"Bitch." "Bartender, seven and seven, pack of Morleys." "Seven and seven, pack of Morleys." "We have a winner." "Do I know you?" "Do you know me?" "Come on, Wayne-o." "I'm part of the regular game." "You know your problem, my friend?" "It's not the cards," "It's playing the hand you were dealt." "Plenty of guys get a bad deal." "It's all in what you do with it." "You know what I'm saying, partner?" "You can think." "Cards can't." "They just lie there." "You gotta make them work for ya." "Jack of hearts." "2,598,960 possible five-card hands, 1277 flushes in any given suit," "1.980.240 ways to make two pairs, and yet the game can't beat the man." "Man only beats himself." "And so on and so forth." "She comes here every Friday, loses her paycheck, cries all weekend." "Such a nice girl." "I keep hoping her luck is gonna change and she could catch a break." "We gonna blow this joint?" "Call it a night?" "Hey, Wayne-o, you're bluffing me, right?" "You're gonna show me Fifth Street." "Walk right outta here, surprise me." "For a change." "Three of hearts." "Two of clubs." "I won!" "I won!" "Oh, my God!" "Help me, please!" "Help me!" "Somebody help me." "There's a woman who's been murdered." "Somebody help me." "Oh, God!" "Agent Reyes?" "Three plus four is seven." "Seven and six are 13." " What are you doing?" " 10.13.14.16." "I wanna ask you to open your mind to something." "Don't think I'm crazy." "Why would I think that you're crazy?" "Do you believe the universe is knowable as a mathematical calculation of the whole?" " No." " Why not?" "Because its complexity doesn't allow for it to be reduced so simply." "But you accept that some people do?" "I presume you mean the so-called unified theory, what physicists refer to as the theory of everything - an equation so simple they say that it might be printed on a T-shirt." "It's a holy grail in the world of science, potentially the most important question that mankind has ever asked." "But that such a complex calculation is even possible is a subject of great controversy." "Is that what you mean?" "Um... potentially." "Carla Maria Carpenter." "Born 2-1-77." "Killed outside a nightclub two years ago." "Her murder remains unsolved." "Judy Ann Fuller." "Born 3-21-69." "Killed at a mall two years ago." "Unsolved." "Julie Frances Gresham." "Born 1-22-80." "Killed in her parked car last month." "Unsolved." "Agent Reyes, if there's a connection that I'm supposed to be seeing." "I'm not seeing it." "And our latest victim." "Amy Sheridan Noffsberger." "Born 4-4-77." "Killed Mo weeks ago in a casino." "Police have yet to find her killer." "Am I to presume that you've solved these unsolved murders by using some kind of numerical calculation?" "Letters of names assigned values, added to birth dates." "reduced to the lowest common denominator." "A-J-S equal one." "B-K-T..." "Numerology, Agent Reyes." "You're trying to solve these cases by using what is essentially a child's game." "It's been used since the 6th century BC, when Pythagoras determined that the world was built on the power of numbers." "And when exactly did you stumble upon it?" "We did it as kids." "I still do it." "You meet people at a party, ask them their birth date." "It's an icebreaker." "As I was reading the story of this woman, I calculated she was a 14 - what they call a karmic number, a significant numerological number - prompting me to look at these other unsolved cases, the victims of which also work out to have karmic numbers: 10, 13, 16." "So in other words you haven't actually solved these cases." ""Cracked" is a better word." "Without any other evidence to directly connect them, circumstantial or forensic?" "What?" "Can you enlarge this?" "Can I see the rest of those photos?" "What is it?" "There's a pattern in the bruising." "Yeah." "All four of the victims have it." "Three small circles." "It might be from a ring that the killer wears." "You're saying these cases are connected." "That numerology may actually be driving the killer and that I'm definitely not crazy." "Or that maybe you're both crazy." "Arrivederci." "Wayne-o." "Come stai?" "Quit following me or you might find yourself dead real soon." "Oh, come on, Wayne-o." "That's not your style." "Doesn't fit your pattern." "Far be it from me to rat you out." "Can't show 'em what they can't see." "Now, two clowns and a man with a crown." "Want to try your luck, sailor?" "King runs, but he can't hide." "How can you lose?" "Kids' stuff." "There goes the neighbourhood." "But Mr Money lives right next door." "There's a secret to this game, Wayne-o, and I'm gonna tell you what the secret is." "Choose better." "You got something to say to me, you say it." "Son, I just did." "Hello?" "There's a clipboard