"Killing is lovemaking in its purest form." "Does that shock you," "Dr. Welsh?" "Is that your intention, Peter?" "To shock me?" "I'd much rather make love to you." "You're my type, you know." "So into bondage." "[CHAINS RATTLING]" "Does your..." "lovemaking satisfy you sexually?" "You're actually enjoying this," "Dr. Welsh." "I think you're getting aroused." "You really want to know the truth?" "The truth can be illuminating." "I'm always satisfied." "You know what else?" "I never get any complaints from the customers." "[CHAINS RATTLING]" "I let them finish first." "WELSH:" "In the case of The People v. Peter Barlow, findings and recommendations to the court respectfully submitted by Dr. Shawna Welsh," "Laurier Mental Health Clinic." "[GASPS]" "Hello again, baby." "GUARD:" "No more of that, Barlow." "WELSH:" "In my opinion, the above-mentioned patient is legally sane and can stand trial." "He has full understanding of his actions regarding the two women that he murdered." "[CHAINS CLINKING]" "[DOOR SLAMS]" "It is also my opinion that Barlow is extremely dangerous and presents a grave risk to society." "If there is such a thing as a human monster," "Peter Barlow is one." "He must never be allowed freedom, for if he is, I am certain the consequences will be deadly." "[BIRDS CHIRPING]" "[¶]" "NARRATOR:" "He was brought across in 1228." "Preyed on humans for their blood." "Now he wants to be mortal again..." "To repay society for his sins..." "To emerge from his world of darkness..." "From his endless forever night." "[GROWLING]" "[¶]" "[CAMERA CLICKING]" "Give this to Artie in Forensics." "Hey, Nick." "Patient or staff?" "I think "inmate" is probably closer." "Her name's Whitney David." "Double-header." "Twin bill." "Both halves of a comedy team." "A schizo." "Oh, right." "She was committed here for treatment by her parents, and apparently she was out for a breath of fresh air, and that's when Barlow escaped." "I'm afraid it's got Barlow written all over it." "SCHANKE:" "Yeah, he lifted some shears from the groundskeeper's toolbox, and as they say, "The rest is history."" "We're sure it's Barlow?" "Well, we won't get anything from the shears, they were wiped." "But I worked all his other victims, same m.o." "Stabbed to death, signs of sexual assault." "SCHANKE:" "That is sweet." "It takes a police task force 11 months to nail this creep, and no sooner does he unpack his toothbrush, when it's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." "Well, he didn't fly very far, did he?" "I mean, he escapes, and stops to kill Whitney David right here on the grounds." "Well, he is a psychotic killer." "Maybe the thought of getting caught turns him on." "Oh..." "Let's find somebody in charge." "The head wig-picker is Dr. Shawna Welsh, author of The Road from Despair." "She's in the clinic." "Okay." "Let's go." "If you don't mind, I'll handle things down here." "That place kind of creeps me out." "Oh, don't be shy." "Yeah, Schank." "Most of the patients aren't dangerous." "They're just a little emotionally challenged." "It's not the patients, Natalie." "It's the shrinks." "[SOUNDS OF SHOUTING AND SCREAMING]" "It's Bedlam." "Interesting choice for a psychiatrist's office." "It serves as a reminder of how far we've come and how far we've yet to go." "It was a horrible place." "I've read a lot about it." "I'm Dr. Shawna Welsh." "Nick Knight, Metro Homicide." "It's so awful about Whitney." "I've been telling them for years that we need better security around here." "There's less and less money in the budget every year, but it's especially tragic about Whitney." "She was making really good progress." "Was she your patient?" "Not on a regular basis, no." "How about Peter Barlow?" "Was he one of your patients?" "Barlow was sent here for psychiatric evaluation pending appeal of his criminal conviction." "And?" "Frankly?" "His is the most dangerous mind I've ever met." "He freely acknowledged killing." "He gloried in it." "How do you mean?" "With Barlow, it went far beyond a sexual aberration." "He doesn't kill especially for pleasure, although he does take conspicuous pleasure in killing." "He murders to possess, totally, [¶] to