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You know what? I've never spent any time in Washington.

I'm kind of glad Carl sent us here. Carl didn't send us a case, Jess. It's just

mine.

John. Look.

Hey. How you doing? Good, how you doing? Good. You guys know each other? Yeah,

John Murray was the legend around the Washington Ox. Now he's just a rookie.

Very calming presence.

And by that she means I knocked on the lunchroom.

Hi, I'm Jess Mastroianni. Hi.

How are you doing? Good. I've heard of you.

We ought to get together, just you and I in a racing form.

Anything new on Alexis Mandeville? No.

Still missing.

You ought to check it out.

Any signs of violence?

The signs are thumping. I don't know exactly of what.

So the daughter arrives home around 1730 yesterday afternoon, and here's this.

Well, that's a different time.

Well, none of them seems to be all right.

The mother went to lunch with her friend around 1400, so that gives us our

window. Can we get the daughter in here?

Sure. Officer, could you bring Sarah in, please?

Hello, Sarah.

It's you.

Yes, it is.

Have you been... I don't want to talk to you.

Sarah.

Sarah.

Do you know where your father is?

No. And now I don't know where my mother is either.

We spoke to your father recently?

He hasn't been a part of my life for years.

Thanks to you.

Your mother's life could be in jeopardy. Look, don't start this again, okay?

Just find her.

Please.

She's all I have left.

I'm trying to find her.

Your father might be involved.

Oh, I guess.

Oh, what is he now, huh?

The what? The clock killer?

Is that it?

He leaves a bunch of clocks whenever he takes a victim?

You know, that's as crazy as the other horrible stuff you accused him of. I

to speak to your father. Go away.

You know, why don't you go ruin some other lives for a change?

This dream is real.

Take a look around.

The truth will be revealed.

This dream is real.

See it with the heart and your mind.

Alexis Manderville went missing yesterday in Washington, D .C.

Manderville's her maiden name. She went back to it after she divorced this guy,

Charles Edward Denton.

He looks harmless enough.

I want you to see me.

It's a triple B killer.

That's what the media called him because of his M .O .B. Bind, burn, butcher.

I believe he was responsible for the death of six people in Delaware seven

ago.

The killer apparently selected them at random. People seem to have nothing in

common except for the horrible way in which they died.

The evidence from one of the murders led us to a Charles Edward Denton,

professor at Madigan University.

Brooke caught him, put the cuffs on him herself, but we couldn't convict.

Two hung juries and the DA decided not to proceed.

I knew that Denton was the killer. If I could have connected the victims, I

could have proved it.

So what, he just walked?

Not exactly. When he was arrested, he was convinced that his wife betrayed

So he attacked her.

He hit her about three or four times before we managed to pull him off.

Let me guess, you got him on spousal abuse?

That was Brooke's idea.

We found a judge who saw things our way. He got two and a half years.

And did they allow you any more time?

Constantly. They tried everything to break him, but they couldn't get him to

admit to anything.

Couldn't even get him to profile abnormally.

Fred's a monster. He would tie people to a chair and burn them.

After he was sentenced, he looked right at me and said,

No time will come, Miss Hasliff.

I was sure he'd kill again.

These guys can stop themselves for a while, but something usually sets them

Failure. Perception of failure.

Hi, Alan.

Brooke, I need your help on something urgently.

D .C. has a missing persons case of one Alexis Mandeville. I need you to get to

Washington ASAP and lend all possible assistance.

Take Jess with you.

I did. We're already in D .C.

And Alexis Mandeville is actually... Charles Denton's wife. We know that.

Get this bastard, Brooke. I will.

I'm assuming you've had Denton covered since his wife's been missing?

Well, we would if we knew where he was.

He lives in Shreveport, Atlanta, and Savannah.

Left Savannah about three months ago.

Whereabouts unknown.

I'll get Sonny on it.

You brought the door in for questioning.

Well, let's hope that goes better than the last time.

It will.

You're going to talk to her.

So, what are you, a friendly agent?

I'm not an agent.

Oh, what?

An intern or something?

No, it's, um... No, it's nothing like that. I'm... You know, I don't even

know what questions to ask you here.

So, this is about, um... I don't know. I thought that maybe I would listen.

Well, I don't have anything to tell you.

Okay.

Maybe you... Good. Tell me about your father.

I don't know that much about him.

I lost him.

I lost my dad, too, last year.

Not like this.

Not with everybody thinking he's some sick killer.

What about your mother?

Oh, she believed it.

