Crossing Jordan s06e07 Episode Script
Hubris
Previously on Crossing Jordan Niceness is overrated - Swaitzer? - Switzer.
Pushing is not here.
That's option here.
Why, because you've cornered the market? I'm William Ivers, Attorney General's office, assigned as special prosecutor that's me.
to investigate alleged improprieties in the Medical Examiner's office.
That's here.
I don't give a damn who hired you.
If you leak results one more time, I swear to God, your ass is gonna hit the pavement so hard, they're gonna hear it in Lowell.
Do you understand? Do you understand?! I just need to talk to you about Jordan Cavanaugh.
Can't you get rid of this guy ? He's driving everybody nuts.
Fire Bug, fire someone.
Give the Attorney General an out.
Let them say that they investigated, and there's been a change.
No.
Then the scapegoat is gonna be you.
I'm gonna go home, open a bottle of wine, have a two-hour hot bath with Ivers.
Oh I thought we got rid of him.
Not for long.
Quick, just keep walking.
One second.
- Ohso close.
- Inches.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Mr.
Ivers would like you to audit these case files.
Audit, as in Look for anomalies.
Inconsistencies.
You mean mistakes.
These cases are on evidentiary appeal.
Our findings are at issue in that many cases? You're not being attacked.
The Attorney General just doesn't want any surprises.
You know defense attorneys scrutinize everything.
Aren't you afraid we'll be a little bit biased reviewing our own results? All identifying data have been redacted.
If you recognize the cases anyway, I will expect you to be fair.
We like to look at things objectively around here.
Bottom line is people's guilt or innocence rests in these cases.
You have all day tomorrow.
Just get it done.
Do you have those results I asked you for? Any minute.
The D.
A.
's office thinks you're wrong about this case.
The man wasn't murdered.
He died of a heart attack.
Just get me those results as soon as you can.
"Greetings, bloggers.
"Nigel Townsend here.
"Once again, my crime-solving skills "saved the day when I came up with the brilliant idea to reconstruct bullet fragments.
" You have your own blog? I try to update it every day.
Details about my latest cases, books I'm reading, girls I'm dating.
Who's interested in that? My bloggers find me quite fascinating.
Oh, not him again.
I thought I got rid of this freak.
Oh, so it's freaks who find you fascinating.
This guy calls himself The Hangman.
He taunted me last year.
Said he dumped a body in Lincoln Park.
Freaks and murderers.
Not a murder, no.
Police did a five-day grid search.
No body was found.
Five days? So your self-promoting blather cost the city how many tax-payer dollars? Well, apparently this crackpot's not gonna give up.
He's probably just got a friend to pose for him.
Don't you think? Kate? I want a full perimeter search.
Check with park maintenance.
See if anyone saw anything.
Hey, this guy looks fresh.
The other two look like they've been dead for a while.
The killer must have held on to the bodies till he s ready to display them.
Oh, my God.
What? The Hangman.
Oh, do not start.
I wasted five days of my life searching this park for a body that was not there.
Well, there's one here now.
And these two.
He sent me video.
I saw this man being strangled.
Text message from The Hangman.
"Believe me now?" Crossing Jordan Season 6 Episode 07 - "Hubris" Stilly Unis searched the area.
Hangman is long gone.
Nigel.
I thought he was a fruitcake.
So did I.
I made jokes about him.
Hey, you've gotta snap out of it.
This is not your fault.
Look, I hate to break up your little pity party, but I could use some help over here.
What does it look like? Two ligature marks.
He was strangled, then hung.
A lot of trouble to go to.
That's 'cause he's a sick son of a bitch.
Yeah, we know that.
Do you? These three people are dead because of me.
Knife left in the chest.
Prints on the handle match the accused.
- DNA found on the victim - Let me guess the accused.
And he thinks he's got a case for appeal.
Okay Oh, gunshot wound to the chest.
Victim is some poor bastard in a convenience store.
Are you gonna read them all out loud? This is a waste of our time.
You're preaching to the choir.
What is Ivers' problem anyway? You know, first he goes after Garret, and then he tries to shove his cost-effective forensics crap down all our throats.
And now this.
We've all bent over backwards for this guy.
It's never enough.
Wow, how'd you get through all those so fast? Less talking.
You could have just told me to shut up.
I did.
"You call me a liar.
"I say you're a blowhard.
"The body is there.
If you and the cops can't find it, you're morons.
" He sent that two days after you finished your grid search.
He's messing with us, daring us to catch him.
Well, that's part of the fun for him.
Tormenting me.
Making me look like an idiot.
Lots of serial killers taunt.
Don't take it so personally.
It is personal.
He's killing these people to get my attention, to prove he's smarter than me.
It makes him feel powerful, superior.
Any luck tracking him? He uses an anonymizer.
The CGI proxy takes you to a URL, but not just any URL.
No, no, this one acts like a virtual subdirectory.
So that is a no? I'm just trying to back in through a subnet.
- Oh, bloody hell.
- What happened? It's not responding at all.
He's controlling your computer.
How does he do that? "Sick of dealing with the dead? "Save a couple of lives instead.
"Within the bodies you'll find the clues.
Two die tonight, no time to lose.
" "Bonus clue: Time of death 10:15 p.
m.
" Clues to his next victims? On these bodies? Yes, that's what he said.
The Hangman has two moreprojects lined up.
Now, we have a deadline of What kind of clues are we talking about? - No idea.
- We need to move as fast as we can.
No, we need to take our time, and make sure we don't miss anything.
You know, this is what you get for boasting about your crime-solving genius on the internet.
- Some psycho took it as a challenge.
- Okay, calm down.
Names and addresses of the victims.
I got 'em from RMV.
There's evidence that they were all held for some time before they were killed.
Held for how long? It's hard to say exactly.
- Days, weeks, years? - Probably a couple of days.
During which they were repeatedly tortured.
Can I top you off? - Tea.
- Oh.