take them into himself, to have their whole being fill him up." "[HORSE WHINNIES IN DISTANCE]" "WELSH:" "He talked about the look in the victim's eyes at the very end." "A confused, resigned look." "He said that signaled the transfer of life's essence." "But he did say that once you've seen that look, you never forget it, and the need to see it again and again completely takes over." "It's a very common trait among serial killers and sexual offenders." "It's all about possession." "I'm sorry." "Detective, you have more questions." "Did Barlow have any relationships inside the hospital?" "Was he close to any of the patients?" "Like Whitney David?" "He may have met her in the hallway." "Is there any chance she might have rejected him?" "Could he have made advances to her or anyone else?" "Detective, Peter Barlow makes eye contact with a woman, and he thinks it's a sexual advance." "He's very delusional in that regard." "Insane?" "No, quite sane." "He knows what he's doing is wrong, and he understands the consequences of his actions, so by all legal standards, he's as sane as you or I." "But to get back to your question, there are any number of women here who qualify as one of his potential victims." "They just have to be unfortunate enough to get noticed." "I mean, we have hundreds of outpatients here, men and women who come and go here every day." "[CRICKETS CHIRPING]" "[DOG BARKING]" "[MELLOW COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING]" "I'll finish the dishes, Jack." "You go on home." "[CHANGING STATIONS]" "NEWS ANNOUNCER:" "World Motion Tour is over, and what a success it was raising over $14 million to fight heart disease." "He covered over 5000 miles..." "[TELEPHONE RINGING]" "JACK:" "This is Cherry Street Restaurant." "We're open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.," "Monday to Saturday." "If you have a message, leave it at the beep." "Thanks." "[BEEPS]" "Erin, this is Nurse Simmons from the Laurier Clinic." "Please call me or Dr. Welsh right away." "It's urgent." "NEWS ANNOUNCER:" "Tom Banks is an electrician, who says, for the time being, his plans are to keep working, after a three-month vacation." "Harriet Banks says..." "[METALLIC CLANK] ...she plans to donate a sizable amount to charity." "Doctors at Mt." "Sinai Hospital say they may have..." "ERIN:" "Jack?" "Jack?" "Is that you?" "[STATIONS CHANGING]" "Jack?" "BARLOW:" "Hello, Erin." "[GASPS]" "I...hate the news." "[ERIN SCREAMING]" "Schanke, find him." "Nobody, I mean, nobody-- uniforms, detectives, meter maids," "I don't care-- no one punches out until we bring him in, got it?" "Where the hell is Dr. Lambert?" "She's on the way." "Barlow's out to break some records, huh?" "Here we go again." "Looks like Erin Devon was a patient at the Laurier Mental Health Clinic." "He must have made some girlfriends in the loony bin." "What?" "Actually, you're not that far off." "[SIGHS]" "Look, would you mind finishing up that paperwork for me?" "I'm going to go at this from a different angle, try to get inside Barlow's head." "How?" "How else?" "Go see his doctor again." "Psychiatrists are supposed to remain emotionally detached from their patients, but this is too much." "First Whitney and now Erin?" "It wasn't your fault." "Was Erin Devon your patient?" "Technically, um, no, but we did work together on occasion." "I was preparing for my new book." "We take snapshots of all of the patients during the course of their treatment." "It's amazing what a photograph will tell you." "It's all in their eyes." "Here she is." "That's Erin." "[¶]" "You can see how much she was improving." "She was just recently assigned to Dr. Sillman on an outpatient basis." "He was really happy with her progress." "Oh, it's just-- It's such a shame." "She was such an innocent." "Well... anyway, uh, you wanted to talk to me about Peter Barlow." "I" " I have all the facts I need." "You wanted to get inside his mind." "You wanted to ask me what makes him tick so you can anticipate his next move." "Something like that." "Well, detective, all of us, you, me, and Barlow, we all have a desire to fill a need in our lives, to connect up intimately