Elementary (2012–…): Season 2, Episode 19 - The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville - full transcript
A serial killer known for biting his victims appears to be killing again, even though he was presumed dead.
Holmes?
Holmes.
Thoughts?
Well, your working theory is obviously that
this man was interrupted
in the performance of his duties
by the thief,
who then brained
the unfortunate mortician
and made off
with all of his clients' jewelry.
So how, then, do we explain
these bite marks?
It's an oddly personal means of attack,
is it not?
Especially for a transaction conducted
solely in the name of the profit motive.
Yeah, we thought it was weird.
Maybe the robbery was just a cover?
You said the owner found his body
exactly like this, right?
Excuse me, detective.
Leslie Loughlin, from the 5-3 Squad.
Oh, I'm Detective Bell.
This is Holmes, Watson, our consultants.
- What brings you down from the Bronx?
- The M.O. You got here.
In the last couple of weeks,
we've had two young women
turn up dead
with bite marks on their shoulders.
Looks a lot like a pair of killings
we thought we closed in '05,
but I'm starting to think
we got the wrong guy.
You said, "young women
with bite marks on their shoulders."
- Was this in Pelham?
- Yeah.
Anyway, I figured if my guy did this,
maybe the N.Y.P.D. Only needs
one vampire hunter.
This is not a murder.
It's an accidental death.
Mr. Robertson was standing on the table,
and he fell off and hit his head.
The robber broke in several hours later.
This scent. Do you smell that?
Honestly, I've been trying not to breathe.
Well, if you did,
you might detect the faintest trace
of marijuana laced with embalming fluid.
When the toxicology report comes back,
I'm quite certain it will confirm that
our young mortician here
was experimenting with "wet."
The kick is something like PCP,
so I'm told.
So he was high.
All right, well,
how do you explain the biting?
This young lady here...
Our mortician has his shirt off as quite
a sensible precaution against the stink.
He fell against her open mouth,
the weight
caused her mandible to clamp...
Oh.
- Is the pin important?
- Oh, crucially so.
We know that our robber gained access
via bathroom window,
but there's no evidence whatsoever
that he gained egress from the building.
I think he stumbled upon this scene
just moments before the owner.
Not wishing to have to
explain his role in this,
the burglar sought a place to hide.
- Ah!
- Sorry. I mistook you for a corpse.
The good news is you won't be charged
with the murder of the mortician.
But I'm guessing the jewels in question
are still in your possession? Hm?
Wow. Guess I wasted a trip.
Thank you for your time.
This way. This way.
Detective Loughlin.
That case in 2005, did it involve someone
named Aaron Colville?
- Actually, it did. Do you remember it?
- Can I take a look at your files?
Colville copped a plea
to the two homicides back in '05.
He died later that year.
Now, to me, it looks like the bite marks
in these two most recent cases
match the marks from '05,
which, considering Colville's been dead
going on 10 years,
argues against him being the doer.
Can I make a copy of these files?
Sure.
Do you mind if I ask your interest here?
Were you involved in the original case?
So the world wants us
to be solemn. Right?
We tackle big problems,
we're surgeons, and so people feel better
if we have just the right demeanor.
And that's fine, that's fine out there.
But in here,
this is where the rubber meets the road.
The solemnity of the surgeon's work
follows us no matter what we do.
And it will eat you up if you let it.
So part of your job is not to let it. Okay?
Dr. Karthik?
Ah. Dr. Watson.
- Gosh, it's been years.
- Yes.
It's nice to see you.
How's your practice?
Actually, I haven't practiced medicine
since 2011.
Oh, really? Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
Thanks.
I'm here to talk about Aaron Colville.
Okay, I am not discussing Colville.
What happened that night?
Nothing happened that night.
I treated my patient.
I was there.
He might not have killed those women.
We may have let an innocent man die.
Patient's coming out of Rikers
with four stab wounds,
all punctures to the thoracic region.
- Give me the stats.
- BP's 65 over 45.
We hung two units,
but he's losing blood.
- Can I see that?
- The doc at Rikers gave me his chart.
- Guy's name's Aaron Colville.
- From the news?
Don't know if you saw on there or not,
but he's an organ donor.
Okay, on three. One, two, three.
Good.
Okay. Now, nurse, I need him intubated.
And let's get his chest open.
What did he say?
Nothing. Come on, let's go.
- He's arresting.
- Yeah, I'm looking right at it.
Starting massage.
Lynn, go get Dr. Reed, please.
Really? We might need her.
If we can't bring him back,
we're gonna need an extra set of hands.
Lynn, please, go get Dr. Reed.
Dr. Fleming, he needs the epi.
Just hold on.
Let me see if I can't get this going.
He needs the epi.
All right, I'm calling it. It's 1:04.
That epinephrine could've saved his life.
We let him die.
We've been over this.
I gave that man the same standard of care
I provide anyone
who comes through the doors of my O.R.
I didn't even know
who Aaron Colville was.
A psychotic murderer,
bludgeoning and biting women
10 blocks from the neighborhood
where you lived and worked.
I didn't make the connection
till after he passed.
Why are we talking about this?
If you had an issue with my behavior,
you should have filed a complaint.
We're talking about a decade ago.
Listen, I am consulting
with the N.Y.P.D. Now.
Police are investigating two new murders,
and everything about them looks like
the crimes that Colville was charged with.
Then it was a copycat.
I mean, that's the term, right?
All the victims were bitten.
We are waiting for official confirmation,
but it looks like
the same bite marks to me.
Okay, well,
if that's what you came here to say,
you know, consider me informed.
Listen.
He said something to you that night.
If there was any clue as to what he said,
if he thought he was being framed...
Dr. Fleming, please,
there's nothing
anyone can do to you now.
It wasn't anything like that.
It was gibberish. Okay?
He was coding, for God's sakes.
What do you think,
you're gonna set things right here?
Surgeons make calls, Joan.
It's part of the job.
I do it all the time.
I don't lose sleep over it.
You know, you could just
move the ladder too, right?
Here we are. Ha.
You know, I've been cursing Ms. Hudson
for misplacing this.
Turns out she's recategorized it
under historical meteorology. Clever.
Trade winds and Ocean Currents,
first published in 1914.
- Out of print, if you can believe it.
- That's a travesty.
You jest, but this atlas
may soon come in very handy.
I do wish you wouldn't
leave my texts unanswered.
Well, I do wish you wouldn't keep writing
when I don't respond.
We have an offer to consider.
Several of the trust fund brats that
Mycroft aligned himself with at university
are underwriting a treasure hunt of sorts.
An expedition in search of a sunken ship.
- And we've been invited.
- Are you serious?
Our quarry, the SS Waratah,
has been called Australia's Titanic.
It is, unquestionably,
the most famous missing shipwreck.
It disappeared in 1909, carrying 211 souls
and a safe stuffed full of their valuables.
Now, I'm not suggesting
we be motivated
by anything as vulgar
as an enormous finder's fee,
but I just thought
you might like to bid adieu
to our 17th straight month of winter
and join me in sunnier climes for a week.
That sounds fun.
You should go.
It's only fun in the right company.
Where did you disappear to?
So Aaron Colville
took a plea bargain in 2005,
and was then stabbed to death in prison.
Here we are, nine years later.
Two new murders
appear to have been committed.
Hmm. Well, you know, as I always say,
bite-mark analysis
is only slightly more scientific
than casting chicken bones about
to see the future.
But I'm unaware of any case
where two suspects have identical teeth.
I suppose we should proceed
under the assumption
that the same party is responsible
for both sets of murders.
