"Previouslyon in plain sight..." "Have we met before?" "Uh, not that I'm aware of." "Chuck." "You didn't misplace the suitcase, did you?" "Because that's our whole world." "You decide who has to pay the price." "Your boyfriend... or your sister." "But I have the drugs, I'll just get them to you." "Oh, my God!" "What did you do?" "What the hell is this?" "I have a warrant to search the house for drugs." "I was just wondering when I can expect a crew at my house to fix your mess?" "When hell freezes over, does that work for you?" "James Wiley Shannon." "Husband of Jinx, father of Mary and Brandi." "James was in an accident." "He's my father." "Oh, Mary, this is Lauren." "If Mary knows about Lauren, she's obligated to tell the FBI." "Oh, and we're not?" "Well, who was that man at the door?" "That was Peter." "Peter Albert?" "Who owns half of Albuquerque?" "At least he's not a meth dealer." "That's progress, right?" "You're done here, allright?" "I'm not leaving here till I get what I came for." "What did you do with the stuff in the suitcase?" "I don't know much about chemistry, but I'm pretty sure it didn't just magically turn into towels." "Can you hand me a towel, please?" "I may have underestimated you." "Since 1970, the federal witness protection program has relocated thousands of witnesses some criminal, some not to neighborhoods all across the country." "Every one of those individuals shares a unique attribute distinguishing them from the rest of the general population." "And that is... somebody wants them dead." "Mary picking you up?" "Yes, for the tenth time." "Just a minute!" "I'm sorry, all right?" "I'm just a little, you know..." "Nervous?" "Yeah, I know." "Me too." "I'm not nervous." "I don't want anything to go wrong." "What could go wrong?" "I'm stashing 20 pounds of meth at my sister, the federal marshal's house." "It's perfect, right?" "It's just that if anything ever happened to you..." "Get over here." "Get over here." "Just a minute!" "Damn kids." "Damn, Brandi." "This is a mess." "Explain to me again." "How'd she get in the program?" "Do you want the real answer?" "Or the one that makes me giggle?" "Real, please." "I gave you up." "Why can't you open up?" "What are you doing?" "Judge ordered it sealed." "To lock freshness in." "All right, let's just get on with this." "Knock, knock." "Wow, what's all this?" "You know, your basic nightmare." "Do you have any evidence?" "Here you go." "Biscuit's back!" "He's had some work done." "Hey, someone's at the door." "It's the FBI bunny." "It's not going to stop until you open up." "I don't know what to do." "Hey Mary, I think someone's at the door." "This is Special Agent O'Connor of the FBI." "Open up!" "Fine, I'll open up." "There I go." "Happy now?" "Happy now?" "Fbi!" "Come on, open up!" "What?" "Okay." "Mary, someone's at the door, I think it's the FBI." "FBI!" "What?" "Put it down!" "Okay, okay, okay." "It's down, it's down." "Take it easy." "We're not moving." "Brandi Katherine Shannon, you're under arrest for possession with intent to distribute illegal drugs, interstate drug trafficking and conspiring..." "Do not say anything until I can get a lawyer there." "Just when things were starting to go right." "Please don't tell Peter about this." "Promise me?" "We promise." "Everything's going to be okay." "Wait, wait!" "She needs shoes." "Please." "Go ahead." "Get her shoes." "I'm just getting clothes." "I'm just getting her clothes." "Okay?" "I'm just getting her clothes." "Here, take that." "Here, here." "Be quiet and stay calm, okay?" "No, not those." "They'll take the laces out when they process her." "Come on, come on." "Put your foot in." "Please get me out." "Keep quiet, okay?" "Okay, listen to me." "Look at me!" "Do not say a word to anyone." "Do not answer any questions." "Anything you tell them will be used to bury you." "Do you understand?" "Do you understand?" "Yes, okay." "Okay." "Don't make things worse." "What just happened?" "Well, in my lay opinion, Brandi was arrested." "I meant what for?" "Why now?" "I thought we were done with all that." "Apparently not." "I'm going to the federal building." "I want to go with you." "There's nothing to do that requires two people." "Stay here." "Stay by the phone." "I'll keep you posted." "I'll take you." "No, Raph." "I can operate much more freely in a federal courthouse when I'm not plus one." "I'll call you as soon as I know something." "Okay." "You have a plan?" "I mean, one that doesn't involve maiming O'Connor?" "I'm gonna go see my sister and then try to figure out what the hell my plan is." "Sounds like a plan." "Just don't do anything that might be misconstrued as seeking special treatment." "That's a pretty tall order, considering I was the fourth runner up in the 2001 