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( tires squealing )

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( train crossing warning bell ringing ) Come on, come on, come on, come on!

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( bell ringing ) ( brakes screeching )

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( screaming )

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Paramedics pronounced 20 minutes ago.

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Megan Treadwell.

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I ran her plates.

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33 tomorrow.

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One-on-one with a train.

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Did she think that she could beat it?

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Hey.

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Door handle.

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Point of impact: passenger-side door.

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WILLOWS: Dead center.

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Question is: Why did the SUV cross the tracks? To get to the other side.

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Sheriff says we're holding up trains all over the country. This entire railroad division depends on keeping the main line open. Well, it's not like we can take this back to the garage. Yeah. Well, unfortunately, his priority is clearing this train from these tracks. You have two hours.

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Well, where you going?

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Suspicious circs in town. This one's all yours. Thanks, but you got to give me some guys. Sara's all you get.

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All I need.

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( alarm ringing ) O'RILEY: "Burglary in Progress" call.

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Once we made entry, we found the victim downstairs.

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Never knew this place existed. The Western States Historical Society. It's not on a lot of tourist maps. ( alarm stops ringing ) I had them cut the wires. We need to identify the source of the alarm, Ray. Security company said it was downstairs.

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The body's there, too.

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Trying to get them to turn some more lights on in here.

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There are no more lights, O'Riley.

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It's a controlled environment. Notice how you're not sweating?

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It's probably 6♪ degrees in here.

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35% relative humidity. Too much light, too much heat degrades the books.

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What-- nobody's got a key? The curator's across town. He's on his way.

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She looks dead to me.

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( power tool buzzing )

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You got first touch.

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10:48.

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Red foam, blue tint.

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Foam could be from blood in her lungs.

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Edema.

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Skin is cyanotic.

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Maybe a blood disease. Leukemia. Meningitis.

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We'll know more after the post.

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Hey, don't do that.

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Excuse me?

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These are very rare books.

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Aaron Pratt. Librarian.

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Only other person here when the alarm sounded.

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Did he tell you what he was doing here?

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Oh, yeah.

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Watching her.

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Set off the alarm trying to get in the cage.

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PRATT: I wasn't watching her. I always say "good night" to Veronica because I have to leave at 8:03 to catch the 8:10 bus. It's three blocks away. And, sometimes, the bus comes at 8:08, so I have to rush to catch it.

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So you went down to the basement to say good night.

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"Good night, Veronica."

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"Good night, Aaron."

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Sometimes, she... walks me to the bus.

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Did she walk you to the bus tonight?

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"Are you coming?"

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"No. You go ahead without me. I have more work to do."

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Then... a Uniball pen rolled across the desk... fell onto the chair... hit the floor and stopped rolling at the wastebasket.

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Then water... water falls into her eyes.

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You mean she was sweating?

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From her forehead.

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Lots... And then, she grabs her stomach... with both hands.

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( groans ) "Aaron... Aaron..." Then she put on her new face... Shelley's Frankenstein.

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Up and down... flopping around like a salmon on my uncle's fishing boat.

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She was convulsing.

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I... couldn't help her... because the cage is locked and I don't have a key.

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Hey, there.

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Warrick's got three residential burglaries, so... Mr. Pratt, will you excuse me for a moment?

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According to O'Riley this guy's body language says he's guilty.

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I think he's autistic. Autistic? You mean like Rain Man?

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Rain Man was a savant. Extremely rare.

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Aaron Pratt is a high-functioning autistic man with superior right-brain abilities.

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Kind of sounds like you.

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The crime scene's in the basement.

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Man, I hate rushing through a crime scene. Two years from now, no one is going to care that the sheriff turned this into a "scoop and run."

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Call was made above our heads.

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Just document the time in your notes. Yeah, well, I'll let you testify on this one. Thanks.

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Aw... Hey, little guy.

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Hey. Hey. Let's see.

