" Can I help you find something?" " No." " I'd like to see the owner." " Mr. Rausch is with clients right now." " Maybe I can assist you." " No, it has to be him." "Well, it could be a little while." "We do have a sitting area." "You can help yourself to some..." "Now this is something a bit more dramatic." "Maybe that's what you were thinking of?" " Mr. Rausch?" " If you could give just one moment." "I'm sorry." "This really can't wait." "Try it on and I'll be right back." "What can I do for you?" " What is this?" " Exactly what it says." "If you don't help me, your wife and daughter are going to die." "What are you doing?" "Where are they?" "Please, just do as the note says." "The people who have them, you have no idea what they're capable of." "They want the diamonds." " Mr. Rausch." " Look." "Okay, okay." "Your wife and daughter, Mr. Rausch." "Now, I've done everything you asked." "My family?" "Not yet." "If everything goes smoothly, no police, no FBI," " you'll see them again in 24 hours." " No, no, that's too long." "I can't..." "Hold it right there, ma'am." "Don't!" " What do you say, Colby?" " Hey, Don." "So the owner's wife didn't show at work today." "And his daughter never made it to school, either." " All right, so the kidnapping's real." " Yeah, apparently." "David." "Any idea who she is?" "No ID." "The only thing she had on her were car keys, sunglasses, and a half a million in diamonds she didn't walk in with." " Weapons?" " Depends on what you call a weapon." "The old guy said he thought that she was reaching for a gun, so..." "Well, I hope that shot just didn't kill three people." "We all use math every day:" "to predict weather, to tell time, to handle money." "Math is more than formulas and equations." "It's logic." "It's rationality." "It's using your mind to solve the biggest mysteries we know." "All right, listen up, everybody." "This is Diane Rausch, the store owner's wife, and their 8-year-old daughter, Julia." "Now, we're gonna play this as a kidnapping first and foremost." "The robbery is secondary." "It's just a means to get to the kidnappers." "We clear on that?" "David, how are we doing on the Jane Doe?" "Fingerprints weren't in the system." "Coroner's checking dental records," " any medical clue to identify her." " And the car?" "We got anything?" "We find that, we find out who the woman is." "No, agents canvassed the neighbourhood." "They didn't find a car to go with her keys." "We should be looking at other ways she might have got there." "Bus, car..." "She was probably driven by an accomplice." "Statistically, women rarely commit a crime alone." " Blame the men, Megan?" " The stats blame the men, Granger." " I'm just quoting them." " Let's find this woman." "It's the only way to save this kid and her mother, right?" "Any questions?" "Let's do it." "After what happened, we have to be worried about their chances." "Let's just assume they're alive and their chances are better, all right?" " Don." " Hey, Charlie." " What are you doing here?" " I'm dropping this off for you, man." " You are?" "What is it?" " What is it?" "I don't know." "It's the geographic crime index you begged me to put together for you." "I found some fairly fascinating patterns in here as well." " You should be thanking..." " Thank you, I appreciate it." "I'm up all night indexing." "Charlie, we just got this kidnapping case." "A mother and her 8-year-old daughter, so..." " Kidnapped by whom?" " The only lead we have is a Jane Doe." "What do you know about her?" "She wears sunglasses and drives a Saturn, which we can't find." "Are these her keys?" "Yeah." "We did a search for the car but it didn't turn up." "A keyless entry remote poses an interesting mathematical problem." "Oh, yeah?" "How's that?" "Well, much of the general populace has a remote nowadays, don't they?" "I read somewhere over 80 percent of new cars come with a remote." " Yeah, well, thanks." " Hold on." "Every remote has to have a unique one-to-one relationship with a single car." "Otherwise, you walk out into a parking lot, push that button, any number of cars might unlock." "So each car has its own frequency?" "No, that's just it." "They're all on the same frequency." "Every remote has a numerical code that links it to just one car." "You see, people don't think about this stuff, but it's an entirely math-based technology." "You know, who might be able to help you is Larry." "His cosmic listening project at Kitt Peak involves stacked-frequency work." "I gotta find this woman's car." "So anything you or Larry can do," "I mean, I would appreciate it." "So the last time you saw your wife and daughter they were eating breakfast?" "They were sitting at the table." "I kissed them goodbye, left for work." " And your wife drives Julia to school?" " That's our routine, every day." "One of the neighbours saw them pull out around 8:30." "Said everything looked normal." "I just can't imagine what they're going through right