"Hello." "Can I help you?" "It's not personal, but I need you to open the door." " I beg your pardon?" " Certain people will have to be sacrificed." " I made a promise." " It's important to keep promises." "In fact, I think it's so important..." "I want to volunteer as your next sacrifice." "Yes?" "Hello." "Can I help you?" "I'm looking for Catherine Black." "She's working tonight in Child Counseling." " 3B." " Thank you." "We've got multiple stab wounds, front and back." "B.P. 60 palp." "It doesn't look good." "She's crashing!" "Get her in the trauma room!" "We need a second line in her." " She's in respiratory distress." " Let's intubate her now!" "She's in E.M.D., hypovolemic." "Pour the fluids into her, start the E.P.R." "I already got two lines in her." "She's in V-fib!" "Let's D-fib at 200." "Give me a milligram of epi." " Okay?" "Clear?" " Clear." "Second charge at 300." " Clear?" " Clear." "She's gone." "Time of death: 10.:35 p. m." "I nearly blew a new hole in you, Frank." "I'm sure he's here." "Johnson and Clark are working the third floor." "Honey?" "Couldn't sleep." "Something affected you at the hospital." "You want to talk about it?" "Anne Rothenburg, 32." "Her husband found her when he came home from work." "He said some cash and some jewelry were missing." "Poor woman probably surprised a burglar." " Similar M.O.s in any recent break-ins?" " No, we've been on a hot streak." "No homicides as a result of break-ins in the last two months." "Subject leave anything?" "Anything at the scene?" " Anything like..." " Like anything." "No, but if, uh... any "like anything's" turn up... you'll be the first person I'll call." "Van Exel down the road" "To Shaq, back to Nicky." "Drives." "Slam dunk!" "Anything else?" "I was never a religious person... but I've been troubled by what I've done." " You need some help finding' something?" " Do you know why I'm here?" "Certain people have to be sacrificed." "Then you understand." "You accept this." "God says if you're repentant, you'll be forgiven." "You've made your peace." "I must make mine." "Anything else?" "Our streak is over." "This came in just a couple of hours ago." "It's probably not connected to the Rothenburg robbery/homicide." "Different weapons, circumstances, totally incompatible M.O.s." "But there's just something weird about this I wanted you to look at." " Anything else?" " Listen to the way he talks to the victim." "I was never a religious person, but I've been troubled by what I've done." "Seventy-five cents." " Do you know why I'm here?" " I don't know." "A good time?" "I got a special on malt liquor in the back." "Certain people have to be sacrificed." "Then you understand." "You accept this." "I accept you" "God says if you're repentant, you shall be forgiven." "I've made my peace." "Now you must do your duty." "What the hell are you talking about?" "The bastard didn't even ask for the money before he killed him." "He gave his permission." "Wait." "Let it run." "An "anything"." "Unit 21, we have a 10-17 on that." "Vehicle not reported as stolen." "Unit 22, copy that." "I'd like to examine the Rothenburg crime scene." "Frank, Forensic's already been through this place." "They didn't find anything." "Mr. Rothenburg spent all night cleaning up." "In his state of mind, he might have destroyed the evidence and not even remembered." "Why is it so important we find this card?" "If these two murders are related... we've got the surveillance camera footage from the liquor store." "We should be with a sketch artist building a composite instead of this." "There's something I need to know." "You found it." "Is it a jack of spades?" "I can't." "I can't do it, Bletch." " He always kills in pairs." " You know this guy." "Twenty years ago..." "I was almost the second of a pair." "Richard Alan Hance, born February 17, 1953... to a Josephine Hance." "Father unknown." "When he was six, he was sent into foster care... where, for the next 10 years... he lived with nine different families." "In the county's social welfare parlance, he was labeled 'irredeemable. "" "When Hance was 17, he was sent to live with his grandparents on a farm in Montana." "They were self-sufficient people living in rural isolation." "Six months after Richard Hance moved in... his grandparents' decomposing bodies surfaced on Flathead Lake." "murder charges were dropped for lack of evidence." "Hance was encouraged to join the military." "Did two tours in Vietnam." "Discharged