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Dr Pistorius. Detective Nick Wilson.

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Morning. Thanks for making the trip.

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Mutilation usually means curiosity.

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Childish exploration.

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Often a killer who's psychologically immature.

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He's like a little boy.

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Still pointing fingers and blaming his parents.

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If I'm going to get the confession,

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I need to get under his skin.

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You're not sleeping.

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Those nightmares you're having won't come true, you know.

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You have them too. Everything's terrifying in the dark.

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So, you're relieved it's over? Always.

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And always unsatisfied.

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You want to talk about it?

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No, I don't want to give you nightmares too.

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Problem shared.

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Is a problem two people then have to deal with.

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Which in the case of a brutal serial killer,

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is not something you need.

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Since I took this job, it gets pretty noisy in my head.

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It's only going to get worse. (LAUGHS)

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To the voices in our heads.

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To the voices in our heads. (GLASSES CLINK)

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WOMAN: Wake up, my little boy.

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What time is it, Mama? 11.

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Something to eat? It's late.

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MAN: Nadine!

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Nadine!

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Go to the front room and put the radio on.

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Get out!

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Just shut your goddamn mouth!

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You think I don't know what you are doing.

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No.

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Have you two been in for fingerprinting yet?

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C'mon, Aunty Eva. What's the fucking point?

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It's not going to save us.

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It's fucking bullshit.

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It's something. I just want you guys to be safe.

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Have you eaten? Not yet.

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Just look out for each other. Let's go.

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16 prostitutes have been strangled and we're doing fingerprinting.

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Whose idea was it? The commissioner's.

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Latest victim's body is the second one we can't identify in as many weeks.

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So, now if another woman gets murdered,

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at least we got a trail to follow.

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That's not protection.

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It's the best we can do.

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So many unidentified bodies.

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No leads.

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These women are panicking.

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Hey, Visser.

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Where did you pick these two up?

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Uh, they're new to the team. Profilers. Here to observe.

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Like a day at the zoo, huh?

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It's really good to see the women participating.

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In what? Fingerprints? What arsehole came up with that idea?

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These girls are terrified. How many more still are going to die?

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What would make you feel safer?

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Just walk with me a sec.

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More cops.

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Protecting us. Not judging us.

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Do any of your customers concern you?

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Only the ones who refuse to pay.

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I mean, if there's something odd he might do or say.

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Like a weird habit.

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They're all weird, lady. In their own way.

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It's more...

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If you're suspicious of anyone.

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Trust your gut if you think someone's capable of something more.

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More than just having sex.

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If I tell you that, you'll be arresting them all.

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AJ.

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The infamous Micki Pistorius.

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Good to see you again. Thanks.

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How are you? Good.

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This is where we found the latest victim.

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It's mostly farmland in the area.

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There's some wetland like this.

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Odd bits of traffic around.

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And there's cattle moving through all the time obviously.

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She was lying in this direction.

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Face down, legs spread wide apart.

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How far out, are we?

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12 kilometres.

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Any sign of a struggle?

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No. No blood splatter on the clothes or jewellery.

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Footprints?

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One set. Barely visible.

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Mostly washed away by the rain by the time we got here.

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So, no struggle, no footprints.

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He must be killing them somewhere else.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. He's staging the bodies.

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Um...

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Look at the bruising on their faces.

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I want us to look at how Crystal was staged.

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He buried her head in an ant heap,

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hoping the ants would eat at her neck first.

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Why?

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To hide the marks of the string he strangled her with.

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But look at how he's manipulating every crime scene.

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Staging them like this. It's his signature.

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There's two things connecting these scenes.

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The victims are all prostitutes.

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And it looks like they've all been strangled

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with the same type of ligature.

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Here you go. Black, no sugar. Thank you.

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I thought you'd appreciate this as well.

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You're too good. OK. Let's get a move on.

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OK. Look at where the bodies were found.

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They're predominantly white districts.

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A black man driving around these areas would really stick out.

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So, I think our killer is likely to be a white male,

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someone who would blend in.

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He's free to drive around at night to pick up women.

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So, he's almost certainly not got a wife or a girlfriend.

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That doesn't mean he didn't have one in the past, though.

