T.J. Hooker (1982–1986): Season 5, Episode 13 - Murder by Law - full transcript
A shotgun killer leaves a trail of female attorney victims.
("T.J. Hooker Theme")
- [Radio DJ] That's all the
national news at 6:33 exactly.
In local news, LC Police
say they're now certain
that the two mysterious
shotgun slayings
in the last two weeks
were linked to each other.
Both victims were
female attorneys
and each was
murdered on a Monday.
Police are now checking to see
if the two women had
any cases in common,
but there's also
the growing fear
that there may be another
serial killer on the loose.
We'll have more details
when they come in.
On a lighter side, in
sports... (rock music)
(suspenseful music)
(car door opening)
- Hello, is someone there?
- Miss McGowan?
- Yes?
- Miss Jean McGowan?
- Yes, what do you want?
- You're the Jean McGowan
from the Public Defender's Office?
- Yes, look I'm in a bit
of a hurry now, okay?
- This will just take a minute.
- I'll be in my office
tomorrow morning
at nine o'clock, okay?
- No, I can't wait.
It's something terrible.
Something that's been
eating me alive inside.
- Listen, you nearly scared
me half out of my wits just now.
I'm gonna have to insist
it be tomorrow morning.
I'm running a little late, okay?
- No, it'll have to be now.
It'll have to be, because
of all the pain you caused.
- What?
- Goodbye, Miss McGowan.
(suspenseful music)
(tires squealing)
- [Operator] Operator.
(beep beep beep)
- [Dispatcher] Any
unit in the vicinity,
shots fired at the
courthouse garage.
Possible 187.
- This is 4-Adam-30,
I'm rolling.
- This is 16, rolling backup.
(suspenseful music)
(beep beep beep)
- [Dispatcher] 4-Adam-30,
4-Adam-30, 187 suspect
driving a late model
metallic brown van.
(tires squealing)
(siren blaring)
- 4-Adam-30, I
have the van in sight.
I am pursuing west on 17th.
(police radio chatter)
- The van the suspect
was driving was stolen.
It flipped during the chase
and he or she got away on foot.
I never got close
enough to get a good look.
- Well, you're not
gonna like this one.
It's Jean McGowan.
- My God.
Where's Stacy?
- I called her,
she's on her way.
- Number three, huh?
Another attorney.
- Yeah, number three.
Same MO?
- Got bot barrels point blank.
- Body was found
by a security guard.
Saw the van split from here
but didn't get a
look at the driver.
I'd like to catch
the scum who did it
and give him a couple
barrels of his own medicine.
- Any witnesses?
- None, same as
the other killings.
(police radio chatter)
- Two attorneys,
now one from the
Public Defenders
Office, all women.
What's happening, Hooker?
- I wish I knew.
(somber music)
- Jean.
- I know how close
the two of you were.
- How'd it happen?
- Shotgun, like the
other three attorneys.
I'm sorry, Stacy.
- We grew up together.
All she ever did in her
life was give to others.
That's why she joined
the Public Defenders Office
instead of going
into private practice.
- Well, I know one thing.
She'll have the
whole police force
looking for whoever
pulled the trigger.
(suspenseful music)
- How long we been on this?
A week?
We got zip.
Nothing from the snitches,
nothing from the streets.
- So you're a big help, Karen.
You call yourself a psychiatrist
and you can't come
up with answers about
anybody sick enough to pull
a string of murders like this?
- What are you
paying me for, right?
- Yeah, something like that.
- Hostile today.
I can give you
some answers about
cops who pick on
shrinks half their size
if you really want
instant gratification.
- Not funny,
Karen, not this time.
- You're right, I'm sorry.
- Hey, hey.
Now women were killed.
Women attorneys.
Each of the killing
took place on a Monday
after the victims made
an appearance in court.
Now that's quite a pattern.
- Could be some sort of fanatic.
Works himself or herself
into some kind of a rage
and strikes out in some
distorted sense of vengeance.
- You mean like
some kind of grudge?
- It's possible.
- What's he killing, Karen?
The person, or
what she stands for?
- Symbolism?
- Well there is a pattern to
what a psychotic killer
does and how he does it,
but without knowing
him, I can only tell you,
he's probably schizoid
or paranoid schizoid.
- [T.J.] Up to now,
he's been a week apart.
Do you think he might
his again this Monday?
- Maybe, maybe he
won't kill again at all.
- Why's that?
- Well, the unconscious doesn't
know anything about numbers,
and if it is some
kind of vengeance,
he could suddenly think
it's completed any time.
- So the killer just
quits, disappears?
- And spends the rest of his
life gloating over his victory,
and his power.
- What happens the next time
he sees a woman attorney?
- He could just smile to
himself and think about
how he's already punished
her, punished them all.
- That's great, we don't
want him to try again.
But if he doesn't, we
may lose him forever.
- Even the stuff that
wasn't burned in the van
came up clean of prints.
Nothing left behind,
this guy is careful.
- You know, there
may be one thing
tying the victims together.
- What's that?
- Marilyn Stuart, the first
attorney who was killed,
went to the same law school
that Jean McGowan when to.
They even graduated
the same year.
- What about the second victim?
- I'm still checking.
- The captain's cleared it
for us to work with homocide.
We'll be in the black and white,
we'll report to O'Brien.
- What are we waiting for?
Let's move on this
law school thing.
- Now you just back
of for a little bit, Stacy.
- What do you mean?
- You're too involved.
At Jean's funeral
you were falling apart.
- You're damn
right I'm involved.
She was my friend.
- You're pressing, Stace.
- I thought Karen
was the psychiatrist.
- She's got the
diploma, I got the streets.
- Jim, you take the law school.
Stacy, you go back and
work on the second victim.
I'll check in with
the homicide boys,
trade information, and see if
we can come up with anything
that pushes us
closer to the killer.
(suspenseful music)
- Here we are.
Yes, I remember this girl.
It was my second
year on the faculty.
- 88 in the graduating class?
- Yes.
- Marilyn Stuart, Jean McGowan.
Mr. Petrelli, the second
attorney who was murdered
was named Joanne Dowd.
I don't see that name here.
- Dowd?
Joanne Dowd.
Yes, yes, Joanne Dowd
was with us for two years,
and then she transferred
to another school.
Then she's been murdered too?
- I'm afraid so.
- What the hell's
the world coming to?
- Hm.
