1. In the criminal
justice system...Copy !req
2. sexually based offensesCopy !req
3. are considered
especially heinous.Copy !req
4. In New York City,
the dedicated detectivesCopy !req
5. who investigate
these vicious felonies...Copy !req
6. are members of an elite squadCopy !req
7. known as
the Special Victims Unit.Copy !req
8. These are their stories.Copy !req
9. I wish you'd stop dragging
me to these awful plays.Copy !req
10. It was nominated for a Tony.
Yeah. Now I know why it didn't win.Copy !req
11. I don't complain when you make me watch
those damn cooking shows with you...Copy !req
12. Well, why should you?
They don't cost $75 a ticket.Copy !req
13. Don't start with that...Copy !req
14. Quentin! Honey!Copy !req
15. Watch where
you're going!Copy !req
16. Drunken fool!
You stupid bastard!Copy !req
17. Honey, are you all right?
I'm okay.Copy !req
18. Quentin!
What? What is it?Copy !req
19. Look at your coat.Copy !req
20. You smell something?Copy !req
21. Oh, my God.Copy !req
22. It's the perp's coat. Dumped it in
the garbage can around the corner.Copy !req
23. There's blood all over it.Copy !req
24. Make my night, tell me
you found the victim's I.D.Copy !req
25. Sorry.
Either it's toast or...Copy !req
26. the fire department washed it
away with the rest of our evidence.Copy !req
27. About all I saw was his hood and his
beard. And what he did to my husband.Copy !req
28. We're gonna need your coat
for evidence, Mr. Lindberg.Copy !req
29. I'm due for
a new one anyway.Copy !req
30. We'll have you work with a
sketch artist. Give me a minute?Copy !req
31. No I.D.
on the victim.Copy !req
32. One of the precinct cops recognized
her as a hooker who works...Copy !req
33. 9th and 10th Avenue.Copy !req
34. My guess is she picked
up the wrong john.Copy !req
35. Molloy. You Special Victims?
Yeah. Benson and Stabler.Copy !req
36. Your perp piled a mound of
garbage on the victim, lit it up.Copy !req
37. How much damage?
Her back is charred.Copy !req
38. If our house wasn't
right around the corner...Copy !req
39. she'd be well done,
both sides.Copy !req
40. Thanks, Cap.Copy !req
41. Her genitals are mutilated, fluids
present. Definitely one for you.Copy !req
42. How can you tell?Copy !req
43. He slit her throat
to the spine...Copy !req
44. and filleted her torso
from neck to genitals.Copy !req
45. No way
she survived that.Copy !req
46. Butchered.
And barbecued.Copy !req
47. About 10:30,
guy comes down the block...Copy !req
48. bouncing off garbage cans
like he's a pinball.Copy !req
49. You see where he bounced to
after he dropped his coat?Copy !req
50. Right into my cart.
Nearly knocked it over.Copy !req
51. He starts preaching to me, I
say, "Tell your story walking. "Copy !req
52. What was he preaching?Copy !req
53. I don't know. Some kind
of religious gibberish.Copy !req
54. Once he was done with his
sermon, you see where he went?Copy !req
55. He staggered to a cab parked on the
corner, got in. Cab headed downtown.Copy !req
56. You ever
seen him before?Copy !req
57. No, but his hooker's
a regular around here.Copy !req
58. Cassie. Picked him up coming
out of that souvenir place.Copy !req
59. Headed toward the alley
to do their business.Copy !req
60. Okay. The cab he got into,
you catch the plate?Copy !req
61. Only that it had a Y or
a V. I'll be right back.Copy !req
62. Boss says you may need some help. Yeah.Copy !req
63. Peanut man puts our perp outside that
souvenir shop, walks away with the victim.Copy !req
64. We'll start there and work
our way down the block.Copy !req
65. Thanks.Copy !req
66. Yeah, weird guy with a beard. Asked
for a bottle of water, so I send...Copy !req
67. him to the deli. Then he spots
my adult entertainment section.Copy !req
68. What'd he do? Picks up a
magazine, looks it over...Copy !req
69. and then rips it up. Then he
starts screaming about hell...Copy !req
70. and flames and how he's gonna smite
me. Must have been drunk or high.Copy !req
71. So I wave this at the wacko and say
that I'm gonna smite his sorry ass...Copy !req
72. up and down 9th Avenue. Did he
take his sorry ass out of here?Copy !req
73. He reaches for something in his
coat. I smack him a few times with...Copy !req
74. Lady Liberty here, he runs out
that door whimpering like a bitch.Copy !req
75. We're gonna need the magazine
and the statue for DNA and prints.Copy !req
76. That's $30 plus tax.
Send the bill to the Mayor.Copy !req
77. Victim's I.D.'d as
Cassie Horner, 23...Copy !req
78. busted numerous times
for prostitution.Copy !req
79. Anything more on the perp?
White, dark coat, about six feet.Copy !req
80. Witness descriptions have
him under the influence.Copy !req
81. That level of violence,
sounds like PCP.Copy !req
82. What about the car that
almost ran him over?Copy !req
83. Could have saved us
a lot of trouble.Copy !req
84. Took off.
Nobody got his plate number.Copy !req
85. That leaves four people who
got a good look at our perp.Copy !req
86. Plus all the working girls who
saw Cassie pick this guy up.Copy !req
87. What about the labs?Copy !req
88. Prints from the magazine he
tore up and the peanut cart...Copy !req
89. don't match
anyone in the system.Copy !req
