Without a Trace (TV Series)

Revelations (2003)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste: Vivian Johnson

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• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Vivian Johnson : Way to watch your desk!

  Samantha Spade : Thank you.