♪ ♪
(footsteps crunching in snow)
(camera shutter clicking)
(twig snaps)
(wind whistling)
(crow cawing)
(shrieks)
(cawing)
(sighs)
(woman screaming, camera shutter clicking rapidly)
(camera whirs, shutter clicks)
♪ ♪
(wind whistling)
(crow cawing)
♪ ♪
(crow cawing)
Holy...
(siren wailing)
(indistinct radio chatter)
I used to look forward to a new snowfall.
Not today.
Yeah, it covered any tracks our killer may have left.
We have an I.D.?
No.
She appears to be in her early 20s.
Parks and Recs called it in about a half an hour ago.
The first on scene told me that she has cash in her pocket
and a watch on her wrist.
We're not looking for a thief.
Not seeing much lividity here.
Skin is pale.
She lost a lot of blood.
But no blood pool?
Tracks weren't the only thing snowfall covered.
Looks like the bottom of her earlobe's been bitten off.
HAWKES: Puncture wound.
Think I may have just found our C.O.D.
Say "cheese."
Someone was taking pictures.
Looks like we just found our only witness.
(camera shutter clicking rapidly)
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♪ Out here in the fields ♪
♪ I fight for my meals ♪
♪ I get my back into my living ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. ♪
♪ ♪
SID: This is an overlay
of a patterned injury I found adjacent
to the vic's puncture wound.
TAYLOR: It's more than likely a detail from our murder weapon.
(implement slicing)
And whatever that implement is, it punctured the carotid artery,
leading to exsanguination,
your official C.O.D.
We get a name?
Ran her prints,
she's not in the system.
You're looking at Jane Doe for now.
Also found a curious scar
on her left wrist.
Appears to be recent.
What about this injury to her ear?
We found her in the park.
Tell me it's from animal activity.
Unfortunately, I can't do that.
And any foreign DNA on the ear was more than likely
washed away with the blood flow.
I did recover this fleck of blood
at the puncture site on the vic's neck.
Unlike the blood from the wound,
this particle was deposited when it was already dry.
It could be from our killer.
Or we're looking for a murder weapon
that's seen more than one victim.
♪ ♪
(knocking)
One sec.
Come on in.
How's it going?
Feeling old.
I'd say it was the cold weather,
but you're too young for aches and pains like that.
Well, Mac asked Adam to develop our vic's roll of film.
Kid had no idea what he was talking about.
Digital generation.
I hope you hit him.
Oh, I did.
Found these at the end of the roll.
Imagine recording the last moments of your life on film.
Talk about a self-portrait.
BONASERA: Boyfriend?
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Those were
the first two pictures on the roll.
She looks happy.
Yeah, 34 pictures later, not so much, huh?
The lighting on these two shots indicate morning.
Our vic was killed much later than that.
They must have been taken earlier,
or maybe even on another day.
I'm thinking
that we can use the rest of the photos to retrace
our Jane Doe's steps, figure out where she came from.
And who she is.
(indistinct background chatter)
(distant car horns honking)
Here's where our Jane Doe took this photo.
Then maybe this belonged to her.
Dry lip balm.
Watch your step here.
This pattern, it indicates
that there were foot impressions here before the snowfall.
And they're in close enough proximity to our scene.
It's kind of a long shot,
but maybe this fell out of our killer's pocket.
Looks like she snapped her next picture over there.
Here we go.
This is where she took the photo.
Check out those buildings in the background.
Maybe someone over there saw it.
Let's go knock on some doors.
MAN: Yeah, I know her. That's Estelle.
Estelle Christensen.
How did this happen?
Murdered in the park last night, right across the street.
Oh, jeez. You know, I was wondering
why she didn't come home.
I figured she just stayed at the boyfriend's.
This him by any chance?
Yeah, yeah, that's Keith.
Uh, Borgese, I think.
Italian name, I know that.
When was the last time you saw Ms. Christensen?
Yesterday, just before sunset.
She takes pictures in the park every day around that time.
Keith is usually with her.
Usually?
He wasn't with her yesterday?
No.
I don't believe so, no.
What a shame.
That girl was beautiful, smart...
Hey, how you doing?
Hey.
Thanks, Jimmy.
And funny.
You know, that English sense of humor.
She was British?
Oh, yeah, right down to
the afternoon tea.
Any other visitors?
the afternoon tea.
Any other visitors?
Nah, just the boyfriend... pretty much.
What do you mean, "pretty much?"
Pretty much, pretty much.
All right.
There was this older guy. I don't remember his name.
But he'd come by once in a while,
late night.
You want to be more specific, guy?
Getting cold out here.
Like I said, Estelle had a boyfriend,
but I don't know, maybe she was
seeing this older guy on the side.
But I swear, I don't know his name.
That's all I got.
All right, thanks.
