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- Thing's gonna break my back.
- Dad,it's slipping.
{a }October ,
- Honey,let me help you.
- It's okay.
Exercise.
It's good for me.
King w*rlord strikes again!
Why is it g*ns all the time?
I'm getting him karate lessons.
Awesome!
- How much are those?
- I don't know. Not much.
Probably not a lot. I knew a
lot of kids who took 'em in Ohio.
We can manage,Adam.
Your job starts tomorrow.
Don't need a pep talk,Emily.
Honey?
Are you gonna get the rest
of the boxes out of the truck?
Just give me a second,will ya? I
need one second for my stuff,okay?
Remember the night of
the tornado in Cincinnati?
Mom made us all sleep in the basement.
No.
We stayed up all night. Made popcorn.
It was fun.
Remember,Dad?
Yeah.
Gonna be a lot easier life here,guys.
I promise.
Pop...
pop...
Help me.
Family m*ssacre.
Mom,Dad and son sh*t and k*lled.
Dad's prints were all over the g*n.
The Jacobis.
Dad was an out-of-work
computer programmer.
Looked like he was the doer. It
was a John List kind of thing.
The older kid,the daughter,survived
a b*llet to the head.
Can't decide if that's lucky or not.
You're alive,but you got to face
knowing your dad tried to off you.
We could never confirm
the father was the doer,
but now that Kim's awake and talking...
Your boss wants a statement.
Doctor says Kim's memory is spotty,
but we can try.
Boss wants to close the case.
Meaning the DA wants
himself on the front page
with his arm around little orphan Kim
and us doing the work for him.
We can't all have bosses like yours.
Hey. I'm Ed.
Been working with Kim
for the last five months.
Detective Rush and Valens.
- How's she doing?
- Lot better since she came to a few weeks ago.
Real progress.
Hi,Kim.
We need to talk to you about what
happened the night of the sh**ting.
Kim...
was it your father who did this to you?
He loved you.
Your mom,too.
- How do you know that?
- I can see it in these photos.
I don't really remember
that night. I'm sorry.
You were in the house with your family.
Do you remember what you were doing?
- Is she okay?
- Kim,I'm right here.
Was there a fight?
Your father get upset about
something? I don't remember!
No,don't. Dad.
- Please.
- No!
Always. Romeo.
Kim,look at me.
You sure you saw your father's
body before you were sh*t?
Means the dad wasn't the sh**t.
Maybe she should rest.
Okay.
I'm sorry,Kim,
for putting you through that.
Someone else was in
that house that night.
Someone calling themselves Romeo.
Left a witness behind.
Witness who's starting to remember.
g*n was registered to
Adam. Prints on it were his.
The Jacobis were on
the verge of bankruptcy.
Adam had recently lost
an IT job in Cincinnati.
Dad moved the family to Philly
for work. Got fired a month later.
Neighbor said Adam was depressed.
Original investigation found the
family computers behind the house,
all smashed up,hard drives erased.
- Presumably by Adam.
- I can relate to that part.
Let's get those computers. Maybe the Tech Unit
can find something pointing to our sh**t.
Lil do the interview with
you this morning,Scotty?
Said she was stopping
at home on her way back.
Had a dream you were reading to me.
Your favorite book when you were a kid.
I can't remember the name.
Brought you some lunch.
Came back from work for that?
Didn't want you going
hungry,complaining nonstop.
Mom,you okay?
Yeah,I'm fine.
Go on now before they
wise up and fire you.
You call me if you need anything.
- You got my cell,right?
- Yeah,yeah,I'm fine,so go.
Go.
Go get 'em,Lilly.
The Velveteen Rabbit.
That was the book.
Made me read it a million times.
The stuffed rabbit
who wanted to be real,
and the boy he belonged to.
He became real,remember?
When the boy let him go.
Bet he missed him for
the rest of his life.
That stubborn old thing came back.
Make sure the boy was okay.
- He did?
- Couldn't keep him away.
