Without a Trace s05e07 Episode Script

Oh, please stop! It hurts! Don't! Somebody help me, please! Get away! You're hurting me.
Please stop.
Begone.
- Stay far from this creature of God.
- Stop it! Don't! - For it is he who commands you.
- It hurts! The majestic Christ, who commands you.
- The cross commands you.
- Please stop! It hurts! The blood of the martyrs commands you.
Give place to the Holy Spirit in the name of Lord Jesus Christ.
Oh, God, please! Get away from me! Sleep now.
Exorcism? As in spinning heads and pea soup? The last time the girl's family saw her, she was strapped down for the ritual.
"The ritual.
" Come on.
What's the profile on the possessed girl? - Well, apparently you know her.
- I do? Recognize her? No, but I recognize that dork, heh, heh.
Yeah, this was my last day of white collar before I came over to Missing Persons.
- Mm.
- So what's her name? - Katie Duncan.
She did a summer internship there in '02.
Man, I do not remember her.
Well, her brother asked for you by name.
- Said that she'd mentioned you.
- Hmm.
- Who was the last person to see her? - The priest.
Police responded to screams.
By the time they got there, he'd long gone.
Probably wanted to avoid them after his last run-in with them.
- What kind of run-in? - The suspicion-of-murder kind.
A Brooklyn man died last year while undergoing an exorcism performed by the same priest.
- And where is he now? - Nobody's seen or heard from him.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Here's Millie from payroll.
Dave from security.
I remember most of these people.
I just have no idea who she is.
And when was the last time you actually saw Father McGinnis? Uh, we must have fallen asleep around 4.
He left without waking us.
You think he did something to her.
We're looking into it.
Now, um, has Katie ever just up and left home before? Eh Katie's mentally ill.
She lives on a very regimented schedule.
We have to know where she is all the time.
Right.
Was she seeing a psychiatrist? Dr.
Feller.
She takes the train into the city twice a week to see her.
But she's been in all kinds of therapy since she was a kid.
And what did her doctor think the diagnosis was? Which one? We've been seeing six different doctors.
They all have different opinions.
Which we've been told is actually pretty common.
Look, forgive my bluntness, but given her condition why did you let her have an exorcism in the first place? The exorcism was Katie's idea.
She asked to see a priest, so of course I said yes.
But what led you to believe that she was possessed? Katie felt like there was something dark inside her.
Something only God could take away.
The last few days, she's been even more scared crying all the time.
She just wanted somebody to help her.
I just think we should hear what Father McGinnis has to say.
This is beyond everything, Katie.
- This is not a solution.
But how do you know? You don't know what it's like in here.
Going to sleep every night hoping that I'll wake up better, and I don't.
I wake up and everything's the same.
I want it to stop.
And nobody's doing anything.
- Nobody's doing anything? - Hey.
Mr.
Duncan, understand that Katie's problems are not mental, they are spiritual.
Only God can cast that evil out.
No offense, Father, but there are people with medical degrees who are a little more qualified to say what's wrong with my sister.
No offense, but none of those medical degrees is doing your sister any good.
Well, we just We just need to keep trying.
I don't wanna keep trying.
Please, I wanna do this.
Please, Mom.
- I just I want it to stop.
- Okay.
What harm can it do? I shouldn't have gone along with it.
Now, was there anyone that Katie may have run off to? Friends, extended family? No.
My husband died in '93 and we really don't have any other family around here.
She doesn't have any friends.
Just us.
I'm gonna need the phone number for the parish priest as well as, uh, Dr.
Feller.
Of course.
Excuse me.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
- Thanks for coming by so fast.
- Oh, no problem.
Katie said you were always really nice to her.
Well, uh, she was always easy to be nice to.
What do you think? What do you think? Well, it's big.
And it's, uh You know, it's 10 minutes from work You hate it.
It's, um It's old.
- Honey, we can't afford new.
- Look at this rug, Jack.
