♪ ♪
♪ Said I need somebody, baby ♪
(echoing footsteps)
♪ Calm the storm ♪
♪ Won't you be the oneto calm the storm, yeah ♪
♪ Won't you be the oneto calm the storm, darling ♪
♪ Right now ♪
♪ I said I need somebody, babe ♪
♪ Calm the storm ♪
♪ Calm the storm... ♪
(screaming)
♪ Calm the storm ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Calm the storm ♪
♪ Calm the storm ♪to ♪
♪ ♪ Calm the storm ♪o ♪
♪ Calm the storm ♪ I could ♪
♪ ♪ Calm the storm ♪ ♪
♪ Calm the storm ♪
♪ Calm the storm, yeah ♪
♪ Calm the storm ♪
(screams)
(gasping)
♪ Calm the storm ♪
♪ Calm... the storm ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah. ♪
TAYLOR:Bark.
Workers found her undera tree in Central Park.
When I first gotto the scene,
I thought she might stillbe alive.
It's the gaze in her eyes.
TAYLOR:No ID, no coat.
She looked frozen stiff.
Well, not frozen.
This is the most shockingposition I've everseen n rigor.
Unofficially, it looks like ourJane Doe was scared to death.
(screaming)
(screaming continues)
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♪ I get my back into my living ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. ♪
(distant siren wails)
Our Jane Doe broke a heel,
which is consistentwith the layout photos
and Sid's initial findingsin autopsy.
These sporadic movement patternssuggest she was
either lost or confused.
(gasping)
(screams)
(screaming)
FLACK: Hey, I tracked downthe shoe prints
of the park workerswho found our vic
and the EMTs whowere on the Great.
Why don't we fan out
and start eliminatingshoe prints.
See if we can IDour victim's attacker.
Sounds good.
♪ ♪
No other prints to suggestshe was being followed.
No. If this was a chaseor a blitz attack, there's be
signs of a strugglesomewhere here.
Nope.'t see it.
So what or whowas she running from?
Ghosts?
Dr. Sheldon Hawkes, did Ijust hear you say ghosts?
You did.Want to know why?
'Cause that's what he said--ghosts.
A lot of New Yorkers believethis part of the park
is haunted.
The lake just over there--
for years rumor has it,
two women have been seen
skating figure eightsat night.
Rosetta
and Janet-- sisters,
died in the 1800s.
Apparently they justglide above the ice.
If you get too close,they disappear.
ShuYeah.
And then there was thatreal estate guy
that got gutted by the riverjust east of here.
Oh, and Belvedere Castle.
Tons of people have heard
disembodied voices.
Dispatch gets callsall the time.
It's teenagers, doing the nasty.
HAWKES:Go ahead, poke fun.
But this areawhere we are right now,
some of the volunteersin the Emergency Medical Unit
won't even ride in here.They send me.
I got to be honest--
there have been timeswhen I felt something.
A presence?
I don't know.
Doc, come on.
You can't tell me thatin your well-educated,
scientific mind,you don't have
an explanationfor paranormal activity?
Okay, one night
I heard a woman screaming.
I get off my bike,I run towards the sound.
The screams get louderand louder,
but when I get to whereshe should have been, nothing.
Nobody.
What dI don't know.t was?
I have no rational explanationfor what happened tht night.
Now, could have
been my mindplaying tricks on me
or maybe it was the soundbouncing off the trees,
but I felt somethingweird here.
And judging by the looksof these shoe prints,
maybe our Jane Doe
felt something, too.
SID:Petechial hemorrhagingconsistent with suffocation.
But I haven't figured outthe exact COD
as of yet.
The external examinationrevealed nothing remarkable.
There's no ligature
or strangulation marks.
Even more strange, X-raysshowed her hyoid bone,
windpipe and larynxto be perfectly intact.
Mild cyanosis.
On her hands as well.
It would also imply suffocation.
I found no fibersin her nose or mouth.
No contusions on her lips,so no evidence of smothering.
I suspect this abrasion
could be pre-mortem.
It's more a rashthan a bruise.
TAYLOR:It's consistent with friction
against aMm-hmm.surface.
