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All right, listen up, Gus and Gwen.

One time only on the carousel. Okay, is that a deal? Don't even ask. No saying,

oh, can I go again?

No, buddy, come on. This one's saying one time. This is a family meeting, very

important. Okay, family meeting.

Carousel.

Lunch.

Back to the hotel for naps.

Yeah, okay, fine, you win. We're going to go back for naps.

We're too old for naps. Well, possible, but Mommy and Daddy are too old not to

nap, so...

You can have your tablets. I'm sure mommy will be on hers.

Yay!

Uh, you're up.

Pick a good pony.

Okay. Thank you. Go pick a good pony.

Have fun.

Here you go.

You think I want to work on vacation?

Yeah.

Hey, come on. I'm joking.

All right, I'm going to go get hot dogs. Will you watch this?

I can go.

I got it. Maggie, I can handle hot dogs. I handle Gwen's allergies every day when

you're at work.

Wait, you know, I'm also sure that there's not pistachio or papaya on hot

dog. So can we not with this today?

Yeah

I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.

Honestly, please don't even.

Oh, my God. No, please.

It's fine.

Come on.

Darn it.

Hey.

What happened? What happened?

This woman was walking by with a hot dog. No!

Does not apologize.

I don't know. It's going to stay. I'm sorry. That's fine.

Was that fun?

Yeah.

They were having a blast.

Where are the twins?

I think they're, uh... Hey, Gus?

Hey, Gwen?

Are they over there? No, I'm not seeing them. Gus? Sorry.

Gwen!

Gus! Gus!

They're not there? No. Gwen?

Hey, good morning. Morning.

Reservation under Nick Schaefer.

Nick Schaefer.

Oh, no, I'm sorry. I said Nick Schaefer. No, yeah.

Hi. I'm Nick's friend, Cassie.

Okay.

You're not Nick Schaefer. Okay.

Of course. Nice to meet you. I'm Sam. Nice to meet you.

Thank you.

Okay. All right.

Well, never had a breakfast date before.

It was certainly a first for me.

But I guess it's a nice place, so we might as well order up, huh?

So Nick tells me that you lived in L.A. I did.

I did. Last time I was in L.A., I had a really bad oyster.

I lost about six pounds.

Wow.

TMI. I'm so sorry.

No, no, it's totally fine. I appreciate the honesty.

What else did Nick say?

Well, he said you're an absolute unit, but soft and gooey on the inside, which

I like.

Soft and gooey? He knows my type.

Guess who?

Morning, Nick.

I'm really sorry. I got pulled into a thing.

Ah, no, you didn't.

Hi, Nick. Cassie says hi.

Hey, Cass. Tell her I said hello.

He says hello.

She's fantastic, okay?

You're gonna love her.

Is that so? She's smart. She's nice. She's got her own money, right?

Technically, she's still going through a divorce, but that is over, okay?

Great. Let's talk about it when I get to the office, okay, slick Nick?

Good morning.

Can I have a flat white?

Not too hot on the milk, like 135.

132 is actually perfect.

I got you, Nick.

The usual. Thanks. I know. You know I'm crazy, but it's part of my charm, I

think. Nick Schaefer. Yeah.

Yes. They've been served. Oh, yeah? Mm-hmm. Oh, good news.

This sucks.

That was...

What language was that? Milky, you take algebra in Alaska, they teach you about

A and B conversations.

You sounded upset.

Was that Hindi?

Bengali. How many languages do you speak?

Thirteen. That concludes this round of 20 questions. Is this your coffee?

Dude. Not a dude.

We've been working together, what, ten months?

Every day you're all up in my business, but the second I ask you about your

life, you shut down.

How's that fair?

Life's not fair.

Your mask is slipping.

That's real emotion in your eyes. We're having a human moment.

Addie, Milkerton, we got a case.

one time you guys i ordered milk in a restaurant one time but you react every

time the shaw family maggie tim gus and gwen visiting from

dc mom went and got the hot dogs dad was watching the kids on the carousel when

the ride was over they couldn't find their kids and then she got this

and then this text

What do we have on the phone that sent that? Burner. It's currently off. So

Maggie and Tim, they followed the instructions. They went back to their

hotel. They didn't call the cops. But they did call SecNav because Maggie is

Captain Margaret Shaw, JAG prosecutor.

