( "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence plays )
♫ How can you see into my eyes ♫
♫ Like open doors ♫
Hey, Brian.
Hey, Scott. What the hell
are you doing here?
Same thing you are.
Randall Corey, right?
Yeah, right. Of course.
What, you think you were getting an exclusive on this?
There´s already a dozen guys here.
There´s guys on the front door, guys in the back,
guys on the loading dock.
Any sightings of him yet?
No, but I´ll tell you,
if I just got hitched
to a prime piece of tail like that,
I´d be staying in my room, too.
Am I right?
( chuckles )
Brian,
what I would give to get a wide angle into that room,
maybe catch him
sucking on her toes, you know.
I mean, that would sell, right?
It´d be a big seller, Scott.
They´re here.
Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
Brian, come on! Come on!
♫ My spirit sleeping somewhere cold ♫
♫ Until you find it there and lead it back home ♫ ♫ Wake me up ♫
♫ Wake me up inside ♫ ♫ I can´t wake up ♫
♫ Wake me inside ♫ ♫ Save me ♫
♫ Call my name and save me from the dark ♫ ♫ Can´t wake up ♫
♫ Before I come undone ♫ ♫ Save me ♫
♫ Save me from the nothing I´ve become ♫
♫ Breathe into me and make me real ♫
Randy! Randy!
Hey, Randy, how about a smile?
Right here, Randy.
How nice of you to join us.
Unbelievable.
I came up the FDR thinking I´d have a straight shot.
Completely backed up.
I´m telling you,
there´s too many people in this town.
Now there may be one less of them.
Brian Owen, 38 years old.
His ex-wife reported him missing
when he didn´t pick up their ten-year-old kid
for the weekend.
Delinquent dad. Doesn´t sound like our business.
According to her, he never misses a pickup.
There´s no sign of him at home.
He´s not answering his cell phone.
Not returning pages. She´s worried as hell.
This the last place he was seen?
Him and eight other paparazzi.
You kidding me?
I battle cross-town traffic for a missing paparazzi?
Yeah, they were here taking pictures of Randall Corey.
The basketball player just got married, right?
Somebody´s reading the tabloids.
Yeah, right.
So can we talk with him?
No. He´s out of the country on his honeymoon.
That´s why the paparazzi was here
in the first place. Nice.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we are here.
NYPD found it in the alley.
Lens is cracked. There´s blood on it.
Smart card is missing.
Whatever pictures he took, someone wanted them.
So what´s so special about Brian Owen?
Well, he´s the only one who snuck into the alley.
Maybe he saw something he shouldn´t have.
JACK: He has a good eye.
These are the only personal items around.
Maybe he wasn´t planning on sticking around for too long.
( knocking )
Hello?
Hi.
I´m Special Agent Jack Malone from the FBI.
This is Special Agent Johnson.
Rachel Owen.
We spoke on the phone.
Hi Hi.
This is my daughter Jessica.
There´s something she needs to tell you.
My dad and I were just
walking across the street...
This was last week.
Yeah, last week.
And this guy started yelling at us.
Brian, how you doing?
I do feel like some ice cream. Let´s go, come on.
Dad, what´s wrong? Don´t walk away!
This your girl?
You proud of your old man? Know what he
does for a living? Wrecks people´s lives.
You back off.
You´re telling me to back off?!
Oh, this is too much. Dad, come on.
This is a public street, right, Brian?
And I can do whatever I want on a public street.
It´s okay.
You like your dad?
How´d you like it if you never saw him again?
That is enough!
Oh, no.
It´s not nearly enough!
Not nearly!
He was really angry.
He had to be the one that took my dad.
I have no idea who he was,
but obviously with what Brian does,
you never know.
We´ve been searching for Brian´s most recent work--
contact sheets, negatives,
smart cards.
Can´t seem to find anything.
You wouldn´t know where he kept them, would you?
Most of his older work is still at the house.
And I really wouldn´t know about anything recent.
