Top that off for you, honey?
There you go.
What's in the case?
I'm sorry?
You're always lugging that case around. I'm curious, what do you sell?
I'm in restaurant supplies. I'm sorry, I didn't get your name.
You must travel a lot, huh?
Whole country or just hereabouts?
-I don't mean to be rude, but-- -How's your wife feel about it?
-What? -She must get lonely...
...you gone all the time.
-Look, l-- -Do you get lonely?
You miss fucking her, Harold?
Look, I don't know who you are, but you can't just sit down--
Did it myself.
Kind of a hobby.
Take a look at these pictures...
...and you tell me if you see anything you want.
I've got lots more.
Would you like to see them?
Tell me, the jokes about the salesman and the farmer's daughter, they true?
Here. This one's my favorite!
Really says it all.
Wouldn't you agree?
You are sick.
It's a matter of opinion.
There's a rest stop next off-ramp. Pull into it.
-I have money, it's not a lot-- -Nobody wants your money.
Just pull in.
Why?
Because I wouldn't wanna do this at 70 miles an hour.
Could be dangerous.
Agent Mackelway.
Welcome to Albuquerque.
Rick Charleton.
Miss Payton's the nice girl at the front desk.
She puts together a package for all the new agents.
Everything you need to know about the area...
...help with finding apartments and such.
-This one's yours. -Okay.
-Gonna get it all set up for you. -All right.
Not that different from Dallas, is it?
No, sir.
If you need anything, just yell.
Thanks.
I'm Tom, guys.
-Nice to meet you, Tom. Don here. -Hello.
-I'm Bill. -Hey, Bill. Tom.
Tom, do you like Frito pies?
I don't know, Bill. I don't know what they are.
Welcome to the minors.
Here, let me do that.
-Thank you. -Sure.
-Don't know how to make coffee. -That's okay. It takes some experience.
Isn't there a Starbucks around here?
-That's a joke, right? -Yeah. Yeah, that's a joke.
So you're Mackelway?
Yeah, Agent Mackelway.
Katie Payton.
A fax is coming in for you. It's the room next door.
-Really? Fax for me? -Yeah.
Okay. Thank you.
-No problem. Nice meeting you. -Yep.
Mackelway...
...you gonna stand around all day, or you wanna do something?
No, sir.
Afternoon, Rick.
Looks like a robbery-homicide.
-Body is back over there. -You run the plates?
Fellow's name is Harold Speck, traveling salesman from T or C.
T or C?
Truth or Consequences.
It's a town, slick.
I'll write that down.
Hey!
-What the fuck are you doing? -What's it look like, bud?
You ever heard of evidentiary procedure?
Icarus case number 690.
Physicians in charge, Dr. Galin J. Peterson...
...and Dr. Ferdinand Kovoskis.
Theta-wave entrainment for RV subject O 'Ryan...
... to be used with GPS for target management.
Session to commence in...
...five, four...
... three, two...
...one.
Target number, write it now.
Focus.
Stay objective.
Smells like clove.
Okay.
Describe. Describe it.
Short, one word.
One word.
Draw the environment.
One target at a time.
Draw the environment.
Draw the environment now.
Sir.
Sort of a stickler for procedure.
I imagine you would be.
Christ.
See it.
See it, draw it now.
Draw it now.
Shoes are on the wrong feet.
All American Diner, Gallup, New Mexico.
-Passed that on the way here. -He had breakfast there this morning.
Starting off the bottom of the inning, Barry Matthews.
Got on base with a line-drive single his last at bat.
And he takes the first pitch high and inside for ball one.
Looked like Leonard was trying to get the breaking pitch inside...
...but it just didn't have any break on it that time.
Agent Mackelway, we're over here.
I was gonna introduce you two, but l understand that won't be necessary.
Seems your former office decided we needed help...
...so they sent us Agent Kulok.
-Hey, Tom. -Hi, Fran.
I guess we're gonna skip the tearful reunion.
Have a seat, Tom.
How are things in Dallas?
Wouldn't really know. I've been chained to a desk.
Okay, what do we know?
Picked up a footprint in the back seat. A size and a half bigger than Speck's.
Okay.
Wounds on Speck's throat indicate he was strangled from behind.
I think our guy was waiting for him in the back seat...
...sprung this on him once the car was moving.
Lab picked up talcum traces along the edges...
...consistent with powdered gloves. So he gets this dropped in his lap...
...it spooks him, car ends up in the ravine.
That car was pushed to the state line.
The depth of the tire tracks...
...footprints near the embankment.
That car wasn't going more than 3 miles an hour...
