NUMB3RS - Con Job   View more episodes

Aired at 03:00 AM on Friday, Oct 15, 2010 (10/15/2010)      View all transcripts from this day

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00:00:00plagiarism!
00:00:02I'm gonna sue this guy Maddux.
00:00:04Okay, let's focus on catching them first.
00:00:06Okay, well, for starters, they are way too familiar with this place.
00:00:11You think they have an inside man?
00:00:15More like an inside chick.
00:00:16Someone who works at the Exchange.
00:00:17Maybe someone who works in security.
00:00:20At least that's how I roll.
00:00:22I look for a beautiful woman, someone who's very dissatisfied with her life, misunderstood. Buckley.
00:00:29We share each other's secrets.
00:00:31DON: Buckley, focus!
00:00:32Come on.
00:00:33Sorry.
00:00:34Well, we know how they got in.
00:00:37The question is how are they gonna get out?
00:00:41The art of the con is the art of misdirection.
00:00:44Lesson number one: never show your true hand.
00:00:46They requested a plane, a bus?
00:00:49No, that's all smoke and mirrors.
00:00:51My guess is Maddux is gonna send the hostages out the front door, and then him and his crew are gonna escape underground.
00:00:57Through the sewers.
00:00:58Bingo, Professor.
00:01:00The best defense is a good offense. So you're saying we should take Maddux down before he makes his move.
00:01:07What about the bombs?
00:01:08If they're following my plan, there's always a couple of escape routes in case the cops breach-- exit doors that you can go out of and you know you won't get blown up.
00:01:16Okay, so some of the bombs on the doors are probably dummies.
00:01:19So, which ones?
00:01:21May I?
00:01:22Now, in prison, we play this game on the computer calledJeu Militaire.
00:01:30Each player gets three black dots, and the computer gets one red dot.
00:01:35We take turns moving around on the grid.
00:01:37The object of the game is to trap the red dot so that it has no place to move.
00:01:44Now, if you reverse it, and you imagine that Maddux is the red dot and we're the black dots, Maddux is trying to find the best escape route.
00:01:51What you're talking about is combinatorial game theory.
00:01:55Heuristic learning.
00:01:55Sounds incurable. Sounds like an answer.
00:01:57All right, so... you guys should get to work.
00:01:59LIZ: I'll talk to Nikki-- we'll get started looking for an inside chick.
00:02:04Hold on.
00:02:05El Pollo Guapo? I love this place.
00:02:07These are our guys? Yeah, we put LAPD in the delivery guys' uniforms. Mmm.
00:02:12BUCKLEY: Fantastic.
00:02:13Do me a favor.
00:02:14When you're done feeding the multitudes here, could you get the professor and I two mochaccinos?
00:02:19Oh, no, I'm okay.
00:02:19And a, um... chai latte with a hint of cinnamon for the lady and, uh, black coffee for Grumpy over there.
00:02:27I've got Maddux on the line.
00:02:29BUCKLEY: Hey, guys, listen!
00:02:30If he lets you buy more time, the airplane is a con.
00:02:33Him and his guys are going to be tunneling their way out.
00:02:43This is Eppes.
00:02:45Where is my food?
00:02:46It's on its way.
00:02:47But we need a little more time for that plane.
00:02:53One hour.
00:02:55And I want that food.
00:02:57All right, you better have SWAT cover those sewer exits, right?
00:03:00We're talking a lot of manpower.
00:03:02I think we know a guy.
00:03:06Hey.
00:03:06I heard Don gave you a call.
00:03:08Ready to go spelunking?
00:03:09We going to need miner's lights?
00:03:11No, just an outlet.
00:03:12My, uh, computer is dying.
00:03:14Ah.
00:03:18I hope you understand this.
00:03:20It's just an elaboration on the same strategy puzzles that you did in prison.
00:03:24Hey, Charlie.
00:03:25I'm sending you the traffic flow data you asked for.
00:03:29And you are...?
00:03:30Engaged... to me.
00:03:32Really? Yes.
00:03:33You're a lucky guy. Thank you.
00:03:35Hello.
00:03:36Okay. Nice.
00:03:37All right, we're almost there.
00:03:38You know, I got to say, your, um, Jeu Militaireidea was inspired.
00:03:42I don't know if you realize this, but you're kind of a natural at game theory.
00:03:46Thank you.
00:03:47Math was always my best subject.
00:03:48I even got a scholarship. AMITA: To where?
00:03:51Mit.
00:03:52.. mit?
00:03:54I know. Go figure.
00:03:55Couple weeks before classes started, my buddies convinced me to go down to Costa Rica to do a little fishing...
00:04:01and drug running.
00:04:02One of those turns you take in life, you know?
00:04:06But, if you guys make it to your honeymoon, I've got two words for you: Costa Rica.
00:04:14The most beautiful place on Earth. Trust me.
00:04:16AMITA: Uh, I got to get going.
00:04:18I'll check in later.
00:04:20Nice meeting you.
00:04:21I look forward to going to the wedding.
00:04:24(chuckles) Lunchtime.
00:04:40I would have ordered the fries.
00:05:04Okay, they got their food.
