Clarice. 19
I thought it was done. 20
Buffalo Bill took seven women. 22
He skinned six -- 23
six of them. 24
I saved one -- 25
the last one... 26
Catherine. 27
It's been a year since. 28
I put it behind me, 29
but last week, 30
some of the families wanted to make statements. 31
Close the book. 32
Such a sad, strange anniversary. 33
I wanted to be present for the families of the victims. 34
When I came out of Justice, 35
they were all just... everywhere. 37
Sorry you had to see this here, Clarice. 38
It was left in my waiting area. 40
The press can't seem tolet you go. 41
Well, I suppose there are a few advantages, sir. 42
The checkout lady at the Safeway 43
asked me to autograph a melon. 44
I imagine it might cause 45
real resentment with your colleagues. 46
The famous face of the FBI, just a year out of the Academy. 47
Well, sometimes we duke it out at the vending machine. 48
Not really. 49
I feed data into computers. 50
I'm what they call an "Igor" 51
in the Behavioral Sciences Lab. 52
I'm not the face of anything, sir. 53
Well, this says differently. 54
"Buffalo Bill's house of horrors... 55
Will the Survivors Ever Speak??" 56
There were no survivors. 57
But you were a survivor. 58
I mean... 59
to be a survivor, you have to be a victim. 60
I was just doing my job. 61
Yeah, but it wasn't your job. 62
You were still a trainee when you stopped Buffalo Bill 63
from skinning and killing more women. 64
Excuse me -- He killed them before. 65
Is that distinction important to you? 66
Yes, sir. 67
It is important to me that he did not skin them alive. 68
Do you ever speak with her? 69
Catherine Martin? 70
I'm not really sure what there would be to speak about, sir. 71
You keep in touch with the other victims' families. 72
You write to them. You check in. 73
But not Catherine. 74
Sir, I understand 75
it would be easier for everyone 76
if I just became comfortable with the term "survivor." 77
I've found most people need me to be just the one thing, 78
a simple thing. 79
So they can...relax, I guess. 80
Clarice, you've been deflecting like a pro for a full year now. 81
Sir, I'm mandated to come here and speak with you, and -- 82
Which is understandable, 83
given your last therapist was an inmate 84
in the Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane 85
and, you know, ate his patients. 86
He was not my therapist. 87
It was a quid pro quo. 88
- He wanted pieces -- - Pieces of your life, 89
in exchange for his insights into Buffalo Bill. 90
But you were specifically told 91
not to give him any information, Clarice. 92
We only had three days. 93
You let that relationship be intimate. 94
How do you carry that? 95
How do you carry his rage? 96
Buffalo Bill's rage? 97
I'll put it another way -- 98
What do you do with all your rage? 99
It's not really something I think about, sir. 100
Okay, Clarice, 101
I'm gonna tell you what I see. 102
I see an agent who seems to be adopting 103
the families of murdered women, 104
but hasn't seen her own family in years. 105
I see an agent who's buried herself 106
in the basement of the Behavioral Sciences Unit 107
and rarely sees the light of day. 108
The light doesn't matter that much to me. Really. 109
And I see an agent who just told me 110
that she doesn't consider Catherine Martin to be alive, 111
despite having saved her life. 112
These things make me think, 113
"This agent needs to be out of rotation 114
until she can heal from PTSD of the most egregious kind." 115
Sir, I'm gonna tread carefully here 116
because I know what you write in there 117
can make my job harder. 118
Please. 119
This tabloid has never been opened. 120
It's pristine. 121
No one left it here, sir. 122
You wanted me to see it, to get me talking. 123
Is that accurate? 124
I'll ask you again, Clarice -- 125
What do you do with all your rage? 126
Doctor, I'm sorry. 127
Excuse me. This is a private session. 128
Doctor, I have orders to get her to Washington. 129
I'm not prepared to sign off on her. 130
This request comes from Ruth Martin, 131
