Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 2, Episode 17 - Mind Games - full transcript
A psychic is called in to find the location of a burial site near the California-Mexico border. Numerous illegal immigrants are found at the site, murdered by a mysterious killer who leaves religious symbols at the mass-grave. Charlie, who becomes involved in the case by discovering the perfect application of mathematics to help solve Don's case, takes exception to the idea that a man of mathematics could be beaten to the punch by a psychic and decides to informally challenge him to find the girl first. By using both mathematics and the "pseudo-science" of ESP, can the FBI find the missing girl before she too falls victim to the serial killer?
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♪ What did you expect? ♪
♪ Fools often sometimes forget ♪
♪ Who really knows
what's the truth ♪
♪ Often dignified ♪
♪ How funny changing the tide ♪
♪ Feels like you already knew ♪
♪ Praise ♪
♪ Like the devil ♪
♪ Connect ♪
♪ You would never ♪
♪ Sick man ♪
♪ Running circles ♪
♪ Feels like you already knew ♪
♪ Praise ♪
♪ Like the devil ♪
♪ Connect ♪
♪ You would never ♪
♪ Sick man ♪
♪ Running circles ♪
♪ Feels like you already knew ♪
Over here!
How many?
Three, all female.
Appear to be Latino.
No ID's yet, but,
they're pretty tangled up.
We don't want to touch them
till the forensics team gets here.
They've been cut open, gutted.
And from the blood
evidence it looks like
it happened up here and then
they were dumped down there?
Yeah. We've got to be talking about
some pretty disturbed individuals.
Some kind of cult, maybe.
Satanic stuff is usually
seen in teenagers.
Not exactly on the
college track, I'm guessing.
What else is around here?
Nothing.
Government land goes down to
about where you turned off the road.
After that, it's all
farm fields, agriculture.
There's a pretty good
chance all three were illegals.
Excuse me. I'm Megan
Reeves with the FBI.
What was your team doing
out here? Who tipped you off?
Some guy called it in.
What was he doing out here?
He wasn't. He's a psychic.
Mapped out the
location in sketches.
Psychic? Yeah.
Guy right over there
talking with the sheriff.
He drew this.
Wonder if he's psychic enough to
know he just made the suspect list.
You can't really believe I had
something to do with these murders.
Wow, he really is psychic, Don.
You just read my mind.
You have no understanding
at all of what it is I do.
Do you?
These are pretty detailed.
What, you've been there before?
Not in the way
you're suggesting.
Not in my, uh, physical body.
Excuse me?
I have the power to
project my conscious mind.
Oh. This is where we lay in the
grounds for the insanity plea, right?
I have a gift, Agent Reeves.
I see things. Visions.
They come to me, like, uh,
pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
And once I put enough
of the pieces together
to draw these images,
I called the sheriff.
Who clearly believed you enough to
send a search team on a five-mile hike.
I... I'd worked with him before.
A missing child
case two years ago.
Were you a suspect
in that case as well?
The missing boy's
family brought me in
and thanks to the gift I have,
he was found.
Alive and unharmed.
I might be able to
help here as well.
Oh, yeah? Okay.
What have you got?
Nothing yet, but once the channel
is open, more visions may come.
Yeah? What do you want?
An acknowledgement from
the, uh, Bureau, for my work.
That's it?
They're about to
publish my new book.
Pass.
Why?
Why... Look, you're a
suspect in a triple homicide.
We're not here to
promote your book.
It's a good way to sell
books, though, huh?
Commit a crime and then show
up to mystically help solve it?
I... That is ridiculous.
Well, you shouldn't leave town
and I'm gonna
need your passport.
Otherwise, you're free to go.
Your father always wanted a son.
Didn't he?
What are you talking about?
You were the youngest?
Three older sisters?
You were
his last chance.
I don't appreciate people
looking into my personal life.
I told you, it's not
something I control.
Well, if I were you,
I'd learn how to.
There's something else.
Something
no one else knows about you.
I understand. Just let me know as
soon as you find out. All right? Thanks.
Hey. So what do you think?
He knew about the murders.
He has to be involved somehow.
Yeah, well, he maybe.
Don, this psychic stuff.
You cannot take
it seriously, okay?
Whoa, Charlie, can you prove
to me there's nothing to it?
There is no scientific evidence
for the existence of
psychic ability, okay?
None whatsoever.
Yeah? I... It's make-believe.
No, I don't know
about that, actually.
I saw a guy randomly
take someone from a group,
come up with stuff
about the guy's life
the person said that nobody
would ever know about them, so...
It's an act, man. They're
guessing, okay? Yeah, well...
They... They... Look, it's
just like blindly throwing darts.
You throw enough darts,
you're gonna eventually
hit a bull's-eye.
Yeah, but... So, look,
that guy, he probably has
such a deep desire to believe
that he dismisses the
misses and focuses on the hits.
It's called optimistic bias.
Charlie, this guy isn't
just throwing darts.
I can tell you that right now.
Just... There's
plenty of... of simple,
more rational explanations
to be considered.
I got all of his information.
I'll have... I'll have the agent that
drops him off confiscate his passport.
Wait, I thought you
were dropping him off.
I just got something
I need to check out.
How we doing on our
victims? Any ID's yet?
Nope. All three are Jane Does.
The only thing we know
is they're all Latinas,
late teens to early 20s.
Jane Doe number one
had a receipt in her pocket
puts her in Tecate,
Mexico, three days ago,
so she only just
got to the States.
If they're illegals it's
gonna be tough to ID them.
Prints won't be in our system,
Immigration won't have them.
The fact is, we don't even know
what country they started out from.
You get anything from
the coroner's reports yet?
Here's the preliminary
from the crime scene.
All three cut open,
belly to chest.
No indication of skill,
surgical knowledge.
Still waiting on the
autopsy report, though.
I do have some information on the
occult stuff we found at the scene.
The satanic stuff?
Turns out it's not satanic.
Uh, the statues are related to
something called Semana Santa.
It's popular in Central America.
It's a blend of modern religions
and some old, indigenous rituals.
So these are what,
religious killings? Sacrifices?
Maybe some kind of
exorcism. I don't know.
These girls were young.
Ah, border patrol says they've
been seeing a growing stream
of young girls coming
over here on their own.
They probably dream of
a better job, a better life.
They sure as hell didn't
dream of ending up like that.
Something wrong? Sorry.
I didn't mean to stare at you.
You were there, watching
the questioning, weren't you?
I'm not impressed. I'm sorry.
Right. You could have
easily seen me there.
You don't believe
at all in what I do.
Do you?
Honestly, no.
And that's not to say that
you don't believe what you do.
I'm sure there are a
lot of so-called psychics
that are absolutely convinced
that they have an ability.
But you're convinced they
don't because it's not logical.
Because you haven't seen proof.
That's right.
So you wouldn't be impressed
if I said I felt the presence
of your mother
standing beside you.
Okay, now you've stepped
into the category of con man.
Why is that?
The fact that you know me,
that you know about my mother
means nothing.
I do a lot of consulting
here and that's no secret.
The fact that my mother
is deceased is no secret.
It only proves you did
a little research. Great.
But now you're trying to pass
that off as something else?
Well, that doesn't
make you delusional.
That makes you deceitful.
And that... And
that I don't like.
I'll get the next one.
Nice tire imprint you got.
Rained here less than a week
ago, so it's got to be recent.
Ah, it could
belong to our killer.
Sedan wouldn't make it up here.
Whatever left that print
had to be a four-wheel drive.
Right. Fortson Trail-Hawk.
All-terrain. Light truck or SUV.
Whatever it is must have had some
miles on it. That tread's pretty worn.
Manual say they
stopped production in '99.
Well, we're probably looking at
something late '90s or early 2000s.
Let's get the word out.
Right.
Listen, the FBI has
used psychics before,
as have other law
enforcement agencies,
whether they admit to it or not.
Thank you for destroying any
confidence I had in public safety.
Listen, what is your criteria
for this categorical dismissal
of parapsychological
phenomena? Reality.
Oh, yes, reality. What would
that be? Newtonian reality?
Einsteinian reality?
Quantum reality?
This is for the two of us.
Larry, you cannot go about
defending this as science.
Listen, two University
of Chicago studies
have presented evidence that
the human brain is still evolving.
Two key brain-building genes
are undergoing rapid mutations.
So what if, uh, unique
perceptual abilities arose
just as a simple
genetic variant?
