FBI

- Let's put the dessert table there

and have the dancers come in with the cake.

- If you want to give your husband

a real birthday surprise, you should lead them in

a conga line. - Please.

Oh, I think I would give this crowd

a collective heart attack.

- How about the projector screen here,

and have those pictures that I sent you

play throughout the toasts?

- Oh, that one.

You have to blow that one up.

We were 19.

Such a long time ago.

And you're still in love.

Oh, this is gonna be a fabulous celebration.

Your husband is a lucky man.

Honey?

Alex, are you home?

- Mm. - Morning.

- Good morning. How'd you sleep?

- Good. - There's coffee.

Oh, I see you're not using

the French press I got you, huh?

- Not a big deal, I'm sorry.

Old habits.

Maybe tomorrow.

Oh, hey, I forgot to mention.

I ran into Peter Davies yesterday.

- And how is he? - Great.

They're looking for a new security specialist

at his firm.

He asked if you were ready to make the transition yet.

- Yeah, I don't know. Not right now.

Things are really busy at work.

I don't want to leave my team in the lurch.

- I think you should at least meet with him.

Yeah, maybe.

- Omar, we've been talking about you making the jump

for months now.

This is a great opportunity.

I mean, it's more money, more freedom,

a whole lot less danger.

Okay, send me his number.

I'll give him a call when things quiet down at work.

Okay.

Just don't wait too long.

This job's not gonna be open forever.

- I got a new case. I got to go.

- Bye. - Bye.

- All right, the victim's name is Charlotte Kincade.

She's 36, she disappeared from her house in Connecticut

sometime between when she got home last night and 8:00 a.m.

this morning when her husband Alex

returned from a business trip

to find their home broken into and his wife missing.

Her phone and purse were left by the front door.

- Until we have evidence proving otherwise,

we assume she's alive.

Greenwich PD is treating this as an abduction.

But they don't get many cases like this out there,

so they sent out an SOS.

Yeah, so let's answer it.

Let's get her picture over to law enforcement

in the surrounding areas, TSA, Port Authority.

Loop your people in.

All right, tell me about Charlotte.

- Respected art collector and philanthropist.

Only child of Gavin and Elizabeth Winshire.

Inherited her father's mining fortune

when her parents died in a car accident 13 years ago.

- How much money are we talking about?

$80 million, give or take.

Ergo, the Greenwich address.

All right, tell me about the husband.

Alex Kincade.

Commercial real estate broker at a Chelsea firm.

They met at Columbia, married 16 years, no kids.

And before you ask, Alex has no record.

- Attaboy. - What about ransom demand?

Uh, nothing yet.

But we will be ready if and when the perp makes contact.

Tiff and Scola are on their way to the house with the ERT.

You guys want to talk to the husband?

See if you can get a firm timeline?

- We'll reach out as soon as we know anything.

- Thank you. All right, people, let's go.

Missing persons, first 24 hours are crucial.

After that...

- We got blood on the floor, enough to indicate

a pretty serious injury.

Not enough to suggest they bled out.

And we got damage to the frame.

- Yep, someone pried their way in.

A house this big has got to have a security system.

Do we have any video footage?

- No, the Kincades were in the process

of switching security providers.

- So the attack started in the kitchen.

This blood trail continues out onto the patio.

We have anyone running DNA?

- No, we just secured the scene.

Okay.

Well, send a sample to our lab,

see if it matches Charlotte or her attacker.

Guessing the former.

Looks like he used this to knock her out.

- Perp must have wanted her to go quietly.

And he's prone to violence.

Woman's got to be 90 pounds soaking wet.

- I got in early and figured Charlotte was still asleep.

Then I saw the blood.

- Right, the responding officer said

that you've been out of town on business?

Yes.

I was in Newport, checking out an investment property.

What hotel did you stay at?

- Sir, we're not accusing you of anything.

It's just standard procedure to ask.

I was at the Whitmore Hotel.

- When was the last time you spoke with your wife?

- Around dinnertime, you know, 6:30, 7:00,

to tell her I was staying over.

How did she seem to you?

Fine. You know, happy.

- Have you noticed anyone unusual around recently?

Has Charlotte received any threats?

Or did she have any issues with anyone that you are aware of?

- No. No, nothing like that, no.

Okay.

What about a reason why someone might want to hurt Charlotte?

- No, she's-- everybody likes Charlotte.

And if you met her,

you would know that nobody--nobody--

- Given your circumstances, it's possible

that Charlotte's abduction was financially motivated.

We're gonna make sure that you are prepared

in case there's a ransom demand.

That means that we're gonna be monitoring incoming calls.

We're gonna station an agent with you at all times--

- No. No offense.

but I've read about how this stuff can go wrong

when you get fancy.

I just--I just want my wife back.

And I'll pay whatever I need to make that happen.

- All due respect, let us run point.

We have the resources--

- Okay, which I am declining. I can handle a simple payoff.

You should be out there looking for the creep who took my wife.

Understood.

I know he doesn't want our assistance,

but if there's a ransom drop, we need to know about it.

We need to take this guy down.

Let's just get up on the husband's phone,

put a tracker on his car, yeah? - Yep.

- We didn't get any prints off the pipe,

but the lab confirmed

that the blood on the pipe was Charlotte's.

- Okay, so like we assumed, Charlotte is injured.

What about witnesses? - There weren't any.

No security footage either.

I mean, the neighbors had doorbell cameras,

but they didn't catch anything.

- Elise, where are we on the husband's alibi? Anything?

- His credit card charges from yesterday

do place him in Newport,

but the Whitmore Hotel has no record of him staying there.

- And I just heard back from his firm.

They weren't aware of any investment property.

Said he took the day off.

- So what was he doing in Newport?

- Well, according to his transaction history,

running up a $10,000 debt at the Tiverton Casino,

which seems to be a theme with him, losing money.

Pulled his financials-- he lost a lot of money

trading stocks the past few years.

- Did he gamble all night? - No, cashed out at 6:00,

called his wife, then shut his phone off.

Didn't turn it back on till this morning.

- Okay, so we can't actually confirm

where he was most of the night.

- Newport's only three hours from Greenwich.

Leaves him plenty of time to get back.

- Sure. Do we have any reason

to believe he would hurt his wife?

- Nothing jumps out. - Right, okay.

So--so we have a missing wife, a lying husband

with a gambling jones and bad business acumen.

And no fiscal safety net.

Looks like most of the Kincades' money

came from Charlotte's inheritance.

Alex signed a pretty serious prenup too.

If they were divorced--

- Yeah, he'd be playing nickel slots.

- What about Charlotte's will? - Checking now.

Alex Kincade is the sole beneficiary.

- Looks like it's time for another sit down

with the husband. Bring him in.

That might be a problem.

The tracker Maggie put on Alex's car just went live.