6 Hours Missing
The girl is 16 year old Kelly Cochrane (Angela Goethals) and her counsellor is 26 year old Luisa Cruz (Iyari Limon). Tyre tracks are found nearby and Danny (Enrique Murciano) tells Viv (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) whoever took them was staking out the campsite and got his chance, driving up to the site. There were two males as there are four sets of footprints. The Camero was nearby. Viv gives a statement to the press whilst Jack (Anthonly LaPaglia) watches his daughters sleep.
The instructor had been working with Kelly for 6 months she got Retinitis Pigmentosa a year ago. Kelly’s father says a light blue Camero dropped Kelly off.
3pm-6pm…
8 Hours Missing
Danny finds white paint on a pole at the site near the tent. The kidnapper backed onto it. The tyre is a Michelin and belongs to a Ford Panel van. Jack tells his daughters he’s not going with them as he has to take care of work. Hannah (Vanessa Marano) says they’re getting divorced.
9 Hours Missing
Trent Barker, (Chris Owen III) the waiter missed his shift. He was Employee of the month and never missed a shift.
10 Hours Missing
Sam (Poppy Montgomery) and Martin (Eric Close) call at Trent’s house. Martin feigns the need to use the bathroom and checks out his room. He finds sketches of Kelly in a book. Sam distracts his mother by telling her she’d like some tea and Martin had a bout of food poisoning last night.
Martin defies Viv every opportunity he can. Saying they have to save Kelly firstly and foremostly. Jack’s lawyer berates him for letting Maria (Talia Balsam) take his daughters with her. Custody cases are difficult. This is exactly how Maria wanted it springing the divorce on him the night before. There are multiple calls to her divorce attorney on the phone bill.
13 Hours Missing
Danny finds the Pennsylvania authorities saw a white panel van at the Toll stop between 3-330am on the Strasbourg Exit to the Poconos. Kelly escapes and runs into a red van on the road. Which left her at the ER.
Jack says Maria wants sole custody. Her attorney was called 6 times in the past month. Jack gave his job away to a friend. He doesn’t want his daughters in Chicago: they grew up here, have friends and family here and their grandfather. His lawyer tells him all this doesn’t matter unless he gets his job back.
15 Hours missing
Luisa was attacked and had her leg broken. They drove to a cabin in the woods. One was smoking pot and passed out whilst the other one left. Kelly untied herself and Luisa made her go. She didn’t recognize any of the voices. She remembers Trent, she gave him a hard time before she lost her sight now she’s being punished for being mean.
16 Hours Missing
Martin spots Trent at work. The van in the parking lot at Hardigan’s is registered to Lott (Matthew Boylan) Trent denies everything. Danny tells him Kelly identified him because she knows his voice. Viv suggest Kelly should talk to Trent so he’ll come clean. They’ve been working him for over an hour and he hasn’t talked yet, they’re running out of time. Martin tells him his mother’s on the phone. Kelly talks to him and he asks for a lawyer. Jack watches Viv’s interview on the news.
17 Hours Missing
Jack calls Viv at the hospital, he’s still in New York. Martin defies Viv again and drags Danny down with him. He questions Trent without his lawyer and tells him he’ll make a good defendant on TV and when they look into his life story, they’ll turn him into a freak. Trent wanted Kelly, Martin’s been there too and knows the feeling. Trent admits he wanted her. She stopped coming and then returned one day. He dropped his tray and he showed her to her table. That was the first time she was nice to him and she didn’t even remember him. Lott planned it all since she wouldn’t be able to identify them. He broke Luisa’s leg in the car door and owns the cabin. Viv is angry at Martin for talking to him without his lawyer. He says he got results.
Viv tells Sam that Kelly can show them the way to the cabin. Kelly heard a drill or a saw and went towards the noise so the cabin is in the opposite direction. The helicopter spots the cabin from the air. Lott is gone and has taken Luisa with him. He’s shot and leaves Luisa behind.
Viv reprimands Martin and Danny as they can’t bring a case against Trent. He didn’t tell her what they were doing so she could deny it. She sends them both home and tells them if they’d have asked her, she’d have considered their request.
Sam and Martin aim to continue where they left off this morning. He goes ahead. Jack watches Viv in the office putting up her FBI plaque.
Danny: “Pretty blind, white girl goes missing from the woods – there’ll be a lot more where that came from.” The press always jumps onto the band wagon when a white girl goes missing. Echoes of CSI:Miami here season 2 where Delko made the same comment about the press only being concerned by a blonde haired blue eyed girl going missing and the missing Hispanic girl didn’t even make the papers or TV. At the end Horatio tells the reporter to concentrate on the other girls too.
Viv: “I’m Special Agent Vivian Johnson. I’m in charge here.” You know as soon as she’s said that it’s not going to last.
