1 00:00:41,650 --> 00:00:44,650 Who are you? 2 00:00:55,660 --> 00:00:56,660 Get one just right. 3 00:00:56,740 --> 00:00:59,200 It comes back night after night. 4 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,140 Sometimes for years on end. 5 00:01:02,620 --> 00:01:04,739 You gotta be kidding. What are you reading? 6 00:01:07,980 --> 00:01:09,320 What is this? 7 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,600 God, it's not bad enough you torture me when I'm awake. 8 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:19,100 Until all of my damn souls have been rounded up, there's no rest for you, Mr. 9 00:01:19,180 --> 00:01:20,600 Stone. Oh, come on. 10 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,000 I'm doing my job. 11 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:24,640 What do you want, a pat on the back? 12 00:01:25,450 --> 00:01:26,450 Stock options? 13 00:01:27,070 --> 00:01:28,110 Not by the company car. 14 00:01:30,730 --> 00:01:35,530 When not a single one of my wayward children wanders the earth to disturb 15 00:01:35,530 --> 00:01:39,030 natural order of things, you'll get your second chance at life on earth. 16 00:01:39,410 --> 00:01:40,450 As promised. 17 00:01:40,810 --> 00:01:41,850 If you keep your word. 18 00:01:42,210 --> 00:01:43,310 I always do. 19 00:01:44,830 --> 00:01:51,750 But remember, more tears have been shed for answered prayers than for those that 20 00:01:51,750 --> 00:01:52,850 go unheard. 21 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:55,280 Oh, wow. You're a poet now? 22 00:01:56,940 --> 00:01:59,180 You know, you should be grateful. You should be happy. 23 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:03,300 Every week I send one of these sinners back to hell. You do nothing but 24 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:05,640 complain. Don't get so cocky, detective. 25 00:02:06,340 --> 00:02:09,000 You know what overconfidence leads to, don't you? 26 00:02:10,060 --> 00:02:11,440 Getting bit in the ass. 27 00:02:12,060 --> 00:02:13,680 Believe me, I know. 28 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,480 Oh, my. I'm late for services. 29 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:22,120 Services? A dedicated group of devil -worshipping youths who've been 30 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:23,120 the Black Sabbath. 31 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,380 preparing to deep six their gym teacher, I'm going to give them a little 32 00:02:26,380 --> 00:02:27,380 inspiration. 33 00:02:28,020 --> 00:02:32,520 Oh, speaking of worship, you should spend more time in church. 34 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,900 Good for the soul. Or so I've been told. 35 00:02:54,220 --> 00:02:55,220 I was a cop. 36 00:02:56,340 --> 00:03:00,780 When my wife was raped, I caught the guy who did it, and I killed him. 37 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:03,920 Two months later, I died. 38 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:05,920 I went to hell. 39 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,080 113 of the most vile creatures escaped. 40 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,460 They think they'll beat the devil. Nobody beats me. 41 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,540 How am I supposed to send them back? 42 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,840 The eyes, windows to the soul. 43 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,340 Destroy the eyes of the damned. Get a one -way ticket back home to hell. 44 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,740 But it's not hell you should be scared of. 45 00:03:29,340 --> 00:03:31,700 It's losing your second chance at life on Earth. 46 00:03:31,940 --> 00:03:32,940 I believe it does. 47 00:03:51,910 --> 00:03:53,230 Any idea how this thing got started? 48 00:03:53,710 --> 00:03:56,090 Some kind of petroleum accelerator, probably gasoline. 49 00:03:56,450 --> 00:03:58,110 Yeah, that's what it sounds like. 50 00:03:58,590 --> 00:04:01,490 Wanted to get right to the point, didn't it? Yeah, but it's our same gang of neo 51 00:04:01,490 --> 00:04:04,190 -Nazis. Two synagogues, a mosque, and now a church. 52 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,160 Hey, Fraker, Fraker, wait a minute. 53 00:04:30,140 --> 00:04:31,500 McDowell, do you see anybody back there with you? 54 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:33,940 It's all clear over here, Detective Ash. 55 00:04:34,660 --> 00:04:35,660 No sign of disturbance. 56 00:05:09,230 --> 00:05:10,230 My cat Buster. 57 00:05:11,250 --> 00:05:13,810 You know, Buster's probably in cat heaven by now. 58 00:06:01,979 --> 00:06:02,979 Can I help you? 59 00:06:04,260 --> 00:06:07,660 Yeah, I'm looking for Rabbi Samuel Weisberg. 60 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,740 Please, Rabbi Sammy. 61 00:06:10,660 --> 00:06:13,040 Like Sammy Davis Jr., another great Jew. 62 00:06:14,020 --> 00:06:15,820 I'm Detective Ezekiel Stone. 63 00:06:16,060 --> 00:06:17,160 I want to ask you some questions. 64 00:06:17,500 --> 00:06:18,500 Okay, what about? 