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#415 : Madame X

Titre VO : "DOA for a Day"
Titre VF : "Madame X" 

Réalisation : Christine Moore
Scénario : John Dove, Peter M.Lenkov

USA : 2 Avril 2008
France : 25 Janvier 2009

 


Casting :  Emmanuelle Vaugier (Det. Jennifer Angell), Joshua Pence (Barman), Kam Keskin (Suspect), Jessalyn Gilsig (Jordan Gates), Bryan Anderson (Russ McHenry)


Résumé :

La police de NY recherche toujours activement Madame X, qui a jusqu'ici échappé à Mac et qui continue de tuer. Une voix anonyme mène les experts dans un bâtiment désaffecté, où est censé se trouver son cadavre.
Mais la victime est Katie Mann. Madame X lui a infligé une atroce chirurgie pour faire croire à sa propre mort. Katie était l'assistance d'une collaboratrice du maire, Jordan Gates, elle-même connaissance de Mac. Celle-ci prépare un grand évènement le soir même, en compagnie de nombreuses personnalités. Mac veut à tout prix éviter de nouvelles victimes...

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INT./EXT. VARIOUS N.Y. LOCATIONS - NIGHT

MUSIC IN

[MONTAGE OF “CRIME CATCHERS” TELEVISION SHOW’S OPENING AND “RE-ENACTMENT” OF A MURDER]

CRIME CATCHERS ANNOUNCER (V.O.)

This is “New York Crime Catchers.” Tonight the New York City Police Department is asking for your help. Approximately six weeks ago at 11:30 p.m., Cheryl Miller was leaving a New York dance club and on her way home. It was at this time that she was approached by a female suspect who pulled a gun and fired upon the victim, killing her instantly. The suspect is also believed to be responsible for the murders of Judge Daniel McHenry, a resident of New Jersey and New York Representative Congressman Philip Devane. The suspect is a white female, five foot eight, 110 pounds with medium-length blonde hair. If you have any information about this case, call the New York Crime Catchers tip line, 1-800-555-0199. Remember, every call is confidential.

[PROGRAM ENDS WITH A POLICE ARTIST’S RENDERING OF SUSPECT AND READS, “CRIME CATCHERS HOTLINE: 1-800-555-0199”]

MUSIC OUT

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT

MUSIC IN

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

CRIME CATCHERS OPERATOR (V.O.)

Crime Catchers. How can I help you?

WOMAN (V.O.)

I saw her. The blonde woman the police are looking for. I know where she is.

MUSIC OUT

EXT. VENETTI MEATS - NIGHT

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

This building’s been vacant for over two years. New York Power Corp. detected an abnormal usage spike from an adjacent building.

STELLA BONASERA

Someone’s piggy-backing off their neighbor’s electric service. This tip looks like the real deal.

DETECTIVE JESSICA ANGELL

The perimeter is locked down. We’re good to go.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

All right. Listen up. We’ll be entering the building from a side location, here. This will be our primary access and egress point. And I want radio silence. Our suspect is technologically sophisticated.

MAC TAYLOR

Make no mistake. This woman will be armed and very dangerous. She’s a shooter. Killing is nothing more than an instinct.

MUSIC IN

MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)

During our last pursuit I saw her cut down an unarmed civilian without blinkin’ an eye and so she will not think twice about putting a bullet in you. Play it smart.

INT. VENETTI MEATS - MAIN WAREHOUSE - NIGHT

[MAC TAYLOR, STELLA BONASERA AND DETECTIVE JESSICA ANGELL WALK QUIETLY INTO THE ROOM. MAC SIGNALS TO ANGELL AND STELLA. ANGELL AND MAC MOVE INTO ANOTHER ROOM AND FIND A MAKEUP TABLE WITH VARIOUS WIG STANDS, AND A BANK OF COMPUTERS SHOWING WHITE SCREENS. ON ANOTHER WALL ARE PHOTOS.]

INT. VENETTI MEATS - BUTCHERING ROOM - NIGHT

[MAC AND ANGELL FIND A BODY LAID OUT ON A CUTTING BLOCK, HER ARMS AND LEGS HANDCUFFED, A KNIFE STUCK IN HER HEAD]

STELLA BONASERA

Perimeter’s clear.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Man, that’s brutal.

STELLA BONASERA

Is this Suspect X?

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Mac, you were the only one to come face-to-face with her.

[FLASHBACK]

BUSINESSMAN

She just knocked on my door. I, I don’t know who she is. Please, she’s, let me go.

[BACK TO SCENE]

MAC TAYLOR

Yeah. It’s her.

MUSIC OUT

LATER -

[STELLA TAKES A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF SUSPECT X]

[POLICE WALLA]

STELLA BONASERA

Hey, guys, it’s gonna be another minute.

MAC TAYLOR

Any luck?

ADAM ROSS

Negative. Hard drive’s been wiped clean.

MAC TAYLOR

See if you can find any foreign prints. Maybe whatever was on these laptops is something to die for.

MUSIC IN

STELLA BONASERA

You okay? What are you thinking?

MAC TAYLOR

This woman was a skilled and trained assassin. Whoever did this had to be better.

[REENACTMENT]

STELLA BONASERA (V.O.)

