["Sunshine On My Shoulders" by John Denver]
♪ Sunshine on my shoulders ♪
♪ Makes me happy ♪
♪ Sunshine.. ♪
Turn that music down for God's sakes!
♪ Can make me cry.. ♪
[Simone] 'I'm hungry.'
'I need you to go to the store.'
♪ Sunshine.. ♪
Now!
♪ On the water ♪
♪ Looks so lovely.. ♪
[needle scratching]
[intense music]
[clicking]
You mind me!
I did a bad thing, Mother.
What did you do?
I took out their eyes.
[music continues]
[indistinct chattering]
Hey.
Oh, morning. The scene's out back.
Lil, been meaning to talk to you..
...about Chris.
Yeah? What about?
Uh, you were right.
I, uh, fell for an act.
Well, you're not the first.
Yeah, but, uh..
...I should have listened to you.
But anyway..
...I'm sorry.
Uh, I'm sorry that, uh..
...it came between us.
Detectives.
Ha, what are you working with, Lenny?
Third week in Homicide, I get this mess.
Now, what's with the block party?
[sighs] Some moron gets it in his head
to buy this piece of crap.
Sends an inspector to check it out.
Digs up a bunch of skulls.
- How many? - Nine.
[Detective Desalle] 'CSU says some are recent'
'others have been there for years.'
'Found 'em positioned like this.'
Lined up. Facing upwards.
Attic of the house.
Owner was killed up there in 1972.
Single gunshot to the chest.
They find the doer?
Robbery-rape is all they got.
Scotty, look at this.
Black marbles in all their eyes.
Want to clue me in?
[sighs] Serial killer we interviewed a few months back.
Black marbles like these were at his place.
That's the freak who walked, right?
Hunted down his victims?
He made them run..
...till they couldn't anymore.
[breathing heavily]
He decapitated nine women.
Never gave up where he put the heads.
Looks like we might have found 'em.
And who was the previous owner?
Simone Marks. 33.
Lived here with her 12-year-old son.
Named George.
Yeah. That's right.
[gunshot]
Looks like our serial killer's come back home.
[instrumental music]
[theme music]
[music continues]
[instrumental music]
Now we know what George did with their heads..
...buried 'em in his childhood backyard all facing the attic
where his mom was murdered.
And the deer eyes? He put them in their eye sockets?
Well, maybe he wanted those dead women to see something.
- Like? - Like his first kill?
His own mother?
Well, rape was never his MO, Lil.
Got to be a reason he's lining up the heads like that.
Scotty, we hear anything from Fugitives yet
on George's whereabouts?
Well, Sherman had a bead on him..
...till three weeks ago.
Then George drops off the face of the Earth.
Alright, what do we know about George's mother's murder?
Robbery-rape gone south. Signs of forced entry.
Mom was found stripped, semen recovered at the scene.
Any leads back in '72 on the doer?
Well, weapon that killed Simone was a Colt .22 automatic.
Woodsman series.
- Never recovered. - What else?
Well, there's a set of prints off a jimmied window. No hits.
Now, the doer's had 33 years to make it into the system.
- Run 'em again. - Yeah.
We think workin' this job will flush your boy out?
Could, yeah.
Hey, you know, George couldn't have killed his own mother.
Why not?
Well, he wasn't in the house that night.
DHS removed him hours earlier.
Put him in a group home at mom's request.
His mother put him away?
Told the authorities she was scared of her own son.
[instrumental music]
[man #1] 'Yeah, I took him out of here.'
'Kid was a real whack job.'
Sat in front of the window there.
Tiddling with his flashlight.
Well, his mother said she was afraid of him. Why?
Kid was a punk. Mom couldn't control him anymore.
So you carted him off to the group home?
Yeah.
Let him loose with the other animals.
This was his bedroom.
Mom kept him locked up in here.
What do you mean, locked up?
Deadbolts on the door.
Don't think she let him out much.
What else are you gonna do with a kid like that?
[man #1] 'He was a weirdo, alright.'
But if you ask me..
...so was Mom.
