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EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT
MUSIC IN
EXT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL - NIGHT
[WALLA]
[STUDENTS ARRIVE AT THE SPRING DANCE. JESSE CARVER HIDES A FLASK IN HIS COAT.]
INT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL - GYM - NIGHT
[WALLA]
[STUDENTS DANCE AS A DJ SPINS RECORDS ONSTAGE]
INT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL - GYM ENTRANCE - NIGHT
[CAR KEYS ARE DROPPED INTO A LARGE BOWL.]
ROBERT GREGGS
Thank you. Your car keys, people. You’re not out of here yet, unfortunately. You’re still our responsibility.
JESSE CARVER
Hey, Mr. Greggs. This open bar, top shelf only?
ROBERT GREGGS
Very funny, Mr. Carver. Don’t give me a reason to withdraw my recommendation to Yale.
JESSE CARVER
Save me a dance?
ROBERT GREGGS
Have fun, Lacey. [TO STUDENTS] Car keys? Thank you.
INT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL - GYM - NIGHT
[MONTAGE OF JESSE, LACY AND STUDENTS DANCING. NATALIE GERRARD SITS ALONE AT A TABLE.]
ROBERT GREGGS
Give it up for our king and queen, Jason Francis and Laura Davis.
[CHEERS/APPLAUSE]
MUSIC OUT
SARAH BELL
Only two more months, people. As your class president, I feel it is my responsibility to ensure that each and every one of you doesn’t slack off.
[STUDENTS REACT/GROAN]
SARAH BELL (CONTINUED)
However, to avoid being impeached, my advice is to skip more classes. Blow off a calculus final. Let’s make these last few weeks count.
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INT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL - SCIENCE LAB - NIGHT
[ROBERT GREGGS IS PUNCHED, PUSHED OVER A TABLE, DRAGGED AWAY AND THROWN INTO VARIOUS GLASS CASES BY AN UNSEEN ASSAILANT]
SARA BELL (V.O AND ON CAMERA)
Speak on behalf of all of you when I say that I genuinely love this place. I want to thank the faculty for instilling in us values, integrity and morals that will guide us into the future rife with promise.
MUSIC IN
[ACID EATS AWAY AT ROBERT’S FACE]
LATER -
[STELLA BONASERA PHOTOGRAPHS ROBERT’S BODY]
MUSIC OUT
[POLICE RADIO WALLA]
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Our vic is Robert Greggs. He was a guidance counselor. Divorced, no kids. He also chaperoned the dance and played key master.
STELLA BONASERA/MAC TAYLOR
Who discovered the body?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
You two have been working together way too long. A student came in looking for her keys and, boom.
MAC TAYLOR
Boom? You and Danny have been working together way too long. [MUSIC IN] This guy took a hell of a beating. Witnesses?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
No one’s come forward yet. But we got a gym full of potential suspects right next door.
INT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL - GYM - NIGHT
FEMALE STUDENT
Say cheese.
MALE STUDENT
Ah.
[WALLA]
MAC TAYLOR
Behold the future.
STELLA BONASERA
Yeah. Future suspects, Mac.
THEME MUSIC IN
SHOW TITLE - OPENING SEQUENCES
OPENING CREDITSEND OF TEASER
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT
MUSIC IN
EXT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL - NIGHT
INT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL - SCIENCE LAB - NIGHT
[A GLASS CASE IS LIFTED OFF OF ROBERT’S BODY]
[POLICE RADIO WALLA]
[DANNY MESSER PICKS UP A SMALL GEM OFF THE FLOOR, BAGS IT. HE LOOKS TO A TABLE, SEES THE KEY BOWL FULL OF KEYS.]
MUSIC OUT
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid. He couldn’t have kept the keys in the English room?
DANNY MESSER
Which one of those you think melted this guy’s face off?
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Hydrofluoric acid. Highly lethal. Trace amounts of this on the skin can dissolve and eat it away without you even knowing it. Half a bottle of this spills on your face.
DANNY MESSER
Why would you keep something that dangerous in a high school lab?
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Probably to demonstrate its ability to dissolve glass. It’s commonly used in glass etching. Silicon dioxide plus four molecules of hydrofluoric acid produces--.
DANNY MESSER
Oh, me, me, me. Pick me. Oh.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Uh-huh.
DANNY MESSER
Huh.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
That’s cold man.
[HAWKES LOOKS AT THE WHITE BOARD WHERE DANNY HAS WRITTEN, “N(e)R(d)!”]
INT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL - GYM - NIGHT
SARAH BELL
One minute Mr. Gregg was there and the next he was gone.
STELLA BONASERA
Well, do you remember the last time you saw him?
SARAH BELL
Well, he introduced me before my speech. But I don’t know where he went after that.
STELLA BONASERA
Do you know of any students who might have had something against him?
SARAH BELL
No. Everyone loved Mr. Greggs.
BLAKE MARSHALL
The guy was useless.
AMANDA
Paul Chambers, Chris Braxton, Walter Uptown. Any one of those guys fits a profile.
STELLA BONASERA
Did you see where Mr. Greggs went after he introduced the president of your class?
AMANDA
No. Unh-uh. But I took a picture in my phone when he was up there. Will this help?
