FCROWD YELLING]
FSIRENS WAILING]
OFFICER: Hey, hey, hey. Relax, relax, relax. Easy.
Behind the lines, please.
Oh, man. Please.
All right, everybody, just...
Hey, hey, Danny, don't fan the flames.
I wanna give the guy his rock so he can try again.
Right or wrong, the court freed Dalack. He's a citizen.
We gotta protect him like everybody else.
- Two minutes with him is all I want. - Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord.
- Why should he have all the fun? SARA: Danny...
- Messy, messy. - You're mine.
Oh, how romantic. Who's the little wet dream?
- Hey, a little old for you, isn't she? DALACK: Oh, I don't know.
- Is she a "piece" officer? - Watch your mouth.
- I'm watching yours. - Son of a bitch.
Oh, keep talking dirty.
- Son of a bitch. - Whoa, Danny.
Girls, girls, you both look pretty. Danny.
- You know where to find me, detective. - You like little girls?
FCACKLES]
DANTE: As most of you know, Carl Dalack was released from prison today.
Certain of our officers escorted Dalack today...
...as he registered with the city and county of New York as a sex offender.
Now, back in '98, Dalack was arrested...
...for the murder and mutilation of eight teenage girls.
All the victims were sexually molested.
All of them had their fingernails ripped off.
Dalack, however, was convicted of only a single count of homicide.
How come?
That's because Dalack is smart.
Because if you love what you do, you get good at it.
The technicality for which Dalack was released...
...was our fault.
No, sir.
That's not accurate.
It was my fault.
I went to Dalack's apartment without a warrant.
DANNY: How you doing, Carl? - What?
- What's going on? DALACK: Do you have a warrant?
DANNY: You better calm down. - You can't come in.
- Relax, Carl. DALACK: Get out!
I was sure there was something wrong.
I didn't see her lying there behind the door.
FDOOR LATCH CLICKS]
FBREATHING HEAVILY]
FSCREAMING]
I didn't know what he was doing to her.
After we found the body, after I knew she'd been killed...
...while I was sitting outside in the car.
I kind of lost it.
I broke into Dalack's place, collected a lot of evidence...
...without a warrant.
I figured, any price was worth it to save another girl's life.
And you cannot let your emotions rule the day...
...even when you know you're right.
All right, we're gonna be Dalack's next-door neighbors for a while.
Round-the-clock surveillance, rotating 16-8's.
Pezzini, you and Woo switch off with McCartey.
- How long can we keep that up? - Until I'm satisfied he won't kill again.
How is your daughter?
She's fine.
Magic.
It's my niece that's mangling my chi.
Listen, uh, Mija called me last night.
Yeah?
- I'm the evil uncle, right? - Heh. Apparently.
Sometimes I almost wish I'd have told my brother she couldn't stay with me.
She's his daughter. But she didn't want to change schools when he moved.
That, I understand.
Heh, I mean, that's all I understand.
The other night, Pez, she came home at 3 a.m.
I'm not her dad, but I might as well be.
- Yeah, I get it. - No.
You don't have kids. So no offense, you cannot understand.
Not really, not until you do.
Anyway, I tried to calm her down.
Yeah. She looks up to you.
FSCOFFS]
- I'll have to set her straight about that. - True, true.
FGIRL SOBBING]
Mm.
FSIGHS]
Such beautiful hands.
- What? - Huh?
I just got a headache.
Yeah, me too.
It's called a teenager.
FCHUCKLES]
Thanks for seeing me.
Hey, it got me out of cardboard donuts and rancid coffee.
- Surveillance, you mean? - Yeah.
Listen, your uncle and I are working this case. It's got him pretty stressed.
Tell me about it. He's out of control.
Funny, he says the same about you.
Yeah, I'm just trying to be myself, you know?
Individuate, I mean, he's against that.
No, he's not. He's just looking out for you, Mija.
Nobody cares more than Danny.
FMIJA SCOFFS]
And staying out all night, hanging with the bad boys...
He told you about that?
- And not copping to stuff that you're doing is not individuation.
It was only once.
Really?
FCHUCKLES]
And we learn from experience, right?
That's what I'll tell your uncle.
