“DOA for a Day”
Episode #415
Written By
John Dove & Peter M. Lenkov
DIR: Christine Moore
SHOOTING SCRIPT
2/29/08
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Ep. #415 – “DOA for a Day”
Shooting Script – 2/29/08
“DOA for a Day” Ep. #415 U CAST LIST
MAC TAYLOR STELLA BONASERA DANNY MESSER DR. SHELDON HAWKES DET. DON FLACK LINDSAY MONROE DET. JESSICA ANGELL ADAM ROSS DR. SID HAMMERBACK SUSPECT X
RUSS MCHENRY JORDAN GATES BARTENDER TAYLOR AVATAR SUSPECT X AVATAR
(War hero and son of one of Suspect X’s previous vics, Judge McHenry) (the Mayor’s Criminal Justice Coordinator Mac’s helped before; Kelly’s boss)
(At Club Random, the Cosplay club) (Is killed by Suspect X’s Avatar at the club) (Let’s our team know she’s watching)
U Featured Characters (non-speaking only)
Male (V.O. only) (NY Crime Catchers) Unis Kelly Mann (Vic made to look like Suspect X; Jordan Gates’ assistant) ND Techs
M.E. Techs Detectives Mayor’s Protection Detail Sound Techs Club Random Patrons Dr. Joseph Kirkbaum (made Kelly Mann look like Suspect X as payback to her but then became her vic as well) ESU Officers Sergeants Williams and Clark (on teleconference) FBI Special Agents Steve Beck and Kevin Halinan (on teleconference) ND Woman (Disguised as Suspect X sent in by her to make sure it’s not a trap) Uniformed Officer
ESU Officers Pedestrians
Ep. #415 – “DOA for a Day”
Shooting Script – 2/29/08
“DOA for a Day” Ep. #415 SET LIST
INTERIOR – DAY
INTERIOR – NIGHT
M.E.’s Office
Venetti Meats – Corridor
– Wash Room – Autopsy Room New York Crime Lab – Trace Lab – DNA – Mac’s Office
– Main Warehouse – Butchering Room Club Random Suspect X’s Lair New York Crime Lab – Corridor – Trace Lab – A/V Lab Kirkbaum Manor – Basement
– A/V Lab – Corridor – War Room Auto Repair Shop – Garage ND Office Building Under Construction
EXTERIOR – DAY
EXTERIOR – NIGHT
West Side Pier – Stage Area Bryant Park
New York Skyline NYC Street Kirkbaum Manor
– Side Entrance West Side Pier – Stage Area
SPECIAL SHOTS
CSI NY SHOTS – Screws Being Driven into the Skull During Surgery Tiny Particles of Blood Fly & Land on Coveralls
SERIES OF PHOTOS – Of our Butcher Block Torture Vic
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CSI: NEW YORK "DOA for a Day" TEASER
FADE IN:
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EXT. NEW YORK SKYLINE - LATE NIGHT The whole island. In the shadow of dark clouds. DRIFT OVER like some unseen biblical wraith searching for a sacrifice. Over this we HEAR the NY CRIME CATCHERS theme, a Dragnet-
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inspired riff, both earnest and urgent. MALE (V.O.)
This is New York Crime Catchers...
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PUSH IN ON the Jumbotron at ONE TIMES SQUARE: A GRAPHIC appears for this slick weekly PSA: “NY CRIME CATCHERS.”
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MALE (V.O.) Tonight the New York City Police Department is asking for your help. At approximately 11:30pm on October 24th --
SEGUE INTO A SUPER STYLIZED SERIES OF SHOTS -- TV's around the city (in bars, laundromats, store windows, etc.) as the Crime Catchers Re-enactment (played by ND actors reprising various low budget key scenes from episode 405) unfolds -- VIDEO SHOOT: A VENUS/CHERYL LOOK-ALIKE walks down a dark alley. A TITLE flashes: RE-ENACTMENT. MALE (V.O.) It was at this time that she was approached by a female suspect, who forced her into a nearby warehouse. VIDEO SHOOT: A SUSPECT X LOOK-ALIKE, armed with a handgun, gets the jump on Cheryl/Venus. MALE (V.O.) -- Cheryl Miller was leaving a New York dance club and on her way home. The attacker then pulled a gun and fired upon the victim, killing her instantly. VIDEO SHOOT: Suspect X look-alike aims and FIRES! MALE (V.O.) The suspect is also believed to be responsible for the murders of Judge Daniel McHenry, a resident of
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A PHOTO of McHenry appears followed by one of Devane. MALE (V.O.) ... And New York representative, Congressman Philip Devane. Next up: A composite sketch of Suspect X with data: KEY SUSPECT. WHITE FEMALE. 5'8" 110 lbs. Blonde hair. MALE (V.O.)
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The suspect is a white female. 5 foot 8. 110 ten pounds with medium length blonde hair. If you have any information about this case call the New York Crime Catchers tip line at 1-800-555-0199. Remember, every call is confidential.
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EXT. NEW YORK SKYLINE - NIGHT/DAY RESUME AERIAL as TIME CRUNCHES... NIGHT turns into DAY....then NIGHT again. We HEAR a phone RING, then: MALE VOICE (V.O.) Crime Catchers, how can I help you?
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE CALLER (V.O.)
... I saw her... the blonde woman the police are looking for... I know where she is...
