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( heart pounding )

( sighs )

( heartbeat continues )

( steady breathing )

( heartbeat quickens )

We have an ID on this one?

Mark Herlan, 39.

A single medium-caliber
rifle round to the chest.

Any witnesses?

Lady gardening,
mom with her kid.

Neither one heard the shot.

I'm pulling some uniforms
to canvass the neighborhood,

to see if we can get a lock
on where the shot came from.

I don't think that's
going to be necessary.

These numbers --

size of the wound,
angle of entry,

position of the body --

they already tell you
what you need to know.

See, ballistic trajectories
are fundamentally simple.

They're the result of only
two physical forces:

vertical and
horizontal velocity.

Calculating trajectories
with precision

requires taking into account
many variables:

wind speed and direction,

atmospheric pressure,
temperature, humidity,

inclination of gun,
density of the projectile.

So I've done some rough
calculations of trajectory models

based on the bullet's angle of impact,
wind speed and direction.

I approximate that our sniper
fired from right around here.

- This spot here. See?
- Uh-huh.

Actually, it was more like here.

Ah, Agent Edgerton.

Bureau told you I was coming?

Yeah. I'm the one who requested you.
Thanks for coming.

He's a sniper instructor
from Quantico.

Needed a different perspective.

What makes you think
he fired from your location?

Well, your location
assumes he's a good shot.

I say he's just an okay shot
who got lucky.

What kind of empirical evidence

are you basing
that assumption on?

300-yard plink,

and he goes for center mass,
torso shot.

Good sniper bothers
to get this close,

it's to spread a man's brains
across the sidewalk.

Oh, yeah, and, uh,
there's this, too.

See how the grass is burned
from the muzzle flash?

This waffling in the dirt?

Right. Like he used something
for support, right?

Yeah, I'm thinking
a duffel or his jacket.

But yours was a good guess, too.

Wasn't a guess;
it was more of an estimate.

Anything else?

Yeah, he's gonna do it again.

How do you know that?

Thing about snipers?

We love it.

And that's not a guess, either;
it's a fact.

We all use math every day...

to predict weather...

to tell time...

( echoes ):
to handle money...

Math is more than
formulas and equations.

It's logic.

Math is more than
formulas and equations.

It's rationality.

It's using your mind to solve
the biggest mysteries we know.

DON: Okay, let me have your
attention, please.

Listen up...
LAPD is running

a parallel task force
with full information sharing.

So no theory goes
unchecked, right?

No tip ignored.

Four killings...
What they have in common:

single shots fired
from mid-caliber rifles

at a distance of 200 yards
or greater.

What they don't have in common
are the victims.

We have a real-estate broker,
a housewife,

a high school student
and a mailman.

Now the locations vary,
the times of day vary. Every...

Ballistics confirms
that the four bullets

came from four different rifles.

Four shots, four kills...

that kind of skill suggests
a possible military background.

What it suggests is that he knows his
limitations enough to remain within them.

This is Special Agent
Edgerton from Quantico,

and he doesn't think our
shooter is especially skilled.

Your housewife there
caught a 7.62 x 39 round.

He could've found
a Russian SKS to do that job

for less than a hundred bucks.

Or maybe he's
using a Blaser R93;

that particular weapon has interchangeable
barrels in 17 different calibers.

So he could be swapping barrels
after every kill,

which would change the ballistic
fingerprint, right?

Be a pretty cheap way to avoid
being linked to all of your murders.

LAPD Canvass turned up
a FedEx driver.

He remembers seeing a green Jeep

parked in the field
around the time of the shooting.

AMITA: Apparently there's large
performance differentials

between same-caliber bullets
from different manufacturers.

Based on what?

Lead composition,
gunpowder packing...

Just what I need:
more variables.

( knocking on door )

Oh...

Some assistance in my brazen
attack on the Lorenz invariance?

No, drag coefficient models.

Drag co... drag on what?

Bullets.