- So Aaron Colville was innocent?
- Of these particular crimes, probably.
But there is a reason he was a suspect.
You seem distressed. Why?
Well, I just stood there
and watched him die.
Watson, you didn't stab Aaron Colville
on Rikers Island.
Nor did you fail to administer
the epinephrine shot
in what you judged to be a timely fashion.
- That was your colleague, your superior.
- Yes.
What would've happened if you had
filed a complaint against your surgeon?
- Do you think that would've been wise?
- Wise?
- Does that matter?
- Of course it matters.
You're chastising yourself for failing to
make a futile gesture a decade ago.
Anyway, your feelings are trivial
because we have a murderer to catch.
The bite mark, timeless expression
of the frustration of impotence.
And for us, a stroke of luck.
Our man did not leave
a suitable DNA sample,
but he did sign his work.
And as soon as we match these
to a person,
we can put this behind us.
It's not that easy.
There's no law enforcement agency
that keeps dental records.
No, they're medical records,
and that would be illegal.
And that's why they use consultants.
We'll need someone
with state-of-the-art computing skills.
What?
My regular contact in London
has forsworn the practice.
Something about not wanting to go to jail.
So we'll have to contact them.
I thought we left on good terms
with Everyone.
Well, as far as you can be on good terms
with an anonymous collective
of immature hackers, we did.
They are still an anonymous collective
of immature hackers.
If we come to them, cap in hand,
asking for medical records,
they're always gonna have their price.
- I don't get it.
- You don't have to get it.
- Do you need ice yet?
- No.
They're already an hour late.
I don't know how much more of this
you can take.
Sorry, sorry, one go a day. Sorry.
What about my boys?
All right, come on.
Happy hunting.
These are transparencies taken from
the dental records provided by Everyone.
The photograph, of course,
depicts bite marks left by our killer.
This one's close,
but the lateral incisor is crooked.
Just a few thousand more to go.
Twenty-seven thousand.
An overwhelming majority of killers strike
within three miles of their residence.
While it's true
that we're looking for a psychopath,
it's unlikely that he commuted
to the next borough for his dental care.
One of the hundreds in the Bronx
most likely flosses our madman.
Why don't you rest?
I'll take the first shift.
As you wish.
Hey, wake up.
Take a look at this slide.
We got him.
It appears we do.
His name is Alan Vikner, 52.
He is a patient at Olinville Dentistry,
which happens to be within a mile
of both recent murders.
As is his mailing address.
He's an ex-con,
served four years for aggravated assault.
Must be a new patient.
One visit, no X-rays.
Someone should teach him
the importance of regular check-ups.
And not killing people.
The officer who brought me in said
you found my prints
at the scene of a murder.
That isn't possible. I'm living clean now.
I'm a deacon at my church.
Not your prints, Alan.
Your bite marks.
Oh, thank God.
You relieved to see these pictures?
I told you, you had the wrong guy.
Lots of people
make these bite marks.
I got my teeth knocked out in a fight
in the yard at Newgate Correctional.
They gave me these.
This doesn't make any sense.
Aaron Colville had all of his own teeth
when he died.
You can put those
back in your mouth.
Colville was in Newgate
from 2001 to 2004.
That's one year
before the first murders.
And it also coincides
with Mr. Vikner's stay.
How did you wind up with
a set of dentures that match a killer's?
I can't tell you that,
but these are standard issue up there.
Colville was the model.
The prison dentist used his teeth
to make a model set of dentures.
God only knows how many sets
of Colville's teeth are out there.
I've only been the dentist
for a few years.
But the prison system
doesn't provide inmates with dentures.
It just... We don't have the funds.
Official policy is to pull problem teeth.
We've just seen a set of dentures
which originated in this office.
Uh... The guy who had the job before me,
his name was Conrad Nolan.
And he was, I don't know, a saint.
He took it on himself
to manufacture dentures on his own.
God love him, but I have kids
to go home to at the end of the day.
Do you have Dr. Nolan's
contact information?
He died a few years ago.
Pancreatic cancer.
Hold on a second. Stan?
- Yeah?
- Come here a second.
This is Stan Divac,
and he's one of my assistants.
He's been here a lot longer than I have.
Used to work for Dr. Nolan.
Can you tell us about
your denture program?
Wouldn't really call it a program.
Dr. Nolan didn't like the idea
of grown men gumming their food,
and he figured out a way to make them
cheap so he could foot the bill himself.
And they modeled the dentures
after an inmate named Aaron Colville?
Maybe.
Dr. Nolan picked someone
with a good set of teeth.
I don't think Doc Nolan
even told the guy he did it.
He made the dentures
based on an impression he took.
How many sets of dentures
did you distribute based on the model?
Maybe eight? Ten?
All these guys
have Aaron Colville's teeth?
The warden let us sift through
inmate medical records.
We pulled every prisoner who had
been fitted for a full set of dentures.
- Eight suspects?
- Actually we are down to four.
Alan Vikner has an alibi.
Tash is dead.
And Lalayanis and Parker
have been locked up the whole time.
The remaining four
settled near the city after their release.
Bring them in.
I'll tell Detective Loughlin
that she whiffed in '05
and we've brought in
a set of fresh eyes.
I'll also let the commissioner know
he'd better warm up to lawyers.
Lawyers?
We're about to re-open a couple
of homicide cases from '05.
Every plaintiff's attorney in the city
is gonna be lining up to sue
on behalf of Aaron Colville's family.
This good?
Yes, Mr. Pohlua.
Those are the dentures
we're looking for.
You can stop smiling now.
- Not bad, huh?
- Very nice.
You can look as long as you want.
But I think the dentures
you're looking for
are right here.
You maintain
more than one set of dentures?
The set I got in prison
never fit very well.
I replaced them as soon as I could.
But I held on to them
to remind myself how bad it got
when I was using.
Can you tell us where you were
on the 12th and 16th of last month?
You said the 16th, right?
Is it okay if I take my shirt off?
That's an inspiring story, Mr. Deer.
Unfortunately, it's not a suitable alibi.
- You could've switched dentures.
- Not really, though.
When I bought the case,
I realized that the dentures
was too tall for it.
See?
I had to sand them down
just to get them to fit in there.
I couldn't wear them if I wanted to.
So...
shingles was no fun.
But if the hospital stay takes me out
of the running in your manhunt,
it was worth it.
You can go now, Mr. Pohlua.
Aside from the fact
I find your taste abhorrent,
it does appears you are innocent.
I know that.
How do you know that?
Your dentures are chipped.
By the looks of your left bicuspid,
you broke it several years ago,
and you haven't stopped
drinking coffee since.
- So?
- You can go.
Three suspects interviewed,
three suspects exonerated.
So who's the guy we can't find?
Daniel Escalante.
Three arrests
for aggravated sexual assault.
Apparently, he's no longer
at the address parole has on file.
Missed the last couple of meetings
with his PO too.
He's the only one left,
so I guess he's our new lead suspect.
Your medical records have arrived.
Why are you looking into the recent
case history of Dr. Jonathan Fleming?
Once again, opening my packages.
We have enemies, Watson.
I needed to make sure
there was nothing dangerous in here.
When I went to see Dr. Fleming
he said he makes calls all the time.
There's just something
about the way he said it.
So you think he routinely
denies adequate care
to people he deems unworthy?
I don't know.
Something just wasn't right.
I asked an old friend
to copy some records for me.
So unable to do anything
about the unprovable incident
that you witnessed personally,
you thought you'd get
to the bottom of some
that you weren't involved in at all.
We're investigating
the so-called Colville murders.