there with three forms." "Fill out the top one." "Or all three if you wanna unlock your secret numbers for love, life and true happiness." "I'm not here for a personal chart." "I'm with the FBI, investigating a series of deaths that seem to have a numerological connection." "I give insights to the living." "The dead already know their future." "These are murders." "I want your help in solving them." "You may overestimate the work I'm capable of." "My hope is, in doing the victims' numerology, you'll be able to draw a picture of the killer." "I don't think you understand." "I run a little business here." "People come here if they wanna improve their lives, get rich, marry the man of their dreams." "Look around." "If I could actually provide that kind of information..." "I don't have to draw you a picture." " You don't believe in it." " At best, it's an art." "I have established a numerological connection between all of these victims." "If I found the killer, I might prevent this happening again." "Let me see what I can come up with." " Monica Reyes." " Monica, you're not gonna believe this." "We found two more cases, two more victims to add to this thing." "Both with the same marks on their faces." "I knew you were good, but this?" "This is career-launching." "You better get back here." "Nice work." "Well done." "Well done." "Thank you." "By tying these cases together," "VICAP is now developing a profile on the man we are officially calling the Triple Zero Killer." "Through the identification of the pattern he leaves, we have connected six unsolved cases to one murderer, including these two new cases." "Agent Scully will act as a point person on the case forensics." "Three recent killings and three from 1999." "The pattern appears to be murders in threes on a serpentine trail up the Eastern seaboard." "Agent Doggett will lead the task force." "Here's what we don't know." "One: how he chooses his victims." "Two: how he kills." "Three: if he'll kill again soon or disappear like two years ago." "He may have been incarcerated." "We may be looking for someone with a record." "Excellent observation." "The killer is strong." "He uses his fists as weapons." "Brute force." "He is angry and he acts on impulse." "Good." "Important." "Agent Reyes, we're all working off your lead." "Give us your special insight into this case." "Well, the killer probably has a soul number of either four or six." "His birth path is" " I'm guessing - a nine or maybe a six." "The destiny and realization numbers are karmic." "I'll know for sure once I've got the charts from the numerologist, but the killer is probably working off numerical vibrational disharmonies." "That's her now." " Monica Reyes." " Agent Reyes?" " I've been running numbers on the victims." " Yes?" " And the strangest thing has come up." " What?" "What is it?" "There's three forms in the clipboard." "Fill in the top one, or all three if you wanna unlock..." "I want her body sent to Quantico." "I want facts." "I want details." "I want Agent Scully to go over this woman with a fine-tooth comb." "And I want you to tell me who else knows about this." " About what?" " This case." "About you coming to this office to see this woman." "I don't think I told anyone." "Then how did the killer find his way here?" "Chance?" "Coincidence? We got a guy working the Eastern seaboard, murdering along the coast." "Tell me how he winds up here, in this building, on this floor, in this room, on the same day you came to see her if he didn't know," "That's why I came to see this woman:" "to find out who the killer is, why he does what he does." "We have a reputation to uphold." "The FBI doesn't go to numerologists for the same reason we don't consult horoscopes or palm readers or crystal balls." "A killer kills for a reason." "He lives in the world of cause and effect, as we all do." "He gets an impulse and acts on it." "Always the case, even if he doesn't know it." "And that's how we catch him." "If he acts on impulses he can't understand, isn't it possible we can't understand them?" "Can we not accept that every killer is not driven by the same impulses?" "That there are impulses that not every killer kills for?" "No." " Why not?" " Because it's unacceptable." "But if Reyes didn't tell anyone she was coming, the only person who could have any idea is somebody at the FBI." "An inside job?" "I don't buy it." " Don't we have to accept it as a possibility?" " No, we don't." " Why?" " Because it's highly improbable." " But not impossible." " Six of one, half a dozen of the other." " How would you like us to proceed, sir?" " The bottom line is, I want results." "I don't care how you go about it." "What I want is this killer caught." "All