Cold Case

THE FOLLOWING STORY IS FICTIONAL AND DOES NOT DEPIT ANY ACTUAL PERSON OR EVENT.

Come on, Mom.

PROVIDENCE, PHODE ISLAND You know I'll get more out of college

if I take a year off first.

A lot can change in a year, Jeff.

People lose perspective.

Lose perspective?

You're talking to the class president,

captain of the track team,

4P0-meter dash state record holder.

Save it, Carl Lewis.

So what do you plan to do during this so-called

self-enlightening sabbatical?

Travel.

I'm going to backpack around

and get jobs when I run out of money.

What kind of jobs?

A clue for the less enlightened.

Uh, teaching English in Beijing...

picking artichokes in Spain...

That sounds very romantic.

But what's wrong with a semester abroad once you're at Cornell?

Well, you don't go abroad until you're a junior.

That's four years away.

And I'm burnt out now.

You don't want me turning into some mental case, do you, Mom?

You care to weigh in here, Ben?

Are you even listening?

Yeah.

Artichokes.

The first time you're home for dinner,

you're not really home.

He's 17. He doesn't have

to figure out his future before dessert.

We got to go.

Honey?

This is Tom Parker.

He's, uh...

he's a US Marshal.

A US Marshal?

- What's going on? - Dad?

You can use these to pack.

Pack what?

Whatever you want to take with you.

Where are we going?

I don't understand. What's going on, Mom?

Ben, talk to me.

Tom's gonna help us.

Everything's going to be fine.

But we need to go.

Now.

It's a specialized system.

Not some push-and-play you get at the mall. 9:10 AM

You're not going to let this go, are you?

Lil, explain to Nick when you're a guest in someone's home,

you treat it like a castle.

Trouble in paradise?

I accidentally put a beer down

on one of King Arthur's speakers here,

for which I've apologized.

Multiple times.

First of all, it's a tube amp, not a speaker.

And you not only used it as a coaster, you moved it.

Maybe two inches.

Yeah, sent the acoustics straight to hell

and warped my Benny Carter vinyl.

Two words for you guys: couples counseling.

I'm Detective Rush.

Can I help you?

My son Jeff--

I don't know where he is.

He left for school yesterday. He never came back.

He's not answering his cell phone.

I'm sorry, ma'am. This is Homicide.

I brought his computer 'cause...

We're not Missing Persons.

I can walk you over there if you'd like.

They told me downstairs

that you deal with old murders, and, um...

I found this in my son's room.

And I don't know how long he's had it.

"Body of six-foot Caucasian male, brown hair,

"believed to be in his early 40s,

"found in the Schuylkill September 24, 2008.

Victim wearing jeans and a gray T-shirt..."

It was an R.E.M. concert T-shirt.

This is... this has to be Ben.

This is about my husband, Ben Feldman.

You're saying your son's missing and your husband was murdered?

I sound like a lunatic.

I'm not.

Where did you think your husband was all this time?

We didn't know. We just... we just kept hoping

that he would come walking through the door.

Who would've wanted to kill him?

My husband was an accountant.

He was about to testify against someone in organized crime.

Organized crime?

Someone in Philly?

No, Providence.

Freddy Ghiacconi.

You saying you're in WITSEC? Witness Protection?

That's why we moved to Philly.

You contact WITSEC when your husband went missing?

No, I don't trust them anymore.

Please...

Detective, I already lost my husband.

I don't want to lose my son, too.

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The body was found in the Schuylkill 10:02 AM

on September 24, 2008.

MEs estimate it'd been in the water two to three days.

Tracks with what Leigh said.

Ben disappeared September 21.

Concert T-shirt.

Automatic for the People.

Vintage R.E.M.

It was a .380 to the back of the head.

Ain't how you expect an accountant to go down.

Well, Ben took on a client who ended up being connected.

Next thing you know, he's doing the books

for Freddy "The Ice Man" Ghiacconi.

Once you're in...

There's only one way out.

Gotta talk to this Ghiacconi.

Know where to find him. His trial's been going on

for the last four months up in Providence.

Probably got an army of lawyers.

Hey, what'd Leigh tell you about Ben's last moves?

Well, they were in Cape May on the 21st.

Ben went to Philly that night to get money out of a locker

at 30th Street Station.

Guy afraid of banks?

Gonna want to check security tapes.

Well, he would've had to drive.

Probably take the Garden State

to the Ben Franklin or Walt Whitman.

Those cameras at the bridges should be able to get

a timed photo of Ben coming through. Yeah.

Wanna check impounds, see if his car turned up?

Just got back from the morgue.

Keep John Does on ice for a year,

and get this: Ben's body was ID'd yesterday.

By who?

His son, Jeff.

He's in Philly.

And he's alive.

Least he was at 4:00 yesterday.

Morgue attendant said the first thing he asked

about a body found in the river was what kind of gun was used.

Already knew it was a gunshot wound.

We got to find that kid, see what else he knows.

Hey, you Curtis Bell?

Yup. Who are you?

I'm Detective Rush. You've been ducking me.

He look church-ready to you?

Squeaky clean.

Shot his grandma for her Social Security check last year.

Now he's my eyewitness

in a drive-by.

So, uh, what'd you call about?

Second or third time?

Yeah, I don't really do voice mail.

I need your approval for a warrant

for a missing kid's cell phone-- GPS or any data.

GPS-- they have

that kind of thing on cell phones now?

Yeah, they do.

Scotty, Agent Tom Parker.

Hey.

Have a seat.

So what's this about?

A witness of yours, Ben Feldman.

Accountant who was supposed to testify

against Freddy Ghiacconi.

Yeah, washed up in the Schuylkill

in September-- gunshot.

Oh, wow.

Guy goes missing-- you bother to investigate?

Well, the trail went cold.

I have more witnesses than I can handle.

And then we'd already videotaped his testimony.

You think Ghiacconi had him killed?

Well, it'd certainly lighten his load.

Ghiacconi's been in the ACI since June.

Trial started November 1,

and it's still going on.

Ben was your witness,

and killed on your watch. How's that happen?

Witnesses are unpredictable.

You should know that.

Don't always play by the rules.

Something going on with the family?

The usual chaos. People enter WITSEC,

they have to leave old friends, old lives behind forever.

Listen...

I can only set people up,

I can't make them stay...

Where were you born, Jeff?