There's generations of germs in this thing.
- You can't put a baby down on it.
- Pull it up, there's hardwood underneath.
- Holes in the walls.
- Spackle.
The linoleum in that bathroom? That is disgusting.
- I mean, they should be ashamed.
- You know what? Let's just go.
Wait Do you like it? We're not gonna buy a place you don't like.
- I didn't say I don't like it.
- I asked if you hate it, you didn't say no.
I just think we should maybe wait and find some place with less history.
Okay.
- Let's go.
- Let's go.
I know that Katie was frustrated with her treatment.
But an exorcism? Why frustrated? Katie had a lot of different symptoms: Depression, mania, even occasional glimpses of psychosis.
Would she hurt herself? No, I doubt it.
Katie wanted the husband, the kid, the white picket fence.
She lived for the future.
I don't think she'd give that up.
And how long have you been seeing her? I treated her for about a year.
Treated? Wait, past tense? She stopped coming to her appointments about two months ago.
Did you call the family, tell them that she was missing sessions? She's an adult.
I can't call her family just because she won't obey my wishes.
Right.
And have you seen her since? Heard from her last week.
She sounded unwell.
So I stopped by her house to see her.
Is he gone? - Is who gone? - The man.
The man that was there.
Is he gone? There's nobody out there, Katie.
Let's talk about your meds.
Why? They don't work.
They don't do anything.
I'm tired and I'm nauseous and the voices are still there.
Then we'll up your dosage.
Or we'll change your cocktail.
- I'm gonna write a new prescription.
- Yeah, but none of them work.
They just They sit there like little rocks and you can skip them You can skip them all day.
You can skip them on the surface of the water.
What's going on with you, Katie? I'm just afraid.
If I have kids they're gonna be like me.
There's a chance that your kids could inherit some of your mood problems.
But it's treatable, just like yours, with the right medication.
So say I take your pills.
Say I do everything that you tell me to do.
Am I gonna be normal? You're going to be better.
We made an appointment after that, but she never kept it.
She said that there was a man standing outside her house.
- Did you see him? - Katie had paranoid tendencies.
It wasn't unusual for her to have persecution fantasies.
Are you absolutely positive nobody was outside her house? Well, I didn't see anyone.
But I can't say that I'm absolutely positive.
Martin.
We just finished the canvas of Katie's neighborhood.
We found a lady who saw a man parked outside of Katie's house for a couple days last week, including the day Feller was there.
- She get a look? - She's gonna talk to the sketch artist.
- You talk to the family? - Yeah, yeah.
They have no idea what she was doing on the days of her appointments.
Maybe she was checking out a voodoo doctor.
Sounds like someone thinks exorcism is a load of crap.
Pretty much, yeah.
- Wait, you were raised Catholic.
- I was.
I'm for surrendering to a higher power.
I don't believe in hocus-pocus.
I've seen this hocus-pocus stuff work.
Back home, there's this lady, Matilde la Loca.
She's crazy, man.
Speaks in tongues, her eyes roll back.
One day she's like, "You're going to die.
" She scared the hell out of me.
Then she spent two days with Padre Pio, she came back brand new.
The power of suggestion.
Did the power of suggestion make her hair turn white? Maybe it was an evil spirit.
I'm saying, we don't know everything about everything.
Once in a while, you have to take a leap and believe.
Well, I believe you don't know everything.
Yeah, that's what you're choosing to believe.
Taylor.
All right.
Thanks.
We just caught our exorcist trying to hop a flight to Mexico.
We're bringing him in.
Bad news is, we're bringing him in with a lawyer from the archdiocese.
The church in no way supports Father McGinnis's actions or his methods.
This is an independent and unsanctioned member of the clergy.
If I was taking notes, I'd write that down.
Other than soft extradition laws, Father what's in Mexico? A conference.
Which I've been scheduled to speak at for over a month.
Was that before of after you decided to kill Katie Duncan? I didn't harm Katie.