Larry, first of all, I'm well
aware of those studies, okay?
I might very well
incorporate some of that data
into my cognitive
emergence work.
But you're suggesting that
this guy Kraft is somehow
higher evolved
than the rest of us.
What if the human
brain has reached a point
where it is sensitive
on a subatomic level,
a level where matter
can appear and disappear,
where time can run
backwards or forwards?
I mean, who is to
say what's possible
and what isn't possible?
What flavor of crazy Kool-Aid
do they make you drink
when you join the
Physics Department?
Agent Cullen. Agent Sinclair,
Granger. Thanks for meeting us.
Hey, not a problem. I'm
out here anyway. Oh, yeah.
We're hoping because
you patrol the area
you might be
able to help us out.
Well, we heard
about those girls.
Obviously, anything we can do.
Look, we were wondering if maybe
you've come across any of these before.
Far as we can tell, they're
of Central American origin.
Well, lots of these
migrant workers,
they bring across prayer
cards, candles, stuff like that,
but I don't think I've
ever seen this before.
You think it's related
to the murder?
These girls were cut open. These
artifacts were scattered around them.
Sounds to me like somebody's
trying to send a message.
Message, what do you mean?
Like, from who? Coyotes.
I take it you don't mean
the furry little animals.
No. Smugglers who shuttle
these people up from Mexico.
And no pun intended, but
it's a cutthroat business.
I'll bet.
A lot of money, a
lot of competition.
Choose the wrong trail guide,
maybe that's what happens to you.
You think Cullen could be right
about the killer being a coyote?
They'd certainly be
capable of that violence,
but, why the whole setup with
the candles and the statues?
I don't know. I guess like
he said, to send a message.
What's up?
Late '90s pickup.
Let's see if we can get a
closer look at those tire treads.
Hey, buddy, you know
whose truck that is?
Hey!
FBI!
Whoa! FBI! Stop!
Do not start that car!
Don't even start it!
Don't move! Okay!
I'm not going anywhere. Yeah,
you're damn right you're not.
Keep your hands
where I can see 'em.
Trail-Hawks. Tires are a match.
That's not good for you.
Colby.
Borrego.
Paperwork checks out.
That's right.
I'm in this country legally
which means I have rights.
You do.
And one of them is the
right to lethal injection.
What are you talking about?
Oh, my God.
What, you... you
think I did this?
Are you kidding me?
No. I got a whole
another kidding face.
We found tire tracks
that match your truck
about 30 yards from where
these girls were butchered.
I work out there.
I drive all over
those hills every day.
Doing what exactly?
My group, Border Care, we
help undocumented workers.
You help them how?
I set up water stations
and when it's cold I take
them blankets and clothing.
Last summer, 68
people died of exposure,
trying to find a better life.
What about these statues?
Like the ones we
found in your truck.
I found them.
Near the migrant camp
where you saw me.
They're bad luck totems.
I figured somebody was
trying to scare off the workers.
So why'd you run
when you saw us?
I thought you were someone else.
Someone like who?
Private border patrol. These
anti-immigration vigilantes.
They've been harassing these
poor workers for months now.
They sure as hell
don't like what I do.
Samuel Kraft was in the CIA.
What? What, as an operative?
As a psychic. They had
a program called Stargate,
where they took
people like Kraft
and tried to train them
to use them as weapons
to spy on enemies,
to kill people.
Yeah. It wasn't him, okay?
I got the coroner's report.
Jane Doe number one,
dead 48 to 56 hours ago.
Which puts him still in Seattle?
Yeah. I mean,
it's a legit alibi.
Borrego's story checks out.
This guy runs a
human rights group.
He's a, uh, advocate
for the illegals.
But he did point the finger at this,
uh, private Citizens Border Guard.
Yeah, he says
they've been harassing
these workers for
the last few weeks.
Coyotes, what about them?
It didn't match, the
whole occult thing.
I mean, if you're killing
these girls to send a message,
why pretend it's something else?
Yeah, but you could say the same
thing about the Citizens Border Guard.
Except, Borrego said the
totems we found, the statues,
they're supposed to be some
kind of bad luck, like they're a curse.
Yeah. It's a good way to scare off
other illegals from making the trip.
You know, just play
on their superstitions.
I mean, they can't
close the border,
but they can definitely stop them
from wanting to cross it, right?
That's cheating. Hey,
you're not allowed to do that.
Hey, guys.
Hey. Hey.
Ah.
Oh! I don't want to
interrupt your victory.
Well, that would imply we're
actually doing something.
What's going on?
I wanted to see if you knew anything
about the CIA's Stargate program.
I thought maybe with
your NSA clearance,
you might have seen
something somewhere.
Sure. Stargate.
Ludicrous waste
of taxpayer money.
No, no, no, no. Don't
be so quick to vilify here.
I've done a little
research myself
and I think that it
had some merit.
Okay? The CIA recruited individuals
who demonstrated psychic ability. Don't.
They trained them in
something called remote viewing
and with some
success, I might add.
Listen, President Carter
recounts a time when,
I think it was a State
Department plane,
went down in a
Central African jungle.
A California psychic
intuited the exact latitude
and longitude of the crash site,
led the search team right to it.
These yahoos also removed
the vocal cords from goats,
stared at the goats
for hours on end
in an attempt to try to kill
them with their thoughts.
Samuel Kraft was
a part of Stargate.
Megan, this good man here is
obviously too far gone to be saved,
but please tell me that you're
not buying Kraft's story as well.
He said some things to me.
What kind of things?
He just, uh, knew
things about me.
Oh, you know what?
He tried that with me
and all it means is that he spent
an hour or two Googling you.
You know, these were just things
that you can't look up anywhere.
I, um, I haven't talked
to my father in 10 years.
Okay, why is that?
Well, you know, he just had some expectations
for me that I wasn't ever gonna meet.
But how does Kraft know that?
Because,
I must admit, he's really
good at what he does.
See, he throws out a few
vague statements, but remember,
it's your willingness to believe
him that fills in the blanks.
Now, there's an
unscientific assumption.
A supportable theory, at least.
What? Supported by what,
by your own pronouncements?
Then are you ready, Fleinhardt?
Ready to put your
black magic to the test?
Eppesie, I was born ready.
Evening.
Good evening.
Saw your headlights, I was
expecting someone else.
Other members of the
Citizens Border Guard?
Agent Sinclair, FBI.
So, what brings the FBI out?
Well, your group's website lists
you as the head of the local chapter.
Yep. Figured it was
my time to do my part,
seeing as the problem is
literally in my own backyard.
What problem
would that be exactly?
Illegal immigration.
We got seven million undocumented
aliens drawing on the system,
how long do you think the
economy can support that?
Okay, so let me
get this straight.
You and your buddies, you
drive around in these hills,
round 'em up and send
'em back home? Is that right?
You're the FBI. You
should be just as worried.
What, you don't think the terrorists
can just walk across the border
just like the rest of them?
Tell you what. Let us
worry about the terrorists.
Right now we want to talk about
three young girls who were murdered.
Oh, I heard about that.
That's, uh, pretty frightening.
Well, that certainly doesn't hurt
your cause any, now, does it?
Might even slow the flow of
illegals across the border for a while.
You think we had something
to do with it? There's no way.
You wouldn't mind
if we took a look
at your membership
roster, then, huh?
You better believe I'd mind.
Mr. Winnard,
we're gonna find this killer
and it's gonna hurt
your cause in a big way
if it turns out to be
one of your guys.
I know my men.
Do you? Well enough
to risk everything?
That there's not one
loose cannon in there
whose motives might not
be quite as pure as your own?
Let us do some
quiet checking, okay?
If we're wrong, no harm done,
no one has to know we were here.
I feel a bit like a
prized show dog
and you... you're asking
me to go fetch a stick.
Well, before we
know we can trust you,
we're gonna need verification.
You said in your book this
card trick was child's play.
I'm just surprised
you still have doubts.
You can start. We're ready.
Black.
Black.
Red.
Black.
Black.
Red.
Red.
That's enough. You can stop.
How'd I do?
He failed.
You see that? How bad?
Twenty five cards,
He got them all wrong.
All of them?
Well, the odds of
getting them all wrong
are the same as
getting them all right.
Must be... One in 33.5 million.
That man is playing with us.
Black.
Black.
There.
There's a reflection
here. I think.
I'm gonna call Amita and get
her to run a digital enhancement.
Charles, you know, while I
cannot discount out of hand
that there might be
fraud involved here...