All the stuff in the papers and on the TV.

She actually believed he did those horrible things.

He hit her. I know.

And he shouldn't have done that, I mean, obviously.

But she didn't believe in him.

You know, I mean, she was trying to take me away from him.

You've been talking to your father?

No, I haven't.

You're seeing his side of things.

What? I can think for myself.

I know that you can. It's just the way that you put it.

I mean, you're not wrong.

I mean, you want to find him and know him.

Did you know your father?

I thought I did.

It got a little more complicated after he died.

Look, Sarah, I can tell that you've seen your dad.

And I know that you're worried about your mom. We are too.

And I'm not saying that your dad did anything here. I just think that you'll

your mom back quicker if you help us. And if you want to do that, you have to

tell us where he is.

You've got to.

He's at 387 DuPont, apartment 12.

Brooke Veronica Haslett.

How the hell are you? I'm not here to socialize, Denton.

No.

And you are?

Uh, Jeff Mastriani.

Also with the FBI?

Kind of, yeah.

Kind of is a meaningless expression, young woman.

Uh, I consult with the FBI.

What does the FBI want with me?

The safe return of Alexis Mandeville.

Has she gone somewhere?

She's disappeared.

Oh.

Well, I haven't heard from my ex -wife in years.

But in the unlikely event I should hear from her, I'll let you know.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm very busy preparing for a very important

lecture.

So she goes missing and I find you here hiding near her home.

I am not hiding.

You changed your name.

Of course I changed my name.

When my name, Charles Edward Denton, was associated with that noxious phrase,

the triple B killer, thanks to this squalid tabloid society,

and you, of course I changed my name.

Think things through, Brooke.

You're smart.

You can handle it.

What possible motivation would I have for harming Alexis?

Revenge. She ruined your life.

No.

If I wanted revenge on the person that ruined my life, I would be looking for

you, Brooke.

Where were you yesterday afternoon between 2 and 5 .30?

Right here, preparing a lecture on the greatest work in American literature,

Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

You teach at a university?

No, no. No one will hire me.

So I've been reduced to teaching English as a second language at a local

college.

You teach Moby Dick to people who don't speak English?

Well, they speak it after they read the book.

Have you ever read it?

Yeah, in college.

And did it change your life?

I don't know.

It was a pretty intense book. I remember the professor spent a whole class

talking about the first three words.

Call me Ishmael.

Significantly not my name is Ishmael.

Right. An assumption of name and identity.

So nothing the narrator says can be taken as truth.

And I've devoted a whole chapter to those words in my manuscript. I've just

completed my life's work, the definitive critical work on Herman Melville's Moby

Dick. It is entitled My White Whale.

And you would find it very interesting, Brooke, because it's about how the

pursuit of one's obsession can lead to one's own destruction.

It's all here in the book.

You would find it very interesting.

The next chapter.

Quadrant. One.

Two.

Three.

Four. Five.

Six.

Water.

Okay, so this is a weird one. There was this man, and he was writing, but he was

an old -fashioned man, or like a man from the past, but he was Charles

And he talked about writing a new chapter called The Quadrant.

And then I saw him whipping this guy, but the guy was also Charles Denton, and

he was counting out the lashes to six, and then he goes, and the water, and

they throw water on the wounds.

It's a chapter called The Quadrant.

Chapter 6?

No, 118.

It's a big book.

135 chapters, and it's all about symbols, something mean, something else.

Perfect for Denton's mind game.

Okay, so why did my dream choose The Quadrant out of all those chapters?

Well, let's think about that.

We're in Washington, D .C.

City is laid out in quadrants.

Okay, so maybe the dream comes from a location.

Where does that get us?

Six?

I have water, Water Street at 6th Avenue.

There are piers in the Potomac.

It's Brooke.

Yes, I do. It's 528 AM.

I need divers at Water and 6th.

There was a body.

She was weighted down.

And he said, Cause of death was blunt force trauma hitting the back of the

Identification? Not yet. How long is she in the water?

Eight to ten hours.

She was with Jeff sometime late yesterday afternoon.

So now we go after Denton.

Well, what does he have to do with it? Well, we found this body using Jeff's

dreams, and she's working on a missing person, Alexis Manderville. So whomever

this is, it's connected to her, and she's connected to Denton. But you're

going to get a search warrant based on that. And the M .O. is nothing like a

triple B murder. It's burning and all that. Well, this isn't an ordinary case,

John. Denton's killed a lot of people.

I'm sorry, before, and I'm right now. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying

you're not going to get a warrant for this. I'm a dream.

