Blindspot (2015–…): Season 4, Episode 11 - Careless Whisper - full transcript
An author's obsession with the team puts them in the cross-hairs of a deadly killer.
9-1-1, what's your emergency?
There's someone trying
to break into my house.
I think it's...
I think they're after my...
- They're in the house.
- Who is in the house, sir?
No! Hello, can you please send...
Hello! I've gotta get out of here.
You?!
Late night?
Just catching up on all
this undercover work
Zapata had with Keaton.
Still can't believe she's back.
I still can't believe that she
kept us in the dark about their op.
On paper, I almost get it.
They felt like they
couldn't take any chances.
Yeah, but in reality...
I feel completely betrayed
and backed into a corner.
Now I got no choice but
to send Zapata back out
on a mission I never even authorized,
all while keeping the CIA off her back.
Yeah, but, just remember.
She wasn't calling the shots.
Keaton was.
And with him still in a coma,
this is all on you now.
This must be how Phil Jackson felt
when he was brought in
to turn the Knicks around.
He got fired, didn't he?
Don't remind me.
Sorry.
How's Jane doing?
She's good.
She's really good...
considering everything
she's going through.
The doctors, they keep telling me
I gotta give her breathing room
so she can figure out
what her "new normal" is.
I would love me some
"normal" right about now.
Same.
Zapata's supposed to be meeting
with Del Toro right this second.
Natasha...
The CIA would like a word.
You don't seem too worried
that she's meeting up
with a dangerous cartel hacker.
If I've learned one thing,
it's that Zapata
has no problem taking care of herself.
Hey, listen, you don't understand.
Unh!
The ZIP you were injected with
has never fully left your system.
It's killing you.
If this Kallisto
person is still out there
he might have a way
to reverse the effects of ZIP.
It's too late.
Whoa...
Was it something he said?
Kind of.
It's weird.
When I first came out of that bag
and discovered all the
things I could do, the...
fighting styles, the languages...
- The helicopter flying?
- Hm.
It was all muscle memory, instinct.
But now?
Every hit brings a rush of
memories of every hit before it,
every workout, every
lesson, it's, uh...
Overwhelming?
A little, yeah.
But I'd take Remi's
training memories over...
almost everything else she did.
Well, speaking of your...
health situation.
Please tell me that
contains the stem cells
- that are gonna save my life.
- Not quite.
- But this is...
- A bracelet.
I was going to say
this is a "custom-designed
ultra-smart health monitor."
But, sure, "bracelet" works, too.
- Okay.
- Dr. Roga identified
a dozen key indicators associated
with the progression of ZIP poisoning.
This tracks all of them.
Everything from heart rhythms
to oxygen saturation.
It even analyzes
the content of your sweat.
So, uh, it monitors how close
I'm moving towards death.
That's a little dark.
Don't think of it like that.
Think of it like it's your own
personal Patterson
with you at all times.
And that green light is
basically me waving at you,
saying, "Hi, hello, everything's fine."
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Okay, now you have to
teach me that combo move.
Okay.
- All right.
- Thank you.
Edgar! Hey... Ooh!
Jeez, I did not see you there.
- Sorry, Rich.
- You're saying "sorry"
and yet I feel like
you're kind of blaming me
- for what just happened...
- Briana, thanks.
Where's the fire, Rich?
Long Island...
And it's not a fire. It's a homicide.
An author of some repute
has wound up dead
and we need to get to
the crime scene, ASAP.
I don't understand. Is
that a tattoo connection?
Uh, you could say that.
I believe this was
Jane's coming out party.
Times Square bomb scare?
Boy, try saying that five times fast.
Times Square bomb scare,
Times Square bomb scare.
Times Square bomb scare,
Times Square bomb scare.
So, this is your "tattoo connection"?
Several of these articles
are about corrupt officials
that were taken down
as a result of tattoo cases.
Methinks Jane has a secret admirer.
Or not. None of them
actually mention her.
Most of these articles have
nothing to do with the tattoos.
They're not even FBI cases, Rich.
So he was propped up...
Pen put in his hand, post-mortem.
Killer trying to send a message?
Well, maybe they didn't
like his last novel.
- Yeah.
- Tell me about the victim.
Uh, Winston Pear.
Became a bestselling
author when he latched onto
the whole true crime fad.
I wouldn't say that
"he latched onto it."
More like he started it.
Kurt has all of his books.
Read two on our honeymoon.
But I read 'em on the plane,
okay, just to be clear.
Uh, "Winston Pear is
internationally renowned"
"for his genre-bending novels
where fictional detectives"
"solve real crimes."
Oh, come on, that is totally cheating.
He's also "renowned" for his
inability to write women.
They're either victims
or sex objects or usually both.
His writing is a little "dated."
But his books have led
to actual arrests.
The Hell's Kitchen diamond thieves.
The Coney Island kidnappers...
They get it, you're a super fan.
- I'm not a super fan.
- Whatever you say.
The blood spatter indicates he was
killed right there. And with that.
Then the killer went through the house
and trashed everything
looking for something.
Or trying to make it look like
they were looking for something
to hide the fact that it was
actually a crime of passion?
Ooh! Or a suicide.
Huh? See now we're writing
a mystery novel.
There's no computer.
Maybe the killer took it?
No, he was really old school.
He only ever used typewriters.
- Ugh, pretentious.
- No, I mean, he thought
that it helped him connect
to the words more, like...
Yeah, all right,
I might be a super fan.
Okay, uh, speaking of
being connected to the words more.
Here is something that might help us.
A voice from beyond the grave.
9-1-1, what's your emergency?
There's someone
trying to break into my house.
I think it's...
I think they're after my...
- They're in the house.
- Who is in the house, sir?
Sir? Are you still there?
- Oh, I thought this would be longer.
- Wait, play it again.
9-1-1, what's your emergency?
- There's someone trying to break...
- Stop.
At the beginning.
That "tick" sound.
It almost sounds like a... um...
Huh.
Winston was right here
when he first made the call.
9-1-1, what's your emergency
There's someone trying
to break into my house.
But the other sound on that recording
could be that latch.
There's someone
trying to break into my house.
A manuscript?
The plot thickens.
"Inked to Death":
"A Jane Doe Mystery."
It's about Jane?
No, it's about all of us.
If he was killed because
of what he was writing...
And the book is about us...
Then we just found ourselves
smack dab in the middle
of an old-fashioned murder mystery.
Looks like we're dealing
with a serial killer.
And not just any run-of-the-mill
Ted Bundy-type...
This is the work
of The New York Ripper.
Making this his 35th victim.
And making him the deadliest serial
killer in this state's history.
Life goals.
I'm sensing something.
There's a pattern to these murders.
Jane's right. Sorry I'm late.
The Nikkei opened down 5% today
and my investors are freaking out.
Such is the life when
you're an FBI super agent
and the CEO of a major tech company.
Hmm.
If you connect the dots
to his kill sites,
they match the shaded area
to Jane's centaur tattoo.
Nice work, Peterson. Nice work.
Kurt Walker, Edgar Reece.
Rich DotBiz.
And he even got Special Agent
Peterson's first name right.
These "fictional detectives" are us.
Except that I don't
have a centaur tattoo.
We've never worked a case
with a "New York Ripper."
I've never even heard
of that serial killer.
Also "Life goals"?
I mean, isn't death goals
the obvious joke?
Who does science in 6-inch heels?
Why does he spend all this time
describing women's shoes?
