Post by CC Fan on Jun 1, 2005 0:44:57 GMT -5
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The episode opens on November 3, 1972. The song "Sunshine On My Shoulders" by John Denver plays on a record player. It's an attic in an old house. A twelve year old George Marks (from "Mindhunter") sits alone in the dark by the window. He's flicking the flashlight on and off. His mother comes upstairs because she wants him to turn the music down. George is surrounded by dolls and stuffed animals, but they are all missing their eyes. His mother tells him to go to the store, but George ignores her. He tells her that he did a bad thing. He then the placed the eyes in her hands and she dropped them to the floor. Later that night, Simone Marks lies dead on the floor in the attic in her underwear with a shot to the chest. The case box is filed under "Marks, S."
Present day. Scotty joins Lilly on an active crime scene. It's the same house that we saw earlier. While they walk around the back of the house, Scotty apologizes to Lilly about the Christina mess. She accepts his apology, and says that she's sorry it came between them. In the back yard, there are nine buried skulls, all facing the attic. Someone had wanted to buy the house, so an inspector was sent to the site. He found the skulls in the yard. The homicide detective on the case tells them that a woman was murdered up in the attic thirty-three years ago, but the case remains unsolved. Lilly looks at the skulls and realizes that all of the eye sockets have black marbles (deer eyes) in them. She and Scotty know that these are the missing heads from the bodies discovered in "Mindhunter." The detective tells them that the house used to belong to a Simone Marks - George's mother.
Lilly and Stillman pull the boxes on the serial murder cases. Simone was raped, but the other were not. Scotty checked with fugitives and they had a beat on George up until a few weeks ago. Prints were lifted from a jimmied window at the Marks' house the night of the murder. There were no hits in the past, but Scotty's going to run them again. Lilly finds that George was removed from the house earlier that night by Simone’s request because she was scared of her son. He was placed in a group home.
Jeffries and Vera meet with the DHS worker who removed George. They go up in the attic, and he tells them that Simone kept George locked up with deadbolts and window locks. He says that Simone was as weird as George. When the worker took George, he noticed that someone across the yard was flicking a flashlight on and off just as George had. Simone realized that there were lines carved into the wall at the top of the staircase. She accused George and he told her that he was trying to help her. She calls him "the darkness." Jeffries checks for the carved lines, and finds a set of thirteen at the top and bottom of the stairs, which contain thirteen steps.
Lilly and Scotty meet with George's neighbor from '72. He and George used the flashlights to communicate through Morse code, but nothing unusual just benign greetings and such. The night of the murder, George stopped answering back so Evan went over to the house. He peeked through the window, and saw Simone. He was distracted by two men in ski masks trying to enter the house. When he looked back into the window, Simone was staring right at him. She closed the shade, but didn't seem to see him. The robbers started to jimmy the window, so Evan ran off. Lilly realizes that Simone was blind.
Back at the police station, the gang meets in Stillman's office. Jeffries hypothesizes that no one knew about Simone's blindness because she was a shut-in. Vera gets a hit on the window prints - Jacob Leonardo. He's locked up for raping women, boys, and everything in between. He uses his belt to subdue his victims.
Jeffries and Vera meet with Leonardo in jail. He says he met a guy at the track and they concocted this scheme to rob the Marks house. Leonardo claims that the other guy killed Simone. After they entered the house that night, they started going through Simone's things. She entered the room and started undressing for bed. Leonardo said something when he saw her undress, so she realized that they were in her room. He wanted to rape her, but she recognized the other robber's voice – it was the DHS worker who removed George from the home earlier that night. He wanted to get out of there, so he held a gun to Leonardo and told him to leave. Leonardo ran out and left Simone with the other guy. The gun was a woodsmen series, the same that killed Simone.
Scotty interrogates DHS worker Lee. He didn't kill Simone. He told her that he wouldn't hurt her, and she asked him if he was going to rape her and create another monster like George. Then, they heard a door open and shut and footsteps going up the stairs. "Sunshine On My Shoulders" starts playing again. Simone says that "the darkness always comes back." Lee was scared and ran out of there, but left the gun behind. From behind the interrogation mirrored glass, Lilly and Stillman realize that "the darkness" refers to George, so George went back to the house that night.