00:05:05Now let's hope they let them walk out of there.
00:05:16DAVID: We have Nikki and your dad on a videoconference.
00:05:19Oh, yeah. Just put it up here for me.
00:05:22Hey, guys. What do you got?
00:05:24ALAN: Uh, you wanted sewers.
00:05:25I'm giving you sewers.
00:05:26We're sending you a feed now.
00:05:30What are we looking at?
00:05:32You know, actually, your friend, Mr. Buckley, is right.
00:05:34The sewers run right underneath the building.
00:05:36So, I flagged the sewer lines that are the best candidates for escape.
00:05:40NIKKI: And the exits all surface in alleyways within a few blocks of the Exchange.
00:05:45DAVID: Probably have a car stashed nearby.
00:05:47Right. I mean, we could definitely cover this.
00:05:49Get SWAT moving now.
00:05:49That's good, Dad. Thanks.
00:05:52Dad?
00:05:52How many Eppes guys you got in the FBI?
00:05:55Oh, actually, I'm an urban planner.
00:05:57But I do have an FBI file.
00:06:00Oh.
00:06:01Some circus you're running over here.
00:06:03Next, you're going to tell me you have another member of the family who's an astronomer sending you satellite images.
00:06:08He's on sabbatical.
00:06:10CHARLIE: Hey, Don. We got a location on the dummy bombs. All right. Good.
00:06:13See? I told you-- I know what I'm doing.
00:06:16All right, Buckley. Well done.
00:06:17They're going to be taking you back in about 20 minutes.
00:06:20No, come on. LIZ: Let's go.
00:06:21Oh, tough love. Hey.
00:06:23What do you say, two years from now, you and me-- dinner, Malibu, le Coal Keel.
00:06:28What do you think?
00:06:29Give me two years to think about it.
00:06:32That wasn't a no.
00:06:33Eppes, do me a favor.
00:06:36Once you bust Maddux, you give him a message.
00:06:38What's that?
00:06:40Nobody uses my master plan and gets away with it.
00:06:43Not even me.
00:06:46Au revoir, mademoiselle.
00:06:48(speaking French) DON: Marcus, get him out of here.
00:06:54And keep an eye on him.
00:06:57It's a shame.
00:06:57Guy could have been a CEO if he hadn't become a crook.
00:07:01What's the difference?
00:07:11We're ready, Don.
00:07:16Nikki, you got eyes?
00:07:17Three bad guys on the main floor of the Exchange with the hostages.
00:07:22Your brother...
00:07:24he really doesn't like me.
00:07:25Well, it takes him a while to warm up to people.
00:07:28Is that what it is?
00:07:30No.
00:07:43I cut the initiator wire.
00:07:45It's not hot.
00:07:46Bomb's a dummy.
00:07:47DAVID: Rear door's clear.
00:07:53We got a dummy bomb on the side door, too.
00:07:54Clear.
00:07:58All right.
00:07:59Here we go. We're going in.
00:08:01Hit it.
00:08:16Got orders to escort the prisoner back to Terminal Island. Oh, no, not now.
00:08:19Come on. I've given you so much information.
00:08:22All right, well, it was nice working with you, Professor.
00:08:24Maybe you'll let me teach one of your classes next time, when I get out.
00:08:27Oh, yeah, that'll go over with the trustees.
00:08:36What's up with the mirror?
00:08:42(small explosions booming) Fbi! fbi!
00:08:45Don't shoot! Don't shoot! Don't move!
00:08:48Don't shoot.
00:08:49DON: Got anything on you? Huh?
00:08:53It's a rubber gun. It's fake.
00:08:57What's going on?
00:08:59Oh, we've been had.
00:09:02All right. Take it easy.
00:09:04Let's go. Get in the truck.
00:09:07Hey! Hey, what's going on?
00:09:08Shut up, Buckley. You're coming with us.
00:09:10Hey, take it easy! Charlie!
00:09:11(Buckley screaming) (gunshot) BUCKLEY: Professor!
00:09:15Professor!
00:09:17What the hell?
00:09:20Help! Help!
00:09:22Help!
00:09:22You're gonna drive. Get in the driver's seat.
00:09:25I can't drive!
00:09:26Yeah, drive the truck. (screaming) Come on, drive the truck.
00:09:29(siren wailing) Put your foot on the gas and drive.
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00:13:19These guys had it all planned out.
00:13:20They didn't stop you from triggering the alarm.
00:13:23Yeah, well, I paid the price.
00:13:25Yeah. How did Maddux's guys trade places with you and your employees?
00:13:28Um...
00:13:29Before the food arrived, they took us to the men's room on a bathroom break.
00:13:33They gave us rubber guns.
00:13:35Told you if you didn't play along, they'd blow up the building?
00:13:37Yeah. They were waiting for the food delivery guys and the cop in the vestibule.
00:13:39They'd already stripped off their jumpsuits.
00:13:41They had matching uniforms on underneath.
00:13:44Explains why they were so specific about their choice in takeout.
00:13:46And why they only wanted one police escort.
00:13:49And then the one dressed like the SWAT guy tasered all of them.
00:13:52Knocked them unconscious.