Other than that,
there are no other injuries
that can point to foul playor cause of death.
There was one thing
that was particularly odd.
She wore black undergarments with a white dress
that looked abouttwo sizes too big.
Also her shoes were white.
Well, the whole outfitwas just odd.
It was as ifsomeone else had dressed her.
♪ ♪
Adam wasn't able to tell mewhat the stain is.
He's still waitingon the SEM results.
But the shape of itintrigued me
so I decided to play outa theory.
The pattern on the dresswas caused
by this action.
An attacker grabbed herfrom behind.
(screaming):No! No! No!
A real person, not a ghost.
But I can't determine
if it happened in the parkwhere she died.
There's nothingto indicate
that it didn't.
The evidence couldstill be out there.
(thunder crashing)
We've got to expand our search
and get to itbefore the rain does.
(thunder crashing)
TAYLOR:Start at the perimeter
and walk out from there.
Aw, that better not bepoison ivy.
I'd laugh my ass off.
(eerie wailing)
Do you believe this?
In the middle of Manhattan,we got to deal with coyotes?
What is that all about?
They've beenattacking people
in broad daylight, too.
FLACK:Between themand the spiders.
Hey, bud,fraid of spiders?
Northern black widow spider,the female's poison--
lay you out in two minutes.
You scaredy-cat.
Yeah.
That could be the causeof her death.
You're a science guy now.
Black widow bite wouldcause vomiting,
chest pain,maybe some bad muscle cramps,
but it's rarely fatal.
Besides, our girldied of suffocation.
Not a little itty-bittyscary spider.
Just bag the evidence.
We got broken branchesover here.
DANVILLE:I've got women'sfootprints here.
Looks like the same pattern
of our Jane Doebefore she broke her heel.
You know, I saw a ghost once.
I was visiting a friendin the hospital,
and I was reading to her
and I looked upand there he was.
I didn't saythat I believed in ghosts.
I said I could not provethat they don't exist.
I'm being totally serious.
He was wearing
a white coat,and he wasn't scary.
He had this energy that wasreally kind of soothing.
And I watched himput his hand on her arm.
And then he just... vanished.
And later she told me
that her dad had dieda few years before
and he was a doctor...
...and she described the manthat I saw.
So you think there are otherforces at play here?
Hell, no. Only the livingand breathing
actually commit murder.
She definitely camethrough here.
(thunder crashes)
(distant laughter)
(thun(gasps)shes)
Everything all right?
Yeah, I'm good.
(sighs)Get it together.
(clank)
Someone's out there.
I didn't hear you. Mac?
Mac?
(branch snaps)
Freeze!
(thunder crashes)
(thunder crashing)
I'd say our suspectis about five-nine.
You weren't ableto see his face?
No, it was too dark.
He was wearinga sweatshirt
with a hoodover his head.
All I got is male,medium build.
We're checking surveillancecameras from buildings
around the perimeter.
Maybe they'll come upwith footage of our guy
running out of the park.
(indistinct radio transmission)
Mounted unis came through here
about an hour and half agoand saw
nothing outof the ordinary.
So whatare we thinking?
Is this vic connectedto our Jane Doe case?
The murders are inthe same general area.
That's wherethe connection ends
because these womenare are just too different.
One's brunette,the other's blonde,
one's buried, one's not,
one's in her 30s,the other, 20s.
But they are both women.
This victim lookslike she's been dead
for at leasttwo weeks.
That's a long time
to wait to bury a corpse.
I don't think that's whathe was doing here, Jo.
I think he was digging her up.
♪ ♪
You look like you haveas much as I do:
nothing.
21 grams.
21 grams...
The body weight reported to belost at the moment of death.
The weight of the human soul.
That study was dismissed
for lack of scientific proof.
And however much a soul weighs,
I'm more concerned about how itplays out in the living.
Where it goes after thatis strictly personal.
Oh, yeah? How many timesyou looked
for those two sistersin the lake in Central Park?
(whispers):Every time I go there.
I don't know about you,
but I need a promotionbecause I work way too hard
and I'm brilliant. Mmm!
Just give us thefactsSulfur.
Sulfur...
The mystery yellow substance on our Jane Doe's dress.
