"'In New York City's war on crime, 'the worst criminal offenders are pursued 'by the detectives of the Major Case Squad." "'These are their stories.'" "Give me one in the back where it's quiet." "I'm wanting to er...sleep in." "The burgers are great." "You don't have to worry about slobbering guys." "It is pure luck I walked in here." "I just hope I don't get lost tomorrow." " You've never been to their offices?" " I was recruited at a job fair." "What's the address?" "That's not far." "I can show you." "OK." "I just need to make a quick stop at my motel." "I go by that building every morning on my way to the school." " You go to school?" " I'm a teacher." "Sixth grade." "I know I shouldn't be grading papers while drinking beer." "You know what, Allison?" "I'm gonna go to sleep, get up early." "Thanks, anyway." "People told me it would be hard meeting people in New York." "What do they know?" "My God, look at your nails." " I love French nails." " I did them myself." "Really?" "Mine are such a mess." "I could fix them for you." "I got everything at the motel." "Waitress." "Er...$12." "My treat." "Oh, dammit!" "I must have spilt something." "I need soda water." "We can take care of it at the motel." "My son." "He's with his daddy tonight." "Let's go." "I always lose with guys." "I just have this talent for picking jerks." "Finished." "Bea-u-tiful!" "Can you do my toes?" "Think I have pretty toes?" " Mm-hmm." " Kiss them." "Come here." "Let me just go to the bathroom a second." "Hey, this stuff dries fast." "The guy checked in around 5pm yesterday." "Paid cash for one night." "Asked for a quieter room in the back." "Signed in as John Smith." "There was 30 bucks in cash, some change inside that." "No ID." "You found it with the photo facing up?" "Yep." "Just so we'd see it." "We're getting tapes from the security camera in the front office." "Er..." "T-shirts." "Arista Day Camp." "It's ketchup." "Looks like somebody used it to wipe a stain." "Buckle's in the right place." "Size 34." "The way she's cut up, like the other five in the city last year, right?" "The Motel Ripper." " Could be." " That's why we called Major Case." " We thought the guy was locked up." " So did we." "The obvious places had been wiped clean." "The key wasn't turned in, but Smith paid with a new $50 bill." "The manager made a deposit." "We're in touch with the bank." "Victim?" "No prints in the system." "Checking the day camp." "A close match to the other killings?" "It's the same belt size." "Buckle under the right ear." "Same puncture wounds with the same left-handed orientation." "Victim's also dark blonde." "The place looked like a hurricane hit it." "It's a rage murder." "Same signature as the Motel Ripper." "Since Kevin Reddick is in Riker awaiting trial, it's a copycat." " The signature wasn't made public." " Someone must have found it out." "Assuming Kevin Reddick is really the Motel Ripper." "When Reddick was pulled over six months ago, he had news clippings of the five murders in his briefcase." "No alibi." "He wears a size-34 belt, he's left-handed and has a history of abusive relationships with women." "I'll worry about convicting him on those killings." "As for this one, someone leaked the details of the signature or Reddick bragged to one of his cellmates." "Deakins." "I'll let him know." "Harland got an ID on the kid's mother." "'Rosa was real careful.'" "Never brought any of her, you know, friends home." "Even when Peter stayed with his dad." "She's not much of a housekeeper." "As long as she kept the place vermin-free." "She have friends in the building?" "She had me and the missus." "Poor girl." ""Free cover." "Free drink." "Ladies' night every Tuesday."" "Last night's coupon's missing." "Rosa...something." "Comes in every other week." "Last night she was here." "She left with somebody." "No, it was a her." "Ladies' night as in ladies-only night." " Had you seen the other girl before?" " No." "She was nice lookin'." "Blonde, 30s, pink blouse, brown skirt." "Street, casual, young professional?" "She was goin' for casual." "She was at the bar, checkin' things out." "Definitely bi-nervous." "Did either of them have anything to eat?" "Fries or a burger?" " No." " We'll be in touch." "The hand towel at the motel." "There was no ketchup on Rosa's clothing." "Maybe on our mystery woman?" "She ate on the way here or on her way to the motel." "So we'll be hittin' all the burger joints between here and there." "All the lights are down." "Yeah." "I like this place." "I followed the list exactly like you said." "I didn't think I could do it." "Yeah, I did that too." