The Glimmer Man Page #4

...and then I try to draw

on the student's inner life.

It's about having them find the moment.

A moment without-

I've got to hurry back to the nineties now.

Could you just give me his name?

Christopher Maynard.

- We're moving fast on this.

- I know.

Where's our warrant?

Wait, give me a minute.

What's goin' on?

- You didn't hear?

- No, I didn't.

We got a make on the killer.

Name and address.

We're just waitin' for the warrants.

Thank you so much for tellin' me.

Well, I figured Campbell told you.

Yes, get me Research.

Would you do me a favor

and check if there's...

...a Catholic Church within a nine-block

radius of 929 Barrow Street?

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.

I had this feeling I was gonna die today!

Christopher.

This isn't gonna work, buddy.

Here in a church...

...with the priest?

I don't want to be hurting people.

I don't like to.

Could I please speak with the priest?

Could I have your permission

to please speak with the Father a minute?

I know you don't want to hurt him.

Father...

...come here, please.

Right away.

Get out of here.

Are they searching for me?

Yes, sir, they are.

How did you know I'd be here?

Well, I just took a lucky guess.

It's the closest church to your home.

You're the new cop they brought in, right?

Yes, sir, I am. How'd you know?

I keep track of these things.

It's part of my job.

So, you know...

...you killed my ex-wife, don't you?

I want you to know I didn't hurt her.

You didn't?

I only kill who I was told to kill,

who I had to kill.

The Roslovs?

The Dunleavys?

Did you kill them?

I was spared them.

Someone else was called.

Who was given the call, Christopher?

There's too much pain here.

I gotta go now.

Listen to me.

You, stay!

Listen to me.

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.

My last confession...

- ... was six months ago.

- Christopher, please...

Then you help me.

- You help me.

- I can't do that.

I am in hell! I am in hell!

Listen to me. Listen to me.

Do it now or I will kill you! You believe it?

- One... two...

- This is God's house.

- Don't make me do this.

- Please.

- Don't!

- Three!

This is Maynard's gun. Book it for me.

This is bad, Jack. This is real bad, man.

I can't win for losin', man.

I tried so hard not to let this happen.

We tossed his house, we found all kinds

of sh*t:
barbed wire, spikes...

- He was definitely our guy.

- Sh*t.

What the f*** are you doin' here?

Well, I just thought

that he wouldn't be home...

...maybe I'd find him at the church.

So, you came to blow him away?

No sir, he drew on me, tried to kill me.

I had no choice.

No choice? The priest told me

you let him go. Said he was calm.

We'll never know, will we?

It's just like DeMarco in New York.

You come out alone... the suspect is dead.

Captain, we had a positive ID on-

Shut the f*** up!

I don't want freelance cops working

for me!

I want you... and you...

...Internal Affairs, tomorrow morning.

Don't be late.

Not so fast. We're sendin' for the poly.

So, what'd you tell him?

Everything. The prints, the bullshit past,

the whole nine.

You didn't leave me any choice, Jack.

Hey, that's what friends are for, right?

I'll start by asking you

a few test questions...

...just to establish a base line.

Please answer yes to both questions.

- Are you Detective Jack Cole?

- Yes.

- Have you ever climbed Mt. Everest?

- Yes.

Okay. Let's begin.

You've been a police officer

for seven years?

Yes.

Do you know how your fingerprints

came to be at the crime scene?

No.

Are you withholding information

pertinent to this investigation?

No.

Did you shoot Christopher Maynard?

Yes.

- Was it in self-defense?

- Yes.

Did you kill your ex-wife?

No.

- Have you ever killed anyone?

- Yes.

Have you ever killed anyone

outside of police duty?

I don't think that's pertinent

to this investigation.

It's a yes or no answer.

Is it?

There's my answer.

Don't do yourself any favors, Jack.

I've never seen anything like this.

Everything reads true.

Can someone learn to beat this thing?

It's possible, but you'd have to have

total control over your emotions.

I don't know anybody

who could pull that off.

What do you want me to do, Jack?

The prints' thing is bad enough,

but jerkin' the poly off...

...just leaves us with our d*cks

in the air for all your fans.

You gotta tell me which fans

you're talkin' about. I have so many.

I'm talkin' about Frank Deverell.

He's talkin' to people about you.

Like who?

Like the DA.

You never should've been on the scene

with his kid.

About how you put him through a window.

I wonder if that's

the same Frank Deverell...

...that came and thanked me...

...for not shooting his son

in the goddamn head.

Yeah, things change.

Internal Affairs is lookin' at you, Jack...

...which means they're lookin' at me, too.

I'm gonna suspend you

until we can sort this sh*t out.

You know, I somehow think

that you know I'm gettin' screwed.

Yeah, well, tell it to the worry beads.

No one's takin' any chances with you, Jack.

You're officially a suspect in the murder

of your ex-wife and her husband.

Give me your ID, your badge

and make sure we know where you are...

...'cause IA is comin' for you.

Which one of these did you just piss in?

Son of a b*tch.

Capt., you wanted to see me?

Christopher Maynard was with his church

group in New York for two weeks.

Keep me posted.

Accounted for every minute. There's

no way he could've done the last two.

Cole?

You tell me. He was havin'

a custody battle with his ex-wife.

She didn't want him spendin'

too much time with the kids.

Listen. When he was in New York...

...the DeMarco killings started two months

after he got assigned to Homicide.

He moved here eight months ago.

Exactly two months after that

The Family Man killings start.

Maybe we should see what he has to say.

What, are you goin' soft on me, Jim?

Guy's a weirdo, you said so yourself.

Just let Internal Affairs handle it.

They're puttin' a case together right now.

Stay away from him. He's bad news.

I take it something is amiss.

What was he doing there?

Didn't look like he was

after anything specific.

Nothing to worry about.

Got halfway through the place. Nothing

there to connect you to the Roslov woman.

I hope not, for your sake.

You should've gone through

that house days ago.

I'm not supposed to be doing cleanup.

Where is she? Have you seen her?

No, I can't find her.

She checked out of the hotel.

But this note camejust after you left.

"I cannot go with you...

"... or ever see you again.

- "I love you... my darling. "

- That's the last call, Mr. Richard.

"God bless you. "

- What's happenin'?

- What's up?

- What the hell you doin' here?

- Gotta talk.

- Those aren't tears, are they?

- No, man.

My eyes leak sometimes when I yawn,

that's all.

- They leak?

- Yeah.

- They leak.

- What do you want?

- Let me just-

- Wait... I'm fine.

What do you want?

- I gotta talk to you.

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