the Attorney General of the United States of America. 132
It's an urgent matter, and Starling is needed right now. 133
Why me, sir? 134
You don't get to ask why, Starling. 135
Let's go pack a bag. 136
You'll be gone a while. 139
The press is outside the mayor's window. 140
Madam Attorney General, they need you to make the statement. 141
I will make the damn statement -- 20 minutes. 142
The Attorney General will be making a statement later. 143
In the meantime, you can sit tight just like everyone else. 144
Well, you must pack up quick. 145
Yes, Ma'am. It's my dad's duffel. 146
Been living out of it for quite a while, so... 147
It's appreciated. 148
Hello, Clarice. 149
Congratulations on your appointment, ma'am. 150
It ruffled some feathers. 151
I'm -- I'm real sorry to hear that. 152
Two dead women floated down the Anacostia River. 153
Somebody sliced them to ribbons. 154
And you think it's a -- 155
A serial killer. 156
Hell yes, I do. 157
Ma'am, there's a lot of criteria around that designation. 158
I'm not having this again. 159
Ma'am, am I here to consult for Behavioral Sciences? 160
- You're here to catch the guy. - Ma'am? 161
I took this office with a mission -- 162
to convene a Violent Crimes Task Force, 163
so that no family ever goes through what ours did. 164
Ma'am, respectfully, there are agents with years of experience. 165
You think you're not ready? 166
I'm just saying that there are more qualified -- 167
No one is more qualified. 168
You weren't ready to go into that house 169
and pull my child out of that murderer's pit, 170
but you did it. 171
You saved my little girl. 172
She's thin now. 173
She's very...thin. 174
Bill only took the larger women. 175
I don't need to be a psychiatrist to put it together. 176
You are a woman with a very public reputation 177
for hunting monsters, Clarice. 178
I can't have a reputation --I've only done it once. 179
It's time you own that reputation. 180
Bill took seven. 181
That's not happening on my watch. 182
You are now a Special Agent of the ViCAP Task Force. 184
Head Man in Charge is Paul Krendler. 185
And, no, he hasn't forgotten how you showed him up 186
when you were both chasing Bill, 187
but he's a hell of an investigator and a good lawyer. 188
I need you both to work together now. 189
Ma'am. 190
Becoming the face for your Task Force 191
requires some... cooperation. 192
What do you want, Starling? 193
To go back to Behavioral Sciences after these murders. 194
Just these murders, and that's it. 195
I belong at BSU. They're my people. 196
You don't get to make that choice, 197
and you don't have any people, Clarice. 198
Your fellow Quantico graduates, the senior agents -- 199
they hate you 200
because they can never understand what you've been through. 201
No one in the world can. 202
Except me. 203
And Catherine. 204
She thinks you're the only one who can help her. 205
And I know you have your own demons to carry, 206
but we're your people. 207
I ask you, 208
will you please start returning her calls? 209
Paul Krendler will meet you on the scene with 210
the ViCAP team. 211
It's time to come out of hiding, Starling. 212
Paul, she's here. 213
You know why you're here, Starling? 214
The AG sent me, Mr. Krendler. 215
You're Ruth Martin's drop of honey. 216
For the cameras. 217
But this isn't Buffalo territory anymore. 218
We do evidence, 219
not, "It's a full moon, and I've got a feeling." 220
The AG made it clear this needs to be a win, 221
simple and clean. 222
So you'll keep quiet until I tell you, 223
and then you will say what I tell you. 224
Jones, get her some gear. 225
Sir, I wasn't informed I would actually be -- 226
Now you're informed. 227
And for the record, I think you got lucky when you caught Bill. 228
You do have your gun? 229
You should at least look the part, Starling. 230
They don't really come in your size. 231
Are you the girl? 232
Okay. 233
Stab wounds. Bite marks. 234
Looks like a serial guy to me. 235
The other one's in the drainage gate. 236
Sir, um, I'd need to do a full examination of her wounds 237