right, let's get the body outta here." " Maybe you were followed." " How?" "If the killer didn't even know I was looking for him?" "You explain it, then." "This woman called me just before she was murdered." "She had something to tell me, something in the victims' charts." " Their charts?" " Their numerology." "A calculation of numbers that rule their lives in 13 categories." " But a calculation based on what?" " On names and birth dates." "Because my name is John J Doggett and I was born April 4, 1960, I got a magic number?" "Six." "Which makes you an active, adaptive, curious person, who insists on their independence, loves a bargain, and wants to be successful." " That describes pretty much anyone." " People are people." " Right." "They're not numbers." " Then what was she calling me for?" "I'm gonna leave you here to figure that out." "I'm going back to the Bureau." " Buongiorno." "Wayne-o." " Who do you think you are?" "Who do you think I am?" " Don't say a word." " Do I ever?" "You're just trying to get me caught." "I'm just playing a game of dominoes." "Long as you're sitting here, though, how are you feeling?" " Go to hell." " Are the reservations in your name?" "You're a card." "You really are a card." "But I love you." " Got time for a quick game?" " I don't play your games." "Not a truer word's been spoken." "The deceased is Vicki Louise Burdick." "Upon external examination, cause of death appears to be a fatal blow to the maxilla, in which a small three-ring pattern lies." "I will begin my internal examination at 6.06 p.m." "Agent Scully." " I've got something to show you." " What is it?" "I figured out what the triple-zero pattern on the victim is." "They aren't zeroes at all." "It's the number 666, only worn away." "It must be stamped on the killer's ring." "666 - the mark of the devil." "Of course." "How'd you figure that?" " I didn't." " Then how'd you discover it?" "Completely by accident." "I discovered something." "The victims' charts, when the numbers were figured, the numerologist found they were a match to her own numbers." " How did the killer find her?" " It obviously wasn't an accident." "And how does that help us find the killer?" "It doesn't." "Agent Doggett, I think we have a psychological profile on the murderer." " What is it?" " Based on the amalgam of forensic detail, the facts, such as time and place of the murders and the amount of force, the killer is a man in his mid-twenties to late-forties, average build and looks," "who is driven by rage stemming from a hatred of his mother." "He was a bed-wetter who was made to feel inferior, which he took out on the world by killing small animals." " That's it?" " Go to work." "That's the average profile of almost every single serial killer the FBI's ever hunted." "Is that really all that surprising?" "Is there a problem, Agent Doggett?" "It's the way Agent Reyes found the cases." "I don't think she should so easily be dismissed." "You don't believe in this nonsense?" "Look at this." "The path of the killer forms the number six." " Your point?" " I don't know." "I just noticed it." "Have you noticed all babies look like Winston Churchill?" "Same difference, Agent Doggett." "But what if this is the killers pattern?" "What if the number six has some kind of significance to the murders?" "It may... to you and Agent Reyes, but not to victim number seven." "If we could analyze these numbers, I know we could figure this out." "Despite what we know about the victims' numerology, about the ring, we really know next to nothing about where to start looking for this man." "The answers gonna come to me." "You going down?" "Thank you." "Get outta the elevator!" "Move!" "Just be cool." "Be cool." "All right?" "Everything's gonna be fine." "Be cool." " It's him." " He's going down." "Stairs." "Not getting reception." "Oh, great!" "No service." "We have to get an APB out on that car." "Did you happen to see a plate?" "No." "We've got all the numbers on this case except for the ones we need." "Maybe there's another way out." "It's only midnight." "There's gotta be somebody coming in or out soon." "How do we know who was driving that car?" "That it was even him?" "That the killer's not still here?" "We are federal agents and we're armed!" "If you are here and you make any sudden moves, we will be forced to consider you a threat." "Stay where you are!" "Right there!" "Hands where we can see them!" "Get out of the car slowly." " Did I do something wrong?" " Step around the back of the car." "I want you to show us some identification." " I don't have a wallet." " Do you have some form of ID?" " I don't think so." " Sir, what are you doing here?" " Waiting for a friend." " At midnight, in a parking garage?" "We