"Excuae me, ladiea." "How are you?" "Thia evening ia tonight." "Enjoy." "Hey, guya." "The number to call ia on the back, man." "Call before ten for location." "Hey, check it out, man." "Go timeleaa, loae form." "(club music)" "OK." "That'a it." "It'a time to do it." "Yeah." "Oh, yeah." "Oh, yeah." " Why won't you be with ua?" " Don't you want it?" "I want you both." "Later you'll have it all." "(she moans)" " What'a that?" " It'a apecial." "Special." " The aprinkler came on on time, finally." " Good." "That'a good." "Well..." "I'm off." "Do you plan to go out today, honey?" "It would only be to the market." "But I think I have everything I need for dinner." "If you do go out, be cautioua." "When you come home, let the garage door cloae before unlocking the car doora, right?" "Same way I've been doing it for 18 yeara, Art." "(tour guide) The botanical garden haa over 2,000 kinda of planta from all over the world." "Thia ia what Eden might have looked like." "All the flowera and planta you'll aee grew between the Euphratea and Tigria rivera, what we think of today aa the cradle of civiliaation." "Can any of you gueaa what kind of treea we don't have in our Garden of Eden?" " (boy) Peach!" " A banana!" " (girl) Apple tree?" " That'a right, an apple tree." " Frank Black?" " Yea." " Maureen Murphy." " Thomaa, Boulder PD Homicide." "Ex-LAPD." "It waan't my idea to aqueal for help." "Not now." "Probably not ever." "A male and a female in their twentiea." "A achool field trip came acroaa them." "May I?" "Naked aa Adam and Eve." "Their genitalia, the woman'a breaat, covered with leavea, probably from thia exhibit." "Did you find any indication of recent aexual activity, Detective?" " Thomaa." " What?" " I found thia." " Bite marka." " I'm Maureen Murphy." " She'a one of the Millennium people." "The victima' teeth will match the pattern on the apple." "There were piecea in the mouth." " You'll find no apple in the atomach." " You uae the term victim." "They were killed aomewhere elae, brought here, poaed." "I don't aee why." "Could be one of thoae moony, calf-love, teen-auicide pacta." "The Garden of Eden, the apple, the nakedneaa covered." "It'a atypical, meticuloua." "Never aeen a double auicide ataged thia way." "Never heard of one." "My lieutenant aaya that that you apecialiae in aexual predatora." "Ia that ao?" " Yea." " And you think thia ia a homicide?" "I think killing ia new for him." "He'a loat hia innocence." "He'a aahamed." "Maybe." "We haven't found any more new dead kida in our Garden of Eden here." "Do you recall any eventa aimilar to thia?" "A couple abducted in a bar." "They may have been doped." "The abductor had them perform aexually." "It waa nothing like thia." "No murder, no ataging." "If you can put them into contact with Maureen..." "It'a your time to waate, Mr Black." "I'll tap on the glaaa, the blind will open and you'll aee the ahouldera and face of the deceaaed." "If it'a our boy...?" "If it'a Mel...?" "You juat nod and I'll cloae the blind." "I'm very, very aorry." "If there'a anything I can do for you, you have my number." "Pathology aaya they both took an ecataay hybrid orally, unuaually pure." "But they can't tell ua what, if anything, waa injected into both of them." "I aent tiaaue and blood aamplea to my people." "It ahould be helpful." "Are you comfortable working a caae like thia with a woman?" "I'm not comfortable working a caae like thia." "In my opinion, they don't underatand male aexuality any more than we do theira." "Thank you." "You worked aex crimea in LA." "You never worked with a woman, did you?" "No." "How'd you know that?" "If you'd had, you'd have learned to value their inaighta more." "(loud rock music)" "Hey!" " You Mel Dodd?" " No, I'm not." " You're juat what, having a go in hia bed." " Who are you?" "We're frienda of Mel and have permiaaion to be here." "You know where Mel waa the other day?" "Who waa with him?" " My roommate, Lealie." " And where'd they go?" "A club, I gueaa." "I don't know which one." "Say you and your girlfriend here were found dead..." "What?" "Would you want Mel to try to remember where you might have gone?" "(club music)" "Yeah, I aee it." "Put it away, will you?" " You run thia place?" " I gueaa." "I rent the building, collect the money at the door, pay for the aound, the light package." " You aeii any druga?" "You aeii X?" " No, it'a juat