Breakout Kings
Season One, Episode Thirteen, Where in the World is Carmen Vega?
Original Air Date: May 30, 2011
When cold-blooded killer and drug runner Carmen Vega escapes from prison while at her eldest sons funeral the team is called into action. The case becomes personal when Carmen Vega has Shea's girlfriend, Vanessa, kidnapped and threatens to kill her unless Shea sees to it Carmen is allowed to escape. Vanessa's abduction, and the possibility that someone from the Marshall's service leaked info on the cons to Vega causes Erica and Lloyd to contemplate running.
At Edgecombe Female Penitentiary in New York, New York, the women are in the showers and one, Carmen Vega (Lauren Velez) is joking with the others about a man she knew on the outside. A guard tells Carmen the warden wants to see her but Carmen says she needs to shower and the warden can wait. The guard informs Carmen her son was found in a dumpster with a bullet in his brain. The warden gives Carmen his deepest condolences but he cannot allow her to attend the funeral. The warden mentions her drug trade and Carmen insists it was her husbands business and her son, Sebastian, was drawn into it just as she was only she was fortunate enough to get into prison where she could get a second chance. As the guard is dragging her from the office she begs and pleads with the warden that she must see her son and hold his hand one last time before he's buried.
Carmen steps out of a prison van in her orange prison jumpsuit and chained at the wrists and ankles. She is flanked by five guards and led into the church where her son's body rests. She wants to run to her youngest son, Cesar (Manny Montana), but the guards restrain her saying she isn't allowed any physical contact and give her five minutes to pay her respects to her slain son. A guard checks beneath the coffin Sebastian is in for weapons as Carmen walks up the aisle to her son. She kneels next to the coffin and wants to touch her son but cannot for the chains around her wrists. She turns to the guards and begs them to free her hands. A guard frees one of her hands and she turns back to her son. She stands and leans over his body. As she's kissing his forehead, she reaches into the folds of the coffin with her free hand and takes hold of a gun. She turns and fires, killing the guards. Her associates draw their weapons and surround her as she tells the mourners at the church if any of them go to the police she will find out and kill their entire family.
At the office in Brooklyn, Shea is surprised to see Vega has escaped. He tells the team he knew her a couple of lifetimes ago and they had some business dealings. When Charlie starts to tell the team about Vega, Shea tells him he's got it and proceeds to tell her story. She claimed the dope she was imprisoned for belonged to her husband who was killed by a rival gang two weeks earlier. In actuality, she knew about the drugs because she was the head of the family and she had her husband killed because he was having an affair with her hairdresser. She called all the shots and she pulled the triggers. Shea points to her picture saying she is the baddest, meanest, most vicious person he ever met. Shea did business with her for a couple of years as she had a pipeline to Columbia and provided his outfit with a certain recreational powder. Ray asked if they stayed on good terms and Shea tells him they didn't as one night she made a move on him and when he shot her down, she got that look in her eye when she doesn't get what she wants and called him a name that he doesn't allow people who aren't black to call him. He took his business elsewhere and hadn't seen her since. Charlie wants Shea to run point on the case but Shea is reluctant to do so as he wants to stay low profile since Carmen and all her people know him. Erica suggests Shea can call plays from the press box to the players on the sidelines, something he agrees with. Charlie agrees and orders Shea to start making calls as he wants to know what Carmen's plan is.
As Shea is getting out of his prison clothes and into his civvies, his phone rings. Vanessa (Tattiawna Jones) is on the other end of the line saying she has a message from Carmen. She knows he is working with the Marshall's and if he doesn't make sure she doesn't get caught they will kill her. Shea wants to talk to whoever is there with Vanessa and when she tells them that, a man slaps her and hangs up the phone.
Carmen's son Cesar tells his mother that the message was delivered to Shea. She looks to a wall that has several photographs hanging on it and asks her crew to tell her what's wrong with the picture. She thinks there are too many black faces at the top of the pyramid and they are all the way at the bottom. Cesar informs her they lost a lot of territory under Sebastian as he would have rather done lines with the guys rather than fighting for the street corners. She admits it was obvious even from prison that Sebastian was driving them into the ground as he didn't even keep up with the payments to the guards. She's angry she has half the crew she used to command and that Flow Flow (Brooks Darnell) made it to the top. She orders one of her crew to find Flow Flow. When he and another man leave, she is notified that a man Buntz (Jim McAleese) has arrived to speak with her. She politely greets the man telling him she'll be with him as soon as she can and to make himself comfortable. She goes to Cesar and promises him she will make him a king. He needs to make the men in the crew fear him so they will respect him.
Shea is in the SUV outside the church where Vega escaped speaking with one of his friends on his phone. He wants him to find out where Vanessa is being held no matter what he has to do. Charlie and Ray get in the car and asks what Shea has and are told nothing yet. Charlie reminds Shea that they have five dead correctional officers in the church. Shea holds up his phone telling them he's trying.
Flow Flow is in a strip club receiving a lap dance from one of the strippers (Virna Kim) when Carmen enters in a hail of gunfire and walks up to him. She tells him he has a stupid name as she holds a gun pointed at his head. He swears to her he didn't kill her son and doesn't know who did. She admits she knows that as she is the one who put the hit out on her own son then shoots him.
The team arrive at the strip club and Charlie goes to check out the security camera in hopes of identifying someone other than Carmen. Ray asks Lloyd to speak with the strippers. Shea receives a call from his friend and steps away from everyone else to talk. He has no word on Vanessa and Shea begs him for his help as they've been friends since they were five but his friend hangs up. Lloyd addresses the strippers saying it's a common misconception that strippers hate men, and the truth is they hate men in strip clubs. He assures them he isn't a man whose hands they must constantly slap away and is there to move things forward so they can get back to work making some money. He asks for pertinent information regarding Flow Flow or the woman who murdered him. Jade, the stripper who was with Flow Flow, raises her hand. She tells Lloyd she was giving Flow Flow a lap dance when Carmen came in. She hid under the table but was able to hear Carmen say something.
Charlie is shocked to learn Carmen had her own son killed but Lloyd feels Jade was telling the truth. Erica points out Sebastian's funeral was the perfect way for Carmen to get out of prison to make her escape. When Charlie asks Shea what he thinks he tells them he's thinking. Ray and Charlie take him aside and Ray questions him about his new found lack of enthusiasm for the case. Shea maintains he's working on it but Charlie warns him if he's thinking about past loyalties he will send him back to Sing Sing as they have no time for games because Carmen's body count is rising. Shea tells them if Flow Flow as involved with Sebastian business wise, there was only one man who could set it up, The Mayor (Eugene Clark).
The team returns to the office and Julie informs Charlie all local airports and docks have been notified and are on alert and there's no news from NYPD about information sharing. Ray brings Mayor in and Shea asks Charlie if he can have first crack at the interview since Mayor knows and trusts him and Charlie gives his consent. Erica thinks Shea is up to something because of him wanting to conduct the interview himself. When Ray re-enters the main room, he joins Charlie at Julie's desk to listen to Shea's interview. Mayor asks Shea what he's doing there and Shea tells him 'community service'. He tells him if they don't find Carmen soon it will get bad for some people and Mayor asks if it hasn't gotten bad already. Shea points out it will get bad for them. Mayor insists on a deal like the one Shea has before he will do any talking. Shea sits down and quietly tells him that Carmen has Vanessa and will kill her, something Charlie, Ray and Julie weren't able to make out over the intercom. Shea asks Mayor to help him find Vanessa before it's too late but he refuses because he needs to worry about his own safety now.
Charlie and Ray come back into the room and Mayor tells them he's a dead man if he goes back out into the street. He wants witness protection before he will say a single word to them. Charlie asks if he's willing to give info on everyone and testify at every trial the D.A. needs him at and he doesn't want that, he just wants to give info on Carmen. Charlie tells him that's no deal and Ray includes they could put him in protective custody until Carmen is caught or he could take his chances on the street. Mayor agrees to the deal and Ray sends Shea from the room. When he's outside the room, Shea's phone rings and it is Vanessa telling him she has guns pointed at her and the men holding them are angry because they think he's working for the Marshall's. Shea assures her he's making sure the Marshall's are going in the wrong direction but she insists they aren't buying it. Shea wants her to tell them he's playing ball and will make sure the Marshall's won't get anywhere near Carmen. The men with Vanessa hang up the phone. Erica and Lloyd are behind Shea and she asks what he's up to and that if he doesn't bring them into the loop they might tell Charlie he should hang onto Shea's phone. He tells them about Carmen taking Vanessa and Erica asks if he's going to throw the investigation. He knows Carmen will kill Vanessa no matter what he does so the only option he has left open to him is to work the case and get Carmen before anything happens to Vanessa. He asks if he can count on them to cover for him and Erica says he needs to tell them he isn't planning on running. Shea looks in her eyes and tells her he isn't running.
Mayor tells Charlie and Ray that Carmen has positioned Cesar to take over and Ray wants to know where to find him. Mayor doesn't know but tells them Cesar's father might be willing to help out as he was never in Carmen's organization and he always stood up to her and gives them the name Jose Rodriguez (Tim Sell). Charlie points out that's an extremely common name in Queens but Mayor doesn't know any nicknames or anything else about Rodriguez.
Carmen and Cesar are talking about his father and she asks if his father raised him or taught him the ways of the world. Cesar insists she wouldn't let him. She tells him Sebastian thought he was a man but he inherited his weakness from his father. She wants to know how she can leave him in control if she has to worry about him falling under the influence of his father. He tells her Sebastian had everything handed to him and he (Cesar) had to prove himself and asks her to leave his father out of it. She kisses her son telling him she's just going to talk to his father. As she starts to leave, the businessman who came to see her earlier is still waiting and stops her. She apologizes and tells him she'll be with him as soon as she can.
Charlie informs Mayor that two Marshall's that are at the office will take him back to headquarters. As the Marshall's escort Mayor out, Julie tells Charlie and Ray there are 1,293 men named 'Jose Rodriguez' in the greater New York area. She called NYPD Gang Unit and they are trying to get a current address. He wants her to lean on the NYPD as they don't have time for them to waste. Outside, the Marshall's put Mayor into their car. Upstairs, Ray asks Shea if he knows about Rodriguez and he says he's never heard of him. He is interrupted by the sound of screeching tires then gunfire. Ray and Charlie draw their weapons. Charlie orders everyone to stay put as he and Ray head downstairs. Julie and the cons go to the windows where they can see two men in a car firing at the Marshall's car. When Ray and Charlie get outside they find the Marshall's car riddled with bullets and all three men inside dead. Charlie asks Ray how Carmen knew Mayor was in their custody and Ray raises his eyes upward.
Upstairs, Ray takes Shea into the interview room and asks if he's in Carmen's back pocket. Shea insists he isn't and Ray makes it clear that if he is working with Carmen he's looking at three murder charges. Shea assures him he's doing all he can to find Carmen. Ray asks for Shea's phone. Reluctantly, Shea hands it over. Ray tells him to sit down and wait for someone to come get him then leaves the room.
Charlie is being fiercely questioned by a Marshall's Senior Director, Colburn (Derek Webster), in his office who wants to know if anyone could have tailed them back to the office with Mayor. As Charlie is being grilled by the Director, Erica and Lloyd talk about the developments with Shea. Lloyd wants to tell Ray and Charlie everything they know but Erica points out that two Marshall's have already been killed and they sat on information that should have been told beforehand and it's possible the task force will be shut down. Julie can hear their conversation. Erica asks Lloyd what Shea will do and if he might help Carmen then run. Lloyd tells her about the Prisoner's Dilemma and asks what if Shea doesn't run. She tells him it isn't a game and she will not go back to maximum security as she will not talk to her daughter through three inches of Plexiglas. He doesn't want to go back to maximum security either but he doesn't want to ruin the best work release program they could find; he won't. Charlie assures Colburn that they are just as upset over the murders as his superiors are and gives him his word they'll get to the bottom of it. Colburn tells Charlie that he needs to get up to speed on the case as Knox is demanding oversight on it until they get in front of the mess. Charlie tells him the files are all on his desk and he can go through them while he goes to make sure the team is on Carmen's trail.
Charlie goes into the interview room and asks Ray if Shea's phone got him anything. Ray tells him a couple of calls from a Dimani Johnson. Shea informs them that is his source on the streets and they are trying to find info on Carmen. Ray tells Charlie about two calls from a cell phone using a scrambling device which Shea explains as being from contacts he has on the side that doesn't want anyone to know they're providing info on Carmen and assures them he had nothing to do with the Marshall's getting killed. Charlie tells Shea he knows he isn't being straight with them and Shea again stresses that he wants to help find Carmen. Outside the interview room, Charlie tells Ray he can't hold Colburn off any longer and must tell him what's going on with Shea. Ray tells him if he does that they may as well clear out their desks. Charlie agrees they are all on the line but he's the only person with a badge to lose. Ray counters that he's trying to advise him on how not to lose it. Julie comes in to tell them she found Jose Rodriguez who lives in a cousin's apartment in Long Island City. When she leaves, Ray tells Charlie they put Shea back in the bullpen because if Colburn finds out they suspect one of their own they are toast and Carmen is gone.
Jose Rodriguez arrives home to find Carmen waiting for him. He isn't exactly happy to see her and wants to know why she's there. She tells him she wants to make peace for Cesar's sake as he will be taking the reigns. Jose doesn't want to stand by while Carmen sends his son to an early grave like Sebastian. He wants his son to have a future. Carmen asks if that is why he's been talking to his son about moving to Miami. She tells him their son has a future and she wants him to promise he will not interfere with it. He sits down next to her and she hands him a glass of wine. He tells her he cannot make that promise. As she is kissing him, she pulls a knife from her pocket.
Ray and Erica arrive at Jose's building and he asks her if Shea said anything to her and she says he hasn't. He reminds her that if one con runs all three go back. Erica points out that Jose is in apartment #2 and they go inside. Ray draws his gun when they see the keys are in the door. They enter the apartment and find Jose's body on the floor with Carmen nowhere to be found.
At the office, Charlie hangs up the phone saying Carmen snuck out the back as if she knew they were coming. Shea reminds him they shouldn't look at him as they took his phone. Colburn comes out of Charlie's office wanting to know what the word is on Rodriguez and Charlie tells him Carmen killed him. Colburn angrily goes back into the office and sits down behind the desk. Shea tells Charlie they need to start looking at Colburn instead of him since he was the one who sent the Marshall's down to transport Mayor. Shea points out all the things Colburn knew that made their way to Carmen. Julie stands up from her desk and goes to Charlie and tells him Colburn has a second phone that he's hiding under Charlie's desk to text with. Shea sees this as proof. Lloyd points out Colburn has been tugging at his collar which is a sign of discomfort and nervousness. Shea tells Charlie La Santa has a man on the inside and it isn't him. Charlie asks about the name "la santa" (the saint) and Shea tells him it is Carmen's nickname and only her inner circle calls her that. Charlie steps into his office and asks Colburn if he's heard anything more about La Santa. Colburn tells him no and that it's his job to keep him informed. Charlie closes the door and quietly tells Julie to go to the back, get on the phone and call Ray to bring him up to speed then call Internal Affairs to send someone over. Charlie tells the cons to keep their heads down, work the case and play it cool. Colburn comes out of Charlie's office wanting to leave but Charlie will not let him go and tells him there is a guy from IA on his way over. Shea questions Colburn about his involvement and mentions the second phone as Julie watches the exchange from the back room. Charlie holds Shea back as he continues to press Colburn harder. Colburn draws his weapon and Charlie turns with his own gun raised ordering Colburn to put his down. Colburn tries to justify working with Carmen and Charlie tells him they can make it right. Colburn repeats 'make it right' to Charlie then turns his gun on himself.
Colburn's body is wheeled out of the office and Shea comments he was a rat and died a rat's death and didn't even tell them where Carmen was before killing himself. Ray asks Julie where they are with Colburn's cell phone. She informs him he cleared the history so she's having all calls and texting traffic captured. Ray asks if she's alright and she says she's guesses she is.
Carmen is being given instructions on how to use a device she is buying from Buntz. She takes the equipment and tells him if he'll be kind enough to wait there she'll arrange payment. As she's leaving, Cesar asks when he'll see her again and she tells him someday when things quiet down and that he's a king now. He asks about the man and she tells him he knows what to do. She kisses her son goodbye and leaves.
Erica is on the phone with her ex wanting him to have their daughter call her when she gets home from school. Lloyd walks up to her and she hangs up and stresses to him that Carmen had a Marshall feeding her inside information and she has as much info on them as she does Shea and warns him to call his mother. She tells Shea she isn't putting her daughter in danger like that. Lloyd asks him what the plan is and he tells Lloyd the only way is that he needs to bring the ballgame to Carmen. Erica says she won't wait to get a phone call like Shea did. Charlie calls to the cons and tells them they have the feed back from Colburn's phone. They look over the texts and fine "PAWE" in them leading them to wonder what it could be. They dial the number on another of the calls and Shea's phone rings in.
Charlie takes Shea into the interview room and tells him they have a clean slate starting right now but he needs to tell him what's going on. Shea tells him Colburn must have sold him out to Carmen because she kidnapped his girlfriend and will kill her if they catch Carmen. Charlie points out they can't find Vanessa unless they catch Carmen. Shea knows and wants Charlie to promise he can get Carmen alone and gives Charlie a location where they might find her.
Buntz's body is being wrapped in plastic as Charlie and Ray enter with guns drawn. Cesar's men draw and fire upon them and are killed in the exchange. Ray points his gun at Cesar and asks where his mother is.