He keeps the CDs in the kitchen.
Want to show me where?
Have you noticed any changes in Brian recently?
Has he been troubled about work
or family?
No, but he´s a very internal person.
He holds stuff in.
That´s one of our issues.
You´re in counseling?
We´re separated, but we´re trying to work things out.
He even talked about getting out of the celebrity business.
We checked his phone records.
He made a couple of calls to The Chronicle last week.
Do you think he was trying to do something a bit more, um...
Respectable?
Yeah.
Maybe.
He has a friend there.
Mark Roche.
They used to work together overseas.
You know, he didn´t always do this.
When I met him,
he was a real photojournalist.
He hides them, huh?
That´s what he thinks.
He doesn´t like me looking at them.
That´s great.
Thank you.
What about this?
This photo.
Who took this photo?
You take it? No, I don´t know
who took that.
Dad doesn´t like having his picture taken.
Do you mind if I hang onto it?
As long as you get him back.
I´ll do my best.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
What´s that?
I was just thinking, you know,
this guy made living
sticking his telephoto where it didn´t belong.
Maybe it finally caught up with him.
Oh, come on, Martin, he´s just part of the machine.
Celebrities,
publicists, tabloids, us.
Us?
Sure. If we didn´t buy the magazines
that print the pictures,
they wouldn´t be able to sell them.
Yeah, well, the whole thing´s sleazy to me.
Brian´s terror sheets from the past six months.
Wow, the man was busy.
Some paps just handle the red carpet.
Some work inside the event.
Brian is a hunter.
Gets the shots no one else can.
Oh, yeah, like what?
Brad and Jen´s honeymoon.
On the beach in Ibiza?
What? I saw it on a checkout stand.
That was Brian.
So when was the last time
you saw him?
Thursday. I was waiting for pictures of Micra.
Micra?
The supermodel.
Oh, yeah, right.
She´s six months pregnant.
Love child with the lead guitarist of Roadkill.
Rumor has it she´s
as big as a house.
Picture of her fat
would be a hot seller.
Well? I got her.
Fantastic. Where are they?
I´m going to do the selects first.
What´s there to select?
She´s fat, as long as we see her ass,
oh, please, tell me she´s huge.
Glenn, there´s more important things in the world
than embarrassing a pregnant supermodel.
Is there a problem?
No, no, everything´s fine.
Okay, just tell me something.
How fat is she?
She´s enormous.
She devoured an entire chicken in one sitting.
So he never sent you the photos?
No.
You think there´s a possibility
that he might have been selling them to somebody else?
He´s under an exclusive contract with me.
And Brian´s not the kind of guy
who´d do that. Maybe he was thinking about
about getting into a different line of work?
They all have a pang
every now and again, but they always come back.
It´s show biz,
and for Brian,
it´s the thrill of the hunt.
He went to the hotel that night
to cover Randall Corey, didn´t he?
Yes, he did.
Excuse me. Do you gentlemen have passes?
FBI.
Pete McCann? Yes, sir.
You were at the Parkside Hotel two days ago.
Working a job. So what?
You know Brian Owen?
Who the hell is Brian Owen?
Does this look familiar?
It should, because we found your prints
all over it, right next to Brian Owen´s blood.
Any idea how
your prints got there?
Look, we were on our way back
to the hotel for the night.
And we used
the side entrance because all the parasites were out front.
But there he was.
You were checking her out!
Baby, she wanted an autograph!
You signed her breast.
Who´s that?
Great, more paparazzi.
Yo, don´t just stand there.
Go do something! Randy, I got it.
Sir, I´m going to need
that film, please.
What? You need my film for what?
I haven´t even taken any... It´s been a long night...
Don´t touch my camera.
Let me have the film, sir.
Give me the film!
Now get out of here.
Yeah, you better run.
So that´s the last time you ever saw him?
It´s like what Jack Nicholson said in that movie,
"You know what happens to nosy people."
That was Polanski. Nicholson got his nose cut.