I keep him in here..
...so he won't run out at nights.
♪ Riders on the storm ♪
Time to go, George.
♪ Into this house we're born ♪
♪ Into this world we're thrown.. ♪
Upsy Daisy! You heard your mom!
♪ Dog without a bone.. ♪
You need me to go to the store, Mother.
Mind me.
Are you sending me away because of what I did to their eyes?
Stop talking, George.
♪ His brain is squirmin' like a toad ♪
♪ Take a long holiday ♪
♪ Let your children play ♪
♪ If you give this man a ride sweet.. ♪
You did this.
You're a bad, bad boy.
But I did it to help you.
You are the darkness.
You always will be.
Apple didn't fall far from the tree.
You know what I mean?
What was with the light coming from that house?
Got me. Looked like some kind of signal.
Hey, Nick. Check this out.
[Nick] 'What have you got?'
Same kind of knife marks.
Top and bottom of the stairs.
What are they?
I got 13 down here. How many have you got?
13. So what?
13 steps.
[ominous music]
You were George's neighbor back in '72?
My bedroom was right there. Across from his.
'The haunted house.'
- That's what we called it. - Why?
Night after night, music would be blaring
out of the attic.
Real sappy songs, over and over.
But you and George were friends?
Wouldn't call it that.
We'd just fool around with our flashlights at night.
Morse code.
Wh-what kind of Morse code?
"Hi, bye, SOS," dumb stuff like that.
My folks would have killed me if they found out.
No one wanted their kids playing with George.
And you were doing this Morse code thing
night George's mother was killed?
George never coded me back..
...so, I went over to see why.
["Aqualung" by Jethro Tull]
♪ Sitting on a park bench ♪
♪ Eyeing little girls with bad intent ♪
♪ Snot running down his nose ♪
♪ Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.. ♪
[man #2] 'Shut-ins like her always have bank stash'
under their mattresses.
[man #3] You sure she's alone, man?
[man #2] 'Yeah, I'm sure.'
♪ Drying in the cold sun ♪
♪ Watching as the frilly panties run.. ♪
[intense music]
It was like she was lookin' right through me.
Then what?
[Evan] Then the guys started in on a window..
...with a crowbar.
I ran back home.
Ah, thanks for coming out here, Evan.
[Lilly] You know, Jeffries said Simone had those knife marks
on all her stairways, right?
13 marks and 13 steps.
[Scotty] 'Yeah.'
And George said he made those marks to help her.
Okay. So what?
Simone looked past Evan because..
...she couldn't see him.
George's mother was blind.
[Lilly] That's why George's fixation with his victims' eyes.
His mother was blind.
[Detective Desalle] 'The knife marks in the wall were'
a kind of crude Braille for her.
And no one else knew about her blindness?
She was a shut-in.
Barely came in contact with the outside world.
Got a hit on those window prints.
[Lilly] 'Yeah?'
Jacob Leonardo.
He's locked up in Allenwood Federal Pen.
We're taking your ride, mine's in the shop.
Road trip. Great.
This Leonardo doing time for burglary?
Mmm. Rape. Has a rap sheet as long as my arm.
Kids, grandmas, all 31 flavors in between.
Uses his belt to gag his victims.
A real Romeo, this guy.
Better be getting back some of that love in lockup.
[instrumental music]
Wonder what kind of prison justice you'll get
when they hear you raped and killed a blind lady.
What are you talking about?
1972 job.
I don't know nothing about it.
No? 'Cause we lifted your prints from her window.
Prints? So what? Maybe I worked at the house.
Plus, we got the rapist's semen
and we're taking hair and blood samples from you today.
Says who?
My warrant.
[Nick] 'And with a murder conviction..'
...you're stuck in this craphole for life.
I didn't kill the girl. He did.
- Who? - Guy who set it up.
What guy?
Some lowlife that I met at the track.
We was on a losing streak, and he says he knows a way
to make off with some bitch's life savings.
And you just followed along.
Look, man..
[chuckling]
...my thing is rape.
Figured I'd cop a feel..
