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SYMPOSIUM DIRECTOR: In looking
around this auditorium tonight,

I am reminded of a comment
that Sir Isaac Newton made

to the Royal Academy of Science.

Newton told the group
that doing math

was like standing
on the shoulder of giants

to see the future.

But then of course,
in Newton's age,

all the men wore shoes with
buckles and four-inch heels.

( laughter )

Each year,
we conclude this symposium

by announcing the Milton Prize.

And Professor Charles Eppes,
a past winner

will present this year's award.

( applause )

I didn't know Charlie
won a Milton Prize.

- Well, he was still at Princeton...
- Shh!

This is important.

Sorry.

It is a great honor
to present the Milton Prize.

This year in particular,

because I happen to know
the winner.

To me, this person has become
much more than a colleague.

We have collaborated closely
together

on a number of projects.

So without any further ado,

the winner of this year's
Milton Prize...

is Amita Ramanujan.

( applause )

Amita! It's you.

Thank you all so much.

I can't believe it.

You got something else
you want to do tonight?

It's Friday night, we're running
down anonymous tips.

It was a call to Homeland
Security actually.

Something going on
in a basement here.

It's the garment district.

Yeah?

I'm thinking someone
with a sweatshop

wants help putting the
competition out of business.

Well, maybe we can oblige them.

- Gentlemen.
- Yeah, hey.

You with the hotel?

If this is about your luggage,

we're doing everything we can
to find it.

It's not about our luggage.

You're not with
the convention group...

- That's right.
- We received a tip about

suspicious activity
in your basement.

Suspicious act...?
What does that mean?

It means you show us
the basement.

Right this way, sir.

So this is it.

Careful, the floor's
a little uneven.

What's in there?

Uh, just some more rooms.

- Let's go.
- CLERK: Okay.

Seems pretty quiet.

If the Health Department
was down here,

they'd condemn the place.

I don't think the Health
Department's ever been down here.

What's in there?

CLERK:
Uh...

Storage, I think.

- Never been inside.
- Open it.

Whoa.

Against the wall.
Against the wall.

Where are the lights?

- Right there.
- Turn them on.

Behind your back.
Behind your back. Let's go.

Yeah, we got a lot of blood
down here.

We got a whole scene.
I want backup.

Requesting backup immediately.

It's freezing in here.

See this car battery?

DAVID: What the hell
happened down here?

Looks like some kind
of nightmare.

( distant clattering )

Hey, you hear that?

( creaking )

This way.

DON:
This is the FBI!

We need you to come out with
your hands where we can see them.

This is the FBI.

Hey.

Okay, all right,
all right, take it easy.

Hey, we're with the FBI.
You're okay.

- ( cries )
- It's okay. We're with the FBI.

I'm not going to hurt you.

We need an ambulance.

Hotel Barclay, downtown L.A.

COLBY:
If you know what you're doing,

you can do a lot of damage
with a car battery.

Is that a professional opinion?

You see some things working
Military CID in Afghanistan.

Things you'd rather not see.

You really think this is
about torture?

That would explain the girl.

She's been traumatized
by something;

I can't get through to her.

Begs the question
what it is she knows.

And who else wants to know it.

Hey, guys, I just got off
the phone to Washington.

They want us wall to wall
on this.

So I think you should
get back to that hotel,

see if you can find anyone
who saw anything.

It's a big place.

A lot of people
coming in and out of there.

Megan, how's the girl?

Acute stress disorder.

Showing signs of avoidance.

I'm nowhere with her.

Any idea where she's from?

Right now I have her listed
as a foreign national,

unknown circumstance.

How about this car battery?

I mean, what do you make of it?

Well, that would explain why she's
not even making eye contact with me.

All right, so what do we do?

I mean, how do we reach her?

Charlie, Don's probably
busy right now.

We can tell him tomorrow.

We're not going to be long.

He's going to be
so happy that you won.

( speaking foreign language )

DON:
Whoa, look at you.

Whoa, look at both of you.

- What's going on?
- Hi.

Hey, what's up?
What are you doing?

