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Tonight on Hunter.

The victim's name was Michael Girard.

He was 31.

Ordinary people are not shot to death at close range.

Mrs. Eva Sands reported that her daughter

who has a history of psychotic behavior

stole her 380 automatic.

Well, apparently she stopped taking your medication.

She had a violent reaction.

Maybe somebody wanted to make her crazy.

He went after me with a knife, and they still let her out.

Damn it.

Damn it.

Damn it to hell.

That's enough.

Rachel?

Rachel?

I told you to go home, didn't I?

Oh yeah, sure, you'd like that, wouldn't you?

Then you could say I was irresponsible and fire me.

Go home. See you tomorrow.

We better go call the police.

File a police report.

Yes?

Mrs Girard?

Yes, what is it?

I'm Sergeant Deedee McCall, LA Police.

I need to speak with you.

May I come in?

It's awfully late.

What is it?

I'm afraid I have some bad news.

Your husband's been killed.

He should be home soon.

No.

He's dead, Mrs. Girard.

I heard you.

I'm very sorry.

I heard you.

Hey, Hunter?

Gentleman on the bench wants to see the officer investigating

the Girard shooting.

He was sitting there this morning

when I came on duty at 7:00.

Thanks, Ray.

How you doing?

I'm Sergeant Hunter, investigating

the Girard shooting.

How can I help you?

I'm afraid it's the Jupiter project, sir.

They finally made their submarine invisible.

The entire country, the entire free world are at risk.

Can you hold that for me?

Mm-hm.

Ah, that's a good photograph.

Mm.

Haven't we met?

Yes, sir.

I'm Dexter Blodget.

I tried to tell you last year about the men

who were being abducted from the homeless shelter...

And taken to Jupiter.

Exactly.

Right.

OK Dexter, you want to step over here?

I appreciate you coming in.

Ray?

Yeah.

I want you to call Jupiter, tell them we have Mr.

Blodget here in Los Angeles.

Tell them that we're going to make sure he gets home safely.

Right.

Mr Blodget, once again, thanks for coming in.

Thank you, sir.

I appreciate it.

Thanks

Bye.

The victim's name was Michael Girard.

He was 31, owned a litho company two blocks south on Cahuenga.

$63 in his pocket, credit cards, his watch... it was all there.

Well, that shoots the robbery motive.

The owners of a restaurant on the corner said that the victim

at there now and then.

He had dinner there that night alone.

He left at 9:10.

It was right before the shots were fired.

Any witnesses?

No, nobody on the street saw anything.

But it's Hollywood Boulevard, you know most people don't even

remember their names.

What did his wife say?

Well, that they were married happily for two years.

They had been building up a print graphics boutique.

They were planning on having kids around 1990.

Any enemies, drugs, debts?

Nope.

I did a credit check at Certified National.

They had a good payment record on their car,

their home, all their loans.

Yeah, credit cards current.

Just movie rentals, Hollywood Bowl, Dodgers season tickets.

You know, I am still a little worried about those red marks

on the victim's neck though.

- Hi, guys. - Hi.

I just got the preliminary word from the coroner.

Girard was shot four times at point blank range, possibly

with 380 automatic.

First slug hitting his heart, killing him instantly.

Sounds very deliberate.

Any lab reports on the marks on the victim's neck?

No, it looks just to be a dye marker.

That bothers me.

There's something crazy about that.

Maybe it's a psycho or something.

Look, check with the hospital detail.

See if there are any dangerous patient releases.

So anything else besides no motive, no witnesses?

Nothing, Charlie.

Although, I am running down a list of disturbances

that occurred in the area that night.

Other than that, no.

Good... good.

Thanks.

What about the victim's wife?

About her whereabouts?

I already checked into it, she was at her sister's house.

Apparently every Friday her husband worked late.

He was out.

So she went over there and had dinner.

It was a regular routine.

She says that they were a real happy couple, just

ordinary people.

Ordinary people are not shot to death at close range.

Morning, honey.

Good morning.

Ouch.

Are you all right?

What do you think?

It's getting late, Rachel.

Aren't you worried about being late for work?

I was fired yesterday.

You satisfied, bitch?

Where is it?

Mu... uh.

Where is it?

Hello, Oak Park, East Wing.

Dr. Pence?

One moment, please.

Security to discharge?

Security to discharge?

This is Dr Pence.

This is Eva Sands, Rachel Sands mother.

