08x01 - Do You Believe In Magic?

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Hi, this is veronique Collins.

I need a refill on my
prescription of risperidone.

Yeah, I'll wait.

I'm sorry, I have to what?

No. No, no, no, that can't be right.

No, it does...

I'll call him.

Thank you.

Dr. Anshin, please.

Veronique Collins.

Collins.

Okay, do you want to
page him and call me back?

Thank you.

Hello?

Yes, it is.

No, he has to be there.

No, I don't think you understand.

The pharmacy will
not refill my prescription

without his approval.

Okay, well, did he leave a referral?

Yeah, thank you, please check.

Yes, call me back.

Thank you.

Let me out!

Who's there?

I'm stuck.

I could use some help.

Please?

Oh, don't go, please.

I don't think I could be
in here a moment longer.

I'm scared.

Where have you been?

Well, sergeant Ryan,
how goes the w*r on crime?

Well, the radford case is all wrapped up

and all is well.

Lovely. And where is cassy?

She is filing with Alexander

and will be here in a minute.

Feels good, doesn't it?

Solving a case?

It does, it does.

A sense of completion.

Thought it all through

mind is at ease, the pieces fit.

Almost closing time.

Feel like knocking off early?

I do, I do.

Well, allow me to go check

my schedule for tomorrow

and I will walk you out.

And I will leave a note with cassy.

Both: Tomorrow's cassy's birthday!

What are we going to do?

Don't panic.

We have time before the stores close.

What do we get her?

A facial from the spa!

No, she hates that place.

She dented her car there.

Clothing!

Clothing! Good.

What kind?

Women's clothing.

You're a big help.

And people wonder why your marriage failed.

Ah!

Both: No.

The village.

There's a bunch of stores there.

We're bound to find something.

Well, we did the same
thing last year, and we...

Ought to be going.

Okay, guys, okay, I filed with Alexander

and believe it or not, he
had, and I'm quoting here:

"No emendations" to the paperwork.

Can you believe he used that word?

Why can't he talk like
a normal human being?

"Cassy, the filing looks great

"I have no changes

and thanks for the good work."

Why does he have to say "emendations"?

What is with the two of you?

Both: Nothing.

What did you do?

Nothing.

Oh. Harry had an idea.

I do?

About leaving.

Yes! About leaving...

We should leave now.

Where are we going?

Nowhere.

But we have to go... there.

Am I supposed to be tracking this?

That made sense to me.

Let's try that one there.

Now this is crafted by
a very talented carver

living in Arkansas.

He used a cedar root.

See the beautiful swell

and fall of the lines?

Those are beautiful lines there, Tom.

Beautiful swell and fall.

So that would be used
for pencils, earrings, what?

Condoms.

Excuse me?

It's a condom container.

It sits on your nightstand.

To think we didn't know what to get her.

He'll take two.

Uh, thank you very much for your help.

Clerk: Well, did I show you

the little dividers?

It makes it so easy to separate
your ribbed ones from your...

Yeah! Bye-bye. Come on.

Come on, come on, come on.

Well, that's three stores
and we got bubkes.

We got to start thinking outside the box.

You know, you're right.

We're trained detectives.

Our deductive powers are greater than most.

I'll call frannie.

What?

You have beautiful hair.

Give me one good reason

why I shouldn't be very afraid right now.

Cassy has beautiful hair.

What do women spend more
time on than anything else?

Their hair.

Exactly... they comb it, clip it

tease it, scrunch it.

There's a million things

you can get a woman for her hair.

You are a genius.

It's time to divide...

And conquer.

Excalibur.

Beware the jabberwock, my son.

The English double-pay.

Hello.

Hello.

It was used to slash through the pikes

so the armored cavalry could ride through.

And they called it the double-pay

because whoever wielded
it received double the pay...

Which was not bad

since they only lived

half as long as other infantry.

I'm veronique.

Tom Ryan.

Is Helen here?

Oh, I, uh, bought the store

from Helen two weeks ago.