and build a BSU profile 238
before determining if it's a serial killer. 239
There's another one at the drainage gate. 240
Two bodies, same MO. 241
I wanna get this guy before he does it again. 242
Get a camera and 243
make sure we have everything before we bring her out. 244
Go with her, Esquivel. 245
I want to see what she can do. 246
I hear Starling's not quite 100%. 247
If she makes any moves on her own, I want to know. 248
Okay, recording. 249
African-American female. 250
Mid-20s. 251
Nude. 252
Muzzle stamp -- left temple. 253
Left hand broken at the wrist. 254
Could be postmortem. 255
Engagement/wedding set, left ring finger. 256
Small carat, but it's a sweet ring. 257
Her husband -- he cared. 258
Polish on both the hands and feet -- 259
It's a soft color. 260
Real tasteful. 261
She minded her presentation. 262
Same stab wounds and bite marks as the other victim. 263
Let's, uh... 264
Let's set her free. 265
Angela Bird, 28, local, 266
prints in the system 267
only because she worked in a public school here in D.C. 268
The older, Tess Laughty. 269
55, retired Postal Carrier from Rockville, Maryland. 270
Husband deceased. 271
Good neighbor. 272
When she first went missing, 273
her friends said that 274
she liked to put the lights on her house at Christmas. 275
Thank you, Tripathi. 276
No water in the lungs. 277
Cause of death in each case was the bullet to the head. 278
- 45 - Correct. 279
As always. 280
Okay, Starling. Go. 281
Esquivel's our Army sniper guy. 282
Tripathi's our library. 283
Clarke's our lie detector. 284
Make us believe in your Behavioral Science 285
like I believe in them. 286
How crazy is the crazy? 287
Well... 288
different ages, different races. 289
The bite marks are shallow. 290
And it's strange the wounds are so well-spaced. 291
None of them...kiss. 292
Any cursory evidence of sexual assault? 293
Nope. But they still gotta go to the morgue. 294
No ligature marks on either victim. 295
And I don't see any petechiae bruising, sir. 296
She got shot in the head. 297
That can act like a magic eraser sometimes. 298
What does that say to you, Starling? 299
There's no intimacy here. No frenzy. 300
And he'd have to know they'd float. 301
A -- A -- A true psychopath? We'd still be looking. 302
But a true sociopath -- 303
They wouldn't have left their faces. 304
Or their wedding rings. 305
What rule is that? 306
Are you saying it's not a crazy guy? 307
I mean, who el-- Who else does this? 308
I'm saying something feels wrong, 309
like it's too controlled, too sane. 310
I'm saying I don't know if I can be definitive yet. 311
Clarke, get her to the morgue. 312
Bag the hands. 313
Coroner's coming. 314
Okay, fellas, time to face the vultures. 315
Let's go. Let's go. 316
If you're not prepared emotionally 317
to see what's right in front of you -- 318
- Sir - You're equivocating, 319
and, therefore, unreliable. 320
This whole mess 321
falls right into the legal definition of serial killing. 322
Sir, if I ran into two people on my bike, 323
it would fall under the legal definition. 324
It's very broad. 325
The definition is unambiguous. 326
I told you -- simple and clean. 327
Sir, I'm saying that I need more time to make an assessment. 328
We don't have time. 329
We have a press conference. 330
Ruth Martin wants the public inflamed 331
and the press on her side. 332
Now, I have to play her game, and so do you. 333
None of this "I don't know, the wounds don't kiss" stuff, 334
you understand? 335
The Attorney General has built her reputation 336
on how violence has touched her family. 337
Is this case a way for her to -- 338
An opportunity for some PR? 339
That may be the most cynical thing I've ever heard. 340
For those of you that have a soul -- 341
AG Martin has made this priority one. 342
Is that why Agent Starling was brought in? 343
Special Agent Starling will answer that question herself. 344
Clarice, do you think you have a special connection to serial -- 345
Agent Starling! 346
Clarice, how does it feel to be back in the field? 347
