Sept 19, Mon. 05:55 PM
Next stop Shibuya... Shibuya...
How far are we going?
A bit further.
A bit further?
What is there.
Nothing. So it's great.
Unlike mountain climbing, there's no destination.
It's bottomless.
The inside of Mt. Fuji is full of spaces made by hardened lava.
What is this sound?
Is it the wind?
It's the Siren.
She's calling those who are lost.
From long ago, people are led astray by her.
Are you shaking?
I'm okay.
A suicide?
Could be murder.
Look at the icepick.
Whichever it may be, it's an unsolved case.
Let's go back.
Can you get back?
Tomoo.
Tomoo?
Tomoo...
Excuse me.
It seems urgent... a call for you.
Ms. Suma, are you a fashion model?
A rush job perhaps.
Special Investigation Team File. JR Yamanote Line Multiple Homicide Case.
She is from our Science Dept.
She'll cooperate in our investigation.
I'm Dr. Suma, an analyst on abnormal criminal personalities.
Contrary to her looks, she's extremely efficient.
You must all be familiar with her contribution on Case 28.
Those are your partners Banba and Ashida.
I dressed her as you requested.
As you expected, there's no sign showing the victim had struggled.
The stab mark on the left chest is the only external wound.
It was fatal like the sting of a bee.
Was it acssezullin again?
Direct cause of death is respiration failure triggered by acute toxication.
The murder weapon is an injection needle...
or something similar to that, at least 2.5 cm by 1 mm.
The perpetrator injected poison with that.
In the same way as the first victim.
This type of acssezullin...
is sold at any gardening goods store.
Difficult case, huh?
Excuse me.
Do you know?
A dead person's retina...
records the last scene he saw before he or she died.
I hate Dazai. He's too sentimental.
But if it's true, then who needs the police?
That's fiction.
Is she psychic or something?
Not exactly.
She analyzes the evidence
and slips her mind into the evidence
to assimilate the thoughts and emotions of the perpetrator.
The perpetrator stood in front of her
and quietly watched it all.
If you were the perpetrator...
Me?
Who would you kill here.
Wha... what're you saying.
There were other young women around.
Wasn't it indiscriminate murder.
Something made him choose her.
Even if indiscriminate, there must have been a reason.
It's the chief's decision.
If it's pleasure killing, we can't prevent it.
Your ideas are useful.
Serial Killer At Large 6 PM Yamanote Line. Syringe Killer.
Every officer will aid the investigation.
It'll be war tomorrow.
It's today.
No, thanks.
When he's on a case, he stops smoking and drinking.
I'm the opposite.
It's a full moon.
It's enormous.
No, tonight's the full moon.
See?
It's chipped a little.
Inspector Banba.
On a moonlit night...
there's a wounded camel in a desert somewhere
quietly waiting to die.
If you passed by this camel, what would you do?
Are you analyzing me?
I hate that.
With sad eyes, the camel pleads, "Kill me!"...
With my detective's eyes.
I'd say, think twice and try to persuade it.
Yamanote Line Murder Site.
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This is Shibuya Station crowded with commuters.
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At 6 pm, on Monday two weeks ago, the first victim was found at this station.
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Today is the 3rd Monday.
Will the murderer strike again today?
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The murderer seems to be aiming at young women.
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All the young women look very tense today.
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If you're going out and you're a young woman,
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please be extra cautious on the Yamanote train today.
The Monday killer was a werewolf?
I knew it.
In English, Monday came from moon day.
The urge to attack people on a full moon was proven in the recent Moon Tide research.
It says the werewolf legend originates from this.
It sounds logical.
Even I feel like attacking on Mondays.
So the killer is a blue Monday office worker, huh?
This is bad.
Is it annoying?
Sorry.
But if you were to strike, which one would you choose.
Let me see...
Probably her.
MURDER VICTIM KAZUKO ODAWARA (age 20)
Metropolitan Police.
The victim was a student living in Yoyogi.
Kazuki Odawara, age 20.
Autopsy reports show
that toxic substance was injected to her breast by a syringe-like object.
Despite the police's effort to place numerous officers at all Yamanote Line stations,
the killer boldly struck again amidst the commuters and police on guard.