Oh. I didn't have any idea she was selling.

Guess I was just

in the right place at the right time.

So are you looking for
something in particular

or should I just wrap that sword for you?

Well, I need to find a gift for my ex-wife.

th-century tortoiseshell.

Made in the then-Portuguese
colony of Brazil

and used by the wealthy
to show both station

and style.

That's beautiful.

How much is this?

Eighty-five.

Ah... that's a little more
than I was going to spend.

Do you have anything in just turtle?

Um... I could look...

But, um...

It is the best I have to offer.

Well, I am desperate and
her birthday is tomorrow

and I'll take it.

She'll love it.

Woman: Shut up, Jack, just shut up!

I'm tired of this game we play!

I think you've had enough to drink, Jill.

Yeah? And I think I've
had enough of your crap.

Jill.

You've been... very naughty, Jill.

Naughty, naughty, indeed.

Dummy: Well, she deserved it,

you know.

Morning, guys.

Oh, morning, cass.

Hey, Alexander approved this file.

Harry, what are you doing for lunch?

Nothing. I don't have any plans.

What about me?

What about you?

Well, I'm free for lunch.

Oh. Oh, good.

Great.

You forgot, didn't you?

What, did we forget something, Harry?

No.

No, you guys did it again, you...

You forgot, today's my birthday.

Both: No, we didn't!

Ooh! Oh, yay!

Who's first?

Mine. Mine first.

Okay.

Wow!

Oh, my god, this is a d.V.D. Player!

It's a d.V.D. Player.

Oh, Harry!

You spent way too much.

Oh, I love it!

What happened to the hair brush?

I saw that and I knew she'd love it

so I got it for her.

I said comb, you said brush

we agreed, I got the comb.

So give her the comb.

And look cheap compared to you?

Yeah, got it. Thanks.

We got a d.B. Over at
the cemetery on strand.

Okay, I'll open yours on the way.

Blunt force trauma.

Multiple strikes to the head.

Somebody over here

thinks that they saw someone in a tux.

Other than that, we got no witnesses.

Yeah, we're only a block and a half

from the theater district

it could've been anyone.

Got her address.

Want me to drive?

Oh, no.

Oh, no, allow me to
chauffeur the birthday girl.

Uh, so why do guys do it?

Do what?

Wait till the last minute to buy a gift.

I didn't wait till the
last minute to buy a gift.

No, guys wait and then they panic...

I just scheduled it wrong.

No. It's got to be something
with that "y" chromosome.

Why does it always have
to be about sex with you?

Yes, it does,

doesn't it?

Thank you.

Mr. Gifford?

I'm sergeant Tom Ryan, palm beach P.D.

Do you mind if we come in?

Yeah. Sure.

What's up?

Do you know a Jill Taylor?

Yeah.

I live with her, why?

She was m*rder*d last night.

Oh, my god.

Oh, my god.

No...

Tom: Where were you

last night?

I went to the opera.

How many tickets did you have?

Two.

Well, unless the palm beach
opera's changed their policy

they usually tear their
tickets and those aren't torn.

I, uh...

See, we were going to go to the opera

but we got in this big fight

and I came home and...

How did she die?

You came home and you ordered Chinese food.

Yeah, I guess so.

Looks moldy.

I had a lot to drink.

I don't remember everything.

Did anybody see you come in last night?

I don't know.

Mr. Gifford, you better call your attorney.

I don't see why

I can't see what you bought me.

Maybe I'll like it.

I want to get something you'll really like.

You know, something...

I want a really big picture TV

with theater surround-sound
to go with my d.V.D..

No, something that I don't have

to hold up a liquor store to buy for you.

Now that you put those
kind of restrictions on it

this could take awhile.

Woman: Jill and Jack

are hard-core patrons.

They drank way, way too much.

Do you ever have to cut them off?

I didn't, but, uh, Kenny did.

Oh, yeah, at least twice a month.

I'm telling you, those two could fight.

So how was Jack after Jill slapped him?

Oh, it looked like he brushed it off.

