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01x04 - Daddy Dearest

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.

01x04 - Daddy Dearest

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this Kramer Miss Kramer you left the

door unlocked Oh mr. Kramer it's 8:30

come on rise and shine the whole worlds are

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hey I thought you and uh David going

skiing for a couple days yeah well we've decided to ride the lift with someone

else which is fine with the way I ski I could get more of a thrill standing fully clothed under a

cold shower okay I'll always remember the time we

spent together PS could you please return my tape of Annie Hall why didn't

I see this coming are you sure you didn't mean what that I wanted it to end I don't know I just

thought this time hey you're here early I got a call from Commissioner Winslow

up in Jersey they found another body soon as I can round everyone up we're on

our way you still want a couple of days off it

could be all right yeah I'm fine good could you uh yeah I'll have the

printouts ready Thanks

it'd be quicker if you just put a g*n to your head and fold you need fiber or

fiber ready to blanket I'll be serving of aggravation to Chile and I'll take my business elsewhere

Ned Platt you are a mule buy yourself some granola poured in a bowl with milk

it'll only hurt a minute I don't you tell me more nonsense Betty diet we can have breakfast at my place

in bed Oh Rita I've got grandchildren

you got grandchildren they can fix their own bread that's for Ned yeah deceased

Richard Alan Kramer this morning Benford police believe he's the fourth in a series of murders

committed by the same unknown subject obviously we don't have an Emmy report

on Kramer but cause of death of the previous three was asphyxiation by ligature in all four cases the bodies

were mutilated and sexual organs removed we don't know whether that was done postmortem or pre all were k*lled in

their homes victims of choice forced entry ground floor windows we are in the

process of accessing personal backgrounds on the three previous victims socio-economic political

involvement so there was some question as to the sexual preference of the three

earlier victims but right now there is no the evidence to indicate that any of them was g*y well what about Kramer we

don't know yet Ned fact is we haven't been able to establish any connection between the victims except in regard to

the manner of their deaths Grayson

oh yes yes commissioner both Deborah

bowling ball blue green or red flu permanent or a racial that will be

necessary sir that we're bringing I want to quit invisible well we'd like to get

a look at the crime scene and then yes that's right

and you know Ned the computer would be a much more efficient way to categorize

informational bytes right normal categorized in my informational byte

this way 440 or I'll tell you what someday you can tell your kids you

worked with the Ginuwine dinosaur that's right right great thank you

Thank You commissioner

that was Commissioner Winslow from Benton there gonna be a problem he's jumping through the hoops for us

it's gotta have a speechwriter it's paid by the word I just hope he doesn't turn this

investigation into a photo op this is

gonna be a photo opportunity don't forget the Supes Jimmy we got a circus here excuse me where's the

detective in charge she's not here yet this your detail traffic traffic C story

Anna over there the guys make a run into him down the block here we are listen YC I'll check around outside I'm

useless in here with all these people I need photographs of Kramer family shots from when he was alive whatever I'll

come back tonight they're actors yeah go ahead I'll get the equipment hell is going on

here I think I would ask him myself in the past 20 minutes who are you John Wesley Grayson criminal

profiling unit Justice Department Joanna's homicide yeah the commissioner said he sends you

guys down yeah I'd love to chat but I got a m*rder of my hair I've got a convention on me does anybody know where

the body is John

where's bud behind the coach that were you founding I got here little way one

of the reporters rolling back arrest the jerk Joe arrest them I already did won't stick but the house will make the

others keep their mitts off the evidence I want this room clear I want prints from every cop and every reporter in

here and leave the body you want prints to my people you access them from first national promised us complete

cooperation he's running for man don't care if he's running for president we came to this town with a job to do now

we can either do it with your cooperation or without it if they don't get it let's hope your

uniform still fits so they get printed

like the Good Book says go from the presence of a foolish man itself receiveth not in him the lips of

knowledge don't bother wasting your time

on an idiot all right let's see what you can salvage from his madness ligature

appears to a thinner belt indentations that approximately 10 centimeters possibly rivets her studs in the

ligature also it seems to be a powdery residue food-wise analysis width of ligature of

four point seven centimeters depth of grooves approximately 1/2 floor has to

make pressure of two to three hundred pounds per square inch to leave bruises death

