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Tonight on "hunter."

-The victim's name was Michael girard.

He was 31.

-Ordinary people are not shot to death in close range.

-Mrs. Eva sands reported that her daughter, who has a history

psychotic behavior, stole her 380 automatic.

Apparently she stopped taking your medication.

She had a violent reaction.

-Maybe someone wanted to make her crazy.

-She went after me with a know and they still let her out.

-Damn it.

Damn it.

Damn it to hell.

-That's enough.

Rachel.

Rachel.

I told you to go home, didn't I?

-Sure, you'd like that wouldn't you.

Then you could say that I was irresponsible and fire me.

-Go home.

I'll see you tomorrow.

We better go call the police.

File a police report.

-Yes?

-Mrs. Girard?

-Yes, what is it?

-I'm sergeant Dee Dee McCall, la police.

I need to speak with you.

May I come in?

-It's awfully late.

What is it?

-I'm afraid I have some bad news.

Your husband has been killed.

-He should be home soon.

-No, he's dead, Mrs. Girard.

-I heard you.

-I'm very sorry.

I heard you.

-Hey, hunter, gentleman on the bench

wants to see the officer investigating

the girard shooting.

He was sitting there this morning

when I came on duty at 7:00.

-Thanks, ray.

How are you doing?

I'm sergeant hunter, investigating

the girard shooting.

How can I help you?

-I'm afraid it's the Jupiter project, sir.

They finally made their submarine invisible.

The entire country, the entire free world are at risk.

-Can you hold this for me?

Ah, that's a good photograph.

Haven't we met?

-Yes, sir, I'm Dexter plodget.

I tried to tell you last year about the men

who were being abducted from the homeless shelter...

-And taken to Jupiter.

-Exactly.

-Right, ok, Dexter, you want to step over here.

I appreciate you coming in.

Ray.

-Yeah.

-I want you to call Jupiter, tell them

we have Mr. Plodget here in Los Angeles.

Tell them that we're going to make sure he gets home safely.

-Right..

-Mr. Plodget, once again, thanks for coming in.

-Thank you, sir.

-Appreciate it.

Thanks.

-The victim's name was Michael girard.

He was 31, owned a litho company two blocks south on cowangie.

Had 63 bucks in his pocket, credit cards, his watch,

it was all there.

-Well, that shoots the robbery motive.

-Mm, hmm, the owners of a restaurant on the corner

said that the victim ate there now and then.

He had dinner there that night alone.

He left at 9:10.

It was before the shots were fired.

-Any witnesses?

-No, nobody on the streets saw anything.

But it's Hollywood boulevard, most people

don't even remember their names.

-What does his wife say?

-Well, that they were married happily for two years.

They had been building up a print graphics boutique.

They were planning on having kids around 1990.

-Any enemies?

Drugs?

Debts?

-Nope, I did a credit check at certified national.

They have a good payment record on their car,

their home, all their loans.

-Yeah, credit cards current, just movie rentals,

Hollywood bowl, Dodgers season tickets.

I am still a little worried about those red marks

on the victim's neck though.

-Hi, guys.

-Hi.

-I just got the preliminary word from the coroner.

Girard was shot four times at point blank range,

possibly with a 380 automatic.

First slug hitting his heart, killing him instantly.

-Sounds very deliberate.

Any lab reports on the marks on the victim's neck.

-No, it looks just to be a dye marker.

-That bothers me.

It's something crazy about it.

Maybe it's a psycho or something.

Look, check with the hospital detail.

See if there any dangerous patient releases.

So, anything else besides no motive and no witnesses?

-Nothing, Charlie, although I am running down

the list of disturbances that occurred in the are that night.

Other than that, I have nothing.

-Good, good, thanks.

What about the victim's wife?

What about her whereabouts?

-I already checked into it.

She was at her sister's house.

Apparently, every Friday her husband worked late.

He... he was out so she went over there and had dinner.

It was a regular routine.

She says they were a real happy couple, just ordinary people.

-Ordinary people are not shot to death at close range.

-Morning, honey.

-Good morning.

Ow!

-Are you all right.

-What do you think?

-It's getting late, Rachel.

Aren't you worried about being late for work?

-I was fired yesterday.

You satisfied, bitch?

Where is it?

Where is it?

Hello, oak park, east wing.

Dr. Pence?

One moment, please.

-This is Dr. Pence.

-This is Eva sands, Rachel sands' mother.

She's acting up this morning.

She got herself fired from that book store job.

