"Hey, Sammy." "Look what I got for you, pal." "I got you a new spaceship." "But I got my spaceship, daddy." "Yeah, but you'll get this one too." "I like mine." "His birthday is not 'till Saturday." "You're not gotta have to work, are you?" "Rose, I wouldn't miss Sammy's birthday party for the world." "I promise." "Maybe one day you can go to the Moon." "Would you like that?" "But only in my spaceship." "Only in your spaceship." "What's the matter, Tyler?" "To be in some stakeouts make you sleepy?" "Actually, I was hoping to wake up to discover institution of the proper Amber Alert system." "You're off your snots, Tyler." "Well, too bad the park ain't open." "We could pinch this kidnapper, hand mr." "Kreshpane his baby and go for funnel cakes and lap dances." "Something tells me Wall Street wasn't beckoning." "Well, I hope baby Andrew is safe wherever he is." "Baby Andrew is gonna be dead baby Andrew if we get made." "His daddy's cash payment." "Got a boogie." "Where is my son?" "Where is my boy?" "What has he done with him?" "!" " You're under arrest for kidnapping." " Kidnapping?" "Sam, why do you look so stricken?" "It's about my father." "What about him?" "He walked out on my mother and me this year. 1973." "He's just...dissapeared from our lives." "We never heard from him again." "Where did he go?" "I don't know." "Well, why did he go?" "I've no idea." "Well, do you know anything, Sam?" "He left town in the middle of my forth birthday party." "Before I even blew out the candles." "Well...he should be arrested for that alone." "It's my birthday this Saturday." "The exact date he vanished in 1973." "Wait." "So tomorrow's your birthday?" "Yeah." "How old are you gonna be?" " I'm serious." " So am I." "Sam, you're not gonna be four." "Am to." "Now you're acting like a four-year old." "Annie, after the car hit me and I arrived here at 1973 I saw an image of a woman, my mother, wearing a red dress being chased, through the woods..." "Now, I can't explain it, but I keep seeing it." "You know...over and over again." "Sam...maybe we should have a little..." "birthday party for you." "You know, I can make a cake." "Uuugh, I can't on Saturday because I have to go to Lee's cousin's wedding, but..." "Well, maybe on Monday." "You're missing a point." "Maybe this is the reason why I'm here." "To figure out what happened to my family." "And to prevent my father from leaving." "Are you saying that this filthy kidnapper is your father?" "That's exactly what I'm saying." "Happy birthday to me." "My name is Sam Tyler." "I was in an accident, and I woke up in 1973." "I don't know how or why I'm here." "But whatever's happened - it's like I've landed on a different planet." "Now maybe if I can work out the reason - I can get home." "I swear to you:" "I had no idea this was about a kidnapping." "I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time." "So says every criminal I ever arrested." "I know nothing about a baby." "Yeah, right, and I got zero interest in jacking up Bridget Bordo." "So...you dare to dream seek greener pastures when you read about Kreshpane's windfall you planned your score." "Get off your rusty dusty and tell us where that baby is." "You okay?" "Yeah." "You know..." "I got a boy at home, his name is Sam." "Yeah, I got a French bulldog at home named Ali who drools like your grandfather." "Where we going we all the noise?" "This is coincidence, that's all." "I got two Sam Tylers in my life." "I think I wanna talk to my lawyer now." "Look, you're father and a parent." "And you love your son a lot, right?" "Yeah." "Yeah, I love my son very much." "So what?" "So how can a guy like that in the early dawn collecting a ransom?" "How does he get there?" "Look it was supposed to be a simple collection from a bookmaker." "At least, that was I was told." "What?" "What do you mean?" "I owe the people money." "Now they're threatening to me and my family." "Who's people?" "Pignato Brothers." "Who the hell are the Pignato Brothers?" "The Pignato Brothers are an up-and-coming crew of the Lower East Side's criminal underworld." "They were penny-ante hoodlums until last year." " Freddy Benneti." " Freddy Benneti..." "Who?" "Freddy Benneti was a small time bookie