Not for murder. Material witness.

Witness to what?

We've been watching Denton's place since yesterday afternoon.

If he hasn't gone in or out... Okay, a search warrant for the premises.

He's a narcissist, so if we just keep in his face, then it'll throw him off

whatever he's got planned.

Let's just get the warrant.

Hey, BID. In fact, we picked you out of the Potomac River.

Her name is Meredith Carruthers, 18 years old, student at Georgetown.

Any connection to Denton?

None that we could find.

Then why is the department abandoned?

Have we figured out how we made it out of here? I checked with the agents at

surveillance duty, and they swear Denton never left this place.

Well, they fell asleep.

He's a good man.

Won't you check this entire building? Interview every tenant.

I thought you figured out the clock thing. I thought it was about the fact

he said, your time has come.

No, that's too simple. Denton likes to play games. That's what he's all about.

I think he's being silly. He has to show it.

Clock means something.

Tablet.

I tried everything, and there's no connection between Denton and the dead

Georgetown student, Meredith Crothers. All the computer gave me was a lousy

coincidence. Try me.

Well, when Denton was in prison, one of the shrinks that tried to break him was

named Meredith Bester.

Uh -huh.

I don't think this means anything, but Meredith Bester's maiden name is

Crothers. They're definitely not the same person, but it's a strange

coincidence. Thanks, honey.

I think it's about changing names. How did Denton change his name to William

Wilson? That's crap.

I just remembered because it was the title of this short story that we read

American Lip, which was the same class where we read Moby Dick.

It was, um, what was it? It was a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

And it was about these two guys.

They had the same name, and one of them killed the other guy.

Brooke, we got something in the basement.

I'll be right back.

Pete, the delivery guy, got knocked out from behind.

Denson went out in his uniform, got into his delivery car, and took off.

Surveillance confirms it was about three hours ago.

That doesn't tell us where he is now. I'm going back to the Mandeville. They

must have missed something.

My grandfather's clock was too tall for the shelf, so it stood 90 years on the

floor. It was taller by half than the old man himself, but it weighed not a

penny ounce more.

But it stopped short, never to go again when the old man

died.

Hamlet. Dean Paracol.

What about him?

You know him, right?

He worked with me on the first Denton trial.

He's the Bureau's explosives expert, taught me everything I know. Okay, now

may not necessarily mean anything, but he's been reported missing. He never

returned from a weekend hiking trip.

Denton, give me the information. Where's Paracol last seen?

We can't afford to split focus here, Brooke.

I'll follow up on Dean Paracol. You find Alexis Manderville.

I'm on my way to D .C.

Dean Paracall's gone missing.

Hiking trip.

Doesn't mean that something's necessarily wrong. People go missing all

in the woods.

The last time Charles didn't walk because I didn't know the connection

the victims. Maybe this time it's me.

What is the connection between Alexis Mandeville and you?

I'm the reason she left Denton. I know Dean Paracall.

Everybody knew Dean.

It's not coming together, Brooke. It's like different pieces of different

puzzles.

Well, maybe this will help. I had a dream about clocks.

Really? Denton was singing about them.

What was he singing?

It was, um, my grandfather's clock was too big for the show.

Old song about my grandfather's clock.

Clock's a great big clock.

What?

Nothing. Muttering.

Well, what's here in Washington, D .C.? The great big clock. Naval office has a

match clock on Massachusetts Avenue.

Van Alexis Mandeville. Where?

She's been decapitated.

When I was seven years old, I saw a cat get hit by a car.

And I had nightmares about that for years.

So I just saw a head in a bag. You didn't see it.

Okay, I was next to it, and I saw you look in the bag, and I can imagine what

would look like.

I'm going to have nightmares forever.

Well, we found Dean Paracall.

He was in his pickup truck at the entrance to the hiking trail.

His truck was blown up.

Forensics are on site right now, and they're pretty certain we're talking

an incendiary device.

A bomb.

That's a new one for Denton.

Unless it wasn't Denton.

But he's got a pretty specific M .O., the triple B thing.

But serial killers almost never change their pattern.

A really good one would. One who knows that investigators key in on one

M .O.

Hold on.

bludgeoning don't you see you see what his little game is the triple b killer

used a bomb on paracall and he bludgeoned a woman in the canal and

manderville was decapitated beheaded triple b all right i'm heading back to

city i should be there in about an hour okay

Brooke? Did you knock?

Brooke?

Brooke?

Brooke?

