CASANOVA: You want to know all about me, don't you?
Well, let's see, now.
The first time I was in love was June, 1975, in Boca Raton.
Her name was Coty Pierce.
She lived there with her parents and her little sister Karrie...
And I loved her, too. I loved them both...
and they were in love with me.
They just didn't know it.
No one did.
I lived with them all that June.
WOMAN: I don't understand.
CASANOVA: I lived in the attic. I was watching.
I loved the expression on their faces when they slept.
And then I decided to declare myself...
and show them how much they loved me.
WOMAN: What happened?
CASANOVA: What happened?
Coty was honored.
She kissed me back.
And then Karrie.
[Girl whimpers]
CASANOVA: And finally that night...
I kissed their mother, too.
Just a little pinprick. There.
[Woman gasps]
WOMAN: Ohh.
Ohh.
CASANOVA: Kiss me.
ALEX: That's it. Now watch and listen.
Good. Knock it back. Knock it back.
Good, but you gotta remember...
You gotta keep running. That's it. That's my boy.
Good. Bring it over. Right hand. Good.
I don't want you to fall on your face 'cause you missed that jab.
What am I always telling you?
Power comes from leverage and technique.
You paying attention?
[Pager beeps]
I gotta go, guys...
so you pair off and hit the heavy bag.
Three rounds each. Go.
How long has she been inside?
I'm on my way.
POLlCEMAN: Their names are Edmond and Dianne Wainford...
ages 48 and 42.
An item about 7 years. No prior complaints.
The neighbors are saying the usual.
They were divorced, they were married...
they were separated, they were reconciled...
or in the process of.
His idea or her idea. No one has a clue.
All I know is that's Edmond, and Dianne's in the bedroom.
ALEX: Whose gun?
MAN'S VOlCE: Stupid fucking bitch!
POLlCEMAN: He had a .38 Smith &Wesson registered.
Look like a .38 to you?
You want a vest?
I don't think I'll need one.
[Knocks on door]
Dianne.
This is Alex Cross, D.C.P.D. I need to talk to you. OK?
Dianne, I'm gonna open the door. All right?
I'm gonna open it now.
Hold it, hold it, hold it.
Please. Please, Dianne.
Look, I'm gonna close this door.
I'm gonna move this chair and block the door.
This way nobody comes in...
and it stays between me and you, OK?
Could you take the gun out of your mouth, please?
Look, it's just as effective if you put it to your temple.
Just makes it easier to talk.
DlANNE: What sort of policeman are you?
I'm a forensic psychologist.
It's a fancy way of saying...
I'm a guy who walks into a room like that...
and determines the hows and whys.
Then you don't need to hear from me.
No, no, I don't, but I need for you...
to confirm a couple of things for me.
For instance, did Edmond often beat you after he drank?
And the turtleneck you're wearing...
is that to hide bruises?
Do you often have to hide marks that he put on your body?
2 weeks ago...
he hit me...
and I swore it was the last time.
I finally get the nerve to leave that son of a bitch...
and then he suckers me back.
ALEX: You know what I think, Dianne?
I think you did what you had to do.
The thing now is to figure out how to finish things off.
The right way, Dianne, the right way.
Look, is it all right if I come a little closer?
Thanks.
As I see it, we have to get photographs of your bruises.
I know at least a half a dozen top-notch lawyers.
They specialize in battered women's defenses.
The point is, Dianne, if you pull the trigger...
no one will ever know the truth.
Can I have it?
Dianne.
ALEX: Samp. What are you doing here? Doughnut raid?
SAMPSON: Alex, hold on. Look, uh, May's inside.
Yeah?
- We got a call from Durham. - Durham?
Naomi's missing. Come on.
ALEX: What do you mean "missing"?
They called May this afternoon from the law school.
She called me. I called them back.
Told them who you were, her uncle and all that.
They said she's been missing for 4 days.
4 days? Christ.
But Durham police is on it now.
The guy I talked to sounded solid.
MAY: Don't talk to him. Talk to me.
They stole my child.
Now, May, just take it easy. Take it easy.
We're gonna handle this together...
but with your high blood pressure...