What kind? Earl Grey, chamomile? Orange pekoe? I always thought that a person's choice in tea says a lot about them.
With you, I'm guessing chai.
Something strong, a little spicy.
Is there no corruption in any other cities far away from Boston? I'm sensing hostility.
Oh, from me? You're the only other person in this room.
Something wrong? No, it's just, uh, spelling errors drive me crazy.
Okay, "Patrick Mahoney, 22.
Failed to show up for work four days ago.
" Time of death was this morning, according to Dr.
Macy.
"Janet Maggiano, 24.
"Missing for two weeks.
Circumstances of disappearance unknown.
" Time of death about a week ago.
"Stanley Thomas, 19.
"Reported missing mid-November.
Car found in a mall garage.
" No other data.
Been dead about two weeks.
So where was he in the interim? All right, all white, young, good-looking.
You're describing half the people in Boston.
Get back on Missing Persons.
We're looking for two people who fit this profile.
It's way too vague.
We're never gonna find 'em in time.
Yes, we will, Nigel.
I need you to stay with me here, okay? Focus.
We're looking for two young Caucasians who haven't been missing for very long.
Asian, too young, black, too old, toddler, couple whoa, whoa, whoa.
Go back.
Didn't he say "a couple of lives"? "David and Theresa Getty.
" Both 24.
Vanished yesterday morning.
"Car found on Exeter Place.
Doors open, motor running.
" That's less than five miles from where Stanley Thomas was taken.
Kate said he tortures people before he kills them.
Hey, David and Theresa Getty.
We think they're the next victims.
Any of this gonna help save them? We've got salt, dog hairs, antifreeze.
There's no obvious pattern yet.
We may have more clues for you once we open up the bodies.
Eight and a half hours to figure out what dog hairs have to do with antifreeze.
We're aware of the urgency.
We're all doing the best we can here.
This guy's a genius at covering his tracks.
What? - I think I did it.
- You found him? Well, I-I broke down his proxy server, traced his last post back to its point of origin.
The one about killing two people tonight? Yeah.
Well, where is he? - Son of a bitch.
- What? - He's in the building.
- Which building? This one.
Stay here.
Police.
Hands in the air.
Let me see your hands, now.
What's going on? "Ken Scott, Boston Tech Systems.
" Yes, I'm here to update the switches for this building.
Can you please put that gun down? Did you just send a message from this computer? No.
You're lying.
I traced your last post down here.
Someone must have used a phantom route, because I didn't send anything out.
Phantom route, what is he talking about? It masks the IP address of origin.
Actually, someone who really knows computers can reprogram the anonymizer to offer a false positive.
- Where are they? - Nigel.
Nigel! - Where are they?! - Nigel! - Where are they?! You're The Hangman, and we're gonna prove it.
Hey, Garret.
Not now, Jordan.
I found something in one of the files, a discrepancy.
Just talk to Ivers.
- You really should look - Whatever it is, just handle it.
Tox results.
What would you say cause of death was? Uh acute cocaine poisoning.
Okay, and if I told you that we ruled cause of death asphyxiation and manner of death homicide? Then I would say that somebody may have made a mistake.
Garret.
I looked in the database, ran a cross-check.
It was Garret's case.
Oh, man.
Decedent Richard Mack, found in an alleyway.
The cops arrested a guy named Doug Lofsky.
Claims they had a scuffle, but that afterwards, Mack was still alive.
A month after the trial, tox results finally come in.
You remember how long we used to wait for tox results, before we started doing in-house testing? So when this finally came in, it just got stamped - and tossed in the file.
- Probably.
And this Doug Lofsky may be rotting in prison for a crime he did not commit.
It's a mistake.
That's what I'm saying.
And when Ivers finds out about it, he's gonna crucify Garret.
No, I mean, it wasn't Dr.
Macy's case.
It was mine.
I move from one assignment to the next, so, I'm on the road by myself a good portion of every day.
It's hard to come up with an iron-clad alibi.
How 'bout last night? Where were you last night? At home with my wife.
Your wife? How does a sicko who likes to strangle people go about finding a woman who's willing to marry him? I'd have to guess.
Humor me.
He probably keeps his hobby to himself.
Hobby? You call this a hobby? To a serial killer, who knows? Maybe he does these things to relax.
Have fun.
Maybe he looks at it like a calling.
Do you still want me to talk about what I did this morning? Please, go ahead.
So I finished work at the courthouse, and I had an hour to kill, so I went jogging.
Where? Lincoln Park.
What time was that? You sure you weren't there earlier? You can't say that I was.
I want to know what you did with this man's body between the time you killed him, and you hung him from the tree.
Why pick on me? Because you put a wire around these people's throats, and you pulled until the life went out of them.
What goes on up here? I understand your frustration, Detective.
You have three dead people, and you have nothing to go on.
I'm telling you, Nigel, this guy's not gonna break.
You can hold him for 72 hours without charging him.
Do not let him go.
Well, I'm gonna get his wife, and bring her in.
- Why his wife? - 'Cause she's married to a psycho, so she's gotta know he's wired wrong.
She's gotta know something.
Ken? My Ken? Oh, no.
That's not possible.
You've made a mistake.
You've gotta let him go.
Maybe I haven't made myself clear.
Three people are dead, two are missing, and their lives are at risk.
But Ken has nothing to do with that.
Yes, he does.
I've been married to him for three years.
- Don't you think I would know? - Times when he's left, and you didn't know where he was going.
Or maybe he came home, and you didn't know where he's been.
Ken has a very demanding job.
- He works unbelievable hours.
- Maybe he's got a room or a cabinet or a desk that he keeps locked, and you don't know what's in there.
Crazy! There could be a I'm getting a lawyer.
And I'm getting Ken out of here.
Mrs.
Scott Mrs.
Scott.
If I'm right, and I am that you might be in danger? What if I helped send an innocent man to prison? A jury convicted him.