Jack watches his daughters asleep again reminiscent of the season 1 finale when he went back home and this time they’re leaving him. The TV reporter files her story with Danny in the background, re future cases involving him going undercover. An unintentional pun she says “…have FBI stumped.” When Danny is examining the pole with the paint!
Notice Sam drinking tea from an empty cup. Martin getting food poisoning when he didn’t even eat the night before, as we’re sure food was the furthermost thing from their minds!
Martin: “first priority is to save the girl.”
Viv: “Obviously, Martin.” (!)
Jack: “This is not premeditated, I think I know my wife that much.” On the contrary he doesn’t. But we could tell as soon as Maria told him about her promotion that she was being evasive and didn’t want him with her. Jack: “She was planning it.”
Jack: “Baptism by fire. You guys are all over the news.” Not a good thing. Also when will they stop using mobile phones in the hospital.
Martin: “sitting here with our thumbs up our asses.”
Danny: “He’s lawyered up.”
Martin: “If Jack were here right now, we wouldn’t think twice. He’d be the first one through that door.” Martin never learns and now he’s inciting mutiny in the ranks too. Well, Jack’s not here and I’m sure if he was he’d have reprimanded him too. Shame on Danny for going along with him; okay shame on the writers!
Danny: “Tabloids – big suckin’”
Sam asking how Kelly can show them where she was? Wrong choice of words and not very tactful.
Martin: “We were willing to risk the conviction in order to save the girl.”
Viv: “Oh and it was your call to make?”
Danny : “No it wasn’t.”
Viv: “Why didn’t you tell me what you were doing?”
Martin: “Because we wanted you to have deniability in case it went bad.”
Viv: “You were protecting me.”
Danny: “It was wrong.” Martin and his use of ‘we.’ Martin makes sexist comments about Viv and her ability to do the job alluding to how Jack would’ve handled the situation and reacted. He really doesn’t like taking orders from a woman, that’s the impression he gave. Either that or he likes getting into trouble with the boss. So he’s like his father in that respect. Didn’t like the way Danny just went along with him, hence Viv’s surprise, she would’ve expected better of him, loyalty just as he is to Jack. Me thinks he would’ve pt up more of an argument such as in Season 1 where he played ‘bad cop’ much to Martin’s chagrin who told him to inform him next time Danny does that. Not even being talked into something can't believe he could so easily be talked into going along with Martin against Viv.
Have to do the job and fast but there are rules and procedures that have to be adhered to, other than just jeopardizing the conviction, Trent could’ve been just as guilty as the other guy and could’ve been lying all along. If Luisa had turned up dead that’s a murder he could’ve gotten away with.
Jack, Jack, Jack, don’t you monitor your daughters, they could be making premium phone calls, not to mention talking to strangers or chat lines. So he obviously didn’t pay the phone bill. This was a bit silly since he’d notice discrepancies when on a case but not when it’s happening right under his nose. Don’t say it was because he was never home!
Didn’t the writers make Viv out to be an ineffective leader – like she needed Jack or a man to hold her hand and guide her through an investigation – aka the blind girl.
Martin acting like he was the boss and ordering everyone about. He is every bit like his father (in some respects) though he tries to make out he isn’t. ‘Let’s do this, let’s do what Jack would do’ and he had no respect for authority either; even after Jack’s admonished him in the past for his hasty, over zealous actions. Not to mention his sexist remark, i.e. Jack wouldn’t sit around on his ass. Or have them sitting on theirs.
I didn’t like the scene where he made Danny go along with questioning the suspect, Trent without his lawyer. That made Danny look rather weak – whereas in the past the writers would’ve made him argue about whether it’s the right thing to do; or they shouldn’t be doing that because they wouldn’t be able to charge him with anything and in the past he’d have protested.
(A bit of sloppy continuity and character development.)
When Viv reprimanded them and Martin said he was protecting her by not telling her, i.e. he just didn’t ask her permission first; it felt like he was almost getting payback for Viv protecting him in season 2 episode 6. She was disgusted with Danny and rightly too, as she would’ve expected some sort of betrayal from Martin but better from Danny. Well maybe betrayal is a bit harsh, but if things had gone wrong she’d have to take responsibility for her team.
Viv would’ve made a good leader for at least another few episodes. She didn’t even get a chance to warm her seat in her new office. No wonder she didn’t unpack her things when she was turfed out. Five episodes in and her desk is still devoid of personal effects. Sam asking Viv if she’s okay whilst secretly eyeing Jack.
Funny moment: Danny finding that piece of evidence, the paint on the pole and the reporter standing in front of him and ,er, reporting. Now he’s been on TV too and so has Viv so it’ll be a little difficult for them to go undercover.
Viv gets the domestic cases – Danny seems to have an affinity with teens, children and those victims who are hard done by so he should’ve interrogated Trent.
Notice Danny remove his jacket to question that pro – he doesn’t usually remove items of clothing (!) to do this.
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