in 1977." "That same year, on the outskirts of Tacoma..." "Sandra Bishop's body was found dead in her house... apparently from surprising a robber." "Half a "death card", used by soldiers in Vietnam to designate their kills... was discovered at the scene." "The other half was found three days later on a jogger... killed returning to his car." "You think Hance is responsible?" "We should put a warrant out for Richard Alan Hance." "He's presently at the Washington Corrections Center... serving seven consecutive life sentences." " Seven?" " A week after the first two murders... two more bodies were found." "After the second pair of victims, there was a lull." "we thought he went away." "Then Seattle P.D. received an anonymous call... regarding the whereabouts of the Death card Killer." "They found evidence he might have squatted in a condemned building, but he was long gone." "we came in after to see if anything more could be learned from his abandoned belongings." "You got any feelings about this one, Frank?" "Abandoned building in an industrial park." "It's isolated enough at night to be an urban version of Grandpa Hance's farm in Montana." " I think it's a good tip, sir." " All right." "The building's been swept by the Seattle P.D... but there's plenty of hiding places, so be careful in there." "All right?" "Let's go." "Cover me?" "It's decomposing." "I'd say he'd been here less than 48 hours." "You must be great at parties." "Hey, Clark." "Looks like we got a partial thumb on this magazine." "Clark?" "Clark." "Clark." "Oh, God." "Go!" "Johnson!" "Clark!" "I nearly blew a new hole in you, Frank." "I'm sure he's here." "Johnson and Clark are working the third floor." "Joker." "Can you see what I see, F.B.I.?" "can you see your fear?" "Can you see what you really are?" "Drop it!" "Drop it, you son of a bitch!" "Come on!" "Give me a reason." "You get me an ambulance." "I'm hurt." "If he follows Hance's pattern, the current subject will take two more victims... the second pair before a period of unknown activity." "whatever Hance did... whatever happened to him during that lull in 1977... made Hance more aggressive." "It was only a lucky tip that allowed us to catch him at all... and the loss of three lives." "We have to stop the subject before he gets there." "Maybe, uh, someone should talk to, uh, Richard Hance." "Someone?" "You." "After killing a prison guard, Richard Hance has been isolated... from human contact for 3 years." "You've already spoken to Washington Corrections?" "I've never taken my eyes off of him... even though for all intents and purposes, he's dead." "Then, um, how is it possible... that he's, uh, responsible for these recent murders?" "Hance's cell mate prior to being placed in isolation... who the guards refer to as Mrs. Hance... has been released from prison." "He's broken parole." "His whereabouts are unknown." "Jacob Tyler." "He is the living reincarnation of Richard Alan Hance." "They're everywhere." "They're on to you." "It's just a matter of time." "And then it had a little tie." "It was really pretty." "You, who have sinned, shall endure the tortures of the devil!" "For each condemnation, 10 lashes... with a red-hot wire." "The flesh will be flayed from your body... and salt poured over the wounds... and your screams of mercy shall fall on deaf ears... as those who screamed in vain under your hand... shall rejoice in your suffering!" "The Lord has sent me to prophesy against this city the words that ye have heard." "Therefore, amend your ways and your doings and obey the voice of the Lord!" "Unit 16, remain on site." "Most of it's washed away, but let's do what we can." "motorist looking to relieve himself stumbled over the bodies." "Queen of hearts... half here... half on the other body." " We're too late." " Too late?" "This couple was murdered at least three weeks ago." "That means that the liquor store owner completed the cycle." "He's gotten there." "The period of unknown activity." "There's no way to stop him until he acts again." "There is something." "I have to speak to the dead." