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Katie?

Katie?

Dinner's ready.

Kate Alice Benson, I'm giving you one last chance.

Say it.

There's nothing outside the window.

Good girl. Now come on.

I'm mapped it out.

All 11 abductions took place at sunset on east-west

facing streets in low population urban renewal areas.

It's a pattern.

It's a coincidence. Why?

What does sunset and east-west and whatever have to do with people disappearing?

I don't know.

Kate.

Kate, you got enough raw talent that the department's country slacks so far.

But if you keep seeing things, no one else does.

People are going to start thinking maybe they're not so right in the head.

To be honest, that would be the situation right now.

One last chance, Kate.

Admit there's nothing here.

I can't do that.

Shift's almost over.

I'm going to grab the yellow home. See you tomorrow at the station house.

If you're back from Mars.

It shouldn't be in here. It's not safe.

I heard something.

No, you're not in trouble. Let's just go. Okay?

I sounded sort of like a bird.

Just take my hand.

Just give me your hand.

Please stay where you are.

Freeze right there.

No!

Stop, bro! Shoot!

I know you.

Remember, guns don't kill people.

Gargoyles, too.

Holy shit!

You got it.

You see any more of those things?

They usually travel in pairs.

Wait!

What the hell is going on? Who are you?

Nothing and nobody.

But if I was you...

I'd make up something real quick.

There's better be good officer.

It's not.

You realize the kind of position you're putting the department in with this statement?

I saw what I saw.

A five foot four suspect, made of stone, possessing prominent horns and wings.

Well, I won't change my story just because it sounds unbelievable.

Well, you certainly proved that last year.

If you're referring to what I saw in the lake.

Oh, the sea monster capsizing the box. That was a high point.

Well, I had pictures.

Until someone broke into the evidence locker and removed the film from the camera.

Benson, there are 12 people missing.

I'm begging you.

Tell me what really happened in that apartment building.

All I care about are the victims.

But that's what happened.

You're suspended.

Termination pending a further investigation by the E2 Printenden's office.

Hurry up. We got an appointment.

You're under arrest.

??

Leaving a crime scene, possession of an unlicensed weapon.

You killed that thing.

And it put me in a good mood the rest of the day.

Turn around. Hands on your head.

I'll be putting my hands in your pocket.

I don't even have to buy you dinner.

Shut up.

Now you're coming back there, and you're going

to tell my captain everything that happened.

So he can think I'm as crazy as you?

You don't know they think that.

We bugged his office. He's on the phone trying to get you committed.

By the way, the clock's ticking. We have to stop a massacre.

So you might want to hurry it along.

WTH

Careful, that's an infrared.

Look, why don't you just check my wallet?

This is fake.

No, it's not. You've got to go police department officer.

Nicholas, I'm Maui, especially unit two.

What did I see? What was that thing?

What is going on?

Find out when I take you to the station house.

If I'm when you take your hand off my ass.

Sorry.

I thought the clock was ticking.

Benzen, this is desk serge Mingwa.

Mingwa, officer Benzen.

Pleasure.

Bye.

In case you're wondering, that's my pepper spray.

Mrs. Mind me.

This place is left over from an old subway line.

City keeps saying they'll move us.

But you know how it is.

I'm going on record, this is a bad idea. We don't need anyone.

This missed, oh Maui.

I assume you've heard of special unit two.

The, uh, deep cover, plain clothes unit.

Only thing anyone's ever said is just to stay out of their way.

Your, Richard Page, you kept in secondary.

You're retired five years ago.

All true except the retirement part couldn't afford to.

Benzen, I need you help temporarily.

You're wondering why.

I'm wondering a lot, sir.

Part of the answer is quota wise.

It would look good to have another woman off so round even for a while.

Sir, I'd take a fence to that.

I'd take a fence that Charlie blew my hand off.

But I got over it.

Benzen.

You ever catch something out of the corner of your eye?

Have I feel like there's something out there in the dark, something bad?

Everybody does.

But you don't turn away unless the real reason you are here.

You see things others are trained not to.

