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( ethereal techno pop music
playing )

♪ Slip through his fingers, ♪
♪ melt away ♪

♪ Make me melt ♪

♪ Away... ♪

( typing )

( computer beeping )

♪ Follow, follow to lead... ♪

Hello?

( clank )

Is anyone there?

( clattering )

( screaming )

Technically, this museum
sits on Federal land.

99-year lease.

Figured we'd call you.

DON:
You got I.D.?

Jennifer Abernathy.

She was one of
the researchers here.

DON:
What do you say, Megan?

The only trauma I can see
is the head wound.

DON: See, this has got blood,
right here.

She's missing a shoe.

What do you think, being chased?

Yeah.

Who found her?

The night watchman.

- Hey, how you doing?
- Good.

I'm Don Eppes with the FBI.

Frank Lopez.

Frank.
What can you tell me?

I was just doing my rounds.

Things seemed pretty routine
till I got down here.

Found her like that.

You hear anything?

Nah, it's the graveyard shift.
Just me for the whole place.

I didn't even know
she was working last night.

Was there anybody else here?

Well, there's a security sweep
after we close.

Cleaning crew comes in.

They usually knock off
about 11:00.

After that, it's just me.

If it's okay with you,

we'd like you to go with one of
our deputies,

see if we can get you changed
into some street clothes?

- You want my uniform?
- Yeah. Is that okay?

- Sure.
- Thanks.

Building is locked
down after hours.

No sign of a forced entry.

Security cameras?

Front door, lobby
and loading dock.

So far, there's nothing.

That doesn't make any sense.

There's money, credit cards,
I.D. -- it's all here.

Well, probably not
a robbery, then.

So, someone was after her.

Or something.
Right?

She gets in the way.

REEVES: Yeah. Check this out.

Some kind of calculations.

Yeah, the deputy
said she did research.

Last entry's today.

"Last entry" is right.

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.

It's rationality.

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

CHARLIE:
I am officially RSVP'ing

for myself and one Alan Eppes,

who said he'd be delighted
to come to your dinner party.

It's been awhile
since I entertained.

I hope my hosting
skills haven't atrophied.

Although "atrophy" implies a
certain level of strength to begin with.

Hey, boys, how we doing?

- Hi.
- What's for breakfast?

Toast and tori.

Tori -- What do you mean?
That looks like Cheerios.

"Tori," plural of "torus" --
a shape with a hole in it.

Well, topologically speaking.

Mind if I have a rectangle?

Uh... help yourself.

My math abilities might
be a biological adaptation,

because from an early age,

I've been deprived the nutrition
necessary

to become a
professional athlete.

They say, you know, people who
eat a low-calorie diet live longer.

- Is that what they say?
- They do say that.

Hey, I'm looking out
for you, bro.

In exchange for what?

Yeah... um...

This woman who works for the
Heritage Museum was killed last night.

We found this on her,
but the thing is

we can't make heads
or tails of it,

so, thought maybe you could.

Hmm.

LARRY: I can already tell you
what those are.

Equations related to
quantitative archaeology.

Yeah?

Archaeology is just another form
of detection --

the artifacts are the clues,

and the history they reveal
is the solution.

And this is carbon dating.

These are formulas for
calculating the age of an object.

I consulted on a paleontology
project once.

Carbon dating uses
radiation, right?

CHARLIE: All living things absorb
radioactive carbon 14 into their bodies --

plants through photosynthesis
animals from the food chain.

But, like any radioactive
material,

the atoms decay
at a steady rate,

only replenished if
the organism's alive.

You know how some refrigerators
come with built-in ice-makers --

so let's say the ice-maker's
programmed to keep

50 ice cubes in it at one time,

but we use five ice cubes
per day.

Now, as long as that refrigerator's
connected to the water supply,

it'll create new cubes to
make up for the ones we'd lost,

keeping the total at 50.

Death is like cutting off
the water supply.

No more ice cubes get made.

