"Morning, Virgil." "Morning, Virgil." "You know how they get these flowers delivered new crystal vase and all that?" "I asked the delivery man, "What's the bill with the roses?"" "You know what he said?" "They're hydrangeas." "Yeah, that's what he said." "You're 38 seconds late." "They wanna see double-digit growth before they're convinced that Mac is in fact..." "There you are." "Wow, you're smiling." "The woman from the Times is here." "Woman from the Times, huh?" "" Breakfast with the Cains."" "Oh, yeah." "Did you tell her we don't actually eat breakfast?" "I laid your clothes out on the bed." "Missed a spot." "Let's use the window as the backdrop for the cover photo." "You got it." " Good morning, Alice." " Good morning, Mommy." "Alice is my youngest." "What'd I tell you about making a mess in my kitchen?" "That is Maria." "She's been with us since Leopold was born." "And this is Virgil." "He's my brother" "Alice." "Leopold." "Leopold." "Why do people need bodyguards?" "Because sometimes the world doesn't make sense." "Mom says you have to come now." "Darling." " Good morning." " This is my husband Conrad." " Conrad, this is" " The girl from the Times." "Elizabeth." "So how did you two meet?" "Well, pretty girl across a crowded room." "The moment I saw her I knew what I wanted." "The rest is history." "Morning, Leo." "" Leo" makes me sound old." " What you reading?" "Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind." "Behind all of this wet hair is our son Leopold." "Five minutes." "Ready to take a picture?" " How long today?" " Three minutes, 12 seconds." "The world record for static apnoea is 8 minutes, 6 seconds held by Martin Štìpánek of Czechoslovakia." "What's the longest you ever held your breath for, Virgil?" "Long as I had to." "My dad says it's stupid, that I should give it up." "What do you say?" "Tell him not to hold his breath." "Let's go." "It's only Alfred." "His driver broke down." "We're giving him a lift." "Morning." "Hey." "And the word on Wall Street is trading still remains moderate..." "Hey." "Great." " Mr. Greene." " Mr. Schroeder." "Why don't you tell me about yourself?" "What do you wanna know?" "I don't know." "What do you want me to know?" "I'm a Pisces." "This is my natural hair colour." "I prefer the country to the city." "Oh, yeah?" "Why is that?" "Why do you prefer the country to the city?" " I like to go on hikes." " Oh, really?" "Why don't you tell me about one of your hiking experiences?" "I could tell you about the time I went on a hike and saw three rattlesnakes and a dead dog." "Okay." "Well, this one time I went on a hike and saw rattlesnakes and a dead dog." "To brass tacks, then." "How does this work?" "The way that it works, Mr. Greene is that no one knows the way that it works." "Everyone is given a task." "You do your job, you get paid a flat fee, guaranteed." "It's an early-bird snatch." "High society." "Headlines." "Very public." "You're working contingency." "Get down." "Don't move." "Clear." "Come on." "Leopold's school just called." "He hasn't shown up." " Did you try his cell phone?" " I did try." "He's not answering." "Ellie, look, relax." "I'm sure he's okay." " What is it, Maria?" " Ellie, what?" " Ellie?" " Alfred?" "Where's Leopold?" "Ellie." "Aubrey, it's Dad calling again." "Listen, something has happened and it's very important that you call me so that I know that you're okay." "Now" "Sweetie, keep reading." "I've called a couple of times, and" " Daddy." " Sweetie, just keep reading." "I don't like that you disappear, Aubrey." " Dad!" " What?" "You're using mayonnaise instead of peanut butter." "I'm sorry, sweetie." "Mr. Cain." " Could you--?" " Oh, sure." "Peanut butter and jelly." "I spoke to Russ Alderman over at Secure Trust, Virgil's employer." "He says they'll keep it quiet on their end." "All right." "Connie, is there anything I need to know that I don't know?" "What the hell do you mean by that?" " What are we doing?" " Roger and I were just discussing it." "We could call the police." "No, no." "We're not gonna call the police." "The note said not to do that." "I would think the note always says that." "I'm calling my father." "He knows what to do." "No, you're not calling your father." "He's my son." "I'll deal with it." "Then deal with it." " Now." " Look, I know a guy." "Well, I know of a guy." "He's a specialist." "Pretty." "You know, those things will kill you." "I'm here for the girl." "If my parents have paid you, why am I still here?" "Shut up and eat." "Hard or easy?" "My name is Knapp." "I was hired by your father." "I'm here to bring you home." "Your dad told me that when you were little, he called you Sammy." "And that now he calls you Samson because you're the strongest person he's ever known." "I could use some of that strength right now." "Okay?" "Okay?" "Just one more thing I need you to do." "Let's get you home." "Let's go home." "Thanks for bringing her back to us." "Is she gonna