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I'm a rape survivor.

I was raped on August 27th at 1 o 'clock in the morning in my home. I am a rape

survivor. I am a rape survivor.

I was raped.

I'm topsy.

What does the face of a rapist look like?

We're not supposed to see it.

We're not supposed to see who these evil people are.

That they would take something from us that's so precious.

Inspectors, I'm Captain Hearns, Campus Police.

Rape crisis, know we have one?

911 operator said she'd notify.

Any idea what time the attack occurred?

I don't know. She hadn't said a word. Not to me, not to nobody.

Who found her?

Groundskeeper. He saw her lying over there, gave her his jacket.

She's a mess.

Cut, bitten.

Looks like her ankle's broken.

Did you have a purse?

Yeah, we found keys and purse about 10 feet away. We checked it for ID.

Used gloves, of course.

Looks like she's Cheryl Cook, 20, sophomore.

I drove over to administration but can't find a damn person over there to open

the computer room so we can find out where she lives.

Hey, Lieutenant DeMarco.

No witnesses?

None that came forward, no. And we don't have the personnel to start canvassing

yet. Any idea where she might have been coming from?

There were a lot of lecture halls open last night. Some classes went past 11.

She might have been at one of them.

Where's her car?

I don't know.

Well, we'll check it out.

This is our first assault this semester.

I mean, we get a lot of fights and stuff happening.

Yeah, you know, parties, auto boosts, but...

Nothing much like this. I mean, we got a pretty good security record here. Okay.

Thanks, officers. We'll take it from here.

Sure thing.

You'll keep us informed.

Every step of the way.

Late nights, will you? They're just trying to do their job. Yeah, I know.

Let's see if she'll talk to us.

Hey.

I'm Inspector Ramirez. This is my partner, Inspector Extead.

Cheryl, right?

Cheryl?

A woman from Rape Crisis will be meeting us down at County General.

Cheryl, we know you've just been through a very traumatic experience.

But the sooner you can answer some of our questions, the sooner we'll track

who did this to you.

Did you see him?

I mean, would you be able to identify him?

You really don't get over a rape. You just don't. He grabbed me by the neck,

pulling me over to the sofa. The leg from the footstool is what he used to

me between my eyes with.

And then he turned me around and he started to choke me.

You couldn't see his face.

He was white, medium build.

Your hands were behind your back.

He used a condom.

I'm sorry.

My signings are a little rusty.

But the hospital should have an interpreter shortly.

Oh, my church taught class to minister to deaf children.

And I thought it was beautiful.

Small steel knife.

Okay. Do you think if we showed pictures of different knives you'd remember?

Good. That's great.

Oh, your earring.

Probably with the rest of your things.

Diamond stud?

I'll find out. Be right back.

Even though she couldn't hear him, she smelled him. She felt him.

She stared into his eyes.

She knows he's deaf and can't speak, but that doesn't make her a bad witness.

She'll never forget him.

She can ID him.

How's Cheryl doing? She still in the hospital?

No, she went to her folks. They live in Marin.

She's a fighter, Captain. She wants to use her name, talk to reporters,

whatever. Do we have anything from forensics?

No prints, but we're still waiting on the hair and fiber.

What about bite marks?

Did they get any saliva off the swabs?

Yeah, but good luck getting DNA results back before New Year's. Yeah, not much

good without a suspect.

CD and Nate, coordinate with campus police. I want increased security and a

buddy system in place for women walking alone at night. Do we have a composite?

Cheryl only saw his eye.

Well, whatever we got, get a sketch out there.

Magda, Ginny, go talk to her friends, roommates.

Gotta make sure this is a random act of violence, not some crazy ex -boyfriend.

Cheryl doesn't have any enemies.

Everybody knows her.

How well do you know her?

The four of us share this little room.

Believe me, we know everything about each other.

There's no privacy here.

Cheryl had a high school boyfriend.

She dated a couple guys, but nobody that would do this.

Wow. We'll need to check them out.

You okay?

Me?

Sure.

It's just that we're at college, you know?

On a campus. We're supposed to be safe here.

Yeah.

Lauren, is there anything else that you could tell us?