She's acting up this morning.

She got herself fired from that bookstore job.

And she's been yelling and screaming.

I haven't seen her like this since she started.

Has she been maintaining her dosage of hydralazine?

Oh, yeah.

She takes one at breakfast and another before going to bed.

I see that.

Well, she didn't take one this morning come to think of it.

I'll be by the house.

I'm making my rounds now, but I should be there by 1.

And calm yourself down Mrs Sands.

Rachel will cue off you emotionally.

If she gets violent, call the police.

Damn right.

What the hell did you do with my damn hairbrush?

Oh, Judith priest.

Where is it?

Yeah, I have it.

Tell me, was there anything else in the neighborhood

around that time?

OK.

Yeah.

Thank you.

There's a bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard

that called in a complaint.

The manager says that there was an employee there,

a Rachel Sands, who apparently just

lost it and started to tear the place up a little bit.

You might want to check that out.

I do want to check that out.

Thank you very much.

Let me know what you find.

I definitely will.

Thank you.

Who set him on fire?

His complaint search might have paid off.

Homicide.

McCall.

Sands?

Is she there now?

What's the address?

OK, I'm on the way.

What you got?

This morning we got a call from a Mrs. Eva Sands, who

reported that her daughter who has

a history of psychotic behavior stole her 380 automatic.

Now, we got a disturbance call from a bookstore

last night right around the corner from the shooting site

concerning a Rachel Sands.

I'm... I'm the woman who called.

Mrs Sands?

Yeah.

Is your daughter inside?

Yeah, she's in there.

She's... she's got my pistol.

I missed it this morning.

She never touched it before.

But she used a knife on me once.

OK, wait right out here, OK? I'll take care of things.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Rachel?

I'm a police officer.

I need for you to come out where I can see you.

What do you want?

I need to talk with you, Rachel.

Come out where I can see you Rachel.

Rachel, get your hands out where I can see them.

Come on outside, Rachel.

Come on out, Rachel.

That's right.

Come on downstairs now, Rachel.

Come on out.

Just keep your hands where I can see them.

I'm not going to hurt you, Rachel.

Everything's going to be all right.

It's all right.

It's all right.

Feel free to take a look around.

Excuse me.

Detective McCall, Niels Rasmussen.

Sorry about blasting your ear drum.

The airlock keeps the lab pressure at half sea level.

We grow some pretty exotic bugs in here, you know.

Wouldn't want any of them getting out.

No, I understand that.

I appreciate you taking the time to see me.

Oh, well, whatever you need, you've got it.

But I admit to being a bit confused.

Now, you mentioned a link between a murder

and Rachel Sands.

Well, a possible link.

Yeah.

She is a patient at Oak Park Hospital.

She's involved in a test program.

They're utilizing your drug hydralazine.

So we're trying to determine if that drug could

have figured into a killing.

Now, I turned her over to her psychiatrist

for 96 hour observation period.

And he checked her blood to figure

out if there was something that could have caused her behavior.

Found no alcohol, no drugs and no hydralazine.

Now, could that have caused a violent withdrawal reaction?

Happily, and I can speak with confidence

due to years of testing here at Eurogenics,

hydralazine displays no dependency side effects.

None.

Testing on people?

Only just recently begun.

The FDA is slow to allow.

Now, Victor here monitors all the test groups.

Victor?

Victor Tofle, Sergeant McCall.

She's here about the Sands woman.

I pulled her charts.

We don't actually select the subjects for the test.

That's on contract.

50 hospitals nationwide.

Eh, 43.

We have all the original medical history

and the monthly interview transcripts here.

I made you copies here.

Thank you.

So how's the tests going?

Nominal.

As predicted, hydralazine inhibits

blind rage behavior in better than 80% of the subjects.

Any side effects?

Eh, some people get runny noses.

If you'll excuse me, I should get back to work.

Thank you very much.

Let's go out this way.

So tragic, the Sands things.

The people I try to help with my research

can do such awful things.

That's why this drug is a godsend.

Well, we haven't charged her yet.

But if you do, hydralazine is tainted with the crime.

That's a tragedy we must avoid.

It did not make her a killer.

The opposite.

She stopped using it.

I'd like to see the test data when it comes through.

When you have it all together, will you give me a call?

I certainly will.

All purpose, indelible marker.

Dries to the skin in just a second.

Can you match the brand?

Twice.

McCall was right about those bookstore signs.