now." "The best thing you can do for them is just stay calm and stay focused." "Mr. Rausch, did you happen to notice anyone hanging around or any strange cars parked in the street?" "Anything that just didn't quite seem to belong?" "I'm sorry, nothing comes to mind." "So, what happens next?" "We'll set up a command centre in your house, monitor your calls in case the kidnappers try to contact you..." " Command centre?" "I don't want that." " Mr. Rausch, we need..." "The last thing this woman said was that no police, no FBI." " If these people call back..." " If they call," "I'll do exactly what they say, I'll pay whatever they ask." "I just want my family back." "No police, no FBI?" "Rausch could wind up a target himself." "Yep." "That's why we're gonna put a line on his phone, keep him under surveillance." "Hey, Charlie, have you ever considered our place in the universe?" "Certainly every time we speak." "More to the point, if galaxies are constantly moving away from us, and the farther away they are, the faster they're leaving us behind." "This is more to what point again?" "Amita, Charlie." "No, wait, wait, wait." "As you let that opportunity drift away," " it moves faster and it moves farther." " It's more complicated than that." "No matter how complicated the shape and structure of a large star, you take away the nuclear fuel, it becomes what?" "A black hole." "Mixing cosmic metaphors again, are we?" " No, it was galaxies..." " Our relationship is not a black hole." " Okay?" "It's not a black hole." " Sorry, guys." " You're not having a little lover's spat?" " Larry just likes to..." "Why do you like to talk about every problem except the one you're currently working on?" "Hey, hey, what problem?" "The receiver is hooked up." "So you just take that remote there, you hit the button and the emitted data stream will be captured and conveyed right to the computer." "Okay, I got it, here you go." "All right, that's the code that tells the car door to open." "Let's try another one." " That's a different number." " Because it's a rolling code." "Every time I hit the key, it sends out a different signal to the car." " Right." "So?" " It's like a pitcher." "If he throws the same fastball every throw, what would happen?" " Lots of hits, he'd get pulled." " It's the same with a radio code." "If this key sent out the same signal every time, well, then it will be easy for someone else to intercept it." "But with a rolling code, the pitcher needs to mix it up." "He's throwing curve balls, he's throwing sliders." "If the remote's sending a different signal, how does the car understand it?" "The change is predictable as long as you know the algorithm that generates it." "It could be as simple as adding plus one, like the catcher adding a single finger every time he signals the next pitch." "It doesn't matter if the combination is different as long as" " the remote and the car know it." " However, with this remote, the algorithm's considerably more complicated." "We're looking at a sequence, like, 32 hexadecimal digits long." "I mean, that's long." "It's a matter of finding the algorithm that changes the sequence." "The more data I collect, the easier it will be to deduce that algorithm." "Well, hence my preference for classic automobiles." "Standard lock and key technology." " Keep your heated seats..." " Guys, look." "I'm dealing with a kidnapping." "The more time that goes by, the worse our chances are getting." "I got you." "We're on it." "We're moving as fast as we can for you." "So you're sorting those." "Based on what?" "The ones I like and the ones I don't." "Looking at the quality." "See if she knew what she was doing." "She's not in the system." "She has no criminal history." "No record." "And she wakes up this morning and decides to become a felon." "Maybe she's never been caught before." "I don't see how with her habits." "I mean, look at her." "She's making absolutely no attempt to avoid the cameras." "And her hands, her fingerprints are on the top of every counter in there." "And look right there." " What?" " She looks terrified." " Oh, hey, Amita." " Hi, Charlie." "Hi." "What's going on?" " What are you working on?" " Something for Don." "It's part of a kidnapping case." "Although right now, I'm not really seeing the solution." " Can I help?" " Please do." "I'm trying to determine a generating algorithm from a series of coded data streams." "You're working this as a straight rolling code." "Yeah." "Well, for the first half, definitely." "You've proved it." "But for the second half..." "I don't know." "Have you tried a 1-D cellular automaton?" "What, like?" "Wolfram's discrete-computability theories." "Yeah." "It's just a thought." "Well, that's a great thought." "What?" "What are you smiling about?" "Would you wanna do something with me after we're done here?" "Charlie, are you actually asking me out on a date?" "You and me, talking about anything except work." "What do you