We have dinner
reservations nearby,

so we just thought we'd stop
by and say hello, that's all.

Is it a special occasion?

Amita just won the Milton Prize
for her dissertation.

That's a really big honor and it
comes with a cash award, so...

That's great.

So I guess you're paying for dinner,
huh?

Congratulations.

Thank you.
I wasn't expecting it.

DON:
No?

What happened here?

That's the $64,000 question.

You think that ice has anything
to do with it?

Yeah, something.
I mean, why?

If I can take two of
these photos,

I can probably tell you how long
the ice has been there.

That'll at least give us
a starting point.

- Yeah.
- See this plastic?

This plastic is
a non-wetting surface.

So I can do an interval analysis

of the pooled water
that would...

...help us determine
the rate of flow.

Right. From there,
we can work backwards

to determine when the ice first
started to melt.

Well, how long would that take?

Depends.

The tricky part is figuring out
how fast the ice was melting.

But once we know that,

we can determine how long
it took the puddle to grow,

which is the result of
two competing forces --

the melting
and the surface tension.

Surface tension?

Molecules on the surface of water
exhibit strong cohesive properties.

It's why certain bugs
can run over

the top of a pond or why
raindrops are round.

It's like a balloon.

The rubber surface of a balloon
acts much like a puddle does --

it constrains what's inside.

So as air flows into a balloon,
it gets bigger.

While how fast the balloon
grows depends on

the rate of air
going into the balloon

versus the strength
of the balloon's surface.

Same thing goes for a puddle.

As more water flows into
a puddle, it gets bigger.

But the surface tension

constrains the shape
of the puddle.

All right, wait, just, just...

what do you need from us
to do this?

Um, if I can take the first
crime scene photo and the last.

I mean, that'll give us
the greatest interval of time.

Thanks, Charlie.

Does that girl
have something to do with this?

Yeah, she does. Why?

She said something to me.

She spoke to you?

Yeah, when I first came in.

I think she was asking for help.

Wait, in English?

No, in Tamil.

My family moved to
the United States from Chennai

in Southern India.

Tamil is what they speak there.

( speaking Tamil )

What did she say?

I'm not sure.

I think she's asking for help.

( speaking Tamil )

Honestly, I haven't heard much
Tamil since I was really little.

I think she may have said
something about her sister.

Okay, um...

I'm going to get a translator.

- We can...
- Wait. Megan.

Is it okay if I stay with her?

Yeah. Yeah.

Hi.

My name is Amita.

My name is Santi.

I don't remember
seeing anything unusual.

I was on the main level
most of the evening.

Okay, maybe you
heard something --

banging, screaming?

Nothing like that.

Is there more than one
ice machine in this building?

Just the one on the third floor.

That means the ice didn't
come from the hotel.

Cubes are the wrong shape.

What's this room
usually used for?

Nothing. It should've
been locked.

A long time ago,
it was a laundry room.

But we outsource all that now.

You have your laundry delivered?

Yes.

What else do you guys
have delivered?

Uh, staff uniforms,
morning papers...

and a bakery brings the bread
for the continental breakfast.

All right, we'll need to see a
schedule of all your deliveries.

No problem.

All right, we got
the same humidity.

What else do we need to know?

Uh, we need to know
the heat-exchange rate

as determined by the thermal
boundary layers of the ice.

In essence, how fast ice melts.

Right. Now we've replicated
all the variables involved,

but the ice was sitting
on ice purity, humidity,

air movement,
room temperature...

Hey, what are you two doing?

- Hey, Dad.
- It's freezing in here.

We're watching ice melt.

Yeah, Don got us a temperature
reading from the crime scene.

We set the house's thermostat
to match.

Crime scene? What, did someone
kill an Eskimo?

The ice is liquefying.

LARRY: Got a rather
gruesome mystery here.

Ooh... yeah...

I can see that.

- What was it?
- We don't know.

But whatever happened,

it happened between 7:15
and 7:30 this morning.

So we've got a time
for the crime.

And depending what happened,
the time may be very important.