65 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,600 Why were you taking pictures of a burned -out Catholic church? 66 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:25,160 For my scrapbook? 67 00:06:31,180 --> 00:06:35,300 I've never seen a scrapbook quite like this. 68 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,900 The first knife was found in a burned synagogue. 69 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:44,500 The second, in a mosque that was also incinerated. And now, this, in a 70 00:06:44,500 --> 00:06:45,500 church. 71 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,420 An equal opportunity destroyer. 72 00:06:49,660 --> 00:06:52,720 Sorry, Rabbi, but what are these doing in your synagogue? Why aren't they in a 73 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:53,720 police evidence room? 74 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:55,040 We have our ways. 75 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:59,320 We? I belong to an interfaith committee that was created to help deal with these 76 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,380 tragedies. From the very beginning, the police have wanted to stereotype these 77 00:07:03,380 --> 00:07:05,580 crimes to fit them into some kind of pattern. 78 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,760 You're not buying into this neo -Nazi angle. No. Let me show you something. 79 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:16,240 The inscription on these blades is in an ancient Canaanite language that hasn't 80 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,140 been spoken for almost 4 ,000 years. 81 00:07:18,420 --> 00:07:19,540 That's something that's your... 82 00:07:20,140 --> 00:07:22,100 run -of -the -mill skinhead would appreciate. 83 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:23,920 That's right. I don't think so. 84 00:07:24,140 --> 00:07:30,980 Now, each knife contains a verse from an ancient pagan cycle describing a series 85 00:07:30,980 --> 00:07:36,560 of a ritual sacrifice to a serpent god. It starts with food, then it's moving on 86 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,180 to from smaller to larger animals. 87 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:46,760 And now, with this edition of yours, it's moving 88 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:47,860 on to a human sacrifice. 89 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:58,200 Nothing else? 90 00:07:59,780 --> 00:08:02,520 Not until the bastards burn down another holy place. 91 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:16,600 Excuse me. 92 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,760 I'm looking for a guy named Bush. Robert Bush. 93 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:22,840 Yes, sir. 94 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:32,539 This is one of your custom pieces at a place in Culver City called Jimmy G's. 95 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:40,240 Pretty expensive price tag on it. So I checked your background and saw that you 96 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,860 learned your craft at the metal shop in Folsom. 97 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:44,880 That's right, detective. 98 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:55,820 Special forces model. 99 00:08:59,530 --> 00:09:00,530 It's our biggest cellist. 100 00:09:09,430 --> 00:09:12,990 Sharp. Your guts could be spilling out on the floor right now. You wouldn't 101 00:09:12,990 --> 00:09:13,990 feel it would catch you. 102 00:09:15,810 --> 00:09:20,870 Why don't we go into my office? We'll be more comfortable there. 103 00:09:38,730 --> 00:09:42,990 I'd like to bring those new world order Marxist journalists in here just so I 104 00:09:42,990 --> 00:09:46,150 can look at the expression on their faces. 105 00:09:46,570 --> 00:09:48,130 Kind of like yours right now. 106 00:09:48,410 --> 00:09:49,430 Yeah, I suppose so. 107 00:09:51,410 --> 00:09:54,550 You know, I'm up front about who I am, detective. 108 00:09:55,070 --> 00:09:56,070 What about you? 109 00:09:56,710 --> 00:09:58,030 Can you say the same thing? 110 00:10:01,110 --> 00:10:04,950 You know, I just need your opinion on this here, all right? I need you to look 111 00:10:04,950 --> 00:10:05,950 at this. 112 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:16,600 It's Damascus steel. 113 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:18,120 Old? 114 00:10:18,780 --> 00:10:21,500 No, the technique goes back to the earliest sword makers. 115 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,300 But this knife was made recently. 116 00:10:23,540 --> 00:10:25,880 These alloys didn't exist five years ago. 117 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:28,340 Whoever made this really knew their stuff. 118 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:30,280 Is this something you could make? 119 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:32,160 Yeah. 120 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:35,700 But it's not my style. 