"Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" " You're way off!" " What's up?" "This is already at grade." "We're just waiting for gravel." "What?" "Honey, don't forget your lunch pail." "That's great." "Shut up, pigface, or I'll tell." "Go ahead and tell." "You'll still be fat and ugly." "You'll still be a big stupidhead." "Big stupidhead." "Take it back." "I mean it." "You're not my friend." "Stupid." "12 years as sheriff, I never had a single unidentified body." "They put this new highway through and suddenly we're rolling in 'em." "Can't say I ever had a need to call the FBI out here before." "I'm former FBI." "I work with a private consortium called the Millennium Group." "The FBI subcontracts out to us on certain kinds of cases." " Mr Watts?" " Thank you." "They're not local." "I know everybody in this county, dead or alive." "Nobody's missing." "I'd like to get these remains under cover." "A tent'll be fine." "Also we're gonna need power generators, phone lines." "On its way." "Special Agent Baldwin made the same request." "Good." "I'm glad to see you got your bases covered." " Barry Baldwin." " Peter Watts." "We met at Quantico." "I was involved in that investigation of the downed airliner." " What are you doing out here, Peter?" " Sheer coincidence." "A few of us were out here on something else and we got a call." "Piece of luck." "We found only two skulls but pieces of three scapulas were unearthed." "Duplicate metacarpal fragments indicate there might be more." "It's gonna be hard to make IDs with what we've got." "A lot of pieces." "The heavy equipment didn't help us." "But then, I saw you do an amazing job ID'ing those crash victims with a whole lot less." "It's notjust the teeth." "The bones look stripped and clean." "There are caustic burns from acid or a leaching agent." " Probably potassium hydroxide." " Yeah, that would be my guess." "Maybe we should test the soil for potassium hydroxide." " It could lead us to more bodies." " Mm-hm." "Excuse me." "He's a good man." "He used to be Frank Black's partner in the Millennium Group." "Frank, thanks for rushing in here." "You heard about this thing up in Maine?" "Look, Andy, you don't want me on that case, that's your call." "I'm not complaining." "What are you talking about?" "I figured four agents there is plenty." "Peter Watts is up there representing the Millennium Group." "Well, it's news to me, Frank, really." "Anyway, you're still wrong." "I want you on this case but working on a different angle." "Down here. 15 years ago, a woman named Cynthia Paggett disappeared." "I got this note describing her murder." "Alleged murder." "Precise location, what she was wearing, every last detail." "But we could never find her body." "In fact, we could never find any evidence of any crime." "Everything in the note had come out in the newspaper, including the fact that I was investigating, so, yeah, I figured "crackpot, let it go"." "I got five more notes, that same year." "Each one, like the first, just a name of someone who disappeared." "Each of them, like the first... a matter of public record." "Professional people." "These are not your usual victims." "I always felt we'd heard from the killer." "There was zip evidence of any crime." "Legwork went nowhere." "Anyway, the notes stopped, everything went away, but... check the writing." "The writing gets smaller with each correspondence." "This arrived yesterday." "Obsessive." "He's a writer." "That's what he does." "There will be journals and diaries." "The last two words, take a look." "The same guy, 15 years later." "He describes the burial site in a letter with the same postmark." " He's here." " Find him, Frank." "Hollis." "Baldwin says you found something." "Another intact skeleton." "It looks like a female but it's not gonna do us much good." "The teeth have all been removed." "I was hoping we might find a piece ofjewellery." "We checked several soil samples." "No traces of the leaching agents you were asking about." "I don't think this is the original burial site." "I think they were buried somewhere else, then moved here so they'd be under the freeway." "They were only discovered by accident." "A guy moving dirt that was set to be covered." "If we follow where they haven't graded yet, we might find a burial ground, or even a murder site." " What?" " I had the same thought." "I couriered three pieces of skeleton to a lab before you all got here." "Unfortunately, they found traces of a fungus that couldn't have survived in this climate." " What fungus?" " Some variety of aspergillus that is unique to central Florida." "So whoever removed these bodies here went to a whole lot of trouble." "But it was a good thought, Agent Hollis." "I'll be happy to show you those results, if you like." "No." "I'm sure you're right." "OK." "You have a bad impression of me and it's because of Frank Black." " I don't have any impression." " I was with the bureau for 20 years." " I've seen the politics." "Frank is not immune." " Is that some kind of advice?" "No, but I don't like to be maligned, or have the people I work with spoken poorly