- When a sniper begins targeting young victims, the team is forced to retrace the steps of the past in order to solve this modern day mystery.
- The next returning Alcatraz inmate is Ernest Cobb, a crack-shot who shot series of crows and people in different cities all over he US before being arrested. He deliberately shot a guard in the leg to be relocated to Alcatraz, hell-bent on a quiet, private cell. Warden Edwin James sadistically kept denying him isolation, leading to more inside crimes. Diego 'Doc' Soto's knowledge proves invaluable to catch Cobb before he makes his third victims batches before moving to another time, but the stress and danger of the chase make him doubt if he's fit as SFPD partner. Emerson Hauser remains frustratingly secretive and again seizes the recaptured villain for openly hostile 'interrogation', like Jack Sylvane's despite his claim to remember nothing.—KGF Vissers
- In 1960, Ernest Cobb, is a newly transferred Alcatraz inmate. Meeting with Warden James, Cobb reveals that he was transferred to Alcatraz from another prison after shooting at a guard with a home made gun. Cobb says that he did so in order to get transferred to Alcatraz and thus get a private cell.
In the present, Cobb sets up on a hillside and shoots and kills three people at a Carnival. Responding to the scene, Soto, though shaken by the dead bodies, recognizes the MO as that of Cobb. He informs Madsen that Cobb's pattern was to do three shootings over the course of three days and then go on the run. He further identifies Cobb's gun as a Winchester model 70.
In 1960, Cobb is in his cell on Alcatraz, going crazy because the man in the cell next to him is a non stop talker. He sees Jack Sylvane freak out and get thrown in solitary confinement and has an idea.
In the present, Lucy Banerjee is questioning Jack Sylvane. Sylvane claims to have simply woken up in the present with no memory of how he got there. Lucy then shows him the contents of the bag he retrieved from Barclay Fynn, a large metal key. Sylvane says he doesn't know why he got the bag and polygraph equipment shows that he's telling the truth.
Madsen questions a local gun store owner and gets a lead on a hotel room Cobb may be renting. She, Soto, and Lucy go to check out the apartment, but Cobb has set up across the street from them and shoots Lucy, critically wounding her.
In 1960, Cobb requests to be sent to solitary confinement in order to be free of having to interact with other inmates. When his request is denied he commits an infraction which forces the Warden to send him to the hole. However, the warden also sends the talkative inmate to the hole in order to torture Cobb.
In the present, Madsen realizes that all of Cobb's shooting sprees have included a teenage girl as a victim. With some research, Madsen and Soto realize that Cobb, who had been abandoned as an infant, had a half sister. When he went to meet his birth mother, who rejected him again, the girl, Eloise, was sixteen years old. Cobb is acting out revenge on the sister who his mother loved enough to keep.
Getting Cobb's belongings out of storage, Madsen sits in his cell in order to figure out how he thought. She figures out that Cobb had built a telescope in his cell which he used to watch the outside world and fantasize about his revenge. By looking at a picture of the San Francisco skyline in 1963 they pinpoint a pair of buildings as high points which Cobb might use. At one of them, Madsen discovers Cobb on the rooftop and subdues him. Hauser then shoots Cobb in his right hand in order to ruin his ability to shoot.
After Cobb is locked in the high tech prison with Jack Sylvane, a flashback shows him in 1960 at the Alcatraz psych ward after multiple disciplinary infractions. The warden informs him that they're going to try and cure him by giving him some therapy and introduces him to his doctor. The doctor in Lucy Banerjee who introduces herself as Dr Lucille Sengupta.
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