00:13:53LIZ: The guys dressed like delivery men finished making the delivery.
00:13:56And then all three of them walked right out the door like nothing even happened.
00:14:00(sighs) What I don't get is...
00:14:02You know, we had eyes on them from the outside.
00:14:04I mean, we saw them going in.
00:14:06Ah, but what you saw was a reflection.
00:14:08They took advantage of the existing architecture, the mirrored glass, and then they made some critical additions.
00:14:15Threw in more mirrors.
00:14:16And it made it look like our two bad guys walking in from the side were our two delivery guys heading straight in.
00:14:29And, of course, they covered the switch with a little help from Mother Nature.
00:14:36I remember the sun kicking off the door when it closed.
00:14:38It took my eyes a couple of seconds to adjust.
00:14:40Well, yeah. Those are the seconds they used to pull the switch.
00:14:45Misdirection.
00:14:46Buckley's lesson number one.
00:14:49DAVID: LAPD found the mobile command post abandoned in an alley four blocks away.
00:14:54There were tire tracks, so someone took off in a hurry.
00:14:56All right, so they had a car waiting.
00:14:57Also, the Exchange ran an inventory.
00:14:59So far, nothing is missing.
00:15:00Well, they had to take something, right?
00:15:01Yeah. Buckley.
00:15:02You don't really think he cooked this whole thing up just to escape.
00:15:06Pretty elaborate.
00:15:06Overengineering is the mathematical terminology.
00:15:08Smells like Buckley. I say the guy has played us from the get-go.
00:15:11Don, he's been cooperating.
00:15:12He's given us information on Maddux, I mean, what they've been up to.
00:15:16If it smells like Buckley, it might be because they're using his plan.
00:15:19Don, the guy got shot.
00:15:21We found blood and the spent shell.
00:15:22Also didn't look like he had a lot of choice driving that command vehicle, either.
00:15:25And all the math I've done indicates his innocence.
00:15:27Yeah, and how you figure that?
00:15:28Game theory. Buckley knows it pretty well.
00:15:30The DA offered him two years in prison.
00:15:32There's no way he's going to risk getting caught on an attempted escape, only to serve ten more years.
00:15:38You're still not buying it.
00:15:41No.
00:15:41I ran the phone logs for the Exchange's security contractor.
00:15:44Maddux made a series of phone calls to a woman in the department that handles maintenance for the IP camera system.
00:15:50Name's Lola Sacco.
00:15:53Miss Morro Bay, 2005?
00:15:55I didn't realize that you were a fan of pageants.
00:15:59They promote world peace.
00:16:01It could be that, uh, Buckley was right again.
00:16:05Maybe we found our "inside chick." Lola Sacco.
00:16:14Like to ask you a few questions.
00:16:16Is this about stealing office supplies?
00:16:20No.
00:16:21Do you recognize him?
00:16:27Gil, isn't this your boyfriend?
00:16:29You haven't been using my phone again, have you?
00:16:33I had a fling with the guy.
00:16:35A two week affair two months ago.
00:16:37NIKKI: Must've been some two weeks.
00:16:38DAVID: You're going to prison.
00:16:39How long depends on the answers you give us right now, so I suggest that you give it some careful thought.
00:16:46Where's Maddux? I don't know.
00:16:48See, I don't think careful thought went into that. I swear. I don't know.
00:16:54Look, he wanted to know about the IP cameras.
00:16:59Their placement, how they're networked, how to hack the system.
00:17:02And you gave it to him.
00:17:03He said he was going to kill me.
00:17:04You don't understand, he's a scary guy. NIKKI: What else?
00:17:07He wanted access to the Exchange, off-hours, over a weekend.
00:17:11He told me he was going to install some device inside one of the cameras on the trading room floor.
00:17:15What kind of device?
00:17:16I don't know. Why the trading room floor?
00:17:18I don't know that, either.
00:17:20You recognize this guy?
00:17:23Never seen him before in my life.
00:17:26DON: I just need some time.
00:17:28BUCKLEY: I'm sorry to hear that.
00:17:29You're prolonging the situation.
00:17:32Letting me think that I'm in control when the truth is-- I am in control!
00:17:38You still think he's in on it.
00:17:40Yeah, I know what the facts say.
00:17:42There's a call for you, line one.
00:17:44Who? Didn't get a name.
00:17:46Guy's on a cell, keeps breaking up.
00:17:47All I know is he kept yelling at me, calling me an idiot and telling me to get Eppes.
00:17:55(sighs) Buckley, what do you want?
00:18:01How'd you know it was me?
00:18:02Unlucky guess. Where are you?
00:18:04Kinda hard to tell at the moment.
00:18:06Wait-wait a second.
00:18:08Hold-hold on.
00:18:12(sighs): There, that's better.
00:18:15Given that my current location is in the trunk of a speeding car, I can't really see much.
00:18:22It looks like I am somewhere in the Valley.
00:18:25Look, Eppes, I know you think I masterminded this whole thing.
00:18:30And while I am very flattered, Nah.
00:18:32I had nothing to do with this.
00:18:34I got a situation here now, Eppes, and I need your help.
00:18:38Well, I need a little convincing.