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His name is Maverick.

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He lives on Martingale Street in Henderson.

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That's not that far from here.

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Guess I'll go call Animal Control. Okay.

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I'll be right back.

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Hey.

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Come on, boy.

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Let's get you home. So let me get this straight. All you saw was a car trying to beat the signal? I'm putting 55 miles an hour. It's dark. I got an oil leak, can't figure out where. I looked up and I saw something. The SUV. Like I said, it was dark. I thought it was stopping.

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I turned my head for one second. Next thing I know, it's in the middle of the tracks. With all due respect, we've got the right of way out here.

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Thanks for your time.

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That's not yours, is it? I am collecting evidence.

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Do we have an address on the vic yet? 855 Martingale.

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Vic had a passenger.

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Say hello to Maverick.

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Have you finished with our lady of the library? As finished as I'm going to be. You were right. Cyanosis.

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Blood was unable to oxygenate her tissue.

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Explains the blue face. Underlying cause? With blood in her lungs, asphyxiation's out. I found vomit in her throat, bloody stool, hemolysis and some irritation of the mucous membrane on her tongue. I won't know more till I get the blood test back. Could be blood-borne disease.

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I'm thinking about homicide.

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Then you know more than I do.

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Excuse me, sir. It's fine.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa. Sir, you can't come in here. I told the officer upstairs. I'm Stanley Hunter.

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The curator.

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Do you have any idea the damage you're causing with your dust, flashbulbs?

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You see that? Right there, behind you.

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That is a 17th century text by Johannes Van Den Avelen.

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It's one of two volumes in the world.

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Now, do you go to the Louvre and put your hands all over the Raft of the Medusa?

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Officer, Mr. Hunter would like to give a statement to Detective O'Riley. Statement? Mm-hmm. I just got here. I don't even know what happened. But what I do know is that these are masterpieces. One of a kind. They're evidence in an active criminal investigation-- also one of a kind.

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Mr. Hunter, why don't we go upstairs and talk?

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The good news, Nick?

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We had a camera in here.

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There's no surveillance system.

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Yeah, there is-- Aaron Pratt.

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We just have to figure out how to get the film out of his head.

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Filament. Train probably busted out her headlights.

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First thing on our list when we get to the tow yard.

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Catherine... check this out.

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Two sets of skid marks.

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One set going forward... ( tires squealing ) These skid marks are about seven feet shy of the gate.

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The second set of skid marks are darker-- more rubber residue.

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Could be an overlay.

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Looks like the tires were spinning in place.

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In reverse.

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Burning rubber. Going nowhere.

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So... which set of skid marks are telling the story?

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Maybe they both are.

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So, all of your chemicals in here are alkaline?

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We're not dealing with the far ends of the pH range.

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See, old book pages are slightly acidic. The acid eats away the paper. We neutralize them by a solution that's slightly basic. To reach "7," the neutral pH. Exactly. Imidazole. 15% ammonia. That's the sort of thing we work with here.

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It's all about preserving the books.

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No, not that you could even assign a value, but do you have any idea how much each of these books is worth? No.

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The first printed book was a Gutenberg Bible. It sold at Christie's for $5.3 million.

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Lewis and Clark's Elk Skin Journal sold for $500,000.

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We have an illustrated Audubon, the Birds of America which is worth an estimated $300,000.

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All of that and you never thought about beefing up your security?

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Special collections are kept in the vault. Any rare book removed from the vault gets scanned through a coder. If the book is to be read, it's delivered to a secure room upstairs. And, If Veronica was going to work on it, it stayed down here.

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Is this one of the books that Veronica was restoring? Yes. It... it was published in 1797. The author was a British botanist.

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It's worth an estimated $300,000.

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It's really not a dangerous profession.

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We got a situation.

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You know that weird guy?

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He's not weird, O'Riley. He's autistic. Whatever. First on the scene, and he's got sticky fingers.

