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Victim's Michelle Kim. She used to look like that.

What's the deal? Why can't LAPD handle this?

Uh, she used to work for the Chinese Consulate.

You know how those guys are, 15 minutes

after they find out she's dead, they'll have her apartment cleared out.

- What did she do for the consulate? - Interpreter.

- Witnesses? - Yeah. It's a hit and run.

Some say Tahoe, some say Explorer.

No way to know for sure.

There's got to be at least a dozen bars in the area.

Figure a D-U-I hits her, panics, takes off.

- No skid marks. - Nope.

- Any damage to these cars? - No.

- Lucky drunk. - Yeah, tell her that.

You know, they say there's nothing sexier than a man who knows how to cook.

Well, what do you say, you agree?

I don't know. I like guys who are good at math.

Aw. Well,

actually

I'm using differential geometry to perfect the chocolate chip cookie.

That's right.

Or is this in case the whole math genius thing doesn't work out?

It's for Senior Ditch Day.

You mean Senior Beach Day.

Yeah, when they're away, the underclassmen will play.

Remember, last year, they ransacked my office.

Yeah, so this year...

This year, I leave a peace offering for the hungry natives.

Hmm, needs bigger chips.

So,

I guess congratulations are in order.

For?

It's a bit controversial, but I like it.

I mean,

Larry used a non-standard analysis

instead of the conventional Borel approach in treating the singularities.

Can I... just...

So Larry published an article...

on zero point energy and quan...

and quantum cosmology.

You didn't know?

Well, I thought he would have asked you to collaborate.

Me, too.

Coroner found paint chips under her skin.

Color traces back to the Ford Motor Company.

They have a model yet?

Either Explorer or a Jaguar.

Better notify the locals. If that SUV was stolen,

it's gonna be headed straight to a chop shop.

Looks like Michelle Kim moved back and forth between here and China growing up.

We got a file on her?

Yeah, this is Granger, FBI, for Jackson.

No, but we have on her father.

Okay, just have him come return it, thank you.

Former Chinese diplomat.

Retired in '97.

FBI Counter Intelligence ran a background check on her

when she moved back into the country in '03.

Counter Intelligence? Why were they looking at her?

I don't know.

Whoa, whoa, wait a second. Scroll back down there.

Right there. That background check was filed by an old Army buddy of mine.

- Dwayne Carter. - Yeah.

Carter and I did a tour together in Afghanistan.

You guys still tight?

I've called him a few times, but he hasn't been around.

- The guy saved my ass. - No way.

Yeah, we were in this Humvee together,

got hit by an RPG and the thing just exploded into flames.

I got trapped, had this piece of metal just wrapped around my arm.

Thought for sure my ticket was punched.

Dwayne, he just...

he jumped in, man, ripped me out of there and...

the dumb bastard, he got 3rd-degree burns on his hand.

Sounds like the guy to talk to.

Hey, what are you doing here?

Oh, I'm just gathering some information for a paper that Larry's working on.

Hey, you know, you guys have direct access through NASA's firewall.

That's right. Big Brother's always watching.

Hey, is this the new case?

Yeah, it's a hit and run, but I don't know,

I'm thinking this is looking like something more.

- Something more like what? - Well, like it's intentional.

- Okay, you want me to take a look at it? - No, it's all right, don't worry about it.

Because, you know, I-I... well I can factor in steady motion regimes--

you know, body stiffness coefficients,

and not to mention, you know, subtle body undulations

- generated by the ground-reaction force. - You got me there. Go for it.

Because, you know, was she walking, was she standing still?

- I don't know. - How fast was she moving?

I mean, Once we have that data, these impact marks can tell you a whole lot.

- This is no problem for me to work... - Knock yourself out.

- I'll have an answer for you as soon as can - You're the one who's always saying

you're overworked.

Hey. How'd it go at Kim's place?

I spoke to a couple of the neighbors.

She was quiet, kept to herself, no boyfriend.

What, you don't buy it?

She's 24 years old.

Her last stop was one of the hottest nightclubs in L.A.

I have my doubts.