But that sulfur was overthe soil and leaf trace
that I can connect to the park.
Where in the park can you runinto sulfur?
I know a few places.
Volunteering nightsin the Parks Medical Unit,
you get to know wherethe crazies hang out.
(siren wailing)
Whoa!
(chuckles)I knew it--
the safety helmet,the medical bag.
I would've neverpegged you for a cop.
Have a seat.
Meet Sully,
the Ken Burnsof the supernatural world.
I'm a legitimate filmmaker.
I document theappearance
of apparitions in the park.
We spoke to park gardeners,
maintenance workers,
anybody who could haveworked with the stuff.
You bring usa ghostbuster?
What stuff? Why am I here?
You use sulfur, right, Sully?
To form a protective circle inan area of high activity, yes.
And you disturbed itwhen you dragged me in here.
Which means a spirit couldfollow any one of us home!
You could put some sea saltaround the perimeter...
per-perimeter of your home.
but it's nota guaranteed deterOkay.
A female body was found inthe park two nights ago.
How interesting would it beif the sulfur we found
on her dress was a matchto your protective fairy dust?
Am I under arrest?
Sheldon, what'sgoing on here?
Your latest film about thespirits on North Brother Island
didn't fill too many seats,did it, Sully?
But if someone was
mysteriously killed in a hauntedpart of Central Park
by an unknown perpetrator likea ghost, then this next one...
Are you suggesting that I killedsomeone to promote my fil?
Not "someone."
A young woman in her 20s.
Listen, I'm smart.I'm really smart,
but even if I wasn't,
I have enough science backing meup, it's not gonna be that had
to prove that the sulfurhandprint on the back
of her dress came from you.
Are you talking about that girlin the white dress?
The one you grabbed.
No, I was trying to help her.
At first I thought she wasa park spirit, you know?
Then boom,she bangs right into me.
She slammed into you?
That's how I knewshe was a human form.
I could see she was in trouble.
I tried to help her,
but she was in apanic and ran away.
And we should believe you why?
I was filming all night.
I captured every second of it.
We're going to needa sneak preview of your movie.
This is your victimburied in the park.
Given her organs' stateof decay,
I'd posit her date of deathto be 1995.
What? 15 years ago?
Is that how longshe's been in the ground?
I believe so. Exterior decaywas somehow delayed.
Salt...
That white crystalline material
you found at the scene was salt.
The park places these saltdomes near walkways
and high-traffic areasduring the winter months.
It could've leechedinto the soil in high enough
concentrations-- salt'san excellent preservative.
That would explain 15 years
of death looking like two weeks.
So someone came back to dig herup after all that time?
Who would do that?
Someone crazy enoughto kill her in the first place?
Perpetrators return to the sceneafter a day, a month,
maybe a few years, but 15?
Whatever his reason,
you think the same guykilled our Jane Doe?
Your second victim sufferedmassive blunt force trauma
to the back of the skull.
And that's cause of death?
Or it could have beenthe stabbing.
It's consistent with herclothing
we examined at the scene.
Our first vic diedof suffocation, though, right?
Right, no visible injuries.unlike your second victim
who was clearly stabbedand bludgeoned.
Up close and personal.
Indeed.
So the only thing our two vicshave in common
is they were both foundin the park.
Two separate cases,totally unconnected.
And both killersstill out there.
"Paranormal" simply means"beyond normal."
But there is no finitemanifestation for "normal"
So fear is an irrelevancy,
a kind of egocentriccontrivance.
A paranormal entityis no less natural than a tree.
Or a rock.
All right, folks.
We're here to meet others.
Okay? I hesitate to even usethe word "ghost," because...
(woman screaming, Sully yells)
SULLY:Whoa, hey!
(wYou're real!ng)
She's real!
Wait! Hold on!
Freeze it here.
This is the directionJane was coming from.
Can we see more detailsof that part of the park?
Just one second.
All right, it lookslike she came through
the 72nd Street entrance.
Keep rolling the footage.
SULLY:Wait, hold on!
Can I talk to you?
WOMAN (screaming):No! No! No!
All right, so this guy justkept taping all night long,
no pauses, no cuts?