Oh, tough gig.

What's so tough about being a lawyer?

JAG prosecutors, they argue for court-martials, dishonorable discharges.

They don't make a lot of fans.

And to top it off, Maggie was recently assigned Special Assistant U.S.

Attorney. Wait, so she's prosecuting civilian crimes, too? If they occur in

or on military jurisdiction, yes.

So we can double the enemy list.

What's her husband do?

He's an author.

And as of yet, unpublished author.

Meaning this is tied to her work.

Well, we can't rule out personal motives just yet, but yes, there is a good

chance it's tied to Maggie's work. And I'll cover that part of the assignment.

I've already requested summaries of her most recent cases.

Wyatt? Addie, I need you over at the hotel with the Shaw's. Sean, their

cover's ready.

Mr. and Mrs.

Milken? Milk.

Again. I have no reaction.

You're going undercover.

We got you in a joining room. I want you to make sure the kidnappers have no eyes

or ears in the hotel before approaching the Shaw's. Once you're in, you

interview them and you clone Maggie's phone.

Nick, Sam, I want you over at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

I was able to pull metadata from the photo of the twins.

It was taken at the park, about five minutes after Maggie noticed them

missing. So the kids could still be inside the park.

Exactly. Kidnappers are most vulnerable when they're moving victims. Maybe they

tuck them away until the foot traffic dies down.

Needless to say, we have to be on our absolute A game on this one.

In 90% of kidnapping cases, the first 24 hours dictates the end game, and in the

city that never sleeps... We got half that.

Let's get to work. Bring these kids back home.

What kind of couple should we be?

I'm hot and bored with my life. You're rich and clueless. Seems like you don't

feel seen. I should work on that. Too late. I'm having an affair with a

trainer. Marco?

I thought he was gay.

Oh, he is most definitely not.

Son of a bitch. I bought him a Christmas present.

Speaking of which, this is the ring you picked out?

I can never afford that.

You're rich. You buy my love. That's a little arrangement.

Fine. Then as your husband, I have a right to know what's going on this

morning. Who are you fighting with?

I want a divorce.

I get the house. You get the kids.

Addie, seriously.

Are you good? It seemed heated.

May I help you?

Mr. and Mrs. Milken checking in.

And we'll only need one key.

They won't be leaving the room.

Don't be shy.

Wait.

Not you.

RF clear. Wi-Fi clear.

So? Yeah, well.

First impressions.

Go. Crowd density in the garden tanked the sight lines.

Phone usage is high. Headphone usage even higher.

Still don't know how someone grabbed those kids when no one noticed it. But

in terms of visuals, perfect storm.

Okay, that's great. I was talking about Cassie.

I'm telling you, she is a dime, okay? You're telling me a lot of things I'm

not interested in.

Can we get back to work? Yeah, please, please. Okay, so twins were last seen

here. Mom was over there getting the hot dog. Dad was here on his phone.

Kids go out that side to go looking for Dad.

Okay, all right, so they get off the ride over here. There's somebody

helpful. Says, come on, I'll take you to your family. Right.

And they had Maggie's phone number, so it's safe to assume they, uh...

I knew the names of the kids.

All right, all right.

No cars, so they gotta go on foot.

They go this way.

For a while, at least, right?

Yeah.

Huh?

Let's knock on some doors.

It's a big space.

That it is.

I think that we should call Eric.

No. Just call him, get his take on things, you know what I'm saying? I

don't need Eric. You know, I think we need somebody else. Should we give them

privacy?

We should get in there. Yeah, and we need to clone his phone, too. All right.

Ready? Yep.

Captain Shaw.

Special Agent Zaddy Ross. Wyatt Sellers, NCIS.

Everything okay in here? I slapped him.

It's fine. Come on in.

Are you thirsty?

I cleaned the ketchup, and I looked.

I didn't look for them. I mean, I didn't... They didn't see you.

