"Knapp, is that you?" "Can we talk?" "Or is it a bad time?" " How'd you get this number?" " I let my fingers do the walking." " Are you still there?" " What do you want?" "Oh, I really screwed you up, huh?" "I heard you went to the desert." "Let men in white coats poke around in that skull of yours." "Do you ever wonder about her?" "You wonder if she's still alive?" "Maybe having her braces off in the morning?" "Or did I put her in a box?" " Call to read my horoscope?" " It's happening again, isn't it?" "Tell me about them." "Are they the toast of the town?" "Lousy with friends and money?" "Buy low, sell high, East Egg, West Egg?" "Turks and Caicos, and all?" "Everything was peachy, wasn't it?" "Yeah, but how quickly the peaches turn to pits when you lose your prized possession." " What happened in Brooklyn?" " Brooklyn?" "Oh, don't play dumb, or I won't play at all." " Tell me about Zurich." " Zurich?" " What about Zurich?" " It's cold there." "My parents used to take us when we were children." "Verbier." "So any leads on the boy?" " Where are you getting information?" " The back of a baby's ear." "Be in touch." " King." " We're nearly set up here." "The owner's in Paris for a year." "The place is being renovated." "We got a great view of the Cains' apartment." "So how's your friend doing?" "You asking how he's doing or if I had a chance to question him?" " I was just asking how he's doing." " He's still got a bullet lodged in him." "You know, Kerns didn't make it." " He died in the night." " Yeah, I heard." "He died in the night." "What a thing to say, huh?" "Takes this ugly thing and turns it into damn poetry." "Yesterday I thought I was doing the right thing, sending him." "I thought, "We're gonna get that kid back. "" "I was wrong, and it cost two men their lives." "And now their families have to live with what I did." "I just wanted you to know that in case you thought I'd overlooked it." " All right." " I'll see you when you get in." " Conrad?" " Yeah?" " Why is the door locked?" " I" " I'm in the shower." " Be out in a minute." " I still haven't heard from Aubrey." "I'll be out in a minute, okay?" "All right." " Shannon's." " Yeah, is Sully there?" " Who's asking?" " Conrad." "Don't know any Conrad." "It's Connie." " That's a hell of a breakfast." " Sure you don't want one?" " Yeah." " Here you go." " Keeps pretty clean." " How clean?" "Well, couple of things here and there." "Nothing the paper would print." "You wanna nail a guy like Conrad Cain you better remember to bring Pontius Pilate." "Otherwise you'll wind up writing obits in Omaha." "A couple of things here and there?" "Well, few years ago a guy calls me." "Says he's got Cain by the short hairs." " He wants 50 G's for the story." " What's the angle?" "He won't say." "Says he'll only do it COD." "Says I won't be sorry." " And...?" " Well, picked up the cheque myself waited for him at the arranged meeting spot." "Very cloak-and-dagger." "He doesn't show." "Doesn't show?" "Somebody get him?" "Cain can write cheques with lots of zeros." " Right." "Got a name on this freelance?" " I would have to consult my file." "In the meantime there's your kitchen sink." "Modern technology." "In the old days I would've had to pass you a briefcase or something." "Who are you looking for?" "Anyone I know?" "Is he handsome?" " Who are you?" " I'm Jimbo." " Who is that?" " That's Jimbo." "Need more pancakes?" " Yeah, sure." " What is he doing here?" "He's gonna look after Alice for a while." "Did you think to run this by me first?" " No." " It is still my home, Mr. Knapp." "Today's show-and-tell." "I'm gonna show our safari pictures." "And Ginny Akron's gonna be so miffed." "She thought her Russian dolls were hot stuff." "Alice, you have to stay home today." "But" " Who's that?" "Jimbo." "He's going to look after you for a while." "I'm Alice." "My brother Leo has a bodyguard." " His name's Virgil." " Alice..." "You're way bigger than he is." "Leo's at static apnoea camp." "They teach you how to hold your breath for a really long time." "Can I bring you to show-and-tell?" "Ginny Akron wouldn't believe her eyes." "I pushed the board meeting a week, cleared my schedule." "Did you try Aubrey again?" "Can I speak to you both in the other room?" " Did you tell Alice that Leo