Regardless of what you're captain thinks.

You really did bug his office.

And he really is trying to get you committed.

And I would too if I didn't know the truth.

What is the truth? What does special unit two do?

Sir. You recognize this?

Yeah. They had a chart like this over the board at school.

Well, Darwin was half right.

Scientists think they've never found the missing link.

But the truth has been staring at them in the face.

The monsters of every child's nightmare are the missing links.

Which is why every culture has the same fairy tale about the same creatures.

Baby eating ogres, virgin loving dragons, 200-year-old trolls.

They're all real.

Except vampires.

Vampires.

Ah, complete total fiction.

You never heard of anything so ridiculous in my entire life.

I don't care if it creeps slithers or exists in the ether.

If it's something the rest of the world doesn't

understand or acknowledge, this unit deals with it.

And we call everything that's not a man of beast links.

These things love Chicago, don't ask me why I wish they didn't.

This unit was formed to keep them in check.

And do you have complete and unhesitating faith in all I've just told you?

Not in my nature, sir.

Ah. Die, die, die, die, die!

Well, that's our initiation.

It speeds up the belief curve.

What?

Meet Carl.

That's what folklore calls a gnome.

As I was snitching to mascot.

Masked?

You believe what I put up with around here?

You know you're paying for the shirt.

Hey, how are you doing?

Carl helps us out from time to time, so we go easy

on his little convenient store of robbery problem.

Don't just love it when people talk about you as if you're not standing right here.

Get yourself some soap, Carl. You'll wreak.

You know, in Europe, they don't fade every day. Perhaps you didn't know that.

Now, if we're done here, I got places to go.

See you.

Benson, we're impressed with you.

Consider yourself temporarily reassigned to special unit two.

Special unit two, Zamo, is color coded.

Different rounds work on different links, depending

on number of limbs and skeletal composition.

And on a gargoyle?

You used blue striped ammo, and you had to be extremely careful with this.

I'm partnering you with a melee in this case.

You'll guide me.

A melee shouldn't be guiding me anyone.

He's glib. He's insincere.

Michigan will look on his face when he killed that thing.

He liked it too much.

A melee's got a right to him.

A couple of years ago, he lost a partner.

He ever seen someone torn into 600 inch sails cubes of flesh?

Well?

No, sir.

I can't figure out how to kill that thing, so we keep it around for garbage disposal.

And for recruits that don't make the grade.

It's a joke, Vincent.

Yes, sir.

Okay. Gargoyles. Utilius hominus.

The Senate's of dinosaurs.

Here we go.

Sean Ratten, our resident linked myologist.

Yeah. And Sean would be the youngest full professor at the University of Chicago.

Only Sean would open his big mouth and try to tell everyone the truth.

So now, this is the best job that Sean can get.

Where's chances of scoring hot undergrads?

Or zero?

Or anyone else?

At least the woman I date when they go to work?

Actually, we're close.

Gargoyles are extremely fast, strong, smart carnivores.

Will eat anyone or anything.

The hate humanity and want to replace us, so

they'll try to exterminate us every 17 years.

Which is how long their eggs take to incubate.

17 years means that was what I saw outside my window.

Historically, covert groups like the Illuminati, Posse Comatotis, and

special unit 2, have been able to stop the mass hatchings most of the time.

When the Gargoyles do hatch, it's huge.

A blood bath, ultraviolence, a million Jeffrey Dahmer's with wings.

Last time was the Middle Ages.

Humanity was able to fend off the Gargoyles, so we ended

up with our carcasses on churches throughout Europe.

So, the cycle goes like this.

As the hatching time comes closer, a couple mature Gargoyles,

who have been hibernating, awaken and start gathering food.

People, when the babies are born, they'll have brunch.

So, the people that are taken are still alive?

The tasty innocent victims will be kept alive until the eggs hatch, which,

based on my analysis of their gestation cycle for the last six centuries,

is in 24 hours.

Meaning, that's how long we have to find the eggs before

the Gargoyles eat the victims and try to take over the city.

Alright, let's do it.

The first thing you should know is I'm not emotionally available right now.

