutes." "Sit down." "Sit down!" "Sit!" "But we know what they're gonna show, don't we, Cal?" "They're gonna match the prints on his boat." " Look, I didn't do anything." " Right." "Dedicated teacher gets killed by a student he's trying to help." "How old are you, Cal?" "What, you 18?" "Eighteen, right?" "That's murder one." "It makes you a classic candidate for a lethal injection." "Don't try to protect Terri." "She's gone." "She's not protecting you." "Cal, what are you" " You slut." "What are these?" " Don't freak out!" "I know what I'm doing!" " Are you sleeping with him?" " No, it's not what you think." " I'm doing it for us!" " Yeah, right." "For us." "Cal, you know how rich he is." "He's not gonna want these to get around." "What are you talking about?" "Just think about it, Cal." "We'll be able to get away." "So you were the one who gave her the black eye, not your father." "And what was the plan?" "She was gonna show him the pictures and get the money." "But he beat her to the punch." "Out of the blue he says he wants to run off." "Why?" "He wants to protect me from Dad." "He already took out $100,000 in cash." "I don't get it." "First thing tomorrow, he's taking off." "I'll wait a couple of days, then I'll go meet him." "I'll take the money... you'll be waiting for me outside the motel." "Motel?" "Where?" "I don't know yet." "He's gonna call me once he gets settled." "She told me to go down to the boathouse and do that crap to his boat." "She said it'll give us more lead time." "Distract everyone." "Ever watch Double Indemnity?" "You ought to." "You got played." "I guess so." "Sounds like she had everyone wrapped around her little finger." "Come on, you've seen the family." "She's just trying to survive." "She got her meal ticket now." "And he got his victory for humanity." "I want you to speak slowly and don't say anything to alarm her, got it?" "Okay, go ahead." "Hello." "Hi, Cal." "Where are you?" "I can't say." "Well, are you okay?" "I'm fine." "I'm good." "Are you with him?" "Yeah." "What are you doing?" "I'm sorry." "I've got to go, okay?" "What?" "So are you going with him?" "I'm getting rid of this phone now, so don't try to call me again, okay?" "Take care of yourself, okay, Cal?" "Albany." "We've got to narrow it down to a 3-mile radius." "Traffic noise tells us it's near a highway." "11:00 p.m." " My guess is she's outside a motel." " We'll send in the locals." "Jack, this is a kidnapping." "She'll be 17 in three weeks." "This is a technicality." "This girl is damaged, okay?" "And she's being taken advantage of." "The life she's leaving behind isn't better with that father and that brother." "What do you wanna do, put her in a foster home?" "She's just a kid." "Apparently, there's no activity in the room." "Okay, cover the bathroom." "Bathroom's clear." " He's out, but he's all right." " So where's Terri?" "She showed up tonight." "We popped a bottle of champagne." "I was so happy." "Then all of a sudden the room started spinning." "And the last thing I saw was she took off with a duffle bag." "Had all my money in it." "We were gonna escape." "You're a teacher." "She's 16." "No, you don't get it." "It wasn't my idea." "It was all her." "So you got the money?" "Right here." "Wow." "This is crazy." "Are you sure you still wanna do this?" "What do you think?" "You're so bad." "I'm telling you, it's gonna be great." " Josh, it's me, Carmen." " Who is that?" "Stay here." "I'll be right back." "She played me." "She totally played me." "I'll get you a Kleenex, you dope." "No, you don't understand." "I would never...." "I loved her." "Where were you gonna go?" "Up to Canada." "I'll call Customs in the RCMP." "We're not gonna find her, are we?" "Canadian border's too hard to cover." "Pretty sophisticated plan, though." " She read Hammett, right?" " Yeah." "Femme fatale." "I ran away when I was her age." "I'm not surprised." "How far did you get?" "My mom tracked me down at the bus station the next town over." "Did you catch hell?" "I remember when I saw her... just having someone look for me... that was enough to keep me from trying it again." "It's a good thing." "I got to pack up." "All right." "Me, too." " Good night." " Good night."