- Rebecca, Doc, and Hauser set out to capture musically-inclined serial killer Webb Porter, an unknown '63 that returns more violent than ever.
- It takes a while until Hauser recognizes the MO of Webb Porter, who drowns women in their bathtubs at home and auditions as violinist. He suffered from tinnitus since his mother tried to drown him as a young child. Dr. Lucy turned the frightened mental wreck into a self-confident musician. Dr. Milton Beauregard tells Hauser how Webb may save Lucy's life if caught in time, Doc and Madsen help track him down.—KGF Vissers
- CURRENT - Emerson Hauser is walking purposefully through Chinatown at night not knowing Dr. Diego Soto is following him. Emerson enters a building where he sits on an exam table and then takes a handful of pills (Blue. Thats a new one.) offered to him by a tattooed woman. She then holds him in a chiropractic position.
1960 - Emerson and Dr. Lucy Singupta are walking hand-in-hand by the docks discussing philosophy. A police boat arrives to take her to Alcatraz.
The warden walks with Lucy, telling her about a prisoner named Porter that he has had no luck with. Porter cannot stay in the general population because his constant screaming keeps the other prisoners from sleeping. Porter only stays quiet in the infirmary, sitting on a cot with his ear pressed against a wall. Lucy reads that his IQ is 165.
The warden introduces them but Porter does not speak - and hasnt spoken in a year. She notices scars on floor - Porter pushes his bed from wherever the guards place it, to that same opposite wall. Porter killed his mother (she tried to drown him when he was a child) and four other women in one night. Lucy watches as Porter taps against a worn section of the wall. She also places her ear against the wall, and when she asks Porter how long he has heard ringing in his ears, he slinks away. Lucy tells the warden Porter has tinnitus (probably from the drowning incident) and that the humming from the refrigerator in the neighboring room helps drown the ringing. She wants to try a new therapy on him. She asks Porter if he likes music.
CURRENT - Porter is in a house playing a violin, really working his bow, and stops when most of the bowhairs break. He goes and fills the bathtub. He goes to put his violin in its case in the bedroom and we see Karen Finer tied up and gagged on her bed. Her hair has been cut badly and there is blood coming from her scalp. He half-says to himself that he is not ready and that he needs more hair. Porter lifts Karen Finer off the bed and carries her, struggling, to the bathroom. Bathwater spills out from under the door.
Rebecca Madsen is playing pool at a bar with Vicki. Rebecca feels like she is living someone elses life. Both their phones ring. Its work for Vicki; its Soto for Rebecca. Rebecca tells Soto to give up his stalking, but Soto says he gave up on Emerson after he went to that same brick building again. Instead, Soto went to see Lucy, despite Emerson having told them not to, to let her rest. Soto is calling from the hospital - Lucy is not there, because Emerson had checked her out.
Vickis call is about a murder in Daly City - the victim was drowned in her tub with her hair cut off. Rebecca asks to tag along.
There are no signs of forced entry. Karen Finer was a music student at SF State. A neighbor heard violin music earlier in the day. There are ligature marks on her hands and feet; the coloration indicates at least three days worth. Rebecca wonders where the hair went as the apartment appears clean. The victim has a broken fingernail and Rebecca takes a walk around the house. She sees scratches at the bedroom door jamb and then finds the nail on a bedroom rug.
At the dungeon, Rebecca and Soto are looking at a long photo list of the 63 who were sentenced for crimes against women. Rebecca asks Soto about Emerson . . . just as Emerson has snuck up behind them. Emerson warns Soto against following him. Rebecca says they wouldnt be so curious if Emerson told them things - like why he took Lucy out of the hospital.
Emerson points at the Karen Finer crime scene photos. Rebecca says they found a fingernail but the blood evidence was contaminated because it had colloidal silver. Emerson frowns and tells them the suspect is one of the 63. She asks how he knows that, and Emerson admits that they have run tests on some of the prisoners they have recovered and many had colloidal silver in their blood. Rebecca wonders how Emerson was able to run tests on the prisoners because he told her he took them all to a prison. So now its a first for them -- they know the suspect is a 63, but do not know who he is.
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CURRENT- AT SFState, the professor does not recognize any of the pictures of the 63. Also, Karen Finer mostly played the cello.
Emerson at the dungeon videochats with Dr. Milton Beauregard at the lab-prison, letting him know the new blood sample is being brought to him. Emerson says he does not know which 63 it belongs to. Dr. Beauregard says he will test it so see if its a match for Lucy. Emerson asks him if he is certain of the healing properties of the silver and Dr. Beauregard says yes. Dr. Beauregard says Lucy is slipping away from them and that he doesnt know how much time they have. Emerson switches channels to look in on Lucy, still in a coma.
1960 - Still in the infirmary, Lucy offers to help Porter remove the memory of his mothers drowning attempt, and thus the ringing in his ears, if he agrees. He remains silent as she nods to a guard, who goes to the next room and pulls the plug on the refrigerator. Dr. Beauregard has been watching this and is startled when Porter speaks and demands she turn the refrigerator back on. Instead, she puts on a record player. He doesnt cooperate at first, but as she talks him through it, Porter begins to calm down. She asks him to tell her what happened at the attempted drowning, and he tells her about how he saw his mothers face above the water and hair long drifting around it.
