1 Hour Missing
Jack checks out the limo. The driver, Tony Marcus was taken to hospital after being beaten up. The missing girl was Chelsea Prince (Sofia Sokalov) the publishing heiress. The driver called for help on the Onstar system. On this he claims to being attacked by a lot of people, the window is smashed and one puts a gun to their head. Jack )Anthony Lapaglia) says it sounds like a contract. Sam (Poppy Montgomery) comments she was worth half a billion dollars.
2 Hours Missing
Her publicist, Liz Murray (Kali Rocha) isn’t sure what happened. Everyone knew Chelsea would be here. She was promoting their new make-up line, Gliteratti. Chelsea didn’t attend the birthday party. She sold her apartment and was living out of hotels. Martin (Eric Close) asks if she had a boyfriend. She was seeing Mansoor (Marc Casabani) for a few months. He’s married and owns various nightclubs in New York.
Chelsea taped the two of them together and he wanted the tape from her, if it got out it would ruin him. He tells her people only hang out with her because she’s famous. He’s married to millions. Chelsea didn’t have any security since last week.
Danny (Enrique Murciano) talks with the man (Gregory Hinton) in charge of her security. He was hired by her parents in 1989 as a private consultant. Her parents died in a plane crash. Danny asks him if she could have done this for publicity. He doesn’t believe so. Liz only had Chelsea as a client. He also asks about obsessed fans and stalkers. They brought in truckloads of fan mail.
12 Hours Missing
Chelsea’s finance manager tells Jack they have $200,000 million for a ransom demand. Chelsea was in her uncle’s custody until she’d be 18 but he didn’t pay attention to her. He’s also dead. She used to do drugs. Chelsea wanted money from Roberta, $100,000 and said it was important. She gave it to her. Jack asks if she’s being blackmailed. Roberta says no but she’s been spoilt.
13 Hours Missing
Viv (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) reads magazines and fan mail. The financial records of her driver don’t reveal anything. Viv finds it unbelievable how Chelsea is idolized by so many young girls. Martin comments it’s because she’s rich and beautiful. Viv says she’s famous for being rich and beautiful.
Martin notices the live feed on the TV news showing Chelsea tied up. The files on the Net were sent 15 minutes ago. Her kidnapper has her saying a message:
"My name is Chelsea Prince and I don’t deserve to live – I’ve done nothing in my life, created nothing or accomplished nothing. I’m only here now because I don’t exist unless I’m on camera."
Martin says the file was sent through an anonymous account running through a server in Ukraine. They have other problems to deal with and so won’t be of help. Jack notices asbestos so she’s in an old building, pre 1970’s. She’s still wearing her ring which is worth $2 million. The tech notices a pulsating light but doesn’t know what it is. Jack comments this isn’t a professional kidnapping. Martin calls it a personal vendetta.
Danny questions Mansoor and asks who kidnapped her? He says she’s bad for society and bad for his marriage. A few days later, Chelsea gave him the tape. She told him to take her word there weren’t any copies. She told him something happened today. He recalls the date was Friday 28th January.
15 Hours Missing
Sam says she was at a book signing on the 28th, for her book, Looking Like A princess: A Girl’s Guide to Make-Up. Viv can’t believe she also has a book out.
16 Hours Missing
The girl at the bookshop tells Danny and Sam that Chelsea was 2 hours late. Scott (Keram Malicki-Sanchez) says a weird man spoke to her. He showed her a photo of a girl, his sister. Chelsea never answered her letter so she committed suicide by slitting her wrists. He gave her copies of letters to read and asks if the girls there have heard of Maya Angelou or the Brontes and not every girl can look like Chelsea. So what happens then? Danny checks Chelsea’s hotel room for the letters.
17 Hours Missing
Sam sees Viv taking pills and asks her if she’s found any letters from a desperate 12 year old. She says she’s found hundreds and thousands. Martin shows them a web site posting:
Chelsea Prince
Should Live or die
Deadline 09:00Am
Time Remaining 19:55.
They should make an informed decision by clicking onto clips from her life. Viv comments the exploits of her life aren’t her best moments. Martin says it could be the man from the bookstore seeking revenge, “an eye for an eye.” They come in twos, such as Leopold and Loeb. The tally begins:
Die 59% Live 49%
Sam says she's losing.
18 Hours Missing
Liz gives a press conference telling everyone she’s a real persona and she’s good.. Jack wants her to stop. Danny and Jack question the driver. He can’t think of anyone who’d want to kidnap her. Danny asks how many knew her itinerary. The two of them and her security. He blacked out. Danny replies he doesn’t recall how many there were. He says they were wearing masks and was in and out, he doesn’t recognize the bookstore man. Jack tells him he was attacked by one man.
Viv tells Liz only family members are allowed to make a plea in public. She couldn’t let this happen. Martin says they’re working on a programme where they can rig the voting and Liz asks why all the young girls aren’t voting? She tells them when Chelsea get back to the car she was acting strangely. She didn’t want to go the party and wanted out of this life. She blames herself for what happened. Liz asks Chelsea “where’s the party girl?” She wanted to do something different 4 days ago.
Danny tells Sam about a letter she received from a school girl thanking her for reading to them. Danny says she received letters from a South Bronx school within the last 2 weeks. Sam thinks maybe the dead girl went to school there.
19 Hours Missing
Her former sixth grade teacher, Mrs MacPherson, at the Phillips Academy tells them she was here yesterday. She tells themChelsea she wasn’t a brat. Chelsea gave $100,000 to the girl’s brother by way of an apology. He was angry and called it “blood money”. She left it in the mailbox. Chelsea gave her the letters so she could help other girls like her. She suggested Chelsea should read to them as they idolize her.