is at camp?" " What?" " She just said" " Mr. and Mrs. Cain." "When your son is on the front of the New York Times that phone will ring." "Every crackpot in America is gonna be on the other end, which will make my job tougher." "Soon it'll get out that Leopold's abducted." "The longer we can push that off, the better." "Don't breathe a word." " Whatever you want." " Okay, I've talked to Alfred Masters." "You call school." "Tell them Leo's sick." "You don't know when he'll be back." "Keep up appearances." "Don't deviate from your routines." "Go to the office, your board meetings, play squash, do whatever it is you do." "Mrs. Cain, go to luncheons, keep hair appointments." "I need the impression everything is okay." " How can we possibly...?" " It's what's best for Leopold." " Morning." " Good, stick to the facts. " Morning."" "How was your night in the chair?" "Get any sleep?" " A little." " Liar." "Do me a favour." "Cross-reference the Cains with Zurich." " What am I looking for?" " I have no idea." "I'm missing a DAT file." "A call came in at midnight." " Someone erased it." " Yeah, that was me." "Why?" "Who called?" "Should I be concerned?" " Yeah." " Tell Malcolm I say hi?" "You should tell Atkins to try camouflage." "How about that, huh?" "How's your coffee?" "It's better than the mud you're drinking." "We need to talk." "In person." " Know what I wanna say?" " Yeah." "You lost two agents." "The director told you to get these bastards." "And he says if this Knapp can't play with others kick him out of the sandbox." " Good morning, Alice." " These are the seeds I ordered." " I'm planting a garden on the roof." " Oh, hey." "That's my friend Jimbo." "Jimbo, this is Sam." "Thanks, Sam." " Yeah?" " The package has been delivered." "Good." "Let me know when it's done." "Alice!" "How many times have I told you not to touch the knives?" "I will open your package for you." "Go make your bed." " But" " Now." "Sent the ear to get everyone's attention." "Everybody knows they're in control." "Let's get that DNA sample from the boy's room." "Why isn't that phone ringing?" "Their demands?" " Courier service" " On hold." "The phone rings 10 minutes after the package gets delivered." "Not this time, friend." " You ever had one of these before?" " No record of the package delivery." " Descriptions from the deskman?" " Idiot doesn't remember anything." "Why are they doing this to us?" " I want my seeds." " What?" "What seeds?" "The package." "It was addressed to me." "I'm planting a garden." "Cain dealt with Zurich international in '97." "He was approved for a bridge loan by Credit Suisse in 2003 but never exercised the loan." "According to his passport, he's been to Zurich 12 times in 10 years." "Always stay at the Four Seasons apart from one time at a Swiss hotel." "How's that?" " Keep looking." " Where are you going?" "Lunch." " What do we got?" " The guy Knapp found in an SRO with his throat slit." "Ex-wife ID'd the body." "He called her last week to make good on child support." "The boys from the lab swept the room." "It was clean." " Get the ex-wife's phone records?" " We're still waiting." "Call Patrick at the O.J. Tell him King is calling in that chit on that thing with that guy." "He'll understand." "What about the other young man in the car?" "Masters?" "Went through mugs, couldn't make anybody." "He was crouched down in the back." "Working on the shooter who took out the bodyguard." " Anything new on him?" " He's in and out." "I'm getting what I can." " Lab results came back on the ear." " Thank you." "Agents from the Rhode island field office are meeting us at Bay Barn Heliport." "Now, Aubrey's roommate's name is Diane Weaver." "We called her parents, but they're unable to get in touch with her." " Mrs. Cain?" " Yes?" "It's not Leopold." "It wasn't his ear." "Thank God." "Thank you." "Thank you." " Why didn't you tell her?" " And say what?" "The good news is it's not your son's ear bad news is we think it may be your daughter's?" "My name's Leopold." "People call me Leo." "I heard the other guy call you Otto." "Ls that your name?" "So where you from, man?" "Listen, ése, just do your job." "Don't worry about where I'm from, what's my favourite colour or my sign." "I'm not in this to make new friends, comprende?" "Yeah." "I