I think I'd better go
over this whole folder,
Mr. Petrelli, very carefully.
And I'll need to have the
names of the graduates
and the others who
were in the class, okay?
- Sure.
- Francis Marie
Driscoll, - Right.
- And Jessica Margret
Mitchell, right here.
- Right, and Evelyn
Moreno, right?
- Right, that's it.
- 88 in the graduating class,
plus 14 who transferred to
other schools or dropped out.
Two died of natural causes,
and the three victims of course.
- Then if we're
figuring right, we've got
47 practicing in
the western states,
38 in California,
and 26 in our vicinity.
- That list comes down to
12 if we stay with the premise
that the killer's only
going after women.
- You got addresses
that go with those names?
- I get the feeling we're
about to do some legwork.
- What do you think, Hooker?
Are all of them targets,
or is one of them
pulling the trigger?
- I don't know.
Karen said it could be a grudge.
It's hard to think of one
of them killing the others.
But somebody is.
(funky music)
- Thank you very much.
- [Jim] Anything?
- [T.J.] Nothing, you?
- Maybe.
One of the ladies
remembered something,
a name that wasn't on
our list, a Rosemary Shay.
- Why wasn't it on the list?
- She washed out
in her first year,
had a nervous breakdown.
- Yeah, according to
the lady we talked to,
it was a bad scene.
This Rosemary Shay
had totally flipped out,
was a violent personality,
threatened some people,
even attacked one
with a pair of scissors.
No serious injuries
occurred, but I'll tell you,
this Miss Shay sounds
like a definite whacko.
- Where is she now?
- We're still checking,
but there's more.
- Apparently it was a
group of student reps,
The Women's Council, that
brought Rosemary Shay's
condition to the attention
of the faculty advisors.
- Yeah, and she blames
them for her washout.
- Oh, like Karen said, a grudge.
- Well, it sounds like it.
You know, three of the
names on that council are dead.
- [T.J.] Jean McGowan?
- Jean, Joanne Dowd,
and Marilyn Stuart.
- [T.J.] Who are the others?
- There's a girl
living in The Valley
named Catherine Mary Gomez.
- Yeah, there's
another living in Europe.
- Who is she?
- Evelyn Merino.
And then there's
Jessica Margret Mitchell,
the last one's the one
you were going to see.
- Francis Marie Driscoll.
All right, I'll take
Driscoll, and Gomez.
You take Mitchell and
see if you can get a line
on Rosemary Shay.
- Okay, we're on it.
(suspenseful music)
- [Martin] It's a beautiful day.
- Yes it is.
- They never seem
to get tired, do they?
- I was just thinking that,
they play like their
lives depend on it.
- They do, struggle in youth
is what makes strong wings.
- Wings?
- When I was a boy,
I found a chrysalis.
Do you know what that is?
- Chrysalis, that's a
shell that the insects...
- Where is lives
while it's changing
from one kind of a bug
into another kind of a bug.
Anyway, I dumped it in a jar
until this butterfly started
to come out, you know?
And I could see it was having
trouble, so I broke it open.
- Listen, would you excuse me?
- No, but when it came out,
it just sort of flopped
around real weak like
and then it died.
- I found out later
it's the struggle in youth
that makes strong wings.
- I see what you mean.
Listen, I really have to run.
- You must be Miss Driscoll,
Miss Francis Marie Driscoll.
- No, I'm afraid you
have us mixed up.
Happens all the time.
I'm Carey Driscoll,
Francis is my sister.
- I'm sorry.
- About what?
- I just figured you were
Francis Marie Driscoll.
I was told you
dropped a child off here
every morning for school.
- That's true.
She's in Sacramento on
business, until tomorrow.
I'm taking care
of her little boy.
Look, is there something
I can do for you?
- No, thank you.
I just need to see
Francis Marie Driscoll.
If she'll be back
tomorrow, I'll see her then.
(suspenseful music)
- Target for a killer?
That's preposterous.
- Maybe, but we're just
trying to cover all the bases.
You do remember Rosemary Shay?
- Yes, yes of course I
remember poor Rosemary.
- And the Women's Council?
- Yes, we made a recommendation
to the faculty about her,
but that was a long time ago and
I can assure you
there was certainly no
maliciousness in
the counsel's intent
when we talked to
the faculty advisors.
- What was the reason for
talking to the faculty advisors?
- Rosemary Shay
just wasn't capable
of handling the
pressures of law school.
She was headed for a breakdown,
practically a basket case.
We did what we
felt was right for her.
- And how did she feel about it?
- Well, she was upset, angry.
- Angry enough to kill?
- Oh, are you
trying to say th...
- I am trying to catch
a homicidal maniac
before he kills again.
- Before he kills again, hm.
Why are you asking
me all these questions
about Rosemary Shay?
- Because it's the
only lead we have
and we think it's a man
because of the shotgun ammo.
- Isn't that a bit sexist?
- Sexist?
- The assumption that only
a man could use a shotgun.
- Oh, give me a break
will you, Miss Driscoll.
It's been a long day.
- Okay, what do you suggest?
- Protection.
- Oh, sergeant, I'm sorry, I
have a full court calendar,
several cases I'm
knee-deep into.
- Don't you have an associate
who can fill in for you?
- Of course, but I'm...
- Good, then we'll have a
police woman take your place.
- Then you're assuming the
killer doesn't know me on sight?
- And Rosemary
Shay does, yes, I know.
- There you go, you
can't have it both ways.
- I could try.
♪ Eyes full love ♪ Skies of
(Rosemary humming)
- Rosemary.
- Martin, I didn't think you
were due for a visit until,
when was is, next
week some time?
- Wednesday, I just thought
maybe we could talk for a while.
- On a day like this?
Martin, you should be off
in the country somewhere.
- You don't belong
here, Rosemary.
You belong out there
where those others
have been all this time.
- It's all right, Martin.
I'm happy here.
And what about you?
How is that new
job coming along?
- I lost it.
I told you that.
- Oh, yes, yes
of course you did.
Well, not to worry,
you'll find another one.
You're very good at
taking care of things.
- I have been taking
care of things, Rosemary,
for both of us.
All the pretenders
are being punished.
All the ones who hurt you.
All the voices of evil.
- Yes.
There's too much evil
among is in this world.
Bless you, Martin.
You're my only true friend.
- [Operator] Information,
what city please?
- Downtown.