Bartender remembers her getting a call right before she left.

- Oh, yeah? Did it trace anywhere? - Didn't.

Call came from a prepaid cell phone.

Techs just lifted Kim's online bank account records.

Got over a hundred grand in all-cash deposits.

Well, the Chinese pay their interpreters really well.

We got untraceable cell phones, cash deposits.

What was this girl into?

Season 3, Episode 4 The Mole

Since when is the FBI interested in zero point energy?

- Are you checking Larry's work, Charlie? - I'm just looking--

just taking a look at it.

- Did he ask you to do that? - No, no.

He... What he's done is fairly impressive.

Oh, "fairly impressive."

Well, you know what I mean.

No. What do you mean?

Nothing. It has, it has great potential.

Yeah, but it needs your assistance.

To be honest with you...

yeah. Yes.

Charlie, did you ever think that maybe Larry doesn't want you...

Why wouldn't Larry want my help?

I don't know, but you sure he didn't ask for it, did he?

PFC Granger, you son of a gun!

- Hey, man. - What's up?

I practically had to put you under surveillance to find you.

Yeah, if I was easy to locate,

I wouldn't be in Counter Intelligence now, would I?

- What's up? - Well, I caught this case--

Michelle Kim-- worked for the Chinese.

Yeah, they said somebody was coming up to talk to me,

so I took a look at my report-- wasn't much.

Any reason you guys were looking into her to begin with?

Immigration flagged her. She entered the country.

with 2 passports, parents both Chinese nationals.

Post 9-11. Thought was, we had to know what she'd been up to on the mainland.

And?

She'd been in Beijing at university;

she came back to take a job with the Chinese Consulate as an interpreter.

Everything seemed on the up and up.

Why? You got something different?

She died last night.

- Died? - Yeah.

Hit and run. Maybe more. That's why I want to talk to you.

Yeah, I don't know.

Uh, I'll ask around. See what I can dig up.

Okay.

- How you doing? - Adjusting. You?

Yeah, the same, I guess.

Yeah, never really goes away, does it?

No, never does.

Al right, you catch something, give me a call, all right?

Absolutely.

Come here! Come here!

- It's great to see you. - You, too.

Ah, Charles.

Say, did you know that an Oort cloud has a mass

somewhere between 5 and a hundred times that of the Earth?

Oort cloud? Cloud that spits out comets?

Oh, yeah. Thousands of comets.

- You know, I had, I had no idea. - Yeah.

So, I've, uh, come by here to congratulate you...

- on your paper. - Well, that was nothing.

Nothing. Well, what you did,

analyzing the effective weight of zero point energy in a nonstandard way,

well, that-that could lead to a solution for the cosmological constant problem, right?

Yeah. Well, I mean,

The Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Mechanics

does say that there must be some virtual mass, so...

- I'm sorry, I'm running late here. - Oh, I'm, I'm curious.

Um, who collaborated with you on the math?

Uh, Brian Stromsborg.

- Oh, Stromsborg's good. - Yeah, he is.

- He is good. - Yeah, he's good.

Uh, now,

I'm sensing that there might be something more involved here than well wishes.

- did you forget where my office was? - No! No!

It's... Stromsborg has so much experience in this field.

- Yeah, I know, I know. - Yeah, but...?

I'm so used to you coming to see me.

Well, I... perhaps I was getting a little too used to it myself.

Well, Larry, you know, I hope I've never made you feel like...

No, absolutely not.

No, I just, I feel of late just a need to do some branching out, that's all.

Branching out?

Yeah, well,

I'm maybe like a comet trying to... break out of its orbit, uh...

find my own... escape trajectory,

just come into my own entity, I don't know.

I'm so sorry, I'm running late, but

Charles, I think I just need to stretch myself a little, that's all.

Pure and simple.

I've been cleared by my ambassador to cooperate in any way.

I've also notified Miss Kim's parents in Beijing.

You can imagine how difficult a call that was to make.

I hope you expressed our sympathies.

To have a child taken from you at such great distance...

But I suppose a traffic accident can occur anywhere in the world.