90. Autopsy? I'm on my way
to the M.E. to check.Copy !req
91. Okay. Cassie Horner worked 9th and 10th
Avenues. Pay her colleagues a visit.Copy !req
92. Calling on courtesans.
Our specialty.Copy !req
93. Hey, we're just standing here.
We don't want no trouble, baby.Copy !req
94. Then how about some coffee
after a hard night's work?Copy !req
95. What's your name?
Honey, honey.Copy !req
96. You giving handouts,
you must want something.Copy !req
97. We're not Vice.
We're here about Cassie.Copy !req
98. And since when you care
what happens to us?Copy !req
99. Hey, we just spent $17 of our
own money on coffee and donuts...Copy !req
100. for you and your friends. If that's
not respect, I don't know what is.Copy !req
101. They're cool,
they wanna know about Cassie.Copy !req
102. Isn't it past quitting time?
Slow night.Copy !req
103. Well, someone ought to do that
sick bastard the way he did Cassie.Copy !req
104. Anybody see Cassie
leave with her last trick?Copy !req
105. Yeah. Beard. Crazy eyes. He walked
over to her, they talked a moment.Copy !req
106. Hear what they said?
No. Just his name, Daniel.Copy !req
107. I told Cassie I had a bad feeling
about him. She didn't heed your warning?Copy !req
108. She laughed, said she
could take care of herself.Copy !req
109. I wonder who's gonna
take care of her little girl.Copy !req
110. Had a tough time with this one, the
way he ripped her up and burned her.Copy !req
111. What'd you find?
Forty-two stab wounds...Copy !req
112. plus the cut to the throat
and the incision to the torso.Copy !req
113. Lab found one blood type
on the coat. The victim's.Copy !req
114. What about
the knife?Copy !req
115. Double-edge, serrated on
one side, 6 to 8 inches long.Copy !req
116. Military souvenir,
or collector's blade?Copy !req
117. A killer who's
a knife connoisseur.Copy !req
118. Whatever he is, he was in a
frenzy, like some kind of fever.Copy !req
119. Yeah.
Fever that spikes at night.Copy !req
120. We got something.
What's up?Copy !req
121. Lab got a DNA hit from
the sex offender database...Copy !req
122. on the semen
found in Cassie Horner.Copy !req
123. Norman Fredericks, 30,
on parole for rape...Copy !req
124. possession with
intent to sell...Copy !req
125. living on Staten Island.Copy !req
126. Has a job now
with a contractor.Copy !req
127. Palmieri's got the address of
the job he's working on now.Copy !req
128. He grew a beard. Didn't have
that when he was arrested.Copy !req
129. He got plenty of time
to grow one in prison.Copy !req
130. Munch and Fin are almost done with
the sketch artist and the witnesses.Copy !req
131. I'm gonna send them
as backup.Copy !req
132. Can I help you?Copy !req
133. Yeah. Police. We're looking
for Norman Fredericks.Copy !req
134. Back there.Copy !req
135. Norm, the cops are here.Copy !req
136. I didn't do anything!Copy !req
137. Innocent people always run.Copy !req
138. Norman Fredericks, you're
under arrest for murder.Copy !req
139. Murder? Yeah. That prostitute
you killed last night?Copy !req
140. We found your DNA
inside her.Copy !req
141. I picked up a whore, so what?Copy !req
142. So it's a parole violation,
pal.Copy !req
143. You're gonna send me
back upstate just for that?Copy !req
144. We're gonna send you back
for slicing up a hooker...Copy !req
145. when you were done with her.Copy !req
146. I didn't slice up anybody.
What time did you get home?Copy !req
147. In the door by 2:30 a. m.
And how'd you get there?Copy !req
148. Number one train to the Staten
Island Ferry. Then my car.Copy !req
149. We did our thing, I paid her
and left. I swear, I didn't...Copy !req
150. Don't make yourself at home.
We'll be right back.Copy !req
151. Fredericks is a busy guy.
What happened?Copy !req
152. Another victim.
Murdered last night.Copy !req
153. People passing by all day
and no one notices...Copy !req
154. until the roommate
comes home and finds her.Copy !req
155. Where's the roommate?
Bellevue Emergency.Copy !req
156. She was in shock, so we
had a radio car take her in.Copy !req
157. Fourteen years on the job, first
time I saw a body and puked.Copy !req
158. Perp did
a real number on her.Copy !req
159. Oh, man.
How long has she been dead?Copy !req
160. At least twelve hours.Copy !req
161. Handiwork's the same as
the last victim, only worse.Copy !req
162. Another pro? Short
black skirt, high heels.Copy !req
163. He slits their throats
so they can't scream.Copy !req
164. Appears to be the same knife
used on the hooker last night.Copy !req
165. What the hell's
wrong with this guy?Copy !req
166. Thinks he's
Jack The Ripper.Copy !req
167. You should have called me. We thought
we'd see if we had a case first.Copy !req
168. When my bosses tell me
that you guys...Copy !req
169. have a suspect and I don't already
know that, I look like an idiot.Copy !req
170. Alex, you know better than to think
that I would keep you out of the loop.Copy !req
171. I know. I'm sorry. It's just
two women ripped apart...Copy !req
172. within 24 hours by the same
perp, and everybody's edgy.Copy !req
173. We ready for a lineup yet? No,
it's premature until we're done...Copy !req
174. canvassing the second murder scene.