Bullets as in ballistic
trajectories

defined by the Einstein
Equivalence Principle,

related to the Lorenz frame?

As in, bullets that kill people.

Oh.

There seems to be some
disagreements over the sniper's expertise.

LARRY: I'd say the public's
decided on the question.

I have an aunt who lives two
blocks from the first shooting.

She's afraid to go out
on her front lawn now.

Why don't you tell your aunt
that statistically

she has a better chance
of being mauled by a bear.

Actually, statistics would favor the
bear being mauled by my aunt, but...

( chuckles )

This fear, this extends beyond
the reach of statistics, Charles.

No, this is about arbitrary,
inescapable death.

No, times like these,

you just wind up speculating

on paths not taken,
jobs left undone.

Larry, I...

I'm trying to get those equations
done for you as soon as I can...

No, no no. At that moment,
I was actually thinking

of a far more prosaic legacy.

Someone to carry on
the Fleinhardt standard.

I didn't know
you wanted kids, Larry.

Well... children are wormholes.

Wormholes?

Yeah.

They're portals into the unreachable
future and unattainable past.

No, as things stand now,

they exist only
in the theoretical realm, so...

Well, I can see where
you might have some trouble

selling a woman on the idea
of "carrying your wormhole."

( chuckles )

I accessed traffic cameras for a
ten-block radius where the mailman got hit.

- Good.
- Found this.

Take a look.

Jeep is registered to
one Wayne Osborne.

Rap sheet goes back to Idaho.

Assault, drug possession,
weapons violations.

Yeah, check this out.
Affiliations with

the Green Lightning
white supremacist group.

They're on the ATF watch list
for illegal arms dealings.

Yeah, Mr. Osbourne sounds like
a good candidate.

FBI! Warrant!

- FBI!
- FBI!

Hands on the table!

FBI!

FBI!

Hands on the table!

Clear!

Clear back here.

- Clear here!
- He's not here, Don.

All right, where's Osborne?

- Out.
- Out where?

Some friends.
I don't know.

Look, let me tell you something.

If you don't want to face the
death penalty with your boyfriend,

you better think
harder and think fast.

He took my pick-up
about two hours ago.

But I swear, I don't know
where he went.

- What color's the pick-up?
- It's blue.

Get the plates.

Notify LAPD and every agency.

My guess is he's out there
trolling for more victims.

DAVID:
Don.

Take a look.

Oh, yeah.

You know, Stan Carter's working
for the LA Parks Department now.

Oh, yeah, I remember him.
Stan. Stan the Man.

He used to work with you on
the city planning board, right?

Yeah.
Yeah.

He's looking for a
part-time consultant.

And since you two are
in and out all the time,

I figured I...
( cell phone rings )

Hold on a second.

Hello?

Okay. All right, yeah.

I'll be right there. Sure.

They're pretty sure
it's the sniper again.

David's picking me up out front
on the way to the scene.

The scene? What scene?

You mean the crime scene?

Exposure to actual events
helps my statistical modeling.

I know, but it's the exposure
that I'm worried about.

Come on, there's a crazy guy
out there still shooting people.

Now what if he returns
to the scene of the crime,

you know,
like those arsonists do?

- He hasn't.
- No, not yet.

Dad, there are
a dozen FBI agents

and police officers
at these scenes.

I mean, if I were in
any real danger,

Don wouldn't let me go.

You know that.

Don't worry.

Felt like someone hit me
in the shoulder with a hammer.

Then Steve saw the blood,
and everyone started screaming.

Neither one of you saw
where the shot came from?

Do you remember seeing
a blue pick-up at any point?

I'm sorry, I...

There must have been 50 people
coming out of the theater.

- Why me?
- It's okay.

You're going to be okay.

Thank you.

She's right. Why her?

Maybe Osborne's
playing out a power trip,

choosing his victims
arbitrarily.

Maybe it's a political
statement.

No, domestic terrorism usually
involves a public statement.