The team and the police go over the place as Shea and Charlie question Cesar about where his mother can be found but he isn't talking. Shea asks him where they are keeping Vanessa but he maintains he doesn't know what he's talking about. Shea hits him and demands to know where Vanessa is and Ray pulls him away and orders him to leave the room. He asks Lloyd and Erica if they found anything and Lloyd holds up a piece of the equipment the salesman had. Ray orders him to send a picture to Julie for identification. Erica is going over the texts on the phone. Charlie shows Cesar the crime scene photos from his father's apartment telling him Carmen killed him and asks where she went. Cesar, who is clearly upset by what he's seeing tells Charlie she's gone. Julie calls Ray with an identification on the murdered man. He's a regional salesmen for Northstar Nautical Supplies. Erica suggests that could indicate PAWE means Port Authority Watch Engineer and Shea says Carmen is sailing back to Columbia.
At Port Authority, Charlie tells the team the ship there is definitely headed to Columbia but was searched and every head counted and Carmen isn't there. Julie calls with identification on the equipment Lloyd found. It goes with a device used by miners and submarine crews in case of a lack of air. They take dogs over the cargo containers on the dock and a dog stops in front of one and barks. They open the container and find it is outfitted for someone to inhabit. Charlie, with gun drawn, orders Carmen to step out. After a few seconds, she steps around the corner into view. She acknowledges Shea as she's being cuffed and Charlie asks where Vanessa is. She claims to not know what he's talking about. As Ray is leading her away, she calls Erica and Lloyd both by name and tells them she heard a lot about them. Erica turns to Lloyd and tells him the train is heading for a cliff and why are they still on it. Ray calls to them and they follow him.
Shea gets in an interview room with Carmen and they talk calmly. She points out that he no longer has power in the streets. He admits that's true but he does have power in prison, exactly where Cesar is going. He puts a phone down on the table telling her to make a call and get Vanessa released now. She again maintains she doesn't know what he's talking about. Shea tells her she got rid of one son but Cesar is the one that matters. She tells him Cesar lasted one day on the throne and to imagine her disappointment. He informs her that she either call off the hit on Vanessa or she will find out in a couple of days that Cesar will be skinned alive and asks her what it will be. The rest of the team, and Cesar, are listening in the main room as she tells Shea "Cesar is dead to me". Erica walks away and Lloyd follows her under Julie's watchful eyes. Shea comes into the room asking Cesar if he heard what his mother said and Charlie tells him if he wants a deal it will only come if he tells where Vanessa is. Cesar agrees to take Charlie to where Vanessa is and the two leave. Shea starts to follow and Ray stops him.
Erica is talking to her daughter and tells her it's a secret between the two of them but she needs to be ready in case she comes by. She ends the call when Lloyd enters the room. He tells her Cesar gave up where Vanessa is. She says that's good for Shea but does nothing for them as Carmen can tell anyone in prison who they are and what they are doing and she will not let Carmen kill her daughter. Lloyd point out that if she runs he goes back to maximum and before they pulled him out things had started to get difficult for him and he's unsure he'd last a month there. She tells him to run with her and that she doesn't want to run either and wished the gig would have worked out but she won't let Carmen put a bulls eye on her daughter's back. Julie comes into the room and tells them if two members of the task force try to run Charlie and Ray will find them, no matter what, and she'd have to help them. She tells Erica her little girl would be older than she is now by time she got out and Lloyd that he'd never be a professor again and prove everyone wrong. They work with the U.S. Marshall's and they will protect them. She asks them not to run and leaves.
Downstairs, Ray brings two pitchers of beer to the table and tells them they've waited a long time for it and to drink responsibly. Shea tells him they've been outed. Ray admits there's no going back for any of them, including him. He might never get to carry a badge again but the task force has given him the chance to do the only thing he knows. As long as they stick together, they will be alright. Charlie enters the restaurant with Vanessa and calls to Shea who gets up and runs to her. The two embrace as Charlie goes to the table and sits. He tells them all he will put them and their families in a witness security safe houses for the next two weeks as they do a risk assessment. They have nothing to worry about as the Marshall's have their backs. Carmen is being sent to a supermax in Colorado and will have no contact with anyone. Lloyd raises his glass saying "let's get drunk" and looks to Erica. The two smile and everyone enjoys their drinks.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
US Television: Breakout Kings, Episode 1.12, "There Are Rules"
Breakout Kings
Season One, Episode Twelve, There Are Rules
Original Air Date: May 22, 2011
The Breakout Kings are called into action when five men escape from prison after an 18-wheeler crashes through the wall at Attica. Ray sends Shea undercover at Attica to find out information on a sixth inmate who bailed on the escape putting Shea into danger. Meanwhile, the new chief director pays a visit to Charlie letting him know that he wants to change things around with the team and they might very well lose one of their members.
Ronald Barnes (Jeff Seymour) walks through the yard of Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York holding a map. He's walking as if pacing off steps to find something drawing curious looks from other inmates. He makes eye contact with two inmates, Chester Rhodes (Avery Kidd Waddell) and Sandy Clemente (Dean Chekvala). Rhodes taps on a table in front of yet another inmate, Tran Jun (Jeff Ong) who looks up from what he's writing then stands and follows Rhodes to stand before Barnes along with Clemente and a fourth inmate, Carlos Zepeda (Lombardo Boyar). An inmate behind Barnes tells him he thinks he's lost. Barnes turns and informs the man he's just enjoying the sunshine. He's told by the larger inmate that that part of the yard belongs to him and he needs to get out of there. Barnes looks to his watch and tells the man that it's funny as he was about to say the same thing to him. At that moment, an 18-wheeler crashes through the wall of the prison yard. As the guards start the lockdown, a man gets out of the truck with a gun and begins firing. Barnes, Rhodes, Clemente, Jun and Zepeda run to the trailer of the truck and get inside. In the process, Rhodes takes one of the guards hostage. A guard fatally shoots the man who drove the truck into the prison yard. The back of the trailer lowers and a black SUV drives out and through the hole opened in the wall by the 18-wheeler.
At the team office in Brooklyn, Richard Wendell (Gregg Henry) has paid Charlie a visit. He reads off a list of complaints made against the team. Charlie admits the team tends to be a little unorthodox but they always stay within the confines of the law. Wendell asks if Charlie would say that with his hand on a Bible and receives no answer. He closes the folder he is holding and sits down telling Charlie he's there to shake things up a bit. Charlie tells him to speak with Director Knox and he'll learn they have all the necessary clearances. Wendell informs him he did speak with Knox, once he became his new boss. Wendell wants Charlie to put the fear of God in the cons to make the team more effective. He tells Charlie he has a thick file in his office of guys that could replace any one of the mutts on the team. Charlie tells Wendell they have a massive case they are about to take on and now isn't really the best time to make change for change sake. Wendell stands saying he is going to study the case files and watch the operation and see if anything should be done.
The cons come into the main office and Lloyd is telling a joke, that no one seems to enjoy but him. Wendell, who is leaving Charlie's office, comments on the team. Charlie introduces him and Lloyd immediately says "it's a pleasure to meet you, Dick" and introduces himself then asks if he'd like to hear a tasty joke. When "Dick" makes no reply, Charlie identifies him as the Marshall's new chief director then introduces Ray to Wendell. Wendell leaves and Lloyd says he didn't know that Wendell was the boss but Charlie isn't pleased. He tells the team they have no time for joking as they have a major case to work and a new director who is riding him hard for results and orders them to get to work. Erica comments that it might be paranoia but she doesn't like the fact Wendell was just there, something Shea agrees with. Charlie wants to put the issue to bed then and there and tells them Wendell might send one of them back to the big house, make his mark and take credit as if he put the team together himself. He warns them if they pull their regular antics he might not be able to save them so the best thing they can do is play it straight and focus on the case.
Charlie starts the briefing telling the team of the five men on the run and of the guard that was kidnapped. Ray runs down the crimes of each man. Ronald Barnes was in for securities fraud and insider trading and took half a billion dollars before getting caught. Before Ray can run down Rhodes, Shea tells the team about him. He knows he's a bad man who has killed more people than smoking. Ray continues with Carlos Zepeta who ran the biggest east coast car theft ring. Tran Jun is a forger who has gotten half the Russian mob into Coney Island with his passports. Finally, Sandy Clemente who is a drug runner. His looks are deceiving as he's left a lot of bodies on both sides of the border. He asks the team for thoughts and Shea theorizes that Barnes provided the money, Rhodes the muscle and one of his old prison buddies on the outside drove the 18-wheeler, Zepeta provided the transportation. Erica adds that Clemente smuggles drugs over the border and this time it will be people--the escapees, and Ray adds that Jun will provide the passports. Julie tells the team something just came in and Charlie informs them the guard that was kidnapped was found by a barn in New Paltz shot twice in the head.
The team arrive in New Paltz, New York where Ray tells Charlie Julie found out the land was owned by a holding company buried under a half dozen names and the bottom line is it belongs to Ronald Barnes. Charlie asks the local police officer standing guard at the barn to open it but he's told they need a warrant. Ray tells him they have exigent circumstances as the cons could be in the barn. He takes a sledgehammer and breaks the lock then opens the door so the team can enter. Lloyd notes that the cons have changed out of their prison gear into street clothes and Charlie finds where Jun had already started making passports by cutting up photos. The local officer notices thinner tire tracks and radios to put out an alarm out for three cars and two motorcycles. Erica corrects that it's four cars and one cycle. From the office, Julie tells them that when Barnes' assets were seized, several cars in his collection were never found including a 1937 Jaguar Roadster valued at a half million dollars. Charlie knows they will be using it to fund their escape out of the country and Zepeta will broker the deal. Shea thinks they'll go someplace close and gives a few places where he can take them but Ray says he'll be needed for something else as there is a sixth set of civilian clothes and they need Shea to go inside, undercover, to find out who the sixth runner was supposed to be. Shea is vehemently against this plan but Ray points out that the cons won't talk to a Marshall and asks Julie to run him up some prisoner transfer papers. Charlie agrees with the plan and he takes Lloyd and Erica to check out the chop shops for the Jaguar.
At the office, Ray goes over four reasons why the sixth con didn't make the breakout. He thinks the best option is that the sixth man was hurt and in the infirmary. Julie confirms that five inmates were admitted a week before the escape. Ray tells Shea he was transferred to Attica because he assaulted a guard at Sing Sing and assures him no one knows he's with the Marshall's, including the guards and wardens. Shea isn't comfortable with the plan and wants to go back to Maybelle and will work the next case. Ray slugs him telling him he would have gotten tuned up had he attacked a guard and they need authenticity.
Charlie, Erica and Lloyd arrive at a chop shop in New Haven, Connecticut. Lloyd again tries making a joke but Charlie isn't amused. Charlie asks the owner about the Roadster they're looking for and informs him if he helped sell it he'll book him on aiding and abetting. The man nods toward one of the buildings and the team enters to find the Roadster with a man under it. Charlie drops the raised side of the car down and the man starts screaming and, when asked what his name is admits it's Carlos Zepeta. Charlie raises the car and asks where his pals are.
Zapata tells Charlie that because of Rhodes he'll be killed if he tells where they are and goes back inside. Erica thinks that it should appease Wendell that they caught one but Lloyd doesn't think so. She feels she's a necessity to the team, something else he disagrees with as she's just eye candy that can run fast. As they argue, Julie tells them it will be her that is let go since the Marshall's let her go once already. Charlie comes in for some water and Lloyd tells him he's been behind a desk for some time so interrogation might not be his strong suit and he has an idea. Charlie declines Lloyd then comes back and asks what his idea is.
Lloyd enters the interrogation room dressed in a jacket and tie pretending to be Charlie's superior. He tells Charlie to get he and Carlos coffee. When Charlie leaves, Lloyd tells Carlos he needs him to talk but knows he won't rat on Chester Rhodes. He asks what if he took Chester out of the equation by taking him out of Attica. He will set him up at Maybelle with a new name and all he has to do is sign a form. Carlos asks if it is legit and Lloyd tells him it is as legit as anything he can offer. Charlie returns with coffee and Lloyd asks Carlos what he knows. He tells him he was supposed to meet Tran Jun in Maywood, New Jersey at the bus stop on Palmer and Passiac with the money he got for the car. It was Ronald's plan and he told him anything else. Again, Carlos asks if the offer is iron-clad and Lloyd assures him an offer made by a U.S. Marshall cannot be rescinded under the law. When Carlos starts to sign he realizes it isn't a transfer form and Lloyd admits he isn't a Marshall.
At Attica, Shea arrives and walks through the yard. He sees an old friend, Stucky (Cle Bennett) and Stucky introduces him to a member of his crew Dee (Karl Campbell). He tells Shea he always has a place at his table but in Attica, there's one alpha dog and that's him (Stucky). Shea is cool with that and wants to know if Stucky can get him into the infirmary as it's easy work, something both Stucky and Dee agree can be arranged.
Two couples are playing a game in a house when Barnes and Rhodes break in. One of the men tell them to take what they want and Rhodes hits him on the side of the head with the sledgehammer he used to break the door down. Barnes points to an area of the floor and orders Rhodes to start tearing up the boards. Rhodes doesn't want to but Barnes points out he can tear the floor up faster than he can as he's more muscular. Reluctantly, Rhodes sets to work.
In the Attica kitchens, Dee tells Shea he couldn't get him in the infirmary and he's on bucket duty instead. Shea protests it isn't straight up and Stucky warns him to take the job he's offered. Shea and Dee fight, landing Shea in the infirmary.
The team are at the Corner of Palmer and Passaic in Maywood, New Jersey watching from a convenience store when Erica spots Jun. The team exit the store and, when he sees them coming his direction, Jun takes off running. He runs into the street and is hit by a bus leading Wendell to reprimand the entire team back at the office. Ray asks what he would have had them do and Wendell said a real task force would have approached at a perimeter and surrounded the fugitive who would have known escape was futile. Ray informs him they couldn't create a perimeter as three on the team cannot carry weapons. Wendell orders Charlie to get the team in order or he'll do it for him, then leaves the office.
Lloyd and Erica argue again about how should and will be cut. Ray orders them to shut up and look at the passports they confiscated off Jun. They are remarkable quality and they got lucky as they could have carried the escapees anywhere in the world. Julie informs the team she got a hit that a credit card reservation was made under one of Sandy Clemente's aliases at a private air strip in Delaware.
At the private airstrip in Delaware, the team arrives four hours before it opens. Charlie wants them to bunk somewhere then come back after the place opens. They bicker over which of the cons they will bunk with and Ray eventually is paired with Erica and Charlie, Lloyd.
At the hotel, Ray ends a conversation with his daughter as Erica exits the bathroom after a shower. She asks about his daughter but Ray doesn't want to talk about her as he doesn't wear his kid on his sleeve as she does. She tells him she does that way she has her with her and cannot get kicked off the team as she needs to get back to her daughter. Ray tells her they have no idea what Wendell will do and all she can do is focus on her job. Charlie and Lloyd have to share a bed because there weren't any two-bed rooms available. Lloyd, much to Charlie's displeasure, talks a lot. Charlie turns over and sees Lloyd's underwear on a chair and asks why they are there. When he tells Charlie that he "sleeps unencumbered", Charlie jumps out of the bed. Lloyd smiles and wishes Charlie "sweet dreams".
In the Attica infirmary, Shea's fight injuries are attended to. He starts talking with the other inmates in the infirmary about the recent escape. He notices one inmate isn't joining in the conversation and doesn't make a bet as to where the men will end up like the others do. Shea approaches the man saying he should have been in on the escape and shouldn't deny it. He asks the man for information but an intern comes in and takes the man out of the infirmary interrupting the conversation.
Barnes and Rhodes finally break through the floor at the house and find a stash of money. Rhodes looks to the man he hit earlier and picks up the sledgehammer telling Barnes he'll be back. Barnes stops him saying it was bad enough the guard was killed and if they get caught the deaths will be on him (Rhodes) and tells him to think. Rhodes tells him they aren't any different. He steals with his fists and Barnes steals with a pen and that he (Barnes) caused more devastation than he ever did.
While the team is sitting in the car at the airfield waiting for the escapees to show, Lloyd tries his Dennis Miller routine again causing Charlie to tell him to stop it. Erica sees a car drive up and alerts everyone. Ray has Erica and Lloyd get out of the car while he and Charlie remain. Charlie drives the SUV after the car and stops it on the grass. Inside is Clemente. He gets out of the car and tells them none of the other guys are there, just him.
At the office Lloyd crosses off yet another captured escapee but finds that it's almost too easy. Clemente doesn't want to talk to Ray as he knows he'll be killed if he does. A knock on the door draws Charlie out of the room and, after he tells Clemente he's making a mistake and Charlie knocks on the window, Ray leaves the room. Charlie tells him about Barnes and Rhodes entering the house and assaulting the civilian. The man died at the hospital of a brain aneurysm. Charlie tells Ray to do whatever he must to find out what Clemente knows. When Ray asks about the chief director Charlie again tells him "whatever you gotta do". Ray goes back into the interrogation room and draws the shades. He takes a lighter from the table and puts his arm around Clemente's neck. He burns his nose with the lighter until the man talks. He tells Ray he was supposed to fly to some one-horse airfield in Florida where they would all meet and fly to the Virgin Islands.
In the main office, Lloyd tells the team Barnes isn't going to Florida even though Clemente said they were. Lloyd feels Clemente was lied to as part of "Barnes' Strategy of Controlled Chaos" according to a Forbes article. Barnes wants the authorities to think they have him because they have captured two of the men involved in the escape. Lloyd says Barnes is in the northeast since he has them going south. Shea calls Ray with news that he found the man who bailed on the escape. He doesn't know why the man bailed out but he got himself into the infirmary before the escape. Shea thinks the other cons in Attica might know he working for the cops and he wants Ray to get him out. Ray turns to Charlie to tell him they need to get Shea out as his cover might be blown but Charlie says they can't pull him on a "might be". Ray tells Shea to stay safe, find out what the guy knows and they'll get him out as soon as they can. In his cell, Shea makes a rope to use later.
