Beyond the sea

Philip Klein: Welcome to Cabo San Lucas.

Now convinced that Patrick McDermott is alive, investigator Philip Klein starts to search for him.

Philip Klein: We're pumped up... This is our actual first time to hunt this guy, and this is what the investigation has all come to now.  A year ago, there were three tips that said that they saw him in this area.

And in the past few weeks, Klein says, his website has been visited by someone in Cabo.

We were able to track back events in Cabo San Lucas and we have found  the annual international game fish association fishing tournament. They admit, they're acting on a hunch-- that the big sportfishing tournament will be like catnip for McDermott.  Could he be here?

Philip Klein: This matches his psychological profile. He likes expensive women, he likes expensive toys-- big boats-- and he loves to fish. Just keep your eye on their faces.  That's all I want you to do, is just keep lookin at their faces, OK?

Klein and crew start tracking McDermott in Cabo's night spots.

Philip Klein: He could blend in there perfectly. 

Philip Klein: What did you think of that one guy? Right height and weight? 

Gil Martinez:  Yeah. Right height and weight, I mean you're talkin thin...

Inga: I just don't think that that bar was a Patrick McDermott bar. Now if it was a piano bar, somethin sophisticated, maybe. 

Philip Klein: Stab in the dark. 

Inga: I didn't see any women in there that was sophisticated enough to pay his tab!

Philip Klein: So we're gonna kinda shut it down for the night.  It's real late, it's about 12, one o'clock in the morning, we're gonna hit it again tomorrow.

Philip Klein: I'm still getting that feeling, though, that he's here. Somewhere. 

The night's a bust – but the next day is tournament registration. 

Philip Klein: Gonna keep our eyes on the captains and the crews, cuz we think he's either probably gonna be making money down here as a captain or a crew member.  Heh.  Hopefully we'll score today.  We'll see. Just keep your eyes open. We're just down here vacationing, hanging out. 

Guy: Oh, really?

Philip Klein: Yeah, saw this tournament. Look like it's gonna be a good one?  Yeah? 

Gil Martinez: If were to see him, we'd see him here.  So we're just keeping our eyes open, trying to be patient about it.

Philip Klein: See this guy standing behind me in the white, in between the palm trees?  That's what I think his height and weight is gonna be. He's 50 something, so he's gonna start losing body mass pretty quick unless he's working out.

Philip Klein: see the one right there in the goatee, the one right there?

Inga: Yeah. Like right directly in front of me.

Philip Klein: i'm gonna go get Gil, tell him-- get another opinion.

Inga: See him?

Gil Martinez: Which guy?

Inga: OK, he's got white hair...

Gil Martinez: No. 

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Philip Klein: Well, I guess it didn't quite work out today.  But we've ruled out that he was captaining, we've ruled out that he was actually fishing in the tournament, so that leaves one more thing.  And that's, is he crewing.  Or a spectator.  So we'll find that out tomorrow I guess, huh? 

Philip Klein: It's about 5 in the morning. We're on our way to the boat docks, let's just see if we can go huntin and see if we can find Mr. McDermott.

Philip Klein: What we're gonna do is we're gonna go down here and say we're just looking around, OK?  The gates are all open... keep your eyes open.

Guy: Can I help you sir? 

Philip Klein: No, we're just lookin at the boats this morning. 

Guy: are you going fishing? 

Philip Klein: No, we're with the tournament.  We're just looking at all the boats this morning.

Philip Klein: See the crews, they're all sittin at up the top over there?  Just keep your eye on all these guys.

Philip Klein: Good morning!  As the boats come in like right here, you can see these guys' faces, you know we're keeping a good observation on em.  We got Inga up there, we got everybody here. 

Gil Martinez: Lotta guys out there. Lotta guys. It's kinda hard to see the crew members though when we have limited access to get anywhere.

But Philip Klein thinks he did see something.

Philip Klein: Picante dream and Baja boy 1. Remember those two boats. Baja one and Picante dream. There was one guy right on this Baja one that looked exactly like him.  I mean, I mean. 

Inga: Why didn't you get on  there? 

Philip Klein: OK, what was I gonna do swim? 

Inga: yeah! 

The fishing boats return at 3 pm.  One last chance to spot their man.

Gil Martinez: This is a much better view than this morning at 5 o'clock!

Gil Martinez: He's got a distinguished look. I don't think it's gonna be hard, my opinion, to be able to spot him.

Gil Martinez: we must have another 40 boats to come in.  so, stay patient.

Finally, the two boats Philip said to watch for.

Gil Martinez: He specifically pointed out these two boats here...

Gil Martinez: I got a good look at all three crew members on there. No one that kinda even comes close... I mean other than the tan.

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Philip Klein: Did you see those two boats we were lookin for? 

Inga: Picante dream? 

Philip Klein: Yeah? 

Inga: did not have anybody remotely that looked like him.

Strike out.

Philip Klein: I'm kinda frustrated right now.  Because you know it's always when you're on the hunt and you're hunting people it's always very frustrating when you go on the hunt and you don't get your game.

And soon... His frustration boils over.

Philip Klein: Are you guys stalling us, or are you guys investigating this thing? Well, quite frankly I can't get an answer out of anybody. Including you. 

For months he's been asking the U.S. coast guard to open its files on the disappearance of Patrick McDermott.

Philip Klein: Y'all are inept.  you are so bogged down in bureaucracy it's embarrassing. Well, G*d dang it, stop acting like you're trying to cover your ***! 

He's hoping for some new information, to jump start his investigation.

Philip Klein: Can't friggin believe it. 

He's about to get more than he bargained for.

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