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Do we have to...?" "OK." "I'll tell you..." "I'll tell you everything." "Yeah, I pulled on them..." "..hard as I could." "The waitress at Potter's Grill saw you sharing fries with her." "It's important that we find her." "I just met her that night." "All I know is she's from Ohio." "Er...her name's Mary Ellen." "She said she was starting a new job." "Design company, Northern Boulevard." "I was gonna help her find the address." " You left with her?" " No, I changed my mind." "Well, I'm not saying she meant anything by it, but she wanted to stop by her motel room." " She was coming on to you?" " Well, I'm not saying for sure." " Please...don't lie to us." " I'm not lying." "Your ears are turning red." "My mother taught me what that means." "Was it Mary Ellen who changed her mind?" "You don't want people to know about your personal life, that's understandable." "Either way, you're a very lucky woman." "The next girl Mary Ellen picked up, she was found dead in that motel room." "Oh, my God!" "That could have been me." "l-l-l was..." "I was going to leave with her." "But when she found out I was a teacher, I don't know, all of a sudden she said she had to get up early." "She just left." "Oh, my God!" "I can't believe..." "Can you excuse me?" "Mary Ellen was making choices." "A mother of a seven year old is fair game... ..but not a teacher?" "Eames." "How long?" "All right, thanks." "Layton found the $50 bill from the motel." "They're pulling prints." " Sorry about that, Johnny." " John." "Johnny West." " You were advised of your rights?" " Uh-huh." "You wanna take care of this now" " or wait for your lawyer?" " Now." " OK." "What did you do Tuesday?" " I got hot!" " At the Aladdin Motel?" " No, I've never been there." " This is you checking in, Johnny." " No, that ain't me." "This is the money you paid with." "It's got your fingerprints on it." "Yeah, OK, it's me." "You were with a girl?" "A blonde?" "Yeah." "I mean, you know, we...got down to the business." "You and her and her little friend she brought along?" "No." "No, I've..." "I've never seen her." " How about now?" " No." "No!" "Your blonde friend picked her up Tuesday night." "She's not my friend." "See, I met her outside of a bodega in Astoria." "She paid me to rent that room." " Because you're such a stud?" " No." "She told me exactly what to say." "Ask for a room in the back because I wanna sleep." "I think that she wants me and her to..." "But, no...she didn't." "She gave me another 50 and told me to get lost." "So I did." " You were in Rikers for possession?" " Yeah." "You met Kevin Reddick?" "You were on the same tier?" " Who?" " The Motel Ripper." "Learnt tricks." " What kind of belt to use." " I didn't!" " Where to stab her." " Get that away from me." "You copied his signature so well, they may charge you with the murders." "Get that away from me!" "You're a meth-head, isn't that right?" " But you don't shoot up?" " No, I don't like needles." "Oh, look at that." " I see!" " Look." "I cut myself." "Come on, look!" "Look, it's really comin' out!" "He faints at the sight of blood." "That's why he doesn't shoot up." "It's an involuntary reflex in ten per cent of the population." "They start hyperventilating, which causes pressure on the vagus nerve." "Heart rate slows down." "But it means...he couldn't have cut her up." "He wouldn't have." "It's not him." "Your little demonstration aside, he is still the only candidate." "Maybe Reddick has a girlfriend who wants to prove he's innocent." "There's no evidence he has a girlfriend." "No wife, no sister." "We even investigated his two co-workers at his management company." "This woman, this, er, Mary Ellen." "She had a job?" "Design firm on Northern Boulevard." "No such place." "Whoever she is, Reddick would need to be in contact with her now, giving her instructions." "So we check prison visits, letters, phone calls." "The sooner this connects to Reddick, the better." "His lawyer's going to court this week to argue for bail." "I don't want Mr Reddick out of jail for a second." "The inmates get calling cards and we don't monitor the calls." "Visitors?" "Reddick hasn't had any visitors of a personal nature." " He's had lawyers, psychiatrists." " Mr