"is this how you want to die?" "Hold it right there!" "Drop it!" "Freeze!" "Hold on guys, she's trying to say something." "What was that?" "Thank you." "You're welcome." "You're gonna be okay, you're safe now, all right." "Thank you." "Come on, let's get her out of here." "How is she holding up?" "She's alive, that's better than the others." "Hey." "Hey, Moni." "So what's with that kneecap shot?" "Up yours!" "It's like working with 6th graders with you two." "l'll see you later." "All right, man." "My, my, my." "Look at all that. I forgot the sky ain't made of concrete." "There's a lot of stars outside of prison, Pop." "Take a seat." "Finish our game." "Pop, you know I know that you didn't kill those two people." "Right, you the head shrinker." "But you ain't shrinking' nothin' of mine." "I said I capped 'em, I named 'em, and the judge bought it." "All right." "All right." "Seventeen years old." "No priors." "Pop Pop, something doesn't add up." "'Cause I was smart." "I always got away with it." "You're pretty smart, but your Uncle Daramus, that guy, he's really smart." "Long rap sheet." "If he went down for two murders, he would rot in here." "Well, he ain't here, is he?" "No." "You are." "You think what you're doin' is noble?" "You askin' hypothetical?" "Yeah, that's noble." "You can't save everybody, Dr. Cross." "Not tryin' to save everybody." "It hurts, doesn't it?" "Personally, I'm fascinated by pain." "That's pretty good, honey, but... but... but here..." "Just right there in that part." "If you do a little" "Stevie Wonder kind of riff." "Yes?" "All right, let's see it." "Here." "Janelle." "Don't tell me you got all your homework done." "No, ma'am. I just have a little math and history to do." "Oh, so you're planning to do it after supper?" "Well, I don't think so, get on upstairs and get your homework finished, girl." "Chain-gang." "Somethin' wrong with you?" "Ma'am?" "Boy, get your foot off my bench!" "I don't know how to fix it." "All right. I'll take a look at it." "Honey, can you give me a hand?" "All right, Maria, you're up to something, what is it?" "Ink, top shelf, I can't reach it." "Yeah, you know the only problem being married to you, is that you're too short." "Too short, yeah." "All right, what's going on?" "Okay, look around and tell me what's new." "A game?" "A game." "What's in it for me?" "Your pride." "Okay." "All right." "But if I win, I get that other thing I like." "We'll see." "Where do you want to start, the front door with the screen door that you fixed." "No more squeak." "You had coffee with someone before you came home." "A latte, you got a little foam on your blouse there." "You stopped off from work, got the car washed." "Gassed the car, put a little hand sanitizer on." "Keep goin'." "Changed your lipstick." "Red Wine is gone, now it's..." "Crimson Mist." "..." "Crimson Mist." "Not bad." "Not bad." "But that's all chump change." "Obviously, Detective, you need a clue." "Oh, I need a clue." "Yeah." "It's very close." "Very close, let's see." "Wow, I don't know what that could be." "Maybe the sonogram in the printer?" "Who told you!" "Wait, babe, is this ours?" "This is us?" "It's our child." "You're pregnant?" "We're having a baby?" "You okay?" "Yeah." "How far along are you?" "Just eight weeks. lt's our secret until we get to twelve." "Okay?" "Think you can shut up for that long?" "I didn't get you pregnant by talkin'." "Well, I think we should name him, or her" "Alex." "Which works for either." "Really?" "Yeah." "Dinner in 20 minutes!" "Looks good." "You look like the cat that swallowed the canary, son." "You don't know everythin', you don't know everythin'." "Put me down." "Put me down now." "Stop!" "I'm just happy, Mom. I'm real happy." "Yes." "I'm at the line." "The transfer is being routed." "You know where to find her." "All of them." "You understand?" "You the manager?" "On good days." "I want to place a bet." "On who?" "The Butcher of Sligo." "We ain't got nobody like that fighting', man." "You're looking at him." "We got a card, man, we don't do walk-ins." "Ten thousand on the Butcher and a thousand for you." "Yeah!" "Stansic ain't getting that much of a workout today, your funeral." "Lockers upstairs on the right." "A'right!" "A'right!" "A'right!" "That's what I'm talkin' about!" "Looka here!" "Looka here!" "Hold on!" "Hold on!" "Hold on!" "Looka here!" "Looka here!" "We're gonna do a special, off-card match up." "With my man, hundred-grand, Motor City's own heavy weight champion" "Nanod Stansic!" "Yeah!" "Get 'em, champ!" "Get 'em, champ!" "Yeah!" "Hold on!" "Just how easy this money is, I'm tellin' you, this guy can't weigh no more than 130 pounds." "He's gotta have some kind of a death wish." "So go ahead and make some noise for I don't know" "why he doin' this." "The Butcher of Sligo." "Now I want a real clean fight, you understand?" "You ready to get your ass beat?" "Don't hit me in the face or you'll never fight again." "Break it up!" "Back to your corners, come on!" "Ready to fight?" "Let's get it on!" "Come on!" "What's going on?" "Come on!" "He's out!" "Let go." "He's out!" "Going to make my favorite, pasta puttanesca!" "Come." "Let me show you my favorite part of the house." "You must have some very powerful enemies." "He's clear." "You have a statue of Guan Yu in there." "The god of war." "War is a passionate undertaking of strategy and will." "Just like sex, so it belongs beside the bed." "War has been declared." "Now for my favorite part." "Unconditional surrender." "Take