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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Subtitles by Ajeesh Vijayan 2 00:03:19,967 --> 00:03:21,472 A week ago, the only thing 3 00:03:21,572 --> 00:03:22,300 I thought was... 4 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,925 Out of the ordinary was that it was my birthday. 5 00:03:49,134 --> 00:03:52,234 Sorry. 6 00:03:52,234 --> 00:03:54,234 I�m just bored. 7 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:57,800 Oh. 8 00:04:09,301 --> 00:04:11,400 Unit 5, come in. 9 00:04:12,934 --> 00:04:15,167 Unit 5, come in. 10 00:04:15,167 --> 00:04:17,167 Do you read me, unit 5? 11 00:04:18,934 --> 00:04:20,159 Of course, things 12 00:04:20,259 --> 00:04:22,259 Didn't really start here. 13 00:04:27,967 --> 00:04:31,067 * I�ll have a blue... * 14 00:04:31,067 --> 00:04:33,567 How do I look? 15 00:04:33,567 --> 00:04:35,567 The truth? - I look like... 16 00:04:35,569 --> 00:04:37,201 a rock star, don't I? 17 00:04:37,301 --> 00:04:39,663 You look great. - Hey, what's going on... 18 00:04:39,763 --> 00:04:40,300 with you? 19 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:41,478 What? - Why are you acting... 20 00:04:41,578 --> 00:04:41,934 so weird? 21 00:04:42,034 --> 00:04:43,272 What do you mean? - You got drugs on you? 22 00:04:43,372 --> 00:04:43,934 Smoking cigarettes? 23 00:04:44,034 --> 00:04:45,701 Huh? Oh, just holding them for a friend, huh? 24 00:04:45,801 --> 00:04:46,400 Have a good time. 25 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:48,533 Ha ha. - have a good time. 26 00:04:48,533 --> 00:04:51,567 Aggie, you okay? 27 00:04:53,234 --> 00:04:56,667 Sexy. 28 00:04:56,667 --> 00:04:58,834 Do you hate me? 29 00:04:58,834 --> 00:05:00,634 As much now as the day I met you. 30 00:05:00,734 --> 00:05:02,857 You know, I might be contagious. 31 00:05:02,957 --> 00:05:04,168 I could be immune. 32 00:05:04,268 --> 00:05:07,333 What about the party? - Like they're gonna miss me. 33 00:05:07,433 --> 00:05:10,368 What about the cake? 34 00:05:10,368 --> 00:05:12,126 I�d like two words... 35 00:05:12,226 --> 00:05:13,168 on my tombstone--... 36 00:05:13,268 --> 00:05:15,368 'What if?' 37 00:05:15,368 --> 00:05:18,600 What if I had said screw the cake? 38 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,134 Single tonight, Walter? 39 00:05:20,234 --> 00:05:22,533 Not actually, no. 40 00:05:22,533 --> 00:05:25,101 Oh, hey! - Oh, come on. 41 00:05:25,101 --> 00:05:26,293 Why don't you wag your tail at me... 42 00:05:26,393 --> 00:05:27,134 in the bitches' room? 43 00:05:27,234 --> 00:05:28,700 Sybil. 44 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,077 What if I had been... 45 00:05:30,177 --> 00:05:30,634 a bit more... 46 00:05:30,734 --> 00:05:32,367 Sybil, I wouldn't wag my tail in the bathroom... 47 00:05:32,467 --> 00:05:35,300 with you if you were the last bitch on earth. 48 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,700 ...tactful? 49 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:41,400 Sparrow, I repeat. 50 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,834 We have an unidentified scavenger sighting. 51 00:05:43,934 --> 00:05:45,534 It�s one minute to 5:00, Sybil. 52 00:05:45,634 --> 00:05:48,767 Then we're agreed you're still on duty. 53 00:05:50,934 --> 00:05:53,934 Mm-hmm, yeah, sure. 54 00:05:55,067 --> 00:05:57,967 Sounds delicious. Can I get it to go? 55 00:06:00,268 --> 00:06:02,467 Right. 56 00:06:02,467 --> 00:06:05,634 Okay okay. 57 00:06:15,467 --> 00:06:18,634 Come to papa. 58 00:06:18,634 --> 00:06:20,234 Maybe you'd like to hear a story. 59 00:06:20,334 --> 00:06:22,767 Hmm? 60 00:06:22,767 --> 00:06:25,967 Yeah, once upon a time... 61 00:06:25,967 --> 00:06:28,101 there was a dog... 62 00:06:28,101 --> 00:06:29,734 who lived a life of terror, 63 00:06:29,834 --> 00:06:32,934 feared no one. 64 00:06:32,934 --> 00:06:36,467 But although his teeth were sharp... 65 00:06:36,467 --> 00:06:39,734 and his belly full, 66 00:06:39,734 --> 00:06:41,234 his heart was empty. 67 00:06:41,334 --> 00:06:44,400 He decided to go on a journey... 68 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,268 to a land far far away, 69 00:06:48,268 --> 00:06:51,800 where he came upon a wooden shack one day... 70 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,301 with a thin old man inside. 71 00:06:55,301 --> 00:06:58,034 And he invited him in. 72 00:06:58,034 --> 00:07:00,234 The dog... 73 00:07:00,234 --> 00:07:03,700 was overjoyed. 74 00:07:03,700 --> 00:07:05,534 And that night... 75 00:07:05,634 --> 00:07:08,867 warm smoke billowed from the chimney above, 76 00:07:08,867 --> 00:07:11,067 but, oh... 77 00:07:11,067 --> 00:07:14,067 what an odd-smelling smoke this was. 78 00:07:14,067 --> 00:07:17,301 You see, the land was China. 79 00:07:18,467 --> 00:07:21,301 And in China, 80 00:07:21,301 --> 00:07:24,368 they eat dog. 81 00:07:24,368 --> 00:07:26,467 Whoa! Ooh! 82 00:07:28,167 --> 00:07:31,500 Let me see who your irresponsible owner is. 83 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,400 Oh, god! 84 00:07:50,234 --> 00:07:52,234 Damn it! 85 00:07:54,667 --> 00:07:57,934 Didn�t like my story, huh? 86 00:07:57,934 --> 00:08:01,667 That�s all right. I can take criticism. 87 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:31,268 Oh, god. 88 00:08:31,368 --> 00:08:33,618 Oh, I don't believe this shit. 89 00:08:37,567 --> 00:08:40,901 All right, buddy, pick a spot. 90 00:08:45,167 --> 00:08:48,301 Now where'd you go? 91 00:09:39,700 --> 00:09:41,268 Destiny--... 92 00:09:41,368 --> 00:09:43,400 Maybe that's too big a word for it. 93 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:46,305 If I�d been nicer to Sybil, she never would have sent me... 94 00:09:46,405 --> 00:09:47,134 after that dog. 95 00:09:47,234 --> 00:09:49,700 I wouldn't have been late to meet Agatha, 96 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,367 and none of this would have happened. 97 00:09:52,467 --> 00:09:54,234 But I was late. 98 00:09:54,334 --> 00:09:56,467 And that's all it took. 99 00:09:56,467 --> 00:09:58,467 Oh! 100 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,599 Take a look at that. Try not to throw up. 101 00:10:02,699 --> 00:10:03,433 Oh oh, god! 102 00:10:03,533 --> 00:10:05,567 'Nasty evil dog'-- 103 00:10:05,567 --> 00:10:07,934 That's what 'Ned' stands for. 104 00:10:07,934 --> 00:10:09,499 If I ever see him again, he's gonna be Ned... 105 00:10:09,599 --> 00:10:10,101 with two d's--... 106 00:10:10,201 --> 00:10:11,767 'Nasty evil dead dog.' 107 00:10:11,867 --> 00:10:13,715 All right, now take a deep breath. 108 00:10:13,815 --> 00:10:14,268 Dead Ned. 109 00:10:14,368 --> 00:10:16,567 That�s what he's gonna be. - And remember, 110 00:10:16,667 --> 00:10:18,534 it's your birthday, okay? 111 00:10:18,634 --> 00:10:19,811 Yeah, I�ve been thinking about that. 112 00:10:19,911 --> 00:10:20,134 Hmm-hmm. 113 00:10:20,234 --> 00:10:22,043 Why is it we go and see your friends... 114 00:10:22,143 --> 00:10:22,867 on my birthday? 115 00:10:22,967 --> 00:10:24,433 Um... 116 00:10:24,533 --> 00:10:27,301 Probably because you don't have any. 117 00:10:27,301 --> 00:10:28,901 Oh. 118 00:10:29,001 --> 00:10:31,001 Makes sense. 119 00:10:31,001 --> 00:10:33,734 So I�m older, I�m disfigured, 120 00:10:33,734 --> 00:10:35,634 and I�m spending an evening in hell. 121 00:10:35,734 --> 00:10:37,648 No. - I suppose I�m buying... 122 00:10:37,748 --> 00:10:38,934 that for you too. 123 00:10:39,034 --> 00:10:40,272 Well, actually, I�ve had a good long time... 124 00:10:40,372 --> 00:10:40,934 to flip through it. 125 00:10:41,034 --> 00:10:42,567 Why don't you give it a try? 126 00:10:42,667 --> 00:10:45,076 Have some writer fill my head with nonsense? 127 00:10:45,176 --> 00:10:46,467 I�ll wait for the movie. 128 00:10:46,567 --> 00:10:48,067 You don't know what you're missing. 129 00:10:48,167 --> 00:10:50,934 Hmm, and yet life goes on. 130 00:10:50,934 --> 00:10:53,134 'The number 23.' 131 00:10:53,134 --> 00:10:56,101 A novel of obsession by Topsy Kretts.' 132 00:10:56,101 --> 00:10:58,101 Hmm. 133 00:10:59,067 --> 00:11:01,333 'A heart-wrenching odyssey into paranoia. 134 00:11:01,433 --> 00:11:03,967 One of the most horrifying metamorphoses ever told. 135 00:11:04,067 --> 00:11:06,533 Beware of the dog next door.' 136 00:11:06,533 --> 00:11:09,500 Get out of here. Are you kidding me? 137 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:11,467 I�m buying this for you, okay? 138 00:11:11,567 --> 00:11:13,101 Would you get the cake? - Yeah. 139 00:11:13,201 --> 00:11:15,228 February 3rd, that makes... 140 00:11:15,328 --> 00:11:15,901 me Aquarius. 141 00:11:16,001 --> 00:11:19,234 Experts say friends are vitally important. 142 00:11:19,234 --> 00:11:20,767 Hi. - Hello. 143 00:11:20,867 --> 00:11:22,268 Hi. - Hey. 144 00:11:22,368 --> 00:11:25,700 Hello. - Hey. 145 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:27,201 I�m sorry we're late. 146 00:11:27,301 --> 00:11:29,367 Nothing a kiss won't cure. - Oh! 147 00:11:29,467 --> 00:11:31,837 I am living proof of... 148 00:11:31,937 --> 00:11:33,567 the fallacy of astrology. 149 00:11:33,667 --> 00:11:36,301 Hi. How�s your arm, birthday boy? 150 00:11:36,301 --> 00:11:37,679 You okay? - Just waiting for it... 151 00:11:37,779 --> 00:11:38,300 to fall off. 152 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,288 Good thing it didn't bite you somewhere else. 153 00:11:40,388 --> 00:11:40,467 Oh. 154 00:11:40,567 --> 00:11:42,057 Five seconds. Five seconds. 155 00:11:42,157 --> 00:11:42,667 Fourth word. 156 00:11:42,767 --> 00:11:44,901 Birds, butterflies, birds. - It flies. 157 00:11:45,001 --> 00:11:46,300 Birds, birds. - Flies, flies. 158 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,775 'Lord of the flies'! 159 00:11:51,734 --> 00:11:54,334 Okay, you're next. - Thank you. 160 00:12:06,567 --> 00:12:08,361 'All the characters in this... 161 00:12:08,461 --> 00:12:09,268 book are fictitious, 162 00:12:09,368 --> 00:12:11,045 and anyone finding a resemblance... 163 00:12:11,145 --> 00:12:12,067 to actual persons, 164 00:12:12,167 --> 00:12:15,317 living or dead, should proceed no further.' 165 00:12:20,034 --> 00:12:22,364 Now it's time for birthday sex. 166 00:12:23,368 --> 00:12:25,834 I need a lot of birthday sex. 167 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,634 You know what? - What? 168 00:12:32,634 --> 00:12:34,134 Let�s sit out here for a while. 169 00:12:34,234 --> 00:12:36,567 Oh-- oh, honey. 170 00:12:36,567 --> 00:12:39,333 Come on, it'll be romantic. - Yeah, but it's also cold. 171 00:12:39,433 --> 00:12:41,800 Here, take my coat. 172 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,134 Your jacket, take it. I�ll call you. 173 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,067 Mom, dad. I thought I heard voices. 174 00:12:53,067 --> 00:12:54,634 Well, you know, 175 00:12:54,734 --> 00:12:56,795 if someone was in bed asleep the way they were... 176 00:12:56,895 --> 00:12:57,534 supposed to be, 177 00:12:57,634 --> 00:12:59,119 they wouldn't hear any voices. 178 00:12:59,219 --> 00:12:59,834 In bed? Okay. 179 00:12:59,934 --> 00:13:02,967 You�re supposed to be in bed. 180 00:13:02,967 --> 00:13:06,034 Oh, dad. Dad, I, uh, forgot to give you this. 181 00:13:06,134 --> 00:13:08,234 Here. - Oh, cool. 182 00:13:08,234 --> 00:13:10,128 Yeah, I wrapped it myself. 