Maybe there can finally be some peace in the Woo household after all.
Knucklehead.
FCHUCKLES]
JAKE: Must be hard for Danny to live with the fact that he let a girl die...
...and then helped her killer go free.
You think?
Hey, fine.
If that's the way you wanna play it...
...then let's don't talk about it.
Look, Danny's my partner, Jake.
Doesn't make me his shrink or his confessor.
This could get very boring.
GIRL 1: I think I failed that test.
FGIRLS GIGGLING AND CHATTERING]
Or not.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
I heard he has a girlfriend.
- Yeah? GIRL 2: He doesn't.
GIRL 1 fWHISPERS]: Is that him?
Yes, I am he.
And what would you little lovelies like to know, hmm?
The sounds my victims made in their final moments.
Well, I cannot tell you, because I wasn't there.
I am an innocent man.
- What is your name? - Don't tell him.
Jennifer Rose.
How sweet.
Excuse me.
Ah, my heavily armed Venus.
My presence here, not a good thing.
Bind me hand and foot like a bond slave.
Beat me passed the point of bleeding, force me to kneel...
...and gratefully kiss your hand.
Move your ass out of here, Cupid.
Why? I'm a free man.
- Don't kid yourself. - Let's go, Mr. Dalack.
FGASPS]
DALACK: Oh...
Detective Pezzini, you have such beautiful hands.
You get your ass outside...
...or they're gonna look beautiful around your neck.
FCHUCKLES]
Oh, you're too good to be true.
Ah, relax, detective.
I'm sorry to say that they're only acrylic nails.
Good afternoon, my lovelies.
FCHUCKLES]
If you ever see him around here again, you call the police immediately.
Okay, from now on, you walk home in pairs or take a cab. Got it?
You wanna talk about Dalack and how the Witchblade can help?
Well, I didn't come here for a game of roundball.
Well, he thinks he's the perfect predator.
You jealous?
He offers benign charm, quick wit...
...all which belie homicidal intent.
The author your suspect likes to quote so happens to be one of my favorites...
...Baron Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch from whence we divine "masochism."
Maybe you two should date.
What's the Witchblade been showing you, Sara?
I see Dalack seducing me or seducing his next victim.
You see the precision of his mania.
The exactness of his crimes.
The conscience, absent of remorse.
Well, he's a stone killer.
Remove emotion from the equation, Sara, and what are you left with?
Nature.
You miss Irons, don't you?
I'm learning not to.
I'm learning I don't have control of anything.
And as such, may enjoy the chaotic whimsy of fate.
And I think of you.
And it's an endless torrent of lust...
...and hate.
You orphaned me, Sara.
FGAGS]
You orphaned me.
Show me.
FSCOFFS]
FGIRL SOBBING]
FBREATHING HEAVILY]
FSIGHS]
JAKE: You wanna talk about this guy?
DANNY: Not really.
JAKE: I heard he was all anyone talked about.
The killer who painted nails and ripped them off.
They say the whole city was looking over its shoulder.
- You were new in Homicide, right? - Yeah.
I traced the polishes he put on the girls...
...tracked him down through suppliers, cowboyed him solo.
- Good for you. - Yeah, good for me.
Not so good for Janice Cooper, the girl behind the door.
Yeah.
- How do you take your coffee? - Sweet and black.
He was really pissing me off.
Now I'm not even allowed to go out at night.
I'm never gonna be who he wants me to be.
Well, you don't have to rip his heart out trying to prove it.
Hey, you left home when you were 15, right?
That's what Aunt Lee said, and you turned out all right.
Heh, well, not exactly left.
Not exactly home.
After my dad was shot, uh, there was no family like you have...
...to go home to, at least.
Well, you were completely free.
Honey, alone. It's not the same thing.
Well, all I know is that I'm not afraid of experiencing things.
I mean, as long as I learn from them, right?
- Just like you said. - Yeah.
Sweetheart, life is gonna smack you upside the head, no matter what.
And you know I usually don't give advice, but would you trust me?
Take your time growing up. The world's still gonna be there.
I don't even wanna go home. I hate it there.
I feel like I'm always being policed.
After all, he is a cop.
