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Cessna 234, this is Cessna 234. I am requesting a frequency change to 0800.

Repeat, requesting frequency change to 0800.

Cessna 234, your frequency change is approved.

Have a good night.

Coffee?

What? Black, two sugars.

Hot. Black it'll be, like a tar.

Look warm if you like it.

Hey, forget the coffee. Check my screen.

Santa Barbara Approach, this is Ventura Tower.

We have a 747 coming in low and slow. Did you send a heavy our way?

We have a problem.

Better clear the airspace.

All aircraft in Ventura pattern, exit immediately.

All aircraft in Ventura pattern, exit now.

Unidentified 747 on final for Ventura, please state your intentions.

Unidentified 747, you are not cleared to land at Ventura. Our runway is too

short for you. Do you copy?

Unidentified 747, please state your intentions now.

Unidentified 747, please state your...

Thank you.

You're going to be fine, Mr. McGregor. We're going to treat you and all your

friends for dehydration, and then we'll hopefully find something to calm your

stomachs. Right.

What's with all the raw boys?

Ah, some kind of clan dinner.

Apparently the main course was a bad haggis.

Haggis, you know, liver, lungs, tongue, minced with a suet, all boiled to

perfection in a sheep's stomach.

Oh, I was on my way to get some breakfast.

Not anymore.

victim was severely berated?

Huh?

Oh, beaten.

He was severely beaten, I think.

I thought you were going to get some new glasses. Yeah, I am, Friday.

Trifocals, you know, one utilitarian pair for all reasons, reading, computer,

driving, everything.

Mark, we've got a problem.

I just spoke to the NTSB.

747 went down near Ventura.

Any survivors?

No. It's our turn, Mark. We're on the go team.

Paul, bring the car around front.

Okay, I'll call Colin and see if he can watch CJ for a few days. Good. See you.

You ready for this, Dad?

Well, we've been on the NTSB rotation for over a year now. We've had a lot of

training, a little experience.

Pancake Piper got in a broken arm. It's nothing like what you're going to be

dealing with today.

Well, I did sign on as a survival factor expert.

Heard what Amanda said. There were no survivors.

Well, we'll see.

We'll figure out how and why the people died and if it could have been

prevented. Tell you the truth, I'm not looking forward to this.

If you need me, call.

We can just gather up, please. All the teams right here. Thank you.

Dr. Bentley, Dr. Stone, let me introduce you to the rest of the team. This is

Bob Burns, Air Traffic Control, Frank Dangler, Human Performance, Jan French,

Weather Factors, Bill Hensley, Structural Systems, and Alex Vale, Power

Now, Dr. Bentley is our medical examiner.

Dr. Sloan will be covering survival factors, and he's also our local team

coordinator, or LTC.

So, if you can't find me, you go to him. All right? And there's Mark Sloan and

Amanda Bedford. Ah, well, debating the spill fires in Poe, so we'll be able to

go in soon. Now, you all know the drill, right? Every victim is to be tagged and

flagged. Godfrey!

Yo, Ted Sherman, back at Atlantic Flight Ops.

When can I get my people in here?

When I say so, right now I don't want you or your people anywhere near this

investigation. The Atlantic has every right to be involved.

You know, we need to know what brought down that plane just as much as you do.

Mr. Sherman, I'm very busy here right now. Mr. Sherman, may I have a word?

Look, I understand your need to be involved in this, but right now we can't

it look as if an airline official is conducting the investigation.

You don't understand.

I knew people on that plane, right? The pilots, the attendants.

This whole thing is just...

It's overwhelming.

But you and I were both trained together to deal with this. Yeah, well, training

for it and living it are two different things.

I couldn't agree with you more, Mr. Sherman.

Look, you know what we need?

Yeah, um, the passenger lift and the senior assignment, the repair records,

logs, the cruise personnel records.

Oh, and the cargo manifest also.

And anything else you find that looks like it might be some help to us.

You know, I think the most important thing for you to do right now is go talk

the families of the victims, answer the questions as best you can, and try and

give them some comfort.

Look, I can handle this other stuff just fine, but I won't know what to say to

those people. Yes, you will, because you know exactly how they're feeling.

the ME's office?

And you are?

Ron Wagner, FBI liaison.

I want priority one to be identifying the bodies.

Don't just stare at me. Get started now. Excuse me, but I wasn't aware that this

was a criminal investigation.

It's not.

Until there's evidence of criminal activity, this investigation belongs to

NTSB. The NTSB?

You guys have got, what, 80 people scattered around the country? I can

twice that many experts in before noon.

And they'd be doing exactly what we're doing, following exactly the same

procedures. Look, Wagner, you want to give us a hand here?

Keep the news crews out of here so they won't trample the crash site.

I'll get the sheriff's department to handle it. Good man.

What's your name?

Bentley. Dr. Amanda Bentley.

I remember that.

Is that supposed to scare me?

The spill fire's out. We can go in.

Where but these are?

i thought i'd be prepared for this i don't think anything could have prepared

for this let's get to work

Well, we've completed the four -corner search, Mark.

And every part of the plane has been accounted for except the act cargo door.

If that door came off in flight, massive decompression could have brought the

plane down.

Yeah, it's possible. Only according to our eyewitnesses, the plane came in low

and slow. It was almost as if the pilot were guiding it in.

Without responding to the tower's radio call, something very serious must have

been happening on that plane.

I would say probably more than one something. We're probably looking at a

of events.

A cascade that began with mechanical failure, pilot error, even a bomb. Or a

fire. Most of the stuff had blown clear of the crash site, but it's covered with

soot. Could something flammable have been on the plane?

A foreign operator flying out a frog. Anything is possible.

Guthrie here.

All right, I'll send a team right away.

Air surveys just found that door 30 miles from here.

Along with another.

Little surprise.

Looks like he fell from quite a height.

Captain!

Along with all this other stuff from that cargo hold, what was this man doing

the hold?

And what was he doing wearing handcuffs?

The airline still has no

official word about those who were on board. There were no survivors,

to the...

Excuse me.

Do you see all the work I have to do? I really don't have time for this. I did

not look at those faxes from Bob because they're not here.

You put them in the outbox ten minutes ago. If I put them in the outbox ten

minutes ago, then I would remember.

I'm sorry.

I'll go help the orderlies.

Hey, Amanda.

Thought I'd come down here and help out. You may not like it down here.

Well, I'd like it a lot less if I saw you go through this alone.

In that case, you are hired.

Hey, look at that. I get a merit badge, huh?

Radiation badge.

That's to make sure you're not overexposed to x -rays. Anyone working

radiology gets one.

I thought I just signed up for pathology.

You did.

