Emergency - Clip Disappeared from Drive

I've just had a clip go offline in a project and it seems to have disappeared from the drive. I'm using a G5 2.5Ghz running OSX 10.4.8 and FCStudio 5.1.2. I have FCP on the A drive and use the internal B drive as a capture scratch. Everything was fine on this project until I closed it out because FCP wasn't recognizing the external monitor. When I re-started, the clip was offline. I tried to reconnect, but it was no longer in the Capture Scratch. I checked the trash (nope), used Disk Utility to verify permissions on A and verify B (no problems found), checked the other machines on our network and -- nothing. It's disappeared. I had to send the tapes back to Tokyo on this project, so I have no way to replace this. Any ideas on what happened and - more to the point - how to find this missing clip?
G5 2.5 Ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

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