We'll be in touch.
Yeah.
Where did you and Estelle first meet, Keith?
Central Park.
She took a picture of me.
When was this taken?
Few days ago.
And this?
(sighs softly)
That was the day before yesterday.
That was the last time I saw Estelle.
I understand you two walked in the park
every day at sunset.
Yeah.
Why was last night different?
We had an argument a few days ago.
Was the argument about another man?
No.
Why would you say that?
A witness described
an older gentleman Estelle may have had a relationship with.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
My girlfriend just died, and you ask me that?
Well, help me out here, Keith.
You two go to the park every day.
On the day she's murdered, you're not there.
How do you explain that?
I-I told you. We had an argument.
About what?
I don't know.
Nothing. Just...
She was just acting weird lately, you know?
An-And something was different, and I wanted to know why.
Did she tell you?
Did she tell you why, Keith?
(quietly): I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm... (sniffles)
I should've been with her last night.
This is my fault. I could have protected her.
I ju... I...
I should've been with her. I should've been with her.
(sighs, sniffles)
Results from the dried blood fleck
Sid collected from the vic's neck
came back to multiple donors, male and female.
Could've transferred from the murder weapon.
Were any of those donors the boyfriend?
Don't know that yet, but the dry lip balm did come back to him.
Doctor.
Well, that's not surprising.
They could've shared it.
Okay.
I got a CODIS hit from one of the donors on the fleck.
Say hello to Billy James.
One prior for assault and battery.
And now possibly murder.
(tattoo drill whirring)
♪ ♪
Billy James?
I take it you guys don't want "NYPD"
tattooed on your forearms?
Let's take a break.
Must be a special guy-- Jackson.
You a friend of Estelle Christensen's?
I know her. Why?
She was murdered
a couple of nights ago, and we found your DNA on her body.
Estelle's dead?
You serious?
Yeah, we're serious. What do you think we're doing here?
You serious?
Yeah, we're serious. What do you think we're doing here?
How'd you get that scar on your wrist?
I got lazy holding a gun a few months ago.
I put it into my wrist.
FLACK: Where were you the night before last, Mr. James?
Right here.
Till what time?
Late. I don't know.
Hey, my man,
you're gonna have to do better than that.
What, you think I killed Estelle?
We're gonna have to confiscate all your guns, Mr. James.
No, wait, hey, you can't do that, man.
These guns are my income.
I can't work without them!
A woman's dead.
Let's see how this works for you.
♪ Do anything for you... ♪
She was quiet...
and... polite.
Kept to herself.
She would never harm anyone.
I'm sorry, Mrs. Christensen.
Yes.
TAYLOR: How long has she lived here?
Not even a year.
Yeah.
(Mrs. Christensen crying quietly)
Oh...
(sniffles)
TAYLOR: When was the last time
you spoke to your daughter?
Um...
Two days ago.
She was telling me
how much she loved living here in the city.
(sniffles) Her photography was going really well.
We brought Estelle here for the first time
when she was...
Uh, she was five.
My mother actually lived in the city.
(sighs): Oh.
You okay, sir?
No, I'm sorry, I'm not.
(sniffles)
I didn't think anything could be worse than losing my mother,
but here I am again back in New York this way.
She loved it here, didn't she?
Yeah, ever since our first trip, she used to say
that, um, this was the place with the tall buildings,
and that she was gonna live here someday.
It really doesn't make any sense.
Who would want to hurt her?
That's what we're trying to figure out, ma'am.
You find the person who did this.
We will.
♪ ♪
(blipping)
♪ ♪
That pig giving you a hard time?
Yeah. He's not being cooperative.
So far, none of Billy James's tattoo guns
match the puncture wound on Estelle Christensen.
No matter what I try,
nothing penetrates deep enough to sever the carotid artery.
Not to mention,
I just got off the phone with Flack.
And Billy James' alibi checks out.
That young girl bled out through a single puncture wound.
How can something so small
be so fatal?
Sid.
You found something?
After you left it occurred to me,
that scar on Estelle's wrist,
it was vaguely reminiscent
of a zig-zag pattern I had seen before.
So I did a little digging through my files and-and...
conferred with some other MEs,
and I'm afraid my hunch was correct.
This particular scar
is the result
of a cutting ceremony shared by...
a certain cult.
Cult?
Look, I'll just say it straight.
I think our vic may have been killed by a vampire.
(siren wailing in distance)
SID: I believe they're called
sanguine vampires, or, simply,
real vampires, as opposed to lifestyle vampires,
which are more about the gothic style and so on.
But real or sanguine vampires
can get very philosophical
and see it basically as their religion.
And one way they discover that higher place
is through blood exchange.
Which, apparently, is a consensual act.
All right. And, uh... you know this how?
(laughs): Oh, don't give me that look.