STELLA BONASERA
Mind if I borrow that for awhile?
AMANDA
Sure. I have another one at home.
STELLA BONASERA
Of course you do.
CLARK ROBERTSON
Mr. Greggs was an inspiring mentor. The kind of man I’d like to be in twenty years only making fifty times more money. It’s sad when such a young life is taken from us before--.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
[OVERLAPPING] Stop. Just, s-stop.
MAC TAYLOR
What do you know?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Well, I think we’re looking at a fairly short window of opportunity. Most of the kids remember the vic introducing the class president.
STELLA BONASERA
And at one point during her speech, she referenced Mr. Greggs. But he wasn’t in the gym. One student snapped this photo at exactly 10:18.
MAC TAYLOR
So he was alive at 10:18. What time was the body found?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Approximately 10:30.
MAC TAYLOR
Twelve-minute window. It’s possible he left the gym with someone during that period.
[WALLA]
STELLA BONASERA
I’m gonna collect as many of these as I can, get ‘em back to Adam. If the students didn’t see anything, maybe their cell phones did.
INT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL – HALLWAY - NIGHT
MAC TAYLOR
[INTO CELL PHONE] No, every one else’s priorities need to be checked. Not mine. Yeah, yeah, all right, I get it.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Sinclair?
MAC TAYLOR
Every five minutes it’s someone else. Half the brass wants me working the cabdriver serial.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
But you caught a murder at an elite prep school whose alumni contribute half the mayor’s campaign funds.
MAC TAYLOR
Not to mention Deputy Inspector Gerrard’s daughter is a student here. Until we catch this cabdriver, my phone’s not gonna stop ringing.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Matter of time. I got uniforms conducting taxi checkpoints throughout the five boroughs. Flyers distributed to dispatchers and foot posts on bridges and overpasses, case he decides to dump another victim.
MUSIC IN
MAC TAYLOR
Maybe we need to use the media. They already know we’re looking for a yellow cab rigged--
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[FLASHBACK - INSIDE SERIAL CABDRIVER’S CAB]
MAC TAYLOR (V.O. AND ON CAMERA) (CONTINUED)
--to allow carbon monoxide to flow into the passenger compartment. Tell them about the disabled rear door locks and the torn passenger bill of rights sticker. But don’t mention the marks he leaves on the back of the victims’ necks.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
You got it. Hey, uh, what about the tarps he wraps the vic’s in? Any leads on that yet?
MAC TAYLOR
You’re gonna start riding my ass now too?
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)
[INTO CELL PHONE] Taylor.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - NIGHT
MAC TAYLOR (V.O.)
Yeah, he’s claimed at least three victims that we know of. All died of carbon--
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - MIDTOWN - NIGHT
[THE SERIAL KILLER’S CAB IS PARKED AT THE CURB]
MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--monoxide poisoning after getting in his cab. Let’s hope we don’t have to wait for another body to surface.
INT. TAXI CAB - NIGHT
[THE SERIAL KILLER CABDRIVER ADJUSTS HIS REARVIEW MIRROR]
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - NIGHT
MUSIC OUT
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT
MUSIC IN
INT. M.E.’S OFFICE - AUTOPSY ROOM - NIGHT
[MONTAGE SEQUENCE - DR. SID HAMMERBACK PROCESSES ROBERT GREGG’S BODY]
LATER -
MUSIC OUT
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Do you have any idea how often I’ve wondered what would happen if you swallowed this stuff? And there it is sitting on the shelf, perhaps the most corrosive acid known to man and, you just get that urge to take a swig, you know what I’m talking about?
MAC TAYLOR
Absolutely. It’s like whenever I pick up a scalpel I wonder if I could perform a live autopsy on myself.
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
You do that too? ‘Cause I thought I was--. Don’t play with me like that. The C.O.D. is pulmonary edema. As you can see your victim ingested more than the recommended dose of zero cc’s of hydrofluoric acid, causing the walls of the trachea to inflame, the lungs to fill with fluid and ultimately respiratory failure. Nothing to suggest the acid was forced down his throat.
MAC TAYLOR
Bloodshot eye, no petechical hemorrhaging. Fumes from the acid?
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
Most likely. The capillaries were also dilated. I took a swab of the cornea and sent it to Trace to confirm. Now, the periodic table got the best of him, but, uh, your vic also took a pretty severe beating.
MAC TAYLOR
Fractured jaw. Part of his cheek bone missing there?
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
And more of the marvels of hydrofluoric acid. As it dissolves into the skin, the fluoride and ion combines with the calcium in the bones, uh, to dissociate the calcium--.
[CSI SHOT]
MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
Causing the bones to liquefy.
[BACK TO SCENE]
DR. SID HAMMERBACK
The beating suggests this was [MUSIC IN] personal, huh?
MAC TAYLOR
Possibly.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - A/V LAB - DAY
ADAM ROSS
Hmm. I want some Skiddles. Give me a pack of Mentos and, uh, them Ho-Ho’s over there. Ooh, I love me some Ho- Ho’s. And I want all your money--.
STELLA BONASERA
Adam?
ADAM ROSS
Oh, yes, hi. Hi, Stell. Uh, yeah.