He cheated, Larry.
He's a cheater.
But what concerns me
here is your intransigence
to the contemplation
of any other possibility.
No one's ever proven
psychic ability. Ever.
It required the creation and
launch of the Hubble Telescope
in order to see protoplanetary
disks form in the Orion Nebula.
Now, does that mean that
they simply weren't there
for the thousands of years when we
lacked the instruments to see them?
So ESP exists
because we can't find it?
We observe the universe through
the limited prism of our senses.
Now, I acknowledge
the possibility,
the likelihood, that
there are realities
that lie beyond the
realm of our senses.
Hmm. That sounds like
blind faith, not science.
Well, I mean, to misquote
Shakespeare here,
"There are more things
in Heaven and Earth
"than are dreamt of in
all your mathematics."
Shakespeare also had
people sprouting donkey ears
and wood fairies running
through his forests.
You know, I'm not here to debate
belief systems, just methodology.
To hold to one assumption
and exclude any and
all contradictory data,
that isn't science.
That's politics.
Just finished running
background checks
on our buddies over at
the Citizens Border Guard.
And nobody pops?
Pretty much all family
guys, local business owners.
I was really hoping
to find that lone nutjob,
but there's just
nothing on this roster.
So we don't have
an obvious suspect.
We don't have any suspect
and we can't ID the victims.
We have no more information
now than when we started.
Okay, well, what
about the psychic?
He has an alibi.
I didn't mean as a suspect.
I'm talking about going
to him for help, maybe.
Thank you.
What do you got there?
Coroner's report on
the other two victims.
It's practically a carbon
copy of Jane Doe number one.
Female Latinas, late teens,
early 20s, unskilled lacerations.
Wait a minute.
What?
The times of
death are different.
What do you mean? How
far apart are you talking?
Jane Doe number two was killed
a full day before
Jane Doe number one.
And number three was killed
as much as two days before that.
So the murders
weren't a one-time event.
Which means there could
be a lot more bodies out there.
And more bodies to come.
I agree with you.
There are more women in danger.
So you've had
more of your visions?
Well, let me show you.
All right. Well, what
do they all mean?
I don't know yet.
The visions are still hazy.
But I definitely see
another woman.
Maybe more than one.
And in the visions,
are they alive?
Oh, yeah. They're in
motion. They're traveling.
And
there's something
else. They're...
I want to say they're... they're
pregnant.
Pregnant.
I had the same sense
with the first three victims.
Well, the autopsies say
you're wrong about that.
Well, these are impressions.
They're like dreams.
They have to be interpreted.
Well, why don't you
gather up your things
and come down to
the office with us?
What about my request?
You really think this is
the time to be negotiating?
I can't imagine a better one.
Why is he back?
Because we're worried there
could be more murders coming.
Based on his predictions?
Predictions that
dovetail with evidence.
I can't believe you're treating
him as a credible source.
You said what happened with
those cards was impossible.
Yeah. That's exactly what
I'm here to talk to you about.
I can't, Charlie. I can't
ignore any more help.
Don made the
decision to go with Kraft.
I'm just doing what he says.
Thank you.
No. You're not here to
sharpen pencils, are you?
No. The card game.
You got them all wrong when you
could have got them all right. Why?
The, uh, test was
your idea, wasn't it?
I figured you'd be the
one to interpret the results.
Trying to impress me again?
I thought you were feeling left
out, not being part of the case.
I know how you cheated.
I didn't cheat. You did.
Your glasses.
You kept fidgeting with them.
Must be a nervous habit.
Actually, that's what I
thought at first, as well.
And then I enhanced the video.
Turns out your nervous habit
is actually a tricky little way
of gathering a reflection of
the cards off the glass right here.
It's amazing what wonders
real science can achieve.
Let me ask you a question,
Professor Eppes.
If you have it in your
power to save lives,
does anything
else really matter?
These are the latest from Kraft.
He still thinks there's one or
more potential victims traveling.
Okay. But do we have any idea what
the "15" or the "S" and the "B" mean?
Traveling. It's got to
be bus or car, right?
And what... 15 is a major route
coming up from Southern Mexico.
You might be right
on the whole bus thing.
There are two major
bus carriers in Mexico
with the letters "S"
and "B" in their names.
Here it is. Baja del
Sur and Sierra Bonita.
They're both wide carriers with
routes to at least 10 border towns.
The problem is, even if we
know precisely which bus,
we still don't know
who we're looking for.
We need more information on
the original victims, the Jane Does.
They're the key.
I mean, they'll tell us, if we
can figure out who they are,
who the killer is, why
he's looking for them.
Or maybe we can get the
psychic to refocus on the victims.
How about you try using
math instead of magic?
All right, Charlie.
What do you got?
What if I could help
locate the other immigrants
that crossed the
border with the victims?
Can you?
Very possible, using the
Fokker-Planck equation.
Now, it allows us to determine
the movements of something
under the influence of external
forces, like a herd of animals.
A whole host of forces act on the
herd to determine its movement.
Some forces attract the herd,
forces like a watering hole,
a food source, a
safe resting place.
Other forces deter the herd.
Predators, obviously.
Hostile terrain.
Now, these forces can
be analyzed to determine
the distance and direction
that the herd will travel.
Can you apply this to
the migrant workers?
Well, this equation
can apply to any
nomadic population.
But, instead of considering
forces like a watering hole,
we're considering farm
jobs, safe encampments,
uh, transportation routes.
Okay. And instead of predators,
it would be the Border Patrol
and the Citizens Border Guard.
Right. Now, we know
Jane Doe number one
crossed the border from
Tecate three days ago.
That gives us a starting point.
Now, if others
crossed over with her,
the Fokker-Planck equation
is a model that can predict
where the others are now.
All right. Good, Charlie. So
why don't you get on that?
And, meanwhile, we
keep working with Kraft.
We'll run the bus angle and anything
else the guy comes up with. Right?
Hey, Charlie, in all
your rearranging in here,
did you ever come across a box
labeled "Population Density Studies"?
I need it for my
mall project. Char...
Charlie.
Sorry. I'm just not sure how
well these equations will translate
into human populations.
Ah. You know what? They're
better than random sketches, right?
Right?
Oh, not you now.
Was I asleep? Did
I miss the memo?
When did the whole world throw
rational thought out the window?
No, no, Charlie, it's not about
what I believe or don't believe.
I... I just think it's, uh, it's very
comforting for people to know
that everything that we
know isn't all that there is.
I'm not saying we
know everything, Dad.
Look, science is all about attacking
the mysteries of the universe,
unmasking the unknown in a
rational, methodical manner.
Yeah, I know. But the world is not
always a rational, methodical place.
You're good at a
lot of things, Charlie,
but accepting that
fact is not one of them.
Oh, hey, perfect timing.
Let... Let's all sit
down at a Ouija board
and try to solve "P" v.
"NP" once and for all.
Don't start with me, you know?
I mean, the FBI has used
psychics and they've helped.
So, even if the
guy's throwing darts,
I'd be happy with a... a dumb-luck
bull's-eye right about now.
Believe me, Don, it's
a waste of your time.
Yeah, well, I've heard
that before. More than once.
I mean, when all we had was one of
your theories, believe me, I heard that.
Please, show me enough respect
not to put my work on the
same level as your swami.
A-All right, boys, that's it.
Let's take a step
back for a minute.
I'm going to go one better
and step all the way off.
And you can let your
psychic solve it for you.
Listen, Charlie, where
you going? Charlie!
Water. I get a very
strong sense of water.
Water will be
important, somehow.
Okay, what water? You
mean, like, a river, an ocean?
I don't... I don't know yet.
I can just tell
you I sense water.
Look, there's just...
There's not enough detail.
We can't pinpoint an accurate
location with... without more detail.
I'm sorry. I'm telling
you everything I can.
I... It's just not
there yet. I...
Maybe... Maybe after.
What do you mean, after?
With the others, the, uh,
visions became much clearer
after the girls were dead.
I think I have something.
Unless you've already solved it.
Don told us you
were off the case.
If I have it in my
power to save lives,
then... then everything
else doesn't matter.
These areas here. Different
herds behave in different manners.
Now, since we don't
know how many people
crossed the border with
Jane Doe number one,
I ran the algorithm with
three different group sizes.
Five to ten, ten to
twenty, twenty to thirty.
And these are the results.
There is a 68 percent chance
that someone who crossed the
border with Jane Doe number one
can be found in one
of these three areas.