Based on incomplete data.
I mean, I looked at the bruising on Richard Mack's neck, on his ribs, the petechial hemorrhaging in his eyes, and I jumped to asphyxiationmurder.
All we can do is work with the evidence available to us.
It's not your fault the tox results didn't come in.
Well, I should have waited for them.
- What if the tox results were wrong? - Jordan The computer mixed up your name with Garret's.
You know, maybe it got something else wrong.
Look, we still have the victim's tissue samples.
We'll test them.
And if we don't find any cocaine Then Doug Lofsky really is guilty of murder.
I got smoked salmon under Patrick Mahoney's nails.
There wasn't any salmon in his stomach.
I'm writing it on the board.
Looks like a fishing lure, and old one, shoved in the back of her throat.
Ink on fingertips, burn marks from stun gun, horse manure on shoes, old fishing lures.
He said the clues are on the bodies.
The clues are on the bodies, so what does all this mean? Are we looking for an antique building over a body of water? Uh, an old restaurant that serves salmon? You're the master criminalist.
Those are the clues.
Figure out what they mean.
We've got five hours to save the Gettys.
I won't let them down.
Smoked salmon.
Old fishing lures.
Horse manure.
Try those.
We've tried 30 combinations already.
We're getting nowhere.
Just keep going.
Horsehair sofa in blue, yellow, or salmon.
Several fishing lure companies.
"Sockeye salmon lures"? "Salmon Arms Horse Farm.
" Must have gone bankrupt.
Which means it's probably deserted.
It's only 8:15.
We've still got time.
We can save 'em.
I'll call Woody.
You go.
Guess I'll bring a field kit just in case.
Where the hell are the Gettys? We've got the wrong place.
Oh, God! Oh, God! Is he dead? Is he dead? Did this psycho rig something? Did I kill this guy when I opened this damn door? Get him down! Search the hayloft.
Look for another body, a woman.
Is he dead? Rigor's just starting.
He's been dead at least an hour, maybe more.
You didn't do this.
It's not right.
It's a little after 10:00.
Ken Scott said we had until 10:15.
New flash, Nigel.
Serial killers lie! Not this one.
No, Ken Scott wants me to have all the pieces so he can gloat when I fail.
Ken Scott couldn't have done this.
He's been in custody since 2:00.
Could this be a copycat? It's all over the news.
Anyone could have imitated him.
Can you tell if it's the same killer? I can't answer that till we get him back to the morgue, compare the wounds.
M.
O.
's the same.
Detective, no body up here.
Then where is she? Where is Theresa Getty? Man, we don't even have a suspect anymore.
No, it's him.
It's Ken Scott.
"Have you found the package I left for you?" Well, then, who sent this? "If you're The Hangman, explain the lie you told about time of death.
" "Nova Scotia.
" What's that supposed to mean? Atlantic time.
Atlantic time? Where's the other body? Doug Lofsky's got one hell of a rap sheet.
Three counts of assault, armed robbery, rape.
Doesn't mean he's a murderer.
Well, he's where he belongs.
Behind bars.
Positive for cocaine.
Okay, what about the other evidence against Lofsky? Uh, the hair and fiber from the victim on his jacket.
Lofsky admitted he assaulted him.
It probably transferred during the fight.
I mean, come on, face it, Jordan, I messed up.
This was a cocaine overdose, not murder.
I've gotta tell Dr.
Macy.
No, we've gotta go back over your original findings.
Doug Lofsky has been sitting in a prison cell for eight years because of my mistake.
I've gotta make this right.
Same gauge wire as the others.
The others were deeper.
That's a big difference.
Well, Detective Hoyt thought maybe this latest one was a copycat.
Like one psycho's not enough.
What are you doing, Nigel? Just checking something.
It's not a copycat.
Cut from the same roll of wire.
So one killer.
Ken Scott.
It's not him.
It can't be.
He was in custody.
He's got a partner.
It happens.
Hillside Strangler in L.
A.
, remember? Two men, not one.
I've got something.
It's an eyelash.
Looks like it's coated with something.
Mascara.
A woman's eyelash in David Getty's neck wound.
Is it from his wife? It's Ken Scott's wife.
Think about it.
He's a master manipulator.
You know, he's charming, he's persuasive.
He could probably brainwash her into doing anything for him.
Even kill? Or pose as him online.
"If I admit you're smarter than I am, will you stop?" "Did I mention she's still alive?" You really think it's a husband and wife operation? Wouldn't be the first.
A woman with low self-esteem falls under the spell of a domineering predator.
She's verbally, maybe physically abused.
- Battered wife syndrome.
- Exactly.
That's still no excuse for what Diana Scott did.
She was alone with David Getty.
She could have let him go, she didn't.
She killed him.
Hey, grab Ken Scott out of holding.
have him brought up here fast.
How much time do we have? I don't know, but I'm guessing not much.
You know, David and Theresa were married for almost a year.
Their wedding anniversary's in two weeks.
Nigel I spoke to David's mum.
She said that David was planning to surprise Theresa with a trip to Hawaii.
We will find out wher they're holding her.
Everything on David Getty's body is common to Boston.
Everything: pollen, soot, dust.
What about the video of Patrick Mahoney? I- I've watched that a million times.
The angle never changes.
All I can see is blue gloves, and some trees through a window.
Nothing that will help us find Theresa.
Ken Scott's not here.
Lawyer sprung him about a half hour ago.
He'll join up with his wife, and they'll finish their little project.
No, we have to stop them.
How the hell did you let this happen? I don't know.
You're better than this, Bug.
You don't make these kinds of mistakes.
Look, I am sorry.
Well, sorry's not gonna cut it with the Attorney General's office.
A man went to prison based on your findings.
Doug Lofsky murdered Richard Mack.
I can prove it.
X- ray of Mack's hyoid bone.
It wasn't broken.
I already looked at that.
Well, the initial X-rays showed nothing, but now that we can magnify 40 times.