183 00:13:10,228 --> 00:13:10,467 Yeah. 184 00:13:10,567 --> 00:13:14,101 I accept bribes any time of the day or night. 185 00:13:14,101 --> 00:13:15,867 Back door? 186 00:13:15,967 --> 00:13:17,700 She went down the alley. 187 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,534 Wow, that's cool. 188 00:13:19,634 --> 00:13:23,268 Robin, she's a nice girl. 189 00:13:23,268 --> 00:13:25,168 Make sure she stays that way. 190 00:13:25,268 --> 00:13:27,567 All right. Good night, dad. 191 00:13:27,567 --> 00:13:29,934 Happy birthday. - Thanks. 192 00:13:40,268 --> 00:13:42,893 'Chapter 1: you can... 193 00:13:42,943 --> 00:13:44,600 call me Fingerling. 194 00:13:44,700 --> 00:13:46,767 It�s not my real name. 195 00:13:46,767 --> 00:13:49,500 It came from a book I read as a child, 196 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,201 'Fingerling at the zoo.' 197 00:13:52,201 --> 00:13:54,500 Paper flap long gone, 198 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:58,001 it had a green hardback cover and mottled texture. 199 00:13:58,101 --> 00:14:01,600 It was possibly my very first book. 200 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,268 Funny, 201 00:14:03,368 --> 00:14:06,467 I can't recall what it was about. 202 00:14:06,467 --> 00:14:09,001 The only thing I remember is the name--... 203 00:14:09,101 --> 00:14:10,967 Fingerling. 204 00:14:11,067 --> 00:14:13,634 I wished it was mine... 205 00:14:13,634 --> 00:14:16,500 And now it is.' 206 00:14:29,001 --> 00:14:30,700 This is your first bite? 207 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,800 First animal one, yes. 208 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,367 My wife, she has these gnawing urges... 209 00:14:35,467 --> 00:14:37,467 in her sleep and... 210 00:14:37,467 --> 00:14:40,234 Tell me about this canine Ned. 211 00:14:40,234 --> 00:14:41,723 What would you do if you came across... 212 00:14:41,823 --> 00:14:42,201 him again? 213 00:14:42,301 --> 00:14:45,634 If I was in my truck, I�d accelerate... 214 00:14:45,634 --> 00:14:47,667 until I heard a thud. 215 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,867 I�m sorry. I�m just-- I�m joking. 216 00:14:51,967 --> 00:14:53,867 I just-- this is just silly. 217 00:14:53,967 --> 00:14:55,973 Mr. Sparrow, animal-control... 218 00:14:56,073 --> 00:14:57,268 regulations state... 219 00:14:57,368 --> 00:14:59,901 that any officer suffering at the hands of an animal... 220 00:15:00,001 --> 00:15:03,333 must undergo psychological counseling within seven days... 221 00:15:03,433 --> 00:15:05,333 to evaluate their state of mind. 222 00:15:05,433 --> 00:15:07,500 I gave him my arm on a platter. 223 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,500 Can't blame a creature of lower intelligence for that. 224 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:12,686 I made a mistake, okay? Write that down. 225 00:15:12,786 --> 00:15:13,667 I made a mistake. 226 00:15:13,767 --> 00:15:16,600 It's my fault-- like when I told my wife 227 00:15:16,700 --> 00:15:18,367 She could choose the color... 228 00:15:18,467 --> 00:15:20,600 for the living room walls, you know? 229 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:24,300 Not that women are of lower intelligence, just... 230 00:15:27,034 --> 00:15:29,167 Have a good day, Mr. Sparrow. 231 00:15:29,167 --> 00:15:30,333 No, I�m jus-- 232 00:15:30,433 --> 00:15:34,033 No, Agatha is the most intelligent person I know. 233 00:15:34,667 --> 00:15:36,567 What she sees in me, I�m not sure. 234 00:15:36,667 --> 00:15:38,300 Look... 235 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,467 I love my job, and I�m good at it. 236 00:15:40,567 --> 00:15:42,300 Ned got away. 237 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,001 Well, yeah, but... 238 00:15:45,001 --> 00:15:46,590 Don't worry. Apart from a flawed... 239 00:15:46,690 --> 00:15:47,433 sense of humor, 240 00:15:47,533 --> 00:15:49,667 I�m giving you a clean bill of health. 241 00:15:49,767 --> 00:15:51,367 You're not a danger to anyone. 242 00:15:51,467 --> 00:15:55,067 That's why you can go and have the whole day off. 243 00:15:55,533 --> 00:15:58,334 Really? 244 00:15:58,334 --> 00:16:00,334 I�ll take it. 245 00:16:00,334 --> 00:16:01,934 Mr. Sparrow. - yeah. 246 00:16:02,034 --> 00:16:04,600 What color did your wife choose for the walls? 247 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:06,800 Red, blood red. 248 00:16:13,667 --> 00:16:15,692 'Chapter 2: 249 00:16:18,834 --> 00:16:22,067 Imagine me, if you must, 250 00:16:22,067 --> 00:16:24,067 as someone you once knew. 251 00:16:25,867 --> 00:16:29,700 Someone perhaps you liked. 252 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:32,433 Or better yet, 253 00:16:32,433 --> 00:16:35,734 imagine me as you. 254 00:16:35,734 --> 00:16:38,368 As a kid, I was top of my class, 255 00:16:38,368 --> 00:16:40,700 not because I liked studying, but because I realized... 256 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,467 that an education was my best shot at getting out. 257 00:16:43,567 --> 00:16:46,700 See, the stork dropped me in a small dustbowl of a town. 258 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:48,700 There wasn't anything wrong with it. 259 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:50,800 As far as boring towns go, 260 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,034 I�m sure it ranked above average. 261 00:16:54,034 --> 00:16:56,901 I had friends, but... 262 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,767 I always felt alone. 263 00:17:03,334 --> 00:17:05,567 No one ever left, 264 00:17:05,567 --> 00:17:07,467 but I wasn't gonna die here. 265 00:17:07,567 --> 00:17:09,201 As much as I loved him, 266 00:17:09,301 --> 00:17:12,500 I didn't want to be anything like my dad. 267 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:16,433 He seemed so distant and sad. 268 00:17:16,433 --> 00:17:19,134 Numbers were his life. He was an accountant. 269 00:17:19,234 --> 00:17:21,219 And I guess he had expected me to take over... 270 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:22,500 the business he had built, 271 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:24,667 but I had other plans. 272 00:17:24,667 --> 00:17:26,600 My mom was tickled pink on my eighth birthday... 273 00:17:26,700 --> 00:17:29,801 when I announced I wanted to be a detective. 274 00:17:29,901 --> 00:17:31,734 Can't say the same for my father. 275 00:17:31,834 --> 00:17:34,700 It really put the kibosh on his master plan... 276 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,400 and it fueled his hatred for the widow Dobkins. 277 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:39,500 She lived next door. 278 00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:40,977 It sounds odd, but her dog Alfie... 279 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,834 is the reason I became a detective. 280 00:17:43,934 --> 00:17:46,467 The grass is always greener on the other side, 281 00:17:46,567 --> 00:17:48,534 at least according to Alfie. 282 00:17:48,634 --> 00:17:50,700 That's why he was always in our yard, 283 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,167 and it was my job to catch him. 284 00:17:55,034 --> 00:17:58,534 But I never crossed the fence into the widow Dobkins' yard. 285 00:17:58,634 --> 00:18:00,867 That was my father's rule. 286 00:18:00,867 --> 00:18:03,101 On my eighth birthday, 287 00:18:03,101 --> 00:18:05,101 I broke the rule. 288 00:18:10,101 --> 00:18:11,971 Now I must admit that my loneliness 289 00:18:12,071 --> 00:18:12,734 And obsession... 290 00:18:12,834 --> 00:18:16,334 with detective stories had fueled fantasies. 291 00:18:16,334 --> 00:18:19,034 So I�m not sure of all the details, 292 00:18:19,034 --> 00:18:21,201 except one. 293 00:18:23,201 --> 00:18:25,226 The widow Dobkins was dead. 294 00:18:32,901 --> 00:18:35,767 It was a whole hour before the doctor arrived, 295 00:18:35,867 --> 00:18:37,567 and in that uncertain hour... 296 00:18:37,667 --> 00:18:40,067 my eight-year-old mind raced. 297 00:18:40,067 --> 00:18:41,743 I decided that the widow Dobkins... 298 00:18:41,843 --> 00:18:42,333 was killed... 299 00:18:42,433 --> 00:18:44,901 by a man with a deranged mind, 300 00:18:44,901 --> 00:18:47,834 A mind such as our town had never seen before. 301 00:18:47,934 --> 00:18:50,099 No one would be safe from him, not even... 302 00:18:50,199 --> 00:18:51,001 his loved ones. 303 00:18:51,101 --> 00:18:53,234 Especially his loved ones. 304 00:18:53,234 --> 00:18:54,808 Of course, a doctor later concluded that... 305 00:18:54,908 --> 00:18:55,467 it was suicide, 306 00:18:55,567 --> 00:18:58,167 But I never believed it. 307 00:18:58,167 --> 00:19:00,110 By then, my mind had been opened... 308 00:19:00,210 --> 00:19:01,767 to a whole new existence. 309 00:19:01,867 --> 00:19:05,101 From this, a detective was born--... 310 00:19:05,101 --> 00:19:07,234 Detective Fingerling.' 311 00:19:12,167 --> 00:19:14,167 This has promise too. 312 00:19:15,467 --> 00:19:18,168 Hey, there you are. What are you doing? 313 00:19:18,268 --> 00:19:20,700 I�ll clean this up later. 314 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:22,500 Filling your head with nonsense, are you? 315 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,467 Did you read this? - most of it. 316 00:19:25,467 --> 00:19:28,767 It's very creative. - this Fingerling guy. 317 00:19:28,767 --> 00:19:30,333 Yeah, it's a cool name. 318 00:19:30,433 --> 00:19:32,634 Yeah, what did you make of him? 319 00:19:32,734 --> 00:19:34,702 I loved him at the-- well, at the beginning 320 00:19:34,802 --> 00:19:35,034 I did. 321 00:19:35,134 --> 00:19:36,967 What do you mean at the beginning? 322 00:19:37,067 --> 00:19:39,934 Well, he-- how far have you gotten? 323 00:19:39,934 --> 00:19:41,934 Oh, two chapters. - Oh. 324 00:19:41,934 --> 00:19:43,611 Honey, will you move this ladder for me, 325 00:19:43,711 --> 00:19:44,567 Just right over here? 326 00:19:44,667 --> 00:19:46,726 You know, honey, this Fingerling guy... 327 00:19:46,826 --> 00:19:48,101 reminds me of my life. 328 00:19:48,201 --> 00:19:50,368 It's so weird. 329 00:19:50,368 --> 00:19:53,612 Like, it's like my childhood, my memories, 330 00:19:53,712 --> 00:19:54,268 you know? 331 00:19:54,368 --> 00:19:56,843 Will you hand me that blue paint? 332 00:19:58,067 --> 00:20:00,317 Here. - Fingerling's nothing... 333 00:20:00,417 --> 00:20:01,034 like you. 334 00:20:01,134 --> 00:20:04,467 Oh, yeah, look at that? 335 00:20:04,467 --> 00:20:06,791 'Fingerling at the zoo.' My mother read it to me... 336 00:20:06,891 --> 00:20:07,700 when I was a kid. 337 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:09,734 I�m sure a lot of people read that as a kid. 338 00:20:09,834 --> 00:20:12,134 Did you? - No. 339 00:20:12,134 --> 00:20:13,460 Ha-aa! - But you know what? 340 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:14,834 Every time I read a book, 341 00:20:14,934 --> 00:20:17,481 it's like, the author stole a part of me that 342 00:20:17,581 --> 00:20:18,801 I thought only I knew. 343 00:20:18,901 --> 00:20:20,835 Someday I�m gonna write a book and I�ll do it... 344 00:20:20,935 --> 00:20:21,634 to somebody else. 345 00:20:21,734 --> 00:20:24,400 I don't know, hon. It's-- it's just really... 