- Vivian Johnson: Confessional's over there.
- Jack Malone: Not enough time in the day. I'll pass. Who's missing?
- Vivian Johnson: Okay, Father Henry Stevens, 55. Pastor here at St. Germaine's for the past twelve years. Hasn't been seen since dinner two nights ago.
- Jack Malone: Any sign of foul play?
- Vivian Johnson: Uh-uh, but the parish car is missing along with the keys.
- Jack Malone: Well, we know he could've taken the car for a ride to enjoy the fall colors.
- Vivian Johnson: Well, the parish weren't terribly worried until they found this. He never goes anywhere without it. It's registered with the United Network of Organ Sharing.
- Jack Malone: What's wrong with him?
- Vivian Johnson: Cirrhosis of the liver, end-stage. The hospital paged him because they've got a liver for him, and when he didn't call back, they called his backup number at the rectory.
- Jack Malone: Talk about bad timing.
- Vivian Johnson: If we don't find this guy in a hurry, he may never get another chance.
- Jack Malone: Father Walker, in my experience, when an adult male goes missing, he's usually done something to cause it.
- Father Walker: Nobody wants Father Stevens back here more than me, but I don't have anything else to tell you, so if I may... I have a communion class to teach.
- Jack Malone: Of course. If you, uh... think of anything that might help...
- [offering a business card]
- Jack Malone: Give me a call.
- Father Walker: God be with you.
- Vivian Johnson: According to the church secretary, he's a paragon of virtue and loves cats.
- Danny Taylor: According to his street clothes, he takes his vow of poverty very seriously.
- Vivian Johnson: Take a look at this.
- [showing him a picture of a youth baseball team Father Stevens sponsors]
- Vivian Johnson: We're gonna have to interview every one of these boys.
- Danny Taylor: Because he's a priest?
- Vivian Johnson: Because he's a missing priest.
- Danny Taylor: H-He's a man of God, and he's dying, okay, so compassion.
- Vivian Johnson: You know, I want to believe in him, too, but you have got to admit, they have been testing our faith a lot these days.
- Danny Taylor: I played on a team. The St. Benedict's Dragons.
- Vivian Johnson: I find it very hard to imagine you in a white communion gown.
- Danny Taylor: I didn't actually go to church. When I was 13, I got busted shoplifting a fifth of rum from a liquor store. The judge gave me two choices: St. Benedict's after-school program or juvie. I figured a couple hours of basketball a day, how bad could it be?
- Vivian Johnson: And how bad was it?
- Danny Taylor: Father Orlando kicked my ass. Probably saved my life.
- Vivian Johnson: [finding a hidden cache of bloody money in Father Stevens' office] What's his stipend?
- Danny Taylor: About 13 grand a year, plus medical, room and board.
- Vivian Johnson: Okay, so what's this?
- Howard Schmidt: I didn't say there was anything wrong with the shooting.
- Samantha Spade: Then I guess I don't understand why I can't get back in the field.
- Howard Schmidt: You read my report.
- Samantha Spade: Uh... "While there is no evidence to suggest a breach of Bureau protocol, agent's fieldwork should be limited to allow time for continued rehabilitation." Mm-hmm. Um, what exactly am I rehabilitating, Agent Schmidt?
- Howard Schmidt: Any agent who's involved in a shooting needs time to process it, and you may need more time than others because...
- Samantha Spade: Because I got shot.
- Howard Schmidt: Yeah.
- Samantha Spade: Look, that was two months ago. One thing has nothing to do with the other. I am not trigger-happy, if that's what you're implying. I am not.
- Howard Schmidt: Agent Spade, the issue is not your injury or your conduct in the field. The issue is your frame of mind, which we are all concerned about.
- Samantha Spade: My frame of mind, Agent Schmidt, is-is-is... my frame of mind is right where it should be, given the circumstances.
- Howard Schmidt: And where is that?
- Samantha Spade: Well, thank you for seeing me, and I, uh, I should get back and watch my desk.
- Samantha Spade: Remind me to slam that OPR guy with a softball at the next spring picnic.
- Vivian Johnson: I'm not sure that's how you get on their good side.
- Vivian Johnson: Hey, have you got anything on Father Stevens?
- Samantha Spade: Uh, yeah. Let me, uh...
- [rummaging through papers on her desk]
- Samantha Spade: Where is it? Okay. He got a call on the rectory phone from the 12th precinct at 11:40 the night he disappeared.
- Vivian Johnson: Okay, I'll call Martin and have him check that out.
- Samantha Spade: Other than that, nothing interesting pops up. Family is deceased, barely graduated high school, ended up in a series of dead-end, minimum wage and seasonal jobs.
- Vivian Johnson: All in the same area?
- Samantha Spade: Uh, southeast, mostly Florida. No arrests, two speeding tickets, entered the seminary at... 34.
