1-14 Ranger Jarod

1-14 Ranger Jarod

Ranger Jarod

I know how to do many things but I don’t know how to do this.

Jarod

Ranger Jarod

I know how to do many things but I don’t know how to do this.

Jarod

Original air date: February 15, 1997

Written by: Steven Long Mitchell & Craig W. Van Sickle

Directed by: Ian Toynton

When Jarod impersonates a forest ranger and joins in the search for a young student lost in the woods, he finds himself falling in love with the female ranger who’s his partner.

Jarod’s Discoveries: The Three Stooges, Star Wars, Smokey the Bear, Sex

Jarod’s Occupations: Ex-Green Beret, Search and Rescue Volunteer, Sherpa

Jarod’s Aliases: Jarod Forest

 

Behind the scenes insights and the Creator’s Take

Official Synopsis

While impersonating a forest ranger, searching for a man lost in the woods, Jarod meets a woman who also grew up torn away from her parents…and falls in love for the first time.

 

In an Oregon diner, Jarod sees his first-ever episode of “The Three Stooges,” and is surprised to learn the comedy’s appeal is mostly limited to men.  A few minutes later, after bumping into an attractive woman named Nia, Jarod also sees a TV news story about forest rangers searching for a missing ornithology student…and the next time we see Jarod, he is volunteering for search duty.  A bit later, at a ranger station, Ranger Conrad briefs Jarod about the missing student, Victor Simpkins, and a report comes in that Simpkins’ base camp has finally been found.  At the camp, Jarod senses several things about the scene are not right, then talks to Simpkins’ mother, Inga, who says her son was studying the nesting patterns of eagles.  Soon, the searchers are paired up in teams of two, and Jarod’s pleased to find his partner is Nia.  As they begin to search through the woods, they run into a nervous man named Bob, who hasn’t seen Victor, but says he is searching for his own missing partner, Little Bob.  A bit later, as they continue to search, Jarod finds a carabiner stuck in a cliff face, which Inga later identifies as her son’s.  That night, most of the rangers camp out, but Nia invites Jarod back to her cabin.  There, she dresses the cuts Jarod suffered in a fall as he was grabbing the carabiner…and, later, Jarod watches old tapes of a Centre experiment in “sexuality,” when he, as a boy, was first introduced to young Miss Parker.  Then, disturbed by the feelings Nia has awakened in him, Jarod calls Sydney and says he needs to talk about women.

Much later, Jarod is awakened by Nia, who is having a nightmare in which she cries out, in Spanish, that she doesn’t want to “disappear.”  The next morning, Broots plays back a tape of Jarod’s conversation with Sydney and tries to identify a radio station playing in the background.  And as Broots plays the tape over and over, Miss Parker is increasingly intrigued by the idea of Jarod with a woman.  Meanwhile, Jarod asks Nia about her nightmare, but she says he must have misunderstood.  Later, as Jarod and Nia resume their search, they run into Bob again.  Bob says his partner, Little Bob, ran off a few days ago, after being spooked by a low-flying airplane, and then by a dynamite blast, when Ranger Conrad was clearing some stumps.   Just then, another ranger radios to say they found Victor’s backpack by a nearby river.  When Jarod and Nia get there, however, Jarod realizes the clues so far seem to be deliberately directing the search down river…so Jarod decides to stay put.  And then we see Victor, stranded in a nearby cave, calling weakly for help.

