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Previously on CSI: Vegas...

All of these cases,

all of these people
are related.

Lamont Moore.
ROBY: Dario Donnelly.

Lynn Zobrist. The sick mind
behind all of these murders

is Dr. Diane Auerbach.

I was so certain
that she was responsible.

(screams)

Max, you need to see this.

I need you to get
two rooms at the Aurora.

One for me, one for you.
Use fake names.

RAJAN:
Players are assigned a target.

Once they eliminate one,
they inherit

that player's target
as their next assignment.

That was the plan, take out
the last man standing yourself?

But you made that
pretty impossible.

I gave my best player
a real challenge.

You're all in the game now.
May the best man win.

* You'll reach in my brain *

* And it drives me insane *

* How you touch me this way. *

(man whistling)

* *

BRYAN:
You know we have
a fully stocked minifridge

in our hotel room, right?

I am not paying
ten dollars

for bottled water.

Not even after
the apocalypse.

Your mom's a civil servant,
not a high roller.

BRYAN: How long are
we planning on staying?

I thought you caught the guy
who wanted you dead.

One of 'em, but it kind of seems
like there's another one.

And we just got to
be careful, okay?

It won't be forever.

ROBY:
Hi.

Dad.

(chuckling)

You got here fast.

Well, there's a deranged killer

hunting your mama.

It seemed urgent.

I'm worried about you.

I've only been in town an hour

and I've already
tracked you down.

Daniel,
it was really kind of you

to come all this way,
but we're gonna be fine.

I promise--
Maxine.

We're still
a family.

I'm not going anywhere.

Not until you're really safe.

I am so sorry.

I can't do this. I can't.

BRYAN:
That went well.

Poor Molly.

What have we got?

Adhesive residue on
her wrists and ankles.

Killer had her bound up.

There's no blood,
no trauma, no ligature marks.

I have no guess
on cause.

Witness in that tent saw

a man wheel this
cart under the 15,

then walked off
whistling.

Remembers a fancy suit,
not a face.

It's all right.
We know exactly who did this.

He told us himself.

CHAVEZ:
He signed his work?

He's not just signing his work.

He's giving us the finger.

The only print found
at Molly Tate's dump site

was the digitus medius.

He's flipping us the bird.

Lovely.
In silver ink.

Here's our man, Ronald Winter.

WILLOWS:
Quite the mugshot.

His wanted poster's gonna
look like an Armani ad.

Put it on the local news,
make him famous.

I can't find any other trace
of his life online.

Uh, this was for
a first-time offense.

Cyberstalking.

So now he's crawling out
from behind

his keyboard to put on a show?

Going public like this feels
like Molly's his opening act.

Who's the audience?
Why dump her like that?

This guy was drafted into that
twisted wheel of death game.

But that's over. Why keep going?

RAJAN:
He's a bit different
from the others

tangled up in Ted Hester's
Silver Ink Murders.

Ron had
a troubled youth, too,

but look.

ROBY:
Look at that IQ.

160?
WILLOWS: If he's that smart,

you got to imagine
he's got an endgame.

RAJAN: Maybe he's already
told us what it is.

The postcards, the scribbles
on the walls in the white room.

What?
ROBY: We had
the same instinct

when Ted told us about Ron.

So much so that Catherine
called a forensic linguist

at Quantico. They're
working on it, but...

We don't have enough material
for the cryptanalysts.

If we had
a large enough sample,

they could find patterns,
figure out how Ron's

symbols could
group into words,

sentences, but... we need more.

You're gonna need more
evidence of every kind.

Anything that tells us
where Ron is.

(phone chimes)
Well, Sonya's ready

to walk us through
Molly's autopsy.

Let's start there.

Jack, please,
where are we on the coffee?

I need caffeine.

Like, any form.
Intravenous would be acceptable.

Hey, sis.
How about you look down?

ROBY:
You all right?

You look kind of exhausted.
Yeah.

I'm fine. I just...

I was up all night
with this autopsy while

lover boy over there was
out gallivanting around.

RAJAN: Did you
go on a date?

How'd it go?

Well, he was wearing the same
clothes as yesterday, so...

She was talking
about the autopsy.
Ah.

You are right.
Um, not as well as I hoped.

But I still can't tell you
what killed Molly.
Mm.

All signs point to Molly
being poisoned orally.

See those small tears
in her laryngopharynx?

That makes me think
that she was forced

to swallow something,
something that

did this.
ROBY: Whoa!