Lilly finds that the group home was a zoo with very little security. Kids ran away all of the time. Jeffries checks into the buyer who ordered the inspection on the Marks house, but it's an alias for the person who wanted them to find the skulls - George. George orchestrated the whole thing. Lilly gets a phone call from a Benton Smith - the same name on the escrow papers for the inspection. Lilly picks up the phone with Scotty and Stillman listening. "Hi, George," she says coyly. He had been watching Will as he investigated the escrow papers, and he has been watching Lilly's work as well, just as she has been watching his. "Yeah, we found your deer eyes," she tells him. Lilly wants to know why he went back to the house that night, and he tells her to kill his mother, but someone beat him to it. After Lee left, Simone went up to the attic with the gun. George asked her why she sent him away, and she told him that he is "the darkness" because he made her blind. George doesn't understand. Someone else entered the house, so George hid in the closet. Leonardo walked up the stairs to the attic and ripped off Simone's clothes. She kept yelling at him, "not in the woods." George tells Lilly that "we see things even when it seems we don't." Lilly thinks he means himself hiding in the closet. George asks her if she keeps a photo of his mother beside her bed like she does all of her victims. Lilly thinks he has been in her house, but he says that he knows her and only dead people would be in her room. He drops the phone and takes off.
Vera goes back to Leonardo, and Leonardo tells him that he did the rape but not the murder. He says that George came out of the closet and picked up the gun. George asked his mother how she could know about the woods if she was blind. He turned the gun from Leonardo to Simone, and she turned and looked right at him. She started begging him not to shoot her, but he shot her dead.
Back at the station, Lilly figures that Simone must have believed she was blind, but she wasn't ("we see things even when it seems we don't”). They trace George's earlier call to the wildlife preserve where the original bodies were found. Stillman and Scotty head to the preserve, but Lilly is forced to stay behind because Stillman is worried about her. Lilly looks over the photos of the nine skulls, and she wants to figure out what the skulls are facing. She turns around and looks at the board with the victims pictures, and she suddenly has an idea.
In the wildlife preserve, Stillman finds the empty payphone George used. Jeffries finds a partially buried body with only the hand unearthed. They uncover the rest of the body, and the head is missing. There are multiple gunshots and knife wounds, so it appears that George's pattern is changing.
Lilly goes back to the house alone. She walks up the dark staircase into the attic with her flashlight. She looks around the attic and finds a spot where the wall paper is partially pulled back. There appears to be something behind it, so she starts ripping down all of the paper. There are trees painted on the walls - the woods. George starts humming "Sunshine On My Shoulders." He comes into view from the stairs, and he's pointing a gun right in Lilly's direction. "I told you we'd go hunting together - in the woods," he tells her. Lilly's cell phone rings, and George reaches for it while holding her at gun point, but he purposely grabs her gun instead. He then takes her cell phone. Lilly confronts him about his mother faking her blindness. It's hysterical blindness and "one only needs to believe to become." He brought Lilly here to kill her. He also killed Didi Cooper, the woman who escaped the first time around.
Back in the wildlife preserve, Stillman and Scotty identify the body as Didi Cooper. Scotty keeps trying to reach Lilly at the station and on her cell, but her cell keeps bumping him to voicemail. Stillman decides to go to the house because that's where George buried the heads.
Back in the attic, George confronts Lilly about the way she dumped her sister for stealing her fiance. "I don't even think that about her," and George replies, "you have." Lilly asks George why he makes the women run since his mother didn't run. He tells Lilly that her junior college degree "equips [her] for pop psychology and low level five figure income." Lilly realizes that George was running the night of the murder. George wants Lilly to him how "little Lilly ran a long time ago."
Scotty tries Lilly again on her cell and gets George instead. George mentions Elisa's death, and Scotty threatens him about hurting Lilly. George slides the gun to remind Scotty to behave. He then asks for Stillman. Stillman wants to work it out, but George just tells him to stay away or he'll kill Lilly. He then brings up Stillman's daughter's rape. He tells him that he'll be too late for Lilly too.
