Mindhunter (2017) s02e06 Episode Script
Season 2, Episode 6
1 [PHOTOCOPIER WHIRRING, BEEPS.]
[COPIER WHINES, CLICKS.]
[BEEPING RAPIDLY.]
[RATTLES.]
[BANGS VIOLENTLY.]
Let me help you.
- Oh, I can get it.
J-Just show me.
- [PHOTOCOPIER BEEPS.]
This one's been acting up all day.
Then you shouldn't let people use it.
[MAN.]
You gotta really get in there.
[LATCH OPENS.]
Poetry, huh? [ADT SERVICEMAN.]
You really need to put an "Out of Order" sign on it.
This is only half.
All right.
Well, take the original.
I need the other half.
The Xerox guy's gonna have to clear it.
Then call one.
That's my property.
I'm not leaving without it.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
[GREGG.]
The bodies were dismembered, stuffed in trash bags, and spent between two and six weeks in the Hudson River.
None of the six victims was ever identified.
Cause of death never determined.
Police were able to trace, uh, the articles of clothing to a fetish shop on Christopher Street that catered to the leather community.
And there's the Lambda tattoo.
Maybe he was a Greek scholar.
Paul Bateson frequented the gay bars in the Meatpacking District, but police could never connect him to the bodies.
He was only convicted for one murder because he called a journalist and confessed to it.
The final victim, Addison Verrill.
Who was not dismembered and stuffed in a bag, so why should we talk to this guy if we don't even know he did these? Because he told a friend he was the Bag Murderer.
And that he liked to kill.
Isn't someone who practices S&M already equating arousal with violence? - He's just a step - S/M.
The correct terminology is S/M.
Sadomasochism.
Not "sado and masochism.
" S/M is primarily the exchange of power between a dominant and a submissive.
Pain and violence are just two types of currency within that exchange.
There's also humiliation, fear, sometimes even tickling.
Tickled to death? Whole new meaning.
The fact that one of the victims wore a dog collar makes me think our guy likes to be in charge.
Well, due to the condition of the bodies, we have no evidence of how he killed or whether S/M was even one of his MOs.
Who else would prey on guys like these? They were into the same stuff, and he gets off on going too far.
Well, this isn't just a case of someone who occasionally crossed the line of consent.
This is a practiced, organized killer.
Dismembering and disposing of the bodies without witnesses? I mean, that takes planning and commitment.
[GREGG.]
Well, there's no denying his victim pool is specific to what gives him sexual pleasure.
- But they're low-hanging fruit for him.
- [CHUCKLES.]
I'll say.
He's accepted in their environment, and he knows how to lure them.
[HOLDEN.]
They actually want to be tied up.
So you're saying his victim selection is about opportunity.
[CARR.]
I'm just saying that it would be interesting to find out how essential his sexual practices were to how he killed.
[CARR.]
And why.
You know, was sadomasochism just a convenient way for Bateson to find his victims, - or was it fundamental to his - [HOLDEN.]
That's Atlanta.
It's the police commissioner.
As Jackson said, we would like to applaud the decision made by the Department of Justice to open an FBI investigation into Atlanta's missing and murdered children.
Director Webster has assured me that the bureau will coordinate with our own task force and make their abundant resources available to our city.
[GUNN.]
We've already been to Atlanta once.
We've done the background work.
[MAN ON SPEAKER.]
The vice president's placing the highest priority on this.
I don't want us to look like we're running a research project down there.
Absolutely not.
We're there to get convictions.
All right, Ted.
I'll call Wyman, tell him we're sending the BSU instead of that third canine unit he wants.
They better be house-trained.
[GUNN.]
And on a short leash.
You have my word.
That was Director Webster.
The president doesn't want child murder lingering over his first 100 days, so he's throwing George Bush at this.
The director wants to be sure the bureau comes out smelling good to this administration.
And it came down to us or Lassie.
[GUNN.]
Essentially.
Holden, I'd like you there as soon as possible.
Bill, you can fly out Monday, right after the directors' retreat.
[SIGHS.]
Webster's going out on a limb.
He needs to understand who we are, have assurance in what we can do.
Yes, sir.
We're budgeted through the end, so pack accordingly.
They're following 17 cases.
[TENCH.]
That could be a while.
If Webster's involved, he's going for closure.
We want to be part of that.
Go do what you do, but as we've learned, our methods are not always gonna be received with unbridled enthusiasm, so Play nice.
Play smart.
Bill.
We will be okay.
Yes, sir.
[KNOCKS ON DOOR.]
How are we supposed to fulfill Gunn's expansive vision if he keeps sending you away? This time it comes from the very top.
Well, I can select support staff, but I can't recruit and train agents.
I need to be back in town every Friday for some things with Brian.
I'll spend the afternoon here, do what I can.
You and Gregg take Bateson.
Keep the interviews going.
You're going to leave Holden alone three days a week? He's down there on his own till Monday as it is.
Gunn wants me at the directors' retreat.
I mean, last time he managed to get you tossed out, and you were with him.
I'll call Jim Barney.
Ask him to be Holden's wingman till I get there.
It's three days.
Exactly.
- [DOOR OPENS.]
- [TENCH.]
Nance? Back here! [UNDER BREATH.]
Jeez.
[IN NORMAL VOICE.]
Want some dinner? There's spaghetti and one chicken leg.
- [KISSES.]
- No, I'm bushed.
How's Bri? He's fine.
How was your day? Super.
How super? It was fine.
Um, hand me that bag.
Thanks.
Is it that bad? Three times this week.
If he wets again tonight, I'm throwing them out.
I got cheapies.
Jesus.
Brian hasn't wet the bed for [NANCY.]
Three years and five months.
Believe me, I remember.
Today I found him playing with his baby toys.
Three Men in a Tub.
It's like he's going backwards.
Just when he was getting some independence.
Suddenly, I'm potty training again.
Let's talk to Dr.
Moritz tomorrow.
Maybe it's part of the process.
[NANCY.]
Oh, I haven't packed you yet.
But your suit's back from the cleaners.
It's okay.
I'll pack.
Don't worry about it.
Oh, have you spoken to Gunn today? - Bill, you need to take time off.
- [SIGHS.]
Brian needs you.
I need help with him.
Honey, I just found out today: after the retreat, I have to go to Atlanta.
We've opened an investigation into the murders there.
I don't have a choice.
Okay.
Look, I'm coming home every Thursday night for the Friday appointments.
I'll stay all weekend.
- Every week.
- I said okay.
You say there's nothing you can do, so the decision's been made.
[SIGHS.]
[MAN.]
My biggest complaint is I can't get to the Joffrey.
But prison dried me out.
I was draining two bottles of vodka a day till I lost my job.
You were a radiology technician.
Until I was an usher in a porn theater.
Now I'm sober, work out every day.
And mostly they leave me unsupervised.
Actually, I'd appreciate a little more discipline.
[PRISONERS YELLING IN DISTANCE.]
How did you meet Addison Verrill? Sitting at the bar at The Anvil.
We were doing poppers.
Started talking porn.
He knew them all.
Appreciated the good ones.
Good ones? [BATESON.]
Anybody can roll a camera on a piece of muscle plowing some bottom raw.
I can catch that live at The Tunnel.
But there's an art to letting things happen in the right rhythm.
Finding that bond in violence.
You watch any porn? Bonding in violence.
Is that how you prefer to relate to people? On a deeper level, probably.
- Love is violence.
Sex is violence.
- [CARR.]
Is it? Every interaction is violence, it's just a matter of scale.
How much of something do we want to feel? Does it feel good when your lover takes your hand and you didn't expect it? Does it feel better when he grabs your nipples? Twists them? What did Addison think about violence? Full into it.
The films he liked, the things he said.
I could tell.
Is that why you picked him? - No, we pick each other, don't we? - [CARR.]
But he was your type.
No, not really.
Usually, I don't like swishes.
They give us all a bad name.
Addison was holding court at the bar.
He could've left with anyone, but he stuck with me.
That was nice.
When you went back to his apartment, had you already decided to kill him? No.
We smoked some weed.
Drank some of his Scotch.
Had lots of sex.
He liked it rough.
That's how they knew it was me.
When I called that reporter, I told him the couch and rug were covered in Crisco.
Police hadn't figured out what it was.
[CHUCKLES.]
What happened after? I hadn't come down yet.
He asked me if I wanted a joint.
I hit him with a skillet, and then I stabbed him.
Was that the natural conclusion of an arousal experience for you? The "rough" sex that you had, did it build in intensity? - Was - [BATESON.]
Sure.
You always wanna have somewhere to go.
Pain is the release.
The fear that's what you want to play with.
So, was killing Addison an extension of the sexual violence? No, we were done.
Wore ourselves out.
You can only go for so long.
[CARR.]
Then why did you kill him? [DOOR SLAMS IN DISTANCE.]
[SIGHS.]
It It wasn't a soul act for him.
I was looking for real connection.
[CARR.]
Was The Anvil a place that you had found a real connection before? [BATESON.]
No.
But there's always that moment where something might turn into the real thing.
It just didn't.
That's what we're all looking for.
Connection.
When you went out, were you a dominant or a submissive? [BATESON.]
Those days, I was a total top.
[CARR.]
Those days? I started off as a bottom.
Most do.
That's how you learn what to do.
What a bottom wants to feel.
How far you can go.
So you were practiced at finding that moment when things could turn into nothing or into connection, or perhaps into deeper violence.
The Bag Murders, six leathermen dumped in the Hudson in garbage bags.
Do you think that the person who killed those men could've been experimenting? Seeing how it felt to go too far? They keep trying to get me for those.
Gay guy into leather.
- So imaginative.
- [CARR.]
It's more than that.
You also worked in a hospital.
You had some training in anatomy, access to medical instruments.
I wasn't squeamish if that's what you're asking.
- But I wasn't a surgeon.
- [GLENN.]
You did confess to a friend.
You actually told him, verbatim, "I like to kill.
" Ugh.
God We were all so fucked up at the time.
