Previously on Tracker... I think I found
what you might be looking for on Sheldon Grimes.
Good. I take it Reenie delivered.
Yeah, so far. I had a good feeling about her.
Your friend Elliott came through
with that recommendation.
Elliott.
I totally lost track of time.
Get a big new client
and forget about dinner with your boyfriend.
Luturna Corp.
We're still in stealth mode.
And Grimes is a part of that?
Hey, Dory. Who would have thought
my baby sister's a physics expert? Come here.
This says Dad was employed
by the government for seven years.
Don't you think if this is true, it's strange
that Mom never told us any of this?
Last year when my mom passed away,
there was this file box,
and then I realized it belonged to your father.
Why would she have something like that?
I asked myself the same thing.
You still have that box?
Maybe there's something in there about what he was doing.
I didn't know what to do with it, so I called Dory,
and she had me send it to her.
Dory has it?
Yeah.
You know, you could have stayed at my house.
I have a guest room. No, it's all right. Just a quick little trip.
This way I can leave when I need to. Mm.
Right, yes, your brand. My brand?
I didn't realize I had a brand, but, no, this place is great.
Look, I got everything I need right here.
Do you?
You don't like my place?
Um... It's okay.
I was just driving through. Wanted to see my little sister,
and get some insults.
Yeah. No, it's stunning. It's a stunning place.
Just stay for dinner then, okay?
Sure. Sure. Great.
I got one hour before my next class.
You want to go through this now,
or are you waiting until I... leave?
Kept it safe for you, was waiting for your phone call.
Did you go through it?
Yes. There's a lot of research, notes,
but there's no smoking gun. Mom know about it?
No. I mean, you can go ahead and tell her, but I didn't.
I didn't want to do that.
His work on zero-point energy though,
it's way ahead of the curve. He onto something?
I don't know. It was a long time ago.
Maybe. Colter, Dad was a genius,
but he was kind of losing his mind at the end there.
Yeah. I remember he was always talking about
people were trying to steal his ideas.
Maybe that's why he gave the box to Lizzy's mom.
Yeah, that, or the, um... the affair they were having.
I just want to be clear about that part of it, but...
yes, she was working on material sciences, so maybe.
Lizzy said that her mother and our dad got into a fight
the night that he dropped the box off.
I'm thinking maybe it was because he was pressuring her
to do something with it
'cause he had lost his academic credibility.
Yeah, it's possible.
I can't help but think that there's something in that box
that's connected
to what happened to Dad the night he died.
A while back, Russell and I ran into this government spook
who knew an awful lot about Dad. A lot.
What if Dad wasn't paranoid?
What if his research got him killed?
I mean, I'm sure Dad made a lot of enemies over the years, yeah.
Yeah.
Thanks for bringing it.
If you need help with any of the science-y stuff,
let me know, okay?
Thank you.
Let me, uh... let me grab this real quick.
Reenie, what's up?
Do you remember Leo Sharf?
Your client?
Yeah.
His assistant Francie's gone missing.
How soon can you get to Seattle?
Seattle? I can be there tonight.
Thank you.
Yeah. So, I have to, uh... Oh.
You got to go. I get it.
Look, just
do not obsess over this.
Don't pick up where Dad left off.
We know how that ends.
Okay?
Good to see you.
Hey. Came as quick as I could.
Thanks for coming. Sharf will pay your fee.
Tell me about this assistant.
Francie Butler... she's been missing
since at least 7:00 a.m. this morning.
From this hotel?
Yeah. Sharf's new company,
Luturna Corp., is launching tomorrow.
We've been holed up in here, working nonstop for 70 hours.
- Police? - No, you were my first call.
Sharf doesn't really want to go there yet.
Got a lot riding on this launch.
Okay. When was the last time
anyone saw or heard from her?
I called her at midnight.
Francie said she was making edits to my keynote speech.
Uh, we'd arranged to go over it in the morning.
I called. Nothing.
So, I knocked, and she never answered the door.