Why not spend a paragraph
on Rich's loafers?
But he kind of did get our essence.
Whatever, Mr. "Billowing
biceps, threatening"
"to rip through his shirt."
Winston Pear invents a serial killer
and a tattoo to go with it
just to put us in a story?
How does he even know us?
Invented a tattoo? Yes.
A serial killer, maybe not.
The reason we've never heard
of "The New York Ripper"
is because it's a name
coined by Winston.
He has a theory that three dozen
real murders in Long Island
have been committed by the same person.
Check out this tweet from
Winston's publisher:
"Next summer, Winston Pear
is going to unearth"
"New York's deadliest mystery."
Sounds like he was ready to name
a person that matches his theory.
Yeah, a name the real killer
doesn't want getting out.
Then why don't we just skip to the end?
"As the team races the clock"
"to stop this anonymous killing machine"
"from taking another life..." Oh.
It just stops. It's not complete.
"Anonymous killing machine"
doesn't real help.
Yeah, it looks like
we need to figure out
how Winston was planning
on ending his book.
That's not gonna be easy.
His whole life was analog.
No computer, no cell phone.
His car has an 8-track.
Let's just hope Winston didn't
take the killer's identity
to the grave with him.
Rich, coordinate with
local police and get
as much evidence as you can
back to our office.
I want a list of every suspect
they've got for all 35
- of those murders.
- Okay.
Looks like word got out who died here.
Hey...
You see that guy on my six?
Could just be a lookie-loo.
It could also be the killer
looking for the manuscript.
Sir? FBI.
Stop! Got a runner!
Jane, do you have eyes on him?!
I need you to intercept him!
Jane!
FBI!
- But I didn't do anything.
- That's why you ran?
That's it. Come on.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
Yeah, it's just a little denim burn
from when I side-tackled that guy.
I'm talking about before the tackle.
- C'mere.
- Hmm?
Patterson said that your vitals spiked.
So, what was that? Like, a migraine?
Not exactly. More like a...
ear-piercing drone followed by silence,
but it only lasted a couple seconds.
A couple of seconds? Jane...
I still got the guy, didn't I?
Patterson said she's okay
with me being out in the field
as long as I got this on.
But if you think I should
dial back on my activity...
No, I don't want you
to do anything for me.
All right, you gotta
do it for yourself.
Trust your gut.
Suspect is ready for us
in the interrogation room.
Get this. He's an agent.
CIA? NSA?
Nope, try again.
I'm telling you,
I'm just his literary agent.
When I heard about Winston,
I went right down there.
To steal evidence?
No, to make sure someone was looking
after my client's best interests.
Your dead client.
Now, that book,
that'd be worth millions, wouldn't it?
Probably more now.
Wait.
You think I killed him?
No, no, no.
Okay, you're right.
I did want to get my hands
on the manuscript.
It is worth a lot, but only
if it's delivered to the publisher.
I was just gonna borrow it,
make a copy and then put it back.
That's not still an option, is it?
No.
But if you tell us everything
you know about the book,
maybe we'll keep you out of jail.
Winston had been trying to write
about the Ripper for years,
but he could never find
a way into the story.
Until Times Square got evacuated
because of a bomb scare
a couple years ago, you remember that?
It sounds vaguely familiar.
Winston thought it was weird that
there was never any follow-up about it,
so he pinged his NYPD contacts,
got in touch with the beat cops
and bomb squad guys that were there.
And that's when he found out
about... this naked lady
who came out of a bag,
covered in tattoos from h...
Holy...
You're her, aren't you?
Focus, Ronnie.
That was it.
He couldn't get that image
out of his head.
He had to write about it.
Where does the Ripper come in?
The perfect mystery needs
the perfect crime-solving team, right?
For Winston, she... you...
were the ideal foil for the Ripper.
You're not represented, are you?
I'm thinking about getting into...
How does the book end?
I can't tell you.
I'm pretty sure that Winston's
not gonna fire you.
Well, I can't tell you
because I don't know.
He only trusted a few select people
with the details
of his works-in-progress.
- Like?
- Like Frankie, his editor.
I don't know any other names
specifically.
They may be in his notebook.
What notebook?
Winston kept all his notes
and research in a red Moleskine.
His theories.
Who he talked to about the case.
It was like an extension of his brain.
Never saw him without it.
I've been looking through
all the murders
Winston attributed to the Ripper.
No consistent M.O.
Some of them look ritualistic,
others look completely random.
The cops have over a hundred
suspects for them in total.
Why did Winston think
these were all done
by the same person?
Only one way to find out.
You want me to do a book report?
It's the best lead we got going.
Make copies for everyone.
Hey, have you heard from Zapata?
Not yet.
So this is very, very bad.
Oh, yeah? What's bad?
We've hit a dead end.
Literally.
The Agents that went to pick
up Winston's book editor
found her a little less than alive.
And unlike Winston,
whose murder was interrupted
by a 911 call,
looks like the Ripper really
took his time with this one.
Her lips are sewn shut.
It's not too hard to figure out
what that means.
He's silencing anyone
connected to the manuscript.
What about Winston's notebook?
Talked to local PD.
Not only was it
not taken into evidence,
but CSU didn't even list one
in their crime scene inventory.
So, either they haven't
found one yet, or...
- Someone took it.
- If the Ripper has Winston's notebook,
that means he's got a road map
to everyone he needs to kill next.
Placement of the murder weapon,
the wealth of physical evidence...
These crime scenes,
they're almost... too perfect.
I can't. We can't.
We can.
Not here, not again.
I just keep thinking about your wife.
Oh, to hell with my disinterested wife!
Shh!
Maybe this will help set the mood.
"The forbidden lovers share
a toast before embracing".
"Their bodies intertwining
like two snakes in a pit of..."
- Oh, my God.
- Okay. Well, you get the picture.
Yeah, I would like to send it back.
Also, it says I have a wife.
Okay, first of all, if I was
married, which I never would be,
I would have multiple wives
and a husband.
And what does it even mean
for a crime scene
to be "too perfect"?
Speaking of not having
any grounding in reality,
listen to this.
"Rich DotBiz, willing to put
his criminal past behind him"
"and work with the Feds"
"not out of a desire for redemption",
"but out of a desire for friendship".
"True friendship".
"Something that's always been lacking"
"in the life of this spastic
emissary of chaos."
Where does he come up with this crap?!
Yeah, where does he?
Okay, talking to his usual
law enforcement contacts,
I can see how Winston figured out
much of the stuff in this book.
But the fact that you
don't have any friends?
Hey, okay, I have friends, all right?
They're just... in Canada.
And how the hell does Winston Pear
know where I keep
my celebratory reserve?
Hmm, I see what you're saying.
Let's get drunk.
- No.
- No, we have a rat.
Is the book that bad?
No. Well, yes.
That's not what's bothering me.
All this reading in
this fluorescent light
is just killing my eyes.
You okay?
Do you wanna keep going?
Yeah, yeah.
Check out the size
of these forensics reports.
It's pretty extensive.
When's the last time you saw a
forensics report that complete?
Uh, never.
It's as though every piece of evidence
CSU would expect to find was left
right where they would
expect to find it.
The Ripper has to be a cop.
Someone in the office
was talking to Winston.
What?
The devil is literally in the details.
What's in the drawers. Who's
keeping secrets. Jane's migraines...
Wait, he wrote about my ZIP poisoning?
