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What the hell is the matter with you? You don't care that innocent women have

been hurt? Do you want to do her?

The wife was raped.

Amanda!

Will you bring my husband home?

Shut up!

Mr. Kaufman, don't do it. Just leave me alone until I find those men.

And I kill them.

That was the worst class ever.

No! It was horrible.

I couldn't understand a word he was talking about. It was because he was

Well, at least when we get to the 20th century, I'll understand what those arms

are all about.

I'll understand what Jim's all about. Yeah, by the time we get there, we'll be

dead and bored at least.

21st century, wait, did you see? Uh -huh, uh -huh.

I got it right. Let me get the cue calling for you. Do you know what's

I don't know.

Bye. Take care. Bye.

You okay?

See if I see Andrew. No.

She'll do.

Yeah. Which one? Oh, that one.

meet you at the school anymore?

Well, you know, he's been busy, so have I. We both have, you know? Uh -huh.

Excuse me.

What do you want? You.

10 -85.

Requesting ambulance and female officer at University Station.

Careful.

You know, I've been out with you all evening, and I still

don't know what you do.

Well, I was always told that a little mystery makes a man more interesting.

I didn't think that.

Insurance.

I'll bet you do.

Anyway, it's not the sort of subject that will be interesting to you over a

bottle of delightful cabernet.

Actuarial table, life expectancy.

Now that part I might believe.

Kate was right about you. You do have a keen wit.

She wouldn't tell me anything about you. She said I wouldn't believe it.

Shall I?

For you to your door? No, don't bother.

I pay plenty for security.

Well, the age of chivalry is not yet dead.

And it can be a pretty tough path for a woman this time of night.

Yes, I know.

Particularly on a first date with a strange man.

I learned a man can make rather forceful expectations when you let him in your

door.

I'll tell you what.

Why don't I telephone you some day next week? No, no, you telephone me if you're

feeling glad.

Perhaps we can go and have dinner again, or maybe we can get... I don't know

what I'm talking about.

I would like that very much. Fine, fine. And I will.

Good. Thank you.

Good night.

Robert!

Yes? What the hell?

Would you please walk me to my door?

Why don't I walk you to your door?

Your statement?

Three men, drunk, about 11 p .m.

Same men?

Maybe. The descriptions are right. They're not in the mug books.

Mr.

Kaufman, I'm Detective Smalls of NYPD.

We've sent a car for him.

We want him now.

where that car is.

Did you tell her about the consulate? She won't let me call them. It's not

uncommon, so I gave her their card.

Amanda!

What happened?

Amanda!

I got here as quickly as I could.

Did they tell you?

Yeah, they said you'd been attacked.

Baby, did they hurt you much? Yeah.

What did they do to you?

Did you tell him?

They took him.

What's going on here?

Mr. Cartman, I'm very sorry, but your wife was raped.

I'll make... Okay, that's fine. Can I get you something? Brandy, anything?

You see?

I was only

out for a second.

Did you want me to walk you home?

Amanda?

Thank you.

Can you help me?

Please?

Mrs. Kaufman?

Thank you for coming.

I appreciate it a great deal.

On the telephone, you said that you... you've been attacked by three men.

That's not the whole story, is it?

No, it isn't.

Infectually attacked?

Yes.

Well, perhaps it would be easier if I read the police report first.

My husband took it with him.

Well, I think I mean.

Ms. Kaufman, I really do have to tell you that I can't help people if

they're simply after revenge.

No, I realize that I don't want revenge.

I don't know if I can handle it if they did kidnap us.

I'm just going to forget. I just want everything to be back the way it was.

But my husband took his gun.

And I want him to come home before he gets arrested or they might hurt him.

Can you do that?

Can you bring my husband home?

I'll find him for you.

Before I do, I've got to get some help for you.

I've already been examined.

Did you talk to anyone?

No.

Well, you must.

You really must talk.

It will help.

You start with a friend.

Just one good friend.

Please.

For me, hmm?

For me?

I mean, after all, if I'm going out to look for your husband... I have to know

that you're all right while I'm there.

Please.

What for?

Athena.

I could talk to Athena.

wine soaked in last night. How am I expected to do any decent headway this

morning, huh?

Wasn't a bad night.

Oh, she got me a good one in the arm. Yeah, I see you gave her one back, too.

Hell, I call it a perfect night.

Even found out I won on the Giants when I got home.

What's the matter with you?

I wanted the other one.

And we're gonna get her.

Huh? Last schedule, four nights a week.

Want to see a photo of your next date?

Lena!

Think she'll fight?

If she don't, I will.

Thank you.

For Pete's sake, McCall, I've been up 22 hours. Give me a break.

You don't expect the men who attacked Amanda Carpenter to put in a load of

do you?

Which is why I'm still sitting here reading these reports.

There's no pattern of this.

Maybe, maybe.

We've got the same descriptions before, but for all sorts of crimes and all

sorts of places.

Why are you so interested in this case, anyway?

You don't go chasing after criminals unless your client is in danger.

