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Can I help you find something?

Uh, no, but I'd like
to see the owner.

Mr. Rausch is with
clients right now.

Maybe I can assist you?

No, it has to be him.

Well, it could be
a little while.

We do have a sitting area.

You can help yourself to some...

RAUSCH: Now, this is something
a bit more dramatic,

but maybe that's what
you were thinking of.

Mr. Rausch?

Uh, if you could give me
just one moment.

I'm sorry.

This really can't wait.

Uh, try it on.

I'll be right back.

What can I do for you?

What-What is this?

Exactly what it says.

If you don't help me,

your wife and daughter...
are going to die.

What...?

What have you done to them?
Where are they?

Please, just do
as the note says.

The people who have them --

you have no idea
what they're capable of.

They want diamonds.

( whispers )
Mr. Rausch!

Okay, okay.

Your wife and daughter,
Mr. Rausch.

Now, I've done everything
you asked.

- My family...
- Not yet.

If everything goes smoothly --

no police, no FBI --

you'll see them
again in 24 hours.

No, no, that's too long.

I can't...

MAN:
Hold it right there!

MAN:
Don't!

( screams )

I warned her, told her to stop.

Hey, Don.

So, the owner's wife didn't show
at work today,

and his daughter never made it
to school, either.

All right, so the
kidnapping's real.

Yeah, apparently.

David.

Any idea who she is?

No I.D.

Only things she had on her
were car keys, sunglasses,

about a half a million in diamonds
she didn't walk in here with.

Weapons?

Depends on what you call
a weapon.

COLBY:
The old guy said he thought that

she was reaching
for a gun, so...

Well, I hope that shot
just didn't kill three people.

( echoing ):
We all use math every day...

to predict weather...

to tell time...

to handle money...

Math is more than formulas
and equations.

It's logic.

Math is more than formulas
and equations.

It's rationality.

It's using your mind to solve
the biggest mysteries we know.

All right, listen up, everybody.

This is Diane Rausch,
the store owner's wife,

and their eight-year-old daughter,
Julia.

Now, we're going to play this as
a kidnapping, first and foremost.

The robbery is secondary.

It's just a means
to get to the kidnappers.

We clear on that?

David, how we doing
on the Jane Doe?

Fingerprints weren't
in the system.

Coroner's checking
dental records,

any kind of medical clue
to identify her.

And the car -- we got anything
with that?

I mean, we find that,
we find out who the woman is.

No. Agents canvassed the
neighborhood near the store.

They didn't find a car
to go with her keys.

DON: We should be looking into other
ways that she might have gotten there --

bus, car, bicycle...

She was probably driven
by an accomplice.

Statistically, women rarely
commit a crime alone.

Blame the men, huh, Megan?

The stats blame the men,
Granger. I'm just quoting them.

Come on. Let's just
find this woman.

It's our only way we're gonna
save this kid and her mother.

All right?
Any questions?

Let's do it.

After what happened, we have to
be worried about their chances.

Let's just assume they're alive,

and then their chances
are better, right?

Don.

Hey, Charlie.

What are you doing here?

I'm dropping this off
for you, man.

You are?

What is it?

Wow. What is it?

I don't know.
It's the geographic crime index

you pretty much begged me
to put together for you.

I found some fairly fascinating
patterns in here, as well.

I mean, you should
be thanking me.

Right. Right, well, thank you.
I appreciate it.

I'm up all night indexing.

Yeah, well, Charlie, you know,

we just got
this kidnapping case.

It's a mother and her
eight-year-old daughter, so...

Kidnapped by whom?

Only lead we have is a Jane Doe.

What do you know about her?

Well, I mean,
she wears sunglasses

and drives a Saturn,
which we can't find.

Are these her keys?

Yeah. We did a search for the car,
but it didn't turn up.

Keyless entry remote actually poses a
fairly interesting mathematical problem.

Oh, yeah?
And how is that?

Well, much
of the general populace

has a remote nowadays,
don't they?

I mean, I think I read somewhere

where 80% of new cars come
with a remote.

- Yeah, well, thanks.
- Hold on.

Every remote has
to have a unique,

one-to-one relationship
with a single car.

Otherwise, you walk out
into a parking lot,

push that button.

Any number of cars might unlock.

