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[dramatic music]

[congregation singing]

[speaking Zulu]

[Christine humming]

[Christine vocalising]

[knocking on door]

[door creaking open]

[Christine breathing unsteadily]

[gun firing]

[suspenseful music]

Thank you.

Dr. Pistorius, Detective Nick Wilson.

Morning.

Thanks for making the trip.

Come on through.

I'll give you the grand tour.

So this is the centre of operations.

And this is Solomon, who captains the ship.

Thanks for having me.

Good to meet you.

Welcome to Donnybrook.

[Nick] We mostly scrape by on provincial budgets.

Um, when was this place last upgraded?

When it was uh, first built.

I don't mean to rush you but,

time is very much not on our side

and we need to crack Zikode.

Don't worry, I've been doing my homework.

Christopher Zikode.

He's got quite the CV, hasn't he?

Eight murders, five attempted.

Five rapes.

One indecent assault and eight attempted rapes.

He must have been working overtime.

Yeah, for the last 17 months.

He likes to mutilate the corpses.

One woman had her face and breasts removed.

And tinder inserted into her vagina.

Sometimes when his victims were couples,

he shoots the man first to get him out of the way.

Mutilation usually means curiosity.

Childish exploration.

Often a killer who's psychologically immature.

I need him cracked open by Monday, eight a.m.

He's set to appear in court and hasn't said a damn word yet

in the 24 hours we've had him in custody.

I need that thing off the streets.

By eight a.m. Monday?

No pressure, then.

Nice, relaxed schedule for you.

Yeah.

Can we get you sorted in the interview room?

Then I'll bring Zikode in.

Mm hmm.

[Solomon] How's your Zulu?

Uh, pretty basic.

But I should be just about able to follow.

Oh, okay.

Do you need me to translate for you,

or you want to be alone with him?

No, actually the translation will buy me time

to figure him out.

[Solomon] Okay.

[suspenseful music]

Christopher.

[Speaking Zulu]

[Micki] Are you okay to talk to me?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[speaking Zulu]

I'd like to know more about your childhood.

[speaking Zulu]

What it was like, where you grew up?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

I heard you were quite the activist

in your high school days.

[speaking Zulu]

[speaking Zulu]

And I read in one of your statements

that you never knew your father.

Is that right?

Your Baba?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[speaking Zulu]

Not a fan of his father.

I gathered.

Tell me about your mother.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[speaking Zulu]

She?

No idea.

[speaking Zulu]

Did you kill those men and women

to get back at someone in your family?

To punish someone?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

It's their fault, isn't it?

It's their fault you killed these women.

[speaking Zulu]

I just need to step outside for a cigarette.

Is that okay?

- Yeah. - You can take over.

[speaking Zulu]

He's like a little boy.

Still pointing fingers and blaming his parents.

They made me do it.

[Nick] It's always someone else's fault.

No, but I think it's how he sees everything he did.

It's not just to evade punishment.

He believes it.

No one made him kill all those people.

Those women, what he did to their bodies.

If I'm going to get the confession,

I need to get under his skin.

So where does that leave us?

How do we get a confession if he thinks he's blameless?

I need him to trust me.

He needs to feel like I see him.

Can you take me to the place the last victim was found?

Christine Ntanzi.

It's all the way in Marutswa Forest.

It's 20 minutes from here.

We don't have enough time.

Well, I think maybe we don't have enough time not to go.

Micki, you know I need my confession.

I know.

And if you're going to get that, I need to see what he saw.

Follow his logic on the crime scene.

See how he staged the murder.

See what he left behind.

I need to walk in his shoes.

Do whatever you have to, just be quick.

And Micki,

hold on to yourself when you're going there.

He's gotten away with a lot for a long time.

I hear you.

You're trying to get under his skin

but just make sure to climb back up again.

[suspenseful music]

Sorry.

This is where we found her.

The dogs led us here.

There's nothing left.

We made sure we took all the evidence.

Combed over everything twice, three times.

The storm would have washed everything away.

What's wrong?

This place gives me a strange feeling.

Can we bring Zikone here?

To the forest?

Do you know how much cack I'll get into for that?

Can we try it?

[suspenseful music]

Don't suggest any road trips with this one.

No small talk.

You like it here, don't you?

[speaking Zulu]

Makes you feel safe.

[speaking Zulu]

Hidden.

[speaking Zulu]

Where did you know Christine Ntanzi from?

[speaking Zulu]

You brought her here because it's where you felt safe.

[speaking Zulu]

You wanted to hide.

[speaking Zulu]

to take your time.

[speaking Zulu]

You had a difficult life, didn't you?

[speaking Zulu]

Your family moved around from place to place.