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"But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve "for daws to peck at. I am not what I am." Othello, Act One, Scene One. Line 61 and ♪2, Iago to Roderigo. Very good, Aaron. Now, you want to tell me how Othello ended up in your briefcase?

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It's my... favorite Shakespeare tragedy. I like Hamlet myself. And I bet Mr. Hunter is into King Lear. He's very concerned with property rights. He tells me the rare books are kept in the vault, and they're not allowed off-site.

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Mr. Hunter doesn't like me. I don't think the rule was made with you in mind.

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He breaks the rules all the time. He takes the books home? No. He... eats his lunch in his office. Carrots, celery, tuna on whole wheat... and Veronica.

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What do you mean, "and Veronica"?

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She's eating and he takes her sandwich... and he puts his hand on her breasts.

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And then he puts his tongue... Aaron, I get it.

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Did they know that you were watching them?

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Hey, you know that filament you picked up? Yeah.

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Lamp cover's smashed, but the filament's intact.

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So, what, the filament's from another car? Well, taillights have different filaments, so... yeah.

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Paint transfer. Recent? Hard to say.

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You know, this right rear tire's lost a lot of rubber.

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I got a cell phone.

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Battery's dead.

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Hey, Catherine... her emergency brake was on.

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Maybe her brakes failed.

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She had to engage it for some reason. You know, I'm thinking that maybe another vehicle was involved. Engineer didn't mention anything about a second driver.

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Maybe he didn't see it.

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15 minutes before my next post. Bottle chemicals from the library?

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Great room.

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Great table.

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I could use this.

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Lay out all the body parts. Get a real overview.

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Is that a light under there?

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Do you have something for me? Oh, your vic. Poisoned. Substance as yet unidentified.

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Well, there's no smoking gun in any of these bottles. What's on the label is what's in the bottle. Isopropyl alcohol... 15% ammonia solution... imidazole... bleach. Well, when you isolate the toxin, you'll have a better idea where it came from.

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Nick.

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Hmm?

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I love this table.

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There's no glass on the filament.

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10:30 at night? Crim 101. If a guy's driving along at night with his lights on... gets in a wreck, glass breaks fuses to the filament. Instant evidence.

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But there's no glass on the filament. His headlights weren't on.

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Black car... headlights off.

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Easy for an engineer to miss. So he hit our SUV.

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Accidental or intentional?

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Hard to tell.

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Maybe not.

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These books are from the Historical Society. That's my mail.

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Aaron, what about these books? Don't... don't mix those up.

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I have two bills due tomorrow-- gas and electric-- and I have to mail them on my way to work.

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Don't.

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You're messing everything up.

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Aaron, may I have a glass of water, please?

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Of course you may. Thank you.

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Is this guy the real deal?

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I think he's incapable of deception, Nick.

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We're just witnessing displaced anxiety.

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I mean, look around.

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Everything's in precise order.

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Organized by size. GRISSOM: Order provides comfort. His life is based on routine. Without it, he can't function.

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I'll check out the bedroom.

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Mountain spring water, Calistoga, California. Bottled at the source. Thank you. You're welcome.

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Now, how did these books get here?

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Veronica brought them.

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She was here? Yes, she was here.

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We date.

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What do you mean, you date?

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We have dinner-- roast beef, baked potato... organic broccoli... Acacia Pinot Noir.

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Shakespeare in Love. DVD. Miramax.

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M-C-M-X-C-V-I-I-I.

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You two were involved with each other?

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Why? Don't you think she would date someone like me? No. You told me Veronica was involved with Mr. Hunter. I have a Masters in Library Science and an English degree from UNLV.

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And some people, like Mr. Hunter, treat me like a freak.

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But Veronica didn't.

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She... loved me.

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Not him.

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STOKES: Grissom.

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You might want to come back here a sec.

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Thank you.

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Personal effects.

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Like some creepy little shrine.