...some change.
I didn't do murder.
["Witchy Woman" by Eagles]
There's nothing here, man.
Be quiet, or she'll hear you.
[door opens]
[music continues]
♪ Raven hair.. ♪
Hot damn.
[gasping] Who's there?
You idiot! What are you doing?
♪ Sparks fly from her Fingertips.. ♪
She's blind like Stevie Wonder.
[yelling]
- Stop her. - Whoa-whoa-whoa.
[whimpers]
- This wasn't the plan. - Forget the plan.
No way! I'm not going to be a part of this!
Then leave.
It's just me and you, Helen Keller.
I know your voice. I know who you are.
You're the one who took George away.
We got to kill her now.
- Might as well rape her first. - Huh!
[gun cocking]
I mean it. Get out.
I bailed.
It was him, her, the gun.
That was the last I saw.
Jerk from DHS.
Gets the lay of the land earlier that night.
Lee.
'The point is..'
...it wasn't me who killed the girl.
What kind of weapon did Lee have?
Sweet piece.
Colt automatic .22.
Woodsman series.
[instrumental music]
Well, you owned the same kind of gun
that killed Simone Marks, Lee.
[Lee] 'You're buying that con's story?'
You're the worst kind of scum.
Come into people's homes as the..
...do-gooding social worker
but on the side, you're casing the joint.
Didsomething go wrong with your robbery that night?
Later, at Simone's?
Like what?
Like she knew you. Your voice.
So, you had to kill her.
[sighing]
I didn't. Swear it.
No?
Then what'd you do at that house
when it was just you and her?
That's the thing.
It wasn't just me and her.
I ain't gonna hurt you. Understand, lady?
What do you want with me?
No one's gotta know about this.
What are you gonna do?
Dirty acts? Is that why you're here?
Hey! I'm leaving, okay?
To do dirty, filthy acts?
Put your disgusting thing inside me?
- Keep your voice down. - Making another monster?
Another one like him?
[gunshot]
[door creaking]
[footsteps approaching]
The darkness.
[door shuts]
It always comes back.
♪ Sunshine on my shoulder ♪
♪ Makes me happy.. ♪
[whimpering]
[door closes]
I left my gun there. Hightailed out.
Are you sure you heard that music
coming from the attic?
You kidding? Scared the hell out of me.
[intense music]
"The darkness always comes back."
She was talking about George.
He was in the house.
According to DHS that group home was a zoo.
Security was next to nil.
Yeah, kids ran away all the time.
So, George could have, too.
So, it's just him and Mom in the house
and the gun that killed her.
Alright, so he scares Lee away, and then what?
He shoots his own mother?
[Scotty] 'Mom sent him away.'
Maybe, he was looking to settle the score.
[Will] 'Looked into the buyer of the house'
who ordered the inspection. Guy doesn't exist.
Well, someone signed the escrow papers.
Someone using an alias.
Who wanted us to find those skulls.
George.
He set this whole thing in motion.
Rush, phone for you. Benton Smith.
That's the name..
...of the buyer.
[ominous music]
[John] 'Nick.'
[music continues]
Hi, George.
[George] 'My congratulations to Will.'
'So invigorated when he left that escrow office.'
So, you're in Philadelphia.
I've been following your work these last few days.
And I see you've followed mine.
Oh, we found your deer eyes, yeah.
[George on phone] 'Vicious little brute, that Bambi.'
Do you know what Scottish researchers have discovered
about our friend, the deer?
Why don't you tell me?
On the mineral-deficient Island Of Rum..
...deer attack young birds.
'Nestlings. Decapitate the chicks.'
'Eat their heads!'
Imagine that.
So, you're the deer?
I thought you were the hunter.
I am both.
[mirthless chuckle]
Enough with the games, George.
You wanna talk, talk. If not, I'm hanging up.
Ask your question.
Why did you go back to your mother's house that night?
To kill her.
But perhaps..
...another beat me to it.
What do you mean?
I wasn't the only one who went back..
...to that house.
