All language subtitles for Profiler s04e08 Train Man

I am tired and weary, but I must

toil on till the Lord comes to call,

call me away.

It is fair as the day.

He reached 5550192. Please leave a
message.

Rachel, it's Bailey.

If you dare pick up.

Agent Burke.

Hello?

Look, I'm not jumping to conclusions,
but is this a bad time?

Only if you've got something against
incline presses.

Sorry to ruin your Saturday morning, but
I've been contacted by a people in

Phoenix.

Last night, the freak who's been riding
the rails claimed his eighth victim.

We've been requested to assist in the
investigation.

We'll meet at the plane in 30 minutes.

All right, I have to shower.

In 30 minutes.

Fine, then I'll sit next to you.

I want you to create a database through
VICAP and NCIC.

There have been a series of railway
murders in Texas, New Mexico, and last

in Arizona.

We need a complete history and
victimology from each case, but you can

on the plane.

Well, Bailey, I really think I can
handle that from the shop.

You need to get out of the shop.

Well, we're doing a complete overhaul of
the projection system this week. I

think I really need to be there.

George, you're part of the team. I want
you with us.

I'll see you at the airport.

Taylor's M .O. seems consistent.

Strangulation without literature,
although he struck at different hours of

day. There's an additional aspect of the
signature, but we'll discuss that on

the plane.

I know you've got a lot on your plate,
Gracie.

So if you need help finding someone to
stay with Jason, let me know.

The first kill was in Amarillo back in
December.

Victims have been found in empty boxcars
and within a couple of hundred yards of

the tracks.

There have been five male victims and
three females, ranging in age from 62 to

80.

Four of the males were transients,
hobos.

The females were old housewives who
lived within a mile or so of the tracks.

We're in the air in 20 minutes.

You're not really going to leave.

I have to, babe.

Can't they work one case without you?

What can I say? It's hell being
indispensable.

Saturday morning, 7 .15. You try getting
a locksmith on the phone. What'd he

charge you? 85 bucks, which as far as
I'm concerned, is extortion. Maybe so,

you'd have never gotten that headboard
on the plane.

Cigarette burns.

On his face. So they'd be seen.

Could be the killer's way of showing the
world his power.

I can be more definitive once I get him
on a table, but it looks to me like his

esophagus was collapsed.

Speaks to the rage of the attack or the
age of the killer.

Hey, who's watching Jason?

Morgan. He's in an apartment a few miles
from the house. A woman answered, Gwen.

Tell him he was moving out because he
needed to find himself.

Gwen must be helping him look.

Pockets are empty.

But to torture him like this, for what?

A couple of bucks, a bottle of booze?

He burned the faces of his male victims,
but not the females.

So he's a ladies' man.

Agent Malone?

I'm Sheriff Jerome Cunningham. This is
Agent John Grant.

I assume you've already met Agents Burke
and Alvarez.

So folks call you Jerry?

Sheriff Cunningham.

Can you attach a name to this body?

If I had, we would have transmitted it
to you, but they tend not to use given

names. Could you transmit to us what
they do use?

Handles, nicknames.

Usually they describe some physical
trait or habitual behavior.

What's his handle?

Oil can Charlie.

What kind of trait does that describe?

I have no idea.

Do you have any background on him? If I
had, we would have transmitted it to

him.

Are we having a problem, Sheriff?

Not at all.

You ask a question, I answer it.

Feels like I haven't eaten in days.

When can we get some good Chinese?

Mr. Chow's in Atlanta.

Yeah, yeah.

What you want, Jim?

Cunningham seemed right to you.

I get warmer greetings from the IRS.

You guys know the myth about hobos,
right?

But a lot of them have big -time money
socked away.

They ride boxcars instead of limos. It's
a choice.

You're saying cigarette burns were a way
of forcing them to tell them where they

stashed their cash.

Uh -uh. No, that's what you're saying.

But look at the other victims.

Elderly white people who you'd think
would trust banks, but I don't know,

they keep their money in soup cans or
under the mattress.

You saved me from a heart attack.

Here.

Oh, and here's 20 for your trouble.

No, thank you.

Well, go on and take it, boy. You earned
it.

Looked to me like he could use it.

Are you deranged or what, boy?