Munoz." "Inside his tape player." "Look at that." "I wouldn't wanna show my face, either." ""Hot for you, forever." ""Karyn."" "Talk about keeping the home fires burning." "I need a cigarette and sleep." "This doesn't read like they've been together on the outside." " This is the only sex they've had." " "You look strong and powerful." ""It's good you've been out of the sun." ""Your pale skin turns me on." "Could you tell?"" "She's seen him since he's been locked up." "She's not on the visitors' list." "He's been in court for pre-trial motions." "When's that bail hearing?" "What prompts this motion for bail is new evidence exculpating my client." "Last week, a young woman was found murdered in Queens in a manner identical to those murders my client's accused of." "Your Honour, our evidence is the same now as it was when you remanded him to custody." "All right." "I'm continuing remand but I want a full investigation." "I want you back here in 30 days to reconsider bail for Mr Reddick." "Karyn." "What?" "I didn't write those." "That move in the courtroom, was that a special request from Kevin?" "How about these?" "Kevin's submissive little doggy." " He ever ask you to hurt someone?" " No!" "And I wouldn't!" " Where were you Tuesday last week?" " In class." "I'm a French lit major at NYU, I'm not a criminal." " He asked me to pose for pictures." " Nude pictures for a serial killer." "You don't understand." "When he talks to you...he talks to this..." "part of you." "I can't explain it." "You just wanna do things for him." "He's just so...hot." "You wanna see pictures of what he did to those five girls?" "It's not so hot." "Yeah, I know, he's got this brain disease." "But he would never hurt me." "He told you he had a brain disease?" "His shrink called me." "He warned me to stop talking to Kevin." "That he's dangerous." "Like I didn't know!" "But...that's the whole point." "The doctor's name?" "Buckman." "Can I go now?" "I'm gonna miss my study group." "We're gonna check your alibi, Karyn." "Until you hear from us, don't skip any classes." "Serial-killer groupies." "And I thought I was pathetic with my ABBA fan-club card." ""Doctor Roger Buckman, Haddon School of Medicine." ""Department of Neuropsychiatry." He visited Reddick at Rikers." "Reddick didn't tell me about any other girls, not even this one." "But once I was aware that she was in danger, I had a duty to warn her." "You told her he had a brain disease." "Was that to scare her?" "I told her that people who commit these crimes have a brain disorder." "I never told her he did." "I wouldn't violate his confidentiality." "Is Reddick a patient or a test subject?" "A test subject." "I'm studying limbic-trigger syndrome." "Certain chaotic violent behaviour is caused by biological abnormalities in the limbic system of the brain." "Chaotic behaviour like rage killings?" "Yes." "The subjects have lesions in the limbic system." "Over time they cause partial seizures which are usually followed by the violent behaviour." "You're saying that everyone with the lesion commits rage killings?" "No, I'm saying that every rage killer has the lesion." "Back to Karyn." "How did you find out about her relationship with Reddick?" " My research associate, Dr Dwyer." " Is the doctor in?" "Kevin bragged about toying with this girl." "I was worried for her." " Did he brag about any other women?" " You know where to draw the line." "I'm sure she does, Doctor." "Thank you." " No, he didn't mention anyone else." " He bragged about Karyn to you." "He must feel comfortable around you." "I think the point was to make me uncomfortable." "He likes to play games." "Who sees him more often, you or Dr Buckman?" "I do." "I conduct the interviews, I supervise the PET scans." "Which one's Reddick?" "I can't tell you." "Erm...the ID tags are numbered." "Your subjects, are they all serial killers?" "No, Kevin's the only one accused of that class of crime." "But they're all rage killers." "I like the way you have things arranged." "You know, books, boxes." "All sorted by size." "It's very, er... ..orderly." "A defence against the chaos in here." "The lesion in the limbic system." "Does it show up?" "Yes." "It's er...there." "It's the shadow by the hypothalamus." "The limbic system, that governs emotion and motivation." " You've studied the field?" " By necessity, yeah." "We have a family history of schizophrenia." "If this study pans out, it's a good basis for an insanity