misconstrued pageant." "Really?" "Puns now?" "You realize what a vulnerable position you're in?" "Yes, Marshall." "I do." "But at the moment... my position's somewhat less vulnerable than Brandi's." "So for the time being, I'm just going to focus on her, okay?" "Inspector Shannon." "Deputy Marshall Lipinski." "Has custody been turned over to the marshals?" "Yes." "I'd like a few minutes with her." "Oh, Mary." "Oh, I know." "What is happening?" "Am I really being charged with murder?" "I don't know yet." "Sometimes they wave a more serious charge in the air just to scare a suspect into confessing to a lesser one." "Listen to me, do you have any idea what they might have on you they didn't have three months ago?" "No, no." "There's nothing that they could have." "Not then, not now, not three years from now." "Have you talked to anyone about this?" "With Peter?" "Oh, God, no." "He's the last person that I would want to find out about this." "Okay, okay." "Stay calm." "I'm gonna try to figure this mess out." "You're leaving me?" "Squish..." "But you just got here." "Every minute I'm here is a minute I'm not working on getting you released." "Jus... plea... just a few minutes." "Please." "Okay." "O'connor's been sitting on this case for three months." "What could he have now that he didn't have before?" "20 pounds of missing meth?" "I doubt it." "Assuming there ever was any meth, Brandi would've dumped it a long time ago." "So what else could he have?" "A witness?" "Can I say something here?" "I rather you didn't." "You walk around like you're responsible for how she turned out." "And I'm scared to death that some part of you thinks you deserve some part of this." "That allowing yourself to go down with her will somehow make things right." "And it won't." "You'll still feel guilty and she won't even appreciate the gesture." "Okay." "Thanks." "Maybe her cell's tapped." "I got to grab those phone records." "The house could be bugged." "No, Stan ordered a sweep after the raid; it was clean." "It could've been planted since then." "Who are you calling?" "Hey, Stan... if someone planted a listening device in my house and overheard me talking business with you or Marshall, that would constitute a breach of Witsec security, right?" "What's going on?" "What is that?" "Checking for bugs." "Electronic listening devices." "What do you mean?" "Come on." "What?" "What?" "Was that a bug?" "Yes." "Did O'Connor put it there?" "I don't know." "Why can't we just rip it out?" "Because we're better off if they don't know that we know about it." "Now, just think for a minute." "Have you or Brandi talked about anything inside the house?" "The suitcase, the drugs, anything?" "No, absolutely not." "Has anyone suspicious been inside the house, or just someone you don't know that well?" "No, nobody." "Exc... except..." "Lauren." "Oh, God." "What?" "What about her?" "You're not going to like this." "Mom, this is no time to screw around." "Lauren is not... my cousin Chris' friend's daughter." "Who is she, mom?" "You realize Brandi's about to stand trial for murder, right?" "Lauren is your half-sister." "What?" "I'm sorry I didn't tell you before." "But I was worried that you'd have to report her to the FBI because of her connection to your father." "You're kidding me, right?" "No." "He was in an accident." "And she found a note from him addressed to me." "And then he disappeared." "And she wanted to come here to find out who we were." "And you believed that cock and bull story?" "Mary!" "The letter was in his handwriting." "Jesus, mom!" "Use your head for once." "This chick shows up with a letter and a ridiculous story, gets you and Brandi talking about God knows what, and the morning after she leaves, Brandi gets busted by the feds." "I understand you're upset." "But what does one thing have to do with the other?" "My God, mom." "Are you really that dense?" "She is not my half-sister." "She's FBI." "I'm not saying it was a premonition, doofus." "I'm saying while I was still asleep, the sounds oft he FBI banging on my door, yelling, "FBI, open up," triggered this very bizarre dream about Brandi getting busted." "In which I was wrestling a giant pink bunny." "Wrestling or dancing, I couldn't really tell." "This is Mary." "You sure?" "Okay." "Yeah, thanks a lot." "Bye." "The phones are clean." "Just one bug." "Exactly how giant was this bunny?" "50 feet, 100 feet?" "Like, six." "Giant, by bunny Standards." "Hey, how can I find out if there's a surveillance warrant for that bug." "I already called the U.S. Attorney's office." "Told them I needed to know about any surveillance related warrants issued for your sister." "That bugging a Witsec inspector's home can compromise the security of their own protective witnesses, etc." "They said