[speaking Zulu]

You never fit in anywhere.

[speaking Zulu]

You were always isolated.

Always alone.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

I think the other kids bullied you.

[speaking Zulu]

[Micki] You ran from them.

[speaking Zulu]

Always looking for places to hide.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

This is your safe place.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Your shelter.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Micki] Your parents didn't give you that.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Micki] It was their fault that your brothers bullied you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Your father abandoned you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Your mother never stood up for you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Micki] The forest gave you what they didn't.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[speaking Zulu]

Is that Christine?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[speaking Zulu]

But she didn't love you back.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

She pushed you away.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Did all the other women do that, too?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[speaking Zulu]

[Micki] Yes, it does.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

It matters to you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You kill women who reject you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

And then you kill the men they choose instead of you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

How did it feel when you did this to her?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

She was spread-eagled.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You pushed sticks and grass into her vagina.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You raped her.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You cut off her face.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

her breasts.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Do you remember this?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You felt she deserved it.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You couldn't help yourself.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You were worried when you did this, weren't you?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You cut off her face because she knew you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You were scared she'd recognise you.

- [Solomon speaking Zulu] - But you were too curious

to stop yourself.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You had to know.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

- to explore her. - [Solomon speaking Zulu]

Tell me why you did it, Christopher.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

In your own words.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Tell me how.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Captain, we're out of time for today.

We need to head back.

Just 20 more minutes.

[Nick] Yeah, I have to keep a log.

And if the defence finds we held him too long,

I know, I'm sorry.

[phone ringing]

Hello.

Hi.

I was just reading about how amazing you are,

and I thought I should call you and tell you myself.

I am pretty amazing, it's true.

But in what specific context?

Your Sithole case.

So when is Dr. Amazing Pistorius

back from the middle of nowhere?

Soon.

I'll be done by tomorrow.

Have to be.

You want to talk about it?

No, I don't want to give you nightmares too.

Problem shared.

Is a problem two people don't have to deal with,

which in the case of a brutal serial killer

is not something you need.

Fair enough.

So do you have any plans for when you're back?

That depends.

On?

On where you're inviting me.

Sorry.

I'm heading off to the States tomorrow evening.

Duty calls.

Right.

I'd love to see you when I'm back.

You pick the place, I'll pick the time.

I'd like that.

Okay, bye.

Bye.

There she is.

What's your poison, Captain?

I'd love a hot chocolate.

Okay, what about a drink?

I don't drink on the job.

Okay, I'll compromise.

With a good old-fashioned liqueur.

Are we just serving ourselves?

- Yeah. - Yeah, okay.

That should loosen you up.

I don't need loosening up.

No, I do, you're right.

So tell me, what were you busy with

before you gave up your life and came to Natal

with two hours' notice?

20 minutes' notice, actually.

And I was busy,

I don't know.

I'm the only profiler in this country so,

I get called up quite a lot.

What does your family think of that?

Is this an interrogation?

No.

No, I just want to know what I'm dealing with.

Okay.

My parents don't have strong feelings about my job.

My sister has strong feelings about everything I do.

- Oh. - Mm.

What about yours?

Um, well, my family are all abroad.

There's not much time for anything else so,

just me.

Not a lot of places to meet guys in this town?

My mother worries about me.

She says we're all going to end up with

heart problems and nervous conditions.

Yeah, well, she's right.

Since I took this job,

it gets pretty fucking noisy in my head.

It's only going to get worse.

It's only going to get worse.

To the voices in our heads.

To the voices in our heads.

[suspenseful music]

[breathing harshly]

[Micki choking]

[Micki gasping]

[Speaking Zulu]

I'm fine, thank you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Speaking Zulu]

- Christopher- - Mhlengwa.

Mhlengwa?

That's what you call him?

[Speaking Zulu]

I see.

And Mhlengwa, he's lived here a long time?

[Speaking Zulu]

What's his sister's name?

[Speaking Zulu]

Nomusa.

[Speaking Zulu]

And what's Nomusa like?

[Speaking Zulu]

And she's still alive?

[Speaking Zulu]

So if you moved around a lot,

where did he go to school?

[Speaking Zulu]

He was bullied.

[Speaking Zulu]

- His brothers hurt him. - [Speaking Zulu]

Did that hurt you too?

[Speaking Zulu]

Very soon, Mama, very soon.

[Speaking Zulu]

Mama, could I see Mhlengwa's room?

[Speaking Zulu]

Thank you.

[suspenseful music]

Would you mind if I took these with me?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Magazines that he bought?

[Speaking Zulu]

And you didn't mind having pictures like this

in your house?

[Speaking Zulu]

Thank you.

