1 00:00:02,270 --> 00:00:04,705 ( man panting ) 2 00:00:17,651 --> 00:00:19,687 * * 3 00:00:48,149 --> 00:00:50,251 A most impressive showing, Ron. 4 00:00:50,318 --> 00:00:52,253 That was awfully, awfully fast. 5 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,955 Thank you. Thank you, thank you. 6 00:00:55,022 --> 00:00:57,291 Any thoughts on my pace calculations? 7 00:00:57,358 --> 00:00:59,293 There may be something in the physics of "swing time." 8 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,296 Airborne duration during a running stride. 9 00:01:02,363 --> 00:01:03,631 -Yeah... -There are new studies-- 10 00:01:03,697 --> 00:01:05,399 into the time it takes the nervous system 11 00:01:05,466 --> 00:01:07,101 to transmit contraction instructions 12 00:01:07,168 --> 00:01:08,169 to the muscles: "twitch time." 13 00:01:08,236 --> 00:01:09,270 "Twitch time." 14 00:01:09,337 --> 00:01:11,405 The whole concept has me 15 00:01:11,472 --> 00:01:13,107 examining some interesting algorithmic concepts. 16 00:01:13,174 --> 00:01:16,277 Undoubtedly, more interesting when discussed over dinner. 17 00:01:16,344 --> 00:01:18,746 Do you care to join us for an Okie Dog? 18 00:01:18,812 --> 00:01:20,414 As much as I hate to run... 19 00:01:20,481 --> 00:01:24,618 and run, but I... I've barely got time to shower. 20 00:01:24,685 --> 00:01:27,521 I'm doing calibrations over at the DNA lab most of the night. 21 00:01:27,588 --> 00:01:30,391 LARRY: Uncharitable as it may sound, 22 00:01:30,458 --> 00:01:32,560 it pains me to share your aptitude with genomes. 23 00:01:32,626 --> 00:01:35,563 See you tomorrow afternoon at the LIGO lab, professor. 24 00:01:35,629 --> 00:01:37,431 -All right. See you. -Professor. 25 00:01:37,498 --> 00:01:40,134 So you're having a sophomore work at your precious 26 00:01:40,201 --> 00:01:41,902 Laser Interferometry lab, hmm? 27 00:01:41,969 --> 00:01:43,637 Some sophomore! 28 00:01:43,704 --> 00:01:47,141 His technical acumen with complicated machinery-- 29 00:01:47,208 --> 00:01:49,210 unprecedented at the undergrad level. 30 00:01:49,277 --> 00:01:52,280 If he had a similar gift at mathematics, 31 00:01:52,346 --> 00:01:55,516 I think we'd be looking at the next Charles Eppes. 32 00:02:06,227 --> 00:02:09,397 ( clanking, rattling ) 33 00:02:22,843 --> 00:02:24,878 ( grinding ) 34 00:02:44,732 --> 00:02:46,300 ( beep ) 35 00:03:09,423 --> 00:03:12,426 ( computer beeps ) 36 00:03:23,937 --> 00:03:25,606 Go. 37 00:03:44,492 --> 00:03:46,026 We all use math every day, 38 00:03:46,093 --> 00:03:48,362 to predict weather, 39 00:03:48,429 --> 00:03:50,130 to tell time, 40 00:03:50,197 --> 00:03:52,733 to handle money. 41 00:03:54,635 --> 00:03:59,039 Math is more than formulas and equations. 42 00:03:59,106 --> 00:04:02,242 It's logic... 43 00:04:02,310 --> 00:04:04,345 it's rationality. 44 00:04:04,412 --> 00:04:05,979 It's using your mind 45 00:04:06,046 --> 00:04:08,549 to solve the biggest mysteries that we know. 46 00:04:16,457 --> 00:04:18,225 I come in to calibrate the synthesizer 47 00:04:18,292 --> 00:04:20,994 for the morning tests... I walk in, 48 00:04:21,061 --> 00:04:24,765 I see two guys pushing it down the hall, and I turn around 49 00:04:24,832 --> 00:04:26,434 and there's another guy there with a gun, 50 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:27,635 and he cold-cocks me. 51 00:04:27,701 --> 00:04:28,902 DAVID: Was the weapon a shotgun, 52 00:04:28,969 --> 00:04:30,571 a handgun; maybe it was a rifle? 53 00:04:30,638 --> 00:04:32,440 No, it was a nickel-plated Beretta. 54 00:04:32,506 --> 00:04:34,041 It was a nine-millimeter. 55 00:04:34,107 --> 00:04:35,876 You know a lot about guns. 56 00:04:35,943 --> 00:04:38,579 You grow up in South Philly, you see your share. 57 00:04:38,646 --> 00:04:41,449 Could you recognize the burglars if you saw them again? 58 00:04:41,515 --> 00:04:43,250 The guy with the gun. 59 00:04:43,317 --> 00:04:45,052 The other two guys were pretty far away. 60 00:04:45,118 --> 00:04:46,320 I'd definitely try. 61 00:04:46,387 --> 00:04:47,355 I'll be right back. 62 00:04:47,421 --> 00:04:48,522 Okay. 63 00:04:55,295 --> 00:04:56,330 So how is Ron? 64 00:04:56,397 --> 00:04:58,165 He won't be wearing a tight hat 65 00:04:58,231 --> 00:04:59,500 anytime soon, but he's fine. 66 00:04:59,567 --> 00:05:01,402 He was walking in, the burglars were coming out 67 00:05:01,469 --> 00:05:03,971 and kind of walked right over him. 68 00:05:04,037 --> 00:05:05,238 You guys know him? 69 00:05:05,305 --> 00:05:06,640 Yeah. Ron works with us. 70 00:05:06,707 --> 00:05:08,609 He's one of Larry's assistants at the LIGO project. 71 00:05:08,676 --> 00:05:10,143 LARRY: Laser Interferometer 72 00:05:10,210 --> 00:05:12,480 Gravitational wave Observatory. 73 00:05:12,546 --> 00:05:15,082 We measure ripples in space-time, 74 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:17,050 trying to prove the existence of black holes... 75 00:05:17,117 --> 00:05:20,220 It's been said that he's the, uh, the "next Charlie Eppes." 76 00:05:20,287 --> 00:05:21,755 AMITA: What was stolen? 77 00:05:21,822 --> 00:05:25,426 It was a Mark Five DNA Synthesizer. 78 00:05:27,495 --> 00:05:29,497 Is that serious? 79 00:05:29,563 --> 00:05:31,432 A DNA synthesizer has many functions, 80 00:05:31,499 --> 00:05:33,401 most of them positive: 81 00:05:33,467 --> 00:05:35,536 genetic analysis, anthropological study... 82 00:05:35,603 --> 00:05:37,771 But it's also used to sequence microorganisms-- 83 00:05:37,838 --> 00:05:41,008 invertebrate vectors of infectious diseases-- 84 00:05:41,074 --> 00:05:42,075 bacterial pathogens... 85 00:05:42,142 --> 00:05:43,444 Wait a minute, Charlie, you're saying 86 00:05:43,511 --> 00:05:44,678 this thing could make a disease? 87 00:05:44,745 --> 00:05:46,013 No, it can't really make them. 88 00:05:46,079 --> 00:05:48,549 But with the DNA and protein sequence data it contains, 89 00:05:48,616 --> 00:05:51,318 it could... customize them. 90 00:05:51,385 --> 00:05:53,421 And by "customize," you mean... 91 00:05:53,487 --> 00:05:55,689 Weaponize. 92 00:05:55,756 --> 00:05:58,726 MEGAN: These burglars cut through the roof. 93 00:05:58,792 --> 00:06:00,794 They came in through the air ducts. 94 00:06:00,861 --> 00:06:04,965 What about these sensors? Why didn't they trip? 95 00:06:05,032 --> 00:06:06,967 They're passive infrared motion sensors. 96 00:06:07,034 --> 00:06:08,669 They're body temperature sensitive. 97 00:06:08,736 --> 00:06:10,103 They used these to jam them 98 00:06:10,170 --> 00:06:11,705 with high and low temperature signals 99 00:06:11,772 --> 00:06:14,475 at the same time-- it gave it a false read. 100 00:06:14,542 --> 00:06:15,876 So they had the place cased 101 00:06:15,943 --> 00:06:17,445 pretty well ahead of time, right? 102 00:06:17,511 --> 00:06:19,112 Really well cased. These floor bolts-- 103 00:06:19,179 --> 00:06:23,584 they're only unlockable by a biometric iris scanner. 104 00:06:23,651 --> 00:06:26,319 And there's no sign of forced entry. 105 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:27,320 Yeah, inside job. 106 00:06:27,387 --> 00:06:28,589 Looks like it. 107 00:06:28,656 --> 00:06:30,290 What exactly did they take? 108 00:06:30,357 --> 00:06:31,825 Mark Five DNA Synthesizer 109 00:06:31,892 --> 00:06:35,062 can be used to produce a billion DNA copies 110 00:06:35,128 --> 00:06:36,464 in under three hours. 111 00:06:36,530 --> 00:06:37,898 We could have a serious 112 00:06:37,965 --> 00:06:39,967 national security problem on our hands. 113 00:06:40,033 --> 00:06:40,968 Using this synthesizer 114 00:06:41,034 --> 00:06:43,103 to determine the sequences of pathogens, 115 00:06:43,170 --> 00:06:45,739 those pathogens can then be redesigned 116 00:06:45,806 --> 00:06:47,975 -for greater infectiousness. -So conceivably, 117 00:06:48,041 --> 00:06:50,444 this thing could be used to create a pandemic. 118 00:06:50,511 --> 00:06:51,812 Using a less sophisticated synthesizer, 119 00:06:51,879 --> 00:06:53,914 a professor in New York stitched together 120 00:06:53,981 --> 00:06:56,416 a polio virus genome, which then spontaneously 121 00:06:56,484 --> 00:06:57,851 started making infectious polio viruses. 