plea." "Limbic-trigger syndrome is a mental disease, so, yes, there'd be legal ramifications." "Like killers getting away with murder?" "They wouldn't get away with anything." "They'd get treatment." "Your study will take..." "five years to complete?" "And who knows how long before it's accepted by the medical establishment." "By then it'll be too late for old Kevin." "It's still helpful for him to understand why he behaves the way he does." "This is... very cutting-edge stuff." "It must be so exciting for you." "Doing the research, teaching young students..." "I don't teach, I only do pure research." "How'd you get interested?" "A professor inspire you?" "My mother, I guess." "Before she died she taught high-school biology." "A teacher." "I'm sure she'd be...very proud of you." "Thank you for talkin' to us, Doctor." "A university researcher with a PhD?" "Rosa's killer had a soft spot for teachers." "Dwyer's mother was a teacher." "Dwyer spared the teacher but killed the mother of a seven year old?" "That fits your profile?" "A mother who left her son with her ex-husband while she had sex!" "That was the point the killer was makin' by leaving the boy's picture on the clothes, which were folded neatly on the dresser!" "Not by Rosa Dern, who was a slob, but by the killer." "Doctor Dwyer's a neat freak." "But why?" "Why would she commit such a crime?" "I'm not sure." " You should call your office." " What?" "Queens County DA's taken jurisdiction of the Rosa Dern case on the theory that she was killed by someone unconnected to Reddick." "They're saying whoever killed Rosa Dern also killed the other five." "If you really think Cathleen Dwyer did this and you can connect her to Reddick, do it fast." "I'm stunned you're even asking." "I can't think of an individual less likely to commit a murder." " How long have you known her?" " Eight years, since I came here." "She was a very bright, serious graduate student." "She sounds like a lot of fun." "Any boyfriends?" "You people do go for the obvious." "I sat in on some of those sessions." "They weren't blowing kisses." "Everybody keeps their game face for the boss." "I'd be a poor psychiatrist if I allowed someone's weak character to undermine the integrity of my work." "Other than those sessions, was she alone with Reddick?" "Yes." "Can she access the crime reports or did Dwyer tell her any details?" "You mean his unique signature?" "No." "We don't have that data." "And Reddick would not incriminate himself by telling us." "I see Dr Dwyer had him brought here for medical tests." "Yes." "Under guard for his PET scan, neurological evaluations." "Where there'd be other people." "Technicians who might have observed them together?" "Yes, obviously." "It was a big day when he brought in the Motel Ripper the first time." "He's their most famous killer." "The first time?" "Reddick had another PET scan?" "Yeah, they misplaced his first one so they brought him back." "How was Dr Dwyer with him?" "Friendly?" "Not the first time, but the second, she was fussing' all over him, gettin' him water." " That's unprofessional." " I've seen her like that with Dr Buckman." "But this was different?" "Well, during his PET scan, she held his hand." "I mean, I dunno if he was nervous, but to stand there for 45 minutes holding' that man's hand..." "Uh-uh." "Holding hands with a serial killer." "Sounds like probable cause for a search warrant." "Are you sure you can just come in?" " Don't you have to tell Dr Dwyer?" " No." "Mind waiting in the hallway?" "Has this place been painted?" "I smell fresh paint." "A month ago, before Dr Dwyer moved in." "I am not finding a pink top or a brown skirt." "Family photos." "There's Dwyer skateboarding with a neck brace." "Tough kid." "Dwyer." "Dwyer and Mom." "There's no pictures of Dad." "What did I tell you about the negligent dad?" "I dunno, I forgot to write it down." "What have we here?" "Dr Dwyer's Secret Garden." "Novels by Yukio Mishima." "Domination porno for intellectuals." "Magazines." "This is rough stuff." "It's total submission." "Dr Dwyer likes a strong daddy." "Reddick's the right man for the job." "Her student loans." "She owed a couple of bricks." "Collection notices, overdue credit cards." "You gotta wonder how she can afford this place." " How much is the rent?" " Cheap." "It's rent controlled." " How did Dr Dwyer get it?" " Dunno." "There was a waiting list." "Then all of a sudden she pops up and moves