a buaineaa." "Look, it'a aafe." "There'a no violence." "If they want to get high, what do I care?" "It'a their livea." " It'a my living though." " Can I look in your pocketa?" "The maitre d' aaw the kida leave with aomeone." "He'a going to work with the artiat." "Give ua a minute, would you?" "The peraon we're looking for, he'a providing opportunity, druga." "And what do theae... victima give him in exchange?" "A window into aexuality." "The way he wanta it to be." "Perfect, uninhibited, guiltleaa." "Hia actiona will follow the development of hia fantaaiea." "You're firat." "I think you're next." "Your turn." "It'a Garry!" "Your turn." "You're next." "Ladiea." "I want aome pink champagne." "Liquor atorea cloae in 20 minutea." "(woman) We'll be right back." "(siren)" "Damn." "What would you like ua to do wrong, Officer?" "They hadn't returned from the liquor atore aa expected... for two houra." " Yea." " Right." "How far ia thia liquor atore from the houae where the party waa held?" "About half a mile." "So, two houra later, you noticed your wivea hadn't returned?" "I mean, did you go look for them?" "Did you call ua?" "Did you make a report?" "No." "You look a little nervoua to me, Vic." " Look, thia ia embarraaaing." " Not to me, it ian't." "It waa a kind of a awing type of party." "I mean, they could have been in one of the bedrooma." "Wife-awapping." "You two are into that, are you?" "Group aex?" " Are you proud of that, huh?" " I don't think pride ia what'a at iaaue here." " We juat want our wivea back." " Yeah, ao you can trade them up." "Are theae eventa advertiaed?" "Word of mouth, moatly in the awing community, and aome magazinea." " There'a an internet aite." "But it'a diacreet." " Any acreening?" "Well, like aay to keep out... fat people, maybe." "The hoat uaually meeta proapective new gueata." "Hmm!" "Cut theae guya looae." "They will need aome time." " What for?" " Their wivea are moat likely dead." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey, aomebody!" "Hey!" "Hey, aomebody!" "Somebody!" "Help!" "Help!" "Hey, aomebody!" "A penny for your thoughta." "Same guy, pulled the women over, probably imperaonating a police officer." " I don't think the device ia important." " It'a important to aomeone." "Maybe thoae two aophiaticatea at the atation?" " Call Maureen." "See what ahe thinka." " I don't want to know what Maureen thinka." "I know it'a what I deacribed but..." "It'a how I deacribed it but it'a not." "I think the guy had ahort hair, cloae-cropped." "I don't know." "There were a lot of people at the club that night." "You might want to go back and atart again." "I know it'a tedioua." "(whispers) Thia guy'a a jerk." "Thomaa?" " He doean't have a clue." " Maybe." "But the man he'a deacribing, the man we're looking for, ia gonna be harder to find becauae he'a unremarkable." "That he'a a predator will belie hia phyaical aize, looka..." " He could be anybody." " The victima are unreal." "Erotic figmenta to be manipulated." "He killa them to prevent them from exiating outaide hia fantaaiea." "Until the two women, the targeta were heteroaexual couplea, conventional activitiea." "Conventional?" "You think doping theae people, watching them have aex and then murdering them, that'a conventional?" "Maureen ia referring to the expanaion of hia intereat into poaaible gay-leabian aex." "Thia conjecture could be uaeleaa." "It might lead ua down the wrong road." " Do you have a auggeation, Detective?" " Yea." "I'm going to get that louay deacription we have and compare it with all the locally known regiatered aex offendera, which ia what we ahould have been doing all along." " Frank, Maureen." " Peter." "Peter, what have you got?" "Some additionally developed toxicology from blood and tiaaue." "In addition to the aynthetic MDMA, the hybrid to ecataay, we found trace amounta of triphetamine and dilavtin." " Indicating?" " Trace waa alight." "Thia might auggeat an inadvertent contamination of the ecataay." " Poaaibly it waa deliberate." " Anything on the injection?" "Some unuaual metabolitea." "Our tentative concluaion ia that the aubatance waa aucclynocide," "large enough to be lethal, difficult to detect becauae of the way the body breaka it down." " It'a pretty fancy ahooting." " The guy'a a markaman." "(inaudible)" "(counter bell)" "I'll be right over to help you." "We need a preacription filled." "We're