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they go where they want

and suddenly they turn up, so...

- Oh my God, Steven!

- ... not to worry.

- Sir? Sir?

- The pool!

- She's in the pool!

- Sir?

This isn't happening.

Someone on your staff had to see her.

Mr. Mayer,

there's certain protocol

that we follow here,

and we're doing that.

Getting angry with the staff?

It's not gonna help.

- What about security footage?

- We're looking into that.

She can't have just disappeared.

Children do wander off.

What?

A seven-year-old with a complex past,

brand new set of circumstances,

bewildered, overwhelmed.

We're looking into every possibility.

And considering

the conflict the other night,

we have to investigate that.

Can you make a list

of other places you've been

since you arrived

and the people that you met?

And also,

do you have any photos of Nina?

I'll get my computer.

If she did wander off alone,

she's probably out there hungry by now.

Someone has to notice

a little girl all alone.

What about the adoption agency?

- How well did they know her?

- We've been calling them.

We're waiting for Nina's

passport to come through.

They didn't answer yesterday.

I'm trying to bring up her

profile picture on the website, but...

there's no website.

How much did you pay

for this adoption?

Uh...

$60,000.

Excuse me.

We'll be in touch.

I'm sorry.

We've been parents for 48 hours.

She couldn't have

walked out on us, could she?

What do you mean?

I mean, she couldn't have

wanted to, right?

She seemed so happy.

AII I ever wanted to be was a mother.

Pretend with my little sister,

I'd... bathe her and feed her

and tuck her in at night.

I swore that when I had kids of my own

I would never abandon them

the way that my birth mother...

mother abandoned me.

So we have to find her, okay?

We will, okay? We will.

I just... because...

because I don't know what to do, Steven,

and I don't know where she is.

I'm going back to that office.

You think that that's a good idea?

No one's answering the phone,

the website's down.

I'm gonna go confront her directly.

Maybe we should just let

the cops handle that.

The cops don't care, Shannon.

We're tourists.

They got enough problems of their own.

- Just... just keep looking.

- Okay, go. I'll keep looking, okay.

What the f***?

Nina?

Perdon.

Yeah.

- Mrs. Mayer.

- You had some new info?

Well, we contacted the consulate

and your paperwork was never processed.

No Gabrielle Reigert

or Nina Duvalier.

That has to be a mistake.

Let me guess.

She told you she would contact you

when your passport came in,

so all Nina had to do was wander off

at the appointed time

into her waiting arms.

No, um...

No, our room was locked.

We would've heard the door open.

The scam is called reclaiming.

And, unfortunately, it's not rare.

What they do,

they get as much money as they can,

take the kid back,

on to the next victim.

New web site, new city, new country.

It's very hard to track.

- It's all over Asia now.

- This website had, um...

it had all these, uh,

links, and it had testimonials.

Well, websites will do that.

Where's your husband?

Sir, sir...

No, no.

uh, just keep that.

Thank you.

I don't know exactly.

He's out looking for her.

Yeah, we heard about

a break-in in Old San Juan.

I don't know anything about that.

We don't need vigilantes.

We're gonna find the girl.

Comandante, this, um...

this scam that you're talking about...

it might be true...

but it also might not be.

- So you have to keep looking for her.

- We will keep looking.

- You have to find her.

- We will.

Sorry, have you seen this little girl?

Sorry, I'm just looking

for this little girl.

Can you just look at the photo?

Esta Nia.

Um, have you seen her?

Esta Nia. Can you...

no, you haven't seen her?

This little girl, have you seen her?

I did a really stupid thing, Shannon.

We did a stupid thing.

No, I did.

You looked so happy.

We just finished painting her room.

Everything was set.

And then I get an email out of nowhere

saying the whole thing fell apart.

What are you talking about?

She said she could make it go away.

She... she said no one would know...

so I paid her.

We'd already paid.

I paid her more to make it work.

How much more?

Another 30.

F***.

F***, Steven.

Steven, you're telling me you bought

our daughter on the black market.

No, no. No.

She was

an official expeditor, Shannon.

She had...

you saw her credentials,

and that office.

Baby, we were so close.

What was I supposed to do?

What about run it by me?

Communicate?

I wanted everything to work out.

And so what?

You decided that you would

just take shortcuts as usual?

We were on a waiting list

back home, remember?

Another two to three more years.

I was fine to wait.

Oh, sure, you were fine to wait.

If you already paid her,

why didn't she just not show up?

F***.

What?

There were...

additional fees... this week.

The money came through yesterday.

- I guess she was waiting...

- Are you f***ing serious?

...and the passport story

was there to just string us along.

More than the 30?

Not as much... another 10.

We're never gonna see her again.

Maybe she was never ours.

- Maybe none of this was real.

- It was real.

You felt it too, didn't you?

Yeah, I thought I did.

But... is she...

does she even belong to us, legally?

If this is a scam, if they're criminals,

- do we even stick around?

- She's a little girl.

She's out there somewhere

with God knows what kinds of people.

She was supposed to be our daughter.

Doesn't that mean we're supposed to try?

Of course it does.

Yes.

Let's...

let's drive around some more.

I just... I need some time, okay?

You drive around.

Sh*t.

Hey, Shannon. Shannon?

It's Benjamin and Veronica.

- I just wanted to say we're really...

- I know that.

...sorry for what happened

the other night.

It was just a misunderstanding,

I know Steven didn't pick

a fight with you.

He's so passive,

he wouldn't hurt a fly.

He didn't pick a fight with me,

it was my buddy Salo, anyway.

We just didn't know

that he didn't drink.

Look, my daughter's missing,

so I don't...

can we just not?

You're daughter's missing?

Where is she?

Yeah, it's all...

it's all part of some scam.

A scam?

Yeah, these people,

they just... they, um...

they give you a little girl,

they get a 100 grand from you...

and then they take her back.

100 grand? Oh my God.

Well, what are you gonna do?

Did you talk to the police?

- Yeah, I called the cops.

- What did they say?

- I mean, what's the next step?

- Will you excuse me?

How do you not tell me

about something that big...

Shannon, I knew if I told you

about the money you would've just...

If you told me about the money,

I would've said it was a bad idea.

Yeah, okay, well, I thought

I was making a good decision for us.

This isn't about doing something good.

It's about your

complete lack ofjudgment.

Thanks.

A marriage is a partnership, okay?

You never talk to me!

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