In the prison yard, Shea wraps the rope around Dee's neck and starts hitting him as other inmates, including the one who bailed on the escape, look on. He tells Stucky, who is watching that he ran the syndicate, he ran Sing Sing and now he runs Attica. He hits Dee one last time then frees him from the homemade rope and goes after the man who bailed on the escape. He tells him unless he wants to be next he will answer his questions straight up and asks what he knew causing him to bail on the escape. The man tells Shea Ronald was taking motion sickness pills and he knew that three weeks worth of pills were necessary only if you were going on a boat. He knew Barnes was lying. He couldn't quit the escape so he cut himself to get into the infirmary. Shea calls Ray with the new information and again asks for him to get him out of Attica. Ray hangs up and tells the rest of the team Barnes is taking a boat out of the country.
Barnes and Rhodes are at a storage facility and open a locker. Rhodes goes inside to retrieve something and hears a gun cock behind him. He turns to see Barnes holding a gun. He shoots Rhodes and takes the boat keys from him and leaves.
Julie learns that Barnes had four boats that were all seized and sold at auction. She names off the buyers including Gabe Trokie. Ray recognizes the name and Charlie tells him Trokie was the man who drove the truck through the prison wall for the escape. The boat is registered at Woodmere Docks, Long Island.
The team arrive in Long Island with Lloyd continuing to make jokes. Charlie tells him to shut up and go show the harbor master Barnes' mug shot while he and Ray go to the boat with guns drawn. They don't find him on the boat. Lloyd calls to them and Barnes is standing behind him with a gun to his head. Barnes orders Ray and Charlie to put their guns down and, after a few seconds, they do. Charlie tells Barnes he has no way out as if he comes past them to the boat they'll get him and while he can shoot one of them, he can't get all three of them. Ray tells Barnes they know about his stash and Barnes asks if they want part to let him go. Ray tells him he wants it all. Barnes tells Ray and Charlie to take half the stash now and get off the boat. Once he gets into international waters he'll leave the rest of it on buoy marker 12. If anyone follows him he will burn it all and will be taking Lloyd as insurance. Charlie looks to Ray and says he wants the money first and gets off the boat. He opens his jacket to show Barnes he isn't armed and walks up close to Barnes and Lloyd. When Barnes takes the bag off his shoulder to toss to Charlie, Ray reaches down and grabs a flare and shoots Barnes in the leg with it. Charlie cuffs him to take in.
At the office, an angry Shea arrives immediately telling Charlie there are rules and he should never leave one of his crew hanging. A fight almost starts between Shea and the Marshall's until Wendell arrives. He takes Charlie into the interview to speak with him and Lloyd turns the intercom in the main office on so they all can hear the conversation. Charlie tells Wendell Shea has been having a rough go of it the past 24 hours and Wendell assures him he isn't tossing the gangbanger. Lloyd and Erica are also safe. Wendell wants Ray off the team because he's a corrupt Marshall. Charlie asks for permission to speak freely and tells Wendell he's full of it and his whole issue of coming to check on the cons is smoke and mirrors. Wendell maintains keeping Ray on the team is too much of a liability and Charlie counters that it's his task force and Wendell responds it's his Marshall's service. He warns Charlie he'll be back behind a desk on Monday unless he backs off and changes his tone. Charlie replies that there are rules and he will not leave one member of his crew hanging so come Monday morning he wants Wendell to make sure his desk is waxed and every pencil on it is sharpened because he'd rather be there than to spend another day here with out Ray. If Wendell wants to explain to the feds about breaking up a team that solved a case of five escaped Attica prisoners in a day, fine. But he will get his two cents worth in as well. Wendell smiles and tells Charlie that if it goes south, he won't just nail Ray, it's on him (Charlie) now too. Ray opens the door telling Wendell it's been on him since day one. Once Wendell is gone, Charlie tells the cons to get changed up as the transfer van is waiting then goes into his office. Ray follows him in and thanks Charlie for standing up for him.
Breakout Kings airs every Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the Arts & Entertainment Network.
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Season One, Episode Twelve, There Are Rules
Original Air Date: May 22, 2011
The Breakout Kings are called into action when five men escape from prison after an 18-wheeler crashes through the wall at Attica. Ray sends Shea undercover at Attica to find out information on a sixth inmate who bailed on the escape putting Shea into danger. Meanwhile, the new chief director pays a visit to Charlie letting him know that he wants to change things around with the team and they might very well lose one of their members.
Ronald Barnes (Jeff Seymour) walks through the yard of Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York holding a map. He's walking as if pacing off steps to find something drawing curious looks from other inmates. He makes eye contact with two inmates, Chester Rhodes (Avery Kidd Waddell) and Sandy Clemente (Dean Chekvala). Rhodes taps on a table in front of yet another inmate, Tran Jun (Jeff Ong) who looks up from what he's writing then stands and follows Rhodes to stand before Barnes along with Clemente and a fourth inmate, Carlos Zepeda (Lombardo Boyar). An inmate behind Barnes tells him he thinks he's lost. Barnes turns and informs the man he's just enjoying the sunshine. He's told by the larger inmate that that part of the yard belongs to him and he needs to get out of there. Barnes looks to his watch and tells the man that it's funny as he was about to say the same thing to him. At that moment, an 18-wheeler crashes through the wall of the prison yard. As the guards start the lockdown, a man gets out of the truck with a gun and begins firing. Barnes, Rhodes, Clemente, Jun and Zepeda run to the trailer of the truck and get inside. In the process, Rhodes takes one of the guards hostage. A guard fatally shoots the man who drove the truck into the prison yard. The back of the trailer lowers and a black SUV drives out and through the hole opened in the wall by the 18-wheeler.
At the team office in Brooklyn, Richard Wendell (Gregg Henry) has paid Charlie a visit. He reads off a list of complaints made against the team. Charlie admits the team tends to be a little unorthodox but they always stay within the confines of the law. Wendell asks if Charlie would say that with his hand on a Bible and receives no answer. He closes the folder he is holding and sits down telling Charlie he's there to shake things up a bit. Charlie tells him to speak with Director Knox and he'll learn they have all the necessary clearances. Wendell informs him he did speak with Knox, once he became his new boss. Wendell wants Charlie to put the fear of God in the cons to make the team more effective. He tells Charlie he has a thick file in his office of guys that could replace any one of the mutts on the team. Charlie tells Wendell they have a massive case they are about to take on and now isn't really the best time to make change for change sake. Wendell stands saying he is going to study the case files and watch the operation and see if anything should be done.
The cons come into the main office and Lloyd is telling a joke, that no one seems to enjoy but him. Wendell, who is leaving Charlie's office, comments on the team. Charlie introduces him and Lloyd immediately says "it's a pleasure to meet you, Dick" and introduces himself then asks if he'd like to hear a tasty joke. When "Dick" makes no reply, Charlie identifies him as the Marshall's new chief director then introduces Ray to Wendell. Wendell leaves and Lloyd says he didn't know that Wendell was the boss but Charlie isn't pleased. He tells the team they have no time for joking as they have a major case to work and a new director who is riding him hard for results and orders them to get to work. Erica comments that it might be paranoia but she doesn't like the fact Wendell was just there, something Shea agrees with. Charlie wants to put the issue to bed then and there and tells them Wendell might send one of them back to the big house, make his mark and take credit as if he put the team together himself. He warns them if they pull their regular antics he might not be able to save them so the best thing they can do is play it straight and focus on the case.
Charlie starts the briefing telling the team of the five men on the run and of the guard that was kidnapped. Ray runs down the crimes of each man. Ronald Barnes was in for securities fraud and insider trading and took half a billion dollars before getting caught. Before Ray can run down Rhodes, Shea tells the team about him. He knows he's a bad man who has killed more people than smoking. Ray continues with Carlos Zepeta who ran the biggest east coast car theft ring. Tran Jun is a forger who has gotten half the Russian mob into Coney Island with his passports. Finally, Sandy Clemente who is a drug runner. His looks are deceiving as he's left a lot of bodies on both sides of the border. He asks the team for thoughts and Shea theorizes that Barnes provided the money, Rhodes the muscle and one of his old prison buddies on the outside drove the 18-wheeler, Zepeta provided the transportation. Erica adds that Clemente smuggles drugs over the border and this time it will be people--the escapees, and Ray adds that Jun will provide the passports. Julie tells the team something just came in and Charlie informs them the guard that was kidnapped was found by a barn in New Paltz shot twice in the head.
The team arrive in New Paltz, New York where Ray tells Charlie Julie found out the land was owned by a holding company buried under a half dozen names and the bottom line is it belongs to Ronald Barnes. Charlie asks the local police officer standing guard at the barn to open it but he's told they need a warrant. Ray tells him they have exigent circumstances as the cons could be in the barn. He takes a sledgehammer and breaks the lock then opens the door so the team can enter. Lloyd notes that the cons have changed out of their prison gear into street clothes and Charlie finds where Jun had already started making passports by cutting up photos. The local officer notices thinner tire tracks and radios to put out an alarm out for three cars and two motorcycles. Erica corrects that it's four cars and one cycle. From the office, Julie tells them that when Barnes' assets were seized, several cars in his collection were never found including a 1937 Jaguar Roadster valued at a half million dollars. Charlie knows they will be using it to fund their escape out of the country and Zepeta will broker the deal. Shea thinks they'll go someplace close and gives a few places where he can take them but Ray says he'll be needed for something else as there is a sixth set of civilian clothes and they need Shea to go inside, undercover, to find out who the sixth runner was supposed to be. Shea is vehemently against this plan but Ray points out that the cons won't talk to a Marshall and asks Julie to run him up some prisoner transfer papers. Charlie agrees with the plan and he takes Lloyd and Erica to check out the chop shops for the Jaguar.
At the office, Ray goes over four reasons why the sixth con didn't make the breakout. He thinks the best option is that the sixth man was hurt and in the infirmary. Julie confirms that five inmates were admitted a week before the escape. Ray tells Shea he was transferred to Attica because he assaulted a guard at Sing Sing and assures him no one knows he's with the Marshall's, including the guards and wardens. Shea isn't comfortable with the plan and wants to go back to Maybelle and will work the next case. Ray slugs him telling him he would have gotten tuned up had he attacked a guard and they need authenticity.
Charlie, Erica and Lloyd arrive at a chop shop in New Haven, Connecticut. Lloyd again tries making a joke but Charlie isn't amused. Charlie asks the owner about the Roadster they're looking for and informs him if he helped sell it he'll book him on aiding and abetting. The man nods toward one of the buildings and the team enters to find the Roadster with a man under it. Charlie drops the raised side of the car down and the man starts screaming and, when asked what his name is admits it's Carlos Zepeta. Charlie raises the car and asks where his pals are.
Zapata tells Charlie that because of Rhodes he'll be killed if he tells where they are and goes back inside. Erica thinks that it should appease Wendell that they caught one but Lloyd doesn't think so. She feels she's a necessity to the team, something else he disagrees with as she's just eye candy that can run fast. As they argue, Julie tells them it will be her that is let go since the Marshall's let her go once already. Charlie comes in for some water and Lloyd tells him he's been behind a desk for some time so interrogation might not be his strong suit and he has an idea. Charlie declines Lloyd then comes back and asks what his idea is.
Lloyd enters the interrogation room dressed in a jacket and tie pretending to be Charlie's superior. He tells Charlie to get he and Carlos coffee. When Charlie leaves, Lloyd tells Carlos he needs him to talk but knows he won't rat on Chester Rhodes. He asks what if he took Chester out of the equation by taking him out of Attica. He will set him up at Maybelle with a new name and all he has to do is sign a form. Carlos asks if it is legit and Lloyd tells him it is as legit as anything he can offer. Charlie returns with coffee and Lloyd asks Carlos what he knows. He tells him he was supposed to meet Tran Jun in Maywood, New Jersey at the bus stop on Palmer and Passiac with the money he got for the car. It was Ronald's plan and he told him anything else. Again, Carlos asks if the offer is iron-clad and Lloyd assures him an offer made by a U.S. Marshall cannot be rescinded under the law. When Carlos starts to sign he realizes it isn't a transfer form and Lloyd admits he isn't a Marshall.
At Attica, Shea arrives and walks through the yard. He sees an old friend, Stucky (Cle Bennett) and Stucky introduces him to a member of his crew Dee (Karl Campbell). He tells Shea he always has a place at his table but in Attica, there's one alpha dog and that's him (Stucky). Shea is cool with that and wants to know if Stucky can get him into the infirmary as it's easy work, something both Stucky and Dee agree can be arranged.
Two couples are playing a game in a house when Barnes and Rhodes break in. One of the men tell them to take what they want and Rhodes hits him on the side of the head with the sledgehammer he used to break the door down. Barnes points to an area of the floor and orders Rhodes to start tearing up the boards. Rhodes doesn't want to but Barnes points out he can tear the floor up faster than he can as he's more muscular. Reluctantly, Rhodes sets to work.
In the Attica kitchens, Dee tells Shea he couldn't get him in the infirmary and he's on bucket duty instead. Shea protests it isn't straight up and Stucky warns him to take the job he's offered. Shea and Dee fight, landing Shea in the infirmary.
The team are at the Corner of Palmer and Passaic in Maywood, New Jersey watching from a convenience store when Erica spots Jun. The team exit the store and, when he sees them coming his direction, Jun takes off running. He runs into the street and is hit by a bus leading Wendell to reprimand the entire team back at the office. Ray asks what he would have had them do and Wendell said a real task force would have approached at a perimeter and surrounded the fugitive who would have known escape was futile. Ray informs him they couldn't create a perimeter as three on the team cannot carry weapons. Wendell orders Charlie to get the team in order or he'll do it for him, then leaves the office.
Lloyd and Erica argue again about how should and will be cut. Ray orders them to shut up and look at the passports they confiscated off Jun. They are remarkable quality and they got lucky as they could have carried the escapees anywhere in the world. Julie informs the team she got a hit that a credit card reservation was made under one of Sandy Clemente's aliases at a private air strip in Delaware.
At the private airstrip in Delaware, the team arrives four hours before it opens. Charlie wants them to bunk somewhere then come back after the place opens. They bicker over which of the cons they will bunk with and Ray eventually is paired with Erica and Charlie, Lloyd.
At the hotel, Ray ends a conversation with his daughter as Erica exits the bathroom after a shower. She asks about his daughter but Ray doesn't want to talk about her as he doesn't wear his kid on his sleeve as she does. She tells him she does that way she has her with her and cannot get kicked off the team as she needs to get back to her daughter. Ray tells her they have no idea what Wendell will do and all she can do is focus on her job. Charlie and Lloyd have to share a bed because there weren't any two-bed rooms available. Lloyd, much to Charlie's displeasure, talks a lot. Charlie turns over and sees Lloyd's underwear on a chair and asks why they are there. When he tells Charlie that he "sleeps unencumbered", Charlie jumps out of the bed. Lloyd smiles and wishes Charlie "sweet dreams".
In the Attica infirmary, Shea's fight injuries are attended to. He starts talking with the other inmates in the infirmary about the recent escape. He notices one inmate isn't joining in the conversation and doesn't make a bet as to where the men will end up like the others do. Shea approaches the man saying he should have been in on the escape and shouldn't deny it. He asks the man for information but an intern comes in and takes the man out of the infirmary interrupting the conversation.
Barnes and Rhodes finally break through the floor at the house and find a stash of money. Rhodes looks to the man he hit earlier and picks up the sledgehammer telling Barnes he'll be back. Barnes stops him saying it was bad enough the guard was killed and if they get caught the deaths will be on him (Rhodes) and tells him to think. Rhodes tells him they aren't any different. He steals with his fists and Barnes steals with a pen and that he (Barnes) caused more devastation than he ever did.
While the team is sitting in the car at the airfield waiting for the escapees to show, Lloyd tries his Dennis Miller routine again causing Charlie to tell him to stop it. Erica sees a car drive up and alerts everyone. Ray has Erica and Lloyd get out of the car while he and Charlie remain. Charlie drives the SUV after the car and stops it on the grass. Inside is Clemente. He gets out of the car and tells them none of the other guys are there, just him.
At the office Lloyd crosses off yet another captured escapee but finds that it's almost too easy. Clemente doesn't want to talk to Ray as he knows he'll be killed if he does. A knock on the door draws Charlie out of the room and, after he tells Clemente he's making a mistake and Charlie knocks on the window, Ray leaves the room. Charlie tells him about Barnes and Rhodes entering the house and assaulting the civilian. The man died at the hospital of a brain aneurysm. Charlie tells Ray to do whatever he must to find out what Clemente knows. When Ray asks about the chief director Charlie again tells him "whatever you gotta do". Ray goes back into the interrogation room and draws the shades. He takes a lighter from the table and puts his arm around Clemente's neck. He burns his nose with the lighter until the man talks. He tells Ray he was supposed to fly to some one-horse airfield in Florida where they would all meet and fly to the Virgin Islands.
In the main office, Lloyd tells the team Barnes isn't going to Florida even though Clemente said they were. Lloyd feels Clemente was lied to as part of "Barnes' Strategy of Controlled Chaos" according to a Forbes article. Barnes wants the authorities to think they have him because they have captured two of the men involved in the escape. Lloyd says Barnes is in the northeast since he has them going south. Shea calls Ray with news that he found the man who bailed on the escape. He doesn't know why the man bailed out but he got himself into the infirmary before the escape. Shea thinks the other cons in Attica might know he working for the cops and he wants Ray to get him out. Ray turns to Charlie to tell him they need to get Shea out as his cover might be blown but Charlie says they can't pull him on a "might be". Ray tells Shea to stay safe, find out what the guy knows and they'll get him out as soon as they can. In his cell, Shea makes a rope to use later.