The cops actually said if I confess, I would do less time on a plea deal.
- Less time? - [BATESON.]
Crazy, right? They just want to say they closed the books.
Keep the queens happy.
But I got news: the queens want this to be some uptight straight guy.
Why would they care who it is? Perceptions matter when you're an "aberration," Anita.
We can't be seen as eating our own.
Do you think it was an angry straight guy? Leathermen can smell a straight guy a mile away.
No one would go anywhere with him.
Clubbers are looking for guys who know what they're doing.
So the killer would be experienced.
[BATESON.]
He'd be cruising for the guy that wants exactly what he wants to give.
He's watched a thousand guys, gone home with hundreds.
Feeling for the right pulse, the right quickening of breath.
He's looking for the guy that just wants it.
Nobody wants to die.
No, but some want to feel what it's like to almost die.
They let you go just a bit further.
Might even beg you.
And that would excite him? Of course.
So he would know the victims, may have been with them intimately before.
[BATESON.]
Why waste time on an unknown? And then what would he do? And then he works 'em.
Hard.
Until there's a connection.
What sort of connection? Well, that's the mystery.
It's trust with fear.
Complete vulnerability.
He lets the master take him just across that line.
How? How would he kill him? How long would he take? What would he use? What marks would he leave? Everyone in the scene's into their own thing.
You'd have to ask him.
Alan.
- [ALAN.]
Yeah.
- I'm ready.
[ALAN.]
All right.
Let's move him out.
[DOOR OPENS.]
- Only your killer would know that.
- [HANDCUFFS CLICK.]
- [PHONES RINGING.]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[RECEPTIONIST.]
Good morning.
[BARNEY.]
Holden.
[HOLDEN.]
Jim! This has grown.
Looks like they've narrowed it down to half the city.
They're all over the map on this.
Smells like desperation.
We got a real lead last night.
You should hear it.
[MAN ON RECORDING.]
A whole generation of Negro wiped out with each one of these dead kids.
You'll find the last one in the woods by Sigman Road.
And you can count on another one every month from now on.
[OPERATOR.]
Sir, can you give me - the exact location of - [DIAL TONE BUZZES.]
[OPERATOR.]
Sir? Sir? I can't say.
They all sound the same to me.
Just meanness.
Sorry to make you listen to that.
Thank you, Beverly.
Y'all still looking for my Earl? He'd be 11 now.
Might be taller.
[OFFICER.]
Yes ma'am.
You can be sure we're lookin'.
Call came in last night.
Staked out a three-mile stretch of Sigman Road overnight nothin'.
First light, put in search teams on the ground and in the air.
We have agents questioning known Klan members in the area.
We'll find the body, but, uh, Jim here says you might be able to help us find the caller.
- You won't find a body.
- [REDDING.]
Oh, I'll find it.
Got 250 searchers working grids, canine units.
There is no body.
He's not your man.
- Excuse me? - It might be the same caller as the Terrell case, but he's not your killer.
It's a hoax.
You can tell me that by listening to a tape once? Same tape we've been listening to since midnight? Think about it.
The entire purpose of organizations like the Klan is to sow terror.
Why would they wait until number 18 to claim responsibility? Young man, I've been dealing with the Klan my whole life.
Sometimes their only purpose is to kill whatever black person they can get their hands on.
I have no good reason to doubt this just because it's not what you want to hear.
[HOLDEN.]
But then why call the police, not the press? We've learned from Berkowitz, the Zodiac they want a story.
Lasting mythology.
To find that, they go straight to the press.
It makes the police look like they're the last to know.
That sounds like a grand theory, Agent Ford.
Like you put a lot of thought into it in the two minutes we've been standing here.
But I'm operating on the actual fact that five days ago Lubie Geter, number 18, was dropped off at a mall parking lot to sell car deodorizers.
He never came home.
His mama calls me twice a day.
Besides him, I got four other boys still missing numbers six, eight, twelve, and fourteen, in case you don't wanna remember names.
And this call is the only lead we got.
Are you coming? [FOOT TAPPING RHYTHMICALLY.]
Brian can you tell me why you took the boys to the house? Was it because the baby was crying? Did you think you could make him feel better in the house? It's okay, Bri.
- You can talk to the doc - [HUSHES.]
Do you remember the boys holding the baby? Did you think they were trying to help him? To make him stop crying? [SIGHS.]
[MORITZ.]
It's best for them to know no one will answer for them.
I understand.
Is it necessary to make him remember everything? [MORITZ.]
Well, it may be uncomfortable for us, but it allows him to relate to his feelings in an accepting environment.
His teacher says Brian isn't participating in class and has no interaction with his peers.
[NANCY.]
You spoke with Brian's teacher? Miss Leland did a class visit.
- What she observed - [NANCY.]
Excuse me.
She was in his class? Caseworkers have no obligation to inform you of school visits.
Have you noticed changes in his behavior? Brian has started wetting his bed again on occasion.
Almost every other night.
Even one event tells us a lot about a patient's progress.
[NANCY.]
Like what? What does it tell us? - Well, secondary enuresis is most - Secondary what? [MORITZ.]
Uh, enuresis.
Uh Bed-wetting subsequent to successful toilet training.
The most common cause is psychological trauma.
He's sleeping with his baby toys, things he hasn't touched in years.
Emotional regression can also be a marker for processing extreme distress.
- Is there anything else? - [TENCH.]
He's been sucking his thumb.
I'm prescribing a low dose of desmopressin for the bed-wetting.
You want him to take a pill? It's important he doesn't develop behaviors that place him in a regressed emotional state.
And you need to set limits.
If he wets the bed, make him responsible for washing the sheets.
Isn't he gonna think we're punishing him? Well, you're helping him to deal with what he experienced instead of displacing it.
[NANCY.]
Brian never mentions it.
The other day we drove by the house where it happened.
He watched it go by, and he blurted out, "I want pancakes.
" Is trauma really what's causing him to wet the bed? Isn't it possible that making him come to a doctor's office once a week, having some woman show up at his school and stare at him, - giving him pills - Nance.
isn't it possible that those things are making him regress? He's reminded every day that he's not normal.
If he was at home, doing the things he used to do Kids get over stuff.
They forget.
Mrs.
Tench, children do not simply forget trauma.
No one simply forgets.
[PORTER.]
Let me get that for you, sir.
- Hey, thanks.
- [PORTER.]
A pleasure, sir.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
- [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING.]
- I'm with the bureau retreat.
- Yes, sir.
Bill.
You're just getting here? Cutting it close.
I wanted to clear off my desk before leaving town, sir.
The judge's plane took off late, so you get a little reprieve.
The judge? [GUNN.]
Director Webster was a judge before his appointment.
He prefers his judicial title, which, in rules of protocol, takes precedence.
He is a man who appreciates pecking order.
Good to know.
The judge's advance.
Gentlemen, how long? [AGENT.]
Pulling in now, sir.
- [RECEPTIONIST.]
There you are.
- Thank you.
It's good to be king.
Yes, it is.
The schedule has you in for an hour, but keep it to 40 minutes.
And maybe lose the jacket and tie.
These retreat symposia are 90 percent retreat, ten percent symposia.
I'll buy you a little time.
- Judge.
- Ted, great to see you.
- You already got a round in.
- [GUNN.]
And Wyman owes us all a drink.
- We'll cut you in.
- Mm, okay, then.
Gentlemen.
[NANCY.]
Brian.
Brian, your sandwich is ready.
Brian? Brian? Brian! Brian! Adele! Have you seen Brian? [SQUEAKING.]
[NANCY.]
Brian? Brian! Did you hear me calling you? Go on, honey.
Go on.
You can go play with her.
Come on, Paige.
It's time to go.
Come on, honey.
- Grandma's waiting for us.
- [PAIGE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Brian, we don't stare.
Remember? It's impolite.
Look at me.
I need you to come home so we can [HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING.]
- [DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
- [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
- Delta Sector, report.
- Chief Redding, I feel like we [MAN 1 ON RADIO.]
Delta Sector report negative.
[MAN 2 ON RADIO.]
sector report negative.
Sir, chopper needs to refuel.
He suggests suspending for the night.
All sectors, all sectors, suspend.
- Y'all start coming on in.
- [MAN 1 ON RADIO.]
Copy that.
- No body.
- Come on, bring it in, guys! - That what you wanted to hear? - [OFFICER 1.]
Let's go! - No, sir.
It's not.
- [OFFICER 1 WHISTLES.]
It's bad if you don't find one.
Worse if you do.
I wanted to say, I feel like we started off wrong.
You could say that.
I only meant we don't wanna waste our your resources on every tip.
Over the past year, I've pulled children's bodies out of creek beds, woods, vacant buildings.
[MAN 1 ON RADIO.]
Chief, we'll be opening the road here - as things clear out.
- Roger.
We have thousands of acres of untended property.
When we get any lead that narrows it to one road, I have no choice but to take it.
We've learned things about how these types of killers think.
We can anticipate them, focus on their next move instead of just reacting.
We have a meeting Monday morning with all the jurisdictions.
You have a way to narrow things down, happy to hear it.
Now I have to go brief the mayor.
- [PEOPLE CLAMORING.]
- Shit.
[OFFICER 2.]
Stay back! [REPORTER 1.]
Chief Redding! Chief Redding! Chief Redding, has there been another body found? Did the FBI initiate this search? [REPORTER 2.]
We heard about a phone call.
Did you find a body? [REDDING.]
I have no statement at this time.
[REPORTER 2.]
Was there a body found? [REPORTER 1.]
Did the FBI call for this search? Will the FBI work with APD, or are you running your own investigation? - [REPORTERS CLAMORING.]
- [REPORTER 1.]
Any leads? Any suspects? Any more leads? - [HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING OVERHEAD.]
- [ENGINE TURNS OVER.]
[WEBSTER.]
It's a local case, Ted.
It's gotten national attention.
The bureau responding to this is like a tail wagging the dog.
- [GROUP CHUCKLES.]