That can't be. He just tried to abduct Jess a half an hour ago. He's got to

still be in the area. I want him found.

You okay?

Just some bruises.

I figure I'll stop shaking by the time I'm 40 and then I'll be fine.

I'm sorry, Jess.

It's not your fault.

Yes, it is. Denton went after you because of me. I know it connects the

this time. It's me.

I should have seen it coming.

Do you want to get some sleep?

No. No, I want to stay in this room surrounded by people in uniforms with

Brooke?

So is Jessica going to be all right? No thanks to me.

I should have known when I got that call from the lobby.

Who the hell called you anyway?

She did.

Take the cuffs off.

Are you kidding me?

She could have gotten just killed. She didn't know. Just take the cuffs off.

So when my father called to talk about mom, and I was

crying, and he was crying, he was crying his heart out.

And he says, Hazel's never going to leave me alone now.

You have to try to convince her.

Call her.

Talk to her down in the lobby.

So he used you to draw me away and get to Jess.

Yeah.

I know that now.

And it's like all those other times when we were laughing and talking.

Looks like it meant nothing.

More than nothing, because he was just using me.

Manipulating me.

I swear to God, I didn't know your friend was going to get attacked.

I know.

I've lost everyone now.

I don't know how I'm going to go on now.

I think it'll be hard, but you'll be okay.

Denton's coming after you, Brooke.

Of course, Denton's coming after people around me. Yeah, well, now we're going

after him.

God hunt us all if we do not hunt him to his death.

What's that?

Ah, it's a moment, Dick.

It's about good and evil, life and death, obsession.

It's full of symbols.

Everything stands for something else, and something in there is the key to

whole thing. Well, I'm the one who connects the victims this time. Going

people I know. We don't have the resources to protect them all. You make

list. I'll worry about the resources.

There's only one person I trust to put that together.

Okay, there's almost 50 names on the list so far.

It'll take a few hours to get them all protected.

Denton's in the DC area. That's their priority.

We already have teams watching your father, his wife, his kids.

We haven't been able to locate your mother yet.

Neither will Denton. She's on the wet coat.

And, Eric, it's a lot of the country.

Still in China.

What about the Q6, Sonny, all of Brooke's friends from Quantico?

Well, the ones that are in the Bureau are guarding the ones that aren't.

One other thing. Can you do a check on the names of Denton's victims seven

ago? You know their names by heart.

See who else has a family.

Okay, yeah, well, I got nothing better to do at four in the morning.

I just put out an APB on Denton, in the district, Virginia, and Maryland.

Airports, bus stations, everything.

I'll chase you through prodigious flames before I give up.

And kill you round Goodham.

So Denton wants me dead.

Tell me something I don't know.

Let's concentrate on what he said in your dream. I'll chase you to

flame. Yeah, I looked it up.

The good hope line is like one in the book, but it's not exactly the same,

might be significant.

Sonny's got something for you.

Go ahead, Sonny.

I got some interesting results in the name search I did on Denton's victims.

going to fax it to you right now.

Great.

And by the way, for someone who loves their privacy, you sure have a lot of

friends and acquaintances.

The list is up to 95.

And they're all accounted for.

Good. Thanks, honey.

Go get some sleep. I'm going to get something to eat before I drop.

I have an agent who's been abducted. I want every possible unit out there on

street, and I want them out there until she's found. Do I make myself clear?

Hey.

What you doing?

I'm just been sitting here, trying to get a feel for where Sunny is by being

around her things, but I'm not getting anywhere.

I can't take it. I'm getting out of here.

I'm going back to the scene. There must be something there.

Well, what should I do?

Find Sonny.

Where should I start?

I don't know.

Think laterally.

Think about your dreams. Think about Denton.

Just do something, Jess.

You don't scare me.

That's what they all say.

It's true, you don't.

But that's what you get off on, right? Fear makes you feel powerful, but you're

not.

You can kill me, but you can't scare me.

I grant that you may not be afraid of, say, physical pain.

It's a pity I enjoy administering physical pain.

But I'm reminded of Melville's words himself.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

And you derive your courage from knowledge. And I'm about to take that

you. And give you randomness.

That is a random letter generator. It's going to spit out letters every 30

seconds until such time as a certain combination occurs.

And what combination, you ask?

BBB? As a matter of fact, yes.

You think you're such a genius? You're not. You're so easy to read.

You live in a fantasy world. You obviously have adequacy issues, so you

kill people.

When the combination BBB occurs, it will set off that timer, and two minutes

after that, boom!

