The Hunt Continues
February 18, 2003
Radio announcer: It may be a new day, Llanview, but it's hard to tell in the heart of winter. Anyone alive out there? Things sure seem dead.
Bo: Secure the building. Nobody goes in without my ok.
Blair: Todd and Natalie are in there and Cristian just went in.
Bo: Bag that.
Blair: Please, just be careful.
Bo: Is Laurence in there?
Blair: I don't know. I just -- I heard a gunshot! All I know is I heard a gunshot.
Bo: Keep her here. Keep her here.
Blair: Don't.
Bo: You ready?
Blair: Be careful, Bo.
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Bo: Cover me.
Bo: Manning? Manning, can you hear me? It's Bo Buchanan. You all right?
Todd: Yeah, I'm -- yeah, I'm all right.
Bo: Were you shot?
Todd: I don't think so.
Bo: What's going on here?
Antonio: No. No! Please, Cris. No. Get an ambulance! Damn it, he's been shot! Come on. Hang in there.
Radio announcer: It's a long time till spring. It makes you wonder if you'll ever see signs of life again.
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Antonio: Come on, Cris. Come on, I just need you to say one word. I just need to know that you can hear me.
Bo: Check on that ambulance, and if the roads are bad, I want a medic here.
Officer: Yes, sir.
Bo: What happened here?
Todd: Well, I'll fill you in as soon as I get to see Blair.
Bo: Blair's fine. She's outside. She's with an officer right now. No, you're not going anywhere, manning, until I get some answers.
Todd: Mitch Laurence took Blair. I came here to get -- to get her back.
Bo: And you brought Natalie with y?
Todd: It was the only way. He said that he wanted to do some kind of a trade. It's not like I was actually going to give her to that freak.
Bo: Well, what happened?
Todd: I was on the stage with Natalie, and the guy kept talking over the P.A. Or something. I don't know. He never even showed his face. And I had no idea where Blair was.
Bo: When did Cristian walk in?
Todd: He just kept yammering on and on about how I had to let Natalie go and then --
Bo: How did Cristian get shot?
Todd: He's going to be all right, right?
Bo: You better hope so.
Todd: Me?
Me? Mitch is the guy. He was going to take Starr! He took Blair, he kidnapped her! He said he was going to kill her!
Bo: Yeah, and then instead of coming to me, you decided to play vigilante! You're in this thing deep, Todd! And if Cristian dies, you're going to be a lot worse off. Who shot Cristian?
Todd: You're really going to ask that, huh? Mitch shot Cristian! Who the hell else do you think did it?
Bo: All right. Then let's get this clear -- is this your gun?
Todd: Yeah, that's my gun. I got a permit. You can check it.
Bo: No, I will!
Todd: Yeah.
Bo: This gun's been fired recently.
Todd: Well, I shot it at the audience somewhere out there. Maybe you can go. Maybe you'll find Mitch Laurence's corpse. I hope you do.
Bo: What's the word on the ambulance?
Officer: It's been dispatched, sir, but there's no sign of your niece or the suspect.
Bo: Well, then what are you doing here? Expand the search. I want roadblocks on every major artery, all right? You find Laurence! And don't come back here until you've got Natalie with you!
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Antonio: Come on. You've never let me down before. Don't start now.
Bo: Finally got an ambulance.
Antonio: Is it here?
Bo: Soon.
Todd: I'm going to go see Blair.
Bo: Cuff him.
Todd: Oh, whoa. Hey! Get off of --
Bo: Cuff him. You take him out, let him talk to Blair for five minutes.
Todd: Come on.
Bo: Don't take your eyes off him.
Todd: Mitch Laurence is still out there with our niece and you're worried about me?
Bo: Hey, Cristian's been shot! Till I hear from forensics, I'm holding you!
Todd: You can't do that.
Bo: You want to see Blair or not? Or do you want Parrish to take you straight downtown right now? You read him his rights on the way. Get him out of here.
Ofc. Parrish: You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney.
Blair: Why haven't we heard anything yet, huh?