I saw... Me. She was distracted by me. I was on the phone. I was texting.

Who were you texting?

My brother.

They know not to go with strangers. We have a family password.

The ride had been over for 30 seconds. We split up. We looked everywhere.

And then we got their picture.

Can I see the phone, please?

Oh, yeah.

We want to connect to it.

Make sure that when they contact you, we get everything we can to help find Gus

and Gwen, okay?

Tim, yours too.

Oh, uh, yeah.

Can you tell me more about this family password?

Yeah, it's just something that we adopted in case of emergencies.

If someone claims to be our friend or helping us, they have to give the kids

the password.

It's time to buzz the tower.

From Top Gun? Yeah.

Yeah, the kids went through a whole Top Gun phase.

Actually, I went.

Back through a whole Top Gun phase, so.

Goose. I could cry just thinking about him. Right.

Did you create this password because of any enemies, threats?

No, just caution.

Any professional enemies?

No, I'm an author.

Sometimes I think that my characters hate me, but no, no non-fictional

enemies, no.

Maggie.

I've probably made an enemy in just about every case I've ever prosecuted.

Our team has access to all of your case files, and we're looking through them.

But if you have anyone that you could highlight or anything that could really

help us... Sorry, can you... Oh, really, right now?

Come on.

Sorry, is everything okay? No, it's... My cases are classified, and he does not

have clearance. You know that they're my kids, right?

Can you give us a moment?

Oh.

Yep.

Unbelievable.

A little warm for that coat, no? Definitely.

Better reach it. Freeze. Put your hands on your head.

Hands on your head.

Where are the kids?

Huh?

All right, hey.

Everyone,

stop what you're doing.

You okay?

You okay?

Not if you can understand what I'm saying. Are you guys okay?

We're looking for two children, six years old.

What's all this, huh?

Some sort of Oliver Twist operation? What's going on? These are my kids. We

just found this stuff, all of it. Very, very lucky family, huh?

Sam.

I can see the kids. Maybe some of these cameras did, though, huh?

Yeah, check them footage.

It's Robin.

Everybody up. Up.

Up, up, up, up, up, up, up.

Against the wall.

Hey, Robin.

We're about to send Sean some footage some kids took at the park.

Good. He's here with me now. We found something you need to see.

Okay, hold on. Let me put you on speaker.

Been working on that photo mom was sent.

I was able to restore some of the raw data. I got about two seconds of video.

It's like a live photo.

They're on the move.

Backup a van, a truck?

GPS had him in the park. There are no roads in the park, so... So maybe the

metadata's been altered.

It's the bridge.

That photo was taken on the bridge.

They weren't in the park. They were above it.

Yeah. Now they could be anywhere.

That's Maggie.

And there's future best-selling author Tim Shaw.

And I'm just saying, write what you know and kidnap twins.

Mom talk will gobble that up.

No.

What, too soon?

Mm-hmm. Too soon.

And that's the whole video.

You didn't capture the kidnapping.

Uh-uh.

Almost everyone in that park was on their phone.

Let's search social media.

Anything that was tagged or shot there. Maybe we can take the pieces and put

together a fuller picture.

We did

a

full bug sweep. Nobody knows we're here. Just hold.

We're live.

You can do this.

Answer it.

Hello?

Hexlip and Front Street.

Is that where my kids are?

You have 15 minutes.

Please, can I talk to them?

Please, can I talk to them?

Please, can I talk to them?

Please, can I... I thought you were okay.

Were you able to track that call?

I got the tower, Astoria.

The phone is already off again.

Let me see what's near Front and Peck Street.

I feel like it's a Simon Says wild goose chase.

Just to make sure she's alone.

Yeah, well, she won't be. Have Addie and Wyatt give her an earpiece and get her

into a cab.

I'll have Sam and Nick meet her down there, shadow her, keep her calm, and go

jump back into Maggie's files and find that guy.

End this damn game.

Excuse me.

Hey, my man.

Can you tell me which way is downtown, which way is uptown? I get so confused.

Hey, Maggie.

Nick Schaefer, NCIS. You need eight seconds to pair our comps, okay? I'm

sorry. What did you say?