Later, back at Nia’s cabin, she catches Jarod watching old tapes from the Centre, and realizes the boy in the footage is Jarod.  Then, late that night, Jarod has an inspiration, wakes Nia, and drags her back out to continue their search.  Nine hours later, Jarod finds what he was looking for, Simpkins’ real base camp—up on a high ledge where it would be easier to see the eagles he was studying.  Later, as Jarod and Nia hike back through the woods, they find the wreckage of a small airplane, which contains traces of an illegal drug cargo and cash shipment.  Jarod also sees two sets of footprints, and realizes Victor stumbled on the drug plane and was chased off by someone else—most likely Ranger Conrad, whom Bob had said was blowing up stumps that day.  That night, as Miss Parker also reviews the old tapes of her and Jarod’s first meeting, Jarod and Nia camp out in an old mill.  Huddled by a fire, Jarod tells Nia how he was taken from his parents as a child, and she tells him how she was also taken from her parents in Argentina, and never saw them again.  Bonding over their mutual pain, the two of them kiss, and then begin to make love (the first time ever for Jarod).  In the morning, Jarod’s awakened by a pig wearing a baseball cap—Little Bob—with big Bob right behind him.  Bob explains they’re hunting truffles, and recently found a mother lode in an old mineshaft, but lost out when someone blew the entrance closed.  Jarod and Nia rush to the old mine, where the two sets of footprints come to an end.  They realize Conrad must have chased Victor inside, and then blew the entrance closed, trapping him.  Quickly, Jarod starts pulling rocks away, and soon, they find Victor inside, barely conscious, but alive.

Back at the Centre, Broots finally identifies the radio station in the background of Jarod’s call, and back in Oregon, Bob calls Ranger Conrad to say he has found Victor…then hands the radio back to Jarod.  A bit later, Conrad finds Jarod at the mine, and when Jarod accuses Conrad of trying to kill Victor, Conrad shoots at Jarod and runs into the mine.  Jarod chases him, then sets off another explosion, which traps Conrad in the mine, just like he trapped Victor.  Jarod, however, promises to free Conrad…in a few days.  Later, Jarod says a reluctant good-bye to Nia, and a bit later, when Sydney and Miss Parker finally arrive at Nia’s, he watches their conversation from the nearby woods, then walks away, alone again.

1-14 Ranger Jarod

Ranger Jarod Transcript

 

   
    Flashback: Sim Lab
Young Jarod   What are we doing Sydney?
Sydney   An experiment about sexuality.
Young Jarod   Reproduction?
Sydney   That’s one aspect of it.
Young Jarod   I read the biology manuals.
Sydney   Reading isn’t quite the same as feeling. I’d like you to meet someone, Jarod.
Young Jarod   You’re a girl.
     
     
    Diner
     
     
TV Female   Will you marry me?
TV Male   Never.
Jarod   They seem to be able to withstand an amazing amount of pain. People find this type of violence . . . funny?
Waitress   Not people, men.
Jarod   Why it that?
Waitress   Nobody knows. Y’know, the Stooges have been one of the great mysteries between the sexes. Oh no. Not you too.
Jarod   I’m sorry but really it is pretty funny. I’m sorry. I feel like such a…
Nia   Stooge?
Waitress   Hey mattress brain. The bill’s 12.95.
Jarod   Oh!
Waitress   These guys have caused enough distractions for one day.
     
     
TV Reporter   Park’s Services Rangers from all over have joined in the search for Victor Simpkins, an ornithology grad student who vanished in our local mountains. I spoke with Simpkins’ mother moments ago.
Mrs Simpkins   When I didn’t hear from Victor, well, I just thought he was late. But now it’s been five days. I’m just praying he’s okay.
TV Reporter   With a storm heading this way, Rangers are anxious to find Simpkins before it’s too late. Live from Toluca National Forrest this is David Nelson, Action Fifteen News.
     
Waitress   Okay, here’s your …
     
     
    Toluca National Forrest
     
Conrad   I need one more body to help sector out Roville Ridge B1 through B7. Steep approach, bad underbrush, lots of slippery shale. Who wants to hump that?
Jarod   I’m your man.
     
     
    intro
     
     
    Toluca National Fores
     
Conrad   You got experience?
Jarod   Well, I spent a few years… in the army rangers. I specialised in high mountain work.
Derek   Man, you were made to order.
Jarod   You could say that.
Conrad   What’s your name?
Jarod   Jarod… Forrest.
Conrad   Alright people. Listen up. The advance parties went up at dawn. We move out in thirty minutes. Now this kid’s been missing for five days, and his mother’s very concerned. He… we … are running out of time so we leave no stones unturned. We’re looking for a needle folks and we haven’t even found the haystack.
     