I was with him. Security let us in.
Okay. This balcony door here... was it open like this?
The room is exactly how we found it.
- And her phone and purse are still here. - Yeah.
Did you go through it?
No. No.
So she has your cholesterol medication in her purse.
That's... interesting.
What-what exactly does she do for you?
Everything, literally. I mean, she's on call 24-7.
If I need anything, I ask her.
And I managed to look at the hallway surveillance footage.
I made up a story about a missing wallet,
said we needed to know if hotel staff had entered the room.
Very smart. You see anything?
No one came in or out after midnight.
Okay.
So she went through here, right?
Why the hell would she do that, huh?
Two stories up.
She runs away, she takes the fire escape down.
She leaves her phone, her purse.
Any idea why? No, no, it doesn't make any sense.
Okay. I have to ask.
Your relationship... anything more than professional?
No. Absolutely not.
I'm a lot of things, but I'm not that guy.
Arguments recently, anything like that?
Oh, little disagreements here and there, but nothing unusual.
Colter, I spent a lot of time
with them over the past couple of days.
Okay, if she had a problem with Leo,
I think I would've known about it.
Tell me about this company launch.
Uh, it's been pretty stressful, but they always are.
Yeah. Francie never gets rattled.
She always focuses on the details.
What do you think happened?
Someone's trying to screw up this launch.
So you think maybe a competitor took her?
Francie knows a lot of proprietary information.
She's crucial to the whole process.
That's an alert
Francie set for priority emails that I get.
All messages to this email are encrypted and secure.
Uh, there's an attachment.
Open it.
It's Francie.
"Listen carefully.
If you do not follow these rules..."
"...I will die.
No cops.
Do not try to find me.
"You have exactly one hour
to transfer $5 million to this account."
Leo, please help me.
Oh, my God.
No, I said I need it now.
No, no, that doesn'thelp me.
YDR Bank can't transfer that amount of money.
There's not enough time.
They have security measures.
They start asking questions.
Of course. Are we sure paying the ransom is the right move?
What choice do I have? Call their bluff?
Tight timeline's intentional.
You know, they're trying to take away your options.
Five million in cash is not gonna be easy,
but let me try something.
Bobby, what do you got?
Whoever sent that email tried masking the IP address
through TOR, but I finally cracked it.
I'm sending you the address now.
Got it.
C, that place is 35 minutes away from you,
and you only got 33 minutes left.
Did Sharf make the transfer?
He still needs more time.
We don't have time. Can you get to Francie?
I'm working on it, Reenie. I'll call you back.
I got here before the timer went off.
They were never gonna hand over Francie.
What the hell does that mean?
It means it wouldn't have mattered if you got
the ransom money or not.
I don't understand.
Did they kill Francie?
I got a bullet here.
No tissue, no blood.
If it had hit her, there'd be something on it.
So she's still alive.
What the hell are they doing?
They're trying to scare me and drag this out
so they can bleed me dry with increased ransom demands.
- This whole thing's a setup. - Then we need
to call the FBI before they reach out with more demands.
They find out we brought in the FBI, they'll kill her,
and we'll never hear from them again.
This is more than just a simple corporate kidnapping.
Then what do you think it is?
This is personal.
Can you think of anyone
who would want to do this to you? Uh,
disgruntled employees, enemies. I need a list.
That's a long list. There's a lot of people
who have it out for me. What if it's Sheldon Grimes?
He was one of the founders of Luturna.
Leo asked him to resign last week.
When was the last time you talked to him?
Not since I asked him to leave.
I saw a sign.
"Ficus Grove Developments." Is he connected
to that in any way?
He was one of the investors. He's probably
trying to destroy the launch of Luturna Corp.
Grimes went through a nasty divorce last year,
went all scorched earth on his ex.
So, needless to say, he is very vindictive.
He's our guy.
Where does he live?
Uh, downtown in a... alone in a townhouse.
Send me an address. I'm gonna pay him a visit.