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Think about the location we went to.

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That farmland.

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How would you describe it?

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Remote. Exactly.

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Driving these roads at night without streetlights,

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you wouldn't know where to turn

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unless you'd already checked it out during the day.

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So, he must be unemployed.

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Then he waits for a rainy day.

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We compared the weather reports with the days of death.

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The rain is his friend. It covers his tracks.

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OK, look here.

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The forensic reports tell us they haven't been raped.

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So, he could be impotent.

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And look at how he positions some of the women.

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We know he was disturbed when he was disposing of Crystal.

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But look at how he left some of the other women.

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Their legs spread apart.

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Wanting us to think they'd been raped.

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So, he positions them to simulate rape

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to compensate for his inability to actually rape.

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Yeah.

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So, what's his motive?

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Hate. I think.

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And possibly stemming from a difficult relationship with his mother.

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Although the impotence

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suggests many failed sexual experiences with women.

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He thinks women deserve to die.

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So, he's killing prostitutes to satisfy the hatred.

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Understanding the staging helps us to understand why.

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And it is something he's likely to progress.

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He's used different positions up till now,

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but he'll have to start doing things in a whole different way to keep up the chase.

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It's a game.

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(MUSIC PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND)

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(DOOR OPENS)

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How was it, precious?

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Shit. No chance of me passing.

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I'll love you, whatever grade you get, Bubba.

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Maybe just concentrate on your mathematics.

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Where's Dad?

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At work. Eat up.

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Thank you, Ma.

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Thanks. Pleasure, sir.

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Enjoy your drink. Thank you.

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And...

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How does it feel being back in Cape Town?

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Took a bit of getting used to.

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Why? Has it changed that much? No.

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No, I suppose it's more about me than the surroundings.

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Nothing bad, just...

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You live and learn, don't you?

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Anyway...

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How are you doing?

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How is your little boy?

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Yeah. I'm just glad I have him, man.

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He keeps me grounded.

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I tend to rely on this to do that.

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And for the pick-me-up

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when it feels like the bastard's getting away.

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You will catch him, Micki.

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I appreciate your confidence.

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Are you seriously telling me you don't have any?

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No. Of course, I do.

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It's just hard trying to stop him from seeing into your mind when you're alone.

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You know?

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Maybe don't be alone so much then.

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I'm dating someone, actually.

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Oh? Yeah.

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Yeah, he's called Mark.

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See him much? Uh. Not enough, probably.

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So, then see him more.

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The smile he just put on your face

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makes the one that the killer takes away worth it.

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I'll call him. Good.

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What do we have? It's a black female.

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Late 20s, heavy ligature marks around the neck.

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Looks like it was made by the same piece of string.

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Strangulation? Exactly.

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But this time he covered it with cuts.

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Six stab wounds all over her neck.

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Yeah. And after what looks like another day of bad weather.

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The strangulation wounds look slightly older.

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You mean he stabbed her afterwards? Mm-hm.

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He's moved on to another method to confuse us.

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I'm going to need more officers out there.

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I'll call the Commissioner.

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Any marks under the heels? Yes, cuts as well.

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OK. So, he's dragged her over.

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She was dead before he arrived here.

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Look, an earring's missing too.

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We also found this in her vagina.

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He's inserted a phallic object.

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What is it? A glass bottle.

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We found some tyre tracks.

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Right.

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90% certain it's a pick-up.

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Get someone to cast it. See if we can make a match.

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And check the statements again for any sightings.

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Hi. We've got some new information.

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Do you mind if I ask you about it?

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Sure. Come in.

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Won't take long, I promise.

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He's got exams. He's got studying to do.

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This is my husband, Gus.

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Hi. Micki. Pleased to meet you.

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Should I leave you two? Thanks, honey.

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Flora can stay. She works on Voortrekker. She might be useful.

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What is it you need to know?

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I need you to think some more about one of your clients.

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I thought I already made that clear.

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I know, but it's... It's more specific now.

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Sorry.

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Do any of them struggle to get an erection?

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Or maybe can't get one at all?

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Yes. One of my regulars.

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And what's his name? I don't know.

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He says he lives in a caravan somewhere near Parrow.

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He struggles to get hard, so I use a rubber band.