He finished his drink and he left.

Why would you serve
them if they were trouble?

Are you kidding me?

The tips those two left?

I was finally able to buy my husband

a projection TV for Christmas.

Thanks.

Can you believe that?

Buying her husband a huge
TV on a waitress's salary?

You're blackmailing me, baby

that's a federal crime.

Tom, you're looking at this wrong.

Okay, with gift giving, it's the thought.

I mean, after all

what was that little nothing present

I got you for your birthday last year?

Hmm. New irons, graphite shafts

d -weighted heads

and a full set of metal woods.

Oh, yeah.

Now I remember. Wow.

Okay, but just giving you what you wanted

makes me feel good about myself.

I got to run an errand.

He does.

Dummy: I threw them away.

Look, I need them.

Dr. Anshin said that I need them.

They had better be here when I get back.

Tom: Veronique, hi.

Tom Ryan.

I bought the, uh...

I know. Is there a problem?

No, not really.

I just sort of changed
my mind about the comb.

Fine. I'll credit your card.

Everything okay?

Fine.

Just need your card.

Right.

Thank you.

So you live upstairs?

I do.

Must be convenient.

So, your wife didn't like the comb?

Ex-wife. No, actually, I
never even gave it to her.

Hey, how much do you think
those d.V.D. Players are?

I don't know.

Ris, risperidone.

Those are mine, not yours.

Sorry.

It's a cop habit.

What does risperidone do?

It's for my allergies.

Is there anything else I can help you with?

Because I would like to close up

for the evening.

I'm finished for the day.

Want to grab a coffee?

Nope, I've got plans.

But maybe another time.

Yeah.

Well... yeah.

Okay. Thanks.

Thank you.

What are you reading?

Oh, the instruction
manual to my d.V.D. Player.

This thing is amazing.

You know, I can't wait to hook it up

to my teeny-weeny, itsy-bitsy
tiny little eight-year-old TV.

You're k*lling me, St. John.

Speaking of which

what did Alexander say about gifford?

Released him O.R.

Pending report on the clothing.

Think he did it?

I think he needs a.A.

I-I don't know, maybe he did.

Guzzles a gallon of firewater, he gets nuts

gets resentful, kills her.

It's not a first-time story.

Yeah. Here.

Hey, what's this?

Open it. Want to go for dinner?

No, I'm going out, but...

You can go over to my place

and set this up.

It came with the disc of top g*n.

I love it!

That's my favorite movie.

So what did you get me?

Ah, nothing.

Who are you?

Give me that.

No.

Give me that!

No!

Man: Hey, what's going on?

You broke it.

Tom: Next.

Cassy: So tell me

what happened.

That's what I'm going to do.

This guy is useless.

He's got a blood-alcohol

level of .

and she had a fight with her boyfriend.

No, I mean last night.

That's what I'm talking about.

Last night she's going home

from the fight with her boyfriend.

She sees a doll.

It was broken.

How did you know?

He gets in a fight with the assailant

and... an arm falls off.

Are you going to fix it?

Why would putting an arm back...

No, not this doll, my TV.

Oh, yeah. Uh...

You know, I looked at those
instructions, I followed them...

Clearly, and there was a
spark and the TV went dead.

Cassy, it wasn't my fault.

I guess I should get it fixed for you.

Oh, okay.

Good.

Take it here.

This is way out in west palm beach.

Did I break my TV?

Morton: This is a little bit

out of my league.

I'm used to dealing with flesh.

But, um, given the size of it here

I'd say that it belongs to a dummy.

Like a store mannequin?

Oh, no, a dummy.

A ventriloquist's dummy.

Well, can you identify what...

Or should I say, who this belongs to?

I can't, but I called
someone who I think can.

He's waiting for you.

Okay, I'll go get Harry.

Oh, um, anything on
Jack gifford's clothing?

I found traces of blood.

I'm waiting for a DNA comparison of it

to see if it belongs to
the victim, Jill Taylor.

I'll have a uniform
swing by gifford's house

just in case.