I'd like a phone number and
address for a Catherine Gomez.
- [Operator] One moment, please.
I'm sorry but there's more than
one Catherine Gomez listed.
- Give me all of them, please.
- [Operator] It'll
take a minute.
- I've got time, plenty of time.
- 16, I've got Francis Driscoll
tucked away for the
night at her sister's house.
I've got three different
addresses on Catherine Gomez.
Finally located her at her
new job at a law firm downtown.
What's your situation?
- Jessica Mitchell
is living in Detroit,
according to her mother.
Her mother's gonna phone
her to have her contact us.
- Okay, I left word that
I wanted to see Gomez,
and I'm just a few blocks away.
(cars honking)
- Goodnight, Marsha.
- Goodnight, Miss Gomez.
(elevator bell dings)
(elevator bell dings)
- Milton, Grosse, and
Silverburg, one moment please.
- Sergeant Hooker, LCPD.
I'm here to see Catherine Gomez.
- Oh my gosh, she was
in conference all day.
I have your message,
but I didn't give it to her,
and she just left.
(suspenseful music)
- Miss Gomez?
- Yes?
- Miss Catherine Gomez?
- Yes, do I know you?
- No, no you don't,
but I know you.
You're one of the pretenders.
- What is this?
- You should never have hurt
Rosemary Shay the way you did,
Miss Gomez.
Now it's your turn to pay.
- Oh, my God.
Help, please!
- Miss Gomez!
(suspenseful music)
- Help, please!
- Hang on, I'll
call an ambulance.
- He was young,
25, 26 years old.
No more than that.
Brown hair, dark eyes.
- And he asked for
your sister by name?
- Yes, Francis Driscoll,
Miss Francis Marie Driscoll.
He said it almost as if
it was more for his
benefit than mine.
- Miss Driscoll, yet
you have a son?
- Yes, he's adopted.
I'm a single parent.
- You don't think Francis's
son is in any jeopardy?
- Well, up to now, families
haven't been a target,
but we shouldn't take
any unnecessary chances.
This young man, were
you expecting someone?
- No, but he could
have gotten my name
from a hundred different places.
If you're gonna be
suspicious of everyone
that I come in contact with,
you've got a big
job on your hands.
- This protection,
you're gonna accept it?
- If it doesn't interfere
with my normal routine.
- You aren't gonna
make this easy, are you?
- You have your
job, I have mine.
- Carey, I'm gonna ask you
to give a description
to a police artist.
Work with him on a composite.
- [Stacy] What is it, Jim?
- Catherine Gomez died an
hour ago in surgery at St. Joe's.
- [T.J.] Was she
able to say anything?
- Never regained consciousness.
- What about Rosemary Shay,
did you turn anything on her?
- She had a complete mental
breakdown six years ago.
She was committed
to a mental institution,
Southwest State Hospital.
- Did you follow up?
- We're headed there now.
- Okay, stay with it.
We'll have to push harder.
Part of the MO
is out the window.
Catherine Gomez made her
appearance in court yesterday,
but it wasn't Monday.
That may mean the killer
is accelerating his pace.
- What about an APB
on the car he drove?
- It's done.
The silver sedan car, I
got the first two letters of the
license plate before he tried
to make me a hood ornament.
- How about a DMV
computer cross-check.
- Covered.
It'll take a couple of days.
- Hooker.
- I know, Francis Driscoll
is the only name left
who could make
an immediate target.
I'm gonna stay with her,
work on the composite.
- [Stacy] Did you get
a good look at him?
- Good enough to
put him away forever,
when we catch him.
(suspenseful music)
- Then you're familiar with
Rosemary Shay's
case, Dr. Walden?
- Yes, I was staffing admittance
the day she first came to us.
- She's never been
out of confinement?
- No, not for the past 4 years,
but before that she
was in and out, oh,
about a half a dozen times.
- Dating back to her
first confinement?
- Yes, that's correct.
Would you care
to speak with her?
She's really quite harmless.
- Yes, I think we would.
- Martin?
- Hey Doc, just
stopped by for a visit.
- Nice to see you.
(suspenseful music)
- Marilyn Stuart.
Stuart did you say?
- And Joanne Dowd, Jean
McGowan, Catherine Gomez.
- Do you remember any
of those names, Rosemary?
- No.
No, I can't say that I do.
Should I, Doctor?
- Well as I told you,
these are police officers
trying to solve
some terrible crimes.
- Those names are
women you once knew.
We could use your help, ma'am.
- Is that right?
Oh yes, yes of course it is.
Well, I don't know them anymore.
Or do I?
- They're all dead.
- Oh.
- They've been murdered.
- Well, then I will
have to pray for them.
Yes, too much
evil in this world.
Yes, I will pray for them.
Indeed.
- Mm-mm, try that one.
- Nope, that's not it,
his nose was thinner.
- Did you find anything?
- Zilch, Rosemary Shay's
been locked away
for the past four years.
- Family and friends?
- No relatives, no
friends that they know of,
just an occasional patient
there that she speaks to.
- How's the composite coming?
- I think we're getting close.
- What about the one
you were gonna do?
- We're working on it together.
- You mean the guy you
saw shoot Catherine Gomez
and the one Carey saw in the
school yard's one in the same?
- Or a reasonable facsimile.
- That's it, that's the one!
- Are you sure?
- Positive.
- [T.J.] I think so, too.
- Have you seen this man?
- [Francis] Not that I recall.
- Stacy, get this on the wire.
Possible suspect, should be
considered armed and dangerous.
- Jim, I'm not sure but
didn't we just see this guy?
- Is this the guy you saw
hit Catherine Gomez?
- [T.J.] Yes, where
did you see him?
- At the hospital,
with Rosemary Shay.
- Yes, that's him.
- Martin Novak?
- Yes.
- And he was discharged?
- Yes, the latter
part of last year.
Before that, he spent
some time with us,
but he was making
such wonderful progress,
we thought he was
fit to return to society.
- Where do we find
him now, Doctor?
- [Doctor] Bring me the
file on Martin Novak, please.
- Paranoid schizophrenic?
- [Doctor] Correct.
- What about his
family, a loner?
Illegitimate, maybe?
- Oh, not maybe, in fact.
- With a need for a father
figure, a desperate need.
- Sounds as if you've
already seen the file.
- Just working from type and
with a little help from
our own consultant.
This guy's a time bomb.
