I received a memofrom my superior officers
just priorto calling this meeting.
It reads as follows:
"There is no sniper."
Make no mistake about it.
New York City has a sniper.
And he's good.
Our victim was shot and killed yesterday morning.
Ballistics tests have determined
that the shot was fired from approximately 300 yards.
From an elevated, yet undetermined location.
The sniper fired a single shot
from what appears to be a rifle of extremely high power.
The wound characteristics are unique,
unlike anythingI've ever seen.
He's precise...
he's determined,
and he leaves no witnesses.
Our hope is that this wasan isolated incident,
and that the shooterwill be in custody soon.
I know that's what the brass wants the public to believe.
What I don't know--
what we can't know--
is when or where
the killer will strike again.
(grunts)
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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. ♪
(siren blaring)
(various indistinctconversations)
(gunshot, siren blaring)
Sixty-five...
sixty-six...
sixty-seven...
sixty-eight...
There. Ah.
Yeah.
Sixty-nine...
I miss the no-vacancy signout front?
(laughs)
Uh, standing room only.
Three DUI vics in the corner,a robbery gone bad,
and a pair of unrelated suicidesagainst the wall over there.
Perfect timing fora sniper attack.
This victim number one?
Yeah. Elizabeth Grant.
Well, meet victim number two:
Vanessa Walters.
SID: Looks like Mac was rightin his prediction.
Two bodies in two days?
That's aYeah.ly pace.
Oh, the, uh, entry wound
is much smaller than withthe sniper's first victim.
Yeah, greater chance theround is still intact.
We can run it through IBIS,and hopefully, get a lead
on our shooter.
Let's have a look.
(beeping)
(fluoroscope whirring)
Looks like the roundis only slightly deformed.
SID:It's a bit hard to tell
from the scan, but I think we...
(SidSid!nts)
(echoing): Hey, Sid,are you all right?
Sid! Hey, get EMSdown here now.
Sid, can you see?
Sid, look...
Doc, Doc, what happened?
Oh, my God.
Have we checkedhis pupils?
Are they constricted?
Is he responding?
(indistinct radio communication)
You're gonna be okay.
Yup.
His vitals look good.
He's a little dazedand confused,
but I think he'sgonna be okay.
DANVILLE:If it weren't for these,
he would be blind right now.
What the hell happened?
Well, he wasretrieving the slug from
our second sniper vic,
and all of a sudden,her head just... exploded.
ExplYeah.
The entry wound is now a matchto the one in the first victim.
And all our ballisticsevidence is gone now, too.
HAWKES:And I have techs collecting
fragments as we speak,and they've already
screened forexplosive residue.
(beeping)
Nitroglycerin.
(quiet groan)
Not bad enoughthis guy's killing people,
but he's shooting themwith exploding bullets.
Heard about your anticsthis morning.
By antics, you meantelling the truth?
Look, your own peopleis one thing.
I trust you're not goingto be tearing up any directives
from abovein front of the press.
No, no. They weresmart enough
not to send me anythingon paper this time.
All right, wait,wait, listen.
Neither of us is to utterthe word sniper, is that clear?
That's a direct orderfrom Chief Sinclair to me.
Now it is a direct orderfrom me to you.
Is that goingto be a problem?
They havNo. Why? to know.
So they can turn thisinto Son of Sam?
So they can post iton their blogs?
Harry Smith does a segment
on the Early Show aboutthe psychology of a sniper,
and then introduces a new songby Katy Perry?
No, the public has a rightto know what we tell them.
I'm not going to liefor you or anyone else.
Who said anythingabout lying?
Mac, look, I walked the beat
just like you did, all right?
I know where you're coming from,but there is a difference
between lyingand withholding a truth.
I don't thinkthere is.
And I don't need anIBIS hit to tell me
two exploding roundsare a ballistic match.
These cases are related.
The sooner the people know,
the faster they can takesteps to protect themselves.
It's not your call,all right?
And I'm not aboutto create a citywide panic.