Actually, um, I don't know if it relates.

There's a guy, Robbie Brooks. Have you heard of him?

He's a big man on campus, baseball player.

Did you have an experience with him or something?

No, no, no, no.

It's just ever since I came to this campus, I've heard the story.

I remember walking by his rat house on the night after a party, and there was a

red flag flying.

My roommate told me that that meant that Robbie had nailed another virgin, that

he raped her. This girl.

On her first night away from home.

Do you know her name?

Sorry. Nope.

Anyway, there's lots of other talk about him groping girls at parties or getting

them drunk or high just so we can have sex with them.

Stuff like that.

Did any of these girls report it to the campus police?

Yeah, a couple of them did.

Nothing happened.

He's a golden boy, you know? He's untouchable.

He makes too much money for the sports program.

Yeah, well, we'll pay the little golden boy a visit.

Really? Oh, yeah.

You can count on it.

So far, we have the names of four women, all of whom claim you don't know the

meaning of the word no.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Really?

The name Cindy Hall ring a bell?

Yeah, I dated her.

Oh, Cindy told us that you got her high on ecstasy and then forced yourself on

her. No way.

She was all over me. What about Cheryl Cook?

Was that your idea of a date?

Who is she?

That's the woman that was raped on campus last night.

Okay, wait a minute. I had a date last night. Yeah, we talked to your date,

Sarah.

She said that you were parked in Lot B.

That's right next to the area where the rape took place.

Yes, she also said you were drunk and that you tried to put your hand up her

shirt. So she left the car at around 11 and had to walk back to her apartment.

Last night's rape took place at 11 .15.

So what happened, Robbie? You get angry that your date left?

Thought you'd take it out on someone else?

You're crazy. I don't do that. Sit down.

Let me tell you something.

Any guy that has to get a woman high or drunk in order to have sex with them is

in far off.

What did you do right after Sarah left?

Anyone see you around 11, Robbie?

Hold on.

Last night, after she left, I fell asleep in my car.

Convenient. Wait.

A campus cop car drove by and flashed its lights and told me to get on home.

And did you do that?

Yeah, I left. I went back to the frat house.

Anybody see you come in?

I don't think so.

No alibi then. Okay, listen to me.

I am not a rapist.

The campus cops are a little overwhelmed.

The student population is just over 30 ,000. They got 100 acres to patrol.

They can't be over it at once.

Did you ask him about the guy that Cheryl's roommate told us about?

Robbie Brooks.

DeMarco said that there have been some complaints about him.

Still, it seems unlikely.

The guy who forces himself on his day would attack from the bushes with a

But... Well, I've been surprised before.

Captain, the class that Cheryl took last night, Dr.

Ann Poulton was the lecturer. She's a sociology professor.

Yeah, I know who she is. You're mainly known for her advocacy of the hearing

impaired. Yeah, well, why the bio?

Well, she's here, and she says she has to talk to you about Cheryl. She's very

upset and pushy. Oh, and by the way, Captain, if you didn't know, she's deaf,

too.

Captain McCafferty?

I'm Dr. Ann Poulton. This is my interpreter, Carol Weiss. How do you do?

We are doing everything that we can to catch Cheryl Cook's rapist.

We're putting all our effort into it, so although I appreciate your concern,

there's not very much we can do that we... Captain, I am way beyond

don't think you have a clue what you're dealing with here.

Oh, I assure you, I... No, you can't.

Another one of my students was raped three weeks ago, and I am sure it was

same man who did it.

Did she report it?

No. She doesn't want to come forward.

How do we know it's the same guy?

Well, she told me she was raped on campus.

Pulled into the bushes in a dark area while she was walking to her car.

The rapist was white, wore a ski mask. All of that information was in the

newspapers.

He used the knife.

He bit her several times during the actual rape.

And he used a condom.

Well, those facts were not released to the public.

No.

But I spoke to Cheryl about an hour ago, and she told me he did the exact thing

to her.

Something more. My student was also deaf.

I don't think that this is a lone incident we're dealing with here. This

serial rapist who is targeting the deaf and the disabled.

If I seem angry, it's because I am.