STELLA BONASERA
You familiar with Photosynth?
ADAM ROSS
Photosynth. Yes. Taking a large collection of photos, analyzing the similarities and displaying them in a reconstructive three-dimensional space.
STELLA BONASERA
Exactly. Build me a high school gym.
[STELLA HANDS ADAM A BOX]
ADAM ROSS
Okay. What up?
[ADAM OPENS THE BOX TO FIND STUDENTS’ CELL PHONES]
MUSIC IN
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - LAYOUT ROOM - DAY
[MONTAGE SEQUENCE - LINDSAY MONROE PROCESSES ROBERT’S CLOTHING, FINDS A FLASK IN AN INSIDE POCKET OF HIS JACKET. DANNY TESTS THE DIRT FROM AN AQUARIUM ROBERT FELL INTO, FINDS A CACTUS-LIKE BULB]
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - TRACE LAB - DAY
MUSIC OUT
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Are you serious? This is peyote.
DANNY MESSER
Marijuana seeds, ‘shrooms.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Hm. Looks like someone was growing their own magic garden.
DANNY MESSER
Right under the faculty’s nose, man.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Sometimes too much education can be a dangerous thing. Lindsay found a flask in the vic’s pocket. So we got drugs, alcohol.
DANNY MESSER
Yep. And, uh, also one other little gem.
[FLASHBACK]
[BACK TO SCENE]
MUSIC IN
[ZOOM IN TO ECS OF GREEN GEM FROM PROM QUEEN’S CROWN]
[FLASHBACK]
DANNY MESSER (V.O.)
Places our royal couple at the crime scene.
[BACK TO SCENE]
DR. SHELDON HAWKES (CONTINUED)
Looks like we’ve got our kingpin.
INT. NYPD - INTERROGATION ROOM #1 - DAY
JASON FRANCIS
But it wasn’t me. You got the wrong guy, man. I’m telling ya.
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INT. NYPD - INTERROGATION ROOM #2 - DAY
LAURA DAVIS
It was Jason’s idea.
JASON FRANCIS
I don’t even know what peyote is.
LAURA DAVIS
He said peyote was used by Native Americans to pray and induces a dreamlike drifting sensation.
JASON FRANCIS
You think I’d be that stupid to do that in one of the classrooms?
LAURA DAVIS
Come on. They’ll never know. It’ll be hysterical.
JASON FRANCIS
Laura’s way too sweet to get caught up in something like that.
LAURA DAVIS
What a jackass.
DANNY MESSER
So what happened, you two go into the lab, check on your little experiment, Mr. Greggs catches you, notices the drugs.
LAURA DAVIS
Mr. Greggs never came in, not while we were in there.
DANNY MESSER
We also found a flask--
[FLASHBACK]
DANNY MESSER (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--that was confiscated by Mr. Greggs.
[BACK TO SCENE]
DANNY MESSER (CONTINUED)
Sounds like you two were looking to do some partying, huh?
LAURA DAVIS
I don’t know anything about a flask. We didn’t drink anything last night.
INT. NYPD - VIEWING ROOM - DAY
[HAWKES AND JASON WATCH THE INTERVIEW FROM BEHIND THE VIEWING ROOM GLASS]
DANNY MESSER
We’ll let your DNA tell us that.
LAURA DAVIS
I swear. Jason just wanted to see if the marijuana seeds were starting to grow. Then we left.
JASON FRANCIS
It was just a goof. We weren’t gonna use the drugs. Honest.
MUSIC OUT
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Hmm.
MUSIC IN
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET/APARTMENT BUILDING - DAY
[SERIAL KILLER CABDRIVER WATCHES FROM HIS CAB AS A DOORMAN WAVES A CAB FOR RONNA DIXON. HE ADDS A NOTE OF THE TIME THE CAB STOPS TO PICK HER UP ON A FORM ON HIS CLIPBOARD.]
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - MAC’S OFFICE - DAY
MUSIC OUT
STELLA BONASERA
Mac? Everything okay?
MAC TAYLOR
Same ol’ same ol’ with the bosses. Why haven’t I dragged someone in on the taxi cab serial?
STELLA BONASERA
Meanwhile, the mayor wants you focused on the prep school homicide.
MAC TAYLOR
The faster we can solve it the faster I can put more resources into the cab killer. Anyway, where are we on the prep school homicide?
MUSIC IN
STELLA BONASERA
Pulled DNA--
[FLASHBACK]
STELLA BONASERA (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--off the flask we found--
[BACK TO SCENE]
STELLA BONASERA (CONTINUED)
--in Robert Greggs’ jacket. It turns out it was his.
MAC TAYLOR
No other prints or profiles?
STELLA BONASERA
Nope. He was knocking a few back at the dance.
MAC TAYLOR
Seems like our guidance counselor was a bit misguided.
MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT ONE
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY
MUSIC IN
EXT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL - DAY
LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.)
Nice office for a guidance counselor.
INT. NATHANSON ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL - ROBERT
GREGGS’ OFFICE - DAY
MUSIC OUT
LINDSAY MONROE
What exactly are we looking for?
MAC TAYLOR
A reason for Mr. Greggs to start drinking.