For starters, we can tell the FBI when
witnesses might have seen something.

Yeah, I see.

You think you can get this crime
scene cleared up before breakfast?

Charlie says the ice arrived

yesterday right around
this time.

Which means this delivery guy
might have been here then, too.

Hey, are those still warm?

You want one? Help yourself.

- Thanks.
- I thought cops ate donuts.

Well, we're FBI.

You make a delivery here
yesterday morning?

And the morning before that
and the one before that.

We're only interested
in yesterday, though.

Did you notice anything unusual?

Nothing sticks out.

What about somebody carrying in
an unusually large quantity of ice?

Ice?

No, I think I would've
remembered something like that.

Sorry, guys.

The ice had
to get in there somehow.

Somebody had to deliver it.

Hey, you didn't see
anybody else down here?

It's just usually me
in the morning.

But there was an ambulance.

An ambulance?

I think it was
a private company.

It was parked over there.

Thanks for your cooperation.

You bet.

All negative. I can run through
them again if you want.

Hey, you guys get
anything from the 911 logs?

Not that puts an ambulance
anywhere near the hotel.

What about where
it went once it left?

I could try the emergency rooms.

- Yeah. Let me know.
- Okay.

Excuse me.
I'm looking for a girl

that might have been brought
in last night who was Indian;

extensive internal injuries.

Dr. Jenloe was the attending.

LAPD?

FBI. The LAPD forwarded
me your report.

What can you tell me
about the Jane Doe?

Late teens, early 20s,
Southeast Asian,

came in with severe
internal bleeding.

Do you know how
she was brought in?

I don't know. You'd have to ask
at the front desk.

They do all the
admitting paperwork.

And what about her injuries?

You don't know?

Don't know what?

I just figured that's why
the FBI was interested.

Interested in what?

She was hemorrhaging
and in shock.

There wasn't anything
we could do.

They had to break a rib.

That's not uncommon
in this sort of procedure.

Whoever performed it

either didn't know
what they were doing

or they made a serious mistake.

What kind of procedure
are we talking about?

Someone removed
this girl's kidney.

So the coroner just confirmed
what the ER doctor told me.

The artery was severed
when they removed a kidney.

And the blood in the hotel
matches the dead girl.

All right, organ theft.

I always thought
that was an urban legend.

COLBY:
It's no legend, man.

We were working
the villages outside Kandahar,

these girls would show up
with new passports.

They'd leave and come back
with new scars.

Called them
"transplant tourists."

And these girls did this
willingly?

What's "willingly" when you're
poor and desperate, you know?

Pay 'em a thousand bucks,

it's like two or three years
salary for their families.

So we're thinking someone's
got the girl's kidney, right?

Yeah, but who?

It's not like they're going
to come forward now.

Right. If they knew how
the kidney was acquired,

that would make them
an accessory to murder.

Well, there's transplant lists.

Maybe you could see if someone
took themselves off the last few days.

I'll look into it.

Thanks for coming.

No problem.

I think I'll actually
be helpful.

I think you will.

She really seemed to connect
with you last night.

You were the one who figured out
she spoke English.

I didn't actually figure it out.

She just started talking to me.

( lock buzzes )

Is Santi under arrest?

No, but we do have to hold her

at least until I get her story.

The situation wasn't ideal,
but it was the best one I had.

- Thank you.
- Sure.

Hi, Santi. I'm Agent Reeves.

You remember Amita?

Hi.

We think we know what happened
at the hotel yesterday.

It's okay.
Agent Reeves is her to help.

You asked me about your sister?

You found her? You found Prita?

We found her last night.

No...

I'm so sorry.

This isn't my sister.

This is Sonali.

There were three of you?

Four of us. Prita, me,
Jaya and Sonali.

And you were all here
to sell your kidney?

It's okay, Santi.

Anything you tell Agent Reeves
will help her find your sister.

A man came to our village,
promised us each $1,000.

Do you know who he is?

Do you know what his name is?

No. He was from the city,
from Chennai.

How long have you been here?

Five days.

Where have you been staying?

At the hotel.

You mean where we found you?