The last time I saw her, she was asleep in her bed.
The demon had been cast out of her.
Hmm.
So the exorcism worked? I believe so.
Like the one in Brooklyn? Is that what happened? Another dead body, you had to cover your ass? Father McGinnis was cleared of any wrongdoing in that case.
You could show me those videotapes of Katie's exorcism.
- You made tapes? - Those tapes are protected by clergy privilege.
They are private.
- I'll make that determination.
You'll get the tapes after we review them.
Review or alter? You'll hear from us in a few hours.
I can't wait.
Father McGinnis.
I wouldn't make any plans to go to Cancun if I were you.
Gonna need to talk to you soon.
We can't wait for the tapes.
They could be destroying evidence.
I can subpoena the tapes.
The church can argue that the tapes are protected by clergy privilege.
We'd be out of luck.
It was an exorcism.
There was no confessional seal to be broken.
Yeah, I agree.
But the judge could also argue that it's privileged communication.
Which we could appeal, but that would take weeks.
We don't have weeks.
Every time you deal with the church doesn't mean a conspiracy.
Look, I think I know these people better than you.
But I don't have a chip on my shoulder.
Look, just subpoena the tapes, okay? As soon as humanly possible.
I contacted the realtor.
She's sending over some new listings.
Everybody in New York wants a new apartment.
I believe in the apartment-as-metaphor- for-relationship thing.
As long as you're happy.
Scares me when you're reasonable.
- I'll call you when I get any information.
- Thank you.
I'm sorry to bother you.
No, no.
No problem.
What can I do for you? Anything on Father McGinnis? Well, we talked to him and we're checking into his story.
But, uh, we're also checking into a man who was seen outside your house last week.
Did Katie happen to mention anyone following her? No.
But it's not like she hasn't before.
They're never real.
Um, we also found a bank account in Katie's name here in the city.
She's been depositing about a hundred dollars a week for the past eight weeks.
Katie did not have a job, is that correct? She hasn't been able to work in over four years.
But I had a feeling she might've been getting money from somewhere.
Knock, knock.
Who's there? Sorry.
Hey, it's 4 a.
m.
- I'm not tired.
- You haven't slept in three days.
That's because I feel too good to sleep.
How do I look? - You look great.
- You know, I have to agree.
Heh.
How'd you pay for the dress? I just sold some things, okay? Okay.
What things? What is your problem? I don't believe you, is my problem.
Did you get a job? No.
Katie, you know Mom and I don't think you're ready to go back to work.
Yeah, I know what you think.
But I'm a grown woman.
I'm not a child anymore.
I know.
But you can't do everything you want.
I mean, you can't just get dressed up and go to clubs to meet guys.
You know what? Maybe I will go out and I'll meet somebody and we'll get married and we'll move really far away from here.
And then people here will stop looking at me and thinking I'm a freak.
Nobody thinks you're a freak.
Now I don't believe you.
I should've just let her have her moment.
She was happy for once.
A couple days later she did a complete 180.
Um, do you have any idea who she might've been dressing up for? - No.
She hadn't gone on a date since college.
That's a long time.
She'd She'd like to.
But she knows it's gonna take someone pretty special to be able to deal with her issues.
Right.
I guess she's just waiting for Mr.
Right.
Aren't we all.
Fine, all right, you're a genius.
Okay? You happy? I said it.
Let me call you back.
Okay, great.
Who's the genius? Anne.
She lucked out.
The judge agreed to give us all of Katie's exorcism tapes.
Oh, good.
Well, we tracked her deposits to an ATM next to the PR firm where she worked four years ago.
For months, she's been delivering lunches there.
So she's tangled up in the dangerous world of food delivery? The dangerous world of something.
About a week ago, an exec by the name of Tracy Harrison had her head bashed in with a fire extinguisher in the office garage.
Nice.
I still can't believe what happened to Tracy.