122 00:06:57,918 --> 00:07:01,021 The thing can design bioweapons. 123 00:07:01,088 --> 00:07:02,956 There are a lot of rogue nations out there 124 00:07:03,023 --> 00:07:05,025 that would like to get their hands on that ability. 125 00:07:05,092 --> 00:07:06,660 COLBY: So we're not just talking about 126 00:07:06,727 --> 00:07:08,496 high-end theft here, this could potentially be espionage. 127 00:07:08,562 --> 00:07:09,863 Either way, 128 00:07:09,930 --> 00:07:12,032 we gotta find the thing before it hits the black market. 129 00:07:12,099 --> 00:07:13,534 DON: What'd you say about the 130 00:07:13,601 --> 00:07:15,168 biometric sensor? 131 00:07:15,235 --> 00:07:17,638 Only five iris scans can open the security bolts. 132 00:07:17,705 --> 00:07:19,740 And all five professors are ablibied. 133 00:07:19,807 --> 00:07:21,642 CHARLIE: Actually, the biometric sesnsor 134 00:07:21,709 --> 00:07:24,144 doesn't read the iris. 135 00:07:24,211 --> 00:07:26,780 No, it reduces it to a series of values, turning the iris 136 00:07:26,847 --> 00:07:29,016 into a constellation of sorts-- 137 00:07:29,082 --> 00:07:32,152 a diagram of simple lines, connected by unique points. 138 00:07:32,219 --> 00:07:35,756 And each point has a specific value, based on its position-- 139 00:07:35,823 --> 00:07:37,190 sort of like how stars are measured 140 00:07:37,257 --> 00:07:39,993 by their relationship to one another in the night sky. 141 00:07:40,060 --> 00:07:42,462 The values are represented by a combination 142 00:07:42,530 --> 00:07:44,865 unique to the thumbprint, and it is that number 143 00:07:44,932 --> 00:07:47,134 that the biometric sensor compares to its database 144 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,102 of allowed values. 145 00:07:49,169 --> 00:07:50,904 So then they just hack the combination. 146 00:07:50,971 --> 00:07:52,706 But first they have to decode the scanner's algorithm. 147 00:07:52,773 --> 00:07:55,843 Which they had to have prior access to. 148 00:07:55,909 --> 00:07:57,678 And someone would have to have the mathematical 149 00:07:57,745 --> 00:07:58,646 and the technical aptitude 150 00:07:58,712 --> 00:08:00,080 to run the algorithm. 151 00:08:00,147 --> 00:08:02,149 Someone like Professor Charles Eppes. 152 00:08:02,215 --> 00:08:03,450 ( wry laugh ) 153 00:08:03,517 --> 00:08:05,052 Or maybe "the next Charlie Eppes." 154 00:08:05,118 --> 00:08:06,987 That was a joke, David. 155 00:08:07,054 --> 00:08:09,022 I was making a joke for Larry's benefit. 156 00:08:09,089 --> 00:08:10,090 Wh-what? What? 157 00:08:10,157 --> 00:08:11,825 The kid that walked in on the burglars-- 158 00:08:11,892 --> 00:08:14,728 he's supposed to be some kind of technical whiz, right? 159 00:08:14,795 --> 00:08:17,130 And he has access to that DNA lab. 160 00:08:17,197 --> 00:08:18,932 But the security cameras give him an alibi. 161 00:08:18,999 --> 00:08:22,235 Only for the actual heist-- he could've had something to do 162 00:08:22,302 --> 00:08:25,205 with it: the planning of it, the setting up of it... 163 00:08:41,589 --> 00:08:43,056 "An Attempt to Find a 70-Digit 164 00:08:43,123 --> 00:08:45,292 Narcissistic Number in Base 12, 165 00:08:45,358 --> 00:08:47,494 by Charles Eppes." 166 00:08:47,561 --> 00:08:49,329 ( laughing ): Hey! Grade Two. 167 00:08:49,396 --> 00:08:52,566 Mm... I was quite... quite, uh, quixotic... 168 00:08:52,633 --> 00:08:54,101 in elementary school. 169 00:08:54,167 --> 00:08:57,905 You know, my mother used to pack all my old schoolwork in boxes, 170 00:08:57,971 --> 00:09:02,743 so I'm just, uh... taking a trip down memory lane. 171 00:09:02,810 --> 00:09:05,178 Is it even remotely possible 172 00:09:05,245 --> 00:09:07,781 that our recent discussion of the future 173 00:09:07,848 --> 00:09:09,449 has you retreating into the past? 174 00:09:09,516 --> 00:09:14,021 I'm not retreating... I'm simply reminiscing. 175 00:09:14,087 --> 00:09:18,525 Reliving old glories-- that can be a dangerous narcotic. 176 00:09:18,592 --> 00:09:20,794 So I understand the campus is abuzz 177 00:09:20,861 --> 00:09:23,864 about the, uh... DNA lab burglary. 178 00:09:23,931 --> 00:09:26,233 You know, just color me idealistic, 179 00:09:26,299 --> 00:09:29,536 but I find it inconceivable that any student of science 180 00:09:29,603 --> 00:09:31,672 could sabotage the efforts of so many 181 00:09:31,739 --> 00:09:33,540 for short-term monetary gain. 182 00:09:33,607 --> 00:09:36,777 Are there any suspects? 183 00:09:36,844 --> 00:09:39,046 They're talking to a lot of people. 184 00:09:39,112 --> 00:09:40,648 Yeah? Anybody in particular? 185 00:09:40,714 --> 00:09:43,516 You know that joke I made to David-- 186 00:09:43,583 --> 00:09:45,786 it might have, um... 187 00:09:45,853 --> 00:09:48,055 purely inadvertently... 188 00:09:48,121 --> 00:09:51,792 put some extra attention on, uh... on Ron Allen. 189 00:09:51,859 --> 00:09:54,027 Oh, Charlie... 190 00:09:54,094 --> 00:09:57,030 Ron Allen has surmounted incredible obstacles 191 00:09:57,097 --> 00:09:59,700 -just to get into Calsci... -I know. 192 00:09:59,767 --> 00:10:01,168 Well, that you could erect 193 00:10:01,234 --> 00:10:03,103 one more barrier, just out of some... 194 00:10:03,170 --> 00:10:06,039 -some careless remark? -Larry. 195 00:10:06,106 --> 00:10:07,607 They're not singling him out. 196 00:10:07,675 --> 00:10:11,311 They're talking to everyone who had access to that lab, okay? 197 00:10:11,378 --> 00:10:13,881 Okay. 198 00:10:18,686 --> 00:10:22,790 You know that if you were to fall under similar scrutiny 199 00:10:22,856 --> 00:10:25,058 I would go beyond the boundaries 200 00:10:25,125 --> 00:10:27,460 of the observable universe to defend you, 201 00:10:27,527 --> 00:10:29,663 and you know that. 202 00:10:32,065 --> 00:10:34,234 Huh. 203 00:10:34,301 --> 00:10:37,938 I always thought your interests in... music 204 00:10:38,005 --> 00:10:40,373 were computational, not compositional. 205 00:10:41,942 --> 00:10:45,312 What have you got here? 206 00:10:45,378 --> 00:10:48,148 I've never seen this. 207 00:10:48,215 --> 00:10:51,018 Don and I took piano lessons when we were children, but... 208 00:10:54,654 --> 00:10:56,857 LARRY: Hm, "Etude in G Minor" 209 00:10:56,924 --> 00:10:59,492 by-- who is that?-- Margaret Mann. 210 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,696 Margaret Mann? That's my mother's maiden name. 211 00:11:02,763 --> 00:11:04,865 She was a lawyer. 212 00:11:04,932 --> 00:11:06,767 LARRY: Who apparently also composed 213 00:11:06,834 --> 00:11:09,169 an etude in G minor. 214 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,843 Yeah, I figured you guys would come back around to me. 215 00:11:15,909 --> 00:11:17,711 Why'd you think that? 216 00:11:17,778 --> 00:11:19,713 Poor kid from the bad neighborhood. 217 00:11:19,780 --> 00:11:22,750 I been the usual suspect since I was ten. 218 00:11:22,816 --> 00:11:23,951 Ron, we're not talking to you 219 00:11:24,017 --> 00:11:25,418 because you had a rough childhood, okay? 220 00:11:25,485 --> 00:11:28,055 You're one of several people with the technical expertise 221 00:11:28,121 --> 00:11:30,423 and unrestricted access necessary 222 00:11:30,490 --> 00:11:31,725 to pull off this burglary. 223 00:11:31,792 --> 00:11:33,426 I'm not blaming you. 224 00:11:33,493 --> 00:11:36,897 ( chuckles ): I'd suspect me, too-- a guy who has to work 225 00:11:36,964 --> 00:11:38,465 four different jobs just to stay ahead 226 00:11:38,531 --> 00:11:39,466 of his student housing bills? 227 00:11:39,532 --> 00:11:42,535 Fencing his synthesizer for maybe $50,000, that'd... 228 00:11:42,602 --> 00:11:45,038 smooth off a lot of corners. 229 00:11:45,105 --> 00:11:48,341 You seem to have worked out the math pretty thoroughly. 230 00:11:48,408 --> 00:11:50,643 Well, when you spend your life with nothing, 231 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:52,379 you know what everything costs. 