of." "I'm..." "For me it's always been about the work." "Look at this." "Looks like a bullet hole." "Point-blank, judging from the depression at the entry point." "An execution wound." "What's this?" "Discolouration." "From the aspergillus?" "No." "Look." "It was a surgical procedure to relieve pressure from a head injury." "They plugged up the hole." "How common can that be?" "Buried treasure?" "I'm at 471, East Maple." "They described this as the first murder site." "It's a restaurant." "Crummy seafood." "Well, it's a parking lot now." "Maybe you could orient me." "Oh, man, without the building..." "I remember the site was very hidden." "Yeah." "Well, there's nothing here now." "Is there a retaining wall?" " How far down the wall?" " About halfway," "We ought to have some photos on this somewhere, shouldn't we?" "I'll get back to you, Andy." "Hey." "Hey!" "Stop." " What are you doing?" " You said stop." "Come on." "I tell you, Frank, you caught yourself a weird one here." " What did he say?" " Nothing." "Not a word." "He's wound up." "Jumpy." "So there's nothing here?" "He was watching me." "They have to be here." "Journals." "Something." "He's a writer." "The skull is gracile." "It is smooth and delicate." "It's almost certainly female." "The palate has a Caucasian aspect to it." "She was probably of Northern European extraction." "See the pitting inside the brain case?" " That erosion there?" " Mm-hm." "It's from an infection." "That's why they had to drill the hole." " Welcome to the future, huh?" " My God, that's her." " Who?" " Cynthia Paggett." "We cross-referenced medical records down the eastern seaboard trying to ID the skull." "Using the position of the hole and by matching the bore lines to a surgical drill bit used at Mass General in the '80s, we narrowed it down to four possibilities, including..." "Yeah, well, it's a place to start." "Hollis." "McClaren's on line one." "He's got some kind of an update." "What'd you do to piss him off?" "We're all here, sir." " I understand you're close to making an ID." " Yes, sir." "No." "We just got a confirmation." "It's Cynthia Paggett." " Excellent, That's real good work," " Thank you, sir." " So you know, we have a suspect in custody." " Did you get a confession?" "No, but we have a list of six victims we'd like you to work off," "Their names and supporting materials are being sent to you as we speak." "Medical records should allow you to ID the skeletons." " How many victims?" " Six, which matches the body count." " So we're done." "We can go home." " Looks like, Good job, people," "Where did you get this name?" "Victim 38." "She was a friend of mine." "Cheryl Andrews." "MD." "Disappeared October 9, 1997." "What do you mean, disappeared?" " She did autopsies." " Yes." " That's what killed her." " What do you mean?" "What do you mean, Ed?" "They keep me safe." "If they find them, they'll know I know." "Who are they?" "Have you seen them?" "Do you know their names?" "Huh?" "Let me have it." "It's OK." " What are you doing?" " Interrogating a suspect." "Yeah, well, we have procedures for that, you know." " What's the book?" " He's not our killer." "Who are you kidding?" "I have never seen so much evidence against one man." "He's just a witness." "He witnessed the first murder from his window." "What about all the others?" "We're talking about six bodies." "Six murders." " He knows about all of 'em." " He learned." "Look at the victimology." "It's people whose disappearance would be in newspapers - scientists, doctors, teachers." "Yeah, well, there were no doctors." "Not on the list he gave us." "What is it you are not telling me, Frank?" "There are more bodies up there." "There was one of your guys looking for a photo of that suspect." "I don't have one." " One of our guys?" " He's working with that Millennium feller." "Emma Hollis?" " There's a reason Peter Watts is there." " Frank?" "Victim 38 is why he's there." "What are you talking about, victim 38?" "We've got six." "We're done." "No, you're not." "Victim 38, her name was Cheryl Andrews." "She was a doctor." "Watts is there to find her remains and keep them secret." " From who?" " From me." "I used to work with her in the Millennium Group." " What do you want me to do?" " I'm sending you an email." "What'd you find?" "It was a good find." "We were packing up." "What made you even think to look here, Hollis?" "I saw a depression in the soil, an irregularity." "A piece of luck." "You're not working on information that we're not privy to, are you?" " I heard from Quantico there might be more." " From Quantico." "From Frank Black." "I was under the impression it was breaking information." "I am not working in secret, if that's what you're thinking, Barry." "Thank you." "The victims found in Maine - I'm reading in yourjournal - they were programmers, scientists, doctors, school test administrators with no apparent connection." "I need your help." "Then get me out of here." "It's not safe." "You're still a suspect until we find who did this." "Cheryl Andrews." "You said an autopsy killed her." "What's the connection, Ed?" "Everything." "Everything's