In the prison yard, Shea wraps the rope around Dee's neck and starts hitting him as other inmates, including the one who bailed on the escape, look on. He tells Stucky, who is watching that he ran the syndicate, he ran Sing Sing and now he runs Attica. He hits Dee one last time then frees him from the homemade rope and goes after the man who bailed on the escape. He tells him unless he wants to be next he will answer his questions straight up and asks what he knew causing him to bail on the escape. The man tells Shea Ronald was taking motion sickness pills and he knew that three weeks worth of pills were necessary only if you were going on a boat. He knew Barnes was lying. He couldn't quit the escape so he cut himself to get into the infirmary. Shea calls Ray with the new information and again asks for him to get him out of Attica. Ray hangs up and tells the rest of the team Barnes is taking a boat out of the country.
Barnes and Rhodes are at a storage facility and open a locker. Rhodes goes inside to retrieve something and hears a gun cock behind him. He turns to see Barnes holding a gun. He shoots Rhodes and takes the boat keys from him and leaves.
Julie learns that Barnes had four boats that were all seized and sold at auction. She names off the buyers including Gabe Trokie. Ray recognizes the name and Charlie tells him Trokie was the man who drove the truck through the prison wall for the escape. The boat is registered at Woodmere Docks, Long Island.
The team arrive in Long Island with Lloyd continuing to make jokes. Charlie tells him to shut up and go show the harbor master Barnes' mug shot while he and Ray go to the boat with guns drawn. They don't find him on the boat. Lloyd calls to them and Barnes is standing behind him with a gun to his head. Barnes orders Ray and Charlie to put their guns down and, after a few seconds, they do. Charlie tells Barnes he has no way out as if he comes past them to the boat they'll get him and while he can shoot one of them, he can't get all three of them. Ray tells Barnes they know about his stash and Barnes asks if they want part to let him go. Ray tells him he wants it all. Barnes tells Ray and Charlie to take half the stash now and get off the boat. Once he gets into international waters he'll leave the rest of it on buoy marker 12. If anyone follows him he will burn it all and will be taking Lloyd as insurance. Charlie looks to Ray and says he wants the money first and gets off the boat. He opens his jacket to show Barnes he isn't armed and walks up close to Barnes and Lloyd. When Barnes takes the bag off his shoulder to toss to Charlie, Ray reaches down and grabs a flare and shoots Barnes in the leg with it. Charlie cuffs him to take in.
At the office, an angry Shea arrives immediately telling Charlie there are rules and he should never leave one of his crew hanging. A fight almost starts between Shea and the Marshall's until Wendell arrives. He takes Charlie into the interview to speak with him and Lloyd turns the intercom in the main office on so they all can hear the conversation. Charlie tells Wendell Shea has been having a rough go of it the past 24 hours and Wendell assures him he isn't tossing the gangbanger. Lloyd and Erica are also safe. Wendell wants Ray off the team because he's a corrupt Marshall. Charlie asks for permission to speak freely and tells Wendell he's full of it and his whole issue of coming to check on the cons is smoke and mirrors. Wendell maintains keeping Ray on the team is too much of a liability and Charlie counters that it's his task force and Wendell responds it's his Marshall's service. He warns Charlie he'll be back behind a desk on Monday unless he backs off and changes his tone. Charlie replies that there are rules and he will not leave one member of his crew hanging so come Monday morning he wants Wendell to make sure his desk is waxed and every pencil on it is sharpened because he'd rather be there than to spend another day here with out Ray. If Wendell wants to explain to the feds about breaking up a team that solved a case of five escaped Attica prisoners in a day, fine. But he will get his two cents worth in as well. Wendell smiles and tells Charlie that if it goes south, he won't just nail Ray, it's on him (Charlie) now too. Ray opens the door telling Wendell it's been on him since day one. Once Wendell is gone, Charlie tells the cons to get changed up as the transfer van is waiting then goes into his office. Ray follows him in and thanks Charlie for standing up for him.
Breakout Kings airs every Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the Arts & Entertainment Network.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
US Television: Breakout Kings, Episode 1.11, "Off the Beaten Path"
Breakout Kings
Season One, Episode Eleven, Off the Beaten Path
Original Air Date: May 15, 2011
The team is called in when a dangerous psychiatric inmate escapes during a field trip to a medieval-themed restaurant. As the man is a known killer, the team knows they must work fast before he can kill again. When they learn he has abducted a young television host time starts running out even faster. An old face returns to the Breakout Kings to help them track the inmate through the Adirondack's. Erica has flashbacks of the area where they are searching for the inmate as it is where she sought vengeance on one of the men who murdered her father. Meanwhile, Charlie's father's watch is missing and he blames one of the cons for taking it.
At Sunnybrook Psychiatric Detention Center in New Hampton, New York, several inmates are lining up next to a bus for a field trip to Chivalry Castle, a medieval-themed restaurant. When the woman in charge of them, Paula Berry, asks why the are going on the trip one of the inmates, Kenny, raises his hand. He answers because they listen and have good behavior. She asks why Todd and Phillip aren't going with them and Kenny again raises his hand to answer because they didn't listen and had bad behavior. She tells them field trips can be taken away so they must follow the rules then allows them to board the bus. One of the orderlies, Victor, stops an inmate, Bennett Ballester, telling him he can't take the stuffed animal he is holding with him. Bennett begs Paula and she tells Victor it's alright and to let him go.
At Chivalry Castle in Hudson, New York, Paula tells the inmates any misbehavior will result in the loss of all privileges and they'll end up in the isolation room. She thanks an employee, a Green Knight (Sean Delaney), of Chivalry Castle for opening early for them. She finds Bennett standing next to the cage of a falcon petting the stuffed animal he is carrying and looking at the bird with fascination. She asks if he likes the bird and he says only "grandpa". She asks "grandpa, what?" and he replies "grandpa painted" leading her to understand that his grandfather painted birds and asks him if it is a nice memory which he admits it is. She pats him on the shoulder then walks away to check on the other inmates. He watches her leave then turns back to face the falcon. He turns his stuffed animal upside down and removes a tool from it.
The Knights are on their horses in the center ring and the jousting show begins. The inmates watch and cheer as the nights joust with one another. Paula notices Bennett isn't there and Victor goes to find him. Bennett is using the tool he had in his stuffed toy to pick a lock to the staff weapons room. When Victor finds him, he tells him he's in big trouble if he doesn't come to him right now. He gets the door open and retrieves a sword which he uses to kill Victor.
At the office, as Ray briefs the team on Bennett Ballester, Charlie is in his office rifling loudly through the drawers of his desk drawing the attention of everyone in the main room. Shea comments that the inmates were given a day trip and Lloyd points out integrating patients with the outside world is a standard and often successful practice when you're working toward rehabilitation. In this case, it was clearly very unsuccessful. Julie adds that the CCTV system at the Castle showed Bennett leaving the facility and Victor's wallet was missing. Lloyd asks if Bennett has killed before and Ray confirms it. Julie provides the information that Bennett was in for ten years for killing a local newscaster he was obsessed with. She was engaged to be married. Her body was never found but her DNA was pulled from beneath Bennett's fingernails. Lloyd begins telling the group about erotomania, a common trait in stalkers, when Charlie comes out of his office and looks strangely at everyone in the room. When Lloyd stops talking, Charlie tells him to continue. Julie tells them Bennett should be in maximum security prison for life but his lawyer proved he was unfit to stand trial due to a history of comorbidity. Lloyd asks Charlie if he's alright and he quietly tells Lloyd to finish. Lloyd explains that comorbidity means that Bennett is "a whole cocktail of crazy". Erica says there is evidence in the files of a diary Bennett's lawyer had suppressed during the competency hearing and Lloyd says he needs to see it, something Ray tells Julie to look into. Charlie continues looking strangely at the cons as Shea says the only family is Bennett's brother and they should talk to him. When Charlie gives Shea a strange look he asks him "dude, what?" leading Charlie to tell the team he's most angry at himself for actually thinking he could trust the cons. He tells them his father's watch is missing and it better be on his desk by the end of the case or heads will roll. Lloyd denies taking it and points toward Erica who also denies it as does Shea. Charlie maintains he doesn't care who took it, he just wants it back. He tells Ray to continue. Ray and Lloyd will be going to Sunnybrook to find more information on Bennett and Julie should call in his brother for Charlie to interview.
Ray and Lloyd arrive at Sunnybrook and Lloyd finds the place undeniably fascinating while Ray doesn't like being there. Ray asks him if he took Charlie's watch and he flatly denies it. Paula walks up to them and introduces herself. She tells them Bennett was an ideal patient who was on a good combination of meds. Lloyd points out that his actions from that day suggests he had been off the meds for quite a while without her knowledge. She asks how he knows so much and he tells her he has a PhD in behavioral psychology. Ray wants to look over Bennett's room and see copies of his files and notes. Lloyd asks her about the history of fixations he saw in the files and asks if he was fixated on anything recently. When she admits she doesn't know as he had them fooled he asks if Bennett was close with any other patients.
Lloyd sits down to talk with Bennett's friend, Teddy. He skips his usual talking to win Teddy's confidence and instead bribes him with sweets. Teddy says "meow time" and points to the television. Lloyd gives him the suckers and gets up.
Bennett is in a shop buying ropes and survivalist gear. His last choice of purchases is a 19-inch stainless knife. He surveys the knife then reaches into his pockets and pulls out two handfuls of money and gives them to the man behind the counter. He picks up his purchases and leaves the store without getting his change.
As Bennett's brother, Calvin arrives at the office, Charlie asks Julie if she's had any luck getting a hold of the diary. She's on hold with the lawyer's assistant at that moment. Charlie points Calvin toward the interview area and tells them when he comes back, they better have a lead. Erica says she thinks Lloyd took it and Shea says she might have as he knows he (Shea) didn't take it and he doesn't think Lloyd has the gumption to steal the watch. Julie finally gets to talk to the lawyer and informs him his client is a fugitive and they don't have the time to get a warrant as it could take days. When he hangs up on her she tells Shea she might need a favor.
In interview, Calvin tells Charlie he's ashamed to share the same last name with Bennett and if he knew where he was he would tell. Charlie asks why he came in to see him and Calvin says it's because he asked. Charlie points out that ten years ago when Bennett killed the newscaster no one in his family cooperated when he didn't mind sharing the same last name with his brother. Yet, today, he makes the trip from mid-town. Angry, Charlie stands and tells Calvin he doesn't have time to waste and asks where Bennett is. Calvin swears he doesn't know and admits he should have told the police ten years ago that Bennett would disappear into the Adirondack's behind their house for days and sometimes return with a backpack filled with dead birds.
In the main room, Julie is searching for "meow time" and is having trouble finding a match. Ray says that the session notes are useless as Bennett was running game on the entire facility. Charlie enters the room and asks Julie to get him a map of the southern Adirondack's above Northville. Upon hearing the location, a memory is triggered in Erica's mind. Charlie tells them about Calvin giving him information that Bennett is obsessed with survivability. Ray tells Charlie they need Gunderson but Charlie refuses. Erica asks who Gunderson is and Lloyd tells her he was one of the first Breakout Kings until Charlie caught him stealing an eating utensil. Ray points out Gunderson is a survivalist who grew up in the Adirondacks and is tailor-made for the case. Charlie again refuses. Julie has found "meow time" and tells the team it is the signature greeting of the host of the children's program "Goodnight Kitten", Debbie Myers. Shea puts a picture of Bennett's first victim, the newscaster, next to a picture of Debbie. The two women have a striking resemblance. Lloyd says he'd feel way more comfortable if they let Ms. Myers know what is going on immediately.
At her home, Debbie Myers goes to answer the incessantly ringing doorbell. Bennett is standing there with flowers. When she asks if they are for her he says "hello, kitten" making her immediately uncomfortable. She tries to shut the door and run but he manages to get inside the house. He puts a bag over her head and drags her away.
The team arrive at the house and find that her car is missing as well. Erica has been looking through Debbie's closet and believes Bennett took her ski jacket and hiking boots. When Charlie comments he's heading into the Adirondack's, Erica again zones out. He asks if she has something to say she tells him 'no'. Charlie finds wedding invitations as Debbie was supposed to be getting married that Saturday.
At the Law Offices of Phillip Kincaid, Esq., in Brooklyn, New York, Shea and Julie arrive and speak with Kincaid. Kincaid asks Shea if he needs help with some criminal issues and he tells him he does because he's heard Kincaid was one of the top criminal defense attorneys around and he knows a lot of guys who has used him. Kincaid tells him it's a $5,000 retainer up front and Shea looks to Julie. Kincaid asks who she is and she tells him. Immediately, Kincaid tells them the diary, as she chooses to call it, has the words "dear counselor" written on the first page and "sincerely, your client" written on the last. Everything in it is attorney/client privileged correspondence and tells them to leave until they have a subpoena. Shea says he doesn't think so and tells him Julianne pulled up his court records and he personally knows ten guys who have used him. Six worked for him, one is his second cousin and they all owe him. Kincaid asks who he is and Shea says he's going to pull three names from a hat then have those three names cut a deal saying Kincaid recommended the perjure themselves for lighter sentences. He's choosing three because it will ensure Kincaid will get his ticket punched and end up in Sing Sing where he (Shea) will make sure the right booty bandits run a train on him. His other option is to give Julie the diary. Kincaid chooses the latter.
Bennett stops Debbie's car on a deserted road in the woods and takes her from the trunk. He takes the bag from her head and tells her she can come up front. As he's putting her in the back seat, she asks who he is and what he wants. She gets into the car and touches a bag he has in the backseat. He cautions her to be careful or she'll crush it. She looks in the bag and sees her wedding dress.
Charlie arrives at the office and Ray tells him they have something. Gunderson is sitting there and smiles at Charlie as he walks in. Ray tells him Gunderson used the information given them by Calvin to narrow down the location in the Adirondack's to locate Bennett. Ray insists they aren't equipped for that sort of pursuit and since Gunderson grew up in the mountains, they need him. Charlie still maintains they can do it with the use of technology and even K-9 units but Ray says they don't have the time as the girl will be dead. Gunderson tells Charlie if Bennett is a true survivalist he will take the abandoned trails which are hard to find and aren't on the hiking map. Erica's memories come back again and she sees flashes of herself hiking through the woods with a man. Julie and Shea return with the diary and he says it looks like a mouse on mushrooms wrote it and throws it to Lloyd. Charlie asks Ray what deal he made with Gunderson. Ray promised him all the ribs he could eat, a 12-pack of beer and copy of Hustler. Charlie consents that Gunderson can take them to the trail head but that's it. If it looks promising, they call the local fire team from special operations, with which Ray agrees. Charlie tells Julie to call the ranger on duty to make sure he meets them there. Lloyd is to stay at the office and go through the diary as they'll have satellite phones and will be in constant communication. Before they leave, Charlie warns Gunderson that one wrong or stupid move means he will bury him up there.
Bennett stops the car at a locked gate. He gets out to try and open it and a ranger's truck pulls up behind him. He orders Debbie to be quiet and the ranger tells him the road is closed. If he wants to hike there he needs to get a permit and leave the car at the park entrance. Bennett comments that rangers don't come up there this time of year and the ranger tells him he saw his car pull off the side of the road and again tells him to get a permit so he doesn't have to cite him. When the ranger's phone rings, Debbie starts beating on the back glass and screaming 'help' leading Bennett to attack the ranger with his knife.
In Adirondack National Forest, Charlie stops the SUV behind the ranger's truck. The team get out and survey the area. Shea finds blood on a leaf and Erica calls them over to where Bennett has hidden Debbie's car beneath some limbs. In the trunk, they find the body of the ranger. Charlie says he'll call in the fire team and they have to gear up. Gunderson points out the old tire tracks and tells them this is prime crop area for pot growers. Shea reminds him the feds cleaned that up but Gunderson says a lot of the traps they set in the area to protect their crops are still primed. He tells Charlie he doesn't need to wait for backup. He'll get him where he needs to go if he trusts him. Shea urges Charlie to not take the cuffs off Gunderson because if they go up in the mountains with him he's the only one coming back. Charlie assures Shea that isn't happening. Ray again insists they can't wait and he will personally watch Gunderson. Gunderson again tells Charlie he can trust him. Erica steps forward and tells them they don't need Gunderson as she knows the area like the back of her hand. She chased a bail jumper who allegedly dumped a body up there.
Charlie chains Gunderson to the SUV and pairs the team off. He and Shea will travel together and Ray and Erica together. Gunderson asks Charlie if he's really going to bet on Erica over him and Charlie confirms he is. Gunderson says they'll die up there and he'll laugh about it.
As they are walking, Debbie asks Bennett what a grown man is doing watching a children's show. He tells her the show isn't a children's show and forces her to sing the theme song. When she starts saying "goodnight" to different names, she asks what his name is. Angrily, he tells her she knows and says 'Bennett'. He tells her he loves her and when he turns around, she pulls one of her fake fingernails off and drops it on the leaves.
At the office, Lloyd is going over Bennett's diary which is full of pictures of falcons, and drawings of boxes and the number two. Julie says she can't make heads or tails of it and asks him if he'd like to have some coffee. He is absorbed in the diary and doesn't answer. He tells her schizophrenics who take their fixation to the next level sometimes latch onto symbolic element and he has found "RBF" all over the diary. Julie asks what it means and he looks at one of the drawings of the falcons and tells her it's a bird and asks her to pull up everything there is on the red-bellied falcon.