be okay?" "Someday." "Thank you for coming, Mr. Knapp." "Roger, I'd like a moment alone with the Cains." "So you're Knapp's associate?" "Yeah." "Do you have a name?" "Yeah." "The first thing I gotta tell you to do is call the FBI." "You should know that option is available to you." "The second thing I'll tell you is don't call the FBI." "The FBI's objectives during a kidnapping investigation are to effect the return of the subject along with identification, apprehension and prosecution of the kidnappers, and recovery of the ransom." "I care about retrieval." "Everything else is a distraction." "Fee's non-negotiable payable upon the safe return of the kidnapped victim intact." "What does that mean, intact?" "It means we don't pay him if Leopold's dead." "From nothing comes nothing." "You're not very good with people are you, Mr. Knapp?" "No, but I'm good at finding them." "He's a great man for his dedication, and for all these years of hard work." "Latimer King is the last of the bloodhounds, a man who follows his gut." "Hell, can't even turn on a computer, can you?" "This man taught me everything I know." "Mistake." "Come on, let's give it up for Latimer King." "I know I'm pretty, friend, but I'm not that pretty." "You probably don't remember me." "Atkins." "I was stationed up in Anchorage when you were working the Hollister case." "That's a nice quiet beat up there in Alaska." " Why you transferring here?" " Thought I could do some good." "Well, aren't you the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed North American go-getter." "I was looking forward to working for you." "I'm retiring." "You're a good agent." "Why would you retire?" "You know what " percentage of pattern" is?" "The number of pellet marks in a 30-inch circle over a 40-yard range." "That is why I'm retiring." "Jackie?" "What's wrong?" "Would you excuse me for a second?" " Sure." " Thank you." "What?" "Virgil didn't come home last night." "You call his office?" "They said he was on vacation which would've been true if we hadn't already missed the flight." "Virgil told me if anything ever happened to him that I should go to you." "Said you'd handle it." "Alice, our youngest, she has no idea what's going on." "Our other daughter, Aubrey, is away at school, Brown and we've been trying to get a hold of her for the last 12 hours." "I want you to make me a list of enemies." "Enemies?" "Anyone you have a history with who'd wanna see something bad happen." " No, I don't" " Mr. Cain, a man in your position..." "...is bound to have enemies." " What are you suggesting?" "I'm suggesting your husband make a list." "Hey." "Hey." "So, what kind of 15-year-old reads Buddhist Epistemology?" "A lonely one." "Don't tell me you've read it." "Not this translation." " You set up on the phones?" " Yeah. inbound." "Get me outbound too." "And get on the horn with Jim Elwood in Rhode island." "Have him find Aubrey Cain, Brown undergrad, bring her in." " Where are you going?" " I'm gonna talk to the Masters kid." "Are you Alfred?" " Hello?" " Mr. Cain." "It's Joe, from the lobby." "Can I help you?" "Mr. Cain, I'm Special Agent Latimer King, FBI." "Can I speak with you for a few minutes?" "So how can I help you, Agent King?" "This is about your son's bodyguard, Virgil Hayes." " Is he in some kind of trouble?" " He's missing." "So that" " That is a possibility." "Yeah." " Missing?" " Please." " Thank you." "It's strange." "I just saw him yesterday morning." "What time was that?" "Well, it's the same time as everyday." "7 a.m." " You could set your watch by him." " Yeah." "Is your son here now, Mr. Cain?" "Could I speak with him?" "No." "Leopold went to visit his sister, Aubrey, up in college." " Alone?" " How do you mean?" " Did Virgil go with him?" " No." "And I was against it, but, Leopold..." "Well, you know, as parents, you have to choose your battles." "Oh, yeah." " He get there okay?" " Yes, yes." "My wife spoke with him." " Everything's fine." " Brown, huh?" " What's that?" " The:" "I'd hate to be getting that tuition bill in the mail." "That's right." "Yeah." "Is there anything else?" " No." "No, not right now." " Okay." " Thank you for your time." " Certainly." "One thing." "Why did your son have a bodyguard, Mr. Cain?" "Well, that has to do with my work." "A couple years ago there was a takeover." "We had death threats." " Well, you should've called us." " Yeah." "Hey, Cal, it's Latimer." "Take care." "Hey, look, do me a favour." "Will you drop by Brown, look up a student for me?" "Aubrey Cain." "C-A-l..." "Take your time." "Yeah, Knapp." "We knew it was a matter of time before somebody started knocking." "Let me call you back." "Which one is it, Alfred?" "Good job." "Hey, I need a current on Ray Canton." "Case number 335401032..." "Dropped a bombshell that she's had sex with at least 20 guys..." "I'm looking for my brother." "I don't see the family resemblance." "Oh, there it is." "It's here." "Now, we got work to