NCIS: New Orleans

I'm not late, Melissa.

Not yet. You've got less than five minutes.

How far are you?

Almost half a mile. I'll make it.

Beth Hogan

showing up on time?

And breaking my mile record.

Well, some of us can't be late for school.

Be there sooner if I wasn't talking to you.

Beth? What happened? You okay?

Beth?

Beth?

[helicopter blades whirring in distance]

[indistinct radio chatter, dogs barking in distance]

Entire park's on lockdown. What do you know?

Beth Hogan, 15, daughter of Navy Commander Claire Hogan,

out on a run.

Friend says she just disappeared.

Left her phone behind. Canvass the area?

Yeah. No signs of injury or struggle,

Hopefully Sebastiancan pull something off of it.

Beth was trainingfor cross-country.

Works out in the parkevery other day.Yeah.

Predictable routinemade her an easy target.

Have Gregorio run a report onknown sex offenders in Mid-City.

Already on it. Plus, Patton's collecting footage

from cameras all around the area.Good.

The mother here?Yeah.

Hannah's talkingto her now.

Beth is an independent girl. She's been coming here to run

for three years, no problems.

Has Beth been actingdifferently lately?

Anxiety? Distant?

No. She's just been Beth, same girl as always.

Shouldn't we be out looking?

I need to find her.We got a dozen cops

and a K-9 unit out there right now, Commander Hogan,

looking for your daughter.

Who are you?

Special Agent Pride.Well,

Special Agent Pride, I'm not so sure

how the cops will know where to look.

They don't know her.That's right.

That's why we're lookingfor any insight you can give us.

Where might Beth goif she was trying to get away?

She wouldn't.

She's a good kid-- she focused on studying and running.

Does she have any other friends from school other than Melissa?

We homeschool her. She doesn't have a lot of friends.

Boys?No. Listen,

you keep acting like she's doing this on her own.

What if someone took her?

That is why we have the dozen cops, Commander.

Mom!

Who's that?It's Simone, my other daughter.

I asked her to come.

What happened?

We don't know. Have you heard from Beth?

Not for a few days.

Anything bothering her recently?

Yeah, of course.

Simone.

You didn't tell them?Tell us what?

My mom deploys tomorrow for six months,

which means Beth was about to be stuck with Frank.

Who's Frank? My ex-husband, Frank Hogan.

Stop it!

Frank gets custody when I deploy.

It's screwed up.

He is paranoia personified.

No one should have to live with that.You saying

that Beth and your father don't get along?

Beth loves staying with him.

'Cause she's a sweet girl who wants you to feel okay

about abandoning her.That is cruel.

And you know how much Frank has changed since you were young.Mom,

you see what you want to see.Whoa, okay, all right.

Hey, whoa, let's just stay

on task here.

We're trying to figure out what happened.

What happened is Beth ran. Okay, let's say

that she ran. Why wouldshe leave her cell phone?

She knows her phone can be tracked.

That's the kind of crap you learn when you're raised

by a survivalist nut...She didn't run!

Okay. All right, listen, we're gonna go back to NCISSimone!

and talk about thisa little bit more,

in private.

Everyone, please!Housing inequality was an issue

in Orleans Parish before COVID, Suzanne.Exactly why we need to extend

the city's eviction moratorium. By bankrupting landlords? No.

Lining their pockets instead?

This is ridiculous, Dennis.We won't get anywhere yelling

at each other.I'll stop yelling when we start addressing

the real problems.The real problem

is getting this group to agree

on anything other than lunch.

I hope you're not blaming me.

Well, if she isn't, I am.

This is unbelievable. Every time you walk in a room

you think your idea is the onlyYou two, listen...

good one here.

Is the gavel necessary? I am trying

to keep things civil, but you two going

at each other's throats is not helping.

Well, Dr. Wade implying

we've been spinningour wheels

isn't very civil, is it?

I'm not implying anything. I'm stating a fact.

I've been on this commission a month,

and we haven't presented any new recommendations.

Loretta's right. I'd like to remind everyone

that, while Mayor Taylor was pleased with our proposal

to eliminate cash bail,

she's still expecting much overdue progress.

Okay, so what are we doing wrong here?

This.

Rewriting eviction laws.

Building new affordable housing.

Fighting mortgage interest deductions.

All warranted areas of reform.

Yes. But extremely complex.

Which is why we can't agree on one.

Then what are you suggesting?

We need to start from scratch.

Oh, dear Lord.You're kidding, right?

we need to correct, but starting over?

Will you stop with the damn gavel?

Patton able to pull anything off the traffic cams

near City Park? Nothing yet.

And we checked the sex offender registry in Mid-City.

Only got one hit, and the creep was at court-mandated therapy

at the time of Beth's disappearance.

Could be the sister's right.

You know, maybe she ran away.

You think she left her phone so she couldn't be tracked?

Beth's 15 years old, not Jason Bourne.

Wow, I guess movie night's paying off.

If Beth didn't run away,

someone she's close with could have her.

What do we know about the family?

Beth's mom

has been a helo pilot and squadron commander

for five years.

Spotless record, zero complaints,

no access to military secrets that might make her a target.

Yeah, her other daughter, Simone, she works as a paralegal

at Esparza and Sons in contract litigation.

She keeps mostly to herself.

Which leaves the ex-husband, Frank.

And that's where it gets weird.

Frank Hogan was with the Army Corps

of Engineers before he retired 15 years ago.

Since then, nothing.

Nothing, as in...Nothing, as in

no taxes, no credit cards, no phone bill, nothing.

SEBASTIAN Yeah, Franklin's off the grid.

According to Commander Hogan,

he can only be reached through a ham radio.

Which he's not answering. And that's why Hanna

and Carter are going to visit him in the boonies.

What, Frank's some kind of a survivalist?

Yeah, and according to the photos on Beth's phone,

so is she. Look at this.

This kid can really handle herself.

Kind of wish I was like that growing up.

What? A doomsday prepper?

Yeah. I mean, you can't fault someone

for wanting to be prepared for society's downfall.

Can't I?

Let's double back with Mom,

see what she can tell us about Frank.

Not surprised

Frank's not answering the radio.

He's offline a lot.Sounds unpredictable.

You think maybe he took Beth without your knowledge?

Why would he do that?

He was gonna have her for the next six months.

From what we understand,

your ex hasn't always been this eccentric.

What happened?

August 2005 happened.

Katrina.

We lost our home, our savings.

We were broke with an 11-year-old

and a baby on the way.

Painful times.

Simone and I

kept our heads up, marched on, but for Frank...

Not so easy?

He felt betrayed

by FEMA's response.

By the government.

Frank quit the Army a few months later,

right after Beth was born.

Said we could only rely on ourselves.

He moved us to Folsom, built a cabin.

What little money we had left we used for canned goods

baby food and guns.

Well, that's a big change.