LINDSAY MONROE
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth. This place is a machine for turning out Ivy League students.
MAC TAYLOR
Lindsay, you have the crime scene photos?
LINDSAY MONROE
Yeah.
MUSIC IN
[MAC SEES A WATCH MISSING FROM GREGGS’ CRIME SCENE PHOTO THAT IS EVIDENT IN ANOTHER PHOTO ON HIS DESK]
MAC TAYLOR
He’s missing his watch.
LINDSAY MONROE
We recovered his wallet. Didn’t read like a robbery. Maybe he just forgot to wear it.
MAC TAYLOR
Maybe.
LINDSAY MONROE
Whoa.
[LINDSAY PULLS AN EMPTY LIQUOR BOTTLE OUT OF A FILE DRAWER, FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL FULL ONES]
LINDSAY MONROE (CONTINUED)
Definitely escaping from something.
[MAC LOOKS IN A CLOSET]
MAC TAYLOR
Well, he wasn’t much for dressing the part. Probably couldn’t afford it, making only a tad more than their tuition.
[MAC SEES A LOOSE BOARD ON THE FLOOR OF THE CLOSET. PULLING IT UP, HE FINDS A CIGAR BOX. INSIDE ARE STACKS OF CASH AND SOME TOKENS.]
MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)
Supplemental income?
LINDSAY MONROE
But what’s with these tokens?
[ZOOM IN TO ECS OF MAC HOLDING TOKEN]
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - LAYOUT ROOM - DAY
[HAWKES PROCESSES THE TOKEN. HE POURS ACID ON IT AND SEES A Z LOGO FOR A LAUNDROMAT]
EXT. ZEKE’S LAUNDRY - NIGHT
MUSIC OUT
[MAC AND FLACK PARK ACROSS THE STREET. MAC MOVES INTO THE STREET, BUT BACKS AWAY AS A YELLOW CAB SPEEDS BY, HONKING.]
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
See something?
MAC TAYLOR
No. Let’s go.
INT. ZEKE’S LAUNDRY - NIGHT
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
What the hell are we doing here? The vic made extra cash fluffing and folding?
[MAC AND FLACK USE TOKENS AND ATTEMPT TO PLACE THEM IN COIN SLOTS OF WASHING MACHINES. THE TOKENS ARE TOO BIG.]
MAC TAYLOR
Tokens don’t work. They only take quarters.
[MAC SEES A DRYER WITH X-CROSSED STRAPS ON IT AND AN OUT OF ORDER TAG]
MUSIC IN
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Went a little overboard on the out of order sign.
[MAC PLACES FOUR TOKENS IN THE DRYER’S SLOT. THE DRYER OPENS AS A DOOR TO A SECRET ROOM.]
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INT. ZEKE’S LAUNDRY - SECRET ROOM - NIGHT
[INSIDE IS A LARGE GAMBLING CASINO]
[WALLA]
MAC TAYLOR
We’re gonna need some back-up.
EXT. ZEKE’S LAUNDRY - NIGHT
[POLICE CRUISERS ARRIVE AT THE SCENE]
INT. ZEKE’S LAUNDRY - SECRET ROOM - NIGHT
[WALLA]
[MAC LOOKS AT A MAN BEING ZIP-TIED BY AN ND UNIFORM]
[ZOOM IN TO ECS OF ROBERT GREGGS WATCH ON MAN’S ARM]
MAC TAYLOR
I think we got our guy.
[CLOSE ON GREGGS’ WATCH. MAC TURNS IT OVER, SEES THE INITIALS, “RHG.”]
CHRISTOPHER VACKNER
Hundred bucks says you’re the good cop, he’s the bad cop.
MAC TAYLOR
Where’d you get the watch?
CHRISTOPHER VACKNER
It was a gift. What do you care?
MAC TAYLOR
Belongs to a dead man.
CHRISTOPHER VACKNER
You got that right.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Some D.A.’s might consider that a confession.
MAC TAYLOR
How much he owe you?
CHRISTOPHER VACKNER
Who?
MAC TAYLOR
Robert Greggs. The owner of the watch.
CHRISTOPHER VACKNER
Eighteen grand.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
So eighteen in the hole gets you a face full of acid, huh?
CHRISTOPHER VACKNER
What?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
I’ll tell you what. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. The acid was an accident. Still the beat-down gets you manslaughter.
CHRISTOPHER VACKNER
You wanna tell me what he’s talking about?
MAC TAYLOR
I think you know.
CHRISTOPHER VACKNER
He’s not dead, is he? Tell me he’s not dead. Fifteen grand down the drain.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Where were you last night?
CHRISTOPHER VACKNER
Right here waiting for that degenerate to give me at least a piece of what he owed. The watch knocked off three. And he said he could scrape up another five. But he never showed. Greggs had ‘til the end of the week to make good.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Otherwise?
CHRISTOPHER VACKNER
Otherwise, uh, I’d get some use out of the new shovel I bought.
[MAC PUSHES VACKNER UP AGAINST A WALL]
MAC TAYLOR
Now I’m gonna talk to all these people over here. If they don’t confirm that you were here last night, all night, the only dice you’re gonna roll is with a jury, you hear me?