- Well, we're all human,
we all make mistakes,
but everyone who's
mentally disturbed
isn't a whacko about to explode.
- But this Novak, we knows
Rosemary Shay pretty well?
- Oh, worships her
would be more like it.
You see, it was
Rosemary's friendship
which played a large
part in what we believe
was Martin's recovery.
Thank you.
See, Rosemary Shay filled
the biggest void in
Martin Novak's life,
and he comes back
regularly to see her.
- Doctor you know
what we're going for,
could Rosemary Shay
have told Martin Novak
about her days in law school?
- Certainly, she has
occasional moments of lucidity.
- And she could
have told him about
why she had to leave law school,
and maybe mention the council
that brought her problem
to the attention of the faculty.
- And feeling what
he does for Rosemary,
Martin might have decided to
avenge the wrong
he thought was done.
- You mean even if Rosemary
never said she wanted anything
done to Jean McGowan and
the members of the council,
Novak may have decided
on his own to kill them?
- Stacy, it's as simple as this.
Rosemary Shay meant
everything to Martin Novak.
Novak thinks that somebody
ruined Rosemary's life,
so he decides to get
whoever it was that hurt her.
(suspenseful music)
- [T.J.] Jim, you cover here.
Stacy, let's see who's home.
- Novak, open up, police!
- Novak!
- Hooker, it's all here,
a list of all his victims.
(suspenseful music)
- We have a stakeout team
posted around the clock
outside the suspect's hotel.
Desk clerk says he comes
and goes at odd hours
and sometimes disappears
for days at a time.
- So where does that leave you?
- It leaves me frustrated,
that's where it leaves me.
- And since you're
still a potential target,
it means you're still in danger.
- You better listen when we
tell you for your own safety
that you need protection.
- I was listening the
first time, Sergeant.
- Still nothing from
the stakeout team.
- Dammit Francis, why
are you being so stubborn?
Go home and lock yourself
in until this is all over.
- Carey, we have
been through this.
I have a caseload
that won't quit
and a lot of people who
are depending on me.
- Well there is a suggestion
that Hooker made to you earlier.
- You mean have
someone take my place?
- Well, we're close
enough in coloring,
and if Martin Novak only has
a general description of you,
or has never even
seen you, I could pass.
- But what about my court cases?
You can't take my place there.
- No, but she could
be your shadow.
- You're absolutely
certain that this guy's
gonna try to kill me aren't you?
- Well, it's a bet I
wouldn't like to take,
but if I had to,
I'd say you're in a
hell of a lot of trouble
unless you smarten up.
(suspenseful music)
- Your Honor, I object
to the prosecution's
obvious line of questioning.
They clearly have
been leading the witness,
and frankly I'm appalled.
- Objection sustained,
Miss Driscoll,
but spare us the editorial
comments, please.
- Anything, Jim?
- Zero, Grabowski
and Wilson are the only
suspicious looking
characters I've seen.
- Hey, I didn't ask for this
gig to begin with, Corrigan.
I was gonna go
to the beach today.
- You got anything, Wilson?
- I haven't had anything but an
occasional pickpocket all day.
How come you get
the inside job, Hooker,
and we get to
pound the pavement?
- Because you're
the outdoor type.
Stay awake, this
guy isn't shy about
poking his head
into public places.
- This court is adjourned until
nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
- Everything looks
clear out here, Hooker.
Anything from the stakeout
team at Novak's hotel?
- Uh, nothing, and nothing here.
- Stacy, I appreciate
everything you're doing.
- Oh, don't worry about it.
- I'm sorry about the others,
and especially Jean McGowan.
Hooker told me
she was your friend.
We stayed in touch after
law school and I admired her.
- So did I, thanks
for the thought.
- Hello, I'll have a
car right out front.
- It's been a long day, Hooker.
You mind if I stop
in the powder room
before we hit the freeway?
- Not a problem,
Stacy go with her.
- Well, I guess
that's preferable
to you going in there with me.
- What a day.
Can you believe what that
prosecutor's trying to pull?
- Well, you seem to
be handling him fine.
- Oh, well I just a Band-Aid
until I can find an
opening I can run in.
- Francis Marie Driscoll?
- Yes.
- That's me, I'm
Francis Driscoll.
- Which one of you is
Francis Marie Driscoll?
- I just told you, I am.
Now what is it you want?
- Why did she answer
when I said your name?
- It's a little hard to
hear in here sometimes,
right Stacy?
- Yes, yes it is.
- Look, why don't you
go ahead to the car
and I'll find out
what this is all about.
- No way.
- Go on, go Stacy!
- Not another step.
- Anything, Jim?
- Just a whole lot of quiet.
How's it from your angle, Andy?
- No movement in or
out of the courthouse.
- That shotgun isn't necessary.
- You know, don't you?
You know why I'm here.
- You came to see me.
- I came to see
Francis Marie Driscoll,
now which one of you is it?
- I just told you it's me!
- No Stacy, it's my life!
- Out the window.
- [T.J.] Novak!
Halt!
(grunting)
He'll live.
- Stacy and Francis?
- They're okay.
Call an ambulance.
(Novak groaning)
(police radio chatter)
- He must have slipped into
this alley from
another building,
then jimmied the
window to the ladies room
and entered there.
- But what if we hadn't
decided to go in there
at just that time?
- Probably planning
to come out after you,
but he saw you and Stacy
coming right into his hands.
- It's hard to
believe one person
can have so much hate in them.
- Particularly when
it wasn't his own.
He confessed to everything,
admitted that he
was killing to avenge
what happened to Rosemary Shay.
- A surrogate killer?
- In his own twisted
mind, he was doing
what he thought Rosemary
Shay would have wanted.
- Even though she
never even hinted to him
that she wanted the
members of the council dead.
- You think this confession
will hold up in a court, Hooker?
- Well, you tell me, counselor.
You're the defense attorney.
- You mean I'm one of
those damned attorneys
who defends
people that you bust?
- I've seen people
like Martin Novak
roaming the streets when they
should have been behind bars.
His files shows a history
of violence going back to
his teens, but slick lawyers,
lenient judges, whatever.
He's received a
slap on the wrist,
and a ticket out for
psychiatric examination.
- I don't believe this,
I was just nearly killed
and he's giving me a lecture.
Aren't you being a little
hard on my profession?
- Why don't you buy me a drink
and convince me that I'm wrong?
- You're on.