I mean,
you know, my eccentricities only go so far.
I promise you,
I'm no vampire.
It's all there
on the World Wide Web.
Our vic's scar
can very well be the result
of a blood exchange that happens
in the world of vampirism.
One of our earlier suspects,
Billy James...
and the vic's father...
both have the same scar.
Well, they could all be involved
with this, you know, way of life.
You said the father was from Europe?
England.
Perhaps the family has
Romanian roots.
Maybe they're descendants of Vlad the Impaler.
(chuckles) Well, these could be upstanding citizens
walking among us; it's just fascinating to me,
from a purely scientific perspective, of course.
With everything that's out there
right now, the idea of ingesting
another person's unscreened blood is...
you know, quite frightening.
Well, this whole theory, Sid, is a bit frightening.
Yes.
It appears Estelle Christensen had a dark side.
Which I intend to shed some light on.
FLACK: Well, that's a relief.
What?
She's got a bed.
What'd you think? She'd have a coffin?
She had a nice eye.
Obviously put a lot of time
into these photographs.
Oh. She obviously put a lot of time
into some interesting reading habits as well.
The Awakening: Confessions of a Vampire.
Are you serious?
How does one get involved in this?
I mean, when do you have that moment of deciding,
"I want to suck someone else's blood"?
I don't know.
Whatever happened to kids playing stickball or manhunt?
Yeah,
yeah, yeah, suddenly, it's, uh, you know, being pale
and skinny and having sharp teeth and great hair.
That's the way to go.
Ah, this is odd.
More film. She was a photographer.
I get storing unused film in the fridge...
but an exposed roll?
Maybe she made a mistake.
Or maybe she was trying to hide something.
(passing car horns honking)
(blipping)
Is that from the roll you found in the fridge?
Yeah. Looks like some sort of gathering.
Billy James, our tattoo artist, present.
Keith Borgese, the boyfriend, present.
Doesn't look like he belongs.
No.
But this guy does.
Huh. He's a little older than the rest.
Exactly.
And take a look at this.
Same group, different night.
Everyone's there
except for the boyfriend.
Mm. Obviously wasn't his cup of tea.
You know, this could be
the older guy the doorman mentioned.
He's front and center.
Estelle Christensen's close by.
And it does look like some sort of ceremony.
My guess is, he's the puppet master.
Maybe the one leading the sheep to slaughter.
(blipping)
You push in on that table?
(blipping)
Does that look like some sort of blade?
It's hard to tell.
We can use genuine fractals to manipulate the pixels.
May get us a better image.
We may just be looking at our murder weapon.
(tapping keys)
(blipping)
My wife's always misplacing her key.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I've told you everything I know.
Have a seat, Mr. Christensen.
We're going to be here a while.
You may as well get comfortable.
(sighs)
Found a few photographs
that your daughter took of people at a... party.
Take a look.
Anyone ring a bell?
I don't see anyone here I know.
Are you sure about that?
Yes.
Put your left arm on the table.
What?
I want to know what that is.
It's a scar.
Don't waste my time,
Mr. Christensen.
You know what I'm asking you.
I'm trying to solve your daughter's murder.
Does that mean anything to you?
Or is your faith that strong, you're willing
to let her killer go free?
You know nothing about my faith.
Maybe I don't.
But I think you're protecting someone
that has something to do with this murder.
Help me solve your daughter's death, Mr. Christensen.
Tell me what you know.
Joseph Vance.
That's the name of the older gentleman in the photograph.
Tell me about him.
We met in a haven
many years back.
Haven?
It's where we gather.
A safe place.
Is that what I'm looking at in these photographs?
A vampire haven?
Joseph is the master of a haven
here in the city.
I asked him to keep an eye on our daughter.
He's known her since she was a child.
We met actually here in New York
when we brought Estelle.
(sighs)
Truth is...
last time I spoke to Estelle, she did sound a bit different,
like something was bothering her.
What do they use
to make that scar on your wrist?
The coven master usually has the instrument made.
It's a small silver object.
MESSER: It's an ankh,
also known as the crux ansata.
Represents balance,
male and female, more importantly,
life and death.
It's also the Egyptian
hieroglyphic symbol for eternal life.
And Joseph Vance may need just that.
(camera shutter clicks)
(screams)
(grunts)
Test everything.
Believe nothing.
♪ ♪
I am the only god that is.
I am willing.
(sighs)
(loud bang)
FLACK: NYPD!
Don't move!
What the hell is going on?
Hey, drop the knife!
I said put it down right now!
(ankh clinks on floor)
You have no right
to be in here.
Not gonna bite me, are you?
Take a seat, Mr. Vance.
You own a cord blood bank,
and in your spare time, you slit people's wrists.
You a bloodthirsty man?
