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The story you are about to see was inspired by actual events.

The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

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It was Thursday, crisp and clear.

I was working the day shift out of Robbery-Homicide

when a call came in at 9 a.m.

An Orthodox priest, murdered in his church.

L.A. is a spiritual city.

Dozens of ethnic groups, each with their own calling.

Christians, Jews, Muslims,

Buddhists, Hindus.

Religion a la carte.

Hundreds of places to worship.

Mosques, temples, churches.

There's one cornerstone common to all faiths.

It has to do with the taking of life.

Thou shalt not kill.

Today the stone crumbled.

My name's Friday.

I'm a cop.

Our victim's name is Father Andrew Milena, 45.

C.I. puts his time of death around two hours ago.

He was found by a fellow priest, Dusan Saonja.

Any leads?

No witnesses.

McCarron's going door to door checking yards

and Cooper's with the canine unit.

Dogs picked up a scent outside the church

but it got diffused around a parking lot.

Where our killer or killers made their getaway.

They're probably long gone by now.

I'm just playing it by the book.

Press is gonna scrutinize every angle of this.

On-scene video got here before we did.

You clear 'em out?

Not before they got some tape.

It's not a pretty picture.

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- Whoa. - Head's missing.

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Gonna be a lot of press on this.

Single cut.

Severed the neck through the fourth cervical vertebra.

Heads don't come off easily.

What do you think they used?

Machete, maybe a large axe or a sword.

It's hard to say until we get a scope

on the damaged tissue and bone.

Cut through the soft tissue of the throat,

you get arterial spray sometimes eight feet.

Body falls forwards, spray arcs down.

That's what this would be.

Looks like something stopped it over there.

Someone or somebody, maybe an accomplice.

There were two sets of bloody footprints out the side exit.

They'd be covered in blood.

Check the surrounding alleys and yards.

Check and see if any clothes got dumped.

No head,

and no trail of blood leading out.

He must have bagged the head right here.

This was no random act.

Taking the head was part of a plan.

A sick trophy.

Eight pounds in a bowling bag.

Damn.

Let's talk to the priest who found him.

I pulled into the parking lot.

I saw Andy's car.

The front door of the church was open.

I came in.

And then--

It's okay, Father.

Let's talk about possible enemies.

Has the church received any threatening calls or mail?

No.

Father Milena was loved, respected.

It's a weekday but he was early.

A parishioner must have requested confession.

If they speak only Serbian, they'd have asked for Milena.

The call would come in with that request?

They'd leave a message on the machine.

We want the machine.

Permission to access church phone records.

Of course.

When's the last time you saw Father Milena?

Just last night around seven.

He was gonna take his wife out to dinner,

so I locked up for him.

His wife?

Celibacy is not a requirement

in the Orthodox Church.

We've cornered a possible suspect.

Excuse me, Father.

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Back up!

This is my space--

Get back!

I know what I'm doing!

Back up!

Put it down!

- Don't! - Put it down!

- Back up! - Okay, we're backing up.

Go get the beaters, now!

Get the beaters!

- Take it easy! - Back up, back up more!

Backing up a little bit for ya.

Hey!

- You got him, Jimmy? - Yeah.

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Found his dog tags on the shopping cart.

He went AWOL from the VA hospital

about three weeks ago.

ER doctors gave him enough Thorazine

to take down an elephant.

He's still flying.

Okay, one more time, Mort.

Let's try to act it straight.

Seven this morning, where were you?

Getting rousted.

You know, I don't think that you're a real cop.

I would like to see some identification, please.

Let's try a different road.

How'd your clothes get bloody?

Mortar.

Guy next to me got blown apart.

I'm not buying

the post-traumatic stress story, Mort.

How else can they get bloody?

They're not mine.

Your clothes aren't yours?

Whose are they?

I found them.

Where?

In the street,

um, in front of the doughnut shop.

In the dumpster, in the trashcan, where?

In a bag.

In, in a plastic bag.

Well, we'll check it out.

Notifying next of kin is a burden

that cops share with clergy.

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It's never easy.

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We would've been married four years in April.

How did you meet?

At church.

I'd gotten used to the idea that I'd never marry,

but then Andy started working as a priest

at The Holy Virgin.

I've been going there since I was a kid.

Did your husband receive any threats?

Did he act strangely after any calls?

No.

Nothing like that.

Your marriage?

We loved each other.

We've been very happy.

Why don't you tell us about, um,

his friends, family.