Well, I don't thinkwe can control that
in this day and age, and whyeven have me up there at all?
You're the headof the crime lab.
It's gonna look like
I'm withholding somethingif you're conveniently absent.
So just stand there.
It will all be overin a few minutes, all right?
Thank you all for coming.
It is my hope that by answeringsome of your questions,
we may clear up any rumorsand perhaps
get some information to help ussolve these heinous crimes.
Chief Carver,are the two shootings related?
No. At this pointin the investigation,
there is no conclusive evidenceto indicate that.
Is there any evidence toindicate they're not related?
Well, I cannot commenton the evidence but,
yes, that is our beliefat this time.
So they'reisolated incidents?
WOMAN:It appears that way?
Or are they are, in fact,isolated incidents?
At this juncture,with limited information...
WOMAN:Chief Carver,
is there or isn't therea sniper in the city?
Please, let's not jump toconclusions, people, all righ?
We are usingall resources
at our disposalto get to the bottom of this,
but until we havemore information, it will be...
MAN: Detective Taylor,your team
must have ballistic evidencefrom the shootings.
What type offirearm was used?
Was it the same caliberin each murder?
At this time,we don't have specifics
on the type of guns used,
nor can we statewith any accuracy
the caliber of the bullets.
The rounds weretoo badly damaged.
WOMAN:Both victims were shot
through a window,isn't that true?
Yes, it is.
So it's safe to assume thatthe shots came from a rooftop
or from a windowacross the street?
WOMAN 2:Were there any witnesses
to either ofthe shootings?
No, there were no witnesses.
MAN:So what you're saying is
both victims were shotfrom a distance,
through a window,by an unseen gunman
who was possibly perchedon a rooftop?
Sounds like a sniper to me,Detective.
Me, too.
(reporters clamoring)
Thank you.That's all for now.
(clamoring)
What the hell was that?
Look, ask yourselfone question.
If you were a civilian,would you want to know?
You're a piece of work, Taylor,you know that?
What the hell am I supposed
to tell the commissionerand the mayor now?
You tell 'emI never uttered the word sniper.
(grunts)
♪ ♪
DANVILLE:Boot tread impressions.
You find something?
Based on the lengthand diameter,
I'm thinking this is a hairfrom our shooter's forearm.
Okay, so, our snipercould have been standing
right herewhen he fired.
Definitely could have beenhis hide site.
Any DNA?
Doesn't look likethere's a root.
Must have been shed, not pulled.
(phone ringing)
Danville.
Right.
Ah. Okay.
Thanks.
That was Flack.There's still no connection
between Elizabeth Grantand Vanessa Walters.
Right. So this guy's just goingaround shooting anybody?
Starting tolook like it.
So many people.
So many targets.
We walk around downthere every day.
You never think abouthow vulnerable you are.
Vanessa Walters was shotand killed in her office
surrounded by peoplewho cared about her.
It's so scary.
And random.
I didn't know you wereso interested in bugs.
I'm not.
But I am interestedin witnesses.
Insect blood is green, not red.
There's no indication ourshooter was bleeding here.
So whose blood is this?
♪ ♪
Hey. Perfect timing.
So I just filled the tipof a bored-out round
with nitroglycerin...
...and fired it intothe anatomical gel.
And boom! Explosion.
Just like our first victim.
Wound characteristicsappear to be a match.
You know, Ialready checked.
I mean, there hasn't beenanything like this on the market
since Hinckley's assassinationattempt on Reagan n '81.
Means it's homemade.
Our guy's modifying store-boughtrounds to explode.
Damn.
Well, what aboutchemical analysis?
Anything uniqueabout the composition
of the bulletswe can chase?
Nah. Centerfire300 Magnums.
It's the kind of stuff you canfind at any hunting store.
But I'm trying tofind the source
of the nitroglycerin.
Could behomemade, too.
What about the second round?
Any idea why it didn't explodetill it got to Autopsy?
Well, nitroglycerindetonates due to shock.
So I constructeda second round
with half as much explosive.
