"Excuse me." " I got a report of a shooting here." " Detective Wells?" "Yeah." "That'll be 24.80." "That includes the police discount." "Lunch." "Come and get it while it's hot." "Oh, so nice of you, detective." "Here you go." "Gyro." "Extra tomatoes, like you had last Friday." " ln fact I did." " Yes." "You, chicken kebab." "You forgot to tell him to hold the tabbouleh." " Thank you." " For the record, it wasn't my idea." "But did you remember the extra sauce?" "Extra sauce." "I like pranks, I do." "But you know what I love?" "Payback." "It may take me months, it may take me years." "But you never forget." "Really?" "I've been here five months." "You plan an initiation now?" "Well, this is the sixth-month initiation." "Age-old tradition at the 117." "You don't wanna know what happens at 11 months." "Queens Homicide." "Good afternoon, detective." "I'm about to kill someone." "Very funny, Roe." "It's 1:38 now." "At 1:56, someone else will die." "Who is this?" "The question you should be asking is, "Where is this?"" "Someone will die in 16 minutes." "Okay, you said "someone else" before." " What'd you mean by that?" " Good question." "Yesterday afternoon." "Raritan Bay Park, South Amboy, New Jersey." "Right between the eyes." " A cliché." " Jersey Homicide." "I need to know if something went down in Raritan Bay Park." " You got a name, pal?" " Fifteen minutes." "That's all you get." "Hello?" "Says he shot a guy in the head in Jersey yesterday and he'll kill again in 15 minutes." "Got it." "South Amboy, New Jersey." "38-year-old walking his dog takes a bullet." "No suspect." " Till now." " Could be a hoax." "Was it in the paper?" "Not the location of the wound." "Victim was shot in the forehead." " They kept that from the press." " This guy knew about it." "I think he's for real." "That gives us 14 minutes." " Where is he?" " Get Tanya to do a trace on the call." "There were sounds, voices." "I could hear them in the back, while he was talking." "Someone will die in 16 minutes." "Flushing-bound train, watch the closing doors." "The subway." "Next stop, Queensboro Plaza." "Queensboro Plaza, next stop." " Can you pull up a map?" " Yeah." "One stop away from Queensboro Plaza." "Elevated train or I wouldn't have heard it." "That's the 7." "Right here." "45th Road and Court House Square." "Court Square." "We got 12 minutes." " Come on, why not?" " Jimmy." "There is no way I am gonna meet your mother." "I don't know, maybe we got the wrong place." "Or maybe this guy was just a kook." "That's it. 16 minutes." "Help!" "Someone help!" "Call an ambulance!" "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God!" "Help him, please!" "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God, help him!" "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God." "Victim is Derek Wallen." "Psychologist." "Office over on 34th Street." "He was jogging with a friend, Moira Eastlake." "Roe's on it." "Okay, no one heard a shot, right?" "So he must have used a suppressor." "Did our best to seal off the square, chances are he got through." "Someone must've seen something, you know?" "Plus, open plaza like this, there's got to be some security footage." " Mike, Nina, collecting what they can." " Thank you very much." "Thank you." "She said one second they're running, and he's fine next second, he just collapses." "Didn't see a thing." "What's their relationship?" "They don't really have one." "Met at Java Hut starting running at lunch time about a month ago." " He's divorced, she thinks." "No kids." " I wanna run his profile up against the victim yesterday in Jersey." "You gotta be kidding me." "What are you doing?" "Excuse me." "Hey, ma'am." "Excuse me." "You can't be in here." "I'll have to ask you to leave." "What is it, going to ask, have to ask or you're asking?" " Carrie." " This is a crime scene." "What tipped you off?" "Was it the gaping wound in the parietal section of his skull..." " ...because that's what clued me in." " Carrie." "Unless you're with the medical examiner's office" "She is the medical examiner." "Joanne Webster." "Call me Jo." "And you are?" "Carrie Wells." "Call me Carrie." "Lieutenant Al Burns." "This is Detective Roe Saunders." "Apologise