The footage came directlyfrom the camera's flash drive.
The video file is clean,
no change in his location,
clock was continuous.
All right, so our paranormalauteur's telling the truth.
Who killed our Jane Doe?
I don't know who,but I can tell you how.
Nitrous oxide poisoning.
Laughing gas?
Well, its effectswere exacerbated
by antidepressantsin her system.
The N2O ultimatelysuffocated her.
In the meantime,she could have sufferedtraumatic hallucination,
thinking she wasbeing chased by
something much scarierthan we can imagine.
Would explain the lookof terror in her eyes.
Well, given the presenceof nitrous,
I thought it prudentto look for recent dental work.
But when I took the bodyout of cold storage,
I found somethingI think I should show you.
DANVILLE:The fridge temperaturesbrought out the bruises.
They weren't able to developwhen she was alive,
which means they happenedclose to the time of death.
They're in the distinct shapeof... a hand.
As though her body was lifted.
The extent of thebruising suggests
she was dead weight in thisperson's hands, no pun intended.
Someone moved herwhen she was unconscious.
And since she was conscious
while runningthrough the park...
She'd been somewhere else,receiving the gas
at the mercy of our perpetrator.
(gas flowing)
She wasn't sexually assaulted,but we know he undressed her,
took her shoes off,
so maybe he leftsome prints behind.
I say we find out.
(liquid hisses)
Superglue adheres toamino acids in fingerprints,
but what is it reacting toin her hair and scalp?
Jane Doe's fingerprintscame back.
She was a fifth-grade teacher.
Her name: Isabel Wilde.
I ran a dozen blood stainsfrom her dress.
Two samples detecteda partial unknown profile,
which gavGot a name?n CODIS.
Dwight Parsons.
An ex-con with a history ofarrests for robbery and assault.
Sounds like a prime suspectto me.
Yeah, except for one thing.
He was shot and killedfive years ago.
That would make him a ghost.
(computer beeping)
ROSS:Oh, yeah. That's right.
Who's your daddy?Come on, give it to me...
That's right, you just,you give it to me.
You just give it...
Ooh! Just hit the lottery.
You're not on one of thosekinky Web sites...
Um... I was...
isolating the perp's fingerprintfrom Isabel's skin pattern.
Oh, Adam, you are so brilliant.
Yeah? I-I...
Okay.t through AFIS.
If it's a hit to dead ex-con
Dwight Parsons,we're in trouble.
Hey. The mystery amino acid inIsabel Wilde's scalp and hair?
It's non-thermogenicmortician's makeup.
Cover-up for a corpse?
DANVILLE:That's it.
That's the connection toDwight Parsons-- he's dead.
ROSS:Wait, wait, wait, wait...
Didn't you sayhe died five years ago?
The abrasion on the backof Isabel's neck
could have come from a headsupport of a mortician's table.
So maybe Dwight and Isabel
passed throughthe same funeral home.
Wait, hold on a second, back up.
She wasn't dead five years ago.
Unfortunately, you don't have tobe dead to be in a funeral home.
We need to find out whereDwight Parsons was embalmed.
Hey. We havea potential lead
in the Isabel Wilde case.
Adam and Lindsayare chasing it down now.
Good job.
Good job?
That's what I say to Ellie whenshe eats all of her carrots.
You don't quite seem okay.
What's going on?
Sid discoveredsomething.
The victim in the parkshows evidence of a surgery.
The organs are too decomposedfor analysis,
but I did recoverthe sutures.
TAYLOR: I tested the sutures that came out of our second victim.
They were too commonto get a match?
No. Polypropylene,nonabsorbable multifiber,
I was able to contactthe manufacturer,
find out which hospitalsthey distributed to,
which doctors performedgastric surgeries around '95...
All that work and still no ID?
I got an ID.
Only one female patient fittingour vic's age and description
had peptic ulcer surgerythat got so dicey
they had to use four suturesinstead of one.
Roni Parker.
Her married name.She kept it after her divorce.
Her maiden name is Carver.
She's Chief Ted Carver's sister.
Roni.
I'm sorry.
This is all very strange.
I understand.
We don't haveto do this now, Ted.