Colter, did you find Grimes?
No, he's not here. Looks like he left in a hurry, though.
His cell phone's still here.
He own any other property?
Only the investment in Ficus Grove,
but no other homes.
I need to find out where he's keeping Francie.
I'll talk to you later.
Okay.
Hey. Come in. Hey.
Something to take the edge off?
No, no, no, I'm good.
One of us needs to keep a clear head.
You sound like Francie.
You need to cancel the launch.
Leo, okay, if people find out
about Francie's kidnapping, it could be disastrous.
Figured that would be your advice.
Okay, for the record,
my advice was to not confront Grimes when you did.
What's done is done.
I don't even know why you pay me
if you're just gonna ignore my opinion. There was never
gonna be a good time to confront Grimes, and you know that.
Okay. Better just to rip the Band-Aid off.
He was beginning to suspect... You could've let him fly
to Dusseldorf, like he was supposed to,
and then dropped the bomb then.
It was important for me to do it in person.
We've known each other a long time.
I owed him that at least.
You know what? I might have that drink.
The most important thing now is to get Francie back safe.
I couldn't agree more.
If we cancel the launch, we have to give a reason.
We can't mention Francie.
You have a plan?
Blame the chip manufacturer.
A flaw in the
latest batch that you found.
It makes Luturna seem unreliable.
And that should be the least of your concerns right now.
Because if word gets out
that you just went ahead with the launch
when your assistant was being held hostage?
Come on. That is a PR nightmare
for a brand-new company with skittish investors.
Please.
Uh...
Ah. It's Elliott.
Here's here to see me. I got to go.
Cancel the launch, Leo.
Make the announcement.
Colter.
I'm at Grimes's townhome. I'm looking at a bunch of photos.
One of you two standing in front of a yacht. That ring a bell?
Yeah. We used to take it out for a weekend
and have brainstorming sessions.
Where does he keep it docked? Westside Marina.
It had a funky name, like The Seagull.
No, The Pelican.
Why? Do you think he's there? Yeah, I think he might be.
Looks like it meant something to him.
All right, I'm gonna go check it out.
Oh. I'm so glad you're here.
Yeah.
Hey, it's gonna be all right.
What's happening with Francie is...
is partly my fault.
Why?
Because you dug up dirt on Grimes? Come on.
I mean, you could blame me, too, since I referred you to Sharf.
You know why he wanted leverage, don't you?
Sharf asked me to draft up a new shareholder agreement
to remove Grimes's stake from the company.
Not the first lawyer to do something like that.
Yeah, but I dug into Grimes's personal life
to get leverage for Sharf.
Been there, done that.
Elliott, you don't understand.
It was after I asked Sharf for a favor.
I used his helicopter to rescue Colter.
So, you... you owed him?
I mean, I let him hold it over any objections
that I might have had.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, you know the gig, right?
We're not here to morally judge our clients.
I know that. It's...
It's just that Francie's life is at stake now.
Did I ever tell you about Jeremy and the knife?
No. No, I never told you about that?
It was an old case I worked on.
Jeremy was the teenage son
of this, like, really big client at our firm.
And, uh, a neighbor accused him
of breaking into her house
and threatening her with a hunting knife.
Now, Jeremy's father, our client... he said
the whole thing was completely bogus,
this woman was an alcoholic, and she was trying
to get back at him for rejecting her advances, and... Yeah, okay.
I got the case dismissed.
That felt really nice, too, 'cause Jeremy...
Jeremy was the sweetest kid.
So, two years later, after he moved,
Jeremy was convicted
of murdering the young mother who lived next door.
He stabbed her to death with a hunting knife.
Elliott, that's a horrible story.
It's a horrible story.
My point is,
you cannot predict what's gonna happen.
Yeah, I guess not.
The most important thing
right now is that you protect yourself.
Oh, no. I left a flash drive at the Luturna office.
It has a copy of the new shareholder agreement
cutting Grimes out. Confidential, I assume?
