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Oh.

Okay, Romero, you know the drill. See those hands?

Now stand up there, face the wall like a good boy, and I'll put stuff on the

table.

It's harvest time.

I'll alert the media, Romero.

Well, death brings new life, and the alignment has shown us that the time is

now, and all our questions will be answered.

Yeah, well, I didn't ask, okay? No, I know, but you don't understand.

I really don't need to understand.

Tell somebody who cares.

But, you see, all the answers are in this book.

Please forgive me, I'm a little rusty at this.

Show me.

Show me.

Who's there?

I don't want to go back. I don't want to go to any reunion.

But it's very important to your wife, isn't it?

It's her college reunion, and you said that she was really looking forward to

the trip.

I don't like any of those people.

Do you know why you don't like any of them, Arnold?

They don't like me.

They never did.

So they won't now.

I mean, why do I want to go all the way back to Connecticut to hang out with a

bunch of people who don't really want to hang out with me?

A bunch of doctors and lawyers and stockbrokers and me, the glamorous CPA.

Am I boring you?

Oh, no.

Sorry. Of course you're not boring me.

Please, go on.

Well, I feel like such a loser.

I feel like everyone has done better than me with their lives.

Arnold, there's another voice inside of you, isn't there, telling you that

you're a loser?

I don't know.

Are you sure?

Yes. No, I'm...

I don't know.

All I know is that she had her friends in school and I had my friends.

My friends didn't like her friends. Her friends didn't like me or my friends.

Why should I let what I think they think of me ruin my life?

Hell, I'm going to do it.

What's wrong?

Nothing. I just, you know, I think you've made the right decision.

And, uh... And we've got to stop here.

I just want you to think about what you just said. I still have to think about

it. I know, and, uh, you know, it would really help me right now, because

something has just come up, and I'd like to deal with it. So, have a wonderful

trip, Arnold.

Here you go. The more journal articles written about her. Thank you. Thank you

very much. Do you know this doctor personally?

I'm an admirer. Well, I'm actually a really big fan.

Did you have any luck with her university thesis yet?

Oh, it's on microfiche somewhere, I'm sure. I'll try to find it as soon as I

some of these returns back on the shelf.

I'm sorry.

Really, I'm so rude.

You've been such a big help. I'm monopolizing all your time.

All right. It's my job.

To be honest, this is the most excitement I've had all day.

I'll let you in on a little secret.

Libraries are boring.

No fun at all.

Oh, no.

No, they're not boring. I love them. I love coming to libraries and solitude

the books and all the words.

I guess it depends on what you come to libraries for, doesn't it?

Yeah.

I know this might sound a little forward, but you've been such a big

Can I take you for lunch?

Sure. Not in 20 minutes.

Great. And maybe we can find something fun to do.

Yeah. I love your bang.

Thank you.

coming, Derek. I really appreciate it.

I wasn't about to let you make this driver by yourself in the dark. Besides,

it's not the first time that legacy business has kept us up to date, is it?

He was a patient of mine some years ago, Stephen Monroe.

About a year after our sessions began, he was arrested and charged with five

counts of murder. His lawyers saved him from the gas chamber with an insanity

plea.

He was committed to a mental institution for life.

Are you sure he said this?

Absolutely.

I recognize the handwriting.

This is his trademark.

He sent me these even after he was charged.

Sounds like he was upset.

A severe case of transference. One of the most severe and compulsive I've ever

seen.

So you became the embodiment of an unrequited love.

Exactly. And by the looks of it, I still am.

And it's safe to assume that Romero is still a very dangerous man.

Obviously.

He knows where I live.

and early, Dr. Corrigan.

We normally don't get visitors at the crack of dawn.

Well, I wanted to come as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to give you a lot of time.

I've got state and federal officials calling on my back over this. I

and we won't take much of your time.

All right, wait here a second.

We've got places like this that exist.

This is actually one of the better facilities of its kind.

Well, then I'd hate to see the worst.

It's you!

It's you.

It's you.

It's you.

Wait, please.

This is Romero's set.

Why wasn't he restrained?

I believe it or not, he was a model inmate for seven years.

Never aggressive or violent until yesterday.

All he ever did was read.

Very rituals.

Cold references.

Clinical and ethnological texts.

What about death?

Death was his hobby.