Once the police track down
Daniel Escalante,
we'll most likely have
the person responsible.
Why is that not enough for you?
What were you thinking when
paramedics brought Aaron Colville
into the operating room?
He was an organ donor.
And yes, for a second, I wondered
if the world would be better off if...
if we just let him die.
Hmm. So it's possible
that your colleague
had exactly the same thought process
that you did
but decided to go through with it.
It's also possible
that he's telling the truth,
that he had no idea
who Colville was,
and that you're just projecting
your hesitation onto Dr. Fleming.
As it stands at the moment,
we'll never know, will we?
Now, is it possible that you'll find
a piece of evidence in there
which suggests that he's a multiple
offender? Well, yes, I suppose it is.
But I don't think
that catching Dr. Fleming
is at the heart
of this particular matter.
I think it's about you
forgiving yourself
for a less than noble,
if entirely understandable, thought.
Which, I'll remind you,
you didn't act on.
- Watson.
- Hmm?
Have you slept?
Did you know the surviving members
of the Grateful Dead
occasionally tour together
under the name Furthur?
- No.
- The name derives
from the placard atop Ken Kesey's
infamous bus, of course.
Anyway, just got off the phone
with Detective Bell.
Apparently, Daniel Escalante
is a major fan of the band,
and he's following them on tour
for the past months.
It's why he wasn't at the address
and why he hasn't checked in
with his parole officer.
So if Escalante has been out of town...
I have seen an undoctored image
of the man
selling grilled cheese sandwiches
from a parking lot in Tennessee.
- He's not the man we're looking for.
- Which means
- there's no man we're looking for.
- Not at the moment, no.
So why do I have to get dressed?
We're going back
to Newgate Correctional.
The dentures
which match Aaron Colville
were only made and manufactured
there.
So we're gonna spend
some quality time with their files.
Uh... This is pretty much
everything we've got.
If you could tell me what
you're looking for, maybe I could...
I don't know, narrow it down for you?
Would that we could, Stan.
Unfortunately,
it's not that kind of search.
We won't know what we're looking for
until we find it.
Okay.
Well, everything's alphabetical.
- Pretty much.
Mm-hm.
Right.
I suppose I'll take, uh...
this half.
- Watson.
- Mm... I'm taking a break.
Actually, we're finished here.
Have a look.
It's the inmate file
of one Stanislav Divac.
- Stan was an inmate here?
- For a time.
He started working here
while he was incarcerated.
When he was freed,
he held onto his job.
Who else was gonna hire
a convicted sex offender?
There's absolutely nothing
in his dental records,
but his file says he was treated
in the infirmary
for a savage beating
he received in the yard in 2000.
According to the report,
he lost virtually all of his teeth.
So you think Dr. Nolan replaced
all of Stan's teeth for him.
He did it with no official record
so that his valued assistant
would not have to wait
for treatment.
I'd do the same for you if you lost
all your teeth in a prison fight.
I need to see your assistant.
Oh, uh, Stan went home a while ago.
Right when you guys got here.
He said it was an emergency.
- Is everything all right?
- No, not really, no.
I think you may have been
employing a murderer,
and, in all likelihood,
he just became a fugitive.
That's interesting.
Our Mr. Divac castrated himself.
Have a look.
It's right here in the photographs
the Rockland County Police took
- when they raided his home.
- How about I take your word for it?
No, no, no, don't be squeamish.
He did it chemically.
The officers who invaded Stan's place
didn't take special notice,
but if you look at the medicine cabinet,
he has a prescription for MPA.
That's medroxyprogesterone acetate.
MPA.
That's the drug
they force sex offenders to take.
Could explain how he went dormant
for so long.
He probably couldn't believe his luck
when Colville took the rap
for the first two murders in 2005.
Decided to do everything he could
to suppress his urges.
Ingesting mass quantities
of synthesized progesterone
will generally do the trick.
Looks like it was self-prescribed.
The bottle has a Medis RX label,
which is a British mail-order company.
No doctor's signature required.
Have a look at the date.
The bottle is half full.
He should have run out
two months ago.
Well, if he stopped taking the drug
60 days ago,
it'd take about that long
for his body to flush it.
I just got off with the Rockland
County sheriff. Divac is in the wind.
His social media accounts
have been deleted,
and he hit up an ATM
near the prison.
Sheriff says her roadblocks are quiet.
I mean, maybe we're lucky,
and he's laying low inside the radius,
but chances are he's long gone.
We already put it out to the TSA.
Spotlight on Croatia.
Divac came over from there
when he was a kid.
Hmm. You emigrate
from a non-extradition country,
probably where you head
when it hits the fan.
That wasn't his first stop.
He left the prison in a hurry,
but his toiletries were missing
from his house,
and there was no suitcase there.
He obviously went back to his home
though he knew he was taking a risk.
I think that he might have gone back
to pick up his dog.
Did Rockland PD mention anything
about animals at the residence?
Rings where the bowls
would have been.
That's well-spotted, Watson.
I'll revise the BOLO.
Advise them the suspect
may be traveling with his pet.
No, I did not know they made a model
for dentures based on Aaron's mouth.
None of us did.
This has all been such a nightmare.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
Everybody's telling me to sue,
but that's not going
to give me my son back.
I'm sure time spent with Aaron Colville's
mother is the thing to cheer you up.
Actually,
if you are going to be wallowing
in your own guilty feelings
for the next 20 minutes,
it's going to work out nicely if you'd stay
out of the library while you're doing it.
I'm not wallowing. I'm watching a news
report on the case we're working...
Is that a giant prom dress?
It seems to me that Stan Divac
must have deleted his social media
pages for a reason
before he went on the run.
There must be something in there.
So I reached out to our friends
at Everyone
to see if they could unearth
some cached copies.
And in return, you're going to?
I meant to record myself performing
songs from something called Frozen.
Oh. Break a leg.
Why did you dress Clyde up
like a shark?
Miss Hudson is concerned the winter
has been unduly harsh on him,
so she knitted him
several turtle cozies.
I find them amusing to look at.
It would be a nice way to wake up.
We need to get to a veterinarian's
office in Rockland County.
- Excuse me?
- My performance was extraordinary.
Everyone concerned seemed
to agree that it rivaled,
if not surpassed, the original.
So Everyone sent you copies
of Divac's stuff?
There will come a day when criminals
realize they shouldn't use social media,
but I just hope I don't live to see it.
Everyone was able to uncover
a rather large album of cached images
from Stan's page.
Hundreds of photographs,
all perfectly innocuous,
most of them featuring
a rather charming
Wheaten terrier called Max.
Mm. He's cute.
Is he sick?
The captions tell the rather harrowing tale
of Max's brave battle
with canine prostate cancer.
He's been undergoing chemotherapy.
Now, the good news is he's responded
rather well to the first two treatments.
The even better news is
his third treatment
is scheduled for this morning.
My guys are getting antsy. How
much longer you wanna stay here?
As long as it takes.
His web page didn't specify
the time of the appointment.
Good morning. My friend here
has an appointment at 10:30.
The dog looks familiar,
but I don't recognize the guy.
I've seen him before.
There were a bunch of pictures of him
on Divac's profile.
They're friends from the dog park.
Okay, so Divac gave his dog away
and then skipped town?
Let's find out.
Excuse me.
Are you housing one Stan Divac?
Who?
That was terrible.
Do you want another go?
Stan may have told you
he's in trouble.
Did he also tell you it has to do
with murder
and that you're exposing yourself
to felony charges by helping him?
Please, can you take these off?
My hand really hurts.
Sure.