say?" "Yes." "The coroner's report on our Jane Doe?" "No traceable dental work." "She's never even had a cavity." "Yes, we got a jewel thief who flosses." "Anything else we can trace?" "Contact lenses, breast implants?" "The contacts were generic mail order so there's no serial numbers." "And her breasts, believe it or not, are real." "In L.A." "It wasn't the nose she was born with, won't help our case at all, but at least it will help me sleep at night knowing she wasn't perfect." "Thanks." "We were able to narrow the window on the abduction." "They were grabbed between home and the daughter's school." "How are we doing on the setup at Rausch's house?" " Get this:" "Rausch wouldn't allow it." " Wouldn't allow it?" "Seems to think he has a shot getting them on his own." " Come on, wrong move there." " We mentioned that." " Eppes." " Hey, bro, it's me." "I calculated the programme algorithm, Jane Doe's car keys?" "I'm e-mailing it to you right now." " Yeah?" " Did you get it?" "Hold on." "I'm getting it." "I don't know what this means." "It should mean something to the car manufacturer." "This algorithm is specific to one car." "They should be able to tell you which one." "Then the DMV can tell you who the current owner is." "All right." "Good, Charlie, thanks." "Spotter's got one white male in his 50s in the front living room and there's no sign of anyone else." "All right." "Let's get everyone in position." " Tell David." " Yeah." " Can I help you?" " Yes," "I have a package here for Erica Logan." " Erica's not here." " Well, maybe you can sign for her?" "Sure." "Okay." " FBI." "Be quiet." " Okay." "Okay." " Who else is in the house?" " No one." "No one's here but me." " FBI!" " FBI!" " Clear." " Clear." " Clear." " What's going on?" "Are you the registered owner of a 2001 Saturn Ion?" " Yes, it's my daughter's car." " Your daughter?" "Erica." "But she isn't here now, she's at school." " What, she's a student?" " No, a teacher." "Kindergarten." "Your daughter's a teacher?" " Why?" "What's going on?" " Is this her?" "Yes." "Where is she?" "Where's Erica?" "This doesn't make any sense." "She can't be dead." " You must have the wrong girl." " Sir, I'm sorry, we don't." "My wife died when Erica was 12." "Her brother, Remy, was 6." "Erica kept us going, kept us together." "How could someone like that ever be involved in a robbery?" "When was the last time you saw or spoke to her?" " This morning." " And she lives here with you?" "My health hasn't been so great." "Erica moved back in about a year ago to look after me." "What about a boyfriend?" "Someone who might be able to explain what happened today?" "Well, truth is taking care of me and her brother didn't give her much time to live her own life." "But I'll tell you this, whatever did happen, there's gotta be more to it." "Don, they found the wife's car." "This is Mrs. Rausch's car." "Last time she and her daughter were seen was this morning, pulling out of the house." "Kid's school's about three blocks from here, so obviously they knew her route." "Kidnapped in broad daylight?" "They were rear-ended." "Make sure we get some paint scrapings here." "Yeah, that's how they were grabbed." "Get hit from behind, hop out to swap insurance information." "We got a shoe here." "That matches what Rausch said the little girl was wearing this morning." "Thanks." "So it looks like it happened fast." "Right, I mean it was well-planned, well-executed." "They knew her routine." "Got a freeway right around the corner." "We're not dealing with amateurs here." "No, there's no question these guys were pros." "Yeah, who used a kindergarten teacher as their bagman." "Been no word, no contact for almost seven hours." "What the hell are they after?" "I still think Erica Logan has to be the key." "This kind of radical shift in behaviour, there has to be some sort of trigger." "Trigger?" "Like what?" "I can tell you what a textbook would say." "Statistically, it's things like a near-death experience." "A person can exhibit an extreme shift in behaviour if they survived a plane crash." "Another could be a person who's told they only have a month to live and they start to act on the fantasies of an alter ego." "It doesn't fit in this case." "The autopsy would've flagged that." " All right." "So, what else?" " Parental instinct." " The perception of a threat to a child." " It also doesn't fit." "I mean, her father said she doesn't have kids." "But a brother." "The old man said" " she practically raised him." " Yeah." "A younger sibling could be the trigger if they had that kind of a relationship." "Younger brothers can be a trigger." "Trust me on that one." "Talk to the old man, get an address on the son." "I want to get everything we can on this kid, right?" "So by the way, I wanted to thank you so much for earlier..." "For helping me." "Honestly, I think I would've stared at those boards all day if you hadn't have come up with the cellular-automaton angle." "So you