- Vivian Johnson: Late bloomer.
- Samantha Spade: Yeah. And joining the church is when, from a background check perspective, his life gets really uninteresting, except for four charges for rental cars in Fresno over the last 13 months, the most recent, three weeks ago.
- Vivian Johnson: Which is interesting because...?
- Samantha Spade: There are no matching charges for plane tickets.
- Vivian Johnson: So how'd he get there?
- Samantha Spade: Well, that is the question. I'm working on it.
- Vivian Johnson: All right, this is Father Stevens' Bible and most recent sermons. There may be something in there that we can profile. Jack wants you to take a look at it.
- Samantha Spade: You gotta talk to him, Viv, get him to lean on OPR.
- Vivian Johnson: I am not getting into the middle of it.
- Samantha Spade: This is taking too long. I should be re-certified by now.
- Vivian Johnson: Samantha, you shot and killed two people.
- Samantha Spade: Wait, two armed suspects who had their guns trained on me.
- Vivian Johnson: No one's doubting your actions, but they cannot rush you back into the field.
- Samantha Spade: I am fine! Okay? I'm fine.
- Vivian Johnson: Restless is not the same as fine.
- Samantha Spade: You don't think I'm ready, do you?
- Vivian Johnson: No.
- Jack Malone: I don't think those boys were comfortable talking in front of a priest.
- Father Walker: Well, I certainly wasn't at their age. Were you?
- Jack Malone: What makes you assume I was a Catholic?
- Father Walker: You have the disillusionment of someone that used to believe. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be presumptuous.
- Jack Malone: Hey, presume away.
- Danny Taylor: Are you nervous, Sergio? Because your hands in your pocket makes you look nervous, and usually when people are nervous, they're lying to me. Are you lying to me, Sergio?
- [to Sergio's friend]
- Danny Taylor: Is he lying to me?
- Sergio: Look, Father Stevens is a good guy, all right? I got no beef with him.
- Danny Taylor: Okay, well someone does, and I'm trying to save his life, and you guys are not helping me.
- Teresa Powers: I had nothing to do with his disappearance.
- Jack Malone: Well, according to this report, a kid in the after-school program saw you fight with Father Stevens a couple days before.
- Teresa Powers: Which kid? Same ones who beat David up, or the ones that call him names because his father ran out on us? Not great witnesses as far as I'm concerned.
- Danny Taylor: Ms. Powers, that kid seems to think that there's something going on between David and Father Stevens.
- Teresa Powers: Well there wasn't.
- Jack Malone: Then tell us what you were fighting about.
- Teresa Powers: It's none of your business.
- Jack Malone: If Stevens went missing because he was abusing your son, then it is my business.
- Danny Taylor: I really don't think that priest did anything to that kid.
- Jack Malone: Do you think if she knew anything, she'd admit it? That would give her motive.
- Danny Taylor: I-I agree with you. I think she's covering up for something. I-I just don't think it's that.
- [seeing Jack's look]
- Jack Malone: I-I-I don't.
- Jack Malone: All right, fine. Want you to set up for surveillance and find out what she is covering up.
- Samantha Spade: Okay, so on each of the days, he used his credit card to rent a car. Stevens also bought a round-trip plane ticket to Fresno with cash.
- Martin Fitzgerald: Hmm. Well, he had to use a credit card, 'cause you can't rent a car without it.
- Samantha Spade: Now, all four rental cars were driven between 121 and 134 miles.
- Martin Fitzgerald: Hmm. He's headed to the same place.
- Samantha Spade: Or the same person, and it's no more than 65 miles from the airport.
- Martin Fitzgerald: Could he have been seeing another doctor out there?
- Samantha Spade: I found no record of any medical charges at all.
- Vivian Johnson: No one at St. Germaine's knew that Stevens was headed out to Fresno.
- Samantha Spade: So maybe he's really good at keeping secrets...
- [pointedly to Viv]
- Samantha Spade: ...or he just doesn't trust his co-workers.
- Vivian Johnson: The money we found in Stevens' room had traces of ephedrine and rock salt.
- Martin Fitzgerald: Someone's making methamphetamine.
- Vivian Johnson: Yeah, and central California is the meth capital of America.
- Jack Malone: Did you know?
- Father Walker: I had no idea it was Father Mazzoni.
- Jack Malone: So you two had talked about it.
- Father Walker: Many times. He was struggling with what to do.
- Jack Malone: Really? He seemed to have no problem giving Father Mazzoni the "fire and brimstone" treatment.
- Father Walker: Well, maybe he was trying to wake him up, because with me he was waffling, a lot more than I can understand.
- Father Walker: Yes, they're two consenting adults, but what this priest is doing isn't right.