23 Hours Missing
The voice on the Net asks her if she’s ever done anything of value and worthy of fame? She doesn’t know. Viv tells Martin there won’t be a live feed until her execution. Sam calls Jack to tell him the dead girl’s name was Stacey Reinecker form Albany. The name Reinecker rings a bell for Viv. The driver called a Doug Reinecker (Joshua Harto) 2 days ago. The sketch matches his photo.
24 Hours Missing
The driver tells Danny and Jack Doug planned this, he’d ask for a ransom and they’d share it. He followed him and gave him the $10,000. In return he told them where they’d be. Doug told him about Stacey and he wanted to make things right. He didn’t want to know where Doug would take Chelsea.
36 Hours Missing
Sam wonders how the votes are swinging back so fast. Danny asks if anyone knows what the real count is. Viv says someone is fixing it. Danny suggests it could be the kidnapper. Sam asks why he doesn’t just kill her? Danny replies he needs justification. They narrow the votes down to Albany County with a population of about 200,000. 76% are in favour of death. Danny says there’s a total of 427,000 votes all coming from the same place; Microjava Internet Café.
ALBANY, NEW YORK
37 Hours Missing
They show Doug’s photo around the café. Viv says there’s a wireless connection to an unknown source. Jack tells them they’re looking for a building pre 1970’s, which are most of them there. Sam calls him and tells him the final score: Die 56% and Live 44%. He’s killing her. She tells him there’s a fan behind her, a window fan. He cuts her wrists. They find a fan in the window of one of the buildings and search it. Viv keels over with pain. Danny notices a light. Danny and Jack tie her wrists with their ties and Danny holds them down. Viv tells Martin to go after Doug. Martin asks her if she’s okay. She needs a few minutes.
Outside the press take photos of Chelsea and Doug. One woman reports they’re uncertain as to his motivation.
As to Doug’s motivation, it’s apparent from the end that prima facie it appears he wanted revenge as Martin says in the beginning; but by the way he was looking at all the cameras at the end, it’s clear he craved attention and clearly enjoyed his 15 minutes of fame. Remember what he told Chelsea to say, about not existing unless she’s on camera, well that’s what it looks like he’s doing too.
You could’ve been mistaken for thinking you were watching a famous celebrity in Chelsea Prince, someone along the lines of a teen star.
Danny finds the missing person again, in distress, this time with Jack. They’ve all been on camera now, so much for going undercover in later episodes! They got onto the case quick smart after she’d only been missing an hour. probably pressured cos she was a celebrity.
Jack: I didn’t interrupt a big date or anything?”
Sam: “No, just an intense game of solitaire.” A likely story, do you think that was just a passing comment from Jack or is he curious to know what’s happening with her?
Martin: “We could make a sextape. Post it online here, then you wouldn’t have to tell anybody about us.”
Sam: “Cute.” Er, no, we’ve already been subjected to that re the season opener!
Viv clearly doesn’t like the sort of attention Chelsea receives from young girls and definitely not her being the centre of attention.
Of course the other problems Martin mentions in The Ukraine were the elections and the new president.
The pulsating light was from the fan of course, but would’ve been too easy if we found that out already.
Viv: “looks like our beauty queen grew a conscience. I wonder why?”
Danny: “come on Viv, she’s just a young girl with too much money and no one to look after her.”
Viv: “That’s no excuse.”
That’s true many people find themselves alone but don’t have money to fall back on.
Danny and Viv are the only ones who actually form an opinion or part of an opinion about Chelsea; with Viv playing the strict disciplinarian saying she’s spoilt which she is.
As for Danny checking Chelsea’s hotel room for letters, wouldn’t her room have already been searched?
Also the publication of her book and the make-up collection is true to life where celebrities and a bunch of wannabee celebrities bring out endless products and endorsements to boost their net worth.
Viv now has a photo of herself with her husband on her desk now.
Martin is right when he correctly assumes it’s the man from the book store.
Jack: “If he’s conscious, he’s ready to talk.” Obviously the driver had a lot to hide as he can’t get his story right. If he had been held up by a gun, chances are he wouldn’t be left alive to tell the police.
Danny says he needs justification before he kills her but in a roundabout way he’s the one fixing the votes to get this justification , so as Sam said he could’ve just killed her anyway, which he tries to.
The part where Danny commented perhaps he’s voting himself to increase the tally on the Net, and then he goes on to say he needs justification before he can kill Chelsea: that didn’t make sense – if you think about it, albeit in a roundabout way – if he’s the one rigging the voting then he doesn’t need to justify his actions as he’s going to decide’already, has decided the outcome anyway: that he’s going to kill her regardless.
When he’s paraded” in front of the press he’s clearly lavishing in his 15 minutes of fame and lapping it all up: which makes you think did he want all this to begin with rather than revenge for his sister, i.e kidnap someone famous, get some glory.
Couldn’t they have downloaded the image of her and pan across to see what pulsating light was, i.e the fan as they did that in the missing boy episode of CSI:NY season 1 episode 2 American Dreamers when Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo)) took the CCTV tape and panned across to the man re the guitar. But then he used the NTSC image from the tape which probably works on a different principle to the Net. But there's lots of technology.
Oh I always used to remark on the character names in CSI:NY and Without A Trace, there was Danny Taylor in this and in NY, we got Danny and Taylor, for Mac's (Gary Sinise) last name.
At least Danny and Viv actually commented about Chelsea’s life whereas Sam was strangely quiet.
1 comment:
Thanks for this info. Fam
Post a Comment