00:18:40(thump) Ow!
00:18:41The trunk of a speeding car isn't enough?
00:18:44Fine! (groans) Look, Maddux knew that you were getting tipped off somewhere.
00:18:49He grabbed me and he made me do the driving.
00:18:53The guy was holding a gun to my head.
00:18:55What was I supposed to do?
00:18:57Well, why aren't you dead?
00:18:59'Cause Maddux is the kind of guy that tortured small animals when he was a child.
00:19:03Fortunately he never grew up.
00:19:06You have any idea where you're headed?
00:19:09The airport.
00:19:09But I'm afraid that he's going to make a quick stop and drop me in a ditch on the side of the road.
00:19:15(coughing): My leg is killing me.
00:19:17Do me a favor, Eppes.
00:19:19Can you get your brother?
00:19:20Maybe he can figure out some kind of equation to help get me out of here.
00:19:33(beeping) All right, how close?
00:19:35I got a lock, we're running it through the service provider.
00:19:38I'm glad you're on the job, Professor.
00:19:41Wait a second. Now, this doesn't make sense.
00:19:44The ID and location-- it's a call coming from Gifford Kemp.
00:19:48He's on the 12th tee of the Rancho Segundo Country Club.
00:19:51(groaning): Oh!
00:19:53Maddux is using a cloned phone.
00:19:55The cheap bastard.
00:19:56This is definitely not my day.
00:19:58What-what do we do?
00:19:59I mean, I-I designed a-a variant on path minimization that, uh... that maps routes that criminals would take, avoiding law enforcement hot spots like police stations and hospitals.
00:20:11Don't forget donut shops.
00:20:12Yeah, I need you to give me some landmarks.
00:20:14Well, it's kind of hard to see out of this rat hole, but (groans) I'll do my best.
00:20:20Uh, I see a Really Berry Frozen Yogurt.
00:20:26Really Berry...
00:20:28Yeah, there's 47 locations.
00:20:30That's not going to work, Buckley. We need something else.
00:20:33Great. Uh...
00:20:34"Relax the Spine." I need something that's not a chain.
00:20:38It's the Valley, what do you expect?
00:20:42Um...
00:20:42Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait!
00:20:44Here's something.
00:20:46Mitzvah Treatment Center.
00:20:50There's 13 Mitzvah Treatment Centers?
00:20:52You gotta be kidding. BUCKLEY: Uh-oh.
00:20:54Uh, Eppes, Eppes, I'm having a little problem here.
00:20:58Buckley, you're breaking up.
00:20:59Yeah, that's my problem.
00:21:00(phone chirps) I'm running low on battery.
00:21:04We're down to a four mile radius.
00:21:06(groans) Buckley?
00:21:08Eppes... (phone chirps) Look, tell your boys...
00:21:12to look for a car with a white flag.
00:21:19Buckley?
00:21:20Eppes, whatever happens, (phone chirps) I know you and your brother were just trying to do your best.
00:21:27I know... (phone chirps) Buckley! Hey!
00:21:33Buckley!
00:21:34Give me what you've got.
00:21:35I'm going to put units in the area.
00:22:01DAVID: Oh.
00:22:04He's alive.
00:22:05Him, too.
00:22:06Maddux's boys.
00:22:08Guess he sold them out.
00:22:09All right, we've got Buckley's phone. Where's Buckley?
00:22:12It's a lot of blood.
00:22:15It's not theirs.
00:22:17Buckley said that Maddux would dump him by the side of the road when he was done with him.
00:22:20He's been right about everything else.
00:22:22Looks like he called it this time, too.
00:24:32Meatball on white...Next!
00:24:34Ya' want mustard on that or not?
00:24:35C'mon, c'mon, I haven't got all day here.
00:24:36It doesn't come with peppers - they're extra...
00:24:38Hurry up! Pay the lady... Next!
00:24:41Chicken's fresh - I killed it myself.
00:24:43So that's what you want? ... Next!
00:24:45While we're still young...
00:24:46Ya' know you told me you wanted mustard ...
00:24:47get outta here!
00:24:48Time's up! Back of the line!
00:24:50Hey, excuse me...
00:24:52What!?
00:24:53Great sandwich... Thanks!
00:24:55♪ You didn't have to beso nice ♪
00:24:58♪ I would have liked you anyway ♪
00:26:24What happened to Buckley?
00:26:26What do you think?
00:26:29Maddux took him for a walk down by the river.
00:26:31That's the last I saw of him.
00:26:33He's funny that way.
00:26:34He likes privacy when he does someone.
00:26:36Likes to take his time.
00:26:37All right, where's Maddux going now?
00:26:39He stopped sharing his plans around the time he threw me in the trunk.
00:26:41What about your plans before that?
00:26:42We know you guys didn't steal any diamonds from the Exchange, so, what did you steal?
00:26:47Access to their accounts.
00:26:50The 16 million we got from the bus hijacking was wired to the Caymans.
00:26:54But Interpol put a trace on the money, so we needed to launder it.
00:26:59Using the Diamond Exchange.
00:27:00They do million-dollar transfers every day.
00:27:03Money laundering takes time.
00:27:05You were only there for a few hours.