Where´s his smart card?
Excuse me?
Where is the smart card to the camera?
I told you,
I threw the camera down and left it there.
I don´t know anything about a smart card.
Talked to Randall Corey and his wife.
They back up the bodyguard´s story.
How you doing with all this?
This is all of Brian´s work over the past year.
We´ve divided them up according to degree of scandal,
everything from
Natalie Portman sunbathing topless
to Charles Barkley in a bar fight,
even a one-hit wonder
I´ve never heard of, getting arrested
at an environmental protest.
There is also
a handful of photos, um...
most of them very recent,
that he never turned in.
Who knows, maybe he was growing a conscience.
Who knows, maybe he was going into business for himself.
Ransoming some of his photos back to the stars.
I have his bank account here.
According to this,
he´s made several large cash deposits
over the last three months.
His agency always pays by check.
I mean, if your theory is correct,
who would the candidates for blackmail be?
Well, we haven´t found any photos
of the pregnant supermodel,
and he was reluctant to give them back to his agent,
so maybe she paid up.
Maybe.
Whoa.
Oh, this is Tristan Reese.
Who´s that?
He was on George´s Place.
A sitcom. Here.
This is the photo that outed him when it hit the tabloids.
It was a family show. The advertisers went nuts,
and the producers wrote him off the show.
He went downhill fast, um, drugs, depression,
rehab, relapse, the whole thing.
All right, let´s bring him in.
Well, we can´t. He died three weeks ago.
Accidental overdose.
What about the boyfriend?
Eric Larson.
He was all over the news, too.
Jessica, I need you to have a good look at that man.
Tell me if you recognize him.
Yeah.
That´s him.
The one that yelled at my dad on the street.
Are you sure?
No doubt.
Would you mind waiting in reception
for a few minutes?
Of course.
I want you to get a warrant.
Turn this guy´s place inside out in under an hour.
Right.
JACK: We recovered these from your apartment.
Want to tell us why you were stalking Brian Owen?
You went inside my house?
( laughs wryly )
Oh, jeez, you guys are worse than the paparazzi.
You know, at least they don´t go inside your house
and turn your life upside down.
That´s right.
Who´s the woman?
I don´t know. I don´t know.
This is the only time I saw the two of them together,
but clearly, they were involved.
( camera shutter clicking )
Everyone has secrets.
I figured I´d expose his.
So you sent copies of these to his wife?
Yeah. Yeah, I figured if she knew about the other woman,
then I can inflict some pain on him.
Did he confront you?
Yeah. The nerve of this guy.
He... he comes knocking on my door
a few days after I ran into him on the street.
( knocking )
Hi. I-I just want to talk.
We have nothing to talk about. Please.
I wanted to apologize about what happened to Tristan.
What happened?
He didn´t get struck by lightning; you killed him.
You put that needle in his arm.
I am so sorry.
If I thought that would happen...
Let´s just say you don´t think.
You go around, you take those photos of people
and you never consider that...
I hope you rot in hell.
For what it´s worth, I´m getting out of the business.
Yeah? What happened?
Did you get a taste of your own medicine, hmm?
I guess your wife liked those photos.
What phot...?
You took those?
Now you know what it feels like.
Wait.
Please.
I am sorry.
You know, he seemed surprised that it was me, but I guess
it could have been any one of a hundred people
that could have sent those photos.
So where were you last Friday night?
I was at home.
Alone?
Yeah.
I was on the phone all night.
Uh, you can check for yourself.
JACK: Oh, we will.
Who is this woman?
RACHEL: I don´t know.
I´ve never seen her before.
Who took these?
Where did they come from?
Is there any possibility
that Brian was romantically involved with her?
No. We were trying to patch things up.
Brian was trying a lot harder than I was.
Who took these?
The same person that put them in your mailbox last week.
RACHEL: I swear to God, I´ve never seen them before.
I don´t know who she is.
VIVIAN: Well, she may be the key
to finding your husband.