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Vic's hair. She was seeing Hunter.

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Aaron got jealous.

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Incapable of deception, huh?

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How do you feel about murder?

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"Yet she must die else she betray more men.

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Put out the light, and then put out the light."

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Last call on her cell phone was to 911. Reel to reel's already interfaced on my computer.

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DISPATCHER: 911. What's your emergency? MEGAN: Oh, my God! You've got to help me. Please, help me.

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Ma'am, try to calm down. Where are you? I'm in my car. There's this maniac-- he's following me... Ma'am, what's your location? Help me, please! What's your location?

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( dog whimpering ) Can you isolate the individual tracks? Yes, ma'am. Good. Lose the dog. Train, too, please.

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DISPATCHER: Ma'am, what's your location? MEGAN: Help me, please!

227
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Oh, God!

228
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,320
No! Please don't! Help!

229
00:23:08,570 --> 00:23:17,630
No! She was flooring it. With the emergency brake on. It doesn't make any sense. Okay, lose the victim's voice and let's just hear the car.

230
00:23:18,006 --> 00:23:24,740
( tires screeching ) ( engines running ) Two engines.

231
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Separate them out.

232
00:23:28,785 --> 00:23:34,880
( engine running ) SUV-- sounds like any regular four-cylinder.

233
00:23:36,559 --> 00:23:41,900
( engine running ) Sounds like the same thing. No. Hang on.

234
00:23:45,356 --> 00:23:49,820
( whirring ) You hear that?

235
00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:52,250
Turbo. Probably diesel.

236
00:23:56,780 --> 00:23:58,700
She definitely likes you.

237
00:24:02,270 --> 00:24:04,220
You ever see Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?

238
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,750
'Cause there's something in the victim's blood that looks like one of those Heirlooms.

239
00:24:09,650 --> 00:24:11,750
Well, it's not pulling a spectra. It's not a chemical.

240
00:24:11,990 --> 00:24:20,930
No, it's a large, ugly, globular mass. You know, it's probably a protein. It's the largest mass of anything in the body-- except organs, of course.

241
00:24:21,170 --> 00:24:23,390
But it's foreign. How did it get in there?

242
00:24:24,260 --> 00:24:25,760
Cart before the horse, Nick.

243
00:24:25,970 --> 00:24:29,090
First, you identify it, then you figure out where it came from.

244
00:24:31,460 --> 00:24:33,200
I always thought you kept your porn in there.

245
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:34,940
I move it around.

246
00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:46,760
Okay, now, this is a 66-kilodalton globular protein, composed of two disulfide-linked subunits, A and B. Very impressive.

247
00:24:47,570 --> 00:24:55,550
And I know what you all think of me-- I'm just another pretty face who got to where I am by sleeping with Catherine.

248
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,820
But seriously... Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford.

249
00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:08,060
Can I help it if I'm hip? Yeah, yeah, which one of your relatives got you in? Full ride.

250
00:25:08,660 --> 00:25:10,220
Hey, eyes forward.

251
00:25:11,390 --> 00:25:24,320
A and B chains link together to form a large three- dimensional structure of these beta sheets and helices. Translation... Wait! You just drew the molecular structure of a foreign protein.

252
00:25:24,740 --> 00:25:26,270
Plant? Correct.

253
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:34,250
But, more specifically, a lectin. ( gasps ) This is nastier than I thought.

254
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:53,900
It's ricin, a biotoxin. Biotoxin? Yeah. "B chain binds to glycoside residues "which trigger endocytotic uptake of the protein "which internalizes the toxin and begins the irreversible effects..." Whoa, whoa, whoa. Stop now. Biotoxin, as in anthrax, smallpox? I was at that crime scene for eight hours, man.

255
00:25:54,110 --> 00:26:02,000
Relax, man. It takes, like, two hours for ricin symptoms to show and, like, 48 more to kill you. What kind of symptoms are we talking about here?