He has been
conspicuously silent.

Yeah, I don't think
he's gonna stay silent.

Come on.

EDGERTON:
Hello there, Professor.

Still figuring the angles?

What I'm figuring is
the reason why he missed.

This shot is way closer
than any of the others.

Well, closer doesn't
mean easier.

He ran a higher risk
of being seen here.

Well, that wouldn't affect the
shot itself, though, would it?

Forget about the math
for a second.

Just look.

Try to think like he does.

Invisibility is
a sniper's greatest strength.

If he starts to worry
about losing it,

his heart rate increases.

If he doesn't know
how to handle it,

his breathing rhythm
gets thrown off.

Breathing rhythm?

You've really never fired a gun?

I don't really believe in them.

Believe in them?
It's not like they're ghosts.

Obviously,
that's not what I meant.

So you don't take into account
sweat getting into his eyes

or his hands cramping up or
adrenaline twitching the barrel?

That's the difference between
an expert marksman

and a guy who aims at white meat
and goes home with a wing.

A woman got shot today...

not some animal.

I see.

So when I regard her as a
technical problem, I'm a sick bastard,

but when you plug her in to an equation,
you're a scientist?

It just seems like it's all
some kind of sport to you.

It's my job to put my head
inside the mind of a killer.

Your brother's, too.

You coming?

The pattern of these shootings
doesn't work with my existing equations.

So change the equations.

You know, I'm starting to think
my whole approach is wrong,

like there's a design
in there somewhere

but not usually
where we look for it.

Hey.

Don just picked up Osborne.

- Where?
- Los Feliz.

What about a weapon?

Preliminary ballistics matches
his rifle to the mailman's slaying.

- Doesn't fit, though.
- What's wrong?

Osborne spent the entire
afternoon in a bar.

- A dozen witnesses.
- Well, that's not possible,

because this happened, like,
less than three hours ago.

Unless Osborne
isn't the shooter.

We've got two snipers.

I don't recognize the authority
of the federal government.

TERRY: Well, the federal
government sure recognizes you.

We have you cold for
the murder of Mark Herlan.

Ballistics, tire tracks,
foot molds.

Herlan was a slave
of the federal welfare system

disguised as civil service.

Whatever happened to him,

whoever killed him, they
were doing society a favor.

TERRY: The new girlfriend
in your trailer filled us in.

You shot Herlan because
he was about to marry your ex.

Don't... move.

This was a personal
killing for you.

You wanted revenge.

You know, it was almost clever.

Your buddies in Green Lightning
start a terror campaign,

shooting people at random --

you decide to piggyback.

You think the Green Lightning
is behind these shootings?

DAVID: When we start
bringing your pals in,

we think it's gonna be a race

to see who can cut
a deal the fastest.

You're first man in, Wayne.

My advice would be
to take advantage of it.

An act of terrorism carries
a federal death penalty.

Or maybe you haven't heard
of Timothy McVeigh.

( laughs ):
You know... you people...

you really have to start
talking to each other.

( laughing )

Osborne's been an ATF informant
against his supremacist buddies

for over six months.

Well, thanks, ATF,
for the information sharing,

and there goes
our conspiracy theory.

He also has an alibi
for every other shooting.

I'll go tell Charlie.

I mean, maybe he can find the pattern
if he gets rid of the Osborne shooting.

LARRY:
You know, I have had

almost no attendance
at my morning classes.

It's like everyone's afraid
to set foot outside.

Not everybody.

Yeah.

In times like these,

an empty house is not a home.

Evaluating my
immediate prospects

for a conventional
nuclear family,

I've just now begun
to consider adoption.

How long have you
been considering it?

Three days.

Give it a few more days.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

So what, you found
a pattern yet?

More like a pattern
of patternlessness.

Hey, there's an interesting
metaphysical notion.

Well, perhaps a human element
remains to be inserted.

( groans )

You sound like this, uh,

Agent Edgerton guy.