we found in a dumpster on Avenue C." "Wait, he's missing eyes, ears and a nose." "And hand and tongue." "You can see it in that photo." "Word on the street:" "the Pignatos wanted it known you have crossed them, you have violated on of their 5 senses they retaliate." "Symbolically." "Tin snips." "They use tin snips." "Turned Freddy into potato head." "Do we know of Kreshpane's any business associations with Pignatos?" "Mr. Kreshpane said there were none." "That's exactly why we need to lean hard on Vic Tyler." "This cretin's every shade of shady." "He keeps jerking us around - we'll have a dead baby on our hands." "Enter." "Mr. and Mrs. Kreshpane are here." "Boss?" "Maybe we should have Vic Tyler meet with Kreshpanes." "Face to face." "What for?" "Vic's got his own family." "If he have even a ounce of humanity he'll be more forthcoming in the presence of the devastated parents." "What do you say, Boss?" "Get Vic Tyler." "Okay." "But if this doesn't work - you know what happens next?" "What?" "I break out a damned snips." "Mr. and Mrs. Kreshpane, I know this is extremly difficult..." "The kidnapper threatened to do a horrible things to Andrew if we got the police involved." "We are working on this as fast as we can." "Trust me." "Vic Tyler." "This is Andrew Kreshpane's parents." "Where is our baby, Mr. Tyler?" "Where is he?" "Please." "We need him to come home." "I'm sorry." "I have no idea." "I can't help you." "Alright." "Come here." "What if your son was kidnapped?" "Huh?" "Can you imagine being separated from him?" "Can you imagine a heartbreak it would cause you and your wife?" "Look, I feel lousy about this, I really do." "But the Pignatos are accounted for that baby, not me." "What if you take the fall?" "What happens to your family?" "Who provides for them?" "Alright, look..." "I expect a phone call this afternoon at 2 o'clock." "To arrange for the money exchange." "For that's all that I know." "The Pignatos don't know I got pinched." "Not yet." "You're doing the right thing here." "Anything just to put this behind me." "You know?" "On Saturday is my boy's birthday." "I throw a party for him in a park." "Ice-cream, cake." "And a cowboy that comes by and makes funny animals out of baloons." "I'd like to be there for that." "You will be." "So, what's a plan, Sam?" "Ugh, we wait for the call from the Pignatos, and and once they give you location of the money-drop, we'll take it from there." "There's our house." "Yes, it is." "Never will." "I sell cleaner supplies for a living." "I'm on a road a lot." "Money's not great, but you plug away, make yourself alive." "I tried to lighten the load by making some bets." "I made some bad bets." "Couldn't pay them back." "They got me running these errands, these low-level underlings." "No big shakes, right?" "But look at me now." "I got a cop in my living room like I'm some common criminal, waiting for these freaking psychos to call me." "I'm sorry." "It's okay." "We gonna figure this out." "My wife, she made me quit the cigarettes so I do these puzzles, they help me during stressful times." "But you still once in a while sneak one when she's at the grocery store, right?" "I never said I was perfect, Sam." "You know I got a real superstition about these things." "Once you get a puzzle you can't solve the key is always in the bottom right-hand corner." "And once you figure that out, it just unfolds." "That's your superstition?" "That's your method?" "Not really sure what's working for me, but I get by." "Rose." "Hey, baby." "This is a..." "Detective." "What are you doing here?" "Oh, there's been a rash of neighbourhood break-ins lately, Missis Tyler I'm just doing a...routine canvass." "You two know each other?" "Well, yeah, I used to pound a beat in this neighbourhood, so..." "We met once." "Briefly." "Oh, I see." "Honey, Sammy is asking for you." "Hey." "You want to meet the little guy?" "No, I'm good." "It's detective Skywalker, right?" "Yes, but...please, call me Luke." "What's trouble is my husband in?" "What makes you think he is in trouble?" "No, like I said, there's been some break-ins and I..." "I think, we left niceties at the door of that night at the club, detective." "Please, I just want to know the