Yeah.
Pretty sure the
liver's not supposed

to look like a slice
of Swiss cheese.

Hepatic vacuolizations.
Ricin poisoning?

SONYA:
That's what I thought,
but no.

I spent hours
testing the contents

of her stomach. Not a drop.

And then I got really confused
when I opened up

her large intestine
and found extensive bleeding.

Okay, now that sounds
like hydrogen cyanide.

It does,
but again, no.

And before you ask,
I also tested

for arsenic
and strychnine.

Even though it couldn't possibly
be either of those, because...

(heavy breathing)

ROBY:
Hey.

You okay?

Yeah.

Um... (clears throat)
Sorry, uh...

Couldn't be either of those,
because those poisons

don't cause
hepatic vacuolization

and bloody GI, so...

...so I am completely...

Come on, sit down,
take a seat, come on.

Yeah.
Let's get some water
and sit down.

Whoa!

JACK:
Sonya!

My heart... My heart is racing.

Sonya? Sonya, are you okay?
SONYA: Get away from me!

Get out! Just get out!
No! I-- No...

Seal off the morgue!

Molly's a Trojan horse.

JACK:
What are you talking about?

ROBY: That's why
he dumped her.

He's using her body
to poison all of us.

Control, C16.
This is CSI Allie Rajan.

I need medical assistance
at my location immediately!

Tell me how to help you.

I don't know. (groans)

I think whatever killed Molly,
it's killing me.

Listen. Listen.
Just stay with me.

(wheezing)

* *

* Who... are you? *

* Who, who, who, who? *

* Who... are you? *

* Who, who, who, who? *

* I really wanna know *

* Who... are you? *

* Oh-oh-oh *
* Who... *

* Come on, tell me who are you,
you, you *

* Are you! *

DOCTOR:
We need to restrain her!

NURSE:
Having a hard time.
She's convulsing.

DOCTOR:
Prepping the pentobarbital.

(screams)

DOCTOR:
Give her another 25 mils.

(Sonya screaming)

Do they know what it is?

No, but they just
started testing.

And they're straight
on symptomology.

Her heart is racing.
She can't stand.

She's got severe abdominal pain.
Have they checked for sepsis?

Jack, they know everything
that we do.

They're doing all
they can, hon.

How'd this happen?

RAJAN: Sonya said
that she was poisoned

by the same poison
that killed Molly Tate.

Was it airborne?

RAJAN:
We don't think so.

She was with the
body for hours.

She said it was
a Trojan horse.

Rigged to
release poison.

I just don't know how.

Are-are you all in danger?

No, none of us
ever touched Molly's body.

Maybe this is why the guy snuck
into our morgue, to-to scout it.

Guys, I don't know how long
Sonya has if we don't figure out

what did this.
We will.

All right?
We will.

Whether we have
to track down Ron

and pry it out of him
or identify

the poison on our own,
we will, okay?

Where do you want us?

Joshua, I want you
at Molly Tate's house.

Beau and Penny are
at the White Room.

Allie, I need you
to suit up.

Somebody's got
to look at the body--
I-I can help.

I've got,
I've got Sonya's notes.

I-I don't want to just sit
on the sidelines here.

I was gonna say,
"Work with Jack."

This man came after
one of our family.

We need all the
help we can get.

And he's gonna realize
what a big mistake that was.

I'm gonna grab Catherine,

and we're gonna talk to Ted
Hester. He picked this guy.

Maybe he'll tell us something.

Hey.

You think this is
a good idea?

To sit down with Ted?

I mean, he's the one
who put you in the crosshairs.

Yeah.

Well, now
he's in mine.

I don't know what to tell you.

Ron's pretty smart.

If he doesn't want
to be found, he won't be.

You put him up to this?
Actually, I didn't.

Ronald's playing
his own game now,

and whatever he does next
will be a surprise to us all.

You know, the one thing
I can say for sure is

it's gonna feel good.

What is?

Being vindicated.

I had the perfect way

to find and eliminate
serial killers,

and you stopped me.

Now we all get to see
if that was a good idea.

I get that this is
a game for you.

But wouldn't it be more fun
if everybody knew how to play?

I might be able to point you
in the right direction,

for a price.

What do you want?
Not much.

A little privacy
and a PlayStation 5

so I can play Shadow Cell.

Give up your MVP
for a video game?

ROBY: That's
my son's favorite.

They shoot zombies
and chat with their friends.

It's just fun.

You found Richard Sloan
through that game.