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Got to be very patient with him.

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You said if I thought someone was capable of doing something more.

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But he's not the type to kill. He's not aggressive.

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Does he drive a pick-up?

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Yes.

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What colour is the truck? Blue, I think.

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Same colour as the one Izelle got in before she died.

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Can you describe him?

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Brown hair, blue eyes.

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He told me that he was treated for madness at Tygerberg.

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He'd be a catch if he wasn't so bizarre.

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When he can't get it up, he just lies there saying weird stuff.

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Like what?

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Tell her about the bottle. Oh, yeah.

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He asked me if he could stick a glass bottle up me.

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Yeah. AJ.

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Tell the team the pick-up they're looking for is blue.

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Yeah. Eva said this guy asked

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if he could stick a glass bottle inside her.

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Like Elri. Yeah.

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Yeah. And she said that he told her he was being treated for madness.

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Yeah, but this happened with the Station Strangler remember?

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He checked himself into hospital

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just after killing some of the boys.

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Thought he could claim madness if he's caught.

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Yeah, I know. I know.

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Institutions.

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The least they could have done was hang some pictures on the wall.

266
00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:04,040
Don't knock it.

267
00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:05,960
Doing this job, we might both end up here.

268
00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,680
There were two patients. Can you describe them?

269
00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:15,400
Well, the first one was 27.

270
00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,320
He was black, about 5'10".

271
00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,520
And the other one was 50.

272
00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:22,960
White.

273
00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,160
With dark hair.

274
00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:26,440
What's the second one's name?

275
00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:27,920
You know I can't discuss...

276
00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:29,760
Unless he poses a serious threat to his own life

277
00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:30,960
or to the lives of others.

278
00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:31,960
Yeah. I know.

279
00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,000
This man is a suspect in the prostitute murders, Doctor.

280
00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:40,280
William Truter.

281
00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,920
What's his diagnosis?

282
00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:50,440
There wasn't one.

283
00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:51,960
He claimed to have amnesia,

284
00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,840
but we couldn't find any medical or psychiatric problems.

285
00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:56,200
Someone brought him in

286
00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,280
after they found him walking in the streets in a haze.

287
00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,400
Do you have an address? Nothing specific.

288
00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,080
Only that he had a caravan in Parrow.

289
00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:09,560
Thank you.

290
00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,280
We've got two patrol cars watching the caravan.

291
00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:19,720
Went through all the files again.

292
00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,840
Found this witness statement from last year.

293
00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:23,520
There was a sighting of a man

294
00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:25,240
in the same truck as treated

295
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,880
at the scene where Ane Pelser was dumped. Good work.

296
00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,880
When? 12 hours before her body was found.

297
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,480
Oh, come on, Rikus.

298
00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,240
You've got to admit, we're building to something here.

299
00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,040
It's still circumstantial.

300
00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:41,880
He's out there, Rikus and he's going to kill again.

301
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:43,920
This is your chance to make a difference.

302
00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:45,680
Keep these women safe. That's what you said.

303
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:51,160
OK. Really?

304
00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,440
You think it's enough?

305
00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:56,840
You'll make it enough when you get him to confess.

306
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,240
Mr Truter.

307
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,920
My name is Micki Pistorius and I'm a criminal psychologist.

308
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,840
That's...it's very nice,

309
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:26,880
but... I don't need a shrink.

310
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,720
Well, this isn't a confidential doctor-patient interview, Mr Truter.

311
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:34,800
I just want to ask you a few questions.

312
00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:39,440
Sure. Fire away.

313
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:40,640
OK.

314
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,520
Well, do you work?

315
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:43,960
I used to.

316
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,760
What was your job? I was a mechanic.

317
00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,120
Oh. So, you like cars?

318
00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:51,080
Yeah. Did do.

319
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,440
Yeah, when I was a kid.

320
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,840
And why did you lose your job?

321
00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,440
Why does anyone lose their job?

322
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:01,720
Work dried up.

323
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,440
Well...

324
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,160
That must have been really hard for you.

325
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,720
Yeah, well. Money's tough.

326
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,360
That's why I live in a fucking caravan.

327
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,160
How do you afford to eat? People help me.