He's a sniper instructor that
Don brought in from Quantico,

he thinks I should
be out shooting rifles.

Well, why aren't you?

It's a poor allocation
of my time.

In the time it takes
to shoot X number of rifles,

I can access ten or 20 or a
hundred times that amount of data.

No, no, no, no -- there's data
and there's hands-on experience.

These are two different beasts.

That's why you've got
blackboards and laboratories.

You study the universe,

and you've never been
to outer space.

Yeah, but if I had
the opportunity,

do you think for a moment
I'd hesitate?

BROADCASTER: ...in the wake of a
fatal shooting yesterday,

bringing the total
to six victims

the LA sniper has murdered.

The LAPD and the FBI are urging
residents to avoid unnecessary

outdoor activity and to report
any suspicious activity...

( broadcast stops )

DAVID: Reminds me of
snow days back home.

School shuts down,
everybody stays home.

Except nobody's having any fun.

Yeah.

I called my ex-husband
this morning.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

No real reason --
the thought just occurred to me,

what if I never got another
chance to talk to him?

How'd that go?

We got in a fight.

( laughs )

People have a greater chance of
getting into a car accident, you know.

That doesn't keep us home.

Because it's a danger we've
already assimilated into our daily lives.

The sniper's something new.

It's random, malicious.

A bullet that can come from
anywhere, take anyone, you know?

- Wow.
- Yeah.

( sight clicking,
barrel pumping, shot firing)

Thanks for bringing lunch
all the way down here.

- Come on, this way.
- Oh.

Well, you know,
the drive was a pleasure.

Traffic on the 10
has never been thinner

since, uh, well,
since it's been the 10.

Yeah, it's like all L.A.'s in
lockdown, huh? A little eerie.

- Right in here.
- Yeah.

So, how, uh... how are you and
Charlie managing this case?

Well, I mean, he's frustrated;
I'm frustrated.

I mean, we're having
a rough time on this.

Is that why he's been running
out of the house late at night?

We got an agent on him
all the time.

I mean, I know he's
been helping you out

and that he comes down
to your office a lot,

and I-I think that's great.

But... but now you got him going
out on crime scenes...

I mean, there's this guy
shooting people out there.

Dad, you really think I would
put Charlie in danger?

No. You know what I really think?

- What?
- I think you have to understand

that Charlie can
never say no to you.

I mean... I mean,
all you have to do is

to ask him something,
and he's there for you.

Yeah, and I'm there for him.

( sighs )

Look, he's not a cop.

Now, come on, I mean,
he's better off

with chalk in his
hand than a gun.

You got to stop this.

He is a grown man,
and he's capable of...

Who still seeks the approval
of his older brother,

whether his older brother
likes it or not.

( phone rings )
Excuse me.

Eppes.

Yeah. Right.
I'll meet you downstairs.

Got to go.
Another shooting.

Oh, my God.

Yeah. I promise I won't call
Charlie till we roll the tanks out.

And I want you to stay here
until I call you, okay?

All right, thanks
for the sandwich.

DAVID:
Thank you, Tom.

John Doe, late 40s early 50s.

Homeless, from the looks of it.

No place to hide.

Maybe he hadn't heard
the news yet.

This place is usually packed
around this time of day.

EDGERTON: Well, the mailman
murder, I wasn't impressed.

This is one I am.

Why?

What you just said -- the
street is usually crowded,

and yet with no one around he
was able to conceal himself,

get off a kill shot and
then get out undetected.

You know, Charlie
and I disagreed

about the proficiency
of some of the shootings.

I'm thinking now maybe
I'm the one who was wrong.

AMITA:
What are we looking at?

CHARLIE:
A nonfunctioning algorithm

based on seven sniper attacks,

all presumably
part of a pattern.

But you can't find the pattern?

I can't define the pattern;
I know it's there.

Shooting number four
was a copycat.

The mailman killed
by Wayne Osborne.

Right.