truth." "All right." "I had to ask him some questions about a couple of things following police protocol." "Please." "Don't worry." "If Vic is guilty of anything - it's working too hard." "Missing time with his family." "I understand your son has big birthday coming up." "Let me guess you bought him a Big Jim doll." "How could you possibly know that?" "Well, you know all the kids love them these days, right?" "That reminds me I have to make sure that I have everything to bake the Sammy's cake for tomorrow." "Would you have something to drink?" "No, thanks, mom..." "Missis Tyler." "Frazier brings up the ball." "Passes to DeBusschere." "DeBusschere looks for Willis Reed, but Reed's being double-teamed, so Dave finds Phil Jackson." "Jackson finds Sammy Tyler at the top of the key." "Tyler shoots..." "Nothing but net." "Hey, my kid is big "Knicks" fan." "Sammy's in danger, isn't he?" "Rose also?" "The Pignatos are surely gonna come after them." "Why wouldn't they?" "And by blowing a whistle on them, you making me sign my family's death warrant." "I'll do everything I can to protect them." "I promise." "You know, Sammy wants to be an astronaut." "Or a cop." "Who doesn't?" "Right?" "You got kids?" "No." "Maybe someday." "Take it from someone who knows there's no time like the present." "What's he like?" "The boy?" "He's busy up in the head." "All that make-believe." "Takes after his father." "When things are rough, you know I'm in some tidewatered town trying to hack my wares, I can't make a sell sleeping in the back of a car, 'cause I'm trying to save money on a motel." "And I gotta hear one more guy say:" ""Sorry, not interested"." "What I do to make thing alright I just tell myself, I say:..." ""I'm Sam's father"." "Then everything every little thing it's okay, you know?" "I'm sorry, it's kinda..." "No, no, it's a..." "It's what?" "It's...well, it's it's a game to five and winner's out." "Hey, high five." "What?" " High five." " Hey, how you doing?" "Like this." "High five, okay." "No-no, baby, I got it, I got it." "One of the perks of being Irish - no hair on the chest." "You okay?" "Yeah?" "You sure you're not one of these guys who's a little bit light on his feet?" "What?" " No?" " Yeah?" " No!" " Because since I met you..." " No, no you've been looking at me in a way that makes me just a little bit nervous." "No, that's part of my investigative technique." "I study a man to..." "So that's what it is." " Let me do that for you." " You do that." "So we will be outside the place monitoring your wire." "As soon as we hear the money exchange go down we come blazing in and start finding out the whereabouts of Kreshpane baby." "Okay." " Jeez." " It's normal to be scared, Vic." "I'm not gonna let anything happen to you." "Yeah, well, you know..." "I met the Pignatos one time." "Mostly I just dealt with middlemen." "What are they like?" "What are they like?" "Well..." "When I was a kid growing up in a Bensonhurst..." "There was this one time we caught these rats." "These big suckers - long, pink tails like whips." "Greasy hindquarters." "And we kept them." "We kept them in a junked out icebox in the basement." "After about a week of starving and all they started to chew their way out." "Right through the metal." "I just happened to be there when they did." "Their faces were poking out." "Their little jaws all bloody from the effort." "Never in my life had I seen such a maniacal rage." "That is, until I met Tommy and Angelo Pignato." "Now for a whole five seconds." "You know why they were pissed off, Sam?" "Why?" "Because the "Mets" lost." "Listen, if I'm gonna die tonight..." "I'm not gonna let that happen." "If anything happens I want you to deliver the news for Rose and Sammy, ok?" "Tomorrow, if everything you told us is true you'll be blowing out candles on Sammy's fourth birthday, ok?" "Yeah." "We're off to see the wizard." "These bills are real?" "The bills are real." "That's not my worry." "My worry if this guy for real." "Easy does it, old man." "Okay." "He's in." "No-Nuts said it's your birthday on Saturday." "That's right." "Got any big plans?" "I don't like birthdays, Chris." "Police?" "Not me." "Not a chance." "No!" "Shots fired!" "Shots fired!" "Listen