Is that how you talk
to Ron, too?

Nice try, Dr. Frankenstein.

We're not handing you
a direct line to your monster.

ROBY:
I tell you what.

You give me your user name,

we'll see what we can do
about that private cell.

Sorry.

I don't negotiate
with terrorists.

That's what you are.

Needlessly putting
the innocent at risk

from people like...
You?

Ronald Edward Winter.

Something tells me I'm gonna be
seeing you again soon, ladies.

* *

Ready? Let's find out
what your sister ran into.

(sighs)

SONYA (on recording):
Okay, it's 11:45 p.m.,

December 15, 2022.

This is Sonya Nikolayevich,

head ME Clark County.

I'm performing an autopsy
on a 32-year-old female vic,

and tonight, I'm going in solo.

Hope the date's fun, Jack.

Okay, first impressions.

No blunt-force trauma,

no GSW, no knife wounds.
Possibly poison.

But I do need to get inside
to be sure.

I'm using a number ten

to perform a standard
Y incision.

Never seen liver vacuolization
like this before.

(computer chimes)

But the presence of blood

in the vic's GI tract
has me stumped.

And while I'm asking questions
that don't have answers,

why is there an injection site

on the upper right quadrant
of the abdomen?

RAJAN: So Sonya opened
the injection site.

Standard procedure.

If you see something on
the surface you can't explain,

you gotta go deeper
to find the answers.

Wait, what is that?

It's like a pocket

in between the layers
of Molly's skin.

Condition and the color says
it was created postmortem.

That would mean
that Ron made it.

Why would he do
that, and how?

I think I can answer
both questions.

JACK:
After he killed her,

Ron gave her
an intradermal injection.

The liquid forced the layers
of Molly's skin apart,

creating this pocket.

RAJAN: And that pocket held
his mystery poison

until Sonya sliced it open.

Mm.

Got a little spatter here.

Did you hear that? I think
that's when it happened.

That's it, right there.

When she hit this dermal pocket,
that was it.

I think
you're right.

I think that's how
she got dosed.

Okay.

I'm gonna test this

and tell you
what I find.

Huh.
CHAVEZ: This guy didn't
just kill Molly Tate.

He got her poor fish, too.

FOLSOM:
We got serious signs
of a struggle.

This is probably
where it went down.

(gasping)

He held her here, too.

Same residue was on Molly's
wrists and ankles.

He sure was careful
to keep the room dark.

Had to make it look like
nobody was home three days ago.

That's a pretty specific
timeline.

Right after we arrested
Ted Hester,

I sent a car over here
to check on Molly.

The uniforms knocked,
no answer.

(crying out)

Thanks, Molly.

This might tell us
what he was playing with.

OFFICER:
Ma'am, I need you
to stay back.

WOMAN: This is my
daughter's house.

OFFICER: This is
a crime scene.

I want to see her.
I want to see my Molly!

She was poisoned?

I'm so sorry, ma'am.

This was always
our worst nightmare.

Molly had so
many allergies.

Peanuts, bananas, cotton.

We spent her
whole childhood

terrified of anaphylaxis.

Did she take medication
for that?

I'll give you a list.

She was on more
than allergy meds.

Molly had some
trouble emotionally.

Ever since she was
a little kid.

That may actually be why
she was targeted.

What?

We recently arrested
a really disturbed individual.

He had a list of folks
who suffered

mental health afflictions
like your daughter.

He was trying
to get rid of them.

Molly wasn't a bad person.

Her troubles, they
were just baked in.

We got her doctors.

We got her fish.

Whenever Molly felt like she
was slipping under the waves,

I bought her another friend
to keep her company.

Help her swim back up.

It never solved
anything, but...

She knew you cared.

A few months ago,
everything changed.

Out of nowhere, Molly
started refusing my help.

What?

FOLSOM:
The guy we told you about,

he made contact with her
a few months back.

He may have been
blackmailing her.

If you know something...
She never told me anything.

She kept me out.

I always tried, but...

You did what you could.

Well, clearly, it wasn't enough.

Just tell me that you're going
to find the person who did this.

* *

The poison that
killed Molly Tate.

I've run it through the Agilent,
the GC/MS, the Xevo,

the IXRF and the FTIR.

Nothing. I can't identify it.
It's either novel or...

Extremely rare.

I did a bit better.
Epithelials from the pocket

confirm it belonged
to Ron Winter.

And the GC/MS determined that

the holes were caused
by nitric acid.

I wonder if he splashed himself
whilst he was making the poison.

