He also thinks the negotiations will go better without police involvement.Ĭhace sets the wheels in motion on the streets while Gail continues to receive hoax calls from fake kidnappers.Ĭhace and Gail finally meet, and he informs her he’s been sent by J. The inspector doesn’t know if the note is in Paul’s handwriting, but he thinks the boy will be released unharmed after negotiations are complete. He informs Chace the ransom note was brought in by the twins, Martine and Jutta. The inspector believes most kidnappings are resolved without violence. After slipping him a $100 bill, he tells the bellboy to spread the word around that he’s looking to speak with a member of the mafia.Ĭhace’s next stop is at the police station where he questions the inspector about the lack of effort being put into finding John Paul Getty III. He’s a big tipper and asks one of the bellboys about the mafia. They’re all in danger.įletcher Chace arrives in Rome, flashing money at the hotel. Paul warns his two other sons to get bodyguards and hunker down.
Paul Getty isn’t happy about the possible mafia involvement and sends Chace off to Rome to learn the truth. Instead, he kicked him out of the house after learning about the magazine article.īullimore (Silas Carson) confirms he was the last person in the house to speak with Paul, and that Paul told him he owed money to the mafia. Of course, if John Paul Getty Jr hadn’t told his father about the magazine spread, Paul would have had the money to repay his debts and the kidnapping wouldn’t have happened.Ĭhace learns that Paul needed $6,000 and that the Getty patriarch didn’t give it to him. Jr reminds him he’s wanted by the police there and isn’t allowed to go to Italy.Īs they meet with Chace, the senior Getty thanks his son for warning him about Paul’s drug use. isn’t already in Rome looking for his son. Paul Getty advises him to never just barge through or he’ll be shot. John Paul Getty Jr drives through the security checkpoint, angry they’ve asked for his ID. Next we learn that Sutton Place is being fortified due to Paul’s kidnapping. Her ex suggests they just sit tight and see what happens. However, the note doesn’t say how much they want.
She informs him of the ransom note and that the kidnappers are threatening to kill their son. Gail calls her ex-husband, Paul’s father John Paul Getty Jr. He cares more about the butter being hard than he does about the kidnapping. Paul Getty ( Donald Sutherland) glances at an article in The Times stating his grandson has been kidnapped. Gail Getty ( Hilary Swank) arrives home from a camping trip with Paul’s younger siblings to discover Paul’s been kidnapped. Nothing good came out of ’73 declares Chace, adding it was also the year John Paul Getty III disappeared. Student riots, Nixon declaring he wasn’t a crook, and workers went on strike all during that otherwise blasé year. “It was the year that America finally admitted that a billion dollars of firepower could not beat back a bunch of dollar-a-day Commies,” recalls Chace. When he gets to 1973, he has nothing good to say. He recalls pivotal events in recent history, including the Moon Walk. She’s not aiming to kill anyone, just to scare them off.īrendan Fraser as James Fletcher Chace breaks the fourth wall and speaks to the camera.
The girls are being held against their will and while one is being attacked, the other grabs a gun and begins firing. Martine and Jutta claim Paul’s getting the money he owes from his grandfather, but the people who they owe money to have run out of patience.
The pay phone set up at John Paul Getty’s estate (Sutton Place) rings but no one answers. Episode two airing Apbegins with Martine Zacher ( Laura Bellini) and Jutta Winklemann ( Sarah Bellini) trying to reach Paul by phone.
SEASON 2 EPISODE 6 JOHN TELLS KATE STORM IN A TEACUP SERIES
Hilary Swank as Gail Getty and Brendan Fraser as James Fletcher Chase in ‘Trust’ season 1 episode 2 (Photo Credit: FX)įX’s season one episode one of the dramatic series Trust ended with John Paul Getty III (‘Paul’) fleeing through a field of sunflowers.
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