No, I think he thinks you're pregnant.
Or psychic.
Or pregnant and your baby's
gonna be psychic?
The only way Winston
could know this stuff
is from someone who is
in very close proximity to us.
Yeah.
But who?
Uh, class, if you would, please,
turn to page 77 in your textbooks.
I can't believe this.
- Did I step out of bounds?
- Step out of bounds?
I think you just broke
this whole case wide open.
- We need to talk to you.
- It can wait.
Rich has got something.
No, Briana's got something.
It's incredible.
You came up with this on your own?
No, you guys had most of the pieces,
I just... filled in the blanks.
People say I'm a perfectionist,
that I dot every "I," cross every "T."
It's just that when I see
even the smallest detail missing,
it's like a black hole, sucking me in.
I guess that, where everyone else
sees the world as it is,
I see the world as it isn't.
I see what's not there.
Well, you're wasting
your talents behind a desk.
You need to be in the field.
With a gun and a badge.
"Welcome to the Big Leagues, Briana."
Should I keep reading, or do
you have something to tell us?
Oh, my God.
I'm so sorry.
I thought I was just...
Winston Pear reached out to me
to help him with the research.
I didn't realize...
How much trouble am I in?
Why did you do it?
I... I didn't realize what I was doing.
When he first reached out, he was
just asking about protocol, procedure.
When he started to ask about you guys,
I thought it was off the record.
How did he even find you?
I went to college
with his stepdaughter.
I thought it was weird
when he reached out to me
of all people.
It just felt good
to be useful, you know?
He said that I was helping
to catch a dangerous criminal!
We catch criminals here every day.
No, you catch criminals here every day.
I get people to sign things.
How long had you two been talking?
About a year.
The deeper he got into the book,
the more he'd call.
Patterson's got something.
See if Briana here knows something
that'll help us catch this guy.
Break in the case?
In the book, the FBI was fixated
on specific cuts found on the victims.
So we looked for cuts in
the real world, and we found...
every victim has incisions made
with a scalpel-like knife.
The cuts were surprisingly precise,
slicing the dermis but not
the subcutaneous tissue.
Suggesting that the killer has
a medical background.
You don't need to go to medical
school to be good with a scalpel.
No, but it helps.
And it gave us another vector
in our hunt for Winston's suspect.
Vector one... Long Island residents
who work in law enforcement.
It's a long list.
Vector two...
Have a medical background.
Slightly shorter list.
Vector three... Have worked or lived
near the murder clusters.
- That's a very short list.
- How short?
One name... Gerald "Geri" Savitt.
He's a detective with the Suffolk
County PD. Former paramedic.
The best part, as a child,
he had a history
of abusing animals.
I don't know why I said that
with a smile on my face.
It's a hallmark
of burgeoning serial killers.
How positive are you
that this is the guy
Winston ID'd as the Ripper?
I found a Post-It note
with the words
"Falcon Head" written on it.
Falcon Head happens to be
the name of a ranch
owned by Savitt's parents,
where he grew up, so...
- 73%.
- 1,000%.
What are you gettin' mad at me for
Have a little confidence.
Did he ever talk
to you about his theory?
Who he thought did it?
Not specifically.
But he did once
refer to the killer as "GS."
He did?
It was during the last call
that I got from him.
It was...
It was a different kind of call.
He didn't ask about you guys.
He just wanted to talk.
He sounded frustrated
and a little drunk.
He said that he was having
doubts about his "GS" theory.
What kind of doubts?
He had just gotten ahold of
some kind of travel records.
He said that they gave "GS"
too many alibis.
Winston was worried that he'd
have to go back to square one
or abandon the entire book.
Great.
So the book might not
just be incomplete.
It could be worthless.
Rise and shine, sweetheart.
Look, I'm telling you,
you got this all wrong.
We need to hurry.
There are more CIA operatives
on the way.
I'm a friend of Madeline's.
Let's go!
I can feel the Ripper
slipping away from us.
Every lead drying up.
He's gonna kill again soon,
and what are we doing?
Just chasing our tails.
I don't like what this case
is doing to you.
Yeah, well...
You wanna catch a monster...
sometimes you gotta become a monster.
Well, before you do anything rash,
you might want to take a look at this.
- Is that...?
- It is.
- Does that say...?
- It does.
Took two tests just to be sure.
We're going to be parents.
I "glove" you.
I "glove" you.
"I glove you"?
- There's typos in this.
- Why are you still reading that drivel?
The killer is still out there,
primed to strike again.
Nothing in that book is gonna stop him.
All right. Wait a second.
What if they're not typos?
What if it was a mechanical failure?
Holy crap.
- I'm not following...
- No time to explain!
- Oh, hey.
- Rich.
Oh, yeah, you know what?
You got me and Patterson all wrong.
Also, I have friends.
Okay, you would know
that if you came to my
Cinco de Mayo party last September.
Also, I'm sorry I didn't invite you
to my Cinco de Mayo party
last September.
- Briana.
- Hi.
Now, she's been talking
to Winston... a lot.
Yes. So I gathered.
So we thought maybe
looking at some evidence
might help her remember
some useful information
from their conversations.
How do we know if Winston's research
is even useful anymore?
These are copies of the travel records
he got ahold of last week.
They show that Gerald Savitt traveled
for criminology lectures
around the country
and wasn't even in the state
for most of the murders.
So he was right to abandon that theory.
So you're saying that the Ripper
killed Winston for nothing?
Just because of a tweet
that said he knew who did it?
I don't buy it.
Something in Winston's investigation
spooked the Ripper.
Someone he talked to.
Someplace he went.
Behold!
I give you Winston's
primary typewriter.
It's in nearly every photo
taken of him.
Now, when they found it,
there was no paper in it
and the ribbon was clean,
so kind of a dead end, right?
Not really a lead.
Check this out.
Huh.
Huh?
The "L" and the "G" typebars...
are stuck together.
So Winston switched typewriters.
Each ribbon makes an imprint
for every keystroke.
So, if we can just get our hands
on the right typewriter,
we could figure out what Winston
was typing on his last days.
Including whatever didn't make
it in the final manuscript.
You know, some pages
could have been discarded.
Maybe the killer took some out.
Now, based on the slight
typeface differences
in the final chapter,
it's clear that Winston
switched to an IBM Selectric.
I already called Nassau PD,
they said a Selectric
was found at the scene of the crime.
I told them not to touch it, that
I'd be right up there to get it.
As long as you guys are cool
with me driving up there.
Fine, but you can't go alone.
- Do I get to pick my away team?
- I'll... I'll go with him.
- You sure?
- Yeah.
I could use some fresh air
and sunlight right about now.
All right! Keys?
Be careful.
Shotgun. Driving. Okay. Just...
Aren't you curious
on who just saved your life?
You're Dominic Masters,
security consultant,
and Madeline's first hire
after she took over HCI Global.
You've spent the better
part of two decades
working for oil companies,
setting up their operations
in hostile regions around the world.
But I got the picture
you weren't the kind of guy
who liked getting his hands dirty.
My hands look dirty to you?
So how long were you tailing me?
Madeline just sent me here today.
Really?
Just today, huh?
You just so happened to be there
when I got nabbed by the CIA?
Yeah.
Actually it was the cartel
she was worried about.
You're lucky I was there.
Now let's get you safely
back to the States.
No. No!
I need to get back for
that meeting with Del Toro.
Not gonna happen.
You missed your meet with Del Toro,
and guys like that don't wait around.