CURRENT - Porter is playing violin outside a womans house. She recognizes him from a previous nights party and they talk. He tells her he likes her hair and forces his way into her house.
CURRENT - Emerson enters the lab-prison and Dr. Beauregard tells him the blood is a match. Now they have to catch the prisoner.
Porter plays at an audition. One of the judges complements him on his bow and Porter says that he strings it himself. They give him some sheet music which he takes apprehensively. He apologizes that he hasnt prepared the piece, but the judges insist he plays to demonstrate his sight reading. When he doesnt, the judges leave.
Porter storms into the house he was playing outside at before. The woman is tied up in the bedroom and he growls that he didnt make it because he wasnt good enough. And then he points to her shorn head and growls that she wasnt good enough.
1960 - The deputy warden is enjoying a prisoner jazz band in the Music Room as an inmate walks around with a super-8 camera, filming the rehearsal. Lucy walks in with Porter.
They ask to borrow an instrument. The deputy warden dismisses the band and Porter walks around the room looking at instruments. He picks the violin and scratches away until he starts playing well.
CURRENT - Porters recent victim has been found in the tub. Rebecca comes in and Emerson berates her for taking her time on this investigation. She argues they had the music-student lead and were following that. Soto interrupts them and says that the landlord had come by recently and heard violin music - good violin music - and that the victim has nothing to do with music. So now they know that the prisoner was not targeting music students but was a musician himself.
Rebecca and Soto dig through the dusty Music Room. She finds an LP recorded at a bar called Rattys. He finds some super-8 reels. There is no violin music in the room or any violinist in the prison record. Rebecca finds a violin. Scratched on the back is Webb Porter.
CURRENT - Back at the dungeon Rebecca and Soto try to find a connection between the two recent victims.
Emerson is at Rattys and consults with the piano player who apparently knows every musician in town. The piano player says a friend recently sold someone his violin and that the purchaser has a gig stacking chairs at the Philharmonic.
1960 - Emerson is on a date with Lucy at Rattys. As they listen to a saxophonist, she remarks how much her new patient would love coming here to listen and to play. Emerson is intrigued that she can call a stone-cold killer a patient; and that hes never met anyone like her before. They kiss.
CURRENT - Soto wonders aloud to Rebecca why Emerson went off on him earlier. Rebecca thinks its just the pressure of the case. The computer comes up with a match on two recent purchases on the two victims credit card histories. Both had made purchases at a San Francisco Philharmonic fund-raiser.
Emerson calls from the Philharmonic and tells Rebecca that Porter had been working there as a stage hand. Emerson texts Rebecca and Soto Porters home address.
They meet at the address but it is un-occupied. There are bows in the bedroom : two each of blonde and brunette hair. One of red.
1960 - Lucy is walking with Porter in the Rec Yard after hours. As guards look on, Lucy tells him the warden has agreed to return him to the general population, and he gets to play his violin. He asks her why she is doing this for him and she says that she believes a man can change. He thanks her, saying he hopes to return the favor someday.
CURRENT - At the dungeon, they have pulled up the DMV photos of the women at the Philharmonic fund-raiser. There are two redheads. Emerson says they should go to both houses and heads off, but Soto discovers that one was just on a social website from a bar, so they go to the other womans house.
They get to the house and a redhead is tied up in bed. She tells them that he said he had a performance at the Philharmonic.
1960 - The warden and his men lead Porter back to his old cell, but his fellow prisoners arent happy to see him, remembering how he used to scream all night long to block out his tinnitus. The block is in an uproar until he starts to play the violin and they all quiet down to listen. The deputy warden, Dr. Beauregard, and Lucy watch this from an upper deck. The deputy warden is still skeptical. Dr. Beauregard is impressed and notes that the warden has found a new toy. Lucy indignantly says Porter is not a toy. The doctor responds that he meant SHE was the new toy. As if on cue, the warden looks up and nods at her. When Porter finishes, the block breaks into cheers and applause.
CURRENT - Porter is at the Philharmonic, playing on stage, but as it turns out, his audience is only in his mind, and the imagined sounds of cheers and applause meld with the recollected sounds from his cellblock performance.
Emerson and Rebecca run in to the hall and Porter runs off. Emerson tells Rebecca he wants him alive and unharmed. They chase Porter up to the rafters and corner him on a catwalk. Just as it appears Porter is about to jump off to the stage below, and does, Emerson grabs him.
At the lab-prison, Emerson shoves Porter into Lucys room. Emerson tells him Ernest Cobb shot her. Porter, concerned, asks if Lucy is going to live and Emerson tells him, with his help. Dr. Beauregard comes in and starts a transfusion between them.
At the dungeon, Soto is digitizing the super-8 reels possibly to use in his next book. Soto asks Rebecca if shes figured out Emerson yet, and as she stares at the projection, says, Lucy. We then see Lucy in the movie recorded in 1960.
Back at the lab-prison, Porter is in his cell, playing the violin. The other recovered prisoners listen intently. Lucy is still in a coma with Emerson and Dr. Beauregard at bed-side. We see a close-up of Lucys face. Her eyes open.
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