His profession, it seems, Doctor.

You actually let him read these books.

Even serial killers have civil rights, Doctor.

Look under the desk drawer.

That's why I called you, Doc.

Was he close to anyone?

Any other inmates?

One other inmate, Seth Gunderson.

If you want to talk to him, you're going to have to be careful.

Gunderson's, how should I say this?

devoid of social skills.

Good morning.

Good morning.

You were his doctor, weren't you?

Yes, I was.

You didn't even need to tell me.

I can see it in your brain.

That's my gift.

Seeing people's brains.

I used to have to cut them out, but now, now I can see right through the skull.

It's a very handy skill.

I'm sure it is.

I want to talk about Stephen Romero.

Stephen is my mentor.

And what did he teach you, executive?

Oh, how to see the glory of death.

How to live without fear of it.

We travel through life with death ever constant. We need to know how to deal

with it.

Stephen taught me how to search the eyes of others at the exact instant of

death.

To watch their souls depart.

But you know all this already.

Don't you?

You're her.

You're the one.

The one who showed him.

He talked about you constantly.

Oh, man.

He has so much respect for you.

You showed him.

Showed him what?

You showed him the way.

He's looking for you right now.

Isn't that funny?

You're here, and he's out there looking for you.

That was really, really wonderful.

Really, really wonderful.

O earth of the underworld, heed to the prayer of your believer.

I beseech you, ensure my return from the dead.

And show whom I return from the dead.

The ruins have shown us.

The diamond is on us for sure.

The time is now.

As planting is to harvest.

As the night is to the day. And the winter is to summer.

From death.

Weeper!

Take this.

My sacrifice to you, O holy mighties of the ground.

as an offering please i beseech you ensure my return from the dead so that i

may may get my beloved throw me the way throw me the way

Rachel, Rachel.

How are you?

As

usual,

your being here is strictly confidential, right, Derek?

Absolutely right.

Romero didn't waste any time getting back into business.

Victim's name is Mary Jones, 41, librarian, University Central Branch.

We found the body on the beach at dawn today.

Are you certain he did this?

Witnesses confirm seeing her leave early yesterday with a man matching Romero's

description. When this turned up, I thought you'd want to know right away.

Yeah, thanks.

Always appreciate your calls.

Frank has known about the legacy for many years.

What I need to know, what I don't need to know, I don't ask.

Derek saved my life a few years back.

Something with fangs and claws that we don't have a police code for.

Aesthetic shapeshifter.

All right, okay.

Anyway, something like this comes along, Derek's the man.

Looks like a human sacrifice.

Pyre, makeshift altar.

Same pattern from Romero's cell wall.

I'd like to study these.

We'll get you copies.

Dr. Corrigan, we can provide you with police protection if you like.

Oh, thanks, Detective, but, you know, in this case, I think I'm actually in

better hands.

It was one of my first patients that's terrified of death to the point of being

agoraphobic.

He was too frightened to even leave the house, wouldn't drive a car for fear

that he had an accident.

Did you ever find out why?

Mm -hmm.

When he was six, his father had a heart attack and died right in front of him.

So he had a morbid fear of death, and you used, what did you call it,

systematic?

Desensitization, right? It was an accepted form of therapy. I gave him a

on the subject. I even invited him to join a group therapy session with

terminally ill patients.

I just wanted him to know that death is a normal part of life.

And he took to the subject a little too eagerly.

Yeah, there was this one patient.

She had cancer.

And he was there when she died.

It fascinated him.

He wanted to watch it over and over and over.

He murdered three people while he was my patient.

Romero made a human sacrifice.

An ancient pagan ritual.

Why? Well, let's see.

In most ancient cultures where ritual sacrifices practiced, it was usually

as a petitioning to the gods.

So, if Romero is petitioning the gods, what does he want besides ritual?

Well, here's something.

These stone patterns cross -reference with our ancient texts on Celtic

Many of the pagan cosmologies held that stones and crystals could be imbued with

great spiritual energies.

Right, like stonehenge.

Precisely.

But druidic ritual magic didn't usually entail human sacrifice, did it?

You know, I get the feeling that Romero is making this religion up as he goes

along. Yes.

Yes, it seems he's been cobbling bits and pieces of different occult practices

into his own perverse system of magic.

Would that work?

Romero believes it does.