I'm angry that someone would ruin my life, put me on a whole different

journey.

I don't even know who I would have been had I not been raped.

I was 16 and I was a virgin

and had all the dreams and hopes of...

waiting in the helicopter, right?

Did you know that nearly 80 % of mentally and physically disabled women

sexually assaulted in their lifetime?

I wasn't aware that the number was quite that high.

When are you people going to realize that part of the problem in reporting

assaults on disabled women is access?

If she can't hear or she can't walk,

What is she going to do?

Was that the situation with your other students that way she didn't come

forward?

What about Cheryl?

Has she been able to assist you in your investigation?

Well, she's trying, but it's very hard.

Well, why don't you try relying on other things, like the hearing impaired's

ability to notice and express details related to other senses?

Did your other student get a good look into his eyes?

Or did she say... Why do you keep asking about her?

That's what drives me crazy about hearing people. They don't listen. I

loud and clear.

We need to talk to her.

I've told you everything she told me.

With all due respect, you may be an eminent sociologist, but you are not a

You're not trained to ask the right questions or frame them in a way that

assure us a conviction down the road.

I can't help you.

Can't or won't?

I've put together a

lineup for Cheryl for this afternoon.

And she agreed to this?

She's raring to go.

She's anxious to catch this guy.

They're all going to be wearing dark clothes and ski masks, and she'll be

to get right next to him, really get a good look at him, feel him, smell him,

touch him, everything that you were talking about.

Now, if you could convince your student.

What she told me was in confidence, and I'm not going to betray that trust.

Well, I understand that, but perhaps if she'd come forward in the first place,

the same thing wouldn't have happened.

It happened to Cheryl.

There you go. Thanks. Let me get you changed. No, keep them. Oh, thank you,

Captain. Hey, we got the sex offenders down in Long Cop ready for the lineup.

Did Ginny and Magda pick up Robbie Brooks?

Yeah, we threatened him with losing his athletic eligibility after he admitted

he was drunk on campus.

Lawyered up, but...

He's still coming in. I had another idea. I went down to archives to get the

file. Maynard Shaw went down on a serial rape charge when I was still working

patrol. Pretty high -profile case.

I remember he raped a couple of deaf women.

Also got off on assaulting the blind.

He worked for a while in a halfway house for the mentally impaired.

Raped some of the female patients there.

Also, he pissed his victims.

Copycat rapist.

Could be. You think he'll talk to us? I know he'll talk to you. Biggest ego on

the planet.

Where is he now?

He's still in San Quentin.

Serving three consecutive life sentences.

With rapes?

Murders. After he raped his victims, he started killing them off.

I'm Inspector Basto. This is Inspector DeLorenzo, San Francisco Police

Department. Any questions we'd like to ask you?

Is that your file?

Excuse me? I assume you're here to talk to me about a case, not because you need

a fourth for bridge.

Have other cops been here? From time to time.

I'm famous, you know.

So we've been told.

They have a website devoted to me.

Who's they?

My fans.

People who are interested in my exploits, my methods, my techniques.

We've had two rapes on a university campus.

Both victims were deaf.

Ah. You also used some of your methods.

We believe we may be dealing with a copycat.

I'm not surprised.

They study me in the universities, you know.

No, we didn't know.

I'm in the book.

Abnormal sight.

We'd just like you to have a look at the file.

And help you solve your case?

Yes. As a matter of fact, we could use your professional opinion.

Did you know the size of my cell is the same size they use for dogs in a kennel?

Time goes very slowly here, as you might imagine, so I'd be happy to help you

with your case if you, Inspector... DiLorenzo.

DiLorenzo, come back alone.

I'm sorry, Inspector, but I'm much more comfortable around women.

Captain.

Hey. Oh, yeah, we saw him. Lovely fella.

Yeah, he took the file. Listen, we're on our way back. If there is a connection,

we ought to check out right away.

Shaw claims he studied at the university in abnormal psych.

There's a chapter in the textbook about him or something. Maybe the copycat is

in the class or... All right, Kat, thanks.

Guy gets under your skin, doesn't he?

No, not really.

He obviously got under yours.

What?

My sister.

She wasn't raped.

