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00:00Hello.
00:05Here.
00:19What are you doing?
00:48I don't know.
00:54No.
00:57Sweetie.
00:58Stay with me.
01:00Oh, stomach hurts.
01:03Mine too.
01:05This will help you for soon.
01:21Don't be scared.
01:23Mommy's gonna fix everything.
01:29Please.
01:31It's been days.
01:34Have you made your choice?
01:36He needs to eat.
01:38Have you made your choice?
01:50Yes.
02:02So you're saying that this car is tied to a missing persons case? What?
02:07A mother and young son disappeared when they were visiting family upstate.
02:11FBI is assisting in the search.
02:12But this is the first real lead we've gotten.
02:15The plates are a mess, the Palmers.
02:18Well, wherever they went, they left their luggage behind.
02:21Park Ranger found it a few days ago.
02:24Abandoned by a trail.
02:25I just got around to logging the plates in this morning.
02:27You've been sitting on the information for 48 hours?
02:31That's the two of them there, okay?
02:33Every second counts.
02:34So if there's anything else you might have overlooked.
02:36Like I told you, the car was abandoned.
02:39We towed it.
02:41Heads up.
02:43Got a vertical gash on the sidewall that's flat.
02:45It's about two inches long.
02:47Do you need a chance to just hit a curb?
02:48No, I don't think so.
02:50This curb is deep and narrow and there's no radio scuffing.
02:53Somebody slashed it.
02:54We need the exact location where this was towed from.
03:03I'm Agent Bell.
03:04This is Agent Ramos in Scuola.
03:05The SUV is over this way.
03:07Tire was flat.
03:09So I cut whoever owned it some slat.
03:11Gave them time to find a spare.
03:13When was this?
03:14Thursday.
03:15After a couple days, I called for tow.
03:18Man's gotta have limits to his good will.
03:21Mr. Ream, do you think it's possible that the Palmers got lost on the trail?
03:25Over the years, some folks have been known to go in and never come out.
03:29What does that mean?
03:30Nature can be cruel.
03:32That's all.
03:34You said you were working that day.
03:36You see these people?
03:38No.
03:39Not that I recall.
03:41Any cameras in the park?
03:42Not unless you're looking for Hessel's hair streak.
03:45What?
03:47The butterfly on the endangered species list.
03:49Beautiful creature.
03:51They're dying off.
03:53I suppose some things are too fragile for this world.
03:57Hanford University put up this camera last year to track them.
04:01Pretty sure that it records.
04:04All right.
04:05We're gonna need to get our hands on that footage.
04:08And while you're at it, a list of your whereabouts this past week.
04:13We finally caught a break in our missing persons case.
04:16We now know that Valerie and Troy Palmer detoured on their way from Long Island to Utica.
04:20We located their vehicle here.
04:22Tires slashed.
04:23Seemingly abandoned.
04:24But maybe they went hiking and got lost or hurt.
04:27Although something tells me that tire didn't slash itself.
04:30Either way, we are swimming with questions and we need to start fishing for answers.
04:35Yeah.
04:35State police expanded the search grid to include the trail.
04:37No trace of the family.
04:39But?
04:39They found Valerie Palmer's cell phone in a ditch.
04:41Smashed pretty good.
04:42I do not like where this is going.
04:44Got that butterfly cam video.
04:46Cue to the day.
04:48The Palmers went missing.
04:49Let it rip.
04:51Okay.
04:52Here they are.
04:53Mother and son stopping for a hike, right?
04:56Tire looks fine.
04:58Let's go up forward.
04:59Whoa, whoa, whoa.
05:01What is this?
05:05Whoa.
05:06That explains the tire.
05:08I think that's enough for an ID.
05:09Got a little profile there.
05:10Maybe.
05:13What about the Palmers?
05:15Let's go up forward.
05:16Okay.
05:18Okay.
05:18Oh, here we go.
05:19Mother and son return from the trail after about an hour.
05:23They see the flat.
05:24And here goes.
05:26Is that our, uh, tire slasher?
05:29He circles back.
05:30Looks like he's offering to help.
05:31So the tire slasher vandalized the Palmer's vehicle, then posted as a good Samaritan to offer them a ride.