If you can give us an alibi for the 12th
and the 16th of last month.
I told you. I was home.
I'm home most nights.
You were home those nights?
Alone?
Yes.
I live alone. I forgot it was a crime.
I'm sorry. My hand really hurts.
- Is there something you can give me...
- Stan, we know about the MPA.
We know you stopped taking it.
I made some mistakes
when I was young, but I did my time.
When I got out, I didn't want to slip.
The medicine helped,
but it is terrible stuff.
I've had kidney problems.
I gained some weight.
I thought, you know, if the old...
spark came back,
I'm smarter now.
I could control it.
But then I quit the stuff.
And there was nothing.
I don't know if being on it
all those years changed me
or if I just got old.
But I don't wanna hurt anybody
anymore.
I just want to play with my dog,
you know?
Stan. You ran from the police.
I know how it looks.
I should have just told them when
they asked about the dentures, but I...
I thought, "How's it gonna look?"
You know? I'm registered.
I've got the same teeth as this guy.
I thought,
"Nobody's gonna believe me."
Now nobody does. I didn't do...
Oh, God! God, my hand.
Something's really wrong.
- Just hold on.
- Uhn.
She was a doctor, Stan.
Let her look at it.
Be careful.
Ow! Yeah, that... Okay.
Looks like he might have fractured
his second metacarpal.
- When did this happen?
- It hurt when they put me in the car.
Got worse as we drove over.
You kind of have
to sit on your hands, you know?
All right, all right.
Let's get him to the hospital.
It's hardly a mortal wound.
We have rules.
And our lawyers
are already busy this week.
- Ahh. Thanks.
- You're still under arrest for murder.
- This way.
- All right.
Come on. Over here.
- He was gonna crack.
- Actually, I don't think he was.
I don't think he did it. I don't think
he killed any of those women.
The most recent victim's name
was Alexandra Stine.
When her body was found,
her torso wasn't scratched or bruised.
It wasn't her body
that shattered this glass.
She fought back against her killer
and slammed him into that mirror.
If that was Stan Divac,
he would still be in a full body cast.
I don't follow.
- He has osteoporosis.
- The MPA.
Stan's system was ravaged
by the chemical castration drugs.
Bone loss is a common side effect.
When his left leg was in a cast
last year,
he told his 13 followers that he'd
"stepped awkwardly on the curb."
He's a brittle man.
Dr. Murray said he hasn't
missed one day of work this year.
So there is no way that he was
rammed into this wall last month.
Let's just review.
The guy's teeth
match all four murders.
He's got no alibi.
He's got a history
of violent sexual assault,
he's off his meds, he lied to you,
and he went on the run.
You two find someone else that
checks all those boxes, come find me.
Who keeps texting you?
The captain can be brought round.
We'll regroup at home.
Actually, I have to go.
Did you have Carol Patton
send copies of my records to you?
It wasn't her fault.
No. She thought she was complying
with an official investigation.
That's illegal in
so many different ways.
Why would you do that?
You said that you
make calls all the time.
So you thought
I was admitting to killing people?
Given what you said to me
a few days ago,
I thought it was reasonable
to review your history.
I don't know that a court will agree.
So let me ask you something:
Do you think that I'm a serial killer?
So I'm gonna tell you something,
Joan,
because I hold all the cards here.
But maybe if you hear
what really happened that night,
it'll give you some peace and,
I don't know, let you end this.
I will not ever admit to saying this.
I knew who Colville was.
And he did say something to me.
It was his last words.
And he was doped up.
I don't know if he thought
I was a priest,
but he said that he wanted
to confess.
He'd murdered two women.
So...
did I withhold treatment?
I honestly don't know.
So Aaron Colville confessed
to the murders with his dying words?
Dr. Fleming said he confessed.
I would take that
with a heaping pile of salt.
Why? Does he have
a particular reason to lie to you?
There's no need for him
to change his story now.
As he said, he holds all the cards.
He'd be best served by hewing
to what he's said all along.
So you think Dr. Fleming really wanted
to tell me what happened?
I think it's worth considering.
May I remind you we're looking
for fresh perspective on this case.
I had been considering burning
the files, but this is less melodramatic.
Aaron Colville has been dead
for years,
but someone with his teeth
killed two women a month ago.
Yes, but if Colville killed those woman
in 2005, this may suggest motive.
Whoever's committing the murders
in the present day
wants us to know about the dentures.
They want to cast doubt on who killed
those women all those years ago.
- Why would anybody do that?
- I don't know. Not yet.
The question becomes:
Who stands to benefit most
from Aaron Colville's exoneration?
Based on Aaron's mouth. None of us did.
This has all been such a nightmare.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
Everybody's telling me to sue,
but that's not going to give me my son
back.
Colville's mother.
She's just filed a nine-figure lawsuit
against the city.
And she bludgeoned two women
half her age?
Ruth Colville
raised a psychopathic killer.
Do you think Aaron's childhood home
was a happy one?
I'm sure she's more than capable.
You have questions. So do I.
I'm sure a thorough search
of her residence will clear them up.
No judge is gonna issue a warrant
based on a lawsuit
she has every right to file.
We don't need a warrant.
She's going to invite us in
quite graciously.
That's all it was.
The detectives.
I blame the detectives.
Whew.
Thank you for speaking to us,
Mrs. Colville.
I didn't say I'd talk to you.
I just didn't leave you
standing at the door.
Ha-ha. Well, I think it's a conversation
that you'll wanna have.
It's about your son.
I should have my lawyer here.
Yes, you should call your lawyer.
We have an offer for you.
I guess you can wait in the living room.
Would it be a terrible inconvenience
for me to use your facilities?
Not a well man.
- It's just down the hall.
- Right.
My lawyer said this is unusual.
An offer so early.
It's an unusual case.
But it's obvious that there was a...
wrong committed here.
Well, she'll be here
in a couple of minutes.
I'm not supposed to talk until then.
Where's the other one?
I'm here. Not a moment too soon.
This grotesquerie's gone on
long enough, don't you think?
What is this?
It's your undoing.
These are the snap-on dentures
she used
to bite Alexandra Stine and
Veronica Sutter.
I've never seen those before.
A DNA test will contradict you,
but I don't think
that's going to be necessary.
They're form-fitted to your mouth.
Your upper right bicuspid
is quite distinctive.
Oh, look. A perfect match.
You have no right. Those were
in a locked box under my bed.
I thought you never saw them before.
I found these resting
on your bathroom sink.
And as an invited guest,
I'm perfectly entitled
to inspect any items in plain view.
Oh, that must be your attorney.
You might want to find someone
with experience in criminal law.
Tell me,
how did you learn of the existence of
dentures that match your son's teeth?
It's the only thing
I can't piece together.
That's fine.
You can tell us about it
at the station.
Ruth Colville took a plea deal.
Captain Gregson said
the transcript of her confession
came in at 24 pages.
Apparently, Dr. Nolan,
the dentist at Newgate
who fashioned the dentures
based on Aaron Colville's teeth,
only found out about the bite-mark
murders in his dying days.
He wrote to Ruth
and he told her to take heart,
her son
may not be a monster after all.
She made these snap-on dentures
using her son's dental records.
Apparently,
she approached the young women
by asking for help with her groceries.
Once they took her bags,
she pulled a hammer out.
Oh. The Colvilles, such a lovely family.
Those are your files on Fleming.
Yep.
I know as much as I ever will.
And your role in the matter?
Aaron Colville was guilty.
Does that change things?
I don't know.
I do know that I was standing over
a dying patient
and I was thinking about justice.