She told me about this guy, this cab driver.

Picked her up one day. Instead of taking her home, he parks in this alley.

Climbs in the back seat.

Tries to put his hand up her skirt.

Oh, my God.

I guess he figured, hey, she's got Down syndrome, you know. What the hell? Who's

gonna notice? Who's gonna care?

Did you ever find him?

She told me about it four years later.

They did find him.

Anyway, I know these things can stay with you forever, so you can stop

pretending.

I'm not pretending.

Well, I'm not going to let you go back in there alone.

Oh, you're not going to let me?

You know what I mean.

No, I don't know what you mean. Why don't you spell it out for me?

See, you told me what happened.

Yes, I was raped, and yes, it does stay with you, but I'm a cop, and I've been

handling rape cases my entire career.

So why don't you just let me do my job, okay?

I'll say so.

I say so.

And I went back to work Monday morning. I went to work the next day. You know, I

mean, I didn't know what else I was supposed to do.

The next day I got up and I went to work, just like nothing had happened.

Take your time.

You sure he's not in there?

Okay.

Back to square one.

Hold the line up.

Dr. Potten, thank you so much for coming.

Is your student with you?

There is no student.

I was the one who was raped.

Okay, take your time in there.

Take all the time you need.

I can't do this.

Rape is a dirty secret.

That needs to be exposed. It's a violent, unexplainable act. Rape is

abuse. I mean, you really don't get over a rape.

You just don't.

As soon as that door was closed, this person physically grabbed me and slammed

me into the door. I was blindfolded and taken behind a building and brutally

raped. He stayed and raped me for two and a half hours.

Some psychologists view personality disorders as interpersonal strategies or

extreme and maladaptive expressions of personality traits that are common to

everyone to varying degrees.

These disorders affect all areas of functioning, and from childhood to

adolescence on, create problems... No.

A little light bedtime reading.

Of course...

The most serious and intensely studied personality disorder is the antisocial

personality disorder.

In the 19th century, this pattern was called moral insanity,

and later people in this category were called psychopaths or sociopaths. I

they're taking our protocol seriously.

Captain's pretty sure about the copycat theory.

What do you think he's in here now?

Maybe look right at him.

of antisocial personality disorder is a complete lack of anxiety,

remorse, or guilt, whether they've wrecked a family car or killed

an innocent child.

Now, remember, people, your reaction papers are due on Monday, and

there will be no excuses.

Mr. Kip, San Francisco Police.

We're investigating the rape of a student on campus.

Yes. Yes, I read about that.

Shame.

Is there somewhere we could talk? We believe that there are some similarities

between this and the serial rapist you're studying in class.

Maynard Shaw.

Oh, really?

A most brilliant villain.

You admire him?

Oh, certainly not. But as a study tool, you simply can't find a more brilliant.

Criminal mind, in my opinion.

Is that why you arranged an online chat between him and your class?

It was an invaluable lesson, yes.

Have you had any private conversations with Shaw?

Private? He's in prison.

Phone conversations, private chats online?

Oh, no.

We know you're aware of copycats.

And you think...

That could be in play here. Well, what do you think?

Oh, um... Professor Kitt, we really do need your help here.

Your professional opinion, that's all.

I mean, can you tell us the kind of individual we should be looking for?

Well, certainly. I mean, um... Very much like Shaw.

Um, a man.

Intelligent.

Even bookish, perhaps.

Little, if any, social life.

A man, someone who needs his ego fed constantly in order to feel like a man.

Well, now, if you'll excuse me, I'm late for my next class.

Weirdo. It's your professional opinion?

It's my opinion, too.

Maynard Shaw is definitely Professor Kiss' hero.

Guy practically duels when he says his name.

What's his alibi?

Home, grading papers alone.

I mean, isn't there any way that we can get a search warrant for his office, his

apartment? Based on what? That he's a weirdo?

And that we have a copycat theory?

Miranda, just continue to attend his classes. Act as a decoy.

Have you heard from Dr. Palt?

I left her three messages.

When are you going to go back and see Shaw?

Going back in a little while.

Hello?

Not.

Anything on Robbie Brooks, Alibi?

