FBI: Most Wanted – Ghosts

By: Mary Watkins

We start out with a fun family moment that quickly turns to murder and mystery. Jess (Julian McMahon) is having a nice day with his family when his daughter Tali (YaYa Gosselin) tells him that she has a family culture project due. As Jess and Tali are discussing what she can bring to school to show her heritage, Jess receives a call that causes him to leave and join his team to catch a killer.

We see Jess and his team discussing the case at hand. We learn that a man by the name of Reginald Waters (Martin Sensmeier) has killed a police officer who was serving an eviction notice. At this point they think it is just some guy who didn’t want to be evicted and now he is on the run. The team quickly discovers that this is not the whole truth. While doing some investigative work the team quickly learns that Reginald has been looking for his missing runaway daughter and the police have done nothing to help him. Reginald is a recovering alcoholic who wasn’t around for his daughter growing up. Finally, he got himself clean and when her mother died, he took her in to raise. Reginald and his daughter did not get along and once she turned eighteen years old she ran away from home with her boyfriend. However, Reginald had been looking for her ever since.

Jess quickly deduces that the team must find his daughter in order to find Reginald. So, the team goes to the police department that had been handling the case. While at the department we discover the detective in charge of the case has retired, there are no leads and it appears something just isn’t right. While at the police station Jess sees a woman who is acting a little funny. He tells her the coffee is good and very smoothly gets her name. We next see the woman arriving at home and Jess talking to her about the case. We find out that she had given Reginald a copy of the case file because she felt bad for him. Apparently, the police had not been doing anything with the case because the daughter was Native American and they don’t care about “those people.” Once Jess finds out Reginald has a copy of the file, he asks for a copy of it as well. The lady agrees to handle that for him. Now that they have a map of where Reginald will go, they can better determine his next move.

While looking over the file trying to figure out where Reginald is headed, he strikes. Reginald shows up to a crappy motel where his daughter had been last seen. Reginald approaches two men that are standing outside smoking. He asks the one man who is the clerk if he can see the registration list. The man tells him to get lost. Reginald insists the man show him the list so that he can find his daughter. The man shows Reginald a gun he has in his pants and tells him to get lost. Reginald then pulls out his shot gun and shoots the man…killing him. The other man runs away and Reginald goes into the office to retrieve the list. Jess and his team show up afterwards and discover what Reginald was after. Whoever he was looking for is on that list and they must find out quickly. So, Jess and the team decide to pay a visit to the missing daughter’s boyfriend.

When the team arrives at the boyfriend’s home, they find the apartment is a mess and the boyfriend has been beaten. The boyfriend tells Jess that he was beaten by Reginald when he stopped by looking for his daughter. The boyfriend tells Jess that he had went out and when he returned to the hotel his girlfriend was gone. He also noticed that a pimp and his girls that were next door were gone as well. It doesn’t take long for Jess to figure out that the pimp has kidnapped Reginald’s daughter and that Reginald probably has figured that out too. The team start looking for the pimp and finds him not exactly how they had imagined. When the team shows up to another hotel, they discover that Reginald has found the pimp and killed him. We also learn that Reginald has taken one of the girls in hopes of getting information. The girl he took had been seen with his daughter the night she went missing from the hotel room and Reginald feels she may have some answers. The team fears Reginald might kill the girl too if she is not forthcoming with information.

We then see Reginald and the girl named Angela Blue (Kim Wuan) sitting in his pickup truck. She tells Reginald that the pimp killed his daughter and threw her remains somewhere. You can see the pain and defeat in Reginald’s eyes. He gives Angela a phone and some money and tells her to go home to her family and leave that life behind. The next time we see Angela she is sitting with Jess and the team telling them everything that had happened. Jess is trying to figure out where Reginald is headed to next. Angela tells Jess the same thing that she told Reginald about his daughter being murdered by the pimp and that is all she knows. It doesn’t take long for Jess to track down the pimp’s sister.

Jess and the team go to the sister’s house to talk about her brother. There they discover Reginald had been there earlier to speak with her as well. He has mentioned to her that he was going to end the cycle of suffering in his family once and for all by going back to where it all began. This is when Jess and his partner Clinton (Nathaniel Arcand) decide to go to the house of Reginald’s father in order to talk with him. They show up to the father’s house to see scratches on him. The father, Leonard Waters (Glen Gould), tells Jess that the scratches are nothing. That is when his wife Sarah (Tanis Parenteau) chimes in and tells Jess and Clinton that the scratches are from Reginald. Reginald had been there and got into a confrontation with Leonard and took their other son Rickey (Julian Gopal). When asked if Leonard knows where they are going, Leonard does not respond.

Here we discover that when Leonard was a child he was forced to go to church where he was sexually assaulted and abused for being Native American. This is where Reginald and his little brother are headed. This is where the cycle has to end. So, Jess and the team rush to the church and as they arrive, they hear gun shots. We next see Reginald telling his little brother about the abuse their dad received and how they need to cleanse it away and give up and offering. So, they begin the offering which consists of shooting the marks on the wall they had drawn. This is the shooting the team hears. Jess and the team find Reginald and his little brother. Reginald is ready to end everything right there. He is ready to end his suffering. Reginald tells his little brother to close his eyes and sing him out. Reginald then sticks the riffle to his head. Clinton approaches them and starts talking in their native language. This stops Reginald and catches his little brother off guard. Clinton tells Reginald not to kill himself as he made the offering, washing his family’s pain away, and not to create another pain for his little brother. Reginald listens to Clinton and gives up.

We see Leonard and his family talking to Jess and Clinton on the reservation. They found the remains of Reginald’s daughter and she will get to have a respectful burial. Jess wants Leonard to let Reginald know the news. The final scene of this episode is of Jess, Tali, Clinton and the rest of the family sitting in their living room discussing what Tali took to school for her project. She had taken wedding baskets from Jess and his wife’s wedding. Jess explains to Tali that he carried one basket with a piece of cake and his wife carried the other with a piece of fabric. This meant she would provide a home and he would provide the food. Tali ask if she can keep them and Jess says yes.