rock." "It was one of those weird inspiration things, you know?" "Coming at it with fresh eyes." "It's funny, my first thought was the universal-conductor approach, but then I realised..." " Then you what?" " You're doing it again, Charlie." "Talking about work." "We weren't gonna talk about work, remember?" "Yeah." "I remember." " This is ridiculous." " It's ridiculous." "We have to be able to talk about something that's not work-related." " We can have a normal conversation." " We can have a conversation." "What's wrong with us?" "I don't know." "Pressure." "Probably the pressure, maybe." "Yeah, maybe it's the pressure." " Thanks." " Okay." "Thanks." "Thanks a lot." "Whoa, look at this." "See that?" "It's Romanesco broccoli." "I've actually only seen pictures of it." "And there's a fractal pattern in here that's amazing." "How cool is it that there's a vegetable that grows in the ground that has fractals and at the same time we're discovering their importance in astrophysics?" "I mean, it really makes you wonder..." "Yeah." "Is everything okay?" "Can I get you anything else?" "You were right." "Brother's name's Remy Logan." "Kid's got a sheet goes back to when he was a juvie." "Oh, yeah." "Look at this." "Petty theft, narcotics, gambling charges." "Just the kind of little brother that could complicate a sister's life." " We know where he is?" " David called with an address." "All right, go pick him up." "Wow, suppose the rent is on a place like this?" "I don't know." "It's probably like two grand, 2500." " You looking to move?" " This place I'm in doesn't have a pool." "I'm just kind of thinking here I am, moved all the way to L.A." " Should have a pool, you know?" " Absolutely, man." "Pools are birthright around here, man." " Here it is." " Six." "As they make the turn for home, it's Number 2 on the rail ahead by a length and a half." " Number 7 horse is..." " His car's in the garage." "trailing by half a length." "One is more than the outside by two lengths, followed by the six." "There's someone in there." " Remy Logan." "FBI." "Open up." " He's going out the back." "FBI, stop." "FBI." " Stop or I'll shoot you in the back." " Wait, I don't have a gun." " Get down." " Okay, just don't shoot me." "I'm not gonna shoot you." "I just did not feel like chasing you today." "Looks like somebody's been packing, getting ready to leave." "Who are you running from, Remy?" "I'm just taking a little time away." "That's all." "There's noting illegal about that, right?" "No." "You were planning on sticking around to bury your sister?" "Yeah, we know all about the whole jewellery store robbery thing." "And the kidnapping of the little girl and her mother." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Remy, I read your file, I talked with your old man." "I know the whole story." "You're the screw-up little brother, and Erica, well, she was the caring big sister who always got stuck bailing you out." "Now, the problem is Erica was just killed during the commission of a robbery." "If you're involved, that puts you on the hook for felony murder." "But the kidnapping?" "You're involved in that, might just land you strapped to a gurney." "Remy, listen." "Talk to us." "Where are they?" "Where is this mother and her little girl?" "I don't know." "David, check this out:" "You run a book operation?" " Hey, who's your bank?" " I don't work for anyone." "That's funny." "I never met an independent bookie who didn't have a safe, two armed guards, and at least three dead bolts on the front door." "You don't work for anybody, huh?" "Here are all the bets he pushed through." "Oh, come on, Charlie." "It couldn't have been that bad." "Actually, I truly can't explain how awful it was." "Oh, I don't understand." "You and Amita, you got along so well." "I'm just as confused as you are." "Yeah." "Well, maybe it'll be better next time, huh?" "I don't think there's a next time." "Charlie, no, you do not give up." "You never give up." "Who's giving up what?" "Charlie, because he blew his first date with Amita." "Well, I wouldn't say that I blew it, Dad." "I mean, that's..." " Yeah, maybe I blew it." "I blew it." " Wait, what happened, buddy?" "We just..." "We found out that we really don't have much to talk about outside math." "Oh, man." "Yeah, I know about that." "Maybe it's an Eppes thing." "When Terry and I dated, the first thing we said was we weren't gonna talk about work." "No, not a word." " So how'd you work it out?" " Well, I mean..." "She's back with her ex, but..." " That's very encouraging." " I didn't mean that." "I'm sorry." "It's different with you guys." "You'll work it out." "I'm hitting a wall with this case." " You haven't found them yet?" " Found who?" "Mother and her 8-year-old daughter, kidnapped." "That's horrible." " Who took them?" " I don't know it yet." "We've got one suspect who's a bookie and we think there's some connection, but..." "We got these off his computer and they're impossible to analyse." "Well, what are you looking for in here?" "Well, I mean, the people who financed the operation." "This guy's been running bets through a website called Statzwire that dead-ends in China." "With all the money he's pulling in and paying out, we can't tell the difference between the backers and the bettors." "Well, these abbreviations may be names and dates, but the numbers in this column here..." ""35-17, 11. 