Okay. Allowingfor some cushion.
Yeah. Take a look.
HAWKES:Round's still intact.
Until it's agitated.
HAWKES:Go ahead.
(ignites)
It's just like whathappened to Sid in Autopsy.
He's lucky he didn't losea finger or two.
I know.How's he doing?
Well, doctor says he's fine.
In fact, I hear he's alreadyback at the office.
They told him to takethe rest of the week off,
Right, right.Sid.
I mean, he's not happy unlesshe's looking at dead things.
♪ I dreamt I was a child ♪
♪ Holding a stringinto the sky ♪
♪ Climbing it till I finallyreached the other side ♪
♪ I get carried away ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Please warm the bloodinside my veins ♪
♪ I get carried away ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Please warm the bloodinside my veins... ♪
We still haven't founda personal connection
between Vanessa Waltersand Elizabeth Grant.
What about the factthey're both women?
Strawberry blonde,both blue-eyed.
Could be a pattern.
Well, Vanessa Walters was killed
in the middle of celebratinga multimillion dollar deal
for her corporate law firm.
So maybe there's a motivein there somewhere.
What about thefirst victim,
Elizabeth Grant?How does that theory
explain the murder, ifthere's no connection?
Maybe Elizabethwas killed
to make Vanessa'smurder look random.
Yeah. Kill several victims,hide your intended target.
Let's run with it.Wouldn't be the first time
we've seen something like that
out of a spree killer.
And, at this point,we're not ruling anything out.
How about Flack's canvass?Come up with anything?
It's ongoing.
As of right now, lots ofpeople heard lots of shots.
Nobody knew where to look.
Lots of shots?
Yeah. Sound waveswere probably bouncing
off the concrete buildings,creating echoes.
That leaves us with the insectyou collected from the rooftop.
The cochineal beetle,
to be exact.It's indigenous
to subtropical Mexico
and South America.It produces carminic acid,
which is a crimson red pigmentthat's used
in everything frombug repellent
to food coloring,clothing dye...
Run a stableisotope analysis.
Let's see if we can find outwhere that beetle came from.
So far, that'sour only lead.
Blood on the beetleand mitochondrial DNA
from the hair both got hitsin CODIS Missing Persons.
To the same person?
A nine-year-old boy whowent missing 15 years ago.
TAYLOR:Michael Reynolds.
You know him?
I spent three yearssearching for him.
(Velcro opening,quiet clicking)
(indistinct conversations)
(muffled screaming)
Let me out!
Let me out! Let me out!
(wood cracking)
(panting)
REPORTER:Michael!
(reporters clamoring)
(applause)
Michael had beenmissing for 72 hours
when this case filecame across my desk.
He was on his way home fromschool when he was abducted.
Did you catch the guy?
Took three years.
Arthur Francis.
Twice convicted sex offender.
Whole time hewas missing,
we didn't knowwhether he was alive or dead.
It was the first case
I ever questioned whichof those two options
might be worse.
I'm sure his own parents
asked themselvesthe same thing.
At age 12, he finallymanaged to escape.
Clawed his way through thefloorboards to a crawl space.
I can't imagine that momentfor a 12-year-old kid.
It's heartbreaking.
I went to see him a few timesafter he returned home.
Made surehe was doing all right.
He always wantedto wear my badge.
He asked me
if it was pure goldthe first time he put it on.
His brother Tom, too.
I thought for sure one ofthose boys would become a cop.
I tried to stay intouch with the family,
but then anothercase came along,
then another case,and I lost touch.
Now he's the primary suspectin a murder investigation.
Mac...
there's only so muchthis job allows us to do.
Hey. I just got offthe phone with Flack.
There are no bank accounts underthe name Michael Reynolds.
No credit cards, either.
In a lot of caseslike Michael's,
victims just want to fall offthe face of the Earth;
disappear; hide somewhereno one can find them.
Consistentwith the method of killing.
What about a home address?
Nothing, Mac.
Well, then we'll start
with the lastaddress on record.