They have not gone after her again.

Then it's the husband.

Why do you say that, Isidore?

Because if someone hurt the woman that I love like that, the very first thing I

would think of would be to kill them.

Yeah, well... Isidore,

what is the password of your database?

No, no, no, Robert. No, no. No, I cannot do that. You cannot invade our computer

banks.

Isidore, you know that I still have access to certain resources.

Computer programs designed to break down raw intelligence reports on guerrillas,

terrorists, to correlate their movements, their equipment, their

but above all, to afford our...

and pinpoint areas of possible ambush.

Now, these were field tests in Vietnam.

That's got to be a terrific program.

No, no, no, no.

We were... We were very good at killing people.

Just that there were too many in the end to kill.

I can't do that, Robert.

But... But I'll tell you what I can do.

You give the telephone number to your man.

I'll authorize the downloading of all the data that he needs.

Okay?

Oh, no. I have a deal for you that you cannot refuse.

Why don't you just shoot me and get it over with, McCall? I got a lot of work

do. Some guy at the agency has found out that a certain Latin colonel, whose

name I won't mention, has been using a home PC to call up the bulletin board

play war games. Can you imagine?

So they want me to hack attack his games and make sure he loses.

They figure it'll push him entirely over the brink.

Try me again in about a week.

How about the police department data bank?

Really? They've got triple -level encryption protection. That'd take three

four hours to break.

Oh, you won't have to.

No, someone I know is going to download the information we require.

You mean we don't have to steal it? What's the fun in that?

Well, the fun in that, Jonah, is that you can apply the Delphi programs to

your heart's content.

You know, if I could crack their download protection, I could probably

parking ticket problem.

Jenna, I was thinking of a more important use than a few parking

on, McCall.

$4 ,700 worth?

What? This is no emergency room.

Okay, coffee?

I don't want to go in there, Sita. I don't want to talk to you. Come on,

I already made an appointment with the counselor.

I'm not going to face him alone.

All right, I'll tell you what. You hold my hand while I ask him what to say to

you. Why do we have to say anything?

Because you're my best friend.

If I do let you down one time,

I'm not going to do it again.

I doubt if our being together would have stopped them.

You don't know what it would like.

Then you tell me.

Huh?

And now?

So we can figure it out together.

There's a pattern.

There is? Yeah.

Factor analysis of crime reports will generate 82 possible groups of three

but only group 79 -B had a high probability of attacking Amanda Kaufman,

they're the worst of the bunch.

Typically... A group answering their description is reported early in the

evening at a robbery, making a robbery near a subway station.

And then in the same evening later, they're reported at the scene of a rape,

usually intoxicated, usually only two or three stops down the same subway line.

Two or three stops, that close?

Well, they're express stops. They like fast trains.

So they're intoxicated?

Two or three hours after they've committed a robbery?

Which would therefore indicate... that somewhere along the line they stop off

a watering hole and the cash they've stolen and get some courage up to go and

brutalize yet another woman.

They're very predictable.

They follow the same subway line like... like wild pigs on a forest trail.

Yes.

Thank you, John. I thank you very much indeed.

Yeah, and there's another thing.

What's that?

Group 79 -B commits...

Rapes in clusters a few days apart. And if the computer's right, Amanda is the

first one in a new cluster.

Excuse me, I wonder if you can help.

I'm looking for these men.

This is a drawing of each of them, just a description of them. They mean

anything to you?

Why should they?

Well, if they came in here, you'd certainly know who they were because

been behaving badly.

No, I mean, what do I care?

Well, they have hurt a woman.

As a matter of fact, we think they've hurt a number of women.

Mm -hmm.

Makes me kind of glad I'm not a woman, huh?

What the hell's the matter with you, friend?

You don't care that innocent women have been hurt?

And you could possibly stop it by one word.

Just think of the power that would give you one word.

I don't know about the other three guys, but that guy was in here about an hour

ago.

Jim? Yeah, he had a cup of coffee. He was wound up real tight.

You know which way he went?

He headed down through the subway. I'm not sure, though.

Thank you.

If you happen to see any of them again, would you please telephone one of these

numbers? Yeah, sure.

Good to go.

Oh, man.

I say why not?

Give me some money.

Give me your life, Breach. Get down.

Get down.

Please, mister. Shut up!

Mr. Kaufman, don't do it.

Who are you?

I'm a friend. My name's McCall.

Your wife asked me to come and look for you.

My wife?

She needs you alive, and preferably not in prison.

Anyway, these aren't the same men.

They're vermin, just the same.

Don't you think you're being a little premature?

You can't send them to death without a chance, without a trial.

I will make sure that they go to trial.

I'll just cover them here until the police arrive, and they'll be here soon.

Well, good!

You do that while I attend to my business.

What is it that's driving you, Kaufman?

Eh? You hoping to become sort of released from something by killing those

Just leave me alone!

Just leave me alone until I find those men!

He arrested his father for assault.

Sort of family trade.

Carried on down the generations. Is that it?

