Het Tweede Gelaat Page #7

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Maybe it was never there.

Of course it was.

I'm going to do something else

with my life, Eric.

It's over.

- Patrick, I have to let you go.

- No.

- Yes.

- No.

- Yes.

- No.

Patrick...

do you understand?

Oh. Is everything OK?

Hey, Patrick.

What's the matter?

What's the matter? I'm here for you.

Suzy, not now.

Rina here, you know

what you have to do, after the beep.

Sorry, Freddy, the investigating judge

thinks you should wait 24 hours too.

So Hoybergs fired the gun like this?

Yes, but then there should be

more blood on the sleeve.

Here, look.

Traces of blood everywhere.

- But not here. See?

- So?

- May I? Yeah?

- Yes.

Only this can explain

the lack of blood on that sleeve.

So someone held his hand?

The hair dye. Identical to

the sample brought in earlier.

- From Rina Van Lierde?

- Yes.

- And the cause of death?

- In the case of the three I've examined,

trauma caused by a blunt object,

a different murder weapon each time.

But almost certainly a hammer each time.

HAMMER:

- Reminds me of Freddy.

- Which Freddy?

- Which Freddy? Freddy Verstuyft.

- No one called Freddy works here.

I get it. Freddy, who no longer

works here, sent me an email

about one Patrick Manteau.

And called him the man with the hammer.

Here, and I replied...

Who is Patrick Manteau?

And he...

THE MAN WITH THE HAMMER

Was that Patrick there?

At that rehab centre?

You said we had to ignore

orders from Verstuyft.

So you didn't check it?

He wasn't there. But I did dig deeper.

And Patrick Manteau was at

a semi-open hospital in Limburg.

Right by the German border and

only 25km from Wahner Heide.

- At the time when those women disappeared?

- I'm checking that now.

On one of the evenings he was stopped

by traffic police for reckless driving.

He tested positive for cocaine and

his passenger took over the driving.

- A woman?

- It doesn't say.

But it was 6km from the spot where one of

those women disappeared that evening.

And when I tell you

to ignore Verstuyft's orders, Cassiers,

- I mean ignore Verstuyft's orders.

- Yeah...

But well done.

Open the door.

The big Verstuyft.

When it comes to his mouth anyway.

I would've paid to put you in handcuffs.

And now look.

Maybe it's a good moment

to buy a lottery ticket too.

That'd be great.

Then you can retire, eh?

A disaster for your local bar but

a blessing for the police and society.

Freddy.

Sorry, Chief, we can't keep

the investigating judge waiting.

- That suicide was staged.

- What did you say?

And we have good reason to think

it was that Patrick Manteau.

F***, I knew it.

You should've listened to me.

We now think the guy has got Rina.

- No, no, no. He can't have.

- We don't know where she is, Freddy.

She's not at home, not at her work.

Nowhere.

Where can she be, Freddy?

We found her colleague, Suzanne,

dead in his room.

Where can Rina be, Freddy?

Where?

Four texts to Verstuyft and

her last two calls are to Patrick.

- Is his picture being circulated?

- We need to redo the perpetrator profile.

No, I've had enough of perpetrator

profiles. Now I just want a perpetrator.

A perpetrator!

Patrick, I have to let you go.

It's over.

Patrick. Patrick.

I wanted to reassure you

but we haven't got him. You're not safe.

I'll try again later. I have to go and

see the investigating judge in a moment.

Vincke has been petty and

reported me for... for us...

Think of me.

- Look at the older voicemails. Here.

- Yeah.

- Here, 17 seconds. That's from Patrick.

- Yes.

Rina. I want to see you.

Where are you?

Rina?

Rina, I'm already there.

That's the carillon.

He's near the cathedral.

- In Moriaanstraat.

- Car?

On foot is faster. Ask for intervention.

No sirens, we don't want to scare him off.

OK.

Team Bravo to all channels.

SWAT intervention requested

in Moriaanstraat, number 26.

Suspect is Patrick Manteau.

May be armed.

May be holding a woman hostage.

Goddammit, Verstuyft.

Car back. If he's here

we don't want him to panic.

- What about Rina?

- Cars back. Set up a perimeter.

No one goes in.

We wait here for an intervention team.

Sh*t.

- Verstuyft is here.

- How the hell can he be?

He went inside via a trapdoor

in the street behind us.

Wait here.

- Dammit, Cassiers.

- Sorry.

- Doesn't anyone follow orders anymore?

- You can't go alone.

F***ing hell!

Rina? Rina? Rina?

Are you OK? Are you OK? Listen to me.

Are you OK? Eh?

It's me. Hey, hey, hey.

It's OK, it's OK.

OK.

- Freddy?

- Clear.

Goddammit. Stay here.

People are on their way. OK?

F***.

Stop! Stay there!

Where's Freddy?

Cassiers, call an ambulance

and lie on her to warm her up.

Freddy. Freddy, don't.

The intervention team are on their way.

F***!

Hey, take it easy, take it easy.

Sir? Are you OK? Are you hurt?

Sir?

Stop!

Stay where you are.

Don't move.

Stay where you are.

Stay where you are.

Police. Get back.

- Are you alright?

- Yes.

- OK.

- Yeah.

Rina.

Don't let me go.

Rina.

- Are you hurt? Should I take a look?

- I'm OK, I'm OK. It's fine.

Rina.

I need to explain something, Chief.

The reason I've let Verstuyft

do as he likes lately is because...

Well, he knows something about me that...

Not the incident with Dirty Dave,

Cassiers? Everyone knows that.

Where is the key?

Has the lab taken stuff already?

No, everything is as it was.

- Where are they?

- They said it was OK.

They didn't even want to go to hospital.

The policeman said he'd take care of her.

Get them to look out for his car.

Use the traffic cameras to find him.

Now, Cassiers.

Why hasn't he been located? There are

thousands of cameras in the city.

She manipulated us. She knows

how profilers work and we fell for it.

We found her semi-naked and

groggy from drugs in Doel.

Suppose she was caught

burying those bodies,

the cleverest thing to do is

pretend to be a victim too, of course.

You're caught so you go and

hang around naked 50km away.

- Yes.

- It wouldn't occur to me to do that.

- Did Patrick say anything else?

- All kinds of stuff. He just raged on.

Did he say why?

I wasn't really listening.

Too busy not freezing.

Yes? Through the old tunnel

to Linkeroever.

Freddy, I'm going away for a while.

Why don't you come too?

Exhibiting those heads? She knew the

hammer injuries would lead us to Patrick.

When did those heads appear?

When we no longer had any other suspects.

So she sacrificed Patrick.

- Patrick was...

- Patrick is in the past.

Patrick bashed that woman's head in.

And that's an end to it.

Anxiety psychosis.

You saw for yourself. He's an animal

if he doesn't take his pills.

But who controls his pills?

- Yes, there, there.

- F***.

- Goddammit, Rina. What have you done?

- Patrick hit them.

As for who held his hand,

you can't prove anything...

The freezer. The freezer wasn't locked.

It's over now, Rina.

It's over.

No.

It's starting now.

Dammit, Freddy.

Freddy!

Freddy.

Freddy.

It's me, Freddy. I...

I... Sorry, pal.

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