off your stockings and give them to me." "Do you like it?" "Oh, yes." "Yeah." "Tell me again." "Oh, I like it." "Well... I can't have that." "Just you." "Hold on." "Sorry about that, Chief, what's going on?" "We got ourselves a four roses." "Four roses?" "Where?" "414 Lakeshore Drive." "That's high end." "Yeah, look it. I'm giving this one to you and Tommy Kane." "High profile." "Hey, Alex, you're gonna wanna prepare yourself for this one." "Woman was tortured to death." "You understand?" "I gotta check, I gotta check." "Let me just check." "Let me just see who it is." "It's Alex." "I got to take this." "Come on, Tommy, answer the phone." "Hey, man, what's going on, what do we got?" "We got four roses with a torture chaser, man, where are you?" "Yeah, no, I'm at a card game, and I'm ahead." "You're playing cards and you're ahead?" "Pull your little chip out and tell me where to pick you up." "Yeah, you can get me at the corner of St. Aubin and Mack." "l'll see you in a little bit." "Right." "We got a multiple, I gotta go." "Okay." "You worried?" "No." "Why?" "You're putting on your pants kind of angry." "Wow, I'm that much of an open book, huh?" "To me you are." "Then what do you think I am to him?" "We've been best friends since we were little kids." "And now I'm lying to him and he knows it." "We've been careful." "Careful?" "What do you think, we can fool him?" "This is the guy who can tell you had scrambled eggs for breakfast at 1 00 yards." "Besides, I don't like lying to him." "So then let's come clean." "Tell him what he already knows." "That would not be good for your future." "Your career." "I know." "But I'm good at my job." "And Alex knows that." "Yeah." "Alex also knows the rules." "And this, what we're doing, this is not supposed to be, babe." "But it is." "And we're here." "And it's only been two months." "All right?" "Now listen to me, we got to give this a little bit of time to make sure that this is real." "And if it is, we got some tough decisions ahead of us." "Look at you." "You're just the kind of guy my father told me to avoid like the plague." "But I love looking at you and I hate to see you go in the middle of the night." "Someday, you'll be looking at me, dunkin' my donuts, slurping' my coffee, and you'll beg to get rid of me." "The easy Irish charm." "Save it." "I was thinking on my way over here, man." "You know how much you've changed since Junior High School?" "Since Junior High." "Just take a wild guess." "Look, I know what you're talking about and I don't want you to worry, all right?" "It's just a thing, okay?" "Don't tell me not to worry about it, Brianna was a thing." "Skyler, that was a thing." "This is Monica." "That's not a thing, man." "That's dangerous." "Tommy, I'm not kidding you, man." "Look, it's not that simple, all right?" "How you gonna say that to me?" "It's not that simple." "I have real feelings for her." "I might be..." "Maybe I'm in love with her." "Let me simplify it for you in case you don't understand." "All right?" "You and her, that jeopardizes our team, that jeopardizes me, that jeopardizes you, my family." "I'm not willing to take that risk, my friend." "So you need to end it or somebody needs to leave the unit." "All right. I'll go." "You'll..." "You'll go?" "What's gotten into you today?" "There's got to be something more on your mind than my sex life." "I'm taking a job with the fbi, man." "What?" "For real?" "I'm gonna do it." "My psych degree means more pay." "They've been calling a lot." "I'll get to spend more time with Maria and the three kids." "So I'm gonna do it." "Wait a second." "Back up a second." "You just say three kids?" "Don't tell me..." "The detective is on duty." "Yes, sir." "Number three, buddy." "I'm very happy about it." "That is great news, man." "Congratulations." "However, a desk job with the fbi, terrible news." "You know you can't take that job." "Tommy, I love you, man." "I mean, you know I do from the bottom of my heart." "Love you, too." "Goes without saying." "But I'd rather take advice from a ham sandwich." "Oh, my God." "Now you really insulted me." "All right?" "Let me explain something to you." "You don't play the game." "The game plays you." "Listen, my mind's made up." "It's done. lt's happenin'." "Okay?" "And you've already discussed this with Maria, I assume, right?" "I knew it." "After you discuss it with Maria, then your mind is made up." "Thank you." "Hey, how you doing?" "Fine, sir." "Good morning, Chief." "You're up bright and early." "Yeah. I got a prayer breakfast over at the A.M.E. Zion Baptist Church in Lafayette Park." "It's one of my outreach programs." "You guys got all this, yes?" "Yeah, sure." "No problem." "Good." "Crimes in neighborhoods like this are..." "Hell, cake eaters don't like it and it's bad for business." "Solve it, please." "He's running." "No doubt." "This place is heavy, huh?" "Hey, guys, what do you say you clear out and let Gandalf and I have the site." "Gandalf?" "Yeah." "The wizard." "What do you want me to say?" ""Gandalf."" "We got another one, huh?" "What do you think?" "is this some kind of gang hit?" "Got to be at least two or three guys to pull this off." "No." "This is one guy." "One guy did all three?" "No shot." "One." "You care to enlighten the Muggles, my friend?" "That's two different movies, Tommy." "Jesus!" "These guys were sick." "It's one guy." "One guy." "All right. I got a license here." "It reads Fan Yau Lee." "Looks like maybe she's got eight grand in cash." "Only other item is