346 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:26,967 kind of strange. - You know what? 347 00:20:26,967 --> 00:20:28,909 There's a lot of neighborhoods with... 348 00:20:29,009 --> 00:20:30,268 houses just like yours, 349 00:20:30,368 --> 00:20:32,234 with streets just like yours. 350 00:20:32,334 --> 00:20:34,101 Yeah? With dogs next door? 351 00:20:34,201 --> 00:20:36,667 Oh, your neighbor had a dog. Well, that's shocking. 352 00:20:36,767 --> 00:20:38,564 It wasn't called Alfie. 353 00:20:38,664 --> 00:20:39,700 It was called Chief. 354 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,700 'Mis-chief' my father called it. 355 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,234 He used to escape all the time. That's why I became an a.c.o. 356 00:20:45,334 --> 00:20:46,734 Fingerling's a detective. 357 00:20:46,834 --> 00:20:49,734 I used to collect detective magazines. 358 00:20:49,734 --> 00:20:52,667 And the widow next door, Mrs. Dobkins, 359 00:20:52,667 --> 00:20:54,967 Well, that's like my mom. 360 00:20:56,533 --> 00:20:59,268 She died on my eighth birthday. 361 00:20:59,268 --> 00:21:01,934 Look, I got freakin' goose bumps. 362 00:21:01,934 --> 00:21:04,700 Honey, keep reading, okay? 363 00:21:04,700 --> 00:21:06,913 Soon you will discover that Fingerling is... 364 00:21:07,013 --> 00:21:07,901 nothing like you. 365 00:21:08,001 --> 00:21:09,534 Somebody wrote a book about dad? 366 00:21:09,634 --> 00:21:12,500 No. - Yes. Yes. 367 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:15,634 How's school? - Horrible. 368 00:21:15,634 --> 00:21:18,134 Am I in it? 369 00:21:18,134 --> 00:21:20,034 I mean, if the book's about dad, 370 00:21:20,134 --> 00:21:21,901 Then I should have, like, a starring role or something. 371 00:21:22,001 --> 00:21:23,901 Yes, you should, and yet you don't. 372 00:21:24,001 --> 00:21:26,667 Now what do you think that means? 373 00:21:26,667 --> 00:21:29,268 Hmm, jeez. - Who's that? 374 00:21:29,268 --> 00:21:31,901 Fabrizia. - Fabrizia? 375 00:21:31,901 --> 00:21:33,700 Uh-huh. 376 00:21:41,467 --> 00:21:43,400 * Got a big plan, this mindset *... 377 00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:45,591 * maybe it's right at the right place... 378 00:21:45,691 --> 00:21:46,567 and right time *... 379 00:21:46,667 --> 00:21:48,500 * maybe tonight and the whisper *... 380 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,801 * or handshake sending a sign *... 381 00:21:50,901 --> 00:21:52,767 * Wanna make out and kiss hard? *... 382 00:21:52,867 --> 00:21:53,967 * Wait, never mind *... 383 00:21:54,067 --> 00:21:56,134 * Late night and passing *... 384 00:21:56,234 --> 00:21:58,168 * mention it flipped her best friend *... 385 00:21:58,268 --> 00:22:00,001 * Who knows saying maybe it slipped *... 386 00:22:00,101 --> 00:22:02,500 * but the slip turns to terror and a crush to light *... 387 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,067 * Then she walked in, he throws up *... 388 00:22:05,167 --> 00:22:07,207 * Believe it's the fright, it's cute in a way... *... 389 00:22:08,167 --> 00:22:10,573 * till you cannot speak and you leave to have... 390 00:22:10,673 --> 00:22:11,333 a cigarette *... 391 00:22:11,433 --> 00:22:14,333 * Your knees get weak, escape was just a nod *... 392 00:22:14,433 --> 00:22:17,300 * and a casual wave, obsessed about it *... 393 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,234 * Heavy for the next two days *... 394 00:22:19,334 --> 00:22:22,634 * it's only just a crush it'll go away *... 395 00:22:22,634 --> 00:22:25,433 * it's just like all the others, it'll go away *... 396 00:22:25,533 --> 00:22:28,600 * Or maybe this is danger and you just don't know *... 397 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:32,134 * You pray it all away but it continues to grow *... 398 00:22:32,234 --> 00:22:36,268 * I want to hold you close *... 399 00:22:36,268 --> 00:22:38,500 * Skin pressed against me tight *... 400 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,901 * Lie still, close your eyes, girl *... 401 00:22:41,001 --> 00:22:43,626 * So lovely it feels so right. *... 402 00:23:54,101 --> 00:23:56,467 'Chapter 5: 403 00:23:56,467 --> 00:23:58,700 I meet the suicide blonde.' 404 00:24:32,834 --> 00:24:34,967 I got a tip from your neighborhood watch. 405 00:24:35,067 --> 00:24:37,268 I know what you're up to. 406 00:24:37,268 --> 00:24:40,467 This befriend-me crap, it won't work. 407 00:24:40,467 --> 00:24:42,792 Come any closer and I�ll do it. 408 00:24:45,334 --> 00:24:47,168 Well, I hope you don't. 409 00:24:47,268 --> 00:24:49,301 It's my birthday today. 410 00:24:49,301 --> 00:24:50,814 You end up hanging yourself, it'll be... 411 00:24:50,914 --> 00:24:51,667 the worst one ever. 412 00:24:51,767 --> 00:24:54,533 You're pathetic. 413 00:24:56,301 --> 00:24:58,742 I�m serious. I�ll do it. 414 00:24:58,842 --> 00:24:59,667 Hanging-- 415 00:24:59,767 --> 00:25:01,834 It's a painful thing. 416 00:25:01,834 --> 00:25:03,901 Most people get the noose wrong, 417 00:25:04,001 --> 00:25:07,676 end up walking around with a permanent necklace... 418 00:25:09,034 --> 00:25:12,059 Agonizing reminder of how fucking pitiful... 419 00:25:12,159 --> 00:25:14,034 they are. 420 00:25:14,134 --> 00:25:16,134 Come on, let's talk. 421 00:25:17,667 --> 00:25:20,692 If you're still bummed, I�ll put one right... 422 00:25:20,792 --> 00:25:22,792 between your eyes. 423 00:25:23,934 --> 00:25:25,934 I�m a good shot. 424 00:25:30,533 --> 00:25:32,558 Is it really your birthday? 425 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:45,302 'The suicide blonde tells... 426 00:25:45,402 --> 00:25:46,634 me she was a good person once, 427 00:25:46,734 --> 00:25:48,134 but now...' 428 00:25:48,234 --> 00:25:50,600 I�m a bad person. 429 00:25:51,934 --> 00:25:54,600 I don't wanna make you bad. 430 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,001 You don't have that power. 431 00:25:58,533 --> 00:26:01,168 Go see my ex-boyfriend. he'll show you. 432 00:26:01,268 --> 00:26:02,728 'I should have gotten... 433 00:26:02,828 --> 00:26:03,268 out of there... 434 00:26:03,368 --> 00:26:07,334 right at that moment, but then she said...' 435 00:26:07,334 --> 00:26:09,067 It's this number! 436 00:26:09,167 --> 00:26:12,467 This fucking number-- 23. 437 00:26:12,467 --> 00:26:14,101 It rules my world. 438 00:26:14,201 --> 00:26:16,201 It's my father's fault. 439 00:26:16,201 --> 00:26:18,634 He said he'd found a way to beat the number, 440 00:26:18,734 --> 00:26:21,467 that he'd beat it, that I was safe. 441 00:26:23,067 --> 00:26:26,101 He said, 'daddy loves you. And he's gonna do something... 442 00:26:26,201 --> 00:26:28,326 both:...to guarantee that you... 443 00:26:28,426 --> 00:26:30,426 won't inherit the curse.' 444 00:26:34,533 --> 00:26:37,134 He was wrong. 445 00:26:37,134 --> 00:26:40,009 His guarantee wasn't worth the blood it... 446 00:26:40,109 --> 00:26:42,109 was written in. 447 00:26:45,201 --> 00:26:48,001 I guess daddy didn't love me enough. 448 00:26:50,967 --> 00:26:53,667 It's everywhere-- dates, times, 449 00:26:53,667 --> 00:26:56,400 license plate numbers, pages of books, 450 00:26:56,500 --> 00:26:58,067 even elevator floor lights. 451 00:26:58,167 --> 00:27:00,457 Soon I found it was in my name. It was in... 452 00:27:00,557 --> 00:27:01,534 the words I spoke. 453 00:27:01,634 --> 00:27:04,867 Nothing, nothing is safe. 454 00:27:04,867 --> 00:27:08,692 Pink is my favorite color. Do you know what pink is? 455 00:27:11,667 --> 00:27:13,700 Red 27, white 65. 456 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:16,201 65 plus 27-- 92. Pink has four letters. 457 00:27:16,301 --> 00:27:18,867 92 divided by four. 458 00:27:18,867 --> 00:27:20,867 Twenty-fucking-three! 459 00:27:22,301 --> 00:27:24,034 'I�ll be honest--... 460 00:27:24,134 --> 00:27:26,167 I didn't get it. 461 00:27:26,167 --> 00:27:27,707 I asked her the only question 462 00:27:27,807 --> 00:27:28,634 I could muster.' 463 00:27:28,734 --> 00:27:30,834 Any more coffee? 464 00:27:30,834 --> 00:27:33,027 'It was important to keep... 465 00:27:33,127 --> 00:27:33,734 her talking, 466 00:27:33,834 --> 00:27:36,901 so I tell her a story.' 467 00:27:36,901 --> 00:27:39,673 I had this uncle, 468 00:27:39,773 --> 00:27:41,667 his name was Charlie. 469 00:27:41,767 --> 00:27:44,168 And, uh, one day, he read in his stars... 470 00:27:44,268 --> 00:27:46,168 that he was gonna fall in love... 471 00:27:46,268 --> 00:27:48,433 with a woman in red. 472 00:27:48,433 --> 00:27:51,301 So he went out looking all day long... 473 00:27:51,301 --> 00:27:53,368 and he found one. 474 00:27:53,368 --> 00:27:55,268 Six months later, they were married. 475 00:27:55,368 --> 00:27:57,368 You're lying. 476 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,289 Two years later, the woman in red... 477 00:28:02,389 --> 00:28:03,667 divorces my uncle, 478 00:28:03,767 --> 00:28:06,317 takes him for everything he's got. 479 00:28:07,734 --> 00:28:10,567 He's out there right now... 480 00:28:10,567 --> 00:28:12,667 at this very moment... 481 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,025 still looking for the woman in red. 482 00:28:19,433 --> 00:28:21,983 Figures he just got the wrong one. 483 00:28:22,734 --> 00:28:25,333 And this is supposed to make me feel better how? 484 00:28:25,433 --> 00:28:28,358 You look smarter than my uncle Charlie. 485 00:28:31,334 --> 00:28:33,644 'She has a face meant... 486 00:28:33,744 --> 00:28:34,268 to smile. 487 00:28:34,368 --> 00:28:36,134 And as I exit the building, 488 00:28:36,234 --> 00:28:38,934 I figure it's another job well done. 489 00:29:05,201 --> 00:29:07,500 The next day I traced the ex-boyfriend... 490 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,234 suicide blonde mentioned. 491 00:29:10,234 --> 00:29:12,134 Burning coffee grounds is an old trick... 492 00:29:12,234 --> 00:29:14,757 cops use to take away the smell of death... 493 00:29:14,857 --> 00:29:15,901 at a crime scene. 494 00:29:16,001 --> 00:29:19,001 But somebody had used all the coffee. 495 00:29:33,167 --> 00:29:36,367 When I tell Fabrizia about the suicide blonde, 496 00:29:36,467 --> 00:29:39,734 she begs me to take her to the apartment. 497 00:29:39,734 --> 00:29:42,433 Her reaction is pure Fabrizia. 498 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,400 Death and sex--... 499 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,400 what a turn-on. 500 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,567 As the pages fell from the walls, 501 00:29:50,667 --> 00:29:53,092 the scope of the suicide blonde's... 502 00:29:53,192 --> 00:29:54,767 obsession became clear. 503 00:29:54,867 --> 00:29:58,301 She had reduced everything to 23.' 504 00:29:58,301 --> 00:30:00,528 Suicide blonde's voice: it's everywhere-- 505 00:30:00,628 --> 00:30:01,300 Dates, times, 506 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,201 license plate numbers, pages of books, 507 00:30:03,301 --> 00:30:05,537 even elevator floor lights. Soon I found it was... 508 00:30:05,637 --> 00:30:06,134 in my name. 509 00:30:06,234 --> 00:30:08,001 It was in the words I spoke. 