23-17, five." "24-12, three and a half." Yeah." "I'm assuming that they're part of some sort of odds-making, but they appear at random and they can't be." "You're right, they're not random." " What are you talking about?" " Where's that paper?" "This weekend's football scores." "35-17, 11." "The Packers beat the Vikings 35-17 and the spread was 11." "23-17, five." "That'd be here." "Niners in San Diego, five-point spread, right?" "24 to 12 was the Jaguars over the Colts, huh?" " Let me see." " Three and a half was ridiculous." "I took the Jaguars and made a hundred bucks." " What, you have a bookie?" " Should I have a lawyer present?" "No, I'll let you slide." "Wait a minute." "If this column is the point spread," "I can use it to calculate the ratio of winners to losers, and potentially trace the payouts and the money flow." "A surprising amount of math applies itself to gambling." "The most important application, at least for the bookie, is determining the point spread, which is this column right here." "Now, ideally, a bookie wants to take equal amounts of money on each side of the game." "However, sometimes one team is obviously better than another." "He has to adjust the point spread." "He has to draw bets to the weak side and keep the balance." "See, he keeps the balance, and he doesn't pay the winners out of his own pocket." " They get paid with the losers' money." " What's in it for the bookie?" " The juice." " You got it." "For every dollar lost, the bookie takes about a dime." "With his balance spread, he's making 4.5 percent profit on all the action he's taken." "Which means, for a bettor to simply break even, he's gotta be right more than 50 percent of the time." "52.38 percent of the time." "It's a good deal for the book, not so good for the bettors." "Once I figured out the profit stream, it was easy for me to separate out the juice." "And that led me to this bank account." "That bank number at Pacific World Bank in Santa Monica." " That has to be the backers." " The kidnappers." "Colby, track down the bank manager or the president." "I don't care, just wake them up, get the name on that account." "That's a good job, Charlie." "Charlie, this list of names." "where did you get these?" "I took them straight from the books." "They're a list of the suspect's clients." "Why?" "What's wrong?" " Can you put this page on the screen?" " Sure can." "Scroll down about halfway." "Stop." "Right there." "Rausch?" "The store owner?" "He's one of Remy Logan's gambling clients?" "These numbers indicate he's lost substantial amounts." "Well, how substantial?" "One hundred and eighty thousand dollars." "That ties Rausch to Remy, and through Remy right to the kidnappers." "Wait a minute." "Rausch is right in the middle of all this?" "Don, Rausch is in the wind." "What?" "What happened to our surveillance?" "They were on him and they lost him in traffic." "He's not answering his cell phone." "He's waiting on the call of his life." "You know, maybe he's already gotten the call." "No, we're monitoring his phone, there's nothing." "Maybe he's got another cell phone." "Call all the locals and issue an alert, all right?" "I got through on the account Charlie gave us for Remy's backers." "Traced back to these two." "Brian and Chris Reynolds." "Brothers." "Cleaned out the account after the robbery went bad." "They knew it was only a matter of time until we would find Remy and connect it to them." "Look at this, these are definitely our kidnappers." ""Extortion." "Extortion." "Conspiracy."" "Older one had a grade-fixing charge when he was at 'SC." "Younger one's got a violent streak," " goes back to juvie." " Any idea how we can find them?" "Address on the account was traced to a P.O. Box, this little mail centre in San Pedro." "But the owner hasn't seen anyone, not in weeks." "These guys could be anywhere now." "You gotta figure the kid and the mother are slowing them down, right?" "Look, until we find dead bodies, this is a search and rescue." "Yeah." "Where are they?" " I've never seen them." " You don't know?" "I know you've been pushing bets through their wire to the tune of five figures a week." "We know about Rausch, we know he's your client." "We've got a straight line between them and the kidnapping." "You know who's right in the middle?" "If you knew where these guys are," " this would be the time to tell us." " I don't." " I swear, I don't." " Oh, I believe you." "Look, Rausch got way behind." "Chris and Brian said if I couldn't collect, it was coming out of me, one way