In a room upstairs.

Later, they bring us
to the basement.

It's okay.

For the kidney, I was next,
but something happened to Sonali

and everyone started to yell.

And I think they forget me,
so I ran.

How did you get back
to the basement?

When I stop running, I am alone.

You went back?

Prita was still there.

Hey, so there were four girls
staying at that hotel.

Two of which are still missing.

So that night manager
held out on us.

Yeah. You and David should go
over and pick him up, huh?

Hey, by the way, did David get
anything off those transplant lists?

He did, yeah. There's a guy
named Benjamin Riley.

Took himself off the list.

Ends up in ICU with
complications from his new kidney.

( knocking )
Dr. Bainsworth?

I'm Alan Kelley.

I'm with the hospital's
legal office.

Dr. Bainsworth intends
to cooperate.

And you're just here in the
spirit of that cooperation?

What is it you'd like to know?

For starters,

how did you patient obtain
an illegal kidney?

I advised him very strongly
against doing this.

Oh, so he just showed up
with a black-market organ.

You don't know anything
about it?

I had nothing to do
with his transplant.

But I still have
a responsibility to my patient,

even if he chooses
to ignore my advice.

You always do so what your
doctor tells you, Agent Reeves?

We're not talking about lowering
my cholesterol.

A girl was killed.

Lawrence, don't respond to that.

Where was she from?

India.

It's not surprising.

There's an area
outside of Chennai.

It's called "Kidney village."

So you're saying there's regular
traffic in human organs?

There are over 80,000 people
on the transplant waiting list

in this country and, every day,
17 of them die waiting.

I'd really like to speak
to your patient

about who performed
this operation.

His transplant took place in
less-than-ideal circumstances.

He has post-operative sepsis;
a severe infection.

He's in critical condition.

So, what, he's too sick to talk?

KELLEY: Andy knows
what he did was illegal.

Whoever sold him the kidney
coached him to keep silent.

I doubt he'd speak to you
even if he could.

Then I want his blood work
and tissue samples

and everything you have on him.

The night manager
was a dead end.

He quit the same day
we interviewed him.

So he was in on it.

Well, yeah, with him
in the wind,

that leaves us with no
connection to these two girls.

Well, the paperwork
from the emergency room said

that the victim was brought in
by ambulance.

Oh, so we trace that 911 call.

I did that.
There as no 911 call.

The ambulance was there
at the hotel waiting for him.

The driver was in on it.

Santi said something went wrong.

Maybe the ambulance was
supposed to transfer an organ,

ended up transporting
a body as well.

( knocking )

What's up?
It's the Milton Prize winner.

Hey.

You... you okay?

Yeah.

You know, we should reschedule
our celebration.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I'm not really in the mood
to celebrate.

Is it okay if we hold off maybe?

Yeah.

You're upset for that girl
you met at the FBI, aren't you?

I went to see her this morning.

You know, Megan thought

a familiar face
might help her cope.

But I mean, how do you cope
with something like that?

Besides, you know, there's really
not that much in common between us.

She comes from the same place
as your family.

She does.

But you know, I grew up
in California, Charlie.

I know more about surfing
than I do about India.

When I was little, you know,
kids used to make fun of me

because I was different.

But I didn't want
to be different.

My grandmother used to tell
me stories about what it was like.

I just tuned her out.

And I wanted to push away
that part of who I am.

You wanted to fit in here.

But now, you know,
seeing this girl

and what she's going through,
I have to help her,

but I don't know how.

I don't know what to say
and I don't know what to do...

Well, maybe you should ask
your grandmother.

I mean,

she seemed
to have some good ideas.

And even if you didn't
used to listen to her...

Thank you, Charlie.

You really are a genius.

- Are you the manager?
- Yeah.

We're looking for
an ambulance of yours.

It was seen parked
behind a hotel downtown.

You got a number? All
the rigs have numbers.

No, this one dropped off a
patient at the University General

around 8:00 a.m.
day before yesterday.

That'd be Proderman.

He's still out on the street.

Yeah? Has he got a radio?

