"Chief, I didn't mean you'd to come down, I was just calling to let you know" "Drug related?" "We don't know yet, it's only an hour old" "You I.D'd her?" "Not yet, no purse or anything." "Chief look." "You show up on a call like this the guys are going to think you dont trust them" "Yeah, I wouldn't want them to think that" "Officer" "Did you get a picture of this?" " What?" " Boot print" "Osborn!" "Get over here" "Get a photo of that boot print" "Yes Sir." "Sir the M.E. just arrived" "Woa, wait a minute The medical examiner is just getting here" "Yes Sir." "Chief" "So tell me, she was found with that blanket already on her?" "no sir. she was just lying there, out in the open" "You've contaminated the scene officer." "It's procedure 101" "I'm sorry sir" "Just go get the M.E." "He's not homicide, he's the officer on parole." "Luck of the draw" "He's a cop isn't he?" "he passed the exam" "I get your point and I'm gonna take care of it" "Just to reiterate, you showing up on the scene on a routine investigation..." "Lt. Daghilan, when these investigations become routine I wont have to show up any more" "Joan!" "Joan!" "Joan!" "I don't want to be late for work!" "why have my kids stopped listening to me?" "why have my kids stopped listening to me?" "Thank You!" "Mystery solved" "Morning" "Everything ok?" "Aw, there was supposed to be a perk to this position, like not having to go out in the middle of thenight" "Oh, you thought that was police business?" "Cute!" "Joan!" "I mean it!" "Kevin!" "Let him sleep" "Why?" "Mom, you know all that stuff in my room" "You know, the candles and the crystals and stuff?" "Yeah, don't-don't touch that." "I'm doing this experiment with light." "I want him to go job hunting today Will" "Really important experiment" "He doesn't know anybody." "Give him time to adjust" "Life altering stuff" "I'm not listening to you Luke" "Good to know" "We've been here 4 months." "Joan's adjusted, Luke's adjusted" "Also good to know" "World wont end if he sleeps another half hour, Helen" "Doctor was very specific about this" "No preferential treatment." "We all agreed" "If we treat him special, hell expect the world to do that" "I've heard all the same lectures as you" "Ever had a strange feeling that you are being discussed?" "I never get that" "Because you're too boring" "Yeah-yeah, that's what I'm thinking" "I, I put the classifieds there, and I circled some things" "What, No C.E.O positions available?" "Just as well" "I'd be the only one whose mother has to drive him to work" "You are gonna learn how to drive" "UH." "I already know how to drive." "That's how this all started you know what I mean." "You ..." "never mind" "Apparently, you don't have to do anything" "So, what you do, is that, you shoot these photon with a of paper" "There's A Pervert In The Yard!" " and a pervert appears in the yard" " What ?" "I'm telling you!" "Uh, um, if you need any muscle, just yell" "He was standing right here Looking up at my window." "He was here" "What did he look like?" "I don't know." "I couldn't see his face." "He h-He had a dark coat on" "Pervert coat?" "He was here" "Did you notice anything else?" "Did you happen to see his shoes?" "Oh yeah, I think they were Gucci" "It was probably Mr. Sellers." "He's always out early" "He's overly involved with his gutters" "It wasn't Mr. Sellers, and last night I heard someone calling me" "In this weird voice, in my room" "Joan, there definitely wasn't anyone in your room last night" "I'm not crazy!" "Come eat your breakfast." "You're going to be late for school" "Please, excuse Joan from first period." "She was hallucinating" "Oh, Shut Up weirdo" "Oh, I'm the weirdo?" "yeah!" "You are" "Eh, Eh Enough!" "Lets go eat a civilized family breakfast" "Always good to try something new" "I saw him daddy" "Come here" "Abigail Dorset is the victims name. 18 years old, a run away." "She spent the last couple of nights at a teen shelter" "Were still looking for the next of kin" "The Victim was sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled." "Forensics has determined that she did not die in the location she was found" "Got forensics on the boot print?" "Government issue." "Probably Army boot" "Someone with a military history?" "It's possible." "Alright, I need you guys to hit all the teen shelters, find out if there are any missing girls" "Hey, How's it going?" "That depends, are you following me?" "Me, no." "Just going to school" "You go to my school?" "I've never seen you before" "Well, you know." "I keep a low profile" "I'm Joan" "It's