Millennium (1996) s01e02 Episode Script
Gehenna
Yes! Tickets to the horror show.
Fetch the paper, Eedo.
- Hey, man.
Run.
- What? Hey! Hi, there, Frank! Saw you working up there.
Putting in a security light, huh? The days are gonna start getting shorter.
Be nice for Catherine when she comes home from work late.
Oh, your wife got the job.
- Yeah.
- Ha! Terrific.
Yeah, what is the name of what she does, again? - She's a clinical social worker.
- Right.
- So you got all the tools you need there, Frank? - Yeah.
- I think I'm all squared away, Jack.
- Frank.
- Yeah.
- Got a phone call.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Come, Benny! Let's go outside! Come on, Benny! Come on, Benny! - Hello? - Hello, Frank.
It's Peter Watts.
- Yes, Peter.
- Frank, I'm down in San Francisco.
I got what could be a multiple homicide here.
Possibly something a little more involved.
- Do you want to send me the details? - I could do that, Frank but the lack of detail has created a high level of concern.
I really think we could use you here.
Right.
I'll make the arrangements.
Was that someone from the Group? They've got something for me to look at down in San Francisco.
- Soon? - Right after I finish wiring up that light.
- Well, we're set then.
- Peter.
- Frank.
How was the trip? - Good.
What do you got? Members of the gardening club noticed that ashes were being deposited in the park rose beds over the past few weeks.
One of them notified the detectives this morning when she found this.
It appears to be adult.
A good portion of the interior helix is still intact.
I think we can get a nice impression of the remaining auricle.
There's a lot of ashes that have been dumped around here, Frank.
The local P.
D.
thought it might be a case of illegal crematory dumping.
- No, he- - He's what, Frank? Killer knows the victim.
He wants to watch him suffer.
I think there are multiple bodies here, multiple victims.
What's he using? A crematory oven? I think it's important to him that he burns them alive.
Why? I don't know.
Okay.
What's going on in here? Benny's giving me kisses.
Well, there's way too much fun going on in here.
Okay.
Ben, bedtime.
Downstairs.
Bedtime.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And you- Mommy, when is Daddy coming home? I don't know, honey.
I'm sure he'll be home soon.
Maybe tomorrow.
- Is he working? - Yes.
Catching a bad man? If there's a bad man, I'm sure Daddy's going to catch him.
Now, I want you to close those eyes and count as high as you can, okay? - Okay.
- Okay.
One, two, three, four five, six, seven, eight nine, 10, 11, 12 - Hello? - Hi, it's me.
What? What's wrong? Nothing.
I, um- I just got a little spooked by the new security light.
- What happened? Are you all right? - I'm fine.
It just went on.
I'm sure it was just a cat or something.
I - I'm sure it's nothing, honey.
Just an adjustment.
You guys all locked up up there? We're fine, Frank, really.
It's a perfectly safe neighborhood.
Frank.
I gotta go.
You want me to call you back? No.
Did you catch the bad man, Frank? No.
But we will.
I know.
Love you.
Frank, this is Jim Penseyres.
He worked at VICAPjust after you left.
- I don't know if you ever met.
- No.
Hi.
What'd you find? Excavation of the site is incomplete pending a problem with the parks department.
But I think we were able to separate out most of what there was there in the plant beds.
Thirty-nine pounds of carbonized human remains.
Roughly the equivalent of seven adults.
Dating is difficult, but there appeared to be a defined stratum which would indicate more than one deposit.
- What else? - The remains are clean.
By that, I mean uniform.
No large fragments apart from the partial ear, which would indicate extreme heat.
- What kind of heat? - Bone carbonizes at 1,400 degrees but I'd put this at 2,100, 2,200.
- What about the ear? - It shouldn't have survived.
I don't know how it did, but we pulled a mold, and - something else.
Something just as lucky.
The tissue contained traces of lysergic acid - L.
S.
D.
Also phosgene, a relatively uncommon gas best known as a by-product found at accident sites- - most commonly chemical plants using carbon tetrachloride.
- Dry-cleaning fluid.
Yep.
There was an accident at a big dry-cleaning facility here seven years ago.
They've got a block of abandoned buildings down near Pier 23.
Not much left of anything.
No.
Do we know who owns these buildings? The city.