In the woods, Shea tells Charlie, man-to-man, that he didn't take his father's watch. Charlie doesn't want to hear it and again tells him as long as the watch is back on his desk by the end of the tour he won't ask any questions. Shea slips on some leaves and some cans fall from a tree. Charlie draws his gun and comments it's a homemade alarm system and he wonders what else they planted. They continue climbing as Charlie's phone rings. Lloyd tells him the red-bellied falcon nests at 5,000 feet and there is only a quarter-mile section of the mountain at that elevation. Charlie will notify Ray and he wants Lloyd to update him on anything else.
A strange animal sound catches Erica and Ray by surprise. She tells him it's a fisher cat and nothing to be worried about. He asks if she studied the mountains when she was chasing the bail jumper and she confirms she did. He grabs her hand and pushes her coat sleeve up exposing the marks on her wrist and asks if it has anything to do with the guys who killed her father that she allegedly made disappear. She has a memory of firing a gun and just says "allegedly" to Ray. She looks down and sees the fingernail Debbie dropped. She tells him to call Charlie as they're on the right trail and she continues walking.
Bennett points out a red-bellied falcon nest to Debbie as they are walking. He tells her when the birds mate, they do so for life. He looks behind her and asks "do you remember their eggs? Those pretty eggs?". He continues talking to someone she cannot see causing her to ask him who he's talking to as there's nobody there. He tells her she sang to him on her show and said his name. She looked right into the camera and said "goodnight, Bennett" then went off to marry him. He jerks her to the forest floor. She pleads with him saying there are lots of little boys out there named "Bennett" and if she said his name before it didn't mean anything. He tells her they will be together forever and jerks her to her feet so they can continue walking.
Debbie is tied to a tree and asks Bennett what he will do with her and to just let her go. When he doesn't answer her, she yells for him to kill himself. He walks to her and takes out a knife and cuts the palm of her hand then cuts his and presses their hands together. Their blood is the same now and they belong together. He looks to the side and angrily tells an invisible person not to talk about her like that. He tells them she just doesn't understand yet and gets up and walks away.
Julie asks Lloyd why Bennett is so obsessed with birds and he explains Bennett will "marry" Debbie than rape and kill her. In his mind, the woman he loved betrayed him so he will try to possess Debbie with the same ritual. He has an intricate ceremony laid out and will try to do it at a specific time. He points out the "2's" on several pages of the diary and the drawings of cubes. He realizes they symbolize "two cubed" and Julie says "eight". The ritual will happen at eight o'clock and it's now seven-thirty. Lloyd calls Charlie with word that Bennett's ceremony will be happening at eight giving them a half hour to save Debbie. Julie remarks to Lloyd that he is amazing.
Debbie hears a helicopter overhead but Bennett tells her they can't see her and she should stop crying as it's disgusting. He shows her what she looks like in a mirror, gives it to her and tells her to clean herself up as today is her wedding day.
As Ray is receiving word from Charlie about the time of the ceremony, Erica again remembers walking through the woods with a man. She tells him he took her father from her and he tells her he wasn't the only one and didn't pull the trigger. She tells him it's four down and two to go then shoots him. Ray snaps her out of her thoughts and urges her ahead. She climbs over a fallen tree and Ray throws his pack to her. When he climbs through the limbs of the tree, he steps into a bear trap. Debbie, still hearing the helicopter, tries using the sunlight to reflect off the mirror in hopes someone will see it and come to her rescue. As Erica is trying to free Ray, she sees the glint from Debbie's mirror. Ray orders her to leave him and go check it out. Bennett turns and looks to Debbie who hides the mirror. Erica runs toward the glint and sees Debbie alone. She cautiously goes to her and is able to cut her loose before Bennett comes up behind her. Erica yells for Debbie to run, which she does. She tells Bennett it is over and as she's backing away from him holding her knife, she trips over a rock. He raises his own knife ordering her to drop hers, which she does.
Charlie and Shea hear Debbie crying and soon see her running through the forest. Charlie identifies himself as a Marshall and she tells him Bennett has got her. Charlie figures out it is Erica he has and asks Debbie where she ran from. She points behind her telling him about five minutes that way. Charlie orders Shea to cut Debbie loose and he goes to save Erica.
Bennett has Erica dressed in Debbie's wedding gown and tied to a tree. She is able to free her hands and as she's trying to make her escape he sees and stops her. He tells her she ruined everything and puts his knife to her throat. In the office, Lloyd notes it's eight o'clock and he hopes they got to Debbie. Bennett tells Erica the most painless way to kill an animal is by cutting off their head quickly. If the knife isn't sharp enough, cut the throat at the carotid artery and press on the neck so the blood drains quickly. Charlie, his gun raised, yells to Bennett wanting to talk. Bennett tells him Erica took away what was his. Charlie tells him Calvin wants him to come back home but Bennett says he is home. Charlie orders Bennett twice to put the knife down. Bennett looks overhead at one of the choppers flying over then back to Erica and tells her to 'say goodbye'. She yells to Charlie who shoots Bennett.
The team arrive back at the office where Lloyd and Julie are both asleep. Charlie tells Julie to get Ray to a hospital and the cons to get changed up so he can take them back to Maybelle. Julie tells Ray Debbie is with her fiance and is doing fine and Gunderson wants to know when he can get his ribs, beer and Hustler. Lloyd congratulates Charlie on his marksmanship. Erica touches the marks on her wrist with a faraway look in her eyes bringing a knowing look from Ray. He goes into the restroom to get a look at his leg. While in there, he finds Charlie's watch on top of the paper towel dispenser. He takes it into Charlie's office and hands it to him. Charlie asks who had it and Ray tells him the paper towel holder. Charlie remembers taking the watch off and leaving it there when he cleaned his shirt. Ray tells him not to say anything to the cons and it will make him lose credibility. After Ray has left, Charlie goes out to where the cons are and tells them he misplaced his watch and no one took it, but he doesn't actually apologize. When he walks away, Lloyd asks if he just heard what he thought he heard and Shea remarks "I think so". As they are walking to the elevator, Lloyd mutters he's pretty sure he didn't hear an apology.
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Season One, Episode Eleven, Off the Beaten Path
Original Air Date: May 15, 2011
The team is called in when a dangerous psychiatric inmate escapes during a field trip to a medieval-themed restaurant. As the man is a known killer, the team knows they must work fast before he can kill again. When they learn he has abducted a young television host time starts running out even faster. An old face returns to the Breakout Kings to help them track the inmate through the Adirondack's. Erica has flashbacks of the area where they are searching for the inmate as it is where she sought vengeance on one of the men who murdered her father. Meanwhile, Charlie's father's watch is missing and he blames one of the cons for taking it.
At Sunnybrook Psychiatric Detention Center in New Hampton, New York, several inmates are lining up next to a bus for a field trip to Chivalry Castle, a medieval-themed restaurant. When the woman in charge of them, Paula Berry, asks why the are going on the trip one of the inmates, Kenny, raises his hand. He answers because they listen and have good behavior. She asks why Todd and Phillip aren't going with them and Kenny again raises his hand to answer because they didn't listen and had bad behavior. She tells them field trips can be taken away so they must follow the rules then allows them to board the bus. One of the orderlies, Victor, stops an inmate, Bennett Ballester, telling him he can't take the stuffed animal he is holding with him. Bennett begs Paula and she tells Victor it's alright and to let him go.
At Chivalry Castle in Hudson, New York, Paula tells the inmates any misbehavior will result in the loss of all privileges and they'll end up in the isolation room. She thanks an employee, a Green Knight (Sean Delaney), of Chivalry Castle for opening early for them. She finds Bennett standing next to the cage of a falcon petting the stuffed animal he is carrying and looking at the bird with fascination. She asks if he likes the bird and he says only "grandpa". She asks "grandpa, what?" and he replies "grandpa painted" leading her to understand that his grandfather painted birds and asks him if it is a nice memory which he admits it is. She pats him on the shoulder then walks away to check on the other inmates. He watches her leave then turns back to face the falcon. He turns his stuffed animal upside down and removes a tool from it.
The Knights are on their horses in the center ring and the jousting show begins. The inmates watch and cheer as the nights joust with one another. Paula notices Bennett isn't there and Victor goes to find him. Bennett is using the tool he had in his stuffed toy to pick a lock to the staff weapons room. When Victor finds him, he tells him he's in big trouble if he doesn't come to him right now. He gets the door open and retrieves a sword which he uses to kill Victor.
At the office, as Ray briefs the team on Bennett Ballester, Charlie is in his office rifling loudly through the drawers of his desk drawing the attention of everyone in the main room. Shea comments that the inmates were given a day trip and Lloyd points out integrating patients with the outside world is a standard and often successful practice when you're working toward rehabilitation. In this case, it was clearly very unsuccessful. Julie adds that the CCTV system at the Castle showed Bennett leaving the facility and Victor's wallet was missing. Lloyd asks if Bennett has killed before and Ray confirms it. Julie provides the information that Bennett was in for ten years for killing a local newscaster he was obsessed with. She was engaged to be married. Her body was never found but her DNA was pulled from beneath Bennett's fingernails. Lloyd begins telling the group about erotomania, a common trait in stalkers, when Charlie comes out of his office and looks strangely at everyone in the room. When Lloyd stops talking, Charlie tells him to continue. Julie tells them Bennett should be in maximum security prison for life but his lawyer proved he was unfit to stand trial due to a history of comorbidity. Lloyd asks Charlie if he's alright and he quietly tells Lloyd to finish. Lloyd explains that comorbidity means that Bennett is "a whole cocktail of crazy". Erica says there is evidence in the files of a diary Bennett's lawyer had suppressed during the competency hearing and Lloyd says he needs to see it, something Ray tells Julie to look into. Charlie continues looking strangely at the cons as Shea says the only family is Bennett's brother and they should talk to him. When Charlie gives Shea a strange look he asks him "dude, what?" leading Charlie to tell the team he's most angry at himself for actually thinking he could trust the cons. He tells them his father's watch is missing and it better be on his desk by the end of the case or heads will roll. Lloyd denies taking it and points toward Erica who also denies it as does Shea. Charlie maintains he doesn't care who took it, he just wants it back. He tells Ray to continue. Ray and Lloyd will be going to Sunnybrook to find more information on Bennett and Julie should call in his brother for Charlie to interview.
Ray and Lloyd arrive at Sunnybrook and Lloyd finds the place undeniably fascinating while Ray doesn't like being there. Ray asks him if he took Charlie's watch and he flatly denies it. Paula walks up to them and introduces herself. She tells them Bennett was an ideal patient who was on a good combination of meds. Lloyd points out that his actions from that day suggests he had been off the meds for quite a while without her knowledge. She asks how he knows so much and he tells her he has a PhD in behavioral psychology. Ray wants to look over Bennett's room and see copies of his files and notes. Lloyd asks her about the history of fixations he saw in the files and asks if he was fixated on anything recently. When she admits she doesn't know as he had them fooled he asks if Bennett was close with any other patients.
Lloyd sits down to talk with Bennett's friend, Teddy. He skips his usual talking to win Teddy's confidence and instead bribes him with sweets. Teddy says "meow time" and points to the television. Lloyd gives him the suckers and gets up.
Bennett is in a shop buying ropes and survivalist gear. His last choice of purchases is a 19-inch stainless knife. He surveys the knife then reaches into his pockets and pulls out two handfuls of money and gives them to the man behind the counter. He picks up his purchases and leaves the store without getting his change.
As Bennett's brother, Calvin arrives at the office, Charlie asks Julie if she's had any luck getting a hold of the diary. She's on hold with the lawyer's assistant at that moment. Charlie points Calvin toward the interview area and tells them when he comes back, they better have a lead. Erica says she thinks Lloyd took it and Shea says she might have as he knows he (Shea) didn't take it and he doesn't think Lloyd has the gumption to steal the watch. Julie finally gets to talk to the lawyer and informs him his client is a fugitive and they don't have the time to get a warrant as it could take days. When he hangs up on her she tells Shea she might need a favor.
In interview, Calvin tells Charlie he's ashamed to share the same last name with Bennett and if he knew where he was he would tell. Charlie asks why he came in to see him and Calvin says it's because he asked. Charlie points out that ten years ago when Bennett killed the newscaster no one in his family cooperated when he didn't mind sharing the same last name with his brother. Yet, today, he makes the trip from mid-town. Angry, Charlie stands and tells Calvin he doesn't have time to waste and asks where Bennett is. Calvin swears he doesn't know and admits he should have told the police ten years ago that Bennett would disappear into the Adirondack's behind their house for days and sometimes return with a backpack filled with dead birds.
In the main room, Julie is searching for "meow time" and is having trouble finding a match. Ray says that the session notes are useless as Bennett was running game on the entire facility. Charlie enters the room and asks Julie to get him a map of the southern Adirondack's above Northville. Upon hearing the location, a memory is triggered in Erica's mind. Charlie tells them about Calvin giving him information that Bennett is obsessed with survivability. Ray tells Charlie they need Gunderson but Charlie refuses. Erica asks who Gunderson is and Lloyd tells her he was one of the first Breakout Kings until Charlie caught him stealing an eating utensil. Ray points out Gunderson is a survivalist who grew up in the Adirondacks and is tailor-made for the case. Charlie again refuses. Julie has found "meow time" and tells the team it is the signature greeting of the host of the children's program "Goodnight Kitten", Debbie Myers. Shea puts a picture of Bennett's first victim, the newscaster, next to a picture of Debbie. The two women have a striking resemblance. Lloyd says he'd feel way more comfortable if they let Ms. Myers know what is going on immediately.
At her home, Debbie Myers goes to answer the incessantly ringing doorbell. Bennett is standing there with flowers. When she asks if they are for her he says "hello, kitten" making her immediately uncomfortable. She tries to shut the door and run but he manages to get inside the house. He puts a bag over her head and drags her away.
The team arrive at the house and find that her car is missing as well. Erica has been looking through Debbie's closet and believes Bennett took her ski jacket and hiking boots. When Charlie comments he's heading into the Adirondack's, Erica again zones out. He asks if she has something to say she tells him 'no'. Charlie finds wedding invitations as Debbie was supposed to be getting married that Saturday.
At the Law Offices of Phillip Kincaid, Esq., in Brooklyn, New York, Shea and Julie arrive and speak with Kincaid. Kincaid asks Shea if he needs help with some criminal issues and he tells him he does because he's heard Kincaid was one of the top criminal defense attorneys around and he knows a lot of guys who has used him. Kincaid tells him it's a $5,000 retainer up front and Shea looks to Julie. Kincaid asks who she is and she tells him. Immediately, Kincaid tells them the diary, as she chooses to call it, has the words "dear counselor" written on the first page and "sincerely, your client" written on the last. Everything in it is attorney/client privileged correspondence and tells them to leave until they have a subpoena. Shea says he doesn't think so and tells him Julianne pulled up his court records and he personally knows ten guys who have used him. Six worked for him, one is his second cousin and they all owe him. Kincaid asks who he is and Shea says he's going to pull three names from a hat then have those three names cut a deal saying Kincaid recommended the perjure themselves for lighter sentences. He's choosing three because it will ensure Kincaid will get his ticket punched and end up in Sing Sing where he (Shea) will make sure the right booty bandits run a train on him. His other option is to give Julie the diary. Kincaid chooses the latter.
Bennett stops Debbie's car on a deserted road in the woods and takes her from the trunk. He takes the bag from her head and tells her she can come up front. As he's putting her in the back seat, she asks who he is and what he wants. She gets into the car and touches a bag he has in the backseat. He cautions her to be careful or she'll crush it. She looks in the bag and sees her wedding dress.
Charlie arrives at the office and Ray tells him they have something. Gunderson is sitting there and smiles at Charlie as he walks in. Ray tells him Gunderson used the information given them by Calvin to narrow down the location in the Adirondack's to locate Bennett. Ray insists they aren't equipped for that sort of pursuit and since Gunderson grew up in the mountains, they need him. Charlie still maintains they can do it with the use of technology and even K-9 units but Ray says they don't have the time as the girl will be dead. Gunderson tells Charlie if Bennett is a true survivalist he will take the abandoned trails which are hard to find and aren't on the hiking map. Erica's memories come back again and she sees flashes of herself hiking through the woods with a man. Julie and Shea return with the diary and he says it looks like a mouse on mushrooms wrote it and throws it to Lloyd. Charlie asks Ray what deal he made with Gunderson. Ray promised him all the ribs he could eat, a 12-pack of beer and copy of Hustler. Charlie consents that Gunderson can take them to the trail head but that's it. If it looks promising, they call the local fire team from special operations, with which Ray agrees. Charlie tells Julie to call the ranger on duty to make sure he meets them there. Lloyd is to stay at the office and go through the diary as they'll have satellite phones and will be in constant communication. Before they leave, Charlie warns Gunderson that one wrong or stupid move means he will bury him up there.
Bennett stops the car at a locked gate. He gets out to try and open it and a ranger's truck pulls up behind him. He orders Debbie to be quiet and the ranger tells him the road is closed. If he wants to hike there he needs to get a permit and leave the car at the park entrance. Bennett comments that rangers don't come up there this time of year and the ranger tells him he saw his car pull off the side of the road and again tells him to get a permit so he doesn't have to cite him. When the ranger's phone rings, Debbie starts beating on the back glass and screaming 'help' leading Bennett to attack the ranger with his knife.