But the best way to identify the victims is through their dental records.

Getting good fingerprints at this point is going to be tough.

Burned off.

Or missing.

Your main task will be to take these bodies down to radiology and try to

them up with their dental x -rays, also with the records that their family sent

us. Okay, sounds easy enough.

Yeah, but some of these people have never seen a dentist before.

Some of them are from overseas. I mean, that information is going to be very

tough to get.

Did they send you a passenger list yet?

Yeah, but that doesn't include the no -shows, the standbys. We're still

for PAC Atlantic to figure that one out. Okay, then we do our best until they

do. All right. Okay.

The body you found in that field. I want to see it.

Don't you ever do anything politely?

Not when I'm in a hurry.

Well, then, by all means, be my guest.

Who's that?

The FBI's gift to mankind.

Yeah? Well, I hope they have a return policy.

You know that guy?

Lieutenant Sloan, LAPD homicide.

You recognize this guy? I'm Rod Wagner, FBI.

This is my investigation.

Well, that man fell into my jurisdiction.

Out of an international flight.

Which means the FBI, which is domestic, shouldn't be involved.

You want to get into jurisdictional nitpicking? I'd be happy to oblige. I'm

you would, Agent Wagner. No doubt nitpicking was one of your better

Quantico. Why don't we take this discussion outside?

People are trying to work in here.

How'd you know they teach nitpicking at Quantico?

I don't mean to jump jurisdictions. Good call.

Maybe we can help each other, but we just share information.

Yeah, maybe.

Hi.

Something wrong?

Ask Agent Wagner here.

And you are? Well, I'm Dr. Mark Sloan. I'm local team coordinator.

A civilian.

Who brought in that body you're so curious about?

You know who that is?

Victor Pavel. He's seriously connected to the Russian mob.

You know, he had a half a pair of handcuffs on him when we found him.

Pavel was in custody.

Four days ago, Interpol cornered him in a club in St. Petersburg.

My partner, Mike Keegan, went over to escort him back to the United States.

Oh, I'm sorry. We didn't know your partner was on that plane.

So you think this Pavel character was trying to escape, but something went

and the plane went down instead.

This isn't Mike's fault.

I'm not saying it is. You know, the fact remains those cuffs were clipped,

apparently with bolt cutters, which is hardly standard equipment on an airline.

Which means Pavel had to have help.

either before or during the escape.

You know, it was a good idea you two had about maybe working together on this

thing.

I know some guys from the department who worked a local Russian mob. Maybe they

can give us a lead.

I'll call my people in Interpol, see what they can turn up on their end.

So, joint jurisdiction on this? For the moment.

Take what you can get, Sloan.

Yeah, got to put one of these on.

Okay, thank you.

Wow, looks like a three -dimensional jigsaw puzzle.

Well, fortunately, we won't have to reconstruct the entire plane.

Why not?

Well, after Dr. Sloan found the soot on the last row of seats and we located the

missing hatch, we knew to focus on the aft cargo area.

So there definitely was a fire on board. Oh, yeah, definitely. I mean, look at

this.

I got a...

County arson investigator to check for thermal damage and fire propagation

patterns, and he traced them back to the flashpoint here.

And it looks like from there it moved into the rear of the plane pretty

There was a burn through past the floor of the aft coach section.

And the passengers and the crew, you know, they probably suffered smoke

inhalation even before the crash.

Oh, they did, and that's what I came to tell you.

Every victim that I examined had sit near tracheas. Yeah, I figured they

have. It happened so fast. Are you sure it wasn't a bomb?

No, we would have found pitting in the airframe.

What about mechanical failure?

No, nothing turned up. I mean, hydraulics, avionics, structural, and I

anything will. You know, we haven't gotten any airworthiness directives on

plane to indicate a mechanical problem.

Well, maybe the black boxes will help. No, no. The ones we've recovered are

obsolete, less than 12 parameters.

There'll be no record of what happened in the hold.

Well, so your guess would be that the smoke from the fire overwhelmed the

they lost control of the craft, and that caused the accident?

I mean, I'm not so sure it was just smoke. You know, you should check the

victims for blood CO2 and cyanide levels.

Cyanide? The interior of this plane is mostly plastic, Doctor, and when this

stuff burns... Oh, my God.

Oh, and I need one more thing. Ted Sherman has set up a meeting with the

victims' families. I'd really like for you to be there.

I'm afraid I'm not very good at... press conference. No, no, no press, please.

They just upset these people more than they already are.

I only wish we had more answers for them.

Ladies and gentlemen, we've only just begun our investigation, and

the truth of these matters often reveals itself according to its own timetable,

so... But whenever we do know something,

You will know it. You deserve our honesty.

And I promise that that's exactly what you'll get.

Dr. Bentley.

Many of you have already spoken to one of our physicians or counselors.

But we ask that you please continue to feel free to call upon them.

Because they will be available to you for as long as you need them.

I think...

What we all want most is to know when we can get our...

My husband, Louis Trent, was on that flight.

I'd like to take him home.

We're working as fast as we can, Mrs. Trent.

It simply takes time.

Mr. Guthrie has promised you all the truth.

And the truth is that we will work through this as quickly as possible.

Academic has made arrangements at the Star 5 Hotel to provide you with rooms

meals and whatever other services you may require until the NTSB has completed

its work and your loved ones are returned to you.

If you want to come with me, we have buses waiting to take you there.

I'll get on those toxicology reports.

Thank you.

Oh, listen, if you want any more of the victims' IDs, you'll have to speak to my

staff. I'm terribly busy.

I know how hard it is talking to these people.

You got a lot of experience?

More than I ever wanted.

Oklahoma City, Montana, the Republic of Texas mess.

They never get used to it.

Their emotions trip you up every time.

Then why do you act like you don't care?

Emotions and jobs aren't a very good mix. You pay too much attention to one,

don't do the other one very well. So this is about maintaining efficiency,

Equilibrium. You lose that, you can't help anybody.

Hey, you two are actually speaking to each other, huh?

Well, I couldn't help myself. You see, he's a better nitpicker than I am.

Well, good, because I need you to see that.

Well, he's pretty badly burned, but he had on half a pair of handcuffs, and

so... I figured it was your partner even before I checked the dental records.

Sorry.

We took this out of him.

A bullet.

Bullet? Yeah, here.

This is from a .38.

Mike used a 9mm with .32 backup.

Which means someone must have smuggled a gun on board for Pavel as well as a

pair of bolt cutters.

Why stall?

We tell the press the FBI is taking over.

Not yet.

Look, this is a criminal matter and we both know it. There was gunfire in the

hold, Keegan got shot, Popple tried to escape and got himself killed.