Okay, I've checked Union Pacific, BNSF,
and Conrail, and with respect to

reported incidents of trespassing and
vandalism, there were no unusual levels

activity and no repeat offenders during
the last three months.

George, take a breath.

Of course, records are spotty, because a
lot of the freight companies can't

afford to keep their own security
records, so they've started using

agencies, and information naturally has
fallen through the cracks.

But I'm still looking.

There's a pattern to these kills. I
don't see it.

Seems like he's just going wherever the
next train takes him.

No direction.

You know, the lack of direction may be
the point.

He may feel liberated by the act of
getting on a train, not knowing where

going. What does it tell you about his
past life?

That it might have been constrained,
either emotionally or physically.

Boundaries of behavior or movement could
have been imposed upon him.

He could have been chained to a bed or
locked in a closet. That could be the

reason he feels the need to keep moving.

That?

The assumption he doesn't want to get
caught.

There you are.

You get an idea on the victim in the
box?

Seems like every guy in the train yard
knew Oil Can Charlie.

I talked to Luther the Cat, Night Train
Matt.

Quickdoor Shorty and Ed.

Problem is, none of them knew oil can by
any other name.

But they weren't surprised he got
rolled.

He had money hidden somewhere.

According to these guys, he was the
Rockefeller of the rail.

Well, thank you very much.

I'm just not sure. It's about money.

I can't tell you why. I just... I think
he killed his victims because of what

they meant to him, not because of what
they had.

This is all my resources.

But take it. Just don't hurt me.

Take it.

No, thank you.

When you ever show the resources, you
come looking for me. And ask for two

root. You hear?

Nothing new here.

Manual strangulation.

Stain burns to the face.

Looks like he ran out of faith.

Ronald Taylor, 62.

Reminds me of the previous male victims.

We need to know if the killer went into
the house.

He didn't.

Pretty definitive.

I know how to conduct an investigation.

I wasn't impugning your expertise.

The hell you weren't.

Sheriff, you do have a problem.

And since I'm too busy to guess what it
is, why don't you spill it?

These murders have been going on for a
year.

Over three states and 26 jurisdictions.

But the VCTF takes over the
investigation on my watch?

The governor contacted the attorney
general, requesting our assistance.

The governor's office gave me your name.

They didn't send me your picture.

How naive you think I am. I haven't
given it a minute's thought.

I'll work this case with your
cooperation or without it.

But I expect to get it. Because before
anything else, you belong to the

Brotherhood of Law Enforcement.

How naive you think I am.

Did John say whether or not the victim
was a smoker?

Mm -mm.

John hasn't had the chance.

That would be no one smoking.

Hey, Bailey.

Found these over by the shed.

This across the yard, up against the
porch.

Why torture the victim to give up his
stash and then do this?

Maybe the victim thought he was
destitute trying to pay him for his

The offer of money could have insulted
him.

That's what set him off.

That might have been the trigger.

I mean, we're on the sticks. If he
wanted to rob him, he would have had all

Then the other victims were robbed out
of necessity. That wasn't the

So what was?

The victim's appearance, the need to
help.

This is different.

Skin tissue and blood underneath his
nails.

Enough for a workup?

And some.

The old guy put up a pretty good fight.

Last attack was two days ago.

We're seeing an acceleration of
incidents.

The killing started in Amarillo, then El
Paso, Las Cruces.

We're thinking they're not so random
after all. Or at least moving in a

direction that makes sense to him.

Some place that has significance for
him.

If he didn't torture his victims for
their treasure, why the cigarette burns?

A mirror of the abuse the killer
suffered?

He could be moving toward or away from
where the abuse happened.

He killed him with his bare hands. I
wouldn't rule out the need for him to

the life drain out of his victim's eye.

We assume the burns were inflicted while
the victims were still alive.

But what if they were already dead?

Then the burns wouldn't be about
torture. They'd be about marking.

Like a brand.

Sign of persecution. A scarlet letter.

You thinking the burns got some kind of
literary significance?

Some kind of statement?

His concerns are more immediate.

Food, shelter.

He's living hand to mouth. What if the
marks are symbolic, of a birthmark that

keeps him from having a normal life?

It keeps him moving, always on the run.