For what Madeline's offering
his boss, he might.
And if there's any chance
he's still there,
I have to take it.
We both know what'll happen
if I show up to Madeline empty-handed.
Yeah, I do. Which is why
I need to bring you back.
I'm going back with or without you.
So you can show up with nothing,
or you can show up
with me and Del Toro.
Fine.
One stop before the airport.
What is Falcon Head?
Savitt's childhood home.
It was a major clue that Winston
was zeroing in on Savitt
as his prime suspect.
But we already ruled him out,
so unless he's got an evil twin...
Can you pull up
the persons-of-interest list
- on all 35 murders?
- Yeah.
One... super long
persons of interest list.
Hmm, more like men of interest list.
There's no women on it.
Well, statistically,
85% of serial killers are...
Oh, my God.
- Briana, you're a genius.
- I am?
What if Winston was
so blinded by the stats,
not to mention his own
unconscious bias,
that he missed a suspect?
Someone who shared geography
with Gerald,
who crossed paths with
the same people he crossed paths with.
Someone who spent a lot of time
at Falcon Head.
I thought you were just kidding
about the whole evil twin thing.
I was. But Gerald has a stepsister.
Iris Bricklemyer.
As a kid, she lived
with Gerald for half the year.
They were roommates for
a chunk of their adulthood.
She's a cop, too.
Auxiliary officer, SFPD.
Please tell me her
day job was in medicine.
Uh, no, but she did do this.
That's cute.
Yeah, in a horrifying kinda way.
Yeah, and it's much
harder than it looks.
Making these dioramas requires
a hobby knife and surgical precision.
Hobby knife's a lot like a scalpel.
Exactly.
No wonder these crimes look staged.
The victims were posed.
She was making art.
Life-sized versions of her dioramas.
We can't afford to be wrong again.
Can you check to see if she
ever traveled with her brother?
Jane. You okay?
I... I don't know. My
vision's getting all...
Your vision's all what?
- Rich... I can't see.
- What?
Should we go to the hospital?
We should go to the hospital, right?
No, no, no. We're already here.
- Just get the typewriter ribbon first.
- Really?
Yeah, you want to come all the way
back out to Long Island?
Okay, you make a valid point.
I'll be quick.
Oh...
Iris never traveled with her brother,
which means his alibis are not hers.
And look at this.
All those times the police were called
to Gerald's house as a
kid for animal abuse.
They match the custody schedule
his parents had for Iris.
Gerald was covering for his stepsister.
Send that photo to Jane and Rich
of our new prime suspect.
Yep, sending it now.
Whoa, wait a second.
Jane's vitals just spiked.
- What do you mean, "spiked"?
- She's in distress.
Jane, you okay?
No, she's not. She's blind.
And that woman you just
sent us a picture of?
I'm pretty sure she just took her.
Winston thought my
brother was the killer?
Geri?
So Winston had no clue
who I am, which means
once you're dead, no one will.
You kill me, the entire FBI
will be looking for you.
Let them try!
What I've got planned,
it'll be worth it.
Why?
What did all those victims do to you?
They're not victims. They're subjects.
They should feel honored
that I chose to immortalize them.
Honored? You murdered them.
We all die, Jane.
Only a lucky few of us
get to do it with purpose
and intent like you.
Doesn't Jane's health monitor
use a cell chip
- to send you data?
- Yes.
But to triangulate her position,
the phone needs to ping
three cell towers.
Right now it's pinging only
one in a very rural area.
The search area is at least
100 square miles.
The signal's glitching pretty bad.
Oh, I never should have left her.
I should've stayed in the car.
I should've taken her
to the hospital. This is all my fault.
What if it's not glitching?
What is she's sending us a message?
Thank God for Morse code.
No! Stay here.
It's bad enough that
I'm getting here late.
I show up with a face
Del Toro isn't expecting,
I'll lose him for sure.
You remember what happened last time
you showed up here alone?
I don't have a choice.
Del Toro.
You're late.
- Yeah, I, uh...
- I don't care.
The only reason I still have my freedom
is because I know when not
to walk into a room.
And my gut tells me
to stay the hell away from you
and your friend in the car.
Hey, come on a... a deal's a deal.
I help up my end, now it's your turn.
The deal was for a set meet
at a set time and you missed it.
Tell your boss you can find
a new hacker.
So what happened?
- Was he there?
- No.
But this was.
He's in.
Gonna meet us in New York.
Guess I'm your lucky rabbit's foot.
You get to fly back alive
and give Madeline the good news.
For a second there,
I thought you were really screwed.
It's a shame Winston called 9-1-1.
I didn't get a chance
to complete my work on him.
What a stupid, wrong-headed
name to give me.
"The Ripper."
Animals rip.
I create.
When you die... Jane Doe.
What story do you want
your body to tell?
I don't know.
Maybe something like this!
"West. Route 27. Five miles.
Turn north."
That must be all she
could have figured out
about her location as
her vision was failing.
So how much does that narrow
- the search area?
- Not enough.
Briana, let's get every agent we
can out there, all hands on deck.
Iris has to own some
property out there.
Like a cabin, lodge, something.
Wait, her aunt and uncle
own a vineyard out there.
It's closed for the season.
Let's move.
If you want to play games,
why don't you come a little closer?
You really think you can stop me
with that little thing?
Watch me.
Unh!
Kurt...
Hey.
You still can't see anything?
No. Just darkness.
It's happening, isn't it?
What Patterson warned us
about after Tokyo.
My body's starting to forget
how to function.
No.
We don't know that that's what it is.
Rich and Patterson,
they're off talking
to the doctors and...
...we're gonna work this out.
Can I get you anything?
No.
No, just... keep talking to me.
Okay.
How about...
How about I read you something
from this really great book.
- "Inked to Death: A Jane Doe Mystery."
- No.
No.
Okay.
That guy was wrong about everything.
Not everything. He knew that
- you were gonna take down the Ripper.
- Mm.
And, I guess he knew how much
we "glove" each other.
- I do "glove" you.
- Mm.
I do.
I can't see how worried you are...
but I can feel it.
Can you feel that?
That's all you need to worry about.
We've been through worse.
And we will get through this.
I promise.
Your communications
with Winston were irresponsible,
they were misguided,
- and a complete breach of trust.
- I understand.
I wasn't finished, Briana.
They also were not illegal.
No actual classified
information was shared, so...
Wait.
So, I'm not fired?
No, you're suspended.
But the real punishment
begins when you get back
and you have to earn the trust
of your colleagues again,
- which won't be easy.
- Thank you.
I won't let you down again.
Yeah, well, everyone
deserves a second chance.
- Get out of here.
- Thank you.
W-Wait, Briana. Question, um...
You spoke to Winston for a year,
gave him details about the entire team,
but Zapata didn't show up
in the book at all.
How come you didn't tell him about her?
I did.
Winston said that, as a character,
Zapata was too combustible,
too self-destructive.
He wanted to give the cops
in his story a happy ending,
but for Zapata he just
couldn't find one.
For her, or anyone close to her.
Thank you.
- I-Is she...?
- No. She had a grand mal seizure,
but she's in recovery.
She's stable now.
Things were a little scary
for a minute,
but... she's okay.
What is it, Patterson?
Grand mal seizures were listed
in Dr. Roga's files.
Combined with Jane's
hearing and vision loss,
all signs point to the ZIP
having reached her parietal lobe.