this very elegant but blank swipe card." "Yeah." "Footprints on the glass." "There was a laptop." "He must have made off with it." "Maybe that's what he came for." "I don't know. I'm just... I don't see how one guy could have done all this." "He knew her." "Tied her up." "They were gonna have sex, and it goes bad." "She doesn't scream or the bodyguards would have come running." "So he must have drugged her with some sort of date rape drug." "I'll run a blood tox." "But answer me this." "All right?" "How does he get a gun up here past the bodyguards?" "No doubt they gave him a pat-down before they let him alone with her." "Yeah, you would think." "But the entry wounds downstairs are .380s or look like it." "Small gun, women's models." "So here's what happens." "Our guy comes here." "He's got manicure man here, hits him, bam." "He's got the chef, hits him twice." "That's a tough shot, so if it is one guy, we're probably talking' about a professional." "A real professional, because our Asian guy comes running through the door." "So he leaves him to crawl while he goes out to his car, gets his tools, comes back." "And he lays a rose right on him." "He heads upstairs for the encore." "I'm going to ask you a question." "And you are going to get nine chances to get it right." "Well... I can't have that." "It hurts, doesn't it?" "Personally, I'm fascinated by pain." "We got a good look at this lunatic, which means he also got a good look at us." "Any shot at all we go on his list?" "No." "That's not his M.O." "This guy, I'm telling you, he's focused." "Fan Yau, five hundred thousand dollars ofjewelry, he didn't even breathe on it." "He's focused, he's got a clear path." "He's checking off the list." "He won't deviate." "I'll tell you what." "We're going to go with a sociopathic killer with a narrow focus." "I think that will comfort the citizens." "But I can make it stop." "So, your laptop." "Tell me what the password is." "He would have needed a password, I get that." "But there was no way it takes all 1 0 fingers." "The other nine were for fun." "So he sat here, cuts her fingers off." "And he sits here..." "He's drawing." "There you go, look at this." "Our killer thinks he's a Picasso." "Well..." "Charcoal." "That'd have to take a while." "All right, I'll have the lab check it out, maybe he used some kind of unique type." "Yeah, he's got some formal training too." "It's pretty good." "All right, I'll follow that as well." "That's four times our salary, buddy, right there." "If she's got that, there's more." "A safe." "There's a safe." "Hey, Tommy." "What do you got?" "Looks like some kind of thumb reader." "You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?" "I'm always thinkin' what you're thinkin'." "All right man, well, I'll let you have the honor." "No, go ahead." "No, no, you got it." "You do it." "No, no, I'm good." "lt's all you." "No, it's totally cool." "Luck of the Irish, you do it." "Come on, you're the doctor." "Well, there we go, jackpot." "Clever girl, she had a backup hard drive." "Looks like Picasso didn't think of everything." "You know, just once I would like it if you got something wrong." "'Cause this is really starting to get annoying." "Here's the copy you asked for." "Thanks." "I got some background on Fan Yau. lt's not much yet." "Talk to me, what is it?" "28 years old." "Taiwanese national, no known family here." "But I'm still looking into that." "She attends Fudan University in Shanghai where she earns her M.B.A." "Then she wins a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, but drops out after three months." "That's where the trail dries up." "Nada for the last five years." "Okay, you think about the house, the jewelry and the cars." "The money had to come from somewhere, so odds are there's a dude in the picture." "Dude..." "is that your only idea for how a woman can get money?" "Easiest way for a woman that looks like this." "All right." "We're not just talkin' money." "We're talkin' crazy big money." "Stay on track, guys." "What's the coroner saying?" "Cause of death was shock." "Plain and simple." "Her heart just stopped." "But this is interesting." "There was a hypo-injection mark in her neck." "Blood toxicology report's not in yet, of course." "Of course, they're always behind on that." "Have them rush it." "Okay, I think that's important." "Yeah." "What do you guys got back there?" "The ide was routed to the bios in a weird way, and the cylinder/sector was stored in the CMOS." "Yo, yo, yo." "Geico Cavemen, what do you say we break that down in English." "We spelunked her email account." "Most of her emails came with two names." "Giles Mercier and Erich Nunemacher." "Mercier, wow." "That's high cotton." "That guy's on Forbes' richest list." "Here it is." "Mathis Corporation, they're based here in Detroit in the Aqua Building on Woodward." "Like I said, crazy big money." "Wait a minute, did you say" "Erich Nunemacher?" "Was that it?" "Erich Nunemacher?" "Yeah." "We got an "E" and a "N" here." "This guy just gave us our next target, guys." "Let's get over there." "Moni, you ride with us." "Kleb, call ahead, let them know we're coming, right." "I'm on it." "We're here to see Erich Nunemacher." "I'm sorry, Detectives, but as I already told some woman in your office, without a warrant this is as far as you go." "Tell me what this is about, I will relay it in the morning..." "He is a target, he will be dead by morning." "I assure you, Detective, a killer would not be getting any further than