And she's been yelling and screaming.

I haven't seen her like this since she started with you.

-Has she been maintaining her dosage of hydroloxin?

-Oh, yeah, she takes one at breakfast and another

before going to bed.

I'll see to that.

Well, she didn't take one this morning come to think of it.

-I'll be by the house.

I'm making my rounds now, but I should be there by 1:00.

And calm yourself down, Mrs. Sands.

Rachel will queue off you emotionally.

If she gets violent, call the police.

-Damn right.

No!

What the hell did you do with my damn hairbrush?

Oh, Judas priest.

-Yeah, I have it.

All right, tell me, was there anything else

in the neighborhood around that time?

Ok, yeah, thank you.

There's a bookstore on Hollywood boulevard

that called in a complaint.

The manager says that there was an employee there,

a Rachel sands, who apparently just lost it and started

to tear the place up a little bit.

You might want to check that out.

-I do want to check that out.

Thank you very much.

-Let me know what you find.

-I definitely will.

Thank you.

-Who set him on fire?

-His complaint search might have paid off.

-Homicide, McCall.

Sands?

Is she there now?

What's the address?

Ok, I'm on the way.

-Whatchu got?

-This morning we got a call from Mrs. Eva sands who reported

that her daughter, who has a history of psychotic behavior,

stole her 380 automatic.

Now we got a disturbance call from a bookstore

last night right around the corner

from the shooting site concerning a Rachel sands.

-I'm... I'm the woman who called.

-Mrs. Sands?

-Yes.

-Is your daughter inside?

-Yeah... she's in there.

She's got my pistol.

I missed it this morning.

She never touched it before.

But she used a knife on me once.

-Ok, wait right out here.

Ok?

I'll take care of things.

-Rachel?

I'm a police officer.

I need for you to come out where I can see you.

What do you want?

-I need to talk with you, Rachel.

Come out where I can see you, Rachel.

Rachel, get your hands out where I can see them.

Come on outside, Rachel.

Come on out, Rachael.

That's right.

Come on downstairs now, Rachel.

Come on out.

Just keep your hands where I can see them.

I'm not going to hurt you, Rachel.

Everything's going to be all right.

It's all right.

It's all right.

-Feel free to take a look around.

Excuse me.

Sergeant McCall, Neil rasmussen.

Sorry, about the blast in your eardrums.

The air lock keeps the lab pressure at sea level.

We... uh... grow some pretty exotic bugs in here, you know.

We wouldn't want anyone getting out.

-I understand that.

I appreciate you taking time the time to see me.

-Oh, well, whatever you need, you've got it.

But I admit, you have me a bit confused.

Now, you mentioned a link between a murder

and Rachel sands.

-Well, a possible link, yeah.

She is a patients at oak park hospital

is involved in test program.

And they're utilizing your drug hydroloxin.

So we're trying to determine if that drug

could have figured into a killing.

Now, I turn her over to her psychiatrist

for a 96-hour observation period.

He checked her blood to figure out if there's something

that could have caused her behavior.

He found no alcohol, no drugs, and no hydroloxin.

Now could that have caused a violent withdrawal reaction?

-Happily, and I can speak with confidence due to years

of testing here at eurogenics, hydroloxin

displays no dependency side effects, none.

-Testing on people?

-Only just recently begun.

The fda is slow to allow.

Now, Victor, here monitors all the test groups.

Victor, sergeant McCall.

She's here about the sands woman.

-I pulled her charts.

We don't actually select the subjects for the test.

That's on contract.

-50 hospitals nationwide.

-Nah, 43.

We have all the original medical history

and the monthly interview transcripts.

I made you copies here.

-Thank you.

So how's the test going?

-Phenomenal, as predicted hydroloxin

inhibits blind rage behavior in better than 80%

of the subjects.

-Any side effects?

-Some people get runny nose.

If you'll excuse me.

-Thank you very much.

Ah, let's go out this way.

So tragic this sands thing.

The people I try to help with my research

can do such awful things.

That's why this drug is a godsend.

-Well, we haven't charged her yet.

-Ah, but if you do, hydroloxin is tainted with a crime.

That's a tragedy we must avoid.

It did not make her a killer.

The opposite, she stopped using it.

-I'd like to see the test data when it comes through.

When you have it all together, will you give me a call?

-I certainly will.

-All purpose, indelible marker, dries

to the skin in just a second.

-Can you match the brand?

-Twice.

McCall was right about those bookstore signs.