to me." "Who did this to you?" "Who shot you?" "Here's quarter, Sammy." "Knock yourself out." "Remember, Sammy." "If you can beat my high score - I got a Dum-Dum root beer for you." "Thanks, Uncle Butchie." "Who shot you?" "Chris, go upstairs." "No one leaves the building." "Listen to me." "Who shot you?" "Give me a name." "Vic, you're in here?" "Sam." "I'm here." "I've been shot." "Careful, please, careful." "Easy, easy." "Let me see." "Let me see." "Where is the briefcase?" "They took it." "I don't know how they know I squeeled." "Which way did they go?" "I didn't see." "They ran off." "I thought they gonna come back and finish the job." "He's been shot!" "He needs a doctor, not an interrogation!" "We have to find them." "And the baby." "Let's go, I'll be okay." "Stay put." "I'm gonna call an ambulance." "See anyone?" "Nobody came out the back, but there's a delivery door in the basement we didn't know about." "They might've got out that way." "Chris, you alright?" "It's baby Andrew." "I heard him crying from all the way down the hall." "Poor little guy probably hasn't been fed all day." "So the loot says the DA is gonna drop the charges." "I'm still embarrased I got wrapped up in any of this in the first place." "We never would've found the baby if you hadn't risk everything to help us." "You did good thing today." "Really good thing." "Okay." "I'm sure your son will be very proud of all his father did today." "I guess now you'll be able to go help and blow out his candles." "Won't you?" "Won't you, Vic?" "Absolutely." "I wouldn't miss it." "Where did you get your rocket?" "It was with him when we found him." "Maybe one day you'll get to the Moon too, Sammy." "That's not Andrew's." "Where is he?" "Where is Vick?" "He left this morning." "Did he say where he was going?" "Who knows where he goes when he goes?" "I don't." " Do you?" " No, I don't." "Detective, do you know what Vic is wrapped up in?" "No." "I'm not sure, no." "I'm not surprised." "But I'll say one thing." "Since you showed up yesterday Vic has been even more agitated than usual, and I would like to know why that is." "I want you to promise me something." "Please." "Be careful." "There is some very bad men out there..." "Who barge in the stranger's home whenever they damn well please." "Yeah, I think I'm looking right at one." "Contrary to what you might think, detective, I don't always need saving." "I'm a big girl, and I can take care of myself and my boy." "I know you can." "It's just..." "You're wearing a red dress." "My, detective." "What keen power of observation you have there." "Are gonna wear that today at Sammy's birthday party in the park?" "Here's a better question for you." "What business is it of yours what I wear to my son's birthday party?" "Hello?" "It's me." "Listen, I need your help." "Please, Annie." "Vic's been lying to me, to all of us this entire time." "He's involved somehow." "Can you keep an eye on Rose and Sammy while I sort this out?" "Sam." "I promised Lee I would go to his cousin's wedding today." "Look, it's just for a few hours, okay?" "Alright." "Thanks." "Have Central raise me on the radio if you need me." "Hey, Sam." "Be careful." "I'm worried about you." "I'm not the one you should be worried about." "Talk to you later." "Excuse me, sir." "Thanks, Uncle Butchie." " Hey, you're spoiling the kid, you know that?" " He's a kid worth spoiling." "Go ahead, play the game." "Uncle Butchie?" "Only my friends call me that." "I'm a...friend of Vic Tyler's." "You know him?" "Sure I do." "He comes in here with his kid Sammy all the time, but I doubt I'll be seeing him much now." "Not after what happened last night." "First rule of the world." "Don't make the wrong men mad." "Sam, are you there?" "Yeah, I'm here." "Where are you?" "I'm at the Sammy's birthday party at Rowan Park." "In the woods." "I'm on my way." "Keep an eye on him 'till I get there." "You see Vic Tyler - do not approach him." "Radio me immediately." "I can't let him get away." "Not again." "Annie, where are you?" "Annie, I've lost Tyler, you got him?" "Sam..." "Annie, 10-5, you're breaking up." "Vic's sneaking his way into the woods." "I'm going after him." "No, no." "Listen to me." "Annie, do not