you have." "We are all former German Police." "This company is our responsibility." "Herr Sacks." "Has that ever happened before?" "No." "He's already in the building." "Move!" "Follow me." "I need this weapon." "What is this?" "Mr. Nunemacher, we have reason to believe your life may be in danger, so we need you to move, sir." "Nonsense." "This building is impenetrable." "Tell them, Sacks." "And you, please, sterilize your hands before you touch my furniture." "Yes, sir, Hans you're with me." "Yes, sir." "Cover this guy." "Walkin' the circuit." "So is there a door to this office that I'm not seeing?" "You idiot!" "This whole floor is my office." "Look, unless you wanna get your ass shot off, I suggest you take a seat." "All right?" "Don't touch me!" "You have dirty hands." "Sit down, sir." "I'm not an amateur!" "What the hell do you think you're doing?" "All right." "Listen to me." "I want this damn door open right now." "Now open it!" "l can't!" "Once it's down it can only be opened by outside security!" "Well, then you better figure out another way." "Get someone up here who can open this thing!" "Don't you listen, fool?" "Once it's down we can do nothing!" "Let me see your hands!" "Put down the gun!" "Put down the weapon now!" "Do it now!" "is this what you wanna die doing?" "Drop the gun!" "Do it now!" "Now put your hands behind your back." "Put your hands behind your back." "Do it now!" "You!" "You're gonna open that goddamn door or I'm gonna kill you myself!" "All right, go out!" "I hope you get yourself killed, you idiot!" "You okay?" "Yeah." "Look at me." "You okay?" "Yeah." "God!" "Hey." "I think I clipped him." "He's gone." "Hey." "You okay?" "Yeah." "You're gonna see it!" "You think you know!" "Fuck!" "God!" "No, no, the eyes are deeper set than that." "The bridge of the nose is much stronger." "Much more pronounced." "Yeah, and he's older than that." "He's gonna have crow's-feet around the eyes." "Ladies and gentlemen, that could have gone one hell of a lot worse than it did." "Alex, excellent effort." "You and your team got close and that is not nothin'." "Yeah, but not close enough." "We were right there." "We almost had him." "I almost had him. I had the shot!" "There's blood in the bathroom." "So at least we have DNA." "Not enough." "What else we got?" "Kleb." "The charcoal pencil is unremarkable." "Same with the paper." "Sold every day, everywhere." "So the drawing gets us nothing." "Witnesses?" "Witnesses?" "This is Detroit." "Nobody's saying anything." "I just spoke to Nunemacher." "He and Mercier are on lock down at the house with our patrol officers and Mercier's security detail." "We're more than welcome to stop by." "I met that Mercier, he's a good guy, he's a French guy." "He's very majestic." "Raised about a gazillion-dollar fund to revitalize the city." "But here's what I don't get." "We got the rich French guy, we've got a professional assassin, now we're talking multinational corporations?" "What's the connection?" "Fan Yau, CFO, Nunemacher, COO, this guy's just working his way up the food chain." "Maybe to get to Mercier himself." "That's exactly what he's doing." "We need to get cleaned up and pay Mercier a visit early this morning." "Listen to me." "I need to control this." "This whole thing." "I need to stay ahead of it." "And so far, you people have told me exactly bubkas." "Now God damn it, what do we know about the killer?" "Chief." "You have got to give my team a break." "This guy is an assassin." "And there is no clear-cut profile for him." "But I can tell you what I know." "He's ex-military." "Somebody's, I don't know who." "But he feels rogue." "Stimulus-seeking, sociopathic narcissist." "Trying to make somebody hurt." "Wants somebody to pay." "Wants them to suffer." "I don't know who, maybe his..." "His mother?" "Father?" "Himself?" "The world?" "Who the hell knows?" "Janelle is up in her room, crying." "She's alone." "She needs you, son." "We got a good look at this lunatic, which means he also got a good look at us." "Any shot at all we go on his list?" "No." "That's not his M.O." "This guy, I'm telling you, he's focused." "Fan Yau, five hundred thousand dollars ofjewelry, he didn't even breathe on it." "He's focused, he's got a clear path." "He's checking off the list." "He won't deviate." "I'll tell you what." "We're going to go with a sociopathic killer with a narrow focus." "I think that will comfort the citizens." "Just you." "This is quite the spread." "Yeah, I'd say so." "Hi." "Hi." "I'm Paramita Megawati." "Monsieur Mercier's assistant." "He's expecting you, so please take a seat and I'll tell him you're here." "Can I offer you something?" "'Cause we have everything." "You like to eat, 'cause I can make some coffee, 'cause I could use some coffee." "l'm good." "Nothing to eat, coffee?" "No." "We had McDonald's." "That's funny." "That's gotta be some strong coffee they're serving." "That ain't coffee, you see her eyes?" "That chick is coked to the gills." "Yeah, she's been out all night." "I mean, come on." "No woman wears that get-up at 8:00 in the morning." "I remember your undercover work." "That was a very special occasion." "Gentlemen. lt is good to see you." "Under calmer circumstances." "I was going to say the same to you." "Detective Ashe, I wasn't expecting you." "It was very sexy to be saved by a beautiful woman." "With a line like that I should have let him kill you." "I'm kidding." "Detective Dr. Cross." "Giles Mercier." "I'm so sorry." "My ring." "My only vanity." "Fourteen