And I'm not disagreeing with you, but it's not my call. It's up to our bosses

Washington. And until they make the decision, I'm still in charge.

Well, you know, I would be in such a hurry to dismiss the MTSB anyway.

Bringing a whole new team of investigators up to speed is going to

of valuable time. And can you really say that my people are doing such a lousy

job? No, you guys do good work, but my guys will do better.

Inspector Guthrie, isn't it true there was some kind of gun battle on Flight

224?

As I said at the outset...

This investigation has really just begun, and until it's completed, I'm not

going to have any... We learned there was a federal agent escorting a prisoner

on the plane.

Wasn't this agent shot and killed in the course of the flight? And didn't his

prisoner fire the fatal shot as part of some terrorist suicide mission?

This press conference is at an end. Thank you all very much.

Wait, please.

The others have asked me to speak for all of us.

We'd like to make a request.

You have our complete attention.

Oh, we want... We want to place a memorial wreath at the crash site.

Pack Eclonic has no problem with that.

We'd be glad to provide assistance, transportation, whatever you folks need.

The crash site's been secured. I don't see how the investigation could be

compromised.

What, this afternoon, all right?

How about this afternoon?

Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you all very much.

Mark, take a look at this.

Doggone, would you read that for me? I can't. Yeah, well, we just finished the

final body count of the plane, and get this, two passengers are definitely

missing.

Did you check the manifest?

Checked and triple -checked. I even talked to the reps at Pack Atlantic, who

loaded the plane in Prague, but no matter how you add it up... Two

who were supposed to be on that plane are unaccounted for.

Did you tell Guthrie?

He's sending out search teams all along the plane's route, starting from where

they found Victor Popple. I have a feeling those search teams are going to

up empty -handed.

Still, it's a good idea to do a background check on the two missing

we'll get some answers.

Right. Once you've got a good idea. But there's still a good chance those

passengers went missing because some bureaucrat erased the wrong file, which

why you're going to do the IDs all over again.

I'll have to clear it with Dr. Bentley first.

Don't bother. I'll talk to her.

Just in time, Agent Wagner. Why don't you just come in and enjoy the show?

There's damn little I'm enjoying about any of this.

Yeah, I got the... I got the toxicology reports back on the crash.

And the CO2 and the cyanide levels in their blood were way above the lethal

limit.

So that would mean, that would mean that for about three or four minutes, while

that fire was spreading that cyanide gas throughout the plane, those poor people

were... I'm sorry.

I know I should be more professional about this, but...

I spent my first seven years at the bureau behind a desk shuffling

reports.

And then I finally got my first field assignment.

Oklahoma City.

I was with the team that went through the daycare center.

My first hour on the job, I lost it.

Then this other agent gave me a hand.

It was Mike Keegan.

I met him that day. He took me aside and he talked to me.

And I pulled myself back together and went to work.

The funny thing is, I...

I don't remember what it was he said to me.

If I could, I'd say it to you now.

I think you just did.

Thank you.

What is it, Sloan?

Just this.

My sources tell me that Victor Pavel's partner in crime is one Serge Ostrowski.

I know that.

The Bureau knows that.

The CIA and Interpol know it, and now you know it, too.

But do any of you guys know that he's holed up in a loft downtown?

Our backup should be here in five minutes.

We can't wait that long.

You take the back, I'll take the front.

Wagner!

Freeze. FBI.

I said freeze!

Ah!

Ah!

Night's over.

Drop the knife.

Good timing.

See me on a good day.

Talk. About what?

Be specific, please.

Victor Powell.

Did you smuggle a gun to him on Flight 224 or not?

This is a very bad joke.

Victor doesn't think so.

He's dead. Along with his FBI escort and about 300 other people. And you had

nothing to do with it, right?

Duh! In first place, I wouldn't help Victor.

The man was, how you say it here, a freako. He killed more friends than

We're supposed to think you guys are ex -partners?

Why do you think I'm in City of Angels?

I wanted to be as far away from that govnook as I could go.

If you're so happy here, why were you running?

Who's running?

I'm upwardly mobile.

I have wife on 10th and two kids in therapy, new home in Beverly Hills. This

America. What you've got is a cell down at county.

Because in America, you pull a knife on a cop, you go to jail.

You may be dead yourself if you don't get that looked at.

Not until after we book these guys.

Shouldn't take more than an hour or so.

Right about the time your favorite doctor comes back on duty, huh?

Now that's the pilot.

Get the hell out of here.

And this is the hijacker. Shut up.

Do as I say. Full circuit breaker on comm one. Reduce speed to 170.

That's the pilot again.

We could stall out. It's a hijacker.

And decompress aft cargo hold. Do this or I start shooting passengers now.

Wow. That's pretty dramatic stuff.

And that's from the cockpit voice recorder.

That answers a lot of questions.

Okay.

Let's assume Pavel knocked out his escort, Mike Keegan, and cut himself

from his handcuffs. So what did he do next?

Well, he got...

His hands on a weapon. It was Keegan's gun.

If Keegan was shot with a .38, that's not what he was carrying.

Well, then he got someone to smuggle a gun on board before they left Prague.

Anyway, after he threatened the pilot, his next stop was the aft cargo hold.

This opening is pre -crash.

My guess is Pavel smashed his way into the hold through the bulkhead wall of

third floor galley.

And then Keegan revived, followed him down here, and used his backup weapon.

And had one hell of a gunfight. Yeah, I mean, we pulled bullet fragments out of

three different spots in the hold.

Then Keegan died here.

Yeah, and at the same time...

The gunshots ignited this

emergency oxygen canister.

The fire began, which eventually brought down the plane.

And then Popple kicked out the apt cargo door and jumped to his death.

Well, he bailed out, actually. The sheriff's department just sent me this.

They found a parachute floating in Lake Casitas.

That's not far from where Pavel was found.

Yeah.

So Pavel smuggled on a parachute aboard the plane along with the bolt cutters

and the gun.

All this lost supplies so that one man could attempt an escape.

Which almost worked.

See, Pavel knew enough to order the pilot to fly the plane at a slow stall

speed. Otherwise, he never survived the jump.

But he didn't survive.

Well, because the chute wasn't strapped on properly.

That still doesn't explain what happened to the two missing passengers.

I don't know. My guess is they never even got on the plane. Maybe they were

lucky that day. Slept late, missed the flight.

Ouch.

Are you sure you used an anesthetic?

My patients don't usually complain.

Your patients are usually dead.

That can be arranged.

Now, this laceration's pretty deep. Maybe I should have had a surgeon handle

in the OR.

I'm out of time.

Why? Bad guys have already been caught.

What else is left to be done?

I suppose there's always work to be done.

