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Yea I think that's right.

Detectives how serious is this?

Jane and Halley are close,

I don't want her to worry.

You know, Maddie came over this

morning asking if she had come

by last night.

Is that odd?

No. She's over here a

lot. Our house is sort of a safe

haven for kids like Halley.

What does that mean?

Well, it means she

doesn't have the best home life.

You know her mom works a lot. We

know her dad died awhile back.

We just try to help. When you're

in my line of work you meet a

lot of kids who need help. Most

of them in worst situations than

Halley's, we just try

to help as many as we can.

We're a foster home.

When DHS needs a home for a

child temporarily, they call us.

Anything out of the

ordinary over at the Dawn's?

Besides her mom not

being around much, no.

When was the last time

you saw Halley?

Um, two or three nights ago.

Jane and Halley wanted to watch

something on Disney,

Nickelodeon, I don't know.

So maybe Sunday night?

Can I join you?

JANE:

Sure.

Jane right?

Yes ma'am.

You know about your friend?

Yea. I know she's missing.

I just wish she would have

told me before she ran away.

You think she ran away?

Yea. She didn't like her home.

She and her mom argued a lot.

But don't a lot of

kids argue with their moms?

I guess. She didn't like

talking about her mom that much.

I just wish she would have

told me. I could have gone

with her. We could have

gone everywhere together.

Do you know where she is?

No.

What are you

thinking about?

I hope she's

somewhere cool. Somewhere fun.

Like on a plane.

Halley loved planes.

Planes?

Yea, she always

wanted to ride one.

We planned it. I would go with

her, we would get on a plane.

Fly away.

Go somewhere awesome.

You ever been on a plane?

No. Have you?

Yea.

I went to Fort Worth once.

I know it's not very awesome.

But a lot of things get pretty

uncool when you grow up.

That sucks.

Yea.

Let's say Halley

didn't run away.

Maybe somebody took her who

didn't ask her mom's permission.

Do you know

somebody who'd do that?

No. Not if you mean

bullies. Everybody liked her.

What about her mom?

What do you think of her?

Ms. Dawn?

I've never really met her.

My parents say she is a

little rough around the edges.

How so?

One time Halley had

to come over here and ask for a

ride to school herself.

Later, my dad told me it was

because

her mom was hungover.

How long have you known her?

Since the 1st grade.

And she comes over here a lot?

Yea. She said it was

because she gets bored but I

just think she wants to get out

of the house more than anything.

Did she come over

here last night?

No, ma'am.

How did you two meet?

We had the same 1st

grade teacher.

She was the

new student in class.

For whatever reason

she started school late.

The teacher made

us all get up and greet her.

I was the last

one to say "hi".

When I turned around, all

but two seats were taken.

So we became table neighbors.

Then she moved down

the street, we

became real life neighbors.

I can't even imagine.

That poor girl.

We'll find her.

If you don't want to

talk about it we-

I don't want to talk about it.

[BIRDS CHIRPING AND CAR

WHOOSHING SOUND EFFECT]

[TRUCK HORN SOUND EFFECT]

Look, I could tell you that this

will be the only case like this

you'd ever work.

But I'd be lying.

We don't work on the good days.

We work on the bad days.

It's what we do, we're cops.

At least that's what

we say at poker night.

We lie about a lot there too.

But everybody lies, right.

We lie to our parents, we lie to

our spouse we... sorry.

It's fine.

Yea, we all justify things.

I think the better liar you are,

the worse things you can

justify.

Some people are just

born better liars than others.

You still going to

that job interview?

Yea.

Maybe it's a power thing.

Maybe.

You know, maybe some

people just really get off on

that kind of stuff.

Maybe.

I wish you didn't want to leave.

I wish I didn't either.

[SCHOOL BELL

RINGING SOUND EFFECT]

Excuse me? We're looking

for Halley Dawn's teacher.

ETHAN:
Huh, yup that would be me.

Uhm, Flynn.

Is that your first name?

No, sorry. First

name is Ethan.

Mr. Flynn, we

wanted to ask you a few

questions about Halley Dawn.

She went missing this morning.

Oh God.

Uh, that's... that's terrible.

Yea, what what did, uh what did

ya... what do you want to know?

You know, did she

get along with everybody?

Did you see anything strange?

Or maybe her mom had

some weirdos come by?

No, no, nothing...

nothing like that.

Can you think

of anything?

Um, well a lot of

times her friend's parents will

pick her up and drop her off.

The Young's?

- Yes.

- Okay,

And generally that means

that the mom works a lot.

Um which means that she's not

as engaged in the child's life.

Which then reflects on

the child's school life.

How's that?

Well she is probably

the quietest student I have.

But the kids are still

really nice to her,

surprisingly enough.

You know she does her work, she

keeps her head down and stays

out of trouble.

You ever see her mom?

Yea, yea. Uh, I mean... you

know for like the mandatory

parent/teacher type things.

Would you describe

her as a good mom?

I don't think that I know her

well enough to speak on her

character. Um you can really

only really judge a parent on

their child's grades.

And for Halley, uhm, well...

her grades were

through the roof.

You seemed a little

hesitant on that.

Well, for a student

to have the grades that Halley

does, it usually means that the

parent is much more involved in

her life.

What about family

friends or boyfriends.

I remember a guy dropping

her mom off a couple times

for the parent teacher

things she did.

Do you know who?

No, I'm sorry.

Unfortunately I don't.

Do you remember Halley saying

anything that stood out to you?

I remember her talking about

doing homework at her house

and at her mom's work.

Excuse me for one moment.

Study hall? At the racetrack?

Yea we should go there now.

Yup.

I'm sorry, did you

say racetrack?

Mrs. Dawn works there.

Oh really? I... I had no idea.

You ever go to the racetrack?

Me? No, sorry,

that's not... not for me.

- Thank you.

- Thank you for your time.

LIGHT PIANO:

MUSIC ENSUES:

[BIRDS CAWING SOUND EFFECT]

Why don't you take

the lead on this one.

CLAYTON:
Sorry we don't uh... we don't

open again for another uh... 5 hours

or so.

We're looking for

Maddie Dawn. Is she here?

Yea she's out

back. What's this about?

We just need to ask

her a few questions.

I'm detective Shepherd

and this is detective Willow.

Ok, well, yea she's here. Is

here anything I should know

about?

You know anything

about this track?

I own it.

Oh, you're Mr. Woods?

You must have been

asking around.

Yea we talked to

Maddie earlier today.

You have any

contact outside of work?

Some.

What's this about?

We're just trying to

see if you've seen her daughter.

Halley's missing?

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