121 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,160 I'm into pure functionality. Nobody's going to walk down the street carrying 122 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,200 that. Well, if you didn't make it, who could? 123 00:10:44,670 --> 00:10:45,670 Beats me. 124 00:10:45,690 --> 00:10:47,570 Oh, let's hope it doesn't come to that. 125 00:10:51,390 --> 00:10:52,390 Oh, 126 00:10:53,670 --> 00:10:55,310 personally, Detective, I don't think it could. 127 00:10:59,590 --> 00:11:00,030 When I 128 00:11:00,030 --> 00:11:06,870 dance all 129 00:11:06,870 --> 00:11:08,250 night here, you could start talking. 130 00:11:12,540 --> 00:11:14,460 Three, maybe four guys on the West Coast. 131 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:22,960 What? 132 00:11:25,660 --> 00:11:26,660 Name and address? 133 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,500 It's gonna take more than your hands to get that out of me. 134 00:11:30,220 --> 00:11:31,220 Yeah, but you're a liar. 135 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:33,680 And you got the wrong enemy, Stone. 136 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,140 The Millennium's coming, man. It's gonna be war in the streets. And the only 137 00:11:37,140 --> 00:11:39,160 uniform that's gonna matter is the color of your skin. 138 00:11:41,390 --> 00:11:43,230 You know where I'm going to be on that New Year's Eve? 139 00:11:45,630 --> 00:11:46,630 Having a party. 140 00:11:46,850 --> 00:11:47,990 Probably in Times Square. 141 00:11:50,990 --> 00:11:51,990 Hey, Stone. 142 00:12:10,890 --> 00:12:11,890 Amen. 143 00:12:42,250 --> 00:12:43,550 Put your hands where I can see them. 144 00:12:44,270 --> 00:12:45,270 Sergeant Ash. 145 00:12:51,970 --> 00:12:56,030 You know, we've got to stop meeting like this. You're very lucky I was on watch 146 00:12:56,030 --> 00:12:59,690 tonight. We've been running an intercept on their alarm system just in case 147 00:12:59,690 --> 00:13:01,030 something like this happened. 148 00:13:01,430 --> 00:13:03,290 I thought you came here just to see me. 149 00:13:03,830 --> 00:13:07,270 You know, you keep confusing my interest in my job with my interest in something 150 00:13:07,270 --> 00:13:10,130 else. What exactly are you doing here? 151 00:13:11,310 --> 00:13:12,310 Same thing you are. 152 00:13:12,950 --> 00:13:13,950 Really? 153 00:13:15,130 --> 00:13:17,750 Okay. What is your take on this guy, Bush, then? 154 00:13:18,750 --> 00:13:19,750 I don't know. 155 00:13:20,030 --> 00:13:21,530 He's just a front man. 156 00:13:22,270 --> 00:13:25,010 One of these clowns who likes too much attention to be our guy. And the one 157 00:13:25,010 --> 00:13:28,010 we're looking for has got to be one of his clients, employees, something like 158 00:13:28,010 --> 00:13:29,890 that. While you're here, why don't we take a look around? 159 00:13:30,190 --> 00:13:32,690 You're not going to find much here. This guy's clean as a whistle. 160 00:13:32,930 --> 00:13:35,190 You're just looking in the wrong places, that's all. 161 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,380 No one keeps information on paper anymore. Where have you been? 162 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:43,600 Employee records, invoices. 163 00:13:44,420 --> 00:13:46,060 We're never going to get through all this tonight. 164 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,100 Yeah, that's why we will take it with us. 165 00:13:56,100 --> 00:13:57,200 Smile. We're on camera. 166 00:13:58,780 --> 00:13:59,780 Hello. 167 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,500 All right. 168 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,160 Well, look, it's Starsky and Hutch. 169 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:26,480 So I guess I'm not under arrest, huh? 170 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:28,040 Not unless you want to be. 171 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,000 How long have you been with the LAPD? 172 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:33,439 Not long. 173 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:34,440 Transferred from Miami. 174 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:36,040 I like the heat. I'm used to it. 175 00:14:36,660 --> 00:14:37,660 How about you? 176 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:39,920 Me? Oh, no, I hate the heat. 177 00:14:41,230 --> 00:14:45,810 I ended up heat the last, uh... Never mind. 178 00:14:52,490 --> 00:14:53,610 I'm not tired, are you? 179 00:14:56,470 --> 00:15:01,690 I like a little breaking and entering to get me revved up. 180 00:15:04,390 --> 00:15:07,730 You, um... Would you like a lick? 181 00:15:11,020 --> 00:15:12,020 Sure. 182 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:17,200 So I'm curious, what really brings a burned out New York cop all the way out 183 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:18,200 here? 184 00:15:19,620 --> 00:15:22,940 Oh, I don't know. Let's just call it an extended leave of absence. 185 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,160 It's personal business. Yeah, like hell. 186 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,100 I know you're working on something, running around all my crime scenes with 187 00:15:33,100 --> 00:15:34,100 jurisdiction. 