for the misunderstanding." "Please, detective, a vigorous defence of a crime scene needs no apology." "And in all honesty this is my second day on the job so my badgey-thingy is in process." "Apparently lamination and winning baseball has yet to hit this borough." "So, Jo what do we got?" "Well, my initial assessment was probably" "Don't write this down." " is that we have a half-inch entrance wound in the squama frontalis and a fairly large exit wound about three and a half inches below the posterior midline." "Trauma consistent with a high-velocity round." " A sniper." " Yeah." "Makes sense." "Running partner didn't see anyone, said he just collapsed." "You can estimate the entry angle of the bullet?" "Can Jeter turn two?" "Not as fast as he used to." "Assuming our guy came this way across the plaza." "He's about 5'7" the bullet enters from this angle, about 120 degrees." "I'd say your shot came from over there." "Fourth floor, third window from the right it was open before the shooting." "Now it's closed." " How do you know?" " I have a really good memory." "Let's go." "Come on, she really knows which window?" "Can Jeter turn two?" "I'm getting video." "The floor was rented to a telemarketer until a couple of months ago." "Been vacant since." "Al, look at this." "Yeah, perfect." "What's that, like, 150 metres?" "He's gotta be trained." "Let's assume military." "Wallen was running right at him." "The victim in Jersey was shot in the forehead too." "So he likes to see their faces." ""Right between the eyes."" "Hey, look at this." "Stuff's been here at least a day." "Maybe two or three." "Means the guy scouted the location in advance." "We'll see if we can pull some prints, maybe some DNA off the food." "You realise that was Joanne Webster you were talking to, right?" " Yeah." " Are you kidding?" "I was about to go up and tell her not to contaminate the crime scene." "Oh, man, I'm glad I didn't do that." "I'm gonna go check on that security video." "I'll go get the CSU guys up here." "Okay, who is Joanne Webster and why is everyone acting like-?" "Joanne Webster was the chief medical examiner of New York." "She's been wrangling with the mayor, most recently over his pick for DA." "She got too much seniority to be fired." "The best they could do was take away her desk job ship her out to Queens." "Word is, lots of brains, lots of attitude, and not shy with her opinions." " My kind of people." " Yeah." "You got along with her great." "You'll be getting mani-pedis together in no time." " Really?" " Lucky for you word is she may not last too long out here." "That's what they said about me." " Okay, what do we have on our victims?" " Yesterday, Theodore Rosio, 38 car salesman from Perth Amboy, New Jersey." "Raised Albany, University of Rochester, married, two children." "Today, Dr. Derek Wallen, 39, psychotherapist from Jamaica Estates." "Raised in Yonkers, PhD from The New School." "Not exactly from the same worlds." "Oh, well, maybe our shooter bought a lemon from Rosio..." " ...got bum therapy from Wallen?" " That happened, we'll find out." "I'm cross-referencing friends, family and employees, see if there's any link." " The other crime scene?" " Jersey sent over what they have." "Preliminary analysis indicates a similar calibre round trying to lD the weapon." "Rosio's walking his dog on a regular schedule." "Wallen ran the same time every day." "Our guy definitely tracks them." "Explains the take-out up in the office." "What about Carrie's call, luck with the trace?" "The number comes back to a disposable burner but I'm not giving up." "There are ways of triangulating using similar lock point reception areas." " I'll let you know." " Thank you." "Hey, here's something on Wallen." "It looks like he's been volunteering two days a week at the VA hospital." "He had an incident recently with a "Louis Bane," a former Marine." "Bane made several threats to a bunch of different doctors." "Fits with our military theory." "Scary part is, they're looking for him for weeks, he's in the wind." "Okay, let's see if Bane links to our first victim, Rosio." "Then maybe we're in business." "According to the cop on the switchboard this guy asked