- [WEBSTER.]
Agent Tench, you're going down there.
What can your unit bring to this case? [TENCH.]
Well, sir, we'll be looking for connections.
We think some of these cases may be linked.
Sir, the work these guys are doing is groundbreaking.
They've interviewed Manson.
Manson's crazier than a shithouse rat.
[GROUP CHUCKLES.]
Can we really learn from someone like him, Agent? We've also interviewed more cogent subjects.
Such as? [TENCH.]
Ed Kemper.
The Co-ed Killer.
- Beheaded ten college girls.
- [TENCH.]
Well, six actually.
But he did kill ten people.
What was he like? To talk to? Well, he's 6'9".
[WEBSTER.]
Oh! [TENCH.]
So he could be a little intimidating to sit across from with no guard, no sidearm, no cuffs.
But you have to develop a level of trust.
One day, we brought a pizza in and had lunch with him.
We're dividing slices while he's telling us - how hard it is to sever a head.
- [GROUP CHUCKLES.]
And this guy has hands like catcher's mitts, and he's sitting three feet away.
How did he do it? How did he kill 'em? [TENCH.]
He picked up hitchhikers, drove them to a wooded area, and then stabbed and strangled them.
Then he raped 'em and cut off their heads.
And then he raped the heads.
[GROUP MURMURS.]
[WEBSTER.]
Why decapitation? [TENCH.]
He collected them as trophies.
Kemper was the first to make us see these killers develop a sickening personal signature.
And we're learning these offenders start having fantasies very young.
They practice: dolls, animals.
That escalates.
[WEBSTER.]
I dealt with my share of criminals from the bench.
Most of them were bad from the start, even as kids: runaways, loners.
They never fit in.
I always said when I had a juvenile I knew was bad, I wish I could put him away for life.
You could just see it in their eyes.
Gentlemen, they keep a well-stocked humidor behind the bar that I turned a blind eye to.
Shall we? [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[PHONE RINGING.]
[PHONE CONTINUES RINGING.]
- Hello? - [TENCH OVER PHONE.]
Hey, it's me.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER PHONE.]
- It's late.
What time is it? [TENCH.]
It's almost 10:00.
I just called to check in on you.
How's Brian? Fine.
Now.
What do you mean, "now"? He got out.
I I couldn't find him.
Got out? [SIGHS.]
I went door to door.
Finally found him in the park.
He was staring at this child.
Just staring.
[MEN LAUGH.]
But he scared me.
What do you want me to do, Nance? Nothing.
Everything's done.
I just wanted to tell you.
Honey, I don't know what to say.
How about, "I'm gonna take time off to help"? [MEN CHUCKLING.]
You know I can't do that right now.
I know.
You have to work.
I just honestly don't know if I can do this alone, Bill.
You're not alone.
I have to go to sleep.
- [RECEIVER CLATTERS.]
- [DIAL TONE BUZZES.]
[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING ON JUKEBOX.]
[GUNN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Hey, sit down.
- Whiskey, please.
- [BARTENDER.]
Sure thing.
I still want to hear about Manson.
- Make it a double.
- [GROUP LAUGHS.]
[GLASSES CLINK.]
"Do you find yourself getting so lost in your own thoughts that you ignore and forget your surroundings? All the time.
Some of the time.
Occasionally.
Never.
" - Wen.
- Huh? Should I answer for you? I think I have a good shot at this one.
- Where'd you get that? - [KAY.]
Found it on a bus.
- Ew.
- [KAY.]
Come on, it'll be fun.
I'm gonna mark that one as "some of the time.
" Uh "Is it difficult to get you excited?" Oh, you should probably answer that one.
Come on, you have to take this seriously, or the results won't be accurate.
I find it kind of difficult to take a Myers-Briggs test seriously, especially one that has a panty liner ad on the back of it.
I should just focus on this.
[KAY.]
Come on.
There's only a couple left.
"Do you find yourself initiating conversations?" - Yes.
- Really? Yeah.
I initiated conversation with you.
Because you wanted to fuck me.
I initiate conversations all day.
Oh, an interview's not a conversation.
[CARR.]
You know, whose test is this? Yours or mine? [SIGHS.]
I'm just trying to get to know you.
It feels a little like you're trying to get to correct me.
Well, would you rather tell me about whatever it is that you're burying your face in? I'm sorry, ask me another one.
No.
Come on.
Tell me about what you're reading.
It's the, uh It's the Bateson interview.
- Okay.
- [CARR.]
Mm.
It's just a fine line of giving them enough attention so that they'll engage with you, but also being able to steer the conversation.
And when it's over in just a few minutes, it Wasn't worth the effort? He was surprisingly forthcoming in the beginning.
He answered every question, even volunteered information.
But when I got to the questions I really wanted to ask, he just walked out.
So he rope-a-doped you? - I don't know what that means.
- [KAY.]
Rumble in the Jungle? You know, when Ali let George Foreman punch himself out.
Yeah.
Sure, he, uh, "rope-a-doped" me.
Oh, I'm sure he had plenty of practice leading people down the garden path.
[CARR.]
No, I should have seen it coming.
I mean, I've been studying manipulators - my whole career.
- Oh.
On paper.
[SIGHS.]
No, I'm I'm just saying that you you don't have to be an expert at everything the first time.
Huh.
It's just a bit disappointing.
[REPORTER ON TV.]
Another sad chapter in the epidemic of child murders unfolded today in Rockdale County where the FBI conducted an unsuccessful search along Sigman Road.
Channel 2 has been unable to confirm reports that a man called in a tip about where a body could be found.
The FBI and police had no comment.
Meanwhile, the search for 14-year-old Lubie Geter continues.
That's it for us tonight.
It's 10:30.
Do you know where your children are? [NEWS FANFARE PLAYING.]
I always want you present in the local room where my reporters and Mr.
Wallace Cook can drink you in constantly as a warning against fakes! - [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING.]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
- [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
- [TANYA.]
Agent Ford.
[ELEVATOR DOOR OPENS.]
[HOLDEN.]
Tanya.
- [ELEVATOR DOOR CLOSES.]
- [HOLDEN.]
Hi.
[TANYA.]
I thought that was you.
I saw you'd checked in, for a while it looks like.
Until it's over.
I was expecting you sooner.
I came the moment they opened an official FBI investigation.
[TAKES A DEEP BREATH.]
And you should know we've moved beyond looking into the families.
I came down specifically to refocus the APD's efforts.
I saw on the news someone called about a body.
He a suspect? I can't say officially, but A man calls to tell you he did it, you may want to consider him.
I'm not at liberty to discuss details, but my unit is here to focus on what we consider most probable.
[TANYA.]
Most probable for each child? They all got different things going on.
Some of them hustling jobs here and there.
Carrying groceries, running errands.
A few of them might've gotten themselves into situations - they didn't know were dangerous.
- What does that mean? You looking at where these kids work? Parking lots, drive-throughs? I'm sure we will.
Our most recent was seen selling car deodorizers outside a mall.
Lubie Geter.
Right.
Not all of 'em have car deodorizers to sell.
They do whatever they can.
What do you mean? Drugs? There's drugs, panhandling.
Some kids learn to steal little things and sell them.
Folks have been saying that a few of these boys could be selling themselves.
These kids are 11, 12.
Every kid is told to watch out for strangers.
Most have no idea how dangerous some strangers can be.
- All I'm sayin' is - [PHONE RINGING.]
you all should be looking at those people too.
[RECEIVER RATTLES.]
This is the Omni.
Tanya speaking.
How may I help you? Absolutely.
One moment.
[LOCK RATTLING.]
[GRUNTS.]
[GROANS SOFTLY.]
[SIGHS.]
[SIGHS.]
[COINS CLATTER.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
- Morning.
- [BARNEY.]
Good morning.
What do you know about child prostitution in Atlanta? [BARNEY.]
I know it goes on.
The same as any big city.
It's not something I've dealt with, but I can ask Atlanta PD.
Why? I need files on known pedophiles in the greater Atlanta area.
- [DOOR SQUEAKS.]
- Sure.
We can look into that.
It looks like greater Atlanta just walked in.
Gonna be interesting to see how they take to us.
There's no reason for them not to want our help.
Bill! Hey! Good to see ya.
Welcome, Bill.
This is us.
Sorry to miss first day of school.
What are we starting with? We're about to walk into a meeting with the county chiefs.
Chief Redding wants our advice on how to focus the investigation.
Sounds good.
[HOLDEN.]
For instance, David Berkowitz, Son of Sam, told us he was compelled to go back to a specific site where he had killed before.
To physically relive the experience.
You interviewed Son of Sam? [TENCH.]
We did.
So the theory is, instead of trying to cover all of Atlanta, we concentrate on where we believe the killer may return.
We'll deploy teams to canvass previous abduction and dump sites, narrowing our scope to these higher probability areas.
Go back over all the ground we've already covered? [TENCH.]
Neighbors may have seen someone returning to a scene.
Maybe something was moved or left.
Y'all are assuming it's one suspect.
We got 18 cases spread all over kingdom come.
So many murders in the same age and socioeconomic range is highly improbable without at least some being linked.
That how we're gonna proceed, Chief? Seems like we're ignoring a lot of possibilities.
Nobody's saying rule anybody out.
But let's focus our manpower.
Chief, this kind of focus means recanvassing 18 abduction and dump sites, plus reinterviewing dozens of witnesses.
Gonna really stretch your manpower.
We can use academy recruits to fill out the teams.
Only way we'll be able to even half-ass it.
Based on this, I'm redeploying today's search to a previous dump site Redwine Road, where we found Milton Harvey's remains.
Assemble your teams.
See if this amounts to anything.
- [TENCH.]
Thank you, Chief.
- [HOLDEN.]
Thank you.
- Thank you.
- [REDDING.]
Thank you, gentlemen.
Remember Earl Terrell? I'd like to work his case.
He's still missing, but I think we could do more than we did for him.
[TENCH.]
Of course.