MUSIC IN
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT TO DAY
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREETS - DAY
INT. NEW YORK CITY CRIME LAB - A/V LAB - DAY
[MONTAGE OF ADAM LOOKING AT PHOTOS FROM THE STUDENTS’ CELL PHONES]
INT. NEW YORK CITY CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY
STELLA BONASERA
Hey, Mac. [MUSIC OUT] Your gambler’s alibi checked out, didn’t it?
MAC TAYLOR
Someone beat him to the punch. How’d you know?
STELLA BONASERA
Because I think we might be looking for a girl.
[FLASHBACK]
STELLA BONASERA (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
Tan trace we found on the vic’s shirt cuff.
[BACK TO SCENE]
MAC TAYLOR
Makeup?
STELLA BONASERA
Some sort of concealer. Nothing unique about it, so we couldn’t track down a specific manufacturer.
MAC TAYLOR
Well, the victim was tossed around pretty good. Maybe we’re dealing with more than one killer. It’s hard to believe a high school girl could’ve beat him up like that.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Unless she incapacitated him in some way. The swabs they collected [MUSIC IN] from around the vic’s eyes came back as pepper spray.
[FLASHBACK]
MAC TAYLOR (V.O.)
Victim’s capillaries were dilated. We thought--
[BACK TO SCENE]
MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)
--it was the fumes from the acid. But the pepper spray must have blinded him.
STELLA BONASERA
Anyone could have had their way with him after that.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
These were among the keys lying next to the vic. Positive for pepper spray.
[ZOOM IN TO ECS OF SMALL VIAL OF PEPPER SPRAY ON KEY CHAIN]
MAC TAYLOR
Who do they belong to?
MUSIC OUT
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
You’re not gonna like the answer to that.
INT. NYPD - VIEWING ROOM - DAY
DEPUTY INSPECTOR STANTON GERRARD
What do you mean, don’t get worked up? My daughter’s in the box. You’re telling me you have evidence that might link her to a murder. I think I got a right to be worked up.
MAC TAYLOR
There’s nothing conclusive right now, Inspector. We just need to ask her some questions and then we know where we stand.
DEPUTY INSPECTOR STANTON GERRARD
I wanna be in there.
MAC TAYLOR
I don’t think that’s a good idea.
DEPUTY INSPECTOR STANTON GERRARD
I don’t give a damn what you think.
MAC TAYLOR
Listen to me, calm down for a second. I’m telling you straight, Stan. I don’t make her for Robert Greggs’ murder. But maybe she can tell us something that’ll put us onto the right person. She’s scared, Stan. You being in there isn’t gonna help. I have a better chance of learning what happened that night if Detective Monroe and I go in there alone. If you don’t like the path we’re going down, you just knock on the window, and it’s over. You have my word.
DEPUTY INSPECTOR STANTON GERRARD
All right.
MAC TAYLOR
Do you know why you’re here, Natalie?
INT. NYPD - INTERROGATION ROOM #1 - DAY
MAC TAYLOR
Look, I’m sure you’ve heard enough stories from your father to know how this usually goes. I have a great deal of respect for your father, so, no tricks, no hidden agenda. I’m just trying to get a better understanding of what happened at the dance.
NATALIE GERRARD
I don’t know what happened.
MAC TAYLOR
I wish I could believe that was true.
NATALIE GERRARD
Well, it is.
MAC TAYLOR
What was your relationship with Mr. Greggs like?
NATALIE GERRARD
What do you mean?
MAC TAYLOR
Well, in the last three months you and he have had a lot of meetings.
NATALIE GERRARD
So?
LINDSAY MONROE
Why did you withdraw your acceptance to Northwestern? Everybody in your class is going to college, Natalie. Everybody except you. Why’d you change your mind?
NATALIE GERRARD
College isn’t for everyone.
MAC TAYLOR
In the last three months you went from being an A student to a C student. You became withdrawn from your classmates. And then the decision not to go to college. What happened?
NATALIE GERRARD
Nothing happened. I just don’t wanna go. Okay? I had a lot of meetings with Mr. Greggs because he was interested in my future.
MAC TAYLOR
Or maybe he was interested in you.
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INT. NYPD - VIEWING ROOM - DAY
[GERRARD LOOKS THROUGH THE GLASS]
LINDSAY MONROE
Is there any chance that Mr. Greggs misinterpreted [MUSIC IN] the time that you were spending together?
MAC TAYLOR
Maybe he’d make a pass at you.
NATALIE GERRARD
Mr. Greggs would never do that.
LINDSAY MONROE
But you told him you didn’t think of him like that.
MAC TAYLOR
We know he’d been drinking. Did he ask you to meet him in the science lab the night of the dance? He came onto you, so you used your pepper spray on him. He took a hell of a beating. You must have brought someone with you.
NATALIE GERRARD
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
MAC TAYLOR
Who are you trying to protect, Natalie? Okay. We’re gonna need to take a sample of your makeup. Detective Monroe--.
DEPUTY INSPECTOR STANTON GERRARD
Don’t say another word, Natalie. This interview is over.
MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT TWO
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - DAY
MUSIC IN
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - A/V LAB - DAY
[ADAM AND STELLA LOOK AT CELL PHONE PHOTO IMAGES ON A LARGE SCREEN]
MUSIC OUT
ADAM ROSS
Pretty cool, huh?
STELLA BONASERA
The clarity is unbelievable.
ADAM ROSS
And in 3-D.
STELLA BONASERA
Well done. So we know that Robert Greggs introduced the president at 10:18. The question is, where did he go after that and with whom? Can you zoom into the crowd on the other side of the platform?
ADAM ROSS
Yep.
STELLA BONASERA
There you go. Over there. Rotate it 90 degrees. Hold on, hold on. Go to the left. No, a, a little more, a little more. Go wide. A little bit more. Go in. There. Right there. Zoom in on that door. A little bit more.
ADAM ROSS
That’s our vic heading out the side door.
STELLA BONASERA
Zoom in a little closer. There’s someone in front of him.
MUSIC IN
ADAM ROSS
Oh, wait a minute. I know him. I mean, I mean, I, I don’t know his name. But, hold on a sec. Skull and crossbones. Yeah. I knew I’d seen that before. That’s our guy.
MUSIC OUT
INT. NYPD - INTERROGATION ROOM #2 - DAY
JESSE CARVER
I asked him for my girlfriend’s keys.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
And your girlfriend is?
JESSE CARVER
Lacey Pearlman. She drove that night so I went next door to the science lab with Mr. G to get her keys for her.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
That was at 10:15. The dance wasn’t over ‘til midnight.
JESSE CARVER
She wasn’t feeling well. Am I a suspect?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
She couldn’t wait ‘til after the speech?
JESSE CARVER
I’m not sure I like where this is going. [CHUCKLES]
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Mr. Greggs was killed between 10:18 and 10:30. It’s a short window. And here you are heading into the science lab with him at 10:20.
JESSE CARVER
How do you know that’s me?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
It’s Microsoft’s world, kid. I’m just living in it.
JESSE CARVER
I told you, we just went to get Lacey’s keys. He, he gave them to me and we left. I didn’t hear about Mr. G being killed until the next morning.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
And Lacey Pearlman can confirm that?
JESSE CARVER
Absolutely.
ND UNIFORM (OFF CAMERA)
Flack, we need you outside.
INT. NYPD - BULLPEN - DAY
WALLACE CARVER
Where’s my son? I want to see my son. Where the hell is he?
DETECTIVE
Just calm down. Sir, calm down.
WALLACE CARVER
No, I will not calm down. I want to talk to my son.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
It’s okay, Jimmy. Can I help you, sir?
WALLACE CARVER
Yeah, I’m Jesse’s father. Is he in there? What are you doing to him?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
We’re not doing anything to him, Mister--?
WALLACE CARVER
Wallace Carver. And I want all questions to stop right now. I’ve called a lawyer and he’s on his way.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Mr. Carver. Your son is not a suspect. We’re just asking him some questions.
WALLACE CARVER
Yeah, I’m sure it’s been very cordial. Is he under arrest?
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
I just told you--.
WALLACE CARVER
Then I am taking my son home.
MUSIC IN
EXT. NYPD - DAY
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - CORRIDOR - DAY
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Just got off the phone [MUSIC OUT] with Flack. Jesse Carver’s girlfriend confirmed his story. She said she was feeling a little nauseous and asked Carver to get her keys and they met out front.
MAC TAYLOR
Ah, that’s not much of an alibi. He was still alone with the victim during the twelve-minute window.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Yeah, that’s what I said. But this Lacey Pearlman claims that there was nothing strange about Carver’s behavior when they met outside. In fact, they sat down for a few minutes so she could get some air. You still think Gerrard’s daughter had something to do with this?
MAC TAYLOR
She’s involved somehow. Just not sure what she knows. Talk to some of the students. See what you can find out about her.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
Okay.
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - A/V LAB - DAY
ADAM ROSS
I will get you, oh, yes. You will be mine.
MAC TAYLOR
Adam, come here. Pull up the photos of the picture of the high school gym. Perfect. Time of the class president’s speech. And rotate to the right. Yeah, that’s Mr. Greggs. Okay, keep going. Rotate 180 degrees.
ADAM ROSS
What are you looking for?
MAC TAYLOR
Not what, who.
ADAM ROSS
Okay. Who are we looking for?
MAC TAYLOR
Someone who might not be there.
ADAM ROSS
Is this some sort of Abbott and Costello routine, ‘cause if it is, I got dibs on Costello.
MAC TAYLOR
Stop. There. Zoom in on the girl in the pink dress. [MUSIC IN] Inspector Gerrard’s daughter, at the time of the speech. She was leaving.
INT. NYPD - INTERROGATION ROOM #1 - DAY
MUSIC OUT
MAC TAYLOR
You saw Mr. Greggs go into the science lab with Jesse Carver. Where were you going, Natalie?
NATALIE GERRARD
Home. I was tired.
MAC TAYLOR
Without your keys?
[FLASHBACK]
MUSIC IN/OUT
[BACK TO SCENE]
MAC TAYLOR
We talked to some of your friends at school. They said that you and Jesse dated for a little while--
[FLASHBACK]
MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
--about three months ago.