328
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,680
Grace still pays for my food.

329
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,240
Grace. Who's Grace?

330
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,360
She's my ex-wife. She lives two blocks away on Bluken Street.

331
00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:29,160
She still loves me. Who could blame her?

332
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,360
Are you married, Micki?

333
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,360
I'm afraid that's not relevant.

334
00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:44,040
You were. It went wrong, too. Yeah?

335
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,720
He couldn't cope with you talking to other men

336
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:51,240
in such intimate circumstances.

337
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,880
In case you found them more attractive than him.

338
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,200
Do you use prostitutes, William?

339
00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:05,640
No?

340
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,800
Whores.

341
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:11,760
Me?

342
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,960
Do you know how many women I've got?

343
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,040
Are you going to tell me?

344
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,280
Too many to count.

345
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,320
I'm a real gentleman.

346
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,400
I love women. They love me.

347
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,760
You know, I can tell straightaway when someone's attracted to me.

348
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,920
But no. No. No, I don't pay for sex.

349
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:52,960
And?

350
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,840
We need something more concrete.

351
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,520
I've checked his tyres.

352
00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,280
They don't match the tracks where Elri was found.

353
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,120
Maybe he changed them.

354
00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:02,440
Maybe is not good enough.

355
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,400
Let's see if forensics have come back with anything from inside.

356
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:08,640
Sure thing.

357
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,160
It's definitely him, Rikus.

358
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,160
I can't charge him on a hunch, Micki.

359
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,440
It's Good Friday tomorrow. The courts are closed till Tuesday.

360
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,640
There's every chance we'll have to release him tonight.

361
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:24,680
Hey...

362
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,680
He said his wife still lives on Bluken Street.

363
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,360
You take Erika. Let her do the talking.

364
00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:34,440
I'll stay here in case he wants to speak up.

365
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,200
ERIKA: Can you tell me about when William left?

366
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,680
It was a Sunday.

367
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,480
I was hanging out his clothes.

368
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,000
He tried to shout me down.

369
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,080
Said I'd ruined his T-shirt.

370
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,600
I got brave. What do you mean?

371
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,160
I faced up to him. You know, like this.

372
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:32,200
I said to him, "If you speak to me like that again, I'll kill you."

373
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,600
Must have taken me seriously

374
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,440
because he walked out that door and he's never come back.

375
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,280
And do you miss having him around? No.

376
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:47,600
He didn't like sex.

377
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,320
He...

378
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:56,120
He couldn't get aroused and didn't make me feel very attractive.

379
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:00,920
And the lies.

380
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,480
What lies?

381
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,920
You know, saying he was going out for bread

382
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,400
and coming back six hours later.

383
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,440
I used to check the meter on his truck.

384
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,360
It always showed he'd been many kilometres away.

385
00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:18,040
That day that I ruined his T-shirt, stood up to him...

386
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:19,400
(PHONE RINGS)

387
00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,600
I knew. I knew that was the beginning of my freedom.

388
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,960
If we needed you to say all of this again in a statement,

389
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,640
would you be willing to?

390
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:35,480
Sure.

391
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,560
Good. Excuse me.

392
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,560
Hello?

393
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,800
Rikus. I'm with the forensic team at the location.

394
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,520
It's going very well.

395
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,520
We searched his pick-up truck.

396
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,720
You're never going to believe what we found.

397
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,200
The missing earring.

398
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,120
Can I ask you what he's done?

399
00:27:58,120 --> 00:27:59,920
When the time is right, I'll let you know.

400
00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:02,560
But you've been very helpful.

401
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:03,840
OK. Uh...

402
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,480
When I used to challenge him about where he'd been...

403
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:08,920
..he used to say he had amnesia.

404
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,240
Forensics found fingerprints and the missing earring.

405
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,920
Well, that's good, right? It was.

406
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,960
Now, the commissioner wants trace evidence,

407
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,840
something that links William directly to the victim.

408
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,160
Grace said he used to travel far

409
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,480
when he told her he was just going for bread.

410
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,240
It's still just circumstantial.

411
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:38,560
If we don't nail him today,

412
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,760
the court's going to force us to release him.

413
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,400
Micki's going to have to try to coax a confession.