510 00:30:08,101 --> 00:30:10,600 It was in my name. It was in my name. 511 00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:12,800 It was in the words I spoke. 512 00:30:14,667 --> 00:30:16,306 'When I found out what... 513 00:30:16,406 --> 00:30:16,934 her name was, 514 00:30:17,034 --> 00:30:19,500 that added up too. 515 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:21,700 Maybe it was just a coincidence. 516 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,467 I mean, a name is just a name. 517 00:30:25,467 --> 00:30:28,400 And a number is just a number. 518 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,400 Isn't it?' 519 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,400 It's self-printed, 520 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,667 self-published, 521 00:30:53,667 --> 00:30:56,001 and it's by an author I never heard of. 522 00:31:02,433 --> 00:31:04,734 Looks like old Topsy here hasn't written anything... 523 00:31:04,834 --> 00:31:06,901 before or after since. 524 00:31:14,067 --> 00:31:15,476 Walter, what are... 525 00:31:15,576 --> 00:31:16,134 you doing? 526 00:31:16,234 --> 00:31:19,001 Check this out. 527 00:31:19,001 --> 00:31:20,901 Walter Sparrow doesn't work. 528 00:31:21,001 --> 00:31:23,934 But if I use my middle name... 529 00:31:23,934 --> 00:31:26,533 Walter. - 5-1-1-9-7. 530 00:31:26,533 --> 00:31:28,533 Isn't that amazing? - What? 531 00:31:29,767 --> 00:31:32,433 It's all 23. My birthday-- 2/3, 532 00:31:32,433 --> 00:31:34,276 Driver's license, social security number--... 533 00:31:34,376 --> 00:31:34,834 everything. 534 00:31:34,934 --> 00:31:38,901 I was born at 11:12 p.m. 11 plus 12. 535 00:31:38,901 --> 00:31:41,550 It's like it's imitating... 536 00:31:41,650 --> 00:31:42,400 my life. 537 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:44,067 You can't be serious. 538 00:31:44,167 --> 00:31:45,734 The author knows so much about me. 539 00:31:45,834 --> 00:31:47,400 It's as if he chose me. 540 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:49,234 Is this what you've been doing all day? 541 00:31:49,334 --> 00:31:50,955 Have you finished the book? 542 00:31:51,055 --> 00:31:51,500 Not yet. 543 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,600 You've concerned yourself with minutia... 544 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:55,934 and you've drawn wild conclusions from them. 545 00:31:56,034 --> 00:31:57,420 What about the fact that Fingerling... 546 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:58,168 becomes a killer? 547 00:31:58,268 --> 00:31:59,545 A killer? - And just how many people... 548 00:31:59,645 --> 00:32:00,201 have you killed? 549 00:32:00,301 --> 00:32:02,634 Wait, who gets killed? 550 00:32:02,634 --> 00:32:04,201 Ask Mr. Fingerling. 551 00:32:04,301 --> 00:32:06,301 I�m sorry, honey. 552 00:32:09,734 --> 00:32:11,300 Why this color? 553 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,067 Why did you choose this color? 554 00:32:14,067 --> 00:32:15,934 I don't know, you tell me. 555 00:32:16,034 --> 00:32:19,067 Red number five-- r-e-d is 27, 556 00:32:19,067 --> 00:32:20,600 Plus five is 32 which is-- 557 00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:23,001 You're reaching now. 558 00:32:23,001 --> 00:32:24,901 Sure, there are differences. 559 00:32:25,001 --> 00:32:27,134 Fingerling's a detective, I�m a dog catcher; 560 00:32:27,234 --> 00:32:29,567 He met Fabrizia when he was 32, 561 00:32:29,567 --> 00:32:30,934 whereas I met you when I was--... 562 00:32:31,034 --> 00:32:32,762 23. - and the day... 563 00:32:32,862 --> 00:32:33,934 we met was? 564 00:32:34,034 --> 00:32:36,700 September 14th. - 9/14. 565 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:40,167 14 plus 9 is? - 23! 566 00:32:40,167 --> 00:32:42,167 We married 567 00:32:42,236 --> 00:32:43,500 October 13th--... 568 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,567 10/13, 23. 569 00:32:46,567 --> 00:32:48,234 Suicide blonde said it ruled her world. 570 00:32:48,334 --> 00:32:50,228 She killed because of it. Then she handed it... 571 00:32:50,328 --> 00:32:51,001 on to Fingerling... 572 00:32:51,101 --> 00:32:53,400 on his 32nd birthday-- 23 reversed. 573 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:56,034 Fingerling called it fate. Do you know what fate is? 574 00:32:56,134 --> 00:32:58,533 32. 575 00:32:58,533 --> 00:33:00,558 I rest my case, your honor. 576 00:33:02,567 --> 00:33:04,110 Honey, I think you're taking this too seriously. 577 00:33:04,210 --> 00:33:04,634 Wait wait wait... 578 00:33:04,734 --> 00:33:06,734 wait wait wait. We live at 1814. 579 00:33:06,834 --> 00:33:08,245 I mean, 18 is one plus eight... 580 00:33:08,345 --> 00:33:09,234 which equals nine. 581 00:33:09,334 --> 00:33:11,901 And nine plus 14 is also 23. 582 00:33:11,901 --> 00:33:14,467 14 is one plus four which equals five. 583 00:33:14,567 --> 00:33:16,634 And five plus 18 is 23 too. 584 00:33:16,634 --> 00:33:18,867 Oh my god. - All right, Robin, 585 00:33:18,867 --> 00:33:20,333 Please don't you start this nonsense. 586 00:33:20,433 --> 00:33:23,976 This is not nonsense! I-i mean, five plus... 587 00:33:24,076 --> 00:33:24,734 18 is 23. 588 00:33:24,834 --> 00:33:27,533 Well, if the book were 27 or 150, 589 00:33:27,533 --> 00:33:29,700 you could do the same thing. 590 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:33,001 18 plus 14 is 32. 591 00:33:33,001 --> 00:33:35,201 23 reversed. 592 00:33:35,201 --> 00:33:37,201 Spooky, huh? 593 00:33:39,700 --> 00:33:41,767 'Chapter 7: 594 00:33:41,767 --> 00:33:44,767 The suicide blonde had given Fabrizia a taste... 595 00:33:44,867 --> 00:33:45,901 for new thrills. 596 00:33:46,001 --> 00:33:47,867 I played along, 597 00:33:47,967 --> 00:33:50,867 but all I could think about was the number.' 598 00:33:50,967 --> 00:33:53,134 Thanks. 599 00:33:53,134 --> 00:33:55,134 'I didn't tell her... 600 00:33:55,134 --> 00:33:58,209 that the clock behind the desk read 9:14. 601 00:34:02,834 --> 00:34:05,309 Just rip it open. Just rip it off. 602 00:34:14,101 --> 00:34:16,934 Pretend you have a knife. Pretend you have a knife. 603 00:34:17,034 --> 00:34:18,567 Come on. 604 00:34:26,567 --> 00:34:30,234 I know you're gonna hurt me. 605 00:34:30,234 --> 00:34:32,767 You shut up, bitch, 606 00:34:32,767 --> 00:34:35,101 or you die. 607 00:34:35,101 --> 00:34:36,646 'Of course I would never... 608 00:34:36,746 --> 00:34:37,534 really harm Fabrizia. 609 00:34:37,634 --> 00:34:41,201 I loved her. And I thought she loved me.' 610 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,375 'But I started having... 611 00:35:22,425 --> 00:35:24,425 terrible nightmares.' 612 00:36:15,101 --> 00:36:18,304 Eight, nine, 10, 613 00:36:18,404 --> 00:36:19,600 11, 12, 13-- 614 00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:21,700 What are you doing? 615 00:36:22,834 --> 00:36:25,134 Reading. 616 00:36:25,134 --> 00:36:28,301 You're insane. 617 00:37:22,667 --> 00:37:25,334 Isaac? - Simply put, 618 00:37:25,334 --> 00:37:26,967 It's a box that collects... 619 00:37:27,067 --> 00:37:30,167 Orgone energy. 620 00:37:30,167 --> 00:37:32,872 We'll talk about Wilhelm Reich next week. 621 00:37:32,972 --> 00:37:34,333 Thank you for coming. 622 00:37:34,433 --> 00:37:37,433 Well, it sounds like a fascinating read. 623 00:37:37,433 --> 00:37:39,300 Of course there exist far too few books... 624 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,214 where the main character plays... 625 00:37:41,314 --> 00:37:42,134 the saxophone. 626 00:37:42,234 --> 00:37:44,101 I wasn't aware you also played. 627 00:37:44,201 --> 00:37:45,300 I don't. That's just it, 628 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:46,400 it doesn't all match. 629 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:49,834 It's the number. I�m seeing it everywhere. 630 00:37:49,834 --> 00:37:52,234 Well, conspiracy buffs would say, 'of course. 631 00:37:52,334 --> 00:37:55,333 After all, the world spins in an axis of 23�.' 632 00:37:55,433 --> 00:37:57,801 When you tell them it's actually 23.5, they say... 633 00:37:57,901 --> 00:38:00,967 five is simply two plus three. 634 00:38:03,201 --> 00:38:04,856 23 is very good... 635 00:38:04,956 --> 00:38:06,367 at this particular game. 636 00:38:06,467 --> 00:38:09,433 Game? - Yeah, paranoia. 637 00:38:11,301 --> 00:38:13,758 There's a fair bit of literature on the 23 enigma. 638 00:38:13,858 --> 00:38:14,268 There is? 639 00:38:14,368 --> 00:38:17,533 There are 23 axioms to Euclid's geometry. 640 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,101 The human body consists of 46 chromosomes--... 641 00:38:22,201 --> 00:38:24,500 23 from each parent. 642 00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:28,201 Blood takes 23 seconds to circulate. 643 00:38:28,201 --> 00:38:30,201 The Mayans believed the end of the world... 644 00:38:30,301 --> 00:38:33,767 would occur December 12th, 2012. 645 00:38:33,767 --> 00:38:35,867 20 plus 12 is? 646 00:38:35,867 --> 00:38:38,101 23 reversed. 647 00:38:38,101 --> 00:38:40,634 Or 20 plus one plus two. 648 00:38:40,634 --> 00:38:42,268 So what is this? 649 00:38:42,368 --> 00:38:44,967 What is 23? 650 00:38:44,967 --> 00:38:47,834 Is it... 651 00:38:47,834 --> 00:38:49,901 God? 652 00:38:49,901 --> 00:38:51,567 Two divided by three--... 653 00:38:51,667 --> 00:38:54,034 .666. 654 00:38:54,034 --> 00:38:57,567 666, the number of the devil. 655 00:38:57,567 --> 00:39:00,567 There are only 22 chapters In the book of revelations. 656 00:39:00,667 --> 00:39:04,201 We all know how that ends. 657 00:39:04,201 --> 00:39:06,400 So is 23 a blessing or a curse? 658 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:08,152 What's true is that there's a select group... 659 00:39:08,252 --> 00:39:08,567 of people... 660 00:39:08,667 --> 00:39:10,879 that take delight in perpetuating... 661 00:39:10,979 --> 00:39:12,300 the number's infamy. 662 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,234 Lucky seven, unlucky 13, 663 00:39:15,234 --> 00:39:17,567 ballplayers, lucky shoes. 664 00:39:17,567 --> 00:39:19,818 People only pray because they believe that god... 665 00:39:19,918 --> 00:39:21,168 will help them if they do. 666 00:39:21,268 --> 00:39:24,067 This is magical thinking, 667 00:39:24,067 --> 00:39:25,690 non-scientific causal reasoning. 668 00:39:25,790 --> 00:39:26,367 Now you're--... 669 00:39:26,467 --> 00:39:29,300 you're looking for 23 so you're finding it. 670 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,346 Agatha thinks 671 00:39:32,446 --> 00:39:33,333 I�m nuts. 672 00:39:33,433 --> 00:39:36,201 Finish the book. 673 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,801 And if after reading it in its entirety, 674 00:39:39,901 --> 00:39:41,400 you still believe the subject to be you, 675 00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:43,067 then whoever wrote it knows you very well. 676 00:39:43,167 --> 00:39:45,734 And only they can give you your answer. 677 00:39:45,834 --> 00:39:48,268 That's a good idea. - And in the meantime 678 00:39:48,368 --> 00:39:50,918 I can speak to Agatha, if you like. 679 00:39:52,167 --> 00:39:53,834 Hmm. 680 00:39:59,101 --> 00:40:01,400 The number was everywhere. 681 00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:04,901 You have 23 pairs of shoes. 