The manager threw what Rachel was working on in the dumpster,

but she was using one of these to letter

them when she had her fit.

And the dead man's face.

Now all brands are similar, a handful of common ether's

and a heavy dye.

But each one is sufficiently unique.

So the marks on the victim's neck and these signs

are the same...

No question?

Some brands that they sell in supermarkets or thrift stores

are both produced and custom labeled.

We got lucky.

The bookstore bought a name brand.

That's what we call in the forensic trade good chemistry.

Good.

Auntie, are you going to be OK?

If you need anything, call me.

Charlie?

In here.

Any insights on Rachel Sands?

What do you got going there?

I'm on soft foods for a couple of days.

My dentist put these in.

Says I'm grinding my teeth at night.

I wonder why. - Oh, yeah.

Look at them in there.

Here's the Mitchell file you requested.

Now, Rachel Sands... Rachel Sands.

Just like we thought, she's been in 11

different psychiatric institutions over the years.

At age eight, she started ripping the covers off

of books and magazines.

First arrest came when she was 16 years of age.

It seems that she ran amok at the convenience store

in the valley... got tired of waiting in line.

Well, I've done that.

And last year, right before the hydralazine tests

began, she had jumped her mother with a butcher knife.

The next day, her mother went out and bought

a 380 semi-automatic.

Which we still haven't found?

Right.

The killer scrawled all over Michael Girard's face

with an indelible pen.

Same brand that Rachel Sands used

to make that sign next door.

Right.

- Drop this on my desk for me. - I got to get going.

I'll talk to you later.

All right.

Devane?

No, she's not here right now.

She's out at the hospital.

Yeah, I'll take the message.

What is it?

Rachel?

OK, let's go back to why you got angry with Mr Ellers.

I don't know.

Is it because he criticized the way

you were doing your job?

Maybe.

But he's usually OK.

Do you remember tearing these up?

Not really.

Must've been pretty angry?

Well, that's typical.

I always forget afterwards.

That's not an admission.

I know that, Syd.

Relax, all right?

Rachel, you don't have to be afraid.

You're not going to be blamed for anything you didn't do.

McCall don't con my client.

Why don't you give me a little line to fish with, OK?

It's in the best interest of your client.

Rachel, you were doing really well on the hydralazine.

So why'd you stop taking it?

I don't know.

Look lady, I'm doing my damnedest, OK?

But a blank is a blank.

All right, I'm sorry.

Don't touch me.

I don't like to be touched.

Fine.

Why don't we try some impressions?

Why don't you try closing your eyes

and then just see whatever comes in, OK... what sights,

sounds, or images you get.

Will you try that?

OK.

It's hard though.

It's very dark.

Damn zeros, they won't fit.

Zeros like on the sign?

I... I don't know.

Maybe?

Rachel, please try.

You have to give me something I can help you with.

Oh yeah, you want to help me, huh?

Ah... ah... glasses, lights.

Glasses like the kind you drink from

or the kind you wear?

Were the lights street lights, Rachel?

Uh, maybe.

There's people.

There's cars.

Like in a parking lot?

Thank you, McCall.

I think you've led my client far enough down the primrose path

for today.

Was it a parking lot, Rachel?

I don't know, yeah, whatever you say.

Yeah, it's a parking lot.

I killed the guy in a parking lot.

Rachel quiet, not another word.

You saying that because you saw it on TV, or a newspaper,

or because you remember, Rachel?

Rachel has done a good job.

I think she deserves a little rest.

I love it when people try and help me.

I'm just the kind of person people stand in line to help.

I got some news.

I was waiting for you to take a break.

Did you see the look in her eyes?

She's carrying so much hate in her for herself.

You know, I'm telling you something,

her shrink says he doesn't think she's

capable of killing anybody.

And I agree, I think that woman's innocent.

McCall, we just got the word.

They found the gun in the dumpster over on highland.

It's got Rachel Sands fingerprints all over it.

Sergeant McCall?

Yes?

I'm Eva Sands, Rachel Sands mother.

Yes.

Please sit down.

How can I help you?

Is, uh, is Rachel going to go to jail?

She's in psychiatric detention at Oak Park.

She's being tested.

If she's found competent, the DA plans

to file charges against her for the Girard murder.

Didn't her attorney Mr. Dunbar contact you?

I figured he was just in it for the money.

I mean, I told him to do whatever the court will pay for

and nothing else.