Do you have an I.D. on that victim yet?Copy !req
175. Theresa Folsom, 24, she's a
publicist for a publishing house.Copy !req
176. This is for her roommate.
She give you anything?Copy !req
177. You'll be the first to know.
Milk only, no sugar, right?Copy !req
178. Thank you.Copy !req
179. We know this is
difficult for you.Copy !req
180. When's the last time
you saw Theresa?Copy !req
181. Last night.
I mean, early this morning.Copy !req
182. We were club-hopping
with some friends.Copy !req
183. Terry got tired, so we...Copy !req
184. Sorry, we put her in a cab
at 6th Street and Avenue B.Copy !req
185. What time?Copy !req
186. Around midnight. We partied
a little bit more, and...Copy !req
187. I crashed at
my boyfriend's.Copy !req
188. Book publicists
don't make a lot of money.Copy !req
189. Do you know if Theresa
was doing any moonlighting?Copy !req
190. What do you mean?Copy !req
191. Well, maybe she made some
extra cash by entertaining men.Copy !req
192. My best friend is dead. I
don't need to hear this crap.Copy !req
193. No disrespect intended.
We have to ask.Copy !req
194. It's part of our job.
Terry has a boyfriend...Copy !req
195. Had a boyfriend in Boston.Copy !req
196. She wasn't promiscuous,
and she'd never pick up a guy.Copy !req
197. Theresa Folsom's squeaky clean. No
record, not even a traffic ticket.Copy !req
198. Fredericks giving you trouble?Copy !req
199. No, just keeping
an eye on him.Copy !req
200. What did he tell you?Copy !req
201. That he didn't get home
until 2:30 this morning.Copy !req
202. M.E. says Folsom was killed sometime
between midnight and 1:00 a. m.Copy !req
203. He picks up Cassie Horner, finishes her
off, cabs it down to the East Village...Copy !req
204. kills Theresa, with plenty of
time to make the 1:30 ferry...Copy !req
205. back to Staten Island.
Fredericks isn't our guy.Copy !req
206. Based on what?Copy !req
207. Lab found
two different blood types...Copy !req
208. at the last murder scene, Terry
Folsom's and probably the killer's.Copy !req
209. Neither matches Fredericks.Copy !req
210. Okay. So we book him on the parole
violation for soliciting a prostitute.Copy !req
211. And go back to
looking for the getaway cab.Copy !req
212. If this guy's a serial killer, he
might have been active somewhere else.Copy !req
213. Check VICAP
for any similar M.O.s.Copy !req
214. I'm gonna call Huang, see if
he can't give us a profile.Copy !req
215. He comes out at night...Copy !req
216. and focuses his rage at
prostitutes and women that he...Copy !req
217. believes to be prostitutes.
Just like London, 1888.Copy !req
218. Not Jack the Ripper
again.Copy !req
219. Ripperologists
are convinced that...Copy !req
220. his Royal Highness, Prince Albert
Victor, committed the deeds.Copy !req
221. And I understand the royal family
is still smarting over that...Copy !req
222. but could we please continue?
Actually, Captain, our guy...Copy !req
223. may be a wannabe. Especially if
he's a paranoid-schizophrenic.Copy !req
224. How do you explain the fire?Copy !req
225. Well, your witnesses say that he
talked of hellfire and damnation.Copy !req
226. Maybe he thought that
the victims were the devil.Copy !req
227. He didn't torch
the second woman.Copy !req
228. Well, maybe he heard
footsteps and ran off.Copy !req
229. Some witnesses reported
that he seemed drunk or high.Copy !req
230. Well, some schizophrenics
self-medicate with alcohol.Copy !req
231. So who we
looking for, Doc?Copy !req
232. A man mentally ill since
childhood or early adulthood.Copy !req
233. Could possibly have been institutionalized.
Not able to keep a job. Lives alone.Copy !req
234. Strong religious delusions. And he
might have command hallucinations.Copy !req
235. Voices telling him to kill.Copy !req
236. He's impulsive,
disorganized, unpredictable.Copy !req
237. And he's not gonna stop
until you catch him.Copy !req
238. Better make it soon. The press is
already calling him the "Night Ripper. "Copy !req
239. We've gotta release the
sketch. That would be a mistake.Copy !req
240. If people are gonna panic, at least
give them something to panic about.Copy !req
241. The publicity's
just gonna excite him more.Copy !req
242. I think he's awful excited
right now without publicity.Copy !req
243. We'll consider
releasing the sketch.Copy !req
244. Meanwhile, I want every vice unit
out warning the working girls to be...Copy !req
245. watching out for this guy.
Where are we on the cabs?Copy !req
246. We've narrowed it down to 12 possibles,
before we got sidetracked with Fredericks.Copy !req
247. Run them down.Copy !req
248. Marcus, pick up line six.Copy !req
249. No, there's nothing with a Y in
the number on the street last night.Copy !req
250. Okay. How about your V cabs?
Well, we only have two.Copy !req
251. Let me look here, wait.
Wait a minute. Here it is.Copy !req
252. 5- V-42.
Ran 9:00 p. m. to 9:00 a. m.Copy !req
253. Driver didn't even make
enough to cover his lease.Copy !req
254. Okay, any pickups
around 44th and 9th?Copy !req
255. Uh, not according to his trip
sheet. Can I take a look at that?Copy !req
256. Be my guest.Copy !req
257. Take a look at this.Copy !req
258. The driver put 82 miles on the car and
only logged jobs for maybe half of that.Copy !req
259. So he didn't drop the meter
on all of his fares.Copy !req
260. This driver. You have a
name and address for him?Copy !req
261. Yeah. Sure. No problem.
I'll get it for you.Copy !req
262. Last night when
you were driving your cab...Copy !req
263. did you pick up a fare
on 44th and 9th Avenue?Copy !req
264. No.Copy !req
265. You sure? You didn't log more than
half your jobs on your trip sheet.Copy !req
266. What are you
talking about?Copy !req
267. Maybe you forgot to drop
the meter...Copy !req
268. keep a little more money
for your family?Copy !req
269. I wasn't driving.
Okay. Who was?Copy !req
270. My cousin. Nkrumah?Copy !req
271. I pick up the cab,
let him drive.Copy !req
272. Make some money for
his family back home.Copy !req
273. He pick up the man
you're looking for.Copy !req
274. What's your name?
Kabral Nkrumah.Copy !req
275. Did you see his face?Copy !req
276. And his bloody clothes.
He scared me.Copy !req
277. Police car drove by, he lowered
his head so they would not see him.Copy !req
278. Okay. Can you describe him?
Medium height...Copy !req
279. wild eyes. Wild eyes.