(lighthearted music)
("T.J. Hooker Theme")
(fanfare)
- [Radio DJ] That's all the
national news at 6:33 exactly.
In local news, LC Police
say they're now certain
that the two mysterious
shotgun slayings
in the last two weeks
were linked to each other.
Both victims were
female attorneys
and each was
murdered on a Monday.
Police are now checking to see
if the two women had
any cases in common,
but there's also
the growing fear
that there may be another
serial killer on the loose.
We'll have more details
when they come in.
On a lighter side, in
sports... (rock music)
(suspenseful music)
(car door opening)
- Hello, is someone there?
- Miss McGowan?
- Yes?
- Miss Jean McGowan?
- Yes, what do you want?
- You're the Jean McGowan
from the Public Defender's Office?
- Yes, look I'm in a bit
of a hurry now, okay?
- This will just take a minute.
- I'll be in my office
tomorrow morning
at nine o'clock, okay?
- No, I can't wait.
It's something terrible.
Something that's been
eating me alive inside.
- Listen, you nearly scared
me half out of my wits just now.
I'm gonna have to insist
it be tomorrow morning.
I'm running a little late, okay?
- No, it'll have to be now.
It'll have to be, because
of all the pain you caused.
- What?
- Goodbye, Miss McGowan.
(suspenseful music)
(tires squealing)
- [Operator] Operator.
(beep beep beep)
- [Dispatcher] Any
unit in the vicinity,
shots fired at the
courthouse garage.
Possible 187.
- This is 4-Adam-30,
I'm rolling.
- This is 16, rolling backup.
(suspenseful music)
(beep beep beep)
- [Dispatcher] 4-Adam-30,
4-Adam-30, 187 suspect
driving a late model
metallic brown van.
(tires squealing)
(siren blaring)
- 4-Adam-30, I
have the van in sight.
I am pursuing west on 17th.
(police radio chatter)
- The van the suspect
was driving was stolen.
It flipped during the chase
and he or she got away on foot.
I never got close
enough to get a good look.
- Well, you're not
gonna like this one.
It's Jean McGowan.
- My God.
Where's Stacy?
- I called her,
she's on her way.
- Number three, huh?
Another attorney.
- Yeah, number three.
Same MO?
- Got bot barrels point blank.
- Body was found
by a security guard.
Saw the van split from here
but didn't get a
look at the driver.
I'd like to catch
the scum who did it
and give him a couple
barrels of his own medicine.
- Any witnesses?
- None, same as
the other killings.
(police radio chatter)
- Two attorneys,
now one from the
Public Defenders
Office, all women.
What's happening, Hooker?
- I wish I knew.
(somber music)
- Jean.
- I know how close
the two of you were.
- How'd it happen?
- Shotgun, like the
other three attorneys.
I'm sorry, Stacy.
- We grew up together.
All she ever did in her
life was give to others.
That's why she joined
the Public Defenders Office
instead of going
into private practice.
- Well, I know one thing.
She'll have the
whole police force
looking for whoever
pulled the trigger.
(suspenseful music)
- How long we been on this?
A week?
We got zip.
Nothing from the snitches,
nothing from the streets.
- So you're a big help, Karen.
You call yourself a psychiatrist
and you can't come
up with answers about
anybody sick enough to pull
a string of murders like this?
- What are you
paying me for, right?
- Yeah, something like that.
- Hostile today.
I can give you
some answers about
cops who pick on
shrinks half their size
if you really want
instant gratification.
- Not funny,
Karen, not this time.
- You're right, I'm sorry.
- Hey, hey.
Now women were killed.
Women attorneys.
Each of the killing
took place on a Monday
after the victims made
an appearance in court.
Now that's quite a pattern.
- Could be some sort of fanatic.
Works himself or herself
into some kind of a rage
and strikes out in some
distorted sense of vengeance.
- You mean like
some kind of grudge?
- It's possible.
- What's he killing, Karen?
The person, or
what she stands for?
- Symbolism?
- Well there is a pattern to
what a psychotic killer
does and how he does it,
but without knowing
him, I can only tell you,
he's probably schizoid
or paranoid schizoid.
- [T.J.] Up to now,
he's been a week apart.
Do you think he might
his again this Monday?
- Maybe, maybe he
won't kill again at all.
- Why's that?
- Well, the unconscious doesn't
know anything about numbers,
and if it is some
kind of vengeance,
he could suddenly think
it's completed any time.
- So the killer just
quits, disappears?
- And spends the rest of his
life gloating over his victory,
and his power.
- What happens the next time
he sees a woman attorney?
- He could just smile to
himself and think about
how he's already punished
her, punished them all.
- That's great, we don't
want him to try again.
But if he doesn't, we
may lose him forever.
- Even the stuff that
wasn't burned in the van
came up clean of prints.
Nothing left behind,
this guy is careful.
- You know, there
may be one thing
tying the victims together.
- What's that?
- Marilyn Stuart, the first
attorney who was killed,
went to the same law school
that Jean McGowan when to.
They even graduated
the same year.
- What about the second victim?
- I'm still checking.
- The captain's cleared it
for us to work with homocide.
We'll be in the black and white,
we'll report to O'Brien.
- What are we waiting for?
Let's move on this
law school thing.
- Now you just back
of for a little bit, Stacy.
- What do you mean?
- You're too involved.
At Jean's funeral
you were falling apart.
- You're damn
right I'm involved.
She was my friend.
- You're pressing, Stace.
- I thought Karen
was the psychiatrist.
- She's got the
diploma, I got the streets.
- Jim, you take the law school.
Stacy, you go back and
work on the second victim.
I'll check in with
the homicide boys,
trade information, and see if
we can come up with anything
that pushes us
closer to the killer.
(suspenseful music)
- Here we are.
Yes, I remember this girl.
It was my second
year on the faculty.
- 88 in the graduating class?
- Yes.
- Marilyn Stuart, Jean McGowan.
Mr. Petrelli, the second
attorney who was murdered
was named Joanne Dowd.
I don't see that name here.
- Dowd?
Joanne Dowd.
Yes, yes, Joanne Dowd
was with us for two years,
and then she transferred
to another school.
Then she's been murdered too?
- I'm afraid so.
- What the hell's
the world coming to?
- Hm.
I think I'd better go
over this whole folder,
Mr. Petrelli, very carefully.
And I'll need to have the
names of the graduates
and the others who
were in the class, okay?