05:37Yeah, the plan comes together for our bad guys.
05:38So this is not just a missing person's case.
05:41The Palmers were abducted.
05:42Let's see if we can get lucky and get an ID with what we got there.
05:46Okay.
05:47Yeah.
05:47Resolution's too low for facial wreck on the driver.
05:50What about the car?
05:51Running the plates.
05:54Stolen.
05:55Yeah?
05:55Okay.
05:56NYPD looking at the stolen vehicle.
05:57Here's something.
05:58That Nissan passed a plate reader 15 minutes ago.
06:01Yeah?
06:01Entering Caleb Smith State Park.
06:03Get a team there now.
06:09That's the vehicle.
06:12Clear.
06:13Off the trunk.
06:19Jubal, we found the stand.
06:21There's blood on the trunk and Troy Palmer's hat.
06:26Guys.
06:28Looks like we got a set of boot prints.
06:33Well, our suspect could have gone anywhere.
06:35All right.
06:36What do you want to do, Maggie?
06:42We're going in.
06:44Let's split up.
06:45Stay in your comms.
06:47Go dark.
07:10What's wrong?
07:13I just feel like I'm being watched here.
07:19The suspect is fleeing south on foot.
07:21I'll try to cut him off.
07:35FBI.
07:44Skola, Eva.
07:45I've got eyes on the mother.
07:47We're too late.
07:50You see him?
07:52He's got to be close by.
07:53We need to set up a cordon.
07:56I need a helo.
07:58A canine.
08:01We have another body.
08:03Young male.
08:09Hey.
08:10So, the best I can tell, your victims were killed in the last 24 hours.
08:14Ligature marks on their wrists and ankles suggest they were bound for several days.
08:17Bodies were washed with soap and bleach, so no trace DNA.
08:21And rape kits came back negative for both.
08:23There's not a lot to go on.
08:24Well, autopsies were more revealing.
08:26Both mother and son show signs of organ shrinkage pointing to starvation.
08:30Plus, darkening in the buccal membrane and poor skin turgor.
08:34Classic signs of dehydration.
08:36So, he abducted them and then starved them.
08:38To start with.
08:39You know, I can email you my report.
08:43I'm already here.
08:44Right.
08:45I just figured what happened to your sister.
08:49Thanks, Neil.
08:51Um, it's okay.
08:52I'm good.
08:53Boy was killed quickly.
08:55Slit throat.
08:56Mom, not so lucky.
08:58Cause of death.
08:59Penetrating sharp force injury to the chest.
09:02She was stabbed in the heart?
09:04At least 20 times.
09:06Violent and rageful.
09:08What do you know about the weapon?
09:10Wounds suggest a non-standard profile and thickness.
09:13A specialty blade?
09:14Or a combat, maybe?
09:16Yeah.
09:16Edge geometry is multipurpose.
09:18I think we're looking more for a...
09:19A dive knife.
09:20Right.
09:22Actually, how do you know that?
09:23For the same reason.
09:24I know I need to get back to the beach.
09:26Thanks.
09:35No sign of our suspect since he slipped the cordon last night, but the cadaver dogs did hit on another
09:39pair of graves.
09:40An adult female.
09:43Adolescent male.
09:46You're right, Maggie.
09:48You want to tell me what's going on here?
09:57Yeah.
09:58There was a case back in 2002.
10:00A serial killer took 17 lives before the bureau caught the guy.
10:05The details matched the Palmer murders.
10:07I mean, from the way they were tied up, they were starved, and even the weapon, a dive knife.
10:12You think this is all connected?
10:14I do.
10:15Maggie!
10:17Give me a sec.
10:18Yeah.
10:19Hey, Peter.
10:20Thanks for coming.
10:24What's up?
10:24I don't really know how to say this.
10:27Just say it.
10:28The South Shore Ripper is back.
10:31Maggie, I caught the Ripper a long time ago.
10:34And he's dead.
10:36Hey, guys.
10:38Dog's got another hit.
10:45Six new bodies, including the Palmers.
10:49So if the Ripper's dead, how's he still killing?
10:56This is the face of pure evil.