00:27:08We had a computer program to run the transactions already set up.
00:27:11We already had all of the account numbers and passwords.
00:27:15How?
00:27:18We had a spy.
00:27:26Hey.
00:27:28So, the techs just examined the IP security cameras from the Exchange.
00:27:32And Maddux's inside guy told us that Maddux had implanted a device in one of the cameras on the trading room floor.
00:27:39Here it is.
00:27:40It looks like a thumb-drive.
00:27:41Attached to a laser reader built into the camera.
00:27:44Now, this particular camera had a view of the wire-transfer desk, which is how it recorded all the passwords and account numbers.
00:27:52Yeah, but you can't see the screens.
00:27:53With a laser-reader, you don't have to, because it doesn't read words on the screen.
00:27:57It reads vibrational pulses emitted by keystrokes as it types.
00:28:02It's like reading Braille.
00:28:03In Braille, each letter or numeral is represented by a pattern of dots, just like keystrokes on a computer are represented by a pattern of pulses and vibrations.
00:28:12For example, the letter "Y" emits a different vibrational pulse than the letter "O," which emits a different vibrational pulse than the letter "U." And by reading the keystrokes, capturing them, it can record whatever information that is typed in-- uh, log-ins, passwords, messages.
00:28:31Now, here's the beauty of it.
00:28:32Maddux has basically given us the rope to hang him with.
00:28:35Okay, how?
00:28:36The laser reader, which he used to steal all the information, also recorded his money-laundering program, all on this thumb-drive.
00:28:44So you can reconstruct the program, use it to trace the money?
00:28:48Straight to Maddux.
00:28:48Shouldn't take more than a couple hours.
00:28:50(computer trilling) AMITA: You know, I've been thinking about what Buckley said.
00:28:56Oh, what, about how I'm... I'm a lucky guy?
00:28:58No, about honeymooning in Costa Rica.
00:29:01Depending on the time of year, lots of rain.
00:29:03So we'll bring umbrellas.
00:29:04Scorpions.
00:29:05They have scorpions down there.
00:29:06They sleep in peoples' shoes.
00:29:07So we'll wear sandals.
00:29:09A very long flight.
00:29:10Not if we take separate planes.
00:29:12DON: Hey, anything?
00:29:14AMITA: We're getting close.
00:29:15What do you think about Costa Rica?
00:29:18Um, I don't know. I mean, I hear they have a lot of scorpions.
00:29:21Ah, looks like we followed the money.
00:29:26Yeah?
00:29:26Oh, wait a second. I don't get it.
00:29:28What?
00:29:28Maddux bounced $16 million halfway around the globe, only to have it land back where it started?
00:29:32AMITA: The Exchange. Looks like Maddux converted the money into diamonds.
00:29:36CHARLIE: No, wait a second.
00:29:37There's a pickup scheduled for today, and there's a consignee whose ID is listed on the file.
00:29:43DON: Yeah. Who's that?
00:29:44It's Lola Sacco.
00:29:46Wasn't she Miss Morro Bay?
00:29:55We've got Lola.
00:30:00And we've got Maddux.
00:30:05Hey.
00:30:06Geez.
00:30:07Hand it over.
00:30:10(click) (grunting) I got her.
00:30:36Whoa.
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00:33:53Do with him?
00:33:54I didn't do anything with him, except get screwed.
00:33:58At least I put a bullet in his leg.
00:34:00It's a little flourish for effect.
00:34:04Buckley's not dead?
00:34:06He suckered you, too.
00:34:08(laughs) One day on the prison yard, he comes, sits down, starts talking.
00:34:14Tells me I can make a score hijacking a bus, laundering the money by busting a Diamond Exchange.
00:34:2116 million, foolproof.
00:34:24There was just one catch.
00:34:26He needed to be a part of it.
00:34:28Hmm.
00:34:30He knew that you'd go to him for help.
00:34:33That got him out the front gate.
00:34:35So taking him down to the river...
00:34:37It was all his idea for show.
00:34:39After he convinced me to double-cross the boys, meet back at the Exchange.
00:34:43I knew he'd screw me, so I waited for Lola to pick up the diamonds.
00:34:47I figured she could lead me back to him.
00:34:50Looks like Buckley found his inside chick after all.
00:34:56Obviously, there's been a misunderstanding.
00:34:59He set you up.
00:35:00I don't know what you're talking about.
00:35:02Buckley tricked you and Maddux into pulling off the Diamond Exchange job.
00:35:06I'm sure he promised, at the end of the day, you two would be the ones walking off with the money, but you had other ideas.
00:35:12We found your flight reservation.
00:35:16One ticket one-way to Sao Paolo.
00:35:19You were gonna cut Buckley out.
00:35:21Except Buckley knew that there was no way to make off with 16 million bucks.
00:35:27When the cash was converted into diamonds, there was a one and a half percent transaction fee.
00:35:35$240,000.
00:35:38Buckley had it wired into an overseas account, where it disappeared, just like him.
00:35:43But he said he always looks for an inside chick to take advantage of.
00:35:50And this time, he picked one that he knew would double-cross him, one he knew he could leave holding the bag.