I need you to relax right now, OK?
- Yeah, but what if... - Now, now, now.
ALEX: You just take it easy. Relax and breathe.
Look at me. I want to tell you something.
Do you remember when Naomi was about 10 years old?
She got lost. You got all frantic...
because you thought we'd never find her. Remember?
Yeah.
You were worried she'd have an asthma attack or something.
Remember that?
Turns out she was with the neighbors...
and everything was just fine.
Well, everything is gonna be fine now...
'cause I'm gonna handle this myself, May.
You know you can trust me, right?
You know I'm gonna handle this.
- I trust you. - OK.
Nana's gonna take you up to Janelle's room...
and you just relax for a while.
- I don't need to relax. - May.
- Yeah.
ALEX: Good. All right.
ALEX: I'll have to go down there.
SAMPSON: Listen, Alex. Stay here.
Come on, John.
If they got a chance to wrap it up down there...
how long do you think they'll hunt for one lost black girl?
SAMPSON: Just stay here, man. I'll go down there.
There's nothing you can do anyway.
- It's out of your jurisdiction. - You don't understand.
I got to go.
MEGAN: Please talk to me.
Talk to me the way you used to. Please. Say something.
Please. I'm sorry.
I can be better. I can be good. I won't be bad anymore.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Yes, I swear.
CASANOVA: You promise?
Yeah. I'll make you happy.
CASANOVA: How?
I promise. Let me show you.
CASANOVA: Tell me you love me.
Tell me you love me.
I love you.
CASANOVA: Megan, I don't believe you.
I love you.
CASANOVA: Of course you do.
Aah!
ALEX: Good afternoon, Sergeant.
Dr. Alex Cross, Washington, D.C.P.D.
I'd like to see Chief Hatfield, please.
SERGEANT: The chief's tied up at the moment.
We'll let him know you're here. I'm sure he'll be with you...
as soon as he possibly can. Take a load off.
Thank you.
RUSKlN: Dr. Cross.
You've been waiting for us for a while.
ALEX: About 2 hours.
SKES: We got us a laid back way down here.
ALEX: So I see.
RUSKlN: Good. Run these names through the printer.
I'm sorry about the wait.
Nick Ruskin.
ALEX: Nick.
- Davey Sikes. - Sikes.
RUSKlN: It's been real busy 'round here.
We've had a homicide and not your garden variety, either.
ALEX: Meaning?
RUSKlN: That's all I know.
We're heading out there now.
You can ride with us if you like.
ALEX: The board shows 8 women missing.
How closely connected are they?
RUSKlN: They all share the same profile.
All young, late teens, early twenties...
pretty, all from inside the research triangle...
and each of them was ambushed. No witnesses.
Does his homework.
SKES: And then he ties 'em naked to a tree...
and chops off their hair.
RUSKlN: Only 2 bodies have been found.
This'll probably be the third.
And the killer left a note at the second murder scene.
Signed it Casanova.
ALEX: Casanova? The great lover.
SKES: Mm-hmm.
ALEX: This one here, is she, uh...
she white, black, or...
SKES: All we know is she's a young woman...
who didn't die happy.
SKES: Our chief Hatfield will be up at the scene.
I'll bet you two will get along like pigs in a blanket.
RUSKlN: Well, it's not her.
[Flies buzzing]
RUSKlN: Dr. Cross. My boss, Chief Hatfield.
ALEX: Chief.
HATFlELD: Now, is it Detective Cross or Dr. Cross...
or Dr. Detective Cross?
ALEX: At a time like this, it really doesn't matter.
HATFlELD: As you see, It's not your niece. I'm happy for you.
ALEX: Figured out who she is?
HATFlELD: Megan Murphy, university sophomore.
I told your Captain Hathaway...
I'd extend help any way we could...
given your special situation and all.
ALEX: I appreciate that.
HATFlELD: I want you to consider yourself my guest.
Make yourself at home...
but don't mess around in the kitchen. Understand me?
KYLE: Well, the TV news crews can't be far behind.
The best-selling crime author has arrived.
ALEX: Kyle, it's good to see you.
