Disconnect Page #5

Why are you talking to him?

Just, hey.

Delete the f***ing account

and give me back the iPad.

Dude, if I ignore him...

If I ignore him

or I delete Jess's account right away...

I mean, how would that look?

She would be the only suspect.

We just have to act chill and lay low.

(MUSIC PLAYING ON HEADPHONES)

(ALL TOASTING INDISCERNIBLY)

I always knew you'd outgrow us.

Yeah, right.

- (CELL PHONE BUZZING)

- Oh.

It's me.

Hey, Kyle.

Hey, what's up?

I think I'm here.

Here where?

I think I'm downstairs.

Downstairs?

I came to celebrate. We're

celebrating, right?

Um...

Yeah. Sure.

(ELEVATOR DINGS)

- ...he would trust me.

- Did you give him your address?

I had to, Peter.

- What are you doing?

- How else...

I had to make him trust me.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

KYLE:
Hey. What's up?

Kyle, this is Peter.

Hey, Peter, how's it going, man?

Wow, this is an amazing view!

You're okay with this?

It's fine. Don't worry about it.

It's fine.

We're fine, buddy.

You can take a hike.

I'm just kidding. It's a joke.

Nina, you call me if you need me.

Of course. All right.

- Hey...

- All right. Bye. Go.

It's not bad.

Peter seems like a lot of fun.

Do you read all these books?

These all yours?

Not all of them.

So, how did you get here?

I caught a bus.

It's crazy, right?

This is a...

It's a beautiful bedroom.

It's very nice.

Well, I like it.

It's firm.

The couch is firm, also.

You know, I've been...

I've been thinking

a lot about what you said...

About the future

and everything.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Well, do you think

you might wanna leave Harvey?

Kinda, yeah.

Yeah, but I don't have

anywhere else to go.

Sure you do.

Like where?

I don't know. You can walk

into a youth center or a church...

Church?

Yeah, that's a really great f***ing idea.

Go to a church. I hear

it's a perfect place for young dudes to go.

Kyle, it's late,

I'm just spitballing.

It doesn't have to be a church.

F*** it. I should go to MickeyD's.

I could be someone's b*tch.

Make some f***ing burgers,

pack some groceries.

A really excellent idea,

you got there.

(SMACKS HER BUTT)

(SCOFFS) Whoa.

What is this?

What the hell is this thing?

That, I will have you know,

is an award that I received

- for reporting on an annual charity drive.

- Wait.

- Do your voice.

- What voice?

Your reporter voice. Come on, let's hear it.

Where you get really serious.

Come on, I rode a bus for,

like, four hours, and it was really smelly.

- All right.

- I wanna hear the voice.

I'll show you the walk-and-talk.

Walk-and-talk,

that sounds very official.

Well, John,

I'm here outside of downtown

where, earlier today,

a swarm of Africanized bees

terrorized the community.

And then, John...

Officials say that one of the reporters

had this massive, crazy urge

to have some awesomely amazing sex.

And later on, it was reported

that that was actually total crap.

- Tickle? A little?

- Slightly.

- Ticklish? Are we ticklish?

- No! I'm not!

I can see that.

Um...

I have to be up really early.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

I'm gonna put this back.

DEREK:
Pays someone

to do his laundry.

- Must be nice.

- Yeah.

He works there?

Wait here.

What are you doing?

Be careful!

- Hi.

- Hey, I lost my ticket.

Last name?

McNeil.

It's not in the system.

It's a blue polo.

No, it's not here.

You sure?

Yeah.

That's weird.

What do you think happened to it?

Think it got stolen?

Something like that?

You ever get robbed?

I'm just asking.

I used to work retail,

so I know that that

happens sometimes.

I would always keep a gun

under the counter, when I worked retail.

Do you do that?

Do you have a gun here?

Do I know you?

No.

I'm just making chit-chat.

Next?

- Sorry.

- Just two items?

What's your name?

Where's Dad?

Who knows.

I haven't seen him all day.

Don't leave me alone with them.

(CELL PHONE RINGS)

- Hey, Jana.

- Hey.

It's Kendall Media,

they need you.

Something at

one of their stations.

Not now.

Tell them to get somebody else, please.

They asked for you.

What's this about? Why?

The FBI just showed up

at one of their stations.

All right.

ROBERTA:
We need you

to give up the kid's address.

I'm not exactly sure

of what you want me to say

because I can't give

you that information.

I'm pretty sure

that you know that.

Sources are protected.

ROBERTA:
I understand that, but a

serious crime has been committed here.

These kids are victims.

They are coerced, seduced.

Some of them are 14,

15 years old.

And NCMEC flagged

this site a year ago

and the host server's offshore.

Untouchable.

So, of course,

when we saw your piece on CNN,

it's an opening, we have to go for it.

But, you see, I can't betray

his trust like that. I can't.

Besides, I don't even

know where he lives. I don't know.

I don't have a cell phone number.

He uses prepaid cell phones.

- He's not stupid.

- How did you find him?

Well, I was looking into a story

on teen runaways,

and if you Google that,

you get some weird stuff.

So you befriended him.

Did you pay to talk to him?

Or buy him anything?

Give him money?

News organizations

don't pay their sources.

- Is that true, Ms. Dunham?

- Of course that's true.

There's just these charges

on your PayPal account.

The initial payments are

having access, private access,

to talking with the boy.

And the additions are

an option the client has to encourage

the youth to spend

more time talking to them.

Okay.

So, by way of gifting them...

- "Gifting"?

- So you gave him gifts.

NINA:
These weren't

personal gifts.

No, no, I understand.

Why don't we go

have a talk in the other room?

No, I can explain myself to her.

It's not a problem.

I just wanna know

what the relationship is with the boy.

Come on. Now, in my office.

I want to understand.

Were you intimate with him?

Did you have sex with him?

- RICH:
Don't answer that.

- Nina.

Absolutely not.

RICH:
Look, I represent

the interest of the parent company.

If you want to make a First Amendment

case out of this, be my guest,

but you will need another attorney.

As far as I'm concerned,

you need to give them whatever they want.

I would also recommend

that you suspend her immediately.

I know that I have to suspend her.

I know that, Rich.

That's way too much!

This is not too much, Nina.

You crossed a line.

This kid came to your f***ing house!

What was I supposed to

do about that, Peter?

He showed up, okay, and I didn't want him

to feel like I had used him.

Since when do you care what a source feels

like after you get what you want, huh?

Excuse me. I gotta go.

- Um, how long?

- RICH:
What's that?

The suspension?

Well...

Until you give those two Federal Agents you

just tried to lie to the info they want.

CINDY:
You know what

this reminds of?

Sitting in my Corolla,

waiting for you

outside the barracks,

wondering when you'd come out.

It reminds me of sitting

outside this shithole called Al-Qa'im.

Nine guys packed into an LAV.

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