"150,000 people leave Russia and come to Brighton Beach." "Reminds 'em of Odessa." "What a dump that place must be." "One thing these people got in common is the big hairy eyeball towards law enforcement." "Understandable after all those years of evil empire." "You make a few roubles selling oranges, you're a criminal." "Go to church, you're a criminal." "Man, it's gotta warp your thinking." "That's the way Community Relations says to look at it." " Third mutilated body left in public." " And no ID, due to method of execution." " Obviously a terror tactic." " It's working." "None of the usual suspects have anything to say." "A thousand people pass the body and no one picks up the phone." "Welcome to the global village." "There's Yura." "Guy from Moscow PD." "He's got three dead bodies over there cooling in the morgue." "Same MO." " And no suspects?" " None he's telling us about." "You know what he makes?" "$167 a month, man." "One six seven." "You think you could stay honest on that?" "Maybe he's not in it for the money." "Frank Black, meet Yura Surove." "This is Frank I told you about." "I got a meeting on this downtown." "You'll clue him in?" "Frank Black." "Millennium group." "I'd think you'd clue me." "He was propped right here." "Face removed point blank by a shotgun blast." "Fingertips cut off to prevent ID, just like the others." "Classic mob MO." "Except that one of the victims was a woman." "That's an unusual target for a mob hit." "In Russia, everyone is a target." "From the dispersal, the weapon had to be pistol-size." "From the force, 12-gauge or better." "Looks like glass." "This is hand loads." "It's designed to obliterate a face." "The man who died here." "He stood still." "He didn't try to escape." "So we know one thing about him." "He's definitely Russian." "See, an American, when faced with an overwhelming force, he digs in and fights." "A Russian crosses himself and accepts the inevitable." "Unfortunately." "I'd like to see the other bodies." "The blast erased the epidermis and cartilage." "Caused severe cranial fracture." "Rearranged enough orthodontia to make a dental match unlikely." "Kind of a collector." "Took the fingerprints with him." "Cut off their fingers, here at the third distal joint." "Neatjob." " Heavy tool." "Tin snips, most likely." " Game shears." "We found you." " Andrei, meet Frank Black." "From Millennium." " Hello." " My pleasure." " Yura, from Moscow PD." "Andrei is undercover for us, working in Brighton Beach." "Moscow?" "You have Zvezdas?" "I meant for tonight, but..." "Whoa." "I got flammable stuff here." " Excuse me." " One second." " Are we finding any pattern yet?" " Victim one has the body art of a family man." "Russian mob guy." "Judging from the quality of the tattoos, I'd say he was a real hotshot in his organization." "Though whoever pulled the trigger didn't think much of him." "These others..." "The only thing they got in common is the way they met their maker." "They sure look like ordinary citizens to me." "That's a surgical scar there." "Something removed." "There are flecks in her hair." "Amazing." "Flecks of gold leaf." " Gilding." " Could well be." "I'm just getting going with that guy." "But I can tell you right now, we got thyroid damage." " Radiation?" " Something environmental." "Could be anything." "There are toxins all over Mother Russia." "Those two fingers were blown off." "Never found the pieces." "Cross yourself in submission." "You were right." " Definitely postmortem." " It's a smear in the powder burn." "What do you make out of it?" "It's a mob sign." "Frank, the killer is not in your computer." "The marks on the man's head." "They're not mob signs." "When you find out what it is, let me know." "I'll be out there looking." "We're staking this out and you'll blow our cover." "Or else you will." "Do you have a problem with me being here?" "You can't help here." "You don't speak the language." "You don't know what to look for." "Yaponchik." "Who's Yaponchik?" "Who's Yaponchik?" "This is the man you say is the shooter, right?" "Do you recognize this man?" "Your buddy says he looks like this." "You identified this man." "Is that correct?" "The man at the club said "Yaponchik. " You moved in the second he did." "I moved in when things got bad." "Who is Yaponchik?" "Who is Dracula?" "Who is Frankenstein?" "He is the Russian bogeyman." " Witnesses say he was there." " Frank, Russia is crazy now." "Old superstitions coming back." "Priests and tea-readers preying on fears better than the Communists ever did." "To a Russian, everything must be magic." "It's not enough that a man commits these murders." "No, it must be Yaponchik walks the earth." " True evil." " You believed he was there." "But if these witnesses did, good." "Look at their drawings." "These people are afraid for their lives." "These