nice to meet you" " Here's the part were you say- your name" " Let's walk this way" "In the opposite direction of school." "I don't think so" "Joan, I wanna talk to you" "Unless I'm missing something, we are talking" "I mean, I wanna be honest" "Who are you?" "I saw you today" "Saw me where?" "Outside of your house." "Look, I didn't mean to scare you" "Wa-wait that was YOU?" "That guy was an old guy" "Ok, this is the difficult part" "I don't always look the same" "W-What are you talking about?" "What do you want with me?" "Cause I gotta warn you, my Dad's a cop" "He's not just any cop, he is The Cop" "I know who your father is, Joan" "He is Will Girardi." "Born September 4th 1955, Chicago" "His father was Gerald Girardi, his mother was Alma Monroe" "He had an uneventful childhood" "Attended Mother Caprini High School and Morten Junior Collage" "After that he joined the police force in 1980" "Then he met your mother, one Helen Brodie She was an art school drop out" "You're the middle child of three" "About a year and a half ago your older brother," "Kevin, was in a car accident" "Fractured his back." "Left him a paraplegic" "You have one other brother." "Luke, who's 15" "Your favorite color is green" "You love salt on Cantaloupe" "Jim Das broke your heart in 8th grade" "And, you're afraid of clowns" "Who are you?" "I've known you since before you were born, Joan" "I'm going to ask you one more time" "I am God" "You're What?" "God" "Don't EVER Talk To Me Again" "What?" "You've attracted the attention of the future Unabomber" "What am I supposed to do?" "You're on your own" "This is the last thing I need" "Joan!" "Joan?" " Pouvez-vous lire le paragraphe suivant s'il vous plait ?" "Can you read the next paragraph please?" " I don't think so" " Non?" "Pourquois Pas?" "Pourquois I - don't speak French" "Marlene?" "Did you see this excuse slip for Marty Wilkens?" "Maybe" "Don't you think his mother, who's a lawyer, would know how to spell either sore or throat." "She'd get one of them right" "I'll call him in after lunch." "Oh, look who's here" "Joan ?" "Mom." "Apparently I'm getting some kind of award" "Oh really?" "Most likely to end up in Big Rig School?" "A lot of people would consider you working here a conflict of interest" "That's fascinating" "Ah Miss Girardi." "Let's have a chat" "This was really just a misunderstanding" "Well I look forward to being enlightened" "Fifth time this month" "Fourth!" "Hey God!" "Get lost, I mean it" "I know you think you mean it" "You know, I'm going to give my father a full description and a composite drawing of you, both before dark" "Maybe, he'll be too busy looking for creative ways to ground you for mouthing off in French class" "Are you spying on me?" "I'm omniscient Joan, comes with the Job" "Ok." "So, you're God" "Yes" "As in" " God" "Right" "Old Testament, Tower of Babel, Burning bush, Ten Commandments" " God" "I come off a little friendlier in the new testament and the Koran but uh, Yeah, same God.." "And, I'm supposed to believe you - because?" "Because you have a feeling" "No, I don't" "How about you believe me if I agree to overlook that promise you didn't keep" "What promise?" "Let's see." "That you would study hard, stop talking back clean your room, and even go to church, if I recall," "If I let your brother live" "How did you know about that?" "Omniscient!" "Look it up" "So - you let my brother live, and now you're here to collect?" "No." "I don't bargain." "That would be cruel" "Ok." "So, Lets say you're God" "Thank you" "I want to ask you some questions" "No" "No." "As a general rule, I ask the questions" "Are you, Are you being snippy with me?" "God is snippy" "Let me explain something to you Joan" "It goes like this:" "I don't look like this" "I don't look like anything you'd recognize" "You cant see me." "I don't sound like this." "I don't sound like anything you'd recognize" "You see I'm beyond your experience" "I take this form because you're comfortable with it" "It makes sense to you" "If I'm snippy with you its because you understand snippy" "Do ya get it?" "Sort of" "Good, cause I'm really not snippy" "I've got a great personality You'd like me" "Uh, I'm not religious you know" "It's not about religion Joan." "It's about fulfilling your nature" "Oh, Uh, I definitely haven't done that" "Exactly" "Uh, um well, lets say you're God" "Joan, I am God!" "Ok, well lets see a miracle" "Ok, How bout that?" "That's a tree" "Lets see you make one" "So, do you just go around, appearing to people?" "Um, a minor correction" "I'm