Ransom

Mr. Beaumont, why would you hire me

if you knew who my mother was?

The question isn't why I hired you.

It's why you'd want to work for the man

who got her killed.

Damien Delaine

wanted to become a martyr that day,

and he will never forgive me.

Never.

Didn't you promise Evie

you wouldn't track her anymore?

It's for her own safety.

She's your daughter. You have to trust her.

- I'm back. - Hello, sweetie.

You gate-crashing our shopping trip?

- Your mom's caught me working again. - Uh-huh.

This isn't over, Maxine.

It is over.

Delaine lost.

He's not gonna accept defeat.

- Eric. - Nathalie, what's wrong?

I put Evie on the plane back to Montreal myself.

The driver's waiting at arrivals.

She never showed.

I know something's wrong, Eric.

Delaine's taken my daughter.

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You're Eric Beaumont?

- That's right. - He disabled the elevator.

Oh, great.

He says he'll jump if we go out there.

He'll jump if we don't.

Okay.

Mr. Faber?

You don't want to do this, Mr. Faber.

- I said no cops. - See, I'm not a cop.

My name's Eric Beaumont.

I'm a negotiator.

I got nothing to negotiate.

My life is over.

That is not true. I just ran eight blocks

from your work. I talked to your boss.

He says he's gonna find you another job.

- You're lying. - I don't lie, Jacob.

That voice in your head,

the one telling you to give up?

Don't listen.

Sorry.

I just can't.

Go, go.

Come on.

Let go.

I'm not gonna do that.

I'll take you with me.

I can't leave your son without a father.

And he needs you.

That was really brave, Mr. Beaumont.

Nathalie Denard.

My company insures this hotel.

That a-a French accent?

I'm from Paris.

People really eat snails over there?

And we talk like this, and...

- Make great fries, though, right? - Mmm.

You're ex-FBI?

Yeah, I just started my own firm.

Um, Crisis Resolution.

Must be good at reading people.

Absolutely, the best. I'm reading you right now,

- as a matter of fact. Mm-hmm. - Are you?

You're wondering if I

- find you attractive. - Oh.

- How are you getting that? - Microexpressions,

voice latency, the way the vein in your neck is throbbing.

But mostly because I'm thinking that,

and I thought it would be nice if that's what...

you were also thinking.

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I never should have left Evie

to fly home without me. You couldn't know.

If I had just stayed with her, she wouldn't be kidnapped.

Hey, hey. Neither of us knew this would happen.

You can't blame yourself, okay?

We got something.

CCTV footage from the airport seven hours ago.

It's Damien Delaine posing as her limo driver.

That's proof that he violated his parole.

And Delaine never said anything to you about this?

You think I wouldn't have told you that?

She didn't even know that she was being kidnapped.

Well, she knows now.

What's he done with her?

Crisis Resolution.

Maxine.

Lovely to hear your voice.

We know you took Evie, Damien.

Of course I did.

I've just sent proof she's alive to Mr. Yates.

Evie.

I will negotiate with Eric

and only Eric.

Breathe a word of this to the police,

and the girl dies.

Oh, baby.

At least he's willing to negotiate.

Eric.

He doesn't care about Evie.

She's just a way to get what he wants.

Which is what?

Damien Delaine wants to destroy Eric.

He won't stop until he has.

Delaine skirted CCTV

at the airport.

There's no way to track his vehicle

- without the police. - And he said no police.

Well, maybe we should call them anyway.

We do that, we'll never see Evie again.

Delaine doesn't bluff.

There must be something we can do.

Zara stayed behind in Virginia

to see if Delaine dropped any bread crumbs.

Mobile phones, credit cards...

Well, the man is a master of digital manipulation.

He'll have covered his tracks.

- She's checking anyway. - Profile's up.

We know Delaine's profile.

This is our protocol, Eric, remember?

We don't need to talk. We need to act.

He has taken my daughter.

All the more reason to follow the protocol.

Go ahead.

Delaine was an outspoken critic

of digital technology.

Back in 2000, he argued

that the world would be taken over by the Internet,

robbing people of their privacy and freedom.

This is what the cult at Shiloh

was trying to stop until the FBI moved in.

37 people were killed,

including...

Maxine's mother.

Delaine was released last week

on parole after serving 17 years in prison.

Well, he wasted no time coming after you.

Well, not directly.

Not at first.

He brainwashed a former student,

Victoria Locke,

with the aim to destroy Eric

by tricking him into killing her.

He thought Maxine would turn against us when she learned

that Eric killed her mother, but she didn't.

I know you were just doing what you had to do.

I don't blame you.

So taking Evie was what?

A backup plan because his trick didn't work?

Possibly.

If it was improvised,

maybe he made a mistake.

Delaine doesn't make mistakes.

Like Maxine said, he won't stop until he destroys me.

Which is why this is a toxic negotiation.

Why toxic?

Eric's perspective will be blurred

because he's negotiating for the life of a loved one.

He should recuse himself,

but since Delaine insists

on negotiating with him,

he's gonna need a whisperer.

- A shadow. - I'll monitor his every decision,

make sure he doesn't act out

- of emotion. - No, no, Maxine.

This is toxic for you, too,

given his history with your mother.

Oliver will be my whisperer.

Hello, Cri/Res.

Okay.

It's Delaine. He's downstairs.

He wants to come up.

Mr. Yates.

Very nice place you have, Eric.

Must have made a lot of money off other people's misery

while I was rotting in jail.

You'll rot there again soon enough.

You think?

You're very lovely, Nathalie.

I can see why Eric prizes you so much.

I know you think I'm a monster, but believe me,

any evil I've done is nothing compared to your husband.

Evil?

He prevented my martyrdom

and brought about the world we live in.

And what world is that?

Endless cyber warfare,

digital chaos, people addicted

to their devices,

entertaining themselves to death,

while corporations and government monitor and control

the way we vote and think.