with another person." "For some, a platonic relationship is...sufficient." "For others, the need is...physical." "Sexual." "Yes, sexual." "But fortunately, for most of us, good sex doesn't end in murder." "But it's no accident that orgasm is often described as "a small death."" "For all its love and romance that goes along with it, there's a certain part of the act that is sheer possession." "To be able to bring a lover to a place where they're out of control, where they're completely and utterly yours." "[¶]" "Did anyone see you leave?" "Your father?" "The servants?" "Everyone was asleep." "[HEART BEATING]" "They ask me why I'm looking pale." "If I'm ill." "I want to laugh." "I want to tell them about you and I, about what we've been doing." "If they only knew." "I'm yours, Nicholas." "You're my world." "Drink from me again." "Each time, you'll grow weaker." "Nearer to death." "Fill yourself with my blood." "Take it all." "Please." "No, Amalia." "Then take only what you need." "[HEART CONTINUES BEATING]" "Barlow kills to possess." "He can't help himself." "It's his curse, his addiction." "Then you understand?" "Yes." "It must be awful to have that desire, that..." "That emptiness that never gets filled." "Yes." "The aching hunger for physical contact?" "The lust." "Yes, the lust." "And knowing that nothing can satisfy it." "And the only thing it can lead to is... murder." "Thank you for your help, doctor." "WELSH:" "It's all about possession." "The aching hunger for physical contact?" "KNIGHT:" "The lust." "Yes, the lust." "That desire that never gets filled." "The aching hunger for physical contact?" "The lust." "Yes, the lust." "The lust." "[BEEPS]" "[DIALING]" "[LINE RINGING]" "WOMAN:" "Raven." "Yeah." "I have to talk to Janette." "[BUOY CLANGS, FOGHORN SOUNDS]" "[WHOOSH]" "Nicolas." "I wasn't sure you'd come." "We all have our needs." "And it's been so long." "[¶]" "[GASPING]" "I like it when you need me." "I'm sorry I used you." "And I, you." "We have needs, Nicolas." "Just as mortals do." "I shouldn't have." "Are you saying that you didn't want to?" "No, it's not that." "It's just I have to fight so hard to control it." "I have to control it." "One night you will not recover." "I will lose you, Amalia." "We must not see each other again." "Ever." "KNIGHT:" "I have to control it." "Not with me..." "Ever." "Drink from me again." "No." "It's all right." "It's all right." "Shh." "Look, the light is coming." "Come and sleep the day with me." "Can it not be like it was for just a brief time?" "I can't." "I have to work." "So... what have you got?" "Uh, polluted lake water in the lung tissue of a drowning victim." "Erin Devon." "What?" "Erin Devon." "Erin Devon." "I'm so sorry." "I'm really overwhelmed here." "I don't know what is going on, whether it's the full moon or the summer heat, but the world has gone crazy out there." "Yes, Erin Devon was sexually assaulted before she was killed." "As were all of Barlow's other victims." "No, not quite." "I finished the postmortem on Whitney David." "Turns out there was no sexual assault." "Maybe he was scared off." "But he still had time to kill her?" "No, you're right." "The killing is secondary to the possession." "Which begs the question, then, is Barlow responsible for Whitney David's murder?" "SCHANKE:" "No, no, no, thank you for your trouble." "Yeah." "I just had a very illuminating conversation with Whitney David's parents." "And?" "She was scheduled to go home next month." "That's what they thought, anyway, until about two weeks ago." "She had a relapse of some sort, and they postponed her release." "A relapse?" "Dr. Welsh said she was making progress." "Whitney told her folks about a week ago that her doctor, Dr. Elliott Sillman, had changed his mind and didn't want to let her go." "Sillman?" "Does that mean something to you?" "Probably not." "Except he was treating Erin Devon as well." "WELSH:" "I know, I know." "It's hard, Robyn, but this is the kind of work that we have to do if we're ever going to make you well again." "And we are going to get you there, okay?" "Okay?" "We can do it." "[¶]" "[KNOCKS AT DOOR]" "I hope I'm not disturbing you." "The