You, too.
I thought you were in Rochester.
Well, things change.
I see you're making friends fast.
Well, doing my best.
I heard about your niece. I'm sorry.
How long has this been on the Bureau's wish list?
A while.
Were the other two tied up so extravagantly?
Yeah. The guy seems to find square knots tedious.
You saw it's Dayton cordage, seven gauge.
Yeah. America's favorite.
I suppose everything else was too prolific to trace.
Guy's a pro.
A real student of the game and an enthusiastic rapist.
First two postmortems indicate vaginal tears...
like I've seldom seen, inflicted hours before death.
And then that's it.
No prints or fibers, no semen or hair.
Except what he cut off her.
What about cause of death?
There are no signs of torture, no weight loss, no drugging.
He just ties 'em up and leaves 'em for the critters.
A real student of the game.
And he likes to play.
[Church bell rings]
RUSKlN: We've liasoned with the campus police...
posted fliers.
Figure somebody out there had to have seen something important.
ALEX: An environment fit for blending.
For you, a security nightmare. For him...paradise.
We're gonna get this animal.
DOCTOR: We've got a critically injured eight-year-old girl...
thrown from a motorcycle. No helmet.
She's gonna get a cat scan as soon as you get her stable.
KATE: That's the third grade. Why was she on a motorcycle?
Her daddy decided to take her for a ride.
KATE: The pressure bandage is about to go.
We're a minute away from a 30-second bleed out.
I need a tourniquet.
- Retractors are ready. - I'm gonna do a cut down.
- Watch your pressure drop. - Scalpel, please, nurse.
KATE: Gauze and suture.
- What's her name? - Laura.
That's an awful lot of blood for such a little girl, Laura.
Try to put you back together again.
[Speaking Chinese]
KATE: Hi, Mrs. Lee. Dr. McTiernan.
MRS. LEE: Doctor. Hello.
KATE: She's alive.
[Speaking Chinese]
Wait. Mrs. Lee. Listen.
Laura has suffered severe head trauma...
and she is in a coma.
[Speaking Chinese]
You can be with her as soon as...
[Sobbing]
[Speaking Chinese]
WOMAN: Please, let me see my baby.
[Rock music playing]
lNSTRUCTOR: I want to see the jab.
There you go. Good. Now move around the ring.
Around the ring. Let's go. Don't stay there. Back up.
Watch your contact.
[Buzzer]
OK, Barry off. You can stay on. Who's next?
Kate, let's go.
KATE'S FRlEND: OK.
lNSTRUCTOR: Go get him.
All right, let's keep it light, guys.
Come on, Kate, let's see something.
I want to see the jab. Stick the jab in there.
There you go. Good. Let me see the jab.
Come on, use the jab.
Nice! OK, good. Let's go. Work it.
Come on. On your toes.
Ethan, what are you doing?
Watch your contact, OK? Kate, are you OK?
KATE'S FRlEND: This is a sorry substitute for sex.
I said this is a sorry substitute...
- I heard you. - Yeah, OK.
- You know what I'm looking for? - Hmm?
The way my daddy looked at my mother.
What way?
I can't settle for anything less.
SKES: Sure picks lookers, doesn't he?
ALEX: Yeah, he does.
But, you know, these women are more than just attractive.
They're all extraordinary in some way.
Smart, talented.
SKES: He ain't choosing them just for their congeniality.
ALEX: Ordinarily, they don't...
but I think our guy is a little different.
RUSKlN: How so?
ALEX: I think killing's not his ulterior motive.
This guy's a collector. I bet these women are alive.
SKES: Come on, doc.
Our boy's brain is soft as a two-minute egg...
and nothing personal, but I figure...
every one of them gals is tied to a tree...
just waiting to get found.
ALEX: Think about it, Sikes.
The three you found were killed out of sequence.
They weren't even among the first abducted.
SKES: That's right.
RUSKlN: That don't mean they're not still out there.
ALEX: But you would have found them by now.
He makes absolutely no attempt to hide 'em...
and the way they were killed, very revealing.
That last long walk through the woods.
KYLE: Marching to their fate.