They've been for sale for years.
No buyers.
I don't know, Frank.
what do you think they'd be doing in here? Maybe this is where the victims were subdued.
Peter- On the number 16 molar, there's a crown that's been done more recently than the other work.
Any indication how it was removed? From the scoring on the enamel, it looks like some kind of crude metal tool.
There's a cuspid filling here that's pretty much state-of-the-art.
These other fillings are substandard compound amalgam which indicates something important.
- They were done somewhere else.
- There are two root canals here which were done with a process known as N2.
They look different in the X-rays.
You'll find this kind of work coming out of Eastern European countries, out of Russia.
I think the poor general condition of the teeth would suggest the latter.
Who's running this through Records? Penseyres is working with the P.
D.
on it.
Got a surprise for you guys.
Well, look who came down from the mountain.
What are you doing here, Mike? Caught the same fish three days in a row.
Big brown.
Five, five and a half pounds if he's an ounce.
Figured the fish and I both needed a day off.
- Hey, Mike.
- Frank.
Thanks for coming on such short notice.
- Some case.
- Yeah.
- We just need a break on these dental records.
- You have a second, Frank? I never told anyone about these, as you asked.
But I want you to know I was very upset when I opened the package and saw them.
- I can only imagine how you must have felt.
- Right.
I appreciate you confiding in me.
You're the reason I was even able to come back to work, Mike, that I'm a member of the Group.
Does Catherine have any idea yet that these new photos were taken? I never like to keep anything from her, but we've barely settled in.
- I think you're right not to.
- Is that your threat assessment? I think there's a low-risk potential in the photographer escalating from the stalking phase.
It's been three years since his first mailing, and he's still keeping safe distance.
He doesn't want to be discovered.
Even though he has followed us to Seattle? I would be more concerned if I thought this was really about Catherine and your daughter.
- What do you mean? - He sends the photos to you, Frank.
The envelope has your name on it.
What's the object of terrorism? - Terror.
- That's all he wants at this point.
Then he's a success.
You got anything else, Mike? Film was purchased in the state of Washington.
Beyond that, he's taken care not to contaminate the film or the package with anything I could pull.
You come all the way out here just to allay my fears, Mike? It would be the easiest thing in the world to go home, be with your family, Frank.
But we need you here on this one.
We need your abilities.
I have a bad feeling about this case.
I think it is not like any other case I've ever seen before.
That would be my threat assessment.
Hi.
My name's Bob Smith and I hope you have a moment, because I have a one-time offer on a new hair care product I think you won't want to pass up.
Would you like to try our product absolutely free? Well, terrific.
I just need your name and address.
Uh, and a credit card number for future purchases.
- No orders written? - Not yet.
Hello? Is anybody there? Hi, my name is Bob Smith.
I hope you have a moment.
The dental records matched a missing persons report from six months ago filed by the kid's parents.
The mother and father were naturalized citizens.
Immigrated from Chechnya in Kid had a nice rap sheet - B and E, minor assault, possession.
Parents' address is - Mr.
Bolow? - Yes? I'm Frank Black.
This is Peter Watts.
We're very sorry about your son.
We're trying to find out how this might have happened to him.
Six months you couldn't find Eedo and now you want me to help you? We're not from the police department, Mr.
Bolow.
We believe your son might be one of several victims.
He wouldn't listen to us.
Eedo had his own ideas put in his head by these friends of his.
- What friends, Mr.
Bolow? - Driving those German cars.
All he could talk about.
Then one day, Eedo comes home driving one too.
Selling products nobody wants over the phone.
- Do you know where he worked? - No.
He said he couldn't tell us.
He said he was going to be rich.
Had you heard from him recently? Yeah.
Six months ago he sent us a letter.
A terrible letter.
That's when we called the police.
My wife was so ashamed she wanted to burn it.
It's in Russian.
If you want me to translate- We wouldn't want to put you or your wife through that right now.
Thank you for letting us read it.
Mr.
Bolow, it would be a big help if we could have a look at the envelope too.
Thank you.
The salutation is to his mother.
He's disowning her.
'I am cutting the ties that prevent my ascendence `tto a higher stage.
`MMy birthrights and all my former worldly possessions `hhave been burned `iin a sacrificial fire of my new faith.