Who kills a professional killer?

[TO OPENING SEQUENCE]

THEME MUSIC IN

SHOW TITLE - OPENING SEQUENCES

OPENING CREDITSEND OF TEASER

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

MUSIC IN

INT. M.E.’S OFFICE - AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY

[DR. SID HAMMERBACK SHAVES SUSPECT X’S HEAD, X-RAYS HER HEAD, THEN REMOVES THE KNIFE FROM HER HEAD]

LATER -

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Your murder weapon.

MUSIC OUT

MAC TAYLOR

Well. Six-and-a-half-inch, black powder-coated blade, saw-tooth back. This is a Navy SEAL combat knife.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Now if only there was a game show that called for that kind of knowledge, you’d be able to retire early.

MAC TAYLOR

I’d miss your wit. And your keen sense of observation. Speaking of which.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Uh, that knife you’re holding was used to inflict these stab wounds. They’re shallow. Deliberate but non-lethal.

MAC TAYLOR

She endured a tremendous amount of pain.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

She was also suffering from acute dehydration. Her muscles showed signs of atrophy. And take a look at these.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK (CONTINUED)

On the surface they appear to be minor abrasions. But in fact--.

[ZOOM IN TO CLOSE UP OF BED SORES]

MUSIC IN/OUT

MAC TAYLOR

They’re bed sores.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Exactly.

MAC TAYLOR

Aged linear bruising. Looks like she was bound for an extended period of time.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

I was getting to that, Mac. You’re stealing my thunder. See?

MAC TAYLOR

Legs as well. She struggled hard.

[REENACTMENT]

[SCREAMS]

[BACK TO SCENE]

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Now, this looks to be a, an injection site. [ZOOM INTO CLOSE UP OF INJECTION] I’m waiting for tox to come back to determine if she was drugged. But I’m guessing she was held captive for a long time, tortured and possibly drugged. Any theories?

MAC TAYLOR

This woman murdered people for a living. She was highly skilled. She probably trained to endure torture. Whatever her killer was after, she didn’t give it up easily.

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

Or give it up at all.

MAC TAYLOR

Anything else?

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

I thought you’d never ask. This may be the most perplexing thing about this case. [MUSIC IN] These metal screws were inserted during a cosmetic forehead lift.

[REENACTMENT]

[BACK TO SCENE]

DR. SID HAMMERBACK (CONTINUED)

And take a look at these, uh, healed fractures. Uh, inflicted during a surgical procedure to alter the nose. My autopsy also revealed remnants of scarring from an eyelift, and genioplasty, and skin layer erosion therapy. And all of this work was performed within the last couple of months.

MAC TAYLOR

Our vic was a--

[FLASHBACK]

MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--master of disguise. Maybe cosmetic--

[BACK TO SCENE]

MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)

--surgery was another elaborate way to conceal her identity. How are you at reverse engineering?

DR. SID HAMMERBACK

I don’t like the sound of this.

MAC TAYLOR

Sid, if you can rebuild her face to what it may have looked like before the surgery, it might help I.D. her. Knowing who this woman is will help us find her enemies and who might have wanted her dead.

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - TRACE LAB - DAY

MUSIC OUT

MAC TAYLOR

You get any prints off the laptops?

ADAM ROSS

Nothing usable.

MAC TAYLOR

Knife give us anything?

ADAM ROSS

Here. Take a peak.

[FLASHBACK]

MUSIC IN

ADAM ROSS (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

I found it in the handle.

MUSIC OUT

[BACK TO SCENE]

MAC TAYLOR

A ball-bearing?

ADAM ROSS

Hmm. Minute traces of dried blood on the surface.

MAC TAYLOR

Looks like shrapnel from an improvised explosive device. Soldiers wounded in action sometimes keep the shrapnel that’s pulled from their bodies.

MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)

It’s like a little reminder of how close they came to dying. You get any prints off the knife?

ADAM ROSS

Wiped clean. But I did find some dried blood in the crevice between the hilt and the handle. I sent both samples to DNA.

MAC TAYLOR

So if the owner of the knife was wounded in action, he or she would be the recipient of a Purple Heart.

ADAM ROSS

Are you saying our killer could be a war hero?

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - DNA - DAY

MUSIC IN/OUT

DANNY MESSER

Hey, Linds.

LINDSAY MONROE

Oh, Danny. They’re beautiful. Nothing says you’re special like centrifuge tubes filled with DNA samples.

DANNY MESSER

I’m not gonna live this down, am I?

LINDSAY MONROE

Forgetting my birthday? Probably not. Where’d you get these?

DANNY MESSER

Adam found more blood samples on the knife. There was a piece of shrapnel hidden inside the handle. Did you run the blood he found on the hilt?

LINDSAY MONROE

Yep. Came back non-human. I sent it to serology for a protein analysis.

DANNY MESSER

Lindsay, come on. Uh, guys, we’re not wired for remembering dates, okay? We remember the sports stats and then steak sides. That’s our thing, all right?

LINDSAY MONROE

Steak sides? You are so busted.

ND TECH

Detective Monroe?

LINDSAY MONROE

Thanks.

ND TECH

Sure.