A hairline fracture.
There's only one way that happened.
From Doug Lofsky crushing his windpipe.
Wrong evidence, right conclusion.
Well, I still have to turn it all over to Ivers.
- Yeah, but if you do - There's no "if" here.
You found evidence that has to be turneover to the defense.
When there's a shark in the water, you form a tight circle.
You cover each others' backs.
We're talking about evidence tampering.
Is that really a line you want to cross? Ivers is gonna twist this.
Do you really want Bug to be the scapegoat? Let me worry about Ivers.
Thank you for trying to help me.
No, you had it right.
I just backed you up.
No, you found what I missed.
I made a stupid, horrible mistake that sent a man to prison.
- You sent a murderer to prison.
- As it turned out.
He just as easily could have been innocent.
I mean, how many other mistakes have I made? - How many other people - Stop it.
We all make mistakes.
Okay, so what do you want to do? Do you want to go back - over every case you've ever handled? - Well, maybe I should.
Our job is to pass on results.
We do not cost people their freedom.
We do if we get it wrong.
You know, maybe Ivers is right Maybe this place is a disaster.
Bug, Ivers is a pencil-pushing geek who's making us doubt ourselves, question ourselves.
Look at us.
We're at each other's throats.
We found the error, it'll be rectified.
Stop beating yourself up.
Pine trees, maybe juniper bushes.
Found in every wooded area across the state.
- Maybe if we magnify the image - No, we've done that You said it yourself, this image is useless.
Is there no limit to your negativity? I don't know how you get out of bed in the morning.
Hey, the Scotts are gone.
I went by their house.
No sign of them or the Gettys.
Well, they're probably getting ready to kill her right now.
I put out an A.
P.
B.
Every cop in the state is looking There's gonna be something else that we can do.
Look aside from sending them an email, and asking them where they are, how do you really expect to find them? - That's it.
- What? You're brilliant.
"Is Theresa Getty still alive?" "I've already admitted you outsmarted me.
"It's killing me.
I have to know how you did it.
" I'm sorry you feel inadequate.
You should have listened to me from the beginning.
But I'll give you one more chance to figure it out.
Have a look at my latest project.
Don't do it.
No, no, stop.
Oh, I'm not quite ready to kill her yet.
Watch.
Tell me you're not turned on.
- Life - No, stop.
and death.
And life again.
It's working.
Keep him talking.
Isn't this fun? We can't help her if we can't find her.
Keep him talking.
I'll make you a deal.
You've been taunting me, daring me to figure you out.
If it tell you exactly how you pulled this off, you spare her life.
Go ahead.
- Do we have a deal? - Yes.
Keep it going.
One of you disables your "project" with a stun gun.
Hold on, "one of you"? You or your wife.
You stalk your victims before you abduct them.
You study their routines.
You know when they'll be alone.
That's when you make your move.
A friendly smile, an innocent question.
Seems harmless.
You hide in the back seat.
But when they come to the window, she grabs her stun gun, jabs it into their flesh until they pass out.
After your wife subdues them, you put them in the trunk.
People tend to scream when they're tortured.
Don't they? So you take them to some remote location that you've got set up.
You're such a disappointment.
So transparent.
Do you really think I'm gonna give away where I am? Can't blame a bloke for trying.
You want them conscious before you torture them.
It's more fun that way.
So you loop the wire around their necks, and then you bring them to the point of death.
And then you release.
And you do it over and over.
You didn't figure that out, I showed it to you.
Okay, all right, I won't argue that.
But what you do is not as important as why you do it.
You're going to explain me to me? I can't wait.
It makes you feel like a god.
It's all about the power.
Hey, psst, psst, psst.
We've got 'em.
Just north of Deep Hollow Pond.
We're almost there, keep it up.
You get that from some television special? "Inside the mind of a serial killer"? Well, isn't that what you're all about.
.
the power? Don't insult me, Nigel.
You can't begin to understand who I am, why I do what I do.
I'm guessing your mother didn't give you enough love in your formative years.
Another cliche'.
Next you're gonna tell me I tortured small animals as a child.
Maybe you were dropped on your head when you were a baby.
Wrong again.
Wait.
I need to know why.
The answer's quite simple, actually.
I like to watch the life drain from their eyes.
Makes me happy.
I'll show you the real deal this time.
Freeze! Boston P.
D.
Boston P.
D.
Let her go! David? Where's David? You're fine.
It's over.
Nigel, Nigel! Come on, let's get him out of here.
Let's go! You and your wife make the perfect couple.
Sociopathic soul mates.
I had four anonymizers running.
How did you find me? Guess he's just smarter than you.
Really? I got a warrant to force your service provider to put a trace on you.
But I knew exactly how to keep you talking.
I just played into your monstrous ego.
- We finished here? - Yeah.
- Jail ward? - You bet.
Nice shot back there.
Actually, I was aiming for his face.
So Mr.
Lofsky actually is guilty of murder.
That's correct.
Though the evidence on which he was convicted was incomplete.
Dr.
Vijay, huh? I didn't see that coming.
Dr.
Vijay is as dedicated, as talented as any M.
E.
you'll find anywhere.
And you'll certainly get a chance to express that view when we meet with the Attorney General.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
It was the right thing to do.
The D.
A.
's office won't want to see this case overturned.
A guilty man is behind bars.
- We got the right result.
- This time, maybe.
But there's a reason we have rules.
To protect the innocent and feel confident we're punishing the guilty.
He is guilty.
You know, everyone who works for you thinks the ends justify the means.
That leads to chaos.
Well, you do what you have to do, and so will I.
Dr.
Cavanaugh.
How'd it go? I got it handled.
That was some good work, Nigel.
It was not good enough.
Four people died.
Actually, 27 people died.
The Hangman cut a swath across the country before he landed here.
Lucky us.
It was lucky for Theresa Getty.
Lucky for all those people who won't die because of you.