She was here a week ago, and then just like that Did Tracy and Katie deal with the same people? Not really.
Katie's only here a couple hours a week.
She mostly just deals with me.
So you know about her condition? Yeah.
She confided in me back then that that's why she left.
Why did you rehire her? I mean, you knew she was unstable.
She wasn't really looking for a career, she just wanted to feel normal.
I have a niece who's bipolar, so I kind of know what it's like for Katie.
Um, I made up something I though she could handle.
Which was what, exactly? She brings in take-out twice a week.
Everybody throws in a couple of extra bucks.
It's a delivery charge.
Never seen anybody so grateful for such a trivial job.
When was the last time you saw her? She came to my office a couple of days before Tracy died.
Tell me what's going on.
I don't wanna get anybody in trouble.
Katie, come on, you gotta tell me.
Otherwise I'm just gonna have to fire everybody.
Just tell me what happened.
Uh, I was bringing lunch in today.
Something smells good.
Oh, it's, um, Thai food from Bangkok Grill.
No, no, it's not that.
It's you.
What is that perfume? Prell.
It's shampoo.
It's, um, green.
Uh Your cologne is very good.
It's called vodka gimlet.
- You ever been to Bistro on 5th? - Ah, no.
Oh, they make the best gimlets.
We should go sometime.
Yeah, you know, I don't really drink.
Oh, come on, everybody drinks sometimes.
- Stop.
- What the? Okay George.
Can I see you in my office? - Come on, Tracy, I Now, George.
Are you okay? Sorry.
- Look, I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
I'm I'm gonna try harder.
I'm never gonna be a problem again.
No, it's okay.
You didn't do anything wrong.
I'll take care of it.
Turns out I didn't need to take care of anything.
Tracy fired George right then and there.
And Katie came back to work? Even after the whole George thing? She was supposed to come back that Friday the day after Tracy died.
But she didn't.
I assumed it had something to do with that.
Did you tell the police about George? Yeah, the whole office did.
I mean, I heard they interviewed him, but they haven't arrested him yet.
George Lewis, two drunken disorderly two domestic violence, no convictions.
The police liked him for the Tracy Harrison murder but didn't have enough evidence.
That's a hell of a motive.
How hard did they look? No identifiable prints, no witness putting George at the scene.
If George killed Tracy for firing him, it's likely that he went looking for Katie.
Well, he did.
A neighbor ID'd him from his photos.
So she wasn't imagining a man outside her house.
- Do we know where he is? - We're looking.
Jack, I need you to listen to something.
Okay, thanks.
Stop! Get away from her! McGINNIS: For it is he who commands you.
- McGinnis ever get rough? - No, but listen to this.
Isolate Katie's voice and back it up.
I gotta filter out the lower frequencies.
Sorry.
You're killing her! Stop! Stop! - You're killing her! Now stop.
Doesn't that sound more like someone who's describing a murder? Where was she the night Tracy Harrison was killed? We're not sure, but she asked for the exorcism the day after the murder.
You know, her mother said that she kept having visions.
I don't think she was hallucinating.
I think that she may have witnessed Tracy Harrison's murder.
I've never seen him.
One of your neighbors said they saw him outside your house.
Katie never mentioned someone following her? No.
Did she ever say anything about witnessing a crime? Why? Well, a woman was killed at Katie's work.
She may have witnessed that happening which might have something to do with her seeking out the exorcism.
Uh If she saw something, she wouldn't have told me.
I would've just told her to go take her pills.
I don't know, maybe she did and I And I just wasn't paying attention.
Did she say anything at all to you that seemed unusual? You understand? It's all unusual.
You never know what's gonna come out of her mouth.
When she was little we used to talk about boys and school and who was mean and who was nice.
In the last few years, it's all about psychic mind control and pharmaceutical conspiracies.
It's exhausting.
I don't know how many times she's woken me up in the middle of the night.
And I wanna listen.
I wanna be a good mother.