What is your problem?

That I'm supposed to be a detective, not a chaperone.

Hey, I am happy to work this case in law.

If the captain thought you'd get anywhere, you would be on your own.

And he must think the same thing about you.

By the way, you're considered happy to think before you shoot.

No, and if I hadn't killed that thing, we'd be looking for pieces of you and its stool.

You enjoyed killing that. Saving my life was secondary.

Okay, so let's just agree with that.

Alright, look, let's assume they know aren't their old hunting pattern.

So, how do we catch them now?

Well, you're the big thinker.

Well, many other creatures, uh, links that I've talked to by Gargoyles?

No. Maybe Gargoyles only like human flesh.

The red ones said they eat anything.

Maybe links know how to stay out of their way.

It's actually not a bad thought.

Actually.

Well, do you know we could talk to you to find out if we're right?

Yes.

Does it involve violence?

We can only hope.

Hey.

Give me a favor and hold on to something for me.

I'm not supposed to.

You want to tell me what that was about?

Nope.

Drop your icy freeze, please.

Anything else?

Hello?

Yeah. Uh, all your cash and supersize the icy freeze while you're at it.

There's the man you need to talk to except for the man part.

Can't you see him on a gig?

Tell Carl we need to talk.

He heard you and you can put your hands down.

Oh, thank God.

What do you think you're doing?

I was just in the neighborhood.

Yeah, committing armed robbery.

You're jumping to conclusions.

Would you mind stepping outside, please?

Leave the store.

Why?

No reason.

No one's going to do anything stupid that would be caught on camera, right?

God.

All right, let's go.

Where did he?

Carl. What?

Ask Carl how other links managed to avoid being taken by the gargoyles.

You ask him.

He's not speaking to me.

Since I took out one of his stuff for girlfriends.

Okay, did someone say something?

I don't think so because I don't hear lies from links, scumbags.

Stripper girlfriend.

Exotic dancers.

A lot of these girls are putting themselves through college.

Oh, I'm sure.

And I'm not letting any stinking links.

Smere a woman's reputation.

And this one had a big reputation

if you know what I mean.

That's it.

O'Malley, put your weapon away.

I'm going to sack after I fire it. He won't kill me.

Now when he knows they just have to find another link they can trust.

You know how hard that is.

Hey!

Could you stop and trap yourselves?

Except one place the ratio is worse.

Word on the street is called doesn't pack much trousers.

Hey!

I scare the ladies.

Yeah, it's just not the way you think.

Enough. In case you guys forgot, we're trying to save 12 people's lives here.

Get planned, Link.

Do links know where the gargoyles are hunting tonight or not?

Merit park, all right?

Everyone knows tonight not to go near Merit Park.

Anything?

Nothing so far.

Question.

Last year when I took those pictures of that thing in the lake.

Special Unit 2 took the film out of the camera, specifically me.

Well, that's for the six months of ridicule.

Sorry, no choice.

You realize what would happen if people found out there really are monsters.

I don't know when my seriality threatened.

Believe me, I know.

Still nothing.

That'll show up hunting.

I mean, you actually think my plan's gonna work?

Actually, I was just trying to be nice.

I heard something.

I'm doing a sweep.

I don't see anything.

I heard it again.

I'm coming out.

No, I'm fine. Let me do my job.

Freeze!

This is going on your permanent record.

We've been working on it for hours. Can't get a word out of him.

We started with a psychological approach.

Which, unfortunately, only works if you're human and you have a psyche.

I've been retried threatening him with every kind of physical harm we could think of.

He doesn't take it seriously.

Our girls are too used to thinking of themselves as indestructible.

How about if I shoot off its limbs one by one?

I hate to say it, but how about it?

Definitely put a crimp in his belief system.

Unfortunately, any ammo powerful enough to put a dent in the gargoyle will also

shatter it into a thousand pieces, leaving us with no suspect to interrogate.

Call that a problem strategy.

Well, what do we know about its history that could give us an

angle? Like how did humanity fight them off in the Middle Ages?