( beeping )

So, you're saying
each car has its own frequency?

No. That's just it.

They're all
on the same frequency.

( beep )

Every remote has a numerical
code that links it to just one car.

You see, people don't often
think about this stuff,

but it's an entirely
math-based technology.

You know who might be able
to help you with this is Larry.

His cosmic listening project
at Kitt Peak

involves stacked frequency work.

Well, I got
to find this woman's car,

so anything you or Larry can do,
I mean, I would appreciate it.

So the last time you saw
your wife and daughter,

they were eating breakfast.

They were sitting at
the kitchen table.

I kissed them goodbye,
left for work.

Right. And your wife drives
Julia to school?

That's our routine, every day.

One of the neighbors saw
'em pull out around 8:30.

Said everything looked normal.

God, I just can't imagine

what they're going through
right now.

The best thing you could do
for them is just to stay calm

and stay focused.

Mr. Rausch, did you happen
to notice anyone hanging around,

or any strange cars parked
on the street?

Anything that just didn't
quite seem to belong?

( stuttering ):
I'm... I'm... I'm sorry.

Nothing comes to mind.

So, what...?
What happens next?

COLBY: Well, we'll set up a command center
in your house and monitor your calls.

That way, in case the
kidnappers try to contact you...

A command center?
No, I don't want that.

You know, Mr.
Rausch, we need...

The last thing this woman said
was, "No police, no FBI."

If these people call back...

If they call, I'll do exactly
what they say.

I'll pay whatever they ask.

I just want my family back!

"No police, no FBI?"

Rausch could wind up
a target himself.

Yep. That's why we're gonna put
a line on his phone,

keep him under surveillance.

( electrical humming, beep )

Hey, Charlie, have you ever
considered our place in the universe?

Certainly every time we speak.

More to the point.

You know, galaxies

are constantly
moving away from us.

And the farther away they are,

the faster they're
leaving us behind.

This is more to what point,
again?

Amita, Charlie.

- Oh.
- No, wait, wait, wait.

As you let that
opportunity drift away,

it moves faster, and
it moves farther.

It's more complicated than that.

And no matter how complicated

the shape and structure
of a large star,

you-you take away
the nuclear fuel,

it becomes what?
A black hole.

Mixing cosmic metaphors again,
are we?

No, it was galaxies,
then stars...

Our relationship
is not a black hole. Okay?

- Sorry, guys.
- It's not a black hole.

You're not having a little
lovers' spat are you?

No, he...
Larry just likes to...

Why do you like to talk
about every other problem

except the one you're currently
working on at the moment?

Hey, hey, hey, what problem?

Receiver is hooked up, so
you just take that remote there,

you hit the button, and

the emitted data
stream will be captured

and conveyed right
to the computer.

Okay, I got it.
Here you go.

( beeps )

All right, that's the code
that tells the car door to open.

- Mm-hmm.
- Okay, let's try another one.

( beeping )

That's a different number.

Because it's a rolling code.

Every time I hit the key,

it sends out a different signal
to the car.

Right. So?

Well, it's like a pitcher.

If he throws the same fastball every
single throw, what would happen?

Lots of hits.
He'd get pulled.

It's the same with a radio code.

If this key sent out
the same signal every time,

well then, it would be easy
for someone else to intercept it.

With a rolling code,
the pitcher needs to mix it up.

Okay, he's throwing curveballs,
he's throwing sliders.

All right, so if the remote's
sending a different signal,

then how does the car
understand it?

The change is predictable,

as long as you know
the algorithm that generates it.

It could be as simple
as adding plus one,

like the catcher adding
a single finger

every time
he signals the next pitch.

So, then it doesn't matter if
the combination's different,

as long as the remote
and the car know it.

However, with this remote,

the algorithm's considerably
more complicated.

We're looking at a sequence,
like, 32 hexadecimal digits long.

I mean, that-that's long.

It's a matter of finding the
algorithm that changes the sequence.

The more data I collect,
the easier

it'll be for me
to deduce that algorithm.

Hence, my preference
for classic automobiles.

Standard lock and
key technology.

Keep your heated seats...

DON: Guys, look, I'm dealing with
a kidnapping here, okay?

Statistically, the more time
that goes by,

the worse our
chances are getting.

