In our final episode of FBI: International, we had been capable of see how a lot Forrester cares concerning the folks in his life, and see the staff help in a case that each mother or father would think about to be an unimaginable nightmare. It was additionally an ideal commentary on our present society and what number of people with vital means really feel they will skip the same old channels to purchase no matter it’s in life they need. This is a tragic commentary on the capitalism that now invades into private issues in all elements of the world, and never simply in enterprise transactions any longer.
The episode started with an essential recap of Jamie sharing what she realized about Peter and that his storage is presumably a entrance for felony exercise like gun gross sales. We then open on Scott who’s doing surveillance on Peter Tomashi’s storage and Scott approaches him as he’s locking up. Scott tells him he’s a good friend of Zsolt’s and that he had requested him how issues had been at dwelling as a result of he didn’t appear himself, and asks if there’s something he can do to assist. Peter tells him he isn’t household and to again off. It is endearing how Scott cares a lot about Zsolt, and that he genuinely appears to need to assist him and his household if wanted. This is a pleasant distinction to the Scott Forrester we met in the beginning of Season One, and this character progress has been fantastically developed by the writing staff.
We then transfer to a medical clinic in Bucharest, Romania, the place a lady is getting an ultrasound. There is noise within the corridor method and the technician says she might be proper again. The technician goes out to the desk the place a person and girl are yelling on the receptionist. They are upset as a result of they’re being advised they have no idea the place their surrogate is. They are advised by the clinic workers that their surrogate had a change of coronary heart, and the person and girl ask what this implies, as a result of they’ve waited 9 months and their youngster is because of be born any day. The man is arrested by safety whereas his spouse weeps, and he’s nonetheless yelling “where is our baby”.
Scott is leaving his condo and sees Zsolt on the steps. He asks if Tank misses him and Scott tells him that he’s in Tank’s inside circle of individuals he loves. Scott asks if the whole lot is okay and Zsolt says it’s his father. Scott sees blood on his sweater and asks whose it’s.
We transfer to Scott on the workplace with Jamie and he’s telling her that Peter was crushed up fairly badly. They hypothesize if this was a message from the mafia, and Scott says the household is just too scared to go to the police. They agree {that a} 12-year-old child ought to by no means should reply for his mother and father errors. They are interrupted by Andre, who faucets on the window to name them into the briefing space. Jamie says she is aware of he cares concerning the child, so she is in for no matter he wants. This is a good demonstration that regardless of the very fact they’re now not concerned, they’re nonetheless stable colleagues who will assist one another to get the job carried out.
Raines and Vo had simply completed chatting with the Romanian embassy, the place an American couple had been detained by authorities after an incident at a fertility clinic. Dennis and Amy Palmer arrived in search of their surrogate, who’s 9 months pregnant with their youngster and is presently lacking. The surrogate, named Cosmina Dolca, is nineteen and disappeared with no hint. Jamie identifies that she was a gestational surrogate, so the child’s DNA is all that of Dennis and Amy, and Vo confirms that it’s basically an American youngster who’s lacking inside her physique. Scott says they can not rule out the likelihood that Cosmina is the actual goal both. Raines says the ambassador heard concerning the state of affairs and made it a precedence as Cosmina’s due date is subsequent week, and there are not any reviews of her at any hospitals to ship but. Scott says to increase to non-public clinics and midwives, and discover out if she had been laying low for some time or if this was a sudden disappearance. Jamie says she could have Smitty assist them meet and attain out to native authorities in Bucharest and get the total story from the Palmers.
Raines, Garretson and Kellett meet with Amy Palmer, who says that all the makes an attempt at conceiving actually took a toll on her and her husband, and {that a} genetic hyperlink was essential to them, in order that they discovered an company in Bucharest, met with Cosmina over skype and favored her. Smitty asks if as a result of the fertility guidelines are extra relaxed in Romania that it was extra reasonably priced to have a surrogate this fashion and Amy says they thought that may be the case, however many unexpected bills stacked up and they’re now in a monetary gap of just about 2 hundred thousand {dollars}. She says this actually took quite a bit for them to afford, however that they had fallen in love with the miracle that was rising inside their surrogate. They final heard from her 3 weeks in the past, and she or he was all the time very responsive so once they couldn’t get ahold of her they panicked. Now the clinic is telling them they haven’t any information on Cosmina and she or he is lacking however the clinic had them arrested. She says she has not even been allowed to talk to her husband and Raines says they’re engaged on that proper now.