karats." "It was given to me by the King of Cambodia." "Thank you all for your courage on Erich's behalf." "He and Cloche are both like family to me." "Working for you seems to be pretty dangerous these days, yeah?" "May I speak with you alone, Dr. Cross?" "Mathis Corporation presents a new vision for Detroit." "What do you think?" "Are you like everyone else, Dr. Cross?" "Do you see around you only death and decay?" "Sir, you don't want to ask me that question. I'm a cop." "This city will be born once again." "A global center of manufacturing and innovation." "But this time, hydrogen engines." "Nano technology." "Thorium mini-reactors." "The future." "Mr. Mercier, you and I, we both know that your employees, they're not the target, you are." "Have any idea why?" "You have done your homework." "Please sit down." "You know, there are many reasons why." "I understand that, sir, I'm not here to judge you." "I'm just looking for leads." "Whoever killed poor Fan Yau, tries to kill Erich last night." "Yes, I am quite sure his ultimate target is me." "Have any idea who "he" may be?" "I don't have the slightest idea." "But" "I don't want to die." "Forgive me, the pressure has been immense." "Do you like nature, Dr. Cross?" "Human nature." "Some cognac?" "No." "Oh, yes." "On duty, but this is Louis Xlll." "Mr. Mercier." "Can we stick to the point here?" "You must find it unpalatable being sworn to protect a man like me." "Someone rich and spoiled." "Don't over think it." "I'm just looking for a bad guy." "You know, if you had not called me, I would have called you." "Of course you would have." "To have me drive out here an hour to tell me nothin'." "No." "So I could see with my own eyes if you were up to the task of finding the killer." "If I wasn't up to the task, sir, then your Nunemacher wouldn't be alive now, would he?" "I think you are very good, Detective Dr. Cross." "Make no mistake about it." "I think you are the man I hoped you would be." "If I think of anything else, I will get in touch." "I have another appointment now." "So, you'll have to excuse me." "Cloche, please show Detective Dr. Cross to his car." "It's been a long time since we've been out," "without a kid between us." "Yeah, right." "And here we are with this freeloader." "I'm not paying for his dinner tonight, I want you to know he's got to get a job." "Yeah, like his daddy." "Yes." "Who has two, right?" "It's fbi profiling. 35% more money. 35%." "Great health benefits, great dental." "Regular hours, not as unpredictable as these." "Come on, baby, I think D.C. would be a good thing." "Yeah, I get it. I get it." "But here's the other side." "Yeah?" "I have a career too," "and it is right here in Detroit." "l know that." "The kids like their schools, and I have no idea what the public school system is like in D.C." "And how you going to convince Nana Mama to leave Detroit?" "The National Guard and a drink?" "Come on, these are the questions that have to be answered before we can just put up the "For Sale" sign... I understand that, honey. I do." "We're gonna work through this together." "All right?" "Together." "Let's toast to that." "Come on." "lt's bad luck to toast with water, honey." "We don't want to do that." "lt's superstition, come on." "Come on." "All right, fine." "Toast." "To the freeloader." "Don't you dare answer that." "Baby, if I was fbi profiling, then maybe I wouldn't have to." "We're not done here, mister, not by a long shot." "I know, I know. lt's Monica." "Hold on." "Just a sec." "Monica, this better be damn good." "Monica?" "This isn't Monica." "Do you know who this is?" "Yes." "Are you surprised to hear from me?" "What do you want?" "To send you something." "It's coming to you now." "There are so many interesting things you can do with fire and water." "Dr. Cross, are you there?" "Come on now, you can do better than that." "This is your only chance to psychoanalyze me." "Why don't you ask me some questions?" "I want you to ask me some questions." "Are you having fun?" "Fun." "Am I having fun?" "Yes." "Yes, I suppose I am." "But I think you'd find my hobby boring." "So your hobby is inflicting pain?" "Oh, no, no." "That's not just a hobby." "inflicting pain is a crucial part of my true calling." "So it fascinates you." "But in the beginning I'm sure it was very hard to deal with the guilt." "So where'd it start?" "Was it a neighbor's pet?" "Or was it your own?" "You're being disrespectful." "Very disrespectful." "And I don't like that." "Not at all." "I'm a professional." "Well, we're just two professionals having a conversation, right?" "Senora Cross, your table is ready." "Follow me, please." "I don't consider you a professional." "You are not a professional." "Why not?" "What do you call our little run-in last night, huh?" "Yes." "Yes, you did figure out my embedded clue in the drawing." "That's true, I suppose I have to give you some credit for that." "But Monica, under duress, told me that the rest was just lucky timing." "She could handle some pain, that one." "You are one sick twisted son of a bitch, do you know that?" "Dr. Cross, you're taking this personally." "Yeah, about as personal as you took, running out of that building, with your tail tucked between your legs." "Thatjob I can finish on another day." "But failure has to be difficult for a guy like you." "So how did you punish yourself?" "Was it wire under your fingernails?" "Was it zapping your testicles with a stun gun?" "Did you..." "Text book psychology, Dr. Cross." "Seriously, textbook." "And