414
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,840
She doesn't coax. It's not what the job is.

415
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,160
Tell me more about your mother.

416
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,560
I loved her. We were close.

417
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,240
How close?

418
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:09,080
I slept in her bed until I was 16. Once my dad died, she got bored.

419
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,240
Did you go to school? Sometimes.

420
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,280
My friends thought it was weird that I slept in her bed, too.

421
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,760
But, hey. Everyone's got their thing, you know?

422
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,320
What's yours, Micki?

423
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,120
We have women that can ID you as a client.

424
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,120
Tell me when you started using prostitutes.

425
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,240
When I was 20. I stopped a year later.

426
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,600
Why? I caught something. Put me off.

427
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,600
Then I met my wife. Grace. Yeah?

428
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:47,640
Yeah.

429
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,160
Like I said. Didn't work out.

430
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,040
I used to drive at night just to get away from her.

431
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,040
Back to the prostitutes? No.

432
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,920
To read a book. For peace.

433
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,520
"Can you do this? Can you take me there?

434
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:09,880
"When are you gonna clean the gara...?"

435
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,480
You weren't like that, were you, Micki?

436
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:18,960
You didn't tell your ex what to do.

437
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:23,760
Men who drive out to get away from their wives

438
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,520
don't usually go and read a book.

439
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,640
You want me to tell you about the girls, don't you?

440
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:33,840
What I did to them.

441
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,920
This is what you do, isn't it?

442
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,320
You extract information.

443
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,080
I'll tell you about my little secrets.

444
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,760
If that's what you want.

445
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:46,920
Did you murder those women?

446
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,760
I have no idea what you're talking about.

447
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,880
Sorry, I failed you. You haven't.

448
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,360
What's all that about sleeping with his mother?

449
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,360
I think he's in love with her.

450
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:32,240
You told us he had a difficult relationship with her.

451
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:33,400
Yeah. No, he...

452
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,640
He felt mentally castrated by her and by his father.

453
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,480
He doesn't kill the women who are patient with him like Eva.

454
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,760
They represent good mothers.

455
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,960
The ones he kills represent bad mothers.

456
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,240
Then why didn't he kill his wife?

457
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,400
She represents something else.

458
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,160
She's too familiar.

459
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,240
None of this is any use to us anyway.

460
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,320
We need to put more pressure on him.

461
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,480
It's all part of the game he wants us to play.

462
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,560
No, no. I'm tired of games. He's not going to admit it.

463
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,280
We've been forced to release him. What?

464
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:12,760
Well, we can keep watching the caravan.

465
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,920
If he goes anywhere, we'll be right behind.

466
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,800
There are women fucking dying out there, Rikus.

467
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,240
Surveillance isn't going to stop that.

468
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,120
There's nothing else we can do.

469
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:24,560
Are you giving up?

470
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,280
Hey.

471
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,160
I can't tell you how much I've needed this after the day I've had.

472
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,880
Now try being stuck in a room with a killer.

473
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:25,480
No, wait. Wait. I refuse to bore you any more with my day.

474
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:26,480
It's a Saturday.

475
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,760
Does that mean that I can't bore you with mine?

476
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,760
No. No. You can do whatever you want. Let me be clear.

477
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,680
Sorry. It's just...

478
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,440
It's really good to see you.

479
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,600
Hey. Don't let him get to you.

480
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:56,000
Till you find something concrete. Why tear yourself inside out?

481
00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,560
Just...

482
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,760
Because he's walking free and I know what he's capable of.

483
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:09,480
Sorry. We haven't seen each other in two weeks and we're stuck here.

484
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,560
How about we go back to mine?

485
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,880
That I can do..

486
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,600
(PHONE RINGS)

487
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:32,880
Yep.

488
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:36,360
Shit.

489
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:37,720
Yeah, near Macassar?

490
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,160
OK. Yeah. Thanks, Rikus.

491
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:37,360
Where is Erika?

492
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,360
Uh, she's on her way to the unit. She called to apologise.

493
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:41,760
That's 19 women now, Rikus.

494
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,120
Listen, someone called one of our operators

495
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,160
said that more prostitutes are going to be found.

496
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,440
And admitted to the other killings.