LINDSAY MONROE

DNA from the knife came back to a white-tailed deer, common to the forests of the northeastern United States.

DANNY MESSER

Wasn’t one of Suspect X’s victims on a hunting trip in Jersey when he was killed?

[FLASHBACK]

MUSIC IN

LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.)

Yeah, Judge Daniel McHenry.

MUSIC OUT

[BACK TO SCENE]

LINDSAY MONROE (CONTINUED)

And we also found evidence of a whitetailed deer infected with Lyme disease at that crime scene. So, if our new blood sample has Lyme disease then it’s possible that our murder weapon was at that same location.

DANNY MESSER

Boom. What about the blood on the shrapnel? Did that come back deer or human?

LINDSAY MONROE

Human. I’ll run it through CODIS.

DANNY MESSER

All right. While you do that, I will run the blood from the knife and see if Bambi is infected with Lyme disease.

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY

MUSIC IN/OUT

[WALLA]

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - MAC’S OFFICE - DAY

STELLA BONASERA

Hey. What’s the rush?

MAC TAYLOR

An old friend of mine from the Marine Corps, General Finn provided me with a list of Navy SEALs who were recipients of the Purple Heart who were wounded in combat from an IED or a car bomb.

STELLA BONASERA

Bet that’s a pretty exclusive list.

MAC TAYLOR

Exclusive enough that we may have identified the owner of the knife that killed Suspect X. Russ McHenry.

STELLA BONASERA

Judge McHenry’s son?

MUSIC IN

MAC TAYLOR

The blood we found on the murder weapon was from a white-tailed deer that tested positive for Lyme disease.

STELLA BONASERA

And we can place Russ McHenry’s knife at the scene of his father’s murder.

MAC TAYLOR

The same knife that killed Suspect X. And the answer to the question, who is capable of murdering a professional killer?

STELLA BONASERA

A Navy SEAL with a killer motive.

EXT. OFFICE BUILDING - DAY

INT. AUTO REPAIR SHOP - GARAGE - DAY

RUSS MCHENRY

Look, Detectives. I’m really busy. [MUSIC OUT] I’ve got a garage full of cars. Why don’t we skip this interrogation one-on-one crap and get right to the point.

MAC TAYLOR

You still have the Navy SEAL combat knife that was issued to you when you joined your unit?

RUSS MCHENRY

I gave it to my father to gut his deer the day he was killed. That’s the last time I saw it.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Well, it just turned up, stuck in the back of a dead woman’s skull.

MAC TAYLOR

We think she’s the person responsible for your father’s murder.

RUSS MCHENRY

Well, when you catch her killer, be sure to thank them for me.

MAC TAYLOR

Mr. McHenry, whoever killed her was highly skilled. This person was able to render a trained assassin helpless and then torture and murder her, presumably all by himself.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Person capable of that might have had extensive military training. What do you think?

RUSS MCHENRY

What do I think?

[WALLA]

[RUSS WHEELS HIMSELF FROM UNDER THE CAR REVEALING PROSTHESES ON BOTH LEGS AND HIS LEFT ARM]

RUSS MCHENRY

I’m not gonna let you stand here and accuse me of murder.

MAC TAYLOR

We’re not accusing you. We’re trying to understand how your knife ended up at our crime scene.

RUSS MCHENRY

You’re disappointed, Detective. I can see it in your eyes. You come here expecting a big strong Navy SEAL killing machine. Instead you get half a soldier.

MAC TAYLOR

What I see is motive.

RUSS MCHENRY

What do you know?

MAC TAYLOR

More than you think.

RUSS MCHENRY

Don’t you dare pity me.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

It ain’t pity, Russ. I’m just trying to figure out if you could a done it.

RUSS MCHENRY

What? ‘Cause of these? Twenty different ways, Detective. Trust me. But come on, leaving my knife behind? That’s sloppy. If you know anything about Navy SEALs, we’re not sloppy. I’ll tell you this though. If I would’ve known who killed my father, yeah, I would’ve done it.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - DAY

[POLICE SIREN]

INT. M.E.’S OFFICE - AUTOPSY ROOM - DAY

MUSIC IN

[MONTAGE SEQUENCE OF DR. HAMMERBACK LOOKING AT VICTIM’S PLASTIC SURGERY PROCEDURES]

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - A/V LAB - DAY

[MONTAGE SEQUENCE OF DANNY USING DR. HAMMERBACK’S NOTES TO CREATE A PICTURE OF THE VICTIM ON THE COMPUTER]

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY

MUSIC OUT

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Tox results came back on Suspect X. We found traces of morphine and propofol in her system.

MAC TAYLOR

Veterinarians use propofol to anesthetize animals.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Lab also detected traces of ringer’ssolution in the blood, which makes sense because the vic was suffering from acute hypertonicity.

MAC TAYLOR

A complication associated with longterm intravenous feeding. Explains the puncture mark Sid found on--

[FLASHBACK]

MUSIC IN

MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--Suspect X’s hand.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (V.O.)

And her bed--

MUSIC OUT

[BACK TO SCENE]

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (CONTINUED)

--sores and muscle atrophy. She was in bed for a long time.