232 00:11:52,445 --> 00:11:53,914 Look, I grew up 233 00:11:53,981 --> 00:11:56,183 in foster homes and homeless shelters. 234 00:11:56,249 --> 00:12:00,053 I stole textbooks, and I taught myself enough to get a GED. 235 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:01,922 I'm too proud of what I've accomplished 236 00:12:01,989 --> 00:12:06,293 to risk it all for something so stupid. 237 00:12:06,359 --> 00:12:11,098 MEGAN: It's sort of a persuasive argument. 238 00:12:11,164 --> 00:12:12,933 Didn't persuade me so much. 239 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,635 -MEGAN: Why? -I don't know. 240 00:12:15,702 --> 00:12:17,871 The way he brags about growing up hard. 241 00:12:17,938 --> 00:12:20,841 Throws us some street slang to try to sell it. 242 00:12:20,908 --> 00:12:23,043 You think someone with that kind of history 243 00:12:23,110 --> 00:12:24,778 wouldn't talk about it so much? 244 00:12:24,845 --> 00:12:27,014 You work that hard to polish yourself... 245 00:12:28,181 --> 00:12:30,417 ...you want to put some distance on it, too. 246 00:12:42,529 --> 00:12:44,231 Doug Windham? 247 00:12:49,036 --> 00:12:51,104 When are you guys gonna stop hassling me? 248 00:12:51,171 --> 00:12:53,073 No hassle. We just want to talk. 249 00:12:53,140 --> 00:12:57,144 His shoots a lot further than yours. 250 00:12:57,210 --> 00:12:58,678 Sorry. 251 00:12:58,745 --> 00:13:03,083 Every time I see a badge, I just want to hurt someone. 252 00:13:03,150 --> 00:13:05,018 Someplace private we could talk? 253 00:13:05,085 --> 00:13:06,987 It's not gonna be that long a conversation. 254 00:13:07,054 --> 00:13:09,556 LAPD Burglary Detail gave us a list 255 00:13:09,622 --> 00:13:11,825 of go-to guys for high-end break-in tools. 256 00:13:11,892 --> 00:13:15,128 It just so happens your name had a big fat star next to it. 257 00:13:15,195 --> 00:13:16,529 That's 'cause they're lazy. 258 00:13:16,596 --> 00:13:18,631 This shop has been straight for five years, 259 00:13:18,698 --> 00:13:21,534 yet you guys are here hassling me every time a safe goes down. 260 00:13:21,601 --> 00:13:23,536 And notice, I'm still not in jail. 261 00:13:23,603 --> 00:13:25,738 So theoretically, if we wanted to get by 262 00:13:25,805 --> 00:13:26,974 a passive infrared motion sensor 263 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,910 and a biometric iris scanner... 264 00:13:29,977 --> 00:13:32,880 I.R. motion sensor can get jammed 265 00:13:32,946 --> 00:13:34,514 with an oscillating heat pulse. 266 00:13:34,581 --> 00:13:37,750 Biometrics, I don't know, they're after my time. 267 00:13:37,817 --> 00:13:39,386 Well, who picked up the torch? 268 00:13:39,452 --> 00:13:41,521 I don't know. But when you guys find out, 269 00:13:41,588 --> 00:13:45,458 why don't you have the LAPD put a big fat gold star 270 00:13:45,525 --> 00:13:47,327 next to his name. 271 00:13:47,394 --> 00:13:49,696 COLBY: Clearly this guy knows more than he's saying. 272 00:13:49,762 --> 00:13:52,665 Why don't you do a phone dump on his cell and the machine shop. 273 00:13:52,732 --> 00:13:54,567 You know, go back, like, two or three months. 274 00:13:54,634 --> 00:13:57,270 Job like this got to take a while to set up, right? 275 00:13:57,337 --> 00:13:58,171 Yeah, think so. 276 00:13:58,238 --> 00:13:59,706 Megan, how we doing on the interviews? 277 00:13:59,772 --> 00:14:01,808 Uh, I'm more than halfway through Calsci's list. 278 00:14:01,875 --> 00:14:04,611 What do you make of this Ron Allen kid? 279 00:14:04,677 --> 00:14:06,279 MEGAN: Well, his life story 280 00:14:06,346 --> 00:14:08,481 would make a hell of a movie. 281 00:14:08,548 --> 00:14:10,683 Uh, remake of The Wrong Man, perhaps? 282 00:14:10,750 --> 00:14:12,619 The administration is asking me 283 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:16,323 and other project managers to suspend Ron from all lab work 284 00:14:16,389 --> 00:14:17,857 till your investigation is completed. 285 00:14:17,925 --> 00:14:19,759 Well, that might be a good idea, Larry. 286 00:14:19,826 --> 00:14:23,330 The theft of a DNA synthesizer is not a simple one. 287 00:14:23,396 --> 00:14:24,864 In the hands of a hostile government 288 00:14:24,932 --> 00:14:26,099 it could be used to create 289 00:14:26,166 --> 00:14:27,800 an avian flu virus-- this could be 290 00:14:27,867 --> 00:14:30,570 one of the worst WMD threats our country has faced. 291 00:14:30,637 --> 00:14:32,872 Listen, I appreciate the seriousness of this theft, 292 00:14:32,940 --> 00:14:35,108 but now to my knowledge, you have no evidence 293 00:14:35,175 --> 00:14:37,110 that links Ron to this crime. 294 00:14:37,177 --> 00:14:40,480 Hey, Larry, this is an ongoing investigation here. 295 00:14:40,547 --> 00:14:42,849 You are casting a black cloud over a young man 296 00:14:42,916 --> 00:14:45,252 who's faced stupendous odds, 297 00:14:45,318 --> 00:14:48,355 a young man whose promise at such a young age, 298 00:14:48,421 --> 00:14:50,523 -it's incalculable. -A young man who isn't real. 299 00:14:50,590 --> 00:14:54,094 I did a deeper background check into Ron Allen. 300 00:14:54,161 --> 00:14:57,931 Born in Philadelphia, August 24, 1987. 301 00:14:57,998 --> 00:15:01,234 Died... November 21, '87. 302 00:15:01,301 --> 00:15:04,104 The kid you think Ron Allen is-- 303 00:15:04,171 --> 00:15:06,273 Larry, he doesn't exist. 304 00:15:13,713 --> 00:15:15,048 There's no sign of him. 305 00:15:15,115 --> 00:15:18,018 Well, he had to know it was just a matter of time 306 00:15:18,085 --> 00:15:19,652 till we figured out who he was. 307 00:15:19,719 --> 00:15:21,488 Yeah, well, which we still don't know. 308 00:15:21,554 --> 00:15:23,156 What's the matter with this room? 309 00:15:23,223 --> 00:15:25,558 Could use a vacuum cleaner. 310 00:15:25,625 --> 00:15:27,560 Other than that, it's your typical 311 00:15:27,627 --> 00:15:29,329 college kid stuff. 312 00:15:29,396 --> 00:15:32,599 Yeah. Perfectly typical. 313 00:15:32,665 --> 00:15:33,900 But all over the map. 314 00:15:33,967 --> 00:15:36,303 There's hip-hop and heavy metal, 315 00:15:36,369 --> 00:15:38,671 and kung fu movies and horror films. 316 00:15:38,738 --> 00:15:41,108 What were you into sophomore year of college? 317 00:15:41,174 --> 00:15:43,410 Cheerleaders. 318 00:15:43,476 --> 00:15:44,577 And I was Kurosawa and Coltrane. 319 00:15:44,644 --> 00:15:46,146 But if you look around this room, 320 00:15:46,213 --> 00:15:48,448 there isn't one thing that wasn't recorded, 321 00:15:48,515 --> 00:15:50,317 written or filmed in the last two years. 322 00:15:50,383 --> 00:15:52,785 It's like he went out and bought a bunch of magazines 323 00:15:52,852 --> 00:15:54,154 of what college students were into 324 00:15:54,221 --> 00:15:55,455 and then bought everything 325 00:15:55,522 --> 00:15:57,424 -to make himself look typical. -So he wasn't hiding 326 00:15:57,490 --> 00:15:59,626 just his identity but also his personality. 327 00:15:59,692 --> 00:16:01,894 ( phone ringing ) 328 00:16:01,961 --> 00:16:04,097 Reeves. 329 00:16:05,365 --> 00:16:06,699 That's great. Thank you. 330 00:16:06,766 --> 00:16:09,469 All right, whoever Ron Allen is, he paid his cell phone bill 331 00:16:09,536 --> 00:16:11,304 on time-- the GPS just tracked him 332 00:16:11,371 --> 00:16:14,507 to a bookstore on campus. 333 00:16:16,643 --> 00:16:19,346 None of the clerks recognized his photo. 334 00:16:19,412 --> 00:16:22,149 I didn't see him hiding in the stacks, either. 335 00:16:22,215 --> 00:16:25,052 Why don't we call him and ask where he is? 336 00:16:25,118 --> 00:16:26,719 Yeah, why don't we? 337 00:16:28,721 --> 00:16:32,092 ( dialing ) 338 00:16:32,159 --> 00:16:33,926 ( line ringing ) 339 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:35,528 ( phone ringing ) 340 00:16:38,398 --> 00:16:41,134 ( ringing continues ) 341 00:16:43,936 --> 00:16:45,172 Hello? 342 00:16:45,238 --> 00:16:47,174 Excuse me, Miss? 343 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:48,408 Do you know this man? 344 00:16:48,475 --> 00:16:50,210 Oh, um... 345 00:16:50,277 --> 00:16:52,212 that's... Phil. 346 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:55,215 -Phil? -Phil Stark, my boyfriend. 