for you by name." "There was nothing personal to me on that call." "I mean, I was quoted on a case in The Post last week." " Got my name from there." " Either way we should do some due diligence on your past cases." "I never get my name in the papers." "You gotta have something smart to say." "I think it's the red hair." "Thinking of dying mine a nice pink, maybe a blond." " Carrie Wells." " Hi, Carrie." "Remember me?" "Well, how could I forget you?" " That's true, how could you?" " So you know my name." " How come I don't know yours?" " In time." "Well, if this is gonna be a relationship I gotta call you something." "How about Fred?" "So, what's going on, Fred?" "I'm sorry about this morning, you were just a bit late." "That was nice, letting me hear the subway announcement." " What is this, some kind of test?" " One you passed with flying colours." " Except Derek Wallen is dead." " That wasn't your fault." "He was always going to die." "So, what's next, Fred?" "Where you heading?" "It's not where I'm heading, it's where I've been." "Oh, is that a riddle now?" "Why, you stumped?" "You need a hand?" "Sorry." "Fred." "No?" "No." " Where are you going?" " Raritan Bay Park." "Where he killed." "He wants me out in Jersey." " Maybe why you should stay here." " Al, I gotta go, this is another test." "You pass your test yet?" "My feet are freezing." "If I knew the questions, I'd know." "Got a question." "How you know you're not in his crosshairs?" " Because if he wanted to kill me, I'd" " You'd be dead." "Famous last words." "He wanted me out here for a reason." "There's something he wants me to see." "There's nothing around here." "Teddy Rosio was shot right between the eyes." "So where were you hiding?" "Why, you stumped?" "You need a hand?" "Too easy, Fred." "I think I passed the test." "You want a gold star?" "A hand will do." "Right here." "That's 300 metres at least." "Our boy can shoot." "Carrie." "I didn't see his face." "I'd say it just got personal." "Because it is personal." "People are being murdered, right?" "I'm our one link to this guy." "As long as I keep talking, we have a chance." "I will not have him calling the shots, it's too dangerous." " I'll be calling the shots." " I won't risk it." "Al, please stop worrying about me." "I'm worried about our investigation." "And I don't like being led around like a bull." "Except if I play things right, I'll be leading him around." "Oh, come on, Al." "You know I'm good at it." "Okay, but you're on a very short leash." "I like that idea." "Maybe I should put a ring in my nose." "Yeah, I like that idea." "But first I gave Mike Soloway a call up in Syracuse." "Asked him to pull up any old cases you worked on involving unidentified shooters in case you and phone boy have a history." "Thanks." "That's very thoughtful of you." "I'll make myself at home." "That's it." "I've run every parameter at least a dozen times." "I can't find anything that links our two vics." "I thought they went to the same podiatrist but then one's a Dr. Black, and the other's a Dr. Blake." "It was the podiatrist in the study with nail clippers." "What else you got?" "Not much." "Rosio and Wallen are around the same age." "Talked to the families." "Guess they were a little wild as kids, pot, some truancy." "Couldn't find juvie records but that would've been expunged by now anyway." "Dead end on that vet Wallen was treating." "Turns out he did make some pretty violent threats but his alibi clears him." "He was at the doctor being fitted for prosthetic arms." "Nice digs." "Thank you." "It's not much, but we call it the squad room." " You should see where they have me." " You guys still over at Stanton, right?" "If by "still" you mean after 87 years, yeah." "I swear, I have John Wilkes Booth in a freezer over there." "Well, welcome to Queens." "I'm not complaining." "It's cosy." "And I get to see the examiners who work for me." "Over on First Avenue, I'd go for days without human contact, living or dead." "But I actually like getting out, going to scenes." "I haven't had a scalpel in my hand in years." "I forgot how much I missed it." "Yeah, well, you had me till the last part." "So I fast-tracked the Wallen autopsy, I