A doctor's not supposed to do that.
That sounds more like
a consulting detective.
Yeah.
Holmes.
Thoughts?
Well, your working theory is obviously that
this man was interrupted
in the performance of his duties
by the thief,
who then brained
the unfortunate mortician
and made off
with all of his clients' jewelry.
So how, then, do we explain
these bite marks?
It's an oddly personal means of attack,
is it not?
Especially for a transaction conducted
solely in the name of the profit motive.
Yeah, we thought it was weird.
Maybe the robbery was just a cover?
You said the owner found his body
exactly like this, right?
Excuse me, detective.
Leslie Loughlin, from the 5-3 Squad.
Oh, I'm Detective Bell.
This is Holmes, Watson, our consultants.
- What brings you down from the Bronx?
- The M.O. You got here.
In the last couple of weeks,
we've had two young women
turn up dead
with bite marks on their shoulders.
Looks a lot like a pair of killings
we thought we closed in '05,
but I'm starting to think
we got the wrong guy.
You said, "young women
with bite marks on their shoulders."
- Was this in Pelham?
- Yeah.
Anyway, I figured if my guy did this,
maybe the N.Y.P.D. Only needs
one vampire hunter.
This is not a murder.
It's an accidental death.
Mr. Robertson was standing on the table,
and he fell off and hit his head.
The robber broke in several hours later.
This scent. Do you smell that?
Honestly, I've been trying not to breathe.
Well, if you did,
you might detect the faintest trace
of marijuana laced with embalming fluid.
When the toxicology report comes back,
I'm quite certain it will confirm that
our young mortician here
was experimenting with "wet."
The kick is something like PCP,
so I'm told.
So he was high.
All right, well,
how do you explain the biting?
This young lady here...
Our mortician has his shirt off as quite
a sensible precaution against the stink.
He fell against her open mouth,
the weight
caused her mandible to clamp...
Oh.
- Is the pin important?
- Oh, crucially so.
We know that our robber gained access
via bathroom window,
but there's no evidence whatsoever
that he gained egress from the building.
I think he stumbled upon this scene
just moments before the owner.
Not wishing to have to
explain his role in this,
the burglar sought a place to hide.
- Ah!
- Sorry. I mistook you for a corpse.
The good news is you won't be charged
with the murder of the mortician.
But I'm guessing the jewels in question
are still in your possession? Hm?
Wow. Guess I wasted a trip.
Thank you for your time.
This way. This way.
Detective Loughlin.
That case in 2005, did it involve someone
named Aaron Colville?
- Actually, it did. Do you remember it?
- Can I take a look at your files?
Colville copped a plea
to the two homicides back in '05.
He died later that year.
Now, to me, it looks like the bite marks
in these two most recent cases
match the marks from '05,
which, considering Colville's been dead
going on 10 years,
argues against him being the doer.
Can I make a copy of these files?
Sure.
Do you mind if I ask your interest here?
Were you involved in the original case?
So the world wants us
to be solemn. Right?
We tackle big problems,
we're surgeons, and so people feel better
if we have just the right demeanor.
And that's fine, that's fine out there.
But in here,
this is where the rubber meets the road.
The solemnity of the surgeon's work
follows us no matter what we do.
And it will eat you up if you let it.
So part of your job is not to let it. Okay?
Dr. Karthik?
Ah. Dr. Watson.
- Gosh, it's been years.
- Yes.
It's nice to see you.
How's your practice?
Actually, I haven't practiced medicine
since 2011.
Oh, really? Well, I'm sorry to hear that.
Thanks.
I'm here to talk about Aaron Colville.
Okay, I am not discussing Colville.
What happened that night?
Nothing happened that night.
I treated my patient.
I was there.
He might not have killed those women.
We may have let an innocent man die.
Patient's coming out of Rikers
with four stab wounds,
all punctures to the thoracic region.
- Give me the stats.
- BP's 65 over 45.
We hung two units,
but he's losing blood.
- Can I see that?
- The doc at Rikers gave me his chart.
- Guy's name's Aaron Colville.
- From the news?
Don't know if you saw on there or not,
but he's an organ donor.
Okay, on three. One, two, three.
Good.
Okay. Now, nurse, I need him intubated.
And let's get his chest open.
What did he say?
Nothing. Come on, let's go.
- He's arresting.
- Yeah, I'm looking right at it.
Starting massage.
Lynn, go get Dr. Reed, please.
Really? We might need her.
If we can't bring him back,
we're gonna need an extra set of hands.
Lynn, please, go get Dr. Reed.
Dr. Fleming, he needs the epi.
Just hold on.
Let me see if I can't get this going.
He needs the epi.
All right, I'm calling it. It's 1:04.
That epinephrine could've saved his life.
We let him die.
We've been over this.
I gave that man the same standard of care
I provide anyone
who comes through the doors of my O.R.
I didn't even know
who Aaron Colville was.
A psychotic murderer,
bludgeoning and biting women
10 blocks from the neighborhood
where you lived and worked.
I didn't make the connection
till after he passed.
Why are we talking about this?
If you had an issue with my behavior,
you should have filed a complaint.
We're talking about a decade ago.
Listen, I am consulting
with the N.Y.P.D. Now.
Police are investigating two new murders,
and everything about them looks like
the crimes that Colville was charged with.
Then it was a copycat.
I mean, that's the term, right?
All the victims were bitten.
We are waiting for official confirmation,
but it looks like
the same bite marks to me.
Okay, well,
if that's what you came here to say,
you know, consider me informed.
Listen.
He said something to you that night.
If there was any clue as to what he said,
if he thought he was being framed...
Dr. Fleming, please,
there's nothing
anyone can do to you now.
It wasn't anything like that.
It was gibberish. Okay?
He was coding, for God's sakes.
What do you think,
you're gonna set things right here?
Surgeons make calls, Joan.
It's part of the job.
I do it all the time.
I don't lose sleep over it.
You know, you could just
move the ladder too, right?
Here we are. Ha.
You know, I've been cursing Ms. Hudson
for misplacing this.
Turns out she's recategorized it
under historical meteorology. Clever.
Trade winds and Ocean Currents,
first published in 1914.
- Out of print, if you can believe it.
- That's a travesty.
You jest, but this atlas
may soon come in very handy.
I do wish you wouldn't
leave my texts unanswered.
Well, I do wish you wouldn't keep writing
when I don't respond.
We have an offer to consider.
Several of the trust fund brats that
Mycroft aligned himself with at university
are underwriting a treasure hunt of sorts.
An expedition in search of a sunken ship.
- And we've been invited.
- Are you serious?
Our quarry, the SS Waratah,
has been called Australia's Titanic.
It is, unquestionably,
the most famous missing shipwreck.
It disappeared in 1909, carrying 211 souls
and a safe stuffed full of their valuables.
Now, I'm not suggesting
we be motivated
by anything as vulgar
as an enormous finder's fee,
but I just thought
you might like to bid adieu
to our 17th straight month of winter
and join me in sunnier climes for a week.
That sounds fun.
You should go.
It's only fun in the right company.
Where did you disappear to?
So Aaron Colville
took a plea bargain in 2005,
and was then stabbed to death in prison.
Here we are, nine years later.
Two new murders
appear to have been committed.
Hmm. Well, you know, as I always say,
bite-mark analysis
is only slightly more scientific
than casting chicken bones about
to see the future.
But I'm unaware of any case
where two suspects have identical teeth.
I suppose we should proceed
under the assumption
that the same party is responsible
for both sets of murders.
- So Aaron Colville was innocent?
- Of these particular crimes, probably.