If we could find him, maybe
he'd just tell us what it is.

Either that or

we'll have to hope he wrote

his recipe down someplace.

FINADO:
Found more hieroglyphs.

This guy had a lot to say.

(sighs) I can't tell you
what any of it means.

I've been staring
at squiggles so long

I'm starting to see
'em in my sleep.

Memory card's almost full.
How many squiggle pics

do think it'll take to crack
the Ron Winter crazy code?

Code breaking's hard.

I doubt anyone can say how many
character combos we need

to start
finding patterns.

The linguist at Quantico
just said "more."

GILL:
Well, I've been keeping track
of distinct characters,

and I think we're at 34.

That's eight more than
my favorite alphabet.

Maybe it all translates
to Cyrillic.

FINADO:
We ought to be looking for

repetitions
of the same character.

That's how Alan Turing cracked
the Nazi's Enigma code.

GILL:
Those two look like
the Bat-Signal.

Zodiac's code took
50 years to crack.

Just leave that
to the supercomputers.

We're just better off
focusing on the evidence.

Nobody collects
baseball cards anymore?

Why did he have so many
infrared smoke detectors?

Maybe Ron's
a safety nut.

Well, none of 'em went off
when the fire started.

Some of 'em don't even
have batteries.

(phones ringing)
These are just completely
disabled.

(ringing)

(phones ringing)
Hey.

(phones ringing)

(phones ringing)

ALL:
Hello?

Mr. Winter,

this is you, isn't it?

Good afternoon, Maxine.

Let's give everyone a moment

to join before we begin.

Hello?
This is Detective Chavez.

Who is this?

WINTER: Sounds like
we have a quorum.

It's nice to meet everyone.

I am Ronald Winter.

Of course, you know that.

Just the man
we're looking for.

I'm the man you're hunting.

But that's a two-way street,
isn't it?

What have we done
to you, Ron?

Why would you poison
our medical examiner?

Is this Miss Rajan?

I read about you.

I'm sorry, I won't be divulging
that information at this point.

RAJAN: Why not? I mean, the man
that was blackmailing you

is in jail.

His game is over.

WINTER:
Yes, I read about Mr. Hester.

It was very kind of you
to take care of him.

But, uh, you found him
a little too late,

or too early.

I'm not really quite sure
which it is.

If you're not acting
on his orders,

Ron, what are you doing?

It's something much,
much bigger.

It was a shame about
Dr. Nikolayevich,

but I thought it was
only fair to show you.

I can get to anyone.
Anyone.

Anywhere.

I had to assume Mr. Hester
would have promulgated my name.

That is what he does,
after all.

So I had to make it clear
what would happen

if he would not give me
the space

to finish what I started.
CHAVEZ: The only way this ends

is with you behind bars.

No!

Now is when you listen,

so you don't get hurt.

I just called you to tell you

to sit back and relax.

Let me lighten your workload.

What does that mean, Ron?

Ron.

What does that mean?
(phone disconnects)

RAJAN:
How did Ron get
all our phone numbers?

ROBY: Well, he walked
into our lab and left a note.

Clearly,
he took something with him.

WINTER (over computer):
Now is when you listen,

so you don't get hurt.

I just called you to tell you

to sit back and relax.
(children shouting)

Let me lighten your workload.
Did you hear that?

Mm.
Not Ron.

What's happening behind him.

WILLOWS:
That sounds like
kids playing.

Maybe he's calling
from a park?

Hardly narrows it down.
Yeah.

I just wish LVPD could have
traced his call.

Mr. Winter is way too savvy
to be caught like that.

We're gonna have to
find a different way

to catch this guy.

What about his
mystery poison?

Do Sonya's doctors have
any idea what it was yet?

No. We're all still banging
our heads against the wall.

WILLOWS:
So it's up to us
to identify the poison

and save Sonya's life.

Yeah, one this exotic
might tip Ron's hand

and help us find him.
Max?

Yeah?

There is someone in your office

you're gonna want to talk to.
Who?

Ronald Winter.

Senior.

WINTER SR.:
I wish I was more surprised.

Ronnie's always been a...

a handful.

We're not close.

He got his brains
from his mother,

and never had much use for me.
Neither of 'em did.

Is he with her now?

Helen died of cancer.

She left me with
a six-year-old

who was already
smarter than I was.

It was no
picnic,

but I did all I could.

Probably not, though, right?

I mean, you say
your son is gifted?

He's a killer.

