"Oh, my God." "He's up." "Baby, you're shaking." "Can't stand seeing you like this." "It's the third time he's caught me sneaking out." "He's going to kill me." "Look at me." "What we're doing is not wrong." "It's special." "He doesn't think so." "Who cares what he thinks?" "Stars and the Moon, right, baby?" "Can't let your dad destroy that." "I won't let him destroy that." "I should probably go." "Hey." "I'd really better go, Jackson." "I'll stay here and make sure it's okay." "It's not going to be okay." "He's just using you, Carina!" "You think I'm going to let you throw your life away on a guy like that?" "You're 16." "He's 26." "So?" "So that's statutory rape." "I called the police." "They're on their way." "You what?" "Yeah." "Dad, he loves me." "You just don't want to see me happy." "All of this is 'cause Mom's gone and you can't handle it." "What did you just say to me?" "I hate you." "Get away from her." "Don't you tell me what to do with my daughter." "Jackson..." "Carina." "You can't keep her locked up... not anymore." "You need to turn around and get out of my house." "Carina." "Go wait in the car." "You stay right there." "She's not going anywhere with you." "Baby, I'll handle this..." "I promise." "Go." "Carina!" "That's my only child." "And I'm not going to let you take her away from me." "I know." "d d" "Are you okay?" "What happened?" "I told him to stop treating you like a kid." "That he had to let you go." "And what'd he say?" "What do you think?" "He ignored me, just like he ignores you." "I always promised you I'd take you to California, right?" "Well, here's our chance." "You and me... the stars and the Moon, right, baby?" "Stars and the Moon." "The stars and the Moon." "Hey, Annie." "Hey." "That the report on the Seaver shooting?" "Why you asking?" "No reason." "You know, I was just wondering." "Wondering about what?" "The, uh..." "critical incident debriefing, you know, that they make you go to after a shooting." "Yeah?" "That help you out at all?" "Puckett..." "Those bombs..." "He hurt a lot of people." "Yeah." "You stopped him." "Thinking beyond that's not going to get you very far." "And what if I can't stop thinking about it?" "At night and stuff, you know?" "Annie, Luke." "We got a homicide in Killeen." "I just got a call from SOIC in West Texas." "I've been checking up on the lead suspect." "You filing a fed case?" "Under the Adam Walsh Act." "We got a sex offender on our hands?" "The guy's name is Jackson Cooper... 26 years old." "He shot the dad of his 16-year-old girlfriend." "Now, here's the crazy thing." "Jackson Cooper didn't exist until three years ago." "He was going by an alias?" "The address on file at the DMV doesn't even exist." "There's no nothing, Annie." "So how did Killeen PD identify him?" "The victim did it for them." "The dad called in a statutory rape complaint at 4:00 a.m. while he was sitting there waiting for his daughter to come home." "He said the guy's name was Jackson Cooper and that he was from Houston." "Hmm." "All right, so we got Carina Matthews." "She's a sophomore at Alamo Mission High School." ""B" Student, never been in any kind of trouble." "Until now." "I mean, is she in the wind, too?" "Killeen PD thinks that she fled with him, but they're not sure whether she was involved or not." "The dad's name is Allen Matthews." "Carina and him moved to the area about six months ago." "Where's the mom?" "The mom died of cancer a year ago." "So here's how it went down." "Jackson pistol-whipped the dad, and then took a pillow to muffle the shot." "He didn't want anyone to hear." "Could be he didn't want Carina to hear." "All right, so the guy's using an alias, so let's start with the girl." "She got a car?" "No." "Her dad's was still in the garage." "Okay." "We call the school, locate her friends." "We got to find out whether this girl is an accomplice or a hostage." "Come on." "Your dad will be fine without you." "And you'll be fine without him." "Annie." "Carina Matthews' best friend is here." "Hazel Clemmons?" "She's in the briefing room with her dad." "I mean, it could have been my dad." "Could have been me." "What do you mean by that?" "Oh, I was with Carina when she met him." "Uh, right in front of the pretzel place at the mall." "He was so... cool." "He didn't talk to us like we were kids, you know?" "I was kind of jealous." "'Cause he went for Carina?" "He said she had sad eyes and that he wanted