Victims are from different social
classes, both male and female, spread

a thousand miles.

Their only commonality is race and age.

What if they're surrogates? He's killing
both men and women. What if they're

surrogates for parents, couples,
grandparents considering their age? Who

have shown him love and understanding.

But didn't.

These are traits usually associated with
older caregivers. Maybe that's what's

attracting him to his victims.

Maybe his grandparents were behind the
abuse.

So, we've got a white male, early 20s, a
drifter or transient, who suffered a

history of abuse from older caregivers.

If we're talking drifters, a lot of them
have drug addictions, disease,

hepatitis. I'll have George check public
health records.

Assuming he's had a checkup in the last
ten years, your killer had no

addictions, no diseases.

By sheer luck, it's my guess.

He was never inoculated.

Not for chickenpox, diphtheria, typhoid,
polio.

Oh, that's abuse.

But the cigarette burns weren't. Based
on the lack of lymph fluid, they were

inflicted post -mortem. And here's
something I bet you weren't expecting.

I did a hemoglobin electrophoresis test,
standard operating procedure.

Your killer is African American.

He's the carrier of sickle cell anemia.

Only black people can be carriers.

When was the last serial case you worked
with a suspect was black?

Let me think.

Never. If this was a race crime, then
all our assumptions are wrong.

Money, surrogates.

Not necessarily. What if the victims
were surrogates for a foster family?

People who adopted them.

Adopt it, then abuse them.

Marking could be the equivalent of a
burning cross.

Well, now you're trying to make it fit
into the category of a traditional race

crime. Tell me why it doesn't.

Because there's an element of restraint
here.

Restraint?

Those killings were brutal.

They could have been a lot more brutal
if he burned them when they were alive.

Why didn't he?

Because.

At one time, they were kind to him.

Yeah, maybe.

Maybe he remembers kindness and abuse,
and he can't reconcile them.

I want to emphasize you're not under
arrest.

I simply want to ask you a few
questions.

We don't care about jumping rails,
trespassing, or vagrancy.

We've got a far more serious situation
on our hands, and it's vital that each

you cooperate, answer all...

Where is he?

Well, his legs are over there, and the
rest of him's on his way to Tucson.

Now you've got a problem.

There's a lot about my job I don't like.

I don't like getting punched in the
mouth by subordinates. For which I was

appropriately sent. You should have been
fired.

I also don't like getting on a plane at
7 a .m. in Washington after the Attorney

General just breakfast on my ass.

We're having our heads handed to us.
Every paper and network in the country

saying the FBI is all about racial
profiling.

That's a load of crap and you know it.
Tell me those 12 suspects at the train

yard were not rounded up because of
their race. I can't tell you that

they were.

The hemoglobin test said conclusively
that the killer is black. That's not

racial profiling.

That's science.

Was it science that made you chase him
under the wheels of a train?

We chased him because he ran.

He ran because for 300 years, every time
a black man saw two white police

officers chasing him, it meant he was
going to be beaten until he confessed to

something. He ran because he's a
fugitive, Mr. Miller.

Randall Parker, convicted of attempted
murder in Florida, escaped from Rayford.

Two weeks before the first railway
killing was reported.

He may very well have committed these
murders.

You didn't know that at the time.

But I do know two things at this time.

I know that he handled the situation
precisely according to procedure.

And I know that you're sitting in my
chair.

Sorry.

Randall Parker is not our killer.

At least he didn't kill the woodchopper.
His DNA does not match the sample we

found under the old man's fingernails.

You got any good news?

I like to save it for last.

The cigarette we found in Taylor's front
yard was used to burn him, also post

-mortem. I tested the saliva on the
filter.

Our kill is a secretor.

When I was a DA, we convicted a guy
because he was a secretor.

We found traces of blood in his saliva
on an envelope that he licked 17 years

ago. They comprise 1 % of the
population, which can narrow a pool of

a hurry.

Yeah, if you have a pool of suspects.

Rachel, it's me, George.

Did I wake you?

It's 3 .30 in the morning. I'm sorry.

You said you were a night owl. A night
owl, not a bat.

Oh, God. Okay, I am sorry.

We'll take this up in the morning, first
thing.

Wait, George, I'm up. I'm up. What is
it?