00:36:00Hotel St. Eve.
00:36:02Room 301.
00:36:10Clear.
00:36:11DAVID: Clear.
00:36:14DAVID: Don.
00:36:17"Dinner "for the Eppes family, on me.
00:36:20Bon appetit." "If the fries are soggy, you were slower than I gave you credit for." These, uh, fries-- they are quite soggy.
00:36:39Come on, Donnie.
00:36:40You win some, you lose some.
00:36:42Yeah. I don't like losing.
00:36:43You know, there's nothing on here.
00:36:44This is a new computer-- it's just the usual software.
00:36:46Would you do me a favor, and just keep looking?
00:36:49(ringing) DON: What's that?
00:36:53It's a Web call.
00:36:56How's the food?
00:36:58(clears throat) Pretty good, thank you. Um...
00:37:02DON: What happened to Costa Rica?
00:37:04The banking laws in Liechtenstein are a bit more to my liking.
00:37:08And the doctors, too.
00:37:09My-my leg is still smarting a bit.
00:37:11Can't imagine a couple hundred thousand dollars is going to keep a guy like you happy too long.
00:37:15Yeah, well, I'm not too worried about picking up some more cash somewhere somehow.
00:37:22It's never been my problem.
00:37:23Yeah, well, I'll be sure to keep an eye on the bus schedules.
00:37:26Oh, that's good.
00:37:27I like that.
00:37:29You know, Eppes, you and me-- under different circumstances, could have been friends.
00:37:36Yeah, sure we could.
00:37:37Hey, Professor.
00:37:38I'm serious about teaching that class.
00:37:40CHARLIE: Oh, yeah?
00:37:41Well, we'll have to do it online, I guess.
00:37:44Oh. Oh, that's for him.
00:37:45(laughs) Would you say hello to my friends in California?
00:37:49Thanks, Heidi.
00:37:51She's a doll.
00:37:51You know, Eppes, you and I-- we're like those cartoon characters, Sam and Ralph, the sheepdog and the wolf.
00:37:58We just keep going at each other because we don't know what else to do.
00:38:03You should take some time off.
00:38:05We could go skiing. Mmm.
00:38:08You know what?
00:38:10I'll keep this on ice for you.
00:38:13Auf Wiedersehen.
00:38:16You know, the wolf always gets caught.
00:38:20If that's what you really want.
00:38:23Hey, I could use a vacation.
00:38:26(laughs) Yeah.
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00:39:46Hey, David...
00:39:47anything from anywhere?
00:39:48Been two minutes since your last call.
00:39:51No.
00:39:52Are you chewing gum?
00:39:53Oh, it's just that I started with math that I used for those bank robberies a few years back.
00:39:58Remember the Charm School Boys?
00:40:00Right.
00:40:02sifting through tens of thousands of data points -to divine deep patterns. -Right, and this time the patterns were overwhelming, like a giant neon arrow pointing at the next job.
00:40:09If your numbers say it will happen here, I'm sold, Charlie.
00:40:14Well, that's the thing.
00:40:15Uh, they don't say it'll happen there.
00:40:18What?
00:40:19AMITA: I pointed out to Charlie the big arrow was pointing directly away from the Charm School Boys' original target-- the Federal Reserve shipments of old cash.
00:40:26CHARLIE: And so, then I asked myself-- what if the new robbers had studied the old robbers' tactics?
00:40:30Could it be at all possible that they were anticipating our methodology-- choosing banks specifically to divert our attention away from the real target?
00:40:36Are you saying we're here on a hunch?
00:40:38Oh, I-I wouldn't call it a-a-a hunch.
00:40:41-(whispering): It's an induction. -It's an induction.
00:40:43Thank you. It's an induction.
00:40:45DAVID: So, this whole stakeout hinges on evidence that basically guarantees we're going to fail?
00:40:49I'm just talking it through here, David, and I feel 90% better.
00:40:53You know, I... I'm just curious, but where does your equation indicate the crew will hit?
00:40:58You haven't heard anything from Ventura County, have you?
00:41:01(whispering): I doubt it.
00:41:06(tires squealing) Incoming!
00:41:11(tires squealing) (man coughing) (Taser crackling) Fbi!
00:41:25(indistinct shouting) (indistinct shouting) (man groans) Don't move.
00:41:53(garbled radio transmission) (coughs) NIKKI: I don't know about the outfit, boss.
00:41:59You kind of look like a Eagle Scout.
00:42:02Be prepared.
00:42:05(garbled radio transmission) ANCHORWOMAN: A wild scene downtown today, as FBI agents thwarted robbers wielding Tasers, tear gas and machine guns.
00:42:14Hospitalized for tear gas inhalation and minor injuries was the armored car's driver, Wesley Till, -35, of Topanga Canyon... -Next time, uh, be sure to, uh, induct the tear gas, huh?
00:42:26AMITA: Wow.
00:42:27Imagine the research this could fund.
00:42:29Yeah, that's exactly what I was imagining.
00:42:33-(beeping) -Another old one.
00:42:34Something about old bills this machine does not like.
00:42:411969.
00:42:42The average lifespan of a $20 bill is two years.
00:42:45This one made it up to 40.