I'm real glad to be back in the field with my fellow agents. 348
Do you think this is another Bill -- a serial killer? 349
- Clarice! - Agent Starling! 350
It meets the legal criteria. 351
Is this another madman? 352
Is this a serial killer, Clarice? 353
Yes. 354
You're a trained investigator, 355
so I knew you'd find the key under the mat. 356
I didn't know I'd need a place to stay in D.C. 357
Stay as long as you want. 358
I'll be out of your hair in a few days. 359
I know you're up to your neck working cold cases. 360
I'm building one against the Attorney General of the United States. 361
For kidnapping you. 362
I saw you on TV. 363
How bad was it? 364
It was bad. 365
You did the shopping. 366
I wanted to contribute. 367
How am I supposed to alphabetize? 368
I bought Twizzlers. 369
That's a whole nother letter. 370
So... 371
...she pulled you out of the basement kicking and screaming, huh? 372
Must have been fun. 373
That Martin is a real piece of work, boy. 374
She'll look you right in the eye 375
while she's gutting your kidneys. 376
After what she's been through, almost losing her child, 377
I don't believe she's in it for the glory. 378
Well, me neither, but 379
they just want me to say it's a crazy serial guy. 380
The flashy stuff. 381
I mean, it presents on the surface as what it is, 382
but I don't know, Ardelia. 383
Maybe it's me. 384
What if I'm not... 385
emotionally prepared? 386
Did your exceedingly lame therapist say that to you? 387
He could never have caught Bill. 388
He'd probably like to think you just got lucky. 389
Like Krendler thinks. 390
You trusted yourself enough to save a girl once, 391
and all the girls that would have come after. 392
What did we learn in the laundry room back at Quantico? 393
First Principles. 394
What is the thing, in and of itself? 395
Nothing in common demographically. 396
- Weird. - And all the wounds 397
are just fighting each other for attention, 398
like, "Oh, look at me. I'm a biter -- 399
Oh, wait, no, I got this great, big knife." 400
They're...self-conscious. 401
You saying he's not compulsive? 402
I'm saying he does it 403
like he learned it in a book, this guy. 404
There's deliberation. 405
Despite the wounds. 406
No, becauseof the wounds. 407
They're... 408
desperately random. 409
Ardelia, this guy is cold as hell, 410
and he wants us to think he's on fire. 412
Anything evidentiary -- bullet casings, 413
knives, clothing? 414
I'm asking for a Toxicology rush. 415
It's not, like, a complicated request. 416
Yeah, last known for Tess Laughty's... 417
I need everything about a Frank Bird. 418
B-I-R-D, like "bird."... 419
Did you put in for tonight's game? 420
Watch, watch, watch. Here it comes. 421
- Uh, hold on a second. - Okay. 422
The hell? 424
A little lotion for you, Starling. 425
You just gotta rub it on your skin a little. 426
Keep it smooth! 427
Put it in the basket. 428
- I'll call you back. - Welcome to the FBI, Starling. 429
Yeah, welcome to the Bureau. 430
That was messed up. 431
Look, no one from our team would've pulled a stunt like that. 432
It was Peterson's Fraud guys, right? They're a bunch of... 433
I don't need you coming to the rescue. 434
Sorry. 435
Look, I-I come from Military. 436
I've never worked a serial case before. 437
Lucky you. 438
But some of the stuff you said at the scene... 439
it made sense to me. 440
It did. 441
Listen, your wheelhouse isn't real pleasant. 442
You wouldn't be in it if you couldn't... 443
see the way you do. 444
The 302 report said you questioned Angela Bird's husband, 445
but there is no real breakdown of her psychological map. 446
I'm a dead shot at a thousand meters. 447
The psych map is BSU territory. 448
Husbands never know what they know about their wives. 449
Someone should talk to him again. 450
Okay. Let's go. 451
Really? 452
Hey, we're on the same team here, Starling. 453
This place needs a house cleaning, 454
but you got to trust somebody sometime 455
or you die alone. 456
You're pretty bleak. 457
I get it from my mom. 458
I'm driving. 459