Okay, in the period of 1978 to 1982,
there are only five recorded cases of a

black child being adopted by an older
white couple, and I have accounted for

five of them.

Three of them are currently enrolled in
East Coast colleges.

One of them is playing baseball in
Japan, and one of them is a record

So, basically, you woke me up at 3 .30
to tell me nothing.

Boy, it's not nothing.

That's what I am doing.

George, are you all right? Yes. I think
I just... I think I just got so caught

up in this, I've lost track of the time.
I'm sorry.

George. Okay.

I need to get some sleep.

Good night. Yeah.

Back again.

I was hoping this time you were gone for
good.

the bathroom?

I don't know. I can't see.

I'm not going to drop this thing until I
know he's in the bathroom.

Get closer.

Polly!

Polly!

Oh my gosh, Polly!

Polly!

Polly! Oh my gosh, Polly!

Polly? Polly, what happened?

He pushed him down!

You son of a bitch! Alan!

I want you gone.

Pack up your stuff and get out.

You'd better get him to the hospital.

I'll go in with you, Dad.

It's okay.

It'll be okay.

Bailey, we assumed the killer was white.

And then we discovered that he was
black.

What if he's both?

One parent black, the other white.

It happens.

He could be light -skinned.

He's rejected by both sides because he's
not enough of either.

The abuse came from the white
grandparents.

He's been killing surrogates for them.

He doesn't feel connected to either
side, so he drifts.

Riding the rails is a part of that.

They're all drifters.

Rejecting society or rejected by it.

What are you doing?

I'm leaving.

He told me to... You don't have to
leave, Andrew.

I took care of that.

God, you make it so hard on yourself,
Andrew.

I didn't push him.

I know you didn't.

Then why didn't you say anything?

You just have to do a better job of
staying out of Alan's way. It's only

he... We didn't get off to a very good
start.

But I want you to stay.

Why should I stay?

Because... your mother because i
wouldn't give you up when you were a

and i won't give you up now

in

a family of racial intolerance it
doesn't matter whether the mother is

black if the mother has a child of mixed
race the family would most likely

reject both mother and child.

Why didn't she just end the pregnancy?

She may have been afraid to say anything
until it was too late.

If the father had any say in it, I can
tell you from personal experience, black

families are reluctant to have
abortions.

And a mixed marriage was definitely out
of the question.

Well, if she had a child out of wedlock,
that would exacerbate the problem, but

the rejection would already exist.

The child would be a living reminder.

State police in Arizona, New Mexico, and
Utah have reported in.

We're receiving photos and files of
three light -skinned African -American

with arrests and or incidents of
vagrancy within a couple of miles of the

death line.

Adam Anderson and Thomas Gilhooly.

Both are in lockup on petty stuff that
clears them.

What about this guy?

Theodore Barlow. Armed robbery?

Assault?

Whereabouts?

Unknown.

Let's get his photo out to every agency
in the Four Corners region.

Armed robbery, drug trafficking.

His violence is a means to an end.

He's a career criminal, drug dealer.

Violence is part of their business.

So, am I still sending it out?

Send it.

He's wanted for questioning.

If the mother was a rebellious teenager,
it's most likely she would have

committed other acts of defiance. She
might even have a criminal past.

The burn markings, that might suggest an
arson.

Arson or some other form of destruction
of property, but specifically aimed at

him, her own father.

You want to narrow down the time frame?

We're putting the killer in his early
20s, born to a mother in the middle

Focus between the years 1973 and 78.

You can start in Arizona, with the
acceleration of kills, the last two

in Ames.

It suggests he might have grown up in
the area.

Honey. Mom.

Something for the boys again?

I wish you wouldn't do that.

Grandparents are supposed to spoil their
grandchildren.

Something smells great.

Need help in the kitchen?

Thanks.

Victimization most likely came from the
grandfather, since he's bringing the

male, but not the female.

But he's still killing them.

Maybe because the grandmother did
nothing to stop the abuse.

Killing interrogates give method to his
anger, marking each one of them as he

gets more and more used to the idea.

But the markings aren't a brand of
ownership.

They're the mark of rejection,
banishment from his own family.

What? Oh!

You're going to ease up on me, David?