But the stuff coming out of her mouth, it just doesn't make any sense.
And so I just tune her out.
She's just been sick for so long.
I'm just so tired.
Great, great, great.
All right, thank you.
Hey.
I was just coming to see you.
N.
Y.
P.
D.
Just arrested George Lewis coming out of a bar.
Oh.
If you're gonna ask me about those video tapes I don't think they're gonna help you.
At all.
But they constitute supporting evidence if we extract a confession from him.
That's a big if.
Without it, they won't hold up in court.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
- Did you say "extract a confession"? - No.
So I'II, uh, see you tonight? Okay.
Shall we meet at our place? Where do you mean "our place"? I called the realtor on the loft.
We are in escrow.
We are? On that dump? I took another look.
And there is nothing wrong that can't be fixed with a little bit of work.
Good? So I'll see you there? Sure.
I'll bring the spackle.
Why am I here? You nervous? Yes.
You're not nervous because of me, are you? I mean, guys like you push girls like me around, right? I told the cops, I didn't touch Tracy.
Well, you're not here because of Tracy.
You're here because of Katie Duncan.
The lunch girl from the office.
I barely know her.
Well, apparently that didn't stop you from trying to feel her up, did it? Where is she? I haven't seen her.
Not since that day at work.
You saw her two days after that day at work.
See, her neighbors ID'd you from your photo.
Lie to me again, George.
Come on.
I went to her house.
But I just went to talk.
Katie! You don't open this door, I'm gonna come back tomorrow and the day after, and the day after.
I have no job, remember? What? What do you want? I want you to tell Buchanan to give me my job back.
Look, just go away, okay? Please.
Not until you say you'll talk to him.
What am I supposed to say? Just tell him that it was blown out of proportion.
It was all a big misunderstanding.
Whatever.
Just tell him that we're cool now and he should give me my job back.
Yeah, I mean, I can't just tell Chris what to do.
Sure you can.
He'll listen to you.
No, I mean, I'm the lunch girl.
Come on, seriously? You haven't noticed? - Noticed what? - He's crazy about you.
He's the boss, he can't ask you out.
But everybody knows he wants to.
He respects your opinion.
He'll listen to you.
So be a good girl.
Please help me out.
I knew she had a thing for Buchanan.
I figured it was a good angle.
Did Buchanan really have a thing for her? I don't know.
But she was like a puppy.
He He could have done her any time he wanted.
You know what? That's a really interesting story.
Here's the thing: You had motive, you had opportunity.
Right now you're my best suspect.
What makes you think I would believe that you didn't hurt Katie? I needed her to go to Buchanan and get my job back.
If I hurt her, how is that gonna help me do that? Hmm? - Great, thanks.
- Hey.
Been looking for you.
George Lewis's alibi checks out.
He was on a flight from Chicago.
Well, I just looked into Buchanan's financials.
Last week he bought a $20,000 engagement ring.
Had it engraved, "For Tracy, with all my love.
" He was having a relationship with Tracy Harrison.
Keeping an office romance a secret? Imagine that.
Buchanan picked up the ring, but they never found it on her.
So maybe he hadn't proposed yet.
Maybe he did, she said no and he couldn't handle the rejection.
So he beats her to death? Seems a little extreme.
It could be what Katie saw.
It's worth checking into.
I'll catch up with you later.
Buchanan's not home.
Neighbors haven't seen him all day.
Isaiah here says he saw him about an hour ago.
Hold on.
Taylor.
Tell him what you told me.
He was with a girl.
I heard them screaming.
I went over to get a good look.
Let go of me.
- What did you see? - Don't touch me! - Katie, did you see who killed her? - What's going on? Hey! What's going on over here? Did you talk to him? No, he got into a car and booked it after her before I could get close.
All right.
Thank you.
That was Buchanan's office.
He got into a car wreck.
No sign of Katie.
Don't I get a phone call? - Why? You need a lawyer? - You tell me.