Work is definitely better than real life.

Tell me about it.

I just got a divorce.

Not fun.

You too?

Never been married.

But I've had more than one broken relationship.

Aren't you going to say something like that figures?

Too easy.

I don't regret joining the Bureau.

It's just that most women are a little, you know, turned off by the badge and

the gun.

Really?

I'm around guns and badges all the time.

They don't turn me off.

But then again, most men don't find the scent of formaldehyde much of an

aphrodisiac either.

Would depend on the woman who's wearing it, I suppose.

I suppose.

You were right about the formaldehyde.

Definitely not an aphrodisiac.

Hey, what kind of doctor are you?

I'm an injured man, remember?

I don't see any signs of diminished physical capacity.

You won't either.

It's going to be a long day.

Which is why we ought to get some sleep. I don't think so.

Hey, how much time do you get on one of these snooze alarm things? About nine

minutes.

Well, my alarm and I are very good friends.

Lucky alarm.

This is worse than a cold shower.

Such a lie.

Going through a tunnel. Bad signal.

Where were we?

That was not nine minutes.

I want my nine minutes.

Is that all you want?

No.

Neither do I.

We found a gun

in the cargo hold.

Agent Wagner has confirmed that it was Mike Keegan's backup weapon.

We believe Victor Pavel took Agent Keegan's primary weapon, used the boat

cutters to free himself, and headed for the aft cargo hold.

Keegan pulled his backup weapon, followed Pavel below, and a gun battle

And your partner was killed.

And the gunshots ignited a fire, which didn't leave Pavel much time to bail

In his haste, he failed to secure his parachute properly.

Wind pressure ripped it off, and he fell to his death.

And then smoke and cyanide gas disabled the crew, and that caused the crash.

End of story.

Well, except maybe it's not the right one.

There are just too many things here that don't make any sense at all.

Like what? Well, the two missing passengers, for one thing.

What if the voice we heard on the cockpit recorder was one of theirs and

Pavel's? Come on, Doctor, that's not even reasonable.

Well, is it more reasonable to assume that a trained agent like your partner

would let a man who was handcuffed to him overwhelm him that easily?

If there were two men on the plane, that would mean that Mike Keegan was taken

by surprise and there wasn't anything he could do to stop it.

And if that were true, it doesn't change the rest of the scenario.

It's still a failed rescue attempt.

Well, not necessarily.

I checked the cargo manifest against what was found, and there's a shipment

Bavaria Express, and it's still missing.

It's probably out near where Pavel landed. It doesn't mean anything.

Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.

What do you think it means, Mark?

Obviously, those hijackers knew that plane because they disabled the radio.

Now, why didn't they disable the voice recorder? Why did they leave it there

us to hear?

And why didn't they make sure that Pavel's parachute was secured?

They were sloppy.

I don't think so. This whole thing was so well planned and so well executed.

I don't think they ever intended for Pavel to escape.

They left that voice recorder running on purpose so that we would come to the

wrong conclusion.

Yeah, so we'd go after the Russian mafia instead of looking for the real answer.

The missing cargo.

Exactly.

Dr. Sloan, we have a simple answer for the crash and what caused it.

I don't need an amateur sleuth complicating things with bizarre,

theories.

We're done here.

How could you just walk out like that?

I don't need someone trying to convince me that what I know is true is false.

It must be nice to be so damn sure of yourself all the time. I've had no cases

like this before. I know what I'm doing. Well, so does Mark. And I've known that

man for a long time, and he has incredible insights into things that

make sense to the rest of us. The case makes perfect sense. Well, it does if

think you have all the answers, but you refuse to look at the questions.

Now, what would it hurt to check, huh?

Except maybe your pride if you're wrong, and Mark is right.

the crash site for this reef -laying thing. Okay, Sherman, I got a job for

Get lost.

Go ahead.

I've already got a job. You've got a clipboard.

I've got lost cargo.

Bavaria Express shipped something on 224 and it's missing.

So? So I want you to find out what it was, whether it was actually on that

plane, and who Bavaria Express really is. Oh, come on. They have been shipping

cargo with us for years.

It is a perfectly legitimate outfit. Check it out.

Sherman, get to it.

This is more than about cargo, Agent Wagner.

Right now it's about people.

Mrs. Trent, I'm Dr. Mark Sloan. Can I help you?

Oh, yes, from the press conference. I remember you.

Thank you for speaking up for us.

You know, that was quite an eloquent plea you made for yourself.

I was impressed.

Well, one of the counselors told us that closure's important in a situation like

this. I guess that's really what I was trying to do.

I lost my wife. You know, it's been a while back, but the hole it leaves never

quite closes.

Get smaller with time.

Mrs. Trent?

Well, I guess they're ready to take you out to the side.

Thank you, Dr. Sloan.

I won't forget what you said.

How's it going?

How many consecutive shifts have you pulled, Jesse?

I don't know. I quit counting sometime last Christmas.

Can't wait to get back in the ER.

Well, FBI has taken over. You won't have to do double duty much longer. Good.

Doctors, we have a problem. What is it, Jane?

That was the radiation safety officer.

He just processed our badges and they came back foggy.

Excessive radiation?

How much?

Not too bad, but he wants to check our new badges and he's running some

diagnostics down in radiology.

That's nuts.

I haven't had that badge on for more than two days, and you haven't even been

down to radiology yet.

Get a Geiger counter in here, Jed.

Amanda, I'm going to need... I need you and your assistant to close out the ID

file. Jesse's not my assistant.

He's a resident in emergency medicine.

And when this whole thing is over with, he's going back to where he belongs and

fill him I.

What? Isn't this where you say, thank you, Amanda, for the lovely evening?

call me, I'll call you?

Amanda.

I'm sorry.

Look, it's just that last night mattered to me.

And last night was important to me, too, but right now I don't know what to

think.

Amanda, you're the only sane and decent thing that's happened to me in a long

time.

I want to hold on to that. You don't act like it.

Stop acting like a closed -minded ass and please let us help you with this

investigation. I still think Dr. Sloan is wrong.

But I did tell Ted Sherman to check on that missing cargo just to be sure.

In any case, that's all going to be over with sooner rather than later.

What's more important to me is... Are we?

Let's help Jesse with those records.

Mark? What the hell is going on?

The crash victims.

They're all radioactive.

This is reading low levels of radiation just like everything else.

We've checked everything.

Pieces of the wreckage, seats.

The covered cargo, everything's radioactive, just like all the

Radioactive. So you're telling me that Flight 224 was brought down by a nuclear

bomb? I don't think so.