I removed it
from the calculation,

which should have brought me
closer to the answer.

Well, it makes sense.

Get rid of the corrupt data
to improve the fit.

But instead
of improving the fit,

it's as if the bad data were
clarifying some new pattern.

Which, by definition,
wouldn't make it bad data.

Here are the shootings,

graphed according
to a function of time,

method, victim
and ballistic characteristics.

Now, when I added dimensions --
location,

time of day -- and took slices,

the points remained
truly random.

However, when
I eliminated dimensions

and broke it down to a graph
of a simple function of time...

...as you can see, the beginning
of an exponential curve.

The sniper attacks
are increasing in frequency.

The logical conclusion.
Except...

this... is Wayne Osborne
shooting Mark Herlan,

which we know
is a copycat murder.

So I took it out
of my calculations.

However, when I put it back in,

it fell perfectly on the line.

So that's either
a stunning coincidence

or evidence
of a different pattern.

I don't believe you have one
serial sniper and one copycat.

You have an epidemic
of copycat snipers.

Wait a minute, h-hold on.

Uh, is that even possible?

TERRY:
Viral behavior.

Malcolm Gladwell's notion
of a Tipping Point.

Ideas and trends,
what's in, what's not --

it's really just human
behavior spreading infectiously.

- Like a virus.
- Uh-huh.

Like a virus.
That's right.

Oh, consider a neighborhood

where all the houses
are painted white.

And one day, one guy decides
to paint his house blue.

The next day his neighbor walks
by, sees that color and says,

"Hey, I like that color --- I'm
gonna paint my house blue."

And let's say that influences
two more people each time.

Now, even if people
get sick of the color blue

and decide to repaint
their houses white,

the blue trend will still grow.

And now you have an epidemic
of houses being painted blue

faster than
they're being repainted white.

Wayne Osborne wants to kill
his ex-wife's new fiancé.

Last week
he would have stabbed him,

he would have run him over
with a car.

Right, but he watches the news,

sees that people are being
killed with hunting rifles.

DAVID: And because the killers
haven't been caught,

he thinks it's a good idea.

TERRY: Each sniper attack is bigger news,
influencing more people.

DON:
Who all own hunting rifles,

and just need something
to go over the edge.

EDGERTON:
Are you seriously

comparing these shootings
to what, some kind of fad?

One that's growing.

DON: Okay, we got a
whole new approach.

We're not looking
for one shooter.

We're looking for seven
different perpetrators

that have committed seven
different crimes.

They were not targets of
a serial sniper.

Instead, one was the victim
of gang conflict...

...another, a thrill killing...

...a neighbor killed because he
didn't return a lawnmower...

So we're issuing press releases

explaining the separate arrests
as isolated, distinct incidents

that have nothing to do
with a serial sniper.

Hopefully, that'll
cool people out

and get things
back to normal around here.

What?

Something's incomplete.

Charlie, no. You just
got to be patient, all right?

I mean, between us and LAPD,

we've already solved four
of th-the seven cases.

Make that four out of nine.

Number eight was shot getting out
of his car at a gas station in Glendale.

Nine found in his own pool.

Oh, come on.

It's getting away from us.

It's moving faster
than we can even stop it.

Your theory works.

We're breaking the cases
by attacking them individually.

Let's just continue to do that.

All we've established is

that one person could not have
committed all these crimes on the board,

but that doesn't mean that
some of these shootings

weren't committed
by the same hand.

What? Now you're
saying you think

some of them were done
by the same person?

That's right, and as long
as that killer's out there,

you can solve as many of
these shootings as you want,

you're not gonna break
the viral behavior.

'Cause we really don't know
which ones were definitively done

by a serial sniper
and which ones weren't?

It's got to be the first two,
because, well, because

like any virus, there's
always an initial carrier.

A Sniper Zero.

I need to learn how
to shoot a rifle.

Look, just give me a second,
would you?

Okay.

- Y-you gotta teach me.
- Why?