00:42:47Well, put it in the pile.
00:42:48Machine jammers get counted separately.
00:42:49AMITA: There are three more here.
00:42:52All 1969 20s.
00:42:54There are four in one bag?
00:42:55Do you guys realize what the odds are here?
00:42:58No, but I'm guessing we're about to find out.
00:43:00CHARLIE: Even factoring in the superannuated nature of bills being sent to the shredder, it's astronomical.
00:43:06Well, I'll run the serial numbers-- maybe they'll pop.
00:43:16(beeping) What was that?
00:43:19It must be a marked bill.
00:43:21Serial number's on the hot list.
00:43:28Hey, that's D.B. Cooper money.
00:43:30Seriously?
00:43:34Who's D.B. Cooper?
00:43:34You know the lifespan of a $20 bill, but not the most famous unsolved crime in American history?
00:43:39He hijacked a plane back in... what was it, the '60s?
00:43:42David: 1971.
00:43:43Got 200 grand from the airline, jumped out the plane and just disappeared.
00:43:47So, how does the ransom turn up in the Federal Reserve 38 years later?
00:48:08Day before Thanksgiving, a passengercalling himself Dan Cooper showed a flight attendanta bomb.
00:48:13He made that flight landin Seattle where the airline gave him200 grand and two sets of parachutes.
00:48:19He let all the passengers go, and then took off againwith the flight crew.
00:48:22Sometime in the next two hours,he lowered the rear stairway of the plane, parachuted outover the Oregon wilderness.
00:48:28That's one hell of a heist.
00:48:29Just the...the skill set involved: bomb making, parachuting,aviation.
00:48:32COLBY:Just the insanity of it.
00:48:34You jump out of a plane at night in a rainstormover a forest of 100-foot trees.
00:48:38I mean, he could have saved timejust shooting himself.
00:48:41DAVID:That's the consensus, but Cooper's bodywas never found.
00:48:44The agents investigating figuredthat he died in the jump.
00:48:47CHARLIE: Boy, I hopethat wasn't based on these projectionsof the potential landing zone.
00:48:51What, you see a problem?
00:48:53The formula they used.
00:48:54Uh, it's kind of likemathematical fondue.
00:48:56Maybe it was currentin the 1970s, but, I don't know, there havebeen some exciting breakthroughs in modeling weather frontformation.
00:49:03You know, if I cull enough data on, uh, military and civiliandrop statistics, I could recalculate D.B.Cooper's chances of survival.
00:49:10DAVID: Be amazing to crackthis thing after 40 years.
00:49:14Hey, you thinkthe, uh, armored car robbers knew what they were stealing?
00:49:17220 bucks in marked bills--I doubt it.
00:49:19Besides, when I mentionedD.B. Cooper, they were shocked.
00:49:21But they did thinkit was pretty cool.
00:49:23NIKKI: Got a report backfrom the crime lab.
00:49:25Cooper bills showed signsof prolonged exposure to unusually hot, dry air.
00:49:30Also traces of gypsum dust.
00:49:32-That's drywall, right?-COLBY:..
00:49:34guess who workedthis case back in the '70s.
00:49:39Roger Bloom?He's been around that long?
00:49:40COLBY: Could be a big help.Well, we would've never busted the copycat bank robbersif it weren't for him.
00:49:45-(phones ringing)-He had a bit of a man crush -on you, didn't he?-Well, he hates Nikki.
00:49:48He doesn't hate me.He just doesn't get me.
00:49:51You should probably knockon his door in the morning.
00:49:53What's with the phonesaround here?
00:49:55DAVID:No, no comment.
00:49:57I said, "No comment." Someone leaked the D.B. Cooperstory to one of the blogs, so it's, uh... it's going crazy.
00:50:01Which means we haveabout ten minutes before TV vans blockthe parking garage exit.
00:50:06(laughing) (phones ringing) Man.
00:50:15(phones ringing) BLOOM:Why is it only G-menring the doorbell at 6:30 in the morning?
00:50:24It's not my fault you worked on every majorFBI case since Patty Hearst.
00:50:28D.B. Cooper-- as soonas I heard the news, I knew you guyswere going to find my number.
00:50:32-Sunny-side up good?-Yeah, it's fine.
00:50:34So, what do you say?
00:50:35You want to take another runat the one that got away?
00:50:38This is not a good time.
00:50:39I just started a securityconsulting firm to make ends meet.
00:50:42Make yourself useful, will you?
00:50:44Get a plate and put on some toast.
00:50:45COLBY: You know, there's still a $50,000 reward out there.
00:50:50Not to mention the, uh, publicity for your new business.
00:50:54All right, here's a tip.
00:50:55It wasn't $200,000.
00:50:57He got away with closer to a million.
00:50:59The Bureau and the airline downplayed the take to weed out false confessions.
00:51:04Something else that's buried in your boxes: Three weeks after the hijacking, a search team finds a corpse in a tree in the landing zone-- Eddie Sawyer.
00:51:14Professional thief, paratrooper from Vietnam.
00:51:17So, Sawyer was Cooper?
00:51:19Yeah, we thought so, too.