Now, eyewitnesses saw the plane explode on impact. Now, if a nuclear device

brought it down, there would be radioactive fallout all over the place.

deployed hazard teams over 50 square miles just in case, but no one has

up any radioactivity yet.

All I know is that I've got a crashed 747 and 300 radioactive corpses in the

morgue, and I need to know why before another jet goes down and more people

Maybe... Maybe it is some kind of terrorist attack.

Yeah, but why would terrorists radiate a plane of 300 people and then crash it?

It just doesn't make any sense.

Terrorists don't make sense. They make statements.

But then they release it to the press, and nobody's taken credit for this yet.

I don't know why, but somebody crashed this plane and they could do it again.

This was no accident.

You know what may have been?

There's nothing radioactive on the 747.

But there could have been on this flight.

We know that an FBI agent was bringing a prisoner back. The Russian mafia chief,

Victor Pavel. Two men took over the plane. They freed Pavel and they

out. Only we know they weren't really trying to rescue Pavel. That was a

They were stealing cargo from the Bavarian Express shipment. Which is

missing. And I think that is the source of the radiation.

We know there was a fire in the cargo hold. Now, what if the radioactive

shipment ignited accidentally?

Maybe from that gunfight with the agent.

Well, then the smoke could have dispersed radioactive particles

plane. And then the passengers breathed the smoke and became irradiated. Just a

minute. That shipment weighed 10 kilos.

Well, half a kilo could have irradiated a plane that size.

And exposed everybody on board.

Why were they trying to smuggle radioactive material into the U .S. in

place? Wouldn't it have been just as easy to steal it here?

No. Security in American nuclear installations is pretty tight. But in

former Soviet Union, this stuff is, well, very accessible.

It wouldn't be that hard for the Russian mafia to get a hold of some and smuggle

it out.

Why would the Russian mafia kill one of their own people as a cover to steal

their own shipment?

No, they wouldn't. Whoever was smuggling the stuff had no reason to steal the

shipment off the plane in mid -flight.

Which means we're dealing with two different groups here.

The original smugglers and the hijackers who used that escape attempt by Pavel

to cover up stealing the chip.

Then who killed him and 300 innocent people?

And we haven't answered the big question. Who has that 10 kilos of

material and what do they intend to do with it?

Agent Wagner, we've just confirmed that the radioactive material is being

smuggled on 224th.

Interpol just turned up a fence in Prague. We got very fat off of selling

used fuel rods.

Thanks for the good work.

The FBI's taking over now.

So that's it, huh?

Good work, people. Now you can just go away.

Amanda, this is now criminal investigation.

The Bureau steps in, and the NTSB... Takes a hike.

I do not have a choice here.

This is a matter of national security. I have to follow procedure.

Is that to say that we can't? That's not the issue.

We're talking about people who committed mass murder just to smuggle in black

market radioactive material.

We're not just talking a plane crash anymore. We're talking Russian mafia.

That's not necessarily so.

Mark has found compelling evidence that your partner and Victor Pavel may have

been murdered by someone other than the mafia.

The mysterious missing passengers, right? Why are you so fixated on one

when there may be others?

Amanda, I've been doing this job for a while.

I'm pretty good at it. I know that, Ron.

But there are other possibilities.

Simple answer is usually the right one. You know, I think you're letting your

need to be right get in the way of finding the truth.

And I think you're letting your emotions get in the way, period. My emotions?

What about your emotions?

That plane crashed and killed 300 people, including your partner. And you

had just...

Remember what I said about emotions and the jobs we do?

That was about the family's grief.

That wasn't about us.

Maybe not then.

I don't have a choice here.

About any of this.

Please try to understand.

I can't.

Dr. Sloan.

Yes. Oh, excuse me.

You've been so kind.

May I impose on you once more?

Of course you can. What can I do?

Well, I spent all morning looking for that PAC Atlantic representative.

Ted Sherman?

Yes. He was supposed to give me a release for my husband's remains.

Only Mr. Sherman's not in his office or at the crash site.

Nobody knows where he is.

He could be in the ME office.

No, I just came from there.

And now Dr.

Travis said that...

that all the bodies and personal effects... I'm being held for an

length of time, I know. I'm sorry.

Please, can you tell me what's going on?

I wish I could.

I promise you, just as soon as it's possible, I'll explain everything.

You know, in the meantime, try to get this out of your mind. I know that's

hard, but try to get away from it.

Take a rest.

You sound like my husband, Lewis.

He was always telling me to get away from things, slow down, take it easy.

Good advice.

You know, I have a little spot on the beach out by my house. I call it my

getting -it -together place.

And just being there restores my perspective and my sense of purpose.

I have a place like that, too.

A park near the sea.

I can sit on a bench, watch the boats and the channel, and find myself.

My prescription? Exactly.

Thank you, Dr. Sloan.

No word for it. Anything I can do to help?

You know, Jess, it occurred to me that before those hijackers bailed out, they

must have breathed some of the same smoke the passengers did. And by now

must be pretty sick. Oh, deathly.

Vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding from the gums, lips, all the soft tissue. Classic

radiation mucositis. Yeah, and a physician might easily mistake that for

virulent yeast infection like thrush.

You want me to fax to the local hospital, see if any patients have come

severe thrush -like indices?

Yeah, and probably patients who refuse long -term care.

Okay, you got it.

Jess, have you seen Pitt Sherman?

No, no, not since yesterday.

Yesterday?

You were right about Pitt Sherman, Dad. The man's missing.

But more, his apartment's been torn apart.

We need to find Mr. Sherman right away.

You think his disappearance is connected to the hijacking?

Well, he wouldn't be the first airline employee that became a smuggler.

Well, whether he did or didn't, we're no longer at ball, remember?

Wagner booted us off the case.

He doesn't want anyone coming between him and the Russian mafia.

Well, I don't think this has anything to do with the mafia.

The business with Ted Sherman, just what simple burglary is this?

Which means I'm free to investigate.

With our help?

Oh, I wouldn't have it any other way, even if I had a choice.

You look happy this afternoon.

And why shouldn't I be? It's a lovely day. The sky is clear, the sun is out,

I just got an answer to our facts. Check it out.

Clinic.

Would you read that?

Clinic in Fillmore treated two patients this morning for a severe case of brush.

And they refused long -term care.

Let's go.

We can pick up a man down the way.

Call me.

Two men, middle 30s, foreign accent, and very, very sick. Look at those

profiles.

Wow. Bleeding mucosa, severe diarrhea, intense vomiting.

They needed immediate hospitalization. Which I recommended in the strongest

possible terms, but they refused. They paid cash and they left.

Any idea where we might find them?

I'm afraid not. They didn't leave an address or a phone number, just their

names. Phil Smith and Bob Jones.

Well, this may be tough.