Bushy beard.Copy !req
280. Where did you take him?Copy !req
281. 3rd Street and Avenue D. Paid
me with a bloody $20 bill.Copy !req
282. Didn't wait for change.
We're gonna need that bill.Copy !req
283. Oh, I spent it.Copy !req
284. We're gonna need to get that cab to
CSU before it goes out for the night.Copy !req
285. Find anything? Yeah, we
vacuumed for hairs and fibers.Copy !req
286. Just getting ready to look
for blood. Let me light it up.Copy !req
287. If the guy had
victim's blood...Copy !req
288. on his coat, he must've
gotten some on his hands.Copy !req
289. Munch.Copy !req
290. Or he slipped and cut himself,
left us some evidence.Copy !req
291. Look, blood. I'll lift it
and get it to the lab.Copy !req
292. Yeah. We'll be right there,
gotta go.Copy !req
293. What?Copy !req
294. Jack strikes again.Copy !req
295. I'm washing my hands,
the kid is at the urinal.Copy !req
296. Guy comes in and starts screaming about
the machines controlling the boy's mind...Copy !req
297. pulls out a knife, slits
his throat. Just like that.Copy !req
298. Did he go after you next?Copy !req
299. I went after him, tried to grab
the knife. He got me in the stomach.Copy !req
300. That's when the boy's father
comes in. What happened?Copy !req
301. He never saw the guy with the knife. He
runs straight for his kid, starts screaming.Copy !req
302. I'm yelling at him
about the knife...Copy !req
303. then the guy slices his neck.