ALEX: Exactly. The rape, cutting off their hair.
KYLE: It's a punishment.
ALEX: Maybe for violating some trust.
HATFlELD: What goddamn trust?
ALEX: I don't know, chief.
I don't know.
CLERK: How would you like to pay?
KATE: Actually, there's another book I'm interested in.
It's a picture book for children in the hospital.
It's about being brave.
It sounds like a book by Burke.
I'll see if we have it in stock.
Good night, fish.
[Thunder]
[Creak]
[Trees scraping window]
[Thump]
[Scraping]
KATE: Aah! Aah!
Aah!
What do you want from me?
CASANOVA: Everything.
[Rap music playing]
SETH: Hit it, hit it, hit it.
What is that, man?
Give me the ball, baby. This is my court.
Show you how we do it. There it is.
OPPONENT: Get mad, get mad. What's up?
MAN: Come on, fellas. Back it off.
OPPONENT: Don't ever come back again!
Don't ever come back here again! It's my court!
ALEX: Seth Samuel?
I'm Dr. Alex Cross.
Naomi's uncle.
SETH: And a cop.
Look, I don't recall inviting you here, so...
Can we talk for a minute or two?
Like I said, I don't recall inviting you here.
Look...we can talk anywhere you want.
I already told you guys everything I know.
Which was nothing.
Look, I've had cops on me for days.
In the middle of the night...
hauling me down to the station, all up my ass about Naomi...
and things that are nobody's fucking business.
Looks like your business is in the public domain...
doesn't it, Seth?
What do you want to know?
I want to know about Naomi's violin.
It's not on the police inventory.
Is it here?
Well, she used to practice here sometimes.
She was always practicing on the thing...
but she always took it home with her, always.
Yeah, I know.
The cops don't have any idea, do they?
Not a clue.
[Groaning]
KATE: Unh...uhh.
CASANOVA: I got all the glass out.
[Startled gasp]
CASANOVA: Everything you'll need...
to change the dressing's right next to you.
I brought some of your clothes, too.
Something for every occasion.
Can you hear me?
Systemic analgesic... What did you give me?
That's one of the reasons I picked you, Kate.
- Your intelligence. - Uhh.
I appreciate that. I know most men don't, can't.
I'm different. You'll see that in time.
Now try not to go back to sleep.
KATE: Aah! Aah!
- Shh. - Aah! Oh, my God!
- Oh! Oh, my God! - I need to tell you the rules.
CASANOVA: Shh, shh, shh. Stop, stop, stop.
Why am I here?
CASANOVA: You're here to fall in love, to experience love.
KATE: Uhh!
But now I need you to listen very carefully...
and take what I say very seriously, all right?
Don't try to escape.
Don't cry out for help.
And do not try any of your kick-boxing tricks.
- Do you understand? - Uh...
Now, I'll do what I can to help you not break these rules...
but if you do, you will really disappoint me.
That's it.
There.
See? That didn't hurt, did it?
Don't worry.
You're with Casanova.
MAN: Yes?
CASANOVA: Thought you'd be out...busy.
MAN: Well, you were wrong.
CASANOVA: You've got mail.
You like?
MAN: Nice. Exceptional. Really.
CASANOVA: I think she's extra special.
SWlMMER: How you feelin', old man?
COACH: Swimmers, take your mark!
[Blows whistle]
COACH: Come on, keep to it. Move those bodies. Let's go!
Kick it up! Move it! Speed, speed! Muscle, muscle!
- Excuse me. - Yeah.
I'm looking for Dr. Wick Sachs.
Uh, lane five. He's, uh, destroying my varsity.
Thank you.
Sure. Let's go, blondie. Pick it up!
SACHS: I can't tell you much you don't already know.
I gave Naomi some academic guidance...
which she politely disregarded, and that was that.
Excuse me.
I really don't have time to get to know my patients very well...
although I do know that Naomi... was a special woman.
My heart goes out to you.
ALEX: Word is that you make time...
to get to know some of your special patients.
Whatever you may have heard, I certainly don't have time...
to kidnap and mutilate any of them.