10:58Howard James Metcalfe, a.k.a. the South Shore Ripper.
11:0124 years ago, he terrorized the city, abducting pairs of victims, always a mother and a son.
11:08He held them captive, bound them, and starved them until he eventually killed them.
11:14He had evaded capture for two years, killing 17 victims that we know of.
11:20One victim escaped.
11:22Abel Gaskin goes by Abel Shaw now.
11:25And Abel led us to Metcalfe.
11:27No.
11:27But when he escaped, Metcalfe got spooked.
11:30He set the home that he had been holding them in on fire, destroying any evidence we could have used
11:35against him.
11:36State police were able to track him down, thanks to the BAU profile.
11:40But Metcalfe hanged himself in his holding cell that same evening.
11:44So the case was never adjudicated, but the killing stopped after Metcalfe's death.
11:48Has to be the guy.
11:49Well, Peter Olsen was the profiler and he thought so, but now we have six new victims, same MMO.
11:53All we know for certain is that there is a killer out there that has to be stopped.
11:59State police found two graves, both the same, middle-aged woman and young boy.
12:04The most recent set was killed inside of a month.
12:06The oldest exhibit advanced decomp without a post-year formation, so about five months.
12:11Can you tell us the cause of death?
12:13The same as the Palmers.
12:14The boys had their throats slit, women were stabbed in the chest repeatedly.
12:21Can you give us a minute, please?
12:22Yeah.
12:26Come on, tell me you see it.
12:29The victims, the Palmers.
12:31Mothers and sons.
12:33Has to be a copycat.
12:34Valerie Palmer was stabbed in the heart so many times that Mosbeck said he lost count.
12:40That's overkill.
12:42Mm-hmm.
12:42Peter, the FBI never went public with that detail.
12:45And the South Shore Ripper never made it to trial.
12:48Now, the only way somebody could recreate these killings is if it was the same...
12:51The Ripper hung himself in his cell.
12:54We arrested him, he punched his own ticket.
12:57I understand why you'd want to hold on to that.
12:59What is that supposed to mean?
13:00The only victim to get away from the Ripper said you got the wrong guy.
13:05The victim was a 12-year-old boy who had just seen his mother murdered.
13:09He was traumatized.
13:11But what if he could have led us to a different suspect?
13:15Or an accomplice?
13:17My profile clearly said one killer, not two.
13:21And how do you explain this?
13:23All these years later, we've got new murders with the same M.O.
13:26The Ripper was in it for the pain.
13:29Once his victims couldn't feel it anymore, he tossed the bodies into a dumpster.
13:33They were trashed to him.
13:35Precisely.
13:35These new victims were buried.
13:37The M.O.'s are not the same.
13:39It's been 24 years, Peter.
13:43The killer could have evolved.
13:47Maybe your theory needs to as well.
13:52We've been comparing the two cases.
13:54Back in 2002, the Ripper used a standard dive knife.
13:57And the new victims were killed with the same.
14:00Problem is, these knives are widely available.
14:02Right. What about the grave site?
14:03The R.T. find anything usable there?
14:05Negative, but analysis of the trace fibers found embedded in the Palmer's wrists and ankles came in.
14:11It looks like the killer bound them with half-inch diameter rope featuring a 12-strand double braid construction and
14:18a unique dye pattern that's consistent with marine rope.
14:22It's manufactured specifically by this small company in Ohio, Ty Turner.
14:26It's only sold in three stores in the tri-state area.
14:28All right, let's get a list over to Eva and Skola.
14:31I want a full report on anyone who has purchased that rope in the last year.
14:34I don't want to be the one to say this, but if Peter Olsen got it wrong two decades ago...
14:38Well, then Maggie will get to the bottom of it.
14:41She and Peter are sitting with Abel Shawn now.
14:44Look, if this is the same killer, maybe the lone survivor can give us some insight.
14:50I was 12, and the Ripper held me and my mom in a basement.
14:56No food, just enough water to keep us alive for five days.
15:07Sorry, I'm trying not to think about it anymore.
15:10Is this really necessary?
15:12I know that this is difficult.
15:14We would not be asking you if it wasn't important.
15:16It's okay, it's okay.