I couldn't do nothing!Copy !req
304. You did plenty. Take it easy.
We're gonna ride with him.Copy !req
305. Yeah. All right.Copy !req
306. What took you so long?
We were in Queens.Copy !req
307. We found the cab driver.Copy !req
308. Huang is on his way.Copy !req
309. Says he can profile more
accurately if he's on the scene.Copy !req
310. Radio said two victims?
Well, almost three.Copy !req
311. Good Samaritan got stabbed
in the gut trying to stop him.Copy !req
312. Who's she?Copy !req
313. This is Jean Weston. It's her
husband and son cut up in there.Copy !req
314. Tourists. I thought
he was targeting pros.Copy !req
315. How old's the kid?
Nine.Copy !req
316. Son of a bitch.Copy !req
317. Mrs. Weston,
I'm Detective Stabler.Copy !req
318. Josh just wanted
to play video games.Copy !req
319. We're going back to Oregon
tomorrow morning. I have to go pack.Copy !req
320. Okay, I'll tell you what. We're
gonna have the officer take you...Copy !req
321. to the hospital first and
just have you checked out.Copy !req
322. Okay?Copy !req
323. Got him in the left carotid.Copy !req
324. He probably lived about two
minutes before he bled out.Copy !req
325. Same knife?Copy !req
326. Yeah.Copy !req
327. Four victims within 24 hours.Copy !req
328. Three in the theater district,
Times Square area...Copy !req
329. one in the East Village.Copy !req
330. And a serial killer we can't
profile because he strikes at random.Copy !req
331. It doesn't get much worse
than this.Copy !req
332. Nobody is safe until we collar
this guy. Chief Sullivan?Copy !req
333. The city is terrified, and the public
doesn't give a rat's ass how much...Copy !req
334. we brought crime down as
long as this guy is out there.Copy !req
335. I want to thank all of you who
came in on your own time.Copy !req
336. Clock in. We need all
the help we can get.Copy !req
337. Captain Cragen runs the task
force and reports directly to me.Copy !req
338. The phone bank is being set up,
with the reward up to $100,000.Copy !req
339. We're gonna be flooded with
tips. We investigate every one.Copy !req
340. You have your assignments.
Let's find this guy.Copy !req
341. What'd you get?Copy !req
342. Canvass, Avenue D.
Canvass on Avenue C.Copy !req
343. I'm Avenue B.
You're Avenue A, I guess.Copy !req
344. Palmieri's taking Avenue A.
Anything from VICAP?Copy !req
345. Nobody active fitting our guy.Copy !req
346. Yeah. That would've been
too easy.Copy !req
347. John, before you hit the streets, I
want you to get an update from the M.E.Copy !req
348. Okay, Boss. See you
guys later. All right.Copy !req
349. Set?Copy !req
350. I want you coordinating the
phone tips and the assignments.Copy !req
351. Our case, then why
am I being benched?Copy !req
352. I need somebody I can trust in charge
while I tap-dance for the bosses.Copy !req
353. Nobody sweats the details
like you.Copy !req
354. Okay. Go get him.Copy !req
355. Detective Stabler. Missus
Weston. I said you were busy.Copy !req
356. We're closing on our new house
next week. I have to get home.Copy !req
357. Mrs. Weston, do you have any relatives
or friends in New York you can stay with?Copy !req
358. I don't know anyone here.Copy !req
359. I don't...
Elliott. Phone call.Copy !req
360. Mrs. Weston, this is
Detective Palmieri. Right here.Copy !req
361. He's gonna get you coffee,
food, whatever you want.Copy !req
362. I'll be with you
in just a minute, okay?Copy !req
363. See if you can find
a family member.Copy !req
364. Okay. Why don't you
come with me?Copy !req
365. Special Victims, Detective...
Hey, Kathy.Copy !req
366. No. It's just good
to hear your voice.Copy !req
367. The unidentified blood at the
second murder scene and the blood...Copy !req
368. CSU got from the cab
are the same type. AB.Copy !req
369. Which puts our man at the first
two scenes. We won the trifecta.Copy !req
370. We found only the victim's blood at
the arcade, but take a look at these.Copy !req
371. You know Locard's theory?Copy !req
372. Transfer evidence.
Everywhere you go...Copy !req
373. you pick something up and
leave something behind.Copy !req
374. Seven years in Homicide,
I better know it.Copy !req
375. CSU took this from inside the
perp's coat found in the garbage can.Copy !req
376. This was on the body
of Terry Folsom...Copy !req
377. and this was in the pooled blood
next to Josh and Jeremy Weston.Copy !req
378. Consistent blends.
Some kind of spun fiber.Copy !req
379. Ran it through the gas chromatograph.
It's a 60-40 cotton wool blend.Copy !req
380. I'm a summer weight
wool-gabardine man myself.Copy !req
381. Your perp wore the same piece of
clothing when he killed all four victims.Copy !req
382. Thanks.Copy !req
383. Forget the canvass. We got a
disturbance in Washington Square Park.Copy !req
384. A suspect in the murders is being
held by civilians. Let's get there now.Copy !req
385. Special Victims. Excuse me!
Police. Coming through. Excuse me.Copy !req
386. Show's over!
Excuse me.Copy !req
387. Bus is on the way along
with the rest of our backup.Copy !req
388. What the hell happened here?Copy !req
389. Someone heard this guy accost a
pro over on 4th Street, spouting...Copy !req
390. something about Armageddon.
Next thing, a dozen people...Copy !req
391. they chase him in here, and
they kick the crap out of him.Copy !req
392. He's not even close.Copy !req
393. Okay, people. Look at this.
This is our man. Beard and hair.Copy !req
394. This man has no beard and no
hair. Bastard shaved it off!Copy !req
395. Yeah! Tried to kill another
whore! Who's gonna be next?Copy !req
396. Get outta here or both you are going
in for assault, all right? All of you.Copy !req
397. Hang in there, all right? The ambulance
is on its way. Just take it easy, okay?Copy !req
398. These people have a serious
problem. Yeah, they're scared.Copy !req
399. Hey.
Hey, you survived riot duty.Copy !req
400. Hope you had better luck
than we did. How's it going?Copy !req
401. Five hundred calls since 11:00,
more sightings than Elvis.Copy !req
402. Anyone wanna trade places?Copy !req
403. No thanks. We're just too busy
waiting for him to strike again.Copy !req
404. Look, it's 4:00. Why don't
you guys catch some shut-eye?Copy !req
405. Don't have to
ask me twice.Copy !req
406. Not at home, in the crib.Copy !req
407. You, too. Oh, no. I'm
too pissed to sleep.Copy !req
408. You want some help?
I'm not gonna say no.Copy !req
409. "Spotted on Broadway. "Copy !req
410. It looks like the subway
token clerk at 68th and Lex.Copy !req
411. He's my night doorman.Copy !req
412. I know you're working off
some nervous energy...Copy !req
413. but you don't have to read
every one of them out loud.Copy !req
414. Aren't we in a mood?Copy !req
415. You know, it's the middle of the
night, and I'm sitting here...Copy !req
416. realizing I spend more time with
you than I do with my own family.Copy !req
417. No offense.
We both need a vacation.Copy !req
418. You got that right.Copy !req
419. Wait a minute.
Here's one with a guy...Copy !req
420. says somebody gave him a check
with bloody fingerprints on it.Copy !req
421. Where?Copy !req
422. I didn't take it.
Counterman did.Copy !req
423. Did you see who cashed it? I was
slicing prosciutto in the back.Copy !req
424. I assumed it was Mrs. Varney.
It's her check.Copy !req
425. Hold on. I'll get it.
It's in the top.Copy !req
426. Check is issued out to Cash.
Name on the check, Paula Varney.Copy !req
427. I gave this check
to my husband.Copy !req
428. Did something happen to him? No,
we just want to speak with him.Copy !req
429. Has he left for work?
Daniel doesn't live here.Copy !req
430. Girls, run upstairs and get
dressed, okay? We're gonna be late.Copy !req
431. When was the last time
you saw your husband?Copy !req
432. The day before yesterday,
when I gave him the check.Copy !req
433. I help support him.
You're divorced?Copy !req
434. Separated, it's hard to explain.
Daniel's had some problems.Copy !req
435. What kind of problems?Copy !req
436. Three years ago, he started losing
it. He got fired from his job.Copy !req
437. I had to start teaching again. We
didn't get divorced so Daniel could...Copy !req
438. stay on my medical insurance.