The police have taken serious concern for the killings,
which have all taken place on JR Yamanote line trains.
They're asking the public to help find witnesses, to shed light on the case.
Please recall your positions at the time of the crime.
Thank you very much.
Are you ready.
Please listen carefully.
All people here in this room are witnesses from this Monday?
Nobody from last Monday or the week before?
I made a mistake.
3... 2... 1. To your position.
It's moving in this direction.
He's the perpetrator.
I'll play the victim.
Hey, who's whistling?
Be serious.
I was only recreating the scene.
Inspector Ashida.
What's Re-freezing Psychorium.
The 1st victim was treated there.
A clinic for some kind of reverse brainwashing to abandon faith.
This victim was a follower of the Ultimate Truth Church.
You see them around at train stations.
Are you happy?
Her family requested reverse brainwashing
to make her abandon her faith.
We've examined it.
There was trouble between the church and the clinic.
We examined it thoroughly.
She was the 1st victim.
And?
Neither the 2nd nor the 3rd victim had anything to do with it.
I've already told you everything about Yumiko.
The killer didn't mind who it was
as long as it was a young woman.
Maybe... maybe not.
But if it had to be Yumiko, it could be the key.
I need the details of the reverse brainwashing your daughter received.
No people in these photos.
Oh, yes. This is it.
The Re-Freezing Psychorium.
There's a person here.
Aku... Rei...
Akuryo (evil spirit)?
The second victim Masumi Takagi was an art student.
The three victims didn't know each other.
There is no element linking them together. Not in their past either.
But you attempt to find a psychological bondage between them.
Yes.
The three victims had some common consciousness.
The signals they were sending out attracted the perpetrator.
Only Yumiko Asahi was into religion.
I feel a strong sense of isolation and destruction in all of them.
Kazuko Odawara was normal.
She was studying to be a nursery teacher.
Because she studied autism, she acted like an autistic child
and didn't speak for 6 months.
You call that normal?
What do you suggest?
Announce that young women with feeling of destruction
and isolation must not ride trains at 6 pm on Mondays?
Even old women don't ride trains at that time.
The 2nd and 3rd victims were stabbed from the front.
Only the 1st victim was stabbed in the back.
Are you telling me the 1st victim knew the killer?
I don't know.
But I feel the 1st murder is the key to it all.
You could get away?
Did I wake you.
Don't worry.
I was watching this.
The Sleeping Beauty.
At the hospital today, my patient asked me
whether I like a blue dress or a pink dress.
I wondered why she asked.
It was The Sleeping Beauty.
On Princess Aurora's 16th birthday...
the three fairies made plans to give her a dress.
What happened was two fairies quarreled over what color the dress should be.
One wanted blue, the other wanted pink.
Ouch.
All right?
It's okay.
Let me.
The princess stung the needle of the spinning wheel and slept on.
When she woke, she was not a year older.
I just thought you're like her.
Shall we make love.
Psychiatry Dept. Dr. Aku and Setsuko Takahara questioned.
Wasn't it a problem at their work?
Everyone at the university thought they were an ideal couple.
At the time, Aku was the black sheep of the psychiatry world.
After she died, he left the university and went to study in the U.S.
I heard he and Setsuko separated after that.
Setsuko married Tomoo Suma who was working in the same lab.
Was Aku experimenting on the re-brainwashing?
The psychiatry world at the time considered it an abominable field of study.
He used an upper, possibly a drug like LSD to be used in voluntary meditation
to control personality-destruction suicidal drives
and possession schizophrenic paranoia.
Whether this is effective is difficult to say.
He seemed to have directed his research to mind control.
Re-brainwashing and brainwashing are basically the same.
I am told that anyone without any expectation can be brainwashed within 72 hours.
Yes.
The Ultimate Truth Church has filed suit.
They say their followers were abducted by force, confined,
and subjected to re-brainwashing.
Though not directly related to our case,
I've been investigating that Psychorium
and discovered they undertake that as part of their business.
Families of the patients have been paying quite a lot for that treatment.
Only there's nothing illegal about the whole thing.
We asked him to come in today for an informal interview.
It's over, but since you're coming in today,
we asked him to wait.
Oh... we're here.
Please.
What is this?
Mountains are a bore.
