.
[dramatic music]
♪
- It's Friday night.
Go home. - You go.
I just want to look at these depositions.
- Juliet, you won.
MTL is gonna have to pay millions
to replace those whatever-they-weres.
- Combustion valves, and they'll appeal.
- Not tonight.
Come on, it's your first weekend off in months.
Go do something fun.
- I am.
For the next two days, I'm gonna stay in my pj's,
order takeout, and binge-watch "Project Runway."
- You're a wild woman.
- What can I say?
[laughs] - Good night.
[rattling]
Oh, hi. Does Miguel have the night off?
- [speaking Spanish]
- Okay, well, have a nice weekend.
[muffled screams]
[tense music]
♪
- Hey, hold it.
♪
Thanks. Have a good evening.
[elevator bell dings]
♪
[gunfire]
[sustained beep]
- Clear the line.
- Down range.
Tight cluster, center mass.
I believe the bet was 20 bucks. Andrew Jackson me.
- No, best two out of three.
- Off your game today. - [sighs]
Yeah, Noah's parents are coming to town.
- Range is hot.
What, you're meeting the folks? That's big.
- [sighs]
I just never meet the parents, you know?
I--I just-- I never take it that far.
- Kick Lanigan has commitment issues, everyone.
- Shh!
What about you, Bishop, huh?
Why do I never hear about your love life?
- 'Cause I never talk about it.
- Maybe that's because you don't have one.
- Well, your first mistake
was letting him know where you live.
- Yeah, you're right. Why did I do that?
[gunfire] - Don't worry.
Just remember you're enough.
[gunfire]
[camera shutter clicking]
[dramatic music]
♪
- 9:45 Friday night, two men made their way
to the seventh floor of a Chicago office building.
They posed as a cleaning crew
and abducted the attorney Juliet Larkin.
- How'd they get past security?
- There's a 24-hour gym on the main floor.
The stairwell was locked, but not alarmed.
Now, Juliet goes into the restroom,
and a minute later...
♪
Juliet never comes out. But look who does.
- The other kidnapper must have been inside the cart.
Somehow they incapacitated her and smuggled her out.
- And they took the service elevator
down to the parking lot.
♪
- They didn't bother to cover their faces.
- [sighs] - Probably counting on the fact
that most people don't pay much attention
to service crew.
Black van. No tags.
- I'll check the surrounding businesses and ATMs.
Maybe another camera picked them up.
Might tell us which way they went.
- Okay, so Juliet's an attorney, right?
Could this be a K and R?
- Ooh, look at Lanigan with the lingo.
- Hey, now, I know a couple things.
- Well, if this is about money, we would have gotten
a ransom demand by now.
Chicago PD is working the case, but a partner at Juliet's firm,
a former U.S. attorney, made a personal call to me.
He wants us to help him out.
- Let's gear up.
[engines whooshing]
- Juliet's a crusader.
She's taken on big pharma, oil companies,
a defense contractor. She's relentless.
- Well, it sounds like she might have made some enemies.
- [sighs] She's had her fair share of hateful emails.
Someone tossed a brick through her bedroom window last year.
- She must have been terrified.
- Not Juliet.
Though I did talk her into adding extra security
at her house.
She's been with us since law school.
She's like family, to be frank.
- Who would know Juliet's patterns?
Her routines? - Her assistant, Patrick.
He's talking to Chicago PD right now.
- Juliet shares credit with everyone.
She's all about the team. She's amazing.
- Excuse me.
Detective Hayes, was it?
This is Frank Novak, FBI.
- Well, when you mentioned calling the FBI,
I assumed you meant the local field office.
- Frank's a friend.
Do you two know each other?
- Yeah. Hey, Trina.
- Wait, is this your Trina?
- She grew up here with her mother.
- Hi, Dad. - Hey.
- John Bishop.
- Trina Hayes.
- It's good to meet you.
I knew Frank had a daughter,
but I didn't know you followed in his footsteps.
- Yeah, well, I like to think that I chose my own path.
- Of course you did.