Go on now,Lilly.
Bye,Mom.
Bye,baby.
So you're the one who
found the bodies,Mr. Reed?
Our kids were pals. We shared a carpool.
Waited in the driveway minutes,
then I went in.
Is it true that the wife was
the family's main breadwinner?
Dental hygienist,plus parent in charge.
- Kids didn't listen to Adam?
- The daughter didn't listen,
not when it came to
that boyfriend of hers.
Boyfriend?
That wasn't in the report.
You ever meet this guy?
No.
But one morning,it was my turn
to drive the kids to school,
and,as usual,the Jacobis were late.
Adam,my hands are full.
Please,just get his lunch ready.
Hey.
I just found something on this computer.
We need to have a family
discussion,young lady.
- I found your online chats.
- What online chats?
That's none of your business.
Don't read her e-mail.
You are too young to write
those... things to that boyfriend.
Me and Rick don't talk online,Dad.
We need to meet this Rick. And have
you guys fight in front of him? No way.
Martin and Jeff are here!
What's taking you guys so long?
I was just,uh...
So,ready?
No more computer for you,Kim.
And no more cell phone.
Adam,come on.
Emily,if you'd read them
you wouldn't trust her either.
You know,just because you're miserable,
Dad,doesn't mean the rest of us have to be.
Teenagers.
Glad I've got that to look forward to.
Where'd Kim meet this boyfriend?
School,I guess.
Adam said the kid called at all
hours,wouldn't leave his name.
You ever hear Kim
refer to him as "Romeo"?
No. I did see him once,though,
from my living room,at night.
He was skulking around
the Jacobis' house.
Getting ready for a balcony scene?
Rick Lambert?
Detectives Jeffries,Rush.
I didn't do it.
Want to talk to you about
your girlfriend Kim Jacobi.
Whoa. The new girl that got sh*t?
She was,uh,
not my girlfriend.
Her family thought different.
Oh,man.
Kim had the wrong idea about us.
How so?
I was breaking in the new girl. "Friends
with benefits" is what it's called.
Youth of today-
real inspiration.
We know about the online
messages you two were exchanging.
Nah,not me.
Me and my mom don't have a computer.
You think Kim could've been
chatting with some other guy?
Mmm,yeah.
Name "Romeo" mean anything to you?
Oh
That's the dude finally
spoke her language.
- And what language is that,Rick?
- You know,feelings.
- What the hell is this?
- It's not from you?
Uh,no. And you better not
be telling people it is.
Well...
you're the only person
I know at this school.
Read the frickin' card,yo.
It's got hearts on it.
"I'm the only one who
knows the real you,
"how unhappy you've
been,Kim,for a long time now.
- I've watched... "
- Give it back,Rick!
"I've watched you at
school,"outside your house.
"In fact,I'm watching you right now. "
Um...
...stalker.
"Always,Romeo. "
"Always,Romeo. "
Kim was needy.
She was loving that card with
all the sentiments and what not.
Thanks for your insights,Rick.
Hey,wish I could tell you more,but...
Right,you're not her boyfriend.
So maybe those online chats really
weren't between Kim and Rick.
They were between her and a secret admirer.
Romeo
Tech Unit recovered the shadow
drives of the Jacobi computers.
It's a mess,but they found
the messages Adam was mad about.
- Who was Kim writing to?
- Montague .
That's Romeo.
- I know my Shakespeare.
- Same guy who Kim claims sh*t her.
Messages go on for a month,then
all online communication stops.
- Week later,he sends her the rose.
- What's that?
Photo Kim sent him.
High school insignia.
Could be how he tracked
her,sent her the flower.
These two would chat for hours.
All this soul-baring stuff.
This guy's rap is they're like Romeo
and Juliet,meant to be together.
It's fate.
- Did Kim respond to that?
- Yep,
till his messages took
a turn for the loony
a few weeks before the murders.
"I see you crying in
your bathroom at night.
"Your family brings you so much pain.