- Yeah.
- Call him back in.

Actually I don't need to.

That's him right now,
pulling in the driveway.

( tires squeal )

Hey!

Let's go!

( tires squeal )

- ( siren wailing )
- DAVID: Unit 365.

DISPATCH:
365, go.

In pursuit of a homicide suspect
driving a red-and-white van...

Look, it's an ambulance.

We're driving west on Normandy.
Just crossed 54th.

Requesting backup.

Copy, 365.
All units be advised.

First the night manager,
now the ambulance driver?

365 requesting backup
at Normandy and 54th.

Hold all radio traffic.

( tires squeal )

( siren wailing )

He's not gonna make that turn.

I don't think this dude cares.

Dispatch, suspect T.A.'d a taxi
at 56th and Normandy.

Show us code six, requesting
emergency medical assistance.

Hey, buddy, you're all right.
You're gonna be fine --

why don't you just
lay down and take it easy, okay?

- All right? You all right?
- Yeah, I'm okay.

( man groaning )

Paramedics are on the way.

Well, maybe they can check
and see if he's a donor.

Hi.

Oh, no, this isn't official.

We just came to see
how you were doing.

Santi, this is
my friend, Charlie.

Hello.

Hi.

So...

how are you doing?

I am okay.

We brought you some stuff.

Um, some clothes.

- ( phone ringing )
- And...

- Here's some shampoo.
- Hello?

Yeah. That's no problem.

- I'll be right there.
- And a hairbrush.

And...

um, toothbrush and toothpaste.

I've got to get back to the FBI.

You gonna be all right
in this place?

- Yeah. I'll be fine.
- Okay.

Santi, the FBI's doing everything
they can to find your sister.

Thanks for coming with me.

It will be very...

nice to wash my hair.

( laughs )

I'm so glad to hear you
say that. Um...

I didn't know what to get.

I... You know, I don't know that
much about where you're from.

You're not from India?

No, I'm not.

My family is.

But I was born here
in California.

Actually, I've never even been
to India.

I could've gone once with my
dad for business, but I didn't...

I didn't end up going.

And what is it you
do in California?

I work in math and astrophysics,
at a college.

Uh, I-I'm in school.

Oh. I was in school once.

When I was little,
I liked school.

Uh, I brought you
something else.

My grandmother thought
you might like...

to have this.

For a puja.

A prayer.

Thank you.

What's the red string for?

We tie a bracelet after.

To remember.

Ah, the trip log we got
out of the ambulance?

Yeah. I've been through
the entire thing,

and every entry in it checks out
against the 911 calls.

So Proderman was only
recording official trips.

Doesn't leave us much to go on.

No, it doesn't --
which is why I called Charlie.

He was nice enough to come
down here on short notice.

Hey, Charlie.

How you doing?
Thanks for coming down.

I was around here -- I was at
that, uh, that detention center,

with Amita and the girl.

Is that that log book
you called me about?

Yeah, it is, but like I told you,
it's just the official runs.

Well, then you were probably
able to get the total distance

driven by the driver
on each of his shifts.

Well, yeah, the company records
daily mileages for each driver.

How's that gonna help us,
Charlie?

He still could have
gone anywhere.

No, his destinations
are limited,

by the total miles driven
in each shift.

Okay, well, we still don't know
where he went,

and more importantly,

where he could've
taken those other girls.

Well, keep in mind that where he went
couldn't have been random, you know,

his choices were influenced
by things:

by the time of day,
and his location.

So you mean like if it was noon

it's likely
that he went to lunch.

Exactly.
So first what we'll do is,

we'll take the total mileage

and plot
all the possible routes,

as well as all the known
destinations from the ambulance log.

Then I can use
a Hidden Markov Model,

as well as
an elliptical analysis

to narrow the possibilities of
the most likely hidden destinations

and unrecorded routes.

It's a...

...it's a treasure map.

We have ourselves a list
of starting points,

routes, destinations, times,

but it's incomplete.

Not every stop is recorded.

Now, based on what information
we do have,

I can reveal the most likely
locations and times

for the unrecorded stops.