256
00:26:02,570 --> 00:26:06,050
Um... Sweats?

257
00:26:06,890 --> 00:26:11,360
Cramps? No. Convulsions? Uh-uh. Then you're fine.

258
00:26:12,140 --> 00:26:16,760
Now, where did you say this woman worked? Western States Historical Society.

259
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:18,290
Hey.

260
00:26:19,850 --> 00:26:24,110
I just got the word on our library victim. How does ricin grab you?

261
00:26:24,710 --> 00:26:30,800
Well, ricin. I never would have gone there, but it explains the irritation of the mucous membrane on her tongue.

262
00:26:32,300 --> 00:26:41,100
So you think she ate the poison. I don't know about ate, but the ricin made contact with the tongue, which means you're probably looking for a powder.

263
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:47,720
Day in the life.

264
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:56,510
SIDLE: Megan Treadwell wakes up at home on Martingale Street, puts the dog in the car, heads to work, at her desk by 9:00 a.m.

265
00:27:56,780 --> 00:27:59,480
We know this how? Brass talked to her boss.

266
00:28:00,110 --> 00:28:02,900
Why the dog? Dog went with her, every day.

267
00:28:04,250 --> 00:28:07,850
So she works till 6:00? 8:00, actually. Hard worker.

268
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,660
She packs up and leaves the office.

269
00:28:11,930 --> 00:28:23,030
Except she doesn't go home. She runs an errand. I found these in the front seat of her SUV. There's only one store in Las Vegas that makes them. Yeah, it happens all the time.

270
00:28:23,330 --> 00:28:32,960
Parking spaces are too narrow, and at a premium now that the restaurant moved in. This guy was out of line. Almost... psycho.

271
00:28:33,170 --> 00:28:34,580
Because of this woman?

272
00:28:34,940 --> 00:28:49,700
Yeah. Maverick's owner. I think her name was um... something with an "M." Megan. Yeah. And this guy yelled so loud. I came out here just to check it out. He said something like... "You could have killed me, bitch!"

273
00:28:50,000 --> 00:29:00,290
I heard it, too. Did you see it? Kind of. I mean, I didn't hear a crash or anything. Just brakes. It seemed like she backed out, didn't see him. Happened right over there.

274
00:29:02,030 --> 00:29:05,510
( engine starts ) Whoa, whoa! Hey, hey!

275
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,740
And that set him off. The last thing this guy needed was coffee.

276
00:29:09,980 --> 00:29:13,160
Hey! What? Pull your head out of your ass and use your mirror!

277
00:29:13,670 --> 00:29:22,670
Was he a regular? Double latte, tall, Monday through Friday between 8:30 and 9:00. Does Mr. Double Latte have a name?

278
00:29:23,630 --> 00:29:36,470
I think it's Croft. Works right down the street-- CPA. He's always telling us how to streamline our business. How did Megan react to Mr. Croft? She told him to go to hell. Go to hell! No, you go to hell!

279
00:29:37,310 --> 00:29:38,420
You're an ass!

280
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:48,590
And then just drove off. And what about Mr. Croft? Everyone was just staring at him, and then he got in his car and peeled out.

281
00:29:58,670 --> 00:29:59,300
Ricinus communis.

282
00:30:00,830 --> 00:30:17,270
Castor beans, like castor oil. Well, botanically speaking, it's a spurge, not a bean. Ricin is made from the husk. Castor oil is made from what's inside. Hmm. Which makes two people who know that-- you and the guy who wrote the book. Three, actually. Someone knew how to turn this spurge into a poison. Hey, guys.

283
00:30:18,470 --> 00:30:22,910
That's Aaron's book, right? Mm-hmm. Shouldn't you be looking at that under a fume hood?

284
00:30:24,020 --> 00:30:33,500
We brought this from his apartment, not his office. What makes you think there's a difference? He probably cooked up that ricin in his kitchen. Our guys didn't find anything there. So he cleans up well.