Thanks. Okay.

Can you tell us what this is?

May I take it out of the bag?

Do you have the rest of the figure?

That's all we have.

Hmm. Well, it's hand-carved.

It could be a macelroy, or a mack.

They are...?

The macelroy brothers...

The finest makers of wooden knee figures.

And Charlie mack carved Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen's little pal.

A witness claimed he
heard the figure talking

but nobody was there.

Now, is this possible?

Depending on the controls

anything is possible.

Did this hold anything?

That's all we got. Why?

Usually, sophisticated controls

are for the manipulation of faces.

In some rare instances,
sort of like this hand

there's a specific motion...

I know who this is.

This is chilly's hand.

What?

Chilly and Willy...

The name of the act.

William Collins was the ventriloquist.

Chilly was the dummy.

The hand is shaped like that

because it used to hold a prop Kn*fe.

Like a retractable blade?

Exactly.

In the act, um

chilly and Willy would have a fight.

Chilly would s*ab Willy

and Willy would pretend to be dead

and chilly would keep right on talking.

The critics, they loved it.

They said it was technically impossible.

Is it?

Well, technically, it was difficult

but it was not impossible.

Here, let me show you.

Billy?

What are you doing?

Eh! Uh... whoa!

Who is the fox and the stiff?

This is sergeant St. John and
captain lipschitz of homicide.

Homicide?

He did it.

I saw the whole thing; He did it.

I didn't do anything.

A likely story.

How about a little regressive hypnosis?

That'll get the truth out
of your evil thoughts.

I didn't do anything.

I have nothing to fear.

Okay, ready? Here we go.

One, two, three... you're out.

You're out.

Good, okay, now you can see that I can...

Wait, how I am I talking if you're out?

Ron...

I forgot the words.

Abracadabra.

Wake up. Ron! Ron...

Well, anyway, this is
how we thought he did it.

Lipschitz: That's amazing.

Now, Collins could do that?

We think so.

So how did he die?

Well, Collins used his
six-year-old daughter

as his prop master.

In , she accidentally locked

the retracting blade on the Kn*fe.

In front of people, he
stabbed himself to death.

Where did this happen?

Right here in palm beach.

Collins and his daughter lived here.

Uh-huh. We'll find out where.

In the meantime

Ron, thanks, you've been a big help.

And you too, um...

Billy.

Uh, Billy, yes.

I'll try to get lazybones here

to look up some more
information on Collins.

I'm not lazy.

Yeah, you are.

I do all the work... ciao.

Where's Tom?

He said to tell you the repair shop

you sent him to moved.

He'll be another half an hour.

Oh, great. Look at this.

These are the county deed registrations.

You'd think this stuff would
be on computer by now.

Hmm... that list reads like a
+who's who of American industry.

Oh, here we go.

Got it.

William and Dorothy Collins

mar vista road.

Wait, there's no mar
vista road in palm beach.

St. John.

Oh, geez.

So the paramedics on their way?

Yeah. Just call me when there's a change.

Thanks.

What?

Gifford.

He's unconscious.

Apparently acute alcoholic shock.

Taking him to county.

Anything?

In the early ' s mar
vista was blocked off.

It's where the promenade is now.

Okay, so that would have been mar vista.

That would make the antique store .

I've been in that store before.

Hello?

Veronique?

Sergeant Ryan.

Tom: Hi.

This is my partner, sergeant St. John.

Oh, the ex-wife.

Yeah.

Well, I still have the...

Uh, we're here on official business.

We'd like to take a look around.

Why?

Well, before this was an antique store

it was a house owned by a man named, uh...

Collins.

Collins.

He was my father.

Cassy: Miss Collins...

Do you know what this is?

Uh, the arm of a knee figure.

Tom: We think so.

Does it look like it belongs
to your dad's partner?

I don't know. Maybe.

Um...

I was really young.

Do you have the rest of the figure?

No. I've been looking for it.

Did it stay in the family?

After my father d*ed, my
mother sold everything

and moved us back to Chicago.