497
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,400
We taped it. It's being analysed.

498
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:52,920
OK. Thanks.

499
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,920
(SIREN WAILS)

500
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:57,640
Hey!

501
00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:07,280
This is wilful damage to dignity and reputation, Mr Truter.

502
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:09,960
What's that?

503
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,720
You know what it is. You put them up.

504
00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:15,080
You're trying to control our perception of you.

505
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,320
Why would I do that?

506
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:18,120
To make yourself look mad.

507
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,560
These are copies of your medical records.

508
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,920
And tell me about these blackouts when you went to Tygerberg Hospital.

509
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:30,720
How can I tell you about something that I can't remember?

510
00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:31,720
It's all in here.

511
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:33,960
The doctors told us they couldn't find anything wrong with you.

512
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,520
Yeah, well, they missed it.

513
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,320
There's something wrong with me. No, you're making it up.

514
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:46,920
Where were you born?

515
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:49,760
Porterville.

516
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,040
And what was your childhood like?

517
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,360
I hated my father.

518
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,040
He beat my Mama.

519
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,240
When he died, she got a new boyfriend. I...

520
00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:01,840
I hated him, too.

521
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,480
Did he beat you?

522
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:05,640
No.

523
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,000
But when he moved in, Mama ignored me.

524
00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:23,040
We also found this earring in your pick-up.

525
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,840
Do you recognise it?

526
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,560
It matches an earring found on a victim near Kuilsriver.

527
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,120
And we have witnesses.

528
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,080
Working girls that say that you're a customer.

529
00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:38,200
So, what?

530
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,560
Those whores have hundreds of men like me.

531
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,400
One of your prostitutes told me

532
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,040
you find it difficult to get an erection.

533
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:49,800
No?

534
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,960
Don't listen to her, Micki.

535
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,080
We also have fingerprints.

536
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,120
Look, I don't have the money to pay them,

537
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:01,640
so why would I pick them up?

538
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,400
Well, you knew you were going to kill them,

539
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:04,720
so you didn't need the money.

540
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:14,880
Willy...

541
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,040
..you can speak to me.

542
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,320
Tell me what happened.

543
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:26,600
You can talk to me.

544
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,120
Did you kill those girls?

545
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,200
I...

546
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,440
I could have done. Yes.

547
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,600
But you'd have to prove it. Yeah.

548
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:08,960
I'm done with this.

549
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,680
Sit back down. Why should I?

550
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:17,240
I want to do what's right for you.

551
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:22,680
There's something I want to tell you. Something...

552
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:25,520
..I want to confess.

553
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:47,840
Well?

554
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:01,560
No.

555
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:03,960
I'm sorry.

556
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,960
I thought I'd tell you in confidence, but now I'm...

557
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,360
..not sure I should say anything after all.

558
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,440
Interview terminated.

559
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:21,200
(PHONE RINGS)

560
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:28,160
Hello?

561
00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:30,680
RIKUS: Are you sitting down?

562
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,960
What is it? It's William.

563
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:38,600
The state prosecutor's not happy.

564
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:41,480
They're going to release him.

565
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,520
Oh, tell me you're not serious? That's...

566
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,800
Rikus, that's fucking bullshit.

567
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,720
I'm sorry, Micki.

568
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:52,600
I know you worked so hard.

569
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:55,480
We all did.

570
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:04,640
I just can't believe after all that work, we still end up failing them.

571
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,720
Those poor women.

572
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,400
When did you last have a proper meal? I mean a home-cooked meal.

573
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,360
I honestly can't remember.

574
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,360
Maybe a year ago.

575
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,040
There's just so many dead women.

576
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,080
I have to go deeper.

577
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,480
I have to get him. I just...

578
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:35,400
I'm so sorry.

579
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,320
It's not your fault. It is my fault.

580
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,120
Think about all the lives you're saving.

581
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:52,040
As women, we will always look out for each other. We're family.

582
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,080
You're family now, Micki.

583
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,000
Thank you.

584
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:04,880
Come on, eat up.

585
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:29,520
You looking to have some fun? Yeah. I do.

586
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:31,520
Do you have some cash on you?

587
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:37,400
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES)

588
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,600
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