That's what magic really is.

Why'd you keep these?

Well, I tried to throw them away, but I didn't. You know, taken together, they

are a really fascinating study of a personality disintegrating over a short

period of time. You could almost put them in a textbook.

There's more to it than that, isn't there?

How did they finally catch him?

They found him with his fifth victim.

Carla Willett.

She was my best friend from AA.

When I got there, they were taking him away.

Blame yourself for his psychotic behavior.

Obviously, he was an accomplished liar. He never told you the truth about

himself. But I should have recognized what was going on with him. I should

known what he was becoming.

My child.

Somebody's inside the perimeter of the fence.

Nick, it's him.

Mr.

Romero.

You're trespassing.

Oh, I'm scared.

The fence behind you is electrified.

I have something for Rachel Corrigan.

Whatever it is, she doesn't want it.

There's no need for violence. It's a note.

You see, it's a card.

Rachel.

Rachel.

Oh, I've missed you so much.

You filled my heart with so much love.

And you showed me the way.

Come, come closer, please.

For you.

Just for you. I've waited eight years to give you this.

And I want to show you the way.

Like you showed that car back at the asylum?

The way you showed that poor librarian?

Or Carla?

Oh, no. No, Carla. I did for you.

Just for you. I wanted to show you my commitment.

Give it up, Romero.

You're going back.

I want you to keep your eyes on me and don't take them off, okay, Rachel?

And watch me the whole way.

You need to see this.

I'm sorry. I thought you were somebody else. I'm sorry.

Hi, Mommy.

Are you okay?

Me?

Sure.

I'm just a little bit tired.

I had a pretty hard night last night.

With Derek and everybody else?

That's right, with Derek and everybody.

I wish we had a more normal life.

You and me both, honey.

You and me both.

to be here.

Cat? Come on, honey.

Oh, man.

Oh,

man.

I'm just... This house is spooking me.

It's no problem. You all right?

Yeah. I'm glad you're here, that's all.

I didn't mean to catch up on my late -night TV watching anyhow.

Hey.

Hey, kiddo.

How you doing?

Doing cool.

Yeah?

Mom's wigging. Yeah, well, mom's wig sometimes is part of the job.

You were supposed to be in bed, young lady.

I came down here to see Nick.

Why don't we do some reading or something?

Okay. All right. I'll cup of tea, relax, and chill out with kiddo.

Enlightenment is on.

Time is now.

As planting is to harvest, as the night is to day.

As winter is to summer, from death to rebirth,

I've come for you, my beloved Rachel.

You kept your dead husband's pajamas so patchy.

Beth, I should never have been afraid, Rachel.

It's just so much more than I could have ever expected and hoped for. I mean,

there's nothing lost.

It's so beautiful.

And you helped me see that.

And now I want to show you exactly what I see.

I want you with me because I need you.

But to truly be with me, you have to want it.

You have to do it yourself.

Do it yourself.

Rachel?

Rachel?

Rachel?

So much for privacy.

Yeah, I saw him.

It's okay.

I think you were crazy.

I wanted you to be aware of it.

So what are we supposed to do, use silver bullets?

Sometimes the right information can be just as effective.

Well, this is as much of Romero's original trial as I could dig up. Now,

technically, this stuff's not supposed to see the light of day until the case

officially closed, or unless you can produce a writ.

But under the circumstances...

Seeing as how I'm the guy that pulled Romero's charred corpse off your back

fence the other night, I'm going to go out on a little bit of a limb here for

you. Now, would you like to go all the way out on a limb for me?

Yeah. The rocks.

Romero used this.

Ritual sacrifice.

Ordinary quartz crystal.

No particular value except for some interesting crystal formations.

Can I have them?

I'm not sure yet, but I think I'll be needing them.

It's a real big favor to be calling on Derek. How am I supposed to get him out

of here?

I'll handle it.

Is that okay?

She's finally asleep again. Let's watch her upstairs.

Life of a serial killer.

Death serial killer.

Turned corial ghost.

Corial ghost. Now there's a contradiction in terms.

Well, judging by your last encounter with him, I don't think Mr. Romero is of

mind to clarify situations for the benefit of the legacy.

High school yearbook.

The chair of his dog.

So where do we start?

Well, let's start with why he came back.

What's the number one cause of a haunting?