[Music] no historic evidence of idle reaction to

the genital excision indicating mutilation was carried out postmortem do

we have any maintance so far I've got at least 12 right hands we should do a

cross-match to separate out police officers in the headquarters vessels

unbroken absence of petechiae indicates manual strangulation not free hanging

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wanted here I wanted to get by six o'clock I'd like to bring another man in from Washington to go through the house

for what was a possibility that Kramer may have been h*m* he was the house should have the evidence to

support it why guys can do to search thanks Joe the guys have already done

enough pump er on this door jamb

all right there I thank God every day he's allowed me to

live in the age of high technology

I'm at your bedroom turned upside down burglary I don't know I do believe we've

got an unsub wearing surgical gloves may have had a tear in one of them his

surgical gloves had talc inside them there were toute smudges in the bureau drawer and I think we have one here 8:00

to 5:00 you get a match Joe I don't have my tape measure here he's mine

I guess our unsub's about five for ten

you mean you know he's five well this is for seven well see here's the way I figured shower is still wet upstairs

tall - I'm proud yes is wrong about this I could be but let's suppose that the

unsub had to wait for the guy to gather the shower no he might have put his hand

on the jam you know kind of rested the most folks do that with their hand at

about shorter height I'll make him five-nine five-ten talk kiss another

bite for the file

there were smiles why

is there a gap between him and other people

is Kramer lonely afraid just anti-social

did anyone bridge that gap wife lover

[Music] he's not shying away from other people maybe they're shying away from him

for a century in all four cases woman and the victims fought against the intruder

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h*m* phobic homicide home was your

home are you safe they're safe as your

victims thought they were in theirs was your home look like you like colors so

soothing or they like you dark colorless a deep hole were your

hatred Fester's did you bury him in a

backyard or the only mantelpiece you twisted pervert

Kramer was physically strong but he didn't struggle he could have fought he

should have but he didn't why didn't he

[Music] he knew his k*ller that's why he wasn't

afraid Cramer couldn't even smile with people who were supposed to be his friends yet he trusted the man who

k*lled him he had no reason to be afraid toes too late

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[Music] she gave control samples of his wife's hair their two sons and the cleaning

lady who found the body

I'll run a spectral analysis of the specimens but we can't get a DNA print without hair follicles in the victim

I've already called the Emmie

today catches some water mrs. Kramer it's just hay fever

I'm not morning you were unhappy with

your husband being unhappy would imply there was a relationship how would you describe him

domineering selfish insensitive for 25

years he went out of his way to make sure I knew about his affairs is heterosexual affairs my husband was not

a h*m* ma'am please don't take this the wrong way but are you sure

you'd know you said you had no relationship he was not a h*m*

there are any number of women within a 50-mile radius who can testify to that did he have any close friends you have

to make an effort to have friends Richard was unwilling to do it did he have any enemies you have to make an

effort to have those two mrs. Kramer were you aware that your husband had

three accounts at the bank of northern New Jersey we always banked it in for national well our investigators found three North

Jersey pass books in a crawl space behind his closet total 148 thousand

dollars that's impossible when I needed a car last year he said we

couldn't afford it well the point is this mrs. Kramer if he was able to keep

his account secret from you perhaps there were other aspects of his life of

which you were also unaware mrs. Kramer you stayed with a man who

neglected and abused you he stayed with him for 25 years do you mind if I ask you why when I was

young I thought I was in love with him when I realized I wasn't I thought I

could change him but I realized I couldn't I had no place else to go

I actually found myself feeling sorry

for her then I thought wait a minute I its here's a fool not for 25 years she

deluded herself into believing that there was some kind of relationship to be have with a man who didn't give a damn about what you're projecting don't

start on me I don't want to start anything I wasn't what is it that I'm always the one being put under the

microscope well why don't we ever talk about you and women cuz I don't take them seriously right a couple of nights

to determine that no communicable diseases died of Rachel Moises and

audios trying you're not my type I was an

advertisement look we've got a case of deal with you you're taking your eye off the ball anytime you want to compare

batting averages I'm ready you know what David I thought at last here is someone

who doesn't need me to pull him out of an emotional Everglade of course the fact that he memorized an emulsion

tipped me off it well the guy's not a living monument to psychosis you don't want him before David was Bell the

podiatrist the irrational fears milk why it wasn't irrational I just want to know

why it is so difficult to find a mutually satisfying relationship because you don't want a relationship you want a

project the guy goes out with you and he feels like next month he's gonna read about himself in Psychology Today Oh

cross my legs and I think whoa whoa what's he thinking when I do that but then I figure a wait a minute maybe I should uncross it but I don't because