    Rangers’ Station
     
Derek   Forrest… Derek Colby.
Jarod   Nice to meet you. So had anyone seen Victor Simpkins before he was reported missing?
Derek   No one was looking for him. Of course, for the last few days the boss had me doing paperwork while he got to do all the fun stuff.
Jarod   Fun stuff?
Derek   Stan’s been on the north side of the mountain, clearing trails, setting charges, lots of deep ravines, caves, fallen old growth. You take a tumble in that, I don’t care if you’re Moby Dick, we might not find you.
Jarod   Sounds like you know the terrain pretty well.
Derek   Eight years. I came out here on one of those “let’s expose the urban youth to the great outdoors” programs. Funny thing is, it worked. I love the Bronx, but this is home now.
Conrad   So Forrest, where did you do your mountain training?
Jarod   In the mountains mostly.
Conrad   Yeah. No seriously, ah where were you stationed? Fort Lewis?
Jarod   You were in the army, too?
Conrad   Fifteen years. Did you ever come across a Sergeant Tripjack a ranger instructor.
Jarod   Sounds familiar.
Nia   He’s lying Stan. He’s really one of the Stooges.
Conrad   You two know each other?
Nia   We ran into each other once.
Jarod   Is she a ranger?
Conrad   No. She’s a volunteer. She runs a little outfitting place a few miles down the road. I wouldn’t get any ideas. She keeps mostly to herself.
Derek   Stan! Just got word from the advance team. They found Simpkin’s base camp.
     
     
    Simpkins Base Camp
     
Conrad   We’ll split into teams of two and fan across the mountain. I want everyone to report in at thirty minute intervals. Where’s Forrest?
     
     
    Simpkin’s Tent
     
Nia   Disturbance in the Force?
Jarod   Ah, the force?
Nia   Obi Wan Kenobi? Star Wars?
Jarod   The satellite missile defence system?
Nia   What are you doing?
Jarod   I ‘m just trying to imagine what kind of person Victor is and who would want to spend months in isolation . . . on purpose.
Nia   Somebody who’s trying to find himself?
Jarod   In the middle of the wilderness?
Nia   Sometimes you have to get lost before you can find yourself.
     
Jarod   Mrs Simpkins. Hi. I’m Jarod Forrest. I was wondering if I might ask you some questions about your son.
Mrs Simpkins   Anything to help.
Jarod   Is Victor right-handed or left-handed?
Mrs Simpkins   Right handed.
Jarod   I noticed that he had many books on predatory birds.
Mrs Simpkins   He’s been out here for months documenting the nesting patterns of eagles. He’s loved them since he was a little boy. He used to sit out in front of his tent and watch them all day. He’s the only family I have.
Nia   Don’t worry. We’ll find him.
Jarod   We won’t leave the mountain until we do.
Ranger   This way Mrs Simpkins.
Nia   So, who am I paired with Stan?
Conrad   Moe.
     
     
    Searching the mountain
     
Nia   You look confused.
Jarod   I am confused. Victor had been out here for months yet there was no sign of a refuse pile or a latrine.
Nia   Meaning?
Jarod   I don’t know. Just another piece of the puzzle.
Nia   You’re a strange Stooge, Mo. What about the left-hand right-hand stuff?
Jarod   Well, Victor’s eye glasses were on the left hand side of his sleeping bag. Seems kind of awkward for a right handed man.
Nia   This way. Jarod?
Jarod   Somebody’s covered their tracks by brushing over them. They head up that way.
Bob   Argh! Argh!
Jarod   I didn’t mean to startle you.
Bob   Oh, that’s okay I’ll live. About two weeks less but I’ll live.
Jarod   Hi, um, I’m Jarod and this is Nia.
Bob   Bob. Sorry Jarod. You startled me. I can’t shake the hand of a man who just startled me. I’ll have to wait until the next time I see you.
Jarod   Are you hiding from someone Bob?
Bob   Hiding? I’m looking.
Jarod   Oh. Oh, you’re with the search party.
Bob   Search party? They’ve got a search party to find Bob?
Jarod   I thought you were Bob.
Bob   I am Bob. Big Bob. I’m looking for Little Bob. He’s my partner.
Jarod   Oh well. We’re looking for a student.
Nia   His camp was about three miles west. Brown hair about five-eleven.
Bob   Don’t know him. Don’t know his camp. I ain’t seen nothing.
Jarod   Should we alert someone about Little Bob?
Bob   Oh no. You don’t want to get my partner mad. I seen him go into a bar and tear it up from one end to t’other.
Jarod   How will we know him if we find him?
Bob   You don’t want to find him. He don’t like strangers. Truth be told he don’t like anybody. Bad storm coming. Bad one.
     