" - Cult indoctrination.
- There's reference to fidelity and duty and burning in the fires of Gehenna.
'If I should dishonor myself or my new brothers.
" `GGehenna" is Hebrew for ```hhell.
" `II have seen the all-powerful one in the pouring red rain `aand I fear nothing but his wrath and vengeance.
'The end is coming.
The numbers have been miscalculated.
`TTwenty-four times fifteen are 360.
- Adjustable by-" - 286.
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Some believe it sets the date of the Apocalypse in 1998.
Plan your investment strategy accordingly.
He says the weak and the indolent shall perish that he is with his new family now, and he must renounce his parents just as he renounces his belief in anything but the power of the enterprise.
And that the power of the enterprise resides in the hearts of the faithful.
And in the ashes of the dead.
Somebody really got into this kid's head.
I'm not sure he's writing out of faith.
I think he's writing out of fear.
Could've been forced to write it.
- Too many intransitive verbs.
- And the imagery- very powerful, very personal.
The use of the word `GGehenna" is strange.
Its usage is archaic and found only in certain Old Testament translations.
- Maybe he went to Hebrew School.
- Somebody powerful got a hold on this kid, that's for sure.
Or some thing.
Wake up, sweetie.
We're home.
You waiting for me? You want to go outside? Huh? Catherine? Catherine, it's-it's Bob Bletcher.
- Bob? - Yeah.
- Is everything okay? - Yeah.
Actually, you scared me half to death.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I was, uh- Frank had given me a call asking if I could stop by.
I think he was a little worried about you and jordan.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Thank you.
- Uh, we're fine.
Really.
- You're sure? Yeah.
I just wasn't expecting anyone.
Would you like to come in? No, no, that's okay.
I know you got your little girl to put to bed.
I'm going to put some coffee on, okay? So how much has he told you? About his breakdown? Only a little bit more than I'd already heard.
He told me about the Polaroids that someone took of you.
And that after he found them, he couldn't leave the house.
That he was afraid to leave you alone.
He was paralyzed, Bob.
Not by fear by something much deeper.
By understanding.
Yeah, he talked about that.
About being able to see into the darkness.
That he'd developed a kind of a facility to see what a killer sees.
As well as you know him as long as you two worked together I don't think anyone can appreciate exactly what that must be like.
No.
But I'm sure you know better than anyone.
I don't know how he was able to do it.
I don't know how he ever went back to work.
Well, he was approached by this Millennium Group.
Yes, but Frank went back to work because he had to.
It's who he is.
Sometimes I think of Frank as the `CCatcher in the Rye" standing at the edge of the cliff, trying to save the world.
But he can't change anything.
All he can do is catch these horrible men before they kill again.
And that's why I can never let him think that Jordan and I aren't perfectly safe in this perfect house and perfect world that he's tried to give us.
Because I know if he ever thought differently next time he'd never be able to leave.
It's all right.
I'm not gonna hurt you.
It's okay.
How long have you been in San Francisco? I don't know anything.
Come on.
what were you doing out there tonight? My name is Bob Smith.
- Anything? - Not yet.
He's only given his name as Bob Smith.
He's saying that they're talking to a dead man.
What were you doing out there, Frank? Going back to satisfy a curiosity about what happened out there that night.
And? I think I know what he's afraid of.
Then maybe you should talk to him.
You've seen it, haven't you? Seen the hideous face, just like Eedo did.
Seen the red rain falling and the face of the beast.
I've seen it too.
I know why you're afraid.
But you're safe from it now.
No one is safe from it.
You don't know what you're talking about.
How can it touch you here? What could it do to you here? You don't understand.
It knows.
It knows everything.
It knows the numbers.
- What numbers? - That's all there is.
Phone numbers, serial numbers card numbers.
You and everybody else.
The numbers are all we are.
It knows your numbers, and it knows you.
What does it want? Obedience.
Obedience and control.
In return for what? To share in the power when the end comes.
When the everlasting fires rage in the year of destiny.
when the weak and the indolent perish.
They told me we were gonna be rich! That we were the chosen ones.
That discipline was the way to our own salvation.
That prosperity was power.
And they said we could leave whenever we wanted.
It was a lie.
No one could leave.
And it made us turn on each other.