347 00:16:55,282 --> 00:16:57,817 -Would that happen to be his phone? -Uh... 348 00:16:57,884 --> 00:16:59,252 he said I could use it. 349 00:16:59,319 --> 00:17:01,321 -Who are you guys? -FBI. 350 00:17:01,388 --> 00:17:03,356 Oh, my God, he's not in trouble? 351 00:17:03,423 --> 00:17:04,924 We just want to talk to him. 352 00:17:04,991 --> 00:17:07,827 Well... I don't see how you're gonna do that. 353 00:17:07,894 --> 00:17:09,062 Why not? 354 00:17:09,129 --> 00:17:10,263 He's in the desert. 355 00:17:10,330 --> 00:17:11,698 He left to go camping yesterday. 356 00:17:11,764 --> 00:17:12,732 Great. 357 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:15,502 So we'll go search the Mojave Desert. 358 00:17:15,568 --> 00:17:17,504 CHARLIE: So is he Phil Stark 359 00:17:17,570 --> 00:17:19,572 or is he, you know, Ron Allen? 360 00:17:19,639 --> 00:17:21,741 Well, that's the thing-- he's Phil to his girlfriend, 361 00:17:21,808 --> 00:17:23,576 he's Ron Allen to the people at Calsci, 362 00:17:23,643 --> 00:17:25,044 there's no fingerprints on the guy anywhere. 363 00:17:25,112 --> 00:17:28,081 Well, at least you know one place not to look for him. 364 00:17:28,148 --> 00:17:29,982 Yeah, well, we got a lot of real estate to cover 365 00:17:30,049 --> 00:17:31,484 and not a lot of time. 366 00:17:31,551 --> 00:17:33,019 It's bad enough that synthesizer's out there. 367 00:17:33,086 --> 00:17:33,953 We don't know what the guy knows 368 00:17:34,020 --> 00:17:36,756 -or whose hands he's gonna put it in. -You know, 369 00:17:36,823 --> 00:17:38,758 Larry's... devastated. 370 00:17:38,825 --> 00:17:40,127 Larry. 371 00:17:40,193 --> 00:17:41,128 ALAN: Isn't it funny 372 00:17:41,194 --> 00:17:42,329 the people who are closest to us, 373 00:17:42,395 --> 00:17:43,663 they always find it easy to keep secrets. 374 00:17:43,730 --> 00:17:44,697 CHARLIE: You know, it's interesting 375 00:17:44,764 --> 00:17:47,434 you say that, because I don't recall 376 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:52,038 you ever telling me that Mom was 377 00:17:52,105 --> 00:17:53,406 a published composer. 378 00:17:53,473 --> 00:17:55,742 What-what... what is this? 379 00:17:55,808 --> 00:17:57,244 Where did you find this? 380 00:17:57,310 --> 00:17:58,111 I found it in the garage. 381 00:17:58,178 --> 00:18:00,012 -What, Mom? -Yeah, see? 382 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:01,781 Margaret Mann. 383 00:18:01,848 --> 00:18:03,416 Oh. 384 00:18:04,784 --> 00:18:06,286 ALAN: Yeah. 385 00:18:06,353 --> 00:18:10,557 Your mother was a very talented musician. 386 00:18:10,623 --> 00:18:13,160 She even had an offer to study in Vienna. 387 00:18:13,226 --> 00:18:15,128 What are you talking about? No way. 388 00:18:15,195 --> 00:18:17,697 -Mm. -Oh, that's why 389 00:18:17,764 --> 00:18:19,932 all those piano lessons with the-the nightmare woman... 390 00:18:19,999 --> 00:18:22,869 -Petri dish with the lozenge breath. -Mrs. Petrie. 391 00:18:22,935 --> 00:18:25,172 You know, one time she filed my fingernails for me. 392 00:18:25,238 --> 00:18:26,173 Wait, hold on. 393 00:18:26,239 --> 00:18:27,474 Why didn't she ever play? 394 00:18:27,540 --> 00:18:28,808 Did you ever see Mom play that piano? 395 00:18:28,875 --> 00:18:30,910 ALAN: Well, she had to make a choice 396 00:18:30,977 --> 00:18:32,312 between the law and music. 397 00:18:32,379 --> 00:18:35,014 And when she made the choice, then... 398 00:18:35,081 --> 00:18:36,649 music was a closed issue. 399 00:18:38,218 --> 00:18:39,452 Except that it wasn't. 400 00:18:40,653 --> 00:18:44,324 These-these compositions are dated 401 00:18:44,391 --> 00:18:45,492 through the '80s, 402 00:18:45,558 --> 00:18:47,360 through the '90s-- I mean, I think 403 00:18:47,427 --> 00:18:48,961 she was writing music up until... 404 00:18:49,028 --> 00:18:50,330 You know? 405 00:18:50,397 --> 00:18:52,499 No, I didn't know. 406 00:18:59,138 --> 00:19:01,441 Hey, hey! 407 00:19:01,508 --> 00:19:04,010 Doug, careful with the TV! 408 00:19:04,076 --> 00:19:06,813 Your grandkids are gonna be working for me for free! 409 00:19:06,879 --> 00:19:09,048 Come on! 410 00:19:09,115 --> 00:19:10,583 Gino McGinty. 411 00:19:10,650 --> 00:19:14,621 This guy's rap sheet's just about as old as he is. 412 00:19:14,687 --> 00:19:17,990 Mostly receiving and possession of stolen property, 413 00:19:18,057 --> 00:19:21,894 major ties to about a dozen foreign black markets. 414 00:19:21,961 --> 00:19:23,763 Doug Windham's phone dump had a bunch of calls 415 00:19:23,830 --> 00:19:25,398 back and forth with McGinty before the burglary. 416 00:19:25,465 --> 00:19:27,567 There were about a half a dozen after, too, 417 00:19:27,634 --> 00:19:29,902 including one 15 minutes after we talked to him. 418 00:19:29,969 --> 00:19:32,305 For a guy not in the burglary business anymore, 419 00:19:32,372 --> 00:19:34,374 he sure does keep some shady company. 420 00:19:34,441 --> 00:19:35,942 I want to put together a raid team, 421 00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:37,510 but Don doesn't want to risk spooking anybody yet. 422 00:19:37,577 --> 00:19:38,845 Last thing we need is that synthesizer 423 00:19:38,911 --> 00:19:40,480 leaving the country before we can locate it. 424 00:19:40,547 --> 00:19:43,683 LARRY: I went to bat for him. 425 00:19:43,750 --> 00:19:46,118 I stormed into your brother's office, 426 00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:47,920 I put my own name on the line 427 00:19:47,987 --> 00:19:51,391 for... I don't even know his name. 428 00:19:51,458 --> 00:19:53,125 I made a complete 429 00:19:53,192 --> 00:19:55,127 -fool of myself. -Larry, 430 00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:57,063 your heart was in the right place. 431 00:19:57,129 --> 00:20:00,400 Well-intentioned ignorance is a slender defense at best. 432 00:20:00,467 --> 00:20:03,303 He was a complete and utter fraud. 433 00:20:03,370 --> 00:20:05,272 Not a complete fraud. 434 00:20:05,338 --> 00:20:06,306 I mean, he certainly 435 00:20:06,373 --> 00:20:08,341 knew how to run this equipment. 436 00:20:12,245 --> 00:20:13,646 And here I am, 437 00:20:13,713 --> 00:20:16,983 scrutinizing infinitesimal ripples in the space-time 438 00:20:17,049 --> 00:20:19,552 of Einstein's relativistic universe, 439 00:20:19,619 --> 00:20:23,523 when all the while, I can't see this, this immense lie 440 00:20:23,590 --> 00:20:26,025 played out right before me. 441 00:20:26,092 --> 00:20:29,028 You are exactly right. 442 00:20:29,095 --> 00:20:31,564 Why is this not comforting me? 443 00:20:31,631 --> 00:20:34,467 LIGO doesn't see cosmic events, does it? 444 00:20:34,534 --> 00:20:36,836 No, the events emit gravitational waves 445 00:20:36,903 --> 00:20:39,105 which we measure with lasers and mirrors. 446 00:20:39,171 --> 00:20:41,908 Which is how I'm checking my own predictions 447 00:20:41,974 --> 00:20:43,743 on quantum corrections. 448 00:20:43,810 --> 00:20:44,744 Well, then. 449 00:20:44,811 --> 00:20:46,913 You didn't see Ron either. 450 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,649 You saw the waves he created. 451 00:20:54,654 --> 00:20:56,723 You were unable to trace Ron Allen's history 452 00:20:56,789 --> 00:20:59,492 because he was careful to conceal his past. 453 00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:02,094 What he couldn't conceal, however, 454 00:21:02,161 --> 00:21:04,096 was the impact of his past. 455 00:21:04,163 --> 00:21:05,532 I'm so hoping you have 456 00:21:05,598 --> 00:21:07,634 one of those cute little analogies for this. 457 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:11,070 As a matter of fact, I do. 458 00:21:11,137 --> 00:21:12,305 A person's journey through life 459 00:21:12,372 --> 00:21:15,708 is like a stone skipping across water. 460 00:21:15,775 --> 00:21:19,278 No matter how briefly it lands in one place, 461 00:21:19,346 --> 00:21:20,813 it leaves ripples behind, 462 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,249 evidence that it has been there. 