No.
No?
Have you seen them?
Gracias.
Any luck?
No. They all seem to be scared.
The question is,
are they afraid of us
or whoever did
this to these girls?
All right, keep asking.
No.
Wait a minute.
You recognize her.
No, no, no.
Okay.
He recognized Jane
Doe number one.
He said they were
in Tecate together.
Waiting for it to get dark
before they crossed the border.
Does he know her name?
Just her first name, Alba.
He said that she said
she was from a small town
in El Salvador called Metapan.
We can get her photo and her
prints to the police down there.
It's a small city, somebody
might recognize her.
Yeah. He also said she said
something else that was really strange
and that is that she wasn't
looking for work over here.
She was just coming to the States for
a few days and then going right back.
We contacted the police
in Metapan, El Salvador.
Sent them photos and
prints of all three victims.
Oh, yeah, they
ID'd all three, huh?
Families reported them
missing. Suspected runaways.
Here's where it gets weird.
I mean, aside from the same town
of origin, there's nothing to indicate
that these girls knew
each other at all.
What, you mean,
they're not friends?
They're not traveling
together? No.
Somehow they end up in the
hands of the same killer in California.
Now, how's a killer pick his
victims 2,500 miles away?
Guys, the police in Metapan report two more
girls missing and they're runaways again.
This one here, Lupe Sandoval,
she talked with her
brother before she left,
said she was only going to be
in the States for, like, a week.
All right, so, same
story as the other three.
I mean, the question is,
what is the connection?
They're young,
they're easy prey...
They all plan to be
here for just a short time.
So, what's that?
Remember the guy from
the Citizens Border Guard?
He talked about women
crossing the border
to have their babies, then
going right back home.
I know, but all the
autopsies on these girls
said that they weren't pregnant.
Yeah, but Kraft said
he got the feeling
that they were
pregnant, remember?
Yeah.
Wait a minute.
What if they were carrying
something else inside their bodies?
Drugs.
Dope mules swallow large
quantities of drugs in latex balloons
and then just waltz
across the border.
And it's the perfect
explanation for the short stay.
They come over here,
they make their delivery
and they go right back home.
There you go, only just
didn't work out that way.
Something went wrong,
the drugs wouldn't pass...
Right, someone got greedy.
They... They didn't want to pay.
Which means the
statues and the candles
and the whole occult
thing was a bluff.
These girls were cut
open to get to the drugs.
You know, it's hard
for me to believe
that these three young
girls would do this.
I mean, swallow all those drugs.
Never mind going to prison.
What would happen if one of
the... one of the balloons bursts?
They'd die.
So why do they do it?
Come on, Dad. I mean,
they come from a place
where they're lucky if they
make 40 or 50 bucks a week.
Right, and then somebody probably
offers them a chance to make $5,000.
What about those
other two girls,
the ones you suspect
of being on their way?
I mean, how are you
going to stop them?
We got their pictures
out to everyone we can.
The Border Patrol,
the Mexican police.
We're hoping
someone will spot 'em.
And, you know, I mean,
that's all we can do.
Actually, you know...
Pass me that salt. Thank you.
Okay. I'm going to set up a
simple logic diagram here.
Okay? Three vertices, okay?
We'll start with the salt
which we'll call the girls'
home town in El Salvador...
It's Metapan. Metapan.
And the pepper is Tecate.
And the third vertex,
the glass of water, is the U.S.
Now, let's look
at the logic issues.
If these girls did swallow
these drug balloons,
they probably didn't do it all
the way back here in El Salvador
because the drugs would then
pass through their body too quickly.
Oh, yeah, that's
right, that's right.
The drugs would pass
through their system
before they even got
to the United States.
Yeah, they'd definitely
have to ingest them
pretty close to
the border, right?
Probably Tecate,
which would give them
the time to get the drugs
over the border into the U.S.
Now, the three vertices are
all part of the same system.
You find out how
they're connected,
you're going to find
another way to your killer.
DEA agents working
out of Mexico City
turned up a link between
a drug family in Metapan
and a little pharmacy in Tecate.
There's our connection.
Take a look at this.
The name on the license when
they pulled it from the pharmacy.
"Alejandro Borrego." As in Victor
Borrego, our immigrant advocate.
Colby, we had this
SOB and we let him go.
And this gives
him a perfect cover
to be out there patrolling the border
just waiting for his drug mules to cross.
Hey, the alert we put out
on the girls just paid off.
The police in Tecate
found Rose Garcia
as she was about
to cross the border.
They X-rayed her
stomach, loaded with drugs.
What about the other
one, Lupe Sandoval?
Rose said she already crossed.
Which means she's
already in the U.S.
She's headed straight
for Victor Borrego.
Hey, guys? How we
doing on Borrego?
We have agents on his house,
but he's nowhere to be found.
We're trying his cell phone,
hoping to get a GPS fix on him.
If he's out looking to
meet with Lupe Sandoval,
he's probably out
of cell range, though.
You got anything
else? I mean, anything...
I... I've been over
this with your agents.
I'm still feeling the
importance of water.
Maybe water's nearby, or...
The Colorado River, the
Pacific Ocean, a bathtub?
All right, Charlie.
We have hard data on
approximately when Lupe left Tecate
and we know it takes maybe six
to eight hours for the drugs to pass.
And we know Borrego's
preferences from the last crime scene.
He's going to want seclusion
and no lights, no people.
Right. But he's unlikely to
go back to that first location
because he knows
we've already been there.
Right, so that
eliminates this area here,
here and here.
He's also going to want
to avoid the Border Patrol
and the Citizens Border Guard.
I remember those patrol
routes from the earlier model.
Still, huge area.
Yeah, but that's not too
huge for an air search, right?
Call SOG. Tell them
whatever they got available,
we'd like up in the
air, ASAP. Okay?
Hey. Thanks for coming back.
Yeah. Sorry about
that. It's just...
I know. Don't worry about it.
Air unit just spotted
Borrego's truck on the fire road
about six miles off
the McDaniels turnoff.
Is the girl with him?
The IR sensor on
the chopper shows
only one occupant in the vehicle.
She might already be dead.
All right, tell them to maintain
visual contact, but don't close in.
I'd rather you guys do that.
Don't you even breathe!
You're making a mistake!
We made the mistake the
first time we let you go, Victor.
Let go off my arm!
I got something,
a girl's sweater
and what looks
like a bus ticket.
Where is she?
I don't know who you're talking
about. I found that on my patrol.
Cut the crap, Victor!
We're not buying it.
My arm!
You have one more
chance. Where is she?
Look at all this water.
It's okay. It's okay!
No one's going to
hurt you. We're FBI.
That was the hospital. They
got all the drugs out of the girl
and she's going to be all right.
Well, I'd say, then,
that we all should
be congratulated.
That is quite a gift
you have, Professor.
Thank you.
Let's leave it at that.
I, uh, I'm going to
hold you to our deal.
Official mention
in the case file.
All right, you got it. Uh, I just need
you to sign a statement, okay? Come on.
Agent Reeves.
You know what the worst part is?
- What?
Is now this guy's walking around
with an FBI credit in
his pocket? Charlie...
Which, by the way, he'll only
further exploit to fool people.
You can't rule out
everything the guy did.
Of course I can.
Hey, look, he knew
there'd be more victims.
Hey, you know
what? Three dead girls
and the FBI pounding
on his door in a panic.
How hard is that to deduce?
Hey, you guys, you still at it?
It's obvious you're not
going to agree on this.
What about the sketches? What about
the sketches? He led us to the bodies.
You tell me how he did
that. I don't know, okay?
But there could be any number
of reasons. He worked for the CIA.
And the CIA was involved in
the search for Pablo Escobar
so he may have an intimate
knowledge of the drug trade.
Charlie, that is so
thin. I don't think...
I agree with Don.
It's pretty thin.
Oh, and attributing
superhuman powers to a
psychic, yeah, that's thick.
No, listen, I'm not
saying everything he did
was real, but you can't...
What was that?
That's Mom's picture.
Oh, don't start to say that that
meant something, okay? Come on.
That's spooky.
You know, your mother never
liked it when you guys argued.
Oh, there's many
reasons that that just fell.
Look, it's fallen before.
You were supposed to put an
earthquake anchor on that wall, Dad.
So, what, that's a coincidence?
Coincidence and nothing more.
Yeah. I don't
know. That's weird.
Coincidence.
Mom, it's Megan.