to cheer her up." "Do you have any ideas about where they were going?" "No." "Um, she said she wanted to run away sometimes." "To where?" "California." "It's where she's from." "It's where her mom died." "She was still pretty messed up about it." "But then she met Jackson." "That was the first time I saw her smile." "He was her first..." "Uh, he was her first..." "You know." "Carina's dad freaked out." "He wouldn't let her get her license." "He took away her cell phone." "I got her one, and I put it on my plan." "So she's still got that phone." "Probably." "She uses it to log on to her blog." "She posts like twice a day." "What's the name of her blog?" "It's called Wouldn't it Be Nice?" "Uh, her mom was a huge Beach Boys fan." "What about Jackson?" "You know where he lives?" "With these guys in Houston." "I..." "I went there once with Carina." "Place was gross." "I'll call in and get a location on that phone, Annie." "Door open." "Door open." "Shoot him in the head, man!" "I'm trying." "Shoot him in the head!" "Come on!" "U.S. Marshals!" "Drop it!" "Whoa, whoa." "Whoa, oh." "Dude, it's just a game, bro." "It's just a game, bro." "I said drop it." "We're looking for Jackson Cooper." "No way." "What'd he do?" "He's wanted for murder." "You know where he is?" "No, Man." "How long did he live here?" "Uh, three, four months." "Uh... late on the rent every time." "He came and got his stuff two days ago." "He have a job, friends, family?" "No, Jackson was a total loser." "He hits on high school girls at the mall." "Where's his girlfriend?" "You know where she is?" "Carina?" "Yeah." "Come here, jerkoff." "Your roommate's wanted for murder." "Now, unless you want me to toss this place upside down and find your stash, you better start talking." "No, no." "It's cool." "Sit down." "Now, where is Jackson's bedroom?" "You're looking at it right here, man." "I mean, he only pays $150 a month." "We pay $250 each." "Sunflower seeds?" "Yeah, Jackson leaves them everywhere." "Place is nasty." "You got any of his mail?" "I want to see your phone bill." "Come on." "He had a prepay he got from the bodega." "What kind of car does he drive?" "He was borrowing mine." "It's this old-school 6-Series BMW." "Come on, let's get out of here." "d d" "Can I get a key to the restroom?" "Hey, Carina!" "Get out." "I got a surprise for you." "What?" "Come on." "Grab your stuff." "You always wanted a convertible, right?" "Yeah." "Whose is this?" "Ours." "I traded the BMW to a guy inside." "Seriously?" "Well, mine was worth more, but can't take you to California in a ragtop, right?" "Don't you have to register it with the DMV and stuff?" "You have 30 days." "Don't worry about it." "I'll do it when we get there." "I can't believe you did this..." "for me." "I want our trip to be special." "'Cause your mom had one, too." "Even more reason." "Thank you." "I haven't even shown you the best part yet." "Scenic Back Roads of the United States." "I want this to be an adventure." "What's that?" "Oh, um, I was just checking my blog." "I wrote you something." "Can't use your phone." "They'll use it to track us." "Who can?" "The police." "So?" "You ran away from home." "You don't think they're gonna come looking for you?" "Well, that's the phone that Hazel gave me." "It doesn't matter." "It's dangerous." "So, what, you're just gonna take my phone?" "Great." "I might as well be back at home." "Your dad called the cops." "I could go to jail for falling in love with you." "Is that what you want?" "One of these days you're gonna trust me." "I do trust you." "What?" "I do!" "Will you prove it to me?" "How?" ""Wouldn't it be nice?"" ""Wouldn't it be nice if I was somewhere else?" ""Wouldn't it be nice" ""if Dad could see me as a grown-up?" "Wouldn't it be nice if you weren't sick?"" "Can't hate a girl for liking the Beach Boys." "Hmm." "Since she started the blog, her mom went into the hospital for lymphoma." ""Dear Mom, it's only been two weeks" ""since we scattered your ashes off Point Dume." ""Dad just told me we're moving from Malibu." ""He says he can't look at the ocean anymore." "It reminds him of you."" "It's crazy how much kids post about their private lives." ""I told Dad I don't want to move." ""He just looked at me and started to cry." "I think I remind him of you."" "What are you writing back?" "I lost my mom, too." "I can tell you it gets easier." "Right." ""Annie5Star."" "Why not just go right