But there is a reason he was a suspect.
You seem distressed. Why?
Well, I just stood there
and watched him die.
Watson, you didn't stab Aaron Colville
on Rikers Island.
Nor did you fail to administer
the epinephrine shot
in what you judged to be a timely fashion.
- That was your colleague, your superior.
- Yes.
What would've happened if you had
filed a complaint against your surgeon?
- Do you think that would've been wise?
- Wise?
- Does that matter?
- Of course it matters.
You're chastising yourself for failing to
make a futile gesture a decade ago.
Anyway, your feelings are trivial
because we have a murderer to catch.
The bite mark, timeless expression
of the frustration of impotence.
And for us, a stroke of luck.
Our man did not leave
a suitable DNA sample,
but he did sign his work.
And as soon as we match these
to a person,
we can put this behind us.
It's not that easy.
There's no law enforcement agency
that keeps dental records.
No, they're medical records,
and that would be illegal.
And that's why they use consultants.
We'll need someone
with state-of-the-art computing skills.
What?
My regular contact in London
has forsworn the practice.
Something about not wanting to go to jail.
So we'll have to contact them.
I thought we left on good terms
with Everyone.
Well, as far as you can be on good terms
with an anonymous collective
of immature hackers, we did.
They are still an anonymous collective
of immature hackers.
If we come to them, cap in hand,
asking for medical records,
they're always gonna have their price.
- I don't get it.
- You don't have to get it.
- Do you need ice yet?
- No.
They're already an hour late.
I don't know how much more of this
you can take.
Sorry, sorry, one go a day. Sorry.
What about my boys?
All right, come on.
Happy hunting.
These are transparencies taken from
the dental records provided by Everyone.
The photograph, of course,
depicts bite marks left by our killer.
This one's close,
but the lateral incisor is crooked.
Just a few thousand more to go.
Twenty-seven thousand.
An overwhelming majority of killers strike
within three miles of their residence.
While it's true
that we're looking for a psychopath,
it's unlikely that he commuted
to the next borough for his dental care.
One of the hundreds in the Bronx
most likely flosses our madman.
Why don't you rest?
I'll take the first shift.
As you wish.
Hey, wake up.
Take a look at this slide.
We got him.
It appears we do.
His name is Alan Vikner, 52.
He is a patient at Olinville Dentistry,
which happens to be within a mile
of both recent murders.
As is his mailing address.
He's an ex-con,
served four years for aggravated assault.
Must be a new patient.
One visit, no X-rays.
Someone should teach him
the importance of regular check-ups.
And not killing people.
The officer who brought me in said
you found my prints
at the scene of a murder.
That isn't possible. I'm living clean now.
I'm a deacon at my church.
Not your prints, Alan.
Your bite marks.
Oh, thank God.
You relieved to see these pictures?
I told you, you had the wrong guy.
Lots of people
make these bite marks.
I got my teeth knocked out in a fight
in the yard at Newgate Correctional.
They gave me these.
This doesn't make any sense.
Aaron Colville had all of his own teeth
when he died.
You can put those
back in your mouth.
Colville was in Newgate
from 2001 to 2004.
That's one year
before the first murders.
And it also coincides
with Mr. Vikner's stay.
How did you wind up with
a set of dentures that match a killer's?
I can't tell you that,
but these are standard issue up there.
Colville was the model.
The prison dentist used his teeth
to make a model set of dentures.
God only knows how many sets
of Colville's teeth are out there.
I've only been the dentist
for a few years.
But the prison system
doesn't provide inmates with dentures.
It just... We don't have the funds.
Official policy is to pull problem teeth.
We've just seen a set of dentures
which originated in this office.
Uh... The guy who had the job before me,
his name was Conrad Nolan.
And he was, I don't know, a saint.
He took it on himself
to manufacture dentures on his own.
God love him, but I have kids
to go home to at the end of the day.
Do you have Dr. Nolan's
contact information?
He died a few years ago.
Pancreatic cancer.
Hold on a second. Stan?
- Yeah?
- Come here a second.
This is Stan Divac,
and he's one of my assistants.
He's been here a lot longer than I have.
Used to work for Dr. Nolan.
Can you tell us about
your denture program?
Wouldn't really call it a program.
Dr. Nolan didn't like the idea
of grown men gumming their food,
and he figured out a way to make them
cheap so he could foot the bill himself.
And they modeled the dentures
after an inmate named Aaron Colville?
Maybe.
Dr. Nolan picked someone
with a good set of teeth.
I don't think Doc Nolan
even told the guy he did it.
He made the dentures
based on an impression he took.
How many sets of dentures
did you distribute based on the model?
Maybe eight? Ten?
All these guys
have Aaron Colville's teeth?
The warden let us sift through
inmate medical records.
We pulled every prisoner who had
been fitted for a full set of dentures.
- Eight suspects?
- Actually we are down to four.
Alan Vikner has an alibi.
Tash is dead.
And Lalayanis and Parker
have been locked up the whole time.
The remaining four
settled near the city after their release.
Bring them in.
I'll tell Detective Loughlin
that she whiffed in '05
and we've brought in
a set of fresh eyes.
I'll also let the commissioner know
he'd better warm up to lawyers.
Lawyers?
We're about to re-open a couple
of homicide cases from '05.
Every plaintiff's attorney in the city
is gonna be lining up to sue
on behalf of Aaron Colville's family.
This good?
Yes, Mr. Pohlua.
Those are the dentures
we're looking for.
You can stop smiling now.
- Not bad, huh?
- Very nice.
You can look as long as you want.
But I think the dentures
you're looking for
are right here.
You maintain
more than one set of dentures?
The set I got in prison
never fit very well.
I replaced them as soon as I could.
But I held on to them
to remind myself how bad it got
when I was using.
Can you tell us where you were
on the 12th and 16th of last month?
You said the 16th, right?
Is it okay if I take my shirt off?
That's an inspiring story, Mr. Deer.
Unfortunately, it's not a suitable alibi.
- You could've switched dentures.
- Not really, though.
When I bought the case,
I realized that the dentures
was too tall for it.
See?
I had to sand them down
just to get them to fit in there.
I couldn't wear them if I wanted to.
So...
shingles was no fun.
But if the hospital stay takes me out
of the running in your manhunt,
it was worth it.
You can go now, Mr. Pohlua.
Aside from the fact
I find your taste abhorrent,
it does appears you are innocent.
I know that.
How do you know that?
Your dentures are chipped.
By the looks of your left bicuspid,
you broke it several years ago,
and you haven't stopped
drinking coffee since.
- So?
- You can go.
Three suspects interviewed,
three suspects exonerated.
So who's the guy we can't find?
Daniel Escalante.
Three arrests
for aggravated sexual assault.
Apparently, he's no longer
at the address parole has on file.
Missed the last couple of meetings
with his PO too.
He's the only one left,
so I guess he's our new lead suspect.
Your medical records have arrived.
Why are you looking into the recent
case history of Dr. Jonathan Fleming?
Once again, opening my packages.
We have enemies, Watson.
I needed to make sure
there was nothing dangerous in here.
When I went to see Dr. Fleming
he said he makes calls all the time.
There's just something
about the way he said it.
So you think he routinely
denies adequate care
to people he deems unworthy?
I don't know.
Something just wasn't right.
I asked an old friend
to copy some records for me.
So unable to do anything
about the unprovable incident
that you witnessed personally,
you thought you'd get
to the bottom of some
that you weren't involved in at all.
We're investigating
the so-called Colville murders.
Once the police track down
Daniel Escalante,
we'll most likely have
the person responsible.