No, I'm fine, I, uh...
Oh, sorry. I just
finished a case.
I didn't realize.
Is, um, Dad there?
No, of course he's at the club.
Where else would
he be at this hour?
No, no, it's not that
important. I'll call back.
I will.
I will. You get some sleep.
You, too.
♪ What did you expect? ♪
♪ Fools often sometimes forget ♪
♪ Who really knows
what's the truth ♪
♪ Often dignified ♪
♪ How funny changing the tide ♪
♪ Feels like you already knew ♪
♪ Praise ♪
♪ Like the devil ♪
♪ Connect ♪
♪ You would never ♪
♪ Sick man ♪
♪ Running circles ♪
♪ Feels like you already knew ♪
♪ Praise ♪
♪ Like the devil ♪
♪ Connect ♪
♪ You would never ♪
♪ Sick man ♪
♪ Running circles ♪
♪ Feels like you already knew ♪
Over here!
How many?
Three, all female.
Appear to be Latino.
No ID's yet, but,
they're pretty tangled up.
We don't want to touch them
till the forensics team gets here.
They've been cut open, gutted.
And from the blood
evidence it looks like
it happened up here and then
they were dumped down there?
Yeah. We've got to be talking about
some pretty disturbed individuals.
Some kind of cult, maybe.
Satanic stuff is usually
seen in teenagers.
Not exactly on the
college track, I'm guessing.
What else is around here?
Nothing.
Government land goes down to
about where you turned off the road.
After that, it's all
farm fields, agriculture.
There's a pretty good
chance all three were illegals.
Excuse me. I'm Megan
Reeves with the FBI.
What was your team doing
out here? Who tipped you off?
Some guy called it in.
What was he doing out here?
He wasn't. He's a psychic.
Mapped out the
location in sketches.
Psychic? Yeah.
Guy right over there
talking with the sheriff.
He drew this.
Wonder if he's psychic enough to
know he just made the suspect list.
You can't really believe I had
something to do with these murders.
Wow, he really is psychic, Don.
You just read my mind.
You have no understanding
at all of what it is I do.
Do you?
These are pretty detailed.
What, you've been there before?
Not in the way
you're suggesting.
Not in my, uh, physical body.
Excuse me?
I have the power to
project my conscious mind.
Oh. This is where we lay in the
grounds for the insanity plea, right?
I have a gift, Agent Reeves.
I see things. Visions.
They come to me, like, uh,
pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
And once I put enough
of the pieces together
to draw these images,
I called the sheriff.
Who clearly believed you enough to
send a search team on a five-mile hike.
I... I'd worked with him before.
A missing child
case two years ago.
Were you a suspect
in that case as well?
The missing boy's
family brought me in
and thanks to the gift I have,
he was found.
Alive and unharmed.
I might be able to
help here as well.
Oh, yeah? Okay.
What have you got?
Nothing yet, but once the channel
is open, more visions may come.
Yeah? What do you want?
An acknowledgement from
the, uh, Bureau, for my work.
That's it?
They're about to
publish my new book.
Pass.
Why?
Why... Look, you're a
suspect in a triple homicide.
We're not here to
promote your book.
It's a good way to sell
books, though, huh?
Commit a crime and then show
up to mystically help solve it?
I... That is ridiculous.
Well, you shouldn't leave town
and I'm gonna
need your passport.
Otherwise, you're free to go.
Your father always wanted a son.
Didn't he?
What are you talking about?
You were the youngest?
Three older sisters?
You were
his last chance.
I don't appreciate people
looking into my personal life.
I told you, it's not
something I control.
Well, if I were you,
I'd learn how to.
There's something else.
Something
no one else knows about you.
I understand. Just let me know as
soon as you find out. All right? Thanks.
Hey. So what do you think?
He knew about the murders.
He has to be involved somehow.
Yeah, well, he maybe.
Don, this psychic stuff.
You cannot take
it seriously, okay?
Whoa, Charlie, can you prove
to me there's nothing to it?
There is no scientific evidence
for the existence of
psychic ability, okay?
None whatsoever.
Yeah? I... It's make-believe.
No, I don't know
about that, actually.
I saw a guy randomly
take someone from a group,
come up with stuff
about the guy's life
the person said that nobody
would ever know about them, so...
It's an act, man. They're
guessing, okay? Yeah, well...
They... They... Look, it's
just like blindly throwing darts.
You throw enough darts,
you're gonna eventually
hit a bull's-eye.
Yeah, but... So, look,
that guy, he probably has
such a deep desire to believe
that he dismisses the
misses and focuses on the hits.
It's called optimistic bias.
Charlie, this guy isn't
just throwing darts.
I can tell you that right now.
Just... There's
plenty of... of simple,
more rational explanations
to be considered.
I got all of his information.
I'll have... I'll have the agent that
drops him off confiscate his passport.
Wait, I thought you
were dropping him off.
I just got something
I need to check out.
How we doing on our
victims? Any ID's yet?
Nope. All three are Jane Does.
The only thing we know
is they're all Latinas,
late teens to early 20s.
Jane Doe number one
had a receipt in her pocket
puts her in Tecate,
Mexico, three days ago,
so she only just
got to the States.
If they're illegals it's
gonna be tough to ID them.
Prints won't be in our system,
Immigration won't have them.
The fact is, we don't even know
what country they started out from.
You get anything from
the coroner's reports yet?
Here's the preliminary
from the crime scene.
All three cut open,
belly to chest.
No indication of skill,
surgical knowledge.
Still waiting on the
autopsy report, though.
I do have some information on the
occult stuff we found at the scene.
The satanic stuff?
Turns out it's not satanic.
Uh, the statues are related to
something called Semana Santa.
It's popular in Central America.
It's a blend of modern religions
and some old, indigenous rituals.
So these are what,
religious killings? Sacrifices?
Maybe some kind of
exorcism. I don't know.
These girls were young.
Ah, border patrol says they've
been seeing a growing stream
of young girls coming
over here on their own.
They probably dream of
a better job, a better life.
They sure as hell didn't
dream of ending up like that.
Something wrong? Sorry.
I didn't mean to stare at you.
You were there, watching
the questioning, weren't you?
I'm not impressed. I'm sorry.
Right. You could have
easily seen me there.
You don't believe
at all in what I do.
Do you?
Honestly, no.
And that's not to say that
you don't believe what you do.
I'm sure there are a
lot of so-called psychics
that are absolutely convinced
that they have an ability.
But you're convinced they
don't because it's not logical.
Because you haven't seen proof.
That's right.
So you wouldn't be impressed
if I said I felt the presence
of your mother
standing beside you.
Okay, now you've stepped
into the category of con man.
Why is that?
The fact that you know me,
that you know about my mother
means nothing.
I do a lot of consulting
here and that's no secret.
The fact that my mother
is deceased is no secret.
It only proves you did
a little research. Great.
But now you're trying to pass
that off as something else?
Well, that doesn't
make you delusional.
That makes you deceitful.
And that... And
that I don't like.
I'll get the next one.
Nice tire imprint you got.
Rained here less than a week
ago, so it's got to be recent.
Ah, it could
belong to our killer.
Sedan wouldn't make it up here.
Whatever left that print
had to be a four-wheel drive.
Right. Fortson Trail-Hawk.
All-terrain. Light truck or SUV.
Whatever it is must have had some
miles on it. That tread's pretty worn.
Manual say they
stopped production in '99.
Well, we're probably looking at
something late '90s or early 2000s.
Let's get the word out.
Right.
Listen, the FBI has
used psychics before,
as have other law
enforcement agencies,
whether they admit to it or not.
Thank you for destroying any
confidence I had in public safety.
Listen, what is your criteria
for this categorical dismissal
of parapsychological
phenomena? Reality.
Oh, yes, reality. What would
that be? Newtonian reality?
Einsteinian reality?
Quantum reality?
This is for the two of us.
Larry, you cannot go about
defending this as science.
Listen, two University
of Chicago studies
have presented evidence that
the human brain is still evolving.
Two key brain-building genes
are undergoing rapid mutations.
So what if, uh, unique
perceptual abilities arose
just as a simple
genetic variant?
Larry, first of all, I'm well
aware of those studies, okay?
I might very well
incorporate some of that data
into my cognitive
emergence work.
But you're suggesting that
this guy Kraft is somehow
higher evolved
than the rest of us.
What if the human
brain has reached a point
where it is sensitive
on a subatomic level,
a level where matter
can appear and disappear,
where time can run
backwards or forwards?