These guys are obviously very imaginative.

Listen, Doctor, we really need to find a line on these men.

Did they say anything that might help us find them?

No.

But what about their car?

A red sedan.

With an Ojai rent decal in the rear window.

Now, if you'll excuse me, we have chickenpox running riot in the

So what do we do now?

Well, say we cruise the local motels. All three of them and look for a red

sedan. With Ojai rent decals. They're as sick as Dr. Fleming says they are. They

haven't gotten very far.

Ojai rent.

I'll call in for backup.

You better call fast. I think somebody just lost.

It's not in there. I thought we had this thing wrapped up. Could they have

hidden it somewhere?

I got a bad feeling they handed it off to whoever they were working for. Well,

he's not going to be working for anybody anymore.

They're not going to regain consciousness.

It's a horrible way to die.

They earned it.

Have you run the prints yet? Yeah.

It's a Milan Posier and a Karl Masaryk.

Interpol's got a long rap sheet on both of them. Get this.

Last known place of employment was Prague.

They were ramp agents for PAC Atlantic.

Uh -oh.

You think he's going to arrest us or just shoot us on sight?

Ought to have the federal marshal stole the three of you in jail for interfering

in an FBI investigation.

What investigation, Agent Wagner? According to you, those two men never

existed.

Over there.

Think she's going to shoot him?

We're lucky.

You people need to back off. Why? Because we punctured your mafia theory?

Because you're getting in my way. You're not mad at us. You're mad at Mike

Keegan.

You have survivor's guilt, Ron.

You're just as much a victim as those poor people who laid flowers at that

site. And until you learn to deal with that anger, you're going to remain mad

me and everybody else.

I should have been there.

What are you... It's not survivor's guilt.

Mike and I were assigned to bring Victor Pavel in.

Only I wanted a lousy couple days off, so Mike covered for me.

Like he always did.

If I'd have been there, we could have handled the situation.

You don't know that. The hell I don't. If you had been on that plane, you would

have died. And we never would have met.

As a doctor, a community general has got a lot more sense than I do, especially

about this case.

I'd like him to work on it with me.

If you will.

According to Interpol, Bavaria Express is a legitimate operation.

I hear a button there somewhere. But Bavaria's dispatchers said they didn't

any cargo on flight 224.

But it's on the manifest.

which was bogus, along with the assignee who should have met the shipment at

customs, but he never showed.

Tracking him down will be next to impossible.

Well, maybe not. Mark thinks whoever smuggled the fuel rods might have booked

flight on the plane.

To babysit the shipment? A smart move which didn't work?

Thanks to the hijackers.

Dr. Sloan, thanks for coming.

I apologize.

Oh, I see.

Look, what we've got to focus on now is finding Ted Sherman and those fuel rods.

Ted Sherman, the pack Atlantic rep? He's disappeared and his apartment was

ransacked. Which may be unrelated to the crash of Flight 224.

Maybe not, but what if it is? What if it's a climb of opportunity?

You know, Ted Sherman was certainly in the right place to pull it off. Or no

people who could do it for him.

I'm going to try to stay open here. Lead me through, okay?

The first thing that Sherman did when he found out they were smuggling the fuel

rods was to contact a couple of crooked rampagers back in Frog.

Alon and Carl, two very shady characters he was familiar with.

According to the passenger list, they were seated right here.

just sitting and waiting for the plane to hit its final approach before they

made their move. Which was? To retrieve their weapons, get the bolt cutters, and

find them wherever they were hidden.

Getting guns on that plane probably wasn't that tough for a couple of

employees. I imagine getting the guns on was pretty simple, but then the next

move was a little more involved.

Our hijackers were very careful to pick seats that were next to Pavel and your

partner.

Go on.

So while one went over and disarmed Keegan and took the cuffs off Pavel, the

other one went into the flight deck.

and took charge of the plane.

And it was his voice on the cockpit recorder and not Pavel's.

I almost feel sorry for the little slimeball.

He must have thought his mafia pals had come through for him.

Imagine the shock when they went down to the cargo hold and Pavel realized what

they were really after.

I thought I was in store for him.

It would have been just like Mike, pulling his backup gun and following him

here. Shots were exchanged, a fire started.

Unfortunately, your friend was killed.

They threw Pavel out with the parachute they had stored in here.

They strapped on their own chutes and jumped out.

Along with whatever was left of the phony Bavaria Express shipment.

The irony is that they already were as good as dead since they were exposed to

radioactive smoke.

They didn't mean to start a fire.

They didn't even mean for the plane to crash.

It was all supposed to look like a daring escape attempt by a federal

300 people got killed because someone decided to smuggle 10 kilos of

material into L .A. And somebody else decided to steal it. Ted Sherman.

He didn't steal that stuff for his rock collection.

He intended to sell it to someone, and I have a pretty good idea who that

someone is.

Where are you going?

Wooster and La Brea, Rathbone Imports. Tell Steve to meet me there if he's

interested.

Look, I've got an attorney who would say that this is harassment.

Nobody's harassing you, rat bone.

We're just asking for information from a man who's, let's say, well -versed in

international commerce.

That would constitute harassment.

Let me suggest something here. No!

You let me.

Why don't you two get the hell out of my office?

Suppose someone wanted to unload some stolen radioactive material, say,

a middleman who had contacts with... Arms dealers all over the world. Now,

you've heard of that kind of thing in your line of work?

Yeah, you hear rumors, so?

Well, wouldn't it be your duty as a citizen then to tell the authorities

these rumors?

I'm trying to run a business here. If you're looking to buy, somebody brought

down an airliner just to get their hands on a ship and a black market fuel rods.

And since you're the only fence that can move that stuff, you're going to help

us find them.

This conversation is over.

We've done what I think we've done.

Get up.

It's enough.

I said that's enough.

Terrific.

One of the damages.

Well... A few stitches here and there, a sprain wrist, a lot of bruises, but

nothing that won't heal.

They're yours?

You stole this from my desk.

I made a probable cause search of your desk and your storage room.

Fascinating stuff you've got in there.

You want me to tell you what I found, or would you rather I tell you how it's

going to go from here?

I'm listening.

Whoever stole those fuel rods is going to contact you sooner or later looking

for a buyer.

When they do, you're going to play along.

We'll triangulate the signal and get a fix on them.

How's that sound?

Well, I've finished whatever I do.

We all make sacrifices.

All right.

I want immunity from the stuff you've found in my storeroom. If you cooperate

completely.

You know, I want to thank you.

You did a beautiful job of showing me how you keep your emotions from

interfering with your work.

You have a wonderful way with patients. Oh, and you have a wonderful way with

your suspects.