None of the campus police say they saw him.

Yeah, but we found out that he took Professor Kitt's abnormal psych class

years ago. Yeah, but you know what, Captain? As much as we can't stand this

he just does not fit the profile.

We're still going to follow up on the other complaints about him, though.

I know you guys are working hard. It sounds to me like we got a whole lot of

nothing.

Get out there.

Hi, inspectors. Um, Cheryl's in class.

Actually, we came back to see you.

We found out that you were one of the women who made a complaint against

True?

Um, yeah.

I honestly don't remember. I mean... He doesn't either.

What? We just came from seeing Robbie. We asked him about you. We asked him

about the complaint you made against him.

He had no idea who you were.

Lauren.

We know this is difficult, and we really want to listen if you want to talk.

The shame and the guilt, you know, the embarrassment,

everything. I never told anyone.

I know that a lot of women never tell, and I think it eats away at your soul.

I could never talk about it. I didn't talk about it. I was in complete denial.

He's a good student of the master, me.

I've studied the bite patterns, and you're right, they're identical.

Any other similarities?

Were there any trophies?

Did your subject take any objects from the woman he enjoyed, something to

him of their experience together?

I took earrings.

Yeah, Cheryl lost an earring, or so she thought.

The other woman, we haven't had a chance to ask her.

Thank you very much.

My partner and I often interrogate prisoners alone.

Anything else?

Yes. As a matter of fact, there is, Candace. Something very interesting.

Even though the man obviously did his homework, he's not in the same league as

am. For one thing, he's in too much of a hurry.

What do you mean?

Is he careless?

Is he going to strike again soon?

He will strike again very soon.

But what I'm saying is I did not start biting my victim until number 18, the

little girl from the Hill Haven home.

The patterns on Cheryl are those of number 27, I believe, Olivia, African

-American, very smooth skin, paralyzed in a skiing accident. You see, there's

only one thing left now for this man to do.

And that would be?

Show his face, like I did, between victims 32 and 37, before I cut their

throats.

Thank you for coming.

You must think I'm a coward.

No.

Must have been horrible.

My parents didn't know what to do with a deaf child, so he sent me off to a

residential school.

Wasn't that bad.

But there was nobody there to tell me what I now tell all women with any kind

a disability.

That you are as whole as any member of this society.

You have a voice.

Well, in spite of all that, you found yours.

Twenty years of hard work, two masters, one doctorate.

Finally feeling like I could conquer the world, but in ten minutes.

That was all taken away.

Why was I walking alone that night?

I should have known better.

It wasn't your fault.

I know. I know that.

I was a good target, wasn't I? Deaf lady.

Probably dumb, too. That's what he thought.

It was horrible.

He had my hand behind my back.

And he bit me just as he was finishing.

Took my earrings.

The antique ones that my grandmother gave me.

Afterwards, I drove myself to the hospital.

I never went inside.

I thought... I didn't see his face. I couldn't hear him. So what would be the

point?

I'd just be labeled another victim.

And they'd never get him anyway.

The worst thing is... What?

Because I didn't report it.

The child was raped.

That's not true.

You told me that yourself. You said if my student had come forward... I'm

supposed to say that.

The fact of the matter is that there's no guarantee that it would have changed

anything.

None at all.

What did you mean when you said he had your hands behind your back?

Were they tied?

No.

He handcuffed them.

I am not a rape victim.

I am a survivor of rape. I'm a survivor.

And that...

It is just something that's happened to me. It doesn't make me bad.

So that's why she ran out of the lineup.

It wasn't the ski masks.

It was the handcuffs.

So we're talking campus cops, right? They got handcuffs in other territory?

What about Professor Kitt? Raina's still attending his classes.

She'll give him the bait.

Well, get out there. Back her up.

Run away.

We've eliminated Robbie Brooks.

We think he is a rapist. Just not Cheryl or Dr. Paulton.

He was at the frat house by 11 .15. Too drunk to remember he called a buddy

while he was there.

Well, we've got to get back on track.

We need every male campus officer's name, employment record, prints on file.

Okay, thank you, and have a good evening.

Oh,

are you all right? Yeah. Thanks.