- Hi, I'm-- - Kit Lanigan.
I know.
- Well, this is a relief.
I remember my days at the U.S. attorney's office,
there was a lot of tension between the local PD and FBI.
But if you guys are working this together...
Or maybe it's better if you take this one, Frank.
- Well, Chicago was first on, so let's pool our resources,
and, uh, we can all work together.
- Okay.
Well, this is Patrick, Juliet's assistant.
He was just telling me that Juliet is here day and night.
- And what about her personal life?
She have a boyfriend or husband?
- No, Juliet hasn't dated in a while.
She pretty much buried herself in her work
ever since her mom died.
- So we'll need Juliet's computer.
We'll start with her case files,
determine if this was, uh, personal or work related.
- Uh, Trina.
I left some messages. I don't know if you got them.
- Yeah, I did.
- Look, Ted called me.
I'm not trying to step on your case.
- Dad, it's okay.
Let's just find this woman.
♪
- No luck with exterior surveillance cameras.
The footage from the office is the best we've got.
- Are you running facial recognition?
- Yep, no hits.
That could just mean these guys don't have a record,
so we're checking DMV files too,
but those we have to run state by state.
- Welcome to the Bat-plane. I'm James.
If you need any help, I'm the resident computer geek.
- I'm good, thanks.
- Seems like you're more tech savvy than your dad.
- I can turn on the TV.
- Anything on Juliet's laptop?
- Uh, some nasty emails.
People are ranting that Juliet was gonna
put their companies out of work.
A few condolences after her mom died.
[cell phone ringing] - They were close.
- Hayes.
♪
What about Gallison or Sale?
No. [sighs]
I'll take it. I'm ten minutes out.
Yeah, I'll meet PD there.
♪
[phone beeps]
A woman got abducted in Brighton Park yesterday.
Just caught the case.
- What about Juliet Larkin?
- I'll have to work both.
Plus two homicides and a strong-arm robbery.
I don't have the luxury of working one case at a time.
- [chuckles] - Besides, I'm worried
that this other victim might fall through the cracks.
She's an immigrant from Mexico.
- Why don't we help?
- It's okay. I can manage.
- Well, you should stay on Larkin.
You've done the legwork.
Keep the continuity. It's better for the case.
But I'd like to take the new one.
- Okay, well, why don't you let us lighten your load?
- Sure you can spare the manpower?
- A lot more than Chicago PD can.
All right, so you and Kennedy are going to Brighton Park.
- How's your Spanish?
- TrÃ¨s bien.
- Yeah, I'll do the talking. - [laughs]
Good luck.
♪
- All right, I guess it's just us, then.
- Okay.
- I'll show you the footage from our security cameras.
- Pretty sad that a church has to worry about security.
- [chuckles] Last Christmas,
someone stole the baby Jesus
right out of the manger.
- How well do you know the victim?
- Maria Cruz.
She's here every Sunday.
She attends Mass and then lights a prayer candle.
- Any idea who she was praying for?
- Uh, a loved one who died.
That's all she told me.
She's a modest woman.
Moved here from Mexico about a year ago.
I believe she works in a retirement home.
- She has no family?
- No, no family here.
Several of the parishioners saw what happened,
but they didn't call the police.
- Scared of being deported?
♪
- There's Maria. Watch.
♪
- No plates. May I?
♪
- Those are the same men who took Juliet Larkin.
- Our two abduction cases just became one.
♪
.
- Maria Cruz. Juliet Larkin.
Two women from completely different worlds
abducted by the same men a couple of days apart.
- Why these two women? What connects them?
- Besides both being single and both living alone,
these two really don't have much in common at all.
- Juliet always fought for the underdog.
Maybe Maria was one of her clients.
- What about the case files?
- We've gotten through the active ones from the last year.
- I want you to go back to the office.
I want you to dig deeper.
Bishop, you and Kennedy,
you're gonna go to Maria's house.
You're gonna look around.
Maybe if we can find the connection
to these two women,
we can figure out who took them.
♪
- Bible, a few pots and pans.
- A couple outfits in the closet.