If you would excuse me for a minute.
Hey, Jessica.
Hey.
Is my mom in trouble?
No.
She´s just trying to help us
find your dad.
We´re going to need your help, too.
I need you to look at this.
Tell me if you´ve seen it before,
but you have to tell the truth.
You have to be honest.
They came in the mail.
I usually pick it up after school.
You open your mom´s mail?
They weren´t in an envelope.
They were just laying there.
Did you show them to your mom?
No. I just threw them away.
I didn´t want to make her upset.
Did you talk to Dad about them?
Come on, Jessica.
We have a deal.
You have to tell me the truth.
But he told me not to tell anyone, no matter what.
Honey, these are just pictures, okay?
They don´t tell the whole story.
This woman is a friend of mine.
Then why is she holding you like that?
Listen to me. I love your mother
and I love you, and the only thing I want
is for us to be together again as a family.
Who is she?
I´m working with her on something.
Then why did someone send them to us?
Who took these pictures?
You know what, honey? I don´t know.
But I don´t want you to talk about these with anyone, okay?
Nobody. Not your mom, not anyone, no matter what.
You´ve got to promise me, Jess.
It´s very important.
Okay, I promise.
Okay, good.
Thank you, Jessica.
You did the right thing.
DANNY? Pretty intimate photo.
And old friend, maybe a lover.
She´s wearing a wedding ring.
Well, maybe she has a jealous husband.
Did you happen to notice the address?
4022 Third Avenue.
McLaughlin Building.
I suggest you start at the top and make your way down.
Jack, it´s 55 flights.
Hey, wear comfortable shoes.
( sighs )
MAN: I can´t help you.
I´ve never seen her before
and Brian never mentioned
that he was seeing someone.
But then again,
I wouldn´t necessarily be the guy he´d tell.
So you´re not real close?
Oh, we were eight, ten years ago.
We had some amazing times back then.
Middle East, North Africa, Balkans.
We were going to change the world.
You get nominated for a Pulitzer;
he ends up working for the tabloids.
How´s that happen?
Well, he had a family to support.
I guess his priorities changed.
Picture of a celebrity on the red carpet
is worth a whole lot more than a starving kid in Africa.
Is that why you lost touch?
His work made him bitter.
It´s hard to be around someone
who doesn´t really like himself.
But, uh, he´s called you a lot lately, right?
Yeah, yeah, he resurfaced, out of the blue.
It was kind of strange.
He was all wound up about some research he wanted me to do.
Wow. This is great stuff.
This is fantastic. Thank you.
So, what´s so enthralling about toxic waste and cancer?
Ah, it´s nothing.
I´m just... just something I´m working on.
You´re all right, aren´t you?
Well, there´s a lot wrong with me,
but no, thank you, I do not have cancer.
Then what´s going on?
I don... I... it´s not something
I can really talk about just yet.
You´re onto something, aren´t you?
I´ll tell you, I just want to do something good,
you know, for a change.
I´ll be in touch, okay?
Thanks a lot.
I think the business with that actor
really took a lot out of him.
I got the feeling that this other thing
that he was working on was, uh,
helping him find his way again.
What was the research about specifically?
Silica and heavy metals and their links to cancer.
But you didn´t press him on it any further?
No, no, it was his thing, and I didn´t want to jinx it.
Now that he´s missing though,
I wonder if he wasn´t trying to protect me.
Well, Eric Larson´s alibi checked out.
He was on the phone all night.
Friend he was talking to confirmed it.
If you´re looking for Natalie Portman,
she´s hanging over at Danny´s cubicle.
Why am I not surprised?
Uh, I´m actually looking for a photo
of an environmental protest.
It´s around here someplace.
Any word on the mystery woman?
Danny called from that skyscraper.
No one recognizes her and his feet are very tired.
Ah, here we go.
Oh, it´s a Planet Rescue protest.
Okay. And...?