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EXT. NYC STREET - NIGHT [1] TIGHT: A faded sign on an abandoned warehouse -- "VENETTI MEATS -- EST. 1947." PULL BACK TO REVEAL THE IMAGE IS PART OF A LIVE POLE CAMERA FEED being transmitted to a LAPTOP COMPUTER resting on the HOOD of a POLICE CRUISER. WIDEN TO REVEAL MAC TAYLOR and STELLA BONASERA gearing up, slipping on TAC vests. They are being briefed by DETECTIVE DON FLACK flanked by an ESU ENTRY TEAM. Wallet-size composite sketches of Suspect X are circulated. The ESU Team fix them to their gloves for quick identification.
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DET. FLACK -- building's been vacant for over two years. New York Power Corp detected an abnormal usage spike from an adjacent building. STELLA Someone's piggybacking on the neighbor's electric service. Mac, this tip looks like the real deal.
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Mac responds with a tight nod. Impatient. He is, as he is with all of his unsolved cases, a man possessed. Suspect X's escape has haunted him for weeks.
DETECTIVE JESSICA ANGEL L arrives carrying a 12-gauge.
DET. ANGELL Perimeter is locked down. We are good to go.
DET. FLACK All right. Listen up...
He grabs the PDA sitting on a hood. REVEALS A SCHEMATIC of the warehouse on screen. Holds it for everyone to see.
DET. FLACK We'll be entering the location through a side entrance... Here -- this will be our primary access and egress point. And I want radio silence. Suspect is technologically sophisticated. MAC Guys, make no mistake, this woman will be armed and very dangerous. She is a shooter. Killing is nothing more than an instinct. During our last pursuit, I saw her cut down an unarmed civilian without even blinking. So she will
not think twice about putting a bullet in you... play it smart. He snaps an RLS (Rapid Light System) onto the barrel of his service revolver, then checks the load. MAC Let's get her. INT. VENETTI MEATS - CORRIDOR - NIGHT Mac leads his stealth team... through the primary access point... into the quiet, dimly-lit corridor, rife with eerie shadows. Remnants of a meat packing plant remain. WOOD SHAVINGS litter the floor. Empty MEAT HOOKS caked in dried blood. Empty ICE BOXES. Rats scurry by. They come to the end of the corridor. Using hand signals, Mac directs Stella and Det. Flack to sweep left with a contingent of three ESU Officers. As they move off --
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-- Mac and Det. Angell enter into a larger room with two ESU
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INT. VENETTI MEATS - MAIN WAREHOUSE - NIGHT They continue on -- finally arriving at a nest of Alienware Area-51 laptops. ON EACH SCREEN: STATIC/ELECTRIC SNOW. Mac looks from the monitors to the CURTAIN up ahead -- his RLS falls on the PLASTIC THERMAL STRIPS leading into a BUTCHERING ROOM. Mac catches Det. Angell's eyes and waves
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INT. VENETTI MEATS - BUTCHERING ROOM - NIGHT
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Mac and Det. Angell push through the curtains -- RLS's sweeping over a large STEEL TABLE covered with an assortment of WIGS, COSTUMES, MAKEUP and COLOR CONTACT LENSES. The wall above the table is a crude PHOTO GALLERY. An array of trophy photos. All of them gunshot victims. Past kills. Mac pushes on... and up ahead finds something that stops him dead in his tracks. REVEAL THE GRUESOME SIGHT -- A WOMAN in BLOOD STAINED CLOTHING, on her back, hands cuffed over her head and draped over a large BUTCHER BLOCK, head hanging off the edge. A PUDDLE OF BLOOD staining the floor beneath her.
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Mac and Det. Angell clear the room. Behind them, Stella and
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Det. Flack enter --
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Perimeter's clear...
DET. FLACK
Man, that's brutal.
They approach the body. RLS's fall on the HANDLE of a KNIFE protruding from the top of the vic's skull.
DET. ANGELL
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Cause of death is no mystery.
Mac gloves up and gently lifts the victim's drooping head with one hand. Pushes the hair out of her face -- finally revealing who it is -- SUSPECT X . Her lifeless eyes and pained expression tell the tale of a painful death.
STELLA Is that Suspect X?
DET. FLACK Mac, you were the only one to come face to face with her.
PUSH IN ON MAC...
POP FLASH TO:
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INT. CORRIDOR - CONGRESSMAN PIED-A-TERRE - DAY
FOOTAGE LIFT FROM EPISODE 405: The Mexican standoff. Mac and Suspect X. She shoots her hostage -- PFFFT!
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BACK TO SCENE
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Mac looks up, catches eyes with his team.
MAC Yeah. It's her.
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SERIES OF PHOTOS: (DEVELOPED IN REAL TIME)
SNAP! FIRST PHOTO: Suspect X splayed on the butcher block. SECOND PHOTO: Knife handle protruding from her skull. THIRD PHOTO: A cluster of stab wounds through the clothing on the upper torso. INT. VENETTI MEATS - NIGHT Stella puts down her camera. Begins bagging the hands. 2
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M.E. TECHS wheel a gurney in --
STELLA Boys, it's gonna be a few more minutes.
They stand back. As she examines the stab wounds, CAMERA PICKS UP Det. Angell examining a STAINLESS STEEL .45 caliber HANDGUN with a SILENCER she found on a nearby table. Picks
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it up from the edges. Det. Flack approaches --
DET. ANGELL
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Forty five cal with a muzzle. Looks like we may have the weapon she used to silence her vics. DET. FLACK What about an ID? You find anything that'd give us her name?