Why is that not enough for you?
What were you thinking when
paramedics brought Aaron Colville
into the operating room?
He was an organ donor.
And yes, for a second, I wondered
if the world would be better off if...
if we just let him die.
Hmm. So it's possible
that your colleague
had exactly the same thought process
that you did
but decided to go through with it.
It's also possible
that he's telling the truth,
that he had no idea
who Colville was,
and that you're just projecting
your hesitation onto Dr. Fleming.
As it stands at the moment,
we'll never know, will we?
Now, is it possible that you'll find
a piece of evidence in there
which suggests that he's a multiple
offender? Well, yes, I suppose it is.
But I don't think
that catching Dr. Fleming
is at the heart
of this particular matter.
I think it's about you
forgiving yourself
for a less than noble,
if entirely understandable, thought.
Which, I'll remind you,
you didn't act on.
- Watson.
- Hmm?
Have you slept?
Did you know the surviving members
of the Grateful Dead
occasionally tour together
under the name Furthur?
- No.
- The name derives
from the placard atop Ken Kesey's
infamous bus, of course.
Anyway, just got off the phone
with Detective Bell.
Apparently, Daniel Escalante
is a major fan of the band,
and he's following them on tour
for the past months.
It's why he wasn't at the address
and why he hasn't checked in
with his parole officer.
So if Escalante has been out of town...
I have seen an undoctored image
of the man
selling grilled cheese sandwiches
from a parking lot in Tennessee.
- He's not the man we're looking for.
- Which means
- there's no man we're looking for.
- Not at the moment, no.
So why do I have to get dressed?
We're going back
to Newgate Correctional.
The dentures
which match Aaron Colville
were only made and manufactured
there.
So we're gonna spend
some quality time with their files.
Uh... This is pretty much
everything we've got.
If you could tell me what
you're looking for, maybe I could...
I don't know, narrow it down for you?
Would that we could, Stan.
Unfortunately,
it's not that kind of search.
We won't know what we're looking for
until we find it.
Okay.
Well, everything's alphabetical.
- Pretty much.
Mm-hm.
Right.
I suppose I'll take, uh...
this half.
- Watson.
- Mm... I'm taking a break.
Actually, we're finished here.
Have a look.
It's the inmate file
of one Stanislav Divac.
- Stan was an inmate here?
- For a time.
He started working here
while he was incarcerated.
When he was freed,
he held onto his job.
Who else was gonna hire
a convicted sex offender?
There's absolutely nothing
in his dental records,
but his file says he was treated
in the infirmary
for a savage beating
he received in the yard in 2000.
According to the report,
he lost virtually all of his teeth.
So you think Dr. Nolan replaced
all of Stan's teeth for him.
He did it with no official record
so that his valued assistant
would not have to wait
for treatment.
I'd do the same for you if you lost
all your teeth in a prison fight.
I need to see your assistant.
Oh, uh, Stan went home a while ago.
Right when you guys got here.
He said it was an emergency.
- Is everything all right?
- No, not really, no.
I think you may have been
employing a murderer,
and, in all likelihood,
he just became a fugitive.
That's interesting.
Our Mr. Divac castrated himself.
Have a look.
It's right here in the photographs
the Rockland County Police took
- when they raided his home.
- How about I take your word for it?
No, no, no, don't be squeamish.
He did it chemically.
The officers who invaded Stan's place
didn't take special notice,
but if you look at the medicine cabinet,
he has a prescription for MPA.
That's medroxyprogesterone acetate.
MPA.
That's the drug
they force sex offenders to take.
Could explain how he went dormant
for so long.
He probably couldn't believe his luck
when Colville took the rap
for the first two murders in 2005.
Decided to do everything he could
to suppress his urges.
Ingesting mass quantities
of synthesized progesterone
will generally do the trick.
Looks like it was self-prescribed.
The bottle has a Medis RX label,
which is a British mail-order company.
No doctor's signature required.
Have a look at the date.
The bottle is half full.
He should have run out
two months ago.
Well, if he stopped taking the drug
60 days ago,
it'd take about that long
for his body to flush it.
I just got off with the Rockland
County sheriff. Divac is in the wind.
His social media accounts
have been deleted,
and he hit up an ATM
near the prison.
Sheriff says her roadblocks are quiet.
I mean, maybe we're lucky,
and he's laying low inside the radius,
but chances are he's long gone.
We already put it out to the TSA.
Spotlight on Croatia.
Divac came over from there
when he was a kid.
Hmm. You emigrate
from a non-extradition country,
probably where you head
when it hits the fan.
That wasn't his first stop.
He left the prison in a hurry,
but his toiletries were missing
from his house,
and there was no suitcase there.
He obviously went back to his home
though he knew he was taking a risk.
I think that he might have gone back
to pick up his dog.
Did Rockland PD mention anything
about animals at the residence?
Rings where the bowls
would have been.
That's well-spotted, Watson.
I'll revise the BOLO.
Advise them the suspect
may be traveling with his pet.
No, I did not know they made a model
for dentures based on Aaron's mouth.
None of us did.
This has all been such a nightmare.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
Everybody's telling me to sue,
but that's not going
to give me my son back.
I'm sure time spent with Aaron Colville's
mother is the thing to cheer you up.
Actually,
if you are going to be wallowing
in your own guilty feelings
for the next 20 minutes,
it's going to work out nicely if you'd stay
out of the library while you're doing it.
I'm not wallowing. I'm watching a news
report on the case we're working...
Is that a giant prom dress?
It seems to me that Stan Divac
must have deleted his social media
pages for a reason
before he went on the run.
There must be something in there.
So I reached out to our friends
at Everyone
to see if they could unearth
some cached copies.
And in return, you're going to?
I meant to record myself performing
songs from something called Frozen.
Oh. Break a leg.
Why did you dress Clyde up
like a shark?
Miss Hudson is concerned the winter
has been unduly harsh on him,
so she knitted him
several turtle cozies.
I find them amusing to look at.
It would be a nice way to wake up.
We need to get to a veterinarian's
office in Rockland County.
- Excuse me?
- My performance was extraordinary.
Everyone concerned seemed
to agree that it rivaled,
if not surpassed, the original.
So Everyone sent you copies
of Divac's stuff?
There will come a day when criminals
realize they shouldn't use social media,
but I just hope I don't live to see it.
Everyone was able to uncover
a rather large album of cached images
from Stan's page.
Hundreds of photographs,
all perfectly innocuous,
most of them featuring
a rather charming
Wheaten terrier called Max.
Mm. He's cute.
Is he sick?
The captions tell the rather harrowing tale
of Max's brave battle
with canine prostate cancer.
He's been undergoing chemotherapy.
Now, the good news is he's responded
rather well to the first two treatments.
The even better news is
his third treatment
is scheduled for this morning.
My guys are getting antsy. How
much longer you wanna stay here?
As long as it takes.
His web page didn't specify
the time of the appointment.
Good morning. My friend here
has an appointment at 10:30.
The dog looks familiar,
but I don't recognize the guy.
I've seen him before.
There were a bunch of pictures of him
on Divac's profile.
They're friends from the dog park.
Okay, so Divac gave his dog away
and then skipped town?
Let's find out.
Excuse me.
Are you housing one Stan Divac?
Who?
That was terrible.
Do you want another go?
Stan may have told you
he's in trouble.
Did he also tell you it has to do
with murder
and that you're exposing yourself
to felony charges by helping him?
Please, can you take these off?
My hand really hurts.
Sure.
If you can give us an alibi for the 12th
and the 16th of last month.
I told you. I was home.