In Adirondack National Forest, Charlie stops the SUV behind the ranger's truck. The team get out and survey the area. Shea finds blood on a leaf and Erica calls them over to where Bennett has hidden Debbie's car beneath some limbs. In the trunk, they find the body of the ranger. Charlie says he'll call in the fire team and they have to gear up. Gunderson points out the old tire tracks and tells them this is prime crop area for pot growers. Shea reminds him the feds cleaned that up but Gunderson says a lot of the traps they set in the area to protect their crops are still primed. He tells Charlie he doesn't need to wait for backup. He'll get him where he needs to go if he trusts him. Shea urges Charlie to not take the cuffs off Gunderson because if they go up in the mountains with him he's the only one coming back. Charlie assures Shea that isn't happening. Ray again insists they can't wait and he will personally watch Gunderson. Gunderson again tells Charlie he can trust him. Erica steps forward and tells them they don't need Gunderson as she knows the area like the back of her hand. She chased a bail jumper who allegedly dumped a body up there.
Charlie chains Gunderson to the SUV and pairs the team off. He and Shea will travel together and Ray and Erica together. Gunderson asks Charlie if he's really going to bet on Erica over him and Charlie confirms he is. Gunderson says they'll die up there and he'll laugh about it.
As they are walking, Debbie asks Bennett what a grown man is doing watching a children's show. He tells her the show isn't a children's show and forces her to sing the theme song. When she starts saying "goodnight" to different names, she asks what his name is. Angrily, he tells her she knows and says 'Bennett'. He tells her he loves her and when he turns around, she pulls one of her fake fingernails off and drops it on the leaves.
At the office, Lloyd is going over Bennett's diary which is full of pictures of falcons, and drawings of boxes and the number two. Julie says she can't make heads or tails of it and asks him if he'd like to have some coffee. He is absorbed in the diary and doesn't answer. He tells her schizophrenics who take their fixation to the next level sometimes latch onto symbolic element and he has found "RBF" all over the diary. Julie asks what it means and he looks at one of the drawings of the falcons and tells her it's a bird and asks her to pull up everything there is on the red-bellied falcon.
In the woods, Shea tells Charlie, man-to-man, that he didn't take his father's watch. Charlie doesn't want to hear it and again tells him as long as the watch is back on his desk by the end of the tour he won't ask any questions. Shea slips on some leaves and some cans fall from a tree. Charlie draws his gun and comments it's a homemade alarm system and he wonders what else they planted. They continue climbing as Charlie's phone rings. Lloyd tells him the red-bellied falcon nests at 5,000 feet and there is only a quarter-mile section of the mountain at that elevation. Charlie will notify Ray and he wants Lloyd to update him on anything else.
A strange animal sound catches Erica and Ray by surprise. She tells him it's a fisher cat and nothing to be worried about. He asks if she studied the mountains when she was chasing the bail jumper and she confirms she did. He grabs her hand and pushes her coat sleeve up exposing the marks on her wrist and asks if it has anything to do with the guys who killed her father that she allegedly made disappear. She has a memory of firing a gun and just says "allegedly" to Ray. She looks down and sees the fingernail Debbie dropped. She tells him to call Charlie as they're on the right trail and she continues walking.
Bennett points out a red-bellied falcon nest to Debbie as they are walking. He tells her when the birds mate, they do so for life. He looks behind her and asks "do you remember their eggs? Those pretty eggs?". He continues talking to someone she cannot see causing her to ask him who he's talking to as there's nobody there. He tells her she sang to him on her show and said his name. She looked right into the camera and said "goodnight, Bennett" then went off to marry him. He jerks her to the forest floor. She pleads with him saying there are lots of little boys out there named "Bennett" and if she said his name before it didn't mean anything. He tells her they will be together forever and jerks her to her feet so they can continue walking.
Debbie is tied to a tree and asks Bennett what he will do with her and to just let her go. When he doesn't answer her, she yells for him to kill himself. He walks to her and takes out a knife and cuts the palm of her hand then cuts his and presses their hands together. Their blood is the same now and they belong together. He looks to the side and angrily tells an invisible person not to talk about her like that. He tells them she just doesn't understand yet and gets up and walks away.
Julie asks Lloyd why Bennett is so obsessed with birds and he explains Bennett will "marry" Debbie than rape and kill her. In his mind, the woman he loved betrayed him so he will try to possess Debbie with the same ritual. He has an intricate ceremony laid out and will try to do it at a specific time. He points out the "2's" on several pages of the diary and the drawings of cubes. He realizes they symbolize "two cubed" and Julie says "eight". The ritual will happen at eight o'clock and it's now seven-thirty. Lloyd calls Charlie with word that Bennett's ceremony will be happening at eight giving them a half hour to save Debbie. Julie remarks to Lloyd that he is amazing.
Debbie hears a helicopter overhead but Bennett tells her they can't see her and she should stop crying as it's disgusting. He shows her what she looks like in a mirror, gives it to her and tells her to clean herself up as today is her wedding day.
As Ray is receiving word from Charlie about the time of the ceremony, Erica again remembers walking through the woods with a man. She tells him he took her father from her and he tells her he wasn't the only one and didn't pull the trigger. She tells him it's four down and two to go then shoots him. Ray snaps her out of her thoughts and urges her ahead. She climbs over a fallen tree and Ray throws his pack to her. When he climbs through the limbs of the tree, he steps into a bear trap. Debbie, still hearing the helicopter, tries using the sunlight to reflect off the mirror in hopes someone will see it and come to her rescue. As Erica is trying to free Ray, she sees the glint from Debbie's mirror. Ray orders her to leave him and go check it out. Bennett turns and looks to Debbie who hides the mirror. Erica runs toward the glint and sees Debbie alone. She cautiously goes to her and is able to cut her loose before Bennett comes up behind her. Erica yells for Debbie to run, which she does. She tells Bennett it is over and as she's backing away from him holding her knife, she trips over a rock. He raises his own knife ordering her to drop hers, which she does.
Charlie and Shea hear Debbie crying and soon see her running through the forest. Charlie identifies himself as a Marshall and she tells him Bennett has got her. Charlie figures out it is Erica he has and asks Debbie where she ran from. She points behind her telling him about five minutes that way. Charlie orders Shea to cut Debbie loose and he goes to save Erica.
Bennett has Erica dressed in Debbie's wedding gown and tied to a tree. She is able to free her hands and as she's trying to make her escape he sees and stops her. He tells her she ruined everything and puts his knife to her throat. In the office, Lloyd notes it's eight o'clock and he hopes they got to Debbie. Bennett tells Erica the most painless way to kill an animal is by cutting off their head quickly. If the knife isn't sharp enough, cut the throat at the carotid artery and press on the neck so the blood drains quickly. Charlie, his gun raised, yells to Bennett wanting to talk. Bennett tells him Erica took away what was his. Charlie tells him Calvin wants him to come back home but Bennett says he is home. Charlie orders Bennett twice to put the knife down. Bennett looks overhead at one of the choppers flying over then back to Erica and tells her to 'say goodbye'. She yells to Charlie who shoots Bennett.
The team arrive back at the office where Lloyd and Julie are both asleep. Charlie tells Julie to get Ray to a hospital and the cons to get changed up so he can take them back to Maybelle. Julie tells Ray Debbie is with her fiance and is doing fine and Gunderson wants to know when he can get his ribs, beer and Hustler. Lloyd congratulates Charlie on his marksmanship. Erica touches the marks on her wrist with a faraway look in her eyes bringing a knowing look from Ray. He goes into the restroom to get a look at his leg. While in there, he finds Charlie's watch on top of the paper towel dispenser. He takes it into Charlie's office and hands it to him. Charlie asks who had it and Ray tells him the paper towel holder. Charlie remembers taking the watch off and leaving it there when he cleaned his shirt. Ray tells him not to say anything to the cons and it will make him lose credibility. After Ray has left, Charlie goes out to where the cons are and tells them he misplaced his watch and no one took it, but he doesn't actually apologize. When he walks away, Lloyd asks if he just heard what he thought he heard and Shea remarks "I think so". As they are walking to the elevator, Lloyd mutters he's pretty sure he didn't hear an apology.
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Monday, May 9, 2011
US Television: Breakout Kings, Episode 1.10, "Paid in Full"
Breakout Kings
Season One, Episode Ten, Paid in Full
Original Air Date: May 8, 2011
When a dangerous hit man escapes from prison the team must find him and get him back into custody before he can complete his deadly mission. Meanwhile, Shea overhears a conversation between Charlie and Ray about Ray not being a full-fledged U.S. Marshall. This leads to conflict between the team and we finally learn exactly what each of the cons did to land them in prison.
At McCollum-Walker Correction Facility in Suffield, Connecticut, Virgil Downing (Mark Pelligrino) is rolling a magazine in his cell. His cellmate tells him he's rolling it wrong if he wants to inflict real pain with it. He continues to tell him he'll need a guy like him for whatever it is he has going. When he receives no response as the man puts the rolled-up magazine into his shirt sleeve, he tells him the fact he feels he's too good to talk to any of them is why no one likes him and that he should watch his back. A guard knocks on the door to get Virgil. He tells him to turn around and step away from the door. When the guard enters the cell, Virgil uses the magazine to get out of the cuffs then overpowers the guard and takes his keys. He places the magazine on his cellmates bunk as the man looks on in surprise then, taking the guards vest, he leaves the cell and closes the door. He clings to an overhead steam pipe in the hall and another guard passes right beneath him, leaving an entry open. Downing walks through an area where another inmate is mopping the floor. He breaks off part of the handle and stabs in inmate with it. As another guard enters to assist the injured inmate, Downing targets him with pepper spray and exits the area. A guard finds the first guard Downing overpowered and calls a "man down" alert. As the guard team organizes to apprehend Downing, a guard in the security room watches him head from block to block on his way west. The guard team go outside at D block, where the Sergeant said Downing was headed but he is nowhere to be seen. Downing exits A Block and uses the vest to bypass the razor wire and goes over the fence.
In the office, Charlie orders the cons to get into their civilian clothes and start going over the case files as he takes Ray aside. He tells him he just heard from Director Knox who has been keeping an eye on the team and likes the way things are going. He's been asking a lot of pointed questions about Ray. Shea, who is looking over a box of doughnuts on Julie's desk, overhears Charlie and Ray talking over the radio and hears Charlie say if Ray keeps delivering, it could get him back in with the Marshalls. She comes into the room and he turns the radio off. Ray asks Charlie if this means he will have his badge re-instated and Charlie says he hasn't been given a timetable but simply said if Ray keeps working hard...at which point he interrupts saying it was like an "attaboy" from the top brass. Ray wants to get back to work but Charlie stops him saying it's a good thing and he should stop being so stubborn.
Charlie brings the team up to speed on Virgil Downing. He's a hitman who's only conviction is for murdering a police commissioner in Waterbury, Connecticut but he is suspected in three dozen other contract killings. Ray adds that he doesn't discriminate in who he kills and one story even has him pulling a hit on a mob boss's dog. When Shea comments that killing the dog isn't right Ray muses that killing a police commissioner didn't bother him but a Pekingese did. Shea returns comment that he's partial to the underdog since he isn't a law enforcement officer like Ray is, drawing a look from Lloyd. Charlie continues that Downing is 'Teflon' as he's highly-skilled, well-prepared and cautious. The only reason he was caught in Waterbury is that his appendix burst while he was fleeing the scene and was found laid out with the murder weapon still on him. Prison bosses haven't figured out how he slipped past response teams and he has many aliases, none of which tie together. Julie adds that they do know he keeps his money in offshore accounts that the FBI seized after his arrest meaning if he wants to flee the country he needs to start working again. When Lloyd makes a joke about using the phone book and Facebook, Charlie calmly tells him that can earn him a one-way ticket back to Rahway. Ray notes that Downing was the trigger in a double killing at LaGuardia in 2003. He has a CI who knows something about how that crime went down. Charlie suggests he give him a call and Ray corrects it's a her. He takes the rest of Shea's uneaten doughnut from his hand telling him they need to take a drive.
Downing enters an apartment building carrying a brown paper bag and eating an apple. He stops, puts the bag and apple down then opens a grate and removes a gun wrapped in cloth. He takes the gun pieces out and pockets them then puts the cloth back where he removed it then gets his apple and leaves.
In Greenwich Village, New York, Shea and Ray are waiting in the car for Ray's CI who is late. Shea comments Ray's snitch is blowing them off but Ray insists she'll be there and asks if she's a snitch what that makes him (Shea). While he is telling Ray the differences between a snitch and a confidential informant, a transvestite, Chastity (Daren A. Herbert), opens the back door of the car and gets in, surprising Shea. Ray starts to hand her money then pulls it back asking if she's ready to trade on their mutual trust. When she says she is, he gives her the money and she turns to Shea for an introduction. Ray asks her about a regular client of hers. She says he's still a Tuesday and Thursday regular and comments how dumb he is and Ray asks if he's dumb enough to talk and she says if you get enough coke in him he won't do anything else. Ray asks if he's ever mentioned Virgil Downing and she says he has. Ray asks if someone wants to hire Virgil and she says no one can because he's in prison and Ray informs her he busted out. She says good for him but he is now persona non grata because his rep was ruined when he got caught. Shea asks if she has a name for the broker used to hire Virgil and she says for someone like him, you need a referral just to get a referral and she cannot help them. When she has gotten out of the car, Shea asks what all that got them and Ray replies they know Virgil won't be going back to his old line of work anytime soon.
Downing, carrying a small take out pizza box and eating a bit of pizza, enters a building after tugging on a window washers line. As he's standing at the counter with the guard, the window washers rig topples putting the man in jeopardy. The guard runs out to help and Downing pushes the pizza box past the metal detector and goes to an office where he surprises a young man. He takes the gun out from under the pizza box and points it at the young man who asks what it is. Downing calmly says "this? it's for Genevieve" and shoots the young man three times killing him.
When the team arrive, Erica and Charlie look at facial recognition images of Downing on the computer, something Charlie feels Downing should have known. Erica thinks he probably didn't know as cons often have trouble keeping up with the latest gadgetry or anything else and notes she just found out Bea Arthur died. Lloyd tells Ray a joke about why heart transplant recipients always choose Republican hearts, a joke Ray has already heard, then comments Erica just told him about Bea Arthur, which was devastating. When Ray steps away, Shea tells Lloyd he knows he heard Charlie tell Ray about getting him back in with the Marshalls. Lloyd feels it could mean anything from Ray being in the doghouse with the Marshall's to being on probation but he didn't lose his badge as he's in charge of a team of U.S. Marshall's. Shea points out that Charlie runs the show even though Ray is the one with the field experience. Ray returns to tell them the victim, Parker Bancroft (Geoffery Hymers) had no apparent enemies and gives Charlie shell casings found at the scene. Lloyd feels it's bold Downing left the casings behind. Shea points out if you wear gloves you don't have to worry about finding the casings after the hit and you can just walk away. Charlie thinks they should look at any shootings since the escape where 22-long rifle casings were found. Erica joins them to add that Parker's co-workers are upset and said he was a good guy for someone who came from Wall Street money and got his job through family connections. When Charlie asks if the death might have been from resentment Ray mentions the word on the street that Virgil is unemployable and the hit might have been a personal vendetta.
Downing, dressed as a maintenance man and carrying a bag of tools stops outside and apartment seeming to work on the radiator until a woman walking in the hall leaves. He knocks on the door then picks the lock. He enters the apartment and turns on the light startling the man inside. When he stands, Downing shoots him once then turns the light off and leaves.
While they are eating, Shea asks Erica if she knows Ray isn't a Marshall and she comments that he is because he caught you two. Shea starts to tell her what he overheard and Lloyd interrupts asking what it even matters and Shea replies that they are lying to them and possibly lying about the time they are getting off their sentences as well. Lloyd doesn't buy into what Shea is saying but Shea pushes that as much as Lloyd wants to believe the situation is legit, they can't assume it is. Ray comes to the table to tell them the police caught a home invasion with a print-free casing matching that used to kill Parker Bancroft.
In the office, Ray asks Lloyd what sort of name the victim has and he identifies it as Nigerian. He was a grad student studying engineering. Charlie adds that the murder feels like a hit to him and Ray says they'll have to wait until forensics gets back on the shell casing. Shea gets up and comments to Lloyd "see, once Charlie gets them" and walks to the coffee machine leaving an awkward silence. As Ray goes to speak with Shea, Charlie tells Julie to get on the line with forensics and lean on them. Ray asks Shea if he has a problem and Shea questions the deal they have going, which Ray confirms is backed by the Marshall's. Shea asks that he would know since he's really a full time Marshall. Ray puts his hand on Shea's shoulder and asks who he thinks he's talking to as since he brought him in he can knock him right back out. If he keeps running his mouth, he sends him back to Sing Sing and lets everyone know who he's been working for. Shea slaps Ray's
hand away and claims he was just joking and didn't mean to strike a nerve.
Julie learns that the most recent victim was a member of the Nigerian royal family, a distant relation. Erica reads in a file that Parker's family is from old money and that might be a connection between the two known victims.
In New Britain, Connecticut, at Tattoo Artatorture a man is getting a tattoo when the tattoo artist hears a car alarm. Thinking it sounds like his ride, he gets up and runs outside. When he's gone, Downing enters the shop and locks the door behind him. He asks the guy in the chair how it's going and when he asks who he is, he raises his gun and tells him "this is for Genevieve" and shoots him three times. The tattoo artist tries to get back into his shop but finds the door locked and looks through the door to see Downing fading into the shadows of the shop as he's leaving the back way.
The tattoo artist admits he barely saw the killer but thinks Downing might have been the guy from a picture Ray has and he gives them an identity on the victim, Laird Lipinksi (Daniel Lucifora). Shea says Laird was shot three times to the chest like Parker but the Nigerian was shot only once but Ray points out forensics matched the casings so they know it was Virgil. Shea thinks the new tat was to cover an old one and, when Ray asks the artist about it he confirms the man was trying to cover up a Sigma Beta Chi tattoo because he thinks he hated the whole college deal. Julie finds information that Parker Bancroft was in Sigma Beta Chi with Laird until the latter left school right after he was tried and acquitted as an accessory to rape. Ray asks who was charged with the actual rape and Charlie theorizes Parker. The name of the defendant was withheld because he was under 18 at the time. Erica says if it was Parker they need to focus on the accuser because there might be a really angry girl out there looking for the kind of justice Downing can deliver. Julie does some looking but finds the Rape Shield Statue has her name sealed as well. Charlie says he'll call his judge to have him unseal the records but it might take a couple of hours.