Mind if I round out your team? Think I'll join the Chief at the dump site.
[TENCH.]
Okay.
[BARNEY.]
So he was last seen - at the pool across the park.
- [THUNDER RUMBLES.]
It was a long time ago, but do you remember him? I seen him.
Him and a couple others.
[BARNEY.]
You recall seeing him last summer? Yeah.
Lots of times.
Are you out here on your porch two days a week? - Three? - Well, if it's hot, I'm out here every day.
So in the summer, I see everybody.
Sometimes them kids head down that house there.
- [TENCH.]
The brick house? - [WOMAN.]
Mm-hmm.
And sometimes they go to Elsie's.
There.
- [TENCH.]
That yellow house? - [WOMAN.]
Mm-hmm.
Ma'am, are those glasses prescription? These are my readers.
For my stories.
Anything else you told the officers before could be helpful.
Weren't no officers come here.
Ain't nobody ask us nothin'.
Thank you, ma'am.
You've been very helpful.
- [WOMAN.]
Mm-hmm.
- [BARNEY.]
Thank you.
There's no car at the brick house.
Elsie's first.
That's the third person we've talked to within one block of where this kid disappeared, and not one of them was interviewed.
Starting to think there's a lot that's dropped through the cracks.
[BANGS ON HOOD.]
We called and told them Earl came by the day he went missing, but nobody came askin'.
He was looking for Albert, but Albert wasn't home, so Earl, he left.
- Albert, get in here.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV.]
Tell 'em about Earl.
Him and Lubie come over to play sometimes.
I wasn't here.
Lubie Geter? - He and Earl knew each other? - [ALBERT.]
Yeah.
Earl act sometimes like Lubie's big brother, take him around and stuff.
Where would Earl take him? [ALBERT.]
You know, just around.
Do you know where else Earl might have gone that day? It's all right, baby.
They with the FBI.
You can tell them.
See? You wanna hold it? Anybody else Earl might have gone to play with? They used to hang with Pat-Man.
Does Pat-Man have a last name? [ELSIE.]
Won't do no good.
He was uh, one of them.
One of them? He was right before Lubie.
His real name was Patrick Rogers.
I didn't like him comin' around here.
He too old for these boys.
Anything else you can tell the men? [OFFICER.]
Excuse me, the ME's heading out to Redwine Road.
They found something.
Thank you so much, ma'am.
[BARNEY.]
Let's get the address for the brick house.
- [HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING.]
- [SIRENS BLARING.]
[HOLDEN.]
Guys, these remains are less than 100 yards from where Milton Harvey was dumped 13 months ago.
He's returning to the scene.
What's the press doing here? Get down there and set up a perimeter! This is now a crime scene.
[DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
Forensics show up yet? We don't have a body retrieval unit.
Recruits will collect any evidence.
It's not Lubie Geter.
Been out here too long.
But it could be one of the other three still missing.
Earl Terrell was wearing shorts when he disappeared.
What do you got? I found these close to the road.
A tennis shoe, one cigarette butt, and a couple of porno mags.
- Porno? - [OFFICER 1.]
Yes, sir.
Gallery and Penthouse.
There's tire tracks, a heavy vehicle, near where we found 'em.
- [OFFICER 2.]
Body! Body! - [OFFICER 3.]
Body! - [OFFICER 4.]
Come on! Body! - [WHISTLE BLOWS.]
Get this stuff into evidence bags and get some gloves.
Yes, sir.
We need to get a real forensics unit down here.
Three bodies at one site.
It's one guy.
And this is his graveyard.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[REDDING.]
Well, lucky he had a prior.
Never would have traced the prints off those magazines.
A plumber.
Runs his own business out of his rented home.
Short rap sheet.
- One incident of petty theft.
- [HOLDEN.]
What kind? Clothing? Personal items? [REDDING.]
Tires.
Seemed like he needed a set of 4 when he was 19.
No, uh, prior assault.
No history of racial violence.
Sound like our man? Wait a minute, this guy's Caucasian.
Doesn't change anything if we can tie him directly to a scene.
We should at least follow up on that.
[HOLDEN.]
Those magazines are adult women, not black children.
Even if the labs are positive for semen, it supports nothing.
Holden, we have three bodies within 100 yards of each other.
[HOLDEN.]
There's no doubt the unsub's dumping them there.
I'm just saying, before we drag in Pickett Yarborough, he's not who we're looking for.
[TENCH.]
Did we run his car? White 1975 pickup truck.
No police-type vehicle.
No, but utilitarian.
You could keep a hunting kit without drawing suspicion.
We could surveil him.
[TENCH.]
If he smells us at all, he'll destroy evidence.
We need to get warrants.
Search his house, his truck.
I think we should bring him in.
Even if it's just to rule him out.
Jim, you're familiar with DA Slaton, are you not? Slaton's third generation law.
He ain't by the book, he is the book.
- [THUNDER RUMBLES.]
- [BRAKES SCREECH.]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
- [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING.]
Excuse me, gentlemen, we're closed for an event.
We need to speak with District Attorney Slaton.
If you could point him out to us.
Uh, I'm sorry, we're a private institution.
I'm happy to let Mr.
Slaton know you're here, mister Special Agents Tench, Ford, and Barney.
Excuse me a moment? Mr.
and Mrs.
Peteet, right this way.
Well enjoy your evening.
Mr.
Slaton is making an address at the moment.
Excuse me.
Mr.
and Mrs.
Hamilton, right this way.
I apologize.
If you gentlemen could just wait in wait in here, I'll ask if he can see you afterwards.
Thank you.
Mr.
and Mrs.
Trambley.
We're only going to get Slaton's ear for a minute.
- [CROWD APPLAUDS.]
- I'll call and see if the labs are back.
[SLATON.]
It's been my pleasure to serve as chair of the fund drive this season.
I told the board, I can't string two notes together, but I know good music when I hear it.
Our symphony stands up against any in the country.
New York, Philadelphia, you name it.
Music lover.
Who'd have thought? But no cultural organization can flourish without benevolent donors like yourselves.
You are the very lifeblood of the arts in Atlanta.
- Yes, my wife wrote that last part for me.
- [CROWD CHUCKLES.]
But it's absolutely true.
These musicians are a credit to their community, to our city, and to the great state of Georgia.
So please, give generously and enjoy your evening.
Thank you.
[TENCH.]
Labs are back.
No blood, but definite seminal fluid.
- [STRING QUARTET PLAYING.]
- Gonna be a hard sell.
I'd hoped since you gentlemen thought it necessary to pull me out of my wife's event, which took three months to plan, you'd have a more compelling argument.
Sir, if I can explain our methodology.
[SLATON.]
I'm an evidence man, Agent Tench.
You have no eyewitness account, no relevant priors, no evidence directly tying this man to any of the bodies.
Sir, these types of crimes are sexually motivated.
The men who perpetrate them are compelled to repeat the crime or to relive the sexual satisfaction by going to crime scenes and feeling that relief again.
Finding three bodies over time and a clear-cut scene of self-gratification at the same remote site [BARNEY.]
We're concerned that if we merely surveil, the suspect will destroy the evidence you'll need to prosecute.
As intriguing as that sounds, I've never issued warrants based on radical psychological theories.
My constituents trust that I will protect their rights against unlawful search and seizure.
Lubie Geter has been missing for six days.
We've got no leads and the clock is ticking.
I'll grant your warrants.
But I want no press.
None.
This must remain absolutely silent.
Understood.
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING.]
- [YARBOROUGH.]
It's okay.
- [WOMAN.]
No.
- [YARBOROUGH.]
Baby, don't worry about me.
- [WOMAN.]
What's happening? - [YARBOROUGH.]
It'll be all right.
- [WOMAN.]
Don't touch me.
[YARBOROUGH.]
It'll be fine, baby.
- This is a mistake.
- [WOMAN.]
Don't you touch me! Honey! Honey, please just tell me, what's happening? [SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY.]
Don't you touch me.
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
- [YARBOROUGH.]
It's okay, baby.
- [WOMAN.]
Hon Honey? Honey, please come back.
He can't know we've got his truck until we get him in the room.
Hey! - Send him around the block.
- [OFFICER.]
Go ahead.
Circle around.
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING OVERHEAD.]
I don't know, guys.
Who's going first? Nobody for a while.
We ought to at least start working through the timeline.
He might have a string of alibis for all we know.
We found it's best to let them wait, especially at night.
If this is the guy, it's the best way to break him.
Where are we with him? Commissioner.
[BROWN.]
How confident are we he's our perpetrator? We won't know until we get in there.
Well, let's start working on him.
The longer we keep him, the more likely someone will get wind of this.
Slaton said he was very clear with you.
This is about setting the right conditions, creating leverage with the subject.
We may only get him once in this state of mind.
If we get nothing from him and this hits the papers, this will be our second public setback in a week.
[HOLDEN.]
We should put as much effort into law enforcement - as we do managing perceptions.
- Holden.
[REDDING.]
Right now, we better put together a statement because looks like they got hold of it.
Shit.
I'll let them know it's an ongoing investigation.
We're in the process of ID'ing bodies.
[CHUCKLES.]
I don't think so.
How does the press find out everywhere we go? I don't know, but I hope we find something in that fucking truck.
[REPORTERS CLAMORING.]
[BROWN.]
I cannot comment on the individual at this time, other than to say that we have issued a custodial warrant.
No charges have been issued.
- [SHUTTERS CLICKING.]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[BROWN.]
Ladies and gentlemen, we will keep you apprised.
["LUNATIC FRINGE" PLAYING.]
Lunatic fringe I know you're out there You're in hiding And you hold your meetings I can hear you coming I know what you're after We're wise to you this time We're wise to you this time We won't let you kill the laughter Oh! Oh! Oh! - We can hear you coming - We can hear you coming No, you're not gonna win this time Not gonna win We can hear the footsteps - We can hear the footsteps - Hey! Out along the walkway Out along the walkway Lunatic fringe We all know you're out there Can you feel the resistance Can you feel the thunder? [SIREN BLARING.]
