s far as shanghai, and her cousin helped her find a snakehead. um, a "snakehead"? yeah, someone who arranged for her to get on a cargo ship. she said there was 20 women on an 8'x40' container. 20 women. yeah. did she say the name of the ship? i don't think she knew. she was working on a story? a book. last year, we did a series of articles on the underground sex trade. we heard how they were bringing the girls in. she convinced the publisher to back an expose. and just like that she could pull off going undercover in china? susan's first-generation chinese-american, she grew up speaking mandarin, and her mother's family's still in zhejiang province, in the countryside. they helped her. last thing she told me... she pulls this off, she's a lock for a pulitzer. well, i'd really like to look at her notes.

so who is she? who's who? charlie, whenever you look like this, it's always a problem with a girl. look like what? michelle robinson, remember her? seventh grade? yeah. when she wouldn't go with you to the dance at school... you looked just like this for a week. amita got offered a job. a great job. but it's back east. amita, huh? i thought you two weren't, um... we weren't. but lately... oh, i see. so you decided not to try so hard, huh? i guess that's part of it. i... i just felt like things were finally starting to happen. so, uh, she might get a job back east, huh? well, she hasn't decided, but it's harvard.

how can she pass that up? mm. well, you know, "starting to happen" is, um... that's not really worth fighting for. i think when you focus on your feelings about her-- your real ones-- that, uh, you'll... you'll know what to do. can you pass the milk? ( ship horn blows ) ( rock music plays ) ♪ i got a girl so wicked and mean ♪ ♪ but she's got big breasts ♪ ♪ when every time i slow down ♪ she won't let me rest ♪ ♪ she comes from hell ♪ oh! ♪ that girl from hell ♪ that girl from hell

♪ oh! ♪ and she casts a wicked spell... ♪ david: eight million containers pass through this port every year, man. phew! wow. how we supposed to find just one? i don't know. given what might be in it, we better figure that out. ♪ david: we think the ship might have sailed from shanghai. shanghai. well, that narrows it down to two. the li-po, still here, but unloaded. the other ship, the nanking, 75% clear. all right. well, we're going to need you to search all the cargo still on that ship. now, you're talking about more than a thousand containers. i'd have to pull every able-bodied man i have for something like that. so pull them. what exactly are you guys looking for? about 15 chinese girls locked up in a container. that's not going to be enough. excuse me?

look, i hate to say it, but a few undocumented workers-- it's not a priority for us. we're more worried about a bomb. now, look, this may qualify. i don't follow. we already found one of the girls from the container. she had the bird flu. you got to be kidding me. no, i wish we were. okay. we'll impound every container left on the nanking. maybe we get lucky, your girls are still on board. and if they're not? who unloaded the ship? uh, longshoremen from 151 worked both ships. jack morrison's the rep, but i wouldn't count on much help. why is that? guys who work the docks-- not exactly boy scouts. megan: i got a message you're not releasing susan lim's notes. after you left, i started thinking. why is the fbi so interested in these girls? because a reporter, your partner, was probably murdered. i get that, but you were already on the case when this was just a chinese girl being brought in for the sex trade. i don't see how that matters. when we were doing our story,

we saw 12-year-old girls being sold by their families. prostitutes beaten by their pimps, left on the sidewalk to die. we knew who was behind it. but they were hidden behind dummy import companies, and we couldn't get to them. i don't see where this is going. we called the fbi. they said if it wasn't terrorism, it wasn't a priority. but here you are now, the same fbi, wanting her notes. it's just a murder investigation. agent reeves, if-if what you're looking for is related to susan's death, these boxes are important. i can subpoena these boxes, and her notes, and all of your notes, all of it. you know my paper won't give them up without a fight. the courts could take weeks, months even, to sort it out. i just want to know what happened to her. i'll give you the rest of the story, but you can't run with it until after i close the case. nail whoever did this. the fbi the reason my guys