Imagine you held a candle
to the bottom of a treasure map

to reveal the sections written
in invisible ink.

DAVID: I don't know, Charlie,
it still feels like

we're pretty much guessing
about where he went.

Okay, yeah, a little a-at first.

But this log is extensive.

I mean, it goes back
several months.

So as we continue to analyze
the possibilities,

patterns will emerge,

and with all this data,

my algorithm will
be able to tell us

what his favorite place
for lunch is, you know,

where he probably gets
his coffee,

maybe where he shops for shoes.

Who knows?

We just need it to tell us where
he could've taken those girls.

Right.

( door opens )

DON:
Hello?

Anyone home?

ALAN:
Yeah. In the kitchen, Don.

Hey, Dad.

I made some coffee;
you want some?

Nah.

I could use a drink, though.
( groans )

Oh?

Tough day?

We just got these two
missing girls from India.

- India?
- Yeah.

What are they doing here?

Selling their kidneys,
believe it or not.

Crazy, right?

I mean, they're dirt poor,
they got a thousand bucks

and a plane ticket here.

What?

Oh, I was thinking about my
friend Lou -- you remember him?

He used to work for the Parks
Department of Recreation.

Yeah, sure.

Yeah, he died last year
of, um... kidney failure.

I'm sorry, Dad,
I didn't know that.

Yeah. I remember his family
was so desperate,

they couldn't find a match
among them for a transplant.

Not even his two brothers.

You'd think brothers
would match.

Well, actually, it's only one chance
in four when it comes to siblings.

Hmm.

They even tested me.

And then they put him
on this long list.

Waiting for a donor.

Must've been hundreds
ahead of him.

That man could've lived.

Yeah, look, I see
what you're saying,

but, you know, these kids are
dragged halfway across the world

so some back-alley quack
can cut them up for parts.

Yeah, I know,
I'm not saying it's right.

I'm just saying...

that when it comes to
looking at your own mortality,

ah, you'd grab on to anything
to save your life.

Hmm.

All right, Larry, we've reached
the last few entries

in the ambulance log,
and we've got...

...point C-36. Okay?

Uh, two kilometers north-south,

three east-west.

You know, when I was
a child, I was plagued

by a nightmare involving
the theft of my internal organs.

- You were?
- Yeah.

Boy. Uh...

Centering on, um...

on point Y-12,

half a click up,

one kilometer side to side.

The dreams recurred
in regular intervals

till I was 13 years old --
it was horrible.

Well, like what?

Like, was there a monster
attacking you or something?

Well, I mean, no.
Actually, it was my Aunt Louise.

God, I can see her
even now, wearing this hair net.

All right,
this is the last coordinate.

Uh, D-16.

One by one and a half.

And the 13th time

is the charm.

( exhales ):
The hospital again?

Hospital again.

( whispers ):
Wow.

All right, so let's summarize.

In our analysis,
University General shows up

as a more likely destination
than any other place?

Yeah. But it's not unusual

for an ambulance to
go to a hospital.

Yeah, but these were in addition
to his official stops.

None of them were recorded.

Which means the ambulance driver

may have had a contact
at University General.

What are you...

Hey, you're not supposed
to be down here.

- Are you in charge?
- I'm the only one here.

You ever run into a guy
named Proderman down here?

Who are you?

FBI. He drives
an ambulance.

You know him or not?

No. No, not really.

Sounds a lot like a yes.

I've seen him around -- he's
usually looking for Michael.

Michael?

Michael Tolchuck -- he works days
in the morgue.

And nights at a hotel downtown?

Where is he right now?

I don't know.
I haven't seen him around.

You know, I think maybe
I should just call my boss.

I think you should as well.

Excuse me?

You have paperwork
for four bodies right here.

- So?
- So...

I count five.

Looks like she could be
one of our girls.

Yeah.

The morgue is actually
a great place to hide a body.

It's ironic.

Immigration showed Santi
the fax; this isn't her sister.

Yeah, well, she's a lucky girl,

'cause he just gave me
his preliminaries.