You may not be afraid of death.

But not knowing when you might die will drive you out of your mind.

You gonna stay out there all day?

Until I find something that leads to Sonny, yes.

Stop punishing yourself, Brooke. It's not your fault. It is my fault. I had

covering everybody from grade school to second cousins twice removed. And who

didn't I cover? Sonny.

I don't want to hear about it anymore, Brooke.

We have ground and air sweeps. Local authorities are contributing all the

support they can spare. We have televised bulletins every 20 minutes.

We will find Sunny if she's still... If she's still alive.

We'll find her.

I think he's keeping her hostage to get to me.

Well, let's hope you're right.

Testing, testing, one, two, three.

Thank you all. I welcome you for coming this afternoon.

Very good.

All seems in order.

Ah, I caught you.

You look frightened.

I look bored, because I am.

Don't reduce yourself, just feel it.

Let's see.

The odds of this triple B combo going off are 17 ,526 to 1, so I'm not holding

my breath.

False assumption.

Where? You assumed that I was fair, that I wrote the program randomly. Does that

sound like me?

Now it's time to make a phone call.

Brooke,

Denton here.

I want to speak to Sonny.

Oh, I want you to speak to Sonny, Brooke.

I invite you to speak to Sonny, but face to face I insist.

I will tell you where to come, but you must come alone, or I'll have to kill

now instead of later.

Okay. Listen very carefully.

Drive to the avionics field in the northeast end.

Locate hangar number 13.

Knock on the side door three times and I shall answer. And, Brooke, you must

resist the impulse to kill me, because if I die, Sonny dies.

And the same rule goes for your goons. Anyone but you and a little spitfire

dies. Agreed?

Agreed.

Alan, Denton called. It's on.

Avionics field, hangar 13.

I gotta go now.

Wait five minutes and go.

If he sees any activity... He won't know we're there till it's time. Somebody

get me a vest!

So tactical we have a target total discretion get the chopper up in the air

miles off

You are so melodramatic.

You're under arrest.

If I press this button, Sonny Estrada dies.

I don't believe you.

After everything I've done, you don't believe me?

Be it on your head, then.

Come on, I'll take you to it. You can see for yourself.

Just throw the gun away.

Well, take my car.

Professor.

Lecture.

Good hope.

Sunny.

You all right, Sunny? I'm fine.

What do you want?

I want you to listen. I want you to unload your gun.

I already threw it away. Please, please.

As is the case with Moby Dick, my subject matter today will be varying and

I intend to speak of good and evil, of choice and free will.

Free will is impossible in the absence of choice.

Do you understand that?

So when I kill people, am I executing my free will?

I have no choice.

You always have a choice.

So you don't understand.

You choose to kill people, innocent people.

No, I'm driven to kill people, and thanks to you and that stupid triple B

business, no one understood my true genius.

So you use symbols, substitutions like Moby Dick. One thing stands for another.

Your first six victims had the same names of people you wanted dead, but if

killed them, it would lead to you.

So you use symbols of them instead, people with their same names.

But now... Now?

I bided my time.

I planned it all very carefully, and I waited.

I waited. I waited for you, Brooke.

I know Brooke didn't make it. We found her car. Just continue the sweep of the

area. I don't particularly care what you think right now.

Hope Hall what?

Uh... Denton said that he had an important lecture to give, so in my

said, it said, good hope, and I entered it in the computer.

Turns out Indiana State has a big old lecture hall called Emerson Hope Hall,

which is closed for renovations this year.

All right, get in the car.

All available units, Hope Lecture Hall, Indiana State, now.

It's time, Brooke.

It's time for you to exercise your free will. So choose.

You can kill me and kill your friend, or you can save Sonny and I go free.

It's ironic, though. No matter what you decide, I win.

I will become your white whale and haunt you forever.

Two minutes.

It's all spelled out here in black and white.

So choose wisely.

Then kill the son of a bitch!

Where are they, you sick son of a bitch?

Where are they?

We got them.

Get the hell out of here, everybody. It's a bomb.

All right, everybody get out of here and take her with you.

Get out of here. I'm speaking to the both of you.

Read this. Read this. Tell me what to do.

All right, I call the red wire the most important.

Call me Ishmael. Nothing he says is the truth.

He didn't say the red wire is the most important. He said call it.

The most important.

What game? God, I hate this guy.

You guys get out of here.

Okay, what did Dean Pericall say?

Black is safe.

I'm pulling the black one.

Do it.

you

Please believe.