DET. ANGELL
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Nothing so far.
RACK FOCUS TO Mac as he approaches ADAM ROSS , using a TALON to data comb the laptops.
MAC
Any luck?
ADAM Negative. Hard drives have been wiped clean.
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MAC See if you can find any foreign prints. ADAM You think our killer could have put his paws on these? MAC Maybe whatever was on these laptops was something to die for.
He returns to the body. Adam watches him go, notes Mac's obsession. Stella clocks something else -- the concerned look on his face.
STELLA
You okay?
MAC This woman was a skilled and trained assassin. Whoever did this to her had to be better.
Stella looks to Mac, then back to the body.
STELLA So who kills a professional killer?
Off this frightening thought, we --
FADE OUT.
END OF TEASER
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ACT ONE
FADE IN:
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INT. M.E.'S OFFICE - WASH ROOM - DAY [NOW DAY 2]
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MOS MONTAGE: SERIES OF SHOTS:
-- Suspect X on the slab. DR. SID HAMMERBACK shaves her scalp. The knife handle still protruding from her skull.
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INT. M.E.'S OFFICE - AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY
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-- Sid uses the CT DOME to project an X-Ray image of the skull with the blade penetrating the brain. -- Two LAB TECHS hold Suspect X's head steady as Sid carefully and smoothly extracts the knife from the skull. He drops it into a plastic evidence bag --
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INT. M.E.'S OFFICE - AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY
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-- And hands it to Mac who holds it up to eye level.
SID Your murder weapon.
MAC Six-and-a-half-inch, black powder coated blade. Saw tooth back. This is a Navy Seal Combat Knife. SID Now if only there was a game show that called for that kind of knowledge, you'd be able to retire early. MAC I'd miss your wit. And your keen skills of observation. Speaking of which --
Sid smiles as he moves to the body, points out the multiple stab wounds on the upper chest area of the collarbone.
SID That knife you're holding was used to inflict these stab wounds. They're shallow, deliberate but non- lethal.
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MAC She endured a tremendous amount of pain. SID She was also suffering from acute dehydration. Her muscles showed signs of atrophy. And take a look at these...
Sid turns the body.
PUSH ZOOM TO: Blotches of redness on
the surface of the back. PUSH OUT TO: SID
On the surface, they appear to be minor abrasions. But in fact... MAC ...They're bed sores. SID Exactly. Mac's eyes go to the victim's wrist. He lifts her hand, reveals linear bruising. MAC Aged linear bruising. Looks like she was bound for an extended period of time. SID I was getting to that, Mac. You're stealing my thunder. He moves to the feet. Lifts the sheet. ANGLE ON the same bruising on her ankles. MAC Her legs as well. And she struggled hard... WHITE FLASH TO: INT. VENETTI MEATS - NIGHT (VERSION) Vic's cuffed wrist & ankles as she struggles to escape. WHITE FLASH TO:
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BACK TO SCENE Sid lifts the opposite hand.
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PUSH ZOOM TO: A small bruise
on the surface of the skin. PUSH OUT TO:
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SID Looks to be an injection site. I'm waiting for tox to come back to determine if she was drugged. But I'm guessing she was held captive for a long time, tortured and possibly drugged. Any theories? MAC This woman murdered people for a living. And she was highly skilled. Probably trained to endure torture. Whatever her killer was after, she didn't give it up easily.
SID Or give it up at all.
Mac takes a moment to process, then:
MAC Anything else?
SID Thought you'd never ask. This may be the most perplexing thing about this case.
He moves to the CT DOME on which an X-Ray of the victim's head is displayed. He gestures --
SID These metal screws were inserted during a cosmetic forehead lift.
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CSI NY SHOT:
Screws being driven into the skull during surgery.
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BACK TO SCENE
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Sid points to the nose. SEE HEALED FRACTURE LINES.
SID And take a look at these healed fractures. Inflicted during a surgical procedure to alter the nose. (MORE)
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SID (CONT'D)
(then) My autopsy also revealed remnants of scarring from an eye lift, genioplasty, and skin layer erosion therapy. And all of this work was performed within the last six weeks. Begs the question: What woman in her twenties gets a complete plastic surgery make-over? MAC Our vic was a master of disguise. Maybe cosmetic surgery was just another elaborate way to conceal her identity.
Mac moves to her head. Looks down at her face.
MAC How are you at reverse engineering?
SID I don't like the sound of this.
MAC Sid, if you can rebuild her face to what it may have looked like before the surgery, it might help ID her. Knowing who this woman is will help use find her enemies and who might have wanted her dead.
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INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - TRACE LAB - DAY
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OPEN ON a RING LIGHT MAGNIFIER POV: A MULTICOLORED, POCKED- MARKED SPHERE resembling a distant planet . WIDEN to Adam studying the object. Mac enters --
MAC We get any prints off the laptops?
ADAM Nothing usable.
MAC Knife give us anything?
ADAM I don't know how you do it, boss.
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MAC
What's that?
ADAM Suspect X was a cold blooded killer and you're pursuing this like she was a real victim. MAC Murder is still murder, Adam. And the only thing we celebrate in this job is the people we put away. Now what about that knife?
ADAM
Take a peek.
Mac leans in.
