Suspect Zero Page #10

Her horrified SCREAM fills the woods...

51 INT. MACKELWAY'S APARTMENT - BEDROOM - RESUMING 51

Mackelway STARES out the window; seems like he just HEARD that

scream. Of course, that'd be impossible. He looks to that map.

His PHONE RINGS. He eyes it, unsurprised...

CUT TO:

52 EXT. WOODS OUTSIDE SLEEPER, MO. - LATER 52

Law enforcement VEHICLES surround the site. COPS, Grieves,

CORONER'S GUYS taking pictures. Loretta is sitting on the back

of an ambulance, being tended to.

A COMPOSITE ARTIST sits beside her, trying.

LORETTA:

I don't think the eyes are right.

COMPOSITE ARTIST

Narrower?

LORETTA:

No, they were... I don't really know.

Composite Artist keeps trying, but his attempt doesn't look

anything like the face of O'Ryan.

Charlton, meanwhile, stands over the body, mind racing.

A Missouri Highway Patrol car pulls up. Mackelway steps out of

it. We follow him as he takes in the scene.

A FLASHBULB illuminates Starkey's CHEST; is got a zero-with-

a-slash-through-it. But Mackelway hasn't seen the guy's face

yet.

MACKELWAY:

Sir?

(Charlton turns)

We got an i.d. yet?

CHARLTON:

Mmm-hmm.

(Mackelway waits)

Might wanna find yourself a fender.

You're gonna need to sit down.

(Mackelway's still waiting)

It's Virgil Ray Starkey.

Mackelway pales.

We stay on him for a moment as it registers. The man he

caught, and then lost, has killed again. No. God, no.

MACKELWAY:

(struggling for composure:)

Starkey did this?

CHARLTON:

No. Starkey's the one on the ground.

Mackelway pauses, thinks he must've heard wrong. But he turns

toward the face, as ANOTHER FLASHBULB illuminates it, searing

the image into the darkness. Starkey. Dead. His eyelids ripped

away.

Mackelway stares, stunned. Can't f***ing believe it.

MACKELWAY:

(breathless)

My God...

It's like looking at a ghost - a spectre that's been haunting

him, dead now... Mackelway pulls out his Minox, starts

photographing, moving in on those LIDLESS EYES...

GRIEVES:

Gonna make a wallet-size of that one?

CHARLTON:

Give him a break, Grieves.

Mackelway doesn't comment. Just keeps snapping shots...

CUT TO:

53 INT. FBI OFFICE - MACKELWAY'S CUBICLE - MORNING 53

The number of HAVE YOU SEEN ME's has now grown, quite a bit.

45 PAGES sit stacked on Mackelway's desk. 45 victims. He grabs

the stack, rises.

Heading for the Conference Room, he nearly bumps into Katie,

the Receptionist, rounding a corner.

MACKELWAY:

Scuse me.

She smiles. He carries the HAVE YOU SEEN ME's into:

54 INT. FBI OFFICE - CONFERENCE ROOM - CONTINUING 54

A room has been dedicated solely to those three murders. On an

erasure board are the words: The "O'Ryan" Room.

On one wall is the MAP Mackelway took from Hope House: over a

thousand CITIES circled by O'Ryan himself.

Mackelway puts down the stack of HAVE YOU SEEN ME's. Picks up

a box of YELLOW STICK-PINS, affixing them to the map - one for

every faxed face.

Here's "Jason Corey, Age 14." Last seen in "Riverside, Ca." on

"10-16-99."

Sure enough, O'Ryan had circled "Riverside, Ca." on this map.

Next to it he'd written "10-16."

Mackelway sticks a yellow pin in Riverside.

Next, the fax concerning "Anna Casitas, Age 22." Last Seen?

"Macon, Ga." on "5-6-00."

Of course, O'Ryan had circled "Macon" too. Beside it he'd

written "5-6." So Macon gets a yellow pin.

Mackelway continues, as:

FRAN (O.S.)

Got nothing on the last fax.

Mackelway turns. In comes Fran.

FRAN (CONT'D)

Came from a business center at a Mariott

in Dallas. Nobody saw who sent it.

Mackelway nods. Then they both turn... Charlton enters the

room.

CHARLTON:

Whadda we know about the map?

MACKELWAY:

It matches the faxes, Sir. Almost

perfectly.

Charlton approaches the map: 1,242 cities, circled in red.

Mackelway continues with the yellow pins: one for every HAVE

YOU SEEN ME? (45 of them so far.)

Charlton eyes the stack. 45 HAVE YOU SEEN ME's... Then the

map:
1,242 cities. Each with a DATE beside it.

CHARLTON:

Why's Greenville in blue?

(Mackelway has put a yellow pin beside a dozen cities... but

tiny Greenville, Texas has a BLUE PIN beside it.)

MACKELWAY:

Only city where the date on the fax and

the date on the map didn't correspond.

He pulls out a fax from the stack: a Korean boy named "Steven

Kim. Age 16. Last Seen: Greenville, Tx. Date of Disappearance:

8-7-98."

MACKELWAY (CONT'D)

Fax lists the date of disappearance as

August 7. On the map he's written "10-

26."

The DATE on O'Ryan's map reads "10-26" beside Greenville, Tx.

So Greenville gets the only blue pin on this map.

Charlton notes today's date: October 17...

CHARLTON:

Any of these bodies been recovered?

MACKELWAY:

Two so far. Female, disappeared from

Dayton, Ohio on April 12. And a male,

Trenton, New Jersey, January 5th.

On the MAP, Dayton's got "4/12" written beside it. Trenton has

"1/5." Both have yellow pins in them.

MACKELWAY (CONT'D)

But both bodies were found over a

thousand miles from where they'd last

been seen. One in Montana, the other in

Oregon. Got autopsy reports on both.

Charlton looks to the table, where AUTOPSY REPORTS and AUTOPSY

PHOTOS sit - two victims we've never seen before.

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