Because of what Edgerton said?
No, you don't.

You don't have to prove
yourself to anyone, okay?

- Please, just do what you do.
- It has nothing to do with that.

I'm telling you,
Edgerton was right.

Well, he was a little right.

Okay, the weight of the gun,

the noise of the shot,
the effects of the recoil --

there's no way I have
of understanding that

because I don't know
what it is to shoot a gun.

Exactly, which is why
I brought him in to begin with.

Don't you see, man?

I'm reducing these acts to
abstract expressions,

but I don't really know
what I'm dealing with.

I don't really understand
anything

about guns and violence,
not the way you do.

Edgerton said it was your job
to get in the mind of a shooter.

Well, maybe it's my job to
understand his mechanics.

All right, look, but you got to do me a
favor and not say a word to Dad, okay?

I mean, the guy already thinks I'm
going to wind up getting you killed.

Oh. The Ruy Lopez opening.

I see I'm dealing
with a classicist here.

Look, I warned you
I was a little rusty.

My game is also a
little undeveloped.

You know, I had to stop playing with
Charlie when he was eight years old.

Yeah, more precociousness

in the biography of
Professor Charles Eppes.

Yeah, you know,
among mathematicians,

isn't that just such
a cliché, the playing chess?

I didn't mind losing.

It was that bored
expression on his face,

like he was playing
out of courtesy.

That's what got to me.

Oh, yeah? Well, try Scrabble.

He's a horrible speller.

Really?
Oh, he's horrible.

I didn't know that.

You know quite a bit
about my son.

I don't know.

I know he's been a delight.

You know, observing
him all these years.

You know, a star
pupil's ascension

to such extraordinary heights...

I mean, yeah, that's
perhaps the most...

rewarding aspect
of being a teacher.

Come on, we both know
you've been a lot more

than just a teacher to Charlie.

Well, thank you for saying that.

By the way, uh...

you're now in check.

Oh, you distracted me.

( chuckling )

( gunshot )

You're flinching.

You're closing your eyes,
anticipating a loud noise.

It's a loud noise.

It's a perfectly natural

physiological response
to what I'm doing.

Charlie, that's not gonna
help you hit the target.

( sighs )

- Look...
- What?

You fired the rifle. How about
we get out of here? Come on.

No. I need to learn this.

Come on.

All right.

We'll try what's called
an empty-lung technique.

You breathe naturally, you aim,
but you don't fire.

Okay?
So line it up, aim.

You're gonna exhale, and count
to three before you inhale.

On two, you squeeze the trigger.

Right? Just
like I told you.

Just tease it.

( shot fires )

Huh.
That's pretty good.

- Look at that.
- Yeah.

Ah. Adrenal response.

It's a paper target.

It's a little different
with a real person.

Well, maybe not for Sniper Zero.

That's a pretty good shot,
though, isn't it?

Not bad. I think you had a
little beginner's luck there.

Beginner's luck is non-empiric.

It's counter-intuitive.

Yeah? First time
I played golf,

I parred four on
the front nine, so...

That's just a function
of the "regression to the mean."

According to you,
our sniper or snipers

have shown no exceptional
amount of skill.

There was one shooting that
showed proficiency.

The homeless guy.

Yeah, but he was killed
by the two frat boys.

Working together gave
them a clear advantage.

Yeah, so that explains the
increased skill level in that one case.

But yet...

Yet five of the shootings
have resulted in a fatal wound

from one single shot.
How do you explain that?

A little ability, a lot of luck.

You know what?
You're actually exactly right.

I told Don. It's called
"regression to the mean."

All right.

I am an exceptional
basketball player,

but let's say for the sake

of this argument that
I'm, that I'm not.

Yeah. I think I could argue that
side a little better, Charlie.

Let's say I can only
hit half of my shots.

I am...

one for three.

Whoa.

Okay, I'm four for six.

Right? I've went
from a .333 average

to a .666 average
in three shots.

