We’ve got a hijacked truck we gotta find before it leaves LA …
Summary: The FBI searches for a hijacked truck holding medical supplies, $50 million and two kidnapped aid workers.
Original air date: May 11, 2007 (US)
Written by: Cheryl Heuton and Nicolas Falacci
Directed by: Stephen Gyllenhaal
Opening numbers:
710,000: Zambian orphans
50: Million US dollars
4: Teams
1: Truck
Family Concepts (character development):
- Liz has been an FBI agent for four years and is 1/16th Cherokee
- Don and Liz tell teh rest of the FBI team they are dating
- Charlie attends one of Don’s therapy sessions
- Don relates a story of his thirteenth birthday where he was responsible for Charlie who got lost. Charlie states he was walking home.
- Don feels he takes advantage of Charlie
- Charlie loves working with Don
- Don [describing Charlie]: A curly-headed blackhole that could suck the air out of the universe.
- Colby: If I was you I’d choose a better time to hone my comedy routine.
- Colby: The way I see it, you gotta team you gotta trust them. That’s just the way it works.
- David: FBI! Get on the damn ground!
- Charlie: I’m still the little brother.
- Colby: Ya know what? I haven’t yet had the priviledge of meeting those gentlemen.
- Colby: I don’t know what his [Don] plan is, but I guess we’re backin’ him.
- Don: So any of you guys got anything to say, you can say it to her [Liz].
- Charlie: You were thirteen, get over yourself!
A semi truck carrying $2 million in medical supplies and another $50 million in cash for micro-loans for Project Zambia relief is hijacked; two aid workers Dan Matthews and Gwen Owens are kidnapped as well. Charlie and Alan, at the FBI office to join Don for lunch offer to help locate the truck by narrowing down the number of routes the truck would take to leave LA. As Don and the FBI team start their search they are also accosted by Michael Shannon an investor who specializes in buying up international loans at reduced costs informs Don the money on the truck is actually his.
Liz and David actually find the truck with Dan and Gwen alive inside but before they can do anything or arrest two of the hijackers at the scene, two other men get involved. One of the hijackers is shot, but they are still able to get away in the truck with Dan and Gwen still inside. The two new men on the scene are actually bounty hunters hired by Michael Shannon to get the money back.
Charlie is able to further refine the search area. Colby and Liz, following a tip from the sheriff’s office find where the truck had parked for a time and more importantly they find Dan Matthews, beaten but still alive. He tells them Gwen probably told the hijackers she knew the codes to open the safe in the truck containing the money, the problem is Gwen doesn’t know the codes, only Matthews does.
Colby runs down a source who tells him about a rumor regarding medical supplies hitting the black market. She’s with LAPD and points out the people who hijack and sell medicine are usually working for the medical companies that pack such large shipments. The lead tracks back to Frank Tibbet and Vincent Kagan.
Charlie figures out with Alan’s help the hijackers are probably hiding the truck to escape FBI detection and also to get the safe open. He sends them back out to an area where teh truck should be and this time they do find Tibbet and two of Kagan’s brothers, they don’t find the truck. Using a logic problem Don and Colby realize the truck is still nearby and where to look for it: in a nearby trailer park. They find the truck and arrest Kegan as he tried to escape. Gwen is found alive in the trailer, along with the medical supplies and the money.
Don has invited Charlie to one of his therapy sessions on the advice of Dr Bradford. Don relates a story from his thirteenth birthday where Alan took Don and a group of his friends camping along with Charlie. Don says Alan told him Charlie would be his responsibility to watch out for during the trip, however Charlie gets lost and a twelve hour search ensues. Charlie states he was never lost, he knew he wasn’t wanted on the trip and had decided to walk home, he was eight. Charlie says he’s not as helpless as everyone seems to think he is and he felt growing up that all the fun stuff happened to Don. Don feels he takes advantage of Charlie to work FBI cases; Charlie counters that he loves working with his brother.