Just climb up and climb down.
No matter what mountain I climb, I always see Mt. Fuji far away.
The idea depresses me.
I had a dream I was caved in.
That's great.
You remembered me.
But you weren't in my dream.
I dreamed I slept with you.
I didn't even know you were in Japan.
Suppose you lived in a mental island.
No man is an island.
So you remembered John Donne's poem.
You're not an island either.
I'm here on business.
An analyst on abnormal criminal personalities.
You knew it doesn't suit you.
I want to know about one of your patients.
Her hobby is photography.
She reads Nietzsche and Grof.
Her name's Yumiko Asahi.
You should know her.
What about Nietzsche?
It must be your influence.
A tool for your re-brainwashing?
Analyzing the personality of the Yamanote Line Murderer?
Or... you want me to do it.
Or is this part of the questioning?
It's ironical.
Our reunion after 8 years
is again related to a serial killing.
There is no such thing as random killing.
That was your hypothesis.
The current serial killing can't be indiscriminate.
There must be some common factor.
I see the three victims had it coming
because they possessed a certain feeling.
A strong feeling of self-destruction
to lure the killer to them.
It was synchronic with that of the killer.
Yes.
It's a strong feeling like your feeling of isolation.
Very interesting.
The killer chose to stab her in the back.
That's why I need the details of your analysis on her.
Shall I get a warrant?
Impossible.
You know well that my practice as a therapist is legal, and I can't give information on my patients.
I wish you can do it as a personal favor for old times sake.
You mean in bed?
Very funny.
How the mind becomes a camel?
Or how a camel becomes a lion?
And finally, how a lion becomes a child?
This never seems to have gotten through to Yumiko.
Yumiko wasn't the only one who became a victim of Aku's re-brainwashing.
But recently we have taken stronger measures
to fight against diabolical temptations by crooks like Aku.
The punishment she received has strengthened our followers' faith.
Aku diagnoses our followers as mentally ill,
forces them to be hospitalized,
confines them, and brainwashes them.
It is ethically unpardonable.
It would help us if you could tell us about the people who were especially close to Yumiko.
We consider all of us to be a family.
Love is distributed equally.
Never more, never less.
Excuse me.
Are you Dr. Setsuko Suma?
Sorry for the interruption.
There's an urgent call from the police.
Dr. Suma speaking.
Hello.
It's me.
It's me, Aku.
Excuse me.
There's something I remembered after we parted.
I thought you should know.
It was so long since we last met, so I must have been nervous.
I feel you're isolating yourself with a barrier.
I wonder if you'll be able to get close to the killer's mind.
Wipe your perspiration.
I'm sure a change is occurring in you.
What do you mean?
Part of the killer's mind was already inside you.
I feel that you probably haven't noticed it yet.
Be honest.
Like the time when you were with me.
I am now in Tsurumaki-cho, Waseda, where the killing took place.
Although it has not yet been officially announced,
there seems to be little doubt
that the killer is identical to the Yamanote Line murderer.
The killer has finally shifted from the Yamanote Line.
Why did the killer choose a less crowded residential area for the site of his crime?
The police is now required to expand its sphere of investigation,
and danger to the citizens has increased.
Concerning these bizarre murders claiming young women,
the police still refrain from offering detailed information to the press.
To put an end to the murders,
it is essential for the press to inform the public.
I, too, cannot help but wish the case would be solved immediately.
Sorry.
I knocked, but there was no answer.
I just got lost in thought.
I was thinking a small sprout appears from the ground,
and seven roses bloom one after another.
Tomoo.
Have I changed since I began working on this case?
The way I talk or the way I behave.
Why?
I... well...
never mind.
It's a bizarre case.
Slow down a bit.
Rushing will only confuse you.
When I think that someone may be killed again next Monday...
It's not your fault.
Guilt can only drive you mad.
Monday 3:30 pm. Clear - rain. Rain fall rate - 80%
Special Investigation Headquarters to all stations.
3 hours to assumed crime time.
Maintain state of emergency throughout the city.
Inspectors must question all dubious personnel.
The perpetrator is armed with an object resembling a syringe
and assumed emotionally unstable.
Body search must be undertaken with utmost caution.
That's enough.
Stop.