have this regular game we play." " What kind of game?" " Checkers." "The checkers are in the trunk, if either of you play." "Sir, does it look like we're here to play checkers?" "No." "What are you here for?" "Get your hands back up in the air!" "Step forward." "Put your hands on the trunk." "He's clean." "All right." "Let's pop the trunk." " What's all this?" " Music." " You must really like music." " I love it." "The classics, of course." "Mozart, Bach." "The earlier jazz, Louis Armstrong, Sinatra, doo-wop, Elvis, marching bands..." "Sir, enough." "Don't get me wrong" " I love all music, but I prefer the stuff that lasts." "You like them?" "Keep 'em." "Thanks to the wondrous world of digital technology, I can always make more." "What time is your friend coming?" "Soon." " What do you wanna do?" " I don't know." "I don't know." "I have some nice dance music." "We happen to be here because there is a serial killer on the loose." " How many did he kill?" " Seven women now." " How are you gonna catch him?" " We're not, stuck down here." "You sure there's nothing I can do?" " Do you have the combination to the door?" " No." "Do you have a cellphone that works?" "I wish I did." "There's always checkers." "Next victim?" "How did we get ourselves into this?" "Cha cha cha." "Agent Reyes?" "Your hair colour." "I don't believe it." " What?" " What if we're his next victims?" "You?" " The seventh victim was a blonde." " But neither of you are blondes." "He kills in threes." "Blonde, redhead, brunette." "The next victims will be a redhead and a brunette." "Amazing!" "From a game of checkers." "Who are you?" "Obviously someone you are very lucky to have run into." "No." "No." " You're part of this." " How do you figure that?" "No." "It's all in the numbers." "It makes perfect sense." "The numbers led us to the killer." "The killer led us to the garage." "And now all we've done is recognize the killer's real serial pattern." " So I didn't have anything to do with it." " Hey, keep your hands up." "Why?" "I don't know." " What's this about numbers?" " Will you..." "I'm good with numbers." "The killer is driven by an impulse we believe is numerological." " Of course, he's a serial killer." " No, that's not what she means." "She thinks that his acts are determined by a calculation of numbers." "So the killers not in control of his actions, the numbers are?" "Yes." "Are the numbers helping you catch him or are they helping him not get caught?" "That's a good question." " So, it's a kind of a game." " No, it's not." "No, maybe it is." "Maybe that's what this is about - who wins the game." " I think she's on to something." " Agent Reyes, you can't reduce complex factors, physical and psychological, into a game." "You're a scientist, your world is ruled by numbers - atoms, molecules, periodicity." "Wow!" "So mightn't everything made from them be ruled by numbers too?" " Genes, chromosomes, us, the universe." " Go, girl." "Agent Reyes, that is utter nonsense, OK?" "It would mean that we are just checkers on a checkerboard being moved around by some forces completely outside and unbeknownst to us." " What did Einstein say?" " There's a winner." ""God does not play dice with the universe."" "Nor does he play checkers." "Look, Agent Reyes, you can't reduce all of life, all creation, every piece of art, architecture, music, literature into a game of win or lose." "Why not?" "Maybe the winners are those who play the game better." "Those who see the patterns and connections, like us right now." "Free will." "Maybe we're not the next victims." "Maybe we're here because we saw the numbers and we're here to catch the killer." "But the killer is outside, killing, and we are stuck in a parking garage." "What if he's not?" "What if we didn't look hard enough?" "What if the killer's still down here?" "What are you looking at?" "Same thing you are." " So what now?" " You go left, I'll go right." "You, you stay right where you are." "Oh, there's no getting rid of me." "He's going fast." " Are you OK?" " Yeah." "I think so." "Can you hear me?" "Why'd you do it, kill those women?" "How did you ever find us?" "I saw something in his pattern made me realize there was gonna be nine victims, and that maybe you two were gonna be eight and nine." "Where'd he go?" "Hello?" " All right." "I need to know." " What?" "What my numerology is... my number..." "Whatever you call it." "What am I?" "You're a nine." "Which means what?" "Nine is completion." "You've evolved through all the other numbers to a spiritual realization that this life is only part of a larger whole." "Dana, are you there?" " There's something else that's bugging me." " What's that?" "Who was that man?" "God knows." "I made this!"