Officer: As soon as they secure the building, we'll have news.
Blair: Why don't you use your radio and find out something, huh? I want to find out if somebody's been hurt. I need to know!
[Siren]
Blair: Wait -- is that an ambulance? Oh, Todd. Thank God. Oh, God. Oh.
Todd: I've just got this bump on my head and I'm going to be all right.
Blair: Oh. I heard a gunshot. My God, I was so scared. Are you sure? Are you -- are you absolutely sure -
Todd I'm fine. I'll be a lot better when the police get their priorities straight. Mitch Laurence has probably dragged Natalie across state lines right now.
Blair: What, Mitch has Natalie?
Todd: Yeah. But is Bo, you know, out there chasing the bad guy? No, because if somebody gets hurt around here, if something goes wrong, it's all got to be my fault, right?
Blair: Wait. What about Cristian?
Antonio: Where the hell's the ambulance? It should be here. Cris? Cris, can you hear me? Cris? My God.
Bo: Cristian? Cristian, this is Bo Buchanan. I've got one question to ask you. Who shot you?
Cristian: Where's --
Bo: Do you know who shot you?
Cristian: Todd.
Bo: You rest now, ok?
Cristian: Is Natalie here?
Antonio: No, no, no, no. Don't say anything else. Just rest, all right?
Cristian: Can you tell Natalie --
Antonio: No, you can tell her yourself, ok?
Cristian: Just -- just tell Natalie I love her.
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Viki: Um -- excuse -- I'm sorry. Do you know where the commissioner is?
Officer: He's at a crime scene, ma'am.
Viki: Crime scene? Who's involved?
Todd: Oh, Viki, I'm glad you're here. You're not going to believe what's going on.
Viki: Are you ok?
Bo: Shut up, manning. Sit down.
Viki: What did Todd do? Did you find Blair? Is she ok?
Bo: Yeah, she's going to be fine. She's a little traumatized, but she's at the hospital. It's a routine check.
Viki: Thank God.
Jessica: I have to go --
Bo: No, wait -- before you do, I'd like to speak to you and your mother.
Viki: About Natalie? Is she involved in this?
Bo: Mitch kidnapped Blair as bait. He wanted to trade her for Natalie.
Jessica: So Todd brought Natalie to Mitch?
Viki: But -- but Natalie was with Cristian.
Bo: I know. Cristian's in the emergency room. He was shot. They're doing all they can, but it's bad.
Jessica: He was shot?
Viki: Oh, my God. What about Natalie?
Bo: Mitch took Natalie. They were gone before we had a chance to get there.
Viki: Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
*~*
Radio announcer: The Sun's coming up now, folks. Think it can shed some light on the mystery of life? It might be nice to get straight to heart of it because you never know if there will be enough time. Anyway, if you get lost on your trip, I hope you find your way out. Until next time, this is the voice of the night. And remember -- the darkness is never very far away.
Viki: Did -- did Todd say anything at all that might help us find Natalie?
Bo: He's too busy trying to save his own hide, Viki.
Viki: Could I talk to him?
Bo: Be my guest. I hope Nora has better luck with Blair.
Nora: Viki has your kids, so they're fine. Cristian may not be.
Blair: Well, how bad is it?
Nora: Well, they're still working on him, so they don't know yet.
Blair: Nora, he's got to make it. If it weren't for Cristian --
Nora: What?
Blair: Mitch's guys, he -- Mitch told his guys to take me out and murder me. Cristian stopped them. I mean, he saved my life.
Nora: Sit down, Blair. What happened?
Blair: Well, Mitch had Starr and he was going to take her, and so I told Mitch that he -- to take me instead. He couldn't take -- he couldn't hurt my little girl.
Nora: Well, of course not.
Blair: And I knew that Starr would tell her daddy, but I didn't know if Todd would help me or not.
Nora: Why not?
Blair: Before Mitch showed up, Todd and I had this big fight, and I think Todd finally realized that it was over.