188 00:15:35,050 --> 00:15:38,410 There are branches of law enforcement that don't recognize local boundaries. 189 00:15:38,650 --> 00:15:43,750 Yeah, maybe. Maybe that still doesn't explain this guy getting in my face on 190 00:15:43,750 --> 00:15:47,830 these cases now, does it? Good looking, with a big gun, just my type. But 191 00:15:47,830 --> 00:15:49,430 there's only one problem. 192 00:15:49,630 --> 00:15:50,469 What's that? 193 00:15:50,470 --> 00:15:54,190 In all the cases, the perp turns up missing. 194 00:15:56,130 --> 00:15:57,130 So what are you? 195 00:15:57,250 --> 00:15:58,970 Some kind of vigilante or something? 196 00:16:00,150 --> 00:16:01,250 Just this one. 197 00:16:08,010 --> 00:16:09,230 What a detective you are. 198 00:16:11,170 --> 00:16:14,670 How about you? Is there a Mrs. Man of Mystery in the picture? 199 00:16:16,210 --> 00:16:17,210 Yeah. 200 00:16:18,270 --> 00:16:19,270 There is. 201 00:16:20,950 --> 00:16:23,010 So when was the last time you saw her? 202 00:16:27,590 --> 00:16:28,930 I don't even know where she is. 203 00:16:32,470 --> 00:16:35,090 That's just complicated enough for me. 204 00:16:58,369 --> 00:16:59,890 Come on, let's dance. 205 00:17:00,290 --> 00:17:03,110 Perfect. Most nights I end up dancing alone. 206 00:17:03,730 --> 00:17:04,730 Not tonight, okay? 207 00:17:05,450 --> 00:17:07,609 Huh? Oh my God. 208 00:17:08,310 --> 00:17:10,130 Come on, it'll be fun. 209 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:17,520 I heard you. 210 00:17:46,710 --> 00:17:52,310 When the darkness in our soul comes alive 211 00:17:52,310 --> 00:17:57,710 Sometimes when you want to say 212 00:17:57,710 --> 00:18:03,190 Sometimes you don't take it right 213 00:18:03,190 --> 00:18:08,910 It's too much for you to take 214 00:18:08,910 --> 00:18:12,230 And it feels like there is 215 00:18:30,060 --> 00:18:31,060 Having a good time? 216 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:17,360 I like milk. 217 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:37,240 Hello. 218 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:42,040 Come in. 219 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:43,120 Thank you. 220 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:45,520 How'd you find me? 221 00:19:45,820 --> 00:19:47,120 Yeah, I'm a detective just like you. 222 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,520 Wow, this place kind of needs them, doesn't it? 223 00:19:51,740 --> 00:19:54,860 What? A little disinfectant and a fire hose, perhaps? 224 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,400 Want some coffee? Sure, wow. 225 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:00,860 Didn't take you for an animal lover. 226 00:20:04,220 --> 00:20:06,720 Oh, yeah, he's a little skittish. 227 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:08,620 Yeah, just like his owner. 228 00:20:08,900 --> 00:20:11,440 Yeah, um, listen, um... 229 00:20:13,930 --> 00:20:15,350 I'm sorry about last night. 230 00:20:15,850 --> 00:20:16,850 Yeah, me too. 231 00:20:17,830 --> 00:20:21,870 After you ran out on me, I went back to headquarters to drown my sorrows in 232 00:20:21,870 --> 00:20:22,870 work. 233 00:20:23,990 --> 00:20:26,190 I had a technician decode Bush's employment records. 234 00:20:26,730 --> 00:20:29,530 That cross -references the names of the departmental records? Yep, exactly. 235 00:20:30,410 --> 00:20:31,410 Found what? 236 00:20:31,550 --> 00:20:38,150 Well, um... Hey, you know, there's two ways we can do this. I can accidentally 237 00:20:38,150 --> 00:20:42,150 leave this here, go get myself a real cup of coffee, and then remember where I 238 00:20:42,150 --> 00:20:43,150 put this. 239 00:20:43,210 --> 00:20:44,210 That's where the other one is. 240 00:20:44,730 --> 00:20:46,750 You come with me to check this guy out. What do you say? 241 00:20:49,030 --> 00:20:51,490 What did I do to deserve this special treatment? 242 00:20:51,870 --> 00:20:53,110 Hey, nothing special about it. 243 00:20:53,750 --> 00:20:55,130 Just wanted you where I can see you. 244 00:20:57,370 --> 00:20:59,030 The name is Lee Varner. 245 00:20:59,390 --> 00:21:03,070 He's got convictions going back 14 years for arson hate crime. 246 00:21:03,830 --> 00:21:05,270 Ah, that's not our guy. 247 00:21:05,590 --> 00:21:06,590 Really? Why not? 248 00:21:06,630 --> 00:21:09,530 The guy we're looking for had to have disappeared a long, long time ago. 249 00:21:10,730 --> 00:21:11,970 Almost like he, uh... 250 00:21:12,770 --> 00:21:13,770 Came back from the dead. 251 00:21:14,930 --> 00:21:16,290 Where do you get this stuff? 252 00:21:16,710 --> 00:21:17,710 Call it a hunch. 253 00:21:18,270 --> 00:21:20,430 Well, you're gonna love this hunch, boy. 254 00:21:20,650 --> 00:21:23,950 Varner was supposed to have died two years ago in his last fire. 255 00:21:24,170 --> 00:21:27,790 The body was burned so badly, the ID was never 100 % positive. 256 00:21:30,150 --> 00:21:31,150 That's more like it. 257 00:21:32,030 --> 00:21:33,410 The Mayo Clinic. 