Not that he would see a doctor.Copy !req
439. Mrs. Varney,
is this your husband?Copy !req
440. Oh, my God.Copy !req
441. It is urgent
that we speak with him.Copy !req
442. Our priest gave him a small
room in a rectory of our church.Copy !req
443. What is this about?Copy !req
444. Has he done something?
Hurt someone?Copy !req
445. Well, we're not
quite sure yet.Copy !req
446. He's a janitor at the church.
Our Lady of Lourdes.Copy !req
447. Thanks.Copy !req
448. Judge signed the warrant, Munch and Fin
are on their way to toss Varney's room.Copy !req
449. Trimmed his beard.
Look at his hands.Copy !req
450. Daniel?Copy !req
451. Yes, I'm Daniel. Hi. Can
we talk to you a second?Copy !req
452. Who are you?
We're the police.Copy !req
453. His avenging angels cometh.Copy !req
454. We just want to
ask you a question.Copy !req
455. Presence of the Lord.
You cannot, you cannot hide.Copy !req
456. You cannot hide in the presence of
the Lord. He sent you to judge me?Copy !req
457. No, not to judge you.
To help you.Copy !req
458. Why? I served him.Copy !req
459. I saw that they were unclean and
I cleansed them in their own blood.Copy !req
460. I saved a child,
a lamb that was pure.Copy !req
461. Daniel, come with us.
Come with us.Copy !req
462. Wasn't I good enough?Copy !req
463. Wasn't I good enough? Why do
you send your angels for me?Copy !req
464. Why do you want to destroy me
when I bring them your message?Copy !req
465. I saw that
they were unclean.Copy !req
466. Why do you send
your angels for me?Copy !req
467. Why? Why do you want
to destroy me when I...Copy !req
468. bring them your message?Copy !req
469. No. Not to destroy you.
He wants to reward you.Copy !req
470. He will judge me!Copy !req
471. Our Father who art in Heaven,
hallowed be thy name.Copy !req
472. Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done...Copy !req
473. on earth as it is in Heaven.
As it is in Heaven.Copy !req
474. Give us this day
our daily bread...Copy !req
475. and forgive us
our trespasses...Copy !req
476. Pray with me!
Yeah.Copy !req
477. Got it.Copy !req
478. And lead us not
into temptation...Copy !req
479. but deliver us from evil.Copy !req
480. Daniel Varney.
For thine is the kingdom...Copy !req
481. the power and the glory
forever and ever.Copy !req
482. You're under arrest
for murder.Copy !req
483. You have the right to remain
silent. If you give up that right...Copy !req
484. whatever you say can and will be
used against you in a court of law.Copy !req
485. My God. You have the
right to an attorney.Copy !req
486. Why did you do it?Copy !req
487. Get back. Get in.Copy !req
488. Are you sorry
for what you've done?Copy !req
489. Who are you?Copy !req
490. Detective Benson.Copy !req
491. I need to ask you
a few questions.Copy !req
492. About what?Copy !req
493. About what you did
to those four people.Copy !req
494. I was following orders.Copy !req
495. From who?Copy !req
496. From the Lord God almighty,
who is in heaven...Copy !req
497. sent through his messenger.Copy !req
498. What messenger, Daniel?
An angel who came to me...Copy !req
499. and told me to cleanse them.Copy !req
500. I have to ask you something.
What?Copy !req
501. Why didn't you shoot me?Copy !req
502. Because I didn't want
to hurt you.Copy !req
503. But you must.Copy !req
504. I must what, Daniel?
I don't understand.Copy !req
505. Kill me, please.Copy !req
506. Please, I can't take
any more pain.Copy !req
507. We better put him
on a suicide watch.Copy !req
508. M.E. says Varney's knife matches
the wounds on all four victims.Copy !req
509. Anything from John and Fin?Copy !req
510. They're on their way to the lab with
bloody clothes from Varney's room.Copy !req
511. Found them
hanging in the closet...Copy !req
512. like he just brought them
back from the cleaners.Copy !req
513. Good enough for me. Type up those
reports. Let's get him into court.Copy !req
514. Docket number 3-5-2-1-4...Copy !req
515. People vs.
Daniel Stephen Varney.Copy !req
516. Charges are four counts
murder in the first degree...Copy !req
517. one count assault
in the first degree.Copy !req
518. I trust, Miss Cabot, the People
have met their burden for murder one?Copy !req
519. Yes, Your Honor. The defendant
mutilated and killed...Copy !req
520. four people
in under 48 hours.Copy !req
521. Their blood was found on clothing
in Mr. Varney's apartment.Copy !req
522. Very well.Copy !req
523. Mr. Newvine, how does your
client plead? Are you God?Copy !req
524. Just an overworked judge, Mr. Varney,
and I ask the questions, not you.Copy !req
525. Guilty or not guilty? How can
you judge me if you're not God?Copy !req
526. Mr. Newvine,
control your client.Copy !req
527. We plead not guilty by reason of
mental disease or defect, Your Honor.Copy !req
528. Daniel, please.
Miss Cabot?Copy !req
529. Remand, Your Honor.
The defendant is clearly a...Copy !req
530. No!Copy !req
531. You can't judge me.
No!Copy !req
532. You can't judge me!
Order! Order!Copy !req
533. You don't sit
in judgment of me!Copy !req
534. No!Copy !req
535. No, he can't help it,
he's sick.Copy !req
536. You can't touch me!
He can't help it!Copy !req
537. He can't help it, he's sick.
I'm sorry!Copy !req
538. Miss Cabot...Copy !req
539. you want to kill him. Mrs.