- Father Henry Stevens: I know I have to protect the boy, but the priest's sins... what right do I have to judge him?
- Father Walker: He's taken a vow of celibacy. It signifies his dedication to God and his rejection of the physical world. Violating it doesn't make him a bad man, just a poor priest.
- Jack Malone: And you have no idea why he struggled so hard to make this decision?
- Father Walker: Well, Father Stevens had a great capacity for forgiveness.
- Jack Malone: Is it possible that he had his own secret? Something that made it hard for him to condemn Father Mazzoni?
- Father Walker: Well, you obviously think you know something I don't.
- Jack Malone: Well, there is evidence to suggest that Father Stevens was using drugs. Maybe even dealing.
- Father Walker: I spent every day with him. I would have noticed something.
- Jack Malone: People are very good at hiding things, especially when they have a lot to lose. Perhaps he lost his faith.
- Father Walker: Father Stevens wrestled with his faith every day. It was what made him a good priest. He didn't believe God was gonna hand him pat answers to difficult questions. We're supposed to struggle to figure it out. If Henry was going to die of liver disease, God expected him to find some purpose in it.
- Jack Malone: Maybe he couldn't. Any possibility that he used the drugs to take off the edge?
- Father Walker: You know... I see little slivers of what people are capable of. I hear things in there...
- [indicating the confessional]
- Father Walker: ...what we do to one another. But you, you must see horrible things. And yet you get up every day, you put on your black suit, and you go to work, knowing that you will probably see a lot more.
- Jack Malone: What do you expect me to do, wait for God to find them?
- Father Walker: Maybe you don't believe in this, but you believe in something. Power, uh, vengeance, justice. Everybody needs something to believe in.
- Jack Malone: You still haven't answered my question.
- Father Walker: Father Stevens believes in grace. Drugs don't hold a candle to that.
- Martin Fitzgerald: Well, Father Stevens is nothing if not generous.
- Danny Taylor: It looks like Doyle hasn't been here in a while.
- Martin Fitzgerald: This guy's an ex-con.
- Danny Taylor: What?
- Martin Fitzgerald: Prison art.
- Danny Taylor: What, did you do a nickel at Pelican Bay? 'Cause if you did, I'm gonna be a whole lot nicer to you.
- Samantha Spade: Here's my theory. Back in the old days, before Stevens became a priest, he was running drugs, in Florida, with Doyle.
- Vivian Johnson: Let me see the file.
- Samantha Spade: [handing it over] Doyle got out of prison two and a half weeks ago after serving a 20-year sentence for running a meth lab.
- Vivian Johnson: So, what, the meth in Stevens' room was twenty years old?
- Samantha Spade: Money you found was old and crinkly, right?
- Vivian Johnson: Yeah.
- Samantha Spade: I'll bet it was Doyle's take from their last big score. Stevens was holding the cash for Doyle, Doyle got mad when Stevens started to give the money away.
- Vivian Johnson: So why visit Doyle in prison?
- Samantha Spade: Maybe he was trying to rehabilitate him. Maybe that's why he brought him to New York.
- Vivian Johnson: Either way, Doyle has got to know where Stevens is.
- Vivian Johnson: Maybe he's telling the truth.
- Jack Malone: What, that they hit some kind of fork in the road? Doyle went to prison and Stevens went into the priesthood?
- Vivian Johnson: Maybe we're just too cynical to believe it to be true.
- Jack Malone: Yeah, the only thing that people learn from getting caught is how to be more careful.
- Vivian Johnson: Well, come on, Jack. Father Stevens is using his old drug money for charity. Getting Doyle out of jail. Whatever he's doing, he's on some kind of mission.
- Jack Malone: Listen, Father... a liver has become available. There's a surgical team standing by, but we have to go now, or they're going to move to the next person on the list.
- Father Henry Stevens: I'm sorry, I know you've come a long way, but... I can't. There's something I have to do.
- Jack Malone: Alex Bradford?
- Father Henry Stevens: You know?
- Jack Malone: You dying won't bring him back.
- Father Henry Stevens: Living hasn't brought him back, either.
- Jack Malone: What are you still doing here? Why don't you go home?
- Samantha Spade: Paperwork.
- Jack Malone: I talked to Schmidt in OPR. You can go back into the field, under one condition.
- Samantha Spade: What?
- Jack Malone: We want you to see the in-house counselor.
- Samantha Spade: We?
- Jack Malone: Okay, me.
- Samantha Spade: No.
- Jack Malone: Samantha, you may not think that I'm the best person qualified to talk to you about this. But this kind of event can have long-term fallout, and you've gotta deal with it.
- Samantha Spade: I just feel like you've lost faith in me.
- Jack Malone: [unsure whether to take her hand or not] Nobody has lost faith in you. Least of all me. Come on, I'll walk you out.