- Maria made the most of what she has.
It kind of reminds me of my...
Abuela Teresita's place in Panama.
[chuckles]
- Oh, are you from Panama?
- Oh, my father.
He was with the Army Corps of Engineers
stationed in the Canal Zone. - Ah.
- My mother worked on base.
We moved to the States when, um...
My brother and I were five.
[suspenseful music]
♪
- Wedding rings.
They look happy.
- Well, Father Beiler said
Maria lights a candle
for a loved one who died.
♪
- Hmm. Cell phone.
Looks like a burner.
- Well, she would have had her cell when she was taken.
That's got to be a backup.
We'll see if James can get anything off of it.
- Uh... [chuckles]
♪
There's a few grand here.
♪
[groans] - Wait, wait, lift this up.
Hello. - [chuckles]
♪
- Loaded.
- Okay, so...
a burner phone, hidden cash,
and a loaded gun.
Maria just got complicated.
♪
- So I was wondering about your last name.
- Hayes is my mom's maiden name.
I took it when I became a cop.
- How come?
- Well, Novak is a pretty big name in law enforcement.
- So you wanted to make it on your own?
- Yeah, I worked my tail off to make detective.
Nobody handed me a spot on the team.
- Nobody handed me anything.
[chuckles]
Um, look.
Maybe I'm not trained like you,
and maybe I'm still figuring out how all this stuff works,
but why people take other people,
that I know.
And that I earned.
- Look, I'm not trying to question what you went through.
- Then don't.
- I'd rather take a bullet than end up in a place like this.
- Aw, they have bingo on Tuesdays.
[soothing music playing]
- Can I help you?
- Hi, Ana.
We're here about one of your employees, Maria Cruz.
- I'll get Brenda.
- Mm.
Still got the touch with the ladies.
- She liked me.
- There's someone here to see you.
- Okay.
♪
- [clears throat] - Hi.
I'm Brenda Moran. I'm the manager.
I've got all their papers right here.
- Papers?
- I can assure you they're all legal.
Even the cleaning folks.
Ana said you were here about a Maria.
We've got a few of those.
- You know, Miss Moran, uh,
Maria Cruz was abducted yesterday.
- Oh, my gosh. That's terrible.
- Uh, what can you tell us about her?
- Uh, she kept to herself mostly.
The residents all love her. I know that.
Otherwise, all I know is what's here in these papers.
You're welcome to go through them.
Uh, I'll be right in my office if you need anything.
- Okay.
[dramatic music]
♪
- Immigration papers.
Most of these look bogus.
Probably bought from a street broker.
- This is Maria's.
♪
- Hers look legit.
♪
She has a valid work visa.
- Those are really hard to get.
- Especially for unskilled labor.
Yeah, it took my mom years, and she had a teaching degree
and an American husband in the military.
And you can get these things expedited,
but it takes a lawyer.
- A lawyer with connections.
- No, we haven't found anything yet.
What?
Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.
Let me call you back.
[phone beeps]
Okay, so Bishop thinks that Juliet helped Maria
get her work visa.
- We haven't seen any immigration cases.
When was this?
- He said it was over a year ago.
- Here, try these.
- What's that?
- They're Juliet's pro bono cases.
- That would make sense.
Maria didn't have a lot of money.
- Okay, let's divide and conquer.
- All right.
- Maria Cruz.
Bishop was right.
Juliet helped Maria get her work visa.
- That explains why she wasn't in our system.
Pro bono clients all share the same billing number.
- So now we know how our victims are connected.
[cell phone rings]
It's my watch commander.
[phone beeps]
Hey, Glen.
When?
♪
Okay, I'll see you there.
[phone beeps]
Some joggers just found a body outside of town.
It's Juliet.
♪
.
[siren wailing distantly]
- CSI estimates that Juliet's been dead over 24 hours.
Her throat was cut.
She bled out in minutes.
- At least it was quick.
- Not exactly.
- She was tortured? - Yeah.
- Sexual assault? - No.
- They were looking for something else.
- Or someone.
