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All right. What do you know

about them really?

What are you asking me?

Could this be someone you know?

Well, you know, I mean,

Janet had to make it through, uh,

Pharmical's background check,

so we know she's fine.

And-- And Sumner's fine.

He's my neighbor.

He's-- He's fine.

Are you willing to gamble

with Sofia's life?

Edward, it's not like I have

much of a choice, you know?

I mean, I needed help with this.

- It...

- I understand.

This isn't something that I can--

that I can handle alone.

And, Tony, you're not alone.

I'm with you every step of the way.

But the question remains,

can you trust your friend?

Listen, let me call you back.

Hey, Sumner, you still there?

Yeah, I'm here.

- Listen, I--

- Give me a second.

- Tony West's office.

- Hey, it's me.

I need to see what you

can find on Sumner Cavic.

Who is he?

He's my neighbor,

but Edward's got me paranoid.

Is there any possible way that

we can do a background check on him?

Uh, sure.

We'll have to get his

social security first though.

Wait a minute. Wait. We sent--

We sent his application

into HR last week, right?

Mm-hmm. I'm checking now.

Oh, also, there's a Stern Union

across the street from the park

on Wilshire and Alvarado.

Thanks. Thanks, Janet.

Hey, Sumner, I'm back.

Yeah. Good.

Don't go away.

What's your password?

I need your password to get in.

Um, I don't know.

You think they bypassed it?

I don't know.

If they didn't get around it,

then, you know-- then forget it.

Anthony, if I can get

to your file manager,

I can retrace their steps.

Do you understand?

Listen, Sumner, it doesn't--

You know what?

Just-- It's fine.

- Anthony--

- Hello? Hello?

What's the pa--

Sumner? Hello?

Anthony!

Anthony? Oh...

Out of range.

Okay.

Everything okay there?

Yes.

Are you sure you can't use some help?

After what happened before?

Yeah, I know what happened before.

- Are you sure you don't need help?

- No.

We've got one more shot at this.

I can't have any more mistakes.

We'll get it.

I'll be there, honey.

Me, too. Okay.

Yes!

I'm in.

Tony West's office.

Hey, it's me.

- See your ID, please?

- Sumner's clean.

They've got no record on him.

Nothing.

There's nothing?

Nada. Just a couple traffic violations.

That's it.

All right.

Is it-- You got it? Is it in?

I'm still checking.

Sometimes it takes

anywhere between 15

to 60 minutes to post.

No?

Nothing yet.

Soon though.

Why don't you go ahead

and have a seat?

Damn.

Tony, who else have you told?

- Can you trust your friend?

- We are watching.

Is there any possible way

that we can do a background check on him?

- Sumner's clean.

- Sofia's been kidnapped, Edward. Sofial

You are going to bring

$50,000 to MacArthur Park.

From the hood into the beaches

of the south border

Cartel, we bringing you

Just relax, expose your mind to it

Hey.

- Hey, what's up, man?

- Hey.

- Yo, is that a bag of money?

- No.

Yo, why don't you let a brother

hold a couple dollars, man?

- Hey, it's me.

- Yeah.

Okay, I assumed that you

had more than one account

on this computer,

so what I did was

I figured out your wife's password.

It was, by the way, "Tony."

What'd you find?

It looks like the log

was modified at 5:21 p.m.

So somebody was on it.

Yep. And it looks

like they were looking

for a bunch of different search words.

Let's see.

"Zeffert,"

"genetic hybridization,"

uh, "ZHP."

Wait, wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait, wait. ZHP?

Yeah. You know what that's about?

Yeah. Yeah. See, it's...

the internal name for

Zeffert's hybridization process.

It's a gene therapy

we've been developing.

And is that important?

Yeah, it's really important.

Give me a sec.

Let me call you back.

Okay.

Tony West's office.

Hey, Janet, it's me.

Listen, we gotta find Zeffert.

All right? Whoever it is that took Sofia

broke into my house looking

for information on ZHP.

So they weren't looking for her?

Well, if they were, then why would

they be looking on my computer?

- It doesn't make any sense.

- And what are they doing?

I don't know. Maybe they

thought that if they took her,

they'd be gaining some sort of

leverage with me or something.

I don't know. I mean,

they got me out of the house

so that I couldn't see

what they were doing.

I don't know.

Do you want something?

Yeah, hold on a second.

Tony?

Janet, hey, sorry.

So finish what you were saying.

There's a connection?

I don't know. I don't know

what the connection is.

It's not-- There's nothing clear about it.

But I'm telling you,

it's got something to do with that file.

So, this was a corporate crime?

It's a little extreme,

don't you think?

If we find Zeffert,

we'll have our answer, all right?

Um...

Sir?

Sorry. Hold on. Hey.

Tony, it's Edward.

That phone number you gave me--

it's a dead end.

Security didn't even know

the office was open.

- Oh, no.

- What's wrong?

The cops are here.

At the Stern Union office?

How'd they find you?

No, no, no.

I'm not at the Stern Union.

I'm across the street at the park.

Sh*t. You know what?

The guy put my information

from my driver's license,

and the computer

must have triggered something.

All right.

What's going on?

No, no, no. The money.

Edward, the money.

What about it?

I can't get to it.

No, no.

I can't get to it in time.

This is-- Oh, no.

Take it easy, okay?

I'm-- I'm getting in my car.

I'll be there in 15 minutes.

Don't worry.

It'll be fine.

Oh, this is bad.

Edward, this is bad.

This is over. It's over.

What's over?

I gotta forget about this.

I can't do the money.

I have to do something else.

Now hold on.

You can't be suggesting

we don't pay the ransom?

No, Edward.

The cops got the money.

Sh*t!

Tony, look, think about this.

It's fine. It's okay.

We got time. We got time.

It's six-- It's 6:44.

All right.

Hey...

Edward, the people that took Sofia--

they were on my computer.

They were going through our files.

What sort of files?

The ZHP files.

- I think it was Traxil.

- You can't be serious.

I don't know. That's my first thought.

What do you think?

Why would they think

you have the ZHP file?

I don't know.

I don't know.

You know what?

Zeffert sent me this e-mail.

It was a huge file,

and it just completely corrupted--

It crashed my computer.

All right.

- Tony, do you have that file?

- I don't know.

I mean, even if I did have it,

I have no idea where it would be.

All right.

Look, there were two copies.

There was mine and Zeffert's.

He borrowed mine, though.

He never returned it.

I've left him several messages,

but he hasn't returned my calls.

Edward, we gotta--

we gotta tell Garnett about this.

No. No.

No. We don't have enough proof.

Look, Tony, we need

some time on this, okay?

We can get this.

We can figure this out.

We just need some time.

Hold on. I'll call you back.

Hello.

Tony, it's me.

Hey, Janet.

Let me call you back

in two minutes, okay?

Okay.

Hey, I'll give you 40 bucks

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