285
00:30:34,790 --> 00:30:38,990
What, you're not feeling sorry for this guy, now, are you? Hey, man, he is autistic.

286
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,150
Anybody else would be in a cell right now.

287
00:30:47,750 --> 00:31:10,370
Yes, I've heard of ricin. Georgy Markov, 1978. Bulgarian political refugee in London, assassinated by injection with a ricin pellet shot out of a black umbrella. Died two days later. Not that different from the way Veronica died, is it?

288
00:31:15,230 --> 00:31:17,330
I found this book in your apartment.

289
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,040
What if I also told you that I found your fingerprint on this page?

290
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:29,150
Page 153. I don't touch that book anymore. But you did touch it.

291
00:31:30,620 --> 00:31:38,960
Why are you mad at me? Answer the question. I don't touch this book anymore. It doesn't feel right. Ever since you killed Veronica.

292
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:40,880
I loved Veronica.

293
00:31:41,420 --> 00:31:43,520
What do you mean, it doesn't feel right?

294
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:54,380
Like a new bus pass. Smooth. Feel the page. It used to feel like my bus pass after a month.

295
00:31:54,980 --> 00:31:58,610
And now... Rough.

296
00:32:01,550 --> 00:32:22,400
Did you tell anyone that the illustrations felt different? Yes. I told Veronica and I told Mr. Hunter. She said that sometimes the books feel that way after they've been restored. What did Mr. Hunter say? He said, "Get out of my office, Aaron! I'm having my lunch!"

297
00:32:24,380 --> 00:32:27,470
Was Mr. Hunter having lunch with Veronica again?

298
00:32:28,550 --> 00:32:41,130
Hard-boiled egg, celery, fruit salad, iced tea. Veronica was on a diet. She had to lose three pounds. Was this lunch different from the other lunches you told me about?

299
00:32:43,380 --> 00:32:44,370
Yes.

300
00:32:45,390 --> 00:32:46,230
How?

301
00:32:47,070 --> 00:32:48,840
They fought.

302
00:32:50,850 --> 00:32:54,810
Aaron, I want you to be very specific.

303
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:57,180
Tell me what you saw.

304
00:32:59,220 --> 00:33:00,450
You did what?

305
00:33:01,620 --> 00:33:05,700
All I have is my reputation, and I'm not going to let you ruin it for me!

306
00:33:06,390 --> 00:33:08,700
Veronica started crying.

307
00:33:09,930 --> 00:33:12,420
Mr. Hunter stopped yelling.

308
00:33:13,110 --> 00:33:14,760
He sat down.

309
00:33:16,230 --> 00:33:18,150
He started eating.

310
00:33:18,900 --> 00:33:22,200
He cut the hard-boiled egg in half.

311
00:33:26,310 --> 00:33:31,560
He reached in the drawer and pulled out the salt shaker.

312
00:33:32,730 --> 00:33:36,200
No sex, no food, no salt.

313
00:34:10,219 --> 00:34:31,159
Poison? What are you talking about? GRISSOM: We're talking about ricin-- the toxin that killed Veronica Bradley. You were dating her. You ate lunch together. O'RILEY: Opportunity. So, you mix up a batch of ricin, put it in a salt shaker. Next time you're breaking bread, she asks for the salt... It never happened. We have a witness who says he saw you try to kill her. What? Aaron?

314
00:34:31,940 --> 00:34:38,090
Are you sure you trust him? Normally, an eyewitness is the least reliable evidence we have. But, in this case, it's the most reliable.

315
00:34:38,449 --> 00:34:40,520
Veronica knew about the forgeries.

316
00:34:41,570 --> 00:34:43,969
A career-ender, huh, Stanley?

317
00:34:44,570 --> 00:34:47,449
For her, not for me. She's the forger.

318
00:34:49,340 --> 00:34:50,510
Oh, there, there, there.