or the other." "So you got your sister to pull the robbery?" "It's supposed to be no big deal." ""You just take the diamonds and show the picture." "You come out and I go to the parking lot."" "She did what she did to help me." "To save my life." "So Martin Rausch is a gambler." "He's a bad one, he gets himself in debt to Remy." "Which puts Remy in trouble with his backers." "That kind of cash, I'm surprised they didn't just kill Rausch." "Well, dead guys don't pay." "Ultimately, they just want their money." "So they find out he owns a jewellery store." "So they kidnap his family and make Remy pull the robbery?" " It's not a bad plan." " It's a damn good plan." "They get their money, probably more, and they can count on him to keep his mouth shut." "Only thing he didn't count on was the security guard." "Rausch's phone records." "Three hours ago, there's a call from his wife's cell to a number we don't have." " They called Rausch on her phone?" " I guess." "No way to trace it back to Reynolds then." "What does he have to give them at this point?" "We know he doesn't have any money." "Yeah, Martin was here a little earlier." "I told him that he didn't need to be here while all this was still going on." "Was he near any of the jewellery?" "Could he have stolen anything?" "Steal?" "Why would he steal from his own store?" "Was he near any of the jewellery?" "No, the insurance locked up the merchandise since the robbery." "They need to do a full inventory before we reopen." "Think about it." "Is there anything else?" " Anything the company didn't lock up?" " No." " Do you do repairs here?" " Yeah." " They're not part of the inventory?" " No." "Show us?" "Oh, my God." "They're all gone." " How much was in here?" " I don't know." "If I had to guess, fifty..." "Sixty thousand at the most." "Yeah, that's Rausch leaving with the repair jewellery." " It's not even close to what he owes." " Yeah, but he's desperate." "He's gonna do anything he can if he thinks it's gonna save his family." "You know, there's an entrance for the 101 South right there." "Even if we know he's heading south, that's a half an hour ago." " It's not gonna help us much." " Sure it is." "This is PeMS, the Freeway Performance Evaluation Monitoring System." "Okay, grad students at CalSci actually consulted on this and I ran the system." "Caltrans has sensors embedded in the roads." "They count cars, trucks, they monitor traffic patterns." "And that information is sent to a UC Berkley computer about twice a minute." "PeMS is designed to predict optimal traffic routes and travel time." "And here it can give us an idea of the speed and movement of traffic at the time that Rausch got on the freeway." "Projecting from that information, as well as the time elapsed..." "Oh, this is part of the SATs that kept me out of Harvard." ""The train is leaving the station at 5:00," right?" "I'm applying constructal theory, point-area and point-volume flows." "See, traffic moves like any other fluid system." "There are imperfections, obstacles, that force the system to optimise performance by reducing its resistance." "Martin Rausch knows this area well." "And if he's like any of the rest of us, he'll reduce his resistance by choosing the least congested route to arrive at his destination." "Still not seeing how you can tell us where he's at." "I can't exactly." "At least not yet." "Not right now." "But what I can do..." " You say this is the 101 South?" " Yes." "What I can do is give you a bounded area." "Wait a minute." "Isn't this the area where Remy said he was supposed to make the drop after the robbery?" " Yeah." " Right." "Yeah, there's a parking lot." " Don, it's Rausch's car." " Yeah, I see." "This is Special Agent Don Eppes with the FBI." "I need L.A.P.D. to cordon off a one-block area running south Temple, north to Second Street." "Copy that." "I think he's still in there." "Mr. Rausch?" "What are you doing here?" "They didn't bring my family back." " Just step out of the car, please." " Who didn't bring them?" "I thought that if I at least paid them something..." "But it wasn't enough." "They want more." "I haven't got any more." "Did they show you proof they have your family?" "It's different from the jewellery store, different location." " I've lost them, haven't I?" " We don't know that, okay?" " Did they call you on this?" " Yes." "This is all my fault." "I..." " It wasn't supposed to go like this." " What are you talking about?" "They were just supposed to be held for a couple hours, driven around until they got the diamonds." " They said they'd let them go." " Wait a minute." "Are you saying that you knew all about this?" "They were going to kill me." "You understand?" "This was a way out." "It was a way out for all of us." "Rausch is useless." "He has no idea where they are." "I was actually starting to feel sorry for the son of a bitch." " Yeah, he played us something, huh?" " Okay, I understand the robbery." "How do you