15:19After the third day, he said that we had to choose
15:23who would live and who would die.
15:29My mother...
15:36She always protected me, and so she volunteered.
15:41I know that this is called comfort,
15:43but the Ripper found excitement breaking down his victims.
15:50The choice was irrelevant.
15:51He was always going to kill you both.
15:54Then he grabbed the wrong woman.
15:57Because when he...
16:02started stabbing her...
16:07she fought back and...
16:11bought me time...
16:13to run.
16:15To survive.
16:18After you escaped...
16:21you said that Metcalfe wasn't the man that killed your mother.
16:26And that was 24 years ago.
16:27Do you still believe that now?
16:30Of course.
16:30Wait, why are you asking?
16:37He's killing again, isn't he?
16:39Someone is killing, yes, but...
16:40This is your fault.
16:42Abel said you had the wrong guy.
16:43The real killer's been running free this whole time
16:45because you wouldn't believe him.
16:46Erica, it's okay.
16:47No, no, none of this is okay.
16:49You know, Abel changed his name,
16:51so the real killer couldn't track him down.
16:53He always could have contacted the Bureau.
16:55We could have helped you.
16:56Oh, so you would have believed him then?
16:58Erica.
17:03I miss my mother every day.
17:07Can you tell us anything about the man that you remember?
17:13I'm sorry.
17:15Even now...
17:16the feeling...
17:18it's clear as day.
17:20But my memory is fuzzy.
17:23It has been since I escaped.
17:24Wait, except the thing from EMDR.
17:27Yeah.
17:28It's a therapy used for PTSD.
17:30And it helped.
17:31It also unlocked something that I had repressed.
17:34A smell.
17:36We were starving and he would cook every night.
17:39Fish.
17:40And that smell tormented us.
17:43It was probably nothing.
17:45Anything you remember is helpful.
17:50So, you still think Metcalfe is the Ripper?
17:52The boy experienced a paratraumatic dissociation.
17:56It was coping mechanism, nothing more.
17:58Okay, what about the new memory?
18:00The smell of the fish?
18:01You can't just ignore that.
18:03Maggie, I wrote the Ripper's profile.
18:06I knew who we were looking for.
18:08Metcalfe checked every box.
18:11Peter.
18:15What if...
18:15Look, hear me out.
18:19What if you have a blind spot?
18:21Okay, what if your ego caused you to jump the gun 24 years ago?
18:26And now it's impairing your judgment.
18:29And what if you just want me to have erred so you could fix a failure of your own?
18:35Wow.
18:36No, all I'm saying...
18:38You know what? This has nothing to do with my sister.
18:40All I'm saying is we've all got blind spots, Maggie.
18:42At BAU, we analyze hundreds of data points from the crime scene to victimology
18:48to gain insight on the offender based on their behavior.
18:53I know what BAU does.
18:55I also know that profiling is not a hard science.
18:58Look, it's a proven skill fortified by statistics.
19:01Okay.
19:02Then look me in the eye right now and tell me there's no statistical chance that you made a mistake.
19:13Are you just gonna leave?
19:15No, I am going to my car.
19:17I brought my case notes and we can go over all the old suspects again.
19:28You Jack?
19:30Jack moved to Boca.
19:31My shop now.
19:33Can I help you?
19:34Yeah, FBI. Special Agents Ramos and Scola.
19:39Yeah, I made your feds a second you stepped in.
19:41Oh, we were going for fishermen.
19:44Maybe you could help us out.
19:45We were canvassing some marine supply shops in the Tri-State area as part of the investigation.
19:51And your store popped up as one of the few that Supplies Tide Turner wrote.
19:56Don't remind me.
19:57Had to take it off the shelves if it was such a day.
19:59You haven't sold any recently?
20:01No, sir.
20:02In fact, I used my leftover stock to dress in white-tailed gear behind it last fall.
20:06Tide Turner might be crap for boats, but it's great for stringing up a carcass.
20:12Well, would you have records of any customers who might have purchased that brand of rope?
20:17I got five years of receipts downstairs in case a tax man comes calling.
20:21Welcome to look.
20:24Sounds good.
20:29All right, Frederick Monk.