at her?" "I don't want to pull the authority card on a teenage kid like that." "Mm." "You know, that's probably the reason she ran away in the first place." "If I can get her to trust me..." "We just found the roommate's BMW along with a body at a gas station in Fort Stockton." "They're headed west." "Maybe they're going to California." "Customer found the body in the men's room." "Blunt-force trauma." "Coroner said he's been dead three to six hours." "Jackson left his roommate's BMW behind, so he must have stolen the victim's vehicle." "Do we have any idea what type it was?" "The guy's wallet is missing." "No keys or cell phone on his body." "Local PD's working on the I.D." "Keep me posted." "I will." "Annie." "Yeah?" "You find out what they bought inside?" "Some food and this:" "Scenic Back Roads of the United States." "Guy knows we can't cover every back road between here and California." "Exactly." "What you guys got?" "CSU got a fresh print off the steering wheel." "Any luck and we'll get a real I.D. on this son of a bitch." "Found the cell phone Hazel gave to Carina." "They ran over it." "No wonder we couldn't track it." "Leaving a trail of bodies behind." "Carina doesn't wake up, she's gonna be one of them." "Ahh!" "There you go, chiquita." "Does that prove it to you?" "Stars and the Moon, we're together forever." "I love it!" "Babe, you want to wait in the car?" "What's wrong?" "What are you guys talking about?" "Nothing." "We're just gonna settle up in here." "Oh, okay." "Can I have the keys?" "Mm-hmm." "Thank you." "Ready to go?" "I love my new tattoo." "I love it, too." "Jimmy, look." "Carina responded to my post." ""Sorry about your mom." "Try falling in love." "It helps."" "She found a friend." "Yeah, let's hope so." "Look at the picture she posted underneath it." "Look at that." "The tattoo?" "That ink's fresh." "Neosporin raw." "They stopped to get a tattoo." "Wonder how she posted it." "You gonna write back?" "Yeah." "Be careful." "Some guys like to take advantage when we're vulnerable." "Guys, fingerprints just came in on Floyd's BMW." "You were right." "Jackson Cooper's real name?" ""Jackson Leary."" "He's wanted in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado for statutory rape." "Good reason to use an alias." ""Flagstaff, Silver City, Denver."" "So Carina's not the first girl he's done this to." "One of his first victims?" "Jackson met her in Mexico over spring break." "She was never seen again." "The girl was 16." "They find the body?" "No." "And Jackson was never charged." "I got a hit on Jackson in Las Cruces, New Mexico." "He assaulted the owner of a tattoo parlor using his own baseball bat." "They stopped for more than a tattoo." "He saw them drive up in a Ford Mustang convertible." "d d" "All right, that's it." "Now put it in fourth." "Now pop the clutch." "Oh, I can't do this!" "I don't even have my driver's license." "You can do anything you want." "You're with me now." "All right, now release the clutch." "Hit the gas!" "Okay, now what?" "Stomp on it." "Whoo!" "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Oh, my God." "Jackson, I am so sorry." "Don't be." "It's just a ride." "But you traded your car for it." "Don't care about things." "I care about you." "Oh!" "Your dad's the one who gets upset about stuff like this, not me." "Maybe, maybe I should call my dad." "Let him know I'm okay." "Later, but first..." "See how it feels." "Oh, there you go." "Oh, my..." "You are crazy." "Crazy about you, baby." "What's that?" "She posted to my blog again." "Who?" "I-I don't know." "Someone's been reading my stuff for the very first time." "Where did you get this?" "Inside the car." "I don't get it!" "Why are you so obsessed with this stupid blog?" "!" "How come I'm not enough for you?" "!" "It's not stupid." "We gotta go right now." "Hey!" "Can we hitch a ride with you?" "Thank you, sir." "The New Mexico State Police found it three hours ago." "Three hours ago?" "If somebody picked him up, they could be miles from here." "They found this cell phone on the ground." "It belongs to the owner of the car." "I'm betting Jackson didn't like his girlfriend's blog." "Check this out." "Sunflower seeds on the passenger side." "Must be letting Carina drive." "Carina's dad wouldn't let her get her license." "He's pulling out all the stops." "Trying to keep her under his spell." "Come on, baby, don't be mad about the phone." "I'm