Scott and Cameron are heading to talk to Dennis Palmer and Deputy Chief Hofer tells them that it’s no secret that Romania has an issue with unregulated surrogacy, and that they really feel folks from different nations suppose that their ladies are simply there for them to make use of and discard. Scott reminds him it is a delicate state of affairs on all sides, and {that a} father has simply needed to face his worst concern. Hofer says he’ll save his sympathy for the ladies who’re coerced and discarded, and when Vo says the ladies had a option to turn into surrogates, he tells them that he has appear a lot of them remorse that alternative afterwards, and that these ladies don’t perceive the toll being pregnant will tackle them. They introduce themselves to Dennis and he asks how Amy is, and so they inform him they’ll take him to see her. Hofer reminds them that he assaulted somebody, however Dennis says the opposite man grabbed him and he simply reacted. Scott asks who grabbed him and he says it was simply somebody who was within the clinic. He asks why he’s locked up when Cosmina is god is aware of the place together with his youngster, and Hofer says they’re trying into it. Dennis says he doesn’t care in the event that they preserve him locked up however they should discover Cosmina and to get their child lady again. Hofer says he’s prepared to launch Mr. Palmer if the opposite man is prepared to drop the fees and he’s giving his assertion proper now.
They go to talk with the person who he assaulted, Howard Greyson, who says he was solely making an attempt to assist. Vo asks if he’s okay and asks why he was there, and he says he was there to go to the ability as he had heard good issues about it and the lady who owns it, Felicia Zamfir, however he ended up within the mistaken place on the mistaken time. He says the police requested for his account, which he gave, however he feels it’s clear that the police are blowing issues out of proportion. Vo clairifes that he’s not urgent expenses, and he says positively not and that he can’t think about how betrayed they really feel. Scott asks what he means and he tells them that he has been studying up and that it isn’t unusual for the surrogate to turn into connected to the child inside them. He says that he thinks she determined to maintain the kid for herself. From the response on their faces, it looks like Forrester and Vo are puzzled as to why he would supply this assertion, and validates for the viewer that this staff actually misses nothing in the case of their interviewing and investigations.
Kellett and Raines go to talk to the clinic proprietor, Felicia Zamfir, who says it’s a disgrace that Cosmina’s selfishness ruined what ought to have been the Americans Happiest reminiscence. Raines asks with all of the surrogates underneath her care how she protects herself from this type of factor taking place, and she or he says you may’t 100% of the time, and that they do have a screening course of however typically issues slip via the cracks. Jamie asks about the truth that Cosmina was younger and that they introduced her on anyway and Felicia says that demand is excessive, and sadly now the whole lot she has constructed over 8 years could also be ruined. She provides them Cosmina’s file and says the final time she noticed her was 2 weeks in the past and that she was 9 months into her first being pregnant so naturally she was a bit distressed. Raines says the household says her being out of contact was uncommon and Felicia asks in the event that they suppose she was kidnapped. Jamie asks how thorough her background verify was, as a result of there isn’t any listed handle or emergency contacts in her file, and Felicia says all she is aware of is that she is from a small farming group in northern Romania. Jamie factors out that it says within the file the ladies are paid in money, and Felicia says they’ve to return to the clinic to select up cost. Jamie factors out that Cosmina missed her choose up in June and asks how they acquired cost to her, and she or he says she will verify with billing, however usually in these instances a cheque is mailed. Jamie asks for the handle it was despatched to.