MAC A ball bearing?
ADAM With minute traces of dried blood on the surface.
He picks up the NAVY SEAL COMBAT KNIFE which is resting on the table. Unscrews the end of the handle revealing a secret compartment. Hands it to Mac.
ADAM Found it inside the knife handle.
Mac picks up the large bearing. Studies it.
MAC Looks like shrapnel. From an improvised explosive device. ADAM You mean like the ones used by terrorists in the Middle East? MAC Yeah. Probably a souvenir. Soldiers wounded in action will sometimes keep the shrapnel pulled from their bodies. A reminder of how close they came to dying. We get any prints?
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Wiped clean.
(MORE)
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ADAM (CONT'D) But I did find dried blood in the crevice between the hilt and the handle. Sent both samples to DNA. MAC If the owner of that knife was wounded in action, it's likely he or she was the recipient of a Purple Heart. ADAM Are you saying our killer could be a war hero?
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INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - DNA - DAY
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Danny hands LINDSAY MONROE CENTRIFUGE TUBES containing DNA samples. She holds them like a bouquet of flowers, sniffs them and delivers a mock smile.
LINDSAY Danny, they're beautiful. Nothing says you're special like centrifuge tubes filled with DNA samples. DANNY I'm never gonna live this down, am I? LINDSAY Forgetting my birthday? Probably not. (re: tubes) Where'd you get these? DANNY Adam found more blood samples inside the knife. Some chunk of metal that was hidden in the handle. You run the blood he found on the hilt? LINDSAY Came back non-human. I sent it to serology for a protein analysis.
She plays this somewhat detached. Making him pay for his mistake. As he follows her across the room.
DANNY Linds, I told you, guys aren't wired for remembering dates. (MORE)
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DANNY (CONT'D) Sports stats, steak sides, that's our thing.
Lindsay rolls her eyes as she places the new tubes into the GENETIC ANALYZER. The genetic analyzer hums. They step over to a computer monitor and wait. Awkward silence as Lindsay plays it cool towards Danny. But she can't help herself and struggles to stifle a laugh.
LINDSAY Steak sides. You are so busted.
Danny shrugs. That's when a DNA TECH hands Lindsay a file.
LINDSAY
Thanks.
(reads file) Looks like the blood on the knife belonged to a white tailed deer... Common to the forests of the northeast... DANNY Hey, wasn't one of Suspect X's victims on a hunting trip in New Jersey when he was killed? LINDSAY Yeah. Judge Daniel McHenry. And we found evidence of a white-tailed deer infected with Lyme disease at that crime scene.
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LINDSAY So if our new blood sample has Lyme disease, it's possible our murder weapon came from that same location. DANNY Boom. What about the blood on the shrapnel Adam found inside the knife? Deer or human?
Lindsay turns back to the Genetic Analyzer. Reads screen.
LINDSAY Human. I'll put it through CODIS.
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DANNY While you do that, I'll run this blood sample from the knife to see if Bambi was infected with Lyme's disease.
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INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - MAC'S OFFICE - DAY
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Mac and Stella. As Mac holsters his pistol and slips on his coat --
MAC -- An old friend of mine from the Marine Corps, General Finn, provided me with a list of Navy Seals who were recipients of the Purple Heart and who were wounded in combat by shrapnel from an IED or car bomb. STELLA Bet that's a pretty exclusive list. MAC Exclusive enough that we may have identified the owner of the knife that killed Suspect X.
Mac reveals a photo of RUSS McHENRY in dress uniform. Early twenties. Handsome. Looking every bit the formidable Navy Seal he was trained to be.
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Russ McHenry.
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STELLA Judge McHenry's son?
MAC The blood we found on the murder weapon was from a white tailed deer that tested positive for Lyme disease. STELLA So, we can place Russ McHenry's knife at the scene of his father's murder. MAC The same knife that killed Suspect X. Which answers the question: who might be capable of murdering a professional killer.
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Stella meets his stare, the pieces falling into place --
STELLA A Navy Seal with a killer motive.
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INT. AUTO REPAIR SHOP - GARAGE - DAY
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The grease smudged face of RUSS McHENRY peeking out from underneath a black customized BMW. Russ is laying on a mechanic's creeper with the remainder of his body hidden under the car. WIDEN TO REVEAL Mac and Det. Flack, and the busy high end, upper east side garage. We come in mid-convo:
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Russ stops what he's doing under the car.
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I gave it to my father to gut his deer the day he was killed. That's the last time I saw it. DET. FLACK Well, it just turned up stuck through the back of a dead woman's skull.
MAC We think she's the person responsible for your father's murder.
Russ takes a moment. Absorbs the gravity of the information.
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When you catch her killer, be sure and tell him "thank you" for me.
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Before he can finish -- Mac crouches, gets close to Russ'
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MAC Mr. McHenry, the person who killed her was highly skilled. This person was able to render a trained assassin helpless and then torture and murder her, presumably all by himself.
Russ' face tightens.
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DET. FLACK Person capable of that could have extensive military training. What do you think?
RUSS
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What do I think?
Russ angrily slides out from under the car -- REVEALING he is a MULTIPLE AMPUTEE with prosthetic legs. He stands and goes face to face with our heroes.
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I'm not gonna let you stand there and accuse me of murder.
Mac doesn't blink.
