Deja Vu

Can't believe it. They're right on time.

Let's get these boys to their party.

Mama!

It's 10:
48

on Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras.

Now let's go back in time to 1964.

The Beach Boys on 105.3 FM,

the heart of New Orleans.

Okay. Take it out wide.

Give the pig some room.

My daughter's on that ferry.

Please. Please.

Oh, God, my daughter!

Do the other side?

ATF New Orleans, Agent Donnelly.

Listen, call New Orleans PD.

I want all surveillance

from the Algiers dock.

Then call City Transit.

I want

the Crescent City Bridge surveillance,

westbound between 10:00 and 11:00.

All right, got it.

Hey. Seen an ATF agent around here?

Yeah, he went down below.

How do I get there?

The south side of the bridge.

You Agent Minuti?

Larry Minuti, ATF?

No, Larry's my partner.

I'm Doug Carlin.

Paul Pryzwarra, FBI.

- How you doing?

- Where's Minuti?

On vacation.

Not anymore. We're calling in

half the region on this one.

You can reach him?

I tried.

He's not picking up his phone.

Well, try harder. It's important.

Obviously.

What are you looking for?

Anything that doesn't belong.

You want to give me a spot?

Yeah.

ANFO.

Ammonium nitrate, water-soluble.

Fuel oil would have burned off

during the blast.

Between the river and the rain,

if ANFO was used,

the only place you'd find it would be...

Underneath this bridge.

That's right.

We can't rule out an accident

at this point.

- It's not officially a crime scene yet.

- Here's a thought.

Why don't we double the perimeter

so we don't have wall-to-wall trailers

down there?

No, we're gonna need

all our manpower

for evidence control

and witness processing.

Now, we need to keep it tight

until we can determine

that it is a crime investigation.

It is a crime investigation.

Got a piece of electric blasting cap

and a strand

of what appears to be leg wire.

About a million of those blue particles

washed up on the Algiers side.

It's probably from

a plastic container or a barrel.

ANFO?

Most likely.

There was post-blast residue

under the Crescent City Bridge.

The insulation on the leg wire

will inform us

of who the manufacturer

of the blasting cap is.

Then we go after

the switching mechanism

and the bomb's power source.

We probably don't need to wait for

the lab to tell us what we already know,

that this is an explosive and a trigger.

And you are?

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Doug Carlin, ATF.

- Who's in charge?

- We're working on that now.

Gentlemen, please.

Ed Elkins. I'm in charge.

- Oh, good, good, good.

- Yeah.

You're in charge, then? Okay.

First things first.

Where's the coffeepot?

Ed?

Come on, this is a police investigation,

right? Operation.

We gotta have a coffeepot.

Yeah, you'll find it in the back.

- Back there?

- Yeah.

He is in charge.

Thank you, gentlemen.

See anything?

Traffic.

Hit rewind for me.

Hey, did Larry call?

Still not answering his cell.

We left another message.

All right.

- Say, that girl ever get ahold of you?

- What girl?

You know, sexy voice, asked if

you were tall, dark and handsome.

I gave her two out of three.

Two out of three. That's very good.

Hit play.

Thank you.

Hey, Larry, this is Doug.

How you doing?

Listen, I know you're maybe still

pissed off at me,

but you need to

get your behind down here, all right?

- Doug.

- Yeah?

Doug, Orleans Parish on line one.

It's Sheriff Reed.

They pulled a body out of the water,

and they want a profile.

All right,

tell him they don't need a profile.

- Just tell him to bag it. I'll call him back.

- Okay, got it.

Put this on a candy wrapper?

It's all I had.

Cutting back, huh?

Hold it right there.

Yeah, this is ATF Agent Doug Carlin

returning your call.

My cell number is 504-555-0130.

What's that?

Looks like a dude on a bike.

Run it forward a little bit.

Stop right there.

What is he doing?

Going to the bathroom?

Run it forward, run it forward.

- What time does it say?

- 10:
47.

- That's before the explosion, isn't it?

- Right before.

Can I have

your attention, please?

Thanks very much for coming.

I'm Jack McCready, special agent

in charge of this investigation.

First, let me say our hearts go out

to all of those affected by this tragedy.

Early estimates

place the number of casualties

at 543 men, women and children.

Now, Lord knows this city has seen

its share of pain,

but unlike Katrina,

this disaster was not an act of nature.

After careful review of evidence

retrieved at the scene,

we have concluded

this was a deliberate act of terrorism,

and the President concurs

with our assessment.

On our end,

we have to ask for your patience,

as the investigation will take time.

It's a unique and complicated

crime scene.

There's no baggage checks.

There's no flight data recorder.

There are maximum casualties,

and most of the evidence

is under 100 feet of muddy water.

There are no shortcuts.

- Kevin, where's Doug?

- You just missed him.

- Well, his car's still here.

- Took the streetcar.

- What? Streetcar?

- Hey, don't look at me.

It's part of his process.

He says it helps him think.

Sheriff Reed.

How you doing?

It's Doug Carlin returning your call.

Hey, Doug. I know you got

your hands full right now.

Yeah, that's okay.

What do you got for me, Bob?

Well, a couple of kids found a woman

face down in the waters

off Algiers Point.

She was burned over 30% of her body.

Right, well, you're gonna see

a lot of that over the next few weeks.

We've just set up ECC.

Just have Crime Scene bag it for us.

Well, we already done that.

The body's at the ME's right now.

Crime Scene's already been there?

Yeah, they've been and gone.

Well, exactly what time

did this woman wash up on shore?

Kid called it in at 10:42 a.m.

You mean 11:
42, don't you?

No, I mean 10:
42.

I got the sheet right in front of me,

and I got my reading glasses on.

Immediately evident is the

focal charring of the limbs and torso.

Anterior face, neck and chest

are intact,

though swollen

from apparent immersion in water.

Hold her hand for me, will you?

Right here.

There we go.

Each digit of the right hand

has been severed

between the middle

and distal phalanges. Thanks.

Angle of shearing indicates

a single sharp-force trauma,

possibly caused by shrapnel.

No. No,

it's too even to be shrapnel trauma.

Posterior charring

gives off a strong odor,

suggesting perimortem immersion

in burning fuel.

Diesel.

- Accelerant, maybe?

- I don't know.

If she was that close to the bomb,

she probably wouldn't be

laying here now.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

You got a UV gun?

Yeah, on the table behind you.

- You see that?

- Duct tape.

What's that stippling? You see that?

Adhesive probably retained

some substance against the water.

Yeah.

Yeah, go ahead.

I ran down those MPRs for you.

A Claire Kuchever

was reported missing this morning.

Supposed to pick up her father

from the airport, pulled a no-show.

Okay.

All right, Phil,

I want you to do a full autopsy.

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