Now, if I just kept shooting
baskets all day long,

eventually my hits and misses
will average out to about .500.

Right, we have hot
and cold streaks,

but over time you're
gonna find your level.

That's right.

Now, if I plotted my
shots on a graph,

it would be a vertical graph.

I plotted the shootings again,

this time assigning
scores to each shooting,

based on the difficulty of
each shot and its result.

The higher up on the graph,

the greater the
proficiency of the shooter.

Four of the shootings rise
above the others on the graph.

Four people shot
by the same man.

So we just have
to find the common denominator

of all four
and we find Sniper Zero.

And we break the epidemic.

TERRY: Maybe you go to
the same dry cleaners,

use the same mechanic.

No.
None of them look familiar.

No?

The news said this
was just a random thing.

That may very well be.

We're just not leaving
any possibility unexplored.

Steve insisted
on coming with me today.

I think he's afraid
to let me out of his sight.

As bad as it's been for us,

what it must be like for the
families that lost someone.

Yeah.

Thanks for coming down.

- Hey.
- SINCLAIR: Hey.

All four shootings happened in
front of commercial locations, right?

Right.

Real estate office, gas station,
grocery store, movie theater,

so I'm searching employee
lists, past and present.

Okay. Any matches,
let me know.

- You got it.
- You got anything?

No, but I'm going to do a hand
search for any common points.

Good.

What is it, Charlie?

What are we missing?

Something still isn't right.

I can't figure it out.

The photos.

- The photos?
- Yeah.

These are all pictures
of where the victim was hit.

But that's not
the whole scene, right?

The crime starts
where the bullet was shot.

Where are the pictures
of the sniper's position?

You're suggesting
that the commonality

is in the sniper's selection of
his site rather than his target?

Exactly.

Yeah, I considered that,

but if he is a trained sniper

any site he chose would have to
take into account

the availability
of targets as well.

Meaning that I agree

that each of these locations has
good hide selections,

adequate camouflage,
excellent escape routes,

but what good would that be unless
he was assured of access to prey?

The paths of the victim
and shooter would have

to intersect in both time
and space

within a suitable environment.

I mean, the pace
of these shootings,

the scarcity of people
on the street

as a result of all this
media coverage,

he wouldn't have had time
to accurately choose these sites

and know that he had both
cover and targets.

Unless he was already
familiar with the locations.

Right?

An abandoned building across
from a movie theater,

across from a restaurant,

a gas station,
and an empty house.

So we're saying he doesn't
know who he's going to shoot,

but he does know where
he's going to shoot from.

The victims are random.

It was his position
that was pre-selected.

That explains why
my analyses haven't found

any patterns in victim
selection or location.

We just found former
employee Nathan Crane.

He worked at both the gas
station and the restaurant.

Well, that's two sites.
I'll take that.

DAVID: Mrs. Crane, do you know
where we can find your son?

No. Nathan and I haven't talked
since I asked him to leave.

That was a few weeks ago.

Packed his van and left.

- Is this him?
- Yes.

He was in the service
until a year ago.

Nathan loved the Army.

Growing up without a father,

he never had that kind of
structure and discipline before.

Do you know why
he left the Army?

He wasn't very specific.

He just came home one day
and said it didn't work out.

You said that you asked
Nathan to move out.

He had a tough time
holding down a job.

He'd find something

and there's a problem
with the boss

or a coworker and he quits.

He had bad luck that way.

And then there's my boyfriend.

The two of them
just couldn't get along.

Even at my age,

I'm entitled to have a life,
aren't I?

Yes, indeed.

He applied for and was rejected

from the Army Sniper School
at Fort Benning.

Subsequent Bad Conduct discharge

for "inability to conform

to the requirements
of military life."

He's a good marksman, though.

Crane did drywall in the building
across from the movie theater.

He was also fired from a landscaping
company that worked the empty house.