they'd look into it but are disinclined at this time to discuss any active warrants." "Thanks." "You don't think I could take a six-foot bunny?" "Pink, no less." "It was a dream." "I heard about your sister." "Is she okay?" "Is there anything I can do?" "Thanks." "Yeah, as a matter of fact, I need a favor." "Any way you can check into FBI personnel files for an agent named Lauren?" "I don't have a last name, but she's about my height blonde, fair skin, 30-ish." "Possibly based out of a New Jersey office." "I wish I could, but those files are highly restricted." "I just..." "I don't have that kind of access." "Oh, I see." "Mary, misappropriating government personnel records is a federal crime that limits..." "I'm not asking for a printout of her complete service record." "I just want to know if such a person exists at the FBI." "I mean, come on." "How hard would it be for you to call up one of your buddies and ask if they've heard of a tall, blonde agent who may go by the name of Lauren... oh, and she can palm a basketball... or is that a federal crime, too?" "No, it's not." "I will make some calls." "Thank you." "And maybe get a photograph if you can." "They're processing Brandi now." "All right, let's go." "You know, she is not the enemy." "Maybe." "She's sticking her neck out for you." "If you say so." "Have you considered the possibility that Lauren is not FBI?" "Think about it." "She showed up out of nowhere, left no way for us to contact her, no last name." "Two days later, my house is bugged, and Brandi's arrested." "No, I haven't considered it." "Gin." "How can someone be so lucky at cards?" "There's an old saying about that." "This is ridiculous." "I have to do something." "I have no idea what to do." "My daughter's in jail, and there's absolutely nothing I can do to help her." "God." "I am a miserable excuse for a mother." "This is where you're supposed to disagree with me." "I think you're trying really hard to be a better mother." "And that means a lot to your daughters." "No, it doesn't." "Not to Mary, anyway." "If you want to prove something to Mary, you usually just have to do it." "I'm calling Peter." "Brandi told you not to." "Sometimes a mother has to do what's best for her children, even if they don't like it." "You sure you want to do this?" "I'm positive I don't." "But you seem to have become the train wreck I can't stop watching." "Choo choo." "Inspectors... please, come in." "What can I do for you?" "Well... you could explain to me what this is all about." "I mean, what this is really all about, because I've been trying to make sense of it from your point of view, and I just can't." "So if you don't mind, could you please tell me what is it that I'm missing?" "Well, your sister's a criminal, inspector." "She broke several federal laws." "That's pretty much the long and short of it." "You seem to be the only one in denial of that fact." "No, my sister was the victim of an abusive boyfriend." "She didn't have a clue what she was getting into." "You know that as well as I do." "That may have been the case when she left New Jersey with a suitcase full of drugs." "But 1,500 milesa nd four months later... oh, I think she knew exactly what she was doing." "Even if everything you say is true, you've put how many months and man hours into prosecuting someone who, by all accounts, backed out of a drug deal and dropped a dime on one of the biggest meth dealers in the southwest?" "You seem to be the only one in denial of that." "Oh, that's sweet." "You're sticking up for her." "Have I answered your question?" "Yeah, I think you have." "As I understand it,y ou're pursuing this case beyond all reason, because there's something fundamentally hinky about you." "I don't know what it is, but... pretty sure I will before we're done." "Thanks for your time." "Come on." "Let's get some lunch." "I thought you'd never ask." "We'd ask you to join,but..." "At what point did you learn your sister was a meth dealer?" "Are you aware that even the intent to dispose of evidence is a crime?" "What happened to the drugs, Inspector?" "Someone helped her get rid of them." "I'm going to find out who." "What are you doing here?" "I wanted to be here." "I told you to stay home." "I told you to stay with her." "We both wanted to be here." "Oh, come on." "Mary." "I so appreciate what you're doing for Brandi." "But I'm her mother." "I need to be here for her." "And for you." "All rise." "The honorable Judge John Metcalf presiding." "Mary." "Please be seated." "Criminal cause for arraignment, United States versus Brandi Katherine Shannon." "Docket number 88361." "A.U.S.A. Renner for the government." "Does the defendant have her own representation?" "Roberta Proctor, your honor." "May I have a moment to confer with