connected." "It's what all of them do, It's who she was," "Princeton undergrad, Harvard Medical School, with Johns Hopkins postdoc," "Publications:" ""The Effect of Electromagnetic Radiation on Human Brain Catabolism and Behaviour", and "Autopsy on John Doe"," "There's an enormous mass, approximately 60, six-oh, centimetres anterior." "Slightly larger posterior." "Nothing approaching this scale has ever been reported." "Cascading tumour precipitated by pulsed electromagnetic radiation." "There are records of everything, It's all there, It's all there in plain sight," "That's how I know." " Know what?" " Look..." " Know what?" "Secrets?" " No, no, no." "There are no secrets." "Not any more." "But you see, people... can be erased." "If a school test administrator finds thousands of IQ tests tampered with, gone." "If witnesses in Oklahoma City report a halo effect five seconds before the explosion, gone." "If five satellites explode on their launch pads and somebody asks why, gone." "If a doctor doing an autopsy finds mutation two weeks after a so-called radio installation goes on line in Alaska..." "Cheryl Andrews." "Gone." "She went to a conference in Germany to report what she found," "She never made it," "They had her arrested and deported," "I have to ask you to step to the side, please, ma'am." "I don't have anything to declare." "Literally all I have is my passport." "Just go with the officer." "And that's the last I have on Cheryl Andrews," "Frankfurt airport," "Arrested, deported," "And then the record stops," "Hello?" "Homer B Pettey." "Does that name mean anything to you?" "No." "Cheryl Andrews was arrested in Germany and released before trial." " It was authorised by Homer B Pettey." " You're hoping she's not among the bodies," "They destroyed her because she got involved in something, saw and knew something." "Who?" "The Millennium Group?" "Is this how you live, wondering if it'll happen to you, your daughter?" "Hollis, watch your back," "I wish now we'd finished our conversation about Frank." "What do you mean?" "You're a promising agent, Hollis." "You're smart, capable." "He's doing you a great disservice." "He's not doing anything." "Frank has had a lot of good years but..." "paranoid delusions reinforce themselves." "You know, every new fact tends to confirm the fiction." "I don't care if you're talking about space aliens or JFK or... the Millennium Group." "Cheryl Andrews was a valued comrade who died ten months ago at her home in Omaha." "I was at the funeral, as were several other Group members." "It was open casket." "You can ask her family, if you... wanna make that call." "I don't know what else..." "Did you find what you were looking for?" "I already had it." "Thank you." "Are you telling me that he linked 43 disappearances by reading the newspaper?" "A lot of newspapers, and magazines." "Scientific periodicals, internet newsgroups." "He witnessed the murder." "It shook him, changed his life." "Since then he's been obsessively recording everything about everyone he's come across, making connections, building theories..." "one victim leading to the next." "Can he ID the perpetrators?" "You know who that is, Andy." "They'll kill him." "You know what you're talking about?" "Mass murder." "Bodies boiled down to skeletons." "He's done his part." "Don't make him testify." "I am not going to release him to his own recognisance." "He's a nutcase." "We'll never see him again." "I'll put him in the witness protection programme." "Release him, Andy." "He's safer on his own." "Hello?" "Anybody there?" "Mr Pettey?" "FBI." "Anyone here?" "You've got this all wrong." " Is that her?" " Who?" "Is that her?" "You tell me." "Did you find what you were looking for?" " You know who they are, don't you?" " Yeah." "I used to work for them." " Are they the government?" " Not exactly." " Work for the government?" " Yes, sometimes." "Stay there." "I mean it." "Listen to me." "Don't move." "Whatever terrible thing happened to them saddens me as much as it does you." " You know what happened to them." " We live in a free and stable society, while all around us countries collapse in poverty, chaos, tyranny." " That's no accident." "It's not a matter of luck." " 43 people are dead." "43 threats are now gone." "There are forces at work today that could easily tear this country apart." "Terrible weapons being developed, with us as their target." "Who, Agent Hollis, is prepared to do what is necessary to assure our future?" "You'll see." "Then we'll talk." " We've recovered a total of 42 victims." " 43, I think." "Uh..." "No, 42." "Even if we definitively ID them, the process is gonna take months, maybe years." "The Millennium Group identified a fungus on the bones from Florida." "It's a variety of aspergillium." "So I recommend that we shift our efforts southward." "Do you have anything to add to that, Agent Hollis?" "No, sir." "Excuse me." "Don't expect me to thank you, because I didn't wanna know this." " Know what, exactly?" " The truth doesn't really matter, does it?" "Only what you can prove." "Oh, the truth does matter, Agent Hollis." "It does."