     
Nia   And before the Rangers?
Jarod   Test pilot, thoracic surgeon, lieutenant commander on a destroyer. The usual. And what did you do before you became an outfitter?
Nia   Astronaut, Olympic skater, Nobel prize winner. The usual. What’s that over there?
Jarod   It’s a carabineer. I’m going to get it. No climber would leave that behind.
Nia   Be careful. You don’t know this cliff. It’s dangerous.
Jarod   Relax. I was a sherpa on Mount Everest once. Really.
Nia   Be careful.
Jarod   These markings are fresh. It looks like it’s only a few days old.
Nia   Jarod!
Jarod   Ow!
     
     
    Ranger Station
     
Mrs
Simpkins
  That’s Victor’s mark. Orange tape, the Inuit sign for eagle. He said anybody could use their initials. He’s an experienced climber. He wouldn’t leave his equipment behind unl…
Conrad   Listen, the sun rises at 6:35. We deploy here from K4 to K8 just below the cliff. I want everyone in here at a quarter of six. There’s a cold front moving through in the next forty-eight hours.
Mrs Simpkins   Will my son be able to survive?
Jarod   Your son is an experienced climber. He may be cold and he may be hungry but people have survived worse. I know he’s out there somewhere worrying about you too.
Conrad   Everybody get some sleep. We head out at the crack of dawn.
Jarod   Hey Colby. Where’s the nearest hotel?
Derek   About a hundred miles. And when you get there you’ll wish it was another hundred.
Nia   I’ve got a spare room. Grab your gear. I’ll wait for you outside.
Derek   Man that must have been some search up there today.
Jarod   Hmm?
Derek   Senorita Iceberg invites you over for a slumber party? You are in.
Jarod   In where?
     
     
    Nia’s Cabin
     
Nia   The couch is old, and except for a spring or two in your back, it’s comfortable.
Jarod   I’m sure it will be fine. The Casa Rosada. You’re Argentinian. Is this you with your parents?
Nia   Not too many Gringos know about Argentinian White House. I’m impressed. Is that everything?
Jarod   I travel light.
Nia   On the run?
Jarod   Some days. I do a lot of consulting work.
Nia   Take off your shirt. Why didn’t you say it was so bad?
Jarod   I guess I didn’t realise it.
Nia   I’ll try to leave some hot water for you. Okay?
     
    DSA: October 7th, ’69
     
Young Jarod   You’re a girl. My name is Jarod. What’s your name?
Young Parker   Miss Parker.
     
     
Nia   The shower’s all yours. Sleep well.
Jarod   You too.
     
     
Sydney   This is Sydney.
Jarod   It’s me. I need to talk to you. About women.
Sydney   Why is that?
Jarod   Because I met one.
     
     
    Nia’s Bedroom
Jarod   It’s okay, it’s okay. You’re safe.
     
     
    The Centre
    Recording
Jarod   It’s me. I need to talk to you about women.
Sydney   Why is that?
Jarod   Because I met one.
Sydney   Tell me more.
Jarod   I’ve been around hundreds of women since I left but I never experienced with them what I feel with the one I’ve just met.
Sydney   Tell me about your feelings.
Jarod   I have a hard time focusing when I’m near her and if we happen to touch my heart rate, my blood pressure, even my breathing becomes erratic.
Miss Parker   Franken Boy has a girlfriend.
Sydney   It’s chemical, Jarod.
Jarod   Chemical?
Sydney   These feelings you’re having, they’re driven by your body’s response to an external stimulus. In this case a woman.
Jarod   Tonight when she came out of the shower…
Broots   There.
Miss Parker   What are you doing?
Broots   That’s where the radio in the background is clearest. A little presto chango and maybe we could filter it out and figure out the song.
Miss Parker   I didn’t hear any radio. I would like to hear the rest of the tape. Maybe there’s a clue you might have missed.
     