He poisoned an innocent woman,

and used her body

to poison one of
our colleagues, too.

I'm sorry to hear that.

We do not need your sympathy.
We need your son's location.

I don't know where Ronnie is.
Well, neither do we.

Look, ladies, it's like
I told the detective.

I-I wish I could help.
ROBY:
Okay. So let me guess.

You came in here to say
that you helped the police,

but you haven't given us
a damn thing.

You got his number?
Call him.

Call him.

He won't answer.

(line ringing)

AUTOMATED VOICE:
Your call has been forwarded...

See?
...to an automatic
voice message...

We only ever
talk over text.

Most times, I need a dictionary

just to get the gist.

WILLOWS: "Orgulous.
Umbrage. Ennui."

God, what a gasbag.

Ronnie's big ol' vocabulary
may be just what we need

to track him down

if he uses these
obscure words online.

Right? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
No, we keepin' this.

Allie.

What are you doing here, Jack?

I just came from
the hospital.

Sonya's heartrate's
over 100.

Her blood
pressure's 90/60.

All her vitals are heading
the wrong direction.

I don't know how
long she's got.

I came here because whatever
she got splashed with,

it's giving her a
positive GUAIAC test.

That's usually an indicator
of arsenic or amatoxin.

I know. We eliminated
both of those.

Along with strychnine,
cyanide, ricin.

I just, like, I can't think
of another poison

that would
trigger a positive.

I can.

Abrin.

Damn it, it's negative! How?

Maybe...

Maybe the test is wrong.

High-affinity
monoclonal antibodies

have made these tests
incredibly accurate.

It's not abrin.

I just don't understand why...

(cries out)
(beaker shatters)

(sniffles)
It should have been me.

Sonya would have figured out
what the poison was by now...

and saved me.

Jack, we're gonna save
your sister.

I promise you.

You're not supposed to make
promises to the family.

I know.

But I'm making one anyway.

DANIEL: Go
ahead, take 'em.

A buddy of mine has a rental
property out in Henderson.

You and Bryan will be
safe there.

You can stay as long
as you need.

No strings attached.

Daniel, you don't need
to do this, okay?

Actually,
Maxine, I do.

I have to do
something.

I've had four years
to think about

where it went wrong with us.

And my biggest regret is
not being more decisive.

Not showing you.

Daniel, if...

Hey, I flew across
the country.

Will you let me
finish a sentence?
I'll let you finish.

Do you remember what
I said to you

the day Bryan was born?
Yes.

What?

That we were gonna
make mistakes

as parents.
Yeah.

But that we're gonna
make them together.

And we did.

For a while we were
on the same page.

But then
things changed

If I'm being honest...

I changed.

I'm sorry.

You do not owe me anything.
Okay?

I just want to protect
the people I care about.

You never left
the top of the list.

I just stopped saying it.

Here.

(elevator bell dings)

Whoa, this is not
the same code.

This is math. Ron was
calculating something.

Math is a language
we do know.

This could be like
our Rosetta Stone.

I mean, do you think
it even adds up?

What do you mean?
I mean,

None of the rest of this
even makes sense, Penny.

You ever heard of the phrase
"ravings of a madman"?

What, you think this
is all gibberish?

That would be so disappointing.

What have you got?

Just a burnt mess,
but it's a burnt mess

that smells like
accelerant.

Is that turpentine
and butane?

Yeah. Diesel, too.

I think Ron made
a chemical cocktail

to ensure that the fire burned
real hot right here.

I don't think he was interested
in torching the whole room

as much as he was
destroying this.

What do you think this was?

FINADO:
More smoke detectors,
and... I don't know yet.

You're the one who's always
bragging about her Lego skills.

* *

You see this dark blob?

I'm pretty sure it used to be
a size-six rubber stopper.

Well, whatever it is, I think
it was on the end of this

melted tan noodle,

which I think looked like
a latex hose.

Got your noodle's
other end melted to

a bunch of
shattered glass.

Might be a tank
of some kind.

Well, that corroded husk
is definitely a car battery.

And we've got these electrodes.
Got a tank, a power supply...

latex hose.
I mean, the setup is perfect

for electrolytic precipitation.

Ron had himself
a little chem lab.

That's why
he rigged it to burn,

so we'd never figure out
what he had cooked up.

We'll see about that.

GC/MS doesn't care
how big of a mess he made.

Okay.

Tropane.
Tropane?

Tropane.

Okay, uh, I'll get Max.

