Misha Collins as Chester Lake

Episode 6.05 Run

Directed By Kate Woods

Written By Jan Nash

Original Air Date November 1, 2007

 

It’s an ordinary morning at Rushlight Distribution’s cubicle-filled corporate office, until a man walks in with a pistol and a shotgun, randomly shooting terrified office workers before turning the gun on himself. One woman, Kelly Schmidt, hides under a desk, and as soon as she can, she flees the building and vanishes. At first, it appears that Kelly was the shooter’s target, but the agents soon learn that he was actually stalking one of Kelly’s colleagues, which only deepens the mystery of why she left the scene after the shooting.

The agents discover that Kelly has been living under a false identity; her real name is Sue Carlton. They question her father, Byron, who fills in some details about his daughter. Two years ago, Sue kidnapped her six-year-old daughter, Jasmine, right after having lost custody to her ex-husband, Mike. Mike, a coworker and friend of Byron’s for years, has been looking for them ever since. Sue/Kelly must have fled the office to avoid being seen on camera in any news coverage of the shooting. A search of Sue’s apartment yields no evidence of a child in her life, so where is Jasmine now? Did Sue’s emotional instability lead her to harm Jasmine? Did Mike, from whom Sue has been running, finally catch up to her? When the agents uncover allegations of abuse, it appears that Sue took Jasmine to prevent Mike from molesting her. But ultimately, the agents discover the tragic truth: as a child, Sue was molested by her father, and she had taken Jasmine to keep her away from Byron, not from Mike.