By dying from the bubonic plague and cutting white down on the gargoyle's food supply?

Another problem strategy.

I think I got it.

What? Aside from the case of homicidal mania.

You made a make this thing realize it's vulnerable.

I'm Officer Benson. This is Officer Malay. I'd like

to ask you a few questions. Let's start with a name.

Just a test.

You help us say those 12 people will go easy on you.

So, just thought we'd drop by and say hi, seeing us how

we're the reason you fell flat on your butt out there.

If you even have a butt, you look pretty pathetic.

We took pictures. I'm using them as Christmas cards.

I got rights. Don't I get a phone call?

Humans have rights. You have horns. You must have

been hibernating near Starsky and Hutch reruns.

So where, where are we?

Uh, talking about how pathetic he looked.

Come a little closer next time. Let's see what happens then.

Oh, there's not going to be a next time. Because you're not going anywhere.

I'll just wait here for my big brother to come get me.

But he can't leave the eggs until after they hatch.

Do you really think you're going to trick me into saying anything?

Oh, he's going to do worse than that.

This good cop bad cop routine is worse than Starsky and Hutch.

No, it's not a routine. I'm really a good cop. And he's really a bad cop.

I'm about to work myself up to a yawn here.

Oh, my God.

That's good.

Look at me. What'd you do to me?

One more chance. Where are the 12 victims in the eggs?

Talk or you shoot you with that thing to disappear.

Well, then you'll have no chance of finding those people.

Well, see now that kind of logic would work with a rational person.

So if I were you, I'd start talking.

You can both go to hell!

Wrong answer.

Look at me. I can't believe this.

What was it? You can have to speak up.

All right, I'll talk. They're all in a building at Wacker and Jackson.

Is everyone still alive?

I don't know. You can shoot me all you want. That's the God's honest truth.

You didn't have to do me like this. You're an ass bitch.

We go to the nest, save the 12 people, help you dump

the eggs and get home in time for the bull's game.

No sweat.

Well, not if he and his brother are some kind of trap pre-arranged.

Now, run the rest of me.

Unless they're links, they're not smart enough to be one step ahead.

Right?

You're real funny. I'm laughing on the inside.

More on it.

It was pretty amazing yesterday. I thought I was bound step at the department.

And today I'm following the lead of a three-inch tall gargoyle.

Listen, if this really is a temporary transfer, how does special unit 2 know?

I'm not going to blow the whistle on everything.

I can't done only picks cops. He thinks he can trust.

But transfers are not a problem for other reasons.

Why? Because they all get killed.

Well, one guy lived, but he just sits in a room and talks to him stuff.

Well, he said, no, I'm not crazy.

Because I mean, that's all anyone thought about me. My whole life.

Friends, boyfriends. My parents, who's still ever

recovered from the fact that I'm not a doctor.

Do you like telling me something to match yourself?

No. It's not like there's anything to tell.

What about one down two years ago?

My partner and I were looking for a real vicious link.

It was taking out families up and down the south side.

One night finally found it, chased it into an abandoned house.

I decided we would split up.

There was a mistake.

Cornered her upstairs.

Kids had lost their father on the job a few years back.

That night they became orphans.

I'm sorry.

That's when I decided that there aren't heroes anymore.

The best thing anyone can do with their life was just kill these things.

So those kids?

Yesterday were your partner's kids?

Were they giving them something to hold? Were they giving them money?

You could not keep that to yourself.

You should probably wait until there's a plan of attack.

We're not.

Hey you guys check up soon.

All right

Where are they?

Right in front of you.

All right open your eyes.

Idiot. It looks like this is some kind of city offices.

How many gargable links are we talking about?

Got made.

How much a high place should we be looking for?

I'm not right before I close.

We got a problem.

This used to be a police station.

They brought us here as a joke.

He got out.

It's a trap.

Everyone move out.

Hey! My brother's gonna kick your-

Was strangely unsatisfied.

Not as much fun when they can't fight back, huh?

Stay away from the windows.

Okay, hallways are clear. Let's go.

You first. I'm nailing this thing.

Whatever it is.