258 00:21:33,790 --> 00:21:34,790 That's what I called it. 259 00:21:35,070 --> 00:21:37,950 I never had a tenant leave a place so clean, especially a young man. 260 00:21:38,190 --> 00:21:40,670 Not so much as a youth. So, uh, when did he leave? 261 00:21:42,190 --> 00:21:43,590 Yesterday, one hour's notice. 262 00:21:44,190 --> 00:21:45,590 Didn't say a word about the deposit. 263 00:21:46,610 --> 00:21:48,350 Boy, do I wish they were all like that. 264 00:21:53,190 --> 00:21:54,490 Believe me, you don't. 265 00:21:56,630 --> 00:21:58,190 Pull the door shut on your way out. 266 00:21:59,830 --> 00:22:02,550 Well, scouring powder. 267 00:22:02,750 --> 00:22:03,790 We're not going to find any prints here. 268 00:22:04,110 --> 00:22:05,110 White by a pro. 269 00:22:05,810 --> 00:22:06,890 Yeah, he must have been a warrant. 270 00:22:07,350 --> 00:22:08,350 Probably by Bush. 271 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,140 wrong. Something's too impersonal about this. 272 00:22:21,500 --> 00:22:22,500 Freeze, police! 273 00:22:23,860 --> 00:22:24,860 I'm sorry. 274 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,160 Sorry, are you okay? 275 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:27,760 Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. 276 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,300 And they say postal workers are gun happy. 277 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:32,780 A young man with an attitude. 278 00:22:35,860 --> 00:22:38,300 What are you doing? 279 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:46,660 Pardon me for interrupting you here, but that happens to be a federal crime. 280 00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:48,880 Is that within your jurisdiction, too? 281 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:50,660 I answered with a lower power. 282 00:22:52,220 --> 00:22:54,020 This is from a pipe manufacturer. 283 00:22:54,580 --> 00:22:56,500 The pipes were sent to a different address. 284 00:22:56,900 --> 00:22:58,100 That's up the coast from here. 285 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,080 Postmarked in Sacramento six weeks ago. 286 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,040 Some things never change. 287 00:23:07,340 --> 00:23:09,740 Well, looks like somebody's home. 288 00:23:11,310 --> 00:23:12,930 Ever heard of the concept of backup? 289 00:23:13,290 --> 00:23:14,290 Backup? 290 00:23:15,710 --> 00:23:16,850 I got your back. 291 00:23:35,710 --> 00:23:36,850 Oh, look at this. 292 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:43,540 A bomb factory. 293 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:46,300 Okay, let's clear out and call for some backup. 294 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:47,640 We need some experts in here. 295 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:53,880 Hey. 296 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,020 What are you doing back there, bud? 297 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:57,760 What's up? 298 00:23:58,380 --> 00:24:00,280 Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's all right. Relax. 299 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:01,520 What are you doing? 300 00:24:01,740 --> 00:24:02,740 Do you have any questions? 301 00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:25,300 Zeke, you okay? 302 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:27,240 Yeah, I'm fine. 303 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,039 Damn it. 304 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:31,380 I love this coat. 305 00:24:37,420 --> 00:24:42,140 You, uh, saved my life. I risked yours to do it. 306 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,680 How do you adequately thank someone for doing a thing like that? 307 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,140 What is your name? 308 00:25:07,180 --> 00:25:12,920 Do you know anything about the fire at the Glad Tidings Church on Central 309 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:13,920 Avenue? 310 00:25:16,460 --> 00:25:18,440 Are you listening to me, Lee? 311 00:25:19,340 --> 00:25:22,300 I want you to tell me what you know about the fire at the Glad Tidings 312 00:25:22,300 --> 00:25:23,300 two years ago. 313 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,000 No. No what? 314 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:26,600 No. 315 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:31,240 I don't know anything about that. 316 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:34,740 I've never heard of that church. 317 00:25:37,820 --> 00:25:42,280 Well, have you ever been to St. Mary's Catholic Church in Hollywood? 318 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:44,200 No. 319 00:25:49,550 --> 00:25:52,570 We went at him with everything we had. He passed a lie detector test. It wasn't 320 00:25:52,570 --> 00:25:53,570 even borderline. 321 00:25:53,630 --> 00:25:56,290 Okay, five minutes alone with him. That's all I need. 322 00:25:56,810 --> 00:25:57,809 Thank you. 323 00:25:57,810 --> 00:25:59,050 Sounds like you're out for vengeance. 