She just boarded this
place up, and we left.

She d*ed last year, and when I
saw that the place was for sale

I thought it was a good time to come back.

It must have been difficult.

I spent a lot of years in therapy

getting over the death of my father.

It took a long time

to accept that it was just an accident

and that I had nothing
to do with his death.

We won't take long.

If chilly were here

I would have found him.

Actually, the previous owner

kept very detailed records of her sales.

Would you like to see them?

Yeah, that might help.

Okay. Well, they're right here.

Thank you.

Feel free to look around if you want to.

Would you mind if we
took a look at your room?

Not at all.

The disadvantage of
being raised with help...

I still find making the bed a chore.

What are these?

Allergy medicine, right?

Mm-hmm.

Thank you... yeah.

Veronique: Oh, no, no.

It's really messy in there.

St. John.

Uh-huh. Yeah, okay.

We're on our way.

Gifford's awake.

Let's go talk to him.

Uh, thank you, and
we'll get this back to you.

Great.

What do you think?

I don't know.

What do you think?

She came off hinky to me, sort of nuts.

Did you see her clothing?

It looked like she'd slept
in them or something.

Well, unlike you, not everybody
irons their underwear, cass.

I don't iron my underwear.

That's right, you just fold it neatly.

Well, I do neatly fold my laundry.

I usually do it while I'm watching TV.

But I won't do that tonight, will I?

You know, more and
more I'm beginning to think

that in a past life you were
part of the Spanish inquisition.

Drive.

Yes, master.

All right, so, Morton
said that the blood sample

on gifford's tuxedo was his own

and not Jill Taylor's.

Gifford was a drunk

but I don't think he was a k*ller.

The k*ller stalked women.

He skulked around a graveyard.

Gifford would have stumbled.

Morton also says that there
were traces of the metal silver

found on Taylor's skull

at the point of impact.

The second woman said that the k*ller

came after her with
a cane... hit her with it.

Didn't the second woman
at the cemetery tell you

she had a fight with her boyfriend, too?

Yup, she did. Why?

Just looking for a pattern.

Great. So what do we do?

We interview every guy in
the city who owns a tuxedo

and has had a fight with his girlfriend?

I don't think so.

Harry, we've got uniforms

all over the cemetery.

They've come up with nothing.

What's wrong with your eyes?

It's just allergies.

Try risperidone.

I hear it works wonders.

I'll give it a sh*t.

I'm going to call it a night.

Tom: Yeah, me too.

Think I'll go home and watch... a book.

That's funny; That's
exactly what I'm going to do.

Why don't you rent a video

and play it on your new d.V.D. Machine?

Yeah, Tom.

Why don't I?

Oh, here it is Friday... almost.

He has a very bad relationship

with machines, huh?

Borders on the supernatural.

And you let them keep it?

I didn't have a choice.

Ah...

Well, what am I supposed to
do with only one arm, little missy?

Don't call me that.

Little missy.

Made a messy of daddy, didn't she?

I did not.

You did it... you, you, you!

Little missy, missy
k*lled her daddy, Willy.

Stop it! Stop!

I'm warning you.

Don't put me in there again.

What do you want?

Golly, little missy, I don't know.

How about my arm back?

The police have it!

Then go get it.

How am I supposed to get it?

Gee, I don't know.

Why don't you take a s*ab at it?

No.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Gee.

And after all I've done for you.

Sergeant Ryan.

Veronique.

Hi.

Do you want to grab some lunch?

Actually, I was going shopping.

Well, I'll go with you.

I am a great shopper.

Waa...

How can Asia be in a financial crisis

when they charge that much for a TV?

Overheated economy.

Over-investment in derivatives.

Choking restrictions
on foreign investments.

Thanks, chairman greenspan.

Look at this

as an investment in your viewing pleasure.

You and the little missy here...

Don't call me that.

It's kind of chauvinistic, don't you think?

My apologies.

Sign now and you can
have it installed by tomorrow.

Do it.