Yep, yeah.
Well, so am I. And guess what.
If you don't get your little ass back home, I'm gonna arrest you.
FCHUCKLES]
Oh, come on, now. Drink your tea.
I'll give you a ride home. In exchange, you'll take it easy on my partner, okay?
Deal?
DANNY: Yeah.
- Has he moved? - Not a hair.
Fifteen minutes, and he hasn't even coughed?
No, man, I've been watching him.
FGRO ANS]
Call an APB. He's on the move.
- Call it in. - Damn it.
FSLOW ROCK SONG PLAYING ON STEREO]
FVOLUME INCREASES]
DALACK: Goodnight, my sweet Mija.
JAKE: Where the hell were you last night? - Why, was someone killed?
- No one was killed. - Then how could it matter where I was?
How did you get out without us seeing you?
I'll never tell.
Why would you wanna get out without being noticed?
I was sightseeing.
As much as I enjoy the fantasy of being harmed by the three of you...
...could you unhook these now?
We'll be right back, lover boy.
Come on, guys, let's go.
Danny, come on.
- Cut him loose. DANNY: What?
- We got nothing to hold him on. - So, what?
We just wait until he commits another murder?
FSIGHS]
Jake, just go unshackle him, process him out.
Your call.
So you wanna wait until we have to knock on another family's door...
...tell them we didn't do a thing to keep their daughter alive?
- Danny, I know what you're feeling but... - No, you don't.
I read in his diaries how he gained the trust of his victims.
He walks them to school, buys them presents...
...and the last thing he said to each girl the day he killed them...
...was, "Have a great day in school."
I wanna shoot the bastard dead.
Look at yourself, Danny. You're over the line, with Dalack, me, Mija.
Leave Mija out of this.
She's not your family.
Whoa, I did not hear you just say that.
Yeah?
Well, you haven't been hearing much lately.
Let's go settle this, okay?
FGRUNTING]
Fight back, Danny.
I can take anything you got, Woo.
That's better.
Now at least you're fighting like you got a pair.
- I can't do this. - You have to do this.
- I keep seeing that girl. - You didn't kill her, Danny.
You didn't kill her, Danny.
I didn't keep her alive either.
Well, guess what.
Your niece is still alive.
Come on, Danny, you gotta get over your anger.
You gotta make amends.
I get the point.
Great.
We should do this again sometime.
Huh...
Yeah.
Sure.
Hmm...
- Is this the one? - Yeah, thanks.
"Isadora Duncan."
What a tragic death.
- Really? - Such a beauty, so many men loved her.
Her scarf got caught in the wheels of a car...
...and almost ripped her stunning visage from her neck.
- Ew. - Heh.
That's why I take public transportation.
FCHUCKLES]
Ah, you have such a beautiful smile.
I'm Evan. Evan Whitechapel.
- Mija Woo. - Mija Woo.
This casual reading, or...? The books, I mean.
I'm doing a report for school. I wanna be a dancer.
Oh, then you need to read Salome.
Now, there was a dancer.
Wow, cool.
So, um, do you have a phone number?
Oh, I don't really like to...
No, no, no, Mija, I'm not trying to hit on you.
I teach a study group at Columbia University in the history of performing arts.
It includes art, music, dance.
- Really? - Really.
We meet once a week at a coffee shop, the library, my apartment.
Oh, whatever the group decides.
I'd love to have you.
- Me? - Yeah.
- Give me this. - Uh, sure, I'II...
Okay.
Um...
- Here you go. - Great.
Anyway, um, I'm late for class.
- I'll call you soon. - Great. Heh.
Thanks.
You have such a beautiful smile.
Such beautiful hands.
Well, we'll talk later.
- All right, bye. - Goodbye.
FCHUCKLES]
I was trying to recall the moment that I decided to be a cop.
I was relieved to remember it wasn't just because they were hiring.
I like guns.
FCHUCKLES]
I never felt safe growing up.
I was kind of a little guy, got my ass kicked twice a week just walking to school.
That's when my father wasn't whupping on me, trying to teach me how to fight.
I must have figured...
...if I can make others safe, it would even the score.
And it hasn't.