At Newington College in Newington, Connecticut, Ray, Lloyd and Shea enter a frat house to find the boys playing and listening to loud music. Shea doesn't think they'll find out anything as most of the guys there weren't there at the time of the rape. Lloyd, however, feels differently. Someone there knows something. They enter a room where two boys are being hazed in and talks to a guy who graduated a couple of years ago. When Ray asks if he knew Laird Lipinski the guy asks if he's a cop. Ray tells him he's a U.S. Marshall, actually and the guy is starting to make him angry. He grabs the guy by the hair and, after he protests saying he knows his rights, asks if he knows Lipinksi was murdered. He asks about Laird being dead leading Ray to ask if he knew about the rape that happened there, too. When the guy asks 'what rape' Lloyd steps in to explain to the guy why he should be more cooperative with his colleague. The suggestion of getting a warrant for the guys computer hard drive is enough to do the trick and he tells them it was an alleged rape and Parker was the one who 'closed the deal'. Ray asks about the Nigerian's involvement and the guy asks if he is someone else the Krause chick wrongly accused and says they say "pulling a Krause" when you blame a guy for something he didn't do. Ray asks about the name and the guy gives them "Guinevere, Genevieve, something like that". As they are leaving, Ray calls Julie with the girls name.
Downing is sitting at a bar having a drink watching the news about the three recent murders he committed. He throws his glass as he watches the broadcast.
Ray stops the car and gets out. When he's gone, Lloyd asks Shea if he asked Ray about being a Marshall and if he said 'yes'. Shea says not exactly but they need to start worrying about the deal because something isn't right. Lloyd asks what Shea wants to hear and he replies that he wants confirmation the deal is legit. Lloyd's phone rings and it is Julie. Ray meets with Genevieve Krause (Marcella Lentz-Pope) and identifies himself as a Marshall. She asks what he's there for and he tells her about the defendants in her rape trial being murdered and they believe someone hired a hit man to kill them. She tells him she had nothing to do with it as Lloyd calls to Ray. He steps outside to speak with Lloyd for a second then comes back in to ask if her father worked as a guard at McCollum-Walker Penitentiary, which she confirms he did. He tells her the murderer escaped from her father's prison and he will need her to come with them.
At the bar, a woman, Rose (Kristen Gutoskie), enters and walks behind the bar to find broken glass. She turns and looks to see Downing behind her, his gun raised.
At the office, Shea explains the hustle Downing ran for his escape as they watch surveillance footage of him moving through the prison. Someone re-routed the camera signals to make it look like Virgil was in D Block when he was really in A Block. Genevieve's father arrives and she asks him what this is about and he tells her a whole lot of nothing.
In interview, her father says he knows nothing about the escape but wishes he did as he did a number on some of his guys, something Charlie points out isn't exactly true as he went easy on the guards when he killed an inmate. Ray accuses him of helping Virgil out so he could settle the score with his daughter's rapists, something he denies. As Charlie is asking why Virgil would kill the men accused of raping his daughter after escaping prison Julie brings a note in to him. After he again maintains he doesn't know, Charlie notes that he drained his savings account of $40,000 the week before Virgil escaped from prison. He explains he took the money to Atlantic City where it was lost. Ray admits he can sympathize with him as he has a daughter around the same age. Genevieve's father becomes upset and tells them the money he took out of the bank was money he saved for seventeen years so his daughter could have a college education. Her time at college was stolen from her the night those boys attacked her. He admits he isn't bothered by the fact they are dead but again maintains he didn't hire Virgil to kill them. Charlie tells him if he can give them the name of where Downing is going next they will cut a deal with him. He says deals are for guilty people and takes a card from his pocket saying that's his lawyer and if they want to talk further, talk to him then gets up and leaves. He takes his daughter and leaves the office.
No one is happy he walked out of the office because they all know he's guilty. Ray asks Julie to call headquarters to put a tail on Krause but Erica doesn't think that will do anything as he won't get near Virgil now. Tensions are running high as they have no idea where Virgil could attack next. Charlie tells the team to keep their nose to the grindstone as they will get him. Erica says she wants to and then makes a point to ask that she will get her one month off when they catch him, something both Ray and Charlie confirm.
At the bar, Downing tells Rose about his problems. The cops are after him and he has to rush, something he doesn't like. Her phone rings and when she answers, he raises his gun. She tells the caller she's at the bar and there might be a bit of a gas leak and they should come check it out then hangs up. She asks if he'll let her go and he tells her not quite yet.
At the office, Lloyd asks Julie if Ray is still a Marshall. She asks what that is supposed to mean and he says it's a straightforward question. She asks why they always seem to be looking for ways to ruin what looks like a pretty good setup to her and tells Lloyd if they want time off their sentence to do their job. Her phone rings as Lloyd is walking away. He walks past Erica and Shea and tells them Ray is totally not a U.S. Marshall. Julie calls Charlie to let him know Krause's supervisor is downstairs.
The supervisor tells Charlie that Downing escaped on his watch and he wants to get to the bottom of it. He has brought Devonn Dawkins (David Tompa), another McCallum-Walker inmate along with him. He's a junkie that won't help in court but has information they can still use. He was under the stairs when he heard Virgil and Krause talking. When Charlie asks what he heard, Dawkins wants to know what they'll hook him up with inside. The supervisor gets up to get coffee saying he trusts his prisoner will be handled properly, something Charlie assures him of. Shea knocks on the door with his coat wrapped around him to obscure his features asking to talk with Dawkins. Charlie lets him in and he asks Dawkins if a brother named Sparks still calls the shots at Walker. When Dawkins nods, he takes a bottle from his sleeve telling him it's a 12-year-old single malt. He can give the bottle to Sparks and he'll be untouchable. Dawkins asks if Shea's a con and the latter raises his jacket to hide his face and leaves the room. Dawkins tells Charlie and Ray that Virgil and Krause made a deal but Krause refused to pay a dime until all four were delivered.
The team go over the files but Parker and Laird were the only two charged with the rape and there aren't any mentions of anyone else being involved. Lloyd points out it isn't who is legally responsible it is who Genevieve's father blames for his daughter's attack. He asks Julie about an outburst in the courtroom. Before it happened, Ryan Montgomery had given testimony. He was the bartender who said Genevieve was wasted when she went with Parker to the frat house. Lloyd feels Montgomery is the man as he's a blue collar working guy like Krause and he feels betrayed by Montgomery for standing up for a rich kid in court. Julie found one Ryan Montgomery who applied for a liquor license in Queens. She goes through her files and finds that Ryan Montgomery was the previous tenant in the same apartment where the Nigerian was murdered. Erica knows that the difference in the M.O. for that murder and the others was different because the Nigerian was a mistake. Charlie asks Julie for the Queens bar address.
Downing is playing darts and tells Rose he has one simple rule: hit only the people on your list and don't touch anyone else. Her phone rings again but she doesn't answer it. Ryan Montgomery arrives at the bar and comes in calling to Rose. Downing steps out with his gun raised and when Ryan asks what is going on he says "this is for Genevieve" and shoots him three times. Rose tries to run but Downing steps in front of her, gun raised. She begs him for her life saying she's not on the list but he points out he's 'in the weeds'.
The team arrives at the bar where Ray comments Rose was collateral damage like the Nigerian student. There is still one more intended victim which could be anyone, something pointed out by both Erica and Lloyd. Ray is angry at the thought of Downing finishing his job and getting away clean. Shea brings up the issue of Ray lying to them and asks point blank about why he hasn't been straightforward about not being a cop anymore. Charlie interjects to quiet Shea but Ray steps up and asks if they want to know what he did and he admits to his crime. When Erica asks how he can look down his nose at them when he's a con himself. Ray, angry, asks Shea if he wants to judge him since he (Shea) was a gangbanger who profited from his own people, Erica was a psycho vigilante who chose vengeance over motherhood and Lloyd wrote prescriptions to college kids to cover his own debts resulting in the OD of an 18-year-old girl. Lloyd walks out of the bar in shame leaving Charlie to say that is enough from everyone. He orders Shea and Erica to go outside and get Lloyd and put him in the car. When the cons are gone, Ray apologizes but Charlie doesn't respond. He calls Julie to get a friendly judge on the line as he needs an arrest warrant.
In New Britain, Connecticut, Ray and Charlie go to the Krause home with an arrest warrant to arrest Genevieve Krause. When her father protests, Charlie tells him there were two names on the college fund account and since he insists he didn't hire Virgil, it had to be Genevieve who did. As Charlie is arresting Genevieve, her father protests. Ray steps in and tells him if he doesn't want his daughter arrested he needs to give them Virgil Downing. Krause shoves the arrest warrant at Ray and Charlie leads Genevieve from the house, her father telling her he'll take care of it.
At the office, Genevieve asks what happens next and Charlie tells her that NYPD will get first crack at her since Parker was killed in New York. Ray gives her the option to help them by telling her father to give them Virgil. When he talks, she leaves. Erica motions to Charlie and asks if she can talk to Genevieve. Erica and Genevieve go into an interview room where Erica tells her how much they have in common. Genevieve opens up to Erica about how the rape was as hard on her father as it was her. He couldn't move past it and what he would do to the boys if he could get his hands on them. Erica asks about the bartender since he was just a witness. Genevieve maintains she doesn't think her father put the three bullets into Montgomery's heart. Erica asks how she knew the bartender was killed with three bullets to the heart. She claims she read it in the paper but Erica points out Virgil's M.O. was never released to the press. She gives Genevieve until she gets to the door to tell her exactly what and when she knows or the arrest becomes more than a ploy to pressure her father. She says she didn't believe he'd actually do anything but when she heard about Parker being killed she went to him and he told her about Virgil and things were already in motion and couldn't be stopped. Erica asks who the fourth target is but she says she doesn't know causing Erica to tell her to figure it out fast. Genevieve says she was on a date that night and he left with his old girlfriend. She went back to the frat house with Parker because she lost her ride to the dorms. Her father hated Justin for that. Erica asks where he is now.
A car is parked outside Atlantic Pavilion in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Justin and a girl are inside making out and his phone is ringing. The girl tells him she won't give up and he insists it isn't his girlfriend but he will get rid of whoever is calling. He answers the phone and it is Charlie calling to tell him his life is in jeopardy and needs to know his location. Justin thinks it's a prank but Charlie continues to explain and gives his location as they have been tracking his cell phone. Justin gets out of the car asking who it really is and Charlie tells him about Genevieve's father blaming him for the rape and might have sent someone to kill him. Downing walks around the corner and Justin begins waving at him thinking it is Charlie. Charlie tells him that isn't him and orders him to run. Justin drops the phone and takes off running with Downing in pursuit. Justin arrives at a locked gate and Downing catches up, gun in hand. He tells him "this is for Genevieve" but cannot shoot because Charlie arrives, gun drawn. Downing ducks aside as Charlie shoots. The two men exchange fire until Downing's gun empties. He jumps over the railing to the ground below where he injures his ankle then takes off running as best he can. Downing gets into a vehicle to drive away driving toward Charlie. Charlie throws a planter over the railing. It lands on the windshield of Downing's car causing him to wreck. Ray drives up and orders Virgil out of the Jeep and takes him into custody.
That night, at the office, Julie tells Genevieve her father is downtown in booking and gives her the address. Charlie and Ray are bringing Downing in as she is leaving. He looks at her and asks "you must be Genevieve" before Charlie pulls him away. After Genevieve leaves, Ray tells the cons to get their prison gear back on as he's taking them back to Maybelle. None of them move and when he questions them, Lloyd steps forward and admits he wrote the prescription but it was an accident. The girls boyfriend broke up with her and she committed suicide. Shea tells him he doesn't have to explain himself to anyone but Lloyd continues that what happened was his fault and he regrets it and wants them all to know it. Charlie comes out of his office and closes the door. He tells the team that the task force was put together by special deputy Ray Zancanelli. The only reason he agreed to head it up was because he believed it would be motivated by people who wanted to get their lives back. That will require that they all look past each others baggage and if they feel they can't do it, raise their hand. When no one does, he tells them all to move on. As he's walking back to his office, he stops and tells them that, by the way, he has a congenital heart defect and could drop at any moment and now they've all seen each others dirty underwear. He unlocks the door to his office and goes back inside.
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Season One, Episode Ten, Paid in Full
Original Air Date: May 8, 2011
When a dangerous hit man escapes from prison the team must find him and get him back into custody before he can complete his deadly mission. Meanwhile, Shea overhears a conversation between Charlie and Ray about Ray not being a full-fledged U.S. Marshall. This leads to conflict between the team and we finally learn exactly what each of the cons did to land them in prison.
At McCollum-Walker Correction Facility in Suffield, Connecticut, Virgil Downing (Mark Pelligrino) is rolling a magazine in his cell. His cellmate tells him he's rolling it wrong if he wants to inflict real pain with it. He continues to tell him he'll need a guy like him for whatever it is he has going. When he receives no response as the man puts the rolled-up magazine into his shirt sleeve, he tells him the fact he feels he's too good to talk to any of them is why no one likes him and that he should watch his back. A guard knocks on the door to get Virgil. He tells him to turn around and step away from the door. When the guard enters the cell, Virgil uses the magazine to get out of the cuffs then overpowers the guard and takes his keys. He places the magazine on his cellmates bunk as the man looks on in surprise then, taking the guards vest, he leaves the cell and closes the door. He clings to an overhead steam pipe in the hall and another guard passes right beneath him, leaving an entry open. Downing walks through an area where another inmate is mopping the floor. He breaks off part of the handle and stabs in inmate with it. As another guard enters to assist the injured inmate, Downing targets him with pepper spray and exits the area. A guard finds the first guard Downing overpowered and calls a "man down" alert. As the guard team organizes to apprehend Downing, a guard in the security room watches him head from block to block on his way west. The guard team go outside at D block, where the Sergeant said Downing was headed but he is nowhere to be seen. Downing exits A Block and uses the vest to bypass the razor wire and goes over the fence.
In the office, Charlie orders the cons to get into their civilian clothes and start going over the case files as he takes Ray aside. He tells him he just heard from Director Knox who has been keeping an eye on the team and likes the way things are going. He's been asking a lot of pointed questions about Ray. Shea, who is looking over a box of doughnuts on Julie's desk, overhears Charlie and Ray talking over the radio and hears Charlie say if Ray keeps delivering, it could get him back in with the Marshalls. She comes into the room and he turns the radio off. Ray asks Charlie if this means he will have his badge re-instated and Charlie says he hasn't been given a timetable but simply said if Ray keeps working hard...at which point he interrupts saying it was like an "attaboy" from the top brass. Ray wants to get back to work but Charlie stops him saying it's a good thing and he should stop being so stubborn.
Charlie brings the team up to speed on Virgil Downing. He's a hitman who's only conviction is for murdering a police commissioner in Waterbury, Connecticut but he is suspected in three dozen other contract killings. Ray adds that he doesn't discriminate in who he kills and one story even has him pulling a hit on a mob boss's dog. When Shea comments that killing the dog isn't right Ray muses that killing a police commissioner didn't bother him but a Pekingese did. Shea returns comment that he's partial to the underdog since he isn't a law enforcement officer like Ray is, drawing a look from Lloyd. Charlie continues that Downing is 'Teflon' as he's highly-skilled, well-prepared and cautious. The only reason he was caught in Waterbury is that his appendix burst while he was fleeing the scene and was found laid out with the murder weapon still on him. Prison bosses haven't figured out how he slipped past response teams and he has many aliases, none of which tie together. Julie adds that they do know he keeps his money in offshore accounts that the FBI seized after his arrest meaning if he wants to flee the country he needs to start working again. When Lloyd makes a joke about using the phone book and Facebook, Charlie calmly tells him that can earn him a one-way ticket back to Rahway. Ray notes that Downing was the trigger in a double killing at LaGuardia in 2003. He has a CI who knows something about how that crime went down. Charlie suggests he give him a call and Ray corrects it's a her. He takes the rest of Shea's uneaten doughnut from his hand telling him they need to take a drive.
Downing enters an apartment building carrying a brown paper bag and eating an apple. He stops, puts the bag and apple down then opens a grate and removes a gun wrapped in cloth. He takes the gun pieces out and pockets them then puts the cloth back where he removed it then gets his apple and leaves.
In Greenwich Village, New York, Shea and Ray are waiting in the car for Ray's CI who is late. Shea comments Ray's snitch is blowing them off but Ray insists she'll be there and asks if she's a snitch what that makes him (Shea). While he is telling Ray the differences between a snitch and a confidential informant, a transvestite, Chastity (Daren A. Herbert), opens the back door of the car and gets in, surprising Shea. Ray starts to hand her money then pulls it back asking if she's ready to trade on their mutual trust. When she says she is, he gives her the money and she turns to Shea for an introduction. Ray asks her about a regular client of hers. She says he's still a Tuesday and Thursday regular and comments how dumb he is and Ray asks if he's dumb enough to talk and she says if you get enough coke in him he won't do anything else. Ray asks if he's ever mentioned Virgil Downing and she says he has. Ray asks if someone wants to hire Virgil and she says no one can because he's in prison and Ray informs her he busted out. She says good for him but he is now persona non grata because his rep was ruined when he got caught. Shea asks if she has a name for the broker used to hire Virgil and she says for someone like him, you need a referral just to get a referral and she cannot help them. When she has gotten out of the car, Shea asks what all that got them and Ray replies they know Virgil won't be going back to his old line of work anytime soon.