Oh, no! Hey!
[COPIER WHINES, CLICKS.]
[BEEPING RAPIDLY.]
[RATTLES.]
[BANGS VIOLENTLY.]
Let me help you.
- Oh, I can get it.
J-Just show me.
- [PHOTOCOPIER BEEPS.]
This one's been acting up all day.
Then you shouldn't let people use it.
[MAN.]
You gotta really get in there.
[LATCH OPENS.]
Poetry, huh? [ADT SERVICEMAN.]
You really need to put an "Out of Order" sign on it.
This is only half.
All right.
Well, take the original.
I need the other half.
The Xerox guy's gonna have to clear it.
Then call one.
That's my property.
I'm not leaving without it.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
[GREGG.]
The bodies were dismembered, stuffed in trash bags, and spent between two and six weeks in the Hudson River.
None of the six victims was ever identified.
Cause of death never determined.
Police were able to trace, uh, the articles of clothing to a fetish shop on Christopher Street that catered to the leather community.
And there's the Lambda tattoo.
Maybe he was a Greek scholar.
Paul Bateson frequented the gay bars in the Meatpacking District, but police could never connect him to the bodies.
He was only convicted for one murder because he called a journalist and confessed to it.
The final victim, Addison Verrill.
Who was not dismembered and stuffed in a bag, so why should we talk to this guy if we don't even know he did these? Because he told a friend he was the Bag Murderer.
And that he liked to kill.
Isn't someone who practices S&M already equating arousal with violence? - He's just a step - S/M.
The correct terminology is S/M.
Sadomasochism.
Not "sado and masochism.
" S/M is primarily the exchange of power between a dominant and a submissive.
Pain and violence are just two types of currency within that exchange.
There's also humiliation, fear, sometimes even tickling.
Tickled to death? Whole new meaning.
The fact that one of the victims wore a dog collar makes me think our guy likes to be in charge.
Well, due to the condition of the bodies, we have no evidence of how he killed or whether S/M was even one of his MOs.
Who else would prey on guys like these? They were into the same stuff, and he gets off on going too far.
Well, this isn't just a case of someone who occasionally crossed the line of consent.
This is a practiced, organized killer.
Dismembering and disposing of the bodies without witnesses? I mean, that takes planning and commitment.
[GREGG.]
Well, there's no denying his victim pool is specific to what gives him sexual pleasure.
- But they're low-hanging fruit for him.
- [CHUCKLES.]
I'll say.
He's accepted in their environment, and he knows how to lure them.
[HOLDEN.]
They actually want to be tied up.
So you're saying his victim selection is about opportunity.
[CARR.]
I'm just saying that it would be interesting to find out how essential his sexual practices were to how he killed.
[CARR.]
And why.
You know, was sadomasochism just a convenient way for Bateson to find his victims, - or was it fundamental to his - [HOLDEN.]
That's Atlanta.
It's the police commissioner.
As Jackson said, we would like to applaud the decision made by the Department of Justice to open an FBI investigation into Atlanta's missing and murdered children.
Director Webster has assured me that the bureau will coordinate with our own task force and make their abundant resources available to our city.
[GUNN.]
We've already been to Atlanta once.
We've done the background work.
[MAN ON SPEAKER.]
The vice president's placing the highest priority on this.
I don't want us to look like we're running a research project down there.
Absolutely not.
We're there to get convictions.
All right, Ted.
I'll call Wyman, tell him we're sending the BSU instead of that third canine unit he wants.
They better be house-trained.
[GUNN.]
And on a short leash.
You have my word.
That was Director Webster.
The president doesn't want child murder lingering over his first 100 days, so he's throwing George Bush at this.
The director wants to be sure the bureau comes out smelling good to this administration.
And it came down to us or Lassie.
[GUNN.]
Essentially.
Holden, I'd like you there as soon as possible.
Bill, you can fly out Monday, right after the directors' retreat.
[SIGHS.]
Webster's going out on a limb.
He needs to understand who we are, have assurance in what we can do.
Yes, sir.
We're budgeted through the end, so pack accordingly.
They're following 17 cases.
[TENCH.]
That could be a while.
If Webster's involved, he's going for closure.
We want to be part of that.
Go do what you do, but as we've learned, our methods are not always gonna be received with unbridled enthusiasm, so Play nice.
Play smart.
Bill.
We will be okay.
Yes, sir.
[KNOCKS ON DOOR.]
How are we supposed to fulfill Gunn's expansive vision if he keeps sending you away? This time it comes from the very top.
Well, I can select support staff, but I can't recruit and train agents.
I need to be back in town every Friday for some things with Brian.
I'll spend the afternoon here, do what I can.
You and Gregg take Bateson.
Keep the interviews going.
You're going to leave Holden alone three days a week? He's down there on his own till Monday as it is.
Gunn wants me at the directors' retreat.
I mean, last time he managed to get you tossed out, and you were with him.
I'll call Jim Barney.
Ask him to be Holden's wingman till I get there.
It's three days.
Exactly.
- [DOOR OPENS.]
- [TENCH.]
Nance? Back here! [UNDER BREATH.]
Jeez.
[IN NORMAL VOICE.]
Want some dinner? There's spaghetti and one chicken leg.
- [KISSES.]
- No, I'm bushed.
How's Bri? He's fine.
How was your day? Super.
How super? It was fine.
Um, hand me that bag.
Thanks.
Is it that bad? Three times this week.
If he wets again tonight, I'm throwing them out.
I got cheapies.
Jesus.
Brian hasn't wet the bed for [NANCY.]
Three years and five months.
Believe me, I remember.
Today I found him playing with his baby toys.
Three Men in a Tub.
It's like he's going backwards.
Just when he was getting some independence.
Suddenly, I'm potty training again.
Let's talk to Dr.
Moritz tomorrow.
Maybe it's part of the process.
[NANCY.]
Oh, I haven't packed you yet.
But your suit's back from the cleaners.
It's okay.
I'll pack.
Don't worry about it.
Oh, have you spoken to Gunn today? - Bill, you need to take time off.
- [SIGHS.]
Brian needs you.
I need help with him.
Honey, I just found out today: after the retreat, I have to go to Atlanta.
We've opened an investigation into the murders there.
I don't have a choice.
Okay.
Look, I'm coming home every Thursday night for the Friday appointments.
I'll stay all weekend.
- Every week.
- I said okay.
You say there's nothing you can do, so the decision's been made.
[SIGHS.]
[MAN.]
My biggest complaint is I can't get to the Joffrey.
But prison dried me out.
I was draining two bottles of vodka a day till I lost my job.
You were a radiology technician.
Until I was an usher in a porn theater.
Now I'm sober, work out every day.
And mostly they leave me unsupervised.
Actually, I'd appreciate a little more discipline.
[PRISONERS YELLING IN DISTANCE.]
How did you meet Addison Verrill? Sitting at the bar at The Anvil.
We were doing poppers.
Started talking porn.
He knew them all.
Appreciated the good ones.
Good ones? [BATESON.]
Anybody can roll a camera on a piece of muscle plowing some bottom raw.
I can catch that live at The Tunnel.
But there's an art to letting things happen in the right rhythm.
Finding that bond in violence.
You watch any porn? Bonding in violence.
Is that how you prefer to relate to people? On a deeper level, probably.
- Love is violence.
Sex is violence.
- [CARR.]
Is it? Every interaction is violence, it's just a matter of scale.
How much of something do we want to feel? Does it feel good when your lover takes your hand and you didn't expect it? Does it feel better when he grabs your nipples? Twists them? What did Addison think about violence? Full into it.
The films he liked, the things he said.
I could tell.
Is that why you picked him? - No, we pick each other, don't we? - [CARR.]
But he was your type.
No, not really.
Usually, I don't like swishes.
They give us all a bad name.
Addison was holding court at the bar.
He could've left with anyone, but he stuck with me.
That was nice.
When you went back to his apartment, had you already decided to kill him? No.
We smoked some weed.
Drank some of his Scotch.
Had lots of sex.
He liked it rough.
That's how they knew it was me.
When I called that reporter, I told him the couch and rug were covered in Crisco.
Police hadn't figured out what it was.
[CHUCKLES.]
What happened after? I hadn't come down yet.
He asked me if I wanted a joint.
I hit him with a skillet, and then I stabbed him.
Was that the natural conclusion of an arousal experience for you? The "rough" sex that you had, did it build in intensity? - Was - [BATESON.]
Sure.
You always wanna have somewhere to go.
Pain is the release.
The fear that's what you want to play with.
So, was killing Addison an extension of the sexual violence? No, we were done.
Wore ourselves out.
You can only go for so long.
[CARR.]
Then why did you kill him? [DOOR SLAMS IN DISTANCE.]
[SIGHS.]
It It wasn't a soul act for him.
I was looking for real connection.
[CARR.]
Was The Anvil a place that you had found a real connection before? [BATESON.]
No.
But there's always that moment where something might turn into the real thing.
It just didn't.
That's what we're all looking for.
Connection.
When you went out, were you a dominant or a submissive? [BATESON.]
Those days, I was a total top.
[CARR.]
Those days? I started off as a bottom.
Most do.
That's how you learn what to do.
What a bottom wants to feel.
How far you can go.
So you were practiced at finding that moment when things could turn into nothing or into connection, or perhaps into deeper violence.
The Bag Murders, six leathermen dumped in the Hudson in garbage bags.
Do you think that the person who killed those men could've been experimenting? Seeing how it felt to go too far? They keep trying to get me for those.
Gay guy into leather.
- So imaginative.
- [CARR.]
It's more than that.
You also worked in a hospital.
You had some training in anatomy, access to medical instruments.
I wasn't squeamish if that's what you're asking.
- But I wasn't a surgeon.
- [GLENN.]
You did confess to a friend.
You actually told him, verbatim, "I like to kill.
" Ugh.
God We were all so fucked up at the time.
The cops actually said if I confess, I would do less time on a plea deal.