Scott leads a staff with native police to the handle they obtain and so they break down the door. The condo is evident and Hofer says they’ve 5 minutes as a result of they don’t have a warrant so each minute they spend there might value him his job. Vo finds an bronchial asthma inhaler that’s empty and Scott tells her to seek out out if there have been any refills stuffed on the town to allow them to observe her actions. Raines says the fridge is stocked with groceries that don’t expire for weeks, and Jamie notes that the closet is cleaned out of the whole lot however the winter clothes. Scott says Cosmina might have been spooked however he isn’t seeing indicators of a battle. This scene was such an ideal instance of the abilities of this staff and the way shortly they’re able to assess a scene and what clues there is perhaps to what occurred there. They focus on that the condo is fairly fancy for an adolescent from a small farming city, and Vo tells them that the inhaler was refilled an hour in the past in a pharmacy on the practice station. The staff heads out to the situation.
At the practice station, they seek for Cosmina. Vo tells them she already picked up her meds, and Scott says she is 9 months pregnant so to maintain her eyes peeled. Kellett says she purchased a coach ticket underneath a pretend identify to Muldova, and Raines says the practice is on platform 6. They discover her earlier than she boards the practice and she or he is now not pregnant.
They interview her on the station and she or he says being a surrogate is the toughest factor she has ever carried out. Vo says they know she was carrying the Palmers child and ask the place it’s, and the way they’ve her skipping city on a practice. She says there ought to have been a child, however she went into labour final week and she or he was stillborn. The Palmers are watching the interview and Amy begins to weep. Cosmina says she panicked and ran as a result of she didn’t know what to do. Vo asks why she didn’t inform the clinic and she or he mentioned she was afraid if the Americans and Felicia came upon, she can be burned on the stake. Vo says if the child was stillborn, it was not her fault, however they should know what occurred to the child’s physique. Cosmina says she laid the kid to relaxation within the tumbleweeds by the river, and that she is in God’s palms now. She says she did this six days in the past and Vo asks why every week later she determined to depart the town. She mentioned that she wanted time to return to phrases with this and put it behind her. She says that is her sin and now she has to reside with it.
Smitty says the Palmers are in shock, and it appears Cosmina is perhaps too. Scott says they should get the data from the small clinics and midwives as there isn’t any document of her giving beginning, and it could have occurred when she was alone in her flat like she says, however there isn’t any proof or DNA to help that. Vo asks in the event that they retrieved a physique however Smitty mentioned the river spans nearly 300kms. She says the percentages of restoration are slim. Vo says to not hate her for this, however Cosmina will not be the primary teenager who has lied once they landed in scorching water. Kellett says seeing the state she was in, there’s a line between in search of proof of her story and saying she is taking part in them, however Vo says a social circle and even one good friend to again up her story would go a good distance in backing up her story. Raines mentioned he had the identical thought and after they introduced her within the police had turned over her telephone to them. Raines says by way of calls, she had 5 unidentified calls in the previous few days, and nothing from the clinic or Felicia. This was a brand new telephone and not one of the 5 callers numbers are lively anymore. Raines says he thinks it’s an app that replaces reputable numbers with pretend burner numbers. Raines says retracing the numbers is feasible however takes time, and Forrester says it looks like these folks don’t need to be linked to Cosmina. Forrester says to loop in OTD for assist and at the moment, they should piece collectively a timeline of Cosmina and the way she spent the final 9 months in Bucharest.
Kellett asks Forrester for a minute outdoors and says she has some information on him about Peter Tomashi. Kellett tells him that what began as safety cash has now escalated to full use of Peter’s enterprise by the Albanian’s, and Peter has no recourse and any push again is met with violence, and regardless of how coerced, his enterprise is now implicated. Because the enterprise is the household’s solely asset, the more durable he holds onto it, the deeper he leads to the fast sand. Kellett will get Forrester the handle of an electronics retailer that could be a entrance run by the Albanians key enforcers. She asks him what the play is, and he says he doesn’t know but, however that he’ll determine it out.