Danny, we win and we lose on this job.
It's having the heart to come back to work after a bad day...
...that makes the difference between being a cop and being a police officer.
Danny, you got nothing to be ashamed of.
FCELL PHONE RINGS]
- Detective Woo. - Sweetheart, it's me.
- Hi, what's up, honey? - It's Mija.
Yeah, I could've guessed.
FO VER PHONE] She's not home yet.
Try her cell phone?
It's going right to voice mail.
Which means it's off.
FDANNY SIGHS]
She's probably just with her girlfriends. I'll check back in half an hour, bye.
Let me guess.
How old do kids have to be before you can't spank them?
DISPATCHER fO VER RADIO]: Five-five Baker to 1837 Riverside.
Possible homicide, young female victim.
It's not her.
FSIREN WAILING]
FCHATTERING O VER RADIO]
FSIGHS]
It's a bad color on her, don't you think?
SARA: Danny. Danny.
FGRUNTING]
You're under arrest.
Don't be stupid, it was obviously the student, not the teacher.
Don't worry, I'll settle out of court.
It was nice to see you again. Have a great day at school.
DANNY: Move it.
FLOUD ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
Damn it.
Uncle Dan, you scared the crap out of me.
So many things wrong with what you just said...
...I don't even know where to begin. - Then don't.
FSIGHS]
I came to give you these.
I already have the new Mac Tone and Mobocracy.
FSIGHS]
Knock on the door next time.
FDANNY SIGHS]
SARA: I need some help.
NOTTINGHAM: Anything you wish.
The Witchblade has been speaking to me. It's showing me things.
I keep seeing images through the eyes of at least one of Dalack's victims.
And I don't know what it means.
They're different somehow.
Do these images have feelings?
Feelings? What do you mean?
The visions are different.
Do you feel seduced as well as afraid?
Do you feel these visions are actually happening to you?
Yes.
Sara, you're not looking through the eyes of the dead.
You're looking through the eyes of the living.
Possibly seeing things that haven't even happened yet.
So I can prevent this murder?
Only if you can decipher whose eyes they are.
I'll be near you, Sara.
I'll always be near you.
For you.
Thank you.
Now, those are two words you never have to use with me.
- Cool. - So, uh, will you be joining us this evening?
- For the group study? - Yes. It's gonna be a little cramped.
I've got eight dancers from Alvin Ailey...
Alvin Ailey? They're the best. That's where I wanna go.
Well, I guess I've made a dream come true for you, haven't I?
I don't know what to say.
Just say you'll come.
FCHUCKLES]
- Definitely. - Great.
- I'll see you tonight. - All right.
It was nice to see you again.
You have a great day at school.
FMIJA CHUCKLES]
SARA: Thank you for your time. Yeah?
Dalack's got an alibi for the murder of Jennifer Rose.
And they've already let him out.
- How? JAKE: Forensics came up with diddly.
He was seen paying for a lap dance at the time of the murder.
- Where? - Billy's Topless on Seventh Ave.
I don't buy that for a heartbeat. Keep checking.
- Hey, I'm just telling you what they told me. - Well, we shoot messengers around here.
Man, I am amping on everybody.
Really? You didn't hear it from me.
- How is it going with Mija? - Nowhere fast.
Come on, let's go blow a hole in his alibi.
- Hey, kids. - Hey, Litvak.
How's the bob and weave going with Dalack?
The guy's seen Cape Fear five times this week.
All right, pick of the litter for the day.
He's been running into the same young lady...
...either by accident or on purpose the past two days.
Nothing to report though.
FGIRL SOBBING]
I love that sound.
What?
We gotta roll.
Thanks.
Now, Danny.
SARA: I should go in first. DANNY: She's been missing since lunch.
He's been here with her over an hour, I am first.
Where is he?
He's not home.
FTELEPHONE RINGING]
Yeah?
Are you scared yet, detective?
Because Mija sure is.
FMIJA SOBBING]
FDIAL TONE RINGING]
At around 1 p.m. This afternoon, a 15-year-old girl named Mija Woo...
...was reported missing from Rodin High School at a 110th and Madison.
The girl is niece to Detective Woo...