composites are worthless." "But you trust them." "With this name that they gave you, right?" "You gotta make these people understand." "We're not playing games here." "You don't pull this crap." "Not in Brooklyn." "I will talk to them." "Amen." "When you said New York, I was hoping for closer to midtown." " Thanks for coming, Peter." " I was concerned at the tone of your call." " You find anything?" " Nothing I'd call clarity, but I did get a few answers." "That symbol that you found..." " The monogram of Christ?" " Yes." "My guess is that someone blessed the body, secretly." "Yura must have known that symbol." "It's tough to say." "But I agree that he's been holding out on you." "Before the Soviet Union broke up, Yura was on the security force at Chernobyl." " Chernobyl?" " Somehow, it's the common thread here." "The physical deformities of the congregation caused by Chernobyl." "This guy Yura, a guard there." "Even the name "Yaponchik" is connected." " Yura says Yaponchik's a myth." " There's no photo of him, so he is a myth." "He seems to be vory v zakone." "It's a criminal leader, respected enough by others to decide disputes." "This isn't mob violence, it's not that." "It's not about business." "Are you familiar with Revelation, chapter eight, verse ten?" "John talking about the Apocalypse." ""Bright star falling..." "Brilliant, like a torch. "" "The name of the star was Wormwood." ""One third of the waters became wormwood. "" ""And many men died because the water was made bitter. "" ""Chernobyl" is Ukrainian for "wormwood. "" "The nuclear accident predicted in the Bible." "Only many people in Russia believe it wasn't an accident." "A persistent rumor about Yaponchik is that he was responsible for Chernobyl." "Andrei, the undercover cop." "He's there." "With Yura." "Yaponchik, Chernobyl, wormwood." "They believe it, both of them." "That's why they're searching for Yaponchik." "That's why Yura's here." "You weren't honest with me." "I don't talk about Chernobyl, Frank." "And neither did Andrei." "Would you?" " What about Yaponchik?" " I told you, he's a myth." " Responsible for Chernobyl." " Another myth." " What about wormwood?" " If Andrei were American..." "If Americans were being killed every day, would you come to me with superstitions?" "You believe Yaponchik is responsible." "Others believe it." "You bolted at his name." "Your rampage was not about the loss of your friend." "You didn't check to see if he was alive or dead." "You were furious you missed Yaponchik." "You didn't go in there as a police officer." "You went in there to assassinate Yaponchik." "No indictment, no trial." "Just kill him." "There is no Yaponchik, Frank." "Chernobyl was not an accident." "It was a reactor-shutdown experiment that became a disaster when diesel backup generators failed to come online." "In Russia, it is thought that this was an act of sabotage by a man named Yaponchik." "We believe that this Yaponchik committed the homicide we're investigating." " And that he'll kill until his task is complete." " And the task is?" " Terror." " Yaponchik is a myth." "The violence is against people who believe otherwise." "People determined to make Yaponchik's identity public." "To make him pay." " What people?" " Ask Yura." "He's one of them." "Yeah." "Sure." "Tell him about wormwood, too." "This is a really good one, Lieutenant." "I understand there's been some disagreement over tactics on this case." "You think I've been holding out on you." "I haven't." "Yourjudgment is warped by your desire to see Yaponchik dead." "He killed a New York City detective." " Am I being too aggressive here?" " I wouldn't put it that way, no." "I don't work with assassins." "I'm gonna ask you to give these guys 48 more hours." "We'll see where we are then." "We better not be where we are right now." "We don't expect to be." "We have a lead." "The priest at the church helped ID another victim." "The woman." "She restored artwork." "Religious relics." "Icons." "Russian icons." "Galina was missing one week before her family contacted me." "Told me their fears." "The words spoken at the church door." ""I am coming soon." "Come, Lord Jesus. "" "The last words in the Bible." "Gold leaf." "Same as you found on her body." "The flecks in her hair." "Icons." "An icon is a window into the kingdom of God." "Galina restored several for the church before she was murdered." "From the size of this collection, she must have been trafficking in these for years." "Not trafficking." "Protecting." "Before, from Communists who would destroy them." "Now from criminals who sell them." "What's this?" " To the Russian consulate." " No." "Galina would never do this." "After protecting something for so long, why would somebody give this up?" "Maybe she knew what was coming." "She faltered." "She was sending these as an offering