my client?" "Who is that?" "I called Peter." "Mom!" "He's in Japan doing business still." "But this is his lawyer." "Mom, I have a call into an attorney." "And Brandi asked us not to call Peter." "I don't care!" "I'm not going to send my daughter to trial for murder without getting the best lawyer her boyfriend's money can buy." "Okay." "Okay, I'm sorry I couldn't meet with you before the arraignment;" "Peter just called me an hour ago." "Peter?" "It says two federal agents were killed in contention with the conspiracy." "I know, but I wasn't even there." "I was in Albuquerque." "Doesn't necessarily matter where you were." "If they can prove those murders happened as a result of, or in connection with a crime you conspired to commit, then by law, you are as culpable as the people who pulled the triggers." "Okay, we'll talk more later." "For now, just stay quiet and follow my lead." "We're ready, your honor." "The defendant Ms. Brandi Katherine Shannon is charged with possession with intent to distribute illegal drugs, interstate drug trafficking, and conspiracy to commit murder of federal agents." "Your honor, we'd like to amend the conspiracy charges against Ms. Shannon, based on new evidence." "To include what?" "The kidnapping of Federal Marshal Mary Shannon." "What?" "Does the defendant understand the charges that have been filed against her?" "No, your honor, and frankly, neither do I." "I see nothing in her file linking her to these crimes." "As I said, based on new evidence." "Unless the assistant U.S. Attorney would care to elaborate on the evidence against my client, then neither one of us can agree to understand these charges." "Your honor, we have a sworn statement from a Nicholas Bennetti of Northvale, New Jersey." "Stating that Ms. Shannon was actually on the phone with the kidnapper, Neil "Spanky" Carter, while Marshal Shannon was being held against her will." "Your honor, a moment to confer with my client?" "Do you know a Nick Bennetti?" "Yes, but I..." "Were you on the phone with this "Spanky" character while he was holding a Federal Marshal against her will?" "Yes, but he called me." "And Marshal Shannon is my sister." "And he didn't even mean to kidnap my sister." "He meant to kidnap me." "He even testified to that." "Your honor, Mr. Carter himself testified that his intent was to kidnap Ms. Brandi Shannon." "Her sister, who happens to be a federal marshal, was kidnapped by mistake." "Your honor, irrespective of Mr. Carter's original intent, the fact is, a U.S. Marshal was kidnapped and held against her will." "And Ms. Brandi Shannon was aware of the situation and on the phone with the kidnapper during the commission of the crime." "Request to amend the charges is granted." "I'll need a copy of Nick Bennetti's statement and all other evidence related to this charge." "I'll have my materials sent over to your office as soon as possible." "Now does the defendant understand the charges that have been filed against her?" "Yes, your honor, she does." "Request for preliminary hearing on the evidence and expedited discovery." "Good." "Let's schedule a hearing... a week from today." "The defendant is remanded to custody until then without bail." "Call the next case." "I have to spend the week in jail." "Look at me, look at me." "You stay strong, okay?" "Can you do that?" "Yeah." "I'm so sorry." "We're going to get you out, baby." "Right?" "Right?" "Right." "Mom, I gotta go back to work." "Will you take her home?" "I'm not going." "I'm going to stay here in case anything happens." "Fine." "Mary... is there anything I can do to help?" "Just stay with her and make sure she doesn't fall apart." "That'll be a huge help." "Okay." "Thanks." "I got to go." "Here." "Do we have a copy of the surveillance warrant?" "We're waiting for a callback." "So I hear you paid a visit to O'Connor." "From whom?" "From his boss." "He wanted to know why a U.S. Marshal was interfering in an ongoing case." "What a weasel that guy is." "You knew about this and you let her go?" "He didn't let me do anything." "I was her escort." "And I wasn't interfering in anything." "I just went to ask him to explain why he's pursuing my sister like she's John Dillinger." "Doesn't matter why." "Yeah, it does." "She's in jail because he's got an axe to grind." "So all going over there accomplishes is making you and this office look bad." "Like we are interfering." "Well, I'm sorry." "But it's my sister's life we're talking about." "I'm sorry too." "But from now on, you are to stay away from O'Connor, unless it's for official business." "That's an order." "You understand?" "Yes, sir." "Why is it so hard to get a copy of a surveillance warrant?" "Oh, I don't know, maybe because they're sealed under federal authority?" "She's been on