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "I think you're making a mistake." "This man has been convicted of three additional killings... while incarcerated, including a guard... whose bloodied body he paraded up and down the cell block like some kind of trophy." "He has information that could help us save lives." "Maybe we can set up a chair between the cells." "You can conduct your interview there." "In order to get what I want, I have to gain his trust." "He won't give us anything from behind those bars." "There's no surveillance set up in this room." "You'll be on your own in here." "When you're done, press this button." "Guards will come get him." "And, uh, you're gonna have to sign this before we bring him in." "It's just a statement acknowledging that you understand... that if you're taken hostage... the prison administration will not negotiate for your life." "Remove the cuffs." "Please, remove the cuffs." "My name is Frank Black." "I'm not part of the prison or the F.B.I... or any other law enforcement agency." "I assure you that anything we talk about will not be passed along... to prison authorities." "We're not being taped or monitored in any way." "I'm asking for your cooperation... in freely talking about your childhood... your life, your crimes." "Make 'em turn off the lights." "In my cell, they keep 'em on 24 hours a day... every day." "Fluorescent lights." "It's the hum." "You hear it?" "Sixty-cycle hum." "Constant." "It's like you're aware of your own heart beating." "Or pounding." "Even when my eyes are closed and I'm sleeping'..." "I can see the light right through the eyelids." "I used to hate living in the darkness." "Now I would kill just for a second of black." "Well, you know, figuratively." "There are no rewards for cooperation." "Then why the hell would I talk to you?" "You can go back to the hum." "This interview can be ended by either one of us by pressing that button." "I'll go my way." "You go back to your cell." " Sandra Bishop." "Let's start there." " No." "A good story, you have to start at the beginning." "Sandra Bishop would be like walking into a play after the intermission." "What's the beginning of the story?" "First, though, you want to make a movie about my life, I want Gary Busey to play me." "I think he'd be perfect for the part." " Is he still popular?" " I don't get cable." "We open on my grandparents' farm in Montana." "I was, uh, 17." "It's February, Valentine's Day." "There was this girl I was sweet on." "Oh, and I want Ally Sheedy to play her." "Okay." "Where was I?" "Oh, I had saved my money all winter long... so I could buy her the biggest box of chocolates... in one of those heart-shaped boxes." "I sent her a card." "I wouldn't let my grandma see the card 'cause I knew she'd go on about how much I spent." "So I just asked her to address it... 'cause I couldn't read or write." "Anyway, February 14 comes... and I'm walking' up to her house... and I got that box of chocolates under my... under my arm." "And I'm walking up the driveway... and all other folks... they're outside and they're laughing... a- at me." "And she-she's crying, and she's just bawling her eyes out." "She eventually says to me, "They say you can't read"." "Then she shows me the card I sent her, you know?" "It's a..." "It's a Father's Day card." "I just dropped the box, and I turned around and walked away." "I've been walking' away ever since." "Willie Lloyd Turner." "That's his story." "He was executed May 25, 1995 in Virginia." " Something borrowed, something" " John Barnes." " The jogger." " 1977." " The matched pair." " They all asked for it." " Asked?" " You just gotta listen." "You gotta feel the vibe." "You know..." ""The meat", as I call them." "They'll volunteer their lives up." "Is that what you call the F.B.I. agents? "The meat"?" "No, no, no." "They're like me." "Meat eaters." "That's what made them so fun to kill." "The hunters become the hunted." "The first one practically offered himself up, like Ophelia offering herself to Dracula." "Then Ophelia became my bait." "Clark." "The second one, after witnessing my power... just- surrendered." "I mark 'em... on the palm." "That's my trademark." "It makes them my property, my meat." " And the third?" " The third one was a coward." "I ate his fear up like it was a Thanksgiving meal." "His sweat was the cranberry sauce." "His breath was the stuffing." "And those frozen eyes?" "They were the dark meat." "You marked him... but you didn't kill him." "The joker." "You think you're safe in here?" "With all these guards all around and me shackled... and this little panic button at your fingertips?" "It takes them 33 seconds from the moment you push that button... to the time they open that door." "I counted." "You know what I can do to you in 33 seconds, meat?" "You're