Awakening the Zodiac Page #4

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his storage locker.

And he had

a f***ing gun in our face.

Why would he

let the locker go?

He's old,

maybe he just forgot.

Well...

You guys,

we gotta go back.

We gotta lift prints,

or do something like that.

Lift some prints?

That's my girl, yeah.

You guys been watching

too many CSI:
Miami re-runs.

Trust me, he's not our guy.

He didn't have

that killer look.

That killer look?

Yeah, no joke.

I saw it in Kuwait.

You know,

some soldiers,

they live for the action,

others were scared shitless,

and then there were

the stone-cold

f***ing killers.

When you watch

a man kill another man,

and then he turns

and looks at you,

his eyes soft,

relaxed, almost satisfied,

you know

you're in the presence

of a real killer.

That other reel

should be dry by now.

I'll meet you back

at my place, yeah?

Yeah, okay.

Wait, what was that?

Looked like a cipher key.

A what?

What?

Remember I told you that

he sent letters to

the newspapers in code?

Yeah.

Just watch.

Right after he passes the gun,

right before he wipes

the blood off the knife.

That paper with

the symbols on it.

What do you see?

I think this is a cipher key.

This could be the cipher key.

What are you talking about?

Code-breaking.

The zodiac, he always

claimed that his name

was in the cipher.

This could be the f***ing key.

I'm sorry, harv,

I don't understand.

Can you just speak English?

Okay, these kinds of codes,

they were used by,

like, the CIA

and foreign governments

to encrypt messages

going all the way

back to world war ii.

Next to each symbol

is a letter. You replace

each symbol

with the correlating letter,

and you have the translation.

I can see that you

don't understand.

I'll show you.

I don't understand.

Okay.

What does that say?

It's symbols.

Right.

Now, this is a cipher key.

"E" has

a corresponding square.

"O" has

an upside-down triangle.

"Z" has a "v."

This reads "Zoe."

"Zoe."

It's easy if you have the key.

Almost impossible

if you don't.

Oh, man.

This could be

the key to the 340.

What's the 340?

It's the unsolved cipher.

The 408 was broken.

How do you

know all this sh*t?

Two tours,

special ops, remember?

They taught you

code-breaking in Kuwait?

Oh, yeah, it's like the abcs

of electronic intelligence,

but back in the day,

code-breaking was

like basic training.

Think you could crack it?

If this is

a cipher key, f***ing a.

Okay.

I gotta get into this.

Why don't you guys

check on Ben's history?

Like, go to town hall

and newspapers

and see if he has

a military record.

Because this sh*t

here is military 101.

Done.

Yeah?

My coat, thanks.

Hey, Harvey, good one.

Hey, by the way,

bring me your reel

in the morning.

I wanna put it in my safe.

Babe, Harvey

wouldn't screw us over.

He's a good guy, right?

I don't know.

Let me just drop

you off at town hall

and I'll go hide the film.

Wait, are you saying

you don't trust him either?

Let's just say

i wanna make sure

we get our half.

Smart boy.

Yup.

Hey.

Um...

Call you when I'm done?

Careful.

Love ya.

Love ya!

Thank you.

Beautiful.

Oh...

Tri-county news ledger.

Yes, no problem. Thank you.

Hey, excuse me? Hi.

Um...

These only go back to 1980.

Where would I find articles

dating back to the late '60s?

Archives is in the basement.

Oh.

For employees only.

Um...

Polly, it's kind of important.

I'm sorry,

we're about to close.

I bet you are,

but it's just that I was...

Um...

I've been at city records,

and couldn't find

what I was looking for

over there

and it would be

so helpful...

Miss, I can't help you.

Tri-county news ledger.

Hey, Polly.

Yes, he is.

Uh-huh.

Yes, he is.

Okay, I'll let him know.

Thanks, Polly.

Thank you.

Thank you, Polly!

Okay.

Thank you so much, ma'am.

Yup.

Hello.

God damn it.

Hello?

Hello?

"The zodiac has

fled the west coast,

leaving behind a trail

"of unsolved murders

across the country.

"I have provided

authorities with

"new evidence from

an unnamed source

"that I believe

will eventually

"lead to the identity

of the elusive killer."

Come on.

Come on, come on.

Oh, Mick. Um, Mick, it's me.

Listen, I'm at the paper.

I need you to come get me

because I think I found

something good.

Um... okay,

I'm here. Come get me, now.

Okay, bye. Sh*t.

Oh, my god. I'm so sorry!

I'm so sorry!

Oh, god! Sh*t!

Hey, are you all right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I'm good.

Um...

Okay, ferguson.

Um...

He was an only child.

He was born and raised here.

He was never married.

He never had kids.

Uh, he served in

Vietnam from 1963 to 1964.

Zodiac's first kill was 1968.

Then after Vietnam, in 1965,

he got a job with

a paper in San Francisco

as a crime reporter.

San Francisco?

Oh, this is good.

Yeah.

Okay, but there's

just a little hitch

in the giddy-up.

So, for some reason,

ferguson decided

to leave that job

with that paper

in San Francisco

and move back here

to start a job

with the old ledger

on, um, October the 1st, 1969.

The thing is,

Paul Lee stine

was killed in San Francisco

on October 11th, 1969.

Sh*t.

Told you.

So, listen,

I know he's weird,

but he can't be

our guy because

he was here,

2,500 miles away.

But listen to this,

I found an article

that ferguson

wrote about zodiac.

And ferguson was tracking

this string of murders

across the country,

and he had come up

with this theory

that zodiac was

actually making his way

across the country to here.

So,

maybe ferguson was actually

onto the zodiac,

and maybe

the zodiac is still here now.

Or he was leaving

a trail of breadcrumbs

for the police to follow.

Oh, my god,

what are you talking about?

Why aren't you

listening to me?

Sh*t, I don't know.

Some people say

he didn't even

live in San Fran.

What people?

I read it on a fan site.

He has fans?

Apparently. Lots of them.

Do you see a guy? Feels like

there's a guy just

parked behind us.

I'm probably...

Let's get out of here.

Babe, let's just go.

What the hell?

No, no, no. I'm gonna

kick this guy's ass.

No, no. Don't you...

No, no, no.

Honey, honey!

Hey!

Get in the car,

let's just go. I'm not...

Fine!

Go ahead! Come on!

Did you get

a good look at him?

No,

i did not get a good look.

God, I don't

wanna do this anymore.

Mick, it's getting

too crazy, and I...

Zoe, we need this.

I don't... I'm out.

We don't need this, Mick.

Do you know what

half of $100,000 is?

You know what?

Don't act like I'm an idiot.

Mick, put that gun down!

Jesus Christ.

It's $50,000, Mick!

- That's it!

- That's a lot of money.

I think I'm worth

more than $25,000.

That's not what I meant.

Look at you.

This is the zodiac speaking.

This is the zodiac speaking.

This is the zodiac speaking.

This is the zodiac speaking.

Son of a b*tch.

- What is it?

- I think he's out there.

This is the zodiac speaking.

God damn it.

Jesus! F***...

Zoe?

F***!

Baby...

F*** you.

Jesus.

No, f*** you!

Don't you f***ing come...

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