463 00:21:23,316 --> 00:21:24,951 Now by studying those ripples, 464 00:21:25,017 --> 00:21:27,620 we can determine the path of the stone. 465 00:21:27,687 --> 00:21:29,756 And with a little math and a lot of luck, 466 00:21:29,822 --> 00:21:32,291 we can determine where the stone began its journey. 467 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,928 Ron Allen's ripples were his facility at operating 468 00:21:35,995 --> 00:21:38,831 technically sophisticated apparatus. 469 00:21:38,898 --> 00:21:41,501 Couldn't he have learned to use these machines at CalSci? 470 00:21:41,568 --> 00:21:43,903 Any one of them, perhaps, but to be able to operate 471 00:21:43,970 --> 00:21:46,773 these three different machines with his skill level, 472 00:21:46,839 --> 00:21:48,475 well, that's like teaching yourself 473 00:21:48,541 --> 00:21:50,810 how to fly a helicopter, sail a yacht 474 00:21:50,877 --> 00:21:53,079 -and race a Formula One car. -So he had to know how to use 475 00:21:53,145 --> 00:21:54,981 the same kind of equipment before CalSci then. 476 00:21:55,047 --> 00:21:56,616 And I'm assuming 477 00:21:56,683 --> 00:21:58,885 the scientific community at this level is pretty small, right? 478 00:21:58,951 --> 00:22:01,521 Somewhere in the tens of thousands. 479 00:22:01,588 --> 00:22:05,392 But I refined my search with a new set of ripples. 480 00:22:05,458 --> 00:22:07,660 Remember, track and field. 481 00:22:07,727 --> 00:22:09,696 Right, because he ran long distance. 482 00:22:09,762 --> 00:22:11,431 Right, so I went through research projects, 483 00:22:11,498 --> 00:22:13,533 filtered the names of research assistants 484 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,402 against college track meet times, 485 00:22:15,468 --> 00:22:18,337 and I found these three. 486 00:22:18,405 --> 00:22:21,674 Although, I got to tell you, there's probably more. 487 00:22:22,742 --> 00:22:23,643 University of Hawaii's 488 00:22:23,710 --> 00:22:27,414 2.2 Meter Telescope, 1996. 489 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,551 Duke's Bioanalysis Group, 1999. 490 00:22:31,618 --> 00:22:35,488 And MIT's Genome Research Team, 2001. 491 00:22:36,389 --> 00:22:37,924 He's like a chameleon. 492 00:22:37,990 --> 00:22:40,593 More like a snake, shedding successive skins. 493 00:22:40,660 --> 00:22:42,429 Probably has a new identity by now. 494 00:22:42,495 --> 00:22:44,464 And a new target. 495 00:22:52,472 --> 00:22:53,440 MEGAN: University of Hawaii 496 00:22:53,506 --> 00:22:54,674 accepts Paul Combs, 497 00:22:54,741 --> 00:22:56,776 who says he grew up on a Wyoming ranch. 498 00:22:56,843 --> 00:22:59,145 He's an unspectacular, but a solid B-student 499 00:22:59,211 --> 00:23:00,547 with an interest in astronomy, 500 00:23:00,613 --> 00:23:02,649 microbiology and competitive running, 501 00:23:02,715 --> 00:23:04,817 who disappeared in 1998 502 00:23:04,884 --> 00:23:06,986 with seven grand worth of computer equipment. 503 00:23:07,053 --> 00:23:09,522 He surfaces again as Henry Viera, 504 00:23:09,589 --> 00:23:11,724 a freshman at Duke in 1999. 505 00:23:11,791 --> 00:23:14,627 This time, he say he grew up on an Alaskan fishing boat. 506 00:23:14,694 --> 00:23:17,163 Now he's a better student and a faster runner. 507 00:23:17,229 --> 00:23:18,297 That makes sense. 508 00:23:18,364 --> 00:23:19,432 He knows the classes 509 00:23:19,499 --> 00:23:20,867 and runners improve in their mid-20s. 510 00:23:20,933 --> 00:23:22,802 Yeah, only this time his disappearance coincides 511 00:23:22,869 --> 00:23:26,405 with the theft of a $15,000 electron microscope. 512 00:23:26,473 --> 00:23:27,574 Hmm. 513 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,676 Then Allen Donaldson gets into MIT 514 00:23:29,742 --> 00:23:31,478 in 2001. 515 00:23:31,544 --> 00:23:33,345 Introduces the "kid from the street" story. 516 00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,615 He's got to be on his way to 30, trying to pass for 18 517 00:23:35,682 --> 00:23:36,849 at this point. 518 00:23:36,916 --> 00:23:39,586 Star student, star runner, and gone the next year 519 00:23:39,652 --> 00:23:41,353 along with something called the Mass Spectrometer, 520 00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:44,190 worth upwards of $40,000. 521 00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:45,357 All right, so, what? 522 00:23:45,424 --> 00:23:48,360 He builds the identities of a dead guy from another state? 523 00:23:48,427 --> 00:23:49,629 So he gets the birth certificate, 524 00:23:49,696 --> 00:23:50,863 which gets him a driver's license, 525 00:23:50,930 --> 00:23:52,198 Social Security card, all that. 526 00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:53,332 It fits our spy theory. 527 00:23:53,399 --> 00:23:54,501 MEGAN: Actually, it doesn't. 528 00:23:54,567 --> 00:23:56,469 Because the stuff he's stealing has value, 529 00:23:56,536 --> 00:23:57,770 but it's not sensitive enough 530 00:23:57,837 --> 00:23:59,171 for an agent to break cover. 531 00:23:59,238 --> 00:24:01,474 Okay, so he's just a thief. 532 00:24:01,541 --> 00:24:03,142 That doesn't really work either, 533 00:24:03,209 --> 00:24:04,443 because although he's stealing bigger every time, 534 00:24:04,511 --> 00:24:05,778 there's just not enough money there 535 00:24:05,845 --> 00:24:08,080 to justify the time he spends as a student. 536 00:24:08,147 --> 00:24:09,081 DON: Wait a minute. 537 00:24:09,148 --> 00:24:10,282 What if the thefts 538 00:24:10,349 --> 00:24:11,951 weren't an end, but a means? 539 00:24:12,018 --> 00:24:13,886 A means to what? 540 00:24:13,953 --> 00:24:15,354 You know, like Groundhog Day, right? 541 00:24:15,421 --> 00:24:16,623 He gets to live the same life 542 00:24:16,689 --> 00:24:18,024 over and over again, but each time better. 543 00:24:18,090 --> 00:24:20,359 Like a junkie stealing just enough 544 00:24:20,426 --> 00:24:21,794 to get to his next fix. 545 00:24:21,861 --> 00:24:24,396 Only his high is from the false celebrity 546 00:24:24,463 --> 00:24:26,733 he gets with every new persona. 547 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:27,800 Yeah, but this thing, the synthesizer's 548 00:24:27,867 --> 00:24:29,001 a much bigger deal than that. 549 00:24:29,068 --> 00:24:31,538 Because he needs a bigger fix to get the same high. 550 00:24:31,604 --> 00:24:32,772 Right. 551 00:24:32,839 --> 00:24:34,507 We just got lucky on the Gino McGinty wire tape. 552 00:24:34,574 --> 00:24:35,908 We got him on tape 553 00:24:35,975 --> 00:24:38,110 planning to move a major piece of merchandise 554 00:24:38,177 --> 00:24:39,145 this afternoon. 555 00:24:39,211 --> 00:24:40,346 Good. 556 00:24:40,412 --> 00:24:42,882 ( playing melody ) 557 00:24:42,949 --> 00:24:45,451 You know, I don't believe I've ever appreciated 558 00:24:45,518 --> 00:24:47,787 the resemblance to Pan before. 559 00:24:47,854 --> 00:24:48,821 ( chuckles ) 560 00:24:48,888 --> 00:24:50,289 The Pentatonic Scale. 561 00:24:50,356 --> 00:24:54,493 It's fascinating how a simple set of fractions can come alive. 562 00:24:54,561 --> 00:24:56,629 What do we have here? 563 00:24:56,696 --> 00:24:57,797 Norwegian Willow Flute. 564 00:24:57,864 --> 00:25:00,099 The attendant one-dimensional wave equation 565 00:25:00,166 --> 00:25:02,034 has mesmerizing harmonic properties. 566 00:25:02,101 --> 00:25:02,835 ( plays flute ) 567 00:25:02,902 --> 00:25:05,872 It also makes a very nice noise. 568 00:25:05,938 --> 00:25:09,876 Okay, uh, not to look a gift horse in the mouth, Larry, 569 00:25:09,942 --> 00:25:12,579 but the, uh, the emotional rebound 570 00:25:12,645 --> 00:25:14,681 is, uh, is bordering on manic depressive. 571 00:25:14,747 --> 00:25:17,349 Look, I'm taking solace in the fact that this man 572 00:25:17,416 --> 00:25:18,818 fooled everybody. 573 00:25:18,885 --> 00:25:21,220 So misery loves company. 574 00:25:21,287 --> 00:25:23,422 Well, it also loves bright, new research assistants, 575 00:25:23,489 --> 00:25:24,924 and I actually interviewed 576 00:25:24,991 --> 00:25:27,093 a very promising applicant just today. 