Is there any special meaning in 6 pm Monday?
1st Div. to Commanding Room Investigation Headquarters.
This is 1st Div. Banba.
Any information from other divisions?
There is no information of any importance yet.
Roger.
1st Div. Banba to Superintendent 1-0-2-3.
Report.
We are undertaking intensive questioning
around Shinanomachi Station of all dubious personnel.
We have not yet been able to come across any possible suspect.
Roger.
You're smoking more.
Sunglasses to hide your bags.
They don't suit you.
The killer is inside me.
Shibuya.
Sugamo.
Hamammatsu - Cho.
Tsurumaki - Cho, Waseda.
Korakuen.
Inspector,
do all veteran inspectors assimilate with the perpetrator they are after?
What're you getting at?
Are you seriously taking up Suma's theory?
If we don't, what do you suggest?
Just do your job.
She's the one in danger.
Another murder
5th Victim
Police Baffled
Killer Strikes Amidst
State of Emergency
Fear spreads in the Metropolis
5 Women Killed
I'd say it's cruel.
If you only see this.
By the way you look, I assume this isn't a social visit.
Unreasonable compensation and coercive treatment.
Is this the result of your research?
I don't choose patients.
Nor their family situation.
I have no security.
I stake my life at times.
The risk is immense.
You're infamous among destructive cults.
And hypocrites, I presume.
Because I'm successful with what I'm expected to do.
My clients are all grateful.
I used to respect you as a psychiatrist.
Even when my father and Prof. Souda criticized your radical methods.
I really did.
So?
You came because you're convinced I'm the serial killer.
Right?
But I don't have a motive.
Your motive is beyond common logic.
That I present secret codes and mock the world when they're not solved.
What about my alibi.
You can easily fabricate that.
Why be so defensive to your former lover?
You didn't love me.
You only needed me.
What you wanted was not me as a woman
but the daughter of Prof. Takahara, the Dean and authority.
And me as a competent assistant.
You only think in terms of yourself and jump to conclusions.
You've returned to your bad habits.
I was scared.
I couldn't grasp your heart.
The more I tried to explode,
the more darkness there was
with such enormous hollowness.
How can such a man love anyone?
You don't understand what love is.
Not even half of it.
I do understand.
I'm happy now.
I have a loving husband and a home.
I can't believe how happy I am.
I wonder.
It's true.
He's given me everything you couldn't.
He still tries.
You just want everything.
The way you are now, his destruction is inevitable.
You're wrong.
You ran away from me and your research.
No, you ran away.
My feelings for you haven't changed.
For you...
I'm ready to blow myself up.
Stop it.
I won't let you control me.
Dr. Aku.
Didn't you have 2nd degree color blindness?
You must know the meaning of these photos.
I see.
Strong sense of isolation,
color blindness,
and forming a letter with the crime site
is the thread leading to the killer.
You may not be the direct executioner.
You may be controlling someone,
and that someone may be projecting your will...
...through mind control by re-brainwashing?
Are you saying it's related to my re-brainwashing?
Interesting?
I'm afraid you're the one who's becoming deranged.
Who'd believe such wild fantasies.
24 hours after giving a dosage of LP, though still rejecting, she has been calmed.
For the purpose of improving rapport, we have injected 2 ampules of haloperidol.
And 12 hours later...
another ampule of haliperidol was added.
You can't speak on your own.
You say your prayers with this attitude.
What is the truth.
To believe in our High Priest.
What is your High Priest?
He is the ultimate God of the universe reborn.
What do you mean reborn?
To resurrect.
To resurrect?
How do you know your High Priest is God?
The church says so?
Is that the only ultimate truth?
With your attitude, mission work is impossible.
Try and convert me.
You can't do anything on your own.
That's right.
You can't do anything all alone.
Try and convert me.
You can't do it.
You can't do anything alone.
Who in the church said that?
Leave me alone.
Is there such a thing as the only, ultimate truth?
Our High Priest is God.
He is the only one who can save this world.
With your attitude, mission work is impossible.
Try and convert me.
Come to our training center.
You can't do it?
You can't do it alone?
Shut up.
Is that the attitude of a follower of God?
Your attitude is unfit for mission work.
Your church is phoney.