besides how could I ever believe you when you're wearing that?" "That blue floral tie." "By the way, you have a very pretty wife." "Sitting there trying to decide what she's going to have for dinner." "Maria!" "She looks stunning!" "Oh, my God!" "Okay, you're all right." "The baby... I need somebody to call 91 1 for me please!" "Somebody call 91 1 !" "Call 91 1 !" "Babe!" "Babe, look at me." "No, no, no." "You're okay." "Look at me, honey." "Look... I got it wrong, man." "I got it wrong and look what happened." "We got a good look at this lunatic, which means he also got a good look at us." "Any shot at all we go on his list?" "No." "That's not his M.O." "This guy, I'm telling you, he's focused." "Fan Yau, five hundred thousand dollars ofjewelry, he didn't even breathe on it." "He's focused, he's got a clear path." "He's checking off the list." "He won't deviate." "I'll tell you what." "We're going to go with a sociopathic killer with a narrow focus." "I think that will comfort the citizens." "Thanks." "What you got, Tommy?" "That was just the lab." "They found trace elements of the drug the son of a bitch is using." "It's got a 24-hour half life." "It's called TTX." "Tetra... something or other." "That means he's getting it right here locally." "Somebody knows this guy." "Somebody is putting it in his hands." "Here's the thing, man." "It paralyzes the victim, but leaves them totally aware." "Means, Monica..." "That she was awake, man." "She couldn't do anything, but she could feel everything that was happening to her!" "We got to find this guy, we got to take him out!" "I need you to calm down, man, you gotta stay with me, you can't fall apart." "You don't understand..." "Please, Tommy, please." "We got to get this son of a bitch, okay?" "Excuse me." "Janelle is up in her room, crying." "She's alone." "She needs you, son." "Honey." "Listen, you can't sit up here all alone, we're all worried about you down there." "None of us are going to get through this alone." "I want my mom back!" "I want her back!" "I know." "I want her back too, honey." "You know, before you were born, your mom made me buy this piano." "I hate the piano!" "I hate that thing!" "I hate everything." "I'm never going to play it again!" "Janelle." "Look at me, honey." "When I was just about your age, my dad died." "And Nana Mama came up and she was saying all the things I'm trying to say to you, honey." "But out of everything she said, she said that, that my dad loved me." "And I know your mom loved you, honey." "And she loved me and she loved your brother." "And when a person is gone that loved us, it doesn't go with them, it stays." "Do you understand, honey?" "It stays, okay?" "We got to try and remember the love, okay?" "It's okay." "Cross." "Good afternoon, Detective." "Am I calling at a bad time?" "That depends, are you calling to tell me where you are so I can hunt you down like a rabid dog?" "Oh, that's good." "I can feel that!" "I mean, you looked so numb at the funeral today." "But now the pain is really starting to flow, isn't it?" "Here's another emotion for you. lt's pleasure." "The pleasure I'm going to get when I watch your soul come oozing out of your body, you maggot." "Well, Confucius said," ""When setting off on a path of revenge, dig two graves."" "That's fine with me, as long as you're in one of them." "Me?" "Why me?" "I mean, you made me do it. lt's all your fault." "I had you in my scope, locked, then you just had to be so bright." "You had to try and push my buttons." "Spouting all your psychobabble." "I decided death would be just too easy on you." "No, you needed to suffer." "Really suffer." "So I took away your wife instead." "And now you're going to take this knowledge to the grave." "If you had just kept your mouth shut, you wouldn't be feeling any pain at all." "Excuse me." "I saw the way you and Tommy were looking at each other." "I know what you're up to." "I loved her." "Like she was my own daughter." "Do I need to tell you this?" "Look at you." "Self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner." "Mama, either you step aside or you go back up those stairs but you're in my way." "You've lost your wife, but you're still here." "Your soul is alive in your body." "You can't lose that, too." "I'm not losing anything else, I'm going to deliver some justice." "Liar." "Liar." "Liar!" "Don't you try placating me!" "You're going to go out there and get yourself killed!" "That ain't going to happen." "So you gun him down, you do that, you go home, you get up the next day, and then what?" "I have to figure out how to live another day without Maria." "Don't you walk out that door." "You walk outta here tonight, how you gonna walk back in?" "How you gonna look your children in the eye, what will you say to them?" "I know what's going on in your heart, but you can't do this." "He won't stop." "I've seen his face." "I've heard his voice." "I will always be a threat to him, don't you understand that?" "But I will meet his soul at the gates of hell before I let him take another person from me that I love." "Look at me." "Now these men are coming to take you and my children to someplace safe." "Go with them." "And don't you put up a fuss." "Hey!" "Got it." "Just where l left it." "Alex Cross." "How's my girl Pop Pop doing?" "Not bad for somebody who's paying your tab." "I don't know how those rumors get started." "Why do you go see her so much?" "Trying to make sure she doesn't turn out like you, Holiday." "Give