Uh, the person died with unresolved issues.

Yeah, but that's not Stephen Romero. He is very resolved about being dead. In

fact, he likes it so much, he'd like me to join the party.

Well, he used an occult ritual to ensure he'd return in corporeal form, so if we

could decipher it, we might be able to use it against him. Yeah, but that still

leaves us with two questions.

Where to use it and when.

The solution to stopping Romero might just be in here.

We are.

Anthony Romero.

His father, that... He died in front of Stephen when he was a little boy.

That's the incident that triggered his phobia about death.

So much easier, didn't it?

You know, people, they spend decades slowly trying to kill themselves with

alcohol.

Well, you sort of almost did, didn't you?

Have you thought about my proposition?

Go to hell.

I don't have the directions.

Rachel, I still know you now.

I do.

I'm around you.

I sense you. I need you.

And don't tell me that you have not thought about suicide. Maybe even more

once. Yes.

But living is better, Stephen.

There will be fewer people alive unless we can resolve this situation.

I thought you only wanted me.

Carla Willits, the librarian.

Rachel. When their soul exits through their eyes, it is something.

It's because of your little girl, isn't it?

You would miss her too much.

Well, maybe it's going to be easier if she were just gone.

Romero's message is clear, and his present state could take you any time he

wants to.

Or any one of us.

But he hasn't. He's obsessed.

He's only interested in you at this point.

A stone pattern seems to be associated in pre -Celtic legend with the coming of

summer.

Summer means rebirth.

So there must be a pattern and a legend for winter, the season of death. I could

probably find it.

That means we need a sacrifice.

Sacrifice can be symbolic and be just as effective.

Something meaningful to Romero will serve our purpose.

Well, it's been really interesting listening to you guys. We're going to go

some ice cream.

Ice cream, huh?

Don't worry about it.

I'll watch, kiddo.

What do we got to do?

Ice cream, ice cream, ice cream, ice cream. Derek, in the library, Romero

about Carla again.

Of all the people he's killed, her death is the most significant.

It's probably because how deeply it affected you, Rachel.

And this Valentine is the one that he sent me before he killed Carla.

Yeah.

He's telling us something.

Be remembered.

It's our special place.

Only in your mind, Steven.

Oh, this place is special to you, too.

I mean, we bonded here.

You kidnapped Carla.

You brought her here. You killed her.

You made the 911 call yourself.

When I got here, they were taking it away.

This is where you faced death for the first time, yeah?

How did that make you feel?

Huh?

Look.

Cyanide. Okay.

Quick, clean, fast, pure.

All that pain.

God, all your whole life, it'll just disappear.

Okay.

I don't want to call you.

I'll put you down.

I know you do, because I know you really well.

And I know you've thought about death many, many, many, many times.

It's like that pain inside of your body when it disappears, who you are. Pain is

part of life, and I tried to teach you that.

Do you remember in our sessions, you would look at me and you would

say, pretend that I'm your coach, and we're going to play a game, and the game

is life.

I'm your coach in this game.

It's death.

I love you. Take the cyanide.

You are not going to haunt me, Steven.

You made me who I am.

No, I didn't create you.

Not any of it. I don't want to talk about me.

You and me.

There's no future, Stephen. Only the past. Only a little boy who's so scared

watching his daddy die. You never came to terms with that.

I have no patience left.

Put it in your mouth, or I will kill you.

You're not my patient anymore.

Run!

Your hour is up, Stephen.

This is over.

Right here.

Right now.

Are you just going to walk through the park?

Should I just disappear and pop up in front of you? Or are we going to hold

hands?

This is not going to stop now, Rachel.

Rachel!

You think this will stop?

You're right.

One thing's missing.

A meaningful sacrifice.

Your father's watch, Stephen.

He fell down and broke the crystal.

You watched him gasping and dying on the floor. You didn't know what to do,

Stephen. Oh, no.

Oh, no.

You told me.

All the pain goes away.

And all the guilt, too, Stephen.

Take that!

Take this away!

Don't you remember how helpless you felt?

Why are you doing this to me?

There you were, all alone, watching your father die.

Summer is over.

The moment of death is something every living being must face.

Some believe it represents a new beginning.

Some people can't face the prospect that it's the end of everything.

And some, like Stephen Romero, would make it their very reason for living.