Well, I can arrange to have you see her.

Oh, don't.

She's not expecting it.

You think I'm hard?

I didn't say that.

You put up with her for 39 years

and you'll be wishing to God like I do that something would

happen to get free of her.

You know, last year she went after me with a knife

and they still let her out?

I had to buy that gun.

Were you badly hurt?

Yeah.

Well, not actually from the knife.

Well, what happened?

Rachel had one of her conniptions.

Well, she grabbed the butcher knife.

And she was cussing the blue streak.

She was waving it around and jabbing it in the table.

You know, the next thing she would

have come after me with it.

Did she?

I didn't give her a chance.

I ran.

I slipped on the floor and bumped my head on the cabinet.

I threw my back out.

I had to have traction.

So Rachel never actually came at you with the knife?

No.

But she coulda.

Dr Rich, extension 108, doctor's lounge.

Dr Rich, extension 108, doctor's lounge.

I understand she was injured?

That's true, but the reason Mrs.

Sands was admitted to the hospital

was because she injured her back.

Now why in the files does it say that Rachel

injured her in a knife attack?

In direct cause, I guess.

Rachel hadn't come to me at that time.

Well, I think you ought to correct that file,

because the fact is Rachel has never assaulted another person.

That's true.

Her entire history is a violence against property, things.

But then she did threaten you.

Oh, this is so bizarre.

Why all this new behavior?

Why would she stop taking the one drug

that she knew could help her?

Let me ask you something, would

any of these patients here ever stop their medication

without your approval?

No.

No, we monitor them as closely as possible.

We fill nearly 1,000 prescriptions a day

for the resident patients alone.

Why?

Well, maybe the dispensary had a mix up.

Maybe Rachel did take her pills, but they just

weren't hydralazine.

That couldn't be us.

Hydralazine is prepackaged for the test patients

at Eurogenics.

When you tested Rachel's blood,

you were only looking for one drug in particular, right?

Well, I had to.

Some of these psychoactive drugs work in such minute amounts.

You need a computer.

You can't just go on a witch hunt.

Well, still, if you were on a witch hunt,

what drugs would you look for?

Gas chromatography is kind of like trying

to sink the eight ball in the break wearing a blindfold.

You can hit it, but then you have to go looking for it.

What?

Never mind.

Pence gave us a list of 61 drugs he thought might account

for Rachel Sands behavior.

Literally, millions of molecular eight balls.

Well, did we find it or not?

Sure, Doxonizone.

She had a healthy dose in her system.

All right, very good Kevin.

That one was at the top of Pence's list.

And this is not something you're going

to find on a corner either.

Now, do you think her prescription

could have been filled accidentally with this drug?

Well, I'm not a pharmacist, but I don't

think it would be very likely.

And don't forget, Eurogenic's packaged this especially

for the test group.

Makes it sound deliberate, didn't it?

This drug was prescribed by the psychiatric community

quite often until the side effects became known.

Doxonizone promotes psychotic behavior.

Well, why would someone want to give a drug

like that to Rachel Sands?

Technically speaking, to make her flip her lid.

That's patently impossible.

Well, it happened.

I have no idea how Rachel Sands

got Doxonizone into her system.

It's a crude drug, with many problems.

It's hardly used.

We don't even have any here.

Look, all I'm asking is for you to check.

She obviously had the wrong drug in her blood.

Maybe she got it through an error.

Well, you're damn right I'll check.

And captain, until you hear from me,

you'll be well advised not to make your suppositions public.

All right, Doc.

Thanks.

Well, they swear they don't have any.

Doxinizone promotes psychotic behavior.

How could Rachel have had this drug in her body?

Maybe somebody wanted to make her crazy.

Darling, I wish you'd return my calls.

Don't ignore me.

I hate that.

I told you what I'd do if you didn't...

Good evening.

Take it easy there.

Good night.

Good night, Rosie.

Help... help...

Help... help.

Oh my god.

Help.

They're amazingly acute.

Any little change in lab routine will set them off.

I think they know the doctor is gone.

Who was working here after hours?

Business hours?

Any of the researchers.

They've got 20 or so active grants,

a couple of formed co-op teams, literally

hundreds of experiments going.

Biochemical work doesn't run on an eight hour clock.

I was in the cryo lab when the power failed.

Arson said that there was a massive power surge first.

Do you think security could get me a list of who was here?

Possibly.

But the scientific staff uses the security entrance

off the parking garage.