I'm worried about what that means I'm getting phlebitis that's your problem Dex no it's yours you analyze the hell

out of everything and you don't know what you want if you didn't have a terrific brain and a fabulous bunch

you'd be without any redeeming value at all don't read into it was an observation

save sin control sample of victims hair

is compatible with hair taken from his bathroom clean ladies also compatible

non-compatible not with anything we have Kramer his wife two sons the cleaning

lady nor with a strand we presume came from our unsub good reason that's not a

human hair canine I didn't know Kramer had a dog

according to the report he didn't yeah

yeah thanks Alan oh we have German Shepherd hairs on

Kramer's road didn't have a dog well their Shepherd hairs on other victims

anybody victims one and three had dog

Victor fine here on Sheppard bill no I'll have Valentin Norman run a

cross-match yeah have you gotten the unsub brownish hair about 510 immensely strong to have

exerted that kind of pressure on the victims next muscle b*mb guys body builder maybe maybe it looks like I

wanna know who yes well we can't really say with any real certainty about any of

I'm asking you what you think we're probably talking ritual amputation of the sexual organs was something he

couldn't control the mutilations were more important in the m*rder I say the unsub's a h*m* the mutilations were

punishment wrong wrong what I'm not entitled to an opinion in in the first place there's nothing that

indicates Kramer or any of the other victims were g*y secondly if the unsub was a h*m* he wouldn't have taken

the organs he would have left them on the scene yeah well my bet is we find the guy we find his trophies you got a

hook on the personality well I'm not really sure but there could be talking

borderline personality disorder what gender identity problem closeness or

rejection by a parent we know the victims were loners

what was he one too I think I'll just kind of go out and reconnoiter the

Kramer had to talk to somebody even if it was a pumpjack here the place where he bought

his smokes the guy setup deliberate misleads the bogus forced entry in the burglary or is

that a know also

hey you got any garlic lovers here go easy on that stuff Jimmy so you think

the victims knew their k*ller absolutely how how would four men with nothing in common know the same unsub and willingly

let them into their house well maybe the unsub's a handyman plumber electrician the belt he used to

strangle him had rivets on it now rivets are what hold the loops that handymen hang the tools from but you know maybe

he was military I didn't know borderlines had pets this unsub had a shepherd sometimes they

do sometimes they don't sometimes they k*ll them we're talking borderline here in not conjecture give me some specifics I

don't have any if the guy had a shepherd

and it's not a pet what is this a tool

no never mind I'm sorry I'm wrong I'm wrong never mind no no no Jimmy what do you mean well okay maybe the unsub used

the dog to gain access okay you know maybe he trains the dog to just sit by

the victims door you know crying like he's hurt or he's lost or something you know and then when the victim opens the

door boom he's on him

but I don't know never mind coming wrong I'm wrong no that's good you need some

air [Music]

did you enjoy humiliating me in there you contributed nothing what you did

offer we're a bunch of cookies and sometimes they do and sometimes they don't it's not an exact science no

excuse you know one of the reasons that

makes you so good at least you used to

think so I'm just trying to make sure I'm on the right track before I put yourself on the line

I'm not going to have the efficiency of this unit paralyzed because you're insecure over broken relationship

that's what you're doing I'm doing this job less and the price I pay is an empty

apartment and TV dinner at 3 in the morning if your apartments empty it's because you want it to be your

responsibility to strike the balance and don't use the job as a crutch I did that