The Palmers ask to talk to Cosmina and Jamie says it isn’t potential. Dennis asks why she can’t simply face them and that she had their little lady inside her and so they liked her earlier than she even had a heartbeat. Scott says that’s the reason they’re pursuing the investigation. Dennis says they need to take their daughter again to the US for a burial, as a result of they want closure. Scott says one of the simplest ways for them to get closure is to hunt and discover the reality of what occurred, regardless of how deep it’s buried, and Scott says they’re doing the whole lot to get them that.
Vo discovers that Cosmina’s identify was not the first identify on the lease of her condo, and it’s underneath Nadia Belan, born and raised in Bucharest. Vo and Forrester go to her dwelling and ask to talk to her about Cosmina. Nadia can also be pregnant. She says they met on the clinic and that it’s troublesome to make mates on this line of labor. Nadia says she was new and younger in Bucharest so security is essential and asks if it’s a crime to assist another person. She says she was completely satisfied to supply her steerage as the primary being pregnant comes with so many questions. They ask when the final time it was that she and Cosmina spoke and she or he says it was a couple of weeks in the past and she or he appeared fairly troubled. It was nearly as if Cosmina had a disaster of acutely aware about parting with the kid. Scott asks in all her time doing this if she has ever turn into connected to any of her pregnancies and she or he says no, however she says she will see why it occurs. Nadia says it’s simple to overlook that it is a transaction, and it’s all topic to the contract. Vo says it looks like she had a mushy spot for Cosmina and requested if she had requested her to assist undermine a contract, would she. Nadia says a child is the final word reward to hopeful mother and father. Nadia asks if Cosmina is okay, and so they inform her that she is, however the child was misplaced throughout childbirth. Nadia says she didn’t suppose something of it, however remembers Cosmina did contact her a couple of days in the past. She says she forgot as a result of often their calls are lengthy however this one was brief, and Cosmina was asking about coconut oil. She says typically infants have dry pores and skin and there’s one oil she actually likes as typically infants stick with them a couple of days till the mother and father arrive. She says it’s unusual she would have requested about that if the kid didn’t survive. Vo says Cosmina mentioned she gave beginning 6 days in the past and so they ask when she reached out once more to substantiate the day.
Vo and Forrester return to the station, and Hofer says they’ll launch Cosmina until they’ve one thing to cost her with. Scott says her story will not be including up, and Hofer says he isn’t going to maintain her there reliving her ache for no purpose, and Vo reminds him she will not be the one sufferer right here. Scott says he is aware of he’s frightened this may blow up of their faces, however what if they’re mistaken and his bosses discover out he was an obstacle each step of the way in which. Hofer says he has been accommodating sufficient and with out laborious proof, he isn’t holding her locked up. Kellett comes to inform all of them that Raines has cracked the telephone and that they will need to see what he discovered.
Raines says he was capable of crack the information and so they all hint again to 1 quantity that belongs to Howard Greyson, who’s the person who was within the clinic. He apparently knew Cosmina and didn’t need his quantity linked to her. He is as salesman for his households large conglomerate firm, and Smitty says they’re just like the British Rockefellers. Overall, he has no felony historical past aside from a drunk driving cost, and neither does his spouse.
However, Raines finds a weblog that his spouse stored on their fertility journey. They used all their sources and nonetheless weren’t capable of conceive. They focus on how he mentioned that he was on the clinic to take a look at the amenities and marvel why he would have been contacting Cosmina and was it to interview her for the long run or to attempt to get the child she was carrying. Scott says clearly Cosmina will not be telling them the whole lot.