[suspenseful music]

Mhlengwa.

[Speaking Zulu]

[suspenseful music]

Ready?

You got this.

We made a stop at your mother's compound.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

It was good to talk to her.

[Speaking Zulu]

She told me about you as a boy.

[Speaking Zulu]

As a son.

[Speaking Zulu]

- Mhlengwa. - Mhlengwa.

Do you like being called Mhlengwa?

[Speaking Zulu]

Right.

Do you recognise any of these ladies?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You spent a lot of time with them.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Speaking Zulu]

No, no, no, no.

They're real women in the photographs.

You must know that.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You must feel close to them.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You spent all that time in your mother's hut

looking at these women.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Dreaming about what you'd do to them.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Tell me what kind of fantasies you had about her.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

These?

My pictures?

Yes.

No, they are your pictures.

You can do with them what you like.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

I'm not judging you, Mhlengwa, I'm just curious.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Did you imagine tying her up?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

That she'd be defenceless?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Maybe struggle a bit.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Did you think you'd have to hold her down

in order to have sex with her?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

When did the fantasies begin to feel like

they weren't enough?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

What about your sister?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

I didn't know you had a sister.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You didn't feel like telling me?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Speaking Zulu]

I don't know.

About growing up maybe.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You two were close.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

She looked after you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

And then she left you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Speaking Zulu]

You think she's a bitch?

Numsa?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Why are you so angry at her?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Speaking Zulu]

And she let you down?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Speaking Zulu]

Which woman did you want her to set you up with?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

- Was it Christine? - [Solomon] Christine?

- Or Nomathemba? - [Solomon] Nomathemba?

- Maybe Florence? - [Solomon] Florence?

Nomathemba.

[Speaking Zulu]

[Micki] And that got to you, didn't it?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Yeah, she should have been yours.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Yours to do what you wanted with.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

But she was someone else's.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

And it was Nomsa's fault that you lost her.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

So you had to take out your frustration

on the women you killed.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Nomsa disappointed you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

You had to punish her for abandoning you.

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Did Nomsa need to be punished, Mhlengwa?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Speaking Zulu]

You will cut her open?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

Like you did to Christine Ntanzi?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Micki] Like you did to Nomathemba?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

- [Micki] And Gugu? - [Solomon speaking Zulu]

- And Florence, yes? - [Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Speaking Zulu]

[Micki] What do you mean yours?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Speaking Zulu]

[Micki] You killed them?

[Solomon speaking Zulu]

[Speaking Zulu]

[suspenseful music]

[men chattering]

[Speaker 1] At least let's have some meat then, you know?

[Speaker 2] You mustn't run so much,

you're getting too old.

- Cheers! - [men cheering]

[Speaker 1] Yeah, we caught the guy, yes we did!

I'm just gonna go check on Micki.

Any answers up there?

None that I can find.

Yeah.

Astrology is not my strong suit either.

I don't know what I'm looking at half the time.

Helps clear the head.

Yeah, it's a different world up there.

Yeah, we're just

spinning on a rock.

So you relieved?

It's over.

Always.

And always unsatisfied.

Why?

You nailed him.

Tomorrow there's one less Christopher Zikode.

Took a lot to get it.

You know, Micki, I've never seen anyone

do what you did in that room today.

I'm just saying.

Thank you.

[suspenseful music]

Well, my theory is that men are like pets.

You need to feed them, exercise them.

Keep them stimulated.

I'm sure she means intellectually stimulated.

No, I'm sure I don't.

So what?

Love is like a meeting of the minds.

No, it is, it is.

You need to have someone you can talk to.

Someone who challenges you.

Okay, I'm not saying there's no value in that.

I'm just saying you're not going to bother

getting to know someone

if you don't want to get naked with them from the start.

[Erika] Oh, she makes a strong point.

Okay, so, is there a new contender?

Maybe.

Tell us everything.

Please, please.

Name, vital statistics, foot size.

Foot size?

Stop it!

[Micki] Well go on, who is he?

- He's just a guy. - Just a guy?

I am supposed to be your sister and that is all I'm getting?

Well, for now, I'll tell you-

[violent knocking on door]

[Erika] I'll get it.

Micki?

Hey, are you okay?

Yeah, no, I'm fine, I'm fine.

I just,

it just gave me a shock and I'm tired, that's all.

Are you sure?

Delivery.

Do you want me to read the card for you?

Yes, please.

A problem shared is a problem halved.

[Suzaan] What's that like a private joke or something?

Yeah, something like that.

- Micki- - I'm fine.

I'm fine, honestly, I just,

I need to catch up on sleep, that's all.

I promise, look, see?

I'm fine.

[pensive music]