The manager threw what Rachel was working on in the dumpster,

but she was using one of these to letter

them when she had her fit and the dead man's face.

Now, all brands are similar, a handful

of common ethers and a heavy dye.

But each one is sufficiently unique.

-So the marks on the victim's neck and these signs

are the same?

No question?

-Some brands that they sell in supermarkets or thrift stores

are bulked produced and custom labeled.

We got lucky.

The bookstore bought a name brand.

That's what we call in the forensic trade, good chemistry.

-Good.

-Ann, are you going to be ok?

If you need anything, call me.

Charlie?

-In here.

Any insights on Rachel sands?

-What you got going there?

-I'm on soft foods for a couple days.

My dentist put this in.

He says I'm grinding my teeth at night.

I wonder why.

-Oh, yeah, look at them in there.

Here's the Mitchell file you requested.

Now, Rachel sands, Rachel sands, just like we thought.

She's been in 11 different psychiatric institutions

over the years.

At age eight, she started ripping

the covers off of books and magazines.

First arrest came when she was 16 years of age.

Seems that she ran amok at a convenience

store in the valley.

Got tired of waiting in line.

-I've done that.

-Last year, right before the hydroloxin test began,

she jumped her mother with a butcher knife.

The next day, her mother went out

and bought a 380 semi-automatic.

-Which we still haven't found.

-Right.

-The killer scrawled all over Michael girard's face

with indelible pen.

Same brand that Rachel sands used

to make that sign at the store.

-All right.

-Drop this on my desk.

-I got to get going.

-All right.

-I'll talk to you later.

-Devane.

Nah, she's not here right now.

She's out at the hospital.

Yeah, I'll take the message.

-Rachel, let's go back to why you got angry with Mr. Ellers.

-I don't know.

-Is it because he criticized the way you were doing your job?

-Maybe, but he's usually ok.

-Do you remember tearing these up?

-Not really.

-You must have been pretty angry.

-Well, that's typical.

I always forget afterwards.

-Hm, that's not an admission.

-I know that Syd, relax.

All right?

Rachel, you don't have to be afraid.

You're not going to be blamed for anything you didn't do.

-McCall, don't con my client.

-Hey, why don't you give me a little line to fish with.

It's in the best interest of your client.

Rachel, you were doing really well on the hydroloxin,

so why did you stop taking it?

-I don't know.

Look, lady, I'm doing my damnedest, ok?

But a blank is a blank.

-All right, I'm sorry.

-Don't touch me.

I don't like to touched.

-Why don't we... ah... Try some impressions.

Why don't you try closing your eyes

and then just seeing whatever comes in, ok?

Whatever sights, sounds, or images you get.

Can you try that?

-Ok, it's hard though.

It's very dark.

Damn zeroes, they won't fit.

-Zeroes?

Like on the sign?

-I... I don't know.

Maybe.

-Rachel, please try.

You have to give me something I can help you with.

-Oh, yeah, you want to help me, huh?

I... I... glasses, lights.

-Glasses like the kind you drink from or the kind you wear?

Were the lights street lights, Rachel?

-Ah, maybe.

There's people.

There's cars.

-Like in a parking lot?

-Thank you, McCall, I think you've led my client far enough

down the primrose path for today.

-Was is a parking lot, Rachel?

-I don't know.

Yeah, whatever you say.

Yeah, it's a parking lot.

I killed the guy in a parking lot.

Rachel, quiet, not another word.

-You saying that because you saw it on TV or newspaper,

or because you remember, Rachel?

-Rachel has done a good job.

I think she deserves a little rest.

-Love it when people try to help me.

I'm just the kind of person people stand in line to help.

-I got some news.

I was waiting for you to take a break.

-Did you see the look in her eyes.

She's carrying so much hate in her for herself.

You know, i'm telling you something,

her shrink says he doesn't think she's

capable of killing anybody.

And I agree.

I think that woman is innocent.

-McCall, we just got the word.

They found the gun in a dumpster over on highland.

It's got Rachel sands' fingerprints all over it.

-Sergeant McCall?

-Yes.

-I'm Eva sands, Rachel sands' mother.

-Yes.

Um... please sit down.

How can I help you?

-Is... uh... is Rachel going to go to jail?

-She's in psychiatric detention at oak park.

She's being tested.

If she's found competent, the da plans

to file charges against her for the girard murder.

Didn't tell her attorney, Mr. Dunbar, contact you?

-I figured he was just in it for the money.