MAC TAYLOR

Still doesn’t explain why our killer drugged her, fed her intravenously and then held her hostage over a long period of time. It just doesn’t make sense.

DANNY MESSER

Actually, it does. If the woman we found in the warehouse is not Suspect X.

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - A/V LAB - DAY

DANNY MESSER

Using the cosmetic surgery data Sid culled from the autopsy, I was able to deconstruct our victim’s face, coming up with a, a pre-surgery composite.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

And how do we know that’s not what our hired killer looked like before the surgery?

DANNY MESSER

‘Cause I ran the composite through our Missing Persons database and this is what I found. Boom. Her name is Katie Mann. Six weeks ago she disappeared [MUSIC IN] under suspicious circumstances.

MAC TAYLOR

Suspect X specifically targeted Katie Mann because she closely resembled her. The surgery made them identical.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

So she kidnaps, tortures and kills an innocent girl to fake her own death.

DANNY MESSER

Yeah. Means our, uh, female assassin is still alive.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

But why go through all that trouble to make us believe she’s dead?

DANNY MESSER

Well, ‘cause every law enforcement agency in the country’s looking for her. She dies, her homicide cases die, too. So that means she’s free.

MAC TAYLOR

Free to kill again.

MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT ONE

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

EXT. WEST SIDE PIER - STAGE AREA - DAY

[WALLA]

JORDAN GATES

Dignitary protection is your number one priority. The mayor will be led and off the stage from that stairway. Um, as for final numbers, it’s still unknown, but you can be assured. Tomorrow’s Green Rally will be one of the largest outdoor gatherings in New York history.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

You two know each other?

MAC TAYLOR

We met last year. Charity event in Gracie Mansion.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Gracie Mansion, huh?

MAC TAYLOR

Couple of months after we met, her estranged husband began stalking her. She made a special request to the Chief.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

And you took care of it.

MAC TAYLOR

Yeah.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

You know, I’ve never even had an old lady ask me to help her cross the street?

JORDAN GATES

Magnetometers will be set up at every entryway, but that doesn’t mean that anyone in this detail feels that they can relax. You will have to be on your toes. I want that site report and threat assessment on my desk before the puck drops tonight. Once the Rangers hit the ice, I’m off the clock. And that’s it. You got a lot of work to do, gentlemen. Get to it.

MAC TAYLOR

Detective Don Flack, Jordan Gates, the mayor’s Criminal Justice Coordinator.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Pleasure.

JORDAN GATES

Same. It’s good to see you again, Detective Taylor. Crime Lab back in one piece?

MAC TAYLOR

Well, I don’t know what strings you pulled, but it seemed to happen overnight.

JORDAN GATES

Well, I figured I owed you one. The mayor, however, he didn’t see it the same way. He said next time you wanna blow up your crime lab, it’s gonna come out of your paycheck. What can I do for you today, Detectives?

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Miss Gates, you filed a Missing Persons report on your former assistant, Katie Mann.

JORDAN GATES

Uh, yeah, about six weeks ago. Why?

MAC TAYLOR

I’m afraid we have some bad news.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Last night she was found murdered in an abandoned warehouse downtown.

JORDAN GATES

My God.

MAC TAYLOR

I’m sorry.

JORDAN GATES

Uh, Katie’s like a little sister to me. She, she didn’t have any family.

MAC TAYLOR

Jordan, I know this is difficult, but we do we need to ask you a few questions.

JORDAN GATES

Of course.

MAC TAYLOR

What can you tell me about the day Katie disappeared?

JORDAN GATES

Uh, nothing out of the ordinary. She came to work. She told me she was gonna go out that night, to a club. Um, Random. It’s downtown.

MAC TAYLOR

Cosplay club, right? It’s where people dress like avatars?

JORDAN GATES

Yeah. That’s right. She loved going there. You know the place?

MAC TAYLOR

Katie wasn’t the killer’s first victim. A woman named Cheryl Miller was murdered a couple of months ago following a night out at that same club.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Katie say she was gonna meet anyone? Boyfriend, girlfriend?

JORDAN GATES

No. She always went alone. When she didn’t show up for work the next day, you know, I just figured she had a late night. And then when I didn’t hear from her the following day, uh, that’s when I filed the Missing Persons report.

MUSIC IN

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT

INT. CLUB RANDOM - NIGHT

[COMPUTER ANIMATION SHOWS ON SCREENS AS CLUB PATRONS, DRESSED AS AVATARS, DANCE]

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

What does this place remind you of?

DANNY MESSER

Uh, I have no idea.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Star Wars Cantina.

DANNY MESSER

Oh, right, the bar Luke went to on Mos Eisley. Absolutely.

BARTENDER

How can I help you, Officers?

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

How do you know this isn’t a costume?

BARTENDER

Give me a break, man.

DANNY MESSER

Recognize any of these women, Cowboy?

BARTENDER

Yeah. They’re regulars. Haven’t seen ‘em in awhile. I think this one’s name’s Katie.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

What about the other one?

BARTENDER

No idea. Served her a couple times. Didn’t really say much.

DANNY MESSER

Where is that coming from?

BARTENDER

I got no idea. Someone’s hacked into the system, man. I don’t know.