No. (clears throat) I'm fine.
Makes it all real.
Started to forgetwhat she looked like.
You never worried thatsomething had happened to her?
You never reported her missing.
I never thoughtshe was missing.
My sister had a habit of...disappearing.
The truth is, Roni and I weretwo very different people.
I mean, I loved her.
Don't get me wrong, but she waskind of a mess even as a kid.
Can you tell mewhat you remember
in the last few monthsyou saw her?
I-I don't know.We lost touch as we got older.
And then one day, Jaycalled me and said she'd left.
My nephew.
Told me that Roni had gone,
and left him, his brother,and his sister alone.
I took the kids in.
And you never looked for her.
At first,I was really angry.
Then I was embarrassed.
Finally I just hadto let her go.
Move on.
Doesn't quite sound like I'ma good brotherorcop, huh?
I'd like to talk to the kids.
Yes, I'll... set it upso you can talk to them.
Of course,they're all grown up, now.
Well, still,they might remember details
that can head usin the right direction.
We're going to do everythingwe can to find her killer.
Damn right you are.
Hey, Mac, um...
I would be grateful if maybewe could keep this between us?
I mean, for now.
Thanks.
(phoFlack.ging)
We got to go visit the dead.
Work-related, I hope.
Sprouse Funeral Home,77th Street.
Looks like Isabelmight have been there
before she ran into the park.
On my way.
This place is so creepy.
But I guess, funeral home--what else would it be?
How the hell does a funeral homego out of business?
The owners died four years ago.
They left the family businessto their only son,
Gordon.He closed up shop, apparently,
but I understandhe still lives here.
No prints in the dust,no movement in the air.
Definitely doesn'tlook lived-in.
Or died in.
(door creaks)
Whew.
Son of a bitch.
Looks like you just foundour primary crime scene.
(gas flowing)
Hawkes.
We got something here.
What the hellare we dealing with?
This doesn't make any sense.
This kid closed downthe funeral home,
but stayed in theembalming business?
Kept it openfor personal use.
No signsof struggle.
So Isabel was probablyunconscious
when he laid her out here.
So what did he do from there?
LINDSAY:He dressed her.
Vintage. This lookslike it's from the '50s.
FLACK:Hey, if we come across
a little old lady skeleton
in a wigin a rocking chair down here,
it's every man for himself.
(laughing)
DANVILLE:So Gordon put the dress onand shoes
and then applied her makeup.
All the while, she's passed out.
It's the ultimatein total control.
Highly egocentric.
His fantasiesare so much
a part of his inner world
that he can't handle the victiminteracting at all.
So he needs them helpless.
The way he saw other women getmade up his entire life.
So this guy can only relateto dead bodies.
That's really sad.
That is not the adjectiveI would use.
But he tried to washall the makeup off Isabel.
DANVILLE:It's not uncommonfor predators of this type
to actually feel shameafter the act.
So he probably wantedto wash away the image.
Or the evidence.
Remind me to thank himfor leaving some trace on her,
or we might neverhave found this place.
FLACK:Oh!
I've got personal belongings.
It's Isabel.
(clanking)
Did you guys hear something?
Don't shoot!
Keep your handswhere I can see 'em!
Okay, don't shoot.
Get up! Hands!
Do you knowIsabel Wilde?
I'm going to introduce youto Miranda.
You have the rightto remain silent.
Anything you say, can andwill be used against you
in a court of law.You have the right
to speak to an attorney...
Jo.
So I found something verystrange in the Roni Parker case.
I started running records
of her credit cardsto see if I could pinpoint
a more exact timeof her disappearance and...
well, she hasn'tstopped using them.
Debit and credit cards,
car registration,social security number.
Since her gastrosurgery in '94,
there's beenactivity on one
or all of them every day.
And not a singlemissed payments.
It looks like somebodystole her identity.
They stole more than that.
This could be our killer.
How do you figure?
Most thieves stealan identity
for days, maybe weeks,but years?
You'd have to know yourvictim couldn't report you.
They took overRoni Parker's life
because they knew she was dead.
You have an address?
Yeah.
Chief Carver.
This is a long way acrosstown for a routine interview.