George goes back to why Lilly ran. She has never told anyone, so George wants her to tell him. She was ten years old and on her way to the store at night when a man approached her. George asks her if the man touched her in her secret place. She says he wanted her money so she gave him everything she had. "And then he went on his merry way," he asks. "You know he didn't." He hit Lilly several times fracturing her jaw and knocking in her teeth. She didn't want to die, so she fought back. She reminds George that he fought too, that's why he picks fighters. He ran away from Leonardo, but the doors were locked and the windows shut tight. She wants to know how Leonardo knew that George was hiding in the closet, and he responds "what I want to know is who would send a ten year old girl to the store alone late at night?"
Outside the house, Stillman and Scotty are discussing a plan with the S.W.A.T team. Stillman decides to go after Lilly. Scotty tries to stop him, but Stillman pushes him out of the way. He says that George is going to kill Lilly anyway. He crosses the police tape and starts toward the house.
Lilly tells George that she went to the store because she knew the owner. She finally tearfully admits that her mother sent her there because she needed a drink. She was sold out by the person who loved her most. Lilly asks, "Who sold you out George?" Simone told Leonardo where to find George. It was George who was raped in "the woods" because his mother begged Leonardo to rape him instead of her. "I am God in these woods, " George tells Lilly, but she reminds him that he is just a little boy whose mother sold him out. He gives Lilly back her gun so she'll kill him, and they will be the same. Lilly doesn't want to kill George. George tells her that she "sleeps with the dead, [she's] halfway there." Stillman creeps up the stairs into the attic. Lilly tells George that they are nothing alike, and he raises his gun and points it straight at Lilly, "Oh yeah?" Stillman is about to enter the attic, and we hear three shots. Stillman enters and we see Lilly standing there in shock, still pointing her gun in George's direction. George lies dead on the attic floor.
The closing scenes are to "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who. George lies bleeding on the floor. Lilly is still in shock. The CSU team takes pictures of George's lifeless body. Lilly puts the gun down and hands it to Stillman. She walks down the attic stairs. The homicide detective takes the victims' pictures down off the board. Lilly stands outside the Marks' house. The homicide detective files the boxes away. Lilly looks up at the attic window and "sees" Simone and twelve year old George. She turns around and sees the rest of her team. It flashes to a twelve year old Lilly. Lilly walks over to the team and they all walk off together.
The episode opens on November 3, 1972. The song "Sunshine On My Shoulders" by John Denver plays on a record player. It's an attic in an old house. A twelve year old George Marks (from "Mindhunter") sits alone in the dark by the window. He's flicking the flashlight on and off. His mother comes upstairs because she wants him to turn the music down. George is surrounded by dolls and stuffed animals, but they are all missing their eyes. His mother tells him to go to the store, but George ignores her. He tells her that he did a bad thing. He then the placed the eyes in her hands and she dropped them to the floor. Later that night, Simone Marks lies dead on the floor in the attic in her underwear with a shot to the chest. The case box is filed under "Marks, S."
Present day. Scotty joins Lilly on an active crime scene. It's the same house that we saw earlier. While they walk around the back of the house, Scotty apologizes to Lilly about the Christina mess. She accepts his apology, and says that she's sorry it came between them. In the back yard, there are nine buried skulls, all facing the attic. Someone had wanted to buy the house, so an inspector was sent to the site. He found the skulls in the yard. The homicide detective on the case tells them that a woman was murdered up in the attic thirty-three years ago, but the case remains unsolved. Lilly looks at the skulls and realizes that all of the eye sockets have black marbles (deer eyes) in them. She and Scotty know that these are the missing heads from the bodies discovered in "Mindhunter." The detective tells them that the house used to belong to a Simone Marks - George's mother.
Lilly and Stillman pull the boxes on the serial murder cases. Simone was raped, but the other were not. Scotty checked with fugitives and they had a beat on George up until a few weeks ago. Prints were lifted from a jimmied window at the Marks' house the night of the murder. There were no hits in the past, but Scotty's going to run them again. Lilly finds that George was removed from the house earlier that night by Simone’s request because she was scared of her son. He was placed in a group home.
Jeffries and Vera meet with the DHS worker who removed George. They go up in the attic, and he tells them that Simone kept George locked up with deadbolts and window locks. He says that Simone was as weird as George. When the worker took George, he noticed that someone across the yard was flicking a flashlight on and off just as George had. Simone realized that there were lines carved into the wall at the top of the staircase. She accused George and he told her that he was trying to help her. She calls him "the darkness." Jeffries checks for the carved lines, and finds a set of thirteen at the top and bottom of the stairs, which contain thirteen steps.