[A COMPUTER ANIMATED VERSION OF MAC STANDS IN A HALLWAY OF PHOTOS OF VICTIMS, INCLUDING KATIE AND JUDGE MCHENRY]

TAYLOR AVATAR (V.O.)

[ECHOED] Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Detective Taylor and I’m with the New York Crime Lab. The NYPD needs your help tonight to bring to justice a fugitive.

[GUNSHOT]

[MAC’S AVATAR IS SHOT BY SUSPECT X’S AVATAR]

DANNY MESSER

What the…

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

It’s Suspect X. She knows we’re here.

DANNY MESSER

She could be here. Anyone holding a mobile device.

SUSPECT X AVATAR (V.O.)

[DISTORTED] Detectives. The hunt for me is futile. Why are you wasting your time chasing shadows? Like a nightmare that won’t go away. [HER IMAGE MORPHS INTO OTHER AVATARS] I will continue to evolve--

FEMALE AVATAR (V.O.)

--while you and your cops--

MALE AVATAR (V.O.)

--chase their tails and mop up the blood.

MONSTER AVATAR (V.O.)

We now return to your regular scheduled party.

[FIRE ERUPTS IN FRONT OF MONSTER AVATAR. THE SCREEN RETURNS TO ITS COMPUTERIZED ANIMATION.]

[WALLA]

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Danny? She’s watching us.

[CSI SHOT - THROUGH CAMERAS]

INT. ND OFFICE - NIGHT

[SUSPECT X WATCHES DANNY AND FLACK IN THE CROWDED CLUB]

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT

MUSIC OUT

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (V.O.)

Call Suspect X--

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - NIGHT

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--made to Crime Catchers originated from a throwaway cell phone. No other calls were made and it’s been turned off.

STELLA BONASERA

Well, what about pulling up some of the background noise from the 911 tape? That could determine where she made the call from.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Done. No acoustic anomalies to work with.

LINDSAY MONROE

Hey. Anyone for good news?

STELLA BONASERA

Please.

[FLASHBACK]

MUSIC IN

LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

The custom-made bone screws that Sid pulled from the victim’s skull were made by a company called Unlimited Titanium.

MUSIC OUT

[BACK TO SCENE]

LINDSAY MONROE

They were special ordered, coated in titanium. A Park Avenue plastic surgeon by the name of Joseph Kirkbaum placed the order about two years ago.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Suspect X kidnapped Katie Mann to alter her face. What would make a high-end cutter like Kirkbaum complicit in something like that?

LINDSAY MONROE

His license was revoked a year ago for malpractice. He went into the undertaking business. Now, get this. Laurie Hess, the woman responsible for Kirkbaum having his license pulled by the state, was found shot to death in her Florida condominium two months ago. One round to the back of the head.

STELLA BONASERA

Okay. Well, Kirkbaum had to be a suspect.

LINDSAY MONROE

He was. But he had an airtight alibi. He was in New York when she was ventilated. But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t involved. The Hess murder had all the earmarks of a contract killing. The slug that the Miami Crime Lab found at the scene had [MUSIC IN] striation marks consistent with the use of a silencer.

STELLA BONASERA

So, Kirkbaum hires Suspect X to pull the trigger. And to repay the favor, he performs plastic surgery on Katie Mann.

LINDSAY MONROE

Only one way to find out.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT

EXT. KIRKBAUM MANOR - SIDE ENTRANCE - NIGHT

MUSIC OUT

[POLICE WALLA]

DETECTIVE JESSICA ANGELL

What?

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

You look good in a vest.

DANNY MESSER

What’s it look like?

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Kirkbaum’s car is parked out front.

DETECTIVE JESSICA ANGELL

Snooped around. Doesn’t look like anyone’s home, but the basement door was unlocked.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

You bring anything else?

LINDSAY MONROE

All access pass.

[SHE HOLDS UP A WARRANT]

DETECTIVE JESSICA ANGELL

Nice.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

You guys take the downstairs, we’ll hit the upstairs.

DANNY MESSER

All right.

INT. KIRKBAUM MANOR - STAIRCASE/BASEMENT - NIGHT

[MEOWING]

LINDSAY MONROE

So much for sterile conditions.

DANNY MESSER

Joseph Kirkbaum, NYPD.

MUSIC IN

[DANNY AND LINDSAY FIND SEVERAL DEAD BODIES ON OPERATING TABLES]

DANNY MESSER

Lindsay. You ready? NYPD.

INT. KIRKBAUM MANOR – EMBALMING/OPERATING ROOM -

NIGHT (CONTINUOUS)

DANNY MESSER

This is definitely where Kirkbaum held Katie Mann.

[REENACTMENT]

[SCREAM]

[BACK TO SCENE]

LINDSAY MONROE

And where he surgically altered--

[REENACTMENT]

LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--her appearance to make her look like Suspect X.

[BACK TO SCENE]

DANNY MESSER

Lindsay. Looks like we found our doctor. Oh, he’s dead. T.O.D. can’t be more than eight hours ago.

LINDSAY MONROE

What is that in his eye?

[CSI SHOT/REVERSE IMAGE THROUGH CAMERA TO LINDSAY AND DANNY]

DANNY MESSER

Looks like some sort of camera.