Think about the timeline.
Juliet was abducted Friday, tortured Saturday,
and killed sometime Sunday morning.
Right after that, they took Maria.
- They took Juliet to get to Maria.
- Yeah, but why?
- If your theory's correct,
Juliet held out under torture for a whole day
to protect Maria.
That's one hell of a dedicated lawyer.
- Yeah, Maria and Juliet have something else in common.
It's something more than just that visa.
[dramatic music]
♪
[knocks]
- Hola.
- I'll get Brenda.
- Actually, Ana,
I would like to talk to you.
I saw your papers in the file.
You're from Colombia.
I'm from Panama. Somos vecinos.
- Please, my children are here.
I--I can't get sent back.
- Mi amiga,no one is sending you back.
Now, have a seat.
Mira, Ana,
necesito información.
You and Maria are friends, right?
- She's a wonderful person.
- Well, another woman was kidnapped.
A Juliet Larkin. - I saw it on the news.
- Is she Maria's friend, too?
- Maria took care of her mother when she was sick.
They became very close.
When la vieja died, Juliet offered Maria a job,
but Maria loved taking care of people.
So she came to work here.
Still, Juliet would send Maria cash for the rent.
♪
- The cash we found in Maria's apartment was from Juliet.
Maria was her mother's live-in nurse.
- Maybe the neighbors know something.
- Yeah, send us the address. We'll check it out.
- Sorry, I don't recognize her.
- Okay, sir, could you take another look?
♪
- I'm sorry, no.
- Okay, great. Thank you.
- Well, that was helpful.
It's like Maria was invisible.
- Yeah, Bishop said that most people
don't even notice service workers.
Maybe this guy knows something.
♪
- Hola.
Habla inglés?
- Sorry. No--no habla.
- Really? 'Cause your sign's in English.
- Look, I--I don't want any trouble.
- Why would there be trouble?
- No reason.
- Do you recognize this woman?
She worked for the old lady across the street.
- Sorry, can't help you.
- Hmm.
Sir, do you mind taking off your glasses for me?
♪
- [sighs]
♪
- Who did that to you?
- Two guys.
They came here last week, and they asked me
if I knew Maria.
I told them yes, and they pulled me into their car
and took me around the block.
And they wanted to know where Maria lives.
And I didn't know.
We'd chat when she'd walk the old lady around the block,
but that's it.
- So you told them
that Mrs. Larkin's daughter might know.
♪
- Is this them?
♪
Sunglasses and a sun hat.
Pretty redundant. - Mm.
- Nice spot.
- It was actually his demeanor.
Pretty good at telling when somebody's hiding something.
♪
- I'm sorry about what I said earlier.
What you've been through,
what you've done with your life--
you earned your spot on that team.
- No, it's--it's fine.
It's...
we're good.
- I got to say, I was determined not to like you.
- [chuckles] Why?
- You have a better relationship
with my dad than I do.
♪
He was gone pretty much my entire childhood.
He was always on a case.
He was always...
looking for someone else's kid.
It's pretty juvenile, huh?
Being jealous of an abducted kid.
- Yeah, no, it's...
I mean, I-- I barely knew my dad.
I was six when I was taken, and then...
He died a couple months after I got back.
- Man, that must have been brutal.
- Yeah, but your dad
really helped me turn it all around.
- And you never resented him,
even after what happened with him and your mom?
- What happened with him and my mom?
♪
- Uh-- - What happened with him
and my mom?
- [sighs]
- Trina, tell me, please.
- Um...
They had an affair, Kit.
♪
Right after my dad found you.
♪
I am so sorry.
I--I thought you knew that.
♪
.
- So I downloaded a bunch of messages
from Maria's cell phone, but they're all in Spanish.
- What are you looking at me for?
I got a D in Spanish.
- Yeah, I only speak telenovela--I can say
"Tormenta de Secretos," but that's about it.
- That was pretty awful. - Thank you.
- It's mostly family stuff.
You know, talking to relatives, her friend Ana.
There's no last names.
Máquina.
- What's that?