577 00:25:27,159 --> 00:25:29,161 There's always another young, brilliant student 578 00:25:29,228 --> 00:25:31,330 coming down the road, isn't there? 579 00:25:31,397 --> 00:25:32,732 Yeah, sure. 580 00:25:32,799 --> 00:25:34,433 I mean, one would hope so, right? 581 00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:35,835 Let me ask you something. 582 00:25:35,902 --> 00:25:39,806 Did you actually think that I 583 00:25:39,872 --> 00:25:41,641 was jealous of Ron Allen? 584 00:25:41,708 --> 00:25:44,711 ( chuckles ): Well, I mean... 585 00:25:44,777 --> 00:25:46,879 Yeah, maybe a scooch. 586 00:25:46,946 --> 00:25:49,616 I'll be honest with you. You weren't exactly wrong. 587 00:25:49,682 --> 00:25:51,283 Not jealous of Ron-- 588 00:25:51,350 --> 00:25:52,919 not specifically... 589 00:25:52,985 --> 00:25:53,986 But? 590 00:25:54,053 --> 00:25:57,523 Well, you know, when I was a 13-year-old freshman, 591 00:25:57,590 --> 00:26:00,727 it wasn't much fun, but it was cool. 592 00:26:00,793 --> 00:26:02,361 Everything I did 593 00:26:02,428 --> 00:26:05,331 was that much more impressive, because of how young I was. 594 00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:06,699 And, you know, it was always, 595 00:26:06,766 --> 00:26:08,300 "If he's able to accomplish that now, 596 00:26:08,367 --> 00:26:12,204 "can you imagine what amazing things he'll accomplish 597 00:26:12,271 --> 00:26:13,640 when he's 25?" 598 00:26:13,706 --> 00:26:15,742 Now I'm 30 years old. 599 00:26:15,808 --> 00:26:17,409 Listen, listen. 600 00:26:17,476 --> 00:26:20,412 Paul Erdich published more than 1500 papers. 601 00:26:20,479 --> 00:26:25,184 He died, literally, at the chalkboard at age 83. 602 00:26:25,251 --> 00:26:26,285 Come on. 603 00:26:26,352 --> 00:26:28,721 You haven't seen your best years yet, Charles. 604 00:26:28,788 --> 00:26:31,557 No, but... 605 00:26:31,624 --> 00:26:34,593 I'll never come ahead of schedule again. 606 00:26:34,661 --> 00:26:37,363 Anyone interested in lunch? 607 00:26:37,429 --> 00:26:40,900 Hey, you know... we never seem 608 00:26:40,967 --> 00:26:43,435 to throw away much from this house, do we? 609 00:26:43,502 --> 00:26:46,072 You know, that was the deal I made with Mom. 610 00:26:46,138 --> 00:26:50,009 She let me quit piano as long as I never quit music entirely. 611 00:26:50,076 --> 00:26:51,778 So you started making your own instruments. 612 00:26:51,844 --> 00:26:53,045 ( chuckles ) 613 00:26:53,112 --> 00:26:55,414 It was a very early sign that parenting Charlie Eppes 614 00:26:55,481 --> 00:26:58,050 would present some very unique challenges. 615 00:26:58,117 --> 00:27:00,920 You know, she must have been so disappointed 616 00:27:00,987 --> 00:27:02,789 that Don and I didn't like the piano. 617 00:27:02,855 --> 00:27:06,158 And I'm thinking that's the reason that she kept 618 00:27:06,225 --> 00:27:08,494 her passion for the piano hidden from us. 619 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,330 No, Charlie, she didn't keep it hidden from you guys. 620 00:27:11,397 --> 00:27:13,265 She kept it hidden from me. 621 00:27:13,332 --> 00:27:14,566 Why do you say that? 622 00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:17,036 You know how your mother and I met? 623 00:27:17,103 --> 00:27:20,372 Sure, you were working for a housing developer 624 00:27:20,439 --> 00:27:21,340 and she was an intern 625 00:27:21,407 --> 00:27:23,209 for a tenants rights organization, right? 626 00:27:23,275 --> 00:27:26,012 Ooh, a latter day Romeo and Juliet story. 627 00:27:26,078 --> 00:27:29,548 You see, um, we decided that I would support her 628 00:27:29,615 --> 00:27:31,217 in her last year of law school 629 00:27:31,283 --> 00:27:33,652 and she would support me through graduate school. 630 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,423 Then she told me that music wasn't really 631 00:27:37,489 --> 00:27:39,692 a serious option for her. 632 00:27:39,759 --> 00:27:42,128 She was too much in love with the law. 633 00:27:46,165 --> 00:27:48,768 Somehow I think I was a little too eager to believe her. 634 00:27:48,835 --> 00:27:53,372 She just didn't want me to know what a hard decision it was. 635 00:27:53,439 --> 00:27:59,211 That she gave up something that she really loved. 636 00:27:59,278 --> 00:28:01,881 LARRY: For something she loved more, Alan. 637 00:28:01,948 --> 00:28:05,217 You can't lose sight of that. 638 00:28:05,284 --> 00:28:08,788 Well... maybe. 639 00:28:10,656 --> 00:28:11,924 About time you guys got here. 640 00:28:11,991 --> 00:28:13,893 This thing's been burning a hole in my warehouse. 641 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,728 Get this thing on the truck. 642 00:28:15,795 --> 00:28:16,729 Come on! 643 00:28:16,796 --> 00:28:18,965 ( sirens wailing ) 644 00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:21,200 You got to be kidding me. 645 00:28:23,069 --> 00:28:24,303 Keep your hands there. 646 00:28:24,370 --> 00:28:25,237 Don't move. FBI. 647 00:28:25,304 --> 00:28:27,206 Against the truck. Hands on your head. 648 00:28:27,273 --> 00:28:28,775 Let's go. 649 00:28:32,078 --> 00:28:33,245 Let me ask you something. 650 00:28:33,312 --> 00:28:35,647 Since when is selling quality electronics 651 00:28:35,714 --> 00:28:37,116 at low prices a federal crime? 652 00:28:37,183 --> 00:28:41,754 Since you started selling Mark V DNA synthesizers. 653 00:28:42,822 --> 00:28:44,690 So your buyer was Cuban. 654 00:28:44,757 --> 00:28:46,826 A Cuban national. 655 00:28:46,893 --> 00:28:48,160 Is that right? 656 00:28:48,227 --> 00:28:50,462 -That's right. -To tell you the truth, 657 00:28:50,529 --> 00:28:52,031 I'm as shocked as you are. 658 00:28:52,098 --> 00:28:54,901 I got you selling a bioterror weapon 659 00:28:54,967 --> 00:28:56,502 to an enemy state. 660 00:28:56,568 --> 00:28:58,037 -Bioterror? -Yeah. 661 00:28:58,104 --> 00:29:01,640 Ah. And I thought it was a photocopier. 662 00:29:01,707 --> 00:29:04,376 We got you. 663 00:29:04,443 --> 00:29:06,178 We got you on tape. 664 00:29:06,245 --> 00:29:11,083 Windham calling you and telling you we were getting close. 665 00:29:11,150 --> 00:29:12,751 Never seen this kid before in my life. 666 00:29:12,819 --> 00:29:15,021 You gonna waste my time here, Gino? 667 00:29:15,087 --> 00:29:17,456 He tipped you off, 668 00:29:17,523 --> 00:29:19,525 only he'd never done a job this big before 669 00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:21,060 so he needed your expertise. 670 00:29:21,127 --> 00:29:22,594 No, no-- I sell electronics, okay? 671 00:29:22,661 --> 00:29:24,563 Yeah, sometimes I don't know where they're coming from 672 00:29:24,630 --> 00:29:27,033 or where they're going, but I don't steal. 673 00:29:27,099 --> 00:29:28,935 Fact-- you set him up with a crew. 674 00:29:29,001 --> 00:29:31,470 Fact-- you sent him to Windham to get the tools. 675 00:29:31,537 --> 00:29:33,772 So what are you talking to me? Go talk to Windham. 676 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,074 Well, selling tools isn't a crime, 677 00:29:35,141 --> 00:29:36,943 but using them is, and in this case 678 00:29:37,009 --> 00:29:38,177 it's a Federal rap-- treason. 679 00:29:38,244 --> 00:29:39,678 That's life in SuperMax. 680 00:29:39,745 --> 00:29:41,347 So you know that little mistake, 681 00:29:41,413 --> 00:29:43,449 that, that thing you've been worried about doing 682 00:29:43,515 --> 00:29:45,117 for the last 15 years? 683 00:29:45,184 --> 00:29:48,387 Well, you made it. You sure made it now, buddy. 684 00:29:55,027 --> 00:29:58,230 I paid Doug Windham, 50 Gs for the damn thing. 685 00:29:58,297 --> 00:30:00,366 I took it out of his shop myself. 686 00:30:00,432 --> 00:30:03,502 So what, you're telling me he stole it? 687 00:30:03,569 --> 00:30:06,072 All I know is Windham's too greedy to help some kid 688 00:30:06,138 --> 00:30:08,107 set up a score and settle for short money. 