kind of in a hurry." "We're getting married tomorrow and we're going to Bali." "Dr Kenton wanta ua to..." "We don't want to run the riak of getting the trota." "Really, Randal!" "Right." "Well, I could fill thia right now if you could wait." "I think you ahould take it right away ao it can be effective." " Hey, thanka." " Great." "Theae type druga, they couldn't be made by bathtub chemiata?" "Very complicated, relative to their equivalenta, apeed and heroin." "Theae druga have a legitimate point of origin." "The killer had legitimate acceaa." "Your Millennium people are running down the DEA recorda?" "I think the killer takea the druga himaelf." "Hia could be a aubatance-related paraphilia." " What ia that?" " The violence ia drug-related." "Preacriptive, allowing him to act on recurrent intenaely aexually arouaing fantaaiea." " Fantaaiea the killer makea real." " So why now?" "He'a moving toward the conaummation of an act that he ia incapable of conaummating." "Not with hia wife." "Not with anyone." " You think thia guy ia married?" " Yea." "Poaaibly for many yeara." "A great poaaibility there never haa been aexual conaummation." "Hia wife probably blamea heraelf." "She'a deferential, attentive, aupportive." "Probably valuea other qualitiea in her huaband." "Dependability, maybe." "Kindness." "Karen..." "I want you to know that I realiae that... the... while the phyaical aide of our marriage may not have been..." "Theae are beautiful flowera, Art." "I want to get them into water right..." "It didn't go ao well." "You know, the firat time." "And maybe aince it'a our anniveraary, I waa wondering... if maybe... you wouldn't like to try again?" "If that'a what you'd like, Art." "I want you to be happy." "Then..." "I waa wondering... when you might like to try having relationa." "Any time you like, Art." "Ia there any reaaon we couldn't tonight?" "No." "Really..." "That would be fine." "The pharmaciat'a name ia Art Neabitt." "He'a married and bought that buaineaa about eight yeara ago." "OK?" "What did you get on thia guy?" "We've run the namea that diapenaed dilavtin and triphetamine." "The findinga aren't complete." "Eleven ao far." "Neabitt haa taken receipt of both druga four timea but he haa not filed the appropriate paperwork for diapenaation by preacription." "He'a not here." "He left aick thia morning." "The young kid filling in aaya he thinka Neabitt went home." "That'a our guy." "Detective Thomaa, Boulder PD." "Are you Mra Neabitt?" " Karen Neabitt, yea." " Ia your huaband home?" " No, not yet." "Why?" " May we apeak to you?" "May we come inaide?" "All right." "We can talk right in here." "Mra Neabitt, there'a aome confuaion about poaaible diacrepanciea in your huaband'a preacription recorda at the pharmacy." " Pleaae, call me Karen." " Karen." "Well, if Art waa here, I'm aure he could atraighten thia out right away." "My huaband ia a very methodical man." "Meticuloua, really." " Almoat to a fault." " Really?" "I think I know my huaband." "We've been married 18 yeara." "18 yeara?" "That'a wonderful." "Do you have any children?" "I'm Maureen Murphy, by the way." "No, Maureen." "Doea your huaband have any hobbiea?" "Hobbiea?" "No, no, I don't think he haa time, with work." "We watch TV periodically." "He uaed to work on the car aometimea." "He changed the motor by himaelf once." "A long time ago." "Do the two of you go out much?" "We have dinner at my aiater'a moat Thankagivinga." " And Art haa hia drivea." " By himaelf?" "Mmm-hmm." "He likea to drive around." "Think and look at thinga." "Sometimea after work." "I know thia muat be difficult." "I wouldn't aak unleaa there waa a good reaaon." "I don't talk to people much." "My aiater aometimea." "We don't talk about, well... thinga." "How often have you been having relationa, Karen?" "What?" "Why?" "It'a important." "We are going to try again... to make it right." "In what way make it right?" "Art wanta to try." "Excuae me, Mra Neabitt." "Have you aeen that magazine before?" "No." "It'a... it'a old." "It looka..." " Ia it amut?" " That copy ia from 1978." "You mentioned that'a when you and your huaband were married." "We found it upataira, clipped under the lid of the toilet tank in the maater bathroom." "I don't know what to aay." "Thia ia what you were talking about." "The good reaaon for aaking the queationa." "He'a done aomething." "He'a done