I mean, who is to
say what's possible
and what isn't possible?
What flavor of crazy Kool-Aid
do they make you drink
when you join the
Physics Department?
Agent Cullen. Agent Sinclair,
Granger. Thanks for meeting us.
Hey, not a problem. I'm
out here anyway. Oh, yeah.
We're hoping because
you patrol the area
you might be
able to help us out.
Well, we heard
about those girls.
Obviously, anything we can do.
Look, we were wondering if maybe
you've come across any of these before.
Far as we can tell, they're
of Central American origin.
Well, lots of these
migrant workers,
they bring across prayer
cards, candles, stuff like that,
but I don't think I've
ever seen this before.
You think it's related
to the murder?
These girls were cut open. These
artifacts were scattered around them.
Sounds to me like somebody's
trying to send a message.
Message, what do you mean?
Like, from who? Coyotes.
I take it you don't mean
the furry little animals.
No. Smugglers who shuttle
these people up from Mexico.
And no pun intended, but
it's a cutthroat business.
I'll bet.
A lot of money, a
lot of competition.
Choose the wrong trail guide,
maybe that's what happens to you.
You think Cullen could be right
about the killer being a coyote?
They'd certainly be
capable of that violence,
but, why the whole setup with
the candles and the statues?
I don't know. I guess like
he said, to send a message.
What's up?
Late '90s pickup.
Let's see if we can get a
closer look at those tire treads.
Hey, buddy, you know
whose truck that is?
Hey!
FBI!
Whoa! FBI! Stop!
Do not start that car!
Don't even start it!
Don't move! Okay!
I'm not going anywhere. Yeah,
you're damn right you're not.
Keep your hands
where I can see 'em.
Trail-Hawks. Tires are a match.
That's not good for you.
Colby.
Borrego.
Paperwork checks out.
That's right.
I'm in this country legally
which means I have rights.
You do.
And one of them is the
right to lethal injection.
What are you talking about?
Oh, my God.
What, you... you
think I did this?
Are you kidding me?
No. I got a whole
another kidding face.
We found tire tracks
that match your truck
about 30 yards from where
these girls were butchered.
I work out there.
I drive all over
those hills every day.
Doing what exactly?
My group, Border Care, we
help undocumented workers.
You help them how?
I set up water stations
and when it's cold I take
them blankets and clothing.
Last summer, 68
people died of exposure,
trying to find a better life.
What about these statues?
Like the ones we
found in your truck.
I found them.
Near the migrant camp
where you saw me.
They're bad luck totems.
I figured somebody was
trying to scare off the workers.
So why'd you run
when you saw us?
I thought you were someone else.
Someone like who?
Private border patrol. These
anti-immigration vigilantes.
They've been harassing these
poor workers for months now.
They sure as hell
don't like what I do.
Samuel Kraft was in the CIA.
What? What, as an operative?
As a psychic. They had
a program called Stargate,
where they took
people like Kraft
and tried to train them
to use them as weapons
to spy on enemies,
to kill people.
Yeah. It wasn't him, okay?
I got the coroner's report.
Jane Doe number one,
dead 48 to 56 hours ago.
Which puts him still in Seattle?
Yeah. I mean,
it's a legit alibi.
Borrego's story checks out.
This guy runs a
human rights group.
He's a, uh, advocate
for the illegals.
But he did point the finger at this,
uh, private Citizens Border Guard.
Yeah, he says
they've been harassing
these workers for
the last few weeks.
Coyotes, what about them?
It didn't match, the
whole occult thing.
I mean, if you're killing
these girls to send a message,
why pretend it's something else?
Yeah, but you could say the same
thing about the Citizens Border Guard.
Except, Borrego said the
totems we found, the statues,
they're supposed to be some
kind of bad luck, like they're a curse.
Yeah. It's a good way to scare off
other illegals from making the trip.
You know, just play
on their superstitions.
I mean, they can't
close the border,
but they can definitely stop them
from wanting to cross it, right?
That's cheating. Hey,
you're not allowed to do that.
Hey, guys.
Hey. Hey.
Ah.
Oh! I don't want to
interrupt your victory.
Well, that would imply we're
actually doing something.
What's going on?
I wanted to see if you knew anything
about the CIA's Stargate program.
I thought maybe with
your NSA clearance,
you might have seen
something somewhere.
Sure. Stargate.
Ludicrous waste
of taxpayer money.
No, no, no, no. Don't
be so quick to vilify here.
I've done a little
research myself
and I think that it
had some merit.
Okay? The CIA recruited individuals
who demonstrated psychic ability. Don't.
They trained them in
something called remote viewing
and with some
success, I might add.
Listen, President Carter
recounts a time when,
I think it was a State
Department plane,
went down in a
Central African jungle.
A California psychic
intuited the exact latitude
and longitude of the crash site,
led the search team right to it.
These yahoos also removed
the vocal cords from goats,
stared at the goats
for hours on end
in an attempt to try to kill
them with their thoughts.
Samuel Kraft was
a part of Stargate.
Megan, this good man here is
obviously too far gone to be saved,
but please tell me that you're
not buying Kraft's story as well.
He said some things to me.
What kind of things?
He just, uh, knew
things about me.
Oh, you know what?
He tried that with me
and all it means is that he spent
an hour or two Googling you.
You know, these were just things
that you can't look up anywhere.
I, um, I haven't talked
to my father in 10 years.
Okay, why is that?
Well, you know, he just had some expectations
for me that I wasn't ever gonna meet.
But how does Kraft know that?
Because,
I must admit, he's really
good at what he does.
See, he throws out a few
vague statements, but remember,
it's your willingness to believe
him that fills in the blanks.
Now, there's an
unscientific assumption.
A supportable theory, at least.
What? Supported by what,
by your own pronouncements?
Then are you ready, Fleinhardt?
Ready to put your
black magic to the test?
Eppesie, I was born ready.
Evening.
Good evening.
Saw your headlights, I was
expecting someone else.
Other members of the
Citizens Border Guard?
Agent Sinclair, FBI.
So, what brings the FBI out?
Well, your group's website lists
you as the head of the local chapter.
Yep. Figured it was
my time to do my part,
seeing as the problem is
literally in my own backyard.
What problem
would that be exactly?
Illegal immigration.
We got seven million undocumented
aliens drawing on the system,
how long do you think the
economy can support that?
Okay, so let me
get this straight.
You and your buddies, you
drive around in these hills,
round 'em up and send
'em back home? Is that right?
You're the FBI. You
should be just as worried.
What, you don't think the terrorists
can just walk across the border
just like the rest of them?
Tell you what. Let us
worry about the terrorists.
Right now we want to talk about
three young girls who were murdered.
Oh, I heard about that.
That's, uh, pretty frightening.
Well, that certainly doesn't hurt
your cause any, now, does it?
Might even slow the flow of
illegals across the border for a while.
You think we had something
to do with it? There's no way.
You wouldn't mind
if we took a look
at your membership
roster, then, huh?
You better believe I'd mind.
Mr. Winnard,
we're gonna find this killer
and it's gonna hurt
your cause in a big way
if it turns out to be
one of your guys.
I know my men.
Do you? Well enough
to risk everything?
That there's not one
loose cannon in there
whose motives might not
be quite as pure as your own?
Let us do some
quiet checking, okay?
If we're wrong, no harm done,
no one has to know we were here.
I feel a bit like a
prized show dog
and you... you're asking
me to go fetch a stick.
Well, before we
know we can trust you,
we're gonna need verification.
You said in your book this
card trick was child's play.
I'm just surprised
you still have doubts.
You can start. We're ready.
Black.
Black.
Red.
Black.
Black.
Red.
Red.
That's enough. You can stop.
How'd I do?
He failed.
You see that? How bad?
Twenty five cards,
He got them all wrong.
All of them?
Well, the odds of
getting them all wrong
are the same as
getting them all right.
Must be... One in 33.5 million.
That man is playing with us.
Black.
Black.
There.
There's a reflection
here. I think.
I'm gonna call Amita and get
her to run a digital enhancement.
Charles, you know, while I
cannot discount out of hand
that there might be
fraud involved here...
He cheated, Larry.
He's a cheater.
But what concerns me
here is your intransigence
to the contemplation
of any other possibility.
No one's ever proven
psychic ability. Ever.
It required the creation and
launch of the Hubble Telescope
in order to see protoplanetary
disks form in the Orion Nebula.