The place he grew up.
I'm thinking "guilty."
Wow. I'll go chatwith the landlord,
and see if he knowswhat happened to the parents.
♪ ♪
(grunts)
There's no one there, you know.
No one's beenthere for a while.
What's "a while"?
The boys moved out whenthey were teenagers.
Parents have beengoing to Florida
every winter sincethe father retired.
Been gone about a month.
How long haveyou lived here?
Long time.
Are you a cop?
I'm with the crime lab.
So, then, you know whathappened to Michael?
I was one of the detectivesworking the case-- Mac Taylor.
Hayley. Hayley--
Montgomery.
Yeah.
I interviewed you, sittingright there in that window.
You were probably about...
Nine. Just like Michael.
I'll never forget when myMom told me what happened.
What happened to him couldhave happened to any of us.
When he came back,
he had nightmares.
I remember that the most.
God, those screams.
I could hear 'em all the wayover here through the glass.
(yells, pants)
Mom!
Mikey, Mikey, it's okay.
I'm here.
Every night was the same.
And it went on for years.
The only thing thatseemed to help him
was his painting.
That's when he seemedto be at peace.
When did Michael leave home?
When we were 18.
WI don't know.
I don't even thinkhe told his parents.
He just left.
Mac?
We got another victim.
Find the sniper'shide site?
Still looking.
Conflicting,just like
in the first two.
It's a male vic this time.
Rules out gender as a pattern.
What do we know about the vic?
DANVILLE: Brian Sanders,accountant, commutes to the city
every day from Connecticut.
Yeah.ed?
Kids?
Single-entrance wound,extensive trauma.
Consistent withexploding rounds.
You prepared to tellthe public the truth now?
CARVER: How sure are we
it's the same guy?
Sure as I was before.
So, I hear you've gota primary suspect.
Somebody you'refamiliar with?
Michael Reynolds, missingperson 15 years ago.
I handled the case.
CWell, he was held?
against his willfor three years,
physically and emotionallyabused the whole time.
It affected him, ifthat's what you mean.
Your stunt atthe press conference
didn't stop him from killingthis guy, did it?
Come on, Taylor,
if it wasn't him, somebody elsewould be dead right now.
You know that--that's how these things work.
You trying to convinceme or yourself?
Why don't we try to get onthe same page here, all right?
Exactly whatdo you want from me?
I want you to goto the commissioner,
tell him we're going public--
with the whole thing;everything we know.
This whole city shouldbe on high alert.
Otherwise, I promise you,there will be a fourth victim.
Oh, damn it.
Stable isotope resultson the beetle?
Matched water sampleratios pulled from thePalmas region of Brazil.
Do a lot of insect suppliersget their beetles
from that part of South America?
Well, one does,so I cross-referenced
their customer recordswith the customer records
of paint supply retailerswho carry
items like we confiscatedfrom Michael's bedroom.
They brought me to this.
DANVILLE:Michael Francis?
LINDSAY:Another dead end.
Francis...Francis, Francis.
Stockholm Syndrome.
In a lot ofabduction cases,
the victim will actuallystart to sympathize
Right, especially whenthey're held a long time.
And Arthur Franciswas Michael's abductor.
Michael Reynoldsis Michael Francis.
He took hiskidnapper's last name.
We need a current addressfor Michael Francis.
(sirens wailing)
OFFICER:Mike Francis! Police!
OFFICER:Move! Go! Go!
FLACK:Go, go, go!
Go!
(insects buzzing)
OFFICER:House is all clear!
OFFICER 2:It's all clear!
FLACK: Neighbor confirmedthe I.D. on our vic.
Michael Francis.Lives here alone.
DANNY: Wound's consistentwith a small-caliber round.
Muzzle stamp, must have beena handgun of some sort.
It's a close-contact shot.
Maybe he decidedto do us all a favor
DANNY: It's hard to tellin this place,ok himself out.
but I am seeingindications of a struggle.
And if he took himself out,where's the gun?
Could be under his body.
