02x05 - Static

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SARA: What the hell happened these past few weeks? How did this bracelet end up on my wrist? Did I find it or did it find me? And why? [SINGING MELANCHOLY SONG]

SARA: I feel as if I'm a part of this thing, attached to it somehow.

Did the Witchblade once really belong to Joan of Arc? Or is that a bedtime story? What isn't a bedtime story is that he has an unpredictable violent mind of its own.

I've k*lled with it and several have tried to k*ll me because of it.

[MELANCHOLY SONG CONTINUES]

SARA: Does it control me? Or am I supposed to control it? Either I'm losing my mind or I now own a destiny I never dreamed of.

Or did I? [CHATTERING]

MAN 1: Very nice song.

MAN 2: Oh, thanks, man.

Thanks.

I'll catch up.

Hook me up with an icy six of Corona and two Yoo
-hoos.


- I'll be along in a few.


- Okay.

I'm your biggest fanatic.

That's cool.

[CHUCKLES]

[GRO ANS]

Aah! Tsk.

Damn.

[PHONE RINGING]

Aah! [INDISTINCT CHATTER O VER POLICE RADIO]

[CAMERA CLICKS]

It's reasonable to suspect the 11
-story fall was the cause of death.

Unless he was already dead.

He could've d*ed from a heart att*ck on the way down, but I doubt it.

He could've intentionally ridden the luggage cart out the window, but I doubt that too.

Too much caffeine there, Pez? Oh, um, or not enough.

Come on.

Now comes the hard part.


- Let's go talk to the girlfriend.


- Yeah.

Okay, I'll get you those autopsy notes as soon as I can.

Thanks.

WOMAN: It's gonna be all right, you know?
- Okay? SARA: Hi.

Could you guys excuse us for a moment?
- Could we talk to you?
- Yeah.

Thanks.

Here you go.

Everything's gonna be okay.

My name is Detective Pezzini and this is Detective McCartey.

We're really very sorry for your loss.

I just can't believe it.

What's your name? Lorelei.

Now, Lorelei, I know this is hard but we need you to tell us whatever you can.

Okay.

Well, we got off the elevator and Mac stopped to sign an autograph for a bellhop who was probably just a horny groupie in disguise.

And then we couldn't find him.

Then we saw the broken window.

What did this bellhop look like? Like a chick in a bellhop suit.

MAN: The president today has announced [INDISTINCT CHATTER O VER RADIO]

WOMAN [O VER TV]

: If you k*ll them, she will come.

If you k*ll them, she will come.

If you k*ll them, she will come.

If you k*ll them, she will come.

If you k*ll them, she will come.

If you k*ll them, she will come.

If you k*ll them, she will come.

If you k*ll them, she will come.

If you k*ll them, she will come.

If you k*ll them, she will come.

If you k*ll them, she will come.

If you k*ll them, she will come.

[STATIC CRACKLES]

JAKE: Danny's probably picking sand out of his toes now.

Yeah.

What island he go to? Kauai, north shore.

Jealous, Jake? Hell yeah.

Love Hawaii.

[GRUNTING]

g*n! [g*nsh*t]

[GRUNTS]

COP 1: You see that? He sh*t himself.

COP 2: Okay, guys.

COP 3: Clear.

COP 4: Call paramedics up here.

COP 5: This guy's hit.

Yeah.

Come on.

COP 6: We need an ambulance right away.


- What do you call that?
- A bull's eye.

Let's start running checks on the hotel
-staff list.


- I'll start hooking that up.


- Okay.


- I'm gonna go talk to Vicky.


- All right.

NOTTINGHAM: Telekinesis, telepathy, synchronicity.

Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't real.

What I saw was a criminal who gave himself a chest wound.


- And what did he see, Sara?
- A muzzle flash.

Perhaps what he saw caused him to turn the g*n on himself.

Sara the line between clarity and insanity is slender, transparent and easy to cross.

Spoken like someone who knows.

I know this.

The Witchblade is your destiny.


- Who's the pirate?
- Just some guy I know.

Yeah? What's he doing around here? Proselytizing.


- Hey, big word.


- I know bigger ones.

I think he's kind of cute.

I like those swarthy guys.

Yeah, swarthy, psychotic, bipolar, hard
-bodies, what a treat.

Well, he's got that look, like he can just walk on water.

Well, he can definitely walk through walls, because I have no idea how he got in here.

What do we got, Vic? Okay.

Nothing to indicate our dead guy's dive was self
-propelled.

No dr*gs or alcohol in his system.

But a small electrical burn on his neck indicates he may have been rendered unconscious with a Taser.

Hmm.

Um Huh.