You're saying you don't think 460
this is a foaming-at-the-mouth serial killer, like... 461
I-I'm saying it's real soon to say that. 462
So it might be someone who wants to make us think 463
he's foaming at the mouth. 464
W-Why? 465
When I was a girl, 466
before I left home, 467
I smashed the entire jar of Christmas cookies 468
so my mom wouldn't know I ate all the Santas. 469
You make it look like one heinous act to hide another. 470
You were a criminal mastermind, huh? 471
- Why the Santas? - Frosting. 472
You got older siblings? I'm guessing sisters? 473
Yeah. Uh, two. Why? 474
You sit like you're used to the passenger seat. 475
I'm gonna tell them you said that. 476
Hey, why do they call you the Bride of Frankenstein? 477
It's a long story. 478
They also call me Igor and Rapunzel. 479
But I'm out of the tower now, 480
so it'll have to be something else. 481
I'm already on my way to West Virginia Granny Witch. 482
I have absolutely no idea what that is. 483
Angela was the... 484
She did most of the housework, took care of the baby, you know? 486
Mr. Bird, I grew up in an orphanage, 487
and I changed a lot of diapers. 488
May I help you? 489
Is there anyone else in the house, sir? 490
David, my son. He's watching TV. 491
Would you mind if I took another look around? 492
Mm, no. 493
So, does your son like dinosaurs, too? 494
I don't know what he likes. I don't know... 495
how to love him right. 496
I-I try. 497
I've never raised a hand to him. 498
Of course. 499
He has something called autism. 500
You know what that is? 501
It feels like you can't reach him. 502
Yes. 503
Thank you for saying that. 504
People don't understand. 505
Angie really had it in her teeth -- "Why? Why?" 506
Was your wife active like that? 507
Reaching out to people? Vocal? 508
Yeah. 509
She always tried. 510
She sounds like a great mom. 511
Our second victim, Tess Laughty -- 512
Do we have her next of kin? 513
Maybe they can tell us something. 514
Her daughter, Casey Laughty. 515
She's got a sheet and a kid. 516
Last known address lists her as transient in the Highlands. 517
That'll be fun. 518
Excuse me, sir. Have you seen this woman? 520
Tess Laughty? Have you seenthis woman? 521
Is she in here? Have you seen this girl? 522
Have you seen Casey Laughty? 523
- Excuse me. Have you seen this woman? - No. 524
Do you know this girl? 525
Sir, have you seen her? 527
- No! - Stay on the ground! 528
No, no! 529
- Stay on the ground, Casey. - No! No! No! 530
Why you wanna bust me, bitch?! 531
I'm not a connection! 532
We're not here for that. 533
We're here to tell you your mother's passed away. 534
We're real sorry for your loss. 535
Damn. 536
Who's watching your kid, Casey, huh? 537
Who's watching Gunnar? 538
Your mother took custody of him 539
when you went to Brockbridge. 540
I stayed clean my whole pregnancy, 541
but my mom took him anyway. 542
Got him into That Learning Place. Call The Place. 543
What place is that? 544
The Place for freaky kids 545
who have to be fed through a tube. 546
You don't answer your pager? 547
The two victims -- They both had kids with -- 548
Special Needs. David Bird and Gunnar Verde. 549
Later. There's another body. 550
Same wounds. Same everything. 551
Esquivel, you're with us. 552
Starling, you stay here on the desk. 553
Sir, is there a problem with my performance? 554
I don't know yet. 555
I got a call from your therapist, 556
who's concerned that you might genuinely flip out. 557
I'm trying to protect you, Starling. 558
From whom, sir? 559
From yourself. 560
The AG is keeping press off scene. 561
Your services aren't needed tonight. 563
She found something none of us were even looking for. 564
Good. I'll hear it later. 565
Is she beginning to trust you? 566
I don't know. Maybe. 567
I trust her. 568
Look, I need a read on Starling. 569
Do I put Clarke on her? 570
Or is this something you can handle? 572
Hello. 573
It's Clarice Starling, ma'am. 574
- I had a message you -- - It's Catherine. 575
Catherine? 576
Hello. 577
Hello? 578
Catherine? 579