20:32Died in 09, stroke.
20:36Okay.
20:36Next, William Hoffman.
20:40Incarcerated in 2014 for aggravated sexual assault in Santa Cruz.
20:44Where is he now?
20:45Died in prison last year.
20:47Nope.
20:47And he had an IQ of 70.
20:50Okay.
20:51All right.
20:52Let's try Reggie Kramer with a K.
20:55Hold on.
20:56Kramer dated Mary Vant?
20:57That's the Ripper's first victim.
20:59Please, just forget about Kramer.
21:01So he's still alive.
21:02Uh, lived in Massapequa.
21:04Says here that he found his own mother murdered when he was 15.
21:08Okay, well that's the same age as the boys the Ripper abducted and killed.
21:11The Ripper was organized, methodical, fastidious.
21:14When I interviewed Kramer in 2002, his house was a pigsty.
21:19There's absolutely no way.
21:20Wait, hey, guys, there's more.
21:22Kramer owns one of the bait and tackle shops that Skola and Eva are canvassing.
21:28Sales receipts are in a couple of boxes back there.
21:40You ever thought about tidying up down here a bit?
21:43You could digitize, join the 21st century.
21:46Oh.
21:54Maggie.
21:55Hello?
21:59Service down here is terrible.
22:01Better luck upstairs.
22:06Yeah, go ahead.
22:20Skola.
22:21Maggie, yeah, what's up?
22:22Hey, we're looking at the suspects of the old Ripper case, and one of the names stood out.
22:30Those boxes are just around the corner.
22:34Yeah, keep going.
22:36Yeah.
22:40His name is Reggie Kramer.
22:42He owns one of the stores on your list.
22:44Wait, Kramer?
22:45Kramer?
22:46We're here now.
22:56You sharpen your own knives, Mr. Kramer?
22:58Yeah, just a little something I like to do to relax.
23:03Would you like to see my handiwork?
23:09Drop the knife.
23:10Now.
23:11Hey, put the knife on the ground right now.
23:14Slowly.
23:15Keep your hands where I can see them.
23:17Okay, let's all take a deep breath.
23:20No one has to get hurt.
23:23Now turn around.
23:25Hands behind your back.
23:36Now I can show you my handiwork.
23:48Five days ago, Valerie and Troy Palmer were abducted from a trailhead just outside of the city.
23:54If you say so.
23:56Suspect matches your height and your build.
23:59There's a lot of people on this planet.
24:01And where on this planet were you five days ago, Mr. Kramer?
24:06Oh, you know, you're in there.
24:08Okay.
24:09Can't say it for certain.
24:11You ever visited Caleb Smith State Park?
24:13Oh, many times.
24:17You want to know a secret?
24:19Sure.
24:22White pools.
24:26Best fly fish on the whole is a cock.
24:31He's toying with them.
24:33More like a test.
24:34Serial killers are motivated by domination, manipulation, and control.
24:39Right. Control. He's cuffed to the table.
24:42He could be hogtied to the floor.
24:43As far as he's concerned, he could still win the chess match.
24:46That is exactly what we want.
24:48What is that?
24:49It's the only way Maggie can put him in checkmate.
24:54Your mother Darlene died when you were young, right?
24:59You're being obvious, Agent Bill.
25:01How so?
25:02She was murdered.
25:04You think there's a connection?
25:05Isn't there?
25:06You were 15 years old?
25:09And you were the one that found the body?
25:11She was in the kitchen.
25:13Strangled with her apron.
25:16Rick did it.
25:17Yeah.
25:18Your stepfather.
25:19At least that's what the police said.
25:22You think the police got the wrong guy?
25:24Do you?
25:27Do you miss her?
25:31Well, she wasn't a very good mother.
25:35Well, then again, I wasn't a very good son.
25:37The thing I find interesting is you have not once asked why we brought you in.
25:42I suppose I'm just waiting for you to show your hand.
25:45Okay, here it is.
25:47Three pairs of bodies, all mothers and sons, all found in a remote wilderness wildlife refuge that you just admitted
25:55to visiting.
25:57And they were tied up with rope like the one from my shop.