had my friend Marti Singer in Trenton do the same with the first vic." "Nothing on the wounds and from the "what we already know" file ballistics came back a match, same weapon, both crimes." "Probably a Dragunov or a Sako." "Classic sniper rifle." "Bolt-action." "Venerable." "Great." "We'll run it through lBlS, check the gun shops, see what turns up." " Great." " Guys." "He's calling again." "I'm up." "Okay, everyone, quiet." "Make sure it's routed through Tanya." "Hey, Fred, how's it going?" "You find my little surprise?" "Oh, you mean the photo?" "That was nice work." "You got my good side." " Glad you liked it." " You're a real shooter, Fred." " Pardon the pun." " Sense of humour." "I imagine that's important in your line of work." "You know what's more important, Fred?" "Time management." "And right now, I don't have time for you." "What?" "You told me to call the shots." "What happened to, "Keep him talking, trace the call"?" "What can I say, he pissed me off." "Oh, come on." "He's way too smart to get trapped by some phone trace." "If I may?" "He's also arrogant and domineering, loves a challenge." " It's the basic sniper DNA." " Thank you very much." "And right now, I am his challenge." " Not anymore, you hung up." " He'll call back." "And when he does, he will want to reassert his dominance." "Which is maybe, hopefully, when he makes a mistake." "Or he's pissed you hung up on him, kills six more people then calls back to give you the bird." " Guess we got disconnected, huh?" " Well played, Carrie." "I'm impressed." "Oh, I'm not playing, Fred." "We're very busy, we've got a murderer to catch." "And how's that going?" "I'm feeling pretty positive about it right now." "I like the hunt." "I'm pleased to have so accomplished a partner." "Happy hunting." "Great." "So now he's your partner." "I hope you know what the hell you're doing." "Hey, what is your problem, Al?" " You're not invulnerable, you know?" " But I was right." "He called back." "On some level, this guy wants to get caught." "On another level, he wants to blow your head off!" "I will be careful, I promise." "And so will I." "You're staying at a hotel and I'm putting a uniform outside." " I'm not." " There's no discussion." " Always discussion." " Not always." " Name one time." " You know." " That time?" " Yeah." "That time." "Fine." "But I'm not staying at a hotel." "I'm staying here in case he calls." "Don't care what time it is, you're not leaving alone." " Fine." "Good." " Good." "There was a discussion." "Hey." "I liked how you handled that." "It was smart." " Or stupid." " What I liked was you didn't care." "That can get you into trouble." "Tell me about it." "Right." "You and the new DA." "I wasn't saying anything anybody else wasn't." " Except you said it out loud." " Yeah." "On The View." ""lf sending innocent people to jail is the price to protect our freedoms then pretty soon we won't have any freedoms worth protecting."" " Very impressive stuff." " I'm impressed you remembered." "But of course, that's what you do, isn't it?" "Fred isn't the only one that knows about you." " Well, now I'm flattered." " Well, maybe I know too much." "I looked into your case and your sister's case." "We should talk about it sometime." "After 28 years, I only have one lead, which leads nowhere, so not much to talk about." " But you've never given up." " Sometimes I wish I could." "There was a serial case on Long lsland." "The guy took his first victim July 4th, 1976, teenage girl." "He left a partial palm print from his right hand on her Welcome Back, Kotter backpack." "Twenty-two years, and 16 or God knows how many victims later, everybody else had given up." "But every year, like clockwork on July 4th, I would run those prints in the system." " Any luck?" " No." "Until July 5th, 1998, I got a match." "Sixth-grade teacher, lived there all his life." "His prints were in the system because he argued a speeding ticket." "You can never give up in this business." "Never." "But it does make for some long nights." "Good night." " Fred?" " No." "Detective Wells, please." " I'm sorry, who is this?" " Detective this is Maria Baylon, Darien Memorial Hospital." "I was given your number by a