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I did it!
I did what you said!
Do you hear me?
Now please, leave me alone!
I can't believe you're here.
I am pretty unbelievable.
I need to apologize.
The last time we saw each other,
I could have handled that better.
You're a great guy, but I already have a great guy.
- You really love him? - I really do.
It was not my best night, but I got over it.
It means a lot that you're here.
Look, I'm sorry about your daughter.
I know you never met her, but I just can't imagine
what you must be feeling right now.
Honestly...
Everything and nothing.
Sometimes, it feels like I can't breathe,
and then, all of a sudden, I don't feel anything.
Kurt keeps trying to reach out, but I look at him,
and all I can see is what he did.
It was an accident, right?
- Wait, so that's it? - Yeah. Keeping it from me wasn't.
You're never gonna talk to him again?
He's not the person I thought he was.
To keep a lie and then pretend like it didn't happen,
how am I supposed to forget that?
I should go. It's late.
Stay. I'll sleep on the sofa.
I'll be a good boy, I promise.
When have you ever done that?
- Fair point. - Mm-hmm.
All right.
Here we go. I made a fresh pot.
Oh, you should leave more often.
We finally had a breakthrough while you were gone,
so check this out.
We know Jane's daughter Avery
and Roman met each other in a Berlin Hotel six months ago,
but it wasn't just that one time.
Here they are at the same hotel three days earlier.
What could they be meeting about?
- They're planning something. - And knowing Roman,
it's nothing good. Do you think Avery's death
was a part of it somehow to hurt Jane?
Everything all right?
No, my Wizardville app keeps glitching.
I've gotten like 500 texts from my team back in California.
I thought we were your team.
Well, you are, but they are also my team.
A girl can have more than one team, Weller.
Patterson. Right there.
That's Max Kohler. That's the gangster
that I was chasing down in Berlin.
The one you thought you shot when you shot Avery?
She lied to me about Roman, about knowing Max.
Why do I have a bad feeling about this?
What else can you find on Max?
Here we go. Facial rec found a match.
So it looks like his real name is Dedrik Hoehne,
rap sheet a mile long, ties to a German gang.
Basically a real stand-up guy.
Look, just keep digging. 'Cause if we can find him,
maybe we can find out what the hell Roman was up to.
Oh! There we go, baby, the comeback is on.
Michigan is still down five and their D is a joke.
First of all, it's halftime. They'll make adjustments
- and be fine. - Yeah, yeah.
Hey, how'd you finish the Undead Ogre Quest?
How did you not?
You bought the Blade of Zarnac, didn't you?
- That's cheating. - What?
No blade, no Zarnac.
- Pure Wizardville wizarding skills. - Unacceptable.
You bought the blade. That's cheating. You're weak.
Not.
Uh, so when... When does Meg get back?
She'll be in D.C. another day.
"The Post" is quoting her pretty hard ever since
she published that article on the refugee camp.
I'm telling you, that girl can write.
- That's great. - Mm-hmm.
Ah.
Stupid noise.
- Yeah. - That's been happening to you, too?
Mine shut down on me twice.
Knocked me back a whole level.
That's it. I'm texting Patterson.
Clearly, she's spending too much time
saving the world and not enough time
fixing the bugs in this game.
Hey, Meg, how's DC?
Really?
Oh, wow, they did what?
Wait, what was the guy doing?
Not only do I have Pop-Tarts and real coffee now...
- no offense to yours... - Yeah.
I just found a major lead on that Dedrik guy.
So, he lives in a farm outside Berlin
in a town called Spandau. There was a 9-1-1 call...
Well, technically, 1-1-2, because it's Germany,
but it was traced to an address
right next door to Dedrik's property.
Please help.
I've been kidnapped.
I'm in a small town, by a farm.
I see lot of trees, hills.
Please send someone. My name...
That's Avery.
What? Are you sure?
I'm sure.
Why would she be working with Dedrik
after he kidnapped her?
Hang on a second.
Look at the timestamp on this call.
Hey. Everything okay?
We just found a recording of your daughter in Germany,
calling for help.
What are you doing?
Avery is dead, Kurt.
There's nothing we can do about it
and I can't keep listening to details...
Jane, that call was from four days ago,
so your daughter is still alive.
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It's just... It doesn't make any sense.
The timestamp on the call has to be wrong.
How can Avery be alive when you said
you watched her die with your own eyes?
I thought that I did. She was covered in blood,
dilated pupils, no pulse.
Now we have her on tape, three days earlier,
planning something with Roman and Dedrik.
You think it's a setup?
You think Roman got Avery to fake her own death?
He got us to fake yours.
The blood could have been fake, too.
If they injected her with the same drug to slow her heart rate...
This was just another plan to tear us apart.
Roman wanted us to think that you killed my daughter.
And I played right into his hands.
And now you're telling me some German criminal
has been holding her captive for God knows how...
Her call for help came four days ago, Kurt.
And just because she was alive then doesn't mean...
If you had just told me sooner...
If I could take back everything that I did, I would.
Now we have a second chance to make things right.
With all this intel suggesting Jane's daughter
might still be alive, our task now
is to find her as quickly as possible.
If Avery was working with Roman and Dedrik willingly,
then why would they need to kidnap her after?
We don't know. Maybe she changed her mind.
Maybe Roman didn't trust that she'd stay out of view
and preserve the story of her death,
or he needs her for something else.
I hate to even suggest this, but how do we know
this girl's even Jane's daughter
and not just another one of Roman's traps?
Her identity checks out.
I tracked down the nurse at the hospital
where Jane gave birth.
And she gave us the name
of Avery's adoptive parents, Bob and Elsa Drabkin.
From there, Patterson dug up school records
and family photos.
The photos match the girl I met in Berlin.
It is definitely her.
Avery's 9-1-1 call was cut short.
Maybe her captors walked in on her
while she was trying to call for help.
Meaning if she is still alive, we may not have much time.
- I'll send a local team to Dedrik's farm again. - No.
We only have one shot to get this right.
I'm not trusting anyone I don't know.
Jane's right. We've got to be smart about this.
If Roman learns that we've all left the country,
then he'll move her and make sure that we never find her.
And the team has to be small.
All right, you run point with Jane.
You're familiar with Dedrik and you can ID Avery.
This is my daughter, okay?
I'm running this, and I don't want Kurt there.
Jane, you can't do this alone.
There's someone else I want to bring.
His name is Clem Hahn.
He's one of the best kidnap and ransom guys out there.
I can't authorize a civilian, let alone a stranger.
He's a professional and this is what he does.
He's not a stranger.
We have worked over a dozen jobs together, all successful.
It's too risky.
Look, you can help me or you can jam me up,
but I am doing this my way,
with or without the FBI's help.
It wouldn't hurt to have an expert with people in Berlin.
I'll vet Clem and if he passes, he goes with Jane and Weller.
- Rich. - Hey, all-beef Patty. Have you read this book?
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