Yeah? Yes, that's why we kept it offline.
Right. We didn't want to risk anyone hacking in.
We thought that Grimes would leave quietly,
but if word gets out that there was a blowup
between the two founders, it could tank the company.
You would be in breach for not safeguarding that information.
Yes. I got to get that flash drive.
Okay. I can't risk anyone else seeing it.
I'm coming with you.
What up, C?
Listen, I'm on the boat. There's no sign of Francie.
Grimes was definitely here recently.
I got his laptop here.
Can you open it if I tether you in?
Yeah, of course.
Give me a sec.
All right, I'm ready.
This should do it.
So Grimes was just hiding out there?
Ah, I think he was on some kind of bender,
probably going over all the dirt
that Sharf had Reenie dig up on him.
This guy's got a long history of mistreating women
and getting away with it.
Sounds like our guy.
Okay, I am in the laptop.
Damn. Uh, he was on Reenie's website.
He knew she was doing research on him.
Bobby, I got to call Reenie.
We'll get in and out.
Okay.
And... Oh, got it.
I feel so much better now.
Is there anything else we should grab while we're here?
Actually, Sharf and I were working in the conference room.
You mind checking if we left any papers in there?
Yeah. Where is it?
It's just the bottom of the stairs. Okay.
Thank you.
Okay.
Hey, did you find anything?
No, but I found out where Grimes has been hiding out.
He's not here anymore.
If he's got Francie, he's got her someplace else.
Where are you?
I'm at Luturna with Elliott. I'm just picking up my files.
I'm pretty sure that if we...
Reenie?
Uh...
Hi. This is Reenie Greene. Please leave a message.
Hey!
Elliott.
Elliott, if you can hear me, hang on, okay?
Stay with me. Come on.
So when you got here, Grimes wasn't here?
No.
And no sign of Reenie Greene other than her phone and purse?
I've checked the entire building.
So, just to confirm. Francie Butler disappeared
sometime after midnight two nights ago,
and Sheldon Grimes has been
MIA for the past week.
And you believe Grimes is out
to screw over his old partner Leo Sharf?
I think it's the only thing that makes sense, right?
He starts with the ransom, and now this.
He shoots Elliott, he takes Reenie.
He's escalating.
So Sharf could be next.
Listen, I noticed the security cameras around here.
Did you check those? The building's new.
They're not operational yet.
But the keycard system is.
Grimes used his keycard
about an hour before Reenie Greene arrived.
So, he was waiting to ambush her.
This over here. Look at this here.
Now these... right here, these are obvious high heel prints.
Right? Look at this.
That hole right there can be from Reenie's heel.
Looks like she put up a fight.
Damn right she did.
Over here we got two handprints.
Different sizes.
All right? One of them attacked Elliott, shot him,
the other one took Reenie.
Mr. Sharf is here.
We're asking to record a video statement
urging Grimes to turn himself in.
We'll send it to family and friends in case he checks in.
That's very smart.
What if he doesn't check in?
We'll go wide with the media.
Special Agent Moss, thanks for coming.
Mr. Shaw, appreciate all your help,
but the FBI will take it from here. Reenie's a close friend.
She's in danger. Let me help you.
This is a federal crime, so I'm gonna need you
to step back and not interfere.
If you follow me, we can get started.
Uh, give me a minute, please.
I don't want you to stop looking for Reenie or Francie.
I wasn't planning on it.
Good. Find them.
I don't care what it takes.
Bobby.
FBI pulled rank?
Yeah, well, they tried to.
Listen, if we're gonna find Francie or Reenie,
we got to do it on our own. Let's go.
All right. I got some footage off an ATM camera
across the street from Luturna.
It showed a black SUV leaving the parking lot
20 minutes after Reenie arrived.
You get a license plate?
It's too far away. The resolution sucks.
You check Reenie's phone?
Oh, good thinking.
Maybe she's got one of those smartwatches
or fitness trackers linked to it.