I understand how you must feel, you being a...psychologist...
and a policeman... and her uncle.
It must be like suffering the tortures of the damned.
For me or for her?
Well, both.
[Pager beeping]
It's yours.
ALEX: He's never made strikes this close together, has he?
An intern, huh?
Yeah. He had a vacancy.
Out. Never call out.
Never call out.
Somebody help me.
My name is Kate! I'm Kate McTiernan!
I'm a doctor at the Carolina Regional Medical Center!
I need help!
I know you can hear me!
Come on! Who's out there?!
Somebody help...
My name is Kate McTiernan. Somebody talk to me!
Who is out there?
YOUNG WOMAN: Be quiet.
Be quiet, or he'll kill you.
Oh, my God.
What's your name?
Talk to me, please, please, please.
Tell me your name.
I'm Mary Jane Capaldi.
It's good to...it's good to hear your voice, Mary Jane.
Are you OK?
SECOND WOMAN: I'm Kristen Miles. I'm here, too.
THlRD WOMAN: Melissa Stanfield.
I don't know how long I've been here.
What month is it?
FOURTH WOMAN: I'm Samantha Gaines.
FlFTH WOMAN: Carol Akers.
My...my name is Naomi Cross.
I've been here for 8 days, I think.
[Knock on door]
ALEX: Yeah, I know. I miss you, too, darlin'.
No, you know I do.
How's Nan?
Well, that's good.
You stay with her, you hear?
Hang on, Janell. Just a second.
ELDERLY MAN: Aah! Oh! Jesus.
ALEX: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
KYLE: "Odalisques were the most valuable...
"of the emperor's treasures...
"gifted in the arts of music and poetry." Talented.
ALEX: Special.
"Welcome to Durham, Dr. Cross.
"Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt."
Well, I guess you've got a fan.
RUSKlN: I'll say one thing for our boy...
He's got very nice penmanship.
SKES: He's fuckin' with you, that's all it is.
ALEX: Yeah, but this tells us he's trackin' the case.
He's readin' the local papers. We can use that.
RUSKlN: An odalisque, uh, it's a statue, right?
A tall, pointy thing...
- You're thinking of obelisk. - Oh.
ALEX: Odalisque is a harem girl...
a concubine, sex slave.
RUSKlN: Oh, there it is, just like you said.
SKES: So he's telling us all these gals are alive.
- Mm-hmm. - Why is he telling us that?
ALEX: Demonstrates his power, his dominance.
KYLE: That certainly fits.
Our profiles of the murdered women...
show they all shared one trait...
that would have set off the control freak in our guy.
They're all strong-willed. They're all defiant.
SKES: How many of the other girls share that profile?
ALEX: At least one.
KATE: You want to hurt me?
[Claps hands] OK, come on.
They can be bigger...OK.
And they can be stronger... Fuckin' nuts!
Knock me down.
[Breathing]
[Coughing]
[Retching]
Oh, my God.
CASANOVA: You could have been the best, Kate.
I may be going crazy here...
but didn't I warn you about breaking the rules?
- I'm sorry. -"I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry."
- I'll do anything you want. - What? What did you say?
I said I'll do anything you want.
CASANOVA: Oh, I know you will.
Give me your arm.
I said, give me your arm. Come on.
Give it to me.
CASANOVA: Kate!
Kate!
Aah!
[Casanova breathing]
CASANOVA: This is not the way it works, Kate.
All right, now. OK.
Easy, girl. Easy, now.
Come on.
ALEX: What do you know?
RUSKlN: Only that she's in some kind of shock.
The kids who found her...
were fishing near the Wykagil White Water.
The what?
Wykagil, it's a river way out of town.
SKES: Well, lookee here. We got us a circus up ahead.
[Siren]
REPORTER: Here he comes. Detectives, can you confirm...
[All speaking at once]
DR. RUOCCO: What concerns us is behavior...
that suggests psychological trauma, especially acute...
HATFlELD: Doctor, doctor, can you tell us exactly when...
she'll be able to talk to us?
What I'm getting at is Kate McTiernan...
appears to be suffering from posttraumatic shock.