do." "My goodness..." "Back." "Over." "Done with." "So that we can all be eternally grateful." "All right?" "Yeah." "The accounts for Canton and McKinley have been closed." "I noticed something out of place." "Someone, actually." "Leave it for now." "What's the status on Greene?" "Handling the matter as we speak." " You the accountant?" " I balance the books, yeah." "So how does this work?" "All three accounts have been closed." " Hello?" " We have your son." "He is alive." "If you would like to keep it that way, wait by the phone for further instructions." "And do not call the police." "Please let me speak to him." "Hello?" "Hello?" " Latimer?" "Latimer?" " Yeah?" "I just got off the phone with Roger Prince." "You know who that is?" "Conrad Cain's lawyer." "The next time I go to the bathroom I'm gonna have options." " What the hell were you doing?" " That is none of your business, Andy." "I would watch my tone, I'm your boss till the end of this week." "You can't just go knocking on Conrad Cain's front door." "Anyway, the lawyer says the kid's in Rhode island." " He said what?" " The kid's in Rhode island." "Why is he bringing up the kid?" "I don't care, and neither should you." "After I hung up with Prince, the deputy director called." "Yeah." "That's right." "You're in the tall weeds, my man." "You need to zip up your fly." " I found your friend." " Excuse me?" "Virgil." "Someone left him for dead in Staten island." "Well, man, you look better than the last time I saw you." "What about the boy?" "What about the boy?" " Did the kid get on the line?" " Caller did all the talking." " Did you get the trace?" " No." "He's bouncing the call." " He's good at it." " Anything on his twang?" " No." "Too much distortion." " The call seem prepped?" "He says " if you would like" instead of " if you'd like."" "No elisions or deliberate pauses." "If I had to take a guess, I'd say rehearsed." " What about Canton?" " Well, Canton is clay." "So much for "ask questions first."" "Wasn't me who decided to move his smile to his neck." " Get anything on the phones?" " Maria." "The maid." "Her husband called twice." "And they spoke Spanish." "I don't know." "I took French." "You can go through the tapes yourself." " All right." "What else?" " Mr. Cain's made three calls to Lloyd's of London." "Turns out he has a kidnapping-ransom insurance policy on Leopold." "Something he might've mentioned this morning." "What about Mrs. Cain?" "First she called Daddy." "But Daddy wasn't available." "Who's Daddy?" "Normally, Daddy's anybody but Daddy." "In this case it's actually Daddy." "Her father." "She really does call him " Daddy."" " Who is he?" " Benjamin Rand." " Benjamin Rand?" "Okay, who is that?" " Read a magazine." "When she couldn't get through, she tried another number." " Who'd she call?" " I don't know." "But they're still on the line." "You wanna listen?" "I need to see you." "I can't right now." "I'll fly in when I can." " Find out who that is." " I'm running a trace." "I'm going out." "Take care of it." "He's not going anywhere." "Hasn't he had enough?" "He's just a kid." "You know, I almost bought this place." "Yeah, me too." "But the view sucks." "Nice jump though." " Ran a call back on that number." " Mrs. Cain?" "Yeah." "I got a Secret Service switchboard." " And?" " And I hung up." " Elwood called from Brown." " Find Aubrey?" "No." "She was a no-show at class today." " He went by her place." "Her flatmates" " Housemates." "Flatmates said she went away." "She went away?" "With some guy she met at a bar." "We get a name on the guy?" "Negatory." "Oh, Elwood wanted me to let you know that he bumped into Calvin Vance at Aubrey Cain's Experimental Psych class." "He said you'd remember him from Camp Pendleton." "He also wanted me to remind you who his sometime-employer is and that you ain't the only game in town." " Mrs. Cain" " How long does it take?" "To bring them back." "That depends." "See, Mrs. Cain" "Excuse me." " Hello?" " Knapp, it's been a while." "Is that you, Latimer?" "How's Barbara?" "Oh, I'm looking right at her." "She's pregnant again." "Big as a house, man." "Hey, listen, are you in town?" "I was thinking we get together, have some dinner or something." "I'm in Kentucky." "Maybe when I get back." "How do you pronounce the capital city?" "Is it "Louie-ville" or "Louis-ville"?" " Sure it's " Louie-ville."" " You cannot come in here" "Actually, it's pronounced Frankfort." "Amazing how many people follow the note about not calling cops." "Wife looks great." "Wouldn't be surprised if it's twins." " You're a funny guy." " I gotta come up with something nice." "This is a federal investigation." "I'll throw you in jail." "I'm sorry, Mrs. Cain, but I tried to stop them." "I thought I made myself clear to your people." "I want you out of my house." "Mr. Cain, I'm Special Agent Andy Archer." "We have reason to believe that your son's been kidnapped." "We're here to help you get him