in." " What company manages the building?" " Gump and Worsley." "Kevin Reddick's old employer." "They were in my apartment, in my bedroom." "They looked through my things." "They touched everything." " What did they take?" " Just financial papers." "That's it?" "Yes." "There was nothing for them to find." " What are we going to do now?" " You are going to sit tight." " You're going to be OK." " I don't know if I can..." "Remember how you thought you were too weak and couldn't do it?" "But I said you could." "I told you you could and you did." "Doesn't that make you feel good, that I knew what you're able to do?" "You had the strength...all along." "You just needed...the right...man." "As long as nothing comes between us, no cops, no fears, no doubts, everything will be fine." "I can't." "I don't want to." "No, don't go." "I'm done here." "Please...stay." "Yeah." "Big deal." "So Reddick called me about Dr Dwyer." "What did he say?" "Said he had a lady friend who was livin' in a dump." "He wanted to show her what a good guy he was." "He took care of my building." "This is a girl who had problems paying her student loan." "Weren't you taking a big risk?" "Kevin told you what?" "That she'd do you favours?" "Reddick said that this girl was kinky and if I played my cards right..." " Kinky?" " Yeah, she likes to take direction." "He told me she had a collection of erotica on the subject." "Excuse me." "Yeah, hello?" "Yeah." "That serves Dwyer right for telling Reddick she had that stuff." "You really think she told him?" "She lives alone." "She had it hidden in the back of her linen closet." "She's ashamed of it." "If she didn't tell him, who did?" "So Dr Dwyer killed Rosa Dern for two rooms with a river view?" "She killed for needs far more basic than housing, needs he's uniquely adept at exploiting." "Flattery will get you nowhere." "We thought you wanted to talk about your legal er...predicament." "My only predicament is deciding which tie to wear at his execution." " If he gives me a reason..." " Reason?" "His testimony against Dr Dwyer." "That she agreed to commit a murder on his behalf." "Thanks to the er..." "Queens County DA, my client is already half way out the door." " I got it." " What?" "Red tie." " Goodbye." " I have to know." "All that stuff you told your buddy about Dr Dwyer." "You made it up?" "Let's go." "That educated, uptight little scientist?" "Not in a million years would she tell some creep, she's never been intimate with, her nasty little secrets." "I mean, especially a creep like you." "No woman would." "I wouldn't, not even if I was gonna marry the guy." "Well, I guess I just have a way with the ladies." "Maybe with mixed-up college kids." "But not Cathleen Dwyer." "You're not that good." "You expect us to believe that little mouse had the idea, much less the will, to strangle and stab some poor woman without some input from you?" "You have no idea what's inside that head of hers." "I think I have an idea it's not filled with what you'd like it to be." "Dominance, submission, pain." " Now, that's your fantasy, not hers." " No." "No." "She loves that stuff." "She told me once she let a guy twist her up so much he dislocated her shoulder." "Kevin, let's go." "Dislocated shoulder." "You'd go to the emergency room for that, wouldn't you?" "Four years ago Dwyer walked into her neighbourhood hospital complaining of severe shoulder pain." "The bill was paid with a credit card." "One of her maxed-out cards?" "No, this card holder had excellent credit." " Dr Roger Buckman." " They had an affair." "Well, he'd know about Dr Dwyer's kinks." "He could have been the one who told Reddick." "Isn't that dangerous, to tell a serial killer about a colleague?" " Not to mention bad manners." " Unless you're priming the pump." "I wonder if the university knows what goes on in their labs?" "The affair was years ago." "We're a university, not a monastery." "How have things been between them?" "Two months ago Dr Dwyer asked the review board to mediate a dispute with Dr Buckman." "She wanted to stop doing interviews with Reddick." " Why?" " They were making her uncomfortable." "But a few days later, Dr Dwyer withdrew her objections." " Buckman pressured her?" " The pressure's on for results." "Funding was nearly cut last summer." "Buckman turned things around?" "He made a very strong argument that cutting funding would be a disservice to the community." "The decision was validated