Okay, let's get an APB out on his van,
and that photo to everybody:

- LAPD... Sheriff's Department...
- I got it.

Psychological profile fits
like a glove;

rejected by the Army,
a surrogate father,

returns home to be rejected
by the mother.

His instructor noted that he was
impulsive on the range.

Also fits. These killings are
expressions of juvenile power fantasies.

Okay, but why do you think he
goes back to the job sites?

He's revisiting the scenes
of his failures

and converting them
to successes by killing.

So you have any sense
where he would go next?

Well, so far, he hasn't visited
the same site twice,

either by guile or because
he's "conquered" each one.

My guess is, he'll move on
to the next failed job

and he'll move on quickly.

From a pure sniping point of view,
I like these two.

All right, let's see.

He was a janitor
at the Banitek Tower...

and a sheet metal punch
at the Southmore factory.

Easy access, high windows,
target-rich environments.

David, why don't
you take Southmore.

We're gonna take
the office park.

Notify LAPD.
I want backup at both locations:

marked cars, SWAT, air units...

Helicopters?
You trying to scare him away?

No, we're just going
to make sure

he doesn't shoot anyone
else, that's for sure.

Don!

Looks like it, huh?

Yep.

All right, you take
the middle doors.

Got it.

That's it.

Foxtrot One.

Foxtrot One, go ahead.

We got a postive I.D. on
suspect's vehicle at Banitek Towers.

Direct all units
to Banitek Towers.

Roger that.

You know, we should start
clearing people out of here.

Let's just get everybody out.

FBI Unit Foxtrot Two.

Foxtrot Two,
I copy your location.

Banitek Towers.
We have an air unit en route,

ETA two minutes, over.

We need to notify Security in the
building to keep everyone inside.

- Roger that.
- Excuse me!

We need you to get
inside the building, please.

Agent Eppes, Lieutenant Douglas.

Your teams are where?

Blue Team and Red Team
are about eight minutes out, sir.

All right, as soon
at they get here,

I want a team on each
of these roofs, right?

Right there, right there.

- Roger that. I'll make it happen.
- Pass these out.

We're looking for a male,
white in his 20s, okay?

I want you two
to take this building.

Start on the top floor and work
your way down every apartment.

You two, the same thing,
this building.

You start on the bottom
of this one, work your way up.

You on this one,
work your way up.

( helicopter approaching )

David Sinclair, yeah.

( shot fires )
Charlie, get down!

What?

Charlie, get down!

Charlie, stay down!
( gunshot )

( gunshot )

MAN:
Get a team up there, now!

Shooter is down.
Repeat! Shooter is down!

- You all right?
- Yeah.

The shooter's down.
Is he okay?

What, are you crazy?

You could have got
yourself killed.

I was just... working on
some probabilities

as to where I thought
Crane might position himself.

Actually, he was pretty close.

I want to get you out of here.

Are you all right?

I'm sorry.

It's all right. It's just next
time, use a phone.

Okay?

Hey, Dad, you're painting, huh?

Staining.

Your brother, the homeowner,
it's his idea.

Hey, look, I was thinking
about what you said

the other day when you came by
for lunch.

I think you're right.

Wow.

As delighted as I am
to hear those words

come out of the mouths
of either of my sons

the fact is I wasn't.

Your brother's his own man.

I mean, if Charlie wants
to run off

and do slightly
dangerous things,

then I'll just have to
learn to live with it.

Same as I did with you.

You told him?

Yeah, about the gun range.

- The gun range.
- That you shot a rifle.

- He shot a rifle, did a great job.
- I fired the rifle.

Yeah. See?
I'm perfectly fine.

I didn't fall off the ladder,
I didn't collapse.

I certainly hope you got that
out of your system now.

Definitely.

What color paint are you using?

No, no, it's not paint.
Stain.

You can't paint
a Craftsman house.

See, they're
historically protected.

Well, even if everyone else
paints their houses blue, Charlie?

Not even.

Here, I'll help you.