I got you. We're on it.

We're moving
as fast as we can for you.

You're sorting those?
Based on what?

The ones I like
and the ones I don't.

Looking at the quality.

See if she knew
what she was doing.

She's not in the system.

She has no criminal history,
no record.

And she wakes up this morning
and decides to become a felon.

Maybe she's never been caught
before.

I don't see how,
with her habits.

I mean, look at her.

She's making absolutely no
attempt to avoid the cameras.

And her hands...

Her fingerprints are on the top
of every counter in there.

And look right there.

What?

She looks terrified.

( rock music playing )

♪

Oh, hey, Amita.

- Hi, Charlie.
- Hi.

What's going on?

- What are you working on?
- Something for Don.

It's part of a kidnapping case.

Although, um, right now, I'm not
really seeing a solution.

- Can I help?
- Please do.

I'm trying to determine
a generating algorithm

from a series
of coded data streams.

You're working this
as a straight rolling code.

Yeah.

Well, for the first
half, definitely.

You've proved it.

But for the second half...

I don't know.

Have you tried
a 1-D cellular automaton?

What, like...

Wolfram's Discrete
Computability Theories.

Yeah.
It's just a thought.

That's a great thought.

What?

What are you smiling about?

Would you want to...

do something with me
after we're done here?

Charlie, are you actually
asking me out on a date?

You and me, talking about
anything except work.

What do you say?

Yes.

( both chuckle )

MEGAN: The coroner's report
on our Jane Doe:

no traceable dental work.

She's never even had a cavity.

Yeah, so we got
a jewel thief who flosses, huh?

Anything else we can trace?

Contact lenses,
breast implants...

The contact lenses are
generic mail-order,

so there's no serial numbers.

And her breasts -- believe
it or not -- are real... in L.A.

I mean, that wasn't the
nose she was born with,

which won't help
our case at all,

but at least it'll help me sleep better
at night knowing she wasn't perfect.

Thanks.

We were able to narrow
the window on the abduction.

Looks like they were grabbed
somewhere between home

and the daughter's school.

Colby, how we doing
on the set up at Rausch's house?

Get this:
Rausch wouldn't allow it.

Wouldn't allow it?

Seems to think
he has a better shot

getting them back on his own.

Come on.
Wrong move there.

- We mentioned that.
- ( cell phone rings )

Eppes.

Hey, bro, it's me.

I, uh, calculated
the program algorithm --

Jane Doe's car keys.

And I'm e-mailing it
to you right now.

Yeah?

Did you get it?

Uh, hold on.

Yeah, I'm getting it.

I mean, I don't know
what this means.

It should mean something
to the car manufacturer.

This algorithm is specific
to one car.

They should be able
to tell you which one.

The DMV can tell you
who the current owner is.

All right,
good, Charlie, thanks.

Spotter's got one white male in
his 50s in the front living room,

and there's no
sign of anyone else.

All right, let's get everyone
in position.

- Tell David.
- Yeah.

Can I help you?

( Caribbean accent ): Yes,
I have a package here for Erica Logan.

Erica's not here.

Ah, well, maybe you
can sign for her?

Well, sure, okay.

FBI. Quiet.

Okay, okay.

Who else is in the house?

No one, no one's here but me.

FBI!

FBI! FBI!

- Clear!
- Clear!

- Clear!
- What?

What's going on?

You the registered owner
of a 2001 Saturn Ion?

Yes, it's my daughter's car.

Your daughter?

Erica, but she isn't
here right now.

She's at school.

What, she's a student?

No, a teacher.
Kindergarten.

Your daughter's
a kindergarten teacher?

Why?

What's going on?

Is this her?

Yes.

Where is she?

Where's Erica?!

This doesn't make any sense.

She can't be dead.

You must have the wrong girl.

Uh, sir, I'm sorry, we don't.

My wife died when Erica was 12.

Her brother Remy was six.

Erica kept us going,
kept us together.

How could someone like that
ever be involved in a robbery?

When was the last time
you saw or spoke to her?

This morning.

She lives here with you?

Well... my health
hasn't been so great.

Erica moved back in about
a year ago to look after me.

What about a boyfriend?

Someone who might be able
to explain what happened today.

Well, truth is, taking care
of me and her brother

didn't give her much time
to live her own life, but...