So, by subtracting the number

of ice cubes we have left --

let's say, like, uh, 35 --

from the total original number
of 50,

and then dividing by
five ice cubes per day...

The ice-maker's been dead
for three days?

The ice-maker's a more linear
example --

and radio carbon decay
is exponential --

but you get the idea?

Yeah, she was trying
to date something.

But that's the thing:
we don't know what.

It's not in her office,
it's not in her lab, so,

I mean, that's the problem,
whatever it is, is gone.

Have you asked
the victim's co-workers?

If whatever she was working on
got her killed,

then those co-workers
are potential suspects.

Right.

Well, I should... I should be
able to figure out

at least the parameters
of the research detail here.

All right.
Why don't you hold onto it,

but take care of it --
it's my only copy, all right?

Don, I'm having some people
over this week, if you wanna...

Oh, yeah?
What's the occasion?

I've sold my house and I wanna
kind of say goodbye to it.

This dinner have a color scheme?

Look, my predilection for white
food is not pathological --

or at least not just yet.

The, uh, menu will manifest all
the colors of the spectrum, yes.

Well, the visible spectrum.

All right, well,
consider me there.

- You'll call me?
- Yeah.

She broke her neck.

No compression
marks on the skin,

so I'm assuming the
injury resulted from the fall.

You think it...
was an accident?

Depends what you
mean by an accident.

I found defensive bruises
on her forearms and her wrists.

Now, whether that person
intended her fall,

that would be purely
speculation.

What about sexual assault?

No vaginal tearing
or irritation,

but she did have intercourse
earlier in the day.

Most likely was consensual.

What makes you say that?

I found trace evidence
of a spermicidal gel.

WOMAN: Jennifer had access to all
of our facilities at one time or another.

Mm-hmm. And this is the only lab
with carbon-dating equipment?

Yes, that's right, but I think
it would be fairly odd

for Jennifer to be down
here by this time, though.

Oh? Why's that?

Well, we have technicians
who operate the machine.

The procedure would be for
Jennifer to inventory an item

and then let the technicians
do the testing.

And she didn't do that?

Not that I'm aware of.

I also would've been notified if
any item needed carbon dating.

Is there any way to tell when
the machines were used last?

Yes, there's a computer readout.

WOMAN:
1:34 a.m.

That's right around the time
she was killed.

We don't have any technicians
working at that hour.

( weary sigh )

( groaning ):
Okay...

ALAN:
Hey, Charlie?

I thought you were at work.

Wh-Wh-What you doing back here?

Just looking for something.

- Oh, yeah? What?
- Yeah.

Um... a book on Native American
artifacts

that I remember
you used to have.

'Cause you used to find old
things when you worked for the city.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You dig a foundation for a new building,
you come up with all kinds of stuff.

And I liked to look up
what they actually were.

Hmm.

What do you need it for?

I'm just trying to get an idea of
the math used by archaeologists,

and I remember you had a book
that said something about that, so...

Yeah, yeah.
They're in the boxes...

Actually, I already found it.

I found it already.

What are you doing?

- Dad... uh...
- What?

I thought you gave all of
Mom's clothes to charity.

I said I was going to; I will.

Don helped you
box this stuff up,

like... six months ago.

You know, hard as it may seem
for you to believe,

a man of my age
does have a life.

I was busy.

Dad... you're dating again.

I mean, what if you meet someone

and she finds out that you're
still hanging on...

I would tell her it's none
of her business.

Which is exactly what I'm
telling you right now.

REEVES: So she rented from you
for about a year?

Lovely girl.

So smart. Well-spoken.

How awful for her family.

You say she was pretty quiet.

Except in the shower.

In the shower?

You could hear her singing
all the way down the hall --

she had many gifts,
but a voice wasn't one of them.

Her specialty was Native
American antiquities.

Unopened mail,
dry cleaning still in the bag...

She spent all her time
at the museum.

I told her: slow down,
smell the roses,

but young people...