He had no other family here

other than myself.

Here?

He wasn't from Los Angeles?

No, he moved here shortly before we met,

from Chicago.

Father Saonja said he spoke Serbian.

Yes.

His parents were dissidents who fled from Yugoslavia.

He grew up speaking their language.

He still had a slight accent.

You, you have no idea who did this or why?

Well, we have a suspect in custody but nothing's certain.

Of course, we'll keep you informed.

We're terribly sorry.

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Major arteries retracted

into the body when the throat was slit.

Cut's from a sharp, scalpel-like blade.

Well, no way he was beheaded with a scalpel.

That's true.

Decapitation was post-mortem.

What'd they use?

First, I thought a carving knife, but under magnification,

it appears the vertebrae were cut with a hacksaw.

Anything we can identify?

A single tooth chipped from the saw blade during decapitation.

If you find the saw, you can match it.

What's this?

That's something relevant.

Burn marks?

Most likely from a stun gun.

Would've disabled him so they could tie his hands.

Then they slit his throat and beheaded him.

SID processed the footprints.

Two sets.

One set, size nine work boot.

Another smaller unspecified sneaker.

The bum's a bigfoot.

Size 13.

All right, the bum's clear.

Start over.

What do we know about our killers?

Organized.

They came prepared with a plan

and the right tools to do the job.

Fetishistic.

Muscle.

What they did took strength.

Why decapitate?

Trophy taking, like Kemper and Dahmer.

I say it's revenge.

For what?

Guy's a priest.

Use your imagination.

Check civil records to see if any suits have been filed

against Milena or the church.

Gives us a line on what he stood for, who hated him.

Okay, Hall of Records has a civil case filed two months ago

against Father Milena and the church.

Damage claims for psychological suffering due to molestation.

Who's making the claim?

Plaintiff's unidentified.

That's typical of abuse cases.

Protect the accuser.

Oh yes, because the church protects the abusers.

Let's bring Father Saonja in.

See if he'll tell us who's behind the allegations.

We're vigorously defending the claims

made against Father Milena.

You believe they're false.

I took my friend's confession.

I know what was in his heart.

People make these claims to get money.

It started with the Catholics,

now they're coming after all of us.

Valid or not,

we need to know who filed this claim.

You know I can't do that.

How was Father Milena chosen for this church?

We had an opening.

Posted it with the Greater Western Patriarchate,

he responded.

So, you'll have his references then?

I told you, I can't give you that information.

Father, we're trying to solve a murder.

You say this man was your friend.

What they did to him,

they could do to others.

I need that name.

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Robert Allen Payne, 21 years old.

What else?

The guy's got a short rap sheet.

Two aggravated assaults, couple DUIs.

Cross-check the name with civic records.

See what else we get.

Already done.

The church isn't Payne's only target.

He's got a couple other claims on file.

What's the address?

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You wanna know about that prevent Andy Milena?

Have you seen him recently?

Not for two years, not after what he did to me.

I vowed I'd never return to the church.

What did he do, Mr. Payne?

He asked me to touch him.

Tried to force me to have oral sex with him.

So you sued him.

Damn right, I did.

What?

You don't think I'm owed?

You were also owed by Pacific Sullivan Construction.

Yeah, they used mold contaminated drywall.

I was sick for months.

And you sued Bricker and Sons Autoworks?

Oil in a customer lounge.

I slipped, broke my coccyx.

I got X-rays.

You know, they settled for 50 grand.

Payne.

American name, right?

Yeah, Norman, Oklahoma.

What's your attraction to the Serbian Orthodox Church?

Who are you to question my beliefs?

Where were you this morning, Mr. Payne?

I was here.

Look, I know what you're thinking,

but I didn't have anything to do with that.

Can anyone confirm you were here?

Father Milena was a bad guy.

A lot of people had reason to hate him.

Would you volunteer a hair sample?

And we need access to your shoes.

What?

We found footprints at the scene and your shoes can clear you.

Gloria.

Got another 187, same M.O.

All right, thank you.

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No-header in a nursing home.

Defenseless old man didn't have a chance.

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Repeat performance.

Look at that.

The head of our murdered priest.

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Body's in early stages rigor.

Estimated TOD about three hours ago.

Beheaded him.

Carved a cross in his chest.

Left a Polaroid of the murdered priest.

Cult thing?

Too soon for theories.

Who found him?

A night nurse making the rounds.

No spray pattern this time.

Must've learned about the arterial pressure

with the first kill.