- Less time? - [BATESON.]
Crazy, right? They just want to say they closed the books.
Keep the queens happy.
But I got news: the queens want this to be some uptight straight guy.
Why would they care who it is? Perceptions matter when you're an "aberration," Anita.
We can't be seen as eating our own.
Do you think it was an angry straight guy? Leathermen can smell a straight guy a mile away.
No one would go anywhere with him.
Clubbers are looking for guys who know what they're doing.
So the killer would be experienced.
[BATESON.]
He'd be cruising for the guy that wants exactly what he wants to give.
He's watched a thousand guys, gone home with hundreds.
Feeling for the right pulse, the right quickening of breath.
He's looking for the guy that just wants it.
Nobody wants to die.
No, but some want to feel what it's like to almost die.
They let you go just a bit further.
Might even beg you.
And that would excite him? Of course.
So he would know the victims, may have been with them intimately before.
[BATESON.]
Why waste time on an unknown? And then what would he do? And then he works 'em.
Hard.
Until there's a connection.
What sort of connection? Well, that's the mystery.
It's trust with fear.
Complete vulnerability.
He lets the master take him just across that line.
How? How would he kill him? How long would he take? What would he use? What marks would he leave? Everyone in the scene's into their own thing.
You'd have to ask him.
Alan.
- [ALAN.]
Yeah.
- I'm ready.
[ALAN.]
All right.
Let's move him out.
[DOOR OPENS.]
- Only your killer would know that.
- [HANDCUFFS CLICK.]
- [PHONES RINGING.]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[RECEPTIONIST.]
Good morning.
[BARNEY.]
Holden.
[HOLDEN.]
Jim! This has grown.
Looks like they've narrowed it down to half the city.
They're all over the map on this.
Smells like desperation.
We got a real lead last night.
You should hear it.
[MAN ON RECORDING.]
A whole generation of Negro wiped out with each one of these dead kids.
You'll find the last one in the woods by Sigman Road.
And you can count on another one every month from now on.
[OPERATOR.]
Sir, can you give me - the exact location of - [DIAL TONE BUZZES.]
[OPERATOR.]
Sir? Sir? I can't say.
They all sound the same to me.
Just meanness.
Sorry to make you listen to that.
Thank you, Beverly.
Y'all still looking for my Earl? He'd be 11 now.
Might be taller.
[OFFICER.]
Yes ma'am.
You can be sure we're lookin'.
Call came in last night.
Staked out a three-mile stretch of Sigman Road overnight nothin'.
First light, put in search teams on the ground and in the air.
We have agents questioning known Klan members in the area.
We'll find the body, but, uh, Jim here says you might be able to help us find the caller.
- You won't find a body.
- [REDDING.]
Oh, I'll find it.
Got 250 searchers working grids, canine units.
There is no body.
He's not your man.
- Excuse me? - It might be the same caller as the Terrell case, but he's not your killer.
It's a hoax.
You can tell me that by listening to a tape once? Same tape we've been listening to since midnight? Think about it.
The entire purpose of organizations like the Klan is to sow terror.
Why would they wait until number 18 to claim responsibility? Young man, I've been dealing with the Klan my whole life.
Sometimes their only purpose is to kill whatever black person they can get their hands on.
I have no good reason to doubt this just because it's not what you want to hear.
[HOLDEN.]
But then why call the police, not the press? We've learned from Berkowitz, the Zodiac they want a story.
Lasting mythology.
To find that, they go straight to the press.
It makes the police look like they're the last to know.
That sounds like a grand theory, Agent Ford.
Like you put a lot of thought into it in the two minutes we've been standing here.
But I'm operating on the actual fact that five days ago Lubie Geter, number 18, was dropped off at a mall parking lot to sell car deodorizers.
He never came home.
His mama calls me twice a day.
Besides him, I got four other boys still missing numbers six, eight, twelve, and fourteen, in case you don't wanna remember names.
And this call is the only lead we got.
Are you coming? [FOOT TAPPING RHYTHMICALLY.]
Brian can you tell me why you took the boys to the house? Was it because the baby was crying? Did you think you could make him feel better in the house? It's okay, Bri.
- You can talk to the doc - [HUSHES.]
Do you remember the boys holding the baby? Did you think they were trying to help him? To make him stop crying? [SIGHS.]
[MORITZ.]
It's best for them to know no one will answer for them.
I understand.
Is it necessary to make him remember everything? [MORITZ.]
Well, it may be uncomfortable for us, but it allows him to relate to his feelings in an accepting environment.
His teacher says Brian isn't participating in class and has no interaction with his peers.
[NANCY.]
You spoke with Brian's teacher? Miss Leland did a class visit.
- What she observed - [NANCY.]
Excuse me.
She was in his class? Caseworkers have no obligation to inform you of school visits.
Have you noticed changes in his behavior? Brian has started wetting his bed again on occasion.
Almost every other night.
Even one event tells us a lot about a patient's progress.
[NANCY.]
Like what? What does it tell us? - Well, secondary enuresis is most - Secondary what? [MORITZ.]
Uh, enuresis.
Uh Bed-wetting subsequent to successful toilet training.
The most common cause is psychological trauma.
He's sleeping with his baby toys, things he hasn't touched in years.
Emotional regression can also be a marker for processing extreme distress.
- Is there anything else? - [TENCH.]
He's been sucking his thumb.
I'm prescribing a low dose of desmopressin for the bed-wetting.
You want him to take a pill? It's important he doesn't develop behaviors that place him in a regressed emotional state.
And you need to set limits.
If he wets the bed, make him responsible for washing the sheets.
Isn't he gonna think we're punishing him? Well, you're helping him to deal with what he experienced instead of displacing it.
[NANCY.]
Brian never mentions it.
The other day we drove by the house where it happened.
He watched it go by, and he blurted out, "I want pancakes.
" Is trauma really what's causing him to wet the bed? Isn't it possible that making him come to a doctor's office once a week, having some woman show up at his school and stare at him, - giving him pills - Nance.
isn't it possible that those things are making him regress? He's reminded every day that he's not normal.
If he was at home, doing the things he used to do Kids get over stuff.
They forget.
Mrs.
Tench, children do not simply forget trauma.
No one simply forgets.
[PORTER.]
Let me get that for you, sir.
- Hey, thanks.
- [PORTER.]
A pleasure, sir.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
- [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING.]
- I'm with the bureau retreat.
- Yes, sir.
Bill.
You're just getting here? Cutting it close.
I wanted to clear off my desk before leaving town, sir.
The judge's plane took off late, so you get a little reprieve.
The judge? [GUNN.]
Director Webster was a judge before his appointment.
He prefers his judicial title, which, in rules of protocol, takes precedence.
He is a man who appreciates pecking order.
Good to know.
The judge's advance.
Gentlemen, how long? [AGENT.]
Pulling in now, sir.
- [RECEPTIONIST.]
There you are.
- Thank you.
It's good to be king.
Yes, it is.
The schedule has you in for an hour, but keep it to 40 minutes.
And maybe lose the jacket and tie.
These retreat symposia are 90 percent retreat, ten percent symposia.
I'll buy you a little time.
- Judge.
- Ted, great to see you.
- You already got a round in.
- [GUNN.]
And Wyman owes us all a drink.
- We'll cut you in.
- Mm, okay, then.
Gentlemen.
[NANCY.]
Brian.
Brian, your sandwich is ready.
Brian? Brian? Brian! Brian! Adele! Have you seen Brian? [SQUEAKING.]
[NANCY.]
Brian? Brian! Did you hear me calling you? Go on, honey.
Go on.
You can go play with her.
Come on, Paige.
It's time to go.
Come on, honey.
- Grandma's waiting for us.
- [PAIGE SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Brian, we don't stare.
Remember? It's impolite.
Look at me.
I need you to come home so we can [HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING.]
- [DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
- [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
- Delta Sector, report.
- Chief Redding, I feel like we [MAN 1 ON RADIO.]
Delta Sector report negative.
[MAN 2 ON RADIO.]
sector report negative.
Sir, chopper needs to refuel.
He suggests suspending for the night.
All sectors, all sectors, suspend.
- Y'all start coming on in.
- [MAN 1 ON RADIO.]
Copy that.
- No body.
- Come on, bring it in, guys! - That what you wanted to hear? - [OFFICER 1.]
Let's go! - No, sir.
It's not.
- [OFFICER 1 WHISTLES.]
It's bad if you don't find one.
Worse if you do.
I wanted to say, I feel like we started off wrong.
You could say that.
I only meant we don't wanna waste our your resources on every tip.
Over the past year, I've pulled children's bodies out of creek beds, woods, vacant buildings.
[MAN 1 ON RADIO.]
Chief, we'll be opening the road here - as things clear out.
- Roger.
We have thousands of acres of untended property.
When we get any lead that narrows it to one road, I have no choice but to take it.
We've learned things about how these types of killers think.
We can anticipate them, focus on their next move instead of just reacting.
We have a meeting Monday morning with all the jurisdictions.
You have a way to narrow things down, happy to hear it.
Now I have to go brief the mayor.
- [PEOPLE CLAMORING.]
- Shit.
[OFFICER 2.]
Stay back! [REPORTER 1.]
Chief Redding! Chief Redding! Chief Redding, has there been another body found? Did the FBI initiate this search? [REPORTER 2.]
We heard about a phone call.
Did you find a body? [REDDING.]
I have no statement at this time.
[REPORTER 2.]
Was there a body found? [REPORTER 1.]
Did the FBI call for this search? Will the FBI work with APD, or are you running your own investigation? - [REPORTERS CLAMORING.]
- [REPORTER 1.]
Any leads? Any suspects? Any more leads? - [HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING OVERHEAD.]
- [ENGINE TURNS OVER.]
[WEBSTER.]
It's a local case, Ted.
It's gotten national attention.
The bureau responding to this is like a tail wagging the dog.
- [GROUP CHUCKLES.]
- [WEBSTER.]
Agent Tench, you're going down there.