got you." "I need a list of anyone who has access to the dorm." " Can you do that?" " I gave it to the other guy." " What other guy?" " Your partner." "He beat you here by, like, 15 minutes." "Oh, of course." "The ear was pierced." "I was playing worst case." "What did you do, Knapp?" "Flash your old ID?" "Might've mentioned I got in from Quantico but that's open to interpretation." "I got Aubrey's e-mails here." " Anything?" " I don't know, maybe." "Take a look." "What is this e-mail?" "Some kind of code?" "What?" "BRT is " be right there." OTOH: "On the other hand."" "Oh, here's a good one." "SMITF: "Shoot me in the face."" ""Shoot me in the face"?" "Why is she signing the e-mail " 1337"?" "It means " leet." Slang for "elite."" "Yeah, it's a cipher." "Ones are L's, threes are E's, sevens are T's." "31337 is the UDP port used by Dead Cow Cult to access Windows 95 using Back Orifice." " What?" " Atkins." " Yeah?" " 1337." " Thanks, dude." " See?" "It's a compliment." "Go to the last e-mail." "All right, night before last, Aubrey writes, " LZ SCNR"?" "Yeah, I don't know what LZ means, but SCNR means, "Sorry, could not resist."" "" I could not resist."" "Guys, I'm thinking about joining up with the bureau." " Oh, yeah?" " Yeah, yeah, yeah." "If you need any help." "Because I know Diane and Aubrey." "Just in passing." "Like, " Hey, what's up?"" "They always call me by the wrong name." "My name's Wes, they called me Les, you know?" "In their defence, I mean, when I see them they're usually pretty wasted." "I mean, they party hard, those girls." " Oh, really?" " I run into them over at Zurich..." "...three times a week." " Zurich?" " Yeah." "It's this bar over on Thayer." " LZ?" "Leaving Zurich?" "Ellie?" " Ellie." " Where are you going?" "We're not gonna wait for something to happen." "I wanna know where our daughter is, okay?" "I'll call her friends again." "Good." "I remember the ones with platinum cards." "Sweet girls, even though Diane forgot to pay her bill the other night." "Skipped out on me." " Were they alone?" " Well, they came in that way, but wound up hooking up with some guy." "At least Aubrey did." " They do that a lot?" " Once in a while." "As long as we're here, we might as well have a look around." "That's blood." "It's not Aubrey." "Incomplete occlusion, compression of carotid arteries caused a cerebral ischemia." "No ligature marks." " She was strangled." " Manually." "Usual stuff you expect to find on a college girl." "Purse, keys, lip gloss, cell phone." "Eight ball of cocaine." "Check the log on the cell phone." "Get the names of anybody she called in the last 48 hours." "Anybody who called her." "Check the voice mail, text messages, and let's examine the phone's video and picture clips." " Somebody needs to call the Cains." " I'll deal with it." "Thank you, Seiman." "Hey, Knapp?" "What made you think to look in the freezer?" "It was cold." " Hey." "When you coming back?" " Aubrey Cain's roommate is dead." "Mrs. Cain." "I just got off the phone with Knapp..." "Terry." "Terry." "Break something to get your attention--?" "Nothing personal, Connie, but Sully said you were dead." "Well, do I look like a ghost?" "Afraid I gotta take Sully's word over yours on this one." "Just tell Sully when you see him that I'm looking for him." " Mind if I have a seat?" " It's a free country." "So they keep telling me." "Nice shoes." "You don't see a lot of shoes like those in this neck of the woods." " What brings you around here?" " My son." " Is he all right?" " I don't know." "He" " No." "Anything I can do to help?" "What do you know about being a father, Dad?" "Well if he can handle himself half as good as you could I don't imagine he needs you any more than you needed me." "We got some video from the roommate's picture phone." "He's cute." "Can't get a make on the guy." "Rewind." "Pause right there." "Hit play." "He's cute." "Hold right there." "Rewind." "Pause right there." "Blow it up a couple fields." "There." "He's cute." "I saw him first." "I'll play you for him." " You guys go to Brown?" " Yeah." "You?" "Yeah." "I'm a freshman." " You wanna help me out with this one?" " Yeah." "I'm gonna go powder my nose." "Don't get him all wrinkled while I'm gone." "Can I get another one?" "Thank you." " Hi." " Hi." " Do