Yep, she's got one of those smart rings to track her sleep.
Got a location?
I'm waiting for it.
Boom, there it is.
I just sent you the location.
Got it. Thanks.
You're okay, you're okay. I'm here to help you.
Francie, you're okay.
My name is Colter. I'm here to help you.
You're safe.
Get you out of there.
All right.
Easy.
Look at me, look at me.
Okay.
Can you think of anything that could help us identify
the people who took you?
There were two men.
But they were wearing these camouflage ski masks,
so I didn't see their faces.
Was Reenie in the car?
I-I never saw her.
The... This guy, he was driving me out...
to kill me.
And then he just left. I don't know why.
Police scanner on the dash.
He would've heard there was an APB out on the vehicle
and ditched it.
These two men, were they working for someone?
Yeah, I think so.
They were responding to instructions.
From Sheldon Grimes?
I...
I don't know. But that would make sense.
He's been really angry at Leo.
We were working late one... day last month
and he came in drunk and he said that Leo was gonna betray him
because that's what he does.
Meaning he's betrayed others?
There are some people who say
that Leo Sharf isn't really a creator...
he's just a ruthless businessman.
They're gonna take you to the hospital,
get you checked out.
Thank you.
Hmm.
I didn't want to say this in front of Francie,
but Grimes could've traded up.
Reenie's a more valuable target.
Blames her for his downfall.
We need to find her before he decides to hurt her.
Listen, about before,
I was following protocol.
But I can see we have a much better chance of finding Reenie
if we work together.
I agree with that.
Your team find anything of use?
Grimes's phone records.
In the month before his disappearance,
he made an unusual amount of calls
to people he'd worked with in the past.
He's looking for an accomplice.
All right, I'll have my guy do some research,
see if we can find someone that finds Sharf...
...as a common enemy.
I got a hit on the SUV.
They tried to remove the VIN,
but they tracked it down to a felon named Jimmy Pyke.
A few years ago,
he was part of a botched murder-for-hire scheme.
Lives in Southeast Seattle.
If he's still working with Grimes, he could have Reenie.
Send me an address?
Look, I don't care who you are, okay?
There are people who will pay a lot of money for my release.
Keep walking.
I-I can't breathe.
Shut it. I'm serious. I-I need air.
Trust me,
I am worth more to you alive than I am dead.
Hey.
Hey. Hey.
Hey, are you okay?
Grimes?
Wait, what are you...
Wait, wait, wait. Who's-who's doing this?
Tell me.
It's Sharf.
He's behind all of this.
No, that's...
that's impossible.
He wouldn't kidnap his own employees.
You don't really know him.
He has a multitude of plans
and a reason for everything.
H-Hey, look.
Tell me,
who do you work for, huh?
Is it Leo Sharf?
Okay, okay, okay.
Okay, please.
You-you don't have to do this, okay?
Please. Please.
Talk to me, Bobby.
Sharf's got a lot of enemies.
Anything pop? One. A programmer Sharf worked with
before he launched his first company.
Got a name?
Uh, Cyrus Barzotti.
Died by suicide
15 years ago after Sharf got very rich
off an algorithm Barzotti created.
Suicide. So it wasn't him. No.
But here's the thing...
Barzotti has a younger sister named Francesca.
Francie Butler.
Yeah. She changed her last name.
Got a master's degree in game theory at MIT.
Why is she working as an executive assistant?
Get close to Sharf.
Exactly what I was thinking.
She's been trying to avenge
her brother's death for years,
and now she's got the perfect plan.
She's gonna use Grimes as a fall guy.
Yeah, but why take Reenie? That doesn't make any sense.
She knew that Reenie was spending time with Sharf
and she would get in the way.
So she uses her guys to swipe Grimes's keycard,
break into Luturna,
because she figured Reenie would go back for her files.
So it's no coincidence that you found Francie
after I located Reenie on her smart ring.
Francie planned every move, anticipating what we would do.
Damn. That girl played us.
