Zero Effect Page #7

if you sell out your boss.

Just turn over your suspect.

Name and address.

$ 2 million...

...for a name and an address.

Cash.

We can go to the bank right now.

You'd give me $ 2 million so you

don't have to do this thing tomorrow?

I'm willing to give you $5 million.

How much does he pay you?

$5 million...

...so you can kill someone right away

instead of a day later.

For $5 million...

...you do it.

- What if I walked in right now...

- He's not in there.

What if I want to find out myself?

What would happen?

I'll shoot you.

Really. I will.

I have a gun and everything.

You're threatening me?

I'm threatening to kill you.

What?

Right before you jump off the plane...

...you stand there

with all the equipment on.

You know what to do,

you can't wait.

Is there a time when you think:

"What if it doesn't open? What if this

is the last thing I ever do?"

You're really stuck

on the skydiving thing.

I'm stuck on what it is that makes you

do very dangerous things.

Even dangerous things

can be safe if you're careful.

There's such a thing as

knowing the odds.

Quitting while you're ahead.

Quitting before you're dead.

You know, you, me...

...anyone could walk out here and

get killed by some drunk in a pickup.

I could slip in the shower

and break my neck.

When your number's up it's up.

There's no sense to it.

There's no justice.

Innocent people suffer...

...and murderers get away with it.

So when my number's up,

whether I'm walking down the street...

...or doing something else...

...that will be that.

And until then, I'm just going to do

what I need to do.

What is it you need to do?

I need...

...to try to feel right.

Can I get you anything else?

No, I think that's it.

Do you need anything?

I'm okay.

I'll take the check.

You got it. Be right back.

When I was a little girl...

...I used to hope that someday

I'd grow up to look like that waitress.

My mother had hair like that.

My natural mother.

Really?

God, I forgot how that works.

Wait a minute.

Can a person be considered

physical evidence? Like in a rape case?

You mean if the guy

doesn't know about the kid?

I think so.

We think so. Why?

You mean...

She is the evidence.

She's not Kragen's daughter.

She's Stark's daughter.

I must admit, I like this place.

What?

You said that you don't

speak to your family.

Why not?

I realize I'm prying...

...but what can I say? I'm prying.

I want to know about you.

Just look me in the eyes and talk to me.

All right.

My father was...

...an evil, abusive man.

And he killed my mother...

...when she was sleeping.

And then...

...he slit his wrists...

...when I was...

...13.

I don't talk about that...

...much.

I used to when it happened...

...and then one day I woke up...

...and...

...I don't know.

Everything was different.

How about that?

What doesn't kill you defines you.

I don't believe in

an interventionist God

But I know darling...

... that you do

But if I did...

... I would kneel down and ask Him

Not to intervene...

...when it came to you

Or not to touch a hair in your head

Leave you as you are

If he felt he had to direct you

Then direct you into my arms

Sometimes what you're looking

for is right in front of your nose.

That's what I've always said.

You just going to stand there watching

or you going to do something about it?

And I don't believe

in the existence of angels

But looking at you...

... I wonder if that's true

But if I did...

... I would summon them together

And ask them to watch over you

I got to get going.

So I'll see you around 6:00

at my place.

As soon as I'm done with my meetings.

Good.

Bye.

At this point, you will receive

a final message on the pager.

Get on the corresponding bus

and take it to the end of the line.

Find the nearby bank of outhouses.

In center unit, find pair

of blue plastic garbage bags.

Make your deposit as usual.

When you have done this

get back on the bus.

Do not hesitate. Do not deviate

from the designated course.

You'll be monitored

at every interval.

We are prepared to act.

The words were similar but there was

a new component this time:

Desperation.

When you spend enough time around

the chemistry of desperation...

... you come to recognize the smell.

One desperate element is combustible.

More than one desperate element

is lethal.

Sh*t.

Call 911. Hurry up.

All right.

Are you okay?

Do you know your name?

Who are you?

That's right, sir. Who are you?

You know?

- What happened?

- Cardiac arrest.

Are you a doctor?

What's the name on that box, sir?

The name is Stark.

Gloria Stark.

According to our records, nobody's

been to that box for more than 20 years.

She lost the key.

Her father had it.

Hi, it's Gloria. I'll call you back.

Are you there?

I'm here.

I'm about to get on a plane

and be gone forever.

I think that's a mistake.

Yeah, I don't see any choice.

What if I come find you?

You're so sure that you could?

Thai Air. Flight 214.

Direct to Bangkok.

Departs in half an hour.

Okay, it's over.

You figured me out.

Nobody else got close.

You know, he doesn't know about you.

He doesn't know he has a child.

I know.

She never told him.

She wanted him to deny

that he'd even touched her.

Then at the last minute, surprise!

Look who's a daddy.

And a rapist. And a murderer.

He hires Kragen Vincent.

Kragen decides to hit her

in her motel room late at night.

He comes in the room...

... shoots her twice.

But he doesn't realize that you,

less than a year old, are in the room.

He doesn't see you at first,

because you're in a crawl space...

...she's made for you by pulling the

corner of the bed closer to the wall.

And even with the silencer on the gun,

and it all happening so quickly...

... you start crying.

He's got to do something.

You're screaming your lungs out now.

So he picks you up.

You stop crying.

And once he's got the baby...

... it's a done deal.

There he is...

... holding the infant.

That's when he decides...

... he'd rather risk it all.

He'd rather risk life in prison

than leave you in that room.

To protect you from Stark,

he gets rid of all the evidence.

Diapers, diaper bag...

...bottles, blankets...

... something on the dresser,

something in the sink...

... something hanging off a doorknob...

... something on the nightstand.

And then he leaves his prints

everywhere.

He leaves the body, takes the baby

and hauls ass out of there...

... because he knows he's got to

get you to his sister.

You grow up thinking

Vincent is your father...

...and you're being raised

by your aunt and uncle.

And then...

... Vincent comes clean.

He told me what happened,

but he would never tell me who it was.

And then about...

...a year ago, I figured that out.

Mr. Stark.

So then you start writing letters.

Stark pays and the rest is history.

You got the whole thing.

You win.

You saved his life this morning.

I know.

I guess a person

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