No, I was just... I get so lost.

Ah, I got it now. I'm good. Thank you. I appreciate you.

Hey, Maggie.

Don't look now, but the guy up there, big guy, he's with us, okay?

Maggie, I'm the man moving the coffee around. Sam Hanna, sorry to meet you on

duty circumstances, but I got your back every step of the way. I need you to

help me find my kids. We're working on that, Maggie.

Hey, Maggie, I can see that, okay?

I have 11 pig slips two blocks away. I'm moving, okay?

Maggie, follow him in the distance. I'll shadow. Go ahead.

Sean, what do you got?

I stitched together that skateboarding pickpocket footage with any social media

that I could find tagged at the park, right?

I found Tim right before the kidnapping.

Remind me.

Oh, he said he was texting again. His brother, right?

Look, right here.

He texts, right?

Waits.

And... Boom.

This lady, she reads a text, and she looks right in his direction.

And then she texts back.

Rinse and repeat.

Who is she?

Good question.

Tim.

Who were you texting just before the kidnapping?

i already told you guys don't say your brother lying to us is a real bad look i

you guys i i i don't know what do you want

our nanny

our ex nanny and my ex um something we never

really defined it but look it's over okay i i ended it i did and we let her

go and maggie doesn't know

We're gonna need her name and information. She has nothing to do with

this. I promise you that, okay? Tim, I'm gonna level with you. I'm still not

convinced that you have nothing to do with this. What are you talking about?

You think I would hurt my own kids? What is her name? She has nothing to do with

this!

Yeah, that's Chloe.

It's Chloe Edwards. She knows everything.

By any chance, does she know the family password?

I'm gonna head in and see what's what, all right?

Got it.

You have kids, Sam?

I do.

Boy and a girl. They're both adults now, technically.

They'll always be my babies.

Don't you worry, Maggie. We'll get yours back.

Listen, I know what you're going through. I know the fear. I know the

pain. I know the second guessing.

They just set all that aside now and lean on us, all right?

Gonna find your children.

Well, I don't see anything out of the ordinary except for grown adults playing

video games in the middle of the day.

Maggie, you go on inside.

We're right here with you, okay?

Okay, Maggie, our team at HQ is in the system.

Our screens will mirror yours. Anything you see, we'll see. Just need to keep

calm and follow the instructions.

Okay?

Wait, Maggie, he can see you.

Don't look at me. Keep your eyes on the screen.

Where are my kids?

Close.

What do you want? There's a folder on the desktop in front of you.

Access your confidential protection list and copy it to the folder.

I can't do that. This is a public computer. I have to download the portal

and I have to authenticate.

Then get started.

Wait. Gus and Gwen are missing?

Like, kidnapped?

Exactly. Like, kidnapped.

In broad daylight.

At a park.

Where you happen to be.

Are Tim and Maggie okay?

I mean, of course they are. Chloe, why are you at that park today?

Better yet, why are you in New York?

Because I'm an idiot.

Go on.

I know it sounds like beyond cliche.

But I actually fell for Tim.

And when he called it off, I lost it a little.

I knew they had this trip planned, followed them here.

I just thought I'd find a way to talk to him and... I'm an idiot.

But I had nothing to do with the twins getting taken.

It murders me that it happened while I was there.

Close.

Instead of texting Tim, I should have been paying attention.

I might have seen something.

Listen, Robin's looking into Maggie's active cases.

We should see if she has pictures of the defendants.

She might have seen something. Yeah. Okay, let's go.

Sam, go to five.

Go. New experience.

What do criminals do with...

Confidential witness list.

Make it rid of the witnesses.

Right, so, trying to tie up loose ends, how do we know the kids are still alive?

Oh, boy.

Maggie, we need you to ask for proof of life.

Don't look at me. Keep your eyes on the screen.

We have no reason to believe anything has changed.

We just need you to ask for proof of life in good faith.

I need... Proof of life. I need to know my kids are all right.

My daughter has a severe allergy. She's having a reaction. She

needs Benadryl and antihistamine. Then you better start accessing those files.

Do you recommend any of these defendants or Maggie's cases?