682 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:09,001 You're counting my shoes? 683 00:40:18,167 --> 00:40:20,067 What are you doing? - Reading. 684 00:40:20,167 --> 00:40:22,167 You're insane. 685 00:40:36,167 --> 00:40:38,499 'Night after night I killed 686 00:40:38,599 --> 00:40:39,767 Fabrizia in my dreams. 687 00:40:39,867 --> 00:40:42,853 I explained to the department shrink what her full name... 688 00:40:42,953 --> 00:40:43,634 added up to.' 689 00:40:43,734 --> 00:40:45,734 23. - What do you think... 690 00:40:45,761 --> 00:40:46,600 that means? 691 00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:49,101 I don't know, Miles. 692 00:40:51,201 --> 00:40:54,167 Maybe I should be a fucking accountant. 693 00:40:54,167 --> 00:40:56,276 'The wise Dr. Phoenix... 694 00:40:56,376 --> 00:40:57,901 recommends I take a break.' 695 00:40:58,001 --> 00:41:00,533 Maybe you should take a break. 696 00:41:00,533 --> 00:41:01,994 'Like time is gonna... 697 00:41:02,094 --> 00:41:02,433 heal me.' 698 00:41:02,533 --> 00:41:05,201 Time is a-- a gentle man. 699 00:41:05,201 --> 00:41:07,108 'Time is just a counting... 700 00:41:07,208 --> 00:41:07,500 system, 701 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,101 numbers with meaning attached to them. 702 00:41:10,201 --> 00:41:12,760 Still, a break is what he prescribes. 703 00:41:12,860 --> 00:41:13,867 He called it--' 704 00:41:13,967 --> 00:41:16,634 emotional leave. 705 00:41:16,634 --> 00:41:19,634 So you're not a detective anymore. 706 00:41:19,634 --> 00:41:22,534 'Fabrizia was not impressed.' 707 00:41:22,634 --> 00:41:25,268 I�m a detective on vacation. 708 00:41:27,867 --> 00:41:29,692 And you don't... 709 00:41:29,792 --> 00:41:31,792 have a gun? 710 00:41:33,368 --> 00:41:34,767 I still have these. 711 00:41:34,867 --> 00:41:37,517 Maybe you should just get some sleep... 712 00:41:37,617 --> 00:41:39,617 tonight. 713 00:41:50,767 --> 00:41:53,034 'The number was everywhere. 714 00:41:53,134 --> 00:41:54,767 At this point, 715 00:41:54,867 --> 00:41:57,268 I don't need to tell you... 716 00:41:57,268 --> 00:41:59,668 how many pairs of shoes she had. 717 00:42:12,667 --> 00:42:15,667 What are these shoes doing in the trash? 718 00:42:17,201 --> 00:42:19,800 Did you know you had 23 pair? 719 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:22,268 Oh! 720 00:42:22,268 --> 00:42:24,600 You're insane! 721 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,934 The Hiroshima bomb was dropped at 8:15. 722 00:42:27,934 --> 00:42:31,700 Eight plus 15 is 23. 723 00:42:31,700 --> 00:42:33,600 Waco, Texas, And the Oklahoma city bombing... 724 00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:36,134 both happened on April 19th. 725 00:42:36,134 --> 00:42:38,567 Four plus 19 is 23. 726 00:42:38,567 --> 00:42:41,967 Tropic of cancer, 23.5� north; 727 00:42:41,967 --> 00:42:44,567 Capricorn 23.5� south. 728 00:42:44,567 --> 00:42:48,334 10886 is the number Al Capone wore... 729 00:42:48,334 --> 00:42:51,634 on his uniform in prison. 730 00:42:51,634 --> 00:42:55,084 Ted Bundy was executed on the 23rd of January. 731 00:42:59,734 --> 00:43:02,001 It's all 23. 732 00:43:03,234 --> 00:43:05,367 'She didn't understand, 733 00:43:05,467 --> 00:43:08,242 which was fine because neither did I. 734 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,901 All I knew was... 735 00:43:11,901 --> 00:43:14,234 the number had gone after suicide blonde, 736 00:43:14,334 --> 00:43:16,533 Isabel Lydia Hunt. 737 00:43:21,034 --> 00:43:23,301 Now it was coming after me.' 738 00:43:23,301 --> 00:43:26,301 I can speak to Fabrizia if you like. 739 00:43:29,368 --> 00:43:32,143 'I believe he said it... 740 00:43:32,193 --> 00:43:34,518 in total innocence at the time. 741 00:43:53,834 --> 00:43:55,834 But looking back...' 742 00:43:55,834 --> 00:43:58,234 I can speak to Fabrizia if you like. 743 00:43:58,334 --> 00:44:01,184 '...I wish I had reacted differently.' 744 00:44:30,934 --> 00:44:33,134 'I should have realized the truth. 745 00:44:33,234 --> 00:44:36,368 I know it's absurd, 746 00:44:36,368 --> 00:44:39,668 but even the color of his tie betrayed him.' 747 00:44:45,201 --> 00:44:46,834 Do you know what pink is? 748 00:44:46,934 --> 00:44:50,334 Red 27, white 65. 65 plus 27-- 92. 749 00:44:50,334 --> 00:44:52,967 Pink has four letters. 92 divided by four... 750 00:44:53,067 --> 00:44:55,667 Twenty-fucking-three! 751 00:44:57,067 --> 00:45:00,067 In the meantime, I can speak to Agatha... 752 00:45:00,112 --> 00:45:00,934 if you like. 753 00:45:01,034 --> 00:45:03,431 ..paranoia. 23 is very good... 754 00:45:03,531 --> 00:45:03,934 at this... 755 00:45:04,034 --> 00:45:05,767 Paranoia, paranoia. 756 00:45:05,867 --> 00:45:07,801 In the meantime, I can speak to Agatha... 757 00:45:07,901 --> 00:45:09,934 if you like. 758 00:45:09,934 --> 00:45:12,059 ...of an axis of 23�. When you tell them it's... 759 00:45:12,159 --> 00:45:12,801 actually 23.5, 760 00:45:12,901 --> 00:45:16,167 They say five is simply two plus three. 761 00:45:39,134 --> 00:45:40,879 In the meantime, 762 00:45:40,979 --> 00:45:42,467 I can speak to Agatha... 763 00:45:42,567 --> 00:45:45,001 if you like. 764 00:45:55,268 --> 00:45:57,593 'Chapter 21...' 765 00:48:23,167 --> 00:48:25,234 Oh, god! 766 00:48:28,034 --> 00:48:30,034 Ag! 767 00:48:30,667 --> 00:48:33,567 Oh, god! Oh, god! 768 00:48:39,034 --> 00:48:41,201 It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare. 769 00:48:41,301 --> 00:48:44,268 It's a nightmare. It's gonna be all right. 770 00:48:44,368 --> 00:48:46,734 No! 771 00:48:46,734 --> 00:48:48,067 No! 772 00:49:48,433 --> 00:49:51,034 Ag, I don't want you... 773 00:49:51,134 --> 00:49:53,134 to be worried. 774 00:49:53,134 --> 00:49:56,059 I just need one night to clear my head. 775 00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:59,800 Please don't give up on me. 776 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:02,168 Your loving dog-catching husband, 777 00:50:02,268 --> 00:50:04,268 Walter. 778 00:50:22,001 --> 00:50:23,767 Why that street? 779 00:50:23,867 --> 00:50:26,334 Why that hotel? 780 00:50:27,533 --> 00:50:29,700 Like it was my choice. 781 00:50:53,734 --> 00:50:55,316 Morning. - What can I do... 782 00:50:55,416 --> 00:50:55,934 for you? 783 00:50:56,034 --> 00:50:59,334 Yeah, um, I�d, um... 784 00:50:59,334 --> 00:51:01,433 Like a room. 785 00:51:01,433 --> 00:51:03,433 Sign the register. 786 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:10,800 27's the quietest. 787 00:51:13,201 --> 00:51:15,800 What about 23? 788 00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:19,200 We've been experiencing some plumbing problems... 789 00:51:19,300 --> 00:51:21,300 with 23. 790 00:51:50,834 --> 00:51:54,234 Chapter 22 was as I feared. 791 00:53:13,834 --> 00:53:17,101 Tropic of capricorn. 792 00:53:39,167 --> 00:53:41,167 It wasn't the happiest... 793 00:53:41,233 --> 00:53:41,767 of endings. 794 00:53:41,867 --> 00:53:43,634 It wasn't an ending at all. 795 00:53:43,734 --> 00:53:46,901 After chapter 22, there was nothing... 796 00:53:46,901 --> 00:53:49,334 but the question. 797 00:53:49,334 --> 00:53:52,334 Did the number live to kill another day? 798 00:53:52,334 --> 00:53:55,109 The number had gone after Fingerling. 799 00:53:55,967 --> 00:53:58,313 and now it was coming after me. 800 00:54:02,834 --> 00:54:04,834 You. 801 00:54:07,734 --> 00:54:11,409 It's all your fault. If you hadn't made me late... 802 00:54:33,567 --> 00:54:36,600 All right, this suits me fine. 803 00:54:40,667 --> 00:54:43,667 A place to rest in peace. 804 00:54:45,567 --> 00:54:48,201 Yes! 805 00:54:51,467 --> 00:54:54,334 I got you, you son of a bitch. 806 00:54:54,334 --> 00:54:56,334 It's okay, boy. 807 00:54:56,334 --> 00:54:57,648 You'll get up in a couple of hours 808 00:54:57,748 --> 00:54:58,500 With a bad headache. 809 00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,734 That's all. 810 00:55:02,034 --> 00:55:05,634 Not so tough now, are you, nasty evil dog? 811 00:55:07,067 --> 00:55:09,834 Ned. 812 00:55:09,834 --> 00:55:13,101 L, m, n-- 14. 813 00:55:13,101 --> 00:55:16,634 A, b, c, d, e... 814 00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:21,400 Shit. 815 00:55:24,634 --> 00:55:27,467 Ned, Ned! 816 00:55:27,467 --> 00:55:28,867 I�m Father Sebastian. 817 00:55:28,967 --> 00:55:30,600 I trust there's an explanation for this. 818 00:55:30,700 --> 00:55:32,793 He's just sleeping, Father. I�m an... 819 00:55:32,893 --> 00:55:33,700 animal control officer. 820 00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,097 Is this your dog? - It belongs to Barnaby, 821 00:55:36,197 --> 00:55:36,834 My gardener. 822 00:55:36,934 --> 00:55:39,634 Don't worry, Barnaby, he's all right. 823 00:55:39,684 --> 00:55:41,684 He's just sleeping. 824 00:55:46,067 --> 00:55:48,168 Why did you name him Ned? - He didn't. 825 00:55:48,268 --> 00:55:50,034 He-- he took Ned in as a stray. 826 00:55:50,134 --> 00:55:53,268 He likes graveyards. He sits and watches 827 00:55:53,368 --> 00:55:54,034 The stones... 828 00:55:54,134 --> 00:55:57,034 like he was watching over them. 829 00:55:57,034 --> 00:55:58,976 That's how he got his nickname--... 830 00:55:59,076 --> 00:56:00,333 guardian of the dead. 831 00:56:00,433 --> 00:56:02,634 Lately it's been this one. 832 00:56:07,167 --> 00:56:09,834 Oh, no way. 833 00:56:09,834 --> 00:56:12,134 What's wrong, son? 834 00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:15,867 She died on her 23rd birthday. 835 00:56:15,867 --> 00:56:17,567 Well, we can only assume. 836 00:56:17,667 --> 00:56:20,934 What? - That she died. 837 00:56:20,934 --> 00:56:24,001 They never found her body. This is only a marker. 838 00:56:24,101 --> 00:56:26,549 Where have you been? - Library. It's not... 839 00:56:26,649 --> 00:56:27,367 just a book. 840 00:56:27,467 --> 00:56:30,600 It's true, the number screws with your mind, 841 00:56:30,700 --> 00:56:33,400 makes you do... 842 00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:34,967 terrible things. 843 00:56:35,067 --> 00:56:37,901 Perhaps I should be going. 844 00:56:37,901 --> 00:56:41,500 No, I want you to see this, all of you. 845 00:56:41,500 --> 00:56:43,927 There was a college girl named Laura Tollins... 846 00:56:44,027 --> 00:56:44,934 who was murdered. 847 00:56:45,034 --> 00:56:47,234 They never found her body, 848 00:56:47,234 --> 00:56:50,400 but her bed was soaked in so much blood. 849 00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,901 This is the man who killed her, Kyle Flinch. 850 00:56:53,001 --> 00:56:54,658 Police found a murder weapon, 851 00:56:54,758 --> 00:56:55,767 a butcher's knife, 852 00:56:55,867 --> 00:56:57,767 with his prints all over it. 853 00:56:57,867 --> 00:56:59,229 Well, Walter, this was nearly... 854 00:56:59,329 --> 00:56:59,934 15 years ago. 855 00:57:00,034 --> 00:57:02,797 Ag, he wasn't just her psychology professor. 856 00:57:02,897 --> 00:57:03,934 They were lovers. 857 00:57:04,034 --> 00:57:07,268 Everything they did together sexually... 858 00:57:07,268 --> 00:57:09,168 was exactly like the characters in the book. 859 00:57:09,268 --> 00:57:11,967 He said it was her idea to buy the knife. 860 00:57:12,067 --> 00:57:15,867 She wanted to fake an attack. 861 00:57:15,867 --> 00:57:19,867 Kyle Flinch is Topsy Kretts. 