- It's slang for "car."
It's used throughout Latin America,
but not really in Mexico.
Now, does Maria have an outgoing voicemail message?
- Uh, yeah. I'll play it for you.
[beeps]
[Maria speaking Spanish]
- You hear that? She's swallowing her S's.
- Well, I'll take your word for it, but what does it mean?
- It means Maria's likely not from Mexico.
Look, she sounds Central American.
My best guess, on the Caribbean side.
Costa Rica, Honduras.
- Why would she lie about where she came from?
- That's a good question.
- Maybe she was running from something.
Something that followed her here.
Those guys.
We did facial recognition on them in the U.S.
Let's run it through Interpol.
Latin American databases.
♪
Hey, how did it g--
♪
Any luck?
- We talked to the gardener that works across the street
from Juliet's mother's house.
Last week, our kidnapper shook him down.
They were looking for Maria,
and he sent them in Juliet's direction.
- Our hunch was right.
These guys kidnapped Juliet to get to Maria.
- Yeah.
- Um...
everything all right?
- Well, I hate to break it to you,
but, um...
I told her about you and her mom.
I'm sorry. I thought she knew.
And, by the way, she should have.
♪
- You know, when she got back home,
she was an emotional wreck.
♪
I just...
I didn't want to pile on.
- Yeah, you saved that for me and mom.
♪
- Your mom was right to leave me.
♪
And I get it if you hate me.
- I hate you so much,
I've spent my whole life trying to impress you.
♪
Why is that?
♪
[jazz music]
♪
[water splashing gently]
♪
[line trilling]
- Hey, Marguerite?
It's Neil.
How's he feeling today?
♪
Uh-huh. Yeah.
[sighs] How are his spirits?
All right.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Well,
tell him...
to watch the news tonight.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
♪
Yeah, he's gonna be real proud of me.
♪
- Our kidnappers weren't in the U.S. database
because they're not from the U.S.
- Carlos Salazar and Luis Rojas,
enforcers for the Delgado crime family
out of San Jose, Costa Rica.
Drugs, money laundering, murder for hire.
- They're also implicated
in several politically motivated killings.
- So how would Maria get mixed up with these guys?
- Well, that's the piece we don't have yet.
We know who took Maria, but not why.
- Maybe it's because she's not Maria.
I've been going through Juliet Larkin's phone logs.
Her system reported a name and number
for every incoming call.
Now, here's Maria's name and number
from six months ago,
but go back another six months--
- A woman named Sofia Espinoza called.
- Yep, from the same number.
- Espinoza.
Didn't we come across that name?
- Ernesto Espinoza, yeah.
[keys clacking]
[computer beeping]
Uh, okay, here we go.
Um, he was an undercover cop out of Costa Rica.
Murdered along with two of his colleagues.
Crimes linked to the Delgado family.
Charges never filed.
- Well, can you find a picture for him?
♪
[computer beeps]
♪
Look familiar?
- So Ernesto Espinoza was Maria's husband,
and the Delgados killed him.
♪
- So why are they after Maria?
- Okay, I got it. Thanks, Dan.
[phone beeps]
Okay, everyone, listen up.
That was my friend from the DEA.
The head of the Delgado crime family, Hector,
was murdered in his villa last year.
He was poisoned.
- It's believed the perpetrator was his kid's nanny.
- Maria?
- Yeah, the DEA thinks Maria assumed a false identity,
insinuated her way into the Delgado household.
- And killed the man that killed her husband.
- Right.
- Well, Maria must have told Juliet who she really was.
Juliet helped her stay hidden,
got her a visa under an assumed name.
- If this is about revenge,
why didn't we find Maria's body next to Juliet's?
- Because this is personal to the Delgados.
Look, when Hector was killed, his wife Isabel took over.
She's supposed to be even more ruthless than her husband.
- My contact said that Isabel felt betrayed
because she hired Maria as a nanny.
- She's gonna do it herself.
These guys are saving Maria for Isabel.
- James, get me the flight manifest,
FAA tracking info.
♪
- Uh, okay.