26:01And stabbed to death with a dive knife like you own?
26:06Murdered in their prime.
26:08Just like mom.
26:10Right again, Reggie.
26:12Maybe they weren't good mothers.
26:15Or good sons.
26:17Are you the South Shore Ripper?
26:20What do you think?
26:23I just have one more question.
26:25Why these women?
26:29Women like that.
26:32Yeah, they would never be with someone like me.
26:35They look at me and they see a monster.
26:39Why this monster gave them what they deserved.
26:48Start at the beginning.
26:58Great work.
26:59I'll let the Eastern District know their life just got easier.
27:01Don't bother.
27:02Kramer's not our killer.
27:03He just wants us to think that he is.
27:04Hold on.
27:05You're telling me this guy just took the rap for six murders that he didn't commit?
27:08Why would he do that?
27:09To feel important.
27:11Okay.
27:12All due respect to the BAU and its methods.
27:14We're gonna need more than that to throw out a confession.
27:17Kramer claimed that he was attracted to his victims.
27:18The rape kits came back on the Palmers negative.
27:22And nothing in the evidence supports psychosexual motive.
27:26I think that our killer is angry and grievance driven.
27:29Okay, fine.
27:30But I am holding Kramer.
27:32Let's keep running down leads.
27:34You've also got the park ranger, Clyde Bream.
27:36Given the timeline, he deserves another look.
27:38Bring him in.
27:48Peter.
27:51I don't want to keep dwelling in the past.
27:55So, how do you feel about building a new profile with only the current cases?
28:00Sounds good to me.
28:04Good call on Kramer.
28:07All right, let's begin with victimology.
28:09We know that our current killer abducts mothers and sons.
28:13He's repetitive, ritualistic.
28:15All six victims are white, since serial killers rarely kill across race.
28:19We can assume he's white too.
28:21The abductions are clustered.
28:23The hiking trails in this park.
28:24We know he lives in and around Long Island.
28:28Okay.
28:28Crime scene analysis shows that he is organized, but not just cleaning and disposing the bodies.
28:34He plans the abductions, the captivity.
28:37It shows patience and maturity.
28:39But he has to be able to dispose of the bodies, so we're probably looking for somebody who's younger than
28:4350.
28:44Very good.
28:45The signature.
28:46All right.
28:46We know that he deprives his victims of food and light.
28:49And assuming that he's giving his new victims the same impossible choice, it underscores his need for power.
28:55Right, the power that he carries through until he has an emotional release where he violently kills the mother.
29:00But then with the boy, it's more mechanical.
29:03It's quick.
29:06Peter, everything we've come up with just looks like your profile back in 2002.
29:10Well, I still can't get around the change in the post-mortem MO.
29:15Because he used to dump the bodies, but now he buries them.
29:18What were you saying before?
29:20Uh, he's evolving, he's...
29:22Yeah, I think something's changed.
29:24Hm?
29:25Hm?
29:34It's right in front of us.
29:36What?
29:36Our killer is ritualistic because he needs to fill some psychological need, right?
29:42He's working through something.
29:43Okay.
29:45He's hiding his self-loathing.
29:47Peter, you were right.
29:48The Ripper is not the killer, but he's not a copycat either.
29:52Our killer knows the intimate details of the Ripper's methods because he witnessed them firsthand.
29:58Oh, my God.
29:59Yeah, and if you saw your mother attacked, wouldn't you be ashamed?
30:09I don't get it. Why are you looking for my husband?
30:11We believe that Abel has picked up the mantle for the South Shore Ripper.
30:14What?
30:15By committing these murders, he's reenacting his trauma.
30:18No, that is not possible. Abel would never do that.
30:20Erica, I know this is a lot to take in, but sometimes a killing follows a precipitating event.
30:27The first pair of murders happened about five months ago.
30:30So did anything happen to Abel around that time?
30:32Abel's been stressed, but everyone would be in our situation.
30:37What's your situation?
30:38I'm pregnant.
30:40The doctors said it was impossible, but then we were blessed with this miracle.
30:44Boy.
30:46How did Abel react to that news?
30:48He was nervous.
30:50He's been through so much.
30:52How far along are you?
30:54A little over five months.