I didn't know how else to get you to call me back. 580
I've been calling you. 581
I haven't had a lot of time lately. 582
Yeah, my mom has you pretty busy. 583
Yeah. 584
Is it you can't look at me? 585
'Cause I remind you of him? 586
Uh, Catherine, can I help you? 587
Can you help me? 588
Precious! 589
Catherine... 590
is that Precious? 591
I saw you on the news yesterday, 592
talking about dead women. 593
Is there another one like Bill out there? 594
I'm sorry. I can't discuss the details. 595
I need to know if it was real. 596
Sometimes, I don't know if I dreamed it. 597
There's no one else I can ask. 598
You're the only one, Clarice. 601
Do you remember the first thing you said to me? 602
I said... FBI! You're safe. 603
That was a lie. 604
I'll never be safe. 605
Neither will you. 606
Do you remember the mannequins and the autopsy table? 607
You saw that, right? 608
Help me! 609
Yeah, I saw it. 610
Oh, and the way he talked. 611
Now it places the lotion in the basket. 612
That strangled voice, when he -- 613
I heard his voice, Catherine. 614
Can you sleep? 615
Or do moths wake you up? 616
How are you out there in the world? 617
We're different people. 618
No. We're exactly the same. 619
You think you can rewrite the story, but you can't. 620
My mother? 621
You can't trust anything she says. 622
There's no one for you. 623
Just me. 624
- Starling? - Esquivel? 625
Yeah. I'm on-scene. 626
Latest victim ID's as Sandra Bishop. 40. 627
Nothing demographically like the other two, except -- 628
lady next door said she had a daughter 629
who was born with pretty severe facial deformities. 630
The child lives in a clinic up in Connecticut. 631
Casey Laughty's son needed a feeding tube. 632
And David Bird has autism. 633
Maybe something caused it. 634
Caused all of it. 635
All the women are linked by their kids. 636
Frank Bird's our best connection to them. 637
We gotta go speak to him again. 638
Does Krendler know you're here? 639
He said to bring some samples to the lab. 640
I did that. 641
You know, for the record, he told me to watch you. 642
What did you tell him? 643
I didn't tell him anything. 644
I'm telling you. 645
- Okay. - No, I'm not. I counted them. 646
Are you really gonna have 514 children? 647
If nothing happens, yes. 648
Of course, they won't show up till next spring. 649
He used to watch "Charlotte's Web" with Angie. 650
Keeps him calm. 651
When is he not calm, Mr. Bird? 652
When Angie gets migraines. 653
She gets, uh... 654
Got them a lot. Her pain upset him. 655
You know, there are plenty of medications for migraines. 656
Did she take any? 657
Sir, if you know anything, 658
anything that could help me find out 659
who took your wife from you, 660
please tell me now. 661
She was in a trial. For migraines. 662
A clinical trial? 663
But a lot of the kids of those women... 664
turned out to be... 665
messed up in different ways. 666
Angie wanted to reach out to them. 667
Mr. Bird, secrets won't help here. 668
Look, I can't. 669
We signed an informed consent. We settled. 670
May I have permission to look through 671
your wife's personal things? 672
She changes the baby. 673
She keeps the house. 674
They're traditional. 675
So if she's gonna hide something, 676
it would be somewhere... 677
he wouldn't look. 680
We were just talking about secrets. 681
Oh, yeah? 682
Hey, David. 683
I'm Clarice. 684
I think these were your mom's. 685
Did your dad know about these? 686
Or a lady named Rebecca? 687
Do you know Rebecca? 688
Rebecca Clark-Sherman's a reporter at The Herald, 690
and she wrote a piece in 1991 691
exposing glycol ethers in cosmetics. 692
Angela Bird was reaching out to her 693
about a clinical trial for migraines. 694
And the third victim -- Sandra Bishop. 695
Neighbor says that when she sent her daughter away, 696
it broke her heart in 17 places. 697
She couldn't let that be the end of it. 698
And there was a Bible verse on her fridge -- 701
"I will be with thy mouth, andteach thee what thou shalt say." 702
I know that verse -- 703
It's about speaking truth. 704