Forrester tells Cosmina that they spoke to Nadia and discover it unusual that she didn’t point out somebody she thought of her fairy godmother. She says she was defending her good friend however Scott says he thinks she was defending her story. He says she is sensible sufficient to know Nadia might corroborate her story or poke holes in it. She says she didn’t inform her about shedding the kid as a result of she didn’t need anybody coming after Nadia to get to her. Vo asks her concerning the coconut oil, and she or he says it was for her, not the child. Vo says of their line of labor, working is often an indication of getting one thing to cover. Cosmina says surrogacy was her alternative however she didn’t join changing into a rat in a cage, and she or he ran as a result of she was scared. Forrester asks why did she not simply go dwelling, and she or he says not everyone seems to be blessed with good mother and father, and she or he got here to Bucharest to flee hers. Forrester asks her about Howard Greyson, and she or he says she has by no means seen him earlier than, however Vo says they’ve the information that he known as her. Forrester tells her that one name lasted over a minute and it was after she gave beginning and earlier than she headed to the tracks. Cosmina asks in the event that they ever thought of maybe she was being harassed. She says after the whole lot she has been via for them to query her this fashion is past merciless. Vo affords an answer and asks a few medical examination in order that they might decide at what level within the being pregnant the kid was misplaced, and so they can put any final inquiries to mattress, and convey the Palmers some closure, however she refuses.
Vo says Cosmina is clearly over her head and the truth that she would refuse a take a look at to absolve her is unusual. Forrester says it makes you marvel if she is aware of Muldova doesn’t have an extradition settlement with the US, and he tells Vo to get a location on the clinic director Felicia. Scott sees Dennis Palmer and he tells Scott that in trying to find the reality he’s scared what they may discover on the opposite aspect. Scott says not to surrender but, and that he understands he’s making an attempt to guard himself however in the present day, they’re preventing for his or her daughter who can’t combat for herself, which is their job as a mother or father. Scott tells him he isn’t positive Cosmina’s story is holding up. Again, that is such a beautiful improvement we’ve seen with Scott’s character over the past season, and it’s great to see how a lot he cares for the folks he’s working for.
Smitty dug in deeper to the Greyson drunk driving cost, and came upon his 6 yr outdated nephew was within the again seat, and though he survived, due to this, he would even have been charged with youngster endangerment. This would preserve Howard and his spouse from with the ability to undertake a toddler. Raines additionally appeared into their funds and so they withdrew 700,000 kilos from their offshore accounts, which is greater than 6 occasions the same old surrogacy payment. It was despatched to an unidentified cryptofund. From all the proof, it seems they deliberate to purchase the child however nobody counted on the Americans who had spent their life financial savings to point out up in search of their child. Raines says the Greyson’s had a chauffeur service and recognized what resort they’re staying at. Forrester says to go get Howard Greyson.
Smitty and Raines go to the resort, and the room has been cleared out, though they weren’t supposed to take a look at till the subsequent day. They discover the coconut oil, and understand the Greysons have the child. Vo does a search and sees they arrived on a business flight however doesn’t see something related for his or her departure. Smitty asks her to search for personal airstrips, and there are 17 in and round Bucharest, so Smitty says for her to begin combing. Raines reveals Smitty resort surveillance, which reveals the clinic director Felicia coming to the resort, and so they have the make and mannequin of her automotive. Raines says he can observe her navigation system in actual time. Smitty tells Vo to tug out all of the stops to seek out the automotive. Scott and Jamie go to Deputy Chief Hofer to current him the proof of the conspiracy proper in their very own yard, and that Felicia and the Greysons orchestrated the illegal sale of a new child, and used Cosmina to perpetuate the duvet up. They say Cosmina has been mendacity to maintain the elements of the puzzle from unravelling. Hofer asks how they know who the kid’s actual mother and father are and Scott says he can inform him for positive it isn’t the Greysons. Jamie says it’s time for Policia Romana to select a aspect, and are they serving to them or not.
Raines and Smitty are following and monitoring Felicia’s GPS. They discover her stopped on the highway and when Raines approaches, she tries to flee. Smitty chases within the automotive and Raines runs and tries to cease her on foot. She crashes the automotive, and so they arrest her. She has paperwork within the automotive that she was making an attempt to file to say Cosmina had signed over guardianship of the child to the Greysons, and she or he has the USB with the cryptocurrency on it.
Vo finds a non-public airfield the place a customs agent was dispatched to for a UK jet that had landed. Kellett factors out that the Greysons have sufficient sources to go wherever. She says as soon as airborne they will reroute to wherever on this planet they need. The Deputy Chief says that the airfield is 35 minutes away. He says he could have models intercept and Forrester says they can not let that aircraft take off.