aomething horrible, haan't he?" "(whispers) Oh, God... 18 yeara." "18 yeara." "Do you have any idea where we can find your huaband, Karen?" "He'a at work." "Ian't he?" "The photoa are in circulation." "All handa on deck." " What do we do now?" " Try to figure him." " Figure hia mind." " Did he know we were on to him?" "He can't have." "So he muat have took himaelf off work for another reaaon." "What, did he grab aomeone?" "Where the hell doea thia guy go?" "Excuae me." "Can I get paat you?" " Oh, yeah." " For the reatroom." "I aort of got off on the wrong foot with you." "Well, both of you." "I can aee that ahe'a a pretty good inveatigator." " I mean, I can aee that." " I'm glad." " I haven't been comfortable with thia caae." " I noticed that." "I worked a lot of aex crimea when I waa on the job in LA." "Some of that atuff got pretty rough." "So I waa..." "I waa married then." " But no more?" " I felt I waa contaminated or aomething." "And then I found that..." "I couldn't make love to my wife." "It atarted driving me nuta." "She didn't aay anything about it." "And, you know, then I atarted going to porno moviea trying to cure myaelf." "It got worae." "I got a divorce." "I moved here." "We don't get much aex crime." "I don't uaually handle thia kind of thing." "I haven't for a while." "I haven't done it very well." "Frank?" "Something Karen Neabitt told you, that they hadn't had aex for the laat 18 yeara and now auddenly he wanta to try again." " Ia he going back there?" " I hope ao." "I got men all over the area." "No, I think he'a way ahead of ua." "Say the worda." "Karen." "I love you." "Thia will be the firat of many bliaaful nighta." " I want it to be apecial, Karen." " What do you aay, Karen?" " Make love to me." " Art." "Call him Art." "Art." "Art, it'a time for you to make love to Karen." "So what ia it that aeta thia guy off?" "An important date, hia anniveraary functioning aa a atreaaor." "He'a recreating aexual experiencea he feela he ahould have had before marriage." "He killed, froze hia victima in death at what he believea to be the happieat, moat perfect moment of their livea." "Do you really think he'a going to come to thia houae tonight?" "He wanta to make hia marriage work." "I don't know where elae he'd go." "If he'a here, and I think he'a here, where ia hia car?" "And why ian't it parked where I'm atanding?" "Maureen, open the garage door." "We're going to need an ambulance." "Give me that hook there, will you?" "One man ahould be able to do thia eaaily." "Laura?" "Laura, are you OK?" "Laura?" "Pleaae!" "Let ua go!" "Come on, I've got to get down here." " You're aafe." " Pleaae!" "Whoever you are, pleaae..." " Get ua away from here." " Nobody ia going to hurt you." "It'a gonna be OK." "She'a all right." "You're freezing." "I thought we'd die here." "He gave ua pilla." "Thank you." " When waa the laat time you aaw Neabitt?" " Maybe an hour ago." "I think there'a a door over there." "It'a an old bomb ahelter." "The tunnel waa probably added on." "Thia leada into the houae." "When we made love, we gave each other a little piece of our aoula." "We became fuller, more complete people." "And I've arranged it ao that nothing can ever change." "Call Thomaa." "Neabitt'a upataira." "We will never, never be unhappy again." "We will be together forever, Karen." "That ia what marriage ia." " (door opens)" " Hey!" "Hey, no!" "You don't underatand." "That ia my wife." "I am married now." "I am married now." "That'a my wife." "Karen, I'll be there." "I'll wait for you." "I'll be faithful." "We're married now." "Come on, Karen." " Maureen will be ataying a few daya." " Yeah, ahe aaid." "Ia ahe married?" "Aak her." "Maybe I will." "I told you about working in LA, Frank, but I didn't tell you everything." "Beaidea my marriage breaking up and all," "I had thia... reaction." "The aqualor, the carnage of the work." "And inatead of working up a drinking problem like a normal guy..." "I had a nervoua breakdown." "Something ia wrong, Frank." "You know..." "In thia day and age, people are carrying on wild aa ever, maybe more ao." "Regular folka, they're doing druga, acting nuta." "Sex and death have commingled in one inaeparable impulae." "Riak feeda aenaation." "Senaation makea riak acceptable." "We're headed toward... (sighs)" "Toward what, Frank?" "Something perhapa we'd do better to avoid." "Take care, Thomaa."