What can your unit bring to this case? [TENCH.]
Well, sir, we'll be looking for connections.
We think some of these cases may be linked.
Sir, the work these guys are doing is groundbreaking.
They've interviewed Manson.
Manson's crazier than a shithouse rat.
[GROUP CHUCKLES.]
Can we really learn from someone like him, Agent? We've also interviewed more cogent subjects.
Such as? [TENCH.]
Ed Kemper.
The Co-ed Killer.
- Beheaded ten college girls.
- [TENCH.]
Well, six actually.
But he did kill ten people.
What was he like? To talk to? Well, he's 6'9".
[WEBSTER.]
Oh! [TENCH.]
So he could be a little intimidating to sit across from with no guard, no sidearm, no cuffs.
But you have to develop a level of trust.
One day, we brought a pizza in and had lunch with him.
We're dividing slices while he's telling us - how hard it is to sever a head.
- [GROUP CHUCKLES.]
And this guy has hands like catcher's mitts, and he's sitting three feet away.
How did he do it? How did he kill 'em? [TENCH.]
He picked up hitchhikers, drove them to a wooded area, and then stabbed and strangled them.
Then he raped 'em and cut off their heads.
And then he raped the heads.
[GROUP MURMURS.]
[WEBSTER.]
Why decapitation? [TENCH.]
He collected them as trophies.
Kemper was the first to make us see these killers develop a sickening personal signature.
And we're learning these offenders start having fantasies very young.
They practice: dolls, animals.
That escalates.
[WEBSTER.]
I dealt with my share of criminals from the bench.
Most of them were bad from the start, even as kids: runaways, loners.
They never fit in.
I always said when I had a juvenile I knew was bad, I wish I could put him away for life.
You could just see it in their eyes.
Gentlemen, they keep a well-stocked humidor behind the bar that I turned a blind eye to.
Shall we? [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[PHONE RINGING.]
[PHONE CONTINUES RINGING.]
- Hello? - [TENCH OVER PHONE.]
Hey, it's me.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER PHONE.]
- It's late.
What time is it? [TENCH.]
It's almost 10:00.
I just called to check in on you.
How's Brian? Fine.
Now.
What do you mean, "now"? He got out.
I I couldn't find him.
Got out? [SIGHS.]
I went door to door.
Finally found him in the park.
He was staring at this child.
Just staring.
[MEN LAUGH.]
But he scared me.
What do you want me to do, Nance? Nothing.
Everything's done.
I just wanted to tell you.
Honey, I don't know what to say.
How about, "I'm gonna take time off to help"? [MEN CHUCKLING.]
You know I can't do that right now.
I know.
You have to work.
I just honestly don't know if I can do this alone, Bill.
You're not alone.
I have to go to sleep.
- [RECEIVER CLATTERS.]
- [DIAL TONE BUZZES.]
[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING ON JUKEBOX.]
[GUNN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY.]
Hey, sit down.
- Whiskey, please.
- [BARTENDER.]
Sure thing.
I still want to hear about Manson.
- Make it a double.
- [GROUP LAUGHS.]
[GLASSES CLINK.]
"Do you find yourself getting so lost in your own thoughts that you ignore and forget your surroundings? All the time.
Some of the time.
Occasionally.
Never.
" - Wen.
- Huh? Should I answer for you? I think I have a good shot at this one.
- Where'd you get that? - [KAY.]
Found it on a bus.
- Ew.
- [KAY.]
Come on, it'll be fun.
I'm gonna mark that one as "some of the time.
" Uh "Is it difficult to get you excited?" Oh, you should probably answer that one.
Come on, you have to take this seriously, or the results won't be accurate.
I find it kind of difficult to take a Myers-Briggs test seriously, especially one that has a panty liner ad on the back of it.
I should just focus on this.
[KAY.]
Come on.
There's only a couple left.
"Do you find yourself initiating conversations?" - Yes.
- Really? Yeah.
I initiated conversation with you.
Because you wanted to fuck me.
I initiate conversations all day.
Oh, an interview's not a conversation.
[CARR.]
You know, whose test is this? Yours or mine? [SIGHS.]
I'm just trying to get to know you.
It feels a little like you're trying to get to correct me.
Well, would you rather tell me about whatever it is that you're burying your face in? I'm sorry, ask me another one.
No.
Come on.
Tell me about what you're reading.
It's the, uh It's the Bateson interview.
- Okay.
- [CARR.]
Mm.
It's just a fine line of giving them enough attention so that they'll engage with you, but also being able to steer the conversation.
And when it's over in just a few minutes, it Wasn't worth the effort? He was surprisingly forthcoming in the beginning.
He answered every question, even volunteered information.
But when I got to the questions I really wanted to ask, he just walked out.
So he rope-a-doped you? - I don't know what that means.
- [KAY.]
Rumble in the Jungle? You know, when Ali let George Foreman punch himself out.
Yeah.
Sure, he, uh, "rope-a-doped" me.
Oh, I'm sure he had plenty of practice leading people down the garden path.
[CARR.]
No, I should have seen it coming.
I mean, I've been studying manipulators - my whole career.
- Oh.
On paper.
[SIGHS.]
No, I'm I'm just saying that you you don't have to be an expert at everything the first time.
Huh.
It's just a bit disappointing.
[REPORTER ON TV.]
Another sad chapter in the epidemic of child murders unfolded today in Rockdale County where the FBI conducted an unsuccessful search along Sigman Road.
Channel 2 has been unable to confirm reports that a man called in a tip about where a body could be found.
The FBI and police had no comment.
Meanwhile, the search for 14-year-old Lubie Geter continues.
That's it for us tonight.
It's 10:30.
Do you know where your children are? [NEWS FANFARE PLAYING.]
I always want you present in the local room where my reporters and Mr.
Wallace Cook can drink you in constantly as a warning against fakes! - [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING.]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
- [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
- [TANYA.]
Agent Ford.
[ELEVATOR DOOR OPENS.]
[HOLDEN.]
Tanya.
- [ELEVATOR DOOR CLOSES.]
- [HOLDEN.]
Hi.
[TANYA.]
I thought that was you.
I saw you'd checked in, for a while it looks like.
Until it's over.
I was expecting you sooner.
I came the moment they opened an official FBI investigation.
[TAKES A DEEP BREATH.]
And you should know we've moved beyond looking into the families.
I came down specifically to refocus the APD's efforts.
I saw on the news someone called about a body.
He a suspect? I can't say officially, but A man calls to tell you he did it, you may want to consider him.
I'm not at liberty to discuss details, but my unit is here to focus on what we consider most probable.
[TANYA.]
Most probable for each child? They all got different things going on.
Some of them hustling jobs here and there.
Carrying groceries, running errands.
A few of them might've gotten themselves into situations - they didn't know were dangerous.
- What does that mean? You looking at where these kids work? Parking lots, drive-throughs? I'm sure we will.
Our most recent was seen selling car deodorizers outside a mall.
Lubie Geter.
Right.
Not all of 'em have car deodorizers to sell.
They do whatever they can.
What do you mean? Drugs? There's drugs, panhandling.
Some kids learn to steal little things and sell them.
Folks have been saying that a few of these boys could be selling themselves.
These kids are 11, 12.
Every kid is told to watch out for strangers.
Most have no idea how dangerous some strangers can be.
- All I'm sayin' is - [PHONE RINGING.]
you all should be looking at those people too.
[RECEIVER RATTLES.]
This is the Omni.
Tanya speaking.
How may I help you? Absolutely.
One moment.
[LOCK RATTLING.]
[GRUNTS.]
[GROANS SOFTLY.]
[SIGHS.]
[SIGHS.]
[COINS CLATTER.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
- Morning.
- [BARNEY.]
Good morning.
What do you know about child prostitution in Atlanta? [BARNEY.]
I know it goes on.
The same as any big city.
It's not something I've dealt with, but I can ask Atlanta PD.
Why? I need files on known pedophiles in the greater Atlanta area.
- [DOOR SQUEAKS.]
- Sure.
We can look into that.
It looks like greater Atlanta just walked in.
Gonna be interesting to see how they take to us.
There's no reason for them not to want our help.
Bill! Hey! Good to see ya.
Welcome, Bill.
This is us.
Sorry to miss first day of school.
What are we starting with? We're about to walk into a meeting with the county chiefs.
Chief Redding wants our advice on how to focus the investigation.
Sounds good.
[HOLDEN.]
For instance, David Berkowitz, Son of Sam, told us he was compelled to go back to a specific site where he had killed before.
To physically relive the experience.
You interviewed Son of Sam? [TENCH.]
We did.
So the theory is, instead of trying to cover all of Atlanta, we concentrate on where we believe the killer may return.
We'll deploy teams to canvass previous abduction and dump sites, narrowing our scope to these higher probability areas.
Go back over all the ground we've already covered? [TENCH.]
Neighbors may have seen someone returning to a scene.
Maybe something was moved or left.
Y'all are assuming it's one suspect.
We got 18 cases spread all over kingdom come.
So many murders in the same age and socioeconomic range is highly improbable without at least some being linked.
That how we're gonna proceed, Chief? Seems like we're ignoring a lot of possibilities.
Nobody's saying rule anybody out.
But let's focus our manpower.
Chief, this kind of focus means recanvassing 18 abduction and dump sites, plus reinterviewing dozens of witnesses.
Gonna really stretch your manpower.
We can use academy recruits to fill out the teams.
Only way we'll be able to even half-ass it.
Based on this, I'm redeploying today's search to a previous dump site Redwine Road, where we found Milton Harvey's remains.
Assemble your teams.
See if this amounts to anything.
- [TENCH.]
Thank you, Chief.
- [HOLDEN.]
Thank you.
- Thank you.
- [REDDING.]
Thank you, gentlemen.
Remember Earl Terrell? I'd like to work his case.
He's still missing, but I think we could do more than we did for him.
[TENCH.]
Of course.
Mind if I round out your team? Think I'll join the Chief at the dump site.
[TENCH.]
Okay.