(groans)No.
Well, I'm no expert,
but I've seen enough gunsin my time
to know that they don'tjust grow legs and walk away.
No, he didn't commit suicide.
Michael Reynolds was murdered.
What a life.
He gets kidnapped,kept for three years,
escapes... only to bemurdered 12 years later.
Rigor's broken in his leg.
That means he's been deadat least 48 hours.
Well, that puts his death before the first sniper attack.
Michael's not the sniper--he's dead. Murdered.
Danny and Flackjust found his body.
Oh, Mac, I'm so sorry.
Any ideaHad to beed him?
the sniper, whoever that is.
Well, that explainsthe beetle
we found atthe sniper's hide site.
It had Michael's blood on it.
The beetle jars at Michael'shome were knocked over.
Probably happenedduring the struggle.
(grunting, objects breaking)
Gunshot woundmust have misted
some of the beetleswith spatter.
(grunting)
(gunshot, grunt)
The sniper kills Michael
and transfers thebeetle to the rooftop.
So if Michael isn'tthe sniper, who is?
The hair you collectedfrom the rooftop.
Blood on the beetle andmitochondrial DNA from the hair,
both got hitsin CODIS missing persons.
There's only one other personthat could've come from.
(keyboard clacking)
(excited shouts on video)
TAYLOR:Michael had a brother--
Tom Reynolds.
Mitochondrial DNA from the hairwas a match to Michael.
Mito's shared byall maternal relatives,
including brothers,so it would also
be a match to Tom.
LINDSAY:So he's our shooter.
Why?
DANVILLE: Off toone side, unnoticed.
Everyone else around him iscelebrating Michael's return.
Tom is juststanding there.
TAYLOR:Emotionless,
So you're telling me
he starts shooting people'cause he didn't get
enough hugs and kissesfrom Mommy and Daddy?
I've studieda lot of spree killers--
Jeff Weise, David Gray,
Charles Whitman.
Neglect, it wasthe most common form
of abuse in their childhood.
He murdered his brother,
then he goes ona shooting rampage.
Getting to that pointcannot be that simple.
No, it's not.
It's usuallya preexisting condition,
a genetic anomalyof some sort,
that renders them susceptible.
Nature combinedwith nurture.
(PDA beeping)
Taylor.
Detective THayley.he's back.
Tom, uh, he's in there...
acting crazy,throwing things around
like he's searchingfor something.
Has he seen you?
No, I don't think so.
Hayley, step awayfrom the window.
Why? Why? What's going on?
He's a suspect in a murder case.
Tom killed somebody?
(gasps) Oh, my God.
What?
What's going on?
I think he just saw me.
Hayley Montgomery's apartment,and the Reynolds plac.
Send units now.
Now he's gone.
But where is he going?
Hayley, is anyonethere with you?
No, no, I'm-I'm all alone.
Listen to me.
Lock the doorand stay where you are.
Keep her on the pYeah.
Hayley?
(knocking)
Hayley!
It's Detective Taylor! Hayley!
(panting)
Hayley, it's me.
You all right?
Yeah. I think so.
Shh, shh, shh. He's gone.
It's gonna be okay.
(panting)
Why do you thinkhe came back here?
What is he looking for?
I don't know.
But I'm gonna find out.
Okay.
Shh. It's (sniffles)
♪ ♪
(crowd cheering, clapping)
DAD:Welcome home!
MOM: Welcome home!We missed you so much!
MICHAEL:Mom! Mom! Mom!
Michael, are you okay?
Mama's here.Mama's here.
DAD: Calm down.You're home.
It's gonna beokay, buddy.
♪ ♪
Emptiness.
Loneliness.
Abandonment!
How much can one person take?
How much can one person do?
'Cause I've tried.
God, how I've tried.
(beeping)
Run this image againstlower Manhattan's
Homeland Securitysurveillance footage.
If he's on the move,one of our cameras
might be ableto pick him up.
But it's too late for that now.
You make my life a living hell!
And for what?