Well, you might have seen them at the park or elsewhere in the city. Wait,

that's Jason.

Jason?

He was at the park. No, he lives near the Shaw's.

Asked me out a few times after Tim ended things.

I said yes.

Rebound reaction.

We went out a few times, texted like teenagers, and then last week he ghosted

me.

What's Jason's last name?

I don't know you dated a guy and you don't know his last name He works for

the State Department So he couldn't give me lots of personal details

Jason does not, in fact, work for the State Department, nor is his name even

Jason. He's Devin Lancaster, and he is on trial for skimming $3.7 million off

of government contracts, which he has been doing for years because he has

developed the knack for getting someone else to hold the bag.

There's one key witness in his case living in Connecticut in protection.

I'll contact Hartford.

The marshal's over there. Wait, here we go.

We got Chloe's phone records.

All she's doing is venting about the Shahs. Hand to God, best thing that

happened to me was being fired. She's a control freak, a micromanager.

Apparently the Shahs had very strict family security and routines.

Which is why they struck here as opposed to D.C.

She told him the family password.

It's time to buzz the tower. And that's how he got the kids out of the park with

no noticing.

They went well, I think.

It all tracks, but it doesn't get us any closer to the kids.

Robin, I got something.

I found him.

When he sent Maggie the proof of life video, I was able to track the phone.

The video was sent from an address in Astoria.

But? It's a six-story building. I can't pinpoint the exact unit with cell data.

All right, we need to narrow it down to a specific unit.

Right. All right, no, so walk it through together right now.

Devin is based in D.C., right? He doesn't have any ties in Astoria, so

he's probably holed up in something short-term.

So let's check for any recent short-term rentals and... Anyone who might have

been issued a short-term rental citation.

Excellent. The kid's allergies.

Smart. I'll contact him for a full list of Gwen's allergies. Maybe something in

the building is a match.

Guys, when I work search and rescue, we dealt with some nasty allergic

reactions. If she's still being exposed, it could go from bad to very bad. Full

anaphylaxis. How fast could that happen?

Faster than we have.

Go. Now. Get them the address.

All right, Sean, we're here. What do you got for me, buddy?

Got three initial matches for short-term rental listings or violations.

Units 2, 12.

three fifteen and six twenty i just sent you the fullest of gwen's allergies

pistachio cashew lentil tamarind papaya sean maybe check the building for home

catering services or maybe meal prep i don't know i start searching

the units on sean's list you go to sears

okay

sean he's alive

On it?

Since we know when the kidnapper is speaking to Maggie, we just need a

baseline and then I can check for spikes.

My password.

I just reset it, so I'm just... No games.

No, no, I really, I forget.

Sam, Sam, Sam, Sam, we're losing her.

Take a deep breath, Maggie.

You'll be fine.

You got this.

What are you looking at?

You alone have said no cops.

Please, I need you to tell me where my kids are.

I said no cops.

You have 30 seconds to upload those files or your kids are dead.

You better start accessing those files.

Guys, we got a spike on the sixth floor.

S.J.S.!

Okay, okay.

Where are the kids?

Coming in!

Where?

Gwen and Gus aren't here.

Where's the kids?

I don't know.

That's the wrong answer.

Hey, look, plausible deniability, that left the building a long time ago for

you, okay?

I don't know where they are.

Our friend Robin, she briefed us on your case.

Seems like you're pretty good at selling dreams, luring people in, giving them

just enough rope to hang themselves.

Who else did you recruit, huh?

Who has the kids?

That little girl, she's having an allergic reaction right now.

If she dies, kidnapping turns into murder.

Lola Danbrook.

Okay.

Where is Lola Danbrook? I don't know. How do I find her? You don't. What do

you mean I don't? She had my burner number, but... I lost that phone.

You mean you ditched that phone?

You ain't gonna get those kids back to those parents. They're children!

He doesn't care because that wasn't part of the plan.

Got her. Lola Danbrook, 31.

She was at the park. She's the catch-up lady. This was all coordinated.

She's originally from Trenton. She served time for B&E, grand theft, fraud,

tax evasion. She paints the picture of a very financially motivated individual.

