17 Hours Missing
Sam (Poppy Montgomery) brings Martin (Eric Close) a bagel and agrees to accompany him to his cousin’s wedding. But Martin has had a change of heart and wants to go by himself. Martin calls it off with Sam.
Jack (Anthony LaPaglia) takes Sam upstate to investigate the disappearance of Daisy Thorpe (Ashley Rose Orr). Jack tells Sam to keep their personal problems away from work.
18 Hours Missing
Jack tells “the locals” Daisy’s parents called in the FBI. Curtis Horn (John Krasinski) is the lead suspect in the case and he killed Amber Bryce (Megan Lusk) 7 years ago. (Amber being the girl Daisy had flashbacks of.) The Sheriff (Lindsay Ginter) found Amber’s body. She was 13, sexually assaulted and strangled. Sam asks what connected Curtis to Amber’s murder? Curtis was 17, her boyfriend and they had an argument at school, and no alibi. There were no forensics, the killer wore gloves, no prints or semen, hence no physical evidence. Amber was the Reverend’s (Randy Oglesby) daughter. Curtis came from a degenerate family, his older brother’s in prison on a manslaughter charge. Curtis tells them he was here yesterday afternoon as he can’t get a job in town. Jack wants the files on Amber and a 24/7 surveillance on Curtis.
19 Hours Missing
Sam asks why her parents waited so long to call them in. Her mother thought she was acting up again like she a did a few months ago. She got piercings and argued. She’s run away a few times but hasn’t stayted away all night. Yesterday morning she didn’t want breakfast and flaunted her birth control pills in front of her mother, saying she was sleeping around with everyone. Daisy doesn’t have a boyfriend. Sam asks for her pills and her toothbrush for DNA.
Viv (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is having trouble opening her pill bottles. If her heart doesn’t kill her the bottles will. Danny (Enrique Murciano) calls her about the 26 open cases on missing persons and 2 belong to Viv but he’s having trouble with her handwriting. She gets a call on the other line and hangs up on Danny.
20 Hours Missing
Daisy got her pills from the Hudson Falls Family Planning clinic. Danny finds that Daisy made a lot of calls to the Reverend. The Reverend owns a red truck. Her parents are in the choir and Daisy asked him a lot of questions about Amber, whether she liked poetry, EE Cummings, animals, if she had pets, her own father’s a vet, if she played sports. Her father played tennis. He got angry with Daisy. Amber’s murder affected the whole town. He tried to stop Amber from going out with Curtis and the next day she promised not to see him, so that’s why he believes Curtis killed her. Sam questions Daisy’s clinic partner from her confidential charts. He went with her but wasn’t her boyfriend. She told him she wanted to annoy her mother with the pills. Daisy was obsessed with Amber. She told him no one cared enough about Amber to find out who did it. There were stories on the net about Amber. Daisy saw Curtis the next day. Jack and Sam find Daisy’s cardigan at Curtis’s place but he’s not there and neither is the surveillance.
21 Hours Missing
Curtis drives a light blue Volvo wagon with New York plates. Jack reprimands the deputy for not sticking with his surveillance. Sam finds a knife in Curtis’s bin with blood and a partial barcode. Bob (Thomas F Duffy) sold the knife to Daisy for protection as the children are afraid of Curtis. Jack knows Bob’s lying. The Sheriff tells him nobody trusts outsiders and Jack tells him they’re only here to help.
Reggie (William Turner) is brought home by the police. He missed school to go drinking beer with his friends in the park. Viv tells him this is no time to play up.
Sam questions a local boy who rides his bike as a shortcut near Curtis’s place. Two days ago he heard Daisy talking to him. She the was talking about someone killing Amber and that he’d try to kill her too.
23 Hours Missing
Danny finds in Amber’s files that the Sheriff made a note about finding hairs in Amber’s watch, but it’s not mentioned in any other reports. The Sheriff tells Jack that’s someone's lost them. Jack thinks he got rid of the evidence for someone. The Sheriff later tells him alone, that he was a deputy back then and he found her body. He was first on the scene and he knew her. He didn’t like the way she was lying there all exposed so he covered her with a blanket. He kept it quiet and realized it was the wrong thing to do. Jack tells him he let the town believe Curtis was guilty. Curtis’s car is found.
24 Hours Missing
Jack finds Curtis’s dead body near the car.
25 Hours Missing
His car has a broken tail light and traces of red paint. Curtis was beaten but doesn’t have any stab wounds. The marks on his face could’ve been from a ring or a rock. Jack says his car has been searched. Jack drives up to the church where the Reverend’s red truck is parked. He tells him when Daisy disappeared it was the final straw, so he and some others ambushed his car. Curtis told them to kill him as his life was nothing without Amber, he loved her. The Reverend couldn’t go through with it and stopped them. He was beaten up, around noon. Jack tells him the Sheriff knew Curtis was innocent but covered it up. Sam asks him for a list of all the blonde haired men Amber knew.
26 Hours missing
Danny finds Amber had a blonde haired tennis coach, who’s dead. A blonde haired piano teacher who lives in Florida. A blonde haired neighbour who was in Taiwan on business when Amber was killed. Martin finds a George on the sex crimes database, he has blonde hair and blue eyes. He’s in Rikers since 2002 for a sexual assault on a minor. Danny thinks they may have solved Amber’s murder. The DNA results on the knife show a partial match for Daisy, 50%.
Her mother found Daisy at the old bridge, she’d been drinking and told her she takes after her father. She thought he killed Amber. But they didn’t even live here then. Daisy was 6 and a half and Amber was dead before then. Daisy returned home later that night. She works as a bookkeeper from 9-5 or 6. Her husband keeps flexible hours. Sam says he was probably molesting Daisy. He took the car. Danny mentions a call made from 11:55am from Thorpe to Curtis. This was before the Reverend met up with him at noon. Danny thinks he either has Daisy or he’s killed her. Jack tells Sam the State Troopers have found Thorpe.
