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- A few questions. You lived in Cologne.

All over Germany.

My father was a major in the army

and we must've lived on

all the Belgian bases.

Right. But between 2011 and 2013

you were in Cologne.

Oh, from memory...

Except for a few months for

a workshop in LA, yes. I think so.

- Do you know which months?

- My secretary can look it up.

Is there a particular reason

why it is important?

- Well, you're on a list.

- Oh. What an honour.

Freddy? Come here.

Yes?

I've received the lab report

for an urgent job.

That's quick.

I made an impression.

Lab requests always go via me, Freddy.

You know that.

You can't order your own tests.

The labs can hardly keep up as it is.

- Yeah, OK.

- No, it's not OK.

Rina van Lierde is Vice's case now.

Full stop.

What does the test say?

Rina van Lierde's hair was dyed

with Party Hair,

a temporary, easy-to-remove spray

or mousse.

Right. Something anyone can use.

Freddy, analysis of the hairs themselves

indicates regular use of pills and coke.

So I think our Miss Party Hair was

off her face for a while.

Vice thinks so too. It's not the first

time she's disappeared for a few days.

Or that she's been picked up

under the influence.

- What about what she remembers?

- Could be autosuggestion.

You get that with binge drinking

and black-outs,

gaps in the brain are filled with

the first information that comes along.

- Via the media, Facebook, Twitter.

- Or memories that come back.

Or is that too simple for profilers?

PROZAC:

It's nice you asked him.

He's very good at what he does.

- It's not too soon?

- No.

It's not. He says

he has everything under control.

As long as Freddy doesn't keep

having a go at him.

Can't you just tell Freddy?

Tell him Mulder's recovering from

serious depression?

Freddy doesn't know what's going on in his

own head. And he's wasting time on a lead.

- Let me guess. A female lead?

- Yes. And his...

His gut feeling insists this woman has

something to do with our case

but I'm afraid this is

a feeling from below his gut.

Not just here but in Cologne too all six

were going somewhere at night alone.

On foot or by bike.

From a bar, a nightclub, a bar,

a nightshift.

After an argument with her boyfriend.

Because it's an organised perpetrator, we

can assume he calmly watches his victims

until the right moment occurs to strike.

The physical murder doesn't satisfy him.

He dumps the bodies

but he keeps the heads.

So it's about the heads for him.

And his motives are sexual.

He wants to reconstruct something,

probably a traumatic event from the past.

And he needs those heads for that.

Excuse me, excuse me.

Those heads don't look like each other.

In your theory those heads should

resemble someone from his past, eh?

Yes, you've got a point but...

a perpetrator is creative and

a head is easy to alter. Make-up, wigs.

Dye hair. Dye hair, eh?

- We have to go by victims we're sure about.

- OK.

Right. That's why we are going to

dig deep into these men's past. OK?

School, work, hobbies, social media.

Mulder will give you the full checklist.

It's important you fill in the questions

in a uniform way

so the computer can process them.

Well, lads. We're no longer needed.

The computer's going to solve it.

Stop having a go at Mulder.

Just pointing out the weak points of

this profiling hocus-pocus.

It's not hocus-pocus.

He tries to predict behaviour.

Behaviour can't be predicted.

Behaviour is very predictable.

Especially yours.

Rina is a case for Vice,

we're investigating the past of

those men from Cologne.

Yeah, yeah. But sticking to

one perpetrator profile is never good.

You can end up heading nowhere.

It's up to you if you don't believe in

profiling. Moan about it in the bar.

But here in my department

we are now following Mulder's method.

- Your department?

- Yes.

So why are you letting him take charge?

Other countries are involved. It's logical

someone from Europol coordinates it.

- Why are you letting him take charge?

- I'm still in charge.

And I'm saying stop it. Stop the moaning.

And no going solo. Stop it.

You work as part of the team or

you don't work here. Understand?

- Understand?

- Yeah, yeah.

Thank you.

Hi. Here you go.

- Seen any movement?

- No. Only from the meat in your wrap.

- Oops, heads-up.

- Goddammit.

They can smell it when we start eating.

Oscar 26 to dispatch. Cody is leaving,

we're following. Beta team stand by.

- Take that.

- Go, go, go. Benji?

What the f***?

Sir?

Sir?

The American embassy doesn't like

you shadowing Mr Cody.

Shadowing? We just happened to be

in his vicinity regularly.

Whatever.

It wasn't inconspicuous enough.

We never obstructed

Mr Cody's freedom of movement.

I should hope not.

You must realise, Mr Vincke,

in cases in which diplomats are involved,

especially American diplomats,

political pressure is considerable.

The ambassador himself protested

against the unwarranted harassment of

an American citizen.

So I'm asking you

how serious is your suspicion of him?

We're at the start of our investigation,

as you know,

but he is one of the eleven

who moved here from Cologne.

Moving here isn't yet a crime.

Certainly not it you leave Germany.

It's called good taste.

Let me talk to him.

Mr Cody seemed to be a reasonable man

who appreciated we had a job to do.

As I understand it, it was at Mr Cody's

request that the ambassador stepped in.

I'm sorry, Vincke.

Right.

Hi.

Hi.

There you go.

These are from a car park on the square

and a side road.

- You'll go straight to heaven.

- Or straight to jail.

- Him. He's acting suspiciously.

- So are you.

It's 1 o'clock at night.

- Look, you come out here.

- Yes, so I see. In great form.

There, that's him.

He looks around a bit and then leaves

in the same direction as you. Here.

Did you notice that man in there?

- I'm going to circulate his photo.

- No, it's no one.

What d'you mean, it's no one?

So you know him?

Is he a friend?

An ex?

Is he one of your patients?

What is he being treated for?

Depression? Addiction? Tell me.

Anxiety.

He...

He's good-looking, is very intelligent,

is from a wealthy family.

He has everything going for him.

But sometimes he becomes extremely anxious

and then he takes all kinds of things.

And... that's why he's staying

at our clinic.

And he's allowed out on the town

in the evening, just like that?

The aim of the therapy is

to help people lead a normal life again,

not lock them up for the rest of

their life, doing sudokus.

- What's his name?

- No.

- What's his name?

- No.

Involving him in such a gruesome case

won't... won't do him any good at all.

His anxiety is under control,

his medication sorted out.

- He was there that evening.

- Yes.

He followed you. He may have been the one

who spiked your drink.

- Don't be stupid.

- Being concerned isn't stupid.

Patrick is staying in one of

the patient rooms on the ground floor.

Thanks.

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