I'm not as young as I used to be, you
know.

All right, go get your brother, Marsha,
for supper.

Come on.

He's a great kid.

Well, what, now I can't wrestle with my
grandson, huh?

I got time for a smoke.

Hey, what is it with you?

I don't like you spoiling the boys.

No, no, this isn't about the boys.

It's about him.

He was a mistake.

He's my son. He was a mistake, a mistake
we've paid for.

You don't have to rub it in his face,
Dad.

Haven't you done enough?

Enough?

Look, we've had this argument a thousand
times. We're going to go on having it

as long as I live.

We took that boy in, raised him while
you went off to college. Well, you sent

away. You never would have met Alan if
it wasn't for our sacrifice.

You disgraced your mother and me,
bringing him into the family.

He's lucky you had a home at all.

You want to give him a roof?

That's your business.

Just don't blow a good thing.

Teenage girls, which means there was
plenty of rebellion to go around. George

dug up eight grand theft autos, stole
their father's car, four who falsely

accused their fathers of sexual abuse,
and three who committed armed robbery

using their father's gun.

Those were all for material or
vindictive purposes.

It would be something that was rejection
of a father without actually hurting

him physically.

Here's one.

An Arizona girl poisoned over 50 head of
cattle from her father's herd.

Lynn Nelson.

15 pounds of pesticide into their feet.

Story made the papers.

Authorities thought a viral strain had
hit the area.

She was 13.

Juvenile records are sealed.

That's why we've got George.

And her father's a rancher. That's her
way of rejecting who he is.

Story disappeared after the charges were
dropped.

This girl who killed her dad's cattle is
going to love this. She gave birth in

1979 to an African -American male,
Andrew Nelson.

So her dad filed charges to show her
who's boss, and she spiked them by

child. Social Security now has her under
the name Lynn Chandler of Ames,

Arizona. She's married.

Significant upgrade in her economic
status according to their last tax

How many dependents did they claim? Two
boys, David and Paul, nine and six years

old. And no mention of Andrew.

I don't know how much more convincing
you need.

He almost killed Paulie. He just got the
wind knocked out of him.

This time.

He said it was an accident.

Well, I'm tired of his accidents.

And I'm tired of being reminded how I
got sandbagged.

Or did you just forget you had a child
when we got married?

I do my best to keep him out of your
way.

That's not the point, Lynn.

For you and me and our children.

Don't you see he's destroying it?

And what do you want me to do?

I want you to think about what's best
for us.

For us.

Well, I can't just write him off.

You can't.

Or you won't.

How do you think those boys are going to
feel when they learn that that... The

freak is their half -brother.

Lynn Chandler?

Yes. Do you have a son, Andrew Nelson?

Where is he?

Your son could be in trouble, Mrs.
Chandler.

He lives in the trailer out back.

Do you have any idea where Andrew might
have gone?

Well, he sort of comes and goes. I don't
really know where.

Mrs. Chandler, your son may be involved
in a series of murders.

He may be targeting people that remind
him of your mother and your father.

Well, they were just here.

Your parents?

They wanted to take the kids out for ice
cream before they went back home.

They should have been back by now.

You think it was easy for us, huh?

Having you in the house.

Always reminding us of what your mother
did.

How she shamed us.

Didn't matter what you looked like. I
knew what you are.

You hurt me.

It was for your own good.

Tried to raise you decent.

Accepted your mother's responsibility.

Fred! And tried to do the best we could
for you. Stop it!

For God's sake, isn't it time to admit
the truth?

You hated him because our daughter bore
him.

You tortured him.

And I just stood by and let it happen.

Oh, Andrew, I'm guiltier than he is.

And if it would make any difference to
say, I'm sorry.

We're doing this up here now.

Bailey!

Step away from the car and throw me your
keys.

Do it now!

Haley, he's heading for the yard where
the roundhouse is.

Head him off over there.

Give yourself up, man.

We'll get our final report in about a
month.

Anxious to read it.

Hey, look.

Can we get out this way again?

Goodbye, Sheriff.

Jerry.

Jerry.

On the night I was here.

I couldn't sleep.

You know how it is.

I know. That one knocks on your door at
3 .30 in the morning to tell you

nothing.

I know that there's a problem.