Lilly and Scotty meet with George's neighbor from '72. He and George used the flashlights to communicate through Morse code, but nothing unusual just benign greetings and such. The night of the murder, George stopped answering back so Evan went over to the house. He peeked through the window, and saw Simone. He was distracted by two men in ski masks trying to enter the house. When he looked back into the window, Simone was staring right at him. She closed the shade, but didn't seem to see him. The robbers started to jimmy the window, so Evan ran off. Lilly realizes that Simone was blind.
Back at the police station, the gang meets in Stillman's office. Jeffries hypothesizes that no one knew about Simone's blindness because she was a shut-in. Vera gets a hit on the window prints - Jacob Leonardo. He's locked up for raping women, boys, and everything in between. He uses his belt to subdue his victims.
Jeffries and Vera meet with Leonardo in jail. He says he met a guy at the track and they concocted this scheme to rob the Marks house. Leonardo claims that the other guy killed Simone. After they entered the house that night, they started going through Simone's things. She entered the room and started undressing for bed. Leonardo said something when he saw her undress, so she realized that they were in her room. He wanted to rape her, but she recognized the other robber's voice – it was the DHS worker who removed George from the home earlier that night. He wanted to get out of there, so he held a gun to Leonardo and told him to leave. Leonardo ran out and left Simone with the other guy. The gun was a woodsmen series, the same that killed Simone.
Scotty interrogates DHS worker Lee. He didn't kill Simone. He told her that he wouldn't hurt her, and she asked him if he was going to rape her and create another monster like George. Then, they heard a door open and shut and footsteps going up the stairs. "Sunshine On My Shoulders" starts playing again. Simone says that "the darkness always comes back." Lee was scared and ran out of there, but left the gun behind. From behind the interrogation mirrored glass, Lilly and Stillman realize that "the darkness" refers to George, so George went back to the house that night.
Lilly finds that the group home was a zoo with very little security. Kids ran away all of the time. Jeffries checks into the buyer who ordered the inspection on the Marks house, but it's an alias for the person who wanted them to find the skulls - George. George orchestrated the whole thing. Lilly gets a phone call from a Benton Smith - the same name on the escrow papers for the inspection. Lilly picks up the phone with Scotty and Stillman listening. "Hi, George," she says coyly. He had been watching Will as he investigated the escrow papers, and he has been watching Lilly's work as well, just as she has been watching his. "Yeah, we found your deer eyes," she tells him. Lilly wants to know why he went back to the house that night, and he tells her to kill his mother, but someone beat him to it. After Lee left, Simone went up to the attic with the gun. George asked her why she sent him away, and she told him that he is "the darkness" because he made her blind. George doesn't understand. Someone else entered the house, so George hid in the closet. Leonardo walked up the stairs to the attic and ripped off Simone's clothes. She kept yelling at him, "not in the woods." George tells Lilly that "we see things even when it seems we don't." Lilly thinks he means himself hiding in the closet. George asks her if she keeps a photo of his mother beside her bed like she does all of her victims. Lilly thinks he has been in her house, but he says that he knows her and only dead people would be in her room. He drops the phone and takes off.
Vera goes back to Leonardo, and Leonardo tells him that he did the rape but not the murder. He says that George came out of the closet and picked up the gun. George asked his mother how she could know about the woods if she was blind. He turned the gun from Leonardo to Simone, and she turned and looked right at him. She started begging him not to shoot her, but he shot her dead.
Back at the station, Lilly figures that Simone must have believed she was blind, but she wasn't ("we see things even when it seems we don't”). They trace George's earlier call to the wildlife preserve where the original bodies were found. Stillman and Scotty head to the preserve, but Lilly is forced to stay behind because Stillman is worried about her. Lilly looks over the photos of the nine skulls, and she wants to figure out what the skulls are facing. She turns around and looks at the board with the victims pictures, and she suddenly has an idea.
In the wildlife preserve, Stillman finds the empty payphone George used. Jeffries finds a partially buried body with only the hand unearthed. They uncover the rest of the body, and the head is missing. There are multiple gunshots and knife wounds, so it appears that George's pattern is changing.