the one who has to decide when to push that button." "I thought about how I should have ended your life the way you ended my friends'." "If I pulled that trigger, no one would have given it a second thought." "There would have been no doubts by anyone... except me." "And now I'm beginning to wonder if I made the right decision." "I was afraid to come here, not because of you... but because of me." "I'm not so sure I should have given myself the chance to make that decision again." "Make it for me." "Give me a reason." "No." "I've already eaten you." "May I be excused?" "Jacob Tyler." "You finished eating him?" "I would never hurt Jacob." "Tyler came in to this prison." "He was a bank robber with no history of homicidal violence." "Now he's following your pattern... your exact signature." "You killed him... and made another Richard Hance." "No." "Look, you ever share your life so completely with another human being... that you... you eat, you sleep... you breathe everything the same?" "I touched his life like no one else can because I was in here with him!" "I mattered, and he mattered." " I lived as Jacob, and he lived as me." " Oh." "We are as one." "They're trying to torture me with these lights." "But for every second these lights burn... that tells me that's another second that he's out there." "That's not murder." "That's love." "And if you truly love him, he'll do as you've done." "He'll take two pairs of two and then rest... gathering his strength and resources for the test... the test where the hunters become the hunted." "The anonymous tip... the trap." "You called it in." "Crime stoppers Hotline." "I have some information... information regarding the, uh..." "the guy in the papers." "Could you be more specific, please?" "The guy who killed the liquor store guy... you know, with the drawing in the papers?" "Yes, sir." "Have you seen someone who matches the composite?" "Yeah, I think I seen him around this abandoned building... on 30th and Hope." "I think he crashes there at night." "Thanks for the tip, sir." "You may be eligible for a reward..." "I nearly blew a hole in you, Frank." "I'm sure he's here." "Johnson and Clark are working' the third floor." "Johnson." "Clark." "Joker." "Can you see what I see, F.B.I.?" "can you see your fear?" "Can you see what you really are?" "Drop it, you son of a bitch!" "Come on." "Give me a reason." "No!" "Frank?" "You haven't slept through the night for a week." "Sorry I woke you." "I'm not." "I've been questioning myself, my actions." "We think we're doing our job putting these guys away." "All we do is put 'em in jails and prisons." "We're hiding them from sight." "You've taken away their ability to harm any others." "You think so?" "Four people have died because of my inaction." "Your inaction?" "Twenty years ago, I could have destroyed a cancer." "Instead of killing it, I allowed it to spread." "Richard Hance." "That cancer was a man under your custody." "You could no more kill him than you could kill Jordan or me." "Frank." "I believe in the goodness that's in you." "You have to find a way to believe in it again." "You got the anonymous tip last night?" "If he stays with the pattern, that'll be the trap." "He'll be in the building waiting." "Undercover officers kept this under surveillance since early this morning." "If he moves a hair, we're gonna nail him." "I think Jacob Tyler has lost all contact with his own personality." "We can't count on his survival instincts... to surrender, even against overwhelming odds." "Maybe in this case, it's better just to end it." "Here." "Now." "Okay." "It's a go." "Dispatch all additional units." "North and south, Rivers warehouse." "Unit five, copy?" "Gunfire!" "We're under fire!" "There he is!" "Third floor." "Northeast building, the one under construction." "Go!" "I just want you to know it's not personal." " We answer the call." " Do you know why I'm here?" "You made a promise, a promise you have to keep." "You understand." "Certain people have to be sacrificed." "Then you accept this?" "No." "I've already been sacrificed." "You are not who you are." "You're Jacob Tyler!" "You'll have to find a way to believe in that again." " Drop it." "Drop it now!" " No!" "This is Bletcher." "Suspect's down, third floor." "Send a coroner." "I couldn't take the chance, Frank... for now or later." "How did we get to this place where the only thing we're good for... is notifying the loved ones?" "Revision:" "Thor"