nurse said it was okay, that you were finished." "Oh, detective." "Come on in." "Dr. Elliott Sillman, where can I find him?" "He's on vacation, actually." "He'll be due back next month." "Dr. Sillman was set to release Whitney David, and he had a change of heart." "Why?" "Well, she was making good progress, and then she started to backslide." "Dr. Sillman decided she needed more time." "And the decision was based solely on the doctor's recommendation?" "And on mine, of course." "Why do you ask?" "Well, he was treating both Erin Devon and Whitney David." "And?" "I thought it might be interesting to talk to him." "He might know something about them that could lead us to Barlow." "I don't think you can afford to take that time, detective." "Once you get inside the mind of a murderer, you begin to realize how predictable it is." "Meaning?" "Meaning that Barlow will kill again the same way, for the same reasons." "And we have no control." "Worse, he has no control." "[CLANKING]" "My goodness, Nicholas." "In such a hurry to leave your paramour." "And such a willing one at that." "I'd say she was something of a find." "The beautiful daughter of a wealthy wine merchant." "What's this all about?" "You can tell me, can't you?" "You know what this is all about." "Let me think." "Hmm." "You have found a ravenous beauty." "A mortal, who makes love to you and wants you to possess her totally, who will happily die in your arms... drained." "I'm afraid I don't see the problem." "I must have her." "Ahhh." "But if you go on this way, possess her as a vampire must, then you will have to kill her or bring her across, and either way, you will no longer possess her." "Yes." "I do sympathize." "You may not believe that, but I do." "It is our nature to possess, to drain away the lives of others into our bodies, and that is the logical consequence, isn't it?" "What do you mean?" "Of possession, my dear, hungry Nicholas." "For a vampire or a mortal, to possess another totally is to destroy them." "They cease to exist." "Then we possess nothing." "Until we kill again." "And creatures such as you and I always kill again." "It never ends." "No." "No, it doesn't." "Isn't it delightful?" "Oh, don't be such a fool, Nicholas." "Drink up, be merry." "[WHOOSH]" "Find him, detective." "He'll kill again until he's stopped." "I know." "NURSE:" "Here we go." "Yesterday's surveillance videos." "From Barlow's wing?" "That's what you asked for, isn't it?" "Thanks." "You hoping to find something you missed last time?" "Well, as they say in the movies," "[SOUTHERN ACCENT] it's dogged determination that solves crimes, ma'am." "KNIGHT:" "Nurse, could you stick with us a minute?" "We might need you." "There he is." "[¶]" "KNIGHT:" "That's definitely not a hospital uniform." "SCHANKE:" "He had help from the inside." "Roll it back from there." "A little faster." "KNIGHT:" "Stop." "Hold it right there." "Nurse?" "You recognize her?" "NURSE:" "Let me see." "I believe that's..." "Michelle Parker." "Where can we find her?" "Actually, she was discharged only yesterday." "SCHANKE:" "Do you really think he's that predictable?" "Barlow has to know we'll be watching the patients he came into contact with." "He knows, but he can't break the pattern." "That's his weakness." "Let's just hope Michelle Parker listens to her messages." "SCHANKE:" "We'll be there in 10 minutes." "Stay calm, don't panic, and please do not answer the door." "[BEEP]" "[BREATHING HARD]" "You don't know what I went through to find you." "[SCREAMING]" "Backup unit's rolling." "Let's just hope your hunch is right, Nick." "[WOMAN SCREAMING]" "Please, what do you want from me?" "Just about everything!" "Come on, Michelle." "Don't be this way." "You don't have to be shy with me." "Gosh..." "We're practically old friends." "Please, just leave me alone." "I won't tell anyone." "I won't." "[TIRES SCREECH]" "I'll go around back." "You take the front." "SCHANKE: "I'll go around back."" "Maybe for once, I will go around back." "Come on, honey." "Open up." "Don't make me come in there after you." "I wouldn't move if I were you." "Hi." "Thank you, detectives." "Good work." "The pleasure's all ours." "Get