- Sure.
- Francis Marie
Driscoll, - Right.
- And Jessica Margret
Mitchell, right here.
- Right, and Evelyn
Moreno, right?
- Right, that's it.
- 88 in the graduating class,
plus 14 who transferred to
other schools or dropped out.
Two died of natural causes,
and the three victims of course.
- Then if we're
figuring right, we've got
47 practicing in
the western states,
38 in California,
and 26 in our vicinity.
- That list comes down to
12 if we stay with the premise
that the killer's only
going after women.
- You got addresses
that go with those names?
- I get the feeling we're
about to do some legwork.
- What do you think, Hooker?
Are all of them targets,
or is one of them
pulling the trigger?
- I don't know.
Karen said it could be a grudge.
It's hard to think of one
of them killing the others.
But somebody is.
(funky music)
- Thank you very much.
- [Jim] Anything?
- [T.J.] Nothing, you?
- Maybe.
One of the ladies
remembered something,
a name that wasn't on
our list, a Rosemary Shay.
- Why wasn't it on the list?
- She washed out
in her first year,
had a nervous breakdown.
- Yeah, according to
the lady we talked to,
it was a bad scene.
This Rosemary Shay
had totally flipped out,
was a violent personality,
threatened some people,
even attacked one
with a pair of scissors.
No serious injuries
occurred, but I'll tell you,
this Miss Shay sounds
like a definite whacko.
- Where is she now?
- We're still checking,
but there's more.
- Apparently it was a
group of student reps,
The Women's Council, that
brought Rosemary Shay's
condition to the attention
of the faculty advisors.
- Yeah, and she blames
them for her washout.
- Oh, like Karen said, a grudge.
- Well, it sounds like it.
You know, three of the
names on that council are dead.
- [T.J.] Jean McGowan?
- Jean, Joanne Dowd,
and Marilyn Stuart.
- [T.J.] Who are the others?
- There's a girl
living in The Valley
named Catherine Mary Gomez.
- Yeah, there's
another living in Europe.
- Who is she?
- Evelyn Merino.
And then there's
Jessica Margret Mitchell,
the last one's the one
you were going to see.
- Francis Marie Driscoll.
All right, I'll take
Driscoll, and Gomez.
You take Mitchell and
see if you can get a line
on Rosemary Shay.
- Okay, we're on it.
(suspenseful music)
- [Martin] It's a beautiful day.
- Yes it is.
- They never seem
to get tired, do they?
- I was just thinking that,
they play like their
lives depend on it.
- They do, struggle in youth
is what makes strong wings.
- Wings?
- When I was a boy,
I found a chrysalis.
Do you know what that is?
- Chrysalis, that's a
shell that the insects...
- Where is lives
while it's changing
from one kind of a bug
into another kind of a bug.
Anyway, I dumped it in a jar
until this butterfly started
to come out, you know?
And I could see it was having
trouble, so I broke it open.
- Listen, would you excuse me?
- No, but when it came out,
it just sort of flopped
around real weak like
and then it died.
- I found out later
it's the struggle in youth
that makes strong wings.
- I see what you mean.
Listen, I really have to run.
- You must be Miss Driscoll,
Miss Francis Marie Driscoll.
- No, I'm afraid you
have us mixed up.
Happens all the time.
I'm Carey Driscoll,
Francis is my sister.
- I'm sorry.
- About what?
- I just figured you were
Francis Marie Driscoll.
I was told you
dropped a child off here
every morning for school.
- That's true.
She's in Sacramento on
business, until tomorrow.
I'm taking care
of her little boy.
Look, is there something
I can do for you?
- No, thank you.
I just need to see
Francis Marie Driscoll.
If she'll be back
tomorrow, I'll see her then.
(suspenseful music)
- Target for a killer?
That's preposterous.
- Maybe, but we're just
trying to cover all the bases.
You do remember Rosemary Shay?
- Yes, yes of course I
remember poor Rosemary.
- And the Women's Council?
- Yes, we made a recommendation
to the faculty about her,
but that was a long time ago and
I can assure you
there was certainly no
maliciousness in
the counsel's intent
when we talked to
the faculty advisors.
- What was the reason for
talking to the faculty advisors?
- Rosemary Shay
just wasn't capable
of handling the
pressures of law school.
She was headed for a breakdown,
practically a basket case.
We did what we
felt was right for her.
- And how did she feel about it?
- Well, she was upset, angry.
- Angry enough to kill?
- Oh, are you
trying to say th...
- I am trying to catch
a homicidal maniac
before he kills again.
- Before he kills again, hm.
Why are you asking
me all these questions
about Rosemary Shay?
- Because it's the
only lead we have
and we think it's a man
because of the shotgun ammo.
- Isn't that a bit sexist?
- Sexist?
- The assumption that only
a man could use a shotgun.
- Oh, give me a break
will you, Miss Driscoll.
It's been a long day.
- Okay, what do you suggest?
- Protection.
- Oh, sergeant, I'm sorry, I
have a full court calendar,
several cases I'm
knee-deep into.
- Don't you have an associate
who can fill in for you?
- Of course, but I'm...
- Good, then we'll have a
police woman take your place.
- Then you're assuming the
killer doesn't know me on sight?
- And Rosemary
Shay does, yes, I know.
- There you go, you
can't have it both ways.
- I could try.
♪ Eyes full love ♪ Skies of
(Rosemary humming)
- Rosemary.
- Martin, I didn't think you
were due for a visit until,
when was is, next
week some time?
- Wednesday, I just thought
maybe we could talk for a while.
- On a day like this?
Martin, you should be off
in the country somewhere.
- You don't belong
here, Rosemary.
You belong out there
where those others
have been all this time.
- It's all right, Martin.
I'm happy here.
And what about you?
How is that new
job coming along?
- I lost it.
I told you that.
- Oh, yes, yes
of course you did.
Well, not to worry,
you'll find another one.
You're very good at
taking care of things.
- I have been taking
care of things, Rosemary,
for both of us.
All the pretenders
are being punished.
All the ones who hurt you.
All the voices of evil.
- Yes.
There's too much evil
among is in this world.
Bless you, Martin.
You're my only true friend.
- [Operator] Information,
what city please?
- Downtown.
I'd like a phone number and
address for a Catherine Gomez.
- [Operator] One moment, please.
I'm sorry but there's more than
one Catherine Gomez listed.