I'll buy lunch.

I've got to wrap this up.

I'm meeting cassy.

We're going to use regressive hypnosis

on the woman who was
att*cked, see if we can get

any more details on the k*ller.

Where'd that idea come from?

From a ventriloquist we met.

Oh, oh. Geez, I totally forgot.

The whole point of having lunch with you

in the first place...

I found a dummy.

You found a dummy? Where?

At the store.

Well, actually, it was in my room.

You got me thinking if there
was any place I hadn't looked

and I found him in this little cubbyhole

in the closet.

Is it chilly?

No. I wish it was.

But... it is missing an arm.

Well, we should get it back in the station

see if it matches.

It's really old and disintegrating.

I would hate to take a chance moving it.

Can't you just bring the arm by the store?

Well, I'd have to ask my captain.

You know, if it's a problem, just call me

because I'm sure that a museum or something

would know how to transport
it without damaging it.

I'm sure it's not going to be a problem.

I guess cassy

could do the interview by herself.

Great.

I'll meet you at the store.

Hi.

Here, don't lose it.

I won't.

Tom, what was the name

of that allergy medicine again?

Uh... risperidone.

Risperidone?

Risperidone.

Thanks.

Oh, hi.

Hi.

Well, have you got the figure?

Oh, I left it upstairs in the closet.

Okay.

Oh... excuse me.

Ryan.

It's me. I just finished
the hypnosis session.

And?

Well, a little bit more description...

The guy's short, ' ", ' ", slender...

Hey, what's that beeping?

My battery's low.

Uh, no hair color, no eye color

on the suspect? No?

No, I haven't yet.

I'm just about to do that.

Why I don't I meet you down...

Hello? Hello?

Oh... I love cell phones.

How does a battery know to go out

just when you're having...
an important conversation?

I thought you were going

to get something for your eyes.

I called my doctor.

Typical Tom.

That stuff he recommended
was for schizophrenia.

And I'm thinking he should be taking it.

There are days.

Wait a minute...

Wait a minute.

What?

That drug...

Risperidone.

Yeah. That's what veronique was taking.

Do you want to get that?

Uh... no, no.

I'll let the machine pick it up.

So where's the figure?

I left it in the back of the closet.

Do you need me for anything or...?

I'd like to go change.

No, go ahead.

Who are you?

Chilly: He's who I replaced.

Chilly: Get the g*n.

Get the g*n!

Give me the arm.

Give it to me.

Why did you k*ll Jill Taylor?

Because she was naughty.

Very naughty.

Wasn't she, little missy?

Yes, she was.

Because she hit that man

and she should have let that
man do what he wanted to.

Because who's always right?

Daddy is. Daddy's always right.

Daddy's always right.

Did your daddy do things to you, veronique?

Who do you think you are?

Dr. Anshin?

It's not real, veronique.

This isn't real.

Oh, it isn't, is it?

sh**t him, little missy.

Right between... the eyes.

Chilly: Someone's coming!

Use the Kn*fe! Use the Kn*fe!

Lipschitz: Here. Cuff her.

Come on.

You okay?

Yeah, I'm fine, Harry.

So is this chilly?

Tom: Yup.

Unbelievable, cassy.

It was like she was two people.

Lipschitz: Well, she was

prescribed risperidone for schizophrenia

so in a way she... she was two people.

Hey, get that looked at,

all right?

Yeah.

Thanks, Harry.

Thanks, cass.

Impossible.

Perfect.

You think?

I do.

I don't know.

'Cause people walking by

they're going to know that I'm watching TV.

How will they know that
when the window is over there?

No, it's that blue light thing.

You know how when you walk

by someone's house, the only thing

you can see inside is
the light from the TV?

Looks like they have a sad, lonely life.

No, it makes me think
that they're watching TV.

Try it over there.

I'm not moving it again.

Oh, it's just... it's not right.

What's not right?

Just the whole thing.

It's too big.

What's too big?

It's not what I want.

What do you want?!

I want a new hair comb!

Look at this thing.