relative of Allyson Tate's." "He said you'd be handling Ms. Tate's case..." " ...and I should contact you" " Wait." "Slow down." "I'm sorry?" "Allyson Tate?" "Yes." "She was shot at 6:15 this morning at the Darien Metro-North station." "Is she alive?" "Of course." "She's in intensive Care right now." " Expect her to make a full recovery." " I'm sorry." "Who gave you this number?" "A relative of Ms. Tate's." "I believe a Mr. Fred?" "One minute I was kissing my husband goodbye the next, it was like my whole body exploded." "They told me the bullet went clean through." "I think that's supposed to be good or something." "It just missed Duane." "Where is Mr. Tate?" "He went to get my stuff." " I guess I'm gonna be here a while." " Mrs. Tate do you know these men?" "Never seen them before." "Sorry." "You said you were kissing your husband goodbye." "Was he going on a trip?" "No, I was driving him to the train." "He works in the city." "Usually he drives himself, but last night, well we had a fight." "So to make up, I drove him." "Okay." "Thank you." "We'll check back later, but just get some rest for now." "Sorry." "How were you kissing your husband?" "What?" "I don't understand." "How were you standing when you were kissing?" "I don't know." "He was getting out of the car." "And I sort of surprised him." "Why, is there something wrong with that?" " You were shot from behind?" " Yeah." "She wasn't the target." "Your husband's at home?" "I think so." "What's going on?" "We need to speak to your husband." "It'll be all right." "This is Lieutenant Al Burns, N.Y.P D." "I need you to get a unit to 146 Stony Brook Road immediately." " Duane Tate?" " ls Allyson okay?" "We need to talk." "So no calls, threatening letters, e-mails?" "No, nothing like that." "I do mostly home loans and refinancing." "With the recession, people are unhappy." "We're okay." "Do you know these men?" "These the guys who died?" "I don't think so." "Oh, my" " Wait a second." "Oh, jeez." "Yeah, I know them." "It's been a long time, though." "About 20 years ago I got in some trouble." "Judge gave me the choice between jail or this camp." " Camp?" " Broad Meadow." "It's a work farm near the border." "They took tough kids like me and showed us what tough really was." " These men went there too?" " Oh, yeah." "Yeah, we three were a regular outfit." "Badass kids, the worst." "Kept the other badasses from dumping on us." "We scared some of the counsellors." "They let us get away with anything." " Sounds like you made some enemies." " I don't know." "All us punks were just on the same boat..." " ...trying to get through." "Not personal." " With all due respect, Mr. Tate someone's taking it pretty personal." "We're gonna need the names of every kid who went through that camp." " Where was it?" " South Taconic Mountains." "It's a beautiful area." "Till they transferred me, I used to go hiking at least once a year." "That's me and Allyson." "At Crown Gorge." "Better times." "Stuff's been here at least a day, maybe even two or three." "Means he scouted this location." "What is Crown Gorge?" "It's just a spot near the camp." "They used to let us" " They would make us go running up and down in there." " I got to like it." " Okay, this is gonna sound crazy but I think our guy might have a thing for crowns." "Specifically Crown Gorge." "Can you think of anyone or any reason why?" "No." " What?" " Nothing, I just..." "There was this kid, he wasn't one of us, his dad was a local, worked the farm." "He was just one of those people." "He just wasn't right in the head, and everybody knew it." "One time, Teddy and Derek and I we decided to have a little fun with him." "This was a long time ago." "Okay." "Go on." "We took him up to Crown Gorge." "There was only one way in or out." "And we sort of played a game." "What kind of game?" "It was a hunting game." "You hunted him?" "Just with rocks, things." "But I remember him staring at me with that goofy face the blood running down." "I don't usually think about it." " What was his name?" " Everybody just called him Sparky." "Do you know anyone else we can contact at Broad Meadow?" "It's been closed for years." "You might want to try Dick Simons." "He