I told him to do whatever the court will pay for

and nothing else.

-I can arrange to have you see her.

-Oh, don't she's... She's not expecting me.

You think I'm hard.

-I didn't say that.

-You put up with her for 39 years,

and you'll be wishing to god like I do that something

would happen to get free of her.

You know, last year, she... She went after me with a knife.

And they still let her out.

I had to buy a gun.

-Were you badly hurt?

-Yeah, well, not actually from the knife.

-Well, what happened?

-Rachel had one of her conniptions.

She grabbed the butcher knife.

And she was cussing a blue streak.

She was waving it around and jabbing it in the table.

You know, the next day she could have come after me with it.

-Did she?

-I didn't give her a chance.

I ran.

I slipped on the floor and bumped

my head on the we cabinet.

Threw my back out.

I had to have traction.

-So Rachel never actually came at you with the knife.

-No, but she could have.

-I understand she was injured.

-That's true, but the reason is Mrs. Sands was admitted

to the hospital was because she injured her back.

Now, why in the files does it say

that Rachel injured her in a knife attack?

-Indirect cause, I guess.

Rachel hadn't come to me at that time.

-Well, I think you ought to correct that file,

because the fact is Rachel has never assaulted another person.

-That's true.

Her entire history is of violence

against property, things.

But then she did threaten you.

Oh, this is so bizarre.

Why all this new behavior?

Why would she stopped taking the one

drug that she knew could help.

-Let me ask you something, would any of these patients

here ever stop their medication without your approval?

-No, we monitor them as closely as possible.

We fill nearly 1,000 prescriptions a day

for the resident Patience alone.

Why?

-Well, maybe the dispensary had a mix-up.

Maybe Rachel did take her pills, but they just

weren't hydroloxin.

-No, that couldn't but us.

The hydroloxin is prepackaged for the test patients

at eurogenics.

-When you tested Rachel's blood, you were only

looking for one drug in particular, right?

-I had to.

Some of these psychoactive drugs work in such minute amounts,

you need a computer.

You can't just go on a witch hunt.

-Well, still, if you were on witch hunt,

what drugs would you look for?

-Gas chromatography is kind of like trying to sink the eight

ball in the break or in a blind fold.

You could hit it, but then you have to go looking for it.

-What?

-Never mind.

Pence gave us a list of 61 drugs he thought

might account for Rachel sand's behavior.

Literally millions of molecular eight balls.

-Well, did we find it or not?

-Sure, doxonozone.

She had a healthy dose in her system.

-All right, very good, Kevin.

That one was at the top of pence's list.

-And this is not something you're

going to find at a corner either.

-And, now, do you think her prescription could have been

filled accidentally with this drug?

-Well, I'm not a pharmacist, but I

don't think it would be very likely.

Don't forget, eurogenics packages

this especially for the test group.

-Makes it sound deliberate, doesn't it.

-This drug was prescribed by the psychiatric community

quite often until the side effects became known.

Doxonozone promotes psychotic behavior.

-Why would someone want to give a drug

like that to Rachel sands.

-Technically speaking, to make her flip her lid.

-No, it's patently impossible.

Well, it happened.

-I have no idea how Rachel sands got doxonozone into her system.

It's a crude drug with many problems.

It's hardly used.

We don't even have any here.

-Look, all I'm asking is for you to check.

She obviously had the wrong drug in her blood.

Maybe she got it through an error at your end.

-Well, you're damn right, I'll check.

And captain, until you hear from me,

you will be well advised not to make your suppositions public.

-Right, doc, thanks.

Well, they swear they don't have any.

Doxonozone promotes psychotic behavior.

How could Rachel have had this drug in her body?

-Maybe someone wanted to make her crazy.

Man: Darling, I

wish you'd return my calls.

Don't ignore me.

I hate that.

I told you what i'd do if you didn't re...

-Good evening.

Take it easy there.

Good night.

Good night, Rosie.

-Get help.

Help!

Help!

-They're amazingly acute.

Any little change in the lab routine will set them off.

I think you know the doctor's gone.

-Who was working here after hours?

-Business hours?

Any of the researchers.

We've got 20 or so active grants, a couple foreign co-op

teams, virtually hundreds of experiments going.

Biochemical work doesn't run on an eight hour clock.

I was in the cryolab when the... power failed.

-Arson said there was a massive power surge first.

Do you think security could give me a list of who was here?

-Possibly, but the scientific staff

uses the security entrance off the parking garage.