Did it kill Eedo Bolow? Yes.
Because he was weak.
Because he lost his discipline.
Just like the others did.
Just like I did.
Once you've lost your faith in discipline it will devour you.
Nothing can save you from it.
You can't save me from it.
Hey! Oh, God! Get a doctor.
Go home, Frank.
I think you should go home, see your family and get some rest.
That kid died of fright, Mike.
He was so full of L.
S.
D.
we'll never know what he died of.
He couldn't escape it, whatever it was.
What could be so powerful that you couldn't escape it? What you described in there last night - the face of the beast.
I saw it the day I arrived.
I've seen the face of evil, Frank.
I've looked into its eyes and seen it staring back at me.
But the face has always been a man's face, a human's face.
I've always believed that evil is born in a cold heart and a weak mind.
I have too.
Hi, there, Frank.
See you were gone for a few days, huh? - work? - Hi, Jack.
Yeah.
Working with that consultant group you mentioned.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Uh, consulting - that's one of those things you always wonder exactly what that means, you know? Well, basically, we're given a problem.
We try to solve it.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
So did you solve the problem you were working on? No.
No, I didn't.
Couldn't even make sense of it.
Did you want to say good night toJordan? Yeah.
I hear it's a real potboiler.
Full of treachery, death, violence.
- Yeah.
- Looking for moral guidance or just a little light bedtime reading? Just some answers, I guess.
Something happened down in San Francisco.
Anything you want to talk about? I'm just confused about something I thought I understood about evil.
- What it is, exactly.
- You mean, what causes it? It seems that the old biblical concept of the devil's influence has lost any currency.
I just think the language has changed.
I think science and psychology have given us a clearer idea of why people commit evil acts.
I see it every day.
Abused kids become abusive adults.
So the true source of evil is us? You mean, are we all capable of it? Or is there something out there, a force or a presence, waiting until it can create another murder another rape, another Holocaust.
I think it's something that everyone who looks deeply at life wonders.
What would you tell a child? What would I tellJordan? Maybe you should just tell her good night.
- Hello.
- Frank, it's Mike Atkins.
- Sorry for calling so late.
- I'm up working anyway.
- So am I.
- Where are you? I'm still in San Francisco.
We got our forensic data back on the dead boy earlier tonight.
- Found something we weren't expecting.
- What? Kid's clothing and tissues showed traces of an insecticide used in the making of something called sarin.
Sarin gas.
Which was used in the terrorist attack in the subway in Japan.
The leader of the cult believed to be responsible is on trial for that attack as well as several other murders.
Do you know how they say he disposed of his victims, Frank? An industrial-scale microwave.
He'd amassed over a billion dollars.
He'd been trying to buy weapons from the Russians.
They think he may have even been trying to get ahold of the Ebola virus.
He wanted to bring on Armageddon.
eould it happen here, Frank? Frank? Listen, Mike.
I found something.
A business listing for Gehenna International.
It looks like an offshore holding company.
- What does it hold? - Industrial products.
ehemicals.
They list one of their plants in San Francisco.
I'm on it.
- What? - I don't know.
I just have a very bad feeling about something.
Hey, hey, hey! Let me out! Hey! Hey! Hey! Turn it off.
Turn it off.
- Check his pulse! - Get an ambulance! Go, go, go! San Francisco law enforcement agencies worked in tense cooperation in the roundup and arrest of what is being referred to as a death cult whose aim is believed to be nothing less than mass destruction.
The suspected leader is a former chemical engineer named Ricardo Clement.
He is being held under the suspicion of murder of at least one cult member.
Authorities confiscated a large cache ofbiological and other weapons purchased on the global black market, funded by- How many boys died in there? How many kids did you send to their death? Ten? Twenty? What the hell are you? Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
- I think I know.
- What? Who he is.
I got to get out of here, Peter.
Frank, your wife's here.
- You didn't have to come.
- I wanted to be here.
I wanted to be here with you, Frank.
I know it's what you fear.
- What? - Losing control.
Having something like this happen to someone you care about.
He had serious internal cellular damage from the radiation.
But the doctors say he'll pull though.
I know.
And he will.
I know you know this.
How many other lives you may have saved.
How many people could've been hurt by those weapons.
- I know.
- You did what was important.