the phone calling in favors all morning." "Information on O'Connor." "A "thank you" might be appropriate." "According to the duty roster from the Bureau's New Jersey office," "O'Connor was originally scheduled to be on the raid that morning." "He switched shifts with Agent Max Harrison." "Who later took two in the chest." "A guilty conscience could explain O'Connor's obsession." "I suppose." "You know, I could see changing shifts with someone on a day where not much is happening, but on a day where I'm supposed to bring down a fairly big drug dealer?" "Would you do that?" "Not without a damn good reason." "And if I switched shifts with you and you wound up getting killed," "I'd damn well want to explain where I was." "There's nothing in here about why O'Connor skipped the raid." "Wonder what his excuse was." "Hey, Stan... mind if I go see O'Connor one more time?" "I got a better idea." "Eleanor." "Yeah?" "Can you get Marshall on the next flight to Newark?" "Right on it." "Hello." "How about the other thing?" "Okay." "Thanks." "Appreciate it." "That was my friend who takes care of warrants for the tenth circuit." "She may have let slip that O'Connor hasn't put in for any warrants in three months." "There's no surveillance order on your house." "The bug isn't FBI." "Wow, maybe O'Connor planted it without a warrant." "How sweet would that be, to bust him on an illegal wire?" "What about Lauren?" "Using the name and the physical description you gave me, she's not in the Bureau's employee records." "Nothing you've given me to go on points to an FBI agent." "Really?" "Not a single Lauren in the entire FBI?" "I didn't say that." "I said, "based on the information you gave me, there were no matches."" "Huh, seems hard to believe, almost impossible." "Maybe I should call your friend." "Are you insane?" "Do... do you have any idea what I risked just making that inquiry for you?" "You mean if you even made the inquiry." "All right." "Mary, that's enough." "Where are the printouts?" "Where are the pictures?" "You really do think I'm some kind of undercover agent." "You worked for the FBI right up until they started investigating my sister." "Tell me that's a coincidence." "Come on, let's go cool off." "Mary, I workedf or the FBI right up until my husband was killed in an automobile accident." "If you even had a husband." "God, I can't imagine." "All right, stop it, Mary." "Jesus." "Mary, I am so sorry you're having such a hard time." "I really am." "I can't imagine what it must be like to walk around so unhappy so much of the time." "But everything I have told you is true." "The FBI did not bug your house." "And whoever that woman was who came to your home, she is almost certainly not an FBI agent." "Come on." "Mary... you need to step back and listen to yourself." "I'm not crazy!" "Eleanor showed up two days after O'Connor raided my house." "She's trying to help you." "Trust me." "I think you need to consider the possibility that the girl who showed upmight actually be your sister." "Please." "Do you think because your father might've had another daughter, that he loved you any less?" "Is that what this is about?" "No." "You don't know... my father and I... he... he just wouldn't do that, not without telling me about it." "How would he do that?" "Are you in touch with your father?" "No, no." "I just meant that if he was able to have this other daughter... this other life... he would find some way to tell me." "To include me." "Have you ever tried to find him?" "No." "Why not?" "You have at your disposal the best technology in the world to track down anyone." "And I have to believe that subconsciously or consciously, that's at least part of the reason you became a marshal." "Are you afraid of what you might find?" "If he wanted me to know where he was, he would tell me." "And what about what you want?" "At some point, that has to matter to you." "If your father's still alive, if he's still out there somewhere..." "What?" "I just can't believe he would want his daughter to suffer the way you're suffering." "Right, right." "Thanks a lot." "The FBI arrested a Nick Bennetti in New Jersey three days ago for selling meth to an undercover agent." "They've been questioning him about Brandi Shannon." "I need you to find everything you can about him." "As fast as you can." "Will do." "Hi, Detective." "Come on in." "Thank you." "How's everything going?" "Eh, you know." "Never a dull moment." "I can imagine." "Afternoon." "Where is everybody?" "Well, hopefully Marshall's about to touch down in Newark." "Mary ran home to get Brandi's cell phone records." "She'll be back soon." "What do you got?" "Spanky Carter's scrapbook." "Criminal record, arrest report, testimony, interrogation transcripts... everything that we compiled