So if you had to bet? I'd say somebody Tasered him.

Then threw him out the window.

But why? [STATIC CRACKLING ON TV]

In a cold dark moor with the Scottish army descending a lone knight makes peace with God.

He draws his sword, hewn of hard Welsh ore.

The Scottish archers surround him.

As he rushes them, he is shredded to pieces.

All that's left to bury is his skull and his w*apon.

It's heavy, huh? I'm Gabriel Bowman.

And this skull and this sword are all that's left of Sir Kilbourne.

And it can be yours at Talismaniac.

Com.

The dead live, fables come to life with my huge inventory of the archaic, the macabre and the mythically missing pieces of history.

You want some of Catherine the Great's hair? Got it.

Maybe a tail hair from the horse of Custer? I got that too, sparky.

Some carbon
-dated sand from Golgotha, the site of crucifixion? I got Marilyn Monroe's bed sheets, Jimi Hendrix's first guitar.

You know what? I even got Lee Harvey Oswald's socks.

So hit us at Talismaniac.

Com where you can log on and you can rock on.

Because my nipples are dry and he needs food.

[DOOR OPENS]

This is a conundrum.

NOTTINGHAM: A cruel destiny to be sure.

DANNY: Pez, what the hell is going on? You're talking to yourself, you're falling down, you're acting weird.

DANNY: What is up? [SIGHS]

[ANSWERING MACHINE CLICKS AND BEEPS]

SARA [ON MACHINE]

: Hi, this is Sara.

I know it's late, but I have a favor to ask.

SARA: Give me a GABRIEL: Hey, hey.

SARA [O VER PHONE]

: Hey.


- Did I wake you? GABRIEL [O VER PHONE]

: No.

So, what are you doing up so late? You had a long day of fighting crime? Long day, period.

Listen do you mind if I stop by? I'll be here.

Thanks.

Bye.


- Hey.


- Hey.

You know why some people are primarily nocturnal? Uh Because they can't sleep? No, because their ancestors were watchers of the tribe.

They stayed up late and on guard while the others slept.

These watchers had excellent night vision and, uh, they could see things in the shadows that no one else could.

Oh, well Sounds like a good alibi for the living dead.

Ha.

Ha.

Well, I take that as a compliment.

You know, I got vampire mythology down.

[CHUCKLES]

See, why am I utterly unsurprised? Oh, come on, you think pale erudite guys are kind of sexy.

Cop to it.

Wow.

Rule number one, never cop.

Hmm.

What's rule number two? Never cop.

[CHUCKLES]

Look, um, Gabriel, I wanna sell this.

Um [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

Gabriel? Gabriel, Gabriel.

Let go, let go.

You all right? What? Gabriel.

That's very, very funny, Gabriel.

That's a riot.

GABRIEL: Uh No, seriously.

I can't take it.

What? Last time you couldn't wait to get your hands on it.


- What are you talking about?
- I said, the last time you couldn't Sorry.

Do you still have that old drum set that used to belong to Keith Moon? Nobody knows about that.

How did you? I'm not sure.

If the myths are true you, and you alone, are meant to be wearing the Witchblade.

Look, there's no coincidence that it ended up on your wrist.

And I doubt you can escape it.

Look, myths are myths, Gabriel.

They're not true.

Oh, yeah? Well, you know more about that than me.

Listen, um You're my friend.

That thing's worth a lot of money.


- Like, how much?
- A lot.

Exactly how much, I don't know.

I got an e
-mail from a guy who says he knows a lot about it.

He calls himself "CyberFaust.

" [INDISTINCT CHATTER O VER RADIO]

IRONS: Lan.

Assume the mantle.

Assume the mantle before it's too late.

There are others.

Father.

WOMAN 1: She has the bracelet.

WOMAN 2: Find the bracelet.

WOMAN 1: She has come.

WOMAN 2: She has the bracelet.

She has the bracelet.

The bracelet.

Bring us the bracelet.

WOMAN 1: She has come.

WOMAN 2: She has the bracelet.

[DOOR UNLOCKS]

Sara.

What are you doing here? Picking up the pieces.

You'll be picking up your own body parts if you don't get your ass out of here.

I am tired, I am pissed and worse, I'm confused.

I'm not the one you have to fear.

I'm not a monster.

Be aware, Sara.

There are evil spirits in human form that tread on this earth.

Look in mirrors.

Look in shadows.

Look inside.

I'm sorry, I don't quite follow you.

Could you be a bit more vague? You can use the Witchblade to fight evil.

But first, you must learn to see evil.

I'm a homicide cop.

It ain't too hard to see evil.

Evil's shapeless a vapor a feeling when acted upon, results only in blood.