back." "Mr. Cain?" " Has your son been abducted?" " You're under no obligation to answer." " We're the FBI." "Our intention" " Now that we've cleared that up." "Next, he'd like to conduct interviews, and would it be okay for a polygraph." " What?" " To eliminate you as suspects." "Whoa." "Easy, easy." "Let him go, Knapp." "Let him go." " You two know each other?" " Yes." "Yeah, we used to work together." " Hello?" " Mr. Cain" "Listen to me, I will give anything you want." " Let me talk to my son." "Please." " He needs his medicine." "Medications have been provided." "If you want it to stay that way, be at Church Street Station Coney Island line." "Two hours, $20 million." "Hello?" "You get it?" "We got a trace. it's in Brooklyn." "The apartment building's here, Brooklyn Heights." "Mobilise SWAT." "Sixties on white and red." "Set up a command post on Henry." "All SWAT movement is coordinated through TOC." "Sierra units will have the outer perimeter." "I'll give the authority to move to yellow and green." " It's a bad idea." " What" " What's the problem now?" "Kid's not at the apartment, he's at the drop." "He's not at the drop, he's at the apartment." "On the moon." " What are you saying?" " We don't know what we don't know." "Make the drop if we don't get the kid." "Then take the apartment." " I'm not letting them slip." " They're nowhere near our fingers." "Gentlemen." "First we deal with the drop, then we deal with the apartment." "You call SWAT, you get them in position." "Nobody should move a muscle until we have Mr. Cain's son." "Now, I've got eyes all over the package." "I'll call it out." "All right." "Fine." "The drop is here." "Church Street Station." "Blend in with the crowd." "We're on Alpha 1 , no chatter." "Now, we have four train platforms." "Please keep" "Wait, hold" " Just" " Please." "Hold on." "Hold on." "I wanna know what he thinks." "I think if you ever wanna see your kid again there shouldn't be an agent within 100 miles of the drop." "Whoa." "That's not realistic, Mr. Cain." "Now, your son is 15 years old." "He's what we call "a child of tender years."" "That makes this a federal case, Mr. Cain." "Now, I understand you're scared, your wife is scared." "We're gonna do everything we can to get your son back." "Twenty million in untraceable, negotiable bearer bonds." "Conrad." "I know." " Knapp, you there?" " Yeah, I'm here." "What now?" "We wait." "Who's got eyes in Brooklyn?" "All quiet here." " Hello." " Enter the local tunnel heading toward Coney Island." "Coney Island." "Enter the tunnel?" "How--?" "How?" "How am I--?" "Rich man, you figure it out." "Hello?" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Don't come any closer." "Okay." " I have your money." " Okay." "Now, where should I-- Where do you want me to put it?" "Just leave it right there." "Where's my son?" "I said, where's my son?" "I don't know who you're talking about." "I don't know nothing about your son." "Not seeing the boy." "I'm seeing a man down in the tunnel." " I'm taking the house." " No." "Do we have the bag man?" "I'm not sure what we've got." "Hold up." " He's not the guy." " What do you mean?" " Where's Leopold?" " We're moving in." " Not right now." "Not now." " Tell me where he is!" "Negative." "I'm the primary relief supervisor. it's my call." "This guy slips me a C-note, says there will be five more if I come down here" " And what?" " Deliver a letter." "It's a setup. it's a setup. it's a setup!" "Hello?" " Conrad?" " You just killed your son." "Hey, stupid." "Nice work." "You did exactly what they wanted" "We had a trace on the ca" "The trace was a come-on." "Get you to stick your head out." "They saw you and sent the bag man home." " Hey!" " What?" "It was his call, and he made it." "And it was the right call." " Come on." "" Come on" nothing." "It just didn't work out the right way." "I followed procedure." "That's the problem with you and your rulebook." "What you don't understand is you're the only ones playing by the rules." "You okay?" " Yeah." " Good." "Because if you ever pull a stunt like that again, I will end you." "Let's put a detail on the residence, taps on the phones and surveillance on Knapp." " What happened to retirement?" " Yeah, what happened to retirement?" "Business as usual out there." "People going to bed in one place, people waking up in another." "The ebb and flow of the tides, Mr. Knapp." "Breakfast, lunch and dinner." "Traffic jams." "Baseball games." "Teenager's first kiss." "I don't understand how it all hasn't come to a halt." "How the world can keep spinning on its axis." "Not miss one silly revolution for my boy." "You wake up in the morning worrying about the colour of a napkin and by the end of the day you feel so small, you're not sure you'll be able to breathe." "The men who took Leopold, they're motivated by greed." "Your son's only worth something to them alive, Mrs. Cain." "Business as usual out there, Mr. Knapp." "Bring him home."