I'd be low-key impressed if she didn't have Reenie.
You got a home address for Francie?
Got an apartment, but I got something better.
I do have a commercial property she rented four months ago.
Sending you the address.
Nice work, Bobby. Thanks.
Francie.
The FBI told me they found you,
that you were at the hospital.
Are you okay?
Don't... answer that.
You still have no idea what this is about, do you?
Do you even remember Cyrus?
Cyrus?
Who, Barzotti?
I'm his younger sister.
Which you would have known
if you had bothered to check in on my family even once
after he died.
I should have. You're right.
I was young and immature.
I didn't know how to deal with that kind of pain.
He killed himself
because of what you did to him.
He trusted you.
My family...
was destroyed.
The boss says we got to move the body now.
I can fix this.
I can sign over half my shares of Luturna to you.
You think this is about money?
Get on your knees.
Now!
Okay. Okay.
Francie,
don't do something you're gonna regret.
I know you timed this to ruin Luturna.
The FBI will figure that out.
No.
They'll think Grimes did it.
You made it so easy,
triggering his spiral.
He was so upset, he kidnapped two women,
killed you,
and then he killed himself.
This is his gun.
And when they find his body in his car,
it'll make perfect sense.
There has to be something you want.
I want you...
...to admit what you did.
I admit that I cut your brother out of the company.
And I can tell you why.
Oh, I know why.
It's who you are, Leo.
The lies,
the greed.
I made a terrible mistake.
Cyrus should still be here.
In the office next to mine.
I stole his creation.
I took all the credit, the profits... everything.
I would give up my own life for his.
Okay, Leo.
Prove it.
How?
I'll do whatever you want.
I'm gonna give you a chance
to make that decision again.
Either you die
or Reenie dies.
Your choice.
Hold up.
Got to stand by.
Get ready to kill the lawyer.
You really pissed someone off.
Look, whatever you want, I can get it for you, okay?
I'm a damn good lawyer. I can get you out of this mess.
- I swear. - Too late
for that. Why?
Why? What does that mean? "Too late for that"?
Means you need that hood back on.
Turn around.
I said turn around!
Okay.
Hey! Hey, look. Look, just... Will you look at me?
Let me see you before I die, okay?
You have the most beautiful eyes.
Reenie.
Reenie. You okay?
Reenie. Look at me. Look at me.
You're gonna be okay.
You came just in time.
Cut you loose. Okay.
Oh, my. Colter.
You're okay.
No, no, no, no. Elliott.
Elliott's at the hospital.
They're working on him.
We got to get out of here, okay?
Come on. Let's go. Okay.
Come on.
Drop the weapon!
Francie!
Drop the weapon!
You okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm okay.
Mm?
Yeah?
Hey. Come on in.
Nice surprise. Yeah. Thank you.
I was just heading to the hospital to see Elliott.
Wanted to catch you before you left.
How's he doing?
Not bad, considering.
He wanted me to thank you
for saving his life.
I didn't...
save his life... I just happened to be there.
The doctors saved his life.
Thank you for saving my life.
You would've done the same thing for me.
Is this your way of telling me maybe you wouldn't have done
the same thing for me or...?
Of course I would have.
You okay?
Yeah, I'm good.
You talk to Sharf?
Yes, I did. And... And?
...he denies that he ever took the algorithm
from Francie's brother.
Ah. Do you believe him?
I don't know.
The FBI said that he was willing to die for me
before they showed up.
So he says.
You really want to believe that he's a good guy, don't you?
I believe that he is complicated.
That's-that's one word for him.
I don't condone what Francie did,
but I certainly understand her more than I understand Sharf.
I guess that she really couldn't get past
what happened to her family.
Right.
Oh, it's Velma.
I should take this. Um...
I'll head out.
Safe travels? Yeah.
All right? Yeah.
- Say hi to Velma. - I will.
Hey, Velma.
Yeah, I'm okay,
thanks to Colter.
Yeah, I'm leaving now.
Okay.
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