It's really hard with this crutch.

Did you have an accident?

Yeah, snowboarding.

I never regained use of my leg.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Well, I hope you're enjoying the class.

Excuse me, there's so many people in the class and I'm not good with names and

faces. Raina.

Raina Washington.

How do you do? Hi. And yes, I love your class.

So much that I'm thinking of switching majors.

Really? Yeah.

You know, I have a lot of questions to ask you.

Do you mind if we just grab a cup of coffee? My car's right in the lot.

Oh, I couldn't possibly tonight, but maybe you could come by my office

3 o 'clock.

Sure. That's great.

Bye.

Hey, Meg, you remember when DeMarco came into Professor Kitt's classroom when we

were there?

Yeah. Was he noted?

Yeah.

Unless he was there for another reason.

Let's find out.

Evening. Oh, hello.

You heading out?

Yeah. I don't know if you read any of the flyers that were distributed, but

we're instituting a buddy system for females walking alone at night.

Oh, yeah, right. But it's okay. I'm fine. No problem.

Where's your car parked? I'll walk you.

It's fine.

I'm okay. No, it isn't.

I'd get my butt put in a sling if my boss found out I didn't see you safely

your car.

God forbid something might happen to you.

What lot are you in?

C, just right out there. Oh, well, why don't we head out the back way? It's

shorter.

Okay.

I don't see Reno.

Let's give her a minute.

Do Lorenzo.

Seems that Lieutenant DeMarco was so fascinated with Professor Kitt's class

he often sat in on lectures.

He even bought a textbook.

Okay, there's Kitt. Where the hell's Raina?

So, um, how long have you been a campus cop?

Oh, about five years now.

So you got a boyfriend or what?

We still don't see Raina yet. I'm going to try her on her cell phone.

Okay.

You know I can I can take it from here all right, we're almost there oh Yeah,

I'm here.

No. I just went out the back with Reina she's in trouble

What if I borrow these?

And DeMarco's out of business.

Will our IDs hold up in court?

Well, even if they don't, we have Reina's testimony and the search of

apartment. We found a diary comparing his attacks to Shaw's with notes like,

the real master.

He did take trophies. We found a lockbox with a dozen earrings, Cheryl's

diamonds, duds, and your antique ones, too.

Excuse me.

So there's a little restaurant down in the lobby. They got really mediocre

but they make a mean strawberry margarita, what do you say?

What are we waiting for?

It was my first night away from home, away from my family.

And my roommate Kira told me about this party at the frat house down the street.

I was so excited.

It was my first party.

I got all dressed up.

It just wasn't what I expected.

Everybody was drunk and crazy.

And there was a guy, and he seemed different. He was handsome and clean

And he gave me a beer, and he tried to talk to me, but the music was so loud.

So he said to me, come on upstairs.

Quiet there.

We can talk.

And so I went.

He opened the door to his room, and he threw me on the bed.

It happened so fast, he was right on top of me.

And when it was over, he just got up, he put on his pants, and then he just

walked out.

He didn't even say anything to me.

I wasn't... I wasn't sure if I would rape.

You were raped, Lauren. Date rape is rape.

The next morning, Kira and I walked by the frat house.

That's when I saw the red flag flying.

Lauren. Who is the man that raped you?

Robbie Brooks, you're under arrest for the rape of Lauren Clark. You have the

right to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have

the right.

My plan was to use the rest of my life to change the worst thing that happened

to me into the best thing that happened to me by helping others. It's a long,

long road, but you can't survive this. I know that there's ugliness in the

world. But I'm very aware that there's much, much beauty, too.

You know, I always wanted to learn how to sign.

It's not too late.

What did I say?

Go ahead, make my day.

How do you say thank you?

That's all?

No.

No, I did that wrong. Okay.

Thank you.

You know, I wish water to come out of one of these.

No problem. I can handle it.

Hop through, take her anywhere she wants to go.

It's not your fault. You've got to report it. Remember who you are.

Remember that you're a majestic person and that you've got things to do.

And it wasn't your fault. You didn't do anything wrong.

You're a survivor.

Don't let anybody or anything take your power away from you.

Remember who you are.