...and it is believed that she was abducted by the recently released Carl Dalack.
Detective Woo.
I received a call from Dalack an hour ago at his apartment.
The one place we know he isn't.
Dalack is a deliberate killer.
He needs the exact right surroundings in order to switch on.
Since he is not at home, he is probably mobile at the present...
...Iooking for that suitable locale.
I should also mention that he does not seem interested in being taken alive.
And although it is a member of my family that is at risk here...
...he should be taken alive.
And also, we have no time.
All right, let's hit the streets.
Pound all pavement, follow all leads, pressure all sources. Let's go.
Danny?
I took the kids to my mother's house.
I don't want you going back home until we find him.
And her.
Yeah, of course.
Stay in my office, okay?
Your brother called this afternoon.
He called to talk to Mija.
Okay. Thanks.
FMIJA SOBBING]
I love that sound.
It's not gonna happen again.
- I don't know what to believe anymore. - What do you mean?
I just don't have faith, faith in anything.
I've got nothing to fall back on.
They say you can't find an atheist in a foxhole.
FSIGHS]
I wanna pray...
...but it seems wrong to ask him for help after ignoring him for so long.
I never have, but, uh, I'll pray for you.
FMIJA BREATHING HEAVILY]
DALACK: Honey, we're home.
- What is it? - Nothing.
FCELL PHONE RINGS]
This is Danny.
Hang on.
Go, Jake.
We just got a flash that a man fitting Dalack's description...
fO VER PHONE] ... rented a car from Okey Rental Cars.
- What was the make of the vehicle? - 2000 Lincoln.
Rented under the name Evan Whitechapel.
DANNY: Thanks, man. - Yeah, no problem.
FSIGHS]
- Whitechapel. - Whitechapel's the district in London...
...where, uh, Jack the Ripper worked.
DISPATCHER fO VER RADIO]: Thirty-four, courier 334. Courier cross-B.
FMIJA SOBBING]
DALACK: I'm not gonna lie to you...
...this is gonna hurt.
- Danny, turn left here. - Why?
- That picture on your desk of Una. - Yeah?
You bought a bike for her birthday, right?
- Yeah, a training bicycle. - He's in your house.
- What? - He's in your house, Danny.
- Go. - Yeah.
FSIREN WAILING]
All units, all units, please report.
FMIJA SOBBING]
DALACK: Honey, we're home.
FSIREN WAILING]
FLOUD ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
FMIJA SOBBING SOFTLY]
FGRUNTS]
Yeah, baby.
FMUSIC STOPS]
FMIJA MO ANING AND SOBBING]
I'm not gonna lie to you, this is gonna hurt.
A lot.
We have a few minutes before we start though.
FEXHALES HEAVILY]
FCHUCKLES]
Ooh...
Look at me. Look at me.
Yes.
FEXHALES HEAVILY]
Drink?
No?
You're gonna do this sober, huh?
Well, you are your uncle's niece.
FCHUCKLES]
Mm. Ah.
I'm impressed.
FCHUCKLES]
FEXHALES HEAVILY THEN SNAPS FINGERS]
Don't scream.
Don't you make a peep.
Shh.
FGRUNTS]
FDALACK INHALES HEAVILY]
Please.
Shh. Shh.
Kiss, kiss, kiss.
FMIJA MO ANING]
Kiss me harder. Kiss me harder!
Harder! Harder!
FPANTING]
Why not me? Why not me?
Stupid.
FSOBBING]
MIJA: Please.
No, no, no.
No. God.
- You'll wanna close your eyes for this. - No, please.
Please.
FGRUNTING AND YELLING]
Danny, no.
- This is for all of them. - No, no, this is for you.
Danny, you're not a killer.
You're a police officer, you remember what that means.
Don't listen to her.
You're a force of order, Danny, not chaos.
FLAUGHS]
FMIJA SOBBING]
FSIREN APPRO ACHING]
Please, kill me. Do it!
I'm ready to go.
Do it!
FGUNSHOT]
Until next time.
You did the right thing.
I'm glad you think so.
FGRUNTING]
DALACK: I don't wanna be alone.
DANNY: You okay?
You should've killed him, Uncle Danny.