The Steam Experiment Page #3

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F***ing b*tch, you f***ing b*tch!

You're gonna die!

One down, detective.

Yeah, this is a message

for Dr. Alexander Adams.

This is detective Jack Mancini,

Grand Rapids Police Department.

I'm holding one of your patient sir,

Mr. James Pettis.

Would you call me back as soon

as possible, sir? I'm at 555-0221.

Alright, as soon as you can, sir,

thank you.

You've been searching

through my wallet, detective.

So you tell your shrink?

About your experiment?

Why'd you call him and ask him?

Oh, wait. You already did.

It's funny how most perps sell their

mother before they fess up to a crime.

Here you're walking

in a newspaper office,

yacking you're

holding 6 people hostage.

Let's say you get your headline,

you know what you're looking at?

Six people hostage

in a steam room?

They'll lock you up, pal.

Throw away the key.

- It's not about me, detective.

- Oh, I know.

It's all about the global warming

in fact. Saving the world.

Yeah, Mancini. Hey, glad

you called, I was waiting.

I'm gonna be there

in an hour.

God help me.

You underestimate

the situation, detective.

- Why, what you smiling about?

- The biggest case in your life,

and you wanna meet a girl

in a bar in an hour.

I don't underestimate

the situation whatsoever.

Pathetic.

Listen man, you're holding

you're going to jail,

for the rest of your life.

If not, they'll give you

the luny bin.

Me? Yeah, I got my

late night rendezvous here.

Biggest blue eyes

you ever saw.

Who's pathetic now, chump?

Who is pathetic now?

Why'd you get him?

He says, he locked 6 people

in a steam room.

Because of global warming.

Says, the end of the world

is coming.

Well. that's what we need.

Another nutjob walking the streets.

- At least he's original.

- Hm'hm.

I put a call into the shrink.

Something about the way he describes

the hostages, it's too precise.

There's too many details.

Jack. This guy looks

like a nut case.

I'll give you

do what you can

than we cut him loose.

I got a burglary down on Fletcher,

I need you out there.

It's my night off.

Yeah, well, you're here now.

Hey, Jack. I called

every hotel in Grand Rapids...

with a steam room.

No hostages.

- There's no health clubs?

- All closed.

Closed?

Call the security companies down.

Check every one alarm.

Call every internet dating

service in Michigan.

Lonely, Sir?

Yeah. Cross reference it

with his name, Pettis.

James Pettis.

James Pe... Is that two t's?

Two t's. Make it snappy.

Only speed I know.

Where have you been

in the last 3 months?

European vacation.

Have you ever been to Italy, detective?

Of course you have. Weather

is lovely this time of year.

Now you listen to me, a**hole.

You're wasting

my f***ing time now.

You're either give me

the full names of the hostages,

or I'm gonna rip 'em

outta your f***ing head.

One by f***ing one.

Is that how they do it

in New York?

Intimidate?

To get a confession?

You're pathetic, detective.

You could've been retired by now,

so you do this for fun?

What else you do?

Chasing middle-age fluzies

around crap-ass bars?

Blinding them

with vodka, and lies,

telling them how good

they look for over 50?

Oh, detective.

No. No. I see right

through you, detective.

You do not have the intellectual

capacity for this case.

You should go.

Let's talk about you.

Who the f*** are you, hm?

Jimmy Pettis, yeah?

What kinda life you're trying

to keep your wit on?

- Your vulgarity is pathetic.

- What kinda a life, huh?

- My vulgarity?

- It annoys me.

Your pinky ring, and cheap cologne.

and your cheap suit.

Hm?

What'd you say about my suit?

You wanna play bad cop, huh?

- What did you say about my suit?

- Ok, ok.

Let's play bad cop. Ok.

Ok, let's play bad cop.

We're gonna get Walter,

before somebody else dies.

Catherine?

Catherine?

I don't wanna

stay here anymore.

I wanna

get out of here.

Get out of here.

We're trapped.

We're trapped.

Somebody has locked us in here.

What now?

It is that sick f***

locked us in on purpose.

Give me break. An online dating

service gives away 5000 dollars.

We're trapped.

It was weird from the get go.

Come on!

Pettis knew what he was doing.

I don't have anyone.

I don't have anyone

who's gonna look for me.

Do you?

What about you, Catherine?

Is anyone coming for you?

No, Jessie.

Nobody is coming for me either.

Grant!

Grant!

Grant, I'm talking to you.

Grant!

Grant!

You.

No one is gonna be

looking for me.

My whole life,

not even my parents.

But if I focus on that,

I will lose my mind.

So, what I'm gonna focus on...

is getting us outta here.

So you shot your mouth.

Your big mouth

has caused us a big problem.

You onyl open you mouth

to breathe, do you understand?

Do you understand me?

Do you understand me?

Now. There is a logical

explanation for everything.

Only thing that's going wrong,

is the door got jammed.

Alright, nobody locked us in here,

the door jammed people, right?

Right, Christopher?

And that son of a b*tch.

That son of a b*tch lost his mind.

That's all

what's going wrong, right?

Grant?

What, Catherine?

There's a crack in the window.

Christopher.

Help us, help us.

Christopher, do something.

Help.

Help us.

Pettis!

Please.

Ok, one of you girls,

stick your head out...

to see

what's blocking the door.

- I'll do it.

- Good girl.

Ok, now lie down with your face first,

I'll lift you up, ok?

- Ready?

- Don't drop me.

- Don't drop me!

- Make sure you got her.

- You got her?

- I got her.

- Here we go.

- Is she ok?

- Let me up, let me up.

- Watch the glass.

Ok.

I don't see anything,

nothing's blocking the door.

There's something blocking it.

There's nothing blocking the door.

I see the pipe.

Pettis!

- Jessie, what's happening?

- Pettis!

- We got her.

- Pettis!...

Pettis!...

The lights went out,

I can't see anything.

What'd you mean

the lights went out?

The lights. I can't see!

I can't see!

Help!

Someone's here. Help us.

- Someone is coming.

- Jessie, what's happening?

Help us, we're locked

in the steam room.

Help. Thank you, thank you.

What happened?

- Do you have her?

- Yes, yes. I got her.

Don't twist her. Don't twist her.

It's ok, Jessie. It's ok.

We got you.

We got you.

We got you.

OK. OK.

Roll her over here,

don't twist her.

Oh, my god!

What is that!

Oh, my god.

My god.

Dating services with internet

addresses in Michigan.

Nothing with the name Pettis.

You check the ones

giving away cash prizes?

Free weekends at these hotels.

All of them

have give aways, detective.

That's how they get people

to sign up and pay.

The only Turkish bath I found

was at the Grand Hotel.

But here is something.

I can't find anything...

on James Pettis

in the state of Michigan.

No driver's licence.

His social security doesn't match.

What'd you mean

it doesn't match?

His W-4 at the hotel.

Pettis used a fake number.

I take it back.

It's a real number,

it just belongs to someone

in Florida who died 30 years ago.

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