Despite what you think,
I have never harmed a human being.
Then what do you call that party
my men broke up in your living room?
Such a sad world you live in.
Fear of what you don't know.
I think you instilled fear into an innocent, young girl.
I gave Estelle
nothing but love and support.
I honored that young woman.
♪ ♪
(gasps)
(groaning softly)
(gasps)
(moans)
You wouldn't understand.
I understand that you were in possession of the weapon
that may have been used to kill our victim.
I understand you also made late-night visits to her apartment.
And you don't appear to show any signs of sympathy
for your so-called "friend."
I am deeply disturbed
by Estelle's death.
You are deeply disturbed.
I'll give you that much.
Hey, Stell, Danny found the missing piece of our vic's ear
in Joseph Vance's apartment.
What about the ankh that Vance was holding
when we arrested him?
Heading to the lab to process it now.
See if it matches the wound pattern
on our vic and then run it for DNA.
If we can connect this to our murder,
we might just have enough to put Mr. Vance away.
That wouldn't suck.
No.
♪ ♪
(blipping)
(computer chirping)
(computer trilling)
(computer beeping)
Blood trace on the blade was a match to Estelle Christensen.
So it definitely drew her blood.
As well as the blood of several other donors
I'm running through the system.
Vance said the ankh was used
in several blood ceremonies,
so multiple donors makes sense.
But Estelle's blood looked barely degraded,
meaning it was recently deposited.
And the DNA from the handle
matches Vance's reference sample.
Looks like we got enough to put this guy away.
Hey, I found foreign DNA on the piece
of the vic's ear I recovered from the fridge.
Only thing is, it's not a match to Joseph Vance.
How is that possible?
It's possible.
If he didn't act alone.
(computer beeping)
DANNY: We've got the murder weapon and our vic's ear
in Joseph Vance's apartment.
But we need to find something
that puts him at the scene of her murder.
Yeah, and so far we can't do that for him-- or Billy James--
or Keith Borgese.
Even though DNA results found all their blood on the blade,
doesn't definitively put any of them at the scene.
How about Dracula?
Can we put him on there, too?
Should I add him to the list
of our suspects?
All right, all right.
Look, I won't pretend to understand
what these people believe in,
but from everything we've seen and heard,
this sect, haven, whatever you want to call it, is nonviolent.
Mac's right.
Just because we're not followers of Joseph Vance
doesn't mean the evidence supports him killing our vic.
TAYLOR: And biting an ear
or a neck, for that matter,
isn't a part of their ritual.
He's actually claiming we planted that ear in his freezer.
Threatening to sue.
TAYLOR: Let's forget about what he thinks.
It's our job to focus on the evidence with impartial eyes.
Maybe we should take another look at the DNA.
What are you thinking, boss?
We found Keith Borgese's DNA on that blade, right?
Yeah, he was one of the donors.
Keith didn't have a scar on his wrist.
I should have been with her.
This is my fault.
I could have protected her.
I-I should have been with her.
But he was in the photographs
we developed from Estelle's apartment.
Yes, but he's only in the first,
not the second photo,
which was clearly taken on another day.
DANNY: Maybe he didn't like what he saw.
Not to mention he was on the dry lip balm
Stella found at the crime scene.
Boyfriend and girlfriend.
Or it fell out of his pocket
when he was running out of there.
BONASERA: Yeah, and if he wasn't
involved in the ceremony,
his blood shouldn't have been on that blade.
No.
Which means this kid
could have spilled more blood than anyone else.
What she did made you jealous.
I can understand that.
This isn't about another man.
This is about the haven.
(whispering)
(groans)
(gasps)
(moans)
They took her from me.
What you saw disgusted you, didn't it?
Did you see what they do?
She wasn't mine anymore.
Th-They changed her.
You lost your girlfriend
to something you couldn't comprehend.
And in the heat of the moment,
you took that frustration out on her.
You were with her in the park, but not like before.
This time, she thought she was alone, but you were right behind her.
(screaming)
(grunts)
(screaming)
(grunts)
(gasping groan)
When you realized you were in too deep...
Just stop, please.
there was only one way out.
Set up the person you thought
was taking the girl you loved away from you:
Joseph Vance.
I was trying to save her.
I swear to God I'm not like those other people.
No, you're not.
However disgusted you are with them, they didn't kill anyone.
I just didn't understand it.
There are a lot of things in this world
we don't understand,
but it's never a reason to take a life.
(wind whistling)
Mr. Christensen.
Thank you for coming.
(sighs)
This park used to be a special place for our family.
I know you may not agree
with our beliefs, but it's got us through a lot,
and it will get us through this.
I'm not judging you, Mr. Christensen.
Your daughter's work.
I'm sure she'd want you to have it.
She had a way of...
seeing the beauty in...
everything she came across.
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