Oh, uh, Brian was researching industrial pollution
and this is an environmental protest
so there could be some connection.
Do you know where it was taken?
I´m not sure.
Well, it says here
that he shot it three months ago.
What do you know about Planet Rescue?
I don´t know.
It´s kind of like Greenpeace, isn´t it?
I don´t know. Let´s find out.
Hey, Martin.
I think I just found our mystery woman.
You´re kidding?
No, look at this.
That her, right?
Look.
It sure is.
( computer blips )
Well, these guys certainly aren´t Greenpeace.
They´re under investigation by the Bureau.
What kind of investigation?
Domestic terrorism.
MIKE: Her name´s Melinda Guthrie,
local head of Planet Rescue.
What´s your interest in her?
The guy in the picture with her is missing. You know him?
No. What´s his name?
Brian Owen.
Sorry. Never heard of him.
How long you guys had Planet Rescue under surveillance?
About six months.
These your kids, Jack?
Man, they are growing up fast.
Yes, they are.
What happened six months ago?
A fire bombing outside of Farmingdale.
You think that was Planet Rescue?
Well, it looks that way.
Haven´t been able to prove anything yet.
I thought they were a legit organization.
You know, civil disobedience,
tree sitting-- that kind of thing.
There´s a faction within the group
that´s become impatient, more aggressive.
Arson, vandalism--
whatever gets their point across.
You think Melinda Guthrie´s part of that?
As far as we can tell,
she´s the leader.
Do you know where we can find her?
I´d like to observe if you´re going to bring her in.
Sure.
So the FBI has nothing better to do
that to follow us around taking pictures?
Like we´re the terrorists?
Oh, please, Miss Guthrie.
The real terrorists are the factories
polluting our water, our air, our land.
Miss Guthrie,
will you please shut up and get off the pulpit?
Just trying to find out where Brian Owen is.
I don´t know.
I haven´t seen him
since your lovely picture was taken last week.
What´s your relationship with him?
I was sleeping with him.
His picture is me breaking up
with him, okay?
Does your husband know about it?
As a matter of fact, he does.
That´s why I broke it off with Brian.
How´d you meet Brian?
He was covering one of our protests.
I thought he was cute.
That one?
Oh, you guys are good.
Where was that picture taken?
It was at a foundry up in Ashton.
What were you guys protesting?
Nothing much.
Everything up there is just perfect.
Just a bunch of us granola-types causing trouble
for American industry.
You think this is funny?
You think this is a joke?
What´s a joke is this country´s environmental policy.
Do you have any idea
how many environmental safeguards...?
Guthrie, I am aware that you are not a big fan
of the American government right now,
but we are just trying to ascertain
the whereabouts of Brian Owen.
Are you going to charge me with something?
MIKE: What´d I tell you?
You don´t happen to have anything
that we can hold her on, do you?
She always gives you just enough to keep you looking
but never enough to hang herself.
Yeah, well, thanks for trying, Mike.
Pleasure.
Jack.
Yeah?
If you come up with anything,
you´ll let me know, right?
Oh, sure.
She was never sleeping with Owen.
Nah, I think she was covering up
something bigger.
Mm-hmm.
I need you and Sam to go up to Ashton,
look around.
I´m going to see who owns the foundry.
All right.
I´m sorry to have kept you waiting.
Cameron T. Simms, general counsel for Wyland Industries.
I take it you´ve met my associates.
I tell you what, I´d trade all three
of your lawyers for one Hugo Wyland.
( chuckling )
I´m sorry.
Unfortunately, Mr. Wyland has a meeting today
in Philadelphia.
Mm-hmm.
I understand you´re looking for someone.
Yes.
It´s a photographer named Brian Owen.
Sorry, I don´t recognize him.
He was photographing a protest
at your Ashton facility.
Any idea what they were protesting?
Take your pick.
Air pollution, water pollution, land pollution.
Everything´s pollution
with these people.
If Planet Rescue had their way,
we´d all be living off the land
and hunting with bows and arrows.