[BARNEY.]
So he was last seen - at the pool across the park.
- [THUNDER RUMBLES.]
It was a long time ago, but do you remember him? I seen him.
Him and a couple others.
[BARNEY.]
You recall seeing him last summer? Yeah.
Lots of times.
Are you out here on your porch two days a week? - Three? - Well, if it's hot, I'm out here every day.
So in the summer, I see everybody.
Sometimes them kids head down that house there.
- [TENCH.]
The brick house? - [WOMAN.]
Mm-hmm.
And sometimes they go to Elsie's.
There.
- [TENCH.]
That yellow house? - [WOMAN.]
Mm-hmm.
Ma'am, are those glasses prescription? These are my readers.
For my stories.
Anything else you told the officers before could be helpful.
Weren't no officers come here.
Ain't nobody ask us nothin'.
Thank you, ma'am.
You've been very helpful.
- [WOMAN.]
Mm-hmm.
- [BARNEY.]
Thank you.
There's no car at the brick house.
Elsie's first.
That's the third person we've talked to within one block of where this kid disappeared, and not one of them was interviewed.
Starting to think there's a lot that's dropped through the cracks.
[BANGS ON HOOD.]
We called and told them Earl came by the day he went missing, but nobody came askin'.
He was looking for Albert, but Albert wasn't home, so Earl, he left.
- Albert, get in here.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER ON TV.]
Tell 'em about Earl.
Him and Lubie come over to play sometimes.
I wasn't here.
Lubie Geter? - He and Earl knew each other? - [ALBERT.]
Yeah.
Earl act sometimes like Lubie's big brother, take him around and stuff.
Where would Earl take him? [ALBERT.]
You know, just around.
Do you know where else Earl might have gone that day? It's all right, baby.
They with the FBI.
You can tell them.
See? You wanna hold it? Anybody else Earl might have gone to play with? They used to hang with Pat-Man.
Does Pat-Man have a last name? [ELSIE.]
Won't do no good.
He was uh, one of them.
One of them? He was right before Lubie.
His real name was Patrick Rogers.
I didn't like him comin' around here.
He too old for these boys.
Anything else you can tell the men? [OFFICER.]
Excuse me, the ME's heading out to Redwine Road.
They found something.
Thank you so much, ma'am.
[BARNEY.]
Let's get the address for the brick house.
- [HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING.]
- [SIRENS BLARING.]
[HOLDEN.]
Guys, these remains are less than 100 yards from where Milton Harvey was dumped 13 months ago.
He's returning to the scene.
What's the press doing here? Get down there and set up a perimeter! This is now a crime scene.
[DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
Forensics show up yet? We don't have a body retrieval unit.
Recruits will collect any evidence.
It's not Lubie Geter.
Been out here too long.
But it could be one of the other three still missing.
Earl Terrell was wearing shorts when he disappeared.
What do you got? I found these close to the road.
A tennis shoe, one cigarette butt, and a couple of porno mags.
- Porno? - [OFFICER 1.]
Yes, sir.
Gallery and Penthouse.
There's tire tracks, a heavy vehicle, near where we found 'em.
- [OFFICER 2.]
Body! Body! - [OFFICER 3.]
Body! - [OFFICER 4.]
Come on! Body! - [WHISTLE BLOWS.]
Get this stuff into evidence bags and get some gloves.
Yes, sir.
We need to get a real forensics unit down here.
Three bodies at one site.
It's one guy.
And this is his graveyard.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[REDDING.]
Well, lucky he had a prior.
Never would have traced the prints off those magazines.
A plumber.
Runs his own business out of his rented home.
Short rap sheet.
- One incident of petty theft.
- [HOLDEN.]
What kind? Clothing? Personal items? [REDDING.]
Tires.
Seemed like he needed a set of 4 when he was 19.
No, uh, prior assault.
No history of racial violence.
Sound like our man? Wait a minute, this guy's Caucasian.
Doesn't change anything if we can tie him directly to a scene.
We should at least follow up on that.
[HOLDEN.]
Those magazines are adult women, not black children.
Even if the labs are positive for semen, it supports nothing.
Holden, we have three bodies within 100 yards of each other.
[HOLDEN.]
There's no doubt the unsub's dumping them there.
I'm just saying, before we drag in Pickett Yarborough, he's not who we're looking for.
[TENCH.]
Did we run his car? White 1975 pickup truck.
No police-type vehicle.
No, but utilitarian.
You could keep a hunting kit without drawing suspicion.
We could surveil him.
[TENCH.]
If he smells us at all, he'll destroy evidence.
We need to get warrants.
Search his house, his truck.
I think we should bring him in.
Even if it's just to rule him out.
Jim, you're familiar with DA Slaton, are you not? Slaton's third generation law.
He ain't by the book, he is the book.
- [THUNDER RUMBLES.]
- [BRAKES SCREECH.]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
- [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING.]
Excuse me, gentlemen, we're closed for an event.
We need to speak with District Attorney Slaton.
If you could point him out to us.
Uh, I'm sorry, we're a private institution.
I'm happy to let Mr.
Slaton know you're here, mister Special Agents Tench, Ford, and Barney.
Excuse me a moment? Mr.
and Mrs.
Peteet, right this way.
Well enjoy your evening.
Mr.
Slaton is making an address at the moment.
Excuse me.
Mr.
and Mrs.
Hamilton, right this way.
I apologize.
If you gentlemen could just wait in wait in here, I'll ask if he can see you afterwards.
Thank you.
Mr.
and Mrs.
Trambley.
We're only going to get Slaton's ear for a minute.
- [CROWD APPLAUDS.]
- I'll call and see if the labs are back.
[SLATON.]
It's been my pleasure to serve as chair of the fund drive this season.
I told the board, I can't string two notes together, but I know good music when I hear it.
Our symphony stands up against any in the country.
New York, Philadelphia, you name it.
Music lover.
Who'd have thought? But no cultural organization can flourish without benevolent donors like yourselves.
You are the very lifeblood of the arts in Atlanta.
- Yes, my wife wrote that last part for me.
- [CROWD CHUCKLES.]
But it's absolutely true.
These musicians are a credit to their community, to our city, and to the great state of Georgia.
So please, give generously and enjoy your evening.
Thank you.
[TENCH.]
Labs are back.
No blood, but definite seminal fluid.
- [STRING QUARTET PLAYING.]
- Gonna be a hard sell.
I'd hoped since you gentlemen thought it necessary to pull me out of my wife's event, which took three months to plan, you'd have a more compelling argument.
Sir, if I can explain our methodology.
[SLATON.]
I'm an evidence man, Agent Tench.
You have no eyewitness account, no relevant priors, no evidence directly tying this man to any of the bodies.
Sir, these types of crimes are sexually motivated.
The men who perpetrate them are compelled to repeat the crime or to relive the sexual satisfaction by going to crime scenes and feeling that relief again.
Finding three bodies over time and a clear-cut scene of self-gratification at the same remote site [BARNEY.]
We're concerned that if we merely surveil, the suspect will destroy the evidence you'll need to prosecute.
As intriguing as that sounds, I've never issued warrants based on radical psychological theories.
My constituents trust that I will protect their rights against unlawful search and seizure.
Lubie Geter has been missing for six days.
We've got no leads and the clock is ticking.
I'll grant your warrants.
But I want no press.
None.
This must remain absolutely silent.
Understood.
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING.]
- [YARBOROUGH.]
It's okay.
- [WOMAN.]
No.
- [YARBOROUGH.]
Baby, don't worry about me.
- [WOMAN.]
What's happening? - [YARBOROUGH.]
It'll be all right.
- [WOMAN.]
Don't touch me.
[YARBOROUGH.]
It'll be fine, baby.
- This is a mistake.
- [WOMAN.]
Don't you touch me! Honey! Honey, please just tell me, what's happening? [SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY.]
Don't you touch me.
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
- [YARBOROUGH.]
It's okay, baby.
- [WOMAN.]
Hon Honey? Honey, please come back.
He can't know we've got his truck until we get him in the room.
Hey! - Send him around the block.
- [OFFICER.]
Go ahead.
Circle around.
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING OVERHEAD.]
I don't know, guys.
Who's going first? Nobody for a while.
We ought to at least start working through the timeline.
He might have a string of alibis for all we know.
We found it's best to let them wait, especially at night.
If this is the guy, it's the best way to break him.
Where are we with him? Commissioner.
[BROWN.]
How confident are we he's our perpetrator? We won't know until we get in there.
Well, let's start working on him.
The longer we keep him, the more likely someone will get wind of this.
Slaton said he was very clear with you.
This is about setting the right conditions, creating leverage with the subject.
We may only get him once in this state of mind.
If we get nothing from him and this hits the papers, this will be our second public setback in a week.
[HOLDEN.]
We should put as much effort into law enforcement - as we do managing perceptions.
- Holden.
[REDDING.]
Right now, we better put together a statement because looks like they got hold of it.
Shit.
I'll let them know it's an ongoing investigation.
We're in the process of ID'ing bodies.
[CHUCKLES.]
I don't think so.
How does the press find out everywhere we go? I don't know, but I hope we find something in that fucking truck.
[REPORTERS CLAMORING.]
[BROWN.]
I cannot comment on the individual at this time, other than to say that we have issued a custodial warrant.
No charges have been issued.
- [SHUTTERS CLICKING.]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[BROWN.]
Ladies and gentlemen, we will keep you apprised.
["LUNATIC FRINGE" PLAYING.]
Lunatic fringe I know you're out there You're in hiding And you hold your meetings I can hear you coming I know what you're after We're wise to you this time We're wise to you this time We won't let you kill the laughter Oh! Oh! Oh! - We can hear you coming - We can hear you coming No, you're not gonna win this time Not gonna win We can hear the footsteps - We can hear the footsteps - Hey! Out along the walkway Out along the walkway Lunatic fringe We all know you're out there Can you feel the resistance Can you feel the thunder? [SIREN BLARING.]
Oh, no! Hey!