you want another beer?" " Let's split." " What about Diane?" " You're more my type." " You don't have to choose, you know." " I choose you, though." "Trust me, the guy's been inside." "Let's find a mug shot that matches him." "Get ahold of the Providence field office." "Tell them to dust every single pool cue in that bar." "Knapp?" "Where's Knapp?" "He's cute." "What's that all about?" " It's a game I play with my brother." " Yeah?" "You hungry?" "I know this spot." "They have great chocolate-chip pancakes." " With a smiley face?" " Ls there any other kind?" "Hey, have you seen my cell phone?" " No." "Why?" "Did you lose it?" " I probably left it at the bar." " What's " pariah" mean?" " It means an outcast." " What's " precipitously"?" " Sudden." "For a guy that knows so many words, you don't say a lot." " What are you reading?" " Slake's Limbo." "It's about a boy who goes to live in the subway tunnels of New York." "It's Leo's." "He gave it to me." "Leo knows a lot of words too." "But he's quiet, just like you are." "Got a match." "Name's Kenneth Cantrell." "Five arrests, two stints at federal pens last saw 32 months at Rikers on a B and E charge." " No known address." " It says here, "ex-wife"?" "Yeah, she lives in Brooklyn." "Prospect Park." "Let's bring her in." "Good." "Slow down." "No one's gonna take them from you." "You can never be too careful with a chocolate-chip pancake." " So where are you from?" " Queens." " What part of Queens?" " Sunnyside." "No kidding." "My dad is from Sunnyside." "Really." "What's his name?" "Conrad." "Conrad Cain." "Doesn't ring a bell." "Well, he's a little bit older than you." " Just a little bit, huh?" " His dad still lives there but they don't talk." " Why not?" " That's the thing." "My dad won't talk to me about why his dad won't talk to him." "Maybe it's the other way around." "I don't know." "I like your tattoo." "What does it mean?" "It means I had too much to drink when I was 16." "Let's get out of here." "Come on." " It's me." " Where are you?" " Twenty miles outside the city." " How's she behaving?" "Like a kitten." "Well, just make sure she doesn't scratch." "Yo!" "Aubrey!" "Aubrey!" "Get away from me." "Who the hell are you?" "I'm gonna scream." "Help!" "Wait, I'm gonna scream!" "Help!" "Help!" " King." " You get a name on Fast Eddie?" "I am open for business." "He has a tattoo from a gang out of Sunnyside." "Last name Cantrell, first name Kenneth." "Can I have everyone's attention for a moment, please?" "How many Sunnysiders does it take to screw in a light bulb?" " What the hell you say?" " What you saying?" "You heard this?" "Afternoon." " Looking for Kenneth Cantrell." " I never heard of him." " Maybe I'm not asking right." " Man!" "You're breaking my arm, man!" "Tell me what I want to know, and I'll see what I can do." "I" " Okay, okay!" "I" " I know him, but I haven't seen him." "That's God's honest truth, on my mother's eyes." "I swear!" " I" " I swear!" " Find out you're lying I'm gonna come back and finish telling my joke." "I got rights, you know." "She's got a little kick to her." "She was watching Ultimate Fight Championship on pay-per-view when we picked her up." "She still our only link to Cantrell?" " Look, I ain't seen him, okay?" " You ain't seen who?" "Kenny." "Will you do me a favour?" "Just wait for me to ask a question..." "...and then answer?" " Whatever you say." "All right, Mrs. Cantrell." "Have you seen your ex-husband?" " No." " Okay." "Okay, that's good." "Says here you had him arrested once on a battery charge?" "Yeah, Kenny liked to hit." "When's the last time he hit you?" "It's been a couple years." "Okay." "Oh, I'm sorry." "Tennis injury, huh?" "Does he still like to come around?" "At the end, the fellas tied one on, put his hands on you?" "Trouble telling the difference between a good touch and a bad touch?" "Okay." "Let me tell you, Lisa I can make it so he never comes around any more." " Yeah?" " Feds came to see me." " What'd they want?" " They were looking for you." " What did you tell them?" " What do you think I told them?" "I told them to screw." "Feds are looking for me." "Went to see my ex-wife." " Your ex-wife know where you are?" " No." " So, what's the problem?" " Problem is they made me." "I'm screwed." "We have