Maybe she had a reason
to sing in the shower?

Mm.

So, did Jennifer have
a boyfriend?

Well, I'm not one of those
nosy landladies,

but her boss sometimes
dropped her off at night.

Her boss.

Her married boss.

Oh.

DON: The museum director told me
it was unusual

for her to be using
the equipment,

and she wasn't notified
that anything needed testing.

So she's in there
alone, at night,

testing something
nobody knew about.

Thanks. Well, look,
someone knew something.

I mean, she was murdered, right?

The landlady told me she
might've been seeing her boss

on a less-than-professional basis.

Oh, yeah? Well, let's find out
where he was that night.

I can tell you where
he was supposed to be.

With his wife.

- Kenneth Hill?
- Yes.

I'm Agent Reeves;
Sinclair.

You the ones who
called about Jennifer?

( sighs)

It's a terrible thing.

How well did you know her?

I was her boss.

How about other than
as her boss?

I'm not sure exactly
what you mean.

You know we're not interested
in messing up your marriage

any more than you already
have, Dr. Hill,

but a woman's life has
been taken here.

We had a relationship.

But, um... I had nothing to do
with what happened to her.

I was home.

- You can ask...
- Your wife?

I'd prefer that you not do that.

Oh, I'm sure that you would,

but at this point
that really can't be avoided.

Unless, of course,
you were willing to cooperate,

and then we probably wouldn't
have to reveal

the full extent of your
relationship with Jennifer.

Fine.

What was she doing there
that time of night?

On occasion, we get asked
to date a private piece.

Private piece?

Something that's dug up
in a field locally.

Okay, but why at that hour?

Because certain parties
sometimes lay claim to these finds.

Native Americans, for example,

will often exercise
tribal claims.

And they can only do that
if they know about it?

These finds are sometimes
reburied

without allowing
for any testing at all.

Why?

The existence of something
older than the tribe itself

would bring into question
the validity of their claims --

to the land, to being the first
inhabitants to begin with.

So what was Jennifer testing?

I wish I knew.

I just remembered, when
I was in Albuquerque,

we busted a guy for robbing
tribal burial grounds.

Yeah, the law passed in 1990.

Any artifacts have to be returned
to whatever tribe they came from.

The museum director
said she didn't think

they had anything
that needed testing.

That's because what your
victim was carbon dating

wasn't part of the
museum's collection.

It was a new find.

A new find?

A very old new find.

I analyzed Jennifer Abernathy's
calculations, and it's clear

whatever she was describing
had to be extremely old.

I don't think she wanted anyone
to know what she was testing.

Why not?

I assumed that these numbers
were measurements,

so I ran them against a program
used by forensic anthropologists

called FORDISC to see if they
matched anything human.

Well, they did.

DON:
Yeah, it's a skull, huh?

A 10,000-year-old human skull.

Did you say 10,000 years?

CHARLIE:
What your victim was testing

were fragments of a skull
that would make it

the oldest human remains
ever found in this area.

MEGAN: And from what Hill
just told me,

that would be enough
of a reason to kill.

Thank you for seeing me,
Chief Clearwater.

I'm sorry to keep you waiting.

This is my attorney,
Thomas Morris.

Your attorney?

History's taught us
to exercise caution

when dealing with
the federal government.

( chuckles )

And an MBA has taught me
the value of expert counsel.

How can we help you?

A woman was murdered the
other night at the Heritage Museum.

I'm very sorry
to hear about that.

Please.

At the time of her death,
she was in the possession

of a significant
archeological find --

a Native-American find.

I understand that in the past
you've exercised similar claims

to items like this?

If your great-grandmother's
possessions were dug up,

would you want them back?

Yes, I would.
That's why I'm here.

Are you seriously
accusing us...?

You didn't let me finish.

I also understand
that these artifacts

can be worth a lot of
money on the black market.

Unfortunately, there are those
who don't respect the sanctity

of our burial grounds.

And you've bought
some of these items

from the black market
in the past, correct?