I'm home most nights.
You were home those nights?
Alone?
Yes.
I live alone. I forgot it was a crime.
I'm sorry. My hand really hurts.
- Is there something you can give me...
- Stan, we know about the MPA.
We know you stopped taking it.
I made some mistakes
when I was young, but I did my time.
When I got out, I didn't want to slip.
The medicine helped,
but it is terrible stuff.
I've had kidney problems.
I gained some weight.
I thought, you know, if the old...
spark came back,
I'm smarter now.
I could control it.
But then I quit the stuff.
And there was nothing.
I don't know if being on it
all those years changed me
or if I just got old.
But I don't wanna hurt anybody
anymore.
I just want to play with my dog,
you know?
Stan. You ran from the police.
I know how it looks.
I should have just told them when
they asked about the dentures, but I...
I thought, "How's it gonna look?"
You know? I'm registered.
I've got the same teeth as this guy.
I thought,
"Nobody's gonna believe me."
Now nobody does. I didn't do...
Oh, God! God, my hand.
Something's really wrong.
- Just hold on.
- Uhn.
She was a doctor, Stan.
Let her look at it.
Be careful.
Ow! Yeah, that... Okay.
Looks like he might have fractured
his second metacarpal.
- When did this happen?
- It hurt when they put me in the car.
Got worse as we drove over.
You kind of have
to sit on your hands, you know?
All right, all right.
Let's get him to the hospital.
It's hardly a mortal wound.
We have rules.
And our lawyers
are already busy this week.
- Ahh. Thanks.
- You're still under arrest for murder.
- This way.
- All right.
Come on. Over here.
- He was gonna crack.
- Actually, I don't think he was.
I don't think he did it. I don't think
he killed any of those women.
The most recent victim's name
was Alexandra Stine.
When her body was found,
her torso wasn't scratched or bruised.
It wasn't her body
that shattered this glass.
She fought back against her killer
and slammed him into that mirror.
If that was Stan Divac,
he would still be in a full body cast.
I don't follow.
- He has osteoporosis.
- The MPA.
Stan's system was ravaged
by the chemical castration drugs.
Bone loss is a common side effect.
When his left leg was in a cast
last year,
he told his 13 followers that he'd
"stepped awkwardly on the curb."
He's a brittle man.
Dr. Murray said he hasn't
missed one day of work this year.
So there is no way that he was
rammed into this wall last month.
Let's just review.
The guy's teeth
match all four murders.
He's got no alibi.
He's got a history
of violent sexual assault,
he's off his meds, he lied to you,
and he went on the run.
You two find someone else that
checks all those boxes, come find me.
Who keeps texting you?
The captain can be brought round.
We'll regroup at home.
Actually, I have to go.
Did you have Carol Patton
send copies of my records to you?
It wasn't her fault.
No. She thought she was complying
with an official investigation.
That's illegal in
so many different ways.
Why would you do that?
You said that you
make calls all the time.
So you thought
I was admitting to killing people?
Given what you said to me
a few days ago,
I thought it was reasonable
to review your history.
I don't know that a court will agree.
So let me ask you something:
Do you think that I'm a serial killer?
So I'm gonna tell you something,
Joan,
because I hold all the cards here.
But maybe if you hear
what really happened that night,
it'll give you some peace and,
I don't know, let you end this.
I will not ever admit to saying this.
I knew who Colville was.
And he did say something to me.
It was his last words.
And he was doped up.
I don't know if he thought
I was a priest,
but he said that he wanted
to confess.
He'd murdered two women.
So...
did I withhold treatment?
I honestly don't know.
So Aaron Colville confessed
to the murders with his dying words?
Dr. Fleming said he confessed.
I would take that
with a heaping pile of salt.
Why? Does he have
a particular reason to lie to you?
There's no need for him
to change his story now.
As he said, he holds all the cards.
He'd be best served by hewing
to what he's said all along.
So you think Dr. Fleming really wanted
to tell me what happened?
I think it's worth considering.
May I remind you we're looking
for fresh perspective on this case.
I had been considering burning
the files, but this is less melodramatic.
Aaron Colville has been dead
for years,
but someone with his teeth
killed two women a month ago.
Yes, but if Colville killed those woman
in 2005, this may suggest motive.
Whoever's committing the murders
in the present day
wants us to know about the dentures.
They want to cast doubt on who killed
those women all those years ago.
- Why would anybody do that?
- I don't know. Not yet.
The question becomes:
Who stands to benefit most
from Aaron Colville's exoneration?
Based on Aaron's mouth. None of us did.
This has all been such a nightmare.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
Everybody's telling me to sue,
but that's not going to give me my son
back.
Colville's mother.
She's just filed a nine-figure lawsuit
against the city.
And she bludgeoned two women
half her age?
Ruth Colville
raised a psychopathic killer.
Do you think Aaron's childhood home
was a happy one?
I'm sure she's more than capable.
You have questions. So do I.
I'm sure a thorough search
of her residence will clear them up.
No judge is gonna issue a warrant
based on a lawsuit
she has every right to file.
We don't need a warrant.
She's going to invite us in
quite graciously.
That's all it was.
The detectives.
I blame the detectives.
Whew.
Thank you for speaking to us,
Mrs. Colville.
I didn't say I'd talk to you.
I just didn't leave you
standing at the door.
Ha-ha. Well, I think it's a conversation
that you'll wanna have.
It's about your son.
I should have my lawyer here.
Yes, you should call your lawyer.
We have an offer for you.
I guess you can wait in the living room.
Would it be a terrible inconvenience
for me to use your facilities?
Not a well man.
- It's just down the hall.
- Right.
My lawyer said this is unusual.
An offer so early.
It's an unusual case.
But it's obvious that there was a...
wrong committed here.
Well, she'll be here
in a couple of minutes.
I'm not supposed to talk until then.
Where's the other one?
I'm here. Not a moment too soon.
This grotesquerie's gone on
long enough, don't you think?
What is this?
It's your undoing.
These are the snap-on dentures
she used
to bite Alexandra Stine and
Veronica Sutter.
I've never seen those before.
A DNA test will contradict you,
but I don't think
that's going to be necessary.
They're form-fitted to your mouth.
Your upper right bicuspid
is quite distinctive.
Oh, look. A perfect match.
You have no right. Those were
in a locked box under my bed.
I thought you never saw them before.
I found these resting
on your bathroom sink.
And as an invited guest,
I'm perfectly entitled
to inspect any items in plain view.
Oh, that must be your attorney.
You might want to find someone
with experience in criminal law.
Tell me,
how did you learn of the existence of
dentures that match your son's teeth?
It's the only thing
I can't piece together.
That's fine.
You can tell us about it
at the station.
Ruth Colville took a plea deal.
Captain Gregson said
the transcript of her confession
came in at 24 pages.
Apparently, Dr. Nolan,
the dentist at Newgate
who fashioned the dentures
based on Aaron Colville's teeth,
only found out about the bite-mark
murders in his dying days.
He wrote to Ruth
and he told her to take heart,
her son
may not be a monster after all.
She made these snap-on dentures
using her son's dental records.
Apparently,
she approached the young women
by asking for help with her groceries.
Once they took her bags,
she pulled a hammer out.
Oh. The Colvilles, such a lovely family.
Those are your files on Fleming.
Yep.
I know as much as I ever will.
And your role in the matter?
Aaron Colville was guilty.
Does that change things?
I don't know.
I do know that I was standing over
a dying patient
and I was thinking about justice.
A doctor's not supposed to do that.
That sounds more like
a consulting detective.
Yeah.