Now, does that mean that
they simply weren't there
for the thousands of years when we
lacked the instruments to see them?
So ESP exists
because we can't find it?
We observe the universe through
the limited prism of our senses.
Now, I acknowledge
the possibility,
the likelihood, that
there are realities
that lie beyond the
realm of our senses.
Hmm. That sounds like
blind faith, not science.
Well, I mean, to misquote
Shakespeare here,
"There are more things
in Heaven and Earth
"than are dreamt of in
all your mathematics."
Shakespeare also had
people sprouting donkey ears
and wood fairies running
through his forests.
You know, I'm not here to debate
belief systems, just methodology.
To hold to one assumption
and exclude any and
all contradictory data,
that isn't science.
That's politics.
Just finished running
background checks
on our buddies over at
the Citizens Border Guard.
And nobody pops?
Pretty much all family
guys, local business owners.
I was really hoping
to find that lone nutjob,
but there's just
nothing on this roster.
So we don't have
an obvious suspect.
We don't have any suspect
and we can't ID the victims.
We have no more information
now than when we started.
Okay, well, what
about the psychic?
He has an alibi.
I didn't mean as a suspect.
I'm talking about going
to him for help, maybe.
Thank you.
What do you got there?
Coroner's report on
the other two victims.
It's practically a carbon
copy of Jane Doe number one.
Female Latinas, late teens,
early 20s, unskilled lacerations.
Wait a minute.
What?
The times of
death are different.
What do you mean? How
far apart are you talking?
Jane Doe number two was killed
a full day before
Jane Doe number one.
And number three was killed
as much as two days before that.
So the murders
weren't a one-time event.
Which means there could
be a lot more bodies out there.
And more bodies to come.
I agree with you.
There are more women in danger.
So you've had
more of your visions?
Well, let me show you.
All right. Well, what
do they all mean?
I don't know yet.
The visions are still hazy.
But I definitely see
another woman.
Maybe more than one.
And in the visions,
are they alive?
Oh, yeah. They're in
motion. They're traveling.
And
there's something
else. They're...
I want to say they're... they're
pregnant.
Pregnant.
I had the same sense
with the first three victims.
Well, the autopsies say
you're wrong about that.
Well, these are impressions.
They're like dreams.
They have to be interpreted.
Well, why don't you
gather up your things
and come down to
the office with us?
What about my request?
You really think this is
the time to be negotiating?
I can't imagine a better one.
Why is he back?
Because we're worried there
could be more murders coming.
Based on his predictions?
Predictions that
dovetail with evidence.
I can't believe you're treating
him as a credible source.
You said what happened with
those cards was impossible.
Yeah. That's exactly what
I'm here to talk to you about.
I can't, Charlie. I can't
ignore any more help.
Don made the
decision to go with Kraft.
I'm just doing what he says.
Thank you.
No. You're not here to
sharpen pencils, are you?
No. The card game.
You got them all wrong when you
could have got them all right. Why?
The, uh, test was
your idea, wasn't it?
I figured you'd be the
one to interpret the results.
Trying to impress me again?
I thought you were feeling left
out, not being part of the case.
I know how you cheated.
I didn't cheat. You did.
Your glasses.
You kept fidgeting with them.
Must be a nervous habit.
Actually, that's what I
thought at first, as well.
And then I enhanced the video.
Turns out your nervous habit
is actually a tricky little way
of gathering a reflection of
the cards off the glass right here.
It's amazing what wonders
real science can achieve.
Let me ask you a question,
Professor Eppes.
If you have it in your
power to save lives,
does anything
else really matter?
These are the latest from Kraft.
He still thinks there's one or
more potential victims traveling.
Okay. But do we have any idea what
the "15" or the "S" and the "B" mean?
Traveling. It's got to
be bus or car, right?
And what... 15 is a major route
coming up from Southern Mexico.
You might be right
on the whole bus thing.
There are two major
bus carriers in Mexico
with the letters "S"
and "B" in their names.
Here it is. Baja del
Sur and Sierra Bonita.
They're both wide carriers with
routes to at least 10 border towns.
The problem is, even if we
know precisely which bus,
we still don't know
who we're looking for.
We need more information on
the original victims, the Jane Does.
They're the key.
I mean, they'll tell us, if we
can figure out who they are,
who the killer is, why
he's looking for them.
Or maybe we can get the
psychic to refocus on the victims.
How about you try using
math instead of magic?
All right, Charlie.
What do you got?
What if I could help
locate the other immigrants
that crossed the
border with the victims?
Can you?
Very possible, using the
Fokker-Planck equation.
Now, it allows us to determine
the movements of something
under the influence of external
forces, like a herd of animals.
A whole host of forces act on the
herd to determine its movement.
Some forces attract the herd,
forces like a watering hole,
a food source, a
safe resting place.
Other forces deter the herd.
Predators, obviously.
Hostile terrain.
Now, these forces can
be analyzed to determine
the distance and direction
that the herd will travel.
Can you apply this to
the migrant workers?
Well, this equation
can apply to any
nomadic population.
But, instead of considering
forces like a watering hole,
we're considering farm
jobs, safe encampments,
uh, transportation routes.
Okay. And instead of predators,
it would be the Border Patrol
and the Citizens Border Guard.
Right. Now, we know
Jane Doe number one
crossed the border from
Tecate three days ago.
That gives us a starting point.
Now, if others
crossed over with her,
the Fokker-Planck equation
is a model that can predict
where the others are now.
All right. Good, Charlie. So
why don't you get on that?
And, meanwhile, we
keep working with Kraft.
We'll run the bus angle and anything
else the guy comes up with. Right?
Hey, Charlie, in all
your rearranging in here,
did you ever come across a box
labeled "Population Density Studies"?
I need it for my
mall project. Char...
Charlie.
Sorry. I'm just not sure how
well these equations will translate
into human populations.
Ah. You know what? They're
better than random sketches, right?
Right?
Oh, not you now.
Was I asleep? Did
I miss the memo?
When did the whole world throw
rational thought out the window?
No, no, Charlie, it's not about
what I believe or don't believe.
I... I just think it's, uh, it's very
comforting for people to know
that everything that we
know isn't all that there is.
I'm not saying we
know everything, Dad.
Look, science is all about attacking
the mysteries of the universe,
unmasking the unknown in a
rational, methodical manner.
Yeah, I know. But the world is not
always a rational, methodical place.
You're good at a
lot of things, Charlie,
but accepting that
fact is not one of them.
Oh, hey, perfect timing.
Let... Let's all sit
down at a Ouija board
and try to solve "P" v.
"NP" once and for all.
Don't start with me, you know?
I mean, the FBI has used
psychics and they've helped.
So, even if the
guy's throwing darts,
I'd be happy with a... a dumb-luck
bull's-eye right about now.
Believe me, Don, it's
a waste of your time.
Yeah, well, I've heard
that before. More than once.
I mean, when all we had was one of
your theories, believe me, I heard that.
Please, show me enough respect
not to put my work on the
same level as your swami.
A-All right, boys, that's it.
Let's take a step
back for a minute.
I'm going to go one better
and step all the way off.
And you can let your
psychic solve it for you.
Listen, Charlie, where
you going? Charlie!
Water. I get a very
strong sense of water.
Water will be
important, somehow.
Okay, what water? You
mean, like, a river, an ocean?
I don't... I don't know yet.
I can just tell
you I sense water.
Look, there's just...
There's not enough detail.
We can't pinpoint an accurate
location with... without more detail.
I'm sorry. I'm telling
you everything I can.
I... It's just not
there yet. I...
Maybe... Maybe after.
What do you mean, after?
With the others, the, uh,
visions became much clearer
after the girls were dead.
I think I have something.
Unless you've already solved it.
Don told us you
were off the case.
If I have it in my
power to save lives,
then... then everything
else doesn't matter.
These areas here. Different
herds behave in different manners.
Now, since we don't
know how many people
crossed the border with
Jane Doe number one,
I ran the algorithm with
three different group sizes.
Five to ten, ten to
twenty, twenty to thirty.
And these are the results.
There is a 68 percent chance
that someone who crossed the
border with Jane Doe number one
can be found in one
of these three areas.
No.
No?
Have you seen them?
Gracias.
Any luck?
No. They all seem to be scared.
The question is,
are they afraid of us
or whoever did
this to these girls?
All right, keep asking.
No.
Wait a minute.
You recognize her.
No, no, no.
Okay.