862 00:57:19,867 --> 00:57:22,567 The book is his... 863 00:57:22,567 --> 00:57:25,467 warped literary confession. 864 00:57:27,533 --> 00:57:30,400 Agatha said a-a dog told you this. 865 00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,634 Ned isn't just a dog. 866 00:57:33,634 --> 00:57:35,884 He's the guardian of the dead. 867 00:57:37,034 --> 00:57:37,951 But what about... 868 00:57:38,051 --> 00:57:38,600 all these 23s... 869 00:57:38,700 --> 00:57:40,201 in-in-in your name and everything? 870 00:57:40,301 --> 00:57:42,476 Is it all just a coincidence? 871 00:57:42,526 --> 00:57:44,333 I don't know. 872 00:57:44,433 --> 00:57:46,458 but I know who can tell me. 873 00:58:04,567 --> 00:58:07,201 Well, you're two days early. 874 00:58:09,268 --> 00:58:11,268 You knew I would come? 875 00:58:15,967 --> 00:58:18,134 Reporters always come on the 10th. 876 00:58:18,234 --> 00:58:19,967 The day you killed Laura Tollins. 877 00:58:20,067 --> 00:58:22,901 The day she was taken from me. 878 00:58:22,901 --> 00:58:26,301 I�m not a reporter. My name is Walter Sparrow. 879 00:58:26,301 --> 00:58:28,600 I was born February 3rd. 880 00:58:30,167 --> 00:58:33,667 Happy belated birthday. 881 00:58:33,667 --> 00:58:36,467 February 3rd. 2/3. 882 00:58:36,467 --> 00:58:38,570 Yeah. - Don't pretend 883 00:58:38,670 --> 00:58:40,134 You don't know, 884 00:58:40,234 --> 00:58:43,067 Topsy Kretts. I read your book. 885 00:58:43,067 --> 00:58:45,700 Tell me about the number. 886 00:58:45,700 --> 00:58:47,767 Is that why you killed her? 887 00:58:47,767 --> 00:58:50,467 I need to know. You have to tell me. 888 00:58:55,667 --> 00:58:59,134 What happened to you? I�m afraid it's happening to me. 889 00:58:59,234 --> 00:59:01,433 What happened to me? 890 00:59:06,268 --> 00:59:08,305 You want to know the worst thing about... 891 00:59:08,405 --> 00:59:09,234 being in prison? 892 00:59:09,334 --> 00:59:13,101 Your family, your sister, your parents, 893 00:59:13,101 --> 00:59:15,400 they come to visit you. 894 00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:17,834 Over time, though, the visits get less... 895 00:59:17,934 --> 00:59:20,634 and your sister stops coming at all. 896 00:59:21,767 --> 00:59:24,204 Then you start to notice your mother won't look you... 897 00:59:24,304 --> 00:59:24,801 in the eye. 898 00:59:24,901 --> 00:59:27,967 Pretty soon, she stops coming too. 899 00:59:29,500 --> 00:59:30,901 Eventually, your--... 900 00:59:31,001 --> 00:59:33,426 your father tells you your sister... 901 00:59:33,526 --> 00:59:35,300 had a breakdown... 902 00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,034 unable to deal with having a murderer... 903 00:59:38,134 --> 00:59:39,967 for a brother. 904 00:59:40,067 --> 00:59:41,681 Now there's tears in his eyes when... 905 00:59:41,781 --> 00:59:42,367 he says this, 906 00:59:42,467 --> 00:59:45,867 but he's not sad. 907 00:59:45,867 --> 00:59:48,400 He's angry. 908 00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,250 That's the last time you ever see him. 909 00:59:53,734 --> 00:59:56,967 I didn't kill Laura. 910 00:59:56,967 --> 00:59:59,101 I loved her. 911 00:59:59,101 --> 01:00:02,176 And I didn't write a book about a number. 912 01:00:05,001 --> 01:00:07,667 You're lying. 913 01:00:07,667 --> 01:00:10,892 I�m in prison for a crime I did not commit, 914 01:00:10,942 --> 01:00:12,942 Mr. Sparrow. 915 01:00:14,268 --> 01:00:16,993 But somehow I think your problems are... 916 01:00:17,093 --> 01:00:19,093 bigger than mine. 917 01:00:20,268 --> 01:00:23,101 Fucking liar! 918 01:00:25,334 --> 01:00:27,901 No. Yeah, no. 919 01:00:31,001 --> 01:00:33,301 If I was to write a book, 920 01:00:33,301 --> 01:00:37,126 I wouldn't use a ridiculous name like 'top secrets.' 921 01:01:00,834 --> 01:01:03,034 He was real convincing about his innocence. 922 01:01:03,134 --> 01:01:04,967 Well, killers usually are. 923 01:01:05,067 --> 01:01:07,168 His fingerprints were on the knife. 924 01:01:07,268 --> 01:01:08,733 Her blood was on his hands when... 925 01:01:08,833 --> 01:01:09,467 he dialed 911. 926 01:01:09,567 --> 01:01:13,134 No, he's innocent. 927 01:01:15,967 --> 01:01:18,234 All because his name doesn't add up to 23? 928 01:01:18,334 --> 01:01:20,448 The real killer, the author, he's still... 929 01:01:20,548 --> 01:01:21,067 out there. 930 01:01:21,167 --> 01:01:23,400 I have to find him. 931 01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:26,625 Wait, I--I--I--I know how you can find him. 932 01:01:32,700 --> 01:01:34,416 Last night w-when I was... 933 01:01:34,516 --> 01:01:35,467 reading the book, 934 01:01:35,567 --> 01:01:38,492 I found a p.o. box address in the back. 935 01:01:46,167 --> 01:01:48,380 Are you sure you don't want anything in this? 936 01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:49,134 Just the snow. 937 01:01:49,234 --> 01:01:51,120 When do you want it to get there? 938 01:01:51,220 --> 01:01:52,168 Tomorrow morning. 939 01:01:52,268 --> 01:01:54,767 It'll have to go express. - Fine. 940 01:01:54,767 --> 01:01:56,234 Is that all? 941 01:01:56,334 --> 01:01:58,368 No no, we want a--... 942 01:01:58,368 --> 01:02:00,934 we want 23 of them. 943 01:02:04,700 --> 01:02:08,101 I dreamt that I killed you, Ag. 944 01:02:08,101 --> 01:02:11,239 Fingerling had the same dream about-- 945 01:02:11,339 --> 01:02:11,534 Shh. 946 01:02:11,634 --> 01:02:14,533 I�m going with you today. 947 01:02:14,533 --> 01:02:17,308 And all this is gonna come to an end. 948 01:02:19,101 --> 01:02:21,201 You wouldn't hurt me, Walter. 949 01:02:23,167 --> 01:02:26,600 You wouldn't hurt anyone ever. 950 01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:32,500 How do you know? 951 01:02:41,368 --> 01:02:43,433 There's your boxes, kiddo. 952 01:02:43,433 --> 01:02:46,268 Now we'll see if somebody shows up. 953 01:02:47,734 --> 01:02:51,634 This may not be the author. He may not even be a man. 954 01:02:52,001 --> 01:02:55,533 Well, we'll know soon enough. 955 01:03:18,934 --> 01:03:20,934 Walter, look. - Huh? 956 01:03:20,934 --> 01:03:22,934 Somebody's gone in. 957 01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:27,534 That's him. I-it's gotta be him. 958 01:03:27,634 --> 01:03:31,101 You think? - Yeah, I mean, look at him. 959 01:03:31,101 --> 01:03:33,134 It's gotta be him. 960 01:03:39,533 --> 01:03:41,567 Game's over, Topsy Kretts. 961 01:03:52,167 --> 01:03:55,334 You sh-- should be dead. 962 01:03:57,067 --> 01:03:59,067 You should be dead! 963 01:04:01,433 --> 01:04:04,634 Walter, no! - I�m calling the cops! 964 01:04:04,634 --> 01:04:07,634 Stop! Who are you? 965 01:04:07,634 --> 01:04:10,167 The number, what does it mean? 966 01:04:10,167 --> 01:04:12,734 I think you know. 967 01:04:16,268 --> 01:04:17,410 Oh my god. Get an ambulance! 968 01:04:17,510 --> 01:04:17,901 Watch out! 969 01:04:18,001 --> 01:04:21,967 Dear god. - Get an ambulance! 970 01:04:21,967 --> 01:04:23,667 Don't you die on me. 971 01:04:23,767 --> 01:04:26,201 You hear me? Don't you die. 972 01:04:26,201 --> 01:04:28,067 Walter, please. 973 01:04:28,167 --> 01:04:30,387 He's the only person that can help us get... 974 01:04:30,487 --> 01:04:31,268 back to normal. 975 01:04:31,368 --> 01:04:33,201 Honey, you're not helping, okay? 976 01:04:33,301 --> 01:04:35,071 Now I want you to take Robin... 977 01:04:35,171 --> 01:04:35,901 and go home. 978 01:04:36,001 --> 01:04:37,767 This man needs a hospital. 979 01:04:37,867 --> 01:04:41,134 I�ll take care of it. - But he knows, hon. 980 01:04:41,134 --> 01:04:43,301 Take Robin and go home. 981 01:04:43,301 --> 01:04:47,101 I said I�ll take care of it. 982 01:04:52,500 --> 01:04:53,934 He knows. 983 01:04:54,034 --> 01:04:56,134 Shit! 984 01:04:56,134 --> 01:04:58,234 Hard to get rid of... 985 01:04:58,234 --> 01:05:01,167 What? - I was insane. 986 01:05:01,167 --> 01:05:02,734 What was driving you insane? 987 01:05:02,834 --> 01:05:05,667 Hard... 988 01:05:05,667 --> 01:05:08,467 to get rid of... 989 01:05:10,867 --> 01:05:13,301 The institute. 990 01:05:13,301 --> 01:05:16,400 Go there. 991 01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:17,967 You'll see. 992 01:05:18,067 --> 01:05:20,700 Oh my god. 993 01:05:32,634 --> 01:05:35,034 Agatha. - Walter, he didn't make it. 994 01:05:35,134 --> 01:05:36,634 I�m so sorry. 995 01:05:36,734 --> 01:05:38,934 Well, did he say anything? 996 01:05:38,934 --> 01:05:41,901 No, I�m sorry. 997 01:05:41,901 --> 01:05:44,533 Did you find out who he was? 998 01:05:44,533 --> 01:05:47,101 No. 999 01:05:47,101 --> 01:05:50,268 I�ll be home in a little while. 1000 01:07:22,467 --> 01:07:23,767 Oh, shit! 1001 01:07:23,867 --> 01:07:26,533 You gotta be kidding me. 1002 01:07:28,967 --> 01:07:30,967 Robin! 1003 01:08:29,101 --> 01:08:31,934 Every 23rd word on every 23rd page: 1004 01:08:31,934 --> 01:08:35,109 'Visit Casanova spark, Dig beneath the steps... 1005 01:08:35,209 --> 01:08:37,034 to heaven.' 1006 01:08:37,134 --> 01:08:40,001 Who's Casanova spark? - It's not a person. 1007 01:08:40,101 --> 01:08:43,326 'I warn you, hell is waiting, Sparrow man.' 1008 01:08:44,467 --> 01:08:46,734 We need to go. 1009 01:09:23,134 --> 01:09:25,134 23! 1010 01:09:38,533 --> 01:09:41,233 What was driving you insane? 1011 01:10:13,667 --> 01:10:16,667 Wanna take bets that there's 23 of them? 1012 01:10:22,334 --> 01:10:25,201 20, 21, 22... 1013 01:10:29,901 --> 01:10:32,226 Are you sure you wanna do this? 1014 01:10:34,533 --> 01:10:38,067 What if mom was right? 1015 01:10:38,067 --> 01:10:39,801 Wh-wh-what if-- what if the man wasn't the author? 1016 01:10:39,901 --> 01:10:42,385 What-- what if he was just the guy's father... 1017 01:10:42,485 --> 01:10:43,201 or something? 1018 01:10:43,301 --> 01:10:45,734 Sounds like a lot of what ifs. 1019 01:10:45,734 --> 01:10:48,759 Wouldn't that mean that the real killer's... 1020 01:10:48,859 --> 01:10:50,859 still out there? 1021 01:10:56,834 --> 01:10:59,867 Did you hear something? 1022 01:11:01,001 --> 01:11:04,001 You're starting to sound like me, kiddo. 1023 01:11:10,667 --> 01:11:13,400 Gimme the light. Gimme the light. 1024 01:11:16,101 --> 01:11:19,533 Oh, my-- 1025 01:11:26,667 --> 01:11:30,567 Okay, we gotta go. Go! 1026 01:11:30,567 --> 01:11:32,875 Give me the light. Let's get out... 1027 01:11:32,975 --> 01:11:34,975 of here. 1028 01:11:42,967 --> 01:11:45,292 There's one right there. 1029 01:11:45,391 --> 01:11:45,700 Where? 1030 01:11:50,268 --> 01:11:52,334 You stay here! 1031 01:11:54,334 --> 01:11:57,001 911. What's your emergency? 1032 01:11:57,001 --> 01:11:59,201 You need to send someone... 1033 01:11:59,201 --> 01:12:01,201 to Casanova's park. 1034 01:12:05,533 --> 01:12:08,767 Is this your idea of a joke? 1035 01:12:08,767 --> 01:12:10,901 It's empty. 1036 01:12:14,667 --> 01:12:16,667 What? 1037 01:12:18,134 --> 01:12:20,467 It was right there. 1038 01:12:20,467 --> 01:12:22,937 We're not crazy. We circled every 23rd word... 1039 01:12:23,037 --> 01:12:24,067 on every 23rd page... 1040 01:12:24,167 --> 01:12:25,420 and it told us to come down here. 1041 01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:25,667 Yeah. 1042 01:12:25,767 --> 01:12:27,728 And I sound completely crazy, 1043 01:12:27,828 --> 01:12:28,333 don't I? 1044 01:12:28,433 --> 01:12:29,524 Just get some sleep, okay? 1045 01:12:29,624 --> 01:12:30,067 We're done here. 1046 01:12:30,167 --> 01:12:32,467 10-23, u.t.l. 1047 01:12:35,834 --> 01:12:37,834 Mom. 1048 01:12:39,467 --> 01:12:41,767 Oh, honey. 