[WALLA]
[BACK TO SCENE]
DEPUTY INSPECTOR STANTON GERRARD
Why didn’t you ever mention him?
MAC TAYLOR
You went out three or four times. That’s when your grades started to slip and you became withdrawn. What happened, Natalie? Why are you protecting him?
DEPUTY INSPECTOR STANTON GERRARD
Sweetheart, please. If you know something that can help them. Anything. Now’s the time. I’m not gonna let anything happen to you. I promise, Natalie. I would never let anyone hurt you.
NATALIE GERRARD
I didn’t want him to do it to her, too.
DEPUTY INSPECTOR STANTON GERRARD
What, what, what do you mean, Natalie? Mr. Greggs? What’d he do to you, baby?
NATALIE GERRARD
Can I talk to her? Alone?
MAC TAYLOR
Yes, of course you can. Stan? Why don’t you and I just go outside for a bit?
LINDSAY MONROE
Do you need a few minutes?
NATALIE GERRARD
I’m okay.
LINDSAY MONROE
Listen, Natalie. This kind of thing, it happens more than you would think. If Mr. Greggs came onto you or touched you in any way--.
NATALIE GERRARD
Not him. Mr. Greggs was always nice to me.
LINDSAY MONROE
Jesse? What did he do to you?
NATALIE GERRARD
He was so charming and funny. He really knew how to make me feel good. So I went out with him a few times. And this one time we went to a party. And Jesse kept bringing me drinks. [MUSIC IN] And I remember telling myself to slow down. But I liked him. And I wanted him to see that I could keep up. That I could be a life of the party, too. Afterwards, I went back to his house. My head was spinning. I could barely make it up the steps.
LINDSAY MONROE
It’s okay. What happened upstairs?
NATALIE GERRARD
I don’t know. I remember Jesse on top of me. And, and there was someone else. I felt someone else touching me.
LINDSAY MONROE
Did you tell anybody?
NATALIE GERRARD
I was too embarrassed. I should know better than to put myself in that situation.
LINDSAY MONROE
You can’t blame yourself, Natalie. This is not your fault.
NATALIE GERRARD
Yeah. My father’s deputy inspector. Try telling him that.
LINDSAY MONROE
What did you mean when you said you didn’t want him to do it to her, too?
NATALIE GERRARD
Lacey.
[FLASHBACK]
NATALIE GERRARD (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
I saw Jesse pour alcohol into a glass. I knew what he was doing. I couldn’t let him get away with it again.
LINDSAY MONROE (V.O.)
So you told Mr. Greggs what Jesse had done to you?
NATALIE GERRARD (V.O.)
I saw Mr. Greggs pull Jesse aside. I grabbed my coat and left. Didn’t care about my keys. I just wanted to get out of there.
[BACK TO SCENE]
NATALIE GERRARD (CONTINUED)
I should have never said anything.
LINDSAY MONROE
Yes, Natalie, you should have. [MUSIC OUT] You saw that he was gonna do it to somebody else. You had to say something. I’m sorry to have to ask you this but, is there somebody I can talk to or is something that can corroborate what happened with Jesse?
MUSIC IN
NATALIE GERRARD
I still have the dress I wore, the night he raped me. [SOBS] [SHE LOOKS TO THE ONE-WAY MIRROR] I’m sorry, Daddy.
INT. NYPD - VIEWING ROOM - DAY
[ON GERRARD LOOKING THROUGH THE VIEWING WINDOW]
MUSIC OUTEND OF ACT THREE
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT
MUSIC IN
INT. TAXI CAB - NIGHT
[SERIAL KILLER CAB DRIVER WATCHES RONNA DIXON ON THE SIDEWALK. SHE WAVES FOR A CAB. HE TURNS ON HIS “ON DUTY” SIGN.]
RONNA DIXON
Taxi!
[TAXI RADIO WALLA]
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - NIGHT
[SERIAL KILLER’S TAXI MOVES ON THE STREET ALONG WITH DOZENS OF OTHERS]
INT. NEW YORK CRIME LAB - MAC’S OFFICE - NIGHT
MUSIC OUT
LINDSAY MONROE
I think I’m gonna be sick.
MAC TAYLOR
Is that Natalie’s dress?
LINDSAY MONROE
Yep. She kept it in a plastic bag in the back of her closet. We collected semen samples. There were two donors, just like she said.
MAC TAYLOR
Call the D.A. and get a warrant for Jesse Carver’s DNA.
LINDSAY MONROE
We don’t need to. He’s already in the system. One of the donors is a guy named Frank Moore, aka Wallace Carver.
[FLASHBACK]
MUSIC IN
[BACK TO SCENE]
MAC TAYLOR
He’s not Jesse’s father.
LINDSAY MONROE
He’s a convicted sex offender. He was released four years ago, never registered. He fell off the map.
MAC TAYLOR
And the other donor is Jesse Carver.
LINDSAY MONROE
Except, he’s not Jesse Carver.
MAC TAYLOR
Hank Bedford. 1999 sexual assault, 2001 sexual assault.
LINDSAY MONROE
Check out the date of birth.
MAC TAYLOR
March 18, 1976.
LINDSAY MONROE
He’s 32 years old, Mac.