involve your family in a kidnapping?" "It's just like you said, so we'd feel sorry for him." "It gives him deniability." "Because no one's gonna suspect the guy who's whole family is missing." "We just counted him as another victim." "Good news is about half an hour ago, the mother and kid are still alive." " How are you so sure?" " Picture was at a different location." "If they were gonna kill them, they wouldn't be moving them." "But now they know they've gotten everything they can out of Rausch." "He even tapped out his credit cards with the whole gambling thing." " Wait a minute." "That's it." " That's what?" "Remy accepts credit cards but he doesn't process them." "He sends them through to the Reynolds' website." "But we checked the website, it was a dead end." "Yeah, well, I'll believe that when Charlie hits it." "Hey, thank you for doing this." "I hope it's not too uncomfortable for you." "Amazingly enough, it isn't." "Well, the FBI techs were right." "The route ends at a server in China." "Yeah, but..." "I know, but they're not in China." "They're not accessing the Internet through China." "That's their..." "This is just a disguise." "Disguise or not, Charlie, that's where the trail ends." "All right, all right, all right." "Wait a minute, just wait a minute." "Every time someone visits a website, they rewrite some of the code, don't they?" " Yeah." " Yeah." "So can't we trace that back to the computer that created the site?" "Well, we have to have some specific data stream to follow." "There are hundreds, maybe thousands of visitors to this site." "But only the two men we're looking for are setting odds." "Still, I mean, we need some sort of unique data to isolate them." "Fractions." " Specifically, a Farey sequence." " Farey sequence?" "Let's say we begin slicing oranges, a lot of oranges." "But the rule is we can never repeat a cut." "In other words, we cut the first orange in half." "The next orange, we take out a third." "The next, one-fourth, then one-fifth and so on." "In the end, we're left with many orange slices of varying size." "When they're arranged from smallest to largest, they form a Farey sequence." "And yes, it's a fairly esoteric pattern of fractions." "However, the one place they often tend to show up?" "Bookmaking." "There's our unique data stream." "So one-eighth is 7-to-1 odds, one-seventh is 6-to-1, and two-thirds is 2-to-1." "Exactly." "Right." "So all the fractions are betting lines." "Right." "They led us to an internet account billed to a marine repair business in San Pedro." "Wait, you say San Pedro?" "That's the same place the Reynolds brothers have their mail drop." " FBI." " FBI." " FBI, hands up!" " Get your hands up." "Get them up." "Get those hands up." " Don't move." " Get your hands up." "Where are they?" "Where are they?" "I got no idea what you're talking about." "Neither does my brother." "They're not here, Don." "No sign of them." " Guys, I think we may be too late." " No, we're not." "We're gonna check the docks, check the boats." "Everything." "Let's go." " All right, Fish, Petey, up there." " Yes, sir." "Sam, Mikey, this way." "You guys come with me." "Help." "Somebody, help." " Hold on." "Quiet." "Quiet." " Please, help us." "Somebody, please." " Help." " I hear it." "Get me something to pry this open with." "My name is Don Eppes, I'm with the FBI." "Can you hear me?" " In here." "In here, please." " Just relax, ma'am." "We're coming in." "It's okay." "It's over." "Are you all right?" "Anyone hurt?" "No?" " Are you okay?" " Are you all right?" "It's okay." "You're going home now." " Daddy." " It's okay, sweetie." " Everything's going to be all right." " Oh, Martin." "Thank God." "What?" "What's going on?" "You can tell them or I can." "Tell me what?" "Martin?" "Julia, why don't we go get some food and let Mommy and Daddy talk?" "Careful there." "Morose and pensive expression of the romantically confounded." "You know, it wasn't like I was thrilled when our date bombed out." "I can accept the fact that we're not compatible." "You experiment, it doesn't work, you move on." "Yeah, a cornerstone of scientific enquiry." "Right, but the thing is, it's like when we're working together we talk and we laugh." "And there's an energy." "And I don't understand why that doesn't work outside the office, why don't we have anything else to talk about." "You're making an underlying assumption here that I question." " What's that?" " That there's something else you have to talk about." "See, where you see two people unable to talk about politics or movies..." "Hey, movies." "I can talk about..." "I just saw the penguin movie." " I see two extraordinary minds that can communicate on the purest level a man and woman can interface on." " Okay, second purest." " Geek love." "Hey, no better kind." "First one to ten points?" "Larry, man, I play this game a lot." "Hey, hey, I'm no stranger to the student union." "Come on, my physics versus your geometry."