You can't say youweren't All due respect--
Right, but if mysister's killer
is in there, I need to be here.
But, hey,
I really do appreciatethe respect.
(door opens)
♪ ♪
DVD's still playing.
Bedroom's clear.
Bunch of drawers open.
Look like theywere emptied.
Pile of hangers on the bed.
Chief?
This is who stolemy sister's identity.
Looks like she knewwe were coming.
(reporters clamoring)
MAN:Mr. Sprouse, why did youkill that young woman?
WOMAN:Gordon, did yousexually assault her?
(reporters shouting questions)
MAN:In breaking news-- police havearrested Gordon Sprouse,
who allegedly murdereda young woman near Central Park
in a bizarre series of events.
Mr. Sprouse will be arraigned
on chargesof first degree murder.
The date of trial is pendingthe judge's announcement.
(reporters shouting questions)
You killed Isabel Wilde.
No. I would never kill anyone.
Confess.
Okay?
That's the best thing for you.
See, we alreadyknow what happened.
You got her drunk,
you fed herantidepressants and gas
and then you fooled arounduntil she suffocated.
Murder is wrong.
Death and ecstasycan be closely linked.
Some people think they'rethe same experience.
Living in a funeral homeall your life--
Maybe things gotmixed up, huh?
So what was it?
Did you get your first littletingle down there
when you saw your dad workingon a dead girl, is that it?
Excuse me?
My mom was the mortician,Detective.
So what's the fantasy?
Virgin bride?
Mommy inGo to hell!htgown?
You are disgusting!
I'm disgusting?
Yes!
You're right.
I like my girls conscious
when they get dressedand put on makeup.
Totally gross.
You don't understandany of this, do you?
Not even close.
No? Okay,let me try and explain.
White...
...is the color of snow and milk.
It is so pure,
it's not even a color.
HAWKES:So you wanted herto be at peace, hmm?
That's why you painted her uplike a corpse?
SPROUSE: No, no,
not like a corpse, Doctor.
Like the perfect version of herself.
I only wish she could see herself
the way I see her.
What I do is good.
What the hellare you talking about?
You drugged that womanout of consciousness,
placed her on
a cold metal slab
and then toyed with herso you could get off!
What's goodabout that?!
You don'I know.
You don't know...
I know. I know a freakwhen I see one.
I don't do what's in my head.
The only difference between youand the other sick bastards,
is that you put your victimon the slab before you kill her.
If I did what was in my head,
they would besliced up and gushing
and washed down the drain!
And you wouldnever find them!
But I don't!I don't do that!
I just play with them!
I met Isabel in a bar.
She came home with me.
She wanted to try the gas.
She thought it might be fun.
I did not knowshe was on antidepressants.
Otherwise I would havealtered the dose.
How thoughtful.
Then what happened?
Isabel was fine.
And then she woke up screaming.
She was hallucinatingor something.
She jumped off the tableand ran out.
Alive.
You just let her get up
and run out in the middle ofthe night in that condition?
I don't chase 'em.
I only play with them.
And when theystart to wake up,
I let them go.
And becauseof the gas,
they don't even rememberwhat happened.
They?
How many othersare there, Gordon?
DANVILLE:We found these in a mortuary.
Yes...
these are my clothes.
Here you go.
Tea always helps.
I can't remember.
One minute I was dancing
and the next I was at homewearing this old white dres.
And it wasn't mine.
I felt sick.
All that time in betweenis just blank.
Do you know what happenedto me that night?
Not exactly, but I can tell youwhat we've learned so far.
Do I want to know?
You win. I always thoughtI was the workaholic.
Is that from
Roni Parker's grave?
Okay, you've got that same lookas before-- preoccupied.
Only now you'regetting me worried.
What's up?
Cases involving a colleagueare always tough,
but this one...
Chief Carver--
being so on top of it.
Well, his sister was killedand buried in the park,
and somebody's digging her upafter all these years.
I think I'd beall over it, too.
I don't know.
Maybe all these ghost stories
are just starting to get mysixth sense working overtime.
Why don't we call it a night.
The parking garage is kindof spooky right now.
You want to walk me out?
I'm right behind you.
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