MAC We're not accusing you. We're trying to understand how your knife ended up at our crime scene. You're disappointed, detective. I can see it in your eyes. You were expecting a big strong Navy Seal killing machine. Instead you found half a soldier? RUSS
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Russ rolls his eyes, scowls:
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What do you know?
MAC More than you think.
(CONTINUED)
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Russ' eyes fall on Mac and he reads between the lines. Gets a faint hint of kinship, understanding. It's broken when Russ catches Det. Flack staring.
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Don't you dare pity me detective.
DET. FLACK It ain't pity, Russ. I'm just trying to decide if you could've done it.
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Russ stands down. Holds up his prosthetic hand.
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What? Because of these?
Taps it against his prosthetic leg. CLANK! CLANK!
RUSS
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Twenty different ways, detective. Trust me. But leaving my knife behind? C'mon, that's Sloppy. If you know anything about Navy Seals, we aren't sloppy. But I'll tell you this, if I had known who killed my father, yeah, I would have done it.
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MOS MONTAGE -- QUICK CUTS:
-- Sid stands over Suspect X. Using a SURGICAL PENCIL, he draws HORIZONTAL DASHED LINES across her FOREHEAD. Then, he does the same down the BRIDGE of her nose and then a line across each cheek bone. -- He presses the scalpel into the forehead and cuts along the lines he made. -- Peels back forehead skin, exposing surgical screws in the skull. Using an ELECTRIC SCREWDRIVER, he removes the screws. -- Sid slices through the bridge of the nose. Peels the skin away exposing the cartilage of the nose. Examines the old fractures... removes prosthetics. -- Sid closely examines a series of facial X-RAYS of SUSPECT X. They are clipped to a fluorescent wall lamp. He uses a ruler to measure certain points. He writes his findings on a document attached to a clipboard. INTERCUT WITH:
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-- Danny pecks away at a COMPUTER KEYBOARD. Studying the information on Sid's clipboard as he goes. The face of Suspect X displayed on the MONITOR. Using FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE, Danny begins to DIGITALLY remove the elements of plastic surgery. He drags the CURSOR over the nose. Enlarges the bridge. Spreads the nostrils. -- Danny highlights the eyelids with the cursor. Refers to the clipboard. Taps keys. SEE the shape of the eyes transform from ALMOND shape to more ROUND. -- He drags the cursor over the chin. Highlights a circular area at the base. Glances at the clipboard. Punches keys. The chin changes in length. A DIMPLE appears. -- A DIGITAL IMAGE of Suspect X morphs into a digital composite of what she looked like before the surgery. Similar, but not identical.
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INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY
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Mac and DR. SHELDON HAWKES . Walk and talk.
DR. HAWKES Tox results came back on Suspect X. (hands Mac a PDA) We found traces of Morphine and Propofol in Suspect X's system. MAC Veterinarians use propofol to anesthetize animals. DR. HAWKES Lab also detected traces of ringer's solution in the blood, which makes sense because the vic was suffering from acute hypertonicity. MAC A complication associated with long term intravenous feeding. Explains the puncture mark Sid found on the back of Suspect X's hand -- DR. HAWKES -- And her bed sores and muscle atrophy. She was on her back for some time.
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MAC But it still doesn't explain why our killer drugged Suspect X, fed her intravenously and held her hostage over a long period of time. It just doesn't make sense...
Midway through his dialogue, Danny approaches at a clip,
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Mac, Danny and Dr. Hawkes stand before the WALL REAR PROJECTOR -- ON SCREEN is the DE-CONSTRUCTED SUSPECT X COMPOSITE.
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-- Using the cosmetic surgery data Sid culled from his autopsy, I was able to de-construct our victim's face and develop that pre-surgery composite. DR. HAWKES But how do we know that's not what our hired killer looked like before the surgery?
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Because when I took the composite and went through our Missing Persons database, I got this --
He taps a key on the handheld keyboard. SCREEN SPLITS and a photo and profile of KELLY MANN appears. An almost identical match to the composite. Blows everyone away.
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DANNY
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Her name is Kelly Mann.
MAC (reading data) -- Disappeared six weeks ago under suspicious circumstances.
Mac takes a step toward the wall rear projection screen.
(CONTINUED)
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MAC Suspect X specifically targeted Kelly Mann because she closely resembled her. The surgery made them identical. DR. HAWKES So she kidnaps, tortures and kills an innocent girl in order to fake her own death. Which means our female assassin is still alive. DR. HAWKES But why go through all the trouble of making us believe she was dead? DANNY Every law enforcement agency in the country was looking for this woman. She dies, the homicide cases die with her. And then she's suddenly free. DANNY
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MAC Free to kill again.
He's already moving. Off this --
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT ONE
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ACT TWO
FADE IN:
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EXT. WEST SIDE PIER - STAGE AREA - DAY
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OPEN ON NEW YORK POWER PLAYER JORDAN GATES (mid-thirties), nothing short of class, glam and smarts. She's wearing a D&G business suit with just enough slit up the thigh to make it sexy, but keep it professional. Jordan is all business, has the undivided attention of several DETECTIVES who make up the mayor's protection detail. These guys are meat eaters. Big, burly. Dark suits. Ear wigs. An empty dais and a podium with the CITY SEAL behind them. A BANNER across the back: "GREEN ISLAND."
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JORDAN
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-- The mayor will be led on and off the stage from that stairway.