30:56Five months.
30:57We've already been to your house. Abel isn't there. Do you know where he is right now?
31:00He went fishing. He stopped going years ago, but when he found out he was going to be a dad,
31:04that's how he's been blowing off steam.
31:10He's using fishing as a pretext to abduct another family.
31:14All right, listen up. Maggie and Peter are convinced Abel Shaw has already abducted a new set of victims.
31:18Jubal, it looks like a mother and son from Southampton vanished yesterday. Audrey embraced Cahill.
31:23Kid's 12. Fits the bill.
31:25Car was found abandoned at Rogers Beach near Quag. One tire slashed. Phones found smashed down the road.
31:30Okay, so this has got to be our guy. We can't track the Cahills. Can we track Abel?
31:34Nothing on his phone location.
31:36All right, so we need to do this the old-fashioned way. Where could Abel have taken them?
31:40What do we know about him? Where does he eat? Where does he sleep? What does he do for a
31:43living?
31:43I can help with the last one. Abel manages a significant real estate portfolio, some commercial, mostly residential.
31:49So he could be holding victims at one of his properties, but which one?
31:52Well, I can cross-reference utilities against property tax records, see if any of them are vacant.
31:56Yeah, do it.
31:56I might have a shortcut.
31:57Okay.
31:58In 2002, the Ripper held Abel and his mother captive in the basement of an abandoned home in East Meadow.
32:03That home was located on a corner at 1827 Lucille.
32:06Okay.
32:06On the night that the Ripper was caught, he burned it to the ground.
32:09Years later, someone else bought the lot and built a new home on it.
32:12Only this time, the front door was facing the adjacent street.
32:16Same exact property, has a new address, and guess who owns it now?
32:19Abel Shaw?
32:20Yes, that's Abel Gaskin.
32:22It's the only property still registered under his birth name.
32:24If Abel is trying to recreate the Ripper's crimes...
32:26It makes sense.
32:27He would use the same kill box.
32:29Get Maggie on the line.
32:30So we found his kill box.
32:32So now what?
32:32Are we gonna breach an arrest?
32:34No, it's way too risky.
32:35Abel's capture phase lasts about five days.
32:37He'll still be alive.
32:39We're certainly not sitting around, no, either.
32:41No.
32:42The team did a trash cover and discovered that he uses a seafood delivery service.
32:46Hey, so he cooks food to taunt his victim just like the original Ripper.
32:50Yeah.
32:50We're making a delivery to the house in an hour.
32:52That's our end.
33:07We're making a delivery for three days.
33:08Talk to you.
33:08Oh, no.
33:09I have two hours on fire on fire.
33:09I'm talking about a city that's what's going on.
33:10I'm saying both of them.
33:10I love this.
33:13You have to leave a lullaby to the workshop.
33:13You have to leave a temple to the house.
33:13I'm doing well.
33:13I'm getting everything to sleep with electricity.
33:15We're gonna be making a place on fire.
33:20I'm getting everything to be a place.
33:34That's him. Hit it.
33:53Hey, put downstairs and check the basement. I got him.
34:00Ready? Yeah.
34:05Audrey? Bryce?
34:10We're too late.
34:15Maggie? Yeah?
34:17No Cahill's in the basement.
34:19Where are they? Did you kill him?
34:24Why would I do that?
34:26They haven't chosen yet.
34:32SWAT rated every property in Abel's portfolio.
34:35Still no sign of the Cahill's.
34:36If they are still alive, he's gotta tell us where he's moved them.
34:39That'll be tough. He's fixated on them completing the ritual.
34:43Abel's compulsions are motivated by his shame and remorse.
34:46So why don't we confront him? Use that against him?
34:49Do it.
34:54You coming?
34:56No, you saw Abel for who he really is. It's your case now.
35:06Guess what, Abel?
35:08You washed the bodies. You didn't clean the basement.
35:11Your teeth found prints in DNA.
35:12And we're gonna tie you to all six murders.
35:14And the only way that you can help yourself at this point is by telling me where you're hiding Audrey
35:20and Bryce Cahill.
35:25It's over. You can't hurt them anymore.
35:30I've been studying your patterns, Abel.