♪ If I had ♪
♪ A wish ♪
♪ That I could wish for you.. ♪
George?
♪ I'd make a wish ♪
♪ For sunshine ♪
♪ All the while ♪
♪ Sunshine on my shoulder.. ♪
George?
[gasping]
Why'd you send me away, Mother?
You know why.
I didn't make you blind. How could I?
You..
...are..
...darkness!
You did this to me! You know it!
[door slams]
[gasping]
[intense music]
[footsteps approaching]
[gun cocked]
Get out of my house.
[music continues]
[whimpering]
No. No.
[sobbing] No, no.
- No! - Yeah.
We're going to have some fun now.
Not in the woods.
Not in the woods!
[Lilly] 'Jacob came back.'
Raped your mother.
[George] 'We see things even when'
it seems, we don't.
Like you.
Hiding in the closet. Watching.
[chuckles]
Better than porn, that.
Why are you telling me this?
To show me what a monster you are?
Apt word choice..
"...monster."
- Now, you tell me something. - 'What?'
'Do you keep a photo of my mother at your bedside'
'like you do of all yourvictims?'
[breathes sharply]
How do you know that?
I know you, Lilly.
'Everything about you.'
[Lilly] 'You've been in my house, George?'
Not necessary..
...to know that.
'Who else would be in your bedroom..'
...except dead people?
George?
[intense music]
Heard you went back that night, scumbag.
Got freaky with the blind girl?
I didn't go back.
Yeah. Lab's got your DNA.
'It's only a matter of time till they'
match it to that semen.
Labs mess up.
Got a witness, too.
Her 12-year-old saw it all go down.
- Okay. - Okay, what?
I did a rape, like I do.
Uh-huh.
And I just wanted out.
["Sandman" by America]
♪ Ain't it foggy outside.. ♪
[gun cocking]
♪ All the planes ♪
♪ Have been grounded.. ♪
Whoa, kid.
[Jacob] 'Take it easy.'
Hey, put down the gun!
Not in the woods.
What?
How could you know that?
- About the woods? - Uff!
If you can't see, Mother?
Stop talking, George.
♪ We ain't had no time ♪
♪ To drink that beer.. ♪
No!
Forgive me.
[gunshot]
♪ He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye ♪
♪ Of a hurricane that's abandoned ♪
George shot his mother?
Point-blank.
- Why? - Don't ask me, man.
The kid was loony tunes.
[Nick] 'And you're saying..'
...she wasn't blind?
Looking down the barrel of that gun, she wasn't.
Well, George's mother could see.
"We see things even when it seems we don't."
So that's what George meant.
So we saying she was faking blindness all along?
She was crazy. Maybe in her mind, it was true.
So we know she was blind until that moment
in the attic right before the rape.
And "not in the woods," she said.
Well, what woods was she talking about?
[John] Alright, we traced George's call.
It was made from a pay phone.
Where?
The Tinicum Wildlife Reserve.
Where he dumped the bodies.
Where it all started, in the woods.
[Detective DeSalle] 'So what's his game?'
Well, it smells like a setup.
We're heading out. You stay here, Lil.
[scoffs]
What?
You heard me. It's you he wants. Let's go.
[sighs]
[Lilly] 'What do you want them to see?'
[intense music]
[indistinct chattering]
That's it.
[intense music]
[dogs barking]
John!
What is it?
[dogs barking]
[music continues]
[breathes deeply]
Head's missing.
Multiple gunshots.
Usually takes 'em out with one.
Knife wounds, too.
'That's new.'
His pattern's changing.
He's bored..
...or he's out of control.
[intense music]
[door creaking]
[sighing]
[music continues]
[breathes deeply]
That's why the woods.
This is the woods.
[George whistling]
[George] 'I told you long ago..'
...we would go hunting together..
...in the woods.
You and I.
[intense music]
They papered over the walls.
- What a shame. - To hide the blood?
[chuckles]
But the past never quite goes away, does it, Lilly?
No, it doesn't.
[cellphone rings]
Phone. Uh-uh.
Oops.
Weapon, I meant.