was the manager of the place." "Look, I was 17." "I made myself over." "I'm not the same person that I was." "Yeah, well, neither, it seems, is Sparky." "It's not that I regret those years." "We did a lot of good for a lot of young men." "But it's a more peaceful life now." "Maybe too much so." "Mr. Simons, do you recall a boy who might have gone by the name of Sparky?" "Yes, I do." "That's what they called Lester Collins." " You knew this kid?" " Let's say I tried to know him." "His father, Gordon, came with the farm so to speak, knew everything about it." "But Lester, well, he was just one of those boys who breaks your heart." " How so?" " He just didn't understand what people wanted." "You know, young people speak a language of signals and cues." "Lester couldn't learn that language." "Made him an outsider." "Lester wanted to be like everyone else." "I'm afraid the other boys made that impossible." "Been easier if he'd been mentally challenged, but he was intelligent." "Fiercely so." "Do you know where we can find Lester now?" "I was in touch with Gordon until about eight years ago when he sadly passed." "Lester was living with him after he left the Army." " He was in the military?" " Yes." " Do you know why he left?" " He was dishonourably discharged." "Carrie." "I'm not interrupting, am I?" "I don't know." "Depends." "What do you got?" "Okay, now, I sort of borrowed this classified call-tracking programme that the fbi sort of borrowed from the NSA." "It's called spiderbot." "Like, how cool is that?" "It crawls through the web of signals spun, as it were by a cellular network disregarding millions of potentially tasty" " Flies?" " lf you will." " As it were." " Until it finds a really juicy one." "In this case, three really juicy ones." "Your caller, he's one of these three numbers." "Bravo, Tanya." "Very nice work." " That means a lot coming from you." " What are you two talking about?" " Biology." "You wouldn't be interested." " Oh, I like biology." "Really?" "Tanya caught a fly." "Tanya." "Did it work?" "What?" "You said you were using B.R. 631 to find the shooter." "Can we call him?" "Oh, Tanya." "We are dialling the numbers of three disposable cell phones a.k.a. burner cells." "Okay." "Burner number one." " What's that?" "Jesse?" " No, not Jesse." "Who you calling?" "You need some?" "I can hook you up." "Yeah, no, we're all good." "Thank you." " You could've asked the room." " All right." "Next." "Number two." " Hello." "Who is this, please?" " Wrong number." "Sorry." " Are you going to the airport?" " No, no airport." "I wish." "All right." "Third time's the charm." " Let's do it." " Okay, burner number three." " Hello?" " What took you so long?" "Why you been playing so hard to get?" "I'm easy." "Come find me and I'll show you how easy." "Sure." "Just tell me where you are." "Can't you see on your computer?" "You should have traced me by now." "Well, you could just tell me where you are and make it easier on both of us, Lester." "Very good." "You've lived up to your reputation, detective." " And you can call me Sparky." " Oh, no." "No, see, Sparky was a victim." "A tortured young man." "Lester Collins is a killer." "Don't lecture me about the past." "The past never goes away." " You know that better than anyone." " You're right, I do know that." "And no matter how many people you kill, Lester Sparky will still be there, trapped in Crown Gorge, alone and terrified." "Right again." "There was no way out for me and there's no way out for him." "Who's him, Lester?" "We already have Duane Tate." "You killed Rosio and Wallen." "Who's left?" "We'll see." "You can see too." "But don't be late." "Say around 2:27, okay?" "That gives you a couple of hours." "Who knows, maybe you'll save him." "Good luck." "Hey." "Lester." "Le" " Did we get him?" " I'm gonna say yes." " Yes." "All right." "Thirty-fifth to 38th Street." "First Avenue to Third." "That's some of the densest real estate in the city." "He wants us to hunt him." "He likes it." "What we have to figure out is who he's hunting." "Who does he think deserves to die?" "Hell, they would let us get away with anything." ""All of us were on the same boat, just trying to get through."" "That's