012 - Underground Railroad
Summary
Kathy Dobson, a pregnant woman with preeclampsia, disappears from a hospital. She doesn’t know that she could die without delivering immediately, so the team needs to find her quickly. (Though isn’t time always a factor?) Her husband Paul turns out to be abusive, and she disappeared with the help of an underground group, trying to escape the abuse for her child.
Rating
This episode is just sort of blah. It’s got some of my favorite lines, though.
Discussion
Notes
Quotes
Jack: What, did I tear you away from a date?
Danny: Actually, yeah. You?
Jack: Please.
Vivian: Morning, Sunshine.
Martin: Give me a break. I’ve been at the hospital for the last 8 hours.
Vivian: Anything turn up.
Martin: Oh yeah. 23 nurses, 14 doctors, 12 orderlies, and a partridge in a pear tree. And nobody saw her leave. It’s, um, spooky.
Jack: This guy was really committed.
Samantha: Yeah, he’s a real saint. Eight-and-a-half months pregnant, and she’s waiting on him hand and foot.
Jack: She brought him breakfast. He didn’t ask her to go downstairs and rotate the tires on his car.
Samantha: He leaves the hospital. Two hours later she disappears. It’s convenient, that’s all I’m saying.
Jack: Yeah, well, his alibi is solid.
Samantha: Yeah, well, maybe he hired someone to lift her. Or kill her.
Jack: Right now he’s living to have that boy, and without her, he can’t have him.
Samantha: Maybe he found out the kid wasn’t his.
Jack: There is nothing whatsoever to indicate that that is true, but I thank you for your imagination.
Samantha: That’s why they pay me the medium bucks.
Jack: So, what, according to your theory, he could have had her taken at any time, but he waited until she had complications to have her grabbed from the hospital.
Samantha: Um hum.
[Watching hospital surveillance video.]
Danny: We have a doctor, a man in a wheelchair, a pregnant woman that’s not her, a fat guy in a robe, a nurse…
Martin: Is it important that you narrate?
Danny: You know, I’m sorry, I forgot; you can’t think and listen at the same time, and…
Martin: That’s pretty good for someone who can’t think without speaking.
Richie: So how do you go about, you know, tracking somebody down?
Samantha: We run their phone records, credit cards, coordinate with the police, that sort of thing.
Richie: Wow, it’s kinda hard to get away, huh?
Samantha: Well, in a city of 8 million people, it’s pretty easy, actually.
Samantha: We gotta check out everywhere the brother saw her go.
Danny: Wait. All we have is an address? This is some lead. It looks like we’re going to go door-to-door. I should’ve brought my bibles.
Samantha: Yeah, I think you’re more of an insurance guy.