319
00:34:51,099 --> 00:34:54,530
( clicks tongue ) I suppose he indicted me for that, too?

320
00:34:54,949 --> 00:34:56,719
He's the one who came to me.

321
00:34:57,139 --> 00:35:00,710
Told me about the illustrations. Said they felt like his bus pass.

322
00:35:01,310 --> 00:35:02,420
Whatever that means.

323
00:35:03,860 --> 00:35:07,790
Go on. He even knew the page numbers. So I checked it out, and he was right.

324
00:35:08,690 --> 00:35:12,860
Veronica was using me and mea culpa.

325
00:35:13,730 --> 00:35:16,430
Why didn't you tell us about the forgeries earlier?

326
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,770
When she died, I thought the problem was solved.

327
00:35:19,250 --> 00:35:22,100
In this business, all you have is your reputation.

328
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:28,610
There was a dozen books. I was going to remove them from the collection, inform the board, collect the insurance and cut my losses.

329
00:35:30,470 --> 00:35:34,370
If you don't believe me, go ask your very reliable witness.

330
00:35:37,250 --> 00:35:39,740
Tell me again, what did you see?

331
00:35:40,070 --> 00:35:50,030
Uniball pen rolls across the desk. Falls on the chair, hits the floor and stops rolling at the wastebasket.

332
00:35:50,870 --> 00:35:59,120
Then water falls into Veronica's eyes... Aaron, when you look at things, you see pictures in your mind.

333
00:35:59,540 --> 00:36:10,460
Tell me the first picture you see of Veronica in this cage. I already told you. Tell me something you haven't told me. Tell me what Veronica was doing before you said good night.

334
00:36:11,420 --> 00:36:14,210
She pulled out a canvas bag.

335
00:36:14,780 --> 00:36:18,230
Then she looked around.

336
00:36:19,190 --> 00:36:23,780
Why was she looking around? She was deciding something.

337
00:36:24,980 --> 00:36:30,110
Tell me what "Veronica deciding something" looks like.

338
00:36:52,970 --> 00:36:54,230
Thank you, Aaron.

339
00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:00,170
Veronica Bradley must have loved Uniballs. She had about a dozen at her house.

340
00:37:00,530 --> 00:37:03,470
Plus every known piece of forgery equipment.

341
00:37:03,710 --> 00:37:06,740
Some people bite their nails; she bit her pens.

342
00:37:08,750 --> 00:37:10,040
Bad habit.

343
00:37:11,030 --> 00:37:14,690
STOKES: I also found this under her refrigerator.

344
00:37:15,050 --> 00:37:17,000
Funny how people don't think to clean there.

345
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,450
Castor bean.

346
00:37:21,380 --> 00:37:22,310
Ricinus communis.

347
00:37:29,990 --> 00:37:36,800
STOKES: But if we find ricin on any of the pens from her house, we'll know where she cooked up the castor beans. And maybe how she died.

348
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,540
Get these to Greg right away. We need the results of the ricin ELISA test.

349
00:37:44,210 --> 00:37:50,390
I came home straight from work. I don't know what you're talking about. You want to submit to a lineup? A lineup?

350
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:52,550
What for?

351
00:37:58,010 --> 00:38:07,610
His car, out in the parking lot, it's a rental. Rented this morning. Let's just cut the b.s. Where's your car? I sold it. You got proof of sale?

352
00:38:09,020 --> 00:38:15,200
An accountant who doesn't keep receipts. Hey, you don't know anything about me. I know you've got a temper.

353
00:38:20,030 --> 00:38:25,940
Hey. Brass did the legwork and rushed the warrant. Found it in a body shop a mile from his house.

354
00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:29,240
Black Excursion. Turbo diesel.

355
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:35,780
Gutted. Gets better.

356
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,050
Vic's SUV was silver.

357
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,660
What do you think? WILLOWS: Well, this is a lot more than a fender bender.