INTERCUT WITH -

INT. ND OFFICE - NIGHT

[SUSPECT X WATCHES DANNY AND LINDSAY THROUGH DR. KIRKBAUM’S CAMERA]

LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.)

Danny. She’s watching us.

[DANNY REMOVES THE CAMERA FROM THE DOCTOR’S EYE]

DANNY MESSER

Not anymore.

[DANNY CUTS THE CAMERA’S CONNECTION]

MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT TWO

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT

MUSIC IN

[POLICE SIREN]

INT. KIRKBAUM MANOR - BASEMENT - NIGHT

[SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE EMBALMING/OPERATING ROOM]

ADAM ROSS

I got nothin’. Hard drive’s been wiped clean. This girl is really good at hiding her tracks.

DANNY MESSER

But what Kirkbaum? I’m gonna have Flack subpoena his email accounts, his, uh, phone records, any computers he had access to over the last six months. We gotta focus on hardware outside of this location. And if Kirkbaum hired Suspect X, he must have left a, an electronic footprint behind.

LINDSAY MONROE

Hey, Danny.

DANNY MESSER

Yeah.

LINDSAY MONROE

There’s high velocity blood spatter on these coveralls.

DANNY MESSER

Kirkbaum had a close contact wound to the face. Suspect X must have been wearing these when she executed--

[LINDSAY TAKES A SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE COVERALL’S BLOOD SPATTER]

DANNY MESSER (CONTINUED)

--him.

[REENACTMENT]

[BACK TO SCENE]

DANNY MESSER

Got something in one of the pockets.

LINDSAY MONROE

It’s a strange consistency.

DANNY MESSER

Let’s get it over to Hawkes. Whatever it is, if Suspect X had it in her coveralls, could explain what the hell’s going on.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - NIGHT

LINDSAY MONROE

The bullet recovered from Kirkbaum’s skull came from a .45, same caliber Suspect X uses.

MAC TAYLOR

Once she knew we were onto her, she killed Kirkbaum to tie up any loose ends.

LINDSAY MONROE

Yeah, but why would leave behind a camera in his eye?

MAC TAYLOR

It’s her way of looking over her shoulder to see how far behind we are.

ADAM ROSS

Mac.

MAC TAYLOR

Don’t tell me, Adam. You broke the case.

ADAM ROSS

All I gotta say is remember today when I put in for a raise. [CHUCKLES] Come on.

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - A/V LAB - NIGHT

ADAM ROSS

Detective Flack came through with the subpoenas and I’m going through all of Kirkbaum’s electronic communications. I’ve been focusing on everything to and from the good doctor leading up to and after the Laura Hess murder.

MAC TAYLOR

And?

ADAM ROSS

What you’re about to see is a series of emails between Kirkbaum and his attorney. Now, it seems like Kirkbaum was angry about Hess refusing to settle out of court or drop the complaint she filed against him with the State Medical Board. Really threatening stuff. A few minutes after the exchange, Kirkbaum received an instant message from someone using a newly created untraceable email account that emanated from inside an Internet café in Soho.

[REENACTMENT]

MUSIC IN

ADAM ROSS (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

And the message simply read, “I can take care of your problem.”

MAC TAYLOR (V.O.)

Kirkbaum didn’t--

MUSIC OUT

[BACK TO SCENE]

MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)

--find Suspect X. She found him and offered her services for a price.

ADAM ROSS

Yeah. And she found him using a recursive spider. It’s an Internet mining program that searches instant messages and emails for key words and phrases.

MUSIC IN

[A SERIES OF WORDS JUMP OFF THE MONITORS, “SOMEONE TO KILL,” “LAWSUIT,” “END OF MY ROPE,” “DESTROY HER,” “SMASH HER HEAD IN,” RUINING MY LIFE,” “I’LL KILL HER.”]

DR. JOSEPH KIRKBAUM (V.O.)

[DISTORTED/WHISPERED] Get someone to kill her. I need this lawsuit to just go away. I’m at the end of my rope here. I want to destroy her like she destroyed me. Everyone wanted to smash her head in. The lies she-- I’ll kill her before. Did you hear what she said afterwards?

MAC TAYLOR

That’s how she identifies potential clients.

ADAM ROSS

And when she finds her mark, she plants a worm to compromise the computer and monitor all communications going in and out.

MAC TAYLOR

That way gains more intimate knowledge of the situation and times her approach based on what she’s reading.

ADAM ROSS

[LAUGHS] It’s brilliant. And it’s, uh, it’s evil. Really evil. Yeah, like--. What are you thinking about?

MAC TAYLOR

Fishing. Suspect X is still out there and if her past is any indication, she’s probably looking for business.

ADAM ROSS

So you want to set a trap?

MAC TAYLOR

Adam, set up a half dozen untraceable email accounts. Develop some believable conflict scenarios between people and start sending threatening, inflammatory messages back and forth. If she takes the bait, we may just catch ourselves a killer.