We all have electronic keys, and it's impossible to calculate

what we've lost tonight.

He was a genius.

We'll never know what else he might have done.

Well, he'll get a posthumous Nobel Prize, but...

So what do you got?

Well, I think Rasmussen figured out

who switched Rachel's pills.

Whoever killed him for it, you can bet he's

covering his tracks by now.

I think you should be looking for a connection

between some Eurogenic's employee and Michael Girard.

Yeah.

Oh, let's go back around the corner here.

It's a little more private.

You know, I've been trying to reach you?

I'm sorry.

He kept calling me, so I finally just went to my sisters.

I hope this is nothing.

I mean, I know you already caught that woman.

Wait a minute, who's been calling you?

There's this man.

He's been watching me and sending me things.

Like yesterday, he left a rabbit in my car.

What, a rabbit?

Yeah, he's crazy.

He must think that I might be interested

in him now since Mike...

I, uh... I met him at a club.

I mean, he met me at a club.

And I was already engaged to Michael.

So I didn't give him much encouragement.

But then he got into this dream, a fantasy.

And now he's saying these terrible things

like he's going to kill himself if I won't have him.

Why don't we start from the beginning, OK?

Why don't you give me a physical description,

his name, where he works?

He's pretty average looking.

He's about 35.

He wears glasses.

His name is Victor.

I think he works in some kind of a laboratory.

I still don't like.

I'm going in there.

Syd, it won't work in a crowd.

Look, any incriminating statement she makes

will not be used against her.

OK, I accept that.

I'm just not sure I want it to work.

Syd, I'm going to buy you a donut.

OK, you came outside.

It was about 8:30.

And you wrote it on the back here,

you wrote any four for $5.

Could you write that again, ma'am.

I'm not a trained seal.

Rachel, I didn't say that you were.

I'm just... you got a memory block.

I'm trying to help you to remember.

OK? Will you just write that down?

You satisfied?

This is the way it turns out.

I can't do the damn thing.

And then this, right?

And then you did this?

What are you doing?

Where the hell are we going?

I don't know, you tell me.

You remember walking away didn't you, Rachel?

Remember that?

Not really.

It all looks the same.

There's cars, people, lights, and glasses.

Don't touch me.

I told you never to touch me.

Do you remember a man in glasses, Rachel?

He took your purse.

Remember that?

He took your pills right out of your purse, Rachel.

The man with the glasses took your pills.

You remember that?

Do you remember?

And then he did this...

Do you remember that, Rachel?

He put the gun in your hand.

Remember, Rachel?

The man with the glasses put the gun in your hand

just like that.

I was so sick.

I was going to get fired.

I didn't know.

I know... I know you were sick, because he switched

the medication on you Rachel.

Was this the man?

Was this the man you saw?

Was this the man who did it, Rachel?

I'm sorry.

No Rachel, you didn't do anything.

Yeah, I did.

What?

I don't know, but I must have done something.

It's OK, Rachel.

It's going to be all right.

One, William, 157.

I'll need backup code two at 337 Fulton Street.

That's Eurogenics laboratory.

Roger.

Hi, you've reached 7790.

Please leave a message and the time you called.

Thanks.

I know you're there.

You can't just pretend.

- Leave me alone. - Darling?

I don't want anything to do with you.

You can't just...

Now listen, I told the police how you've been hounding me.

And if you don't stop it, they'll make you.

Darling, don't hate me.

Does he always work at night?

He works whenever he wants to.

He's a level 3.

All right, I got backup coming.

As soon as they get here, you let them in, all right?

Will do.

If there's a power failure, can you get this thing open?

Yeah, 10 seconds.

Victor?

Come out where I could see you.

Put the gun down, Victor.

I knew it was a reach, but I had a chance.

Maybe I pressed a little too hard.

Victor, put the gun down.

You're not thinking straight.

You're telling me.

Come on, help me.

How you doing Rachel?

Dr. Pence is sending me home today.

Actually, I believe he's arranged

to have you go into a group home where

everybody works and pitches in.

I think that sounds great.

Yeah, well, I'll believe it when I see it.

I think you'll see it.

Dr. Pence strikes me as a man who stands by his word.

Mr. Ehlers is expecting you at work on Monday, too.

Sure, till I screw up again.

You know, Rachel, there's a lot of people out there

that like you.

I like you.

Why don't you give us a break?

You like me now, but just wait.