her some hope." "What do you want, Doctor?" "I have a long reach." "You want to replace that old Yukon you've been driving?" "You want a flat-screen for your two little ones?" "Or bunch of kitchenware for your mama?" "Hey." "Hey, don't talk about my kids, don't say a word about my children, you understand me?" "What you got for my wife?" "Oh, man, I'm sorry about that." "That was flat out cruel." "I hope you don't think my prints are on that." "You clowns got to be this close?" "Maybe you know something you don't know you know." "That's everybody's story, Dr. Cross." "I'm looking for a chemist." "A mixer killed your wife?" "The killer used a chemist, one." "And you, you know all of them." "The guy I'm looking for has got real bad judgment, and really must be hard up for money." "Yeah." "He's got mojo for cooking exotica, so who is that?" "Why would I want to help a cop?" "I'm not a cop right now, Holiday." "Oh, no." "No, you're a real gangster." "Well, let's talk, gangster." "In a real gangster car." "You know what this is?" ".38." "Pop Pop's fingerprints on it." "Found it when I busted her." "You and I both know she didn't pull the trigger though, right?" "So I'll make you a deal." "Give me the chemist." "And I'll give you the gun." "My, my, Detective Cross." "You have definitely run off the reservation." "But you know full well, there was more than one gun." "What's this?" "Asked and answered." "You get any lawyer, file an appeal." "You know what happens, the DA is going to have some evidence issues." "Case dismissed." "Give me a name." "She walks?" "Give me a name." "I want to call my attorney!" "I am your attorney!" "Are you making TTX?" "You making TTX?" "l don't know what you're talking about!" "The woman he loves is dead." "So is my wife." "You maggot, you better talk to me!" "Are you making TTX?" "l don't know what you're talking about!" "You don't need an attorney, you're going to need a priest, you son of a bitch, because we're holding you responsible." "Tee him up." "All right, he's all yours!" "l want a name!" "l'm afraid of him!" "l want a name!" "No." "I want a name!" "Okay!" "He came here twice!" "I don't know his name!" "I don't know who he is!" "What about those security cameras?" "Huh?" "Maybe one isn't blanked out!" "That's him." "Go back!" "Go back!" "Blow it up!" "Damn it, Tommy, I don't have my glasses." "I got it, I can make it out." "T-D-8-6-0." "Kleb, we got a Cadillac CTS, partial plate." "Thomas David 860." "Thomas David 860." "Hold on!" "No, no, no, listen to me." "OnStar, okay." "Get them on the phone." "They can shut it down remotely." "Let's go, Tommy." "Appreciate your help." "OnStar says they can't communicate with the equipment." "He disabled it." "No, no, no!" "There's got to be a way to track that car." "Kleb, we've researched this, all you have to do is give them the transponder receiver number from the GPS, right?" "Match it with the vin number and they'll tell you where it is." "Hold on." "Yeah, I need you to track the car's vin number, okay?" "I'm going to give it to you." "0-8-2-8-2-0-1 -1 -4-1 -3-0-A." "Yes." "Yes, can you transmit that to my screen?" "Perfect, okay." "Thank you." "It worked, he's downtown." "He's heading..." "Hold on, he's heading on West Canfield Street." "Downtown?" "What the hell is downtown?" "Guys, please don't tell me Mercier is downtown and we don't know it." "Please don't tell me that." "Mercier is scheduled to give a presentation to the city planning commission, this afternoon. lt's going down in 30 minutes." "Federal Courthouse." "Kleb, you better get Brookwell on the phone, you let him know that this billion-dollar baby is going down and so is his chance at Mayor if he doesn't shut down courthouse square, I mean, lock it down tight!" "Right now!" "Max, I want you making sure everyone is working out of my tent." "Anyone who's giving commands, I want you to find them and confirm they're working off my contingency scenario." "Mine, not theirs." "You understand?" "Yes, sir, Chief." "Bomb squad's here." "I want this whole block swept in 1 5 minutes." "Let's work." "You got it!" "Jesus, man, it's a parking lot." "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "Where you playing tonight, bro?" "Looks really artsy." "Need some groupies or something?" "Huh?" "Hey, where you playing tonight, maybe we'll show up." "What you got in the other bag." "You got your panties in there?" "Panty man, we're talking to you!" "That's right." "Walk away, bitch." "Bomb squad, what do you got?" "Building's clear." "There's no way we're vetting all these vehicles in 1 0 minutes." "Any one of them could blow up the whole block." "Great." "So we're sitting in the middle of Baghdad." "Max, I'm wailing off detonation signals." "I want you to jam the cell grid." "We'll take out 20 square blocks minimum in all directions." "I want to cordon off Madison Avenue." "I don't want any looky-loos within 1 ,000 yards." "They're saying he's stopped, at the corner of..." "Hello?" "Cross?" "Damn it!" "Jody!" "Jody!" "Shit, we lost her!" "Bomb squad." "They shut down the cell towers." "Move!" "What are you doing with the train, man, huh?" "Hey, we're talking to you!" "Hard of hearing?" "Yo, this guy's a terrorist!" "We have to take him out." "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "Please, God!" "No!" "I was just playing, man!" "Please!" "God, no." "Please, man!" "No, please!" "I won't tell anybody!" "Alex!" "You better be right on this one." "Otherwise we've got one hell of an