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01x02 - Silent Stalker

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Unsub". Aired: February 3 – April 14, 1989.*
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Series revolves around an elite FBI forensic team that investigates serial murderers and other violent crimes. Unsub is an abbreviation for the "unknown subject" of an investigation.

01x02 - Silent Stalker

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the basement what an insult I think you're thinking Lily we got a good group

here that's Norma and Allan this water they head up forensic sciences they're

springing it Jimmy Belo because everybody's freedom to Jim you got the short stick real good Dodie but a good

heart no do me a favor don't call you Lulu really is the pinnacle isn't it the

criminal profiling unit is the cutting edge the one hit cover an elected company and what you've got bucks worth

of squat feel like I've arrived you got the fair you can ride the bus you're still sh**ting oh just to keep up

my certification I'll clear my head I'm gonna make a thing out of it the last refuge on the year of sexism is on the

sh**ting range my ego remains flustered

Westy this is Lulu benign hi John Grayson yeah I gotta go take my bladder

toe please sit down thank you so how are

things with the DC PD well we missed Ned well you can't have him back he's

priceless so are you from what I read from your record in fact you might find

that a part of our training program may be too elementary for you you don't have to be charming on my account mr. Grayson

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Grayson oh yes Sheriff we received your evidence

by mail yesterday we'll be scraping down

the clothing today I'm not gonna make any promises because a full analysis takes time particularly considering the

condition of your evidence I realized that sheriff ethically get we get three

capital cases in this office every day of the year no I'm not judging yours

less important Sherriff due process by priority yeah

sure you set us your evidence in a brown paper bag it had been handled by your entire department now I would recommend

that your deputies trained in the proper procedure for collecting and handling

evidence to avoid tainting it and we've got a program down here a six-month

program I'd be more than happy to run one of your men through it what's the cost no charge

we'll talk to you later we are the

nation's best excuse for inept police work they can't solve it they sent it to

us and they hold a press conference they say hey we sent it to the feds they

can't figure it out who can take you the trainee on yeah well get you cracking on something

this afternoon what about this trainees work closed cases we'll get into what

you'll be working on this afternoon at the staff meeting mr. Grayson call me Wes please I've read and utilized your

deviance pattern consistency in sexual homicides my post-grad theses was a critical analysis of your victimology

model I read it my close case and conviction ratio is the highest of any

homicide detective in this country and I was trained in the fundamentals by the

last of the old wizards that's my girl I have a lot to learn but I come to the

table with a full plate don't relegate me to dry runs with old cases I'm not

operating on a learner's permit I want an active case this afternoon Stephanie

thank you

Lulu asked for the Sun case and would you guide us to it

this is active I want to be productive while I'm learning and if you guys don't

mind I prefer Lucille

let's take you seal through and see what she's got him okay Lucille Vancouver British Columbia

case our h28 double nine seven five J victim Thomas some aged twelve r*pe

m*rder Saturday October 7 left home

11:30 a.m. to travel eight blocks to a weekly music lesson body was discovered

two weeks later in an unincorporated wooded area 20 miles from the victim's home cause of death asphyxiation white

cotton fiber found between front upper incisors and throat and lungs smothered by a bed pillow probably manufacturer

yet to be determined material usage too broad for trial admission trauma or semen evidence yes

interior and exterior a**l region cavity ruptured to the sigmoid flexor DNA

prints available for matching and blood type evidence at scene we follow the victim first parents University educated

Nico and Jamie song housewife and MD internist he's 34 she's 31

solid members of the community good parents presidents a four-story pre-w*r luxury co-op neighborhood residential

retail to a restored Victorian sector called gas town caters to tourists middle upper middle class mix low crime

rate in the music teacher Rizal a car check off 60 year old female Russian

immigrant studios second story walk-up and gas town victims clothing jeans running shoes

blue turtleneck sweater red nylon goose down hooded parka found

nude except for a cheap cloth braided bracelet popular with children no clothing recovered in the crime scene

discovered by hunters under thin of dead leaves they altered the scene enough to confirm death of course red

nylon polymer fiber was found on the body low cross-sectional shape matches

between 1975 and 1980 400,000 vehicles tan acetate fibers consistent with

carpet manufacturing manufacturer and/or use not yet determined rabbit fur on

victims hands probably from gloves and and that's it any similar cases in the

region you tell us something well the

case is two months old the little boy is a low risk victim will became a victim of opportunity the child played no part