not appearing to you." "You are seeing me" "Ok fine!" "Is it kinda weird that I have a crush on you?" "I'm not gonna look like this the next time" "The next time?" "I'm gonna be dropping in on you Joan" "Now and then" "Why?" "Lets just say I need you to do some favors" "Why?" "Do you notice how I'm not answering any of the whys?" "I want you to get a job, at the Skylight bookstore" "Its about 3 bus stops from here" "Managers name is Sammy." "Now, He's snippy" "Its important you do this pretty soon" "Don't ask why" "And if I say no?" "Am I gonna burst into flames?" "Where do you people get this stuff?" "Have I ever made any body burst into flames?" "Do as I ask." "I'll see you around" "Wait one more thing" "Soon!" "Joan" "You in?" "Oh no" "The Florida Keys" "We've always wanted to go there" "You always wanted to go there" "I hate sand, water and bugs" "And I really hate it when they all get together" "Ok." "How about Canada?" "We could do that Rail Thing" "Helen, Canada is where people go when they cant really afford to go on a vacation" "Ok, you win." "Well go visit my parents" "Oh!" "I don't think I can get away" "Really." "The job is too new" "I'm still on probation as far as this city concerned" "We used to always go somewhere for Christmas" "Well, thing how it would be for Kevin" "Putting him in that same old situation where he has to look at the difference" "He needs to start looking at something, besides MTV" "There's no rule that says he has to bounce back right away?" "It's been a year and a half since the accident" "If he did something" "If he got a job, I think he'd feel better" "He would?" "Or you would?" "Hey!" "We're doing ok" "We are?" "Your daughter is hallucinating men in the backyard" "Couldn't we talk about this some other time?" "Yeah Yeah!" "The thing about going away for Christmas Will, is that it would be a start" "And we could get up there, and we could see what the world looks like to us now" "I cant think more then a day ahead" "because I cant imagine my life, of my sons life, being the way it is forever" "Cant you just be happy he lived?" "Of course I can" "I'm grateful for that every day" "Enter" "Hey, What'ya doing?" "Rehearsing for my part in a big musical" "I'm studying, what else do I do?" "No, I won't do your math" "No, no, no I don't want you to do my math" "I just wanted to, you know, talk" "Right" "So, you're a science geek right?" "I prefer man of science but.." "Do you believe in God?" "Sure!" "It's Logical" "It is?" "If you accept the special theory of relativity which I do and the laws of thermo dynamics which I do and then you throw in the fact that life is conscious which it appears to be, you know, how can you argue?" "Do you think it could be, you know, just walking around in the world?" "Like a person?" "Um." "Er." "You know, it's not empirically inconsistent" "You know because everything is energy and energy can manifest itself into any form depending on its rate of vibration" "So, God could like vibrate himself into the form of a really cute guy around my age?" "See." "I knew there was a guy in this" "Yes, or No." "Could it happen?" "As the great physics Pharaday once said." "Nothing is too wonderful to be true" "Hey Girl, ok, so who's the guy?" "What guy?" "I saw you talking to him after school" "Is he from where you used to live?" "Cause he is definitely not from around here" "Wait you saw him?" "Well, you were just standing out there" "What did he look like?" "Take it easy" "You want to know what your own boyfriend looks like?" "He's cute." "You hurt my arm" "Describe him" "Brown hair" "Corduroy Jacket" "Orlando Bloom-ish" "And it looked like you too were having a fight" "OH my god." "I knew it, you saw him, he is just a guy" "Are you ok?" "Yeah, I'm fine" "He's not my boyfriend" "He's some weirdo who started talking to me on the bus" "So, are you going to go out with him?" "No." "I'm telling you, he's crazy." "Thinks he's god" "What else is new?" "You fix this" "You do something about it right now" "It's a lie!" "They can't just print this lie" "It has nothing to do with us Mrs. Dorsett" "We released a general statement" "Who released it?" "You?" "This is my baby girl" "Do you realize that?" " Yes, I do" " What's the problem" "This is Mrs. Dorsett." "Abigail's mother" "On T.V. they called her a prostitute" "I got this off the Internet where everyone can see it" "This is chief Girardi" "Did you do this?" "I'm very sorry for your loss" "Doesn't it occur to you people that she was someone's daughter?" "Of course it does." "We