Come on, Amanda, it's my job.

Sometimes I have to lean on people.

Do you really think I could have gotten Rathbone's cooperation by saying please?

And what did you get by pushing the man through plate glass doors except for

nine stitches?

See, Steve calmly walked through the man's storage area, and he got all the

leverage that he needed.

So which one of you did his job?

And which one of you lost control?

Wagner, you're not going to believe who our new friend's talking to right now.

Better get in here.

Yeah, well, I'm not sure I want to get involved.

There's too many people looking for this stuff, and for you.

What do you mean?

I mean 300 dead people is bad for business.

Look, I never wanted those people to die. It just all went wrong.

Yeah. Just give me ten cents on the dollar, and you will make a fortune.

All right, well, I need some time to confer with my associates.

Where can I get back to you?

I'll contact you.

But talk in two hours.

That is fine.

We got a trade.

Atlantic Warehouse out in Vernon. I'm going to pick him up. This is still my

case. We really need to get into this again.

I just want to come along for the ride.

You can drive.

Over here.

He's got a shot in both kneecaps.

His left elbow, but not his right.

That's probably when he handed over the fuel rods.

Yeah.

But to who?

I just got word from D .C.

Sherman was an Army Airboy.

Which means he knew everything he needed to know about planes.

Including how to jump out of them. But Sherman still screwed up and got himself

killed. Yeah, probably by the original smuggler.

I just wish we could get a clue as to what they're going to do with those

funeral rugs. I'd settle for a clue as to who that smuggler is.

You know, this picture... Pretty gruesome, huh?

No. Well, yeah, it is, but there's something else. I just can't put my

it. Maybe you're wearing the wrong glasses.

No, it's not the glasses.

It's something I've seen just recently.

That tied -up dead guy?

No.

The knot.

That's a single -carat bend. You don't see him very often.

And I saw a decorative variation of that not too long ago on Diane Trent's

shoulder bag.

Oh, that poor woman who lost her husband on the plane.

Yeah.

All right, follow this for a moment. Suppose you're Diane Trent, and you get

your husband to smuggle some radioactive material on a commercial airline.

But the plane crashes and he dies.

Yeah, but the fuel rods are pretty solid, so the shipment is still intact.

You want it back, so what do you do?

Get yourself a pointed spokesperson for the grieving families.

So you can ask a lot of questions and stay close to the investigation.

And if that's not good enough, you talk the families into maybe asking for a

special favor.

The wreath ceremony.

An excuse to get close to the crash site.

And there, Diane finds that neither that nor the hangar's been sealed off.

There's no radioactivity anywhere.

Because someone stole her shipment in mid -flight.

Smart lady. Smart enough to sift through the likely suspects and zero in on Ted

Sharman. She also ransacked his apartment and tracked him back to the

You know, she went to a lot of trouble and took a lot of risk to get those fuel

rods. The big question is, why?

I suggest we go ask her.

I assume you put out the usual APBs, you've alerted bus terminals, the

everything? Still no sign of Diane Trent.

This is not going to be easy.

You check this, Wagner?

Nothing but be my guest.

Mrs. Trent, Marilyn Kale here with KLMV News. I'd really love an on -air

interview. I know it.

Hey, Diane, it's Frank down at the kennel. We finished grooming your golden

retriever, so why don't you come pick him up? He misses you.

Diane, dear, this is Bernice at the office.

We all understand you're not coming in this morning, but...

Have you contacted these people?

Yeah, Marilyn Kell never heard from her. The front didn't leave a number, and

the people at the law office where she worked have no idea what's going on.

And neither do we.

There is nothing here to work with. No letters, no address book.

All we have are more questions.

Yeah, like, what is your father doing?

Dad?

We, uh, missed something?

I don't get it.

Get what?

What? You've got a dog.

Look around in here and tell me what you see. Or rather, what you don't see.

A water dish.

No hair.

No chew toys.

No sign of a dog, period.

Yeah.

There's not a speck of kibble in this kitchen.

Well, maybe the call from Frank down to the kennel was a mistake.

Or maybe it could have been a coded message.

Either way, I think we better get in touch with this Frank and have a talk

him. Tell me, Sloan, how fast can LAPD get a copy of Diane Trent's phone

Faster than you can say, Frank.

You got a line on him already?

Good work, Steve. Who is he?

Frank turns out to be Frank Hall.

Ex -con, three -time loser.

Tracked him out to a house of new home.

Sheriff's in position. We're ready.

Dad, gotta go.

Okay, listen. Be careful.

Let's go.

He asked you to get down. Just do it.

A mugshot doesn't do him justice.

Secure the house and watch her back. She may have a roommate.

Okay, who's the hero?

I shot him, if that's what you're asking. You killed the one person that

have led us to Diane Trent.

Paul had enough firepower to kill a whole team, Amanda.

He had to be taken down.

Glad to see we share a strong sense of mutual trust and respect.

Playing pen pal with every gun -happy militia nut between here and Michigan.

Destroy America to save it.

Highway to Armageddon.

This stuff makes the Turner Diaries look like Little House on the Prairie.

Found packed bags in Hall's bedroom. And this.

It's a one -way flight to Sydney this afternoon.

He couldn't have known that we were on to him. And why was he in such a rush to

leave town?

You may have the answer to that right here.

This is the first.

Homemade glove box. Damn good one.

It's for handling and processing radioactive material.

I can think of only one reason Hall would need something like this.

To build a nuclear bomb.

Well, how big could it be?

Does it matter?

The L .A. Bureau had enough manpower. I wouldn't waste my time calling. I need

the best we've got from every bureau in the time zone, and I need them now.

I only want volunteers for the job.

Make sure they're completely briefed on the situation.

And try to get agents without families.

Yeah.

It is real.

We have to act as if it is.

Ron, I came by to apologize.

For what?

Well, for thinking that you killed Frank Hall deliberately.

I did. What I'm trying to say was that I acted badly.

I know that I was unreasonable.

Nah, you're... Don't tell me. I know when I'm being unreasonable, and I was

unreasonable.

And I would like to apologize, please.

Well, the way I've been behaving lately, I'm not surprised you thought I was out

of control again.

But you weren't.

I do listen when you tell me I'm being a jerk.

Besides, this has gotten a lot more serious than the Russian mafia or a

airplane crew.

When I think about it, it terrifies me.

A suitcase bomb made with technology available to Frank Hall might be capable

leveling an area of three square miles. Three square miles?

So if the bomb is detonated in downtown Los Angeles... There won't be any more

downtown Los Angeles. It'll vaporize it along with everyone who's lucky enough

to be there.

You have an intriguing notion of luck.

Well, at least they won't be there to see what comes next.