"If they were gone,we could
love each other wholly.
'Violent delights have violent ends. '"
He's offering to get rid of her
family. Declaration of his love.
She stopped returning his
messages at that point.
But maybe it was too late. Romeo
decided to take out the Capulets.
"Romeo,Romeo,wherefore art thou...?"
I knew the man who sh*t my family?
You talked to him on the
computer every night for months.
Told him you were lonely.
Lonely?
You ever meet him? Romeo
I don't think I'd do that.
He watched you some
nights. Outside the house.
Saw you crying in the bathroom.
Bathroom?
- I used to hide there.
- Hide? From what?
I remember steam on the windows.
I could hear voices.
- I wanted to disappear.
- What were you hiding from,Kim?
I tried to call someone,but
I didn't have any friends.
Because you don't tell me what's going
on with you and I'm trying to help!
Just figure this out alone!
Did you like the rose?
- Who are you?
- did you?
I liked the card.
I'm sorry your parents are fighting.
I'm used to it.
I know you wanted to
call someone and cry,
but there was no one to call.
How'd you know I wanted to call someone?
Because...
I'm watching you.
I see you.
Sort of.
I'm your Romeo. Come to rescue you.
Why do you care?
I mean,why do you like a
girl you've never even met?
'Cause...
I understand you.
Wanting somebody to really ask you
how you are and care about the answer.
I want that,too.
How are you,Romeo?
Better...
than I used to be.
I'm in love.
Really?
- Draw an arrow through it.
- Why?
Cupid's bow.
- Good night,Kim.
- Don't go.
I can't believe I
talked to him like that.
You saw red and yellow
lights in the yard?
Stuart's laser g*n had red lights.
Yellow lights could've
been from another g*n.
- Maybe he had a friend over.
- Neighbor's kid?
Could be he got a look at Romeo.
I know that wasn't easy. Thanks.
Who sent this?
I don't know.
It was him,wasn't it?
Put a police detail on
Kim 'round the clock.
- Any luck tracking Romeo?
- Canvas at the school was a bust.
No high schoolers using his moniker?
And no luck tracing the Jacobis'
phone records to our stalker.
Looking into their personal cells now.
Thanks for coming back in, Martin.
Sure
You and Stuart played laser
tag in the front yard at nights?
- Am I in trouble?
- Now why would you be in trouble?
Jeff,if you have something to tell
us about the Jacobis we won't get mad.
Um...
the night that Stuart d*ed,
I went over to his house.
- What?
- To play laser tag.
And you saw someone outside the house?
No.
Someone inside.
- Jeff!
- Gotcha. Now you got to get me.
It's late,guys. We're
all hittin' the hay.
- I can watch them if you want to go to bed,Em.
- Oh,you said you were tired.
What the hell is that?
Oh,my God.
Look,Dad.
Who did this,Kim?
Romeo,I think.
Romeo?
- Is that who you were messaging?
- I never messaged anybody,Dad!
I saw your screen name,Kim,and now he's been
in our house; you need to stop lying to me!
She's not!
Kim didn't send those messages.
I did.
Why didn't you tell me?
Emily was posing as her own
daughter on the Internet?
And she brought the stalker into her home
- Hey.
- Hi.
Any luck tracking the slide
show on the Jacobis' computer?
Nope.
Romeo's a hacker pain in the ass.
- Got something off of Kim's cell phone.
- One she wasn't supposed to be using?
Teenage girls don't listen to their
parents. That's good news for us.
She made a call,night of the sh**ting.
To Romeo?
No,to her friend with benefits.
Rick.
- Homeslice forgot to mention that.
- Right.
- Hey,you see Lilly this morning?
- No.
Everything is okay?
Door's unlocked.
My mom d*ed.
Last night.
Uh,no,Lil.
I found her...
she was alone... when...
I sat here... with her.
She was so...
still.
She called the office...
I told her to call my
cell... if she had...
she... wouldn't d*ed alone.
Lil,you gotta know it wasn't your fault.