to save herself." " He killed her anyway." " Yaponchik?" "She discovered who he was." "Rather than cease to be a myth, he killed her like the others." "Their deaths created an even greater terror among the believers." "Greater silence." "Feeding the myth." "Sergei Stepanovich Senin." "I doubt that's his real name, any more than Yaponchik." "This way." "Wait." "Sergei Stepanovich?" "I am Sergei Stepanovich." "This is for you." " Give them something for their trouble." " Why did Galina Landskoi send you this?" "My job is to recover icons." "Treasures looted from my country." "Maybe her conscience got to her." " She's dead." " Any suspects?" "Turn it over." "$48 at the museum store." "That's a reproduction of the Kazak Theotokos." "No, it's real." "The label was added." " What do you think you are doing?" " She sent you these to save herself." " Frank." " You killed her anyway." " You don't know what you're saying." " Mutilated her." "Why?" "To show you can." " You cannot talk to me this way." " Yaponchik." "Who tells you that?" "Crazy Yura?" "Six months in mental hospital." "You make a fool of yourself coming here." "They will escort you out." "You were a myth." "No more." "Frank, this guy has diplomatic immunity." " You don't go poking him in the face." " He's behind the murders." " Says who?" " We can get him." "We don't go near these people without an indictment." "We don't go near them at all." "The secretary of state called the commissioner." "I'm getting reamed." "Yaponchik is a murderer and a terrorist." "He'll vanish soon." "He's with the consulate so steer clear." "If we caught him in the act, he'd still have immunity." "The monogram of Christ." "It's a shield, protection, against evil." "Against Yaponchik." " I think the priest sees something different." " We know he does." "He sees the Second Coming." "Preceded by wormwood." "Chernobyl." "In the last days, the Antichrist appears." "And slaughters the faithful." "The Bible doesn't say he has horns and a tail." "He's an evil man." "Not supernatural." "He can't walk on water." "But, according to the Bible, he miraculously survives a fatal head wound and unites the ten nations of Europe in the war on Israel." "That won't happen." "Maybe it's not the ten nations of Europe." "Maybe it's the ten nations of Russia." "Uzbekistan, the Ukraine, the former Soviet republics." "Those are the same people that made Ivan the Terrible a saint." " For six centuries they've only had dictators." " You honestly believe this?" "Doesn't matter what I believe." "They believe it." " The priest." " And Yura." "And Andrei." "Stalking the Antichrist in the final days." " What do you got?" " We got three more." "Too late on all of 'em." " Bet they won't need faces in the next world." " Anyone seen Yaponchik?" "Per usual, nobody sees anything." "Attendant said two of the casualties were Russian." " What about the third?" " Don't know yet." "We're working on it." "We got three bodies." "Here." "Here." "That one over by the steam vent was pretty well poached when we got here." "Yaponchik must have left in a hurry." "No, I think he was the third victim." "We have to go and see if he's still alive." "We're talking serious gunshots to the head." "These guys are very DOA." " The mortal head wound." " Wait." "You think the wound is healed?" "This guy's alive." " He's post-ictal." "BP's 70 over 50." " Can you hear me?" "Squeeze my hand." "He's Russian." "Had zero vitals for 20 minutes." "Woke up with grand mal." " Respirations?" " Shallow." "Pulse 120 and thready." " Who's the neurosurgeon on call?" " McGreevey just answered his page." "Any history on him besides coming back to life after his brains were blown out?" " I'm telling you, this guy was gone." " Yeah, right." "We'll take it from here." " Hospital says he has vital signs." " The police said he didn't." "A hollow point went into the back of his skull." "Missed his brain somehow." "He was gone." "The bullet didn't expand until it hit his face on the way out." "Do you believe that?" "What about Yura?" " Everything's stable." "How's OR?" " They're estimating 15 minutes." "OK." "Get Netton to scrub in for the reconstruction." "This guy's a special case." " The head wound." "Where is he?" " He's down here." "Queued for OR." "Never seen anything like it." "He's one tough SOB." "Yeah, that's one theory." " What happened?" " They'll move him to the consulate." " There's no way off the floor." " He just vanished?" "You have a medevac pad?" "Yura, you know who he is." "Deceiver of all mankind." "Whatever he says to you, he's lying." "He's getting away." "That dirtbag's getting away." "It is decided." "Come on." "It's not decided." "Frank!" "No, let me go." " Come on." " Don't make it happen." "Frank, don't let it happen." "This man's a Russian citizen." "Do not interfere." "What have I done?"