MUSIC OUT

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR/DNA LAB - NIGHT

[COMPUTER MUSIC]

[HAWKES WATCHES A COMPUTER SCREEN WITH GRAPHICS ACCOMPANIED BY MUSIC]

MAC TAYLOR

[CLEARS THROAT]

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Processed that, uh, metal-based mystery liquid--

[FLASHBACK]

DR. SHELDON HAWKES (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--we found at the Kirkbaum crime scene. XRF identified it as feral liquid.

[BACK TO SCENE]

MAC TAYLOR

Feral liquid contains magnetic particles that react to sound.

[HAWKES USES THE COMPUTER MUSIC ON HIS iPHONE, PLACES IT NEXT TO A PETRI DISH OF THE FERAL LIQUID. THE LIQUID “DANCES” TO THE MUSIC.]

MAC TAYLOR

And what’s a liquid used to treat iron deficiencies in humans doing in Suspect X’s pocket?

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Maybe she added it to the mixture of the I.V. she was feeding Katie Mann.

MAC TAYLOR

Impossible. Sid did a blood work-up. Katie was suffering from a severe iron deficiency when she died. Has to be another reason. Speakers.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Speakers?

MAC TAYLOR

Feral liquid is also used to cool voice coils in large commercial speakers. Technicians carry vials of it on their tool belt.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Okay. I don’t see the connection.

MAC TAYLOR

Katie Mann. The woman Suspect X made to look like her. Katie was an assistant to Jordan Gates, the mayor’s Criminal Justice Coordinator. When we spoke with Jordan [MUSIC IN] she was at the West Side Pier--

[FLASHBACK]

MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--prepping for a Green Rally tonight. They were setting up a large speaker system when we arrived.

[BACK TO SCENE]

MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)

Sheldon, this event has been on the books for months. I’m thinking that before Katie was killed, Suspect X got access to information that would’ve allowed her to get onto the grounds--

[REENACTMENT]

MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

--and wearing these coveralls, she posed as part of the sound crew in order to stake the place out.

[BACK TO SCENE]

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

You think she’s planning on killing someone tonight?

MAC TAYLOR

The mayor’s scheduled to make a big speech, along with a lot of other politicians and dignitaries. Anyone on that stage could be a target.

DR. SHELDON HAWKES

Yeah, but security is going to be on lockdown. She’d be crazy to try to walk up in there with a gun.

MAC TAYLOR

What if she didn’t bring it in?

[REENACTMENT]

MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)

What if it were already there?

[BACK TO SCENE]

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT

[POLICE SIRENS]

EXT. WEST SIDE PIER - STAGE AREA - NIGHT

[CROWD GOES THROUGH SECURITY STATIONS. SECURITY WATCHES THE CROWD.]

MAC TAYLOR

The mayor and everyone at this event is at great risk if we allow this rally to go on.

JORDAN GATES

Well, how credible is the threat?

MAC TAYLOR

Very. We have evidence we believe links our suspect to this location. Our intel indicates she’s targeted this even for an assassination attempt.

[DANNY AND FLACK FOLLOW DOGS SEARCHING FOR THE GUN]

[JORDAN AND MAC ADDRESS THE SECURITY TEAM]

JORDAN GATES

Detective Taylor believes the killer may have infiltrated the support staff tasked with setting up the event, perhaps posing as a member of the sound crew. We’re looking into this matter as we speak.

MAC TAYLOR

We’re concerned she may have smuggled a weapon onto the grounds and hidden it, in advance of the rally.

DANNY MESSER

Dog’s hit on something, Flack. Anybody got a drill?

[DANNY REMOVES A PLATE FROM THE BACK OF A SPEAKER, FINDS A GUN INSIDE]

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

[INTO RADIO] Mac, (V.O.) we got it.

MAC TAYLOR

Good work. (V.O.) Make sure we lock down the perimeter. (ON CAMERA) If she’s here, we can’t let her get away.

JORDAN GATES

Mac. Thank you.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT

MUSIC OUT

DANNY MESSER (V.O.)

Mac, I don’t know how we missed her when we had every exit sealed off.

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - NIGHT

MAC TAYLOR

Well, she left long before we shut the event down. She’s way too careful not to have been watching us. Tell Flack I want shadow details on the mayor and everyone else on that guest list. As long as Suspect X is still out there, there’s a chance she’ll finish the job or go onto the next target.

DANNY MESSER

I mean if she’s watching our every move, that means she knows how close we got to her. I mean with that kind of heat, you think she’d lay low for awhile, no?

MAC TAYLOR

This woman isn’t capable of slowing down. Killing’s the only thing she knows how to do and her inability to stop is how we’re gonna catch her.

DANNY MESSER

All right. I’ll get busy. [TO ADAM] Tell me you got something.

ADAM ROSS

Big time. I did what you said and I opened up a bunch of untraceable email accounts and various profiles. One of ‘em IM’d this smokin’ hot 22-year-old girl who was having a little flingy ding with this middle-aged married guy. And basically, I want the wife out.

MAC TAYLOR

Adam.

ADAM ROSS

Yeah. Oh, right. Oh, okay. So, I put a bunch of key words and phrases that the recursive spider would log onto. About a half hour ago, I got this message.

MUSIC IN

[DISPLAY READS, “I CAN TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROBLEM.”]

MAC TAYLOR

Suspect X took the bait.

MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT THREE

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

MUSIC IN

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - WAR ROOM - DAY

[MAC SPEAKS TO SWAT TEAM, FBI AND DETECTIVE ANGELL ON LARGE MONITORS]

MAC TAYLOR

Sergeant Williams, Sergeant Clark, Agents Beck and Halinan. Detective Angell. Network is secure. Thank you all for joining the TelePresence call. You’ve all been briefed on our proposed tactical plan, so I’ll jump right in here. A meeting has been arranged between Suspect X and our undercover Detective Angell.

DETECTIVE JESSICA ANGELL (V.O.)

I just talked to Detective Flack. He and his advance team are on site. We’re good to go.

MAC TAYLOR

Good. The meet location is a bench on the north side of the plaza. Sergeant Williams, your tactical response team will stand by at 39 Broadway and Seventh, waiting for my word to move in. Agents Beck and Halinan, your FBI surveillance team will have eyes on the outer perimeter. Let’s hope one of your people spots her and we can take her on the way in. That would save us an awful lot of trouble.

EXT. BRYAN PARK - PLAZA - DAY

[FLACK AND MAC TAKE THEIR POSITIONS. ANGELL, WEARING A BLOND WIG, SITS ON A BENCH]

th Street between

MAC TAYLOR (V.O.)

Detective Flack will be the ghost. He’ll be on set dressed as an employee from the Department of Parks. I will be situated in a parking structure across the plaza. Every member of the team will have audio capability, but all communications will come through me. And no one moves, without my order.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Got movement coming in southeast. (V.O.) Just say the word.

MAC TAYLOR

Nobody move.

[DECOY SITS NEXT TO ANGELL]

MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)

It’s too easy.

DETECTIVE JESSICA ANGELL

It’s not her.

MAC TAYLOR

What’s the note say?

[ANGELL OPENS A NOTE WHICH READS, “DON’T MOVE”]

DETECTIVE JESSICA ANGELL

Don’t move.

MAC TAYLOR

(V.O.) She sent somebody in first to make sure (ON CAMERA) it wasn’t a trap. Have somebody pick up the decoy and stand by. I got a visual. That’s her.

[SUSPECT X PASSES THE DECOY, WALKS TOWARD ANGELL]

MAC TAYLOR

Uni, who the hell is that? Where’d he come from?

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

He’s not one of ours, Mac.

MAC TAYLOR

It’s gonna spook her. [SUSPECT X STARTS RUNNING] Move.

DETECTIVE DON FLACK (V.O.)

Mac, I lost visual.

[MAC CHASES SUSPECT X]

MAC TAYLOR (V.O.)

I got her, Flack. She’s headed due south towards Seventh Avenue.

[WALLA]

[SUSPECT X PUSHES PEDESTRIANS ASIDE AS SHE RUNS THROUGH THEM. SHE REMOVES HER HAT, SCARF AND COAT.]

MAC TAYLOR

She’s changed her clothing. Lost the hat and scarf. The previous description of the suspect’s no good. I got her. Corner of 46 New construction. I’m going in.

[SUSPECT X SQUEEZES THROUGH A FENCE]

INT. BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION - DAY

[SUSPECT X TAKES OUT HER GUN WITH SILENCER. MAC FOLLOWS.]

MAC TAYLOR

Halt!

[GUNFIRE]

th and Seventh.

[THEY SHOOT AT EACH OTHER WHILE RUNNING THROUGH THE BUILDING. MAC FOLLOWS BLOOD DROPS, LEADING TO SUSPECT X SITTING BEHIND A PILLAR.]

MAC TAYLOR

Who are you?

SUSPECT X

Anyone you want me to be, Detective. Lover. Friend. Fantasy. Nightmare. Take your pick.

MAC TAYLOR

Based on the amount of blood leaving your body from that hole I put in your chest, I’ll go with dead.

SUSPECT X

That’s not on the list.

MAC TAYLOR

This is all just a game, isn’t it? Tell me. What goes through your mind, when you end a life?

SUSPECT X

Besides playing God?

MAC TAYLOR

You don’t have much time. Give me something.

SUSPECT X

A confession? Pulling the trigger is like taking a deep breath of fresh air. Seeing that last little speck of life in their eyes. And when it fades, I don’t know. [COUGHS] I believe, they’re going to a better place.

[POLICE SIRENS]

MUSIC IN

[MAC SLIDES THE GUN AWAY FROM HER]

DETECTIVE DON FLACK

Mac, you okay?

EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY

MUSIC OUT

INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - MAC’S OFFICE - DAY

JORDAN GATES

I don’t understand. What does this have to do with me?

MAC TAYLOR

Immediately following the pursuit we were able to retrieve the suspect’s client list from a PDA she had on her. Her last target wasn’t the mayor or any of the other dignitaries at the event. It was you.

JORDAN GATES

Me? Uh, well, who, who hired her?

MUSIC IN

MAC TAYLOR

Your ex-husband. I’m sorry.

TO BLACK

MUSIC OUT

SHOW TITLE

FADE OUT

THEME MUSIC IN

CLOSING CREDITS

MUSIC OUT

MAC TAYLOR (V.O.)

Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.

THE END - EPISODE #415 TRT - 42:07

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