The jet is making ready to take off and the staff is 5 minutes out. Scott tells the staff that there’s a hostage onboard and that they don’t seem to be to fireside until given the authorization to take action. The aircraft is making ready to take off and the staff surrounds the plane and so they get the child and arrest the Greysons. Mrs. Greyson says that they had been advised that the unique household had backed out and didn’t need the kid and {the teenager} who was the surrogate was not capable of take care of the kid, and so they had been serving to by giving that youngster a house and adopting it.
Howard Greyson mentioned that due to the blemish on his document, they needed to skip a few of the purple tape with the adoption, and that they might give the child a snug life with no monetary hardship. Kellett says now that their plan had blown up they’re able to throw Felicia underneath the bus, and Howard says that she gave them a false story and that he and Elizabeth are good folks and she or he performed them. Raines asks him about utilizing the burner app and that they’ve the information of the calls to Cosmina, and he insists that he have a lawyer current shifting ahead.
Kellett tells the staff they’re stonewalling them and that they knew precisely what they had been doing, and that Howard was not there to scope out the amenities, he was there to fulfill with Felicia. Forrester says it was all coordinated to cheat a household out of their new child. Felicia can also be not talking and the papers she had in her automotive would have legitimized the Greysons because the child’s mother and father wherever they went. Forrester says that is going to be an extended authorized nightmare for the Palmers until they will extract a confession. Forrester ship Vo in to talk to Cosmina.
Vo tells her a narrative of when she was in coaching at Westpoint and she or he needed to lie for a good friend. That lie snowballed, and immediately she was placing out fireplace after fireplace. She tells her at 19 all of us have particular tunnel imaginative and prescient that makes it more durable to get out from underneath a nasty state of affairs. She tells her if she thinks she will stick with the script and skate out of there, that’s tunnel imaginative and prescient, and the one method out is to present her testimony of what actually occurred. Forrester is available in and says Vo is making an attempt to assist her and that there was a deal that was damaged and she or he had a component to play to get her minimize and whoever mentioned she can be secure in Muldova was mistaken as they’re desperately making an attempt to affix the EU and wouldn’t jepordize that for anybody. Also, the money she was promised was seized once they arrested Felicia so she will get nothing now. Scott tells her they know she was a pawn on this and so they don’t give a rattling about her, and Vo says that they’ll all minimize a deal and pin it on her.
Cosmina says that initially the deal was she was giving the child to the Americans, however 3 weeks earlier than she was due, Felicia contacted her and mentioned that one other alternative had come up. Cosmina mentioned this was a lifechanging sin for her so she couldn’t flip the cash down. So she needed to make the Americans go away.
Forrester confirms that in the first place she ghosted the Palmers, however when that didn’t work, she needed to inform them it was a stillbirth to ship them packing. Forrester asks if Howard Greyson was conscious that the child belonged to a different couple, and Cosmina says she will not be positive and she or he want she knew. She says she will affirm that Dennis and Amy are the organic mother and father. Kellett says this was possible a trial run for Felicia, and if it labored there might have been repeats of the identical. Forrester tells Hofer that they only pulled the plug on a brand new black market and saved hundreds of younger ladies from being exploited. He says sadly Greyson has a military of attorneys and that they’re sticking to their story. Kellett confronts the Greysons as they’re leaving the station and warns them that if Felicia flips and says it was they who approached her, they might be coming for them subsequent.
Raines comes to inform them the Palmers simply arrived. They carry them within the child. They smile and you may see the enjoyment on the faces of the staff to see such a optimistic conclusion to the case.
Back in Budapest, the staff is on the bar and Smitty asks the staff in the event that they ever see themselves having youngsters. Kellett will not be positive, however Raines says that can make her an ideal mother, and Andre appears to be a sure. We then see Scott outdoors the shop that Kellett had advised him about watching males alternate cash. So simply as we might anticipate, even when one case is finished, Scott remains to be serving to out somebody in want.
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