You've been brainwashed.
Are you happy?
Why do you do that?
You don't understand yourself.
Some day, the messiah will appear and redeem me.
There is no Messiah.
Please save me.
What you're saying is true.
I was wrong.
I'm basically...
I have an likeable personality.
But my senses are so acute
that people resent me.
You can take it easy now.
You have been brainwashed.
It might take a bit of time,
but to discover the real you, we'll work together.
You're safe now.
When I'm with the people around me,
I feel I am so different from them.
You only listen to what I say
but seem to understand my pains.
I feel your thoughts are similar to my thoughts.
But...
I don't understand which is which...
It's safe now. Go to sleep.
I told you I'm not hungry.
Don't worry. I'm fully aware of myself.
Stop it. They irritate me.
The smell... the colors.
I tried to save her.
The pit was so deep and dark I thought it had no bottom.
I was so scared... scared to death.
I remember
I held my mother's hand firmly.
But...
A bee appeared.
It hurts.
It stung me.
The bee stung me.
Look at it.
It's so swollen.
I tried to save mother, but a bee stung me.
Owww... it hurts.
So you let go of her hand.
I'm telling the truth.
I didn't deliberately let go of her hand.
It's the truth.
Why don't you believe me.
How many times do I have to say this.
Well, I think we'd better go.
Could the...
Could the killer be after Setsuko?
Do you have something on your mind?
Not really.
I think Dr. Suma should have a little rest.
She seems fatigued.
Have you heard of Dr. Rei Aku.
Yes.
They worked together in the lab.
Do they still keep in touch?
I heard she met him in relation to the investigation.
Do you know exactly on what kind of matters?
No.
We don't talk much about work.
Is anything the matter with Dr. Aku?
Let me know when she's feeling better.
She might...
be holding back some crucial information.
The doctor will not remain in the audience seat,
but be on the stage with the patient.
Do you follow me?
Open your mind.
Like dust floating in this air.
You disintegrate yourself completely.
And helplessly float on and search for your mate.
Like making love.
Assimilate with him.
HAS THE KILLER STOPPED?
NO MURDER LAST NIGHT
SERIAL MURDERS LIKELY TO BE UNSOLVED
I have to go to the hospital. Dinner is in the fridge. Please don't forget to take the dzp. I'll be home by 5:30. It's better to rest for the time being.
Nothing is finished yet.
Act 2 will soon begin.
You are no longer able to step down from the stage.
Stop it!
Why don't you come.
Why don't you come and catch me?
I'm waiting for you.
You dreamed of me again, didn't you?
You know all about me, don't you?
Isn't that so?
If so, please hang up this moment.
Why don't you hang up?
Why don't you?
You can't do it.
You want to hear my voice.
That's not true.
Come right now... to my place.
You need me.
Be honest.
What do you take me for?
That door won't open.
Unfortunately...
I couldn't wait for your arrival.
I can't tell you the reason now.
Please wait for me in this room until I return.
I know you're here.
What is this anyway?
Are you trying to brainwash me?
I was hoping you'd come here.
I'm not forcing anything on you.
Naturally, you can refuse to watch this video if you don't want to.
Hold your ears if you don't want to hear my voice.
You are acting of your free will.
Isn't that right?
Now let me begin my lecture.
You decide what you think feel and act.
You use time as you wish.
You believe loving and hating people to be your free choice.
What is this?
Are you playing with my mind?
You killed them, didn't you?
I've had enough.
I've had enough of this.
I've had enough.
Is this the punishment for leaving you?
Please repeat that.
Are all the killings my fault?
You want to be free, don't you?
Let me out of here.
Won't you give me the details?
Please let me out of here.
What did you mean?
Please free me. Please.
Please repeat that.
You've made me your captive.
You want to be free, don't you?
Please let me out of here.
Won't you give me the details?
I...
love...
you.
Please repeat that.
I love you even now.
You want to be free, don't you?
I...
don't know how to control myself.
Please repeat that.
You want to be free, don't you?
Won't you give me the details?
What do you mean?
Please repeat that.
You want to be free, don't you?
Won't you give me the details?
What do you mean?
Please repeat that.
I'm all right now.
You want to be free, don't you?
Won't you give me the details?
What do you mean?