Mm, that may be the case,
but you still haven´t answered my question.
What specifically were they protesting
at the Ashton facility?
They claim that heavy metals and silica
from our foundry leaked into the groundwater.
We have spent tens of millions
of dollars upgrading all of our facilities
over the past five years.
There´s no satisfying
these people,
and they won´t be happy until we´re out of business.
This is obviously a very sensitive topic for you.
Their whole agenda
is to go after the biggest fish they can find,
no matter what the evidence shows.
Wyland Industries, and Mr. Wyland in particular,
has a long record of philanthropy
and community involvement,
and we care deeply for the people in the towns
where we do business.
So, the people at the hospital told you about my son?
SAMANTHA: Uh, no.
It was one of the other patients.
Twenty-six.
What´s that?
There are 26 children with cancer from that foundry.
Wow.
Yeah, we saw some of them at the hospital.
We understand that, uh, you´re very close
with some of the people
from Planet Rescue.
Yeah. That´s right.
They´ve been, uh, unbelievable.
Particularly Brian Owen.
We met Brian at a protest rally.
He and Sean kind of hit it off,
and, uh,
Brian would visit whenever he was in town.
And how often was that?
Couple times a week.
Sean... Sean took this.
It was... it was the day of the rally.
And it started raining, so we came back here.
Hold still, handsome. What are you doing?
No, not like this.
I look like a ghost.
No, you look great.
A few years, you´ll be breaking hearts all over town.
( thunder crashing )
What kind of camera is that?
It´s digital.
Like a computer?
Yeah, yeah, no film. See?
The pictures are all stored in here.
Wow. Can I try?
Sure.
What are you doing? Not of me.
You don´t want to take a picture of me.
I´m nobody. Shoot your mom.
( chuckles )
Stop it.
Kid, you´re fired. You´re paparazzi.
Get the heck out of here.
Come on. Huh?
In a few years, you´ll be breaking hearts all over town.
( shutter clicking )
( laughing ): Get out of here.
Sean swam in that river every day during the summer.
You just...
you just assume that you can trust things, you know?
Big company...
they´re supposed to be safe about the way
that they operate.
( sobbing ): He was only ten.
I know this is difficult for you.
Brian is one of the few people
who really cares about what´s going on up here.
Uh...
the reason we´re here, Mrs. Wilson,
Brian´s been missing for three days.
What?
Uh, do you have any idea if he was doing
anything else up here other than
taking pictures of the protest?
He-he was... he was taking pictures of the foundry.
He was...
he was trying to stop Wyland.
From polluting. Yeah.
He got the proof.
He was going to stop Wyland from poisoning our children.
Well, I guess we were wrong about him.
You mean, I was wrong about him.
Listen, if he´s going after Wyland,
he´s messing with some powerful people
who have a hell of a lot to lose.
And what´s one less paparazzi in the world, right?
Who´s going to care about that?
( sighs )
You know, personally, I prefer the Times.
Well, this is Mikra,
the supermodel Brian photographed.
I thought he didn´t turn these in.
According to his agency,
they say another photographer turned this in.
Now come on, two pictures of her
scarfing down fried chicken like that?
What are the odds?
( tapping magazine ): These have to be Brian´s.
Did you take that picture?
( clears throat )
Yeah.
Where?
Steven´s Steak House, East Hampton, Long Island.
Gee, that´s funny because Mikra´s representatives
told us that this picture
was taken at Brother Tommy´s
in Quag.
You didn´t take that picture.
Brian Owen took that picture.
You took a smart card out of the camera
the night he disappeared,
which means...
Title-18, 1001, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
You lied to a federal officer.
Around here that´s a pretty big deal,
and not telling us that Brian got beat up
by that bodyguard...?
Title-18, Section 4.
Concealing evidence of a felony.
I´m not in trouble, am I?
Hey, Vic,
how much do you want to make a bet
that the third set of prints we found on that camera are his?