Your casino profits
allowing you to do that.

If the authorities
were more aggressive

in prosecuting
these grave robbers,

we wouldn't need to.

If you could just give me
their names,

then I can follow up
in this case...

We are a sovereign nation.
You can't compel us...

I'm not compelling you
to do anything.

I'm asking.

I think that's what my
great-grandmother would have wanted.

If you throw one of those near
me, you're a dead man.

I have better aim than that.

What's the matter?

Keppler got the flu,
and I had to teach his class

on the structure
and dynamic of galaxies.

His lecture notes are a mess.

Keppler's a little
disorganized, huh?

Hey, I'm organized.

Enough.

( derisive chuckle )

Have you seen
your office lately?

There's a symmetry
to my chaos, okay?

My system is chronological
by height.

A pretty poetic description
of clutter.

It's more than just clutter,
though.

There exists this need
to hold on, to...

to things.

Are we talking about
the skull, Charlie?

My dad has my mother's personal
belongings packed in the garage,

and he was supposed
to have given them away.

Sounds like he's not ready
to let her go yet.

He seemed to be handling
your mother's death pretty well.

I think that's what he'd like
us to think,

but it's clearly not true.

Did you talk to him about it?

If you can believe it,

he told me to mind my own
business.

LARRY:
Your father --

he came from this generation
where the heads of households

are supposed to show strength.

Don't dare show weakness.

He's just not going to
come to you for help.

Even if he needs it.

Charlie, you need
to talk to Don.

This involves your whole family.

That's the kill hole --

to release
the dead person's spirit.

And where would you get
something like that?

I mean, it looks like
it's from a burial site.

All my items come
with provenance

showing that they were found
on private land --

all perfectly legal.

How does that work exactly?

I mean, you pretty much have
to take the word

of the person who
brings it in, don't you?

I'm sorry,

but what's your interest here?

Oh, um...

I have documentation
for everything in the store.

Really? Because we heard
that you would sell items

without documentation.

Items to the Wiyana nation,
for example.

Maybe I should speak
to a lawyer.

Maybe we should put you
in a position where you need

to talk to a lawyer.

A skull was stolen.

10,000 years old.

Maybe you heard about something
like that being up for sale.

I'm sure I haven't.

There are people
that you could call.

A woman's been murdered.

We want their names.

Lawyers cost about $200 an hour.

Goodwill would cost you
a lot less.

Well, my lawyer charges $300.

10,000 year old human skull
found on the Pacific coast

with these dimensions.

Pretty big find, right?

Assuming it's not a hoax,

and assuming it was
a local find.

What do you mean by that?

Well, it's obvious your victim
was working

with regression equations...

maxillary sinus volume,
high cheek bone placement...

These are measurements we use
to estimate ancestry.

Like race?

Not exactly.

Race is a cultural construct.

Scientifically speaking,
ancestry is more about geography.

For example -- the mid-face areas
show variations in structure

that result from
adaptation to cold, aridity --

allowing us to classify
the skull.

As...?

As being of European origin,

African origin, Asian origin.

What does that one tell you?

I've entered the data
into a program that reconstructs

what this individual
might have looked like.

DON: That's funny, he doesn't look
Native American to me.

For good reason.

Native Americans fall under
the Asian classification.

But this skull has
characteristics

we associate
with European origin.

I see that.
He looks European, right?

Who, apparently, was in
California about a thousand years

before the Wiyanas' creation
stories claim he should have been.

MEGAN: So you're saying this
skull wasn't Native American?

No, I'm saying
it's a possibility.

So what was he?

Well, the anthropologist
thinks European.

He was a white guy?

No, it's more
of a geographic thing.

Apparently, race isn't
really a factor.

They need to circulate
that memo.

I ran that list of names we
got from that antiquities dealer.

Guess whose name is on the list.

Dr. Ken Hill.

Jennifer's boyfriend.

DAVID: Apparently, Dr. Hill has
supplied these type of artifacts

through this dealer in the past.