I was on a job once the New Mexico was

gone for about six weeks it seemed like a couple of days I went home and I told

my wife I said honey that's my job this is what I do as if that was the

justification what I'd done was to relegate my marriage the second place she didn't deserve that

now I've got another family and I'm not gonna make that mistake again

[ __ ] third Dear John letter the area stop asking yourself questions well the answer is simple they don't know what

they missed

I still say he's classic borderline the thing about the pet doesn't run either water we just haven't connected all the

dots yet severe gender confusion physically

strong highly aggressive in ritualistic and tortured as hell

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she's good if you like that sort I do I still live wait now you just Christmas

very funny I like that

when I rested 235 personable excuse me about that drink for her I made a movie

about you too didn't it get lost sure I'm sure they did it was a Western a big hit I said get out of here oh it's not like

that what was it now I remember Butch and Sundance

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sucker punch you're gonna buy that or commit it to memory gotta protect

yourself these they hear about that guy live down the block get him k*ll prema no three years he

comes in every night for pine to post a she eyes screaming a pack of smokes I ordered the stash inform special two

weeks ago a couple of punks beat up my night manager so he's gonna lose an eye and they grab the cash now cream is

coming in as they're going out and he's got to see them right the cops ask him to testify he says no you don't wanna no

kidding now my guys gonna lose an eye and cream I don't want to get involved now he gets k*lled as far as I'm

concerned it's divine attribution retribution

what good talking to you hey yeah you

like pistachio I got three cases

there's a next time I won't stop her from tearing you apart

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Kramer refused to testify because he was threatened the punks at the grocery

store decided they couldn't take any chances so they k*lled him I wouldn't explain the mutilation well

the other three killings were well-publicized Wednesday so you think it was camouflage they k*lled Kramer then mutilated him to

make it look like the others it's been known to happen Kramer didn't struggle and he didn't

struggle because he knew his k*ller and he wasn't afraid he would have been afraid of the punks Westie he would have at least struggled punch up the file on

victim 1 what are you thinking we know the victims were all loners isolated

from family neighborhood let's assume the k*ller knew that too oh I don't know

how Toni let's just assume no the guy at the store said Kramer didn't want to testify

because he didn't mind getting involved if the k*ller knew that he may have known the same thing about the other

victims too victim number 1 William Terry according to this you could look

in the dictionary under Herman and find his picture police record no record of anything he didn't even have a forest

just one witness to a hit and run homicide November 17th question but

refused to testify victim number two

do you know what it's like to do everything you can to please someone and

no matter what you do it's never enough

can never be enough [Music]

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he wanted a son did he tell you that [Music]

I practiced climbing trees that's six stitches in my chin when I

fell one time saved them

but I could always [Music]

I could look in his eyes and see the disappointment even when I graduated from the Academy

it wasn't enough he wanted somebody as strong as him you

know somebody who could teach everybody how to be a man [Music]

oh no it's gone

[Music] and I have to do it alone

[Music] don't

[Music] witness three John Lewis Bergamo witness

to attempted r*pe one 388 refused to testify

Ernie flew in to supervise Kramer's autopsy there was a subcutaneous

contusion on the lower left mandible inconsistent with the application of the

ligature she'll call the autopsies over the other three victims didn't show any evidence of a chokehold that's probably

because it local Emmy didn't look past it ligature we're looking for someone who lives a structured life whereas a

military-type belt knows how to mislead an investigation got a plan chokehold

and has access to information about his victims relationships to crime I think

our unsub's a cop [Music]

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you must think on the class clown Raymond as has been with this department 17 years I'll reserve ambassador

question 2 at the floor fifth in his job his names on the I don't care whose names on her porch fits our profile to a

tea shop your profiles I know the guys he's 510 he's strong he's got a violence

quotient that goes off the end of the scale he's got a short fuse is what it is he's undergone ia evaluation for

unnecessary and extreme violence not once but three times he need a suspect in the groin just filling in his desk

there's stress in this job you want to charge him you get yourself a warrant because I'm not lifting a finger against

a good cop and how you feel Joe we come riding into town on our white horses I

understand your frustration but bringing in Randazzo is just to talk to him real

quiet no reporters low-key no embarrassment to him no embarrassment to

the department I just want to stop these killings as I know you do

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officer in Gaza we've sort of hit a wall and we thought since you had spoken with

two of the victims slimeballs the only chance we had to nail those perps and they wouldn't stand up like a man and

testify what do you mean like men and I want to know what he means if I said like women