So they wrapped the victim's neck in towels

before they slit his throat.

This our guy?

People within 50 feet and no one hears a thing?

This is the advanced dementia wing.

- What about security? - It's a retirement home.

Angeles View Assisted Care, no view, no care.

Well, someone was at the front desk.

They claim nothing out of the ordinary.

No visitors,

or at least none that signed in.

Get the visitors log from the last six months.

Find out who came to visit Radic.

Killers knew this place, they knew this room.

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Climbed in, climbed out again.

Windows cleared for fingerprints,

must've worn gloves.

Bloody footprints here and in the alley,

similar to the ones we found at the church.

They're proud of their work.

Taunting us?

- Or the next victim. - Or both.

Same pattern.

Double burns from the stun gun, ligature marks,

arterial cuts, bones abraded by a saw.

Likely we're looking at the same killer?

Interesting anatomical similarities in the victims.

Both the priest and the old man are short one vertebra.

- Is that rare? - Very.

Maybe one in ten thousand.

It's also hereditary.

They're related?

It's a good bet, I'm running DNA.

DNA comps on the victims.

There's no question, they're father and son.

Priest's wife said he had no local family.

- She was lying? - Or he was lying to her.

Two horrific crimes against members of one family.

Methodical, deliberate, planned.

A bloodline vendetta.

Coop, get with Jimmy,

find out all you can about the Radic clan.

Duran and I will talk to the priest's wife.

His name's Anthony Radic.

DNA proves that he's your husband's father.

That's not possible.

Andy's father died years ago.

He's buried in Chicago.

Mrs. Milena, we know that this is a difficult time for you,

but there are some inconsistencies

we're trying to clear up.

Your husband may not have been the man he said he was.

You said your husband had no family.

None you ever met.

Think back, are you absolutely certain there was no one?

Why are you asking about his family?

If these murders were family connected,

we need to know whether or not he had living relatives.

We had a second anniversary party

at a Yugoslavian restaurant.

A man came.

He spoke to Andy in Serbian.

Andy introduced him as his uncle from Bosnia.

Could this be him?

Why would Andy lie to me?

Chicago's Orthodox Patriarchate

never even heard of our dead priest.

Faxed them Milena's picture.

No one recognized him.

What about the referral letters?

All forged.

Ran his social against National Data.

The real Andrew Milena was born in Chicago,

died in Nashville in '96.

So our priest was hiding under an assumed name.

Who was he hiding from?

You gotta wonder if he was even a priest.

What'd we find out on the old man?

Anthony Radic.

He was a Bosnian Serb, emigrated in '96.

His immigration papers list two sons,

Stefan and Peter,

and they arrived from Bosnia the same year.

The brothers came here right after the war ended.

Maybe the Bosnian conflict ties in to these killings.

Took new names, started new lives.

The old man had a cross carved in his chest.

The Serbians used to do that to some of their Muslim victims.

I'm gonna get with the feds on this.

Your thought is the murders are payback for war crimes.

What do you think?

Well, victim number one, the priest, Stefan Radic,

aka Andrew Milena, he's in a war crimes database.

Guy was a soldier?

No, he was actually a priest.

A priest who let soldiers use his church for killing.

That's a broad definition of sanctuary.

He entered the U.S. in '96 under an unknown alias.

Any history on the old man?

Official in the public works department

of small village called Banja Luka.

But still the father, which made him a target.

What about the other son?

Uh, Peter Radic.

Wanted by The Hague.

Former lieutenant in a paramilitary squad

called the Jokers,

linked the hundreds of civilian rapes and murders.

Muslim, you die; Christian, you live.

And we have no idea where he is?

He's off the grid.

Now it's all about the Middle East.

He's not a high priority.

But he is to us.

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Looks just like a Nazi camp.

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Bosnia.

Ten years ago.

Hundreds of thousands of Bosnian Muslims

were rounded up and either killed

or put in places like that.

Peter Radic,

Serbian War criminal.

Son of one victim, brother to another.

These two racked up a high body count,

now it's payback time.

This is our next likely target.

We gotta find him.

Guy's a full-on war criminal and we have to save his life.

I got the visitors log from the father's retirement home.

On Orthodox Easter six months ago,

our victim had two visitors.

Andrew Milena, and a Victor Zaren.

Family reunion.

My guess is Victor Zaren is Peter Radic.

Consult Human Rights Watch.

Part of their mission is to track war criminals.

All right.

Each pin represents ten thousand dead.