     
    Ranger Station
     
Conrad   Now, if Victor Simpkins went down here he had to go through an area between this cliff face and the river. If anybody finds anything we’re on channel 9. Let’s move out. Quickly.
Jarod   We found Simpkins’ carabineer here, right?
Nia   Yes. Why? The force still with you?
Jarod   Why cross a cliff that dangerous when you can hike around it?
Nia   Maybe he just got the urge. People don’t always plan things.
Jarod   No. I guess they don’t.
Nia   Thanks for being there last night.
Jarod   What did you mean when you said I don’t want to disappear?
Nia   I said that?
Jarod   Twice, in Spanish.
Nia   You must have misunderstood me.
Jarod   Hablo Espanol
     
     
    Miss Parker’s Office
     
Broots   I said here’s the tape copy you wanted… of Jarod’s conversation.
Miss Parker   Are you still here?
Broots   Uh, no.
     
    Flashback: Sim Lab
     
Young Parker   You’re afraid of me aren’t you Jarod?
Young Jarod   No.
Young Parker   You were yesterday. I could tell.
Young Jarod   I was nervous. You have soft skin.
Young Parker   You didn’t even touch me.
Young Jarod   Yes I did. In here. Hold out your hand like this. Can you feel it? (She nods. Their hands move together but Jarod pulls away when they touch.) What’s your name? Your first name?
     
     
    Searching
     
Jarod   So let me get this straight. They were called the Three Stooges but there were actually four?
Nia   With Shim. Five if you count Jo Besser. Although a lot of people don’t. And six if you include Curly Jo DeRita but he wasn’t even funny in Spanish.
Jarod   Now was Larry one of the brothers?
Nia   No. Moe, Curly and… What?
Jarod   I thought I heard something.
Bob   Argh! Argh!
Jarod   Are you okay?
Bob   Sorry, I can’t shake your hand just yet.
Jarod   This is the second time you’ve seen me.
Bob   ‘Cept you just walked between two pine trees. Ain’t never gonna happen.
Jarod   Did you find your partner?
Bob   No. I have gotta keep checking on my crop even without him.
Nia   Checking on your crop?
Bob   Yeah. Now I’ve got to do Little Bob’s job too.
Jarod   Is he sick?
Bob   Nerves. Had the shakes ever since that plane buzzed him last Friday. And then the dynamite, oh, oh, that just about put him over the top.
Jarod   Someone was setting off dynamite out here?
Bob   Yeah ranger Conrad was, ah, clearing the trail of some old stumps.
Conrad on radio   Sector four, come in.
Jarod   Forrest here.
     
     
    Base Camp
     
Derek   I found Victor Simpkins’ pack about a quarter mile downstream from the cliff, lodged in some debris along the riverbank. Simpkin”s tracks lead right to the water. I’m guessing that he got hurt in a fall from the cliff, made it to the water, passed out or slipped and fell in.
Conrad   Well if he didn’t drown, he’s somewhere down river or in the Pacific.
Mrs Simpkins   My God. Are you calling off the search for my son?
Conrad   No Ma’am. We’re shifting personnel and oversight to the Aniwall County Sheriff’s Department who’s got direct supervision of the river from here to the coast. Now listen, I‘ve called Sheriff Hanson. He’s a good man. He will do whatever he can to help find Victor. Come with me for a second.
Jarod   He’s got enough gear and food to climb for days.
Nia   He was documenting the nesting patterns of eagles.
Jarod   There’s nothing here to write on. It doesn’t make sense. His camp, his carabineer, his backpack.
Nia   What does it mean?
Jarod   Someone wants the search for Victor to go downstream.
Nia   You’re not going, are you?
Jarod   No. He’s still on this mountain.
     
     
    Cave
     
Victor   Can anybody hear me?
     