'Cause you stopped him.
Just don't brag about it on that damn blog.
All right? Good job.
Pushing is not here.
That's option here.
Why, because you've cornered the market? I'm William Ivers, Attorney General's office, assigned as special prosecutor that's me.
to investigate alleged improprieties in the Medical Examiner's office.
That's here.
I don't give a damn who hired you.
If you leak results one more time, I swear to God, your ass is gonna hit the pavement so hard, they're gonna hear it in Lowell.
Do you understand? Do you understand?! I just need to talk to you about Jordan Cavanaugh.
Can't you get rid of this guy ? He's driving everybody nuts.
Fire Bug, fire someone.
Give the Attorney General an out.
Let them say that they investigated, and there's been a change.
No.
Then the scapegoat is gonna be you.
I'm gonna go home, open a bottle of wine, have a two-hour hot bath with Ivers.
Oh I thought we got rid of him.
Not for long.
Quick, just keep walking.
One second.
- Ohso close.
- Inches.
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Mr.
Ivers would like you to audit these case files.
Audit, as in Look for anomalies.
Inconsistencies.
You mean mistakes.
These cases are on evidentiary appeal.
Our findings are at issue in that many cases? You're not being attacked.
The Attorney General just doesn't want any surprises.
You know defense attorneys scrutinize everything.
Aren't you afraid we'll be a little bit biased reviewing our own results? All identifying data have been redacted.
If you recognize the cases anyway, I will expect you to be fair.
We like to look at things objectively around here.
Bottom line is people's guilt or innocence rests in these cases.
You have all day tomorrow.
Just get it done.
Do you have those results I asked you for? Any minute.
The D.
A.
's office thinks you're wrong about this case.
The man wasn't murdered.
He died of a heart attack.
Just get me those results as soon as you can.
"Greetings, bloggers.
"Nigel Townsend here.
"Once again, my crime-solving skills "saved the day when I came up with the brilliant idea to reconstruct bullet fragments.
" You have your own blog? I try to update it every day.
Details about my latest cases, books I'm reading, girls I'm dating.
Who's interested in that? My bloggers find me quite fascinating.
Oh, not him again.
I thought I got rid of this freak.
Oh, so it's freaks who find you fascinating.
This guy calls himself The Hangman.
He taunted me last year.
Said he dumped a body in Lincoln Park.
Freaks and murderers.
Not a murder, no.
Police did a five-day grid search.
No body was found.
Five days? So your self-promoting blather cost the city how many tax-payer dollars? Well, apparently this crackpot's not gonna give up.
He's probably just got a friend to pose for him.
Don't you think? Kate? I want a full perimeter search.
Check with park maintenance.
See if anyone saw anything.
Hey, this guy looks fresh.
The other two look like they've been dead for a while.
The killer must have held on to the bodies till he s ready to display them.
Oh, my God.
What? The Hangman.
Oh, do not start.
I wasted five days of my life searching this park for a body that was not there.
Well, there's one here now.
And these two.
He sent me video.
I saw this man being strangled.
Text message from The Hangman.
"Believe me now?" Crossing Jordan Season 6 Episode 07 - "Hubris" Stilly Unis searched the area.
Hangman is long gone.
Nigel.
I thought he was a fruitcake.
So did I.
I made jokes about him.
Hey, you've gotta snap out of it.
This is not your fault.
Look, I hate to break up your little pity party, but I could use some help over here.
What does it look like? Two ligature marks.
He was strangled, then hung.
A lot of trouble to go to.
That's 'cause he's a sick son of a bitch.
Yeah, we know that.
Do you? These three people are dead because of me.
Knife left in the chest.
Prints on the handle match the accused.
- DNA found on the victim - Let me guess the accused.
And he thinks he's got a case for appeal.
Okay Oh, gunshot wound to the chest.
Victim is some poor bastard in a convenience store.
Are you gonna read them all out loud? This is a waste of our time.
You're preaching to the choir.
What is Ivers' problem anyway? You know, first he goes after Garret, and then he tries to shove his cost-effective forensics crap down all our throats.
And now this.
We've all bent over backwards for this guy.
It's never enough.
Wow, how'd you get through all those so fast? Less talking.
You could have just told me to shut up.
I did.
"You call me a liar.
"I say you're a blowhard.
"The body is there.
If you and the cops can't find it, you're morons.
" He sent that two days after you finished your grid search.
He's messing with us, daring us to catch him.
Well, that's part of the fun for him.
Tormenting me.
Making me look like an idiot.
Lots of serial killers taunt.
Don't take it so personally.
It is personal.
He's killing these people to get my attention, to prove he's smarter than me.
It makes him feel powerful, superior.
Any luck tracking him? He uses an anonymizer.
The CGI proxy takes you to a URL, but not just any URL.
No, no, this one acts like a virtual subdirectory.
So that is a no? I'm just trying to back in through a subnet.
- Oh, bloody hell.
- What happened? It's not responding at all.
He's controlling your computer.
How does he do that? "Sick of dealing with the dead? "Save a couple of lives instead.
"Within the bodies you'll find the clues.
Two die tonight, no time to lose.
" "Bonus clue: Time of death 10:15 p.
m.
" Clues to his next victims? On these bodies? Yes, that's what he said.
The Hangman has two moreprojects lined up.
Now, we have a deadline of What kind of clues are we talking about? - No idea.
- We need to move as fast as we can.
No, we need to take our time, and make sure we don't miss anything.
You know, this is what you get for boasting about your crime-solving genius on the internet.
- Some psycho took it as a challenge.
- Okay, calm down.
Names and addresses of the victims.
I got 'em from RMV.
There's evidence that they were all held for some time before they were killed.
Held for how long? It's hard to say exactly.
- Days, weeks, years? - Probably a couple of days.
During which they were repeatedly tortured.
Can I top you off? - Tea.
- Oh.
What kind? Earl Grey, chamomile? Orange pekoe? I always thought that a person's choice in tea says a lot about them.