1049 01:12:49,067 --> 01:12:52,368 Let's go home, okay? - Yeah. 1050 01:13:01,834 --> 01:13:04,333 Skeletons can't just get up and walk away. 1051 01:13:04,433 --> 01:13:06,901 You were right. That man wasn't the killer. 1052 01:13:07,001 --> 01:13:08,700 The real killer is still out there... 1053 01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:10,900 and he knows dad's onto him. 1054 01:13:12,800 --> 01:13:14,901 The book, it's got all these-- these--... 1055 01:13:15,001 --> 01:13:16,901 these secret messages every 23rd page. 1056 01:13:17,001 --> 01:13:18,308 He's right, every 23rd page in the book. 1057 01:13:18,408 --> 01:13:18,901 Stop it! 1058 01:13:19,001 --> 01:13:20,281 Yes. - Both of you, stop it! 1059 01:13:20,381 --> 01:13:21,168 Now listen to me. 1060 01:13:21,268 --> 01:13:24,433 23 is a number, okay? There's no magical meaning. 1061 01:13:24,533 --> 01:13:26,001 Only people can give it that. 1062 01:13:26,101 --> 01:13:27,568 And I don't care how many lunatics... 1063 01:13:27,668 --> 01:13:28,734 are fantasizing about 23. 1064 01:13:28,834 --> 01:13:30,901 They're wrong! There's no curse. 1065 01:13:31,001 --> 01:13:33,767 There's no killer running around out there. 1066 01:13:33,867 --> 01:13:36,342 Jesus. 1067 01:13:40,634 --> 01:13:42,634 It's him. 1068 01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:47,234 That's Ned. 1069 01:13:51,700 --> 01:13:55,234 Nasty evil dead dog. 1070 01:13:59,734 --> 01:14:03,067 Dad! - Walter! 1071 01:14:29,867 --> 01:14:31,867 You. 1072 01:14:33,433 --> 01:14:36,067 It was you. 1073 01:14:36,067 --> 01:14:38,067 You moved the skeleton. 1074 01:14:39,967 --> 01:14:41,134 Please don't do this, Walter. 1075 01:14:41,234 --> 01:14:43,559 Then how did you know, unless... 1076 01:14:47,867 --> 01:14:50,134 Your maiden name is Pink. 1077 01:14:50,134 --> 01:14:51,801 Do you know what pink is? 1078 01:14:51,901 --> 01:14:55,101 Red and white, 92 divided by 4. 1079 01:14:57,067 --> 01:14:58,783 Someday I�m gonna write a book and I�ll do it... 1080 01:14:58,883 --> 01:14:59,500 to somebody else. 1081 01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:01,634 Walter. - Oh, god. 1082 01:15:01,634 --> 01:15:03,067 Whoever wrote it knows you very well, 1083 01:15:03,167 --> 01:15:04,801 and only they can give you your answers. 1084 01:15:04,901 --> 01:15:08,167 You wrote it. 1085 01:15:09,767 --> 01:15:11,268 Isaac knew all along, didn't he? 1086 01:15:11,368 --> 01:15:14,667 Walter, just let it be, please. 1087 01:15:14,667 --> 01:15:16,367 You're Topsy Kretts. 1088 01:15:16,467 --> 01:15:17,867 He may not even be a man. 1089 01:15:17,967 --> 01:15:21,268 Don't make me do this. - Why, Ag? 1090 01:15:23,834 --> 01:15:25,867 Why'd you do this? 1091 01:15:27,368 --> 01:15:30,224 Who have I been living with? 1092 01:15:30,324 --> 01:15:32,324 Walter. 1093 01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:40,400 What's this for, Ag? 1094 01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:43,667 What were you gonna do with this? 1095 01:15:43,767 --> 01:15:45,534 I-- 1096 01:15:45,634 --> 01:15:48,134 I took it to protect us... 1097 01:15:48,134 --> 01:15:51,095 from whoever we were gonna meet at the mailbox... 1098 01:15:51,195 --> 01:15:51,734 facility. 1099 01:15:51,834 --> 01:15:53,912 Intending to kill that poor old man who you got... 1100 01:15:54,012 --> 01:15:54,867 to publish your book... 1101 01:15:54,967 --> 01:15:56,767 and protect your little secret? 1102 01:15:56,867 --> 01:15:59,570 I�ll take care of it. - He was alive before... 1103 01:15:59,670 --> 01:16:00,734 you sent us away. 1104 01:16:00,834 --> 01:16:03,395 Robin will hear you. - Oh, we wouldn't want that, 1105 01:16:03,495 --> 01:16:03,934 would we? 1106 01:16:04,034 --> 01:16:06,310 Wouldn't want our son to know the horrible truth... 1107 01:16:06,410 --> 01:16:07,201 about his mother. 1108 01:16:07,301 --> 01:16:09,134 Mom, dad, what's going on? 1109 01:16:09,234 --> 01:16:11,101 She's Topsy Kretts. She wrote the book. 1110 01:16:11,201 --> 01:16:13,770 No, it's not true. Now your father's gonna... 1111 01:16:13,870 --> 01:16:15,034 put down the knife. 1112 01:16:15,134 --> 01:16:17,734 Aren't you, Walter? - Tell him the truth. 1113 01:16:17,834 --> 01:16:19,900 Walter. - Tell him how you took... 1114 01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:20,867 the skeleton. 1115 01:16:20,967 --> 01:16:24,134 Yes, Isaac and I took the skeleton. 1116 01:16:24,134 --> 01:16:26,433 You did? - And I�d do it again. 1117 01:16:26,433 --> 01:16:28,367 But I did not write the book. 1118 01:16:28,467 --> 01:16:30,967 Don't lie. 13 years, Ag. 1119 01:16:30,967 --> 01:16:32,268 13 years of lies! 1120 01:16:32,368 --> 01:16:34,400 No more. - Don't do this to us, Walter. 1121 01:16:34,500 --> 01:16:37,067 Mom, who wrote the book? - Tell him who wrote it. 1122 01:16:37,167 --> 01:16:40,001 Tell him. 1123 01:16:40,001 --> 01:16:42,500 You wrote the book, Walter. 1124 01:16:54,667 --> 01:16:57,592 I found this with the old man's things. 1125 01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:10,201 You put my name on this. 1126 01:17:10,201 --> 01:17:12,201 No. 1127 01:17:12,867 --> 01:17:15,201 No no no no no. 1128 01:17:15,201 --> 01:17:16,734 You're lying. 1129 01:17:16,834 --> 01:17:19,416 She's lying. I didn't-- I didn't... 1130 01:17:19,516 --> 01:17:20,300 write that. 1131 01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:22,400 Then who did? 1132 01:17:24,101 --> 01:17:26,101 You. 1133 01:17:27,834 --> 01:17:30,827 It was both of you all the way along, 1134 01:17:30,927 --> 01:17:31,600 wasn't it? 1135 01:17:31,700 --> 01:17:34,067 No. - What is this? 1136 01:17:34,067 --> 01:17:36,067 What are you doing? 1137 01:18:03,433 --> 01:18:05,433 Dad. 1138 01:18:07,167 --> 01:18:09,167 Dad, what's happening? 1139 01:18:12,234 --> 01:18:14,834 Walter, we can get you help. 1140 01:18:17,101 --> 01:18:18,734 The woman in red. 1141 01:18:18,834 --> 01:18:22,134 And this is supposed to make... 1142 01:18:22,184 --> 01:18:24,184 me feel better how? 1143 01:18:25,700 --> 01:18:28,533 Oh my god. Shit! 1144 01:18:33,433 --> 01:18:35,433 Walter. 1145 01:18:43,700 --> 01:18:47,533 No! Get out of here! 1146 01:18:47,533 --> 01:18:49,201 Get your car. Come on. 1147 01:18:49,301 --> 01:18:51,776 Let's go. - Come on, honey. 1148 01:20:14,433 --> 01:20:17,101 'Chapter 23: 1149 01:20:17,101 --> 01:20:20,201 You can call me Fingerling, 1150 01:20:20,201 --> 01:20:23,767 but my real name is Walter. 1151 01:20:23,767 --> 01:20:27,567 Walter Paul Sparrow. 1152 01:20:27,567 --> 01:20:30,801 What you have read so far is not the whole truth. 1153 01:20:30,901 --> 01:20:34,567 Much has been changed to protect the innocent... 1154 01:20:34,567 --> 01:20:36,600 and the guilty. 1155 01:20:42,334 --> 01:20:43,844 I once read that the only philosophical... 1156 01:20:43,944 --> 01:20:44,734 question that matters... 1157 01:20:44,834 --> 01:20:47,567 is whether or not to commit suicide. 1158 01:20:49,134 --> 01:20:51,834 I guess that makes me a philosopher. 1159 01:20:53,967 --> 01:20:56,367 You could say it was my inheritance. 1160 01:20:56,467 --> 01:20:58,967 After my mother's death... 1161 01:20:58,967 --> 01:21:01,167 my father couldn't cope. 1162 01:21:06,134 --> 01:21:08,134 He didn't leave a note. 1163 01:21:09,500 --> 01:21:11,500 Just a number. 1164 01:21:13,533 --> 01:21:15,641 That number followed me from foster home... 1165 01:21:15,741 --> 01:21:16,500 to foster home, 1166 01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:19,334 till college when I met her. 1167 01:21:19,334 --> 01:21:21,334 Laura Tollins. 1168 01:21:40,467 --> 01:21:42,467 Do it tight. 1169 01:21:44,967 --> 01:21:47,734 Pretend that you have a knife. 1170 01:21:47,734 --> 01:21:49,534 I got a knife. 1171 01:21:49,634 --> 01:21:51,433 Cut my shirt. 1172 01:21:51,533 --> 01:21:53,600 I�ll cut you some more. - Are you? 1173 01:21:53,700 --> 01:21:55,700 Yeah, I�ll cut you. 1174 01:22:08,234 --> 01:22:10,834 Cut me. Cut me. 1175 01:22:10,834 --> 01:22:14,234 'I loved her.' 1176 01:22:14,234 --> 01:22:16,667 One little-known... 1177 01:22:16,667 --> 01:22:18,734 'And I thought she loved me.' 1178 01:22:18,834 --> 01:22:21,300 ...esoteric procession of the number 23. 1179 01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:23,834 Does a thing itself have a mystical power? 1180 01:22:23,934 --> 01:22:25,758 Does that equate? - Yes, that-- that's--... 1181 01:22:25,858 --> 01:22:26,433 that's the... 1182 01:22:26,533 --> 01:22:29,608 'Until my father's number... 1183 01:22:29,658 --> 01:22:31,658 returned to haunt me.' 1184 01:22:44,067 --> 01:22:46,134 Are you insane? 1185 01:22:46,134 --> 01:22:48,984 'That fucking number.' 1186 01:23:10,134 --> 01:23:13,659 'When I circled every 23rd letter of her note... 1187 01:23:14,934 --> 01:23:17,767 it became clear.' 1188 01:23:19,334 --> 01:23:21,700 'The number had gone after me. 1189 01:23:25,334 --> 01:23:28,709 And now it wanted her.' 1190 01:23:31,700 --> 01:23:33,767 Laura, this room-- you gotta get out. 1191 01:23:33,867 --> 01:23:35,485 It's coming for you. I can't stop it. 1192 01:23:35,585 --> 01:23:35,767 What? 1193 01:23:35,867 --> 01:23:38,800 What? - The number. 1194 01:23:40,167 --> 01:23:43,634 No no no no no. - Leave me alone. 1195 01:23:46,234 --> 01:23:48,801 You think you have the guts to use it? 1196 01:23:48,901 --> 01:23:51,901 Go ahead. 1197 01:23:51,901 --> 01:23:54,567 Kill me. 1198 01:23:58,234 --> 01:24:00,234 I love you. 1199 01:24:02,500 --> 01:24:05,901 I never loved you, ever. 1200 01:24:05,901 --> 01:24:09,500 How could I? 1201 01:24:09,500 --> 01:24:11,834 How could anyone? 1202 01:24:11,834 --> 01:24:13,834 You're pathetic. 1203 01:24:15,234 --> 01:24:17,368 Just like your father. 1204 01:24:19,700 --> 01:24:21,700 Get out! 1205 01:24:31,301 --> 01:24:33,168 Laura. 1206 01:24:33,268 --> 01:24:35,901 Laura! 1207 01:24:35,901 --> 01:24:38,400 Laura! Laura! 1208 01:24:38,400 --> 01:24:39,967 Laura! 1209 01:24:40,067 --> 01:24:43,533 Laura! Laura! 1210 01:24:43,533 --> 01:24:46,500 Laura! Laura! 1211 01:24:46,500 --> 01:24:49,934 Laura! Laura! 1212 01:24:49,934 --> 01:24:53,067 Laura! 1213 01:24:54,500 --> 01:24:56,500 I was right. 1214 01:24:56,600 --> 01:24:58,834 She was in danger. 1215 01:24:58,834 --> 01:25:01,909 I just didn't realize the danger was me.' 1216 01:25:04,334 --> 01:25:06,967 It's gonna be all right. 1217 01:25:09,934 --> 01:25:13,101 I just didn't realize the danger was me.' 1218 01:25:29,433 --> 01:25:31,901 Hey, Laura. 1219 01:25:36,533 --> 01:25:38,533 Laura? 1220 01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:19,101 'What began as a suicide note... 1221 01:26:19,201 --> 01:26:20,667 turned into something more...' 1222 01:26:30,268 --> 01:26:32,268 Shh-- get the--... 1223 01:26:33,634 --> 01:26:36,467 '...much, much more.' 1224 01:26:38,301 --> 01:26:40,301 23. That's a good one. 1225 01:26:40,301 --> 01:26:42,334 That's a good one. 1226 01:26:49,901 --> 01:26:52,667 23.23. 1227 01:26:52,667 --> 01:26:53,901 23. 1228 01:26:54,001 --> 01:26:57,001 23, 23. Fuck it, fuck it. 1229 01:26:57,001 --> 01:26:58,268 I can see it. It's everywhere. 