689 00:30:08,174 --> 00:30:12,078 Now, I can guarantee you, he was his partner 690 00:30:12,144 --> 00:30:14,280 whether he liked that or not. 691 00:30:16,682 --> 00:30:19,585 -FBI! -FBI! 692 00:30:19,651 --> 00:30:20,619 FBI! Let's go! 693 00:30:20,686 --> 00:30:22,188 Take the office. 694 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,196 Hey, David. Come take a look at this. 695 00:30:35,201 --> 00:30:39,171 ( indistinct radio transmission ) 696 00:30:39,238 --> 00:30:40,139 David... 697 00:30:40,206 --> 00:30:42,408 Bullet to the chest, no sign of a fight. 698 00:30:42,474 --> 00:30:45,411 Well, the techs just gave us a fast fingerprint match 699 00:30:45,477 --> 00:30:47,880 to the ones we lifted from Ron Allen's dorm room. 700 00:30:47,947 --> 00:30:49,648 I'm thinking maybe Allen shows up 701 00:30:49,715 --> 00:30:50,983 looking for for his payoff, 702 00:30:51,050 --> 00:30:52,818 has some kind of beef with Windham and wins. 703 00:30:52,885 --> 00:30:55,354 Now he's got maybe 50 grand disappearing money. 704 00:30:55,421 --> 00:30:56,555 Or maybe not. 705 00:30:56,622 --> 00:30:58,891 Foreman says they're missing a portable plasma cutter. 706 00:30:58,958 --> 00:31:00,526 Burns through metal like butter. 707 00:31:00,592 --> 00:31:03,162 They use it to cut though vault doors in case of emergencies. 708 00:31:03,229 --> 00:31:06,098 Sounds like our boy's planning a bigger heist. 709 00:31:10,202 --> 00:31:13,405 So, there are four states of matter-- solid liquid, gas, 710 00:31:13,472 --> 00:31:16,742 and, when you superheat gas... plasma. 711 00:31:16,808 --> 00:31:17,843 Actually, you know what? 712 00:31:17,910 --> 00:31:19,145 There's five, if you consider 713 00:31:19,211 --> 00:31:20,279 Bose-Einstein condensates... 714 00:31:20,346 --> 00:31:23,149 Which we really don't need to consider, right? 715 00:31:23,215 --> 00:31:24,917 ( chuckling ) No, I guess not. 716 00:31:24,984 --> 00:31:27,886 A plasma cutter uses an electrode circuit 717 00:31:27,954 --> 00:31:30,322 to spark a stream of directed plasma-- 718 00:31:30,389 --> 00:31:35,127 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit at 20,000 feet per second. 719 00:31:35,194 --> 00:31:36,862 Now, this particular model can cut ten inches... 720 00:31:36,929 --> 00:31:38,264 All right, all right. 721 00:31:38,330 --> 00:31:40,066 ...of one-inch steel plate in under a minute. 722 00:31:40,132 --> 00:31:41,667 Which means Ron Allen-- whoever he is-- 723 00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:44,536 can walk through just about any door he feels like. 724 00:31:44,603 --> 00:31:46,705 So, the question is, what is the guy after? 725 00:31:46,772 --> 00:31:48,774 I think he's looking to do something spectacular. 726 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,676 Something to save his jilted ego. 727 00:31:50,742 --> 00:31:52,278 I mean, he's being competing against kids 728 00:31:52,344 --> 00:31:54,146 with less experience for nine years. 729 00:31:54,213 --> 00:31:57,016 He knows that's all gonna come out and he's gonna be held up 730 00:31:57,083 --> 00:31:59,418 -to ridicule. -So, he's got to prove to us 731 00:31:59,485 --> 00:32:01,620 that he's not some loser, that he's a genius. 732 00:32:01,687 --> 00:32:02,688 Oh, he's no genius. 733 00:32:02,754 --> 00:32:04,957 He's Wesley Shryer from the suburb of Wheaton, Illinois. 734 00:32:05,024 --> 00:32:07,093 A cop from Wheaton PD recognized him from one 735 00:32:07,159 --> 00:32:08,494 of the older photos we sent out. 736 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,196 They went to high school together. 737 00:32:10,262 --> 00:32:11,597 Cop says, and I quote, 738 00:32:11,663 --> 00:32:13,565 "He was average to the point of forgettable." 739 00:32:13,632 --> 00:32:16,335 -( chuckles ) -Went to community college for two years. 740 00:32:16,402 --> 00:32:19,571 Then he dropped off the face of the Earth after '95. 741 00:32:19,638 --> 00:32:21,707 Whoever he is, we better find him, 742 00:32:21,773 --> 00:32:23,709 before he steps up his game. 743 00:32:23,775 --> 00:32:25,211 LARRY: Fraud or not, 744 00:32:25,277 --> 00:32:28,614 Ron worked on an impressive breadth of research. 745 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,350 Biochemistry, astrophysics, genetics... 746 00:32:31,417 --> 00:32:34,353 Yeah, but doing the same thing over and over again. 747 00:32:34,420 --> 00:32:37,256 Never challenging himself, never reaching... 748 00:32:37,323 --> 00:32:40,259 I'm wondering if I see a little of myself in Ron. 749 00:32:40,326 --> 00:32:41,360 You?! 750 00:32:41,427 --> 00:32:44,496 Well... listen, I can vouch for your academic credentials, 751 00:32:44,563 --> 00:32:47,499 and to the best of my knowledge, you're not homicidal. 752 00:32:47,566 --> 00:32:49,235 I'm talking about living in a bubble. 753 00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:51,737 The safe, comfortable world of academia. 754 00:32:51,803 --> 00:32:55,207 But Charlie, I don't know anyone who challenges himself as 755 00:32:55,274 --> 00:32:56,275 relentlessly as you do. 756 00:32:56,342 --> 00:32:58,844 Yeah, and as far as living in some academic bubble, 757 00:32:58,910 --> 00:32:59,945 I mean, look at us. 758 00:33:00,012 --> 00:33:01,513 We're out in this garage. 759 00:33:01,580 --> 00:33:03,749 We're trying to predict a thief's next target 760 00:33:03,815 --> 00:33:06,885 by connecting experience with-with potential targets. 761 00:33:06,952 --> 00:33:08,154 And we're not there yet. 762 00:33:08,220 --> 00:33:10,122 We need to find a new approach, 763 00:33:10,189 --> 00:33:11,790 a, uh, a shortcut of some sort. 764 00:33:11,857 --> 00:33:16,195 Something like... like Benford's Law. 765 00:33:16,262 --> 00:33:18,264 Benford's Law? 766 00:33:18,330 --> 00:33:20,766 That's a simple probability observation. 767 00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:22,534 No, that's not all it is. 768 00:33:22,601 --> 00:33:28,407 If you take any table of wide-ranging values-- 769 00:33:28,474 --> 00:33:32,078 census data, test results, land mass sizes-- 770 00:33:32,144 --> 00:33:36,282 1 appears as the first digit in more than 30% of the values. 771 00:33:36,348 --> 00:33:39,151 2 appears 17.6%. 772 00:33:39,218 --> 00:33:41,153 3 appears 12.5%. 773 00:33:41,220 --> 00:33:42,554 And so on... 774 00:33:42,621 --> 00:33:44,290 LARRY: You know, the old story goes 775 00:33:44,356 --> 00:33:46,325 that Simon Newcomb discovered it 776 00:33:46,392 --> 00:33:50,129 by flipping through books of logarithm tables. 777 00:33:50,196 --> 00:33:52,030 He discovered that the earlier pages 778 00:33:52,098 --> 00:33:53,699 are more worn than the later ones. 779 00:33:53,765 --> 00:33:56,402 Benford's Law is not about conscious decision making. 780 00:33:56,468 --> 00:33:59,004 It is a statistical phenomenon. 781 00:33:59,071 --> 00:34:00,038 Precisely. 782 00:34:00,106 --> 00:34:02,007 Which is why it's highly unlikely 783 00:34:02,074 --> 00:34:04,476 that Ron Allen spent... 784 00:34:04,543 --> 00:34:07,346 nine years working at a specific theft?! 785 00:34:07,413 --> 00:34:08,814 I mean, after all, the most 786 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,651 valuable machines today didn't even exist nine years ago. 787 00:34:12,718 --> 00:34:13,819 That's right. 788 00:34:13,885 --> 00:34:18,157 Ron's knowledge base would pull him more toward one target 789 00:34:18,224 --> 00:34:18,990 than another. 790 00:34:19,057 --> 00:34:22,594 So, he opens his book of knowledge to a well-worn page 791 00:34:22,661 --> 00:34:24,196 where the spine is already cracked. 792 00:34:24,263 --> 00:34:26,465 University of Hawaii's telescope. 793 00:34:26,532 --> 00:34:28,567 He worked with cosmic gravitation signatures. 794 00:34:28,634 --> 00:34:32,738 Which explains his familiarity with LIGO's raison d'etre. 795 00:34:32,804 --> 00:34:34,806 At Duke, he worked with Beowulf computer clusters... 796 00:34:34,873 --> 00:34:37,576 LIGO has a Beowulf Cluster. 797 00:34:37,643 --> 00:34:39,311 And with MIT's genome project, he 798 00:34:39,378 --> 00:34:41,180 must have come in contact with lasers... 