Both kidneys were taken.

Liver, corneas,
even bone tissue.

Well, if they took more
than a kidney,

something's changed.

Murder wasn't part
of the deal before.

I think when
the first girl died,

it was an accident.

And after that,

Tolchuck just decides
to cover his tracks.

Makes the witness
problem a payday.

He said that parts were
worth over 300 grand.

$300,000?

The organs are valuable if
they have a recipient match.

And biotech firms
use skin, bone,

even fat tissue to make all
sorts of implants and prosthetics.

Well, if that's the case,

Santi's sister is worth
more dead than alive.

As long as he finds matches
for her organs.

Which should give us a chance
to find Tolchuck first.

Yeah. Mike, we'll see
you later; thanks.

MEGAN:
Thank you.

Doctors and hospitals
use an Optimization Theory

developed at Johns Hopkins
to determine the best matches

between organ donors
and recipients.

If we only consider
a single variable --

let's say, blood-type --
then the match

between only two items
is simple to achieve.

But transplant doctors are
trying to find complex matches

for entire immune systems,

based on a number of variables:

blood-type, a crossmatch
and a range of inmuno-proteins.

An Optimization algorithm
is used to determine

what donors are best
suited for each patient.

Okay, so how do we use
any of this?

Santi told me
that each of the girls

was given a blood test to find
a match for their kidneys.

Now, the National Organ
Sharing Network

keeps blood-type, crossmatch

and HLA compatibility
information

on every patient waiting
for a transplant.

So, what, we run the sister's
results against that

to find out where
the kidney will wind up?

Exactly. We might be able to
determine the transplant patient

before the surgery takes place.

- Yeah, but there's one thing.
- What's that?

We don't have any blood work
on the missing girl.

CHARLIE:
No, we don't,

but we can run blood and HLA-
compatibility tests on Santi.

CHARLIE: We can use her results;
they're sisters.

DON:
From what I understand,

there's only one in four chances
that siblings will match.

Well, a one-in-four chance
is better than no chance at all.

Sorry, Amita,

but Santi's data just isn't
producing a result.

Well, then let's test the
algorithm against known matches.

We already tried that.

Amita, I don't think
the equation's the problem.

Then the database of patients
waiting for transplants

must be an incomplete set.

You know, if we consider we're
dealing with a black market,

it's possible, even probable,

that we're looking for a patient
who cannot obtain an organ

in the normal way.

So they wouldn't be
on any official lists.

Yeah, but it's much more likely

that Santi isn't a match
for her sister.

I was hoping this would work.

Yeah, well, we all were.

Well, we aren't giving up.

Wow, this doesn't look good.

MEGAN: I assume you guys haven't
found anything yet.

No. Well, you know,

we're only working with a 25%
chance of success to begin with.

And absence of proof is not the
same thing as a proof of failure.

Yeah, she's right about that.

She's right about what?

We don't know that Santi
isn't a match for her sister.

We only know that
we aren't getting any results

from this current set
of patients.

Well, David and Colby found
some data on the patients

in Tolchuk's computer
at the morgue.

Let me see.

This is a potential list
of customers?

We think so.

Our elusive black-marketeers?

- We have a match.
- Thank God.

Well, now that we know
where the kidney is going,

what I need to do is find Santi's
sister before she gets there.

Dad...

these people,
they're from the FBI.

They want to ask you
some questions.

What kind of questions?

Sir, I'll make this
as quick as possible.

Are you aware that buying human
organs is a Federal crime?

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

Mr. Eckworth, two women
have been murdered.

There's still another girl
out there.

Who happens to be
a perfect donor match for you.

JANET:
What girl?

What are talking about?

We're investigating
a murder of two girls

who were killed
for their body parts.

I said I don't know anything.

My father really isn't well,

and I need to get back to work.

So, if there's nothing else...

All right.

Thanks.

He's lying.
You saw that.

Yeah.

So why did you take
us out of there?

I don't think
he's going to talk.

And I think she's been
in the dark until now, you know?

So he really thought people
we're trying to find

are gonna save his life
and he's never gonna talk?