Okay, well, we already know they're smarter than we think.

Watch out!

Focus. Tell me everything you saw.

Just his arms. Judging from their size, we're dealing with

something twice as large as the thing we interrogated.

It's didn't have to happen. We let him get one step ahead.

Forensics took apart the entire air shaft. All they found was this. All next stuff.

And three different types of particle residue. Looks like rock dust.

Well, we're two hours before the hatching. Keep the search teams working.

But at this point, we have to re-gear for a defensive operation.

Kill these things once they've hatched an auto hiding.

At which point the 12 victims will be long dead. And Nick.

Nick and Dick have himself.

Ah!

Don't worry. I'm gonna get you out of here.

Now!

We won't know exactly what the three kinds of

Joss are until Forensics runs a spectrograph.

There's no time for that.

There's no other way.

Carl!

What?

Hmm.

So, look up.

Okay, rock.

Are you sure?

I'm a gnome. It comes from the earth, I know it.

Next.

Hmm. Micah.

Also, rock.

Keep going.

Not rock. Pure carbon dust.

Where would you find carbon?

Everywhere. It's a basis for all life and fossil fuels.

One of the most common elements in the universe.

Where would you find it pure?

In everyday life? I mean, you wouldn't.

The gargoyle tracks it in from somewhere, so think.

What did you mean by fossil fuels?

Anything you burned. Oil, coal.

Well, could the Nespian like a coal power plant or something like that?

You build museums to teach your children the dinosaurs to extinct.

With all the time, the truth has been staring you right in the face.

We evolve in the most powerful creatures ever roam the earth.

And you evolve from monkeys.

Yeah, well, at least my relatives haven't spent

the last 500 years covered in pigeon crap.

No, because they've been too busy killing each other.

At least gargoyles don't cannibalize their own kind.

Ah!

Oh, this is impossible.

Ah, this coal plant was demolitioned a month ago.

The power department hadn't even updated the city database yet.

Well, there's got to be another plant.

Yeah, well, there isn't Benson. Not within a hundred miles. I'm sorry.

Okay. Well, these caps leads to something below ground.

There's got to be a storage level down there, something.

Ah, something sealed up tight, Benson.

We have to blow this cap, sir.

Based on wood logic.

In fact, that I see things not everybody else does.

The seal on this caps upside down compared to the others.

Somebody's moved it to get down there.

Or they just put it on that way in the first place.

I got an entire city to search, Benson.

Ah!

Ah!

Nick! Catch!

Ah!

Come on here.

That's mine.

Thanks.

Ah! Looks like you just disproved your theory.

Ah. There being no heroes anymore.

The superintendent's office reviewed your case

and forwarded the seal decision over this morning.

There are people who just don't cut out for police work.

But you go beyond that, Benson. You question everything until nothing makes sense.

And I just personally thank God.

And when it comes to people like yourself, men assist to the institution itself.

The system has a way of dealing with you.

On this day, the superintendent of police of the

city of Chicago declares officer Kate Alice Benson

will receive a promotion to the next grade and be

transferred effective immediately to special unit 2.

I want this confirmed.

You never thought you'd actually be glad to see me.

It's me she's smiling at.

I'm transporting him on an unrelated matter.

How's it going, Carl?

It hasn't hit me in three days.

So we pretty much convinced the 12 victims

they've been fed drugs and were hallucinating.

Well, not they believe the real story anyway.

Exactly.

Right.

Look, I just came by to say welcome aboard and thanks.

And no one's ever saved my life before, believe it or not.

No, I believe that.

Well, the way I figure it, you own me.

What do you want?

Shake hands with Carl.

Fine.

Never thought I'd live to see the day.

Hey, left to the station, huh?

Okay, so in a cop or anyone asked me to explain myself?

Just say special unit 2.

I love that.

Hey, O'Malley. Step on it.

I got a love appointment for me.

You wouldn't push my love, Carl.

I hear you.

I'll just tell O'Malley's mom it was him who made me late.

Just keep the cover of the screen.

As you let go, as never can't breathe.

That's the whole point.