when he presented Reddick's PET scan." "The lesion was clearly present." "Can we see the PET scan he presented the review board?" "I just got this from the PET-scan lab." "All the scans for the study." "These things aren't cheap." "1,500 bucks a pop." "Even Buckman got a PET scan and Dwyer." "Looks like all the researchers got one." "They're part of a...control group." "OK." "Well, here's the charge for Reddick's first PET scan." "They flubbed it but they still charged for it." "And here's the second, three months later." "Reddick's the only test subject they did twice." "I need to see a doctor." "Movin' out?" "Soon enough." "Dr Buckman, this is Ron Carver from the district attorney's office." "Yes, what's this about?" "Oh, come on in, Dr Dwyer." "Maybe she can testify too." "There's a hearing tomorrow on a motion to dismiss charges against Kevin Reddick." "I'd like you to testify." "You made a speech?" "It was at the Harvard Medical School." "You said, "The Motel Ripper homicides fit the profile of rage killings." ""When the perpetrator is identified, I have no doubt" ""that he will have a lesion in the limbic system of his brain" ""which triggers chaotic and violent behaviour." You said that." " Right." " At Harvard." "Kevin Reddick had the lesion, just like you predicted." "That's what we need you to say on the stand." "The study isn't done yet." "I'm not sure that a court is the best forum." "What?" "You already said on record that the Motel Ripper will have the lesion." "Now, I have another quote from you." "Oh!" "Oh, jeez!" "I'm sorry." "We didn't mean to embarrass you, Dr Dwyer." "Why would I be embarrassed?" "You had these hidden in your apartment." "You know, Reddick told us you were interested in this stuff to cast aspersions on your character." "R-R-R-Reddick doesn't know." "You didn't tell him?" "Then it must have been Dr Buckman." "That's why Reddick knew about the dislocated shoulder." "Cathleen, I swear..." "You were establishing a rapport with him." "Telling stories about a woman." " That is false!" " You would know if it's true." "Reddick...seemed to have this uncanny ability to read your mind." "And your desires." "No wonder he had an...unfair advantage." "Don't listen to this nonsense!" "You felt he understood you, you felt attracted to him." "That's why you tried to back out." "But Buckman...pressured you, forced you into Reddick's presence." "Why?" "You must have known what he'd do with her." "With her need to submit." "I don't know what you're talking about." "I wasn't sure, either, until I found a paper you wrote ten years ago about the Hillside Strangler in California." "He convinced his girlfriend to commit a copycat murder to exculpate him." "That's what he had planned for you." "To help exonerate Reddick, not because he isn't the Motel Ripper, but because... he doesn't have...the lesion, doesn't have limbic-trigger syndrome." "Ridiculous!" "He has..." "You knew, the minute you saw his first PET scan, the theory you staked your whole career on was er...crap." "And sooner or later, someone was gonna find out that Reddick did not have the lesion." "So you buried that PET scan and you gave the review board another one from some other subject." "To buy time to figure out a graceful way to knock Reddick out of your study?" "And you did that by...giving him someone he could dominate and manipulate..." "And who had the mental equipment and predisposition to kill?" "Dr Dwyer, the PET scan... showing the lesion on what Dr Buckman claims to be Reddick's brain." "What are those faint shadows there?" "They're difficult to see." "Those are the cervical vertebrae." "What's that right there?" "An injury to the disc." " Between C2 and C3?" " Yeah." "That's the injury you got when you were roller-skating as a child." "This is your PET scan." "And the lesion?" "It's in your brain." "You knew that, didn't you, Doctor?" " You knew that...and you used her." " No, no." " Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God!" " Don't listen to that!" "You son of a bitch!" "Keep that crazy woman away from me!" "You son of a bitch!" "How could you?" "How could you do this to me?" " You're under arrest for murder." " It's him!" "You bastard!" "I hate you, you prick!" "So she had a lesion and she committed murder." "Doesn't that prove Dr Buckman's theory?" "She wasn't driven to kill out of rage." "She chose to kill out of love." " Love?" " It's a many splendoured thing."