The children couldn't speak for themselves. 705
Bird said his wife was reaching out to the others. 706
Oh, God. 707
They're all breaking the quiet. 708
They're all whistleblowers. 709
So who ran those trials? 710
When you find out, give me their names -- 711
They're going in the book. 713
This is getting worse than if it was a crazy guy. 714
It always gets worse. 716
It's 102 Somersby. 717
100 -- that's it. 718
Hold up. 719
That Jeep doesn't have any plates. 720
What? 721
- What the hell? - I was a counter sniper. 722
Had to figure out where the other guy was gonna be 723
or everybody'd be dead. 724
Smoke it all the way to the butt, pinch it dead. 725
This is how the Special Forces guys 726
field-strip their cigarettes. 727
They definitely don't make wounds that kiss. 728
He's in the house. 731
Oh, God, no. 732
No, no, no, no, no. 733
Clarice! Up here! 734
Esquivel?! 735
Go! I've got her! Go! Go! 736
Halt. FBI. 737
You're not crazy. 738
Crazy men don't stage a suicide, you son of a bitch. 739
You have the right to remain silent. 740
Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law. 741
You have... no idea what this is. 742
You're gonna tell me who paid you 743
to kill those three women. 744
Give me their names! 745
Get me a deal. 746
Rebecca, were Angela Bird, Tess Laughty, and Sandra Bishop 747
gonna talk to you about the trials? 748
- The clinical trials? - Agent. 749
Agent, we have to go now. 750
Thank you for what you did. 751
Yes, ma'am. I understand. 752
Explain yourself. 753
Sir, that man is a professional. 754
He was contracted to kill Rebecca Clark-Sherman -- 755
to make it look like a suicide 756
so we wouldn't connect it to the others. 757
- We got him before he -- - I didn't ask you. 758
He wants a deal, sir. 759
He was paid to clean up after some kind of clinical trial. 760
Those women were whistleblowers, 761
and Clark-Sherman was gonna tell their story. 762
Can you prove any of this? 763
Not yet. 764
Starling. 765
Do you know how you sound? 766
Yes. Like an agent of the FBI. 767
We don't make deals. 768
Sir, he's spooked someone will get to him. 769
- He wants to talk now. - It's not your call. 770
You will go to the press, and you will tell them 771
that these murders were the work of a serial killer. 772
We caught him. We're locking him away. 773
They can go back to their lives, safe. 774
Safe? 775
These were not random victims of a random crazy man. 776
They were trying to speak up. 777
Why are you so unwilling to consider that? 778
Of course I'm considering it. 779
That is another one of the many assumptions 780
you've been making since we met. 781
What I'm not willing to do is put the lives of my team 782
on the line based on the feelings of a junior agent 783
who consistently presumes she knows better. 784
That's how people get hurt. 785
Now, we'll investigate the conspiracy angle without you. 786
Pull yourself together and get out there. 787
What's his name? 788
Is it an ongoing investigation? 789
Clarice, can you give us any more details? 790
I grew up in Kanawha County, West Virginia. 791
And when I was about 8 years old, 792
a member of the school board tried to ban some books. 793
I was just a kid, but I went to my pastor and I asked him, 794
"Whose stories are worth telling? 795
Whose are worth hearing?" 796
And he said, "Never let anyone decide that for you." 797
Tonight, thanks to the Metro Police and the ViCAP Task Force, 798
we got the guy, 799
the man who murdered Angela Bird, 800
Tess Laughty, Sandra Bishop, 801
and tried to murder Rebecca Clark-Sherman. 802
- Clarice! - Can you ID the serial killer for us? 803
What's his name? 804
Angela Bird, Tess Laughty, Sandra Bishop, 805
and Rebecca Clark-Sherman -- 806
Their names are more important. 807
And they were not random victims of a serial killer. 808
They died trying to tell a story. 809
A story that isn't over. 810
This wasn't a serial killer? 811
Is it an ongoing investigation? 812
Will you be staying on in Washington full time, Clarice? 813
I'll be here until we close the book.