So his interest wasn't
purely scientific.

When you told me Jennifer might
have been testing a new find

the night she was murdered,

you failed to tell me that
you were the one who found it.

And I know it was a skull,

and I know how old it is.

Look, a construction crew
found it

digging a foundation
for a school.

I was called in to examine it.

I knew right away what it was.

So you just took it?

It was the find of a lifetime.

And they'd already made a decision
to turn it over to the Wiyanas.

That is a federal law,
Dr. Hill.

Those bones belong
to the local tribes.

Without testing, without proof,

it is just political correctness
without regard to science.

So then you just gave it
to Jennifer to do the test?

I never thought
she was in danger.

We were just trying to preserve
a scientific record.

I could have you arrested
for taking that skull.

I've lost everything,
Agent Reeves.

My wife...

my reputation...

even Jennifer.

So what you do to me
doesn't matter anymore.

But the real irony is,

without the skull,

neither one of us
has any evidence.

Hey. Hey, you know, that skull
might actually be European.

- Really?
- Yeah.

What are you doing here?
You got something?

I just wanted to talk
to you about...

( sighs )

You know what, it's so not...

it's not even... whatever.

It's not, it's not...

Wait, hold on.
What's going on?

Mom's stuff.

What?

You came over, you helped
Dad box Mom's stuff.

- Everything.
- Yeah.

That's six months ago.
He gave it all away, right?

He didn't give it away.

He kept it.

I found everything.

It was all
hidden away in the garage.

- Hidden?
- Yeah.

He clearly didn't want
me to see he still had it all.

You say anything?

He was very defensive.

All right, I'll talk to him.

I-I already tried.

Yeah, well, I get paid
to make people talk, you know?

Yeah, but how many of
your suspects grounded you

for breaking the
neighbor's window?

Never proven.

I'll take care of it.

Hey, guys, Hill said
there was a court case.

Wait a minute.
What kind?

Between him and the Wiyanas

over the bones found at the
school construction site.

Hill lost, upshot being

he would never get the test
to carbon date the remains.

So he went back and stole the skull.

Without testing, how could anyone
have any idea of what they'd found?

Well, according to Hill,
this is the whole point.

If the Wiyanas aren't the
regions original residents,

it opens them up to a challenge
on the land-use rights...

Gaming interests.

This skull could
destroy the tribe.

Who wants dessert?

Oh, wow. What,
what is that?

Liquid nitrogen.

Plus milk.

Cream...

Sugar... and a little...

vanilla.

ANITA: It's a fast and
simple way to make ice cream.

Oh, ice cream.

DON: I knew it
would be interesting,

but this
is definitely out there.

ALAN:
That looks prehistoric.

Yeah.

Well, let me
understand something

about this Indian
artifacts case of yours.

- I mean about the skull.
- Yeah.

Do you really think that it was
taken to preserve land rights?

Yeah. Well, I mean, you know,
it's a working theory.

They had to be pretty
desperate to kill someone.

What do you mean? People have
killed for a lot less than that, you know?

I mean, it's a
billion-dollar gaming industry.

LARRY: Yeah, yeah, yeah,
but it sure

seems like there's more
than money at stake here.

I mean, the age
of that skull flies in the face

of the Wiyanas' notion
of creation.

Uh-oh. Science versus religion.

That could get ugly.

Well, certainly science
doesn't require religion

to change its basic concepts,

just to reconsider
the mechanisms involved.

Yes, yes, but sometimes the
mechanisms are just the point.

I mean, Galileo spent the last
years of his life under house arrest

because he declared that the sun
does not revolve around the earth.

DON: Yeah, but look, hey, for certain
people religion is just that, you know.

I mean, by definition,
it is unconditional

so it doesn't matter
what science says.

Though many famous scientists,
like Einstein, believed in God.

All right, you know,
since I was taught

never to talk about religion
over the dinner table,

I would just like to
take this opportunity

to express my appreciation
for this fine meal...

by doing the dishes.