You call the hospital.
FINADO:
This doesn't makes sense.

Tropane isn't a poison.

Not unless you ingest
gallons of it.

It's a precursor that can be
turned into atropine or cocaine.

But neither of those chemicals
was on Sonya's tox screen.

Yeah, I know.

It's another dead end.

If there's any change--
Okay, thank you.

They had to put Sonya
in a medically-induced coma.

The pain was too much.

We may have
a new angle soon.

Mm-hmm.
DA's making a deal
with Ted Hester.

His lawyer insists
he knows Ron's plan.

They're meeting right now.
Tell him to make space
at that table.

Catherine and I want
a second crack.

Hey, Max.

You look about like I would
if I was about to

give a present to a man
who ordered my death.

You really don't have
to do this with me.

You're as bad as my ex.

So he's worried
about you, too?

Yeah, he doesn't
think I feel safe.

Pupils are dilated. Unreactive.

Get back! Get back!
He's crashing!

WILLOWS:
That's Ted.

Ron's pretty smart.

WILLOWS:
What happened?

FEMALE EMT:
He's seizing.

MALE EMT:
I need vitals on him now.

Take his pulse ox.

(siren wailing)

Winter did say,
"Anyone. Anywhere."

Yeah, but he didn't
tell us who's next.

That looks familiar.

RAJAN:
Is that the slide
of Ted's liver?

It looks worse
than Molly's.

JACK:
His GI tract is
in worse shape, too.

He must've
got an even

more concentrated
dose of...

What? What does this?

I'm not seeing any
puncture marks on Ted's skin

with the forensic scope.

Means he's not
another Trojan horse.

JACK:
Ron didn't have access
to Ted's body.

He must have somehow
poisoned his food.

You think
he took it orally?

You see that bluish
goo right in there?

That is the aftermath
of a cupcake,

which was definitely
not on the jail's menu.

Chavez can pull surveillance
up from the jail,

but I don't think
we should get our hopes up.

Yeah.

It's not like you need
Andy Dufresne's tunnel

to smuggle contraband

into Clark County jail.
Okay.

I'm gonna choose to look
on the bright side here.

Both Ted and Molly
swallowed the poison.

That's why
they died so quickly.

Sonya was exposed
through her skin.

Her symptoms might be
progressing slower,

but they're still progressing.

Her SpO2's dropped
below 90%.

She's got hours,

not days, and the guy
that did this to her,

he-he could be anywhere.

* *

Okay, Mr. Winter.
Here we are.

Looks like there was a
problem with your garment.

What are you talking about?

You have a stain
we couldn't get out,

from your lab coat.

Something abrasive.
Maybe bleach?

(inhales softly)

Well...

I appreciate you trying.

Say, do you like
cupcakes?

Today was my niece's
birthday party, and uh...

I almost have
a whole box left.

Sure.

All right, Agent Mercer,
that's the last one.

You guys get it?

MERCER (over speaker):
Page 245. Clear as a bell.

Yeah, but it should be
45,234 characters total.

That's a start.
We'll let you know.

Whoa, whoa.
(chuckles softly)

How about an ETA?

How long does it
usually take your fancy

code-cracking software to,
you know, crack the code?

The characters are handwritten.

Lots of variance.

Could take nine or ten years.

(quietly): What?
GILL (chuckling):
Uh, sorry.

Sounded like you said
nine or ten years?

Could be.
Could be nine or ten days.

Call me next week--
I'll let you know

which way it's looking.
(call hang sup)

Isn't that guy head of
the FBI Cryptanalyst Unit?

What's he got,
a computer powered by

a hamster wheel?
Beau warned me

it'd be slow going.
Even so,

you think we could run
the Bureau's software

on all our
computers?

Focus up, Penny.

Oh, I'm not playing
Shadow Cell.

I'm searching
its chat function.
For what?

Max thinks that Ted contacted
Ron through the game,

so I've been trying
to find their correspondence.

But without knowing
their screen names,

and with over 80 million
comments in the chat,

it feels like that's a search
that'll take a decade, too.

Mm-hmm.
I just spent an hour

on the phone to
a mathematician from MIT

who finally admitted
he has no idea

what this calculation's
supposed to be.

Beau's been doing
the same thing.

With similar
results.

You'd think math would be
an easier language to decode

than schizophrenic
medieval gibberish.
(phone ringing)

Maybe I'll ask him.

Can you trace it?
Yeah, I can try

with an IMSI catcher.

Okay.

(line ringing)

RAJAN (over phone):
Hello?