release a general statement the press often provides the details" "Mrs. Dorsett, and for that I am truly sorry" "I know what this means, Mr. Girardi" "Call her a Hooker, nobody has to panic." "Nobody has to find who killed her" "This was my baby!" "You find him!" "Help for the homeless?" "Anything you can give" "God bless you" "Let me ask you something" "What is God thinking?" "Excuse me?" "What's he thinking?" "Um" "What's he up too?" "You know, the parking lot version" "Well, it's not really something I'm prepared to answer" "Why not, you got the collar on" "Says to the world you got some sorta handle on it" "What you're asking is complicated" "Well, give it a shot" "Starting with why he lets people suffer?" "I'm putting you on the spot" "Um, I'm sorry." "I'll just be going" "He's a father right, he's supposed to be a father" "What father wouldn't fix his kids problems if he possible could?" "And he's master of the universe, so he's pretty capable" "Is he out of ideas?" "Is he bored?" "What?" "Ma'am, I can see you're in a spiritual crisis and if you would like to make an appointment you could come down to my parish" "I would be more then happy to" "No, no." "I'm sorry" "I'm pretty emotional right now" "Good luck with the homeless" "No, wait." "Look, I'll pray for you" "Really!" "What will you say?" "Help that emotional woman from the parking lot" "Ok." "Sure" "What part of the fish is this anyway?" "I don't want to go there" "I'm on a diet" "I'm just having cake" "Do you want to come sit with us?" "Yeah, sure" "Well be over there" "Hi." "Can I get some extra tartar sauce?" "Sure you can baby" "This is a five star restaurant" "How come you didn't get the job?" "Excuse me?" "I think I made myself clear" "I told you that crush thing wouldn't be a problem" "Could we possibly talk about this somewhere else?" "Well just do what I tell you and we wont have to discuss it" "Couldn't be easier" "Move along now, your holding up the line" "What you need children?" " Hey" " Hey, what's going on?" "Why are you home?" "I took the day off work" "What for?" "Wow, see how happy they look" "Will my teeth be that straight too?" "No need to thank me" "Thing is, I'm afraid its going to make me too popular" "You could reconsider collage" "No." "The only reason I was going to collage was to play baseball" "I'm not the brains of the family" "Yeah, well there's still so much you could do" "Mom!" "Don't you think I wish I was one of those people who gets all jazzed about the wheelchair Olympics?" "I'm doing ok, considering" "Stop trying to make me the worlds best invalid" "When you were little, and I would take you to the park or a store" "People would stop you and tell you how beautiful I was" "How special you are" "You have this quality, everyone senses it, and ..." "I can't believe your purpose in life is over just because you lost the ability to walk" "Mom" "Walking is over rated anyways" "Most people try to avoid it" "That's why we have so much traffic and skateboards, scooters and golf carts and road rage" "Because of how much everyone hates walking" "When your sister gets home I want you to talk to her" "About what?" "She's going through something" "Do you think she's cracking up?" "No!" "I think she's going through something" "She needs a big brother" "That hasn't changed" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Mom wants me to talk to you" "To make sure I'm not crazy?" "Yep, so, are you crazy" "No" "Ok, I'm glad we had this talk" "Maybe." "I don't know" "How are you supposed to know?" "Is there a sign or a checklist or website?" "I guess it's just the usual stuff" "Do you believe in U.F.O's?" "Do you hear voices?" "Are you Michael Jackson?" "If voices have people attached are they still considered voices?" "Joan, here's the thing" "Mom likes normal" "Dad really likes normal" "Before my accident" "Luke was all they could handle in the freak for a kid department" "Now they've got me" "You're their only hope for normal" "That's just wrong" "But it sounded good though didn't it" "I'm sorry." "What did I do?" "Did you feel that?" "Yeah No" " No I can't feel it." "No way" "You jerk!" "I felt that!" "Calm down." "You're wheezing" "Yes you are" "Just start over" "Is it moving?" "Is it breathing?" "If its moving and breathing its not dead" "Damn it Heidi, if it's hopping it's really not dead" "It's cheerful" "I told you we should get a rabbit for a pet" "It's not a pet it's food" "Heidi, Heidi, don't" "Hi, Joan Girardi" "I don't sell Harry Potter anything" "No, I'm here about the Job" "Yeah, the