He recognized Jane
Doe number one.
He said they were
in Tecate together.
Waiting for it to get dark
before they crossed the border.
Does he know her name?
Just her first name, Alba.
He said that she said
she was from a small town
in El Salvador called Metapan.
We can get her photo and her
prints to the police down there.
It's a small city, somebody
might recognize her.
Yeah. He also said she said
something else that was really strange
and that is that she wasn't
looking for work over here.
She was just coming to the States for
a few days and then going right back.
We contacted the police
in Metapan, El Salvador.
Sent them photos and
prints of all three victims.
Oh, yeah, they
ID'd all three, huh?
Families reported them
missing. Suspected runaways.
Here's where it gets weird.
I mean, aside from the same town
of origin, there's nothing to indicate
that these girls knew
each other at all.
What, you mean,
they're not friends?
They're not traveling
together? No.
Somehow they end up in the
hands of the same killer in California.
Now, how's a killer pick his
victims 2,500 miles away?
Guys, the police in Metapan report two more
girls missing and they're runaways again.
This one here, Lupe Sandoval,
she talked with her
brother before she left,
said she was only going to be
in the States for, like, a week.
All right, so, same
story as the other three.
I mean, the question is,
what is the connection?
They're young,
they're easy prey...
They all plan to be
here for just a short time.
So, what's that?
Remember the guy from
the Citizens Border Guard?
He talked about women
crossing the border
to have their babies, then
going right back home.
I know, but all the
autopsies on these girls
said that they weren't pregnant.
Yeah, but Kraft said
he got the feeling
that they were
pregnant, remember?
Yeah.
Wait a minute.
What if they were carrying
something else inside their bodies?
Drugs.
Dope mules swallow large
quantities of drugs in latex balloons
and then just waltz
across the border.
And it's the perfect
explanation for the short stay.
They come over here,
they make their delivery
and they go right back home.
There you go, only just
didn't work out that way.
Something went wrong,
the drugs wouldn't pass...
Right, someone got greedy.
They... They didn't want to pay.
Which means the
statues and the candles
and the whole occult
thing was a bluff.
These girls were cut
open to get to the drugs.
You know, it's hard
for me to believe
that these three young
girls would do this.
I mean, swallow all those drugs.
Never mind going to prison.
What would happen if one of
the... one of the balloons bursts?
They'd die.
So why do they do it?
Come on, Dad. I mean,
they come from a place
where they're lucky if they
make 40 or 50 bucks a week.
Right, and then somebody probably
offers them a chance to make $5,000.
What about those
other two girls,
the ones you suspect
of being on their way?
I mean, how are you
going to stop them?
We got their pictures
out to everyone we can.
The Border Patrol,
the Mexican police.
We're hoping
someone will spot 'em.
And, you know, I mean,
that's all we can do.
Actually, you know...
Pass me that salt. Thank you.
Okay. I'm going to set up a
simple logic diagram here.
Okay? Three vertices, okay?
We'll start with the salt
which we'll call the girls'
home town in El Salvador...
It's Metapan. Metapan.
And the pepper is Tecate.
And the third vertex,
the glass of water, is the U.S.
Now, let's look
at the logic issues.
If these girls did swallow
these drug balloons,
they probably didn't do it all
the way back here in El Salvador
because the drugs would then
pass through their body too quickly.
Oh, yeah, that's
right, that's right.
The drugs would pass
through their system
before they even got
to the United States.
Yeah, they'd definitely
have to ingest them
pretty close to
the border, right?
Probably Tecate,
which would give them
the time to get the drugs
over the border into the U.S.
Now, the three vertices are
all part of the same system.
You find out how
they're connected,
you're going to find
another way to your killer.
DEA agents working
out of Mexico City
turned up a link between
a drug family in Metapan
and a little pharmacy in Tecate.
There's our connection.
Take a look at this.
The name on the license when
they pulled it from the pharmacy.
"Alejandro Borrego." As in Victor
Borrego, our immigrant advocate.
Colby, we had this
SOB and we let him go.
And this gives
him a perfect cover
to be out there patrolling the border
just waiting for his drug mules to cross.
Hey, the alert we put out
on the girls just paid off.
The police in Tecate
found Rose Garcia
as she was about
to cross the border.
They X-rayed her
stomach, loaded with drugs.
What about the other
one, Lupe Sandoval?
Rose said she already crossed.
Which means she's
already in the U.S.
She's headed straight
for Victor Borrego.
Hey, guys? How we
doing on Borrego?
We have agents on his house,
but he's nowhere to be found.
We're trying his cell phone,
hoping to get a GPS fix on him.
If he's out looking to
meet with Lupe Sandoval,
he's probably out
of cell range, though.
You got anything
else? I mean, anything...
I... I've been over
this with your agents.
I'm still feeling the
importance of water.
Maybe water's nearby, or...
The Colorado River, the
Pacific Ocean, a bathtub?
All right, Charlie.
We have hard data on
approximately when Lupe left Tecate
and we know it takes maybe six
to eight hours for the drugs to pass.
And we know Borrego's
preferences from the last crime scene.
He's going to want seclusion
and no lights, no people.
Right. But he's unlikely to
go back to that first location
because he knows
we've already been there.
Right, so that
eliminates this area here,
here and here.
He's also going to want
to avoid the Border Patrol
and the Citizens Border Guard.
I remember those patrol
routes from the earlier model.
Still, huge area.
Yeah, but that's not too
huge for an air search, right?
Call SOG. Tell them
whatever they got available,
we'd like up in the
air, ASAP. Okay?
Hey. Thanks for coming back.
Yeah. Sorry about
that. It's just...
I know. Don't worry about it.
Air unit just spotted
Borrego's truck on the fire road
about six miles off
the McDaniels turnoff.
Is the girl with him?
The IR sensor on
the chopper shows
only one occupant in the vehicle.
She might already be dead.
All right, tell them to maintain
visual contact, but don't close in.
I'd rather you guys do that.
Don't you even breathe!
You're making a mistake!
We made the mistake the
first time we let you go, Victor.
Let go off my arm!
I got something,
a girl's sweater
and what looks
like a bus ticket.
Where is she?
I don't know who you're talking
about. I found that on my patrol.
Cut the crap, Victor!
We're not buying it.
My arm!
You have one more
chance. Where is she?
Look at all this water.
It's okay. It's okay!
No one's going to
hurt you. We're FBI.
That was the hospital. They
got all the drugs out of the girl
and she's going to be all right.
Well, I'd say, then,
that we all should
be congratulated.
That is quite a gift
you have, Professor.
Thank you.
Let's leave it at that.
I, uh, I'm going to
hold you to our deal.
Official mention
in the case file.
All right, you got it. Uh, I just need
you to sign a statement, okay? Come on.
Agent Reeves.
You know what the worst part is?
- What?
Is now this guy's walking around
with an FBI credit in
his pocket? Charlie...
Which, by the way, he'll only
further exploit to fool people.
You can't rule out
everything the guy did.
Of course I can.
Hey, look, he knew
there'd be more victims.
Hey, you know
what? Three dead girls
and the FBI pounding
on his door in a panic.
How hard is that to deduce?
Hey, you guys, you still at it?
It's obvious you're not
going to agree on this.
What about the sketches? What about
the sketches? He led us to the bodies.
You tell me how he did
that. I don't know, okay?
But there could be any number
of reasons. He worked for the CIA.
And the CIA was involved in
the search for Pablo Escobar
so he may have an intimate
knowledge of the drug trade.
Charlie, that is so
thin. I don't think...
I agree with Don.
It's pretty thin.
Oh, and attributing
superhuman powers to a
psychic, yeah, that's thick.
No, listen, I'm not
saying everything he did
was real, but you can't...
What was that?
That's Mom's picture.
Oh, don't start to say that that
meant something, okay? Come on.
That's spooky.
You know, your mother never
liked it when you guys argued.
Oh, there's many
reasons that that just fell.
Look, it's fallen before.
You were supposed to put an
earthquake anchor on that wall, Dad.
So, what, that's a coincidence?
Coincidence and nothing more.
Yeah. I don't
know. That's weird.
Coincidence.
Mom, it's Megan.
No, I'm fine, I, uh...
Oh, sorry. I just
finished a case.
I didn't realize.
Is, um, Dad there?
No, of course he's at the club.
Where else would
he be at this hour?
No, no, it's not that
important. I'll call back.
I will.
I will. You get some sleep.
You, too.