You did what you set out to do, Frank.
You caught the bad man.
I'm not so sure.
Not sure of what? Not sure- Not sure if the bad man can be caught.
I made this!
Fetch the paper, Eedo.
- Hey, man.
Run.
- What? Hey! Hi, there, Frank! Saw you working up there.
Putting in a security light, huh? The days are gonna start getting shorter.
Be nice for Catherine when she comes home from work late.
Oh, your wife got the job.
- Yeah.
- Ha! Terrific.
Yeah, what is the name of what she does, again? - She's a clinical social worker.
- Right.
- So you got all the tools you need there, Frank? - Yeah.
- I think I'm all squared away, Jack.
- Frank.
- Yeah.
- Got a phone call.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Come, Benny! Let's go outside! Come on, Benny! Come on, Benny! - Hello? - Hello, Frank.
It's Peter Watts.
- Yes, Peter.
- Frank, I'm down in San Francisco.
I got what could be a multiple homicide here.
Possibly something a little more involved.
- Do you want to send me the details? - I could do that, Frank but the lack of detail has created a high level of concern.
I really think we could use you here.
Right.
I'll make the arrangements.
Was that someone from the Group? They've got something for me to look at down in San Francisco.
- Soon? - Right after I finish wiring up that light.
- Well, we're set then.
- Peter.
- Frank.
How was the trip? - Good.
What do you got? Members of the gardening club noticed that ashes were being deposited in the park rose beds over the past few weeks.
One of them notified the detectives this morning when she found this.
It appears to be adult.
A good portion of the interior helix is still intact.
I think we can get a nice impression of the remaining auricle.
There's a lot of ashes that have been dumped around here, Frank.
The local P.
D.
thought it might be a case of illegal crematory dumping.
- No, he- - He's what, Frank? Killer knows the victim.
He wants to watch him suffer.
I think there are multiple bodies here, multiple victims.
What's he using? A crematory oven? I think it's important to him that he burns them alive.
Why? I don't know.
Okay.
What's going on in here? Benny's giving me kisses.
Well, there's way too much fun going on in here.
Okay.
Ben, bedtime.
Downstairs.
Bedtime.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And you- Mommy, when is Daddy coming home? I don't know, honey.
I'm sure he'll be home soon.
Maybe tomorrow.
- Is he working? - Yes.
Catching a bad man? If there's a bad man, I'm sure Daddy's going to catch him.
Now, I want you to close those eyes and count as high as you can, okay? - Okay.
- Okay.
One, two, three, four five, six, seven, eight nine, 10, 11, 12 - Hello? - Hi, it's me.
What? What's wrong? Nothing.
I, um- I just got a little spooked by the new security light.
- What happened? Are you all right? - I'm fine.
It just went on.
I'm sure it was just a cat or something.
I - I'm sure it's nothing, honey.
Just an adjustment.
You guys all locked up up there? We're fine, Frank, really.
It's a perfectly safe neighborhood.
Frank.
I gotta go.
You want me to call you back? No.
Did you catch the bad man, Frank? No.
But we will.
I know.
Love you.
Frank, this is Jim Penseyres.
He worked at VICAPjust after you left.
- I don't know if you ever met.
- No.
Hi.
What'd you find? Excavation of the site is incomplete pending a problem with the parks department.
But I think we were able to separate out most of what there was there in the plant beds.
Thirty-nine pounds of carbonized human remains.
Roughly the equivalent of seven adults.
Dating is difficult, but there appeared to be a defined stratum which would indicate more than one deposit.
- What else? - The remains are clean.
By that, I mean uniform.
No large fragments apart from the partial ear, which would indicate extreme heat.
- What kind of heat? - Bone carbonizes at 1,400 degrees but I'd put this at 2,100, 2,200.
- What about the ear? - It shouldn't have survived.
I don't know how it did, but we pulled a mold, and - something else.
Something just as lucky.
The tissue contained traces of lysergic acid - L.
S.
D.
Also phosgene, a relatively uncommon gas best known as a by-product found at accident sites- - most commonly chemical plants using carbon tetrachloride.
- Dry-cleaning fluid.
Yep.
There was an accident at a big dry-cleaning facility here seven years ago.
They've got a block of abandoned buildings down near Pier 23.