35:32All you're doing is repeating what happened to you when you let your mother die.
35:36Well, except you did wash the bodies.
35:40Then you lay them to rest.
35:42You know what that tells me?
35:46It tells me that you're ashamed.
35:49That you're remorseful.
35:55You don't know what you're talking about.
36:00You still have a chance to save Audrey and Bryce.
36:04And redeem yourself.
36:07Be the hero that you wanted to be all those years ago.
36:15Tell me where they are.
36:23Not until they choose.
36:27I thought he was supposed to be remorseful.
36:29I'm no longer sure abandoning his mother is the root of his shame.
36:33How are we supposed to know what the root is?
36:36Well, Maggie will have to reprofile him on the fly.
36:40It is over.
36:42No.
36:44It isn't.
36:45Well, how do you figure?
36:46I mean, short of putting the knife in Bryce's hand yourself.
36:59There was a second choice that day.
37:02The Ripper put the knife in your hand and gave you the choice.
37:05You kill your mother or he's gonna kill you both.
37:11None of the other kids could pull it off.
37:13They couldn't go through with it, but you were different.
37:17You made the choice to kill your own mother.
37:24That's why Metcalf let you go.
37:26Because he saw you for who you really are.
37:29You're a killer.
37:29Just like him.
37:30Don't.
37:31No, and you didn't want to identify him because you didn't want everyone else to know your shame.
37:35Shut up.
37:36Shut up.
37:37Okay?
37:38I mean, when he died, you must have thought this was all done.
37:41Right?
37:42You could just put it all behind you.
37:45Until your wife got pregnant.
37:50That wasn't supposed to happen.
37:53So when she comes to tell you that she's gonna have this miracle baby.
37:58A baby boy.
38:01You panicked.
38:03I panicked.
38:04I mean, why wouldn't you?
38:07What if this precious baby is like you?
38:12Broken.
38:14I'm not broken.
38:15You have made all of these people live your exact nightmare for one thing alone.
38:19You wanted to find one other person who made the same choice as you.
38:22So that you wouldn't feel alone.
38:26I can free them.
38:28I can free them from the lies that they tell themselves about who they really are.
38:35Nobody else has made that choice.
38:36And nobody's going to.
38:37Not even Bryce.
38:38You don't know that.
38:41I know.
38:42No.
38:42Yes.
38:42And you know what?
38:43I think deep down, you know that too.
38:45You weren't there.
38:47You didn't see the look in that kid's face when I gave him the knife.
38:53He's gonna do it.
38:55He swore he would do it.
38:58I bet he already has.
39:02You don't tell us where they are.
39:04How are you ever gonna know for sure?
39:20Checkmate.
39:28Go around the sides.
39:30Yeah.
39:32It's locked, Skola.
39:36Pull it!
39:42Okay.
39:46Ma'am?
39:47Bryce.
39:48Come on.
39:49Hey, wake up.
39:50Bryce?
39:55I've got a pulse.
39:57It's faint, but she's alive.
39:58Your mom's gonna be okay.
40:00So are you.
40:01I...
40:02I didn't do it.
40:03I couldn't.
40:19Don't do it.
40:32Hey.
40:34Hey.
40:35Hey.
40:37Look, a couple of things I said back there.
40:40No, no. I'm the one who needs to apologize.
40:44Your original profile was spot on.
40:46And I shouldn't have pushed it.
40:48No, no, no, no, no. You were right in the end.
40:51I missed some things. You sensed them.
40:53And you never stopped questioning.
41:00You know, ever since Aaron died, I've...
41:03I've been trying to separate what happened to her with what I do.
41:08Mm-hmm.
41:10I can't.
41:13I don't think I'll ever be able to.
41:15So I'm choosing to use it as an edge to save whoever I can.
41:21You once told me that you no longer recognize the world around you,
41:27but I think you see the world exactly for what it is.
41:31all the bad and all the good.
41:35And you just refuse to give up on it.
41:39And, uh...
41:42Well...
41:43I'm lucky to know you, Maggie.
41:53See you around.
41:55See you around.
41:56See you around.
42:23Bye.
42:23Bye.
42:23...
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