Yeah, you could say that, in a way.

Ricky was the victim of that assault.

Oh, McCall.

The lady said this party was broken up by a man with a gun.

Now, I know it wasn't you because the lady said it wasn't.

Now, what Ricky and his friends just tried to pull here was a misdemeanor at

most.

But...

in this town is a felony.

Unless you happen to have one of those strange little lifelines like you have.

So, what's Jim Kaufman going to do when my men spot him?

Ali?

I'm circulating copies of this photo.

I had to.

You know, Isidore, I don't know why you didn't just put all your energy into

cleaning out the filth from this subway.

streets of the city or the schools for god's sake is the door that man robert i

don't make these laws i can barely enforce them but i do know i can't have

crazed man stalking through these subways with a gun yeah i know that i

that he didn't hurt the boys did he robert if we find him we're gonna stop

i know i know so i uh i'll have to find him first i hope you can do that robert

there's a guy in the shape like he is might just flip out and try to run

I can try and kill my detective. Take it easy.

This might just go down anyway.

Yeah.

So you did find him?

Yes, very briefly.

He's riding the subway line which services the station where you were

Some blind hope that he'll be there when they strike again.

Amazing thing is, he could have been.

However, there are one or two pieces of this puzzle that you're missing, aren't

there?

For instance, why were you walking home alone?

And why did the police take so long to find him and bring him to you? It's none

of your business.

Oh, I think it is. I think it is my business now.

I think you know why he's still out there.

He wasn't really taking much care of you before the attack, was he?

Tell him, Amanda.

It isn't that bad.

He was having an affair with a girl down the street.

He saw them together.

I came home from school early one night.

Go on.

So I decided that I would stay in school to the very end.

I wouldn't see them again.

And they didn't see you, and you have confronted him with it.

He's afraid I'd lose him.

And now he's afraid that he might lose you.

You really want him back?

Well, in that case, you'd better come with me now, so that when we do find

you can tell him.

I haven't got much time.

Get my coat.

Oh, hey, thanks.

Another penny, another dollar.

I've been saving some special time for you. Oh, yeah? Well, don't let it go to

waste. Go buy yourself a good magazine.

You're so cool.

Excuse me.

I am putting her on a schedule.

Think she'll recognize you?

I am going to fix her good before I get out of this town.

Let's get a little extra pay this afternoon.

What do you say?

Yeah, then we'll take a V -9 on a fast ride to a short date.

You got it.

If you were in a forest and you found a key in the ground, would you pick it up

or would you leave it there?

This is supposed to tell if we're compatible or not? That's right. That's

the magazine says.

Yeah, you sure? Yeah. Should I repeat the question?

If you're in a bar and you want to pee in the ground, would you leave it there?

Would you have the time?

No. Sure you do. You've got to watch. Hey!

No!

Jim, what are you doing? What are you doing?

The only thing I can think of to do.

Why don't you come home?

Why can't you do that?

Is it because you don't want to?

No.

Well, I know about the move.

I know all about her.

Amanda, there's no excuse.

If I'd known that being with her...

If I thought to be a...

Oh, God, I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I never meant to hurt you.

I love you.

You're my wife.

Then come home with me.

And stay with me. Be with me. But I owe you something.

I wasn't there for you once, but I'll be there for you this time.

I mean, if a man can't fight for his wife, what's he got? Jim, whatever you

down here isn't going to change what happened.

You could be with me right now.

Love you too.

Take care of me.

Take me home.

Well, I got you guys an appointment at the crisis center.

First thing in the a .m.

You gonna go?

Yeah.

Thanks, Tina.

Where are you going?

Class.

Don't make the last hour. Tina, don't go on the subway alone.

Not now.

I've got to.

Otherwise the bad guys win.

I'm going to take good notes for you. I'll be real careful.

Call us later. Let us know you're all right.

Call you later.

Well, what's the matter?

Look, I don't know why I'm getting into the middle of this, but I just came back

on, and my waitress said there were some guys in there earlier, and they scared

the hell out of me. There were three of them. That would mean they were moving

up the line instead of down.

The subway line?

That's where they were headed.

Thank you.

Hello, Jim Kaufman here.

Hello, it's me, Robert McCall.

Is Dina still there?

She may be in real danger.

The gang appears to have broken its pattern. I want you to call the school

stop her from leaving. Now.

I can't keep you.

Dawn.

movie. Don't look back.

The chain ends here.

And not.

What?

I don't know.

What makes you think you can stop us? No one can.

Well, this is a lovely place to ask a girl out on a date.

Oh, I had to think about it.

Tom.

And on such short notice.

Have you slept since I last saw you?

Actually, no.

Oh, no, no, no.

No, not much to tell.

Then why did you call me?

It helps to talk.

I know.

Start with a friend.

One good friend.

Majority vote.

You... You wanted to know what I do for a

living.

I kill people.

There's always one who wields the sword of Damocles. One self -appointed god.

It's me, Alison.

That's me.

I'll take your time.

I've got all night.