in the instigation of the crime other than gender age with small probability of dress and race being a factor and I'm

not sure what you're asking a disorganized crime scene indicated by

the incomplete covering of the body the red fiber indicates automotive type tan fiber maybe from carpeting and unsub's

home unknown subject is male white I assume DNA print confirms pedophile

possibly attracted to flashy things red floorboard carpet red parka under the age of 30 probably under 25 disorganized

crime scene suggests hastened retreat possible in experience with commission of the crime probably not the first time

he's molested a child but with no previous similar acts in the region it may be the first time he's k*lled or he

may have moved here from another jurisdiction all right Lucille

you guys are good anything you want to add you'll k*ll again

pedophiles tend to suffer enormous guilt perhaps this was a single aberrant act

that he won't do again if he were truly guilty you would have gone back and buried the body and whatever his

perception of a proper grave would be it's an interesting theory the letter

Westie here's a letter a hand printed traces of rabbit fur found an envelope

matched the fur found on the victim's body the ends that may be into some kind

of dressing ritual no prints other than the families no postmark the letter was

slipped into their mailbox five days ago Jimmy you beat it I know you think a lot

about your little boy because I do it was a sweet child and I want you to know

he did not suffer after all the acceleration [Music]

we think he means acceleration my subconscious reference to sexual cl*max

after all the acceleration girl came over me

you should feel guilty too smart people like you should know the streets are not

safe they are never safe believe me

excuse me I need to use the ladies room

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think Tony me and Lulu should go up to Vancouver she's a trainee Ned she's the brightest

person to step into this unit since I got here

trainees are restricted to close cases well she's past training she could be a candidate for a permanent position look

a significant aspect of our work is to teach these police departments to deal with these monsters now her job is

simply to take what we teach her back to her Department see how she reacted to

the photograph that was an emotional choke it was a scent of the hunt can we

give it a day before we start shouting hosannas depressing me to cut the budget

not add to it look the case is active but the crime is old Ned and Tony could walk her through it trace the victims

path that's something she would learn from I'm outgunned dear Jimmy no I'm

sorry stepping this one skipper alright you get a hold of Tony and you walk her through it British Columbia

Police Department will benefit from the two of you anyway for a few days third a dead end what could go wrong right

sweetie your tongue is hanging out of your mouth

it isn't very attractive why do you

suppose your tongue is such an integral part of your deductive reasoning

the permutation of a specie subspecies to quantify animal here comes with an

area code not be overwhelmed

yeah

you're getting too emotional that isn't healthy or objection you think I have

ice water running in my veins I can't get my kids out of my mind I called her school an hour ago just to make sure

they were there I hate working with

newlyweds Annie's gonna k*ll another child he's gonna get away with it and

then he's gonna realize that we're impotent to deal with him and he's gonna go on a kid k*lling frenzy and 15 or 20 children later we're gonna catch him

because he's parked at some fire zone

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center on the Pacific Rim a place for raising families for very upset

this is it

the son family is fourth-floor center i haven't arranged for you to talk to them i prefer you didn't

no need to god they've been through it 11:30 what's his path to the music teacher

music teachers five blocks straight ahead

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we believe the boy went this way

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I'm not was a boy night all this way

about four nine [Music] [Applause]

he just kept going this way I'm sorry about this

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not the candy store a little boy like [Music]

morning you recognize this child oh

that's that poor boy that was m*rder*d was he ever in here we don't allow

children in here how's that work very well I hope bloody

thing cost a fortune we have a contract with Metro tech security I'd like to see

the tapes for October 7th this is the tape Tony satellited to us and we're

looking for I don't know but he thinks this is the path the Sonny Boy took to the music teacher October 7 11:40 a.m.

stop could that be Thomas son I love

your eyes he's gone

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is moving at the same pace as a little boy I don't know maybe maybe it's just somebody looking for parking place or