There's no telling when she'll be lucid.
It could be hours or weeks. You guys have to remember...
that this girl is very lucky to be alive.
POLlCEMAN: Can you at least tell us your best guess?
SECOND POLlCEMAN: We can't go on that, doc.
KATE: Dr. Ruocco. Excuse me.
My name is Cross. I'm Dr. Alex Cross.
Yes, I know who you are. I know your work.
I'm consulting with the local police on this case.
I need to see Kate McTiernan.
I'm sorry, but she does not need another doctor.
Listen, the last thing I want is to crowd you.
My request is personal.
One of the women abducted was my niece.
I really need to talk to this woman.
[Beep beep beep]
[Monitor beeping]
ALEX: It's all right. It's all right.
You're safe now. You're safe.
ALEX: This woman's a fighter.
DR. RUOCCO: I wouldn't argue with that...
but we were off pegging this as posttraumatic shock.
Her vitals are meandering downhill.
Everything is systematically shutting down.
And, of course, you screened her for drugs?
Yes, we did.
Her blood, her urine... they're clean.
Something is doing damage that we don't have a finger on.
- Whoever did this... - Is cunning.
Yeah, he's cunning, but he doesn't know his history.
Hmm?
The real Casanova would never have approved.
ALEX: Excuse me. Do you have a P.D.R.?
NURSE: Mm-hmm.
ALEX: Nonresponsive pupils...
progressive loss of muscular control, escalating tremors...
DR. RUOCCO: That's what I see.
ALEX: An overdose of Benzodiazepine would do that.
DR. RUOCOO: Yes, but every drug in the Benzo family...
shows up in blood and urine.
ALEX: Ah, except Sistol.
It's a Benzo cousin.
Leukemia specialists are using it to take the edge off chemo.
- Is it an amnesiac? - Absolutely.
[Monitor beeping]
We'll see what your theory is made of by morning.
[Monitor beeping slower]
KATE: Mmm.
Who are you?
ALEX: Um...
My name is Alex Cross.
I'm a policeman from Washington, D.C.
How do you feel?
Sick.
- I'll get you a doctor. - Wait.
Wait. I was given a drug.
I think it was a nervous system...
Yeah. It was something called Sistol...
but we flushed it out of you.
It's nice to have you back.
- Washington? - Yeah. I'm, uh...
I'm down here because of my niece.
She disappeared about 10 days ago.
Her name is Naomi Cross.
I talked to her.
ALEX: Thank you.
I'll get that doctor for you.
I heard...l heard...
so many different voices...
and I tried not to cry.
SKES: No way does our boy show his face here.
ALEX: If he's not here, he's watching. I guarantee you.
You make it sound like he ain't cooking on the front burner.
If he's so dumb, how come we haven't caught him yet?
HATFlELD: Ladies and gentlemen.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
I'd like to introduce to you a very brave young lady...
Dr. Kate McTiernan.
Dr. McTiernan will make a brief statement...
and that's all. No questions, please.
Hello, I'm Kate McTiernan.
First...I'd like to say something to...
the families who have a loved one missing.
Please, do not give up hope.
There are other women where I was held...
and I believe in my heart that they're still alive.
Second...to the boys who fished me out of the river...
and saved my life...
and to the nurses and doctors here...
who are taking such excellent care of me...
and for the thousands of letters and prayers...
I've received from all across America...thank you.
And last...
to the man...
who calls himself Casanova...
the man who took me from my own home...
and ultimately tried to kill me...
I broke your rules...just me.
None of the other women helped.
So if you're looking for someone to blame, blame me.
That's all have to say right now.
Thank you for taking my message...
to the families of the missing...
and I hope it helps a little bit.
Thank you.
[Reporters asking questions simultaneously]
ALEX: What do you hear? Dogs?
KATE: No.
ALEX: Any kind of animals? Is it a farm?
KATE: I don't know.
- Do you hear the river? - No.
I hear him...whispering.
What does he say?
I can feel...his mouth on my ear, his breath.
He tells me that he loves me.
ALEX: Tell me about his face.
Tell me about his eyes, his mouth.
He has no face.