You see the way she looked
when you said "murdered"?

You think I should talk to her?

I think he made the choice,

and she's finding out
what it entails.

My father told you
he didn't know anything.

Right now, I'm not that interested
in what your father knows.

Without a new kidney,
my father will die.

But he has a blood disorder
that disqualifies him

from getting a transplant.

I know this is difficult.

Difficult?

Every day I watch as my dad
dies a little bit more.

You know, he raised me.

It was always just
the two of us.

You know, none of this
wouldn't be happening

if I were a match,
if I could give him a kidney.

I'm sure you'd do anything
to save your father.

But two girls have
already been killed.

I don't know
anything about that.

Maybe not before,
but now you do,

and there is another
girl out there

just waiting to be carved up.

Look, I'm sure you would do
anything to save your father,

but this may not
be the best way.

The last person who received
a transplant from these people

died a few hours ago
from massive infection.

He told me that I need
to be ready to pick him up

to take him to the hospital.

From where? And when?

At a hotel.

Tomorrow.

In Romania, I was a surgeon at
the best hospital in Bucharest.

Now I'm reduced to washing
my hands in a toilet.

I made one mistake...

on a patient who would have
died in six months anyway.

TOLCHUCK:
Tomorrow...

I'm retiring.

What do you plan to do
with your share?

Forget I asked.

- ( door slams open )
- FBI!

- FBI! Tolchuck, let's go!
- Drop it!

MEGAN:
Turn around!

Put your hands behind
your back -- Prita?

Jimmy, put them up!

- MEGAN: Prita?
- Jimmy, get in here.

Prita, can you hear me?
We need a medic!

( crying )

How did you know
she would be okay?

You gave us the
information we needed.

And I believe in the people
that were looking for her.

And, uh...

Thank you.

( crying )

Mmm, that smells so good.

I hope it's good.

It's embarrassing, but I actually had
to ask my grandmother what to get.

It was absolutely unnecessary
for you to buy dinner for us.

Well, after what Don did
to get Prita and Santi

out of the detention center,
it's really the least I can do.

Where is Don anyway?

He should be here by now.

So, what's gonna happen
with these girls, Amita, huh?

What?

Amita is using the money
from the Milton Prize to...

Why don't you tell them?

I'm going to use the money to
pay for the girls to go back to school.

LARRY: That's an
admirable use of your award --

let me know if
I can contribute in any way.

That's sweet, but it's
actually not necessary.

I'll have enough money
to pay the tuition

and have extra left over
for a trip I want to take.

You're going to India.

Yeah, with my grandmother,
over spring break.

Hey, that's, that's great.

DON:
Hey, guys, sorry I'm late.

I got stuck at the DMV.

What were you doing at the DMV?

Oh, I'm now officially
an organ donor.

Check it out.

- ALAN: Hey, look at that.
- Cool.

DON:
Nice, huh?

So now I get treated with a little
more respect around here, huh?

You know, more people took
that simple step,

can you imagine
the ramifications?

Basic economic theory:

Black markets rely on a shortage
of a regulated commodity.

LARRY:
That's right.

Increase the supply,
the black market disappears.

Here's a couple extra
applications in case anyone wants.

That's all right.
I already got my sticker.

LARRY: Yeah, look, I've been
an organ donor for years.

AMITA:
Yeah, me, too.

What about you, Charlie?

I don't know. I...

kind of want to hold on
to my internal organs, you know.

ALAN:
Uh, Charlie,

they don't actually take them
until you've finished with them.

I'm aware of that, Father.

Yeah, well, there's nothing
to worry about.

It's just, you know,
what if I'm not dead

and they think I'm dead,

because I, like, look dead?

Yeah, well, in your case,
I can see that happening.

Don't worry, Charlie.

You got your family
around to make sure

something like that
never happens.

Yeah, Chuck, we got your back.

Your spleen...

( laughter )

ALAN:
I got his heart.

It his brain that I think
people want.

Maybe we should keep that
and put it on eBay.

No, that goes to a museum.

( laughter )