With you, I'm guessing chai.
Something strong, a little spicy.
Is there no corruption in any other cities far away from Boston? I'm sensing hostility.
Oh, from me? You're the only other person in this room.
Something wrong? No, it's just, uh, spelling errors drive me crazy.
Okay, "Patrick Mahoney, 22.
Failed to show up for work four days ago.
" Time of death was this morning, according to Dr.
Macy.
"Janet Maggiano, 24.
"Missing for two weeks.
Circumstances of disappearance unknown.
" Time of death about a week ago.
"Stanley Thomas, 19.
"Reported missing mid-November.
Car found in a mall garage.
" No other data.
Been dead about two weeks.
So where was he in the interim? All right, all white, young, good-looking.
You're describing half the people in Boston.
Get back on Missing Persons.
We're looking for two people who fit this profile.
It's way too vague.
We're never gonna find 'em in time.
Yes, we will, Nigel.
I need you to stay with me here, okay? Focus.
We're looking for two young Caucasians who haven't been missing for very long.
Asian, too young, black, too old, toddler, couple whoa, whoa, whoa.
Go back.
Didn't he say "a couple of lives"? "David and Theresa Getty.
" Both 24.
Vanished yesterday morning.
"Car found on Exeter Place.
Doors open, motor running.
" That's less than five miles from where Stanley Thomas was taken.
Kate said he tortures people before he kills them.
Hey, David and Theresa Getty.
We think they're the next victims.
Any of this gonna help save them? We've got salt, dog hairs, antifreeze.
There's no obvious pattern yet.
We may have more clues for you once we open up the bodies.
Eight and a half hours to figure out what dog hairs have to do with antifreeze.
We're aware of the urgency.
We're all doing the best we can here.
This guy's a genius at covering his tracks.
What? - I think I did it.
- You found him? Well, I-I broke down his proxy server, traced his last post back to its point of origin.
The one about killing two people tonight? Yeah.
Well, where is he? - Son of a bitch.
- What? - He's in the building.
- Which building? This one.
Stay here.
Police.
Hands in the air.
Let me see your hands, now.
What's going on? "Ken Scott, Boston Tech Systems.
" Yes, I'm here to update the switches for this building.
Can you please put that gun down? Did you just send a message from this computer? No.
You're lying.
I traced your last post down here.
Someone must have used a phantom route, because I didn't send anything out.
Phantom route, what is he talking about? It masks the IP address of origin.
Actually, someone who really knows computers can reprogram the anonymizer to offer a false positive.
- Where are they? - Nigel.
Nigel! - Where are they?! - Nigel! - Where are they?! You're The Hangman, and we're gonna prove it.
Hey, Garret.
Not now, Jordan.
I found something in one of the files, a discrepancy.
Just talk to Ivers.
- You really should look - Whatever it is, just handle it.
Tox results.
What would you say cause of death was? Uh acute cocaine poisoning.
Okay, and if I told you that we ruled cause of death asphyxiation and manner of death homicide? Then I would say that somebody may have made a mistake.
Garret.
I looked in the database, ran a cross-check.
It was Garret's case.
Oh, man.
Decedent Richard Mack, found in an alleyway.
The cops arrested a guy named Doug Lofsky.
Claims they had a scuffle, but that afterwards, Mack was still alive.
A month after the trial, tox results finally come in.
You remember how long we used to wait for tox results, before we started doing in-house testing? So when this finally came in, it just got stamped - and tossed in the file.
- Probably.
And this Doug Lofsky may be rotting in prison for a crime he did not commit.
It's a mistake.
That's what I'm saying.
And when Ivers finds out about it, he's gonna crucify Garret.
No, I mean, it wasn't Dr.
Macy's case.
It was mine.
I move from one assignment to the next, so, I'm on the road by myself a good portion of every day.
It's hard to come up with an iron-clad alibi.
How 'bout last night? Where were you last night? At home with my wife.
Your wife? How does a sicko who likes to strangle people go about finding a woman who's willing to marry him? I'd have to guess.
Humor me.
He probably keeps his hobby to himself.
Hobby? You call this a hobby? To a serial killer, who knows? Maybe he does these things to relax.
Have fun.
Maybe he looks at it like a calling.
Do you still want me to talk about what I did this morning? Please, go ahead.
So I finished work at the courthouse, and I had an hour to kill, so I went jogging.
Where? Lincoln Park.
What time was that? You sure you weren't there earlier? You can't say that I was.
I want to know what you did with this man's body between the time you killed him, and you hung him from the tree.
Why pick on me? Because you put a wire around these people's throats, and you pulled until the life went out of them.
What goes on up here? I understand your frustration, Detective.
You have three dead people, and you have nothing to go on.
I'm telling you, Nigel, this guy's not gonna break.
You can hold him for 72 hours without charging him.
Do not let him go.
Well, I'm gonna get his wife, and bring her in.
- Why his wife? - 'Cause she's married to a psycho, so she's gotta know he's wired wrong.
She's gotta know something.
Ken? My Ken? Oh, no.
That's not possible.
You've made a mistake.
You've gotta let him go.
Maybe I haven't made myself clear.
Three people are dead, two are missing, and their lives are at risk.
But Ken has nothing to do with that.
Yes, he does.
I've been married to him for three years.
- Don't you think I would know? - Times when he's left, and you didn't know where he was going.
Or maybe he came home, and you didn't know where he's been.
Ken has a very demanding job.
- He works unbelievable hours.
- Maybe he's got a room or a cabinet or a desk that he keeps locked, and you don't know what's in there.
Crazy! There could be a I'm getting a lawyer.
And I'm getting Ken out of here.
Mrs.
Scott Mrs.
Scott.
If I'm right, and I am that you might be in danger? What if I helped send an innocent man to prison? A jury convicted him.
Based on incomplete data.