- I should been here,scotty.
- Lil,you did everything you could.
Never say goodbye.
I'm here for you,
anything.
You know that.
Just wanna be alone now,okay?
Yeah.
When you need me,
just say,
"hey"
I'll be there.
Kim called you the night of the m*rder.
- Got the phone records.
- I didn't k*ll anybody.
You saying that ain't quite
good enough for us,Rick.
- She called me. You're right.
- Yeah,we know.
She was crying about her family.
So you head over there thinking she's
vulnerable,up for some easy play?
That is not why I went to her house.
Then,why'd you go,genius,the
night of the murders?
'Cause she was crying and I
wanted to make sure she was okay.
She was a really sweet
girl. You know,I...
Don't say you liked her.
I kind of got attached,okay?
Kim was a good person.
Maybe she was a little depressed,
but her parents,like,ignored her.
- Sounds like you're defending her,Rick.
- Why would you have to defend Kim?
Like I said,she was depressed.
get rid these danm computers.
I'm sorry,Adam.
I'm sorry,Kim.
- It's okay,Mom.
- No.
No,honey.
You don't have to tell your mother that
putting you,putting all of us in da...
Dad,stop!
Don't let your daughter
think this is okay.
I went on the site thinking...
maybe I'd connect with some old friends.
Okay. Okay.
And... I went to make my profile and
all of the pictures of me were...
And I don't want to be this person
whose husband doesn't think
she's appealing anymore,
and her kids think she's
boring and annoying,
so...
I used to look like you.
I used to be so happy
and vibrant like you.
Is that what you think?
That I'm happy?
Well,yes.
You don't know me.
Only Romeo really knows me.
Honey?
Kim had a g*n?
She tried to talk to me sometimes
about how...
bad she felt.
And I only made things worse.
I could have helped her and...
Maybe the Jacobis would have lived.
Lil,I heard.
I'm so sorry.
I need to be here.
Keep busy.
Kim
come with me.
Sit here. It'll be a while.
Ever read Romeo and Juliet?
Crazy kids,those two.
Do anything for love.
Kind of like you.
I don't understand.
Well,Rick saw you with the g*n.
g*n?
What are you saying?
Is that the real reason you can't
remember? 'Cause you don't want to?
Why are you saying this? I would
never do anything bad to them.
Your mom put your photo on the Internet,
pretended to be you.
That's crazy.
Your family didn't know
you. They didn't even try.
I didn't hate my family.
I wouldn't hurt them.
No?
How do you know?
I wanted to hurt myself...
not them.
Kim.
Oh,my God!
Adam!
What?
- I thought it was locked up.
- There was someone in the house,so I took it out.
- Kim,sweetheart... Stuart,go to your room.
- No,let him stay.
We can't stand to watch the two people we
love most in the world tear each other apart.
So you're tired from
work or you need work.
Is that more important than our family?
- Fix your problem.
- It's not that simple,Kim.
We were happy before once.
Remember that time in Cincinnati?
The tornado.
Maybe we should make some popcorn.
That's a good idea.
I'll do it.
I know where it is.
Dad!
You saw him,Kim.
You know who he is,don't you?
Who is he?
You're not going to take her from me.
Not again.
Hey!
I'll k*ll her before I let you do it.
I'll k*ll all of you.
No one's going to get hurt,Ed.
We're going to work it out.
Shut up!
Put your handcuffs on now.
Cuff yourselves to the
door. You,file cabinet.
You,take the keys! Now!
Come on. Let's go,lady.
- Get his keys!
- I'm going as fast as I can.
I said shut up!
Listen to me,Ed. I want to help you.
I don't want anyone getting
hurt. You understand?
Give me the keys now.
Get me a helicopter on the roof.
I can make that happen,
but it's going to take time.
And I need to make a call.
We got a situation in Homicide.
I need to talk to your
tactical commander.
Get the sharpshooters into
position. Third floor,east side.