Which means she doesn't
have much time left.
How much?
Weeks? Months?
No. As in, days.
Maybe less.
There's someone trying
to break into my house.
I think it's...
I think they're after my...
- They're in the house.
- Who is in the house, sir?
No! Hello, can you please send...
Hello! I've gotta get out of here.
You?!
Late night?
Just catching up on all
this undercover work
Zapata had with Keaton.
Still can't believe she's back.
I still can't believe that she
kept us in the dark about their op.
On paper, I almost get it.
They felt like they
couldn't take any chances.
Yeah, but in reality...
I feel completely betrayed
and backed into a corner.
Now I got no choice but
to send Zapata back out
on a mission I never even authorized,
all while keeping the CIA off her back.
Yeah, but, just remember.
She wasn't calling the shots.
Keaton was.
And with him still in a coma,
this is all on you now.
This must be how Phil Jackson felt
when he was brought in
to turn the Knicks around.
He got fired, didn't he?
Don't remind me.
Sorry.
How's Jane doing?
She's good.
She's really good...
considering everything
she's going through.
The doctors, they keep telling me
I gotta give her breathing room
so she can figure out
what her "new normal" is.
I would love me some
"normal" right about now.
Same.
Zapata's supposed to be meeting
with Del Toro right this second.
Natasha...
The CIA would like a word.
You don't seem too worried
that she's meeting up
with a dangerous cartel hacker.
If I've learned one thing,
it's that Zapata
has no problem taking care of herself.
Hey, listen, you don't understand.
Unh!
The ZIP you were injected with
has never fully left your system.
It's killing you.
If this Kallisto
person is still out there
he might have a way
to reverse the effects of ZIP.
It's too late.
Whoa...
Was it something he said?
Kind of.
It's weird.
When I first came out of that bag
and discovered all the
things I could do, the...
fighting styles, the languages...
- The helicopter flying?
- Hm.
It was all muscle memory, instinct.
But now?
Every hit brings a rush of
memories of every hit before it,
every workout, every
lesson, it's, uh...
Overwhelming?
A little, yeah.
But I'd take Remi's
training memories over...
almost everything else she did.
Well, speaking of your...
health situation.
Please tell me that
contains the stem cells
- that are gonna save my life.
- Not quite.
- But this is...
- A bracelet.
I was going to say
this is a "custom-designed
ultra-smart health monitor."
But, sure, "bracelet" works, too.
- Okay.
- Dr. Roga identified
a dozen key indicators associated
with the progression of ZIP poisoning.
This tracks all of them.
Everything from heart rhythms
to oxygen saturation.
It even analyzes
the content of your sweat.
So, uh, it monitors how close
I'm moving towards death.
That's a little dark.
Don't think of it like that.
Think of it like it's your own
personal Patterson
with you at all times.
And that green light is
basically me waving at you,
saying, "Hi, hello, everything's fine."
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Okay, now you have to
teach me that combo move.
Okay.
- All right.
- Thank you.
Edgar! Hey... Ooh!
Jeez, I did not see you there.
- Sorry, Rich.
- You're saying "sorry"
and yet I feel like
you're kind of blaming me
- for what just happened...
- Briana, thanks.
Where's the fire, Rich?
Long Island...
And it's not a fire. It's a homicide.
An author of some repute
has wound up dead
and we need to get to
the crime scene, ASAP.
I don't understand. Is
that a tattoo connection?
Uh, you could say that.
I believe this was
Jane's coming out party.
Times Square bomb scare?
Boy, try saying that five times fast.
Times Square bomb scare,
Times Square bomb scare.
Times Square bomb scare,
Times Square bomb scare.
So, this is your "tattoo connection"?
Several of these articles
are about corrupt officials
that were taken down
as a result of tattoo cases.
Methinks Jane has a secret admirer.
Or not. None of them
actually mention her.
Most of these articles have
nothing to do with the tattoos.
They're not even FBI cases, Rich.
So he was propped up...
Pen put in his hand, post-mortem.
Killer trying to send a message?
Well, maybe they didn't
like his last novel.
- Yeah.
- Tell me about the victim.
Uh, Winston Pear.
Became a bestselling
author when he latched onto
the whole true crime fad.
I wouldn't say that
"he latched onto it."
More like he started it.
Kurt has all of his books.
Read two on our honeymoon.
But I read 'em on the plane,
okay, just to be clear.
Uh, "Winston Pear is
internationally renowned"
"for his genre-bending novels
where fictional detectives"
"solve real crimes."
Oh, come on, that is totally cheating.
He's also "renowned" for his
inability to write women.
They're either victims
or sex objects or usually both.
His writing is a little "dated."
But his books have led
to actual arrests.
The Hell's Kitchen diamond thieves.
The Coney Island kidnappers...
They get it, you're a super fan.
- I'm not a super fan.
- Whatever you say.
The blood spatter indicates he was
killed right there. And with that.
Then the killer went through the house
and trashed everything
looking for something.
Or trying to make it look like
they were looking for something
to hide the fact that it was
actually a crime of passion?
Ooh! Or a suicide.
Huh? See now we're writing
a mystery novel.
There's no computer.
Maybe the killer took it?
No, he was really old school.
He only ever used typewriters.
- Ugh, pretentious.
- No, I mean, he thought
that it helped him connect
to the words more, like...
Yeah, all right,
I might be a super fan.
Okay, uh, speaking of
being connected to the words more.
Here is something that might help us.
A voice from beyond the grave.
9-1-1, what's your emergency?
There's someone
trying to break into my house.
I think it's...
I think they're after my...
- They're in the house.
- Who is in the house, sir?
Sir? Are you still there?
- Oh, I thought this would be longer.
- Wait, play it again.
9-1-1, what's your emergency?
- There's someone trying to break...
- Stop.
At the beginning.
That "tick" sound.
It almost sounds like a... um...
Huh.
Winston was right here
when he first made the call.
9-1-1, what's your emergency
There's someone trying
to break into my house.
But the other sound on that recording
could be that latch.
There's someone
trying to break into my house.
A manuscript?
The plot thickens.
"Inked to Death":
"A Jane Doe Mystery."
It's about Jane?
No, it's about all of us.
If he was killed because
of what he was writing...
And the book is about us...
Then we just found ourselves
smack dab in the middle
of an old-fashioned murder mystery.
Looks like we're dealing
with a serial killer.
And not just any run-of-the-mill
Ted Bundy-type...
This is the work
of The New York Ripper.
Making this his 35th victim.
And making him the deadliest serial
killer in this state's history.
Life goals.
I'm sensing something.
There's a pattern to these murders.
Jane's right. Sorry I'm late.
The Nikkei opened down 5% today
and my investors are freaking out.
Such is the life when
you're an FBI super agent
and the CEO of a major tech company.
Hmm.
If you connect the dots
to his kill sites,
they match the shaded area
to Jane's centaur tattoo.
Nice work, Peterson. Nice work.
Kurt Walker, Edgar Reece.
Rich DotBiz.
And he even got Special Agent
Peterson's first name right.
These "fictional detectives" are us.
Except that I don't
have a centaur tattoo.
We've never worked a case
with a "New York Ripper."
I've never even heard
of that serial killer.
Also "Life goals"?
I mean, isn't death goals
the obvious joke?
Who does science in 6-inch heels?
Why does he spend all this time
describing women's shoes?
Why not spend a paragraph
on Rich's loafers?
But he kind of did get our essence.