Varney, I can't talk to you.Copy !req
540. Please, don't kill him.Copy !req
541. Do you want justice or
are you just gonna swing...Copy !req
542. whatever way
public opinion blows you?Copy !req
543. Mrs. Varney, please.Copy !req
544. He was a loving husband,
a good father...Copy !req
545. He murdered four people. Taking
his life won't bring them back.Copy !req
546. I know I have to live with what he
did, and our girls have to grow up...Copy !req
547. knowing that
he killed those people...Copy !req
548. But I have to speak
for the victims...Copy !req
549. and for their families,
and follow the law.Copy !req
550. Doesn't the law
protect Daniel, too?Copy !req
551. He didn't know what he
was doing. He's sick.Copy !req
552. Mrs. Varney, a terrible thing happened to
you and your family and I am sympathetic...Copy !req
553. The hell you are!Copy !req
554. You put murderers and rapists
back on the street every day...Copy !req
555. he didn't even know he
was doing anything wrong.Copy !req
556. Please, Miss Cabot.Copy !req
557. I'm sorry.Copy !req
558. We're seeking
the death penalty.Copy !req
559. Daniel belongs in a psychiatric
hospital, not on death row.Copy !req
560. That's for a jury to decide.
He's not competent to stand trial.Copy !req
561. He attacked me.Copy !req
562. All that proves
is that he's violent.Copy !req
563. Spontaneously violent.
No impulse control.Copy !req
564. Your client solicited
a prostitute...Copy !req
565. and lured her into an alley
way before he mutilated her.Copy !req
566. He threw
his bloody coat out.Copy !req
567. He ducked down in the cab so
the police wouldn't see him.Copy !req
568. He knew exactly
what he was doing.Copy !req
569. How are you feeling, Daniel?
My head won't stop hurting.Copy !req
570. We'll give you something
for the pain.Copy !req
571. Were you angry at your attorney?
I don't have an attorney.Copy !req
572. You hit him in court.Copy !req
573. Why was I in court? Because of
what you did to those people.Copy !req
574. I killed them.
God said I had to.Copy !req
575. "You are my messenger.Copy !req
576. "The unclean must be cleansed, or
I will serve my wrath upon you!"Copy !req
577. But the Bible says,
"Thou shalt not kill. "Copy !req
578. He said I must
eliminate the evil.Copy !req
579. That little boy was evil?Copy !req
580. The video games put
evil thoughts in his head.Copy !req
581. I had to save him.Copy !req
582. I didn't want
to kill a little boy.Copy !req
583. He said I had to.Copy !req
584. I had to.Copy !req
585. Alex, your office said
you were here.Copy !req
586. D.A. just signed the papers to seek
the death penalty against Varney.Copy !req
587. He can't stand trial.
What are you saying?Copy !req
588. He's not competent. He
knows what he did was wrong.Copy !req
589. The man is a serial killer.Copy !req
590. Who doesn't fit any profile
that I can come up with.Copy !req
591. You saw him at Bellevue. He doesn't
even remember slugging his attorney.Copy !req
592. We've convicted schizophrenics
and psychotics before.Copy !req
593. Schizophrenia usually strikes
young adults and teenagers.Copy !req
594. Daniel Varney may appear
to be psychotic...Copy !req
595. but his loss of memory suggests
something else is going on.Copy !req
596. What?
Organic dementia.Copy !req
597. A disease
attacking his brain.Copy !req
598. Mini-strokes, early onset
Alzheimer's, a brain tumor, something.Copy !req
599. Do you know how much pressure
I am under to convict this man?Copy !req
600. He butchers
four innocent people.Copy !req
601. He scares the hell out of the
city. The public wants justice.Copy !req
602. What can we do?
A complete workup.Copy !req
603. Labs, MRI, LP. And I need your
detectives to get his medical records.Copy !req
604. What is it you want?
Your help.Copy !req
605. I'm not helping you
kill my husband.Copy !req
606. Girls, go up to
your room and play.Copy !req
607. Do you have children,
Detective Benson?Copy !req
608. No, I don't.Copy !req
609. Have you ever lost
anyone close to you?Copy !req
610. Yes, I have. Earlier this
year, I lost my mother.Copy !req
611. Then you know
how it feels.Copy !req
612. When you lose a parent as
an adult, it's hard enough.Copy !req
613. Can you imagine what
my girls are going through?Copy !req
614. Mrs. Varney, please,
understand that...Copy !req
615. we are not trying to make this
any worse than it already is...Copy !req
616. You want to execute
my husband.Copy !req
617. We already lost him once.
I can't face losing him again.Copy !req
618. What did you come here for?
Your husband's medical records.Copy !req
619. Why?Copy !req
620. To see if there's anything that
can help explain what he did.Copy !req
621. I'll never understand.Copy !req
622. I'll never understand.Copy !req
623. Daniel was the gentlest man
I'd ever known.Copy !req
624. Then he started to change. I begged
him to see a doctor. He refused.Copy !req
625. Even our priest couldn't
convince him to get help.Copy !req
626. One night, I woke up.Copy !req
627. I found Daniel
standing in the girls' room...Copy !req
628. holding a knife. Crying.Copy !req
629. He said
life was so hopeless...Copy !req
630. he wanted to
spare them the pain.Copy !req
631. Do you care about
any of this?Copy !req
632. You have to trust me.Copy !req
633. We finished going through
his records.Copy !req
634. Varney's medical history
ends three years ago...Copy !req
635. which is about the time that his
wife says his bizarre behavior began.Copy !req
636. Anything noteworthy?Copy !req
637. Aside from his high blood
pressure, this guy was healthy.Copy !req
638. The labs are back.
What'd you find?Copy !req
639. Advanced syphilis.Copy !req
640. How advanced?Copy !req
641. Tertiary stage. The MRI shows
cortical degeneration and atrophy.Copy !req
642. Meaning what?
His brain is Swiss cheese.Copy !req
643. The syphilis has eaten away
at his cerebral cortex.Copy !req
644. The moral center of his brain is
long gone. We've got to tell his wife.Copy !req
645. He's already been given
a death sentence, Alex.Copy !req
646. We've given him penicillin,
but the damage is done.Copy !req
647. He's not gonna recover.Copy !req
648. They said I could see him. Have
the doctors talked to you yet?Copy !req