No, no, no, please.
Come on, that's not necessary.

Nonsense.

Yeah. Actually,
I'll give you a hand.

You're gonna help
with the dishes?

Sure. Why not?

We should eat at someone
else's house more often.

Let me have your bread plate.

AMITA:
So, Larry,

when you move...

what are you going to do
with all this stuff?

I don't know.

Hey, would you two
like to take home your dishware?

ALAN:
You want to scrape or wash?

Uh... well, I think I'll wash.

You know, Mom used
to get me to scrape

and then she'd say, "While,
you have the plate in your hand..."

This is your subtle way
of telling me

that Charlie talked to you
about the boxes?

He was a little concerned,
that's all.

- Yeah.
- And you're not?

Dad, hey, I don't care
about the boxes, but

you know, the way
he said you reacted.

He was prying into something that
he had no business being involved in.

Well, come on. I mean,
she's our mother.

And my wife.

Look, what I want to do with her things,
well, that's my business.

Of course it is,
but then, why hide it?

I wasn't.

I don't have to hide anything.

Exactly. You don't,
so I just think

you know, I mean,
it would be healthier if...

Oh-ho. Look who's lecturing me
about emotional health.

Wait. Hold, hold on. Wha...?

I don't understand. What's up?

What's up?

If you think I'm gonna listen
to my two unmarried sons

lecture me on how to deal
with the loss of my wife,

well, that's as
ridiculous as it sounds.

So much for those superior
people skills, huh?

MEGAN: You failed to mention
the fact that you were in a court battle

with Ken Hill over the bones
found at the school construction site.

We had no way
of knowing it was relevant.

Really? Even after
I mentioned the skull.

CLEARWATER: Are you
implying that one of my people

killed this woman for a skull?

All we had to do is pick up
the phone and call the police.

Mr. Clearwater's right.

Under the law,
those remains belong to us.

Unless, of course, a
carbon-dating test proved otherwise.

How could they prove otherwise?

What Thomas means
is that the Great Spirit

gave our people this land
at the beginning of time.

Any remains would have to be
the remains of our ancestors.

With all due respect, I'm not that
interested in a historical debate.

What I am interested in is
who killed Jennifer Abernathy.

( phone ringing )

Then I think you should
consider motive.

If Dr. Hill removed the skull
from that site illegally,

any results
would be legally invalid.

- Clearwater.
- Legal or not,

if those results were
made public, they could cause

a great deal of trouble for you.

When?

I'm leaving now.

There's been a break-in
at my home.

Mrs. Clearwater
surprised the intruder.

Apparently he hit him in the
head with the butt of a gun.

Did she get a look at him?

- Yeah, it was Hill.
- Hill?

According to the wife,
he went straight for the tribal records.

- What is he looking for?
- I don't know.

Megan.

You understand now
what we've been dealing with?

While you accuse us of murder,

this man's allowed to attack
Chief Clearwater's wife?

We're going to find him. We are.

Let them do their jobs, Thomas.

This man's obsessed with destroying us,
do you understand?

Either you find him,

or we will.

Sheriff's Department says Hill's

the registered owner
of a Colt .38

and a Remington hunting rifle.

All right, so he's armed
and he's in the wind.

But heading where
and looking for what?

Maybe his alibi wasn't
as legit as we thought.

Hill staked everything
on those bones, right?

His career, his reputation,

the life of his lover.

And he lost all three.

So he goes back to Clearwater's
house to find the skull?

I mean, what are the odds that
he's actually gonna find it there?

Well, maybe he's looking
for something else.

What exactly did Mrs. Clearwater
tell the police was missing?

Tribal records, histories, maps,

population studies.

He's looking for the skull
somewhere else.

Yeah, or whoever took it.

These calculations that
we got from Hill's office

and a list of references
that were stolen

from Clearwater's house,
but that's it.

Okay. Already,
I recognize this equation.

It's used in
water-current analysis.