on the nanking are sitting on their butts? that ship should have been unloaded by now. we wouldn't be holding you up if it weren't important. important, huh? poll numbers slipping in washington? we need your help finding a container. it came off either the li-po or the nanking. we just take 'em off the ship. we don't look inside. you run the dockworkers' union, and you've never heard anything about contraband coming off these ships, huh? that's right. so we look into your finances, we won't find anything but union dues? we're looking for a container that just came in. it's full of chinese girls. i don't know about anything like that. i'll have a warrant for your books in less than an hour. okay, okay. i'll talk to the guys who worked the ships. see what i can find out. if something got through the port that shouldn't have, you ought to be talking to customs. they have a new security system. uses some kind of algorithm to figure out what boxes to search. i'm sorry. did you just say algorithm? hey. dad just told me.

yeah. it stinks. oh! well, not for amita, but... it's a great opportunity for her. i just... well, look, i mean, maybe you should just go. what? well, you know, you get all those, uh, visiting professor offers, right? so go visit. man, we haven't even gone on a halfway decent date. i can hardly go chasing her across the country. what's up? what do you need? that container-- it's gone. it's already been unloaded. but the port says they use some kind of a security algorithm. yeah. yeah, it analyzes a probability matrix for high-risk or dangerous cargo. ranks containers according to threat potential. all right, good, you know about it. i was on the team that designed it. no way? oh. you want to know if you can use the algorithm, work backwards, to find this container? yeah. i mean, we have 15 girls-- they're going out into the workforce, and-and... i mean, they might have this deadly virus, so i don't know what else to do. you realize the initial rate of transmission

for a disease like influenza amongst prostitutes. even i can do that math. so, let me know what you get, all right? and don't worry, you're gonna be all right. it'll be fine. ( brakes squeaking ) ( sighs ) think this tip's gonna pan out? it will if morrison believes your threat about getting a warrant for his finances. that was no threat. ( instrumental rock plays quietly ) hey, guys, i'll be right with you. jack morrison sent us over. that's your guy right over there. wait a minute. you're serving drinks to that kid? he said he was 21. what else did he say? well, last couple nights, uh, he comes in about this same time. um, gets drunk as fast as he can. then he starts crying about, uh, throwing girls off a ship.

did you call the police? i didn't think he was serious. not until, uh, morrison came by, asked about chinese girls. hey, wait a minute! raymond! fbi! fbi, raymond! ( brakes squealing ) hands behind your back. ( panting ) why do they always run? 'cause we wear suits, man. guys figure you can outrun a guy in a suit. stand up. let's go.

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don: you work on the li-po? in the kusina. since i leave manila. well, i just spoke to the hospital, and that last girl didn't make it. so i'm looking at you for five murders. ( speaking foreign language ) i don't understand what you're... i-i didn't hurt them. it doesn't matter. you were there. you want to tell me what happened-- maybe i can help you. one girl... she was sick. the captain call the people who pay him to bring the girls. they say kill the sick one. who did he call? you know who he called? the other girls that went overboard-- they were sick, too? five of them come on the ship together. ( speaks foreign language ) i don't know what that means. farm... farm girls? farm girls? right. they... we throw those away, then wait, see if any else get sick. you'd throw them away? the captain says he lose too much money if he kill them all. where are they now?

another box. in-in a box. the container? yeah. and where is that? it's gone. okay. cobbled together some code. it will parse the cargo data. i appreciate the help. is that the stuff from the reporter? yeah. megan brought it over. it's the reporter's notes on the illegal sex trade in los angeles. it's fairly disturbing. and you're going to use that to reconsider the risk variables for the port security algorithm? yeah. is that going to be enough data? no, but this will be. yeah. it's more of the same from the fbi. hey, uh, you know what? i know it's late, but can you do one last thing for me? what do you need? this is a list of the companies that were used to launder money. no. there's already a table for that in the database. you already put it in?