[chuckles]
Now the phone.
'And no..'
'...Lilly tricks, hmm?'
[inhales sharply]
Welcome to my past.
An empty room..
...with nothing but your mind..
...splashed on the walls.
Your mother faked her blindness.
Is that why you killed her?
[scoffs]
Hysterical blindness is the term
one need only to believe to become.
But you didn't understand that then.
You were just a lonely 12-year-old..
...in a lonely world.
Loneliness is for the weak..
...and for those who desire love.
[rattling]
Neither apply.
Then why did you bring me here, George?
To kill you.
[intense music]
Why now?
Oh, hunting has become a tedious game..
...since I met you, Lilly.
[rattling]
Even Atalanta lost her charm.
The one who survived.
What'd you do to her?
Dee Dee Cooper.
Oh, God, we met this girl.
Interviewed her in these woods.
Atalanta, the one that got away.
The first time.
- You get Lil yet? - She ain't at PPD.
- I told her to stay there. - Well, she ain't there.
And her cell keeps bumping me to voicemail.
- Then let's go to the house. - Why?
'Cause that's where he takes the heads.
Poor Dee Dee. How she begged..
'...in the woods.'
Like you will.
Because in the woods you're God, right?
God's a sociopath.
Free from all pretense of love and loyalty.
- Like you. - And you.
Disposing of those you purport to care for
like your dirty little sis.
'Sticky fingers on Lilly's hubby-to-be.'
Real bitch in heat, that one.
[chuckles]
I don't even think that about her.
You have.
Your mother was stripped..
...shot in the chest..
But in the end, you would've found
another reason to leave him, hmm?
Just like Tina, Janet, all of them.
'You replicate her murder over and over.'
But why the running?
Your mother didn't run.
Your junior college degree..
...equips you for pop psychology
and a low-level five-figure income, not much else.
Why do you make them run?
Why?
[intense music]
You were running, right?
'Why?'
Trying to find help?
Stop him from hurting your mother?
Her granny panties all in a bunch.
Who could resist that?
[inhales sharply]
Your turn now..
...to tell me.
Tell you what?
How little Lilly ran..
...long ago.
[cellphone ringing]
[telephone ringing]
Still ain't answering.
It's her car.
[George] 'Detective Valens, how nice of you to come.'
- What do you want with Lilly? - 'Hm.'
[George over phone] 'I never sent my condolences, did I'
'about your pretty fiance?'
'Oh, the river can do terrible things'
'to a girl's complexion.'
You hurt her, George..
...I'll murder you.
[gun cocking] A gentle reminder..
...to mind your manners.
Now put your boss on the phone.
George..
...let's work this out.
[George over phone] 'One courtesy call, its purpose'
to disabuse you of storming the Alamo guns blazing.
'If you call again, if I see a cop'
'within a 100 yards of this house'
I put a bullet..
...in her head.
No one's gotta die here, George.
Too bad you couldn't save her.
Save who?
Your daughter.
'From the big, bad wolf. His sharp, wet teeth.'
Let me talk to Lilly, George.
A real father would have eviscerated
'the thug who soiled his little girl.'
But you, you just talked.
[John] 'Now, you listen to me.'
You won't get out of this alive
without my help, George.
I know all about your help.
It comes 18 years too late.
'And true to form'
'you're too late for Lilly, too.'
[instrumental music]
[George] 'So..'
...where were we?
Game's over.
It's only a matter of time now.
You were telling me how you ran.
You're gonna die in here, too.
Tell me how you ran.
No.
[laughs]
You've never told anyone
what happened to little Lilly long ago
'but you want to tell.'
'Mm-hmm?'
Not you.
Well, I'm the only one left.
So tell me.
I was 10.
On my way to the store. It was..
'...dark out, late.'
And that's when the bad man came for you?
I ran.
[sighs]
But he caught me.
Did he touch you?
In your secret place?
[breathes deeply]
[sniffles]
He wanted my money.
'That's why he followed me.'
I gave him what I had.
And then he went his merry way.
You know he didn't.