Ms. Rajan, hello.
How are you?

Not great, Ron.

A friend of mine
is in ICU.

You put her there.

She would be a lot better
if you told me what you used.

I'm sorry, I really do
want to share with you,

but not that.

Why not?
WINTER: Many reasons.

How's Ted Hester?

He's very dead.

Is that why you called?

To confirm that he's gone?

You're...
quite brilliant,

actually.
How did you pull it off?

You're quite clever, too,
Miss Rajan.

I wasn't admitted once
to Harvard,

let alone twice.

But I must insist,

we won't be discussing
my methods.

My motives are more
interesting anyway.

Where are you, Ron?

Let's meet up and
talk in person.

Oh, Miss Rajan.

How utterly disappointing.

From what I glean remotely,

you're the most
perspicacious CSI.

Ron, you flatter me.

But I have to ask--
to what end?

Because we are both afflicted.

Plagued.

Did you poison me, too?

No, uh, I haven't
exposed you to anything

that you aren't
immune to already.

And what's that?

People.

Hell is other people.

Their stupidity.

You might be
the only other person

who understands what I'm doing.

I think you'll be grateful once
they've all been eradicated.

Who?
Who are you referring to?

Patience, Miss Rajan.

You will see tonight.

It really will be, uh...

...lights out.

(call beeps off)

RAJAN:
Tell me you traced it.

ROBY:
And then he just hung up?

RAJAN:
Penny said he was using
a relay device

to stop us from
pinpointing his location.

Smart as advertised.
Where are we on poison?

All we can tell you
is what it isn't.

It's not tropane.

That's the only chemical
we found in Ron's DIY lab.

Why would he set a fire
to hide a chemical

that's not the poison?

Well, he might've added tropane

to mask whatever he was
actually making.

You see this plating?

Tropane's organic.

Its extraction doesn't leave
metal on electrodes.

So something else must've been
the source of that plating.

Any ideas?

Unfortunately, we have none.

Hold on.

How many of these
infrared smoke detectors

did Ron have?
FINADO:
Dozens.

None of them work;

it was a weird
little collection.
Then that's it.

Wait. You think--

Infrared smoke
detectors contain

tiny amounts of
various heavy metals.

Right. It's what makes them
so sensitive to smoke particles.

He was probably harvesting
heavy metal ore

from the smoke detectors.

He could dissolve it
into a solution

if he had a strong
enough acid...

RAJAN:
Like nitric acid,

which explains the holes
in his shirt pocket.

So Ron was using
these electrodes

to send different currents

into his acid solution
to draw out

a metal of
his choice.

A really nasty metal--

thallium.

That's his poison.

If I remember my Intro
into Inorganic Chemistry,

symptomology...

checks out.

Cellular death in the GI walls,
bleeding in the small colon,

vacuolization
of the liver...

It was thallium.

How'd we miss this?

Because heavy metal
poisoning is so rare

there's only one machine
on Earth that could ID it.

And we don't have
an ion coupled plasma

atomic emissions spectroscope.

Only geolabs do.

ROBY:
We're damn straight
gonna get one.

But first....

there's an antidote.

(slaps table)

As soon as they administered
the Prussian blue,

Sonya's heart rate
started coming down.

She's not
out of the woods yet, but...

Is that sign language?

When we were younger,
Sonya forced me to learn ASL

so that we could talk trash
about our idiot stepfather

in front of him.

What are you saying to her?

"I love you."

But she's not responding.
(inhales)

RAJAN:
Jack...

if her vitals are
any indication,

she's coming back to us.

The man that did this to her...

We're gonna find him.

* *

BRYAN:
Feels like a weird time to
learn how to play Shadow Cell.

I need your login.

I tried to get my own,

but they wouldn't
give me access

to the message board.

Should I be offended?

No.

You actually have to play
the game to access the chat.

All right.
No lurking.

So, while the game
is loading...
ROBY: Mm-hmm.

...you gonna tell me
why you've been avoiding Dad?

He said you haven't been
returning his calls.

I have not been...

Been... I mean...

Okay.
Me and your dad, um...

I don't know. I just,
I mean-- I don't know.

What do you mean
you don't know?
I don't know.

Can we just search "thallium"
with two L's, please?

(groans)

Okay, we got one.

DymphnasReaper37 said
"thallium" in a chat

three months ago.
Excuse me.

"My favorite metal could
solve every problem

"at Mountain Vista.

"I see 293 problems,
but an MO ain't one.