Not much left of anything.
No.
Do we know who owns these buildings? The city.
They've been for sale for years.
No buyers.
I don't know, Frank.
what do you think they'd be doing in here? Maybe this is where the victims were subdued.
Peter- On the number 16 molar, there's a crown that's been done more recently than the other work.
Any indication how it was removed? From the scoring on the enamel, it looks like some kind of crude metal tool.
There's a cuspid filling here that's pretty much state-of-the-art.
These other fillings are substandard compound amalgam which indicates something important.
- They were done somewhere else.
- There are two root canals here which were done with a process known as N2.
They look different in the X-rays.
You'll find this kind of work coming out of Eastern European countries, out of Russia.
I think the poor general condition of the teeth would suggest the latter.
Who's running this through Records? Penseyres is working with the P.
D.
on it.
Got a surprise for you guys.
Well, look who came down from the mountain.
What are you doing here, Mike? Caught the same fish three days in a row.
Big brown.
Five, five and a half pounds if he's an ounce.
Figured the fish and I both needed a day off.
- Hey, Mike.
- Frank.
Thanks for coming on such short notice.
- Some case.
- Yeah.
- We just need a break on these dental records.
- You have a second, Frank? I never told anyone about these, as you asked.
But I want you to know I was very upset when I opened the package and saw them.
- I can only imagine how you must have felt.
- Right.
I appreciate you confiding in me.
You're the reason I was even able to come back to work, Mike, that I'm a member of the Group.
Does Catherine have any idea yet that these new photos were taken? I never like to keep anything from her, but we've barely settled in.
- I think you're right not to.
- Is that your threat assessment? I think there's a low-risk potential in the photographer escalating from the stalking phase.
It's been three years since his first mailing, and he's still keeping safe distance.
He doesn't want to be discovered.
Even though he has followed us to Seattle? I would be more concerned if I thought this was really about Catherine and your daughter.
- What do you mean? - He sends the photos to you, Frank.
The envelope has your name on it.
What's the object of terrorism? - Terror.
- That's all he wants at this point.
Then he's a success.
You got anything else, Mike? Film was purchased in the state of Washington.
Beyond that, he's taken care not to contaminate the film or the package with anything I could pull.
You come all the way out here just to allay my fears, Mike? It would be the easiest thing in the world to go home, be with your family, Frank.
But we need you here on this one.
We need your abilities.
I have a bad feeling about this case.
I think it is not like any other case I've ever seen before.
That would be my threat assessment.
Hi.
My name's Bob Smith and I hope you have a moment, because I have a one-time offer on a new hair care product I think you won't want to pass up.
Would you like to try our product absolutely free? Well, terrific.
I just need your name and address.
Uh, and a credit card number for future purchases.
- No orders written? - Not yet.
Hello? Is anybody there? Hi, my name is Bob Smith.
I hope you have a moment.
The dental records matched a missing persons report from six months ago filed by the kid's parents.
The mother and father were naturalized citizens.
Immigrated from Chechnya in Kid had a nice rap sheet - B and E, minor assault, possession.
Parents' address is - Mr.
Bolow? - Yes? I'm Frank Black.
This is Peter Watts.
We're very sorry about your son.
We're trying to find out how this might have happened to him.
Six months you couldn't find Eedo and now you want me to help you? We're not from the police department, Mr.
Bolow.
We believe your son might be one of several victims.
He wouldn't listen to us.
Eedo had his own ideas put in his head by these friends of his.
- What friends, Mr.
Bolow? - Driving those German cars.
All he could talk about.
Then one day, Eedo comes home driving one too.
Selling products nobody wants over the phone.
- Do you know where he worked? - No.
He said he couldn't tell us.
He said he was going to be rich.
Had you heard from him recently? Yeah.
Six months ago he sent us a letter.
A terrible letter.
That's when we called the police.
My wife was so ashamed she wanted to burn it.
It's in Russian.
If you want me to translate- We wouldn't want to put you or your wife through that right now.
Thank you for letting us read it.
Mr.
Bolow, it would be a big help if we could have a look at the envelope too.
Thank you.
The salutation is to his mother.
He's disowning her.
'I am cutting the ties that prevent my ascendence `tto a higher stage.