She gestures left. REVEAL Mac and Det. Flack approaching. She pauses for a beat on Mac. Almost smiles. Then:
JORDAN
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As for final numbers, it's still unknown, but you can be assured tomorrow's Green rally will be one of the largest outdoor events in New York history...
ON MAC AND DET. FLACK
As they pass TECHS setting up a massive sound system -- stadium speakers -- one after another.
DET. FLACK (re: Jordan's look)
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You two know each other?
MAC We met last year. Charity event at Gracie Mansion.
DET. FLACK Gracie Mansion, huh? (then) You think they have enough speakers?
MAC Couple months after we met, her estranged husband began stalking her. She made a special request to the chief.
(CONTINUED)
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DET. FLACK And you took care of it.
MAC
Yeah.
DET. FLACK You know I've never even had an old lady ask me to help her cross the street.
RESUME JORDAN
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JORDAN
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-- Dignitary protection is your number one priority. Magnetometers will be set up at every entry. But that shouldn't make anybody in this detail feel like they can relax. You will need to be on your toes.
Mac and Det. Flack continue up the steps and onto the stage.
JORDAN
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I want that site survey and threat assessment report on my desk before the puck drops. Once the Rangers hit the ice tonight, I am off the clock. That's it. You have a lot of work to do, gentlemen. Get to it.
They disperse. She turns her attention to our heroes as they approach --
MAC Detective Don Flack. Jordan Gates the Mayor's Criminal Justice Coordinator.
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She shakes hands with Det. Flack.
DET. FLACK
It's a pleasure.
JORDAN
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Good to see you again, Detective Taylor. Crime Lab back in one piece? MAC I don't know what strings you pulled, but it seemed to happen overnight.
(CONTINUED)
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JORDAN
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I figured I owed you one. Mayor on the other hand didn't feel the same way. He said next time you decide to blow up the Crime Lab, it's coming out of your paycheck. (then) So what can I do for you today, detectives?
Mac shifts uncomfortably.
DET. FLACK Ms. Gates, you filed a missing persons report on your former assistant Kelly Mann.
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JORDAN
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Yes. About six weeks ago. Why?
MAC I'm afraid we have some bad news.
Jordan's body language changes as she prepares for the blow.
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DET. FLACK Last night she was found murdered in an abandoned warehouse downtown.
The news hits her hard.
JORDAN
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Ohmygod...
Mac brings a chair forward, allowing her to sit.
MAC
I'm sorry.
JORDAN
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Kelly was like my sister. She had
no family...
Mac and Det. Flack exchange a look.
MAC Jordan, I know this is difficult. But we do need to ask you a few questions.
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JORDAN
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Of course.
(CONTINUED)
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MAC What can you tell us about the day Kelly disappeared?
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JORDAN
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There was nothing out of the ordinary. She came to work. Told me she was going out that night. To a club. Random. It's downtown...
Mac and Det. Flack recognize the name.
MAC It's a Cosplay club, right? People dress up like avatars...
JORDAN
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That's right. Kelly loved going there. You know the place? MAC Kelly wasn't our killer's first victim. A woman named Cheryl Miller was murdered a couple months ago following a night out at the same club. DET. FLACK Miss Gates, was Kelly planning to meet someone there? Boyfriend, girlfriend? Kelly always went alone. Next day she didn't show up for work. I figured she might have been out late. When I didn't hear from her the following day, I filed a missing persons report. JORDAN
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INT. CLUB RANDOM - NIGHT
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Danny and Det. Flack enter Random, the Cosplay club. It's wall-to-wall 20-SOMETHING'S dressed up like their online avatars.
(CONTINUED)
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Some interact with Humanoids flanked by small plasmas, a synchronized pairing of robot and avatar (ex: if clubgoer takes the robot's arm, the on screen avatar follows the robot motions). NOTE THE HUGE PLASMAS OVERHEAD: ON WALL PLASMAS (MACHINIMA): SERIES OF SHOTS: The cosplay party continues in Second Life -- Avatars dance and mingle.
RESUME SCENE
As they push through the crowd, Det. Flack looks over to Danny.
DET. FLACK What does this remind you of?
DANNY
No idea.
They reach the bar where the Cosplay crowd sip colorful cocktails. As they pass under a surveillance camera --
DET. FLACK
Star Wars cantina.
DANNY The bar Luke went into on Mos Eisley. Absolutely...
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INT. SUSPECT X'S LAIR - SAME TIME
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If hell had an address, this would be it. We're with SUSPECT X at the controls of a VisionStation system. ON SCREEN we SEE Danny and Det. Flack move through the bar. Suspect X keys on them -- ZEROES IN -- filters out background noise and singles out their audio.
INTERCUT WITH:
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INT. CLUB RANDOM - SAME TIME
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A BARTENDER approaches Danny and Det. Flack.
BARTENDER How can I help you, officers?
DET. FLACK
(re: his suit) How do you know this isn't a costume?
BARTENDER
Gimme a break.
Danny shows the man two photos. Kelly and Suspect X.
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(CONTINUED)
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DANNY You recognize either of these women? BARTENDER Yeah. They were both regulars. Haven't seen them in awhile. I think this one's name is Kelly.
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DET. FLACK What about the other one?
BARTENDER No idea. Served her a couple of times. Really didn't say much...
Suddenly, the MUSIC STOPS, taking everyone by surprise.