I mean, I looked at the bruising on Richard Mack's neck, on his ribs, the petechial hemorrhaging in his eyes, and I jumped to asphyxiationmurder.
All we can do is work with the evidence available to us.
It's not your fault the tox results didn't come in.
Well, I should have waited for them.
- What if the tox results were wrong? - Jordan The computer mixed up your name with Garret's.
You know, maybe it got something else wrong.
Look, we still have the victim's tissue samples.
We'll test them.
And if we don't find any cocaine Then Doug Lofsky really is guilty of murder.
I got smoked salmon under Patrick Mahoney's nails.
There wasn't any salmon in his stomach.
I'm writing it on the board.
Looks like a fishing lure, and old one, shoved in the back of her throat.
Ink on fingertips, burn marks from stun gun, horse manure on shoes, old fishing lures.
He said the clues are on the bodies.
The clues are on the bodies, so what does all this mean? Are we looking for an antique building over a body of water? Uh, an old restaurant that serves salmon? You're the master criminalist.
Those are the clues.
Figure out what they mean.
We've got five hours to save the Gettys.
I won't let them down.
Smoked salmon.
Old fishing lures.
Horse manure.
Try those.
We've tried 30 combinations already.
We're getting nowhere.
Just keep going.
Horsehair sofa in blue, yellow, or salmon.
Several fishing lure companies.
"Sockeye salmon lures"? "Salmon Arms Horse Farm.
" Must have gone bankrupt.
Which means it's probably deserted.
It's only 8:15.
We've still got time.
We can save 'em.
I'll call Woody.
You go.
Guess I'll bring a field kit just in case.
Where the hell are the Gettys? We've got the wrong place.
Oh, God! Oh, God! Is he dead? Is he dead? Did this psycho rig something? Did I kill this guy when I opened this damn door? Get him down! Search the hayloft.
Look for another body, a woman.
Is he dead? Rigor's just starting.
He's been dead at least an hour, maybe more.
You didn't do this.
It's not right.
It's a little after 10:00.
Ken Scott said we had until 10:15.
New flash, Nigel.
Serial killers lie! Not this one.
No, Ken Scott wants me to have all the pieces so he can gloat when I fail.
Ken Scott couldn't have done this.
He's been in custody since 2:00.
Could this be a copycat? It's all over the news.
Anyone could have imitated him.
Can you tell if it's the same killer? I can't answer that till we get him back to the morgue, compare the wounds.
M.
O.
's the same.
Detective, no body up here.
Then where is she? Where is Theresa Getty? Man, we don't even have a suspect anymore.
No, it's him.
It's Ken Scott.
"Have you found the package I left for you?" Well, then, who sent this? "If you're The Hangman, explain the lie you told about time of death.
" "Nova Scotia.
" What's that supposed to mean? Atlantic time.
Atlantic time? Where's the other body? Doug Lofsky's got one hell of a rap sheet.
Three counts of assault, armed robbery, rape.
Doesn't mean he's a murderer.
Well, he's where he belongs.
Behind bars.
Positive for cocaine.
Okay, what about the other evidence against Lofsky? Uh, the hair and fiber from the victim on his jacket.
Lofsky admitted he assaulted him.
It probably transferred during the fight.
I mean, come on, face it, Jordan, I messed up.
This was a cocaine overdose, not murder.
I've gotta tell Dr.
Macy.
No, we've gotta go back over your original findings.
Doug Lofsky has been sitting in a prison cell for eight years because of my mistake.
I've gotta make this right.
Same gauge wire as the others.
The others were deeper.
That's a big difference.
Well, Detective Hoyt thought maybe this latest one was a copycat.
Like one psycho's not enough.
What are you doing, Nigel? Just checking something.
It's not a copycat.
Cut from the same roll of wire.
So one killer.
Ken Scott.
It's not him.
It can't be.
He was in custody.
He's got a partner.
It happens.
Hillside Strangler in L.
A.
, remember? Two men, not one.
I've got something.
It's an eyelash.
Looks like it's coated with something.
Mascara.
A woman's eyelash in David Getty's neck wound.
Is it from his wife? It's Ken Scott's wife.
Think about it.
He's a master manipulator.
You know, he's charming, he's persuasive.
He could probably brainwash her into doing anything for him.
Even kill? Or pose as him online.
"If I admit you're smarter than I am, will you stop?" "Did I mention she's still alive?" You really think it's a husband and wife operation? Wouldn't be the first.
A woman with low self-esteem falls under the spell of a domineering predator.
She's verbally, maybe physically abused.
- Battered wife syndrome.
- Exactly.
That's still no excuse for what Diana Scott did.
She was alone with David Getty.
She could have let him go, she didn't.
She killed him.
Hey, grab Ken Scott out of holding.
have him brought up here fast.
How much time do we have? I don't know, but I'm guessing not much.
You know, David and Theresa were married for almost a year.
Their wedding anniversary's in two weeks.
Nigel I spoke to David's mum.
She said that David was planning to surprise Theresa with a trip to Hawaii.
We will find out wher they're holding her.
Everything on David Getty's body is common to Boston.
Everything: pollen, soot, dust.
What about the video of Patrick Mahoney? I- I've watched that a million times.
The angle never changes.
All I can see is blue gloves, and some trees through a window.
Nothing that will help us find Theresa.
Ken Scott's not here.
Lawyer sprung him about a half hour ago.
He'll join up with his wife, and they'll finish their little project.
No, we have to stop them.
How the hell did you let this happen? I don't know.
You're better than this, Bug.
You don't make these kinds of mistakes.
Look, I am sorry.
Well, sorry's not gonna cut it with the Attorney General's office.
A man went to prison based on your findings.
Doug Lofsky murdered Richard Mack.
I can prove it.
X- ray of Mack's hyoid bone.
It wasn't broken.
I already looked at that.
Well, the initial X-rays showed nothing, but now that we can magnify 40 times.
A hairline fracture.
There's only one way that happened.