Hostage taker's a guy named Ed Marteson.
Just got texted by someone inside. Marteson
smuggled a. in with the wheelchair.
It's Vera again. "Hostage
taker at southeast window. "
Southeast window. If your field
of fire is clean,take the sh*t.
- Hey,you miss,you're going to k*ll one of ours.
- Back off,Detective. Let me do my job.
That's why I got that job,Kim.
To be close to you.
So my face'd be the first
you saw when you woke up.
Ed,listen to me now.
Let the others go. I'll stay.
No!
No one is going anywhere.
SHARP sh**t IN POS.GET DOWN.
Do you feel happy now?
Just tell me
because,because...
that's all I wanted.
That's why I did this.
You're disgusting.
She's just scared,Ed.
Helicopter's coming right now.
It'll come from behind that building.
To your right.
Hey!
Hey!
I hate liars.
- You're gonna die.
- She doesn't love you!
She doesn't love you. She
didn't even write those e-mails.
You want to say that again?
sh*ts fired from inside. One
hostage down. White male, s.
- That's our lieutenant.
- Stand down. Stand down.
- I told you not to fire,you idiot.
- You understand I outrank you?!
Let go of me!
- I'm getting in there.
- What about him?
Screw that guy.
Lil.
- They lied to you. But I won't.
- Get away from me.
Listen,you got to get away from
those windows or they'll k*ll you.
There's no windows in
there. You'll be safe.
- You're coming,too.
- You don't need her.
I'm going.
There's a room behind that.
It's safer.
You better not be lying to me.
They can see you in here.
There,they can't.
Come in and I'll k*ll them both!
Shut the door.
John.
♪♪♪
Nick hurry up
b*llet weakly troughed. Let's get a dress.
Hang in there, boss.
Hey.Where's Lil?
in there
I used to be an EMT.
Which means I knew how to care for you when you got hurt.
You got to know that it's fate with us.
Look
I have to make a call.
Put it down.
You want to get out of here,right?
They're gonna come in if I don't call.
Trust me.
OK?
I need a helicopter on the roof right now.
We're outside the interview rooms.?
You can't see in here,so...
don't try anything.
You're not in the interview rooms?
You're in observation?
That's what I said.
What do you want me to do?
Hey.
You hear me?
Hey.
You want me to come in?
Get him to turn away from the two-ways
and stay down.
- They're,uh...They're on their way.
- You're lying.
Maybe I should just k*ll you now!
Why do you take such good care of someone
who doesn't love you?
She does.
You're trying to make her into a different person
who loves you the way you want to be loved,
but it's not gonna happen.
She wrote things to me.
but you don't know.
See...
you hold on to the good things,
but there were bad things,too.
Right,ed?
she rejected you.
She rejected you.
- That's not true.
- Well,you sh*t her.
Why do you think you did that?
She called me her romeo.
Promised to love me forever.
But she lied.
It's me.
- It's me-- romeo.
- Dad!
No one ever rescued me from my family,
but I'm gonna do it for you
because I love you,kim.
No,don'T...!
- Don't!
- Please!
No!
Oh,my god,adam!
Mom!
You've caused her so much pain.
- But not anymore.
- No,it's not true!
Don't do it.
Don'T.
You-you can take me.
You can take me,
but just let my kids out,okay?
Just let them go out the back,all right?
I don't want you.
No!
I love you.
Do you feel better?
'Cause they're gone.
They're gone.
No more crying,my love.
My juliet.
- Kim?
- Get away from me!
- But you said you loved me.
- Don't touch me!
I hate you!
But I love you!
Always.
Romeo.
you have to let her go.
It's not gonna be how you wanted it to be.
It's over.
It's over.
You don't think somebody could love me?
Huh?
You don't?
You want to sh**t me?
You want to sh**t me?
sh**t me now.
- You're gonna die.
- Then do it already!
sh**t me!
Do it now!
Lil!
He got me.
Lil?
Get the paramedics.
Get the paramedics!
Mom!