ON WALL PLASMAS (MACHINIMA): The monitors BLINK and the Second Life club disappears -- replaced by the empty CORRIDOR OF KILLS (from episode 405).
RESUME SCENE. Danny turns to the bartender --
DANNY Where's this coming from?
BARTENDER
No idea...
(checks bar laptop)) Someone's hacked into our system.
ON WALL PLASMAS (MACHINIMA): The TAYLOR AVATAR appears inside the CORRIDOR OF KILLS. Speaks with an ND MALE VOICE:
TAYLOR AVATAR Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Detective Taylor, with the New York Crime Lab....
RESUME SCENE
DANNY
What the --
DET. FLACK She knows we're here.
Danny's eyes search the crowd. Faces blur.
DANNY Anyone holding a mobile device could be her.
(CONTINUED)
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He pushes his way through the club, searching, finally spotting the wall-mounted surveillance cams which tells him Suspect X isn't in the house. She's elsewhere. INTERCUT:
ON WALL PLASMAS (MACHINIMA): The TAYLOR AVATAR continues:
TAYLOR AVATAR ... The NYPD needs your help tonight to bring to justice a fugitive --
Before he can finish -- the TAYLOR AVATAR is shot from behind. A neat exit wound appears in the center of his forehead and leaks blood. The Taylor Avatar collapses, revealing SUSPECT X. She steps forward, over the body, stopping in a M-SHOT. Looks down -- right at Mac and Flack.
SUSPECT X AVATAR Detectives, the hunt for me is futile. Tell your boss I will continue to evolve, while he and his cop friends chase their tails and mop up the blood.
As she says this, she changes her appearance, from blonde beauty to various avatars, male, female, furry (ALL NEW CHARACTERS), finally settling on a hideous demon.
SUSPECT X/DEMON AVATAR We now return you to your regularly scheduled party.
Screen BLINKS and she's gone. The Second Life party resumes. Club music RETURNS. RESUME SCENE. HOLD ON DANNY, flanked by Det. Flack, both rattled by what just happened.
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INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - NIGHT
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Stella and Dr. Hawkes. Walk and talk.
DR. HAWKES -- The call Suspect X made to Crime Catchers originated from a throw away cell phone. No other calls were made and it's been turned off. STELLA What about pulling up some of the background noise on the 911 tape? Might help determine where she placed the call from.
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(CONTINUED)
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DR. HAWKES Done. No acoustic anomalies to work with.
Dead end. That's when Lindsay joins them from a cross- corridor --
LINDSAY Anyone for good news?
STELLA
Please.
LINDSAY -- The custom made bone screws Sid removed from the victim's skull were made by a company called Unlimited Titanium. They were special order. Coated with titanium. A Park Avenue plastic surgeon named Joseph Kirkbaum placed the order two years ago. DR. HAWKES Suspect X kidnapped Kelly Mann to alter her face. What would make a high end cutter like Kirkbaum complicit in something like that? LINDSAY His license was revoked a year ago for malpractice. Got into the undertaking business. And get this, a woman named Lori Hess, the person responsible for Kirkbaum having his license pulled by the state, was found shot to death in her Florida condo a few months back. One round to the back of the head.
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STELLA Kirkbaum had to have been a
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suspect.
LINDSAY He had an air-tight alibi. He was in New York the day she was ventilated. But that doesn't mean he wasn't involved. The Hess murder had all the earmarks of a contract killing. (MORE)
(CONTINUED)
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LINDSAY (CONT'D) The slug the Miami Crime Lab recovered from the scene bore striation marks consistent with the use of a silencer. STELLA So, Kirkbaum hires Suspect X to pull the trigger and he repays the favor by performing plastic surgery on Kelly
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Mann...?
LINDSAY Only one way to find out.
Off this --
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EXT. KIRKBAUM MANOR - SIDE ENTRANCE - NIGHT
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Det. Flack and Det. Angell stand by an open trunk, slipping on well-worn TAC vests. She catches him staring --
DET. ANGELL
What -- ?
DET. FLACK You make that look good.
A CSI:NY AVALANCHE roars up. Danny and Dr. Hawkes emerge wearing TAC vests. They approach Det. Flack and Det. Angell.
DANNY What's it look like?
DET. FLACK Kirkbaum's car is parked out front. DET. ANGELL Snooped around upstairs. Nobody home. But the basement door is unlocked.
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DET. FLACK You bring anything else?
Danny smiles as he holds up a copy of a search warrant.
DANNY All access pass.
DET. ANGELL
Nice.
They unholster their duty weapons. Move through the door.
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INT. KIRKBAUM MANOR - NIGHT
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TRACK THEM covertly down the stairs. They reach a door at the bottom. It's ajar. Danny nods to Flack. He pushes it open. A cat scampers out and up the stairs.
DET. ANGELL So much for sterile conditions.
DET. FLACK Joseph Kirkbaum! NYPD!
*
No response. They enter into a large CONCRETE ROOM. It's dark and dank. Stained WASH HOSES hang from the ceiling. Danny's RLS follows BLOOD STAINS on the floor to a large drain in the middle of the room. There are several STEEL GURNEYS near the door. Two of them side by side, each containing a CADAVER covered by a SHEET. Danny and Dr. Hawkes move to the right. Det. Flack and Det. Angell go left. Danny locates a door along the wall. Opens it. They enter. REVEAL an OPERATING TABLE with WRIST and ANKLE RESTRAINTS at both ends.