K*llers da Cunha's victim its Eames profile first-time compulsives don't

pre-plan from the territory where the draw attention to themselves he probably lives in the neighborhood I need to

isolate the image I have a dead body in

the car I've been driving for half an hour 30 miles an hour I've been doing

the speed limit less I don't want to risk it nobody around I pull

I couldn't find my way back there at night so it's day I could see road a

couple of miles within either direction I stopped here because if anybody sees

me I can see them first

I pick up the body ninety pounds

the body's getting heavy but I got a go deeper where nobody's gonna find it but I stopped you why I should keep going

why stop the cars coming to cover until it's

clear kick leaves over body I'm freaked

what if all the cars go by I can't be seen here the body's buried enough fear

adrenaline somebody go by here while he

was carrying what somewhere there's a witness or at least saw the car

probably harder to find the witness in the unsub

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to his car being parked out in the sticks now we should play that card Tony you don't have to shout I'm sorry I'm

worked up Ned what do you think I think Tony's not married because the way he dresses for

bed come on Ned I don't know we plant a story in the local papers that there's a

witness my try the unsub deeper in the hiding with no guarantee at turning up the witness we've done it before and

it's worked only when we've had the evidence to back us up we've got no place else to take the case what's your

evidence we've got fibers to the make of the car we got video identifying it as a two-door we don't know that that's the

unsub's vehicle do we Wesley please buy into this for a minute I know this guy

okay give it to me he's white 20 to 25 because that's the pattern with these guys correct he likes things flashy

because he bets against Tony correct he drives a two-door OD of some medium

or pastel color he lives in the gas town area because he's too new to this to be stalking foreign territory let's go get

just in the room I'm certain of both try thinking admissible Tony he was scared

when he disposed of the body so he's not certainly didn't make other mistakes you plan a story about a witness and within

24 hours you'll find a two-door outtie with red carpeting of some medium hue being driven out of town by a dull guy

in his early 20s wearing rabid fur-lined gloves who lives in or around gas town or he slips out of town and who knows

where he's gonna start preying on children next right now let's see what the computer digs up is the seal there

room how's she doing oh it's a little intense

for her but she's doing okay I'm the one developing an edge so what else is new

Alma and norm are working the tape let's see what we get and Ned I want you to

keep an impartial eye on Lulu what is it you smell rusty anger I don't know maybe

it's me good night

night darling see in the morning Ned little problem

that now he's out snooping bad habit I

can never break her up night-night Connie

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this is heavy [Music]

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he's in there yep then I'm gonna pull

him out

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might have something we know the dimensions of the window the distance to permit to his head so from that we can

estimate very loosely his height I think I can give you a picture assuming this

is the unsub we went up there expecting nothing this is what we've got

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hold on

Thanks

here right this will be a lot of help

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can mrs. renovate the beautiful children [Applause]

[Music] hello mr. Piper

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[Music] Johnny Johnny get away from there

[Applause] senator let me tell you what the

criminal profiling unit means to me I was born and raised at Largo Florida it's a small place about 6,000 people

last year serial K*llers took out a small budget cuts are inevitable what we

expect is cooperation in obtaining I have no fat down here senator some people think you're criminal

profiling unit is a high-tech snake oil scam their cost per conviction ratio

doesn't mitigate the allegation cost per conviction is an unfair measurement over the past seven years twenty five million

dollars got into CPL and that result has been 18 convictions how much 1.4 1.4

million dollars per conviction that doesn't include court cards those

eighteen convictions came over the past two years at a cost of 44,000 the

eighteen men convicted confessed to 558 murders four hundred and sixty one of those were women it's a sexual thing the

mean age was 25 not unlike your eight

most are kept alive for days brutalize dismembered and then discarded like rancid meat we can do without the

dramatics senator we know next to nothing about the serial film but what

we do know today is might years ahead of what we knew seven years ago and we know

it because of the people in there 25 million to convict the murderers of 558

innocent citizens that's forty four thousand dollars per victim I don't envy you senator hmm I certainly

wouldn't want the responsibility of putting a price tag on the lives of future victims

excuse buzzing men

some case the rabbit fur isn't glove lining isolated the subspecies terrific

excuse me senator I may be on the verge of reducing my cost conviction fish

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what are you looking at just waiting for the clock to whistle block the whistle

he never showed out I called his mother you're such a delicate sensitive child there was so

much love in him what was in his playing sweetness touch the keys Linton it's for

you yeah Tony forget the gloves the fur comes from a standard French lop why

that's a brown long-haired floppy eared rabbit weighing about 30 pounds they go

for 50 to 100 bucks they are pets all for show anything else yeah I'm working

on an address I always loved that sound

until Tommy what does Tommy have to do with that song every Saturday the clock sings the

hour when it's finished twelve o'clock I knew Tommy would be running up the stairs running so it's just a big day

children love to watch the parks team

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this is strictly family [Music]

and we're open in 15 minutes need a private place to talk [Music]

vacation the suspect unknown the make

model and color are what we're looking for there are children watching the clock

whistle when the clock stops the children look for the next entertainment and this hand comes out of a car window

holding a big bunny rabbit it's a live Ned its nose twitches the best of

strolling for children what bunny rabbit standard French lop we're looking for a

guy with a show rabbit not rabbit fur lined gloves that's why Westie call you saw this guy yes well described him I

can't it was wearing kabuki makeup what you saw yes you forget there he is guys

you walked out of that building intent on gilliam why is that an inappropriate

response you're supposed to be a detective I am a detective we're guests

here consultant this isn't even our country you sneak a weapon into it you're here to learn