MAC TAYLOR
He was posing as a 17-year-old student to prey on high school girls.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE/STREETS - NIGHT
[POLICE CRUISERS RUSH TO THE SCENE]
INT. BROWNSTONE APARTMENT - NIGHT
[FLACK AND MAC BURST THROUGH THE DOORS]
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Clear!
[JESSE/HANK AND WALLACE/FRANK RUSH INTO THE KITCHEN. WALLACE/FRANK GRABS A KNIFE AND SWIPES AT FLACK. FLACK HITS HIM, KNOCKING HIM TO THE FLOOR.]
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Get your hands behind your back. Now!
INT. BROWNSTONE APARTMENT - HALLWAY - NIGHT
[JESSE/HANK RUNS OUT INTO THE HALLWAY FOLLOWED BY MAC. ND UNIFORMS RUSH IN FROM BACKGROUND.]
ND UNIFORM
Freeze!
[MAC GRABS JESSE/HANK’S ANKLE. HE FALLS ONTO THE STAIRCASE.]
MAC TAYLOR
Come on. Don’t move.
EXT. NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE - NIGHT
EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREETS - NIGHT
[ON TAXIS ON THE STREET]
INT. NYPD - INTERROGATION ROOM #1 - NIGHT
MUSIC OUT
STELLA BONASERA
There’s a special place in hell for guys like you, Frank.
WALLACE CARVER/FRANK MOORE
I’ve always wanted to travel someplace warm.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
You and Hank met while doing a short stint up at Hudson Correctional?
FRANK MOORE
That is one smart boy. Let me tell ya.
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
How smart?
MUSIC IN
INTERCUT WITH -
INT. NYPD - INTERROGATION ROOM #2 - NIGHT
JESSE CARVER/HANK BEDFORD
Smart enough to maintain a 3.45 GPA in the city’s best prep school. Hell, if I’d given a crap when I was actually in high school, I could’ve gone on to be the successful lawyer type.
LINDSAY MONROE
Instead you went on to become the successful scumbag/rapist type.
HANK BEDFORD
Tomato, tomato. Still, you have to admire the ingenuity. Frank had a couple of priors for forgery. So we hatched a scheme to manufacture documents and enroll me in high school.
MAC TAYLOR
All so you could lure girls back to your house.
FRANK MOORE
I had to take advantage of Hank’s boyish looks. And with his charm, those girls were sittin’ ducks.
STELLA BONASERA
And when he graduated, what then?
FRANK MOORE
Well the sky’s the limit. Skip town, find a nice apartment, near another Ivy League prep school.
MAC TAYLOR
But it all ended when Natalie Gerrard got the courage to tell Mr. Greggs what you had done to her.
[FLASHBACK]
RICHARD GREGGS
I just heard some disturbing information, Jesse. And before I call the police I thought maybe I would give you a chance to respond.
MAC TAYLOR (V.O.)
Once you hit him with the pepper spray, he was an easy target.
[SCREAMS/GROANS]
RICHARD GREGGS
Get off me!
MAC TAYLOR (V.O.) (CONTINUED)
But you had no intention of leaving that room--
[BACK TO SCENE]
MAC TAYLOR (CONTINUED)
--with Robert Greggs alive.
LINDSAY MONROE
How many other girls were there before Natalie?
HANK BEDFORD
I’m not gonna give it to you on a platter. I choose to exercise my right to remain silent.
LINDSAY MONROE
We have your DNA on Natalie’s dress. Her testimony, the makeup you wear to make yourself look younger, we have that on Robert Greggs’ shirt. We have photos of you two leaving the gym together.
MAC TAYLOR
You can exercise all the rights you want. But you’re never gonna see the light of day again.
HANK BEDFORD
Well, we’ll just have to see then, huh? I’ll take that lawyer now.
INT. NYPD - BULLPEN - NIGHT
[WALLA]
MUSIC OUT
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
I’ve been on the job a long time. And I’ve never seen anything like this. He talkin’?
MAC TAYLOR
Couple of admissions about his relationship with mope number two in there and enrolling in the school. But now he’s crying lawyer. I tell you, his lack of remorse is chilling. He doesn’t seem even remotely sorry.
DETECTIVE DON FLACK
Yeah, your brain’s gotta be all kinds of screwed up to concoct something like that.
MAC TAYLOR
Thank God it ended when it did. God only knows how many other girls are too embarrassed to come forward.
STELLA BONASERA
Your guy asking for a lawyer, too?
DR. SHELDON HAWKES
I can’t get over how elaborate it was. Forged transcripts, standardized tests, fake letters from schools he never attended.
STELLA BONASERA
That kind of preparation takes--.
[GUNSHOT]
MUSIC IN
[WALLA]
INT. NYPD - HALLWAY - NIGHT
[ND UNIFORMS STAND WITH HANDCUFFED FRANK MOORE]
INT. NYPD - INTERROGATION ROOM #2 - NIGHT
[MAC OPENS THE DOOR, FINDS HANK DEAD ON THE FLOOR, GERRARD STANDING OVER HIM. GERRARD PLACES HIS GUN ON THE TABLE.]
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 #418
TRT - 41:06