Lilly goes back to the house alone. She walks up the dark staircase into the attic with her flashlight. She looks around the attic and finds a spot where the wall paper is partially pulled back. There appears to be something behind it, so she starts ripping down all of the paper. There are trees painted on the walls - the woods. George starts humming "Sunshine On My Shoulders." He comes into view from the stairs, and he's pointing a gun right in Lilly's direction. "I told you we'd go hunting together - in the woods," he tells her. Lilly's cell phone rings, and George reaches for it while holding her at gun point, but he purposely grabs her gun instead. He then takes her cell phone. Lilly confronts him about his mother faking her blindness. It's hysterical blindness and "one only needs to believe to become." He brought Lilly here to kill her. He also killed Didi Cooper, the woman who escaped the first time around.
Back in the wildlife preserve, Stillman and Scotty identify the body as Didi Cooper. Scotty keeps trying to reach Lilly at the station and on her cell, but her cell keeps bumping him to voicemail. Stillman decides to go to the house because that's where George buried the heads.
Back in the attic, George confronts Lilly about the way she dumped her sister for stealing her fiance. "I don't even think that about her," and George replies, "you have." Lilly asks George why he makes the women run since his mother didn't run. He tells Lilly that her junior college degree "equips [her] for pop psychology and low level five figure income." Lilly realizes that George was running the night of the murder. George wants Lilly to him how "little Lilly ran a long time ago."
Scotty tries Lilly again on her cell and gets George instead. George mentions Elisa's death, and Scotty threatens him about hurting Lilly. George slides the gun to remind Scotty to behave. He then asks for Stillman. Stillman wants to work it out, but George just tells him to stay away or he'll kill Lilly. He then brings up Stillman's daughter's rape. He tells him that he'll be too late for Lilly too.
George goes back to why Lilly ran. She has never told anyone, so George wants her to tell him. She was ten years old and on her way to the store at night when a man approached her. George asks her if the man touched her in her secret place. She says he wanted her money so she gave him everything she had. "And then he went on his merry way," he asks. "You know he didn't." He hit Lilly several times fracturing her jaw and knocking in her teeth. She didn't want to die, so she fought back. She reminds George that he fought too, that's why he picks fighters. He ran away from Leonardo, but the doors were locked and the windows shut tight. She wants to know how Leonardo knew that George was hiding in the closet, and he responds "what I want to know is who would send a ten year old girl to the store alone late at night?"
Outside the house, Stillman and Scotty are discussing a plan with the S.W.A.T team. Stillman decides to go after Lilly. Scotty tries to stop him, but Stillman pushes him out of the way. He says that George is going to kill Lilly anyway. He crosses the police tape and starts toward the house.
Lilly tells George that she went to the store because she knew the owner. She finally tearfully admits that her mother sent her there because she needed a drink. She was sold out by the person who loved her most. Lilly asks, "Who sold you out George?" Simone told Leonardo where to find George. It was George who was raped in "the woods" because his mother begged Leonardo to rape him instead of her. "I am God in these woods, " George tells Lilly, but she reminds him that he is just a little boy whose mother sold him out. He gives Lilly back her gun so she'll kill him, and they will be the same. Lilly doesn't want to kill George. George tells her that she "sleeps with the dead, [she's] halfway there." Stillman creeps up the stairs into the attic. Lilly tells George that they are nothing alike, and he raises his gun and points it straight at Lilly, "Oh yeah?" Stillman is about to enter the attic, and we hear three shots. Stillman enters and we see Lilly standing there in shock, still pointing her gun in George's direction. George lies dead on the attic floor.
The closing scenes are to "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who. George lies bleeding on the floor. Lilly is still in shock. The CSU team takes pictures of George's lifeless body. Lilly puts the gun down and hands it to Stillman. She walks down the attic stairs. The homicide detective takes the victims' pictures down off the board. Lilly stands outside the Marks' house. The homicide detective files the boxes away. Lilly looks up at the attic window and "sees" Simone and twelve year old George. She turns around and sees the rest of her team. It flashes to a twelve year old Lilly. Lilly walks over to the team and they all walk off together.