Yeah, this is used
in the study of planets,

determining how they
might have looked in the past,

how they may look in the future.

These equations can tell us the
effect of water flow on topography.

Well, he also stole some tribal
histories and population studies.

Now, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait.

- Topography.
- Mm-hmm.

Population studies.

Yes? What?

We think he may be doing
a settlement-pattern analysis.

Yeah, just trying to infer

where Native American
settlements might be located.

Does that mean he's
looking for more remains?

CHARLIE: Well, if he no longer
has the skull, there's

no other way for him
to document his find.

So could you duplicate
his work from this?

Could you tell me
where he's gone digging?

I think the best method
would be... Voronoi diagrams?

Voronoi diagrams.

Yeah, used
in astronomy, biology,

- geography...
- And archeology,

where they're used
as a system for showing

the influence
of a particular feature

on a given set
of geographic sites.

So it's like with a, with a
chain of fast-food restaurants.

The location of each restaurant
within a city

is mathematically determined

by the location of other
restaurants in the chain.

So in very simple terms,
the Voronoi diagram

partitions the areas around
restaurants into cells.

For every person living
within that cell,

the restaurant
defining that cell

would be the closest
place to get a cheeseburger.

So we do the same thing
with ancient water sources.

We try to find other
desirable natural features

to find the most likely
settlement sites,

but, in order
to do that, I'm gonna need

all the information he took
from Clearwater's house.

Well, Clearwater can't be the
only tribal elder with that information.

The elders do have other copies,

but we won't be
turning them over to you.

A young woman's murderer
is still out there.

The person that broke into
Chief Clearwater's house

is still out there.

I appreciate that, but the
information could also be used

to unearth our burial grounds.

That ship has already
sailed, Mr. Morris.

Ken Hill has the information,
and he's armed.

You asked me to find him.

That's what I'm trying to do
before anyone else gets hurt.

If we give
the federal government

information that leads
to other burial sites,

people, like Hill,

will use it
for the same purpose.

I'm sorry,

but you'll have to find him
some other way.

We got problems.

Why, what?
The math doesn't jibe?

The math always works.

What I realize is this --

There's way too many
possible locations.

You think Hill's working
off better information?

No. I spoke to some people

at CalSci's Social
Sciences Department.

I spoke to several
anthropologists as well,

and what they tell me
is what Hill is trying to do

is almost, well, really,
almost impossible.

Why?

The skull?

It's a once-in-a-lifetime find.

You can't just go out and expect

to find ancient human remains
at other sites,

no matter how much math you do.

Yeah, but, Charlie,
I mean, the guy is desperate.

But he's also a scientist.

He has to realize
the same things I did.

We still getting hits
on his credit cards?

Yeah, I have
the list right here.

I mean, there's one
site where he knows

he might find what
he's looking for.

Where the skull itself
was originally found?

Look at this.

The last four hits were
right by the school site.

MEGAN: He's gone back to the
original dig site to find more bones.

What have we got?

Positive I.D.
It's Hill's car.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

All right, Tommy, Bill
why don't you head out that way.

David, come with me. Let's go.

Dr. Hill?

I need more time.

Look, it's over.

No, you do not understand.

They will bury it where no one
will ever find it again.

You don't understand.

I want you to drop that tool,
stand up right now.

The only chance I have is
to find another set of bones.

I'm the only chance you have.
Now, listen up.

Stand up, put your
hands behind your back.

Please.

I was just trying to make
Jennifer's death mean something.

( handcuffs click shut )

Let's go.

He's an egomaniac,

but he alibis for the night
of the murder.

All right, we got him on assault
and theft but... no murder.

And Clearwater doesn't read
for it.

- I think we got something.
- DON: Yeah?

A list of disenrolled
tribe members.

It was in the census info
we got at the mission.

What's disenrolled?

DAVID:
Every Wiyana tribe member

gets an annual cut
of the profits from the casino.