You do the math.

Not a pretty picture.

Why the interest in Radic?

He connects to an investigation.

I'm glad you've taken an interest.

We have tape of his atrocities.

We sent it to The Hague six years ago.

What are they doing, anything?

Not really.

He's on a wanted for questioning list.

You're cops.

I guess you can handle the rough stuff.

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- Seen enough? - No, let it play.

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That's Radic.

The one with the saw.

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Radic had hundreds of victims.

There could be a whole army looking for payback.

Over something that happened in a war

in another country over ten years ago?

We had a case, Armenian teen.

Shot the Turkish consulate in Westwood.

Claimed it was revenge for an Armenian massacre

that took place in 1913.

Hatred doesn't die easy.

Yeah, look at the Middle East.

Palestinians, the Israelis.

Look right here, Bloods versus Crips.

All right, say retribution is the motive.

How do we narrow down the suspect list?

Well, we know Radic operated

with his death squad in Srebrenica.

The murderers might be the parents of some victims.

- Or children. - Yup?

Kids who've become adults, want to right the wrong.

Some of those kids got adopted by American parents.

Run with that angle.

Father Soanja claimed Milena's body.

There's a funeral for him tomorrow.

Maybe Radic shows up for his brother's funeral.

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It's impressive, but how reliable?

Face match has an error rate

of less than one-tenth of one percent.

Biometric algorithms look at elements like, um,

distance between the eyes, basic head structure.

Knock 'em against the reference pic of Radic.

We can cross-reference

a database of thousands of suspects.

Looking for one guy, it's easy.

If Radic is here, we'll see him.

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Possible suspect just pulled up in a grey sedan.

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Run the plates on the sedan.

See who Radic is these days.

Control to base.

Run a California plate.

4LBQ597.

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Car's registered to a Vukov Regad.

Address Encino.

You're certain we're matched?

Yeah.

Okay, Radic is wearing a black suit, red tie.

Approach him after he comes out.

Remember, be discreet.

Current alias, Vukov Regad.

Address him by that, let's not spook anybody.

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Mr. Regad.

This is Detective Cooper.

I'm Detective Duran, LAPD.

It's a bit late for police work.

We'd like to ask you some questions.

Another time, this is a funeral.

We have a federal warrant to take you in for questioning.

We prefer not to make a scene.

You placing me under arrest?

That depends on whether you wanna cooperate.

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I only came to pay my respects to Father Milena.

You knew him well?

I attended church.

What is this about?

Others came, why am I being harassed?

Is this your father?

My father, no, of course not.

And the body of, uh, Anthony Radic.

No.

I don't know him.

I, of course, heard about this murder.

It's tragic.

You have five handguns registered to your name.

Do you feel like your life is in jeopardy?

I own buildings in some questionable areas.

People are evicted, they get angry.

You've done very well here.

Yes I have.

I have a good business,

and good friends.

Important friends.

You like America?

I love America.

Ever miss Bosnia?

Bosnia was poisoned by the Muslims.

Someday you will see that what happened on 9/11

was just the beginning.

I have trouble connecting terrorists

with innocent Muslim civilians.

Innocent?

The Muslims will only be happy

when the entire world is at their feet.

Spoken like a true racist.

You can cut the act, we know who you are.

You're confused.

I'm Vukov Regad,

and if I am not under arrest, I'm free to leave.

I know the law.

International law is your current trouble.

War crimes tribunal.

You have no standing with such a tribunal.

You're just pissed off because of murders

you're too stupid to solve.

We'll inform The Hague that we found him, but extradition?

Is often a long, drawn-out, and unsuccessful process.

I say we kick him loose and make good bait.

All right, but we'll do the surveillance, Joe.

It involved foreign nationals.

Hey, anything pops on our end, I'll call ya.

I researched Bosnian children

whose families were killed by a Serb death squad.

These are the ones

who were adopted and reside in Los Angeles.

I ran down their last known addresses off CDLs.

How many persons of actual interest?

- Two. - Let's talk to them.

Adoptee number one, Miriam Nelson.

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Looks like she rediscovered her roots.

I think you'll get more out of her going alone.

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That's easy, I was running.

I do two miles on the beach every morning.

And Thursday night?

I go to prayer services at the mosque every night.

That must be very therapeutic for you after what happened.

I read that your family was shot by a death squad.

No, that's not how the Serbs killed.

My father was forced to castrate his sons,

and then I watched as they butchered

my mother and my father with the same knife.