[screaming]
- Tell me what he did. - He hit me.
I don't remember much after that.
Fractured jaw, five broken teeth.
Pretty little face not so pretty when he was through with you.
I fought, but he wouldn't stop.
But he just, he kept hitting me
and-and hitting me and laughing.
[screaming]
I didn't want to die..
...so I fought.
[breathes sharply]
We're alike, you and I.
[chuckles] How so?
Now, you fought too.
That's why you were bleeding.
'Jacob found you in the closet..'
'...cornered you.'
- No. - And you fought, like me.
No! Let go of me.
No.. Move back you..
[groaning]
Then you ran.
But the doors were locked
the windows nailed shut.
He hunted you down in that house like an animal.
- I'm not an animal. - That's why you pick fighters.
How'd he know you were in that closet, George?
Want to know what I'm wondering?
I'm wondering who would send a 10-year-old girl
'to the store late at night all alone?'
That's what I'm wondering.
[siren blares]
SWAT will have sharpshooters in position 10 minutes tops.
She doesn't have 10 minutes, Scotty. I'm goin' in.
Well, he was real clear about violating the perimeter.
He's blind on the south of the house. I can enter there.
Yeah, then he puts a bullet in her head.
Look, you do this, you'll kill her!
He's gonna kill her anyway.
Look, boss..
I'm not losing her too, Scotty.
[gun recoils]
Who sent you to the store, Lilly?
I'd go there all the time.
The owner knew me.
Answer the question, Lilly.
[sobbing] My mother.
Why?
[sniffling]
[sobbing]
She needed a drink.
Sold out..
...by the person who loved you most.
'Hm, hm, hm.'
No wonder little Lilly likes to play with the dead.
Who sold you out, George?
'Because what I'm wondering is'
how did Jacob know you were hiding in that closet?
You stop talking.
"Forgive me," your mother said.
- For what? - Shut up.
She told Jacob where to find you, didn't she?
You shut up!
Your mother wasn't raped in this attic.
You shut up! You shut up!
You were.
Not in the woods!
- Sit down! - Not in the woods!
Not in the woods.
No. No-no-no. In the closet.
In the closet. The boy.
Do it to him, not me.
Do it to him.
[panting]
He brought you up here and raped you
and she just watched.
I am God in these woods.
No, George.
You're a little boy..
...whose mother didn't love him.
Who sold him out.
Like you.
[George panting]
It's time you learned..
[intense music]
Down on the ground, George.
...about freedom.
On the ground!
When you kill me..
...the only thing that separates you and I
is who pulls the trigger.
[panting]
Don't make me do that.
- I don't want to kill you. - Yes, you do.
That's why you came.
We are alike, you and I.
I'm nothing like you.
You sleep with the dead.
You're already halfway there.
'And when you kill me..'
'...even those photos you cling to will fade away.'
Like everyone fades away for you.
And you will be alone..
...like me.
You're wrong.
I'll never be like you.
Want to bet?
[gunshots]
[breathes sharply]
[instrumental music]
["Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who]
♪ No one knows what it's like ♪
♪ To be the bad man ♪
♪ To be the sad man ♪
♪ Behind blue eyes ♪
♪ No one knows what it's like ♪
♪ To be hated ♪
♪ To be fated ♪
♪ To telling only lies ♪
♪ But my dreams ♪
♪ They aren't as empty ♪
♪ As my conscience seems to be ♪
♪ I have hours only lonely ♪
♪ My love is vengeance ♪
♪ That's never free ♪
♪ No one knows what it's like ♪
♪ To feel these feelings ♪
♪ Like I do ♪
♪ And I blame you ♪
♪ No one bites back as hard ♪
♪ On their anger ♪
♪ None of my pain and woe ♪
♪ Can show through ♪
♪ But my dreams ♪
♪ They aren't as empty ♪
♪ As my conscience seems to be ♪
♪ No one knows what it's like ♪
♪ To be the bad man ♪
♪ To be the sad man ♪
♪ Behind blue eyes ♪
[Lilly] 'Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.'
[theme music]