324 00:26:00,170 --> 00:26:01,430 Repentance. Well, 325 00:26:02,690 --> 00:26:03,970 there's an old -fashioned concept. 326 00:26:04,930 --> 00:26:07,990 I'm an old -fashioned guy. Listen, I just need five minutes. 327 00:26:08,790 --> 00:26:10,070 Five minutes alone with Varner. 328 00:26:43,350 --> 00:26:49,570 I'm not going to make you regret this, are you? 329 00:26:50,090 --> 00:26:51,990 It's a police station, what can happen? 330 00:26:59,140 --> 00:27:00,140 Where is he, sir? 331 00:27:00,780 --> 00:27:01,780 Officer? 332 00:27:03,140 --> 00:27:04,140 Officer! 333 00:27:06,580 --> 00:27:07,600 Hey, where are you going? 334 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,000 Oh, Detective Stone. 335 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,720 Didn't expect to see you so soon. I was just studying the Torah, but for you, 336 00:27:19,740 --> 00:27:20,960 I'll take five. Tell me. 337 00:27:21,370 --> 00:27:23,050 Exactly. Who is this culprit? 338 00:27:23,670 --> 00:27:25,830 The one who got away? 339 00:27:26,210 --> 00:27:29,010 Well, his name's Lee Varner. 340 00:27:30,370 --> 00:27:34,530 Okay. And why is Lee Varner burning Place of Worship? 341 00:27:35,670 --> 00:27:40,830 I don't know. Maybe he was burned at the stake in the Dark Ages, or maybe the 342 00:27:40,830 --> 00:27:42,310 nuns beat him up in catechism. 343 00:27:43,610 --> 00:27:44,610 Excuse me? 344 00:27:45,810 --> 00:27:46,810 Forget it. 345 00:27:47,110 --> 00:27:48,250 Oh, no, I'm sorry. That's me. 346 00:27:51,290 --> 00:27:52,290 Rabbi Sammy here. 347 00:27:54,230 --> 00:27:55,230 Yes. 348 00:27:56,170 --> 00:27:57,170 Yes, right. 349 00:27:57,490 --> 00:27:58,490 Okay, right away. 350 00:27:59,250 --> 00:28:03,170 I'm afraid this is the call we've been waiting for. It's a mosque downtown on 351 00:28:03,170 --> 00:28:04,550 4th Street. There's been a break -in. 352 00:28:05,350 --> 00:28:06,350 4th Street? 353 00:29:07,270 --> 00:29:08,270 Bye. Bye. 354 00:29:43,629 --> 00:29:45,210 What the hell is that all about? 355 00:29:47,850 --> 00:29:48,850 He's not the one. 356 00:29:49,310 --> 00:29:50,310 What? 357 00:29:50,870 --> 00:29:53,810 Cut him in the axe, don't. That boy is somewhere over the rainbow. 358 00:29:54,550 --> 00:29:55,850 He's not the one. I made a mistake. 359 00:29:56,170 --> 00:29:57,170 His name is Bush. 360 00:29:58,570 --> 00:29:59,570 Okay, why? 361 00:30:00,470 --> 00:30:01,690 I can't tell you why. 362 00:30:01,930 --> 00:30:05,330 No matter how cooperative I am with you, you keep playing games with me. 363 00:30:06,130 --> 00:30:07,130 Who's your source? 364 00:30:08,610 --> 00:30:12,110 If I told you, you wouldn't believe. Well, try me. I'm just a little fed up 365 00:30:12,110 --> 00:30:14,890 you being so mysterious all the time. I'm not being mysterious. I'm just 366 00:30:14,890 --> 00:30:17,970 to solve the case. Well, that's fine. All I'm asking is for you to be straight 367 00:30:17,970 --> 00:30:18,829 with me. 368 00:30:18,830 --> 00:30:19,749 I am. 369 00:30:19,750 --> 00:30:23,310 All right, with your hunches and theories and things that little birdies 370 00:30:23,310 --> 00:30:25,130 you, hell, maybe you got a Ouija board under your bed, huh? 371 00:30:26,390 --> 00:30:28,790 It's like you're deliberately withholding information. 372 00:30:29,470 --> 00:30:31,810 I'm withholding nothing you need to know. 373 00:30:32,930 --> 00:30:36,930 Why don't you trust me, Zeke? I have put up with so much of your crap, and I 374 00:30:36,930 --> 00:30:39,270 don't even know why. Sorry. All right, I'm sorry. 375 00:30:40,140 --> 00:30:42,200 the best I can under the circumstances. 376 00:30:42,620 --> 00:30:44,440 Now, kiddies, let's not have a lover's quarrel. 377 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,600 What we're having here, Fraker, is a professional disagreement. 378 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,700 Whether Varner's a babbling psycho or a choir boy, we caught him red -handed. I 379 00:30:54,700 --> 00:30:57,640 say the case is closed. No, you're wrong. I'm filing this with the DA's 380 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,180 whether you approve or not. 381 00:30:59,500 --> 00:31:00,500 Fine. Fine. 382 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:32,640 Excuse me. May I help you? Yeah, I just want to get some flowers for a... What 383 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:33,640 are you seeking? 384 00:31:34,260 --> 00:31:35,260 Repentance? 385 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:36,920 No? 386 00:31:37,780 --> 00:31:41,000 Forgiveness. For what? For making a mockery of your task? 387 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,340 I just want to buy some flowers for a friend. 388 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,760 Sorry to remind you, Ezekiel, but you have no friends. 389 00:31:47,260 --> 00:31:48,260 You're dead. 390 00:31:48,620 --> 00:31:52,700 In fact, you are not merely dead. You're really most sincerely dead. 391 00:31:54,700 --> 00:31:56,980 Is that from The Wizard of Oz? I hate that movie. 