I'm sorry.

Others have suffered worse.

Others are suffering, even now.

But you know the men who did this to you and your family.

No.

Do you know Anthony or Stefan Radic?

This man.

These men are Serbs.

Why are you asking me?

Are these the ones who were killed?

The priest?

The Serbs killed by the thousands.

Is that justification to murder Serbs today?

"I will take vengeance on my adversaries

and repay those who hate me.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood,

while my sword devours flesh."

The Quran.

No, your Bible.

Old Testament.

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The Quran advocates peace.

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She's fervent and quiet, but a killer, I don't know.

Pen register her phone contacts,

see who she's been talking to.

It's not gonna be easy to get a warrant.

Nothing ties her but attitude.

Feds are all over this.

She's a Muslim, a fundamentalist.

We want phone records, we'll get 'em.

Who's Coop and Jimmy rolling on?

A Stephen Baylor, his adopted name.

Twenty-two years old.

Seven foster homes in five years.

Ward of the state until he hit the age cap.

Currently works in construction.

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Check out the hacksaw.

Could be the weapon.

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Steve Baylor?

LAPD.

He's inside, I'm his roommate.

You got ID?

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Down the alley!

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Gotta move in, Jimmy.

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The blade found in Baylor's pickup truck

is consistent with the saw used in both crimes,

and Baylor's hairs match those found on both victims.

There's more.

His work boots left prints at the church

and at the nursing home.

They're Dunham size nine, Vibram sole.

When we took the shoe apart

we found the victim's blood in the stitching.

So, we got one.

Who was he with?

We file two counts first degree murder.

Capital charges, that ought to inspire him.

Feds called.

Radic slipped his surveillance.

How the hell did that happen?

He sent a look-alike out for a drive, feds followed.

Radic has been missing for hours.

Let's ask Baylor where he hid the body.

We have your hair on both victims' bodies,

your footprints at both crime scenes,

a weapon used to behead the victims.

He's staring at the needle, counselor.

Wanna help yourself?

Peter Radic is missing, where is he?

You're reaching.

It's his only shot.

You saved him for last.

What'd you do with him?

Before he answers, what's the offer?

He tells us where Radic is.

Confesses and gives up his accomplice,

we don't pursue death.

My client suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder

due to events from his childhood.

Come on, he beheaded two men, maybe three.

The prophet preaches.

Eye for an eye.

And the whole world goes blind.

You know nothing about me.

There were fourteen of us.

Three generations living in one house.

Serb soldiers broke down the door

and took us to a field beside a church.

Peter Radic was one of them.

My mother tried to run into the church,

and the priest opened the doors,

and stood by while the soldiers raped her

and shot her.

They killed all of my family.

One by one.

Slitting throats.

Then Radic took a saw

and cut off their heads.

I passed out when they castrated me,

and when I awoke, they had buried me alive.

So far, the crimes mirror Radic's atrocities of the past.

I think maybe Baylor buried him alive.

The timeline works.

Baylor could've abducted Radic before we picked him up.

Question is, where did they bury him?

What did we get from Baylor's apartment?

Coveralls like the homeless guy was wearing

and a cooler that probably held the heads.

We know he worked construction,

maybe he buried him at a job site.

Do we know where he was working?

He was tearing down a library out in the Pacific Palisades.

His job foreman says he's making two runs a day

to a concrete recycling plant downtown.

Get a canine unit down there.

Maybe they get a scent.

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Let's go, guys.

Gotta hurry a little bit.

Let's get him out of there.

Open up.

Let's go.

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Does he have a pulse?

I got a pulse.

All right, get him out of there.

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You saved my life.

How can I repay you?

How'd you wind up in that box?

A woman called about one of my properties.

We went to see it.

She came on to me.

Go on.

I said we could go back to my place.

She hit me with a stun gun, tied me up.

I heard a truck.

A guy shows up.

- This the guy? - Yeah.

Describe the girl.

Uh, attractive, twenties,

dark hair, dark eyes.

So they put you in a box and they put a lid on it.

And they buried me.

With the heads of your brother and father.

How'd that make you feel Mr. Radic?

My name is Regad.

Vukov Regad.

Your name is Peter Radic.

You ran a death squad called The Jokers.

Ten years ago, you killed a lot of families,

and you got no remorse.

- It was war. - It was murder.

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There's nothing you can do about that.

Nothing.

This the woman?

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She's Muslim?

You're under arrest for entering the United States

under a false identity.

An appetizer.