All they need do
is breathe."

Oh, my God.

This formula
calculates dosage

for his next attack.

It's a mass casualty
event. Joshua!

Mom, what's going on?

Hey, man.
ROBY:
I know what Ron meant

when he said

he was gonna
lighten our load.

He's gonna aerosolize thallium

and poison 293 people,

and I know where--

Mountain Vista
Psychiatric Hospital.

FOLSOM:
The mental hospital
in Henderson?

ROBY: Yeah,
they have 293 beds.

If we don't get
there in time,

there will not be
enough body bags

in Clark County.

And we got to get there
by lights out.

* *

This is the most recent photo
of Ron Winter we have.

Keep your eyes peeled.

Yeah, remember,
"lights out," 8:30.

It gives us half an hour
before he--

Atomizes the thallium
and kills us?

Yeah, Catherine's right.
Where's SWAT?

We should be storming
this place.

CHAVEZ:
LVPD has
plain clothes inside.

They're helping staff lead
patients few at a time, but...

any large action
could tip off Ron.

Then? Boom.

If he's smart--
and we know Ron is--

he will put his device
in a vent shaft

and then use the AC
to blow death

all over the
building, okay?

I gave my guys your order.
That's where they're looking.

But I-I got
some pushback.

They don't know why
you're so certain.

Tell them I read
all about it online.

Society has much bigger
problems than that.

Better to flip the table

and knock all the broken pieces
off the board in one fell swoop.

TED:
How?

RON:
I could brew something special.

Something... expeditious.

TED:
Poison.

RON:
It's only fair, isn't it?

They infect, they contaminate,

they pollute everyone
they come into contact with.

They are
God's greatest mistakes.

And what do you do
with mistakes?

Erase them.

You know the most delicious
part of my plan?

Once the angel of death has
visited Mountain Vista...

...they'll never find me.

* *

And they'll never catch me.

Hey, Ronnie.

That's him.

I'll cut him off up front!

CHAVEZ:
Hey! Stop!

FOLSOM:
Law enforcement! Move!

CHAVEZ:
Out of the way, move!

FOLSOM:
Stop!

(Ron shouts)
(Folsom grunts)

(groaning)

You're too late.

We got him. We got him.

Wait, wait.
You have Winter?

We do, but he doesn't have it
on him and he won't talk.

Damn it.

Beau...

FINADO:
That's it.

That's it. That's it.

GILL: That's less than
a minute, Beau. Come on.

Can you disarm it?
No. Not enough time.

(beeping)

Is it gonna...
(exhales)
No, it held.

But we're...
We're not gonna touch it, okay?

The thallium has been contained.

ROBY:
Oh, God.

* Don't ask for the truth *

* Then call me a liar... *

Hey!
What does this say?

* But my soul's
getting tired... *

Hey.

It doesn't matter anymore.

* Show me the difference... *

It was you.
Right, Miss Rajan?

You were the one who
realized it was thallium.

It could only
have been you.

I'm disappointed.

I thought you,
of all people,

would realize what
I was trying to do.

RAJAN:
I do understand.

You were trying
to kill innocent people.

Hardly.

These people are
a needless burden.

They're mentally malformed.

No, you're the only malformed
mind that I see around here.

You can only pretend to turn
a blind eye for so long.

But you see it.
I know you do.

It is our burden.
You're so wrong.

I didn't stop you alone.

No matter how brilliant
you think you are,

you're not smarter
or better

or more righteous
than the people

that fight every single day
to stop people like you.

What you don't understand is
I was trying...

Save it for your manifesto,
buddy.

This job...

I mean, I love it,
but some days...

Some days.

* Sometimes I wonder *

* If I'm ever gonna
make it home again *

I like it out here.

* It's so far... *

I don't want to go home.

You don't have to.

* Someone to talk to *

* And nobody else *

* Knows how
to comfort me tonight... *

(quietly):
Hey.

She says...

"Thank you," Allie.

Hey, I'm right here.

(both chuckling)

I cannot tell you
how grateful I am.

We couldn't have done it
without you.

Hear that?

I'm a hero.

Pretty much like a huge hero.

* Till I see you alone again *

* Till I'm home again
and feeling right *

Have the doctors said anything
about her recovery?

There's really no way of
knowing how much damage

the thallium did
to her nervous system.

It's...

It's gonna be a long...
long road.

Well, I'll never
bet against her.

She'll be back giving
you hell in no time.

(chuckles softly)

I hope so.

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