I'm here to find the monster who murders children she made the guy

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hold back information work hours as the

open team check your emotions at the door I taught you these things nor the

best I work with you're out there stalking this guy in your own like some lone justice you have

any good reason why because he's out

there [Music] that's crazy is here

Udrih license

give it to excu r18s B I want you to go back to

Washington immediately I want you to spend some time

a psychological evaluation you needed look I'm sorry to see what's happened

what about the k*ller well I don't know see you maybe you

scared him enough so he's on the run hide it maybe in another city maybe we

can't find them because you played Mighty Mouse he ran because I scream not

because I'm a cop you're sure yes doesn't excuse your behavior

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what are you doing here [Music]

you're done for the day mr. Piper we'll play again tomorrow [Music]

we made the unsub off the license plate little gave us were staked out at the address Alan was right he lived in gas

town Lulu Wow Ned I've been through her file it's exemplary are you sense aware

see sorry I didn't pick up the slack oh these are the toughest situations to face you know

believe me I'm sympathetic with anybody's desire to ignore procedure when it comes to child K*llers

Ned you know this is the first homicide case she's been involved with where a child was the victim no I didn't know I

hope so way back is waiting for the

crown issue the warrant well you let us know how it goes she's good Ned she's real good I know

she knows it too problem is control you have to have

discipline time you put a lot of people at risk today nobody actually looks like

this not a perfect world wait you gave me the phone number is six

oh four five five five two two nine eight your kids are mine the police are

coming what [Music]

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this isn't the right man this isn't the right man God in heaven I've shot somebody you k*ll somebody

Tony buck up there he ran for a reason but he's not the man in the picture

check the rest of the building

do the right thing thank God here's our

accomplice for things I don't know where

the pen deter book it here's this souvenir he sees it he relives it you

know this this person was a university graduate they're always smart we want to

believe they're simple-minded so we can find an excuse in their brutality they're not these guys invariably test

above-average realist of phone calls he

made it receive today [Music]

the hardest thing to admit is that I should stay away from nice every one of us at one time or another pulled

ourselves out of investigation you're stressed out you recognize it and you turn it over to someone else that's not

a sign of weakness that's the only thing you learn here

it's enough I appreciate your patience I need to monitor my behavior I know I can

do it

we know about the phone call am I being charged no we're gonna clear your things

oh you have to find another line of work why don't you can you answer that what

answer do you want Ned then I'm barren that I have a missing child that my

stepfather r*ped me what answer do you want I just want the truth I hate them I

just hate them after 10 years of this I woke up hating them I hate them too but

I leave it at home everyone here does

you know I slapped her gave her a real shot I've done that a few times in my

life when I had guys obsessed and agree that they were putting other cops at risk you know I'd do it to rattle their

brains get him to stand up straight and see things with clear eyes so much at

stake when the trails hot you get a guy who's got his nose on him can't see the

turns up ahead here you're doing a favor drawing his attention to it they'd you

know shake it off and say yeah thanks I needed that and then we'd run she glared

at me she she just deign before I felt

then like a I wasn't giving this a little copper wake up and smell the coffee

cuff shop like I was hitting a woman I felt ashamed let a gold friend

you were right on all counts I should not hit her

we keep you around to remind us of how things used to be you're the only guy

here still keeps a rubber hose in his desk come on let's get some coffee

I know it hates coffee the day she walked in my office ten years ago she

wasn't there five minutes and I know what we're dealing with somebody that had it know how rare that is I was

elated I didn't stop to look for spas well maybe you were slapped it because I

slapped her because I didn't see her weakness I blame myself for you know you're gonna let go sometime except what

is like the rotation of the Sun the change of the seasons the fundamental makeup of of character certain days we

have to accept because we cannot alter them like age [Music]

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make a wish and blow out the candles now my birthday at not even close we know blow out the candles

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