799 00:34:41,247 --> 00:34:42,214 Lasers... 800 00:34:42,281 --> 00:34:44,483 -...photodetectors. -Photodetectors... 801 00:34:44,550 --> 00:34:46,752 LIGO is the well-worn page. 802 00:34:46,818 --> 00:34:48,687 He's gonna rob the LIGO lab. 803 00:34:48,754 --> 00:34:50,489 My LIGO lab?! 804 00:35:05,771 --> 00:35:08,174 All right, come on. 805 00:35:32,464 --> 00:35:34,600 You know, why don't you let me go first, just in case? 806 00:35:34,666 --> 00:35:36,602 No, no, if he has already been in here, 807 00:35:36,668 --> 00:35:38,237 I don't even know if I want to live. 808 00:35:38,304 --> 00:35:40,071 Okay, the computers... 809 00:35:40,138 --> 00:35:42,007 they all seem to be here... 810 00:35:42,073 --> 00:35:43,409 and accounted for. 811 00:35:43,475 --> 00:35:45,477 Of course, the big-ticket items... they're in here. 812 00:35:45,544 --> 00:35:47,646 All right, well, why don't you open that up? 813 00:35:47,713 --> 00:35:49,348 ( beep ) 814 00:35:49,415 --> 00:35:52,484 Laser diodes alone are worth $150,000 apiece. 815 00:35:52,551 --> 00:35:55,454 The sapphires, upwards of half a million. 816 00:35:55,521 --> 00:35:57,356 That's a sapphire? 817 00:35:57,423 --> 00:35:58,490 Invaluable in optics. 818 00:35:58,557 --> 00:36:00,459 You know, bathysphere windows? Those are sapphires. 819 00:36:00,526 --> 00:36:03,962 Now, those are fabricated, but still intensely expensive. 820 00:36:04,029 --> 00:36:05,063 And where's the other one? 821 00:36:05,130 --> 00:36:07,132 Oh, it's down in the LIGO tunnel with the laser. 822 00:36:07,199 --> 00:36:09,768 Okay, uh, so nothing's missing. 823 00:36:09,835 --> 00:36:11,970 No, it would appear we got here first. 824 00:36:12,037 --> 00:36:13,705 That is, if he's coming. 825 00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:22,781 MEGAN: Do you see that? 826 00:36:22,848 --> 00:36:24,616 Don, we've got a suspicious vehicle 827 00:36:24,683 --> 00:36:26,618 parked in the middle of the running track. 828 00:36:26,685 --> 00:36:29,455 Right, well, check it out, and let me know what you see. 829 00:36:31,723 --> 00:36:33,992 What's that running track? Like, a mile from here? 830 00:36:34,059 --> 00:36:36,395 Four kilometers, I would think. 831 00:36:36,462 --> 00:36:38,397 All right, so they're not our guys. 832 00:36:38,464 --> 00:36:42,000 Wait, wait, wait, wait. The LIGO tunnel. 833 00:36:42,067 --> 00:36:42,734 What about it? 834 00:36:42,801 --> 00:36:44,603 Measurements are taken by shooting lasers through 835 00:36:44,670 --> 00:36:47,072 an L-shaped vacuum pipe with four-kilometer arms. 836 00:36:47,138 --> 00:36:49,941 Now, that thing runs directly beneath the running track, 837 00:36:50,008 --> 00:36:51,943 and it bypasses all of our alarm systems. 838 00:36:52,010 --> 00:36:53,845 You just said there's a sapphire in the tunnel. 839 00:36:53,912 --> 00:36:55,881 All right, Megan, that's our guys. Go, go, go! 840 00:36:57,215 --> 00:36:58,350 ( beeps ) 841 00:37:10,662 --> 00:37:12,764 ( distant clatter ) 842 00:37:25,344 --> 00:37:26,712 -FBI! -MEGAN: FBI! Get down on the ground. 843 00:37:26,778 --> 00:37:27,979 -Let me see your hands. -Get down! 844 00:37:32,150 --> 00:37:33,184 Get down. 845 00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:34,853 FBI! Get down on your knees right... 846 00:37:37,489 --> 00:37:39,791 Get down on your knees. 847 00:37:39,858 --> 00:37:42,561 FBI! Get your hands up! 848 00:37:42,628 --> 00:37:44,696 Come on, I got him! 849 00:37:44,763 --> 00:37:45,897 Down! Get down! 850 00:37:51,537 --> 00:37:53,372 Put your hands behind your head. 851 00:37:57,443 --> 00:37:58,610 ( grunts ) 852 00:37:58,677 --> 00:38:01,046 Get your hands on your head. Get your hands on your head! 853 00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:03,949 Face down, right now. 854 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:11,823 I knew I couldn't keep it going anymore. 855 00:38:12,991 --> 00:38:17,195 It got harder and harder to pass for 18. 856 00:38:17,262 --> 00:38:18,930 The more places I worked, the more 857 00:38:18,997 --> 00:38:22,133 I worried I'd run into someone I knew. 858 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:26,938 The scientific community just isn't that big. 859 00:38:27,005 --> 00:38:29,508 The LIGO job was supposed to be my retirement. 860 00:38:29,575 --> 00:38:30,842 So, why steal the synthesizer? 861 00:38:30,909 --> 00:38:33,779 You had to know that was going to bring some attention to you. 862 00:38:33,845 --> 00:38:37,015 I needed the cash to put the heist together. 863 00:38:37,082 --> 00:38:38,550 And I was still on schedule 864 00:38:38,617 --> 00:38:40,786 until you guys tipped to Windham. 865 00:38:40,852 --> 00:38:43,789 And then Windham wanted a piece of the LIGO job, 866 00:38:43,855 --> 00:38:44,790 so you shot him? 867 00:38:44,856 --> 00:38:49,361 Things got crazy, but... it wasn't me. 868 00:38:49,428 --> 00:38:50,529 It was Jackson. 869 00:38:50,596 --> 00:38:52,864 Oh, yes, Ron. 870 00:38:52,931 --> 00:38:55,000 Blame the dead guy. 871 00:38:55,066 --> 00:38:56,768 It's the truth. 872 00:38:56,835 --> 00:38:58,604 You have to know how funny that word sounds 873 00:38:58,670 --> 00:38:59,905 as it comes out of your mouth. 874 00:38:59,971 --> 00:39:03,509 You know, every one of those schools turned down Wes Shryer-- 875 00:39:03,575 --> 00:39:05,677 the B student from the good high school. 876 00:39:05,744 --> 00:39:08,680 They weren't judging me for my merit, 877 00:39:08,747 --> 00:39:11,249 for my ability, for my potential. 878 00:39:11,316 --> 00:39:16,522 They penalized me for not having some hard luck story. 879 00:39:16,588 --> 00:39:19,090 So, you penalized people with real hard luck. 880 00:39:19,157 --> 00:39:23,194 All I did was level the playing field. 881 00:39:23,261 --> 00:39:25,163 Get my fair shot. 882 00:39:25,230 --> 00:39:26,432 Fair? 883 00:39:26,498 --> 00:39:28,534 ( chuckles ) 884 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,570 Spend 18 years dodging gangs... 885 00:39:31,637 --> 00:39:34,105 working to help support your family... 886 00:39:34,172 --> 00:39:38,510 beating every odd out there just to get your high school diploma. 887 00:39:39,545 --> 00:39:40,879 You do that 888 00:39:40,946 --> 00:39:44,650 and you can sit here and talk to me about what's fair. 889 00:39:49,421 --> 00:39:51,590 Hello? 890 00:39:52,991 --> 00:39:54,526 Dad? 891 00:40:13,311 --> 00:40:15,614 ( sounding out notes ) 892 00:40:20,519 --> 00:40:22,053 Dad... 893 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:23,054 I was thinking... 894 00:40:23,121 --> 00:40:25,957 That seems to be your perpetual state, Charlie. 895 00:40:26,024 --> 00:40:28,093 ...about Mom. 896 00:40:30,161 --> 00:40:32,097 Her music... 897 00:40:32,163 --> 00:40:33,164 Yeah... 898 00:40:33,231 --> 00:40:36,902 I've been thinking about that a lot, too, Charlie. 899 00:40:36,968 --> 00:40:41,339 I went through guilt... and anger... 900 00:40:41,406 --> 00:40:44,510 an irrational sense of betrayal... 901 00:40:44,576 --> 00:40:46,645 that she hid this from me. 902 00:40:46,712 --> 00:40:48,747 Dad, I don't think she was hiding it. 903 00:40:48,814 --> 00:40:50,949 Well, not in the way you mean. 904 00:40:51,016 --> 00:40:54,252 You know, I have places that I'd like to go to be alone. 905 00:40:54,319 --> 00:40:56,855 I go hiking. 906 00:40:56,922 --> 00:40:58,156 You go fishing. 907 00:40:58,223 --> 00:41:01,927 Do you think your mother needed to be alone with her music? 908 00:41:01,993 --> 00:41:04,496 It's just part of being human, you know? 909 00:41:04,563 --> 00:41:07,999 To want to find... someplace 910 00:41:08,066 --> 00:41:09,701 solely for yourself. 911 00:41:09,768 --> 00:41:12,904 Whether it be outside in the world 912 00:41:12,971 --> 00:41:14,740 or... 913 00:41:14,806 --> 00:41:18,910 deep inside your head. 914 00:41:18,977 --> 00:41:21,947 ( piano melody plays in distance ) 915 00:41:29,454 --> 00:41:33,391 ( strikes off-key chords ) 916 00:41:33,458 --> 00:41:36,628 ( playing poignant melody ) 917 00:41:50,175 --> 00:41:52,510 * *