I just don't think I can take it anymore.

I loved him so much.

WOMAN [O VER PHONE]

: Don't.

Please don't.

You said people have a right to do what they wanna do with their lives.

WOMAN [O VER PHONE]

: Please, Lorelei, I'm not asking you, I'm telling you.

Please don't.

Please don't.

Stop.

What should I do? WOMAN [O VER PHONE]

: Don't.

Stop.

Don't.

Stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.


- Don't stop.

Don't stop.


- Thank you.

WOMAN [O VER PHONE]

: Don't stop.

Don't stop.

[STATIC CRACKLING O VER PHONE]

[PHONE RINGS]

JAKE: Looks like a clue to me.

Last call? This wasn't a su1c1de.

JAKE: Danny warned me about your hunches.

Really? What did he say? Trust them.

Oh.


- Let's get out of here.


- Yeah.

I'll see if there was a last call.

JAKE [O VER PHONE]

: Pez, Lorelei's final call was to her shrink.

WOMAN: It's a shame and a waste what happened to Lorelei.

I've been worried about her.

She called me last night.

She was suicidal.

I tried to keep her on the phone while I dialed police emergency services on my other line.


- Did you get through to EMS?
- No.

Did you know that Lorelei had jumped? Not until you called me this morning.

Had Lorelei exhibited any suicidal tendencies in the past? Lorelei was very unstable.

She often experienced sonic hallucinations.

She heard voices.

That's a very beautiful bracelet, detective.

Thank you.

Um, so you're not surprised that Lorelei took her own life? Sadly, no.

The violent death of her boyfriend was the proverbial straw.

It's such a shame, because she had made tremendous progress in her therapy.

Are you all right, detective? Oh, yeah, I'm Sure.

Sure, I'm just a little tired.

I understand.

If there's anything else I can do or if there's anything else you need, please give me a call.

Thanks.

I appreciate that.

And thank you for your time.


- Detective?
- Yeah? Be careful out there.

Will do.

Pez, this is frustrating as hell.

Mac Tone's k*ller is probably in here right now pretending to mourn him.

We got nothing to go on.

Jake, the clues are here.

We're just not seeing them.

Tomorrow we'll get a guest list from the memorial service.

Start doing interviews with whoever knew Mac and/or Lorelei.

Maybe good old grunt work will turn something up.

Man This is tough.

What did you think, working Homicide would be easy? No, it How do you not care? I didn't say I didn't care.

You just do the job? You just shut it down? That is the job.

Two lives snuffed like that.

What a world.

Even if your hunch was wrong and Lorelei was a su1c1de this blows.

SARA: That's the world we work in, Jake.

And it is tough, man.

You gotta dig deep to maintain your humanity without letting the dark side of human nature completely crunch you.

[SIGHS]

Yeah, you're right.

Go home.

Get some rest.

Tomorrow we'll keep pushing the boulder up the hill.

All right.


- Jake?
- Yeah.

If it makes you feel any better, we will hunt this k*ller down and we will bring her to justice.

Avenging the dead, that's the good part of this job.

Damn straight.

Whoa.

Whoa.

You all right? Yeah, uh Yeah, I just need some air.

Let's go.

GABRIEL: That amulet is an icon of tremendous power that can supposedly only be worn by a woman.

A chosen woman.

GABRIEL: Now, what that means is that there are people who are probably trying to take it away from you or to control you.

[STATIC O VER PHONE]


- Hello? GABRIEL [O VER PHONE]

: Sara?
- Gabriel? GABRIEL [O VER PHONE]

: Hey.

Hi.

Uh, that was weird.

The phone didn't even ring.

No, it's, uh It's not weird.

But, um But this is.

I got another email from my misterioso pen pal, CyberFaust.

And? He told me to tell you that everything is connected.

SARA [O VER PHONE]

: Meaning? Meaning, I guess, that everything is connected.

Ha.

It's kind of a broad statement, don't you think?
- Maybe.

SARA: Did he say anything else? Um GABRIEL [O VER PHONE]

: He told me to tell you be on guard.

What is it that I'm supposed to be on guard for? I mean, people? Events? The past or the present? Ahh I don't know.

All of the above.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe somebody is trying to get the Witchblade from you.


- Keep me posted.


- Yeah.

Oh, hey, he, uh He did say something else: "Money is not the currency with which the Witchblade can be obtained.

" Meaning it's priceless? Maybe.

Ponder on, Sara.

Yeah.

Later, Gabriel.

Thanks.

ANNA [O VER PHONE]

: Detective Pezzini, could you come over right away? Doctor, why didn't you call the police last night? I know it sounds ridiculous, but I didn't.