392 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:04,860 I just want some flowers. Some flowers for this lady you keep running into, 393 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:10,500 Oh, she is really doing a number on you, isn't she? Going right to your heart 394 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:11,479 and soul. 395 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,800 When are you going to tell her the truth about your condition? 396 00:32:15,460 --> 00:32:18,600 I haven't come quite to figure that out yet. 397 00:32:18,860 --> 00:32:22,360 I haven't really worked that out yet. Listen to yourself. 398 00:32:23,150 --> 00:32:27,130 Take your head out of Cupid's ass, Ezekiel. You've got more pressing 399 00:32:27,130 --> 00:32:28,130 take care of. 400 00:32:28,790 --> 00:32:30,430 How much are the flowers? 401 00:32:30,750 --> 00:32:31,770 Thirty -six bucks. 402 00:32:32,030 --> 00:32:33,150 Twenty -seven cents. 403 00:32:33,590 --> 00:32:37,490 But for you, my friend, on the house. 404 00:32:38,750 --> 00:32:41,730 Did you know the thorns were originally my idea? 405 00:32:50,550 --> 00:32:52,310 How nice. Someone bought you flowers. 406 00:32:53,770 --> 00:32:54,890 Come on. Good for you. 407 00:32:56,110 --> 00:32:57,710 How do you know I don't hate roses? 408 00:32:59,270 --> 00:33:00,270 Calculated risk. 409 00:33:00,730 --> 00:33:01,870 Story of my life. 410 00:33:02,290 --> 00:33:06,870 It's what you give someone when you can't quite say you're sorry. 411 00:33:13,750 --> 00:33:17,070 So, Zeke, this might interest you. 412 00:33:17,290 --> 00:33:21,570 I had someone down at NYPD personnel dig a little deeper for me. 413 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:26,220 It seems that Detective Ezekiel Stone has been dead for 15 years. 414 00:33:27,620 --> 00:33:32,920 Either you faked your death, or you're faking your life. It's playing. It's 415 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:33,920 being somebody else. 416 00:33:35,580 --> 00:33:36,580 Let's go. 417 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,600 No. Just get the hell out of here. 418 00:35:34,060 --> 00:35:35,240 Way to do your stretch. 419 00:35:36,860 --> 00:35:38,060 McNeil Island, Quentin? 420 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:42,680 No. 421 00:35:43,540 --> 00:35:44,540 It's worse. 422 00:35:45,980 --> 00:35:48,600 It's funny that I knew all the prison gang tattoos. 423 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:25,520 What's the matter? 424 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:27,520 I don't know you. 425 00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:31,460 I thought I did, but I don't. 426 00:36:45,260 --> 00:36:48,020 Varna's cursing God and praising pagan idols. 427 00:36:48,420 --> 00:36:51,620 But he's using the most ancient biblical given name of God. 428 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:57,920 Yahweh. Yahweh defeated the pagan gods of the Old Testament age, Baal, El, the 429 00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:58,920 serpent deities. 430 00:36:59,020 --> 00:37:02,260 The spread of faith in one God vanquished them. It shattered the 431 00:37:02,260 --> 00:37:03,260 their worshippers. 432 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:09,240 And today, Yahweh is the godhead of all Jews, Christians, and Muslims. 433 00:37:10,540 --> 00:37:14,600 So we have a serial arsonist who's got a grudge against God? And God's people. 434 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:19,100 If this vonar had succeeded in burning our mosque, it would have devastated the 435 00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:20,100 entire community. 436 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:22,860 All right, what else does he say? 437 00:37:23,180 --> 00:37:24,180 Listen to this. 438 00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:32,980 I'm not sure what all of it means. 439 00:37:33,460 --> 00:37:37,000 But most of the other sounds were the nouns representing the objects of 440 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,000 sacrifice. 441 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,840 A cat, a goat, various items of food. 442 00:37:42,940 --> 00:37:45,960 This should be the name of another sacrificial object. 443 00:37:46,380 --> 00:37:50,620 And you said this thing ends with a... It's a human sacrifice, yes. 444 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:55,680 It is, and these sounds could very well represent the name of an intended 445 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:56,680 victim. 446 00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,040 Ash. 447 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,720 What is it, detective? 448 00:38:05,940 --> 00:38:06,940 Who are you calling? 449 00:38:07,020 --> 00:38:08,240 The name, Ash. 450 00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:09,480 You know it? 451 00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:12,280 Yeah, it's the name of the detective in charge of this case. 452 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:14,720 Yeah, Fraker here. 453 00:38:15,220 --> 00:38:16,720 Fraker Stone, is Ash there? 454 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,320 I assume you didn't get the message? 