when Mary was kidnapped." "So what about Spanky?" "Is he talking to anyone?" "Proctor is with him now." "He owes us one." "We found a good home for his kid after Rachel was busted." "Is the phone call that he made to Brandi the problem?" "Potentially, if it appears she was negotiating or conspiring with them." "But Mary was there when he made the call." "It's in her debrief statement." "Carter threatened Brandi, then shot Chuck to prove he was serious." "I got a copy of our logs." "It'll tell us the exact time that she was reported missing, and then we can compare it to Brandi's phone records." "Great." "Okay." "Here is Brandi's rap sheet." "And this fax just came in for you." "All right." "That's the FBI's witness against Mary's sister." "This is from my friend at the marshals' service in Newark." "According to him, the FBI knew Spanky made a call during the time of the murder and kidnapping, but they could never trace the number." "Bennetti identified it as a disposable cell Brandi was using." "Interesting." "Hi, I'm U.S. Marshal Marshall Mann." "Are you Patricia Harrison?" "Yes." "Was your husband the late Agent Max Harrison?" "Yes, what can I do for you?" "I'm very sorry for your loss, ma'am." "If you have a few minutes, I'd like to speak to you about the day your husband was killed." "I'm sorry, I..." "Please, Mrs. Harrison.This is so important." "I just want to ask a few questions about your husband's relationship with the man who traded shifts with him that day, Agent Robert O'Connor." "All right." "Come in." "Thank you." "Mom." "What're you guys doing here?" "We've been here since the arraignment." "I want to be here for you." "Is Mary coming?" "She's working on getting you out of here." "What if she can't?" "She will!" "We will." "No matter what happens, I'm here for you." "What is this about?" "My understanding is they want to talk about some kind of deal." "My life's over." "I'm never going to get married or have kids." "Of course you are." "Don't talk like that, no." "Mary should be here for this." "I'm here." "Yeah, you are." "Thanks." "It's not my first time in jail, you know." "I never thought I'd be bragging about that." "They're here." "Do you want me to stay with you?" "Is that okay?" "It should be." "Just don't say anything." "I'm sorry, but you should probably wait outside." "I understand." "Okay, you have the transcript and time stamp from Brandi's 911 call right in there." "And that's just about everything I've got." "Thanks, this helps a lot." "Yeah, no problem." "Just let me know if there's anything else I can do." "Mm, on second thought, don't." "I've done enough." "I can't make any promises." "Night, chief." "Night, detective." "Night, inspector." "I, um..." "listen, I, um..." "Not today." "Maybe tomorrow." "Not today." "Fair enough." "Crap!" "Hey Stan, I gotta get to the federal building." "Why, what's happening?" "They're offering Brandi a deal." "It doesn't make sense." "It's gotto be some kind of hail Mary." "Trying to get her to bite on a lesser charge to avoid prosecuting a case they know they can't make." "That's the only thing I can think of." "I gotta fly." "Go, go." "So what's this deal you want to talk about?" "In exchange for a signed confession to all drug related charges, we'll take the murder and kidnapping conspiracy charges off the table, which drops the sentence down to 25 years." "25 years?" "That's considerably better than a life sentence, or if the murder charges hold up, death by lethal injection." "And why the sudden fit of generosity?" "After careful consideration, we've come to the conclusion that although we still believe that" "Ms. Shannon is guilty of all the charges, there are frankly a number of mitigating factors that make trying her for a capital crime... well, let's just say it falls outside my comfort zone." "Mm, I see." "Well, I wouldn't want to cause you any discomfort." "Please, may I have a moment to confer with my client?" "Of course." "Just one more thing." "It's a one time offer, good for the next ten minutes." "If it's not signed in that time, not only will we proceed with all charges against you, but my first stop after I leave this room will be to file identical charges against your sister Mary Shannon as a co-conspirator." "What?" "My sister had nothing to do with this." "Brandi, please." "Thank you, counselor." "We'll let you know what we decide." "Clock's running." "Here's a pen." "Are you sitting down?" "Yeah." "I can hear your shoes." "You'll hear a dial tone in about two seconds if you don't tell me what's on your mind." "Brandi, come on now." "What are you doing?" "Brandi, wait, please." "Let's..." "let's talk about this." "There's nothing to talk about." "I've put my sister through enough." "I'm not going to let her