- ( cell phone rings )
- ...tell you this.

Whatever did happen,

there's got to be more to it.

Don.

They found the wife's car.

( unintelligible
radio transmission )

It's Mrs. Rausch's car.

Last time she
and her daughter were seen

was this morning
pulling out of the house.

Kid's school is about
three blocks from here,

so obviously they knew a route.

Kidnapped in broad daylight?

Looks like they were rear-ended.

Now, make sure we get some
paint scrapings here, huh?

That's got to be
how they were grabbed.

Get hit from behind, hop out to
swap insurance information.

I got a shoe here.

It matches what Rausch said the
little girl was wearing this morning.

Thanks.

So looks like
it happened fast, right?

I mean, it was well-planned,
well-executed,

they knew her routine.

Got a freeway
right around the corner.

Not dealing with amateurs here.

Nah, there's no question
these guys were pros.

Yeah, who used a kindergarten
teacher as their bag man.

And no word, no contact,
in almost seven hours.

What the hell are they after?

MEGAN: I still think Erica Logan
has to be the key.

This kind of radical shift
in behavior?

There has to be
some sort of trigger.

Trigger. Like what?

I can tell you
what a textbook would say.

Statistically, it's things
like a near-death experience.

A person can exhibit an
extreme shift in behavior

if they survived a plane crash.

Another could be a person who's
told they only have a month to live,

may act on fantasies
of an alter ego.

Doesn't fit, though,
in this case --

the autopsy would
have flagged that.

All right, so what else?

Uh, parental instinct --

the perception
of a serious threat to a child.

That also doesn't fit.

I mean, her father said
she doesn't have kids, right?

But there was a brother --
right -- the old man

- said she practically raised him.
- Yeah.

A younger sibling
could be the trigger,

if they had developed
that kind of relationship.

Younger brothers can definitely
be a trigger, trust me.

Go talk to the old man,

see if we can get an
address on the son.

I want to get everything
we can on this kid, right?

( soft jazz playing )

CHARLIE:
So, by the way, I wanted to, uh,

thank you so much for earlier,
for helping me.

Honestly, I think I would have
stared at those boards all day

if you hadn't come up with
the cellular automaton angle,

so... you rock.
( chuckles )

It was one of those weird
inspiration things, you know?

Coming at it with fresh eyes.

It's funny, 'cause
my first thought

was the universal
conductor approach,

but then I realized...

Then you what?

We're doing it again, Charlie.

We're talking about work.

We said we weren't gonna
talk about work, remember?

Yeah... I remember.

- This is ridiculous.
- It's ridiculous.

We have to be able to talk about
something not work related.

We can have a normal
conversation, right?

We can have a conversation.

What's wrong with us?

I don't know.

Pressure...
pressure, maybe.

Yeah.

Maybe it's pressure.

Thanks.

Okay, thanks, thanks a lot.

Whoa.

Look at this.

See that?
It's Romanesque broccoli.

I've actually only ever seen
pictures of it, and there's...

there's a fractal pattern
in here that's... amazing.

How cool is it
there's a vegetable

that grows in the ground
that has fractals,

and at the same time, we're discovering
their importance in astrophysics?

( chuckles )

It really makes you wonder...

Yeah.

( clears throat )
Bon appétit.

You were right.

Brother's name is Remy Logan,

got a sheet goes back
to when he was a juvie.

Oh, yeah, look at this:
petty theft,

narcotics, gambling charges...

Ooh. Just the kind
of little brother

that could complicate
a sister's life.

We know where he is?

Yeah, David just called
with that address.

All right, go pick him up.

( rock music playing )

Wow.

What do you suppose the rent is
on a place like this?

I don't know...
like, two grand, $2,500.

You looking to move?

The place I'm in
doesn't have a pool.

I'm just kind of thinking
here I am,

moved all the way to L.A.

Should have a pool, you know?

Absolutely, man, a pool's
a birthright around here.

Here it is.

Six.

His car's in the garage.

There's someone in there.

( knocking )

Remy Logan! FBI.

Open up!

He's going out the back.

- FBI. Stop!
- FBI!

Stop, or I'll shoot you!

- Hey! I don't have a gun!
- Get down!

Okay, just don't shoot me.