455 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:20,640 What message? 456 00:38:20,830 --> 00:38:24,490 Oh, she had me call that run -down fleabag where you sleep to tell you to 457 00:38:24,490 --> 00:38:27,510 her at St. Mary's. I don't know something about you being right about 458 00:38:30,610 --> 00:38:33,590 Thank you. 459 00:38:56,299 --> 00:38:59,100 What? What? 460 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,580 I didn't really know who you were, Zeke. 461 00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:39,300 I wouldn't believe what I was thinking until last night. 462 00:39:40,260 --> 00:39:44,700 When I saw my name tattooed to your chest. 463 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,100 You lied to me. 464 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,160 Oh, you're one to talk. 465 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,160 It's not the same. 466 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:55,580 I didn't lie like this. 467 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:00,840 What'd you do? 468 00:40:02,860 --> 00:40:04,060 Why were you in hell, Ash? 469 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:09,300 My daughter. 470 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:14,480 My little girl. 471 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,080 I killed her. 472 00:40:18,660 --> 00:40:19,660 What? 473 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:25,860 Don't judge me. 474 00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:29,220 Don't you dare judge me. I loved her. 475 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,740 So I sacrificed her to my gods. 476 00:40:33,460 --> 00:40:35,900 It was a great honor I gave her. 477 00:40:36,140 --> 00:40:37,140 An honor? 478 00:40:39,620 --> 00:40:40,740 Sick, Ash. 479 00:40:40,940 --> 00:40:41,940 To you, maybe. 480 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,900 But to me, it was the greatest honor I could have given her. 481 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:51,060 We're talking 4 ,000 years ago, Zeke. Before Yahweh. 482 00:40:51,340 --> 00:40:55,760 His self -righteous followers destroyed everything and everyone I knew. 483 00:40:55,980 --> 00:40:59,420 And after I was slaughtered, in the name of the one God, 484 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,680 I was judged by his rules, not by mine. 485 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,100 Judged and condemned, just like you. 486 00:41:10,260 --> 00:41:11,520 Not like me. 487 00:41:13,340 --> 00:41:14,840 Nothing like me. 488 00:41:15,620 --> 00:41:17,760 So what, you're burning churches now? 489 00:41:19,020 --> 00:41:20,020 For what? 490 00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:22,640 Revenge. Against who? 491 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,040 Come on, Zeke, you're a detective, you figure it out. 492 00:41:26,860 --> 00:41:27,860 Against God? 493 00:41:59,419 --> 00:42:01,440 There is no Ashti. 494 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:04,400 I never was. 495 00:42:05,300 --> 00:42:12,120 I am Ashura Badaktu of the Temple of Tyr, priestess of Ashura, the 496 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:13,120 Serpent Queen. 497 00:42:15,460 --> 00:42:20,420 I'm going to destroy this world's self -righteous faith in one god. 498 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:21,380 Why didn't you pull the trigger? 499 00:43:24,500 --> 00:43:26,080 You're afraid of her, aren't you? 500 00:43:28,020 --> 00:43:30,820 You have no idea how dangerous she is. 501 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,840 Why was she running around playing cop all this time? Same reason you are. To 502 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,260 track down all the damn souls. 503 00:43:37,580 --> 00:43:39,980 Only in her case it's to get rid of the competition. 504 00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:42,420 The ones who don't want to play on her team. 505 00:43:46,250 --> 00:43:49,590 You think you've stopped her from burning any more houses of God? 506 00:43:50,990 --> 00:43:51,990 Don't fool yourself. 507 00:43:52,890 --> 00:43:53,890 She'll be back. 508 00:43:54,510 --> 00:43:55,510 I know her. 509 00:43:58,690 --> 00:44:00,950 She was the ringleader, wasn't she? 510 00:44:02,210 --> 00:44:04,150 The brains behind the breakout. 511 00:44:04,590 --> 00:44:05,590 What do you think? 512 00:44:07,430 --> 00:44:08,430 And you? 513 00:44:09,210 --> 00:44:10,210 You fool. 514 00:44:10,830 --> 00:44:12,970 You've fallen in love with her, haven't you? 515 00:44:13,510 --> 00:44:14,870 That's why she's so dangerous. 516 00:44:15,390 --> 00:44:17,610 So powerful. Power over the heart. 517 00:44:17,990 --> 00:44:19,870 The strongest weapon of all. 518 00:44:25,190 --> 00:44:27,250 That's how she got away from you. 519 00:44:31,310 --> 00:44:32,670 Don't be a fool. 520 00:44:33,310 --> 00:44:35,810 The only thing I ever loved was God. 521 00:44:42,890 --> 00:44:44,890 And that was a long... 522 00:44:45,260 --> 00:44:46,260 Time ago.