`MMy birthrights and all my former worldly possessions `hhave been burned `iin a sacrificial fire of my new faith.
" - Cult indoctrination.
- There's reference to fidelity and duty and burning in the fires of Gehenna.
'If I should dishonor myself or my new brothers.
" `GGehenna" is Hebrew for ```hhell.
" `II have seen the all-powerful one in the pouring red rain `aand I fear nothing but his wrath and vengeance.
'The end is coming.
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He says the weak and the indolent shall perish that he is with his new family now, and he must renounce his parents just as he renounces his belief in anything but the power of the enterprise.
And that the power of the enterprise resides in the hearts of the faithful.
And in the ashes of the dead.
Somebody really got into this kid's head.
I'm not sure he's writing out of faith.
I think he's writing out of fear.
Could've been forced to write it.
- Too many intransitive verbs.
- And the imagery- very powerful, very personal.
The use of the word `GGehenna" is strange.
Its usage is archaic and found only in certain Old Testament translations.
- Maybe he went to Hebrew School.
- Somebody powerful got a hold on this kid, that's for sure.
Or some thing.
Wake up, sweetie.
We're home.
You waiting for me? You want to go outside? Huh? Catherine? Catherine, it's-it's Bob Bletcher.
- Bob? - Yeah.
- Is everything okay? - Yeah.
Actually, you scared me half to death.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I was, uh- Frank had given me a call asking if I could stop by.
I think he was a little worried about you and jordan.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Thank you.
- Uh, we're fine.
Really.
- You're sure? Yeah.
I just wasn't expecting anyone.
Would you like to come in? No, no, that's okay.
I know you got your little girl to put to bed.
I'm going to put some coffee on, okay? So how much has he told you? About his breakdown? Only a little bit more than I'd already heard.
He told me about the Polaroids that someone took of you.
And that after he found them, he couldn't leave the house.
That he was afraid to leave you alone.
He was paralyzed, Bob.
Not by fear by something much deeper.
By understanding.
Yeah, he talked about that.
About being able to see into the darkness.
That he'd developed a kind of a facility to see what a killer sees.
As well as you know him as long as you two worked together I don't think anyone can appreciate exactly what that must be like.
No.
But I'm sure you know better than anyone.
I don't know how he was able to do it.
I don't know how he ever went back to work.
Well, he was approached by this Millennium Group.
Yes, but Frank went back to work because he had to.
It's who he is.
Sometimes I think of Frank as the `CCatcher in the Rye" standing at the edge of the cliff, trying to save the world.
But he can't change anything.
All he can do is catch these horrible men before they kill again.
And that's why I can never let him think that Jordan and I aren't perfectly safe in this perfect house and perfect world that he's tried to give us.
Because I know if he ever thought differently next time he'd never be able to leave.
It's all right.
I'm not gonna hurt you.
It's okay.
How long have you been in San Francisco? I don't know anything.
Come on.
what were you doing out there tonight? My name is Bob Smith.
- Anything? - Not yet.
He's only given his name as Bob Smith.
He's saying that they're talking to a dead man.
What were you doing out there, Frank? Going back to satisfy a curiosity about what happened out there that night.
And? I think I know what he's afraid of.
Then maybe you should talk to him.
You've seen it, haven't you? Seen the hideous face, just like Eedo did.
Seen the red rain falling and the face of the beast.
I've seen it too.
I know why you're afraid.
But you're safe from it now.
No one is safe from it.
You don't know what you're talking about.
How can it touch you here? What could it do to you here? You don't understand.
It knows.
It knows everything.
It knows the numbers.
- What numbers? - That's all there is.
Phone numbers, serial numbers card numbers.
You and everybody else.
The numbers are all we are.
It knows your numbers, and it knows you.
What does it want? Obedience.
Obedience and control.
In return for what? To share in the power when the end comes.
When the everlasting fires rage in the year of destiny.
when the weak and the indolent perish.
They told me we were gonna be rich! That we were the chosen ones.
That discipline was the way to our own salvation.
That prosperity was power.
And they said we could leave whenever we wanted.
It was a lie.
No one could leave.
And it made us turn on each other.
Did it kill Eedo Bolow? Yes.
Because he was weak.
Because he lost his discipline.
Just like the others did.
Just like I did.
Once you've lost your faith in discipline it will devour you.