a statement from him yet?" "Nothing that man says makes sense to me, Nick." "Nothing." "COHEN:" "Okay, Mr. Barlow, let's try this again." "We have evidence that you've killed two women since your escape." "I'm incorrigible." "Tell us about Whitney David." "You killed her on the Laurier grounds minutes after you escaped." "Guess I couldn't wait." "You tied her to a tree." "That was a spectacular touch, wasn't it?" "Tell me, detective, when you found her, did she have that surprised look on her face?" "Kind of..." ""I can't believe what you just did to me"" "kind of look?" "You don't know what I'm talking about, do you?" "You don't know." "You wouldn't know." "Unless you've seen it." "Unless you...did it." "Barlow didn't kill Whitney David." "How sure are you?" "You heard him, about "the spectacular touch"?" "Whitney was never tied up." "Natalie has her doubts too." "Somebody sure as hell wanted to make it look like Barlow." "Yeah." "Maybe the same somebody who helped him escape." "If he had help." "But why?" "Who could possibly be sick enough to help someone like Barlow escape?" "I know they said that you could go home, but it's just not...best for you right now." "We haven't got you where we need to be, and..." "And we're close, honey." "We're really close." "It's just a couple of weeks." "That's what you said last time." "And before." "Okay, fine." "I'll take you home." "You can go." "Fine." "SCHANKE:" "Whitney David's shrink?" "Dr. Elliott Sillman?" "He's on vacation." "Yeah, I know." "Dr. Welsh told me." "Isn't that just like a shrink?" "Leaving town when you need him?" "Get in touch with him?" "No, he's on his way to Nepal." "He flew out this morning." "He's doing a little rock climbing in the Himalayas." "We left word for him, but I don't know." "A Sherpa on a yak ain't my idea of 911." "He'll get back to us, but when, I don't know." "You think he's the doer?" "Well, he was still in town when Whitney David died." "Yeah, but he left before Erin Devon was killed." "Erin is Barlow's victim." "But" " But Sillman had nothing to do with Barlow." "I mean, what's the connection?" "I'd like to think shrink, but right now, I'm thinking patients." "It's not a patient, Schank." "Well, somebody in there helped Barlow, Nick." "I mean, maybe they had an arrangement, a conspiracy, I don't know." "Think about it." "If you're inside and you couldn't get out, what would your first priority be?" "It wouldn't be helping another patient escape, would it?" "Well, who, then?" "An orderly, a nurse?" "Simmons could pass for Nurse Ratched herself." "[¶]" "NURSE:" "I'm not so sure about this, with Dr. Sillman on vacation and everything." "Shouldn't you have his permission?" "Trust me, he won't mind." "Well, this is kind of irregular." "This is kind of a police emergency." "Here we go." "Notes on the sessions with Whitney David." "Diagnosis, prognosis, transcripts." "Here's a recommendation for Whitney's release." "But nothing to suggest he was having second thoughts?" "Not that I can find." "Typical shrink." "Decides at the last minute that Whitney David's gotta stay in the booby hatch, and then takes off for a vacation." "Unless it wasn't Sillman who decided to keep her in." "Come on, Robyn, let's go." "I can go now?" "That's what you wanted, wasn't it?" "To get out of here?" "Well, then, we'll go, in my car." "Excuse me, do you have some kind of master list of patients?" "I mean, a status report of who's coming, who's going, who recommends release, that kind of thing?" "Well, I've got the admissions record." "Good." "That's everyone." "Thanks." "Does Dr. Welsh normally countermand so many release recommendations?" "No more than anyone else I've worked for." "Although, come to think of it, there have been a few more than usual in recent months." "Are they here?" "Yeah." "Right here." "[¶]" "Where can I find Robyn Flood?" "She's in N-12." "Let's go." "Robyn?" "SCHANKE:" "No one home?" "She is supposed to be in here, right?" "NURSE:" "Yes, it's well past lights out." "Wherever she is, she hasn't been gone long." "This is not possible, detective." "According to the sheet, she was given her medication at 9:30." "She would