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and I don't mean to downplay

what you're going through here.

It's just that it could be spam.

It could be one of your stupid friends.

It had the same symbol

right there from that musician!

Why didn't you tell me?

Why didn't I tell you?

That's classified information.

Listen, I can't tell you everything,

all right?

There's this crazy little fuzzy line

between being your father

and being in charge of an investigation,

not to mention your

soon-to-be chosen prof-

Don't give me that look.

Your mother gave me that look.

You piss her off too?

Quite regularly.

What I wouldn't give

for one of her looks right now.

Oh, Fi.

She would be so proud of you,

all this nosing around.

Coming up on the anniversary.

Is that right?

It comes up so quick every year.

Oh, come on, Dad.

There's a lot of stress in the office,

in case you hadn't noticed.

Get your team to look at this, please.

I will. I promise.

Just promise me you're gonna

stay away from this case.

- Promise.

- Okay, go.

Go, go, go already.

I told you she'd be a heartbreaker.

Yeah, you did say something about that.

Imagine if it was yours.

Have forensics examine this

hard drive, will you, please?

We, uh, we just got a call.

Looks like we got another one.

Photo studio downtown.

Young woman, tortured, burned?

Jesus, you're good.

How the f*** did you get that?

Hello! Are you coming out

with us tonight?

God!

You know, your door was open again.

You got to get that fixed.

Yeah, I know.

I'm kind of in the middle

of something right now.

Okay, fun

or whatever the hell you're doing:

it's your choice.

Oh, God, it's gone viral already.

Look, I'm sorry.

I'm in tonight, but thanks anyway.

All right, okay. Suit yourself.

But will you just promise me

you'll lock your door this time?

Yes, I'll lock the door.

Bye.

Okay.

Bye.

Hello?

Hello?

Anybody there?

Can I help you?

I'm sorry.

I tried the office, but no one answered.

I was just leaving.

Wait.

You're trespassing.

I could call the cops, you know.

But you, uh...

you look like maybe you like to party.

Excuse me.

You smell good.

Like apples.

I like apples.

Yeah?

Yeah.

How do you like them apples?

Huh.

The Barometer of Morality.

Hmm.

I see 6941.704.

Oh, God.

Oh, Paul, God damn it!

A little on edge?

God, a little.

Hey, so are you going

to South Bat tonight or what?

I can't. I'm buried.

Bummer.

All right, I got to go find

my Environmental Economy texts.

Okay.

Don't study too much, okay?

Do you need to unwind a little?

You want to make out?

No!

Hey, I would like to check these out.

Hmm, Free Choice Psychology,

Pathology of Irrational Choices,

and Choices:
The Barometer of Morality.

All right.

Hmm.

These aren't ours.

Excuse me?

Yeah, they're not showing up

in the system.

Next.

Sorry, guys.

I'd prefer more of a tropical landscape,

to be honest with you.

I'm not really sure.

Brian.

Fi, what's up?

Can you check this out for me?

Yeah, sure. Just give me a second.

Sorry, guys. Closing time.

Got to go. Sorry.

- Sorry, guys.

- Sorry.

- Thank you.

- See you.

I'll help you with the next one.

Peace. See you, man.

Yeah, come on in.

Take a seat.

Well, what I can tell you is,

is that we have

seven binary identifiers,

a constant width module,

and an interweaving matrix.

- English.

- It's barcode.

Yeah, I kind of got that far myself.

Can you look it up?

Yes, I can look it up.

Just give me one second here.

That's weird.

No.

Um...

It's Codabar.

This isn't current barcode.

Meaning?

Meaning it's, like,

old linear code used in libraries

way before the digital age.

Nobody uses this anymore.

Where did you get these books?

Can you trace it?

I can try.

Really don't have

much to work with here.

Got nothing here.

Are you sure?

Yep.

The last four numbers

look like the Dewey decimal numbers.

Holy sh*t.

Who doesn't love a girl who

knows the Dewey decimal system?

Do you think the other numbers

are a branch code, a city,

a state, or something?

Maybe.

That's not a bad idea.

What's that number?

Milburn.

That's, like, a half hour from here.

Yeah. Let's see.

The only problem is, there are

no libraries in Milburn.

Well, maybe it's a private school,

an old folks' home,

or something else that has a library.

I mean, it's a possibility.

But I'm telling you,

the only public institution I see here

is Milburn Juvenile Detention,

and that's about it.

And it closed in 2000.

Where the hell did you get

these books from again?

Look up why they closed.

Whoa, holy sh*t.

"After extensive inquiries,

"charges were never filed

as the evidence was considered

purely circumstantial. "

Jesus.

Does that look circumstantial to you?

Absolutely not.

The official story: "The Milburn guards

were cleared of all charges. "

But they closed the place anyway.

Yep.

These books are from there.

He's from there.

Are you talking about Mr. Choose-it?

How the hell do you know that, Fi?

I just know.

Brian, thank you.

So far, the pattern is no pattern.

Hundred miles apart, male, female,

different jobs, lifestyles.

The latest DNA check on

the blood tells us what, Alice?

Nothing matches the database so far.

But the maze for Jenna Marlowe

was drawn in Simon Campbell's blood.

He appeared to know all of them,

or at least knew facts about them.

That simply tells us

that he stalked them.

Well, we got to start thinking

about this in a whole new light,

a different angle,

different possibilities.

Maybe the victim isn't the target.

Case in point, young Sara.

What if she's the target

instead of her father?

She brings the killer to the family.

She feels responsible.

She was forced to kill her own father

in front of her mother and brother.

I'm simply suggesting

that we examine this from-

and by the way, when I say "we,"

I'm of course referring to those of us

involved in official police business.

It is my business.

He keeps making it my business.

He just dropped these off

while I was in the library.

We just tracked the same thing

a few hours ago,

the same book, in fact.

Yeah, but the real clue

is more where they came from,

not what's in them.

Fi, this is dangerous.

What are you doing

holding on to this stuff?

If he wanted to hurt me,

he would have already.

Can't you see that he wants me

personally involved?

He wants me to find out about him,

probably to publicize his story.

Okay, hold it a second.

If he wants a story on the front page,

he's got a dozen or so

working writers here in town.

Hell, the Times is less

than a hundred miles away.

No offense, but why you?

Look, whatever the reason is,

he chose me.

What have you got?

These books are from Milburn

Juvenile Detention Center.

These barcodes here prove that.

They're actually Codabar,

an old system that they used

back in the '70s.

Milburn closed down

more than eight years ago.

These books came from there,

so he came from there.

Okay, good work.

We'll check it out.

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