Downing, carrying a small take out pizza box and eating a bit of pizza, enters a building after tugging on a window washers line. As he's standing at the counter with the guard, the window washers rig topples putting the man in jeopardy. The guard runs out to help and Downing pushes the pizza box past the metal detector and goes to an office where he surprises a young man. He takes the gun out from under the pizza box and points it at the young man who asks what it is. Downing calmly says "this? it's for Genevieve" and shoots the young man three times killing him.
When the team arrive, Erica and Charlie look at facial recognition images of Downing on the computer, something Charlie feels Downing should have known. Erica thinks he probably didn't know as cons often have trouble keeping up with the latest gadgetry or anything else and notes she just found out Bea Arthur died. Lloyd tells Ray a joke about why heart transplant recipients always choose Republican hearts, a joke Ray has already heard, then comments Erica just told him about Bea Arthur, which was devastating. When Ray steps away, Shea tells Lloyd he knows he heard Charlie tell Ray about getting him back in with the Marshalls. Lloyd feels it could mean anything from Ray being in the doghouse with the Marshall's to being on probation but he didn't lose his badge as he's in charge of a team of U.S. Marshall's. Shea points out that Charlie runs the show even though Ray is the one with the field experience. Ray returns to tell them the victim, Parker Bancroft (Geoffery Hymers) had no apparent enemies and gives Charlie shell casings found at the scene. Lloyd feels it's bold Downing left the casings behind. Shea points out if you wear gloves you don't have to worry about finding the casings after the hit and you can just walk away. Charlie thinks they should look at any shootings since the escape where 22-long rifle casings were found. Erica joins them to add that Parker's co-workers are upset and said he was a good guy for someone who came from Wall Street money and got his job through family connections. When Charlie asks if the death might have been from resentment Ray mentions the word on the street that Virgil is unemployable and the hit might have been a personal vendetta.
Downing, dressed as a maintenance man and carrying a bag of tools stops outside and apartment seeming to work on the radiator until a woman walking in the hall leaves. He knocks on the door then picks the lock. He enters the apartment and turns on the light startling the man inside. When he stands, Downing shoots him once then turns the light off and leaves.
While they are eating, Shea asks Erica if she knows Ray isn't a Marshall and she comments that he is because he caught you two. Shea starts to tell her what he overheard and Lloyd interrupts asking what it even matters and Shea replies that they are lying to them and possibly lying about the time they are getting off their sentences as well. Lloyd doesn't buy into what Shea is saying but Shea pushes that as much as Lloyd wants to believe the situation is legit, they can't assume it is. Ray comes to the table to tell them the police caught a home invasion with a print-free casing matching that used to kill Parker Bancroft.
In the office, Ray asks Lloyd what sort of name the victim has and he identifies it as Nigerian. He was a grad student studying engineering. Charlie adds that the murder feels like a hit to him and Ray says they'll have to wait until forensics gets back on the shell casing. Shea gets up and comments to Lloyd "see, once Charlie gets them" and walks to the coffee machine leaving an awkward silence. As Ray goes to speak with Shea, Charlie tells Julie to get on the line with forensics and lean on them. Ray asks Shea if he has a problem and Shea questions the deal they have going, which Ray confirms is backed by the Marshall's. Shea asks that he would know since he's really a full time Marshall. Ray puts his hand on Shea's shoulder and asks who he thinks he's talking to as since he brought him in he can knock him right back out. If he keeps running his mouth, he sends him back to Sing Sing and lets everyone know who he's been working for. Shea slaps Ray's
hand away and claims he was just joking and didn't mean to strike a nerve.
Julie learns that the most recent victim was a member of the Nigerian royal family, a distant relation. Erica reads in a file that Parker's family is from old money and that might be a connection between the two known victims.
In New Britain, Connecticut, at Tattoo Artatorture a man is getting a tattoo when the tattoo artist hears a car alarm. Thinking it sounds like his ride, he gets up and runs outside. When he's gone, Downing enters the shop and locks the door behind him. He asks the guy in the chair how it's going and when he asks who he is, he raises his gun and tells him "this is for Genevieve" and shoots him three times. The tattoo artist tries to get back into his shop but finds the door locked and looks through the door to see Downing fading into the shadows of the shop as he's leaving the back way.
The tattoo artist admits he barely saw the killer but thinks Downing might have been the guy from a picture Ray has and he gives them an identity on the victim, Laird Lipinksi (Daniel Lucifora). Shea says Laird was shot three times to the chest like Parker but the Nigerian was shot only once but Ray points out forensics matched the casings so they know it was Virgil. Shea thinks the new tat was to cover an old one and, when Ray asks the artist about it he confirms the man was trying to cover up a Sigma Beta Chi tattoo because he thinks he hated the whole college deal. Julie finds information that Parker Bancroft was in Sigma Beta Chi with Laird until the latter left school right after he was tried and acquitted as an accessory to rape. Ray asks who was charged with the actual rape and Charlie theorizes Parker. The name of the defendant was withheld because he was under 18 at the time. Erica says if it was Parker they need to focus on the accuser because there might be a really angry girl out there looking for the kind of justice Downing can deliver. Julie does some looking but finds the Rape Shield Statue has her name sealed as well. Charlie says he'll call his judge to have him unseal the records but it might take a couple of hours.
At Newington College in Newington, Connecticut, Ray, Lloyd and Shea enter a frat house to find the boys playing and listening to loud music. Shea doesn't think they'll find out anything as most of the guys there weren't there at the time of the rape. Lloyd, however, feels differently. Someone there knows something. They enter a room where two boys are being hazed in and talks to a guy who graduated a couple of years ago. When Ray asks if he knew Laird Lipinski the guy asks if he's a cop. Ray tells him he's a U.S. Marshall, actually and the guy is starting to make him angry. He grabs the guy by the hair and, after he protests saying he knows his rights, asks if he knows Lipinksi was murdered. He asks about Laird being dead leading Ray to ask if he knew about the rape that happened there, too. When the guy asks 'what rape' Lloyd steps in to explain to the guy why he should be more cooperative with his colleague. The suggestion of getting a warrant for the guys computer hard drive is enough to do the trick and he tells them it was an alleged rape and Parker was the one who 'closed the deal'. Ray asks about the Nigerian's involvement and the guy asks if he is someone else the Krause chick wrongly accused and says they say "pulling a Krause" when you blame a guy for something he didn't do. Ray asks about the name and the guy gives them "Guinevere, Genevieve, something like that". As they are leaving, Ray calls Julie with the girls name.
Downing is sitting at a bar having a drink watching the news about the three recent murders he committed. He throws his glass as he watches the broadcast.
Ray stops the car and gets out. When he's gone, Lloyd asks Shea if he asked Ray about being a Marshall and if he said 'yes'. Shea says not exactly but they need to start worrying about the deal because something isn't right. Lloyd asks what Shea wants to hear and he replies that he wants confirmation the deal is legit. Lloyd's phone rings and it is Julie. Ray meets with Genevieve Krause (Marcella Lentz-Pope) and identifies himself as a Marshall. She asks what he's there for and he tells her about the defendants in her rape trial being murdered and they believe someone hired a hit man to kill them. She tells him she had nothing to do with it as Lloyd calls to Ray. He steps outside to speak with Lloyd for a second then comes back in to ask if her father worked as a guard at McCollum-Walker Penitentiary, which she confirms he did. He tells her the murderer escaped from her father's prison and he will need her to come with them.
At the bar, a woman, Rose (Kristen Gutoskie), enters and walks behind the bar to find broken glass. She turns and looks to see Downing behind her, his gun raised.
At the office, Shea explains the hustle Downing ran for his escape as they watch surveillance footage of him moving through the prison. Someone re-routed the camera signals to make it look like Virgil was in D Block when he was really in A Block. Genevieve's father arrives and she asks him what this is about and he tells her a whole lot of nothing.
In interview, her father says he knows nothing about the escape but wishes he did as he did a number on some of his guys, something Charlie points out isn't exactly true as he went easy on the guards when he killed an inmate. Ray accuses him of helping Virgil out so he could settle the score with his daughter's rapists, something he denies. As Charlie is asking why Virgil would kill the men accused of raping his daughter after escaping prison Julie brings a note in to him. After he again maintains he doesn't know, Charlie notes that he drained his savings account of $40,000 the week before Virgil escaped from prison. He explains he took the money to Atlantic City where it was lost. Ray admits he can sympathize with him as he has a daughter around the same age. Genevieve's father becomes upset and tells them the money he took out of the bank was money he saved for seventeen years so his daughter could have a college education. Her time at college was stolen from her the night those boys attacked her. He admits he isn't bothered by the fact they are dead but again maintains he didn't hire Virgil to kill them. Charlie tells him if he can give them the name of where Downing is going next they will cut a deal with him. He says deals are for guilty people and takes a card from his pocket saying that's his lawyer and if they want to talk further, talk to him then gets up and leaves. He takes his daughter and leaves the office.
No one is happy he walked out of the office because they all know he's guilty. Ray asks Julie to call headquarters to put a tail on Krause but Erica doesn't think that will do anything as he won't get near Virgil now. Tensions are running high as they have no idea where Virgil could attack next. Charlie tells the team to keep their nose to the grindstone as they will get him. Erica says she wants to and then makes a point to ask that she will get her one month off when they catch him, something both Ray and Charlie confirm.
At the bar, Downing tells Rose about his problems. The cops are after him and he has to rush, something he doesn't like. Her phone rings and when she answers, he raises his gun. She tells the caller she's at the bar and there might be a bit of a gas leak and they should come check it out then hangs up. She asks if he'll let her go and he tells her not quite yet.
At the office, Lloyd asks Julie if Ray is still a Marshall. She asks what that is supposed to mean and he says it's a straightforward question. She asks why they always seem to be looking for ways to ruin what looks like a pretty good setup to her and tells Lloyd if they want time off their sentence to do their job. Her phone rings as Lloyd is walking away. He walks past Erica and Shea and tells them Ray is totally not a U.S. Marshall. Julie calls Charlie to let him know Krause's supervisor is downstairs.
The supervisor tells Charlie that Downing escaped on his watch and he wants to get to the bottom of it. He has brought Devonn Dawkins (David Tompa), another McCallum-Walker inmate along with him. He's a junkie that won't help in court but has information they can still use. He was under the stairs when he heard Virgil and Krause talking. When Charlie asks what he heard, Dawkins wants to know what they'll hook him up with inside. The supervisor gets up to get coffee saying he trusts his prisoner will be handled properly, something Charlie assures him of. Shea knocks on the door with his coat wrapped around him to obscure his features asking to talk with Dawkins. Charlie lets him in and he asks Dawkins if a brother named Sparks still calls the shots at Walker. When Dawkins nods, he takes a bottle from his sleeve telling him it's a 12-year-old single malt. He can give the bottle to Sparks and he'll be untouchable. Dawkins asks if Shea's a con and the latter raises his jacket to hide his face and leaves the room. Dawkins tells Charlie and Ray that Virgil and Krause made a deal but Krause refused to pay a dime until all four were delivered.
The team go over the files but Parker and Laird were the only two charged with the rape and there aren't any mentions of anyone else being involved. Lloyd points out it isn't who is legally responsible it is who Genevieve's father blames for his daughter's attack. He asks Julie about an outburst in the courtroom. Before it happened, Ryan Montgomery had given testimony. He was the bartender who said Genevieve was wasted when she went with Parker to the frat house. Lloyd feels Montgomery is the man as he's a blue collar working guy like Krause and he feels betrayed by Montgomery for standing up for a rich kid in court. Julie found one Ryan Montgomery who applied for a liquor license in Queens. She goes through her files and finds that Ryan Montgomery was the previous tenant in the same apartment where the Nigerian was murdered. Erica knows that the difference in the M.O. for that murder and the others was different because the Nigerian was a mistake. Charlie asks Julie for the Queens bar address.
Downing is playing darts and tells Rose he has one simple rule: hit only the people on your list and don't touch anyone else. Her phone rings again but she doesn't answer it. Ryan Montgomery arrives at the bar and comes in calling to Rose. Downing steps out with his gun raised and when Ryan asks what is going on he says "this is for Genevieve" and shoots him three times. Rose tries to run but Downing steps in front of her, gun raised. She begs him for her life saying she's not on the list but he points out he's 'in the weeds'.
The team arrives at the bar where Ray comments Rose was collateral damage like the Nigerian student. There is still one more intended victim which could be anyone, something pointed out by both Erica and Lloyd. Ray is angry at the thought of Downing finishing his job and getting away clean. Shea brings up the issue of Ray lying to them and asks point blank about why he hasn't been straightforward about not being a cop anymore. Charlie interjects to quiet Shea but Ray steps up and asks if they want to know what he did and he admits to his crime. When Erica asks how he can look down his nose at them when he's a con himself. Ray, angry, asks Shea if he wants to judge him since he (Shea) was a gangbanger who profited from his own people, Erica was a psycho vigilante who chose vengeance over motherhood and Lloyd wrote prescriptions to college kids to cover his own debts resulting in the OD of an 18-year-old girl. Lloyd walks out of the bar in shame leaving Charlie to say that is enough from everyone. He orders Shea and Erica to go outside and get Lloyd and put him in the car. When the cons are gone, Ray apologizes but Charlie doesn't respond. He calls Julie to get a friendly judge on the line as he needs an arrest warrant.
In New Britain, Connecticut, Ray and Charlie go to the Krause home with an arrest warrant to arrest Genevieve Krause. When her father protests, Charlie tells him there were two names on the college fund account and since he insists he didn't hire Virgil, it had to be Genevieve who did. As Charlie is arresting Genevieve, her father protests. Ray steps in and tells him if he doesn't want his daughter arrested he needs to give them Virgil Downing. Krause shoves the arrest warrant at Ray and Charlie leads Genevieve from the house, her father telling her he'll take care of it.
At the office, Genevieve asks what happens next and Charlie tells her that NYPD will get first crack at her since Parker was killed in New York. Ray gives her the option to help them by telling her father to give them Virgil. When he talks, she leaves. Erica motions to Charlie and asks if she can talk to Genevieve. Erica and Genevieve go into an interview room where Erica tells her how much they have in common. Genevieve opens up to Erica about how the rape was as hard on her father as it was her. He couldn't move past it and what he would do to the boys if he could get his hands on them. Erica asks about the bartender since he was just a witness. Genevieve maintains she doesn't think her father put the three bullets into Montgomery's heart. Erica asks how she knew the bartender was killed with three bullets to the heart. She claims she read it in the paper but Erica points out Virgil's M.O. was never released to the press. She gives Genevieve until she gets to the door to tell her exactly what and when she knows or the arrest becomes more than a ploy to pressure her father. She says she didn't believe he'd actually do anything but when she heard about Parker being killed she went to him and he told her about Virgil and things were already in motion and couldn't be stopped. Erica asks who the fourth target is but she says she doesn't know causing Erica to tell her to figure it out fast. Genevieve says she was on a date that night and he left with his old girlfriend. She went back to the frat house with Parker because she lost her ride to the dorms. Her father hated Justin for that. Erica asks where he is now.
A car is parked outside Atlantic Pavilion in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Justin and a girl are inside making out and his phone is ringing. The girl tells him she won't give up and he insists it isn't his girlfriend but he will get rid of whoever is calling. He answers the phone and it is Charlie calling to tell him his life is in jeopardy and needs to know his location. Justin thinks it's a prank but Charlie continues to explain and gives his location as they have been tracking his cell phone. Justin gets out of the car asking who it really is and Charlie tells him about Genevieve's father blaming him for the rape and might have sent someone to kill him. Downing walks around the corner and Justin begins waving at him thinking it is Charlie. Charlie tells him that isn't him and orders him to run. Justin drops the phone and takes off running with Downing in pursuit. Justin arrives at a locked gate and Downing catches up, gun in hand. He tells him "this is for Genevieve" but cannot shoot because Charlie arrives, gun drawn. Downing ducks aside as Charlie shoots. The two men exchange fire until Downing's gun empties. He jumps over the railing to the ground below where he injures his ankle then takes off running as best he can. Downing gets into a vehicle to drive away driving toward Charlie. Charlie throws a planter over the railing. It lands on the windshield of Downing's car causing him to wreck. Ray drives up and orders Virgil out of the Jeep and takes him into custody.
That night, at the office, Julie tells Genevieve her father is downtown in booking and gives her the address. Charlie and Ray are bringing Downing in as she is leaving. He looks at her and asks "you must be Genevieve" before Charlie pulls him away. After Genevieve leaves, Ray tells the cons to get their prison gear back on as he's taking them back to Maybelle. None of them move and when he questions them, Lloyd steps forward and admits he wrote the prescription but it was an accident. The girls boyfriend broke up with her and she committed suicide. Shea tells him he doesn't have to explain himself to anyone but Lloyd continues that what happened was his fault and he regrets it and wants them all to know it. Charlie comes out of his office and closes the door. He tells the team that the task force was put together by special deputy Ray Zancanelli. The only reason he agreed to head it up was because he believed it would be motivated by people who wanted to get their lives back. That will require that they all look past each others baggage and if they feel they can't do it, raise their hand. When no one does, he tells them all to move on. As he's walking back to his office, he stops and tells them that, by the way, he has a congenital heart defect and could drop at any moment and now they've all seen each others dirty underwear. He unlocks the door to his office and goes back inside.
Breakout Kings airs every Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the Arts & Entertainment Network.
For more information:
Breakout Kings Official A&E Site: http://www.aetv.com/breakout-kings/
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1590961/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Breakout_Kings
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