Whatever, Mr. "Billowing
biceps, threatening"
"to rip through his shirt."
Winston Pear invents a serial killer
and a tattoo to go with it
just to put us in a story?
How does he even know us?
Invented a tattoo? Yes.
A serial killer, maybe not.
The reason we've never heard
of "The New York Ripper"
is because it's a name
coined by Winston.
He has a theory that three dozen
real murders in Long Island
have been committed by the same person.
Check out this tweet from
Winston's publisher:
"Next summer, Winston Pear
is going to unearth"
"New York's deadliest mystery."
Sounds like he was ready to name
a person that matches his theory.
Yeah, a name the real killer
doesn't want getting out.
Then why don't we just skip to the end?
"As the team races the clock"
"to stop this anonymous killing machine"
"from taking another life..." Oh.
It just stops. It's not complete.
"Anonymous killing machine"
doesn't real help.
Yeah, it looks like
we need to figure out
how Winston was planning
on ending his book.
That's not gonna be easy.
His whole life was analog.
No computer, no cell phone.
His car has an 8-track.
Let's just hope Winston didn't
take the killer's identity
to the grave with him.
Rich, coordinate with
local police and get
as much evidence as you can
back to our office.
I want a list of every suspect
they've got for all 35
- of those murders.
- Okay.
Looks like word got out who died here.
Hey...
You see that guy on my six?
Could just be a lookie-loo.
It could also be the killer
looking for the manuscript.
Sir? FBI.
Stop! Got a runner!
Jane, do you have eyes on him?!
I need you to intercept him!
Jane!
FBI!
- But I didn't do anything.
- That's why you ran?
That's it. Come on.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
Yeah, it's just a little denim burn
from when I side-tackled that guy.
I'm talking about before the tackle.
- C'mere.
- Hmm?
Patterson said that your vitals spiked.
So, what was that? Like, a migraine?
Not exactly. More like a...
ear-piercing drone followed by silence,
but it only lasted a couple seconds.
A couple of seconds? Jane...
I still got the guy, didn't I?
Patterson said she's okay
with me being out in the field
as long as I got this on.
But if you think I should
dial back on my activity...
No, I don't want you
to do anything for me.
All right, you gotta
do it for yourself.
Trust your gut.
Suspect is ready for us
in the interrogation room.
Get this. He's an agent.
CIA? NSA?
Nope, try again.
I'm telling you,
I'm just his literary agent.
When I heard about Winston,
I went right down there.
To steal evidence?
No, to make sure someone was looking
after my client's best interests.
Your dead client.
Now, that book,
that'd be worth millions, wouldn't it?
Probably more now.
Wait.
You think I killed him?
No, no, no.
Okay, you're right.
I did want to get my hands
on the manuscript.
It is worth a lot, but only
if it's delivered to the publisher.
I was just gonna borrow it,
make a copy and then put it back.
That's not still an option, is it?
No.
But if you tell us everything
you know about the book,
maybe we'll keep you out of jail.
Winston had been trying to write
about the Ripper for years,
but he could never find
a way into the story.
Until Times Square got evacuated
because of a bomb scare
a couple years ago, you remember that?
It sounds vaguely familiar.
Winston thought it was weird that
there was never any follow-up about it,
so he pinged his NYPD contacts,
got in touch with the beat cops
and bomb squad guys that were there.
And that's when he found out
about... this naked lady
who came out of a bag,
covered in tattoos from h...
Holy...
You're her, aren't you?
Focus, Ronnie.
That was it.
He couldn't get that image
out of his head.
He had to write about it.
Where does the Ripper come in?
The perfect mystery needs
the perfect crime-solving team, right?
For Winston, she... you...
were the ideal foil for the Ripper.
You're not represented, are you?
I'm thinking about getting into...
How does the book end?
I can't tell you.
I'm pretty sure that Winston's
not gonna fire you.
Well, I can't tell you
because I don't know.
He only trusted a few select people
with the details
of his works-in-progress.
- Like?
- Like Frankie, his editor.
I don't know any other names
specifically.
They may be in his notebook.
What notebook?
Winston kept all his notes
and research in a red Moleskine.
His theories.
Who he talked to about the case.
It was like an extension of his brain.
Never saw him without it.
I've been looking through
all the murders
Winston attributed to the Ripper.
No consistent M.O.
Some of them look ritualistic,
others look completely random.
The cops have over a hundred
suspects for them in total.
Why did Winston think
these were all done
by the same person?
Only one way to find out.
You want me to do a book report?
It's the best lead we got going.
Make copies for everyone.
Hey, have you heard from Zapata?
Not yet.
So this is very, very bad.
Oh, yeah? What's bad?
We've hit a dead end.
Literally.
The Agents that went to pick
up Winston's book editor
found her a little less than alive.
And unlike Winston,
whose murder was interrupted
by a 911 call,
looks like the Ripper really
took his time with this one.
Her lips are sewn shut.
It's not too hard to figure out
what that means.
He's silencing anyone
connected to the manuscript.
What about Winston's notebook?
Talked to local PD.
Not only was it
not taken into evidence,
but CSU didn't even list one
in their crime scene inventory.
So, either they haven't
found one yet, or...
- Someone took it.
- If the Ripper has Winston's notebook,
that means he's got a road map
to everyone he needs to kill next.
Placement of the murder weapon,
the wealth of physical evidence...
These crime scenes,
they're almost... too perfect.
I can't. We can't.
We can.
Not here, not again.
I just keep thinking about your wife.
Oh, to hell with my disinterested wife!
Shh!
Maybe this will help set the mood.
"The forbidden lovers share
a toast before embracing".
"Their bodies intertwining
like two snakes in a pit of..."
- Oh, my God.
- Okay. Well, you get the picture.
Yeah, I would like to send it back.
Also, it says I have a wife.
Okay, first of all, if I was
married, which I never would be,
I would have multiple wives
and a husband.
And what does it even mean
for a crime scene
to be "too perfect"?
Speaking of not having
any grounding in reality,
listen to this.
"Rich DotBiz, willing to put
his criminal past behind him"
"and work with the Feds"
"not out of a desire for redemption",
"but out of a desire for friendship".
"True friendship".
"Something that's always been lacking"
"in the life of this spastic
emissary of chaos."
Where does he come up with this crap?!
Yeah, where does he?
Okay, talking to his usual
law enforcement contacts,
I can see how Winston figured out
much of the stuff in this book.
But the fact that you
don't have any friends?
Hey, okay, I have friends, all right?
They're just... in Canada.
And how the hell does Winston Pear
know where I keep
my celebratory reserve?
Hmm, I see what you're saying.
Let's get drunk.
- No.
- No, we have a rat.
Is the book that bad?
No. Well, yes.
That's not what's bothering me.
All this reading in
this fluorescent light
is just killing my eyes.
You okay?
Do you wanna keep going?
Yeah, yeah.
Check out the size
of these forensics reports.
It's pretty extensive.
When's the last time you saw a
forensics report that complete?
Uh, never.
It's as though every piece of evidence
CSU would expect to find was left
right where they would
expect to find it.
The Ripper has to be a cop.
Someone in the office
was talking to Winston.
What?
The devil is literally in the details.
What's in the drawers. Who's
keeping secrets. Jane's migraines...
Wait, he wrote about my ZIP poisoning?
No, I think he thinks you're pregnant.
Or psychic.
Or pregnant and your baby's
gonna be psychic?