     
    Nia’s Cabin
     
    DSA 20th March, ’67
Sydney   Jarod – Apollo One simulation.
Young Jarod   The first warning is a flash as the spark ignites the pure oxygen in the capsule. I try to flee but I can’t; I’m strapped in. I know the escape procedure but the fire, it’s too hot. It comes into our air line. I try not to breathe but it’s too late.I can’t open the hatch. I can’t open the hatch. It’s too hot! I can’t think! No one can get to us. We can’t be saved. I’m burning. I’m burning!
Sydney   Jarod, I’m here. It’s alright.
Young Jarod   No one could save them. It was impossible.
     
     
Jarod   I tried not to use all the hot water.
Nia   Is that boy you?
Jarod   I know it’s crazy, but I can explain.
Nia   Shh! We all have scars.
     
     
    Tech Room
     
Sydney   How much longer Broots?
Broots   Hmm. Hard to say. At first I thought the song from Jarod’s phone call was “I Shot the Sheriff” but then I re-filtered it and realised that it was “Rumble in the Jungle”.
Sydney   How much longer Broots?
Broots   Well between BMIs and ASCABS computer base of play lists it could be some time. Then as soon as we get a hit and we find the station I’ve programmed the computer to call here. Then we’re in business.
Sydney   We’re in business.
Broots   Yeah!
Sydney   How much longer?
     
     
    Nia’s bedroom
     
Jarod   Wake up. I think I’ve got it.
     
     
    Search on Mountain
     
Nia   We’ve been climbing for nine hours. Do you want to tell me what we’re looking for?
Jarod   That.
Nia   This was Victor’s camp. The force is with you. How did you know?
Jarod   Something always bothered me about Simpkin’s base camp. It was way too low on the mountain to observe the nesting patterns of
eagles because they always nest at the highest point.
Nia   What the hell is that?
Jarod   The plane that scared Little Bob. The pilot’s dead. There was a bullet in his head.
Nia   Oh my God.
Jarod   I found traces of
narcotics in the back. I found this.
Nia   Deliver your drugs, pick up your money.
Jarod   You don’t file a flight plan with a run like this, so if your plane
crashes …
Nia   No one looks for you.
Jarod   Somebody was up here. There’s two sets of footprints, but they both come from different directions. Then one chases the other, that way. He heard the crash. He came down here. He just wanted to help and he saw the murder. He’s running, he’s running for his life.
Nia   Victor Simpkins. And who was chasing him?
Jarod   Who was blowing up stumps when Bob heard the plane?
Nia   Conrad.
Jarod   Conrad is leading the search.
Nia   What were you…? How did you… ?
Jarod   Trust in the force young Jedi. I saw your laser disc last night.
Nia   Those prints go down to Box Canyon.
Jarod   We’ll start that way tomorrow.I hope Victor Simpkins is under some kind of cover tonight. Because if he’s not, he’s not going to make it. And neither are we unless we find some shelter.
Nia   I know a place.
     
     
    Miss Parker’s
     
Miss Parker   Morons.
Tape recording   I need to talk to you. About women. About women. About women.
     
    Flashback
Young Parker   You know girls mature faster than boys.
     
     
    Hiking Shack
     
Nia   Nothing like a home cooked meal.
Jarod   So I’m told. When I was a child.. I was taken. At least I think I was taken by these people who… raised me. They made me do things, things that
hurt other…
Nia   You don’t have to tell me anything.
Jarod   I’ve never told anybody before. I want to tell you… I don’t know who I am.
Nia   You’re Jarod and you’re here with me.
Jarod   How old were you when you left Argentina?
Nia   Thirteen.
Jarod   Was it because of the Galla Sousia? I saw the scars on your back.
Nia   I was eight. They came and took us for no reason at all. My father published a newspaper. My mother met him when she was a reporter. She hadn’t worked for years. She was too busy raising me. They woke us up in the middle of the night. I could hear my mother screaming, cursing at them. I never heard her swear like that before. They took us to this place. This horrible place. I never saw them again. They beat me. They… they…
Jarod   I’m sorry.
Nia   They wanted me to lie about my parents. That they hated the generals, had plotted against them. I wouldn’t lie. Finally they let me go. They put me with some family. But no one will talk to me about my parents. They had disappeared. Then the generals left and I came here. I don’t know if my parents are dead or alive.
Jarod   I don’t know either.
Nia   I miss them so much.
Jarod   I know. I know. I know, I know, I know. Shh. Shh! I know that this is going to sound crazy. I’ve never…
     
     
    Flashback
Young Jarod   I just want to know who I am. I can stand anything for that.
     