I just made sure my door was locked.

What time did the att*ck happen? ANNA: I'm not exactly sure.

I was on my way home from dinner last night when a woman pulled me into the shadows.

She said it was my fault Lorelei d*ed.

What exactly did she say? She screamed: "It's your fault Lorelei d*ed.

It's your fault.

" Do you have any idea as to who it might be? I didn't recognize the voice and Lorelei never spoke about her friends so I'm clueless, not to mention frightened to death.


- Could it be another one of your clients?
- Absolutely not.

None of them knew Lorelei and none of them are that dangerous.

This world, sometimes Yeah.

I guess we both get a look at human nature that most people don't.

If you look into the abyss the abyss looks into you.

You really should be careful.

Prolonged and intense stress can precipitate formidable mental illness.

You know, I may wanna discuss that with you sometime.

NOTTINGHAM: Joan of Arc heard voices too.

She claimed they were the source of her power.

WOMAN: Sara.

Look, detective Sara.


- I couldn't help but notice that your hand was shaking violently the other day.

Are you all right? Listen, doctor, just be very careful, okay? Be on guard.

Oh, if you can think of anything that may help us identify whoever att*cked you, uh, please let me know.

Will do.

[CELL PHONE RINGING]


- Hello, Detective Pezzini.

NOTTINGHAM [O VER PHONE]

: Hello, Sara.

What a surprise.

You get tired of lurking? NOTTINGHAM [O VER PHONE]

: I do prefer to commune with you in person.

Traveling at the speed of dark again? Mr.

Irons was not the only one who wanted to control the Witchblade.

There are other dark forces out there.

Oh, on the other side of that slender, transparent line you were talking about? Within that line of space, between clarity and insanity where black and white converge.

Like a shark swimming in murky water.

Just beyond the unsuspecting swimmers.

[CHOMPS]

What am I supposed to do with that? Be careful, Sara.

Things are not what they seem.

[SCOFFS]

And everything is connected.

Pez, anything? Uh, yeah.

Dr.

Granger was att*cked last night by someone who blames her for Lorelei's death.


- That's strange.


- Yeah.

How do you figure it fits in? Well, number one, it could be someone who simply does blame the doctor.

Number two, it could be someone trying to cover up the fact that Lorelei's death was not a su1c1de.

By putting attention on the doctor's supposed incompetence.


- Yeah, something like that.


- Hmm.


- Number three?
- Well, that is the wild card.

You get anything? The wild card, I think.

In the past four years, there have been 111 jumpers in New York.

Of those incidents, Of the 17, three were young women young women who were seeing a certain psychiatrist by the name of Anna Granger.

All three d*ed within a week.

WOMAN: She has come.

Bring us the bracelet.

She has come.

Bring us the bracelet.

She has come.

Bring us the bracelet.

She has come.

Bring us the bracelet.

She has come.

WOMAN: Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't.

Stop.

Don't.

Stop.

Don't.

Stop.

Don't.

Stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

JAKE: What the?
- Well.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves a k*ller.

Now all we have to do is find her.

Yeah, both of her.

WOMAN: Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Don't stop.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER O VER RADIO]

[YAWNS]

Maybe I am losing my damn mind.

ANNA: Maybe you have more than one.


- What do you want? ANNA: You know what I want! [ANNA YELLS]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[LAUGHS]

If you look into the abyss the abyss looks into you.

Why are you doing this? Because they told me to.

Who? They.

Sara.

Is it madness when you hear voices? I hear yours day and night.

Whether on the gray pavement or here alone I hear you deep in my heart.

Anna Granger crazy.

She heard voices too.

Voices that told her to take the Witchblade.

You see? Do you understand now? Do you? That wielding the Witchblade means you also have to defend it.

I knew your noble nature would attract the dark forces.

Forces that only you can fight.

And when I told you did you believe me? No.

Did you hear me? No.

Did you see me? No.

This was a test, Sara of things to come.

Anna was a portal a conduit for the dark side.

She was susceptible to the shadow world.

And now, my love you are vulnerable too.

Thanks.

Hello, detective.

Hello.

Why did you k*ll Mac Tone? I didn't.

Uh, who did? You know.

There are two people two personalities living inside this body.

I am only conscious of small fragments of the other personality.

Does this other person have a name? Adrienne.

Why don't you, uh, tell me about her? She hears voices voices that tell her what to do who to k*ll.

Oh, whose voices are they? You would have to ask her that.

Do you think that someone who hears voices is insane? That depends on the voices they are hearing.

WOMAN: Sara, Sara.

Sara, Sara.

Sara.

Sara.

Sara.

Sara.

Sara.

Sara