We're not gonna shoot you.

Just did not feel like
chasing you today.

Looks like somebody's
been packing,

gettin' ready to leave.

Who you running from, Remy?

I'm just taking
a little time away,

that's all.

There's nothing illegal
about that, right?

No.

You weren't planning on
sticking around to bury your sister?

Yeah, we know all about the
whole jewelry store robbery thing.

And the kidnapping of
the little girl and her mother.

I don't know
what you're talking about.

Remy, I read your file.

I talked with your old man.
I know the whole story.

You're the screw-up
little brother.

And Erica --

well, she was
the caring big sister

who always got stuck
bailing you out.

Now, the problem is...

Erica was just killed during
the commission of a robbery.

And if you're involved, that puts
you on the hook for felony murder.

But the kidnapping --

if you're involved in that,

might just land you
strapped to a gurney.

Remy... listen.

Talk to us.

Where are they?

Where's this mother
and her little girl?

I don't know.

David, check this out.

You run a book operation?

Hey, who's your bank?

I don't work for anyone.

That's funny -- you know,
I never met an independent bookie

who didn't have a safe,
two armed guards,

and at least three dead bolts
on the front door.

You don't work for anybody, huh?

Here's all the bets
he pushed through.

ALAN: Oh, come on, Charlie,
it couldn't have been that bad.

Actually, I truly can't explain

how awful it was.

Oh, I don't understand it.

You and Amita --
you always got along so well.

I'm just as confused as you are.

Yeah, well, maybe
it'll be better next time, hmm?

Yeah, I don't think there's going
to be a "next time" in my future.

No, no, you do not give up.
You never give up.

Who's giving up what?

Charlie. He blew
his first date with Amita.

I wouldn't say
that I-I "blew it," Dad.

I mean, that's...

Yeah, maybe I blew it.

Wait, what happened, buddy?

It's just we found out
that we really don't have

much to talk about...
outside math.

Oh, man.
Yeah, I know about that.

Maybe it's an Eppes thing.

When Terry and I started dating,

the first thing we said was we
weren't going to talk about work, right?

You know, not a word.

So, how'd you work it out?

Well... I mean,
she's back with her ex.

That's really very encouraging.

DON: Well, I didn't mean
it like that.

I'm sorry. It's different
with you guys.

You'll work it out.

Meanwhile, I'm hitting a wall
with this case.

You haven't found them yet?

Found whom?

A mother and her eight-year-old
daughter, kidnapped.

That's horrible.

Who took them?

I don't... We don't know yet.

I mean, we got this one suspects
who's a bookie,

and we think
there's some connection,

but we got these files
off his computer,

and they're impossible
to analyze.

What are you looking
for in there?

Well, I mean, the people
who financed the operation.

This guy's been running bets
through a website called "Statzwire"

that dead-ends
at a URL in China.

With all the money
he's pulling in and paying out,

we can't tell the difference
between the backers and bettors.

Well, these abbreviations
may be names and dates,

but the numbers in
this column here --

35-17-11,

23-17-5,

24-12-three and a half?

Yeah.

I'm assuming that they're part
of some sort of odds-making,

but they just appear to be
at random, and they can't be.

You're right.
They're not random.

What are you talking about?

Where's that paper?

This weekend's football scores.

35-17-11 here.

The Packers beat the Vikings 35-17,
and the spread was 11.

Whoa.

23-17-5. That...

Here, Niners in San Diego,
five-point spread, right?

24 to 12 was the Jaguars
over the Colts. Huh?

Let me see that.

Three and a half
was a ridiculous spread.

I took the Jaguars and
made a hundred bucks.

What, you have a bookie?

Should I have a lawyer present?

- No, I'll let you slide.
- CHARLIE: Wait a minute.

If this column
is the point spread,

I can use it to calculate
the ratio of winners to losers,

and potentially trace
the payouts and the money flow.

A surprising amount of math
applies itself to gambling.

The most important application --
at least for the bookie --

is determining the point spread,

which is this column right here.

Now, ideally...

a bookie wants to take
equal amounts of money

on each side of a game.

However...

sometimes one team is
obviously better than another.

He has to adjust
the point spread.

He has to draw bets
to the weak side...

and keep the balance.

See, he keeps the balance,

and he doesn't have pay the
winners out of his own pocket.