...and it stopped quite literally on the state line.
Guy must have used GPS.
Why would he push it to the state line?
Same reason he did everything else, to get the FBl's undivided attention.
There's an association here.
You have a circle...
...and a lidless eye that's always open.
Seeing.
Or making sure that we're seeing.
It's just a feeling.
He was a normal guy. You know, kind of quiet.
He liked to read fishing magazines, and he wasn't much of a tipper.
-ls that a lousy thing to say? -No, it's fine.
Could you tell us about the other man?
Like I said, I never really saw him.
Harold came up complaining about the guy...
...but by the time I turned around, he was gone.
-Can you desc--? -Desc-
-Can you describe him, ma'am? -Oh, sure.
You could tell he wasn't from around here.
Did you see what he was driving?
You know, now that you mention it...
...there's a Torino out in the parking lot with a real crappy paint job.
It's been here since last night.
We need a protocol for interviewing witnesses.
Fine. I'll handle it.
Always in control. Tell you something, Tom...
...I want my life back, so I want this over quick.
So, what happened?
Your ring.
It didn't work out...
...just like us.
So why are you here?
You vacationing in Albuquerque?
Oh, Tom, you sure haven't changed in six whole months.
Keys are in the car.
I don't need a babysitter...
...so let's do it right this time.
Then don't make things so unnecessarily complicated again.
-Trunk's ajar. -You listening to me?
You think I wanna be down here? I'm not interested in hanging out...
...and I'm not your babysitter. I'm your partner.
I didn't put you here, remember.
And I'm not going through this again with you.
Holy shit.
A circle with a slash.
-Dispatch. -I need help down here.
-What's your 20? -The All American Diner in Gallup.
Hey, Tom, got an lD on our body.
Barney Fulcher, age 50...
...sixth-grade teacher from Colorado. These plates aren't gonna help.
Forget them. This guy started in Oklahoma, left these for us.
Mrs. Speck...
...I just heard.
I'm so sorry.
I didn't know him well, but I think Harold was a more complex person...
...than people realize.
He was, wasn't he?
I'm really sorry for your loss, ma'am.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
So it wasn't Fulcher's car?
Car was registered to a Daniel Dyson...
...runs a halfway house in Oklahoma City.
Dyson?
Daniel Dyson?
Hello?
Fucking freak!
What a fucking freak.
Can I help you?
Why didn't you report it as stolen?
The truth is, I always hated that car.
Nobody but Benjamin could ever make it run right.
Is that his name, Benjamin?
It's hard to say. That's what he liked to be called.
This bad wiring.
I think we've got an obsessive-compulsive here.
I'll call Grieves. Get him to work up a list of behaviorists for us to talk to.
Give me that.
Excuse me.
These came from Benjamin?
He used to spend hours down here.
It was like-- Like his office.
What are these?
With those numbers and pictures, he said he could find anybody.
Benjamin O'Ryan?
Special Agent Benjamin O'Ryan, FBl.
It was his fantasy.
Oh, fuck.
Agent Mackelway, what the fuck were you thinking?
He's got nine murders in his pocket, and he's gonna walk.
Hey, Starkey.
What made you think you could cross the border into Mexico...
... without an extradition order?
I knew he was gonna disappear into Mexico.
You knew?
Agent Mackelway, you have shamed and vilified this bureau...
...with your methods.
I have no choice but to recommend you be suspended...
...for a period of six months...
...during which you'll undergo a psychological evaluation.
Let the record show that the case against Agent Fran Kulok is pending.
Turn it off!
I guess you guys are never unaccounted for, huh?
This guy really likes you.
This is O'Ryan's room.
Tom.
You got it?
Yeah, I got it.
It's Agent Kulok. Can you run this number and lD the subscriber for me?
-You're breaking up, Fran. -Hold on. Let me get outside, hold on.
Thank you.
Ever see a 50-foot shark?
I'm sorry?
A 50-foot shark. You ever see one?
No.
Doesn't mean there aren't any.
Excuse me, sir, did you know him?
The guy with the Torino, O'Ryan, the guy who lived upstairs?
Why? Is he dead?
-I don't know. -You said "did."
-ls he dead? -Oh, no. I'm sorry. I misspoke.
You ever seen this before?
It's a circle with a slash through it.
It's not a circle.
It's a zero.
And how do you know that?
Did he tell you that?
Why are you whistling?
What does that mean?
Have you seen this, sir?
Circle with a slash through it.
Have you seen that? A circle with a slash through it?
Circle with a slash through it. Take a look. Have you seen that?
A circle with a slash through it?