yeah. i mean, i figured that you're trying to find the owner of this missing container, and you needed a way to connect the import-export business with the sex trade. all right. we work pretty well together, don't we? actually, you're a little bossy. ( laughs ) i'm being serious. serious about what? greg michaels is taking a three-year sabbatical. yeah, i heard. and to cover his course load, they're creating an assistant professorship. you'd be a perfect candidate... for... that... job. oh. what? did i say something i shouldn't have? i don't know, charlie. it's just that my job is starting to feel like it's all about your job. david: coast guard just called. pulled another body out of the water this morning. another girl? no. captain of the li-po.

really? yeah. you think somebody noticed the kitchen boy went missing from the ship, and decided to start cleaning up some loose ends? yeah, seems that way. whoever's doing the cleanup's got to know that nipay's talking to us. yeah. what do you think about that union guy? morrison? yeah. i don't know. why give us nipay in the first place? wait a minute. even a cabin boy gets a phone call, right? yeah. let's find out who nipay called. charlie: so, the port security algorithm analyzes potential terrorist threats. however, it misses things like drugs, contraband, even human cargo. so, we could potentially stop a dirty bomb, but a pandemic flu is in like flynn? not anymore. not anymore if this works. i love this part. so, the security algorithm uses inputs like point of origin, the company shipping the goods, the volume and type of cargo. it highlights trouble areas. think of a... a dandelion? the ones you used to blow into the wind when you're a kid. the algorithm evaluates the threat potential of each seed. harmless seeds are released.

bad seeds are identified and contained. so if we change the-the inputs, we can track different seeds. exactly, and i used susan lim's research to create a whole new set of input variables. so, you found the container? containers. plural. there's more than one? no, but there are limits to how precise the algorithm can be. i ran it against the cargo manifest of the li-po, and i narrowed it down to four possibilities. one of the import companies on this list has your container. oh. david: raymond nipay-- he made a call to a private club in little taipei. colby: it took some doing, but we were able to sort through the irs database. we were able to run down an owner-- steven jintao. this guy not only owns the private club but he also owns three massage parlors in the area. we can definitely connect him to the container? yeah, using the reporter's notes. yeah, jintao built this little empire smuggling in chinese girls. got their families to pay for the freight. most of the time, they had no idea

what was happening to them on the other end. guy saw an opportunity to exploit the girls on both sides of the smuggling. he brings them over, and then he puts them to work in the massage parlors and the clubs. right. they promise them the moon, they pimp them out. pretty twisted version of the american dream. and where is he? david: lapd says he has an office at his club. go get him. let's go. ( dance music playing ) ♪ they're gonna get ya, they're gonna get ya ♪ ♪ they're gonna get ya, they're gonna get ya ♪ ( singing in foreign language ) ♪ they're gonna get ya ♪ ♪ they're gonna get ya, they're gonna get ya ♪ ♪ they're gonna get ya ♪ ( singing in foreign language ) ♪ you got to be strong enough ♪ you got to be cool enough ♪ you got to be wild enough... ( singing in foreign language ) we're the only white people in here. yes, we are. probably already made us. we don't exactly blend in. ♪ they're gonna get ya, they're gonna get ya ♪ ♪ they're gonna get ya... ♪

hi. are you looking for a girlfriend? actually, we're looking for this guy right here. ( singing in foreign language ) woman: i've never seen him. there's another one running. he's moving out the back. yeah, yeah. get down on the car. we're looking for the girls from the li-po. i don't know what you're talking about. really? 'cause i think you do. ( groans ): that hurts. i'll start the search. you guys with me. where's the container? i want my lawyer.

that wasn't the question. ( groans )

we lost his paperwork last night, but we're gonna have to let him talk to his lawyer. fine, let the lawyer file a writ. megan: we're not giving them a technicality they can use in court. megan, we're talking about a pandemic flu here. i don't really care about a technicality. don, we have enough information to put this slime-bag down a very deep hole. it's not deep enough, not yet. okay, granger, explain to me why it is we only care about these girls when there's a risk that their customers might get sick. don: captain called you. and you told him to throw that girl and everyone with her in the water. you know how i know that? one of those girls was a reporter working a story.