From Doug Lofsky crushing his windpipe.
Wrong evidence, right conclusion.
Well, I still have to turn it all over to Ivers.
- Yeah, but if you do - There's no "if" here.
You found evidence that has to be turneover to the defense.
When there's a shark in the water, you form a tight circle.
You cover each others' backs.
We're talking about evidence tampering.
Is that really a line you want to cross? Ivers is gonna twist this.
Do you really want Bug to be the scapegoat? Let me worry about Ivers.
Thank you for trying to help me.
No, you had it right.
I just backed you up.
No, you found what I missed.
I made a stupid, horrible mistake that sent a man to prison.
- You sent a murderer to prison.
- As it turned out.
He just as easily could have been innocent.
I mean, how many other mistakes have I made? - How many other people - Stop it.
We all make mistakes.
Okay, so what do you want to do? Do you want to go back - over every case you've ever handled? - Well, maybe I should.
Our job is to pass on results.
We do not cost people their freedom.
We do if we get it wrong.
You know, maybe Ivers is right Maybe this place is a disaster.
Bug, Ivers is a pencil-pushing geek who's making us doubt ourselves, question ourselves.
Look at us.
We're at each other's throats.
We found the error, it'll be rectified.
Stop beating yourself up.
Pine trees, maybe juniper bushes.
Found in every wooded area across the state.
- Maybe if we magnify the image - No, we've done that You said it yourself, this image is useless.
Is there no limit to your negativity? I don't know how you get out of bed in the morning.
Hey, the Scotts are gone.
I went by their house.
No sign of them or the Gettys.
Well, they're probably getting ready to kill her right now.
I put out an A.
P.
B.
Every cop in the state is looking There's gonna be something else that we can do.
Look aside from sending them an email, and asking them where they are, how do you really expect to find them? - That's it.
- What? You're brilliant.
"Is Theresa Getty still alive?" "I've already admitted you outsmarted me.
"It's killing me.
I have to know how you did it.
" I'm sorry you feel inadequate.
You should have listened to me from the beginning.
But I'll give you one more chance to figure it out.
Have a look at my latest project.
Don't do it.
No, no, stop.
Oh, I'm not quite ready to kill her yet.
Watch.
Tell me you're not turned on.
- Life - No, stop.
and death.
And life again.
It's working.
Keep him talking.
Isn't this fun? We can't help her if we can't find her.
Keep him talking.
I'll make you a deal.
You've been taunting me, daring me to figure you out.
If it tell you exactly how you pulled this off, you spare her life.
Go ahead.
- Do we have a deal? - Yes.
Keep it going.
One of you disables your "project" with a stun gun.
Hold on, "one of you"? You or your wife.
You stalk your victims before you abduct them.
You study their routines.
You know when they'll be alone.
That's when you make your move.
A friendly smile, an innocent question.
Seems harmless.
You hide in the back seat.
But when they come to the window, she grabs her stun gun, jabs it into their flesh until they pass out.
After your wife subdues them, you put them in the trunk.
People tend to scream when they're tortured.
Don't they? So you take them to some remote location that you've got set up.
You're such a disappointment.
So transparent.
Do you really think I'm gonna give away where I am? Can't blame a bloke for trying.
You want them conscious before you torture them.
It's more fun that way.
So you loop the wire around their necks, and then you bring them to the point of death.
And then you release.
And you do it over and over.
You didn't figure that out, I showed it to you.
Okay, all right, I won't argue that.
But what you do is not as important as why you do it.
You're going to explain me to me? I can't wait.
It makes you feel like a god.
It's all about the power.
Hey, psst, psst, psst.
We've got 'em.
Just north of Deep Hollow Pond.
We're almost there, keep it up.
You get that from some television special? "Inside the mind of a serial killer"? Well, isn't that what you're all about.
.
the power? Don't insult me, Nigel.
You can't begin to understand who I am, why I do what I do.
I'm guessing your mother didn't give you enough love in your formative years.
Another cliche'.
Next you're gonna tell me I tortured small animals as a child.
Maybe you were dropped on your head when you were a baby.
Wrong again.
Wait.
I need to know why.
The answer's quite simple, actually.
I like to watch the life drain from their eyes.
Makes me happy.
I'll show you the real deal this time.
Freeze! Boston P.
D.
Boston P.
D.
Let her go! David? Where's David? You're fine.
It's over.
Nigel, Nigel! Come on, let's get him out of here.
Let's go! You and your wife make the perfect couple.
Sociopathic soul mates.
I had four anonymizers running.
How did you find me? Guess he's just smarter than you.
Really? I got a warrant to force your service provider to put a trace on you.
But I knew exactly how to keep you talking.
I just played into your monstrous ego.
- We finished here? - Yeah.
- Jail ward? - You bet.
Nice shot back there.
Actually, I was aiming for his face.
So Mr.
Lofsky actually is guilty of murder.
That's correct.
Though the evidence on which he was convicted was incomplete.
Dr.
Vijay, huh? I didn't see that coming.
Dr.
Vijay is as dedicated, as talented as any M.
E.
you'll find anywhere.
And you'll certainly get a chance to express that view when we meet with the Attorney General.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
It was the right thing to do.
The D.
A.
's office won't want to see this case overturned.
A guilty man is behind bars.
- We got the right result.
- This time, maybe.
But there's a reason we have rules.
To protect the innocent and feel confident we're punishing the guilty.
He is guilty.
You know, everyone who works for you thinks the ends justify the means.
That leads to chaos.
Well, you do what you have to do, and so will I.
Dr.
Cavanaugh.
How'd it go? I got it handled.
That was some good work, Nigel.
It was not good enough.
Four people died.
Actually, 27 people died.
The Hangman cut a swath across the country before he landed here.
Lucky us.
It was lucky for Theresa Getty.
Lucky for all those people who won't die because of you.
'Cause you stopped him.
Just don't brag about it on that damn blog.
All right? Good job.