Benjamin O'Ryan? Sir?
A circle with a slash through it?
Benjamin O 'Ryan. He was here seven years.
-T om? -What?
We got a trace. Faxes and Things, Sleeper, Missouri. Come on.
Come on.
I'll have a 7&7 please.
Got some lD?
It's in the car. No one's asked me for it for a couple of years now.
Nothing personal, honey.
Excuse me...
-...you forgot this. -Oh, I don't have--
Kiss it!
Hey.
Hey, hey!
Fuck you.
You fuck.
Hi.
Turn around.
Turn around!
-Ma'am? -FBl.
Excuse me.
Do your parents know?
Tom.
You got an lD?
-What? -Raymond Starkey.
-Starkey did this? -Tom, Starkey's the guy on the ground.
You son of a bitch...
...why are you baiting me?
You want me to see what you see.
You want me to see.
I'm trying to see it.
-He opens up an old wound. -Yeah.
-What does he want? -I don't know.
Maybe he's got something against law enforcement...
...Iike the Zodiac.
"You're welcome, Tom. You're welcome, Tom."
Not FBl. Tom. He's baiting me. He wants me.
Why? What does he want?
Okay.
Tom, I want you to take me through this.
Explain this to me.
Okay. See if this makes sense to you, okay?
Each of the 45 abduction dates on these faxes correspond...
...to one of the GPS coordinates on O'Ryan's map.
-What about the two bodies we lD'd? -Okay. Well, let's find the faxes.
Here we go.
Male victim. Last seen, Trenton, New Jersey.
Okay. Found in Dyersville, lowa.
Okay. Female. Last seen, Dayton, Ohio.
Found in Brownsville, Texas.
So we have two bodies...
...that were found 1 000 miles from where they were last seen.
What's this?
-That's Tucumcari, New Mexico. -Why blue?
That's the only city where the date on the fax and the map didn't correspond.
Date of disappearance: Christmas.
On O'Ryan's map, 8-27.
The only thing we know is there never was a Benjamin O'Ryan, FBl.
He would have made a hell of an agent.
Autopsy reports just arrived for both the new positive lDs.
-Bruises? -No, they're burn marks.
We've got them here too on our female from Dayton.
And these marks relate to the marks found on Fulcher and Speck how?
They don't. There were no burn marks on Speck, Fulcher or Starkey.
And we have no slash-circles here on these bodies.
Right.
My office, as soon as someone finds something useful.
No luck on the behavioral specialists.
I do have a couple other leads that I'm following up on.
-I'm hopeful they're gonna pan out. -Great, thank you.
A professor of criminal biology, Professor Daitz, just called.
He says he's got time for you on Saturday.
Thank you, Katie.
I was operating under the assumption that O'Ryan was somebody's fantasy.
Oh, no, he's real. He was a student of mine.
That fax you sent me, this circle with the slash through it?
That's his construct, his theory.
He called it "Suspect Zero."
Suspect Zero?
He posited a theory that a serial killer...
...could cross the entire country without ever getting caught.
What makes a killer catchable?
Patterns, repetition of behavior.
He imagined someone with no patterns...
...no telltale fetishes, no rituals...
...just a random killing machine that never leaves a clue.
But a serial killer by definition is condemned to repetition.
I mean, isn't that what he's all about?
Well, he is until he isn't.
And this Suspect Zero, is that something that you believe in, doctor?
It's something O'Ryan believed in.
He swore guys like that existed, only we couldn't see them...
...because they didn't obey the usual laws, like cancer doesn't...
...or the HlV virus that tricks your immune system...
...into thinking it isn't there.
So you're saying a guy like that could exist?
Do you know the definition of a black hole?
Not precisely, no.
It's a celestial body with a gravitational force so strong...
...that nothing escapes it. Not even light.
Well, then how do you find something you can't see?
Well, it was there and we found it.
Why do you think O'Ryan is convinced a person like that is around?
In this time and place. What about a split personality?
Could you have a stone-cold killer on one hand...
...and a thoughtful man with a conscience on the other?
I mean, could O'Ryan...
...possibly be this Suspect Zero?
Yeah.
It's a viable theory.
I mean, the point is, I don't think you're gonna know until you find O'Ryan.
Point is, I don't think you're gonna know until you find O'Ryan.
Just a random killing machine that never leaves a clue.
Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
Sing it, Lord.
Everybody inside. On the double, let's go.
Come on. Keep moving. Storm's coming.
Get inside!
Come on in, right now! Girls!
Come in, now. It's starting to rain, and I don't want you out there alone.
Turn around!