I don't think you know what the hell I was talking about I could tell you what you were talking about did they let you

into their homes I'm not right off the bat but once I started putting on the pressure then they let me out you put on

the pressure intimidation threats lady get off my back all right I didn't rough them up that's what you

mean although I should have they give you any reason why they wouldn't testify yeah they didn't want it they didn't want the

hassle it's the same old story but they got no hassles man officer and Desiree

thanks very much for sitting around a

squad room bored to death you got kids [ __ ] for you like dogs

hey love listen I got a shepherd just gave birth to six pups and I'm looking for a real good old aunt do it I get

within 50 feet of dog and I start sneezing so hard I blow my brains that thanks stuff you bet

at least this time you can't accuse me of not committing this time I was just

wrong I was too but I didn't think the guy's head off maybe our unsub's not a cop maybe he's

not which means we're back at square one

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mr. Michael Carson yeah officer Samuels mr. Carson I'd like to ask you a few questions about the as*ault on mrs.

Ardell McCarthy look I told the other cop and I'll tell you I didn't see anything would it be possible to discuss

this inside you only take a couple of minutes I didn't see anything and that's the end of it you know people get distracted you know if I could just talk

to you inside were you talking to my talking to another cop I know that's

what I'm telling her seems like this is an inconvenient time yeah it's inconvenient sorry to have

bothered you [Music]

okay yeah thank so we have a cross-match and all the hairs found on the other

victims German Shepherd and the guy's a cop we don't know that he is we don't

know that he isn't cop German Shepard Harris I checked the k-9 squad as soon as I got the first word about the dog there are

four officers three of which were above 6-foot and had blond or black hair not even a pimple on their psychological

profile what about the fourth statistically outside the realm what the

hell does that mean she's female

well over 98% of serial K*llers are male and 3% of the female population is 510

or above so you you didn't open her file because she was female I didn't open her

file I don't care about the statistics does she fit the profile oh come on him

[Music] mr. Kevin sangeun I'm officer Samuels is

mrs. Kevin sangeun home nobody's home she's shopping she'll be back in half an

hour she wrecked the car no nothing like that I wonder if I could wait for her she won

the police department raffle and I need her signature so we can release her prize what did you win TV no kid yeah

sure come on in easy huh one of them wide screens

[Music] Joe what shift is Karen Samuels on look I made a jerk with rent dazzle because

of you now you want me to bring her in I mean don't you learn from your mistakes she's on the k-9 squad yeah she'd have

hair on her clothes there was Shepherd hair and all the victims she's 5 foot 10 she's got brown hair her file says she's a weightlifter

Joe what shift is she on she's on duty right now give him location I wanted 20 on Karen

Samuels stat Joe have you had any incidents in the past 24 hours anything serious assaults robberies

anything yeah what she turned off her

radio I heard I heard we did have an as*ault on a mrs. Ardell

McCarthy somebody beat her too with an inch of her life witnesses uncooperative witnesses

I want unit rolling two two residences Carthage at 208 mckinley 1217 Oh which

ones closest to the motel [Music]

for setting us we can contact she switched off a radio what does she live somewhere on the west side

I want the press the hell out of here and I want this place sealed off now [Music]

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got two cars out back she's in the apartment on all the exits covered

coming

[Music] I want this house cleared out I want

this street sealed off she won't me take a piece of life while wearing vests let's go

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officer Sanders you're under arrest m*rder one crackle god sakes Karen that

dog was your partner know what give it up come on come on come on and fight come

on and put down your g*ns and fight you've got you're supposed to be men

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work with them

you search this apartment I bet you find those amputated body parts what the hell

are you talking about and you got to be a better man than anyone else gotta have the trophies to

prove [Music]

preliminary report on Karen Samuels by New Jersey state psychiatrist indicates

classic borderline severe gender confusion you were right

there's no indication that I've been feeling insecure over a broken

relationship stop trusting my instincts because of that somebody died

say something West that was my Mia :

if you want absolution you're gonna have to get in line with the rest of us hmm

you know sometimes I feel like the shoemaker's kid I'm the one that always goes barefoot got everybody else figured

out

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severe gender confusion initiated by a

father who wanted and these are Karen's words

the summit every father wants [Music]

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