No, you tell us where Katie Duncan is, and then you can leave.
I told the other guy, I don't know where she is.
Then why were you chasing her? Did you go after her because she saw what you did to Tracy Harrison? I didn't do anything to Tracy.
No? Then where were you the night she was killed? I was at my place, waiting for her with an engagement ring and a bottle of champagne.
So then why did Katie come to see you tonight? I don't know.
She wasn't making a lot of sense.
Chris? Katie? What are you doing here? I, uh I just wanted to see you.
Have you been here all day? It's freezing.
I was just waiting for you to come home.
Your family's been looking everywhere for you.
They're really worried.
They're always worried.
But it's okay.
They don't have to worry about me anymore.
Come on, let me give you a ride, okay? No, I'm I'm exactly where I wanna be.
Look I'm gonna take you home.
Oh, my God, Katie.
Everything's gonna be all right.
Um, I'm gonna take you to the hospital.
- No! - You need help.
- No, I do not need help.
I'm fine.
- You are not fine.
Listen to me.
Did you know that the FBI is looking for you? - Why? - They think whoever attacked Tracy may have hurt you too.
What happened to Tracy? Someone assaulted her at work last week.
And she died.
You were there.
Katie, what are you talking about? I saw you.
You were kissing her.
You said something.
I couldn't hear you.
And then you left.
She thought that she was alone.
Wait, wait, how do you know that? Because she wasn't alone.
- I was there too.
- What did you see? I remember her face! Did you see who killed her? - Let go of me! - What did you see? - Did you see who killed her? - Let me go! Get off of me! Hey! What's going on over there? The vendor said that he saw you go after her.
I didn't know what to do, so I got in my car and I tried to find her.
I wasn't really looking where I was going.
So I plowed into a garbage truck.
Did you happen to see where she went? No.
What I'm saying is, he lied to the police and he's lying to us.
But why place himself at the crime scene if he's guilty? So he can blame it on a crazy girl who's conveniently missing.
Look, Katie told George Lewis that she would go see Buchanan.
She can place Buchanan and Tracy together at the parking garage.
If she thought she could have a life with this guy seeing him with another woman may have pushed her over the edge.
She snapped, grabbed the fire extinguisher, and killed Tracy.
And what, the devil makes her do it? You know, maybe she really believed that.
It's the only way she can make sense of what she did.
And she needed the exorcism to make it all go away.
Which works until Buchanan reminded her of the murder.
Right.
If exorcism was her last resort I don't wanna think about where she goes after that.
We got the police on an alert.
If they hear from her, they'll call us.
Agent Fitzgerald.
Agent Fitzgerald, it's Lara Duncan.
- Mrs.
Duncan, how can I help you? She's home.
Katie's home.
She just walked in the front door.
And she's fine.
Okay.
She's home.
We need P.
D.
Over there right away.
I need to know where Katie is right now.
- Is she with you? Yeah.
She's upstairs.
She said she was tired and wanted to go to sleep.
Listen to me.
I need you to go upstairs and stay with her.
Why? - What's wrong? - Keep an eye on her till we get there.
She's not in her room.
Katie? Come on.
Look, just find her, okay? Oh, I think she's taking a shower.
Katie? Mrs.
Duncan, talk to me.
Katie? Mrs.
Duncan, talk to me.
Katie, honey? Katie? Tough case.
It's closed.
How's Katie's family? You know, I never did remember her.
I mean, I tried, but But, you know.
I'll see you in the morning.
You take care.
All right.
- Good night.
- Good night.
Excuse me.
- Um, what's your name again? - Bonnie.
Bonnie.
Bonnie, that's right.
Um I'm Martin.
Yeah.
Well, um, you have a good night.
- Good night.
- Bye.
Hello.
Hey.
What are you doing? Enjoying the view.
Wondering what would happen if I dropped a penny.
Why is it so dark in here? I don't think light bulbs were included in the price.
Well, I'm not surprised.
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