- Give me all of them, please.
- [Operator] It'll
take a minute.
- I've got time, plenty of time.
- 16, I've got Francis Driscoll
tucked away for the
night at her sister's house.
I've got three different
addresses on Catherine Gomez.
Finally located her at her
new job at a law firm downtown.
What's your situation?
- Jessica Mitchell
is living in Detroit,
according to her mother.
Her mother's gonna phone
her to have her contact us.
- Okay, I left word that
I wanted to see Gomez,
and I'm just a few blocks away.
(cars honking)
- Goodnight, Marsha.
- Goodnight, Miss Gomez.
(elevator bell dings)
(elevator bell dings)
- Milton, Grosse, and
Silverburg, one moment please.
- Sergeant Hooker, LCPD.
I'm here to see Catherine Gomez.
- Oh my gosh, she was
in conference all day.
I have your message,
but I didn't give it to her,
and she just left.
(suspenseful music)
- Miss Gomez?
- Yes?
- Miss Catherine Gomez?
- Yes, do I know you?
- No, no you don't,
but I know you.
You're one of the pretenders.
- What is this?
- You should never have hurt
Rosemary Shay the way you did,
Miss Gomez.
Now it's your turn to pay.
- Oh, my God.
Help, please!
- Miss Gomez!
(suspenseful music)
- Help, please!
- Hang on, I'll
call an ambulance.
- He was young,
25, 26 years old.
No more than that.
Brown hair, dark eyes.
- And he asked for
your sister by name?
- Yes, Francis Driscoll,
Miss Francis Marie Driscoll.
He said it almost as if
it was more for his
benefit than mine.
- Miss Driscoll, yet
you have a son?
- Yes, he's adopted.
I'm a single parent.
- You don't think Francis's
son is in any jeopardy?
- Well, up to now, families
haven't been a target,
but we shouldn't take
any unnecessary chances.
This young man, were
you expecting someone?
- No, but he could
have gotten my name
from a hundred different places.
If you're gonna be
suspicious of everyone
that I come in contact with,
you've got a big
job on your hands.
- This protection,
you're gonna accept it?
- If it doesn't interfere
with my normal routine.
- You aren't gonna
make this easy, are you?
- You have your
job, I have mine.
- Carey, I'm gonna ask you
to give a description
to a police artist.
Work with him on a composite.
- [Stacy] What is it, Jim?
- Catherine Gomez died an
hour ago in surgery at St. Joe's.
- [T.J.] Was she
able to say anything?
- Never regained consciousness.
- What about Rosemary Shay,
did you turn anything on her?
- She had a complete mental
breakdown six years ago.
She was committed
to a mental institution,
Southwest State Hospital.
- Did you follow up?
- We're headed there now.
- Okay, stay with it.
We'll have to push harder.
Part of the MO
is out the window.
Catherine Gomez made her
appearance in court yesterday,
but it wasn't Monday.
That may mean the killer
is accelerating his pace.
- What about an APB
on the car he drove?
- It's done.
The silver sedan car, I
got the first two letters of the
license plate before he tried
to make me a hood ornament.
- How about a DMV
computer cross-check.
- Covered.
It'll take a couple of days.
- Hooker.
- I know, Francis Driscoll
is the only name left
who could make
an immediate target.
I'm gonna stay with her,
work on the composite.
- [Stacy] Did you get
a good look at him?
- Good enough to
put him away forever,
when we catch him.
(suspenseful music)
- Then you're familiar with
Rosemary Shay's
case, Dr. Walden?
- Yes, I was staffing admittance
the day she first came to us.
- She's never been
out of confinement?
- No, not for the past 4 years,
but before that she
was in and out, oh,
about a half a dozen times.
- Dating back to her
first confinement?
- Yes, that's correct.
Would you care
to speak with her?
She's really quite harmless.
- Yes, I think we would.
- Martin?
- Hey Doc, just
stopped by for a visit.
- Nice to see you.
(suspenseful music)
- Marilyn Stuart.
Stuart did you say?
- And Joanne Dowd, Jean
McGowan, Catherine Gomez.
- Do you remember any
of those names, Rosemary?
- No.
No, I can't say that I do.
Should I, Doctor?
- Well as I told you,
these are police officers
trying to solve
some terrible crimes.
- Those names are
women you once knew.
We could use your help, ma'am.
- Is that right?
Oh yes, yes of course it is.
Well, I don't know them anymore.
Or do I?
- They're all dead.
- Oh.
- They've been murdered.
- Well, then I will
have to pray for them.
Yes, too much
evil in this world.
Yes, I will pray for them.
Indeed.
- Mm-mm, try that one.
- Nope, that's not it,
his nose was thinner.
- Did you find anything?
- Zilch, Rosemary Shay's
been locked away
for the past four years.
- Family and friends?
- No relatives, no
friends that they know of,
just an occasional patient
there that she speaks to.
- How's the composite coming?
- I think we're getting close.
- What about the one
you were gonna do?
- We're working on it together.
- You mean the guy you
saw shoot Catherine Gomez
and the one Carey saw in the
school yard's one in the same?
- Or a reasonable facsimile.
- That's it, that's the one!
- Are you sure?
- Positive.
- [T.J.] I think so, too.
- Have you seen this man?
- [Francis] Not that I recall.
- Stacy, get this on the wire.
Possible suspect, should be
considered armed and dangerous.
- Jim, I'm not sure but
didn't we just see this guy?
- Is this the guy you saw
hit Catherine Gomez?
- [T.J.] Yes, where
did you see him?
- At the hospital,
with Rosemary Shay.
- Yes, that's him.
- Martin Novak?
- Yes.
- And he was discharged?
- Yes, the latter
part of last year.
Before that, he spent
some time with us,
but he was making
such wonderful progress,
we thought he was
fit to return to society.
- Where do we find
him now, Doctor?
- [Doctor] Bring me the
file on Martin Novak, please.
- Paranoid schizophrenic?
- [Doctor] Correct.
- What about his
family, a loner?
Illegitimate, maybe?
- Oh, not maybe, in fact.
- With a need for a father
figure, a desperate need.
- Sounds as if you've
already seen the file.
- Just working from type and
with a little help from
our own consultant.
This guy's a time bomb.
- Well, we're all human,
we all make mistakes,
but everyone who's
mentally disturbed
isn't a whacko about to explode.