They get paid
with the losers' money.

So what's in it for the bookie?

The "juice."

You got it.

For every dollar lost...

the bookie takes about a dime.

With his balanced spread,

he's making a four-and-a-half percent
profit on all the action he's taking,

which means for a bettor
to simply break even,

he's got to be right
more than 50% the time.

52.38% of the time.

Good deal for the book;
not so good for the bettors.

Now, once I figured out
the profit stream,

it was fairly easy for me
to separate out the juice,

and that led me
to this bank account.

The bank number puts us at
Pacific World Bank in Santa Monica.

That has to be the backers.

CHARLIE:
The kidnappers?

Colby, track down the bank
manager, the president --

I don't care -- just wake them up,
get the name on that account.

All right?
Good job, Charlie.

This list of names --
where did you get these?

I-I took them straight
from the books themselves.

They're a list
of the suspect's clients.

Why? What's wrong?

Can you put this page
on the screen?

Sure can.

Now scroll down about halfway.

Stop.
Right there.

Rausch, the store owner?

He's one of Remy Logan's
gambling clients?

These numbers indicate he's lost
substantial amounts of money.

Well, how substantial?

CHARLIE:
$180,000.

That ties Rausch to Remy,
and through Remy, right to the kidnappers.

Wait... Rausch is
right in the middle of all this?

COLBY:
Don, Rausch is in the wind.

What do you mean?
What happened to our surveillance?

They were on him, and they lost
him in traffic.

Now he's not answering
his cell phone.

I mean, he's waiting on the
biggest call of his life.

You know, maybe
he's already gotten the call.

No. We're monitoring his phone,
and there's nothing.

Well, maybe he's got
another cell phone, right?

Call all the locals and have
them issue an alert, all right?

- All right.
- I got through on the account

Charlie gave us
for Remy's backers.

Traced back to these two.

Brian and Chris Reynolds.
Brothers.

They cleaned out the account
less than an hour

after the robbery went bad.

'Cause they knew
it was only a matter of time

till we would find Remy
and connect it to them.

Oh, yeah, look at this -- these
are definitely our kidnappers.

Extortion, extortion,
conspiracy...

Older one had a grade-fixing
charge while he was at SC.

Younger one's got
a violent streak.

Goes back to juvie.

Any idea how we can find them?

The address on the bank account
was traced to a P.O. box --

this little mail center
in San Pedro --

but the owner hasn't seen
anyone, not in weeks.

These guys could be
anywhere right now.

Yeah, well, I mean,
you got to figure

the kid and the mother
are slowing them down, right?

Hey, look, until we find
dead bodies,

this is
still a search-and-rescue.

- Right?
- Yeah.

Where are they?

I never seen either one of them.

Oh, no? I know
you've been pushing bets

through their wire to the tune of
five figures a week, you hear me?

We know about Martin Rausch.

- We know he's your client.
- I'll make it clear as possible.

We got a line between them
and the kidnapping.

Know who's in the middle of it?

So if you know where
these guys are,

this would be the
time to tell us.

I don't.

I swear I don't.

Oh, I believe you.

( sighs )
Look...

Rausch got way behind.

Chris and Brian said
if I couldn't collect,

it was coming out of me,

one way or the other.

So then you got your sister
to pull the robbery for you?

No, it was supposed
to be no big deal.

You just take the diamonds,
and you show the picture,

and you come out,
and I go to the parking lot.

She did what she did to help me,
to save my life.

DON:
So, Martin Rausch is a gambler.

- MEGAN: Mm-hmm.
- Right? He's a bad one.

He gets himself in debt to Remy.

Which puts Remy in trouble
with his backers.

That kind of cash, I'm surprised

that they didn't
just kill Rausch.

But dead guys don't pay.

Ultimately,
they just want their money.

So they find out
he owns a jewelry store...

So they kidnap his family
and make Remy pull the robbery?

It's not a bad plan.

No. It's a damn good plan.

I mean, they get their money,
probably more,

and they can count on him to keep
his mouth shut because of his gambling.

Only thing they didn't count on
was the security guard.

Rausch's phone records.

Three hours ago, there's a call
from his wife's cell phone

to a number we don't have.

They called Rausch on her phone?

I guess.