not." "I was just scared." "You know what I'm talking about." "I just love you so much." "I don't want anyone coming between us." "You freaked me out." "I'm sorry." "If I trust you, you have to trust me, too." "Right." "You're totally right." "What are you doing?" "Carina, I want to spend the rest of life with you." "Will you marry me?" "Wh-What are you...?" "We-we can't get married." "What's stopping us?" "No one can tell us what to do anymore." "Jackson..." "I love you." "And you love me." "We'll figure out the rest along the way." "Okay." "Okay?" "Yes." "Yes?" "Yes." "Damn it." "Carina didn't respond?" "No." "Cell phone records from Jackson's gas station victim came back." "Outgoing calls made after his death." "Mostly data usage." "Carina was logging on the Internet." "Checking her blog." "Right." "But look at these calls to Killeen, Texas." "It's all the same number?" "Carina's home number." "Wait, if she's still calling home..." "She thinks her dad's still alive." "All right, I want that number routed to my cell." "So if Carina calls again, I want to be able to talk to her." "Okay." "Mm, mm." "Oh." "Tell me how much you love me." "More than the stars and the Moon." "d d" "I love this song." "Hey, two more..." "top-shelf tequila." "I think you both have had enough." "Oh, come on, man." "We're celebrating." "We just got engaged today." "Hey, I'm happy for you, but your girl's spun out." "I could lose my license for serving her." "Are you saying we should leave?" "That's not a bad idea." "Yeah?" "Well, how about this?" "You open the cash register and give me all the money." "And your car keys, too." "Jackson." "Come here, Carina." "What's going on?" "We need gas money." "We don't even have a car." "Yes, we do." "Don't steal the money." "You know, I do everything for us, right?" "Open your purse." "Don't... don't steal the money." "I'm taking care of you." "Take it." "Take it." "Go." "Get down on the floor." "You're bleeding." "I'm fine." "Just get in the car." "He shot you." "Just get in the damn car now, Carina!" "Appreciate it." "Okay." "So the bar that they were in was in Safford, Arizona." "The bartender grazed Jackson." "He might be hurt." "What about Carina?" "He said that she was dancing when Jackson pulled a gun." "That they were celebrating." "Celebrating what?" "Their engagement." "What?" "!" "The Lincoln Jackson stole from the bartender... had an EZ Pass." "Went through a tollbooth outside of Flagstaff two hours ago." "Flagstaff?" "They were heading west the whole time." "Why all of a sudden are they going north?" "Flagstaff... one of the girls;" "One of the girls was from there." "One of the statutory rape victims was..." "Rachel, Rachel Hendricks." "Yeah, her parents filed a statutory rape charge in '03." "Why would Jackson go there?" "All right, there is a Rachel Hendricks in Kachina Village." "That's ten miles outside of Flagstaff." "She's a paramedic." "And Jackson's been shot." "And he knows not to go to a hospital." "They'd report a gunshot wound." "Let's go." "Let's call Flagstaff P.D." "And Rachel Hendricks." "My head is killing me." "Where are we?" "Just stay in the car." "What's going on, Jackson?" "Just wait here." "Okay?" "Okay." "I love you, remember." "Be back in ten minutes." "Then we'll get out of here." "Get out here." "Come on." "What do you mean?" "You just got here." "I haven't seen you in forever." "That's not really the point right now." "I'm bleeding." "And I'm supposed to just patch you up?" "I told you to stay in the car." "Who's she?" "I patched him up." "I didn't know what else to do." "You knew Jackson was wanted for what he did to you." "Why didn't you call the police?" "He said he'd hurt Adam if I did." "Adam?" "That's Jackson's son?" "He never even met him until this morning." "Jackson is not a good man." "Took me a while to learn that." "I think that girl's just finding out now." "Her name's Carina, and she's 16 years old." "Hey, Rachel, you have any idea where they were headed?" "No idea." "Probably someplace she picked out." "That's how he makes you think he cares about you." "He said we were the stars and the Moon." "Together forever." "The crap you'll believe when you're 16." "I hope she comes to her senses before... you know." "Yeah." "Me, too." "Rachel doesn't mean anything to me anymore." "You need to let it go." "That kid... is he your son?" "Look, Carina..." "Tell me the truth." "Yeah, he's mine." "So