Only about ten years ago,
the tribal council

started to remove
members from its records,

disenrolling them
for lack of family ties...

even if a DNA test might prove

legitimate tribe membership.

Right, the more money
that comes in,

the less people they have
to split it with.

Yeah. There's one name
on that list that jumps out.

Frank Lopez.

What's that, the security guy?

Turns out he's part Wiyana.

Only in 1998,
the tribal council decided

it wasn't a big enough part.

My Mom was Native American.

Why does it matter?

Well, it mattered
to the Wiyanas.

They cut you out of your share
of the casino money.

Hey, I was nowhere near
that girl when she was murdered.

You can check the security tape.

Yeah, you were conveniently
on the other side of the museum

when she was attacked.

DON: You make the same circuit
every night,

which puts you
on this side at 1:30.

So why don't you tell us why you
changed the route that night?

Frank, when it comes to murder,

it doesn't matter whether
you killed her or not...

MEGAN: Not if you were the
one who let her killer in that night.

Is that what happened?

My mother died without a penny.

And she was buried a Wiyana.

And then...

some piece of paper
changed all of that.

He told... he told me
if I helped him get the skull,

he'd place my mother's name
back on the tribal rolls.

And she'd be who she was again.

...and the dividends
per share...

Agents...

I understand you found the man
who attacked Chief Clearwater's wife.

Yes, we did.

We also found
Jennifer Abernathy's murderer.

- Hill's confessed?
- Hill didn't kill her.

I don't understand.

Do you want to tell him
about it, Mr. Clearwater?

You're not serious.

This is our Chief.

I've known this man
my whole life.

He'd never harm anyone.

But you did harm someone,
didn't you?

You make a mistake,

then you spend every waking hour

tracing back all the decisions
that got you there.

But why, James?

Because it had to stop.

You're running this tribe
like it was a corporation.

We have a responsibility
to do what's best.

Best?

Best for who?

Who are you to decide that a
person's heritage wasn't his own?

Until that casino was built,
we were all one people.

No one cared how far back
a bloodline went.

Only that skull holds a truth
that even you're afraid of.

And knowing I have it...

well, suddenly
that forces you to stop.

Where is the skull?

It's at rest.

In a place known only to myself.

For now.

DAVID: James Clearwater,
you are under arrest

for the murder
of Jennifer Abernathy.

This way.

It's sure ironic, isn't it,

that an ancient skull could have
such significance for people today.

That a man could matter
so much to so many.

What about him?

What was his name?

How did he die on a hillside
10,000 years ago?

Yeah, did his family
wonder what happened?

Did anyone cry for him?

Real faith cannot
transcend knowledge.

It has to adapt
to it and embrace it.

And bones...

They don't make the man.

And they sure don't make
the soul.

DON:
Are you sure about this?

I mean, you don't have to do it.

Yeah, we didn't mean
to push you to do anything.

You didn't push me.

I just realized that what
I was really trying to keep

had nothing to do with what
was in these boxes.

Somehow, I just got it
in my head

that giving
your mother's things away

meant something
was coming to an end.

You know, like a sign that
she didn't matter anymore.

But I'll tell you something...

snapping at the two of you
did matter to me.

It would've mattered to her.

Yeah, it's all right, Dad.

It's all right.

You know, we, uh...

well, we're not really a group
hug kinda family, but...

Yeah, no kidding.

That's where a daughter
would've come in handy.

Wait, maybe when you come back,

we should just sit down
and talk.

Just the three of us.
What do you think?

You want us to come with you,
Dad?

No!

I mean, I have
to do this myself.

( engine starting )

( rock song playing )

- We really gonna talk?
- I brought a six-pack.

If things go south, we can
just watch the game.

You want to laugh?

That last box of stuff that Dad
packed into his car was my stuff.

No way. Oh, no.

I didn't have the heart
to tell him.

Hey, you know,

I don't have a problem
with hugging.

I mean, I don't.

I don't have a problem
with hugging, either.

Get away from me!