No way to trace it
back to Reynolds, then.

The thing is, what does he have
to give them at this point?

We know he doesn't
have any money.

CLAUDIA: Yeah, Martin was here
a little earlier.

I told him it was silly,
that he didn't need to be here

while all this
was still going on.

Was he near any of the jewelry?

Could he have stolen anything?

Steal? Why would he steal
from his own store?

Was he near any of the jewelry?

No. The insurance company's
locked up

all the merchandise
since the robbery.

They need to do a full inventory
before we reopen.

Okay, think about it.

Is there anything else the
insurance company didn't lock?

No.

You do repairs here?

CLAUDIA:
Yeah.

And they're not part of
the inventory, are they?

- No.
- Show us.

Oh, my God.

They're...
they're all gone.

How much was in here?

I don't know;
if I had to guess,

50, 60,000 at the most.

MEGAN: That's Rausch leaving
with the repaired jewelry.

It's not even close
to what he owes.

Yeah, but he's desperate, Don.

He's going to do anything he can if
he thinks it's going to save his family.

You know, there's an entrance
for the 101 south right there.

Even if we know he headed south,
that's an half an hour ago.

It's not going to help us much.

Sure it is.

This is PEMS:

the Freeway Performance
Evaluation Monitoring System.

Okay? Grad students at Cal-Sci
actually consulted on this.

I ran the system.

Caltrans has sensors
embedded in the roads.

They count cars, trucks.

They monitor traffic patterns,
and that information is sent

to a UC Berkley computer
about twice a minute.

PEMS is designed to predict
optimal traffic routes and travel time,

and here, it can give us an idea
of the speed and movement

of traffic at the time
that Rausch got on the freeway.

Projecting
from that information,

as well as the time elapsed...

Oh, this is the part of the S.A.T.s
that kept me out of Harvard.

The train is leaving the station
at 5:00, right?

I'm applying Constructal Theory:

point-area
and point-volume flows.

See, traffic moves
like any other fluid system.

There are imperfections,
obstacles that force the system

to optimize performance
by reducing its resistance...

Now, Martin Rausch knows
this area pretty well,

and if he's like any
of the rest of us,

he'll reduce his resistance by
choosing the least congested route

to arrive at his destination.

Still not seeing how
you can tell us where he's at.

I can't exactly.

Well, at least not yet,
not right now.

But what I can do...

- You say this is the 101 south?
- Yes.

What I can do
is give you a bounded area.

Wait a minute.

Isn't this the area
where Remy said

he was supposed to make the drop
after the robbery?

Yeah.

DON:
Right.

Yeah, there's a parking lot.

Don, that's Rausch's car.

Yeah, I see.

This is Special Agent Don Eppes
with the FBI.

I need LAPD to cordon off
a one block area

running south from Temple,
north to Second Street.

Copy that.

I think he's still in there.

Mr. Rausch?

What are you doing here?

They didn't bring
my family back.

Just step out of the car,
please.

Who didn't bring them?

I thought if I...

if I at least
paid them something...

But it wasn't enough.
They... they want more.

And I haven't...
I haven't got any more.

Did they show you proof
they have your family?

It's different from the jewelry store,
different location.

- I've lost them, haven't I?
- We don't know that, okay?

DON:
They call you on this?

Yes.

This is all my fault. I...

It wasn't supposed
to go like this.

Hold...
what are you talking about?

They were just supposed to be

held for a couple of hours...

driven around until
they got the diamonds,

- then they said they'd let them go.
- Wait a minute.

Are you saying that...
that you knew all about this?

They were going to kill me.

You understand?

This was a way out.

It was a way out for all of us.

Rausch is useless.

He has no idea where they are.

I was actually starting to
feel sorry for the son of a bitch.

Yeah, he played us something,
huh?

Okay, I understand the robbery.

How do you involve your family
in a kidnapping?

Well, it's just like you said,
so we'd feel sorry for him.

It gives him deniability.

'Cause no one's going to suspect
a guy whose whole family's missing.

We just counted him
as another victim.

Good news is, as of
about a half an hour ago,

the mother and the kid
are still alive, so...

How are you so sure?

The picture was taken
at a different location.

If they were going to kill them,
they wouldn't be moving them around.