Nothing can save you from it.
You can't save me from it.
Hey! Oh, God! Get a doctor.
Go home, Frank.
I think you should go home, see your family and get some rest.
That kid died of fright, Mike.
He was so full of L.
S.
D.
we'll never know what he died of.
He couldn't escape it, whatever it was.
What could be so powerful that you couldn't escape it? What you described in there last night - the face of the beast.
I saw it the day I arrived.
I've seen the face of evil, Frank.
I've looked into its eyes and seen it staring back at me.
But the face has always been a man's face, a human's face.
I've always believed that evil is born in a cold heart and a weak mind.
I have too.
Hi, there, Frank.
See you were gone for a few days, huh? - work? - Hi, Jack.
Yeah.
Working with that consultant group you mentioned.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Uh, consulting - that's one of those things you always wonder exactly what that means, you know? Well, basically, we're given a problem.
We try to solve it.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
So did you solve the problem you were working on? No.
No, I didn't.
Couldn't even make sense of it.
Did you want to say good night toJordan? Yeah.
I hear it's a real potboiler.
Full of treachery, death, violence.
- Yeah.
- Looking for moral guidance or just a little light bedtime reading? Just some answers, I guess.
Something happened down in San Francisco.
Anything you want to talk about? I'm just confused about something I thought I understood about evil.
- What it is, exactly.
- You mean, what causes it? It seems that the old biblical concept of the devil's influence has lost any currency.
I just think the language has changed.
I think science and psychology have given us a clearer idea of why people commit evil acts.
I see it every day.
Abused kids become abusive adults.
So the true source of evil is us? You mean, are we all capable of it? Or is there something out there, a force or a presence, waiting until it can create another murder another rape, another Holocaust.
I think it's something that everyone who looks deeply at life wonders.
What would you tell a child? What would I tellJordan? Maybe you should just tell her good night.
- Hello.
- Frank, it's Mike Atkins.
- Sorry for calling so late.
- I'm up working anyway.
- So am I.
- Where are you? I'm still in San Francisco.
We got our forensic data back on the dead boy earlier tonight.
- Found something we weren't expecting.
- What? Kid's clothing and tissues showed traces of an insecticide used in the making of something called sarin.
Sarin gas.
Which was used in the terrorist attack in the subway in Japan.
The leader of the cult believed to be responsible is on trial for that attack as well as several other murders.
Do you know how they say he disposed of his victims, Frank? An industrial-scale microwave.
He'd amassed over a billion dollars.
He'd been trying to buy weapons from the Russians.
They think he may have even been trying to get ahold of the Ebola virus.
He wanted to bring on Armageddon.
eould it happen here, Frank? Frank? Listen, Mike.
I found something.
A business listing for Gehenna International.
It looks like an offshore holding company.
- What does it hold? - Industrial products.
ehemicals.
They list one of their plants in San Francisco.
I'm on it.
- What? - I don't know.
I just have a very bad feeling about something.
Hey, hey, hey! Let me out! Hey! Hey! Hey! Turn it off.
Turn it off.
- Check his pulse! - Get an ambulance! Go, go, go! San Francisco law enforcement agencies worked in tense cooperation in the roundup and arrest of what is being referred to as a death cult whose aim is believed to be nothing less than mass destruction.
The suspected leader is a former chemical engineer named Ricardo Clement.
He is being held under the suspicion of murder of at least one cult member.
Authorities confiscated a large cache ofbiological and other weapons purchased on the global black market, funded by- How many boys died in there? How many kids did you send to their death? Ten? Twenty? What the hell are you? Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
- I think I know.
- What? Who he is.
I got to get out of here, Peter.
Frank, your wife's here.
- You didn't have to come.
- I wanted to be here.
I wanted to be here with you, Frank.
I know it's what you fear.
- What? - Losing control.
Having something like this happen to someone you care about.
He had serious internal cellular damage from the radiation.
But the doctors say he'll pull though.
I know.
And he will.
I know you know this.
How many other lives you may have saved.
How many people could've been hurt by those weapons.
- I know.
- You did what was important.
You did what you set out to do, Frank.
You caught the bad man.
I'm not so sure.
Not sure of what? Not sure- Not sure if the bad man can be caught.
I made this!