The only way Winston
could know this stuff
is from someone who is
in very close proximity to us.
Yeah.
But who?
Uh, class, if you would, please,
turn to page 77 in your textbooks.
I can't believe this.
- Did I step out of bounds?
- Step out of bounds?
I think you just broke
this whole case wide open.
- We need to talk to you.
- It can wait.
Rich has got something.
No, Briana's got something.
It's incredible.
You came up with this on your own?
No, you guys had most of the pieces,
I just... filled in the blanks.
People say I'm a perfectionist,
that I dot every "I," cross every "T."
It's just that when I see
even the smallest detail missing,
it's like a black hole, sucking me in.
I guess that, where everyone else
sees the world as it is,
I see the world as it isn't.
I see what's not there.
Well, you're wasting
your talents behind a desk.
You need to be in the field.
With a gun and a badge.
"Welcome to the Big Leagues, Briana."
Should I keep reading, or do
you have something to tell us?
Oh, my God.
I'm so sorry.
I thought I was just...
Winston Pear reached out to me
to help him with the research.
I didn't realize...
How much trouble am I in?
Why did you do it?
I... I didn't realize what I was doing.
When he first reached out, he was
just asking about protocol, procedure.
When he started to ask about you guys,
I thought it was off the record.
How did he even find you?
I went to college
with his stepdaughter.
I thought it was weird
when he reached out to me
of all people.
It just felt good
to be useful, you know?
He said that I was helping
to catch a dangerous criminal!
We catch criminals here every day.
No, you catch criminals here every day.
I get people to sign things.
How long had you two been talking?
About a year.
The deeper he got into the book,
the more he'd call.
Patterson's got something.
See if Briana here knows something
that'll help us catch this guy.
Break in the case?
In the book, the FBI was fixated
on specific cuts found on the victims.
So we looked for cuts in
the real world, and we found...
every victim has incisions made
with a scalpel-like knife.
The cuts were surprisingly precise,
slicing the dermis but not
the subcutaneous tissue.
Suggesting that the killer has
a medical background.
You don't need to go to medical
school to be good with a scalpel.
No, but it helps.
And it gave us another vector
in our hunt for Winston's suspect.
Vector one... Long Island residents
who work in law enforcement.
It's a long list.
Vector two...
Have a medical background.
Slightly shorter list.
Vector three... Have worked or lived
near the murder clusters.
- That's a very short list.
- How short?
One name... Gerald "Geri" Savitt.
He's a detective with the Suffolk
County PD. Former paramedic.
The best part, as a child,
he had a history
of abusing animals.
I don't know why I said that
with a smile on my face.
It's a hallmark
of burgeoning serial killers.
How positive are you
that this is the guy
Winston ID'd as the Ripper?
I found a Post-It note
with the words
"Falcon Head" written on it.
Falcon Head happens to be
the name of a ranch
owned by Savitt's parents,
where he grew up, so...
- 73%.
- 1,000%.
What are you gettin' mad at me for
Have a little confidence.
Did he ever talk
to you about his theory?
Who he thought did it?
Not specifically.
But he did once
refer to the killer as "GS."
He did?
It was during the last call
that I got from him.
It was...
It was a different kind of call.
He didn't ask about you guys.
He just wanted to talk.
He sounded frustrated
and a little drunk.
He said that he was having
doubts about his "GS" theory.
What kind of doubts?
He had just gotten ahold of
some kind of travel records.
He said that they gave "GS"
too many alibis.
Winston was worried that he'd
have to go back to square one
or abandon the entire book.
Great.
So the book might not
just be incomplete.
It could be worthless.
Rise and shine, sweetheart.
Look, I'm telling you,
you got this all wrong.
We need to hurry.
There are more CIA operatives
on the way.
I'm a friend of Madeline's.
Let's go!
I can feel the Ripper
slipping away from us.
Every lead drying up.
He's gonna kill again soon,
and what are we doing?
Just chasing our tails.
I don't like what this case
is doing to you.
Yeah, well...
You wanna catch a monster...
sometimes you gotta become a monster.
Well, before you do anything rash,
you might want to take a look at this.
- Is that...?
- It is.
- Does that say...?
- It does.
Took two tests just to be sure.
We're going to be parents.
I "glove" you.
I "glove" you.
"I glove you"?
- There's typos in this.
- Why are you still reading that drivel?
The killer is still out there,
primed to strike again.
Nothing in that book is gonna stop him.
All right. Wait a second.
What if they're not typos?
What if it was a mechanical failure?
Holy crap.
- I'm not following...
- No time to explain!
- Oh, hey.
- Rich.
Oh, yeah, you know what?
You got me and Patterson all wrong.
Also, I have friends.
Okay, you would know
that if you came to my
Cinco de Mayo party last September.
Also, I'm sorry I didn't invite you
to my Cinco de Mayo party
last September.
- Briana.
- Hi.
Now, she's been talking
to Winston... a lot.
Yes. So I gathered.
So we thought maybe
looking at some evidence
might help her remember
some useful information
from their conversations.
How do we know if Winston's research
is even useful anymore?
These are copies of the travel records
he got ahold of last week.
They show that Gerald Savitt traveled
for criminology lectures
around the country
and wasn't even in the state
for most of the murders.
So he was right to abandon that theory.
So you're saying that the Ripper
killed Winston for nothing?
Just because of a tweet
that said he knew who did it?
I don't buy it.
Something in Winston's investigation
spooked the Ripper.
Someone he talked to.
Someplace he went.
Behold!
I give you Winston's
primary typewriter.
It's in nearly every photo
taken of him.
Now, when they found it,
there was no paper in it
and the ribbon was clean,
so kind of a dead end, right?
Not really a lead.
Check this out.
Huh.
Huh?
The "L" and the "G" typebars...
are stuck together.
So Winston switched typewriters.
Each ribbon makes an imprint
for every keystroke.
So, if we can just get our hands
on the right typewriter,
we could figure out what Winston
was typing on his last days.
Including whatever didn't make
it in the final manuscript.
You know, some pages
could have been discarded.
Maybe the killer took some out.
Now, based on the slight
typeface differences
in the final chapter,
it's clear that Winston
switched to an IBM Selectric.
I already called Nassau PD,
they said a Selectric
was found at the scene of the crime.
I told them not to touch it, that
I'd be right up there to get it.
As long as you guys are cool
with me driving up there.
Fine, but you can't go alone.
- Do I get to pick my away team?
- I'll... I'll go with him.
- You sure?
- Yeah.
I could use some fresh air
and sunlight right about now.
All right! Keys?
Be careful.
Shotgun. Driving. Okay. Just...
Aren't you curious
on who just saved your life?
You're Dominic Masters,
security consultant,
and Madeline's first hire
after she took over HCI Global.
You've spent the better
part of two decades
working for oil companies,
setting up their operations
in hostile regions around the world.
But I got the picture
you weren't the kind of guy
who liked getting his hands dirty.
My hands look dirty to you?
So how long were you tailing me?
Madeline just sent me here today.
Really?
Just today, huh?
You just so happened to be there
when I got nabbed by the CIA?
Yeah.
Actually it was the cartel
she was worried about.
You're lucky I was there.
Now let's get you safely
back to the States.
No. No!
I need to get back for
that meeting with Del Toro.
Not gonna happen.
You missed your meet with Del Toro,
and guys like that don't wait around.
For what Madeline's offering
his boss, he might.