What did I doto deserve this?
I'm tired of...
of waitingfor something to change,
because nothing changes.
Always just stays the same!
Always like this...
He looksyounger here.
Like, 17.
I've seen this typeof behavior before.
They start offby killing a loved one.
The one that they think isresponsible for their neglect?
Yeah.
And then things spiralout of control from there.
So what I don't get is why didhe go back for the tapes?
Tom knows we're goingto figure out it's him,
and the videosconfirm it.
...over and over.
So the only optionwas to destroy them.
They're very revealing.
His recordings areclearly an outlet
for this kid's anger.
I tried everything...
to make you notice me.
But you look past me.
You realize this meanshe knows we're on to him.
He'll be lookingat his next attack as his last.
You cast me aside.
Like I'm invisible.
But I'm not invisible.
I'm right here.
Right here in front of you.
You turned my life into a hole,
empty of everything.
One day...
...you'll pay.
(groans)
Nothing.
I'm not getting anything.
There has to be abetter way to do this.
NY-Alert system.
We can use it to get Tom's image
to every cell phonein the city.
And all we need is for oneperson to recognize him.
(cell phone ringing)
(cell phone beeping)
(cell phone ringing)
(beeping)
(cell phone rings)
This is Taylor.
On my way.
(phone beeps off)
That was Flack.Your NY-Alert just got a hit.
We have a location?
Midtown.Grand Parker Hotel.
♪ ♪
(sirens wailing)
(tires screech)
OFFICER:Everybody, stay calm!
Just start movingdown the street.
(peopLet's go!ing)
WOMAN (over radio): The sniper suspect isconsidered armed and dangerous.
Proceed with caution.
Move, move, move!Move, move!
OFFICER (over radio):Contact. Northwest corner.
Flack, we're on the roof.
FLACK (over radio):He's been spottedon the northwest corner.
Repeat.Northwest corner.
Air support?
Denied,due to exploding rounds.
(shot fires)
(shot fires and ricochets)
Damn it.That's a miss.
Snipers aren't goingto get a clean shot.
He's too well-protected.
OFFICER (over radio):Reposition to betterline of sight.
It's over, Tom!Put down your weapon!
I know what happenedto your brother!
You don't know anything!
I know what happened to him.I was there.
I know whathappened to you.
(shots firing, officer groans)
TAYLOR:Man down.
Repeat. Man down.I need EMS standing by.
(shot fires)
OFFICER 2 (over radio):Officer down.Repeat. Officer down.
I need to go to my man, Tom.
You need to let me do that.Do you hear me?
(shot fires)
Let's go!Move up, move up!
(officer groaning)
Damn it.
Your family turnedaway from you.
We all did.
I know what thatmust have been like.
You don't know anything.
No one knows what that's likeliving in a hole!
Abandoned.Ignored.
No one knows what that's like!
Killing peoplewon't change that!
Look around you.
What's going on.
All of this isbecause of me!
Because of what I'm doing!
There are other ways, Tom!
I've triedall the other ways.
Nothing changes.
It's just the same!
But now?
Now it's different.
People will know me.
They'll know my name.
They'll know my face.
They'll know me because of this.
No!
(shot fires, explosion booms)
(officer groans and pants)
COMMANDER:Go, go, go, go!
Go, go, go!
Move in!
Hang in there, all right?
You're gonna be okay.You hear me?
You're gonna make it.
(groaning)
Come on, come on.
♪ ♪
(muttering)
Would these help?
They're a perfect matchto the other ones.
Thank you.
You're so welcome.
Huh.
How they feel?
Little heavier, maybe?
Well, now that youmention it, yeah.
Impact-resistant glass.Just in case.
(chuckles)
Call it the mom in me.
Well, the thingI can't figure out is,
how did you knowmy prescription?
Well, I'm a detective, Sid.
Oh, yeah.And a very good one, I see.
I don't like to brag,but yes, I am.
Good night, Jo.
Good night, Sid.
Thanks.(chuckles)
♪ ♪
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