go to prison for something that I did." "Nobody wants to see that, but listen to me." "This is a bad deal." "They want you to sign something because they know they have a weak case." "They're trying to leverage your loyalty and your love for your sister to put you away." "But it's still a case." "I've watched all those shows." "Lots of people get convicted for things that they didn't do all the time." "I'm not going to take that chance with Mary." "Sweetie, listen to Ms. Proctor for a minute." "25 years is a long time." "Exactly." "Call them back in, I'm signing this." "No, no!" "Give it back." "No!" "I'm not going to let you go to prison needlessly." "There must be another way." "Fine, keep it." "Give me another one." "I'll sign it." "Don't sign anything." "Who let you back in here?" "Inspector, you're interrupting a private meeting." "Mary, they offered her 25 years, they were going to indict you." "It's B.S. The whole case is a big, steaming pile." "That's why they want to make a deal." "That's what I tried to tell her." "Fine, roll the dice." "Your sister will be sitting right by your side." "Really?" "Nick Bennetti as your star witness?" "A meth addict who's made a career out of testifying against other meth addicts?" "Inspector, you have no place in this room." "Come on." "Not a shred of physical evidence." "And you got to know what a liability this numb nut is." "According to Albuquerque P.D. reports," "Special Agent Robert O'Connor took control of the kidnapping investigation at approximately 3:45 pm." "According to FBI documents," "Ms. Shannon received an incriminating phone call from Spanky Carter at exactly 9:58 pm." "So while Ms. Shannon was on the phone allegedly masterminding a complicated murder/kidnapping plot, she was in Agent O'Connor's custody." "Which means you're either directly involved in the conspiracy, or incredibly inept at your job." "Which will you claim when you take the stand?" "Now do you see why they wanted to make a deal?" "They don'thave any hard evidence." "They have a meth cooker trying to avoid a third strike for a witness and Inspector Clouseau running the case." "Really?" "Yes, squish." "Really." "How long you been chasing this dog?" "Somebody's going to be pissed at you." "So what do you think?" "Take you about two hours to process Ms. Shannon out?" "I'll get the papers started." "See me in my office." "Sweetie." "Thank you." "It's okay, squish." "It's okay." "I'm glad you were here." "I'll see you in a sec, okay?" "Hang on a sec." "I have nothing to say to you." "My partner ran into a friend of yours tonight." "Patricia Harrison." "He was just in the neighborhood." "She says "hi."" "When I found out you were supposed to be on the drug bust that morning, but you switched shifts with Agent Harrison, I actually felt sorry for you, carrying around all that guilt." "And then I learned while he was being gunned down, you were at his house, in bed with his wife." "You made a human mistake... one that you're going to have to live with." "And I do feel sorry for you, walking around with all that pain." "But you have to find some other way to make it go away." "I look forward to working with you in the future, Agent O'Connor." "I can't believe it took you this long to come and see me." "Me too." "I need to find my father." "Or at least find out if he's still out there." "I'm sorry, I can't help you." "I'll take anything you know." "What was your contingency plan?" "You had to have prearranged some way to get in touch if one of you got caught and one escaped." "Sweetie, your father didn't escape." "We were both taken out of the Trenton Midland Bank in chains." "All the reports say he got away." "I don't care what the reports say." "Your father and I were arrested and brought to Fort Dix." "He was in a cell across from me." "In the middle of the second night, a couple of suits came in." "Went into his cell, talked to him for a while." "I couldn't hear what they were saying." "Next thing I know, they opened the door, your father walked right out with them." "Did you ever ask what happened to him?" "Sure." "And I got the same answer as you." "The cops even testified at my trial he escaped." "If you ask me, he made some kind of a deal and walked out free and clear." "He said you were expecting me to come here." "Why?" "I just assumed once you got a little older, you'd want answers, you'd come to me." "I just..." "I'm sorry, I don't have any for you." "But I can tell you this." "Your father loved you more than anything." "You were practically all he ever talked about." "Thanks." "I appreciate that." "So has he ever contacted you?" "Letters?" "Anything?" "Has he contacted you?" "No." "Me neither." "Daddy... if this is you and you're listening..." "I don't need you anymore."