Awakening the Zodiac Page #5

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F*** you!

Everything okay?

Do you know

who owns this car?

This car? It's whoever

she's sleeping with.

Her in that trailer,

what's her name? Uh...

Come on, you know it.

Spanish name...

Valencia, that's it.

Now,

the thing about valencia is,

there's a different car here,

like, every night.

Although I hate

to be judgmental,

she's kind of a whore.

I don't know if

that helps, does it?

Yeah.

Want a beer?

No.

Hey, baby.

You know I'm sorry.

You pointed a gun in my face,

that's not okay.

I know, I know. I'm sorry.

And, obviously,

sorry isn't cutting it, I...

I know I messed up.

That's an understatement.

Messed up bad,

but, baby, I swear,

I heard something.

Zoe, I need you.

I do, I can't do this

without you.

Can we

please just go see if

Harvey's figured

out the cipher key?

Hmm?

Maybe he has.

Maybe this is

all over already.

And if it doesn't pan out,

I'll work our way out of this.

I promise,

no more storage lockers,

no more nothing.

I promise you.

I will give you

one more day.

Ah, sh*t.

Come on in, close the door.

Shut the door! Fast!

Jesus.

Just shut it.

Holy sh*t, Harvey.

I've almost figured it out.

This f***ing dude

was a genius, man.

He used a combination

of a Caesar, vigenere

and pigpen cipher.

Look, I'll explain it to you.

You see this symbol?

All these years,

codebreakers have

considered this

its own character, right?

This one symbol

is four letters,

but this... this symbol here,

this is one letter,

shifted with a Caesar cipher.

Like a f***ing brainiac,

this guy.

Okay, so,

i can make some

critical assumptions,

and I've narrowed

it down to suspects

that live within

a 50-mile radius.

That's only hundreds.

No, no, no.

I think it's Ben ferguson.

No.

Yeah, yeah,

he served in the military.

He was in San Fran

between '67 and '69.

Mick, Mick,

you're like everybody else.

You're trying to fit

the evidence to the suspect.

That's not how you do it.

It's not Ben ferguson.

I don't know how

many f***ing times

i have to say that.

Don't even try,

he won't even listen.

Mick, his name doesn't

even fit in the cipher.

I just need some more time.

I kind of just, like,

fell asleep for an hour,

but if I can get

one more symbol,

I can eliminate 97%

of these names, okay?

I can't do it with

you guys here, though.

You need to...

All right.

I need to be alone, so...

Can ya pick me up a sandwich,

or something?

I'm f***ing starving.

All right, great.

Yeah.

Harvey seems

like he's losing it.

Yeah.

I got it.

I got it!

I got it!

It's "e"! It's f***ing "e"!

Okay, okay, okay.

Eliminate those.

Boo-yah!

Do you see that?

Yup.

Don't brake, don't brake.

Mick, please drive.

Drive.

All right.

Holy sh*t.

You think Tina reported

our little break-in?

It's fine, it'll blow over.

Just... let's go get

Harvey his food.

Where's Harvey's Van?

Doubt he'd leave.

By the smell of him,

he hasn't left this

place in two days.

Can you...

Yes.

Honey, we're home!

Harvey?

We brought you some barbecue.

Where you at?

Harvey?

Whoa!

He split.

What?

He split.

No.

No, no, no.

Not gonna let him

get away with this.

He's gonna take

the whole reward.

Oh, god.

I knew he'd do

something like this.

God damn it.

Oh, Mick.

What a jerk.

Sh*t.

He's such a jerk.

No, no, no.

It's gonna be fine.

Something in these pages.

He said if he could find, uh,

one more of these symbols...

Uh-huh.

...He could cut that list

down to...

Like a handful, right?

Right?

Yeah, right, right.

Baby, look.

He did it.

He found it.

He figured it out.

Holy sh*t.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay. Okay.

This...

Okay,

I've got a page here with

all the names and

addresses crossed off.

I got one more.

Oh, good.

One... that's

one, two, three.

Okay, hold on.

Here's one

not crossed off. Uh...

Gimme that.

I've got one, too.

Ah!

Here's one crossed off.

What do you got?

How many is that?

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight... nine.

All right.

Okay.

Okay, baby. Yeah, all right.

We're not looking

for the zodiac now.

Here.

Now...

Thank you.

We're going after Harvey.

You're sure

you're up for this?

Oh, hell, yeah.

Okay.

Jesus.

Sh*t.

What is it?

I don't know.

Ugh,

look for some shotgun shells

for that thing, okay, hon?

Okay, I got it. Go.

Hey, Mick, I found some!

Great.

Mick!

Mick, Harvey just took off!

Get down here!

Hang on.

Zoe.

Honey, he's getting away!

Sh*t.

Damn it!

Zoe!

Jesus!

Zoe!

Mick?

Zoe.

Okay, listen to me. Harvey...

No, no, listen to me.

I can see Harvey's Van

right in front of me, okay?

I love you.

Just come get me. Bye!

No, no, no, Harvey's dead!

F***!

Where are the goddamn keys?

Come on.

Hey, it's Zoe.

Leave a...

Damn it.

Come on, Zoe. Pick up.

Hey, it's Zoe.

Leave a message.

Damn it!

Come on.

Come on. Where are you?

Sh*t.

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Damn it.

911.

State your emergency.

My wife's been abducted.

What is your name, sir,

and what is your location?

Yeah, I'm Mick Bradley.

I'm at 1228 cherry street.

A man is dead.

Sir, calm down.

There's a unit on its way.

Okay, okay.

Harvey!

Don't move!

What are you doing, man?

Harvey,

don't play games with me...

I got a big-ass gun, Harvey,

and I'm not afraid to use it.

Come on!

Laurel. Laurel.

Zoe?

This is the zodiac speaking.

I have your wife.

She doesn't have to die.

You listen to me.

Don't you f***ing

touch her, I'll...

You'll what?

You do not have control here.

The police do.

The police are, what?

On their way?

Oh, then I guess she's

going to have to die.

No, no. Don't, don't, don't.

They don't know anything.

And?

And I have the film reel.

Good.

Well, then perhaps

there is hope for her yet.

Zoe, is it?

Please, don't.

I assume that as you

have made it this far,

you know how to find me.

You must be very proud.

F*** you.

After all these years,

after all

the police departments

and the FBI

profilers and programmers,

all looking for me,

they all come up empty.

But you, you found me.

Now, go figure.

Why?

Well, you have my films.

Now, I quit.

Cold Turkey. For 40 years.

You have no idea

the monumental

effort that that took.

But I got away scot-free.

Except for Ben, of course.

He got close.

Him I had to follow.

I followed him

all the way

from San Francisco.

I was gonna kill him,

but I grew to like it here.

Now,

that fat-ass woman,

she sold my locker.

I missed two payments.

My memory ain't

what it used to be.

Too bad.

I wanna tell you something.

This is my story.

You're not gonna

destroy my legend.

I left you a way out

if you're brave enough to try.

You know,

they herded a lot

of young animals

through here on

their last journey.

And they designed this place

to ease their anxiety

as they herded

them to the slaughter.

I don't think it's gonna have

the same effect on you.

It's gonna hurt,

but what can I say?

Enjoy.

Oh, your husband's on his way.

I'm gonna kill him first.

No!

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