What?
Suspicion of a 187?
Ka-ching.
Homicide.
All right, you got me, okay?
All right, I was at the hotel that night,
and Brian was there, he was there late.
So I thought he was onto
something big.
So I followed him.
Sir, I´m going to need that film clip.
What are you talking about?
I haven´t even taken any pictures yet.
It´s been a long night, okay.
I haven´t even taken any pictures. It´s been
a long night.
Don´t touch my camera, okay?
( groans ) Camera!
Yeah, you better run!
( loud clattering )
Then when the coast was clear, I took the card.
That´s not a crime.
It was just laying there on the ground.
Where is the smart card now?
I got it at home.
I´m going to go get it for you.
Uh-uh, sit down.
Did you see the car he was following?
Yes, I did. It was a black Mercedes.
I don´t remember the type.
And you´re sure he wasn´t just running from the bodyguard?
No, he wasn´t running from anybody.
He was running after the car.
He was chasing whoever was in the car.
We double-checked
the hotel registry.
No other celebrities
and no one related to Wyland Industries or the EPA.
You´re on the credit card?
Yeah. We´re running receipts
from the hotel restaurant, the bar... thank you...
and the gift shop.
Great. Okay.
Hey.
So, what do we hear from the smart cart?
Well, other than our supermodel,
I got these.
Well, how´s that? You see the
Wyland logo? Mm-hmm.
I had the DOD send over a satellite image
of the Ashton foundry.
They match up.
This is the waste processing facility
right here behind him.
My friend at Wyland said they spent millions
upgrading the facility.
Yeah, they upgraded the foundry
and increased production by 500%,
but the waste treatment capacity
is still the same.
So, where´s all the extra waste going?
Take a look at these photos in sequence.
Right. He´s opening the valve.
Which would explain the rain.
nobody´s going to notice a few thousand
gallons of untreated waste in the runoff.
Wyland´s dumping, and Brian knew it.
GUTHRIE: Yeah, so?
These guys are dumping untreated waste
into the town´s storm drains,
and all you´ve got to say is "Yeah, so?"
Oh, is that what these photos are?
Well, then maybe you should call the EPA.
I´m sure they´d be very helpful.
You know damn well what they are,
and you hired
Brian to take them.
I don´t remember that at all.
Come on.
What do you think about this, Miss Guthrie?
Brian was onto something,
and these photographs were enough
to make Wyland Industries nervous.
Maybe even enough to make them reckless.
Now, you may not give a crap
about Brian Owen...
but I know for a fact...
you´d really like to nail Hugo Wyland.
( suppressed snort )
You think you can get Hugo Wyland?
If you even get close, how long do you think it´ll take
before you get a call from Washington
telling you to back off?
I take it you don´t want to end up
in some field office in Podunk, right?
Actually, I hear Podunk´s quite nice in the spring.
( chuckles )
Come on.
Try us, Miss Guthrie.
What do you got to lose?
Okay. I wasn´t sleeping with Brian.
I hired him to break into Wyland´s foundry
and take the pictures
to support a petition we filed with the EPA.
The bastards; what, they´re not going to do
to do a damn thing?
They´re the EPA.
What the hell did you think they were going to do?
Protect the environment, maybe?
You´re naive, Brian.
We file petitions for review,
they take them under advisement
and nothing ever happens.
Yeah, so, what the hell
did you hire me for, then?
What, why the hell did we bother?
I did it to appease the rest of my group.
That´s the game that I play.
Wait a minute.
You´re telling me you used me
to show them the whole thing is futile?
This is great.
I´m going to take the pictures to the press.
I got a friend at the Chronicle.
Yeah, and it´ll end up buried on page nine
right next to some story
about a corrupt election or an accounting scam,
and you know what will happen?
Absolutely nothing.
So, what do we do?
We stop playing games.
Okay, you know what?
I´m in.
You´re a good man, Brian.
But this is out of your league.
Melinda, I wouldn´t count on that.