one that you were advertising" "Oh sorry, that's for someone who can see over the counter" "Well, I'm 16." "I've had lots of jobs" "Really?" "Name all 4 books in the Alexandria quartet" "See, now somebody might ask you questions like that" "And then I'd say I'll look it up in the computer" "I'm good with computers" "Yeah, everyone's good with computers," "Digital cameras, cell phones, and TiVo" "But no one can form an objective thought to save their lives" "Go home, Please" "Hiring you would only complicate my life because I would have to rant and rave about your shabby education and I have enough to rant and rave about" "Was that your daughter on the phone?" "My wife" "A grown woman who is hysterical over a sick rabbit" "I don't need any more adolescents in my life" "Well, if you hire me, then you can go take care of it" "I know how to run a cash register and I know how to answer the phone" "And I can count way past ten" "So if you just run along and take your wife's rabbit to the vet" "And when you come back if I haven't burnt down the store or something you could hire me" "You don't happen to have any references on you?" "No, but I was sent by God" "She said, revealing her acerbic wit." "My dad's Will Girardi, he's the chief of police." "Really" "Don't steal anything" "Don't take any checks don't give any refunds" "I will be back at 6" "Her name is Lindsay Mitchell" "Junior at AHS" "Her mother reported her missing yesterday afternoon" "She's been dead about 24 hours" "Its the same guy" "Same M.O. Foot prints a match" "Well, How do you want to handle this?" "It's your call" "What would you do?" "I'd go to medical school like my mother wanted" "Yeah, no kidding" "Baptism by napalm" "You wanna share this?" "Is that you?" "Come on, your getting wet You'll catch cold" "Look, can we think of some way to do this" "You know, like some kind of code word because that stunt in the cafeteria was tres un-amusing" "I'll give you a ride, my cars right here" "Wow, God has a car" "Yeah" "God has a bad car" "God has The Club" "You know, I think I'm going to walk" "Na, come on" "You don't want to do that" " it's cold." "It's going to be fine" " No" "What the hell are you doing?" "Why are you leaving?" "There was a man" "What, what man?" "A man tried to get me in his car" "What?" "What man?" "I thought I was going to be home by six but then the owner was late getting back" "I'm sorry I scared you" "You go and get a job" "Just like that" "Without telling any body" "You're always bugging Kevin to get one" "That's Kevin." "You're in school" "Some parents would say I was industrious" "Some parents haven't seen your report card" "And then there was this man, was kind of following me" "What?" "!" "You were saving that for later?" "I didn't want to upset you" "Too late!" "Why don't you let me handle this?" "Ok, fine." "I kinda miss the 50s" "I swear there was a man daddy" "The same man?" "No, a different one" "Why are you doing this." "Is this some kind of prank?" "For attention" "Because there is really is someone out there Joan And if there's a man following you, I need to know" "There is." "I mean, I think there is" "The one earlier, he turned out to be someone else" "But the one tonight, he seemed real" "I don't want this to be happening to me dad" "What is happening?" "You can tell me" "What ever it is, we'll deal with it" "Joan, I'll get you a doctor, a counselor, a priest" "We'll make it ok That's my job" "Look at me" "I'm not going to loose you, for any reason" "Do you understand?" " Night Lieutenant." " Good night" "Chief keeping bankers hours tonight?" "He had some family business" "He's a funny one isn't he" "He's the boss sergeant" "G'd night, sir" "Osborne, Give me a minute." "What's this?" "Guy was doing 60 down Grand View ran a red light, mouthed off a bit" "Decided I'd drag it out, not let him go" "You run the check on him?" "He's got nothing, not even a speeding ticket" "You let him kick him?" "I just thought, he mouthed off, I teach him a lesson" "Let's put him up over night" "Sir, for what?" "Call it resisting arrest" "I want to talk to him in the morning" "Ok." "You want to talk to the guy for running a red light?" "Uh, yeah." "And I want the chief to be there too" "Joan." "Joan !" "Joan." "Hi." "I appreciate what you did" "I mean, it was kinda stupid and you got in trouble but it was brave and I get your point" "I have a point?" "My little sister can get a job" "I've got no excuse" "So, you're shaming me back into the world" "But you're right" "It's time." "Ah, go back to sleep"