DANNY This is where Kirkbaum held Kelly Mann.
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INT. KIRKBAUM MANOR - BASEMENT - NIGHT (VERSION)
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Kelly Mann shackled to the operating table. Drugged, motionless. A roller coaster of intravenous tubes coming from her body.
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BACK TO SCENE
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Their lights find a wall littered with photographs of Suspect X from every angle. Profiles, close ups, facial x- rays of skull and bone structure. Dr. Hawkes' light moves to a tray littered with surgical instruments. He picks up a TITANIUM SCREW identical to the screws found at autopsy.
DR. HAWKES And where he surgically altered her appearance to make her look identical to Suspect X.
Danny sees something in the corner of the room. Raises his gun. Dr. Hawkes moves around the table. His RLS reveals DR. JOSEPH KIRKBAUM propped up in a chair, head resting against the wall. Eyes drooping but half open. One of them oddly damaged. Dr. Hawkes stops. Gun trained on Kirkbaum, checks his carotid artery for a pulse. There is none.
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DR. HAWKES He's dead. TOD can't be more than eight hours ago.
(CONTINUED)
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DANNY What's that in his eye?
He shines his light into Kirkbaum's right eye. Dr. Hawkes
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leans in to inspect.
PUSH ZOOM TO: A black circular object
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embedded in the cornea of Kirkbaum's right eye.
REVERSE TO LIPSTICK CAMERA POV of Dr. Hawkes staring into the lens.
DR. HAWKES It's some type of a camera.
Danny joins Dr. Hawkes. Gloves up. Reaches toward the lens. Right at the camera into a FISH EYE ANGLE. RESUME DANNY as he carefully removes the iSight camera from the bloody eye socket. It's connected to a wire coming from inside the victim's head. Danny pulls the vic's head forward. ANGLE ON: a wire coming from a through-and-through hole in the back of Kirkbaum's head. Dr. Hawkes follows the wire down to a laptop on the floor beneath the chair.
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DR. HAWKES We're being watched.
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INT. SUSPECT X'S LAIR - SAME TIME
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Suspect X at the VisionStation. ON SCREEN we see the live feed from the Kirkbaum crime scene.
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DANNY (V.O.)
Not anymore.
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INT. KIRKBAUM MANOR - BASEMENT - NIGHT
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On the cut, Danny RIPS the lens from the wire.
FADE OUT.
END OF ACT TWO
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ACT THREE
FADE IN:
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INT. KIRKBAUM MANOR - BASEMENT - NIGHT
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Dr. Hawkes uses a SAMPLER GUN to process the bed where Kelly Mann was held. He swabs and collects BLOOD SAMPLES. Across the room, Det. Angell confers with Danny, data combing the
*
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laptop connected to the LIPSTICK CAMERA.
DANNY -- I got nothing. Hard drive's been wiped clean again. DET. ANGELL She's good at covering her tracks. DANNY But is Kirkbaum? Let's subpoena his e-mail accounts, phone records and get our hands on any computers he had access to over the last six months. If Kirkbaum hired Suspect X, there's a good chance he left behind an electronic footprint.
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DET. ANGELL
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I'm on it.
She heads off, past Dr. Hawkes who has just discovered a pair of BLOOD STAINED COVERALLS from beneath the bed.
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DR. HAWKES
Danny...
Danny joins Dr. Hawkes as he lays the clothing on a small table. Waves an ALS. PUSH ZOOM TO: High velocity blood spatter. PUSH OUT TO: Dr. Hawkes snaps a photo.
DR. HAWKES High velocity blood spatter.
DANNY Kirkbaum had a close contact wound to the head. Suspect X must've been wearing these when she executed him.
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WHITE FLASH TO:
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INT. KIRKBAUM MANOR - BASEMENT - NIGHT (VERSION)
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Suspect X shoots Kirkbaum in the head. PFFT!
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Tiny particles of blood fly through the air and land on the front of the coveralls. As Suspect X lowers the gun, smoke curling out from the silencer.
WHITE FLASH TO:
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BACK TO SCENE
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Danny notices a bulge in one of the pockets. He reaches in with his gloved hand. Finds an ALLEN WRENCH and a small BOTTLE of UNKNOWN LIQUID. He shakes the bottle. Holds it up to eye level, trying to determine what it is.
DR. HAWKES Strange consistency.
DANNY Whatever it is, it might just help us find out where Suspect X was coming from.
As Danny says this, he hands the bottle to Dr. Hawkes --
MATCH CUT TO:
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INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - TRACE LAB - NIGHT
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-- Who extracts a sample, places it in a petri dish and slides it under the stereo microscope with a live feed to a nearby PLASMA MONITOR. SEE METALLIC PARTICLES. Dr. Hawkes then grabs a HAND HELD XRF and analyzes the sample. The display reads: Fe (IRON). Beat. Dr. Hawkes cell phone RINGS. He's just about to turn it off, when he makes a surprising discovery -- The liquid on the slide dances to the music of the ring tone, rising and falling like peaks on a graph. Off this --
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INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - NIGHT
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Mac and Lindsay. Walk and talk. She holds a PC Tablet.
LINDSAY ... the bullet recovered from Kirkbaum's skull was a match to the
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.45 Suspect X left at the warehouse.
MAC Once she knew we were onto her, she killed Kirkbaum to tie up any loose
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ends.
(CONTINUED)
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