follow him, he's dangerous." "Excuse me, sir?" "Have you seen my dad?" "I don't know where he is." "Go back to your mother." "I'm gonna go find your father." "Sammy, come on, it's time to blow out your candles." "Annie!" "Who do you think you are, spying on my family?" "Stop!" " You hurt?" " I'm fine." "I don't know if I can say the same for him." "Go back to the party." "Radio for backup." "Sam." "I need you to go back to the party, Annie." "Now." "Fine." "But if you're not back in 5 minutes" " I'm coming back in." "I know..." "I know how this looks, Sam." "I left the station 'cause as to think that you can protect me and my family from the Pignatos..." "Save it." "I know the truth." "I know you were trying to flee." "I know you kidnapped a baby." "Come on, I wasn't gonna hurt him." "Just trying to get a little extra money, so that my family could live comfortably, I mean you got no idea what it's like to not being able to provide for your family." "Can't use them as excuse anymore, Vic." "That was never about what your family needs." "You weren't on the road being a salesman, you were expanding your criminal concerns." "You told my mother we were broke, so she wouldn't hassle you about spending so much time away." "Your mother?" "What you're about to do walking out on your family like this..." "Your son's gonna blame himself." "And it's gonna affect every meaningful relationship he forms." "His entire life." "I'm gonna tell you something, Sammy." "Every thing that I do why I started all this in the first place came out of the need to take care of my family." "To make sure they were safe." "My wife." "My boy." "Being salesman - it just didn't cut it." "No." "That's a cop-out." "What do you know about it, huh?" "Huh, Sam?" "What do really know?" "It was my fourth birthday party here at Rowan Park." "And I just watched you dance with my mother." "And I was about to blow out the candles." "And I realised you weren't around." "So I followed you into the woods." "And I saw you." "Beating a policewoman to death." "You strangled her." "And you kicked her." "And you kicked her." "And then you fled." "And you never came back." "But I blocked it out." "I blocked it out 'till I came here." "Memory..." "The memory, that was just too painful." "Tell me something, boy." "Did you have a good time at your fourth birthday party?" "No." "I didn't become an astronaut either." "Police?" "Not me." "Not a chance." "There are no Pignato Brothers." "I can say "yes", but that wouldn't be telling the truth." "What's the truth?" "I am the Pignato Brothers." "You okay?" "You're not gonna shoot me, Vic." "What makes you so sure?" "Because it's not who you really are." "Maybe not." "But I'm not gonna let you arrest me." "I can't have my boy knowing his father is in prison for doing terrible things." "I can't do that." "Right?" "I gotta think of Sammy." "Dad." "High five." "Sam?" "Sam, can you hear me?" "Do you know your name?" "Sam Tyler." "Where are you, Sam?" "New York City." "What year is it?" "So..." "That woman you saw running through the woods the one in the red dress..." "What about her?" "Thank you for saving my life." "You know, I thought this was the reason I was here." "To stop my dad from leaving, but I think, maybe it was to show me who he really was." "I mean what other reason could there be?" "You have no idea how much good you've brought to the 1-2-5." "All the cases that you've worked on." "They are the reason you're here." "You should know I don't hate everything about this place." "You should rest." "I left you some puzzle books on the table." "Happy birthday, Sam." "When you get stuck on the puzzle you can't solve the key is always in the bottom right-hand corner." "All the cases you've worked on - they are the reason you're here." "The key is always in the bottom right-hand corner." "Once you figure that out - the mystery...it's just unfodls." "35 Steward Drive." "Hello?" "Hello." "Hello, Sam." " You can hear me?" " Of course, I can hear you." "You're doing a good job, Sam." "I need you to do something for me." "Who is this?" "I need you to go to the basement." " Why?" " The basement, Sam." "Across the room behind you." "I need you to go down to the basement, Sam."