00:51:21But none of the witnesses on the plane could I.D. his photograph.
00:51:24And later on, the autopsy told us that he was stabbed to death before he ever hit the tree.
00:51:28Now, Cooper did order two sets of chutes.
00:51:29Okay, so Cooper was working with another guy.
00:51:32He knifed him and threw him out of the plane.
00:51:34-That's the theory. -(timer dings) -AMITA:David? -DAVID:Hey.
00:51:42-Hi. -How you doing?
00:51:42Uh, Charlie's working from home today.
00:51:44Um, well, actually, I was looking for you.
00:51:46Okay, here it is.
00:51:47I have a date for, uh, Saturday night.
00:51:50It's, uh... it's the symphony.
00:51:52I need some help buying a suit.
00:51:54Don't you have a lot of suits?
00:51:55They all make me look like, uh...
00:51:58An FBI agent?
00:52:00Yeah. You know, I mean, Don and I, we... we don't have the same taste.
00:52:03And Colby's idea of dressing up is a string tie.
00:52:06Liz is out of town.
00:52:07If I even tell Nikki that I have a date...
00:52:10You always look good.
00:52:12-Your clothes are great, so... -I would be happy to help you.
00:52:16And not tell Nikki.
00:52:18-Appreciate it. Thank you. -Sure.
00:52:19We scan the serial number of every bill that's sent for shredding.
00:52:21If those notes had passed through our system, my people would have flagged them.
00:52:24Not if someone didn't want them flagged.
00:52:27From the moment you drive in, every move you make is observed and recorded.
00:52:31And the guards work in teams.
00:52:32Only person who's left alone with the cash for even a second is the armored car driver.
00:52:37That's Wesley Till?
00:52:38And he's thoroughly searched, and his personal cash is counted before and after every shift.
00:52:42What time does he get in?
00:52:44Well, he doesn't.
00:52:46If your guys got teargassed, wouldn't you give them a week off?
00:52:49No. Actually, in my case, I'm going to go make them bang on his door.
00:52:52BLOOM: Altitude-- 9,800 to 10,000 feet.
00:52:54CHARLIE: Okay.
00:52:55-(typing) -Velocity-- 170 knots.
00:52:57Winds-- outside, west, 15 knots.
00:53:01(trilling) Okay. That brings us to a landing right around... here.
00:53:07"Hey, look at me. I'm hanging in a tree, dead." Strange enough to watch you revert to childhood, but it wasn't even your own.
00:53:12Those were your brother's toys.
00:53:14This is a detailed map of the terrain of D.B. Cooper's landing zone, constructed in order to calculate his odds of survival.
00:53:21Which, by the way, defies sense.
00:53:23Why jump here, when the terrain clears out -only 70 miles later? -Well, the time was calculated by a dip in the nose of the plane.
00:53:29No one actually saw him jump.
00:53:31So, we shift the jump time.
00:53:33BLOOM: Mm-hmm.
00:53:33You know, back when that was happening, it seemed like someone hijacked a plane every other week.
00:53:36And the only name we ever remember is D.B. Cooper. (chuckles) Probably because you never found him.
00:53:40No, it was probably because of the times, you know?
00:53:43All that anti-establishment stuff going on.
00:53:46I wasn't anti the country. I was bleeding for it.
00:53:49Some of us felt that the country and the establishment weren't the same.
00:53:52Yeah, and some of us were shipped home in cargo.
00:53:54You know whomyhero was?
00:53:57Freddy O'Casio.
00:53:57He saved my unit from a six-hour firefight.
00:54:00Not some lowlife who jeopardized 40 innocent people for a quick payoff.
00:54:03Six minutes. If-If Cooper had jumped only six minutes later, uh, the terrain would have cleared out somewhat, and, uh, that would have increased his chances of -survival considerably. -Congratulations.
00:54:14Your hero might have survived, after all.
00:54:17-(snorts) -Doesn't make sense.
00:54:18Yeah, tell me about it.
00:54:19I came in here looking for a watering can, and I found my past under attack.
00:54:23Cooper had to assume those bills were marked.
00:54:25Boy, 50% is a high risk of death for a payoff he couldn't use.
00:54:28Well, next time, I'll use a hose.
00:54:32DAVID: Armored car driver maybe, but if Wesley Till has D.B. Cooper's money, he isn't spending it on rent.
00:54:38Hey, explain something to me.
00:54:39If the hijacker called himself Dan Cooper, where'd "D.B." come from?
00:54:44Press. One article called him "D.B. Cooper," every other reporter repeated the mistake.
00:54:48Now, the Bureau ran the name Dan Cooper.
00:54:50Turns out he was the hero of a French comic book in the '60s.
00:55:15Cold.
00:55:16No reception.
00:55:16I'm going to step out and get some bars.
00:55:21Phew.
00:55:22(rhythmic thumping) (thumping ceases) (steady buzzing) (buzzing ceases) "Prolonged exposure to hot, dry air." (knocking) (chuckles softly) (grunting) Oh... oh, man.
00:56:18(whispers): Oh, man.
00:56:211969.
00:56:23(gun cocks) MAN: Hands in the air.
00:56:30Friend, you walked into the wrong house.

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