And if there's any chance
he's still there,
I have to take it.
We both know what'll happen
if I show up to Madeline empty-handed.
Yeah, I do. Which is why
I need to bring you back.
I'm going back with or without you.
So you can show up with nothing,
or you can show up
with me and Del Toro.
Fine.
One stop before the airport.
What is Falcon Head?
Savitt's childhood home.
It was a major clue that Winston
was zeroing in on Savitt
as his prime suspect.
But we already ruled him out,
so unless he's got an evil twin...
Can you pull up
the persons-of-interest list
- on all 35 murders?
- Yeah.
One... super long
persons of interest list.
Hmm, more like men of interest list.
There's no women on it.
Well, statistically,
85% of serial killers are...
Oh, my God.
- Briana, you're a genius.
- I am?
What if Winston was
so blinded by the stats,
not to mention his own
unconscious bias,
that he missed a suspect?
Someone who shared geography
with Gerald,
who crossed paths with
the same people he crossed paths with.
Someone who spent a lot of time
at Falcon Head.
I thought you were just kidding
about the whole evil twin thing.
I was. But Gerald has a stepsister.
Iris Bricklemyer.
As a kid, she lived
with Gerald for half the year.
They were roommates for
a chunk of their adulthood.
She's a cop, too.
Auxiliary officer, SFPD.
Please tell me her
day job was in medicine.
Uh, no, but she did do this.
That's cute.
Yeah, in a horrifying kinda way.
Yeah, and it's much
harder than it looks.
Making these dioramas requires
a hobby knife and surgical precision.
Hobby knife's a lot like a scalpel.
Exactly.
No wonder these crimes look staged.
The victims were posed.
She was making art.
Life-sized versions of her dioramas.
We can't afford to be wrong again.
Can you check to see if she
ever traveled with her brother?
Jane. You okay?
I... I don't know. My
vision's getting all...
Your vision's all what?
- Rich... I can't see.
- What?
Should we go to the hospital?
We should go to the hospital, right?
No, no, no. We're already here.
- Just get the typewriter ribbon first.
- Really?
Yeah, you want to come all the way
back out to Long Island?
Okay, you make a valid point.
I'll be quick.
Oh...
Iris never traveled with her brother,
which means his alibis are not hers.
And look at this.
All those times the police were called
to Gerald's house as a
kid for animal abuse.
They match the custody schedule
his parents had for Iris.
Gerald was covering for his stepsister.
Send that photo to Jane and Rich
of our new prime suspect.
Yep, sending it now.
Whoa, wait a second.
Jane's vitals just spiked.
- What do you mean, "spiked"?
- She's in distress.
Jane, you okay?
No, she's not. She's blind.
And that woman you just
sent us a picture of?
I'm pretty sure she just took her.
Winston thought my
brother was the killer?
Geri?
So Winston had no clue
who I am, which means
once you're dead, no one will.
You kill me, the entire FBI
will be looking for you.
Let them try!
What I've got planned,
it'll be worth it.
Why?
What did all those victims do to you?
They're not victims. They're subjects.
They should feel honored
that I chose to immortalize them.
Honored? You murdered them.
We all die, Jane.
Only a lucky few of us
get to do it with purpose
and intent like you.
Doesn't Jane's health monitor
use a cell chip
- to send you data?
- Yes.
But to triangulate her position,
the phone needs to ping
three cell towers.
Right now it's pinging only
one in a very rural area.
The search area is at least
100 square miles.
The signal's glitching pretty bad.
Oh, I never should have left her.
I should've stayed in the car.
I should've taken her
to the hospital. This is all my fault.
What if it's not glitching?
What is she's sending us a message?
Thank God for Morse code.
No! Stay here.
It's bad enough that
I'm getting here late.
I show up with a face
Del Toro isn't expecting,
I'll lose him for sure.
You remember what happened last time
you showed up here alone?
I don't have a choice.
Del Toro.
You're late.
- Yeah, I, uh...
- I don't care.
The only reason I still have my freedom
is because I know when not
to walk into a room.
And my gut tells me
to stay the hell away from you
and your friend in the car.
Hey, come on a... a deal's a deal.
I help up my end, now it's your turn.
The deal was for a set meet
at a set time and you missed it.
Tell your boss you can find
a new hacker.
So what happened?
- Was he there?
- No.
But this was.
He's in.
Gonna meet us in New York.
Guess I'm your lucky rabbit's foot.
You get to fly back alive
and give Madeline the good news.
For a second there,
I thought you were really screwed.
It's a shame Winston called 9-1-1.
I didn't get a chance
to complete my work on him.
What a stupid, wrong-headed
name to give me.
"The Ripper."
Animals rip.
I create.
When you die... Jane Doe.
What story do you want
your body to tell?
I don't know.
Maybe something like this!
"West. Route 27. Five miles.
Turn north."
That must be all she
could have figured out
about her location as
her vision was failing.
So how much does that narrow
- the search area?
- Not enough.
Briana, let's get every agent we
can out there, all hands on deck.
Iris has to own some
property out there.
Like a cabin, lodge, something.
Wait, her aunt and uncle
own a vineyard out there.
It's closed for the season.
Let's move.
If you want to play games,
why don't you come a little closer?
You really think you can stop me
with that little thing?
Watch me.
Unh!
Kurt...
Hey.
You still can't see anything?
No. Just darkness.
It's happening, isn't it?
What Patterson warned us
about after Tokyo.
My body's starting to forget
how to function.
No.
We don't know that that's what it is.
Rich and Patterson,
they're off talking
to the doctors and...
...we're gonna work this out.
Can I get you anything?
No.
No, just... keep talking to me.
Okay.
How about...
How about I read you something
from this really great book.
- "Inked to Death: A Jane Doe Mystery."
- No.
No.
Okay.
That guy was wrong about everything.
Not everything. He knew that
- you were gonna take down the Ripper.
- Mm.
And, I guess he knew how much
we "glove" each other.
- I do "glove" you.
- Mm.
I do.
I can't see how worried you are...
but I can feel it.
Can you feel that?
That's all you need to worry about.
We've been through worse.
And we will get through this.
I promise.
Your communications
with Winston were irresponsible,
they were misguided,
- and a complete breach of trust.
- I understand.
I wasn't finished, Briana.
They also were not illegal.
No actual classified
information was shared, so...
Wait.
So, I'm not fired?
No, you're suspended.
But the real punishment
begins when you get back
and you have to earn the trust
of your colleagues again,
- which won't be easy.
- Thank you.
I won't let you down again.
Yeah, well, everyone
deserves a second chance.
- Get out of here.
- Thank you.
W-Wait, Briana. Question, um...
You spoke to Winston for a year,
gave him details about the entire team,
but Zapata didn't show up
in the book at all.
How come you didn't tell him about her?
I did.
Winston said that, as a character,
Zapata was too combustible,
too self-destructive.
He wanted to give the cops
in his story a happy ending,
but for Zapata he just
couldn't find one.
For her, or anyone close to her.
Thank you.
- I-Is she...?
- No. She had a grand mal seizure,
but she's in recovery.
She's stable now.
Things were a little scary
for a minute,
but... she's okay.
What is it, Patterson?
Grand mal seizures were listed
in Dr. Roga's files.
Combined with Jane's
hearing and vision loss,
all signs point to the ZIP
having reached her parietal lobe.
Which means she doesn't
have much time left.
How much?
Weeks? Months?
No. As in, days.
Maybe less.