Devin probably promised her the moon and she bit. No questions asked.

How do we find her? Seven addresses in six years, no active phone number.

Wait, I think I got something.

I enhanced the audio from the live stream. I isolated the track and listed

it as...

That's the East River Ferry. It's got to land the horn every time it pulls out of

the dock. Where's the dock?

Docks. There's 12 of them between here and Hunter's Point.

So we searched them all, calling backup.

We don't have time.

Gwen doesn't have time.

Okay, Gwen doesn't have time because of her allergies.

Sean, cross-reference all the areas near the ferry docks with any ingredient from

Gwen's allergy list.

Tell me something good, Sean.

I'm working on it.

Okay, so one of her allergies is tamarind.

There is an Indian restaurant that recently closed near the East 34th

Street docks.

Right there. Right there.

Where are the kids?

Sam in an alley on the west side of the building.

Turn around. Look at my partner. Look at my partner.

Look at me.

Look at me.

Down on your knees.

Okay? Slowly.

Slowly.

Addie? Yeah.

You good?

Yeah, I'm good now.

Clear. Hey.

Got him.

Kitchen.

Hey. Hey, guys. Hey.

Wyatt. Wyatt.

Hey. How are you?

Coming in? You okay?

Come on.

Look at these brave kids.

You guys okay? You're gonna be okay, right? I'm Wyatt. I'm gonna give you

some medicine, okay? Yeah,

let me get these off. Let me see what you got back there.

Okay.

Hey. I bet if we ask nicely, they'll let us run red lights. You feeling a little

better? Okay. You feeling a little better? Okay. Yeah?

All right, you guys are safe now. Yeah.

When the clouds eclipse the morning rays.

Yeah. Or when the curtains hide the light.

Hey.

It seems everything is going wrong.

I know we gon' be alright.

Cause I know every ending is a new beginning. Keep

on fighting the fight.

Just when you think you're at your finish, you're just beginning.

It's a moment in time. We gon' be alright.

You know, no, sir, I really... Come on. It's okay to have feelings. Just let it

flow. Let it flow.

We gonna be all right.

I have a proposition.

I don't think that word means what you think it does.

I would like 20 actual questions.

Questions I ask and you answer.

Truthfully.

As your partner and ex-husband, I want to know you better.

Ten questions.

Deal. Fool. I wouldn't give any fifteen.

Would have taken five.

Hit me.

Not yet.

If I only get ten, I gotta make them good.

On the phone this morning, it was my best friend from when I was stationed at

the embassy in New Delhi.

Her husband hit her. She won't leave him, and it's killing me.

No comments, no advice. Asked and answered.

You got a sign here.

No, this is not for you. You had your dinner.

A woman of your caliber should not be eating food out of a microwave.

A woman of my caliber does not like to waste food.

Something happened.

It's not a big deal. I just wanted to let you know.

What is it?

I got subpoenaed.

By whom? Feds.

Nothing I did.

Um, some investigation into my old partner when I was on the job.

What did he do?

Corruption charge. He's locked up right now. So, I don't know, maybe they found

something else.

Well, if it's federal, that's likely the case.

Mm-hmm.

Well, thanks for letting me know.

Mm-hmm.

You know, if you need a lawyer, I can get you a killer.

Thank you. I'm not worried about it, though.

You sure?

Mm-hmm.

Seriously, that food's beneath you? Because seriously, this food is so good.

Okay. In my opinion, you're a Michelin gal.

You're just jealous because it's so good.

Mm-hmm.

Good night.

Good night.

We'll go home soon.

I'll have what she said.

How you doing, Tamara?

Sam Hannah.

Look at you.

Walking in from another world.

I would have called.

I think you'd answer.

I heard you were in L.A.

I was.

I was, but I'm here now.

New York.

Well, what time's the parade? I hate to miss it.

Thank you.

It's not like it was, Sam.

Do we know?

So, uh... all of this is your place.

Going on 12 years.

You did it.

Congratulations.

I like it.

It's very... very you.

I've been waiting 25 years to do that.

These drinks are on me.