Nora: But even so --
Blair: We were getting remarried and we were in the middle of our vows and I found out that he had betrayed me yet again, even after I forgave him for what he -- you know, about lying about , about everything.
Nora: I'm sorry.
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Blair: We're doomed, you know? We keep trying to get together, over and over again and make it work. But it never will.
Bo: Cristian I.D.'d you, manning.
Todd: Yeah, well, he I.D.'d me wrong.
Viki: Look, could you just tell us what happened.
Todd: I just did.
Viki: Natalie is my daughter and Mitch Laurence has her, and you know as well as I do he's going to go after Jessica next because he's been trying to get to her for months!
Bo: We recovered the bullet, manning. Now, are you telling me when the ballistics report comes back, it's going to say that it didn't come from your gun?
Todd: That report is going to say whatever you want that report to say.
Bo: You shot Cristian, didn't you?
Todd: I thought it was Laurence. You don't understand. He was going to kill Blair. What else was I supposed to do?
Viki: Do you know something? Jessica told me that Bo thought that you might have gone to deliver Natalie to Mitch. I didn't believe it. I could not believe that you would put one of my kids in danger like that!
Todd: Hey. It wasn't -- it wasn't like that at all, you know? We had a plan. Nobody was supposed to get hurt, Viki.
Bo: Well, tell that to Cristian.
Todd: Yeah, well, if Cristian hadn't barged in when he did, maybe he wouldn't have gotten shot.
Bo: You shot him, now you're blaming it on him?
Todd: I had to save Blair!
Viki: By sacrificing my daughter?
Todd: Oh, come on. We had everything under control!
Bo: "Under control"?
Todd: Yeah!
Bo: Thanks to you, Natalie is now with Mitch and Cristian is in a hospital fighting for his life!
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Nora: Ok, anything else? Anything Mitch could have said or done that would've given you a clue about where he took Natalie?
Blair: No. Believe me, I held on to every little disgusting thing that man said. I wanted something to help me get -- wait a minute, Nora, there is one thing. I don't know if it'll help you or anything, but at one point he -- he pulled out from a bag some hair dye.
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Bo: Laurence must have given you some indication of why he was so desperate to find Natalie.
Todd: Well, Natalie is, you know, kind of popular with the boys, if you know what I'm saying.
Viki: Would you stop this! Natalie's life is in danger!
Todd: What am I supposed -- I told him like 12 dozen million times! How am I supposed to know why Laurence does anything that he does?
Viki: Ok, then why you? Why you? Why did Mitch need your help so badly that he went and kidnapped Blair and then -- Starr? Why?
Bo: You know, Mitch wouldn't have gotten to Blair -- he'd be in custody right now if Jen Rappaport hadn't backed off on her testimony against him.
[Phone rings]
Bo: Buchanan.
Nora: It's me.
Bo: How's Cristian?
Nora: Well, I think he's going to make it. He'll pull through.
Bo: Great. Cristian's going to be fine. What about Blair?
Nora: She has a few rope burns, but she's been discharged.
Bo: Did she tell you anything?
Nora: Well, nothing that's going to give us a clue as to where Mitch took Natalie, but there is one interesting thing she said. Mitch apparently got a bottle of hair dye.
Bo: Did she see what color it was?
Nora: Light blonde, she thinks, but he said it was not for her.
Bo: What? Mitch knows there's an A.P.B. Out for him. He's probably wearing a disguise by now.
Blair: Hey, Bo, it's Blair. Can I just go home and see my kids, please?
Bo: I don't have a problem with that. Listen, I'm glad you're ok.
Blair: Thank you, and thank you for your help. Now, are you going to release Todd?
Bo: No. No, we're not. Todd confessed. He's the one that shot Cristian.
Blair: What? Wait, wait, Bo -- Todd wouldn't shoot Cristian. If he did, it was an accident.
Nora: Bo's going to do whatever he can to find out what really happened, ok? I'll call you later.
Blair: Nora, he would never --e e would never do that on purpose.
Nora: Come on. Let's go take you to your kids.
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