Jack confronts him and tells him he knows what he’s been doing to her. She cut him on his arm. He wanted forgiveness for what he did, it only happened one time, 6 weeks ago. Jack tells him that’s not okay, he’s a paedophile and he needs help. He wears a ring. He found Curtis and beat him. He hit his head on a rock. His phone rang and it was Daisy.
ALBANY, NEW YORK
Sam speaks with Daisy. She’s going to New York on $200. She tells her Curtis is dead. She wanted him to come with her but he wouldn’t. They’d suspect him first if they both went missing. He gave her his number and money and promised not to tell anyone. Daisy says he kept his promise. Sam tells her she can go back as her father’s going to prison. The Sheriff is resigning and Jack tells him he should clear Curtis’s name. The town needs a new start.
Reggie tells Viv he’s not angry with her. Viv is angry at everything. She’s afraid of losing him and his father. She hates hospitals. He gets her a pill and they hug. Martin is sending the files back and Amber’s case is still unsolved. He didn’t want Sam to fight for their relationship to work, she didn’t have to.
An episode all about children playing up and getting into trouble, especially when in contrast you have Reggie drinking probably because of what his mother’s going through and Daisy drinking and playing up because of what she’s been through with her father and being angry at her mother for not being there or noticing.
Jack asking Sam to talk to Daisy since she’s been through it before, i.e running away from home but for different reasons. Daisy taking the pills because she had to due to her father and not being able to talk to her mother or anyone else about it. Viv taking pills because she needs to. Like the way that Sam asked for Daisy’s birth control pills and the scene switches to Viv wrestling with her pill bottle.
Sam walking happily into the office with a bagel for Martin (on another health kick!) only to be confronted with being dumped! Their relationship went up and down over the series with us the viewers not knowing what was happening, one minute they were talking, the next they weren’t.
Sam: “I’m nervous to meet your family – but I think you’re right. I think it’s time.”
Martin: “I already booked my flight – that’s not true – I didn’t but I’m going to go by myself…I don’t wanna do this anymore. I’m just tired of playing games and frankly I’m not interested in waiting around while you figure out your problems.”
Sam: “My problems. So what’re you saying - we’re done, I mean we’re done.”
Martin: “Well, not just like that, but yeah, I am”
Jack: “I don’t know what’s going on with you two but I want you to keep it out of the office.” Jack senses there’s something wrong between them. Sam should’ve said she won’t be spoken to like that, even if he is the boss and especially since it’s not affecting her work. Well, Jack didn’t didn’t really keep it out of the office when he was seeing Sam. Maybe Jack was just surprised as he and Martin have nothing in common aside from work. They’re both different people and characters. Martin didn’t really think Sam was viable wife material – because that’s what he’s doing looking for re season 2 opener when he said that and she said she didn’t want children.
Jack: “The locals.”
Sheriff: “Malone and Spade: FBI.” The way he said it it almost sounds like Mulder and Scully: FBI.
Jack: “All that’s missing is the banjo music.”
Jack: “like what, go to the donut shop.” Yet another cliché. You’d think from the sound of things Curtis was a real life urban legend.
The Sheriff is to blame for everything that happened since Amber’s murder setting off a whole chain of events with lasting repercussions. If he hadn’t messed up the murderer would’ve been caught; Curtis would never have been blamed and ostracized and Daisy wouldn’t have gone looking for Amber.
Danny has a model train on his desk.
Danny: “Ooh, sounds like your type.” Obviously referring to Sam and not to George, though Martin would’ve been oblivious to this anyway… Great line referring to Sam. Well it wouldn’t be to the criminal. Even if Danny was referring to him, Martin would’ve been oblivious re Pilot episode.
Jack: “When I talk to you, you look at me, you understand right in the eyes…I told you to look at me in the eyes when I talk to you…”
Jack: “Listen to yourself – one time, you think that’s OK.”
As Jack has worked in the FBI for so long and in the New York and surrounding area why did he have to ask what area code 518 belongs to, especially since they’ve had lots of missing persons cases in Albany or related to the area.
Jack: “You should handle this one.” Sam having had personal experience of being a run away. As for Curtis telling Daisy they’d suspect him of kidnapping Daisy, first they’d have to find them and secondly he would no longer be around to suffer the town’s wrath.
Wouldn’t it have been cool for Danny and Martin to have solved Amber’s death. The most obvious suspect being Bob. All this modern technology and they couldn’t figure out who killed Amber; like some overlooked piece of evidence, not necessarily forensic or clue. All the men she had contact with turned out to be blond! We thought it was Bob, he looked the type that killed Amber. Would’ve been kinda cool if Danny and Martin had solved the case – for once, you know from the comfort of their chairs.
Martin: “…guess some cases aren’t meant to be.”
Sam: “You wanted me to fight harder.”
Martin: “didn’t have to be a fight.” Yes, but we know Sam she doesn’t like to do things the easy way, to sit back and let nature take its course, so to speak.
Martin dumping Sam when she bought him a bagel, he refused to go on a health kick with her. That was the real reason, ha.
In the Sheriff’s office, what were they thinking, we’ve not seen a blonde before – let alone a fe-male agent! But we have seen lots of blond men through. Perhaps Jack could find the missing banjo for them! The banjo being an allusion to Deliverance cos of the banjos in the soundtrack.
Daisy Thorne is named after Poppy's sisters, Daisy Yellow and Rose Thorne.
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