649. What about?Copy !req
650. You were right,
Mrs. Varney.Copy !req
651. It wasn't
your husband's fault.Copy !req
652. Mrs. Varney,
your husband has syphilis.Copy !req
653. Oh, my God.
It's destroyed his brain.Copy !req
654. Well, what does that mean?
What about my daughters?Copy !req
655. What about me? We've been
married for ten years.Copy !req
656. You'll have to be tested, but our
doctor says that it's only contagious...Copy !req
657. in the early stages. Your
husband's case is so advanced...Copy !req
658. that he probably picked it up
long before you even met.Copy !req
659. I don't understand.
How could no one find this?Copy !req
660. He's been to doctors,
he had an insurance physical...Copy !req
661. Medical insurance?
Life insurance.Copy !req
662. Seven years ago, when our
first daughter was born.Copy !req
663. Was he approved?
No.Copy !req
664. Well, did the insurance
company ever tell you why?Copy !req
665. We thought it had to
do with his hypertension.Copy !req
666. Mrs. Varney, if you ask
the insurance company...Copy !req
667. why your husband was rejected,
they have to tell you.Copy !req
668. Does it really matter now?
Yes. It really matters.Copy !req
669. You've got to request
those records.Copy !req
670. I missed you.Copy !req
671. Hi, honey. Me, too.Copy !req
672. The girls miss their daddy.
How are they?Copy !req
673. They're fine. How are you?Copy !req
674. It hurts so much.Copy !req
675. I'm sorry.Copy !req
676. Paula Varney got an answer
from All-Atlantic Life.Copy !req
677. They knew
that he had syphilis.Copy !req
678. Bastards never informed him.Copy !req
679. Communicable,
sexually transmitted...Copy !req
680. disease, company's required to
report that to the health department.Copy !req
681. And health department would have
notified Varney if they'd known.Copy !req
682. One shot of penicillin back
then could have cured him.Copy !req
683. And these four victims
would still be alive.Copy !req
684. Yeah, if the insurance
company had told them!Copy !req
685. I want their ass.Copy !req
686. What is this?
Malcolm Hunt?Copy !req
687. And who are you?
Police.Copy !req
688. Come up from behind
the desk, please.Copy !req
689. I don't take orders from you.Copy !req
690. Malcolm Hunt, you're under
arrest for reckless endangerment.Copy !req
691. Reckless endangerment?
For what?Copy !req
692. For failing to notify the health
department about an applicant's...Copy !req
693. communicable disease which
caused him to murder four people.Copy !req
694. How dare you walk in here
and accuse me...Copy !req
695. Your lawyer
can explain it to you.Copy !req
696. No, you're the ones who can
explain. On whose authority?Copy !req
697. We have a warrant,
signed by a judge.Copy !req
698. And if you don't come with us
voluntarily, we'll take you.Copy !req
699. Now please put your
hands behind your back.Copy !req
700. Is this necessary?
Standard procedure.Copy !req
701. You have the right
to remain silent.Copy !req
702. If you give up that right,
anything you say...Copy !req
703. can and will be used against
you in a court of law.Copy !req
704. You need a head
to mount on your wall...Copy !req
705. so my client
becomes the scapegoat.Copy !req
706. We checked with
the health department.Copy !req
707. You never reported Daniel Varney's
syphilis as required by law...Copy !req
708. It must have
slipped through the cracks.Copy !req
709. It's the applicant's responsibility
to ask why he was rejected.Copy !req
710. Who's responsible for the four people
he murdered because you didn't tell him?Copy !req
711. We reject thousands of
applicants every year.Copy !req
712. HIV, heart disease.Copy !req
713. All poor risks.Copy !req
714. Miss Cabot, we run a business.Copy !req
715. We answer to our stockholders.Copy !req
716. Providing explanations to
every applicant we turn down...Copy !req
717. would require
hiring more staff...Copy !req
718. premiums would go through
the roof, and fewer people...Copy !req
719. could afford life insurance.Copy !req
720. $1.50 worth of penicillin would
have cured Daniel Varney...Copy !req
721. and prevented the carnage he
caused. You should have told him.Copy !req
722. The Court of Appeals just ruled that we
are under no obligation to inform the...Copy !req
723. The applicant. You still have to notify
the appropriate health department.Copy !req
724. If we audit your records and
find a pattern of similar cases...Copy !req
725. that have "slipped through
the cracks"...Copy !req
726. with no effort
on the part of your company...Copy !req
727. to rectify the situation...Copy !req
728. not only will we charge Mr. Hunt
with reckless endangerment...Copy !req
729. we will move to seize the profits of
your company as assets to the crime.Copy !req
730. See how your stockholders
like that. You can't do that...Copy !req
731. And Mr. Hunt can sit in prison
for seven years and think about it.Copy !req
732. What do you want, Miss Cabot?Copy !req
733. I want your company to begin reporting
all cases of communicable diseases.Copy !req
734. And when the families of the murder
victims and Daniel Varney's wife sue...Copy !req
735. you'll settle.Copy !req
736. That's extortion. It would
cost the company millions.Copy !req
737. It'll cost a lot less than going
bankrupt because of the publicity.Copy !req
738. In the court of public
opinion, you're already guilty.Copy !req
739. Do you want to take your
chances in a real court?Copy !req
740. I've read the 37 report on
your client, Mr. Newvine.Copy !req
741. Do you wish to introduce
any other evidence?Copy !req
742. No, Your Honor.Copy !req
743. Miss Cabot...Copy !req
744. does the District Attorney
plan to contest the findings?Copy !req
745. Not at this time, Your Honor. The People
are satisfied with the doctor's report.Copy !req
746. Then I rule the defendant
Daniel Stephen Varney...Copy !req
747. not competent to assist
in his own defense...Copy !req
748. therefore unfit
to proceed to trial.Copy !req
749. I order him remanded to the custody
of the Office of Mental Health...Copy !req
750. to be placed in a secure psychiatric
facility until he is fit to proceed.Copy !req
751. This court is adjourned.Copy !req
752. Until he's fit to proceed.
Which is never.Copy !req