a contingency plan." "I'll make all the arrangements as soon as we hang up." "Just hang tight." "Go ahead." "You want a slice?" "Screw you." "Screw me?" "Screw you." "You ruined the easiest job of my life." "Getting paid to nail some little rich girl, okay?" "Keep her under wraps a few days, let her go." "And you would've been none the wiser." "But for all your upbringing, what nobody taught you was you keep your nose out of other people's personal articles." "Know that?" "Why is someone paying you to do this?" "Find money on the street, you don't wonder where it's from." "You pick it up." "For your information, the reason your father and grandfather don't talk no more is Connie forgot where he came from." "And your grandfather?" "He's still from there." " You know my father?" " I" "Whoa, man." "It's just me." " Is that her?" " Danny, what are you doing here?" " A guy came looking for you." " A cop?" "He didn't look like a cop." "Almost broke my arm." " Go." "I'll catch up later, okay?" " Kenny" "Just go!" "All right?" " Nice and easy." " What, are you gonna shoot me?" " Get in the car." " Cantrell." "You want a way out of this?" "Listen to me." "I'm not a cop." "I just want the girl." "Okay?" "Just give me the girl and you can take a walk." "You gotta trust me." "Son of a bitch." "All right, all right." " Get them guns down!" " Hold your fire." "Relax." "Everybody, just relax." "Relax." "Hold your fire." "Relax." "Kenny, just you and me, all right?" " You come near, I'm shooting her." " Don't shoot her." "I need you to make a real smart play right here, and listen to me." "I'm not coming near you." "All right?" "Come on, we can work this out." "We ain't working nothing out." " Oh, my God." " Come here." " Move, move, move." " Aubrey." "Okay, come here." "Come here." "It's all right." "It's all right now." "Oh, God." "It's gonna be all right." "Oh, God." "That's not an easy shot." "A shot like that takes life from one person but gives life to somebody else." "And it can go south on you." "Inch to the left or right, and you just shot a 19-year-old girl." "But while everybody else is wondering, "Which way is the wind blowing?"" "You saved a life." "It's good." "I've been there, you know, on the other side of it." " Yeah?" " Oh, yeah." "Had a gun to my head." "Some tweaker, right?" "This guy..." "My head's bleeding." "He's pushing the barrel so hard on my head and his hand's shaking." "And all of a sudden:" "This tweaker just falls like a raindrop." "So I started searching the crowd of cops and there's this rookie." "First day on the job." "I mean, fresh out of the academy." "But that rookie understood, " I gotta flip the switch."" "Just like you with Cantrell today." "Whisky, straight?" "Thanks." "Fellas." "To our ships at sea." " Ships at sea." " To our ships at sea." "Anything strike you as odd today?" "You mean that they send this highly-trained team after the boy and then they hire some low-rent thug to go after his sister?" "Yeah, that." " That never crossed my mind." " Me neither." "How's the wife dealing with you putting off retirement?" " You know." " Yeah, I know you're in the doghouse." "Please, I know how to handle my wife." "Well, I got a pull-out couch just in case." "You know what?" "I should go see my wife in case she's forgotten what I look like." "On me." "No, no, no." "Don't forget what I said." " I'll see you guys." " All right." "Good work out there today." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "Thanks." "Hey, Knapp?" "Yeah?" "Have you ever...?" "Yeah." "First day on the job." "Good night, sweet girl." "Good night, Mommy." " I'm happy Aubrey's home." " Me too." "When do you think Leo will come home?" "Hey." "Hey." "You smoke?" "I'm really happy you're home." "Me too." "Do you know that when you were 3 I lost you in the department store for two hours?" "You were hiding and you fell asleep in the clothing rack and..." "I don't know, I never told anyone." "Not even your mother." "Not because I thought she'd be mad, I just..." "I guess I wanted to pretend it didn't happen." "He's a really smart kid, Dad." "He'll think of something." "Time to take your medicine" "Help!" "Help!" "My name's Cain." "I've been kidnapped" "Maybe it's better you stick with me." "Mexico can be very dangerous."