Here are all the flights, public and private,
from Costa Rica to Chicago.
♪
Yeah, Isabel Delgado boarded a private plane
bound for O'Hare from San Jose today.
- What time does she land?
- 20 minutes ago.
♪
- Take me to her.
.
- We're heading south on I-94.
- With you. You got them?
- Okay, I'm coming on the off ramp.
♪
- You guys still got her?
- After they left O'Hare, they jumped onto
the Tri-State Tollway.
We're on their system now.
- Come on, Escalade.
♪
James.
- Uh, exit 19. Tower Road.
They're minutes ahead of you.
[tense music]
♪
- [gasps]
- Put a light on her.
I want to see her face.
♪
Not a scratch.
- [sobs]
- The road you're on dead-ends near a warehouse.
You should see the black van up ahead.
- Bishop.
- There's a black van.
♪
Let's go.
[guns clicking]
♪
- [crying]
♪
- [whispering] Go around the side, cover me,
and then follow me to the rear.
♪
- I grew up a few hours from here.
Little town called Virden.
Coal mining town.
Turned 18, got the hell out.
♪
Got all the way to Florida.
♪
It wasn't far enough.
♪
Friends said, uh, Costa Rica was nice.
I ended up waiting tables at this beach bar.
♪
[glass clinking outside]
One day, this guy walks in.
- [grunts]
- He says, "Tell the boss you quit."
"You're getting married."
I said, "To who?"
[laughs]
He said, "Who do you think?"
Ah, he was so damn cocky.
♪
And beautiful.
♪
He had this little speedboat.
♪
We went for a ride, and I never got off.
♪
What Hector built...
What we built together.
A business.
A family.
- [whimpers]
- Maria.
You took that from me
when you poisoned him.
♪
- [crying]
- Recognize this?
♪
I used it to shave him every morning for 16 years.
- [crying]
- FBI!
Drop the knife! Drop it!
♪
[gunfire]
♪
[gunfire]
- [grunts]
♪
- My name's Kick. I'm with the FBI.
- [screams]
[razor slashing] - [screams]
[both grunting]
[gunfire]
- [grunts]
♪
[gunfire]
- [grunts]
♪
[gunfire]
- [grunting]
♪
- [speaking Spanish] - Yes, yes.
- [speaking Spanish] - Thank you, thank you.
[sirens wailing]
[both speaking Spanish]
♪
- [speaking Spanish]
♪
[speaking Spanish]
Hey, take good care of her, huh?
♪
- So those messages you left.
Why'd you call?
- Wanted to see how you were doing.
Check in on you.
- You lost a bet to Dutch, didn't you?
♪
- Yeah.
Yeah, I, uh,
stopped going to Mass, and..
He talked me back into it.
I'd sort of let it go.
There's a lot I've let go of that I regret.
- Yeah, you should.
But I'm glad you called.
- Hey, Trina.
You're a hell of a cop.
Maybe we should do this again sometime.
- Yeah, maybe.
♪
- Your mom and I got swept up in something.
Lasted just a couple of weeks.
You had just gotten home.
Everything that you had gone through...
how could I tell you?
And your dad.
He took off. - Right.
Which for the last 15 years, I thought was my fault.
- Oh, Kick, I-- I didn't know that.
- Yeah, well, maybe you should have.
- [sighs]
♪
- So why did he leave, then?
- I don't know.
♪
- You know, you were the only person I trusted.
♪
- I'm really sorry.
♪
[sighs]
I'm really sorry for everything.
- [sniffles]
♪
- [sighs]
♪
- Just give her some time.
She'll be okay.
♪
- Uh, you guys?
- Well, it has been 20 years...
- You need to see this.
- Since we were captivated by her harrowing,
heartbreaking tale, and now comes news of this.
Famed child abductee Kit Lanigan
is apparently working with the FBI.
A redemption story that all of America
will want to know more about.
Now, if you can remember at the 15-year anniversary
of Lanigan's rescue, she was back in the news,
but this time for assaulting a journalist.
♪
- [exhales]
♪