what Duane Tate said, right?" "They were kids, they weren't responsible." "Who was?" "The adults." "The staff." "He's going after one of the counsellors." "Find out who took care of the kids." "Well, whoever it is, they have exactly one hour and 56 minutes to live." " So I talked to our friend, Duane Tate." " Give names of his counsellors?" "Sure." "Of course, he couldn't remember any last names." "According to him, it was first names at Happy Fields or Playful Farms or whatever the hell it was." "I got a "Brian," a "Lewis," two "Johns" and a "Toughy."" "What is that, a trash bag?" "What about the manager, Simons?" "Yeah, tried him too, went to voicemail." "I got state and local police looking." "Okay, stay on it." "Fact is, he could be our next victim." "Check it out, been running down staff lists Simons gave us before for Broad Meadow 1990 to 1993." "Now, there are only three former counsellors living in the greater New York area." "Mr. Charles Olson lives up in Hartsdale, he's a currency trader downtown." "Wilbur Ramirez from the Bronx, he's a super at P.S. 63 in Brooklyn." " I got patrol on the way to both of them." " Okay, who's the third?" "Mr. Barry Tanner, lives in Atlantic Highlands." "He's assistant manager at Bergdorf's." "Went home early, daughter's got a recital." "Jersey staties heading for his house." "Atlantic Highlands?" "Where is that?" "Jersey shore." "Take the ferry." "There was only one way in and out." "There was no way out for me and there's no way out for him." " Where does the ferry leave from?" " What are you thinking?" ""No way out," for his next victim." "He was gonna be trapped just like Lester was trapped." "Get on a ferry with a killer, you're trapped." "Wait a minute, shoot a guy on a boat?" "You'd be trapping yourself." "Maybe." "Or maybe it's perfect." "Silenced round, no one hears, the wind's too loud anyway." "You toss the rifle overboard, blend in." "The ferry leaves for Atlantic Highlands from East River and 35th Street." "Close to where we tracked Collins." " When's the next ferry?" " It's 2:27." "Thirty-four minutes." "No luck?" " He's not gonna do it here anyway." " I agree." " Stay in sight." " Yeah, yeah." "Lester!" "Put your weapon down." "Put it down, Lester." "Carrie." "Nice work, people." "Nice work." "Drinks are on me tonight." "This is gonna sound weird, but I can't help feeling disappointed." "Why?" "That he didn't have anything to say for himself at the end?" "Because I'll never know why he picked me." "Well, you know, Carrie, the great sociopaths are also great egotists." "And like it or not, you've made a name and they like to go head-to-head with the best." "I don't want to sound immodest, but back in that awful summer of '77... ..David Berkowitz, "Son of Sam"?" "Sent me a box of chocolate truffles." "They were delicious." "Hey." "Am I interrupting?" "Well, I don't know." "What do you got?" "All right, this is weird." "I just heard back from those local cops in New London." "We asked them to find Richard Simons." "Guy you talked to in the hardware store." "Yeah, so?" "They find him?" "Yeah, they found him." "Stuffed into a drainage culvert off l-95." "ME says he's been dead for three days." "Three days?" "That's impossible, we talked to him yesterday." "Yeah?" "You talked to this guy?" " That's not Simons." " Yeah, it is." "We got positive id, prints confirmed it." "Well then who did we talk to?" "Sparky." "I saw Collins when we brought in his body." "Didn't look anything like our guy." "You want one more wrinkle?" "This is from Simons' autopsy." "Those numbers." "That's a phone number." "Use my phone." "Hello, Carrie." "I've been waiting for your call." "Have to say, it's been a pleasure working with you." "And I enjoyed meeting your colleagues, Costello and Inara." "You all played along so nicely." "Poor Lester played his part well too, don't you think?" " How did you do it?" " Actually, I did very little." "Lester was quite up to the task." "I just gave him a tiny push and off he went." "Maybe I'll send another one your way sometime." " Why?" " Why not?" "Why me?" "You know why." "Don't let it go to your head." "Be seeing you, Carrie." "Excuse me, counsellor, court's back."