     
     
Jarod   Is that pig wearing a baseball cap?
Bob   There you are. Look at him all the stress made him lose weight. Come here you boy.
Jarod   Is that your pig?
Bob   Pig? He’s no pig. He’s my partner in the burgeoning mushroom empire.
Jarod   Little Bob.
Nia   Little Bob.
Bob   The one and only.
Jarod   And your crop would be truffles?
Bob   Finest damn nose in these United States. Found a mother-lode too. We could have been rich too until someone went and blew up the old mine shaft where he discovered over a ton of them.
Jarod   Mine shaft?
Bob   Yeah the one down in Box Canyon. Blowed it the same day that plane flew over. Come here, big boy. Come on.
     
     
    Mountain Trail
     
Nia   Foot prints. Two sets.
Jarod   Two go in, but only one comes out.
Nia   Conrad chased Victor trying to silence him. Victor ran in here to hide. Conrad, running short of time, decided to blow up the entrance sealing him in. The force is with me.
Jarod   Victor. Victor!
Nia   Victor!
Jarod   Victor.
Nia   Victor.
Jarod   Victor.
Nia   Victor.
Jarod   Victor. It’s okay. You’re going to be okay.
     
     
    Miss Parker’s Office
     
Sydney   Miss Parker.
Miss Parker   What?
Broots   We’ve traced the song to a small radio station in north central Oregon.
     
     
    Ranger Station
     
Conrad   Toluca National Forest. Ranger Conrad speaking.
Bob   Yeah this is Bob Carcy. Ranger Conrad, I think I’ve found the Simpkins kid.
Conrad   Where is he? Is he alive?
Bob   I couldn’t tell. He was trapped behind a rock fall inside the old copper mine in Box Canyon. I could barely make a hole big enough to look in and see.
Conrad   I’m on my way. Colby I need you here to coordinate the men and equipment coming up.
Derek   You want me to call his mother?
Conrad   No not ‘til we’re sure we have good news.
     
    Mine Shaft
     
Conrad   Simpkins? Simpkins. Hey Simpkins?
Jarod   Well it’s about time. My legs were starting to cramp up. Kind of like Lazarus, huh Conrad?
Conrad   So is Simpkins okay?
Jarod   You mean is he alive, so he can testify against you? You betcha!
Conrad   So why didn’t you just call the police? You’re after what’s in the plane. There’s a hell of a lot more where that came from.
Jarod   No deal. Kind of spooky in here, isn’t it? Do you think this is what hell is like, Stan? Imagine what it’s like to be trapped in here and no one can hear you screaming.
Conrad   There’s only one way out.
Jarod   Hey Conrad. I’d stand back if I were you.
Conrad   No! Jarod. Don’t leave me here Jarod. Please.
Jarod   Oh, don’t worry, I’ll lead the search for you personally. In a few days.
Conrad   Jarod. Jarod!
     
     
    Nia’s Cabin
     
Jarod   I know how to do many things but I don’t know how to do this.
Nia   I know you have to go.
Jarod   People are looking for me. If I stay you’d be in danger. You may already be.
Nia   I know how to take care of myself. I hope you find what you’re looking for.
Jarod   You’ve already helped me find a part of it. Adios.
     
     
Miss Parker   Have you seen this man?
Nia   Yes. He was tall, handsome. Little mole under his right eye.
Sydney   Yes.
Nia   He stayed for a few nights. He’s gone now.
Miss Parker   Did he say where he was going?
Nia   No but he did mention something about loving Argentina.
Miss Parker   Do you think he will come back?
Nia   I hope so.

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