need a key, besides." "SCHANKE:" "Somehow, she got a hold of one, didn't she?" "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "I knew you could not leave me." "No, Amalia." "[HEART BEATING]" "But you must leave me, before it's too late." "Before this obsession consumes us." "I do not have the will, Nicholas." "I am as helpless as you." "But you have a lifetime." "You are my life." "I could never hope to meet another man such as you." "You are worth everything to me... worth life itself." "Take me." "Let me die in your arms." "Go ahead, my love." "Drink." "For the last time." "[HEART BEATING]" "It's all about possession." "Does Dr. Welsh have a pager?" "Of course, all the doctors do." "Try to reach her." "Come on, Schank." "Are they in trouble?" "Robyn is." "[¶]" "You think the good doctor's gone over to the other side?" "That's she emotionally challenged too?" "WELSH [OVER TAPE PLAYER]:" "Recommendations re:" "Flood, Robyn, case number 67192." "Suggest that patient's scheduled release be postponed." "Robyn exhibits renewed signs of psychotic behavior." "Suggest also more aggressive medication therapy." "Rescind Dr. Springer's recommendation for release." "Lock this place down." "Put out an APB on Dr. Shawna Welsh." "And get me the make and plate on her car." "Where you going?" "[DIALS PHONE]" "Dispatch, this is Schanke, listen up." "Police officer." "Have you seen Dr. Shawna Welsh?" "Not lately." "She hasn't been through?" "She wouldn't." "Employees and staff mostly use their own entrance, out back of maintenance." "Just go down there." "[¶]" "[WHOOSH]" "[PHONE RINGING]" "Yeah, Schank?" "SCHANKE:" "Yeah, Nick, we got a make on Welsh's car." "It's a red late-model convertible, license number RKP 968." "Got it?" "I'm on it." "[WHOOSHING]" "[HEART BEATING]" "WELSH:" "I just thought it would be nice if we got to know each other a little better," "You know, like friends." "Friends?" "Yes, friends." "That's what we are, isn't it?" "Friends?" "It's getting cold, Dr. Shawna." "I" " I want to go home." "Oh." "Oh, all right." "Yes, you're right." "Here you go, dear." "Robyn?" "We have to talk." "I can't let you go." "I want you to stay." "But th-they said" "No, no, you don't understand!" "I can't let you go because..." "I love you." "And no one else can help you." "[HEART STILL BEATING]" "I just can't let you go." "[SCREAMS]" "KNIGHT:" "Dr. Welsh?" "You can let her go." "And you will." "Stay away from her, Robyn." "It's all right." "I'm a police officer." "Not this." "No, no, this is better." "You know, then." "About Whitney and Barlow?" "No." "About the murdering mind." "You know it well." "Poor Nicholas." "One moment we gorge on the life force, and the next, only silence fills us, and we are empty again." "Then, the whisperings of renewed thirst." "You feel it already, don't you?" "Already your thoughts have strayed from her to the next." "Where will you find her?" "How will you take her?" "All at once?" "A little at a time?" "I can see it in your eyes, Nicholas." "Can there be any finer thing than this?" "Eternal hunger... followed by eternal pleasure." "If this is our prison, let us rot for all eternity." "You'll forget this one, Nicholas." "There will be many, many more, and you, you will possess them all." "[WHOOSH]" "[¶]" "[THUNDER CRASHES]" "[¶]" "KNIGHT:" "She sprang Barlow." "To cover herself, she copies the m.o." "Figured we'd assume Barlow killed Whitney David." "But why?" "To possess her totally, finally." "Well, it does happen, psychiatrists taking on their patients' illnesses." "I" " I suppose it's one of the hazards of the job." "I know how she felt, Nat." "All of it." "Not just the loneliness, but the urges to fill the void, the perverse logic of it." "But those are needs that you don't have anymore." "That's all in the past." "Isn't it?" "[SCHANKE YAWNS]" "I am outta here." "I'm history." "That's all she wrote." "Not only has the fat lady sung, but she's left the theater with Elvis." "[CHUCKLES]" "It's about time for a little bed and brekky, huh?" "Schank, do me a favor, will you?" "Will you take the car back to the precinct?" "I'll pick it up later." "And you'll be...?" "Busy." "[¶]" "[¶]"