expensive fire drill going on." "Can you climb out of politics forjust a second to be a cop, please?" "That's great." "Give me a break, will you?" "This isn't just some lunatic, Brookwell." "It doesn't matter what he is, don't you understand, have you looked around?" "He's stepping into a hornet's nest." "There is not one scenario that you have thought of, that he has not already figured out." "Don't you understand what I'm saying to you?" "The only thing to do here is to stop Mercier right where he is." "l have 20 square blocks locked down!" "Don't let him come here!" "Twenty blocks locked down!" "This ends today, in fact, it ends right now." "Just in time for the 6:00 news, right?" "That's just great." "Both of you." "You're both dismissed." "Get out!" "Get out, go home!" "What a clown!" "Jesus." "Oh, man, Frenchy just pulled up." "You got to think like him." "You got to get inside his head." "Where would he be?" "Come on, man, get inside his head." "Think it through." "Where would you be?" "I want to personally assure you, we're locked down here." "We're completely safe." "The train." "Rocket!" "Please, man, no!" "Please, I won't tell anybody!" "Please don't kill me, please!" "Cell towers are back up!" "We got two units on the way." "Can you hear me?" "Where's the car?" "Let's go, Kleb!" "The car is stationary." "Bagley and Grand River!" "That's the old Michigan Theater." "l know, but they turned that into a car park." "That's got to be his way out." "Tommy, talk to me, man." "Are you okay?" "Tell me you're okay, man." "l'm okay." "Remember when we talked about two graves, Detective?" "I'm up here." "Oh, God!" "I'm going to thoroughly" "enjoy this." "I made you." "Die!" "Hang tight here, okay?" "I got you, man, I'm not letting go!" "Come on, guys!" "Hurry the hell up!" "Hang in there, they're coming." "Good, you're good." "All right, guys." "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "All right, on three." "One, two, three!" "At least it's over, right?" "No." "It ain't over, Tommy." "It ain't over." "Cross here." "We are assembling now." "Thank you, Chief." "Please stand by." "Stand by." "Who is this?" "I think you know who it is." "It seems that I have underestimated you, Detective Dr. Cross." "How did you find me?" "Your only vanity." "Your 14 karat gold ring from the King of Cambodia." "You weren't wearing it at the courthouse." "But we both know it wasn't you, right?" "It was Cloche, you sent him in there to take the hit for you." "A hit that you no doubt arranged on yourself." "Yes." "I'm at the line." "The transfer is being routed." "You know where to find her." "All of them." "You understand?" "My financial problems with Germany were just the beginning." "Everything began to unravel." "Yeah, 2008 wasn't a good year for you." "I was forced to do something drastic." "I could not go out a loser." "So you embezzled from your Detroit fund?" "Nunemacher and Fan Yau, they were in on it to help you escape, so you had to do away with them." "They were inside my information loop." "I had no choice." "And the psychopath?" "Who is he?" "I never knew his name." "I contacted him on the open market." "He came highly recommended." "You let this monster loose." "You thought you could control him, you are an arrogant bastard." "Your wife was never, never part of the equation." "I am truly sorry." "I think you should look out your window." "What is this?" "You have nothing on me." "There's no extradition here." "It's not extradition that I want." "You are in the perfect place." "But you have no proof." "No case!" "I am clean!" "You were." "But your assistant, Paramita, she's an addict." "And I knew it was only a matter of time before she got caught using, or selling or something." "She rolled over on you." "Gave you up for immunity." "Yeah, but I have nothing to do with the drugs." "I don't know nothing about them." "Then why are there two kilos of cocaine in the trunk next to your favorite couch?" "What?" "Do you have any idea what the punishment is for drug smuggling where you are?" "It's death, by firing squad." "You framed me with this, it is a lie!" "All dirty lies!" "My wife is dead because of you, and soon you will be dead because of me." "No!" "No!" "I think your days of underestimating people are over, Monsieur Mercier." "Lies!" "No!" "Not me!" "Let me go!" "We got him." "Yeah, we got him good." "You walk outta here tonight, how you gonna walk back in?" "How you gonna look your children in the eye?" "What will you say to them?" "I guess this is it." "Yeah, I guess so." "Here, you can save me a stamp." "What's this?" "My application to the fbi." "D.C.'s looking like a step up right about now." "What do you think?" "I think you're worrying about getting your ass shot up if I'm not around here to watch your back." "That's very funny, that was actually my concern about you." "Like that time I had to step in before Johnny mcglinch kicked your ass." "Man, that was..." "Johnny..." "Yeah, right." "First day of kindergarten." "Yeah." "Oh, man." "Set the tone for our whole relationship." "Do I need to remind you of the Wensing brothers?" "Two against one and I was holding my own, you didn't show up until the very end." "I was standing behind a tree watching you get your ass kicked. I was enjoying it." "Thank you, brother." "No, man, thank you." "See you in D.C., yeah?" "Hell yeah." "Janelle." "Movers will be here in a little bit, and they charge by the hour." "You don't want to..." "You don't want to leave behind anything you love."