Won't you give me the details?
I killed him.
I'm sorry.
I know you were troubled.
You want it all.
You'll destroy him.
You're wrong.
Disintegration.
Are you saying...
Suma was the real target?
Doctor!
What is it?
MORE BIZARRE THAN THE ACTUAL MURDER! POLICE INSPECTOR'S HUSBAND WAS A WOMAN!
Until yesterday, the murdered victim was believed to be a man.
The victim, Tomoo Suma, was the husband
of Dr. Setsuko Suma, an analyst of the Metropolitan Police.
The police discovered Mr. Suma was equipped with female sex organs.
Another mystery is added to the serial killings.
The killer has managed to be consistent in the serial killings in the most unexpected manner.
Since the serial killings were thought to have ended, fear has increased even more.
If the killer knew this and chose Mr. Suma as the target, the police believe
the killer is more bizarre than formerly assumed,
and the mystery increases.
A month from the 1st murder,
with the 6th victim being one of the inspectors' husband and with him being a woman...
Can you understand such a relationship?
I certainly can, especially if it's about them.
Tomoo was basically an androgynoid.
An androgynoid?
To have sex organs of both sexes.
As Setsuko's career became more established,
Tomoo's male sex organs possibly became unnecessary.
They were both excellent researchers,
so I'm sure it was a logical agreement on their part.
Only, I had no idea Tomoo was emasculated until now.
Prof., I heard you dislike Aku.
I detested him.
His insanity and death are stages of high possibilities
or strife for higher level or sanity.
His mysticism-oriented ideas seemed like the result of desperation.
Wrong attitude for a medical career.
He's determined that everything in this world is mad.
What about her memory?
Don't know.
Only...
She says Aku and herself are responsible for the killings.
That their relationship lures the victims to them.
That all the victims are their alter egos.
Such words are typically schizophrenic.
For 2 years, one of my patients has continuously told me,
you're the one who's insane.
Because he was so persistent,
I was getting some of the symptoms.
I'm naturally cured now.
My brain was melting and dripped out of my ears.
Bodily sensational hallucination.
The patient's insanity transferred.
When you're low on morale and become unguarded,
it can be dangerous in our line of business.
Just like your job.
Being trapped in the patients' paranoia
could at times result in death.
I'm sorry about your husband.
I'm sorry.
Forgive me.
We still haven't found Aku.
He's been missing since your husband was murdered.
We got a warrant and searched the Psychorium.
We're investigating his other patients.
From now on, I'll personally guard you.
I promise I'll arrest Aku.
Shall we go back in?
Don't know where she was?
She did return from the garden.
In the hospital robe?
Yes, of course.
She was sedated.
She couldn't have gone far from the hospital.
The perpetrator's killed 6 for no reason.
He's after her.
Suma's in danger unless we guard her.
Aren't you afraid?
I only have one question.
Why are you doing this?
Is this what you mean by love?
Is it all my fault?
I'm no longer...
afraid of anything.
The answer is not always one,
but people always seek the only answer.
I wonder why?
Finally found you, Yuki.
Doctor.
You're a devil.
The re-brainwashing was a fake.
You turned me into a killer.
You've awakened me,
manipulated me, and laughed at me.
You enjoy killing.
You're a pleasure homicidal maniac.
That's your hidden personality.
It hurts.
Father...
Why are you silent?
A bee stung me.
I tried to save mother.
It's true.
Don't you believe me?
Father...
Why won't you believe me?
If you don't believe me,
kill me.
Please kill me.
Kill me!
It's all my fault.
Kill me.
Kill me now.
Come on. Kill me.
Now.
Kill me now.
Now.
You said...
Her death wish does not result from the trauma of the bee and matricide.
The trauma is fiction imprinted by me.
It was supposed to control the death wish deep inside her mind.
Location is 7-14-3. Hagoromo - Cho.
Do you have the identity confirmation of the personnel reporting in?
Positive.
The personnel reporting in is Rei Aku, age 45.
From the circumstantial evidence, probability of a suicide is very high.
And we conclude that Yuki Takei,
whose body we found,
is a major suspect in the serial murders.
We have already arranged to send the body to autopsy
and informed the dept. in charge.
She had this.
She loved you.