what?" "We're not going to California, are we?" "Baja is California." "I don't want to go to Mexico;" "I don't speak Spanish." "I'll teach you." "I want to go back to Killeen." "Back to my dad." "Are you really that stupid?" "What the hell do you think happened back in Killeen, huh?" "Please stop." "What the hell is wrong with you?" "!" "I want to call my dad." "You want to call your dad." "Be my guest." "Thank you for your help." "Annie Frost." "Yeah, put it through." "It's a phone call." "It's coming in to the Matthew's home from an Arizona pay phone somewhere." "It's her, Jimmy." "Come on, Dad, please." "Please pick up, Daddy, please." "Carina?" "Hello?" "Who is this?" "My name is Annie." "I work with the U.S. Marshals Service." "Are you the one that's been writing to me?" "Yeah." "Yeah, it's me." "Listen, Carina, are you... are you alone or are you with Jackson?" "Why are you...?" "Why are you...?" "Where's my dad?" "Carina, you need to listen to me." "You're in danger right now." "I need to come to you." "Where are you?" "Douglas." "I think it's in Arizona." "Is he taking you to Mexico?" "Yes." "Get in the car." "Get in the damn car." "Carina?" "Excuse me, ma'am, do you mind opening the back door?" "Sir?" "How you doing?" "You seen either one of these folks?" "Deputy Frost." "This is Annie Frost." "The Lincoln you're looking for." "We got it here in secondary." "We're on our way." "They found him!" "?" "Que paso?" "He said a young couple paid him $200 to drive the car over the border, and to turn the car back over to them in Auga Prieta." "These two?" "Yeah, that's him, and she was wearing a baseball cap." "They're crossing the border on foot." "Yeah, it's easier to blend in." "And when... when were you meeting them?" "Two o'clock." "2:00?" "That's now." "Carina!" "Annie, you can't go there!" "It's me!" "It's me!" "Annie!" "No." "No!" "We can't touch him once he's over the border." "Wait!" "Annie, you can't!" "They'll arrest you." "By the time we get permission, Marco, it's going to be too late." "I know." "I know." "You can't touch him over there." "I'm sorry." "You know, I'll talk to the Mexico City Foreign Field Office." "Maybe we can get a provisional arrest warrant." "Thank you, Marco." "Okay." "We did the best we could, Boots." "Yeah." "I know." "It's good to see you again, Fernie." "You, too, Deputy Frost." "My men have located your fugitive, and the girl." "They're staying at a hotel across town." "But you and your team are here in Tepache as liaisons, not Marshals." "So I don't want to see guns, no arresting, no craziness, nada." "I'll tell them." "None, whatsoever." "I'm happy to extend you every courtesy, Annie." "But you have to understand that we are a small police force." "We're stretched thin with all the problems in los carteles." "Please." "Let us take care of the overtime for your officers." "All I need, Fernie, is that they're there when I call." "She ain't pretty, but she'll get us to Leon, then Campeche." "By the beach." "Tequila and fish tacos all day long." "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Everything I do, I do for us, you know that, right?" "I know." "I love you." "I love you, too." "Oh." "You know what?" "I forgot my purse." "In the hotel room." "I should go get it." "All right, hurry up." "Carina!" "There's nothing you can do to me here." "You're right." "I can't." "But they can." "Fernie!" "Stay with them, okay?" "Ah!" "I'm sorry, gringo, did I get in your way?" "Come here." "Go ahead." "You can't take me back to America." "Once I got across the border, I'm home free." "You brought an underage girl over." "You broke Mexican law." "So my pal Fernie here's going to be holding you for about eight to ten weeks, till we can get your extradition order." "And then we're going to come back down here and bring you to America and put you on trial for murder." "You hear me?" "By that time?" "You're going to be begging for the U.S. prison system." "Carina." "Bienvendios a México." "Carina." "Carina!" "Guess I was hungry." "I thought I loved him." "I thought he loved me." "I'm going to do everything I can to help you." "Okay?" "My dad's gone." "I know." "You call me if I can help." "Thank you." ""One day I will leave this place a woman, not a girl," ""and I'll go to the ocean and put my feet in the waves," ""and I'll remember you, Mom," ""and everything you taught me." "Everything I didn't listen to but should have.""