358
00:38:45,050 --> 00:38:45,980
Sustained contact.

359
00:38:46,670 --> 00:38:48,200
Get some scrapings. Yeah.

360
00:39:13,730 --> 00:39:17,510
I think I may know what... ( sniffs ) set this guy off.

361
00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:20,210
He spilled his coffee.

362
00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:38,390
Not a good color for Croft.

363
00:39:54,770 --> 00:39:57,950
Coffee on the outside, coffee on the inside.

364
00:39:58,580 --> 00:40:01,910
Lipstick on the lid. She threw her coffee at him.

365
00:40:03,410 --> 00:40:14,960
WILLOWS: Croft chases her from the parking lot, caught up to her at the light. They said their "Screw you, screw yous." I think I know the word that made her throw the coffee. I hate that word.

366
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,340
SIDLE: Those lids never fit. She nailed him.

367
00:40:20,090 --> 00:40:24,230
Light turns green, and the chase is on. WILLOWS: And now she's got a problem.

368
00:40:24,545 --> 00:40:27,215
( tires screeching )

369
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:40,820
She's got a pursuit on her hands. And she's the pursued. So, she dials 911. ( voice over phone ): 911. What's your emergency? Oh, my God! You've got help me! Please. Help me!

370
00:40:41,900 --> 00:40:45,680
Somehow she loses him. And she's still spooked.

371
00:40:45,890 --> 00:41:12,920
All she wants now is to get home. ( tires squealing ) Please... pl-please. ( train whistle blowing ) ( brakes screeching ) ( crossing-guard bells ringing ) ( sighs with relief ) Hey, sweetie... Oh, God, no!

372
00:41:13,220 --> 00:41:14,570
Help me!

373
00:41:15,082 --> 00:41:20,900
( train whistle blowing ) That's why she had the emergency brake on.

374
00:41:31,976 --> 00:41:34,790
( train whistle blowing ) She could have jumped out.

375
00:41:35,150 --> 00:41:36,440
Not without her dog.

376
00:41:37,220 --> 00:41:38,000
Help!

377
00:41:38,288 --> 00:41:41,658
( tires squealing ) ( train whistle blowing )

378
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:50,511
No! ( starter grinding ) ( screams )

379
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,630
And that's why you always cut the other driver some slack.

380
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,470
I'll call Brass, tell him to make the arrest.

381
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:20,180
Veronica removed the original illustrations from the books and replaced them with forgeries which she then left at your house so that she could point the finger at you if it ever came to that. She never thought that you'd find out, but you did. And you told Mr. Hunter.

382
00:42:21,260 --> 00:42:23,810
"All you have in this business is your reputation."

383
00:42:24,950 --> 00:42:30,990
So Veronica tried to save hers. But, instead of killing Mr. Hunter, she ended up killing herself.

384
00:42:33,780 --> 00:42:33,990
Oh.

385
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,150
Sorry. That's okay.

386
00:42:37,512 --> 00:42:40,848
( giggling )

387
00:42:44,970 --> 00:42:45,990
I like order.

388
00:42:47,850 --> 00:42:48,720
Me, too.

389
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,100
That's why I was scared.

390
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:55,680
Scared?

391
00:42:56,430 --> 00:43:00,630
Of Veronica being in love.

392
00:43:02,790 --> 00:43:04,110
I was stupid.

393
00:43:04,890 --> 00:43:06,690
I thought she loved me.

394
00:43:16,710 --> 00:43:22,050
"Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely... But too well."

395
00:43:24,630 --> 00:43:29,870
Othello, Act Five, Scene Two, lines 343 and 344.

396
00:43:31,970 --> 00:43:33,560
But Othello killed Desdemona.

397
00:43:34,550 --> 00:43:36,320
I didn't kill Veronica.

398
00:43:37,670 --> 00:43:40,280
No, you didn't.

399
00:43:43,610 --> 00:43:45,412
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