If there´s one thing I know,
it´s how to get to people.
I don´t know exactly what he was setting out to do,
but I do know he was serious.
I just didn´t count on him
getting so invested in what we were doing.
It was personal.
This guy was trying to turn his life around.
Got him.
Got who?
Big fish.
So, you´re a drinking man, Mr. Wyland.
Do you like gin and tonics?
Occasionally I have a drink, yes.
How about banana daiquiris?
That´s what you had last Friday
at the Parkside Hotel--
two gin and tonics,
two banana daiquiris.
Odd combination.
Or were you with someone?
Is it a crime to have a couple of drinks
with an associate?
You know this man?
No.
You ought to.
He works at your foundry.
Almost 20,000 people work for me.
Yes, but this particular man
is emptying untreated waste into a storm drain.
I can assure you that´s completely...
Against company policy-- yes, I know.
Now, we all know
how it works.
This man took his orders
from the plant manager, who takes his orders
from some mid-level executive
who takes his orders
from some junior vice-president, who takes his orders from
God knows how many people
that will eventually lead back to you.
You said we were here because of some
missing persons case.
The man we´re looking for, Brian Owen,
was last seen following
your Mercedes from the hotel.
I don´t know anything about that.
Of course you don´t.
Where did you go when you left the hotel?
I went to my cabin upstate.
I spent the entire weekend there.
With your associate?
Yes, with my associate.
Then I came back
on Sunday to attend
a charity event with my wife.
Where´s this cabin?
Well, the car´s unlocked,
and it seems like most of his stuff is here.
Probably walked the rest of the way.
Didn´t want to tip them off.
According to the locals,
Wyland´s cabin is up that ridge.
It´s about a quarter mile.
They just came back from there.
They said it´s all locked up.
Any sign of foul play?
None. Well, if Wyland
did anything to Brian,
he would have gotten rid of the car.
So, where the hell is Brian?
Where do you go
to take a picture of someone
in their cabin? Let´s spread out.
Hey, guys...
♫ How can you see into my eyes ♫
♫ Like open doors... ♫
Brian Owen, can you hear me?
Mr. Owen, this is the FBI.
We are here to help.
( background song continues )
Brian!
Brian Owen!
Brian!
Brian?
Hey, man. Brian Owen?
( groaning )
How about some water?
( whispering weakly ): Some water.
Hey, take it easy. There you go.
Okay.
My name´s Martin Fitzgerald.
I´m with the FBI.
We´re going to get you out of here.
FBI?
I´ll tell you, you´re a hard man to find.
( parched whisper )
What´s that?
Y-Y-Yeah, camera.
Hey, take it easy. It´s right here.
I´ll get it for you.
There you go, buddy.
Thank you.
Yeah. ( panting )
( panting ): Thank you.
As promised.
Thank you, Jack.
They were able to save Brian Owen´s leg.
He´s going to be all right.
Good work. Thanks.
What did Carter have to say for himself?
Nothing much. Life goes on.
Brian Owen´s on his list now.
I don´t think Brian will have a problem with that.
Probably a step up from where he was.
So, what are we going to do about Wyland and the foundry?
Martin, this case is closed.
We got the call from Washington.
Hey, you know people there.
Make some calls.
So, Guthrie´s right.
Wyland´s untouchable.
People don´t care about the families up in Ashton.
You know what?
What goes around comes around.
Wyland will get his eventually.
You know, Brian managed to get some shots
of Wyland and his mistress.
( clearing throat ): Now, what good
is this going to do?
It´s a privately held company.
If Wyland
were to get divorced, he might lose
controlling interest.
I think Brian knew that.
Yeah, well, it´s still extortion,
even if it´s for a good cause.
Well, you can´t arrest somebody for something they might do.
Legally, he had a right to take those pictures.
He was on public property.
I, uh,
checked the weather report for Ashton.
It´s supposed to rain this weekend.
Heavy.
Better give these pictures
back to Brian.