Yeah, but now they know
they've gotten everything

they possibly can out of Rausch.

I mean, he even tapped out his credit
cards with the whole gambling thing.

Wait a minute.

- That's it.
- That's what?

The credit cards.

Remy accepts credit cards
but he doesn't process them.

He sends them through
to the Reynolds' website.

Yeah, but we checked the
website and it was a dead end.

Yeah, well, I'll believe that
when Charlie hits it.

Hey, uh, thank you
for doing this.

I hope it's not, um,
too uncomfortable for you.

Amazingly enough, it isn't.

Well, the FBI techs were right.

The route ends
at a server in China.

Yeah, but...

I know, but they're not
in China.

And they're not accessing
the Internet through China.

That's their...
this is just a disguise.

Disguise or not, Charlie,
that's where the trail ends.

( sighs )

All right, all right, all right.

Wait a minute.
Just wait a minute.

Um,

every time someone
visits a website,

they rewrite some
of the code, don't they?

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

So, can't we trace that back to
the computer that created the site?

Well, we have to have some
specific data stream to follow them.

I mean, there are hundreds,
maybe thousands of visitors to this site.

But only the two men we're
looking for are setting odds.

Still...

I mean, we need some sort
of unique data to isolate them.

Fractions.

Specifically a Farey Sequence.

Farey Sequence...

Let's say we begin slicing
oranges... a lot of oranges.

But the rule is
we can never repeat a cut.

In other words, we cut
the first orange in half;

the next orange,
we take out a third;

the next, one-fourth;
then, one-fifth and so on.

In the end,

we're left with many orange
slices of varying size.

When they're arranged
from smallest to largest,

they form a Farey sequence.

And yes, it's a fairly esoteric
pattern of fractions.

However, the one place they
often tend to show up:

bookmaking.

And there's
our unique data stream.

So, one-eighth is seven-to-one odds,

one-seventh is six-to-one
and two-thirds is two-to-one.

Exactly.

Right.

So all the fractions
are betting lines.

Right. And they led us
to an Internet account

billed to a marine repair
business in San Pedro.

Wait, you say San Pedro?

That's the same place the Reynolds'
brothers have their mail drop.

FBI!

FBI!

FBI! Hands up!

Get them up!

Get those hands up!

Don't move!

You, get your hands up there!

Where are they?
Where are they?

I got no idea
what you're talking about!

Neither does my brother.

They're not here, Don.
No sign of them.

Guys, I think
we may be too late.

No, we're not.

We're going to check the docks,
the boats, everything.

Let's go.

All right Fish, Petey, up there.

Sam, Mikey, this way.

You guys come with me.

Whoa... hold on.
Shhh.

Quiet. Quiet.

I hear it.

Get me something
to pry this open with.

My name is Don Eppes!

I'm with the FBI.
Can you hear me?

WOMAN:
Please, hurry.

Just relax, ma'am.
We're coming right in.

It's okay. It's over.
You all right?

Anyone hurt? No?

You all right, sweetie?

It's okay.
You're going home now.

Daddy...

It's okay, sweetie.

Everything's
going to be all right.

Oh, Martin, thank God.

What...

what's going on?

You can tell them or I can.

Tell me what?

Martin?

Julia, why don't we go
get some food

and let Mommy and Daddy talk.

The morose
and pensive expression

of the romantically confounded.

You know, it wasn't
like I was thrilled

when our date bombed out,
you know,

and I can accept the fact
that we're not compatible.

You experiment, it doesn't work,
you move on.

Yeah, a cornerstone
of scientific inquiry.

Right, but...

thing is is, like...

when we're working together,

we talk and we laugh.

And there's an energy.

And I don't understand why that
doesn't work outside the office.

Why don't we have anything else
to talk about?

You know, you're making an underlying
assumption here that I question.

What's that?

That there's something else
you have to talk about.

See, where you see two people

unable to talk about politics
or movies...

Hey, movies.

I can...
I can talk about...

I just saw the penguin movie.

I see two extraordinary minds

that can communicate
on the purest level

a man and woman
can interface on.

Okay, second purest.

Geek love.

Hey, no better kind.

First one to ten points?

Larry, man, I...
I play this game a lot.

Hey, I'm no stranger
to the Student Union.

Come on --
my physics versus your geometry.