you're lying. one more of those girls gets sick... i'd like to go back to my cell. you're not going anywhere, you understand me, you slime?! you're gonna sit down and tell me exactly what i want to know! colby: don! don! take a break, okay? let him call his lawyer, and then throw him in that hole. stop it. what? okay, maybe we should just take a break, huh? i'm all right, i'm just a little distracted at the moment. yeah? what, amita? how'd you know? the look-- i know all your looks. have you been conferring with my father? no. hey, charlie. look, we're in trouble here. i mean, i can't get anything out of this guy jintao. those girls are still out there, not to mention the threat of pandemic flu. we've been working on a destination probability matrix using susan lim's notes, your list of jintao's businesses... that's why i'm here. what do you got? something's not right in the data or there's a bug somewhere in this matrix. because my equation keeps returning an empty set.

larry: wait a second. hold on here. what if, charles, what if the matrix equation is working? what if? then we'd have an answer. yeah, but what if the empty set is the answer. they never left the port. the algorithm wasn't pointing to a destination, because the girls never left their starting point. ( typing ) green jade corp? no. what's that, like, strike number 12? we just need one warehouse to match one of jintao's businesses. how about this. let's sort them according to when they took the space. maybe jintao had to rent something new to store the container. wai gong imports. company signed a lease the day before we found the girls on the beach.

you said wai gong? yeah. we got him. yeah. nice. ( sirens blaring ) this is the building wai gong imports subleased. i have movement inside. you guys, cover the warehouse!

we got to get them out of there. we can't, not yet. we need to get a medic and a translator in here now! ladies, just give us a minute, okay? so your guy jintao used this warehouse for quarantine? till he decides to cut his losses, yeah. he just left these ladies here to die. so none of the girls turned up with the flu? well, they're still under quarantine. but so far, it looks like we got lucky, this time. susan's publisher offered me a book deal. they want me to write about what happened to her, the girls, all of it. well, it's a heck of a story. maybe you'll be the one who ends up with a pulitzer. it'd be nice to say that susan's up there somewhere, looking down, happy about this. but... she was so damn competitive.

i'm sure she's furious that i landed an exclusive. well, we did bring down steven jintao, and we rescued the girls from the container. we couldn't have done any of that without susan's notes. that is something she can be happy about. oh, yeah. ( knocking ) may i come in? oh, yeah. yeah. sure. i wanted to say that i'm sorry about yesterday. you were just trying to help, and i was out of line. actually... i think you were right. not too long ago, you made the point that my work and my work for the fbi got in the way of personal relationships. yeah, i remember.

just... let me finish. you said a relationship could work, but only if i was willing. i was talking about don. i was talking about your brother. were you? it's not... charlie... fair of me to ask you to sacrifice your career if i'm not willing to sacrifice mine. thank you for that. this year turned out a whole lot differently than i'd expected. yeah, for me, too. so what are we going to do? well, harvard called. and they need an answer by next week. so what are you going to do? i don't know.

i really don't know. charlie... ♪ why would i ever ♪ how could i ever ♪ let you go? oh, that's it, that's gin, kid. again?! yep. how do you get so lucky? so you owe me 120 bucks. what?! unless of course you want to go again. i'm taking you down. yeah? yeah. all right. and i'm dealing. no, it's my deal. no, i'm dealing. it's my deal. no, you cheat. i cheat? listen to this guy. alan: hey, charlie, would you figure the odds on your brother winning 11 games of gin in a row if he's not cheating? don: he's the one who taught me how to count cards. was that amita? yeah. she just left. yeah? so you moving back east? no. no, i'm not moving to massachusetts. ah, come on, bruins games, pal. season tickets. what about amita?

i'm not sure. you all right? i'm not sure about that either. he's gonna love beantown. especially in the winter. oh, yeah. can't go to red sox games, though, that's the thing, right? no red sox games. no cheating. captioning sponsored by cbs and paramount network television captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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