Because there'll be a firestorm that will level everything between Pasadena

the ocean.

And this city is not set up to handle a catastrophe like that. No city is.

Even the best emergency plans, the only good they can do is make people feel

better.

Ron, this bomb may go off without any warning.

And if we did survive the blast, what do you think life would be like after?

We checked the glove box, and we found high levels of radiation.

Hall definitely made a bomb.

And delivered it. And probably to Diane Trent.

Steve and Ron are checking out Hall's associates, but still nothing.

You know, Mark, I have probably broken about a thousand rules today, and I just

do not care.

I called Colin. I told him to take C .J. out of town. Actually, out of state.

Yes, quite.

No, he heard rumblings on the base, and, you know, the military's on full alert.

Anyway, he did exactly what I asked him to do, and they should be in Santa Fe,

you know, before anything happens. I think you did the right thing.

Wish I could do the same for Steve.

Where'd this come from?

Got that off of Frank Hall's mantle.

Now, that looks like him, but this photograph has to be at least 20 years

Where was this taken?

Oh, anywhere in California.

Well, we need more than that.

Well, the car's mid -60s. Yeah, didn't help much.

Wait a second. The license tag says 77.

This little girl here, did Hall have a daughter?

There's no record that he was ever married.

This other guy looks kind of familiar, too.

Look at the ropes on those packs there.

Well,

that's not what you would call a knot.

A carried band. It's the same knot Ted Sherman was tied up with. And the same

knot that was on Diane Trent's shoulder bag.

That little girl, Diane Trent.

Got some good news?

Well, it's news at least.

Wagner's people in D .C. identified the other man in a photo.

Oh.

Carl Kallstrom? Mm -hmm. Had a family like Manson's, only a lot better armed.

Most of them died in a shootout with the LAPD. The only survivor was Kallstrom

Starr.

Whose name is Diane.

Yeah.

Steve, look at the date of the shootout.

Tomorrow's the 20th anniversary.

Yeah, 10 a .m. to be exact.

You better call Wagner.

Matter of fact, you better call the governor.

If we don't find Diane Smith in seven hours, we've got an apocalypse on our

hands.

All the city, state, and federal officials, and nobody knows what to do.

it sounds like you're doing something.

Can we go someplace where we don't have to shout?

Well, there's an interrogation of the men.

What are you doing?

Officially, we're looking for a gas leak. Gas leak? That's the curve story?

Not just any gas leak. A breakdown in the entire system. That way, whatever

of the city we search for Diane Trent, we can shut down the streets without

telling anybody what we're really looking for. What about an evacuation?

How? We go public with this now, we'd create a panic. Everybody would head for

the nearest on -ramp and the freeways would be totally jammed. We couldn't

coordinate our search parties. Have you found anything?

The first place we checked is where the Carlson family shot it out with the

LAPD. Which is now under the West Side Mall.

Well, she still might go there.

We cordoned off the whole area, three blocks square.

SWAT team's doing it door to door. Haven't found any sign of her yet. Well,

could go to other places to make a statement.

We're searching all of them. Every police station, the federal building,

place her father worked. Even the cemetery where he's buried. We got the

manpower and the resources. We're bound to find her.

In less than six hours?

We better get moving if we're going to have any chance at all.

found a thing. Well, this is a pretty big town. She could be anywhere with

bomb. I don't think she's just anywhere, Jesse. She wants to make sure her

revenge is unforgettable.

I'd say that blowing up half of L .A. is pretty unforgettable.

Well, she'll pick some place with political significance so that everybody

know exactly why she's doing it. Where's that Kelsey Massacre filing?

The officer in charge of the SWAT team that day was David Bryant.

He became police chief shortly after that. Made his career for him. Well,

she's going after him.

No, no, he's been dead for ten years.

But that's the connection.

I know where she is.

We've got 50 minutes.

hospital the other day. She was very, very upset. I told her she'd have to go

somewhere peaceful and sort things out. She said she was coming here?

Well, she said her favorite part, near the ocean where she could see the boat.

Well, that could be a dozen places. Why this one?

Well, when Chief Bryant died, they dedicated this park in his name.

So then this place is a reminder of what happened to her father, but it's also a

tribute to the man in the city that killed him. I don't know. That's really

reaching. Well, that's all we got, Jesse.

It's going to take time to search apart this site. We haven't got time. We've

got to split up. Yeah. Listen, be careful, you two. This is a dangerous

With a nuclear bomb under her arm, I'd say she's a little more than dangerous.

Good luck.

Hey, don't do it.

I mean, don't eat your lunch too fast. Bye.

Over there.

Diane?

I don't know how you found me.

Nice that you're here.

Nice?

Yes.

We'll have shared something, you and I.

Joining my father.

Just a minute.

The man and your dad, they're on the line of fire.

More people should know about him.

Diane, nobody's going to know anything if you go up the whole city.

They'll know about his hatred for all things impure.

And they'll feel my hatred for them at the second of their death.

And that will be sufficient.

Diane, don't you see it's such a hollow victory?

Surely there's some other way.

Don't.

Hey! Dianne, trick!

Dianne, no!

It's over.

Pull the red wire.

It's always a red wire. Jesse, there aren't any red wires.

They're all black.

How you feeling?

You know, if I'd have known she wanted to shoot someone, I'd have let you be

distraction. Hey, it was your investigation.

Next time, it's your investigation.

Yeah.

Next time.

You take it easy, okay?

See you.

Amanda.

Well, this is awkward.

I feel like somebody ought to make a formal introduction.

Ron Wagner, Amanda Bentley.

I'm aware that you two spent the night together, but how much do you really

about each other?

Not nearly enough.

I could try to get a transfer to the L .A. Bureau. Ron, I don't think that

either one of us is ready for that decision.

I think we have too many things that are unresolved.

Like dead partners?

And dead marriages.

Well, I'd say we could make this work. Except that I know for a fact that

distance and relationships are a very, very bad mix.

Well, it's just that there's so much here.

Well, maybe someday, if we're lucky.

Will you at least have dinner with me, Dr. Bentley, before I leave L .A.? Once

get out of this gown.

I would love to have dinner with you, Agent Wagner.

And I believe I can help you out with this gown.

I was hoping you'd offer.

No more reading glasses.

No more computer glasses.

No more distance glasses.

So then you're just going to walk around in a fog all day?

Nope.

Blended trifocals are three -in -one solution to your vision problems.

One for reading, one for computers, one for distance.

Great. Chris, you're going to need to see this.

What? Looks like the press bought that crazy cover story.

What does it say?

City survives gas leak. Oh. Well, you better get those glasses checked. These

will do just fine, thanks.

Right, sit down there.