:23:00
I'm telling you. I don't
know anyone named Thomas.
:23:03
Thomas Cole. Thomas
Jefferson Cole. My nephew.
:23:09
You mean Rashid?
:23:11
Rashid? Rashid! Is that what
he told you his name was?
:23:15
Well, whatever his name
is, he's not here anymore.
:23:18
He left two days ago, and I
haven't heard from him since.
:23:22
And what was he doing
here in the first place?
:23:23
That's what I want to know.
:23:24
What's a man like you messing around
with a black boy like Thomas for?
:23:27
Are you some kind of pervert, or what?
:23:28
Look, lady, that's enough. If you don't
calm down. I'm going to throw you out.
:23:33
Do you hear me? Right now!
:23:35
I just want to know where he is.
:23:36
As far as I know, he
went back to his parents.
:23:41
His parents? Is that what
he told you? His parents?
:23:45
That's what he said.
:23:46
He told me he lived with his mother and
father on East Seventy-fourth Street.
:23:51
I always knew that
boy had an imagination,
:23:52
but now he's gone and made up
a whole new life for himself.
:24:03
Do you mind if I sit down?
:24:12
He's been living with me and his
uncle Henry since he was a baby.
:24:15
And we don't live in Manhattan.
:24:17
We live in Boerum Hill. In the projects.
:24:22
He doesn't go to the Trinity School?
:24:24
He goes to John Jay
High School in Brooklyn.
:24:30
And his parents?
:24:33
His mother's dead, and he hasn't
seen his father in twelve years.
:24:41
I shouldn't have let him go.
:24:44
Could anything happened lately?
:24:46
Anything unusual or unexpected?
:24:50
Well, one thing I suppose, but I don't
think it has anything to do with this.
:24:54
A friend of mine called
about two weeks ago
:24:56
and said she'd spotted Thomas's father working
at some gas station outside of Peekskill.