The big meal comes at The Hague.

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Clear.

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All clear here.

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Jimmy, take a look.

Trophy table.

Scalpel, cross the priest wore.

Murder weapon made holy.

Hey, guys, check this out.

Allah exalts the Black Widows of Chechnya.

I will be a true heroine of Islam.

I will die to achieve Allah's satisfaction.

Celebrate, for I will be welcome in Paradise.

Television news report the Radic rescue?

Story led on all the majors.

War criminal dug up with the heads of his family.

They say what hospital he's in?

Not by name but by pictures.

All right, we'll beef up all the units

at Saint Matthew's Hospital.

If she shows up, we'll be ready.

Zealot like Miriam, anything Christian can be a target.

Let's talk to her accomplice.

Steve, I've been reading up on you.

You've got a high school equivalency diploma.

You learned a trade.

You had what millions of Americans don't have.

A job.

You were improving your life.

And then something happened.

You got hooked up with Miriam.

You converted to Christianity when you first came to the U.S.

I didn't have a choice.

My new parents made me.

All of the prophets deliver the words of the same god,

whether you're a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim.

Finding Miriam here was a miracle.

She taught me revenge

is our sacred duty.

Sacred duty is to life, not death,

and Peter Radic didn't die.

No, we dug him up.

We got to him in time.

He ID'd you.

Your fingerprints were all over the box you buried him in.

Congratulations.

You saved the devil.

And Miriam?

She left a tape saying she was gonna kill herself.

You love her.

Don't you?

And everyone you ever loved has been taken from you.

Now, don't just sit there and allow her to die needlessly.

Now, you have to help us, Steve.

We don't have much time.

Now, please.

Please!

What does she plan to do?

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If we couldn't get Radic alone,

Miriam planned to get close to him and use a bomb.

Where would she get a bomb?

She knows a guy, a Macedonian Muslim.

He runs a printing shop near Sepulveda.

He has contacts to the right people.

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Policía!

Off the phones!

Policía!

Move!

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Everybody shut your radios off right now.

Let's get a bomb unit in here ASAP.

Let's clear out.

Crude ingredients, it can make quite an effective bomb.

A neighbor saw the owner leave

with a dark-haired woman in his minivan under an hour ago.

She's wearing jeans and a denim shirt.

And a bomb.

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Suspects are believed to be in a brown minivan.

California plates.

Four, Tom, Robert, Ida, Nine, Two, Two.

Request an APB on this vehicle.

Be advised vehicle may contain a bomb.

Use extreme caution.

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Bomb squad is sweeping the hospital,

undercovers on every floor,

metal detectors checking anyone who enters.

She could already be in there.

Evacuate the building?

Create more chaos, no way.

Put more targets in front of her.

Just clear the floor Radic is on.

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Suspect vehicle on Del Rey heading north past the hospital.

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Out of the car on the ground!

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Suspect female not found.

Repeat.

Miriam Nelson is not in the vehicle,

and there's no sign of a bomb.

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Possible suspect in west lot headed for the entrance.

I'm not sure, Jay.

Anyone see her face?

Looks just like our girl.

Detonator could be anywhere on her.

Yeah, or it could be on a remote.

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Come on, Joe, we can't let her walk into that building.

We have to give her a chance to give herself up.

Lady in the red hat, LAPD.

Put your hands over your head.

Get on the ground.

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It's not her!

Stand down, y'all, stand down.

All right, stand down, that's not our suspect.

You hear me, stand down.

Grab her, get out of here.

Come on, this way, this way, this way, this way.

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Suspect could still be on the premises.

Coop, Jimmy, join the search.

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Roll back video on camera five.

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Suspect is dressed as a nun, first floor.

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Joe!

Miriam, you don't have to do this!

Get your hands up over your head where we can see them.

Now!

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Everyone hold your positions until they disarm her!

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Psycho bitch.

We'll make all those people pay for this.

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It's always "those people."

The people who are different than us

and vilified because of it.

What I saw in the rent-a-cop's eyes,

I saw in Peter Radic and in Miriam Nelson.

Hatred masked under the guise of faith.

Miriam lived through horrible tragedies,

but her inability to walk away from violence

was the greatest tragedy of all.

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Steve Baylor was convicted of two counts murder

in the first degree, kidnapping, attempted murder and mayhem.

He is serving a life sentence

without the possibility of parole.

Peter Radic was charged by the World Court

for crimes against humanity.

He is serving a 20-year sentence.

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