- But this Novak, we knows
Rosemary Shay pretty well?
- Oh, worships her
would be more like it.
You see, it was
Rosemary's friendship
which played a large
part in what we believe
was Martin's recovery.
Thank you.
See, Rosemary Shay filled
the biggest void in
Martin Novak's life,
and he comes back
regularly to see her.
- Doctor you know
what we're going for,
could Rosemary Shay
have told Martin Novak
about her days in law school?
- Certainly, she has
occasional moments of lucidity.
- And she could
have told him about
why she had to leave law school,
and maybe mention the council
that brought her problem
to the attention of the faculty.
- And feeling what
he does for Rosemary,
Martin might have decided to
avenge the wrong
he thought was done.
- You mean even if Rosemary
never said she wanted anything
done to Jean McGowan and
the members of the council,
Novak may have decided
on his own to kill them?
- Stacy, it's as simple as this.
Rosemary Shay meant
everything to Martin Novak.
Novak thinks that somebody
ruined Rosemary's life,
so he decides to get
whoever it was that hurt her.
(suspenseful music)
- [T.J.] Jim, you cover here.
Stacy, let's see who's home.
- Novak, open up, police!
- Novak!
- Hooker, it's all here,
a list of all his victims.
(suspenseful music)
- We have a stakeout team
posted around the clock
outside the suspect's hotel.
Desk clerk says he comes
and goes at odd hours
and sometimes disappears
for days at a time.
- So where does that leave you?
- It leaves me frustrated,
that's where it leaves me.
- And since you're
still a potential target,
it means you're still in danger.
- You better listen when we
tell you for your own safety
that you need protection.
- I was listening the
first time, Sergeant.
- Still nothing from
the stakeout team.
- Dammit Francis, why
are you being so stubborn?
Go home and lock yourself
in until this is all over.
- Carey, we have
been through this.
I have a caseload
that won't quit
and a lot of people who
are depending on me.
- Well there is a suggestion
that Hooker made to you earlier.
- You mean have
someone take my place?
- Well, we're close
enough in coloring,
and if Martin Novak only has
a general description of you,
or has never even
seen you, I could pass.
- But what about my court cases?
You can't take my place there.
- No, but she could
be your shadow.
- You're absolutely
certain that this guy's
gonna try to kill me aren't you?
- Well, it's a bet I
wouldn't like to take,
but if I had to,
I'd say you're in a
hell of a lot of trouble
unless you smarten up.
(suspenseful music)
- Your Honor, I object
to the prosecution's
obvious line of questioning.
They clearly have
been leading the witness,
and frankly I'm appalled.
- Objection sustained,
Miss Driscoll,
but spare us the editorial
comments, please.
- Anything, Jim?
- Zero, Grabowski
and Wilson are the only
suspicious looking
characters I've seen.
- Hey, I didn't ask for this
gig to begin with, Corrigan.
I was gonna go
to the beach today.
- You got anything, Wilson?
- I haven't had anything but an
occasional pickpocket all day.
How come you get
the inside job, Hooker,
and we get to
pound the pavement?
- Because you're
the outdoor type.
Stay awake, this
guy isn't shy about
poking his head
into public places.
- This court is adjourned until
nine o'clock tomorrow morning.
- Everything looks
clear out here, Hooker.
Anything from the stakeout
team at Novak's hotel?
- Uh, nothing, and nothing here.
- Stacy, I appreciate
everything you're doing.
- Oh, don't worry about it.
- I'm sorry about the others,
and especially Jean McGowan.
Hooker told me
she was your friend.
We stayed in touch after
law school and I admired her.
- So did I, thanks
for the thought.
- Hello, I'll have a
car right out front.
- It's been a long day, Hooker.
You mind if I stop
in the powder room
before we hit the freeway?
- Not a problem,
Stacy go with her.
- Well, I guess
that's preferable
to you going in there with me.
- What a day.
Can you believe what that
prosecutor's trying to pull?
- Well, you seem to
be handling him fine.
- Oh, well I just a Band-Aid
until I can find an
opening I can run in.
- Francis Marie Driscoll?
- Yes.
- That's me, I'm
Francis Driscoll.
- Which one of you is
Francis Marie Driscoll?
- I just told you, I am.
Now what is it you want?
- Why did she answer
when I said your name?
- It's a little hard to
hear in here sometimes,
right Stacy?
- Yes, yes it is.
- Look, why don't you
go ahead to the car
and I'll find out
what this is all about.
- No way.
- Go on, go Stacy!
- Not another step.
- Anything, Jim?
- Just a whole lot of quiet.
How's it from your angle, Andy?
- No movement in or
out of the courthouse.
- That shotgun isn't necessary.
- You know, don't you?
You know why I'm here.
- You came to see me.
- I came to see
Francis Marie Driscoll,
now which one of you is it?
- I just told you it's me!
- No Stacy, it's my life!
- Out the window.
- [T.J.] Novak!
Halt!
(grunting)
He'll live.
- Stacy and Francis?
- They're okay.
Call an ambulance.
(Novak groaning)
(police radio chatter)
- He must have slipped into
this alley from
another building,
then jimmied the
window to the ladies room
and entered there.
- But what if we hadn't
decided to go in there
at just that time?
- Probably planning
to come out after you,
but he saw you and Stacy
coming right into his hands.
- It's hard to
believe one person
can have so much hate in them.
- Particularly when
it wasn't his own.
He confessed to everything,
admitted that he
was killing to avenge
what happened to Rosemary Shay.
- A surrogate killer?
- In his own twisted
mind, he was doing
what he thought Rosemary
Shay would have wanted.
- Even though she
never even hinted to him
that she wanted the
members of the council dead.
- You think this confession
will hold up in a court, Hooker?
- Well, you tell me, counselor.
You're the defense attorney.
- You mean I'm one of
those damned attorneys
who defends
people that you bust?
- I've seen people
like Martin Novak
roaming the streets when they
should have been behind bars.
His files shows a history
of violence going back to
his teens, but slick lawyers,
lenient judges, whatever.
He's received a
slap on the wrist,
and a ticket out for
psychiatric examination.
- I don't believe this,
I was just nearly killed
and he's giving me a lecture.
Aren't you being a little
hard on my profession?
- Why don't you buy me a drink
and convince me that I'm wrong?
- You're on.
(lighthearted music)
("T.J. Hooker Theme")
(fanfare)