We all have electronic keys... oh, it's

impossible to calculate what we've lost tonight.

He was a genius.

We'll never know what else he might have done.

Oh, he'll get a posthumous nobel prize, but...

-So, what do you got?

-Well, I think rasmussen figured out

who switched Rachel's pills.

-Whoever killed him for it has started to

covers his tracks by now.

I think you should be looking for a connection

between some eurogenics employee and Michael girard.

-Yeah.

Let's go back around the corner here.

It's a little more private.

You know, I've been trying to reach you.

-I'm sorry.

He kept calling me.

So I finally just went to my sister's.

I hope this is nothing.

I... I know you already caught that women.

-Wait a minute.

Who's been calling you?

-There this man.

He's been watching me and sending me things.

Yesterday, he left a rabbit in my car.

-What?

A rabbit?

-He's crazy.

He must think that I might be interested in him now

since mi... I... uh... I met him at a club.

I mean, he met me at a club.

And I was already engaged to Michael,

so I didn't give him much encouragement.

But then he... he got into this dream or fantasy.

And now he's saying these terrible things like he's going

to kill himself if I won't... If I won't have him.

-Why don't we start from the beginning, ok?

Why don't you give me a physical description,

his name, where is works.

-He's pretty average looking, about 35.

He wears glasses.

His name is Victor.

I think he works in some kind of a laboratory.

I still don't like this.

I'm going in there.

-Sit.

It won't work in a crowd.

Now, look, any incriminating statements you make

will not be used against you.

-Ok, I accept that.

I'm just I'm just not sure I want it to you.

-Syd, I'm going to buy you a doughnut.

-Ok, you came outside.

It was 8:30.

And you wrote it on the back here.

You wrote any four for $5.00.

Would you write that again now.

-I'm not a trained seal.

-Rachel, I didn't say that you were.

I'm just... you got a memory block.

I'm trying to help you remember.

Can you just write that down.

-You satisfied?

This is the way it turns out.

I can't do the damn thing.

-And then this, right?

Then you did this.

-What are you doing?

Where the hell are we going?

I don't know.

You tell me.

You remember walking away, didn't you, Rachel?

Remember that?

-Not really.

It all looks the same.

There's cars, people, lights...

-And glasses.

-Don't touch me.

I told you never to touch me.

-Do you remember man in glasses, Rachel?

He took your purse.

Remember that?

He took your pills right out of your purse, Rachel.

The man with the glasses took your pills, remember that?

Do you remember?

And then he did this.

Do you remember that, Rachel?

He put the gun in your hands.

Do you remember, Rachel?

The man with the glasses put the gun in your just like that.

-I was so sick I was coming apart.

I didn't know.

-I know, I know you were sick because he

switched the medication on you, Rachel.

Was this the man?

Was this the man you saw?

Was this the man you did it, Rachel?

-I'm sorry.

-No, Rachel, you didn't do anything.

-Yeah, I did.

-What?

-I don't know, but I must have done something.

-It's ok, Rachel.

It's going to be all right.

One William 157, I'll need back up,

code two, at 337 fulton street.

That's eurogenics laboratory.

Ann girard:

Hi, you've reached 7790.

Please leave a message and the you've called.

Thanks.

I know you're there.

You can't just pretend.

-Leave me alone.

Darling...

-I don't want anything to do with you.

You can't...

-Now listen, I told the police how you've been hounding me.

And if you don't stop it, they'll make you.

Darling, don't hate...

-Does he always work at night?

-He works whenever he wants to.

He's a level three.

-I got back up coming.

As soon as they get here, you let them in, all right?

-Will do.

-If there's a power failure, can get this thing open?

-Yeah, 10 seconds.

-Victor?

Come out where I can see you.

Put the gun down, Victor.

-I knew it was a reach.

But it had a chance.

Maybe I pressed too hard.

-Victor, put the gun down.

You're not thinking straight.

-You're telling me.

Come on.

Help me.

-How you doing, Rachel.

-Dr. Pence is sending me home today.

-Actually, I believe he's arranged

to have you go to a group home where

everybody works and pitches in.

I think that sounds great.

-Yeah, well, I'll believe it when I see it.

-I think you'll see it.

Dr. Pence strikes me as a man who stands by his word.

And Mr. Ellers is expecting you at work on Monday too.

-Sure, until I screw up again.

-You know, Rachel, there are a lot of people out there

that like you.

I like you.

Why don't you give us a break.

-You like me know, but... uh... just wait.