1230 01:26:58,368 --> 01:27:01,700 It's everywhere. It's everywhere. 1231 01:27:01,700 --> 01:27:03,800 No more fun and games. 1232 01:27:05,034 --> 01:27:07,301 Laura. 1233 01:27:18,467 --> 01:27:21,400 Shit! This fucking... 1234 01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:23,433 It's not true. 1235 01:27:23,433 --> 01:27:25,467 It's not true. 1236 01:27:25,467 --> 01:27:28,368 He does not-- does not-- 1237 01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:34,667 I love you... 1238 01:27:34,667 --> 01:27:36,168 More than any of... 1239 01:27:36,268 --> 01:27:39,001 Period, exclamation. 1240 01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:11,433 Remember this? 1241 01:28:37,901 --> 01:28:39,476 'They thought it was... 1242 01:28:39,576 --> 01:28:40,067 the fall...' 1243 01:28:40,167 --> 01:28:42,666 He doesn't remember anything. It's not uncommon in cases... 1244 01:28:42,766 --> 01:28:43,967 of such severe head injury. 1245 01:28:44,067 --> 01:28:46,551 He could recover his memory tomorrow... 1246 01:28:46,651 --> 01:28:47,234 or never. 1247 01:28:47,334 --> 01:28:49,367 Well, of course you have to factor in the history... 1248 01:28:49,467 --> 01:28:51,934 of mental instability of the patient's family. 1249 01:28:52,034 --> 01:28:53,934 His own father attempted suicide. 1250 01:28:54,034 --> 01:28:56,250 He just managed to be a little more... 1251 01:28:56,350 --> 01:28:57,400 successful at it. 1252 01:28:57,500 --> 01:28:59,878 '...because the trauma of Laura... 1253 01:28:59,978 --> 01:29:01,168 appeared to be fiction.' 1254 01:29:01,268 --> 01:29:04,067 And all that scribbling? - Severe graphomania. 1255 01:29:04,167 --> 01:29:06,067 The rantings of a delirious mind. 1256 01:29:06,167 --> 01:29:08,067 Some sort of a survivor's guilt mixed up... 1257 01:29:08,167 --> 01:29:09,667 with a numerology obsession. 1258 01:29:09,767 --> 01:29:12,867 You have your hands full, doctor. 1259 01:29:12,867 --> 01:29:15,500 Mmm. I�ll do what I can. 1260 01:29:16,634 --> 01:29:19,667 Say, uh, may I have this book? 1261 01:29:19,667 --> 01:29:22,134 Thank you. 1262 01:29:22,134 --> 01:29:24,268 'My novel, 1263 01:29:24,268 --> 01:29:26,134 my confession, 1264 01:29:26,234 --> 01:29:30,134 I never saw it again.' - My name is Dr. Nathaniel. 1265 01:29:30,134 --> 01:29:33,167 'Some injuries can be healed over time. 1266 01:29:33,167 --> 01:29:36,567 Some are just too hard to deal with. 1267 01:29:36,567 --> 01:29:38,067 So my brain just blocked out... 1268 01:29:38,167 --> 01:29:40,800 the terrible thing I had done... 1269 01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:42,800 and the reasons why.' 1270 01:29:44,034 --> 01:29:45,284 Take care. - I hope I never... 1271 01:29:45,384 --> 01:29:46,034 see you again. 1272 01:29:46,134 --> 01:29:49,584 I hope not. I hope not. Don't come back, fella. 1273 01:29:49,634 --> 01:29:51,634 Okay. 1274 01:29:58,368 --> 01:30:00,937 Ooh! Oh my god. I�m so sorry. 1275 01:30:01,037 --> 01:30:01,168 Oh! 1276 01:30:01,268 --> 01:30:02,734 Oh, no. 1277 01:30:02,834 --> 01:30:04,360 'Agatha knew nothing... 1278 01:30:04,460 --> 01:30:05,067 about my past.' 1279 01:30:05,167 --> 01:30:06,867 Oh, you owe me a cake. 1280 01:30:06,967 --> 01:30:09,333 'That made two of us. 1281 01:30:09,433 --> 01:30:11,934 I was free for now, 1282 01:30:11,934 --> 01:30:14,500 But the number found a new victim. 1283 01:30:14,500 --> 01:30:17,500 The number left me alone for 13 years... 1284 01:30:19,034 --> 01:30:22,967 until the night she found my book, 1285 01:30:22,967 --> 01:30:25,101 or the book found her.' 1286 01:30:49,167 --> 01:30:51,168 This is where I wrote it all. 1287 01:30:51,268 --> 01:30:54,500 It was me. 1288 01:30:54,500 --> 01:30:56,834 I�m a murderer. 1289 01:31:01,433 --> 01:31:03,983 I don't know what happened to you, 1290 01:31:04,033 --> 01:31:06,033 but I do know this: 1291 01:31:06,634 --> 01:31:09,634 You weren't a bad person who got better; 1292 01:31:10,800 --> 01:31:13,300 You were a sick person who became well. 1293 01:31:13,400 --> 01:31:16,567 I killed Laura Tollins. 1294 01:31:19,433 --> 01:31:22,958 There's an innocent man in prison because of me. 1295 01:31:23,867 --> 01:31:26,368 You're a wonderful husband, 1296 01:31:26,368 --> 01:31:30,368 and you're the best father a son could ever have. 1297 01:31:30,368 --> 01:31:33,068 And what would Robin do without you? 1298 01:31:34,500 --> 01:31:36,744 You know I can't let an innocent man... 1299 01:31:36,844 --> 01:31:37,500 go on suffering... 1300 01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:41,500 for my horrible sin. 1301 01:31:41,500 --> 01:31:44,101 We're all broken, Walter. 1302 01:31:44,101 --> 01:31:46,001 Remember, you told me your life started... 1303 01:31:46,101 --> 01:31:48,101 when you met me? 1304 01:31:48,101 --> 01:31:50,734 Well, my life... 1305 01:31:50,734 --> 01:31:52,836 began that day, too. - You didn't know... 1306 01:31:52,936 --> 01:31:53,467 who I was. 1307 01:31:53,567 --> 01:31:56,101 I didn't know who I was. 1308 01:31:56,101 --> 01:31:58,450 I want you to leave, Ag. 1309 01:31:58,550 --> 01:31:58,700 No. 1310 01:31:58,800 --> 01:32:00,971 You need to leave before... 1311 01:32:01,071 --> 01:32:01,168 No. 1312 01:32:01,268 --> 01:32:03,767 Before what? 1313 01:32:08,034 --> 01:32:10,034 Before you kill me? 1314 01:32:12,467 --> 01:32:14,967 Damn it, Walter. 1315 01:32:14,967 --> 01:32:17,134 Look, this... 1316 01:32:17,134 --> 01:32:19,134 This is who you were. 1317 01:32:19,134 --> 01:32:21,334 This is not who you are. 1318 01:32:23,034 --> 01:32:24,784 This is not who you are! 1319 01:32:24,884 --> 01:32:26,884 I�m a killer! 1320 01:32:27,001 --> 01:32:30,268 I have killed someone. 1321 01:32:30,268 --> 01:32:33,034 I killed someone. 1322 01:32:33,034 --> 01:32:35,034 I could do it again. 1323 01:32:35,034 --> 01:32:37,808 You think you could do it again? You think... 1324 01:32:37,908 --> 01:32:38,934 you're a killer? 1325 01:32:39,034 --> 01:32:40,300 Here, then take this. 1326 01:32:40,400 --> 01:32:42,400 You go ahead and do it. 1327 01:32:42,400 --> 01:32:44,367 If you're a killer, then kill me! 1328 01:32:44,467 --> 01:32:45,967 Look around at all the beautiful 23s. 1329 01:32:46,067 --> 01:32:48,007 You don't want to disappoint them, 1330 01:32:48,107 --> 01:32:48,467 do you? 1331 01:32:48,567 --> 01:32:50,367 Do it! 1332 01:32:52,967 --> 01:32:54,834 I love you. 1333 01:32:54,934 --> 01:32:57,967 No, don't you say that. 1334 01:32:59,567 --> 01:33:02,567 I love you. - No, you can't! 1335 01:33:06,700 --> 01:33:08,767 Nobody can. 1336 01:33:46,467 --> 01:33:48,533 Dad! 1337 01:33:58,034 --> 01:34:00,604 There's no such thing... 1338 01:34:00,704 --> 01:34:01,433 as destiny. 1339 01:34:01,533 --> 01:34:04,008 There are only different choices. 1340 01:34:21,433 --> 01:34:23,967 It's just a number. 1341 01:34:23,967 --> 01:34:27,001 Some choices are easy; 1342 01:34:27,001 --> 01:34:28,801 Some aren't. 1343 01:34:28,901 --> 01:34:31,800 Those are the really important ones, 1344 01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:35,134 the ones that define us as people. 1345 01:34:35,134 --> 01:34:38,101 The lord is my shepherd. there is nothing I lack. 1346 01:34:38,201 --> 01:34:40,834 In green pastures, you let me graze. 1347 01:34:40,834 --> 01:34:44,500 To safe waters, you lead me. You restore my... 1348 01:34:44,500 --> 01:34:45,651 13 years ago I made... 1349 01:34:45,751 --> 01:34:46,901 the wrong choice... 1350 01:34:47,001 --> 01:34:49,201 Guide me along the right path for the sake... 1351 01:34:49,301 --> 01:34:52,500 I needed to put it right, 1352 01:34:52,500 --> 01:34:54,567 and not just for my sake. 1353 01:35:11,001 --> 01:35:14,867 To die there in the street would have been easy, 1354 01:35:14,867 --> 01:35:17,834 but it wouldn't have been justice, 1355 01:35:17,834 --> 01:35:21,959 at least not the justice fathers teach their sons about. 1356 01:35:29,934 --> 01:35:32,634 I�ll be sentenced in a week or so. 1357 01:35:32,634 --> 01:35:34,142 My lawyer says the judge will look... 1358 01:35:34,242 --> 01:35:34,834 kindly upon me... 1359 01:35:34,934 --> 01:35:37,400 for turning myself in. 1360 01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:40,001 Maybe it's not the happiest of endings, 1361 01:35:40,101 --> 01:35:42,567 but it's the right one. 1362 01:35:44,234 --> 01:35:46,268 Someday I�ll be up for parole... 1363 01:35:46,368 --> 01:35:48,268 and we can go on living our lives. 1364 01:35:48,368 --> 01:35:51,134 It's only a matter of time. 1365 01:35:51,134 --> 01:35:53,034 Of course, time's just a counting system--... 1366 01:35:53,134 --> 01:35:55,301 numbers... 1367 01:35:55,301 --> 01:35:57,551 with meaning attached to them. 1368 01:36:00,700 --> 01:36:03,400 Isn't it? 1369 01:36:20,101 --> 01:36:22,934 Subtitles made by rogard * I�ve got me a badge *... 1370 01:36:23,034 --> 01:36:27,034 * a bright, shiny badge *... 1371 01:36:27,034 --> 01:36:28,700 * I'm painting the crest *... 1372 01:36:28,800 --> 01:36:31,967 * in yellow and blue *... 1373 01:36:33,700 --> 01:36:36,700 * I�ve got me a club *... 1374 01:36:36,700 --> 01:36:39,034 * an exclusive club *... 1375 01:36:41,067 --> 01:36:44,967 * Doesn't include a place for you *... 1376 01:36:47,467 --> 01:36:50,634 * Hey *... 1377 01:36:52,234 --> 01:36:54,368 * Hello, neighbor *... 1378 01:37:01,067 --> 01:37:04,067 * Hey *... 1379 01:37:05,867 --> 01:37:08,134 * Hello, neighbor *... 1380 01:37:10,201 --> 01:37:12,201 * Right you are *... 1381 01:37:13,734 --> 01:37:17,433 * It's in the way that you walk *... 1382 01:37:17,433 --> 01:37:21,368 * All of the changes, all the mistakes *... 1383 01:37:21,368 --> 01:37:23,168 * It's in the demands *... 1384 01:37:23,268 --> 01:37:26,001 * you constantly make *... 1385 01:37:27,368 --> 01:37:30,301 * It's in the way that you grieve *... 1386 01:37:31,667 --> 01:37:35,034 * all of the loss *... 1387 01:37:35,034 --> 01:37:38,901 * You don't know when you're better off *... 1388 01:37:40,901 --> 01:37:43,467 * or at what cost *... 1389 01:37:48,268 --> 01:37:50,533 * You've got it good *... 1390 01:37:56,967 --> 01:37:59,368 * the banality *... 1391 01:37:59,368 --> 01:38:02,368 * of evil *... 1392 01:38:02,368 --> 01:38:04,368 * Benevolent mother *... 1393 01:38:04,368 --> 01:38:06,168 * smother the child *... 1394 01:38:06,268 --> 01:38:09,634 * The perpetrators are in denial *... 1395 01:38:10,634 --> 01:38:13,134 * The banality *... 1396 01:38:13,134 --> 01:38:15,867 * of evil *... 1397 01:38:15,867 --> 01:38:17,967 * King of the castle *... 1398 01:38:17,967 --> 01:38:19,534 * Room at the top *... 1399 01:38:19,634 --> 01:38:21,333 * Off with their heads *... 1400 01:38:21,433 --> 01:38:24,400 * chop 'em off *... 1401 01:38:24,400 --> 01:38:26,767 * The banality *... 1402 01:38:26,767 --> 01:38:29,001 * of evil *... 1403 01:38:29,001 --> 01:38:31,234 * Benevolent mother *... 1404 01:38:31,234 --> 01:38:33,067 * smother the child *... 1405 01:38:33,167 --> 01:38:36,867 * The perpetrators are in denial *... 1406 01:38:38,034 --> 01:38:40,301 * The banality *... 1407 01:38:40,301 --> 01:38:43,001 * Of evil *... 1408 01:38:43,001 --> 01:38:45,234 * King of the castle *... 1409 01:38:45,234 --> 01:38:48,500 * Room at the top, Off with their heads *... 1410 01:38:48,500 --> 01:38:51,067 * chop 'em off *... 94237